European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Vol. Ill no. 8 March 20, 1948 the Magazine of the stars and stripes editor Dick Jones associate editors Sterling lord John Sharnik Oliver Gregg Howard Art director Vincent Sandoval production chief Steven r. J. La cos assistant editors. Daniel Parson Ralph l. Harwood John h. Powers . S. Russell Grace Schmidt chief photographers. Hans Hubman Michael Vaccaro contributing editor Germany William b. Lee Russell Jones Dorothy Gies. Arthur1 Noyes Julia Edwards. Joseph Fleming. Werner Pyrn win fanning. Austria Ernie Reed. France Eugene Levin Morion Gudebrod. Italy Betty Luros. New York William Stuyvesant lieutenant colonel William m. Summers editor in chief articles the Public gets taken for a ride. / a weekend report 5 Sicily s Robin Hood by Betty Luros 10 11 special feature the Price of ii of the memoirs of Eduard Benes fiction terror House. Part i of a dramatic eight part mystery by Rob Eden 6 picture stories Spring Heidelberg jumps the gun. ,2 san Quentin craftsmen. 4 German Talent. 8 automobiles Are sinful. By Marion Reece 12 new Stamps for Germany. 16 a Tsushima diving girls18 features crossword. By Charles Erlenkotter 23 sad sack. George Baker s cartoon 23 departments letters to the editor 1 Over the weekend. ,. A column by the editors those United states the postwar Northwest. By Edwin Dowell books notes and reviews movie review . S. Zone release movie guide films now showing 3 .3 4 17 20 21 Over the weekend in the course of conducting its Cross country investigation into the stateside used car Racket the Public gets taken for a ride Page 5week end resumed & number of old acquaintances. The five. Correspondents who reported on the state of Auto motive affairs in their respective neighbourhoods Are old grads of the stars and stripes and none of them has yet forgotten the solid feel of a jeep seat. Stoddard White reporting from Detroit is a former stripes managing editor and one of the Early settlers of of Ungstad cur tent Home of both strip Sand weekend. He s Beer Back at a Detroit new desk since mid-1946. Of Ungstad colleague of White a Bob Sontag vibrated in casual califor Nian a Hion Between the copy desk and leg assignments. Along with i report from Santa Monica we received news that or had retired to a Seaside Playpen to contemplate the sunlight. B Pete Lisagor Back i Chicago with the times Siace a few months after Lisagor on War is a Veteran of the stripes London Campaign. He is perhaps bes remembered for having performed in line of duty one of the War s most monumental missions cover ing the 1945 world series for the Gas breakfast a table daily. Johnnie m. Brown mourned his native Texas Peven when the fortunes of War cast him up on the Rivion a As correspondent and news Bureau chief of stripes palmy Nice edition. Once Uncle Sam handed him his walking papers Brown headed unswervingly Back to the Corpus Christi caller times. I Richard Cohen weekend s recent loss to the Blandishments of the big towns has been introduced previously to readers of this column As a Veteran Ohai breadth escapes from death in Uch widely separated places As Chicago Antigua and Bilbao Spain. He s still on his feet still moving and week end readers will be seeing More of his reports from appoints of America and Europe soon. Weekend has a new Home and we be been spend ing the last few weeks shuttling desks chairs of fice files and assorted manuscripts the last under guard of course across a mud rutted hessian court Yard. Our new quarters Are removed from the old ones by just about the distance from Home plate to first base. But this slight change of locale has made. The world s difference in our editorial lives. It used to be that the greatest Hazard to our daily labors waste Jungle of collapsible bookshelves coat hangers and editors legs through which one had to make his Way each morning to reach his desk. Since we be moved into our new Home however life has taken on the shimmer of constant peril. On the very Day we took up residence a Large belgian Shepherd dog came through the second Story window of one of the offices apparently assisted by Jet Takeoff and padded quietly out into the Hall. A few of the editors looked at each other a Little uncertainly but no one said anything. One Man who had been taking aspirin All. Morning pushed his chair Back gingerly from his desk and left saying he d come in Early next thing at a certain hour of every after Neon an odor of smoke comes out of the electrical Fusebox in the corridor. We investigated this pretty thoroughly calling in electricians and. Firemen who. Between them have All but dismantled the building. They assure us that there is no fire and we Are just about resigned to accepting an odor of smoke a s one of the Normal conditions of life. Finally a least we Hope so the door to the men s room seemed to be constantly locked. For two Days Noth ing was done about this on the grounds that somebody might be inside. Eventually after accounting of Heads this theory was discarded and the local Locksmith was called in to remedy the situation. The terrors however of a lavatory door that locks itself remain second Only to those of fearless Fosdick s Chippendale chair weekend s cover features cocktail Charley an old time German Clown now playing the Neucom civilian shows circuit. Story about Charley and the trousers of civilian shows German Talent photographed by Michael Vaccaro appears on Page 8. Letters to the Henry Noel pro and con sir you Are to be congratulated on you printing Henry Noel s provocative Story i renounced my u. S. Citizenship March 6 in his own words. This is an unusual and controversial Case that has profound implications and overtones. In this somewhat neurotic world there must be quite Many sensitive individuals who at least dream of som escape from the pressure and confusion of nations. But it is a rare Bird that has. The courage of his convictions and a " tally translates that dreams into action without apologies. However in spite of the fact that our civilization has Many shortcomings and however we May Deplor-2 some fits methods of advancement nations still represent the highest unit of that civilization. To attain a still higher unit we cannot simply do away with nation sin one fell anarchistic swoop but must build on and through them to that higher synthesis. The Strain on Pur sensibilities and the restriction of per1sonal freedoms is the Price we have to pay for this social Progress. In other words Progress is not necessarily synonymous with Good inthe altruistic Garden of Eden sense. As prof. Toynbee Points out Progress comes about Only because Man is willing Yea eager to reject the culture of the Lotus eaters and respond to challenges of adversity. Noel is taking the Primi Tive Way by putting his struggle against adversity on the plane of one Man against figuratively the rest of society instead of permitting his personality Tobe swallowed up in the greater struggle of nation is somehow i have the greatest sympathy for the noels and Gandhi because they help us preserve a sem Blance of morality As we in. For example nazi Germany was essentially an immoral society and yet among the masses of germans there were Many Unsung individuals who desperately Clung to their personal morality however privately and secretly. Carl h. Wickum Frankfurt " sir think you made a grave error in printing the Story i renounced my u. S. Citizenship ,. Actually according to his own writing he is a Coward. He simply refuses to accept reality an tempts to justify the most serious mis take a Man could Ever make by sticking his head in the Sand like an Ostrich and pretend he has done his part in helping solve the world s urgent and complicated problems. Now that or. Noel taken this unforgivable and drastic step i think we should tend to pity this poor Man and in a few years i think he himself will admit his Blunder Edward Purvin Mannheim " fight duty Siri was indeed surprised to Lear that soldiers in Germany spend their Tours of duty training to be fighters see fight duty,".March 6. While i am not keen on any sort of fighting understand that for the Sake of morale among the troops and dependents Eftev need for organized athletics is Strong. But two things should be considered. First with Universal military. Training essential do you suppose Forone minute that the people Back Home would take kindly to the idea of an army turning out professional boxers instead of soldiers. It seems to be that if boxing is to be encouraged As a morale builder or a body builder then it ought to be a matter of general participation and no specialized and confined to a Small group of selected Inthis Way it would also contribute toward the elimination of a sign of american softness Spectator sports.""7 h. L. Richard Liege belgium1
