Show L STREET SCENES IN BERLIN i I Y Ly m 9 r i rf lt S s S A Str b I tyr Syr w d Ji l t a aY 3 Y 4 Unter den Linden All Dressed Up Interesting Sights for or the Visitor inthe in the Handsome Capital of Germany Prepared red by N National Geographic Society Washington D D. D C. C C. Service T ESPITE the rapid D DESPITE I pace of politics in Berlin Berlin Berlin Ber Ber- lin today pedestrians on the streets of the German capital are conspicuously un un- un- un hurried Motor traffic on the other hand is unusually rapid The drivers of the omnibuses omnibuses omnibuses omni omni- buses hurl their two-storied two levia leviathans thans from stop to stop in lurching bursts of speed the air brakes hiss with splenetic suddenness The comparatively small number of motor vehicles in Berlin helps explain explain explain ex ex- plain the appearance of most streets Counting private cars trucks and motorcycles registrations registrations for 1930 showed only a few more than forty thousand The traffic flow has a heartbeat of 30 seconds seconds half half a minute of red light an orange flash of warning of change followed by half hall a minute of green To one accustomed to the longer intervals of most American AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican cities it seems at first a little hysterical in its frequency of inter inter- Upon arrival one is petrified to see autos passing stopped street street- cars The law however permits such passing with the injunction that it be performed with extreme extreme extreme ex ex- care Look Out for the Cyclists The large number of bicycles on Berlin streets creates an additional hazard for the motorist especially as the fue riders ride seem endowed with a sublime faith that the vagaries of their delicate vehicles will be unfailingly un tin- failingly observed by truck and car behind Yet with it all casualty I statistics are not high The city's I fatalities from traffic accidents to totaled totaled totaled to- to for 1935 The traffic lights halt squads of I cyclists girls in unbecoming but practical divided skirts delivery boys carrying bundles bigger than themselves tenders of street lights pedaling precariously from lamp to lamp with foot eight-foot l ladders strapped to their shoulders The Berlin resident receives four deliveries of mail a day on weekdays weekdays weekdays week week- days and one on Sund Sunday for good measure Five thousand postboxes postboxes' announce announce an an- their presence on street corners with a lustrous surface of red red that that shade which someone has described as the color of I ity Until within the last year they were a sober blue but the color experts announced that they lacked visibility Special delivery obtains but for those who desire rapid extra-rapid service service service ice there is the functioning fast-functioning I tube pneumatic tube system reaching every section of the town This is a convenience to the businessman and an undoubted blessing to exigent lovers Any list of the city's skyscrapers should include the new home of the Karst Karstadt department store Columbus haus on platz and the handsome white bui building build i. i ing of the Shell Oil on company which rises from the verdant bank of the Spree in mid-city mid are other contenders contenders contenders con con- tenders for dizzy honors and neither neith neith- er exceeds ten stories Berlin is not suffering from lack of educational institutions with its 13 universities colleges and higher technical centers high schools and gr grade schools University Once a 3 Palace Berlin Frederick William WilHam universIty university university uni uni- center of educational education l life fronts on Unter den Linden across from irom the State Opera house Such Sueh Sucha Sueha a dignified atmosphere of scholarship scholarship scholarship scholar scholar- ship pervades the lovely gray build building ing and its shaded linden court that I no one would suspect It was originally finally built as a palace for Prince Henry by his brother Frederick the Great In the neighborhood of the university university university sity are several restaurants where one he hears more English spoken than German The guests are principally principal principal- ly exchange professors from American American Amer Amer- ican scan colleges who come corne to Berlin BerHn for research The Ferkel Black Pig is popular with the teaching fraternity and is the locale for all meetings of ot the Berlin Harvard club Tonndorf is another spot where the pedagogues exchange shoptalk over their veal cutlet and beer Modernism is not aggressively present today In painting and ture The windows of the moderate moderate- price art shops are filled with decorative prints and paintings designed designed designed de de- de- de signed largely to please the conventional conventional conventional conven conven- taste tate Scenes es portraying fe fecund fecund fecund fe- fe cund mountain peaks piercing the upper ether animal pictures flower ver studies ina te Only a few doors from the American American Amer Amer- ican lean consulate in Strasse Bellevue street of the better art dealers dealer there has recently been opened an exhibition of the latest styles in modern furniture Designs compare favorably with similar showings in hi other European countries Ingenious use is being made of materials thitherto t thitherto hitherto unknown to furniture mak mak- ing Has anyone ever regretted the demise of a statistician once wrote a disgruntled epigrammatist Comprehensible point of view But there are exceptions What Berlin Eats and Drinks At the head office of the city's bureau of statistics you find the fue chief a person of considerable hu hu- hu- hu mor Surrounded by diagrams and graphs he can feed you with such factual morsels as the following Seven hundred and twenty thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand loaves of bread go each day to Berlin homes tons of coffee made from malt are drunk each year and only two-thirds two as much real coffee some people annually visit Berlins Berlin's movie- movie houses meat consumption is on the grade down-grade having dropped in one year from to pounds per person beer consumption has shrunk 40 per cent in the last eight years a fact of much significance significance significance cance as foreshadowing the physique physique physique phy phy- of the future Berliner Apropos of beer it is interesting to discover that Munich now the nations nation's nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's beer capital originally was the center of a wine country and learned the brewing art ait lt from northern northern northern north north- ern Germany Now however the youth of Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many striving for physical efficiency cy scorn anything but the most niost moderate beer drinking They predict predict predict pre pre- dict that paunchy waistlines and bulging necks will be unknown to the next generation A ch characteristic sight as one explores explores explores ex ex- the Ule V various sections of of Berlin Berlin Ber Ber- lin is the sport fields with children or young people going through set set- up ting-up exercises With magnificent magnificent magnificent cent gusto they bend and twist flexing flexing flexing flex flex- ing muscles in unison with the ilie rhythmic counting of physical in In- In There are of these fields scattered about the city and in addition indoor gymnasiums Every German boy regardless of social position must between seventeen seventeen seventeen sev sev- enteen and twenty-five twenty years of age give six months of labor service to the st state There are 1200 camps throughout through ut Germany with work workers ers to a camp Irrig Irrigation 1 tion of dry lands and swamp drainage are the fue exclusive tasks of ot these labor camps camps no no road making or other form of of- construction which could compete with paid labor Girls Volunteer for Work Service from the girls of Germany is not obligatory ry However it is A I Ithe the vogue t to volunteer for such tasks as assisting workers in the fields or orin in the homes caring for or substituting for an office office of of- fice flee or factory worker so that person person person per per- son C can take a vacation without pay Stores arc are bedecked with announcements announcements announcements an an- of autumn sales windows windows win windows win win- dows teem with merchandise Including in including including in- in conservative copies ol of Paris models to sell to women with small incomes Most of the tile people on Berlin BerHn streets are well dressed if it that term can be interpreted to mean the wearing of good and comfortable clothes Mens Men's furnishing stores exhibit V weird arr arrays ys' ys of caricatured dum aum- dummies dummies mies attenuated ted and globular cIa clad cladin cladin in co coats coats' ts as as' as s' s square built as a New England woodshed The salesman explains that tins this rectangular effect is is the American shoulder Beauty parlors flourish a bewildering bewildering dering assortment of jars set forth in their windows A few of the e better known American cosmetic lines are to be found |