Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1950 — Page 23

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THURSDAY, NOV. TT — State Monopoly Pushes Private Business to

Wall in Eastern Reich

Merchandising Organization Channels

Black Mart Funds Into Government Till BERLIN, Nov. 23 (CDN)—In a little mere than two years a

i= state-owned merchandising organization in the Soviet zone of (er-

many has expanded from a single secretary in a top-floor office to =

Ean all-encompassing giant with 5000 retail outlets and a staff of 2% approximately 90,000 men and women,

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It was introduced,

so to speak, through the back door, Hs avowed purpose was to supply the r m—— people of eastern Germany with luxury goods at luxury prices and Music an Ad to channel the earnings of the black market into the government till. - Private businessmen were as- To Mentally {| sured repeatedly that there would be no competition, yet they are ! being backed steadily to the wall. Aggressive Patient i The HO (Handels—or merchan- Soothed by Rhythm @ dizing organization) probably is 8 | # the biggest single retail business TOPE. Sue Ge ag __|

@ Soviet Union on which the HO is ¥ modeled.

§ most impossible to obtain mer8 chandise, which goes instead to

§ merchant is the unprofitable trade

concern in ‘Europe outside of the Thump-thump-t hum p, pounded

the patient for hours and hours, lying on the floor of his room at

the Topeka State Hospital here. |

Private businessmen find it al-

He was a very sick mental patient, so aggressive that two aids resigned because they were afrald of him.

the state monopoly. About all that has been left for the private

In rationed goods at fixed prices,

and there are signs the HO is Then ‘music was piped into his about to make a grab for that bY room At first it ‘was primitive openly assuming control of the music : with a i that pr ese nt ‘consumers’ co-opera matched. his pounding. Then the tives, already virtually state rhythm was gradually changed to owned, something softer and less excitCan Fix Prices ing. The patient changed his Since most of the things it sells rhvthm. soon stopped pounding cannot possibly be obtained else- and was. able to discuss music where “in Eastern Germany, the with the music therapist. Later HO can fix prices with regard other personnel of the hospital

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only to the amount of profit it wants to make and the control it. chooses exert on buying. In the early stages, at the end of 1948, its profits were estimated at about 85 percent. There have been price reductions but the profit is still in the ne ghborhood of 50 or 55 percent and on many items it runs. as much as 500. The “profit” goes exclusively to the Communist government of Eastern Germany. With the steady increase in the number of outlets, it now estimated two billion , marks a year (about $400 million at the official

could approach him. Now he is well enough to have freedom of

to civilian the grounds.

His case is cited as one example of how music is being used-along with other kinds of treatment to help mental patients at the hos: Tuccessive pital here

The music is piped into treatment rooms and wards -over an abandoned telephone system. The type of music is varied Rroarging to whether something relaxing o something stimulating seems ™ needed. Records play constantly al in a remodeled basement tunnel. The ward doctor can call tre telephone operator and ‘ask one of four kinds of music or no music. The same system serves as the.” hospital's fire alarm. In case of fire. the operator could cut out all the music and make announce ments over the loudspeakers, -

The HO profit Ras replaced the schnaps"” tax a2 a main Eastern German revyenue, Normal wages the ovcupied zone are barely cient to cover housing and tioned food purchases at prices. This means that those with premiums as “activists” or overtime workers can purchase in the HO stores with any regularity, In effect, the state takes back almost everything that it pays in premiums, and .gets the extra work for nothing. The only real the system are a small party Communist | ernment officials. prices which mal’ before state's huge tax i LT uns.ardinazy. stores. It has hotdog stands in the main thoroughfares, roadside inns, expensive restaurants, resort hotels, and a tendency towards specialized businesses A dren's store” was opened recently in eastern Berlin, ample. Communist are gesting now divided

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Hood Tumors On Babies Blamed On Instruments

By Science Service CHICAGO, Nov, 23 ---Instruments used to deliver babies cidries. of to blame for soft tissue tumors ; nb ap of developing at the back of the head leaders and goy- in newborn infants, Drs. M. D. Ingram, Jr, and W. M. Hamilton of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, charge in special

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a Teport to Radiology, American

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College of Radiology These tumors consist of a blood clot underlving several layers of the scalp. Medical. name for the condition is cephalohematoma. It “significantly” more often in babies delivered py forceps, the * Nashville physicians reported. They found the condition developed in 126 out of 7.563 deliveries between 1944 and 1949.

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Sug gof state organizations, each with special trade province. They have also urged that the HO be given authority check on orders ‘at their sources,” which would mean not only control of merchandizing .but also of manu facture, For western

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to. small incomes, have been tempted | as a result to buy in the east, { City "officials have tried to ex-| plain by posters and other propa-| ganda that ‘western .Berlin firms| require the patronage of western Berliners if they are to remain in People who purchase in

3erlin, the exist ighboring outlets

has created an awkwar rd problem, business.

Western currency. in fact is-‘worth the east have heen labeled “Herr ., “five or siX times that of the east- Schimpt and Frau Schand” which etn Germans’ although they are . "putt to trans lite, but is nominally .on a par. Western Bel mighty strong talk in Berlinese liners, in particular ‘those with ¢ ight, 1950, for The Indianapolis Times ————

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