Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-05-25 | Page 22 | First Lady Urges Women's Forestry Employment Corps

First Firs t Lady Urges W Women's omen 1 s Forestry Employment nt Corps WASHING WASHINGTON May fay 25 UP Mrs Franklin FranklinD D. D Roosevelt believes be de t ute women might well be given joos joas in the governments government's reforestation corps along with thousands of unemployed men She docs does not envision ion the women women women wo wo- men swinging axes or building trails but believes there is much work they could do in nurseries where the government raises seedlings to be transplanted later later- in inthe the forests forests Mrs Roosevelt has asked Sec Sea Secretary Secretary of Labor Perkins to investigate investigate investigate in in- the possibility of establishing establishing lishing feminine work camps She said Mr Roosevelt h had d told her herth there were no legal obstacles which would prevent enlistment of f women in the corps