Illinois Valley News, Thursday, January 24, 1946
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Germans Hope to Rebuild
Country Out of Wreckage
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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
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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
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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.
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«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
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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.’ ”
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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.
Anyway, sooner or later, life itself
will, and Johnnie the magnificent
will grow to man's estate.
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bos to the women of Japan marks
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movement looking to greater free­
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60 years ago, a Japanese "Susan
Ar thony," Miss Kageyama, started
a campaign for women's rights, and
was jailed for her daring.
Throughout the Orient the idea of
granting women a share in politi­
cal life made practically no prog­
ress until 1935 when the Philippines*
granted equal voting rights.
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