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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

[Illustration]

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