European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 1 the stars and stripes july 1946 Eugis crowd colleges Over capacity new july 25 great army of men and lugging books instead of will be on the March this autumn in a Battle to win higher it will be the greatest such army in the history of this or any other More than half will be i Joes or i upwards of other Young men and women May have to wait for another the is about All the nations colleges and universities can this March will Lead into the Complex universities of the cities to the technical institutions to the great schools of Medicine and Law to the Small colleges to the Agri cultural and engineering ins Titu a Survey of 200 colleges just completed by the United press shows that every College and University in the land will have unprecedented govern ment sources put the Overall total of applicants at with the capacity of the schools at upwards of will be vet Erans of world War tens of thousands of them entering col lege for the first the govern ment plans to spend about a year for the next six years to give these Eugis a Chance for higher and from Maine to from the great lakes to the the Story is the same the average former Serviceman or woman is a sober minded not inter ested in Zahrah but Bent on getting a useful education and these soldiers in search for More learning will find the hardships the Survey they will find themselves quartered to crowded reconverted army quonset and other types of government Rooming houses trailer and abandoned army and naval Many of the veterans Are some will have their wives and children with thousands May never walk the Campus of the University or col lege  attend classes in Branch set up on a temporary basis while great building now under Are this unprecedented quest Tor higher education will put the Leges and universities to their greatest test they intend to do the Best they inadequate space such As hous ing and a shortage of equipment such As Laboratory facilities and the need for More teachers Are the most serious handicaps facing the the Survey shows that some i schools will Institute an 11hour Day of say from 9 to 10 on a six Day week others plan to increase the number of students at each in Many students will be doubled up in single the new draft exempting 18yearold has slowed up enrolment by new High school graduates in some sections of the in it has increased enrolment Many new High school the Survey desire a year in College before entering the Al dominate labor july 25 of v the Al and Cio Are the giants of organized the Cio is 10 years the Al members voted for those who helped the against those who Hurt it the whole Trade Union movement spurted during the world War slumped badly from the time of the 1921 depression right through to the Depths of the next depression in in that year president Roosevelt took his new Deal administration set about getting the country Back on its feet at a time when there were four times As Many people unemployed As belonged to in 1933 total Trade Union membership was Down to about under president Roosevelt urging Congress passed the Wagner helpful to labor than any Ever passed the Wagner act recognized the right of unions to bargain col Vii Siam Green t chieftain for 50 of those 60 years the Al was the main rallying Point of american now the Cio stands beside it Between them they have perhaps Back in the after a Long history of struggle and unions Felt the need fora Strong Central National so the american federa Tion of was created in the president was Samuel Gompers who came Here As an immigrant from England in 1863 and worked As a with the exception of one Gompers remained president from 1886 until his death at the age of 74 in he had been the head of american labor All those who were not an Industrial Union would be like this All the in a rub Ber no matter what their Job or their would be organized into a Union of rubber in 1935 a group of Al unions set up the committee for Industrial this Young Cio outfit started its organizing Campaign and bad extraordinary but the Al expelled the unions which set up the so in 1936 they organized themselves permanently As the Congress of Industrial the Ciu organized electrical workers and the Cio drive was led by John Lewis who then and still head of the United mine but he became angry with president Roosevelt in 1940 and said that if Roosevelt were reelected he would resign the Cio Roosevelt was Lewis quit and eventually took his miners out of the Cio and Back into the Philip Murray succeeded him As Cio president the Al and Cio have remained rivals and right now Are competing against each other in trying to organize workers in the a number of unions do not belong to either the Al the biggest Are the Railroad brother trainmen and own unions Date Back into the they have about William Green succeeded him As president in 1924 and still is presi Dent of the the Al started out As a conservative organization with it turned away from the idea of setting up an Independent labor other National Union organizations had done that and collapsed but the Al used politics to get what it Stop what it didst want its motto was we help our punish our its John Lewis in Al it said unions had the right to represent workers and that a Boss had to bargain the Union his workers this was a tremendous help to Union organic 6fs it also was a time of growing discontent within the Many thought it want doing enough about organizing the new mass industries like Automo and was thinking too much in terms of Craft a Craft Union is made up of skilled workers within an for example carpenters Are skilled in the building they would have a Union but perhaps working beside them would be unskilled men Murray president Bronx zoo Hippo weighs on 43rd birthday Cinema differs with British on Demmit in Dickens film n new july 25 the Bronx zoo observed his 43rd birthday anniversary recently by letting science fool around with his specific the plot was to weigh it had never been done before but experts estimated that he weighed about so John executive Secretary of the zoological and Quentin Schubert superintendent of construction and got together and came up with a scientific they figured that Pete had about the same specific Gravity As so they fixed a water displace ment scale in petes big water tank where he snorts and blows these hot summer but Pete just lazed around most of the get Ting half in and1 half out of the but never All the Way the stars and stripes Bureau july chief of Hollywood purity does not quite see Eye to Eye with Charles it is All Over that old English expression dammit or As Dickens preferred it Demmit in England to advise British movie producers on How to satisfy the american went to baling studios to see the filming of Nicholas came across this passage you dont mean to say you want do not yet said Ralph a a Demmit cried the soon solemn conferences were being held at the studios to decide whether the word Peculiar to Manta Linis should be deleted for american new group of Sun spots reported by Observatory july 25 new group of Sun easily visible through dark was reported by the naval officials did not attempt to predict whether the group will produce a magnetic storm such As the one that disrupted radio communications and teletype circuits last they that the in fluence of the Sun spots would be Felt if they Are Felt at May saw a new High in the weekly earnings of factory the average rising to the news average wages for three previous americas workers today earn an average of per a 40hour no july 1348 the european edition is pull shed near for the armed forces under the of the information and Educa Tion us fat Nurnberg a Vulan Altdorf correspondence to this should be addressed to Apo o mall York offset Rte old be to 641 Washington St Thili u not an official publication of the o 9 army entered As second claw matter March 15 ims at the of Stoffle new Yotis n under of Mann 9 Damn is on the Breen list of barred exceptions Are allowed Only where it is part of a classic phrase or essential to the context that is not the Only Point on which Breen and Dickens suicide As a Means of cheating Justice is barred by the Breen unless it can be attributed to in Dickens didst know about those newfangled Hollywood so the film Nicholas Nickleby will have two the one for British audiences will show the suicide of a sane Ralph As in the the other for american audiences jul have a line or two added to establish him As in us await stateside passage new july 25 Cunard White Star line said that More than persons in England Are on the firms waiting list for passage to the Jesse passenger said Many of the applicants were european refugees who did not wish to return to their former he also said that the lines Only passenger ship operating Between Britain and America at the Queen Mary is still in military service and can accommodate Only 100 of these people each the Queen Elizabeth is expected to enter service Between new York and Europe in farm Bureau totals up Kansas july 25 in the Indiana farm Bureau is now at the All time High figure of farm Larry Secretary treasurer of the state organization reported at a session of the mid West farm Bureau training con address All letters b Dag the stars and Apo include name and names Are deleted on Doe to space letter May be cat for provided such editing does not alter the meaning of the cd penalties there has been some hard feelings in this outfit because some i who Hast the sense of a Goose went out and caught the result we were All restricted for a couple of and we have cd lectures after duty one of the greatest mistakes the army has Ever made was to abolish the six months in the stockade and two thirds pay for a i who got the lifting of the fraternization they were supposedly lifted so a i  be afraid to get medical sad to it Doest when we had our last physical inspection we had five gis with Why should a Good Soldier be made to through restrict for the bad ones if a i had six and two thirds Over his head he would think twice before picking up some of these this Way he has nothing to worry and they certainly dont give a Damn about the rest of us 1st Cigar efs for germans numerous plans for cur Rency control have been now a proposal for a scrip system is the one commodity that attracts the most attention is and if there is no incentive the i will not be anxious to it is but the demand will still be prevalent there fore the procurer will use other and a greater incentive to raid supplies and trams will be no my suggestion will come in for a great Deal of but Here Why not release through regular markets a limited Quantity of tobacco or Cigar the average German does not require More than two and a half ounces or two packs of cigarettes per they Are now willing to pay As much As 35 and 40 Marks for one and a proportionate tax could too much drinking i see we Are to be exposed again to the benefits of another intensive cd Cam also another traffic safety military police Are urged to crack Down on Misbehaviour after the damage has been has it Ever occurred to Tho masterminds that the prob Lem of much and too a much More important Issue than any of the per cent of venereal and a Good proportion of traffic accidents and troop Are directly attributable to Over yet no one has taken the trouble to teach 18and 19 Jearolds the first thing about or made any Effort to keep liquor from who cant handle it a sober american is a Safe the worlds Best ambassador of a Drunken one is a danger to himself and to every other directly or hits present b bag my Only Gripe is against the b bag i have one suggestion look at the b bag columns one year when it was Worth the and if your professional con science Doest then brother youre should