The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-29
Volunteer by Hundred to Help
Nation i'm Case of War.
Get Special Permits to Open
Recruiting Offices.
HUSTLE MEN FOR The NAVY
Address Street Crowds in n. Y.
Flock to Red Cross.
Chicago Society Girls Assist in
Recruiting Work.

New York March 29.-The hand
that rocks the cradle rules a good
share of the world of American pre-
/ paredness.
Nationwide reports to the United
| Press today show the women of the
country offering to serve as sign
stenographers, nurses, drug clerks,
they are needed for.
Hundreds of patriotic women have
! answered the navy's call to the colors
and other hundreds have answered in
other branches without being called.
One Girl Brought in Nine.
In New York there was a big rush
of women of all ages to help Uncle
Sam get ready to fight OF these,
three stood out for their unique meth
DDS. Viola McGuicken, age 20, got per-
mission of the navy to recruit men
and opened her own station in a
branch post office.
Her work was remarkable said
Lieutenant Grady today. She sent
/ in nine applicants, five of whom we
will take
Under sanction of Secretary Dan
iels, Mrs. Margaret NJ. Crumpacker,
widow of the late Federal Judge
Crumpacker of Indiana and Mrs.
Charles Francis Bedell made an auto
speaking tour along Broadway, tell
ing crowds of men their duty Mrs
Crumpacker, just back from the
French front, told what French wo-
men have done for their fighting
mem"
Plan Big Training Camp.
Plans for big woman's prepared
ness camp on the Chevy Chase idea,
was rapidly being. completed by Miss
Alice Carpenter, who is backed by
Mayor Mitchell and will go to Wash
ington today to discuss New York
women's preparedness plans with the
government,
In Milwaukee AZ women have ap-
piled for enlistment in the navy. Mil
Waukee women have organized a base
hospital with fifty nurses and 25 aides
large enough to care for five hundred
patients. The local Red Cross has 172
new women students enrolled for Serv-
ice. San Francisco naval recruiting
offices report $50 women applicants
for enlistment. Several hundred wom-
en- have taken up courses in Red Cross
nursing. Girl bookkeepers, account
ants, nurses and stenographers by the
dozens have offered their services.
Co-Eds Form Red Cross.
Red Cross training classes have been
organized by the st. Paul, Mimi. Y
w. c. A. Among the women applicants
for navy service was Miss lean Bishop
who has two uncles in the British
army. University of Minnesota co-eds
have joined a Red Cross class. Mime
apolis women have organized Red
Cross classes and many women have
applied for naval service at the local
recruiting office.
A corps of honor guards has been
organized by the women of Portland.
Ore, for home defense. Twenty-Five
women and girls have offered their
services to the navy A corps of wom-
en- pledged to aid local enlistments of
men have been put to work.
Altho no women have offered to
enlist in the navy at Cleveland. they
have organized a complete Red Cross
unit, ready to move the moment war
is declared. A call has been issued
for ten thousand more Red Cross units
in Ohio.
The national league for women.s
service organized in Columbus O., a
few days ago, has $50 members and is
growing. The local Red Cross has
500 members now and is out after
getting them
Five Apply to Join Navy at X. C.
One woman has enlisted in the navy
at Kansas City and four other appu-
cations are being considered.
Chicago society women are organ
iZing Red Cross classes. They have
instituted night classes which hun
dreds of women attend. Other hum
d1 eds have enrolled for active service
in case of war Thirty-five women
have applied for enlistment in the
navy. Red Cross units have been or
ganized among high school girls and
among coeds at Chicago university
and at Northwestern at Evanston. /
Many debutantes and society women
are assisting in recruiting work. They
personally interview men prospects
for the navy and distribute navy nos
tiers from door to door The Red
Cross has issued a call for ten thou
sand new members and the response
was instantaneous