Wartime Manners Quiz

Should you learn to recognize the insignia of the different branches of service?

Mind Your Manners

Test your knowledge of correct social usage by answering the following questions, then checking against the authoritative answers below:

1. Is it manners to criticize he slacks or overalls worn by women in defense corps?

2. Should you learn to recognize the insignia of the different branches of service?

3. Should you use the phrase “just a private”?

4. Should you criticize the busy mother of small children for not doing war work outside the home?

5. Should you wonder out loud why such and such a young man isn't in the army?

What would you do if:

You are in a theater where the Star-Spangled Banner is played as a finale-

(a) Get up and leave?

(b) Stand the whole time it is being played?

 

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ANSWERS

1. No. They are doing important work and their clothes are suitable for that work.

2. Yes. If you don't already know.

3. No. Don’t belittle a private by saying “just a private.”

4. No.

5. No.

Better "What Would You Do" solution-(b).

 

– The Imperial Valley Press, 1943 

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Wartime Etiquette Advice

After Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, teens in the the United States were anxious to help out, but were advised to finish their educations and help in the war effort.  

Manners Matter: 

How to Serve Now in the Emergency

• Cooperate with the school and don’t get panicky.

• Keep up your morale.

• Attend strictly to business. 

• Keep calm and obey instructions.

• Inform the government of any service which you can offer which will be of value.

• Stay in school and complete your education so that immediately upon graduation you will be able to go into industry to produce defense goods.

• Cooperate thoroughly during all air raids. 

• Stay at home after dark.

• Don’t be wasteful of paper.

• Buy defense bonds and stamps.

• Take all courses available in first aid, nursing, and mass feeding.

• Don’t use your cars unless absolutely necessary.

• Sign up for civilian defense as an air-raid warden to relieve older people who are needed in more important jobs.

• Anyone who is interested in offering his services as an air-raid warden should sign up with Mr. Thomson. - Tamalpais News, December, 1941

 🍽Etiquette Enthusiast, Maura J. Graber, is the Site Editor for the Etiquipedia© Etiquette Encyclopedia