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...show off the recruits, Sunday-schoolish Hoofdstormer (Youth Movement chief) van Geelkerken last week planned a mass youth rally at Roermond. Friederic Schmidt, dictator of the Adolf Hitler Youth Schools, attended. But Roermond townspeople stayed away. Shops were locked up, streets deserted, blackout curtains drawn. While some 50 corn-haired Dutch children squirmed in embarrassment, Schmidt commented ruefully: "Apparently citizens of this town do not like to see us here." Echoed Van Geelkerken, peering at the blackout curtains: "It looks as if somebody died here...
Elfish, slow-smoldering Stephen Vincent Benét wrote the program's "letters to Hitler" for six representative Americans: a farmer (Raymond Massey-"We'll choke you with wheat and corn, Adolf, we'll drown you in York State milk"), a mother (Helen Hayes-"I do not say it is just or right to hate. I say we hate you for having caused this hate"), a businessman (Melvyn Douglas-"You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract"), a laborer (James Cagney-"We're sending...
Sorrel Top. She is first seen in a Virginia mansion surrounded by pretty sisters and priceless antiques. The War between the States has just ended. A Yankee brute assaults America's sister, Palestine. America is forced to kill him with a two-foot corn knife. America flees other lady-chasing Yankees along a row of fruit trees. Later she flees lady-killing Fant Annable down a row of tobacco plants. Still later (because of the murdered rapist and to be near Fant) she flees to relatives in Mason County...
...with the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Home Economics, passed out hints for spreading it thin: can fruits in their own juices without adding water; put up without any sugar and sweeten later out of current sugar allowances; use honey to replace half the sugar called for, corn syrup for one-third...
...farmers have turned gardeners and dairymen in droves. Over the whole countryside big & little gardens have sprouted up, brightly painted cow-barns have been built. Truck farms now total 3,730,000 acres, up 12% over last year, up 30% over the 1931-40 average. Production of sweet corn, green peas and tomatoes is at a new high. Georgia alone has some 30,000 new gardens this year...