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Show STEPHENS GIRLS WANT JOBS, THEN WEDLOCK I Wouldn'tfylarry Suddenly If War Came Working Girls Command Boys' Respect We, the Women Editor's Note: Are a girl's studies la collet of real value to her after graduation when she enters the working world or be-comes be-comes a housewife and a mother? The faculty ot Stephens college, Columbia. Mo, thinks Its curriculum cur-riculum has the answer. Ruth Millet t, whose popular column. "We the Women," appears In The Telegram, went out to Stephens and watched this great scholastic experiment at first hand. She tells what she- saw and heard In three articles the second of which appears kelow. By BtJTH MnXKTT COLUMBIA, Mo The eollege girl who Is a product of the "educatlon-f "educatlon-f or-llf sljffitenvjraiits, Ajob-and he Is confident that she can get one. After a few years of proving he can earn a Hying, she wants to trade the job In en a home, a Utlcal and economic effects of a possible war than about the young men who would be killed. "I wouldn't marry suddenly If the boy I'm dating had to go, even though we're planning to be married mar-ried In a few years. We might be a pert for years and it wouldn't be right for either of us. Even II he came back, whole, a man Is bound to be changed by war. How do I know he would come back feeling the same about me?" About the future: "I want a Job for two reasons. First, because I don't want to live off my family when I'm through school. And secondly, because I want to know that I can take care of myself. If she didn't know that, how could a woman ever have any spunk or spirit? "But Tm not sure that I'd keep my Job after marriage even If not working meant that marriage would bare-to. waft two or thres ' years. I don't want to start out handicapped. And I've seen too many unsatisfactory marriages where the woman had a full time Job. I i i ii as I -? v i I - ! ' III , T v ; vj - ' Ps--mftft--mSza-tcm-ft I College boys look down their notes at girls who don't know how I I ta da Thinat." I nusoana ana -at lean inreo- enn-dren. enn-dren. If America should get Into the European war, she would rather see her boy friend find a safe Job on this side of the ocean than get Into a uniform and go marching off to "glory." But If he cant land the safe Job by luck or pull or flat feet, she wont be a hysterical war bride. Not even If "he" la not Imaginary, but Is her fiance right this minute. In after-hour campus bull see. ions, when It's time to cut the chocolate cake from noma, pour the cider and tight Into men, morals, mor-als, war and her own ambitions and dreams, whst else Is she saying this modern college girl who is sn odd mixture of Intelligent cynl-clam cynl-clam and wide-eyed faith In her ability to skip other people's mistakes? mis-takes? About men She says: "College boys look down their noses at girls who don't know how to do things. If you want them to respect you, you'd better not say you're going to sit around horns and live off your dad when you're through school. Also, "It's more Important to be peppy than to be pretty. College boys don't go for this glamor stuff. They'll take pep over sophistication sophistica-tion any time. Just try looking bored if you want to have your "I know I would never work after I had children unless otherwise other-wise they couldn't eat Of course, I'm going to have children. It's silly to marry If you don't intend to have a family. And the more children we, who are being educated, edu-cated, have the better. "No, I don't question the wisdom of bringing children Into this kind of world.' It Is up to us, among whom will be some future leaders to mske it better. And It will be up to our children to mske the best ot what they find. "My idea of a successful woman Is one who Is married to a man she loves, has a family and some worthwhile worth-while interests like doing something some-thing for the poor In her own town. And I don't mean merely playing Lady Bountiful at Christmas time. "I've noticed my own mother Is more interesting, more fun. since she started teaching a course in citizenship to Immigrants. Maybe you think she hasn't had to study herself! Even dad discusses things with her more than he used to. "I'm going to remember that, snd dot wait until my children are grown to get Interested In something some-thing outside my family. "But why are people Interested In whst ws are thinking? What we want to know Is. 'How are you, who are out, going to receive us?" " Next: Career ia the heme. 'Jelly date' wander over to another' booth." About morals: "College girls are smart enough' to know they don't have to pet unless they want to. Of course, if they like a boy a lot, they want to. Fact Is, most girls are so afraid of getting a reputation reputa-tion for being easy that there seems to be an unwritten rule: 'No good-night kiss on the first date.' "Of course, we aren't all Innocents. Inno-cents. But the percentage that Isn't certainly Isn't anything like what the writers of magazine articles arti-cles claim. Older people seem to get a kick out of thinking we are worse than we are. Sometimes It almost seems that they are urging us on. , . "In all fairness, though, maybe we do give a bad Impression. We make a lot of noise and do a lot of talking. An outsider wouldn't knew that It le mostly noise." About war: "I don't think It would be any disgrace at all for a boy to pull every wire he can to get out of being sent to the front, in case ws should go to war. "What is worrying all the college col-lege boys I know is how they can keep out of the fighting lines. I havent heard a single one talk about wanting to lick Hitler. "And I don't blame them for feeling that way. It's too bad that what they say isn't the whole say. It's too easy for old people to feel patriotic. In Canada last summer I saw a lot of propaganda movie shorts, and It was only the old people peo-ple who got excited and cheered. "Another thing, the old people seem more worried about the po- |