European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                M of Virgo i Siss Felt Lleti Man of the army and is far Sale Canty to these in armed Pittares and Ether material Frem yank May pc it miked if Okay we net restricts by Taw or military to Nam Protr credit u dim arc and harm Lulaa Fucai frail my far Fea cirt Lra that site by Franklin fart of tort raft Wal by military main editorial office 205 East 42d new York editorial staff Jaa a Art Art cml Muju Effina aah Amit Tant Art Rawlak Laa Ovan aaa Edl Al Hilary Ca Oamild a Airt aug Flatt Jan a Natlyn Cam Maria aah my set Jake Haver chink Oemil Frank aah Daught Oemil radar Ca Jaak Marvin evian mar far Rankart a Jahn Liadal radar Bill a Yakut Tarn Cam Iafrat Rawlak Central Tam cares Tad Deml bin a tax Oil aah Jack Deml aah Justin in fan Makart Stem str user Naan of Wojak Ubner Jakarta u8nr Gwyllt Barf aah Naad Carpa Wittum aah aah maw Ard Cafa David aah David on Ken Ca Earl aah Edmund Frank fratia aah and Alp Harry aah Garfa aah Danald aah Nafman enter 8ft Dnn aah Ira Dave Lan aah Werner Sif India Burma and pal aah and Deml carps Walter Stu Tom pm mid Danam Africa Middle East persian Rte Kard Deml Bay Bardan Frank Remau Mdini Franklin fan emm Tiva Jack Mia ass Gerald Bureau Charles Stakley Harry Rakers Harald Halty Central saute Merle Milham Justus crack mar Haward Jack Sitor assistant Hareld Burro Giffis Grady Charles Soukkh Fjeld Middle East persian Frank glad Puerte Francis Sam this weeks cover Veteran of Leyte w and Grayson Wil Kins qualifies As a Symbol of the Gas War against Japan pages the 27yearold who comes from was photographed on Oki now by yank George Burns those scars on the Stock of his my Are the result of hits from Shell photo 2 Turbi if air comm Thiee Wiir Ord Antr Irh cores army Monkey business dear yank some time ago i read that a Lieuten ant in Alaska had been discharged for making a profit of on the Sale of a is there someone among your read ers who would like to buy a Monkey for s500 India Robert Croop duration plus dear yank the average Serviceman is wondering if the so called duration Plussit months clause will turn out to of Noth ing but a an Idle statement written without to put Legal Teeth into the clause National emergency and six months there the writer submits the following plan for the Serviceman for each month of service in the armed Over the six month period after the expiration of the National Emer those men inducted under these elective service act will be entitled to the following benefits 1 per month Over base adjustment 2 one Point per month Bonus the five Point allowance toward civil service employment not to exceed 15 3j one ill year Federal income tax exemption for each month in excess of the six month maximum under the adoption of such a plan by the government would do much to alleviate the hardships confronting the servicemen discharged too late to take advantage of the limited number of jobs that will be available after Etzkorn by wine and the nazi line dear too Many soldiers think that they can teach the germans the meaning of the four freedoms and the value of the democratic Way of what they do not realize is that the germans already have a propaganda which they Are most anxious to what is this line the German people Are not responsible for nazism and the we started to support but when we realized our it was too we knew nothing of the horrors of Buchenwald and we have suffered do not be harsh with drink their you try to preach democratic principles to and they will come right Back at you with a plea for they act Hurt when you do not admit to feeling sorry for drink a Little More of their and youll find it a bit impolite to Tell your Host that he is responsible for Germany present place in the one thing we have to the German possesses a keen mind and is now beginning to come out of the bewilderment he has been in for months the bombings Are Over the troops Are settling what he wants is that this occupation be As easy As pos he is not going to help us rid Germany of her nazis and War Crimi would be an act of treason to the the germans who help Are those who have suffered who have lain in concentration the others who stayed Back and fell into line will not lift their voices against their former the germans will Tell you sip that Motel Wein or that wonderful Champagne How horrible the nazis How nobody could work if he didst fall into How the Gestapo was How the wehrmacht was the army of the people and meant nobody any it was All the fault of Himmler and the and you listen to this stuff from most nobody was a nobody mistreated or starved foreign workers and jews anybody who Ever did anything has Long since run they say democracy will fall on deaf Hitler has Suc Cee Edthe germans believe All the lies and untruths about the Unterman the they supported Hitler m 1933 against a false bogeyman of communism in their own and they still believe the propaganda line Goebbels Etalia poured at them for they want americans to give them an easy occupation and protect them against the while they rebuild their country in they Are not interested in they Are totally incapable of under standing the concept of moral and political a Basic require ment of a democratic they will turn your discussion of democracy to their own plea for then they will Plant in your mind the suspicion of fraternization with germans will give them the Opportunity they Are dont think that you can teach the individual German if he wants he will have to learn it he knows the Princi for he had his Chance after the last he knows and understands Force and keep him under our leadership and he will be an obedient but fraternize with and you will find out quickly How much he really wants to be friends with for it is really much too Early in the game to take chances with the fair basis but Why  the family allotments be increased More to a living Cost basis As an example i will cite a family of How Many of the citizens of the could and would be satisfied to live on per Day that is the approximate amount that the Serviceman wife with two children has to exist on at the present if the Powers that be in think that the Cost of living Hast increased Why Are they suggesting a raise for themselves on the other hand if our government thinks the amount sufficient for a decent living Standard i wish they would print a lengthy document and mail it to All service wives on How to run the Model Home on class f allot Marianas t4 Joseph Coblentz Germany up allotments dear yank it seems to me that the Serviceman wife and family Are the ones that Are taking a beating in this the government is forcing a lower Standard of living on i families by holding their allotments to a strict level while the Cost of living has in no Way been successfully in when the family allotment was it May have been set on a next Champ dear yank its getting so a Guy cant see a Pic Ture of Joe Louis or Billy Conn without the caption telling the next Champ is some now in the armed ser to raise a mildly dissenting and to no Max dont think the next Champ of any boxing division is in the service right at least not we have plenty of Good service Bat and it wont be that your Eugi fighter will Lack skill or courage he just wont have the physical its True that after the last Criqui and a lot of other first rate pugs came out of the armed but in world War the gis were Only in the army for a year or and if you spent 10 months overseas you were an old probably no other sport takes As much out of a Man As to travel 10 or 15 hard a Guy has to be i the without a weak spot in his Many a big time pug has slipped to the Bottom of the pile because some minor ailment spoiled his Speed and All this adds up to the fact that a Man who has been overseas from one to three years Hast that this its one of those Lousy when you almost wish you were a Tom Flannory int a beef about army but it must be recognized that eating c a dehydrated spuds and other canned meal after Doest build the kind of Muscles boxing Calls sup ply lines being what they it is impossible to give the Soldier fresh milk and add a shot of italian Vino now and and the fact that Many soldiers suffer from enlarged and the other occupational diseases of and you have a Man fitted for Ordinary but not for the superhuman Job of trav Eling 10 army conditioning May be but it int anything like the highly specialized training grind a Boxer under goes every after three or four years of army a Guy gets not soft in the usual sense of the infantry boys would never be called soft for a you get fat where it counts the around your heart and other to be your next Champ will be some kid who was 15 the Day the War and will be 18 or 19 the Day it despite he will be a healthy stacked to the ears with fresh food and along about the eighth those vitamins will Start to and hell Knock hell out of your cration Italy Mario Graham my Date Bureau dear t5 Anatol Kovarsky cartoons of Paree were All pretty authentic and i liked them except for one that made me mad enough to Call him the Cap Tion friends Are easy make though maps maps in Paris never frowned upon gis making friends with the fair i was an my in Paris from Early september until february and i was often approached along Boulevard de Madeleine and place de opera by shy gis asking where they could meet a often i acted As interpreter Between our soldiers and their girl friends and although my French was none too i always helped out and acted Asun official Date i got a big kick out of Camp Louis Sile oel personal Spittoon dear i am a machinist in a Large air depot in the we were told if we were More than a minute late wed be All Well and we were also told we  work a minute on any personal that the Way it should yet these same High ranking officers that Send Down those orders clutter up our shop with an endless line of jobs that have no bearing whatsoever on the War at present hundreds of Man hours Are being wasted making Dies for wrist watch scraps and Spittoon for officers clubs while important jobs Are set this was brought to the attention of the air inspector but it seems that no one on the Island will do anything about cant anything be done about those and other atrocities that Are too big to mention Marianas withheld Points for prisoners dear yank in All the plethora of suggestions As to changes in the Point system i note that one group of gis most deserving of attention is left completely out of the Why not award some extra Points plenty of them to All the members of our armed forces who have been prisoners of either in Europe or the Pacific these lads went through experiences which few will Ever George Wells draw Florida negro soldiers dear yank i received a copy of your Magazine and read that the am is letting the germans go Back to after that i read in a fill Call about the Jim Crow treatment of coloured american now i am from until i came into the army i hated it want anything they did to me i just didst like since i have been in the Eto i have fought from Day to veday with i was wounded twice in one foxhole and a negro saved my life by using his first Aid kit on then he carried me to where a doctor could work on this who Speaks the clearest English dear yank i was much interested in the question of sectional English brought up by Davenport in a recent mail the question was what part or parts of the speak the clearest English Lan Guage As a former speech teacher in Kentucky born in upstate new York and educated at the univer sity of i May be Able to help Davenport in his there Are three great dialect areas in the United states 1 the new England comprising the new England states 2 the Southern made up of the Southern states and Southeastern Texas arid 3 the general american the rest of the United these three Large areas Are in turn broken up into several hundreds of smaller dialect dialects Spring up in Many curious sometimes they come about As a struggle to learn English sometimes they Are an old fashioned form of eng for although new York City is in the general american it has within its limits hundreds of Dia Lect areas where the foreign born or the children of isolate themselves into groups according to their original Mother each group struggles with the English Lan Guage the greeks Lack the sound i As in in their Tongue and substitute be As in whenever i appears in an English word the Ger mans substitute t for and so it in the South there Are hundreds of towns and counties and areas which in some unexplainable Way have been Cut off the rest of the world for a period of a Century or the inhabitants retain the speech of their earliest Irish or scotch often you can Tell the country a mans from As soon As he opens his people from for can be identified by their pronunciation of the word which for them is As in bet of As in if you consider the size of the Gen eral America it is Plain that the be a am lets 7hf wll majority of americans speak this Dia does not mean that the English spoken by this majority group is the most perfect or the Clear As you put there is no answer to the question of who Speaks the clearest we Lack a a Standard of professors Gray and Wise of the speech department of Louisiana state univer sity feel that if there is a criterion for the speech of a particular it is the speech of the Best educated natives of the opinions Many High school teachers worship at the shrine of new England some new eng Landers worship at the shrine of British stage George Bernard Shaw once served on a committee to study speech standards for the a committee com of English and after several weeks of sweat and Shaw said he realized that the commit tee was unable to agree upon a Standard for the pronunciation of such simple words As yes and in an article which he wrote Shaw said that the Only criterion of speech which any Man could adopt was to make certain that his listeners secured the impression that he was intelligent and even within these limitations Shaw Felt that anyone could observe differences in his own habits of speech when at Home or when conversing with there is one More item to be consid the Way a person pronounces a word depends on i where he lived when he Learned to 2 with whom he 3 where he was brought 4 where he was j where he has lived during the rest of his to hear these differences in speech is an education in if there is to be one Clear English a levelling off process will come about by observing and comparing the pronunciations of words when we Are with but in pronunciation Are often Beautiful and always do we want everyone to be alike Davenport group of nine has a wonderful Opportunity to make an exit has representatives of the three main dialect and perhaps representatives of four smaller the group might try observe what happens when each of the nine pronounces the word i bet bos ton says we thu in that the boys from Michi and Minnesota say that South Carolina says that Ala Bama says we thu or now Texas will sound like Alabama if he lives near the Southeastern and like Iowa if he lives in the rest of heres a list of each one must pronounce each word by itself or in a sentence before going on to the next listen and compare pronunciations of the same heres the list eve when the group gets through with there Are More in the Dic i Hope this Doest Start a Mur azores Kummin Hickok was under heavy later he he was from new York and he knew i was from the South where he had no free Many negro soldiers have died on the front for american soldiers who thought Jim Crow was so if Ger mans can have Freedom after they have caused so much suffering Why not let the negro race have what they fought for i feel that they and a lot of Southern gis feel the same Germany Iuie Jones dear yank the other night we had a Jam session with some coloured boys from a Quarter master trucking outfit quartered near this morning we were read an which prohibits us to associate with the coloured troops except on a coloured tank outfit fought Side by Side with this regiment Clear to and we were never ordered not to fight alongside of american troops of the coloured so Why should we be forbidden to associate with other american soldiers because of color Germany David Acheson River dear yank after Reading a recent i am anxious to know How the picture you used for a cover was taken near Owens to on the Mississippi River was the mistake made in the name of the or the because is on the Banks of the Ohio River and is some distance from the missis Sippi Revlett it was the Ohio and not the mis comparative ratings dear yank a Check into the matter of comparative ratings in All of the services would uncover disparities which i think Are fairly obvious to the casual observe Why is it that the army has hundreds of thousands of privates who have seen several years while the Navy advances men in the equivalent rank of apprentice seamen automatically upon the completion of Boot train ing in any gathering of servicemen most sailors display at least one red which makes them of equal rank to an army Buck sergeant and Roost of the soldiers have Only one army Stripe which places them on an equal footing with a Navy Man after just about three months of Boot Donald Petts George generals and War dear yank Ever since the redeployment of generals to the states has been work ing with the Speed and efficiency All gis dream but in not kicking about that so As generals Are human to a certain what irks me is their unbridled tendency to shoot off their with sickening regularity these Home coming generals get up on some plat form before a crowd of american Moth ers and fathers and Tell their audience How much they hate How it grieves them to Send men out 10 and How much they deplore the ruin War leaves in its one general has had the guts to come out in the open and say i love for that must be the because generals dont dedicate a life time of work learning How to kill peo ple and destroy property unless there mighty interested in their i would believe Tommy Manville if he said he hated before i would believe any general who i hate serious blunders dear yank with reference to combat men who had their combat infantry badge taken away from them for failing to being out such ignorance of or indifference to War department regulations on the part of their co is in what punishment will the co get for trampling on the rights of those men the answer is it is such As this that makes enlisted men we break some silly Little Rule or regulation and they want to throw the Book at they the offi cers make a serious Blunder like the above and nothing Ever comes of Why not a court martial and a Fine for being so especially when the rights of others Are involved India Torbett Moore age limits dear yank i am quite curious to know Why there should be an age limit of 30 years in the state departments proposed plan to employ 400 i think this age limitation is a reflection upon the rights of a service certainly we were not barred from our constitutional obligation to Bear arms for this under the Point system for discharges from the army age carries no consideration if the government itself sets an example of barring men for their age think of what a party private Industry could Kyd Kytus Sidney Steinberg poets defended dear yank the Corporal in a recent mail Call tossed rather a Low i think that most of us who have submitted rhymes to yank and have been accepted have not had any intimations of immortal Ity or have been consciously aware of any slavish the following is not so much a vindictive rebuttal As u is trite perhaps i merely Felt guilty in defense of Ordinary rhymers scorn not these Corporal we write As we Damn please no rocking horse has heard the no it Al Are consciously at so from your lofty crag look Down the Pinc Enez on your behold the Herd wipe out the frown that hints of intellects renown and strike a natural pose if that Effort is too the tilt too highly wont you take pen to consummate the poem which you calmly state is neither trite nor stilted Florida Keith Cam Afteu