Show KATHLEEN NORRIS HORRIS families will suffer austerity S SOME OME AMERICAN FAMILIES are going to have a terrible time in the next few years and they are going to make difficulties for us all and remind us that we are in a bad way other american families will face this crisis as an adventure and make it a period of such family operation cooperation co that it actually will be enjoyable it Is tor for mother and in a lesser sense dad to decide which path the family Is going to take isyou if you decide fo for the courageous way get things in line right now gather the family together and make a little speech something like this wo we are now climbing up into a prairie schooner popularly known as a covered wagon we are going to ta take ke along only the very feces 1 of life here on this blackboard your father and I 1 have made a note of what we owe you will see that it Is something aver our first job Is to pay that off when Wh enthat that is paid food Il milta eions gas limitations and power limitations will have come to america they will not beas rigorous us as those other nations almost all other nations have had to endure tor for the past bast 10 years but to you they will seem severe inexpensive meals they will include meals that will till fill you warmly and appetizingly but that to you will not seem like meals at all this means that such dishes as macaroni and cheese or beans or a thick s soup i or waffles will each form a whole supper once a day you will have vegetables and perhaps a little meat but put steaks and chops and roasts and broilers out of your minds once and for all breakfast will be an inex p 4 i X f P P S nit I 1 V N 11 m A i sh lam ity pensive fruit like baked apples or stewed apricots oatmeal and toast with butter substitute mid meal cokes and chocolate bars and milk shakes are out if you dont ilk like e one us say you do not care for stuffed cabbage baked sweets and prune shortcake why then you will be oil au the hungrier tor for the next meal lights must be turned out the minute you are through with them towels must be used carefully clothes must be worn for more than one season long distance calls are out it if you children can find means of making pocket money by all means do so and take in saturday y movies or sunday hikes but remember that this household Is doing its share in the great government effort by going through the process known to marin marineus mariners ma eru as shortening the sail call there must be no complaints any suggestions suggestion as to further economies or more appe meals will be welcome but no grumbling and just get it into your young american heads that whatever you sacrifice or suffer you are not enduring one tenth of what your big brothers and cousins are facing even when are only in ar army my camps at home loneliness home sickness the deadly monotony of drill the lack of personal freedom these things you are not expected to meet and this la Is the best of war the worst la is the cold the pain the shock and fear of battle fronts the misery of dying without one look from a loving home face t the he dazed horror of coming home to be forever helpless or in pain or in the dark poverty abroad ungallant in gallant england children now speak and will always speak of an ordinary egg as a shell egg they have been allowed two shell eggs almonth a month for a period of ten years in denmark because of fuel ond and power conservation there thera Is bohot no hot water after tour four except for hospitals in germany children pick up the chocolate wrappers our occupation forces drop and suck them for the taste of sweet in china small boats crowd about our service vessels scooping up tor for food the grapefruit shells the stale broad bread the half rotten potatoes that ire are thrown overboard never come to that emerge as your country always has emerged from tills time of trial au all the stronger you may be 6 grateful all your life that you hadet had it you may get a new sence of values of the meaning of money and budgeting and above all 4 of the beauty of home love and service and mutual dependence and remember that whether you like itkor it or not we have as a nation to face it we can scramble through it with debts and complaints and black marketing and discomfort or we can leave much of our old waste and extravagance and personal possessive seltis selfishness hn ess behind anda come out wiser better than we went in |