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Show WOMEN Piit CLERKS WILL BEEMPLOe Restoration of Peace Will Not Alter Plans to Make Appointments. The sudden ending of the war has dampened somewhat the hopes of quite a number of, Salt Iake young women that after December 1 they would be privileged, by authority of the government, govern-ment, to don "freedomalls" and become fuh-fledged mail clerks on trains operating operat-ing out of this city. These young women need have little fear, however, that restoration of peace has so changed conditions that their services ser-vices will not be desired, according to C. A. Crockwell, civil service examiner for this district, and with every assurance assur-ance of receiving appointments they may present themselves for examination next Saturday at the federal building. When the government advertised, some mouths ago. that women would be eligible eli-gible for mail eltrk service, there was an immediate response. Sorting nfail at terminal ter-minal points did not appeal to them so strongly as riding on railway mail cars, a ud they sent their applications to Washington., They now have cards entitling en-titling them to take examination on Saturday, Sat-urday, While i( is admitted that the work of railway mail clerks is too strenuous for women on long runs, such as. for instance, in-stance, from Ogden to San Francisco, it is conceded that they will meet all requirements re-quirements on short runs, and it is on short runs that they will be used If they successfully pass the examination, and tlu-y may be used as "extras." "Additional mail clerks for trains are in steady demand." said Mi-. Crockwell yesterday, "and in the west men will not he available for a long time to come." |