Swing (Jan-Dec 1947)

JANUARY, 1 947 VOL. 3 No. 1 A SEASON surrounds a man like the walls of his house or the air through which he moves. As he inhabits space, so he inhabits times, and alters and adjusts to it as trees do, or the creature of the animal world. He doesn't moult or shed his skin. But he freezes or thaws emotionally, and reacts in spirit to the seasons. It is as if each — even each month — were a different house, of particular design and decor, mood and behaviour. January is a large house, chilly, plain and partician, lighted by north light, and done in chromium and glass. It's a good place for settling down soberly (after the confetti has cleared away) to put our minds in order. But the house of the season isn't enough. Time is only a fourth dimension, space has the other three. And space is something of uncommon importance in the world today. The sun, say the astrologers, has his houses, the Republicans have their House — yes, and their Senate, too, but some thousands of ex-GIs have only a room with the in-laws. Even the U.N., that corporate body of the peace, has little place to lay its collective head. And peace itself has scarcely anywhere to live. She wanders through the world, putting in at temporary ports of call and sleeping in little hidden corners till she is hunted out again by hatred and greed and run out of town by organized suspicion. Some find her now and then asleep on a bench in the sun in some forsaken park. Sometimes you'll find her on a hilltop where only the polemics of wind and oak leaves break the quiet. But in all the world there is very little place that peace can call her own. And she, of all entities, should have the world for a home and inhabit all the rooms like the sun its golden houses. Perhaps this year. . . . That is the hope of a good part of the world; in the new year, a new home, even on the site of the old one; a place to settle, to make one's own hollows, to live graciously. The season isn't enough. We need space and spirit within whatever season — a space within time — where we may feel at home, assured, and secure. Until this happy condition evolves, peace may likely wander about, a waif. And lucky the country who wakes up some morning to find it on the doorstep like a foundling, who takes it in, and gives it — like the queen — a room and a bed of its own. CONTENTS Editor. % ARTICLES Ten Point Program for Some Other Year Charles H. Hogan 3 Wanted: Motherhood, Not Martyrdom! Sarah Wilton Jeffers 7 Vision and Subdivision Mori Greiner 11 Puerto de Arribada Jetta Carleton 17 Basketball Baby! Sam Smith 21 They Fought Polio— And Won! John W. Fraser, Jr. 25 Whitehouse Wishing Well Marion Odmark 31 By Land and By Sea— But Never by Air! Evelyn Nolt 43 Spare the Rod! Beverly T. Post 47 Playground in the Sun Rosemary Howard 51 Fever-Beater of Arrow Rock Joel Longacre 55 • DEPARTMENTS January's Heavy Dates 2 According to the Stars 6 Man of the Month 37 Swing Session 46 Chicago Letter 59 Chicago Ports of Call 61 New York Letter 62 New York Ports of Call 63 New York Theater 64 Kansas City Ports of Call 66 # FEATURES Notes from a One-Stringed Zither 24 Quizzes 42 His Hobby Is Names 54 Editor Jetta Carleton Managing Editor Mori Greiner Publisher Donald Dwight Davis Business Manager, Johnny Fraser, Jr.; Associate Editors, Rosemary Howard, Evelyn Nolt, Verna Dean Ferril; Chicago Editor, Norton Hughes Jonathan; New York Editor, Lucie Brion; Humor Editor, Tom Collins; Music Editor, Bob Kennedy; Circulation Manager, John T. Schilling. ^•w/irio is published monthly at Kansas City, OWlIlg 1102 Scarritt Building, Kansas City Missouri. Address all communications to Publication Office, „ 3, Missouri. 'Phone Harrison 1161. 247 Park Avenue, New York 17, New York. 'Phone Plaza 3-9327. 333 North Michigan, Chicago 1, Illinois. 'Phone Central 7980. Price 25c in United States and Canada. Annual subscriptions. United States, $3 a year; everywhere else, $4. Copyright 1947 by WHB Broadcasting Co. AH rights of pictorial or text content reserved by the Publisher in the United States, Great Britain, Mexico, Chile, and all countries participating in the International Copyright Convention. Reproduction fcr use without express permission of any matter herein is forbidden. Swing is not responsible for the loss of unsolicited manuscripts, drawings or photographs. Printed in U.S.A.