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Eleanor Roosevelt WASHINGTON.—It is curious how one can live near people one wants very much to see and still see them rarely. I finally succeeded in having Secretary and Mrs. Morgen- thau here to dinner. I have been trying to see Mrs. Morgenthau ever since I returned from the West. Our only other guest was Judge Rob ert Marx of Cincinnati. Ohio. After dinner we had a newsreel and a movie called “On the Shores of Tripoli,” a picture about the marine corps. We were, therefore, able to induce the President to stay and see it. It proved to be a good picture and very entertaining, but I don’t know whether we were wise to beguile the President away from his work, because I found him still at his desk at one o’clock this morn ing. We have left spring weather be hind us in Washington and are right in the middle of summer. Our flow ering bushes are too beautiful for words. Someone remarked to me this morning that the weather was so lovely one could not be annoyed with anyone. I am not sure that this is my feeling. The effect on me of these first warm days is so completely relaxing that I think I am too lazy to take much action of any kind, but that doesn’t imply a completely kindly attitude toward the world in general. I put the top of my car down and went to meet the train at noon. Unless I have something which real ly must be done, I don’t feel that tires or gas should be used. But, since trains have to be met, I en joyed the drive and had a nice chat with some soldiers, who came up to my car when I parked near the station. They asked for autographs and told me they were on their way to receive training. One boy told me he had just come in and hoped that he could do a good job. The usual crowds of school chil dren were in the station, but this year there have been far fewer than usual in Washington. Some of them have written me that they had given up their trips to buy Defense Stamps and Bonds. Others probably found it impossible to find any place to lay their heads. Dr. Herbert V. Evatt, attorney general and minister of state for external affairs of Australia and Mrs. Evatt came to lunch, eccom- panied by Mrs. Felix Frankfurter. I enjoyed very much talking to them. It always seems to me that the Australians have a point of view very much akin to our democrat ic aspirations. After a very pleasant party last night, which was given by some young friends, we drove around the Basin and along the river to get a glimpse of the cherry blossoms. I know nothing lovelier than the re flection of the light in the river. The quiet and peace seem to take one out of this world of turmoil for a few minutes at least. I listened to a news commentator this morning who gave such a gloomy picture of the future and of the leaders in every field in this country, that I wonder whether the effect would net be to dis courage people. Jnst to give the gentleman a ray of hope as to the good intentions of some people, I would like to draw his attention to an item in the news paper wires on April 7: “The Ex ecutive Board (of the United Auto mobile Workers) proposed today a legal unit of $25,000 a year on fam ily and individual incomes for the war’s duration, in return for which union workers would accept non- negotiable Defense Bonds in lieu of all overtime pay for more than 40 hours a week.” The gentleman said that there was no unselfishness left in any of us. I am not going to contend that this suggestion is entirely unselfish, but at least it is a constructive sugges tion showing that someone is doing some thinking. WARTIME ADJUSTMENTS HYDE PARK.—Yesterday morn ing, we visited some of our neigh bors. All families lead uncertain lives these days. They are constant ly trying to adjust to new aonditions. One of our neighbors depends on a gas station and a small lunch room with guest rooms above to make her living. In winter she weaves very beautiful homespun material, which she sells to established customers and passing motorists in summer. Another neighbor, whose husband had retired from the navy, had to see him return to active duty some six months ago. She heard from him the other day from the West coast after a long cruise. Now she is preparing, if he should be there more than a few days at any time, to take the long trip with her daughter for a glimpse of him. I have not been over yet to see one of our neighbors whose boy was on a destroyer last autumn. I am most anxious to get news of him. Another boy I am interested in, is the son of one of the other men, who works for the President. I read a charming story last night about a little brother who tried to follow his big brother into the army. It reminded me of a little boy who came to see me here last autumn to talk over his brother’s enlistment. He looked so worried that I felt quite sure that the first break in any large family was never easy for the youth THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C- APRIL 24, 1942 Kathleen Norris Says: Love Is With Us, Even in War (BeU Syndicate—WNU Service.) We need so little to be happy in this world; and there is so much more them that little waiting for us. But it must be based on love, the love that fulfills the law. By KATHLEEN NORRIS W AR means that sane men and sane nations adopt, in a crisis, measures that they know are fundamentally false and wrong. A sober, God fearing householder will snatch up a gun when the safety of the woman and children he loves is threatened by some attacking maniac; and in the same spirit an invaded nation will first take any steps possible to drive out the intruder, and then settle down to consider the terms that will keep him out. There will be peace again some day; we will all live to see it, for while wars in the past have strag gled on lazily from year to year and generation to generation, so that his tory speaks of the “Hundred Years’ war” and the “Thirty Years’ war,” war today has been stepped up to a pace that makes it mercifully swift. The most dismal of pessimists give this present conflict something be tween three and four years; other authoritative voices speak of peace in 1943. Now, many of us, enemy nations and allies alike, will have to expe rience a change of heart if this new peace is to be God’s peace at last. Unless it is a peace based upon those Christian principles by which we have supposedly governed our individual actions in the past, it won’t be lasting, and 1964 will see the task to do all over again. Many Try to Forgive. Individually, many of us really struggle to attain the Christian ideal; we do try to forgive our per sonal enemies, do good to them that hate us, and overcome not evil with evil, but overcome evil with good. Those men and women who achieve anything even remotely ap proaching the law of Christ win to an inner peace that is the true light, and the only hope of the world. We need so little to be happy in this world, and there is so much more than that little waiting for us all! But that little must be based on the laws that were given us 2,000 years ago in a sermon on a mount. It must be based on love. Love that casts out fear, that fulfills the law. Strange in these days of universal hates to be talking of love. Yet love is with us, even in war time; and every woman who spreads about herself a nucleus of loving and sharing helps to bring about that day when all these little cen ters of forgiveness and love shall join to make a new world. The very boys who go forth to fight are actuated by loyalty, which is a form of love, and duty and obedience—they are the only ones among us who have a right to pray for victory, to say, “God of our fathers be on our side!” because they are risking their lives to win it. The rest of us may pray rather for light. We must covenant; tell God what we will sacrifice for that same victory. Should Help All. We must promise Him that in the day of peace to come we will not forget that great national injustices and oppressions create these war conditions, and that we will study fhem, and try to see that they do not crop up again. We must promise that all the chil dren of the world will seem to us as much a responsibility as our own individual children, and that starva tion and hard times and famines and unemployment will not ever ex ist anywhere again. That at some ANOTHER WAR? When this war is ever and, we hope, won, will we make an in- telligent peace by which we will allow to our enemies the free dom and justice we are fighting to save for ourselves and our allies? Will we see to it that able bodied men are given an oppor tunity to work? Will we give to the children of others the unself ish devotion we sometimes re serve only for our own? Or will we fail to do these things and, in failing to do them, bring about the disaster of another war? long, green table in Washington our wisest leaders will gather to decide where in the world’s great open spaces little crowded nations may find colonial opportunities, and just how much help in colonizing we can give them. And we must promise that here at home no strong man with small children dependent upon him will ever again have to beg, cap in hand, for a job; that America’s great wealth and greater opportuni ties shall be used in peace, as they are in war, for the fair distribu tion of enough for everyone. Even then we will have apples and water melons and pork and wheat left over! When we promise this, and prom ise that it shall be done in the name of that Son whose Father refuses him nothing, then we shall have the right to ask victory, that we may make it fruitful of a righteous peace. But only then. Only when the grasp ing pride of empires has been changed into the neighborliness that makes our individual lives so secure and unafraid. Abused Rights. The conviction has grown up among us all that we have “rights” in far distant places; rights that might once have been established by honest treaties, but that have been betrayed and abused, and final ly soaked in blood. There are better ways of deal ing with our neighbors than these, and we must find them. It is my profound belief that those ways will be found. Meanwhile, every one of us may still have the supreme adventure that means finding God, and finding with Him that inner peace that means that nothing can frighten us, nothing can harm us. The woman who walks with her hand in God’s walks steadily; she can love and she can serve; she can find a thou sand little ways of making Ameri can life a safer and a better thing for the future. Anyone who likes may accuse me of an inordinate love of my own country and my own people. I ad mit it. And I say once and for all that as a great intelligent nation who for a hundred and more years has kept the peace with her own neighbors, unless America has an important voice in the framing of the new peace treaty, it will not be a good one, and in it will be the seeds of the next great war. The peace that follows this war can be a permanent peace. But we must all, nations as well as individ uals, work together toward that end. Self-interest on the part of any per son or faction can destroy the more generous efforts of all the rest. This war, more than any other, is a challenge to the principles of de mocracy and Christianity. We must successfully meet that challenge if we hope to enjoy the blessings of a permanent peace. (Released by Western Newspaper Union J Historic Leg ACCORDING to a recent press dispatch from Washington, an old building in the navy yard there has a human leg entombed in its cornerstone! The leg once belonged to a gallant young officer in the Union army who figured in a sensa tional “atrocity story” during the War Between the States. Ulric Dahlgren was his name and he was born in Bucks county. Pa., just a hundred years ago. The son of Admiral John A. Dahlgren of the United States navy, 19-year-old Ul ric left his uncle’s law office in Philadelphia at the outbreak of the war to accept a captain’s commis sion in the army. Assigned to duty with Gen. Franz Sigel’s forces, the young captain was placed in com mand of a battery of heavy guns and howitzers, furnished by his fa ther, which repelled an attack on Harper’s Ferry by “Stonewall” Jackson. Later Dahlgren served on the staffs of Generals Burnside, Fre mont, Hooker and Pope and so dis tinguished himself at Fredericks burg, at Chancellorsville and at the second battle of Bull Run as to win rapid promotions until he was a colonel by the time he was 21. He also fought heroically at Gettysburg and a short time later, during a skirmish at Hagerstown, was so seri ously wounded as to require- three amputations on one leg. After his leg was cut off, his father requested that it be interred in the corner stone of a building that was about to be erected at the navy yard in Wash ington and this request was honored. Dahlgren recuperated aboard one of his father’s ships and in Febru ary, 1864, he reported for duty with the cavalry corps of General Meade’s army. He was equipped with an artificial leg but he car. ried a crutch strapped on his saddle for use when he dismounted. Soon afterwards he was given command of a picked force of 300 men, a part of the army of Gen. Judson Kilpat rick, who was assigned the task of making a raid on Richmond to lib erate the Union prisoners at Belle Isle, south of the Confederate capital. Partly due to the treachery of a guide, Dahlgren’s force was am bushed by Confederate cavalry and home guards and the young colonel and 31 of his men instantly killed. A day or two later Richmond news papers began screaming the news that documents, found on the body of “Ulric the Hun,” revealed his orders to assassinate President Jef ferson Davis and members of the Confederate cabinet, set fire to the city and commit all sorts of out rages against its citizens. Historical scholarship of recent years has established the fact that these documents were forgeries, but at the time many high Confederate officials believed that they were genuine and this “atrocity story” created a sensation in the North as well as the South. Dahlgren was buried on a farm near Richmond but after the war his father had the body removed to Laurel Hill in Phila delphia. Dahlgren was one of the most dar ing officers in the Union army. At one time he dashed into Fred ericksburg with a single company of the Third Indiana cavalry, drove out a large force of Confederate cavalry, held the town for several hours and then returned safely with 31 prisoners. At Chancellorsville he held up the Confederate advance by a desperate charge and at the sec ond battle of Bull Run, as chief of artillery under Sigel, he fought off “Stonewall” Jackson’s attacks long enough to enable the disorganized Federal forces to throw up entrench ments from which they could not be dislodged. “ ‘Ully’ Dahlgren was the young est colonel in the army, a tall, slim lad looking rather like Lindbergh except for a tawny goatee,” writes one historian. “Even as an invader he charmed all he met on the raid against Richmond. The officers who were his prisoners said he was most civil, sharing his food and his flask with them. ‘He was most agreeable and charming, very tair-haired and young looking, with manners as soft as a cat’s,’ another reported to the Examiner in Richmond and all agreed on his superb composure under the strain of the raid.” / A: 1' 'HIS inviting three-in-one pat- days and at the same time is immediately practical with its sleeveless jumper dress cut on princess lines, the matching jump er and bonnet. For every little girl can put the jumper with its cunning bolero 'w»oper on now and wear it. Pattern No. 1546-B is a design that inspires even the sewing ama- tur to get out scissors and cloth and begin. The jumper is so very simple to make and the bolero of fers little or no problem. The matching bonnet can be made on a very simplified plan! Send your order to: * * * Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1546-B is de signed for sizes 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 years. 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