EUROPE'S WOMEN MAKING SHELLS.
An eminent economist writes to the Economist, saying: — "I am inclined to think that all this 'organisation of the nation' is going to be the undoing of militarism. Militarism was all very well when it meant a bit of drill about the age of twenty and an occasional turn out fo£ a short time for some years after for considerably less than half the persons born, and half-a-dozen towns devoted to making guns and swords. "But Europe will scarcely tolerate being asked to set half its women to making shells, and nearly all its chemists to discovering poisonous gases, and its electricians to finding out methods for detecting submarines, and so on. It might have been brought xo it gradually, but this is too sudden, and on the conclusion of the war it will ask "for real peace." >
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 14
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