The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 3, 1947, Page 3

ee PSIG ee ee ER TPA SE RET ET RR” * .. Laen Dem Ikke Ut ya Copyright 1947, Maso Rossiter Smith) CRAADLARAEA NNR n hd tin nena nahadabandani wa ty ety Oslo, August 26. ' re practically unresisted German in R ~ derstandable only j ilk wi i y¥ if you talk with N. ive i Norway. They are a solid, civilized te i Hoge knew. the British he northern pe through the g; and although they knew the ore ‘through; to prosecute the. oat ever dreamed of ' trotible betweén’ t of the Scaiidinavian war .with Germany. For there the two countries, ly relations with Russia a: the United Slates. An "4 have all but ‘restored theirk coutitry to its pre-war! condi. _- tion. ‘ HERSEL THOMPSON Excépt that there is rationing FUNERAL SERVICES —severe rationing of almost ev: | ery commodity. While Denmark has a’ surplus of eggs, when a Funeral services for are in small quantity and with 31, after a short illness. will be Wigie cd of gPr ious) ration. held tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 ing theok ob . VORWAY'S: fish- o'clock in the First Baptist wills oA. the her production of Church, Rev. Nichols officiating. The . re is plenty to eat: The body will be placed in the average Norwegian, though church at 2 p. m. Burial will be he. grumbles a bit, thinks he is in the family plot in City rene sad Podge off than after the Cemetery, under. the direction of iberation. He can’t understand, Pritchard Funeral Home. for example, why — if he can Bet a suit of clothes and a pair he can. Permission for a@ car, in- of shoes under. rationing—it | is eidentally, is given only. to doc- impossible to buy shirts and tors; nurses, government offici- sotks. But three years ago hé als and people engaged in bus- had mor assurance of getting iness which. the government either food or clothing, “even if considers vital. you have the tickets,” Prices in general have been He is a little worried about maintained at the 1945 level, food fdr this winter, for 1947's atid to accomplish this, the gov- dry het summer has reduced errheft has sought, indirectly, the: nation’s. harvest by about 55 to controt wages. Labor disptites to 60 per cent. That means less which cannot be settled between bread, less meat, fewer dairy unions and employers must be products, all of*which are scarce Handed over to compulsory la- already. And phe is burning bor courts, whose decision is fi- wood ftom thégorests to heat his nal. Actotding to a Labor par- home. You see firewood stacked ty leader, these courts seek to up outside, all over ‘Oslo, éveri maintain apioximately to samé outside the hotels. Coal import: wage level. But labor in some ed from Poland, the United industiies has got out of hand— States atid England is hoarded principally in construction —and for reécessary industry all the government plans new Jegis- others burn wood. lation placing a definite wage “What is the procedure with conti‘ol over wages, to get build- this?” I asked one Oslo busi- ing prices down. { nessman, showing him.the ration I asked a Labor chief if the card handed me at the passport program of his party was coii- control when I came through parable to England’s. His reply customs. “That,” he said with a was that Norway maintains a grin, “you will hand over to balanee between — nationalized me, because you don’t need ‘it. industry and- private enterprise, No ration coupons are required and explained it this way: The in thé restaurants—the idea is to railways have been state owned attract toiyist trade. Yowp'd for years—becuse they had to use this only if you Stayed iff a be developed bq public funds, as private home. I’d appreciate it’ private investors would not if". . well, it wotfid help me*take the*® risk. Development of out quité a lot in my rdtions.” hydro-electric power fin But éven in restaurants, your whieh Norway now has_ the “eoffee cream” is thin milk, and greatest utideveloped potential ofteh there is no sugar. ef afiy cotintty in Europe) was It is perhaps typically Nor- also placed wider government wegidh that there is practically owWriership years ago. In_ the fd bla¢k market. One redson is same way; motion picture hous- ‘that the six ledding political es throughdut the Country are parties were able to agree on a owned by the municipalities. reconstruction program imme- “We do not anticipate any fur- diately after. liberation. ther nationalization.” he said, Another reason is the way the “but rather to promote a blend- Norwegians go about their con- ing of government and private trols; Fhe procedure is affirm- industry such as we have now.” ative rather than negative, as in This is definitely not the viéw many other countries. For ex- of he Conservative party. One ample, on entering some nations, member, an editor of a leading the traveller is: warned not to newspaper recalled that the ehange his money in the black Labor party is “trying to sneak matket, and that severe penal- nationalization of industry in ties will follow if he does. through the baek door.” He op- As you go through customs at poses the many government Oslo’s airport, ydu cannot miss controls in industry, because alatge sign, . printed in several {‘thty ar holding us back. Pri- laingyages, ‘whish’ tells you .tHat vate dAdustry, since, the Libera- the Pas “iate.¢ ve “¢ity does’ mot* tion, KasisHowh ‘what it ¢an do.” leave for several minutes and Althotgh production now is that you have plenty of time to back to the 1939 level, Norway's change your money at the gov- preséfit situation in foreign ex- ernment office in the air termi- change is due, her people say, nal. “This is for your conveni- to her shipping. “We are the ence.” carriers of the world.” At least Although the Labor party 80 per cent of her merchant (cotnpatable to the British La- ships never touch Norwegian bor party) came into powér in ports—but travel instead from 1935 and has met with rising nation to nation throughout the opposition sihce, the Consérva- world. This operation has aided tive, Christian, Former, Liberal dollar exchange in some degree, and Communist parties were but since most of the traffic is able to agree with the Labor with Eutopean countries, the ex- majority (now about 53 per change is principally in pounds cent) on a “political truce.” sterling, which helps little in the They speak of it proudly now, purchase of American _machin- for it tmade thé presefit recon- ery—a real necessity to restore struttion possible. But the hon- and maintain Norwegian indus- and the Conser- try. moon is over, ; pi The hatred of the Germans is vativés now believe that their own stars is in the Coifimuhism has lost ground— decording to the Labor party. ——— vasion of Norway is un- h HAD to stop the flow of iron ore from Sweden } many, down the only possible all-weather sea route from h peninsula a! orth Sea and eventually such See the Germans HAD to get wor—the Norwegians, gen ad ,. Today, unlike many éther Europedi nations, ions: do not fale of another Wet. Théy dre trying to menateny Siele. well as Western Europe, Britain and And’ With customary’ determination, they — ups and TOMORROW P.M, The moment the: Gérmans are ' Hersel Norwegian home gets eggs, they Thompson, 59, who died October acendant. more intense here than in any ay | “signumnatauvauvsaviseddeaseeninntvnavdenteaueneatndanveeteenevanennagangseasivaseeestcnsnnigctaoesetonavanntsetti, | jeu ee, PAGE THREE ja tame eee me noe naeeyeree re mesquite <1 = diplomatic recognition of Russia. fope, use veto in Unit- ed Nations and open 7 m anti-U.S. campuign in : : * controlled press, AP Newsfedtures downs have been characteristic at Twettieth Century relations between the United States sid Beth Czarisi atid Soviet Russia.. This chart suggests major trends. a + Pa rN Pée-Wee. . mentioned, the Norwegian liter- : The Picker fortable to be bombed trom the Picks Peek PDQ fortablé to be bombed from the ENATCHEE, Wash.— air,” one person will tell yeu; “I ' dot’t mean to minimize what ee ‘ (AP). = Patil (Pee : Wee) Coble is consjdéred quite a other countries ee ee thru: +, But oceupation is i.” , fan with ah apple here: iced 461 The treatment the Germans! abouts, since he pic gave the Norwegians rankles in: & P every heart—the shootings, the | boxes of the‘ Delicious va- tiety ith 4 10*hour day and ready corruptibility of the Na-| tety th a 10: zis who would grant special fa- Put - @ claim: fot the world record. , vors to any who would supply | ; , ieee = them with food and wine, the | * His employer, A:\L. Syl- cofistant contfrols:of every phase | an a * of Norwegian life has left them ' enraged even now. { | “Before te war,” one man told | me, “Ihad a number of good bus- |: iness friehds in Germany. Dur: | ing té occupation fot one of : them so much as wroté a letter | to ask hew I was getting along. ! Not that I would have answer-. ed—I should have sent their let-} ~ ters and gifts back, if they had been ieceived. But now that Germany is in ruins, I get letters | from these people bégging for food. Most of them'I don’t ‘afis-| afid said the boxes were well wer, but ofié rade ine sb afigry; filled and the fruit carefully that f did. I told him that, after! hardied. = ~ what his people had done to my + Figuririg 125 apples to the country, Iwas sorry but:I could’ box, Coble was handling the not sympathise with him at all.” fruit at the rate of some 5.- HERBERT HOOVER'S (Continued From Page One) plates wheré I am oh public record, ‘ “I had not thought hitherto that it was worthwhile making any public denial as few people ‘would have believed that I said atly such thing. However, Mr. 'Shallett’s statement is having some repetition in the press and I am writing you to keep the réeord straight.” Interesting Notes Corn was the chief agricut- {tural trop of Maine for 200 years; , ‘other country I have visited. Tungsten wire ean be drawn ‘so fine that a pound of it would stretch 950 miles. ! — ' | The population of the United States more than trebled _ be- ‘tween 1870 and 1930: vester, vouched for the total | Molybétenum, with a melting point of 4,750. degrees, is one of the most difficult metals to melt. | Old records show that be- {tween 1674 and 1714, a total of ,1332 vesséls were built in this I have heard the same story 750 apples an hour. or 96 a, country. ‘from many others. : minute, This aodsn't allow fot | Relations. with Sweden, were! the time é ¢6f8iiiéd iff | ‘Anchorage, Alaska, grew. a bit strained after the war, oni moving, climbing and de- from 3,500 people in 1939 io actouht of thé lattet’s wartithe; seending -his 12-feot ladder. 10,000 people during World War neutrality (“they . didh’t act; Coble is a ptéfessi@ial II. quite like brothers, did they?)| Picker who “follows , = 5 plus the fact thdt Swedén “‘per- | iit” ond says he's tiso the.-afple sunichiniy crown ; was Hénry Wooten who ac- céunted for 425 boxes in nine and e half hours. | mitted the Germans to send a, the Worlds Ehathpibii-. 6tafige million troops aeress her eoun-/- Platcker. m. try into Norway, and a million; |. The’ previou back again, for a revérivie of 25 |” — million kroner to Sweden; while we suffered at the othér end.” But this sentiment is gradually breaking down. eae Relations with Denmark; on the other hand, directly improv- ed with the war, for- the Danes, who had plenty ef food, shipped many packages of foodstuffs. in | to Norway. “We didn’t get along | together so well before the war,” you hear them say, “but this kindness we shall never forget.” The general sentiment seems to be that another war cannot | come for some time, (1) because | no nation ean afford it and (2) | “after all, the Russians have al- | ways been hard to understand, | even under the Cats.” | But the most impressive de- | scription of Norway's position | comes from a political léader. | “There is no question,” (he , said, “as to where our hearts | lie. But we feel we must be | friends with. America ‘ahd Bri- | tain and ‘with ‘Russia as | well.’ You” sev; it’sia“ matter offourtze- | J ographical position.” pj | The telephone’ poles and the | towers which suport the electric power lines for the railways are | all quite close to the tracks— | | | | # s claimant -to - ew BS. | 88I ‘ stuoio CHEST . estéd. and roved Senne Kote® ——antictamish—included we so close that one could actually | —— reach out a train window ahd ty OVEIDA LTD, touch them,, if he dared. The Jiversmiths ‘cuts’ through the hills, where the tracks lie, are likewise so nar- *Trade-marks C row that one could touch the | stone walls. For this reason, the “Don't stock your feck out.” | Céitie Ta and choose yout pattern in our Silver » Service of the Stors... the service that gives During the California gold | rush in the last century, Corne- | 5! lius Vanderbilt operated a line | More Fer Your SILVER Dollar, too. More pieces of river boats and stage coaches ; “. ‘ to take gold seekers across. 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