WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.920 The Cavalcade of America, sponsored by DuPont, maker of better things for better 00:05.920 --> 00:12.880 living through chemistry, presents Madeleine Carroll in Make Way for the Lady. 00:24.680 --> 00:29.600 Before we tell you about our play, here's news about a new product of chemistry. 00:29.600 --> 00:34.800 DuPont weed killer. It completely destroys poison ivy and other harmful 00:34.800 --> 00:38.960 weeds. It's a boon to farmers and to the millions who this year are helping to 00:38.960 --> 00:46.160 grow the nation's food supply. Tonight, the Cavalcade of America presents Madeleine 00:46.160 --> 00:50.880 Carroll in Make Way for the Lady, a play by Sydney Alexander based on the life of 00:50.880 --> 00:55.540 Mary Putnam Jacoby. Mary Putnam did not live to see a world in which women would 00:55.540 --> 00:59.680 stand shoulder to shoulder with men in fighting a war, but she envisioned such a 00:59.680 --> 01:04.520 day and did much to bring it to pass. Later in the program, Cavalcade will be 01:04.520 --> 01:09.080 privileged to present to its audience Major Margaret D. Craighill, first woman 01:09.080 --> 01:13.240 physician ever to be commissioned by the United States Army. Major Craighill is 01:13.240 --> 01:17.880 now on leave from the Women's Medical College. And now Cavalcade presents 01:17.880 --> 01:32.840 Madeleine Carroll in Make Way for the Lady. 01:32.960 --> 01:38.600 We are at the turn of the century. In a brownstone house in Midtown New York, an 01:38.600 --> 01:43.640 old woman is seated in her wheelchair by the window. 01:43.640 --> 01:50.960 These human ailments, doctor, why do they come when one is just beginning to learn 01:50.960 --> 01:58.360 how to live with one's fellow men? I have become so aware of time. There is so 01:58.360 --> 02:06.160 little of it left for me. Yes, I know the truth now. I have diagnosed my symptoms. I 02:06.160 --> 02:15.800 know the inevitable. 02:15.800 --> 02:22.200 I listen to the clock and it seems that all my life I have raced ahead of time. 02:22.200 --> 02:29.520 But now time races ahead of me. Do you remember Godey's Lady's Book, Doctor? 02:29.520 --> 02:35.640 That mid-Victorian world into which I was born? That world of puffed sleeves and 02:35.640 --> 02:43.560 lace and stuffed owls and unstuffed minds. Oh, I fluttered the dove coat in my day. 02:43.560 --> 02:51.160 I caused some eyebrows to be raised. Eyebrows and voices. But you can't do it, Lady. 02:51.160 --> 02:55.920 A woman, Doctor? Don't make me laugh. Why doesn't she just stay home and have 02:55.920 --> 03:00.600 children? Votes for women? Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to wear pants. 03:00.600 --> 03:04.120 Gallivanting over half the world just like a man. Who does she think she is, 03:04.120 --> 03:09.560 Queen Victoria? A woman's place is in the home. If she's normal, votes for women. 03:09.560 --> 03:14.440 Why, I don't want to vote. I love my husband. There must be something funny in 03:14.440 --> 03:18.680 a woman to make her do a thing like that. Why, I wouldn't be surprised. Yes, that's 03:18.680 --> 03:24.280 the way it was. Always being stared at as if I were a creature from another planet. 03:24.280 --> 03:30.240 I suppose I was in a way. To live ahead of one's time is to live in another 03:30.240 --> 03:38.640 world. Another world. And so I got used to being looked at as somewhat odd. I 03:38.640 --> 03:43.680 remember the first time it happened when that sentry greeted me as I came into 03:43.680 --> 03:49.080 the camp. Hey, Miss, what are you doing here? I wish to see my brother, Sergeant 03:49.080 --> 03:53.200 Haven Putnam. This is no place for a lady. Don't you know the Confederate Army is 03:53.200 --> 03:57.400 just beyond that ridge? How'd you get here anyway? I've got a pass from Colonel 03:57.400 --> 04:02.880 Holabird in New Orleans. Here, look. My brother's ill with malaria. I've come to 04:02.880 --> 04:07.080 nurse him. Where is he? Well, I'll be dogged. You sure got your nerves. Will you 04:07.080 --> 04:10.640 please take me to my brother or do I have to call... Ah, now don't get excited, Miss. 04:10.640 --> 04:19.840 Follow me. In this tent. There he is, see. Oh, Sergeant Putnam. A lady to see you. 04:19.840 --> 04:26.040 Minnie, what are you doing here? We got your letter, Haven. I've come to nurse you. 04:26.040 --> 04:31.920 But how did you get here all the way from New York? Oh, Father arranged it. You came 04:31.920 --> 04:36.600 alone? Of course I came alone. Good heavens. How did Father permit such a 04:36.600 --> 04:40.600 thing? Why, you might have been... Oh, lie still. And I wouldn't have been anything. I 04:40.600 --> 04:44.720 can take care of myself. Sure can, Sergeant. Never seen anything like it. Walked right 04:44.720 --> 04:48.680 into camp here as calm as if she was in her own parlor. Never mind that. Go tell 04:48.680 --> 05:01.480 the doctor I'm at his disposal and get me some cold compresses. Hurry. 05:01.480 --> 05:07.840 My brother recovered and in a little while was his same old self again. But 05:07.840 --> 05:15.200 not me. I had changed. What I saw in that hospital, the suffering and pain and 05:15.200 --> 05:22.880 death changed me. I wanted to help and I could do so little. If only I knew more. 05:22.880 --> 05:28.760 But women didn't know much in those days. I wasn't fashionable. And when you did 05:28.760 --> 05:34.680 know something, you tried to hide it. That was genteel. That was womanly. During 05:34.680 --> 05:40.320 my journey home, I made up my mind. You know the way you do it sometimes. You ask 05:40.320 --> 05:45.120 yourself questions and then you try to give the answers. Suddenly you realize 05:45.120 --> 05:51.800 how silly it is because your mind is made up. Only one thing did I insist on. I 05:51.800 --> 05:58.960 would do what I wanted, be what I wanted and be a woman too. Now Minnie, don't put 05:58.960 --> 06:03.780 words in my mouth. I didn't say that. What did you say, Father? I simply suggested 06:03.780 --> 06:07.480 you postpone it for a while. You know what this war has done to the publishing 06:07.480 --> 06:11.400 business. Besides Minnie, you've already secured your degree in pharmacy. There 06:11.400 --> 06:15.000 isn't another young lady in the country who has done that. Should imagine your 06:15.000 --> 06:18.840 pride will rest content for a while. Pride? What's pride got to do with it? I 06:18.840 --> 06:23.040 want to help, Mother. Can't you help by being a pharmacist? I want to be a doctor. 06:23.040 --> 06:28.560 But why a doctor? Minnie, even a literary career would be less 06:28.560 --> 06:32.680 indelicate. Perhaps with my publishing connections I can... Father, I want to be a 06:32.680 --> 06:39.360 doctor. A female doctor? Good heavens. Why, it's a contradiction in terms. It's 06:39.360 --> 06:43.840 like a square circle. Are the Blackwell sisters square circles? Would you call 06:43.840 --> 06:48.000 their work at the New York infirmary useless, indelicate? I don't know what 06:48.000 --> 06:51.400 you'd call them. They most certainly are not ladies. I don't want to be a lady 06:51.400 --> 06:57.360 either. Oh, what have I done now? Hurry, hand me the smelling salts. Now, now, Mother. 06:57.360 --> 07:05.120 There, there. Sniff this. There, my dear. That's better. Minnie, what a thing to say. 07:05.120 --> 07:11.720 I'm sorry, Mother. Let's put it this way. I want to be a doctor and a lady, but I 07:11.720 --> 07:15.640 simply refuse to spend my life as so many women do, clinging like a vine to 07:15.640 --> 07:29.320 some man. I want to help people, Father. Help, not hinder. I will not be useless. 07:29.320 --> 07:37.160 Poor dear Father. He was an enlightened man for his day, but a female doctor. That 07:37.160 --> 07:41.680 was almost more than he could bear. When I came home with my degree from the 07:41.680 --> 07:47.160 Women's Medical College that spring of 1864, he still had foreboding. Well now, 07:47.160 --> 07:51.360 Minnie, here it is, a shining copper plate for the front door. I hope the 07:51.360 --> 07:55.800 neighbors aren't scandalized. Oh, let's put it up now. Very well, though I doubt 07:55.800 --> 08:02.440 it'll do more than amuse the peddlers. Mary Putnam, MD. 08:02.440 --> 08:07.920 Mary Putnam, MD. Well, well, well. I wonder if she examined you with your clothes on or... 08:07.920 --> 08:13.720 It's indecent, that's what it is. And her father of Putnam. I wouldn't go to her with a sore toe. 08:13.720 --> 08:19.720 Sooner go to the barber. At least he's a man. Yes, at least he's a man. That's it. 08:19.720 --> 08:25.840 That's what they said. But I expected it. I had hoped that maybe... 08:25.840 --> 08:33.240 But I expected it. And that shining copper shingle of mine gathered the wind and the rain, but no patience. 08:33.240 --> 08:39.040 Once in a long while the doorbell would jangle and... 08:39.040 --> 08:44.040 Yes? I'd like to see the doctor, please. I'm the doctor. I beg your pardon, miss. I said I'd like to see the doctor, please. 08:44.040 --> 08:51.040 I heard you. I'm the doctor. Now what's the trouble? You? Oh, I'm sorry. 08:51.040 --> 08:58.040 I heard you. I'm the doctor. Now what's the trouble? You? Oh, I guess it ain't nothing, miss. Excuse me. 09:05.040 --> 09:12.040 And then one day it happened. I stood it as long as I could. But the prejudice was more than I could endure. 09:12.040 --> 09:18.040 So one day I decided it was time for action. I took the hammer and went out on the porch. 09:18.040 --> 09:23.040 Mother, mother! What is it? Minnie's gone crazy or something. What do you mean? What's she doing? 09:23.040 --> 09:24.040 What is it? Minnie's gone crazy or something. What do you mean? What's she doing? 09:24.040 --> 09:25.040 What is it? Minnie's gone crazy or something. What do you mean? What's she doing? 09:25.040 --> 09:27.040 She's ripping her doctor sign off the door. Look! 09:27.040 --> 09:33.040 Minnie, child, what are you doing? I refuse to be a practitioner without a practice. 09:33.040 --> 09:44.040 Yes, that was a bitter summer. And suddenly I knew I had to get away. Far away, as far away as I could go. 09:44.040 --> 09:52.040 Yes, that was a bitter summer. And suddenly I knew I had to get away. Far away, as far away as I could go. 09:52.040 --> 09:58.040 Paris! Paris! What next? The most famous professors of medicine in the world are in Paris. 09:58.040 --> 10:03.040 Mary, you're a good girl. And for a female you're not unintelligent. 10:03.040 --> 10:04.040 Thank you, father. 10:04.040 --> 10:11.040 But it's about time you understood one thing. It's not your lack of medical knowledge that's driving patients away. 10:11.040 --> 10:13.040 It's your lack of pants. 10:13.040 --> 10:14.040 George! 10:14.040 --> 10:16.040 I beg your pardon, mother. I do indeed. 10:16.040 --> 10:21.040 To tell you the truth, I'm not much of a doctor, father. Not much more than a nurse, really. 10:21.040 --> 10:26.040 After all, how much training have I had? Two years of chemistry, a year of medical school. 10:26.040 --> 10:32.040 But with a degree from the Ecole de Medecine, ah, then you'd have a real doctor in the family. 10:32.040 --> 10:37.040 But I don't want a real doctor in the family. Above all, I don't want a female one. 10:37.040 --> 10:41.040 How would you live in Paris? You know your father's finances have touched bottom. 10:41.040 --> 10:50.040 But I have some savings. I could live on them. And I could tutor and write occasional pieces for the American papers, just as I wrote those articles down in New Orleans. Father could arrange that. 10:50.040 --> 10:52.040 Oh, yes, indeed. Father can arrange anything. 10:52.040 --> 10:58.040 I knew you would agree. Here, look. Oh, so that's where my yellow jar disappeared. I've been wondering. 10:58.040 --> 10:59.040 What's that? 10:59.040 --> 11:05.040 Here, hold out your hands. See, I have already changed my savings into gold napoleons. 11:05.040 --> 11:23.040 Mary Putnam, you have the will of a... Yes, you may go to Paris, but heaven help the French. 11:23.040 --> 11:33.040 Two months after my arrival, I had already gained permission to enter the Lariboisier, a general hospital, and the Salpitrier for nervous diseases and the insane. 11:33.040 --> 11:37.040 But as for the great iron gateway of the Ecole de Medecine... 11:37.040 --> 11:39.040 But no, mademoiselle, it is impossible. 11:39.040 --> 11:40.040 Why impossible? 11:40.040 --> 11:44.040 Why? Why? Simply because it is impossible. 11:44.040 --> 11:46.040 We Americans do not recognize that word. 11:46.040 --> 11:54.040 Yes, but then you Americans are a strange people, mademoiselle. You tell me you are already a doctor in your country. Perhaps so, but here... 11:54.040 --> 11:58.040 Here, I suppose you consider it indelicate for a woman to be a doctor. 11:58.040 --> 12:04.040 Oh, no, mademoiselle, an Englishman might perhaps say that we Frenchmen consider that disease dangerous. 12:04.040 --> 12:07.040 Dangerous, monsieur. Do I look dangerous? 12:07.040 --> 12:19.040 In a class of young men, let us say, an anatomy class. Yes, very dangerous. 12:19.040 --> 12:31.040 There it was again. No females wanted. I stood outside the Ecole, knocking, knocking, knocking. But prejudice and tradition kept me out. 12:31.040 --> 12:38.040 Then one day I had to see the secretary of the faculty for a card to attend the Ecole pratique. I stood before him in his office. 12:38.040 --> 12:42.040 But yes, I have viewed, mademoiselle, in many of the clinics, I believe. 12:42.040 --> 12:45.040 Gracious, it sounds as if I were being inspected. 12:45.040 --> 12:47.040 It is possible. 12:47.040 --> 12:51.040 But monsieur, last year I applied for permission merely to attend the lectures and I was refused. 12:51.040 --> 12:53.040 I know, I was the one who refused. 12:53.040 --> 12:59.040 Since then I have learned that the Minister of Public Instruction is much interested in the question of women doctors. 12:59.040 --> 13:12.040 And since we must always look for an opportunity to please the minister... 13:12.040 --> 13:18.040 But the secretary reckoned without the faculty and the faculty said no. 13:18.040 --> 13:22.040 My moods ran gray and gloomy as the river. 13:22.040 --> 13:28.040 One day at the dinner table my landlady said to me, why, mademoiselle, you have scarcely touched the food. 13:28.040 --> 13:31.040 What is the trouble? Do you not like my portafu? 13:31.040 --> 13:35.040 Oh, it's delicious, but I'm afraid I'm not hungry. 13:35.040 --> 13:36.040 No? 13:36.040 --> 13:38.040 Then you are in love, perhaps. 13:38.040 --> 13:40.040 I, I don't think so. 13:40.040 --> 13:42.040 You can think you are not in love. 13:42.040 --> 13:46.040 Perhaps it is because you have been refused admission to the medical school. 13:46.040 --> 13:49.040 Madame Artham, you are a shrewd woman. 13:49.040 --> 13:53.040 Oh, but why be depressurie? There are ways, you know. 13:53.040 --> 13:54.040 Ways? 13:54.040 --> 13:57.040 You tell me you are acquainted with Madame Garnier. 13:57.040 --> 14:01.040 Well, Madame Garnier is acquainted with the minister. 14:01.040 --> 14:07.040 What could be simpler? You will excuse me, mademoiselle, but you are a woman, n'est-ce pas? 14:07.040 --> 14:09.040 Yes. 14:09.040 --> 14:13.040 Yes. I begin to see what you mean. 14:23.040 --> 14:29.040 There he is, Mary. Now remember, it is the woman who will get the doctor into the école. 14:29.040 --> 14:31.040 Ah, monsieur le ministre. 14:31.040 --> 14:32.040 Madame Garnier? 14:32.040 --> 14:37.040 I would like you to meet the young friend of whom I spoke, mademoiselle Fattinham from America. 14:37.040 --> 14:39.040 Mademoiselle, I am enchanted. 14:39.040 --> 14:41.040 Thank you, monsieur le ministre. 14:41.040 --> 14:47.040 Oh, they sparkle here tonight. Oh, it is as if... Ah, there is René. I must speak with him. Excuse me? 14:47.040 --> 14:54.040 Certainly. Madame Garnier tells me that you are a physician. It does not seem possible. 14:54.040 --> 14:56.040 Shall I show you my diploma? 14:56.040 --> 15:03.040 It would be useless, mademoiselle. But why are you so interested in getting into our école de médecine? 15:03.040 --> 15:10.040 I have a degree and just enough science to know that I know nothing. That is why I came to your country. 15:10.040 --> 15:14.040 There are no greater medical schools in the world than here in France. 15:14.040 --> 15:22.040 But men and women in the same class, isn't that something like touching flame to gunpowder? 15:22.040 --> 15:25.040 Oh, monsieur, my sole interest is science. 15:25.040 --> 15:31.040 And with such a gracious figure, what a pity. Oh, well, mademoiselle, perhaps something can be done. 15:31.040 --> 15:34.040 Do not lose heart. Shall we dance? 15:46.040 --> 15:54.040 You are listening to Madeleine Carroll in Make Way for the Lady on the cavalcade of America, sponsored by the DuPont Company. 15:54.040 --> 15:59.040 Our play is about Mary Putnam Jacoby, one of America's first women doctors. 15:59.040 --> 16:06.040 As it continues, Mary Putnam is about to realize her ambition to be admitted to the famous école de médecine in Paris, 16:06.040 --> 16:09.040 where no woman has ever been admitted before. 16:09.040 --> 16:15.040 I tell you, she will make a splendid physician. She has ability and she is not unattractive. 16:15.040 --> 16:21.040 It will not help. Mark my words, the uproar of the students will be a disaster. 16:21.040 --> 16:25.040 Mark my words, the uproar of the students will be frightful. 16:25.040 --> 16:26.040 We shall see. 16:26.040 --> 16:32.040 I'm glad it's not my class, Vanvier. Look, the professor takes his place. The class comes to attention. 16:32.040 --> 16:35.040 Hmm, she seems calm enough. 16:35.040 --> 16:36.040 Just wait. 16:36.040 --> 16:38.040 Monsieur, madame. 16:38.040 --> 16:41.040 What? No hires, no insults? 16:41.040 --> 16:43.040 It's all a bit disappointing. 16:43.040 --> 16:51.040 It is history. Place au dam, make way for the ladies. The first woman enters, l'ai callée médecine. 16:57.040 --> 17:01.040 My first examination. I was nervous, worried. 17:01.040 --> 17:07.040 When the ordeal was over, I retired to the coat room to wait for the usher who would bring in the decision. 17:07.040 --> 17:09.040 When I got there... 17:09.040 --> 17:10.040 Mary. 17:10.040 --> 17:11.040 Jacques, what are you doing here? 17:11.040 --> 17:16.040 Be calm, now, be calm. Don't get excited. Here, sit down. Drink this water. 17:16.040 --> 17:17.040 I remember how nervous I was when I... 17:17.040 --> 17:20.040 Well, for heaven's sake, Jacques, you're more excited than I. 17:20.040 --> 17:26.040 Just be calm, Mary. Oh, here comes the usher. No, it's the professors themselves. 17:26.040 --> 17:31.040 Well, mademoiselle, would you like me to tell you the grade you have received? 17:31.040 --> 17:32.040 If you would be so kind. 17:32.040 --> 17:41.040 We have decided on très satisfait, very satisfactorily. It is the highest mark. 17:47.040 --> 17:53.040 And so the years went by, and the time came for me to go home. 17:53.040 --> 17:57.040 I was sick as usual during that homeward voyage. 17:57.040 --> 18:04.040 But my heart was bright as the spray that sparkled in our wake. I was a doctor. 18:04.040 --> 18:09.040 I was only 29 when I opened my office in the basement of our family home. 18:09.040 --> 18:13.040 And the following autumn I began to teach at the Women's Medical College. 18:13.040 --> 18:21.040 And then that great day came when the Medical Society of the County of New York admitted me to membership. 18:21.040 --> 18:28.040 I can still hear Dr. Abraham Jacoby, the newly elected president, as he made his inaugural address. 18:28.040 --> 18:37.040 Paris has turned out a woman doctor who will, I hope, prove to be an ornament of this society, 18:37.040 --> 18:42.040 the profession of this city, and our common country. 18:42.040 --> 18:54.040 Let it not be forgotten in the history of this society that we have now opened our doors to worthy members of the medical profession, 18:54.040 --> 19:06.040 male or female, white or colored, and thus granted reality to the gospel of American citizenship. 19:06.040 --> 19:11.040 Dr. Jacoby, I don't think you've met the young lady you were just talking about. 19:11.040 --> 19:13.040 No, I have not had the pleasure. 19:13.040 --> 19:18.040 Then allow me. Dr. Putnam, may I present Dr. Abraham Jacoby? 19:18.040 --> 19:21.040 Don't let him frighten you. He is really quite human. 19:29.040 --> 19:35.040 He was human, all right. I married Dr. Jacoby shortly after. 19:35.040 --> 19:38.040 And we were very happy. 19:38.040 --> 19:46.040 But as I looked around at the America of that day, lifting its people to higher and higher standards, 19:46.040 --> 19:55.040 freeing its slaves of color and its slaves of labor, yet I saw the millions of my own sex still unredeemed. 19:55.040 --> 20:00.040 And finally, at the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1890... 20:00.040 --> 20:09.040 Gentlemen, gentlemen, the convention will please come to order. Dr. Mary Jacoby. 20:09.040 --> 20:18.040 Gentlemen, it is with a deep sense of the momentous importance of our errand that we present ourselves before you this day. 20:18.040 --> 20:21.040 Women belong in the home, not in public life. 20:21.040 --> 20:24.040 Women are adequately represented by the mail boat. 20:24.040 --> 20:26.040 What about the family? 20:26.040 --> 20:28.040 Gentlemen, please. 20:28.040 --> 20:32.040 We've heard enough of these absurd demands. Go back to your laboratory, doctor. 20:32.040 --> 20:36.040 Laboratory? Send her back to her kitchen. 20:36.040 --> 20:39.040 You must and you will listen. 20:39.040 --> 20:46.040 Gentlemen, the moment has at last arrived when women may, with equal justice and decorum, 20:46.040 --> 20:50.040 come forward to claim a place among the other powers of the earth. 20:50.040 --> 20:54.040 This is no time to press such a demand. Other issues are too critical. 20:54.040 --> 21:00.040 Are you claiming that political rights may be demanded only when political life shall have ceased to exist? 21:00.040 --> 21:03.040 No, gentlemen, the time to press the demand is when some... 21:03.040 --> 21:06.040 Women's suffrage has no place in democracy. 21:06.040 --> 21:09.040 Then you are saying that after a hundred years of trial, 21:09.040 --> 21:14.040 democracy has proved such a failure that its principles must now be repudiated. 21:14.040 --> 21:20.040 How can democracy prove other than a failure when the citizens of a free state cease to believe in it? 21:20.040 --> 21:26.040 How can political affairs move among large issues if the only ideas which are abroad, 21:26.040 --> 21:29.040 which are respected, are fatally small? 21:29.040 --> 21:33.040 No, gentlemen, I refuse to believe that. 21:33.040 --> 21:55.040 For good or for ill, the question of the rights of women has been raised and will not down. 21:55.040 --> 22:00.040 Now, now, be quiet, children. Don't you see your grandmother sleeping? 22:00.040 --> 22:03.040 Who's been sleeping? 22:03.040 --> 22:04.040 Mother. 22:04.040 --> 22:06.040 I've been writing a long letter. 22:06.040 --> 22:11.040 Why, mother, you wrote only a few lines. Look, the papers fall under the floor. 22:11.040 --> 22:15.040 I must have dozed off. What time is it? 22:15.040 --> 22:19.040 Oh, I don't know. The clock seems to have stopped. 22:19.040 --> 22:20.040 Oh. 22:20.040 --> 22:24.040 Grandma, grandma, tell us a story. 22:24.040 --> 22:46.040 A story, my dear. My story has been told. 22:46.040 --> 22:49.040 Thank you, Madeleine Carroll. 22:49.040 --> 22:55.040 Before we tell you about next week's play, here's news from DuPont about chemicals that farmers 22:55.040 --> 22:59.040 and victory gardeners can put to work on the home front. 22:59.040 --> 23:05.040 For a time, it looked as if war plants would need most of the chemical that makes DuPont Weed Killer so highly effective, 23:05.040 --> 23:09.040 but growers will be able to get it this summer. 23:09.040 --> 23:15.040 DuPont Weed Killer has undergone extensive tests in actual commercial use that prove it is more effective 23:15.040 --> 23:18.040 in controlling poison ivy than any other chemical. 23:18.040 --> 23:20.040 One application usually does the job. 23:20.040 --> 23:26.040 This is of particular importance to orchardists where ivy poisoning is often a serious hazard to workers. 23:26.040 --> 23:32.040 The Weed Killer is also effective against chokecherry, ragweed, the plant that torments hay fever victims, 23:32.040 --> 23:38.040 honeysuckle, and most of the ordinary weeds that are a nuisance and a threat to crops everywhere. 23:38.040 --> 23:42.040 DuPont Weed Killer leaves no residue dangerous to pets or livestock, 23:42.040 --> 23:47.040 nor is there any danger of fire in using it. In fact, it's actually a fire retardant. 23:47.040 --> 23:51.040 It's clean and odorless and it dissolves easily in water. 23:51.040 --> 23:54.040 It has no permanent sterilizing effect on the soil. 23:54.040 --> 23:58.040 After it's used, the ground may be worked later in the same season. 23:58.040 --> 24:00.040 And here's a note of caution. 24:00.040 --> 24:04.040 It must be borne in mind that DuPont Weed Killer kills weeds and valuable plants alike, 24:04.040 --> 24:08.040 so care should be used in spraying it. 24:08.040 --> 24:11.040 Another major threat to the farmer and gardener is insects. 24:11.040 --> 24:17.040 They destroy 10% of the carrot crop, 12% of the bean crop, 15% of our potatoes. 24:17.040 --> 24:21.040 With insects too, DuPont farm chemicals can help you. 24:21.040 --> 24:28.040 DuPont lime-sulfur, bordeaux mixture, and lead arsenate are old favorites that have fought insect pests for years. 24:28.040 --> 24:33.040 DuTox insecticide is a preparation especially good in combating the Mexican bean beetle. 24:33.040 --> 24:38.040 Calcium arsenate protects cotton, potatoes, and other hardy plants. 24:38.040 --> 24:43.040 DuPont copper A compound is formulated for plants that are sensitive to bordeaux mixture. 24:43.040 --> 24:49.040 Sulfuron for fungus diseases of plants is a sulfur of extremely fine particle size. 24:49.040 --> 24:54.040 We can't give you a complete list here, but we will be glad to send, if you will write to the radio section, 24:54.040 --> 24:59.040 DuPont Company Wilmington, Delaware, a free copy of DuPont spraying and dusting schedule, 24:59.040 --> 25:03.040 and free folders on DuPont Weed Killer and Poison Ivy. 25:03.040 --> 25:07.040 These products are available through many dealers who supply such materials in every community. 25:07.040 --> 25:10.040 Inquire soon in order to protect your plantings. 25:10.040 --> 25:20.040 Weed killer and insecticides are effective, helpful examples of DuPont's better things for better living through chemistry. 25:20.040 --> 25:24.040 Now here is the star of this evening's cavalcade, Madeleine Carroll. 25:24.040 --> 25:29.040 Applause 25:29.040 --> 25:31.040 Thank you, Mr. Collier. 25:31.040 --> 25:34.040 Today is Flag Day. 25:34.040 --> 25:40.040 This Flag Day of 1943 has a deeper, richer significance to all of us. 25:40.040 --> 25:51.040 Our flag flies on every sea, every continent, winning new glories, bringing to oppressed people everywhere the American conception of freedom. 25:51.040 --> 25:56.040 This year, too, one more closed door has been opened to women. 25:56.040 --> 26:01.040 Women, for the first time, are privileged to wear the uniform of the armed forces. 26:01.040 --> 26:11.040 So it seems appropriate for the Cavalcade of America to present the first woman physician to be commissioned in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, 26:11.040 --> 26:16.040 Major Margaret D. Craighill, speaking from Washington. 26:16.040 --> 26:24.040 I could not help feeling as I listened to Cavalcade's story tonight that if Dr. Mary Putnam Jacoby were alive, 26:24.040 --> 26:33.040 she would have been in the forefront of the women physicians who have been pleading for permission to serve in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. 26:33.040 --> 26:40.040 And if she were alive, she might very properly be here in my uniform tonight. 26:40.040 --> 26:49.040 Mary Putnam would have relished and glory in the sight of women in uniform serving in the armed forces and working in defense plants. 26:49.040 --> 26:57.040 For by defying nothing but convention and prejudice, she did so much to bring these things about. 26:57.040 --> 27:05.040 For the first time in history, there is a great opportunity for women physicians in the United States Army Medical Corps. 27:05.040 --> 27:14.040 Many more physicians are needed for the tremendous task of caring for our wounded and restoring them to help. 27:14.040 --> 27:27.040 I can tell you from personal experience that an injured man does not care whether the hands that try to help him are those of a man or of a woman, as long as they are skillful. 27:27.040 --> 27:36.040 Women doctors must perform their share of the necessary medical services required by our Army. 27:36.040 --> 27:48.040 Women physicians who write to the Surgeon General of the Army in Washington will be given immediate consideration and a cordial reception, as I know from firsthand experience. 27:48.040 --> 28:01.040 This invitation comes from the men and women now serving with the Army and is a challenge many American women physicians will gladly accept. 28:01.040 --> 28:22.040 Next week, the cavalcade of America will dramatize the story of a gallant ship wounded in battle, her rudder shot away and valiantly making her way 10,000 miles through sub-infested waters to her home port. 28:22.040 --> 28:28.040 The new glory won by this grand old ship has earned for her the title, the Unsinkable Marblehead. 28:28.040 --> 28:35.040 Next week, with Dean Jagger as our star, DuPont will tell this exciting story in an original play by Charles K. Freeman. 28:35.040 --> 28:44.040 Be with us next week when DuPont presents Dean Jagger as its star in the Unsinkable Marblehead, an epic story of naval heroism on the cavalcade of America. 28:44.040 --> 28:48.040 The orchestra and musical score tonight were under the direction of Donald Bureys. 28:48.040 --> 28:59.040 This is Clayton Collier sending best wishes from cavalcade sponsor, the DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware. 28:59.040 --> 29:10.040 I'm a professional painter. I like the new DuPont Speed Easy wall finish. It saves time on every job. It thins with water and dries in an hour. 29:10.040 --> 29:19.040 I'm a housewife. I like DuPont Speed Easy too. I painted right over our living room wallpaper. It looks wonderful. Costs less than three dollars.