| Show NEW YORK COMMENTS By FAITH CLARKE Editor's Miss Faith Clarke is a prominent young writer in the east and a recent graduate of the Sarah Lawrence college in N. The article on New York defense efforts was written upon request for the women's edi- tion of the Women in New York are wholeheartedly taking part in defense They are j working in Red as plane in construction companies and in I auto New York is not being one of the major harbors in she is j ready to be bombed at any day or night All New York has been divided into j sectors and Each district has a zone and then a and at the head of each sector is a The majority of the air raid wardens are Women seem to have more time to devote to the and j it is felt that women would be better with J frightened children and stray animals than The job of being warden is no be a warden you must pass a certified Red Cross exam at a city take a 1 course in fire war precautionary how to turn off and on city street lights in case of blackouts and how to send in an to police and fire For all of requires about 14 hours of you receive no and yet I there are about 50 wardens to each During a recent air raid a woman C living in Greenwich Village asked where to go in case of bombing in her The li building in which she lived was only tw stories high and it was a question of to the basement or staying in her She was if a bomb drops within v 14 blocks of where you live you might as resign yourself to the fact that your apart- ment house is going to fold up like a of cards and it's going to fall right into the Sixth avenue subway the city's w ways wondered why it hasn't since then the woman has been sure she can j feel her house shake every time the avenire subway express goes by and she no longer rests easily until after the regular New York to Boston mail plane has |
