Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1917 — What Women Are Doing. [ARTICLE]

What Women Are Doing.

New York city now has-a motor brigade composed of women, who will offer their services tn the government. ■' Miss Helen Moore Df Seattle, Wash., is probably the only automobile oil saleswoman if the United States. Over 2,000,000 suffragists in the United States have agreed to take up farming during the course of- the war. The recent appearance of Miss Jeanette Rankin In the senate chamber In Washington marks the first time that a woman has ever been accorded the privilege of the floor of that body. Mrs. Leo F. F. Wanner has been appointed a special officer In _ Hempstead, L. L, because of her success In trailing burglars, aided by her trained police dog. * Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury, one of the wealthiest women In Philadelphia, has been appointed to the chairmanship of the war committee of the woman’s section of the Navy league. A bill to let French women vote at municipal elections and serve on municipal councils has been favorably reported by the parliamentary; committee on universal suffrage. Miss Ellen Spencer Mussey, dean of the Washington College of Law, Is directing the organisation of Washing-

ton's 80 woman lawyers into a bar association to fight for the rights of mothers and children. Since the war began Italian women have been granted more liberties than they ever had in that country.