Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1917 — Jennie M. Conrad Attends Meeting of Women Farmers. [ARTICLE]

Jennie M. Conrad Attends Meeting of Women Farmers.

Charmingly dressed women farmers from many states revealed the short distance that lies Paris and the plow, when they 'met Wednesday at the New Morrison Hotel at the fourth conference of the Woman’s National Farm and Garden Association to discuss the feeding of the world. * Mrs. Jennie M, Conrad, of Conrad, Ind., was one of the leading women—farmers present at the meeting, and spoke at the afternoon session, in a series of speeches with Mrs. Scott Durand, of Illinois. Mrs. Conrad and Mrs. Durand agreed that the government should be forced to do something about the farm labor problem. “The papers keep telling women what to do,” said Mrs. Conrad. “Why don’t they tell the men who aren’t fighting to get to work. We must have a draft labor army. If there isn’t one by next year we won’t have anything to ffeed the world with.”