The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 5, 1950, Page 2

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Peer ESS ON FLORIDA Ass MONOGRAPH Dear Car Drivers: “There are men who are very care- ful‘about the oil they put into their auto- mobile engines but rather careless about what they put into their stomachs. ; THE ORACLE Ge neta tee -THE F OR FALLACY BOMB » Probably many Americans are guilty ‘or more of the nine “fallacies” list- is L. Strauss, member of the, rey Commission. There are @ think that atomic energy will y supplant all other forms of pow There are others who believe it holdgsthe cure of all man’s physica) ills. Still Gehers, more jittery or credulous than the jority, are convinced that the hydro- gen y-will destroy the entire planet. fr: Strauss denies these premises as wellwas-several more that are similar. He is pasieularly emphatic in his rejection of the Geary, held by well-meaning people in alffalks of life and assiduously spread by seme liberals as well as by the Com- munists, that all that will be necessary to induggeRussia to disarm is to set the ex- ampféThat’s pure folly and the road to national suicide. It may be that it is not the people’s fault if they have fantastic ideas about atomié energy. The scientists themselves have"régaled them with frightening stor- ies ngt all of which were founded on fact. Indeed, some of them have seemed to go out_of their way to scare the public out of is fPtrigued by speculation and, for that reagon, it is interestng to get the view- poigt of somebody who knows sontething abaut the subject. . Lewis L. Strauss, one of the five origi- nafffembers of the Commission, is retring nextgmonth. He does not think that there is a basis for fearing annihilation of alt lite in an atomic, or hydrogen, bomb. war Poiluton of the world to this extent; he, says, “would entail an effort far beyond that needed to win a war between major powers.” { Mr. Strauss also expressed the opinion thdt ground forces and‘ naval forces have not been made obsolete by atomic-bomb war concepts. He believes that government manopoly in atomie energy is necessary as long as there is a “threat” but he does not believe that large-scale dispersal of in- duftr$ is advisable, saying that it would be!“so0mething with an economic implica- tion about as bad as a bomb hit.” St SRS RETR RARA RAE A | Fy WE'RE NOT CHILDREN A family we know has a three-year old son who. lives in a perfect planned economy. He is provided with complete security, subject, of course, to paternalistic author- ity. He is comfortably attired although his preferences as to selection of his cloth- | es are subject to his mother’s own ideas. When he is in need of medical attention, he has’ no choice in the selection of the doctor. That is decided for him. At meal times, he eats what is put. before him—or he doesn’t eat. If he wants to go out and play, he must seek parental permission. If any request is refused, he has no re- If he complains too loudly he is eou subject to adequate disciplinary me sures, the advice of child psychologists notwithstanding. From the time he crawls out of his bed in the morning until he returns pro- testingly at night, his own desires and in- clinations are guided by parental preroga- tives. After all, he is only three and there- fore cannot be expected to be a “produc- er.” He is told what to do, when to do it and how to do it. He is learning that the best way to get along is to do as he is told and stay out of trouble. The “do-gooders” and opportunistic political planners in Washington have set themselves up as the paternalistie author- ity for all of us. All of us except the Gov- ernment officials, that is. They would like to relegate us to the same status as our three-year old in telling us what to do. Once relegated, we would then re- ceive food, shelter, clothing, medical care and all the other things that go to make up our economic security. All of this would come to pass, regardless of how much we, as individuals, would have con- tributed to the total production. Even our three-year old, when he is old enough, would become a “producer” for the State and so subject to the planners’ dictates as to kind of job, loeation and pay—if any. All of want security for ourselves and our fartibios, but complete domination of our lives as outlined above must by its very nature bring us into complete subju- ‘gation to these same planners who, wheth- er they admit it or not, will become our masters. Up eautiful picture the campaign- ian draws for us when he pro- mises tis, mere welfare. It’s so, so difficult for him fo add that the only way that “more” canbe obtained is to produce more. Consequently, in our desire for secur- ity we too often are content to settle for his glowing promises. All of us like to get a bargain. The idea of “Something for Nothing” excites the imagination to the point that we want to ignore the cold, hard facts of the truth of the situation. The voters of America are faced with a choice of individual opportunity of “Wel- fare” security. Given the whole truth, there is no doubt that their choice will be the right one. Our experience is that those who want to borrew can tell you why the loan should be made. :¥ou can’t make money without ris ing something but you won’t make money every: time you take a chance. HELLO! HELLO! Nineteen-fifteen was the e ——___—__—- year, and ko DANGER OF ANNIHILATION January 2 was the day when the first . _— telephone exchange was opened from * Only those in very high places in gov- | coast to coast in the United States. ernment circles annd members of the Alexander Graham Bell was the hon- At@mic Energy Commission know the | ored guest upon that oceasion. Dr. Bell trufh about the great scientific develop- | used the original coil of the wire over = me§its taking place. The man in the street } which he had transmitted his first sen- j tence—‘‘Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.” He proved to the cock-eyed World that by putting on an earphone a man could “talk over a wire.” The following day, January 26, Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, spoke:to him and said: “How do 1?” U. S. Patent No. 174,- 2 el ms of the patent on the telephone. 4 © Teekendby Times commented on the ‘opening of th@transcontinental lines and challenged editorially the alleged “latest American humbug.” The idea of talking at a piece of sheet iron!” The New York Herald, published in upper New York at the time, said: “The effect is weird and almost supernatural.” The Boston Times commented: “A fellow can now court his girl in China as well as in East Boston.” And now the American Telephone Company has the most widespread outlet for conversation on earth. Pty CHARLES DUERKES I read somewhere that the U. S. Government is awfully mad at ! }@ man who pulled a fast capervin| |the potato subsidy’deal and that they have preierred charges against him. It. seems that he bought "potatoes from the gov- ernment for a penny or bushel and then sold the spuds back to the government ° for a couple of bucks a bushel. | I guess he must have been reading about free enterprise} and figured that if the govern- ment had a right to go juggling , spuds about the way they have! been doing, it would be safe for him to do likewise. The lads who figure like subsidies really whomped up a dilly in the matter of} ‘taters. They bought up all they! could, thousands of tons of them,} at around three bucks a bushel,! more or less, and then sold them to farmers dirt cheap, including | the ks. One farmer sold 50,000 sacks for a nickel apiece after he’d resold the spuds at a profi The idea was to keep the price of potatoes up so ~Mrs. House wife would have to pay enough for them to keep the farmers | happy and balance up the loss| the government took on them, which Mrs. Housewife, as a tax-| payer, had te pay in the first place in addition to paying taxes to pay the salaries of the experts who thought up the scheme in the second place, so the farmers could afford to pay more taxes out things vas a kid in the second grade I would have been tossed* into kindergarten for try- ing to foist an arithmetic; jig- saw like that off on my teacher whose name was NETTIE RINE= HART. { That kind of figuring imvelve: algebra, and perhaps calculus, ¢ and by the time we got old enough to flunk algebrg we knew better than to sit. about buying spuds from farmerg and then giving them back ‘o the | farmers could sell : them to a man in the next county;» who, probably hated potatoes any-j how. { Besides, when I was in. the} second grade, the little redj scheolhouse was smack dab in, the middle of farming © country! and the farmers went about rais- | ing corn and_ potatoes- manner of stuff, stock, and minded their own business. When it got so that) potatoes weren't bringing a de-j cent price on the market those including onl poor, uneducated farmers would | raise something instead of pota- toes the next season _-and the matter would be nicely evened up. Recently the expert? spent billions on the potato subsigy. It got so that potatoes were stack-' ing up and about the “land so that even the farmers “didn’t want to buy them. So the bright! boys bought some kerosene and set fire to a few thousand ~ tons of spuds to save the cost of buy-| they farmer who sold the darn spuds So now are mad ata back to them.. Which, goes. to; show that it is not a smart:caper to copy the business methods of the government. Of course, when I -was, in-sec- ond grade, farmers were still under the impression that their farm was their business and they worked pretty hard at it. Hf a city slicker had cut across the south pasture and said, “Look, Hiram, we will give you four } hundred and seventy six dollars and eighty six cents an acre not to plant potatoes this year over there on the north section,” why Hiram would have hotfooted back to the barn for a shotgun and a rope. Nine billion bucks worth of spuds is an item of some signifi- cance to be booted abotit, es- pecially since lads like. “Hiram 208 Duval Garden Inn 75,23" Finest Mixed Drinks —-BEER and W) Low Prices Are Born Here and Raixed Elnewhere RALPH and NORMA BECK ROBERTS OFFICE SUPPLIES and EQUIPMENT 126 DUVAL ST.” PHONE 250 ON DISPLAY ROYAL ELECTRIC TYPEWRITER World’s No. 1 Typewriter Rentals - Sales - Service ene |spend everybody's money, plus a| have ‘excellent adventure to refuse i ; with sighs and drools. | THE | Southernmost || Corner | to “5 . and Mrs. Housewife have for; the frolie. Now I see that another ie of experts have got out a govern- ment cook book to teach us how to cook. This only costs us a few bililon more, even though for two a’ some reason there is a shortage of VYVYV VVC COC CTTTVCre recipes on how to fix potatees., Butter and margarine are not mentioned at all and I can _ tell you that a big, baked Idaho po- tato with a chunk of butter, melting through it is not to be: sneered at, even by people who rr have a grudge against i Ida. | Congressmen. will go about} distributing these cook books. I! take a dim view of the whole affair, as I have always labored under what’ seems to be a de-| lusion that Congressmen should | be up in Washington attending | to business “pertaining to the af-; fairs of state, or | investigating each other, or some darn thing to keep them out of our hair. | Anytime a Congressman comes snooping into my alley with a’ jcook book he will get a hot po-| tato in his kisser, even though! potatoes are too expensive to} waste in such a low brow man- ner. | Why, I have a fine cook book | we got from the KEY WEST, WOMAN’S CLUB that cost only three bucks and I will bet it; cost the government more than | that to get their darned old book! out. The Woman's Club did not! lot of money they did not to publish their book and it My second grade teacher Net-| tie Rinehart. could have simpli- fied the entire matter with sec- fond grade arithmetic. She would | have doubtless, upon being con- ‘gulted, polished her _ glasses, | ‘smoothed her shirt-waist an | skirt, patted her neat gray hair, + jand said this:,“‘Take the surplus ; potatoes and send them to hun-! gry people who ‘can not afford potatoes. Do not put out a cook! book. You will thereby save sev-| eral billion dollars and gain al little good from hungry people. } Then, if you still want to eer tract the billions you have SAV-} ED from the DEFICIT you boys | in Washington already HAVE,' and the theater admission tax and ' that should\ neatly balance your; books. Hiram will still be doing al profitable business raising pota- toes and your Congressmen will be kept out of the kitchen. “When you have done that, Ii suggest you all come back and at- tend second grade for at least one term.” | Nettie Rinehert was a pretty | Your Horoscope . WEDNESDAY, —The nature of this day is irres- |olute. You are prone to mistakes of judgment, lof others 2nd easily deceived by {specious promises, partly from distrust of your own estimates. Cultivate powers of self- reliange | which will lead to suecess. Cortndum, used for abrasives, is found in Montana. AAaAAABAESALAEAAD ES Political Announcements State Democratic Primary. May 2, 1950 For U. S. Congressman 4th Congressional District PAT CANNON For U. S. Congressman 4th Congressional District BILL LANTAFF For State Senator JAMES A. FRANKL! Re-Election For State Senator _ ae NORWOOD R. STRAYHORN For State Representative BERNIE C. PAPY Re-Election For State Representative” J. ¥. PORTER: IV eee ne ~ For County Commissioner Second District FRANK BENTLEY For County Commissioner Second District RODMAN J. BETHEL For County Commissioner Second District LOUIS CARBONELL For County Commissioner Second District FRED Jj. DION For County Commissioner Fourth District BEN N. ADAMS For County Commissioner Fourth District PAUL E. MESA “For County Commissioner — Fourth District GERALD SAUNDERS :. SURE Aine is ama. ay A For Member School. Board. Third District JOHN V. ARCHER For Member of School Board Third District EUGENE L. ROBERTS pectin per hones ei eee and. all. }iust cancel out the cosmetics tax For Member of School Board Third District J. CARLYLE ROBERTS Re-Election ~~ For Judge Juvenile Court EVA WARNER GIBSON “For Judge Juvenile Court _ B. W. (BEN) KETCHUM For Judge Juvenile Court JU JA STUART WILLIAMS being too trustful {tole WEDNESDAY, APRIL | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN = MYSTERIOUS SUBMARINE HUNTED APRIL 5, 1950! | THE U.S. W. ' Letter In Red Fire Alarm Box WASHINGTON.—(#).—The gal blamed for trying. All Ede Kosher wanted to do was mail a letter home. So the visiting Dutch girl went looking | for a-mailbox. And, well, you've} | heard this story before. ‘The Fire Department came on the double ‘to find Ede trying alarm box. But in Ede’s defense, and: for that: matter, in our own defense, fontelling ‘such a story, we'd like this much: Seems that in Holland, mail! bdxés” are ‘painted’ red. ‘So "how | was Ede to know it would bt any (different in America? | | | smart potato. i in offices and shops, refresh at the familiar red cooler e Ash for it either way... both trade-marks mean the same thing. SOTTLE UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA Commany ey KEY WEST COCA-COLA. BOTTLING COMPANY O98 Te Cesta gy” chant, ago. {at La Jolla, from Holland hopes she won't be | in Macon, Ga., 49 years ago. in Lowell, saz N. Y., noted manufacturer. and agriculturist, | 65 years ago. necticut, born yainly ‘to post_a letter in the fire [Mapes #0 wears: agq! A Black Cat 5, 1950 (FP) Wir ephto _ COLAHAN SAILS under full. . drait toward a point 260 miles north of San. Francisco in search 5 of a. mysterious submarine reporfed in the area. Crew members, . are checking @ 20mm dual mount on deck. After a four-day Capt. J.. A. Holbrook, commander of the Colahan, said he: believed soundcontact was made with one or more sub. “TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS : (Know America) = Lincoln Filene, of Boston, mer- born in Boston, 85 Bed Gregory Peck, sereen star, bern Calif., 34 years aga. Melvin Douglass, actor, born screen star, born -, 42 years ago. Sibley, of Rochester, Bette Davis, Harper born in New. York, f Gov. Chester Bowles, of in Sabines SOUTH OF ST. with F JOBL MceREA, ALEXEs % SMITH, ZACHARY SCOTT, B\- BOB STEELE P Technicoctor—Civi h EDUARDO CIANNEDLT, JUNE NT. ONSLOW STRVENS Coming: WILD HARVESE: