Show Ruth Millett Millen Says No Fireside Roles for Us j The courage of the British women who have found no defense job too dangerous to tackle has won for them more respect and admiration than have perhaps ever been given givena a nations nation's women And they deserve every bit of it it- it those uniformed women who are driving ambulances ferrying planes digging the dead and wounded from flattened buildings fighting fires serving as air raid wardens working long hours in factories turning out planes and guns guns guns' But dont don't you suppose that actually those British women are finding the active role they are playing in this thu war more satisfactory than the role that usually falls to women in wartime war war- wartime time She is bound to feel more useful than the woman called on to play the traditional role of women in wartime who is told that doing her part con consists consists of knitting sweaters rolling bandages ban bandages I dages sending boxes of food to soldiers sol sal diers canning and scrimping at home J I Iso so that the boys can be fed Those things are essential of course but they dont don't give a woman the feeling that she individually i l a taking part in the fight |