The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 4, 1950, Page 2

PRT Ti 9 | regret that brave men. fighting for their | 7 defeat Gen pists MONOGRAPH || countes. fer at the hands of their | m an m in battle of Germantown, To: aa. iCashintistion | fea and die for their country. ead? am ‘cae lsu D. Bridgman. s 4 : i Ee ee ¥ id Hanover, N. blind- Ket West, Fiorida i thete covers. are Wo {nc of mute ehiets Beston’s Pers Boy Sim FLIES INTO KOREA +)kins’ Institute—Girst of a long list} Ge our minds! {| i mag see ly afflicted success: Gentlemen, niake up y i } 20 YEARS AGO. treated and inspiration to many.} a THE ORACLE i With the capture of Kimpo airfield, | Lieutenant-Colonel MR Woo -| 1853—World’s largest ship ,of| i i joveanas to fourteen foreign news- editors, visiting.the United States guests ot the American Society o per Editors and the American ituie, Paul G. Hoffman, direc- tor! of the Economic Cooperation Admin- istration; Sdmitted that the United States, durimg-the next three years, might have to spend $150,000,000,000 to check Soviet n. & Mik Hottman expressed the opinion that fie Sogiet Union would not marth again& the democracies before they had time to arm themselves. He also sug; gested that Soviet Leadership might have trouble from internal strife, especially in view of the large part of the population imprisoned because of political views. The idea that the American people might devote half of their revenues io military and economic defense is not al+ together new but every American will be glad when the funds of the nation can be used for more productive purposes. At the présent time, however, there ‘is no more important function for government to perform than to see to it that thie re- sources pf the nation, of men and ma- terial, are thoroughly mobilized for what- ever test the future may bring. pai as exact— bank balance. NOTHING WRONG BUT THE VETO Even without Russia’s Malik presid- ing in the chair of the United Nations, the old hope of Peace on Earth and Good Will Among,Men has faded out of sight. about as numerous as the agreements. The United Nations is as useless and help- less as ever. It hasn't done anything to end the war in Korea or to get reenforcements | for Gentra] MacArthur. i Washington editorial writers agree that there is not the slightest reason to | ed in the Constitution, the applicatien of suppose that the Security Council will ac- | °° complish any more in September than in Axvgust. The American resolution calling up- on all Nations to cease giving support io North Koreans really came to a vote. Only Russia opposed it. Weren't we saps when we agreed that the veto of one Nation was Atcugh to kili a great World question? The United Nations addicts are say. jing that all that is wrong with the organ~ ization is the veto. Last month they were crying: “If it wasn’t for Malik.” Be charitable, if you can, in the judg- ment of others; save severity for your | own mistakes. i Life is a question of balance—to be | | j terpretations to make | cover whatever case they happen to have —EE The. éver-all tregedy of war blacks art millions of tragic instances that vitally affect the men who fight and, in most in- stances, little publicity is given ta the incidents which sear and often kill men} by mistake. | Se far human beings have discovered | no way to avoid mistakes. Consequently one occasionally hears of troops engaged im combat that suffer from their own ar- tillery. Last Week, im Korea, a group of soldiers fighting to recapture a hill call ed for air support and were horrified a little later when the aerial armada turn- ed loose its deadly cargo upon them. it happened when a British brigade. | 7 fighting on the Pusan beachhead, was ac- ign cidentally bombed by American planes, KEY WEST Teken From The Files | Of The Key West Citizen Today's Anniversaries i@ YEARS AGO called to attack the Communists on one ; him om the read te the Presidency i pilets pick the of the United Sta: born Side of a . The pilots picked the fer Reale a Brent on Leese} wrong <ide, plastering their allies with iF I pee ord B. Hayes | rockets, va jelly. fire-bombs, frag- ~, Ohio lawyer, Union general, Ohioi THE LEADER STEPS OU T—-anix <murt-cteomer governor, I8th President, born} bers band durine 2 stegieesds Delaware. O. Died Fremont, O_} be m. 17, 1893. | ber bullets. | three-score Tommies were mentation bombs and .5@-ca More than | kit . 1846—Agres Booth, famous} ES j Al the United _ 2ctrgss bem in Australia. Died) At -Syracuse i ae Jan.2, 1916. light that talks z | States M nm called on the ” " 3858—Michael I Pupin, penni-}fed by a tape recotder to warm < Prime M s “deep sorrow” less boy immigrant with a red| Pedestrians to be careful s fez for a hat, becoming famed over the “tr -" This was said : ae Columbja University. physicist? te be the second time that such a tragedy : . born in Jugeslavia:| d tke Korean war. In earlier | 12, 1936. = d planes accidentally at- | ac. Remington, fa-} iustratar and author life, born in Canton, of American soldiers, in- Western incident will create | he British and Amer- ican people. Both are sensible enough to know th S, regrettable as | ee | ice ill wil i i they may are inevi and conduct table in the course | ef warfare. There is natur: os Today In History U. S A, of Jacksonville,’ that day, “The Great Republic,” a} Jest October 22 on scan ton lignes Selo, lemaebes 9 an official He will be acj . B i companied by Lieutenant-Colonei| _!8?7—Chief ‘Joseph, famous In-} | near Seoul, the Air Force is operating an |* j airlift from Japan to supply critically | sided supplies and technical personnel te B M Atkins, assistant adjutant 22m strategist, surrenders—end- daily. ge Se > $: general for the state of Flomdia {mg the Indian war in Idaho. The opera is similar to the Berlin : ine two Insull: brothers irli hich -w ssi ' # = icted in Chicago. = airlift which whipped the Russian week City council's re on} Pe > ce pe ade. The mee is much farther than |dinance, representing a saving of : that in Germany but many of the officers who directed the Berlin operation are on hand to keep the aerial transports moving. more than $2,000 a month-in city: 4939 Germans and French in| Operating expenses, was passed battle of the tanks. i over the veto of Mavor Leslie A| 3941-Soviet Russia officially Curry by 5-2 vote at the regular and pointedly states that her! During the first four days of the oper- ;™eetims of the board last night Constitution provides for the} Wherever vou drive, you are cetmain to see a Dellar for z 2 3 Z Pee .2% (Councilmen Gwynn and Babcock freedom of-religion. ; great many new Pontiacs—for two reasons: ation, 1337 tons of supplies and 604 pas-!oc the negative votes. | 1943—American forces in Italy} Firs, more people are buying new Poosiacs sengers _ were fiown from Japan into t i = Push on from Naples. than ever before. Second, Poatiac, wich its 25 YEARS AGO { 1945—Truman orders Navy Gistincive Silver Screak seyling. jes: can't beip John McBowman. president. seize. 26 strike-bound oil plants. / the Biltmore Hotel Corperstion. 1947—Brewers agree to recom. } oct, 100, Sor performance, dependzbiiars, and teal economy. Come is and seq the tow j Pontiac aay ame. A MULBERG CHEVROLET ¢Co. that selects | Cor. CAROLINE at TELEGRAPH LANE ond i ‘Kimpe, aifficld. During the same period. 313. woundei: were evacuated to Japan. While the carrying of cargoes to Kimpo is important, the quick hospitalization j that results from the reverse flights is: eredited with saving the lives of wound. ed soldiers % Airmen point out that the Air Force is now applying the lessons learned in the ‘cold war” during the Seviet blockade of Berlin. Moreover, they say that the new technique is. something like a “hose” with the arrived in the city yesterdgydfrom mend cut in grain for conserva-/} Havana on his way north Mr.. tion of food. ; Bowman was accompanied by his Secretary, Charies Fiynn. 1948—U_ S. turns down Rus-} sia’s atom plan as lacking se- Select the service It’s refreshment i nozzle at Kimpo airfield but { A contract will be let today that, if co ions required it, the nozzle |*#€ ¢qvipment and ficid ofice for} = = the engineers on the ham; could. be ..terned toward Formosa, the : E Beacham tract, Robert B. Austin. viee-pre-; sident and treasurer, Key West Foundation company, announced! today. | Today’s Horoscope! Today seems to give a —dual nature: changeable. ‘not vaciliab img, changing often fram a posi- | tion of high endeavor to the op-} posite. In some cases thisés due} to diplomacy, which is_a prime factor in this degree. Under some conditions it may lead to warious occupations .or engagements on the part of the native. | Philippines or any other point in need of r supplies or reinforcements. INTERPRETING THE CONSTITUTION The “No. 1 job” of all Americans, ac- z to a speaker observing Constitu- Day, is to “know the Constitution, derstand it.” a large order. The nation is crammed with lawyers, consi@ered te be experts on the subject of constitutional the disagreements that arise are | _ The valley of the Red River of} the North is constantly threatened é with floods In addition, the nation has thousands Soar of its ame of the take and thousands of jurists, many of whom |———__ disagree as to exactly what the Constite- 2 tion means. While there is general ap- preciation of the rights of man, recogniz- A Conditioned piesa ioe Bonet Last Times Today Devil's Doorway wi ROBERT TAYLOR and LUIS CALHOUN itutional principles to modern con- ditions remains a problem. It is readily admitted, for example, that-suth phrases as “interstate ¢om- merce,” “due process,” and others, have a much broader meaning and greater im- plication than they did one hundred, or even fifty, years ago. The power of the Federal government has been greatly increased by the elastic interpretation of certain phrases by the courts of the land. While the amendment of the €onstitu- tion is Ret so easy, the same result is achieved when judges alter accepted in- speicific sections WoRS Movie Quiz Tonight x under consideration. Sanz Conne, ‘