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■ Eleanorßoosevelt
■ rlral people
■ snd rationing
V’J Recently 1 attended a dinner given
Vj bv Dr Louise Stanley of the bureau
H y . horne economics in the depart
m ° nt of agriculture for the mem-
U brs of the conference on extension
■ services. This conference is a year
■ f, e vent and people come to it from
■ !l any states. This year some of
■ the m came from Wyoming and
■ many midwestern states.
■ jjiss McGeachy of the British em-
I bassy spoke on some of the prob
■ lems confronting rural women in
I England. I asked her to tell about
I her plan for rationing clothes, since
■ I was sure that these were the peo
■ pig who would really be able to ap
■ preciate the ingenuity which turns
■ C andlewick bedspreads into fashion
■ a ble evening coats.
I of course, their objective in ra
■ tioning clothes was to put more
I workers into defense industries and
■ fewer into producing consumer
I goods, and to preserve certain ma
| terials for vital war needs.
I We may find ourselves doing the
I same thing. Miss McGeachy’s re-
I mark, that it was only a hardship
I on people who had no margin of
I supplies in their homes, reminded
I me of something said by an Eng-
I lishwoman, who came to see me a
I few days ago. Extra coupons, she
K said, were given to people who were
I bombed out or lost all their posses-
I sions in a fire.
I However, even with extra coupons
I they could not hope to supply them
| selves with an adequate amount of
I clothing. One pair of shoes, two
I dresses, three pairs of stockings,
I and one set of underclothes is all
I the usual coupon will buy for about
| a year. Men are worse off, because
I their clothes are sold according to
I weight and weigh more than wom-
I en’s.
i I always feel that rural people
are better prepared to meet these
adjustments than urban people, be
cause in cities it is easier to buy
and very little thought is given to
making up new materials or making
over old garments at home, a prac
tice which still prevails in many
country families.
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LATIN-AMERICAN FAIR
In New York city one evening, I
went to a very charming dinner,
given before the opening of Macy’s
Latin-American fair. Even during
the dinner, the stage was set, for we
were delightfully entertained with
music and dancing, performed by
artists from our neighboring repub
lics.
At the fair, I could not help but
be impressed by the architecture of
the buildings and the charming ar
rangements of flowers and merchan
dise. There will be music and danc
ing and food served during this ex
hibition. You can buy groceries,
fruits, and handwork as they come
from these neighbors of ours. Their
designs and skills are also adapted
to modern needs. Some of the leath
er work and rugs, and much of the
glass and pottery, make you want
to furnish a house at once.
After I left the fair, I stopped for
a minute at a weekly dance given
by Miss Anne Morgan’s committee
at the Henry Hudson hotel. Here, a
crowd of boys in uniform, belonging
to both services, were having a good
time with some very charming
girls.
On my arrival, they released some
balloons from the balconies and I
was told the boys and girls caught
these. In two of them, lucky num
bers were found, which entitled a
boy and girl to a prize. I presented
these prizes, but the boy who found
the lucky number for the girl’s prize,
had lost his girl, so we had to send
him scurrying, box in hand, to find
her in the crowd.
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CIVILIAN DEFENSE ACTIVITY
I reached my office next morning
at nine o’clock and was sorry to
bid good-by to Miss Eloise Davison,
who has been assistant director of
civilian defense, in charge of group
activities, under Mayor LaGuardia.
The New York Herald-Tribune lent
her for a part-time job, which took
up all her time. She feels she must
return to her job in New York city.
Miss Davison hopes to be able to
help civilian defense, however, by
working in New York city on some
special assignments for the mayor.
That morning was spent largely
with Dean James Landis at OCD,
though I saw two or three members
of the staff. The entire afternoon
was taken up with appointments of
various kinds. Mayor Cain of Ta
coma, Wash,, lunched with me and
t was happy to see him again. I
remembered how much impressed I
was by the way in which he was
taking hold of his job in the hectic
week after the attack on Pearl Har
bor.
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CIVILIAN DEFENSE
RADIO BROADCAST
On one afternoon, I talked on a
jocal radio station with Mr. John
Kelly, head of our physical fitness
Program; Dr. Dearing, of our OCD
friedical group; and Dr. Gwynn,
oead of the District of Columbia
Medical association, who has in
augurated this series of broadcasts.
He tries to interest the general pub
lc in keeping itself well and in do
|ng the things which will be a help
to the medical profession.
Becoming an American
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. " ithin the last six years more than one million persons cut their last
ties with the old country ’ and became citizens of the United States.
.Tna note, with America at war, there is a rush to he American. Nor is
there anything difficult about attaining citizenship in the U. S.—if one
ls ft* to be a citizen. Ihe following series of photos shows you some of
the steps taken by the foreign-born in becoming American.
Awaiting their turn to file first papers in one of the ante rooms of
the naturalization bureau. Many of these applicants have known op
pression and are eager to cut ties with the past.
RSVP—This huge pile of appli-
cations is only a small part of the
year's total. The girl is sorting
them for further action,
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A courtroom scene during the naturalization of a group of appli
cants. The judge (back to camera) is administering the oath of allegi
ance to the United States of America.
Last step. Accompanied by two witnesses, an applicant for naturaliza
tion is shown taking the oath at time of filing petition for citizenship.
This is the application for the final papers.
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A veritable tower of babel is this room of a naturalization bureau,
where skilled linguists question the applicants.
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA
Here are clerks checking appli
cations for citizenship against an
index containing confidential in
formation.
IMPROVED
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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 8
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission,
A BUSY SABBATH IN
CAPERNAUM
LESSON TEXT—Mark 1:21-34.
GOLDEN TEXT—I was In the Spirit on
the Lord’s day.—Revelation 1:10.
The Sabbath of the Jew and the
Lord’s Day (Sunday) of the Chris
tian were both intended to be days
of rest. The ordinary activities of
life were to cease and one was to
j be free to worship and to rest. The
manner in which a man uses this
God-given day of rest is a remark
ably accurate indicator of his spiri
tual condition.
We have before us the account of
a very busy Sabbath day which our
Lord spent in Capernaum, the city
in which most of His mighty works
were done, but which ignored Him
and His teaching to its own destruc
tion (see Matt. 11:23, 24). As we look
at our Lord’s activity on that day
we learn what we may do with our
Sundays to make them bear fruit
for eternity. We find Him in three
places.
I. In the Church (vv. 21-5.8).
The Sabbath day found our Lord
with His people in the synagogue,
their place of worship. The serv
ice of worship was probably for
mal and lacking in spiritual vital
ity, but none-the-less He was there.
What have we to say if we miss the
opportunity for fellowship and serv
ice which church attendance brings
us?
Observe that because He was
there He (as a distinguished relig
ious teacher) was called upon to
teach the people. He taught them
in the serene consciousness of His
divine authority, and the people
were delighted and astonished at
His message. We may not serve
exactly as He did, but if we pre
sent ourselves in God’s house on
His day we will find the way opening
for us to share in the worship.
Jesus not only spoke, but He per
formed a miracle. Certain it is that
we could not do what He did, but
we can be ready to give ourselves
in service as well as in worship, or
in speaking. There is much work
to be done in the church, and God’s
people should be ready and will
ing to do it.
11. In the Home (vv. 29-31).
From the synagogue Christ went 1
into the home. How appropriate! ,
We too should go from the church I
to the home, always bringing with
us the strength and blessing of the
worship service.
The daughter of a great preacher
and Bible teacher said the thing she
most loved in her father was that
he did not give out the “cream” of
his Christianity in his meetings and
bring home the “skim milk.” Too
often we fail to bring into the home
the power and beauty of the service
in the church. We who have been
very sweet and spiritual in the
church should not come home to be |
sour and crabbed.
Jesus brought a blessing into
Peter’s home, miraculously healing
his mother-in-law of a great fever,
setting her free to serve. Here
again we cannot do what He did,
but we can, in His name, bring pow
er and blessing into our homes.
111. In the City (vv. 32-34).
From the home the ministry of
Jesus reached out to the entire city.
As the strict laws forbidding travel
on the Jewish Sabbath were set
aside by the coming of sundown, not
only the city but the entire country
side brought their sick and needy
to Him.
The scene staggers the imagina
tion as one attempts to conceive of
this coming together of troubled hu
manity for the Master’s toucn.
Mark tells us that He healed many;
Matthew, that He healed all, and
Luke, the physician, is emphatic in
saying that He healed every one of j
them.
We may learn from this incident
that our Christian faith, which has
been developed and strengthened by
our time of worship and service in
the church, should not only reflect
itself in the home, but should rear-h
out into the life of the community |
in which we live. The primary in
terest of the Christian in his city
or the place of his residence should
be spiritual, a desire to bring to
bear upon the people of the commu
nity the power of the gospel.
There is, however, a secondary I
responsibility which is of much im- 1
portance and that is the extending
of Christian influence into every
phase of school, social, political,
and business life. It is said that
when D. L. Moody came into a bar- [
ber shop the entire course of the
conversation changed. The Chris
tian should have an influence on i
problems of social welfare, the work
of the public schools, the proper con- 1
duct of business in the community, j
and surely upon its political life. It |
is said that if every Christian in !
America would vote according to j
his professed convictions we could |
put the saloons out of business in a |
tingle election. Why not do it?
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The secret of happiness is not
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The less people speak of their •
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—Bacon.
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