The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 18, 1947, Page 8

4 wt ga go Ca sid da Gi hi, S¢ sc E, dy a a ee ee ee eee SRS RSS E a fi » Capuchines, . eligible PAGE EIGHT The Circle Which Never Ends pes (Copyright 1947, Mason Rossiter Smith) 0242200000000444.441400000000000000088 a} Paris, Aug. 9. A soft aura of fluorescent light falls gently over this sprawl- ing city of Mansard roofs and chimney pots as you look down in| twilight from the stone steps of the Church of Sacre Coeur on,the heights of Montmartre. It has taken some time to reach this most beautiful viewpoint in all Paris; there was the long, slow ride in the Metro, the slow motion of the crowds which, throng the sidewalks, the cobbled streets, the bars and cafes of Brazil Plagued With Locusts RIO DE JANEIRO.—(AP).—Re- ports from the town of Cangucu say it was invaded by a swarm of locusts which are appearing again in the interior of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Bra- zil, with great loss to farming. The Weather FORECAST Key West and Vicinity: Cloudy j with occasional showers today, |tonight and Wednesdty. Little {change in temperature. Gentle ;to moderate southeast to south- erly winds. FLORIDA: Cloudy, occasional rain north portion, considerable cloudiness with a few showers am not so sure. A man may start ; out with sincere intentions to! Pigalle stone stairs, finally to emerge i with the church just beyond. New York at night arc light.. It spreads out overk: the city as far as the eye can gee, losing itself finally in the darkening horizon. ~Down the city, along the Champs Elysees, the Place de la Concorde, the Boulevard des everybody walks. The sidewalk cafes reaching out With small chairs and tables onto the walks beside the street are thronged with people, and the sidéwalks are full. It is a well gressed crowd, a slow moving erowd which, caught in the spell of thesevening, will stroll until midnight and after. A lean, dark Moroccan, with a beret and close- ly-clipped moustache, lopes along with half a dozen rugs over his shoulder, leather pocketbooks and gilver ‘bracelets in his hands, haunting the front tables of the sidewalk cafes to sell his wares. The newsgirl, gaunt, haggard and a, bit shabby, wearing the inevit- able black beret, a close fitting plack jacket and skirt, her feet in Roman sandals, slips imbng the tables crying “France- jolr” in an effort to sell her last maining copies. She is a bit’ itter that she still has a dozen we to go. “France-Soir”, this fine almost in anguish. .:The-, broad expanse of the Champs-Elysces is brilliant in the afternoon—the Arc de Tri omphe at one end and Cleo- patra’s Needle at the other—aj boulevard so wide that the side-' walks themselves are as broad as an average American street, the curb lined with trees—so that as you. look up and down the | boulevard it seems like a formal garden. The shops are smart— reminiscent of Fifth Avenue— interseprsed with swank restau- rants with brilliant awnings in royal colors, red and gold, blue and gold, cream and red spread out over the sidewalk cafes. It isa ‘sparkling street and a spark- ling .crowd—but it moves quick-} ly, amid the sharp toots of the! taxis, the whistle blasts of the! smartly uniformed gendarmes! with their white night sticks at: the traffic points. Although tires afid new cars are scarce, brakes and rubber shriek on the pave- ment—for a New York cab driv- er is a clam and inhibited soul im-comparison to the Paris taxi- man—whose vocabulary of pro-| fanity is, by the way, probably; the world’s most extensive. area “I hope,” he was saying, “that you do not find us too depressed. This isn’t the Paris of 1937, of} the pre-war days. This isn’t the Paris’ ‘toujours gai’, for life is hard—and expensive—and we} are a’ litle, how do you say it, ‘down in the mouth’.” ‘We were talking in the office of a large printing machinery firm—the general manager and most of the staff of office person- nel and service workmen away on vacation, for French law pre- seribes that every firm must provide two weeks’ vacation with pay every year to all its em- ployes. “Tha another reason,” he was saying, “why the Communis' are so strong. The other parties weren't awake. The Commun- ists demanded legislation for va- cations—and got it. The Com-! munists demanded higher wages for the workers—and got them. They can point to these and oth-| er things their influence has brought to the workingman—| things everybody knew he nced- ed, wanted and deserved. The; others had no comparable po! The influence of Communism? Well. obviously it is most effec- tive among the lowest paid work- ers, and we cannot deny that it ig strong. Probably about 30% of the available vote. But it’s hard to compute. The Communists took 51% of the vote, in the last Aection—but 20% of the people to vote stayed away} from the polls. These obviously; were not Communists or they, would have voted—for the Com- munigts as a party are well dis- ciplined—they get out and voie, and vote as they are told. The other parties are disorganized! and confused in their own ranks.! “The facts are that in that, election many people of other! parties voted with the Commu-} nists because they wanted a change—but not because they wanted Communism. The people where you come up from the subway, the long climb! stepp narrow streets hemmed in by ancient buildings, an-| dent éven in the days of Francois Villon, up two flights of steep | om any height is a sea of light from) innumerable visible electric candles, but Paris’ soft evening il- lumination is the gentle glow of the gas lamp and old fashioned | ' Because in determining his 4 per j may be. Since costs have gone up really serve his country, ‘but: after he has had dictatorial pow- er for two or three years, he ili i | hates to step down and give the in the twilight of a little re Sty backstokihe ipecle” LeBouanger, the subway: tick.‘ et collector, lives with his wife and six children (they are ex-1 pecting another very soon) in a 3-room apartment in the heart of Paris. The~ kitchen—a fourth war and which so far have got; space in the flat—is about as us nowhere. ‘large as a medium-sized Ameri- “DeGaulle? Well, most people! C2" clothes closet, and there is’ ire hi reat deal, but! no bath. : ee : Se veethie “think he. failed,| LeBoulanger is 38, his wife 32, | When he returned to France, in| @nd they have been married 13 the Liberation, the entire coun-| Years. The eldest child died” try was behind him—he could |S°me years ago, and the others ; have done anything. If he had | are aged 10, 9, 7, 5,3 and 1 years! told the people then the only so- Sanka three boys and uiree K, that t 8 A ae ae Mok the good of ail] When I called at the flat with | —they would have done it. But! representatives of the American: it failed. Now he is trying to or. | Telief agency CARE. Ine. who ize another party. delivered a 0 package, LeBou- eon a : langer was sick in bed, confined “You see" he said, searching] for the past month. Two of the for the right phrase, “it is a) children, aged 3 and 1, had whoop- kind of circle which has no | ing cough. Two of the others end.” This office was tiny, the were in the country under French tal about 15 since the end of the headquarters of a French im-, government care through the} porting concern located tempor-| Colonie de Vacances. i avily in dingy quarters on the; The husband’s wages, 12,000 | sixth floor f an old building francs per month, working 48 in Montm: 3 | hours per week, day or night, “Present wages for an aver-| had been halved by his illness, age workman are from 12-1300| for under the French social in-; francs for a 40 hour week. If surance system he receives 50, he is skilled, he gets around| per cent of his regular wages 1800-2000. This is obviously not, While he is ill. The apartment— enough, so in most factories the! “a little bit better than average,” | employee works about 50 | he said—was dirty, cold and din-| hours the last ten at double &Y, “but it is the best we could’ time. This helps out, but it still; find.’ It costs him 500 francs per, is not enough.” month, ; | The family considers the place) (A check of French s | veasonably luxurious, for they, hows how close the margin is: have been bombed out twice. a necktie sells for 119-400 francs , Originally, they had lived in Gail-! and a dress 4500 francs and up, a lon, in the Eure district, when! skirt 700-800 francs and UP,‘ their home was destroyed by the shoes 2300 francs per pair and| Germans in June, 1940. They up.) moved to Billancourt near Bou- “Food is expensive,” he con-jlougne, and were bombed out tinued, “and still rationed. The! again when their house—near a/ ration per person is 250 grams of | Kenault factory, was destroyed. bread per di 500 grams of! _ In 1939 LeBoulanger had been stores | | Boca Chica over south portion today, to- night’ and --Wednesday.. Little change in temperature. , ‘ EAST GULF OF MEXICO! AND JACKSONVILLE THRU THE FLORIDA STRAITS: Mod- erate to fresh winds, mostly easterly today ‘gradually - veer-. ing and ‘becoming east. to south-} easterly tonight and. southeast to southerly Wednesday.° Cloudy with occasional rain and few showers north portion, consider- able cloudiness and few showers over the south portion. Jacksonville to Apalachicola: No small craft or storm warnings have been issued. REPORT Key West, Fla., Nov. 18, 1947 (Observation taken at 8:30 a.m., Eastern Standard Time, City Office) Temperatures Highest yesterday - 87 Lowest last night 78 Mean ae 82 Normal Bars ~ 74 Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours: ending 8:30 a.m., inches 0000.0 okatir es Hine y Vw Tomorrow's Almanaq (Eastern Standard Time) Sunrise 6:46 a.m. Sunset t Moonrise 12:02 p.m. Moonset 11:30 p.m.) VIDES Tomorrow Naval Base (Eastern Standard Time) High Low 1:07 a.m. 8:37 a.m. 3:25 p.m. 7:39 p.m. Additional Tide Data Reference Station: Key West Time of| Height of. Station— Tide |high water Bahia Honda —Ohr. (bridge) 10min. 0,0 ft. No Name Key +2hr (east side) ___20 min. —Ohr. (Sandy Point) 40 min. butter or margarine per month,| mobilized in Gaillon, with an air- Valdes Channel +2hr. menth, | craft group. month.| From _ Billancourt, the family | ; moved to Paris, where the hus-| vegetables. band worked in another factory. | “The present cry is for higher | The Germans, then in occupation, | wages, for pr are at least 50 | Sought to transport him to Ger times higher than pefore the|™@ny, but through the con| war. But what this government} Vance of a French doctor who does not appear to understand PPlied false health certificates is that you can’t increase wages | pipes that his ree ena without increasing prices. [don was <poor. | Devo anger €s: “They have tried to hold down | C@Ped transporiation to Germany prices by limiting the emplo; 1 cappive laborer. | er’s profit to 4 per cent. This is. ON aps RY so small that it doesn’t meet the | je a Adare ait put oe oF jovenend eat Gh {a permanent job in the Metre mae te “iis: Seren: for nie oe generebslivingycon | transport workers, the govern “you have seen, of course, the ment has increased the cost of} pread we have? Well, it is made transport. The restriction of pro- trom flour produced’ from corn fits to the aa tee pew oe 4 _that's why it looks yellow and per cent, and all these other $ sional pieces of kernels costs have had this one result: B the manufacturer, in order to make any profit at all, holds some of his production for sale in the black market. “The government, in an effort to ‘hold the line,’ as you say, decreed last March that all pri- ces must be reduced 5 per cent. In June they called for an- other 5 pdr cent reduction, making 10 per cent in all. This was the answer to the worker's demand for higher wages. “But this doesn’t work sugar 500 grams _ per coffee 125 grams _ per Meat at last is ‘free,’ and so are isn't good for you—the children can’t eat it—but it’s all we can get. Maybe if we lived near the outskirts, where we ‘could get out into the country. . . “We get nearly all the food we| use in the legitimate market, but for some things we have to go ‘to the black market. In either case, prices are far too high. The package you have brought—well, we heven't had a piece of choco- late for at least five years. And WHITE flour. And sugar - thes are almost unknown in this fam- ily. We simply can't afford them.” Again, as regards DeGaitlle, al- most the same answer: — This time translating the French idiom} \ literally: “DeGaulle missed the | train. | “What do you think of ent Ramadier government: He rose right up out of bed, and pounded his fist on the wall. “We will support ANY gov ment,” he said fiercely, “wh will give us bread.” . oe out. cent profit the manufacturer, | wholesaler, retailer is allowed to} take i st of production or the cost of the merchandise he sells, as the case everywhere, they have nearly wiped out the 10 per cent reduc- tion. Strangely enough, in almost every conversation in France. the general impression of De Gaulle is that he failed to do what needed to be done, after the Liberation. “But,” said the , importer, “I think it's probably that DeGaulle is the only honest man in France. “Possibly what we need is a, strong man—a dictator. But I Pretest LENAMINS Twe tay capsules contela ALL VITAMINS eucrition, plus liver and iron. 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There is less honesty than in most of the other Latin countries, yet there is real privation-salmost «everywhere. The smartly dressed people end the bright shops along the Champs Elysees. (French women affect a very red hair rinse, or bleach their locks to a brilliant yellow-white); the plentiful food in the fine restaurants and bars; all these are a mask covering the face of France in its slums and working class sections. Since the government operates a monopoly on domestic ciga- rettes, the American brands are available—at 180 francs per package—only on the black mar- ket. The offi rate of ex- change in money is 117-120 fran to the dollar. But the black ma ket price is 200-230 to the dollar, and flourishes openly enough so that Americans are publicly ap- proached on the streets. The fi person who spoke to me in Pa was a smiling swarthy chap, neat- ly dressed, who stepped up to me; in front of a travel agency. 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