Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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ififllliiiil-HHEKJEQHK I-lil the Persian Gulf to the west coast of Africa, Tel-Litwinsky can handle seven hundred and fifty men at 01109. lt otfers a luxurious recreation center: splendid food which can be had any time of day, amazing tours of ancient Biblical cities, towns ,and districts like Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, the Sea of Galilee, the Dead Sea, and Jeri- cho for fourteen dollars, which in peace- time would cost a tourist about tive hundred dollars, a11d the bright lights and gaiety of modern Tel-Aviv. Cap- tain Lloyd Howard, former superin- tendent of playgrounds at Lynchburg, Virginia, who now runs the camp, says to each incoming group of servicemen, 'l'n1 just running a hotel for 'Uncle Sam. Vile 're trying to provide you with everything but breakfast in bed, and Wl'.1'9 working on that. ln India, as a result of an lndia-wide morale survey worked on by a hundred wtfieers. social clubs are going up with iostesses flown from America by the Red Cross. Everything conceivable from radios to portable cinema projectors with few- weeks old films are going to men in the camps. Broadcasts and swing music from home compete with the sou11d of tribal drums at night. Athletic equip- ment, musical instruments, and indoor James are part of the camp's recrea- tional achievements. Outside of camp men are being invited to upper-class Indian homes and are invading places which a year ago were frequented Jnly by officers of the king. lil-HI-lil In spite of all that has been accom- plished for servicemen, many are still inclined to ask whether the American Theater NVing, the Red Cross, and the llnited States Army are justified in opening canteens and providing enter- tainment for servicemen. Fan mail, the comments of the servicemen, and the enthusiastic response of the servicemen themselves are tl1e best answers as to whether entertainment is an essential part of training. DREAMLINE TOMORROW by Joanne Fuller NCE upon a peacetime the simple familiar phrase, l'll be home for dinner didn 't mean much. But that was yesterday. Now. men are battling in deserts or on lliiIlgl'0l'0l1S beaches, above the clouds or under the sea, for that right 'sto come home for dinner. As we paste current events of today in our life's scrapbook, we can look beyond the manless Mondays, meatless Tuesdays. and maidless doomsdays, be- yond soy-bean substitutes to form our plans for tomorrow. As the pages of time are thumbed through, there are reminders of what was and what shall be again, - good food and the affec- tionate easy laughter of a family sit- ting together around a dinner table, with no empty places, - a summer evening's tour to the Bijou, and the proverbial ice cream sundae that fol- lowed, accompanied by more easy 27

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355696- shoulder. Tears came to his eyes, for there before him stood his brother who had been reported missing in action a year before. Even Mrs. Roosevelt found the can- teen a crossroads. A sailor leaned over her chair and said, 'tMrs. Roosevelt, I'm from Seattle. You know Seattle, don't you?i' 4'Oh, yes, l know Seattle very wellg my daughter lives there. tiYes, l know, my mother knows your daughter l In addition to all the excellent food and entertainment provided, canteens are making it possible for men to send their voices home permanently. Over three hundred phonograph records a month go to homes all over the world. One of the many records going home was that of an English seaman - Fm having a foine time ,ere in America at the Stage Door Canteen and there 's jitterbuggin' and carryin' on . . . A pilot from Glasgow asked three Ameri- can soldiers to sing with him. All joined in t'Tipperary and the Scots- man finished off with, Here we are a bunch of singin' allies. NVe're singin' together in,war and we 711 go on singin' together in peacetime too. Smaller communities ,also ,have or- ganized municipal recreation. Former stores standing idle now receive ser- vicemen nearly every night. Beautiful homes are welcoming men with food, entertainment, and homey atmospheres. Second to the canteens are radio shows and concerts. Indeed, if one EEQEKIEQEHEKXHUEEEEEEKJEEEEKEKKR were to turn on the radio practically any night of the week, he would un doubtedly hear his favorite radix broadcast with the resounding cheer: of servicemen in the background. Con certs, too, are given for the benefit oi men who enjoy classical or semi classical music, and tickets are always being issued free of cost. Nor is recreation by any mean: wholly limited to the States. Our boys are being entertained all over the globe perhaps by an Arabian sheik oi an Australian sheep rancher, tasting a kangaroo steak somewhere in the South Pacific or a curry dinner in the house of a Hindu, or playing tennis with a young lady in Kashmir in the shadows of the Himalayas. Even in the wild Hills on the border of Northern Burma where head hunting is still a favorite pastime. 2 young sergeant, who with his buddies was guest at the wedding of the head- hunters' king, reported, 'tThey playec and danced for us and served us plenty of food. Some of us didn't feel like eating until we found out those con- siderate fellows served us strictly vege- tarian dishes. In the far-off Holy Land in Palestine the Levant Recreation center or. as most commonly known to servicemen, Tel-liitwinsky Cmeaning Litwinsky's Hillj has been established by the llnited States Army as a rest camp for tired or vacationing soldiers. After drawing servicemen from a vast area of five thousand miles stretching from

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lllllil-IEKK KEGG!-BE!-llEllG!69E!E laughter and more' flutfy heaps of whipped cream topped with brown roasted pecans. 'llhen from the yel- lowed pages of the past, we skim over the dark present to the blank and empty pages of the future, eager to he filled by our plans, yes, yours and mine, for a once upon a peacetime for tomorrow. Change is inevitable! A startling example of such change is reflected in once comfortably crowded cities, now overflowing with an influx of popula- tion bursting thc seams of hotels, boarding houses, private homes, and even more private park benches. The negro and poor white from the South, the towering lusty cowboy from the western range, thc pink-cheeked milk maid fresh from the countryside, the blustering small town business man, - all have flocked to the city, already congested, and to war plants, ship yards, and ammunition factories, scratching like ill-fed hens at the tempting golden grains of war time wages and the pulsing adventure of the big town. XVork, food, and housing problems have sprouted and grown like ugly weeds to strangle the very breath of life from our people, who water and cultivate them. Defense workers crowded into one room apartments and dumpy little flats throughout the cities, containing four hard beds and twice as many men, sleep in shifts to solve the bed problem. Lack of time and home-cooked meals U!-HBE!!-IBBEHEUEHE I 5 have pushed millions into dingy hash houses to eat improper and unwhole- some foods. The well-known black market has sapped dry food supplies controlled by rationing and price regu- lation, while easy getting and free spending have boosted inflationary prices upon many commodities. Small towns, too, have suffered. The services have drawn manpower from the farm, and migration to boom towns has left more than one ghost village from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, from 'Frisco to Miami. New slum districts rearing their ugly heads to join the old, unsanitary con- ditions increasing at unbelievable rates, youth rapidly becoming delin- quents, - these are the deadly toll of war time living. There is too much getting spending, spending and getting. From the mumblings and confusion of post war plans flowing into the and capital on swift moving tides - plans for unemployment, housing, reconstruc- tion, and readjustment - have risen the unfamiliar words prefabricated housesf? ffsolaru homes, and collapsi- ble dwellings. During the coming period of recon- struction and beyond, these three types of homes will represent the fifth free- dom - freedom from inconvenience, high costs, Icllld inadequacies - free- dom to live. NVhat a tedious job was the pioneer's to stock up his log cabin as compared with the simple task of erecting a pre-