European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes thursday january 30, 1969 Foiw t / of cd a service club worker is kept Busy signing oat various articles for the solider s use. Extra girls help club supervisor miss sue Frank watches a hot game of monopoly. Graf service c by j. G. Upon is Nuernberg Bureau chief do double duty we re full said miss sue Frank service club supervisor at the seventh army training Center at Grafe Woehr Germany four of the seven service clubs on this military Reserva Tion Are packing in capacity crowds of the off duty reformer i troops who while away freetime with a Cue stick or a deck of cards. We be doubled our program ing during the reformer exer Cise said miss Frank. The clubs have augmented is photos by Joe Wesley their program to accommodate the men restricted to the train ing area during most of their stay. The four clubs located near the seven reformer Camps swung into a 12-hour-a-Day operation the same Day the main body landed in Nuernberg. Extra girls have been called in from other clubs in Europe to help Welcome the  Are scheduling All pro Grams to allow for 100 extra men each night miss Frank said. Among the activities planned this month Are a transatlantic Talent show extra table game tournaments and nightly films on travel. The theme this month is Jet into january and every thing is entered around travel and flying because these men came from the states she said. We Hope to b r e a k Al attendance records next month because of the larger number coming through the clubs the club director said it s funny our daytime at Tendance is directly related tothe amount of Coffee we  singing and piano playing provides relaxation for off duty troops at Graf. Battle cry Calls for emancipation of men a a pm  a by David Rozenzweig a writer a new Battle cry is being heard in the Strug Gle for women s rights. Put simply it s emancipate the  a swedish government report to the United nation son the status of women says any attempt to give women an equal place in the world without relieving their traditional Burden of caring for Home and children is , the swedes reckon husbands should be emancipated from their work so they can devote More time to cooking dinner doing the Wash taking Johnny to the dentist and other House wifely  this would mean giving most men Shorter working hours and educating and encouraging them to take a More Active role in parenthood the report says. It even goes so far As to note a suggestion voiced la some swedish quarters that fathers Are entitled to leaves of absence from their Job wit pay so they can stay at Home while their children Are Young. The government is Well aware that this View appears revolutionary and unrealistic in the eyes of the representatives of Many other countries the swedes admit. Growing opinion in Sweden has however rallied to its  in a country where four out of every 10 workers Are women and 70 per cent of its women hold jobs of some sort the problem of working mothers i Sweden is a burning Public Issue. This Lively debate the report says has fostered anew approach involving a break from the traditional habit of regarding these problems strictly As women s  the demand for male emancipation in family life is supported by the results of recent psychological research indicating that the identification of growing boys May become Uncertain we Tab a one sided Mother dominated Home environment the report adds that this leads to Over compensation expressed in exaggerated aggressiveness an May be one explanation of the higher crime rate As compared to  Public demand has therefore spurred socialist Sweden to do More for families in which both parents work a practice that is becoming almost Normal the report says. It lists a Broad Range of family serv ices available to Sweden s population from All Day nurseries to Domestic help supplied by municipalities. I a Margaret Mead an eminent anthropologist longtime observer of the role of women in american adj ?�5j-la to went commission re Feht for we Psi to the United approves of tie swedish proposals. As Long As we put women in the position of caring for two jobs it in t emr Auty at fill she says. Miss Mead endorses the swedish approach to working mothers but believes the problem can t be solved merely by giving husbands More time an responsibility around the House. Consider the plight of the average family in Suburbia she says. Getting the kids to Nursery school or shopping for the family needs can easily entail driving 15 Miles. When the Kitchen sink Springs a leak it Means waiting two weeks for the plumber to come and fearing to venture out for a few hours be cause no one might be Home when he arrives. The nit Means another week s wait. We have turned the modern family into a Power Plant that is expected to operate entirely under its own steam she says present methods of organized living in the United of Are probably the most wasteful in All of is Lory