Dale News, Volume 4, Number 50, Dale, Spencer County, 16 January 1942 — Page 2

THE DALE NEWS

waiting them. The homes they are buying may— and may not —be theirs. Their savings and insurance policies, their stocks and bonds may—and may not—be worth the value of the paper. Along with thoughts about their obligation to their country, they are thinking about the days that may be ahead, and the prospect is not a pleasant one.

Adjust the radio diet to include the music of Bach or the National Barn Dance program as well as the news broadcasts. Read the works of Charles Dickens, as well as the communiques. Go to see Mickey Mouse and the screen classics, not the dive bomber ace variety. Go to church, and see to it that God is kept in the church and the war kept out.

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That is why I say we need to keep the home fires burning in 1942. The boys in the camps and on the front need to have in their minds the picture of a candle in the window. They need letters of encouragement—plenty of them. They need to be relieved as much as possible of the petty things that might add to the stress of their living.

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Keep a candle in the window and the warmth of home within. Something worth fighting for. Something worth coming back to when this great holocaust is over.

SLOGAN FOR 1942: KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING

Mrs. Roy Stone entertained the Monday Nite bridge club at her home this week. Special guests were Mesdames Howard Harper, Tip Harper, George Lmhardt and Miss Sadie Weedman. A lovely lunch was served preceeding the game. High score prizes were awarded Mrs. M. Pennington, Mrs. Howard Harper Mrs. Elmer Kaiser and Mrs. Leland Hildebrant.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article was taken from The Salem Republican Leader under the head of The Village Smithy, by D. L. S. and we pass it on to you. We think it contains some mighty fine thoughts for us to put to practice.)

And those who remain on the home front need-to keep the home fires burning for themselves, too. They should keep a tight hold on eternal things home, love, friendship, brotherhood, God. Too many of us have drifted away from the safe moorings these past years. We need to get back there and stay.

The air waves, pulpits, editorial pages and schoolrooms are alive and crawling with Advice for 1942, and I tremble at the thought of taking such a text. But the new year comes to us in a day so unsettled, and we welcome it with such trepidation that I could hardly discuss anything else and expect to have a hearing. My recommendations for 1942 do not include any such slogans as 'Keep ’Em Flying” or “Remember Pearl Harbor” or “Buy Defense Bonds.” I am taking it for granted that we shall do our share of buying and remembering and keeping ’em flying. Instead I would revive as a slogan for the average individual in 1942 the words of the famous song, popular in the days of the First World WarKeep the Home Fires Burning. After all, we can’t stay geared to a feverish pitch, listening to every radio bulletin and then to the same thing rehashed a dozen times, unless we expect to go to a mental sanitorium for the duration. The next year will require not only nerves of steel on the battle! front—it will require calm nerves on the home front.

Mrs. Tip Harper entertained her bndge club at the Williams Tea Room recently. A lovely lunch was served and the members enjoyed a nice eve-

Keeping the home fires burning is a ull-time defense job, and as essential as any war industry. Calm minds with emotions under control, a proper sense of values, a will born of quiet determination and confidence in the right a spirit ready to accept sacrifices without question these are spiritual weapons as important as bombs and planes and

Eugene Dellar has returned to Camp Shelby Miss., after a visit with his parents Mrs; and Mrs. Paul Dellar.

Mrs. Clarence Elliott entertained her bridge club Thursday evening and Defense Stamps were given as prizes tor high score to Mrs. Merlyn Elliott and Mrs. Tip Harper. Lovely refreshments were served by the hostess.

And so my advice for 1942 would beKeep sa,ne. Live a life as nearly normal as abnormal times will permit. Eat three square meals a day and keep the body healthy. Sleep eight hours or more. Spend a few evnings at home.

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Homes are going to be broken in the next 12 months. Hopes and plans and ambitions are going to be shattered. Sacrifices are going to be far greater than a mere shortage of tires and gasoline. The boys and men who tear up the roots that are dear are going to face a way of life that is utterly foreign to them. Those who come back are going to find an economic life about as badly disjointed as one could imagine. Their jobs may— and may not—be

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