Women Should Stay Home and Care for
Kids, Mental Health Lecturer Declares
Br ALFRED LEECH
United Press Correspondent
Chicago (U.R) Dr. Herbert
Ratner said women should stay
home and take care of their kids
nd quit trying to make "assist
ant wives" out of their husbands.
Ratner, health commissioner
of suburban Oak Park, made
these points the other night at a
mental health lecture attended
by married couples.
Husbands shouldn't have to
wash the dishes unless they vol
unteer, he said.
Blast Frightens
Portland Citizens
Portland (U.R) Sound of an
explosion in southeast Portland
sent bomb-jittery citizens run
ning for their telephones Satur
day night.
Portland and Multnomah
county police failed to turn up
anything but a few minutes la
ter, Oswego police reported a
fraction of a stick of dynamite
had gone of when inadvertent
ly thrown into a bonfire.
Oswego police said that they
thought that was the explosion
heard in Portland.
One more anonymous tele
phone call marred the week end
and sent sheriff's deputies to St.
Johns Catholic school at Mil
waukie to search for a bomb.
None was found.
"Then why should I have to
wash them?" a young housewife
asked.
"Because it's your job," said
Ratner, who minces no words.
There was a hush, followed by
masculine guffaws.
Second-Rate Woman
"Why should a woman try to
make a second-rate woman out
of her husband?" Ratner de
manded. "What are we trying to
do. set up a matriarchy?"
Ratner, an associate professor
of preventive medicine at Loyola
University, said most parents,
husbands included, don't show
their youngsters enough affec
tion. Many young mothers, he said,
are too busy with clubs and
"community work."
"We're raising a generation of
latch key kids," he said.
"They come home to find that
mama has gone out to improve
the school system or the police
force."
Civic and community organi
zations should be left to older
women who already have raised
their families, he said.
Willingly Ensnared
But many young mothers be
come "willingly and happily en
snared" in such groups, he said,
and kid themselves that they are
doing a "greater good" for their
children.
So the child, unsure of his par
ents' affection, shows off or "acts
up" when company comes, or
scribbles on the walls to express
his resentment, Ratner said.
One out of every 12 children
born in this country is headed for
a mental institution, he said, so
is behooves parents to expend
their energy on "a hangup job of
child rearing."
Discrimination in ;
Home Loans Charged
Portland U.R) A Portland
urban league meeting yesterday
was told the Federal Housing
Authority is still discriminating
against minority groups in
granting insured loans.
Loren Miller, Los Angeles at
torney, told the group the FHA
"lent its support to residential
segregation" right after its es
tablishment in 1934.
While the FHA has not requir
ed race restrictions on. insured
land since 1947, Miller said, "it
continues to insure loans for
home construction with the full
knowledge that resultant hous
ing will , neither be rented nor
sold to Negroes or members of
other minority groups."
To foster international good
will, Cleveland maintains a
series of gardens in Rockefeller
Park, each morning a different
national culture. The project
was begun in 1926. Thus far,
16 of the Cultural Gardens are
finished.
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