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The Woman's Share

NE of the sharpest con-

Otrasts between the out-

ward life of Britain in war time and that of France just before Hitler launched his blitzkrieg, as they strike an observer newly landed in Eng- land, ja the part British women are visibly playing in the war effort of their coun- try.

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In France, right up to the end of the "fate pence," it was rare to see a Frenchwoman in uniform. Jew

their nurses in

Jong blue cloaks, a few more or less 2231 formed women belonging to Hed Cross, refugee relief and

other

low voluntary organisations,

ambulance drivers (mostly Americans

other or

foreigners) belonging to mixed units formed by private enterprise and attached to the French Army, were to be seen here and there, but there was nothing like the wide enrolinet of young women that has grown up overnight in England.

women

no

Just an France started this war by the old method of mobilising several

millions of sokliers, met of whom were not needed for in-

fighting mediate

and had chance, as General de Gaulle has shown us, of standing as a PRIZES against the army of machines the Niizis built

within the

]pnnl rix months, so she went into the con- lict unconsciously burdened with a social anomaly which survived in hardly any other civilised land

relatively In 1939, when even backward nations had long recog- aised the political rights due to their women if they were to play their full part in the normal daily

of the community (ta nay nothing of the part expected of them in national emergency). the Frenchwoman still had no full or dignified status as a citizen

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First and foremost know i am risking the sneers of the "rock the crudle" school-the French woman had no vole, either na- tlonal or local. She could take no legal and Independent par in the election of her (as well as her

WE

a nation expect that only the best in medical care shall be at the disposal of our wounded men. That is the ideal which is be fore every doctor and nurse, whether man or woman, in the medical services of the fighting Forces or in our hus- pitals at home.

To live up to this ideal re- quires much effort, not only on the part of those who, day after day, are seeking new knowledge of disease and its treatment in our laboratories and hospitals, But also on the part of the doctors whose job it is to put into practice the latest discoveries of the science of healing.

Modern methods of preventing disease and new ways of treating wounds have to be appiled under conditions which, in our civil life, we would regard as alreost impos alble. Yet, through the dauntless courage und infinite resource

of

our doctors, on land and sea, ap- plied they are, and with what wonderful success..

in

Epidemies have decimated armies

gone by. We lost more.. men from typhoid fever in South Afrlen thon frem wounds received in action. Yot in France and

1914-1918 Belgium in

typhold fever was rare disease. The proper steps had been taken to render our men immuno from lis .ravages.

During the winter just past a widespread epidemic of cerebro- spinal meningitis swept this coun try and our army in France. A few years age thousands would probably have died. Thanks to the.

of A new drug discovered in England in one of our well-known hospitals, the numbers who died were an infinitely small percentage of those who suffered from the dis- ease. Epidemics such as choleru have Tong disappeared, since

A

Lesson From The French

Disaster

husband's and brother's) repre- sentatives in Parliament (either the Senate UT the Chamber of Deputies).

no volee in She had the

loci authorties - selection mayora

ors and municipal councillors, the like, offers of health and though their task was mainly con- neeted with

iamestite i- lerants of women as they affect the and the children upbringing of welfare of the family

the

In a word, the entire legislative und executive organisation of the State lay in the hands of men only, with no obligation to vonsult the interests of

half of the community..

We have a heard, of course, the stock reply to the case of the few French protagonists for woman's suffrage; that the Frenchwoinen vote since she generally needs

keeps the

no

holds the purse-d's business,

accounts of her and, as often as not, "runs" him generally by the exercise of sheer free of character and/or feminine charm

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French society fearful example of the way which a section of the community which is denied full equality of rights with the other section will Aric

Indirect whys reand that barrier and in so doing will row, quite unconsciously, the reeds of weakness and corruption within the State.

The persistent refusal of politi- cal equality to women by French- men whose very sensiblity to the sex attraction made them deter- Imined to confine their women tu The sphere of sex utility exposed these men themselves to a danger of which the mort Tar-sighted among them may well be bitterly conscious to-day. For ability will

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And an outlet, and no one ques- tions the ability of the average Frenchwoman.

But by being forced to exercise whatever talent for political or communal activity she had solely through the medium of her men- folk, she was left with no choice but to moke sex-appeal her prin- cipal instrument of policy. The result was a degree of unacknow- leviged and sus

suspicious "petticont

induenice" on men In high post- tions which is largely responsible fest

and mistakes

etisasters in French policy.

Absence o the sex-repression indeed prevalent in England whs

blessing to French people; it helped to create the atmosphere of freedom which all who have known France justly prize. But th spiritual freedom, when coupled with the refusal of practi- en freedom to the women of the entry, caused a form of social datortion which could only The national vitality.

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Modern French wilers and dramatists have made the most of this agreeable but dangerous sinte of things With infinite wil and skill, to our immense delectation, they portray a society in which matter of course; adultery is

school young men just leaving

nnider it almost a duty to cum- plete their education by becoming the lovers of older men's wives: to middle-aged household (pro- vided the husband can afford the

complete without luxury)

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young and preity mistress along- side the man's regular partner: and the comedy of manners. not content with the "eternal triangle" politely hunted at in the Englishs theatre, is usually built at least on eternal quadrangle of mutually unfaithful couples.

Sn common

l this urrungenicnt, not only behind the Paris foot- lights, but in real French, ur at least Parlatan, society, that one is tempted to wonder why French- of men go through the frouble marrying at all. Ine their rule

be that A often 10

uny woman, except the one they have

seems

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

CAP, 1940 bỹ Dále

"It won't pay to operate, Mr. Gillies

awallowed is counterfeit!"*

married, is the one they really need

But what, in times of national crisis like the present, is the out- rome of this fack of inhibitions? It is simply this, that almost any prominent French atatesmon likely to

to be under the influence of

whose

relationship with him is unacknowledged, for whom he hus no regular respon- sibility, but who is determined to have a Anger in the pie of politles, Lasing her sex Influence to keep it there

sume WoTAIL

Without mentioning naines I Juay say that recent French his- the present tory. culminating in tragedy, has been no exception to

BE AFRAID WOUNDS

OF WAR

An Army

Doctor

here

describes three new treatments which are saving lives

methods of preventing them were discovered,

If the control of epidemic dis- tanos hus bernie more effective becarte We can either prevent them altogether or trent them suc- ressfully when they arise, the methods of treating war wounds have become even more so.

The experience of the last wor showed clearly that, provided the wound or wounds were not mortal, low, and the percentage of such is

the surgeon had two great enemies shanck and wound infection. To combat these, surgeons,

bacterio- Jogists and research workers fought hard, but they had not, in 1014- 1918, the knowledge or the re. sources which we have to-das.

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During the last ten years, scientific work, in which this coun- try has played a conspicuous part, has provided weapons against these two great enemies which were denied to the surgeons who served during the Great War.

Shock in the large majority of wounded men can be fought suc cessfully. During the Inst war. It was found that blood transfusion, although then a dificult procedure and, but imperfectly understood. was a real life-saving treat

treatment. The Spanish campaign demon- strated that blood. transfusion could be carried out in the field by using blood which had cega taon nad volunteer donors days before and properly stored. The use of stored blood on a large scale for a British Expeditionary Force required. much organisation, ingenious plan-

ning of the apparatus. and skilled hands to administer the treatment. In the Navy and the Air Force and in our civil population, similar plans were made.

The very foundation of all these plous was the magnificent response of volunteer blood donors all over the country. There cannot be too In Flanders, In the many of them. actions which

fought by were the B.E.F., stores of good British blood were available at all the hospitals behind the lines ready to be used to aid our wounded. It was only at last, when the landing of supplies became impossible, that

the stores ran low,

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There are thousands of men and women in towns and villages in South-West England who, by giv- ing of their blood, brought hun- dreds, perhaps thousands of our wounded home alive.. Blood trans- fusion had proved its value in the field and had been chest enemy-shock-

Wound Infection is, and always will be, a serious complication of any wound whether received in elvil life, on the battlefield or in an air raid. The first treatment is to clean the wound until it i is free from grosz dirt and fragments of the missiles which caused it. This is done under an anaesthetic under proper operating room conditions. problem surgeon was the

of how to kill off microbes which may still lurk in the wound. Drugs which have the power of destroying these microbes without hurting the

tissues of the body are now known. They can be given either in tablets or, used as powder to pack into the wound itself.

Most of the really dangerous the microbes are killed off by drugs and the wound can heal

The wounded rapidly.

men 13 to spared the long illness due pokoning by the poisons liberated by the microbes, and he is fil ond well in a fraction of the time taken before these drugs were known.

One microbe?" which infects wounds requires a different at- tack. Lockjaw, or tetanus, caused

ABNER DEAN

that quarter you

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flls rule. Underground Influence exercised by politicians' mistresses who were Ideal subjects for and conscious or unconscious agents of Nazi propaganda has played large part in putting France at the mercy of

of the German legions. The more young women we see narching about in khaki here in war-time, the surer we can be that no part of our national potential is being siled or wasted. And when they have helped England to show the modern way to victory, It will be time for them to ask their sisters across the Channel whether they also should not insist an their proper share in the free country that we hope to win back

for them.

David Scott

many deaths in France in the last wat. In this

campaign because most of our men were immunised against this disease, it has become us rare as typhoid fever. Given a wounded man within a few hours of his injury, the modern surgeon can promise almost every one s speedy convalescence..

These are but a few of the methods our doctors use to help our men. Improved ways of deaf- ing with fractures so as to give a useful limb afterwards, the latest methods of treating wounds of the chest, head and abdomen, are all in use. An injured lung is no longer a fatal wound and a wound in the brain, now very few la number owing to the use of the famillar "tin hat," can be tackled by experis and treated in many cases successfully in hospitals not far from the front line.

All that is best in our medicat and surgical skill, our best in equipment and the best brains in our research laboratories, have contributed to make the medical. services of our fighting forces the best in the world,

SEE HOW THEY SHRINK

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21% 21% 1-98% 1·64% [41% THERE are fewer conscientious

128% 105% 105%-69% 57%

When the 81'a and 22's register- objectors among older men, od both groups showed a perom As each age group registers for tage, of conscientious objectors of military service a smaller · per-- 2.1. Since then the percentage has

steadily dropped, so th centage is now shown in comparing the time the 27's and 28's son with the groti before;

When the 30's signed on there were only 3,799 to a leinl of 310: 688 ment7 per cent, the lowest. so far retarded.:/

were called the percentage in boih' groups was 105. After that, the 79's brought it down with a bene to 89.

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