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Kathleen Norris Says: For the Sake of Tomorrow, Stick It Out Ball Syndicate-?WNU Feature.. "It's goad to have a sturdy graying old friend beside you to say, "Look here, kid, we're mat 50 yet. We've some swell years ahead. How's for driving to Mexico next month?" By KATHLEEN NORRIS Marriages are brittle affairs, these days. We older persons, looking on, can see the difficulties of young husbands and wives, and suffer with them. If gallant sturdy little Bets decided that she simply can't stick it any longer we are apt to be sympa thetic. Not that we are happy over the young divorces, not that we approve of that way out ?but we can't help being sorry. "Beta did her best," we say. "She realijr tried. She was learning to cook, dw loved heV little apartment and the bapy.'. tiut Kenneth really was impossible. Crabby and criti cal, and wanting ber to entertain his friends when all the could do waa struggle along with the house work ? and then, of course, drink ing. Oh. yes, he did. She never could depend on him, and when he's drinking. Ken Taylor can be hor ribly disagreeable "It's too bad! They started off so much In love, and all the time he wae^owar Bats note him and sent him pictures' of the baby and all thai But since he came hack ? I don't know, everything seems to be goipg wrong. Ken's family are love ly people, too ? everyone admires aid Doctor Taylor. But you Just can't do anything with the young sters these days; Bets says she still sees Ken's good points, she doesn't feel revengeful or resentful or any thing. It's just that they can't make a go of it." 'Divorce Like Atom Bomb.' Tin story is so familiar as to be s boring?or> rather terrifying. These tacu-jmna uvry are lacu in every (rear city and every crossroads village, srhe at the very basis at aur sttfV social system. Divorce is socially a aery atom bomb; no group can survive it. It splits into fragments families, friendships, lit tle boys and girls, never to be united again. We waste millions on privileges for our children, but we deprive Bern of rights. Now, since the success or tsilure of a marriage lies much more in the hands of the woman than the man, it is to young wives that I address these reminders. However your husband fails you lupu^u serous his faults, it pays you as stick it. These are hard J times aa nerves, perhaps the hard oat siaee history began. You and your husband are both under a strain that your father and mother hardly knew and your grandparents never dreamed. Your marriage has survived the fever of the greatest war of all time. But it is in that weakened aod bewildered condition that fol lows raging fever. You are begin aing to pay the bill for world de lirium. Everything is against you; houamg. marketing, expenses, takaa Costs are at their maximum; die accessories of modern living, Sowers lor the hospital, gas for the car, school tor the twins, paint for the house, theatre tickets, railway ticket*, long ? distance telephone charges, toys, hats, taxi fares, hav ing the rugs cleaned and keeping your membership in the club?all these pile up on your desk in the shape of too-familiar bills embel lished with the little hand pointing to "please remit." Combine this .with trying weather, Taffy's poison-oak and Billy-Bill's ?7 ~ mm to torriMr <iinrii.Ui. asuima, rnuuier ? visit, tne breakdown of the refrigerator, and you have the makings of more than one hot quarrel, more than one eve I ning of sulphurous silence, more than one rapid decision that it Just can't be done. Troubles Lead to Quarrels. "We don't see anything eye to eye any more," Beta says, shaken and tearful, but deadly decided, too. "He'll go to his mother; I'll go to Nevada with Ann. I'm sorry. We both tried. But I couldn't live through that scene at the country club again! If he doesn't respect me, he might respect my own moth er. I'm done." But husbands grow up. Conditions change. Children emerge from ir responsible, burdensome babyhood. Kenneth gets a better job; his self respect awakens. The twenties aren't all of marriage, nor even the thirties. There are the forties coming and the fifties. You'll be glad some day that you didn't deprive your small boy and girl of daddy's friendship. You'll be glad to have your man beside you when Billy-Bill goes off to college; when Taffy flutters out to the upstairs balcony of some big comfortable countrytown home and tosses her white bouquet to her bridesmaids. Comradeship counts then. It's good then to have a sturdy, graying old friend beside you to say, "Look here, kid, we're not SO yet. We've got some swell years ahead. How's for driving to Mexico next month?" Weather this bad time if you can. Change yourself, and thus cause him to change. Plant in your twen ties the shady, flower-scented garden that is a happy marriage in middle age. Bargains la 'Ftem Market prices for old clothes and second hand furniture are dropping in the Paris "flea market." but quota tions for bicycles and motorcycles remain Arm at 30,000 francs (3231) for the former and 40,000 francs ($373) for the German machine. Chinaware is reduced with coffee service of six cups priced at 0,000 francs ($30) and dinner service 30, 000 francs ($16$). Vests and trousers are priced at 1.300 francs ($10) and linen suits ?tTJOt francs ($?). THIS WILL PASS Young married people are un der unusual stress these days. The unrest naturally following a great war keeps everyone edgy. Little difficulties develop into quarrels. There are plenty of real hard ships, too, like the housing short- I age and high prices for food and other necessities. Many couples have to live with relatives, al ways a situation where frictions are easy. Add to these the chang ing attitude toward family re sponsibility and the mutual obli gations of marriage, and it is easy to see why so many unions are heading toward the break up. To those who find the strain hard to bear, and who are look ing to divorce as the way out, Mist Morris offers some mature advice. She points out that con ditions change, generally for the better. Children grow up and demand lest time and worry; husbands settle down and get serious about earning an ade quate income. Other troubles past away with the years. In middle and old age, says Miss N orris, the wife who en dured the hard early years is re warded. She can enjoy the tri umphs of her children, the com panionship of her husband, the security of home and a cluster of friends. BIG FOUR AT PARIS CONFERENCE . . . Darin; the Paris peace conference, representatives of the Big Four hold special sessions to determine policies. French Premier Georges Bidault serves as host to representatives of the United States, Russia and Great Britain. Sen. Tom Connally, See. of Stato James F. Byrnes and Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg are shown at extreme right. THIS STRIKE MET WITH FAVOR . . . No need (or these stndents to wish that the school house would burn down. The teachers at Norwalk, Conn., went on strike. No teachers, no school. Vacation days can heftn a rain. Here Rudy Baza, custodian Norwalk Center Junior high school, tells the students to go home. Bone of contention for the teachers is that 390,112 be added to the 3813,000 school budget (or pay raises (or the 236 teachers. This is one strike where those who are concerned are wflDng that it be contin ued (or some time. PROPOSED PLANS FOR JEWISH ZONE . . . Some 1,800 square miles la Palestine would be granted the Jews under a reported Ameri can compromise which President Truman is believed to favor and which has been favored by the Jewish Agency for Palestine. The new plan also would demand Jewish and Arab autonomy in their respective areas. Aboe at left is the Palestinian division originally proposed by the Anglo-American cabinet committee and backed by Britain. At right is the approximate division under the plan favored by the Jewish agency. TERMINAL LEAVE SIGN-CP . . . Flood of lt.tM veterans at Los Aaceles offlce to obtain tbc Irst Ittakil leave farms available la Soothern Callloraia Is sbewa la above photograph. This rash was typi cal of that la be lead la nearly every city In the Catted States. The tanas were priated locally thraach special arraaceaieat with the wa^departaeat, and jtre ^identical jrith Jbaee issaed by the fevera ? ?r i iwai? ^ *? v MISS SHANGHAI ... Not to be outdone by the selection of "Miss America 1946," Miss Won( Yung Mai, poses in the approved man ner after she was chosen "Miss Shanghai of 1946," at the contest staged in the Chinese city for re lief funds. ATOM FOR PEACE ... Dr. Wtt liam L. Doyle, Cuiytrill; of Chi car*. measures out a tiny amount of radioactive carbon. First ship ment tram V. 8. atomie la bora torT.^Oah^Ridye. Tena., is da SITTING FOB PORTRAITS ... One of Hie most popular activities of the USO hospital prof rim U sketching of patients' portraits. USO camp show artists are touring army, navy and veterans' hospitals both in this country and abroad. Here Norma Humphries of Louis ville, Ky., sketches patients at Lawson General hospital. HO DISCHARGE YET 'Don't Let Them Down/ USO Pleads in Fund Drive WNU Features. INE.W YUItA. ? eemna me ian> cry of "Keep It Up ? Don't Let Them Down," USG is launching a nationwide campaign this fall for funds to carry through its services until the end of 1947. Intent on ful filling its responsibilities to the young Americans who won the war and those who are winning the peace, USO has set a goal of 19 million dollars in the current drive. Although the battle-clouds have cleared, thousands of American servicemen still will be overseas throughout 1947. In addition to occu pation forces, military and naval personnel will be stationed in such far-off places as the Philip pines, Panama, Alaska, Hawaii, Newfoundland and the Antilles. Thousands in Hospitals. On the home front, Uncle Sam's military and naval uniforms still dot the American scene while thousands of veterans, maimed by war, still are confined in hospitals. Foreseeing the continued need for USO services, both the army and navy requested the organ ization to continue its program for 1947. President Truman has given his unqualified endorse ment to the drive, urging that the appeal "should have prompt, generous and universal support." Major undertakings during the muihuuiuig jiai nui UC mainte nance of USO clubs near camps and hospitals in the United States, sta tion lounges and travelers' aid serv ices. USO clubs overseas and USO camp shows in hospitals. Veterans to Assist. Reporting that the Americah people have indicated their support of ITSO in its final campaign by volunteering to assist in the fund raising work, the headquarters campaign committee added that in many communities men who have taken the campaign leadership are veterans of the war "who know USO, are grateful and are deter mined that it shall finish its job." Although USO activities and objectives have changed with the altering needs of the armed forces, the basic ideal re mains the same ? that of pro viding insofar as poslble the val ues of home to men called upon to renounce home for the sake of country. 1 During early stages of the war when vast numbers were in train ing USO clubs flourished through out the country. As troops went overseas, USO extended its work through camp shows which toured the Atlantic and Pacific war areas. Lean to Teen-Agers. Further flexibility was required of USO after the war with drafting and enlistment of 18-year-olds. Em phasis in the USO program shifted from more mature activities to those popular with teen-agers. When veterans' hospitals began filling up with war casualties, USO altered its program to include rec reational and other services for ?-e 1 ? - ? uiuac ?_uiiiuieu 10 nosprtai wards. With the changing scene, many USO clubs have been eliminated in cities which no longer have serv icemen stationed nearby. Native sons of those cities, however, still are in uniform and they are among those whom USO is serving in re mote locales. There's still a big morale job to do for the one and a half million men who will be in service through out 1947, USO directors insist, and the organization proposes to fulfill its obligations until the end of 1947, when It too will seek its "honor able discharge." WiM Life at Capital? Oily ia Rat Pepalatioa WASHINGTON. ? Rats to the number of 2,000,000 are harbored in > the senate and house office build ings. the capitol itself and the con necting tunnels, an expert from the fish and wild life service determined in a census of wild animals on Capitol Hill. The census taker was John Jones, rodent control technician. He im mediately called a council of war. yWIAHON NOTES BOOST AIRPORT REVENUES Soaring air traffic figures at pas senger-jammed terminals through out the United States are spurring municipal efforts to puB airports out of debt by development of non aviation concessions as well as in creased charges to airlines, accord ing to a report of the American Municipal association. Example of current action aimed at making airports self-sustaining community centers instead at mere air depots is the agreement made between the city of Chicago and op erators of a new municipal air ter minal restaurant now under con struction. The restaurant conces sionaire will pay Chicago 5 per cent of gross sales plus 40 per cent of net receipts as well as regular cafe permits and license fees. Such non-aviation concessions are the subject of increased inter est to municipal airport authorities who expect postwar air traffic growth to boost airport operating expenses to $200,000,000 annually within the next decade. Increased revenues from concessions and in creased landing fee revenues are suggested as the principal means available to balance airport bud gets. ? ? ? EXIT THE PILOT An automatic flight controller? a "push button" system assisted by secondary control devices ? is en abling Douglas C-54 Skymasters to make blind take-offs and landings. The new development differs from the robot plane since the full auto matic flight is performed in a plane without a "mother ship." It is pos sible with the automatic flight con troller for a plane to take off by "pushbutton" and reach a destina tion without further manipulation of any controls. The device regulates the plane's altitude, sends the plane into glider range and operates the landing gear. When the plane touches the runway, the throttle automatically cuts back and the brakes are ap plied automatically. The nation's first air milk de livery service will be inaug urated soon by the Hawthorn Mellody dairy farm of Cbieago. The dairy hopes to use refrig erated planes to carry milk from Wisconsin farms to its dairy at Libertyviile, III., where it is constructing a "milk landing field." ? ? ? NEW AIRMAIL STAMP . . . This is the new five-cent airmail stamp 1 truck to meet the de crease in airmail postage rates from eight to five cents an ounce. It becomes effective October I. Central design of the stamp Is a modern fonr-motored transport plane in flight. ? ? ? NEW SAFETT DEVICE Heralded as a new safety device, the "fault detector" has been de veloped in Sweden and installed on Swedish commercial airliners. Ex haustively tested, the new invention quickly indicates imperfections in the engine even before ordinary in struments show any reaction. The device consists of a small steel pin placed in a metal cylinder attached to the battery of the plane and con nected with a warning bulb on the instrument panel.
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