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PARENTS’ RESPONSIBILITY
In the current issue of Parents
Magazine, they give their second
annual report on the nation’s chil
dren There is a general recogni
tion of the grave responsibility of
nroviding our children, in this war
Crisis with the services necessary
to nreserve for them in the future,
the things for which we today are
fi freedoms will not mean
much to them, if they are told that
we have preserved them for them,
unless they are able to use those
four freedoms. You can not be a
citizen in a democracy and feel con
fidence in your own ability to meet
the future, unless in your childhood,
the basic needs of every child are
met, regardless of war conditions.
The carrying out of this program
to achieve this end, lies largely in
the hands of the children’s bureau,
and the different health and welfare
projects under Administrator Mc-
Nutt. But, I think it is the respon
sibility of the Office of Civilian De
fense to see that the needs are rec
ognized. They must have the back
ing of people in every community
so that the defense councils will rec
ognize the importance of meeting
them.
Such magazines as Parent’s Mag
azine can do a great deal to bring
before the public the needs of the
children and the responsibility of
the public towards those needs. I
hope that many other magazines
and publications will also recognize
this responsibility.
I must tell you that the pageant
on the contribution of the Negro peo
ple to the history of the United
States, as given last night in the
performance called “Salute to Ne
gro Troops," presented by the stage,
screen and radio division of the
Fight for Freedom Inc., was most
moving and thrilling. Any citizen of
the United States must have been
proud when Washington, Jefferson,
Jackson and Lincoln, each came on
the stage and spoke their own mes
sage to their people, who loved de
mocracy and liberty.
It carried into one’s heart an emo
tion, which must translate itself into
a greater devotion to accept the
challenge of this war, and to make
of this nation the example which the
founding fathers envisioned, but
which we have never completely
carried out.
4-H CLUB INTEREST
I spent two hours at the office one
morning and at 11 o’clock went down
to meet with a group of the agri
culture department extension people
working on the 4-H club program.
They told me what they had de
veloped for their victory work in
rural areas and assured me that
they would co-operate in the OCD
youth activities program in every
possible way.
Then we discussed how best the
Office of Civilian Defense could help
them to carry out a program, which
would not only make the community
strong now, but leave it stronger at
the end of the war to meet post
war problems.
VICTORY BOOK DRIVE
The Victory Book campaign has
started. This is a “nation-wide cam
paign to collect reading materials
for many needs, arising from the
national defense and war program.”
Miss Althea Warren has been given
four months leave of absence from
the Los Angeles public library to
direct this campaign and she has
her offices with the U.S.O. in the
Empire State building in New York
city. Good books of every kind are
needed for the U.S.O. reading rooms.
Each club house, of which there
are now 400, with many more con
templated, will have space for from
500 to 2,000 volumes. There are
state directors in practically every
state and your state librarian can
give you the address of the special
directors appointed for these collec
tions. If you do not know where to
write in your state, write to Miss
Althea Warren, 1630 Empire State
building, New York city, and she
will tell you where to send your
books.
blind persons help
It is a wonderful thing to feel
that in this emergency everyone
wants to help. I was glad to hear
that the New York Association for
the Blind is starting a course for
volunteers. The course is designed
to train volunteer workers for serv
ice with the blind.
it will make it possible for them
to help the blind to adjust to war
conditions, which make even the or
dinary occurrences of life more diffi
cult. If you attend one of these
courses and learn what modern pro
cedures and policies are in New
York city, you can be helpful in
your own home town when you re
turn there.
SAVE THE CHILDREN’
One morning, at the Office of Ci
vilian Defense, I met with some 25
people who are working largely in
the mountain areas for the Save
the Children fund. They work, as
f ar as possible, with the existing
agencies and one of their main ac
tivities is to salvage desks from
schools that are being remodeled
and to provide them for the smaller
schools where no desks have been
available in the past.
In addition, they provide shoes
and clothing for children who would
otherwise be out of school.
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
MICKEY ROONEY’S mar
riage to Ava Gardner, the
pretty girl from North Carolina
whose movie career has so far
consisted of a few minor roles,
depleted the ranks of Hollywood
eligibles—and that’s a serious
problem. There has never been
enough bachelors there to go
around. Now the draft, enlistment
in the armed forces, and matrimony
have made it harder than ever for
a pretty, unattached girl to find a
presentable, unattached male es
cort.
Frfcnchot Tone, George Brent,
Rooney himself—all seemed bent on
pursuing the single life, no matter
how many girls they were said to be
engaged to. Then matrimony hit
them all, like a hurricane. Pity the
press agents, who’ll have to find
substitutes, when they want to get
publicity for a film starlet by an
nouncing her engagement to a movie
celebrity!
The dearth of bachelors isn’t go
ing to bother Martha O’Driscoll,
Paramount starlet; she herself re
moved one from circulation when
she announced her engagement to
Walter Brewer, a non-professional,
and the brother of Mrs. Hal Roach
Jr. She appeared in “Reap the Wild
Wind’’ in one of the principal roles
and recently finished work in “Pa
cific Blackout” in the feminine lead.
Betty Field has had a lot of good
roles, but they’ve been non-dressy
ones; in “Shepherd of the Hills” she
wore makeup on her body that made
it look as if she were covered with
dirt, in addition to having drab
clothing. Now, in “Mr. and Mrs.
Cugat,” in which she is co-starred
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BETTY FIELD
with Ray Milland, she has 15
changes of clothing—Edith Head,
who designed the garments, said she
had the highest budget wardrobe
that Paramount will provide for any
of its glamour stars this year, so
for once Betty will have something
to wear on the screen!
Claudette Colbert goes Betty Field
one better, though—she wears two
wedding gowns in “The Palm Beach
Story,” in which she marries Joel
McCrea twice —once in 1937, once in
1942—and both costumes are tops.
When the call to duty came, it
found Carole Lombard ready and
obedient. She did not lose her life
in that call, she gave it, as willingly
and freely as any soldier upon the
battlefield. Her memory shall be
cherished and revered down the
ages by all who love that honor and
freedom for which the fun-loving
beloved wife of Clark Gable made
the supreme sacrifice, when an air
plane, carrying the film star, her
mother and 20 others, including 15
army fliers, crashed near Las
Vegas, Nev., none surviving. Miss
Lombard was returning to Holly
wood from Indianapolis, where she
had gone to assist the U. S. treas
ury in the sale of defense bonds.
Paulette Goddard takes to the
woods in “The Forest Rangers,”
playing a girl of the backwoods who
contends with a city-bred rival for
the affections of Fred Mac Murray.
Seems as if it would have been more
appropriate to letter play city gal!
They tell us there’s a new word
for “oomph,” which Hollywood had
been tirelessly hunting. Help came
from the army. A buck private
was visiting the Paramount studio,
and saw Jean Phillips, blonde ex
standin, who’d just finished a co
starring role in “Dr. Broadway.”
He looked at her once, twice, and
turned to the bystanders. “Wow!”
said he. “She’s got woodle!”
ODDS AND ENDS—Bandleader Sammy
i Kaye, who, with Don Reid, wrote the stir
ring song, “Remember Pearl Harbor," is
donating all the royalties from sheet and
i record sales to Navy Relief ... If you've
made a habit of listening to those heart
ttirring radio programs in which evacuated
British children talk to their parents at
home, you’ll be glad to hear that Metro
has bought “Journey to Margareta book
about one such child . . . Chester Morris
and Jean Parker, co-starring in “Torpedo
; Boat," both wore something red on the
first day of shooting . . . Victor Borge tries
out his routines for the Crosby programs
on the pre-view audiences of other people's
broadcasts.
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA
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UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for February 1
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
JESUS CALLS FOUR DISCIPLES
LESSON TEXT—Luke 5:1-11.
GOLDEN TEXT—Come ye after me. «nd
I will make you to become fisher* of men.
—Mark 1:17.
Followers of Christ are those who
have not counted their goods nor
their persons their own, but have
willingly yielded all to Him. Obvi
ously many who profess to follow
Him have only done so in that meas
ure which will not interfere with
their own plans and interests. They
need to study this lesson with care.
The call of Christ is one which
demands willing and wholehearted
obedience.
I. Yielded Possessions (vv. 1-3).
These disciples had already re
sponded to the ministry of Jesus
and had followed Him for a time
(see John 1:35-4:54), but they did
not yet know the fullness of sur
render to Christ and had now gone
back to their old work of fishing.
May they not be typical of many in
our day who know the Lord and
have for a time followed Him close
ly, but have again become en
grossed in their daily vocation, per
haps just making money?
Jesus was now ready to call them
out into a lifetime of service, and the
first thing He did was to ask the use
of their chief possession, their boat.
That was first yielded to Him.
It was not by chance that it was
Peter’s boat which was just at hand
when the Master needed it. Such
things do not “just happen.” The
destinies of men are in the hands
of God, and with His children the
simplest happening is known to and
controlled by Him. He who num
bers the hairs on our heads, He who
observes the fall of the sparrow,
knows about everything that hap
pens to us.
11. Yielded Service (w. 4-7).
Having completed His teaching by
word, Jesus had a special object
lesson for Peter and the others con
cerning the fruitlessness of service
apart from His guidance and con
trol, and the blessed results which
come from obedience to Him.
Taking them where he found
them, He showed the disciples that
He was the Master even of their
secular vocation of fishing. He is
the One who knows more about your
business than you do, who can give
or withhold His blessing. All that
we have has come to us from His
hand, and it is all within His con
trol.
This Almighty One was ready to
call these fishermen out into the
greater business of fishing for men
by revealing to them His mighty
power to bless and prosper the fish
erman—who becomes a fisher of
mdn.
111. Yielded Lives (vv. 8-11).
The giving of their possessions,
the yielding of their work into
His,- hands in obedience, led up to
His call for the yielding of their
lives.
Often we speak of God’s claims
upon the life of the Christian as
though it were the fiat of an auto
crat, one who demands his rights.
God might well do so, for He has
full authority and power over all
of us, but He is a gracious God and
gently leads His children along to
the place where they make their
own decision to leave all and fol
low Him.
The work of God in the world is
carried on by men. The joy of pro
claiming the gospel was not given
to the angels, but to redeemed men
and women. Knowing the regener
ating grace of God in their own
lives, they have been called during
all this Christian era to go out to
tell others.
In preparation for that ministry
our Lord needed yielded lives,
which He sought and found in these
humble fishermen. They were “not
visionaries or dreamers, but were
practical men with common sense.
They had been disciplined in the
school of common toil . . . Though
unlearned so far as formal theolog
ical training was concerned, these
men were teachable. Under the
tutelage of the Son of God Him
self they received matchless infor
mal training . . . leading to a rec
ord of service which the world will
never forget. It is that sort of
teaching that counts. We, too, may
learn in the school of Christ, through
| a study of His Word, assisted by His
Spirit, and through the yielding of
our lives to His control” (B. L.
Olmstead).
Christ no longer walks this earth
i to seek and call out disciples as He
| did these men, but the blessed suc-
I cession of those of whom it may
! be said, “They forsook all and fol
lowed Him” (v. 11), continues to this
! day.
We repeat what we have said be
j fore, that one of the thrilling things
i about teaching Sunday school is that
somewhere, in some class this next
Sunday, God is going to touch the
heart of some boy or girl who will
be a leader for Him for the next ger>.
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SEWING CIRCLE
tJERE is an adorable new fash
*■ ion idea for little two to six
ers I A simple, princess jumper
topped with a gay bolero! Thus it
is a frock to wear any season,
any day—and a charming style too
for all little figures. For outdoor
play, in warmer seasons, the bo
lero may be removed. So simple
to make that you can finish it in a
Equalizing
“My new girl friend’s very
bright. She has brains enough for
two.”
“Then she’s just the girl for
you.”
Same With Difference
Trying to give a friend a defi
nition of “oratory,” a Negro said:
“If you says black am white,
dat’s foolish. But if you says black
am white, an’ bellers like a bull,
an’ pounds de table with both fists,
dat’s oratory.”
The Siren
The leader of the Fire Service
called at the house across the
way,
“Pardon me, but are you the
lady who was singing?”
“Yes, I was singing. Why?”
“Well, lay off the top notes,
please. We’ve had the fire en
gine out twice!”
The less people know, the hard
er it is to keep it to themselves.
Modest, Indeed
Mrs. Black was vigorously pow
dering her face before going cut.
“Why do you go to all this trou
ble?” asked her husband, who was
waiting impatiently.
“Modesty, my dear,” was the
reply. “I’ve no desire to shine in
public!” .
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few hours, here is an outfit to add
to your daughter’s collection of
frocks. Plain or printed fabrics
may be used.
• • •
Pattern No. 8080 Is designed for sizes
2,3, 4. 8 and 6 years. Size 3 ensemble
takes 2 yards 36-lnch material, 3<i yards
rlc-rac. For this attractive pattern, send
your order to:
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT.
Room 1324
311 W. Wacker Dr. Chicago
Enclose IS cents In coins (or
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Water should never be poured
on burning fat. It will spread the
blaze. Flour will extinguish the
blaze.
• * •
Always store baking powder in
a tightly covered container. If it
is exposed to the air some of the
strength will be lost.
• • *
Store dried fruits in their origi
nal packages, tightly covered, or
place them in covered fruit jars.
It is best not to wash them until
time to use.
• • •
A raw potato put In soup that
has too much salt in it and boiled
for 10 minutes will remove the
salty taste.
• • *
Fruit cake makes a delicious
pudding served with either hard
or hot sauce. Steam the fruit cake
before serving.
♦ • •
Always cut toast in small
squares when making cream
toast. It is much easier served
cut in this way.
* « •
The unsightly ring left by clean
ing fluids, when used to remove
spots, may be avoided by placing
under the spot a pad made of
thick absorbent cotton.
Flesh and Bones
> ■ “Have yon a hobby? Do you ride a
* horse?’’
“Yes, but I'll have you know it’s no
• hobby!”
It seems as though the usual
unusual weather has been more
. unusual than usual.
Hard to Carry
\ Father You ought to be
ashamed of yourself, not knowing
what you learned at school to
day. Willie Brown always knows.
Bobby—Yes, but he hasn’t so
far to go home.
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Preserving the Best
i The only hope of preserving
what is best lies in the practice
TONIGHTS
to colds’ miseries. Slip away from achey
muscles, sniffles, into sleep. Here’s dou
ble help that acts almost instantly. Rub
with Penetro. 25c. HrUCTDA
Use as directed. § Uit I law
Horse Relationship
Under American horse-racing
laws, thoroughbreds having the
same sires but different dams are
not half brothers or half sisters.
Only those having the same dams
are considered to be related.
CALLOUSESriI
To relieve painful callouses, bum-I fj V
Ing or tenderness on bottom of feet I
and remove callouaea—got these V/l I
thin, soothing, cushioning pads. / I
By Results
We judge others according tc
results; how else?—not knowing
the process by which results are
arrived at.—George Eliot.
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Maidens’ Desire
The desire to please everything
having eyes seems inborn in
maidens.—Salomon Gessner,
/Relieves distress from MONTHLY^
FEMALE
WEAKNESS
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Compound
Tablets (with added Iron) not only
help relieve cramps, headache,
backache but also weak, cranky,
nervous feelings—due to monthly
functional disturbances.
Taken regularly- Lydia Pink
ham’s Tablets help build up resist
ance against distress of “difficult
days." They also help build up red
In Charge
“Had you complete control of
the car at the time?”
“No; my wife was with me.”
of an immense charity, a wide
tolerance, a sincere respect for 1
opinions that are not ours.
