The Nevada County picayune., 1918-06-13
YOUNG WOMAN AND
 HER PAR! IN! !!!! WAR
Female Helpers Find Many Ways
 to Aid Government.
MUST ECONOMIzE IN SKILL
Splendid Opportunities Await Those Who Are Anxious to Assist Should Be Able to Do Some
 thing Specific.
By MARY AUSTIN.
From the Committee on Public Tnforma-
 ton, Washington, D. e.


 From the Committee on Public Tnforna- ton, Washington, b. C.) What shall she do. the young woman at home who is neither the mistress of the house nor q wage earner? How shall she turn back to the general ac- count the care and schooling she has had, and how satisfy the hungry desire to serve her country, which is, thank God, as characteristic of our young women as our young men? Every hour since the war my telephone has been ringing with questions like these.
 Young men are explained and gen craled Expert supervision of their patriotic service iS at their elbows. They have the splendid inspiration of togetherness, music, banners, shoulder touching shoulder. Even Wage-Work- ing women have q sense of direction ; they see the work that passes through their hands pushed steadily te an end But the young woman of brains and education and leisure must captain herself. She must find her own job herself.
 
 and roll bandages in her spare time, which by that process becomes time saved. And though it is no doubt high ly patriotic to save food at the expense of time spending, after all. household economics can only be praetieed by those having houses. Red Cross nurs- ing is privilege of the fit and re- quires q long training which few can either physically or financially afford. All these special duties leave q wide margin of capable women who ache to serve.
 In France and England the lone woman had no problem. unless il were the difficulty of deciding which of the many things to be done were to be done first But in America labor lead CTS have warned against clogging the wheels of war industries with crowds of unSkilled women who know none of the necessities of the wage earnerS. This is the wage earnerS' opportunity also. and no excess of zeal on our part should rob them of the chance to carry as they are, the national burden. But that does not mean that strong we'll educated young women shall have no part ill this war but the traditional handwriting from the balcony.
 Capacity Going to Waste.
 The first condition. however of the young WomHn'S getting q specific thing to do is for her to be able to do some thing specific. There k great deal of formless capacity going to waste in every eommunity-waSte of talent and waste of skill And fl is being wasted 1 largely because we have, as a people, ] fallen little into the weakness of demoeraeieS, and imagine We can do nothing hy ourselves. We think of something which seems desirable to l have done and We rush out and or gani2c vast machines for cleaning the streets. when all that was really need ] ed waS to sweep cut our own front yurd Women who wish to fill place in The plans of fine government must first triu themselves into some deti- utc shape, as clerks, aS secretaries. as mechauiciunS. or What nof.
 THe trouble with much of our Amor tcan life is that it has made us like those cooks who can cook de'Ishfully auiy so long 8S ther have an unlimited amount ef tine most expensive mate flal~ w haye garae t5 tHiuH that we aan 1o very Httle of auyth.ue without the most expensive teachers and peda- snsie equipment
 ss Fh must eeoaeH zze uoW: >ea Hast eeeae- FIze in skill. In every community of a.eaa oT even tess, there js enough neg eeted ~si1l to mH aH ofits unattached young women into tirst-rate workers.
 Fake Noue town bank. for Instance. Fhore te an export accountant there, probably eating bts heaet out because i he is loo old or physically unfit for field service He would hc happy to pass on his thirty-tiye years of expert ness h you, to he used as the govern mcnt is going to have to use women accountants
 In your fathers store, very likely, there is q man who could make book keeper out of you in three months. and taNe tho thrill of patriotic service at the e-time. If there is q Carnegie library in your town, there is some hody there who can teach you card eatalo-uiug and filing If you are for innate enough to live at the county seat your opportunities for learning clerical work are greatly increased.
 1RHeWrtiaS yau Gan teach yourself Learn the touch system and how to make clean cartoons. A textbook comes WIth every machine, and if you cannot afera machine, borrow one, or club gegetber WiJh two others and rent one for S3.
 Many Other Opportunities.
 IHdeNing and filing are both in de -LL L Ll....