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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ NOVEMBER 13, 1942 *>y, Eleanor Roosevelt PALACE LUNCHEON LONDON, ENGLAND.—The king and queen very kindly gave a lunch eon for the heads of the various women’s services, to which they also invited Mrs. Oveta Hobby, director of our Women’s Army Aux iliary corps. I was glad to find that there were a number of women present who were not complete strangers to me. Mrs. Arthur Grenfell, head of the YWCA, had come to see me in Washington. The dowager duchess of Heading, who heads the Women’s Voluntary Services, spent weeks in the United States before she start ed her work over here. Now, of course, we have much to learn from her, but I think we may feel that at the beginning our country con tributed something to the develop ment of her ideas. Mrs. Mary Agnes Hamilton, of the ministry of planning, had spent the day with us in Hyde Park years ago, when the President was gover nor of New York state, and it was very pleasant to renew that acquain tanceship. • • • AIR RAID DAMAGE After lunch, their majesties took me to visit St. Paul’s cathedral. It was my first view of the destruction which has levelled whole blocks of houses. It is remarkable that St. Paul’s still stands, in spite of con siderable damage. Its fire fighters spent night after night sleeping in the crypt, ready to spring to their posts should they be needed. I had seen pictures of the fire which had swept the financial district, known as “The City,” after one of the blitzes, but I was in no way prepared to see such a great area of destruction. When buildings, such as the fine old Guild hall and many beautiful old churches are destroyed, they are a loss to the whole world. So much skill and artistic ability, not to speak of historic interest, have sim ply been swept away. But even more poignant is the destruction that we viewed a lit tle bit later in Stepney. Here the crowded population lived over small shops and in rows of two-story houses. Today there Is only one-third of the popula tion left and each empty build- - ing speaks of a personal trage dy. They showed me one of the big shelters, which at one time housed as many as 1,200 people, and where, even now, 300 people come to sleep every night. They feel cared for, less lonely and their own houses are no longer very secure. It seemed to me, as I walked through the brick compartments of that shelter, that I learned some thing about fear and the resistance to total destruction which exists in all human beings. How could peo ple be herded together lik-i this night after night without some epidemic' being the result? Yet, it was done and the spirits of kindness and cheerfulness prevailed. Those who had lost so much still managed to smile. We visited the city fire control center, where the lord mayor of London, Sir John Laurie, and senior regional commissioner, Sir E. Gow ers, who is in charge of the safety of the city, greeted and welcomed us. Many of the other city offi cials demonstrated how the system which they have built up functions to protect, as far as possible, the life and property of this city. Later, at the Guildhall, we saw a small detachment of the civilian de fense personnel, looking very ef ficient in their uniforms. Many of them wore decorations for conspicu ous courage. A short stop for tea at the Mansion house with the lord mayor and lady mayoress, and then, on our return, a visit from our secretary of the treasury, Mr. Hen ry Morgenthau Jr. • • • NAVY FILM After dinner one evening, we were shown a very fine film, “In Which We Serve,” which I hope will soon be released in the United States. It is acted and produced by Noel Coward and is the life story of a ship of the royal navy. In great part it is the story of Lord Louis Mountbatten’s own ship. For peo ple whose life, is so tied up with the navy, it must have exceptional poignancy. Seen here, surrounded by people who are so conscious of the truth of every detail and must be so emo tionally responsive to the suffer ing, it was an extraordinary expe rience. I wondered how some of those present could bear to sit through it and was grateful for Gen eral Smuts’ strong, quiet presence beside me. • * * PRESS CONFERENCE We attended the press conference at the United States embassy, and I must say it was a formidable gathering I faced. It reminded me far more of the President’s press conference at home than my small gatherings of ladies. In it were rep resented the Empire, British and United States press. I was asked a number of questions about my plans, which were still nebulous in detail except for two or three days in ad vance, but with a carefully defined objective. Kathleen Norris Says: No Shortage of Jobs for Women of 50 Bell Syndicate—WNU Feature!. peace. Such women speak to me and write to me every day. I am never in any group but what they ap proach me. “My daughter is work ing in a machine plant and the boy is in uniform, but what can I do? I must do something!” they say. Well, I’ll tell you one thing that you can do, a thing that embraces a thousand others. You can help our woefully small and insufficient army of doctors and nurses. We have not enough now, and we are going to feel a dangerous shortage later on. You can do what the writ er of this article hopes to do, follow a Red Cross primary training by a special course in midwifery, learn to handle women through normal confinements, and welcome new babies into this war-clouded world— for the young mothers go right on having them, God bless them, and that work must be done. 300 Babies, No Nurses. In one western town whose normal staff was 17 doctors, four are left. The obstetrician among these told me that he had listed among ward, clinic and private patients exactly 300 babies who are due before April. Asked about nurses he said: “There are NO nurses!” and he spoke with considerable feeling about families who keep one nurse or even two for routine chronic invalid care that might be handled easily by the idle women of the family. “It ought to be stopped and I believe 1 it will,” he said. Only a few days later I chanced to look, on a hospital visit, into one of those large, clean pantries that hospitals have on every floor, sink, cabinets, gas stove, hoppers, and so on. It was a shocking sight. Trays, pans, basins, tumbled linen, piled fishes were everywhere; the nurse who flashed in and out again was perspiring—her face on a very hot day was the color of wax—but she smiled gallantly as she said: “Last year this time we had 70 less pa tients and 39 nurses. Now we have 15 nurses for the whole crowd!” Well, I don’t know that I’ll ever qualify as a licensed midwife, but I knew right then and there that until that pantry looked very different I had a war job. And in a clean apron with a box of soap flakes and a mop I came back a few minutes later. It takes study and skill to deliver babies, but the woman who washes dishes and assorts sheets and sterilizes bandages frees a grad uate nurse from that work, and has her place, too, in the great war story. My reward that day was to feel many a young strong arm go about me for a second, while many a grate ful voice said in my ear: “You’re an angel!” and nobody could ask more genuine happiness than that. Health an Obligation. Give your free afternoons every week to the sick of your neighbor hood or to your hospital kitchen, and you’ll not have to ask again for the right to do “something—any thing for our boys!” Get in touch with your doctor, and he’ll give you a list of patients who merely need beds made or soup heated. And do what you can to keep your own home people well; don’t Give your free afternoons every week to the sick of the neighborhood or to your hospital kitchen and you’ll not have to ask again for die right to do **something for the boys.” By KATHLEEN NORRIS T HIS article is written for women of 50 years and more who have some time to spare, cannot enter upon de fense jobs with regular and diffi cult hours, and yet are passion ately anxious to do something to help our country in her hour of need, and bring nearer the glori ous hour of a good and honest ITS THERE If you have not yet found a war job, you haven’t looked hard enough. You may not find it in a factory, if you have no special skill. You may not find it in the armed forces. But you will find it in a hospital where there are floors to be scrubbed and linens to be sorted. You will find it in the home of a sick friend. You will, perhaps, find it right in your own home if you have bekn relying on someone else to do' a dozen little things you could do for yourself. And finding it, says Kathleen Norris, is your job. tolerate any of the minor ills that lead to serious trouble, not this war winter! Health is an obligation that we owe America, while her youth and power and glory are committed to this tremendous adventure, and it’s mother who holds that responsi bility at home. So if Dad is making too long and tiring a shift of cars and trains and busses to get home, see whether you can’t find the simplest, the plainest little quarters nearer his work. If the working girls come in weary and cold, have a cup of hot soup or malted milk ready. This idea of a warming drink before a hearty meal is one that dietitians everywhere ap prove. To get very tired and hun gry often means that a hearty meal doesn’t get digested before bedtime by the cold and weary stomach. The hot drink, the comfortable chair and pleasant news all help to make dinnertime a success. If cold feet and backache and headache and nerves and restless ness at night are chronic, they are apt to have one cause—constipation. Lack of exercise, long sedentary hours in the factory or office, and lunches of pastry, strong tea or cof fee, sweets, accentuate it. Mother can do a Jot about that with the in troduction of raw vegetables at din ner, salads of lettuce, chopped car rots, apples, cabbage, spinach and by serving a dark rough bran bread. And make desserts laxative; prunes, apples, figs, oranges and grapefruit can be served in about 300 ways, all helpful. Hot tomato juice, hot prune and apple puree are medicinal enough, as are ginger bread and ginger-molasses cookies to cure many of these cases of chills and aches and nerves, and to hold off the colds and bronchial and laryngeal conditions to which they lead. Get your family through this winter without a night of lost sleep or a sneeze and you will be doing your share of the big job. No Shortage of Jobs. If the youngsters are tired and nervous enough to complain; if they demand starches and gravies and heavy meats, take them into your confidence. Explain that you are meeting all sorts of war .conditions; shortage of fuel, difficult transpor tation, higher prices, the need for closer management of finances, beef scarce, bananas gone, domestic help unprocurable, and insist that they co-operate to the extent of remem bering overshoes, drafts, over- fatigue—and by eating what Mother tells them to! Oh, there isn’t going to be any shortage of jobs for us older women, as the war months go on. The only question is whether we are going to be willing enough and humble enough to step into them. And I think we are. I think we presently will have an army of mothers and wives quietly filling the menial and minor positions that free the younger and more experienced women for actual war services. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL s UNDAY^ chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for November 15 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. THINGS THAT MAR FAMILY LIFE LESSON TEXT—Genesis 27:30-39; Mat thew 9:31, 32; Luke 12:13-19. GOLDEN TEXT—Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.— Galatians 6:2. Home is what you make it! Oh, yes, there may be circumstances which hinder us from doing what we would like—such as poverty, illness, unemployment, etc. These are things we cannot control and cer tainly they do have a bearing. But man or woman when of the right spirit can triumph over such mat ters and make even the poorest home the gateway to heaven. It is a matter of the attitude of heart and mind. Our lesson then is very practical, for it deals with those sins which mar family life. Whatever our circumstances may be, we can and must turn away from sin—and in this case, the sins which hinder the home from being what it ought to be. God has pro vided victory over sin (through Christ for all who believe in Him. What then are the sins which stand as the enemies of the home? I. Deceit (Gen. 27:30-35). Wnatever the circumstances of the home may be, there can be absolute honesty and candor in the dealings between members of the family. Our recent study of the story of Jacob and Esau showed us the sad consequences of the deceit practiced by Jacob and his mother in de frauding Esau. Many elements en tered in, the favoritism of the moth er toward one son, the envy that the brother had of his elder broth er’s birthright, the wicked scheming of mother and son to outwit the aged father—all a very distressing picture of a home shot through with deceitfulness. To build anything of permanent vr'ue on such a founda tion was quite impossible. The family in which deceitful means are used by husband or wife to gain some advantage for self or a favored child is heading for the rocks and needs to turn about and get into the channel of truth and uprightness before it is too late. II. Divorce (Matt. 5:31, 32). One of the most destructive ele ments of modern' life is that of divorce. Terrifying statistics could be quoted, but they are not nearly as moving as the knowledge most of us have of broken homes, de linquent children, decadent morals, etc., ad nauseam. The victims vof this deadly evil are primarily the children who are sent on into life with disordered minds and hearts. Jesus declared that the decree of divorcement allowed by Moses was not an abrogation of God’s original law in this matter. Because of the “hardness of their hearts” (Mark 10:4) Moses permitted it, but the standard of God was and (note this please!) is unchanged. Marriage, as we saw in our les son of November 1, is God’s plan for the perfect union of the man and woman whereby the two become one in the sight of God. That means that the tie is not one to be dis solved at will or on some purely legal ground; it is an inseparable union. The only exception recognized by Scripture (v. 32) is that act of un faithfulness which is such a breach of the holy union as to virtually de stroy it. Perhaps it might be called a recognition of the breaking of the union rather than an exception Adultery is a heinous sin, an ex tremely serious violation of God’s law. Let us press that fact home today when it is so lightly regarded in our sinful generation. III. Desire (Luke 12:13-15). Money is necessary and may be a blessing, bm ihe “love of money is the root of all evil” (I Tim. 6:10) That is not just a verse in the Bible It is the true picture of the thing which- has destroyed the happiness of millions. Here was a quarrel over an in heritance, and in meeting it our Lord laid down a principle which would solve all the money quarrels in every home—and they are end less in number and great in bitter destructiveness. “Man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth” (v. 15). Write it large over the minds and hearts of the boys and girls in our homes! Let it control in the attitude of father and mother toward money. It will solve not only the money problems of the home, but will send the chil dren forth into life with a foundation philosophy that will bless them to 1 the end of their days. Notice verse 14. It is the desire for money that most often makes ' man desire to be a judge over his brother. The big eyes of envy cause him to look with bitter desire upon what his brother has and he wants. The fine principle of sharing the family’s possessions would do much to knit the home into a unit—happy, strong and useful to both God and man. The point is to say “ours” rather than “mine," and to ask, “What can we do?” not, “What can I get?” Knitwear Keeps You Warm and Smartly Attired All Day Long By CHERIE NICHOLAS j CUCH a splurge of things I ^ knitted of gay and beau tiful yarns in intricate pat- ternings and unique design as fashion is making this season. Pullovers, cardigans by day and bed jackets by night; smart tailored woolknit jackets for town wear; sweaters for casual wear, for sports or attuned to dine-and-dance wear; waistcoats, vestees and dick eys too stunning for words; jerkins, too, to add extra warmth and to sound a convincing note of chic— this is the message fashion is broad casting from the knitted realm in an swer to the challenge of prospective lowered room temperatures in houses, theaters and stores this win ter due to fuel restrictions, and of gas rationing, which will cause us to walk more than ever before. One of the outstanding items of in terest in the new collections is the waistcoat, now being revived in all its former glory. Note the smart checked knitted vestee, or waist coat, shown to the left in the above picture. Here’s warmth for you un- derwritU-n with a declaration of def inite chic. Choose it in yellow, gray and white check as shown here, and you will make no mistake. Add a hundred per cent Australian wool sweater and you will have the kind of protection that cruel wintry blasts will find it difficult to penetrate. As to tailor-knit jackets, they are not missing a fashion “trick” in their styling. They are taking the place of tne gay tweed jackets (at least they make a grand alterna tive) which have been so conspicu ously present for many seasons. It takes masterly styling to achieve a knitted jacket as smart and patrician looking as the model shown at the lower right in the il lustration. This navy and white tailored knit jacket is one hundred per cent wool. As pictured it is worn with wool slacks. It would be equally as good-style worn with a dress or with a separate skirt. As to the new sweaters, volumes could be written about them. The prospect is that there will be a stampede this winter for both utili tarian types and evening modes of dazzling mien. College girls are making a mad rush for twin sweater sets, a pull over teamed with a jacket sweater type. Fashion is especially featur ing shaggy effects, with teddy-bear cardigans in the lead. White sweat ers with vivid wool embroidery and novelty yarn fringe trimming are particularly in the spotlight this sea son. Evening sweaters provide a theme for poets to sing of and painters to glorify in portraiture. To say that they dazzle the eye is not a figure of speech, but literally so. The big news about them is their glittering embroidery. The white woolknit evening sweater shown above to the right is elegantly embroidered with pearls and fine gold braid. Note the novel bracelet embroidered di rectly on the knitted surface. Long “cultured” pearls, diamond ear rings and a dainty spray-pin of pearls for the hair complete the jewelry ensemble. By the way, it’s correct to wear beads and jewelry with daytime sweaters as well as with evening knits. The smart young modern pic tured in the group wearing the checked knitted vest is very appro priately flaunting a new version of the popular ba'ngle bracelets in light and dark amber set in gold. Also, she is pridefully wearing an amber ring set in gold and a chatelaine gold watch suspended by a chair from a gold key pin. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Yarn Ensemble This most intriguing hat and muff set goes to show the perfectly charming things that are being done with gay yarns this season. The flattering hat with its pert tall-point ed crown, together with the huge muff, is in a beautiful shade of tur quoise blue yarn with black jet beads decorating the fringe. The enormous muff is a crochet and knit masterpiece. A dramatic jewelry ensemble of highly polished faceted jet adds the perfect touch to this accessory group. Fluid Drape The one dress that stands pre eminently forth as making a grand success of it from the very begin ning of the season is the silhouette dress of crepe, satin, or rayon or of wool jersey, that is made with ut most simplicity, its importance cen tering about the exquisiteness of i^s fluid drape that swings it into grace ful slenderizing lines. Glitter Brightens Simple Dark Wools The fact that simple little day time wool frocks, and even knitted modes, are highlighted with glitter accents in the way of bead work and sequin embroidery is very style-sig nificant. Two outstanding trends in the use of glitter notes give variety to the mode. The one is the positioning of a single motif of sequin-worked flow ers on frocks that are otherwise styled with extreme simplicity. An afternoon frock of either velvet or crepe that interprets this technique makes for good style this season. The other gesture in adding the sparkle highlight is seen in alluring sheer yokes that top otherwise sim ple dark dresses. These yokes are often as filmy as chiffon or sheer weave can make them, and they take on glamour in that they are fin ished off at the lower edge with a handworked jewelry effect or a huge bowknot done in sequins. Sometimes the treatment is varied in that the filmy yoke is allover studded with seed pearls or sparkling tiny beads. Neckline Notes Both long and short dresses often have low square necklines and plunging V-necks. There is a dis position on the part of designers to create such fascinating, artful ef fects that the rest of the dress is styled with extreme simplicity as to better accent the chic and charm of the ingenious neckline. Accents of sequins, embroidery and filmy black lace add to the picture. Quilted Satin Quilted satin in pastel colors is a new medium for collar and cuff sets. 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