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jdel" mother that she is, lovely, green- Mrs. Crider has taught Amanda and *o" to safeguard their smiles by following >\vn prized dental routine: Regular brushing Ipana Tooth Paste, then gentle gum massage. ■ France?, like so many successful models, s it her b'lsmeoS to know what thousands ools a tists stress— that healthy gums
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"Being the biographer of wild ani- mals is easier than writing about dissatisfied human beings," says Mr. Montgomery. "Animals behave sensibly." The supporting character in The Voice of Jerome Kildee is a frivolous alcoholic raccoon. He is almost human. Mr. Montgomery, who once thought he'd be satisfied to publish one book, has published thirty. But he isn't satisfied. "If costs keep going up," he says, "I'll have to write a book the first of every month."
VANDAMM
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Mr. Davidson wrote the article on Rabbi Licbman with the help of his wife, llilcli Abel. David's first novel, The Sleeper (tiff, was published last July. He was formerly a newspaper- man, anil Ililde a painter. Neither became a creative writer until after their marriage, and then they worked on separate projects apart from each other. .Mr. Davidson says, "Except for our seven-year-old daughter, the Licbman article is our first collaboration. Now we want to do more."
K. CHESTER
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Politically speaking. Mr. Hutterfield is not buttered on cit her side, but he was born in New York State and knows the background of Republi- can Governor Tom Dewey. (See Possible /'resilient s, first of a scries.) Mr. Butterficld recently pub- lished a pictorial history called The American Past. During his maga- zine career he has written about political celebrities, folk singers, night-club comics, jincnile delin- quents, water wheels and cats. He thinks Ihrv arc all different.
JOURNAL CONTENTS
JANUARY, l»48
Vol. LXV, No. 1
FICTION
JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED Hilda Cole Espy
THE VOICE OF JEROME KILDEE .... Rutherford Montgomery
BLACK ALDER Faith Baldwin
PERIGORD Jessamyn West
A LIGHT IN THE WINDOW (Fourth part of five) Mary Roberts Rinehart
SPECIAL FEATUItES
TO PROTECT CIVIL LIBERTIES Dorothy Thompson
WHAT IS "DEMOCRACY"?
FORGOTTEN CHILDREN . . . THE MIRACLE OF PILOT KNOB . . .
TO RESCUE THEM FROM NEGLECT Margaret Rickey
TIME OF PERIL Henry L. Stimson and McGeorge Bundy
POSSIBLE PRESIDENTS — THOMAS EDMUND DEWEY . Roger Butterfield
THE AIMS OF EDUCATION Christian Gauss
FRENCH ART John Walker
IF YOU ASK ME Eleanor Roosevelt
SHOESHINE BOY Joan Younger
HOW AMERICA LIVES: MEET AN AMERICAN RABBI AND
HIS FAMILY David Davidson and Hilde Abel
HOPE FOR HUMAN BROTHERHOOD .... Dr. Joshua Loth Liebman
34 38
44 50 54
11 11
23 23 36 40 42- 43 46 47
123 132
GENERAL FEATURES
OUR READERS WRITE US 4
UNDER-COVER STUFF Bernardine Kielty 14
MAKING MARRIAGE WORK Clifford ft. Adams 26
SO YOU WON'T TALK! (The Sub-Deb) . . . . Edited by Maureen Daly 28
REFERENCE LIBRARY 31
FIFTY YEARS AGO IN THE JOURNAL • JOURNAL ABOUT TOWN ... 33
ASK ANY WOMAN Marcelene Cox 76
THE UNDERNOURISHED CHILD Dr. Herman IS. Bundesen 109
THIS IS A RUDE RIDER Munro Leaf 113
A LETTER TO JOAN FROM AN INTERESTED FATHER . Harry L. Bauer 142
DIARY OF DOMESTICITY Gladys Taber 144
FASHIONS AND REALTY
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT HER ... A PERSONAL STYLE
Wilhela Cushman 56
MODEL WAY'S ... OF MAKING CLOTHES ISora O'Leary 58
JOURNAL ORIGINALS . . . MAKE YOUR OWN DREAMY LINGERIE
Wilhela Cushman "0
BEAUTY CALENDAR 1948 Dawn Crowell 158
INTERIOR DECORATION
COLLECTING OLD GLASS
Henrietta Murdock 52
FOOD AND nOME.IIAKING
AULD LANG SYNE Ann Batchelder 62
LINE A DAY Ann Batchelder 64
REPORT TO THE HOUSEWIFE Judy Barry 80
DINNER IN A DISH Louella G. Shouer 82
QUICK AND EASYS FOR TWO Louella G. Shouer 118
CONVERSATION PIECE Ruth Mills Teague 146
POETRY
FOR ROBERT, CONVERSING . Marjorie Lederer Lee 75
SONNET FOR A DAUGHTER Alma Roberts Giordan 115
NOW WITH THE FOX R. H . Grenville 121
PRAY'ER FOR THE NEW YEAR Catherine Haydon Jacobs 132
NOTATION Eleanor Alletta Chaffee 139
HAUNTED HOUSE Sara King Carleton 150
GRACE NOTE FOR A LULLABY Dorothy Marie Davis 155
Lover Design by Wilbela Cushman
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The greatest
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Ah! There's good news . . . GOOD NEWS for 1948!
• • • • M-G-M gives America a youthful, tune- ful, joyous shot in the arm in the form of the gayest, fastest-paced film ever brightened by Technicolor magic.
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And if ever a picture was perfectly titled, it's "GOOD NEWS"!
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The motion picture version is far better than the original Broadway musical hit, a really bang-up job.
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You'll like the way they d® "The Best Things In Life Are Free", "Varsity Drag", "My Blue Heaven" and the title song.
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The names of characters in all stories are fictitious. Any resemblance to living persons is a coincidence.
June Allyson gives an acting, singing and dancing performance which makes us remember how she first caught the public eye.
• • • •
Peter Lawford, teaming with her, ful- fills his promise as the most personable romantic lead on the screen.
• • • • With them are a group of lively young Broadway personalities from musical comedy hits who justify their in- vitation to Holly- wood, including Patricia Marshall, a new find; Joan Mc- Cracken of "Okla- homa " fame who is, in a word, great ; and Mel Torme, the newest croonsmith.
• • • • The direction by Charles Walters has breakneck pace. The producer is Arthur Freed, who will be remembered for "Meet Me In St. Louis".
• • • •
Betty Comden and Adolph Green have
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again.
• * • • Yes, you're bound to agree that "GOOD NEWS" is just that!
— Jdea
Mel Torme
LADIES' IIOMi: JOURNAL
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Our Readers Write Us
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Davis, California.
Dear Editors: The other day a group of women in my home were attracted to an extra-large copy of the Journal, and one remarked, "Where but in America could you buy anything like that for twenty-five cents?"
Later I sat down with my Journal and figured what I alone would have to pay for that much entertainment, adult instruc- tion and pertinent information if I footed
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MARGARET CONN RHOADS.
► If reader Rhoads had to pay actual pro- duction and distribution costs for the Journal, minus advertisements, it would cost her 33 cents per copy, on the average. With the advertisements, 58 cents. A full-page advertisement to Mrs. Rhoads costs the advertiser one third of a cent. ED.
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Pelotas, R. Granite do Sul, Brazil. Dear Editors: May I say about the Journal that I wish the year had twice the number of months.
Keep up your program of expansion — there's never one page too many. Sincerely, MRS. R. K. PATRICK.
The Journal Defense
Santurce, Puerto Rico. Gentlemen: I do know what I do like! I've taken your magazine for years and will continue to do so for these reasons:
1. I like it heavy. That means I can't finish it in just one evening.
2. The paper doesn't bother my eyes. In fact, I had never noticed that it's shiny.
3. The print suits me fine. It is the same as that of an average book.
4. Phooey for Name-Withheld-By-Re- quest. Sincerely,
BETTY L. RODRIGUEZ. P.S. Ann Batchelder says she never heard of anyone eating apple pie for breakfast. My grandfather, a New Englander, often ate apple pie for breakfast — and it's one of my favorites too.
A Teacher Looks a I Education
San Jose, California.
Dear Sir : The most shameful thing that has ever happened in any system of educa- tion is the crusade of the past several years. Namely: Don't teach the child anything. Concentrate only on making him happy.
At San Jose State College, 702 out of 996 freshmen failed their entrance test in English.
A junior-high-school principal told his teachers: "You will be more popular if you don't try to teach the children any- thing. You might as well be popular."
The fourth grade I taught in 1942 — in Kern County, noted for "educational re- forms"— was the first under the county rule of "no failures." By a standard test, only 2 per cent were ready for the fourth grade. Of necessity I placed the pupils where they could do the work.
During the year the lowest 25 per cent read eight first readers, six second readers and three third readers, and did other work in like proportion. They were ready for the fourth grade. I begged the super- visor to let me give the children grades commensurate with their real progress and yet not make them eligible for promotion. She said, "No!"
We have a child now in the second grade. He didn't learn anything last year ! He isn't learning anything this year ! When will we wake up?
LUCY E. WOODIN.
Uullup Poll on Spanking
New York City. Dear Editor: According to the Gallup Poll, over 70 per cent of American parents believe junior needs bigger and better spankings. The average healthy young- ster will not be harmed by even a severe application of the strap across the fanny and upper thighs. The harder you pun-
ish, the fewer whippings there will be. As long as the child acts unreasonably, he should face the consequences, be he six or sixteen. If parents are sensible discipli- narians as well as real pals, they will be able to put away the switch sooner than a sob-sister mother can discontinue her more harmful nagging and pleading. Respectfully yours, (Name withheld by request.)
As a Band Leader Sees Von
New York City.
Dear Mrs. Gould: After years of watch- ing women on the dance floor from the vantage point of a band leader, I've found several answers 'to the age-old complaint of women that their males won't dance. The following are just some of the little things that annoy us and make us reluc- tant to apply the shoe leather to the dance floor, be it waltz, fox trot or Lindy.
First of all, the little women are inclined to wear their tightest-fitting skirts — and
Why Doesn't She . . .
when the man takes his male-sized step, either his partner misses or takes the step and splits the skirt. If she has a corsage, why doesn't she forget etiquette for the dance, and change the flowers to the right shoulder? Then, too, four-inch heels make for instability and cause the male to wind up as a leaning post.
When the band launches into a rumba, the women go Rio with exaggeration. Some femmes evidently look upon the rumba as a reducing exercise for their hips, the way they swing them around. In connection with this, why is it the more beautiful sex always know a different step and can't rest until they play teacher? We men like to learn new dance steps, but not on the dance floor ! The band plays a fox trot, and the girl leads — into a slow Lindy. We may not be too sure of our rhythmic prancing as it is, and the Lindy throws us all off.
" I'll be seeing you . . ." and the hum- ming, half-vocalizing starts. The band vo- calist has rehearsed the number for hours, then has to contend with competition. What's worse is that most of the hum- mingbirds can't carry a tune — and to top it off, most of the time they don't know all the words, and make with "dum-dee- mmmmm."
The "giggle girl" is one of the worst offenders. She bursts into hilarious gig- gles, and gives forth with no explanation. The sensitive male immediately wonders what he has done now. So to all girls who must giggle, please let your partner in on the laugh — just so he knows you're not laughing at him.
Then there's the sentimentalist who says, "Mr. Prima, would you play Indian Summer?" I nod my head in assent, and as they dance away I hear her say, " That reminds me so much of the time Dick and
I " and she launches into a tale of her
tragic past love. The memories should be confined to the man of the dance. (Continued on Page 6)
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(Continued from Page 4) Why is it that the croon songs invar- iably give the glamour sex the signal to emote emotionalism? All romanticists, sentimentalists and emotionalists go limp and dewy-eyed the first two bars of the song. They cuddle just a little closer; they go into a strangle hold; they get "gooey." I guess that's about all for now. I really sounded off; but please don't think all women are guilty, for I've hacLsome very pleasant dance partners, and I've seen some perfect dance-etiquette women. Sincerely, LOUIS PRIMA.
' On with the dance, but let joy be a little more refined. ED.
I li«» Son i h American Way
Orrville, Ohio. Dear Editors: While on an educational commission in Santiago, imagine my amazement at seeing the Al Parker mother-and-daughter cover theme (De- cember, 1945) appear as "window dress- ing" for Margarita, one of Chile's most popular women's magazines.
Chilean Window Dressing I
Gone was the "Journal" in holly leaves and "Merry Christmas to you all!" The davenport had been dyed, but the rest was unchanged. It reminded me of the saying, "Imitation is the sincerest flattery." Very truly yours,
DR. IVAN GEROULD GRIMSHAW.
• South American periodicals pirate from United States periodicals as blithely as once we did from English magazines in our expanding 1800's. Someday South Americans will not do this <*iiy more. As they say in New England, a man gets on, gets honor, gets honest. ED.
Life in the Old t.irl Yet
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Dear Editors : I enjoy 50 Years Ago in the Journal, but I wish it could be longer.
Recently I acquired six Journals dated from 1889 to 1894 which show how Amer- ica has advanced and what a stride the Journal has made. The Journal was then — just as it is now — the Magazine Women Believe In. Sincerely,
VIRGINIA EDMONDS.
i Back in 1889 now-famous Edward W. Bok was just becoming the ed- itor of the booming Journal, then, as now, the leading women's magazine by all accepted standards. But the Journal's first editor, 1883-89, was no slouch. Louisa Knapp Curtis turned over to Editor Bok in 1889 a Journal with a circulation of 400,000, all ac- quired since 1883 when she started as editor, with no subscribers at all. ED.
Hit I ndei-Ntanding of Catholic Tenets
Port Washington, New York. Dear Editor: I was pleased to read a "Catholic Mother's Letter to Joan" and thought it was a very fair editorial policy to open your columns to the Roman Catholic attitude. » (Continued on Page S)
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(Continued from Page 6) But I was dumfounded at the explosive and vindictive reaction of Reverend Paul Scales, who brandishes the threat of the eternal anger "of an avenging Creator" as if the Reverend Father were himself the temporal and self-appointed distribu- tor of everlasting chastisements. While it is true that the laws of God are never violated in the long run without punish- ment, my Catholic training has also taught that God reserves unto Himself the right to scrutinize intentions and to pass ultimate judgment on human actions. Sincerely yours, ANOTHER CATHOLIC MOTHER.
The Happy British Housewife?
The Duke's Cottage, Rudgwick, England.
My dear Bruce and Beatrice: Our next 20 clothing coupons have just become valid. Some say they must last us seven months — some say a year. There is always a nice hazard about these things— an uncertainty that is exciting. Many of us are lying awake nights, wrestling with our awful problem. Shall we be warm and plump for that winter coat (18 cou- pons) ? It will mean all we can buy for the rest of the span is one pair of stockings. It is a terrible decision to make for I know (though you don't !) the state most of Britain's underwear is in. Amazing scenes of wreckage are revealed in Court Dress- makers today.
Or shall we choose the wool dress our soul covets (11 coupons) and have a few left over — for handkerchiefs, and so forth, if we get winter colds !
Then comes that domestic bone of con- tention. Whose coupons are going in sadly needed home replacements? Sheets (8 coupons a pair); towels (2 coupons each). My effort to make a coupon collection for home necessities has been a crashing fail- ure. People hum a little tune and walk away 1
I am most sorry for the young ones — just growing up and their passion for pretty things all unrequited, or rewarded by Utility. I know one at least who in- tends this year to risk pneumonia and go barelegged through what blizzards there may be to own the pretty dance frock she has never had. Already — a hopeful gleam in the eye — people say perhaps the winter won't be so bad. Maybe it will be quite mild ! Perhaps we shan't, after all, need thick woollies at all. How galling if we wasted coupons on what we can do with- out.
The long or short skirt problem bothers us little. Ours is the Skirt Problem. Never mind about the length. Most of us are digging in like folks preparing for a siege — as indeed we are. Conversation is of how many cans of fruit, how many pots of jam the thrifty have laid by. The envied woman is not she who has a Paris hat, but she who hisses triumphantly " I have ten loads of firewood."
Later. A great many people have sent me, via the Journal, parcels of clothing. It began to get to be almost a whole-time job, so now I have gone into partnership on this side with the doctor's wife. If there is one person in a village from whom no secrets are hid, it is the doctor. He knows what we can never know, the people who need help and would rather die than ask for it. So I would like all the kind people who have sent stuff to me, to know that all of it goes where it will be appreciated.
After the bacon ration was cut to two ounces a fortnight — that is one small slice a week — I came to a brave decision, and am keeping a pig ! You have to fill in forms, and hand in your bacon ration for six months, and then you get a permit to keep and fatten one porker, and slay same after four months, and they give you some food for it also. Not much, but it helps. You need an awful lot of hope to get you through a week these days, but the amazing thing is, how often it works !
The thought of that pig, fattening up (we hope), is a great consolation! And by a cunning arrangement on the part of Mr. Wingate, who copes with my cow, she will calve in February, always a dud month, and the one, so I am told on good authority, in which our next supercrisis is due.
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SHE had made herself go to Jim's wed- ding! "What will people say . . . what will they think ... if I don't go?" she had asked herself grimly. So . . . she had gone. She had struggled to keep the tears back. She had watched the man she loved slip the ring on another girl's finger. She had forced herself to say the conventional things that were expected of her . . ."What a lovely bride ! What a lucky man ! What a beautiful wedding!'1 At least no one could point her out as the disappointed, heart- broken girl who had expected to be Jim's bride, herself.
But now the ordeal was over. Now she was home again, alone, with nothing to do except to read . . . and destroy . . . Jim's letters. Ah, here was the first letter he'd ever written her . . . after that wonderful day in the country ! And here was another . . . after the dance. And other letters from far away Rio . . . warm and tender, full of his plans and hopes for the future . . . full of hints that maybe someday . . . ? One by one, she went through them, trying vainly to find some reason that would explain his later change in attitude.
The day he stepped off the plane from Rio, he had been so ardent, so glad to see her. But onlv a lew short hours later he
seemed to have changed . . . unbelievably. There was a strange indifference about him ... his tenderness became merely formal courtesy . . . and at each meeting after that, the gulf seemed to widen, finally becoming an abyss. What had happened to change his feeling for her? She didn't know . . . and she never would know.
Slowly she put the letters into the fire, sadly watching them turn to ashes.
"Good-bye, Jim," she whispered. "We could have had a wonderful life together!"
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BRUCE GOULD SEATRICE BLACKMAR GOULD, Editors
MARY BASS, Executive Editor LAURA LOU BROOKMAN, Managing Editor
Associate Editors: HUGH MACNAIR KAHLER, BERNARDINE KIELTY, ANN BATCHELDER, WILHELA CUSHMAN, FRANK ELTONHEAD, ALICE BLINN, RICHARD PRATT, HENRIETTA MURDOCK, LOUELLA G. SHOUER, MARY LEA PAGE, MAUREEN DALY, DAWN CROWELL, JOHN MORRIS, JOAN YOUNGER, LONNIE COLEMAN, MARGARET DAVIDSON, NORA O'LEARY.
Contributing Editors: GLADYS TABER, LOUISE PAINE BENJAMIN, GLADYS DENNY SHULTZ, BARBARA BENSON, MARGARET HICKEY.
Assistant Editors: JOHN WERNER, CHARLOTTE JOHNSON, ROBERT C. ATHERTON, DONALD STUART, RUTH MARY PACKARD, RUTH MATTHEWS, ALICE CONKLING, JUDY BARRY, JUNE TORREY, LILY GLENDINNING, DOROTHY COUNSELMAN SELBY, JOSEPH Dl PIETRO, ANNE EINSELEN, GLENN MATTHEW WHITE.
Editorial Assistants: KATHERINE WEST MILLER, SELMA R. BURGESS, ALICE KASTBERG, DOROTHY TAYLOR, JAN WEYL, IRIS WILKEN, KATHLEEN EDGELL, BETTY COE, MARGUERITE HOLLINGSWORTH, JEANNE LENTON TRACEY, MARGARET ARCHER, DOROTHEA CORN- WELL, CYNTHIA McADOO, MARY MclLHENNY, JEANNE SCRIBNER, HELEN WAHLBERG, ELEANOR POWNALL SIMMONS, ADRINA CASPARIAN.
What is "Democracy"?
DEMOCRACY" means many things to many people, even in the United States. The American Institute of Public Opinion and Gallup associated questioned a sampling of people in nine countries — the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Den- mark. In answer to the question " What does the term 'democracy' mean to you?" three phases of the democratic concept were mentioned:
1. The largest number said democracy means "government by the people," or the right of people to say who shall govern them, including the right of opposition parties to free expression and political activity.
2. Second most popular definition (ranking first in the United States, Great Britain and France) was freedom, especially freedom of speech and as- sembly.
3. A third-ranking definition was equality — the ab- sence of discrimination between classes, groups and individuals.
Freedom of speech and press is one example of democracy in action, guaranteed in principle by our Bill of Rights. In the United States, where the press is wholly free from governmental control, a third of our people who were questioned doubt that complete free- dom of speech and press is a good thing. Thirty-one per cent said they had never heard of our Bill of Rights (or weren't sure whether they had or not).
" In peacetime, do you think members of the Com- munist party in this country should be allowed to speak on the radio?" people were asked. Of the two thirds who said they believed in free speech, only a little more than half would permit communists to have their say on the radio. Only among the college-educated were the answers to this question markedly consistent with the belief of free speech in principle.
Democracy must be defined in practice to have any real meaning.
TO PROTECT CIVIL LIBERTIES
THE controversies that have developed over hearings before the Congressional Committee on un-American Activities in Washington and that became most vehe- ment during the investigation into Hollywood have shed more heat than light. They have failed to answer what has already proved to be the life-and-death question of other civilizations: How can a libertarian state deal with inter- nal enemies using the instruments of civil liberties to accomplish the overthrow of that state?
Indiscriminating defenders of civil rights answer that the only way to insure civil liberty is never to restrict it for any organized group of citizens, whatever their known or hypothetical aims. Civil liberties, they argue, will, of themselves, take care of the libertarian state. They can quote Jefferson:
"If there be any amongst us who would wish to dis- solve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand, undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
This is the position most compatible with American tradition and American feeling. But though the French Jacobins had been making much propaganda in America (to Jefferson's eventual disgust and protest), Jefferson never had to deal with anything like the integrated, disci- plined, conspiratorially organized international Commu- nist party. And Jefferson's advice has not survived the tests of very recent history in democratic states of similar structure to our own. The classic case is Germany.
Germany from 1919 to 1933 was a democratic, liber- tarian state. All parties were permitted, from the commu- nists to the extreme nationalists, who eventually merged forces under the leadership of Hitler, in the Nazi Party.
For the first nine years of the German Republic, the great majority of the German people gave their allegiance to the constitutional parties. These included conserva- tives, middle-of-the-roaders leaning somewhat right or somewhat left, and constitution-supporting socialists.
Of the parties opposed to the constitutional order, the communists were initially far and away the stronger. Immediately after the war they had even captured by force the government of one of the German states, Bavaria, from which they were in turn ousted by force. Their exist- ence, as a legal party, continued, however, to be tolerated.
They were never thereafter in any state of the German Republic, or in the federal government itself, able to ob- tain decisive power. They were, however, able to establish cells within many institutions — trade unions, intellectual and professional bodies, noncommunist political move- ments, and even to some extent within the army.
Like communists everywhere, they were organized, not at all like a normal political party, but rather like an army,
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or a semisectvt religious order. The broad lines of policy were dictated to the top leaders through liaison officers with Mos- cow. All decisions were taken by a handful of men, many of them personally unknown to the rank and file of the movement, and were carried out implicitly by the follow- ers. The party "discipline" — in fact a party inquisition — punished deviation from the established policy. This ptfnishment took many forms. Since communism is, for per- sons who, whether because of skepticism, unhappy experience or personal neurosis, embrace it, a form of ersatz religion accom- panied by extreme fanaticism, various de- grees of excommunication were usually suf- ficient to bring recalcitrants into line, with reconversion accomplished through con- fession and penances. Where, however, re- bellion could not thus be quelled, more severe punishments were meted out.
Active Communist membership in- volves, for many members, extralegal ac- tivities, such as passport forgery, false registrations, perjury, illegal traflic in currency, and so on.
In many cases, recalcitrant members guilty of such misdemeanors were threat- ened with being handed over to the courts and in some cases actually were, commu- nists denouncing to the civil authorities other communists who had become "rene- gades." Since in all illegal activity the links are carefully covered, the order for an illegal act invariably coming from men with assumed names or only numbers, the ac- complices of the denounced member could be protected, while the member went to jail. Within the Communist Party itself there is no civil liberty. Its members even relin- quish to it liberties they may hold under law.
The first strategy of such a rigidly organized, strictly disciplined mi- nority is to ferret out
every center of discon- tent in the society. Communists estimate that among any group there are 10 per cent of malcontents — people who feel they have been cheated, or escaped the recognition they deserve, or suffer from belonging to an unpopular racial group. The reasonableness of the discontent is immaterial; all such persons are susceptible to communist in- fluence. A schoolteacher, for instance, may fail of promotion because he or she is mediocre or incompetent. This recognition is a hard pill to swallow. How much pleas- anter to believe that one is really superior to the rest and the victim of "the system" !
The tactic of such a close minority move- ment is to make it impossible for the constitu- tional state to maintain order and govern.
In all realms the movement works to break down tradition, decorum and faith in established patterns. Those who fall un- der its influence decry Christianity as an exploded myth, history as a lie, national heroes as scoundrels, patriots as bigots, good manners as hypocrisy. The criminal is defended as a victim, parental influence is called despotism, established principles of art are old-fashioned, classical education is reactionism, order is tyranny. On the other hand, all that is vulgar, outre, tawdry, cheap, ill-mannered, loud; all that flouts conven- tion in any field, they hail as "genius."
Thus, they further all the disintegrating forces in the society under attack, and in this stage they drive libertarianism into libertinism as a means of undermining "bourgeois" values.
Wherever there is struggle they inter- vene to exacerbate it. If there is a strike they seek to widen its area, prevent its set- tlement and lead it toward violence, antici- pating and hoping for violence in return, at which point they organize mass meetings to protest the brutality of the police. They organize "fronts," of which they are the scheming disciplined center, and "defense" organizations of a paramilitary kind.
All this they did in Germany, as they do everywhere where they are in a minority,
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and the constitutional order was unable to deal with them within the framework of civil liberties.
Now, there is a law of politics which is inexorable. Every action creates its coun- teraction. Where a constitutional state proves unable to deal in law with menaces to order, with insults to tradition, and with threats to the lives and property of vast numbers of people, citizens will take law into their own hands.
That is the origin of Fascism in Italy. It was the origin of Nazism in Germany. The constitutional libertarian state proved it- self unable to maintain constitutional or- der, or any stable society at all, or to deal with a progressive condition of anarchy, or to guarantee safety against organized gangs, so it was finally crushed between gang wreckers from the left and the right opposing each other— for both of whom constitutional liberties had furnished the instrument for the overthrow of the state. It is therefore demonstrably true — and example after example can be taken from ancient or modern history— that constitu- tional liberties for the citizens are not, of themselves, guaranties of continued con- stitutional liberty.
Civil liberties exist only within certain forms of constitutional order. If that order goes, civil liberties go with it. The preservation of civil liberties therefore inexorably demands the protection of the constitutional order against its enemies. Since the basic premise is that civil liber- ties can and do exist only within certain forms of constitutional order, all ene- mies of a libertarian constitutional or- der are, by the very nature of their aims, outlaw from the privi-
leges of that order.
The United States Congress is charged to protect the constitutional order and to legislate within its framework. Its
various committees hold
public hearings for the
purpose of ascertaining facts as a basis for legislation. This is a reasonable, legitimate and necessary function of the elected rep- resentatives of the American people.
These hearings are not a court. They have no power to judge or to punish. Bui revelations that come out in such hearing? can and do punish by their power to bring persons or groups into public obloquy. No fault can be found with bringing persons into public obloquy if their behavior evokes it. Public mores, public opinion regarding what is or is not tolerable to the vast majority, is a powerful factor in conserving society. It is not merely laws that govern human behavior. It is the judgment of the people regarding their neighbors.
Our communists admit that to believe in communism is so hostile to American convictions thai when they arc, even cor- rectly, named as communists, they shout that I hey are being "smeared."
Since the object of such hearings is to bring facts to legislators' knowledge, they obviously cannot be conducted under the same rules as courts of law. They should not, however, for that reason, be exempted of all rules. For if they are — if, for instance, men are prejudiced before the public on mere hearsay — the committees fall into public contempt. For the people have a natural instinct for justice and fair play. The creation of a pattern of procedure in- cluding legitimacy of evidence, for such committees, is therefore urgently necessary.
But the claim, advanced by some de- fenders of civil liberties, that the Govern- ment has no prerogative to investigate and take evidence on any and all activities that may be prejudicial or dangerous to the constitutional order, is simply to deprive constitutional government of the means to defend that order, and through it to defend civil liberties. There is no liberty except liberty under law, and the presumption of all law is that those who call upon it for protection are themselves its protectors. No one can claim rights entirely devoid of obligations. the end
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In proof of the fact that the Marie An- toinettes (Let them eat cake!) still live, and still think their rigid naive thoughts, we report a remark made by a wealthy Frenchman now residing in luxury in this country. In the face of a starving Europe to which ive Americans are send- ing all the food that we possibly can, this man said:
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: His Boy- hood LETTERS makes highly di- verting reading, but in justice to our late President this volume should quickly be followed by another of his later letters, because, fascinating as all intimate letters are in disclosing personality, those of the boy can scarcely be the measure of the man. In fact, the most significant thing about these letters is their very common- placcncss. They are not keen or witty or original. They show no particular understanding of people, no special observation, almost no interest in pol- itics, the arts or learning. But how many boys' letters home do show these characteristics?
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: to share wi th others the good neighbor lat defeated the housing shortage for a of us here in Naperville. We organized r-six veterans and their families, and er we've built twenty-six homes, doing work ourselves, even though none of us ad any previous building experience, proud of the homes we've built, and of the cooperative spirit of our com- y that makes us all better neighbors.
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$75.00 paid to Mrs. Gerald Winters of Los Angeles, Calif., for this idea:
.-^q. Your imagination can suggest many simple, practical ways to bring out the real charm and personality of your home. For example, after we redeco- rated a bedroom recently, the small bed with no headboard or foot just didn't look right. So we painted a matching headboard on the wall behind the bed, making the whole room more "finished" and attractive.
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Youngsters should play a defi- nite part in making the home. So we turn the sun porch over to them at regular intervals ar decorating experiments. ^™" The results, such as a South Seas theme or an authentic Gay Nineties background, are always fun while the creative effort and research involved are wonderful for the children. The cost? Surprisingly low.
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January, will be judged in the January contest and similarly in the February contest.
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(Continued from Page 14) him through Harvard and married (March 17, 1905). The greater number were written when he was at Groton, and they represent the regulation point of view of the Groton boy— distinctly out of the top drawer, wealthy, socially secure and unquestioning. In Harvard young Franklin's friends remained the boys he had known at Groton; he lived in the most exclusive houses, and played with the same crowd. In the light of later events it is most interesting to see how he accepted all the amenities of a stiff and formal society. He did his so- cial duty as he saw it:
" Today I have been paying calls all afternoon, saying goodbye, and I lunched at the Bradley's." "Last night I dined at the Parkman's, and then went on to the Bachelors' Ball." " This morning I got rid of some of my correspondence and lunched in town at the Davis', then paid half a dozen calls I owed." "I dined at the Lord's on Tuesday evening. I shall call on the Porters tonight. . . . Tomor- row I am going with Moseley to spend Sunday at Newbury port where his place is and we are to shoot ducks."
While still in college he became en- gaged to his Cousin Eleanor, but on one occasion could not go to see her because there was no chaperon : " / have just heard from E. that Mr. and Mrs. Parish have gone away and I couldn't see her."
The chief interest outside his immedi- ate personal affairs was his work on the Crimson, of which he was president for a half year. That was a big job and meant writing all the editorials. The work he put into it gives the only fore- taste of the tremendous endurance and will to work of his later years. But his politics, whatever they may have been, didn't separate him from his immediate group : " Last night there was a grand torch- light Republican Parade of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy. We wore red caps and gowns and marched by classes into Boston and through all the principal streets." (Octo- ber 31, 1900.)
It was at this time that he made the Crimson board by getting a scoop on how President Eliot was going to vote (Republican). One of his rare political comments occurs in a letter of October 26, 1902, when he criticizes President Teddy Roosevelt for his intervention in labor-management disputes in the case of the anthracite miners' strike:
"In spite of his success in settling the trouble, I think that the President made a serious mistake in interfering — politi- cally at least. His tendency to make the executive power stronger than the Houses of Congress is bound to be a bad thing."
The book is remarkably well edited, with notes about the personalities and the social relationships of persons included, and with considerable of the history of Groton and Harvard. His later letters, which will surely re- flect the impact of practical affairs on the carefully protected lad, should provide a highly dramatic story and an absorbing psychological study.
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(Continued from Page 16) sense of modern democracies. Appar- ently the Queen has always gone about freely, with no ostentation and practi- cally no protection, even to skating with the crowds on the canals in winter. Now Juliana is sending her children, not to one of the conventional schools for the rich, but to a progressive school run by Kees Bouke, a skilled educator noted for his hatred of war and authoritarian- ism. The faculty of the school was natu- rally delighted when it heard of the matriculation, but felt obliged to ex- plain that as the main building of the school was ruined during the war, the only provisions they could offer would be of the most frugal. This Juliana un- derstood perfectly. And when they told her that every child without exception had to do her share of the menial work involved in a co-operative community life, she is reported to have said, "That's exactly what I want for my children."
Think a minute before you tell anyone you have a cold in your head. It seems there is such a thing as "psychic nose" that the doctors have turned up, and it comes, not from a germ, but from an un- happy marriage, a scrap with the butcher or a scene with the cleaning woman. Ac- cording to the report from a group of New York physicians and psychiatrists, the "psychic nose" is marked by swelling, redness, obstruction, and excessive secre- tions, practically indistinguishable from the common cold. And the same goes for certain sinus cases and even asthma. They start when the emotional conflict comes up, and stop when the problem is solved. Apparently there is only one type of stress that brings this condition on: when
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Women have three years to hope in; The fourth, they leap into the open, And hence, by masculine acclaim, Leap year gets its name and fame, Although, with subtle skill in mating, They pull some fast ones, too, while waiting.
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(Continued from Page IS) This is one of the scribblings in Sam- uel Hoffenstetn'm latest book of verse, Pencil xn the Air, his first book in seventeen years. Twenty years ago his Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing was quoted here, there and everywhere. It was followed by Year in, You're Out. Sad to relate, this merry rhymester died suddenly just two days before the publication of Pencil in the Air. He was a perfectionist, and— like so many funny men— worked long and hard at the little poems that came out so deliriously light and frothy.
Uncle Sam, ive hear, is going to take a ivife. The International Institute of Art- ists and Photographers has decided that from now on Aunt Martha will appear in all cartoons with tall, thin, white- bearded Uncle Sam—ivho obviously mar- ried late in life. She is to be a composite of i.oretta Young., Jane Greer and Linda Darnell, combining the best features of each.
THE AMERICAN ILIAD, by Otto Eisenaehlntl and Italah JV«»ir-
'"'"". is the story of the War Between the States told by persons alive during those terrible years, a great many of them being eyewitnesses. It is history in the terms of human reaetions — letters from the front to people bark home, rationalizing reports of gen- erals who made mistakes and the an- gry eritieism of those who saw the mistakes, newspaper accounts as bat- tlcs raged, and proclamations and posters stirring the people to arms. Events are taken up chronologically from President Burhanan's dilemma in 1860 to Lee's touching letter to his army after the final surrender. The authors have supplied a running ex- planation, and there are maps and diagrams and pictures of the men who fought. We wind up with a full history of the war, and what a way it is to study history! How much more
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FORGOTTEN CHILDREN
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. . . The Miracle of Pilot Knob
TO RESCUE THEM FROM NEGLECT
by MARGARET HICKEY
IM ERICA still has many forgotten children. You'll find them huddled /I together in classrooms where sometimes one teacher must handle as IB. many as 60 children in one room. In some mountain areas these schools have no toilets and no chemically tested wells. The classroom may be dark because the nearest electric power is miles away. Sometimes a roof leaks and a floor is full of cracks. Often there are only homemade desks, benches for seats. Children lack the advantages of dental service, eye examination and immunization against contagious diseases. With no means of transportation over the rugged mountain roads and paths, they must walk miles from home to school and back again.
In one Southern state, the Department of Public Welfare in October, 1946, reported that at least $67 per month was required to meet the mini- mum health and decency level of living for families receiving Aid to Dependent Children benefits. Yet in June, 1947, when living costs were much higher, the average monthly grant to families receiving this aid was only $35.44. A study of six of the poorer counties in this state indicated the average grant per child per month to be $9.82. Since no allowance is made for the mother or foster parent, the average grant per person in the family was less than 25 cents a day. Some states provide even lower grants per family, and in many families there are five, six or more children.
To help needy youngsters in remote rural areas, a unique organization, Save the Children Federation, was founded in 1932. Today it helps 50,000 children and their parents in hundreds of disadvantaged American com- munities in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas and Arizona. As the United States member of Save the Children International Union, the Federation also reaches with food, clothing and other necessities, millions of child war sufferers abroad.
In the United States the Federation serves principally in areas where tax funds are inadequate for basic education, nutrition and health programs. Its object is always to help communities to do something for themselves. It seeks out the needs, then introduces ways and means for the people them- selves to improve local conditions by their own efforts. In other words, it helps communities over the most difficult hurdle— getting started.
The schools furnish a logical starting point. The Save the Children Federation helps isolated communities repair or rebuild neglected schools. Desks are installed; books, blackboards, maps and other study and teaching aids added. American flags have been supplied. School grounds have been leveled and landscaped. Wells have been dug. Kitchens have been con- structed, school gardens planted, hot lunches served. Because of the clothing program, more parents have been able to stretch their limited clothing dollars so that children are warmly clad and presentable at school. These may seem like little things to children who take so much for granted. But they are important where necessities are rarities and luxuries abso- lutely unknown.
During the past year thousands of teachers and their pupils in the more privileged public schools of the nation participated in "bundle days" that yielded well over a million pounds of clothing. Nurseries and seed companies furnished thousands of pounds of vegetable seeds; the food produced in school gardens up to last July had an estimated value in excess of $123,000.
Co-operating with Save the Children Federation are many organizations that find through it an opportunity for service. They include Parent- Teacher Associations, the American Legion and American Legion Auxiliary, Y.W.C.A., Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, the Salvation Army, W.C.T.U., Garden Clubs, Kings' Daughters, Junior Music Clubs, Future Homemakers of America, the Eastern Star, Rotary and other service groups. Working with these organizations are over 1000 volunteers who give regularly and generously of their time to save America's forgotten children, the end
THE fading light of the stars still shines on the snow these winter mornings when Bernice and her sister Beulah May leave home at six-thirty to walk to school. No road leads to their parents' remote farm in Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau, where they have no telephone or electricity or plumbing, no car and no horse. To get to school, they walk three miles over a steep moun- tain trail. Sometimes, when they sink to their knees in snow or the mountain- side is slippery with ice, it takes as long as two hours to make the trip. At four o'clock they start homeward, making it just by dark.
"Sometimes they jest about give out," says their mother, a sturdy bright- faced woman who walks a round trip of seven miles to the store whenever she needs anything she can't make or grow. "But you cain't keep 'em from school." Bernice, a thin, wiry girl of twelve, walks the three miles to school in a pair of open-toed high heels which belonged to her aunt. She is very proud of these shoes — the only pair she owns. Like most of their mountaineer neighbors,
PHOTOS BY DON CRAVENS
At weekly sewing-class meetings mothers transform tobacco sacks into warm quilts, and corn shucks into door mats. Sales of articles supplement school income, help buy needed supplies.
With clothes to wear, books, materials and supplies to work with, Pilot Knob children have returned to once-locked single-room schoolhouse, now bright with curtains of yellow-dyed feed sacks.
the Lewises can afford about $10 a year for clothes. How many winter coats, mit- tens, shoes and underwear could you buy a family of five on $10?
With more children receiving public aid in Tennessee than in any other state, it is not surprising that about half of all rural children there quit school after the fourth grade, many of them because they have no clothes in which to venture out in bitter weather. Of the children enrolled in Ten- nessee's rural primary schools, one in five is absent every day of the year.
Bernice, who is twelve, is ashamed to admit that she is only in the third grade— "through no fault of her own," says her mother. School lies across the Caney Fork River, and for several years the Lewises had no way of crossing over after a high wind blew down the 160-foot-long swing- ing bridge, hung together with a couple of cables and old planks. Then for a whole year the schoolhouse closed down at Pilot Knob, when attendance fell below fifteen pupils. How this school was reopened to America's forgotten children like Bernice and Beulah May is the story we want to tell here.
Pilot Knob is a community of about sixteen families living along a narrow, rutty road in the wild and beautiful Cumber- lands, about a hundred miles each way from Knoxville and Nashville. The moun- taineers who live here are direct descend- ants of men who won land grants for their services in the Revolutionary War. Names like Lewis, Dodson, Underwood, Crawford testify to their pure Anglo-Saxon heritage. Once these people were lumbermen and coal miners; now the ^^^^^^^^ timber is stripped, the mines deserted; families of eight and ten till the impoverished mountain soil in the same manner their great-grand-
^1 don't know who my grand- ^father was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will he.
—ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
fathers. They seldom ^^^^^^^^^ see more than $200 cash a ^^^^^^^™ year, largely made from livestock which they sell rather than eat.
Four fatherless families get dependent- children's aid which amounts to about $17 a month per child. Three elderly couples and one old man receive old-age benefits of about $23 a month a person. This means that half of the families at Pilot Knob get some sort of public relief.
It wrings your heart to see children three years old the size of a normal year-old in- fant; girls of eight weighing about forty pounds; teen-agers who have already lost their front teeth from decay. A group of about fifteen Pilot Knob school children were asked how many had been to a den- tist. Three hands went up.
Dr. ROBERT Metcalfe— formerly of Mayo Clinic, now practicing among these moun- taineers— believes that the so-called "mountaineer type" — long, skinny and tall like the Esquire cartoons — is not a type at all but a dietary problem. Although these people have surprisingly little TB, practically no venereal disease, dietary disorders are widespread. Little Lonnie May, with the bright red pigtails, rubs her eyes and squints painfully into the sun. "The doctor says 't warn't nuthin' wrong with my eyes. He says fer me to eat more carrots."
There are no" telephones at Pilot Knob. When the rains come the roads become a sea of red mud, cutting the residents off from the outside world for weeks at a time. Mail is delivered on horseback. There is one general store at Pilot Knob which sells patent medicines, feed, groceries and no- tions.
A wisp of a young woman weighing about ninety pounds comes trudging across the fields to the store with a twenty-five- pound toddler in her arms. She has car- ried the child for three miles across the mountain and will carry him home again, along with the big sack of supplies she buys. This young mother has not been to a town which has a movie or railroad or* row of shops for three years.
January, 1948
Last summer a Congregational mission- ary came to teach the children Bible school. "Jesus and His disciples left Galilee," he told them, "and where do you suppose they were going?" There was a thoughtful silence, and then one little boy piped up with the most foreign place he knew. "Arkansas?"
There is no visiting nurse at Pilot Knob, but there is a little two-room clinic, built by the men of the community in the early thirties. A doctor from Uplands Sanato- rium— seven miles away — comes there twice a month, charging " from nothing to a dollar" for treatments. This clinic is right next to the schoolhouse — when the school closed for lack of pupils in 1944, the doctor found he had lost most of his pa- tients, since no one came near there any more. In fact, all community life died when the doors of the school closed — there was no place left for church, Sunday-school meetings, 4-H clubs, or "sings."
I he one-room schoolhouse, with a small kitchen attached, had been built in 1934, "on a quilt and a prayer," according to school-ma'am Mrs. John Tucker, for forty years a teacher in Cumberland rural schools.. By selling chances on a quilt, the community raised $24, and with some county aid, but mostly the sweat of Pilot Knob fathers, the school was put up in a couple of months.
Ten years later, when it closed, it was in shocking shape. The schoolyard, which had been part of a woods, was partly cleared, but jagged stumps remained, to- gether with brush and briers and manure ^^^^^^^^ from the ever-present pigs, sheep and cows. The girls' outdoor privy had been turned over; the boys' seats torn out. The well was unusable, so that water had to be hauled in buckets from a ^^^^^^^* house down the road. Windows were knocked out, letting in hundreds of flies; in winter, the fat black stove leaked smoke and gas. There were no lamps for dark days. Nine of the school desks were forty years old, and so carved up with knives it was impossible to write on them. The teacher, "Ma" Tucker, lacked even the simplest of teaching supplies: books and bookcases, maps, charts, paper, pencils and crayons. When their school closed, the people of Pilot Knob didn't have the money to put into repairs themselves to reopen it; nor could they get funds from the county. So, as in the case of almost a thousand other rural schools in this country, they turned to a unique organization for help — the Save the Children Federation.
It was "Ma" Tucker, sixty-five-year-old soft-spoken schoolma'am of Pilot Knob, who brought the Save the Children Federa- tion to the rescue of her school. It was she who filled out an application and rustled up a list of parents who promised to make the repairs if the material were available. A few weeks later, when she heard that Pilot Knob would become a sponsored school, she called a town meeting in the dilapidated schoolhouse to see what should be done first.
Lon Watley stood up, a sunburned hulk of a man who went into the coal mines at the age of ten, earning 40 cents a day. For j twenty-four years he never saw the light of day except on Sundays. Lon's a farmer now; the soil so poor on his place he doesn't dare plow more than two rows of corn lest the topsoil vanish completely.
"First we heed a fence around the school," Lon suggested. "It's high time we was fencin' in our kids from the hogs." He was remembering the time when a sow grabbed a sandwich a little girl was hold- ing and badly mangled her arm.
"We need a hot lunch at school," said Ma Tucker. "We can do it if we grow a garden and the women put up the vege- tables."
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. FACING YOUR NEEDS
Success in making friends or holding a job largely depends on a well-adjusted personality. So does happiness in marriage. And the first step toward a well-adjusted personality is to face your needs, then make an honest effort to satisfy them.
Our physical needs are obvious; if we lack air, water, lood or shelter, we perish. Our psycho- logical needs are just as vital. When they are not sat- isfied, emotional suflering follows — even suicide.
Alice Rand is an unhappy woman, and she and her husband Bill have a thoroughly unhappy mar- riage. He compensates for unsatisfactory home life by putting all his energies into his job and get- ting ahead. Alice just stays at home, complain- ing that her two children keep her tied down.
Alice is not facing her needs; instead, at 31, she is filled with self-pity. Though she tells everybody she never has a spare minute, she finds plenty of time for soap operas, confession magazines and games of solitaire. And her widowed mother would gladly stay with the children so she could get out more.
She tells her husband that nobody is friendly, and that she is miserable. But has she returned calls that were made when they moved into the neighborhood? Does she go to church, or to club meetings? Has she learned to play bridge, a game Bill enjoys? She's done none of these things.
Perhaps Alice can be shown what is wrong. To attain the happiness she longs for, she must face her needs and try to satisfy them. If she can accept this idea, she will begin to enjoy life — and so will her husband.
Alice is not unique. A wife who mopes, cries or has temper tantrums has not adjusted to her en- vironment. In order to become adjusted, she must recognize and meet her needs.
What are these major motives or needs? Here are five essentials to mental fitness:
Saelal approval. Every human being needs the feeling of being accepted, welcomed and respected. Without the appreciation and praise of friends, your achievements seem empty, your life is lonely. But to win the approval of others, you must reward them in kind. Unless you are friendly and ap- preciative yourself, your friends will be few.
Uelonginanena. You feel secure only when you know that you belong to some group, that you are an integral part of your community. To be part of your community, you must take part in its affairs. Church membership, community activities, simple neighborliness, all are ways of belonging.
Manteru is an important motive because it brings a sense of fulfillment. If this need be thwarted, the individual feels that he is falling short, and becomes surly, resentful and quarrelsome. Every-
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one has opportunities to satisfy thl^Pmtive. Man- aging a home, heading a committee, directing helpers, all are acceptable ways of satisfying the need for mastery, for all are means of expressing your own will, of accepting and discharging adult responsibilities.
i The need for Utve and affeetion begins, but does not end, in infancy; throughout life the adult nature continues to need the assurance of love. But love is an obligation as well as a reward. To receive love and affection, you must give them without stint.
Sexual matittfaetian. Although this complex need has a physiological basis, its development is psychological. Playing with other children, dating, youthful flirtations, all are natural steps toward satisfying this need. Marriage, the ideal basis of the sex relationship, is also the avenue to a full and well-balanced life. For marriage offers the one best way of meeting most of our needs.
You are starting a new year. List these five needs, and any others of importance to you. Then list the ways you are satisfying them. If some- thing is lacking, see what you can do to correct the situation. These hints may help you:
• Plan your life. Budget your time and make provision for ample social activities.
• When a problem arises, get the facts. See what can be done — and do it.
• Learn to laugh at yourself; encourage a sense of humor.
• Talk over your problems with a close friend, preferably your husband if you are married.
• If you're dissatisfied, restless, bored, don't waste time feeling sorry for yourself. Join a club, cultivate new acquaintances, develop a hobby. It's up to you to do something to change your routine.
• Mental and physical health go hand in hand, and both are priceless. Guard them closely!
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Women, single or married, are less secure than men. Women have led more sheltered lives, have had fewer opportunities to acquire independence. Consciously or not, women seek security in mar- riage. A man thinks of marriage first as a partner- ship, and of his wife as a companion. But to a woman, a husband means a home and children'and the inner security she craves.
There can be little happiness in a marriage with- out emotional security; it is a factor in at least four out of five unhappy marriages discussed with me. And in two thirds of these, the problem is directly related to financial difficulties.
That is why the wise married couple, seeking happiness in marriage, consider money manage-
ment not merely as an end in itself, but as a step toward the satisfying relationship they desire.
It is the management of money, not the amount, that causes trouble or prevents it. How the money is spent, and for what, is far more important than how much there is, although either too much or too little can cause trouble.
Once actual living expenses are assured, how can your family's income be managed to provide maximum security?
• First on the list is health insurance. Too often families make no provision for the expense of ill- ness, and are crippled when it strikes.
• Next comes life insurance. A husband's in- surance should not be less than the total required to support the family for a year. In addition, enough should be provided to cover funeral ex- penses for each member of the family.
• A savings account of $500 should be built up for emergency situations. Double that amount is better, with some of it in Government bonds.
• Then might follow additional home furnish- ings, conveniences and comforts. Before buying a car, remember that the minimum cost of de- preciation, running expenses and repairs is a dollar a day — more than 10 per cent of the average family's income. Unless your income is greater than average, you cannot afford a car without sacrificing many other comforts or even eliminat- ing savings. Better postpone it, unless a car is es- sential and will partly or wholly earn its own way.
• Home ownership is a common goal. Though it probably costs a little more to own than to rent, it is worth it to most families for the sense of belong- ingness and security that a home of your own brings. How much should be spent for a home? Never more than three times, better still only twice the average annual income. Rent (or mort- gage payments) per month should not exceed a week's salary.
• Whatever plan you adopt, you and your hus- band should agree on it jointly. The management of money, like any other family problem, is a re- sponsibility for husband and wife to share.
DO YOU AUREE?
My fiance is rapidly becoming an alcoholic. We have postponed our marriage because of his drinking. Is there any way he can be helped?
Not until he wants to be. Does he honestly want to stop drinking? Can he be persuaded to join Alcoholics Anonymous? Will he consult a psy- chiatrist? If so, there is hope. Psychotherapy and some of the recent medical approaches (insulin, for one) may help. Don't marry until a year has passed since his last drink. Marriage never re- formed an alcoholic — or any other escapist.
ASK YOURSELF: "Ms My Marriage Happy?'9
m^rhaps your marriage is happier than you think. Study each question before answering Yes or No,
1. Does either have habits to which the other objects?
2. Is anything in your marriage especially unsatis-
factory to you?
3. Do you ever wish you had never married?
4. Would you change your mate's disposition if you
could?
5. Has your husband ever talked of separation (or
divorce)?
6. Is your present housing reasonably satisfactory?
7. Do you rarely have misunderstandings about
money matters?
8. Are you two about equally loving and affectionate?
9. Is your love deeper now than when first married?
10. Are both of you free from jealousy or distrust?
11. Do you live without interference from in-laws?
12. Are you two well-adjusted sexually?
13. Do you have much the same ideas about children?
14. Are occasional quarrels made up the same day?
15. Do both enjoy much the same social activities?
16. Can you freely talk things over without reserva-
tions?
17. Do you two have many mutual friends?
18. Are you free from debt and financial stress?
19. Is love mainly why you live with your mate?
20. Do you believe your marriage to be successful?
The first 5 questions should be answered no, and the last 15, yes. Fifteen or more correct answers almost prove your marriage is happy. A score of 11 to 13 is average. If you scored less than 10, analyze your answers with your husband to see how conditions can be improved.
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IT'S an old story, but a sad one. A few months ago, just after school got under way, a romantic boy- meets-girl drama began to unfold. Miss G., the heroine of our piece, happened to be looking ex- ceptionally radiant one day in a gray wool dress with a wide belt, white rabbit's- wool socks and brown moc- casins. Mr. B. (short for "boy" — just anyone who looks tall, dark and handy can play the part) was sauntering past the drugstore on his way home from football practice when he decided to stop in for a quick fizz-water pickup. Through a mutual friend, a char- acter who was busy mixing malteds behind the soda fountain, he was introduced to Miss G., made a quick reverse play and walked her home instead. They found out then that they had much in common, such as a third-period English class, a pair of fourth cousins who had gone to college together, and a penchant for col- lecting dreamy Vic Damone recordings. It was fate. Just three weeks later, they had begun to average two dates a week, one after-school stop-off for a chocolate soda, two notes passed back and forth during English class and nine solid hours of dreaming time per night. Mr. B. even made a gallant offer of his class ring, but Miss G. demurely turned it down, murmur- ing, "We're too young to get serious."
Everything went as smoothly as a Guy Madison movie until "that" happened. "That" was the first misunderstanding. It seems that one Friday night Miss G. and Mr. B. had mutually decided to stay home to study for a history exam, but at the last minute his cousin had asked him to go to a movie and his father said, "Go ahead — you've got the whole week end to study," and he went, and one of her girl friends saw him in the lower balcony and called her at quarter past ten at night to spill the news. And the next night, which was Saturday and date night, Miss G. wouldn't talk to him at all and wouldn't tell him what was the matter till he begged and begged; then she told him about the girl friend's seeing him at the movie, and he explained and apologized, and she still wouldn't talk for another fourteen and a half minutes, and then he said he was sorry four times in a row and it would never happen again, and she answered generously, "All right.'' And that was the first misunderstanding.
And there was the next time, when he smiled at an old girl friend who happened to dance by. And the time
he promised to call at seven o'clock and didn't call till seven-fifteen. And the time he went bowling with the boys when she wanted to go to a movie. And the time he wore that bright-red bow tie after she had told him expressly she didn't like it. And the time he forgot it was her birthday and remembered just in time to buy her a small gardenia after a two-hour sulk. And then there was the big time (and the last time) when he had a date with someone else and Miss G. sat home all alone on a Friday night, and on Saturday night, and the next night too. Why? Because the boy-girl drama was all over. Mr. B. had a new girl, one with a pleasant expression on her face — love isn't that blind !
CRY, BABV, CRY What is it that makes you go into these long, silent sulks when something goes wrong between you and your boy friend? (And why do so many things seem to go wrong?) It could be his fault and, if you have the same emotional ups and downs that most teen-aged girls go through, it could be yours. Pre- sumably this friendship is a big thing in your life, a strange new experience of liking someone so well that you want four fifths of his attention and all his affec- tion. You aren't quite sure of him, so you turn envious if he seems too interested in another girl. You like him so much yourself that you are selfish enough to want him to spend all his time with you. Or maybe you've discovered that it makes you happy, in an upside-down kind of way, when you can "pretend to be mad" and have him on the phone six times a night trying to apol- ogize for nothing. You still want him for your boy friend, but you know that little arguments (the "you wouldn't say that if you really liked me" kind) get you more attention, more affection and a feeling of having this Peter Lawford, j.g., right under your thumb.
SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS And what about the ever-lovin' joe involved? Do you ever wonder what he feels — and thinks — when you go into a king-sized fit of temperament, refuse to talk, re-
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fuse to listen to explanations and refuse to accept apologies, if they're due? The first time a girl friend "gets mad," a fellow is usually sorry, hurt and eager to make amends. The second time, it's not so easy, be- cause you're not real friends any more. You don't get along well; you don't understand each other. Maybe you'll make up, but it's only "until the next time." And if there is a next time, it may be the last time — because your boy friend will suddenly see his dream girl as she is, without pink wings and halo, but just a touchy, hard-to-get-along-with girl who wants her own way. And then — you've lost him! You can weep and wait or tell your diary, best girl friend or the moon and the stars plaintively that it was all a misunderstanding, but if you're honest, you'll realize that you've lost him because you liked to quarrel. And if you're smart, you won't let it happen with the next man in your life !
in; UK's now Everyone gets blue days or glum days once in a while. Every date you have with a boy won't be perfect — so make allowances if a fellow is worried about exams, excited about a football game or puzzling over how he can earn enough money for a new suit or a school dance, and don't nag for attention.
If your current dating favorite does something that hurts your feelings, try to understand the chances are ten to one that the mistake was unintentional, thought- less— and maybe your pride is hurt more than your feelings.
If you feel an argument coming on, stop quickly to think it over before making with the sulks and the harsh words. Why axe you angry? Because of the issue at hand, because you want more attention, or because you're just bored with the boy and should call the whole thing off anyway?
If disagreements do come up, talk them out. Don't sit in silence until the barrier is so high between you that things will never be the same again, no matter how many apologies are made. Don't demand that he always make the first move toward friendship.
If you and your joe spend most of your time arguing, then you can decide right now that you just don't go together "like milk 'n' honey, like ham 'n' eggs," and now's the time to call things off. Even the most casual steady dating is fundamental preparation for a more permanent home-and-hearthside relationship later on. And it is so important that you and the man in your life get along well together. After all, just what will your future home life be like if mommy keeps daddy locked up in the mop closet all the time?
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GARDENING
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Your Garden of Perennials. Directions for preparing the beds, planting the seeds and caring for the growing plants. Also a list of favorite varieties. 5c.
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FIFTY YEARS AliO IN THE .III Ml Ml,
IN January, 1898, Gibson-girl skirts and When You Were Sweet Six- teen were popular, just as today; but you could rent a 10-room New York, house for $16 a month. The battleship Maine sailed for Cuba to "protect Americans," President Wil- liam McKinley celebrated his 55th birthday, and in Philadelphia a woman was arrested for wearing bloomers.
Three quarters of a million Journals were printed in January, 1898. II rites Editor liok in ibis issue: "If ire leant our churches to be comfortable, icell liglited, with good music and singing, Hi' must begin by ruling out the penny offering and substituting the jive-cent piece."
Hair-do's: "The thick. tightly curled, heavy bang no longer ob- tains, but there is a decided tend- ency toward a few loose curls on (lie forehead."
Cooking expert Mrs. Rorer tells how to reduce: "Cut off one meal a (lay, and all sweets. Grapes arc excellent. Do not cat oranges or lemons while on a meal diet."
Entertaining on a small income: "It is possible upon an income <>J
say $1000 a yi'iir lit entertain one's
friends in such a manner that one's invitations will he sought anil ap- preciated."
"Perplexed: (lorn meal is a good cos- metic for winter. It makes the finesl sort of cleanser for the skin ami scours it as effectively as -and scours a table."
"Hostess: In wmr guest room have a small, prettil) framed slate willi the household hours written on it : first morning bell. II \.M.: break- fast, 9; luncheon, I : afternoon lea. 4:30; dinner, 7; supper. II."
"Among the best wafers to serve with tea are hotter thins, Roque-
fort biscuits, five o'clock ti'us, out- in a biscuits and fairy wafers."
"The fashionable collar for men this
winter is the all-round turncd-dou n. It is about three inches high, and absolutely round al the corners.
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For those with romance — and the romantic past — in their hearts: tlie horse-drawn cabs of Central Park.
ON New Year's Eve you may be sure that here in New York as man) nostalgic people as possibly can will patronize the horse-drawn calls which cluster the lower fringes of Centra] Park. The cabbies, of course, are devotees, in tolo, of the days gone bj ; and they fully expect riding parties on this coming occa- sion to break all records for the number of hansoms and victorias still in circulation. Only 111 now, according to the Hack Bureau at Citj Mall. But the cabby who told us he'd been driving for forty years said you ought to have seen how many there were in the days when he used to pick up Lillian Itussi-ll and IHnnmnil -lim Hi- m! a at Delmon- ico's. \»« his customers include It i mi Crosbw. Al .Inlsiin. I.ililie 1 <i ii I or and t.i-ne I lev inn: but mostly, he said, he carried young couples in love. "See that pair com- ing, holding hands:''" He touched his topper. Till' boy and girl hesitated, slopped, whispered ... got in, and off lhe\ went. I he driver waved his whip to us. "Happy New Year!" he called.
When we heard that livnt>ral MmArthiir had a passion for Alle- grel 1 1 chi »C( dates (remember those bitter- sweet chocolate-covered creams?), we asked the Council on Candy if they could give us any other famous sweet-
EUROPEAN
MacArthur — he likes bittersiveets.
tooth preferences. They could: «#»/#*• Itm is. caramels; itob IS inn: choco- late bars; Vrvd Alh-n. chewy choco- lates; It inn Crosby, any chewy kind with nuts; Lily Pons, glazed fruit. Another celebrated military man, 4i*n. ./. II. Ilooliitlf. isn't so choosy. He says quite simply, "I like all kinds of candy."
Americans are great talkers: the people of the U. S. held 42,000,000,000 tele- phone conversations in 1946 — an aver- age of 301 for each inhabitant. The U. S. has one phone for every 4 persons; Rus- sia has one for every 140. ... In the U. S. a girl of seven has a greater life expectancy than a newborn baby boy. Woman's life expectancy at birth is 69 years; man's, 64 years and six months. . . . New York is now the jewelry Mecca of the world, due mainly to France's economic plight, which has resulted in a drastic shortage of ma- terial. . . . For more skill in dishwash- ing: washing dishes from left to right is more tiring; less time is consumed in a right-to-left approach. . . . Many streets in New York City have feminine names because when they were once part of farms, the farmers honored their wives by naming lanes after them . . . Only 6 per cent of the average reader's time is spent in reading — the rest is taken up in pauses for the eye and mind to assimilate the reading matter.
Having begun to notice a kind of Bot- ticelli look on feminine faces, and having traced it to the new way lip- slick is being worn, we asked the beauty department for some histori- cal data on lip make-up fashions. Well, it seems the first definite style alter women started wearing lipstick was the bee-stung look made famous hy .Mm- Jlurrun. early in the twenties. Then came the ("lipid's bow (remember?), of which Clara lloir was I he most notable exponent. The •loan Crairlord style followed — quite a change of pace — very heavy and exaggerated. After that the lli-n- buiii. less heavy, more precise, with a downward cast at the corners. And now it's fifteenth-century Italian — far, far away from Hollywood.
To say the least, Alii-e III inn. .»/«#•- iwri'i Itnriilsim and Ilium III Sluart
were somewhat concerned when they ar- rived recently at a Long Island kitchen, which they were to fix up and photograph for the magazine, to find that the fiorisl from whom they had ordered camellias for decoration had sent instead, by mistake, what were obviously somebody's bridal bouquets. Concerned, that is, for the bridal party, more than for our kitchen pictures, which they managed very nicely. The mix-up remained a mystery until the following day, when walking down Fifth Avenue, Miss Davidson spied a wedding setup in the Tailored Woman show win- dow. And what were the manikins carry- ing? Our camellias, of course!
The leopard hood she designed for the JOURNAL'S cover this month re- minded l.illti II ache of the blizzardy winter a dozen years ago when she made herself a leopard vest. Came in so handy, and kept her so warm, she looked upon it as a good-luck piece, and ever since has had at least one leopard accessory in her wardrobe — now this hood. Who's wearing it? Ilur nihil Willi'/!, a model of unusual versatility — dancer, pianist, painter, poet-*- who not only models herself, but runs her own new model agency!
When Maureen llnln was in Holly- wood recently she went with Itml Abbott and Cou tost illu to see the
half-million-dollar Youth Foundation these two comedians have built on
PHOTO BY BOB LANDRY
No "8 balVfor these kids.
their own and have dedicated to Lou's year-old son who was drowned in an unsupervised swimming pool. Three acres of baseball diamond, football field, tennis courts, swimming pool — all floodlighted for night play; bar- becue setup; every kind of indoor game, music, reading, handicraft and hobby shops, and one whole special clinic wing, in the low, big, brand-new building; all completely staffed with instructors, supervisors, nurses — just in case you care to know how far two successful rough-and-tumble comedians can go when they remember that they were once underprivileged children themselves. Bud told Maureen they've counted children of twenty-one differ- ent nationalities all playing together, including a score of teen-age local gang leaders who before the Foundation opened had threatened to "wreck the joint." Maureen asked the two famous funmakers how they happened to turn philanthropists. "We like things to be funny," Lou told her, "and there's nothing funny about a kid with no place to play."
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"You're in the maternity ward,"
the beautiful girl remarked. "Gad," said Hector dreamily.
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ILLUSTRATED BY JON WHIT COMB
HECTOR opened his eyes. A woman in a white dress, wearing a white-gauze hat, put a nursing bottle on the table by his bed. Puzzled, he closed his eyes. When he opened them again, the nursing bottle was still there. He became aware of a mewing, wailing sound and woozily saw that the woman in the white-gauze hat was trun- dling in a tiny crib on wheels.
"Not here" a girl's voice said. "That's for three- nineteen."
There were gales of giggles. The girl in the white- gauze hat came to take the bottle away. She looked down on Hector, her face contorted in an anguish of amusement.
"What," said Hector loudly, "goes on here?"
"Take it easy," said a new voice, a very musical contralto.
Hector slowly turned his head and carefully focused his eyes on the foot of the bed. There in the dimness stood the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. She had brown eyes, lovely longish blond hair and a sweet, friendly smile.
"Where am I?" Hector demanded.
The girl walked around the bed and took his hand. He closed his eyes and gulped. He opened them and saw that she was leaning over his pillow.
"You had an appendix that was a very bad actor," she said gently. "Remember your tummy-ache?"
"Yes," said Hector, staring up into her face and feeling suffused with a delightful warmth.
"Well, your friends tried several hospitals in a hurry and couldn't find any space. So they brought you here. You're in the maternity ward."
"Gad," said Hector dreamily.
"Don't let it get you down," she smiled. She was withdrawing her hand, but Hector held on.
"Don't go away," he said.
"Oh, but I must," she replied.
"You're very, very beautiful," he said.
"People who are coming out of ether," she said gently, "ought to have their vocal cords cut."
He heard the door close. A moment later a spindly, brisk personage entered the room. She wore a striped dress, cap and apron. Her nose was sharp and her glasses glittered. She stuck a ther- mometer in his mouth and held his pulse, looking down at him with the most impersonal expression imaginable. Hector felt terribly let down.
"Who was that?" he asked her as she glanced at the thermometer. "That girl who was just in here?"
"You mean Doctor Wyatt?" she said coolly. "She took out your appendix."
"Was it a boy or a girl?" he asked.
"Relax," said the nurse. "We don't get a man in here very often, but when we do, we know how
to handle 'em." (Continued on Page 113)
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Time of Peril
STIMSOS
THIS book contains the record of the years of my public service — my actions, motives, and estimates of results — frpm my point of view. The writing of the book has been the work of Mr. McGeorge Bundy. Its style and r-omposition are his; but, where he writes of what I have thought and felt, he does so after we have worked together for eighteen months in an earnest effort to make an accurate and balanced account. We have aimed to present not only my past experience but my present opinions as clearly and as honestly as we can. The result is a record which I believe lully reflects my best judgment of what my public life has been. I am profoundly grateful to him for having made possible this record upon questions which are vital to me and on which I have spent most of my active life.
Inasmuch as I did not enter into public office until I was over thirty-eight years old and kept no diaries of my previous life, and as the reader may have some interest in the sources from which I came and the formative conditions which developed and influ- enced me during my early life, it has seemed well that I should add to this foreword a few pages bearing on those factors. It will be necessarily a little longer and I trust a little more illuminating than a transcription of "Who's Who" and will be wholly dependent upon my own memory. When a man reaches my age, there are — for better or worse — few who can either corroborate or contradict him.
My forebears on both sides of my family were nearly all of New England stock, products of the Massachusetts migration during the first half of the seventeenth century. They were sturdy, middle-class people, religious, thrifty, energetic, and long lived. Almost the only non-English strain was composed of the French Huguenot Boudinots, represented in my great- grandmother, whose stories to me of her childhood talks with George Washington, coupled with the fact that I possessed for some years not only all my grandparents but in addition no less than four great-grandparents, convinced me that man's normal term of life on this earth was at least a hundred years. Soon after the Revolution, both sides of the family moved from Massachusetts and took up land in New York, my Stimson ancestor, who had been a soldier in the Continental Army throughout the war, becoming the first settler of Windham in the Catskills, and the ancestors of my mother settling on the Delaware River near Delhi. Both lines contained enough clergyman and deacons to keep up fairly well the moral stand- ards of the stock. From these agrarian surroundings of up-State New York my father's father and my mother's mother years later, attracted by the great city which was developing at the mouth of the Hudson, moved down to New York to try to find a more interesting and varied life.
I was born in New York City on September 21, 1867. Less than nine years thereafter my young mother died leaving her two children motherless, but the doors of my grandparents' home im- mediately opened and took us in to the loving care of the large family within. From then until I was thirteen years old I lived the life of a New York City boy. During the (Continued on Page 84)
Mieyinniny exeerpts front the wartime biog- raphy. ON ACTIVE SERVICE, by ex-Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and Meiieorye Hundy9 jun- ior felloir. Society of Eeltoirs, Harvard University, to be published in April by Harper & Brothers.
THE ARMY \ \ l» GRAND STRATEGY
Fram Pvarl Harbar t» \urth Afriva. Immediately after Pearl Harbor it became necessary for the United States and Britain to concert their strategy. In the week before Christmas, 1941, Winston Churchill and his principal military advisers arrived in Washington for the first of the great wartime meetings with the President and American advisers. The most important single accomplishment of this meeting was that it laid the groundwork for the establishment of an effectively unified Allied High Command. The Combined Chiefs of Staff, set up in Washington in early 1942, rapidly became a fully
developed instrument for the co- ordination of land, sea and air war- fare in a world-wide war. Its seven members, four Americans and three Britons, gradually developed an au- thority and influence exceeded only by the decisive meetings between the President and the Prime Min- ister. For their success there were several causes, but in Secretary Stimson's mind these could in the main be reduced to two. One was the inflexible determination of Pres- ident Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to fight the war as a uni- fied team. The other was the organ- izing genius and diplomatic skill of Gen. George Marshall. It was Marshall as our Chief of Staff who insisted that the Combined Chiefs should in fact be chiefs, and not merely elders of the council; the British members were the direct representatives of the military chiefs of the British armed forces, while the American members were them- selves the responsible leaders of the services which they represented. It was Marshall, too, who guided the development of the staff work of the Combined Chiefs, insisting on a continuous record of consideration and decision and directive. Finally, it was Marshall, with the particular assistance and support of an equally disinterested and farsighted soldier-statesman, British Field Marshal Sir John Dill, who made it possible for the Combined Chiefs to act not as a mere collecting point for the inevitable rivalries between services and na- tions, but as an executive committee for the prosecution of a global war. Marshall was also the primary agent in the establishment and opera- tion of the strictly American counterpart to the Combined Chiefs. In
Copyright, 1947, by Henry L. Stimson
Roosevelt Surprise
I" WAS railed up by the Presi- A deul, who offered me the po- st lion of Ser retary of War . He told me that Frank Knox had already agreed to acrept the position of Secretary of the Navy. The Presi- dent said he was very anxious to have me arrept because everybody was running around at loose ends in Washington and he thought I would be a stabilizing factor in whom both the Army and the public would have confidence." (Diary, entry of June 25, 1940.) To say that Stimson was surprised would be putting it mildly. Like everyone else, he knew that Secre- tary of War Woodring was at odds with ihe President and large parts of the Army ; also that the Assistant Secretary, Johnson, had been a center of conflict. He did not sus- pect, however, that these troubles might affrrt him. Some weeks be- fore, he had heard from Grenville < lark that his name had been sug- gested for the job. Clark had coupled it with that of Judge Robert P. Patterson as Assistant Secretary. He knew, too, that this suggestion had reached the Presi- dent. But that the President should have listened to it, and acted on it, was astonishing.
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It was Stimson's considered opinion that ith the single exception of Franklin Roosevelt o man in any country had been a greater fac- >r than Mr. Churchill in the construction of le grand alliance that destroyed the Nazis; no lan had been quicker to leap the gulf of mu- lal suspicion and strike fellowship with ussia; none had more steadfastly sustained le allies of his nation while remaining frankly [id explicitly "the King's first minister"; with" r> man at times had Stimson had sharper ifferences and for none had he higher ad- tiration.
MARSHALL
"General Marshall's lead- ership takes its authority directly from his great strength of character. I have never known a man who seemed so surely to breathe the democratic American spirit. He is a soldier, and yet he has a profound distaste for anything that savors of militarism. He be- lieves that every able-bodied citizen has a per- sonal responsibility for the nation's security and should be prepared to assume that re- sponsibility whenever an emergency arises. . . . His devotion to the nation he serves is a vital quality which infuses everything he does."
"I have seen a great many soldiers in my lifetime and you, sir, are the finest soldier I have ever known." (Tribute to General Mar- shall, V-E Day, 1945.)
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Stimson was certain that the Army had never had a finer Commander in Chief. He never wavered in bis ad- miration for .Mr. Roosevelt's great qualities, and his af- fection for the man who carried his burdens with such buoyant courage constantly increased. "His clarity of foresight and his unfailing grasp of the essential strategic factors of a world-wide struggle were clear to all. But only those who have been his personal lieutenants . . . can fully appreciate the courage and determination he has shown in time of threatened disaster." (Speech at Harvard, June 11, 1942.) "His vision over the broad reaches of events during the crises of the war has always been vigorous and quick and clear and guided by a very strong faith in the future of our country and of free- dom, democracy and humarii tarianism throughout the world." (Diary, April 15, 1945.)
jite of the urging of Stimson and others, the President for some time esitated to approve of an executive agency of this type for co-ordinating le American military effort; he was particularly doubtful about the isdom of appointing any officer as Chief of Staff to himself. Marshall ambined his advocacy of such an appointment with a refusal to accept it >r himself, arguing that it would be acceptable to the Navy only if an imiral received the appointment. The Joint Chiefs of Staff", when finally rganized, included four officers: the President's Chief of Staff and the mior officers of the Army, Navy, and Army Air Forces; these were the ime men who served as American members of the Combined Chiefs, and ley exercised direct supervision over the American share of the Allied ulitary effort. The Joint Chiefs became the President's direct military Jvisers.
As it became gradually more effective, this formal organization of the :affs had, in Stimson's view, a most salutary effect on the President's eakness for snap decisions; it thus offset a characteristic which might therwise have been a serious handicap to his basically sound strategic istincts. Both in the December meeting of 1941 and in the following June le President made suggestions to the Prime Minister which if seriously ursued must have disrupted the American military effort. Mr. Roose- elt was fond of "trial balloons," and perhaps Stimson's ;ar of this technique was partly due largely to its omplete dissimilarity from his own method of thought, ut he nevertheless felt certain that both Mr. Roosevelt nd Mr. Churchill were men whose great talents required le balancing restraint of carefully organized staff advice.
Stimson, as Secretary of War, was neither a profes- ional soldier nor the finally responsible political leader, nd the organization which made the Chiefs of Staff irectly responsible to the President left him with no jrmal responsibility in matters of military strategy, 'his arrangement might have disturbed him seriously if e had not continued to enjoy a relationship of com- lete mutual confidence with the President and with Generals Marshall and Arnold. He continued to be ailed in, as the advocate of the War Department and s a constitutionally recognized adviser to the President, nd he thus became an active participant in the two ears of Anglo-American discussion over the grand trategy of their European campaigns.
The detailed discussions in the meetings of December, 941, were largely devoted to the problems of the 'acific, where the situation was immediately critical, iut even in the face of the Japanese advance there was 10 deviation from the principle already accepted by both ides before Pearl Harbor — only the European theater
Hopkins a Godsend
STIMSON believed that thePresi- 1 dent listened too much to men who were not his direct Constitu- tional advisers. Fortunately, the principal adviser of this kind was Harry Hopkins, a man for whom Secretary Stimson quickly devel- oped the greatest respect, and with whom he established a relation of such close mutual confidence that he was often able to present the position of the War Department more effectively through Hopkins than he could in direct conversa- tion with the President. Hopkins was an extraordinary figure; he pos- sessed a mind of unusual quickness and flexibility, and a sure judg- ment of both men and affairs; his special value to the President lay in his combination of complete loyalty with a sensitive under- standing of Mr. Roosevelt's com- plex nature. During Stimson's years in Washington, the great in- fluence of Hopkins was time and again exerted on behalf of the War Department. "The more I think of it, the more I think it is a godsend that he should be at the White House." (Diary, March 5, 1941.)
was decisive. In the language of a memorandum prepared by Stimson and used by the President as the agenda for the first general meeting of the conference, "Our joint war plans have recog- nized the North Atlantic as our principal theatre of operations should America become involved in the war. Therefore it should now be given primary consideration and carefully reviewed in order to see whether our position there is safe." The first essential was "the preservation of our communications across the North Atlantic with our fortress in the British Isles covering the British Fleet." (Memorandum to the President, December 20, 1941.) It was accordingly de- cided that an immediate beginning should be made in the establishment of an American force in Great Britain.
By itself the decision of December was not definitive, since the general agreement on the central importance of Great Britain did not include any strategic plan for the use of that fortress as a base for offensive operations. In the middle of February Stim- son began to feel that the ab-
F. D. It. vs. T. R.
STIMSON could not avoid a com- parison between Franklin D. Roosevelt and his distinguished cousin Theodore. From what he knew of both men, he was forced to believe that in the crisis of 1941 T.R. would have done a better and more clean-cut job than was ac- tually done. Equally with his cousin he would have appreciated the true meaning of the Nazi threat, and there can be no higher praise, for no statesman in the world saw and described the Nazi menace more truly than Franklin Roosevelt. T. R.'s advantage would have been in his natural boldness, his firm conviction that where he led, men woulM follow. He would, Stimson felt sure, have been able to brush aside the contemptible little group of men who wailed of "warmongers," and in the blunt strokes of a poster painter he would have demonstrated the duty of Americans. Franklin Roosevelt was not made that way. With un- equaled political skill he coidd pave the way for any given specific step, but in so doing he was likely to tie his own hands for the future, using honeyed and consoling words that would return to plague him later.
sence of such a plan was a serious weakness; without it there was no firm commit- ment that could prevent a series of diversionary ship- ments of troops and supplies to other areas more im- mediately threatened. In March his fears were strik- ingly confirmed by the arrival in Washington of a gloomy message from Mr. Churchill, suggesting in- creased American commitments in non-European areas of the globe, to meet the Axis threat developing in Africa, Southeastern Europe, and the Far East. At a White House meeting Stimson argued that the proper policy was that of avoiding such diversion, and instead "sending an overwhelming force to the British Isles and threatening an attack on the Germans in France; that this was the proper and orthodox line of our help in the war as it had always been recognized and that it would now have the effect of giving Hitler two fronts to fight on if it could be done in time while the Russians were still in. It would also heavily stimulate British sagging morale." (Diary, March 5, 1942.) Stimson found 011 the following (Continued on Page 87)
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BY RUTHERFORD MONTGOMERY
ILLUSTRATED BY AL PARKER
JEROME KILDEE built a cabin under the giant redwood on Windy Point Since the days of Julius Caesar, creatures had been building homes at the foot of the redwood or in its branches. At the time Jerome built his cabin, wise folks did not build on bold knobs high on the side of a mountain, even the round-topped, wooded mountains of the Coast Range.
What the neighbors said or what they thought was of no concern to Jerome. The day he walked out on Windy Point, and looked up at the giant redwood towering into the sky, and stood savoring the deep silence, he knew he was going to stay. When he turned from the great tree, and gazed down over the green ridges, the smoky valleys, into the gray-white haze which hid the Pacific, he smiled. This was a land of silence, the place for a silent man.
The cabin Jerome built was not so wide as the redwood; to have built it so big would have been a waste of space, because Jerome did not need that much room. He toted the biggest window he could buy up to the cabin and set it in the wall which faced the panorama of ridges and valleys. The window was as high as the wall; it was one wall as far across as the door; it had been rolled out as a plate-glass window for a store. The back wall was the redwood trunk. It made an odd house, one wall curved inward, and finished with shaggy redwood bark. Jerome rented a horse and packed Monterey stone up for a fireplace. The fireplace was a thing of beauty; it filled one end of the room. The cream-colored Monterey stone, traced through with threads of red, was carefully fitted and matched for grain, the (Continued on Page 75)
Jerome tried an experimental
note, and failed to notice Mrs. Soak's
rapid trip back to the oven.
BY ROGER BUTTERFIELD
FIRST IN A SERIES OF POLITICAL PROFILES
THOUGHT in 1944 that the voters had elected me to the position of senior statesman," said Governor Dewey. "I was all ready to go back to practicing law and support my family in a style to which they were not accustomed. I went to the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington and told them I was proud to belong to the grand old Republican Party with its great and honor- able tradition — and that part of the tradition, as I understood it, was that it never made the same mistake twice!"
Dewey's round brown eyes gleamed with a certain amount of mischief as he said this. He did not look like a crushed or beaten man, though the memory of his wartime defeat for the Presidency was obviously still with him. He looked eager and aggressive — and even a bit amused by the workings of the political fates.
We were sitting in the governor's suite at the Hotel Roosevelt in mid-city New York, discussing a number of things, including the presidential prospects for 1948. Dewey leaned back easily in a large chair covered with flowered chintz and crossed one sharply creased gray trouser leg over the other. On a table at his elbow stood a glass of water, in the exact center of a square of fresh, white towel.
"I didn't want very much to run for governor of New York again last year," he said. "I was very surprised to be asked, as a matter of fact. But I was nominated by the party, and I became the first de- feated candidate for President who ever came back and was elected governor of the slate.
"That's exactly my situation with regard to the Presidency in 1948. I'm not running for the nomination and I won't lift a finger for it. I did that once, in 1940, and I decided I had enough of that. But if I'm nominated I'll take it, and run as hard as I can."
Governor Dewey is well aware, of course, that he is the current No. 1 favorite of the Republican rank and file for the nomination. Even if he did not read the papers and study the public-opinion polls — which he does — he has an alert and able staff which keeps track of every trend and tremor in the political landscape. On his recent "vacation" trip through the Middle West and Rocky Moun- tain states, Dewey talked to so many Republican leaders and received so many public pledges of delegate support at the convention in June that the nation's press reported the campaign was already on.
But Thomas Edmund Dewey, at the ripe young age of 45, is not counting any White House chickens just yet. He is a different , man today from the cocky crime buster who burst into the national lime- light in the middle 1930's. In the last ten years he has been through six grueling political campaigns — and has lost three of them — and has come back after each defeat to win again. He has put in five hard-working years as the chief executive of the busiest, richest and most populous state of the Union. He has become a seasoned veteran of public affairs, and of the great American roller coaster called politics.
His sense of his own importance has diminished slightly in the process — or at least it has become less obvious. During his 1946
The governor refuses to pose for phony barnyard photos. A gentleman farmer, he watches with his hands in pockets while overseer feeds chickens.
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campaign for governor of New York an incident occurred which indicated that Dewey might even be growing mellow. He was speaking in Elmira, and was in the midst of some semihumorous remarks about how many happy babies would be born in a near-by state housing project for veterans, when a small boy near the speaker's stand ruined the effect by shouting "Hey, you!" at the top of his lungs.
"Little boy, do you want to make a speech?" asked Dewey. The boy did, and continued to chatter and shout. Dewey leaned over and impaled him with a benign but insistent stare. "I mean you," he said, and the boy subsided. "If you want to make a speech, come up here and do so," Dewey continued. "But wait until I am finished. I am making the speech now."
The Dewey of the 1940 or 1944 presidential campaign would have been furious at such an interruption, and would have shown his fury, and the crowd's sympathy would have gone to the boy. But the 1946 Dewey handled the situation with just the right suggestion of firm but kindly parenthood. The audience, mostly parents them- selves, sided with him and shushed the boy.
Thf 3ian Dvirvy. The Dewey who faces the crucial year of 1948 is still very sure of himself, but not so arrogantly sure. He has gained in patience, in tact and in experience. In appearance he has changed very little. He still has the dark little Dewey mustache, the same grin which discloses his slightly parted front teeth, the wavy dark brown hair which is never (Continued on Page 1 34)
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Governor of the state of New York, with its 47 electoral votes, the man who might have sung in the Metropolitan Opera may get the Repub- lican nod for the Presidency. He says he is "not running for the nomina- tion and won't lift a finger for it," but adds : "If I'm nominated, I'll take it, and run as hard as I can." Many believe this time he will make it.
ing Navy Day ceremonies in New York, President Truman chats with the state's rnor who max be his Republican rival in the presidential election.
At a reception celebrating his election as governor, Dewey smiles fondly while his wife adds final touches. She gave up a stage career to marry him.
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THE OBJECTIVE IS TO BUILD BETTER III >l\\ BEINGS IN A BETTER WORLD. MERELY LEARNED PEOPLE ARE OFTEN THE GREATEST BOBES ON EABTH ic BY CHRISTIAN GAUSS
IF you ask the average American, not a teacher, what are the aims of education, he will probably tell you, "Thank God, that is none of my business." In this he is very much mistaken. If, for instance, you are a parent it is fairly safe to say you have deep convictions on this subject. You have often discussed it earnestly, even if you didn't realize that was what you were talking about. Parents go down to the very heart of this problem when they ask themselves what they would like to have their chil- dren become twenty or thirty years from now.
I interrupted such a discussion recently among four young parents. Only after I reminded them that I, too, was interested and that they were dis- cussing the aims of education were they willing to continue. They finally reached this unanimous conclusion: the aims of education are to make it possible for the child — 1 — to get the best out of life for himself; and — 2 — to make the greatest contribution within his power to his country and his time.
The principle these parents accepted is even the one laid down by one of the greatest and most learned authorities on education, Thomas Aquinas. He, too, held that the aims of education were the same as those of life. Certainly the first wish of nearly all parents is that their children should realize in fullest measure the aims of life.
This conclusion of ordinary parents, oddly enough, is perhaps sounder than that of many university professors. If you put this same question to scholars absorbed in their research, most of them will tell you that the aim of education is knowledge. We must, they say, "pursue learning for its own sake"; we must increase "the sum of knowledge." It is little wonder, with this opinion in high circles, that too many Americans believe that education is a "good thing" in itself; that, like virtue, it is its own reward. That is why we have been satisfied to measure it in terms of quantity; the number of pu- pils in the schools, the number of years of schooling we give them.
This is a false assumption. The aim of education is not to add to the sum of knowledge. Its purpose is to open the mind and not to fill it, as we would an ash can or even a golden bowl. Education does not exist in and for itself. It is not a good thing as such. It is only an instrument, a tool, which may be used for good or evil. The aim is to use it as a tool for good.
To help us to keep our feet oh solid ground, let us suppose that you are the parent of two children, John, age nine, and Susan, age seven, both of them in school. It is quite safe to predict that you are not entirely satisfied. If you happen to be one of the few parents who are, the chances may even be that you are satisfied for the wrong reasons. Johnny may already be astonishing you with facts he has learned at school, which you never knew, or have long since forgotten — the exports of Korea or the exact dates when Franklin Pierce was President. You are proud to think that he has the makings of a good quiz kid. Contests of factual information excite us. We like to hear the lady who gets up to and answers the $64 question. Perhaps that is what you would like to have Susan able to do later. Yet if the lady who carries off the prize is slovenly in dress, arrogant in manner, rude to other contestants or otherwise maladjusted in her personal relations, some- thing is still wrong with her education. She has not learned to respond to the challenges which life and not a quiz master puts up to her In a different form, Johnny's education may likewise be defective.
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How great a sacrifice should a woman make
to become an artist? The life of Mary
Cassatt poses this question. The
daughter of wealthy parents, she renounced
conventional existence in America for a
lifetime of study in Europe and a career of
painting. In Paris she was early
fascinated by the work of Degas, which she i
saw in the window of a picture dealer.
"I used to go," she wrote a friend, "and
flatten my nose against the window and abs<
all I could of his art. It changed my life."
It spurred her to tireless self-discipline,
especially in drawing. On seeing some of
her work, Degas once said that he
would not have believed a woman could dra^
so well. As for the use she made of
her perfected technique, no one since the
Renaissance has painted the relation of mot
and child with such tender inventiveness.
In pictures like the one reproduced,
Miss Cassatt has brought a new interpretati
to a traditional theme. She avoids the
sentimental; she sees the mother as busy, pr
of her child, but very matter-of-fact.
This, and many similar canvases, will assur«i
Miss Cassatt a high place in the history
of painting. And yet after those long
hours of physical lahor at the easel, after
the strain and the tight for recognition
for her own work and the work of her frienc
the Impressionists, was the sacrifice
she made worth while? She ended her life a
lonely woman, living in self-imposed
exile, surrounded in her chateau by beautifi
works of art which blindness, the lot
of so many painters, prevented her from set
Miss Cassatt has left us the suggestion
of an answer to the question of why
maternity is the subject which recurs most
frequently in her work. "After all," she
said to a friend, "a woman's
vocation in life is to bear children."
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HER hostess, and most of the luncheon committee, escorted Susan to the morning train. They formed a fat, furred circle around her at the station, and those who had yesterday for- gotten to bring books for her signature thrust them at her now, and tbe high babel of their voices rose, fell and echoed. Travelers, going past wilh babies, redcaps, boy friends and anxious mothers, stopped a moment to look curiously at the group, and a few who had seen the papers and recognized Susan from her rather gruesome pictures — of course the posed portrait was not bad, but newspapers preferred on-the-spot candid studies — asked one another, "Isn't that Susan Foster?"
Susan heard. She was turning on the charm with an extra awareness of effort that morning. It was appallingly early to be charming, and breakfast in Mrs. Dawson's handsome suburban dining room, breakfast partaken at an incredible hour, and fully dressed, had been a strain. Mrs. Dawson had a bewildered husband, good Chippendale, maids who had been with her fifteen years, and three teen-age children.
Susan said, "Thank you so much"; she said, "You flatter me." She smiled and cried, "I can't tell you how wonderful this has been!" and looked rather piteously at the waiting redcap. She thought, / will never accept house invitations again. Pd so much rather go to a hotel where I can collapse alone at intervals. Even if it does cut into the profits!
The scented ladies, snuggled in mink, surged forward in a furry wave, clasped hands and said how marvelous it had been, such a privilege. They filled their eyes with Susan. . . . Her mink was darker than all save Mrs. Dawson's, and had the new full sleeves. Her orchids were fresh. Her mink toque was tilted over one pretty eye and glamorously veiled. What a wonderful life she led, they thought, free as air, rushing all over the country, flying to Europe, coming home to lecture on the state of the world and to write books about it: books which weren't too deep to understand, books enlivened with glimpses of the Great whom Susan called by their given names.
She had, they understood, a gorgeous home in New York, a fascinating farm in New Hampshire, a devoted son — she looked too young to have a married son and grandchildren— and a fabulous income. . . . Whatever had happened to Mr. Foster?
Susan thought, scurrying down the platform, that sling shoes were hard on hurrying feet; she thought, Vm bone tired; she thought, Thank God, that's over. Heaven be praised for a drawing room.
Then she was in the drawing room; the porter, solicitous, had brought extra hangers, a pillow and a footstool. And she asked, smiling, "How far is the diner?" When Susan smiled the lights went on.
"Six cars forward, miss," said the porter, and Susan shuddered.
She mourned, "I'll never make it." She added, "Could I pos- sibly get something back here before we reach New York?"
The porter thought so. "When?" he inquired.
She fished for a bill in the alligator handbag and transferred it to the pink palm. "About twelve-thirty?" she suggested.
The train was pulling out, running through gray, dreary streets, shabbily hedged with leaning houses. It was raining now, a desul- tory spattering of autumn rain, streaking against the windows, gathering its energy to settle into a downpour. Susan's bones ached a little.
J.HE committee had met her night before last, headed by the triumphant Mrs. D., and there had been a country-club dinner, just a few of Mrs. Dawson's dearest friends — not more than forty. The next day, breakfast in bed, with Mrs. Dawson popping in with her own tray, "as it was cozier." And after that the drive to town, the reception, the press, the big luncheon. The only other woman speaker was -much younger but less well known, and the rest were, luckily, men. After the luncheon, handshaking, the book signing and the curious glow, the candle lit to the ego, which, as usual, had warmed, and carried her through. Then back to the red-brick Georgian house in the suburbs and the little tea which one of the committee, a Dawson neighbor, was giving her — a nice little tea, about eighty women, all talking at once. Then the family dinner at Dawson's, twrelve around the glittering board.
/ dont know why I do it, thought Susan, kicking off her shoes, disposing of her hat.
She didn't, really, need the money. Sam was grown, and self- supporting. Her investments had prospered. She thought of Bill Foster, far away and long ago. . . . Sam was eight when Bill died, and there wasn't much money, so Susan went back to newspaper work, and out of that had grown her exacting job and her legend.
She took out the little notebook and jotted down expenses. Of course with the Dawson hospitality they were low, this trip. But she'd rather pay through the nose than be continually on parade.
She took out a sheaf of press clippings from the handbag. Her mouth curved upward. Eyewash, of course, but amusing. The women reporters spoke of her clothes — as well they might; they'd cost a fortune — of her charm and beauty and extreme youthful- ness. The men were equally pleasant, and one or two even men- tioned her solid grasp of national and international situations.
Now it was raining hard and they were running through open country. Susan looked out. The fields were gray and brown, the houses forlorn, the woods were bare and bleak, and the rain might any moment tire and turn softly to snow.
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Truman says, "Eat cheaper cuts of meat.,, What are the people ivho have had to eat cheaper cuts of meat to do, and who is to gel the better grades; or is this going down the European rathole? It seems that every lime someone "in the know" takes a trip to Europe, they come back with a story about our so-called commitments, new obligations made without our knowl- edge. How long must this continue? Don't you think we can dispense with a lot of that corn?
Your question is couched in language which is so evidently prejudiced that it makes it some- what difficult for me to think that any reasonable answer will carry any weight with you.
It is not tremendously important what cuts of meat you eat. The important thing is that wherever we have been eating more meat than is essential to good health, we should cut down.
I do not know what commitments or new ob- ligations have been undertaken by our Govern- ment representatives which are not already known. They have all been published after each meeting, and so far as I know there are none that are not known to both Congress and the Ad- ministration as well as to the people if they take the trouble to read.
I do not know what you mean by your last two sentences. How long must what continue? Aid to people who are in need of aid ? Quite obviously the answer is until they are back on their feet; not , only because you and I cannot bear to think of suffering in the rest of the world without doing something about it, but because we are extremely grateful that bombs did not fall on us. In addi- tion, if we expect to have markets for our goods and to keep up our high rate of employment we will have to help other nations to get back to a point where they can buy our goods.
In your last sentence — I do not know what you mean by "corn." If you mean a surplus in our country of corn, I am sure we can give it where it will be of great value. If you are using the word with the implication that you do not believe re- ports which come to you, of the need for aid in Europe or Asia or wherever it may be, then I would advise you to take a job somewhere in Europe or any other war-torn country and see how you like it over there. I am sure you would find it enlightening.
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Waller Winchell is of the opinion that Soviet Russia is preparing for a sneak at- tack on the United Slates. Do you agree with him?
No, I do not agree with Mr. Winchell. I am not surprised, however, that he is bitter against the Soviet Union, because they attacked him un- justifiably. Nevertheless, I think we have no proof that the Soviets would or could prepare an attack against us now. I think we have a great deal of proof that the people and the government at present are anxious for peace They have much rehabilitation to do in their country. They have plans to carry out for the well-being of their people which could hardly be carried out if an- other war was contemplated or was actually going on. I think at the moment there is no more danger of an attack from Russia on us than there is of an attack by us on Russia. In both countries the fear of such an attack exists, but I do not think that fear is very realistic.
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In a group of public-spirited ivomen recently, I heard this remark: "When the grain situation gets critical enough that our own Government curtails the use of it in so evil a thing as liquor, then my family will co-operate to the fullest, but not until then.,, Don't you believe this is the gen- eral feeling everywhere, especially among church people?
I do not know. I have not discussed it with anyone, but the distillers are co-operating and have closed down. Some liquor is essential and much grain alcohol is used in industry.
Not all church people are believers in complete prohibition. I myself do not believe in pro- hibition, but in temperance and self-imposed temperance and not a prohibition law.
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I wonder if you'd mind making it a simple 'yes or no," Kstelle — I promised mother I'd he home hy twelve-thirty."
Do you think that the saying is true, "A son is a son until he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life"? Most people, I find, do; but I think a son can never be as close to a mother as a daughter.' I don't feel his marriage luis anything to do with it.
I think this is a question of individuals en- tirely. I have known many sons who were de- voted to their parents and who remained close and as devoted after they were married as they had been before. Naturally a man has to give more time to supporting and living with his family when he has one, and he will not be quite as free, perhaps, to be with his parents, but closeness does not imply constant association. A daughter when she is married is in exactly the same position as a son: she has a family of her own which she has to look after; but again I have known many daughters to stay close to their parents.
The real answer, of course, is the quality of the relationship that exists between parents and children, and it may exist with either a son or a daughter, or it may exist with both sons and daughters in a family, and marriage does not have to change it.
I have three children, the youngest 17 years old. She has graduated from high school, ivorks as a stenographer in the daytime, and attends college three times a week. She is pretty and well dressed. In spite of these (ptalities, she has no friends — boys or girls. When she meets a girl, site goes out with her once or twice and then is left alone again. This lias gone on, ever since she went to high school. I have asked her repeatedly what the trouble is, but according to her, tlie other girl is always to blame. Now, I, even tliough her mother, believe tliere is something wrong. Our home is always open to her friends. Any time she brought them in, I tried-very haril to please them. Doyou think I shouhl ask one of these girls why tliey suddenly stopped seeing my daughter? My husband says this would not be the right thing todo.
No, I hardly think it would be right to ask someone else why they no longer were friendly with your daughter. Perhaps if you study her carefully yourself, you will be able to find out. There must be something in her character or in her temperament which alienates the people she is with for any length of time, and certainly you, who know her better than anyone else, should be able to find out what it is.
You are working with the U. TV. and have contacts with the Russians. What do you think of them?
As individuals I like them very much. As representatives of their government, I find them at times irritating and at times difficult to work with. They are tied by directions given them by their government and they are allowed very ittle, if any, individual flexibility, which makes compromise and co-operation very difficult.
They were cut off for a long time by the action of other peoples and now, when they could mix freely with people and learn about others and make friends, they are seemingly unwilling to do so, or perhaps just too shy and suspicious to do so. Therefore they still live, even in this country, very largely to themselves, with only rather formal contacts. Fundamentally I think they are very like ourselves; they love children and will always show with pride the photographs of their children which they carry around in exactly the same way we do ourselves.
They are well disciplined and extremely well trained, and with an energy and an enthusiasm for their own country and its beliefs, born of the advantages which have come to them in the past twenty-five years and of the fact that they have great hopes for the future. They are enjoying, for the first time, a feeling of success which is ex-
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remely exhilarating.
Can you not say something about the sex question? The more we talk and read about sex, the more we are liable to go to extremes. Do you agree with me that our writers liave sex on the brain?
I had not really given this question very much thought. I will agree that in some of the novels, of which I read very few nowadays, I have thought that the authors were prone to dwell too much on the sex question. I think it is a question which we all know exists, and our young people should receive certain instructions to safeguard them as they grow up. After that, the least said about it the better, I think.
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"Once I made $3 in one day. I try to get a shine lean see myself in," he says. His average day's take is about $1.
SHOESHINE BOY
City-born, city-bred, he whiles away his early years the best he can, against the day when he becomes a man.
by JOAN YOUNGER
ON the cold rock island of Manhattan where the southern tip of New York City bulges into the East River, hundreds upon thousands of families live crowded upward into stone houses scarred with iron fire es- capes and battered by wind and rain and sleet and snow. To walk through one of these streets is to walk in a valley of dirty stone and mortar, neon and merchandise; to peer into it is to peer into a poor man's chasm of noise and empty echo; to play in it is at once joy and torture, danger and delight. In one of these streets, just off First Avenue, lives Frederick Peter Wagner. He was thirteen last summer; he is a member of the Boys' Club and the Boy Scouts, and every Sunday morning without fail he goes to Mass at 9 A.M. His hair is the color and texture of tired straw; he brushes it back out of his eyes with his hand. One of his front teeth is broken from a game of street stickball. His eyes are a bright blue and his grin is wide and
engaging. He is a master at just waiting and watching; he can stand on the stoop for hours, slouched, loose, but not restless. His body is expressive; he may shrug instead of talking, twist his shoulders to show disdain, tense with interest. He would like more than anything else to be a flier, but his closest connection with flying is the kite flying he does from the roof. He has de- cided it is the better part of wisdom to concentrate on becoming a carpenter, and he has already made one small chair for his younger sister, Dottie, borrowing the superintendent's tools. Next year he will attend classes in carpentry at school. This year he is in the seventh grade and "too young." He describes school as "all right," thinks history is the "best" subject, and got a half year behind his age group following a transfer from parochial school to public school recently. Last summer he spent two weeks at camp. He likes to read comic books and some of the fiction provided at school,
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is is Tenth Street on New York's lower East Side. The nearest grass is two blocks away, but you t't walk on it; the nearest park, four blocks. The horse-drawn merry-go-round costs a nickel ;o; has a real calliope, and wee horses to ride. Fred, second child from left, is too big.
"It's illegal to be a child in New York" an educator once said.
especially Robin Hood stories. The second youngest of a fam- ily of five girls, two boys, he is said by his neighbors, friends and family to be a "good boy"; he says his prayers "most nights," and his worst fault at home appears to be minor de- structiveness: recently he was spanked by his mother because he broke his sister's glasses accidentally. His older sister, Helen, gives him 70 cents a week allowance, which he spends on sodas, candy, comics, Scout dues; he also keeps the $1 to $2 he makes shoeshining on Saturdays; most of this he spends on kites or small boyish treasures, on Sunday outings to Coney Island, or a movie now and again. He sees little of his
'. Wagner never recovered from the depression. He sees little his children, leaves their upbringing to their mother. This i typical East Side tenement kitchen. The curtains are yellow.
Mrs. Wagner works from 5:30 to 11:30 each evening scrubbing in a skyscraper. It's the only job she could find that made it possible for her also to take care of the children during the day.
The baby of the family, Dottie, is seven and goes parochial school. Fred often puts her to bed. Bol say their prayers regularly, attend Mass faitlifull
f"l'he outlets natural /<> children are forbidden in the city.
Father, cares nothing w hatsoe\ er for girls, has a "best friend" ami several "pals," enjoys his sisters and admires Peter, his
brother, an ex-Marine. Il<' shares a r 1 with his brother
in the three-bedroom railroad Rat, four flights up, thai houses him and the six Wagners who are home, and the most im- portant thing in his world is his mother.
She is a sturd) but work-wear) woman with a warm smile into which depression slowh is eating. She was born in Poland lorl\-.se\en wars a»o. Her parents died, and an aunt and uncle broughl her to \merica. She was nine years old and helpful in the summer hotel and (Continued on Page 111)
Shoeshine boys under sixteen are lawbreakers, but police rarely run them in except on school days. Here a policeman tells Fred to move along; he has done his duty if he can't see him. Fred thinks police "okay" except when they interrupt him in a shine. This picture was done by mirrors.
rred has smart hand-, plans to he a carpenter, Coney Island attracts 1,000,000 New Yorkers on summer Sundays— including Fred says school is "all right," gets fair grades, aakes some of his own kites. He knows every Fred and his pal. Wally. It costs a nickel for the subway ride, a quarter for pop likes history. A teacher told the boys there was treet game bul caul swim, ride, hunt or shoot. and hot dog, and comes under the heading of fun. The water is crowded too. no need for them to study, they'd all land in jail.
Sin- was his girl; she wore his high- school ring on a black silk cord aronn<l her neck; she never dated anyone els<-.
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UNTIL THE FRENCHMAN'S ARRIVAL, BYRON MISICK THOUGHT BYRON MUSICK WAS THE WITTIEST, MOST BRILLIANT MAN HE HAB EVER KNOWN. * BY JESSAMYN WEST
YRON MUSICK had developed the faculty, not usual in an eighteen-year-old, of levitation. He could lift himself above a group and, looking down, see all who composed it. Sitting or standing, silent or talking, framed by a room, the season of the year, the day's particular weather, he could see them all. He would do this and say to himself, Remember. He had the sad idea that memories should be stored like stereoscopic slides, to be taken out in barren moments for reanimation. It was strange that at eighteen, in the midst of friendship and talk, the afternoon sun still shining, he should think of barren moments. Still, he did so. He was afraid the luck he had had would not last forever; and going up a little higher, he looked down upon the three of them (including himself) in a memorializing way. Remember, he told himself, and arranged a slide to be entitled, A Happy Afternoon Spent With Betty Jean Alford and Her Brother Charlie.
From the height at which he was viewing the room, Byron watched the three of them: Charlie, just home for the week end from Cal Tech, unpacking his effects in the center of the Alford living room, tossing dirty socks and shirts into one pile, books, papers, a binder, a tennis racket into an- other; Betty Jean, in a dusty pink dress, on the sofa watch- ing her brother; Byron, himself, most clearly visible of the three to himself, sitting, one leg thrown over the arm of the upholstered chair, his brown-and-white-striped T shirt showing up with just the proper degree of Saturday-afternoon nonchalance from under his brown sport coat, very easy, very happy, very relaxed.
If someone it ere to come to the door, he thought, someone who didn't know any of ns from Adnm, he'd be just as likely to lake me for an Alford as Charlie or Betty Jean.
"Charlie," he said, "do you take your stuff to school in that sack?"
Sack," said Charlie, sending a pair of plaid shorts in a graceful arc onto the laundry pile. 'That's no sack. That's my duffel bag."
"Duffel bag!" exclaimed Byron. It was obvi- ously the Affords'
laundry bag. It had "6792" stenciled on it, and under that in block print, "Puritan Laundry. We wash clothes in a run- ning stream."
"Looks like a laundry bag to me."
"Duffel bag," insisted Charlie. "I pack my duffel bag, lash it to the whiffletree and I'm off."
Betty Jean Alford laughed. "You're off all right, Charlie. Isn't he, By?"
Looking at Betty Jean, Byron wanted to say something clever and important. She was his girl; she wore his high- school ring on a black silk cord around her neck; she never dated anyone else. Still, it was not a knowledge he had ever been able to rest in. He had to prove it to himself time and again by being the brightest, wittiest, most commanding person in the crowd, the obvious choice of a girl like Betty Jean Alford. Since he was actually the brightest, wittiest, most commanding person Tenant had seen in some time, this was usually quite easy. But once in a while, as now, all cleverness left him. The afternoon sunlight pouring through the west windows of the Alford living room, like glass through glass, white and sharp, all rosiness leached from it by the heavy palm trees in front of the house, frosted Betty Jean, made her look like a delectable Christmas-tree orna- ment, put sparkles in her funny, olive-colored eyes. Looking at her, Byron remembered how her face, wide at the fore- head, narrow at the chin, felt cupped in his hands: like a soft, soft triangle.
"If Charlie isn't crazy, we are," he answered, cleverness lost in memories.
To offset the mediocrity of this he sprang from his chair, put a toe under the now empty bag — duffel or laundry — and with a sharp kick lifted it high into the air. The bag fell on the bridge lamp by the piano. The lamp teetered precari- ously for a second or two, then, finally, without falling over, righted itself.
Byron sat down at once, no longer with leg over the arm of the chair, not even slouching.
"I didn't know I was putting quite so much into that," he apologized.
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I.LUSTRATED BY HARRY ANDERSON
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BY HENRIETTA MURDOCH
Interior Decoration Editor of the Journal
f^ollecting Early American glass can be everybody's hobby. Its quantity was so vasl an I its distribution so general that there is a chance of discovering good pieces almost any- where. With elusive mystery, old glass still hides out in the most surprising places. Mold pitchers turn up on a country table, a rare flask comes to light when a cellar is cleaned out, and the goblet to complete your prize set may be awaiting discovery in an isolated shop across the street from where your car is being serviced.
Begin by buying a good book on glass, with plenty of illustrations, then read it thoroughly. This won't make you an expert, for you never cease learning, but it frames the whole glorious picture, and opens (Continued on Page ill)
PHOTOGRAPHS BY HAROLD FOWLER
With the exception of the three-mold blown-glass pitcher which holds the flowers, all pieces are fine specimens of clear pressed glass of the type collectors are always seeking.
A good group of Blown anil pressed glass for those who like to make practical use of their
treasures. Old glass was made for service, vet beautiful, and still highly functional.
The reward of the persevering collector is to be able to set a whole table of early thumbprint, or other matched pieces.
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nOURTNEY had not realized how fatigued he was until he got on the ship. The Atlantic was quiet, and he slept a good deal in his stateroom or on deck in his chair. He made no
Uacquaintanc.es on the voyage, and the few people he knew he avoided. But England dejected him from the start.
"Why come to us?" their London agent said as they lunched at Boulestin's. "Were looking to you for material. There's noth- ing here."
It seemed incredible. The country which had produced Wells, Swinnerton, Maugham, Galsworthy and dozens of others had no new writers, and few of the old ones were producing.
"What's happened?"
"What's happened all over the world?"
He left England with little to show for his trip. Nor was France any better. He took time out to see some of the battle- fields, but he could not orient himself among them. Nature had put a protective covering of green over most of them, and the towns he remembered as rubble had been rebuilt. Only the vast cemeteries remained. But after fourteen years, Paris had not regained its prewar gaiety. The people looked sober and anxious.
He had not intended to go to Germany, but so far his errand had brought in very little. At the end of a week he took a plane and flew to Berlin.
Rudolph Hauck, their German representa- tive, met him at the airfield. Hauck took him
to the Adlon, but he was not optimistic about manuscripts. He lowered his voice so the cabdrivcr could not hear.
"What can you expect?" he said. "We are muzzled here, all of us. It is not safe to think, even less safe to write. And our writers have no martyr blood in them." He waved a hand out the win- dow. "Great Berlin! The third largest city in the world, the pub- lishing center of Europe; and a year from now not even the bravest of us will be able to say what he thinks."
"There have been a few good German novels in the last ten vears."
"Most of them by people who have left the country," Hauck said bitterly.
It was largely boredom that led Courtney to call on Professor von Wagner a day or so later. It was a shabby house, reconverted into flats. The professor lived on the fourth floor. He was defi- nitely an old man now, his beard white and his hair thin. He peered nearsightedly from the door of what was both living room and bedroom. Then he held out both hands.
"Captain!" he said. "Captain Wayne! So you come to see me at last." He drew him into the room. The old man was excited ■«^t-..^. and pleased as he drew out chairs. "I so often
think of you and the days " A shadow
passed over his face. "I had my dear wife then, and my daughters. Now I sit alone much of the time. Of course I see Hedwig, who lives
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