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" rlUaZs meats rlUaZsshould ! should be reduced to lare lore that can be umversaUy universally grown and IUIlliersally tmtversally andIUIlliersally andtmtversally dmnbuted distributed Bread 01 o/ o 01COUTe ocourse / COUTe course $ , cereals and andnulk rrulk nulk rrulkru fruits ( ru ts and andveget andvegetobles veget vegetobles lbl < " By KATHLEEN HLEEN NORRiSWHAT NORRIS NORRIS'HAT 'HAT HAT ' is happening happemng tothe tothe to WHAT WHATIS / the world just lust now ISnot isnot is isnot not a mere war It IS isnot isnot not going gomg to be , in m a httle httlewh httlewhile httlewhile wh while e , the mere aftermath of ofa ofa ofa a war It is not going gomg to be belIke belike belike lIke anything anythmg that has ever everhappened everhappened everhappened happened in m the world before beforeMake beforeMake beforeMake Make up your mmd mind to thatMake thatMake that thatMake Make up your mind mmd that the theimmedIate theimmediate theimmediate immedIate future is 18 going gomg to tobe tobe tobe be filled with wlth confusion , prob prob- problems prob- prob problems problems - - lems , demands No genera genera- generatIon generation generation - tion of women has ever been beenfaced beenfaced beenfaced faced WIthsuch with such a responsIb responslbil responslbility responsibility ity Once our perplexItIes perplexitieswere were concerned merely WIth WIthAmerIca withAmerica withAmerica AmerIca Now they are worldwIde worldwide world worldwide wide I wideTake wideTakg Tak Takg Takgmy Take my lovely southern grand grandmother grandmother grandmother mother tor for example She cameacross cameacross came across the plains plams in 1850 with a ahandsome ahandsome ahandsome handsome Irish husband and a baby babydaughter babydaughter babydaughter daughter She was destined destmed to pi pioneer pioneer pioncer oneer in California s mountains a atown atown atown town was named tor for her she bore bore12 12 more children without benefit of ofdoctor ofdoctor ofdoctor doctor hospital professional nurse nurseelectric nurseelectric I IelectrIc electrIc light piped water milk bot bot- bottle bottle bottle - - tle sterilizer stenlizer telephone-no telephone no telephone-nn nn telephone - - no . use lIst lIsting listtog listIng ing tog what she didn dldn t haveWhat haveWhat have haveWhat What she did have was a farm farmhouse farmhouse farmhouse house fruit frwt trees cattle tVl two 0 fru t twood twood twood wood chests from home lome some lomequllts somequilts omequilts qullts quilts and her grandmother andmother s spm spin spmning spinning spinning ning wheel She never saw her hermother hermother hermother mother again she never left the thegolden thegolden thegolden golden state to which fate had taken takenher takenher takenher her but she lived a * magnificent magnl.flcent magnlflcent . full fulland fulland fulland and happy lifeFar lifeFar life lifeFar Far From Europe 8 s Trouble Troubles TroublesWhat TroublesWhat * What was It to her that Europe Europewas Europewas Europewas was boiling with wars ' She had hadonly hadonly hadonly only a dim and tcrappy scrappy vlsualIza vsualrza vlsualIzation vsualrzation visualization ) tion of our own Civil war She knew knewnothing knewnothing knewnothing nothing of New York s politics pol1tlcs Bos Boston Boston Boston ton i a culture the troubles of the theBalkans theBalkans theBalkans Balkans and China were as remote remoteas as the starsWith stars starsWith With us today It Is different . . We Weare Weare Weare are lacing facing the results of ot the most mosthideous mosthideous mosthideous hideous catastrophe that ever shook shookthe shookthe shooktile the old earth We are sharing It it it.One itOne . . One third of the earth s habited hablted habrted sur surface surface surtace face has been scarred and fiattened flattened fiattenedand flattenedand flattenedand and blasted by war countries as asbig asbig asbig big as tome some of our state states * are still stilllIeaped stillheaped stillheaped lIeaped heaped : with dead children s eyes eyeslave eyeshave eyeshave lave have ! been accustomed to sights'bat sightsthat sights sightshat hat 'bat bat that ' would shatter the nervesof nerves nervesrf ,1 1 of . , < rf hardened criminals Cflminals mothers of ofch1ldren ofchildren ofchildren ch1ldren children have had bad to hear their pleas pleasfor pleasfor pleasfor for food tor for rest , , unheard have had hadto hadto hadto to see them die ' - - What we OUGHT to do &U U all & of ofus ofus 01us us everywhere everyv.here everyvhere . in 10 the nations that thathave thathave thathave have not been invaded wrItes wrItesMarIa writesMaria writesMaria MarIa Pendleton Smith a mlms minis mlmster minister minister ter s wife is turn to God And not notonly notonly notonly only in prayer every hour every everyminute everyminute everyminuteBut , minute ! minuteBut But also in simplifying slmpllfymg our IJves loves IJvesso lovesso livesEO so that we can glve-give-glve glve give give-give-give give - give - - give Our Ourmeals Ourmeals Ourmeals meals should be reduced to fare farethat farethat tarethat that can be universally grown and anduniversally anduniversally anduniversally universally distributed dlstnbuted Bread of ofcourse ofcourse ofcourse course cereals and milk fruits and andvegetables andvegetables andvegetables vegetables Clothing Clothmg plain and andeaslly andeasily andeasily easlly easily cared lor for Flowers on our ta to tables tobyes tables bles byes U If you like hke s ngmg nging always alwaysbooks alwaysbooks alwaysbooks books friendship \ walks alks study * tudy But ButaU Butall Butall aU all the superficialities swept away- away awayall awayall away-all away all - all the extravagances that really reallycost reallycost reallycost cost the money Our children childrenshould childrenshould childrenshould should be dedicated to the great greattask greattask greattask task of harmg shanng sharing of o ( giving glvmg away the theextra theextra theextra extra coat of asking the hungry hungrystranger hungrystranger hungrystranger stranger in to our boardKeeping boardKeeping board boardKeeping Keeping Christ sLaw sLawIf s LawH Law LawIf If H we could do this thus in the name nameof nameof nameof of Our Lord and Master this bold boldand boldand boldand and beautiful beautifuI letter goes on Wt we w w.would . < .would would . would build a nationality nahonallty under our ourown ourown ourown own nationalities We who foJlowed followed foJlowedthll followedthus followedthl thll thus law-and law and law - and after all it of is THE THEOur I 1 \ = ; ( I J . \ ; ( Our ch children ldre1l should short .hare hare share . . , , > . SHARING OUR PLENTYWe PLENTY PLENTYWe onlyd onlydim We in m America Amenca have only onlya onlym a adim d dim m understanding understandzng of thehavoc the thehavoc thehavoc havoc ofwar of war Thts Thu This country countryhas countryhcu hcu has been sparedmost spared most of thehorror the thehorror thehorror horror devastation devastal10n andmlS andmis and misery mlS mis mlSery misery ery of this thts globalconflagra global conflagra conflagra- conflagrahon conflagration - tion hon lion The lot ofmany fmany o of f many ofus o of f fus us has hastmproved hasimproved hasimproved tmproved improved during durmg these uaryears uar uaryears uaryears years in m fact thanks to plenti plentt- plentt plenti- plentiul - - plentiful plenttful plentif fulemployment f ful employment ulemployment ul at highuages highwages high nagesand uages wages uagesand wagesand and productsA high htgh prices pnces for productsreader productsreader products A A reader o of f Miss MtSS Noms Norrts Norris column col column column umn untes urttes u ntes that she believesue beltevesue belteves believes ue couldand could andshould and should be moregenerous more moregenerous moregenerous generous with wtth the good ood thingsue thmgsue thmgs things ue have We ought to share our ourclothes ourclothes ourclothes clothes and foodand food and fueland fuel and andmedlcme andmedicine andmedicine medlcme medicine v.lth vlth utth uith . the sufJenng suffering sufJenngpeople sufferingpeople sufferingpeople people of Europe Lurope and AMa Asia AMashe Asiashe Asiashe she says We should trim trtm down downour downour downour our living lwmg standard to a plum plain plainsolid plumsolid plainsolid solid leveland level and then give gwe the thesurplus thesurplus thesurplus surplus to the poor in m to the devastated dev devastated devastated astated astatedcountnes astatedcountries countnesAll countriesAll countries countnes countriesAll All this thtS skimping sl.lmpmg sllmpmg sl.lmpmgand skimpingand . andshar and shar sharmg sharmg sharing mg uould , be motivated motwated by a acombznatlon acombination acombination combznatlon combination ofreligIOus ofrehgtous of religious rehgtous fer fervor fervor fervor vor and long range practtcal practical practtcalstatecraft practicalstatecraft practicalstatecraft statecraft This writer thmks thinks thmksthat thinksthat thinksthat that war , and the strife stnfe and andJealousy andjealousy andjealousy Jealousy that leads to liarcould uar , could be abolished aboltShed . , , in m time ttme . , , law would be known in all countrIes countnesas countrIesas as the disciples of ot Jesus Chnst Christ We Wewould Wewould Wewould would never form a military group groupor groupor groupor or ask allegiance to anyone any one lIag flag lIagBut flagBut flagBut But gradually aduaUy hhe llke like the leaven hid hidIn hidin hidm In the measures of meal we would wouldjom wouldjoin wouldjoin jom join hands we would come to know knoweach knoweach knoweach each other and people-the people the people - - the great greatunderground greatunderground greatunderground underground army of ot Christ who whodehberately whodeliberately whodeliberately dehberately deliberately dehberatelyabandoned abandoned all thoughts thoughtsof of superior wealth or position positron of ofuseless ofuseless ofuseless useless multiplied multfpIled possessions of ofpower ofpower otpower power through violence and coer coerCIOn coercoon coercion CIOn coon . . The people who kept Christ a . alaw ilaw ilawWe law lawWe We would have everything beau beautlful beautrful beautUul tlful trful that He has given tlven us in this thisworld thisworld thisworld world to make us happy bappy We v.ould vould would v.ouldhave wouldhave . wouldhave have love homes children ch1ldren enough enoughsimple enoughsimple enoughsimple simple food and clothing clothmg friendship friendshipgardens friendshipgardens friendshipgardens gardens books walks - but more morethan morethan morethan than all we would have that interior interiorpeace interiorpeace Interiorpeace peace that ineffable meffable joy that the theworld theworld theworld world as it is now cannot give giveOur giveOur giveOur Our rule would be Christ s blessed blessedare blessedare blessedare are the meek blessed are the themerciful themerciful themerciful merciful He that hath bath . two tv.o tvo coats let lethun lethim lethim hun him Impart to him hun bun that hath bath none noneOvercome noneOvercome noneOvercome Overcome not evil with evil but butovercome butovercome butovercome overcome evil with Wlth good By this thisshall thisshall thisshall shall all men know ye are my mydisc mydisc mydisc disc pies that ye love one an another another another other , ! Well I don t know what Vlhat sort of ofsermons ofsermons ofsermons sermons the Reverend Smith Smithpreaches Smithpreaches Smith.preaches Smithpreaches . preaches but I suggest that he some sometIme sometime sometime tIme give his dauntless wife the thepulpit thepulpit thepulpit pulpit It is a long time tlme since mce any anything anything anything thing I have read or orheard \heard heard \ , \heard heard \ has hasopened hasopened hasopened opened to me the vision I re elved eived elvedfrom eivedfrom elvedfrom from this letter lctter For I know m In on my myheart myheart myheart heart that if the tortured v . world worldis worldis orld orldIs Is to be sa\ sa sa\ed sa ed saed saved \ ed at all this is the thepath thepath thepath path |