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THANKSGIVING without turkey can be a sad affair, It can be especially sad for youngsters who become excited with all the pre-holiday ballyhoo and preparation but who can't quite understand why their table may consist of a usual meager fare, There are many families in the city today who will not sit down to a festive table bulging with good inmgs to eat, There also are many who will take their dinners for granted and there will be little thanksgiving. But in the Evangelistic Center, 3500 Shelby st., there will be sparkling eyes, bulging tables and plenty of thanksgiving. More than 500 needy children who otherwise would not eat turkey will be there—from all parts of the city. They will be ‘there because Rev. Elwood P. Qualls and the members of the congregation believe the spirit of Thanksgiving should be shared with the less fortunate. So today there will be three 50-foot tables for boys and girls in the white frame center,

Plenty of . Preparations PREPARATIONS for the first annual Thanksgiving dinner began six weeks ago. The idea was

almost carried out last year but there wasn't enough Rev. Qualls had come to the city from Ohio

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“For the children” . Mrs. Minnie Pfieffer holds one of the-26 turkeys Which needy children will enjoy today.

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two months before Thanksgiving 1945 and immedi- a

ately began to talk about a dinner. This year, however, his plans materialized. A committee of three, headed by Mrs, Karl Bushfieid, 728 Grove ave, canvassed Indianapolis for orphan children and families too poor to have turkey and the trimming. The dinner was talked up and donations began pouring in. Some of the 26 turkeys which the children will eat were donated, others were bought with cash donations. The other things on the menu like apples, celery, potatoes, corn, cake, cabbage for cole slaw, cranberry sauce, bread and butter, and milk were donated. The white cake was donated from a neighborhood bakery. Preparing food for 500 hungry children requires a lot of help. This also was cheerfully given even though it would mean a disrupted holiday. Yesterday at 7 a. m., women of the congregation began to prepare the turkeys for roasting. Potatoes .and apples had to be peeied, celery and cole slaw had to be prepared. Some of the turkeys were roasted in the parson's oven, the rest at the center, All night long the women worked. Dawn came and the Thanksgiving feast was almost ready. The tables were set and the weary workers hurried with the last of the food. There were many problems in the limited space and facilities which they had to use. The food must be hot at 11:30 when the children begin to file into the dining room. It must be hot for those who were to follow until all 500 had eaten,

Many Other Problems THERE WERE other problems. How were 500 children to come to the center from all parts of the city? The Evangelistic Center's bus couldn't handie all the children, Other churches offered their buses? This was an inter-denomination effort—no child was excluded and no help refused to bring Thanksgiving closer to the needy. Across the street at the Tabernacle the children congregated for a Thanksgiving service before dinner. Oscar E. Sprecklemeyer, 3545 Lyons st, saw to it that the children crossed the busy street safely. He also] looked after the transportation back to their homes | later in the afternoon. What about the workers and | their dinners? { They'll eat, but as Mrs. Minnie Pfieffer, 1308 W. | Wilcox st., said, “We'll eat after all the children are fed—not before. There's about 350 pounds of turkey here, but if -there's nothing left for us we'll thank | the Lord we could feed the children.”

By Frederick C. Othman

By ANTON SCHERRER

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—In the capital, where everybody currently is sore at everybody else (except Othman who ain't mad at nobody), a fellow has got to be grateful this Thanksgiving day for smal] favors. Like hub caps. 1 barely made it to the garage with my old heap to see whether the man could make it run another vear. He said he could. And then he did an amazing thing. He surveyed my motor car critically and he said: “Sir, you need some hub caps. I told him this was not news. I had been needing hub caps for nearly five years. He hauled out four shiny new ones and snapped ‘em on my wheels, The war is over, My hub-caps prove it.

Incipient Stomach Aches

GRATEFUL I AM also for my turkey, even if it did cost 65 cenis a pound. President Truman got a turkey, too, and it*was free. John L. Lewis has a turkey, which I suppose he will cook over a slow coal fire. if he can find some coal. These gentlemen and others, Including Wilson W, Wyatt. the housing chief; George Allen, the RFC director: Roger Slaughter, the investigating congressman: John Taber, the Republican who hates press agents: and Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach, who never gets to solve a labor problem, all have turkeys. They also have incipient stomach aches. They are involved in so many scarlet-faced. tablepounding rows that a plate of white meat with dressing is guaranteed to give arly one of ‘em indigestion. On this Thanksgiving day I pity the big-wigs. The weather to date has been mild and I am grateful for that. I still have two pairs ol pants (Editor's

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— Author of “Our Town” A MODERN-MINDED reporter-no doubt, would start

this piece with the Ripley gambit by brazenly asserting that the Pilgrims had nothing to do with inventing Thanksgiving. Brought up as I was, however,'1 think I'll stick to the more conservative French gambit of cherchez la femme, The woman in the case was Sarah Josepha Hale, a 39-year-old widow with five, _——— - small children to support. As early as 1826, almost 40 years

note: The guy's rich) without holes in same, and 1 can sneer at the prices in the clothing stores. Nor do I need any shirts, not even the bargains at $3.95: gratefully I shall await the day when the price of these returns to $2 flat. I am grateful for the wrist-watch priced at $4000 (tax included), studded with diamonds and emeralds and said to keep reasonably good time, in the window of a Connecticut ave. jeweler. 1 mean I'm grateful it's still in the window. To date nobody's been dopey

pathies in our nature.” Thus provifig that Mrs. Hale had the proper

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jof the abundance of the seas and'brate the day appointed by Gover-] MRS. HALE was 75 years old of the treasures hid in the sand.” nor Jennings, At any rate, Sarah when President Lincoln issued the | ‘A hundred and fifty years later, Fletcher (wife of Pioneer Calvin first proclamation to celebrate congress took a hand in the matter Fletcher) makes no mention of it in Thanksgiving on a national basis-— and recommended days of thanks- her diary. On that day (“Priday, old enough, you'd think, for her to giving during the revolution and in 12th of Aprile”), she wrote: “Mrs. retire and rest on her laurels. Buf 1794 for the return of peace—as P. & Sally Ann Nowland & myself she had other work to do. The fact {did President Madison in 1815 for spent the P. M. nopn at Mr. Buck- of the matter was that she hadn't the end of the War of 1812, Presi- ner's where I got the sight of 8 finished her Thanksgiving bill of dent Washington appointed such a young Lady Jest from Kentucky, at| fare, day in 1789 after the adoption of a distance she looked very flashy &| For the next 15 years, Mrs. Hale the Constitution, and in 1795 for carried a very high head. I did not used the columns of her paper (still the “general benefits and welfare have the pleasure of getting ac- Godey's Lady's Book) to tell the

, idea of a modern Thanksgiving— of the nation.” It was probably quainted with her—perhaps if I had women of America what to serve €nOyER Or FiEh enough, oF both, Io buy it | before President Lincoln got around namely, that it is a day of feasting the first instance of a Thanks- I would have found the lady as with the Than ivin, turke: t g Ye £7 For Bourbon : so it, Ms Hale toyed With a notion and Jposslig and not of Tasting giving celebration on general empty as myself.” | Among other things, she recomz that this country oug ave an and humiliation, as some sour souls grounds and not for a specific oi mended “Soodje,” a fancy fish dish; d SRATER I. 100, a 1 Yor we high Pa > annual national | would have us believe. purpose. Even so, Washington didn’t | IN 1839, DAVID WALLACE (our “Lafayette ducks with snowballs” rin ing iquor; “8 quit Searing mY hoa ® holiday to be In 1846 when she was 58 years pick the last Thursday in November governor at the time) issued a proc- | compounded, it appears, of boiled with the nasty sult, 14s nignt 1. bumped inlo 4 known 4s {old and editor of Godey's Lady's for his purpose. That date didn't lamation fixing Thursday, Nov. 28 rice, raisins and “coffee A sugar”; big-shot distiller's lobbyist. He said it was incredible : { : am g y. ' yg h h bosses ould Ss nd $2 ili in thei T ha nksgiving, Bok, Mss Hale began a definite occur to any President until Mrs. | os a day of thanksgiving. It was the and “ham baked in maple syrup.” 10 him how his bosses om Spen h a on mn 1 Br On that occa- {and very determined campaign to Hale button-holed Mr. Lincoln and | ” : | Before baking, the ham was soaked campaign to gain public Wi and t i ose x 2 3 sion, ‘she ven= |1ast 17 years for the nationalization made him listen to her. {Art such order issued by an Indi-li,, cider (three weeks) and stuffed charging $7 for a small Boitie of bourbon whisky. tured the opin- of Thanksgiving. Year after year * w ana governor on his own initiative.|with sweet potatoes. Of pumpkin Yatighes a nd Sa one of those newfangled ion that ‘Wwe She importuned the governors of IT APPEARS that no President What's more, it turned out to be the pie, Mrs. Hale said it is “an in- : : " i. have too few |the states” to join in establishing j. seivi d ) . dispensable part of a good # fountain pens that writes upside down on the ceiling YS » God [the 1ast’ Thursday in’ November as lcsued a Thanksgiving proclamation last Thursday in November-—the @SP€ 33 bur 8 Thanks

under water. The first one I bought was guaranteed to write two years without refilling, but I am sure it; would have written four vears because it wrote only half the time. I wrote a piece about this. The man in Chicago phoned long distance to find out what was the matter. 1 said nothing except that

bless her big heart. ia general holiday. A year later (in 1827), she elab-/ (in 1852), she was able. to report orated her idea, got down to busi- that 29 governors had seen the light ness, and brought the turkey to She didn’t have much luck with the table. That was the year she the Presidents, however—at any

i ‘t wri wrote “Northwood,” an amazing rate, not until 1863 when she perHis EH NOmUAY I 2x0eps Yhen in $e tnooy. hs novel not only because it was the suaded Abraham Lincoln to see no better. 8 endthrift that I am, I Junked first to discuss slavery, but also things her way, a ¥ Pp Alls because it was the first to prescribe | $$ uo =

down my $15 for still a third pen of another brand and it writes on plain ordinary writing paper! I'm using it now to wish you customers, who have written me so many kind letters during this somewhat cock-eyed year, as happy a Thanksgiving as mine,

an orthodox Thanksgiving dinner OF COURSE this doesn’t mean “set forth in the parlor being the that Mrs. Hale thought up Thanksbest room and ornamented with giving all by herself. Like most the best furniture” . .. “The roast- big ideas, her's, too, was the result ed “turkey,” she said, “took prece- of historical bequests. The first dence sending forth the rich odor Thanksgiving of record, that of the of its savory dressing.” Plymouth Rock Pilgrims in 1621, s ~& = was celebrated in December. And EIGHT YEARS later (in 1836) it wasn't merely a day—it lasted when she was editor of the Boston a whole week. . Nor is there any Ladies Magazine, Mrs. Hale's atti- evidence that it was celebrated with tude toward “periodical ‘seasons of turkey. As a matter of fact, the

By David Dietz

es A —— rejoicing” became even more Sig- Pilgrims had nothing to eat but PERHAPS, on Thanksgiving day, you are wonder - The scientist is. grateful to congress for having nificantly social. That was the year shellfish that week for which Elder : feels thankful about in this passed the McMahon bill, the so-called atomic energy 'che said: “They bring out and|Brewster cheerfully gave thanks

ing what a scientist muddled vear of 1946. The answer thankful for a great number of things. Like everyone else, he is thankful that we were victorious in world war II, but it may be that his appreciation is a little sharper than that of some people. He watched the destruction of European universities and research institutions by the Nazis and the even more terrible destruction of academic and scientific freedom inside Germany and Italy as well as in the rest of Europe. He knew that science-— and all civilization—would die if such a regime were victorious. The scientist is thankful] that he can now get back to peacetime pursuits. Science was mobilized in the fullest sense of the word for world war TI. Scientists who worked on the atomic bomb project went into voluntary concentration camps. On other projects as well scientists worked under the strictest secrecy and conditions that were personally irksome,

is that he is

Developed ‘V' Weapon THESE SCIENTISTS are thankful that their work turned out so well. They developed the weapons which brought victory in world war II—the radar, the radio proximity fuse, the bazooka and other new rocket weapons, the atomic bomb. But chiefly they are thankful that the war is over. They worked on these weapons because they were patriotic citizens and because they saw the necessity of winning the war. But their own desire is to make science serve the happiness of mankind. They are thankful also that statesmen and politicians are now beginning to listen to the opinions of

# the sicentist in peacetime as well as in war,

act of 1946. In this bill he finds the kind 6f plan for the control of atomic energy of which he approves. | He is grateful to President Truman for his appoint- | ment of an atomic energy control commission headed by David E. Lilienthal, who was chairman of the board of consultants that drew up

the Acheson INDIAN CAMP SITES By WILLIAM F. McMENAMIN Lilienthal report for the state department. United Press SGI Correspondent

together, as it were, the best sym-/that they were “permitted to suck

Thank ful for Report WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (U. P) WASHINGTON, Nov, 28.—Lt. Col

: : James E. Bain, assistant director f ; ist i -|—The Smithsenian institution an- ' IT SHOULD be added that the Scientist is thank- | Sy of rocket development for ‘war de fil for this report also, which did in the international nounced yesterday that it has taken partment army ordnance, believes

field what the McMahon bill did in the national field, initial steps to preserve the arche- jt would take pillions of dollars and

namely, establish an American policy which the sci- ological remains of Indian culture years of researcn to perfect a entist can support as sound and in the interest of in the Missouri valley. rocket to the moon. manking. | The institution plans to excavate Col Bain, who is from Martinsville, Ind, said this tremenaous

Bernard M. Baruch likewise comes in for a gen-| the more important sites of habitapreservation and study effort in time and money would reit said. they would be sult in putting a piece of metal on : the moon “the size of vour fist.”

erous share of the scientist's thanks for the splendid tion for job he is doing as the American representative on Otherwise, the United Nations atomic energy commission. His inundated permanently when proproposals, following the lines of the Acheson-Lilienthal posed dams and reservoirs are built | : . i report, have been what the scientist hoped this nation in the Missouri basin. ! SILLY NOTIONS would offer, | The institution, working with govThe trouble, to date, has been Russia's recalcitrance | ernment agencies, has completed a

Six years later

during the period beginning with very day President Lincoln picked 51108 1815 and ending with 1864, the year when, 25 years later, he accepted | MRS Lincoln started the practice. During Mrs. Hale's advice. ! ! that time, the celebration and| There is reason, setting of a day for Thanksgiving that Indianapolis was the prerogative of the states. In old) didn't heed Governor Wallace's, kev on the Thanksgiving table Indiana, for instance, the matter proclamation any more than it did she also found time to think up : {of Thanksgiving was made the sub- Governor Jennings’ legislatively-in- {way of raising funds to build the {ject of a resolution introduced -in the spired one. At any rate Calvin Bunker Hill monument, to say noth lepislature as early as Dec. 23, 1821. Pletcher (husband of Sarah) failed ing of writing “Mary Had a Little I. was tabled. A week later, how- to mention it in his diary, A year Lamb.” She was a grand old lady ever, it was brought up again and. later, however, under date of Nov. 'and it would have tickled her no this time, it passed. It authorized 19, 1840, Mr. Fletcher wrote: “Cold end to know that. in 1939 America Governor Jonathan Jennings to day Thanksgiving—In the morn had the imagination to ' celebrate al'ocate the second Friday in April went with Mrs. Julia Hand after two Thanksgivings. One was for the (1822) for the purpose. When it clothing for the noor—We rec'd | Republicans who had the fortitude. came time for him to issue liberal donations—Our dist. all 8. of [to celebrate it on the traditional the proclamation, Gavernor Jen- wash. St. of Meridian. After go- | Thursday—this in spite of the fact nings guardely sald that he had ing over about !s the dist. we that they ‘didn't have much to be been moved to do so because of “a suspended our operations & went to thankful for at the time. The other lo-ge and respectable portion of the hear Thanksgiving sermon at M.[cne was for the Democrats who, religious community.” |E. C. Mr. Good prcached good ser- [that year, celebrated it a week There is reason to believe, how- | mon—Gen’l Hanner called & paid ahead of time and, in their ever, that Indianapolis (barely a me for the 46 hogs which weighed | exuberance, called it Franksgiving, vear old at the time) didn't cele-113982 & came to $419.46." Remember?

” » » HALE died in 1879 when she : wag 91 years old. She ran Godey's too, to believe | .4v« Book almost to the day of (then 1B years har death. Besides putting the

U.S. SEEKS T0 SAVE | Ordnance Expert Predicts Trip to Moon Is 15 Years Away

| “That wouldn't prove a thing,” tists are experimenting reaches a; Col. Bain said army research was Col. Bain said. “Whom do we want speed of 5000 feet per second and concentrated on firing rockets acto fight on the moon? We are in it is the fastest known rocket. curately at ranges of 25 to 50 miles tear Boch weaPONS.| The V-2 cost the Germans $360.- and gradually increasing the ranges y, Col. sald, I 187000,000 to perfect in 12 years of [up to a foreseeable future of 2000 purely a matter of velocity and effort. It will deliver a one-ton miles. ' control to ire a rocket to the moon warhead. but a B-29 bomber can! He predicted that the next war al I ae ne carry several bombs weighing a ton [—If ggy—largely will be fought Scape : each and drop them on a target With improved models of equipment earth's gravitation field) has to be 0. 0 Rreater accuracy. used in world war II. At present, about 36000 to 37000 feet per] “Tt is : : a bombers and artillery can. do the second. possible by the principles : The German V-2 rocket with | We know today to get a velocity of Job more effectively than rockets f . . except at long range. which American ordnance scien- about 24,000 feet per second at a “Py - ————— - tremendous cost.” Col. Bain said. ish-button war is not just

but the scientist is grateful to Mr. Molotov for his|preliminary survey of a 530,000- py recent address showing a spirit of conciliation and square mile area. About 170 sites ~ hopes that Russia will proceed to back up those words Were marked for excavation, pe ~ with some definite and concrete acts. ! . ~~

I do not want to leave the impression, however, JUDGES WILL VIEW that this Thanksgiving finds the scientist with nothing MUM PHOTOGRAPHS

to complain about. His chief complaint at the mo- | ment is the failure of the last congress to pass the, The National Chrysanthemum national science foundation bill. And he hopes that! ghow photographic contest, limited you will write your congressman about it as soon as

: to photog: s take the lawmakers go into session, Photographs taken at the recent

national show here, will be judged

‘We, the Women

at 1 p. m. Sunday at the Severin hotel. | Entries will be accepted until

By Ruth Millett Sunday morning at the hotel or hy

“THAT STORY haunts me,” said a middle-aged, kindly woman, talking about the tragic fire in Lincoln, Neb,, in which 2-year-old twins and a 6-months-old baby were burned to death when a home-made trailer that housed a family of eight caught fire. The trailer had no electric lights, no water, and no heat except that from the kergsene stove which started the fire. That story ought'to haunt all of us, because it is a tragedy America should have prévented. the kind of tragedy’that may occur many times before this winter is past,

Tragedy Certain to Strike TRAGEDY IS almost certain to strike again and

again during the winter months, as such families try to keep warm at the expense of safety.

So long as we permit members of our communities

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| Mrs, Yvonne Luebking. secretary of |=" —— ————————— + Allied Florists, 4028 E. Washington st. to live under such conditions because they ean find Judges for the contest are Wilbur no-hetter housing, such stories should keep us awake D. Peat Herron Aft Tnstitiice direct - at night in our safe, comfortable homes. oF: Donald Jamison, Indianapolis 7 a Our consciences shouldog- let us sleep until our Camera club: Edward C. Grands 7 7 » town-—which is all of us—has devised ways of getting Chrysanthemum show chairman: Aly pk a adequate housing for every family—before it is t00 |g. ro g / wa UI Laie tor some of Wem | Edward Larsen, past president of He A Ly ; | the National Chrysanthemum So- at LE y iy eps let f America, and Clarence qe It's Our Responsibility FO ie ATI ists iy “HOW CAN PEOPLE live like that?” the com- emt pe m——————— LR placent ask, when they notice a family living in a of 3

makeshift dwelling like the one in which three chil- | FAMED DRUMMER DIES dren burned to death, PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 28 (U, P.). “Why do we let people live like that?” is a better | —Oscar Schwar, 71, ranked among question, and one every responsible member of a com- the greatest masters of the drums of munity should ask himself. all time, died at his home today We have come toglook on the housing shortage ax of pneumonia, He had been tym-| a national problem. t we will solve it sooner if we panist of the Philadelphia orchestra | accept it as a community responsibility, or the past 43 years, : .

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J ; | He added that the Germans had around the sorner,” Col. Bain said, By Palumbo a trans-Atlantic rocket on the How soon we reach it depends on would have weighed 180 tons. at i463 take-off and have a velocity of . 11,000 feet per second. School Brightens 30 Days in Jail ays in Jai would have to be the size of a skyscraper, the scientists gstimate, KALAMAZOO, Mich, Nov. 28 { To get a super-velocity the scl would reach a velocity of 5000 feet | I§ doing his homework in the per second. From it would fire a| county jail, secorid rocket which would reach; Judge George Weimer sentenced experts theorize, could reach u de. | ment on burglary charges with sired speed. | the provision that he be permitted Bain estimated that with a | velocity: of 24,000 to 25,000 feet per Judge Weimer made the une (second, or a _ “satellite velocity,” | Precedented ruling after Slaugh< That would mean the rocket would | ‘er told him he probably would pounds. if you started with a 15- "y ton rocket. ‘um “Who would be willing to put up money, then you still would have will close on Saturdays, as of this no- idea where it was going.” | week, M. D. Cummins, regional He explained that existing control manager, said ‘today. The closing planetary travel. The experts have [day schedule, Monday through Sats “succeeded tn bouncing a radar pulse urday, when the fuel conservation off the moon, however, and that fs order is rescinded. Offices alse will

drawing hoards with a one-ton pay- the money and effort spent on solve To reach the escape velocity oo (U. P.).—James Slaughter, a Kala« entists figure on a svstem of rockets- | 11,000 feet per second. Still a third | the youth to 30 days’ imprison. | Col. | to leave the jail every day to ate become a satellite revolving around | Make the honor roll if his schools the money for all this?” Col. Bain CLOSED SATURDAYS systems and radar were not strong is to conserve fuel, he said, LEA SATUS, \a start, d be closed today.

load and a range of 3000 miles, It D8 the problems.” existing propellants, a moon rocket within-rockets. The first rocket | maze. Central high school pupil, rocket fired from it. and so on, the | | four-stage rocket you could reach a| tend school. the earth. It would weigh seven | Ing was not interrupted. said. “Assuming you could get the| Veteran administration ‘offices enough to handle a rocket in inter=! The offices will return to a six=

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