Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-01-14
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
Bell Syndicate-wNU Features.


en- who feel that they have
L made general mess of mat
tiers, that your life up to this
point has been one long mistake,
misunderstanding and failure,
then remember that we can al
ways start fresh from where we
stand, that it is always possible
to look our affairs honestly in the
face, make a plan that includes
everybody and everything, and
begin again.
This is a good time to try it,
because life just now is at a
low ebb for us all. The incred-
IDLE dreadful thing has hap
pened; the world is at war, and
all the money and all the man.
power we have are smashing
civilization to pieces on a score of
battlefronts. Our hearts are sick
with longing for our boys, with
prayers for them; our home life is
disorganizsd and changed. Nothing
is as it was, and from buying new
car to buying three shirts for the
new baby, we can't get what we
want.
So, since things are bad, make
them little worse by getting your
own problem ready for solution We
all hate to do it. We hate to pay
old bills, to forgive old wrongs, to
change old ways. We hate dullness,
we Americans, staying at home
instead of floating all over the high
ways; discussing brown points with
our friends instead of cutting into
great thick red steaks; putting up
jam or fruitcake for Christmas in
stead of buying things in shops.
Good Credit Important.
But it's going to he that kind of
a period, and believe me, it will
be one of the most interesting of
your life if you determine that in
1914 you will live we'll under your
income, pay up your bills to the last
penny and be able to face whatever
the future holds confidently
There is family in our town that
has paid off about three thousand
dollars in petty debts in the last ID
months. They own their own home
now, and while the big salaries 60 on
they are planning to buy some mod
est bits of rentable property, so that
when the war is over, if the girls
marry and have babies, the older
couple can offer them holidays in
the old home, help them get started,
and live themselves without money
anxiety.
Yes, that's what these years might
easily mean to you and yours, if you
use them wisely. The woman of
whom l write is one of the mothers
whose boys won't come home; she
is carrying a deep load of sorrow
as she plans for the postwar world.
II wish I'd known" she said to
me the other day, that it was so
simple to solve the money problem.
We had plenty, all those years, for
George never made less than about
$50 a week. But I was younger,
and eXtravagant, and the children
needed so much. I fretted about
being household drudge, and that
made George cross, and our children
heard a great deal that was quarrel
some and unpleasant. They tried so
hard to avoid trouble, to keep us
friendly-1 see that now.
Just before Pearl Harbor we be-
gan to talk divorce; we were all
miserable and upset-looking back,
it seems so sad to me, for if could
have Hugh back, just for few hours,
he'd never have one moment of in
harmony at home to remember. Our
darling one boy, he was Is Just one
week after Pearl Harbor and in the
navy one week after that. He went
away in January, was lost at Coral
sea. For awhile it seemed to me
as if l never could enter his room
again, but now we've all shifted
about, so that the association is slow
ly dying away.
War Makes Mother Wiser.
"Now there's plenty of money, for
our girls of 10 and 16 are both in
the production line, and I earn my