European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank the army weekly 1945 people on the Home front Bernard Brueh by Walter Bernstein yank staff writer very White haired Man was turning 1 off the heat in the Large office on new York cites Madison he went from win Dow to opening them and adjusting the covered too hot in he Man cant breathe in All this he wore a dark Blue suit and a White shirt with a stiff his face was old but he had Blue his nose was Large and and so was his he had All of his White and Fine and loosely parted just off he wore a hearing device in his left holding the Battery in his hand and fiddling with it As he he Shook hands with his left and i hit a Man with my right when i was 68 years he cant use it much guess a Man  go around hitting people when Hes Hes 74 his name is Bernard mannes Baruch and he is what is called an elder states an elder statesman is a sort of Wise Man to the whose advice on state mat ters is sought and followed because he is consid ered to be above Petty politics and selfish inter Baruch is of particular importance to the i because right now he is giving advice on matters that May have a Good Deal to do with the kind of life a i can expect when he gets in the first world War Baruch bossed All in this War he was appointed by president Roosevelt to Survey the rubber situation and later was asked to prepare a report on Industrial mobilization and be sides these Little Baruch also acts As general consultant on the War not because he is necessarily an expert on any one but because he is a smart and practical Man who has made a Fortune by being smarter and More practical than most other this has raised him to As High a level As any american can go As a private in Many Baruch is the average Only several million dollars he started with practically and he has be come Rich and famous by hard work and smart when i began my he i didst have two one to rub against the he was born in South the son of a jewish doctor who came from Poland in 1855 and then served As a surgeon in the Confederate when the family moved to new Bernard went to City his first As a brokers boy in Wall Street at a by 1912 he had a fabulous reputation As a Speculator and a nest egg of 12 to 15 million Baruch is somewhat different from most self made he feels that he has been successful not Only because of his but also be cause his country has been very Good to this has made him intensely about 10 years ago he offered the army 3 million dollars out of his own pocket to help prepare for what he Felt was approaching the offer was re Baruch can correctly be called a but he does not like to be called an he considers Many of them not most of them Are just a Bunch of pipe smok he an economist is a Man who Hast got two one to rub against the Baruch also has definite ideas about the War and particularly about people who Are making Money from he has always believed that All profits should be taken out of War and has urged controls that would make this he believes firmly in the Alliance of the United nations to win the War and keep the by Force if Nec gis will be particularly interested in his absolute belief that there will be More jobs after the War than people to take Baruch considers the goal of 60 million postwar jobs set by presi Dent Roosevelt As entirely if we use half the sense god gave he does not believe that even a period of temporary unemployment will be necessary once we Stop producing for he for that our War increased production Plant has a tremendous postwar Market in the devastated countries of Europe and these countries will need whole Range of manufactured and Baruch thinks there will be no trouble about their paying for the things we if somebody wants to buy something and somebody has it to he  get to they always Baruch feels that greatly expanded for eign Trade will be mutually beneficial in Many in the first immediate markets for american goods will mean that no plants will have to shut Down Baruch there will be jobs literally for while we Are helping we will be helping to raise the living conditions of the rest of the world Baruch considers a Good living Standard All Over the world a primary condition of any permanent he feels that the can be a Leavening Force throughout the world and that a higher living Standard overseas can Only mean a better break for Domestic since better standards everywhere will remove the menace of sweated labor competing with the relatively Well paid worker in this right on a somewhat less cosmic Baruch is concerned with returning he Doest think there getting As Good treat ment As they should be there not properly cared for he in going to make a hell of a fight for the vet in going to see that theres one place a Veteran can go to in dignity and get what Hes entitled Central where he can go and get everything Hes got and get it Baruch usually gets what he goes he works practically As hard now As when he was dividing his Days Between his new York office and the famous Bench in a Washington Park where he sits and discusses matters of state with Washington big when he was a Young Baruch used to do a lot of and Bob Fitzsimmons once told him he had the makings of a he Hast done much boxing but he follows the last one he saw was the Lou Sconn and he thinks Louis is a great Pound for he will string along with Fitz Simmons or maybe George who won the featherweight championship of the world in but he likes Louis is a terrific Baruch you can Tell from the Way he holds his he can hit from any Fitzsimmons was like he could Knock a Man out with a single Baruch likes hitters he is one him he believes in starting to hit when the fight starts and not stopping until it is for this fight will not be Over until Ger Many and Japan Are licked and each american who fought is Back in a Job of his own it is a Little strange to see a Man of Baruch age so sure that this is when younger and presumably More fiery men hedge All Over the but it is very not because Baruch is but because he has a habit of being