Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 25 | Women to Replace Men on Farm, is Aim Now

I I WOMEN TO I MEN ON fill FA FARM IS B ISAIM AIM NOW Release of Potential Fi gh F ht ers ers for Duty in France FranceIs Is Object Special Dispatch WASHINGTON May Ia 25 We Y Ye e h hnot hnot hnot not yet ct reached the point where II It necessary for or the women generally undertake heavy work on the ine farr far I but the they can render Important serfin son serf sonIn In helping to pro produce uce hi big food c cr r this year especially s P in conn connection e yr w the lI lighter farm tasks This was t t. t I by 63 Clarence Ousley as assistant see se- ser ret reL t of ot a agriculture In an address to I women's committee of the national defense meeting in to A ashir I ton I r can un imagine no finer thin thing e E. E Mr h Ousley for a cit woman lo to do I this war emergency than to go to t 1 farm Carm for fOt or the tho harvest or for some oU period of or labor strain to help her cottry cot cuu try sister bear the he the burdens of or kitch a and d farm There are aro thousands of or men in to I towns and cities doin doing things thins th ii women can do as well There are m cool cooks s. s men waiters walters men teen clerks derks m I 1 bookkeepers whose whoso I places laces might w WI I be e filled by women I will despise American an manhood I t ho the great g bod body n of our men permit o 0 a women to be drafted for tho the hard ta tas tas' of a agriculture until we have hale sent e c I bodied able creature In breeches to t D trenches or driven him to the tick field but women are to be encouraged ed so 80 fas t f tas as their theil physical condition will perro perm or the circumstances surrounding the will advise to engage In the light tasks of tho the farm particularly In dali dair work In vegetable cultivation and 1 I II I I fruit harvesting harvesting- I Mr Ousley praised d the services of It U 1700 women home demonstration aen a as enl n who arc are spread spreading in th the tho teachings of u tr department of agriculture and the c r CI operating state colleges and paid uto uta to the tho or farmer wives who are arc doln doing a mans man's share agricultural production and consent I lion I have hac seen them them he sal said to the farmers' farmers wives hoeing l III hi It Lot Jot sun tun un while whip their babies la IRY In In tn l tt It shade of oC near near-by trees They arc are trot trul truland and to the lie limit of their strength aslie an as anthe il the lie marvelous patience the helpmeet n cI of their husbands