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Show I" ' f j, in ii mi. i hi numiiiii mwimn , . JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE, TIDAL WAVE AND FIRE ... A striking photograph made as the town of ! Shingu, Japan, burned after the earthquake and tidal wave had struck parts of Japan. People fled from the town to the beach flats in foreground leaving the fire to eat the heart out of Shingu. Hundreds died in coastal communities and thousands were rendered homeless by the Japanese disaster. "iff - ,k V . "fel ANTI-GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATION IN TOKYO . . .General view of the giant demonstration staged by Japanese labor union in Tokyo to protest government policies and demand ouster of the Yoshida cabinet. The demonstration, held in front of the Imperial palace, was the biggest in the Japanese capital since the May day parade that drew censure from Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Many Red flags were carried by the demonstrators. It x 4 , 4 - - , I L . " ' ' - 1 U- ' ' - s 1 f - i! f i- i HAIR CUT AT FOUR MONTHS . . . Stephen Aprigliano, Brooklyn, N. Y., a mighty young man of four months, is getting his first haircut. hair-cut. His mother keeps him in good humor with his diet of milk while Terry the barber carries on. Stephen actually was bored with the operation. Terry said Steve was the youngest customer he had ever served and about the hairiest one to clip. Usually most boys get their first barber shop hair cut after they have reached ripe age of one year. DM. MHS SLICK CHICK OF 1947 ... The Toullry and Egg National board has announced that they will pick Miss Slick Chick or 1947 at the premiere pre-miere showing in New York City of "The Egg and I." Selection will be made on charm, personality and sex appeal, including coquettisb-nrss coquettisb-nrss of eyes, contour of figure and sweep of tail. I 1 1 i i 4 j MAN OF THE YEAR . . . Secretary Secre-tary of State James F. Byrnes, who was recently selected by Times magazine as "the man of the year." The selection was made on the basis of outstanding work done by Secretary Byrnes during United Nations' Na-tions' meetings. PRINCE'S TEACHER . . . Eliia-bcth Eliia-bcth G. Vining, Philadelphia, who is serving as tutor for Crown Prince Akihito, also is teaching Japanese teachers on "education for democracy. ' ; -f jT '. i Jr 4 -& II : V - 1 ji ' - - Kathleen Norris Says: IFas Tiis the Wrong Advice? Bell SvndlcaU. ,. K 41 "Beverly took a job; she saw everybody and beard all the gossip." By KATHLEEN NORRIS THE agonizing problem of Martha McNeill was not a new one. It is as old as the story of the prince and the beggar-maid. But in these days, the prince's position posi-tion and that of the beggar-maid beggar-maid have drawn nearer together to-gether than they were; the prince in this case was only a handsome and popular young man, only son of a rich family, and the beggar maid never knew what it was to beg; she went throughgrammar grades with the rest of the boys and girls, had her movies and chocolate-malts and her rides in the family car and tried a year or two of high schpol. But tht didn't appeal, and Beverly Bev-erly tool a Job in the candy store. She saftr everybody, everybody liked her, and she heard all the school and college gossip, so she was more in the heart of things than ever, or it seemed so. However, when exclusive little dances and weekends in mountain cabins for winter sports began, Beverly Bev-erly was out of it, of course. The country club gathered in the young crowd that used to meet in the candy store. Beverly was left to solace herself with a different group, and had lively fights with her father and mother over late hours, drinks, petting, all the usual evils of reckless girlhood. From that point on Lewis McNeill's Mc-Neill's mother takes up the story. "When our Lew got out of the navy last June he happened to meet Beverly. Her name, my daughter tells me, already had been coupled with that of more than one other man; she bewitched Lew. He must have known what she was, but for a few weeks he couldn't see anyone any-one else. Then came awakening, and he ended the association, but too late. There is to be a child, and Lew admits it may be his. Who Has the Rights? "If you could know the frenzy of despair and indecision into which this has thrown me," the letter went on, "I know you would help me to do what is right. Lew's three years in the navy interrupted his college work, but he since has graduated grad-uated from the school of chemistry, and soon will be his father's right hand in a large family business. There is no girl in town who would not be flattered by my son's attention. atten-tion. Why should he throw himself away upon this cheap, unscrupulous unscrupu-lous girl who has been all but promiscuous, according to report? Before this scandal breaks, and my son alienates himself from his own group completely, will you make me some suggestion any suggestion sug-gestion that will help?" Unfortunately, not Lew nor his parents, not Beverly or hers, have right of way in this case. The baby must be the first consideration. considera-tion. For unless we put the unborn generations first, unless we make sacrifices so that our children and their children will inherit a better world, we have only contributed to the appalling suffering and darkness dark-ness of this one. Martha McNeill owed something to her oldest grandchild. I suggested she surely did not want the thought of that wronged and defrauded baby to haunt her, when later grandchildren came along. My advice to Martha was an immediate im-mediate marriage, and that the young pair should, if possible, start their married life in some strange city. This they did. It was a complete com-plete failure. All this was a year ago. Lack of anythiifg like community of interest ruined it from the start. the right of ail babUi." WNU Feature. THE BABY'S RIGHTS "Just the form of a marriage; just the pretense of a welcome and a home are the right of all babies," That is Miss Norris' contention in today's article as she answers the old but ever-present ever-present problem concerning the prince and the beggar-maid. "Sometimes," Miss Norris continues, "these forms fill out with real life and love; sometimes some-times the baby becomes miraculously mirac-ulously the little beating heart of a real home," That is sage advice, for the questions arising from the actions ac-tions of reckless youth must be answered in the terms of the far future, not only as they affect af-fect the boy and girl involved but also the still unborn baby. The prince in this case returned re-turned from war, finished his college career and prepared to step into his wealthy father's lucrative business. But be met the beggar-maid, who really had never begged for anything except the evils of reckless girlhood. girl-hood. Their association ended with a rude awakening, but, on Miss Norris' advice, they were married a year ago. Now their baby is dead, the girl wants her freedom, wants to marry someone else. Beverly was lonely, bored, perverse. per-verse. She hated the strange place, she missed the constant excitement, the gossip and planning of her old life. Lew was equally wretched, and the small baby lived only a few days. Now Beverly wants her freedom, wants to go home, wants to marry someone else. Lew cannot remarry without sacrificing his faith and again breaking his mother's heart. For although Martha wants temporal tem-poral happiness for her only son, she wants spiritual safety more. Money can't buy her out of this difficulty; time isn't supposedly a factor, for Beverly is not yet 23, and may live for 50 more healthy years. Martha writes me again, m despair a second time. Must Think of Future. She blames me for my advice. She says that if Lew had consented only to a justice-of-the-peace wedding wed-ding and adoption of the baby by strangers he would not now be hobbled hob-bled by a tie that will forever prevent pre-vent his marriage with a girl of his own faith. She says that but for my decision there never would have been a marriage between Lew and Beverly at all, and Beverly might have made any arrangements she: liked for the baby. Anyway, she finished fin-ished angrily, the baby died, so all that fuss about his rights was non-, sense. ' Well, I wonder? One has to work I on deep basic principles in these SENATE PRESIDENT PRO TEM . . . Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg questions. One has to think of the (R., Mich.), who has been chosen president pro tempore of the senate, far future. Perhaps it isn't too good Senator Vandenberg recently announced his withdrawal from the Unit-for Unit-for a boy like Lew to feel that the ed Nation's delegation to devote full time to senate duties. He has claim of his first-born can be been put forward as a possible presidential candidate for 1948. hnishprf asirlf to mflkp wav fnr f h I beautiful church weddinu with bridesmaids and music that his mother plans for him. Perhaps the sobering reality of motherhood might be the first step toward making mak-ing a woman of Beveny. And certainlyand cer-tainlyand no perhaps about it the difference to a little boy or girl is life-long in its effects. Just the form of a marriage; Just the pretense of a welcome and a home are the right of all babies. Sometimes, too, these forms fill out with real life and love; sometimes the baby becomes miraculously the little beating heart of a real home. GOOD KIDS AID VETS Lack of a juvenile delinquency problem in Houghton, Mich., is credited with solving the housing problem for six veterans. In their quest for homes, former servicemen noticed that the Juvenile courthouse was empty. Inquiry disclosed dis-closed that it hadn't been used for three years. A petition to the county board of supervisors brought them the right to use the building for temporary homes. After some repairs, the veterans vet-erans and their families moved in. iih iiiuim ,iim... i.ki" iiiiih"..' .m. .i)iLijiLu.!iWMiu).i iij iimw wwummuii n ..mm ftm ' fP""w"""1""" a U . i ill! - jlT j. 1 ' - s LEARN SHOOTING IS OVER . . . Pvt. Louis Novelll, left, Mocanaqua, Pa., and TSgt. Charles Cahill, Rumford, Me., both wheel chair patients at Halloran general hospital, Staten Island, N. Y., read about President Presi-dent Truman's proclamation declaring cessation of hostilities of World War II, as of noon, December 31. Nurse Veronica Saladigo looks on as wounded vets read about the order which immediately wiped off the statute books 18 emergency laws. IKS. G.O.P. SENATE 'BRASS' . . . Republican leaders taking over legislative legisla-tive responsibility In the 80th congress. The senators believed that they settled all their arguments before the session opened January S. Left to right are Sen. Homer Ferguson, Mich.; Sen. Wallace H. White Jr., Maine; Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Iowa; Sen. Robert A. Taft, Ohio; . Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, Mich.; Sen. Wayland Brooks, III., and Sen. Eugene D. Millikin, Colo. mm-?'-' ." MiHUl ipu.wOJIillBuWWlilHnillillliJ"ilUUIl,UllMi"WW mm. I . '-., -unm. BOY COMPOSER HAILED . . . Georgia Wei, who developed Us musical talent in a Japanese concentration composition, "Victory Day," as his "Wr ? ii 'i . , , V Vv 4 Hit" hi v I n - "IJW camp, is shown playing his own sister, Madeleine, looks on. I 1 - 4 FIRST PAIR OF SHOES . . . Wer-fel, Wer-fel, aged six, of the orphanage of Am Ilimmel, Vienna, shows his unbounded un-bounded Joy at the new shoes given him by the American Red Cross. Without the Red Cross help Austrian Aus-trian children would have faced a bitter winter. L LEADING ROOKIE ... Del Ennis, Philadelphia outfielder, who was chosen the leading rookie of 1946. He has made a New Year's resela-tlon resela-tlon to obtain s batting average of .350 for 1947 and to play the season without an error. Li ..ii TANGERINE QUEEN . . . Dorothy Sparkman, 22, Pasco City, Fla., who was crowned "Tangerine Queen" at Cypress Gardens, Fla. The crown was awarded by John Powers, model agency head. More than 600 gathered for the big Florida Flor-ida event. MISSES WEDDING . . . Pvt. James L. HiU, 18, Robinson, III., forced to stand guard at Hamilton Field, Calif., missed out on his wedding, wed-ding, bnt faked gun battle with six mythical bandits who he said attempted at-tempted to rob air base office. GOODLOE HEADS RFC . . . John D. Goodloe, Richmond, Ky., general gen-eral counsel of RFC, who succeeded succeed-ed George E. Allen, as director of Reconstruction Finance corporation. corpora-tion. Goodloe joined the RFC as executive assistant in 1941. 8" ! ; 5 '4 |
