Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-22
Women S Sacrifices
Can Speed Victory,
Mrs. Mcrgenthau Says
Treasury Secretoy's
Wife Urges End Of
Home Front Luxuries

American women can speed VIC
tory on the fighting fronts by Civ
Ing up luxury on the home front,
Mrs, Henry Morgenthau, jr., wife of
the Secretary of the Treasury, said
yesterday in urging 43 million wom-
en- to support the Nations warriors
by purchasing War bonds during
Women At War Week." begi ming
today and ending November %.
She told approximately $50 wom-
en- representing District organiza-
lions that our struggle from Pearl
Harbor to Tunisia represents mile
stones in Americas progress" She
emphasized that "the harder we
struggled up that road from Pearl
Harbor to Northern Africa, the
stronger we grew"
Faced with the choice ct victory
on the fighting front or luxury on
the home 'front.'" American women
have only one answer, and that
answer will be to buy more bonds,
until victory becomes a reality, she
asserted.
Bombers Use Gas We Save.
"One minute some of us may
cheer for victory, and the very next
minute grumble because we can't
get q pair of Just the right hose
or because there isn't any beef in
h1IfPhor Oh
thau said. Every time a four
motor bomber takes off it has to
have more than 1000 gallons of
gasoline in tank. That's some
thing we want to remember the
next time we are tempted to feel
sorry for ourselves because we can't
get more than gallons of gas"
Pointing out that wage earners
In lower income brackets are buying
war bonds more regularly and from
current income than those who
merely have put accumulated saw
ings into bonds, she said it isn't
enough that bond buyers number
approximately 100000.
IF we are to increase the number
OF bond buyers, we must find ad-
ditional ways to reach every one, in
Guiding the housewife in her home,
for she is the one who controls the
family budget" Mrs. Morgenthau
said in a speech broadcast over
Nationwide network. Our success
will not depend on the woman next
door. 1t will depend on the woman
we face in the mirror each morning"
Speaks at Y. M. C. A. Luncheon.
Her address featured luncheon
meeting at the Y. M. C. A. arranged
by the women's division of the
District of Columbia War Savings
Committee, with Mrs. John Jay
O'Connor, chairman, presiding. Key
workers of more than 100 women's
organizations were present, workers
who will be spearheads of the local
bond buying drive next week.
Asserting that "Woman's work is
never DONE" Mrs. Morgenthau said
the women of America might with |
profit adopt as their slogan the |
message of 1t. Gen. Montgomery to
the British Army chasing Marshal
Rommels army out of Egypt: Keep
up the pressure and do not relax for
a single moment
Conceding that the idea of saving
has finally caught the imagination
Of our one time spendthrift people,"
Mrs Morgenthau emphasized, how
ever, that consumption has not been
cut to rock bottom"
Cites Troops Sacrifice.
THE men in the dusty desert and
the men on the stormy Pacific are
giving everything they've got" she
said. Here in Washington, it is
also our big chance. We must not
muff. And we won't, for women will
see to it that women's work is done"
Hoor guests were Mrs. Henry A.
Wallace, wife of Vice President