New-York tribune., 1918-03-07

not be missed. Maybe there's girl so
situated she doesn't have to do much OF
anything but sigh over a picture OF
somebody in uniform and cry into let
ters from over there" Z. B. Smith
wants both of them. He knows that
chances are they'll make good. for
there are hundreds like them now in
the plant at Bloomfield making snubby
deadly little fuses, running drill
presses, assembling. fitting, inspecting.
As sample, there is Helen Scarth,
now Mr.. Smiths assistant Until a
Year ago Miss Scarth was a social sec
retary in New York. She had always
earned liberal salary and her work
was certainly not arduous. But when
the women of Canada. high and low.
began to flock into the munitions fac
tories she remembered her Canadian
birth and Canadian allegiance. gave up
everything else and went along with
them
Last fall Miss scarth came back over
the boundary line that common aims
have almost obliterated and went into
the service Of the International. She
was working as an operator when the
ef1lclency engineer discovered her and
saw bigger possibilities in her
Duty Levels Caste
Through the assistant efficiency en-
gineer more than d thousand women
who never saw the inside of a factory
before have come Eto the employ Of
the International. One of them is Mrs.
Douglas Patterson. society woman of
New York and Montclair Ten hours a
day six days a week Mrs. Patterson
stands at turn let lathe. She is an ex-
pert operator after her many weeks of
practice, and her pay averages more
than So day. She eurns every cent of
II, but somehow or other the money
ether turret lathe is Miss Dorothy
Gibbs, whose uncle is Sir Rodman Rob
I'm, eX-Premier of Manitoba. 1t is now
five months since Miss Gibbs quit knit.
ting wrlstlets in Brooklyn and went in
for primers.
Then there's Miss Mary Black (whose
brother Is the Rev. Hugh Black. an
operator on navy primers, and a good
one, worth every penny of the 50 a dav
she draws. Miss Mary O'Connor might
nave become bachelor of science if
she'd stuck out the year at Barnard,
but shes we'll satisfied with her estate
as supervisor of a roomful OF busy
girls, whose speciality tends to scien-
tine elimination of poches. The de-
gree can wait
Mrs. Elizabeth Parkes Hutchison
used to be. and still is. soprano solois+
at the First Methodist Church in Mont
clair. But she has had to give up the
concerts that paid her $3.50 for each
appearance since she decided she could
best help her husband-a captain in
France-by giving sixty strenuous
hours 4 week to the International for
$11.
Joins Freedoms Orchestra
In New York "Mss Bacon" was do
ing rather we'll as musician some
months back. To-day she has fitted
herself so we'll into the internationally
routine and has put everything else so
firmly behind her "for the period Of
the war; that even Miss Scarth wasn't
able to recall her first name or whether
she was pianist, violinist or 'cellist.
I've sort Of had feeling that Amer
lean women were holding back to see
If munition work were TO be accepted
as the proper thing" said Miss Scarth
yesterday. "Perhaps they have felt
that the time for them to buckle down
hadn't arrived. But it's here now.
have no doubt when they understand
that they'll respond as nobly as the
women Of France, England and Can
ada"