The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-18
LAND ARMY PLANS
DRIVE FOR 100000
Seeks Fund to Increase Its 40
Camps to 200 Next
Spring.
STATEWIDE CAMPAIGN
Several Hundred Farmerettes
in Working Costumes to
Canvass New York City.

Get behind the girl ne left behind.
IL the slogan of the membership drive
OF the New York State womans Land
Army. Inc. launched to get one million
supporting members in the State 81
New York. one half of whom are to b.
enrolled in New York city. One may
become a supporting member in either
one OF the following membership
classes: Tiller, 81; planter, IS ; cleaner
$25 harvester. 800.
Several hundred farmerettes. in the
costumes of the land army. who have
seen active service. will make an In.
tensive canvass. These privates OF the
land army worked on the farms this
summer. Many are graduates OF girls
schools or colleges and others are OF
business training and experience.
Want 40 Camps Increased to 200
They know from actual contact with
field work the conditions which con.
front the production OF food stuffs and
they will make a plea for support for
their camps. OF which there were forty
in different parts of the State this sum-
mer and which It Is proposed to in
crease to 200 for another filling, plant
ing. cleaning and harvesting time
This Is how every man. woman and
child can get behind the girl the sol
der left behind"
The land army forces are working
under State campaign committee o!
which Mrs. Charles s. Whitman. wife
Of Gov whitman. IS honorary chair.
man; r. II. Bethel. active chairman
and Mrs. Otto r. Eichel, chairman o,
the field ganization. For intensive
work the State has been divided into
six districts-Metropolita Hudson
Adirondack. Mohawk. Central Lake,
and Erie. The work in each district II
under district chairman. working
through county committees.
The campaign does not mean a drive
to obtain young women for farm labor
ers. These will be recruited during the
winter In colleges. schools, Offices ant
homes. but camps for them are de
manded by the conditions Of farm labor
The forty camps. one of the largest OF
which was at Bedford under the drec
ton Of DR.. Ida Ogilvia of Barnard Col
lege. this summer saved tons OF food
The organization of itself is a wal
emergency organization to relieve tn,
shortage of mman power on the farms
Girls do all kinds Of farm work.
ploughing. cultivating. hoeing, wedding
planting. transplanting. punching vege
tables. packing fruit. harvesting. haying
cutting rye and corn. driving tractors
&C.
Fund Of 100000 Sought.
The object behind this drive is to raise
fund Of 100000 to cover the cost OF
securing and eQuipping camps. provid
Ing work clothes for the girls and trucks
to transport them to and from thelr
work. Once established the camps be-
come self-supporting. The farmerette IL
to get 50 day for eight hours work
or rs cents an hour. and the unit Is tc
pay each worker SIS per month in ad
d!tion to providing board. lodging, work.
Ing costume and laundry.
Training camps will give the girls
their first experience and they will Their
go to the farms. The farmer gets eff1.
Client help for reasonable wages. He
pays nothing for lost time and escapes
the burden Of boarding help. All work.
ers will be women OF good moral charac.
ter and physically At, while their camps
will be under the care Of the sanitary
division of the State Department OF
Health.
The state and Federal governments
have Endorsed the drive. The use OF
headquarters in the Biltmore. Forty
third street and Madison avenue, Man,
haitian, has been donated by John Nee
Bowman and Chairman Bethel will
enroll every hotel man in the city as q
supporting member