Show RUTH MilLETT Says Help Those in By Being a Listener We the women of America should resolve to consider ourse enlisted listeners All too often we pay one duty call caIl on the woman who has lost her husband husband and and then shy away from her avold avoiding g sorrow as we would a disease JH It makes us uncomfortable to be around a person who Is sac sad and so we stay away until we figure things are better tt I Or we may make ourselves see the p person often and feel feel w are doing all that we can Yet we insist on talking rather than listening or listening or insist on keeping the the conversation bright and and on any topic in the world but that which is lying heavy on ont persons person's mind and heart II The same thing happens when a friend loses his job We dodge him until he has found another because we are embarrassed hard luck 9 When we dont don't avoid those in trouble we are so determined to cheer them up that we e arent aren't sympathetic listeners We chatter chattel r instead p Yet the one thing a person in trouble wants most Is to get that trouble off his chest J Lady Reading of London is enlisting women whose special duty it will be to listen while out bombed-out women talk about their sorrow sorrows and troubles Jp In explaining why she considers listening to the troubles of others an aid to national defense she said We must realize that thai people who have come from a bombed area are in a highly nerv s state stale One of the things that helps them is to be allowed to t talk lk about it n a America isn't in the sad state that Britain is in but neither are these particularly happy times for most We all have some friend or neighbor who is having tough going So lets let's give those who need to a chance to talk Only lets let's not forget two things that we shouldn't offer advice or repeat whit what we learned as enlisted listeners |