The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-12-26
DEMAND FOR
FEMALE HELP
GREATER NOW
In Austria-Hungary with the
New Levy Drawing Thous-
andS of Men Away.


Correspondence OF the Associated Press
ZURICH, Switzerland. Dec. 25.-
With the new levy in Austria Hungary
drawing. away vet many thousands
more men from civil occupations, the
demand for female help has been fur
Their increased. Women are now not
only welcomed, but eagerly sought for
In various fields OF industry and COM
merce from which they were previous
ly sternly excluded. But at the same
time they have been given to under
stand that this Is only temporary
condition. and they must be prepared
to make room for the men, when these
come back from the field.
Quite apart from the much talked
Of women street car conductors, ono
sees the sex engaged now in all kinds
OF work, in factories. stores and Of
ices, everywhere. In the laboratories
OF great industrial plants the frau
doktor" is standing behind scales, and
retorts, and bottles, engaged in the
most intricate chemical analysis. Be-
lore the war she was only admitted
as an assistant, but as one after the
other of her male colleagues was called
to the army. she was permitted to sfill
their places. b,
Coming into Vienna on the northern
railway, hundreds of women may be
seen working on the gigantic coal
heaps, shoyeling the coal into the
hoppers and performing the heaviest
kind OF manual labor. Formerly every
body would have scoffed at the idea
OF female goldman" but now no.
body turns to look Mt her.
Amateur women photographers have
become assistants to doctors in X-ray
work, and in electro-therapeutic treat
ment. In Gratz special courses OF in
struction in photography are being
given for this work. The women are
taught by university professors, and
receive certificates attesting their fit-
ness. - Ig.,,S
The capable housewife no longer
remains at home; her services have
been found valuable in taking the do
mystic management of hospitals, and
sanatoriun1s.s and conyalescent homes.
II living in this country. she devotes
herself to raising poultry and eggs.
or fruit growing. The agricultural
colleges are constantly increasing
their number Of women students. Peo-
pie who hitherto opposed the idea of
women becoming gardeners are now
applying to the colleges for them.
Young women have already done ex-
itremely well as landscape gardeners.
A special school for them has recently
been opened in Vienna. aI a
y This problem OF the effect of the
entry of women into the labor market
after the war, is already engaging the
serious attention of the authorities in
Austria and in Germany. Only re-
Gently the iBayarian; government is
sued public warning to women
against rushing into fields OF work, SO
far monopolized by men,. They are
told in plain terms. that as a matter
OF course, they would have to give up
their places to men; as soon as the
latter were back from the army; and
that therefore they ought not to spend
money on training in business col
.leges for employment which could
only prove temporary. But just the
same these colleges have gone on adj
yertsing for pupils and promising
them the most lucrative engagements
at the end of a few weeks course. And
the rush of new applicants for POSI-
tons continues, despite the warning
OF the authorities that In Bavaria, at
least, the supply of women labor of
all grades is greater than the demand.