Old & Young Manpower

Last week Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt said that 5,000,000 more women will be needed in war factories next year. Meanwhile old men help; children leave school. The Social Security Board reported that since Pearl Harbor, 24,000 men over 65 who had retired on Social Security had given up their pensions for the time being and gone back to work. Of the 825,000 men over 65 now eligible for Social Security, 70% have deferred their pensions and remained on the job.

The Children's Bureau estimated that twice as many boys & girls between 14 and 18 went to work in 1941 as in 1940 (the Bureau gave work certificates to 500,000), said the number mounted rapidly in 1942. Bureau Head Katharine F. Lenroot was plainly worried lest the exodus from school be too great.

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