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So the reason for this women in war work phase was this growing recognition of women and this thing I've been talking about - this social view of life that we are all brothers and must all help each other. There was the great sense of the necessity of helping each other, not in the fear that the common people would desert and wouldn't fight in the war if they weren't well treated and their wives weren't well treated, but that ran through it. The soldiers who had gone to the front were giving up everything and they certainly were entitled to know that their wives and children were looked after and taken care of by somebody, the community caring about them and so forth.

It was partly a social justice move, partly patriotism and partly the desire of women to make a contribution to the society of which they claimed to be a significant part. The enthusiasm not only continued until the end of the war, but it perhaps increased. It increased so much so that there was heard after the war some very gruesome things by people who sighed and said, “Oh, dear, I just hate to have the war over. I had such an interesting time. I never had such an interesting time in my life as I had these two years. I had somewhere to go every day and something to do.” Many of them had liked it very much and many of them had actually learned