The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-27

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powerful machine. She feels q
new sense Of Importance and dig
nifty. She knows she Is providing
the weapons to fight with. It's al.
most as though she stood behind
the firing line. loading the rifles
and the guns"
The same story may be told from
here. women are actually enjoy
ing their new activities and there
Is already some misgiving voiced
on how they are going to like giving
up their Jobs and going back to
their knitting. II 1t means that the
war Is won. I don't believe they
will mind. Postwar problems seem
q bit premature, although Of course
one must think and plan ahead as
far as possible. Those who went
through the disturbing postwar
condition after the last war are
dreading more of the same.
Back TO the Home
Every peace. as well as every
war. brings its period Of readjust-
ment. Many workers will feel that
they are entitled to hold down the
positions they have ably filled; 1t
is to be presumed that the more
capable will be retained. We must
also expect that many woman will
be weary Of working In unaccuS-
toned Jobs and will be glad to take
her place In her home and have.
at long last. that baby Of which
she has been dreaming all through
the days when she has been doing
q mans work fortified by woman's
courage to do what is best under
any circumstance.
Finding oneself back In the kit
chen again may SAVIOR Of being de-
NOTED, but there will be ample
compensations beside which women
are nothing II not adjustable and
can as quickly change their spots,
so to speak. as they can their sill
houette or hair-do.
Most Of the younger women are
not what you might call enthusiasts
tic housekeepers; their training
has been along different lines. So
when q chance to do . mans Job
came their way. they dropped their
vacuum cleaners and electric Irons
to answer the call. Being regarded
as the tickle sex, goodness knows
why, they may, by the time the
war Is won, be content to 60 back
to the kitchenette: certainly they
should be overjoyed at the priU-
lege Of having their man to cook
for again.
Who can tell what life will be
like then? Maybe the habit OF eat
ing around will continue. maybe
community kitchens will have ar
rived, maybe the entire domestic
picture will be changed and may
be, certainly most Of US hope. 1t
will follow the same pattern OF
home and children. Comforting
though this vision 10, 1t Is unfor-
tunately only Q vision which we
must approach through months,
maybe years. Of struggling with
tasks, tasks some
Of US may find less to our liking
than what pleases US to call house.
hold drudgery.
Ready for Hard Work
New York City's fiery little
Mayor Ia 0uardia. In q recent adj
dress. stressed one Of his favorite
themes:
1.-THE most important and the
most essential work women can do
In war Is always the least spectac-
ular and the least dramatic" he
said. Its Just hard, hard work
and the women Of our country must
be prepared for that"
The Mayor on this occasion
again emphasized the new condi-
lions brought about by q shortage
Of man power. saying 1T means
women going into factories, onto
the farms, going into production
Of various kinds and even going
into the Army and Navy"
No longer would Just the Tight"
tasks OF Army life fall to women.
he said. but they would also be
found 'in the bitches and In the
dirty shops"
Naturally women war workers
make the headlines. the public
seems avidly interested In not only
what they are doing but what they
are wearing. This Is. easily &C.
counted for by the novelty Of their
performance, proven BY the rather
caustic comments Of Major julia
c. Stimson Of the Army Nurse
Corps. Describing the work. Of
Army nurses, she said: I'VE don'i
figure In the press. Nobody's inter.
ested In our underwear or oui
handbags"