Show kathleen norris says there Is a power stronger than armies bell service r P iva 14 4 V if q I 1 en Z aa ai Z e S N 1 P 7 pamela says lays this is our war tear as much as En glands grandma asks 8 a what at it u america coming to when we have to ask another nation for perm permission so to feed starving european children and tom departing for college sa says democracy c exists only in in russia by KATHLEEN NORRIS HE only persons who those THE are happy today are those who believe in the infinite power and goodness of god and who ask him with the faith of children to bring good and peace and brotherhood out of the sad bad mad tangle into which men have gotten the world this mean that only C clergymen rabble rabbis monks and nuns can claim today that inner sense of security and confidence we call faith one have to renounce the things of the world but the worry and pressure of the times are so great that many women today dont dare stop to pray they get themselves into absolute frenzies of tear fear hate and resentment as they take to in news reports and argue breathlessly with anyone and everyone who will listen the talk that goes on at family dinner tables today Is enough to disrupt even the most devoted groups father opines kopines gloomily that de democracy oc Is dead and the countr country y headed tor for ruin mother wishes that european nations had some sense and had seen this cataclysm coming then we would not have gotten into such a fix pamela Is sure that it if mother and dad just came down to headquarters with her every morning know that this Is 1 our war as much as it Is En glands grandmother says she know what americas coming to when she has to ask some other nation humbly for permission to feed starving european children and tom departing with his books lor for college observes that democracy exist exis in any country tn in the world except in n russia russa a gee professor brown Is Is swell when he tens tells them about russia 1 makes praying g difficult under these cir circumstances bums how hard it is to turn to prayer the inevitable weary hopeless feeling is if god Is all power and all good why was this allowed to happen well it allowed to happen it is no accident this seething horror of murder and hate bate in europe it is as much the logical fruit of what has been going on there tor for a thousand years as the raging ragin g forest fire Is the result of careless campers scattered cigarettes abandoned fires for a thousand years nations that should have been good neighbors and friends nations whose sons and daughters have interchanged ter colleges college enjoyed the same sports and books and operas influenced each others pattern of clothes and manners have been planning wars rather than cultivating at peace and after every war the winning nations have imposed conditions as cruel as they dared upon the losing nations taxes have been quadrupled territory h has a a teen been seized customs rates and tariff costs cleverly adjusted to work the absolute ruin of the once liked and admired neighbor and armies of occupation have moved in to maintain food blockades and destroy the self respect and the comfort of the conquered people for a thousand years I 1 with no desce nesce treaty ever maintained and ach war more terrible than the THE WAY TO PEACE we all want peace says kathleen norris but we are arc willing to work for it only after we get what we want and to get what we want we employ means that lead inevitably to war hate and injustice or having gained a temporary peace we use our power r to promote the agencies of war we trample on the rights of the conquered we set up prohibitive tariffs to ruin nations we once called our friends there is a better way to a tasting lasting and constructive peace good results never come from the wrong kind of thoughts and deeds we need not withdraw from the world we need not spend all our time in prayer but we must says kathleen norris recognize the fact that we can find the only real way to peace through religion last and unless the hearts of men tire are changed they will go on forever no sign of change how are they to be changed there Is no sign now of a change the enemy Is always to be defeated the victorious peoples must be allowed to dictate the terms of surrender and then well all turn good and holy again and there will be gods peace upon the earth then indeed we will love our enemy tor for give them that hate us and despitefully full y use us render not evil for evil but overcome evil with good all this we are prepared to do only we dont mean to begin until some nations are smashed to talk this way Is sheer blasphemy and it Is folly to expect help from on high while we indulge in it but gods ways and gods peace are as near us as ever and if any worried and harassed woman wants to prove it she can do boso doso so easily by lifting her thoughts quickly to infinite goodness and understanding this need not mean kneeling down or withdrawing oneself from the thousand duties of household and kitchen but it does mean dismissing all distressing and fearful thoughts with the old wonderful prayer 1 I believe 0 lord help thou mine unbelief belief fl II believe in the possibility of world peace and world friendship I 1 believe that the billions wasted on war could be spent to build so generously and universally for profit profet and security that poverty and idleness and ignorance and injustice and slums and disease and crime could be lessened and lessened stead steadily ly until they vanished from the world hate can be overwhelmed I 1 believe that hate could crumble could be overwhelmed could awaken to find that it has never been hate it had only been the ignorance that masks love I 1 believe that all peoples have innate good within themselves just as all men and women have and that if we could once stop this mad race tor for arma ments tills this panic of tear fear Us this international selfishness and greed there aou would id be more than enough money food service sunshine and joy in the world for us all believe this and when you lift your heart in prayer say that you believe it when agitating thoughts come to you whether you are in the market or making your beds or shelling peas tor for supper confide them to gods keeping give that time to thought t f gods power |