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Lt. Col. Frances Cunningham, of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at Duquesne University, is shown here at the first corps day of the semester, as the corps passed in review before deans of the university yesterday.
Rubber saving must continue, Jeffers warns
Nation has to get along on present stocks until 1944, he says
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What happens if i don’t give them da money?
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Nothing much; so far, donations are all voluntary. However, where taxes are concerned (Victory tax), if you don’t pay it, you’re in for some legal trouble.
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Tough Marine training ground simulates Guadalcanal, Bataan
Swampy Quantico ‘blitz’ course laid out where Battles of Bull Run were fought
By Ned Brooks, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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WARCOGS bill passed
Washington –
The Senate passed and returned to the House for slight amendment a bill authorizing creation of a woman’s auxiliary of the Coast Guard – similar to the Army’s WAACs and Navy’s WAVES. It will be known as the WARCOGS.
Pegler: Status of American women
By Westbrook Pegler
New York –
Concerning democracy in the treatment of the sexes, as he put it, Henry Wallace, the Vice President, said in his speech to the Congress of American-Soviet Friendship, whatever that was, last Sunday, that it had taken the war experience of Russia to demonstrate the completeness of our own failure.
He said:
The average woman [of Russia] does about as much work as the average men and is paid as much. Thousands of Russian women are in uniform, either actively fighting or standing guard.
We in the United States have not yet, in the same way as the Russians, called on the tremendous reserve power which is in our women, but before this war is over, we may be forced to give the women the opportunity to demonstrate that with proper training they are equal to man in most kinds of work.
That is Mr. Wallace’s idea of one of the meanings of democracy. It means that women become soldiers or factory hands and have the privilege of performing most of the kinds of work that men do. It is true that in the United States, women are the victims of a wage differential in most lines of work.
System is not to blame
That, however, can be adjusted by raising their pay without any alteration of the American form of government or change in the relations of the government to the governed. It represents only faulty operation of the American system, not a fault of the system itself.
Otherwise, women in the United States do enjoy equality with men. They vote and, except in a few states which cling to old laws, without the conscious knowledge of their people, their property rights are fully respected and protected.
Indeed, they enjoy special legal protection as the homemakers and the mothers of children, and American thought has always imposed on the husbands and fathers a duty to provide homes and the necessities of life for their families. It would seem that in Mr. Wallace’s concept of democracy, woman is degraded by this legal recognition of her dependency, but the American people will be slow to emancipate her in this respect.
The enfranchisement of women in the United States, regrettably, has caused no perceptible improvement in the political hygiene of the country. It is only coincidence, to be sure, and the women are not to blame, but our political life was never more sordid than it has been under the administration of which Mr. Wallace has been one of the leading spirits since 1932.
One woman Senator was elected by the intercession of the most brutal and dangerous politician in all our history, Huey Long, who was a dictator of Hitlerian stripe. The lady’s career has been otherwise undistinguished, one way or another.
Another woman was sent to Congress by the Frank Hague machine of Jersey City which has been denounced, in season, by Mr. Wallace’s party as a horribly corrupt and utterly anti-democratic monstrosity, but out of season has enjoyed the most agreeable and profitable recognition from his party. A third lady has been serving as a Cabinet officer of Mr. Wallace’s administration since 1932 and has been a negative figure at best.
There is disagreement as to the quality of Mrs. Roosevelt’s contribution to American political and social life. But contrary to Mr. Wallace’s theme, Mrs. Roosevelt has been amazingly active, whereas the wife of the dictator of Soviet Russia has no public existence at all.
Women enjoy much freedom
American women frequent our saloons, they go about unattended, they have educational opportunities equal to those of men and in the matter of employment are hampered only out of consideration for their physical delicacy. Some of the restrictions may be unreasonable, but it is hardly an argument for democracy or freedom to insist women be hired for hard physical work.
And it should be noted that Russia is an invaded country, right under the guns, in which every pair of hands and every muscle counts. If the enemy, striking the Atlantic Coast, had swept our people to a stand west of the Mississippi, no doubt American women would be, as Mr. Wallace says of the Russian women, “in uniform, either actively fighting the tremendous reserve power which is in our women,” to an even greater extent than Russia has on hers.
A troubling thought occurs in connection with the purpose to extend the four freedoms everywhere in the world. American troops landing in Africa were solemnly warned that deadly consequences might ensue if they addressed so much as a word to a Moslem woman.
The Moslems are numerous and hosts to some very cranky prejudices. They would be certain to regard this phase of Mr. Wallace’s concept of democracy as an affront and this freedom would have to be imposed on all Islam by force of arms.