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Show Kathleen Norris Says: A Plan for Father s Day Bell Syndicate. WNU Features. "Dad, Sis and I really need a little money. She's still paying for her fur and we got our hats last week" By KATHLEEN NORRIS BY A PLAN for Father's day I don't mean asking ask-ing the Cousin Willys to dinner and having strawberry ice cream for dessert, or even having his chair covered as a ' surprise. I mean that every family shall make a plan that im-, im-, mediately concerns father's i comfort and security. Be- cause while my heart is aching ach-ing now for practically everyone every-one in the world, it really does ache especially for fathers. . Mothers, I may say in a hur-i hur-i ried aside, are more resource- ful, more independent, and f more able to heal the wounds of change and absence than ! fathers are. Twenty million women in America, young wives and old, are doing things they never dreamed of doing three years ago. , Whereas for twenty million fa-, fa-, thers life is unchanged, except that the office routine is harder; there is an empty place at the dinner table; expenses are higher, and everything ev-erything he once hoped to make cer-I cer-I tain and sure for his loved ones has been torn up by the roots. Most wives don't realize HOW J HARD LIFE IS FOR FATHER. In 1 thousands of households he is taken for granted. Of course his place is 1 set at the table and if there's a girl in the family he isn't expected to help with the dishes, but too many J times life in the household goes on 1 with almost no reference to him at all. He is there, the good man who gets unreasonably cross sometimes : and has to be soothed, even at the cost of truth, who is allowed to read the paper before anyone else at breakfast, and who hands out money ' for everything. One Man Bank Meets Appeals. ' "Daddy, how about my five? How 1 about my allowance? Tom's shoes, dear. The plumber, Dad. The man 1 was here again about the garden, hadn't we better tell him to go s ahead? Dad, you said you'd pay v me it's the Community Chest, dear, the Red Cross, it's Betty and e the Scouts, darling, it's your sister's e anniversary it's Saturday, and we i told them they could go to the movies, I'd like to make a payment B i to the dentist; we have to have hats, e,Dad." 3j Dad plods along, year in and year s out. In these days he travels in " packed trains, crowds his way into c busses. Hcs getting older and he's - getting nowhere, fast. Sis is making i money at the rationing board; Moth-c Moth-c er chatters of her nursing course e i good, all good. But he had dreams, e ' long ago, of retiring some day. of e ' having a little farm and maybe a d few chickens and a pup too bad to i" i go on paying rent all this time, a Some fellers own their homes and e have an apartment or two to rent. besides. d; Baker and Miller have about the It same pay as Dad, but their wives s have everything all cleaned up, no t- bills, war-bonds salted down in the i- bank ell, a man must sleep bet-t bet-t ter when his family stands back of him like that. The boy will come s back from Italy of course, and they'll r all pull out of this mess, but some-s some-s times he thinks that if voung Bill 0 Make him comfortable . . . I MAKE IT HIS DAY! During these war days Fa ther is the forgotten man, even more than usual. He has to meet higher expenses with the same salary; he must buy war bonds, and contribute to the Red Cross and all that. Now that his son is gone into service, he feels lonely and de pressed, for he knows the hardships of military life, and its dangers. The son who was his pride and hope is gone, at least for the time being, and Father can't say anything. Mothers get the sympathy, but Fathers are supposed to be strong and silent. So on this F athers day, Miss Norris suggests the family, fam-ily, that is mother and the girls let up on their constant pleas and hints for money, and let Dad have a little peace of mind. The day should be given over to making Father comfortable getting his pipe and slippers, preparing his favorite fa-vorite dishes, and letting him have the car. These attentions will please him a lot more than a party, or an expensive present. doesn't come back, and anything happens to him, to Dad himself, it'll be hard going for Hatty and the girls. However, whenever he says a word to Hatty about trying to catch up, she and the girls simply go crazy. Does he mean the few servicemen they have in now and then for dinner, and Betty's new suit and buying a second-hand car? Good gracious, isn't it enough to have Bill overseas and not helping out with expenses any more, and food and everything else just about doubled in price, and Mother and Sis so tired every night that ii they can get Mrs. Moore to come in and clean up goodness knows that they ought to feel free to do it! What do a few bills matter when any day they may have the news of something some-thing happening to Bill, and half the families they know are in mourning! Time for Economy. Dad knows they are all wrong, that this is the time to shorten sail and get every household in the union into shape for the coming changes and cuises, but he can't argue three women down, so he retires to his radio and his newspaper, and hears the murmurs from the women in the dining room. "What's the matter with him lately?" late-ly?" his daughters ask cautiously as they press frills or pin up curls. "He's so cross. Mother, you ask him if we can't go to the lake with the gang for the week-end. Tell him it's really to amuse the boys from camp. About five dollars each, isn't it. Sis?" So Betty comes in and asks him if he's tired, arranging her pretty curls in the mirror while she talks, and finally dares break into it boldly "Dad, Sis and I really need a little money. She's still paying for her fur. and we gt our hats lust week, but this week-end' Oil From Fruit Seeds Extraction of oil from fruit kernels ker-nels has been started on a large scale in Rumania, according tc Chemical Age, Lonnnn. Three thousand thou-sand wagons of oi are to be produced pro-duced from 20.000 tons of grapf seed, 1.000 wagons of pumpkin seeds will yield 270 wagons of oil. and a further 100 wagons of oil will be extracted ex-tracted from melon pips. Tom ale seeds, containing 20 to 30 per cenl of oil, will contribute their qunta. Many tons of plum kernels have been used annu'.V. |