The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-05-22
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
BeIl syndicate-wNu Service

II r ougnL 10 De especially
cheerful in your house
these days to counterfeit
the gloom and the fears that the
newspapers bring us every
morning and the radio confirms
every afternoon. Every woman
in the land ought to feel that
her first line of defense is right
in her own home, and work out
from there to wider spheres of
influence if she has the capacity.
Meals ought to be hot and prompt
and appetizing, these days. Talk at
the table ought to be hopeful and
amusing; there ought to be plenty
of games, plenty Of plans. As spring
deepens into summer arrange for as
many garden and porch meals as you
can; start language class in the
evenings and ask a few neighbors
in; and if the burden of today's
shadow grows too heavy turn back
to histories and discover how many
parallels to today's tragedy there
are; how many wars there have
been, how little actual trace they
have left upon the various nations
or upon the map of Europe.
A Saner, Better World.
We will outlive this war. Nations
will come back to their senses; die
tators will disappear. Saner men
will take their places. This is in
evitable. And meanwhile we have
to learn the lessons of this war, and
apply them. The world has changed
in the past 40 years; changed more
fundamentally perhaps than in any
preceding 40 years since history be-
gan, and when the battle clouds
blow away who knows but what we
will find it better world?
Certainly we will find it a world
suddenly made conscious of its own
wealth, power and potentialities. In
my grandmother day nobody
thought that unemployment and
slurns and poverty were durable con-
ditions. Oppressors coined SNUG
phrases about being "contented with
your lot," and remaining in that
state to which God had called YOU"
We know better now. We know
that God never called small boys
to shiver barefoot as they swept
muddy street crossings; nor women
to cough themselves to death in
sweat shops, nor the fathers of hun
CRY families to be hanged for snar-
ing rabbits on the squares pre-
serves.
A Task for Every Individual.
What cruel and pagan dictator
ships overseas have taught us by
their merciless RECOMMENDATION for
war, we may turn to an equally eff
fective use in peace. Their dreams
of guns and hate, of blood and death
and destruction, might well have
been dreams instead of friendship
and cooperation, of homes and gar
dens and fields trimming with har-
vest.
And the beginning of that new
world of serving and sharing is In
your house and mine. It is IN our
souls, where we have to establish
peace, and from which we have to
Danish fear. Make your own micro
scopic slice of life perfect, live it
without hate and fear, and see how
soon your vision of world problems
simplifies and changes. Until we all
realize that no guns, no bombs, no
victories" and treaties are going
to do anything permanent for world
peace until that peace, with COM
plete forgiveness and sympathy for
enemy nations as well as friends,
comes into our own hearts, we are
only repeating the old mistakes and
sowing fresh wars.
Here is a letter from an Ohio
woman who ought to be given the
congressional medal of honor. She