The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-04-13
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS


Nazi Germany has carried on inten-
sive propaganda for proper home
life, in the interests of the nation and
the state-as a result of which, it is
to be noted according to the statis-
tics given in the Nazi press itself
that the number of women in wage
earning employment has risen from
4,5OO,OOO in 1888 to 100000 in 1889
and that about forty million Germans
are today being fed in communal
kitchens in the army, the labor SER
vice, factories, training schools and
camps!
And the National Socialists are con-
vinced that this state of affairs is by
no means temporary, but that the
party and the state must regard mass
production feeding as a permanent
factor. An organization on which the
Nazi Party, the Labor Service, the
Women's League, the German Labor
Front, the Army, the National Food
Council, the National Health Board,
the Propaganda Ministry, the Munich
palities Association, the Students AS
sociation and the Red Cross are repre-
sented has, in fact, already been set
up to deal with this question. This
new body has the task of organizing
canteens on uniform pattern and in
such way as to ensure "sound nour-
ishment from home produced foods
just in the place where the majority
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These canteens are in future to have
specially trained and graded staff, for
the training Of which school is to be
opened in Frankfurt, with food re-
search station attached.
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The newly-founded organization has
also established a model canteen for
three thousand persons, in which one
thousand people at time can be given
meal in fifteen minutes. 1t is also
proposed to establish canteens in all
works employing at least fifty work
ers.
The communal restaurant is a
modern idea, which has for years been
regarded by the "Marxists" as a nat
ural consequence Of the concentration
of workers in large factories, and the
employment of women in industry
But properly organized system of
communal restaurants postulates a
free and democratically organized
community. In principle, communal
restaurants should represent great
progress in the field of healthy and
varied feeding, but in the compulsory
system Of Nazis, with its unheard-o
speedup for rearmament, with the
workers torn from their homes for
road building, Notifications or other
work, with working hours at fifty a
week, and the inadequate and un-
healthy "ersatz" foods, such communal
restaurants will just become so many
barracks mess-rooms, such as are well
known to all Germans from the war
and early postwar periods.
X X X
The Nazis are filling the air with
threats of what they will do, and the
Nazis of Danzig are rioting to make
the threat good.
Italy is feverishly preparing, we
are told, to annex Albania.
The Vatican is laying in supply
of gas masks, and is thinking of build
ing a tower to warn visiting aviators
away.
Franco has executed II loyal Span
iards who fought him in the field
These are one days work in one city
Valencia. The lowest number that the
Spanish fascists mark for punishment
is 100000.
Japan is letting no information es-
cape from China that can be penned
up; but rumors tell of heavy and pro
longed fighting.
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