The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-01-01
NEWS OF WOMEN'S WORK
, INTERESTING TO CLUB
, WOMEN.
Girls In War Work.

has profoundly affected the labor
world of women. Where once only
a few thousand were engaged in
wage earning occupations outside
the home, now there are millions
employed in all the industries listed
by our Census Department, except
six or seven.
On this account the war found
women trained to efficiency in many
lines, and our Government recog-
nized this from the first. We are
told by the highest authority that
million girls in this country have al
ready gone into new positions Gre
ated by the war, multitudes of them
moving into new places, away from
the comfort and protection Of
home.
We know how heroicly the women
of Great Britain and France have
taken the places in the great NUM-
tion plants made vacant by enlisted
men, and that much of the ammuni
ton used on the Western front to-
day has been manufactured by wo-
men. Women have not yet entered
into the munition factories in our
country in such great numbers. The
first draft of men did not leave
large vacancies in factory work, but
the second draft will call more of
those men to the colors, and, if 4
third draft comes, the women and
girls will have to take up the work
laid down by the men. A great mu-
milton plant that employees $4,000
men has as yet but fifty girls in its
factories, but the company recently
Informed the War Work Council of
the Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation that it was planning to build
dormitories for 400 young women,
and that it would probably have to
make provision for one thousand
more in the near future. A big mu-
milton plant advertised not long ago,
1900 Girls Wanted At Once" and
another issued a call for 81, 200 Wo-
men Employees" Word has come
recently that 1900 girls are at work
in a cartridge factory in the Middle
West, where there are no adequate
living accommodations. The Associa-
ton worker there reports that the
girls very often sleep three in bed,
and that the beds are never empty
day or night.
We are told that in England there
was not a direct replacement of men
by women in the factories until the
war was year old. We may rest
assured that the entrance of our
young womanhood into these NUM-
ton plants in ever increasing num-
bers is matter of few months.
We may say, broadly and truly,
that young women are essential to
all kinds of production, necessitated
by the war. More than 1900 have
been called to meet the increased
business of the Federal Departments
at Washington. Last week a letter
came to Lexington from the Ordi-
nance Department there, asking fol-
500 young women to do clerical
work, not only typewriting, but in
dexing, filing, cataloguing, account
a. CT scfs oil
wanted 800 stenographers immedi-
ately.
Women and girls are making uni.
forms, shoes and all necessary cloth.
ing for our soldiers and sailors.
newspaper man from Lexington was
In Charleston, S. c., short time ago
and saw one thousand girls in one
building, making clothing for oul
army, who were all compelled tt
sleep in that same building because
adequate sleeping quarters could no
be found elsewhere. Women ar
making food stuffs and utensils fo
camps. They are working in tn
camps as laundresses. telephone op
orators, typewriters and stenogra
pliers. Above all, there is a nobl
army of nurses ministering to tn
sick in our cantonment hospitals
just as the Red Cross is serving tn
wounded and dying on the battl
fronts. The problem. of providin
housing, food, recreation and com
partnership for these patriotic work
ers has suddenly faced many an III
prepared community.
A call for help to meet these emel
gency conditions has come to tn
Young women's Christian Associs
ton from many quarters. A larg
part of their War Fund Work is
be devoted to answering the thronf
ing petitions for the welfare an
protection of these girls, thrust on
into new and strange work and SUI
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