Evening star., 1945-04-04

Dear MISS DIX: Recently l nad
the opportunity to talk to men
just back from overseas after two
or three years of living under hor-
Frible conditions. Some Of these men
have been wounded and are in hos
pitals. Some are just back on a 30
day furlough, after which they will
return to the battle front.
They told me many tragic stories
of the experiences they have been
through, but the most heart-breaklng
ones were about the men who came
back from hell holes to find letters
from their wives asking them for
divorces because they had fallen in
love with other men, or letters from
other people telling them that their
wives and sWeetheartS were being
unfaithful to them. I hated to be-
lieve these stories, but the fighting
men had me stopped when they
cited actual cases of infidelity OF
which they personally knew.
Won't you tell these girls what
they are doing to the very souls Of
our men? Won't you make them
realize that they are tearing to
shreds the very things our boys are
fighting for-their ideals and
dreams, their hopes for decent,
safe and comfortable future? Some
one must tell them these things in
a way they can thoroughly under
stand. and you seem to be the logical
one to do it. E. M.
Answer have written columns
and columns and columns telling
young wives and engaged girls that
when they were running around
having good times while their hus-
bands and fiances were fighting to
make safe homes for them, that they
were just as much traitors as any
Quisling who ever betrayed his
country for gain. have told them
over and over and over again that
they were made of poor stuff If they
could not give up few dances and
little love making for the sake of
the men who were risking their lives
and suffering every danger and
hardship for them.
1 have urged all young women
who had men at the front to re-
member that these are hard times
in which their husbands and sweet
hearts are living under abnormal
conditions. Their lives are filled
with danger and hardships. They
are separated from the women they
love by vast distances. They have
much time in which to brood over
what is happening at home. They
hear many weird stories of unfaith-
full wives and girl friends. And 1t
is inevitable that they should be-
come suspicious and wonder if they
are being betrayed by the women
they trust as SO many other men are.
So this makes 1t imperative that
the women at home should be far
more discreet than they would need
to be if their husbands and sweet
hearts were at home and could know
that they were being true to them.
If GI Joe was taking his wife to a
party, he would not think it wrong
for her to dance with other men.
In fact, he would be proud of her
being the belle of the ball. But
when he Is thousand miles away
the thought of her going to parties
while he is lying in foEhole and
of her dancing with other men
tears him to pieces with jealousy.
But there isn't wife nor a girl in
the length and breadth of the land
who doesn't know this, and who is
not perfectly aware of what a cruel
and dastardly thing she does when
che adds the t0rtllreS of ie0lOllSlv
and suspicion, and even of knowing
that he has been betrayed. to the
suffering that the man who loves
her and who has trusted her has to
endure.