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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1940 Kathleen Norris Says: Here Is Something for Youth To Think About (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK “I think it’s lousy," the girl said impatiently, as though she had said it before. "If I can’t send her the other I'll not send her anything.” By KATHLEEN NORRIS T HIS is an appeal to boys and girls to be good. That has an old-fashioned ring, hasn’t it? And it sounds as though it were ad dressed to moppets of four and five, in the nursery. But as a matter of fact I hope to reach older boys and girls; youngsters whose ages range from —say, 13 to 19. These are terrible ages, for mothers and fathers. These are ages when the grownups, who seem so powerful and so un affected, are often living in secret fear of their offspring. If Tom, 17, and Margaret, 15, knew the panic their lightest word could create in the family circle, knew the dread with which their bad mjpods were witnessed by Mom and Dad, they might be more merciful. Later on, when the girl and boy are grown and married, they begin to gain a little sense. They begin then, shyly, awkwardly and incom pletely, to apologize to their elders. Margaret, struggled with a small house, a small income, a small baby, laughs in embarrassment as she thanks her mother for some small favor. “You’re such a darling to come sit with him and let me go to the luncheon. Mother,” she says. “I often think—I wonder—perhaps this is silly. But were Tom and I awful pigs when we were growing up? I think of my bills now, and how aw ful it’ll be if the baby gets sick or needs something—” Her mother laughs in answer, and says reassuringly that Tom and Margaret were always little angels. No use to hurt them today by re calling their old stubbornness and selfishness. The Son’s Appreciation. “Dad, you were always an awful good sport to us kids," Tom is say ing at about the same time. “Now that I’ve got kids of my own al ways wanting something and rais ing the roof if they can’t have it, I remember the way Peg and I used to carry on when we wanted money, or tennis rackets—” “Well, we always did the best we could for you, son,” Dad says cheer fully. He hasn’t forgotten; he and Mom will always wear the scars. But the children have grown up fine and good, and bygones may well be bygones. And in the same way he and Mom would remember it if just once in those long-ago days the girl or boy had seen their problem, had sensed the loving desire they felt to give their children every advantage and luxury, had pitied the shame this loving father and mother experi enced when they had to say “no." The years when we have our par ents are not always long years. And when they end, and one says dazed ly, “Mother—mother is dead!” it is wonderful to remember that instead of treating their burdens as some thing entirely removed from our selves, we shared them, and helped carry them, and made them lighter. A Challenge to Youth. And so I challenge every Ameri can boy and girl who reads this to stop and think this morning. Ask yourself, “Do I know what my fa ther’s worries, what my mother’s worries, are, and is there anything I can do about it?” It may be that their chief worry is you, yourself, and their fear that your girlhood or boyhood won’t have enough fun in it. Enough frocks and trips and parties and good times. It may be that to have you suddenly turn gay and philosophical, to have you quite unexpectedly express yourself as satisfied with life, will make all the difference between shadows and sunshine, to them. A few weeks ago when I was standing at a counter, waiting for Unconscious Tyrants C. Youngsters in their ’teens, says Kathleen Norris, often un consciously give their parents their most anxious moments. c They know so little of family finances then and have so many desires. If they only knew “the panic their lightest word could create,” they might be more merciful. Miss Norris thinks. c. Parents naturally want to give their children every luxury they can. Are they wise to go beyond their means? «L Wise parents take their chil dren into their confidence, show them where the money goes, and enlist them on the budget’s side. c This would add to the content of mind for all, both in the pres ent and in future memories. the clerk’s attention, a mother and a daughter fell into conversation be side me. Or rather they continued a conversation that had evidently commenced some time before. The girl was about 14, extremely pretty, correctly dressed, and with the right hair-do. The mother had wistful eyes that hung adoringly upon her daughter’s beauty. “I like the dollar one real well, Doris,” she said timidly. “I V’leeve Miss Foster would like it.” “I think it’s lousy,” the girl said impatiently, as though she had said that before. “If I can’t send her the other I’ll not send her anything.” “That’d hurt her feelings, and you going to her wedding,” the mother offered, gently. “Of course it would,” the girl said angrily, tears in her eyes. “But I di.n’t have to go to the wedding! If I have to wear my old blu* outfit I don’t see that I’ll be much of a sight at the wedding. I wish just once we could do things like other people! A five-dollar box, and we can’t afford it, dearie!” May Regret Her Attitude. She said the last words with a sneer and a squeak that showed she was impersonating someone who called her “dearie.” Her mother, of course. And someday if the gentle, pleading voice is still, and Doris remembers—well, nc money, no “doing things like other people,” will comfort her then. When children are babies even the simplest home can make them hap py, if someone loves them there. And when they are grown, and have learned the value of home love, the utter, generous, devoted goodness of Dad and Mother, then they come back again, appreciative and wiser. But in between is this bad period, when they can’t and won’t under stand that one man’s modest salary can’t be stretched beyond certain limits, that food and rent and light and laundry and carfare and shoes have to come before new radios and English sweaters and college parties and beauty parlor charges. Unusually wise parents take them into the family council, show them where the money goes, enlist them on the budget’s side. But lots of parents aren’t wise; they long with all their hearts to give their children all that other youngsters have, and often they all but wreck married love and home peace in doing it. Some youngsters have never thought about this angle of the home problem in this way. Perhaps if they act upon it they may have a few less dollars to spend this win ter. But they will be laying up something that in a few years they would not sell for many thousands of dollars. By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) EW YORK.—It is a tradition ot the newspaper business, well known to the craft, that the reporter or photographer must never get into „ a news pic- Gettmg Red Hot ture. But some- Pix, News Hawk times the Breaks Into One drama he makes is, like that of old Omar’s booze clerk, “more precious than the stuff he sells,” and the rule breaks down. Here’s bucko young Arthur Menken of New York, in a news picture, as he grinds out the flaming chaos of the Finnish city of Viipuri after the Russian bombers passed over. He is close-in as he methodically films the blazing ruins, trussed up in military gear and quite in the mode with a snappy iron hat—which the well-dressed photographer will do well to wear these days. He is Har vard ’25, of impressive social line age, tall and slim, but husky, and, all in all, a fictional ace for adven turous youth, considering what he’s been mixed up in. Mr. Menken has brought near ly the entire latter-day apoca lypse into sharp focus. He has dodged every kind of missile from South American poisoned arrows to Japanese shrapnel and Russian air bombs, nicked by a bomb splinter in the Spanish civ il war, but suffering ' not'.iing worse than profound disillusion ment about war in all its moods and tenses. Milton went blind, looking into the abyss of human horror, Mr. Menken just keeps on grinding with a sharp eye for focus, action and background and makes us see it, too. Just now, he’s shooting the Finnish war for an American film com pany. He is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken, New York social registerites. Out of Har vard, he started teasing the grim reaper by Frank Merriwell air ex ploits in which, miraculously, he al ways landed right side up. Here and in Europe, he qualified for his transport pilot’s license, as a pre liminary for his career as an ex plorer, which he had mapped out for himself. In the Orinoco region in South America, he indulged his yen for narrow escapes and brought through his skill as a film photographer. In Africa, he • found elephants posed for him nicely, but he was charged by an angry badger. Wars diverted him from his exploring ca reer. Barred from the Spanish con flict late in 1936, for his too-great zeal in taking pictures there, he hastily flew off to China, to record more of “the giant agony of the world,” as Euripides characterized the mild dissension of his day. There’s nothing frivolous about Mr. Menken. One gathers that he would not advise restless youth to see what he’s seen. AX/ - ORDS, like bullets, are ammu- v nition, which might have some thing to do with an editor of Web ster’s International dictionary be- e .. coming chair- Dictionary Scribe man of the C an Clarify the American na- Word‘Munitions’ Uonal muni tions control board. He is former Prof. Joseph C. Green of Princeton university, a teacher of history, now on the pro duction line, as he helps deploy our munitions strategically, under the narrowing pressure of the state de partment’s new “moral embargo.” Conferring in Washington with oil company executives, he is told that the withdrawal of high test gaso line from Japan and Russia will set back the oil companies quite a few millions, but the companies express a willingness to meet the issues of “national policy.” Mr. Green’s office is at the ful crum of weighty political and economic issues and naturally is concerned with the increasingly urgent consideration of muni tions reserves for national de fense. The word “munitions,” like many other words, takes in more territory than it did when Professor Green herded it into Webster’s dictionary, back in 1929. Incidentally, at that time, he was also an editor of Ameri can Indian terms. When moral issues intrude, as of today, it is well to have a word expert around. A native of Cincinnati, born in 1887, Mr. Green was graduated from Princeton in 1908 and did post-grad uate work there and in Europe. He was instructor in history at Borden- town Military institute, assistant professor of history at Princeton and associate professor from 1924-30. He was a major of infantry in the war, holding home and foreign decora tions, was with Belgian Near East Relief missions, and entered state department in 1930. He came to mu nitions control as a humanist, widely known in the field of political, eco nomic and social research. Plaids, Pleats and Boleros Hold Good in Spring Styles By CHERIE NICHOLAS IT’S time to come out in 4 something new. A dress or a suit that will “ring m out the old” and “ring in the new” style will rejuvenate win ter-worn nerves almost without fail. Anyway, the experiment is worth trying. See the new wool fashions for spring and if you do not become def initely clothes-ambitious, you will be the exception and not the rule. The beauty of modern woolens is they are that sheer and lightweight you can buy them with every confidence that you can wear them the whole spring through and on into the sum mer with perfect ease and comfort. Wool fabrics are wonderfully color- inspiring for spring. They are fea tured from a complementary view point in color and texture alliances so that used together the costume becomes a perfect unit. The attractive bolero costume to the left demonstrates the idea. Spongy wool makes this oxford gray dress, topped off with a bolero of the same weave but in a light silver gray. Handsome quilted applique and embroidery in darker gray is worked decoratively on the jacket. Here is one among the many in stances where embroidery on the wool street costume tells of a reign ing trend. The dress is cut with a high notched neckline and the belt is of self fabric. This is the type costume that is just the sort to wear under the winter coat and which, when coat is discarded later on, solves your problem of a fashion first suit for spring. There is a tendency in manipulat ing voguish woolens to indulge in striking color alliances. Such as, for instance, is a navy blue or black softly styled bolero suit with which is worn a grayed wool crepe blouse, the corselet girdle being in a lovely fuchsia red fastened with silver buttons. If it is the bright side of life you are seeking, the stunning dinner suit of vyvella flannel in red and white Victorian plaid illustrated, will tune to your happiest mood. The wool fabric is exquisitely textured yield ing to dressmaker touch with ut most grace. The wide skirt is pleat ed, but with no bulkiness for mod ern wool materials have a sheer and fragile beauty and lightweight that does away with cumbersomeness. Then, too, the pleats are carefully stitched down smoothly over the hips to maintain the slender look. Wear this dress to the next dinner party and compliments galore will be coming your way. If you are anxious to get an intel ligent early start in assembling the new spring wardrobe, a few news items as to general style trends may not come amiss. The continued pop ularity of bolero suits and dresses continues throughout midseason col lections. The new pegtop pocket dress is proving nothing less than a sensation and there is no doubt but what there is a tremendous vogue in store for it. Designers are so intrigued with the idea of pegtop skirts they are featuring them with utmost enthusiasm. As the pocket theme is involved in pegtop styling this new trend becomes of twofold importance. For than pockets there is no bigger factor motivati g in spring 1940 costume design. We will be seeing a perfect wilderness of pockets before the new season is far spent. Sleeves are longer. Either wrist- length or three-quarter bracelet types are taking the place of the shorter sleeve to a marked degree. Skirts are short and flaring, pleated, gored or circular cut. However there is rumor of the revival of straight slim silhouettes. Some few designers are showing them in their advance spring collections. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Smart Sportswear Here is an ideal dress to take with you, if and when you go to the sunny southland. Makes a grand under- winter-coat frock too. It is a hand somely tailored one-piece shirtmak- er classic, styled of a herringbone twill weave of bemberg rayon and tussah silk. The skirt has a kick pleat for ease and action. This dress is perfect for travel in that it is practically crush-resistant, laun ders beautifully and packs to advan tage. Comes in all the new pastels. Skirt Fullness Is Correct Anywhere The vogue for full flaring skirts brings up the question as to “where” the fullness. Designers there are who consider back fullness the prop er thing. Others of high authority advocate fullness brought to the front. Many very smart skirts car ry fullness all around in gathers, gores, unpressed or pressed pleats. In the newest models there is a ten dency to accent fullness to the sides now that hips are the center of in terest. Which all goes to show there is no arbitrary rule, according to the statement of a prominent leader in costume design who recently ad dressed a gathering of women on outstanding styling trends. That full flaring skirts are m fashion we all know but as to where and as to method of achieving fullness, “any where” is the answer. Let good judgment be the guide. The fullness that is best tuned to your individu ality and to your figure is the one to select. Shirred Dress With Corselette Waistline 'X'HE corselette waistline is -*■ scheduled for much popularity this coming season, probably be cause it makes you look so be- guilingiy slim. This simple little dress (8634) with a piquant peas ant air about it, has bodice full ness and a rippling skirt, shirred at the top, that look perfectly charming on slender figures. The square neckline is quite deep, the sleeves very round. This dress will be very pretty made up in bold-figured cottons like percale, calico or gingham for house wear, with rows of ricrac braid. And you’ll also like a dress like this for street and informal! afternoons, of printed silk or flat crepe. It’s one of those easy, be coming styles that you’ll repeat several times. Your pattern in cludes a helpful step-by-step sew chart. Pattern No. 8634 is designed for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 14 requires 3% yards of 39-inch material without nap; 1 yard bind ing; 8*4 yards ricrac. For a pattern of this attractive model send 15 cents in coin, your name, address, style, number and size to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1324, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. QUICK.. 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Lingerie Touches On Jacket Suits Watch the new navy and black jacket suits and count how many there are with dainty lingerie touches at neckline and wristline, on lapels and even bits of lace and em broidery, pique or dotted swiss to embellish the new voguish pockets. It has been a long time since im maculate lacy collar, cuff and rever “sets” have been in evidence but fashion seers tell us we may expect these dainty accessory touches to make their appearance this spring. OR SPREAD ON ROOSTS AT 6000 DRUG STORES Bauiqs 'CessedRelLeJL RHEUMATISM LUMBAGO