Show kathleen norris says business of being an american bell syndicate Irea feature turm F dow LAS illy it means saying to the ambitious boy we can give you your year or two 01 medical school anyway by KATHLEEN NORRIS VARY woman who manages E EVRY a house and a family knows the value of a plan no matter how tangled the problem is if she can sit down with a pencil and paper and plan it all out she feels a great relief in her troubled soul and she knows all will go well perhaps her plan runs something like this dave and mary come down with joe in his car susan is coming with aunt alice the fosters will have the guest room alice comes in with me the two children on cots in the old playroom 2 and so on or perhaps it is this sort of planning ill combine celery and have a good soup saturday night and with the corned beef hash and cabbage and biscuits do for supper that leaves all those sausages for sunday morning and a picnic lunch well now I 1 have only to make a dessert or two and im all fixed and so with the childrens school outfits and so with the proposed visit to the mountains or the seaside think it all out settle the details tell everyone just what he or she has to do and all anxiety and uncertainty aie are gone world problems to solve now we have a bigger job than weekend week end meals or picnic and house party plans to work on now we have world problems of feeding and housing to settle world problems we are accustomed to this phrase now and we dismiss it as too big to handle it dimly means straitened markets at borne shome great ships loaded with medicine and food moving to foreign ports hordes of hungry fright bened homeless folk waiting for that food we have nervous sense that this winter will be hard on us all but that well weather it and then afterward the then after afterward wara is what ought to concern us now well get through this winter on limited meat and fuel well get through the next and the next and well slowly work our way out to that prosperity and plenty that nothing can keep away from us but then then comes the time when everyone will want a little money ten thousand 12 thousand 20 thousand dollars in 1950 are going to spell the simple word fortune opportunities will be everywhere you may have what you want in 1950 if you plan for it today to buy things now homes furniture rugs cars is not thrifty because of high prices and scarcities scar cities also qualities are not what they were and what they will be again but to get through these next few years quietly thriftily means that you can buy that hillside farm with the oaks and the creek some day it means saying to the ambitious boy 14 we can give you your first year or two of medical school anyway it means an investment in some growing industry that will bring you and your husband a comfortable and secure old age it may mean travel it may mean helping a beloved daughter through the hard FOR FUTURE although the war is over many grave problems remain with us we cant do much about the hardships of europe or asia excepting to contribute what we can to relief agencies but in our own sphere we can do a lot shortages will be with us for some time fuel and clothing will not be plentiful this winter some foods will still be hard to get nevertheless there should be no real suffering in this country and we can look forward to a better year than we have had in a long time this is a time to think of the future right now most people have considerable money saved up and they have good jobs there is is a great temptation now that the of war are being removed to go out and buy all those things you have had to do without for so long even though prices are right and quality poor the time for sacrificing and doing without is not yet over miss norris warns this is the great opportunity to put away a tidy sum for the next few years the best investment aside from any patriotic motives is is in in government bonds miss norris says for safety and high yield these victory issues cannot be rivaled every one should buy all he can to assure a happy future years when her nursery is small money is going to be just as important to you in 1950 as it is today and worth twice as much invest in government bonds my answer to this problem is to invest in the last government bonds the bonds that mean victory rehabilitation the beginning of a new world this is not government propaganda I 1 have not been asked to do it I 1 am saying it because I 1 consider it an extraordinary opportunity if in the dark war years there was ever a question as to how america was going to come out of this world agony there is no question now she hav ha emerged gloriously convincingly unequivocally on top we who bought bonds when german buzz bombs were besieging london when japanese suicide planes were sinking our ships may have shown some little faith and patriotism in the act but not now now there is no n doubt that an investment in america as she makes her last great effort to clean up the remains of the war ruins everywhere and ge get t her own wheels started again is the safest investment in the world when I 1 say it save and scrimp if you must and cut down and sacrifice but lay away victory bonds and bonds and bonds 01 I 1 am ta talking ik not for america not even for the soldiers and sailors and airmen for whose benefit this great drive is opened but for you yourself and those you love and your brighter tomorrow |