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Show HELPS WORKING GIRLS FIND EMPLOYMENT In tho "About People" department of the February Woman's Homo Comj panlon appears a sketch of Miss Ger-trudo Ger-trudo Robinson Smith who has done great work along tho lino of helping women to secure employment, Following Is an extract from the nr-tide: nr-tide: "Last fall Miss Smith returned from wnr stricken Europe nftor driving n motor car clear across France-, In pplto of fifty seven military Interruptions, and with characteristic enorgy threw herself Into tho. work o,f lding,g(rls . who hnd been thrown out of employment. employ-ment. Sho Immediately" established nn employment bureau nt tho Vacation Vaca-tion Savings Fund headquarters rit 23 East Thirty-Eighth Street, Now York nnd kept tho tolophono wires busy Informing employers all over tho city thnt tho bureau wns open, and that It was Incumbent on them to send thero for recommenddd girls for vn rlous positions. So porsunBlvo and Insistent In-sistent was alio that the first week tho bureau placed fifty girls and received re-ceived applications steadily thereafter. thereaf-ter. For temporary relief, Miss Smith opened n workroom for making Hed Cross garments and supplies whoro any otherwlso uncmployod gills might work, receiving fifty cents a. day. Theso now developments also IlliiBtrato tho'fidaptablllty of tb'e Vacation Va-cation Savings Fund. This organlz atlon was started by Miss Smith four years ago and lias boen developed, by her in cooperatjon with Mrs? Charles II. Israels, Miss Anno Morgan, Mrs. Hogor Uncon and others, under tho .jiusnlctu of tho American Civic Fed. Oration ttranchos of tho Fund luvS 'boen. ,o.stabllsUQjl-alvlayA w Kb Jho ap-provaf'and ap-provaf'and oOpetaUoaCSIJIIl'SSPJ? , in one hundred nnd soventy-avo'of iho largest 8torcs,fnc(prles, and Of flees In Now York, nnd others nro bolng bo-lng organUcd In Philadelphia, Washington, Wash-ington, Worcestor, and Chicago. Last . uinmur.-Uioro,.woro,.on, tb,narplUyj'l .- fi3riCYK tho fund tho names of 18,000 glrli with savings of 'nearly ?H8,ono to their credit. Tho Now York headquarters head-quarters maintains rooms for foir-girls foir-girls and a cafo whe-e two hundred girls lunch dally." |
