The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 9, 1947, Page 6

Reet ee ee sont: aaa ahabapahnahababbd | "NEW ARMS, NEW HOPE. { (Copyright 1947, Mason Rossiter Smith) , . Warsaw, Sept, 8. The crowd pushing out through the windows, hanging onto the door racks and clinging to every part of the tram where a man could hang on, parts silently, awesomely, as the tall, tanned, broad shouldered, well dr. chap with a medal on his lapel attempts to'get aboard. The conductor, his shoulders powdered with porate! dust which had originally come off on' othe ple's clothing from the crumbled’ ruins of their homes] ae shores makes no attempt to collect a fare. For the tall) man’s loose-hanging’ sleeves are empty, An underfed, pale,’ blonde, shabbily-dressed little girl of perhaps ten years, with large blue eyes which tear at your very soul, sits silent, begging beside the jagged remains of a build- ing wall on a busy street corner. Both legs are gone, from the hips down, There are men with crutches, gnd clumsy stumps of '‘légs and arms, and old men and women sleeping on the grisly parapets of what once were beautiful offices. They are thin and bent and their eyes dre tired and watery gnd hopeless. They ore hungry. There are otherwise healthy-looking men and women and children who walk the streets with a dazed, berth stare in their eyes. : ese numerous cripples are not by any means a majority or even a large minority of the people of Warsaw. But they are a part of the wreck the Germans made of Poland. And Warsaw—in spite of a’ heroic and almost superhuman effort, to rebuild with the most primitive tools, for there is nothing else—is its most terrible example. DC-3, with all the luxury, comfort, care and attention for which our own American lines have ‘long been famous. It was the/ first time in Europe that I got, plane.reservation without dif- ficulty, and the first time I had flown.in a partially filled air- craft. For nobody goes to Warsaw, unless he has to. There were four Americans, ¢ Mr. and Mrs. Harper Sibley of Rochester, N. Y., who had recently attended an international YMCA convention in Edinburgh; a.Mr.: Brinkman, who came to Poland to visit relatives, and myself, together with two Swedes and two returning Poles. The plane was only half full. Coming in for the landing, we could’ see the. tangled steel j of ruined hangars and the marks-of bomb craters recently fill- { ed; the new air terminal, and& - the new runways—the whole! people. had. been executed by the still uncompleted but well on; i | Germans;:small cards or pictures its way toward restoration. } listing the executed, wreaths and sD |Health certificates required for I had come down from Stockholm in a Swedish Airlines! frequently short—and the flour; Gives Ruling On Marriage Health Certificates TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 9. thase who apply for marriage li- censes may be signed by either an osteopathic or medical doctor, in the opinion of Attorney Gen- eral J. Tom Watson. Answering a request for legal opinion from County Judge Lewis E. Purvis of Arcadia, the attorney general said the “words duly licensed physician” in the statutes plainly includes one who is licensed to practice osteopa- | thic medicine. It does not in- clude, he declared, chiroprac- tors or naturopaths } Press Club operated by the Pol- ish government to assist foreign} correspondents, told meé® “has to, have at least two jobs to make a living.” And even when enough money is available, there is little mer- chandise in the shops. There| seems to be, at this season, plenty; of fresh vegetables, but meat is; situation is so bad that restau-} rants are allowed to serve cakes only three days a week. Bread) shops are frequently sold out be- | fore everyone in the “queue” has { been. served. | But the big job-is the rebuild- | ing of the city and the prelimin- ary work is done on a voluntary { basis. One:morning I walked through the “old city” and the; through the “old city” and the ghetto (this is completely flat,} just one huge pile of bri without a single standing wall, while some of the “old city” is partially erect in badly broken! walls.) Members of trade un- im a Mid ro a H na cI -} & a a a a co = = a a } a a + cI a a a w = a ©00000000000089O090000G0000009008 TUESDAY; DECEMBER 9, 1947 CA CAT § The customs was efficient and‘ flowers stuck in old vases, dish+| ions, political parties (including; reasonably rapid, and as usual’! es, or even tin cans to honor their} the Communists and the Com-_ our luggage was transferred to aj memory. ’ munist youth __ organization), bus for the trip into the city. But! ay supper that evening with an workers from industries, offices the bus was a converted army-} American relief official—we were} 2nd government bureaus, had covered truck — the luggage visiting a typical Polish restau- staked out their flags in the de- chucked in the middle between| Vsing 2 people who came in] bris and were shovelling rubble, the rough board seats whieh| were shabbily dressed, many of | into trucks, | lined the sides. ._|them brushing the dust from]. There were hundreds of them; The almost complete levelling ; their friends’ shoulders, but they here, and hundreds elsewhere in of the city during the war grew} were gay as the vodka passed every part of the city, all at Work | upon us as we bumped into the: ¢rom. bottle: to glass again and with pick and shovel in the great | city. First the ruins of a few! coluds of ‘plaster dust. This was; [ee way uate ai lh Sunday, and all had given eight} fered down in places, the houses) ne 14 3 ‘ hours of their time. They,seemed | in what once had been parks now| tiiny. eaningrties sea maitiy| quite happy on the jobf jolsing nothing but standing walls, ‘the they can't stand this life in any| With one another as_ the usable debris all about theni; then the) other way ,.. After what they've| Dricks were passed from hand to; city itself from the outskirts to! been through during the war and| hand, to be saved for use. later; the bus terminal in the center of; tne insurrection, with the life} i reconstruction. the city—not just an. occasional | they Jive now the ruins staring} The government, General Vic- hole, where a building had stood) gown at them‘ everywhere all day} Grosz, the. foreign inister, told in a city block, but. building after] every day, it's probably safe to] me in a private interview after building standing in ruins, every| ..y that more than half of the}2 Préss conference: for corre- structure in the city damaged 10! people of Warsaw are mental] SPondents the next day, has de-| some degree and the vast major-| cases . . . who could be _right,| Veloped a general plan fot + new} ity reduced to’ ghastly skeletons} otter all: thig?” *!and modern city. Under present} of. stone, brick, congrete and} "> phe night clubs. throughout the] Tegulations, while property own- * Steel, the debris tossed back in-| cit. yare.well filled nearly, every |,ers retain title to their land, they . in. ‘ It’s nat unusual,” my host told sure your own and your family’s future security is to start saving regularly and systematically now. You can do this easily ... almost pain- lessly ... with U. S. Savings Bonds. U. S. Savings Bonds are 100% guaran- teed by our government. They pay-you $4 for every $3 you put in, after ten years. Which means the money you save makes more money for you— without risk. Are you making like a @ Roller coasters are great —to ride on! side from the streets so that cars ay itt tt rebuild without r night—and it’s a.gay crowd. CARD OU; REDUIG “WiMlolh Bove and people could get through, Corie Watsaw aaa are for-[-Ment consent. If under the new| We parted at the bus terminal] i inate to get away—a little way| Plan: their property is to be used} and went our separate ways a8.an} ‘from the worst of the ruins. | ‘or some other purpose than a} attendant got a cab to take me to ‘ red gray.| home, the government agrees to the Bevel Paes Like all A ee te Sean Lah give the property owner an| pi of ‘en i. tk dew A small | an. who works at the C.A.R.E, of-| equivalent area of land else-j ye "e not ariel say Sh na fice. She took me out to her}Where:in the city, where he can} he oR ed rel ‘aly rsh tit 1 ned pfiat one day: . “Fortunate ' to: build as he wants. | bed Rhine any. thai me He | have it” she ‘said with a-smile, The building pragram becomes But 3 dA ig Laghtgs Brita mile. «for. as you can see, housing is a{™ore visible after a day or two ju ow me to i he , oi bit .diffioult.” ‘ in Warsaw, as at first all one can} eh 2 aa i hs s, lo- Her apartment is. owned by a] See is ruins. As time goes on, | ee ee at ha “ nig ie ees lady dentist, in a section of the] YOu begin | to notice—as in the! as he pe an ree a ed! city, where most‘of the houses] “old city”—that people have: during the original attack and) anq apartments are still standing] made homes in the debris, either more during the insurréction | 4, have been’ restored enough ta} by using some part which is not) against the Germans, it has been j pe jjvable. It was shabby in ap-| Completely destroyed or by dig-| almost entirely restoréd—with no} pearanee, but a palace beside the| ging into the rubble and, with a tools such as we know building) },ins of Warsaw, only a few hun-| few. salvaged boards and pieces equipment in America—and with-| red‘ meters away. of metal, building some kind of in the space of about six months.! Like many others, this woman| shelter. Others, for lack of hous- ‘The: gcatfolding for the painters |has ‘extra jobs" eke out: her| ing elsewhere (only government Was: Stilh gt@nding in a hall as 3) income, for inflation, is :terrific,} employes are assured of, flat came) gee hs +4 »0a\'6.) 3 }or ange, you can see the: Ameri-| have converted part of. their o ‘wo: gl s-eficlosed elevators can dollar in comparison, At the|fices or factories into crowded were in operation, both of them| official rate of 100 zlotys to the | bedrooms( kitchens and _ living quite large, but limited to six) dollar, your average * meal at] quarters. be ere persons, though there is room for) junch’or supper will cost you a| Then you notice the shops—one at least 12. Power is’short. My) minimum of. $5 per person. for| Story buildings constructed of rom had recently been decorat-| the simplest food. A pair of brick or ‘concrete at the mer-|} ed-and was simply but comfort-| shoes, at 27,000 zlotys, is worth|Chant’s risk, for within three ably furnished—but the floor] $270 in American money. Food,| years the government may re- was unvarnished and the key! clothing, and a bare room are all} quire that they be torn down to would not fit in the door. For extremely expensive—even more| be replaced by larger and more lack of hardware, the builders} so to the Pole, whose income as| necessary structures. Finally you had made their own — again! an unskilled laborer runs from] begin to see large buildings, per- without proper tools. In the bath) 19,000. to 15,000 zlotys a month.| haps four or five stories high, por sale eo towels, no Re An Medes worker receives about (Continued On Page Seven) and no toilet paper—none is sup-} 18,000—but if she has a child ee plied, There was no hot water. | care for, she must go minutes The view from the three large| meal occasionally so that he can French door-type windows in the] eat. As an “extra job,” the Pole bedroom was a vast expanse. of| may do translations, teach a uni- ruins as far as the eye could see. a eetionts plane pete me It leavi u rather dazed,’ 5 " rerty whichis putiing it mildly. | Mueh in the drawing board stage, T came down from my rooms or help with the building as a to go out to the American Embas-| ™#80n or carpenter. Or even sy and met Mr. and Mrs. Sibley run a small srauearit oe many; getting out of a battered drooska| former society women do. (horse-drawn open carriage) in| _ “Nearly every bays Ne front of the hotel. 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