Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1946 — Page 17
Inside India
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old jokers are in’the collection of Barbara J, Hibner, 607 E. Hanna ave. Ten-year-old Barbara collects them as a hobby and she has all sorts of cards with only a few duplications. Her: two favorites are a round card and a small one about 1'5 by 2%. She has her cards all sorted and filed according to the pictures on them. Barbara is in the fifth grade of St. Paul's Lutheran church . . . School 8 today will observe its unique birthday anniversary service. Every year the school observes Calvin Fletcher day, in memory of one of the city’s first school trustees who gave the school the land it is situated on. According to the terms of Mr. Fletcher's will, the school receives interest off of a fund as long as it observes his birthday every year ,., Now we know where all the cigars were for the last couple months. Joe Fritsch, The Times classified advertising manager, was saving them up against the arrival of a new member in the Fritsch’ household. Mr, Fritsch and Mrs, Betty Ann Fritsch are the parents of Jayne Lee, who arrived Tuesday at Methodist hospital, and now the cigars are appearing all over The Times office. :
Picket Headquarters
EVEN WHILE the employees are out on strike, there’s still an amiable air between J. D. Adams & Co. and its workers. Knowing that the pickets would get frostbitten on the job, the company has given the strikers use of a building to dash in to keep warm and to make coffee. Company officials said if the pickets felt they had to be there, the shack was available and the pickets might as well be comfortable . . . These bus stories are getting to be an every day. event. A bunch of Central riders had a legitimate excuse for being a few minutes late yesterday. The driver forgot 110 turn off Central at 32d so he went on down to 31st, cut over and back to New Jersey, then back on 32d - while the early morning passengers got more and more confused . . . A member of the pro-starling faction calls us to say that the anti's would be a little Jess harsh in heaping insults on the birds if they could see the way the starlings destroy Japanese beetles. While living in another state our agent observed the starlings ridding sections of the beetles
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RANCHO SANTA FE, Cal, Feb. 1.—“In Xanadu did Khubla Khan ...” That's the way Coleridge began his famous poem. If he were writing today, it might go something like this: “On Palomar did Ellery Hale a stately studydome decree.” You feel like writing poetry when you climb. Mt. Palomar, and after winding through the pines of Cleveland national park, emerge suddenly on a treeless plateau at the top and come upon the newest and biggest of observatories. : The outside of the huge structure is completed. It is.a thing of breath-taking beauty as it gleams in the i unimpeded sun. f The machinery of the great telescope is installed and in operation, as is the 1000-ton revolving dome. But before the astronomers can go about their work, the great mirror—a sheet of silvered glass nearly 17 feet in diameter—will have to be installed. : It will be another year or two before the grinding of this mirror will be completed. But I am told that the most hazardous parts of this operation are now done.
\ Dry Ice Saved Mirror THERE HAVE been many ticklish moments during . the process of grinding. One was when a tool stuck in the hole which was being made in the center. The scientists knew that, unless something was done quickly, the grinding tool would expand with the heat—and crack the 200-inch mirror. So one of them jumped on a motorcycle and rode to a nearby town for a supply of dry ice. By his quick thinking, a disaster was narrowly averted. My head was full.of questions as I stood before the i bronze bust of George Ellery Hale, late great mathematician and star-gazer. Here was to be a
Aviation TO ESTIMATE the revolutionary effect of the jet plane on the design and operation of aircraft. comparisons with the current plane are necessary. Look into the cockpit, to start. Instead of the usual maze of gadgets there are only a few gauges in the jet cockpit. On the ground the jet plane looks beautifully strange, as its tricycle landing gear holds it in the position normally assumed by a plane in the air. Its landing gear is short, because without propellers, which must clear the ground, there is no reason for i the daddy-long-legs gear, : With no bulky engine up front, a pilot can see where he is going at all times—even during take-off © and landing. With the old setup of engines and pro- + pellers, we never can see where we are going, and i. never go where we can see. The big engine always “forces the pilot, while landing, to look at the ground to either side of where his wheels actually will touch. In the jet plane, a pilot and his eyes are right up where they should be—in front—and he sees dead ahead where his wheels will travel.
Harder to Taxi THE JETTIE is a little more difficult to taxi, be4 cause the power plant is somewhat more sluggish than ‘the. propeller-driven job. A little practice, however, and the pilot soon feels at home. On the take-off, there is no tendency for the jet plane to swing off to the left. ‘This tendency in the standard plane is what we call “torque,” caused by the rotating column of air swept back over the tail surfaces by the prop. Take your feet off the rudder ¢ ‘bar of a propeller-driven plane during a take-off, and the ship slowly swings to the left. You offset this
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My Day
LONDON, Feb. 1—Personally, T am very happy to have a Norwegian hold the post of secrefary general of the United. Nations Organization. Norway suffered «much in the war and played a valiant part. She has always been an independent country and her people are individualists. Mr. Trygve Lie, of course, will represent many governments and will have to think of the interests of the people of the world. But the characteristics of the Norwegians are a valuable background, I think, for the kind of courageous leadership which
> ‘all of us hope he ‘will give to the UNO. He is young
and energetic, and gives one the impression of being tactful. The other morning, I went to Waterloo station to see a few of the G. I. brides start off for the United States. Some of them had babies that they would. have to care for on the trip. And one girl from Scotland had been taken to a spot where she could lle down because, as she said, she was not a good traveler. But I surmised she was already beginning to be somewhat homesick. ! What courage these young things have, confronting life in a strange land! It is an adventure and a rather lonely one. I hope they find friends when they reach our hospitable shores. But we are’ not always as thoughtful as. we might be. One woman sent me a clipping from a newspaper In which it was reported that many girls in the United .States looked upon these brides as interlopers who had taken from them the men they might have married.
Wishes Girls Good Luck
AS A MATTER of fact, when you think what
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war, we should be grateful that they found wives to give them devotion during their periods of leave. We can hope that the necessary adjustments can
be made and that happy homes will come into being."
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Barbara Hibner . . . Jokers but her hobby is no joke. A and thinks Indianapolis might be worse off without the birds than it is with them . . .
Projection Troubles
WE WONDER if there's something about the Indianapolis Red Cross -chapter movie film that Executive Director Virgil Sheppard doesn’t want known? Twice now Mr. Sheppard has been acting as projectionist to show the film and both times he got the film all tangled up in the machine. After some heavy wrestling with the stubbofn film and machine, however, he finally got the film shown both times. .. . We don’t usually accept anonymous poems but we thought we'd pass on this one that came in the mail. Titled “Information Please!” it reads: In the middle of the winter's ice and snow How does a first-robin sighter know Whether the bird that now so delights him With visions of spring as soon as he sights him Is really the first of next summer's show, Or last summer's lazybones, too tired to go. The contribution was signed by “Percy Vere," at 614 S. Meridian st. . . . There was a Mutt and Jeff collision yesterday. The city’s huge aerial truck from fire station 13 was bopped by a tiny jeep at New York st. and Indiana and Capitol aves. "
peephole- into infinity—twice the size of its largest predecessor. Did that mean we would know twice as much about what lay in stellar space? I was appalled at how few and vague were my answers. As an amateur photographer, I had studied optical physics and must, at one time, have known about such things as focal length and relative aperture. But little or nothing remained. Humiliated, I went to the dictionary. From this I learned that the telescope was invented more than three centuries ago, and that Galileo, if not the inventor; was one of them. I learned, too, that Sir Isaac Newton made notable improvements in the instrument, ’
Photo of Firmament . IT SEEMS there are two kinds of telescopes: the original form, using a lens and called the refracting type; and the type which uses a concave mirror instead of a lens—the reflecting type. One reason for doing the job with mirrors is that it permits a shorter tube. Thus the Mt. Palomar telescope, though having twice the magnifying power of any earlier rival, is only half the length. Futhermore, it is equipped with a new gadget, invented by a German named Schmidt (whose inventive career was cut short by Herr Hitler). This device will make it possible to construct a photographic map of the firmament in only five years—a task which] would otherwise require many centuries. Don’t ask me how this is one. Don't ask me questions of any sort about telescopes. All I am sure of is that it may be more fun to look at the nebulae of Andromeda than at what is going on here below.
SECOND SECTION
"FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1986
By EDWARD P. MORGAN. Times Foreign Correspondent
ERLIN, Feb. 1.—Or- . ganized German resistance
to allied occupation must be -
anticipated as a growing threat, U. 8. army intelligence sources said today. Except for scattered incidents— same of which might be serious— the opposition is not expected to take the form ofg gm open violence. Rather it's quiet careful, under cover planning for’ the hoped-for day “when the allies leave.” ¢ This involves
gence work, And the maintenance of occupation Mr. Morgan forces sufficiently strong and for a sufficient length of time to ferret out the worst trouble spots. The occupation forces must handle any emergency and discourage trends running counter to the reconstruction of a non-warlfke Germany, ” » . ASKED how many years this may take the authorities here will only reply “a long time.” “We must not be fooled by the fact that the Ge outwardly are still behaving pretty well. They are still appearing to be good, docile folk whom the Nazis duped,” one American G-2 officer said. “One. of the things to watch is that very docility. “As far as T know no nation ever welcomed a forcible occupation by another, let alone by four. “It took France two years to get a good resistance movement going. It is going to be much harder
This dispatch—based on the latest available information on the current situation in Germeny—is an attempt to give a partial answer to the question Americans will be increasingly asking: themselves in coming manths: Why must American troops centinue to share the occupation of the Reich, particularly when the Germans are now making so little trouble?
“IN THE first place there is no
kept alive partly by constani hope of liberation and with help from
the outside. poised on the border waiting to come to the .assistance of any Nasi underground. They have no important source of arms.”
This officer said he believed that possible stocks of hidden weapons were too anall to be very danger“Facing that situation,” he added, “the real smart boys will try to lie low. Their one big hope lies; in an early end to occupation, (According to intelligence reports more and more Germans believe the Americans will pull out of Germany soon.)
. » ” “IF THEY can create nuisances to exasperate us, but without at the same ‘time causing any major upheaval, they think they may hasten the allied withdrawal, “Then Nazis or super-national-ists, or what have you, could move in and set up business at the same old stand. ; “Don't think the German people have ‘got religion’ with democracy vei, pecause they haven't,” the officer said. Allied intelligence branches are watching to see whether German | resistance may be beginning to assume some definite pattern. At the same time evidence increases daily that the public in
report—covering Dedember—observes the tendency of civilians to become more cri of the military government. # . ” THE FOLLOWING fllustrate the point: " American soldiers are still killed, although in very small numRecently a Bavarian clergyman declared from his pulpit that Amer ican .occupation was worse than the Nazis. The case is being “thoroughly investigated.” In one American district a German civilan was ordered to report to the deputy military governor for a welfare commission assignment. He failed to show up. Investigation revealed that he naa. simpiy ignored the summons and had calmiv cliosen the day to mov: his furniture. The army report on the incident pointed out that individual offenders such as this one could be jailed to correct his ideas on who won the war. But, at the same time, his arrogance was symptomatic of the growing feeling. x » w G-2 IS investigating a recent Christian Social Union party rally at Forchheim, north of Nuernberg The speaker (he was a German official under the military government) was roundly applauded when he condemned German girls for going with U. 8. soldiers. This was an obvious slam at the “ruth\lessness” of the American military government = denazification mea~
general is becoming more cocky, arrogant and troublesome.
for the Germans.’
(CHUNGKING, China, Feb.
proaches. For Russia's relations with North America and
The view upward frem Mt. Palomar is much more satisfying than it is downward.
Copyright, 1248, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc
By Major Al Williams
which makes it easier tc do certain aerobatics to the | right. rather than to the left. No such handicap in the| jet plane, which changes direction of flight only in| response to the rudder bar. But since we never get something for nothing in| engineering, it looks as if the old air-speed indicator, reading in miles per hour, will have to be replaced by some other device for keeping the jet pilot out of trouble. { An air-speed indicator is a simple affair, register-
Japan, the Kuriles are. likely {to prove highly significant.
'ness, perfect timing and resolute acquisitiveeo ness, the Soviet Union's reservation of the Kuriles is a fitting cap for its far eastern offensive. * The diplomacy by which the ‘cquisition w a s
_ made had the | sanction of all Russia's allies—
Mr. Weller
Gen. Joseph T. McNarney's latest
1.—In acquiring the Kurile
islands by Yalta's secret treaty, the Soviet Union has broken for itself another great opening in Asia's sea ap-
THE KURILES are naturally
lonstrate Soviet strategy there. | If the Kuriles are definitely con \ceded to Russia at the peace con{ference, as Secretary of State James !F. Byrnes promises, their loss to [the U. S. can best be rationalized ‘as the price America had to pay {in order to be sure Russia would participate—however briefly—in the Pacific war. Any historical claims that Russia might have were heavily satisified already in promising Russia {the southern half of wealthy Sak-
ing air pressures in miles per hour. There is a little | gyates, which stood to lose the most mile area which Russia lost to the
tube ‘motinted on the entering edge of the right wing
(Pilot Tube). This tube is connected to a daphragm| np. oo by getting American ap-|
in the indicator. As the plane speeds up or slows down, air pressures in the tube increase or decrease. | This change 4n air pressure is recorded in-miles per | hour in the cockpit. ~,
Ton Diving Speed
THE JET plane is a clean job which gathers a lot |,
of speed in a dive. The pilot knows that he dare not exceed a definite top speed (at or near the speed of sound). If he does, his wings will cease to function as wings, his controls become ineffective, and he is in real trouble. His top permissible speed may be an “indicated” 500 mph. at or near sea level. As he climbs higher, the “indicated” speed reading will drop, even though he still is going 500 mph. At 40,000 feet, still going 500 mph. his afr speed indicator may be reading only about 240. If he dives his plane until the indicated speed reads 500 mph. his real speed may be actually 800 mph.—or 200 miles over his highest safe speed. The dial of the new jet indicator eventually may
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valuable to" Russia too; though the § {two-day duration bf Russia's Pacific
| Marked by forthright aggressive- War gave no opportunity to’ dem-
sures. ; One counter-intelligence agent was assigned to report on the Ger-
RUSS DIPLOMACY GAINS VITAL KEY IN ASIATIC SEAS—
Kuriles Cut U.S.
By GEORGE WELLER ~ Times Foreign Correspondent
The strategic location of the Kurile islands is shown by this map.
iner of the Northern Pacific, the fact is not widely known that they are actually nearer to vital American cities than Guam, . - »
This little recognized circumstance
even the United halin island with its 13.000 square due to the earth's curvature was
demonstrated when a single B-29, making an endurance test flight from - Guam to America's eastern seaboard took several hours longer
got U. S. consent to breaking Amer- seemingly tucked away in the cor-!to réach there than three other
jca’s continuous necklace of defense from the Aleutians through Japan to Chinese ports. THROUGH nearly four years of bitter Pacific warfare the U. S. navy fought in or near the Kurile islands. At the very time when the Kuriles were being signed away navy Ventura bombers from the Aleutians were hammering regularly at Paramushiro. The Kuriles’ importance to the U. 8. was demonstrated by daily strategy in :the Northern Pacific. American task forces strove to bring. the Japanese fleet to battle: there.
be striped with red danger lines marked “Feet in Altitude” instead of “Miles per hour.” Each red line will be the normal cruising speed. and the next highest, the top permissible speed for various altitudes,
By Eleanor Roosevelt
The girls were bound for every part of the United States. Some of them want to find jobs.” Others already have their jobs in the form of very active youngsters. I wished them all good luck and came away with an inevitable sigh for the heartaches that must accompany any break such as these girls are making with their past.
Harry Hopkins a Loyal Friend I CANNOT close this column without a word about Harry Hopkins, who was one of my husband's closest friends. When I saw him just before I left home, he was in the hospital. I knew that he had been very ill and might never agdin be very well. I hoped, however, that there might be some years ahead of him. Years in which he ‘could do some of the work that he still wanted to do, and in which he could enjoy the peace and happiness with his wife and daugliter which the war years. had not allowed him to enjoy. For many years, I doubt whether he had ever felt really well, and yet he never refused to under take a mission, no matter how difficult. He was a controversial figure, People either liked him very much or they disliked him heartily. Some ‘thought him very able; and felt that he had contributed a great deal, not only during the war but in the positions he held 'before the war.
‘that hé Played. I know, however, that he was a completely loyal friend and ‘adviser, telling the truth as he saw it
and carrying out his missions for the benefit of his country with very little regard for his health or liis His wife and children can take great
own interests. ‘ pride ‘in his war service, and also. in the work he did in the early years of the.depression.
His children will always have as a herjtage the |
record of his service against which to measure their own future accomplishments.
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Others | disagreed violently. This was inevitable in the Tole
American submarines patrolled lthe Kuriles carefully avoiding tor|peroing lend-lease-laden freighters, | which, by Jap consent, passed near | here en route from Portland and | Seattle to Vladivostok. : The Kuriles' importance in Amer- | {can naval history was not theoretical but real. : :
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REPLYING TO A QUESTION MANY AMERICANS ARE ASKING— |
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will inevitably grow worse. No really sinister underground operations have been revealed as yet, but many uncaptured ‘members of the S§ are among the most dangerous elements our army has to confront. » w » ALMOST every trained observer who has seen post-war Germany agrees that it would be ridiculous to think that the nation single. handed could start another war for a generation or longer—even if the four occupational powers went home tomorrow. But the aggressive German spirit and Germany's industrial potential remain a real menace to peace It would particularly be dangerous if Germany should become the: instrument of some other power or combination of powers,
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B-20s from Hokkaido near the Kuriles >
In terms of area the Kuriles dwarf the Marshalls, Marianas and Carolines. Even if the U. 8. were to hold every island of the mandated groups, however small, without turning over any to Unitéd Nations trusteeship dt would
the Pacific. Without including Sakhalin, the Kuriles alone have an area of about 5000 square miles (some atlases say 36 islands with an area of 6140 square miles and others 47 islands with a 3044 square mile area.) ¥ » . AMERICA'S much-publicized imperialism regarding the mandated islands could gain it at most only their total area of 829 square miles— or from one-fifth to one-seventh of what Russia gained while still at peace with Japan. And Russia's Pacific islands have béen obtained by political intelligence alone rather than by battle.
Copyright, 1046, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine.
By JACK GAVER United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Feb. 1.— One of
the prime movers ‘in keeping the country Tin Pan Alley conscious in- these music boom days isn't a | writer or musician but a magazine publisher named Lyle Engel. He's the qulprit who makes It possible for people to go around muttering ‘the words of “Chickery Chick” and “Dig You Later (a
| ‘Hubba-Hubba-Hubba) .'” [ Mr, Engel, who is 30 and just
Magazine Publisher Booms Tin Pan Alley
ture in publishing song lyrics for mass circulation. ‘He pointed out that the bootleggers -were selling : 5,000,000 sheets monthly. Four skeptical publishers decided to take a chance and made a few songs available for the first issue of Song Hits magazine. | The policy was publication every |other month. The first printing was 250,000 and the sale was small. Mr. Engel then went after- the bootleggers with the aid of music firms and the authorities. He saw to it that shopkeepers | were informed that they could be
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fined $250 for each lyric on every sheet they sold. The street salesmen were hounded and the magazine began to catch on, After a year it was being published every month and selling 400,000 copies monthly. Has Entered Other Fields Today 60 music publishers make their lyrics available to Mr. Engel. He pays more than $300,000 annually) for publication rights; claiming this is the largest editorial expenditure of any magazine in the world. Songwriters get royalties from the money
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By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. | PREVALENCE of tuberculosis in elderly people is not generally known. Recent admissions to one tuberculosis sanatorium, which has an active case finding program, included only one patient under the age of 50. Many cases of tuberculosis in older people Are not detected because few of them have X-ray examinations of the chest. Persons over 50 years of age make up about 20 per cent of the popula- | tion and include many. tuberculous patients (estimated 100,000) who may spread their infection, : u » . \ TUBERCULOSIS in the elderly tends to be less severe than In younger persons, i But, though the disease may not bother them much, their germs can
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 1
he went he found sidewalk hawkers —ATmy and navy scientists here arel, "ol. Th sical instruments; ” puts hnd stores peddling bootleg sheets preparing to study specimens of out original books for kids aged of popular song lyrics. Songwriters more than 200 Japanese victims of{2 to 6 for news stand sale; has and publishers got nothing from|the atomic bombs | Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The studies are intended to find|fan magazine -of the music busiut as much as possible concerning (ness. He claims 60,000,000 readers
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THE DOCTOR SAYS: Elderly People May Be Dangerous as Carriers Age No Barrier to Tuberculosis
Many elderly tuberculosis patients do not believe themselves ill, therefore they do not seek medical care.
All elderly persons with a chronic cough should have the benefit of a chest examination, including an Xray and sputum test. Usual symptoms of tuberculosis are cough, expectoration, spitting of blood, pain in the chest, hoarseness, fever, sweating, loss of weight
In tues velosis of the elderly, fever is usually well tolerated, and many of the other signs and symptoms are ascribed to age. But
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Mr. Engel pays the publishers. Mr. Engel has other enterprises now. Monthly he puts out a folio of 12 songs, music and lyrics, which sells about 200,000 copies at 35 cents each. He publishes manuals on how
magazine and is preparing a picture
monthly for his combined publications.
AS TUBERCULOSIS in the elderly usually is present for some time before it is discovered, adhesions may. bind the lungs to the chest wall and make collapse treatment difficult. Bed rest for the average elderly patient often helps limit the disease, but compligating diseases often make the outlook more serious. . Is tuberculosis in the latter part of life on the increase? The United States census bureau reports that deaths from tuberculosis in 1040 were much higher in older people than in young. ii males.
The highest rate was in between 55 and 65 years of age. ‘Women past 30 with tuberculosis
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producers.” / ; They say that if OPA authorizes a blanket increase in price, aps plying all over the industry, their part of the increase will be turned
the higher scale of wages to which the big companies agree.
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war labor board and studied the steel industry ih a previous wage dispute; Justice Roger I. Mee Donough, of the Utah supreme . court; and Chief Justice James M. Douglas, of the Missouri sus preme court.
We, the Women— Sees Solution In Deserting ‘Women's Work’
By RUTH MILLETT WE WOMEN dont really deserve a better world. We have only personal answers to all the big questions. “Let someone else take care of the big problems, and we'll take care of our families* is our typical recation. Though we may have progressed beyond the clinging vine stage within the home, beyond it we are still lean« ers, weakly dependent, A war comes along, and to each woman it means only “Will my Jim he leaving me?” 2x i Peace brings its problems and ] the answer-so far as women are ) concerned—is still ‘a small, pers sonal reaction. !
» » . . WHAT DOES it mean to -MrsBrown that the country is crip pled by strikes? Why, only thas she had better go out and buy as much meat .as she can so that her family will be taken care of.
placently, “we have a roof over our heads.” ki And so it goes. What is wrong with women in an age when they have a chance at education, the rights of citizenship, and good job opportunities, that they feel ne * real responsibility for what haps pens in the world? 1 ® =&5 » . IS THIS refusal to be mature, responsible, working: citizens, dus to some fundamental lack with in women for which there is no help? Or is it because they ha been faultily educated? Or is because they are too afraid men’s disapproval to show terest in anything less than the jobs conne
