Mobilizing Woman-Power

Mobilizing Woman-Power

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Title: Mobilizing Woman-Power
Author: Harriot Stanton Blatch
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MOBILIZING WOMAN-POWER
By HARRIOT STANTON BLATCH

1918

[Illustration: Jeanne d'Arc.--the spirit of the women of the Allies.]

TO THE ABLE AND DEVOTED WOMEN OF GREAT BRITAIN
AND FRANCE
Who have stood behind the armies of the Allies through the years of
the Great War as an unswerving second line of defense against an
onslaught upon the liberty and civilization of the world, I dedicate this
volume.
HARRIOT STANTON BLATCH

CONTENTS
FOREWORD BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT
I. OUR FOE
II. WINNING THE WAR
III. MOBILIZING WOMEN IN GREAT BRITAIN
IV. MOBILIZING WOMEN IN FRANCE
V. MOBILIZING WOMEN IN GERMANY
VI. WOMEN OVER THE TOP IN AMERICA
VII. EVE'S PAY ENVELOPE
VIII. POOLING BRAINS
IX. "BUSINESS AS USUAL"

X. "AS MOTHER USED TO DO"
XI. A LAND ARMY
XII. WOMAN'S
PART IN SAVING CIVILIZATION

ILLUSTRATIONS
Jeanne d'Arc--the spirit of the women of the Allies
They wear the uniforms of the Edinburgh trams and the New York City
subway and trolley guards, with pride and purpose.
Then--the offered service of the Women's Reserve Ambulance Corps in
England was spurned. Now--they wear shrapnel helmets while working
during the Zeppelin raids.
The French poilu on furlough is put to work harrowing.
Has there ever been anything impossible to French women since the
time of Jeanne d'Arc? The fields must be harrowed--they have no
horses.
The daily round in the Erie Railroad workshops.
In the well-lighted factory of the Briggs and Stratton Company,
Milwaukee, the girls are comfortably and becomingly garbed for work.
The women of the Motor Corps of the National League for Woman's
Service refuting the traditions that women have neither strength nor
endurance.
Down the street they come, beginning their pilgrimage of alleviation
and succor on the battlefields of France.

How can business be "as usual" when in Paris there are about 1800 of
these small workshops where a woman dips Bengal Fire and grenades
into a bath of paraffin!
Countess de Berkaim and her canteen in the Gare de St. Lazarre, Paris.
An agricultural unit in the uniform approved by the Woman's Land
Army of America.
A useful blending of Allied women. Miss Kathleen Burke (Scotch)
exhibiting the X-ray ambulance equipped by Mrs. Ayrton (English) and
Madame Curie (French).

FOREWORD
It is a real pleasure to write this foreword to the book which Mrs.
Harriot Stanton Blatch dedicates to the women of Great Britain and
France; to the women who through the years of the great war have
stood as the second line of defense against the German horror which
menaces the liberty and civilization of the entire world.
There could be no more timely book. Mrs. Blatch's aim is to stir the
women of this country to the knowledge that this is their war, and also
to make all our people feel that we, and especially our government,
should welcome the service of women, and make use of it to the utmost.
In other words, the appeal of Mrs. Blatch is essentially an appeal for
service. No one has more vividly realized that service benefits the one
who serves precisely as it benefits the one who is served. I join with her
in the appeal that the women shall back the men with service, and that
the men in their turn shall frankly and eagerly welcome the rendering
of such service on the basis of service by equals for a common end.
Mrs. Blatch makes her appeal primarily because of the war needs of the
moment. But she has in view no less the great tasks of the future. I
welcome her book as an answer to the cry that the admission of women
to an equal share in the right of self government will tend to soften the
body politic. Most certainly I will ever set my face like flint against any

unhealthy softening of our civilization, and as an answer in advance to
hyper-criticism I explain that I do not mean softness in the sense of
tender-heartedness; I mean the softness which, extends to the head and
to the moral fibre, I mean the softness which manifests itself either in
unhealthy sentimentality or in a materialism which may be either
thoughtless and pleasure-loving or sordid and money-getting. I believe
that the best