The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-03-20
WOMEN DILUTE" BRITISH ARMY,
RELEASING 10 DIVISIONS Of MEN
Taking Over Peaceful Tasks Of Uniformed Soldiers Free
Many From Firing Lne-Starting in Kitchen, Work.
ed Way Clerks, Cooks, Mattresses, Chaut-
eur and Teegraphers to Front in Day.

, old gentlemen Of leisure were wont L"
J smoke aad curse the Nnrthcliffe press
i and other Innovations, was conman-
! doCrcd as I recruiting barracks "l ih'
: corps In addition Drv"ushiro House.
! tho beautiful! old Georgian town resi-
d"ncr oi the Dukes nf l"vnn$hlrS, was
handed over L. IN" WaaCs and The Fed
! Cross Jointly rs An office building.
I'm nevouShirn House the controllers
and administrators and superior OH
GERS uf tho wum"n'S army auxiliary
corps have their Offices and here ever!
day in the week. pr"ce*SiGn OF brown
, clad ''WaacS" PASS 10 ami from lh"ir
assignments In army camps IN Erithlu
and behind the lines In France Here
the army drafts are daily rcccNHu-N"
I many women for such and Such tasks.
The frs, dag | visited DrvnnshlrS
+ HOUSE, the drift for France. which WAS
! assured was average. called for twenty
! cichi cleric. ten cooks. ton WhitrcSS'S.
, orc ,uutor car driver and two Telegraph
,pcrntors All wcr" promptly HHpiIicu
rs Il matter Of course" and a Jew hou's
later. thu. women snlullnS $marliF' Ici'
;or Franc" packs Oh backs. rAact!y LKc
suidiers.
Five Hundred Women Week.
AT Connaught ElnuSr tn" recruits are
received lodged. fed trained ana equip
bed \bou; 5u0 women pnss through
This receiving station every week. lu'
the W:aCS have grown 20 hc C"nsId-
, cradle army and ar" being rccruitcd ny
! the government at raj" appr"N'lhat
Ing Ia lU,nuU = month. ABOUT -""'oO"
women are needed. in britain ana
, r'r,ur,, To release men for the lighting.
I They VIII relrh$e moro than ."V.e""
! men, rIrusc note. At least | SAW one
record in which tho colonel OF TeEl-
,nrnt stated that nine women COOKS
with the occasional help of SIX men
and Il corporal. who built Ares and open
ed TIN CAMS. rrrlnc"d u men. VIII" need
cd. besides the fatigue party OF mon
and currurals, the supervision "i wv"
srrcran1s. They did better w"rk IN til"
bargain. Why shouldn't they Most
: cocks and houscllr"prrs ARE women anu
they know tn" job better than men.
If you could have seen some ni
those camp Kitchens" "Nanc camp
inspector contidrd u me. 'Th.'. tr"ushs
whrrc the blessed m"n Ind washed
vegetables. for example, w"r: foot
deep with mud. We cleaned, them up.
, uuearlhing III the process th&' greatest
lot Of junk you ever saw Broken
crockcry. old knives. pi7cS, tobacco
pouches. dish clothes food. even II you
vii believe it--"ld shoes. all mixed w
with the mud
1t is 10, only IN the domestic
branches tina; the "Waars have dcT"l-
, uprd "xlr:tnrdinary efficiency. Lately
! the women mr." being used 20 replace
| mon in most branches Of the ordnance
and signal services This kind "c work
has commonly been assigned To disabled
! mon, but not nearly enough ~ such men
have been available for III" army IN
Franco, And u large corps "r grade y
mnn-thn; is men iii for front line scr
vicc-huvc been kept behind the lines
in the signal service. which means al
most anything m thu way Of COMMUNE
cations. from wireless 10 carrier pigeon
work.