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CROWDED . . . Cooking, sleeping, washing. Entire home life of this
family Is spent in one room in the Itrettervorschlag. Note bed in corner.
EUROPE'S LITTLE PEOPLE 1946
‘Alles Kaput, 9 Germans Complain
As They View Destroyed Cities
By PAULINE FREDERICK
WNU Foreign Corrrfipondrnt.
HAMBURG (ENGLISH ZONE), GERMANY.—It was obvious
that Frau Hohlman was not satisfied with her lot. She said it was
cold—and it was, with little heat from the tiny stove. But I could
have led her to shacks and underground hovels where there was
even less heat and no substantial walls to keep out the weather
such as surrounded her. <S>—
She also said there was not
enough food—black bread, marma
lade and coffee for breakfast, soup
and potatoes for lunch, and so on.
She poured on the table a few
pieces of cracked grain to show me
what they were eating; then care
fcilly picked up every piece of it and
put it back in the box as though it
were a precious stone.
But Frau Hohlman was more for
tunate than a lot of her country
women. She had chickens in her
S»ack yard. And when I accidentally
*ot a peep into her pantry, I saw
two long loaves of bread, two and
a half rolls of what was probably
margarine, and a can that un
doubtedly contained food. Not all
German larders are like that.
FYau Hohlman is fortunate enough
to Kve in a prefabricated house. She
was wearing a blue-checked apron
and blue sweater. She did not know
I was coming, but she admitted me,
although a little suspiciously, to the
•ombination kitchen-living room and
bedroom where there was a bed in
•ne corner with the red feather pil-
Bows turned back to air.
Fuel and Food Scarce,
The furniture consisted of a cup
board, a table, chairs, a radio and a
small wood stove with some sticks
drying in the oven. A large double
window framed in muslin curtains
opened to the garden. The other
room of the cottage had two beds
m it, and a dresser. It, too, had a
targe window. The place was light
and airy, although small.
(I visited another prefabricated
bouse where a cheerful, emaciated
young man in his 20’s lived with
bis wife and year-old baby. I.saw
aheir pantry, too, and I saw nothing
but a small piece of bread and a
balf-eatcn dish of macaroni. But the
father said “everything was fine,”
«nd when I gave him two cigarettes
I
RUINS . . . But “a roof over
j sne’s head” is most desired, for
I walls can be built of stones.
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‘No One Wants to Shoot Children’
I As the train from Copenhagen
slowed down for Hamburg, I saw
six cars of coal standing on a sid
ing. Little boys, women and old men
were swarming over them, furtive
ly filling sacks. I asked a military
official why this was permitted
whan only that week a 25 per cent
cut in the coal supply had meant a
week’s shut-down in industry that
fcad begun so that there would be
no interruption to electricity.
k “You can’t get anyone to shoot
he was profuse in his thanks. Ha
pointed with pride to the little pile
of brush and the stump in the yard
which furnished fuel. The pretty,
runny-nosed baby smiled, too.
“Alles kaput,” said Frau Hohl
man, using the current German ex
pression in describing what had hap
pened to their old home when a
bomb hit it.
But here she lives today with her
husband who works in a margarine
factory, and with her married
daughter whose husband is still
missing in Russia. With electricity,
the house costs them 24 marks a
month. The husband earns about 40
marks a week, and more if he
works at night. The Hohlman yard
was furrowed for spring gardening.
As I talked with Frau Hohlman,
the food ration was being met, al
though there was a great shortage
in potatoes and the only vegetables
available were a certain amount of
turnips and cabbage. But what
I could not tell them was the dire
picture of the food situation in the
British zone unless a miracle hap
pens. It was revealed to me at Brit
ish military government headquar
ters at Minden by F. Hollins, direc
tor of food and agriculture.
Famine in British Zone.
Mr. Hollins told me that at the
rate the bread grain stocks were go
ing down and not being replenished,
pockets of starvation could soon be
expected in the British zone. The
food permitted the Germans by the
British is designed to provide 1,545
calories per day for the average
person, with 2,250 for heavy work
ers, 2,809 for very heavy workers
and 2,589 for pregnant and nursing
mothers. Bread and the cereal prod
ucts make up 60 per cent of the
caloric diet. The city of Hamburg
alone uses between 350 and 400 tons
of grain a day.
Bread is especially vital here be
cause of the heavy workers in the
Ruhr and the Rhineland. In order
to keep from cutting the ration be
fore the spring months when vege
tables would make it more bear
able, the British zone needs at
least 200,000 tons of wheat a month
until the end of June. Only half that
amount arrived in February and
at a late date none had been pro
grammed at all for March.
When the British took over this
zone they found 21 million people,
or a million and a half more than
lived here in 1939. In bombed-out
areas, homes had to be provided as
well as food. Of the sVfe million
dwelling units available in 1939,
about half of them have been de
stroyed by bombing. Anything that
can be used to provide a roof is
sought by the Germans, but their
biggest demand is for food.
“We are living on the edge of a
precipice,” Mr. Hollins told me,
“and it would take very little to
topple the thing over and make
the situation very serious indeed.”
Once more I am hearing the cry
of “bread” as I have heard it in
many countries in the last year. And
I have been wandering what the an
swer will be.
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children,” was the answer.
As I had crossed the border from
Denmark, one sight of all others
made me realize I was back in
Germany. It was the stumps of
freshly-cut trees.
As I waited in front of the sta
tion for transportation, a scabby
faced boy in his teens begged me
for cigarettes, and a child asked
for chewing gum. On the way to the
hotel, I saw an old man rummaging
through a trash can.
THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
By VIRGINIA VALE
CELEBRATING 15 years
on the air and all that
time on CBS Kate Smith
might well say “Let who will
make the nation’s laws; I’ll
sing its songs and help with
its crusades.” During her
years in radio she’s made
more than 6,300 personal ap
pearances to help worthy
KATE SMITH
causes, and the success of many a
song has been Linked with her
name. They say she’s probably
launched more hits than any other
popular singer, but she won’t help
launch just any song; it must be a
good tune to begin with. If she feels
that it’s right for her, she studies'
it, and her flair for phrasing is like
ly to make the composer feel that:
she sings it exactly the way he
wants it done.
Culminating on August 6, War
ner Bros, plans a four months’
celebration of the 20th anniversary)
of talking pictures. A series of spe
cial programs will continue on an
international scale, honoring the
scientists who pioneered in the Held
and highlighting the scientific de
velopment and cultural contribution
of the talking picture. It was on {
August 6, 1926, at the Warner the
ater in New York, that the public
first saw a complete program of mo
tion pictures in which opera stars
and concert artists sang and
played.
—*
“It Pays to Be Ignorant” returns
to the air waves, and there’s re
joicing among its many enthusiastic
followers. This is one of the few
times that a program’s been
dropped for another one and then
brought back to the air when its
successor was dropped.
— m —
Ever play a Screecherboot? Or a
Moontassle? You’ve heard them if
you listen to the Korn Kobblers, on
Mutual four nights a week. Like the;
band’s other instruments, they’re)
made from salvaged tubings, brass
piping, etc. Stan Fritts and the oth
er five Korn Kobblers get together
in his basement workshop in Eliza
beth, N, J., and construct those
fantastic instruments they play.
When radio producers need a 3
year old or an 83 year old voice,
a talking crow, or any other un
usual sound, they call on Miss Cecil
Roy. She’s also heard regularly on
the leading mystery programs,
playing anything from a snarling
gun-moll to a murdered man’s last
gurgle. And on “Daily Dilem
ma,” on Mutual, every weekday
afternoon, she climaxes her career
by enacting all the roles!
—*
When Nan Merriam won the
$l,OOO prize offered by the Nation
al Federation of Music clubs in
1943, the radio program on which
she was to sing was the same eve
ning as the big dinner where she’d
receive the award. It was the
party that interested her most, but
she dashed to NBC, did her singing
stint, and a few days later was
handed a five-year-contract to sing
over their stations.
If you ever meet Evelyn Knight,
(now on the Lanny Ross program,)
make her happy by asking for an
aspirin. She carries the tablets in
a locket made of a huge uncut
amethyst she got in Brazil, which
was used by an ancient Indian
chief as a container for poison.
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If you heard the very moving
broadcast in which Ralph Edwards
chatted with Buster Roos, the eight
year-old suffering from cancer,
you’ll be delighted to know that
Ralph’s appeal for funds for the
American Cancer society’s drive
has been tremendously successful.
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ODDS AND ENDS—Columbia Pictures
advertised for eight gorgeous girls to por
tray goddesses in “Down to Earth”—and
200 beauties answered. , . . Gene Kelly,
still in uniform, nearly disrupted life be
hind the scenes at the circus in New York
when he took his small daughter back
stage to visit the famous clown, Emmett
Kelly (no relation). ... An item on the
bill for Metro’s cocktail party for Van
Johnson when Van visited New York was
f 2.40 for milk—drunk by the guest of
honor, of course. , . . That dress made of
black glass beads which Janis Paige wears
in “Her Kind of Marf’ weighed 30 pounds.
HOUSSHOtvWf i
SMOS>.c iydynnCfameUi
Lemon Chiffon Sponge Cake—Fairy-Like Dessert
(See Recipe Below)
Dessert Tips
The one department in which we
always welcome new ideas is in the
B dessert line. This
season it is no
different, and
even more excit
ing.
First of all,
whipping cream
has returned to
the market, and we’re having great
fun using it. Bananas are seen at
the markets more frequently and, of
course, strawberries are just com
ing in season plentifully.
Because of the warmer weather,
all of us are on the lookout for those
cool, cool desserts that just seem to
slip down our throats, leaving only
their delicate flavor to tease the ap
petite. My advice to you is serve
light meals, well balanced, to be
sure, and then top them off with
a grand, brand-new dessert!
This first suggestion is tart but
smooth and pretty enough for com
pany. If you don’t make the cake
yourself, buy one ready-made to
save time, sugar and energy.
Lemon Chiffon Sponge Cake.
(Serves 8)
1 envelope plain, unilavored gelatin
Vi cup cold milk
3 egg yolks
1 cup sugar
Vi teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
Vi cup lemon juice
1 tablespoon lemon rind
3 egg whites
1 sponge cake
Vi cup chopped nutmeats
Vi cup canned, sweet cherries
Soften gelatine in cold milk. Com
bine slightly beaten egg yolks, sug
ar and salt. Scald 1 cup milk in
double boiler and add very slowly
to the egg mixture. Return to the
top of the double boiler and cook
until of custard consistency. Re
move from heat,
add softened gel- /x
atine and stir un- fffk
til dissolved. Cool,
add lemon juice \\\||
and rind. Fold in Wwi W* T 11
stiffly beaten egg lH|||
whites. Scoop out flfllf
center of sponge CioM M UIJ
cake and fill hole {] WEbk/
at bottom with
extra pieces of HV
cake taken from
sides. Line inside
of cake with nuts. Pour in lemon
mixture and chill until firm. Gar
nish dessert with halved and pitted
cherries and sprigs of mint if de
sired.
Caramel Cream Parfait.
(Serves 6)
V 4 teaspoon unilavored gelatine
IV6 teaspoons cold water
Vi cup extra-sweet, light com syrup
Lynn Says:
Serve a Salad: There’s no bet
ter way to get fresh vegetables
into the diet than via the salad
route. Here are combinations
which you will like;
Salad greens with one or more
of the following: avocado slices,
raw carrot or turnip strips, raw
cauliflower flowerets, slivered cel
ery, diced or sliced raw cucum
ber, raw tomatoes, green pepper
rings, minced onions.
Serve vegetable salads with a
dressing made of oil, herbs, and
a bit of crumbled blue cheese.
One or more of the following
cooked vegetables makes a
pretty salad plate: peas, lima
beans, kidney beans, sliced
beets, asparagus tips, canned,
mixed vegetables, cauliflower or
brussels sprouts.
Vary your salad greens often
to avoid monotony. Here are a
list of greens: young raw spin
ach, cabbage, Chinese or cel
ery cabbage, dandelion greens,
chicory or endive, watercress
and leaf lettuce.
Lynn Chambers’ Menus
Cubed Steak
Hashed Brown Potatoes
Cream Gravy
Green Lima Beans
Grapefruit Salad Bread
Jellied Fruit Mold
Cookies Cream Beverage
Vi cup cold water
2 egg whites
1 cup cream, thoroughly chilled
1 teaspcon vanilla
Soften gelatine in cold water for
5 minutes. Boil syrup and Vi cup
water together to the soft ball (238-
degree) stage. Pour slowly over
stiffly beaten egg whites. Add gela
tin and beat until cool. Chill cream
and beat until stiff. Fold into cool
egg mixture. Add vanilla. Pour
into freezing tray; freeze without
stirring, until firm.
Variations.
1. Add 1 cup chopped, cooked
prunes and V 2 cup chopped nuts
when whipped cream is folded into
mixture.
2. Add 1 cup crushed raspberries
when whipped cream is added.
3. Add 1 cup crushed peanut brit
tle with whipped cream.
4. Add 1 cup crushed pineapple
with whipped cream.
Banana Cream.
(Serves 6)
1 medium sized banana
% cup confectioners sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
tV teaspoon salt
IVs teaspoons vanilla
IV2 pints whipping cream
Slice banana very thin and add to
sugar. Mix well. Add lemon juice
and cream and
pour into freezing xssjj|jjM
tray to freeze un- A
Remove m\ K S
to 'mixing bowl, *sai^pi|
add vanilla and J
beat until mix
ture becomes
very light. Re- t/
turn to freezing tray and freeze
again until firm.
Strawberry Meringue Cake.
(Serves 10 to 12)
8 egg whites
Vs teaspoon salt
V 2 teaspoon cream of tartar
2 cups sugar
V\ teaspoon lemon extract
Fresh strawberries
Add salt to egg whites and whip
until foamy. Add cream of tartar
and continue beating until they hold
a point. Fold in sugar gradually.
Add lemon extract. Pour into a
shallow loaf pan lined with waxed
paper. Bake in a slow (300-degree)
oven for 45 to 50 minutes. Lift from
pan onto cake rack and cool. Serve
with fresh strawberries topped with
whipped cream and garnished with
extra whole sugared berries. Peaches
or another tart fruit may be used.
There are few desserts mor.e lus
cious than meringue with chocolate
ice cream garnished with mints. Use
a very slow oven for baking the
meringues, for they really require
only enough heat to dry out thor
oughly.
Mint Meringues.
(Serves 6)
2 egg whites
Vs cup confectioner’s sugar
Few grains of salt
Few drops green coloring
1 or 2 drops oil of peppermint
Chocolate ice cream
Whipped cream
Peppermints
Beat egg whites until nearly stiff
and add sugar gradually. Beat all
the while. Add salt, very pale green
coloring and flavor. Mix lightly.
Drop by tablespoonfuls on cookie
sheet covered with heavy paper.
Bake in a slow (275-degree) oven
for 30 to 35 minutes until dry on
surface. Remove from paper and
cool. Pile ice cream in center of
plates, place a meringue on each
side and garnish ice cream with
whipped cream and peppermints on
top.
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UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D n
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicieo
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for May 12
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts s*.
lected and copyrighted by Internatioi
Council of Religious Education; used h.
permission.
LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER
LESSON TEXT—Matthew 18:15-17- 21 22-
Mark 10 • ’ * •
GOLDEN TEXT-By this shall all men
know that ye are my disciples, if y e have
love one to another.—John 13:35,
One world! Men have discovered
in recent years that we do live in
one world and that we must learn
how to get along with one another,
or we may find that we have de
stroyed civilization and one another.
God has always taught in his Word
that all men are of one origin, and
that despite their differences, they
are to live in and peace. That
would have been blessedly true if
men had obeyed God and his law.
Sin brought division and confusion.
Now in our day, when we should
be far on the way to the attain
ment of God’s purpose, we find men
more inclined than ever to be sus
picious of one another, grasping
in their desires and purposes, and
evil in many of their ways.
We have not yet learned to live
together as nations. Let us set our
selves to the task of living together.
I. A Method for Dealing with Dif
ferences (Matt. 18:15-17).
This is the God-prescribed meth
od for dealing with personal prob
lems in the Christian church. That
body in which love should reign is
often rent by jealousies and person
al resentments. If permitted to run
on unchecked, they create division
and even strife before the world,
with all the disgrace it brings on
the cause of Christ.
Such matters are to be dealt with
promptly. The aggrieved one is
not to wait for the sinner to make
the approach, but is to go to him
and place before him the evidence
of his guilt. Done in kindness and
with tact, this is frequently all that
needs to be done. A man'may thus
win his brother, with no further ado
or fuss in the church.
If he proves stubborn, the next
step is to bring some brethren along
and talk it over again. This evi
dence of their concern may break
the stubbornness, or their prayers
may win him. And if it does not
work, the things said and done will
have been witnessed by brethren
1 who can faithfully report them to
the church.
1 The final step is to bring the err
ing brother before the church. Now
he may see the seriousness of his
offense and repent. If not, there is
one plain duty; he is to be put out
side of the fellowship of the church.
Does that mean that he is aban
doned and forgotten? Certainly not.
He is to be “as a heathen man
and a publican.” Does the church
have any interest in such indi
viduals? Indeed it does, for the pri
mary business of the church is to
win both heathen and publican to
1 fellowship with Christ.
11. A Measure for Determining
Forgiveness (Matt. 18:21, 22),
Peter’s question was a practical
one. He supposed the case of one
who sinned repeatedly against one
who had shown a forgiving spirit.
Most of us need not suppose such
cases; we have them before us.
We forgive and are ready to let
It all be forgotten, when 10, the of
-1 fender turns up with an even
greater wrong, indignity or sin!
Then there is weeping and appar
ent repentance, followed almost at
once by another offense.
How long is this business to go
on? The Jews said, “Three times,
then let judgment fall.” Peter,
being a follower of Christ, went
much farther. He would forgive sev
, en times. Well, that’s a lot of for
■ giveness; let us recognize that. Most
[ of us haven’t even gone as far as
the Jews, and Peter is way ahead
of us.
But it is not enough! Forgiveness
which has any limit set on it is not
i forgiveness at all. The very genius
i °f forgiveness demands that we do
l not stand there with a measuring
„ line or an account book. It must be
i from the heart, without limit and
without restraint.
111. A Means for Attaining Great
, ness (Mark 10:35-45).
, To want to be truly great for God
» is certainly not a sin. In a world
, which was rejecting Christ and get
. ting ready to crucify him, this moth
er wanted her two boys to have a
place of honor in the service of
Christ. So far, so good; but then
came the thing which spoiled it all
—selfishness.
To seek honor for oneself, or for
those one loves in order that the
ego might be inflated and self given
a chance to show off, that is
definitely unchristian.
If then it is right to seek proper
i greatness, how may it be done?
[ Verses 43-45 tell us. It is byway a?
t sacrificial service, the denial of self.
This world and its kingdoms say
| that the one who serves is inferior
to the one who is served. In the
’ kingdom of Jesus it is the one who
serves who is greatest.
| Where will such a path lead? For
Christ it led to the cross, and be
c yond it the victory of resurrection
1 day. It may mean death for us, for
1 a real willingness to serve connotes
1 a willingness to give all, even life
itself, for his glory.
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