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Ruin of War Making Delayed Visit to Germany r* . . .? The result of the Allied bombardment of Colo roe, Germany, Is shown by photograph at rtfht. Bonn, the birthplace of Beethoven, also meets the fate of other German cities, as shown at left, as American troops advance through, the city. Inset abews the bombed Adolf Hitler bridge across the Rhine st Herding en, Ger many. Reports indicate that all cities in path of advancing Allies are In complete rains. Policemen Attend School to Become Stork's Aides pealsrtley the aUiaani at their commuaities seems to ha-ay ever-expanding one tar member* at the jailer farce at Niau county, New Talk, who have beea ladiutifctolil aa afcatetrtotaas by the public heaMfc Mar sea. Naw they know Jast when lad haw to tny thaaryyrat tola the aew. barn's aye*, how to keep the latsat treat atr angulation, haw to handle the umbilical cord problem. Army Bridges Around the World _?,? ?_ The eriftaal bridce Ami la apper photoptA was demolished by bombers ef the U. S. army 1Mb air force *iaee the Jape captured Banna read la INS. Faateaa bride* la erected aa the Allied oCeaslse neara the key Japaaeoe aapply. terminus of the read. Lower, shows tracks eroos la( poetise bridce spadalnc Rhine riser. Big-Top Will Soon Be in Town Tttap m Inlln if br Iki M| rtw u ynttj taulta Msta* ??< r??l J?r^? mmncnMb^w^n rebeknali on the ^ln* New Dies'Counsel ^ Attorney Ernie Adamaan ot PttU an-American activities. Ha farmer ly practiced law h New York City. Ada mean wiB aasama Ma aew da ties Immediately, aa part time basis. ' Lloyd George Dead DtlM Uay? Qmip, a, Briute'f Mki la WmM War I. ?M mat ly at Ma hi la Wales. ?? waa 'CTytlntaTcomm?u,r ui^trottr >mai aa aarL .. .. . i Race to Altar After War Seen Sociology Professor Gives the Result of His Surrey Of 1,000 Families. BLOOMINGTON, IND. - War's end will touch off: A race to the altar by mlllionj of young Ameri cana. jams in divorce courts by war brides and grooms, and a struggle to wrest from women their war won economic freedoms. These are forecasts of Dr. Harvey J. Locke, Indiana university sociol ogy professor and authority on fam ily life, who has just completed interviews with more than 1,000 fam ilies in quest of the reasons for suc cess or failure of marriages in these hectic times. Dr. Locke also has good news for sweethearts worrying about their loved ones in service becoming in volved in wholesale marriages to foreign belles. Says the professor: "The total number of Americans marrying foreign brides will be smaller than most people anticipate. At the beginning of the war pub licity was given to the marriages of Americans in the expeditionary services to Australian, Irish and English brides. It Is true that these became sufficiently numerous to cause the army and navy to set up rigid regulations concerning them. These regulations coupled with the availability of some American wom en in the auxiliary services will re duce the total number of marriages of Americans to foreign brides. Postwar Marriages. "Where such marriages do occur some of the men will remain in the countries of the wives. Those who return will have more difficulty in adjusting to each ojher than in cases where American men marry Amer ican women." Taking a postwar look into the nation's family situation. Dr. Locke predicts: "Marriage and birth rates will in crease after the .war. Transfer of millions of men to foreign countries has resulted in the postponement of marriage for millions. A large por tion of these will rush to the altar after the war." Foreseeing an increase in divorces after the war, Dr. Locke said, "This may be attributed to the high pro portion of unhappy unions arising from hasty war and postwar mar riages, the divergent experiences which separated husbands and wives have had during the war peri od, and the backlog of estrange ments which remained in states quo for the duration." The freedom of women?econom ically and socially?gained in war time, Dr. Locke says, "may be ex pected to decline somewhat after the war." \ "In horrWs where husbands are ab sent women have taken on new re sponsibilities! Many thousands have entered the armed services and sev eral million have been employed in industry. Status After War. "Some women will relinquish these duties and obligations willing ly and return to their prewar status. Many others who have experienced a high status, leadership, and inde pendence will not be disposed to re turn to their former activities and division of labor. While the status of women in the postwar period will be lower than it was during the. war, it will be higher than it was in the postwar period." The toll of war. Dr. Iax$e contin ued, will result in "fewer men for each 100 women after the war." "At the close of World War I," he added, "the preponderance of wom en lad to various radical proposals. Similar proposals are to be expect ed at the conclusion of World War II. In fact. Prof. C. E. M. Joad, University of London, is reported already to have made the proposal that British laws be altered' to per mit a man taking a number of mates." Dr. Locke, explaining that like suggestions were advanced a quar ter century ago, declared such pro posals as polygamy would not be adopted after this war because they conflict with the morals of the civil ized world. New Tricks All Right; Old Ones Still Effective WITH THE MARINES.-In addi tion to new tricks which are being introduced into Pacific fighting by the enemy, the old ones are still to be found, and sometimes found ef fective, according to "The Leather neck." On Saipen, while fighting was tak ing place for "Fourth of July Hill," the Japs used one of their oldest trioks with a measure of success. Dressed in marine uniforms, firing marine rifles, and speaking perfect English. Jap snipers were able to kill four and wound 10 of our men before their ruse eras discovered and they were wiped out. Highest Medal Goes To One-Man Army WITH THE STH ARMY.?The Congressional Medal of Honor eras bestoared upon Sgt. Junior Spurrier, a, Riggs. Ky.. for his "one man army" liberation of A chain in Lorraine last Novem ber. Spurrier, working through the town alone from house to house, ^kifled SB Oermeee end Hunt Armed Nazis, Find a Love Nest So Busy'at Lovemakirig They" Didn't Hear Yanks. GOLZHEIN, GERMANY.-Love U a wonderful thing, the (rimy ser geant said. Several "slave" work ers left behind by the Germans were so busy catching up with love making they didn't hear the Yanks arrive. Sgt. James T. Sobansky of Wash ington, Pa, told the story to a war correspondent ss they sat on a pile of potatoes in a cellar while artillery shells fell all around. A short time before, doughboys of the 104th division had stormed the village, which is within sight of Co logne. Sobansky and his men entered a building, searching for snipers. They weren't expecting what they discovered. "We found four good looking, but scantily clad babes and four Polish men. I sort of hated to break up what looked like the warmest lov ers' rendezvous in Europe. They weren't paying a bit of attention to the war going on outside," the ser geant said. "The women and men all were about 29 years old. I don't think the surprised look on their feces was any greater than those of the sol diers who swarmed into the building to have a look," he said. Sobansky said he gave one of the girls a pat "on the shoulder" and "she was as solid as a cabbage." Cancer Research Will Be Coordinated in U. S. NEW YORK. ? Formation of a national organization to coordinate cancer research in the United States was announced by the Ameri can Cancer society. " > The idea is the sort of cooperation which has made a success of Ameri can war production and led to the miracles of the great industrial laboratories. The committee to direct the co operative research comprises Drs. Charles Huggins of the University of Chicago; Clarence Cook Little, geneticist, director of the Roscoe B. Jockaon memorial laboratory. Bar Harbor, Me.; James M. Mur phy, head of cancer research of the Rockefeller institute; Col. C. P. Rhoads, director of Memorial hos pital, New York City, the country's first cancer institute, and Florence R. Sabin, anatomist of the Rocke feller institute, Rear Adm. Charles D. Stephenson, will be secretary and coordinator. Decrease It Shown in Influenza and Pneumonia CHICAGO, ILL. ? Despite one of the most severe winters in history, influenza add pneumonia cases re quiring hospitalization decreased proportionately to less than half of last winter's estimates, a survey dis closed recently. At the request of the United States public health service, the hospital service plan commission of the American Hospital association sur veyed 14 Blue Cross hospital serv ice plans located throughout the winter respiratory infection area. Of 159,711 Blue Cross patients hos pitalized in the three month period ending February 17, there were 7,506 with diagnoses of pneumonia, influ enza or upper respiratory infections, or about 4.7 patients out of every 100. Last winter for the same period, of about 100,000 patients hospital ized, some 12,000, or about 12 out of every 100, were diagnosed with such upper respiratory infections. Doctot Has New Theory About Common Colds NEW YORK. ? A solution of the mystery of the common cold, by evi dence indicating that most colds are not caused by a virus but by streptococci, is offered by Capt Edward E. Brown, port surgeon, U. S. medical corps, Portland, Ore. Ul. ? | . I ? i lit . - ms rrpon, puuiisneu in ritjimwesx Medicine, cites evidence from 13 years' study at colds, mostly in chil dren with rheumatic fever, at the poet graduate hospital of Columbia university. New York city. Captain Brown predicts that strep colds can Be" prevented or helped by sulfa drags. Receptionist Gets Tooth For Holding G.L's Hand CAMP MAXEY, TEXAS. ? Miss Ruth Grant, receptionist in the den tal clinic, has a bracelet of wis dom teeth?extracted from soldier patients. The dental surgeon once asked Miss Grant to hold a private's hand while he performed the extraction. Be found the plan worked wonders so he continued it. And now the re ceptionist is planning to make a necklace and ear screws from wis dom teeth. Capture 954,377 Germans; U. S. 1st Army Takes Most PARIS. ? German captives since D-Day last June total 954,377, with more than one-quarter taken by the United States 1st army, supreme headquarters disclosed recently. By armies, the prisoner tolls are: United States 1st, 381,331; United States 3rd, 117,453; United States 9th, 74415, United Stataa 7th, 93, 1W; Kathleen Norris Says: Coming-Home Problems - B?n Syndicate.?WNU Fcitum. mGive him a little responsibility about the baby. Let Carl see thut Junior gets die I ciplined and isn't always first" By KATHLEEN NORMS "AFTER 22 months overseas /-V my husband came home *-last October, honorably discharged," writes a Spring field woman. "Carl is 24, I am 20. We have a boy who was born eight months after his father went away; Carl and I had known each other only four months be fore we were married, had on ly six weeks together. It seemed then as if it were the real thing; we loved each other deeply, and our letters never lost their tone of passionate devotion. "His concern when he knew a baby was coming, the ridiculous things he bought for the baby in Wales, where he was stationed, his excitement over a son's arrival all helped to carry me through that bad timei" We lived with my mother, Junior and I, and waited for daddy to come back to us. Carl Sr. was in the first parachute attack on France, was wounded and hospital ized for some months, went back into active service again, and was discharged because of an attack of stomach ulcers, for which he is now being treated. He has now rejoined his father and brother in a very suc cessful catering and pastry busi ness long established in the family. I am employed in this family busi ness, calling on clients in their own homes and making arrangements for weddings and receptions. My father-in-law and two brothers-in law are extremely kind to me, and the whole relationship is pleasant and easy. Completely Changed. "Now Carl comes back a com pletely changed character. In the first place he responded very indif ferently to the baby; naturally Junior was not won by a father who glanced at him so coldly, and will not go to Carl at all. Then Carl didn't like my living with my moth er, although he and I had never had a home here, but only six weeks to gether in California, near a camp. We have no furniture, and housing is scarce. My mother is very gentle and kind, and being with her would certainly solve my housekeeping problems and enable me to go on helping with the income. "With me Carl is silent and dis agreeable, shaking Off all affection ate overtures, telling me briefly that he wants to 'get away,' saying that his father's business makes him sick, sneering at our optimistic remarks concerning the war, and at the same time refusing to tell us anything of his own experiences on the ground that he is sick unto death of the whole thing. He refuses to have the stomach operation the doc tors think advisable, but not urgent, and is altogether unmanageable and miserable. Of course that makes us all sad. I am so willing to be a good loving wife to him and could so easily love him again, for he was a wonderful, wise, good-natured man when I married him, but I cannot much longer buck against this con stant attitude of being bored or dis pleased 1 Would you advise me and the baby to leave him, would you ad vise a divorce, or what would you advise?" ? ? ? Dear Lisa: I would advise you to give Carl time, and to employ that time with every means in jour power to convince him that love and peace and home life are the normal status of American husbands and fathers, and that after a while he will begin to realize how much be has left. He has had an overdose of cruel reality; loneliness, guns, danger, pain, illness, cold. He will gradu ally come back to his old cheerful ness of outlook. Put Him First. But while this slow curative process is going on, help him by being completely reasonable. That is, don't look for rational or nor mal conduct in him. If he feels the baby is spoiled, agree with him and be a little hard on the baby. If he is sick of meals in your mother's company, take him out to dinner, or encourage him with talk of hunting for a little apartment?or better, a little farm, of your own. If he glooms about the war, gloom with him, im mediately afterward conceding that valor, courage, defense of America are splendid things, however they are evoked. Above all, put him first. Make him important. At any cost be always free to walk with him, plan with him, buy architectural books and study them with him. Give him a little responsibility about the baby, let Carl see that Junior gets disci plined and isn't always first. Meet his look with laughter and affection; start every sentence with his name. "Carl and I want to?Carl was say ing?Carl thinks?" Two (actors are working against you. One is tMe frivolous nature at the family business, sure to Jar on a man just returned from facing such ghastly realities. The other is stom ach ulcers. These come nearer to driving men insane than any other purely physical ailment I know of. But you are not the. only woman who has had this coming-home prob lem to solve, Lisa. You will soon be joined by a million others; this is going to be our real postwar prob lem. And a good marriage is worth saving. There is a very special sense of triumph and joy in the happiness we win through doubt, difficulty and pain. Watering African Violets Brownish or whitish streaks on the leaves of your African violet prob ably are the result of overhead watering or use of cold water, states J. R. Kemp, U. of Winds collage ct agriculture Ale eye use warm water and shade the leaven until they are dry because diedolo ra tions appear it wet leavea are ex posed to the sun. Putting the pot in a pen at water until the soil in -B.UmU~md W? ' RECOVERY TAKES TIME The terrible impact of uiar on m soldier'* nerves is something peo ple who stay at home can never understand. This is particularly true of a sensitive young man who has been exposed to some ex tremely horrible experience. Such a case is related in this article. A young wife tells .Jiss Norris about her husband, Carl, a parachute trooper, who was re leased because oj stomach ulcers. Carl was devoted and affection ate until he returned from serv ice. Now he seems cold and de tached, showing little interest in his baby son or his wife. Every thing seems unimportant and trivial. He is critical of his wife and everyone else. This difficult phase, says Mist Norris, is a common experience of combat veterans. The shock of battle lingers for months. There is nothing to do but to be patient and considerate.
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