European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Six year old Home maker at right baked this birthday cake will test it soon by eating it. Girl s also learn House management and How to Market. Classroom Tea parly teaches essentials of what refers to As harmonious gracious living. Students also learn How to polish silverware. Kindergarten for brides photographs by Sam Goldsteinz i. One of the most logical prerequisites to Success thinks mrs. Walter Edmonds is Early training As Early As possible. In her Scarsdale new York Home mrs. Edmonds has started a school for Kinder Garten aged girls who want to learn How a housewife should act around the pupils in the bridal school its forma title Are daughters of new York women whom she has interested in the program. In final lessons the girls who Range in age from six to Early teens Start planning their own Trousseau selecting materials to hand stitch the gowns themselves. More important they Are shown How to select a husband. When Mother is 111, youngsters who Learned their lessons will know How to take care of babies Cook sew mend furnish and decorate Home. Irish up in Indian Muncie around Muncie which might be any old town a s. A.," most of the Fellows who might be in a next War Are looking Forward to it with very Little grief apprehension or soul searching. That includes quite a number who were or should have been in the last one. They won t say they want it but you get the idea that they would t object to it if it happened. A Good Many of them Are apparently so sure of its coming that they be already go berths figured out Lor themselves. Or. Truman s speech recommending certain near mobilization measures happened to common St. Patrick s Day when the radio was dripping and reeking with the most sugary sort of Kelly Green Judy o Grady stuff you Ever heard a Good Deal More probably than was heard in dub Lin. The Platter boys had been having a Field Day and for a wee the announcers had Bee Busy " painting up the european Crisi Between recordings so that by St. Patrick s Day everyone who was still Able to turn a Knob was ready for the Truman address. The Latte was not a Surprise but the Force of its message was. The announcers took it in their Teeth and thus a very considerable series of gut blows was delivered to the Public. The next few Days i moneyed around town to see How people were taking it. There was a cer Tain amount of Gallows humor a lot like that you heard in the drear Days of 1938, 1939 and awhile after. Have you got that uniform out of the Mothballs yet was the sporting question Many of the Young men about town were tossing at each other. There were a few elderly retired Farmer i know a former Republican county commissioner said Truman was working up the crisis so he could get off the spot with the South and hold his party behind him. Ayoung labor Union Leader still wearing remnants of his i uni form expressed the View that the russians would t go along Withus on anything so there was nothing else for the president qualified this by remark ing that maybe they ought to negotiate some More. There was one Strong show of concern by a lady who works in one of the offices at City Hall. Happened in there and she was standing at the counter. She wanted to talk to me about it i gather because she thought that As a Newspaperman i could do something about it. They be got to Stop it someway she said. They be just got to. I lost a son in the last one and my other boy is just old enough now. Why can t the get it stopped there was t much you could Tell same afternoon i happened to be at one of the businessmen s members Are Middle class or wealthy. Some of them herein world warn mostly As officers. A few had made a goo Deal of Money during the War manufacturing Shell cases truck parts air plane parts Etc. They weren t much impressed by the Truman address but they were grimly sure that a War incoming one of these Days. They were talking pro and con about How it is going to affect business. The Marshall plan one of them a said is going to be the biggest thing that has hit this country for fifty years. It will mean More business even than the another one said the whole thing Means inflation an that after the next War things will never be the same in the unite states. Allotments controls taxes the things we should be getting rid of now. It was the reaction of the younger men which seemed most pertinent nine out of ten of them Are completely fed up on Joe Stalin. They think a War wit Russia would be a righteous War. Dozen reported Here to see about enlistment immediately after the Truman speech. This happen Edall Over the country. Here there was a humorous Side Angle on the Story the Navy was swamped with applications from former army privates and non commis. Signed brings up something else. S nearly every sex of seems to have. Figured out where he will Light and How he can Start with a better rating. I do not know How Man applications for commissions there have been but if there Haven been plenty already there soon will As for the Young men who Are in Roth or directly connected with the military Here i had the reaction of my Nephew a former29th division infantryman now attending College and a member of the a Etc. All those Guys Are sore1 at Russia he said. They re ready to go any time. They be got it Al figured out How it will be where. The Battles will be fought and Aren t hurting a bit about there is a certain amount of talk that is apprehensive in s usually at the Start of the conversation which ends up with cussing Russia and figuring out How the crisis is going to affect business or the person speaking. The usual opinion seems to be generally that it won t Hurt much it May even . White m weekend april 17. I a
