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” i Y• r *Life Caught the Interest oiCity-Bred Girl and Hasi 9KHeld It'^° wsus prominently*he woman's land W* ha» Written the following pro-|rwnni| fdr its peace duties:4*WhCn it launched its war emergency Wtfrk in i9lfc, perhaps no oneanticipated less than the woman's land armj? ifcieif how bit a ball it had set rolling, or that the impulse which originated in patriotic service would project the movement into a permanent eace-time enterprise of large pos-afbilitiea.“No One thought, for instance, that larm Ufa would hOld any permanent attraction for the city-bred girl. No Ope fancied that city-bred girls would be able to measure up to the demands of the farrier with sufficient successtb offer him a permanent solution Of bis labor problem. And no one ap-prehendeed, when the land army evolved for reasons of expediency itstihit method Of placing out girl work*that It had made a discovery whichmiytiavb important effects upon the standards of employment and living conditions of seasonal farm labor in.i+4IMifieieb“Yet dll of these afe developments •f the war activities of the woman’s Jgftd army . Applications from giria arid women from all parts of the country for work on the farm this Summer are pouring into the national and state land army offices. Farm labor conditions and food production demands make this additional labor•bpply important. Hence the woman’sland army of America will go on.Affiliation Of the Woman's land army with the U. S. department of labor bis bean effected through its employment service. A sbrvice has been created in the farm service division, and Mrs. William H. Hubert, former general secretary of the land army, has been fhade national director. MissEdith fHehl, director of the Wellesley training camp for girl workers, has been appointed national director of training, and Miss Olga Ihlseng has been made field secretary. .“No units of girl workers will be placed without the sanction of theemployment service, but control ofconditions of employment and living will remain hands of the volunteer organizjmen. IJ. is the aim of the land army to make all units self-supporting and to train workers as fully possible. *Much more emphasis will be placed this year upon training, because it is possible to do so. Not only has the pressed of emergency been removed, but the growth of the organisation and public confidence in the principles motivating it have made possiblethe opening of training farms in several states. The University of Virginia, for example, has turned over to the woman’s land army its student army training corps barracks as a ’training ichodl for 600 girls and women from all parts of the country.Three distinct courses to servo different ends have been outlined by Miss Diehl 1ft Odnjunotion with Charles G.Maphis, director of the University *u*htfter school, and the appear in theapmg catalogue of the university.“In 1918 the woman’s land army was organized in 39 states, of which 21 did active work. About 15,006 women were placed on the land, 10,-006 In units and 5,000 in emergency groups of various kinds. Of this organization 14 states are now reporting a good opportunity for women and an .interest in immediate work. Others are keeping their organizations intactin order Id meet whatever demandsmay aris*’’ * V
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Charleston Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Mon, Jul 14, 1919
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