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Dorothy Dix’s Letter BoxMOTHERS1 SMILESCHEER MEN THROUGH MONTHS OF WARFAREWife Deserting: Service Man Should Read How Hitler TreatsWomen and Children4-is worn and tired with drills that 1 ta-x his strength. He is in danger. And when to all of this the misery of those he loves is added it takes the last bit of heart out-of him.So. mothers and wives and sweethearts, if you must pour out your sorrows on paper, do* so, but burn the letter instead of mailing it. Write loving, brave, cheerful letters to the men at the liont if you have one particle of affection for i them.LOAN CHIEF KILLEDBERKELEY, -Calif., Jan. 26 (AP)The death of Robert W. Caine, 46, well-to-do Berkeley man and president of a loan concern in San Francisco, was recorded by police as an accident—a tragedy of Saturdays storm. Patrolman A. F. Bowfey said that Caine,-during the height of the storm at one a. m.Saturday, accidentally stepped infront of a two-tar electric train operated by Motorman Owen W. Lyford. T1 the atrocities committed upon the 1 women in China and Poland. If __ I V. Itll ----- ----——, , t i rhev did thev wouldn't try to keepDear Miss Dix: Last February I lM1'sh9n‘(,s and sons from go-Dear Miss Dix: The other dayI read in your column the letter from the mother who told of her smiling instead of crying at the station when she went to see her boy off when he started to thefront. Thank God I have a mother I Dear Miss Dix: Last reoruary a i tieir Lusbarids and sons fron like that, and my last memory of enlisted in the air corps as an * thg front. They wouldher is of her smiling bravely when ; tion cadet. My wife threatened towe parted and doing her best to leave me if I did, and she made hexmake it as easy for me as possible, j threat good by going ‘ana takingfor she knew, and I knew, how our two-year-old child with ner,and she has refused steadfastly to see me or let me see the child ever since.hard the parting was.If mothers and wives knew just how much it means to us to have women vve love so much brace us ud, instead of pulling us down, there wouldn’t be so much weeping at the stations and so many women clinging to their men and saying:“I can’t let you go. I'll never see you again.1' We need to think that our wives and mothers are safe and happy at home. That is what we are fighting for. For them Lo cry all over us when we part and write us how miserable they arc takes the last bit of morale out of us.PRIVATE JOHN W. C.Write Bravely to Service Men Answer: I commend this letterto all mothers who have sons on our farflung battle line. Many ofthem do not need it. They have .the courage to face whatever comes, l because he and the intelligence to realize that : not all their tears, though they shed oceans of them, can bring the man they love back to them, or save them from the dangers they are facing. So they bite back their tears and keep busy making comfortable homes for their families, doing war work and turning a cheerful face upon the world.But there are other women who are indulging themselves in an orgy \ of grief that is undermining their health and making nervous wrecks of them. They do nothing but sit and brood over a situation that they cannot change. And, worst, of all, they selfishly pour out their sufferings, in a morbid bid for sympathy, upon their husbands or sons, regardless of how they are adding to their burdens.For to the boy who loves h:s mother and the husband who loves his wife, nothing is so terrible as to know that she is pining away with grief and that he is not there to comfort her; that she is sick and that he is not there to take care i of her. He is none too happy at [ best. He has had to make a sacrifice of his career to answer his country’s call to protect her. Heurgethem on.Personally. I don’t think that you are losing much in losing a wife who would leave you and take your little child with her simply because you are doing your patriotic duty, but inasmuch as you still love ner r\oint mil would advise you to just let the . divorce matter ride. Don’t think ofme know that she is stepping j getfcing one yourself, and i shouldthink *she would have a hard time getting one from you when your only offense is in not obeying her. Tell her that you will do nothing about it during the war. That will give her time to think it over, and she may come to her senses ana realize that she loves you and respects 3’OU because you had tne courage to do what you thought was right even in defiance of her.She went back to her people and her mother has made it a point tolet ........-out with other men. What must I do? I can’t offer her a divorce because I can't pay for it now. She is in no need of money as her parents are wealthy and she has had a good business training and is amply able to support herself.I was not forced or drafted intothe service. I enlisted voluntarily because I wanted to. and felt it was my duty to my country. Do you think that a woman whose husband has been faithful to her and who loves her dearly and has cone everything he could to make her happy, is justified in leaving him has joined the army? What should I do? M. L. MacC. Wife Must Realize Men Fight ForThemAnswer: Tour wife evidently belongs to the class of women who want to wish the job oi defending their country off on other women s husbands, while she keeps hers safe at home and makes him do her bidding. Someone should call her attention to what has happened toDear Miss Dix: My sister and I are nice girls. Good-looking, and people who know us like us. But j we live in the country on^ a .arm and we have no dates. We would like to have some boy friends. Our father is very pleasant to what little company we have and permits us to use his automobile. How can girls like us get into circulation ° LONESOME.Answer: Now, when practicallyall of the young men have been drafted into the army boys are just about as scarce as hens teeth attention to wnat na* - , and likely to be scarcer no\v thatthe young married women and the j. the a8-year-olders are being taken, -iris in the countries that Hitler So I am afraid you will have tohas conquered. Their children were content yourself with having goodtaken from them, and they were sent by the thousands to the camps of the German army to be the victims of the soldiers. And that is what would happen to her and the pretty young wives, such as sue is. if we lose this war.Our soldiers are fighting not only to defend our country, but to defend our womanhood. For a fate far worse than death will be theirs if they fall into the hands of the Germans and the Japs. It is a pity that your wife and the women like her don’t read in the papers and magazines the articles that are being published that were written by the correspondents who have seentimes with the girls.The best way for girls to get into circulation is by entertaining. Ask groups of the young people that you would like to know out for Sunday dinners, or on hay rides orthings like that. People will always go where there is good food to- be had.(Released by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)- t- noBoy* “nd * servc Romaningi k1vhennor■hS *
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Ogden Standard Examiner
Ogden, Utah, US
Tue, Jan 26, 1943
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