Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-30 | Page 67 | Women's Work in War Shows Much Success

IIl'S II If 11 SHOWS iSUCH SUCCESS Accumulated Results of Experience Ex-perience in Professional, Business and Political Life Are Evident. LIVING STANDARD UNDERGOES CHANGES Miss Gertrude McCheyne Details Tasks Accomplished Accom-plished and Glimpses Effort of Future. By GEETEUDE M'CHEVNE, Extension Division, Utah Agricultural College. Nothing has shown more clearly the change iu the status of womau thau her part iu the prese.ut world war. The past years have seen her enter into professional, businos anil political life with marked success. The accumulated accumulat-ed results of this experience appear in the effective maimer in which women in the emergency of war have assumed positions requiring leadership, workmanship work-manship ami manual dexterity. To meet the need for securing workers in industrial lines, the committee on women wo-men 's defense work has been organized as a part of the national council ol defense; the national league for woman's wo-man's service has been established, reaching out into the wayside country places as well as the cities, and turning turn-ing every inch of woman power to account, ac-count, aiid there is no doubt but that by next vear women will be employed in agricultural pursuits to a much greater extent than evor before. But it would seem that there is some thing that goes deeper than this, and that she is called to reconstruct the standards -of living and to effect a needed c.hangp in the ideals of tlie individual. in-dividual. Owing to things in which she is not altogether at fault, her success suc-cess as a home, economist has not. been us great as might have been expected, considering the number of years that this has been Ler special domain. We find that some of the basic lessons of economy have never been learned. Significant Fact. It is a significant, fact, that from eighty-one cities, represent ing about twentv-three millions of people, in September, Sep-tember, 1916. 22.-.0-l." tons of garbage were collected. In one month in U'lti. the amount of grease extracted from the garbage of ten cities was 'J'iol tons, showing a large wastage, both from homes and public eating plce. A decrease in entire garbage collected in tsentember. 1017, was 10 per cent, and the decrease in grease roru ere I from garbage was HO per cent, showing that better habits are being es,ab. lished. It costs 10 cents a day. : a month. $'',6 a year, to keep a child alive in ranee today! We can imagine that food at such a price must needs be simple sim-ple and small in proportions. .Nevertheless, .Never-theless, if it contains certain elements essential for promoting growth, it is sufficient. Thiak of the, kind nnd amount of food fed to our rhildron at each meal and the, candy and "pieces" in be-tween, be-tween, and it: is easy to figure that they are ovoruourished. Italians lie upon olive nil and corn, with green, leafy vegot aides. The first two provide pro-vide in 1 hat country a cheap form of fat. starch ami protein, hul deficient in vitamines, which arc found in the leaves of the vegetables. Life of Italian. The Italian laborer's strength makes him the man power of our engineering enterprises. Contrasted with the average aver-age 'meal served at our family tables, it sounds meager, and vet. it is :i qm-s. tion whether the home economist of the future will not see to it that enough of the essentials are provided, leaving out many of the accessories that wo have come to believe are necessities and w-hich cost time, money and labor. We hear much those .lavs about, the "tastes of the family" making a change in diet difficult and often impossible, im-possible, A woman is not. responsible for the food attitudes of tin; man she married: she took him for better or worse, but she is responsible for cultivating good fond habits in her children. The, matter of social service is another an-other phase, it mav re.piire a. harder pinch ttian we are feeling now before the habit of eating on the least, excti-e is given up. but women have, a chance to set a veto upon mixing up a "fea .r of rea.on and a flow of soul" with a "feed" which is often a financial burden. From pointed hee (o ratted coiffure, from wide to narrow, flat tt bulging, from clothing which swathed to nearly no clothing at all, the styles have been ffdlowed until even the men have caught the fever. Today there is a chance to standardize dress so that a bnsinc-s suit and a jockey e:jp, lace breakfast caps with gingham ilrc-.i" and other incongruities will not bo possible. Ideals Must Change. Is there not also a chance to Tecnn-rtiict Tecnn-rtiict the ideals of people as to tho 1 relation of dre-s iu the scheme of daily bf". and it- a lue in relation to expenditure ex-penditure of money and time? Is there nor a ctiam e for woman to express her own i nd i v idua 1 1 1 v rather thau clothe her-elf with auot tier's expression? There i- -iee, for reconstruction along moral line-. havenport. gives some Martling figures. There are three niiHion defective- in the United Slat-s today, or one-thirtieth ol" the population. popula-tion. The causes are defective genu o la-in. unwhole.-ouic environment and Uaiuin.