‘THE FAMILY MAN’

Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 96, 31 October 1941, Page 2

‘THE FAMILY MAN’

The great lover and prolific family man of Berchtesgaden, who believes that children are merely undeveloped storm troopers, has been plunging into the world of women again.

This is always a diverting spectacle, for this childless, loveless gorilla strikes a sympathetic note in domestic affairs like a bale of barbed wire in a cradle.

When this bloodsoaked Romeo first propounded his principles directed towards the establishment of the greatest human abattoir ever conceived for mankind, he insisted that woman’s place was in the home. One variant to this lifelong sentence in the scullery was that she was occasionally to be allowed out for sufficient time to start breeding with some fairheaded lout from one of the Fuehrer’s many barbaric seminaries of hate and war.

It was a grand scheme in peace time and many scores' of future battalions ready to die for the leader were produced under these stud farm circumstances.

But now that the long-lusted-after war is at hand and in full blast, the Berchtesgaden Welfare Worker has had to change his policy. As his followers get killed off (the Russians are co-operating generously in this task) the shortage of labour in the munition works becomes more acute and our Romeo is now obliging little Gretel and asking her to drop the rolling pin and get on with some honest shell-filling. • .. \ '■ ... ' ' As one German paper puts it: — “Women are at first afraid of working at machines, but once they have started, one can see that their maternal instincts become directed and focussed on these machines.” ❖ * * • Juliet, from a balcony, whispers down to her lathe. Sff Cleopatra caresses a twenty-ton press. ❖ 5 1 * , sjs And Helen of Troy snuggles up closer to a high-speed rotary converter? * * * * Gnuts ! **. * * PLAYTIME The fierce crunch of war: Extracted carefully from the “Oxford Times”: “Young gentleman of some means, now in Oxford, desires companion for play-going, boating, etc.” We believe there’s some good “boating” in the Battle of the Atlantic that might do this odd character some good.