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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1942-08-27, Page 6EJ PAGE SIX THE SEAFORT I NEWS THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1942 Is There an, Industrial "Wastage" in Training Women By Phyllis. Bentley, distinguished novelist and author, A nlusitions factory manager in Great Britain was asked the other day by a visiting Alfierican to name hie two greatest problems. He replied thoughtfully: "Shopping and nurs- eries." This answer is a sufficiently clear indication, it any were needed in this Country, of hte tremulous extent to which women have successfully pen- etrated industry. There, are indeed few forms of war activity, apart from actual fighting by air, land, and sea, „which women are not now perform- ing. They pack parachutes, fire anti- aircraft guns, drive cranes and trip- haarimers and lorries, fill ordnance fuses, hammer home ship rivets, cope -with airplane wings, make and test precision instruments; they are port- ers, bargees, electric welders. That this immense participation in the in- dustrial world is (or may be) epoch- making in hteir history,5 recognized by all thoughtful women, and many discussions are taking place up and down the country as to its consequ- ences in succeeding eras. Will Results Be Favourable? At present scientific data for con- sideration of the problem are some- what lacking, since no investigation of the relative abilities and outputs of men and women has been under- taken on a large scale. Smaller in- vestigations are, however, often con- ducted by factory managers, and it is to be hoped that such investigations will be encouraged and their findings properly collated, as the evidence they provided would be highly valu- able. In the absence of htese data, how- ever, one relies 011 personal impres- sions, and there are several strong impressions of a similar kind preval- ent. Otte of the great difficulties in the employment of women is, to put it bluntly, the great industrial "wast- age" of training and experience con- sequent on the withdrawal of women from employment on marriage. An employer who trains a hundred men, or employs them in subordinate cap- acities, has a reasonable expectation of a quite high proportion remaining in the industry for the rest of their working lives, so that the effort of training them is permanently fruit- ful. With peacetime women trainees New Surgical Instruments in Desert the proportion is very considerably Battles lower. New surgical instruments which This economic factor weighs heav- "floodlight" the interior of the body sly against the universal adoption of are being used by some Army surg- the principle of "the rate for the eons in the Middle East. Equipped job", for the employer, whether priv- with a set of these unbreakable lum- ate or State, recoups himself for this inous instruments, medicos can per - wastage by paying women less form field operations under a tree or wages for the same work, thus mak- a lean-to shelter, without worrying ing the women who remain. in about aircraft overhead and with bet - industry pay for the training of ter lighting in the wound than in an those who withdraw. It has been my operating theatre. own idea that the solution to the Made of a transparent plastic mat - career versus marriage problem for erial like glass which transmits light women might lie in a careful cbrono- round corners, does not conduct heat logy of both: the woman trains for a and .can be thrown on the 'ground job, then marries; when he children without breaking , the instruments are in their 'teens she returns to her are made in about 30 different job. But under pre-war conditions, shapes, to suit any kind of wound or meanwhile, her skill has gone for operation. Even where there are two lack of practice. right-angled bends in the transparent It seems that the wartime arrange- instruent, the light rays travel down went by which two married women to the frosted tip and flood the wound now run two families and one job with a cold, shadowless light, how - between them might, if continued in ever inaccessible the place may be. peace, enable the woman to retain Blood does not easily congeal on the her skill by part-time work during instrument, as it does with ordinary her "married" period, and enable her lighting apparatus. to be a wife and mother while retain- About 30 different instruments are ing her work for the community and available, but there are three or four her joy in it for herself. The danger i dual-purpose models which are quite of a wide adoption of this scheme is sufficient for ordinary diagnostic and that women might tend to he relegat- 1 surgical work in the field. .A. set of ed to part-time work, and thus barred these, together with a small electric from any full participation in their j accumulator, costs about £12 and trade or profession; this would need many surgeons in the fighting forces stringent precautoins. ( have bought them out of their own Another means of enabling rate pockets, so useful have they proved for the job" principle to be univers-din action. Some of Britain's greatest ally applied lies in the much discuss- surgeons are now using these instru- ed family allowances, which by en -I ments for wounds which cannot be dowing children remove the unfair seen into by ordinary operating the - burdens of the married worker. Fam- etre lighting. ily allowances, it is claimed, at once Similar instruments have been raise the status of the woman and! made in other countries for some relieve the economic burden of the, years past, but they had the disad- vantage of losing their shape in sterilising. The new instruments how- ever are made of a methyl methacry- late plastic specially developed by British chemists, which will stand any amount of boiling without losing shape. There is more certainty Reit here pan, in the economic field, where opportunities for woolen are seen. to depend on world-wide problelus of tradeandmarkets, It is taken for granted, I lied, by' many that women will be present at the Peace Confer- ence, We shall have helped to win the war, they saY; we can Help to win the peace, too—and we mean to. be there to do so, Our function is to nourish, to cher- ish, and to enrich life; the postwar World, with its tremendous problems of food, health, and the pschological neuroses which must be conquered if future wars are to be avoided, needs us, needs our contribution; we ex - peat to be there to make it, Better Varieties Grains Assured While it is not wise to anticipate what the future may hod, plant breeders give asurance that further advances in the way of still better varieties of cereal grains are in the offing, states Dr. L. H. Newman, Dominion Cerealist, Central Experi- mental Farm, Ottawa. Varieties of wheat which, ripen a little earlier than the present rust -resistant types and which possess a more acceptable kernel than some of them, and a better strength of straw than others, may be expected shortly. Varieties of oats capable of resisting the known forms of both stem rust and leaf rust, are now under test and ap- pear extremely promising. Varieties of barley capable of resisting mil- dew, a disease which is becoming quite serious in parts of Eastern Ont- ario, are being developed, as are types of flax, both seed and fibre, which are capable of resisting the diseases to which this crop is partic- ularly subject. Winter wheat varieties suitable for the• winter wheat areas of Ontario and which are capable of resisting both Smut and rust will likely appear in the not too distant future judging from the showing made by some of these new types now on test at the Central Experi- mental Farm, Ottawa. The latest variety of oats to be licensed for sale in Canada bears the name Brighton. This is a smut - resistant, hullers variety which will probably displace the variety Laurel which is the most common one of this type of oats grown in Canada to date. FLOODLIT WOUNDS man; but again precautions seem ne- cessary. Do such allowances really raise the wife's status, or do they tend to tie her to child-bearing, thus resuming the old-time status of a profit-making industry? Which child- ren should be the more heavily en- dowed, the first or the latter? Would such variations tend, in effect, to regulate the older woman's return to industry? Corporal (to cavalry recruit on stable guard for the first time)— "No you've got to patrol these 'ere Women at the Peace Conference? lines, and ammer any tent pegs that Most women feel that,' to provide a comes loose, and look after the o•ses,° sound basis for equal co-operation Recruit (whose knowledge of homes between men and women after the is of the slightest): "And what time war, some revision of our education- do I wake the horses in the morn- al system will be necessary. ing„ What sof the future of women, in the political 'sense? Want and For Sate Ads, 3 weeks 50c CHECK YOUR FOOD BY THE COLOUR TEST Some foods have "four colours" othanl only one. Add the colours for the day end answer the questions. if the ans ate.ars SII YES your mask were correct for health -protection. 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Milk, for instance, is a four-color food, be- cause it contains calories, minerals, proteins and vitamins 111 generous 'amounts. Pastry is a "red" food be- cause it contains ' only calories. Fresh fruits are "green" because we eat them mostly for their vitamins, By listing your foods every day and • scoring them according to color you can tell whether you are getting a healthful diet. If you had tomato juice for breakfast you get a good vitamin score, so mark one point under green. Oatmeal gives you both minerals and vitamins, a point tinder yellow and under green. Every time you had milk you scored under all four colors. Total your points at the end of the day. You may be surprised to find that your score isn't very good. But you can improve it by following the colored food chart and adding more calories, more proteins, min- erals or vitamins to your diet. You'll soon get into the habit of balancing your calories every day. A healthful diet is a four-color diet! Old Lady—"Tenpence a pound for candles. That's very dear, ain't it?" Grocer—"Yes, but you see they are dearer now on account of the war." Old Lady (in surprise)—"Lor' a mussy! You don't say so. An' be they a-flghtin' by candlelight now?" Thousands of tons of Britain's new "welfare" biscuits are being stored away in preparation for a national emergency. The biscuit has been evolved, after many tests, by British biscuit mak- ers who are now, to the number of. 240, united with the cake makers in the Cake and Biscuit Manufacturers' Wartime Alliance, a non -profitmaking organisation. ' The Welfare is a sweet biscuit made from wheatmeal flour, the pur- est vegetable fat, and the finest grade of sugar. It gives the maximum of nutrition at the low price of 9d. per lb., and the industry regard it as the best value ever offered to the public. 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