The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-24
v~, HAT THE WOMEN
OF THE WORLD
1901 ARE DOING > D D

nv lNt uieI ttiI1IttlSSt'Jt VI HNid "
fairs. is vice president of the new ron-
sumcrs' league of Washington, which
has just started . movement in the
District Of Columbia to better the
condition Of manufacture n sale and
tn secure better wages for workers, cS-
rccially ONE and children. The
league is now conducting an inveSti-
! CATION n the hours of labor n the
earnings of h omr and children in
the district. Vt is said That many
young girls who have no homes arc
working in stores at 81 and So "a week
The executive committee of the Con-
sinners league for the District of Co
llmhia is composed of Mrs. Harvey ".
Wiley. Miss Mabel Roardman. Mrs.
Charles T.. Hughes. Mrs. Charles A..
Goldsmith. Mrs. Ernest w. Roberts.
Mrs. Mtdill Mccormick. Miss Eliza
beth Bryan and Miss Ruth NoHes.
ON tho advisory board arc the Right
Rev. Alfred G. Harding. Judge Julian
DIR. Willinm Kerhy. A.. J.. McKclway
and DIR. IIenry.J. Harris.
DR.. Frances Hollingshend has been
appointed assistant superintendent of
the house of refuge in Cincinnati. The
Institution is not only q home for
youthful offenders hut also u refuge
for neglected children. Heretofore
tho offices of the Institution have been
given to mon. Dr. 1Iollinsshead has
taken degrees both in this country and
abroad.
Mrs. Adelaide Utter. the first woman
in this country to hold u federal our
clarkship. will soon retire from the
government service because the office
is To be abolished. Miss Utter rcceiv-
cd her appointment in 1892 and has
held the Office continuously vcr since.
Perhaps ono Of the most interesting
ing of club women in. ST. Paul was the
n on Vocational Training for
Women" which Miss Ada Comstock.
dean of Won1en of the University of
Minnesota. gave during the afternoon
meeting. Miss Comstock has made a
thorough study of this subject and
during the recent conventions of wom-
on educators. which she attended. this
topic has taken Il place of utmost i'm
portancc. Already several education
al institutions for women have cstab-
lishcd bureaus of occupation.
Miss Comstock in her address said:
The term vocational training has
certainly two distinct bearings. It Is
sometimes used to refer to such train
ing in skilled labor as might perhaps
prof1tably br given to children whose
education does not go beyond the
grades. That phrase of the question
] shall leave out of account. AS ] am
going to use the term it will apply to
girls and women who have at least
graduated from the high school. and
perhaps from college-the class we
call educated Should they
have vocational training? If so, how,
when and what?
One obvious fact presents itself at
once-that as a matter Of fact we are
guiding women into one of the voca-
tons. 1 mean the vocation of teach
Ing. To the girl graduate from high
school or college one means of earn
ing a livelihood and only one seems
to he open. 1t would be cruel to quote
Bernard Shaw's saying. He who can.
does: he who cannot. teaches 1t is
eer1ainly true. however. that the
teaching profession demands but lit
tie in the way of apprenticeship or
specific training: and that. in conse-
quence. many drift into it or are
forced into it without regard to apti-
tude Both the individual and the
profession suffer: and it would seem
to he sensible to offer educated women
a wider field of choice.
For those graduated from school
" AANn" vi dIc
coming into existence. The Women's
Educational and Industrial union in
Boston maintains such a bureau: there
is tho intercollegiate bureau of occu-
pations In New York: another is being
started i'll Philadelphia; and there ART
rumors Of n to he established in
chicago. These bureaus are two-fold
IN their object: they act as regular
employment agencies: and they seek
to Increase among employers the de-
mand for educated women.
The natural consequence of all
these STRINGS is a growing desire for
vocational training. Technical schools
such as Simmons. Pratt. Drexel and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. are increasing in
number. Technical schools in nursing,
domestic science. library work and
secretaryship are added to college and
universities. One hears of schools of
civics and philanthropy. of municipal
research, Of landscape gardening. It
seems clear that the girl who has
been vocationally guided must be vo-
cationally trained"
The fact Of women having employ
ment that rightfully belongs to men is
directly traceable to war. With uni
versal peace they could drap back into
home life. or ut least into occupations
that would nit destroy their feminine
nature" said Mrs. DE voist Of Duluth
I" the club women Of Minnesota at the
annual midwinter meeting In st: Paul.
~ also remained for Mrs. DeVoist to
tell III women that they We're effective
antid"tes and she said in a most com
p'tmentary and sKable manner, pat
! ting her sex gently on the back a. she