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...laughter of others irritate them. Someone asks a little girl why she is so silent. She answers: "Why do you smile?" From London last week came such reports of what two years of starvation, cold and horror had done to the children of Nazi-besieged Leningrad. To some chil dren it had caused mental damage so severe that "Soviet authorities feared it would be permanent." Some children cry at the slightest disappointment - for example, when they can not button their coats. Others cry when they see trinkets such as earrings, because they are reminded of their parents who wore such...
With a fervor unmatched since the days of the Old Testament prophets, he went further and insisted that if his vision were followed it would bring victory, and with victory an end of human unhappiness when "all these hearts as of fretted chil dren shall be sooth'd."; The vision began to take form at the meeting point of life & death. The hospitals were halls of agony. Walking through them, visitors fainted. The men who had beaten back Pickett at Gettysburg and been burned when the caissons exploded at Chancellorsville here faced a more deadly menace than rebel marksmen...
...from outside, proposes to draw more of Detroit's present residents-especially women-into factory work. "We found that we could get four times as many women to go into factories by taking care of school-age children as we could by taking care of pre-school chil-dren," said Miss Irene Murphy (sister of Justice Frank Murphy), secretary for the city's Committee on the Day Care of Children. "Moreover, one teacher can look after 30 school-age children while she could look after only ten pre-school children. That is important in view of the growing...
...Embassy, said solemnly: "To my young fellow countrymen in Great Britain, I say we are all thinking of you and wish you the happiest Christmas that these times will bring." Said Charles Cervenka, of Czecho-Slovakia, in a tense little voice: "What kind of a Christmas will the chil dren of Czecho-Slovakia have this year? Our children at home cannot rejoice but they do not despair. They are confident that Christmas Eve will come soon again, a glorious, happy Christmas in a liberated and free Czecho-Slovakia...
...economic burden of having children. But these programs are all uncoordinated. Because "in an industrial society large families lead inevitably to lower levels of living for all but a few favored parents," Frederick Osborn believes the only sound population policy stresses "freedom of parenthood" - freedom not to have chil dren unless they are wanted, and freedom (with the aid of services rendered to mothers and children by the State) for responsible parents to have children with out their being an economic burden...