European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse At the trial of a seventeen Earold accused of stealing chickens and Selling them for Captain Zecca presides while the Legal questions a German police Back to intr second translates for Zecca who suspended the boys my at the brass roots by win photographs by Hans Hubman in tiny Captain John Zecca faces Many problems As an my nor the least of which is instilling democracy in a in it 60yius military governments Job in Mosbach is to cultivate the grass roots of democracy among the nine thousand persons who live along its ancient cobbled streets and in its Gingerbread the Man assigned to nourish the scrubby Plant is a wiry thirty Earold Captain of military John he is assisted by one lieutenant Henry and one enlisted sergeant Rochus Zecca and Klein live in the former Home a nazi while Krzywicki and his wife live in a smaller place a Little Way Down the meccas working Day begins at eight thirty and usually ends later than the official closing five during the course of a typical he May listen to the complaints of an outraged Burger Meister that he has been unfairly treated by the Promise a manufacturer that he will investigate an alleged unfairness in the allotting of scrap receive a pair of timid postal clerks requesting information on the hiring of another hear that a bombed out Bridge is halting the flow into Mosbach of a political party sit in judgement on a seventeen Earold Chicken thief and plow through reams of official correspondence from head quarters in Stuttgart in doing All these Zecca is putting into practice his instructions As an my Liaison and Security the reporting and Protection of democratic but behind his desk an on his Field trips to the fifty seven other Little towns of his Kreis county Zecca has Learned that democracy docs not come easily to a people who have had no experience in they seem no More inclined to fight for democracy now than they did continued pm Page 23 turn the Page for pictures of a military governors Day
