From the News

In spite of the greatly enlarged field in which we can work there are in impossibilities that should be clearly recognized. One girl writes that she wants to join a Cavalry Regiment for women and sees no reason why these young women who want to fight should be forbidden.

A woman's Cavalry Regiment would be a decided nuisance. There are times when women have fought and fought well. In cases of invasion, in a case like that of poor Serbia, for instance, some women fought beside their men. But when such a pass is reached a nation is very close to extinction.

Other girls want to fly for the Army, want to become dispatch bearers on the field, ak for commissions as sharpshooters, etc. The Army is not a place for women in any capacity but that of nurse. There she can be supremely useful. Whatever a woman's capacity or training she should remember that she is a woman and that she would be decidedly in the way and very much a problem in a world of men such as a modern army must be.

Women can do their part in work that is open to them, such as cable and telegraph censoring, clerical work, nursing, relief work, enlisting work and supply organization. The country needs the services of women, and tells her very clearly how and where it needs her. Let her fit herself for work she can do and not struggle for impossibilities, making a waste of her time and her energy.