Show KATHLEEN NORMS Families Will Suffer Austerity AMERICAN FAMILIES are SOME going to have a terrible time In the next few and they are going to make difficulties for us and remind us that we are in a bad Other American families will face this crisis as an and make it a period of such family co-operation that it actually will be It is for Mother and in a lesser sense Dad to decide which path the family Is going to you decide for the courageous get things in line right Gather the family together and make a little speech something like are now climbing up Into a prairie popularly known as a Covered We are going to take along only the very necessities of Here on this blackboard your father and I have made a note of what we You will see that it is something over Our first job Is to pay that that Is food gas limitations and power limitations will have come to They will not be as rigorous as those other nations almost all other nations have had to endure for the past 10 But to you they will seem Inexpensive Meals will include meals that will fill you warmly and but that to you will not seem like meals at This means that such dishes as macaroni and or or a thick or will each form a whole Once a day you will have and perhaps a little but put steaks and chops and roasts and broilers out of your once and for Breakfast will be an together pensive like baked apples or stewed and toast with butter Mid-meal cokes and chocolate bars and milk shakes are If you don't like one meal let us say you do rot care for stuffed baked sweets and prune shortcake then you will be all the hungrier for the next must be turned out the minute you are through with Towels must be used Clothes must be worn for more than one Long distance calls are out If you children find means of making pocket by all means do and take Saturday movies or Sunday hikes But remember that this household is doing its share tn the great government effort by going through the process known to mariners a i shortening the There must be no Any suggestions as ic further economies or more appetising meals will be but no grumbling just get It into your young American heads that whatever you sacrifice or suffer you are enduring one-tenth of what your big brothers and are facing-even when they are only In army camps at the deadly monotony of the lack of personal freedom these things you are not expected to And this is the best of The worst is the the the shock and fear of battle the misery of dying without one look from a loving home the dazed horror of coming home to be forever or In or in the Poverty Abroad gallant England children now and will always of an ordinary egg as a They have been allowed two shell eggs a month for a period of ten In Denmark because of fuel and power there is no hot water after four except for In Germany children pick up the chocolate wrappers our occupation forces drop and suck them for the taste of In China small boats crowd about our service scooping up for food the grapefruit the stale the half-rotten potatoes that are thrown never come to You'll as your country always has from this time of all the You may be grateful all your life that you had You may get a new sence of of the meaning of money and and above of the beauty of home love and service and mutual that whether you like It or we as a to face We can scramble through it with debts and complaints and black marketing and or we can leave much of our old waste and extravagance and personal possessive selfishness behind and come out better than we went |