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SATURDAY, FEB. 3 1065

Facing the Siegfried

(Ernie Pyle’s first column from the Pacific will appear Tuesday.)

WITH THE U., 8. ARMY IN ‘BELGIUM, Feb. 1 (Delayed) ~—American troops snuck across the German border in several places along a wide front during the last two days, which brought great exultation in the rear areas but didn’t mean a thing to the troops up front. Up here, .every man asks the $64 question, “How tough is the Siegfried line?” East of St. Vith, troops of the 82d “airborne division have advanced 13,000 yards through. deep snow during a four-day trek, and last night got heavyweight artillery from deep within the mighty German defense line, forward outposts of which are a kilometer (.62 mile) or two away. ~The 1st snd 2d divisions also have moved to positions looking into the Jerry defenses. To the north, the 99th and 2d divisions. have pushed eastward, well past the Siegfried defenses overrun in the autumn and never retaken.

{| /The line ran southeast from Monchau for several

kilometers, following the German border, and our troops there have been in Germany many weeks. South of St. Vith, troops have crossed the Our river and paused-—yes, you guessed it; before the Siegfried line, .

How About the Thaws?

FEBRUARY COMES with sudden warmer weather and melting snows. Will it affect our tanks? Are the Germans manning the Siegfried defenses with the same sorry troops met as they approached the great

% forts? Will thaws come, to hamper tank and truck

movement forward? Is the Russian avalanche slowing down, as most military men feel was inevitable

because of long supply lines, spring thaws and mud?

We got into talkfest 'way up front a few nights ago: A general, two colonels, a major, and two junior officers. who have won field promotions from the ranks—a fine cross-section of the American army. Every man held the same opinion:

(Copyright, 1948, by The Indianapolis Times and The Ohicago Daily News, Inc.)

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

FOUR-YEAR-OLD John Colvin III, who lives at

| -328 E. 47th, doesn't let the limitations of the season

restrict his entertainment. John was playing outdoors recently during a heavy snow storm_and, tiring of throwing snowballs, he looked around for something different. He found {it* out in the garage—a lawnmower. The neighbors report it was startling, indeed, to look out the window and see the youngster pushing the lawnmower up and down the sidewalk, mowing the snow. He didn't seem to see anything out of the ordinary in his fun. . . George Dickson, the lawyer, wants to know why everyone makes such a fuss about the groundhog seeing his shadow. “Whether or—not-he-sees—his-shadow,”-says

George, * “there's bond to be six more weeks of winter.

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i until the first day of spring—March 20.”

Bix weeks and four days, to be exact, as it’s winter . One of

) our readers reports that a family in the '800 block

BE 38th is all prepared for next Christmas. They

still: have alle of Christmas wreaths hanging on | the front porch. And a grocery on College ave. near

| 11th, still has a 8ign, “Season's greetings.” .. . that's nothing.

. But In some parts of town it still looks

i like we were in the midst of an election campaign, | what with campaign posters adorning utility poles.

| this year falls on a rather i April 1.

. « « It’s just been called to our attention that Easter inappropriate date— The solemnity of the occasion probably will

eliminate most of the. customary April Fool pranks.

| A Pleasing Custom

MARINE PFC. JOSEPH DRINKUT saluted smartly the other day-when he passed a young second lieutenant (army) on a downtown street. The lieutenant halted him, handed over a dollar bill and said:

| “That's the first time I've been saluted.” It's an army

'World of Science

| | THE PROBLEM of old age, forgotten in the more

pressing needs of fighting a successful war, will come

to the fore again once the Nazis and Japs have been

defeated. It is good news, therefore, to learn that the Columbia University School of Medicine _is planning a research program to learn more about the factors which produce aging. Our attention now is focused on the medical problems of the war which are chiefly those of preventing the outbreaks of contagious disease among our soldiers and of giving them prompt surgical treatment when they are wounded. Prior to world war II, however, much emphasis was being placed on the fact that the population of the United States was shifting to a higher age level. | It was pointed out that the chief causes of death

| were those diseases that attack the aged—heart dis- | ease, cancer, kidney disease, ete. -

According to Dean—Willar C. Rappleye, of the Columbia University School of Medicine, the problem

| needs to be studiéd not only from the standpoint of

the practice of medicine, but from its bearing on

| public health and on the life of the nation in general.

| Memorial to Willkie

THE COLUMBIA studies are being made possible

| by a grant of $30,000 from the Albert and Mary Lasker

Foundation which has asked that the grant be designated as the Wendell Willkie Memorial Grant, and

| by a second grant of $85,000 from the Josiah Macy Jr.

“Foundation,

My Day

NEW YORK, Friday —Yesterday afternoon I had a chance to talk for a few minutes with Clarence | Plokett, of the An iow Friends service committee, who is just back from England and France. Somehow, the Friends seem to get closer to the people than the average visitor who lands on foreign shores. Traditionally they have gone to help, and so those wha need help gravitate to them naturally. Mr, Pickett told me what I already knew to be true—that the people of Great Britain are tired. Materials with which they clothe themselves are shoddy materials, Their food is uninteresting. It preserves life but * gives little energy. broken rest for a long time. Their

shelter has been uncertain. = Mr, Pickett's picture

of France is not that of someone who rcently reported that in Paris the children seen playing in the parks looked song. and Dealthy. and , well cared for. =» He has seen the ares. which we have had to destroy, and whether your home. is destroyed in

order to liberate you, or in order to enslave you

p fact that it is destroyed is first and foremost

'Witom he. siw Were Bulgty, and in France he reported that .50 per cent of have tuberculosis, That would fll

Their rest has oeen a.

By Jack Bell

- “Throw away this unconditioral surrender talk and tell the German people just what is in store for them. Tell them we don’t want to enslave the wholg population. Give them something to think about.” German Morale Drops 4 IT'S THE opinion of virtually every American _soldier. They have seen the morale of the German “soldier change from the fanatic enthusiasm of midDecember to the complete apathy of the last few days. Obviously, they. thought they could win the western offensive. But they are back where they started from-—the Siegfried defenses. Although they're not told much about the Russian advances, they have a vague knowledge that fateful events are casting shadows across their hopes. They've become careless soldiers, or perhaps are unseasoned troops, hastily whipped together last autumn,® You won't find a good Nazi in a carload, Troops of the 82d walked in and took the entire staff of an artillery battalion yesterday sitting around their maps. During the morning they stopped three columns of tanks and some 500 infantry moving along the road in plain view—and flattened them with artillery. : This isn't the true Nazi military man at work. Is he hiding in the Siegfried defenses waiting for us, or in the east halting the Russians? We will know the answer soon, for our troops move steadily east-

ward, giving the foe no time to dig in. The melting].

snows, if they continue, may hamper the tanks, but will reveal minefields whicle have been holding up the advances. If, reading this far, you get the idea that this is sort of a between-period on the Western front, you're right. We've fought the Germans back out of the bulge and into their great defenses, a well-defined program carved through “the coldest damn winter in these parts“since the blizzard of '98, Mister.” Now, we've got toy see what's left in those fortifications, fish or fightin’ men; and the military man’s guess here is, that they're the latter. We've learned to respect these Jerries when they've shootihg irons,

but there isn't a man who doesn't think we can lick

em every day.

“custom for newly commissioned officers to nand a dollar bill to the first enlisted man to salute them. But Pfc. Drinkut can't figure how the officer ever got as far as downtown Indianapolis without having been saluted somewhere along the line. = Young. Drinkut, a former employee of The Times, is home on convalescent leave, - recovering from. wounds received at Peleliu. . . . Miss Eloise Brune, 2035 N. Meridian, reports to the Red Cross in Washington Monday for instruction preparatory to- overseas duty. She's been employed at’ Allison. four years as office supervisor in the processing department at Plant 5. . There's a “location register” at the state selective service headquarters on which enlisted personnel sign out when they leave the headquarters. It's kept at the telephone switchboard. The other day, a Western Unjon messenger delivered a message and, looking at the register, decided it applied to him. In the space for names. he signed his own, adding “Western Union:"—The-time—12:15;.—But—where-is—called for “Expected return,” he was puzzled. So he just put down his number—172. Splitting Heirs WE CRIBBED several items of interest from the official publication of the Union Title Co. For instance, it reports, under the title, “Splitting Heirs” that “In the Broad Ripple section a piece of real estate once was divided among six heirs, each of whom received from 125,000-millionths to 186,560 millionths share. . . , And the 1828 legislature voted a total of $14,000 to defray all expenses incurred by the session, The cost is many times that figure now. . And in the oath taken by William W. Wicks, first judge of Marion county, Feb. 12, 1828, he swore . That he has not since the first dag of January, 1819, either directly or indirectly, kmowingly given, accepted or carried a challenge to any person in or out of the state aforesaifi, to fight in single combat or otherwise, with any deadly weapons, and fltat he will

not . . ., (do so) during his continuance in said office.” -

By David Dietz

Dean Rappleye points out that one of the great mistakes iqnade by laymen is to think of aging as something that begins at 40 to 50. It 1s obvious, of course, that the newborn infant begins to age from’the moment of birth and it now seems that what we call the problems of aging begin almost as soon.

Aging Starts Early

“AGING AFFECTS us sooner and more severely than is commonly supposed,” Dean. Rappleye says. “By the age of 18 the death rate has increased to double that at the age of 10. The increase in the death rate continues until the age of 50 it is 11fold that at the age of 10, and at the age of 78 it has become 100-fold. : “Although each death involves some disease, the resistance to death decreases with age and this is thought to play a major role in a high percentage of | deaths among old people. “It is well known that the progressive loss of physical ability begins to be felt in the late 20's while the loss of both physical and mental abilities begins to affect employability in the early 40's. It is believed that these manifestations of aging involve an underlying process which can best be studied by a comprehensive research program.” ! «The dean emphasizes that the object of the program is not to find ways of, keeping the senile alive, but to stave off the on -Sfceping th of old age, to add years Of health, vigor and usefulness to the period of middle age. The ultimate goa) is to increase the number of individuals who retain in late life their youthful stamina and vitality.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

our hearts with terror if it were true in our own.

country in any one locality. - The children are the hope of the future, for in many cases their fathers will come gback from enforced labor and prison camps broken in health and in spirit. What problems these countries face, and how patient we should be of any shortcomings which show up in their attitudes! I am hoping very much that when the war is over the liberators who have had” to bring destruction will adopt some of these destroyed villages and towns and try to rebuild and start the people off again on a self-supporting basis. After the last war the people of the United States did this, and I hope they will do it again. We must ndt neglect what needs to be dong in our own country —and, believe me, there is plenty to do—but what we de outside of our country will bring us a rich reward, I think, in the future. Miss Thompson and I came up to New York City last night and it is remarkable what work one can accomplish in four hours on a train with no telephone and no visitors to distract®one. Many things which T have wanted to dictate for weeks past were done last evening, and I am counting on doing a great many more during thé few days here without official engagements. Today the executive ‘secretar yof the International Council of Nurses is coming to lunch with me. This afternoon, after doing a recording, I shall see

OUR FIGHTERS

By B. J. McQUAID Times Foreign Correspondent

Wik U. S. FORCES IN BELGIUM, Feb. 8.— The Ardennes in this second world war has proved - another Valley Forge for

American troops. This modern American army has not, of course, suffered pri vations on a scale comparable in every respect with George Wash ington’s winter army, Our troops today can always count on ample K rations and abundant medical supplies are available, And our- troops of today are not “eating their shoes.” - . “

BUT THEY are cussing their shoes for their inadequacy against the cold and snow of the Ardennes winter, For, despite the fact that adequate winter footgear leads the quartermaster's list of immediate needs, so far the great bulk of our troops here had been equipped only with rawhide leather combat boots. Combat boots are one of the coldest types of footwear ever devised. » ” » GOOD QUALITY fabric overe shoes, or artics of the kind worn in civilian life, are available for wear over combat boots and are helpful in keeping the feet dry. ~ But they aré hot high enough to keep deep snow from seeping down trouser legs and melting. A makeshift device that many men have adopted is to discard the leather boot. altogether and wear instead numerous pairs of socks inside the artic. #8 #8

MANY ‘cut up - blankets and wrap strips around their feet, and some, with great ingenuity have constructed complete footgear out of blanket cloth=another reminder of Valley Forge. Recently a footgear called the “Snowpack” has begun to make its appearance, This resembles the boot worn by hunters. It consists of rubber bottom and leather top and is roomy enough to allow for a felt lining and one or more pairs of socks. w » » THERE is some criticism of the innovation because of its tendency

DIGGING IN—

Berlin Rushes To Plug Holes In Last Stand

By NAT A. BARROWS Times Foreign Correspondent

STOCKHOLM, Feb. 3.—Berlin is digging itself in, tenaciously, for a house-to-house death struggle against - Marshal Gregory Zhukov's well-equipped, motor=ized spearheads, now punching ever deeper into the capital's own province of Brandenburg. An atmosphere of deepest worry enshibuds®all Berlin amid “frantic efforts” to throw every last shambling Volkssturm (people’s army) raggamuffin into the front as stopgap cannon fodder. Ld = n THE NAZIS no longer are notifying the families of battle casualties, with the result that German women do not know if their men are alive or dead. Along with the steady movement to the east of the ‘volksstrumers, crack Waffen S.8. troops are being poured en masse into highly mobile eastern defense lines, the two Frenchmen said. The Germans are even stripping concentration camps of 8S. 8. guards and rushing Wem into battle, ” ADDED 6. the Nazis’ increasing worries is the fear that foreign workers will attempt to revolt. This has resulted in further gestapo control edicts against everybody inside Germany, including German civilians. The Frenchmen said that they heard talk In Berlin indicating that the authorities think that arms and ammunition. for a foreign workers’ revolt is. being dropped from allied planes or smuggled into the country. 8-8 8 - “IN MANY towns and cities, we saw guards pacing squares and main streets with automatic weapons,” they related. “When we asked some German civilians, who had given wus-food, why they “didn’t rise up against the Nazis, they pointed to these guards. “They said that civilians were completely uhorganized and, anyway, that they were afraid of what the gestapo and 8.8. (elite guard) would do to them if they got caught. “Civilians said that they were waiting for the foreign workers to take the first step.”

UNIVERSITY . CHUR CHURCH TO STAGE PAGEANT

“The Great Judgment Morning,” a pageant with musical accompaniment, will be presented by a cast of 22 persons from Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist and Nazarene congregations, tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. at the University ‘church, 19th and New Jersey sts. : . Mrs, Goldie Spurgeon will serve as narrator explaining the plot of the pageant before the action and music begin. The setting will include the gate of heaven through which ‘the “chosen ones” will pass and from which those “not chosen” are ex-

will sing while the cast enacts the story of the final day of § t.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES IN EUROPE NEED WARMER “CLOTHING —

. Curse of The Ardennes

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White-clad American infantrymen in St. Vith, Belgium, are shown as they kept their eyes peeled for snipers.

to cause the foot to sweat, thus increasing trenchfoot hazard. But it is universally agreed that it is a great improvement over the “leather. boot, plus overshoe. So far only a small percentage of our fighting men have been able to obtain these new boots, however, though they are promised in quantity soon. » "= FRONT-LINE troops, furthermore, are rarely equipped with such {items as mittens, mufflers and woolen headgear constructed on the helmet principle, An ai old-weath-er body protection, made Yor the army, was a ‘wool-lined combat jacket and overall trouser, especially for soldiers of armored divisions. But because these are so sought after by other units, the armored men themselves have by no means been complétely equipped. At the moment, everybody is bitter about the report that the army has discontinued this type of equipment,

LACK OF ADEQUATE FOOTGEAR WAS COSTLY TO NAZIS—

Russ Know How to Equip Winter Troops

By DAVID M. NICHOL Times Foreign Service CENTURIES of fighting ih the cold have taught the Russians long ago to equip their troops, especially assault units, in furs and felt boots that are proof against the most extreme weather. Knee-length soft-leather , boots. are standard until temperatures drop below freezing when there is no danger of soaking through from wet snow. Then the cumbersome — but eminently practical—valenki appear. :

» » - SOME foreigners saw these first during the Finnish fighting and concluded. that the Red Army was poorly equipped because its soldiers wore “cloth shoes.”

THE SUBSTITUTE is _the wool-lined combat suit with Norfolk. style paratrooper combat jacket, This jacket, of canvas-like material, excellent as a wind-break-er but without wool lining, is scheduled for general issue. In the lieu of lining the army

issues a good quality, but very thin, lightweight woolen sweater, By wearing several of these sweaters under the paratrooper jacket, it ‘is possible to keep warm, but G. I. Joe is lucky if he can get one, ” . »

COMBAT MEN emphatically . opine that the principle of staving:‘off cold with numerous layers of

‘clothing—though scientifically Ssound—is impractical from the fighting man’s viewpoint. . With a heavy lead of weapons and other equipment to be packed on. the back and - carried over steep, densely forested ridges, through two feet of snow—with odd jobs and hand-to-hand fight-

Actually, they are an adaptation of home-made peasant footwear that dates from the distant past. No socks are worn underneath, but. the foot is wrapped in cloth strips, wound carefully like firstaid practice bandages. 8 » ”

OVER the heavy uniform nor-

mally is worn a greatcoat that al- .

most sweeps the ground. Soldiers in more exposed positions wear belted sheepskins with flaring skirts that reach to the knees. Sometimes, a fur-lined vest, or a quilted jacket and pants ‘are added.

Headgear, when helmets aren't essential—and they are worn- as little as possible—is a snug, fleece-

ing’ en route—the infantryman . cannot afford to bundle himself up like a small boy going sleighriding. * ” . » THE SOLDIERS insist that the old combat-suit with woolen layer built in was the best all around. Better yet would be some kind of fur-lined or fleece-lined equipment—as the Russians and Germans appear to have discovered. Despite the acute miseries of G. I Joe, however, it is the front line "supply officers and quartermaster men “who give full: vent to_their rage at their inability to furnish their charges-with the kind of equipment they know they should have. As for the fighting men, they Just grit their teeth and make the best of things. Meanwhile, they display all manner of ingenuity—as have Americans from the immemorial —in making things less uncomfortable whenever they get the chance. Lopytignt, 1945, by The Indianapolis Times d The Chicago Dally News, Ine.

lined cap with earflaps that can be tied over the top when unused, and with protection for the back of the neck and forehead. Fleece-lined gauntlets are also stdéndard. » ” » LACK of adequate winter wear, particularly footgear, was one of the reasons for the Nazi defeat by the Red army. The wehrmacht insisted on leather boots—a fallacy any deer-hunter in the northern United States would detect quickly. In their efforts to provide protection for themselves, the Germans tried a variety of ersatz. They even wore clumsy overshoes of straw and reed to be worn over their boots. They found that none of these combinations was satisfactory.

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FIRE EXPOSES FILTHY DWELLING, ROUTS FAMILY—

Dirty Homes . ... Blight Helios Children

THREE HOMES—all described by police authorities as “filthy” — were exposed in Indianapolis within the last 24 hours. The latest was discovered this" morning when~a fire at 1112 N, Pershing ave. drove six poorly clad children—one a cripple—and their mother into the street. Yesterday -a 7-month-old boy was found dead at 239 E, South st.,, and 2-month-old twin boys, living at 620% E. Washington st.; were taken to City hospital suffering from undernourishment, n » »

POLICE LT. ROY REEVES said the house a® 1112 N. Pershing ave. was occupied by Mrs, Marie Van Meter and her six children, Billy, 14; Jessie, 13; Ruth, 11; Caroll and Caroline, ‘both 8, and Paul, 6. Describing” it as “filthy,” Lt. Reeves said the house had contained little furniture and that the only sleeping accommodations were two small cots. Lt. Reeves said that only one of the children owned shoes and that the clothes of all ‘of them were ragged. 2 8 »

ALL OF the children were tak~ en by the police to the rion County Guardian's home except Billy who, because he had been crippled by an attack of Infantile paralysis, was taken to City hospital. J Police said Mrs. Van Meter's husband left her several years ago and that she has been supported by relief money. The fire, which was believed to have started in a cuphpard in a rear room of the four-r house, did. considerable damage. Lost in the flames were a wheelchair belonging to Billy and, according to Mrs. Van Meter, $73 in cash. Ny THE BABY who died was Joe Roe Jr, son of Mr, and Mrs, Joe Roe. Coroner Roy B. Storms said the infant's death was due to pneumonia apparently aggravated by exposure in an unheated room, “Dr. Storms added that no ate tempt had been made to provide

medical attention -for the baby

The baby was one of five children who occupied the Roes’ three-room home. They also kept, according to the police, three dogs, two cats

and a pigeon which had access to

the living quarters. » » » “ RAGS HAD been stuffed in a broken window pane in the room in which the baby was found dead, the police reported. The twins who were found to be undernourished were Chester and Lester Phillips, sons of Mr. and Mrs: John Phillips. They were reported staying in an upstairs storeroom converted into living rooms. When arraigned yesterday on child neglect charges, Mr. Mrs. Phillips pleadéd innocence. Mrs. Florence. Bradley, juvenile

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court referee, ordered the twins and a four-year-old daughter made wards of county welfare department. - The girl was taken to the Guardians home. » » » MR. PHILLIPS testified In “Juvenile court that he earned $140 a month as a coal truck driver, Police said .the. Phillips home was “littered with trash and empty beer hottles.” They said there were no toilet facilities in either the Phillips’ or the Roes’ living quarters.

Skeptics Refuse To Take Cigarets

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. Feb. 3 1U. P.). — Passersby stared 6penmouthed at a parking meter in front of ardowntown bank, shaking their heads incredously. A pack of popular-brand cigarets was fastened to the meter with a sign: “Free—Take Ome.” It must have looked like a booby trap, because no one was seen accepting the offer.

AT LUTHERAN HALL

Teams of young people representAng nine churches will compete in a Bible quiz tomorrow at 7:30 p. m, at St. Paul's Lutheran hall, Weg-

The Rev. F. 8. Falkenroth, pastor of Our Saviour Lutheran church, will conduct the quiz which is sponsored by the committee of Christian knowledge of the Indianapolis Walther league.

" HUNT IS KILLED

Labor Parley | Votes Ban on Dual Unions (Continued From Page One)

Mr. Watt said, “We did not turn from Britain to curry favor with

_ the apparently victorious Hitler

and those then allied with him." At that time, Mr. Watt des clared, “dissension was rife in the - ranks of labor in our nation. “Pam phlety entitled ‘Th “Yanks Are N Coming’ wera circulated by left « wing unions in America,” Mr, Watt contine ued. “Pickets were patrolling Mr, Perkins the White House. Franklin Roosevelt was being called a warmonger,” said Mr. Watt, “He was accused by the same left-wingers of taking butter away from the workers to make bullets, He was accused in their publicas tions of aiding British imperialism in imperialistic war, “A, P, of L. leaders were picke eted at meetings held for the purpose of aiding Britain and her - allies. “But came June 22, 1941 (when Hitler invaded Russia), and sud= denly the banners changed and the orators reversed themselves"

. = = af MR. WATT charged that dis. turbances which impeded the early American war effort were “Communist-led - strikes of lefts wing unions. Planes which might have been: helping Britain 'd# Russia were not built because those now hailed as friends of Britain then thought Hitler was a friend of Russia.™ Recognizing “greatness of the U. 8. S.'R. and the people whase blood and sweat have proved their devotion to their homes land,” Mr. Watt drew distines tion between that respect and

- the association win’ Bovier Stace A

unions. “Nearly all United States,” in as much individual freedom and as little state control as possible, s 2 = “WE BELIEVE in private property, and workers believe TH it so much they want to eazn

more of it. We belidve in the ~

family as the basic unit of our society, . in freedom of speetl, press, thought and conscience. The vast majority believe in God.

“We approach the problem

Russian participation in the 1. F.

T. U. from the simple position of trade unionists. We believe there are no free trade unions In Russia.’

“You might as well invite the Russian government into the I. PF. T. U. as to invite the so-called ‘Russian trade unions.” ol ” ” » C. I. O. representatives now here, thinking otherwise on the Russian question, include N tional Secretary James B. Carey; Organizational’ Director Haywood; Joe Curran, presideng of the National Maritime Union. Albert Fitzgerald, president of the United Electrical Workers,

* Sidney Hillman and others are

expected soon.

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We, the Wome Lonely War Wife Carries Heavy Load

By RUTH MILLETT _ ..

workers in the ’ he said, “believe .

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IF SOCIETY were really intere

ested in seeing that marria interrupted by the war stand as good a chance- as possible’ of pulling through the period of post-war readjustment as much would be doné for the morale of service wives as i

done for thélf

men. avy The wife who is left to sit alone, ‘tied down by a child or two or three, with no organized sos cial life “open to her and no one to listen td her problems, is-the wife who i% going to find the going hard. ” » s .

TAKE A LOOK for a minute as Mrs, Brown (who happens to be a true case and is typical of thoUisands of service wives). She has been left with three smill children, ‘the oldest only 7, to care for and support on such a small amount of money that 60 cents each are a real problem. She has no car and she can't afford a' baby sitter. ¢ never gets out, except to go’ dowh town once a week to run neces= sary errands. You can hard% call that an outing, as she walks several blocks to and from the bus line, two children tagging at her side and one in her arms. = un 0» § DOES THE community do anys

So she .

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