Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1943 — Page 10
RUSS REVIVE "CITY OF DEAD | Kein Bg esta
By Nazis.
BY DAVID M. NICHOL"
| @opyright, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times 1 and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.
| KALININ, May 31 (Delayed).— Eighteen months ago, the Germans
By TOM WOLF Times Special Writer LONDON, June 2. — If it’s any consolation to shortage-conscious America, scarcities at home still don’t begin to/ approach British shortages. e are some random items whigh made news in Britain last month and which shed an interesting light on shortages here. Food: New items are constantly turning up on English menus to compensate for the absence of ever-popular dishes. Latest of these is swan, Adult swans are too tough and stringy to be pop-
When You Grumble About Shortages,
ular, but cygnets, cooked like wild duck, can he very ‘tasty. . . . Luxury { and drink is more so than éver. A jar of what was reputed to be the last caviar-in Britain was purchased and sent to Mr. Churchill’s residence the other day and by an admirer. Vintage wines and spirits have brought fabulous prices at recent auctions. It’s ‘not only Cointreau at $40 the bottle, but even lowly gin—$20 a bottle when bought by the case. Commodities: A still further reduction in clothing coupons is being considered. Recently the
president of the board of trade suggested the following - summer “austerity” dress for men: No tie,
no collar, no socks. And the clergy
was recently advised to. pass the collection plate for coupons as
well as cash if new ecclésiastical ' vestments were needed, as np ex-
tra coupons would be issued for them. a Manpower: The press is constantly reporting the calling’ up of the last man in one ‘trade or another in many communities. A recent example is that of the last plumber still mending broken
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pipes in three rural towns. The towns. used to have enough broken plumbing to keep 20 plumbers busy. : .; Many holiday resorts are advising prospective guests to arrive expecting to help out on the housework or not to arrive at all. . + « Wags here are telling of the woman who called a doctor when her temperature got to 102. The busy medico is reported to have told her: “Well, if it goes to 103, sell.” Health: Despite shortages of every sort,
England; Swe
Britain's national . ‘health is excellent. Recently re-
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leased figures for 1942 show second ‘lowest. death rate on record, even including air raid victims (but not, of course, battle casualties outside the United Kingdom). Infant mortality was lowest ever. Birth rate: highest for 3 decade. Only black spot in the health picture was venereal disease — now the subject of an intensive and extremely frank newspaper advertising campaign. Estimates indicate “VD” may be up 100 per cent over 1939. It’s a fact, actually: In all that has been written about how much
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“ance of “kitties” in certain Ameri-
Americans have influenced the British since our arrival here, the British influence on the Americans seems to have been overlooked. How great the latter has been, speech-wise at any rate, is seen here in the recent appear-
can offices here into which offenders must pay fines for the we 4 such Angelicisms as “good show,” “taking a dim view of” (i. e, “frowning on”), ‘browned off” (“sore”), “let's get cracking” (“let’s get on the ball”) and the
children and
like.
DAY,
PLAN OPEN HOUSE
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Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Lentz of
Maywood will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary tomorrow with
open house from 8 to 11 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Lentz have seven
are Mrs. Ruth, Carpenter, Mrs. Enid Schisla and Miss Jane Lentz of Maywood: Mrs. Norma Pierce of Indiapapolis; Mrs. Irma Charlton of Glendale, Cal.; Richard Lentz of Los Angeles, Cal, and Paul J. Lentz, now on active duty with the
six grandchildren. Their five daughters and two sons
| get, fire to Kalinin and touched off |: charges which brought down _ | bridges, blew up factories and left what they thought was a dead city ‘to the 15,000 miserable inhabitants |too old, too young and too ill to be evacuated. / But Kalinin did not die. By one ‘of those miracles which are; be- ; coming almost, commonplace in' the Soviet Union, it has managed to restore a large part of its community existence until Kalinin now has resumed its place among those cities producing for the army and Ji providing a great | » Mr. Nichol reservoir of the sturdy strength which makes these peoplé unbeatable. / " The problem of putting back together what the Germans have destroyed is one facihg every section of the Soviet Union to which HitJer’s armies have penetrated.
Hospitals Patched
I found hospitals with glaring new patches in their operating rooms and with newly constructed wings, but working. Water and sewer services have been restored to a large portion of the community. I saw the Artel, or co"operative society, turning out clothing for the population; saw dining rooms where children were given extra food and all around the city hundreds of persons working in the fields to provide the harvest which is vitally important. ; . Perhaps most significant of all, I found the people happy and confident. It is strange to encounter such a feeling among ruins. But one night I went to a theater, which fs now operating in a hall once used for meetings of the region's agricultural experts. It was a comedy. performance without a single mention of war, yet the audience— chiefly soldiers there—roared with delight. I From the director's office one looked out over the tangled remnants of a five-story building which had received the direct hit of a 1000-pound bomb. It was little more than a heap with girders sticking out, yet with this for a background, the director said that comedies were most popular both in Kalinin and in the front regions which the theater serves.
Residents Confident
| On the street, in the prolonged dusk of the late spring evening, I gaw soldiers, arm in arm with their girls, walking leisurely. And under the burned lintels by the roofless, windowless houses, there were many tender good nights. * | There is an astmosphere of confi-| dence among workers and leaders which can, perhaps, only be explained by the fact that many of them helped build Kalinin once— during the days when the five-year plan was transforming Soviet .industry. They have seen this job of construction done before. They are uniformly convinced that, kit can be done again. Among them, there is ‘healthy realism. Windows remain a big problem; for example, but for the time wood or bricks or screens are serving the purpose, except where light is essential.
They All Work
“What is the use of putting them back if they are only to be blown : out | again?” one: asked. Kalinin a was regularly visited by Nazi bombers for almost a year after its liberation. Since the front was pushed back last winter, these visits have not occurred although planes frequently are ‘observed within a few miles of the city. | Impressive, too, is the amount of improvising. Things are patched up, stuck together somehow, and repaired on the spot. But they do service. | “We've got everything we need,” said the director of a dressmaking factory which now is turning out underwear for soldiers. “All we have to do is work.” | That is perhaps an overstatement. The problem of labor and supplies remding immense, But it is an excellent illustration of the attitude with which Kalinin’s people are approaching the question of reconstruction.
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