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Kathleen Norris Says: , . Marrying From Fear Bell Syndicate.?WNU Feature*. ^ (jr//w J/S0G1HHW, "lt?? Mmie withe* to marry ? fine young lawyer, wfco already shows signs of paiitiend advancement. He is rich, handsome, devoted my KATHLEEN NORRIS *?r~y>VERTY was the cause w-^at the miserable circum stance of which I am writ ing says the letter of a rn llawil mother. "My husband ilfiid hi U32, leaving me with tan children, a boy of 14 and a girl of U. Destitute, I had to work hard for some years to niHiiil than, and at 16 my girl bask a job in a law office. The bay had then won a scholarship and wan Irving in another town. "Fanr months otter she started work may daughter confessed to me her be for the office boss, her nhtnohp with him and that she ejected a child. I was then keep irg a hoardmg-house in which my aUert hoarder was a man of 78 who bad omwderable property. He had hag wanted to marry me, and in imy danpmtioo I now consented t? (he marriage, closed my house, and haded that he and I and ?aae-Marie go on a trip to Mexico. Whrew we really went was to a big madam oty, where the baby was harm. At Bus time my husband was strackea with paralysis; we came haA Km mm hnma u/horo all mir iibriute were, and I represented the rtnM as mine. At the time I was soly M, so that that statement ww mat wesUoned. This man lived mM a lew months ago. ! TW situation now is that Rose Marie wishes to marry a fine young lawyer, who already shows signs at pnlflirql advancement. He is ncfc. handsome, devoted. Mean wSadr Oar contemptible married am who was Rose-Marie's boss hw heea widowed; he is 01, a sonsesobd business man, but to me he wwaftd be personally disagree able been if I did not bitterly re sent has betrayal of my little girl when she was only 16. The man she hw now promised to marry knows nothing of her story, and if t can prevent it, never will, but the aider man. Harold?my splendid little granddaughter's real father, ia quietly blackmailing me into a third marriage; the thought is un speakahly revolting to me, but by manyasg this tiresome, self-satis Oad lihie man of 61 I feel that I can absolutely safeguard my daughter's new happiness. Base-Marie's Future, "It is great happiness, it is real ttapyuw, Mrs. Norris. Rose-Marie hw grown, has developed in these hitter years. She truly loves this new man. she wants to share a dig ested and interesting life with him; be can do It, I know she can?and ahe sd- But it will be at terrible eoat to me. Harold knows that this tfarliag eight-year-old girl is his child, Isr my heart-broken Rose Marie naturally told him of her agunaiiag plight. He can hold this knowledge over us all; he has let ban to prove it. "Can you advise me? Just two paiota more Jane, the little girl, intensely disfikes Harold. And BweMarie. believe me when I say this, k a gentle, fine, clean hearted girl. Car stronger in charac ter than many girls her age who haw been more fortunate. Aa I began by saying, poverty wrought tbaa terrdde and perplexing pattern A DREADFUL PROSPECT Covering up the first false step generally means that a chain of difficulties has been started. So it was for the unhappy mother whose letter is answered in this column. Rose, the daughter, is engaged to a young lawyer whom she loves dearly. He is handsome, rich and politically ambitious. A dark secret in Rose's past threatened to mar her happi ness, however. She has a child, born when she was only 16. Her mother, a widow, married an old man, and passed the child off as her otvn to protect Rose's name. Now Rose's seducer, a middle aged man who was her employ er, threatens to expose Rose un less her mother will marry him. and surely it is cruel to have the generations go on paying so bitter ly (or what is no one's fault." ? ? ? Poverty is hard, my dear Janet; I know it well. But no girl gives herself to a middle-aged married man in the first weeks of their acquaintanceship just because of poverty. Rose-Marie should have been better armed for the fight with life. Your idea of marrying her seducer is fantastic; he has no legal claim upon her or upon the child. Rose-Marie can clear this whole thing up ? and I think in inatirA tn vrtu chn must hv toll ing her present sweetheart the whole story. Harold Can't Do Much Harm. It is possible that he will break the engagement and leave her. Political careers and histories like this one don't mix. Or it is pos sible that he will look at the situ ation honestly and generously. No body knows these (acts except Har old. Even if he were contemptible enough to start a whispering cam paign, the probabilities are all against his getting very far with it. Jane is established as your child, the child of your late marriage to the old man. To break out with evi dence of her real parenthood would mark Harold as a scurrilous black mailer, and hurt him incurably with all decent folk. The chance of his doing this is, I believe, negligible; that is, if he knows Rose-Marie has made it all clear to her promised husband. U she marries him keeping these facts a secret then Harold really holds against her happiness and security a deadly weapon, that may well ruin her life. It is too bad that women must pay so high for the mistakes of girlhood, but we are made that way, and everything that emancipation and independence can do cannot seem to lessen that situation. For your sake and the sake of innocent little Jane I can only advise an honest explanation to Rose's young man, and then a confident going forward in the hope that any scandal started by Harold would react against himself more than against the girl he betrayed. For you to make two loveless mar riages to save the situation would merely complicate everything. Russians Like Jass Eddie Rozner, one of the most popular and hottest jazz band lead ers in the Soviet Union, has been brought sharply to task by the government newspaper Izvestia, which declared that his programs were trivial and had "nothing in common" with what Soviet audi ences love. Rozner directs the White Russian state Jazz band, and tickets always are sold out for his shows. He says he picked up his technique in his youth in New York's Harlem. - STUDIOUS KING . . . Kins Phnmiphon Adulet, of Siam, 18, who re cently succeeded his brother, King Ananda Mahidol, after the latter was shot to death under suspicious circumstances, is shewn as he arrived by plane at Geneva, Switzerland, to continue his studies at Lausanne. With the young monarch are bis mother, Queen Sangwan Chrukanol and his sister, escorted by Swiss officials.?Soundphoto. BOY MEETS GIRL ... A fence at the Bronx too in New York is no barrier to two lovers who do a bit of long range necking as they meet for the first time. Jack, right, a 15 foot 17-year-old giraffe decided it was time to have a mate, so a 3-year-old female named Jill (left) was imported from East Africa. They'll occupy adjoining compartments because it will be a couple of years before the romance blossoms. MONT* LOOKS AT MAPS AGAIN . . . With world problems no solved, spheres of influence have caused generals as well as diplomats to consult their maps once again. In this picture, Field Marshal Vis count Montgomery, chief of Britain's imperial staff, is lecturing on maneuvers at the British staff college in Camberly, England. II.-? J DISCUSSION ON HIGH FINANCE . . . Secretary at Treasury John W. Snyder, attends first at a series at meetings at the treasury depart ment, In which bankers and insurance executives will he asked for advice in the shaping of a policy for government financing. At the meeting are, left to right. Secretary Snyder, Robert Fleming, chairman American Banker's association committee on government borrowing, and C. W. Bailey, vice president at the American Banker's association. FLEET GOES ANYWHERE . . . Fleet Adm. William F. Halsey Jr., above, said that it's nobody's damn business where the U. S. government sends its powerful fleet. The wartime commander of the famed Third fleet declared at a press conference that the navy is free to send ships anywhere. TO PEACE CONFERENCE . . . Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R., Mich.) and his wife leave a plane on arrival at Washington. Accom panied by his wile and Sen. Alben Berkley (D., Ky.) he left Wash ington by plane (or Paris meet. EATING CHAMP . . . Here's a man who could eat you out of "house and home." Frank Juli ano, of Worcester, Mass., attract ed widespread attention by eat ing at one sitting 50 meat balls, two quarts of sauce, and drinking 17 beers plus 3 meals. CROWN JEWEL TRIAL . .. Capt. Kathleen Nash Dnrant, shown as she appeared with her defense counsel at opening of her trial at Frankfnrt, Germany, in connection with the theft of the Hesse crown Jewels. FOB MILITARY TRAINING . . . Secretary of War Robert Patter ?on, as be addressed the ZStb state convention ol the American Le lion at Lowell, Mass. Be nrged the Lefton to take op the tfht for universal military training. A QUEEN COMES BACK . . . Thirty tons ot paint briny peacetime colors to the Queen Elizabeth, Cunard White Star liner, now being > readied for the trans-Atlantic run. QUEEN OF THE SEAS Luxury Liner To Make Maiden Voyage Oct. 16 NEW YORK.?With the greatest reconditioning job in mari time history now nearing its final stages, the world's largest pas senger liner, Cunard's 83,763-ton Queen Elizabeth, is being pre pared to launch the career postponed by war for more than six years. Transformed into a new ship, the Queen Elizabeth will make her maiden voyage starting regular service from soumampton 10 new iotk on ucio-" ber 16. The return voyage from j New York is scheduled for October 25. The gray war paint that shrouded the ship when she slipped across the Atlantic in March, 1940, on the first of many vital war missions, has been replaced by the colors of peace?shiny black hull, gleaming white superstructure, red and black funnels, colors of the Cunard line. Thirty tons of paint were required to cover the ship's million square feet of exterior surface. , Decks worn by the tramp of 811,- i 000 pairs of military boots have i been relaid. Blackout paint has been scraped off 2,000 portholes. Miles of temporary wiring and piping \ have been dismantled. The ship : has been stripped of such military i appurtenances as 10,000 standee berths, temporary sanitary facili- i ties, bulkheads, storerooms and troop fittings. The reconversion job began im mediately after the Queen Elizabeth completed her final voyage as a war transport last March 6. Now a luxury ship, the Queen Elizabeth will be furnished with., equipment and decorations or dered and delivered before the advent of war, then stored in the United States, Australia and other places throughout the world for the past six years. Fittings include 21,000 pieces of furniture and equipment, 4,500 set tees, 4,000 mattresses and pillows, 8,000 curtains and bedspreads, 2,000 carpets, 1,500 wardrobes and dress ing tables and 10 miles of carpets. As the final step in reconversion, the ship will enter the graving dock for examinations of the four propel lers, each weighing 32 tons, the giant 140-ton rudder and other un derwater parts. One-way rates will start at $165 for tourist class, ranging up to $365 for first class. One-man School Expands as Veterans Flock for Ratings nmnm OAT A ?m? ' * ? ... t ui?, wsxjvs.? xiic uauiuun al old one-man school has been put on a wholesale basis here, giv ing 2,318 veterans the equivalent of a high school diploma in the last 10 weeks. Operator of the school is a gray haired, scholarly little man,- Dr. John C. Unger, whose main job is that of superintendent of secondary education for Colorado. His pres ent task is to put into practical op eration one of the primary guaran ties of the G.I. Bill of Rights?the opportunity for each veteran to con tinue his education. He has turned the senate cham ber of the state house into a school room with men and women of an average age of 21 sitting at sena torial desks and doing harder think ing than most state senators ever do. In co-operation with the Veterans' administration and armed forces in stitute, Dr. Unger interviews and tests veterans from all over the state to provide them with certifi cates showing they possess knowl edge equal to a high school educa tion. With such certificates, the veter ans go confidently to employers to apply for jobs or enroll in colleges to study anything from the ministry k> aeronautical engineering. The two-hour tests in grammar, mathematics, science, literature and social studies are not required of all applicants. Credits are allowed for training received in the service. Oldest man to take the tests was a 47-year-old Trinidad naval veteran and the youngest was a 19-year-old Denver youth, who enlisted in the army when only 16. Dr. Unger tests men still in the service who come in from such posts as Camp parson at Colorado Springs and Lowry Field in Denver. He has visited Fitzsimmons General hospital several times to examine patients there. Those who can't pass are given friendly counsel on what they need to study to qualify for certificates. Kansas Sun's Rays Ignite Glass on Bag TOPEKA, KAN It's danger ous when the thermometer reads 105, Miss Ceora Lanham is ready to testify. As she stood waiting for a bus under the sweltering sun, her purse burst into flames. The sun's hot rays had passed through a glass han dle on the bag. BONE TO PICK . . . Two dog?, who have a bone to pick with Santa Monica city council over ordinance prohibiting them from doing any thing more than miffing on public aidewaDu and in parka, picket city hail. Welling Drinks Tip Most Britons Off Wagon LAjnmjn.?wny ao people take to drink? Drinking toasts at weddings is the principal reason tor tipping a per son off the wagon, say Britons who like a quick one now and then. Teetotalers, however, say "not wishing to be different" is the hard est push off the wagon. Twelve hundred young people, including doctors, parlor maids, government clerks and miners. gave the answers to a questionnaire sent out by the British Temperance league. Tipplers gave these (our main rea sons (or their weakness: Toasting at weddings, loneliness, not wishing to be different and enjoyment o( the drinking fraternity's company. All the reasons were among IT "possible causes" suggested by Herbert Jones, league secretary, who is a non-drinker.
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