The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 3, 1950, Page 2

* teemeereencnemnsrammtemnmite 2 Be ‘Weeki: ~-eation, * the Rey West Citizen | Sa Only jeannen, ta Key Weet und a @atered at Way West, Florida, as second class matter OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Prese ix exclusively entitled to Peis ee so, credited in’ thia paper, &0 La i ‘aol ote local Ney waiienen here. ? YSURSCRIPTION RATES One Year Months ADVERTISING RATES jade. Known on Application SPECIAL NOTICR All notices, carde of thanks, resolutions of nt renting tt notices, poems, ete, will _eharged for at the rate of 10 cents a ‘line. =" Notices for entertainment by churches from which a revenue is to be derived are 5 cents @ line. The Citizen ig an open forum and invites hers @ussion of pubiic issues and subjects of General imterest, but it will not publish aosymous communications. MONOGRAPH Dear Reader: It is Glways the right time in Key West to take another step in the work of making more beautiful than ever. THE ORACLE ‘common to hear so-called erts declare that the edu- cational system of the United States is “in hopeless confusion.” What these critics mean is that the school® até’ less dogmatic in their teach- “ing. The-eurriculum has been broadened to embrace fields of thought in which mathematical certainty has not yet been attained. The experts, we think, are in greater confusion than the schoo! These critics apparently lose sight of the fact that intelligent thinking cannot occur in any intellectual field that is al- ready closed. When the entire truth is as- serted, there is no room for further in- struction:and no need for additfonal thinking. A textbook on economy, for example, may notrexplain th workings of the gold standard throughout the world, or the ex- ‘act relation between the supply of money and the prices of commodities, but this does'rmt mean that the study of economies is absurd, Neither doesit necessarily imply “hopeless: gonfusion. ” It may be the result of utter frankness which is a necessary: ‘prerequisite to the discovery of absolute truth. . | So far as we are concerned, we believe a student will get more out of attending a school whieh frankly faces the questions of the heur in an exploratory manner than from a school where all the answers are known, by the teachers and rammed down the stydents’.throats. If this last pro- ~»8e8s can *betconsidered educational in any sense of the: word, there is little use in spending? immense sums for public edu- ‘HAVE A COOK BOOK Uncle Sam will contribute three thou- sand epok books to every Member of Con- gress. Therefore, every statesrian should give every family in the Grass Roots a cook boek. The Washington Papers play up the story this week, and they stress the _fact thafeyery “Congressman should play Santa with his three thousand cook books.” Connect »with “Santa Claus” and your Con- gressman- “Fell him that you really must all have yolit cook book. He’ll come across with gree unique feature of the “book is that it.doesn’t mention two famous commodjties;hutter or margarine. When recipes fequire such items it calls — “cookingefat: The Congressional has a c + en diet with the porta ed cord of dach. got 4 In a recent issue Collier’s published a dramatic double-page spread demand- ing repeal of the wartime excise taxes on commodities and services. It showed just how these burden the consumer. And the point was that these taxes “reduce em- ployment—penalize consumption—d i s- courage business.” "You .payja. wartime excise tax every time you ‘buy a piece of luggage, a bottle of bahy oil, some modest jewelry, and many other items which certainly cannot be called. luxuries in a nation which prides itself on its high and rising living stan- dards. You also pay’them when you make a long distance telephone call, or send a telegram, or travel on a train or a bus or a plane—services which, in many instances, are absolute necessities. And these taxes, it must be remembered, come right on top of the thousand and one other taxes which business and individuals must pay, and which are part of the cost of everything the consumer buys. The excise taxes were not passed pri- marily to raise revenue. They were de- signed to discourage avoidable civilian use of goods and services when we were at war,/and everything possible had to be sacrifieed to our military needs. When they were passed, it was practically universally said that they would be repealed.as soon as the war ended. The war did end, years agd—but those taxes are still on the books. Some experts actually think that re- peal of the taxes would increase govern- ment revenues, by stimulating business in the affected enterprises. In any event, any loss could easily be made up, and more, by paring just a little of the waste in the government. Collier’s hit the nail on the head when it said that the taxes “reduce employment—penalize consumption—dis- courage business.” It’s easy to laugh at the ills of another but the humor ends when you have a pain in your own insides. PACT NATIONS. WORK TOGETHER The twelve North Atlantic Treaty na- tions are now engagéd in a conference to determine'the strategy and missions of a collective self - defense program in West- ern Europe. The meeting is taking place in The Hague, The Netherlands, and il- lustrated the progress made by the free na- tions in conneetion with their program of coordinateddefense, General Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, is repre- senting the United States. He is reported to be pleased with the progress made and to have said that, in the last few months, the Atlantic Pact powers, have accom- plished military planning which would have taken two years under the arrange- ment that existed among the nations be- fore World War II. The general idea is that the nations have agreed as to the assignments given them in connection with the defense pro- gram. The United States would have re- sponsibility for strategic bombing in re- taliations against an attack on any of the Pact nations. The American Navy, togeth- er with the other naval. powers and, to some. extent,. France, would attempt to. maintain superiority on the seas, The mo- bilization of ground forces would fall, in greatest part, to European countries and Great Britain and France wauld be charg- ed with short-range air-bombardment and air defense. While nothing definite is known, it is generally believed that this pattern is re- flected in the shipments of military sup- plies and machine tools which the United States is making under its program of as- sistanee to the nations of Western Europe. We never could become excited over war games played in peacetime. IKE GIVES A HINT General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who commanded American forces in Europe during the last- war and now serves as the President of Columbia University, recent- ly told a group of student journalists that the newspapers of the nation have high- lighted our problems “so much so that I’ve stepped readng them.” We doubt if the General is to be taken literally but it would be a good idea for those who publish newspapers to weigh his words. The successful newspaper, in the long run, must retain the confidence of its readers. Once the columns are filled with speculative nonsense, propaganda and “expert” trash, the day of doom is ap- proaching for the press. REDUCE EMPLOYMENT ' THE KEY WEST CITIZEN and is greeted by his parents and sister. Left to leader; Mama Davis, and Sister Marjorie at right. while in Paris two years ago. He says he has will remain stateless and work for world govern ment. right: “FIRST WORLD CITIZEN” COMES HOME FROM AFAR GARRY DAVIS (center), self-styled “first citizen of the world.” arrives in New York from Europe Papa Meyer Davis, Philadelphia band Young Davis renounced his American citizenship no intention of regaining U.S. citizenship but (®) Wirephoto | | | THE Southernmost Corner bring back those coal-bueket clo- | threé more names ior the bright- che hats, cumbersome . bathingtights, those of suits and dresses with ithigy ai GERTRUDE LAWRENCE at the knees I am going @idashing;; JACK BUCHANAN. | off for Bali or Papeete. “FRED and-ADELE ASTAIRE} I got to thmking bai ; were the dancg 8 toasts of the} It is seldom that | I7> ch! Great White ” an@ that fa- thinking, as.it generajly, yj street Son with FIFTH | this. lapse/into retrogpget} seajas. eit could drop.on the heads! fairly safe. In 1925 we had a thing of visiting celebrities, such as the called prehibition which was QUEEN OF RUMANIA, who driving more people to drink}didn't get thee until a year! than some people will admit. It. later was the eca of “Coolidge Prosper- 1925 wag.a great year and the administration was P y sports writers: concerne¢, chiefly with ete coe king.<t- goltican,, PAAVO people to forget the vagiares ot pve, Po j the Harding, reg-me and things | NURMI, the “Vigan Fina” land) like the Teapot Dome scandal. Speakeasies were in full bloom for Fa NAN became just “Texgs” Gui- nan, reigned as queen -$f the speakeasies and greeted you with “Hello, Sucker”, as yous ankled into her joint to get @clipped. Bootlegging and high-jacking | were spawning the Capones of} the nation, everybody seemed in- tent on having a good time, and the Florida boom was at its peaks: In Tenne: a man broke the law. A young biology teacher JOHN THOMAS SCOPES taught WILLS, “Little Poker Face,” Queen. “The Wheaton ice man,” RED GRANGE, was the “Gal-! |loping Ghost” ‘of the gridiron’ SEY was in his last great year as the world’s heavyweight cham-' ion _and a young ex-Marine named TUNNEY was aiming his sights at the “Mannassa Mauler’s” crown. BABE RUTH was “King the doctrine of evolution and his} Swat” or “Sultan of Swat trial was headline fodder. The! @epending on which sportswrit- great’ CLARENCE DARROW(*youread) and (1935 was the headed the defense and ageing| Yea a young fellow named BOU Seeki CLEVE hundred lars is a lot of money, but it’s! Boing begging in Cleveland. | CHARLES DUERKES That’s the total amoun’ of | money still left unclaimed by de- positors in the old Cleveland | Guardian Trust Company. The At the Jayshees fashion show #4 ’S “THE GREEN HAT” | bank folded up in 1933. Mother night I was struck by. the! 4 ort THEATER and! Even now, several thousand improvements that ey taken ciel arabe) a cari a sone Spear ey: ae s e c he oilicials in charge of liquida- | Place since 1925.in ladies PaMiing BART, CARHOL'S “VANIVIES" | tion hava bean’ unable 6 And attire. MICKEY 8 . ‘made wer their best and Earl had! the people who actually own all two terrific appe neces in 1925 pot as yet been tossed into the; this money. i styles while her hubby George Bastille because of perjury con-| If nobody Ilaims it, the county | (Gershwin) Renna coaxed the | cerning party he gave for the! will get it, y song hits of that year out of the COUNTE CATHCART at SSUES Sihclehcmnee tea eighty eights. which a lass named HAWLEY} Got His Number 1950 styles are borrowing afew, pathed in the altogether in aj ss a ate highlights from vogues of the gathtub filled with wine. “CHAR-| _The bus was full but a large “roaring twenties” but if theysEOTS REVIEW” had made , #4. elbowed her way in. Lady—“ BEA LILLIE, [One £ for me and one for my hus- and! band outside into all manner of trogble, bu [AVENUE im-the amount of ticker Pe conaus in. the company. madam, I husband GEHRIG | Yankee staff to launch on an im- ng Owne LAND. — (>). — Four | and fifty thousand dol Two tickets, please. Conductor—“Can’t your hus- band get his own ticket?’ How fam | to know which is your hus- | band?” Lady—“Impudence! I _ shall Conductor — “Calm urself, can imagine what your is like.” joined Babe on the pressive career of 2,130 consecu- BOBBY JONES|tive games of unbeatable ball. 1925 was quite a year. I recall ed there tc show how a guy could! a number of other things about it, jrun two miles in less than nine but enough is enough. That was and th t ortant che }minutes, and a butcher’s 19 year'the first RRO ara er ae at Leb lela. daughter, GERTRUDE ED-! ounce glo who could really send you tothe | ERLE, getting ready to con-' feeling of getting proper peep-hole lady; pamed | quer the English Channel. BILL' same. y7_| TILDEN was the undisputed If I Bee LOWE CECI CUP feos ck Avene and HELEN youre was now, I'd co all the same jov ai take enemies. and made “77” a sacred number’ money but I haven't |in footba'l history. JACK DEMP-! doggone thing! Low nd the same friends and BEER base- ear I donned four and experienced the socked with » twenty five years d know what I know things make the same mis- n, I haven’t made any missed a 208 Duval Street Mixed Drinks and WINE—— Prices Are Born Here Garden Inn Finest and Raised Elsewhere RALPH and NORMA BRECK WILLIAM world was created in, that EVE came from rib, that Darwin was that young Scopes was as’ as-all hades. Scopes was found guilty, later set) at libe: ma technicality, it was hottép’#han you know what in Tenn ‘that July, and to this day mi seems to give a hoot wheth not Darwin was-right. = Another story that tional headlines in 1925 Wi of FLOYD COLLINS 4 tucky, who got imprisont small underground pas: Mammoth Cave. toiled day and night, eighteen days’ Tater an him dead Best sellers in that year were “DIET and Health” by Lulu Hunt Peters and “SOUNDINGS” by A. Hamilton Gibbs. Top favorites in the writing field were Sinclair Lewis, Gertrude Atherton, “Mari garet Kennedy, Willa Cather, Ed- na Ferber and 4. S, M. Hutchin: son. In that year the Chiarlédton® and the “Black Bottom” were, be?! coming the dance craze, men still wore jerseys with their swim trunks, plus fours were the style and psychcanalysis was becom- ing fashionable. ‘oadway was seething with suceess, mazdas and stardust. In. , 1925, crities snéered at “ABIE’S IRISH ROSE,” . which went on to break records «with 2,327 consecutive performances.| A rising young star KATHERINE GARNELL sta as “TRIS MAREN, ing MICHAEL, JAYS) ai ry pol iad _ PHONES: Overseas Transportation Company, Ine. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service’~ ——between—— MIAMI and KEY WEST: Also Serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA KEYS Between Miami and Key West EXPRESS SCHEDULE _ __ (No Stops En Route) )BAVES KEY WEST DAILY (Ex- GEPT SUNDAYS) at 6:00 P. rives at Miami. at 12:00 MIAMI DAILY Me A 12:00 o' ives at Key at 8 at) wen NDAYS) at eek 5 A Sree Miami at 4:00 SCHEDULE west DAILY (x. 8:00 o'clock ILY LEAvES FAME SUNDAYS) at $:00 o'clock A ML at Key West at 5:00 o'clock FREE PICK-UP and DELIVERY SERVICE FULL CARGO INSURANCE ‘lock Mi Firs; and Francis Sts. AA44A2DAOD4444444 Political Announcements State Democratic Primary, May 2, 1950 Cte te tate tp et ttt For U. S. Congressman 4th Congressional District PAT CANNON . For U.S. Congressman 4th Congressional District BILL LANTAFF For State Senator JAMES A. FRANKLIN _ Re-Eleetion For State Senaior NORWOOD R. STRAYHORN 1950 MONDAY, APRIL 3, EX-GI CONFESSES TO DEADLY FIRE For State Representative BERNIE C. PAPY Re-Election For State Representative J. Y. PORTER, IV (®) Wirepnoto 5 For County Commissioner $450,000 Is | Left In Bank; Second District FRANK BENTLEY Second District RODMAN J. BETHEL For County Commissioner | POLICE SAY Nicholas Frank Verna (above), 26, a former GI, has confessed setting the fire that took the lives of nine pa- tients in Belle-Vista Sanatori- um near Philadelphia. Officers said Verna had been a patient For County Commissioner Second District LouIs CARBONELL For Seeond District FRED j. DION For County Commissioner Fourth District BEN N. ADAMS For County Commissioner Fourth District PAUL E. MESA For County Commissioner Fourth Distriet GERALD SAUNDERS Commissioner at the sanatorium since he was convicted of setting fire to a | building in Philadelphia sev- eral years age Your Horoscope APRIL 3, 1950—The aggressive temperament n full swing this day, and brings honors despite trials and trouble. It is said to be a degree of reward. There is usually an ultimate at- tainment of success, but the way leads through much tribulation MONDAY, For Member School Board Third District JOHN V. ARCHER For Member of School Board Third District EUGENE L. ROBERTS For Member of School Board Third District J. CARLYLE ROBERTS Re-Election Por Judge Juvenile Court __EVA WARNER GIBSON "For Judge Juvenile Court B. W. (BEN) KETCHUM Juvenile Court ART WILLIAMS For Judi JULIA S' Your Grocer SELLS That Good STAR * BRAN COFF and SUBAN Ask for a = CHECK THESE NEW FEATURES and the frequent making and abandoning of plans bi ov Harlan Miller, columnist-au- fa ithor, born in Poland, 53 years Be a . ago. : b ie sh Air <a Pl STRAND consitioneal Last Times Today é STAGE FRIGHT with WYMAN, MARLENE RICH, RICHARD TODD, MICHAEL WILDING Murder In Loudon Cartoon UTH OF ST. LOUIS Joel Mec! Alexte ith, Zachary Scott, and Bob Steele MONROE corr) rn Se eee Last Times Today TRY A POUND TODAY!