The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-10-02
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutched Out
The Truth
. GLAMOROUS HILDA
. WORKS FOR HITLER
. NOW BEING OPPOSED
. BY TWO YOUTHS

IL
Should you wander into Ell Patio in
Mexico City some evening you might
behold the slender and beauteous
Hilda Kruger on the dance floor. And
your Mexican table companion might
| whisper to you, "there is one of
Adolph Hitler's propaganda agents in
Mexico"
Hilda Kruger really is a glamor-
Gus person-blond, graceful, well
gowned and not too ostentatiously
jeweled, though a ring on one hand
strikes thoroughly exotic note.
With something of a record in Ger
man movies, Hilda Kruger stays in
Mexico as an artist-and an artist she
surely appears. This alert German
girl suffers no lack of admirers and
dancing partners. She has a certain
popularity and it would appear that
in her job for Hitler-if she has such
a job-she if of top efficiency.
Hilda Kruger is just one of the
facts in strange collection of facts
in Mexico City.
Here is another fact: A couple of
weeks ago new publication appeared
"a patriotic, anti-axis weekly news
paper.
This newspaper isn't very pre-
tentious, but it carries a stirring note
of conviction and determination.
Two young men run this news
lid
say.
One of the pair pawned an expen-
sive camera, his only valuable pos
session. The other pawned an over
coat. With the funds thus secured
they published their first edition.
So, against Hilda Kruger you can
put down these two Mexican youths.
They have seen the propaganda Of
the swastika and they are determined
to do about it what little is within
their power.
You have to have a lot of faith in
something when you take a plunge
such as these two boys took.
Just two kids, with a passion for
freedom. It's an inspiring note!
In Mexico City you get, if you find
those who know, stories about the
state of hemisphere solidarity on
down through Central and South
America.
These stories don't leave you with
any too great a sense of faith in the
effectiveness of the work done by the
United States.
You get the clear feeling that in
more than one case the attitude Of
government is one thing, the feeling
of the people another thing. One Won
ders how much of the true feeling of
people is transferred to Washington
through official channels.
Certain it is that German and Ital-
ian agents still find it possible to
carry on vigorous propaganda work.
They are not tied by any scruples.
Maybe that is one of the necessary
handicaps of the United States. Fire
cannot be met with fire.
In Mexico itself, our nearest neigh
Dor, there is too much feeling among
the people that the United States is
still the COLOSSUS of the NORTH" a
wholly uncomplimentary term, be-
lieve me.
Here are some notes:
Mexico has two grades of gasoline
-"gasolina" and "Mexolina," the lat
ter the better grade. Cars seem to
perform on it as well as they perform
at home. The price is about our own
average price.
The road to Mexico City from
Laredo is excellent. Pavement good.
Curves well banked. Scenery breath
taking. Overnight stopping places
good. Food, if you know your places,
uniformly good.
Food in Mexico City excellent, if
you know where to go-and it's easy
to find out if you don't know. Water
is safe. But in small towns drink
bottled water.
Do they really wear those big hats?
Of course. And serapes? Yes, but
not as generally as 10 years ago.
Business and professional men dress
as we dress.
Mexico has a tremendous shoe
manufacturing business, but Ameri-
can women in Mexico find the lasts
too short and wide.
Mexico show windows have gener-
Gus displays of American refriger-
ators, radios and ranges-at fairly
high prices. You can live as we'll as