By George MacManus
THE OWNER
IS DINTY MOORE-
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with everything that smacks of the the ariny everything but battle scars.
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"Times" is a matter of conjecture. Even cigarette butts are strip- ped of their paper and the tobacco is saved for future sinokes. Aluminum has been cleared out of every kitchen, Iron too is col- while lected, but few households have much spare iron left. iron rail- ings have come down and the lovely wrought iron around Lon- don's Georgian squares and parks is rapidly finding its way to the
melting pot for munitions.
un-
One of the subjects with which the W.V.S. has to deal is clothes. With the revent introduction of It has a uniform, but even that clothes rationing, coals, suits and is not compulsory. Some mem- dresses take on a new meaning) bers
majority in Britain. wear it, but the
New ones are don't. It looks more like a trim | thinkcable, even for people who town outfit, this gray-green suit don't have to bother too much with a rust-coloured blouse that about money, for the sixty-six
allowed goes with it. The pull-on felt hat coupons annually
take in the same soit colour is even be-
care only the bare necessities, coming. In raids, of course, the Pastron is dead for the moment. workers must wear steel helmets. which weigh five pounds.
How the women work in a raid was told recently by the instruc- tor of a fresh group of workers in England's West Country. This raid was at Plymouшli.
"As you know, we're a good sixty miles from Plymouth," she said. "We could see the sky take on a pink glow that night and later we watched it deepen Into a blood-red glare. We heard the the explosions. We guns and even thought we could hear the drone of the German motors. We stood by tense with excitement. Shortly after midnight the mes- sage came through to proceed at
once."
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The Battle of Britain has been the means of ridding men of the curious illusion that women fragile--emotionally unstable and completely dependent on them for protection in times of danger. Furthermore, it has proved that men and women behave in pre- cisely the same fashion in the face of enemy action.
Wand-mend parties are to- day's ubstitutes for afternoon bride parties. At least two after- These women of the W.V.S. foons a week
to, are devoted
are the same who, a short ume and mending. Evenį ago. were not sewing
adaptable to Queen Elizabeth holds work-and- change. Try telling them a new parties in the bombed way to cook Yorkshire pudding palace, taking her place at a und they would throw up their rough trestle table, cutting and hands in horror with: "We don't
with the wives of sewing
the do it that way." Now faced with palace attendants. Cooperating complete upheaval of their way with the Red Cross, St. John's of life, they have volunteered to most Ambulance and the Personal Ser- do the most menial, the
the most soul- vice League, the W.V.S. has set heartbreaking, up the Central Hospital Supply searing tasks that humans have Service, for which they organise had to face since civilisation be- working parties.
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workers have found trick in cutting clothing to get the most out of every available
These are the women whose "Out of a half of flannell grandmothers fainted at the sight seran, Not just one
great-grand- mobile or two
we know how to cut the maximum of blood-whose indistin-number of
Victorian took to the
lived in the canteens
SAL, mothers pyjamas a guishable curving roads of Eng. but the trick is to cut it so era when a leg was called a limb. land that night, but twelve.
can get pieces for hot water bottle These are the women who now twelve got through that time and,
covers and squares for
people from patch-help drag limbless of Plymouth work quilts," one of them ex¬ the wreckage of smashed homes. once the outskirts were reached, the going was easy plained.
These are the women who know. with fires lighting the way.
how to stop a hemorrhage, who know how to speak words of com- fort to the dying. They not only And if know how they do it. they go off by themselves to be quietly sick before going on with the job in hand, no one knows it. These are the women who, parted husbands and' chll-
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"Plymouth itself couldn't cope
Seventeen miles of cloth have with all the tragedy that night and early morning," the instruc- been cut in this workroom in less tor went on. "For hours on end than a year, "We even save the We selvages," admitted one shy we dished out cups of tea. distributed sandwiches. We walk-helper. "We lear them off every
to
ed over debris with sausage rolls roll of cloth and then knit them from their
feed fire-fighters exhausted! up into hospital cloths and dust-dren, are working for more than and scorched as they poured ers. The small shavings we sell a military victory-the right of water on the flames.
to the paper manufacturers."
their children to grow up in peace "And the dust-what do you and responsible freedom, do with that?" she was asked.
no man's
"Our second stop in that early morning was literally land. In one whole block every- was down. The biggest thing explosive in the world must have landed there. Masonry was still crumbling at the far end of the street, so we couldn't get through.
what were stood by We houses with furniture-now jangled mass of wreckage.
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"The side wall of one house as we came was still standing through. And, strangely enough, the stairs still clung crazily to the wall. Nobody knows why, but stairs do hold.
"There were three
"Oh, we sell that to the paper manufacturers too," she replied.
collect blood,
Centuries of freedom have ac- customed the women of Britain to The fine think for themselves. attributes of the female mind, the With hospital training back of
for detail, the dislike of eye
are of inestimable them, there are the W.V.S. work waste--all ers who organise blood-trans-, value in doing the nation's house- services. They list and keeping from day to day. Amid fusion classify volunteer blood donors the chaos and destruction of war, and in cases of emergency they they have emerged to take their full share of the national respon- The organisation gives the soi-sibilities. diers, too, their share of attention, Veering away from its prime purpose of working only with the civil defence authorities, it sub- jects His Majesty's fighting forces to the feminine influence. From 600 canteens it feeds more than 320,000 soldiers weekly.
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At lonely outposts in Britain men, with the volunteer workers travel picks and shovels, digging like hundreds of miles to minister to mad to clear out the rubble from the needs of the boys and
their boredom. under those stairs. A cup of alleviate tea?' we asked as we approached vans stocked with oddments such
blades, razor
soap, tooth them. There was no reply-just a continuous feverish digging.brushes, electric torch batteries, And then we knew why.
Smokes, sweets and chocolates, stood by fascinated and appalled, they visit ifty encampments every We didn't have long to walt. We week.
We
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These are Britain's wives.
KNOW
YOU WERE
MUSICAL!
could see three-women, white Through the activities of the with dust, huddled under stairs. They were choking with WVS waste has been greatly dust in their lungs and their eyes reduced in Britain. In every kit- chen there is a special container were bloodshot,
for the clean garbage-that goes ***Ere miss,” said a member of to the ples a box for meat bones the rescue squad as he helped out that's potential glue for aircraft Ere's a nice cup of production and fertiliser for the tea (the tea that was originally land; one for lead foil and tin foll meant for him] und don't you that tools to make more Spit-3 worty. I always say it's better to be buried and dug out than dug out and buried.
one woman,
fires and Hurricanes; one for newspapers, a very thin pile, what, with only six pages in cach
It was that night that a mem- cdition-they are to be repulp-
ber of the WV 9. earned a medal
ed, ong for cardboard boxes -
(Released by Than33) Frndiente) no.)}, When her beau cays he's done nothing but play the fiddler all day the mentally
for bravery. The announcement they are repulped, and how manyekatahy, giri-felend zake. when
old card- the concert will be given. was torse,
"Dug out seven por- times one reads one's sons trapped in Anderson shelter board boxes in next Sunday's
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