The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 1, 1947, Page 7

MONDAY, DECEMBER veal DON’T. UNDERESTIMATE THE FINNS (Continued From Page Six) i fluently in English, Swedish Finnish and German. The airport at Helsinki is small! —they are planning a much larg-! er one in time for the Olympic; Games in 1952 (the Finns have, looked forward to having the! Games for so long, that they! their eyes)—and the customs sufficient, even though there the usual red tape. You go f to the passport control, where! an official stamps your visa, the to the currency control, where you must declare all your foreign! money in cash and _ traveller's! checks, finally through the cu: toms who examines your gage. | \ lug-! As you turn to go out, af Finnish girl seated at a ta «| Quaker group, have even taken, for the payment of poll tay pearby calls to you, and though} you don’t know the language you! understand she means “stop”. On! examination of your passport, she} hands you restaurant ration cou-} pons, ond gives you your choice ef tobacco or sugar “tickets.” If you are “fresh out of cigarettes "| as I was, you take the tobacco eoupodns, which entitle you to two boxes of Finnish cigarettes, or} one pack something like the American type—at least in ap-! pearance. When I had finally cleared the eustoms, I looked about for a money exchange counter, in the hope of obtaining some Finn .marks. Finding none, and a bit) worried about money for a taxi! from the terminal to the hotel (@@ bus takes you into -the city),} I finally approached a tall Finn! whom I had noticed before on/ the plane, and asked for advice.! He answered me in_ reasonably good English, suggesting that we! “step outside.” ! “Do you have Swedish kro- “I would be glad to give you| more than you can get at a bank. The official rate is 36 marks i the kronor. I'd be willing to pay a hundred.” We rode in on the bus togeth “American?” he mused. “Yes, you have done a great deal for us over here . . . But if I may, make a suggestion” .. . (he lean- ed a litle closer to my ear). . .| “don’t talk too much. It is said that the walls have ears. Our good friends,” he growled sar- eastically, “to the East.” | At the hotel I was handed an-' other form by the elderly por-| tier, who suggested that I go in- to the lounge to fill it out. Once! this was done and the card re- turned, he stretched out his hand, and his teeth gleamed brightly under a huge moustache. ! “Welcome,” he said warmly. 947 1 i me when I said American pro-' duction would win the war.” ; A great deal of the friendship! for America is due to the splen-} did work of American relief so- Cleties, such as the American} Friends Service Committee, who, have rendered exemplary serv-| ce in northern Finland, and! C.A.R.E.,, which has distributed large numbers of food packages, clothing parcels, etc. These peo- ple have endeared themselves to the Finns because they have been willing to live like the Finns in| thir most severe difficulties, and! to share their work and _ their: hardships with them. Some, in-| deed, like Stuart Moore of the| the trouble to learn Finnish, one of the world’s most difficult languages. A tip from the C.A.R.E. office | may be of interest to other Amer-j icans. “What we need most,” he! ‘is general relief. The per-j 1 gifts of food and clothing, packages from Americans to! relatives in Finland help a great, deal. But what we need is more general relief packages, which we{ are permited to distribute where] the need is greatest. We can do this, because we are in constant | touch with all relief agencies op- erating in Finland, and all of | these are more than glad to sup-| ply lists of persons who need; help the most.” Few Finns will about Russia. talk openly| (“Whether you! know it or not.” one chap , told me, “the Russians know you are here.”) But there is a deev-{ seated hatred for the Soviet. “It| isn’t just this war,” a Finn re-} marked one evening. “It goes back a long, long time, for we have been fighting the Russians ment. “All the dictator nati»ms who have fought in the wir,” said one, Finn, “have been »un- ished. We do not understand} why we should be punished. eal member,” he added bitterlv, “we | didn’t start winter war with Rus-| sia. We were attacked. And} when we fought with the Ger- mans, it was because we were! compelled. Duying the war, the} Russians were quite happy to | have our help in providing mil tary information about the Naz: —but after the war they soon! forget, although they knew our) plight.” He pointed to a large office building in one section of the city occupied by the Russian! Control Commission, and to the Tormi hotel in anotfer quarter,) used by the same agency. “They have their stooges everywhere. 'tertain membe: | directod; but in any case, it will a ec cok. = Key West In Days Gone By AS TAKEN FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN OF DECEMBER 1, 1937 ‘WOULAVVNEOQQO00UNEEELOVUYEDERSOESOEEET»>2rapEEDLOOURSULELOHALT TALEO | Overseas Bridge Commission met yesterday and fixed tolls'} for automobiles on ferries run- ning from Hog Key to No Name ; Key, a distance of 13 miles. lowest rate for a car is $: the highest for car and trailer, | $7.50. December 11 is the deadline | for the ‘special election to be held] December 30, County Tax Collec- | tor Ladd said today. Indications are Key West will | have one of its best tourist s sons, Secr ‘y Stephen C in- gleton, of the Chamber of Com- merce, said today. { The Key West Basketball League was organized last night | with four teams, High School, } Fellowship Club, Park Tigers j and High School B. Mrs. Ross C. Sawyer will en- | 's of the Stephen | R. Mallory Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, at her home, | 523 Eaton s et, on the after-} noon of Thu December 9. The Mis: Solita Cobo and Juanita Mayg will be host ’ of the Junior Woman's Club a social meeting <= | B.,H. Lowe, first assistant | keeper at the American Shoals | lighthouse, arrived in Key West! today on his quarterly vacation. | Today The Citizen said in an editorial paragraph:! “Failu often the path of least re ance. | Your Horoscope MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1947) -—Teday’s disposition is enthus- iastic, possibly inspirational, very impulsive and headstrong, but | having an idea in mind that is constantly kept sight of. Today’s | natives may be very successful, if the concentration is properly earry with it its*share of trou- | Have you pushed this button ? Want fo start your car? Want an elevator to go up or down? Want clothes or dishes to wash themselves? : Today, if you're lucky, you just push a button and get what you want automatically! education for your children? Want a cash re- serve for emergencies, and enough money for Want a home of your own? Want a college “tO he said grimly, “but on the su of zeal. | a happy, secure old age? Finland.” This was the introduction al-| haved.” How do you “push the button” to get startea? face they are very well be-! Today, if you're smart, you can save money the same way, automatically! “Of course,” he added,| Most of the helium for indus- most everywhere in the city, in| “none of us go to the Capitol,|try and medicine is obtained which a surprising number of} the Russian movie house, even| {from certain natural gas wells. |; peaple speak English. In hotel) when they show such films as as or restaurant, if the waitress | Bambi which is now playing. Re-| we have to send them back io! cannot translate the menu for} gardless, no self-respecting Finn| the factories to be rebuilt. This! Well, if you’re on a payroll, see your employer | tomorrow af ternoon. | ee t nor?” he asked. “Yes.” “Weil,! for years. And WE say that ‘a] |The Misses Ruth Haskins and | then, I shall be glad to accom- | Russian is still a Russian, even Ruby Coleman, who had been modate you... As a ma of if you fry him in butter’.” {visiting Mr. a Mrs. Bruce fact,” and he looked about to see; Principal cause of this hatred Jack, left for their if any one was standing nearby,| Now lies in the reparations agree-! home in Tampa. about signing up for the Payroll Plan. Once you push the button that starts you buy- ing U.S. Savings Bonds regularly—on the Pay- roll Savings Plan or the new Bond-A-Month Plan—you’re set for automatic saving! All you have to do is sit back and watch the Bonds pile up. And what a pleasant sight that is! If you’re not on a payroll, but have a check- ing account, ask your bank about the Bond-A- Month Plan. They’re the safest, surest, easiest ways to reacn financial independence that anyone ever saw. you or understand your Ameri-| would be seen in the place. is just an example.” ean, there is invariably someone; “We are—although we don't] ieee, she can call who will help you) like it—trying to live up to our} Sample of Finnish humor: One out. Like the headwaiter in the reparations agreement, but the;day, after long deliberations | Royal restaurant on the Esplan-| Russians use every opportunity} at the Yalta conference, Church- j ade. for provocations, to delay us.} ill, Roosevelt and Stalin sat down This chap, as soon as he dis-|They didn’t think we could doj for a smoke. Churchill brought | covered I was American, return-| jt, and now that we have shown: out a large leather cigar case on| * And, best of all, they help keep your country financially sound at the same time they are helping you to save more by saving automatically! Especially when you figure that every $75 Bond you put away today will be worth $100 in just 10 years. ed to my table to chat at every} that we are determined to fulfill] which was printed in gold: “To| opportunity. He had learned jt, they do all sorts of little things} Winston Churchill from Proud | Swedish and Finnish (the two: to make trouble. jand Happy Family. At this} ident Roosevelt fi vative cigarette 2 When it; which was engrav “To Frank- official languages), German (then “A shipment of machinery was} point Pr compulsory) and French (option-| delivered to the designated place) out a co al) in the schools. In later years! at the designated time. | “ °c he had taught himself both Eng-) arrived the Russians said they|lin from Eleanor.” Not to be lish and Russian. He had fought) were not ready to inspect it. So} outdone, Si in the “winter war,” had seen the; we attempted to place it under, gold cigaret “second! cover, but they would not per-| crusted with pr Some rena ks engraved had‘ from Bismare! they] “And that bit of native Fin-| roduced a huge} se heavily in- rious stones. It To von Moltke Germans come in the © y war”, and had debated with them| mit us to do it. n and Finnish intellectuals on the} later, after the machines outcome of World War II. “I; been out in the weather, : t f | would like to see some of those] were rusty and we; ish humor,” my friend told me, he ed. Now the Rus: s inspect “is described by the Rus g ve them an drefuse to accept. So ‘Anglo-Saxon propagand: Save.the easy, automatic way_with US. Savings Bonds Spensored by The KEY WEST CITIZEN This is en official U. 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