Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-22
It's News
To Me
By O. J. Pecmd
THANKS FELLAS

THANKS FELLAS
Have you seen the "ruptured insignia the dis
charged prominently displayed hundreds of busi
carrying the legend I'VE thank you for saving the
country?
Do you remember how management during the stood
up waved the flag and made their slogan Everything FOR
The Boys?
Can't you still see of the heart-moving bond selling
posters showing the in the foxhoes lodging bullets and
calling upon the dig their pockets for
money the bonds to buy the and ammunition In
that democracy might not perish from the face OF the
earth?
But all of that patriotic Stripes Forever God Bless
stuff during the The war is over chums
Today after the end of the the servcemen
are out of their They longer heroes to the
employer the landlords They have become problems
They bunch of wearing civilian clothes looking
for jobs place live They haven't been out long enough
their strength and just beginning to awaken
the they listened to all during the war
just plain unaduleraed bunk. He'll the wars over
ON THEIR OWN
pals the is and strictly on your own
You are beginning that the warnspred oratory of
Bosses officials politicians and other dispensers
paude doesn't with their attitudes now
you fellows have saved the country for the big shots And
the discovery re dsconcerng and skaters some OF ne
illusions which have built during the time
you sweating it out in Europe and on the sinking Pacific
tropical islands.
guys thought that would come home to cheering
crowds barng triumphant parades through the
main street of your home town. Oh yeah!
You fellows your wounds lost your and
legs disabled country from the fate of
Europe China returned to find different picture than
you had expected.
Did you know that when the Veterans Administration
hospital for the of lot of you guys that
the vicinity of Ottawa Park in their IN
dgnaon fought against the grounds that might
their children dogs and cats they
passed by the place?
Look pals heard read about
South Toledo protesting before City Council
out with homes to be placed in the vicinity of the
Anthony Wayne Trail.
GET WISE, GUYS
Your pals yes your fellow citizens complained and
gave out with argument that the citizens living
the Park site for the veterans hospital
advanced-your living them sick WELL in hospitals
makeshih residences would "devauate their property
How do you that stuff? Look fellows, when
guys going to get the this and
the He'll did fight it for' Why it wasn't for you
fellows housing shortage would be nothing There
probably wouldn't housing problem There probably
wouldn't be many houses.
these patriots who gripping about placing
for exsolder along Anthony Wayne Trail laid
in and and ice in the fox holes OF
Europe? they tell you that your now as
civilians joint that isn't much better than the
to lose value.
How many these openhanded philanhropists know
in Pacific jungle with the bugs and
snakes enemy bullets making life almost uncomfortable?
that they should locate places for to live In
vacant lots.
This is America all Americans but there
Americans and fellows right constitute
which to live and raise families that is just re
better than the places in which forced to live during
your days in the armed forces.
asking for too much when you ask for job
place to live the only thing is that you entirely too
polite Get wise
This housing situation that prompt and
effective action and will receive
with your problem and share your views.