The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 29, 1947, Page 2

PAGE TWO the Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday, by. amiibn Tc N, @<wner and: Publisher NORMAN D. ARTMAN, Business Manager from The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Key West and BT cceemence Y Only Daily Newspaper in Monroe Coun utered at Key West, Florida, as second clase matter ee ° a0 81 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ~ The “Associated Press is exclusively entitled to see for reproduction of all news dispatches credited te it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and sino the local news published here. ON RATES PVERTISING RATES | fe KnoWn on Application: AL Norich *< cards’ of thanks, resolutions poems, ete. Will be SPECI +| All ‘reading notices, Fespect, obituary notices, ‘ Fareed for at the rate of 10 a line, ‘Notices for entertainment ‘by, chutcles from which a revenue is to be derived ate 6 cents a line. <The Citizen ts an open forum aud invites dis- GKssion of public issues and subjects. of local or ‘ hut it Will not. publixh anonymous MEMBER en: sh t E FOR KEY WEST More Hotels and Apartments. ' Beach and Bathing Pavilion, Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Community Auditorium, y ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN ’ Seer = MONOGRAPH Harold R. Laubscher, Manager, C. of C., Key West, Florida. Dear Harold: Miami won't mention it—but the Key West Chamber of Commerce has a good opportunity to state that Key West Joesn’t have fogs, such as that which forced several Miami-bound airplanes to land here. THE ORACLE. i ae 3 DEBTOR BECOMES CREDITOR ‘ é 4 In 1914, according to statisticiais who Study such questions, the United. States was a debtor to the world by more than three and a half billion dollars. At the end ‘ef 1947, according to authoritative esti- mates, the United States is a net owner to the extent of ten billion, four hundred ‘million dollars, , Figures reveal that private individuals, or interests, in this country, own about 2316,400,000,000 worth of foreign assets gind that the United States Government has live debt claims against foreign coun- ‘tries which total about eight billion dol- Jars. From this total must be deducted the holdings of foreign private interests in sthe United States which, it is estimated, saggregate $14,000,000,000. The average American must under- atand that, prior to World War I, the “United States had to pay interest on its “het debt in the form of goods and services %r money shipped abroad. Now, since the Dosition has been reversed, foreign coun- ‘tries must pay us the interest on the net balance of their indebtedness and the senly way they can pay this debt, together with its carrying charges, is through the “sales of goods and services to us or by the “shipment of gold into the United States. ™, With the United States owning most Tof the gold of the world, it is obviously cimpossible for foreigners to ship enough {fold to the United States to take care of existing indebtedness. Consequently, if the United States expects to receive inter- “est and payments on principal, it will be “necessary for the people of this country to accept goods and_ services from the peoples of other lands. If production is the cure for our eco- nomic ills one may be pardoned for the opinion that it is about time for produc- tion. The Citizen received holiday greetings -and 1948 blessings from W: D. Outman, _ Washington representative of the Florida Department of Agriculture, of which Na- than Mayo is commissioner. The card “hears the cautions statement: So long as -You are green you grow but when you fhink you're ripe, then you are likely to decay.—Anon, BEWARE OF DEPENDENCE What does he do to help himself? That question has been heard in Key West, as well as elsewhere, many a time | when one has been asked to contribute to what is frequently called a “worthy cause”. The question has been asked because if you help a man who is well able to help } his himself but dees nothing to better condition, you make of him a laggard. That is what apparently has been done, in a measure at least, in some of the countries that will be benefited by the Marshall Plan. The peoples of those countries have had two full summers and part of another since the end of the war in which to help themselves, but, with the exception of Belgium, their economic condition has been getting worse and worse. While a provision inthe Marshall Plan insists on the Europeans helping themselves, great care must be exercised that they, or many of them, will not be- come dependent on the largess of the United States for their “livelihood”. Indians in the United States undoubt- edly would be far better off today than what they are had they not received so many and so frequent handouts from the United States government. Any man who comes to feel he is as- sured the proverbial bread and butter without any effort on his part, is not like- ly to amount to much. We have had many proofs in this country of rich men’s sons who never amounted to much _ hecause they did not have the incentive to work to support themselves. Yes, the United States should be careful not to create a spirit of depen- dence among the European peoples who will be benefited by the Marshall Plan. an earth quake, or something along the J gummumammunemnnnnmnnntmmmnnin Key same line, will not outlast the scare very long. LANDON: WAR GOING ON The Hon. Alf M. Landon, Republican nominee in 1936, thinks that there is “more or less undeclared war going on | MIHuIMyMNUNHHHNHNNMGiMNNNN | between Russia, Western civilization in general and the U.S. A. in particular,” }®f mature has manifested itself | and that since we are “teetering on the abyss of another war,” we should ‘“‘pre~ pare ourselves accordingly.” The former Governor of Kansas points | reached the stage of full devel out that there was more or less an unde- clared war between Great Britain and we TRAGEDY: Mrs. Agnes Thomas walks from the limp body: of old daughter, found “dtow INTIMATE GLIMPS Calif. Lifeguard tries: to efter. sympathy. Mahat- me Gandhi leans on Lady Mountbatten as they walk to eee marae confer with Lord Mountbatten. Goodness of intentions, produced by | — ~~. TUE KEY WEST CiTiZEN “LOVE: Doris tries to stow in Germany eps tis she her -seven-year- ned at Roscoe, “CONFLICT: weight champions ~ fiance in N. Y. She failed. Tony Zale,. left, and Rocky Graziano, battling for the middle- produced this scene of savage fury. Graziano won. MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1947 SE TEREST. 1947 DRAMA: [Aaj. Gen. Bennett Meyers pauses to remember @ point during his testimony before a Senate committe Von Knoblock away in a crate to fly to her COMEDY OF ERROR: In the Vatican, Pope Pius moves to greet a friend, left. At the same time Mons. Giovanni Urbani signals to an- other. Result: This ballet-like picture. CRIME: A 15-year-old youth, left, holds a re- volver against another boy and uses him as” a shield during a gun fight with Boston po! A policeman captured the youth from behind. é se sors é SUSPENSE: A heifer on the loose sends Ralph Godsil up a pole in §stherville, la. Godsil had anxious minutes before the capture. West In AS TAKEN FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN OF DEC. 29, 1937 A rose within a rose. A freak in a radiance rose. growing jin Southard street, Two ros one: within the other, have almo: opment. Yachting in Key West was the Russia for some three hundred years fol- | subject discussed last night at a lowing the seizure of India by the British. He points out, however, that the Czar had no fifth column in Great Britain during | livered by Eugene the trying period, whereas, today, the Soviet has an active, disloyal and traitor- ous fifth column composed of Americans “who are taking their orders from Mos- cow.” The general situation pictured by Mr. Landon is close to correct. While there is little reason to suspect the United States wants war, or that the bulk of the Russian people want war, sensible men and wom- en must realize that the question of war or peace depends upon the . decisions reached by the ruling regime in Moscow. This being the fact, it is wise for the Unit- ed States, while pursuing a policy of con- ciliation, to steadfastly prepare its de- fenses and thus be ready to take care 0; any emergency. It should certainly be clear that if the rulers of Russia get the idea that the Unit- ed States is composed of a population of pacifists and that, through unwillingness to spend adequate sums, without the prop- er means of self-defense, our very inabil- ity to fight will tend to encourage aggres. sive ideas in Russia The advance of the human race can be measured by the attendance that would be drawn by a dog fight and a lecture, respectively. SIGNS OF INFLATION When you get down to cases on the high cost of living there is no trouble in discovering the fact that existing costs of food are due almost entirely to the pro- gram of the Government in buying grains, meats and products at top prices— thereby shortcutting the rationing plan that was finally ruled out hy the Admin- istration. Now, when the Government boosts its own purchasing plan for farm products the price between local whole- salers and retailers naturally mounts un- til it meets the figures represented in Government purchases. 1 meeting of the Stone Church Service Club, held in the club annex. Chief address was de- the Fort Pierce Yacht Club: The formal opening and din- ner-dance at La Casa cember 31, Peter Schutt, Mana- ger, announced today . The Citizen copy of the s received a Post a page of pictures of the Ove seas Highway. Today, afte’ ments, it was agreed that Cap- tain Nelson Spen: boat, Ella Collins, was the h boat in the Christmas sponge sales in Key! were } f paid, each oi the five members West. After all expenses of the crew re ed $106. Tomorrow a special election will be held in Monroe County to determine whet r or not the county shall pay $50,000 annual- | ly to the city out of the gasoline tax money received by the coun- ty. Mrs. Peter Moore, been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William lip, left this morning for her home in St. Petersburg. sees who Today The Citi: editorial pa aph: «+ “It is ea: to form. a habit than a good one.” “ Your Horoscape.. MONDAY, ,DEGeMHER P%, 1947—The’ domineering“spinit Of the natives of today will prove a bad handicap: unless, hel closely in check. THere measure of ability and: {6 ture is eapable of* strong ‘at ments and wise planning, but the arbitrary desire to “dictate may cause disappointment, #/not failure of plans. bad At the peak of World War II production, about half of the U. S. output of combat uni- tions consisted of ships€ %and planes. 7 Days Gone By the yard of S. J. Welters, 211, Williams of | Marina } will be held Friday night, De- ! a in | which is published an article and i had | n says in an} i SIDEWALKS. OF NEW YORK BECOME PATHS IN SNOW ‘WILL YOU SMILE? 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