Show TIIE GARLAND When GARLAND UTAH Three Hollywood Patriots Serving Uncle Sam Kathleen Norris Says: s TIMES Mother Gets a Job Bell Syndicate— WNU Feature A SERIES OF (SPECIAL ARTICLES 6Y THE LEADING was correspondents' r' & 1 Every 7th Girl A Spinster? rl By Aram Schein feld ( WNU Feature — Timid ivecel witt Collut'i Wmwkij) For the first time In history the United States Is confronted with a big shortage of potential husbands already Is so serious of every seven girls now seems headed for spinsterhood And if we add to this the young widows and divorcees who won't be able to marry again We are threaactors musicians Many American writers snd artists of both sexes have joined the services to help tened with a standing population of win the war Three screen stars are pictured above in their new roles Left: Mrs John D Herts Jr better millions of women— six seven eight known as Myrna Loy who bat been appointed assistant to the director of military and naval welfare North Atmillion no one can estimate exactly area American lantic Cross Center: Red how many —who will have to go Capi Clark Gable of the U S sir forces is now an serial gun nery instructor In England He ! pictured demonstrating the technique of handling the waist gun Right: through life without husbands The government issue haircut somewhat deglamorlses him but it’s still Tyrone Fewer wbo recently achieved This simple fset Is 'social dyna commission as a marine amite It can rock the foundation of ear social system snd attitudes ward sex cut down our population change our American way of life Those who best understand the dangers ahead— our population perts sociologists economists and — are genuinely copsychologists ncerned They have seen throughout in Sweden EngEurope notably land France and Germany the grave changes that have- accompanied marked reductions In the proThey' portion of men to women know that unless we begin planning to meet speedily and realistically the unbalanced situation of the two sexes it Is going to be difficult to moral and maintain our social standards You can’t blame the situation on the war It will make things worse but it isn’t the primary cause Long before it started there had been a steady drop in the ratio of men to women in the United States If the war ended today and we could recall to life snd health every one of our casualties there still would not be nearly enough men to provide husbands for all our girls Men Less Resistant There are two fundamental causes for our man shortage One Is biological affecting the whole civilized world: the fact that males are inherently weaker in resistance to disease and death The other cause is Even commandos can’t get Into the Casbah eld and evil city of Algiers North Africa It’s forbidden xone peculiar to the United States and Left: A street scene In the Casbah Inset top center: Military police at one of the entrances to the notorious results from our bavlng used up the section Right: A native snd his child lie in the gutter of a street in the Casbah created male surplus artificially brought in by past immigrations Most dramatic is the biological factor: Males enter the world with -the cards stacked against them No "I matter how we might equalize con ditiona for both eexes— by abolishing war or eliminating accidents and added (trains on men — males are destined to die oil at a faster rate That fact now is known to apply not only to human beings but to most of the animal kingdom From mice to elephants from birds to flies snd fish In almost every species the male Is biologically less resistant snd has os the ssversge a shorter life span One of the most interesting experiments on this point was made it the New York aquarium with guppies tha familiar little tropical fish that Exgive birth to livs Offspring pectant mamma guppies were placed in one tank and srfter their hundreds of progeny had been bom snd had grown for a certain period they were counted by sexes It was found that the females outnumbered the male two to one One of the reasons for this much higher survival rate of females Is that males are mors likely to enter the world with Inherited defects Another Is that the female organic "Mirror mirror on the waU who mechanism is better able to sdjust la the fairest af them aDT” The to sudden internal upsets or external While many big city laundries struggle along anders tailed and elimWACs at Fort Des Moines lows adversities inate extra services American soldiers in Australia demonstrate that they get more questions from this mirror Among Infants dying In the United Aided by an electric in hand well their In hare laundry ts answer Jhat fairy tale query problems washing States before tbelr first birthday at machine they do their own washing Left to right: Sergt John Runnels They are: Is your posture per- least 23 per cent more boys than of Fort Worth Texas and Sergt Sergt Harry Tanrit Chicago feet? Are your shoes shined? Are girls are carried off During childWalter Sandberg Duluth Minn yon smiling? and so on hood this mortality ratio drops but at maturity the male death rate goes up again and thereafter the death toll among men Is at least 23 t i is among per cent higher thsn women By the time the the principal marriage years are reached the original surplus Is gone and completely thereafter women outnumber increasingly The situation that one out The Casbah Slum Area of Africa Harriett lath a it only ont of million Harriett inns are only two of two million but they art there where Uncle Sam wants them filling to the brim their microscopic part of the titanic effort that it war By KATHLEEN NORRIS barnes 38 is one of Harriet many women who finds a wartime schedule somewhat distracting She works at a lathe from seven at night until midnight comes home exhausted to drink of coffee and sleep until perhaps nine or ten Her husband's hours are from eight until four nominally but he often works until early evening The daughter teaches - I WARTIME ADJUSTMENTS Mother V tear plant job beside t helping to win the war is causing her family to realize and appreciate many of the little details of household management which she silently disposed of in the days But now they are cropping up when she is at work and their proper solution is for the whole family to pitch in and not leave everything for mother Po do Husbands and children at home can do many housekeeping tasks such as washing dishes setting the table putting things in their right places and generally helping to keep tha house neat In a night ichool and fold band ages for the Red Croaa every afternoon Harriet goe to market at about two o’clock gets her own (upper at tlx leavei something Inviting for Larry and goes off to work Linda and her young man usually Join Larry for dinner but they have to hurry off too to their waiting Harriet your problem la that of classes The sons of the family are many women today and while I In the navy don't always advise them as I do "Sometime I ask myself If we are you still my usual suggestion is the happy group of ten years ago” that they continue to work while the writes Harriet government needs them and let the “My lovely twins other members of the family come were girl my boy to appreciate busy and content then with homeOne is two things work Scouts movies comics radio the pleasure that and excitement Mother gets when she la paid for helping mother make doughnuts going off for long picnic trips In the what she does and haa her own old car— not a cloud and not a money to ipend Instead of manag bomber In the sky Now It’s all ing somehow on what la left from the payment of household bills And laundry not home tailor called and gone away again the other is the realization of what dust everywhere clever management patience contelephone not answered service an ordinary marketing a long slow centration home demands if It Is to be comfortprocess weekly letters to the boys often a real burden to write For I ably and smoothly run For these like to put In little jokes and cliptwo things Mother has loqg waited pings and show a certain amount of Harriet Helping Win War spirit and courage— and they aimply Tha third and most Important conaren’t there! sideration that influences me In ad"But now let ma explain why I vising Harriet to stick to her job am working I will say honestly Is that we are fighting a great war — that while I would make any sacwinning a great war I dare to say rifice for my country and am Indeed now We are winning It because a facing the possibility of the supreme constant unbroken lifeline of ships sacrifice of my sons’ lives with what is moving steadily toward the battle philosophy 1 can the money quesfronts the lonely islands tion also makes a difference to me of the Pacific end of Alaska's wa'While I am working I can put alters the ports of England end Rusmost two hundred dollars a month sia and China toward the mortgage we have carOur boys watchfor these ships ried on our home for 17 years I they know when come In They never thought of attempting to raise would know It they and with Instantly it until I got this war job Other the first chill touch of doubt in their bills have been paid we are solvent if that line courageous hearts for the first time in our married stopped They need to feel— they lives MUST feel— that every one of us here at home la behind them That Savings to Meet Peace's Drain "I blame myself now for the old In America the forges and welders slipshod years when I never was and cranes and tackles and smeltquite caught up with monthly bills ers and foundries are smoking and and regarded a mortgage as roaring day and night that tha railthe pressure of about Si essential arc TOotr ways are Now I feel differently trains that sweating Now 1 feel thundering that we may have some years of crews are swarming on the docks serious social upset after the war shouldering the great bars of steel the crates and boxes and barrels hundreds of women losing Jobs thousands of men seeking them certain and that ships are sliding from the war businesses that are booming toways taking to the deep teas as ships have never In the history of day completely extinguished peacetime enterprises slow to start up the world been launched before It will be a great comfort This can only go on if we do al again to me If I can say then that we we can — and more than we can— jo own our home clear of incumbrances the tremendous keep machinery and that I have some money safe In moving Harriet’s lathe is only one war bonds of a million Harriet’s sons ate "My husband and daughter want only two of two million but they me to stay home and keep the house are THERE where Uncle Sam in the old way That means careful wants them filling to the brim their management money shortage and own microscopic part of the titanic no more payment on the mortgage effort that is war which is now down to $1300 If Larry the husband and Linda Larry can give me about $65 a month for the daughter did their share of trie household expenses Linda pays odd the marketing and housekeeping bills — sometimes or telephone the problem would be gas managing and for her own lunch and clothing solved It is not fair to leave o costs Now and then the boys send Harriet the entire burden of buying Ma a special check but most of and cooking cleaning and planning their money As it is she is doing most of tfye goes to government bonds I didn't say but you may work at home most of the buying have inferred it that counting pay and also filling a most important and overtime I am being paid more war job and helping to make life than husband and daughter together safe for everyone she loves after I know that is only temporary but the war This Is an overbalanced I would be glad to make good use of schedule but the fault is not Harit while It lasts" riet's - a How Soldiers Solve Laundry p it Problems Military Mirror TV' New Army Air Corps Insignia Hydro Healing men One remarkable fact is that as the "expectation of life" has been exwomen have profited more tended than men have From 1900 to 1941 of life the expectation birth had been increased by about 13 years for males but 17 years for females at this present generation we Up always had more than enough men to go around with “seconds" as well for young widows and divorcees We were still able to draw upon the heavy snrplus of n males brought In hy previous Immigrations Now the situation for ApV'ican girls is something like playing "Going to Jerusalem" aging men 'Instead of chairs VWth each turn of the years addltiosal men have bees yanked away and more girls have bees left to stand alone tar' This plane Is decorated with the new insignia of the army air corps— a white star on a field of blue with a white rectangle added to both sides and the (hole symbol enclosed in a red border Beside the plane Col Tom W Ilasiey commanding officer of Boiling Field D C studies an aerial map with a member of his staff Maj Clark Coleman A small whirlpool is nsed to restore an Injured nerve In the arm Private W Downs who was jured by a machine gun bullet on Guadalcanal Island of ft |