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Title: The Survey April-September 1918
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Survey Associates Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
Subjects: Charities Social problems
Publisher: (East Stroudsburg, Pa., Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: Algoma University, Trent University, Lakehead University, Laurentian University, Nipissing University, Ryerson University and University of Toronto Libraries

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lonely, hungry men. This new thrust of womanhood hascarried her to the heart of war. But once there, she resumes herold job and becomes the nurse and cook and mother to men. Thekey to our experience is the mother instinct. What we try to do isto make a home out of an emergency station. Making a home in abnormal conditions means building upa little group of friends who drop around at the end of aharassing day, exactly as the woman at home creates her home-circle. It means setting a standard, invisible and unforced,in toned-down language, gentle manner and thoughtfulness.It means pleasant decorations on the walls, hot chocolate aftera hard hike, and a touch of green at Christmas. It meansmending torn clothes, and helping with a letter, writing it oraddressing it, or persuading the soldier himself to write home.One man came a dozen different times for the canteen-womanto address his letter to his girl. He could scratch out the let-ter with pencil. But pen and ink on the envelope were too
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gyp**. Refreshments served to men just coning from the trenches at one of the camps army in history has ever dealt with this accompaniment ofwar—more devastating than machine guns—so wisely and sothoroughly, with so high a purpose grounded on so careful aprogram as ours. But the situation is so vast and so complexthat no measures can ever wholly meet it. There are neededin France men of commanding position in this department ofsocial science—men like Fosdick, Flexner and Kneeland.;i If a man is deprived of all his women-folks—mother, sister,wife or sweetheart, and the home-crowd—repressive legisla-tion and ethical exhortation are not enough to fill the void.A social substitute must be found. The presence of decentwomen in the canteens of the Red Triangle is the best substi-tute. The three hundred Red Triangle women are probablyof more social value to the army community than the fourteenhundred men. A most important work in personal relation-ship at the front is carried on by

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