Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-04-15

ENROLLING and classifying
IL women for national service, the
IL work begun Monday morning in
Omaha BY the National League
for Woman Service, is one Of the three
important steps advocated in the
mobilization OF the woman power OF
the country by the Council for Ma
tional Defense and the National In
stitute Of Accountants. A second is
cooperation Of the War and Navy de-
partments with some civic organiza-
ton to determine the needs of the
service and duties which can be per-
formed by women. A third IL to or
ganize an educational bureau, repre-
senting both military authorities and
civilian workers, to classify the duties
in connection with various military
and naval departmental Offices, and to
teach unqualified workers.
1t has been suggested that every
woman enrolling be classified in two
ways. BY the type OF service she can
render and by examination. Women
can be utilized In the army As stenog-
raphers, typists. bookkcepers, clerks Of
all kinds, filing assistants, keepers Of
stores and supplies, cooks, and numer-
Gus other duties. As purchasers Of
various kinds Of supplies, inspectors
OF supplies, and in many professional
lines as in the legal departments, as
auditors, as accountants and as trans
lators of languages. Some suggest
that various grades be created to cor
respond to the ordinary official
nomenclature viz; Private, corporal,
sergeant, for the minor positions, and
second and first lieutenants, captain
and major for the higher ones.
The assumption is that in time Of
war there are many things which tech
nically trained women can do as well,
or better. than men, and that, as 4
matter Of patriotic duty, women
should offer their services for the
work they are best fitted to do, thus
making available for the field q large
part of the male population.
Great Britain today has over two
million women employed in indus
tries which before the war were con.
sidered exclusively mems occupations.
They are employed in glass works, in
packing houses, in blacksmithing.
street cleaning, -four milling, chimney
sweeping. farming and gardening.
They work as brakemen and engine
cleaners on railroads, They stoke
coal. lay brick, work as braxiers in
machine shops and run lathes. They
clean windows Of Office buildings and
turn and bore shells. They are en-
ployed in boiler shops where they
rivet boiler shells and sokestacks. In
England and France together nearly
five million women are now not only
doing the work Of men, but are earn.
ing mems wages. F
In Fran from the beginning Of the
war women were employed both In
industries and. in the various war de.
partments for all kinds Of duties
Women are now even performing gar.
rison duty In the French forts In the
rear. They are guarding plants--ths
same work that our National Guard
is doing now--and are even guarding
prisoners, in order to relieve men fol
hore urgent uutieS.
Presbyterian church women will
hold an important educational church
conference at North Presbyterian
church, Twenty-fourth and Writ be
ginning Wednesday afternoon at
o'clock, and closing with big mas,
meeting at the new First church Sun
lay evening. Three out-of-towr
.SSpeakers, Mrs, D. B. Wells of Chi
ago, Mrs. E. H. Silverthorn Of Den
yer and Mrs. Guy s. Davis are ex
pceted, and at least fifty out-of-towr
delegates aa
Mrs. Wells will give Bible studio,
each day on "The Kingdom Of God