Show T I Kathleen Norris S Says Says' ys t Thinking Toward Peace I Dell Bell S Syndicate Features ya 1 r fI- fI t I or 1 jf it t f 11 1 l lr r rr J 1 1 I I t I Il l 1 r t I i J I rr We c have to take whatever circumstances this tear lear imposes upon us You ou can com corn comfort I fort your our daughter as she will you ou and ancl let lct the thc baby be a comfort to both By KATHLEEN N No HE I HE most terrible thing THE I about a war is being so J- J fearful all the time writes Mildred Wilson from St. St Paul I have never been afraid in rny my life before but now I am Im I'm constantly anxious about my son and my son-in-law son both away on naval naval naval na na- na- na val duty Im I'm sick with sympathy sympathy sympathy sym sym- pathy and apprehension over my daughter 23 years old expecting expecting expecting ex ex- her first baby and breaking her heart over her husbands husband's absence Im I'm worried worried worried wor wor- ried about my husband for his is the furniture business and people in our neighborhood are conserving conserving conserving con con- serving what they have not buying anything new I have all the usual worries about rationing and the home table my husband like so many other men likes chops and steaks and roasts repeated endlessly endlessly endlessly end end- lessly and we cant can't get them any more A steak and fried potatoes with coffee have composed his favorite favorite favorite fa fa- fa- fa meal for years vegetables vegetables' and sweets dont don't register at allI allI allI all I want to do all I can for the war effort but with Phyllis' Phyllis baby coming and my man home for three meals a day I cant can't spare the timeto time timeto to become a nurses' nurses aid or give eight hours every third day to interceptor interceptor interceptor in- in command And so I worry worry worry wor wor- ry and I dont don't sleep and that makes m me me a nervous half-efficient half sort of woman who shivers at the radio news distrusts everyone who is conducting conducting con con- conducting ducting this war despairs of the worlds world's future to s say y nothing of Americas America's and altogether is becoming becoming becoming becom becom- ing a burden on herself and everyone everyone everyone every every- one else I wouldn't write you the letter ends if I di didn't nt feel that thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of other women some of whom I know are sinking into the thc same morass Have Hav you any suggestions suggestions suggestions sug sug- as to the jay way out The way out my dear Mildred is like a dose of castor oil It takes a certain amount of courage to pour the nauseous stuff into the sp spoon on to open the mouth and gulp the oily disgustingness down But when your mind and soul are clogged and poisoned poisoned poisoned poi poi- poi poi- you have to take the equivalent equivalent equivalent lent of this dose if you are to re- re cover Become World Minded l You know the cure of course It Itis Itis Itis is to lift your spirit into a higher less personal less selfish zone Instead Instead Instead In In- stead of wanting safety security wealth happiness for just the few persons you love you must learn to want them and to work for them for all the men and women of the world We have to live in the world in inthis inthis inthis this strange little ball spinning in cosmic space because there is nowhere nowhere nowhere no no- where else to live There has always always al al- always al- al ways been plenty of food and shelter for all the peoples of the world but bu t td thousands of years ago rulers an and d kings and soldiers and even th the e prophets and priests of the Old Tes got off the beam to use th the e expressive phrase a and d things began to slip away from Gods God's pods Gods law and an anet d get g get et u under the law of man Q Civilization marched steadily I ahead houses were built food wa was s refined schools and hospitals and an d colleges sprang up everywhere me men n I I learned to read But alongside of all al thi th this s evil marched as well Bloody Blood Y i wars wars poverty hunger were all to tol tolerated i- i crated in their primitive degrees and as those degrees developed the they l y became greater and more widespread widespread wide wide- spread too Now with the new help that civilization civilization civilization civili civili- and science give us we have hav e to go back those long weary centuries centuries cent u ries and begin at the beginning g again We have have to to brace ourselves s to feel that no matter what the personal personal personal per per- cost may be it will be worth wort h I wl if we emerge from this time tim timo c o- o of darkness into a peace that i is s 4 WARS WAR'S HARDSHIPS War brings hardships heartbreak heart heart- break breah and misgivings to all o of f us But we mustn't allow those things to discourage us to disrupt disrupt dis dis- rupt our lives Kathleen Norris points out that the thc cure curc is to lift your our spirit into a higher less personal less selfish zone torte Instead Instead In In- Instead I stead o of f wanting safety security and happiness for just the jew few persons you love you must want them for the thc entire world No matter what tat the thc personal cost we wc must strive for the greater goal of peace security and happiness happiness happiness hap hap- for all truly Gods God's peace We Ve have to take whatever circumstances this war imposes upon us and wrench and hammer them into happiness and serenity and service If the two sailors that you love dont don't come home again you must comfort your daughter as she will you and let the baby be a comfort to both If meals in your house and mine comedown come comedown comedown down to bowls of oatmeal and baked apples then let us remember that whole nations have thrived and grown strong on just such simple fare I I I i I War Var Alters Everybody Every family you know will be affected by this world catastrophe Every life that touches yours willbe willbe will willbe be changed With all all the hope and glory of the months ahead sorrow and loss will strike too Face it See yourself as a grain of sand on the great beach of the world play your tiny part so gallantly that you will never hurt others with your own grief And pray always For we Ve are going to want Gods God's light on the peace to come We Ve are never going to feed the world as the visionaries say because that is im im- possible But perhaps we may humbly humbly humbly hum hum- bly help the war-torn war world to reach that point where it can cart feed itself Perhaps with seed and machinery and counsel and lowered tariffs and altered immigration laws we can show the world that we really mean our offers of goo goodwill Russia China Poland middle-Europe middle these countries are quite capable of feeding feeding feed feed- ing themselves after a few years of reconstruction and after a hundred years of peace there need not be hunger or destitution anywhere But we must have that century of peace And it is only by strong and generous generous generous gen gen- erous and wholly impersonal thinking thinking thinking think think- ing that we can even dream of it It lt will wll not mean our enforcing our ideas even of various freedoms anywhere It will mean that every nation is free to form its own constitution constitution con constitution con con- and adopt its own style of government and that while mighty awakening China keeps an eye on the Orient and magnificent Russia and England and the Nordic countries countries countries coun coun- tries watch Europe our men will return to an America so educated to the real possibilities of republican living that even their own beautiful country will have progressed far ahead of her own old ideals See it that way as you go about wheeling the baby carriage or stand standI I at the sink washing the eternal dishes See yourself as one tiny unit among the the millions millions the millions of making home-making women and office- office dru drudging ging men who are lre resolving in their hear hearts that nothing but universal uni uni- versal good shall come of this conflict conflict conflict con con- whatever their personal agonies may he be t Live a hundred years years years' ahead when you and I will be dust plan the world that the baby of Phyllis Phyllis' Phyllis Phyllis' Phyllis Phyllis' Phyl Phyl- lis' lis baby will live in Pra Prayer er Constantly Needed Prayer is essential It is as essential essential essen essen- today as lS air we cant can't breathe without it Dont Don't specialize in prayer bring Harry home safe and have Phyllis' Phyllis baby a boy and have Papa get that big government or order er Pray for the greater good t 1 |