Radio and television mirror (May-Oct 1940)

m/i/A/aoff(fei>? c/sedr/i/\^o 1. "No golf today!" moans Bill. "I'll be hours cleaning out this clogged drain!" 3. Drano's exclusive formula puts heat right down where the stoppage is, causes a churning chemical boiling that melts, loosens greasy muck. Soon, all's well!" 2. "Not if you use Drano," answers his pal, "Wait'll I get some. It's marvelous!" 4. "Sore glad you told me about Drano I" comments Bill as they tee off. "From now on, we're clearing drains and keeping them clear with Drano." Drano CLEARS DRAINS P. S. A teospoonful after the dishes guards against clogged drains. Won't harm pipes — no objectionable fumes. Never over 25»* at grocery, drug, hardware stores. Gopr. 1940, The Drackett Co. How to Keep Baby Well THE U. S. Government's Children's Bureau has pubUshed a complete 138-page book "Infant Care" especially for young mothers, and authorizes this magazine to accept readers' orders. Written by five of the country's leading child specialists, this book is plainly written, well illustrated, and gives any mother a wealth of authoritative information on baby's health and baby's growth. This magazine makes no profit whatever on your order, sends your money direct to Washington. Send 10 cents, wrapping coins or staynps safely, to Readers' Service Bureau RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR Dept. IF-2 205 E. 42nd St. New York, N. Y. 62 woman learns anything if she spends her life cooking and cleaning? "Right now, Mr. Swing is going through the most nerve-wracking period in his career. The war has things at a high pitch. It's relaxing and stimulating for him to come home and be able to discuss the things that have been happening in my life. And in the past, when things have been rough for me — and they certainly have been," she laughed, "I've been able to get a grip on myself through talking to him about the things that were happening to him. Our marriage has been give and take because, I believe and hope, we've both always had something stimulating to give to each other. "Now," she went on, "when thing? are upset in the world, it is certainlji every woman's duty to dig in and do as much, or more, as men do to straighten things out. And they can, if only the women in Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma — all the women, everywhere in America — would wake up and realize that what is happening abroad and here is much more important to their future, and to the futures of their children, than adjusting the furniture or cleaning the closets. WOMEN shouldn't have to be told they are as capable as men. Let them pick up the newspapers and see what other women are doing. One of the biggest thrills in my life was reading the account of Mrs. Borden Harriman's work in Norway. She was the first American to cable the news of Germany's invasion of Norway. She is 69 years old, yet she was able to travel, sleepless, through a war-torn country for hours and days and nights. She suffered untold hardships and did her job as few men would have been capable of doing it. There are numerous women, all over the world, holding down important jobs, serving on governments, doing splendid things that should make every woman proud of her sex. Lady Rhondda, for instance, with whom I fought for women's suffrage in England, is the head of twenty-six corporations, editor of a publication and active in government work. "Here, in the United States, Mrs. Roosevelt has shown what just one woman can do when she makes up her mind to do constructive work. Her accomplishments need not be listed. But, if you remember, when she first came into the limelight as the President's wife, she was severely criticized and ridiculed — told to stay at home and tend to her family. Most of that criticism came from women who now point proudly to her as an outstanding member of their sex. "Not long ago, when we spoke on the same program, another Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Theodore, told me that she insisted that her daughter have a career. She has since become a crack secretary to an executive who has one of the most important positions in the country. "My husband and I," Betty Gram Swing concluded, "expect our daughter to do just as much in the world as our sons. We believe this world of ours would be a better one if all fathers and mothers expected the same thing of their daughters." I would like to add to this that this would be a better world if there were more cultured, alive, broadminded, hard-working, sincere people in it like Betty and Raymond Gram Swing. RADIO AND TELEVISION lilIRROB