The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 20, 1949, Page 2

i _ SO RRT ING mares ™ Aeewn on Application Weftbrook Pegler, Arigona Way Dear Pegler: ' You wound up one of your diatribes wit the salutation “Viva El Publicidad! Come again, but not with the articles twited. It offends Cayo Hueso’s Latin «naitivity THE ORACLE POLAND TRADES WITH WEST News comes from Europe that the Hrith and Polish Governments have ne- eotiatGd « five-year trade pact, involving a $600, Q00,000-exchange of goods. The Poles, under the agreement, will pig breakfast bacon and eggs for at at fen per cent of the British population return get machinery, wool and rubber from the British. is interesting to note that the Pol- ish ei of food are expected to com- penal for mach of the Canadian’ order conedifed by British because of lack of jotlem™® In addition, the British refused te ew copper to the Poles because they heave & bay their copper in the United “etewend, therefore, could not afford to re-expert any of the metal. Eolich officials consider the pact a demogetration of their desire to expand trade grith the West. The British say the pact Wi help them save dollars, The Poles Rave also signed trade agreements with eight other countrigs, including Den- mark, Pranee and Western Germany. Pir many years, Bastern Europe has prowilitd much of the food and raw ma- tertell® vequired by the industrialized conetty of the Western nations of Eu- pe. Many experts declare that unless the Hact- West trade is renewed in Europe, the Contiieet can hardly expect prosperity. Appal@ntiy, the economie forces are ex- ovtinliome pressure for the resumption vottinal trade relations. . MAY EVOLVE IN THE YEARS * Hertrand Russell, well-known British hileggpher, says that a very large part of i embraces two widespread creeds, hick be outlined as follows: (1) “One of these, the creed of Com- —_ has the advantage of intense stitiem and embodiment in a sacred (®) “The other, less definite, is never- theled@ potent. It may be called “the ran way of life.” THe Britich author thinks it will be enGiry to unify these conflicting tenets ot herly rate of law or by “finding inno- cont lets for our competitive instincts.” £.. intelligent persons have previ- gutlined the clash between Com, mentum end the American way of life, = this time, no one has been able (1 « plan which will permit them ndipiete peacefully for world supre- There is, of course, the plan of the pecifigie and modernists, who seem to hiek that the United States should pinely surrender its future rights and erties in an exhibition of love and trust « pewerful neighbor. There are others, fee, who think that the thing for nt eliintry to do is tobe prepared for a taf} contest while attempting to obtain APPLAUSE.UNDAMPENED. — ha This is the day that Thomas E. Dewey thought, if we assume from the way. he spoke and acted during last year’s cam- paign, he would be inaugurated president of the United States. . If Dewey entertained any doubt about his election, his campaign managers didn’t, and the poll dopsters didn’t. One polling expert, Elmo Roper, felt.so positive of Dewey’s election, after he had made his first poll, he announced that he considered it a waste of time and money for him to conduct another poll. Harold Ickes called Dewey Thomas Elusive Dewey. * Of course, we realize that was a play on his middle name of Edmund, but a far-better Adjective than “elusive” to characterize Dewey is “icy” Dewey. As some of the correspondents who toured with him during his campaign. remarked, it seemed impossible for him'to warm-up, despite his repeated efforts to do so when he greeted or shook hands with voters. Another insight into Dewey’s charac- ter was his refusal to attend the inaugura- tion today in Washington. The Citizen feels that it would have shown good sports- manship for Dewey to have attended the inauguration, if for no other reason than to demonstrate to the people of the United States that he had sufficiently mastered his disappointment to congratulate the man who had defeated him. The Citizen’s readers may recall that Republican startégists complained about the type of speeches their vice presidential candidate, Earl Warren, delivered during the campaign. Hé¢ confined himself to dis- cussing the issues}in the eampaign and re- fused to denouncé anybody. For that rea- son it was no surprise to the American peo- ple that he accepted the invitation to at- tend the inauguration. In doing that, he emphasized the difference between his and Dewey’s disposition. ‘ Finally, Dewey was not missed in Washington today while tens of thousands applauded the man who defeated him— Harry S. Truman, whose Little White House is in Key West. H China, it seems, presents a problem to the Chinese. The progress of a community is in proportion to the unselfishness of its leaders. THANKS FOR READING THIS The editor of this newspaper is _nei- ther saint nor sage, philosopher ior profes- sor. There is no secret about the matter. We get a moderate amount of pay for ex- posing our views,to the gaze and perusal of the enlightened readers of this gazette. We have no campaign to persuade anybody to agree to anything, or with any- body and, least of all, ourselves. Our opin- ions, written in haste and poor English, may amuse, baffle or befuddle but so long as nobody else will do the job worse for less money, we will probably continue to collect our salary. | We find it rather difficult to get up a | rich lather of perspiration over any of the issues that face the nation, or the world. There have been issues for many years and there will be issues long after we have passed into the world where nobody writes editorials. Why should we worry over what somebody else thinks about our opinions, much less other matters? The human race is an ancient institu- tion. It has been bedevilled by wiser writers than this scribe. It has gone its way. So be it. All we ask is the privilege of going our own way, with those who may choose to come along and with- out those who prefer going some other way. We are so modest that we really ap- preciate the compliment that anybody pays us by reading our trash and we never worry whether they agree with us or not. There are financial experts who have been predicting an economic collapse for the past five years. Eventually, they will be right. some reconciliation of conflicting aims and ideals. Noboby knows what the final out- come of the present struggle will be but it is just possible that the situation will con- tinue muddled until, one day in the fu- ture, the hoped-for reconciliation will take place. It is quite possible that both nations and their peoples will, through their own process, arrive at sucha de- termination, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1949 an ee (No. 4) Peace Problems---Hot and Cold a \\ - << > ES (Last of & Fout-Part Featute) 9 ** 0" pce brought new problems, both domestic, end international, to the quiet Missourian: in’ the. White, House.. The ‘nation was’ plagued with a record number of strikes as prices skyrocketed into! inflation. Sharp disputes over ideologies of the, Ragt, and): West developed into a “cold wart between the United. Stefes and Russia. : Idleness due to strikes and walkouts rose to 116,000,000 man days in 1946—three times the figure for the previous year. Tru- man broke the paralyzing railroad tie-up in the spring of 1946 after two days, by threatening to run the trains with troops. War-time price controls werey. dropped in June, 1946, when) President Truman vetoed a watered-down bill for extension of the OPA. The bill,’ he said, of- fered only a “choice between in- flation with a statute and infla- tion without one.” ‘ For the first time in 15 years, the Republican party gained con-| ties. President. Truman’s pro- trol of both houses of congress in 1946. And then Congress passed the Taft-Hartley labor law over Tru- | shop an damending the Wagner Act to restrict other union activi- grams, for universal military training, broadening of Social’ Security “coverage, ‘long range’ housing, and the St. Lawerence! waterway were rejected. { Other major legislative meas- ures pressed by Truman won ap- | proval, however. These included unification of the armed forces, change in succession to the Presidency, appropriation of $400,000,000 for Greek-Turkish aid in accordance with the Tru-! man Doctrine, appropriations for | | Marshall Plan foreign» aid. and! | ratification of peace treaties with | Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, and| | Rumania. | | The Truman Doctrine called) | for material aid to “help free ‘institutions and national integri- , ty against aggressive movements ‘that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes.” The plan of Secretary of State George C. Marsnell celled for American aid on the basis of European self- help. Both programs have been denounced by Russia. To feed hungry lands abroad, President Truman urged such voluntary measures as meatiess and eggless days. Millions of tons of foodstuffs were sent to Eu- rope. In 1947 alone, 18,433,000 tons were sent overseas to meet the threat of “mass starva- tion.” Truman’s popularity was at a low ebb when his campaign for election in his own right began in 1948. Southern “states rights” delegates marched out of the man’s veto, banning the closed’ peoples to maintain their free) Democratic National Convention to form their own party when Truman refused to back down on his civil rights program. Henry Wallece formed « ' party, with the obvious intent of drawing left wing voles ewey from the President. Few preg rosticaters thought Truman hed achance to defeat Themes ©. Dewey with his smooth rumming When « Missouri voter ed that Trumen wee ten the Presidential rece. he replied: “I was not brought up te frum from a fight.” Atevery whistle stop he castigated Congress a | “the worst we have hed since the first one met.” Mis outspoken campeign was in sharp contrast with the quiet end coleries: Dewey drive. When the votes were counted, Marry 5%. Tremes had been elected President on the basis of a one-man campaign that all the experts hed fore doomed to failure. ‘ AP NEWSFEATURES SHOULD U.S. STOP REDS ON THE YANGTZE? “The United States will have to determine very shortly what, if anything, it is to do in connection with the situation in China, where the armies of the Nationalist Government have been bad- ly hurt by Communist victories. The sweep of the Chinese Communists, since early 1946, has been considerable, but there remains a vast expanse of .China in which, with proper assistance, a prolonged fight could be made. In 1946, the Communist-held territory amounted to about one-ninth of China, with a population of approximately 130,000,000 people. In 1949, the Communist controlled area represents about one-fourth of all China, with a population of about 200,000,000 people. \, In connection with the Communist advance, one should un: derstand that the estimated population of China exceeds 450,- 000,000 people. At present, the Communists are north of Nan- king and above the Yangtze River. Many students of the sit- ugtion believe that it is not too late ‘to halt the advance of the mmunists on the river defense line. ‘This would probably’ pipes Communist control of Shanghai and roughly more than Chapter 24 % 1ooked at me a long time, and I did not like the way he looked at me. “If DeFoe were alive and Maurice dead, the answer to that would be simple,” he said slow- ly. “But they are both dead, so | it is very confusing.” “To put it mildly,” I couldn’t help murmuring. Then straight from the shoulder I asked, “What about that lad by the name of Herbert Varney? Think he hated Cardeur that much?” My fishing trip was a fipp. At least as far as the expression on his face; and in, his eyes, was ‘' concerned: He simply looked at | me, and then slowly, knitted his ' brows and wrinkled up his fore- lf of the territory of the Republic, including Canton and Hong- b . kong .more than five hundred miles from the battlefront. : Confronted with this threatening development.in the ‘world situation, the people of thé United States, in determin- dng national policies, must decide whether the spread of Com- unism in China constitutes a menace to the future saféty of ‘Sthis country. « We should not be greatly concerned with the effect of Com- munism upon the people of China. After all, the residents of any region have the right to decide their own internal problems, but if their decision adversely affects the interests and threatens the security of other nations, it becomes necessary to carefully chart a safe course. We have been hearing much of the economic clash be- tween Communism’ and Capitalism. There is a considerable segment of our population which believes that the two sys- tems should and can fight out economic supremacy without involving the use of arms. Under this theory, the peoples of the world would be per- mitted to freely exercise their preference between the two sys- tems. Americans belivee that in such a competition, the bene- | fits accruing to individuals from our economic system will pre- vail over those given to other individuals by a Communist eco- nomic regime. The problem, however. is not so simple. The suspicion exists that the Russian Government is using Communist ideologies as a front for a determined extension of Russian domination. There is more than a suspicion that once the Communists get in control of a country, they ruthlessly de- stroy the rights of other people, using force to compel ac- quiescence in Communist ideologies. Communist regimes in nations outside of Russia are brought under the dominant control of the Kremlin and hence become subject to the designs of the rulers of Russia. Millions of in- dividuals, who are opposed to the principles of Communism, are compelled to serve Communist masters and are incorporat- ed into the Communist military potential. If China, with its teeming millions, becomes subservient to Communist military aggression, would a menace exist to the rights, liberties and lives of peoples outside of China, in- cluding the people of this country? id arly suffragist, lecturer, daugh- LOD iter of famed Elizabeth Cady ANNIVERSARIES Stanton, born Seneca Falls (Know America) Died Noy. 20, 1940. f Reni 1732—Richard H. Lee, fore- 1859—Charles A. Lindbergh, sea coke. Revolutionaryepe| ee Falls, Mont. lawyer, con- tris Virginia signer of thefetessman, Non-Partisan leader, Sat é i | r 2 avia , rn In, Detlaration of Independence, U,| tne ot ae eee 1924. S.§enator, orator, one of six|”™ j x famed brothers, born Stratford.) surplus Wildlife Conservation Va"Died June 19, 1794. Stamps are donated annually by ¥%708—Anson Jones, physician, | the National Wildlife Federation Texas pioneer-soldier, last Presi-| to Red Cross Chapters, Children’s dent of the Republic of Texas, | Homes d Institutions, and hos- born in Great Barrington, Mass. | pitals over the nation thus bene- A suicide, Jan. 9, 1858. fiting thousands of children and 1806—Nathaniel P. Willis, | shut-ins. famed New York man of lette of his generation, born in Port- land, Maine. Died Jan. 20, 1867, 1856—Harriet Stanton Blatch, Rhododendrons and azaleas both belong to the same genus of plants, ead. ; | “I am afraid I cannot answer | that,” he said, “because I do not ; know of anyone ‘by that name. You have metchim2"... 25° ~ 1< | “I think /DeFoe knew: ‘him well,” I said. “At least, the dig- ' ging around I've done causes me to come up with that belief. Sure you don't know him?” | “Very spre, Mr. Barnes. I am | very sure that I have never heard | that name in my whole life.” | 1. sighed; “grinned, “shrugged, | and toyed with my drink.a couple of moments. Although he didn’t | know it, Parrish had admitted | something I suspected but | wanted confirmed. “What were the reasons?” he suddenly cut into my thoughts. I just looked the question at ! him. “The reasons René and DeFoe | were killed,” he explained. | “Reason, not reasons,” I cor- | rected. And then for a second or two I ! hesitated. Should I let him know for sure I wasn’t just casting blindly hither and yon? Or should I make it look like I was? I de- | cided in favor of the former. I | decided it_might be a good idea to give Gordon Parrish some- thing to think about. Key West In Days Gone By | | AS TAKEN FROM FILES | OF THE CITIZEN OF | JANUARY 20, 1939 | ‘UUUUUUULUUUOAUOUUOUUAUUUALANAENTOOSUANAAAYASBMOASOGLS HAUGEN Arrangements were begun here | to establish a charter plane ; services between Miami, Key | | West and Havana. Senator Claude Pepper sent a }telegram to The Citizen today, | stating that $7,994 has been ap- | |proved by President Roosevelt! for WPA improvements to be ;made to the Key West High School. | The Key West Exhibit at the arts and crafts exhibition in Or- } lando is among the best there, ac- cording to letters received by the city council and the county com- missioners. Mrs. Raymond H. McCaw and Miss Mary Seymour Peyton, of New York City, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Haydn Illingworth at - their home, 615 Elizabeth street. = | Twenty-five naval officers will be guests tomorrow night at aj jitterbug dance to be given in the Boca Chica clubhouse by the Key “A very high-priced reason, too,” I said, looking at him, “t don’t know the exact figure. May- be a million dolla or maybe five million. How: Tl find out exactly in due time.” I scored! He tried to look all confused, but he was just as quick to hide his face in his drink. “you know Miss Zaralis, don’t you?” I asked him. “Why yes, yes, of course,” he got out after a moment. “She was with us in the Underground, as you probably know?” “All about it,” I said, and watched him squirm... only he didn’t. “What do you think of her?” “Think of her?” He seemed to be stalling. “What do you mean, Mr.. Barnes?” I made a little gesture to indi- cate I really wasn’t quite sure just what I meant. “Her work in the Under- round,” I said. “Was she good? ‘ou _know--capable, brave, and all that. sort of thing? And, in- cidentally, did she work with Cardeur much?” He had the answer all ready for me, . “She did much for the success of the movement,” he said. “I mean, so I haye been told. I bare- ly knew her over there. Some of us, you know, were simply num- bets to each other. I decided it might be a good idea to stir the boiling pot a little. “Do you know who she thinks killed Cardeur?” I asked He looked at me blankly for an instant. “You have asked her?” he wanted to know. “Sure,” I said pleasantly. “How am I going to find out things if I don’t ask questions? Believe it or not, Zara thinks you killed Cardeur.” swift punch to his lumpy potato-shaped nose would have roduced an identical effect. His ead went back, and he blinked. “Me?” he finally panted out. “She... Zara told you I killed Maurice?” we menven | know Henri Marone, dent you? “Yes, but I wouldn't let fi » % think he thinks y led De Foe, too.” His mouth w 1 couldn't say only look at m at the lounge floo great big hole “I found out » then changed police found out garroting wires the same spool. O: t " a coil. A real good search of this pla p turn up t you think? He looked at me, and have yelled out loud wha Lm Which, of didn't. But I knew well my guess was right. Gordon } thinking of a certain I had been “ente night, and wishin t hadn't been % t i t things. “I think you are mad, com- pletely mad, Mr. Barr Was what he actually did say. “It ws unthinkable that I would do that to either René or Maurice! If people would tell the t ey would tell you that I lov " both, as brothers. Made ile ant, I am ve ! ve an appointment will y a me leaving, Ye I was on his feet, and ing all over the place, spoke the last. ‘Of course, Mr. Parrish ed him. “It h b ing meeting you just a minute, Pa He turned and tried to coat m with ice all over “Yes?” Ver very flat-v 4 I took the fe 8 to bh “I'd like you t an ue to Eurlich, if you will 1 fe stiffened a little ghtened a little, t message?” he echoes That's right,” 1 said. “T Eurlich to please keep his tax cab off whatever T hag to be on. Thanks, bye, P I kept shooting at him. “You We Chamber of Co me Junior Key West Boat Club, at a meet ing to be held tonight, will make final arrangements for a regatta to be held on Sunday afternoon The first meeting of the Key West Chapter of the Pan-Ameri can Poetry Society will be held on Thursday night, January in the home of Mrs. Eva B. W. ner on Division street Mr. and Mrs. Fernando Gato, Jr., who came to Key West to at tend the funeral services Mr Gato’s father, left today for their home in Miami Today The Citizen says in an editorial paragrap! “Amer ns are a_ tolerant people. See how they let saxo phonists and crooners go r t on living Our Clients have paid us... $42,016,264.00 Georce S. May Company Business Engineni Se falas | OFFICES IN PRINCIPAL CITIES rish.” (To be continued) Your Horoscope THURSDAY 1949—-Somewt JANUARY 2 come on in the water’s GENERAL QD Evectaic automatic electric water hea Julian Appliance Store he DUVAL s8T PHONE 409 GRE eo ee, Progressive