AN AFTER-WAR PROBLEM

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2878, 16 September 1916, Page 10

AN AFTER-WAR PROBLEM

HUSBANDS FOR WAR WIDOWS. . . i The Salvation Anny of the United States and Canada are said to bo contemplating "on a largo promotive scale" the remarrying of many of Europe's war-widows. -Millions of comparatively young women, it is already well known, .have been made widows ; and, says the Detroit "News-Tribune," "their chanco for finding husbands in that part of the world where'the young manhood has been sacrificed is so remote as to make it quite certain that unless they cau he taken to other countries where men are comparatively plentiful, they must for the rest of their days earn their own living." Tho Salvation Army has found a work for itself here and the Canadian Government-, looking with favour on the plan, is said to have promised its cooperation. The "News-Tribuuc" proceeds:—"Of course the number of warwidows in Great Britain, _ France, Russia, and Italy is so largo'that it would be out of tho question to find husbands for all ot' them in North America, but it is pointed out by those who favour trying the experiment .that every widow disposed of in tho way outlined would relievo the .pressure just that much at home. Providing for the war-widows, even to the extent of aiding them in finding husbands, will undoubtedly, it- is predicted, be one of tho serious a fter-problems of the war, not only for the Allies, hut for the Central Powers as well.

"Wives were provided for many of the early colonists in what is now the United States in precisely the manner above referred to, and it is pointed out that, tho plan worked to the satisfaction of everybody concerned. _ It was also resorted to repeatedly in the early mining days of tho Far West, when the niining camps were filled up almost exclusively with men. The Salvation Army believes it would work well on the larger scale here outlined, aud evident}' tho Canadian Government thinks well enough of it to give it careful consideration.