The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-11-01
JOBS FOR WOMEN
UNLIMITED IN j. 5.
'rim,e Tia. Come, says G. r. Clayton, To
Take Up Regular work At
Regular Ray.

The best way for many women to
show their patriotism Is to train for
service. Efficiency was never more
highly prised asset than it is today
The government is helping women to
ind the work they are best fitted TO do,
and suggesting how they can best train
to fill places of men called TO the coll
ors
The time has now come when many
women must drop their knitting
reedles for a field of greater service,
cease volunteer work, and take reg
ular job for regular pay" says c. T.
Clayton, director Of the training and
| dilution service of the United States
department of labor. The fact that
women may not be in need OF the
money has nothing to do with the case
The United States government needs
/ their service for production, and the
government Is very particular about
women being paid the same wage as
men for services equally rendered.
THE patriotic thing is for women to
t do the work her training has fitted her
I to do. provided it has been along the
/ lines of an essential vocation. School
! teachers should stick to their calling
no matter If munitions offer a higher
reward. The youth OF America must
not be neglected
! For the unframed woman. who has
ably offers a more profitable field than
/ any other line of endeavor. Many fac
/ tories are organizing training schools
| in their plants Two hundred facto-
ries. according to the training and di-
/ luton service. are spending or prepar-
] ing TO spend millions solely in the work
! Of intensive training OF new workers:
100000 new skilled workers are needed
1 by the country by January I.
The women with the namble fn-
gers who is not afraid OF grease and
/ who is willing to cast aside for eight
| hours day her FUZZY ruffles for over
/ alls. her plumed bonnet for n service
! cap. and to concentrate on the task at
hand is sure of quick and certain re-
ward
/ Here Is an example: girl from A
/ country village far removed from any
war producing industry came to the
! United States employment office and
asked for a job. She explained that she
had two brothers in the service, had
never worked in her life; but she want
ed TO get into industry, and was will
| ing TO take any Kind of n job in a
war producing plant. She was placed
| IN munition plant near Newark and
given job at IS a week In six weeks
She-Aad been promoted three times and
was earning s22 week. The fact
THAT she had her salary almost trip
-
time meant nothing to this young girl:
but she was inexpressibly happy to
feel that she was successful in doing
her part and making good on the job
assigned to her. That must be the
spirit of the American woman in in
dustry--to stick to the job and train
herself to work as faithfully and well
as any man"
In order that the work OF women
may give the greatest economic value
to the community, every precaution
is taken not to flt square pegs into
round holes. For this reason women
who apply to the United States employ
ment offcises are asked to give full in
formation relative to thei- various
Qualifications, especially regarding their
school. college, or technical training.
For full information relative to
nursing. hospital assistants and recon-
struction aids. address the office of the
surgeon general. Washington p. c.. as
follows. nurses. American nurses corps,
student nurses and hospital assstan ts,
army school OF nursing, reconstruction
aids. reconstruction division.
In addition to the facilities for train
ing offered under the direction OF the
surgeon-generai, there are ir6T9 schools
End hospitals throughout the country
that register nurses, and graduate
nurses from these institutions are
eligible to enter the army. hospitals
with the same standing an graduates OF
the army school of nurstn. according
to the committee on nursing Of the