Show Kathleen n Norris Says i j Don'ts for the New Year Bell Dell Syndicate Syndicate Features t j L- L i fr It t is going to be one of the most amazing years ever eler poured out one of o Times Time's big mysterious bag By KATHLEEN NORRIS ONT make things harder DONT DON'T D for us all by going into the new year with a whole set of prejudices and determinations determinations determinations for it is going to be one of the most amazing years ever poured out of Times Time's big mysterious mysterious mysterious mys mys- bag It may well be the most important in our l life e as a nation For 1944 may bring us peace And we have to face tomorrows tomorrow's peace with just as much courage courage courage cour cour- age sanity and faith as were we're facing today's war You have faith in the war var even though you dont don't understand understand understand under under- stand all a Have Hav faith in inthe inthe inthe the peace too You wont won't understand understand understand un un- all about that either Dont Don't forget that the ideals of our great Allies are not our national ideals they never have been When Russia England and Scandinavia speak up at the Peace Table dont don't be surprised i if they surprise us and perhaps shock us In Europe every nation is close to a danger zone We Ve dont don't know anything about danger zones for our nearest enemies are thousands of miles away New Conditions in Europe Dont Don't forget that their enemies are right next door Dont Don't expect France and Germany and Poland and the Balkans to go back to any war ante-war status They cant can't and they they- wont There will have to be new borders new regulations And probably increased increased increased in in- creased powers for some of the nations nations nations na na- na- na that have been fighting for decency decency decency de de- de- de security and peace Dont Don't begin to worry and to write letters to the papers if some of the very things for which we have been fighting appear to be temporarily forgotten when the first treaties are drafted Perhaps they must be Perhaps those troublesome little European states that are always drawing greater powers into these agonizing world catastrophes must be ruled and held in check for awhile That isn't really the serious ques ques- tion The question is just what terms will be offered to all the smaller countries and just how responsible responsible responsible re re- re- re are the offering powers If II these terms promise all the cruelly wrecked nations security from starvation starvation starvation star star- homelessness war then they will be good terms And those good terms will be infinitely in infinitely infinitely in- in finitely more important than any question pf borders races territorial territorial territorial rial rights mandatory powers and andall andall andall all the other meaningless words that made such an ethnic mess of Europe after the last war Russia is conspicuously a peace peace- loving country Scandinavia contains a group of the wisest-governed wisest nations nations nations na na- na- na of all aU America boasts an unprecedented unafraid friendship with her neighbors not in one hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred have Canada Mexico years I Ithe the Argentine the Central American Ameri Ameri- I can powers or Brazil heard our guns China is too wise to believe in rapine murder aggression war Any peace upon which these powers decide will willbe willbe willbe be a good peace even though it leaves much to be settled as years ripen and perfect a better relationship relationship relationship relation relation- ship between the nations and a n wiser guardianship of the warlike elements by the peaceful peoples Allies Need Outposts Against Aggression Dont Don't attempt to right all the wrongs of the long years just at t first Remember that there ore are certain certain certain tain island nations like the Philip Philip- pinc pinc-i for Instance that are infinitely bettered and admit it by the controlling controlling controlling con con- trolling interest of a stronger power There are arc islands that must be helped justly and wisely or they will be made continually the prey of predatory nations We and our Allies will certainly have to d demand mand inspection bases after the war so that no steel mills anywhere may begin to work night and day to prepare prepare pre pre- pare par for the world-slaughter world of 1960 So perhaps the most important dont of the New Year is dont don't be too quick to decide condemn worry over the peace terms if they are broached this year which some wise men and all praying women hope they may be There will wall be good men and wise men at the Peace Table and thank God they will all WANT to do right down to the last and least important one of them they will all intend to be fair And in that is a great hope Dont Don't overlook another possibility for 1944 I mean the talk and discussion discussion discussion dis dis- dis- dis about the maintenance of tremendous armed forces for our protection here and the safety of our interests elsewhere There is no other way there will not be any other way for many generations to come So if like myself you are a woman woman woman wom wom- an who has winced away from militarism militarism militarism mili mili- dont don't be too stubborn about it Keep an nn open mind We Ve are not a belligerent nation but just as we keep a tremendous police force in our great cities so we must keep a national police force now Twenty-five Twenty years ago I had no vote But if I had had one I think I would have used it against our participation in the World Court America Must 1 Share World Problems But I see now that we must be involved anyway So it comes back to my original contention that if we can trust Russia t England China the Scandinavia and our own p people ople to draft an honest peace vie we must face our share of responsibility responsibility responsibility for that peace all over the world You and I would be very anxious if iI we heard that New York or Chicago had determined to abandon abandon abandon aban aban- don all police protection and depend depend depend de de- de- de pend upon the other great cities to prevent vice and abuse Nationally we are som somewhat what in the same position position position tion peace has to be guarded everywhere everywhere everywhere every every- where and its it's everyone's job from now on When that first Peace Committee meets I hope our churches will be thronged with men and women from morning until night hundreds of them thousands of them spending day all-day vigils slipping sUpping in during the noon hour stopping on the way home at night filling the surrounding surround surround- ing streets with streams of pilgrims in the old medieval way to prove that we believe in the old promise knock and it shall be opened unto you seek and ye shall shull find ask and andye andye andye ye shall shaH receive |