Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-06-11
By KATHLEEN NORRIS

III u U uDle with OH
Smith is that he won't
L change.
With the whole world chang
ing around him, with every day
bringing its staggering new re-
sponsibilities and sweeping
away the old ways of living and
thinking, Tom has set himself
against the current and is max
ing his family miserable be-
cause he simply won't change.
A few years ago Tom and his
wife lived peacefully in pretty
home, with a nice Japanese
maid to keep everything COM
Portable, with a son in college
and daughter just going into
her pretty, happy late teens.
They had a car and a club and
neighbors and everything they
wanted.
But the day after Pearl Harbor
the son, Bruce, enlisted in the ma
rines; they don't know where he is
now. Then the small maid disap-
peared, and there was nobody to
take her place. So Emily Smith be-
gan to serve meals in the kitchen,
and Tom hated that. Then Elinor,
his daughter, took course in some
thing somewhere, and now Elinor
wears oily Stacks and a checked
shirt and disappears every evening
at half-past six, to return exhaust
ed after midnight and sleep until
noon. Elinor is making patterns
for the parts of some complicated
piece of armament, and she cares
for nothing in the world but that
the maximum quota shall 60 out of
the factory every week.
Emily, Toms wife, gives four
days week to hospital wards. She
does the hardest, grimiest work in
the world faithfully, and loves it.
War Conditions Anger Tom.
Also, she and Elinor work continu-
ally for the canteens, make sand
wiches, paste up scrap books; they
buy bonds, 60 to Red Cross rallies;
they both wear the silver button
that means they have given their
own blood to save the lives of un-
known men. All of this makes Tom
mad. He grumbles and threatens;
if the women in his house don't come
to their senses pretty soon he'll 60
off somewhere and find some other
women who have sense enough to
know when they're well off. What
do they expect of him? Didn't he
always take good care of his wife
and family?
ION Sunday Elinor and l always
make real fuss over housekeep-
ing" Emily Smith writes. II have
a good breakfast, put the whole
house in order, wash my hair, write
letters. and at three o'clock have a
real Sunday dinner; chicken and
biscuits and dessert. But even that
doesn't please Tom, because he
scolds all through everything. Now,
this is something like! Why can't
we have this sort of thing every
day. House in order, nice dinner,
and you two looking the way you
used to!' We get so tired of it. If
we say But there's war; he says,
4 know there's a war; And there's
food rationing.' 4 know there's food
rationing.' And everybody - EV-
ERYBODY-has got to get into this
thing, and shove ahead, so that our
war effort will be the most titanic
thing that has ever happened in
this world, SO that our victory will
be pressed down and running over
three times, four times bigger than
it need be, SO that aggressive ma
tons won't raise their heads for a
thousand years!' oh, that's Just
talk he says. There are lots of
other women better suited to nurs-
ing and engineering than you two
are
Victory Means Sacrifice.
Now. there are lots of Toms in