women must be the manpower source to be tapped now. The interviewers stated
that one of the most common determents to women's working is the problem of
care for their young children. The interviewers now carry complete information
on the child care facilities offered in Sunflower Village, as well as several
photographs taken at the Child Service Building.

Since Se O. We is desperate for workers, since more and moremen are
going into the services leaving wives who must work to support thétr families,
it becomes most vital that the child care facilities be continued and expanded
in every feasible wave

LLOO MISSOURI STREET, LAWRENCE

This nursery school was opened at its present location on Ostober 4, 1943,
with an attendance of about ten childrene The present enrollment is thirty-
seven, This means that a condition of overcrowling exists, for the indoor play
space, according to minimum standards set up by the Kangas State Board of
Health, will accommodate slightly fewer than twenty children. It is hoped that
an additional large playroom can be constructed; if this is possible, the
enrollment will be allowed to reach fifty, with an anticipated daily attendance
of thi five to forty. This nursery school is open from 6:46 aem to
6:00 pems, and is operated in accordance with nursery school etandards.

In the same way that the desperate need for workers at Jg 8. 0. We. affects
child care enrollment at the Village, so does it affect the need in Lawrence
for increased facilities for child care. Women are being drawn fem the
secondagy employments to work at S, 0. We, and their places in the secondapy
employments in Lawrence must be filled. Women are going directly from their
homes to Se Oo We, and their children must be cared forse

Need has been expressed for a second nursery school in Lawrence to serve
Negro children. These children, whose mothers also are employed (many of them
at Se O. We), are being cared for inadequately if aty all. The proposed site
of the school would be in North Lawrence, the home of most of the city's Negro
population. This school would be operated the same hours and with the same
standards as the school at 1100 Missouri Street. |