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Show Kathleen Norris Says: Tie Business of Being an American BoU Syndicate. WNU Features. p3 Vi It means saying to the ambitious boy, "we can give you your year or two of medical school, anyway." By KATHLEEN NORRIS EVERY woman who manages man-ages a house and a family fam-ily knows the value of , a plan. No matter how tangled the problem is, if she can sit down with a pencil and paper pa-per and plan it all out, she feels a great relief in her troubled soul, and she knows all will go well. Perhaps her plan runs something like this. "Dave and Mary come down with Joe in his car. Susan is coming com-ing with Aunt Alice. The Fosters Fos-ters will have the guest room. Alice comes in with me, the two children on cots in the old playroom " and so on. Or perhaps, it is this sort of planning; plan-ning; "I'll combine celery and have a good soup that's Saturday night, and with the corned beef hash and cabbage and biscuits that'll do for supper. That leaves all those sausages for Sunday morning and a picnic lunch. Well, now I have only to make a dessert or two and I'm all axed." And so with the children's school outfits. And so with the proposed visit to the mountains or the seaside. Think it all out, settle the details, tell everyone Just what he or she has to do and all anxiety and uncertainty are gone. World Problems to Solve. Now we have a bigger job than week-end meals or picnic and house-party house-party plans to work on. Now we have world problems of feeding and housing to settle. "World problems!" We are accustomed accus-tomed to this phrase now, and we dismiss It as too big to handle. It dimly means straitened markets at home, great ships loaded with medicine and food moving to foreign for-eign ports, hordes of hungry, fright-tened, fright-tened, homeless folk waiting for that food. We have nervous sense that this winter will be hard on us all, but that we'll weather It. And then afterward The "then afterward" is what ought to concern us now. We'll get through this winter on limited meat and fuel; we'll get through the next and the next, and we'll slowly work our way out to that prosperity and plenty that nothing can keep away from us. But then? Then comes the time when everyone will want a little money. Ten thousand, 12 thousand, 20 thousand dollars in 1950 are going to spell the simple word "fortune." Opportunities will be everywhere; you may have what you want in 1950, If you plan for it today. To buy things now homes, furniture, furni-ture, rugs, cars, is not thrifty, because be-cause of high prices and scarcities. Also, qualities are not what they were, and what they will be again. But to get through these next few years quietly, thriftily, means that you can buy that hillside farm, with the oaks and the creek, some day. It means saying to the ambitious boy, "we can give you your first year or two of medical school, anyway." It means an investment in some growing industry that will bring you and your husband a comfortable and secure old age. It may nean mm Sar-e for a brighter tomorrow. FOR A HAPPY FUTURE Although the war is over, many grave problems remain with us. We can't do much about the hardships of Europe or Asia, excepting to contribute contrib-ute what we can to relief agencies. But in our own sphere, we can do a lot. Shortages will be with us for some time. Fuel and clothing cloth-ing will not be plentiful this winter. Some foods will still be hard to get. Nevertheless, there should be no real suffering suf-fering in this country, and we can 'look forward to a better year than we have had in a long time. This is a time to think of the future. Right now most people have considerable money saved up and they have good jobs. There is a great temptation, now that the restrictions re-strictions of war are being removed, re-moved, to go out and buy all those things you have had to do without for so long, even though prices are high and quality poor. The time for sacrifice and doing without is not yet over. Miss Norris warns. This is the great opportunity op-portunity to put away a tidy sum for the next jew years. The best investment, aside from any patriotic motives, is in government bonds, Miss Norris says. For safety and high yield these victory issues cannot be rivaled. Every one should buy all he can to assure as-sure a happy future. travel. It may mean helping a beloved be-loved daughter through the hard years when her nursery is small. Money is going to be Just as important im-portant to you in 1950 as it is today, to-day, and worth twice as much. Invest in Government Bonds. My answer to this problem is to invest in the last government bonds; the bonds that mean victory, rehabilitation, re-habilitation, the beginning of a new world. This is not government propaganda; I have not been asked to do it. J am saying it because I consider it an extraordinary opportunity. oppor-tunity. If in the dark war years there was ever a question as to how America was going to come out of this world agony, there is no question now. She has emerged gloriously, convincingly, unequivocally unequivo-cally on top. We who bought bonds when German buzz bombs were besieging be-sieging London, when Japanese suicide sui-cide planes were sinking our ships, may have shown some little faith and patriotism in the act. But not now. Now there is no doubt that an investment in America, Ameri-ca, as she makes her last great effort ef-fort to clean up the remains of the war ruins everywhere, and get her own wheels started again, is the safest investment in the world. When I say save, and scrimp if you must, and cut down, and sacrifice sacri-fice but lay away victory bonds, and bonds, and bonds," I am talking talk-ing not for America, not even for the soldiers and sailors and airmen for whose benefit this great drive is opened, but for you yourself and those you love, and your brighter bright-er tomorrow. TASTIER SCHOOL LUNCHES School days mean lunch-box days. Here are some suggestions to make lunches "go over in a big way." Use enough waxed paper to ccver sandwiches, fruit and cake completely com-pletely so that the food does not dry out. And use paper cups with lids to keep raw vegetables crisp. To keep lettuce from wilting long before lunchtime. wash the leaves, dry them well, and wrap them sepa-' sepa-' rately in waxed paper. Then the leaves can be adried to the sandwich i just before eating. |