Show Stenographers in War Time Jobs Urged f to o Stay With Them By RUTH MILLETT News from Washington says that there Is a terrific turnover turnover turnover turn turn- over among the girls who gothere go gothere gothere there to take 17 wartime war t time i m e h i jobs The turnover turnover turnover turn turn- over at some agencies among s a t en en en e- e n o 0 typists and a n d r s amounts to t per cent It seems a great n num number u tuber tu- tu ber of girls go to Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington get a ajob ajob ajob job try it for Ruth Millett Milletta a week or two and then get lonesome lone lone- one lone lonesome some and go back home The main trouble seems to be the fact that there are about eight girls for every single man in Washington these days That fast turnover costs the government plenty in money and andin andin andin in slowed up work But the girls dont don't seem to mind That doesn't speak very well for the attitude of Americas America's young oung women women compared compared with that of her young men Boys of the same age as these girls arent aren't being so choosey about the kind of work they are doing these days Uncle Sam is bossing their lives using them however he sees fit and they arent aren't kicking Their living conditions probably probably probably proba proba- bly arent aren't any better than those in crowded Washington And when it comes to finding girls to date they would feel lucky if there were one girl to every eight men around an army camp And their work is really work not not anything as physically easy as typing and carrying messages If women are going to be that frivolous and unpatriotic in their attitude toward war work probably probably probably ably conscription of women would be a good thing |