Evening star., 1938-10-11
BY WALLACE R. DEUEL.,

BY WALLACE r. DEUEL.,
Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent.
BERLIN, Oct. Ills the freckle
Nordic?
The question may seem irrelevant,
and even unimportant, to the average
man outside Germany. But if you say
that mems race is the most important
thing about them. and that their race
determines the kind of a skin they
have and how their skin reacts to the
sun, as we'll as determining almost
everything else about them, then the
question of the racial identity of the
freckle is neither irrevelent nor un-
important To any one who believes
so Fundamentally in the all-impor-
lance of race, the freckle may be the
proud device of people of supermen.
And since the Nazis do say that
mems blood-especially the race from
which they spring almost
everything about them, the Nazis are
interested in the freckle. No less
Nazi authority than Prof. Hans F. K.
Guenther, outstanding academic race
expert in the Third Reich, considers
the question in his great work, "Ras-
senkunde des deutschen Volkes." He
raises the question at three different
points in his book, in fact.
Freckles May Be Nordic.
Guenther refrains from laying down
& positive rule as to the Nordlc char
acter of the freckle. He says with true
scientific caution that adequate OBJ
serva ations are lacking. But he reports
that among other races at least the
Ostics seem to be unable to raise
freckles and he suggests that freckles
NAV indeed be a sign of Nordic blood.
Mems boards, too. as well as their
ability to raise freckles, are Influenced
by their race Guenther says. The
question of the forms of boards char
acteristic of the various races is still
an almost virgin field for sclentlhc
study, Guenther says. but he is salts
fed on at least one point-Nordics
prefer full, red whiskers. Witness
Barbarossa.
Race also determines the structure
Of the jaw, according to Guenther,
and since men of all races have the
same number of teeth, the smaller the
Jaw the more crowded the teeth. The
result, again. according to Guenther,
is that Nordics. who have narrow,
pointed Jaws, are especially susceptible
to teeth trouble.
Styles Racially Conditioned.
Womens styles and makeup are
raclally conditioned, too, according to
other Nazi students of these matters.
CLOSE contact with the southern
world has enticed the German peo-
pie far from its own values and sub
lected it to the dangerously decadent
influences Of foreign civilizations
q Nazi woman official writes in this
connection. This applies also to
vomen's dress, in which the follow
ing of foreign examples has had in
leading to national corruption and
racial dislntegration."
Not only have foreign races diff
ferent ideals of physical beauty, but
the position of women in foreign coun-
tries is different, too," according to
this authority. Race decides whether
woman is free being or a playthine
Such fundamental conceptions largely
govern all womens dress.
The southern 'eXhibitioniSt type
ddaptS her dress to the desire for dis
play, the Nordic achievement type
Gdapts hers to her sphere of activity.
The southern feminine ideal is the
youthful beloved. The Nordic, the
motherly woman.
The showing off motive leads to
distortion of the body, The motive
Ot action demands the culture of the
BODY
Line Distortion Alien Sign.
Fashions which distort or eXag-
gerate the lines of the body are
sign of alien influences the writer
goes on. in which the showing off"
motive plays an important part.
When Signs of sex confusion show
themselves in womens clothing-the
emphasis on narrow hips and broad
shoulders, for example, which repre-
SenJS an approach 10 male pnySlcal
structure-these are the decadent in
f1uences of an alien race, hostile to
''rocreation and therefore disruptive,"
ne says.
Face painting is blatantly un-
German" too, according to a Nazi
tfficial in Breslau.
This type of makeup may be suit
ahle to the sensual faces and thick
lips of Oriental races-Jewish and
Russian girls" he once wrote in the
Voelkische Beobachter. but the worst
snd most unnatural thing We can en-
counter IN the streets is the German
woman who, disregarding all laws of
beauty. has painted her face with
Oriental war colors which are in utter
contra diction to her character, her
manner and her way of thinking. and
which deform her clearly limned
Nordic lips and light eyes by harsh
and formlesS daubs of color
tCopyrieht. 1898, by the CHICAGO Daily
News. inc