Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-08-26
WOMEN WANTED
!. IN CALIFORNIA
FOR HARVEST
They will be Allowed to
Work Only Where Supply
of Men is Inadequate.

San Francisco, Ca1u., Aug. 26.-
Women to help garner California's
autumn harvests are wanted by the
women's Land Army of America,
will be allowed to work only where
the supply Of men or Of local women
Is inadequate, and they will receive
standard wages for the work done,
according to executives in charge Of
the work.
The work Of the Army, in various
portions Of the state has been going
on. all summer. The enlisted wo-
men" each serving for month or
more, have been drawn largely from
Normal school students, school teach
ers, and others with midsummer time
at their disposal. Now, with this sup
ply cut off, the demand according to
officials of DISCRIMINATION has leaped
from scores to hundreds, and will
continue probably until November L.
Every one Of the girls enrolled
this SUMMER has enrolled for next
summer" was the answer of Mrs.
Clarence Smith chairman of the pub
licity committee of the Army to an
interrogation as to how the girls like
lit. "A girl from a department store
here told me she was stronger than
she had ever been; strong enough to
push a truck. A. girl up at Vacaville
gained five pounds"
Grapes and peaches, ripening fast
in the late summer sun, remain to be
harvested, and the Women's Land
Army people say it must be donef in
some localities by girls. The aver
age wage works out at about three
doflars a day according to announces
ments, Of which one dollar goes for
room and board. Girls now about to
take their vacations will, 1t is hoped.
get an extra week or so Of liberty, and
put in the month helping In the har-
vest. A maximum ten hour day is
worked, with eight hoours where pos
sible. .
No women's Land Army girl ever
goes away to work alone, or with a
friend, or two. They go in units
from 10 to 150-trimly clad in blue
overall uniform, with a sort Of coat
effect. and housed only in quarters
sion of immigration and Housing.
These ordinarily include ample
shower baths. and at Hamilton City,
Glenn county. where fifty-girl
camp is opening, the quarters are
four room bungalows, with screened
sleeping porches, and concrete foored
showers. II
At Lodi, q camp is being built In
the public square, properly stockad'
ed; another model camp is to be built
at Sacramento. There Is call in fol
$50 girls at Centerville. not far from
San Jose. and for thirty at Atwate1
in the San Joaquin valley, which the
Woman's Land Army hopes to fill.
from Monday morning until Sat
urday night the girls rise at Sis a
M, and, after shower bath, take
setting-up exercises. This is an old
miners trick for relieving fatigued
muscles. Through the week they
work more or less on schedule, but
Saturday night and Sunday the,
frolic. Dances, picnics and open all
luncheons are packed in. instigate6
and abetted by the townspeople. ant
at some of these through summer
army khaki and navy blue have beer
more prevalent than civilian garb.
| Girls from eighteen to thirty-f1vt
are eligible, and each must obtain {
! physician's certificate Of fitness to dt
the work.
The organization works in cooper
alton with federal and state labor bu
reaus. and many. state and socia
| agencies. Applicationsare made to it,
office 525 Market street, San Fran
cisco.