Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1917 — War Workers to be Recruited from Ranks of Women Not Now in Industry [ARTICLE]

War Workers to be Recruited from Ranks of Women Not Now in Industry

By Mrs. Raymond Robins

Only 46 out of every hundred women in this country are in industry. 'The rest are in a class which is just above industry. They are a supported ‘class, supported by fathers or mothers. They do nothing at all in indusftry and they do not enter professions.- ——•—- — Eighty-five out of every hundred women are in industry in England, ♦Scotland, France and Germany. The do-nothing class of women in these wrinnfrieH has always been smaller than in the United States. The bonbonbeating, novel-reading, lie-abed-till-11 a. m. type, which comes into full Ibloom at the dance clubs, on the golf links and the boulevard, is to be ‘the type recruited by the national council of woman’s defense. We want this class more than the class already in industry to fill the breach left open by the call for men for the army and navy. It is not our purpose to take away women already working from the work to which jthey are essential. But the great idle class in America is. remarkable. jWe have a vast reterve, unused energy. lam certain that they will vol-