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, -V. #-“Weaker Sex” Doing Its Part to Help Win the War/ * . * j ' •THIS is trie day of the farmerette, conductorette, clerkette and woman munition: worker. The “win-the-war” woman is as inevitable a bit of the daily news as It is inevitable that the Yanks will keep on driving until FritzHun finds himself with his back to the last Wall in Berlin.Everybody, by this time, realizes how well womeh are doing their bit in the ranks of the home army—the f r\ army that makes the very necessarywork of our - boys “over there” possible. It would.be well-if everybody• could be brought to realize' also that• America has a few women Foches and Haigs and Pershings. 1The most important of all govern-• ment appointmeuts announced lately in this city of more appointments than disappointments was that of a woman, Miss Mary Van Kleeck, who rubbed her eyes one morning and read the news .that she hud become chief of the new women industry divisioa. of the United States department of labor. ;'Being all/that, which is equivalent to being generalissimo of all women who have their sleeves up for-Uncle' Sam,-“General” Van Kleeck found also that she was the only Woman with a- seat on the national war labor policies board. ; :-::^• A .;woman, : Miss W. Wellborn—“Major Billy” Wellborn of the provost marshal -general’s office—dispenses more Information regarding the operation of the 'drsift than any other individual- In the country. No local or district draft board ift any city tells so many’ men “where they’re at” as the littl* “major.” ; ■■. v;-
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Westville Indicator
Westville, Indiana, US
Thu, Sep 12, 1918
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