The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-29
WOMEN ARE
.g ANXIOUS TO ENLIST
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; been organized by the St. Paul.
MINI, Y. w. C. A Among the wom-
len applicants for navy service was
Miss Jean Bishop, who has Two
uncles in the British army. UnlVeIs'
ity of Minnesota co-eds have organiI
ed a Red Cross class. Minneapols
women have organized He'd cross
classes and many women nave az
4 pied for naval service at sHe i sc.t
recruiting office.
A corps of honor guards has been
organized by the women of Portland
Oregon, for home defense. twenty
five women and girls have offere
their services to the navy. corps
of women pledged to aid local enlist
ments of men, has been put to Work
Although no women have ottereu
to enlist in the navy at CleVelanu,
they have organized a complete 1eu
Cross unit, ready to move the Honi'
ent war is declared A call has been
issued for ten thousand more leo
Cross recruits in Ohio.
The National League for Women's
Service organized in Columbus, Ohio,
a few days ago, has $50 members
and is growing. The local Red cross
has 500 members now and is out AFTER
| 10000 more with good prospects OF
SetlnS tnem.
One woman has enlisted in the
navy at Kansas City and four other
applications are being considered.
Chicago society women are organ
izing Red Cross classes They nave
Instituted night glasses which hun
dreds of women attend. Other hun
dreds have enrolled for active ser
vice in case of war. Thirty-ftve
oy3Jjpty3anf in
the navy. Red Cross units have been
organized among high school girls
and among goods at Chicago univer-
sity and at Northwestern at Evans
| ton.
Many debutantes and society wom-
en- are assisting in recruiting work
They personally interview men pros
poets for the navy and distribute
navy posters from door to door. The
Red Cross has issued call for ten
| thousand new members and the re-
Spouse was instantaneous.
st. Louis women have organized
Red Cross units and already have
started civilian girl classes, making
bandages and kits and collecting Red
Cross funds.
| Five Trenton, N. j., women have
applied for enlistment in the navy
and have been accepted. Housewives
are organizing home defense work.
One woman has been enlisted and
seven others have applied and may
be accepted at Philadelphia for naval
service. Womens clubs and other
women's organizations are stirring up
interest in the women's preparedness
camps at Chevy Chase and elsewhere.
Fifty women have registered for
emergency aid, offering to work as
sign painters, factory inspectors,
nurses, drug clerks, cooks and laun-
dresses Three girl classes in wire
less instruction have been started
under Miss Eleanor Bonsall.
Twenty women have applied for
naval service at Pittsburgh and local
women are organizing Red Cross
unit Girls and women in. the BUSH
ness district are particularly active
| in woman power mobilization.
Half a dozen women and girls have
offered their services to the navy at
Detroit. Local women's clubs, led by
suffrage organizations are planning
i to enlist 100000 Michigan women for
social economic preparedness in war
A dozen women have offered to
serve with the navy at Harrisburg,
PA. Most of them are stenographers.
Some applied for the radio Service
corps. The local Red Cross is being
recruited to fuller strength. but it
Il has been active for weeks. The Ma
tional Preparedness leagues local
branch will merge with the Red
Cross next week. A class of Red
Cross recruits is in training.
| 400 Per Week.
LAKE BLUFF, ILL.,, March 29.-Pol-
ishing off unframed country lads,
many who had never seen body OF
water as large as Lake Michigan IN
til coming here, at the rate of nearly
400 week, is the record that is be-
ing established at the Great Lakes
naval training station here.
Arrangements were under way to-
day for the detailing Of the second
large aggregation to be sent out with
In the last ten days for somewhere
in the east" A short time ago more
than six hundred were dispatched to
the Atlantic fleet. Four hundred and
fifty will comprise the unit which
leaves Friday.
| According to officers. recruits at the
rate of sixty a day are being received.
Already accommodations are pressed
to the limit and more than eight hun
bred are sleeping in tents The course
of training, formerly extending over a
period Of four months, has been re-
duced.
Drilling is almost incessant and one
company, which has been in uniform
but eight days, appeared on dress pa
rade today with all the steadiness of
veterans.
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