The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 20, 1950, Page 2

se “MORE FOR DEFENSE? ca ., Representative Cark Vingon, chairman [of the House “Armed Services Commit- ‘tee, has initiated, a ‘move to” add °$200,- 000,000 for Air Force procurement and $38,289,221 for the naval air arm. Mr. Vinson favors a seventy-group Air Force but now insists on a “fully mod- ern, forty-eight group establishment. ag | retary of Defense. Louis Johnson for re- fusing to spend the funds appropriated for the Air Force last year and ealled at- ‘tention to the duty of Congress to provide "the armed might it believes the security mepolay of the nation requires.” He said the Presi- ty ne il dent’s authority, undgr the Constitution, is iat se the ane limited to commanding those fo era ice voor ah hs ent : 4 nr ee we 1s Puke e Mr. Vinson’s move followed the recent Mnonymous | fecommendation of General Dwight D, Bisenhower that $150,000,000 to be added to funds available for defense in ordew to assure maintenance of a completely modern, forty-eight group Air Force. In reply, Seeretary Johnson announces | that the joint chiefs of staff -haye been ‘asked to re-examine the Administration’s ‘military budget - to..determine whether additional funds should be sought for air- shortage of finds, Mr, Johnson asserts, he Pwill ask President ‘Truman and ‘the Bud- get Bureau.to recommend to Congress ' greater outlays, This is an interesting sidelight on our | present defense set-up, Congress, it will tbe remembered, jast year provided the funds for a stronger Air Force. The Pres- ident set the additional money aside, claiming to aet under the authorization of an existing provision of law, : To meet this situation, Mr. Vinson proposes enactment of a bill to prohibit | the Secretary of Defense from withhold- |. ing more than five per cent of the money appropriated on fny item without. prio consultation with the Appropriations Com- mittee. The Georgia Congressman says | that Congress ‘‘must_not sit idly by and leave to administrative whimsy how small a national defense this nation will have.” we = BQUAWEING So far as we have be been able to ob- auc A bill is pending hefore Congress “to serve, there are two kinds of taxes: good a pprovriets $27,450,000 to a United Na- taxes and bad taxes, 101 the relief: of sonie 700,- | Good taxes are those that are levied “ions agency x 000. Arab refugees in' the ‘Near East. upon othe? people and bad taxes are those that make us pay. ; ys The measure is supported by the h | nay ; _Amierican Jewish Committee which urges ; Likewise, there is wise expenditure of ' "members of Congress to. do something for public money and foolish expenditure of “these ‘unfortunate people who were ousted | Such funds. “from their homes in the Palestinian war. Wise expenditure promotes our idea _,. Already the U. S, has furnished $16,- | °f 4. Public necessity (and may afford us 000,000 for the refugees now living in #" opportunity for a little profit on the “Arab Palestine, Hashemite Jordan, Iraq, ‘ side) and foolish expenditures are those “ears Lebanon and the Gaza strip. Jew-:| Which, so far as we can judge, do not di- oish leaders in this country assert that rectly put cash, or benefits, in our pock- “there was no real reason for the name of | °s- «a. ihpmanity,” asks that an- international | If you will thoroughly understand fund take eare of them and prevent’ suf the distinction that we make in regard to fering. taxes and expenditures, you will be able After all, it might be worth’ discover-, to understand a great deal of the squawk- ing -the circumstances under which the | ime that you hear roundabout. Arabs fled from Palestine and what be- MAGNIFICENT PERFORMANCE ‘¢aime of the land, and other property, | . after they left. Surely, the United States’ American Telephone and Telegraph Co. never * had nothing to do with the circumstances 4 ceases to astound this writer. Forbes recently ‘that precipitated their flight and which | moved its offices, and by the nature of this busi- now cause them to be in dire need of as- 4 ness we couldn't afford to shut down any normal --sistance. 4 operations at. all. One of the more complicated Rohe! Aspects of the move, it seemed to me, would be on 4 the telephone side—switchboards, extensions, ng. RL | Interruption of. service, etc. But New York Bell Emphasizing the need for advertisers 4 Tel made it less troublesome than arranging for’ “To stop the abuse of truth -and good | a new. window washer. One of their engineers * ‘taste, ” Fairfax M. Cone, Chicago business j came in, heard the. problem, learned ‘what was man, says that a stnail amount of false and | wanted; ahead of the deadline the new. telephone; ‘misleading advertisement will discredit | set-up was functioning fully, and we never miss- "adVertising in general, ed a call. . The advice which Mr. Cone recently The job wasn’t merely done we—it was done ° gave to the convention of American ad- { Pleasantly, helpfully, courteously. The Tel menj ertising experts is timely, Undoubtedly, | didn't just do a telephone installation—they did ..thdre has developed a distrust o fthe ex- | ® Public relations job along with it. travtgant claims made by certain advertis- Here is a public utility, a “monopoly,” ed products, Moreover, advehtising in gen- | posed daily to millions of contacts with millions »-eral has been injured by the moronic im- 4 of people, that enjoy a public favor unmatched by . plications of some commercial blandish- | almost any other major corporation in America, jénts. Remarkable, when’ you realize that countless It is fairly easy to recognize the dan- | times in a day countless people could get mad at ger that is developing for advertising in | the operator, at the service department, and so ‘general but the remedy is not so easy to | forth. The public relations job of A. T.&T. could find. Apparently, it should be a matter | be the biggest nightmare imaginable, from the of concern to all advertisers and they | viewpoint of opportunities to irritate the public! should not overlook the admonition of Why, instead, is it considered a prime ex-: Mr. Cone that “when we ignore infrac- | ample of free enterprise? tions, we in effect, condone them.” Because a great many years ago able men rs eee foresaw the peculiar gangers the System faced; May second is the day. Vote and |ithey were not Johnny-come-lately in the field, have your say. of public relations.. They -began, from presidenti ito telephone operator in Podunk, to practice) _ Just how long the U. S. must extend | Public Relati8ns before the term was invented. conomie help to other nations, ip order Today all Americans, and thoysands of ifives- 0 prevent the spread of Coulee: is | tors, benefit from the ability and foresight of > an interesting question. A. T.&T. management.—Forbes. Dear Reader: “The Pepperites’ dre calling the Smatherites Republicans and vice versa. Both are Amefticans and. that is all that “matters. THE ORACLE AID FOR ARAB REFUGEES ADVICE TO ADVERTISERS ex-| sack a Stann be rites craft procurement. If the study shows a |* TERED AT. APRIL 20, 1950 THR KRY WRST CITIZHN INTERNATIONAL TUG OF WAR tat date ttt tntntndntntntnds JUST DEFINITIONS a Successful Man: One who KE y WES T ws Ss more than his wife ean . *Puceessful woman: One who as is AAABAABALAAAABARAS Political Announcements State Democratic Primary, May 2. 1950 weve wT rrr For U. 8, Congressman 4th Congressional District PAT CANNON Por U. S. Congressman “Of Days Gone By Taken From The Files Of The Key West Daily Citizen | 4A A4444444444444484 A ate ta ta tp toe Ser AAG 10 YEARS AGO “far as transportation on the} | | | { ‘st A special meeting of the Key P.&O. ships is concerned. West See wick Authority was xk wk 4th Congressional District held in the offices at 124 Duval! Colonel Sam J. Wolf, who has AFF street this morning. Present we cha of mosquito-control work R. Stasley Seeley, project: su- in Key West, states that as a rer pervisor, Russell T. Pancoast, sult of the heavy rain yesterday ¢ archite 0 were visiting the it> will become necessary to local authority for a conference. have eecars reoil ea “ won the overflow has caused the oil te State Senator An interested visitor to. Key run off. WORWOOD B. STRAYHORN R, STRAYHORN | West Thursday was William L te tee Ke For ve Wilson, director of Florida State 25 YEARS AGO "Vor isis ogeomencinn M [Marketing Bureau, who said qn a further discussion of the Re-Election WD Wireniaie | OS 8e DOW 20 state sae prepasal to. wider: the stZeStit 11 fcssmessenmmmmesnapeenesnrerenmerens in t in Florida devoted to providing Key West, it has been suggested For State fi ti MARY VIRGINIA VAUGHAN (left), 4, and her sister, Amy, 2, | Prompt and economical contact inat the least expensive way ta} + I. Y. PORTER, 1V_ We are at their grandmother's homie in Selma, Ala.—unaware that | ¢tween the citizen who grows attain thal object’ would be they are the principalé in an international custody fight. Their | the progiet. ape cael erage Dad bp decrease the width of sewul, For eee father, Henry Albert Vaughan, picked them up in front of his |} 0 otionded the wotlk, he stated ey eee Second District ‘ r 4 | has attended the work, he stated ‘ divorced wife’s home in a suburb of London, England, last Fri- | iid eee 5 ai fmaies T. S. Shrout, “the man ond PRANK BENTLEY ° 5 PG PS ER ROE RE li Sa RRR ES SE day and flew them to Selma. He claims he has been awarded | At a mecting of the Monroe Kentucky,” will shortly be thei [Po Glo Commissioner i i ike i ah iy eae sla man from’ Key West” when on ‘or ty legal custody of the children. Back in London, the ex-wife is | County Planning Council held his travels, for he has decided to’l Second District consulting lawyers in an attempi to regain the girls | this week with Chairman Dr. H. RODMAN J. BETHEL make his home in this city. How- ic ry Mrs. Flor- scr alt ee ees = 2 up his resi-| |ence Mi: Spotswoad and Mein ge permangniy in Key’ Wes;| FOF Cgunty, Commissioner ers Cal a “a Bist . he will visit his old home town, ni trict Hicks present, the leasing of land ee on the Keys by the Internal Im- Owingville, Ky. for a short mary LOUIS CARBONELL provement Board was protested 2nd then will return to this dity. 7 and it war decided to address a Mrs. Shrout said this morning| For County Commissioner letter to the Board. , that his purchases in Key West), Second District « & {| have now reached more than the ; FRED J. DION At the convention of Masons $100,000 mark. \ of Florida, which was held this ki: kote |. Por County Commissioner week in Jacksonville, G. N. Gos-' Mrs. A. Aurelio Torres, accom, Fourth. District horn was appoin Most Wor-! panied by her children, who had BEN N. ADAMS ‘shipful District Deputy Craps been spending a few weeks} 'Master of District 24. . Gos-} Visiting in Key West with rela | For County Commissioner horn returned last Hey tie with tives, were passengers leaving | Fourth District CHARLES DUERKES other members of the local{ yesterday on the morning train PAUL E, MESA Masonic members who had been | en route to their home in Miami. | —____— z - a a jattending the convention of the | 2 On ie a +! For County Commissioner - : ‘ : fus Johnson, 0} jamorada, Fourth District ERSKINE CALDWELL, they dog with a throat afflication.|O"der in Jacksonville at the, | Rui i pts tell me, is in town. T'shall have Every time the dog barked it SMe time as ghe Masons. yee cee West for a visit of| __ GEBALD SAUNDERS to see him,,if I can, for he has sounded like “ham-burger!” So} - | ‘ . i . se 3 There ic probably no more an| several weeks with his niece]. For Member School Board . given me countless ‘hours of he and his wife would pyll up in| enthusiastic believer in the slo-;Mrs. Harold Baker at her home’ Third District pleasure. Too few folks go around front of an eating place and take | and about dishing out pleasure the dog inside. The dog would these days. } sit up on a stool and bark “ham-; Mr. Cakiwell, as I remember, BURGER!” the story, is the son of a. clergy- | Many a good counterman stop- man who traveled about the ped drinking alcoholic beverages southern countryside doing one in those nae of-the world’s most difficult jobs.! The younger Caldwell absorbed} gan of “pictures tell the best}on Margaret street. story” than ace-photographer H.{ | W. Hannau. who has been in Key | BEDOUINS "west since Wednesday of this week to take shots of various ; scenes here for a projected photo- graphic bock on all points.of in- farest in the state. JOHN V, ARCHER “For Member of School Board Third District : EUGENE L. ROBERTS Pomrencaata cic ap atca LD IE: For Member of School Board: Third District AGAINST BANDITS: TEL AVIV, Israel—(#),—The Israeli government. is issuing. arms to Bedouin tribes in the Ne- gev wilderness to strengthen 4» CLIFF CARD and his lovel: the feeling and childlike ap-!missus are back in town. The: rei ft xk * their defense against attacks by % YLE RO! $ proach to life of the simple folk have just completed A letter had been “received by' marauders. A government census |~ J CASE BETS trip and are Lieutenant Commander Carl H. of the Bedouin tribes in southern Israel] showed a population of 15,000. Identity cards are being. given to them. x Day and night attacks against |’ ludge Bedouin ard other settlements in Koy I vaniie ; the Negev area by banditss and,|- B. W. (BEN) KETCHUM iy marauders occur frequently, For Judge. Juvenile Coust © of the Georgia backlands and through the Southwest later brought them to life in print living up to their promis in_a most vivid fashion. | turn to KEY WEST to a I remember the critics assert- Mrs. Card is just about the Sine otal ick wall ing that a play called “Tobac prettiest lady to come out of ing contemplated, wivep wil Road” would not be a hit. When-; Texas in many a moon. | ettent emplovees ak | Se: BRAS ever a chap makes a liar out of! Right now they are apartment! quarters in Key West. the critics. I admire that chap.) shopping cre tee, And Mr. Caldwell certainly put * * bi) 2 ERany nes OER the critics in their places, I can! The column is short today. But, Clitorial >aragraph: tell you. In fact, I think I will. | I am traveling This came to The! The avick starter does not al- “Tobaeco Road” was even filn-| Citizen by carrier pigeon. Viva] “@YS finish first. _ Hilton of the Coast Guard from in Jacksonville, that a transfer is For Judge Juvenile Court : EVA WARNER GIBSON says in an The Morehead Planetarium at. the University. of North Carolina, said to be the only one on amt ed, and a re-issue played our la pigeon! A 2 ‘American campus, draws..thou-) fair city recently. { Spee os 20 YEARS AGO | sands of visitors annually. I went to see it for’thé eee Flyi S 7 eS 28 fo tereastiae. : time. o has visited this - Any time I go to sce a picture ying: aucers ber of times, took her first plane! sville, Indiana, the id found only one thing abent which to complain. ‘It wasn’t long enough. + ee Repair of rain-damage.to the! shoulders of the boulevard, which have been under way for more than a month will probably be for a second time constitutes a! record. So you can see how much I admire anything Mr. Caldwell: whips up on his portable. I hope he likes our town. x * I understand there has been a shifting about of the lease at the “PRADEWINDS.” I haven’t been with Are Actually Flying Bananas FT. WORTH, Tex.—().—It was thought that the file of flying- saucer stories was closed, but now MOTOR VESSEL | Leaving Key West for “ANTON mtn SHEA Imixxion Tecumieotog Sinaloa ee soar nec ‘iat COMRPIE NE 4 the Air Force. In other words,’ .| Mr. Maxey should know. He says the objects he saw were not mov- ing fast, and he was able to take pictures. Further, the bananas were jmaking no noise—they had no tails but they were cefinitely some sort of aircraft. Cecil Santos, ban college youth, of Eague La Grande, Cuba, en route from Georgia to his home town, found himself stranded here without funds this morning when he learned th:t a “through” ticket he: had bought from the Georgia- Florida Mctor Lines is worthless bs . heres’ a new one. completed this week, County Se ee ene ee This time Ws flying bananas. “Commissioner C. C. Symonette Mariel, Cuba pail aged dais a he ory comes from Ira Maxey— predicts. | 4 zens were mentioning the fact 2 veteran of 3,600 flying hours in ova x” : SA 29 that the lease has been transfer- | fa veauitas Cis ss £ red to C. Aubrey Nicklas. x k * One of the funniest true stories | to tickle my funnybone is the one Jack Crawley tells about the bass fiddle player who used to play with Tommy Dorsey. The bass fiddle player was a friend of the saxaphone player who is now tooting his sax down at the Officers Club. It seems this bass player used to go to his jobs on a motorcycle, with his wife riding the back seat. She would drive the motor-| cycle back home and come back and pick him up when he was The puffin sheds its bill an- nually, as well as its feathers. “Old at 40, 50,60?” | = Man, You're through work. sour sax Thousands a pepe: That in itself intrigues me, but} & i feeling due p sown co, weds s has nothing to do with the story.| Ost fools 2 Seunser tel Crawley ‘ossed that in for free. But this bass player, picks upa At all drag stores everywhere—in ; Key West,at Gardner's Pharmacy. ; —FOR SALE— STATE SALES TAX FORMS for LANDLORDS 3 «Se ADDITIONAL COPIES. p THE ARTMAN PRESS IN CITIZEN BUILDING