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Revolution Is Changing Lives Of 170 By WILLIAM ANDERSON BKUSSELS (UPI) When blonde young Hilda in Rotter dam shows off her curves in an Italian-made sweater, she's a cust .er ol the European Com mon Market. The Italian Fiat car her boy friend bought in Amsterdam cheaper than he could in Rome also came by grace of the Com mon Market. ' So did the Krupp truck carry ing a French farmer's fruit to market, the French butter sold in an Italian grocer's shop, the German canned frankfurters sit ting in a Belgian housewife's refrigerator. All over Europe the Common Market is working a quiet and highly profitable revolu tion in the daily lives of 170 million- people. The six member countries West Germany, France, Italy, . Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg have seen their trade rise from a total value of $8 million to $13.4 million since 1958. I'nder Common Market rules customs duties between the six member nations already have been slashed in half and will be abolished altogether by 1967. Trading Booms Manufactured goods such as cars, refrigerators, radios and children's toys are flooding back and forth between the six na tions to feed. an unprecedented wave of high living. The countries of the Common Market are finding that jobs create jobs. Germany and Hol land are crying for more work ers to keep pace with their ex panding economies. Dutchmen no longer look around when they hear Italian being spoken in their coffee houses. Most waiters in Ger many speak with a foreign ac y cent. This correspondent recently drove a car from Holland through Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Germany producing nothing but a certificate proving the car was internationally in sured. There was no identity check, no baggage search . Mrs. Germaine Meyers, a 58 year - old Brussels housewife, obligingly threw open her re frigerator for a United Press International inspection. The German - made ice - box con tained Dutch butter, French wine, Italian olives and toma to puree and the German frankfurters The amazing thing was that Mrs. Meyers thought nothing about the vast change in her purchasing habits since 1958. In Holland, girls not only preen in their Italian sweaters, but twist in Italian styled shoes. Italian women meantime warm themselves in Dutch-made coats. In Rome's working class area of Trastevere grocer Mario Es positi has French butter on sale for about 15 cents for 100 grams compared to the Italian product of about 18 cents. In Paris the world-famed Gal- erie Lafayette department store reports that 45 per cent of all its imported articles come from Common Market suppliers. The United States supplies only 15 per cent. A Pandora's Box The Galerie is a Pandora's Box of German porcelain, Ital ian linen, Belgian carpets, Dutch electrical goods. This availability of reasonably priced foreign goods is the greatest contribution the Com mon Market has made. "Foreign made" used to ring a warning bell in shoppers heads. More often than not such goods were either shoddy or very expensive. They were shoddy because For Greetings Distinctively Yours CHRISTMAS CARDS Imprinted With Your Name Complete selection in design and price 50 Albums To Choose From Hurryl Deadline December 5 Million they had to be cheaply manu factured to enable exporters to pay the enormous customs du ties that were demanded before the "great levelling" of the Common Market began. The 'expensive" tag came about be cause quality good had also to add customs duties before they could get to foreign markets. This made them dearer than lo cally-made goods of the same quality. ... Protectionism Hurts Before the Market, manv ex porters just gave up trying to export through protectionist cus toms Darners. Local manufac turers sitting behind these bar riers let their design and qual ity slip. Stagnation followed the protectionism. Since the barriers started to go down six years ago a stimu lating new wave of design and manufacturing has swept across Europe. Local manufacturers can no longer lean back and d"end on customs duties to keep foreign produce out. I'ansien Jean Barthelmer pro vides a case in point. He told UPI: "The finish on foreign cars is better than it is on French vehicles. That's why I bought a German car. French car manufacturers know this and are working on it. Not so lone ago they could have shrugged it off knowing they were safe behind a tariff barrier that meant a toreien car cost 50 per cent more than its French equivalent. . Foreign food is no longer a luxury for the 170 million cus tomers of the Common Market. Foreign cars and manufactur ed goods are commonplace. For eign workers no longer cause comment. Competition is stimu lating national production, econ omies are humming and pretty Hilda in Rotterdam is mighty happy with her Italian sweater. Grange Urged to Form Join) Council PORTLAND (UPI) -The Na tional Grange was urged Thurs day to take the lead in forming joint council with otner farm groups to give agriculture a united voice. Gov. Mark Hatfield, speaking to the Grange s national conven tion, said an occupational group which contains only eight per cent of the nation's population cannot afford a divided effort. He suggested that the Grange invite representatives of the American Farm Bureau Federa tion, the Farmers Union and other smaller groups to join with it in forming the council He said its first chore should be the formation of a sound, rational farm DOlicv. On the subject of international trade. Hatfield said he was con vinced agriculture was willing to do Its part, but first there must be "reasonable parity" in trade requirements and regulations among various nations. 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