Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-06-12
MANY WOMEN HAVE
SEWING ROOM Jobs
Making Shirts, Pajamas,
Overalls, Baby Clothes
and Other Articles
HOT LUNCHES SERVED
Nearly 5,OOO,OOO Meals For $4,000 I'm
dernOurished Children; Almost
Million Books Are Re-
paired Also
HOT LUNCHES SERVED

Raleigh, June IA total of 1926
persons are now employed on the 413
projects being operated in the State
by the Women's and Professional Di-
vision of North Carolina Works Pro-
gress Administration, according to a
report issued today by Mrs. May E.
Campbell, State director.
Mrs Campbells resume of the Fed
eral work program as it affects wo-
men revealed that on February S,
1886 a peak load of near nineteen
thousand females, Sc per cent OF
which were assigned to sewing rooms,
was carried by NCPWA. At present,
sewing rooms Of the State employ s.
276 women, or SIP per cent of the
total load.
On May list, 548 relief workers were
employed in school lunch rooms thro-
ughout the State; 1872 were assigned
to library and bookmending projects;
clerical projects afforded work for
AIS; cleaning and renovating projects,
921: adult and nursery schools, 642,
recreational activities, 613; surplus
commodities, 216; public health nurs-
ing. S3; homemaking, Ill, art, drama,
music and writing, 239.
Lunches for Children.
From October 1, 1885, until May 1,
1887, 1888, 268 garments, including
shirts, pajamas, overalls, baby clothes,
dresses for women and children, I'M
derclothing, ETC., have been produced
in WPA sewing rooms for distribu-
ton, through local welfare agencies,
million hot lunches were served by re-
lief workers to more than thirty-five
thousand undernOuriShed school chill
dren $40 982 public school textbooks
and 206,O49 library volumes have been
conditioned and placed in circulation; ;
public records in Seventy-eight North
Carolina counties and ninety-three
cities and towns have been or are
being catalogued and indexed by pro-
fessional workers..
Two hundred and ten recreatiOnal
units affording seventy-two separate
activities have an average monthly
attendance of 218, 1O4 white and 49,
O23 colored children, and attendance
at galleries, lectures, plays and con-
certs maintained by Federal art and
drmatic projects was 190,308 during
the past year.
In Remote Settlements.
Mrs. CampbellS review of the nine
teen month program of work rellet In
North Carolina contains many inter-
esting passages. Finding sufficiently
diversified work for the huge female
relief load was one of the early pro-
blems of the Women's Division. Due
to their ease of operation, sewing
rooms were established in remote set
Elements of the eastern flatlands, in
mill villages, of the Piedmont, In
coves of the western hills. Eight-five
per cent of the women assigned TO
these projects knew little or nothing
Of needlecraft most of them mao
never made the simplest articles OF
clothing for their own families, hence
it became the duty of supervisors 10
acuuaint themselves with the personal
characteristics of each.
Home Management Taught.
A training period of one hour day
was inaugurated in sewing rooms, dur
ing which the introicacieS of home
management. child nutrition and care
of the body were taught workers. Pre-
natal clinics were established in lar
ger relief centers, and sufferers from
social diseases given treatment. Wo-
men not adapted to the use OF d
needle were weeded from sewing
rooms and assigned to other proJects.
Recreation, now directed in the state
by Miss ROME Sheffield, took care Oh
several hundred workers talented III
this line of endeavor. Those persons
partially skilled in clerical work were
assigned to county and city otflces;
cleaning and renovating projects were
brought into being for the lower types
those whose advanced age made IL
impossible for them to acquire skill.
Adult education, which is now super
vised by Mrs. Elizabeth =. MorrlSS.
gave employment to hundreds VI
teachers who had been unable 10 ac-
qure employment in State scnools'
and manv thousands of 1lllterateS
have been taught to read and write
in classes taught by them. women
row engaged in sewing rooms are
seamstresses of considerable SKILL
and exceptionally fine garments are
being produced by them.
Gardening and Canning.
Gardening and canning proJec%s,
are being started in all sections OF
the State by Works Progress Admin,
istration, and thousands of cans ol
fruit and vegetables will be preserved
during the summer season Tor ois,
tribution to the poor during the ld''
and winter. A statewide library pro
ject, which will emphasize extension
work rather than tookmendlng' Il
being instituted tn:s week.
Under the supervision OF MISS
Helen Reinhardt, assistant director
of Womens and Professional projects
five 5-day forewoman training con
ferences have just been concluded IN
district offices attended by district
area and county supervisors. Courses
included the keeping of reports, plan
ming of personal work schedules, out
lining project activities, maintaining
PRODUCTION standards, discipline O.
workers, and planning and conduct
ing a training program for proJec