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.