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twenty-four-hour-a-day job speaking at schools, to recruit peo- 1
ple, interviewing them after they have applied, and so on. We t
. plan to have from 1000 to 1500 boys and girls this summer, and 1
have nearly 1800 applications to date. We do our best to weed 1
them out and turn down a great many, which is always heart- _
breaking, since farm work is one of the few ways boys under
draft age with only a summer vacation at their disposal can ·
help in the war effort. We can’t place girls either, which is too 1
bad but understandable from the point of view of the farmers. 3 
All in all, it is extremely fascinating work and satisfying to a 1
certain degree when the one thing one really wants to do is get !
into the war actively, at the front."  
_ Elizabeth (Bubbles) Cuddy wr1tes from her home in Blue 1
Hill Falls, Maine as follows: I
"We have a wonderful doctor and a wonderful hospital ?
(small but complete) and with the war his nurses are rapidly f
being drafted and it is leaving the place very shorthanded. Dr.
Bliss has asked me to come in on full time to learn and under-  `
take work there. I’m very excited over this opportunity as you
can well imagine, so I have accepted and will remain there as
long as I can be of use. As I wrote you sometime ago I had a  ·
feeling that I'd never see Kentucky this year and now I won’t. '
You know without my saying how sad I am about it .... I’ve
often wondered what effect this war is having on your courier 1
situation." ·
"Since I last wrote I have been acting as chief observer of
‘ an observation post. It has been a task! The country is sparsely
populated and few cars and many miles to get to it for most 1
people and still it has to be manned twenty—four hours of the ‘
day. It has proved very interesting and exciting as we have ~
` - been able to give quite a bit of information to the armed forces —
1 ‘ through our observations. The Maine coast is quite a hotbed.
I’m so glad we don’t live inland."
In addition to such new and spectacular occupations, many ·
of our couriers were busy with home and babies. Mrs. Paul
Magnuson, Jr. ("Tips" Stevenson) epitomized the problem of the 1
active young mother when she wrote, in connection with David,
her youngest baby:
"It seems to me I no sooner get started rolling dressings
than I have to beat it home for the two o’clock feeding, or get -
right in the thick of registering an illiterate Polack with a p
speech defect and nine children, for the sugar ration books, than *
another feeding period pops up again! He eats so much we’ve {
named him the elephant child .... You know how I’d love to 1
come down to Kentucky, this year especially, and I’d come if I '
. could possibly make it." -
From another home front, Mrs. Robert S. Rowe (Barbara 1
· Jack) wrote: 1
"We are in our busy season on the farm, and . . . besides
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