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Show AMERICA IN ACTION INFORMATION. PLEASE WASHINGTON. A Maryland school teacher wants to find out how to get a job in a defense factory. A mother in a western state is eager to learn what opportunities her soldier-son has to attend church. This is not a military "Information, "Informa-tion, Please" program. It is a small cross-section of the large number of queries that come in every day from all parts of the country to the Women's Wom-en's Interests section in the war department at Washington. Officially, the chief of this section is the liaison between the soldier in camp, and his family and friends back home. Unofficially, she is on the receiving end of a nation-wide "information quiz" that -comes to her desk by letter, by telephone and by personal interview. Here is a typical day's schedule: A young woman in a southwestern state wants to be a ferry pilot and writes in for information as to the proper place to make application. A mother in Pennsylvania writes in to request the chief of the section to visit her son, who is ill in a post hospital in Texas. A veteran of the First World war urges her to ask the secretary of war for reinstatement in the army. The veteran explains that he has a son in the service and thinks the "father-son" combination would be a good one. A registered nurse in Michigan writes in to ask how she may join the army nurse corps. The Women's Interests section has jumped up the old game of "Twenty Questions" to "about 50 questions a day." |