The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 7, 1950, Page 2

i ae | 2bO £96 SESSLER S 266 4466 66484.5523._ 500804 1207282. -- none, eR mw OTe Lee ters S408 - - “2 © 3 > ht hin death at the ‘ wv. —~ Alee Waugh has written a definitive oeete bee he con line. T° Uy churches trom Se Spc fort “Sua “inviten ais: 8 \. 1 WH pet publish anonymous 4 Dear Readers: A politician, whom The Oracle be- Heves te honest, told him that it is very ditQealt to remain honest’ in polities, that the temptations were so great. The legies! conclusion, therefore, is that wreak persons should not aspire to poli- Avail offices. THE ORACLE “THE LIPTON STORY” Not long before He surrendered the Pritieh Poreign Office portfolio in 1900, herd Sellebury remarked at a ‘private din- wer that he had no ear of armed. strife oviting between Great Britain and the Uelled States so long as the two nations eomtinwed the race for the America’s Cup. While the British statesman was @eubtioss «peaking in an informal theee whe heard him did not miss the un- deriving serious import of his remarks— het back of those international yachting ences of yesteryear was a_ significance which transcended by far more sporting eecttement Prom 1870 through 1937—a period of Wityseven years—numerous tries were "WHE for the Cup by the World's finest eippere—but to no avail. The Cup remain- ed im the custody of the New York Yacht (feb, OF the many who attempted to win *. weme tried more valiantly or was as well ved for ble efforts as Sir Thomas Lipton;, we hallenged first in 1899 with Shah & ft and—finally-——in 1930 just a year age of 81 with vein, Wepraphy of this merchant-y an hich Doubleday and Company is ng entennial of his birth in 1850. It "Wiles good reading both for those who re- member Sir Thomas and his many visits to the United States, as well as for those whose wears are fewer, So great America’s admiration » thie genial Glaagow-born boy of Irish srentage whe began work at ten years of see eed lived to walk with kings, that they syeeet wanted him to win the Cup he ght for so hard and so well. His graci- oene im the dace af repated defeat .in- jotthly ineeribed his name as a symbol of geod spertamanship, and endeared him for aff thme th the hearts of milliéns, Obarecterized by Will Rogers as *phetibly the World's worst yacht builder, sheclutely the World's most cheerful Sir Thomas Lipton probably did eement warm relations between peoples of two great nations than any ve perso Wf the Werld today had more of his genielity and sense of clean sportsmanship, there would be a firmer foundation of good wit ameng peoples on which to build an during peace ‘ t More te ' ‘as second clase matter | the present Labor Government will be re- ior ats resolutions — ie ” . ‘The election campaign in Great Brit- ain is moving toward the decisive day, Feb-: ruary 23rd, when the voters of that coun- try go to the polls to determine whether turned to office or replaced by the Con- servatives, led by the great war leader, Winston Churchill. ye ; The parties have set out their plat- forms, using all the sugary bait that po- litical parties are accustomed to set be- fore the unsuspecting citizen. We make this statement on the assumption that British politicians are like those on this side of the Atlantic and that the purpose of the platforms is to eatch votes. The Labor Government, as most of our readers know, has nationalized the coal industry, railways, canals, docks, airways, gas and electricity, the cable and wireless, and the Bank of England, It has proposed to nationalize the iron and steel industry, but this has heen deferred until after the day of the election. The Conservative platform gives a pledge to stop nationalization, including that of iron and steel, to put some road transport back into private industry, de- centralize the coal and railway adminis- trations and determine the fate of the gas and electricity industries after greater ex- perience in the present operation. Interestingly, the Conservatives, in their political manifesto, suggest that everyone should be able to own a home of his own, asserting that a five per cent de- posit in cash should be sufficient for the purchase of a home. In brief, it promises a cheaper welfare state and more freedom, but it does not undertake to undo much of the nationalization already effected by the Labor Government. We have no way of acquiring the in- formation necessary upon which to base a prediction as to the outcome of the British elections. One newspaper correspondent, who recently visited England and in whose judgment we have some confidence, was of the opinion some months’ ago that the Labor Government would be returned to power. Whether this happens to be cor- rect or not, it is virtually impossible to identify the British parties with those of thé United States and it would be a mis- take to assume that the Conservatives correspond to our Republicans and. that the Labor Government corresponds to our Demoreratic administration. ad How many Americans would contain communism in China by sending a_ half million American fighting men to give bat- tle to the Reds? a One of the handicaps to the system af free enterprise is the theory, so widely advertised in some circles, that spending money for public health is socialism and spending money for subsidies to business is statesmanship. IT’S DIFFERENT ABOARD In one of his revealing Saturday Even- ing Post articles on his experience as Am- bassador to Russia, General Walter Bedell Smith described the scarcity of consumer goods of all kinds. He observed, “Ameri- eans with their corner drugstores, super- markets and five-and-ten-cent stores ean hardly imagine the life of foreigners in Moscow.” Lack of even the most necessary sup- plies at the retail level is always found: in totalitarian economies, And this lack, of course, is the inevitable result of any sys- tem based on rationing, price fixing, and ironhanded, noncompetitive government control or ownership of practically every- thing. We saw, on a small scale, something of the same thing when OPA regulations were maintained for some time after the war. As soon as those regulations were lift- ed, and normal competition was restored, all the scarcities were swiftly made up and, in many lines, there was actual overpro- duction. American stores, which we all take for granted, seem like miracles to visitors from other lands—and particularly the few who eame here from inside the Rus- sian orbit. They see the chains, the inde- pendents, the variety shops, the dealers in both necesgities and luxury goods—and everywhere there is an incredible abynd- ance judged by their past experience abroad. And, equally important, there ig open competition which forces every mer- chant to try to offer lower prices, better services, more attractive stocks, or some other consumer inducement. The retail store is the shaw window of the nation. It is accurate reflection af this great country. charm to the Sun JOHNNY HAWTHO down from Coral Gab for a brief visit. 3 MELVIN ADAMS tripped ta Miami the same day. SENATOR JOHN P, SCHUCH, of Saginaw, Michigan, is enjoy- ing a rest in the Island City, He told me inat his doetor ardered him to rest just before the recent election and that he immediately headed for! KEY WEST. In his} City while bison Aimy stationed absence he was re-elected, getting | here with the TENNESSEE WALTER CHRYSLER. several thousand more votes than | yearning to be returning. the last time. The Senator is plan- ning a trip to. Shark Island, where DR, MUDD was imprison-. ed. The doctor’s great grandson, also a physician, is a close friend of the Senator back in Saginaw, They are getting out a bogk about the original Dr. Mudd. An MGM biggie was in town ——— = One paragraph set -my and me sitting up in bed plang drooling over THE ‘ST CITIZEN. We see who writes the tke N. K. READ received a long let-| She does not have an ter from DANNIE and GLADYS ment, but is leading a huge JACKSON up in Glen Rock N. J. The Jacksens and their son, Bil- ly, fell in love with the Island lavy, and are gorgeous blonde, dressed in the jumping for joy”. . . Gee, it’s hor-| she entered ‘leading the big. os- rible up here in the frozen north, | trich. Keeping friends mentioned ever so often. 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