The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-10
NECESSARY WORK
now BEING DONE
BY FARGO WOMEN,
FIELD BROADENS
In Many Industries They
Replace Men, Gone to
Fight The Hun

If you are one OF the men who
finds it inopportune to go to fight
the Hun II may be that you will come
to live in a world SO feminized that
YOU will ride in elevators in charge
of young women; when you call a
taxi you will be driven by young
woman; when you make your bank
deposit your money will be placed in
the hands of a young woman, and
perhaps in that one detail the new
order will not be so greatly changed
from the old; if you are an engineer
in charge Of a long train of cars
will receive your orders from lady
in oVeralls who hands them up as
expeditiously as did any dapper dis
patcher who may now be soma
place in France.
Others have observed that WON
ans day has come and Fargo is each
day noticing new lines IN which
woman has learned to serve COM
petently, to the satisfaction of her
self and the public. Fargo has
women elevator operators and wom-
en- bank clerks and a girl taxi driver
and telegraphers not to mention the
large number of employments in
which she has always been found. AS
yet no street car "conductorettes"
have appeared in the city but they
are a common sight in larger cities
where the, man power has been more
heavily depleted and this branch of
employment calls for many workers.
Garry On" Indefinitely.
One of the local bankers, a large
part of whose staff has become fem
inized, said today: we have found
it necessary to replace many of our
men who have gone to war with
young women and they have given
US excellent service and great salts
faction. There is no reason in the
world why we can not carry on in
definitely if the feminine help we
have enlisted is representative of
the type Of service that women will
give"
Now that's very nice.
But a less complimentary young
Fargo banker said "Oh, yes! There
are plenty of women coming into
the banking business and it takes
about five Of 'em to do the work that
three men did"
Now that isn't so nice.
Fargo's one girl taxi driver has
given complete satisfaction to en-
ment of this taxi line does not view
with alarm the prospect of employ
ing many more, --
Her Place Everywhere.
Whatever the previous attitude Of
it's citizens, there is no nation now
at war but has learned that Womans
place has become any place in the
world there is work to be done and
oh \ I've
and well; she has not turned out a
paragon Of virtues and accomplish
ments but as the men of the world
have gloriously faced the job that
was to be done, the women without
the glory have pretty we'll attended
to the necessary work that remain
ed.
And then of course there are the
people who worry about what will
come after the war Will women
consent to be showed back into the
home after the months or years Of
freedom that has been provided thru
outside employment? Will man re-
turn from war finding a. race that
will neither consent to keep house
for him as in the good old days, nor
yet incur the responsibility of keep
ing a husband in the style to which
he has been accustomed? One young
woman was interviewed upon the
subject today. you want to know"
she asked in increduIous tones,
whether when the war is over and
there are lots Of men home again
and one Of them should ask me to
quit this and Just dust up a house
once day and get two or three
little meals for him, and have all
my afternoons off, you want to know
would I? Why, say, ask me, ask
mel" ..-..-...
And there you are. But meantime
the list OF employments in which
Fargo young women are placing
themselves is added to daY hv day