The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 22, 1950, Page 2

yGhe Key West Citizen c oan baa ag he Exsept Sunday. inh : i aeeas oa? cokes Only Daily meereber erin Key West and Monroe County atten ak, Wey Woot Florida, as second class matter ~ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS »¢Phe Associated Press is exclusively entitled to ave’ for reproduction of al}.mewe dispatches credited to it or not otherwise tm thie paper, and aleo the local pews publish: ere. ie ADVERTISING RATES Made Known on Application SPECIAL readl “ag thaiti reagiytions ek. ee 0 ‘Soticas fr, Snment, ty thatohee trom cents & line. whic! derived are FEz invites dis- comihe of public issues and subjects of local or Weneral interest, but it will not pudlish anonymous vcommunloations, - MONOGRAPH Dear Readers: SSome vandals have destroyed or m@filated the trees along one side of Whitehead Street. This happened quite off Key West in the past; this in- sti and another a short While ago,’ b flty persons have never, be a 1d and hence remain’ iinpun- ha pe tl } government electric power is a deliberately contrived h is being used in the long-estab- éffort to socialize all the power and distribution facilities of powBi systems, in addition to being tax- subsidized, are wholly or largely tax free. Therprivate utilities, by contrast, are one of the biggest taxpayers in the country, to city,.county, ment: ,Onie of the leading West Coast utility companies provides an excellent specific state and Federal govern- example. Last year, this company paid more than $40,000,000 in Federal, | state and local taxes. That is an average of $116,351 every day in the year—and $4,- 598 for every hour of the day. What this méans to local government is especially impressive. In California, the staff if’which the utility operates, there ar€é 58 counties. The company pays taxes in 48 of them. In four counties its tax is over 50 per cent of the total—in other words, it pays more than all other taxpay- ery combined. And in several other coun- ties it pays between 25 and 50 per cent of thé total. = It doesn’t take an economist:to figure oug what would happen to the taxpayers in ev Phe if the government, instead of privatesenterprise, were supplying elec- trié service. Taxes would go up all along thé line—often by huge percentages. And thé alleged “saving” in the electric ~ bill wold be offset many times over bythe jump in the tax bill. + Socialism is never cheap. You pay for it through the nose in one way or another. r M4 Apropos hese allegations of Commun- isnj, we wonder how we could prove our ong hundred per cent Americanism. * Ce it ae } When politicians forget principles of goyernment in order to gain votes, repre- sewtative government inevitably loses I ORGANIZED CRIME Gambling has been termed the “nest ége” of organized crime, by ‘J. Edgar Hoover, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the extent of the practice can be gauged by the. declara- tion of the American Municipal Associa- tion that gambling costs Americans _ be- director tween four billion and ten billion dollars | “largest under- a year, besides providing the steady source of income in the world.” Congress-has been asked to grant addi- tional powers to the Federal Government in order to erack down on organized gambling throughout the nation. One ‘pro- posal would. ban interstate communica-+ tion of grambing information on_ horse races and other sports events. The other wouldz make it a Federal offence to send slot machines into states where they are illegal, Undoubtedly, the underworld has al- ways relied upon organized gambling for a large part of its income. There is no reason why the American people should not take proper action to curb the influ- encé and power of professional gamblers. Of course, it will be impossible to banish gambling entirely from the human mind but some distinction can be made between organized gambling on a large scale and the taking-a-chance that attracts many in- dividuals on an amateur basi . The Indians, according to one authori- ty, learned the art of scalping from the white men. We are not surprised at this revelation. LOOKS FOR A MIRACLE It is difficult for average citizens to understand the full import of the Eco- nomic Cooperation Administration, which is carrying out the four-year Marshall Plan to rehabilitate Western Europe, and there ‘probably exists a tendency to conclude ditures of the United States fuced, NGeorge C. Marshall, former f Staff and former Secretary Hi author of the plan, realizes j i ed States cannot carry on Brey expenditures inde- ith inks that the 1952 termina- st be adhered to. might. require ‘‘a miracle of for, Europe to get its eco- in order by removing age- iers and setting up a clear- L-Zoy, varied currencies, General Marshall asserts that one’ near aiiencle al- ready has been accomplished and ‘we must work for, and expect, another mir- acle.” The leader of our military efforts in Europe insists that victory over the Sov- iet Union in the struggle for the minds of men is “as. vital to the peace and pros- perity of the world as any military cam- paign in history.”’ He tells Americans to “make no mistake about it’ and adds that “unless we achieve victory, our great military and financial sacrifices may have been largely in vain.” In the Democratic Senatorial Primary six years ago nearly one-half of the regis- tered Democrats failed to vote. Make this a real Democratic Primary. Vote on May 2. SCIENCE AND IMMORTALITY The possibility of survival after death has intrigued mankind from the earliest days of recorded history. Primitive man had an idea that there would be an after- life and the American Indian dreamed of the Happy Hunting Ground. Modern individuals take for granted, upon religious grounds, the survival of the spirit after death of the body. They be- lieve in immortality but, no, mgtter: how strongly they believe, thes ‘1b not. have proof of it. ty Science has set itself ie the study of the possibility of proving immortality. While no definite proof has been adduc- ed as yet, there is little.to . disprove .the 4) theory so widely held by man, Christian believers have long maiii- tained that individuals can commune with God and that, from his storehouse, ac- quire supernatural strength for the trials of life. In fact, a good Christian takes such a belief on faith, as is entirely pro- per. Just the same, there is no reason why scientists should not seek to establish the truth by scientific methods. No harm ¢an be done and some doubts might be remov- ed. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE Southernmost Corner CHARLES DUERKES Well, accorded the ner” is going tcday greetings DON get out for the HERRICK on the 28th anniver- xt week, BILL LEE, one of the S2"Y Of his birth. Oddly: enough, next hee: Se one of the ‘Don is leaving town on the 28th, men from Buffalo fo; 4 place in Mass., called Cape aking a bit of a Cod. well earned breather for about aj I blew the cork off 28 bottles week, and I’m going to attempt at Don's hirthday binge at the to fill his shoes {Sun and Sand Club and I am By the time Bill gets back, the! proud to state that when I play- Actmans and I will all, no doubt,;ed “The Eyes Of Texas” on the have It is} piano that half the habitues of neryous breakdowns € awful rt to g lot of | Kel’s Marine Lounge stood at at- » about] tention. (The rest of them yelled 1 other digni-| bloody murder!). a hard bought} Den has had his name in Win- ! | chell’s column. Now that he has going to te dignity on my pa thing, chu One bright ect in this|made this Corner he should be new and staid that I get; happy. The difference between to see Mayor Eisner each morn-| W.W. and me is that I can feud] and he and I ing, and kr chap whgalways! with Don openly, (left), puts me at ease, on -atcount of; have a heap of fun feuding, 1! because he has ull the attributes | like Dave Palmer’s refereeing! of ood newspaperman. I will; Don’t forget the “Card Night”) bet you thet: Hizzoner could write| every Thursday at the Sun andj | TEMPORARY INSANITY CEAIME! SATURDAY, MRS. KATHLEEN DREWRY (center) talks with Attorney Rupert on trial at Athens, Ga., for shooting her former husband, Dean John E. Drewry. and his sweet- heart, Miriam Thurmond. With her are her son, Milton, 17, and her mother, Mrs. M. H, Merry Mrs. Drewry’s aitorneys claim she wes ie mporarily insane when she wounded Dean. Drewry and Miss Thurmond with a burst of pistol fire last Dec. 23. Drewry, dean of the Uni-. versity of Georgia School of Journalism, and Miss Thurmond were married last month. APRIL 22, 1950 (P) Photo Brown at end of her first day Dave T akes Money, an this; Sand Club (and this has nothing jto do with the fact that ‘Cliff a much better column th if he had the 2 which is in the soverign state of| And thanks to evéryone whol” At the first stop, the passenger Florida, and if I do not manage |has accorded sympathy to the] asked Pulver to change a ten- to whangle Alma Cagle’s name} Lady-with-the-flower-in-her - ear | snot, Puiver counted out ten into that yarn I aman old side/and peor ugly me on-the recent | ones. As he reached around for k. death of “Puddy.” I still wake up nights . . . living it all over-again. And . .. to that anxious mother: I'm working on it, lady. not let you down .. ~ winder from away. be Since the Mayor was not get- ting around and about the town the other night, he prqbably did not get in on ithe series of birth- the ten, the passe: r, the oneé and fled. hh Then Pulver rent T will | beer case—not worth! E haps he ‘could recov: = | Pulver ‘found: that Battle Of Concord ; Select Biggest Keccenveree es = Is Rated All ‘U. OF C., Six Feet Political Sime Mistake, ... Three sche pe Announcements the Battle of Lentagion, and Cdn ‘to detide iho ie the biggest wolf cord ‘ on the campus of the U. of C. The National Geographic So-, Phey have chosen 4: ‘Youth ciety reminds that there are te named Ken Melrose, who is six versions of what actually"happen- feet, three inches tall, which ap+ ed that April day. ntl 11 they mean —b: There is a considerable weight Obie Se * y y of evidence that the wholé inei- | ————______________ dent was a piece of blundering onists raised money for the wid- on the part of the British’ troops. ows and orphans—and, @ . sum At the time, the Congress of Mas- equal to. $1,000 was distributed sachusetts had proof ef sort toe those people through Benjamin that the British had ¢hemselves Franklin. opened fire without provocation The Lord mayor of. London —that they simply Glagghtered headed up a committee which For U. S. Congressman oa 4th Congressional District” PAT CANNON For U. S. Congressman 4th Congressional District BILL _LANTAFF For State Senator JAMES. A. FRANKLIN Re-Election For State Senaior NORWOOD R. STRAYHORN seven American farfi@f$—Min- protested to the king against the ute-Men, if you like. .. , treatment:of the. Colonists, But For State Representative This account was dispatched to' nothing came of it. BERNIE C. PAPY England after the battle, and be-| Of course, whoever fired. that Re-Election came a big issue over there.!shot, there’s no doubt-that it was ‘round the world. For State Representative J. Y. PORTER, IV For County Commissioner Second District FRANK For County Commissioner ‘ Second District RODMAN J. BETHEL For County Commissioner Second District Groups sympathetic to ee Col- heard” SCORNED AT Bone, ERATED ABROAD eee eee Fourth District BEN N. ADAMS For County Commissi Fourth District PAUL E, MESA FEDERAL JUDGE JULIUS WATIES W. in their home at Charleston. S. ef his championing of ci South Carolinians eee but outside the South’the 60-year-old jurist and his wife ‘Ge been praised for the stand they have taken. soap Mc gle MS . SES ae In fact 1 wi nat he, were; Card and his pretty lady are sun- the column right now.! worshippers there . . .). Bring | ' ference between the; your own marked cards, and a |He Pinds Beer | ‘ me is that I have more | ¢é ek for me. ; tirne to Kill. Lam not working for] address is the South- Cc ¥ Wi } B: . k ae as many people as he is Hotel. I always knew 1} UaSe With Bricks i I into} office this! would wind up owing monéy to} BALTIMORE—(?).—Now for. morning ar.d he hands me a beau | Victor Lang! 1 ' tiful story. And right down the street is| the story of a really fancy’ bit of So keep re this column, the La Concha Cocktail Lounge, | knavery ie you old people I will re-| and if that cute waitress'’s name| Taxi-Driver Andy Pulver pick- | ee it 1e of y iis Hf Phyllis, then my name is}eq up a passenger who was lu -f am 1g it for a rainy day.} mud < . eS yee . I also t lot of information| Mary Lasswell told me what a} 8iné @ beer case. The fellow said | about rept which I will write; supreme flock of service the gal| he was going to have a gay night, as soon as I have the proper tem-| gave us one afternoon. I wasn’t} and he directed Pulver to take perature on my bottled lunch. T/ noticing the service ...I was!him to two addresses—each of, * have a long letter from ROS§| just watching. that enchanting} which he said was the home ef a ALLEN, ‘rom lver Springs | Phyllis-pvofile. girl friend ar abbed. | % NEGRO nAUDGR om { } t | Garden Work | Miami, Fla, The appointment was made by the City Commis- sion. ‘The all-Negro court will open May 1 to serve Miami's | ulated by Negroes. If is believ- ed to be the first court ever set up inthe South on purely’ ra- cial lines, Your Horoscope SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1950— | There may be too great. an am- | bition, a too strenuous reaching after something too remote for the inherent powers. Yet the as- piration of this .degree ‘may be its saving quality, if combined | abilities... 93 SUNDAY, APRIL. 23, . 1950— Today endows: , with: a generous nature and although. there may be a touch of acquisitiveness it is not miserly. The chances are good for-a-due reward usually com: ing in the latter part of life. ‘There i is generally success, to -be found inj travel. Chemists at Southern Research Institute report they have found a’ way. to make kraft paper from old railroad ties. with. judgment. to . know. when | you have reached the end of your | Mail The Clive ‘and his valuable S$ Prisoner Gets Extra Time For SAN QUENTIN, Calif —().— Prisoner George Vierra, a con- victed férger, took excellent care ‘of the San Quentin rock gardenay: In fact, he took such good cai of it that they have increased hit prison sentence by seven years. was found to be raising ma in the cae to Relatives SSSS Ge eReeES ELEC » Stray ed contacts can now be wi to benefit the entire E : | Political Atv sueseaus