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By Fred Sparks
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MADRID, Spain, July 7.—Beauti
ful Madrid is a city with countless
charming public services and some
of the world’s most fearful slums.
Behind its tinseled front with
miles of cafes, well-tended boule
vards and streets wetted down sev
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gle street lamp or a paved road—
and garbage collection is unknown.
There, in primitive squalor, live
some 30 per cent of Madrid’s popu
lation, now more than a million.
Not the narrow alleys characteristic
of big cities, Madrid’s slum areas
are acres of empty, dirty lots. It is
much like having Tobacco Road j
next to Park Avenue.
Shacks Cluster Near Bull Ring.
Near the great bull ring at the
Plaza De Toros is a settlement of
tiny houses and shacks clinging to
the side of a barren tree. It had
just rained and my interpreter and
I waded through a pond of shim
mering, knee deep mud to knock on
the door of one of the shacks. A
woman in black answered and we
talked our way in. She said:
“I live here with my three sons.
They all work. The youngest is sick
and I have placed him in a Catho
lic orphanage—I cannot cafe for
him. My husband has been dead
these 12 years. The Reds marched
him out one night during the civil
war and I have not seen him since.
The priest says he was killed be
cause he attended church.”
We walked around the house . *. .
three tiny cell-like rooms—two beds
for four people. The only decora
tions on the walls were a crucifix,
a picture of Manolete, the great
Spanish bull-fighter, and a snap
shot of Tyrone Power.
Menu Described.
The kitchen is bare except for a
table and a charcoal stove. Water
comes from a public pump down the
block.
Menu for today?
Breakfast—a hot malt drink.
Lunch—codfish, tomatoes and an
| orange. '
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four years ago” said the woman,
“now I wear alpargatas."
Alpargatas are cheap, paper thin
slippers worn by the poor people of
Spain.
“I also work,” she continued. “On
Sundays I am a maidservant. With
my three sons (youngest 13) we
make 615 pesetas-a-month. Rent is
45, almost everything else goes for
food and carfare.”
Food Costs Soar.
This isn’t much in a land where
a second-rate pair of underwear
shorts cost 15 pesetas; ham is 32
pesetas a pound; a dozen eggs
bring 17 pesetas. And most of this
food is unavailable—except on the
black market at zooming prices.
• “Look at the roof,” said the
woman. “Whqp it rains we are
wet; when it is cold we are cold.”
We visited a few other homes in
the neighborhood. They were all
the same—little better than caves.
(In fact, a large number of people
live in caves on the outskirts of
Madrid.) But all the houses were
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Mr* Peron Recalled.
A small crowd followed us around
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help us?”
A man said: “We don’t get any
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“Stop talking like that, you fool!"
No Wine la Six Years.
“I have not had a glass of wine in
six years,” said a man. "And Spain
is the land of wine.”
I almost had to push my way
through the crowd—all of whom
wanted to talk to me: wanted me to
visit their homes. They seemed to
think an American could press a
magic button, knock down great po
litical obstacles, and bring a great
flow of foodstuffs and clothing to
their tiny spot of misery.
“Yes,” said my interpreter, as we
walked away, “these people have a
hard life—oh, you don’t know what
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