The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 28, 1947, Page 6

oe Eos = D UNaEn enema Ia | Ss; City Tax Solution: (Copyright $47, Meson Rossiter Smith: | Basssseseneccoce of : -{ LIVINGSTON, Mont—(AP).—' ~ eae ; are ra | The city paid $25 for an old piano! IIs, August 13, ‘ many years ago for. the Living-| ~~ What amazes you about Bélgium, after visiting the British - 4 $ ivi ter. When Orches-' . Portugal, Spain, ftaly and Frahee, is that the country is so 9°" ;" cr ‘Ted Fiorito came. to! i, From the smallest farms—and most are very small, by town, he saw it and offered $50! ‘Our standards—to the capital city of Brussels, every part of the for the relic, explaining it was, “country is neat. You see le working at it to keep it that way like one he had practiced on as, ~—~event to the extent of the sidewalks with hose and a boy. 3 > tush in front of the city shops every mornin | The city wonders now if some-| An extremely industrious pe a: to LIKE to one might have a sentimental —— are proud of it—the @xpress a little courteous {¢eling for an old model truck. for the French, whom they think are lazy, and for the |, i ing, British who are in the midst of very serious” det rar conditions eee peaeed Sete siiewale insist on @ five-day week. “The only thing that will bring re- crowds who had paused in their! we you hear yea say, “is work. The ealy qnswer : ae evening stroll to Watch the pa- * production. ey appéar to mean business, and their rade. 2 detertnination is evidebe in a miraculous job of post-war recon- : “What was it all about?” ~atruction and rehabilitation, not to mention the success they “Just a group of workers. They “Hiave had in restoring luction and something like normal 40 it nearly every night. They're life. They grumble a bit,.but they are united in the one cause Probably going down the street a} of restoring their country. ppc inion» WY toa hall, where they’ it hear} <> Politics is one example. At the present the government is in atrt Ri speeches on wages and prices.” | brought ‘our people back us Seater nlite r “No!” he said, emphatically, his ¥ a coalition of the Socialist} health. : | cvcalf lasting uieath ube Just (comparable to:the British Labor| “Then they did . another un- Workers. Prices are going so high aperiy and the Catholics (Social! usual thing—it was not at al! the that wages can’t keep up. i 5 el lan) parties. The latter’ 1S! thing to do, according to one’ “Everything’s going up.” Hel |Ry foade up of conservatives, with! yiewpoint—they imported lux- shrugged his shoulders. “When iggeee ania a Pita uries: nylon stockings, chocolate, they took some of the controls off} Hie. 'B it troreit y, Cat o- | cigarettes, things we hadn’t seen and made the food rations larger,; as; ly a-small margin, it is the in years.’ Now, this is the way it was all right for awhile. Then! x rer its the: two. a it worked out: The Belgian house- the government granted an in- be ie Communists hold some ai wife,.strolling down the street, crease to the bakers—maybe two ~of the 363 seats in the parliament,! aw the stockings and she wanted francs an hour or so—and the it are. not consideréd a serious them. They were expensive, of price of bread. went to seven ~Mmenace, because the country ,is course. Her husband worked just francs 60 a kilo (about two Ibs.). rgely Catholic, and a large per-' a little harder than usual, and a’ “Chocolate, cigarettes, clothing, ~entage of the people own their few hours longer than usual so everything is up and going high- =Own homes, shops or farms. In that he could buy them for her. er. We must have higher wages “Hiddition, there is plenty of food That meant more production. to meet these prices.” ~and clothing—in fact, plenty ef © “We are short of coal, and “And if wages go higher, do “Yaxuries as well. The Commun- we're having trouble in the mines, prices go higher still?” I sug-} TBBts recruit their support ~ prin- But have you seen the neon lights gested. ~eipally from the poorer workmen, all over the city at night? That He shrugged his shoulders and! Pa as .one businessman scorn- js publicity—it’s the same idea smiled grimly, “But how are we fully remarked, “from the unin- as importing nylons. It helps to to live?” telligent younger workmen, who sel] the people on getting back to, What he means is evident in “don't know any better.” i work, and they are working.” —_, comparison of wages and pri >, Finally, there is a Liberal par-'.’ This .conversation—the busi- The average unskilled worke Sty, a conservative group, which,’ nessraan’s angle—would sdem to makes between 3,000 and 4,000; eat one time, maintained consid- indicate that Belgium is all one francs per month. A_ skilled ‘erable influence, but whose num- pig, happy family, but I do not workman receives from 5,000 to =Bers have since been reduced. think this is entirely true. 110,000, the average being around “They are still powerful, however,’ One of the porters in my hctel, 6,000. *thore or less, as.a group of “elder expressed appreciation for the’ Two pounds of bread cost him Statesmen.” ee ' Reon lights, the “luxury” goods. 7 francs 60, sugar about 5 francs The country ‘is theoretically with which all the, stores are; per lb., butter 77 francs for two =uled by a monarch, in the per- well stocked, the goodly supply pounds. A suit of reasonably =#bn of the Prince Regent, brother of reasonably priced tobacco, and good clothes sells for 2,000 to 2.- “of King Leopold. There is dis- so on, but he was not so sure that 500 francs, a shirt 120 to 755 €ussion as to whether the latter the government's post-war policy} francs, depending on the quality =Will be returned to the throne— was completely’ successful. In| and style; a pair of shoes 360 -@Bome people oppose him because fact, he made it quite clear that! francs and up, a pair of socks 45! | wthey disapproved of his surrender je thought it left much yet to be’ francs 50. On the basis of francs “ the Germans, or because the. desired. j s compared with the cost -ather of his second wife has been ‘Like. any other American who’ of living in francs—regardless of aor of collaboration with lgves a parade, I had hurried the equivalent in dollars—it is ap- e Germans. (ot course, you gut of the hotel dining room at parent that the unskilled or semi- ow, we couldn't have THAT.”);, the sound of band music in the skilled workman cannot put much MWhile others are. equally detérm-! street. As I reached the walk, money aside, if he has a family ed that Leopold shall be rein- the porter smiled. “Too late,” he of any size. And the fact that he stated, declaring that he did the said, simply, pointing to the last cannot save is disturbing to the -aonly thing whieh ‘could be done yow of a group of marchers go- Belgian, because he is by nature sat ‘that time, and that he.is Not ing up the street. You could see a thrifty individual. He expects, TBesponsible for the actions of his| the tubas arid some of the other (Continued On Page Seven) ther-in-law. Howevér,-all pat} ~————_. Ws... oe piu eae ener pene “ties, including the Communists,! Yire pro-monarchy. And the bést juess now appears to’ be that the “Regent will continue to rule until; “ Tithe eldest of Leopold’s sons comes , ef age. The Crown Prince will| 4, »° “then become king, dios But while sentiment toward) 4 “royalty continues.strong, the Bel-| -; =Bians are particularly proud of | Se post-war efforts to strength- their economy. They scoff at! the remark ,you frequently hear | “in France that the Belgians are! Detter off because they have am-| ple dollar exchange obtained (1). fom lease of the port of Antwerp! y the Americans during the war, | ). aperdation of Belgium asa -leave center for American troops} + ‘and (3) operation of the Belgian ; folonies by the “free” Belgian) y coeeb at ta pecuige raw mate- foe, the Allies “during. the| Pepsi-Cola Company, Long Island City, N.Y. i Frapshised Bottler: Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Key West Fe AEE EE BE See os te ee =S thé Belgians will tell you that: oMhis, is (féalousy, and nothing more, that the real reason Bel- ~gium today is one of the few * gountries in Europe which is real- dy’on its feet, is that Belgians like “fo work, and that they have, lit- sPrally pulled themselves up out of! sible chaos. ‘Our government,” one busi- essman told me, “attempted to *do the same thing the British and mother countries have tried—use | -all sorts of controls. But that wasn’t the Belgian way. | ~ “The Belgian businessman and “the Belgian workman buckled down to work—in their own way. >We had a terrible black market, =the result of the war, and it was Overseas Transportation Company, Inc. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service —— between —— MIAMI and KEY WEST Also Serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA KEYS Between Miami and Key West Express Schedule: (No Stops En Route) +-then about the only means of dis- tribution we had. It was so well established that it was very hard sto overcome. But we have prac- “ically eliminated it in two years. } ~~ “When the government saw) ‘“twhat the people had done, and| «could do, they gradually relaxed =reontrols. While we still have Ifood rationing, we also have all we want to eat ,and all we want ‘to wear. And the government, deserves a lot of credit for that. <0” “For example, when Belgium Was liberated, the government immediately began to import food, _-Yegardless of cost, or possible re- »-duction in foreign exchange. They = saw that our people, underfed, zpoorly clothed and very badly housed as a regult of the war, had } Sto have food, we were to go <back to work and restore our Evtountry.. So they imported. lots of) “jt. That not only:helped*to ‘put down the black market, but it LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EX. CEPT SUNDAYS) at 6:00 P.M. Ar. rives at Miami at 12:00 o’clock Mid- night. LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 12:00 o'clock Mid- night and arrives at Key West at 6:00 o'clock A.M. Local Schedule: (Stops At All Intermediate Points) LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EX- CEPT SUNDAYS) at 8:00 o'clock A. M. and arrives at Miami at 4:00 o’clock P, M. LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 9:00 o'clock A. M. and arrives at Key West at 5:00 o'clock P.M. 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