The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-05
Observations
Writer Advocates
Post War Union of
Domestic w orkers
BY Helen Esssry


this but am beginning TO be-
lieye that the only solution to the
domestic labor problem is unioniza-
ton.
Many women. especially Wash
ington women, will soon agree WITH
this, though IL at first seems a
radical viewpoint Washington IS
both supported and deyoured by
The Government The govern
ment is an octopus.
The fact that it is an octopus
without which We cannot live as a
nation does not make its present
custom of spatching up your cook
and paying her twice what you can
affort TO pay for her help any
pleasanter.
For those servants who do not
want 10 go into The Government >
there should be some unionization,
some wage scale. some arrange
ment Of work and pay that will pro
tect the employer and employe. I
haven't an idea how this arrange
ment can be applied TO the long
hours of domestic labor and TO the
ineficiency of some servants who
now demand top vases for bottom
work.
But | am willing to do my share
of cooperation. Every wise house
keeper who needs assistance in her
lob OF homemaking will eventually
cooperate. too. She must.
don't suggest that we go into
this union at once Not while the
turmoil and distress of war is
whirling US like tops. When the
war is ended, however, and all
OF us-employer and employe-
have simmered down then let S try
TO meet on a reasonable plane and
talk sense.
THERE / GO-being silly and re-
mantle about the pretty postwar
world. Doing exactly what | so
condemn in other people.
Other people talk about the pref
~ postwar world as II it were TO
ne made Up OF foatings about on
pink radar clouds into endless per-
fumed daisy fields.
And here |, who doubt perfection
al any time, actually propose that
when people have finished killing
each other it will be easy to sit
down calmly with those you have
been busily hating and talk
sense. l suppose then we'll even
be asking the vanquished 10 CON
graduate the victor. Take up the
manner OF tennis champions and
leaping across the boundary lines
with a deep, warm handclasp.
Congratulations You deserved
TO win.
don't care how many smooth
promises the politicians make, nor
how many glass-Walled kitchens
the manufacturers promise US IN
the p. ". world. nor how come
. hithery the post-bellum perfume,
rugs. airplanes and refrigerators
will be. still see long. miserable
years Of conyalescence after this,
the most terrible illness the world
has ever struggled through.
THE REASON NOC come upon
So much oratorical and journalistic
persiflage about the postwar world
is because there is almost nothing
else 10 talk or write about with
out fear of hurting the war effort.
Campaign orators find the P w.
world a subject "muy perfecta-
mente'. as our friends the Latin
Americans say.
Speaking Of the Latin Americans,
come by short, direct steps TO
Maria. wife OF the Brazilian am
bassador.. Carlos Martins and 10
her most recent sculptures now be-
Ing exhibited in the Valentine gal
lery in New YORK.
The Amazonian nature OF Ma
dame Martins work has enchanted
olase Manhattan SO friends write
me. With a courage Torn OF inno'
cence OF that period in the
Garden OF Eden in the first days OF
Adams acquaintance with Eve
when no one had heard of that dis
agreeable word sin Madame Mar
tins has destroyed the calendar and
taken US back to the year one.
And she has done it in bronze and
also in gold set with hunks OF.
jewels
There are likewise the iungles
Of the Amazon. yoodoo. the cor
dale entent and the menace Of the
bush master in the exhibit. so !
am told. wish Madame Martins
would bring IL to Washington.
She's gay. daring and beautiful
uorpan admire har-Whateyer
she's up 10.
What an announcement she
must be 10 many South American
women For below the Rio Grande
women generally keep meekly in
the background. Il is the men who
swish around and m Ike big noises
away from home-like grande
caballeros.
- D-Tha STATE