HEROIC WOMEN OF FRANCE 



BY DR. ALONZO TAYLOR 



MY words are not powerful enough to do 

 even scanty justice to the most heroic 

 figure in the modern world, and of ages 

 past the woman of France. Of the healthy men 

 who are engaged in the military service in France, 



and cultivating the soil. All of the agriculture 

 rests upon their shoulders. The home, always 

 an extremely efficient home, maintains a few 

 old men, the wounded, and the tubercular. Un- 

 complaining, with high devotion, with an 

 attitude that amounts almost to religious 

 exaltation, the woman of France bears the 

 burden. 



Now, conditions being as they are, does 

 it lie within the heart of the American peo- 

 ple to preserve and hold to every conveni- 

 ence of our life at the expense of adding an 

 additional burden to the womanhood of 

 France? This is the exact question that is 

 involved in our substitution of other cereals 

 in place of wheat. 



practically all are engaged either in transpor- 

 tation or in the manufacture of munitions, leav- 

 ing the agriculture absolutely to the women. 

 Not only this, but they have stepped into the 

 place of work animals ; you can go into any sec- 

 tion of France today and see women of magnifi- 

 cent, noble womanhood hitched to the plough 



The women of France must be enabled to hold 

 up the morale of the French soldier. The morale 

 of the house decides the morale of the soldier 

 in the fighting line. We can do this by giving 

 to them the greatest possible freedom in their 

 food supply, and of this, wheat is the chief 

 factor. 



'T'HERE is still time to cut a few cords of wood for TNDER the auspices of the Forestry School of the 



-*- next winter before the spring farm work is under '-' State University of Montana a two weeks' summer 



way. Village folks should be getting their orders in for camp is to be constructed on the Flathead Indian Reser- 



next winter's supply of cordwood. vation during the month of May. 



TT is with deep regret that we report the death in France on March 31, 1918, of Major 

 E. E. Hartwick, formerly of Detroit, of the First Battalion, Twentieth Engineers (For- 

 est), and of Lieut. John G. Kelley, of the Tenth Engineers (Forest), on March 15. 



