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Show Keleased by Western Newspaper Union. WRITER'S INSPIRATION A FLAXEN HAIRED DOLL SEEKING AN INSPIRATION, something to write about, I stopped before a store window in my town. Sure enough, there it was, a flaxen-haired, flaxen-haired, blue-eyed, red-cheeked, prettily pret-tily dressed little lady a doll. That doll had been produced to satisfy sat-isfy the motherly instincts of a little lit-tle girl. An object on which to lavish lav-ish an instinctive mother love. It told me a story of thousands of workers work-ers employed in the making of dolls, 1 story of food and clothing and shelter for many thousands of families fami-lies created by that motherly ln-itinct ln-itinct of our small lassies and our ability to satisfy that appeal. It brought to my mind the conditions condi-tions in many other countries in which little girls have that same motherly instinct; of countries where that instinct must be, and is, latisfied with a rolled up rag with a string tied around it a doll without with-out the reality of flaxen hair, blue eyes, red cheeks and pretty clothes; of lands where that motherly instinct does not provide comforts for homes by making jobs for workers. It also brought to my mind the days of our grandmothers, our great and great-great-grandmothers who, as - little girls, had to be satisfied with a rag with a string around it as a doll. That flaxen-haired, blue-eyed doll pictured for me the difference in our American standard of living of today and in the time of our grand and great-grandparents, and in our standards and those of many other nations. It Illustrated the necessity of maintaining our standards, not alone for our small girls but for all of us, and as an Incentive for achievement on the part of people of ' Dther nations. UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER AND THE ENEMY UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER. That phrase appeals to us. We like the sound of it. We picture it as representing rep-resenting a decisive, conclusive, definite def-inite beating of the Hun, the Jap and their satellites, and we are for it But just what does It mean to the enemy peoples? Does it call for an unconditional surrender of their armed forces, their armies and navies -and their war production facilities? Does it call for the abdication abdi-cation of their governments? Does it call for these, plus the surrender without conditions of all the people, their lands, homes, business and other forms of individual wealth? Hitler would have the people of Germany believe the Allies are demanding de-manding the unconditional surrender surren-der of all the people of Germany with the confiscation of their individual individ-ual wealth. He pictures for them an armed taskmaster, internment camps, forced labor, the breaking of home ties, the obliteration of national nation-al culture and national trade for a long, long period. If Hitler's definition is correct, there ae comparatively few Americans, Amer-icans, in our present frame of mind, who would urge any softening of that definition. If he is not right. If those who have named the terms have something less drastic in mind, It might hasten the day of internal collapse in Germany if that less drastic definition were given to the German people and the German armies. The President did a part Df that in one paragraph of his Ottawa Ot-tawa speech. WHEN MOTHER'S SHELVES WILL REALLY COUNT FOOD MERCHANTS, especially those operating the larger chains, tell us we will be short, very short, on canned fruits and vegetables before be-fore the winter is far advanced. It Is then the well-filled bins and shelves of the home cellar will look especially good. It is then we will offer special praise to mother for her forethought in stocking the family fam-ily larder. It is then we will appreciate appre-ciate to the full the' advantages of living in a rural community or on a arm where a garden was possible. That Victory garden may well rate Higher in February than it did in August thanks to Mother. SOLDIER VOTE NO MATTER which side of the ' political fence you may be on, do not count the soldier vote before It is cast. Of the men in the armed service in November of next year very few, if any, will have the privilege priv-ilege of voting. In many states absentee ballots are not permitted. In those where they are permitted, they are mailed only on request, and with the complications Involved, requests will come from but a small percentage. WHEN GERMANY QUITS, regardless re-gardless of when that may be, we will not throw away our ration books. The need for food production and conservation will be even greater great-er then than now. There are millions mil-lions of starving people in Europe whose lives will depend upon the productivity of American farms. WHAT OUR SENATORS and representatives rep-resentatives heard while they were at home on leave should be reflected In what they do during the next few months. |