The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 10, 1947, Page 8

ae AGH EIGHT ~ stint bn tntntintndl God Til Sidste Draabe (Copyright 1947, Mason Rossiter Smith) \MABAAABAAADAADAAADASAAAASAAAAAAAAAS, | they realize all the rest of the world will be involved. “If we have another war,” you hear them say, “then there is no use for us to attempt to rebuild and restore now, for in the next war every- ! ' ‘wwe America and Russia, in which Copenhagen, August 23. {thing will be gone.” THE EBV WEaT CITIZEN who might be inclined to expand their factories are reluctant to do so, for if they make more money they have only to give it to the government. “And furthermore, expansion iof plant means expansion of all here are so high that many, men. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1947 250,00074 | - ; pos INFLUENZA CYCLE ' Official Opening . | Of Edison Home The City of Fort Myers is send+ ing out invitations to the official opening of the Thomas Alva Edi- {NOT that it's important, but it illustrates the red t ‘plexity and regulation which restrict the flow of commerce in Europe in these times. I had just passed through the customs at Amsterdam's Schipol airport, and was sitting in the waiting , the com-' Sometimes this sentiment is re- the problems of raw materi t h - ial flected in a grim kind of humor. shortages, labor shortages, A Throughout Copenhagen are air senteism and so on.” 4 id shelters, which — th azis i raid shelters, whic! ie. Nazis The food situation has become room awaiting my plane to Copenhagen. I had a few Dutch i inci mewinieas ders left, oa eked than peteetl with me and go through ' eee ee Catan aoe rigmarole of exchanging so small a sum in Denmark, I de-| dugout, partially sunk in the cided to spend them on coffee, sandwiches and ice cream. At; ground, and covered by earth on this moment, the passenger is, so to speak, in a kind of No Man’s/ top. There are stairways leading Land, for he has been “checked out” of the country, to await, down, and large ventilators on arrival in another. It therefore follows that it must be possible| top, but they appear to be so to buy food in this "No Man's Land” waiting room restaurant} lightly built that a sizable bomb with any nation’s currency, including the Dutch and it is so. miles coe cise Haden In a few moments a pleasant, stocky, white-haired Dutch ae pe id ber against machine: waiter appeared, with a huge tray of boxes of world-famous! gun fire. Dutch chocolate. He offered me one package for one dollar} Thi De eiaie untearing uth American, or five shillings British, but when I asked if he would CS cdivenas panes dpa “ down now, all over the city. I take ‘the ible, | remarked about it one day to a he said. Holland, ration coupons would 80 far. * * * Jane has been called in Dutch, French and English, fe moments you are aboard. The big four-mtored easily into the air, and one of the most magnifi- Your and in a. Douglas rises cent panoramic views in ali o! beautiful combination of tidy Dutch houses and small farms, fea with Holland's famous system of canals, the sea far yond to the west and north. of the map you suddenly realize that you town, isa Germany, indeed. Thence over the water to glide easily and comfortably» down at Copenhagen, one of ‘s handsomest cities, very attractive from the air. siavir, visited Denmark once before, 20 years ago, and having entertained Danes in my own home in America in later year: Isdo not deny a love and admir tion for Denmark which ex- ceeds perhaps the affection I have fer any other country but my ewn. It may thus be a hit diffi- guilt to view the country objec- tively, but I do think that the Danes, among the many pcoples pf this troubled continent, pos+ sess a way of life which demands respect. They are determined and industrious, they. are inher- ently friendly and kind and they+ aré doing a rather splendid job of making the best of an admit- fedly difficult situation. They are @ wonderful people. Denmark, home of world-fa- mous Danish butter, Royal Copen- hagen china and Georg Jensen silver, and chief steward to Great Britain for bacon, eggs and dairy oducts for many years, has long foun an important agricultural pation., She has today enough food for her people, but nearly all ef it is rationed. You discover this the moment you pass through fow on for upon inquiry as ‘to ww long you propose ot stay in nmark, the clerk hands you enough food coupons to carry ou through. Generally speaking, he Danish diet is normally much the same as ours, with a great deal of meat. But at the moment, meat is severely ratione Denmark turns to the with her long shoreline supplies the meat deficiency with fish. And butter—a Danish produc must be supplemented with mar garine. Because butter and pork are important export items, these are ey - rationed in Denmark, jor she needs the foreign ex- ¢ghange. So badly, in fact, that Panish dairy products, by agree- ment with England, are sold to the British at less’ than the cost ef production, the balance being made up by Danish government subsidy to the farmers. The Danes are distressed by this situation, but as one businessman remarked to me one day, “the British have us in a pinch.” In order to ob- tain the raw materials and ma- ehinery she needs for her indus- try, Denmark must: sell food products to Britain. But nego- tiations are going forward in Lon- don now, looking forward to a price increase in Danish dairy products. “If there were a market for our products elsewhere,” the Dane will tell you, “we could get at least twice as much for our food .. +» But we need the terials which only Br supply, since we have practically ; is empha- American compared countries The latter condition sized by lack of new ears in Denmark, as with ‘other European visited on this tour. Importation the Russian creed has little sup- available. Aside from food and | of an American automobile is dif- ficult, because the government prefers to spend what dollar ex- change is available for machin- ery, raw materials and other mer- chandise which will help to re- store Danish industry. The same is true of gasoline, which costs about 60 cents per gallon and is severely rationed. Tires are very hard to obtain—again the result of the foreign exchange situation, But perhaps the most. seriors ! ivalent in Dutch guilders, he refused. Im; lere, 15 steps from the customs, and still in I could buy Dutch chocolate only with foreign currency, be-; cause (1) it is for expert only, and (2) even if I could buy it in’ For the first time, this sunny day, you begin to realize how eniall in area some of Europe's most important nations are, as the KLM stewardess (the service on Holland's "Flying Dutch- man” airline is excellent and much like ours) hands you a map of the air route you are to travel. on each side, but as you look down from 9,000 feet but nearly every island and small harbor from the air. It beautiful journey, over land and sea, part of the route over whose farms in this section from the air are beautiful lolland, be required. So near and yet { Europe spreads out below, a} all It is a large card, with a part can recognize not only every and the Danish islands, finally effect of the “dollar shortage” lies in raw materials. On Danish wharves and in fenced-in ware- houses there are tons of raw ma- terials shipped heye from Amer- ica ‘and England and unloaded in- to storage to await payment in dollars. Some of this stock—all of it badly needed: by Danish in-| dustry—has been warehoused | near the docks in Copenhagen for as long as two years. The Danes was, “Well, you see, we HOPE there won’t be another war.” One of Amreica’s leading pho- tographic magazines recently pub- lished an editorial indicating the possibility, in the near future, of a United States of Europe. On the basis of conversations I have had over here. including Den- mark, I think this possibility is very remote. Granted—as all Eu- ropeans do—that some sort of Eu- ropean federation would wipe out many of the continent’s present economic and political difficulties (th etwo are very closely allied), there are “too many old _tradi- tions, too many petty jealousies, too many languages and custom: over too many long, long year: There is also the question of c lonial policy. With a_ United States of Europe, they all agree, it would be possible to develop mass production, for markets would be much larger with the elimination of national borders, customs duties, etc. But they are not so sure that mass production would be successful over here anyhow. A young Danish businessman who has visited America several times, and who now heads an im- portant Danish textile factory in Copenhagen, puts it this, way: “In America,” he said, “you produce the goods in tremendous volume, which enables you to are unable to'use it for lack of dollars, and often they must stand by to see it re-shipped to Sweden or some other country which has the dollars required. Some of this merchandise has come from England, which de- mands payment in dollars be- cause the British paid for it in dollars and also need the dollar exchange. From the political standpoint, Denmark is also concerned about the Schieswig problem, It will be remembered that a part of the. Schleswig area of Denmark, ad- jacent to Germany, was captured by the Germans in 1864. Some | to whom we sell our goods comes ! in and orders a special design, in} a special color, with exact specifi- , part of it was restored after World War I, but the feeling con- tinues to exist in some quarters that the remaining area should | now be returned, although the majority of the.people there are predominantly German. The féel- ing for “anschluss” is evident in Schleswig also, though many Danes think the Schleswig Ger- mans would like to become Danes only because life in Denmark is | betier than in the battered, trou- bled Reich. This feeling may also be tem- pered by the deep hatred the Danes hold for the Germans, after the occupation. For while they did not suffer as seriously as some of the other European nations, in some respects the Danish lot was much worse. They took all the Germans could give—the concen- tration camps, the demands for food, the slaughter of i , Danes in large numbers a: iation” for attacks of the Danish underground, plus what some Danes call a deterioration of Danish morals wher the Germans shipped all the native police off to concentration camps, thereby enabling Danish at will—but they also did all they could to make the Germans feel underworld ' , crooks to run wil dand plunder) make a low price. out your salesmen to sell the merchandise AFTER it has been produced. If you can’t sell it in New York, you can eventually sell it in Boston, Philadelphia or San Francisco, because the price is attractive. In other words, by means of low price, you stimu- late demand. The customer takes what you offer, because it is in- expensive, “But over here, it is quite an- other thing. We produce, only what the customer asks for, and in general, only on order. For example, a large merchandiser cations as to the quality of the materials to be woven into the goods. We make a sample and submit it for approval, and then we go ahead and produce only when he is satisfied. This is. ob- viously a more costly method than yours, but in Europe when you sell merchandise, you sell what the customer wants, what you think he should buy. “The result is,” he concluded, “that in our mill we make more money per loom on 50 lpoms than an average American mill makes on 2,000.” Relationships between employ- erjand employee in Denmark are mtch the same as in America, and from what I have seen so far, a little unusual in Europe. There is a kind of friendship, a feeling class distinction. It is not un- usual, for example, to see a visi- tor from Jutland step into a Yopenhagen hotel and walk over to shake hands and _ converse with the porter. And it is quite the custom in Danish factories for the boss and the employee to greet cach other by name, as the “old man” walks down through the shop to see how things are that the Nazis were quite in- ferior. As a result, the Germans | were made to feel that they had never quite succeeded in occupy- ing Denmark, for they could nev- er overcome the Danish national spirit. Denmark has her Communists, who are present in every land, but they are not cosidered dangerous, for the Danish way of life makes a good living possible to all who really want to work. There is no real poverty anywhere, although vou hear the occasional complaint that the cost of living erases the value of wages. There are a few Communists in the government, and others on some of the princi- pal Copenhagen newspapers, but port here. for the reason Den- progressing. 1 Yet there i sa labor problent, caused principally by shifting from job to job, and by absentee- ‘ism. “When you hire a worker,” one personnel man_ remarked, \ “you don’t know for sure wheth- er he will be on hand the next day. He may just decide to go somewhere else, without giving you any word. | “Or if he does decide to stay, and you spend a great deal time training him, you al have the fear that he may you at just the point when he becoming proficient.’ * “One difficulty we find very hard to meet,” he continued, “is that so little merchandise is necessities, there is little in the Danish friend, whose grim reply ; You then send ; not; of working together, with little ; mark is a steady economy, with luxury line—so the worker, and many advantages in unemploy- I can’t say that I blame him. ment insurance, pensions and so- has no place to spend his money. cial security for working men. The result is that he takes a Communism holds no attraction, day off any time he fecls like because it offers no assurance that it, with no word to the boss, be- the Rusian way of life would im- cause he figures it’s no use work- prove the lot of the Danish ‘peo- ing if theer is no place to spend ple. For this reason the Danes are openly worried about the possi- your money. “But,” he added, “I should say that a similar feeling pervades bility of another war, between management as well Our taxes forced the Danes to build. They! aS more acute than anticipated— and with that, the export prob- Jem as well — as a result of a very watm summer with little rain, an abnormal condition this year all over Europe. Its effect in Denmark has, been,,to. reduce the anticipated size of grain crops, to’ cut’ dowrbutter’ pra- | duetion, and to increase the slaughter of milk-producing cat- {tle for lack of sufficient forage. This is esrious from the export standpoint, because Danish bu- | ter is a major exoprt item. Slaughter of cattle would ap- pear to offer the Danes another product to export, but since all} other European countries are in ja similar situation as a result of this dry, hot summer, the ; Meat cannot be exported. For! } this reason, it is expected that j meat rationing in Denmark will be eliminated very soon, so that the meat can be used up by do- mestic consumers. The fuel situation is likewise acute, although some coal ship- ments are coming in from Am- erica. But many Danish homes this year, as last, will be heated ith peat, which is both expen- sive and a poor fuel—too much} “volume” for the amount. of | heat prouced. ‘ In spite of her-economic dif- | ficulties, her fears of war, and the complexity of her post war , life (“Rationing,” they say. “will bewith us at least another two! years,”) Denmark lives more ; comfortably, I think, than we do in America. This is not new, it was the same 20 years ago. The pace is much slower than in the States, and there is ways time for a peasant conv {sation with a friend, or a stop for coffee or beer malf way thru ithe morning or afternoon at a j sidewalk cafe. There is a fecling ‘that “the pause that refreshes” | ‘makes for better. work and bet- ter play. Home life, in spite of severe! housing shortages, is very pleas- ant indeed, and very much as ;in America, although when you ‘entertain for dinner at home, | gour guests, men and women} alike. will probably arrive on ; bicycles, parking space for ‘which you have thoughtfully provided near your door or apartment. ' The bicycle traffic here is en- ; ormous—so large in fact that jalongside the main highway, | smaller highways, are provided for bicycle traffic. There is a “parking problem,” partially solved by bicycle , parking lots, which often are so filled up with bikes that-they can’t take any more. But possibly the best illustra- tion of the Danish spirit is to be i found in a small, but rather typ- ical experience. | A letter from home had ad-j vised that friends had just be-} come the parents of a baby boy, | so a cablegram was obviously all ed for. At the post-tele-} graph-cable office near the home ; where J was staying, S the clerk ‘to send the message | the quickest and the cheapest; way. He lovked up the rates, | stating that the night letter rate was about 19 kroner, the fast day rate about 22 kroner. I sent it as a night letter and de- parted, having written in my! own address on the bottom of | ithe blank, for reference if re- quired. When I returned home that | night, I found a letter from the post office. It was typed in ex- cellent English and enclosed 8 kroner. In_ brief, it explained | that the clerk had done a bit son Winter Home on November 16, 3:00 p.m. : DUE FOR UPTURN? | b OFFICE roberts suppiies 123 Duval Street Lopez Bldg. | For Immediate Delivery | Royal Portables - Allan Wales Hand Adding Machines - R. C. | Allen’ Electric Adding Machines - | R. 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To Hold | ‘tne ctass tor typists at Key a 1 | West High School, scheduled | tU"e may” damage Community Tea for tonight, has been postponed coverngsoven he (vite: Members of the Junior Wom- the protective { ALL-IN-ONE is <n eee ene ‘990’ MINIATURE ‘until Wednesday. Tomorrow is De eace = OAR Armistice Day and the teachers Subscribe to The Citi an’s Club will hold a community, Will enjoy a holiday, tonight and tea at the Woman's Club, 319 Du-, Tuesday. val street, from 4 to 6 p.m., Sun-) pan 1 dev, Movemier 16. l bara BAKER ARRESTS Virginia Whitmarsh, chairman; (Continued From Page Gne) of the entertainment committee, going on. The officer then got). says, “The junior women want to into his automobile, threw on the embrace this opportunity to meet Qo. pants a with the residents of Key West “ MES ERs! EVER! GYD Bo Ne and present some of the attivi- Sewiten the mHenHsaw Wistda (65 ties which the club hopes to A complish during the coming year. lice officer was following them, one of the men headed other | 603-05 GREENE STREET We Have A SEWLAC PAINT MIXING MACHI iF 4 Dy Any of the Various 3,500 Automobile Colors . “The pleasure is also ours in asking you to e as patrons or Margaret street, while the other patronesses for a fashion show and, 0ne headed for the dance to be held at the Ameri-/ fence. can Legion Home (formerly the! As the latter individual jump- Country Club) on a subsequent|ed the fence, Baker commanded date, under the auspices of this; him to halt. He continued to flee, club for the benefit of the 1948) and Officer Baker fired a pistol March of Dimes Drive. A ticet! shot into the air. Pridmore fell booth will be set up as a part of| to the ground, surrendering him- our campaign plan.” i self. Nelson was later apprehendert at a tourist cabin. He was identi- also; fied by Dixon as the other man chafe the surrounding fabric so} who robbed him. that it stands out even worse _ | than the spot did. MARSHALL HITS ; (Continued From Page One) | pointing suitable agencies to op- erate the Marshall Plan. Men; 5 | appointed to do that job. he said, | ‘should be familiar with the att cemetery STRAND THEATRE Now Playing “THE IMPERFECT LADY” Teresa Wright Starting Tuesday “EASY COME, EASY GO” Tommy Tufts e- MONROE THEATRE Last Time Today “BALAJU” Maria Antonieta Ponsy Spanish Picture Careful rubbing may help to! were sent by the slow day the cost would be 8 kroner le He apologized for not havi thought of it sooner. That sort of kindness, and the) ya4j i 2 deepseated honesty are so mueh | Magen ins Europe: a part of the Danes, that the! incident is not unusual. : are the world’s greatest entertaining thousands of peo. ple from many countries eve year. 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