The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 31, 1947, Page 7

THU TRSDAY, JULY 81, 1947 |. — Probably IRELAND IN 15 HOUR' By MASON ROSSITER SMITH nowhe: else in the world but =a. poesia, Girplane on a West-to-East crossing of the Atlantic, is it to see both We | Sunset and sunrise within the space of a sin- pm, Bama, ‘ken off from New York's LaGuardia field at 2:30 than six hours the huge runwoys of ¢ . At is, Sachusetts, 20 mi Nova Scotia at Yarmouth. ut now, the sun was still high enough in the sky to take a color cemeeraph at Gander, the clock ng at 8:30 ewfound- land time. There w vsgphoines were pineap- eS juice. sandwiches and coffee or free” in the airlines termin- al (although we had just been rerved a delicious squab dinner | aloft only half an hour before), | and then we we . other 45 minutes The ! sun seemed to go down fast as we flew east | e off again in an- | and short- ly there was only a glow on the | western horizon. Then it was aerk, and within another forty minutes the dawn began to show in the east. We had breakfast on board at about 1:00 a. m. New, York time, and before 3:00 a. m. | we were dropping down from 19,000 feet through the clouds to wateh the greenest land in the world push up through the mist Ireland — or more properly, Eire, as the Irish say,—is a mag- ent picture from the air The land stretches out in gorge- ous shades of green as far as one the can see fields below an in teresting pattern of many odd theped fields each separated from the next by a hedgerow in derker green, the fields them selves not all rectangular, as our are, for some are pie-shaped and rounded at the corners of the square plots: here and there a white si thatched roofed cot with its chimney pots. airport, itself, is a cosmopol airport; for plane come in all day from New York Landon, Dublin, Paris, Frank furt—all the American overseas line Mast of the Eu opean Many of the wartime building are pert of the office lob. by and dining rooms. A few miles away lies Limer ick—a “small town,” the Irish @ The wartime shortage of sugar is finally over. Use it freelyand again enjoy homemade cakes, candies and erts, For best results, use— Crystals Pure Cane Sugar i, WITH ANY “e+ ELECTRIC CURRENT light Time, Tuesday, July Ist, and within less big Constellation sat gracefully down on the yt he international airport at Gander, Newfound- feet we had been able to see the shores of Mas- iles south of Boston, and later the barren coast of , of about 10,000 population. , s There is time to catch a bus and! yf that sounds a bit strange, it |standard of living has gone uP wo over for a look-see before! your plane departs for Dublin. It! a quaint community—there ! aré many automobiles, but also | many horse-drawn wagons and { carts. The storefronts present an interesting combination of the | ancient and modern—those of} vears ago, others interspersed: between are designed almost ex- ! actly like our most modern Am- | erican shops. H Thence back to Shannon and ; Dublin via Aer Lingus Te- | m to oranta, the Irish air line. i Dublin is a great sprawling city of many parks, wiia a hand- some eiiport, ard you make the | trip in about an hour. The cit, | at this time of year is crowded! with thousands of visitors from all pa of America and Europe. | There are English and French and Americans in almost every hotel, and you're lucky if you; get a hotel room. I didn’t. mewhere along the line, my reservations had fouled up, bus in time the travel agent found me a “guest house”, with a big room on the third floor (the bath- native chara room two floors below).. But it was clean and comfortable, with piping hot water in the tub, and a splendid breakfast of grape- fruit, sausage, bacon and eggs, and the Irish kind of coffee (of | Party. which the less said the better) }emphatically, “I heard that Stra- the next morning. Among the visitors, one hears ;munist, though he doesn’t say interesting conversations, |so, declare over the radio that ithe Labor Party had raised the remarked to his|workingman’s standard of living, wife that “having spoken once |far beyond his wildest dreams. to a Fifth Avenue cop, anybody |So the next morning when my in ‘Ireland. | Bridget (the maid) came in an Irishman and jasked her ‘you must be quite gid- with that Irish}dy this morning. I understand some ‘ like that of the visiting New Yorker who would be at home Everybody's they all speak brogue.” is literally true, for the fact is that few other nationalities are to be seen or heard here. They have the same hard, common sense, and the same magnificient sense of humor Americans have always associated with them. Possibly because there are so many Irishmen in the States, the ter evidently likes the “Yanks”. He saw them often during the war, and he sees a ifew now. You are spotted the minute you speak — for there’s only one American accent. Conversations, in fact, make the trip. The only vacant seat on the plane as I stepped up the ramp in New York was an outside one, next to an elderly British lady, returning home after three months with her daughter in Jacksonville, Florida. Three her daughters had married in eight months, two to Americans whom they had met overseas during the war, the other to a South African, so all were away MONROE You will find only Quality TELEPHONE 411. 533 William Street William N. Knowles, Prop. MARKE At the Corner of Southard Street Foods when you shop at the Monroe Market .. . Staple and ‘Fancy Groceries, Fruits and Vegetables, and Our Prices Are As the Best Grades of Meats. Low As Possible Consistent With the Trend of the Market DO YOUR SHOPPING 611 FRANCIS ST., Near PAUL'S CASH GROCERY : PAUL HEFLIN, Owner HERE FOR VALUES & it. Corner of Southard St This Store has no connection . overcharge. We believe our prices are right. |$ ket for the best the market affords. ee ii aa \8 WE DELIVER ORDERS + Cream 4c=45¢ Selected Stuffed 10-02. Jar OLIVES . 50¢ Sliced No. 242 Can Peaches..3le MILFORD Whole Kernal No, 242 Can CORN .. 21e Can Libby's Vienna @ DAYTON you can hove 8 15 e C "4 § I O mene someon 1 SAUSALE . LIC for bw kitchen and Beye ae Gn lo coc cty onto OLD GLORY . troubles ‘ree and guaran Black Eye No. 2 Can giving the same dependable . i ts tell you how the low cost will obmexe (y be justined wany tnics. With 18@-Gallon Tank $105.00 | CREAMERY = %4-lb. Prints With 28-Galion Tank 120.00 No Down Payment Pay Ouly 35.50 A Month Pierce Bros. PHONE 270 Fleming and Elizabeth Streets BUTTER tb, 74e U.S. No. 1 WHITE POTATOES 5 Ibs. 25c or Market in Key West. It is overated as an independently- owned business. We try to mind our own business and en- deavor to the best of our ability to supply our customers with the BEST of STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES and TOP- QUALITY MEATS, FRUITS and VEGETABLES. We do not GEORGE’ GROCERY PROMPT FREE DELIVERY CHRIS HABERLAND, Owner 1500 Newton Street PHONE 714 “We Reserve the Right to Limit Quantities on All Items” a A LG with any other Grocery Store VISIT this mai CALL 493 ONE BLOCK FROM NORTH BEACH INN Fresh GROUND POUND MEAT .... 39c RAISINS 25¢ Welch GRAPE Qt. Btl JUICE . . 59¢ RUSSELL’S_ Grapefruit No. 2 Can Sections . 15e ana Top BUNCH Carrots .. 10¢ Standard Pack Can Tomatoes 17e Monarch or Maxwell House Coffee. . Ib. 45c Dreft or Vel 32¢ of | HE KEY WEST CITIZEN Florida, had been ill. A delightful conversationalist, my seat companion was frank in her dislike for the British Labor “Humph,” she declared di to the people who work hem—consist principally of red catie-spotted with white, the héad ‘huch: like a Hereford. The ‘rom home—and the youngest, in }are alout 50 acres, the Pemisine kat of A ate estates broken up jsaid, “is 20 years behind the borer’s cottage rents for one shil- and détribut times. On my farm I’ve been | ling a week—about working as far as possible. with machinery — of course, you can|man_ prospers. not get much these days, any- PAGE FIVE —— eer “Agriculture here,” during the war and after,” aa old Irish revoutionary told me (he had fought with the Irish Revolutionary Army for years” against the British and had sery~ ed 12 jail terms for it; he isnow he [Rent, for instance. The farm la- 25. cents. And this is not increased if the How about factory and other rest am a v: 's—so! 7 L fi showil a xeciety of hn Be where—but believe me, myjwages? Skilled craftsmen re-/a member of the Irish govern- chey — he’s practically a Com- Ayrspre ancestry. neighbors all think I’m positive-|ceive for a 44 hour week (the 40,|ment) “have expressed surprise Beel sugar (beets) and pota- ly mad.’ 44 or 48 hour weck being set by |that we didn’t ‘come to the aid toes ae the principal crops, al- though Frank Gallagher, govern- and former secretary to Prime in Dublin that Ireland is, despite the. hécessity. for substitutions, self sufficient in raising all her own meat, milk, grain and sugar. from Mr. Strachey’ that your leaps and bounds.’ “Ah, yes, said Bridget, ‘and with it, we cawn’t even make ends meet as well as we did un- der Churchill.” She decried England’s present experiment with socialism and is sure that the workingman as well as weal- thier people will eventually toss it out. like the bankers. tight,” he declared. “Now if they’d only be after going into the vault wance ivery month or so With a spade and turning over the money and spreading it owt a bit, I’m sure we'd all be hap-j ‘pier. But all they do is go in jthere wans in a long while and | shift the coins just to hear ’em jangle. “And as for you,” he said, “you Americans, if you’d just ship us| over a few of your dollars, we'd all be happier still. Aye, sure an’ The farmer on the bus from Limerick to Shannon looked for all the world like a red-faced American agriculturist who spends days in the sun. The cattle in the all fields, he said with a grin which! We've got thé money to buy, but showed odd teeth missing, were a; We don’t have the dollars. An’ Irish shorthorn. |dollars it takes.” 1 its own beef, but! On-the Shannon ‘Dublin plane, with no (a DC-3). my seat companion was a gentleman farmer from Limer- lijick, a former British army of: cer assigned to Eisenhowe! assorted”, to develop The sm attempt strains. state-wide purebred herds in the fiel gummed STOP ond SHOP ot ( WING LEE’S crn PHONE Duval and Angeia Sts. Ve ee TUN COCWUUU TT OCC UUCCTTC WV ONS . 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Well, farm ‘per cent. labor on the average, receives:For exampie hotels are not per- approximately 55 shillings week (about from section to section, from a newspapers complain of the stale high of 60 shillings in the area bread sold in the stores. Short- near Dublin, to a low of 50 in'ages of fuel restrict rail trans- some of the other areas. VICTORY Pound 52c GRADE"A” LARGE DOZ. EGGS .... 59 GUARANTEED TENDER BONELESS BEEF POUND ROAST . . . 46¢ GRITS. . Ib. 5c All-Good Tomato 46-Oz. Can Sauce 3 cans 19¢ | JUICE. . . . 23e rden-Fresh Choice Quality Fruits & Vegetables PHONE ORDERS ACCEPTED FOR DELIVERY Archer’s Grocery “The Store That Serves You Best” 814 Fleming Street Phones 67 and 47 We Close Every Thursday at Noon FRYERS. . 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