FRENCH PROBLEMS . . . Bread, fuel and shoes are greatest French
needs. An adult is allowed a little over a half-pound of bread each
I day, while a French child Is entitled to one-half litre, or less than a
pint, of milk. Picture taken in the Village of Lagny.
Europe’s Little People—1946
French People Will Feel Effect
Of War for Many Years to Come
By PAULINE FREDERICK
WNU Foreign Correspondent.
PARIS.—It will take France a long time to get enough
leather to walk on,, clothes to wear, fuel to heat her houses,
and food for her tables. And it will take her children, who
have been growing up without enough vitamins and cod liver
oil and oranges and milk, a long time to develop the sturdy
bodies they will need to face the years ahead in this part of
the world. The enemy has gone from France, but there is
still a great battle to be won at home.
I was never more aware of the<«
everyday living problems that con
front the average French family
than when I went to visit a home
In Paris which is experiencing many
of the typical troubles of the day.
It was bright and cold, so I was
t wearing my heavy lined field coat
over my G.I. slacks and blouse. The
car stopped in front of a modest
Stone front flush with the sidewalk.
t was ushered through a hallway
crowded with a baby carriage and
a heavy dark chest. As I entered
the living Voom, I might have been
going into the room of a modest
American home — simple but com
fortable maple furniture, landscape
watercolors on the walls, maga
zines on the table and books in the
bookcase. But the thing that distin
guished the room from that of Amer
ican homes which I knew was that
as I talked with the pretty dark
eyed hostess, our breaths were
plainly visible. In my heavy G.I.s
I was shivering.
Why didn’t this gracious French
woman light a fire or turn up the
heat? There was one compelling
reason. She and her family had
only enough fuel to keep one room
of the whole house moderately
warm for six weeks between 10
o’clock in the morning and 5 o’clock
in the afternoon. And there were not
only the father and mother in that
family, but three little children as
well, aged 2, 7 and 11.
The middle child was threatened
with tuberculosis, which has become
one of the postwar prices France is
paying. Three children who have
known the deprivation of war years
because their parents were not
wealthy enough to pay black mar
HOLDS BREAD . . . Pauline Fred
erick stopped to talk to this
Frenchman about the price of
bread.
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ket prices, and also, because their
mother happened to be a Jewess.
Even now, the mother was selling
one thing after another to get money
to buy what she had to have for
the mere existence of her family—
her fur coat, the little bit of jewelry
she had, some furniture, rugs. The
chest in the hall was to be next.
This is not an unusual story in
France today. It can be repeated
over and over again. Of course,
there are modifications. I dined in
a French farm house where there
was meat and cheese and whipped
cream on the table from the farm’s
resources, and trees that had been
cut down on the broad acres sur
rounding the house provided the
heat. But even so, the little boy of
the house walked stiff-legged on his
wooden soles, and looked the thin,
high-colored age of four instead of
his seven years because he had nev
er had vitamins and cod liver oil
and orange juice.
But back to the Family Jacques in
Paris, as they shall be known, for
they requested they remain anony
mous.
Today, the official prices for basic
commodities in France are 703 per
cent higher than the 193if rates,
while black market prices have
soared to 3,117 per cent above the
prewar cost of living. Under these
intolerable financial conditions
which have not been alleviated by
the devaluation of the franc because
prices have gone up, and with the
scarcity of the essential items of
food, especially bread and pota
toes which make up 60 per cent of
the French diet, Madame Jacques
is able to give her family only be
tween 1,300 and 1,400 calories a day.
Germans in the American zone are
permitted 1,500 calories for the
average consumer with more for the
pregnant mother and heavy work
ers. Moreover, in the American sec
tor of Berlin, housewives who take
care of two or more persons who
are too young or unable to work,
have had their rations increased
from 1,500 calories to 1,601. (The
American army feeds its men be
tween 3,500 and 4,ia-0 calories a
day.)
Ordinarily the Jacques family
eats three pounds of bread a day for
six (a maid lives with them). But
the new ration has been reduced,
with adults getting a little over a
half pound a day. The children get
milk — when milk is available —
but only one-half or three-fourths
litre each. Butter and fat are almost
non-existent, except as friends from
the country bring them in. There
has been no fruit for the children.
They have had about two pounds
of tangerines since the war ended,
but have never seen bananas. Last
winter there were only carrots and
leeks, but this winter there was a
little salad and spinach. The meat
ration is about one-third pound a
week for each person.
“I know there are many people
worse than we,” she said. ‘‘I have
an uncle in New York who helps us
from time to time.”
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First Sight of Paris Is a Shock Now
There is one thing i snail always
remember about the first time I saw
Paris. It was really something I
heard rather than saw. Twenty-six
hours after leaving the National air
port at Washington, I was at Orly
field just outside the French capi
tal. It was early evening when I
entered the city. There had been a
government crisis and many people
were in the streets. There was little
vehicular traffic because of the
gasoline shortage.
r ranee, warning on wooaen soies
because for five long years she had
been drained by her enemies with
in and without—drained of shoes and
clothes and food and fuel. . . . There
is the clatter of wooden soles on the
streets of Paris today, and there is
cold and hunger and sickness.
It will be some time before
"Paree" can really be as gay in
spirit as she may try to appear on
the surface. The Nazis are gone,
but the wooden clatter remains.
In These United States
Ford Is ‘Heap Perter,9
Says Georgia Neighbor
RICHMOND HILL, GA.—Henry Ford, the motor mag
nate, looks a “heap perter” than he did when he came to
his Georgia plantation, according to one of his plantation
workers. Ford is now 84 years old, but he is still keenly
interested in experimentation in all lines, especially crops.
• You ought to see him get around
the plantation,” the plantation work- 1
er said. “He’ll go over to the school
at recess time and all the young
ones take out after him like biddies
running after a mama hen. They’re
crazy about Mr. Ford.”
As for his neighbors — well, they
have found that Mr. Ford is just
another farmer and that means they
think he's all right.
The plantation, under manage
ment of G. F. Gregory, is experi
menting with a celery crop this
year. Gregory said he was putting in
14 acres of celery which should be
marketable in June when celery is
scarce on the market and brings a
good price.
The Ford farm has 200 acres of
lettuce Just beginning to head up.
An oyster ranch on the lower part
of the plantation is producing again
this year, the first time in several
years since the beds were ruined
by a fresh water flood.
Although he has recently sold
some of his farms, Mr. Ford hrs
maintained an interest in agricul
tural experiment for many years.
He has helped develop many plants
that could be used for rubber, for
plastics, and other industrial pur
poses. Through the years he has
continued to search for new crops
and new uses for those crops.
Hoover Cutting Bed
Tape to Aid Famine
Sufferers in Europe
By WALTER A. SHEAD
WNU Washington Correspondent
WNU Features.
PRESIDENT TRUMAN’S famine
emergency committee, headed by
former Pres. Herbert Hoover as
honorary chairman, is slicing
through red tape and bottlenecks in
a desperate race against starva
tion of many of the peoples of Eu
rope and Asia.
The people of the United States
are asked by the committee to vol
H. Hoover
uilidiiiy idi;i line tv
per cent of their
volume of wheat
product consump
tion and 20 per cent
of food fats and
oils, so that these
millions facing stark
hunger may live.
And Secretary of
Agriculture Clin
ton Anderson de
clares that if the
American people
conserve on all foods and eliminate
waste, the nation can meet our pres
ent food commitments and still pro
vide 10 per cent more food at home
than was available in 1945.
But that means another record
production of food stuffs by the
farmers of the nation, a record
that must be achieved in spite of
further shortages in labor and farm
machinery and another season of
fertility depletion of the soil. But
it is an emergency ... an emer
gency which not only challenges the
"know-how” of the American farm
er, but every humanitarian instinct
of the American people.
Feed on Scraps.
Picture if you can children with
big glassy eyes, thin shouldered
and old-looking, spindle-legged, with
swollen stomachs, pawing through
a dump heap searching for edible
scraps of swill, pieces of weeks-old
bread. They fall upon a prized
morsel and wolf it down . . . their
meal is over.
Such a scene is so commonplace
in many sections of Europe, India
and China that it occasions no shock
or even surprise to people in these
areas.
And their plight is rapidly becom
ing worse. Thousands of acres of
food-producing lands have been dev
astated with rockets, bombs and
tank battles and must yet be nour
ished back Into productivity. To
make the job of food production even
worse, since drouths In 1945 played
havoc with the crops in some na
tions normally self-sufficient and
food exporting. Other countries
under-estimated their needs or over
estimated their ability to meet
them.
At best, millions of children in Eu
rope are existing on less than 2,000
calories daily. In India and China,
the lucky ones get something like
1,500 calories daily, while here in
America our children are consum
ing at a rate of 3,400 calories each
day.
The agriculture secretary has
named state directors of the produc
tion and marketing administration
and chairmen of the county agricul
tural conservation committees as
state and county emergency food
program managers. They will enlist
the aid and co-operation of state
and county USDA councils. They
will set specific local food conserva
tion goals, work out locally adapted
conservation measures, and mar
shal the forces of citizens' organiza
tions and food trades that will help
carry out the program on a volun
tary basis.
henry ford
'"'aviation notes
PLYING PERSONNEL
Panagra has announced that
Comdr. Eugene Richards, former
naval air transport officer, will be
assigned to the traffic department in
South America. Also, the same for
Lt. Vail Cliff (navy). . . . Chet
Moulton, Boise, has been appoint
ed director of the Idaho depart
ment of aeronautics, replacing A.
A. Bennett, who has taken over the
Boise agency for Piper and Swift
planes. . . . Justin Dart, former
Northwestern football star and now
president of United Drugs, has pur
chased a helicopter to fly drugs
wherever needed for rescue work.
, . . Jane Wilson, age 16, Salmon,
Idaho, had to wait several months
for her pilot's license because CAA
said she was too young — but she
could have passed the test long ago.
. . . Clyde Martineau, manager of
the Shullsburg, Wis., airport, adver
tises that he has “the only field
with complete facilities” in those
parts. In addition to instruction,
rides and trips, he is Aeronca
dealer.
HELICOPTER . . . Settles down
with the greatest of ease on top
of tower of Will Rogers Coliseum,
Fort Worth, Tex. Lt. Kenneth R.
Bloom of Pittsburgh, Pa., was
pilot, and Pvt. Robert S. Cnk of
Lancaster, O., crew chief.
Indiana Flying Farmers
A field day for flying farmers will
be held August 1 at Purdue univer
sity, West La Fayette, Ind.
• * •
Illinois Farmer Pilots
Twenty-five farmers, piloting
their own planes, flew to Chicago
recently to attend the Prairie Farm
er Land meeting of flying farmers.
They elected Norman McCoy of
Blue Mound, 111., director.
• • *
Airmen are Rescuers
Dan McMullen and Douglas Wells
of Largo, Fla., were flying a cub
plane over the ocean to observe 27
stranded whales when they spotted
a boat in distress. The flyers saw
the signal from the boat and flew
off to find another boat and lead it
back to the rescue.
• • •
CAA NOTES
More than 100 mechanics have
been designated as aircraft main
tenance inspectors by the CAA, and
160 recommendations are pending.
. . . Donald R. Harvey, born in Chil
licothe. Mo., has been appointed
personnel officer for CAA. . . ,
Last September, Milwaukee estab
lished a "downtown" landing strip
on Lake Michigan frontage a few
hundred yards from the business
district. The strip is 3,000 feet long
and 100 feet wide. A. C. Lang, a
commercial operator, is in charge.
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• • •
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