Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1946 — Page 7
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* THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1946 ___. ~~ | FI ‘THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ___
hie Toss - | i : RUHR P OPULATI ON 000 ———— the Bulgarian : : = B : we- HW PLODS AIMLESSLY: YRE \ AA & ol a] British Forces Face Fantastic Job of Stimulating Ger- ee : New Now mans Who Have Lost Incentive to Mine Coal Fields. Shop Tuesday ’ T By EDWARD W. BEATTIE : Thru Saturday
- Times State Servive & LIPPSTADT, Germany, Sept. 19.—From the town of Lippstadt down to the Rhine the Ruhr slopes gently over rolling, forested hills and tilled valleys which at first glance look as though the land had ‘always been
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at peace, ’ Fields are well kept, the forests are thick and green and the haystacks are fat and yellow. Everywhere from behind the hills forests of
tall brick chimneys or spidery steel scaffoldings mark the mine-shafts of the great Ruhr coal field. The gutobahn down to the Rhine runs for a while, smooth and un-
touched, the bridgestintact and even | the old road signs unscathed. Then less to speak of recovery until a |stimulus for it can be germinated.
come the bridges in long succession which the Germans blasted in a last effort of resistance. With the bridges come the wrecked cities which once poured coal and steel into the industries of an entire continent, Racked With Plague Today the Ruhr lies prostrate like B giant racked with plague—and in almost exact proportion to its {lls Germany and Europe suffer, The Ruhr ‘is caught in a vicious circle of coal and food. With more coal the population could be fed
more than the present near-starva-|workers get much more—there is a But without more food chance that more coal can be mined
‘tion diet.
the: incentive to mihe more coal.is|and more coal will. mean more food
gone.
You realize this when you begin goods to give new life to trade.
0 notice that most of the tall chimneys of the Ruhr are not smoking. And you start watching people trudging along the roads and through the streets towns where rubble is banked high inside the skeletons of dead buildings. Aimless Outlook People pull their little carts loaded with brush or firewood or a few salvaged belongings or lug the knapsacks they used to use for summer hiking—or just stand. The faces of the city dwellers are yellowish in testimony to the in-
adequate diet and, aimlessness is their outstanding characteristic. The British occupational authorities face here in the Ruhr a fantastic job of stimulation. It is use-
In Essen, for instance, a city which has a rubble clearance prob- | lem it may take 30 years to handle, it is estimated that 60 per cent. of | the male population between 18 and | 42 is now dead or missing. Must Raise Basic Ration
The Krupp works which was the | essence of Essen is slated for oblit- | eration and nobody can yet imagine | what will replace it as a job giver. | If through economic unity with the American zone the basic British ration can be raised to the hoped for 1560 calories a day--the heavy
and & new “trickle of consumers’
“Until we can get the miners’ minds off food and on to his job we are going to do no more than scrape along,” the coal men say. All of western Germany will be the sufferer until that time and all Europe will feel the pinch.
CIVIC LEAGUE MEETS TONIGHT
The Brookside Civic league will meet in the community house to- |= night at 8 p. m. for reports on sum- (= mer activities and discussion of |= streetcar rates and inoreased service. Harry Alford, president, will preside.
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