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CCCC THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER; THURSDAY, JANUARY '4, 1940 14 Th The Boy and His Car Problem GOOD NEIGHBOR -i For Your Personal Problems Expert Advises Parents on Liability By ANITA DAYHUBBARD- IT IS HARD FOR a woman to raise a child alone, biri ii rT7- 1 it is far harder to raise it and put up with a drunken, brutal husband in the bargain. '-A A man who can't stay sober even in the tirst montns or his marriage, and who adds physical violence to that, can hardly be reckoned as completely balanced mentally. Ms drunk is the height of futility. It is possible that by an effort it only releases the brutal in-of will and a change of circum-, stincts that are so close to the By Hazel Holly I ONE EVENING at dusk, a 17 year old boy, driving a friend's automobile, ran down 'and seriously injured a child who darted into the' street in the middle of the block between two parked It wasn't the boy's fault, but there were no witnesses, and he was sued for damages. The friend's automobile wasn't insured.

Who paid the bill? The boy's parents. You've read that story many times in newspapers. Up to now, it hasn't happened to you, but it might. And Edwin Moore, attorney for the California State Automobile Association, told P. T.

A. members yesterday that they, as surface in a drunken man, and makes him much worse. Vital Questions YOUR 20 year old daughter chooses a husband on her own responsibility. Whom does the law hold responsible when she drives a car? Nine year old Willie breaks a neighbor's window. Nineteen year old Don wrecks a friend's auto.

In each case, who Is legally liable? One of your answers to these questions is almost certain to be wrong. In Haiel Holly's column today, Edwin Moore, California State Automobile Association attorney, tells you things you need to know about the law. the minor is driving the family car, or any other car." MR. MOORE doestr't believe that parents should tell their children that they can't drive. You know perfectly well that your son will borrow his friends' cars and drive without a license.

If THAT happens, parents have a criminal liability for permitting the minor to drive without a license. Mr. Moore suggests: When you take your 16 year old sort to the bureau to get his driver's license, get it through his head that he will be letting you down if he disobeys traffic laws. "It's pretty hard to keep boys and girls that age from taking chances," Mr. Moore said, "but they've got to learn that taking a chance is silly, If you gamble their life, or their parents' savings, against some showoff stunt, or a few seconds time saved.

"If your boy has been taught to drive skillfully, if he has been taught the motor vehicle laws, then you, his parents, can stances he might remake himself into a presentable human being, but the cha'nees are against it. The burden of proof is on him, and a woman who bears a child to such a man has every reason and right to protect it and herselt from him until he has proved beyond doubt, if he ever does, that he is ready to be a fit husband and Love will work miracles, but a man who abuses his four months bride, especially when he knows she is expecting a baby, seems pretty far down rr. IF YOU HAVE any remnant of love or respect for him, and if his past record, before he married you, is good, by pll means let him prove to you that he can behave himself for a period long enough to convince both you and himself. Your letter suggests that your difficulties arose over money matters and your strained budget. That is a very serious matter always, and can bring about the ugliest of matrimonial misunder parents, MUST realize their civil responsibilities when a minor child is granted an automobile the sCale to recover.

driver's license. rH A young man who has never i EVEN MORE IMPORTANT, Mr. Moore says, is that the minor child understands that when he is WORRIED writes: "I am a young bride of four months. I don't know where to turn or what to do from one day "If Willie throws a baseball Into the neighbors' plate glass window, his parents aren't legally responsible for his action," Mr. Moore pointed out.

"Willie's parents will probably pay the damages, to keep peace in the neighborhood, but they don't have to under the law. In the case of automobiles, however, the parent is responsible for the minor's actions, whether driving an automobile, he is driving both for himself AND his been responsible for anyone but himself, and a young woman who has been raised in a comfortable, easy going home where she had everything without worrying about it, are likely to have a to the next. I have always lived a protected life. My parents were good to me and gave me take a chance that he'll be a good driver IF he knows that every time he steps on the gas, you are, legally, right there in the car with him, taking the blame for whatever he does." parents. Whatever he does goes home to them, because under the California Vehicle Code, a driver Is considered to be a minor until he is 21 years of age.

every comfort. "I went with this young man Beauty Staqe- From a Of the Shop Around For Women Told pretty awful time of it when they are confronted by the need of making a very modest salary meet an overstrained budget. HAVE YOU talked to your good parents about the situation? What do his own people think about it? Are you sure that you have done everything in your own power to make your marriage a success? It's easy for a spoiled young girl and an irresponsible young man under pressure to do a great many things they wouldn't dream Some Simple Charm Secrets By Judith Memll- of, when they have really grown 'W Sw -fiiK! III "I prf7 1 Mti mil Mil! 2 lit tl-r-T a M' i "-silts' VI i 11 rrM "in; Via Tff WHAT'S A GIRL LIKE who is kept that way with soap and water. "Soap and water are perfect cleansing agents; I'm all for em," she says. Here's how she powders: Packs up.

If he got drunk to escape the reality of bills, and you whined and whimpered because he didn't jump throufrh' every hoop when you orderedhim to, like a trained poodle, there's little hope for either of you, unless you both change. You'd better stay apart, at least until he has had time the powder in with one puff. Takes another puff and dusts off starring in a show that boasts the most beautiful girls in the world? Such a girl has a perfect figure 5 feet 6 inches tall, weight 116 pounds. She has big brown eyes, dark brown hair and white skin. She is Beryl Wallace of Earl Carroll's Vanities.

How does this 22 year-old beauty feel about being called one of the "most beautiful?" etc. "I can never run into breakfast without combing my hair and powdering my nose," she confides. "I'm on parade all the excess. The effect is one word: smooth. This beauty knows how to lim- to grow up a bit, and you have A HOUSEWIFE wouldn't go to a store and buy five yards of black velvet just because she felt like buying velvet.

Then why should she go to the movies any movie just because she wanted to see a show? Mrs. Theodore Kuegg, P. T. A. motion picture chairman, told members yesterday to shop around for their pictures, just as they shop for groceries, dresses or books.

"AfUr all," laid, "you want to gtt your money's worth in entertainment, jutt at you do in If we learn to ehop for our pictures, theater managers will give us the pic-turee we want, just as grocery clerks try to get our trade with attractive bargains." Yii Business Women To Present Plays for only three months before I married him. He didn't have much to offer but I was happy and in love. I enjoyed making out a budget, but with all my work, the money barely made out from pay day to pay day. "Before I married this man he seemed a perfect gentleman, and was very kind to me, but after we were married he changed completely. The first two weeks were wonderful to me and I know he was just as happy.

Then for no reason at all, apparently, he came home drunk. When I protested, ho didn't fceem to care. Then we talked it out, and he promised never to come home that way again, and said that he was sorry for what lie had done. I forgot it until it happened a second time, and a fourth and a fifth. 1 talked to him each of these times and begged him to please try and make me able to trust him a sain.

"ABOUT A WEEK ago, on his day off, we planned to do many things. He said he would be gone only a short time. After I had waited all afternoon, he came home drunk. I just could not stand it another time, but I didn't intend then to leave. I put on my coat (my sister-in-law was waiiing for me to go out with her).

"When he saw this he jumped up from the couch and held the door, so I couldn't go. Then he told me to slap him, as he would like me to and perhaps he needed it. I had never hit a man before in my life, but I didn't know why he wanted me to so I did slap him. Then he really hit me and slammed me had time to settle things in your mind. Your focus of duty has changed from yourself and your Der up ner limbs.

She recommends stretching arms, pulling and twisting the backbone, "Watch a cat. Then follow his motions." husband to the child that is to be born. You'll 'have to think of him first from now on, and that takes serious mature thought, poor little "worried." That "dyed look" is out among the "most beautiful," etc. They're glorified American girls pictures WRITE YOUR OWN check this spring. It's the best way to cash in on smartness.

Two suits checked for newness, color, style. Left: Black and white shepherd's check skirt; flame red jacket bound to match; white jersey blouse. Notice how full the skirt is. Right: Two tones of grey, with turquoise, is the three-color check of this semi-tailored beauty. Notice how loosely the jacket is fitted above the snug ivaist.

From a collection of latest town clothes for those who have young ideas. For information call Eabette at SUtter of vital youth. 'She Best Bets OPEN DOOR THE DRAMATIC section of the Beaut or write in care of The Examiner. the time. But it's good for me and I like it.

All women should get Into the habit of looking their best at all times. We in the show business must it's our Job." jK WHAT DOES this brown eyed plus girl do to keep herself glamorousthe clock around? Well, ehe says: "I don't go in for eating 'junk' food. So many women fill up on pastries and other frills, then wonder why their complexions are muddy. I keep fruit in my room and the first thing I do ban Francisco Business and Pro fessional Women's Club, some From Local Stores THIS IS a service for the neighbors. Run in with short ques-Hons needing concise answers.

Just call in through the Open Door and I'll answer in a few what bored by the post-holiday lull, will present a group of BEAUTY BEGINS for baby YOUNGER SET ADOPTING CHECKS "studio plays" to brighten thing when her skin is adequately pro tected against chafing and other discomforts by a good cream- up Tuesday evening at the Western Women's Club. There will be four plays, "A Hollywood Tragedy" (in which special baby cream. Her mother Suits to Be Paramount This Spring can use the cream, too for el By Babette glamorous Hollywood is slightly deglamorized); "Robert of Sicily" (stirring dramatic reading with bows and roughened skin else men's wear flannel, or a tailoreda suit to wear under a sportier YOU like to HOW WOULD have a check? suit of whipcord. They're all topcoat like a tweed under cam where on her body. Vfi.

MEN'S COMPLEXIONS are often more sensitive than wom days. But keep 'em. short! Mushroom Data N. J. M.

"Some friends of mine live down the peninsula, and have Invited us to gather mushrooms in the vicinity of their home. Very frankly, I do not know anything about mushrooms, and hate to show my ignorance. Do you know where I could get some reliable Infor- mation concerning them?" Write to the Division of Publications, Office of Information, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. for their Circular 143-C, "Some Com upon awakening in the morning Is to eat an orange or an apple. Too, I drink two glasses of milk each day." She doesn't smoke.

Does little drinking. Firewater is bad for the complexion, she says. HER GLOWING, fine skin Is matching three good. But checks are the young-el's hair; or a musical accompaniment) "Fix the Fixer" (a comedy with a moral); and "A Domestic Ticup" (which proves that strikes can est of them all. piece ensemble.

be funny). Miss Lillian Elias is into a chair until I was helpless and exhausted. Now I have left him. Something seemed to die within me. I tried all I could to get him out of debt.

He had no reason to be so mean. He knows I'm expecting a child. "Do you think I should ever go back to him? He comes to see me and still makes promises. They are hard to believe, for he made so many before. He was A PRINT DRESS is something FASHION IS virtually giving you one for any amount.

Going to check you properly with shepherd's checks, three color checks, check plaids all kinds, shades en'sbecause they shave so often. That's why an after shaving balm is such a fine thing. A certain balm is milder than most chairman, and the dramatic coach PERHAPS YOU ARE mulling over in your mind the pros and cons of LOTS of things. The us you can't go wrong on. But think of a print as a "fill in" for 'im is Mrs.

Eva Smith Hackett. ual process of trying to make mediate wear if you like Pattern varieties (but you'll never draw a blank check). after shave lotions not as drying. It's nongreasy and non- something out of the chaos that comes with thinking out a new under your coats. But plan to put this print away in a month or six weeks put it away not to sticky.

Dries quickly. If the Sequoia Chapter To Meet Monday CHECKS ARE slated for cer season's wardrobe. tain popularity among the young HERE ARE SOME questions man in your household is complaining about what the weather is doing to his face tell him to try this soothing balm. i er crowd early this year. I've seen the suits and know the girls you should answer to yourself.

Do you plan for a three months' mi be brought out again until summer travel sets in. IF YOU CHOOSE a print dress, it's a nice idea to have a matching print turban. That takes mon Mushrooms and How to Know Them." Official City Map T. M. V.

"Where may I get an official map of San Francisco, and how much will it cost?" always absent when I needed him, and lied to me so often. Could a man ever overcome this? Would you advise going back for the sake of the child? What shall I do?" UNLESS HE backs up his couldn't resist if they wanted to. inuiKJi; wujn't ce any entertainment at the Monday afternoon meeting of Sequoia chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Members will attend to discuss proposed revision of the bylaws. period? Do you buy "as you go?" EVERYTHING HAS an angle.

Even toothbrushes! These "angle" Do you budget your clothes for a vear and apportion so much EVERYTHING THAT comes in from now on is going to have that startling freshness that makes care or tne "new nat prooiem brushes have been given a right immediately. If you buy a suit, slant by the manufacturer. They promises with a definite and well Official maps of San Francisco Mrs. James Scott Webster, every three months? What are your likely activities this year? How many new things do you then plan to get yourself a sailor defined period of sobriety and are not for sale by the city regent, will preside. Tea hostesses shape of straw or felt.

can reach into and clean the most hidden nooks and crannies of your teeth. New on the market, will be Mrs. C. C. Harris and Mrs W.

H. Weitzel. rK their fame is spreading. general decency, going back to but may be obtained at varying him would probably merely start 'prices from any of the local sta-the whole thing over again. Of tioners.

A pocket edition, show-course you were foolish beyond ing the election districts, is words to hit him when he asked published by A. Carlisle Co. at you want to BUY. And if you are as canny as I hope you are you'll stop, look, consider and ask questions before getting a single spring thing. SO, TO THE QUESTION, "Will checks REALLY be a good buy?" THESE THINGS WE KNOW are good now.

We know they will a be good all season. They are prac IF YOU WOULD like to know where these best bets may be Dieticians Will Hear Lecture need? M' VI i i EVERY COMPLETE wardrobe should have a suit this spring. Because you will have to wear a coat of some kind for weeks and weeks to come you have two choices of suits. Make up your mind whether you will get a semi-soft suit that can be worn under you to, drunk or sober. That 135 Post Street at 50 cents a copy.

I answer, "Yes if you are young, If Your Child Has was merely a small boy trick like daring another to knock a chip off his shoulder. You should have recognized it as such. And of course nagging a man when he tical purchases, but the styles have a punch. In getting together clothes for this year let's all plan to buy things that are RIGHT. No wasted no silly buys.

CHECKS CAN BE checked up as being an "all right" style, a- not too large in size, have a certain flair for smartness. Checks are on a par with many other A NASTY purchased, phone Judith Merrill at SUtter 2424 or write her in care of The Examiner. Afternoon Dress Advertisement light looking spring suits. Makeiyour fur coat (they are showing up your mind whether you'd rath- navy or grey ones with all kinds er have a pastel check suit, Or whether you will get LI MISS ANN LAMB and her staff of dieticians at the University of California Hospital will be hostesses to the Bay section of the California Dietetic Association Tuesday evening. Dr.

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