Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-22 | Page 6 | Navy Open to Women

NAVY OPEN TO WOMEN. An additional claim for universal suffrage suf-frage can now be made by the women of the United States, for the judge advocate advo-cate general has ruled that they may be regularly enlisted in the navy, and Secretary Sec-retary Daniels has given the necessary order. Thore are many places in the naval service that tho women can fill and thus relieve able-bodied men for manning ships and rougher kind of work. Under ' the order of Secretary Daniels, grades corresponding to the yeoman class will be given to women qualifying as stenographers, clerks, typists or similar positions. Another grade of work for which enlisted women may be designated is that of radio telegraphy teleg-raphy and other communication divisions. divi-sions. Women have always been as patriotic pa-triotic as men, but they have usually directed di-rected their attention to caring for the wounded in case of war, though, of course, they have been used in the secret se-cret service and have served as spies. A larger sphere of operations is now open to them, and that they will take advantage advan-tage of it cannot be doubted for a single instant. The Pilgrim mothers landed on Plymouth rock along with the Pilgrim fathers, and succeeding generations of women have doneheir share in building up the country, and the wives, mothers and sisters of today are animated by the same high spirit and purpose.