The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25
Men Always
Will Return
to FireSide
Nazis Err in Attempt to
Replace Home With
Military Work.
BY HELEN WELSHIMER
MA service Writer

w tleTe are IEeS on LNe itdA III
flowers in a bowl. peace. and some
thing simmering in pot on the
stove When the market place
closes and they have put their
wares away they viii turn to homes
and women. Their need for them
is deeper rooted than the eedars Of
Leban non.
But the Nazis apparently have
forgotten this truth in the fanfare
Of the marching days that have
come upon their land. Miriam
Beard. who is thoroughly familiar
with the situation of women in Ger
many. makes some surprising dis
closures in the current number OF
Today magazine The Teutonic
males intend TO spend as small an
amount of time as possible behind
four walls. Their sons, as soon as
they can keep step. are TO be put IN
military environment And the WO-
men can sew carpet rags all day
long for all the fighting men care!
The women, she continues. in
their desire to have warrior huS-
bands and sons are agreeing. They
don't even demur because they are
instructed not TO rely on lipstick
courage or a new hat to make their
husbands come home fairly often.
They want to be brave and self sac
ri1cing. too.
Nav Work for While
AS a novelty perhaps the plan will
work for a little while. But the
rules Of nature will exert themselves
presently. When the armor grows
dented men viii come to the women
they love and ask them to mend the
weakened places. They will begin to
spend less and less time at the drill
ground and more and more by their
hearth sides.
It will not matter, either, If the
women have cTls and curves and
silken draperies. When man grows
lonely for them. the very need will
glorify the plainest women. The
comfort that women provide will be
worth more than inch long eyelaShes
and cheeks Of perennial rose bloom.
Men can not drill all day. They
only think they can. Small boys,
playing war in the backyard, come
in at dusk. Men. too, even strong,
indomitable. marching German men
who have marshalled their women
in houses. locked the doors and put
the keys IN their pockets aren't
throwing away those agents of ad-
mittanCe They want to unlock the
doors-When they want to.
Greek Plan Advised
Now If the German women really
wanted to bring their husbands to
time they could do so with radi-
cal measure. They could bar the
doors from within and tell them to
run along to their barracks. The
women Of ancient Greece did it
once, you know Their husbands
wouldn't stop fighting. They told
them that until they did the could
forget that they had wives.
The German women won't do
that, though. No, the men have i'm
planted in their minds the fact that
loneliness is the portion of patrl-
otto female and she would be a
traitor il she expected her husband s
gun to stand in the corner during
any waking hour.
Women may not dance legally any,
thing but the waltz and the Fried
richsheimer. Miss Beard asserts.
They can't develop masculine
friendships with men through
sports. Men drill, she says, instead
of playing.
Women Support Movement
The German women, who at first
demurred when their professional
prestige was taken from them. are
silent now. The militaristic spirit
is in the land and they hear its
drums and bugles sounding. But
some day the marching steps will
slacken. Some day the tide will turn
again. and the children will grow
up in homes and men will not be
ashamed to chat with a woman for
Is minutes after dinner. Hitler, the
NaziS, and the NaziS' wives and
daughters may think they are rear
ranging human nature pretty we'll
But fortunately they can't. They
can merely make themselves un-
happy and rather absurd for a
while. But then, you can't blame
any man for wanting to wear his
uniform while it's new.