The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-08-19
On Farms As On
Railroads They
Have Made Good
MissOula Sees War.
Time Experiment
Well Worked
Out

There's always got to be first
time"
Following up this idea, after their
first votes had won for them their
first representative in congress- Mon
tana women decided to do Il number
III things Tor the first time and soon
discovered that they could do certain
things as wei! the first time they tried
rs the men couid do after years of
practice had accustomed them to the
work.
There was nothing original in wom-
ans going to war-Joan dare and
many others had done that for CEN
turtles before Montana women We're al
lowed to so Ia the polls. so there was
nothing for them il they wanted to do
something for the first time but to let
the men go 10 war and then take their
places in the offices and banks and
fields. ana keep the wheels Of civil life
turning.
Go to Work in Roundhouse.
Hands We're thrown up in horror
when number of young women sig
nified their intention of going to work
In the roundhouse of the Northern Pa
cific In Missoula, wiping engines. But
the girls declare that the grease
from the engines doesn't stain their
hands any more than stove backing
used to stain their mothers. And
father used TO sit with his feet on the
oven door while mother was 'blaclling'
and never seem to see that stain.
In various banks throughout the
country they are taking women in to
train them to be tellers and book
keepers. In the National CITY bank
of New York there are 500 women in
training.
Women bankers"' exclaims the lit
tie woman with side sWiskers, women
haven't any business ability"
Better Than Business Ability"
\ Butsvchr1f'it comes 10 doing gyhinlls ,
tics with a SIS salary 70 make it look
like her husband is the highest. paid
man in the office next to the president.
well--if they can do that they don't
need business ability" They've some
thing a lot better in its place.
And in the Fields, Too.
Women in the fields. blowing and
reapne. They would lose all their
natural refinement. They could never
stand such hard work. Oh, but YOU
are thinking of the farm methods in
the good old days" when they used
sythes and wooden harrows. Now all
that it is necessary for the woman who
wishes to become a "farmerette" to
know is something about machinery
so that she can run the traction en-
CINE. Many farmers declare that the
girl farm hand is a success and one
farmer in particular, near Helena,
hired a 16-year-old girl at So day
and declared that she had made
good with the plow, being the best
worker he had ever had. In various
parts of the country. schools have
been established for the purpose OF
training women along this line.
Women Car Sweepers Succeed.
Women car sweepers are becoming
more and more in demand. After
years of practice sweeping up ashes
after their husbands. brothers and
fathers and mopping up after the
ice man it is easy to understand the
report that they are better fitted fol
this work than are the men who were
hired before them. And local officials
say that women freight truckers dc
very satisfactory work along this line
In various branches of railroad work
never before done by women, tn,
Northern Pacific now hires more thar
30 women in Missonla and Helena.
Learning to Run Railroads.
In the local railway offices, schools
to teach women tclegraphy and tclc
phony have been established in antici
patton of the men who are now hold
ing these positions being taken by tn