The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 5, 1949, Page 2

PAGE TWO the Key West Citizen y ily Except Sunday, by % 1 ir REMAN, owner, Legian t » AR le enn nonues Wy The Citizen Building Gorner Greene and Ann Streets (nly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County anierea at Key West, Florida, as second clase matter MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to vse for repryduction of all news dispate! credited to it or mot otherwise credited in this paper, and alsy tte jocal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Stree Months (ne, Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES te Made Known on Application ———— * SPECIAL NOTICE i All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions ;& respect, obituary notices, poems, etc, will be Werged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. » Notices ‘for entertainment by churches from whlch @ revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. # ‘she Citizen is an open forum and invites dis- eyes.on of public issues and subjects of local or «qneral interest, but it will not publish anonymous cajmaunieation JMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST : ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 3 $1. More Hotels and Apartments, \2 2 Beach and Bathing Pavilion, ‘ 8. Airports—Land and Sea. 4 4 Consolidation of County and ‘ City Governments, t 6. Community Auditorium. | <5 eee eiennanainiemaniegnlimenttiniananisiots j . : MONOGRAPH Pear Readers: {In his inaugural address at Talla- hassee yesterday, Governor Fuller War- fen mentioned but two places in Florida: Bloundstown, his birthplace, and—KEY WEST. Atta boy, Governor! 4 : THE ORACLE —_—_—_—_—ooooo——e— ZETS PROTECT INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS ’ 4 es : Now that it is established, by the con- féssions of Whittaker Chambers and Miss Plizabeth D. Bentley that they were cour- for Communists spy rings, operating gut of Washington, that there was un- Wal activity along espionage lines, there Will be a great furore to “passa law” pout the whole matter. © Already, Attorney-General Tom C. @ark advocates legislation to tighten up the country’s espionage laws but admits that it may be toughto do this without celliding with the Constitution’s Bill of Tights. Not to be outdone by Mr. Clark, (Be House Committee on Un-American Xectivities. glans to . write a suparsegpion- fre measure of its own. = We doubt if the situation is’ serious bebe to call for any infringement upon e rights of the people of this country. ‘Bre difficulty in apprehending espionage d&encies in the past has not been so much te lack of laws to cover their activities WB it has been an inability to secure evi- dence to prove he guilt of the couriers fgr foreign countries. It might havé been easier if Mr. 7 Sy and Miss Bentley had come out i the open with their information some ypars ago. Mr. Chambers admits that he cured documents in 1937 and 1938 and Wd them for ten years without delivering em to the Communists with whom he Wmd broken. Kk might have been a good igea for the gentleman to have delivered e documents to the proper officials of e United States Government. = The House Committee, according to Kp presentative Karl Mundt, acting-chair- Ban, says that the two informers will be (Bed as “experts” to guide the committee if revising present laws so as to make the country more secure against espion- age operations. = In the meanwhile, a representative of + House Committee announces in New wk that be has secured important in- f§rmation from two Negro witnesses, one @ whom was famili with the inside kings of the Communist Party asa fErmer leader of the Negro section. The pablicity given the information and the wpparent ease with which it is now secur- @ make one wonder where the witnesses Hdve been and what the House Committee Ws been doing. While every individual in the United Sates who trafficked with the enemies of this country deserve the strictest pun- | i#hment under the law, there is no occa- | sjen for the people of this country’s be- egming excited over our present safety amd security. Certainly, there is no oc- casion for any infringement upon the rights of the average citizen and it will b& a mistake to give investigators a free hind in probing into the private business of individuals. " There are few men in public life who ftPtire at the right time, voluntarily, ~ wer | proud of the efforts of America to help i SOME DREAMS COME TRUE hy’ Senator Claude-Pepper, when he was a youth, nursed an ambition to be, United States senator some day. That nursing had grown to sizeable proportions when he | was a member of the Florida legislature in 1929, and burst into bloom when he ran against Trammell in 1936. Pepper sup- posedly lost that election by a few thousand votes, though many had thought that he was the victor. We had no voting machines:in those days, and some Tampa politicians, particu- larly in the Ybor City district, did much as they pleased at the polls. It was the Tampa “vote” that re-elected Trammel. In one precinct in Ybor City he was credited with 702 votes to one for Pepper. During the first World War, Dave Sholtz served in the Navy in Key West and was stationed in the United States Censor- ship Bureau to handle all mail that per- tained to naval affairs. The writer was in the press department in the bureau, and | on several occasions he heard Dave re- mark confidently that he would be gov- ernor of Florida some day. And so it turn- | ed out. In 1932 he was elected to that of- ! fice, and in January, 1933, was inaugpra- ted. Fuller Warren recalls that, as a boy of 13, his heart was heavy over his inabili- ty to be named a page boy in the Florida legislature. He left Tallahassee to ‘return to the farm, but he carried ,with. him, an ever-abiding determination to succeed in life, and out of that determination grew his ambition to become governor of Flori- da. His first.try was in 1940, and many believed at that time had he begun his campaign earlier, he would have been the man, not Whitehair, who would have been the runner-up to Spessard Holland, We recall the last time we saw Fuller during that campaign, He had just left The Citizen office, beaming with vigor and enthusiasm, and was swinging along Greene street, with ‘two traveling com- panions, toward Duval, joking and laugh- ing. He was a representation. of that type of youth, bubblinf over with assurance to succeed, that makes stepping-stones out of obstacles. The priges of sonke things aye about to drop, say the economists, and the house- wives want-to know wher : % t 4 Se ee SHOULD BONDS BE PEGGED? With billions of dollars worth of Gov-. ernment bonds scattered through the country, the Government of the United States has followed a policy of pegging the price, which means, in plain language, when the price begins to sag, the Govern- ment moves into the market to buy, thus creating an artificial demand to hold up the price. Many financial leaders, including bankers and insurance officials, have de- nounced the Government’s policy, claim- ing that the practice is more harmful than any decline in the market price of Govern- ment bonds without the support. There is little unanimity on the subject, howl ever, and much weight of opinion in favor. of what the Government is doing. Even the Government’s Security Com- mittee of the Investment Bankers’ A c ciation, which denounced bond-price-peg-; ging, split on whether the policy should be continued and wound up by saying that: “a majority of commercial 7and invest-! ment bankers across the country have ored and hoped for the success of the =i bond-price-pegging.” It should be noted, of course, that the critics on the outside can advocate theories as often as they please, but the authori- ties, dealing with actual conditions, have \ to make policy decisions based> on facts and it should also be noted, unlike the critics, are limited to one guess. Equality, be it understood, is not the rule of nature except inthe language of the inferior, GOOD OLD UNCLE SAM ‘| On Christmas Day the Berlin airlifts delivered 10 tons of canned corn. We are, continuing to feed hungry people nat only in Germany but in other parts of the World. You and T have reason to feel very people all over the World who are down and out, for we are a great Nation carry- ing out noble purposes and playing our part in trying to restore ‘Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Men,” ! State Department Is Worried .. . “| run, might give us an inheritance of hatred that could be dan- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN MUST THE: US. CHANGE ITS FORRIGN POLICY? The foreign policy of the United States, in regard to Latin-' America, is based upon faith in democratic processes and an | apparent belief that it is possible to have popular self-govern- ment in the other ¢évintries of this hem hemisphere. | The history of events in the recent past has somewhat shat-| tered that faith. The;governments of Venezuela, Peru and E!! Salvador have been overthrown by military force’ and, in addi-| tion, there have bean “threats of uprisings and revolts in Chile, | Ecuador, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, Costa Rica; Panama-and | Golombia: «9! ajosite wf oes te doa } i The State Depitirtitient is worried, declaring, it cannot fail ’ to" bectinis “W'surtuWitly geridus issud! t"“éngage the’ attention of the, American Repyblics.as.a whole.’'., Moreover, the use « military force -against:Constitutiénal: govermments-is inconsist ent with “thé idals’ ‘the Americai Republics ‘and. “ihcreas- | ingly a danger to all the countries of this hemisphere.” ” It might bea Aged idea for responsible officials of the United States te, imquize as to “the ideals” that move the people of other lands. It is barely possible that they are. to a large degree. a figment of the American imagination and that. in fact, there is little solid basis for an intelli- gent belief that popular self-government is possible in some of the countries. While we are thoroughly in sympathy with the hope that the people of this hemisphere wlil develop democratic pro-| cesses, one should’ tiet overlook the possibility that any effort to force progress along such lines may be advantageous to the |’ dictators. Certainly, ‘if an éffort is made to impgse self-gov- ernment upon people who are not fitted for it, either by training, experience ‘or inheritance, there isa distinct danger that astute military “leaders will be able to use the situation for their benefit. This is what seems to be happening in much}: of Latin-America. : The attitude to be taken by. the ‘United States is com- plicated by the enormous strength of this country when com- pared with the power of the smaller countries. Naturally, there is some far of the “colossus” in smaller countries and the would-be dictators do not hesitate to work up a senti- ment against this country whenever it serves their purposes. Obviously, if the United States attempts to use force in any | of the countries, the charge would be spread everywhere that | the United States is!taking advantage of its size to impose its| . will upon a weaker neighbor. | At the same time, the need for some competent police force ig apparent: The possibility exists, of course, that the | nations of the Hemisphere might get together in the creation | of an international military force, designed to protect each | one against revolutions inspired by military leaders. This force could operate within the framework of the United Nations. t = | hero of War of 1812, | expedition against the Algerian pirates in 1815, born in Mary- Chapter 11 r- WAS all so peaceful and nice that I felt like somebody had played me the dirtiest trick in the world when I opened my eyes. Opening’my eyes seemed to open my brain, at the same time, and at the pain in the world flooded viciously through my _ body. ‘didn’t have any stomach. It had been reduced to twisted knots of raw ‘flesh. _ I closed my eyes again and tried desperately to force myself back into that; blissful state of uncon- ‘Sciousness, but it wouldn't work} y, ‘at ‘atl. A mumbo-jumbo murmur of voices coming from all sides "finally pried my ‘eyes open again. ied in a long narrow room. There were other beds along “each side of the wall, and in every Bed there was somebody.’ Each somebody a man. All wore make- shift night. shirts, and when I looked down my nose I saw that I was wearing one, too. And just ; me and my bare skin underneath, Just at that instant, though, a door I hadn’t yet noticed swung i skinny lad came gliding inside. He wore white pants, and a three-quarter length T was on a open and a tal white smock. “How do you feel?” he wanted to know. “Do you hurt much?” Instead of answering I asked the important question right then and there. “Where am I?” es 1 “Morgan Hospital,” he replied. Then maybe as an afterthought, “The Alcoholic Ward.” “What?” The lad in white frowned, and half lifted a hand. , "7 “Take it easy,” he said. quietly. “Take it easy. What's your name?” “Barnes, Gerry Barnes,” I re- plied automatically. Then also automatically I added, “I’m a pri- vate detective.” “Really?” he murmured. “Definitely!” I snapped, or{placed the | thought I snapped at him. “Now let’s have it! How did I get here, and where are my clothes? What's the big idea, anyway?” “You,” he replied, as though I should ‘have known, “We're only you. Last night you were 1f in and half out of the) through all the kets. O East River, down by Ninety-sixth. Some kid found you and called @)hand. Cleaned, but good, cop. Fellows like you are our job. We went and got you.” zl. “My clothes!” I cut in as the icy things began to crawl up and. ne again. “You must ed the pockets and , ing head. stopped me. out, and then pushed ee “Look,” I said as calmly as I could, “you got the wrong party this time. Just the same, though, I thank you for z T’ll do more th s!of sympathy in his eyes, get out of here. with the near- est thing to nst the rules. who can come here to identify vouch for you, we ai “Fair enough!” I interrupted. “Phone the Homici , told him, “Get Lieutenant Bier- man on the wi .|Gerry Barnes i i him to come he i man, of Homi- d to get out. pu really are a ide Bureau,” I and tell him F id/to say a_word down at Centre pri 2 t “Yeah,” I grunted. “Up until/a bite yours now,-I thought I was. Hurry it up, Five of the mc utes in my life d then the door swun came back. He had my shoes in one hand, and the rest of myjdecided things for him, C . rm. He|have been, though, that he we [head of my bed, and gi “Lieutenant Bierman me to tell you that he was’ way here now.” a I grabbed my clothes ang every one I pulled nothi underwear, shirt, and suit | had been ripped out. Bases must have set kind af a speed record, 4 cause he came barging thre the door just, as I was sl linto my jacket. He gave me look, and then switched his to my skinny guardian's face, “I'm Lieutenant Bierman,” clipped out. “I spake to Dr. § downstairs, I'll take it from hepa! Bierman stepped by him took a good look at me. May my eyesight wasn’t up to par but I didn’t see the slightest n you navigate under }own power, Barnes?” he wi to know. “Sure,” I told him. “Let's gd Out in front his car was waits ing, with his right hand, Sergeant. Goff, behind the wheel. looked me over good as we wi over and climbed in. What thought I didn’t guess, or try, got in back with Bierman at mj heels, and then gave him ry ooked grin, “We've got lots of things to a about, Lieutenant,” I said, 4 in my condition I’d never be al Street. Tell you what. Cor to my place, and we'll go over all while I clean up, id eat, Ag. T recall, it hasn’t been since brealtm | fast yesterday. You could do with — ouldn’t you? And — Sergeant Goff? I'll send down for it. For free, of course.” A lot of words, and a couple of, times Bierman made as though. cut in, but he didn’t. I phe was how I must have looked hungry, too. “All right, Goff,” he said, leaned back on the cushions. “Hi apartment.” Aquite excited,” he said. “He told TODAY’S ANNIVERSARIES (Know America? 1779—Stephne Decatur, naval ler of the JAS ‘land, Died in a duel, March 22, | 1820. Failing to secure an effective international police, with the function of keeping the peace in the Latin-American, countries until the people’ can become indoctrinated with democratic processes, the United States will have’ to face the fact of revolutions or institute a firm policy in regard to such. “uprisings”. . ~ . . ‘ This will. not wotk ‘to enhance the popular standing .of the | United States in the Latin-American countries and, in the long gerous, At the present ‘time, of course, this country has noth- ing to fear regardless,pf the attitude that the puppet. dictators of alitin-America might take to this country. + We might also point out, in this discussion, that the United States, when it participates in a Pan-American Conference, has one vote. Every little Republic has an equal voice in determ- | ining the policies and principles of the international set-up. This makes it impossible ‘for’ this country to impose its will or to! force Democracy upon other peoples. All that we can do, in| such an international tggregation, is to advocate and persuade. | | Much the same situation exists in the conferences of the United Nations, where the United States can be over- whelmingly out vote representatives of smaller nations. | This means .if you, look into the matter, that it is impossible | for the United Stateg.to impose its ideals of Democracy. free- lom or human rights upon other nations of the world. In \ fact, the danger is that thé other nations will out-vote us in {| any parley and impose their ideas of freedom and its appli- cation upon us. i j | In addition, to thea, problems, the United States is also} concerned with its tfemendous program of financial assistance. 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