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Illinois Valley News, Thursday, January 24, 1946 Washington Digest? Germans Hope to Rebuild Country Out of Wreckage SEITINC CIRCLE PATTERNS W î ’ ii Haven l 'liic'i S phsc Slim. Pretty j Frock Is Flattering “ All-Occasion Twosome for Matron WNV Features Bell Syndicate Expect Quality of Products to Restore Rep utation of Lost Beauty of Cities; Seek Raw Materials for Industry. By BAIKHAGE /Vetcs Analyst and Commentutor. WNU Service, 1616 Eye street, N. W. Washington 1). C. NUERNBERG, GERMANY —One German who otherwise gets along very well with the American occu pation officials and is thoroughly in sympathy with what is going on in the Nuernberg court house will nevertheless be one of the happiest men in Germany when the trials are over. He is a little black-haired, bespectacled man named Hans Ziegler. Oberbuergermeister of the city. The best translation for his title is plain "mayor” but because all German cities have at least one deputy mayor, some of the Amer ican writers who have seen service in London translate "Oberbuerger meister” as "Lord Mayor." Herr Ziegler says frankly that his work will be easier when the huge organization required to support the international military tribunal has folded its tents and departed. When he told me this I was rather surprised since at first blush it might seem that the city would benefit from all this American activity. However, when one considers that what the Ameri cans here buy with the Germans own money (we print it and they have to redeem it) the profits can hard ly seem desirable. The central Ger man government, when there is one, will eventually redeem the paper marks but all Germans will have to contribute in the form of taxes. In Nuernberg although as I said, the city budget had been cut 50 per cent, the taxes have already been increased 33'S per cent. Military Tribunal Imposes Burden The chief burden which the mill tary tribunal imposes on the town and the one which presses down hard on the mayor, derives from the fact that it takes a lot of tons. volts and manpower to keep the wheels of justice moving. Coal is Nuernberg's (as it is Ger many's) chief problem. What the Russians didn’t get out in their zone, the chief coal areas in Ger many. the French have taken in theirs, Transportation has broken down, Without fuel to heat their homes or to cook with, Nuernber- gers have bought up every sort of electrical heater and cooker and this plus the large amount of power used by the Americans has put a ter rific drain.not only on the power plants but the cables. It takes coal to make electricity here where there are no tumbling cataracts. As I write the snow is falling in great Christmas card flakes and even the ruined houses are assuming a touch of beauty. But that beauty is of lit tle comfort to people living in cel lars or rooms without roofs. Half of Nuernberg's houses were destroyed, the mavor told me. a third partly demolished. The rest can be made livable. But alas, the military tribunal took over one-third of the labor available for building and repair and a large stock of materials. A two hour walk through the city revealed no shops open except a few food and meat stores. In spite of this almost total eclipse of visible industrial existence I was surprised that the mayor placed first on his list of objectives, a restoration »f Nuernberg's long - established reputation for expert craftsmanship —for goods of high quality. Toys, of course, but also precision instru- ments, light machinery and pot- tery. "We cannot restore Nuernberg a beauty, its historical buildings which brought so many tourists here." said Mayor Ziegler, "but we can w*in back our reputation as hard workers and fine workers. The citv has a long established record for industriousness and expert handi craft as producers of high quality goods. That reputation goes back to the middle ages. Of course we will have to be very patient. We must first rehabilitate our city, then we must wait for good raw materials which we must have to produce hign quality products. And of course all this must wait until Germany is once more permitted to trade in world markets." But. I interjected at this point, what about the food situation? That wasn't in the mayor's province. He took the view which later proved sound enough, that America would not let the Germans starve. If that B A R B S My most embarrassing moment in Nuernberg: When the guard in the court house came up to the broadcasting booth and said: "Pipe down, the judge can't hear the law yers." Well. I got my commission in the artillery because I could out- shout the horses. Here is Churchill's latest epigram: "Atlee soit qui Laski pense." ! was our intention, after all, it solved , j : j i . | I ! I 1 all problems and there was no need to discuss the other questions. The mayor by no means took fiF’ granted that America was an end- less source of supplies, that we would forever provide the food which Germany herself never had and never could produce. All he ex pected was to be tided over until Germany could pay her own way and buy the food for her people and feed for her cattle. That brought this keen-eyed little man right back to his original theme. "Our small industries must get back on their feet so that we can sell our goods in the world ma, ket and obtain exchange for imports. Remember,” he said. Russians have taken over many's bread basket. A great ment of the country has been cut away. And a million and a quarter German food producers, who are also food-consumers, have moved back within the non-food producing area of Germany. The Ruhr and Saar areas never could possibly feed themselves. Now more people are crowded into them, as well as into this area where most of the land is already under cultivation. "These newcomers cannot raise food but they can work in our fac tories and 'produce products who can buy the food from the rest of the world. To do that we must be allowed to get the raw materials and be permitted to trade in the world markets. Otherwise, there will be starvation, riots and chaos which will spread all over Europe.” European Economy Out of Kilter Later on I learned more about that "spreading.” In Berlin I sat in the office of American food and agriculture administration. Through that office that morning had passed a Czech, a Belgian and a Hollander. I The Czech came in to beg per mits to bring sugar into Germany which has none. The Czech's best beet fields have not been de stroyed. They can’t ship the beet sugar abroad but they could easily push it across the Czech-German border where the Germans are starving for it. And the Germans have great piles of unused salt. The Hollander said: “The Ger mans love my fish. They are starv ing. You are importing food for them. My fish is rotting and there are still enough parts for agricul tural machinery in Germany and plenty can be turned out in small factories which we must have if we are to continue our farming." The Belgian had the same story, From time immemorial Belgian cheap beef has gone to Luebec and other west German cities to go into German sausage. The Belgians have plenty of scrawny cattle which concocted into German sausage would be received only too gladly by the Germans. "What shall I do with this cat tle? They are no good for anything else. And we could get plenty jf manufactured products in Ger many to pay for them if you would let only a few shops start manu facturing the things we need.” In the Russian zone a number »f factories are working, supplying the Russians of course. but I likewise yielding return enough to keep ths Germans alive to make • more things the Russians need. I witnessed strii^ng evidence of this will-to-survive on the part of Nuernberg business men For the most part it represented the retail er but it is typical of the town. I walked through the nightmare of the Altstadt <the old town) which is within the ancient city wall and was the famous sight-seeing center as well as the location of the main police station and city hall where the SS troops held out to the last man. The destruction is too horrible to dwell upon. It is an exaggerated Coventry. But all along the main streets, now cleared of rubble, were brand new. well painted signs bear ing the name of the shop owners who had once done business there with visitors from all the world and plain to see was the notice of a new address. It gave one a strange feeling to see bright bits of neat board stuck in a dump heap —a neat dump heap. It made you think of the restless hand in the old tale, projecting from the grave. 34-48 «ATHI CTN NORIirs "On our icedding nifiht he began to tell me of his conquests. Il secretly made me sick, so that ue started off badly." By KATHLEEN NORRIS AROL is a very pretty girl who married her school hero; she adored Johnnie in secret all through her girlhood, she watched him win football games in college years, she cried when she kissed him goodbye and saw him off to war, and they were married six months ago, when Johnnie came marching home. “He would be a perfect hus band,” she writes me, “if he were not so stuck on himself. I suppose the right word for that is ‘vain,’ but stuck on himself seems to express it better. Johnnie has been a good deal admired, he was a football idol ip our small town, and he has a good war record—but my gracious! "On our wedding night he began to tell me of his conquests. It secretly made me sick, so that we started off badly. I listened all through the honeymoon to casual references to girls who had made fools of themselves over him and married women who had abandoned virtue when irresistible Johnnie came along. "Naturally, this disgusted me a good deal, •for the nature of these revelations was rather shocking, but what disheartened me more was Johnnie’s vanity and his simplicity. He revelled in long quoted conver sations, in which this or that shy damsel gradually surrendered to his charms, going on to review the love letters that pestered him while in the service, and the praises of his superior officers, many of whom envied him, his record, and his suc cess with the ladies. Keeps on Boasting. "My saying, ‘oh. please. I’m not interested!’ has no effect. Johnnie goes right on boasting. Once or twice I tried a back-fire, and began on my own romantic adventures, but that didn't interest him at all He hardly listened and was off again on the fascinating history of a little Filipino girl, or a little Aus tralian nurse—it's so tiresome that sometimes I want to scream. "I'm aware,” the letter continues, "that I’m describing a stupid, self engrossed man. but that's not the case. Johnnie is kind, generous, amusing, extremely popular, and came back from service still cheer ful and well-balanced, and has already made his way as a mem ber of our best firm of architects. Of course he doesn't talk this way all the time, we both love the little farm where we live, and Johnnie is really clever in planning for the chickens and fruit by which we mean to make it pay. He is patheti cally pleased that a baby is coming, and rather touched me by saying, when I was hoping for a boy, 1 want a girl, like her mother.’ "But with all this he can’t see that he's hurting himself and bor- ing me by this Adonis-complex, this eternal complacent posing, this coo- tinual reference to himself as stronger, taller, handsomer than all the men with whom he comes in contact. ‘She took one look at me.' by Baukhage And Mr. and Mrs. Churchill have chosen Florida for their "vacation” —they'll call on Mr. Truman Washington en route but what chance for the Florida chamber commerce. I'll never sneer at again. It is worth fraction in Europe wrist watch for the Due to an unusually large demand and current conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orderg for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: long underwear five dollars a with an extra k’wer half of hi* cimqueU». . . . I SEWING CIRCI.E PATTERN DEPT. 70S Minion St., San Franriaro. Calli. Enclose 25 cents In coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No. -Sizt MALE I'AMTY A girl who marries a hand some, talented man can hardly be surprised if he is vain anil boastful. Men are that nay. Carol complains that her hus band, Johnnie, talks endlessly about his conquests of the heart, about how envious other men are of him. how married women fall for him, etc. This is getting pretty tiresome, Carol thinks. She is herself a beauty, and a pparen tly completely satisfied with Johnnie, outside of his obnoxious egotism. They live on a nice little farm out side the city where he works as an architect. He is success ful, well balanced despite his war experiences, affectionate and generous. They are eager ly awaiting the arrival of their first child. Miss »Norris replies that no marriage can be completely happy. There is always some flaw. In Carol's case, it seems to be merely an annoying trifle. The advancing years, says Miss N orris, will bring John nie many sobering experiences. This phase of Johnnie's will pass, says .Miss Norris, leaving nothing but memories, if Carol will have the patience and wis dom to trait it out. he will say. 'and her darling Fred dy faded from the picture.’ ” • • • Well. Carol. I say in answer, ev ery marriage has its percentage of difficulty and disappointment; some as high as 80 per cent, some — as in your case, that I would rate about 10 per cent. Johnnie's vanity is innocent enough after all. for the probability is that his conquests exist principally in his own fond dreams; any man who is popular, farm-loving, wife-loving, baby-lov- ing, and who belongs to so eclectic a profession as his, is sound at heart. Defeats will Come. You may have to put up with his absurdities for a while longer, and then may have the harder trial of seeing Johnnie disappointed, his pride tumbled in the dust, his beauty impaired — and for sheer pity of him, in his childish hurt and amazement, you may feel a love and sorrow that will wipe out al) the memories of younger, bumpti ous years. The mills of the gods often bring this to pass. And the higher they rode in their glory, the deeper these men have to fall. You married what every young girl dreams of marry ing—tall and handsome and popu lar and a football hero and a war hero—isn't that about the prescrip tion? — and if he is good-natured and affectionate and smart in his profession you got more than you ordered. You can do something, in this particular mfiment in world affairs by calling his attention to the wounded, the handicapped men who are coming home, and getting him to help them — that may sober him. 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