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tain fiuies than others. Anient art women ran ?»• toimied on so re>|>ond tn toda)'s demand's as thc-% have done, in the past in time* oi national eniergfittx, ln«'reastnj» pas tiei]>itshin on their part h httnitabte js uui lal>>» h««e expands to prodiue the jjoods and si'tvife* needed lor oar "foiling population as well as oui national seemin T h e Women's llure.su of the {'nited Statis IK'paiintent t>f Lttlxn urges no sj>e<ial pri\ilegei» f«n women hut oppotiunitics l*« them to use their talents and abilities tttih to sene our national «oaK. -End.

n»?rot«d hy Mory Murphy, superK th# Illinois Sell Telephone ComI 3*

The notional president ol the Societ*/ of We.nen Engineers, Miss Catherine Elden, is working on tost st»di«* for o telephone company. She also *«KJcbe<» eftgifie««n§ economics to her fellow workers.