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With: _ weather, in August, when the
of tnabitiod insle labor. ;
~ Milkman in Need of Labor Abducts
i Hindu
Worcester is a town of almost all gov-
ernment contract shops, and employers
were about ready to beg, borrow or steal

Office almost fell on the neck of any male
who entered the domain. One old Hindu,
who had been told to come one morning
to meet a farmer who would take him
out to his fafm, appeared with all his
- earthly possessions in a newspaper under
his arm. While waiting for the farmer,
he stood on the curb watching the sights,
when came a little Russian in a
milk cart, picked him up, and before any
of us could get to the door he was rat-
tling down the street with him. The
milkman needed help, so he took what
he could get.!

I made @ study of the textile industry—
cotton and silk—walking miles in mills
in New Bedford and Fall River with two
State Factory Inspectors. We saw some
of the best and some of the very worst
mills in New England. We inspected
plumbing and machinery, and educational
certificates for violations of the Child
. Labor laws. As a result of my experience

here I decided that factory inspection was
one of the hardest and least satisfying
- jobs a person could have; and it takes a
: very unusual person with very good train-
ing to make a good factory inspector.

Was Hired, Fired, and Mentally Tested
In the course of doing clerical work at
two large and very well equipped employ-
ment offices in industrial establishments,
I took physical and mental examinations,
and went through the complete rigmarole
of being “hired” and “fired.” I am sure
that you will be relieved to know that I
passed the mental tests,—one, ™ the
way, took two and one-half hours. I be-
| came proficient in interviewing people
who could not speak English, and in fill-
ing out application blanks for those who
gould not sign their names. I had never
seen more than two Greeks in my life
before I went to Lowell, where there is
@ large settlement of them. The same
holds true for Portuguese, who work in
the Fall River mills in large numbers.

I visited plants that were small cities
fm themselves, with a clerical force in
the employment office alone of from
thirty-five to sixty people. My experience
was all too short, and I consider it inval-
uable as a training for the kind of indus-
trial work I hope to do in the future.

Gladys Palmer, Barnard 1917.

Graduate Student at Bryn Mawr 1917-18.



NEWS IN BRIEF

Miss Orlady, Secretary and Registrar
of the College, is acting Head of the
Health Department during Dean Taft’s
illness.

Helen Barber Matteson ’12 has been ap-
pointed warden of Denbigh. When in
college Miss Barber was president of
Self-Government. Her marriage to Mr.
Paul Matteson, an uncle of E. Matteson
E "21, took place in July.

Ps Elizabeth Williams ’20 has been elected
3 the fourth member of the Undergraduate
Conference Committee.

A War Council bulletin board will be
put up in Taylor, where conscription and
other notices will be posted.

M. Fay ex-’19 has taken a position as
secretary to Professor Munro of Prince-
ton. For the present she is serving as an
emergency nurse in Madison, Wisconsin.





-_ Rrra “ne mae? Bape

men. The Worcester Public Employment

what I have been through lately, you

There were three units of the “Overseas
Theatre,” who entertained us and made
things lively in general; The rest were
canteen workers and business women,
“Y” secretaries, motor drivers, etc.

We owned the boat, and when we
landed all the officers and crew turned
out to bid us good-bye and the dear cap-
tain actually wept. He had quite adopted
us and grown much interested in our
plans and work—for we did work—setting
up exercises every day, French classes
twice a day—and even a French table in
the dining-room, which added to the gen-
eral confusion, for the crew was South
American for the most part and spoke
Spanish to each other and Spiggoty to us.
It was odd to hear the captain’s boy give
his afternoon invitation, “Tea in the cap-
tain!”

There were just three of our intercol-
legiate unit—our leader, Miss McGill, of
Mt. Holyoke, and Elizabeth Osborne, also
Mt. Holyoke, and myself. We came to
London yesterday from our port of land-
ing and were at a general meeting to re-
ceive welcome and instruction this morn-
ing. Now we are awaiting a call or sum-
mons from Lady Ward, who is in charge
of the women workers and who will give
us further instructions. We are surely
well taken care of and very personally
conducted. One meets us and carries us
on a bit and hands us over to another—
each knows just his share of responsi-
bility and we know nothing. But that is
all right too.
Last night we went down to the Eagle
Hut on the Strand and had a glimpse of
what our work will be. Oh! how the boys
were glad to see us! Most of the women
go. directly to France and we were a
treat. I shall write you again when there
is more paper to say it on. My own sup
ply has not arrived yet. Greetings to
B. M. and you. °

Sincerely yours,

(Signed) Elizabeth Snyder.



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College Will Soon Be Asked to Contribute

A steady monthly contribution to war
relief, to take the place of constant
money-raising “drives,” is the purpose of
the Five Counties War Chest to which
Bryn Mawr is asked to contribute.

The War Chest is a community fund
providing money for approved war relief.
Among the organizations which it in-
cludes are: The American Red Cross, the
Y. M. C. A. and ¥. W. C. A. War Work
Councils, the Knights of Columbus, the
Young Men’s Hebrew Association, the
Commission on Training Camp Activities
of the War and Navy Departments, the
Salvation Army, National Jewish War
Relief, the Boy Scouts of America, and
the Community Recreation Service.

The fund is carefully administered by
a local Board of Directors which investi-
gates each war relief activity before
money is given to it.

The question of contributing to the
War Chest will be brought before the
college as soon as there can be a mass
meeting. A plan for monthly contribu-
tions will be recommended by the War
Council.



- ‘At last there is time for a few breath- | I]
less lines—if only I were allowed to tell |

might be breathless, too! Wehad avae a
slow but interesting trip over—a small | |
boat with none but our people on it.

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