The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-18
EIGHT REGIMENTS OF woAsEH

EIGHT REGIMENTS OF woAsEl
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Eightsthonsand womes who wan
to help!' 4 ~
That is the number that Columbi,
University has registered on he
cards. Students, graduate students
extension students, alumnae-e;gh
regiments of them-have been liste,
by the Information Bureau Of tn,
Committee on Woman's War Wor,
of the Columbia University Mobi';
zat;on.
F, Janus-like, the Bureau faces two
ways. When one of the 5000 wants te
find an outlet for her patriotic ener'
gies in sine suitable activity OF
training, the Bureau tells her about
the Emergency Courses" now being
offered by the University; when
some organization wants a vonuntee1
or paid worker for some form OF
specialized service it applies to the
Bureau, and never yet has the Bur-
eau failed to find the right woman
for the job.
The University has divided the
war work in which women may be
especially useful into five branches
of service-argicultural, foor, social.
clerical, and scientific. For the pro-
duction Of food there are classes in
vegetable raising and there is prac-
tice on farms. A number of Barnard
girls are welding the shovel and the
hoe in garden in The Bronx, coax
ing the cautious legume to peer
forth in spite of this springs chilly
welcome. Units of farm students
six each under a captain-have al
ready started for summer of regu-
lar toll on dairy, poultry, fruit and
truck farms somewhere" in New
York and New Jersey.
For the woman in the home there
are courses on food conservation and
preservation and on economical
cookery. This work, which is within
the reach of every housekeeper in
the land. is one of immense patriotic
value, when it is realized that thrift
in the kitchen is the medium by
which America is to remain well-fed
even though she sends the major
part of her crops across the seas to
her allies.
For women who want to do house.
keeping on a large scale as directors
of cookery in hospitals, railroad
canteens, camps and individual CEN
tiers, or to serve as dietitians in base
hospitals or military or agricultural
camps there are other courses which
give classroom training and also Of
fer chances for practical work. An
increasing number of paid positions
for such service is being opened as
war preparations develop.
For those who have done parti-
cularly we'll in the Red Cross Train
ing School for Emergency Social
Service there will be paid positions |
under the Red Cross. For volunteers
who are graduates of the courses Of
Fered under Columbia's auspices at |
he School of Philanthropy and at
Teachers College there are entrances
nto active service elsewhere of the
ocular members Of the staffs of the !
lospital social service departments,
he visiting nurses associations, etc.
Owing to the growth of number
ess organizations for war work the
most frequent demand upon the In
Bureau has been for cler-
:al workers, chiefly volunteers.
he Bureau of Municipal Research, H
he Women's League for Service,
he intercollegiate Bureau of Occu-
atoms, all have levied upon Column
las list. The government at Wash
,gton is so I'M need of stenographers
nd typewriters that a civil service
is held at the Custom
ouse in New York every Tuesday Il
orning. To meet this sudden and
streme demand the University is. of
ring an intensive business course.
For women who have more scien-
fic training there are opportunities
r service as psychologists in con-
.ction with tests for typhoid and
lalyses of milk and water. Intense
asses are now under way !. and
ould call for large force of
hQratQrY assistants arise as the