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1 1 fri I Myron Barlow's Memories of Picardy 4 Uncle Sam Is Combing The Country or Women They are conducted its Another Kind of War do warfare between man and his insect the ii The Ked Triangle in Ketreat aws it It happened on the nlsht matin called Himsdn?" he a i older to be directed by Miss for clerical and of fer to a Hun butcher soared overhead bombs Intended for the plainly Cross hospitals of the Allies recovered consciousness at the to to section all calls be ma ij jt in apply carry The little petty things mean That possibly have passed unseen Bring more regrets I think to me Than all the flaws that others sec Sometimes a hasty word mine Has spoiled a day that should be fine all my sights all my prayer wash away the blot there an It de notjthe faults that others see That very greatly trouble me When I have fairly tried an' failed I am not bitterly assailed By thoughts of shame done my best go to sleep at night rest The flaws that put my peace to rout Are those that no one knows about But meantime the part of the pity somewhere near Grand River tor at present women who go to that part of the city to work have Jo 1 sent from inconvenient distances The Specially Trained section is directed by Mrs Monroe who formerly had charge of the Collegiate Bureau of Occupa and employes And it is quite that it will be after the war Seems like never t' be The man I want make me I think well then I stoop selfishness again An' when attftight all alone That deed I am ashamed own The world may think my record fair But 1 know every blot that's there Copyright 1018 by Edgar a Guest reading a letter Just received it nceus oniy a glance at the picture of the pollu framed on the wall to guess the writer of the missfve that is holding the undivided attention of tho reader The picture is termed "The Letter" apd its inspiration was the world war as it left its impress on Mr Barlow Back in the days when war was undreamed of Myron Barlow painted the simple peasants of Picardy at his studio in the outskirts of Etaples and Julie Sailly led tho humdrum existence of her people to whom tho outside world and its problems meant nothing Then their paths crossed and Barlow attracted by the rugged beauty of the girl engaged her as a model To Barlow it meant the acquisition of a good subject for Julie in addition to her beauty was possessed of a mobility and an understand ing that lifted her above tho common run of her race To Julie it meant a few hours' relief each week from dull routine a glimpse into a new life that was fascinating So while statesmen schemed and plotted and the struggle that was to throw all the world into war was in the mak ing the serenity of the little studio in Etaples continued undisturbed Came the day when it was reported that the Huns had invaded Belgium and were headed toward Staples sweeping everything before them The simple people shook their heads and refused to believe that they were in dan ger but there was a rude awakening from their fancied security in store for them One of the choicest canvases in the Barlow collection is called "Reveries" It shows a Picardy Julie Sailly standing in pensive mood" beneath the trees through which the sunlight is streaming And it was finished to the accompaniment of booming guns but a few miles tlway denoting the advance of the Germans and tho stubborn resistance of the gallant Belgian troops to whom the rest of the world owes an undying debt of gratitude for having halted the Huns in their mad rush The war that had been talked of lightly was a dread reality When painting was out of the question and there was nothing more Im could do inthe way of succoring the stricken Belgian refugees Mr Barlow packed the choicest of his belongings as securely as he could stored them away in his chateau took a score of canvases from the frames 'wrapped them about a convenient sec tion of stove pipe turned the key in tho door and Joined the throngs bound for safely while Julie Sajlly dropped back to the drab existence that had been her portion before she crossed the studio threshold Some day her friend the artist might come back Then there would be work and money factories of the south ought not to be supplied Bby ers in so important a war center as Detroit Rather the call will be made among women from numerous small towns throughout the country that are not commercial centers and that have a plentiful supply of labor At pres ent the Detroit office has branches in Port Huron Saginaw Traverse City and Grand Rapids and new offices will probably be estab lished in at least five other towns in the state The need for woman labor however is not confined to the so called war industries There is a crying demand for it in the weaving and clothing trades Women laborers have not yet seemed to grasp the fact that In these days all well done work is war work The glory of making a bullet to kill a German seems through the glamour of the present war days much greater than the glory of making a coat that will keep a Sammy alive and warm through a cold winter As a result many wo men are daily forsaking well paying jobs in weaving and clothing trades to take jobs that pay no better In the munitions factories where their training and experience are dead waste The fault undoubtedly is not theirs alone Too much emphasis has been put on the spec tacular roles The work behind the lines has not been glorified enough Weaving must go on Clothing factories must go on Bread making must go on and canning must go on In fact all tho homely practical day by day industries must go on under the hands of steadfast labor And due measure of appre ciation rendered to that woman who resists the impulse to do thS dramatic thing for the sake of sticking by the job that she caq do best and thus be of most value to her country The bureau hopes to drive home a realization of this fact and thus stabilize to a certain ex tent established labor Already ihe bureau is proving a great help Seems like never to be The man like to make me Get started well then I fall carelessly spoil it all My whole life through somehow it seems been a wrecker of my dreams had my share joy and yet done so much that I regret went right on with his discourse If anybody there had the wind up it wasn't the speaker the hut loader With their huts blown to kindling wood their stores largely In the bands of the enemy the Triangle inii readjusted themselves to the new situation and went on with their work In one case when hut was wrecked by shells the men set up a table on the roadside and car ried on A shell disarranged the new stand then four shells dropped uncomfortably near and bowled over the Red Triangle men at tho table Tiny got up and distributed among tho soldiers and refugees nil that was left and then like Plimson left with the troops Some took refuge in a shell hole and had to stay lliero eight hours while all around them there poured showers'ot molten lead Our front lino is not where il was on March '11 but the Rod Triangle is st il I witli it and lias ho intention of being anywhere else! That military men set a high value on the work was never better evidenced than when a full colonel said io me: "Some of us men have rccefvida hint Hint we arc superseded by jpunger men That is When it comes my lern 1 am going to lor the charge of a A but and on!" i arc much in need of the guidance Uncle Sam'ls supplying on such a comprehensive scale There are also many whoso training does not apply in the particular locality in which they are situated and who through the hdp of this national bureau can bo placed where their service is really needed There are always calls from employers in factories offices libraries housekeepers and many others Each day the bureau mails a report to Wash ington which includes' a list of the number of women who have applied the kind of work they have asked for the kinds they can do whether they would be willing to go else where the salaries they have demanded and the salaries they havo heretofore received Out of tho information thus gathered front all over the United States the government is able to compile a sort of labor directory that is practically invaluable In future the bureau intends to broaden Its field of servjce by establishing branch offices in tho smaller towns Thus the con gested districts where labor is scarce will be supplied with workers from the sections of the country that can best afford to spare them or Instance there is a great shortage of women workers in tho shell factories of the soutn But that deilociency the work fine!" I answered Plini Tho Americans possessed tho spirit of trim comradeship they showed us plainly that limy liked uh and that they worn glad we liked them Westminster and Whitehall must have smiled as they looked down and saw Amori Tiin and English girls walking happily arm in arm Wo took tlftm to toft at a West End res tntirant and we gave Lliem tho very first ico they had lasted in Englund Woknow it was 4 not like ice cream which tlw missed so much yet ns a war time English 4 water Ice It was far morn appreciated than it deserved Perhaps It was tho symbol of our "getting together" Later wo found our selves Ilin gueHts of our American friends at the tlmiitcr and limy with us were "tickled to death" at certain famous musical comedy which has not found its way to America If Englishwomen will only realize how greatly our American Allies appreciate per sonal hospitality and 'sympathy they will not bo (flow to offer it it is our treat chance let us miss it? These American woumrt are a long wav from home and nmvbe are a weo bit lonesome Wo English woniei? when wo moot them cairniaka tltrmi feel'that 'HEY were walking up Ludgate Hill Lon don and there were six of them They wore the nattiest mrvy coats and skirts and plain velour hats and they looked such jolly girls I had to look again and then I saw the simple bronze badge and an equally inconspicuous medical badge on the lapel of a navy coat says a writer in the Lon zdon Mail ever can they be?" I said to my friend And then acting on an impulse we spoke to them They proved to bo American nurses who only an hour or so previously had arrived In London for a few They were quite without knowledge of London and were trying to find Cook's and a guide who would show them the sights We found it hard believe that hero they were standing close St and yet did not know it! Somehow we felt as English girls that was "up to us" to offer to bo their guides that afternoon and never was offer more gratefully accepted "Why that would bo real lovely of you!" thev said and wr know tlmv meant it And so tho eight of us thoroughly Interested' in each other and our expedition started off to see all that could bo seen of denr old London in one short afternoon Not once durinsr that time had any one of us tho feeling that we wore perfect strangers The simple friendli ness and delight with which these American nursos welcomed our offer of assistance their warm gratitude for our companionship mado 11s realize how much we would have missed Imd wo allowed a feeling of shyness to deter ns from speaking to these girls from across tho water They wore so keenly interested in everything so full of enthusiasm for all our famous buildings that somehow we felt our selves filled with a shy pride that wo bad so much Io show that was old and great aiyl splendid so many traditions and so much his tory American Nurses Welcomed in London partment or it is the factories that have felt the draft most severely it is the factories Hint were unused to woman labor it is the factories that have had to bear the ejitra bur den of the war industries Women ate donning overalls and getting he to Hie government as well as to the employers hind the machines all over the country They are running drill presses punch presses screw doing everything in fact that men have heretofore regarded as their job And they are earning from $15 to $18 a' week on the average Girls must be IS years of age before thevvire allowed to work in a factory where there is machinery and 24 fere they are allowed Io operate any chinery Though not a A organization bureau's present quarters are in the A annex on the corner of Bark and Witherell streets Its attractive waiting rooms are al ways crowded with young women eagerly re sponding to the country demand for workers Many of them have never worked before and The competitors is to a small degree waged at the point of the bayonet it is generally a' struggle for the means 'of subsistence Man has many times been J)eaten Jhy locusts de vouring his pastures meadows and grain Trawlm on the ground and buzzers in the air moths with wings like silver down and cater pillars with brilliant regimental stripes flutter about the gardens and orchards and march up and down the trees and shrubs either de vouring as they go or planting eggs from which future devourers will spring fecro by Edcrar A Guest and murewomen from this department women to assume all sorts of positions from merely answering telephone calls to officer manager ships There is a real demand for expert clerical workers too especially those trained to use such time saving devices as dictaphones comptometers'and multigraph machines Then work in the bureau naturally relates to this de of course there is an almost unanswerable de mand for women statisticians The Day Workers' section is handled by the different settlement houses throughout thccity tinder direction of the downtown office It is a most time saving arrangement XThe call from the prospective employer comes directly to the downtown office As soon as the resi dence al which the day worker is wanted is determined1 he employer is referred to' the settlement house whicli is nearest her resi dence Thus the worker is saved carfare and time Site can icae her children at the set tlement house nursery and proceed directly to her work There is a great need at present were not available What to do in retreat was not part of their plan Such an exigency had not been considered Each leader had both men and stores to look after and the fighting forces needed every lorry and every truck available They had to work in conjunction witli military leader's ami they had I heir hands full They had a limited number of cars nt their disposal and they were taxed to the ut most in transporting men from post to pillar and could not be used In transporting stores Considering tho number of men employed and their nearness to the German line the loss in men was slight The loss in stores ami equipment was considerable One hundred After a while anil thirty centers huts tinemas theaters value of everything lost one hnn'lreil and fifty thou loss was great because the The one place in all rance where the Red Triangle is an essential part of Hie life of the soldier is where he is doing Ihe hardest work witli a maximum of comfort The towns and villages lay in ruins There were no shops there were no places but the A huts in which to write or rest or foregather in groups to let oft bis pent ui emo tions When was ordered out ho was ordered out for his own safety but that wasn't major anu there were Plimsons all along the sixty mlle front that day They stuck to their huts and served the men as they needed serving to the last minute In one case as tho Rod Trianglo went out at one end of a village tho Germans were coming in at the other It was in tho terrific barrage which preceded the Infantry attack that tho huts were lost They were not all destroyed with shells some of them wore set on fire the Triangle mon to prevent them fall ing into the hands of the enemy Others were in use up to the last minute and then aban doned German prisoners taken later said that nothing astonished them more than to find the' (' A up at thf front lino stocked with things utterly beyond the reach of German sol diers A few nights before the pusli a A man stood In front of fifty officers and fifty men It was In a place shelled every day and bombed every night When he had boon speaking about ten minutes Hie lights went out A minute later the bombs begnn to drop uncomfortably near The speaker wont right on with his discourse which was punctuated with terrific explosions In another Instance a speaker in a A hut was in the midst of a lecture when bombs began to drop all around Tho lights went out The mon were ordered to lie down flat on their stomachs They lay thoneiiker with them but he Inst no time Eighty bombs were dropped that night but the jipettker inn djlm Hlv if i department furnishes highly for an unlimited number of re Dctroit' Artist Spent Happy Pre War at His Etaples Home Where He Painted the Peasants Romance and Tragedy of Julie One of His Models if By ALEXANDER IRVINE THE night of March 21 1 stood at a railway station within a few kilometers of the German line attending to the "walking wounded" Among the hundreds of men who passed under the Red Triangle that night was a Scotch lad of nineteen who had befn badly mauled He had lost three fingers part of an ear was gone and a piece of shrap nel stuck in his shoulder His clothing was a mass of red rags He was too weak to stand in the line of men waiting to be served I got an empty biscuit box and made him as com possible on the box with Ills back against the wall I gave him his first refresh ment after his ten hours' fight ho unllmbemd and became talkative Of the fight he talked later but his first thought wn of something he had observed that be knew would interest me before the battle ken an nuld asked ken him son is a square jawed keen eyed man of sixty front the Midlands A week or so before the big pttsh a shell catne Into the Red Triangle hut of which he was the leader and killed two i ordejjjes beside hint Shortly afterwards th hut was demolished and Plimson was moved The district loader knew that Plimson could only be moved in one toward the He is a quiet man and as far removed from swank or rnoek heroics ns one can intng where he could be of the and it was either the front him So the leader sent him the distance between Tommy This was ine He knew greatest service 1 line or home for io a place where imd ritz was described In yards the first I had heard of him since I had seen him leave our compound with his gas mask and steel helmet dangling around bls back did you sec him last?" I asked "Weel sir" the lad said toon major 1 comes inlae hut says he 'L think ye'd bqtter get oot o' and ilm son says tae th' major 'All'll get oot whin th' throops get oot no before major: "And the troops got out soon afterwards?" said smiling aye we did that" he replied with rnnd natured grin Plimson was the einbftdiment ol the spirit of tho Red Triangle on a sixty mlle front on the morning of March 21 The men were not all plimsons It was my privilege to bo In per sonal touch with the lied Triangle men along thirty miles ot the front that day 1 was with their leatlprs when they gave orders I saw the men carry them out Soldiers acted under 'Ahoy were part of a big plan Te Rod Triangle leaders had on their own jnlt'atlve Telegraph telephone wires BY BERNICE STEWART IT'S AST getting bromidlc to comnfent on the fact that the ladles are taking the stage The truth is becoming ho obvious But nb sorblngly interesting new proofs of it raise their heads every day Take tho United States Government Employ ment Service for Worneh right here In Detroit for Instance Overnight this big organizationhat places 17000 women a month has sprung ep Detroit is one of the largest centers of war manufacture and like other cities in this coun try its population was preponderately male Then came along the and good bye Mr Man! But somebody had to slick on the Job and operate the power machines and balance ledgers Uncle Sam saw that and pooled the employment agencies for women Thus he has a rich supply for all his crying labor needs not only this city but all over the tountry for similar bureaus have hecn estah lishid throughout the United States The bureaus aim' to unite co ordinate and equalize woman labor under the direction of the Women's Division of the Labor Bureau of the United States gov ernment There is a bureau in all the large cities of the country with branch offices in the smaller surrounding towns The aim of these branch offices is to adjust the supply of labor to the demand for it by guiding women in localities whore labor is plentiful to local! tics where labor is scarce and their service therefore more valuable in a country as Jarge ns this some sort of checking service is necessary in equalizing labor Tho bureau supplies all kinds of do mestic service factory labor clerical workers and specially trained college women our separate Detroit employment agencies were consolidated when the bureau was formed Collegiate Bureau of Occupations the Y'W A employment bureau the Division of the association and the National League for Service The direction of the government bureau so formed is in the capable hands of Miss Haley The bureau makes it a point to keep in close touch with civil service needs of the govern ment i'Nery time an examination is an nounced civil service notices re also sent to the bureau The bureau not only informs an applicant about these examinations but it ad vises and suggests as to which examinations are most suitable for the applicant consider ing her training The bureau is divided into five branches The Domestic Service section is under the di rection of Miss Dorothy Smith formerly of the A Employment bureau It is to this branch of Hie bureau that Detroit housekeepers constantly turn Domestic labor though never better paid than today Is amazingly scarce Perhaps not amazingly either for though there is doubtless just as much money in do mestic work figuring in the good board and lodging that it generally includes as in dther lines of work there is less of personal liberty and less of a certain sort of social standing Perhaps it's our just reward for the twelve hour demands that we in past times have put upon the unorganized household workers(the light scorn that touched our attitude ward this very useful field of labor It seems certain as the war goes on that mestlc labor will constantly become more and more scarce and therefore more expensive Many a woman previously unaccustomed to do ing her own work will be forced to don ging ham and get on famlllarvterms with the four for a settlement house in the central western corners of her owii'kitchen buieau goes on answering telephone calls and and Warren avenues placing domestic workers to the bejt of its excellent ability The Business Chapin answers lice help Employers are daily calling for more UP one flight of well worn stairs at 6 Adams it he failed to return oh well it was just avenue west through a heavy doorway another turn of tho wheel of fortune and fato dating bhek to tho time when walnut was had dealt kindly with her fof a time a drug on the market and craftsmen wrought Mr Barlow returned to Detroit nd Etaples with an eve to something besides the pay oik Its one time gay crowds of resorters gone Velone and you are in the modest' studio' of busied itself with war activities one of the best known of De Letters from Julie came through at artists at home and abroad portrayer quent intervals for there was plen to do on canvas of those intimate phases of the sim ple life which appeal alike to the connoisseur and the one whose knowledge of art Is confined to an appreciation of lifelike grouping and soft colors On ono wall of the studio hangs a recently completed canvas which compels the admira tion of everyone who views it alike for its timeliness and because it reveals the artist in one of his best moods There is a reason this with whch the chance visitor is not acquainted for Mr Barlow is not given in dwelling on personal matters until you get into his confidence and then only lightly But into the pigment and tho canvas there has tieen wrought a m'casure of sentiment and feeling that gives it added interest to those who know its story It is a simple as are all the Barlow canvases two maidens in the quaint garb of itnnrtv atnn a table pillowing in her Jap tents etc Tim amounted to about sand pounds The THERESA HALEY tfons Tills trained women sponsible well paying positions as chemists dieticians social service workers and count less others The actory Labor section is under Sirs Mc Curdy and Miss Haley Tliebiggest volume of HISTORIC MONTDIDIER MONTDIDIER whose history dates back to Hie first millennium of the Christian i ri bad a population of less than 5000 beginning of Hie war but it was ricltin historic assoebitlons Jt is said to have de rived name from Hie fact hut Didier or Desideriusi the last of thu Ixnnbttrd kings was imprisoned here in 774 by Charlemagne It will bo remembered that Charlemagne having put aside ills first wife daughter look up the quarrel of Adihin I with the Lombard monarch and after marching an army across tie1 Alps captured liis erstwhile ither iu law's capiml city Ticinum and took ilto vmiqiiished ruler back to rance where ho died in captivity Is situated on eminence on the banks of tho River Don Is the capital of an errondissenujH in the partment of the Somme and is sixty two miler north of Paris by rail and twenty three miles southenjf of Amiens When the tides of war finely recode it is profiflble that tho three in which the citizens of Montdidicr took the greatest pride will be crutnbftng ruins Those are the Church of St I'icrre which was built 1 efore Columbus set sail on his voyage of discovery nnd whl contains a tomb and font of tho eleventh cen tury thS Church of St Sopulcre a fifteenth seventeenth century edifice nnd tho Palais de Justice formerly the city castle In the last named building visitors before tho war were shown six unusually handsome Brussels Upesv tries of the seventeenth century These were imdonbtedlv rerndvej imXoru the Germans ett lit 0 44 nt ui minuuni iji ixtvzic vu besides write They were brief but they gavo interesting sidelights on what was taking placo over there whore all of earthly pos sessions with tho exception of tho canvases ho managed to rescue were in imminent danger of destruction at the hands of the Hun ravlsherA One day a gallant pollu marched into Etaples with his regiment where ho was billeted for'a brief period He met the fair and with them both it waqa case of love at first sight A four days' courtship a hurried marriage and the pollu inarched off to the front leaving behind him a woman who looked out through tear dimmed eyes and cheered him on his way to fight for the country they both loved our days Inter a Boclie shell snuffed out the i life of the young poilu and on tho instant tho brief romance that hud brightened ex istenco went out Came a little oho and once more life took on a brighter tinge for every smile every gur tcaruy om mop a 00 gle was a renlinder of tho happy period with It nnmts hor soldier lover'that even the horrors of war could not efface In a quaintly worded letter Julio apprised Mr Bahow of her hopes her ambitions for the little one and what a com fort it was proving in spite of the extra burden imposed for every additional mouth to fill in the war ravaged districts means much With brief romance as his inspiration Mr Barlow had begun "Tho but his work took on a new interest with the la0r nows from overseas and thereafter at regular intervals a remittance went forward for the maintenance of the "war baby" Other letters told of new found happi nes and how she was busying herself with war work Sleepy old Etaples had shaken oft its one time lethargy Coaches rolled eastward bearing thousands of soldiers to the front Long trains loaded with ammunition and sup plies puffed noisily off to where the battle was raging Heavy guns rumbled along tho cobble paved streets of Etaples Then came the hospitals where the injured Allies were treated and everyone found plenty to do Julie plunged into tlia work of relief spurred on by her own poignant grief One day she was hastening on an errand of (it mercy when and dropped marked Rod When Julie edge of a great jagged hole in the ground that boro eloquent testimony to German frightful ness she was bruised and bleeding from the shock and flying but the baby pressed close to her breast was unhurt Willing hands picked mother and child up and carried them to safety And now Julie is recovered her bit terness for the Hun increased many hundred fold because in his ruthless disregard for the innocent jtnd the non combatants a German aviator barely missed taking the remaining joy out of her life Julie tragic record is only one of countless thousands in the war ravaged countries women of whose sorrow the world knows nothing because they are of tho masses But like Julie they are carrying on bravely uomg tnerr mt cheerfully unsung heroes every inch of them just as much as the man in the front line trenches A 1 '7 it Mil KCSSBEH I Ml Mr Mr IkSBWEp tyV I 111 I iM 11 1 Bl flwWia OB If MEWQWrf if KoJMMMK'wi JM Mill BIB Ml Tu 5 1 II 1 1 1 0 1 in ter 1 i aS I 11 III vi 1 1 1 l( 1 111 (V A A I I I.