Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-03-29
WOMAN'S LAND ARMY WILL FILL NEEDS OF
 OF PEACE TIME
Government Takes Over Services of Nations
 Farmerettes.

Land Army of America, which, with 15,000 'farmerettes" stepped into the breach created in the farm labor situation last year by the national draft has found peace time need fer it's service and will hold itself in readiness to meet any demands which may be made upon it.
 Affiliation of the Woman's Land Army with the U. s. Department of Labor through the Farm Service Div ision of the Employment Service has been effected. The placing of women workers at the disposal of farmers throughout the country will be dir ected by the Employment Service, while the camps themselves, their policies and standards, will be con- trolled by the volunteer organization the Woman's Land Army, through it's State Divisions.
 The If States reporting a good or portunity for women and an interest in immediate work are Oregon, Cali fornia, New Mexico, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia, New Jersey, New oYrk, Pennsylvania, Vermont and New Hampshire. In 1918 the Woman's Land Army was organized in 39 States, of which 21 did active work This year in several we'll or ganized States other than those en- umerated the surplus of labor at the present time has made it seem advis- able to the Land Army organization to remain inactive for the present, holding itself in readiness to do whatever necessary when the sur plus labor is absorbed in industry.
 Labor Camps to Help Farmers.
 The Land Army, under the direct ion of the Employment Service will raj centers wherever there is de- mand for them. It will be the aim of the Land Army to make it's units self-supporting to train workers as fully as possible to standardiZe the work more thoroughly so as to assure to the worker both sound economic proposition and a very carefully con- sidered health program with rigid physical examination both before she enters the Land Army and at the close of her service and with living conditions prescribed according to the advice of experts.
 "The Woman's Land Army is going on for three main reasons" said Mrs. William H. Hubert, Na- tional director of the organization at her office in New York City "These three reasons are, first to help, with woman labor to overcome the annual seasonal shortage of farm labor in the United States which is said by the Farm Service Division of the Elm poyment Service to run from l. 100000 to 100000 hands; second, to give women the opportunities for agricultural work which hundreds are seeking, as evidenced by the applica- tions for such work which are com ing into our offices and those of the Department of Agriculture and La i bor at the average rate of 40 a day, to say nothing of those which are coming into our State offices; third, and incidentally to raise the standard of living, of farm labor in general and to make rural life more attract i've both to the farmers family and to the city dweller by introducing a social element which heretofore has been sadly lacking"
 Will Not Displace Men.
 "There is no occasion," continued Mrs. Hubert "for concern that the women farm workers will take jobs that returning soldiers should have. There is work-more than enough for every man and woman that can were this country not forced by our Il %<> stricken Europe to produce more food than ever before in our history.
 "As matter of fact, however, many hundreds of returning soldiers are refusing to return to their farm jobs. They prefer to remain in the city because they have decided to see a little life Other hundreds, ar irving home from overseas in the middle of the winter when life on the farm was dormant, were compelled to seek employment in industrial Icenters. Once caught in the whirl of 1 industry with it's attractions of bet ter wages and shorter hours, they are not easily dislodged. Still other hundreds are yet overseas with the army of occupation. Officials of the Employment Service have said ,speci- fically that 6,500,00O American farms will be undermanned for the 1919 crop season to such an evxtent that the food program for the world will | be imperiled."
 Unemployed Women Affected.
 "Another labor problem which we are helping to solve and which . hitherto has been largely overlooked is that we shall be helping to supply owrk to the hundreds of girls and women who have been thrown out of employment by the closing down of war industries and by the displace- ment of girls in other industries to give work to returning soldiers.
 "Moreoved, there are always hun dreds of girls in seasonal occupations, such as millinery and the garment trades, thrown out of employment