| Show kathleen norris N orris says the way to peace bell syndicate rea feature tures 1 k 2 71 1 i our should be 69 reduced to fare tire that can be universally grown anil and universally distributed dread bread of course cereals and milk fruits and vegetables by KATHLEEN NORRIS HAT is happening to WHAT enot the world just now is not a mere war it is not going to be in a little while the mere aftermath of a WEI war r it is not going to be like anything that has ever happened in the world before make up your mind to that make up your mind that the immediate future is going to be filled with confusion problems demands no generation of women has ever been faced with such a r responsibility once our perplexities were concerned merely with america now they are world woi id wide take my lovely southern grandmother for example she came across the plains plain in 1850 with a handsome irish husband and a baby daughter she was destined to pioneer in Cali fornias mountains a town was named for her she bore 12 more children without benent benefit ot 01 doctor hospital professional nus nurse electric light piped water milk bot tle sterilizer telephone no use listing what she have what she did have was a farmhouse fruit trees cattle two fruitwood chests from home some quilts and her grandmothers spinning wheel she never saw her mother again she never left the golden state to which fate had taken her but she lived a magnificent full and happy lue life far from Eu ropes troubles what was it to her that europe w was as boiling with wars she had only a dim and scrappy visualization of our own civil war she knew nothing ofner of new yorks politics culture the troubles of the balkans and china were as remote as the stars with us today it Is different we are facing the results of the most hideous catastrophe that ever shook the old earth we are sharing it one third of 0 lie ge earths habited sur tace has been scarred and flattened and blasted by war countries as big as some of our states state are still heaped with dead childrens eyes have been accustomed to sights that at would shatter the nerves of t hardened criminals mothers of children have had to hear their pleas for food for rest unheard have had to see them die what we OUGHT to do all of us everywhere in the nations that have not been invaded writes maria pendleton smith a ministers wife Is turn to god and not only in prayer every hour every minute but also in simplifying our lives so that we can give give give our meals should be reduced to tare fare that can be universally grown and universally distributed bread of course cereals and milk fruits and vegetables clothing plain and easily cared for flowers on our ta bles if 1 you like singing always books friendship walks study but all the superficialities swept away all the extravagances that really cost the money our children should be dedicated to the great task of sharing of giving away the extra coati coat of asking the hungry stranger in to our board keeping christs law if we could do this in the name of our lord and master this bold and beautiful letter goes on we would build a nationality under our own nationalities we who followed this law and alter after fill all it Is THE L va our children should share SHARING OUR PLENTY we in america have only a dim understanding of the havoc of war this country has been spared most of the horror devastation and misery of this global conflagration i the lot of many of us its has improved during these war years in fact thanks to plentiful employment at high u ages and high prices for products A reader of miss Nor norris column writes that she believes we lie could and should be more generous the good things we ue have we ought to share our clothes and food and fuel and 17 medicine it dicine with the suffering P people ople of europe and asia she says we should trim down doun our living standard to a plain solid level and then give the surplus to the poor in the devastated countries all this skimping and sharing would be motivated by a combination of religious fervor and long range practical statecraft this writer thinks that war and the strife and je jealousy that leads to war could be abolished in time 1 law would be known in all countries as the disciples of 0 jesus christ we wa would never form a military group or ask allegiance to any one flag but bu t gradually like the leaven hid in the measures of meal we would join hands we would come to know bac each h other and people the great underground army ot of christ who deliberately abandoned all thoughts of superior wealth or position 0 of useless less multiplied possessions of power through violence and coercion the people who kept christs law we would have everything beautiful that he has given us in this world to make us happy we would have love homes children enough simple food and clothing friendship gardens books walks but more than all we would have that interior peace that ineffable joy that the world as it is now cannot give our rule would be christs blessed are the meek blessed are the me merciful raiful he that hath two coats let him impart to him that hath bath none overcome not evil with evil but overcome evil with good by this shall all men know ye are my disciples that ye love one another well I 1 dont know what sort ot of sermons the reverend smith preaches but I 1 suggest that he some time give his dauntless wife the pulpit it is a long time since anything I 1 have read or heard has opened to me the vision I 1 received from this letter for I 1 know in my heart that it if the tortured world Is to be saved at all this is the path |
