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Show The Employed Mother Has a New Responsibility Our boys are coming home nearly two million during the next nine months. The plan of release has been worked out upon a point system which will make it impossible for the mustering out authorities to show preference; each man will be given his release by virtue vir-tue of his service. Every parent and loved one of the soldier will now start figuring with the hope of rinding the 85-point credits due him. Many will have more than needed, while others will have just a point or two too few. We commend very highly the plan agreed upon and we hope there will be no need of a controversy contro-versy arising from it. There should not be, because it will merely require a little addition of points to determine de-termine the standing of each man. There will be, however, a grave problem arise upon the return of our boys that of employment. It is true much thought has been given by local and state officials of-ficials for the postwar period, but we have not noticed that there has been anything very definite proposed other than the natural need of construction and repair re-pair to roads, buildings, bridges and the like. Those projects are ordinary necessities and will need only the usual force of men and materials. Then there are the jobs of farm help which should absorb a large portion por-tion of men, but which will not amount to so much because during the past two years the farms have produced the largest crops in the history of the world even without the help of those taken from the farm homes. Better methods and the use of more efficient machinery has substituted very nobly the labor of the i farmer's boys. i In our opinion a plan to replace women labor with the returning soldiers will go very far to solve the labor problem. Especially do we think the married women, whose husbands have an income, should be asked to return to the home and take their rightful J place as a mother and housekeeper. One of the evils t of the day, child delinquency, is chargeable to the t neglect the children have received from their mothers while she has been working away from the home r and statistics show that child delinquency has increased a very much during the last few years, even after 11 thousands of our eighteen year old boys have been drafted into the armed forces of the county which1 :i naturally takes them out of the group from which de- linquency, is figured. Jt A mother's place is in the home. That fact has been recognized throughout all the civilized world r and laws have been passed to render aid to the de-j de-j pendent mother so she can remain at home to care 5. for her children. The aid thus rendered is based upon the need according to the number of children, and the ! necessary money required for that purpose is raised r through taxation, whereupon everyone with an income - or with property, contributes to the fund. It is true the working mother, who has now become the posses-da posses-da sor cf mucl1 n're money than she had heretofore been ot accustomed to handle, will not take the suggestion La very kindly, because an appetite for more and more ar has taken possession of her. We hope, however, that eU she will remember the truth of the question, "What to is home without a mother?'7 and will be just as loval Wl rk Oi to the soldier boy in returning to her natural life as she was in leaving her home to aid him through her employment in the critical war work. She really "should not have to be requested to give up her present em ployment, but should offer to leave in favor of the returning soldier. i I |