Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1948 — Page 6

prs VA Reveals Gyp | | Ste or Ret Is Making (On Refund Forms Hoe for Children |

DEAR MRS, MANNERS: { _ Two of the children from my husband's first marriage liv Swith us. They love me and call me mother. Their real mothe has seen them but twice in two years, and they begged me not| to let her take them with her for week-ends. It nearly broke my jday » a Veterans Administration heart to make them ‘go, but they were awarded to her by the court| & The solicitors offer to sell forms Bd 1 want to be nice so she won't take them away, from us. I TIRE EECE BIE 48 Ct

¥now that = Wd ruin our homé.{__; I Koow the respons)’ ility of veterans paid for their govern-

A marriage and a family The boy ment life insurance, according to; pion ag ad I love i» 20. I've gone with him Charles G. Beck, VA deputy ad-| iwo de My present huss six. months but have known him, iniatrator Jor Indiana, Lllinals, since I was 12, an sconsin. has Dei Tarried bhi There's no way to know the | Henry Gorrell, editor and pub- . ree i. Te Bidren. so! responsibility of marriage and |lisher of Veterans Report, Wash-| i s can ve > bigs a family without being married lington, ). C., told the VA two haturally 3 Wan: Dy ki » and having a family. You feel men had made fraudulent claims i oy or . 4 From th ating ve, able to handle those responsi- [to represent‘his paper. '§ petter home for them an yYe| bilities because your mother No Expenses pver had. Is there any ng hd taught you well, but you. den’t | Mr. Beck emphasized that any J ean do to get all three 9 h ed know how you'd act when the offer to sell forms for the pur-| #hildren awarded to us’ ir} responsibilities were your own. pose of recovering. money paid inother never Sends Shem « Jothes Let's believe that mother you've [for national life insurance is al a br anything. The oldest oy esl ® always counted on—she’s been swindle, ©" With his grandparents ah Somer) right so far, | “When the time comes to pay| to our house yer re LER. | % me . dividends on the insurance next { WORRIED ST | To “Sentific Lover (writ- |year,” Mr. Beck sald, “it will be You don’t. meed to worry | ing privately). I don’t get the done without expense to the vetabout your home being ruined | part about the girl and the [eran and any form necessary will! when you give it so much love | coke. You have something— be supplied by the VA.” and unselfishness. You'd give | love could stand more science | The VA Regional Office here re-| 1 it that in some manner if you | and psychology. Maybe some [ported tfiat no swindle cases have| didn’t have those children. The | day a Tittle: uranium could be [0 reported fn Indianapolis or! Indifferent mother probably | 4 to rouse that husband whe [in the state. | ods take the children If | ¢ 30, his wife for granted. | x {you begged her, but 1 know | (1g married her because he ‘Bluff Ave. Residents Hiv want the children legally. | ; 0 4, per so why falk about Do t Y | Gift Go to The wou$ Where the-db-— jr nymore, he thinks.) Maybe | onaie Yuie Gills tA husband’s job and a wife's |

vorce was granted. | a magnetic substance could in- { Neudy persons hers receive gifts {of food and clothing brought by 2 | housework or career usgally | fluence that man who takes a 8 broug RE SNS RX oie Suri i riage happy, no matter how :

§ Warns Veterans. ' Of Phony Peddlers

Swindling of middle west vet- ¢ erans by solicitors who pretend, ¥ to be representatives of a vet eran’'s newspaper was reported to-|

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Ei miuch they love each other, | Might : Public School 9 will furnish: the : hey need to help humanity | sweet music. {list of families to whom the gifts i every day. They need tPwork ' MRS, MANNERS. will go. The Rev. Albert Allee ' } for ‘their children or adopted Report on Births iis in charge of the distribution. He Idren.

4 can’ possi COULD YOU name the states 2: tas i} now meh x. Bly resin out | Ithat do mot report illegitimate - WHEN YOU have a =

hp [Artis to- the ations Ee oe ; er Be bak Btatiaticr. 4 Wi LE OL been ruined by divorce with a |Your: setumn 48 very: iro ron Aeon Filed indifferent stepe DAILY CITY READER. ~~ mother added to their lot. Fifteen states did not require

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Jhe lias told Deon sae er Le Bye i i chan fothers sthat she does no e're| U. ealth rviee, | th 16. When we're together she| Washington, D, C. They are: a Grr open. Doeft 1 shows only a little interest: at, Arkansas, Arizona, California, upsetting laxatives. If you or your 3 men What should I do? | Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, | children need a laxative, take easy- { ~ | PUZZLED SCHOOL BOY. | Maryland, Massachusetts, Ne- | acting Ex-Lax —the laxative that | : , Now is a good time to dial | braska, Nevada, New Hamp- | many doctors use in their practice. i some of those telephone num- | shire, New Mexico, New York,

i 1t’s important, when you have a cold, i

Ex-Lax gets reiuits gently. You

CBArN—0F to file" some If “you Caro +|- can depend on Ex-Lax for thorough 1 don't have any. Maybe she | un lina and Wyoming. | Cict™1¢ is biologically tested to assure effective action. Ex-Lax has

thinks she's the only girl you You have a a letter, “Brokencan get. If she is, then you'd | hearted” (writing that you better “check up yourself, | drink). Will you send your ad- % + -» pb ants to dress? MRS. MANNERS:

| | a delicious e tasto— not a HOW CAN I convince my par-i Let Mrs. Manners and read(rT

bit like medicine. Still only. 10¢. When Nature “forgets”... remember

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: r, 5, Had Never Heard| 3 “Guy Called Santa Claus| GROW!

in Mother of Four Declares Family il Savings tnsared Upto tse} {You know your savi Was Always Too Poor to Have a Christmes |= You knew. your savings | OWOSS80, Mich. Dee. 23 (UP) —A wide-eyed, * five-year-old | account _insired by a boy heard ‘about Santa Claus today for the first time in. his U. 8. governmental young life.

1 ; { agency. Besides this t = H ion; your savings : Capt. Raymond McCalip of the Salvation Army ahah over ||| Protect the needly families on his list and called on the wife and four, | Far™ Senerous dividends : children of Walter Fisher, who is in prison. )

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- semi-annually. Get the Birdy +f. Savings habit and start made a2 selling overshoes since Sunday's snow. He was

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an account next payday.

“Put It in Celtic . . . and Watch It GROW!”

Ly Ist Dividend Rate 313% [|

profit yesterday.

EW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 23 C 4 —After.. selling his in: }i set ror $10 50 he could buy. his 1 CELT EDERAL 1 x fi savines « LOAN AssoctaTION of Indianapolis 3 23 W. OHIO ST.

Then Mrs, Fisher explained | at she had never told ony of |

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gifts, 14-year-old Mervin EnSig “tearfully today: f:that-the-money. was. stolen. by... i : nw “a pickpocket. +2 ~CANASTOTA, Ni Y,, Dec. 23 | AIA * + Officials of the New York ‘Central Rallroad played Santa | x | Cl “to Il-year-old Jimmy | Nig Selcigugh for averting o a poss} bie railroad accident. b

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