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Show Kathleen Norris Says: Pence (tnd Four ih of July ru-ll Syiullc.-Ue. WNU Features. "Unfortunately it has become the fashion to belittle ourselves, just why it i nara 10 suy. By KATHLEEN NORRIS THE other day at a woman's wom-an's club I heard a famous fa-mous man talking about the war we have so gloriously glorious-ly won, and the world crisis that is following the war. Three hundred women looked at him respectfully while he told them how mistaken mis-taken America has been in her postwar policies, how pitifully she has failed in her postwar obligations, how deeply she is despised by the great countries overseas for whose liberty she has spent young blood, money and arms so prodigiously. He repeated every depressing rubber-stamp rubber-stamp generality that all his type of speakers use, and wound up with the disheartening disheart-ening statement that, we had not seized the advantage that our victories gave us, and were hence the laughing stock of Europe and even the Orient. Ori-ent. When anyone talks this way and men are always coming back from China and Europe and everywhere else and telling us these things I see red, and I think the Fourth of July, in this first year of peace, is a good time to say so. This man, and all the others like him, who are flocking to platforms and the radio and into print, hasn't evidently done any thinking on his own, about America's share in the world-wide disaster of the second great war. He has taken the criticisms criti-cisms of other men as ignorant or biased as himself, and because life abroad is barely sufferable, and life at home not too comfortable, he blames it all on America, and grows eloquent in knocking his own country. coun-try. Foreigners Jealous of Us. It has unfortunately grown to be the fashion to belittle ourselves; just why it is hard to say, except that as each country of the whole globe awakens from the nightmare of six years of horror, it realizes jealously that there is a country in the Western hemisphere that was not invaded, that is rich, that is almost ludicrously generous, and that there are clothes and wheat and medicines and money still existent in large quantities in that country and so why not try for a share of them? Countries that did nothing to prepare pre-pare for the war, that saw it coming com-ing and shut their eyes and went on prospering and growing fat, are now bitter in their criticism of the magnificent country that isn't belligerent, that doesn't want to extend ex-tend her borders or run over any little neighbor, that is wealthy because be-cause of her principles of applied democracy, that has proved her way to be the way to the greatest highest level of human living ever known in the world. They dare to criticise the country that has given given given of her stores of both wealth and possessions in a river of help that would deplete any other oth-er nation to bankruptcy point. They dictate how much she must give. They ask us to raise the price of our products for our own people, so that their inferior factories and slower production may compete and we do it. They forget the convoys, con-voys, the planes, the arms, the money that supported them in the fight for the democracy for which, now, they have no use. 'Pride in Ourselves. I don't often write of any but domestic matters, but this is the "Our unparalleled generosity. , . LETS RESPECT OURSELVES It is a strange thing, comments com-ments Miss Norris after hearing hear-ing a speech, how we Americans Ameri-cans lilce to run ourselves down. After winning a great ivar, to which we contributed more than any other nation, we are expected to take care of all the hungry and homeless home-less people all over the world. H e are endeavoring to do this, and are trying to ration ourselves our-selves so that there will be more for starving Europeans and Asiatics. This is a most noble and Christian effort. We are glad to do our share, and much more than our share. But when we are constantly being criticized by foreigners for not taking care of everyone, without with-out expecting recompense, we feel hurt and angry. No other nation is giving anything like the amount of food and clothing cloth-ing and medical supplies. On top of our enormous war debt, we are expected to shoulder staggering burdens for nations that contributed little or nothing noth-ing to the war, or the relief of war-ravaged populations. It is bad enough from for-eigners, for-eigners, but when native American spokesmen berate us for not giving everything we have away, including our precious defense secrets, we get mad. It is time. Miss Norris Nor-ris reminds us, to think of ourselves our-selves and our virtues, as well as our shortcomings. The Fourth of July is a good time for puffing out our chests. week of Fourth of July, and ever drop of American blood in my veir is apt to get hot when I conside the magnificence of our war effor our unparalleled generosity in bot peace and war, and the calm a: sumption by all the rest of th world that we are created and exis ent to fight their wars, pay thei debts, feed their hungry, bind u their wounds. These are beautifi tilings to do Christian-like thing to do but we are human, too,, an unless we feel in our own hearts certain pride in ourselves, nobod else is going to feel it. So whatever the foreign pres says of it, and however ridiculoi. their claims and their reflectior upon us are, don't you be one the Americans who lament our sti pidity, our meanness, our intern: tional ignorance. Think twice befox you quote the glib speakers a about us, those men who re-iterai that "America must not be left bi hind in the rebuilding of the ne world. America must do he share!" Her share! Ask them some tim what the other nations propose 1 do, what their share is? No othc nation has as yet told us anythin of co-operative action in helping an rebuilding. They all want help, lol of it, but each one wants it e: clusively for itself. If you hav heard of any European nation-or nation-or even any other nation in th western hemisphere whose peop are planning to help any other pet pie, I would be glad to be notifie of it, for I have not. And meanwhile, on the Fourth c July and every day of the yeai three cheers for the red, white an blue. Sun's Rays Cure Rickets It is not necessary to get a sur tan from long exposure to ultrj violet rays, to cure or prevent ricl ets, according to Dr. Lewis R. Ko: ler of the General Electric researc laboratory. "Rickets can be pr vented and c"ured by repeated dose of ultraviolet too small to prodnc any tanning. Ultraviolet docs nc penetrate very far into the body tis sue. It is practically oil absorbe in the first milimeter of skin." Treatment by ultraviolet lamp gives the same benefits. |
