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Certain uIl idle women do dnje drift dnjeabout about to afternoon bars and lounges accumulat- accumulat accumidat accumulating - ing jog "wh.sky wh.sky whsky 'whisky whisky " ' . blotches but tho the percentage u is very low Probably they are wele useless ! . , an'Way anWay anyway ) ' By KATHLEEN NORRIST NORRIS NORRISUT T SEEMS to me mamfestly manifestly mamfestlyunfaIr manifestlyunfair manifestlyunfair UT IT unfaIr m in Congresswoman CongresswomanClare CongresswomanClare CongresswomanClare Clare Luce to say that mIl- mIl mIllIons millions mil millions - lions of American women womenhave womenhave womenhave have done little httle or nothing nothmg to tohelp tohelp tohelp help the war effort except per- per perhaps perhaps per perhaps - haps to keep their skms skins 111y lily 111ywhIte lilywhite lilywhite whIte and soft for some G I Ito Ito Ito to touch when he comes homeAnd homeAnd home homeAnd And manifestly unfair In Damon DamonRunyon DamonRunyon DamonRunyon Runyon to quote this in l a syndIcated syndIcatedarticle syndicatedarticle syndicatedarticle article and add on his own ac account account account count that keeping keepmg skin white Is bet better better better ter than to let it become covered coveredwith coveredwith coveredwith with whiskey wh1skey blotches Mr Runyon Runyonblames Runyonblames Runyonblames blames what he calls the failure ot of otwomen ofwomen ofwomen women to respond to the war effortupon effort effortupon effortupon upon the remissness of the lead leaders leadera leaders ers era of their sex in showing the wayIt wayIf way wayIt It If some of the prominent women of ofthe ofthe ofthe the day he goes on to say 'had had 'hadlunged 'hadlunged ' ' "hadlunged hadlunged " lunged forward it would have been beenan beenan beenan an inspiring example to the rank rankand rankand rankand and file tlle He suggests that such suchleaders suchleaders suchleaders leaders might have marshalled bIg bIgparades bigparades bigparades parades of females into defense defenseplants defenseplants defenseplants defenseplantsHe plants plantsHe He goes on to say in contrast that'hundreds that'hundreds that thathundreds hundreds 'hundreds ' ' of thousands of proml proms promlnent promsneat prominent nent neat men have offered their services servicesto servicesto to the wartime effort industrIal industrIalchIeftains industrialchieftains Industrialchieftains chIeftains famous actors and jour journallsts journalists journahsts nallsts nalists doctors movie dIrectors dIrectorsand directorsand directorsand and producers and members of Mrs MrsLuce MrsLuce MrsLuce Luce s own house of representa represents representatives representstives representatlves representatlvesMen tives tivesI1len tivesMen Men I1len Are DraftedThis DraftedThis Drafted DraftedThis This sort of talk makes me In Indignant indignant indignant dignant it seems to me unworthy of ofone ofone ofone one of our top journalists In the first firstplace firstplace place men are drafted and drafted draftedwith draftedwith draftedwith with them is all the glory of urn urnforms urnforms urnforms forms marching marchmg flags fiags music the theexcItement theexcitement theexcitement excItement and change so dear to toyouth toyouth toyouth youth Just how large our armIes armIesand armiesand armiesand and navies would be if they were werecomposed werecomposed werecomposed composed only of male volunteers IS ISa isa isa a questIonyou question -you you - you know and I know knowmany knowmany knowmany many a stalwart lad who is safely safelydomg safelydoing safelydoing domg doing something here at home when whenhe whenhe whenbe he might well be in the ranksThe ranksThe ranks ranksThe The notable lack of enthusiasm In InCanada inCanada inCanada Canada s men tor for overseas servIce servIceIs serviceis serviceIs Is causing that government grave graveconcern graveconcern graveconcern concern It is not entirely of theirown their theirown theirown own volition vol1tion that our fighting men menhave menhave menhave have been flung to all the danger dangerspots dangerspots dangerspots spots of the worldIt worldIt world worldIt It is the fashion now to speak speaksllghtingly speakslightingly speakslightingly sllghtingly slightingly of our nurses to lament lamentpublicly lamentpublicly lamentpublicly publicly that more of them do donot donot donot not volunteer for army and navy navyservice navyservice navyservice service The strange thing about thJs this thJscrticlsm thiscrticesm thiscrtlcism crticlsm crticesm is that when a call was was'sent wassent < { ' sent out tor for 40 000 nurses little littlemore littlemore littlemore more than a year ago 72 000 volun volunteered volunteered volunteered teered and 42 000 were actually ac accepted accepted accepted cepted There has been no call eall since sinceuntU sinceuntil sinceuntil untU until now and because response to toit toit toit it is somewhat slow the whole pro profess proless profess fess less on suffers dIsreputeThe disreputeThe disrepute disreputeThe The real and obvious answer to tosuch tosuch tosuch such critics and Mrs Luce and Mr MrRunyon MrRunyon MrRunyon Runyon is of course that women womenare womenare womenare are not never have been and never neverwill neverwill neverwill will be as free as men to follow followthe followthe followthe the r desires in war or In peace peaceThere peaceThere peaceThere There are close to 40 million homes homesIn homesIn homesin In America less than one third of of1 1 per cent of these homes-abbut homes abbut homes-about about homes - ab6ut1 1 m In 300 is managed without a worn wornan wornan wornan an Women cook wash clean raise raiseculdren raisechildren raisechildren culdren children ! teach in schools children childrenare childrenare childrenare are their supreme responslbll1ty responsibility responslbll1tyhusbands responsibilityhusbands responsibilityhusbands husbands and homes and chJldren children chJldrenneed childrenneed childrenneed need them War is the abnormal abnormalthe abnormalthe abnormalthe the extraneous thing thmg wifehood wifehoodmotherhood wifehoodmotherhood wifehoodmotherhood motherhood homes are the Indis India Indispensable Indiapensable indlspensable pensable essentials of all aU civihza civellza civellzations civihzations civihzations civihzationsTo tions tionsTo To be sure certain idle women womendo womendo womendo do drift about to afternoon bars and andlounges andlounges andlounges lounges accumulating accumulatmJ : the afore aforementioned aforementioned aforementioned mentioned whiskey wluskey blotches Butthe But Butthe Butthe the percentage of these women is isver isvery isvery ver very , low , . perhaps they are mental mentalTheir \ t b b"Their " " ' " Their "Their wpreme supreme responsibility responsdihty HOMEMAKING COMES COMESFIRST COMESFIRST COMESFIRST COMESFIRSTBy FIRST FIRSTBy FIRSTBy By the natural naturalorgamzatIon naturalorganization orgamzatIon organization organizationof 01 of life , women are the home homemaT.ers homemakers homemakers maT.ers maTers makers . It is 1 w $ foolish to fo prate prateabout prateabout prateabout about ' ' home front morale'and moraleand morale ' and then expect women innumbers In Innumbers innumbers numbers to leave their home homes homesand homesand ! and andcluldren andchildren children cluldren and join Jom loin theWACs the theWAC thePACs factoriesTrue ? WAC PACs ! or get into mto factone factories factoriesTrue ! True millions m lwn ! ofwomen of women have haveresponded haveresponded haveresponded responded to the callof callo call o ofna of f fna national na natIonal nattonal tIonal ttonal duty , , without any anycom anycorn cornpulsion com corn compulsIOn cornpulseon pulsIOn pulseon and have enlIStedIn enlisted In Inthe inthe inthe the aUXIliaryservIces auxiliary services nurses nurses'corps nursescorps ' corp corps ! or have gone into mto info scarplants warplants warplantsMost war scar warplant plant plants plantsMost ! Most women however , can cannot cannot cannot not desert their first respornl response responsibiltty respornlbrilty responsebility brilty bility , the care of their chri chit chridren chitdren children dren They canot go to fa war , or orto orto orto to work workwithout without neglecting the thewelfare thewelfare thewelfare welfare o of f the next generation generationAs generationA A As ! Miss MIS ! Norns Norrrs Norris points pomt ! out theyare they theyare theyare are doing domg a far greater service serviceto serviceto serviceto to the nation by quietly taking taT tale taleeng . mg eng care of their homes than thanthey thanthey thanthey they couldIn could in some form of ofwar ofuar war < ar work worT . Many mothers aregiving are aregwrng aregiving gwrng giving every ! spare pare moment tothe to tothe tothe the Red Cross or some other otherservIce otherservice otherservice servIce as it is JS There are few fewslacT.ers fewslackers fewslackers slacT.ers slacTers slackers . amongAmerican among American Amencan wornen 100m worn 100men wornen en even though thev they do notwear not notwear notwear wear uniforms uniform ! and andcarry carry carryarm carryarms arms armsly arm armsly ! ly physically spiritually splrltually of a type typethat typethat typethat that would make them practically practicallyuseless practicallyuseless practicallyuseless useless anywayHIghest anywayHighest anyway anywayHighest Highest Standard EverThe Ever EverThe ver verThe The great mass of our women womenma womenma womenma ma ntams ntains a higher Iugher standard thanwomen than thanwomen thanwomen women have ever maintained mamtalned in the theworld theworld theworld world before It is a standard of de decency decency decency cency honesty devotion to home homeand homeand homeand and husband and children eager eagerness eagerness eagerness ness to serve them to prepare end endless endless endless less meals wash mexhaust inexhaust ble bledIshes bledishes bledishes dIshes gather small pencils andrub and rub rubbers rubhers rubbers bers hers telephone teachers push a per perambulator perambulator perambulator ambulator to market decide aIDn anxi aIDnously anxiously anxiously ously between lessening lessenmg stores ot of otfruIts offruits offruits fruIts and meat go home hot andweary and andweary andweary weary to put the lunch potatoes m in mto into into to bake to sterilize ster1l1ze the baby s bot hot bottles hotties hotties tles ties to mop up the front tront hallway to tocarry tocarry tocarry carry a tray upstairs to a sIckroomand sickroomand sickroom sickroomand -and and - and to go on with it day after day dayearly dayearly dayearly early morning morIllI1g until untll late at nightThese nightThese night nightThese These things must be done and andit andit andit it is women who must do them and andwomen andwomen andwomen women who do do them A man manmay manmay manmay may lock his office tor for a week a amonth amonth amonth month he may close it for a whole wholeyear wholeyear wholeyear year and be off ot ! overseas Nobody Nobodysuffers Nobodysuffers Nobodysuffers suffers except perhaps himself Iumsel ! In InhIs inhis inhis hIs Docket pocket But a woman may not lock two twosmall twosmall twosmall small babies in a perfectly safe saferoom saferoom saferoom room for an hour without deadlY deadlYrIsk deadlyrisk deadlyrisk rIsk She may not neglect the dIsh dIshpan dishpan dishpan pan for one day There are 312 312Items 312items 312items Items according accordmg to recent calcula calculatIons calculations calculations tIons that thafshe she she must see supplied re refreshed refreshed refreshed freshed refrigerated refngerated heated dust dusted dusted dusted ed smoothed washed Ironed and andstarched andstarched andstarched starched every day of her lifeHer lifeHer life lifeHer Her husband will well not wear wearrumpled wearrumpled wearrumpled rumpled shirts to the office her herchIldren herchildren herchildren chIldren must not go about in 1Il m wet wetshoes wetshoes wetshoes shoes her soup must be skImmed skImmedfor skimmedfor skimmedfor for government fats her tin cans canswashed canswashed canswashed washed and flattened Her Red RedCross RedCrass RedCross Cross Crass dues paid the six SlX o 0 clock clockbaths clockbaths clockbaths baths for Betty and Junior their sup supper supper supper per the table setting the dinner get gettlng gettmg getting tlng tmg the five minutes attention to toher toher toher her own appearance may not be beneglected beneglected beneglected neglected not one single dayWhen dayWhen day dayWhen When any man s 8 work Is as vital vitalas vitalas vitalas as that of the humblest bumblest wife and andmother andmother andmother mother then it will be he time to talkof talk talkof talkof of the remissness of women In Inwar inwar Inwar war service |