Evening star., 1941-02-16

fortnight way of expressing herself
and in this book advance notices
relate that she sets forth in simple
English what she saw when Norway
was invaded, and recites what led
up to the debacle. She is well
qualified to sound a note of warning
and her long career in public life
extending over a period Of more
than 80 years has lent to her kind
of prescience in grasping and weigh
inc a situation.
In a recent talk Mrs Hartman
described the desolation she wit
messed in warning Europe and said
to wives and mothers picking their
way through the candlelit ruins of
another continent, our American
homes seemed like something out
of an impossible dream world. She
sounded note of warning when she
said. watch out in your own COM
munity for those who would seek to
turn you against your neighbor.
The scapegoat technique of arous-
ing hatred of one group for another
Is a favorite method to undermine,
worked in France, Belgium and
Holland-and she added, Il saw it
in America"
in America
Barrymore Biography
Soon to Be Published.
And speaking of books: Here IS
Juicy bit Julian Messner will serve
up to the public next month.
Piquant: tabascoiSh-an authorized
biography of John Barrymore
The Legend and the Man by Alma
PoWerWsters, a former actress
ager for Mr.. Barrymore's MY Chill
dren." There is a foreword by Mr.
J. BrookeS Atkinson.
The voluminouS amount of printed
matter sent out by the Congress and
the executive departments of the
Government is simply appalling
when one stops to consider the tons
of paper used. Miss Mary Anderson,
however, director of the Women's
Bureau Of the Department of Labor,
has already in these strenuous times
of defense preparations, begun to
tighten her belt and now sends out
her publicity printed on both sides
of the p2 per.
Fow Do Working Girls
Send Leisure Hours.
While the Government and wom-
ems examinations and clubs
throughout the country are fast
becoming intensely conscious of
what the draftees and industrial
women workers do with their leisure
time, the Womens Bureau has for
some months been conducting an
intensive. survey of the situation
which is fast becoming complex.
Miss Mary has no visionary ideas
about the lives of working girls for
she knows at first hand what it is
all about, what it means and why.
Haven't you often wondered"
Miss Mary asked recently, what the
girl in a garment factory or textile
mill does when her work is finished?
Maybe she ruSheS out to get ready
for a party or {. dance, or does she
pick up her school books and start
oyt for classes? Or is she too tired
to do anything but go to bed?"
These questions were all apropoS
Of the shortened work week which
the director of the Women's Bureau
did not enjoy when she was an in
dustrial worker, but for which she is
a strong advocate. These shorter
hours are golden hours. she SAYS. and
often enable the working girl to do
and see the things she has been
denied.
Now. Miss Anderson-Whose hob /.
by, by the way, is taking colored NOV !
ing pictures-glories in the fact that !
thousands of working women not /
only enjoy recreational pleasures,
but are also able to take advantage |
of the educational facilities which
are being afforded them in summer
and night schools.