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Examples of the present state of the U.S. servant problem...
...suburb Highland Park, one harassed young housewife gets up early, prepares breakfast, packs the children off to school, sets about the housework-while the maid she has employed for five years sleeps till noon. The maid married a soldier at Fort Sheridan a few months ago, now rents the servant's room in exchange for a few afternoon's work a week. Occasionally she works by the hour for neighbors, earns more in 10-15 hours a week than she did as a full-time maid...
...South has a servant shortage for the first time in its history. Surprised Atlanta, Nashville and Winston-Salem wives find that even inexperienced Negro girls demand at least five days off a month, won't stay in, won't cope with children, won't do laundry and insist on dinner at 6 p.m. (which in wartime is practically mid-afternoon...
...Prepare for the sacrifices necessary to make industrial production the servant of the common good...
...public servant who has always accepted the facts of war as facts of life is Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. In pre-Pearl Harbor days he drove isolationist Congressmen to frenzy with his blunt warnings of imminent danger. Last week he spoke out again, on the much-evaded, politically ticklish question of drafting 18-to-20 year olds...