Warship beats off subs while saving children
Thrills mount on thrills during duty in Atlantic
By Leo S. Disher, United Press staff writer
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Drive on pressure groups seen in Roosevelt speech
Organizations opposing anti-inflation plans ‘singled out,’ Illinois Congressman says; talk falls short, some think; others call it magnificent
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Ceilings must be posted on 170 chief commodities
Highest prices charged in each store in March constitute maximum for that establishment
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Parents hear Roosevelt’s tribute to bomber pilot
Pleased Texas rancher wants flier son to 'keep on giving it to the Japanese’
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Los Angeles has alert
Los Angeles, California –
Radio stations were silenced for 33 minutes early today while a preliminary alert was in force in Los Angeles and an area of 50-mile radius. The Fourth Army Headquarters in San Francisco said the alert was called because of the presence of “an unidentified object off the coast.”
Ferguson: Work – but where?
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
This challenging moment must be met intelligently. The preservation of democracy depends upon the choices we make today. Therefore, women should not permit the pressure of events to swerve them from their fundamental task – the care of homes and children.
Work is plenty outside and wages are excellent. With several members holding jobs, the family pay envelope is delightfully fat. There is money to tempt them. The patriotic motive must also be considered. Women, as well as men, are eager to help win the war.
American’s 30 million housewives must be regarded as the reservoir from which can be drawn millions of new workers who are needed for the war effort. We know that hundreds of thousands will be forced to take jobs outside their homes.
But great care must be exercised so that among these numbers there shall not be chosen any person who is more needed at home by her own children than she can ever be needed in factory or in volunteer service.
Countless poor and middle-class housewives, women who want and may need extra money desperately, now face the temptation to drop domestic duty and engage in some new kind of work.
The choice is a grave one for them, and very, very grave for the nation. It involves something more profound than any peacetime phase of the old working-wife question. For that question is no longer paramount. We MUST work now. But where? Where can the mother most effectively serve democracy?
Not for a moment would I hesitate in my answer. Somehow, even in the midst of a war, the children of the United States must be cared for. And the best people for that job are their own mothers. The American home is the heart of our democratic system. If it is destroyed and the usual moral disintegration follows, what shall we win with our armaments?