The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-17
Observations
Women Showing
Signs of More
independence
Nv HELEN FssARY
By HELEN EssARY

BY HELEN EoGAhA
There is a lot OF complicated talk
about what war working women
will DO now that the rush is over.
Will the girls rush into the home
they half way left behind them?
And settle into morning dish wash
ing and afternoon bridge? VIII
such occupations be more entertain
ing than taking dictation and
answering the boss call?
The answer TO these questions Is
anybody's guess. But there are
certain signs OF free or independent
thinking by women that | would
pay strict attention TO II | were
superior male.
The most astonishing sign is the
behavior OF wives who, having mar
ried second time when they be-
lieyed their first husbands had been
killed in battle, suddenly discover
the first husbands are still alive.
Do these dear little women shiy-
er with fright?
Do they crawl under the bed or
hide the closet as the World War
II Enoch Ardens confront them
in the flesh?
Not these little women! They
are not afraid Of possible avenging
shotguns. Or even of disappearing
courts.
They say simply. with mascaraed
tears in their big innocent eyes:
81 love both my husbands. Later
I'll make up my mind which one
I'll take"
Look out for the woman OF 1913.
She is terrific. She is going to 40
what suits her about jobs or any
thing else.
Kipling would have been afraid 70
call her the female deadlier than
the male"
THE FOOD SITUATION is GER
tainly better than 1t was a year
ago. But ii could be better still.
(Sorry, England again.)
Actuslly, the facts are these.
We now have quantities OF meat.
More than we can use under the
present ration system. Meat Is
backing up" and is likely to spoil.
Then why doesn't the govern
ment stop rationing meat? Be-
CAUSE q have authority for this
statement) England wants our
meat.
But she cannot buy our meat
until we give her the money with
which TO pay for It.
Therefore, rationing must re-
main an6 meat must continue to
back up" until we decide TO allow
England her grant.
Canada is reported in great
other because she finds herself
rationed in order TO feed the mother
country. Therefore II Is our duty,
privilege" is better, to let our
meat spoil until international CO.
operation" gets into a more work.
able form!
THE OFFICE does seek the
man. Sometimes 1t chases him as
far as a racetrack. Clarence Smith,
a senior member of a prominent
New York law firm-the kind that
carries the names of dozen part
OIl It's OlilC0 40
ing happily at the Belmont race
track. Up rushed, breathing and
blowing like a hare at bay, none
other than a Representative Of the
State Department. "Mr. Smith!
Mr.. Smith" said the State Depart
ment gentleman, forgetting COM
pletely the diplomatic approach. IL
followed you here to tell you that
General Macarthur has requested
us to request you tocome to japan
at once and act as legal adviser on
his staff"
Mr. Smith, who had been consid.
ering risking Q bit on the daily
double. was not startled by his
sudden chance for new kind OF
long shot In fact he responded to
the gamble almost Immediately
and told the State Department gen.
tlsmap he was most agreeably i'm
pressed with the offer. In fact, he
would consider II at once.
The State Department gentleman
said please do not delay. The call
from the general was urgent. So
urgent that the S. D. G. had rush
ed pell NELL from Washington. had
inquired around among Mr.. Smiths
friends about where Mr.. Smith
would b. likely to be. Was told
there was a chance he would find
his man at Belmont. And there
he was, eager TO get back TO the
capita in a hurry with Mr.. Smiths
acceptance.
Mr.. Smith spent 10 years In To
kyo. He would like to go back
again.