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Women on Farms Prove a Success (By Rose Weston Bull In New York Times) The New York State Woman's erette. She comes from everywhere ana nas been engaged In every oo cupatlon. One camn boasts a cnnrwt ' i8,nger rrom South Dakota, a rich for 100 000 supporting members on woman from Riverside Drive, a num next Wednesday, Sept. 18. The drive ber of college girls teachers stenog brings up the question, "What has raphers, telephone operators and an the land army done to meet the labor art student. Another enrolled the 11 shortage on the farm r Wan from the children's depart- Land army advocates and leaders 'men of the New-York Public Library are constantly being asked to answer At the Oceansioe unit on Long these queries, "Can a woman take a , land half a dozen States were repre man's place on the farm",, "Is she sented. strong enough to perform man's la- j French and English women have tar to the fields?" "Does not the gone out to the farmwegard ng eight-hour day which the land army, them as the first line trenches for insists on prevent her from being home defense, and determined to useful to the farmer, who works grow their bit They subscribe to from sunrise until sunset?" the democratic spirit of the camps, These questions are being answer-1 which, though they lack army discip ed every day in the forty Land Army line, are still animatedby self-sacri-Units (or camps) of the State where flee. ' lintnnailn 8 Jt . ' ' I uynaiuo Ul a IUUUSUUU WOfflBn anu I Tu.i, , , . , girls are doing almost every form of L "ft JT?" , farm lahnr tW ha. h.,n I th 0t "nd Lassies," muioiw UOOU tY.a T711U 11 i, "u6"ou toil mew, on account done by men, and doing it so efflci ently that the farmers who employ them are booking them for return engagements next year. 1 Not only are they able to hoe, of position or lack of position, a care ful standard of selection is main tained in the recruiting office of the State Land Army. The girls live to- CTAfVlATC t. 1 , , . weed, run tractors, harvest hay .ZZTT l i .. . . .camps, many of the younger workers grain, gather fruit and vegetables, are lntrusted to J 7 act as orchardists, fill the farmer's Lrvio, t, p a u .i. , ",c" ""i"ers. me mor tuo vmuneus, email UUL lUoir coops, milk his cows , and do the ale of the unit is maintained for the sake of the girl as well as for the , I' . year 8Be WUI protection of th ,mm. ,;!!, vest 'our-fifth. of the food' required posal a supply of short-time labor, which he pays only while actively employing it. He escapes the burden of boarding these "laborers", and bis wife and family are relieved of their care. It Is futile to speculate now on the need of women to take men's places on the farm. Even before the war farm-labor shortage was an acute problem. With the cessation of im migration, the call to voluntary ser vice, the first draft and the demand for men in munition plants and war industries, the farm was almost de serted. Unskilled labor sought high wages in the city, and the farmer was left practically alone, with the demand for increased food produc tion laid upon him The second draft will place the burden of man's work at home squarely on women's shoulders. There is no time to lose now, accord ing to managers of the Land Army, before carrying out plans for extend ing the movement to cover the en tire State. In England the women have as sumed the work of food production, and recent statistics show about 300,- 000 women doing farm labor. Ac cording to Miss Sophia Carey, a rep resentative of the National Land Council of England who is touring the State in the interests of the Land Army Drive, the farmerettes there have exceeded the ante-bellum wi production figures. Before the war England only grew one-quarter of her food supply. This year she will har For Biliousness . Take A Calotab The New Calomel Tablet That it In. tlrely Purified of All Nauseating and Dangerous Qualities . Of all medicines in the world, the doctors prize calomel most highly, for it is the best and onjy sure remedy for the most common ailments. Now that all of its unpleasant and danger ous qualities have been removed, the new kind of calomel, called "Calo tabs," is thoroughly delightful. One Calotab at bedtime, with a swallow of water that's all. No nausea, no griping nor unpleasantness. Next morning you wake up feeling fine live, wide awake, energetic and with a hearty appetite for breakfast. Eat what you please, go where you please no restrictions as to habit or diet. Calotabs are sold only in original sealed packages, price thirty-five cents. Your druggist recommends and guarantees Calotabs. Money back if you are not delighted. (Adt.) protection of the community where" she is employed. This supervision as well as the care given at the unit for consumption. The plans of the Land Army volve establishing 200 camps in in the work of unskilled labor on dairy farms; they are actually thriving un der it. A questionnaire sent out by the New York State Woman's Land Army to supervisors of the fnrhrines nnri ' , o- "uuoj muiuBpiiurt) lem camps in the State has brought some ! per the tedium nf hor TOrt t IntfirestitiE' infnrmnHnn tn tho. ,1,l i , n.. j.- . . . ' equipping CatnDS. 0 . "o unvc.iuic uits uiuerenna nnrwiton thn moth. - campaign headquarters which havelods emnWnri th t a clothes for the girls and auto trucks nnnn nr at ta TJr.fn1 Dtn. ci r.. uu mo "urei jjiniuuio. Dup-uuier agencies wnlch are c"mu, wuo '!"' ieu on me pnysicamne farmers with short-time substi status of farmerettes agreed they tute lahor where the farmerette i wn hmiuA v"lve """ing zoo cam and ffid on tw , , state for the coming year. To do inES and a hnlfaUv .tmn.nw thls means raisfne a ot $600,000. This covers the cost of securing and equipping camps, providing work ods employed by the Land Army and ? the g,rIs and aut0 truck9 other aeencies which . JL, to carry 016111 to and elr work. .. V J u IJ llf Jljfc ,'bave gained in strength and weight! As to the eight-hour day Of Many have quoted workers to the' course it is a mpnanrn nr effect they were never In such fine for the women employed in thU ar physical condition in their lives. dnous form of labor. The farmerette The result of the inquiry shows the.arrves at her job lunch ' basket In girls lose weight for the first week,lianJ, via the Land Army automobile or so after they join the units that - at 7 o'clock every morning She they are "dog tired at night" and goes to work immediately and works their muscles register in stiffness and till noon, when she stops for her aches every new and unwonted move- lunch. She puts in eight full hours ment. But the tonic of outdoor life.'cf iteady work. She does not stop the contact with nature, the freedom ic nnoke, chew or talk politics. She from mental strain and anxiety, the takes a keen pride in her work. As long, dreamless nights of sound sleep 'she is striving to make a record, per BUUU eBiure "lem 10 normal. From Hans Khn wnrka with li.nin.n this stage a buldlng-up process be gins; muscles harden, lungs expand, weariness and aches disappear, appe tites grow to alarming proportions and after two or three weeks the farmerette finds herself a pretty healthy specimen, In danger of tak ing on more flesh nerhans than she bargained for. Dr. Ida Ogilvie, dean of the Wom an's Land Army Camps at Bedford Hills and Mount Kisco, said recently that of applicants for admission to her camp, only 2 per cent, were re jected because they were not physic ally able to do the work. It takes 4 per cent, of those who are accepted about two weeks to get acclimated and to harden their muscles. The remainder of the girls drop quite easily Into the work without much bodily inconvenience. No girl is accepted as a candidate for farm work by the Land Army without a physician's certificate stat ing she can stand it; thus the in ellglbles are weeded out before they get to camp, but most physicians will give even the apparently delicate ap plicant a passport to camp, because hard work in the open air is a recog nized panacea. There is no standard type of farm- ana extraordinary persistance. The adap. ability of the farm.i:Ue and her r.emiess and willingness to make eviirv moment of her time count helps m the farmer's mind to neutralize 11 effects of the eht hour day tad little, complaint is heard about limiting the working hours of women on the farm, In New York State the Land Army gets credit for saving thousands of dollars worth of food and helping to increase food production. Arthur W. Lawrence, Food Administrator of Westchester County, has stated that the Bedford Unit, and other land army camps in the county, can claim partial credit for the Increased acre age of the county in 1917, 1918, be cause the farmers would never have increased their food crops if they could not depend on the farmerettes to care for and harvest them. West chester has approximately 200 girl farm workers in its six units. Ac cording to John G. Curtis, farm man ager of the county there must be twice this number next year if the county is to keep its pact to help win the war with food. Mr. Curtis believes the Land Army has conferred an Inestimable boon on the farmer by putting at this dis- Once established, the camps become self-supporting. The farmers pay the camps $2 a day for eight hour's work by each girl. The State campaign organization consists of a General Committee ana Executive Committee, headed by Mrs. Charles S. Whitman, wife of Gover nor Whitman, as Honorary Chairman, and P. H. Betehell, first Vice-Presi-den of the New York Telephone Company, as active Chairman. Long Mileage Repairs Are Business Builders YOU KNOW OUR REPUTATION 18 WELL ESTABLISHED WHEN IT COMES TO GIVING SATISFACTION IN TIRE REPAIRING Our Retreads have made as high as 10,000 miles: Why? Because we have only the BEST equipped plant and experienced workmen. DON T imtuw away A TIRE THAT STILL HAS MILEAQk IT. SEE U8 FIRST WE CARRY A FULL LINE OF GUARANTEED TIRES AS WELL AS "SECONDS" FORD SIZES, $9.00 AND 112.80 IN OPPOSITE CASINO THEATER PHONE SM Standard Tire and Vulcanizing Co SHIP BUILDER WHO IS ALSO A POET OF UNUSUAL ABILITY (By Associated Press.) San Francisco, Sept. 25. Califor nia has a shipbuilding poet who by bis enthusiastic words is inspiring his fellow laborers to greater efforts in their work to safeguard civilization. Giants of achievement, who "draw from the elements their scourges and harness the winds to their blazing forges" are America's war time ship workers, as Idealized in the verses of Arthur Rupp, world wanderer and now poet-in-overalls and wlelder of sledge and wrench in the Bethlehen: Shipbuilding Corporation's plant at Alameda, Cal., across the bay from San Francisco. Arthur Rupp lives in a modest cot tage at Alameda. Six days a week he Is a "bolter-up" at a shipbuilding plant, driving into place with hammer and wrench the steel plates that make the hulls of the ocean cargo carriers. On the seventh day he becomes the poet who envisages the purpose and blazons abroad the lofty enterprise of the grimy mechanics among whom he works. In the quiet of his cottage, where for four years he has lived alone, the tumult of the "rivet guns," the crash of steel on steel and the clamor of the thousands of workers take on the rythm of a vast symphon through which runs the theme of vic tory. On "The Building of the Courag eous," a big freighter now in course of construction. Rupn wrote: "Giants are we in our work of wonder,' Armed with the powers that circle the suns; We strike the steel till It roars like thunder And cringes before our riveting guns. We draw from the elements their scourges, The bolts of Jove to our wheels we grip: We harness the winds to our blazing forges, And thus we are building tho gal ant ship Courageous. "Heroes are we in our place of duty, Grappling with dangers of pain and harm. We smooththe rough into lines of beauty, And beat the rude into forms of charm. We clamber, and run, and haul, and tussle, Where death entices our feet to slip; But our hearts are brave and strong is our muscle, And thus we are building the noble ship. Courageous. "Workers are we who grasp from the ages All that is potent in deed and thought. Hear me, ye statesmen, noeta nnrf sages! Hercules never like one of us wrought! Rise from your keel, oh, shell of glory! So do I sing as the hammers trip. Mighty be you in the world's great story, For thus we are building the mighty ship Courageous . Born in Syracuse, New York, 45 years ago, Rupp i8 of Swiss ancestry. Although he has been in f!ufnri0 for the past 10 years of his life, mot of the time as a railway emplove ami workman In a can manufacturing plant, Rupp said the event - uuuiuui of his years had been riv MTTTt. OCa. Wherever I have wandered the world ounu, my neart has been at home in America," he said, "and t ,).. v.. "- 01115 iiCl Place in the progress of life and to .eacn mo meaning of hep pJih.i.. have been among my greatest ambl uons." Gompl ete Stock of Fancy Groceries and Choice Meats Are Always Carried Here. Fresh Vegetables and Chickens WHEN OBTAINABLE Our line of Canned Goods is the Best in the World. Ask for our Prices We pride ourselves on our Service , Let us Serve You E. G. 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