The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1919-01-30
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Factory Community.
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don't aim to tell you about our Jobs.
You can read about our work in the
labor department reports- But I 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 town nj all. It's . huge barn
of buildings stuck down In the country
nineteen miles from nowhere. There
is q railroad siding a station the size
Of a dry goods box. seven farmhouses
and one general store and postoffice
combined-it's pretty near as big MS a
hot tamale stand And that's all. No
Main stnoet. no banks nor stores. no
ice-cream parlors. not one solitary
movie show. In all those nineteen
miles Lonesome1 Its the ragged
edge OF desolation. that's what II 10.
y vas one Of the FIRST carload Of
forty girls that was shipped up from
Chicago The factory was swarmng
with workmen putting In the machin-
cry. and We girls couldn't begin work
for q day or 50, 80 We began hunting
places to eat and sleep. That was .
trihe that the employment folks hadn't
thought Df The workmen were sleep
ing and eating in the cars that had
brought them there. backed on the
siding. Our only chance for beds and
food was with those seven farmhou~es.
N We ma rched straight to the farmers
wives and asked for board and room
Farrnses' Wives hsspttahie.
Il will say that 'hnse women were kind
and hospitable. They fixed II up be
tween them to feed US forty girls and
they gave us good food too. But for
rooms. thai VA. the question. They
could each spare one room. That
mean. sleep hye or six in room. But
right then along cnIne the boss OF the
factory and told MS the machinery was
ready and he'd expect us girls to work
double shifts. n!.ht and day.
He wanted 10 make use OF every
minute, you see. But that gave us our
chance as TO sleeping We fixed 1t up
with the farm folks tha, we'd work
double shifts and sleep double shifts
too
$50 we planned It. Three girls
would use n room from eight at night
till six the next morning. Then they'd
hustle over to the factory, and the
three girls who'd been working all
night would take the room and sleep
till afternoon. II wasn't any luxuri-
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 rosin
you could use 1t to calk a ship. But
We made out TIL the next three car.
loads of girls came rolling in. Then
we went most acted. Those Door
girls had to sleep in tents and in the
cars that the workmen had abandoned
by this time, and they were lucky II
they got straw tick and blanket.
BY this time 1t had turned raw cold.
and maybe you know what late au-
tumn nights In Michigan feel like To
cap the climax the farm folks cut
down on food. and for week it was
potatoes and beans and mighty few
beans at that
Along Came a Miracle.
But, right when We were about
ready to quit our jobs md beat 1t for
home, along came miracle. Two.
quiet. businesSlike women climbed
down from the oasthrund train on.
morning. With them came eight work
Il. u r.
paper. another carload OF cots and
blankets and pillows and sheets and
| towels-brand new blankets and beds
think Of the glory OF that and
| bushels of dishes and rolls OF oilcioth
| aud enough buriHp 10 carpet the coun-
| try. You won't believe me when I tell
you that IN ten days their work,nen
had scantling-andtar-pap shack
| put up and burlap tackled over the
walls. and the Y W. c. A. secretary
and her helper had se. up board table.
and coffee kettles and were serving us
the grandest hot lunches every day,
And back behind the burlap screens
were set those rows Of clean COTS. with
enough :Qzer tS se.p you VAIN the
coolest night that ever blew, and 4
towel apiece f9r every single SlA. IL
you wonder that We ali lelt. as on.
girl put 1t, '1ll wager the FrItz-Carle.
ton has nothing Oh this.
"Who were those women, whv
7. VIC. A. secretaries, Of course. Id
think you'd know that without b.tns
told All over the country wherever
we girls have pitched in to make aero.
plane cloth or overalls or munitions or
canned goods you'll fnd T. w. C. A
secretary working harder than any.
body else to make The girls comfort.
able and to keep them happy and well
Sometimes they huven't money enough
to get all that we really need. But al.
ways they stretch every cent 10 make
1t do its level best for rs DO YOU won.
der that we girl workers have !aarua,
TO call the Y. w. G, 4 "ur II. Sister
the very best Ri. Sister Of all,