Show Kathleen Norris Says L j Better Days Are Arc A Ahead Bell Ben Syndicate syndicate Service I i 1 t t. t ti k I f N T This u lr end fOnd Humiliations mill Jill be prices will nill be bl paid pl hearts heartt broken children hildren started or destroyed by malnutrition the dead will nill be buried and a II great many loud d voices oku u will nill ill be silenced by death Jel By KATHLEEN NORRIS WO pamphlets came to tomy tomy tomy T TWO my desk this morning from the Writer Writers AntiWar AntiWar AntiWar Anti- Anti War bureau for War Anti-War Mobilization If your interior economy like mine has been in something of a quiver of ir irrepressible irrepressible irrepressible ir- ir repressible terror over the the war news of late over the horrors that pour in upon us from the telephone radio movie news press the two treatises together form a fine tonic for today's excitement and hysteria the frantic boast and foolish word of Germany and Italy are affect affect- ingus all and we are already looking skyward to see the parachute troops darkening our free skies A victorious Germany this article reminds us wont won't be much better oft than a defeated defeat defeat- ed France and England Famine Famine Fam Fam- ine is staring all Europe in inthe inthe inthe the face now victors and vanquished vanquished van van- alike Policing Task Tremendous The complete picture of Hitler's policing job would look like this according according ac aCt cording to the pamphlet two Forty million Frenchmen six forty-six million British seventeen million Belgians and Dutch plus Norwegians Poles Danes Czechs Austrians and Lux Lux- will bring the total to over one hundred fifty million per per- sons Most of these the essay states arc more bitterly opposed to Hit flit Hitler ler than we are they are they have more reason to be Furthermore inside Germany itself all is not well With this threatening mass of hatred around him Hitler filler would probably think more than twice before he looked around for more enemies friends Now Foes Later The article goes gOlS on to sketch the situation of a completely triumphant Germany holding a very shaky haky truce with Russia it is true for Stalin is none too comfortable a neighbor and holding with Italy one of those compacts which as weve we've all seen in the last disgraceful Yo weeks is all ready to be transferred to any new winner as soon as that winner is declared But Dut suppose all that settled seWed and the European peoples one hundred and fifty million strong meekly herded into line then we are to imagine Hitler turning toward us His Ills dead burled buried the crippled activities activities ties tics of a dozen nations mended and shakily busy once more the Inevitable Inevitable stable famine of the awful winter of 41 1940 somehow survived and the dictators themselves still alive alive alive- which is always a big as assumption assumption- then they're ready for us The plan would be to establish a great military military mili tary base in one of the Central American countries But hundreds of If thousands of men must be landed there before a gun can be fired lines of communication opened and guns tanks ammunition hospitals commissary commissary com the tremendous stalls staffs of engineers and mechanics made available Raw country must be opened and the complete cooperation cooperation co opera tion of the entire invaded country assUrEd as as- cured And what would we be doing do do- doing ing ing Odds In Our Favor or Maj Gen Johnson Ha Hagood good chief of staff line of communications A A. E. E F F. says that we have only five Ave ports in the United States at which enemy forces could disembark All AB the while he was getting ashore his lighters barges piers cranes special special cial equipment we would be right in our own country with inexhaustible ble supplies at our backs Military experts maintain says sas this authority author ity Uy that our navy and airplanes could stop Hitler long before he got anywhere near our shores Obviously an invading army especially across one of the great DOST DoNT BE LIE AFRAID America is 01 os free from danger of in I a mi ion on as as' as aisne assle she ever eier was as Kath Kall Kathleen hen leen Norris Karris beliet es ts Sill She points out that lt many years ear 1 trill nill pass Iau HISS before Hitler l can III be e ready dy to 10 attack ll II us a u lot lat of 01 things thing can an happen h in that time linte If II he does lillIS try Iry to 10 come here his i invading fleets be he stopped slopped long before they Iy reached our ur shores lOres Miss Min Norris points out oceans is at a disadvantage That's why we are as nearly invincible at home as any country can e. e That's why it seems to many women at al least a foolish thing to lo carry naval threats too far away from home Taking care cf ourselves maintaining maintain ing a dignified attitude to national troubles overseas that are arc neither understood by us nor of our making makIng mak mak- Ing would seem srem the wiser policy It would seem the characteristic American American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean policy For while we are willing willIng willing will will- ing to help In every other possible way and have so helped and while awhile we are willing to give political recognition recognition rec rec- to totalitarian governments everywhere and have so given it it itis itis is too much to expect a normally peaceful and friendly nation that she shebe shebe shebe be scared into sharing in wars she shedid shedid shedid did nothing to create I Life Will Go On This war will end Humiliations will be swallowed prices will be paid hearts broken children starved or destroyed by malnutrition tion the dead will be buried burled and anda a great many loud voices will be I silenced by death And when well we'll all emerge adjusted to the new conditions conditions con con- recognizing a little less power pow pow- er cr and pride in this nation a littlemore little littlemore littlemore more power and pride In that a tag fag of territory clipped off oft here and attached at there And for the great mass of European European Euro Euro- women the days day's problem will willbe willbe be what it always was as a job for forthe forthe forthe the man a welcome for the new baby a little less butter buller perhaps and and- fewer exchanges of old cars for new pleasures that cant can't be kept away where there Is health and work and love reconciliation to new Ideas Ideas Ideas-Ideas ideas which will be fading and blending and changing into the theold theold theold old ideas before they are fairly accepted ac It Has lias Happened Before For the face of Europe has been bern war riddled and the boundaries of Europe changed incessantly for one thousand years Spain ruled The Netherlands by inherited right Poland Poland Po Po- land has been anybody's and everybody's everybody's everybody's every every- body's Calais was Queen Marys Mary's Alsace and Lorraine have to look Inthe in inthe inthe the glass every morning to see whether they're French or German autocracy starved and shot down the people of Russia within the memory of man nothing that can happen there there today can surprise them after what they knew in 1905 and all the long centuries before 1905 Spain has had a dozen insurrections in a hundred years her kings disappear disappear dis appear reappear fly again Napoleon Napo Napo- leon loon thought he owned Holland and Italy and sallied gallantly into Russia Russia Rus sia across what wasn't yet et Belgium in 1800 In a generation or two all the countries lapsed back to their original positions if indeed European European European Euro Euro- countries may be said to have such things So sur sum corda Gorda Which is one way of saying Lift up your hearts Our own history is a gallant gal lant one unafraid one unafraid friendly contented content ed cd within Its own borders Our northern neighbors are united to us by more than one hundred years of friendship Our two great oceans give us a protection that any European Europea Euro Euro- pea peari nation w well eU may envy We Weare Weare Weare are not thieves we buy what we want and keep the friendship of the purchaser The world laughed at us when we bought Alaska at t the Gadsden Gads Gads- den Purchase the Louisiana Purchase Pur chase when we made compensation for the Philippines But that was wise dealing France Spain Russia Rus sla sia arent aren't trying to steal anything back from us us as a result Let theother the theother theother other nations nation learn that lesson and well we'll have a better world i Dont Don't be afraid |