The U.S. Marine Corps on Sunday celebrated the occasion of its 160 anniversary, 1778, that Congress authorized the formation of the body of men who since for it was on November 10, have won their place among the premier Mghting forces of the world. Part of the 4th Regiment stationed in Shanghai are seen as they, assed in a recent review on the Race Course, thousands of female workers but has cut hours and increased leisure, by new standardization methods in manufacture which brings what were formerly luxuries within. the reach of all and by a new con~ Jception of freedom, is too apparent be ignored. Never before has the divide between the duchess and the factory girl been so narrow in the regard to those things which beautify and please. Hers 1s a lot which she is utilizing to the full, to Jthe general good, health and beauty of the race and for genera~ tions to come. If there ever were occasion for a feminine revolt against the international reproach of the dowdy English girl it should be started now. True, there were times when it did apply in a tra way. There were dark year: of the war when news from the front brought dull eyes and careworn faces, when clothes were practical own, for the marines may be landed fon foreign soil without declaration of war or without the Implic ion of the existence of state of hostility. In this role, they went to Santo Domingo, being withdrawn in the summer of 1924 after the country had been placed on a stable basis; to Halt following the murder of President Som. and to Nicaragua, when they assisted in the re-organization and the establishment of @ stable government.
They have been sent to China en more than one occasion, forming part of the Peking relief column in. 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion, and are to-day in. Shanghai part of the naval forces under the control of the Asiatic Fleet.
In the comparatively short period of its existence. the U. S. Marine Corps has gained distinction in. all parts of the world. In its early days, fought in the naval war against! not beautiful, when chemical stained inay not earn much but she enjoys hands and li-worn faces from the far greater facilities than ner munition factories were a national sign when the country was har-mother did.
Industrial changes Ihave converted women into a def-a grim, ugly task which, it|inlte labour force which not only is hoped, will never recur. Since meets the tragedy of a surplus then, a big moral and physical load f female population but also fills has been lifted and its disappearance has found a brighter reaction in the face and appearance of the modern English girl. new demands which a changed social and economic era have rendered imperative, with corresponding It is not necessary to hold the The new version of what old-time mirror up to Regent Street to find employers used to term the "factory this transformation. That glamorous irl is an appealing specimen tarea has, and always will, reflect enjoying almost revolutionary thescintillation of beautiful woman-privileges. The shabby, pathetic hood. The greatest illustration of heroine of all the melodramatic the change is to be found in the music hall ballads and tear-produc-Jdrab and gloomy industrial areas ig literature of another age, has among the girls who wore clogs and given place to a new product, who shawls and red bananas among the waves her hair, wears silk stockings, cotton mills, the hosiery factories who changes her smart street suit and the cutlery works.
Industry for a bright overall and cap and still carries on but on much newer protects her fingers with gloves ines.
"tuck means money" was the motto of the northern industries. It still means money but there is no. longer any justification for the exploitation and maintenance of ugliness. There are many explanations for the change.
It 1s largely She is tremendously careful of her complexion and appearance for there is a fuller and brighter life awaiting her after she leaves the factory. When she finishes work she has her sports grounds and recreation centre to entertain her and The Great War was a period of tremendous expansion in personnel and. stations. "On the declaration of war, the Corps had seme 10,000 officers and men on its roll; at the end. this number had increased to. something over 75,000 men of all ranks, Besides guards at navy yards, Raval stations, and ammunition dumps, there were brigades on Deditionary duty in the Dominican Republic and Haiti; marine guards on active in U. 8,' naval vessels in European waters: on ships of the, Asiatic Fleet and at the American Legation. Peiping; two " brigades served with the army in France, while one other unit that saw active service was the First Marine Aviation Force, comprising four squadrons. of seaplanes, which formed part of the aval aviation forees in Europe.
The attention of the American public became focussed soon after the United States entered the war on the 4th Marine Brigade. as part of the Second Division. Shortly after the: First Division had sailed for France, the Major-General Commandant of the Corps, through the Secretary of New, offered a Marine Brigade for immediate service in France. His offer was accepted. and the formation of the 4th Brigade—composed of two. infantry regiments and one machine gun battalion—eommenced.
The First Contingent Many interesting tales are told of those early days when the work of formation was being rapidly pushed ahead. It is common knowledge with ola marines that when the USS. Fenderson sailed on her maiden voyage for France with the sth Regiment on board, the alr-hose for the Fiveting hammers was cast" off simultaneously with "her mooring. ropes. They aver that the crew and most of the marines on board finished the work of construction as she sped Seros the Atlantic to. St. Nazaire, where the first contingent landed on
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