1946-12-28 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, ŠATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1946.

• THE WORLD OF WOMEN

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A German Woman's Point of View

By Adelaide Kerr

"Il German women could he, such a good thing. They are full! changed, the whole world would be of despair and distrust. They have changed-and they are ripe for that

no outlook for the future. They change now." says Frau Gabrielle Strecker, the only German delegate are like shipwrecked men. They are to the international Assembly women which met early this month in New York.

fripe for change.

Dr Strecker is a physician of Bad Homburg and director uf women's radio programme at the Frankfurt radio station. In both jobs she has wide contact with German women. "German women were just ar res- ponsible as men for the rise of Ilit- ler," she said. "They were not sc- customed to independent thinking and they were easily influenced by propaganda. They loved the idea of military glory for their men,

THLY BUFFER

By Quiz

"Speak when you're spoken to: Come when you're called; Shut the door after you; Do as you're told"

So

O, disillusioned with the inanners of dimçult days, I fin to the chivalrous legends of courtller times.

1 lice to imagine the graceful gesture of Sir Walter Raleigh, as he TOW those priggish, ill-rhyming whips off his rich velvet coat to save HOW

maxims used to arotze my his adored Queen's royal feet a wet- childish ire; and my immediate resting in a large puddle. action, had I dared, was to speak out of turn, come unbidden,, stam the door and disobey.

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Still, after the usual years gruelling training in the way hehave, some of the corners were rubbed off, and I became a rea- sonably well-mannered individual.

Although fairly hardened to the spate of rudeness released by the wat, I still wince when confronted with manifestations of postwar rudeness-the shoving, pushing, grabbing, the olsiness, the rude answers of these atomle, but other- wise retrogressive, days,

of

In England the wartime rudeness greengrocers and fishmongers have become legends, together with the legendary rudeness of post office Melals, and the wartime sneer of "Don't you know there's a war on?"

Girls Go Dancing!

How do young people to-day spend their leisure? What are their favourite forms of entertainment? These questions are of vital impor- tance to anyone who has to deal with adolescents, and an attempt has been made to answer them.

A questionnaire, sent out by the Research Committee of Britain's National Association of Girls' Clubs was answered by thousands of girla between the ages of 14 and 19.

for

Too extravagant a courtesy these practical days, perhaps, but well-suited to a more colourful age.

How differently our present-day "movie fan" fetes the star of his chofee-mobbed, almost stripped of her fine fenthers, bruised and bat- tered. The poor soul has to hire a bodyguard in protection against her adering public!

Wot No Sir Walter Raleigh?

I like to think of the simple untu- tored courtesy, of the countryman with his "Good marnin'" or "Good

Girl in shops, offices and factories, still at school or living at home, gave, evenin'" to the passing stranger he their opinions. And here are some meets in the lane. of the facts which have been col~i lected.

And of the patient courtesy of the British "bobby" that has earned him.

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got a high mark.

Among other interests are music, acling and painting. The radio is "I thought everyone here would widely listened 10, but chiefly for point at me and ancer because I am variety and entertainment rather than a German," she

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revive the good manners are in such danger of losing. Let us train our children to show considera- tion and courtesy. Let us start a now age of chivalry. Let us re- ounce shoving, pushing and shout- ing. Away with the rude and ill- mannered, the boorish, the unkind!

Let us behave.

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newspaper."

from the moment I started," she WORK AT HOME-Almost all the declared, recalling how Service peo-girls in every age group do work in "If they could be changed the

ple had given her food and money the house. Cooking and looking after

thrillers, travel, and "the whole world would bo changed.to help her on her trip.

younger children are the two most German woumen can influence their

popular "home" activities, washing

FILMS-Romantic "You live in a paradise here. You and mending the least popular.

films, crime children in peaceful ways-teach)

Aims and cartoons are the chief them how terrible war is. German are so full of hope and optimism.

READING.-Membership of a favourites. It is the 14-year-olds women will be able to change their If German women could see these brary comes high in the list of in-who like romance. By the time they "American" women-II" they could see (terests and activities. Love and ad have reached 17, thriller films have men toolittle by little.

what democracy can give a woman venture stories take first place. Next moved to first place in the list. in self confidence and self respect and better living, it would do more than all the talks on democracy you can make in years."

"Besides, German women are more than half the population of Ger

They are going into many now. business and professional worlds again and they will return to poll- tles. Their influence will be felt outside the home. The role of Ger- man women in the years ahead can not be overestimated," she said.

EXHAUSTED

Dr Strecker took up the study of] medicine after her marriage to Dr. Josef Strecker, gynaecologist, und the birth of her two sons. She re-

"Now, for the first time they have felt tho destruction of ·war and Buffered from it. They suffer more than men.The Nazi goverrument took all responsibility from women and now suddenly they have to take responsibility and think for themselves. The Nazis talked about the glorification of German mothers, but actually it degraded German wo-ceived her degree from the Uni- men to production machines.

veralty of Frankfurt in 1943 and practiced until after the close of the war when, she says. American gecu- pation authorities asked her direct women's radto programme.

to

never tell German women in

"Now they have to support the illegitimale bables they produced."

"They were trained to be servants of men and were supported," shenaked words you are guilty" she continued. "Now thousands have to corn their own living, but they are said. "They are physically and not trained for it. They were taught morally exhausted and could not But, I show them, by they belonged to the master raco.jstand It.

Now they have to take any. Jobatories and tails, that they are the they can gel-scrubbing floors or victims of what they did them- anything. Can you imagine the psy- selves." chological effect of all this?

WAR A BAD THING

"Now German women are abro-

As long as she talked of Gernan women, Dr Strecker kept her eyes dry. But when she began to speak of the “indness and "friendliness

·lutely convinced war is a bad thing. she had met since she began her For, the first time, they think thotrip to the United States, she wept German military machine was not in spite of herself,

"You ask me whether I think the German people could and would be educated to democracy. I think they could. I do believe we can go a long way toward permanent peace through the German women." -Associated Press.

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with of the revival of some of Cerar and a gadget that prevents them twin bows of White sequins on her tine ive in hals, so she copied one selecting eight girls for the film,

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a matching sequin of the poke bonnets which she wngra pole and sequins which she changes Wilde's plays, magnificently "dressed" ruining the radio.

In the moving picture, "The Strange "My Wild Irish Rose," Designed a three-cornered electric ou. Worry? Penny. Singleton Woman't forge match her dress, thereby intri- by designers like Cecil Benton, gying all the faaldon experts.N

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