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I do your seven day a night Saturdays Sundays holiday around the clock and around the calendar hospitals all wrap your stuff. Around the delicate Hospital Association and its member hospitals in your community a bridge that's at your service I transcribe series in the public address designed to take you behind the scenes in your home the poor. The hospital in your community doesn't hang out a sign saying Help Wanted women nor does that plenty of request appear in classified columns nor do the women the wives and mothers in your community announce we'd like something to do besides housework not a job of we don't need that for homemaking there are jobs that let something to give interest and meaning to our lives call it social conscience if you want that but we like to have some useful part in this community the need of both is there the need of the hospital or help in understanding the need of women for an outside the home interest which will make them feel useful and necessary these two deep needs need and merge in one organization the Women's Auxiliary of your a hospital the womb or not we can tell you exactly what we mean through the case of duty heart Judy who needed the hospital almost as much as any sick patient or accident victim only in a different way and the hospital needed Judy only it didn't even know her name Mrs Robert hard to be exact recently married but before that a career woman that your assistant to an executive in a highly competitive business the daylong demand for careful judgement and accuracy and speed brought pension but also the personal satisfaction which comes from the performance of a difficult and necessary job. So Judy is modern home brought a change of tempo to her life which made her restless with that left out feeling sooner or later it was bound to break the surface. As it did that morning coffee yes right Bob perfect and a cutie there are exceptional and the toast is not too grand maybe it is what are you trying to do get me to complain about your cooking going well I almost wish you would know what am I supposed to make of that you want to send me off to work completely mystified while it's just that but you're so easy to please I think you'd be satisfied with just anybody for a life darling I wouldn't be happy with anybody but you and you know it and are you just trying to make me mad No Bob it's all my fault but that's just like the word surgery wait a minute are you trying to tell me that but you don't love me anymore. Bob But the days are so long and the things I do seem so i important like fixing my meals I suppose you know I like to cook but but just to go around making a bend in straightening a curtain and poking out for dinner roast that's not a good look let's go slow do you mean US Are you married no no but but I want something else to do something that I can see and I'm using my brains and accomplishing things well I guess I can see what's coming Bob I want to go back to work now wait we settled that once and for all I told you maybe I was old fashioned but I didn't want my life to work not while I'm able to earn a decent living and I still am and you agreed Well I know I did it it seemed wonderful then but. The. Security done I'll be late for work look at that clock running out done we'll settle this tonight. Maybe your right maybe I didn't marry you maybe I don't love you. Yes it was short a breakthrough sooner or later the discontent and unhappiness for Judy was an intelligent young woman used to carrying responsibility used to abroad contacts instead of the narrow confines of her own small home. But it was their first major quarrel and when Barbara left Judy collapsed in the midst of breakfast dishes and wept as she hadn't web since she was a child she didn't even hear the knock at the back door where her new neighbor Mrs Saunders. But I'm sure Judy's holding her back door's open and. Goodness. She is home and I get up to where I have a good morning dear you must not have heard may not have. Already the game images and I was just admiring your new window box beautiful bright geraniums is in that box the one you said Bob was making for you yet the you go to the. Great land of hell that must of been fun it's nice fixing things around the house just the two. Of mourning Oh Mrs Sanders I just told him this morning that maybe I didn't even love him anymore. I knew something was wrong just wipe your eyes now and tell an old woman about it I will feel better all right it is just that I wanted to go back to work and Bob didn't approve Well I can't say that I blame him and Judy from what you've told me your job the one you held so long was very exacting always was it with an important job and it made you feel important and needed is that it yes I suppose that's been but there was also a lot of worry and strained intention Are you sure you want that again and try to keep your home going to one not sure of anything this is then there's That's the trouble I I really don't want all the pressure of my old position no but I want something other than the bridge parties and teasing things that don't have any meaning to them you're just not being useful to humanity that's all you seem to get not just a justification for even existing in and I suppose that does me make. My is quite a tirade but it does make sense Judy and I sort of thought that's what the trouble was but puts the answer Mrs Sanders you've had a lot of experience. You're living What's the answer to the poor. Out of the wisdom of years Mrs Sanders new duties problem only too well she had seen it off and had seen marriages wrecked on less the restlessness the boredom the seemingly senseless repetition of household tasks by a woman trained in the business world and out of her years in their city and this is Founders knew an answer to the problem as well a field where Judy's business experience would be invaluable where she could find the satisfaction she wanted without any for time job where she could feel she was accepting her responsibility as a useful citizen in doing something worthwhile for the community in short Mrs Sanders had the answer in the hospital auxiliary. And that night Bob came home depressed in spirit and dreading to start the mornings argument over again confused and bewildered and tired as he let himself in the side. Yes it's me. And I've been waiting and waiting Are you alright oh everything's alright it's the wonderful world I love you while I don't mind telling you you're hard to keep up with today are you sure things are I've absolutely positive you see right after you left and and Bob I made a horrible idiot out of myself I'm sorry I forgive you oh you did and maybe I'll even forgive you do but right after you left Mrs Sanders came over well golly you didn't tell her we'd been quarreling that you didn't have to be told after all a happy bride doesn't we've been are cold coffee you know you know but hurry up there tell me what happened well she's got the answer to the whole problem the hospital Auxiliary the law the woman's auxiliary they want to open a coffee shop or or at least a snap bar at the hospital and they need someone who knows cost accounting and business management to set it up and keep it going and that's just the prescription for little duty but U.T. I told you how I thought about you taking a job any job but you don't understand dear this isn't a job I mean not in the way you think it is volunteer work not full time and no pay except that compensation I've been yearning for ever since we got married no pay what kind of a joke is this all hospitals have been isn't it why should they get work done without paying for it it's plain to be seen that you need some educating Bob for educating her well of course you don't even seem to know that the hospital is a part of the community just like the schools only even more important in some ways I think a hospital is nonprofit a service to the people so after all why shouldn't waste and some responsibility for it I ask you why. Gosh I don't know I just never met the trouble people never seem to think about their hospital not till they get sick and and that's wrong wrong of course it's wrong the hospital there with its doors open night and day every day waiting to take care of us when we're sick and need care looks as if we might help it don't you think well yes I suppose so only oh Bob don't you see it it wasn't that I didn't love you I do I always will and and I want our marriage day and so do I but I needed something more than than just the walls of this house much is that I love it much is that I love you I needed an outside interest not just a job not money but but an outlet for everything that's inside me to feel needed and wanted in useful and in doing this is it I want to find out all of that our hospital its problems and what I can do to help guide me all I can say Judy if it can make you this radiant this happy just thinking about it and I've got a lot to learn too about a hospital maybe you need me to you'd be an exit to the woman's auxiliary on our wait I didn't mean it that way and you know it I just meant it if you women think it's so important to support the hospital maybe I've been sleeping somewhere too I guess I ought to find out a little more about the hospital room before or. So Judy no longer felt left out no longer felt as if her capabilities were being wasted she threw herself into the opening of the new coffee shop working with other women with similar interests she budgeted and planned and purchased made up working schedules bought supplies designed attractive window displays and aside from the coffee shop Judy learned about other projects of the auxiliary how through bazaars and card parties and rummage sales they raised enough money to buy the new sterilizer the hospital needed so badly. How they worked at mending linens made the drive for canned goods at the hospital got the new piano for the nurses home and the collection of records for their radio phonograph and the new nursery that had to be equipped Judy took a very special interest in the new nursery and when Bob came home I had a lot to do and look Bob isn't it adorable Yeah mighty pretty gosh duty I can imagine you doing embroidery not the big business woman it is an involuntary its application I should know the difference and it's a little red for a bath and then at the hospital bassinet What's that you might call it is sort of the cradle there in the hospital nursery those little baskets on stands that they put the babies in what do you say that's going to put it that looks like an awful lot of work though just to cover a baby for now when you know the baby maybe maybe maybe what maybe Bob hard during your. The. A group of women working together towards a common goal is a powerful force all women would agree with that and we believe men would do so that makes it unanimous that's why the American Hospital Association set up a special committee on Women's Hospital auxiliaries and the stablished a special institutional membership for auxiliary serving American Hospital Association member hospitals for the use volunteer workers in the hospitals of this country comprise a tremendously important group. They are women who know the hospital and they know its problems who take great pride in contributing to the health care of their community who work toward improving that care bringing an ever higher standard of health service to the people you're. Women's Auxiliary of your hospital needs you and you have the opportunity to do something worthwhile for your community look into it won't you it will bring you worthwhile dividends and happiness and useful service and for more inside information about your hospital listen to. Add your service to transcribe series by the American Hospital Association and its member hospitals and your community who believe that a high quality of hospital care should be available to you now and to all people who move forward. Or are. Poor. Or are or are. More or. Less.