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?OME IN NUERNBERG . . . War correspondent with Bertha Strobl and her mother. The Strobla make their home In what la left of a aaaOe sate boose. This Is in the American sone of occupation. ElUft'i liniE PEOPLE?1946 Bombed German Family Lives Amid Ruins of Famous Castle By PAULINE FREDERICK WND Forelfa Cerreipoadtat. NUERNBERG.?In 1938, in a humble home in the shadow of a great castle, a little German girl was born. Her name was Hertha StrobL I saw Hertha today as I stood in the biting winter wind on the hill that commands the ruins of the legendary old inner city of Nuernberg. Hertha had run out of the shambles of the castle to ask me for chewing gum. I couldn't help following her back. That's how I found out that a lot of things have happened to her in eight thnrt vaara A? What Bertha was born the had a aeiutfaar-old sister. The simple i i Strobi heme was on a narrow street at the flsot of the castle in the quaint old city star walls and towers once j appeared an Christmas cards the ; world swr, and where Albrecht Durer Ind and painted. But there were ether things going on in Nuern berg when Herths was born. An j erfl man by the name of ^Julius < Streicher had started here a fire of ] anti-Jewism that was sweeping < ? One day Hertha's father had to | leave hie bumble job as a packer of dental supplies and go to the , Russian front as a soldier. But Her tha was too young to know much [ about this. Soon after the days ? or the (airy tales came to an end. Hertka kU me about them in the bitch? at the place where they are living, with her mother and sister adding a word new and then. The hi?e la a little three-room gate house built, into one of the towers of the ems tie wall which miraculous ly steads in the bomb-shattered ruina. Over (he doorway there is a Latin motto etched into the stone sod dated 1M1. Roughly translated it says, "There is nothing greater to be desired than to deserve well from the state " f Hcrtha's aisler was sitting at the, window peeling potatoes and her mother steod beside the little stove on winch there was a pot of cab bage eonkteg The two small rooms that ran across the back of the kitchen held single cots with ? feather-beds, The windows opened onto the shattered spires and tow ers of the old city below. A crude, wooden whes I doll carriage with a rag doll In it held a place of honor among the apare neat furnishings. There eras an heat In these rooms. The tears came to Hertha's eyes as though she were angry when she told about the time she was In the hn?ilal ah? a bomb struck it. Then, one day when she was back home, the great horns sounded again, and her mother hastily took her aaB her sister to the basement of their home. When great blast! ?hook the house, Hertha said in hei childish German, "I thought I was going to be dead." When the bomb ing stopped and they came up ts look around, there was no longer any Strobl house ? there were not many houses at all left in the city. Even the greater part of Hertha'i beautiful castle was in ruins. But what broke her heart most was that ber precious doll and doll carriage were gone. Frau Strobl took bar two daugh ters and went to an air-raid shelter nearby to live tor a while. That was BO feet down in the ground and in a concrete room where there was only electric light and no heat. When Herr Strobl came back from Russia, he found the little gate bouse at the castle dhd the family moved in there, but (here are still ? lot of others living in-bunkers. Hertha and her mother and sister clothes that did not look worn ind they had on leather-eoled thoes. Like matiy Germana in this sector the appetence of the clothing is food, and there are any number of Furs, especially red fox, here In Ba varia. But these are the last of the clothes ? there is little or noth ing to change to. However, children jnder six are permitted one pair of ihoes a year. But if Hertha's mother eras en deavoring to make ends meet, there was one thing that Hertha was hoping arith all her heart erould be changed soon. Last Easter there was no candy, but Just before Christ mas there was a small allotment and this Easter there probably arill be some. I asked Hertha what the wanted to do when she grew up, and without a moment's hesita tion she said, "Keep a chocolate shop!" There eras one other question I was interested in putting to this lit tle German girL The names of the prisoners in the dock of the Inter national Military tribunal outside the walls of the old city did not mean anything to her, although ah* said she had heard of Julius Streiah er. She had never seen any of the Nazi leaders. So I asked if her teach er arere to tall her to draw a pic ture that represented war to her, what she erould draw. She thought for a minute and then she said firm l_ - "I would draw a cartle and bouaea ?and tba houaea would all ba bombed." And probably aha would include In the destruction, a doll carriage with a doll in tt. A little girl of tender years who knows the true meaning of war. There is more in the American tone ? in all four acmes in Oar many ? to take care of than )ust easing that there Is enough food and clothing for the people through the winter. There Is a let of wrong thinking that has to bo taken care of, too, and that care has to start with the youngest who has aseer lived under Kasiism. The planter of this harvest of hate may be dead, but the tares he sowed still could choks out the good seed. CHOCOLATE ? . IV? BU1? ftrt. * * * * JB?mb?d rirst^Ctonu Gwra ltri t- ???? own ? lww unn ovjm a there wmm no fuel to heat the [ ?cheat hpase that day. I asked tl then what they thought of the trial of Mast ew criminals. Echoing yoowd their - years., they said that L - the trial was -too good tor them." I ashed what they would do and ci wucn m nan dmq unng, mi "They ihould be broken op k liecee end carried out of town aid blown on the dump.*' I wanted to put one mora quietly o thaaa young German*. I asked beat It they didn't diaUk* the Brit * and Americans for all the * ttwctkp that kpd beep dans u otTtlwyaald b? ae?J5 hay had aald It boforo: SOMETHING NEW IN POLITICS . . . S/S Carl E. Mau, extreme right, Is shown with members oI his entourage In Marcos Hook, Pa., as they prepare to break pop-tent headqoarters and start a cavalcade through varioos Pennsylvania cities to present Mao's G.I.-for-Governor ease to the Repoblican electorate of the state. Others, left to right, Tony Cor dill e, Mike Machman, Christy Gollio, Abe Gnberman and Mike Bath. GRASS ROOTS LOBBYISTS URGE OPA EXTENSION . . . Members of a delegation of self-styled "grass roots lobbyists," representing every state in the Union and bearing placards with slogans urging the exten sion of the OPA while it was being debated in congress, photographed against the background of the great dome of the eapitol building, before marching on the bill to button-hole their representatives. After this shots was taken they were Joined by representatives of labor and a number of veteran organisations. BASEBALL SEASON STARTED .. . President Truman throws oat ths ball as the 1>M baseball season opens at Grifflth stadium. Washinctoo, where the Senators clashed wtth the Boat on Red Sox. Some ZM.7M tans throneed elfM major leacne parks for season insofar*Is. Atone with President Trnaaaa, M,17t tana watched the Bed Sox win f to X. V. S.'| FIRST SAINT . . . This statue of Mother Cabrini, the tost American woman to he named for sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church, will be placed in a niche in 8L Peter's Basilica upon day of canonisation. PLANE II CHUTE . . . Par tha ?rat (tea hi ariattaa hlataiy, ? >U?a with tha pflat h aackytt was ?Hat Oarmi*Bttcsi N. J., is Aw. h*ta?, N. *. Kathleen Norris Says: The Much Younger Husband Ball Syndicate.?WlfU Feature*. "What can I do to hold this young husband of mine, whom despite all his unkind nesses, I love so passionately?" By KATHLEEN NORMS THE problem of Marigold, aged 39, is that of a clever, successful woman who has married a man 12 years her junior. They have been man and wife for less than two years, and already Larry shows signs of restlessness. Marigold is frantic with helplessness and despair, all the more acute be cause she keeps everything bot tled up inside her, and manages to keep a serene exterior before the watching eyes of the world. "When we were married," writes Marigold, "I was a different wom an. I am healthy, an out-of-door sort of type, and at 37 I looked at least 10 years less than my age. Some years ago my parents left me a small farm; I was just home after glorious college years when they were killed in an accident, and idly, in the first summer of loneli ness and grief, I secured a few small-girl boarders. From this grew my school, a school for so called difficult and problem cases. I have been unbelievably success ful, not only in a financial sense, but in the fact that I love this work, it is easy and natural to me, and repays me richly in friendships with children and parents. A Very Handsome Man. "Larry came to me three years ago as physical culture director. I knew he was less experienced and less useful than he had represented himself; I built him up. We studied his work together, he improved, he became a different human being. He is magnificently made and very handsome, and I fell in love with him long before he did with me?if he ever did. We were married, and immediately Larry began his atten tions to other women. He opened adult classes in gym work, long country hikes that took place dur ing hours when I was not tree. After the first weeks of blissfully deceiving myself I saw that no one woman ever could hold him, but I hoped to be his rock of safety and understanding through all the storms of his undisciplined nature. | "After the loss of my baby ? a year ago I was iQ for a long time. Not sick in bed, but rather drag ging myself about through my school duties, and not able to keep control as I should. Larry drew large sums from our Joint account, and on one occasion signed my name to a sale of property without my authorization. At that time he moved to another room, and he has not returned to mine. "Now he tells me he wants to be freed, to drive about the country looking up pupils for a much en larged school, and dreadful as it sounds I am afraid that he would not be alone; I think I know the charming young companion of 19 who would accompany him, al though he tries to quiet my suspi cions by saying that Hiss M has an agency for children's books and would be stopping in many of the towns he would visit, so that accidental encounters would be very natural. "What can I do to hold this young husband of mine, whom despite all hia unkindnesses, I love so passion ately? I know I am not young and charming any more; 1 was never glamorous. But I am slim and tall 4 far |H>... WINNING HIM BACK ? ^ . When a woman marries a man , muck younger than herself, she I is taking a chance. This is es pecially the case when he is handsome and flirtatious, as is Marigold's husband. She is 39 now, 12 years older than Larry. They met when he joined the faculty at Marigolds school for girls. Soon after the marriage Larry began paying attention to other, and younger, women. He has drawn considerable money from their joint account, used Mari gold's car for dates, and in gen eriw venov?a hi a w?j w gwa husband would. Now he wants to go on a long tour of the country "to obtain new students for the school." Marigold suspects that he will be accompanied by a pretty girl of 19. IVith all his shortcomings. Marigold still loves Larry "pas sionately." She asks Miss Norris how she can "hold" her errant husband. Miss Norris tells her that the best thing Marigold can do is to try to pretend she doesn't care what Larry does. If she busies herself with her own interests in the school, Larry will probably come back to her in due time. and clean-looking, and my yellow hair is untouched by drugs or gray ness yet. There must be something to me; the children love me, and so do their families. I am well again now, I'm not ready to be a broken, crying, wakeful failure as a wife. Help me to get back again." Don't Take Him Seriously. Help, my dear Marigold, has to come from within. When you make yourself a whole woman again, ab sorbed in other things than Larry's physical perfections and love con quests, you'll get him back. When you are always nappuy Dusy, amused, planning picnics (or your charges, dressing with the old charm, enjoying the same old books and music, Larry'll see you as be used to see you. Stop the crying, reproaching, ly ing awake nights, analyzing. Noth ing is so fatal to married peace as the long "reasonable" talks in which a man and woman hurt each other's feelings deliberately and systematically. Forget Larry. Yes, forget him. Listen to his complacent recitals absent-minded ly; have other things to think about. If he goes off with the car, see that he hasn't too much money. Suggest casually that he find a job as phys ical culture director in some other school. Explain that his flirtations' are undermining yours. Laugh about it Warn prospective students that he Is youthfully amorous. In other words, become yourself again, a charming, capable, suc cessful woman, who knows how to live and help small unfortunates Using Dp Dry Bread Dry bread has many uses. It makes good trench toast, hot milk toast, bread and custard pudding and baked fruit scallops. Turn odds and ends of bread into a supply ol dry crumbs that every thrifty cook likes to keep handy for coating fooda in frying and for topping baked dishes and stuffing vegeta bles or meat. There are bread crumb specials live on happier terms, who dresses well and has many interests. The sooner Larry drifts away to impose upon some other heart-hungry older woman, the sooner you'll regain your moral, mental, psychological and physical balance.
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