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Two million German 'spivs' (and the farmers) are bilking Britain
F
The Greed
of
Frau Koch
HAMBURG. RAU IRMGARD 'KOCH, wife of a Ger- man farmer at Fohren- bostel in the heart of the Schleswig-Holstein duiry- farming land, sat contented in ber plush parlour and said: "Ada, yes. We get along all, right we have enough ment, brend, natatoes, oggs and milk.'
Franz Koch, hor husband, ex- plained: "After all, we are on a farm, you know."
SELKIRK
PANTON
That is a jibe at selfishness of the farmers and nt the rich Hamburgers who exchange their remaining
The poorer people in Hamburg go foraging among the farms too. At
Then Frau Koch complained: trinkets and valuables for the far- "But there is not enough variety mers' food which does not get into in our food. The children don't the general pool. get any bananas or oranges, and there is not enough choco late either." But Adolf, three, and Hanna, five, hanging round her knees, seemed as chubby as any British mother would want ter children to be.
Ho wanta consumer goods-machi nery, coffee, sugar, cigarettes and such things which he can only get on the black market.
He thinks he can blackmail Britain into feeding the hungry urban Germans by not handing over his produce.
But there are other factors in this mystery of why the British taxpayer cannot see any silver lining in the German cloud.
?
Idle masses
THERE are about 200,000 propic living unregistered. in Hamburg nlone without rations and with no job. It is estimated that there are About 2,000,000 of these characters In the British zone-2,000,000 Ger- man splus living on, their wits, the binck market and indirectly, on the British taxpayer, ikk
And now that the Germans are laking over executive control more and more, there are too few British to check all this activity--only 100
half a million forms. men, for instance, to inspect close on The official British story is that we must teach the Germans to run their country-but we are doing it at our
expense.
Now what are the remedies? 1. ASSESS just how much food Schebssc), 30 miles from Hamburg. the Germans can produce, allow a
od
THE SATURDAY MYRJING PORN
"Oh, yes, they're twins--but we've never had the slightest.
trouble telling them apart.'
BY THE WAY
by Beachcomber.
up and
SUET'S four-way registru cther Down, to distinguish them,
tion. back and forth, up and to indiente that the and down, is causing immense te back and forth process When down process has now superseded excitement in Government cir- all four are back where they started cles and in the business world. from, they are again issung vor,
目
new
A prominent spokesman said yes but in such a way that the applicant terday: "It may introduce
nover has all four at the lffls. The dimension Into, the whole business registrations are made from the first
of multiple registration. When once two ie came back, unipashe other you have grasped the principle of two have overlapped. back and forth, up and down, it is simplicity itself. The actual work. Dr. Rhubarb's corper
д
I saw a group of women sitting on generous margin of error, importing of the system is sacks of potatoes waiting for a hitch- what is lacking to bring their and the shuttlecock method of ex- hike lorry to take them back to rations up to 1,558 calories daily Hamburg with their "loot." They and hand the lot over to the Germans a few and say: "You won't get any more." pay for their passage potatoes. They Give the farmer 2. SCREW the quota of foodstuffs their cigarette ration.
the farmer has to hand over up to the very limit. It is now too low,
with
'Stolen'
Johann Berkmann, of
Irmgard and Franz Koch wore typical of the German farming people I have met in ton days in a 1,000-mile trip through the green grain-4ands and over-stocked cattle pastures FARN
'ARMER of Northern Germany. One Scharkendorf, gave me, a clue to thousand miles in a quest to how the farmere get away with this solve the mystery of the miss black market dealing. ing German food, and why the British taxpayer is having to go paying something like £100,000,000 a year-much of it in dollars to feed his former enemies.
THE
Do not care
Taxed by the British for not have ing delivered up his quota of live stock to the butcher, Johann pleaded: "But they were stolen-two cows. a calf, a foal, three plys and several
hens."
British experts estimate that in the past six months more than Kochs and their like have 2,000,000 pigs have been "stolen" their farms, their cows and and found their way on to the pigs and hens, and even the black market jor into the farmers' luxuries of turkeys, geese and pots. And that is quite a lot of pigs. pigeons. They are well fed and
prosperous and they could not
The British tell the same story.
are quite
care less what happens to their of all other foods. In my ten days follow Germans in the hungry my general impressions cities of Hamburg and the Ruhr. definite. I am convinced:
food German THAT the over-all
ration could be increaed by 300 to 500 calories a day--even over the
ration official unmet
of 1,550 calories daily if the German farmers were honest.,
These German country people are living a life of comparative plenty in the countryside physically untouched back-drop by war,
against the scenery of the ruin, rubble and misery of the German towns and cltics.
"Nulty" Hazel, of Monmouthshire -("I've bin a farmer for nearly 40 years misself")-who is now a British food officer in the British zone, waved his hand round the green felds and the fat pedigree stock of Koch's farm and stuttered: "Starving? These people don't even know what is boing hungry."
He stirred some oats in the farm-
yard with his foot. "There you are,
that is what we are up against. Fine oats thrown in the dust to feed pigs because pigs pay better on the black market."
But down in Hamburg, with its 1,500,000 people living in its ruins, they are saying bitterly: "The cows of the country have pearl necklaces and sleep on Persian rugs.”
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go hungry..
.
M. V writes: My Tilece, Mrs. Vompir, the other day gui ench one of the lock of her left foot stuck in between the prongs of our old toasting fork. To get them out wo had to bend the prongs, and while we were doing 11, she said: "I might. with my as well be playing the harp foot." Seeing the resemblance of the fork,
clerical affair,
changing, rovarming, and exchang ng again etita out the stagnatien former- ly imposed by keeping what you got, even in duplicate, instead of in
tlgating a continual movement of registrational papers." How it works propaganda Cam-LECTURING to representative of paign to tell the Germans what they said: "you begin with four identical it?
firms yesterday, Suet can do and what we are doing for them. At the moment they do not
registration forms for a given licence know and are not grateful anyway gistration. Two are kept and two or permit, as the unit of multiple re-
3. START B
If we can do that, I believe that the Kochs and their kind would get less cake, but the millions of hungry people elsewhere in Germany would get more bread.
have some hopes of relief.
And the British taxpayer would
Issued. The two which, have been
issued are kept until the other two are sent, and as soon as they are
No
·
with its prongs, to the wires of a harp only less thick, we thought this very courageous and witty. Would you care to publish
| Br. Khubarb repiles: What is not
quite clear is why your niece did this odd thing, I presume she was not wearing stockings?
M. V. willer: She had removed them, to warm her foes.
received the first two are returned for checking and fling.
Oil on troubled Waters coples are made, but when the first two Waters said that the lamp burst are again Bent out, the other two, and the oil splashed him. come back, ene marked 'Up, the
(News Item.)
London is really much like
AM telling Chicago that London is very much like home. Both cities are suffer- ing from an acute housing shortage. The people of both cities are fighting the high cost of living.
THAT one-third of the 23,000,000 Each city has a rebuilding Germans in our zone live as well and beautification programme,
-their--opposite-numbers in London-because---Hitler-was- Britain, while the other two-thirds overhead for a few years, and
it Chicago becausė dynamic new mayor, the Inde- pendent Democrat Martin H. Kennelly.
THAT the German authorities now in charge of food distribution are
taking no drastle steps to get the food, or to stamp out the black
market.
THAT the Germans will do nothing to help themselves so long as we are prepared to go on feeding them -they are quite ready to let us pay for this.
The answer is that nobody trusts the German mark currency, and the farmer cannot get anything with this money.
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Chicago is on the verge of
By
Chicago
LEO. A. LERNER
Editor of the Lin- coln-Belmont Booster, the Uptown News, the Portage Park Times and 20 other news- papers in and around Chicago, who has been visiting Britain.
I am telling them about Dr Frank- lin Bicknell's advice: "Grow food, don't yelp about the Dunkirk spirit." Ho says Britain is dying from starva- tlon, because active men and women must have at least 400 to 900 more calories a
Just before I left the ling
A day than you are
heard an economist say that people who don't get enough calories aro sleepy all the time. They want to stay in bed. This means that food is the first problem in Britain's battle to produce the grit (or energy) that produces the goods.
I am telling Chicago about the swell job being done by the London newspapers en only four or six pages a day. The British public
completing the turnover of sur- how much inflation of the pound gets all the news and features, “al- faço transport to municipal sterling is due to the black market, though the largest advertisement you
hand, Chicagoans
In ownership;
are Milk is dearer in Englund, and of see is no bigger than your therefore keen on my reports poor quality,
the States one store will often run The black market. is practically eight full pages of advertising. An concerning passage of the Trans-
except for the American newspaper atten weighs port Bill by the House of Com- gone in America,
motor-car business. There, they silli five pounds. mons.
hire midgets to do their business One thing that hits me hard in under the table. Good ears, like London is the lacle of opportunity. Butels (£305)
(£305-£628) and Chryslers tur young people to start businesses. (418-£725) sell for about 25 per- People who were in business during cent above fist price.
Chicagoons, however, will be as tonished to hear that the inter-city lorries are included in the public ownership programme. In the US the lorry companies are deep-rooted private enterprise, os are the rail roads.
About shopping
the war are thus afforded protection The camera of a weekly picture against competition, which may not journal in the States caught a feet be a good thing.
About housing
of new cars hidden out on tho pri- In the States we find you get the vale estate of a motor dealer. Put most production when you encourage lication of the photo created some rivals to compete, They And now Although London has the "advant smell, belleve mei
ways to get things done,: age" of Chicago in sium clearance-
About dignity because of doodlebugs, rockets and Incendiaries-I am advising Chlea- I am telling Chicago war veterans 1 am telling, Chicago of my visit goans not to be too envious of the that their housing problems
And to Parliament on the night the Londoners.
home-hunting experiences are the Transport Bill was passed in the I am telling them about cigarettes same as in London. In Chicago they House of Commons, and the shouting at 60 cents a package (they pay a are paying legal premiums, too, and and cat-calling that went on. Con quarter of that) and about the Bri: being forced to buy furniture in gress has more digalty, tish ration of 10 cents' worth of meat what we call "stuffed flats. per person per
wheek,
In
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tho
I am telling them of seeing advertisements German Chicago our
of war, healthy prisoners and bored, My own view is that the pound offer the public food, clothing and
working English of scoing the Polish collar, although depressed on the Household I have no
newspapers"
ads, and billboards are soldiers reclining in theln camps..
them about my tour figures Of everyday needs, only selling Work or Want!! I newspapers and a few price-controll- taken a photo of the "Work or of the East End of London bomb ed food items are cheaper in London.. Want, posters and sent it home to damage, in which whole neighbour-
Cigarettes, drinks, petrol-all these America.
hoods were wiped out my visit: It seems curious to me that Britain things I classify as necessities, be cause, they are in the habit patterns in advertising for more British grit,
I have
I
I am describing for them my
to caventrated Coventry, and the big
of the pouple-are much nigher the kind that Hiller brought out. I bold sign on the Church of the Holy priced in Britain.
am asking if there is any grit left, Trinity which roada: "Starid fast to and, if there is, whether you can the Faith. Quit ye like men. Be get it out by advertising for it. strong.
Clothing comes higher in Britain too, and it is impossible to determine
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