The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-01-23
Industrial Woman's Service Club
Brings Home 10 Girls In New
Factory Community.
BLUE TRIANGLE MEANS CHEER
Club stsnds for Hot Lunches, Clean
Towels, Comfortable Cots. Part.es.
Cameo and Recreation 10
olrl Workers.


] don't aim 20 tell you about our jobs.
You can read about our work In the
labor department reports. But l do
aim to tell you about our Big Sister
and Of the things she has done for US.
ITO begin with, our factory town
isn't a town at all. l.'s a huge barn
of buildings stuck down In the country
| nineteen miles from nowhere. There
/ is a railroad siding, station the size
Of a dry goods box, seven farnhouses
and one general store and postoffice
combined--it's pretty near as big MS a
hot tamale stand. And that's all. No
Main street, no banks nor stores, no
icc-cream parlors, not one solitary
movie show, In all those nineteen
miles. Lonesomef It's the ragged
edge Of desolation, that's what II is
II was one Of the first carload Of
forty girls that was shipped up from
! Chicago. The factory was swarmlng
with workinen putting In the machin.
cry, and we girls couldn't begin work
for q day or 80, so we began hunting
plnces to eat and sleep. That was a
trifie that the employment folks hadn't
thought of. The workmen were sleep
ting and enting In the ears that had
brought them there, hacked on the
siding Our only chance for beds and
food was with those seven farmhouses,
90 we marched straight TO the farmers
wives and asked for board and room.
Farmers Wives Hospitabie.
ct will say that those women were kind
ava ho.,itoh,a They axed n mn he.
,yaon theu, IN feed ne forty girls. md
,ha, ,o,o ne yoo6 fond too Rut for
roor,s that WAS tho ouestion They
could each snare ono room Tbni
meant s,eep Ave or six in n room. But
r,oht then along came the boss az the
factory and told nc tho machinery WINS
raody and be,a exnect ne girls 70 work
douhIs shifts might and day
.IIo vonted IN mako use NJ eyory
mimi. Won 600 But that paye ms ON
chance os TO s,eepinr We fixed II n,
with the firm folks that we'd work
double shifts and sleep double shifts
too
$50 we MANNED II Three girls
wouId use n room from eight nj night
Till six the next morning. Then they'd
hustle over TO the factory, and the
three girls who'd been working nll
night would take the room ana sleep
till afternoon. II wasn't any luxurl'
Gus slumber, believe me. The farm
women had so few sheets and pillow
cases that most OF us went without.
And towels were scarce as diamonds
on blackberry bushes. AS to soap
well, the general store Kept yellow bar
soap, that kind that Is so full OF rosln
you could use II to caik ship. But
1--we made out TIL the next three car
loads or girls came rolling In. Then
we went most distracted. Those poor
girls had to sleep In tents and In the
cars that the workmen had abandoned
ny this time, ana they were lucky II
they got a straw TICK and blanket.
Ivy This time II had turned raw cold
ana maybe You know what late an.
tunn nights IN Michigan feel Ike To
cap the climax the farm folks Gu
down on FOOD, ana FOR week II was
potatoes and beans and mighty few
Deans at mat
Along Came a Miracle.
@But right when we we're abou,
1ready TO quit our iobs and heat II for
home, along came miracle. Two
quiet, businesslIke women climbc,
down from the enstbound train on,
morning. With them came eight work
men, a carload of scantlinc md IN,
paper, another carload OF cots auf
blankets and pillows and sheets ang
towels-brand new blankets and beds
think OF the glory of hati-apd
bushels of dishes and rolls OF ollclotl
and enough burlap TO Garnet the coun.
try. You won't believe me when I tell
you that In ten DAYS their workmen
had q scantlIng-and-tar-pup shack
put up and burlap tackled over the
walls, and the Y. w. G. A. Secretary
and her helper had set IN board tables