Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-02-15 | Page 6 | Ruth Millett Says

i Ruth Millett Says t w The Woman of Today Has Ski Skills lIs That Grandma Knew Nothing About ou oui i r All over the country women women who belong to the Women's I ask ask- asking National Republican club are receiving questionnaires asking asking ask ask- ing information about their fitness for service in case of a national emergency I Members are asked to check s sue such u e h types of ability as driving driving t ing a motor vehicle ve ye- hide hicle ownership ownership owner owner- 1 i ship of a car training in aviation av av- avS S 5 cation dietetics ics ies canteen rR service nursing nursing nursing nurs nurs- ing radio operation operation op op- typing stenography a p h y first aid and home hygiene telegraph op op- A glance at Ruth Millett l that list of possIble possible possible pos pos- sible s skills k HIs shows that although today's woman woman wom wom- t an as her critics claim may not r be able to do everything Grandma Grandma Grand Grand- H ma could she has acquired a lot lotI lotof hl I of skills Grandma knew nothing about f l' l Take that driving a motor vehicle veit vehicle ve ve- it hicle for Instance The average I housewife not only can drive a motor vehicle but she spends so much of her time hauling hers her's her s 's family around In good weather and bad she should rate a professional pro pro- i chauffeurs chauffeur's license The questionnaire wants to toj j know If she owns o.-ns a car Well Its It's usually In Papas Papa's narae but name but 1 Mama lama keeps It all day t Training In aviation Is Ls much less common of course but not 4 t because cause Mama isn't eager to now how to pilot a plane Its It's just dust that In the past learning J To To fly has been an expensive r J But now that college f girls are getting a chance at flying nying lessons the number of women pilots In the country will increase quickly A great many women In the country are trained In dietetics And a large number of them are not In paid jobs but are using their training right now in their own homes In addition to those trained In colleges there aret are i t thousands thou ds of women who haver have r put their minds to It and learned all all about vitamins and balanced t diets just as part of ot the job of being a homemaker And look at the women who have ha never worked In an office In their lives li who know how v t to W type e. e in addition to the tho thousands wands l lot of white collar girls who can make typewriters hum 1 Yes modern women omen have ha fit learned a variety of new skills Hi as the need for some of the old ones has passed They are ready to play an entirely entirely en en- new role In national defense de de- Tense tense if they are needed But r they wont won't fall down in the old role of women In wartime either i r r They'll They be just as capable off of s' s holding th their lr homes together managing on a lI little Ue tie money and andI f I. I I i c d L v i r being the man of the family as any woman who ever lived Maybe May May- be they'll be a little more capable for for today's women can get out and supplement the family income income income in in- come if It they have to u