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Show Missionary Describes Traditions, Never-Changing Scenes In Denmark - l I' ' j:ajPA fl-J:,llM . .1 .y.VjflcJm. w. aMW-v. .v. .v. muni. BRAZENNESS AND SHAME ... An unidentified prisoner hides his face as he is led handcuffed to Herbert John Burgman, former U. S. embassy clerk charged with treason, into federal district court in Washington. . , Strandrej 25 Hobro, Denmark October 29, 1949 Springville Herald, Springville, Utah Dear Editor and Friends in Springville, Even though the mail system isn't too fast, and the Herald is a month old, I and also my companion com-panion really enjoy the paper from Springville when it gets here. Reading an American newspaper is an oddity in itself, but when I and many other missionaries can-read can-read our own home town newspaper, news-paper, we feel grateful for it, and the fact that we' come from such a nice town with fine people in it. If it weren't for the Herald, I wouldn't be able to keep up with the progress and all the other happenings hap-penings in Springville. From it I can see that Springville is still making changes to keep up with this "modern world." Denmark is rather objective about making changes. The people hold fast to many of the traditions of their forefathers and have a soft spot in their hearts for this old country coun-try and want it to stay just as it has for so many years Of course there are a few necessary nec-essary changes such as providing the police force with an automo- $ bile so they can catch me when I go out at night on my bicycle and forget my light, but other than that there are no really drastic changes. Main Street in Hobro, for example ex-ample still has the same cobblestones cobble-stones for the horse drawn wagons wag-ons to bump along. Cars (and wagon?,) going in opposite directions direc-tions just about scrape fenders when they pass each other on the narrow road. When two people walk down Main Street, one of them can walk on the sidewalk, but the other has to walk alongside along-side on the road because the walk is so narrow. This narrow sidewalk side-walk does do a lot of good though. After a big day of farmers driving driv-ing their wagons through town and parking to do their shopping then driving away, this, narrow walk is the only place where the horses don't well, you figure it out for yorself. The bull-head above the meat store still shows that it deals only in beef. The butcher, incidentally, hasn't lost any of his father's tradition? It isn't necessary to buy anything from him, and after you've been in a couple of times it's hard to go by the place without with-out stopping and "shooting the breeze" about the latest. There is ?can just barely walk to the slaughter house it is slaughtered and sold to people to eat. The bones of "the old gray mare" are then taken to the glue factory where a big smell is manufactured manufact-ured (whether anything else). Dread the day when we have an East wind blowing over the glue factory. When you walk along Main Street, you must always be on the alert for wagons coming from the brewery with their wooden tanks full of malt splashing out as they bump along. I don't worry about the malt splashing on me like most of the people do, but what keeps me on my toes is when the old whiskered farmer with tobacco to-bacco juice drooling down the corners of his mouth, has decided that the poisen has lost its strength. It would be suicide to get in his, way when he spits. Guess I can say all I want about Denmark, but it still stays the same, so I'll say farewell from Denmark. Sincerely, Elder J. Gerald "Gary" Bjamscn. a very stiff ration on beef and according to the officials, you definitely def-initely need ration stamps. Here's what "Butch" says about it: "Don't know why you bother me with your ration stamps. They'll burn ju?,t as well in your store as they will in mine." If you'd go into the fruit and vegetable store which is right next door to the butchers, you would find very little change there. They haven't had oranges since before the war. Pineapple i?i something that is only talked about. The only bananas they have had are the pictures that hang around the walls of the store. We can be safe in saying that these people have had very few if any of the "warm climate" delicacies since the war. Some of the stores have changed chang-ed a little in their appearance from the front, but the quality of their product hasn't changed any. For example the bakeries (with their pretzel shaped symbols) still make the same tasty pastry and your mouth waters when you see the assortment and smell the aroma. ar-oma. Rye bread is, eaten just as much today as it ever was. This type of bread is something you don't find in America. It comes in long, square, heavy, dark brown loaves and is sliced about an eighth of an inch thick or as thick as your teeth can bite if that's too thick. Rye bread is something you have to grow into liking. Looks like I'm going to have to do a lot of growing before I work up any desire for it. "Most of the stores still have the same symbols as you can see from the butcher shop and the bakery. After a while you can tell what kind of a store it is by the symbol. When you see a horse's head it makes you wonder, though. But when you see the big red pieces of meat hanging in the window, you finally come to the realization realiza-tion that horse meat is eaten just the same as beef and pork. A horse certainly pays for itself. After it has been worked until it |