Coral Gables Riviera

RECEIVE DIPLOMAS AT PONCE de LEON HIGH SCHOOL THURSDAY EVENING

First row, left to right, Philip W. Dorn, president; John B. Kelley, vice-president; Lillian F. Gregory, secretary; Robert M. Ayars, treasurer; William J. Booher, Lareeta Cater, Margery Clark, Patricia Lane, Eugene Shaw, Dorothy Wilson, Frances Thurman, Virgil Smith, Peter Santi. Second row: Reid Anders, Paula Bishop, Doremio Calpini, Ruby Dorsett, Ann Cunningham, Mary Chesebro, Frances English, Mary Karp, Douglas Griffin, Francis Wynne Jean Troetschel, Roger Stiger, Mary Sargent. Third row: Mary Jane Ash, Timothy Browder, Mamie Cameron, Winona Douberly, Walter Cunningham, Charlotte Colby, Rudolph Fascell, Frances Kerr, Jimmie Muriel Griffin, Allen Craig, Edward Tuttle, Irene Taylor, Beverly Schultz. Fourth row: Charles Ayers, Blanche Brown, Roger Carlson, Richard Daugherty, David Curtis, Ann Cone, Alice Fischer, Mary Louise Lewis, Jeanette Hanford, Gloria Wheeler, Mary Walsh, Margaret Thompson, Bill Shave. Fifth row: Gerry Bartholomew, Randolph Brown, Kostina Causey, Marjorie Edwards, Norma Jean Daniel, Peggy Cringle, Beatrice Foss, Bess Lockhart, Mildred Hayes, Barbara Wilkins, Mary Westerdahl, Uly Thompson, Martha Shelley. Sixth row, Janeth Beyer, Betty Burns, Noella Charron, Margaret Ellis, Ann Daugherty, Shirley Crockford, Neale Foster, Marguerite Martin, William Hays, English, Ida Massung, Edna Moyer, Robert Pitt. Seventh row, left: Adele Doris Heiden, William Jaeger, Katherine Hoffman. Seventh row, right: Kenneth Gathings, Ruth McCall, Reba Mullis, Joe Popp. Eight row, left: Mattie Hicks, Amos Johnson, Martha Horlamus. Eighth row, right: Margaret McCartney, Bette Oehler, Dorothy Reynolds. Ninth row, left: Charles Hildebrand, Creighton Johnson, Mary Houser. Ninth row, right: H. R. McDonald, Atelia Peebles, Robert Riley. Tenth row, left: France Hilliard, Peggy Johnson, Parks Hunter. Tenth row, right: James McGibbon, Mary Perry, Theresa Roberts. Eleventh row: Betty Hinman, Ruth Junkins, Willard Hutton.

CALLING DRAFTED MOTHERS

By ERAINE TURIN Editor's Note: Mrs. Turin is a Coral Gables resident and mother of a draftee. She is an accomplished author and playwright, and recently conducted a radio program for the mothers of boys in the service. From Washington come the report, "Several Congressmen defended—amid great applause in the House—their 'right' to buy unlimited amounts of gasoline." Manifestly the gasoline rationing, first being enforced in coastal areas, is big with distressing consequences. For too many people, unfortunately, are misusing certain privileges—such as this statement suggests. And that is not conducive to inspire the unity required to win the war. It must be owned deprivations and inconveniences are not, in essence, the offenders here. Another factor is the trouble-giver: individuals vested with political or social tinsel too often take for themselves what is needed more by others who may not be garbed in this tinsel. Nothing can cause our home front to crumble quicker than that, and—in the words of Major General Lorenzo D. Gasser, War Department representatives in the OCD—"if the home front crumbles, everything goes with it." Drafted mothers of our nation, inasmuch as your soldier sons are fighting for that home front, it should be your chief objective to fight for maintaining unity there—to put your efforts in attempting an adjustment on the gasoline rationing which will supply needs that are "needs." For some to have uncalled-for privileges at the expense of others is not the basis upon which our democratic way of living is built. Obviously such methods tend to lower civilian morale to the place where your sons can scarcely receive the support they need at this time of crisis. Today two women told me what the strict rationing of gasoline is doing to their morale. One is a waitress whose husband is in the Pacific encounters; the other is a drafted mother who has some financial means. The waitress said: "Because the distance from where I work to my room is less than three miles—two miles and a half—they only gave me a three-gallon allowance each week for the Ford my husband left me to use. But waiting on table Mark Sullivan answers Mrs. Turin in his column on the editorial page. all days makes me awfully tired. I'm not very strong at best, and since my husband has been fighting somewhere in the Pacific battles, I've been feeling much worse. After he left, I used to be able to drive home after a hard day's work and go to visit with some friends. This made my long, dreary evenings shorter and helped me to forget. But now I'll have to stay home nights, I guess. And maybe I won't even be able to drive to work very often. The busses are so crowded now, and being on my feet all day makes it hard for me to stand up coming and going." The drafted mother said: "I'm all alone in the world since my boy left for the Army, and I'm not able to get around as well as I used to because of my arthritis. But my allowance of gas is only three gallons a week. I won't be able to drive out any more, and staying home makes me brood over my son. My car eats so much gas that I can hardly get to the store to do my marketing. I live out so far that deliveries and friends will have trouble getting to me, too. If I could go for even short drives, it would take my mind off of my troubles. But because I'm supposed to be a woman of leisure, I can't get any more gas." There is no doubt that persons who are in such such circumstances should be given more leniency, and that others who are taking advantage of their privileges should be allowed less. Therefore, this column urges you, drafted mothers of our nation, to get together on this grave problem. You who have men in the service must maintain your morale above everything else. You should not be denied a few extra gallons of gasoline, because individuals with political or social power seem to have quotas far in excess of their actual needs. Remember your sons are fighting for a democracy where equal rights should be entertained for all. (Copyright, 1942)

GIRLS (Not Pictured)

Barbara June Brown | Alice Estelle Brown | Carolyn Davidson | Joan Delaney | Bea Mackey | Stella Reese | Hazel Whidden * * * BOYS (Not Pictured) Dick Abbott | William Adkisson | George Compo | Raymond Cook | Herman Edwards | Lester Griffin | Charles Hildebrand | Robert Theed * * *

O. K. RADIO SCHOOL

(FNS)—Authorization of immediate construction of an Air Corps radio school in the vicinity of Boca Raton, costing $15,000,000, was announced this week by Congressman Pat Cannon. The school, Cannon said, will accommodate 10,000 men at all times, giving micro-wave training.

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