The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23
WOMEN A.
IN WAR WORK
Full Company Of Them Work
,ro IN Their Big Factory Here
About q Hard - SOL
diers In Camp.
WOMEN MEET ON LEVEL
~ the Working Women Making
Great sacrifices Beside Leaders
Of Smart Set Who
work Hard, Too.

Great SACRIFICES 0SoO
Of Smart Set Who
work Hard, Too.
,hort three hundred Keokuk
an are working hard in various
roups making things in the keokuk
ad Cross shops and work rooms.
They are doing 1t all without
ought of wages or pay OF any kind.
This company of soldiers helping
~ tbe war includes women who
amnloyed all day. who go to the
~ Cross factory after finishing one
r,,s work. to do another days work
n the soldiers.
asome of the sacrifices being made,
"a the work being done, by Keokuk
omen who make their own living
ID in addition work hard making
,ings for hospitals in France, are
sne and as great as the sacrifice
their men folks in the trenches
efore the Huns" said business
an today.
One Place All Women are One.
side by side with the wage earning
IA salaried employed women in the
ed Cross work rooms are leaders OF
! smart set and some Of the rich
women in Keokuk who are there
orking with their hands exactly like
lie others.
"The war certainly has made de-
ocracy triumphant among Keokuk
omen of the Red Cross said the
me man who is well informed about
Red Cross activities here.
There are women there from every
pction of Keokuk womankind and
om every part of the city. Never
efore has there been such collec-
lon of women from all Keokuk as is
ssembled there in the Red Cross
lork rooms.
Are Thoroughly Organized.
The working women of the Keokuk
led Cross are organized into from
Eenty-two to fifty groups, depending
how much is the work required
fill the orders sent here from the
hicago headquarters.
The machinery of the Red Cross
orkshop has been particularly well
tganized and when an emergency
tder is received, five hunded women
en be modified on short notice
brough the auxiliaries.
Workers say that eight hundred
build be mustered with little extra
fort, as was done several times last
bar
No large gauze orders have come
} chapters in the central field for
everal months, presumably because
the shipping problem. The work
being largely done in New York
bd other cities near the seaboard.
The Work is Specialized.
A visitor to the Red Cross shop |
beets certain group of women
Fery day. In addition to these, the !
foup of workers varies from day to
by.
They come from all sections of the |
ty, and "the friendships formed and |
Re good comradery displayed has
Fen worth more to them than the |
oiuou pSEudpS IcdllLS, dS oAe Va |
le workers expressed it.
The work is so divided that there |
nothing haphazard about it. Some |
omen always do the cutting, and
Frtain others do all the packing and |
Feping of records. !,
thus the work is kept uniform.
Employed women knit and work in
Gening auXiliaries when the press of {
ork requires it
What Their Insignia Means.
The women are as proud Of their
sigma as is any West Pointer.
cross on the head dress repre-
Fnts thirty-two hours Of work;
oss on the left shoulder represents
enty-e!sht hours of work, and bar
Flow the cross signifies 128 hours
labor.
Inc instructors for certain service
ear a blue veil and to wear a red
Is the highest rank one can at
mere are seven blue wells worn
heokuk and four red ones, and
T. heokuk woman, Miss Cornelia
elss, has the right to wear both
blors.
Inc red wells are worn by Miss
sS, Miss Mary Irwin, Mrs. Paul
cisteln and Mrs. Frank Anderson.
nose entitled to blue wells are
~ 7. e. Mcfarland, Miss Cornelia
ss' Mrs. Joseph O'Brien, Mrs. j.
O. Scadding, Mrs. L. A. Hami1l,
D. N. d. Chenowith and Mrs.
larles Van Sittert.
iehsportetion problems control
'uaking of some hospital supplies
y some things that used to be