Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-03
WOMEN TO.LEARN
USE OF THE HOE
Course in Farming to Be Given
at Third Encampment of
National Service School.
FIRST SESSION APRIL %

| 1t will be the shovel and hoe for Sis
/ ter Susie instead of the knitting needle
and bandage roller, at the third en-
| campment of the National Service
School on Conduit road from April %
to June 1, according to plans for war
| farming announced by the school yes
terday. Intensive farming under di-
rection of officials of the Department of
| Agriculture and practical food con-
servation as approved by food admin
| istration officials will be features of
this years encampment of the National
| Service School.
| The recruiting office for the school is
| at 1906 Goth street northwest. Pro-
vision will be made for $50 girl and
young woman students in each course
! of twenty days which the school will
! inaugurate. The first session will be-
| gin April % and close May IL. The
second session will start May - and
| conclude Memorial day. Students
! who take the agricultural course will
| be required to remain in school for the
| entire six-week period.
Students will be housed in tents as in
| former years and the entire course will
be conducted along military lines.
| Work Is Classified.
| Summarizing the purposes of the
| school as it has been conducted for the
| last three years, the National Service
School committee puts it's work in three
classifications. The first encampment
held two years ago at Chevy Chase.
Nd, was intended to awaken the inter-
| est of American women in national pre-
paredneSS. Last years school was for
the purpose of preparing girls and
young women for Red Cross and other
ra1l af
will emphasize the Importance of wom-
ca devoting their energies to increased
farming dividends and food censerva-
ton.
To furnish immediate assets to the
government the school will train young
women in typeWriting, telegraphing,
telephone operating and other forms of
service.
ed at the encampment for students who
have not had the advantage of this
training.
One of the features of the school will
be the formation of a company of
states. which will have in it's personnel
a student from every state in the Union.
The privilege of raising This company
has been given to the National Society
Of the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton
Women to Be Instructors.
The school has announced that wher-
ever possible women will replace men
in the instruction of students.
The school yesterday announced the
outline of instruction for the first
course at the third encampment as fol-
lows:
Course No. Intensive agriculture;
This course will include practical. as
well as theoretical work and will be
under the direction of agricultural ex-
perts. Agricultural students will be re-
quired to do actual farming on the
school farm. Food conservation, under
direction of expert dieticfans and rep
tresentatives of the food administration.
This course will include the making
of victory breads" Canning and pre-
serving: Drawing and dehydrating of
fruits and vegetables. Last three weeks
an agriculture course according to De-
partment of Agriculture methods. Mill
tary calisthenics and drill: Includes
setting up exercises and infantry foot
movements in squad. company and bat
talon formations. American history and
current events in war zone.
The following elective courses may be
selected by post-graduates or other stu
dents who can present Red Cross GER
tificates for Red Cross classes outlined
in the course of instruction they Sc
lect: Signal work. wigwagging and
soma phore; canteen work, practical and
theoretical; military and relief French
| (this course is open to women who read
| and speak French), elementary war
, time domestic science. emergency
measures in the household.