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Show ICatlileen Morris Says: If You Want to Help the World I Do Something About It I (Bell Syndicate WNU Service.) I U- Our hearts are sick with discouragemn and failure today. War is a forest fire e I tjlal Spreads in all directions ad nay blow across the Atlantic. By KATHLEEN NORMS J -l-AIVE hundred women have writ-- writ-- M ten me passionate appeals to ,1 1 "an something" about the pres- ent war situation, and if 500 have taken such trouble it means that I m. about 5,000 feel that way so here are some suggestions that may help you satisfy the mad craving that we , all feel to help if we can. i This feeling is partly fear, partly 'shame, and partly despair It is U nstnrallv fear, for war Is a forest lErffi spreads in all directions ff !and may blow across the Atlantic , any Tay. It is shame because a , nsible world, and a world more-, more-, ' over that professes to believe in the , : doctrines of Jesus Christ ir , forgiveness forgive-ness and meekness and goodness IZ somehow let things get to such 'a pass. It is despair because we '"-who remember 1914 truly believed j! that matters would never reach this point again. I "What is left for us to do now? we ask in bitter discouragement, we 1. v. eimo our time and our rergiesdurig these 20 years m a vain effort to show war jfto stop 1 true colors to those whopointe(i out 1 land die in the ranlcs,kept ciear, the (better national underst t-. - x where, to clear the wr must fight peace. For a few t0 establish P it seemed to us . anQing every- I darkness had env' aay or lasting orld, and Christi,. last August other lesser codes s ough black 1 nd and forgiveness l5ped whole I jr, there was no hPetity and all the er, ,r mankind. nat preach love ot , i:;t and lng f nd ?o them that have despite-uutd despite-uutd is simply cable. D A Fair Deal for AH. tl 1 Nevertheless. I challenge trt I U American women who read tn . lines to ffnlsa formulate a B own minds and sous t 1 . definite peace Pn' a ing bel0re, ' " to what we have been A But now uie mhiq j.a.f- , 1 wt deared away a Utt for civilization ful 1S to treat this cal I ca ill the less import; o Dattle has I Me. To fix our and it is for I iteadily upon our idamity as we do battered pieces of nt caiamities of ind go forward agyes even more 1 " For those of us Vieai, pick up the 1 o bow God at all. ) wrecked hopes, tat His first law iain. I f live is peace. We rho eei that we 1 itupid and blind alnow absolutely iur goal, but as lon;s love and that I k there beyond usay be siow and 1 ; icarer to it every ti )QUt making for 1 ae single little specif as it is His, it " tnge in this world,' and we draw face forgiveness. me we wipe out Hatred Is Dai t of hate and re- Sen of -any open ports. -llSe churches have failed to do , anything as concrete - this The rulers have fa guns and P S;raTafrailtogive: S eaSh should we-rich, lndrPendent. SpoT , elp Gormany, or japa U 1 encST ch. at home." 1 h"v. hut they .tost d those countries. " eerd'ay. in l" us today, and cost usyest . and put in ar' Forgiveness is a ana v bar k not a natural th hsh need supernatu ngerous. T lire our enemies. WJ;hard WOrd. It an; torn only one sourcc-'ing t0 forgive. rul ve forget to turn to ral p0Wers to wi rhe other day I tie can get them bu volent quarrel beUvi , and too often m tildren. One was foSard it. 1 e two years old, an ied to settle a 1 in eer known or seen &t en tw0 smaU 1 hi hte; theirs had been -KT and the oth- d san'y a background a; al neither had I h til humans could hav;i r experienced The small one hads as serene and t vll-made doll's bed vs any two lit- t oicupant and all the erfi. 1 fir winds, and he was .oc-, ripped up a Udeed, exultant over ts and flung its tijer child's simple .covers to the raim her brother for 3u.Unashamed ; ecs out, wipe that sm he deed. The ; eer She was trembly. esire Was to vtth'rage; she could n' life, tear his , lives, aoiidia etricken coun- Srf asTarmament that to has possessed her. his WomeB Could Do Much. tor- n v,Parts are sick with discour-ale discour-ale Ur nt and failure today. But U !tne agemen andfa h in another year, or e Z American S women working eenius of several lt r,r speak normal- Uoiie awdy ii-s;e ii-s;e listened to the Gos, and pale siid "I'd crucify them ,ither breathe tine's, too!" l e Panting as But after a few m pd story she 7 j a ,h nerst tnand five together a hrs " subrniued, and Map is drafted and s nation h uin two more years e U has scorned that rn v d 1 UP ananderifCin hree seven sire, d if in togeiher Qn a countries have go 23 coun. ' m3Pl hve agreed to it. In Us hun-tries hun-tries have agree ded fonTli f Uredth change and a & 1 p then we ,llnrh" rogress that no P bution to world Prog bag ;M other generation of A. I touched. accepted every at rt th" 3wo Id "iS begtn to! ,e country in the dness, and )S. lcssen ,,mllfs7saP;cdrwni more than nd the m.lhons so sav e terr; ;n. balance any ar e nave h; ize torial conccsi-n hat j to sacr;-"ce-, avn will to make her b-at b-at of a lollipop in toke cir.lomenls she ntss ;he first re-made wuaded of her " ed bed, and then wer. oi.olher a pres- " herself on her own btdev-n of forgive- u Uto tears. & the disrupt- - Now if the difficult UV a and flung forgiving can so sgit-vid, to burst ' of babyhood, we must su- 1 if ever we are really to ,n business of enemies, really rebu. Vk,.e a scrap thirty world along Uie v:e licxpeet Uiat we truly profess and orgive our must expect violent spin es ..i a blood- We must expect to be rec,.ncs of what sceffed at as a bunch c oeiicve, we tilling women. Wen' tual storms. 1 that men are going to lPa8reviled and sentimen-ust sentimen-ust realize ell us that |