Too much spare time?
Sounds impossible to the average working person.
But to the mother whose children no longer require her
constant attention, it's a reality.
And we're trying to do something about it," Mrs. Lucille Pe-
try Leone said.
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"WE'RE TRYING to see where 'man power' shortgae is and develop ways for women to help out the situation," Mrs. Leone, one of 12 members of the Com-mission on the Education of W§men, operating under the American Council of Education, said.
"So many women play bridge day after day, when they really don't want to," she noted, "but they're not trained in a profession and don't think there's a place for them." She said the commission has studied possibilities of education for women "in two batches."
"The first, of course, is for young girls," she explained, "and the second is for women in their 40s and older."
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MRS. LEONE, assistant sur-
geon general and chief nurse officer, XJ. S. Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, said the nursing profession is considering
raising the age qualifications to help in this movement.
