Editorial
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WOMEN
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INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT IN PICTURE
OF Uw S. WAGE EARNERS
Washington, D. C. — Women
have been assigned to increasing
ly important roles in the wage
earning world, declared the Labor
Department in ait annual report
of its Women’s Bureau for the
fiscal year ending June 30,
Describing women workers as
"a force that no government can
afford to ignore in it* over-all
planning,’* the Bureau said* "
“Import^^ factors to be con
sidered ari^ie Nation’s need for
the goods and services made and
performed by women' and the ec
onomic need of millions of women
to support themselves or supple
ment the family income.
Citing evidence of the Nation's
dependence on women, the Bureau
said that during the war women
formed a third of all workers*
and that the 1*1,000,000 in the*” la
bor market today represented
close to 28 per cent of all em
ployed persons. Prior to the war,
women accounted for about a
fourth of the total labor force.
Certain 'industries and occupa
tions, it was said, are almost
entirely dependent on Wome’
workers. For instance, in 1940,
women formed 75 per cent of the
Nation’s teachers, 98 per cent
of the nurses, two-thirls df the
workers who waited on the public
in restaurant* and hotels, more
than nine-tenths of the telephone
operators apd household employes.
They also accounted, in the same
year, for two-fifths of thoiJff who
sold merchandise in shops and
stores and more than three
fourths of the operatives who
made apparel and accessories.
Concerning women’s economic
need for gainful employment, the
Bureau labeled as an ‘“unwar
ranted assumption” the frequent
ly made (tateiqent that with the
end of the war, women no longer
had “need for renumerative em
ployment.” Pointing to its war
time survey of 1.3,000 women In
10 industrial areas of the country,
the Bureau sai<f that fully 75 per
cent of the woman interviewed
'expressed the desire for postwar
jobs. , . \
Eighty-four in every 100 had to
support themselves and, in many
cases, dependents. Eight in every
1100 had still other important uses
| for their earnings—they had to
pay off debts, save toward the
purchase of a home, or accumu
late a nest-egg for the children’s
education. According to the Bu
reau’s findings, only 8 women in
every.jjloo worked solely because
they liicecfto work.
RAIL CHIEFS CALL CONFERENCE ON PROBLEMS
Chicago.—A call for a general
conference to consider problems
confronting railway employes has
been issued by Fred M. Aten,
President of the Railroad Em
ployes’ Department of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor.
The meeting will be held ,in
Chicago Mafeh 14 and will survey
a number of matters which have
arisen in the last six months and
which have extended throughout
the entire railroad industry.
The call for the meeting did
not specifically set forth the
problems which will be presented
for study, but men close to the
situation indicated that they would
concern wages, increasing living
costs and kindred subjects.
The conferences will be field in
the Congress Hotel,' and notices
will be posted there as to where
•rid at what time the different
craft will meet.
Signatories to the notice call
ing the special meeting of all
general chairman of the seven
organisations affiliated with the
AFL were; Mr. Aten, president;
J. M. Bums, secretary; John
Pclkofer, .acting president of the
International Brotherhood of
Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and
Helpers; J. J..Duffy, international
vice president of the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers; Charles J. McGowan, presi
dent of the International Broth
erhood of Boilermakers, Iron
Ship Builders and Helpers of
America; H. W. Brown, interna
tional president of the Interna
tional .Association of Machinists;
Irvin Barpey, general president
of the Brotherhood of Railway
Carmen of America, and L. M.
Wicklem, general vice president
of th§* Sheet fcfctal Workers’ In
ternafiori Association.
MARCH Of LABOR
flb* THE FIRST TIME.
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Johnny giggled whn **>« tmmtm th«
story of t man who swam • river this*
times before breakfast. “You do not doubt
'that a trained swimmer could do that, do
you?” asked the teacher.
“No, sir!” replied Johnny, “but I wonder
why 'he dida’t make it four times and get
back to the side where his clothes were.”
• • •
New Suburban Gardener: “I don’t seem
to be able to tell my -garden plants from the
weeds. How do you distinguish them?”
Old Suburban Gardner: “The only way
is to pull ’em out. If they come up again,
they’re weeds.”
• • •
Sgt. MacTavish: “I’ll have a sardine
sandwich, lassie.”
Pearl: “Domestic or imported, Sarge?^
The domestic’s twenty-five cents, the im
ported fifty cents.”
Sgt. Mac: "The domestic, me good woman.
I’m paying no sardine’s passage across the
ocean!"
• • •
Woman: “Doctor, my husband is troubled
with a buzzing noise in his’ears.”
Doctor: “Better have him go to the sea
shore for a month.”
Woman: “But he can’t get away.”
Doptor: “Then vou eo.”
* * •
A woman who had just completed a First
Aid course saw a man lying prone in the
street and was shocked that passers-by cal
lously paid no attention to him.
So she rushed up and began giving him
artificial respiration. He lifted his head and
roared. “Lady! Get away from me. I’m try
ing to get this cable threaded into this man
h6le!”
• * *
McRoberts: "Would you be surprised if
I gave you a fifty dollar check for your
birthday.”
The Mrs.: “Yes,, I certainly would.”
Me.: “Well, here it is, all made out and
ready for you td sign.”
* • »
Barnhardt: “Let's go window shopping.”
Dobry: “IVhat’s that?”
Barnhardt: "Aw, you know — going
ground looking in windows.” -=
Bodry: “What’s the use? Nobody goes
to tied this early.”
• • •
The star pupil arose at thq school enter- ^
*Vlnment to declaim his piece. “Lend mfe
your ears!” he bawled.
“Ha!” sneered the mother of the opposi
tion but! defeated pupil. “That’s Mary Ann
Brown’s boy. He would not be his mother’s
son if he didn’t want to borrow something.”
• • •
A successful man is one who earns more
than his wife can spend. A successful wom
an is one who finds such a man.”
• * *
Two men recently appeared before their
draft board for' a physical examination. One
of them showed up with a hernia, and wear
ing a truss. The doctor looked him over and
asked: “How long have you heen wearing
that? Go on home. The army hasn’t got
any use for you.”
He told that to his next dooi neighbor who
was getting ready to go before the draft
board, and he asked him whether he could
borrow his truss for a day or two. He
showed up before the draft board with the
truss on. The doctor examined him and
asked:
“How long have you. been wearing that?”
“Eight years.”
With that the doctor put an “E” down
on his card" and the draftee said “What
does that ‘E’ mean?"
The doctor said, “That means Egypt. Any
body who,can wear a truss eight years up
side down, as you have, won’t .have any
trouble riding a camel.”
• • •
The guy* who think our jokes are rough,
Would quickly change their views.
If they’d compare the ones we print,
With those we’re scared to use!
• * *
Pretty motorist: There seems to be some
thing wrong with my car.
Service Expert: Yes, Ma'am, one cylinder
is missing. t...
Pretty motorist: That’s odd — I’m sure
tj>ey were all there when I left home.
Therefore Broke
Ben: John D. Rockefeller has a dollar for
every hair on your head.
Carl: Yes, and I have a dollar for every
hair on his head. I
Judge Had Nothing On Him
Hizzoner: "Young man, this Court studied ^
the law before you were born.”'
The Lawyer: “Yes, Yeronner, but I have
studied the law since then.”
• • •
Successful father: “Supposing I should
be taken away suddenly, what would become
of you?”
Son: “Oh, I would Just be hero. Tho
question is, what would become of you?”
• • •
Sgt. MacTavish: “1*11 have a sardine sand
wich, lassie.”
Pearl: “Domestic or imported, Sarge?
The domestic’s twenty-five cents, the im
ported fifty cents.”
Sgt.' Mac: “The domestic, me good wom
an. I’m' paying no sardine’s passage across
the ocean!”
• • *
, INFECTION
A baby smiled in its Mother’s face—
The Mother caught it and gave it then,
To the baby’s Father—serious case—
Who1 carried it out to the other men,
And every one of them went straight away
Scattering sunshine through the day.
-‘-By Louis DeLowk.
• * *
REVISING THE DICTIONARY
Unavoidable accident—One where all the
members of the Jury have cars, too.
Sinking fund—An appropriation for bat
tleships.
Bachelor—A man who doesn’t have to
hang all his clothes on one hook in the
closet.
Executive ability—Art of convincing your
wife that you hired your pretty stenographer
because of her efficiency.
• * •
IT DOES NOT PAY
To “have a good time” at the expense of
an uneasy conscience the next morning.
To lose our temper at the expense of losing
a friend.
To cheat a corporation at the expense of
robbing our own souls.
To go to church in the morning if we are
planning to go to the devil in the evening.
To have an enemy if we can have a friend.
', To sow wild oats if we have to buy our
own crop.
To spend the last half of life in remorse
or regret for the first half.
To be discourteous, irreverent, cynical,
cruel, or vulgar.
To give God the husks instead of the heart.
To live at all unless we live for all.
IT PAYS TO BE FRIENDLY
It costs to be friendly and it costs to be true;
For friends need much loving, and patience
need too;
“ A friend knows long suffering, shows kindness
through pain,
And friends must forgive and forgive times
again.
And though it cost heartache, distress or cost
care,
The friend that endures, loves despite all
despair.
A friend still remains a friend, through cloud
or shine,
And typifies best our GREAT FRIEND, Who’s
Divine.
And should my friend tired be, oppressed and
bowed down '
By some circumstance that to me be unknown,
Just let me a friend be, though cost what it
may,
I know through it all such friendship doth pay.
For it PAYS to be friendly, though some may
prove weak; *.
Don’t censure their snubbing. God, helps all
the meek.
In judgment He’ll guide you, in heartache
uphold;
Just let ALL your sorrow to JESUS be told.
It PAYS to be friendly and it pays to be true.
Jit PAYS whether friends number many or few;
For when you yourself would a friend gain,
I say
A friend YOU must be EVERY STEP OF
THE WAY.
—Edith T. Sholin.
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