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German People Work in Fields With Feet
Wrapped in Rags, Student Discovers
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streets in many towns hare been |old
Our train pulled into the station I cleared, / dress
of a small town just inside the! A large when tfield was cutiv into’scene,
German border. On the platform sections by the. asphalt runways us that
wom^n—her hair gray, her
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and! there were those among
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'"Tn uniform the faded baggy green of blasted down. Men
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were inspected and passports stam
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This was Germany. Along the
the Wermacht. Military permits stopped their work and idly watch-
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claimed she was crying.
Perhaps this had been her home.
Bremen is a port city on the
Weser River. Before the war (and
now) the population was over 400,-
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press; their dirty, worn clothes 000. Systematic bombings of the
either the black Allied prisoner dodc areas and saturation bomb-
, rail lines vegetable gardens °grew ?arb or the baggy, faded green of ings of the residential areas de-
•■■v V|-! to within a foot of the crosstiesj the Wermacht. Children ragged stroyed 60% of the city. A single
^ . ! Workers in the fields tossed heavy and dirty waved, their arms thin, family is allowed two rooms. In
/ shocks of Meat onto horse drawn | their faces solemn. Almost no traf- the winter long lines of hungry
y - | wagons. Men and women with rage fic v <tooved on the streets and high- people receive two hot meals daily
_ _ wrapped around their feet worked : ways.
r ♦ ; in vegetable patches too small for) Our train stopped in the large
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j, ed for the long winter.
Small herds of Holstein cattle
grazed contentedly on the grass
grown over shell craters. Pour
brick walls surrounded rusted ma
chinery partially heaped over with
rubble of a factory once there. r
Rusting girders twisted into
other rubble heaps of bricks and
stones and dirt—what was left
of a nome, Pew men were em.
ployed in reconstruction, only the
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there our American group was
by a delegation of ^German
students from the work camp we
had come to attend. They wel
comed us sincerely and assisted
in loading our baggage on the
bus chartered by the camp. The
hard rubber tires of the bus
rumbled over cobblestone streets
and; either side the eye encbunU
cm! only rubble heap where
blocks of homes had been,
Huualing on what, looks tq have
been the front steps of n house, an
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‘Sweet Adeline’ Rings Oiit
As SPEBSQSA Gathers Pep
qf watery potato soup ladeled out
by the city government
Here again little has been done
toward reconstruction. Prior to the
currency reform when the cigar
ette was the medium bi monetary
. exchange, workers would not labor
for worthlels marks, and now too
few people have marks enough to
begin rebuilding,. Legally there
are 3% marks to the dollar, A
suit of men's clothes made of
wood fiber costa 180 marks or a
months wagon for tho worker.
On the black market a pack
of cigarettes costing a dime In
the Army I'X will bring five
merksi p fifteen cent bar of aoap
la two markai and a blekle candy
bar, eight tenths of a mark.
Theoretically Americana have
only marka obtained through the
Military Government at the legal
rate. Hut In |awe|ry shops Amerl*
cans ara aeen buying expena}y»
silverware costing hundreds of
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By CHUCK MAISEL
Drag out youi- atomizers and ab
out last year’s lungs. The Society
for Preservation and Encourage
ment Barber Shop Quartet Sing
ing in Americans about to set up
shop again this -year. They are
holding their organizational meet-
: ng Thursday night after yell prac-
Ice in the YMCA—the Assembly
Room, not the barber shop.
The local chapter expects big
songs on. unsympathetic Cars and
declares that ..lW. laws of the
society must necessarily corres
pond with those of the many
states concerning disturbance of
the peace.
W. H. Hall of the EE Depait-
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German tntrilu.
The store wind
loaded with shodd
The store windoWs and shops are
aded with shoddy goods priced t4>-
high for anyone but the rich and
the blackmarketeer* to buy. Coffee
is about $7 a pound ($5 of that is
taxes). American coffee on the
Mackmarket is only $6 a pound,
cheaper than the legal price.
,An American may ride the city's
street cars and busses without fare
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*- This slightly D; ,
ptetnie was drawn loij the Bat-
r talion by Its geographic Expert
y.»' I^r. Frank Welchi He has. tried
to point out the l sights . o* spe-
- xtfle historic interests to a; trav-
fer, visiting San An top to. ;|
: Dr. Welch will! conduct jguide
tours immediately prece<Jtog and
i following the pifeskin conflict.
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. DETROIT—Bo MaMiUin.
new cqbch of the! Uetroat lybns of
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the National Football
flashed one of tbp cnliloqufulismji
j||iat helped; mak|e
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Texas Tech After Second Win
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In Game With Aggies Saturday
^ \ sparkplug, Bennie Winkler, tac-
' tc kle, Joe Sjmith, end, and Tuff>'
Nabors, center who was the
the Batfy the Bryan Eagle, and the
Bryan, Chamber of (Commerce. If
enough members are ygcruited the
Houston chapter, which sponsors
the locals, may semf a 3 quartet to
tljfe- International Convention this
ypafr*
I Also on the agehda will be the
blanked-highly regarded West Tex- ? re P aratio " f ‘* r th . e P ublic ,
StntP 1<J O will Kv> cppifimr this yeal will be such playeis as tormance to be given early in
FiL- „r *1,* • Dan Pursel and Bobby Garner at! November by the Brazos barber
guards, Bobby IVilliamiji at center, jdioppers and guests from other
Walter Edrington at did, and Cal feading chapters in the state. A
' By LEON SOMER ’ll-*’
l Te ™ 3 J.ft ™Y » ot ha ,T f S e f kle, Joe Smith, end, and Tufff
(team.that it had last year but the
F d y aider8 . wiU "l* be a P asb * heart of the Tech line last sea-
over for any team this year. Only son
[last Saturday tTje Lubbock team ' S p‘ arUing the Texas Tech team
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•‘That fellow if; big!enough to
hunt bear with a. if witch,” Bo,
Briggs, who plajjiid fuf
versity of Coloiyjlo, iatadd
feet, four and n Jiulf and Hwoiglw
204 pounds. il {
nieijt and president of the voto\- ^ an' 0 Am!rican P re'stouran"t fs^on’
ists, asfs for all men who love thejfour-course, sixty-cent supper.
,. - - - IRF 111 ba ™ on y. . coni ®, ou t ; *o A two room suit in the comfortable
'Jungs this annum. According to the meeting. Upon joining, th* MW Army mana ged Hotel Bremen is a
S -G-. Jones vice-president, of the member checks on his application dollar a day . In the parking lot of
songsters; there wasn t enough blank whether he sings bass, - tenor the hotel German men tend to resi-
MAX GREINER, 190 pjoi
better Aggie linemen In tbej Vmandva
Philadelphia game was Limit
pec ted to be ready to go ajgi
Beaumont High School but; nfm!! lly
time for the members to get in i barjtone, or crow.
voice last year as the charter of
the I group wasn’t received until
April.
Plans to be discussed include
^ Qrows are those who like to sit
on the fenp.e and jilst listen. A voice
is not heeded to join the organiza-
wHh in fhe a coo^SS^f^KORA, St'^^ tt
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dents cars-r-washing, polishing and
cleaning—for the tips of cigar
ettes, soap, and chocolate they re
ceive. r-
Our work in Bremen was-to live
with |he Germans, eat with them,
work with them for four weeks.
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Using Barts From Or
^heir second in this week’s B w.inams e
game withlhe .Agg.es. . IwaUer Edrington at ehd, ^... _ „
! V 1 ' 8 ye a L tb e Tech team will be Stevenson and Bud Conley in the spo t „n KORA’s u On the Beam”
pointing toward their third straight buckfield program is in the offing also.
Border Conference tftle and-once- j Despite the set-back that the ^ .u t ,u , i i
again their main obstacle will be . Aggies took last Saturday, there * 0 ,J li^h a ?he%PF°
the Ifardin-Sj.nmons Cowboys. wcre Home bright spot. In th^ bSQSA TJas^rgahUed in 1938
! The Red Raidora were hit hard U-um’it offenfte. The running of b " ()w jp c a8 u nd o) b c rs
I»y graduation and (bach Dell • Bobby Goff, Hob Goode, and Jim . y t u i hh ‘ Oklahoma From there
j, | i Morgnih has v bebn hard pressed irt itoswe|l proved to be the main ;idea'snroad niitfi tndnv there
1 Un 4uU^^omo of Ins positions. I t spark |ln the Aggie backfleld. tera to 416 cltSa w th J
rff'.rr e-- '»-> ! w *»».« of .he t™m ?,', t VKSr.hip " w ti.;
1 are such players as Freddie far from pleasing to Coach or(rttnlwtlotr pibUshe* monthly
Brown, last year’s bnckrield btltelor. 1 he ( ijdets tried eleven , auK i P hooks and a quarterly muga-
. . . ; passes and colmlht.jj only four. y[ tho Harmonize.-. - ‘
nliteler has heerMvdrklng the team Th) , Cod4 , of Ethics of the unique
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BRUSSELS—hD—A prehistoric
tool which experts consider dates
from 50,000 years before Christ,
j has beeh discovered by Andre Mar-
(c^ial of Profondeville, near Dinant,
as he was digging, bis garden.
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Over Canady’s Pharmacy
Phone 2-1457 Bryan. Texas
mony.
The Code also warns members
to refrain from forcing their
When you come to the game Saturday,
make the Gunter your headquarters.
Here you will meet your friends, old
and new, in an atmosphere of friendly
hospitality. The Gunter has complete
facilities to accommodate your evePy
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Have Tea Friday
The A&M Garden Club will en-
'ertain with a tea from 3 to 5
Friday at the home of Mrs. R. D.
Lewis, 410 Throckmorton.
Members of the club and those
interested in becoming members
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