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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C SEPTEMBER 4, 1942
*>y,
Eleanor Roosevelt
MEXICAN WOMEN IN WAR
HYDE PARK.—Miss Mary Wins
low, in the Office of the Co-ordina
tor of Inter-American Affairs, came
to see me in Washington the other
day to tell me about her trip to
Mexico, which she had undertaken
at the invitation of a group of Mexi
can women’s organizations. They
called a mass meeting of women
and Miss Winslow showed me some
of the handbills used at it. They
seemed striking in their make-up
and extremely concise in the way
in which they expressed the rea
sons for women to take an active
part in the war situation.
The first handbill simply stated:
“Your country calls you,” and then
listed creeds and political parties.
However, it had underneath them
the simple phrase: “If you are Mex
icans, to defend the liberty which
you have created, your country calls
you.” In this way was emphasized
the unity of interest of all creeds
and political parties. A second flier
listed the various things Nazi-Fas-
cism would wipe out, dramatizing
thus in the simplest and most di
rect manner, not only unity, but the
reasons why unity could and should
exist.
• • •
LOCAL ELECTIONS
I have a letter from a woman,
which tells me of a local political
situation. In the nrimaries of her
party, she quite evidently suspects
one candidate of be’ » pro-Nazi, and
urges me to invest _ate the circum
stances of her particular locality. I
do not think it is possible for any
one, not even the leaders of a politi
cal organization, really to know in
detail the exact situation in every
locality. That is why we hold pri
maries, so that the people who live
in the locality may have the oppor
tunity to choose the best man as
they see him and know him.
People whp are detached from
party organizations can study pub
lished principles and can stand for
certain general ideas and actions
within groups. But where the indi
vidual localities are concerned, it is
the people who live in those locali
ties who have to weigh the real vir
tues of their candidates. Some
times neither candidate seems good
enough, and they may even have to
vote against their own party in the
findl election. The value of democ
racy lies in the fact that good or
bad government has its roots in the
localities where people know each
other and where they account for
their actions to their neighbors.
• • •
DELIGHTFUL POEM
AND LETTER
I have a delightful letter in my
mail, which reads:
“Dear Mrs. Roosevelt,
“I am sending you a copy of a
poem two of us soldier boys wrote
while in the Sixth Evacuation hos
pital. This poem expressed the
thoughts of every soldier whose
loved ones neglect to mail that nec
essary letter. This poem is our
humble effort to tell the people of
the U. S. how we soldiers actually
feel about our mail. If you can use
this poem in any way to help the
soldiers, we heartily give our con
sent. Sincerely yours,
Corporal and
Private First Class-
Here’s the poem:
A Soldier’s Lament
“What’s the matter? Out of ink,
Or is your pen on the blink?
All I want is one nice line.
To let me know that you are fine.
It sure is nice to get a line
From some one that’s so divine.
A letter a day in such a way.
Will put the spirits into play.
From an old friend, $ letter is
dear,
I hope I am making myself clear.
A letter from you I pine,
Send one when you have the time.
The darkness of eve draws near,
So I must close now with tears.
Remember me while we’re apart,
Yours truly with all my heart.”
I am sure no one will resist this
appeal, so I need say no more.
• • •
BRITISH VIEWPOINT
Miss Barbara Ward, foreign edi
tor of the Economist in England,
who has come over here for a few
months, spent an hour one day with
some of us on the South Porch. I
think it was a most profitable hour,
because it showed us that in many
ways it is hard in this country to
get a complete picture of what is
happening in other countries.
• • *
NO WEATHER ‘REPORTS’
The censor has written me a very
stern letter about my remarks on
the weather, and so from now on I
shall not tell you whether it rains or
whether the sun shines where I am.
• • •
A CHARMING BOOK
I have finished Elizabeth Goudge’s
book: “A Castle on the Hill.”
I like Miss Goudge’s writing, and
this book puts before one, more viv
idly perhaps than I have read lately,
the changes that are coming about
in the mind and hearts of the people
of Great Britain. The boy in the
book has lived in the traditions of
his farmly. He loves the beauty of
his environment and is sensitive to
his surroundings, as well as to the
qualities of the people with whom he
comes in contact.
Kathleen Norris Says:
Don’t Di rce an Unfaithful Father
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THE LESSER EVIL
The woman who chooses di
vorce as the solution of her mar
ital problems runs the risk of
having to face even greater un
happiness. And if there are chil
dren, even infidelity is not suf
ficient cause for her to make
such a choice. She must face
heartbreak and suspicion and
yet remain calm. She must not
let the loss of the confidence and
love of the man she married dis
turb the comfort and serenity of
his home. That is, of course, ask
ing a great deal, but by follow
ing this course rather than the
other one of divorce she will
avoid adding her mistake to his.
The mere semblance of a happy
home is bad enough, but in this
case it is the lesser evil.
All this time my husband has regarded Alma as merely another child; now he
uaris her for his wife and has asked me for a divorce.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
I N the many years during
which I have been writing
these articles, one question
has been asked frequently —
perhaps more frequently, than
any other. It is “Is infidelity a
justification for divorce, when
children are involved?” My an
swer has inevitably been “no.”
The women who have no
children don’t ask this ques
tion. They simply get their
divorces. It is when there
is a small son or daughter in
the family that the agonizing prob
lem presents itself, and that a wom
an’s decision to seek a divorce
brings infinite misery to the innocent
as well as the guilty.
Possibly very high spiritual and re
ligious grounds might be cited as
reasons against such divorces; but
these are not the grounds upon
which I base my position. It is
based solely upon human happiness.
A woman, who preserves the out
ward dignity of her home, saves her
children the spiritual disturbance of
losing faith in their father, main
tains her position as wife, mother
and house manager, despite inward
heartbreak and disillusionment, is
in the end far happier than the wom
an who breaks all ties, pulls up
roots, scars and horrifies young
minds with devastating revelations
of the details of marital failure.
Some Harsh Descriptions.
The proof of this is all about us.
To justify herself in the step she
takes a woman describes her faulty
spouse as nothing less than a mon
ster. Keep check some time on the
number of your divorced friends who
describe their ex-husbands as fiends,
mental cases, moral degenerates.
Their own mothers can’t stand them.
Their clubs have expelled them.
They ought to be in institutions.
“Ann,” I said once to a friend
who was in course of being di
vorced, “how could you tell Tommy
and Ellen that Tom struck you?”
“Well,” she answered defensive
ly “he might as well have struck
me as have said some of the things
he did.”
This is typical. The accusing
woman lowers herself; she becomes
vituperative and spiteful. Only a
new great love, accompanied with
understanding and patience and gen
tleness can restore her to a normal
attitude toward life. She does not
often find that love; she is in no
condition to find it.
So my advice to her is to stick to it.
To stop suspicion, to conquer sen
sitiveness, to accept facts. Tom, the
dear, attentive, delightful compan
ion of only a few years past, loves
another woman. That part of Ma
ry’s life is over; the joyous, be
loved, confident part. She has lived
only for him, adored her son and
daughter partly because they were
also his. It hasn’t been enough; it
hasn’t saved her.
Nothing can save Mary from the
bitter humiliation of knowing that
she hasn’t been able to hold her
man. Divorce won’t save her that;
divorce will only advertise it to the
whole world. Divorce hands all the
trump cards to the new sweetheart;
the latter grabs them easily, and a
few days after the divorce is grant
ed she marries Tom, to his endur
ing wretchedness and hers.
Mary is also wretched. Wretched
if she lives a lop-sided, lonely life
with the children, sharing their ce
real and applesauce at six o’clock
and going to bed at nine. More
wretched if she marries someone
who doesn’t understand them or love
them.
Today’s mail brings me this let
ter.
“I am a woman of 34, married
just ten years. I idealized Rob for
years before we were married and
for years afterward. We have two
beautiful girls, eight and five. We
four have been inseparable, loving,
admiring each other, always happy
together. Seven months ago there
was a change.
“The girl who has taken my place
in my husband’s heart is only 18.
She is orphaned, my husband's
ward. She is very beautiful, inno
cent and artless in manner, and
rich. To Robert the thought of pos
sessing all this loveliness, youth,
charm and the added independence
is evidently acting like an intoxi
cating wine. He is completely be
witched. Alma makes no secret of
her passionate devotion to him.
Since she was very small she has
been in the habit of kissing him,
sitting on his knee, ruffling his hair.
She continues all this. All this time,
until now, he has regarded her as
merely another child; but now he
wants her for his wife.
It Never Lasts.
“I know the wreckage of his life
that would follow this step. Alma
is shallow, flirtatious, self-centered
as most little beauties of her age.
She loves to pout and tease; she
wants to go to Hollywood to study
for the films and he has promised
to take her, if only Sally will be an
angel and say ‘yes!’ His infatuation
for her will last only as long as
she chooses to flatter him and be
sweet; then some younger man will
come along, and Rob, reputation and
practice destroyed, wife and children
alienated, will be left in the ruins of
his own life. Rob is just 40.
“The alternative to my shrieking
at him, as I sometimes want to do,
‘Take her and get out; I never
want to see either of you idiots
again!’ is the bitter one of living
with a silent, resentful man, whose
attitude will be that I have destroyed
his one chance for happiness in life.
That my own life is destroyed, I
know. But there are my girls, inno
cent and sweet and completely un
conscious of all this. Until very
lately their father’s devotion to
them, from the very hour of their
birth, has been the admiration of
all our friends.
“I can send Alma away; indeed it
is already arranged that she is to
go to a dramatic school in south
ern California. But what sort of a
husband would I have after all this?
What am I to do?”
Divorce will only bring misery to
you, Sally, and in the long run to
him, too.
Lesson for September 6
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
THE ALCOHOL PROBLEM: PAST
AND PRESENT
LESSON TEXT—Genesis 13:13: 19:33-25;
Deuteronomy 32:31-33; Amos 6:1-7.
GOLDEN TEXT—The way of the ungodly
shall perish.—Psalm 1:6.
The necessity for using to the limit
every resource—man power and
material—in this time of national
crisis should make every American
doubly alert to the devastation and
loss which has come (and is coming
in increasing measure) to us as a
result of the sale of intoxicants.
This is no time (nor was there
ever a time) when “men should
put their enemy in their mouths to
steal away their brains; that we
should with joy, pleasure, revel and
applause ' transform ourselves into
beasts! To be now a sensible man.
by and by a fool, and presently a
beast!” (Shakespeare).
Christians—and especially Sunday
school teachers—should use this les
son to drive home anew the great
lesson of moral accountability, of
the importance of man’s choice of a
way of life, and the certainty of
judgment.
I. Man is Morally Responsible
(Gen. 13:13; 19:23-25).
Life is not just a careless drifting
from day to day, from pleasure to
pleasure, from sin to sin. Man was
created in the likeness and image
of God, which means that he is a
personal being, knowing right from
wrong and possessing the power of
choice. Sodom and Gomorrah drew
upon themselves the judgment of
God because of their determination
to persist in horrible wickedness.
What happened to those cities, ter
rible as it was, is but a prophecy
of even greater judgment to come
(Luke 10:10-12).
If man chooses to do right, he
may count on all the resources of
the omnipotent God to uphold him.
But if he chooses to go in the way
of sin, he must look forward to the
judgment of God. It is important
to remember that
II. He Chooses His Own Way of
Life (Deut. 32:31-33).
Moses contrasts the Rock—Jeho
vah—in whom his people trusted,
and the corrupt standards of their
heathen neighbors, of Sodom and
Gomorrah; but note it well, each one
made his own choice.
One greater than Moses, our Lord
Himself (Matt. 7:13, 14), spoke of
the two ways, and noted with sad
ness that many go down the broad
road to destruction and but few walk
in the narrow way of life.
It is a vital matter that we teach
our boys and girls the great and
noble spiritual standards of Christi
anity; bring into their lives the pow
er of God through faith in Christ
that they may choose well for them
selves and be able to lead a bewil
dered war-shocked world in the
right way.
The need of humanity is great
now, but it will be even greater in
a post-war world of broken homes,
broken lives and broken hearts. We
must be ready to minister in the
name of Christ.
HI. Neglect and Ignorance Are No
Excuse (Amos 6:1-7).
Surprise attack is always doubly
effective. “Remember Pearl Har
bor.” Yes, and remember man’s de
feat in spiritual things.
Satan would like to lull us to sleep
with the assurance that all is well.
The heart of man is prone to cher
ish optimistic thoughts; to magnify
that which encourages him to take
his ease; to keep away the fear of
reality by sweet music, good food,
and flowing bowl of wine.
The people of Amos’ day, to whom
this message was given, had come
to the point where prosperity had
made them at ease, when they
should have been actively alert;
foolishly serene, when they should
have been vigilant and ready for
battle.
Who can say that the same is not
in all too large a measure true of
the people of our own beloved Amer
ica. Many elements enter into that
dangerous situation, but not the least
of them is our increasing use of in
toxicants. It may shock some to
learn that the per capita use of al
coholic beverages has increased
greatly throughout the country. The
appalling fact is that the city of
Washington, D. C., which should in
these days set an example of so
briety and sanity, has led the na
tion in the increase of the use of
strong drink.
That way is the way of captivity
(v. 7) unless we repent—and that
right soon. America needs to awak
en to the dangers which threaten its
precious liberty—and, we repeat,
the liquor question is not the least
of these problems. We must win a
victory over it soon, or we may find
that it has won the victory over us
—which may God in His mercy
forbid!
Wool-Like Rayon Jersey Is
The College Girls’ Favorite
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Lord’s Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer, engraved on
the head of a small gold pin, is in
possession of a pawnbroker in Butte,
Mont. Three years of labor were
required for the work.
NT EVER has the challenge to do
the right thing in buying clothes
for classroom and campus wear
been so keenly felt as now when
war conditions call for wise and
careful judgment in acquiring a
wardrobe with an eye to the future
as well as the present.
While the new fashions are mak
ing simplicity and practicality their
plea, and while they conform patri
otically to every priority ruling,
there are at the same time turning
out to be about the most flattering,
the most charming and much-to-be-
admired and desired apparel that
ever graced a fall style program.
Especially in the college and school
girl realm, the incoming styles are
so definitely and refreshingly new
looking and “different,” so fascinat
ingly colorful and so everything girls
want their clothes to be, shopping
this season resolves itself into a
grand and glorious adventure rather
than an arduous task.
The new wide-wale corduroys and
the handsomely colorful velveteens
are taking the young fashion ele
ment by storm but no more so than
are the smart and delightfully wear
able rayon jersey weaves. They
look wool-like because of the refined
dull finish but they are so delight
fully lightweight they are the kind
“you love to wear.” All types of
jersey this season are a joy to wear,
so much so that if there is one fabric
that stands out more than another
as a favorite for the making of the
simple casual daytime frock, jersey
is its name. There is, in fact, a bit
of rivalry going on between the
rayon-backed jersey with its wool
like surface and the new wool-and-
rabbit hair type which is recognized
as a sportswear leader.
The big “fad” that is spreading
out through every campus and in
the sports world at large is that of
the simple daytime classic done in
natural beige colored jersey, styled
after the manner of the charming
dress centered in the above illus
tration. Slit pockets and front full
ness in the skirt are new autumn
style notes that it carries out to a
nicety. It is a “victory” style and
carries out the war production
board’s general orders perfectly
both in the letter of the law and
in the loyal patriotic spirit. In fact,
each of the three dresses shown is
in accord with L-85 regulations.
The importance of natural beige
tones cannot be overemphasized for
fall. It is not only in jersey that
they flourish, but the new velveteens
and corduroys in beige are simply
stunning for coats and suits as well
as dresses.
A smart two-piece daytime frock
done in the prescribed L-85 manner,
shown to the right in the above
picture, gives a jacket-suit impres
sion which is very fashionable. This
two-piece dress is a veritable stand
by for campus, go-to-town or travel
wear.
The dress at the left with the flash
of raffia embroidery is charming for
“date” duty, and it is in the very
foreground of fashion, for there is a
wealth of intriguing embroidery be
ing lavished on dresses this fall. The
unique thing about the embroidery
that enhances this kelly green jersey
frock is that it is done in multi-color
raffia instead of the usual peasant
yarn work.
Milliners are making exotic
draped turbans of rayon jersey,
some with embroidery and others
with long scarf end intended to be
draped about the throat.
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Corduroy Coat
Here is a coat that is “as smart
as they make ’em” this fall. It is
a glowing example of the smart
ness of cottons for fall. You are
helping the war effort when you are
clad in a coat like this, and you’ll be
the envy of your fellow students at
school if you make your appearance
on the campus in a coat as out
standing as this model. Yes, indeed,
this coat of beige hollow-cut velet
is so goodlooking you certainly won’t
feel you’re making a sacrifice in
giving up needed materials to the
army and navy. The coat is cut
with a soft bloused top and ample
pockets in the skirt. Unpressed
pleats run right through them. Note
that the tie-belt is the only fasten
ing.
‘Jewelry’ Dress
Is an Innovation
Destined to “go places” this fall
and winter is the new “jewelry
dress” as interpreted in endless
ways. Instead of being worn as
accessory to the costume, the jewels
are actually embroidered on as an
intrinsic part of the gown or coat
(evening coats especially).
You’ll love the new “necklace”
dresses. The most conservative are
of black crepe with a necklace ef
fect of pearls worked in as realisti
cally as if it were a separate piece
of costume jewelry. Other frocks
are given a dash of exotic color
with glittering multi - color stones
worked in simulating a real neck
lace. Lapel and shoulder ornaments
are jewel-embroidered after the
same manner.
There is what is referred to as the
“bracelet dress,” for example, which
flaunts a gorgeous bracelet of col
ored stones worked right onto the
long sleeves about the wrist.
Dance Frocks Decorated
With Embroidery Accents
Some call them “date” dresses,
others refer to the dressier types
and a new expression coined this
year as “off-duty” dresses. At any
rate, the dress-up dress is as im
portant as the uniform and the cas
ual frock, more so this season in
that the vast program of entertain
ment now under way for army men
on furlough demands that one dress
to the occasion.
Lace, being a non-priority medi
um, is going to play a big role in
the party frock realm. Rich, too,
with embroidery and with glittering
accent are the newer dance frocks.
There is something devastating in
the simple dress of dainty lingerie
type, and nets, piques, dimities will
hold good way up until “the frost
is on the vine.”
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scalloped band of dainty flowers
in all white is effectively relieved
by pastel center flowers. For the
third pair, the perennial butterfly
emerges in a new and lovely de
sign; lastly, pots of tulips furnish
distinctive embroidery in cross
stitch.
• • •
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