GIRLS AND WAR WORK.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16315, 12 September 1918, Page 2

GIRLS AND WAR WORK.

TO THE EDITOR OF "THE rRE9S."

Sir, —Being rather incredulous from earliest childhood, I was rather sceptical when reading, of "Rip Van Winkle" with his hoary hair waking up on an election day in the newly-made republic of America, but my views were modified somewhat ylien I - read "Nero's" letter in Tuesday's "Press." "Nero" suggests , that the ypung women should go around in recruiting gangs to operate on the single shirker. "Nero" must havei been asleep somewhere this last year and a half, or he would ■ know the recruiting method was unnecessary where single men were concerned, as the "ballot" answers the same purpose. Why does h.j designate the shirkers as smgler If the Medical and Efficiency Boards are doing their duties there are no single shirkers. I think we young women might find some profitable sphere for our labours if we organise!, and went from house to house trying to revive the fast-dying active patriotism of the double shirkers. If we were gifted with an exceptional now of eloquence we might be able to persuade "Nero" and his kind that married men, and not single ones alone., ewe something to Kine and country. Then perhaps we would hear of iiioro enlistments; and see fewer "doubW shirkers adorning the streert corners, picture palrtces, and public-houses or this town.—Yours, etc., WAKE UP!