Evening star., 1943-01-08
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pings of a sky blue uniform; others
offer no more glamorous badge OF
office than a mop and bucket. Some
jobs are as vital to the prosecu-
tion of the war as those of the
infantryman, the tank driver, or the
airman. Others release able bodied
men to the fighting forces. Still
others serve to promote needed
friendliness and warmth.
Whatever you find to do, keep
your appointment and commitments
with ironbound punctuality. Don't
wear uniform unless 1t Is re-
quired. Even If it is permissible to,
but not required, don't wear a uni
form. If it is both required and
necessary. just wear your uniform
during the allotted time and change
back into ordinary clothes as soon
as you can. Don't expect or take
privileges for volunteer work and
openly attack any one who does.
There are three kinds of volun-
teer work: Full-time, day part time,
night work. If you are busy all
day trying to earn your living, all
the work you can do will have to fit
into the evening hours. Whatever
it is, you will be grateful for the
evenings it absorbs and for the
feeling it gives you of being part Of
the show.
One Of the most important tasks
In the big city is that of the air
raid warden. Don't be put off by
remarks like that of the woman
who had volunteered for ARP at
the height of its vogue and was
now rather irked by those who took
1t seriously. Wont it be terrible" P"
she said, "if we don't have an air
raid after all this trouble? So silly
otherwise"
So silly of her instead. Next to
. brave and we'll equipped fighter
command, like that Of the RAF. a
well-organized ARP is the chief
deterrent against enemy bombers.
However If you have child you
may find that ARP has to be ruled
out as one of your set assignments.
What you can do is offer to help out
your AFRAID post by remaining
within telephone reach in case of
emergency and acting as pivotal
point for getting information to all
wardens. But If you have no child
why don't you apply at your local
police station to see If they need
any assistance in the neighborhood
ARP?
The USO can use evening volun-
teer workers in many ways. OF
course you can go on call for dances
or parties, although the unmarried
girls naturally are better at gladden.
ing the hearts of the troops than
you would be- The USO also main
tains service desks in many railroad
depots. and If you take over the
desk for few nights each week you
may give to some uniformed man
what another woman, perhaps 1000
miles away, has given to your hus-
banda welcome hand when he
needed 1t.
Other evening jobs can be had
with the Off1cers' Service Committee.
which does much the same for the
officers as the USO does for the
soldiers. Or you can go into night
canteen service with the Salvation
Army
By all means apply at your local
OCD and see what special evening
assignments they can give you.
Civilian Defense maintains a null
titude of departments, anything
from child care to water supply. and
there are many projects for part
time work
If you want to prepare yourself
for some kind of war work which
may be of service later. why not
take one of these evening courses?
/. Red Cross First Aid, instruction
In what to do between time of
accident and arrival Of doctor.
Training period, IL weeks, one 2
hour session each week.
2. Red Cross Home Nursing, in
struction in how to protect the
health and learn basic nursing
methods for care Of home individual.
Training period. six weeks, two q
hour sessions each week
3. Red Cross Nutrition Course,
study of food values how to budget,
select, prepare, and serve nourishing
foods on limited budgets. Training
period, 10 weeks, one 2-hour session
each week: or five weeks two 2-hour
sessions each week.
Apply at your local Red Cross
Chapter for information on any of
these. No matter how funny all the
Helen Hokinson ladies look strapping
one another up in their f1rst-aid
work, the knowledge and instruction
you get may prove invaluable later.
What further work you can do
In the evening depends, of course,
on the exigencies OF the war situa-
ton and the neighborhood you live
In. Don't worry if you can't do more
than you have time for. After all.
you can look at it in this way: BY
working during the day you have
released your husband for active
duty at the front.
There is always knitting and
bandage rolling within the chatty
confines of the local Red Cross.
There is also staff work, such as
tipping, filing, attending to informa-
ton booths, ct cetera, at your volun-
teer organization headquarters. You
can sort and classify used medical
instruments in the offices of the
Medical and Surgical Relief Com
mittee Of America.
Too much cannot be said about the
nurses aide. If you have the time
and energy you couldn't pick more
vitality necessary post. There are
not enough nurses in hospitals, elm
tcs or health agencies, and there will
be still fewer as the Army and Navy
call more of them to active duty
Your work will take you into hos
pital wards. accident rooms. blood
donor centers and on emergency
medical field units.
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II food is your meter, why don't
you apply to the local Red Cross fol
work In their emergency canteeni