Show Kathleen a Norris Says The Married SIren Shell Bell Syndicate Features e rl hi l 1 s sQ Q l 1 r rI I F t a atty tty tty'S S 'S It Itt t r a I r A 4 y I Ir Iric r r ic Our second 1 tile the boy born iciest months ago my oldest u IS s z e a rarely bright n a Id loveable boy but crippled he cannot wall wall- 3 By KATHLEEN NORRIS I T jE NEED a great deal WE more simple old fash toned morality rn m this world of ours which of course IS simply to say that we need needmore needmore more of God more faith more charity chanty more decency more goodness Or to use very old fashioned words m deed more sanctifying grace Grace What a beautiful old word that IS Grace to be strong and good helpful and hopeful firm ill m holding to our own hIgh Ideals Plain Plain living and hIgh thinking are nomore no nomore more Wordsworth said a hundred years ago One won wonders dens ders what he would have said today day If we know that men and women I Iare are honestly trying to be better themselves and make the world a better place It IS easy to have deal i fags ings WIth them They keep their I promises we keep ours They br ng to any d any problem a true desire to solve It according to the laws of just ce cc They make m s stakes takes we all do But the mIstakes sI I of honest persons are much less dangerous than the success of die honest ones Ethel Mayers Maers writes me from a trailer camp SItuated near one of 01 our largest sh p bu Id ng plants Ethel IS 31 she has been married for seven years ThIs IS her problem rem lem Trailer Life a Struggle T vo years ago says her letter letterI I was a happy w fe living mod modestly modestly estly m in a little home we owned m in Cleveland Fred s salary ranged about a month which was plea plen plenty ty for me and I kept a nice home free of debt Then carne came the war and Fred was sent here hIs salary jumped to anything between and 60 a weal wee Our second 1 i boy was born seven months ago I Imy my oldest Is SIX a bright and love loveable loveable able boy but CriPpled he cannot walk Cond tons t ons here are d there being no house ava we live m an a 0 r tra ter ler four of us m two small rooms Fred sleeps in a comfortable arrangement In the car carand carand and I manage both ch n m in the tra ler but on hot n what hat with the racket all about us talk talks s nging radIos and some sometImes sometimes tImes quarrels we don t get good rest Market ng is hard too I wheel stand i ti lime line the baby to the shops bargain and wa t Even If we leave leavea I a list the day before we e have to tova tova va t our turn clerks are over overworked I worked and tr wIth the stock and altogether th s whole summer has been a for me But that Isn the worst In the suburban to en ner us there are some beautiful homes and m in one of the most ful there IS a worn om oman an whose husband IS an army cap tam over m in Jr ca somewhere and who ho has plenty of money and leIsure She is S cry ery hasp hosp table to the defense plant men and my husband often goes the e a wIth the other bo boy s They play card games and 1 lave ae a regu regular regular lar spread at 10 o 0 clock every n cold meats and and dr of course our crowded camp has noth ng to offer In comparison to It My husband denies that he bas hllen fillen m love wIth thIS woman whom I IwIn wIn will call Rose bt t he is often there thereat thereat at t men mes when the crowd Isn t has more than once occupied her spare room when hen he was late or tired and tells me he enjoys the b g cool sho v vers vers ers tine fine linen and qUIet Rose IS about 35 my husband a year or two younger Never having been a Jealous woman even though Fred is an un tin unusually usually handsome and attractive man I hwe let thIs go on OD glad that he could find so much relaxatIon and amusement But noW things are getting bad at home orderly housekeeping In a trailer WIth wash washIng sag Ing and to toilet et facilities at a dis distance tance JS is impossible Until my dar darling ling mg little Bruce can have an op operation he WIll be lame the baby is of course exacting still at the formula and d dy wash stage I gett get t red rumpled d lonely the ce of the whole situation Irks me into occasIOnal temper ill s 9 sAnd And Fred IS ether a ther silent absents z minded or cross and critical There does seem to be a queer Irony in inthe inthe the fact that now that so many of ofus ofus us could afford better living we can t find It Can you suggest s some someway me way m in which I can bring my h has s band to a sense of the unfaIrness of demanding so much of me and wandering off himself rums elf to comfort coolness amu lement ment flattering p He has al vay been cons before affectionate with me and the children and we mIss It at Suffers During Isar ar My dear Ethel I say m in reply the cost of war Isn t paId entirely in precIous lives and expensIve guns So tremendous a world upset as thIs demoralizes us everyone every one tears all allour allour our 1 yes ves up by the roots shatters our I 1 fe long Ideals of honor and de decency decency On all sIdes there are strange outbreaks of immoral ty racla racial troubles that have slept for almost a century young blood rec zing no authority and obeying no law And lawAnd on all sIdes also thank God Godare Godare are titanic efforts to stem tills this t de of lawlessness Fine men and worn en everywhere are g ving theIr time and theIr money and theIr most ear earnest earnest nest effort to get at the ounces of cram na nal outbreaks to protect youth to improve living c cond nd tons t ens to safe safeguard safeguard guard marrIage You must put yourself m in line WIth these workers You must overlook the shameful facts that t the woman you call Rose jS is del break breakIng tog Ing up your marr age evidently m in Idle fun and that Fred Fled has tern forgotten that he promIsed to stand by you no matter what con condit dit ons arose in your jour wedded life to together together gether Fred IS excited tired bred daz dazzled dazzled by novelty and flattery L ke some of the European travelers of yesterday he has left his code be beh beh h nd hIm he has lost the quid gUld ng strings of home ne customs self respect H s new work his bIg salary hIs right to enter Rose s handsome home aU all these have gone to hIs head But tills this Is only a phase Do the b best St you can to weather It save what money yoU can in solid gov government government bonds walt wait for saner times as we all must No life is untouched by today s holocaust if you can keep yours serene and norma normal you will emerge from these tunes tImes so so ahead of the rest |