Show Kathleen Norris Says Lift Up Your Hearts Boll Bell Syndicate ServIce 1 s h V Y r d dr k 1 k r y t tI I Meals ought to be hot hOI and prompt and Ing these days Talk at al the I table ought to be hopeful and amusing there ought to be plenty of games plenty of plans plan As spring deepens Into summer arrange for IU as many garden and porch I meals as you can By KATHLEEN NORRIS TIFE ought to be especially L cheerful in m your house these days to counter counter- counteract counteract counteract act the gloom and the fears that the newspapers bring us every morning and the radIo confirms every afternoon Every woman in m the land ought to feel that her first line of defense is right in m her own home and work out from there to wider spheres of ill in influence if she has the ca capacity capacity Meals ought to be hot and prompt and appet z ng these days Talk at atthe atthe the table ought to be hopeful and amusing there ought to be plenty of games plenty of plans As spring deepens into summer arrange for tor as many garden and porch meals as you youcan youcan youcan can start a language class in the evenings and ask a few neighbors m in and if the burden of today s shadow gro vs too heavy turn back to histories and d scover how many parallels to today s tragedy there are how many wars there have been how little actual trace they have left upon the various nat cat offs ons or upon the map of Europe EuropeA A Saner Better World We will outlive this war Nat ors ons onswIll onswill wIll come back to their senses dic dictators Will wll disappear Saner men will take their places This is m in inevitable inevitable evitable And Ie le we have to learn the lessons of this war and apply them The world has changed in the past 40 years changed more fundamentally perhaps than many in any preceding 40 years since history be began began began gan and when the battle batUe clouds blow away who knows but what we will find it a better world Certainly we will find it a world suddenly made conscious of its own wealth power powel and es In my grandmother s day nobody thought that unemployment and slums and poverty were curable con cond cond cond d tons t ons Oppressors corned smug phrases about being contented with your lot and rema fling ning in that state to which God had called you We kno v better now We know that God never called small boys boyste to te shiver barefoot as they swept muddy street crossings nor women to cough themselves to death in fn sweat shops nor the fathers of ot hun bun Cry gry families to be hinged hanged for tor snarIng snarIng Ing rabbits on n the square s preserves preserves pre serves A Ta Task k f foe Every Ivery Individual What crud crul and pagan dIctator sh ooh ps over fas have taught u us OJ by theIr mere less regimentation for forwar forwar forwar war we my turn to an equally of ef effective use In peace The r dreams of guns anti ani hate of blood and death and destruct on might well ell have been instead of p and co on of homes and gar gardens gardens gardens dens and fields brimming with bar har harvest barvest harvest vest And the beg of that new world of and sharing is in your house and mme mine It is m in our souls where we have to estabi sh peace and from which we have to banish fear Make your own micro microSCOpiC microscopic microscopic sl ce cc of life perfect live It WIthOUt hate and fear tear and see how soon your vis via on of world problems sImplifies and changes Until we all realize that no guns no bombs no victories and treaties are going to 10 do ng permanent for tor world orld peace until that peace with corn com complete forgiveness and sympathy for enemy nations as well as friends comes Into our own hearts we wp are only repeating the old mistakes and so sowing mg tech wars Here flere Is a letter from an OhIo I woman who ought to be given the COMMUNITY SPIRIT SPIRIT If the news newl sends your spirits to io a new low and you can t I teens seem to usual e a better future try Iry the tonic su suggested in today's Kathlee s I NorrIS d on While there are teo IVO nen like Ike II Marie Mane aTie M ill Her ller in tl ti tie e world she says the future need hold no fear for American t I tand and li It at IOn and sanity are safe congress onal medal of honor She IS the w wife e of a mechanic she has four foul children the family income IS 1 1500 a year Put Pat Own House in Order Pa and I had a talk with the children about America a year ago writes Marie Mane Miller We told them that the first thing for lor the M I 1 Iler ler family to do was to get its own house into order in m case hard t mes and sacrifices were ahead for tor us usall usall usall all That meant a clean house no debt children doing well m in school and the home atmosphere al pleasant neighbors I d with my neigh hors bors my plan to make one Amer can home perfect and they decided to do dothe dothe dothe the same We then extended our In Interest interest interest terest to the entire block of mill workers houses both s des We v s sIted sited sited some who were fore bor i 1 and d d what we could to make mae American ways easy for tor them We then began a series senes of vee ly supper meet very small at first and in one of the houses but now m in the schoolhouse school house Our bus hus husbands husbands bands come to these meet to which every woman brings five sandWIches except the women who supply cookies coffee sugar and cream We gie out a general sub subJect subject and ask five persons to make mae three minute talks on lk It it and we al always always always ways break up after aftel discussion at half past e a sharp Last week our subject was After the War What and to our sc s sa a a German born couple qu et ne gh hors bors who are vely un unknown unknown unknown known came t un n to the meet meeting meeting mg ing and asked if they m speak The gentle genUe picture they gave us of the m lions of good Ger German German German man fathers and mothers young s s and brothers young husband and wives who are s silenced and m in intimidated now but only wa t nj ng their thell hour to reopen churches and Ind schools and renew the r fr tr p pw pw pw w th all the world gave us all new newhope ne newhope hope of a better day ahead and d rI d much to qu et the hysterical fears that mv many nf of n us seem h to have L had that the world has gone Etly crazy r Co operation We find it very simple in ID thc th c new nt nit of sp co opera t on to take in m a SIC sick woman s ch I dren for a meal to s t t with an In Invalid invalid invalid valid to share some unexpected sur surplus surplus surplus plus m n the kitchen and we feel th-it th th-ilin th In a very obscure and humble way we are pro v ng that community sp r rit rit It rIt develop developed cd to such hateful m I 1 tart tary extremes in Europe m be beI I managed here with great safety and andI I profit to all al concerned and close to the eternal law of Christ We tt U Unk nJ our particular Nock lock in grim and ugly Factory is one of the happiest and safest spots in m the world This woman incidentally was a sChool teacher before she was a amill amill amill mill town wife and mother and to tomake tomake tomake make her story even more ng one ngone of her little girls is phys cally cagy handIcapped and has to have extra help in hygiene and gym tym gym work And AndaU Andall Andall aU all this managed on 1500 1 a yearl year IThe I The future need hold no fear for American women and civil and sanity are safe sate while hiIe there are i Women like this In m the th world the world |