Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-03-08
France Takes the Best
of Care Of the Girls War
Has Sent into Industry
They Have Hospitals, rest
Rooms, Dispensaries and
even Manicure Parlors,
chesters Write.
BY George Randolph Chester and
Lillian Chester,

BY George Randolph Chester and
Lillian Chester.
Copyright, 1918, by the Newspaper
Enterprise Association.)
Paris, March 1.-THE iron-worker
n had her hair marcelled caught
our eye, and held it. She was a
peach-complexioned young woman.
and she was turning things in two
lathes. castings for shells, we believe.
Old Statistics, here to represent The
core-Maker's Quarterly and The In
q whole string of such light and friv-
olous publications, could tell you%pre-
cisely.
The marcelled girl was working
with her hands folded in her lap, and
a look Of ineffable content on her
face, and an occasional touch. Of a
well-manicured fingertip to the mar
ceiling. When lathe number one was
through tapering downs the shell cas-
ing to a high polish and a fine taper,
1t stopped Of its W accord, and
runway. through which it went
somewhere else to have something
else lone to it by some other wom-
an: ~whcreupon. the lathe young lady
pulled a lever. which raised another
casing into Mace: this she-Ielicately
busted. and started the machinery.
Starting the machinery is the spe-
cia1ty of these mechanics; no one lifts
or carries anything to amount to any
thing. In about five or even min
utes. lathe number two finished its
task, Inc wanted more. and the lathe
young lady accommodated.
She gets 10 francs a day for that,
and is having the time of her sweet,
young life, as well she may. consid-
.siV =. fA@ 49, = =.
she is the newest thing in France:t the
laboring woman!
The IL machinist next to her
wears her hair in the latest knot,
which ia @ n~ear-psyche. and she isn't
quite so placidly nonchalant about
her work: but she makes up for it in
public interest by looking around
more.
The adjoining mile or so of factory
hands blended into p sort of general
perspective. for there were too many
endless ~oWs and cross rows of them
under that maze OF whirring pulleys
to notice individually.
Old Statistics got the exact number.
three or six thousand OF something,
and he is welcome; but for us it was
SUFFICIENT that they were so vast that
lance in every direction. When any
thing fills the entire limits of human
comprehension, what's the use of fg-
ures: =
Clans! Clans! Clang! A girl on
a tiny motor truck came whining out
ut Trench II and turned down Alley
f. twirled in a d]exterous curve. poked
the nose Of the. truck under a rack Of
shells, twisted p lever which lifted
the rack from the floor. backed, cir
cled.- and away she sailed. e..
She was a mighty pretty girl. with
a flower in her blouse and a bright
eve. and a smile for the obvious adj
%r,iration we rave her; and If ever a
face EXPRESSED solid content. with
ones lot in life. that girls face ex-
pressed it. @
We had a thoroughly enjoyable
We saw Thousands and thousands
of wornen-and where absolute
ly necessa ry-taking the raw Ifate-
rial and Transforming 1t into the most
wonderful perfected death-dealing
devices. at the rate of so many a sec.
and a fraction over. T.
We saw them working with the
molten iron in great. dim sons
which flared like an inferno: we saw
them handling the ~ponderous ma
chimes which draw the iron into.
thick hare. which break the bars into
suitable leneths. which stamp the
red-hot lengths into hollow castings:
during an entire eternity or so we
saw wonen handling the enormous
presses which force cold lead into
rods and which stamr rods into hul-
1ete and whic, measure bullets into
~""''e; H"t before we could see any
more, thank heaven. the machinery
suddenly stopped, and we all went to
lurrh.
We've had some remarkable ham
nIets and come remarkable lunch
"n-1 hut this was the most remark
nh|eS Of all. and positively the fi--t
time we were ever fed by motor
trucks. It's quite the largest build