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
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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.
This country also must retail
ate "where there is proven dis
crimination against the Ameri
can producer,", the KepuDiican
governor said.
Earlier, the Grange Agricul
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call for renewed etiorts to es
tablish a voluntary domestic
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