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PartII. The second World War jjj Motherhood has not yet been classed as a nonessential industry! There is small chance that it will ever be. The mother of small children does not need to put on overalls to prove her patriotism. She already has her war job. Her patriotism consists in not letting quite understandable desires to escape for a few months from a household routine or to let a little money of her own tempt her to quit it. There must be no absenteeism among mothers. —J. Edgar Hoover, Woman’s Home Companion, January 1944 ...

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