Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-02
KEEP HOMES INTACT
WHILE SERVING U. 5.
Thus May Women Express Their
Patriotism, Says Mrs.
Thomas Robins -

Keeping the home intact and at the same
time serving the country in essential war in
dustres the two big ways for the women
OF today to express their patriotism. in the
opinion of Mrs Thomas Robins, chairman of
the womans committee Council of National
Defense.
YOU know. when home is broken up and
the family scattered to the four winds, some
how they never get together again" she said
Every woman with the physical strength
and any loyalty whatever wants to work to-
day whether she has ever done so before
not. Loatine isn't at all fashionable.
But think what it will mean to the boy
when he comes back from over there If one
sister has gone to work in Washington. an
other In a faraway city, and the mother or
parents have been forced to give up the home
because it's too lonesome too expensive!
Il think one of the biggest things the
United States employment service will do Is
finding work for the girl at home. She may
insist that she wants work. believing
that to include only Red Cross work or posi-
tons in munitions plants and shpyards.
The woman. as well as the man. must re-
member the soldier at the front must be
fed, clothed. equipped and shipped before he
can shoot. be shot. he bandaged or be other
wise first or second aided
what Women Can DO
Marie l.. Obenauer. perhaps the greatest
authority in the country on the statistics of
women in industry, says 1t takes four men
at home to maintain one fighting man at the
front and about man OF the four at
home is woman. Spinning yarn. weaving
cloth and turning it into covering and cloth
ing for the fighters. weaving linen for air
plane wings tanning leather and making 1t
into soldiers shoes, canning fruits. vegetables
and meats for camps, making bolts, nuts and
rivets for ships, and a hundred other COM
mon factory occupations are as much war
work as making guns and gas masks. rolling
powder pellets or Red Cross bandages.
Because factory and mill-trained women
have become such asset in the winning of
the war. ii has become necessary to have an
assured and not probable, stable and not
a shifting supply of the requisite labor. That
is why the Government has established the
United States Employment Service. eleven
of whose branch employment bureaus opened
in Philadelphia yesterday.
"Of course. there are clerical and executive
positions open. but they are few compared to
the demand for labor in the many factories
I hope more college women and girls of
thorough training will come into this work
when the country is so in need of them. The
employment officers will strive to take care
of every woman who applies We will try to
pl30e her in the work she likes best and is
best trained for in the town nearest her
home"
Place Women Close to Homes
The plan of the Government Employment
Service especially pleases Mrs Robins, be-
cause it will serve to place each woman close
to her home. Through headquarters here the
bureaus will know the labor situation all
over the State. If there Is nothing for the
girl to do in her own county. instead of her
going to Washington or "A far-on city to look
for work. she apply at the free bureau
and obtain something in an adjoining county
1T is going to help conserve our homes"
said Mrs. Robins. land for the happiness of
the boys who will come back and the girls
and parents here | think that Is the biggest
thing of all