The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-10
RELUCTANT WOMEN


The number Of women in war industry has reach
ed 1000 600 but the National industrial Conference
Board reports that employers find that most women
feel no personal urge to go to work in tootores
There is no social pressure upon women to assist
in the war effort the boards inquirers report and,
on the contrary women still feel that such work would
impair their social standing.
The Women's City Club in New York looked into
reports that women Of leisure we're tagging behind
their working sisters in willingness to devote tree time
to voluntary war service. Women without paid Jobs,
mostly under so and in the more thon-S5OOO income
Gloss were interviewed.
ONLY about two out Of five we're found to be en-
rolled for voluntary war work. and Of these two-thirds
give Z hours week or less.
The same explanations crop up in both surveys.
There are children who need and there house,
work to be DONE Nurses and maids increasingly
hard to get.
Also, explicitly or implicitly there is q third REQ
son which may be even more important. The over
ooe woman is not aware Of any pressing need for her
services. She may, indeed, have read or been told
that women ore needed; but sometimes she doesn't
believe it at ALL and sometimes she accepts as gen.
eroIizotion.
The average woman apparently feels much as do
its kAN-power resources
This nav not be correct However, until Wash
inoton produces something in the nature OF "Bor-
UGH report" monPower, the attempt to recruit wo-
! men is going to face serious obstacles
The volunteer situation, likewise, seems to be
quite dependent upon improved public relations. loo
many women assume that the civilian defense jobs
are all filled Too few apparently, know that there
is port-tme volunteer work which could be fitted into
their home and chiId-core programs.
American women not sockers They mere
" have not been impressed with the extent Of the need
and Of the opportunity That is foult Of govern
uent which can and should be remeded.
SUB sIhKlhcs
information Director Davis has been frank and
insistent in his warnings that the submarine menace
hos not been oboted in the Atlantic even at q time
when many Maj U-boots presumably ore concen-
troted against our North Africa felines.
The public is slow about ossimotne Mr. Davis,
warnings. Why? Perhaps because Of the intense
ssecrecy with which the government is surrounding
everything except Mr. Davis broad cancellations.
The oymon is most impressed with such doneers
when, doy after doy, he is told about ships sunk
Without helping the enemy with information, it
would still seem feasible to give the people more de-
tails about what is going on
NO WARNING
Paul MeNutts decision on the war work-or.fieht
order must have been sudden. 1t landed like bolt
out Of the blue upon the v. S. Employment Service
offices which have to beor<the brunt Of hondne the
I rush.
II M. McNutt did not surprise himself along
with everybody else, then it seems pertinent to ask
Why the IT, S. E. S. could not have been given warm
e jno-before it read the newspopers-of what was
q 10 store.
@ Wos the order on impulse. wos this just another
#hutuncs Of fouIty iioson among federo war oeen-