Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1943 — Page 16

RE EVERY DAY IS CHRISTMAS 3 ‘of the local newspapers last Thanksgiving carried a picture of a soldier, en route to his home from the batfront, eating his holiday dinner. It was a sandwich from service men's canteen in the union station, rato Not a very sumptuous Thanksgiving feast, but the solpr did not seem to mind—he knew that there'd be turkey ‘all the trimmings when he got home, as well as a wel come that was well worth waiting for. In the meantime, some of the women of Indianapolis were willing to up the pleasures of their own Thanksgiving firesides, he was being taken tare of and the lonely hours in the statween crowded trains were a little less tedious—all someone he had never met and might never see again was there to say, “Hello soldier, anything I can do for you? How about a little something to eat?” : It's nice to be thought of. It's nice to know that what you've done has been appreciated. It's nice to find warm food and sonseona to chat with when you're far away from home and all the faces around you are unfamiliar and preThe army’s brass hats would call that building morale. . But to the women of Indianapolis, it's just Hoosier friendliness and hospitality, it's just the thing that you want to do because you Hope somebody will do the same for your oWn | peen cut under union conditions in New York, This son who's so young and so far away. It's a way to show | was Jn 1033 when conditions ore e very bad and oh that you are thankful that your son is what he is and that | Practice was very . he has your kind of a home to come home to some day. It's | ing msinees. was taken vey irom him and Lonke the way you express the spirit of Christmas, not on one day ot him small jobs to keep Hin wnt; and Jn 1038 alone but every day of the year. e opened a small can ubin, r Sn Te Evomary of the sateen | SR or Lo, Hine et of on eee comes so near Christmas. During the | peals, “arranged for the spending of money in Rosen's gen in operation, more than 325,000 men | 3010" by the members... £ Sin IR Bie been served at its inch counter; | Lepke Supported Weinstein's Faction more 182,000 have its lounge a haven against : loneliness, thohsands have received advice and little unex-| Ta, ATRAID at a a pected pervissh lich mean a lot, help a lot when you're | Laphe 10 dt im. *straiglten Roun ot” Jn ne strange and away home. Those statistics, however, | " a can only hint at the story of the boys and girls whose spirits | Apeals I a - Sinaietn. Hilti: have been lifted, whose long journey has been made lighter, | politics of the American Labor Party, and asked him |

who have gone on their way with the feeling that Indian- | * [3 WWREHhnE SBOUE ROVE. ia hie could not

apolis is a friendly city with a big heart, a city of home | do anything.” folks. "rey Now it does not appear clearly whether Lepke and

Today is the birthday of the canteen, and to those who | | "stein were in close colisborstion, although Wein- : : . : | stein was an official of the union and the court says have made it possible and to all those who have given un. | Lepke supported tbe faction which gained control, sparingly of their time and energy to insure its success we | tien i Wenselnd faction. However, the eourt say, in the spirit of Tiny Tim, “God Bless You, Every One.” | geen murder und a Snes man in, the "| medjaries. between Lepke and Hillman's amalgas if mated and that Berger al§d acted as a go-between

FITTING AND PROPER : for Weinstein and Lepke. plan for the use of It IS fitting that the air gateway to Indianapolis should be nuesmediaries Was Made 4b a acting ranged by : named in tribute to one of the great pioneers of aviation Ee hin or oe Mr. BO nl big LIK fot in this city. As much as any one man, Col. Harvey Weir | organization. Doth Bade Indianapolis air Sonacious and laid the funda- | Might Tell Interesting Story: presen levement. THUS, THE COURT finds that Lepke was having _ One of the early birds of flying, Colonel Cook gave to | relations with Mr. Hiliman's big union, not merely aviation a lifetime of devotion that was exceeded only by | with some Jomsls And in Taw of Lie fact that Lepke rape ta i wi .. | was a casual m rer, leg- and racketeer, it his love of country and his loyalty to Indianapolis and his [15 oaty to ligula, Jou Governor Dewey eh home. A combat ace of the first world war, he conquered | like to get his hands on him and why the department the obstacles of age and" protocol to serve, and die, in the | 8 Jusiien is luctant to give Bim, up. He might second. The full story of his active contribution to Amer. |." 20 Interesting Io spve . x : : There has been much hinting and whisperi ican battle successes in the Pacific has not been told, but his | about all this for & long time but there { is - Diapering friends and fellow airmen know that it was large. You | for that. The facts of the case ate in the record and could no more keep Weir Cook on the ground than you | the politica). relationsitips are plain, could keep him on the shelf. | i Weir Cook airport will be a memorial to a man who | : had faith when few believed, who worked when others | We e p eop e ’ despaired and who planned without rest to bring a brave | dream to fruition, . He would have been pleased, if he could | By Ruth Millett know, that the great planes of the future will first touch | £50 down in Indianapolis on ground that bears his name. Be

IF WINTER COMES... : IF YOU are one of those with a passion for exactness, it ~~ might be well to remind you that winter began officially at 12:30 p. m, today. It is doubtful if there will be any great or general rejoicing, especially among those who are backing the last lump of coal into the corner of the bin or , who are listening fretfully to the contented oil burner pur. ; ay 3 hating ner Tor i 4 ring as it digests a hearty meal of ration coupons, needs Cheering? * " Tus. today a we the shortest day of the year and, |, Do You refrain from iniilitiug es Ahoy i Fetagris ere ‘more daylight from now on if the astronomers | hard as ¢ - can be relied upon. But the weatherwise folk of the old day ort mothe” J6% See dh le 4 Bap days had a saying: “As the days lengthen, the cold will] Strengthen.” So brace yourself, batten up the house and | your wedding anniversary—when you know the war button up your overcoat. It's winter. wife spent her last anniversary going to a movie with _ Some may find in the current solstice a time of sym. | “other woman? : | bolism. As the sun appears to remain at its nadir at this | Don't Be Too Critical period, so events abroad seem to he suspended in a relatively | Do you realize that she may feel resentful toward Static mood while forces are gather ig for momentous days | You if you eriticize the behavior of another war. wife, Lome. is since you can't possibly fully appreciate the problems

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versatile racketeers who sold their services to em players against unions, too. And it may be that in some of their union activities, which centered in the needle industries, they muscled in where they were not welcome and union officials had either to do business with them or get out and’ surrender the unions to them. ; In the particular murder for which Lepke was sentenced to death, he was acting to silence Joseph Rosen, who had been a trucking contractor and who was threatening to tell Mr, Dewey how he been put out of business by Lepke in the interests of Local 4. The reason he was put out of business was that fie, and others, were hauling to non-union factories in other states for finishing, clothing which ia |

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A WAR WIFE who has en- | § countered a good deal of smug- «+ ness and. thouglitlessness among i "women whose husbands are still at home suggests that the latter . wives ask themselves these questions: "+ Do you invite a war wife for dinner in your home at least once & month, and make her feel that

wonderful time you and your husband had celebrating

S DOESN'T HAPPEN OFTEN J to a government agency that is taking what is, | When you see her on the street or at parties, and ver agencies, ‘an almost unprecedented do you really listen when she starts to tell you news Steel Recovery Corp., created in August, : | Lge a emergency program for moving stocks y 88 steel into war-useful channels, ' , n located. millions of tons of steel in the | anies that were unable to use it because | tion of goods had’ been stopped by In many cases it arranged for the sale 2 i es et hdl as ]

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. ——— The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

JAPAN EXTENDED BOUNDARY LINE, TOO By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, Indianapolis

I suspeet I should keep to my knitting, goodness knows I have enough of it to do, but I can also think. Now if I were a mechanical

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a job at a certain speed and the thing would be done but as I am not, although .I am such a dot, I can love and think and the robo cannot. y ee The government in Indianapolis has been compared to a gestapo, and it did: get off to a good start but this other kind the polite “‘excuse please,” “so: sorry,” kind was a blue print. .. . I refer to the legislature when it tried ‘to change the boundary line of Decatur township to--include the Power and Light

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Company plant which is in Perryiget that much a day, Lord knows

township. Didn't Japan extend her boundary line to include Manchuria? With & nice low sweeping bow, “thanks very much, please excuse,” she got away with it, Does the legislature think the people here are going to let them get away with that?

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tween us, we see each other every day; Merry Christmas. . , . God bless us every one. It's one day nearer to victory. . o rd “READY TO GIVE CALIFORNIA BACK” By Sgt. Robert 7, Suddith, Camp Beale. I am a sergeant in the U., 8. army and am from Indianapolis. I énlisted in June of 1041 and was at Pearl Harbor during the attack and remained overseas 14 months after,

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it costs us poor Hoosier soldiers 586 cents to go to Marysville on a or 30 cents one way and e miles away. There

me to write was over hearing two drivers saying how much they made, such as $10 on a Saturday and $16

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how much a week, when we fight and train for $50 or more or less a month? We Hoosiers are ready to give California back to whoever , . . wants it, w » » “WHAT WILL YOU

TELL YOUR SONS?"

By Mrs. Marvin B. Jowes, 2875 N. LaSelle St.

There are many things in the world today that meet with the genéral displeasure of folks, There are strikes and strikers, there are increasing prices, there.is the ever grievesome rationing and there are epidemics galore; but of all these what in great creation is more disgusting and loathsome than these weak-kneed spineless dregs of hu.

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

clench his hands and pray for some chance to get out there in this fight along with his boys, who are with the navy somewhere'in the Pacific; I have seen married men with large families want to re-enlist just because they wanted to get out there and fight. How then can I look at

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youthful marriages, if true, would not necessarily constitute an insult to the Blue Grass state; it could

just can't wait for them to grow up and be snatched thence by traveling salesmen from Indiana. "But to forestall a féud—the author of

of the great sovereign state of Kentueky and to their colonists in Indiana and elsewhere for whatever was said or inferred. : 2 For we love Kentucky dearly. We respect its

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