WOMEN'S SERVICE.
[To vs° EDITOR or THE " SPECTA.T011."1 SIR,—Whether by National Service or otherwise, thirty thousand men must now be supplied every week for our armies, and it must at last be clear to all that if the vital forces of the nation are to be maintained, the women of this country, like those of France and Germany, must take up the work necessarily abandoned by the men. It appears as if the time has now really come when the thousands of eager women who have grown tired of registering their names in vain may at last be placed in actual work. The openings for them are little by little becoming apparent, and women who are pre- pared seriously to devote all their time and strength to carrying on the work of the country are requested to enrol at the Women's Service Bureau, 58 Victoria Street, S.W. Women of education and with that knowledge of life which is acquired in social work will be invaluable as supervisors in the new munition factories, and there is an immediate demand for women such as these who have the strength and deter- mination to undertake the long hours and to face the hard conditions of factory work. Names will also be registered in readiness for the demand which is rapidly approaching for women to fill the innumerable clerical and business posts that our new recruits will leave vacant, and there is little doubt that every one of good sense can ultimately be placed. The fact that many have already been placed, and that the Women's Service Bureau has actual experience of the need and of the work to be done, is the excuse for this letter.—I
(Secretary London Society for Woolen's Suffrage).
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