AMERICAN WOMEN'S WAR WORK

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 242, 1 July 1918, Page 3

AMERICAN WOMEN'S WAR WORK

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r-4 ■— . / ■'■"Miss Stella Tower, an Australian girl who has been singing with Melba in the United.States, recently relumed io Australia, and in the course of ait interview with n representative of the Sydney "Sun," had nuieh to say of her, experiences and of the way in which American women are working, and helping- to win the war. .. ■ . , j! "They work in the same way as they ; j play or dance-with all their hearts and | souls," she said. '''There seems to be i | no half-mwiire eleineiit in the American j make-up. The consistently line war work 8 of the women of that country constitutes ! volumes of history in itself. The miijjni-' | tuilo and the sco;>e of their endeavours | and energies would have to h? seen Io | be believed. They have lniule Hie biisi- | ness of winning Hip war ' through [he I physical and moral fitness of their fighting jj men their intimate and personal mission ij for the time being. C'n-ordination and | cci-onerafion arc their watchwords. ]t is | a staggering question, and every phase 3 seems to be one in which women work- fc I ci' 3; make themselves directly coneerned. J It isn't a mere question of knitting t circles and .sewing centres, but a cam- | paign that covers all phases of the big 8 subject, including finance. Women give 6 their mo'ip.y us 'freely us their men. and ' as they do bovli they have assumed the right to sea that the expenditure has been worth whij?. They fire's, 100. Poor T'nfis has comn to sojourn in New York for the present. The Americiin woman ?p?m!s a'fiv.'iit deal on her clothes. She has to. Slip feels she must. "Whatever her day brings her, whether it is from n till 0 wrestling wiih comfort funds, amelioration uoric, slum visiting-she's ■'of to bo 'Vifth Aver.ii"' fviim h"v head to her liigli heels, i<!'d T believe, her vim ; ami verve would simp if she had"'! a ! rmilly smart ras or two to hur back, j Tint she's sound Ihrough. and that is nil f j that nniltprs." li'e.wrdiu;; the war nml | I how the' American people are facing if, i I Mi«s Power was struck with the hplendid camaraderie Ihat has sinung up between Ihi! ]!rilishi'i- and the Anirrican. "Ihat old 'Boston lea party business has been nuitc forgiven, j.v.il aiiwwl l'or«otlen, nm\ Ihn two great white nalions intend that the Union .Jack mid the. Wars nn-.i Stripes are Io bo the Hags ihat will leai', Iho men to victory and proclaim the world's peace. The American soldier will tell vou that, su docs the man in the street.