Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-30
US. WOMAN POWER
TO BE Modified
Registration Here on Sep
tember 20 Voluntary but
Patriotic Duty
10000 JOBS IN STATE
BY M'LISS

Seventy thousand jobs. according to sta
tistcs Of the Woman's Committee OF the
! Council of National Defense will be va
Gated within the next few months in Penn
| sylvania due to the draft.
Since every undrafted male who ls not
| Methuselah or n Congenital loafer has a
! job, the woman's hour, which has been
striking for 10, these many moons, booms
| forth with a surer-peal
Those seventy thousand jobs have got TO
be competently filled IL industry is to re-
| main normal Woman patriotic ambi-
| tious. proficient woman--is the answer
ON September 90 the enrolment of the
entire woman power Of the state. to meet
| this situation. will he started. Under the
direction of Mrs. Walter King Sharpe, OF
Chambersburg, every woman over sixteen
who works and every woman who wants to
learn how to work will he asked to reg
lister, \ card requesting the minutest de-
tails of her station in lite. her training and
her experience will be given her to sign
Mrs. Henry ID. Jump, who "Hoover!zed"
this city. will be in charge of the work In
Philadelphia.
II doesn't matter If you are an aviatriX
or a mill-worker, an O~teOpath or cook.
YOU VIII be asked as a part II your pa
triotism. TO give an account of yourself
You Will he asked what YOU are willing
to do in n war emergency; what services
YOU will give gratuitously, or. If you cannot
afford TO be an unpaid worker whether
you will make the sacrifice Of going away
from home should the industrial situation
require that.
Every kind of occupation that woman
has ever been engaged in--that of post
mistress power-boat operator and journal
ist. as well as of homemaker and other
more strictly feminine pursuits-has been
set down on the card. You will be asked
TO indicate the ones In which you are
trained or. If YOU are an unskilled worker,
the ones in which YOU wish 90 he trained.
Antedatng the registration there will be
opened on nest Wednesday at 1907 Walnut
street under the direction of Mrs. Thomas
Robins an employment bureau which will
take on the work of the Federal and State
employment bureaus and will start meeting
the immediate labor problems 1t will be
known as the Federal Labor Bureau and
Miss Eugenia Gregg will be its executive
secretary. Every working woman will be
asked TO set down her qualifications so that
she can be card indexed for the good of
her country.
AT the present time mills and factories
in all parts of the State are calling for |
workers" Mrs. Robins said. cNpla ining the |
new enterprise. There are openings for |
women in every known occupation II is !
far better that they should be mobilized |.
in their own districts near home influence !
than that they should be attracted to large |
cities. through the advertising of great |
industries. ! ntfe1Oft every county VIII |
have its director OF industry and il will |
be her function TO aCquant herself with |
such needs in her county and to direct and !
advise women registering for occupation |
as to the manner in which they may best
adapt their qualifications for the nations
service
What we want particularly to prevent"
Mrs Robins continued earnestly. lis over
crowdnC in the cities. Many girls from
the small towns come piling down on Phila-
delphia with the idea that because II is big
there must be plenty of work to do whereas
II might just so happen that they could
serve better in their own community
Everywhere because of the great need
for workers standards have been lowered.
But after the war. when millions of men
come back looking for their jobs there will
he no place for the unskilled woman worker.
The problems of readjustment will be more
than difficult. Every woman who has to
work should be a skilled worker oy that
time"