The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 8, 1947, Page 8

ay Pod : f “s E GR EIGHT es Tickets (Copyright 1947, Mason Rossiter Smith) To Reduce Fare ee eee | To Havana Ki timetables, it strikes you at! (Special to The Citizen) wen peut stortienecsing yourstny . . 7 | MIAMI, Nov. 8.—National Air- “™ once as rather strange that the train journey from Brussels li is fill de ation to The Hague should require over five hours. Especially after pee see 5 ee . ‘ ‘ ' with the CAB to reduce passen- you have just beer? talking with people who have driven a car, orl farcabenicen aia send this short distance in not more than two hours. But the reason ja yana py fos dperrcentuie wan becomes apparent when you train chugs into Esschen, on the announced today by H. C. Dobbs, Belgian: side of the border. vice president, traffic. <* Ifyou are fortunate enough to have a seat in the “pullman"} National will offer a round- (first class parlor car), you sit for about an hour, waiting for trip excursion fare beginning the customs and immigration officials to come through. Mean-, pees avin Sian ates jad 5 while, what appears to be a mass evacuation of all the second pany maintains service between id third class cars, people will all their baggage, large and Miami and the Cuban capital small, steaming past your window into the station, turns out ta with a fleet of four-engine, DC-4 be the usual rush to the customs. Sometime later an immi-! Buccaneers, on a one-hour, 16- gration official comes through the first class cars, casually minute schedule. ¢hecking the passports, and in a few moments the customs offi-| The present one-way fare be- cer appears. He asks each first class passenger quietly and tween the two cities is $20. The ¢ourteously if you have anything to declare. He doesn’t bother round trip excursion fare would to look at your luggage. i pearsall, first class passengers cre be $30. expected to be peculiarly honest. . - - ‘In the meantime, you have seen a customs official, who ceived from Belgium and Amer- has been examining the other travelers, step along the platform em eee with a fistful of new nylons of which he has apparently relieved as jack of industr ma tuel some unfortunate, unwise or unwary passenger [eee coerce cone oem eer ENg «40, f ‘i .,| peat for some purposes—has held + After awhile, the train rolls on across the border, where it up production for lrome consump- stops again at Rosendaal, on the Dutch side. Here the same tion as well as export. ppeUEnP:| procedure repeats itself all over again—the same crowds lug- larly, lack of fuel has caused i | ging their baggage out of the second and third class cars into ‘Nat. Airline | vere shortages in building mate- station for customs, and about another hour is consumed. | rials, and housing is extremely Inthe parlor car, eventually two smartly uniformed youths in! acute. ‘ khaki ‘come through to stamp the Fear: node They have time| The average Hollander, with- to joke a bit with you—and their American slang is good—be-'°Ut enough to eat or enough to fore the customs man arrives. He is a medium sized stocky ("17 blames much oi Healt éhgp with a ruddy complexion and white hair, qnd he goes into. Gonesian situation.” He is not @ conference with each passenger individually. He wants to sympathetic with any view which | rede i know—and has you write it down on a large form—how much holds that the rest of the world , money you are carrying in cash, foreign currencies dnd 'trav- has any right to interfere in the | eliers checks. If there is any possibility that you may have Javanese dispute. “4orgotten” some of the money you have ,he gives you—several Holland, a small country, has times—qnother chance with the courteous inquiry “Iss dat awl?” depended for her economic suc- He then tells you to stick the form in your passport, to return , C¢ss to a very large extent upon (when you leave the country, and inquires—a little worriedly, Hist gon ee Cal CRIN Ea Es Be yen!" nite . s res ae f hells thing 0 again, but there is no rubble, no nial trade might have been re- le doesn't bother to piles of debris anywhere. ‘The duced or wiped out within a rea loc your luggage. Lede eae sonable period of time. But colo. ‘Und to t’ink,” one Dutchman Dutch have cleaned it up. | nial troubles have prevented this, said to me as he passed by the’ “But over here,” my Dutch with the result that,the Dutch to- window, “dot we haff chust vawt friend pointed to a paved street day have little foreign exchange @.vawr vor freedom, no?” ,; without a single house, “right to buy things they need, not only Ghaeaea a (ake er ANS ve oss 12 year ! to rebuild but to live. ew blocks further along:! The average Dutchman feels “That wall—well, just a few doors ' that the mother country has done down there lived some German much for her colonial empire— officers. One was killed. Sothey and that she should reasonably went out into the streets and expect a return on her invest- picked up some passersby, ail ment. “Without that return,” one Dutcher, stood sem up against Hollander told me, “we are lost.” the wall and shot them down.” All that Holland can do now Your ne ening ro ee jis to sell as much goods abroad urious with plenty o! and a as possible to develop foreign string trio supplying dinner mu-' exchange. This is why the stores sic, but the domestie table is no- here are not as well stocked as where near so well supplied. For in Belgium, and why, on the black The gently rolling country of Belgium flattens out into a great level, plain almost as soon as you enter Holland. The land stretch- és, flat as a table-top before you, and-you can see for miles—a beautiful country of many-colored fields :in cultivation, grain, hay h of *% lend newly plowed. It is all interlaced with canals, almost all flanked by trees; and. every small farmhouse , black accessories, with a corsage 3 Schools Enroll In Junior Red Cross| Hundred Percent Division Street, Reynolds and; Harris Schools are the first of the city’s schools to report enrolling 100 per cent of the pupils as members of the Junior Red. i Cross, according ,to. the Key! West Chapter-of the -American Red Cross. Teacher-sponsors «for these schools ‘are Mrs. Leota Sumners and Miss Marie Haskins. Ot her schools report ‘that the enroll- ment is progressing well and that 100 percent enrollment is expected by ‘the end of next week. One of the hopeful things in this post-war world ‘is’ the ‘pro- gress of the American Junior Red Cross. Founded in 1917 it has been grown to a body of 19,- 000,000 strong. The theme of this organization is service and members are already busy on projects. Harris School and Poinciana School are making Thanksgiving favors for the patients of the Naval Hospital and the Muni- cipal Hospital. Janet Andrews, George Masten Wedded Here: Janet Andrews, daughter. of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. McGrail, and Chief George Masten, USN, were married at 10:30 a. m., Nov. 7, in .the First Presbyteriai Church. Rev. Melrose S. Avery ~ performed the ceremony. The bride wore a blue strect- length dress with black acces- sories. Her corsage was of yel- low mums. H Mr. and Mrs Stanley McGrail, brother and sister-in-law of the bride, served as best man and bridesmaid. The mother of the bride wore a bluc lace strect dress, with of pink roses. Vickie Andrews, small daughter of the bride, wore a white organdie dress. The bride is a native of Akron, Ohio, and is employed at the USN Ship Service office in Key West. The bridegroom, stationed at the USN. seaplane base, is a native of New York City. The couple left for a short honeymoon in Miami, and will return .to- their home at 115-F ‘her brother. Mrs. Laubscher’s | The ‘Weather Brother Is Dead. —--— FORECAST Word was received here early | today of the death at Evans- a brother of Mrs. W. H. Laub- scher, 408 Eaton street. Mrs. Laubscher, who is ill, cdes nh believe she can travel to Evans- ville to attend the funeral of and humid today; cooler Sun- day. Moderate to fresh south and southwest winds this afternoon :shifting to fresh, occasionally , Moderately strong northwest and !morth tonight and .Sunday. i Florida: Over north portion clearing and cooler this after- noon. Fair, colder tonight with lowest temperatures 36-40 in ex- treme north, with scattered frost in Tallahassee area. Sunday fair and cool. Over south portion showers and a few thunder- storms followed by clearing and Jr. Woman’s Club Business Meeting Mrs. Helen Schuck president, presided at the-regular monthly business meeting of the Junior Woman's Club held at the club house Tuesday evennng, Novem- ber 4. ) n The following officers were cool tonight. Sunday fair, sent: cooler, é aan Betty Saunders, vice’ East Gulf of Mexico and Jack- president; Mrs. Pauline Ketch- | S0nville through the Florida ings, corresponding secretary; | Straits: Over north ‘portion fresh Albury, recording, Po'therly winds this afternoon j and tonight diminishing and be- Miss Elayne secretary; Mrs. Anna Lounders, treasurer, and Miss _ Elissa! Moreno, director. | Members present included Mrs. Edith Winkle, Mrs. Faye Azbell day. Fair: weather” preceded by few showers and thunderstorms ‘early this afternoon. Over south ‘portion fresh’ winds, south . to Miss Ellie Rae Gwynn, Mi: ae Cora Lee Curry, Miss Virginia southwesterly, shifting ta north- Whitmarsh, Miss Sylvia San-} rly this afternoon and early to- chez, Miss| Mary Sellers, Mrs. ‘night and _ continuing through Laurita Michaud, Mrs. Kath- Sunday. Fair weather preceded erine Brown, Miss, Mary Min-| PY showers and few thunder- nery, Miss Ann. Kasuga, Miss | St0'ms this afternoon and early fe s comary | tonight. Louise Ketchum, Mrs. Rosemary , REPORT Nicholson, Mrs. Florence White, | Mrs. Kay Mercer, and Mts. | Key West, Fla., Nov. 8, 1947 up on the birds while they al Now Playing Thelma Ward. ‘Observation taken at 8:30-a.m.,4 feeding.’ i “OUTLAW TRAIL” A report was given by Mrs. Eastern Standard Time, “Since the songbirds provide Hoot Gibson Kay Mercer of the polio meeting City Office) ~ us not only with enjoyment enee - which she attended as a repre-| Temperatures which comes from their son Starting Sunday Highest yesterday Lowest last night Normal ess eee Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours. ending 8:30 a.m., inches ..-.... a Relative Humidity | 16% Tomorrow's Almanac (Eastern Standard Time) weverceeneeee—n-' 6339>8.M: . 5:43 p.m. sentative of the club. She out-) lined to the members the plans! which the polio campaign com- mittee has to raise funds this year. Miss Louise Ketchum, mem- bership chairman, reported that! the club has so far taken in 22 new members in its drive. Mrs. Wilhelmina Harvey, club sponsor, gave a short talk to the members. Plans v Sun) Suni outlined for the re coming year, and the president | Moons vr i ee named ‘chaimen to take care of = Ta Aan the work which the club will) ick TIDES _——————— Tomorrow = a Naval Base CITY COMMISSION (Eastern Standard Time) (Continued From Page One) High Low ed to the county solicitor. 7:21 a.m. 12:47. a.m: Carbonell: “Even though this is 7:33 pm. fDipimns a city election?” Lester: “Yes; the individual would be guilty of perjury.” Additional Tide Data Reference Station: Key West ‘Time of| Height of -+ugain an architecture quite dif- ferentifrom the country you have just left—has a tiny greenhouse, , its windows glistening in the sun- light, somewhere near. There ate scattered herds of cattle graz- | ing everywhere—most of these’ resemble our Holsteins, and they | 4re fat: The inherent tidiness of | the people is reflected in the way | thy stack their grain—every stack ; the same, in immaculate rows, | Stack with its small triangular | aperture at the center of the; base. _ Rotterdam comes as a surprise, for remembering the terrific bat-' tering the Germans gave it dur- | img the war—in which whole sec- | tions of the city were literally | levelled by the bombing—you ex- pect to find a shambles. Instead, ! aside from the charred and pock- | fmarked hulk of a church, you) will look hard from the train! window to find many standing ruins. The effect is hard to de- seribe either in words or photo- | Foye ice you have to see it. | the scene from the train is that! some of the areas look like pa tially developed residential tions in America; one large, fairl} old apartment block standing here, with a huge vacant space | next to it ,all grown up in grass and small shrubbery—as if the real estate promoters had run out of money and were waiting for a new construction boom. Actually what has happened is that the totally ruined structures have been torn down and_ the ground levelled. Those which could be repaired or rebuilt are either completed or in stages of ; construction. But the blank spaces in this large city leave you with a kind of awe. You see the same thing in The Hague. My principal contact here was a native, middle-class Dutchman, a lean and very short, handsome man of 60 years, the father of four children aged 21, 18, 17 and 12, We were walking in a section of the city, accidentally bombed by the Brit- \ She has the tickets. every kind of food except fresh vegetables, “You must have tic- ; kets,” and the tickets you are. permitted to have are not enough. “So you either buy tickets from somebody else who needs the, money, or you buy black. In ei- ther “case, if you get enough to eat, it is more than you can af- ford.” It is useless to compare costs in American dollars in the Unit- ed States and in Holland, for while in the American viewpoint’ the general level of costs is the same, the wage level is not. So whil the equivalent of $40 in Dutch guilders, for a man’s suit of clothes, or $4 for a cheap pair of shoes, $5-$10-$15 for a wom-) an’s dress or $40 for her coat do not seem excessive to the Ameri- can, these prices are exorbitant for the Hollander. Exorbitant not only in the original place, but also because the average family does not have enough “tickets” to buy all the clothes required. So they either buy tickets or “buy black” hich in either case is more ex- rbitant still. i As an example, a young teacher in a primary school earns 100 guilders a month. Her total month's salary buys her a dress, a coat, and a pair of shoes—if And she has no money left. ul Rent for a decent middle class home—if you can find one in this devastated country—is about 500 to 700 guilders per year. At the official rate of exchange (2.63 guilders to the dollar) this works }out at about $190-$267 per year |for a comfortable home, large enough for a family of six. But it becomes very expensive on a | salary of 4500 to 7000 guilders a | year. Coal is scarce—again you must resort to the black market to ob- tain enough—and since there is little central heating in Holland, it is costly to burn, because a sin- gle fireplace in every room re- quires more coal than a central ‘plant. In fact, coal appears to be one of Holland’s — and europe’s — ish. They had intended to de- stroy a section of the city occu- pied by the Germans, but dropped their eggs on a_ civilian Dutch area instead. The result—in one raid—was the almost complete devastation of an area nearly half a mile square. Other sections of the city, bombed by the Germans, are comparable. As you walk through these ‘areas, you can see a few shells of buildings or churches standing, and an occasional basement now open to the air. Here and there are stacks of bricks from the ruins, the old mortar all chipped aff, the bricks ready for se greatest needs. Industry is al- | most entirely dependent upon it, 'as is heating for homes. The problem is partially solved in Italy—and almost entirely over- come in Switzerland — through development of hydroelectric power. But in the flat countries, | such as France, Belgium and Hol- land, there is no available water power. Coal was shipped here {from k...'a id, Germany and Bel- gium before the war to supple- | ment Holland’s small output from her own small mines, Now no ‘coal comes from Germany, very Vittle from Fngland. Some ir re market, an American is invited Poinciana. (quietly) to trade his dollars for guilders at the rate of four guild- ers to the dollar—nearly twice the | official rate. The Holander is not at all sat- | isfied—if he is the father of a working class family, he envies the middle class, who can afford to “buy black.” If he is a middle class citizen he pities the work- man, but envies the shopkeeper. “The shops,” he declares, “are making enormous profits.” But the shopkeeper, while he pities the workman and the salaried man, complains about taxes. “The more you take in, the more pro-; Bressively exorbitant the taxes.” But support for the govern- ment appears to be solid. It is a coalition of the Catholic and, i Labor parties, which account for where they were prisoners. ‘ over 60 per cent of the vote. Com-| On entering the Hague,. one is| munism is growing, principally | imprassed by the wide, tree- among the lower income groups, flanked main throughfares, and and its present strength is placed the low buildings — apartments. at about 12 per cent. as compared office buildings, and all struc- with 2 to 5 per cent before the tures but churches appear io war. be smaller here, than in southern The position of the royal fam-: Europe. But there is a substan- ily is secure, although there. tial, sojid, « built-on-ygck appear- | seems to be some disposition inj ance to Dutch building, which is some quarters to criticize Queen; reflected. in the, jnteriors. The; Wilhelmina for leaving Holland ! steeply sloping: tile roofs, the solid! in time of war. Prince Bern-'!stone or brick buildings with hard, husband of Crown Prin-' their heavy ponderous-looking cess Juliana, was extremely; furniture and neat Dutch tile popular during the war for the: inside, have the appearance of part he played as an active sol-' being built to last for years— dier against Germany, which is|as many of them have. his native country, | Bievele traffic is enormous— . But some Hollanders criticize, far in excess of the automobiles him sevely for what they de-|—and it is an experience to scribe as bad mistake” after; duck your way across the street the war was over. He met his; among the bikes in the morning brother, a German who had’ to-work rush. The trains here. fought on the Nazi side, injas everywhere, are jammed to Switzerland after Germany had; the doo! 1 been defeated. This feeling a= There is good humor, hope. | understandable only when you | and cheerfulness in the midst of | realize the bitter hatred of the this very grim life—for most of | Dutch toward the Germans, not; the Dutch. But they are sick of | only for the terrible destruc- | “ticket: diers gave Dutch children hand grenades to play with. This comes from an anxious mother who had brought her son out of Scheveningen, a beach spa near The Hague, to see the fire- works last night. Having been : given a hand grenade tossed it to a playmate and seen him blown to bits. Now, several years afterward, his mother feared last night’s fireworks might unnerve him. Among the daytime crowds at this same beach are a few weal- thy Jews who have served time in Nazi concentration camps. They still wear the brands inte their flesh indicating the’ camp tion they wrought but also for “We will have Nazi treatment of Netherlar't' Hollander told me civilians during the occupation. | “for at least’ two more ye; An example of the treatment! And we've had them now since Mayor Demeritt to Commis- sioner L. Carbonell: “I think you should have the honor of es- corting my replacement at next) Tuesday's meeting. When you} bring him to my desk, I shall shake his hand, congratulate him and give him the gavel, but nev-| ertheless, tell him “I’m sorry for you. Someone will probably call you up at 12 tonight asking that a dead cat be removed.” The commission will hold an- other meeting Monday at 5 p. m to conclude all pending routin business matters before the new | commission assumes office at 12} noon Tuesday, Nevember 11. New commission will meet in| an inaugural mecting at 8:00} o'clock that night. Apples have been cultivated in Great Britain since the time of the Roman occupation. A synthetic cinnamon taste has been made from oat hu D Lubricate chass is the story that German sol- +1941." TELEPHONE 1314 | Announcing the OPENING of Marion's CASA CAYO HUESO BEAUTY SALON “Southernmost House in U.S.A.” 1400 DUVAL STREET eExpert Hair Tinting oe y ¢Personalized Permanents NOVEMBER eHair Cutting Styling — Corrective Facials “Exclusive but Not Expensive” * bearings O Tune-up engine OC Adjust brakes wt Station— Tide |high water Bahia Honda —Ohr. (bridge) 10min. 0.0 ft. No Name Key +2hr. (east side) ___20 min. Boca Chica —Ohr. (Sandy Point) 40 min. Valdes Channel +2hr. (north end) —10 min, +1. ft. 000 i (NOTE: Minus sign-—correc- tions to be subtracted. Plus sign—corrections to be added.) EE) SOUTHERNMOST Custom Hatters Cleaning and Blocking FELT and PANAMA HATS 302 ANGELA STREET (Near Thomas) 1 Change engine oil O Replace oil filter CO Refill transmission CO Refill differential (1 Repack and adjust front wheel use —_—_—__ €—_—_ Monroe Motors, Inc. 1119 White Street Phone 725 | ‘ f i Key West and Vicinity: Show- ‘the birds that have come down | ville, Ind., of Fred Steinmetz, 75, © and thunderstorms this af-rto us this season are the kinds " ‘ ternoon and- tonight; clearing protected by ing Sunday. Continued warm| laws. In other words, they are | {coming moderate to fresh Sun-| 86} but are invaluable to the farr 79! and to all of us by killing insects e on plants which provide us with PTTTITIVDT Tir rrr | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1947 AUDUBON SOCIETY = fod and clothing, and on (Continued From Page Gne) _; flowering plants, your earnest West is blessed with many more , poperayon in protecting them is birds than usual. [eels 3 “With hardly any exceptions, | CARD OF THANKS Words cannot fully express eur thanks to the neighbors and friends for their many acts of kindness and words of sympathy following the death of our loved one, George Wilson. Also do we wish to thank the donors of floral tokens and those atate and federal not game birds that hunters are permitted to shoot in proper sea- son. It is illegal to shoot or mo- ; lest songbirds and other non- [game varieties. Offenders who, who donated the use of their break the laws protecting them | ¢ may be punished. nové-1tx THE FAMILY. ““ ‘We have a good chance to |°— keep the birds in Key West for; *A**#**#*AASAASABAAD the enjoyment of the people who; DON’T BE BASHFUL? like to watch them and hear, WE WILL SERVE AT ALL their songs. Notably, we have, TIMES—LARGE or SMALL! many more mockingbirds than! c Tires Go Flat? usual. There are also many of ar Needs Grease, Spray the small warblers. | or Battery Charged? “They will make our city! You Need Groceries or Meat? pleasanter, not only for those Phone 1178 - Free Delivery who tive here the year round, ; JANE and SHINE but for the tourists who find} them a_ delightful attraction. 1502 BERTHA STREET Shooting at them or throwing Road Service PAX 2° wvvvvvvvvvvvveVeTe rocks at them, even if they are not .hit, will drive them away. Birds are wise and soon learn’ to leave places where they are bothered. One small boy with a slingshot can spoil the pleasure of many, many other people who enjoy seeing the birds, | * “We ask that pupils encour- age the birds by putting out pans of fresh water during dry weath- er, and that food, such as bread, raisins, and seeds, be placed out. 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