NO SECOND CALL-UP

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 58, 6 September 1945, Page 6

NO SECOND CALL-UP

Sir, — Surely "Deeply Grateful Patient," who wrote in Monday s "Post" should have signed herself "Half Grateful"? Apparently she is in ignorance of the debt of gratitude she owes not only to the service boys of this war, but also to the service girls, whom she would like to see manpowered into the wards of the hospitals to do the dirty work once again —after nearly four years' service—for an extremely ungrateful public. No doubt she, like many others, has conveniently forgotten that the service girls were considered with something that very nearly approached tolerance when the Japs were looking dangerous. Does she .know of th.c broken nights, the weeks of night work in signals, transport, artillery, and administrative sections (to mention only a few)? Has she heard of the draughty huts, poor lighting, and conditions in which the girls have lived? Does she know of the girls who have been marched out of the Services, Grade 3? Has she ever met any of the girls who did kitchen and transport work and have suffered physical harm in consequence? Why—if she must advise—doesn't she advise the powers that be to manpower, the girls who are leaving college before the end of the term, so that they may take positions before the girls are demobilised from the Services— they still have their health, and quite a number of the Service girls have not! —I am, etc., LEAVE THE SERVICES ALONE.