Coral Gables Historical Archive
Coral Gables Riviera-Times
Thursday, December 18, 1947, page 4 (of 12)
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CORAL GABLES Riviera Times
Published Monday through Friday afternoons by the Riviera Publishing Co., 300 Avenue Aragon, Coral Gables, 34, Fla. Established as a weekly newspaper January, 1926; combined with the Dade County & Coconut Grove Times, 1929; published daily except Saturday and Sunday. MEMBER, NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION, FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION and CORAL GABLES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ALBERT E. HARUM Editor and Publisher KENNETH S. REYNOLDS Business Manager JAMES B. MOORE Managing Editor WALTER T. KRAM Circulation Manager HELEN REYNOLDS Society Editor DON DUDDY Sports Editor JULIA D. HARUM Woman's Page Editor MARION BOGGS Classified Manager THEIS & SIMPSON, National Advertising Representatives New York Chicago Atlanta Detroit MEMBER, AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Full Leased Wire, UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS SUBSCRIPTION RATES One week .25 (carrier) or by mail: One month $ 1.00 One month $ 1.00 Three months 3.00 Three months 3.00 Six months 6.00 Six months 6.00 One year 12.00 One year 12.00 Outside of the U. S.: One year, $15.00 Mailing address: P. O. Box 6973 Coral Gables 34, Fla. Telephone: 4-1624 Classified Department: 48-2641 The Coral Gables Riviera-Times is liable for errors in advertising only to the extent of the space in which the advertisement appears.
They Fashion Freedom
Woman's place in modern America is in the home—and in the factory, the office, the courtroom, the laboratory, the Congress, and almost every other post in the complex pattern of contemporary life. The field of women's activity is so broad today only because brave, intelligent women for more than 300 years have been proving—sometimes with patience and again with fiery indignation—that America's work cannot get done without them. They have brought to the nation's industry some superior manual skills. They have brought to the nation's business fresh perceptions and unique talents. They have brought to the nation's whole life a compassion and decency and devotion to ideals that few men could match. Women have pioneered in the abolition of slavery and of cruelty to children, in the improvement of jails and asylums, in education and in nursing. An American woman founded the Red Cross. American women were largely responsible for bringing about pure food and drug laws. American women have labored long in the cause of world peace. They have asked in return only the equal civil rights to match their equal contributions—the right to own property, to collect and use their own earnings, to vote and hold office, to compete for employment on the basis of capability without discrimination because of their sex. All but the last of these rights have been won, and the final goal is in sight. That, too, will be won. And it will be won more easily than the others because of the invincible determination of women to prove, in the last hundred years, that denial of their contribution to our national heritage was both unjust and unwise. The recent war, like our other major wars, demonstrated that our country cannot survive in time of crisis without the united effort of men and women. Women served in uniform in this last war as members of the armed forces, as nurses, and in auxiliary services. Women made the weapons of war in factories, and capably replaced the men who were fighting in almost every other line of endeavor. Women performed some of the home front's hardest jobs. Millions of them worked every day in factory or office, then wrestled with the problems of rationed and scarce foods, housekeeping, and the care of children. Yet they fared better than after other wars. There were more than 18,000,000 women working at jobs outside their homes during this war. There are 16,000,000 holding jobs today. The idea is disappearing that the contribution of women to the country's general welfare is only to be sought in emergencies and discarded later. So today we pay grateful tribute to the gift of women to our American heritage—to the betterment of our social, economic and political life above and beyond their traditional and inestimable gift as wives and mothers. The least we can do, as a community and as a nation, is to accept the fact that women have come out of the kitchen to stay, and to admit their equality and make better provision for lightening the burden of those who must be wage earner, mother, housekeeper, and cook.