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SCHOOL YOUTH NEEDED IN CD Numerous Opportunities For Boys And Girls To Enroll In Activities Those intensely patriotic, enthu siastic and energetic youngsters v.'ho may get the feeling that they are "not a part of it all” because they must go back to school have a much better opportunity to make an active and important contri bution to the Nation's war effort than they stop to think about. Careful studies of their role in the war—on the Home Front, of course—with due concern for their morale have been made. And out of these studies have come infor mation on the basis of which local defense councils and schools can formulate programs for high school boys and girls and in some instances grade school children also. Participation in the war effort, however, is going to cost these youngsters sacrifices, just as it is requiring sacrifices from grown folks. . Take the girl, for example, who wants to do something and wisely chooses Red Cross work. She’s go ing to give up hours of time for merly devoted to pleasure. The boys will have to do the same when they choose to try for • place among “air raid spotters” or in the “messenger service” for the Air Raid Wardens, for which those over 16 are eligible. These are direct contributions wh'ch bring them into intimate contact with how the war is be ing fought on the Home Front. And they amplify the democratic schooling boys and girls get in their classes. Similar opportunities for “action en the Home Front” are too num erous to list here, but one which gives even the younger high-schooi age children a chance should be mentioned. -V LOOK BOTH WAYS The curb line is the danger line for pedestrians. Look both ways and be sure the way is clear before you cross. Make Home Attractive - With Children’s Aid > For Greater Pleasure "Take your children into your confidence and together plan the new furnishings and decorations for your home,” is the advice passed on by Maxine Livingstone Parents' Magazine Home Editor. _ "Make it so attractive that they won’t want to seek pleasures out side the home even when the world is again at peace and there is an abundance of tires and gasoline and automobiles." Mrs. Livingstone directs attention to the "excellent variety of proper ly scaled furniture” now to be found in most good stores, that will prove a delightful surprise for the family and help homemakers to avoid overcrowding rooms. She points to the clever decora tion that can result from careful selection of inexpensive fabrics for re-upholstering- furniture now in the home or for slip covers which jvill freshen up the scene. “An outdated bedroom suite can lie made a delight for any girl,” she declares. "Cut the footboard off the bed and upholster the head board. Use the same fabric for bed spread draperies and dressing table.” In selection of new rugs for the school child's room and especially the boy’s room, look to sisal or fibre, which stand a lot of abuse, are re versible and easily cleaned. -V School Grades Reflect Environment For Stud The school child's own room de serves special attention for the en vironment conducive to study and rest that it can achieve. It is time to check the bedding. Make sure the bookshelves and desk in the room are convenient for holding the books and papers the youngsters will now attack with a little more "business" vigor. Lights are important. The study lamp is the answer. And in these days of test blackouts, be sure the curtains are of the proper kind. -V-— Eighty-seven waterfalls in the world hhve heights greater than that of Niagara Falls. -V There are approximately 6.000, 000 rural free delivery mail boxes throughtout the United States. ._ The Discriminating Woman Or Miss Should Visit The Wonder Dress Shop For The Proper— CAMPUS CLOTHES /Again the season's favorite. iTwo-piece cardigan in rabbit 'hair jersey, banded with hand-1 embroidered felt., Darting your way to his heart in rabbits hair jersey with grosgrain ribbon arrows. 33 North Front Street THREE WISE BOYS IN ART OF DRESSING In the know are all three stfidy hall habitues when it comes to wearing the right clothes! The boy on the left prefers the gray worsted suit with three-buttoned jacket, and rolled lapels. The “center of at tention'’ flashes a brown and white Glen Plaid with matching wool tie; while the youth on the right wears a single breasted brown tweed go-eterywhere suit. Tire Rationing Gives The Home A Chance To Compete WithAutos Many parents will secretly if not openly admit that war-time restric tions on tires and gasoline are to them a blessing in disguise. For now as the new school term ap proaches. they will have to be less concerned about the young folks borrowing the family car and driv ing off to find diversion away from the parental roof. Fortunately, many of the restric tions that are presently affecting our way of life no longer make homes "just places to eat and sleep." We here in America are learning rapidly, as England already has learned, that our homes are not only vital to our war effort, but to; the future that will come after the war as well. Without comfortable. pieasant homes, war workers cannot keep up the gruelling tasks they must perfoim. The children who are about to go back to school to pre pare for the peace that is to come, the future that is to lie theirs, may suffer 'serious distraction from the studies which are so essential to them, unless they too hate attrac tive and comfortable homes. Keep Up Homes This is a period duriny which the homemaker's patriotic duty is to “keep up the homes we are fight iny for.''—and especially the school chidlren, with the specific purpose in mind of encouraging these young-1 sters to realize that their role in the war is in preparing themselves to become the citizens of tomorrow. The home, therefore, becomes as much a class in the American Way of Home Life, as the school itself is made up of classes in reading, writ ing, ’rithmetic and geography. Fixing up the home now, there fore. becomes a most important part of the preparations for going back to school. And just as the restric tions on the motor car have paved the way for supplanting the lure of diversion outside the home for school children, so have these re strictions been a "blessing in dis guise" for the family budget. Much of the funds that once used to be required from the family budget for maintenance of the fam ily's, motor car and for the financ ing- of the many frequent long and short trips here and there, are now free to be used in fixing up the home and buying War Bonds. Yet the ultimate goal of comfort able inviting home life, for war worker and school child, need en tail no great outlay of money and neither does it interfere with the essential delivery of supplies need ed in the actual prosecution of the war. Furniture and furnishings are not seriously affected by war time priorities—the stores have wide se lections—and there are no priorities at all on ingenuity, which in the In Shoes That Obey the Golden Rule of Fit, Comfort and Style Careful Fitting By Experts Ne'iv strict as a hickory stick about correct fit, ’cause ive know that future presidents need firm foundations to make them strong! Nothing is too good for your youngsters in style or comfort give them the best by giving them Cannon shoes. We’ve' all sizes, styles and colors for “back-to-school days!” Boys' OXFOBDS Genuine Goodyear welt construc tion, solid leather sole. k $259 Misses' Siichdown OXFORDS Solid leather or rubber sole, lor dress or school wear. Youths Stitchdown OXFORDS For young boys and gjris two tone, tan and Elk’ leather or rubber sole. CANNON SHOE CO. 206 North Front St. Wilmington. N. C. CHECK GLARE Check the glare of the light un der which your child studies at home, and you will have taken the first step toward guarding the fu ture strength and health of her eyes. Help in checking is avail able from your local light company. final analysts is the keystone to comfortable living. The war time problems, therefore, of the homemaker who is consider ing the forthcoming school season, involve two things to which she should give immediate thought. One is the inviting nature of the home itself, so that the school child will' be inspired to bring his friends home for fun, and the other is the comfort of the child's own room or study facilities. With respect to the former, take a look at your downstairs rooms, and the basement, too. If the child, has passed his. “destructive" years, obviously it is tine to fix up the living room. And in doing that think also in terms of the basement, for many things like an old davenport, end table, chairs, that will be sup planted by new ones in the living room, can be moved to the base ment where the times dictate the planning of a "rumpus” room. Child’s Own Room This rumpus room, by the way, can serve the whole family and the child too. And don't overlook the wisdom of having one for the dura tion as a place in which to spend those hours when the Civilian De fense authorities call a “test black out.” A bit of insulation board with which to partition it off neatly, the old furnitcre moved downstairs, some striped canvas for decorative purposes, the extra radio, and things like that will make it a most pleas ant room. SMOOTH star*ls c-s £.esiT~“-' of all school age* " am°ng b°ys SEW YOUR OWN IS 1942 THEME Nimble Fingers Of School Misses Are Turning Out The Latest Fashions Sewing holds no more terrors than Caeser for the 1942 school girl. More and more of the black board belles are meeting the criti cal classroom eye in clothes of their own confection. There is an unmistakable trend toward home sewing in the junior and high school air. It is partly the result of their own desire for self expression in fashion, partly emulation of thrif ty mothers who have turned more and more to buying fabrics and making things for themselves and the younger children, too. Nimble Fingers Busy But mainly perhaps, it is the feeling that nimble fingers should keep busy during these war times when every free moment should be made to count, and every dime saved for purchase of a war stamp. If it is a jumper that Mary Janes sees every time she wishes for a star, and the Back to School budget is running low, she goes out and buys a pattern, chooses her own fabrics and is on ner way, full steam ahead. Here’s 8 garment that is easy to make, easy to slip into, easy to dis guise with different shirts and sweaters. Corduroy is the current fabric favorite, long suffering and inex pensive, Flannel, both wool and wool spun rayon flannel, rate thumbs up for jumpers too. For College Sophisticates College sophisticates love suits for, besides being flattering to the “figure,” they can go straight from class in sorority tea or double for a Friday night movie date, earning every bit of the effort put into making them. The personal touch is import ant, for it creates effects all our of proportion to the cost of most of these outfits. Monograms give a lift to any run-of-the-mill sports cress or shirt. Peasant flowers done in scraps of left-over wool are pretty enviable on black felt suspenders or a green flannel belt with attached suspender pockets. MILKFAVORITE WITH SERVICES With the United States Army— and that now includes women as well as men, if you will only re member the WAAC’s—the coun try’s largest customer for fresh milk, and with sailors, too. learn ing the strength and health-giv ing qualities of mlik and milk products, mother concern about their school children’ diet is be ing greatly assuajfed. The pattern has been set for the 'teen agers, as well as the very young school children and their readiness to acept it is unques tionably being influenced by the army and navy activities, as are most of their attitudes. That’s why mothers, whose chil dren seek snacks for themselves in the school cafeteria or at some favorite lunch room, confection ery, or dating spot, need only re mind them of the use to which milk and milk products are be ing put in the armed forces to HOME SEWN FOR EYE APPEAL Going up the ladder from grade school to famous sm.„., thrifty young girls with nimble fingers can learn to ""mal. ti*"' own” from patterns. Mother may have to help the little la , , left finish her .jumper, but gladly. Slacks and soils are n fieult. All three of these up to the minute costumes are r t » Simplicity patterns which are available in most stores ° encourage them to take this nu tritional food, so essential to their diets, of their own choice. It is now well known that Ameri can battleships are equipped with an ice cream soda fountain for the convience of the sailors. It is not difficult to imagine how young heroes refreshed themselves aboard ship after the naval bat ties of the Pacific this past sum. mer. Plenty of evidence of the increas ing popularity of milk as a re. fieshink dring among American back-to-school youth is apparer.' at the confectionery stores the! frequent. Ice cream, youth’s fa! vorite dessert, is a milk product fin <t*7fae~Cete 'tyean ☆ You’re going places by footpower this year... and you’re going harder and faster than ever. That calls for Vitality... that gives you a lift with every step! The new fall styles arc feminine ... and they fit like the proverbial glove. Come in... today. OPEN ROAD SHOES (or Outdoor and Campus Wear *5»«rf*6 He/p Undo So ml itir o. s. WAR IGKU MO STAMPS 5 FREEMAN SHOE CO. I “Shoes That Satisfy” / 24 North Front St. I 'JOIN THEN HOME FRONT SAFETY drive DRIVE CAREFULLY! LET'S PROTECT OUR SCHOOL CHILDREN WATCH for them in the Streets.... I ll IA K for them at Intersections. EOUIP YOUR BIKE FOR SCHOOL DAYS NOW! BICYCLE TIRES. $2.85 ea. SAFETY MIRROR (amber reflector on back) 39c BIKE P“ALS .. 85c ELECTRIC BIKE LIGHT. 89c 3rd and Cheslnui Sireeis
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