Modern Screen (Dec 1940 - Nov 1941)

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You know, the kind of a place that rates the old slogan 'a place where you can raise a carrot and keep a bee!' We are paying for it on the F.H.A. plan, and we have all earlyAmerican furniture in it. Another thing that we think is important is saving for the future. Though we have no idea what medium of exchange we'll all be using a few years from now, we're taking a chance on saving. KIDS? Not yet. Not when you know there's a chance they may be cannon-fodder." Bob changed the subject abruptly. "I hope people won't think fliers have a high-hat attitude toward the things everyone else thinks are fun. The reason, for instance, that Viv and I don't go to night clubs is that we worked in them so long that we lost our taste for them. I don't drink because I don't like the stuff and also because a flier's first duty is to keep sober. In the old days, pilots were known as slap-happy guys with chronically bent elbows. Nowadays, it's different; every six months there's a physical exam and we have to pass that test. The round of social pleasures is out of our lives, not because we're antisocial, but because flying takes so much time. You need 150 hours a year in the air in order to keep your license. Blind flying takes more time. Then there's my instructing. I've taught Viv to fly, and now I'm teaching Cap'n James Smith. "There's still another phase of our life which might be called abnormal. We keep no servants — partly for reasons of economy (flying is expensive) and partly because we hate the ignominy of having to order our fellow human beings about. Viv does all the cooking and Cap'n Jim does the dishes and the general cleaning. Jim is a Negro, pleasant-faced, clean-cut, a college graduate. He is our friend, not our servant. He has all his meals with us. We have a 'Be kind to Jim' week at our house, just as we have a 'Be kind to Bob' week, and a 'Be kind to Viv' week. During the 'Be kind to Jim' week, we wait on him. "The color of a man's skin," said Bob, as the hour ticked by and the time came for him to drive back, "is another thing that doesn't seem to matter — up there. The things that do count are the ones that concern everyone. Conscription, for example. I'm all for it. I think we should have had it long ago. The manufacture of munitions should be speeded up. We should have the greatest air force in the world. There should be a ring of steel around the Americas. And I don't believe that conscription means the downfall of democracy and the setting up of a dictatorship either. I have too much faith in the soundness of the American people to believe that anything like that could exist here. "I have had a pet theory for years which is now being put into practice. It is that the two things that will -contribute most to eventual lasting world peace are radio and flying. Flying will bring us closer together, physically; radio will bring us closer together, ideologically. Each in its way will help make us neighbors. When we can all rub elbows and trade dreams one with the other, we will be friends, on the old premise that to know all is to forgive all." "And if you should have to go to war?" I said. "If there must be war, I'll go gladly. After all," he laughed, "a lot of other 'juveniles' will have to go, too! I won't be alone. That's the whole thing, you see, we aren't alone anymore, any of us. The thought of it doesn't worry me, not for myself, at least. I couldn't do anything but go, so I might as well be gay about it. We've got to look at things that way now in order to be happy." Then we drove back to the studio. And after I left him I couldn't help wondering — is this what it's like, being a young man in the world today? Sculptress Hedi Hollander tells Claudette Colbert (time-outting from "Arise My Love") how she chose her profession. Seems her song-writing hubby was drivI ing her mad with his piano pounding, so she retired to a studio behind their house, began sculpting and founded a million-dollar business. AT 5 AND 10* -DRUG AND DEPARTMENT STORES 78 MODERN SCREEN