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Publication: London Stars and Stripes Thursday, January 25, 1945

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   London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1945, London, Middlesex                                1945 tomorrow in by Igor Cassini tomorrow staff writer tie of agriculture in washing Jon How has set up standards for Swiss ruling that the by few for the better the Donna suing for divorce in i recalled that her husband her 48 Black eyes Between at James Vocelle taking oath As Florida beverage director and supervisor of liquor placed j Tisland on the opened at random by supreme court Justice Elwyn and read they not drink wine with a sir Ongarini shall be bitter to them that drink in Wil Liam Garstang applied for a Patent on a machine to make m o n o crammed the univer sity of Cincinnati announces that the worlds first dictionary of education i will be published this year for the j Benefit of returning in absence of a Safe mrs Eugenia keeper of a reptile i cached her purse in the Python a few Days before Arkansas governor Homer Adkins term expired he received a note Frojm a negro convict at the Little Rock state Penitentiary say ing i notice you going out Lisa Good Hoss and Yard boy and would like to go out with Wil Liam of the aah likes walk by the Navy recruiting office in Kansas City with a Home from 66 missions in India and Burma the Moich decorated flier re i Calls that four years when he tried to enlist in the Navy h6 was told better go the Navy needs in Richard fee was fined and costs for Selling chop suey which included Wood Wax and one unidentified City Council of decided fat smoking is no longer a waste of Good eating tobacco and violin fiddling no longer debauched the morals of the so plans Are to legalize fat various stores in Pittsburgh women were forced to buy razor Blades to get a pack of Pearl Field worked 38 years at Chicago Public retired to catch up on 1 her James Sullivan picked i lip a Manila envelope in a crowded Man Hattan removed from it i dutch that aint in Oklahoma a lets Swap column listed unused engagement and wedding want to somatic Reed College of with fifi fils from an unknown is offer Book to every former student now in the armed servicemen can choose books from a list of 20 As the 1 would most like to have in a the divorce business f suffered an All Low in Only divorces licenses were issued in the lowest record since 1939 in contrast to divorces taking place in in Jefferson Clarence tre Maine posted the prescribed Price list in his tiny the in san Mary tired of waiting for the elec tric company to in tall a was fined for trying to tear one off a nearby new Orleans opa agents threatened to take Victor hellenes gasoline ration tickets after he had been convicted of but Victor didst have a ration baffled opa investigators watched he mixed equal parts of Coal Oil us cleaning pored it into the tank f his 1937 and after getting Rapush from a few neighbors chugged off a Cloud of White America Here this is an extract from a letter written by Ira Lefton to his Lefton sent it to go it is difficult for you and others at Home to see How great our accomplish ments and How great they must be in the future to achieve recently i journeyed As i going along the Road i began to think about what i was seeing and the greatness of the american War Effort became not Only was i witnessing military was also seeing the results of the great Effort made by workers like yourself on the Home Ameri can american equipment of every description is to be american trains on the Railroad american Road american voices and faces on the streets of sleepy French towns and in the Wideawake cafes of american planes in the sky this was no longer a foreign it was a bit of piece of Indiana or per haps Here thousands of Miles from americ4 were the products of american and of american endeavour and purpose and All of it breathed with the mighty strength of healthy men of the american Black White bringing americans Forward to new my America is Here Here where i Here where american dough boys Here under the sky filled with our and then you dont feel As lonely and As lost As you did the feeling of nostalgia but deep Down you know you Arent your loved ones Are with your friends Are with big Shes a welder kid brother in even old Tom Moss who never worked All see look about America is listen the rumble of the Roar of the shrill whistle of the limited stretch out your hand and touch a bit of Ira Toino Kroics America i want to compliment the men of the 5th armoured division upon their gentle i sportsmanship and knowledge of what we Are fighting since i landed in France i have operated with nearly every unit in this combat it i no unit at the time of my operation with same has enjoyed any privilege that want open to although i am definitely a a in this nothing in reaction and activity indicates me As of course this routine is nothing to shout or less than As we Are All fighting for the same More or but As the score to the contrary is so Well known and unanimously expert this routine can by no Means be referred to As an Al time All this is to say that i Hope that tomorrows America will be patterned amen i want Tossiy a Hasty amen to the Little article Tii led lasting written by Morgan our which has stood the test of Many was formed by men with a Strong Faith in id god who is As real today As when recreated the heaven and the let us the prayer of presi Dent John the first occupant of the White House heaven bestow the Best of Messing on this and on All that shall hereafter in habit May none but honest and Wise men Ever Rule under this let us realize our need of divine guidance and take counsel from gods blessed is the nation whose god is the Bill from her this is a latter written by a girl Back Home to her go husband at the he asks that names be we have failed to show you that you do have a decent life to come Home i dont know what you How what real Contact you have with but it is quite evident that you Are discouraged and disgusted with the looks of we have great Faith in and Guys like you represent the alive and precious basis of our you Are the Guys we look Forward to having Home with us to enjoy together the fruits of our combined of we know upon the attitudes of most of these that the men possess an intelligent and upright patterned i am sure that those of us who shall return will find a More worthy and real democratic Sam that you Are going through hell and High but if we Wail and Roll in the mud beside you it certainly wont make us feel More strongly your own you  want us to waste our energies that in you Are doing your Job Well and you agree that it is our responsibility to see to it that your efforts result in a decent Way of life and lasting we have Complete Faith in you and we Are not going to permit anyone to forget what you Are going of course we keep on reminding them Over and Over so that More Good Bills like the go Bill of rights will Here is just one of the plans a fellow like you can take advantage you were going to you were eager to learn and now you can continue where you left better you will be Able to get your knowledge in the school you with an income to perhaps it int much of an but it is a basis and it can make it More if this is no longer what you want there Are other plans which Are becoming plans for Small backed with government plans for construction and where Guys like you can find a place to expend your Best energies and lots equal opportunities for High Standard of broader social Security and unemployment insurance better housing these Are the things that matter to you and we have lots to look Forward my but with out your Faith in and in we dont let yourself be bogged Down with the you Are bigger than these wife Back something for nothing9 those two latest Gimme something for nothing because in a Soldier pleas Climax the screwball handout plans Ive heard since coming i refer to Bradys so called Bonus annuity policy and to t5 Friedman idea that service mens income tax rates be Frozen at 1939 both of which appeared in the 28 of to 1 believe that the time has come and i Hope in not alone in this View for soldiers to get rid of the idea that because they were so patriotic to have been drafted that for the rest of their lives they should be sem Public charges and enjoy All kinds of special seems to me they ought to be so glad to return when they do to civilian life and take up their Normal responsibilities that they Stop looking for something for i wonder just How Many of those life insurance policies Brady thinks would be continued after one half the face value is one Doest need to be an actuary to figure and just Why should Exso Diers enjoy special income tax rates that just Means that the others will have to pay far More than their already heavy 1 just had to get this pet Gripe of mine off my but if space permitted id like to include just a Little arsenic for those go vultures who Bitch continually about the red Cross but at the same time always have their hand out for something for married men i in your go huddle of Fredric Goldberg griped about married men with or without children not going Home he stated that he didst want to tie a woman Down while still in Good for did it Ever occur to you that lots of us were married and had children Long before this War Ever started also sure that most of us have to establish our Homes ail Over were not asking to go Home were just asking for some consideration if you think that you Are in the forgotten what legion would you put us Tommy consider ideas nothing makes me prouder of demo Cracy and free speech than the expression of the mind such As appears in the go and nothing makes me angrier than the misuse of such an outlet by com mitting the Cardinal sin to me against logic such As did on to him educators Are incapable of doing any Good toward the cause of lasting it  matter if All past endeavours along this line by All who can be labelled educators had there is too much difference among the members of this Trade to Brand either the profession of each and every member and All he the Only similarity is in the Type 0f in All things As Broad As this keeping the peace it would that we should consider ideas from All trades for what each is Worth not because of the Trade or even reputation of the ti5 Maxime Derbes Soldier diplomats i believe most soldiers who return Home after this War is Over would like to have something to say about our relations with other propose a committee of forty eight one from each to be sent to Washington to handle issues or transactions that May arise in our relations with other in this manner we will have a More com plete understanding with at the same time we would be looking after our own the Burden after Reading the item favor higher 1 am inclined to believe the author is definitely behind the times regarding conditions Back the people in the states Are not making piles of As some of the men in the service seem to those who believe so certainly have a distorted idea of the the american people have always maintained a rather High Standard of living if will cause the flow of supplies to forces overseas to just because a certain per cent of the population at make the supreme the placing of further hardships on those Back Home is not they have More of the comforts than the Man up front but that is not an indication that they Are not doing their part in hastening the Burden they Are carrying is of an entirely different nature than ours and part of it is income increase this Burden and you add to their social and economic we must remember that there is a definite shortage of most of the essentials because of shipments to the armed this is but one of the Many if we Are primarily interested in winning the War without thought of who gets the credit or finally pays the debt we might accomplish the task More int it bad enough that some of us have to put up with the miseries of War without subjecting every one to comparable difficulties just to satisfy our own selfish whims this is everybody War for the duration and six so let us All continue to do our part and quit worrying about the next hell do his Are built thai Robert too recently weve been Reading letters concerning two postwar subjects postwar military Security and oneyear govern mental conscription of we have already progressed in making our selves More secure against future world wars by realizing that our country cannot isolate herself from the rest of the the disrepute of our isolationists is con firmed by the great number of them voted out of office in recent elections the present military cooperation must continue and enlarge into a postwar govern mental to make this both practical and possible it is necessary first to make ourselves realize that we have something at stake in getting acquainted with both the National and International problems of our in Many cases the term of their services has made soldiers feel that our country is greatly in debt to beyond the extent of such things As family allot ments and the go Bill of How they shirk to even think of their duty As which they Hope soon to i should think it desirable that the pro posed oneyear conscription of 18year Olds including the girls should not be limited to the War but be opened to other branches of the govern the training received would include things of personal the training for a particular and a better knowledge of the Workings of the government As a Edwin Feller is the who bucket but made or the 61 who was ways being for a will select this one  
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