The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 29, 1919, Page 3, Image 3
GIRLS LIKE FARMS; !
NOT SO WITH MEN
HEAD OP WOMEN'S LAND A KMT
INQUIRES.
Some Reasons Given
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Students in College of Middle West
Say Girls Look Down on
Farmers.
(New York World.)
While applications from women for
farm jobs continue to pour into head- ,
quarters of the women's land army,!
young men, especially discharged soldiers,
show a marked indifference to
this sort of labor. The women who
had their first taste of farm life last
year, under, pressure of war demands,
" in *-r\ vatnrn fn 1 f fhic VMT
arc oagci iu itiuiu ,
In one of the big colleges of the
Middle West recently a group of male j
students were asked by their profes- j
sor why most of them scorned farm |
work. Their reply was: "Girls somehow
look down ~n a farmer. What
girl would marry us if we became
farmers?"
When the women's land army be- s
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came a division of the department ot;
labor recently, Mrs. William H. Hubert
of New York was made national!
director, with headquarters -x. Washington.
Mrs. Hubert has. returned
- from a visit to many States, where !
the work of the farmerette was car- j
ried on last summer. She confirmed ;
the reports of the employment bu- j
y reaus regarding the antipathy of men
to farm work.
;"We have been receiving for sever,
xal weeks past, both at Washington
and at our New York headquarters,
i' an average of 40 applications a day!
from young women eager to go on
v i farms this summer," she said. "Many ,
of\hese applicants were members of j
the land army last year. We then
had about 15,000 members. This
summer we expect a large increase
in number." Pointing to the statement
by Food Commissioner Hoover j
that the food administration naa
pledged 20,000,000 tons of food to
Europe this year, Mrs. Hubert vsaid:
"It is for this reason that the government
decided that the women's
land army should not be demobilized,
but should be directed as a part of
the nation's service from Washington.
If this country is to produce the
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big increased amount of food supplies
this year it means a vast army
to undertake the work. So far the
response we are receiving from the
women is most encouraging. In a
few of the States I have just visited,
men have shown an interest in farming
as an occupation, and I believe in
these States many men will be recruited
for the season's work; but in
many States this interest is lacking;
men seem to prefer any sort of work
to that which the land offers. Where
this condition prevails we shall make
every effort to enlist large numbers
of women, but the women's land army
is not competing with men in
farm labor; where men show a preference
for this work we are not sug
gesting the employment of women.
"The women who enlisted for
farm service last year represented
women in all walks of life. In some
units as many as a dozen professions
were represented, while others included
college women and young women
of the leisure class, who were
familiar with certain phases of gardening
because of the exeprience
they had had on their own estates.
"The girls served in many instances
to develop a new social life
in the community where they were
employed. They lived in tents or
barracks, located within a reasonable
distance of the different farms or estates
where they were employed.
Jiiacn unit naa its own Housekeeper,
so that when the girls had worked
eight hours they were not called upon
to do housework. If weather conditions
demanded extra time in getting
in crops or in their cultivation
the farmer paid extra for it in proportion
to the daily wage of $2 in
most cases.
''The unit plan is not only advantageous
in itself, but is a means toward
a new career for women who
may take up and manage their own
farms, or who may eventually be
placed individually as farm laborers
at the tasks for which they are especially
fitted.
"Whenever a unit has been established
it has helped to form a community
center and a community spirit
in rural districts. The women
have learned to love farm work and
to adapt themselves to country life.
Both Interesting and Healthful.
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"Many young women who became
farm laborers last summer, just to
help out, found it so congenial, interesting
and healthful that they have
since become permanently identified
with country life. I have heard of
some who married farmers; others,
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places of their own and developed
! them, and still others who were
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posed to continue it on their own
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I "So, it may be that the young wo|
men, filled with enthusiasm for this
new life, may lead the young men of
the country back to the land. Xo,
i the women's land army is in no sense
a matrimonial bureau. But it would
i be a fine thing if the young women
of the country set this good example
j to the young men who are now seek
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; "We have hundreds of letters from
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i farmers expressing satisfaction and
gratitude for the help given to them
last summer by the girls. From the
Atlantic to tl^ Pacific they ploughed,
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ing. They learned to handle tractors,
j harvesters and other farm machin|
ery. In slack seasons they scythed
, brush, sawed and stacked wood and
! did other work which was not stricti
ly food production. In all these oc!
cupations they were a success. Their
I efficiency is proved by the change of
i attitude on the part of the farmers
from scepticism or incredulity regarding
their ability to enthusiastic
| appreciation.
"No arrangements had been made
i last summer for supplying individual
help \to the farmer. We were responsible
for the girls sent out, and
they had our protection in the matter
of housing, hours and w^ges.
Each unit supplied itsel* with food."
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