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If Your Baby Must Travel in Wartime - Gluyas Williams
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Title: If Your Baby Must Travel in Wartime
Author: United States Department of Labor, Children's Bureau
Illustrator: Gluyas Williams
Release Date: December 31, 2009 [EBook #30820]
Language: English
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United States. Department of Labor
Children's Bureau
Publications no. 303–308
Washington, D. C.
1944
If your
baby
must travel
in wartime
IF YOUR BABY MUST TRAVEL IN WARTIME
Have you been on a train lately? The railroads have a hard job to do these days, one they are doing well. But before you decide on a trip with a baby, you should realize what a wartime train is like. So let's look into one.
This train is crowded. At every stop more people get on—more and still more. Soldiers and sailors on furloughs, men on business trips, women—young and not so young—and babies, lots of them, mostly small.
The seats are full. People stand and jostle one another in the aisle. Mothers sit crowded into single seats with toddlers or with babies in their laps. Three sailors occupy space meant for two. A soldier sits on his tipped-up suitcase. A marine leans against the back of the seat. Some people stand in line for 2 hours waiting to get into the diner, some munch sandwiches obtained from the porter or taken out of a paper bag, some go hungry. And those who get to the diner have had to push their way through five