lfffmemoss rr?p'wm 'm tVrr !W ,1 $ ,-' W JESS'!? Xvv l "Jk i if EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1918 'I & V'J I"" I r if ,t S 1,500,000 Women in War Industries Alone 205,000 275,000 212,000 130,000 100,000 100,000 400,000 55,000 45.000 in canneries in textile mills sewing machine operators in knitting and hosiery mills women mechanicians in munition plants making military equipment shoe workers clerical workers in Washington alone n,ooo,ooo pay envelopes for women 6C TIWELVE million women earning money women's money in women's pockets! JL. And sixty years ago there were not half a million women in gainful" occupations in the United States. This is the biggest change yet that the war has brought to men and wbmen. Women chauffeurs! Taxi companies and private families already use them. Women police! New York City already has 6,000 women on its police reserve force. Automobile builders! In automobile factories thousands of women are making spark plugs, operating drill-presses and assembling parts. Women farmers! At least two million of them. Women cigar salesmen! Women 'draughtsmen! Women electricians! Women elevator boys! Every where! Women street car conductors thou sands of them! Women in war indus tries Already a mil lion and a half of them! When the war first came home to us, busi ness men scanned the For MEN must FIGHT and WOMEN must WORK ly, under these new conditions, were paying their way actually deliver ing as much as a man, and in many cases more. future anxiously. With a quarter of a million statement: "iGiventwo more years of war, and men being called to the Colors each month, we can build a battleship from keel to aerial would industries have to shutdown? in all its complex detail and ready for trial, en- They did not gauge the spirit of our women, tirely by woman labour." or they would never have doubted. Even before And recently, a ship was indeedlaunchedon the the war became our war, before our men were Clyde built "almost entirely by woman labour." I OO'OOO r IN MUNITIONS AND EQUIPMENTS v These women njake ammunl- I lion, sua, eas-masks, tent- poles, con. axes, spades, sclcn i I tlflc Instrument. called, our women were following eagerly the record of what women were doing on the other side to keep their countries' industries going. Keeping the industrial fires burning Were women "over there" really doing men's work just like men? That was the breathless question ! The thing that would indeed revo lutionize the very fabric of our life. And the extraordinary answer came under the authority of the British War Office itself: That in the 1701 jobs at which women are em ployed, a woman is "just as good as a man, and for some of them better." It was in November, 1916, that an English manufacturer made the Factories made over to fit women But the great lathes? Could a woman turn them? Just make her a lighter one, a "woman size" lathe, and she'll turn it faster than ever a man turned his! las isB'SBL. J y 478,ooo IN TEXTILES AND GARMENT MAKING They weave the fsbrles and lew the uniforms, overcoats, bedding, underwear and cloth ing of all kinds for Uncle Sim's boys. And the standing, standing all daylong? Provide seats! She'll be brighter, brisker at the job than any weary man ever was. They shortened the hours! Pro vided rest rooms, cloak rooms, dining rooms. Made over factories employing thousands of women, equipped them with specially made to-measure-to-woman-size machinery! And women quietly, surprising- This is the extraordinary story that was told by Pictorial Review to American women, and was received by them with keen interest. The spirit of American women With a spirit as alert as our women's own, Pictorial Review, even before we entered the war, sent Mabel Potter Daggett abroad to record the splendid work that women were doing in Europe. With a vigor worthy of its readers, Pictorial Review, since the war, has kept those readers constantly in touch with the broader issues of a world opened wide to women. And Pictorial Review readers have responded splendidly to these contributions and to the broad, compre hensive work Pic torial Review has always tried to do in matters of vital interest to women. Topics which have been discussed in a broad comprehensive way by Pictorial Review Zooaooo OR MORE IN AGRICULTURE These women drive motor trao tors, hoe, weed, pitch hay. groom horses and feed the stock! 257.70 of them own and manage farm property worth billions of dollars. Br MABEL POTTER DAGGETT Author of "Women Wantii" and tkt first woman to it tint atrtad to study tkt new status of womitt "An American Woman at the Front" "The Woman in Khaki" "Women Who Wear War Jewelry" "The New Wage Envelope" "The Open Door in Commerce" "Woman's Progress in the Professions" "At the Gates of Government" "The Rising Value of a Baby" "The Ring and the Woman" Every one of these articles was vibrant, drametio picture of conditions on the other tide. Every oae pointed oat with insight and vision, tho deep bacricg these changes in women's life today will tare ra wobvb'i lug in the future, By IDA CLYDE CLARKE Pictorial Review's Washington Editor "Woman's Share in the Nation's Task" Pointing out particular needs for women's war service voluntary and paid as they arise. Just whom to write to just what it required. "Your Boy and Mine" Through this service, Pictorial Review has re peatedly obtained for anxious families definite news of their boyt.' "Who's Who in War Work" Photographs and reports each month of women performing important war tervioe. "The Community Idea a War Emergency Measure" In cooperation with the Government, Pictorial Review, by explaining and advocating Community Canning, Buying, Gardent and Markets, aroused the intereit and cooperation of women. By HELEN RING ROBINSON The first woman senator in the United States "Preparing Women for the Ballot" "Woman's Work as Wholesale Housekeepers" "The State-It is We" "Where Do We Go from Here? " Twelve million women in the United States have the power to vote. This aeries discussed vitel prob. lems In this oonnection and urged women to take o broader interest in eivio and national questions. By ANNA STEESE RICHARDSON "The Woman Who Works and Her New Freedom" Three keen articles on the economic, industrial and social conditions which women who work encounter. By ARTHUR T. VANCE Editor of Pictorial Review "A Plain Talk to the Federation of Women's Clubs" A vigorous appeal to this organization of 6,000,000 women to make itself a power for permanent com munity, municipal and industrial betterment. "Why Not a Permanent Government Bureau of Woman's Work?" A suggestion which drew comments from Louis P. Post, of the Department of Labor, The Hon. Champ Clark, Speaker of the House, Senators, and hun dreds of others. By LADY ABERDEEN President of tkt International Council of Women "In Time of War Prepare for Peace" What the welding together of the women-power a! the nstioa means tg the future of the world. A t . Largest 20cent circulation in the world 1,500,000 copies monthly $2,500,000 advertising revenue only one other monthly magazine has as much PICTORIAL REVIEW AMERICA'S GREATEST WOMAN'S MAGAZINE V 3iEl 3d tf - s? - "'if awM m mm,s. Jt?r - , . .1 - 1 At wtvm itauidt tTfrfwhtr A afcadS KVM. 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