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Wounded Raiders Flown From Behind Jap Linesr

Despite wounds and jungle sores, Pvt. John Yates, a British raider, (left) manages to smile as he is flownfrom Burma. Be was one of the raiding party that blew up railroad lines, supply depots, and disruptedcommunications 200 miles behind Japanese lines in that area. At center, raiders board that airplane whichflew them back to India. They may be distinguished from RAF fliers by their bedraggled condition. A raidersuffering from dysentery (bottom right) hangs onto a rope as he drinks water inside the plane.

At a Lady Leatherneck Training Camp

In snappy sharp cadence a unit of women marines (at top) march smartly to their classes at Camp Le-Jenne, New River, N. C. The lady leathernecks are wearing their raincoats. At lower left two womenmarines check the water and oil of a jeep. This is part of the toughening up course which these girls gothrough before they relieve a male marine so that he can get into a more active post. As part of theircourse, women marines must take lessons in sailing. A group is shown at right in sailboats. One of themost pleasing experiences for the girls at Camp Lejeune is being served by male waiters in the mess halls.

Graduates See Rescue of War Wounded

A group of New York high school graduates watch in awe as mem-bers of the army air force demonstrate the mass evacuation of woundedfrom a battlefront. This was a feature of a day-long military exhibitionstaged for the 35,000 graduates by Maj. Gen. Ralph Royce, commanderof the First air force. The planes used were DC-3 transport planes.

Soldier Tells Miners of African Victory•

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A wounded veteran of the North African victory, Sergi. Ted Varney,relates his experiences to a group of coal miners in Dickson City, Pa.A third strike of the United Mine Workers was ended by an announcementby their president, John L. Lewis, who said that the miners would goback to work under Mine Custodian Ickes until October 31.

World Series Award

Billy Southworth, manager of theSt. Louis Cardinals, is presentedwith a diamond ring by BaseballCzar Kenesaw M. Landis, as a re-ward for winning the world serieslast year.

Girls Aid China

The Mel-Ling chapter of the CampFire Girls present Mme. ChiangKai-shek with money for the adop-tion of two Chinese war orphans anda record of their donations to UnitedChina Relief.

Kathleen Norris Says:About War-Time Weddings

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"Morgan's mother got mad, too, andher to influence me to get a divorce."

By KATHLEEN NORRISEE is a letter from agirl in Scranton,whose problem is one

that is giving a good deal ofconcern to many a good fa-ther and mother in Americain these days. Donna is 22;last September, after a fiveweeks' courtship, she elopedwith an ensign three yearsolder than herself, a manwho left two weeks later forthe South Pacific battle front.Donna was at that time taking a

nurses' aid course in a Philadelphiahospital, but in October her step-father died suddenly, and she went

back to Scranton to find a payingjob, and help support her motherand half-brothers, aged 10 and 7.She is working hard, and sendingalmost daily letters to her sailor,but added to her new responsibili-ties and her anxiety about his safe-ty are worries that are even moreserious.

"Morgan comes from a verygrand family," writes Donna. "Isuppose I knew it when we firstwere going together, but I didn'trealize that it would make so muchdifference. The way I do things isn'tgood enough for him. For instance,he has sent me back one or two ofmy letters all corrected in red pen-cil; I guess I don't write very goodletters, but they are the best I cando. I get tired and grimy andgreasy and of course haven't beauti-ful paper nor a handsome desk—nothing like that. Mama and I andthe boys have three rooms; theysleep on couches in the sitting roomand we have our meals in thekitchen. Mama takes them everyday to a neighbor's house whereabout a dozen kids of defense work-ers come, and she gets awfully tired,too, but between us we manage topay bills and keep the home going.

Errors in Girl's Letters.

"Well, after Morgan had correct-ed my letters and dropped a goodmany hints about grammar; I gotmad and said I didn't think that wasso important. I'll tell you what Idid; I said that his letter had 'in-ferred' that he was in Honolulu; Isaid that my brothers were 'disin-terested' in their home work; Ispelled the horses at the mill'poneys,' and he said that everytimeI said 'Mama says' I spelled it'sais.'

"Do you think that's so serious?I'm goodlooking, I've had offersfrom Hollywood when I was work-ing in the Dime stores; I can cook,I dance well, I dress neatly, andthanks to Mama and my stepfather,who was a real daddy to me aftermy own father died, I've never runaround or made myself common.Well, anyway, Morgan wrote me forheaven's sake to get away from homeand all my crowd, and go to a goodboarding school or college for a fewyears; until the war is over, any-way. That letter just about brokemy heart and I went around for afew days feeling as if I would die,and then came a visit from his moth-er—nice enough, gentle and patient,but talking to me as if I were some-thing under her feet. She wantedme to go to a fine school in Penn-sylvania, for which she would pay.

"This made Mama mad and shesaid that we didn't need Morgan inour family and that she was sorryI'd ever seen him. Then Morgan'smother got mad, too, and sheshowed us a letter in which he askedher to influence me to get a divorce.After she went away Man.a hadhysterics and I cried myself intoheadaches for days, but there it is--what shall we do?

"I love my mother and my broth-

showed us a letter in which he asked

DON'T RUSH MARRIAGEHasty war - time marriages

are not wise as is shown in thiscase of a 22-year-old girl who,moved by youthful passion,rushed into marriage with anensign. Helping to supporther widowed mother and twobrothers has left her littletime for education and thefiner things of life. His richfamily has provided him witha wealth of culture and re-finement. The girl is whole-some but she reveals her ig-norance in letters to him. Heis shocked. His mother offersto send the girl to school andbrings up the ugly word—di-vorce. Torn between her dutyto her mother and husbandshe asks for advice.

ers and I love them to need me; itbreaks my heart to have my happylove-affair go all to pieces this way,but I don't feel as if I'd ever loveMorgan again. Shall I consent toa divorce? I wish you could haveheard all Morgan's mother told usabout his relatives, and the beautiful country places they live in,and everything. What shall I do?"

Girl's Spirits Wounded.This letter has mistakes in it,

quite a few of them. Inelegancies,too. Donna feels "like she woulddie," she is "real goodlooking," herstepfather treated her "swell." Atthe end of the letter, in reference toMorgan's snobbish mother: "any-one who thinks they are so muchbetter than ordinary people are notthe kind of friend your mother-in-law should be," says Donna.

Isn't it a pity that her good, gen-erous heart, her deep affection forher own people, her youth and beau-ty and love should go down beforesuch artificialities as this! For downthey will go, sooner or later. Herreal qualities of heart and soul, hernative charm and eagerness willwither very quickly in the atmos-phere of elegance and distinctionthat is Morgan's background. Thetalk among his friends will be Greekto her; theirs is a world of beautyand graciousness and culture; theyknow enough about Europe, music,books, tennis and polo, they knowenough of the world's prominentpersonages, to make conversation anagony to her. She doesn't speakFrench or Spanish; she doesn't knowthe great symphonies; she's neverbeen to grand opera or to PalmBeach or London or Hawaii.Donna, when he comes back, must

either separate Morgan from hispeople, which apparently would bea most unwelcome idea to him, orshe must become the silent, the un-appreciated member of the group;the common girl Morgan married sohurriedly just before he went away.Poor Donna, always doing and say-ing the awkward, the timid, thewrong thing!

Price of flurried Marriage.What is the solution? Donna, in

your hurried marriage you were likea man who hurriedly commits amurder. There is no happy solution.The solution is there for the benefitof other girls; girls who have notyet jumped into war-time mar-riages, but hare left their affairsat the courtship stage. My own ad-vice to all girls, unless the friend-ship between them and their sailorsand soldiers and marines is of reallylong standing, based on other thingsthan young passion, is to wait. Iwould have advised Donna to wait.Now she should write Morgan

that she regrets her imperfectionsas a scholar, and it she can, man-age to go to some kindly schoolteacher, and try tn correct her dif-ferences.

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Recreation Kits

A dozen different kinds of recre-ation kits have been given to oursoldiers by the war department,says Collier's. For example, Kit"C" contains 2,000 books; "J"sound-picture projectors and films;"B-1" radios, phonographs and anamplifier; "D" violins, guitars, asmall piano; "A" boxing glovesand equipment for baseball, foot-ball and softball: "F" playingcards, poker chips, dice and setsof many games, including chess,checkers and backgammon.

Enemy Weapons Studied

The Army Proving Grounds atAberdeen, Md., has a sample ofevery weapon that our men havecaptured from the Nazis and theJaps, says Collier's. All of thismaterial has been forwarded fromour fighting fronts by Ordnanceofficers whose sole duty is to seeknew enemy equipment and send itto Aberdeen to be tested andstudied.

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