IRISH PLAYWRIGHT URGES WOMEN

‘Stand for decency of life’

Men go forth to war, and
women remain at home and
weep.

WE WANT NO MORE of that
damned nonsense. It has had its
day, far too long a day for the
good of man. We are done with
it forever,

remain at
home to work, to
achieve new and greater things;
to sing the song of labor with
the stars of the morning, and
to rest with satisfaction and in
peace when the gentle stars of
the evening deck the quiet sky.

Women and men
to create,

Carry on, carry on, for the
men and boys have gone,

‘But the furrow shan’t lie fallow
while the women carry on.

* * *

THE WOMEN NOW, even if
they would, cannot plough the
furrow when the boys are gone,
for women are in the midst of
the war too; in the midst of the
explosion, the fire, and the rend-
ing of bone from bone,

The women now must be the
Officers of life or the officers of
death,

Choose, ye, therefore, whom ye
shall serve; war perverting the
Miracles of Jesus—blinding them
who see, deafening them who
hear; laming them who walk,
kiMing them who live; or peace
that nourishes life.

Let it be life that ye choose, but
it cannot be life. triumphant till
War is banned from the thoughts
of men, and want is lassoéd out
Of life forever.

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They shall not grow old as
we that are left grow old.

OH HATEFUL HERESY of
the old giving themselves absolu-
tion for the hasty and violent
‘deaths of the young! :

The young want to grow old,
and they have the right to grow
old,

It is a foul and unnatural
thing for a mother to have to
bend over a dead daughter; for
a father to be digging a grave
for a son.

It is a noble thing to be
healthily old; a gracious thing
to look back on a life well spent
in the service of brother man;
to pass into rest when sleep

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Ain‘t it the truth

Rep. Helen Gahagan Doug-
las (Dem.-Cal.), carried this
basket of food into the U. S.
House to show her colleagues
“how little one can buy for so
much” these days. She’s back-
ing a price control bill to halt
inflation.

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0 WOMEN, gracious and gal-
lant, copper-hued by the kiss of
the sun, sable as a dark night-
sky, amberskinned, or white as
whitest marble, members of one
another, be braver now, and

unite to deliver us from the fear

of war and the fear of want.

O women, gallant and gracious
co-equal with men in ways and
wisdom, co-equal in praise and
blame, in the stress of life and
in all, its joy, unite now, and
deliver us from the fear of want
and the fear of war.

You are always closer to life,
closer to death than men can
ever be, for you bring life into
the world, and risk death to do
it.

Be braver now, and stand to-
gether for decency of life and
decency of death.

Fight on now till father
brother, till husband and
are free from the fear of war
and the fear of want; till the
night is gone, till the day break,
and the shadows flee away—
SEAN O’CASEY.

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SPRING OFTEN becomes a
difficult time for parents and
children. Spring rains leave lots
of mud and puddles, and days
filled with scoldings and
washing. Far too many parents
place undue emphasis on _ this
type of cleanliness.

are

For some “well-haved”
and
come synonymous, and many par-

ents

reason

‘neat and clean’ have be-

are so preoccupied with
keeping children spotless they
overlook the real need children
have to play naturally and nor-
mally without hindrance, even in
‘the mud,

Naturally, parents will want to
take ordinary precaution against
infectious diseases, will want their
children to wash up before eat-
ing, take the required number of
baths and so on, but most parents
go far beyond this in their de-
mands for cleanliness, forgetting
that a muddy snowsuit does not
breed scarlet fever. Honest adults
will recognize that their constant
disapproval of grimy clothes and
smudged fingers are in no way
connected with the health and
happiness of the child. Mainly they
are concerned with possible re-
flections on themselves as par-
ents and the mounting laundry.

Children do not have -adult
standards, They are not dismayed
at the sight of a large, muddy
puddle or a small mountain of
sand conveniently left by a build-
er. These are not regarded as
“dirt”, but as a source of plea-
sure, fulfilling a real need to dig,
and mould and pound material
which is so plastic. Nursery
schools recognize this need and
supply clay, modeling wax, etc.,
and try to give the child the op-
portunity to play with it without
too many restrictions. ;

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_. EVERY THURSDAY we pack the infants into the old
jalopy and set out to do our weekly shopping at one of the
main chain grocery stores. Needless tq say, we find it much
cheaper to buy at such a store rather than at our little
corner grocery where every item is two or three cents more

expensive,

Lately the family has devel-
oped a craving for pineapple
juice, so much against my better
judgement and greatly to the
disruption of my weekly budget,
we purchased a couple of 20
ounce tins for the fabulous price
of 58 cents. What really hurt
though, was to find when I got
around to reading the evening
paper that the same 20 ounces
of liquid gold was selling for
19 cents at another large store.

You don’t have to be good at
arithmetic to find that we were
handing our storekeeper at least
11 cents profit on each tin of
juice for the privilege of shopping
at his store.

This is only one example of
the super-profiteering being car-
ried on but it applies to every
item of food we buy today to a
greater or less degrees. Yet
the daily press tries to convince
us that we consumers control
prices in the long run because we
will not buy expensive goods.
But no matter what we buy, we
are paying double and _ triple
the price we paid in 1939.

With such flagrant examples
of profiteering cropping up every
day, we can well ask why the
federal government takes so
long “investigating” one or two

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of the most apparent profiteers.
The government can investigate
until the next election, but there’s
no assurance that profiteering will
be checked unless consumers put
more pressure on their MP’s.

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I'VE BEEN TRYING to figure
out what to eat over the weekend
with the beef boycott in full
swing. Boiling fowl cooked in
@ pressure cooker really hits
the spot, I’m told, and this is a
good time to try it.

It’s a funny thing about this
beef situation, only a short time
ago the Housewives’ Consumers
Association was assured by one
of the big meat packers that
supplies were plentiful, and now
there’s supposed to be a short-
age. One of my neighbors is a
driver for a large meat packing
company and he tells us that
the packing houses are ‘well
stocked and that. the shortage
propaganda is only used to boost
prices again.

It seems that if the companies
can’t blame rising prices on
having to pay higher wages they
blame it on a shortage of goods.
It’s up to every housewife to

make the beef boycott success-
ful. Otherwise we'll all pay for
-it in the long run—in higher cost
of living —B.G. be

BRAISED LAMB RIBLETS

Though lamb breast can be roasted, stuffed with dressing, or
boned and rolled, the dish that brings the greatest satisfaction
is braised lamb riblets with vegetables. Children like them, for
they’re delicious and small—and can be eaten in the fingers

if mother permits.

To prepare: Brown two pounds of lamb

riblets well on all sides in 2 tablespoons melted lard. Season

with salt and pepper.

Add .%

cup water.. Cover and simmer

one hour. Add 2 diced carrots, 2 diced potatoes, 1 large onion
diced, and 1 green pepper diced. Cover and simmer % hour

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Thicken gravy and serve with meat and. vegetables.
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