Show WOMEN RESPOND TO COUNTRY'S CALL TO SERVICE I Noble Achievements of Salt Lakers Reflect Great Honor on City By Selma Miller Man lan works from sun sun to sun But womans woman's work Is never done Woman To the very stars has this word ascended She has become known by her work Her hands have bound the ship of Industry with unbreakable bands of toll toil Here upon the threshold of peace she turns and surveys het hel work of war days with a satisfied smile With courage and hope as her handmaids she enters on the next duty With the war over Salt Lake womanhood womanhood wo- wo manhood is taking stock of her war I loot The cloak of selfishness ha has I dropped as If by magic from womans woman's shoulders to be replaced by permanent armors of charity magnanimity and last but not least the spirit of sacrifice fice and service A portion of that loot consists in mental discipline ability abl- abl ity for team work adaptability In an emergency greater love for the sisterhood sister sister- hood d of woman the knowledge of the necessity of the union of womanhood In the In the community In the state In the nation and in the world The year of 1918 saw the climax to all the great far reaching war and peacetime projects formulated by the women of the city The tree of dally sacrificing service blossomed during I that year into the fruit of success and achievement RED CROSS STANDS HIGH The American Red Hed Cross had perhaps perhaps per per- haps more to do o with the cultivation or of the new spirit among women in Salt Lake than any other war agency Between Between Be- Be tween and women and girls of the city gave th their lr services to this organization and thereby received a ashare ashare share of the loot Women who hitherto hitherto hith- hith erto spent their time In performing I little tasks of nothing applied themselves themselves them them- selves in the various branches of the service with a vigor Many worked In Inthe inthe the until far Into the night Women who worked long hours each day became So Interested and were so eager to do some little bit for those who might be suffering over there worked at night after the days day's duties were over Aged grandmothers plied their knitting needles In answer to the compassionate appeals from overseas Giggling schoolgirls caught the spirit of service and streetcars theatres and other public places saw many knitting bees during g the yea year The The very fact I I that the hearts of Salt Batt women had been transformed by the love for I their fellowmen is demonstrated by bythe bythe the fact that all convention was thrown aside and the true spirit or of the soul soulI I shone o out t in performing tasks near the heart It was not Salt Lakes Lake's I best women either that did all the work worl The poorer women of the city came nobly forward an and offered what few spare moments they had in aiding with the work The girls of society were not the only ones who I ed Factory girls laundry girls shop shop- I girls and office workers did the greatest greatest great great- est service undoubtedly for those in each line of work united and lent not only the service of their hands but the strength and power of organization to the work FANCY DRESS TABOO For the first time in half a century the women of the city learned a lesson I of common sense In the matter ot of dress Party dresses were most entirely entirely en- en tabooed In 1918 Old dresses were renovated by both rich and poor as a wartime measure Fussy clothes were laid on the shelf while the boys were away fighting and many commonsense common sense ones were adopted The overalls for women In many of the industries were adopted largely and led to other reforms in dress The majority of women women wo- wo men learned that clothes were not the only things In life ALL KINDS OF WORK I That old Idea that city women were not expected to work In the fields or 01 orin I in the cultivation of anything more I substantial than garden posies was put putto to flight by th the war garden problem I Hundreds of women devoted themselves themselves them them- selves to tilling the soil and derived physical benefits along with the material material mate mate- rial and mental ones The Community Center was born during durIng dur- dur Ing the year ear and as a result women's Continued on page 10 I I WO WOMEN RESPOND TO I Continued from page 6 activitiEs were given a free range over man many fields of Old Commercial Com Com- mercial street now Hegent street a notorious thoroughfare was tra transformed trans trans- s- s formed into a clean business district through h the efforts of Salt Lake women wo- wo men The CivIc Center was given ghen to the women of the a city common commonplace commonplace place of meeting and offered many free courses or of instruction in housekeeping house house- keeping and homemaking homemaking- Women b by the scores es aided in the floating of Liberty loans and the selling sell sell- ing of war certificates and stamps stamp Nearly a thousand Salt Lake women the mothers mothel or of Utah men who had entered entered en- en the military service of the COUIl- COUIl try tiT met and ami formed the organization or of Utah War VaT By telegrams and letters lettel'S to the fighting men at the front th they y encouraged them and helped greatly to strengthen the morale of Amerl Americas America's as a's fighting forces I A great number of mens men's positions k I were filled with girls and women WOmen WO- WO men took positions ill iii many instances i objectionablE but took them nevertheless i less because they were needed Jed to rill the places of the men who had gone gont I to fight WOMEN'S LABOR BUREAU i During DUling the year a departmEnt lor Lod I women was opened In connection with the Utah bureau of federal labor undEr the direction of Mrs Irs Addle Soper This department nt bras lIlas done more to secure mens men's wages for women than any other I agency There are at present scores score or of women In the city holding mens men's positions and rec receiving mens pay due lIue solely to 10 the of this department And last but I te lei st is the great great t. t f H. H I work worle done by Salt Lake women in infighting infighting fighting the dread influenza epidemic Hundreds of school teachers as well as and mothers of the city risked their lives to help stamp out the disease Scores have gone into Idaho Wyoming and Nevada and out Into the smallest towns of the state to toI I nurse influenza patients placing their own lives at the disposal of the ed ones It is true they were frightened I I In many cases but the war had not been in vain its sacrifices for others other I had made it possible for them to submerge sub sub- I merge self for the other person J I SUb SUb-j am amI ammy my brothers brother's keeper leeper Is the new slogan I born of war service i |