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Show hleenN ,..,.dj.....-"l " "Poor Roy! He .ant, sympathy, petting and understanding He has had a pretty tough time." By KATHLEEN NORMS ALL the time he is away, l and for six months after he gets home, it ought to be made illegal for a soldier's sol-dier's wife to ask for. a divorce. di-vorce. If we had had a law like that for the last four years, hundreds of American homes would have been saved. And as the saving of the American home is as important as the saving of America, this would have been a wise law. Soldiers are subject to hundreds of laws, some good, some petty; they must obey them all or suffer humiliating and painful penalties. A man doesn't ask to get Into the service, he is drafted; it may mean the loss of an arm or a leg, or of his eyes, but he has no choice. It may mean that he comet back from years of service to discover that the sweet and gentle woman of whose love he has been dreaming dream-ing has taken on another lover, that she wants a divorce, that the babies whose little crumpled snap-shots he has been treasuring through many an hour of danger and loneliness, are to be his babies no longer; he has lost home, wife, children at one blow. But he has lost much more than that. His morale receives a deadly dead-ly stroke. He is tired, disillusioned, perhaps embittered, perhaps sickened sick-ened and saddened by the long bout with death, by the sight of crushed bodies and torn limbs. Of course he doesn't come home the sunny, unanalytical, easy-g"oing young fellow who went away. Of course he needs great doses of affection af-fection and silence and patience, if he is to be cured. Decision in Two Days. He doesn't get them. "Roy had only been home two days," writes a Seattle wife, "when we knew it was no go!" Two days! After 31 months in the inferno of the South Pacific, after risking his life over and over and over, Roy comes home to his dream woman, and finds she isn't a dream at aU, but a quite human, faulty aggrieved young thing who believes that she has had just as hard a time as he has. His children are grown out of recognition; finances are in an unstable condition; Anna knows he ought to go back and finish his law course, but good gracious, she can t live on a government allowance allow-ance all that time - and what on earth are the Bakers to do? JtZl R7' ?6 Wants apathy, petting and understanding, he wants ?Pre?iative aention of all his old friends he has had a prett tough time. Xnstead, no one Tat s any particular notice of him, and Anna poses a new probIem rfa3yhhad 0nly been "ome two aeed that he waspfy In 48 hours she hart t, . cuss him with aU met wenrt diS-Parently. diS-Parently. Roy knew he w"' ap" lar, and that didn't help PU' B..t tl?0y,Marrle Again. But there's another half .u, "He had no choice " ' 1 got her divorce and the care of two small girls. Roy married a woman who has quite a little property out in the country and is having a good time managing it Miraculously, he finds himself loved and useful; Anna is out in the cold. "I've always loved Roy," her letter let-ter finishes, "and is it fair that I should be left to raise the children, with no help from him because he has no money - while he has a glorious time running thres ranches?" Thousands of wives have demanded de-manded divorces from servicemen during these years. And almost equal thousands have wished they were back with the original mate. A few months of patience, a genuine genu-ine desire to understand.what a man rh-M f ' 8 Careful PreP"ing of the children's minds, and before you know it, the strangeness of the readjustment re-adjustment wears away, and the want? uWman find that they still want to be companions In the ad-1 ad-1 venture of life. K you are one of those wives who rhnnT,man With g00d news. with L ofl P,an' WUh 8 herol o difflc ,,r U"avoidabl changes and joffor f' yU haVe de yr iZ r America as ell as he did theVh? are,n0t' yU may be ang me or n"1S l0aped lnto war rZv ? p T war tIme divor. you may already be feeling, as t fLi |