Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14

all over and, with a little civiliSa-
ton, will start growing again.
1t is all right to adopt totalitar-
ian way of living to whip totah-
tartan foe, but wouldn't 1t be a
Pyrrhic victory If we lived the rest
of our lives according to a pattern
that the foe had set?
We feel so strongly about this
that we have started a one-man
campaign for the preservation OF
the American way of life. The
purpose of the campaign is to figure
out ways and means of hanging on
to the things that have made us
the incest Nation in the world. I
ask again, what great good will we
accomplish for ourselves If, by win
ming, we become another regi-
mented Third Reich under another
name?
AS a starter, we have tackled the
problem of vacations. The vacation
is as much part of this country
as anything you can name. For
years and years millions of people
have looked forward to their two
weeks off"
Make Home a Vacation Resort.
This year it seems we won't get
vacations. There are no tires, no
gas and soon 1t may be difficult to
travel by bus, airplane or train.
That is well and good, but let's not
abandon our vacations Let's work
out a substitute This column
might have a solution.
The thing to do Is for all Ameri-
cans to turn their homes into as
near duplicates of the resorts they
usually patronize as possible. Right
in the living room, bedroom, kitchen
and front and back yards create
vacation spot that will replace the
annual trip to the mountains, the
seashore, or to Aunt Miles farm
you know, where the children can
play with animals.
Mother can have a rest by help
ing Aunt Mile put up preserves
and papa can relax by hearing Uncle
Ben moan over farm conditions and
prices.
This column has gone on enough
summer vacations to feel confident
1t can be of assistance in helping
other Americans ready their homes
to resort standards. We have been
a lot of places and suffered (suffer-
ing is definite part of vacations)
for many a two-week span. When
as a child I lived in Florida we
went to a beach, that Is, another
beach, because we lived on beach
at the time. Just why we left one
beach to go to another our childish
minds never figured out. although
we will admit that the mosquitoes
were larger at the resort beach, and
the food different in that 1t was a
great deal worse than what we got
at home.
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When We lived on farm we went
to another farm for rest" and
change" Now that I have lived
long enough to pick up bills at the
end of the month I understand this
ever so slight change in atmosphere
where vacations were concerned. 1t
was cheaper and handler. Never
theless, being normal American
citizens we all had to have a vaca-
ton.
Following is plan for the crea-
ton of resort right In your own
home:
/. Shut the windows so that for
two weeks your house will be hotter
than it ever was.
2. Store the comfortable furniture
and anything that could possibly be
injured by thoughtless guests.
3. Set rigid eating hour times.
Make these inflexible, SO that any
member of the family who comes to
the table one minute late is turned
away hungry.
4. Put three bricks in the middle
of each mattress in the house, so
that the good old bed that has taken
on your shape after years of COM
radeship is not completely COM
Portable
5. Ask two or three people you do
not like and have no interest in
whatsoever, to visit you each day
and sit in your living room and talk
about things that bore you to death.
6. Arrange to have one of the
children come down sick. Not a
really bad sickness, but just one of
those ornery little sicknesses that
makes the child fretful and keeps
you from doing what you want to do.
7. Arrange to get up at least one
hour earlier than that to which you
are accustomed. Ut seems to be
an unwritten law among vacationists
that they will not stay in bed as long
as they'd like to for fear they will
miss something they are paying for.0
8. Arrange to go to bed much later
than you would really like to. (Same
reason as above-missing some
thing etc.
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