The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-10

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MAID MAR|ANS
London, June 22.-(By MaiD-
There is no slackening OF the call
for women TO do war work in
England. Every day brings a new
demand, for the supply of war ma
terial has to be constantly increas-
ed tons more food are needed,
thousands more men are TO be
looked after. Let me tell you what
fine part the women are doing to
keep up the timber supply for the
mines, for the roads, for aeroplancs
and for military purposes IN France
The Canadian forestry corps aad
an American corps are hard at
work, but there are lots of ways OF
helping these woodsmen do their
job more quickly AS England no
longer has men to offer she has OF
fered her women. 1t was TO see
how this arrangement worked THAI
| went to training camp In
Buckinghamshirc
The women's forestry service is
divided into two branches, the
mcasurers and the felers. The
measurers are drawn from the Of
ficers training corps which is made
up OF educated girls who have to
pass a somewhat stiff mathemati
cal examination as well as qualify
in rather varied collection OF 9TH
er attainments. many Of which are
not usually possessed by girls who
are strong on arithmetic.
The training camp is set in the
middle OF nest of army camps.
You get a sense of what the Brit
ish commonwealth of nations
means when you find on one side
Of this camp a big army service
corps center, New Zealanders con-
centrated on another, Australians
taking up most of the country to
he east and the women actually |
Incorporated with the Canadian for
,stry corps.
1t was not without a wall OF pro-
est from old conservative England
hat these girls were allowed to un-
lertake their present job. People
lave been scandalized at the w. A.
\. C.'s, and Wrens and Pcnguins
IS each service came into being.
}ut the forestry section has been
llowed to work now in peace for
year. OF course one reason why
hey have escaped the scandalmong
rs is because they are never seen;
hey work far away from London,
eep in the heart of the woodland
ounties, and unlike the little w. a.
\. C.'s they do not need to go
bout their business where evil
minded "old ladies' of both sexes
an get a hit at them.
Measuring Section.
The measuring section girls OF
ne forestry corps work in pairs.
hey mark the trees to be felled,
leasure the length, the quarter
irths and the cubic contents OF
lie logs, and then number them
. both ends. At this camp the
len of the Canadian forestry corps .
1t down the trees mostly beech, f,
,ll them to the light railway by =
hich they are hauled to the main
)ad, where they are loaded into
ucks drawn by steam cars to the
.wmills at the main railway sid u
g. The girls in the woods send
duplicate sheet with each truck '
ad, which is verified by another !,
.ir of girls at the end of the light !,
.ilway line where the logs are
TO the steam road car.
t the sawmill other gangs VI
rls, under a forewoman, receive :.
Ie logs, check up measurements, Il
,nsign the logs to various classes (
nd as they are Sawn remeasure the !
ops. ties or planks, as the case -
ay be, and verify the contents. .
hey then superintend loading into .
ilway trucks for the final desti- >
Ition.
The tally girls have rather short n
hours than the others, because t.
cir job is somewhat eNacting. 4
hey start work at ! and work un- d
noon. Then they return to camp 1t
d are detailed TO various jobs f'
out the hostel. for they do all 81
cir own work. Sometimes it is al
.chen duty. sometimes washing bt
scrubbing. or it may be forag- "
3, and this las, is the most ardu-
IS of all because villages and te
rm houses are not numerous in
IS part of Buckinghamshire and u
od is not plentiful anywhere. :
Forager's Experience. =