Dorothy N. V. Smith, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, March 13, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 435

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DOROTHY N.V. MITH R DOR: BEC: DOR: Yes. Later he worked at the Deseret Press. So your family was pretty hard hit, then during that time? Yes. 1 20 2 BEC: You said earlier that your mom wasn't working at the time you were born, but did she then work later when you were a- DOR: When I was about seven or eight or something, it seemed like she went to work, just washing dishes, whatever could be got because everybody was starving, it seemed like. In later years my mother worked as a seamstress. BEC: It was a tough time economically. Now I'm wondering if during high school you talked at all, your family talked at all, about the things that were happening in Europe? That Hitler was invading Poland, and that the Japanese-did you talk about that at school? DOR: I don't remember it. BEC: So you were out of high school when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, December ih, 1941. DOR: Right. BEC: What were you going to do after high school? DOR: Well, I was too young to get some of the jobs so I was still cleaning people's homes for board and room. BEC: So you weren't living at home at the time? DOR: At the time that the war started, I guess I was visiting. I don't remember that part. So much detail that-! did work in homes and then when I became eighteen, I worked for American Linen Supply Company. I got whatever I could get. 7