The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-19

all, parties DO
not tend to make one at or on
ones toes the morning after.
There is also great activity In
the film business. for every one is
taking home shots at the man
about to leave and the man in
uniform. Such pictures are often
a vast improvement on studio
studies; there's nothing like a
snapshot TO get a characteristic
pose or expression Of adults as
well as babies.
Like to Get Letters
am constantly hearing Of boys
who have no one to write them
or TO send them things, and l do
wish that smalltoWn women would
try to find out who, among their
home town boys. are not receiving
letters so that arrangements can
be made TO have some written
them.
Everyone likes 10 receive letters.
so it isn't difficult to understand
the feelings Of the boy who, at
mail time doesn't find letters wait
ing for him. Reading the other
fellows letters helps. they say. so
you see how really lonely these
neglected boys are.
Do write some one OF them or
see that they get their home town
paper. Send them books II you
can. The postage on books is not
prohibitive SO II you have not
cleaned of your book shelves for
the various drives for books, go>
through it now and send what you
have-not just books that you
want to get rid Of, but technical
books and thrillers and good
novels.
The drives held TO date have
not been for magazines but there's
many boy who would appreciate
getting your second hand ones.
After all these are very small
things for us to do for those who
are doing such big things for us.
Smokes and boxes OF goodies arc
always acceptable, but such things
are not always easy to send. The
cost OF gossipy, CHEEKY letter.
or postage on some books or maya
zines is not too great a strain on
anyone's purse SO won't you please
take your pen in hand, like the
Victorians, and write some boy az
letter?
Notes He'll Enjoy
A good plan is to clip from news
papers or magazines anything you
think might interest the boys
cartoons, Jokes or serious articles.
letters to the editor on pertinent
subjects. Put them in an envelope
and. when you can, send them
along even II you write nothing to
90 with them. Remember that
many OF these men are shut of
from news channels and that they
would appreciate being kept posted
on home events. And also remem-
Der they are not eager for war
stuf"-they get that aplenty.
Keep EN- smiling.
The hitch hiker has plenty OF
company and has risen in the
social scale. Neighborly though 1t
is to give them a lift. one must
use some Judgment in picking up
anyone on the road. There are
still undesirables with motives in
character. Girls or women driving
their cars alone cannot risk their
money or their lives now any more
than before the gasoline shortage
imposed obligations on them. OBJ
viously everything should be done
to cooperate with ones neighbors
In getting back and forth to their
destinations, but too ready re-
spouse to the reckoning thumb is
unwiSe.
Women living near swimming
pools or beaches might make it
known to the mothers in their
neighborhood that they would
take car full each time they went
for the problem Of getting TO the ,
beaches this summer is a pressing
one. Shepherding a flock OF
children anywhere is a mans size
Job undertaken by women and IN
these hectic days, neighborhood
mothers should. II possible. take
turns on caring for the children
Try to work out some neighbor-
hood scheme that will conserve
gasoline and tires and relieve
mothers Of the community.
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