of interest to WOMEN
of interest to WOMEN A ROOM OF OUR OWN VT7HAT TO SAY, this Christmas of all Christmases! Interven-tionists to the contrary, none of us feels "isolated" in this day of the pulse-taking radio. We...
...Go back there, Brown urged, to help make democracy function better by learning more about its operations...
...Each is entitled to its fair share of income from that production...
...La Follette sent Phil and me a check to go on from Madison for Christmas...
...They are getting together in big groups and in little saying, "We must do something'—many are not sure about what...
...Let's pledge ourselves this Christmas to stretch our spirits until the beloved old Christmas takes on its most glorious meaning in a world which challenges each one of us...
...However, Miss Tomara asserted, national socialism "has contributed some good things along with the evil and the good things will last...
...Irvin Bussing, etiquette authority Emily Post and club leader Mrs...
...One of the inevitable effects of working in a common cause with people in all sorts of situations, is to make one constantly aware of the other fellow...
...Let's never lose sight, in our struggle against injustice, of the things we are for...
...Although American eating habits have improved, Dr...
...As my sister who has lived in Europe the last two years writes about her Christmas greetings to friends in Europe, "It is hard to know what to say...
...In discouragement or fatigue, it is so easy to fall into the attitude of being against things...
...This plan is based upon the proposition that parity must be established between agriculture and industry before we can have permanent prosperity in this country...
...Our American Government PROGRESSIVES stand for a guaranteed, minimum annual income for farmers based on the quality and quantity of their production...
...It will increase the purchasing power of the farmer so as to enable him to buy more of the products of the factory, the store and the shop in the city...
...I see no reason why we cannot take Germany's spirit of self-sacrifice, if we don't take her cruelty, bitterness, and hatred along with it...
...For years the farmer has been selling his products at prices far below the price levels of the products he has had to buy from the city...
...I immediately began making plans along the lines which my own family always celebrated, and when we reached Washington Mary La Follette immediately fell in with them...
...Banning said, "the way women are getting worked up...
...This problem confronts all of us with friends and relatives in the "old countries", and the kind of life I lead gives me something the same feeling, to a lesser degree, among many of the people I know here at home...
...II takes natural courage and vitality as well as self-discipline to maintain the real poise which we owe our fellow-workers...
...Sweets and cereals are all right, he explained, if "better class" foods such as milk and other dairy products, eggs, meat, leafy vegetables and fresh uncooked vegetables are eaten too...
...Here in America there is a possibility, if „the people realize the gravity of the times and the real break in civilization, for a blending of the past and the future and an evolution toward a new life without a loss of material values...
...Farm families in the middle west, he continued, used to feel low and listless at the end of winter because they had no canned vegetables, now within the financial reach of nearly everyone...
...It will turn into fear and hysteria...
...We were short of cash, a customary condition in my own family, so mother had brought us up to use our imagination and energy to create our good times...
...The soul that hears and heeds a call to duty is alive and in full growth, which means that it animates and beautifies a real man or a fine woman...
...One can hardly wish them a Merry Christmas...
...It's only recently that we've learned how important diet is in relation to physical well-being, Dr...
...LA FOLLETTE always encouraged me to express that side of life and seemed to take a real personal joy in it...
...In all the countries of Europe there will be regret and bitterness toward the fate that deprives them of Christmas...
...I did not appreciate why, as I do today...
...America is the only country in the world where there hasn't been a rift between the past and the future — where so much can be achieved without catastrophe," Miss Tomara emphasized...
...Differences in classes are being wiped out, and emotional security is gone in Europe, she declared...
...The history of the race teaches that so long as we know a better life exists somewhere, humanity will struggle toward it...
...Sonia Tomara Says Democracy Has To Change DEMOCRACY has vanish-ed in Europe and will have to make some changes if it's going to last in America, believes Sonia Tomara, foreign correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, who spoke in Madison, Wis., this week...
...Young as I was, it did my heart good to see what a real release and joy they had that Christmas eve...
...These are the consumption of sugar and sweet foods and of refined cereal products...
...We will be paid a premium for producing more instead of less...
...There is a change in civilization in Europe," said Miss Tomara, who returned last summer from a year's reporting in Poland, Denmark, Norway and France...
...The only way to develop ethical concepts is in service to oneself and others...
...It is nourished in action and strengthened by responsibility...
...Progressives propose a national farm program, to be administered by the states, under which farmers would be paid a return on a monthly basis for adding to the wealth of America by increasing production instead of decreasing it...
...While the U. S. department of commerce reports that the birthrate continues to be about 105 boys to every 100 girls, it adds that the average woman lives three years longer than the average man...
...But agriculture, for example, has been receiving an income far below its contribution to the wealth of this country...
...IF PEOPLE are to have hope, ambition, they must know that there is a goal toward which they can look...
...Normal people, no matter what their own tragic situation, get strength and sustenance from knowing that these values live even if they themselves do not have them...
...Teach a child to help himself, then to help others, and you set in him the first commandment of the healthy, happy life...
...As a result he has had a difficult time to keep his head above water and even earn enough to pay for his cost of production...
...Angelo Patri...
...Bussing stressed "a tidal wave of emotion" among women because of their worry and concern over the war...
...All of this emotion must be used or it will be harmful...
...Life Is Nourished By Action And Duty Life is action...
...Our Community, Not War, Needs Women's Energy Novelist Margaret Culkin Banning, opera star Lily Pons, Brooklyn housewife Mrs...
...Nothing could be more tragic for humanity than to feel that life were not worth living anywhere...
...To see duty, to be able to hear its voice and fulfill its demands, one's ethical convictions must have been developed in early youth...
...Best outlet for women's energies, answered Lewis Brown, president of the Johns-Mansville Corporation, is back in their local communities...
...It will secure permanent security to the farmer...
...A tremendous evolution is going on, and the European people realize it...
...There is no doubt but that as the years go on and we become more and more immersed in the grim struggle of life, we tend to forego the little pleasures as a luxury we can't afford...
...Mary and I visited the dime store and bought "presents" for each member of the family, ana then I sat down and wrote jingles to go with each package, especially emphasizing a personal or family joke about each member...
...McCollum said, as he emphasized the part diet plays in building up strong, healthy people...
...Aguaranteed annual income to the farmer, paid on a monthly basis, and measured by the quality and quantity of his production will close this gap...
...AND MKS...
...Agriculture, labor, and industry are joint partners in the conduct of the nation's economic life...
...If the farmer is to have security and get his cost of production plus a reasonable profit, a program must be undertaken to increase agricultural prices and income...
...We are all constantly aware of each other, no matter where we live...
...What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie...
...The foreign correspondent, who crossed 35 European frontiers in 12 months, said she didn't believe in the victory of national socialism in Germany and was "convinced that the Germans are bad masters in their present stage of evolution...
...It's almost frightening," Mrs...
...It will make for stability in agriculture...
...To my utter amazement, I noticed that this was a novel Christmas idea to the La Follettes...
...And of course, as was very like them, they warmly expressed their pleasure in what they considered the new daughter-in-law's contribution to the celebration...
...Mrs...
...They were in Washington, and Mr...
...Americans are far behind them in this respect...
...Banning and Mrs...
...Both Mrs...
...McCollum told the farm women, "we have tended to impoverish our diets by two common practic.es...
...Lastly, it will go a long way toward giving the farmer his cost of production plus a' reasonable profit...
...We who still have the opportunity have the obligation to preserve the values which mean our civilization...
...A S MY thoughts have run along these lines, I have been recalling the first Christmas I spenl in the La Follette family...
...It will give agriculture an income in proportion to its contribution to the total production of wealth in this country...
...As we approach the Christmas season I find myself inclined to say "Merry Christmas" with determination rather than natural exuberance...
...Harold V. Milligan questioned three American industrial leaders on "Women's Responsibility in Preparing America's Future"' before the National Association of Manufacturers in New York last week...
...I can see the Senator and Mrs...
...Each contributes its share to the total production of wealth in America...
...John Greenleaf Whittier...
...Yet it must continue to exist, hence our responsibility...
...Their discussion centered on the war and national defense...
...Bussing chimed in that "women of all ages, occupations and backgrounds are thinking and talking of little else...
...I think We should make a valiant struggle to keep them up as a real necessity these days...
...Average American Woman Lives Longer Ever since the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, there have been more men than women in America, but the women are gaining ground...
...Doctor Stresses Relation Of Diet To Family Health Simple food rich with vitamins rather than starch and sugar— that's what adults and children need for good health, America's farm women were advised at the American Farm Bureau Federation's annual meeting in Baltimore last week by Dr...
...Diets of cereals, dried apples, cooked potatoes and salted meats weren't enough to prevent rickets, scurvy and pellagra...
...Curtailing relief costs, improving educational systems, taking sufficient interest in politics to vote—these are activities at home that need women's attention...
...And so, dear readers, I wish you, with deepest conviction, •'Merry Christmas" from the bottom of my heart...
...Duty is the main support of healthy personal and .civic existence...
...E. V. McCollum of Johns Hopkins University...
...The price oi worrying about others is apt to be a loss in one's own buoyancy...
...La Follette to this day, sitting side by side chuckling until the tears ran down their cheeks over the little gifts and "poems" which took off some well-known family joke...
...We had great fun wrapping the gifts and arranging the decorations about the tree...
Vol. 4 • December 1940 • No. 51
