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Show In These United States "QlwIcdLOiltL y By WALTER A. SHEAD '' WNU Washington WASHINGTON, D. C. Correspondent. Farmers should deliver their wheat to the government and do it now, if we are to save the lives of millions of persons who are wasting away from starvation in many countries of the world. This is the belief of Thomas D. Campbell, the nations biggest farm- fUf. CROWDED . . . Cooking, sleeping, washing. Entire home life of this family is spent in one room in the Brettervorschlag. Note bed in corner. EUROPES LITTLE PEOPLE 1946 Alles Kaput, Germans Complain As They View Destroyed Cities By PAULINE FREDERICK WNU Foreign Correspondent. 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. ' also said there was not enough food black bread, marmalade 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 carefully 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 fortunate than a lot of her country women. She had chickens in her back yard. And when I accidentally got 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 undoubtedly contained food. Not all German larders are like that. Frau Hohlman is fortunate enough to live in a prefabricated house. She was wearing a apron and blue sweater. She did not know I was coming, but she admitted me, although a little suspiciously, to the room and combination kitchen-livin- g bedroom where there was a bed in one corner with the red feather pillows turned back to air. Fuel and Food Scarce. The furniture consisted of a cupboard, 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 in it, and a dresser. It, too, had a large window. The place was light and airy, although small. (I visited another prefabricated house where a cheerful, emaciated young man in his 20s lived with his wife and year-ol- d baby. I saw their pantry, too, and I saw nothing but a small piece of bread and a n dish of macaroni. But the father said everything was fine, and when I gave him two cigarettes She blue-check- ed half-eate- a roof over is most desired, for walls can be built of stones. RUINS . . . But ones head he was profuse in his thanks. He pointed with pride to the little pile of brush and the stump in the yard which furnished fuel. The pretty, runny-nose- d baby smiled, too. Alles kaput, said Frau Hohlman, using the current German expression in describing what had happened 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, although 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 happens. It was revealed to me at British military government headquarters at Minden by F. Hollins, director of food and agriculture. Famine in British Zohe. Mr. Hollins told me that at the rate the bread grain stocks were going 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. workers, 2,809 for very heavy workers and 2,589 for pregnant and nursing mothers. Bread and the cereal products make up 60 per cent of the caloric diet. vThe city of Hamburg alone uses between 350 and 40 ti tons of grain a day. Bread is especially vital here because of the heavy workers in the Ruhr and the Rhineland. In order to keep from cutting the ration before the spring months when vegetables would make it more bearable, 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 programmed 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-ou- t areas, homes had to be provided as well as food. Of the 5 million dwelling units available in 1939, about half of them have been destroyed 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 Mr. Hollins told me, precipice, 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 wondering what the answer will be Washington. A useless life is an early death. Goethe. CLASSIFIED department MISCELLANEOUS WE BUT AND SELL Ada-In- c Office Furniture, Files, Typewriters, Registers, Machines, Safes, Cash SALT LAKE DESK EXCHANGE 35 West Broadway, Salt Lake City. Utah. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS PIANOS APPLIANCES Just received car load of.good pianos. RADIO $125.00 to $385.00 Alto used Radios from $7.50 to $35 Write for description and prices HOME SERVICE COMPANY 45 Wert Third South comes. 2. The government has ordered No. 1 priority for cars for shipment, out hope. Cicero. Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder. white-thatche- d, although there remains the problem of trucks to get the wheat to the county elevators. 3. The farmers who figure their income tax on a cash basis will have the advantage of increased prices and reduced rate on their taxable income, as the government carries him without cost, or interest on the loan while he holds his certificate for the higher prices. 4. Delivery of wheat now will empty storage and provide room for the coming crop. Owing to housing demands, it will be impossible to build increased storage, facilities. 5. Perhaps the most important reason why the farmers should release their wheat now is the humanitarian reason, for it will mean early shipping, to save lives and to build renewed hope in the breasts of millions of people who today are with- to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato the only good belonging to Sir him is under ground. Thomas Overbury. Diogenes struck the father when the Son swore. Burton. money, it Flattery is like bad who receive those impoverishes it. Woillez. I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. er, tall, lanky, enthusiastic, purposeful westerner of Hardin, Mont. Colonel Campbell, for he is a full colonel in the U. S. army, is delivering 500,000 bushels of his own wheat to the government under terms of the offer of.the department of agriculture as fast as he can secure trucks and cars to get it to the railroads, in an effort to get together 200,000,000 bushels of wheat for shipment. Gives Reasons. The dynamic westerner declares that farmers, large and small, should deliver their wheat to the government, immediately, for the following reasons: 1. The announced plan of the D. of A. to buy wheat at the market relieves the farmer of any uncertainty of price. Any farmer, under terms of the 'offer can deliver his wheat, receive a certificate from the government, and hold that certificate for as long as April 30, 1947, and elect at any time within that period to sell. This gives him the advantage of a higher price when it sun-brown- man who has not THE Montanan Urges Farmers to Sell Wheat and Save World POULTRY, Salt Lake CHy 1, Utah CHICKS & EQUIP. U. S. APPROVED blood tested chicks, 14 breeds. 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In the airlines nowadays a pilot can tell where he is and the altitude of his plane at every moment entirely by instruments even in the thickest weather or darkness. . COMMISSIONER . . . Mrs. Maureen Moore, mother of Jerrie, 15, and Jo Ann, 13, is Texas commissioner of labor statistics. Before her recent appointment she was child labor supervisor for the state. Rammed Earth House for Him - Back GREELEY, Hannibal built rammed earth COLO. in 124 B. C., Early Women Pilots Back in 1929 when any kind of airplane pilot was regarded with awe, Miss Manila Davis of Flatwoods soloed a small English Moth aircraft at East Boston, Mass., and in 1930 earned her private pilots 1 cense to be credited with becoming' the first licensed West Virginia woman pilot. She is now the wife of B. B. Talley, Huntington, W. Va. li-- of tomorrows Designers planes are planning to use helium gas to inflate the tires to make them lighter than air. watchtowers.' And now, Attorney David J. 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