Mrs. Roosevelt Has A Plan
F American boys are drafted, why not American girls? asks Mrs. Roosevelt. Her plan (according to a report in "Time") would not be as drastic as it sounds, The draft would be only an extension of women’s compulsory education. Dratted girls between the ages of 18 and 24 would be placed on the same footing as men, and given the same wages. They would learn switch-board operation, hospital work, buying and preparation of tood, truck-driving, map-reading, sewing and budgeting, as well as such mechanical skills as they wanted to learn. They could live at home while putting in their year of training. When the president was planning his draft bill last year, Mrs, Roosevelt kept telephoning to urge that her draft-women programme be included. If you are going to mobilise 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. A tew weeks ago Mrs, Roosevelt, invited to examine prospective uniforms for women volunteers, confessed "to a little confusion in thinking about uniforms before being entirely certain what is to be done in them." But though no one in the Government, from the President down, supports her, she is still set on getting U.S. women into the draft.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 116, 12 September 1941, Page 41
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