Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-07-01 | Page 9 | No Rush to be Servants

NO BUSH TO BB SERVANTS. The real crux of 1h domestic lahoi problem la not to be found In the quality of eenrlce or In the efficiency of the employment em-ployment agency, hut In a demand twlca aa great aa aupply. and until that condition con-dition can be met there Is no hone of a eolutlon. When thla trtllng dtarrep-ancy dtarrep-ancy between supply and demand was first discovered it was regarded aa an acj eldent. and all ort of efforts were ms.kt to direct labor Into the domestic chsn-nel. chsn-nel. The results of thla effort, however, dispelled that Illusion and revealed the fact that there is a radical defect. In the system of domestic service Itself. I'ntll recently there has been the general feel-Ing feel-Ing that If factory worker and shop girl only knew how mach better on" they would be In doln domestic work there would be no difficulty in filling the domestic do-mestic ranks. Fired with this conviction, the Domestic Reform league of Boa I on a few years ago made an attempt to recruit re-cruit domestic labor from other fields. The attempt was far from successful, and It haa deatmyed all hope that In its present pres-ent slate domestic service can prove a worthy rival to factory and ahop. Out of :i4 young women approached only thirty-four thirty-four evinced an Intcrrat In the project, and twelve of these proved unfll for work: the .olhera. with the exception of three, who did become successful houae-workera. houae-workera. either backed out when It came to the point or took places only to give them up. From "Hervanta Or Domeatlc Labor." In the July Metropolitan Maga-xlne.