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...much attention to the Army, not enough to problems of labor and management. Pointed out as a prime example is an acute shortage of farm labor. In spite of the fact that Britain has 4,000,000 more acres under cultivation than in peacetime, many farm workers have been drafted, and women's farmwork brigades and mobile labor groups do not make up the shortage. Worst of all, critics point out, the Army plans to draft more farm laborers after this year's harvest...
Compulsory as Mrs. Roosevelt's plan would be, it would not be drastic. The draft would be only an extension of the girls' compulsory education. Drafted girls between the ages of 18 and 24 would be placed on the same footing as men, given the same subsistence, same wages. They would learn switchboard operation, nurses' aid, hospital work, buying and preparation of food, automobile driving, map reading, sewing, budgeting, as well as such mechanical skills as they wanted to learn. Most girls would put in their year at home, would leave home only if they wanted some...
...When the draft bill was being planned last year, Mrs. Roosevelt kept telephoning the President from her Val Kill cottage to urge that her draft-women program be included. If you are going to mobilize and train a nation, she argued, why leave out half the nation? But the President knew, and said, that no Congressman would touch a bill containing compulsory training for girls...
...confessed "to a little confusion in thinking about uniforms before being entirely certain what work is to be done in them." In short, although no one in the Government, from the President down, supported her in it, she was still set on getting U.S. women into the draft...
...Otto H. Kahn made herself useful in Cairo's British canteens. >> Rex Beach (The Spoilers, The Ne'er-do-Well), 63, registered for civilian defense in Florida, said he wanted to fight fires. >> Torchsinger Libby Holman's young second husband, Actor Ralph Holmes, lost his draft appeal. The board decided Libby could support herself if she couldn't get along on her share of the tobacco fortune of her first husband, Smith Reynolds, killed at a party nine years...