European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                In tends to his favorite pastime of Only 5 per it to the theater spend free time this boys lives in a bombed out ruin patched if s Pretor Cerrato matter what he he will be chained to Hie background and caste m is Darmstadt zones Middletown life has not changed very much in the caste system is still almost ironclad ithe  tradition of the merely a legend and Likely to remain and Al it has been found that 48 per cent children choose their own is merely psychological caste system follows the is that they will Ever Rise the social level in which they were social study German caste system still keeps each Man rooted in by Shirley staff writer a this is a preliminary conclusion drawn from a far reaching Survey being con in i Middletown is lying be Frankfurt and and Ilmon As the Garden City of Hesse until i Midnight raid in september 1944 wiped out 60 per cent of Jit f Darmstadt was chosen the Sample City because it is witha ten f Dency to become a mus trial its a postwar population is Darmstadt War it is Nettier a Large Stree Roppolis nor overshadowed by the population is not so great that Ifft wields undue influence on local Resi More thin 50 per cent of its Man Jcj Power commutes from outlying com As these workers Are As and Darm Jota Tifi also the cultural Pivot of five Large agricultural regions surrounding Truie Sieburger Rod ried and the Bergstrasser patterned after Robert and Helen a top Robottom analysis of in re Bearc Bers in sponsored by the labor Academy of the University of cooperatively at first with Milhans government and now with Are working through All prying into the ballot business fac apartment drawing rooms i and outlying Section they have been received with varying degrees of open Frank Ness in the Odenwald traditionally suspicious of strangers to downright hostility in the where retired govern ment pensioners and Many former prussian officers Darmstadt City officials have been More than co feeling that the study will immeasurably help the at the Only Early reports Are available but even preliminary figures Are giving the City Trade Union organizations and the researchers them a Glimmer of what to for have Learned that cent of the families in the area have a monthly income of 100 and that Only City and government make from 400 to 500 Marks they have found thai 40 per cent of the women decide How the family income is but it not yet known How Many of those answering this question were other figures show that in the mothers make up 60 per cent of those hav ing the greatest in fluence on fee Educa Tion of their Early figures also show feat 39 per cent of persons questioned said they derived Earl Grigsby and Schacht German project their greatest pleasure from family while 18 per cent said nothing pleased thirteen per cent said their jobs were their greatest 5 per cent preferred not 55 per cent of those questioned said a Lack of Money was their greatest while others attributed their troubles to tack of unhappy family Tad a Happy 12 per cent had no troubles at All asked How Mey spent their Leisure pet cent answered at sports others preferred relaxing at handicraft going to the almost 11 per cent said they had no free time at sixty eight per cent reported Toem selves i Good per cent in bad health and 18 per cent it was found that 196 per cent can afford to have a Doc Tor come to their 4 per cent mostly refugees can not researchers also found that the ans wer to one question political ques completely refuted by election the question Are you interested in politics if do you belong to a party seventy five per said they had Noin Terest whatsoever in politics 20 per cent were interested but did not belong to m and Only s per cent said they despite this apparent 80 per cent of eligible voters cast in last years Federal election in the 42 per cent voting for the free demo cratic a conservative the conclusion is that who burned their fingers on politics very Are reluctant to speak openly according to Earl american consultant on the who is on leave from his Job As social science analyst in the department of working with Henry myer and Ashley York University sociology and h German director of the has been on the project for More Ian a the project is to be completed by the end of this it was originally instituted by Nels Deputy labor management office of labor i cog but is chiefly so researchers can draw few hard but they have bits and scraps of information leading into wider Fields for they have Learned that White Collar workers Seldom marry under they have also Learned that the people of Darmstadt want to see the City rebuilt As it was before the 1944 Schach Schabel they abandon this Ideal if they want the City to i Wormstadt must it can no longer stand still As a cultural in spite of me nostalgia the Ola Schach Schabel the life of the City and its surviving ants has in prewar Days to was a Mecca for pensioners As Well As army Darmstadt harbours Many of the widows of the late pensioners Sid army men although they re Small amount of must s this income by at continued on