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Page 2. University Daily Kansan Thursday, Oct. 2, 1952
by Dick Bibler
Eastern Germany Soviet Stronghold
In Russian-controlled East Germany signs proclaim: "We joyfully volunteer to work for prosperity and freedom."
But the thin, unhappy young girls with the tattered sandals who clean out the railroad coal cars don't seem so happy.
"The people's police are your friends and helper," other signs say.
UP correspondent Wellington Long made the 110-mile train trip recently between West Germany and Berlin, through the Soviet zone.
He saw little building, but instead, gutted, bombed-out houses which after seven years still haven't been cleared away. He saw drab, spiritless people.
But the East German people see little resemblance between the signs' message and the sullen "Vopos" who patrol all the main streets with pistol and carbine.
Signs which plaster every available building, billboard, street car or locomotive. Signs so many and so repetitious that they lose all meaning.
He saw haunted countryside barren of automobiles on the road, or even bicycles or horse-drawn carts.
"Peace, freedom, unity," say other signs in blazing neon.
"Down with the West German war pact and remilitarization."
And, of course, the signs: "Peace, freedom unity."
That's East Germany, with a population of some 18 million persons, which now is being converted into another Russian satellite, even as the Russians press their demands for a phony German peace treaty and an equally phony unified Germany.
A 3-mile-wide no-man's land now divides East and West Germany and anyone crossing it is subject to being shot on sight.
Only between East and West Berlin is travel still possible and through this avenue of escape some 15,000 Soviet zone residents fled last month.
Some 10,000 other East Germans, slightly older, are being trained for the "Peoples Police" which is to be transformed into a full-fledged army.
Meanwhile, behind the barbed-wire symbols of "peace" and "unity" the Russians are accelerating the pace of their program to sovietize East Germany permanently.
East Germany's five former provinces have been replaced by 14 soviet-styled "districts," "voluntary" cooperatives have been set up as a first step toward collectivization of farms, and civil and penal laws have been rewritten to coincide with those of Russia.
In "pre-military" training camps, teen-age boys and girls are being taught to become "sharp-shooters."
And it is expected soon that East zone churches will be told to sever all ties with the West.-U.P.
News Briefs
"Please return those corsets the strip-tease artist tossed at you," the request said.
Paris—The Concert Mayol music hall sent out an SOS today to the spectator who sat in the front row last night.
By UNITED PRESS
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Little Man on Campus
Washington—Not so long ago the Russians branded American base-ball a vicious game that often caused players to be carried off the field mortally wounded.
But yesterday the State department correspondent for Tass, the Soviet news agency, collected a $9 press pool after the Brooklyn Dogers "murdered" the New York Yankees, 4 to 2, in the World Series opener.
Hollywood, Calif.-A motion picture studio said today it had figured out a way to give Fiji Island hula girls "confidence."
Warner Brothers announced it had shipped 278 pairs of bloomers to a unit in the South Pacific islands filming a movie with native girls in the cast as dancers.
Revised Bible Goes to Press With One Million Copies
Hundreds of books trying to explain the way to peace and happiness have been published in the last few years. The most valid guide to be published on the subject in 300 years will go on sale throughout the English-speaking world next Tuesday when the new Revised Standard Version of the Bible is released.
four plants—three in the U.S. and one in Scotland.
It is gratifying to note that publishers have enough faith in the public's interest in the Bible to publish one million copies in the first printing. To do this, the book is being printed simultaneously by
The publishers are spending $85 million for the first printing. On top of this an advertising agency has been heralding the coming of the book at an expense of $500,000.
Roger Yarrington
They answer charges that they have been tampering with the Bible by explaining: "With the aid of the oldest manuscripts yet known and with new knowledge of Greek and Hebrew vocabularies we have really been recovering it. In that sense, this new Bible is actually the oldest."
The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States holds the copyright to the new Bible. They say "we now have the Word of Life in living language for our time."
Intended to replace the King James Version which has been in use by Protestants for three centuries, the new version has been in preparation for more than 15 years. A committee of 32 scholars have worked on it to make the text the most accurate and easiest to understand Bible ever published.
To contribute to a more understandable text, the book's revisers have simplified many meaningless passages into more readable language. Among other things, they have dropped the archaic "thou, thue, theine" and the old verb endings "est" and "eth."
Short Ones
The Lyons News reports a certain nearsighted politician didn't know until after he had kissed the woman. The woman wasn't holding it right side up.
A circus owner was recently heard to remark after losing his human cannonball, "I don't know where I'll ever find another man of his caliber."
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It is rumored that after the recent spotlighting of campaign finances, the Pachacamac party is interested in finding a good accounting student before next spring's election.
President Truman is out on another "give 'em hell" campaign. It is surprising that anyone remembers what an old-fashioned campaign was like before they started all this pussy-footing over who made how much.
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During the Civil War some of the first volunteer Union troops sent to Washington were housed in the Senate and House chambers of the Capitol.
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