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WITH THE AEF Bitter Harvest By Kenneth L. Dixon IN GERMANY.— (IP) —It isn’t new or original to say that his tory’s greatest harvest of human “grapes of wrath’’ is moving slowly in endless streams along ev ery road in central western Eu rope. American douboys have said it so often that perhaps it should ® be nut on record lor that reason alone. But until you’ve seen it, you & find it impossible to believe. Like the chief characters of John Steinbeck’s famous book, these literal millions of homeless waifs of war are wandering in * hopes of finding some place where they will have a chance for food, shelter and livelihood. They are slave laborers, fresc! prisoners of war, political con victs and homeless civilians of ’ many countries. Some are return ing to their homes after years of war and imprisonment. Many are ’■ well acquainted with Nazi concen tration camps and internment sta tions. CU-pinheck’s characters in that they do not have even decrepit wheezing cars or trucks on which to pile their belongings — and their belongings are so meager most of them can carry them on their backs or puli them along in small carts and wagons. They’re all walking. At first you ^on’t think so much about it as you ride eastward in a jeep, meet ing the endless streams flowing westward. But after you ride hun dreds of miles for hours, and even days, you begin to rea*ze the ex tent cf the footsore journey ahead of these people. It would be bad enough if they were hi althy and if this were warm summertime. Unfortunately, neither is true. They’re weak and emaciated. Many were half - starved for months or years. They’re terrifi cally hungry—which is an imme diate pain. Many are sick or wounded. Their clothing is tattered patchwork, the remnants of uni forms of a dozen different armies. It becomes painfully cold at nights. You can sleep under two or three biankets ’inside a build ing and still shiver. These people not only have no buildings and no blankets, most of them have insufficient clothing for normal daytime temperatures. How they survive the nights on ly they can tell. Of course there are some “DP” — displaced per sonnel — camps along the roads, but there aren’t enough. Many times drifters purposely avoid them because they get involved in disorganized red tape which de lays their drifting. As you drive along they often hail you with victorious smilles and signals which leave you with a strange feeling of humility. There’s pride among many of them, too—French, Polish, Russi an, Greek and Hungariasn — so much pride that they refuse to beg. Once we stopped for a noon time K-ration snack. K-rations s seem not so good to men in or • with the Army, but obviously they looked wonderful to these wander ers. Yet not one asked for a bite **• « n 1 1 vv i n arsaw nign acnooi neaas Entertain Rotary Members l WARSAW, April 3.—Mrs. Cecil . Winstead and R. F. Wadkins, heads of the home economics and agriculture departments of War saw High school entertained the Rotary club at its regular weekly 's meeting last week, at the Com munity Cannery building on Col lege street. H. F. Lee, president of the club, presided, j' The Rev. A. M. Williams, pastor p of the Methodist Church, was the was serv B ^^^B to eat or paused long enough to make his presence embarrassing —and it’s hard for a hungry man not to do that. After you've seen them by the thousands along every road you wonder how there can be more, but always there seem to be. You wonder how many actually have homes somewhere and how many are just drifting aimlessly. Nobody seems to be able to tell you how they are to be transport ed to their various countries or what will be done with them in the meantime. They keep filing along the roads in never-ending thousands. This generation’s grapes of wrath— sown in five years bloody war-4 fare — has made its grim futile crop and the harvest is rolling along every highway. Thanks! To all my friends for the vote and support given me in the city council primary. GARLANDS. CURRIN "Came row, Cvlpeper Ihere’s a Bond Drive or!" THE NICE THING is that we don't have to do this with our employees whenever the community needs their help—in War Bond or War Chest drives, Red Cross affairs, sal vage collections and other civic problems. The men who handle Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer are proud of their stake in the community, and of their contributions to its welfare. You see, keeping folks supplied with wonderful Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer is only one of the things we try to do for our neighbors! And if you cant always find Pabst—ask again neat time, wont you? STATE Distributing Co. 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