The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-01-18
Suggested Employment
Of Women In Stor-
age Warehousing De-
pots Of The United
States Army

MISS Mary VanAieeck Oh tne Nuo-
sell Sage Foundation and member OF
! the Committee on Women in Indus
| try Of the Advisory Commission of
the Council Of National Defense,
has prepared a bulletin referring to
the employment Of women in the
storage and warehousing depots OF
the United States Army.
Under the auspices of the Stor-
age Committee of the War Indus
tries Board Of the Council Of Ma
tional Defense, Miss VanKleeok
conducted an investigation which
covered the depot Of the Ordnance
Department, the Quartermaster Corps
and the Medical Department of the
War Department in Boston, Spring
field, Mass, New York, Philadel-
phia, Norfolk, Jacksonville and At
lanta.
Already women arb being employ
ed in several of these depots as
clerks, stenographers and telephone
operators. More recently they have
undertaken the work of inspection
of limited number Of articles, and
in one depot they have been employ
ed as packers.
It is evident that much of the
work is too heavy for women, and
this is the chief objection to their
| employment. Miss VanKleeck sug-
gests leaving the heavier tasks to
men while women assume some OF
the light work now done by the men.
In England, according to inform
alton given by representatives of the
Ministry of Munitions in this coun-
try, women are now employed in all
the processes of storage work.
; The successful employment of
women, Miss VanKleeck declares,
will depend upon carefully supervis-
ed experiments and upon provision
for oversight of their work and its
conditions by woman supervisor IN
each depot.
! Miss VanKleeck's bulletin has just
been issued by the Storage Commit
tee of the War Industries Board of
the National Council of Defense.
Statistics from the city of Detroit
show that within recent months the
increase in woman service employed
in factories and workshops is almost
three times greater than that of men.
In reply to the question: "What
| can women do other than knitting,
conserving food and giving volun-
tary service to the Red Crosse"
There is a large field of useful
ness for the woman who wishes to
serve her country, in Americanizing
men. women and children of foreign
birth in this country, and every large
CITY Yields women's relief commit
tees which are in need of workers.
Good volunteer war work can also
be accomplished by arousing interest
in the nations war loans-its Liber-
ty Bonds and it's War Savings Certif-
icates and Thrift Stamps. Any wo-
man with gift for public speaking
may become -Four Minute
Speaker"
Civilian relief for families whose
men have gone to war offers large
field for patriotic volunteer service
Financial aid may be provided, posi-
lions may be found for women de-
penderts and practical service may
be rendered mothers who are com
PEELED to work in the absence Of
their husbands. Child welfare worl
il primary insurance Of the country.
lwefare.
| The soldiers returning from battle
win shortly offer an, extensive fielt
for relief work Of patriotic Ameri
can women. Thousands Of crippled
men must be reconstructed and re
educated. Volunteer lay worker,
can do much for the physical com
fort Of convalescents by giving mas
sage, by helping the lame to walk
the deaf to hear and the blind Il
see, by reading, by entertaining an,
by performing other duties to he'll
men who have given themselves t,
: the nations cause. =
, Fer the patriotic American woman
who wishes to do other work thai
knitting, conserving food and work
ing through the Red Cross, the fol
lowing organizations and others o.
kindred nature will yield ample in
formation for relief work:
National Americanization Commit
tee, 20 West seth Street; Nationa
League for Woman Service, 10.
West 10th Street; National Securit,
League, 81 Pine Street, and Nation
al Civic Federation, 105 West 4Otl
Street. all Of New York City; Ma
tional Society D. A. r., Washington