Radio and television mirror (May-Oct 1940)

HOW DO YOU RATE AS A 4 7 8 What every woman yearns to be! A lovely female menace! ... an exciting threat to the most determined bachelor . . . and bad news to every other girl at the party. Do you qualify? Don't bother to search your wishful soul for the answer — here's a little chart that Tells All! CHECK UP ON YOUR APPEAL! (Mark "yes" or "no" to these 8 questions — then learn your score from the answers on the opposite page.) Do busy young men hold open the doors in public buildings for you? , gsiQ, YES When you buy a new hat, does the salesgirl assure you that it looks "youthful"? Do you ever have to be introduced to the same man twice? Do your "blind dates" say you're a knockout at the beginning of the date, but forget your name before the evening's out? Are you versatile? Can you play a hard game of tennis with Tom in the afternoon and be Dick's glamorous dancing partner in the evening? Does forgetting your powder compact on an important date throw you into a panic? Do you ever go to bed with stale make-up on? Do men ever tell you that you remind them of their favorite flower? NO SEE OPPOSITE PAGE FOR 64 You Don't Want to Have Babies? (Continued from page 7) have we, as people, evolved to the point of being perfect human beings. But we're getting there. It is a scientific fact that each new generation is an improvement over the past one, physically and mentally. Each new generation's chances of survival and development are greater than those of the past generations. And now, because you are frightened, you want to throw all this to the winds. You look at the war in Europe. You look about you and see people suffering from the effects of the depression. You see poverty and unemployment and a sense of feeling of hopelessness and despair in people. So you sit back and say the world is not a fit place to bring up your children and, therefore, you will not have any children. I ET me ask you something. If you ^ believe this, what are you doing here at all? Why do you go on living? Why, if you still feel that any sort of life is better than no life, do you go on living according to the moral and ethical standards established by your fathers and forefathers? If you have no faith in anything, why do you live according to the rules that civilization has laid down? Why is it that you aren't a thief, a murderer, ' a bandit, or a cheat? I'll tell you why. Because you don't believe it at all. Deep down inside you, where you think with your instinct and feeling and not with hollow words, you still have faith in yourself and the rest of mankind. For this is the faith that has been in man since he first became a conscious, thinking being. This is the faith that has driven him for centuries to raise himself out of the mud and has impelled him to aspire to greater and greater heights. Perhaps he has not yet reached these heights, but he has come a long way. I know that if you are troubled by the conditions in the world, it is difficult for you not to give in to a feeling of futility. But you mustn't. You can't afford to. It is just as important for you and for your future well being that there should be new, young, vital people to carry on the work of civilization and progress, as it is for the future generations themselves. Don't think for a moment that I am trying to tell you that it is your duty to your country to have families. No, it is more deep-rooted than that. It is a crying necessity that you should, for your own protection. "Very well," people have argued with me, "suppose we do have children and then can't take care of them? What assurance have we that what has happened in other countries won't happen here?" To that, my answer is — your own assurance. You like it here. You like living here, because you can still say what you please and think what you please and, within certain civilized limits, you can do what you please. And it is entirely up to you to keep it like this. If anything does not please you, you have the right to do something about it. You can vote freely. You can refuse to do what you do not want to do. And this is fine and RADIO AND TELEVISION IVIIRROR