The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-12-05
ALL LOYAL WOMEN
ASKED TO REGISTER
WILL GO ON RECORD AS WILLING
AND READY TO SERVE
THEIR COUNTRY

Our government has given to the
Womens Committees, Council of Ma
tional Defense, the Herculean task OF
registering all the women over 16
years of age. The compliment is a
great one and the women are anxious
to comply with the request In Idaho
the registration started December 8,
and if possible, it is to be completed
in week.
The object of the registration is to
give to every woman an opportunity to
offer to her country such service as
she is best fitted to render, but she is
to offer service or not. This registra-
ton is to interpret to the government
the possibilities CT the woman power
of the country; to furnish accurate in
formal to the government of the ca
pacities in which women are now
serving, whether in their homes, or in
paid pursuits, trades or professions
The government wishes to have in |
every community lists of women care
fully classified, who are willing to be
called upon for trained or unframed
service, to the state or the nation
1t will get from this registration
list of the women who wish to take
training in order to give more effic-
lent service, but best of all it will {
enable the government to place wom-
en- who can volunteer their services
in positions of usefulness in many
fields. After this registration every {
woman will be given an opportunity z
% serve her government in some ca t
'acity if it is only for an hour or a i
week in the home. v
Let no woman refuse to register on 6
he ground that she is so situated v
hat she cannot give a service on ac-
cunt of home duties. Unless you are "
from the neck down, and b
ave also lost the power of speech le
on can render your government some d
i'd. al
1T will be more difficult for the d.
ousemother to do patriotic Work 9TH ia
r than in conserving food in the P
ome, than any one else, this we re-
ize, but where is there a woman,
} matter what her duties, who can
IT squeeze out a few hours. some
ne, day or night, in each week, to
W, knit or mend for her country in
J hour of peril?
Please remember that a woman's of ~
. Oh
+ of service is purely voluntary,
neither paid or unpaid. The woman !,
10 must receive pay for her service,
her expenses or salary, is as i'm ~
rtant to register as the woman Of
ing unpaid service The point we
sh to drive home to you women of
aho is that unless our registration ot
;ludes every woman in the state, a.
will not be complete census such a.
the government asks for. viii a.
u, then greet the registrars as =.
ends, and make their work as easy II.
possible9 There is room, 70 roo Jas
er for 146 occupations and every II.
man is likely to be able to register II.
der some one of them. When the Y.
istrar calls, or when you go to the Il.
istrar, as the case may be, have >.
II mind made up as to what service
can offer to your country and
the registrar and she will help
fill your card. If you are now
king for the Red Cross, state in l1er
1T line. ).
y the way there is a place on the -
for your age, and latest directions
you need only put under 80 or
er so, or under 60 as the case may
and need not put your exact age. Sue,