The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1936-11-27
Sacrifices Highly Recommended
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General tioering ushered in Hters second Four
Year Plan with powerful speech and now the Ger
nan people know on which side their bread is but
cred. 1t is TO be neither side Germany is once
more encircled by world of enemies Sacrifices by
he German people the order of the
ay; including less meat less milk and and
utter.
1t is only fair to state that the good Colonel
General sets the example. He told his Sportpaast
audience that he has been eating less butter and has
ropped twenty pounds STILL his picture is familiar
readers everywhere 1t suggests that Gen
cral Goerng could lose several times twenty pounds
and remain solvent One can scarcely blame great
many German mothers for wondering whether but
eress General Goering is quite all fours with
their small children.
In essence this Goering speech is a restatement
Of the familiar principle laid down in all approved
textbooks the and feeding of dictated peoples
1t calls for undertaking. Whether it is Five-Year
Plan to build socialism in a single country, or
Fifteen-Year Plan to erect new Roman empire, or
Four Year Plan to make Germany independent OF
foreign food supplies and materials it always
begins with food less housing less shoe leather
and wooden socks less joy and creature comfort for
the people
The best-advert,sed food recipe of the last twenty
years is this recipe Tor national Plans. Its Ian
guage is curiousy different from the traditional
cabulary of the cook-books. The old texts begin by
ordering you to take six eggs half pound of butter
and twelve slices Of whole wheat bread; to take
three pounds OF SlrlOn, TOUR tomatoes, eght good
sized potatoes and plenty of onions; to take two
crisp heads of lettuce half pint of French dressing
and two eupfus OF bread crumbs
But the chefs who preside over Five-Year Plans,
FourYear Plans Fifteen-Year Plans follow just
the opposite line They begin by telling their peoples
not to take eggs not to take butter milk, not to
take meat and very little bread. Their only affirna
tive recommendations two sacrifice and tight
drawn belts. Take four heapng cupfus of sacrifice
Take leather belt draw it tight; draw it tighter;
n MOI Tho coTlanf oil
eyes and think of a world of enemies around you
Capitalist enemies Red enemies, anti-German enc
mics
1t should be noted however about the chefs
who get mp these national reducing diets that after
while they lose the courage of their convictions They
start out boldly enough by ordering their people to
90 on half ratons, but before long they accusing
somebody else of keeping the people hungry. Mr.
Stain forgets what he said about sacrifices and
tight belt and says it is the fault of bourgeois
Trotskyist sabotage Mussolini forgets the splendid
gesture of undereeding for the faherand and
the Sanctionist Powers. So General Goering begins
by prescribing less butter and eggs and ends up by
denouncing the thieying and parasitic crew of
profitesrs Our Berlin dispatch said that this was
rapturously applauded by the audience which had
been sther cool when Goerng spoke Of sacrifices
For the Dctatu-P Palmer the profiteer is an easy
out"
Nau planners have of course another alibi
peculiar to themselves. only the Chosen People get
mama from above said General Coering in his
flaming Propagation. I'VE must depend
strength"
Now, a matter of fact, the modern German
farmer gets great deal of mama out of the air
This is done by the fxation of nitrogen which is
verified fertilizer One Of the pioneers in this
field the late Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize winner
and one OF thu Chosen People. This nitrogen from
the air also be made into high explosives
done largc scale by Germany in the World War,
using the Hatcr process. General Goering would
be the last TO deny that INT is superior
to bread for strong people
But perhaps this may be bearing down too hard
a VINO has cut down butter, lost twenty
pounds and naturally wobbles bit in his reasoning.