Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-01
-'rl> v,~o VENT TO WASHING
r, go Vgss weak DO NOT
l.kNrTc co HOME.
c < -" LESS WAGES
Rather THAN CO BACK
.. = 7r Conditions Cevei- led as Re-
~g.s e. Efforts TO Find Employment
fer Thousands Dismissed From Gov
e~s-r,nt Positions in WasiAns tor
May schSol Teachers Cult.


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warh,reron. March 3l.-EuudredS
Of Iowa girls who were attracted to
Washington to DO war work do not
want 10 return home when their JOB
IS finished here. While thousands OF
girl war workers have left their jobs
since the armistice was sSgIed not
more than 10 per cent OF them have
expressed a desire to return to the Ola
life which they left TO get touch OF
the romance of war. Yesterday. Aarch
81. was the last day on which the
government would furnish war
wornc-S with transportation TO tAer
homes but home was the last place
on earth that most OF the young
women wanted to go, They had Their
taste of adventure and they believe
their one chance for travel and inoe-
pcadeace hes in finding Jobs as FAR
away from home as possible.
The war workers are in fact trying
TO use the employment service as a
travel bureau as much as they can
Girls who have lived in New England
al their lives aspire TO work IN Detroit
or san Francisco, girls from the west
want 10 Try some eastern city. ana
above, all else girls from every section
# The country want 20 work IN New
York. most OF them frankly announc-
ng that they see no reason why WASH
ia.rton should not ne a. stepping stone
% New York City and the bright
lights.
An incident is told BY women OF the
e3eral employment service which
illustrates the desire Of the war worker
TO stay away from home as long as
DOS s.ble. An employer in GloversTil!e.
y. Y, wrote 70 Washington for a pri-
ate secretary. Offering So a week and
hort hours. with great pains the en-
Payment service sought Z girl from
G.ovc-cyille for The jon. They believed
ne position was ideal for a girl who
could live At home ard congratulated
themselves when at last they found
war wor,;er. a stenographer, from
riloversyille In her refusal Of the job,
The young lady from Gloversrille gave
them the clue to what their troubles
were going to be:
That's the last place on earth want
to 90. Give the place 10 some girl VINO
has never been in Gloversville and
send me to San Francisco If you have
I place there"
Dislike Small Towns.
Small towns in general, whether
they be their home towns or not, DO
not stand we'll with the girl workers.
They say they will work for SIS week
in New oYrk rather than $50 a week
N small towns.
Among the thousands G. clerks who
came to the capital during the war TO
serve their country are hundreds or
rebel.ioDs school teachers. In spite OF
the efforts Being made to attract them
back 10. their prev joos they have
broken away from the routine of their
lives and practically all Of them say
neg will not go back
The problem OF the school teacher Is
not entirely that Of salary. 1t is con-
coded that they are underpaid in most
places. but records of the commits
sioner of education show that the sal
aries of school teachers th-uout the
country have gone up decidedly since
the United States entered the war.
.Iany of the teachers working at cler-
ical jobs IN Washington are not getting
as much money as they DID in their
schools hack home" But most Of
them say they prefer the business life
Of q regular JOB" to school teachings.
The lack of freedom in personal
life is one OF the impossible phases OF
school teaching" said a former iowa
school teacher to me today. IN yhese
government jobs We are supervised
only by the civil service. AS school
teachers We are supervised by the par
ents Of every child that goes to our
school and the matter Of our attending
a dance or dining out with a man il
looked into by everyone in the school
district. / would rather stand behind a
ribbon counter in a city than go back
to school teaching"