Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1918 — WOMEN PROVE “SAVIORS OF INDUSTRY” [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WOMEN PROVE “SAVIORS OF INDUSTRY”

Women* are working in railroad yards all over the country, laboring in ►very capacity. They are filling their Jobs capably, leaving little room for complaint. The women caught on the work with great rapidity, and they lid not need much schooling. Moat of the women were stenographers and clerks holding down delicate jobs. Now they are doing all the rough and tumble work in the yards, and they like it Many of the girls started in without much color or physical condition. But they have developed into as husky a set of young American girls as you’d ever wish to see. Their new work does not promise much in feeß for doctors. ■*' Women have been aptly termed the saviors of industry and they are (ieserring of this great credit. In England and France and other countries at war, women have taken up nli wof’k left to. be done by the fighting men. The women of America have responded nobly to the call, and are already working •n many lines new to them, and as efficiently as women of other countries.

AMERICAN GIRLS SHOW THEMSELVES CAPABLE WORKERS.