The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 9, 1950, Page 2

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USE YOUR HEAD Scare-buying undermines the strength of the country and harms us all. Judged on selfish or praetical grounds, there is no need for this particular economic disease. Some meat prices increased when the Koreap situation developed, because peo- ple rushed to market and crammed ‘heir freezers to capacity. Thereafter, the pres- sure eased and prices tended downward. No one can tell what the immediate future holds—more scare-buying could send meat prices up once more. Yet the fact is that the meat supply is excellent. The biggest peacetime pork crop in histery in in the making, and it is expected to come to market earlier than usual this fall. Beef herds are building up through- out the country. According to the Depart- ment of Agriculture, 34 per cent more cat- tle now are on feed in the corn belt than a a year ago. In other words, there is plenty sof meat for everyone, and everyone ‘will get his share at a fair price if we purchase our meat in a normal fashion and avoid over-buying. American enterprise is eapable of meeting any ¢onceivable situation. In the ease of meat, the farmers and ranchers are keeping up with the demand. The packing industry, made up as it is of thou, sands of competing concerns, provides the producer, on the one hand, with a year- round cash market—and the consumer, on the other hand, with a remarkably ef- ficient and low-cost service. Under these conditions, there will be no shortages un- less we create them. The best advice to the consumer-today is simply, “Use your head!” The pictures of bathing beauties often photograph no beauties. THE PRODUCTIVE WILL SURVIVE The Burean of Mines has announced that coal is being looked to as a provider of essential chemicals now in short supply or which will be in time of emergency. Among these chemicals are benzene and phenol. Benzene is used in synthetic rubber, plas; ties, nylon, and the new detergents. Phenol is vital for military purposes. Fortunately this country has a coal industry capable of producing the tonnage required both for peace or war. Even when beset by strikes and sporadic government seizures, mine operaters have gone ahead with mechanization and other operating innovations that have helped to offset the disruptive effects of rising costs over which they have had no control. Because of their} Progressiveness, ample coal will be avail- able for fuel and for processing to obtain the derivatives so vital in a national emerg- ency. It is no exaggerations to say that the people of America can sleep sounder at night because of industries like coal. The world, whether we like it or not, is passing through an era when the primitive element of force is dominant. The productive will survive, and this country is productive be- cause her people have never been shackled by political oppression. In a pinch, as a na- tion of free enterprisers, they can work miracles. Management and research staffs are keenly aware that the surface has only been scratched in exploiting the many ways in which the nation can be served by coal. Dear Voters of Monroe Co.: Voting is a privilege as weil as a duty, hut more of a duty. Do your duty and vote tomorrow! : THE ORACLE _—— REMAIN A FREE CITIZEN repitbensapmniba riveshsnsvcserincannalannbiohantenrtysinamaetirdnseetncheneenenatsnnatinctmenit em « Newspapers, magazines, individuals, companies, corporations and others, have for-months urged every citizen to get out and vote in the primaries and help choose _ candidates who believe in American ideals This is a erucial election year. All 435 seats-in the House of Representatives and pif te Senate (32 seats) are to be fill: ywernors and other state and county will be eleeted. Primary elections soon be over. But if you failed to vote in the primaries to choose a candidate don’t be so negligent at the coming elec- i We kick about high taxes and we kick abgut more and more restrictions clamped on jus by government and governmental bureaus- The only place we can do any- ‘thimg-about infringements on our liberties and-epportunities is at the polls. No man or woman is too busy to vote. Most voting Places are open 12 hours. You are not too busy earning a living to vote because no- thing else you ean do is more important than choosing the public servants who are ing and spending at least 20% to 25% of the average income. Don’t think you are not interested in polities, because if you are not, professional politicians will literally take the shirt off your back. Den‘t make the excuse that you are not acquaint- -€d with the candidates—you can find out about them and their past records, and re- member, you are the one who pays them, and: you will only get as good serviee as yeu’ demand. .: The great majority of people in the United States don’t want socialism which WHAT IS SOCIALISM? We have a number of officeholders in Federal and state governments who are actively spending their time and the taxy Payers’ money to promote governmeng ewnership of some of the nations basic business such as electric power production and medicine. They use public funds taken form of ¢ public housing, social welfare, farm sub- Sidiés, publie power, Federal health in- surance, government money loaning, gov- ernment gifts of money to public agencies and other projects too numerous to mention, which put the government into business and ‘the individual out. And it is all done with: revenue taken from the individual in the form of taxation. ‘Don’t ‘say you are not interested in Yotitig unless you are not interested in re- _ . Maitjing a free citizen. is world may come sooner cut by subsidized government competition. They become highly indignant at having their own plans to put government into business called socialistic. Government has taken over the basic lines of business in England and there is no argument about that. being seeialism. Why try to fool the people of our country into thinking our government can go into commercial business at public ex- pense, to the ultimate exclusion of private citizens, and still not have socialism here? It would be well for proponents of government electric power monopolies and compulsory Federal medical plans to look up the definition of socialism im the dic- tionary before they object too strenously to having their projects called “socialistic”. 5 from private enterprise in the 3 means government in business taking away | taxes, to propagandize and lobby fof HY the ‘opportunity of the individual and his | €°vernment-owned business which pays no 5 chances to get ahead in the world as an in- | ‘axes. : 5 dividual, Congress is flooded with social- They object to private enterprise 3 istic: schemes under such alluring titles as | fighting to keep from having its throat 2 at is no virtue in a majority ) practiced by the minority. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN DOUBLE WEDDING AP Newsteatures Chapter 8 By Adelaide Humphries ¢ |so much emphasis te certain} it was so much idleness that m: ANDY came home not long) Phrases. giving them new mean- after this to announce that he Starting to work again the next morning. He seemed quite pleased about it, yet it was that deter-} Stephanie! mined gaiety, and knew he had been looking—and had hoped—for a different open- a had been vertising agency, the that handled most of Mayo's con- tracts. It had, in fact. been through her mother that Stephanie had 0, as Mayo id, it was her own fault that her daughter had fal- len in love with someone her mother might not have chosen for said, t you could find a part- time job, so you would have time left over to do your own kind of writing.” She had even thought about getting a job herself. in order to make this possible. Mayo; she knew, would have made one/ for her at the shop. Stephanie had done all sorts of war work, so that now she often found her-/} self wishing she could have been! as busy as before. “T've about decided,” Sandy re- turned with a little deprecatory grin, “that my kind of writing _is 2 waste of energy. Much more profit in the commercial kind. And funds are beginning to run low.” He had insisted upon paying for everything since he had re- turned, although Stephanie had wanted te do her share. He had that stubborn sort of pride; the map must, in every sense, be the head of the house. He would not have liked his wife to work, as that would reflect on his ability | te provide for her. Stephanie knew he hated turn- ing out commercials. He used to make a sort of game about them, reading them aloud and adding had got his old job back. He was| mployed by a big} mi Be | had rather hoped,” Stephanie! ig, that Stephanie had often’ been dissolved in helpless laugh- ter. “I wish you'd Iét me help with expenses,” she said, knowing such an appeal was useless. “You know I have—” “¥ don't know what you have,” he broke in, those two stern lines| furrowing his smooth brow, “and| I don’t care. What you have is | yours. I didn’t mean we were that broke.” whatever she had might, in part, have belonged to Grant. She said, a bit stiffly: “What I have is mine alone, but | what you have is ours. That | doesn’t make sense to me, but I suppose there’s no use arguing it | with you. Or that it would ever | occur to you, Sandy, that I would be happier if I had more to do.” scowl remained on his handsome face. He said, short- ly, “Then you aren't happy.” “I didn’t say that. I said I would be happier if I were busier.” Keeping house for two men was not enough, she had found, to fill her time. Sandy’s uncle took as many meals away as he did with | them. The apartment was so small |she could get it in order in less } than an hour. “I would never want to stand in the line of your happiness,” | Sends said, a bit ironically, as if to accent the fact that he believed he was doing just that. “If you | want to get a job, by all means } do so.” é Knowing his views on this par- | ticular subject, Stephanie did not | believe he would really want her | to take him up on his suggestion. Yet she might, if only toe prove that she could get a job and to let | him know she had taken him lit- erally. Tt was not like her to want to do anything out of spite. Perhaps: She supposed he thought that) } her —, It would be wor ful, thought, beginning t e ali sorts of possibilities in this | new idea of hers, to get away | | day, although she was beginning | not to mind it quite so much. At | Uncle Quent’s insistence Steph- | anie had made a few changes. He | had kept saying she must feel free to go ahead and change | | things to suit her, insisting that | he knew women liked to make | changes and that he supposed his home did lack the feminine touch. } The few touches Stepha: managed had helped some, but not enough. She had taken down the heavy drapes and lace cur- | tains, substituting fine net and a | bright cretonne. She had made | slip covers of the same ma’ j for the davenport and the M chair. She had put away mi jthe bric-a-brac. But the was still crowded and small and dark. She still felt as if @ cage, pressing down and on her. j | + | / “Suppose now.” Sandy sugge: ed, searing to that forced ch fulmess as if he realized he hb been short and a bit surly, ° step out and celebrate my Zi a job—such as it is. Quent would | insist it called for a celebration. How about it?” j His uncle always found any oc- | currence worth celebrating. Only | a night or so ago he had treated | them to dinner, with champagne, beeause he said he had come by know what Sandy's uncle a living; there had never > explanation offered as to the cat hours he kept and she had not felt it her place to make .n- quiries. “If you think we can afford it.” Stephanie agreed to this idea of Sandy’s berause she decided he really felt low about going back | | to his old job. a ! (Fo be continued) | i | i | Hollywood Notes By The Associated Press Movie start sometimes balk at! the idea of making more than/ous big committees with his} | one or two movies a year. They} consider themselves overworked; when they are called upen to de® so. But Bill Holden doesn't. com- plain, and he probably makes| more movies per year than the guitar, to owning stock in a hel-| Lewis; and Chariton Heston. majority of stars. Last year, for instance, Bill} made five pictures, working aty four different studios. Recently, he completed “Union| der contract to two studios, Co-| lumbia and Paramount = It was Paramount that discov-|stardom shortly after the first dens, near London, contains 45,- ered him in 1938 at. Pasadena playhouse, eventually lending him to Columbia for his screen bow in “Golden Boy.” Since then he has made one Picture after another, one of his most recent successes being Sun-/ set Boulevard. Talking about his| role in that particular film. Bill| Holden says, “Lots of my frineds} told me I was crazy to-play a Part like that, a weak character, really a gigolo. “But I was anxious to do it, You see, I want to play all parts. This role was followed’ by my part of a detective in Union St: tion. Plenty of variety, that is what I like” The tall, good-looking actor is what the Hol ‘cod = producers call “a natural”. He is handsome and photographs extremely well, he has personality, and real act- ing ability. Besides, he appeals to all types of movie-goers, from bobby-soxers to their grandpar” ents. The Illionis-born start has brown hair, hazel eyes and a nice smile. His manrer is friendly and unaffected. Bill Holden’s career was roll- ing along at a great pace right up to the time world war two started. Bill quit pictures to en~ ter the Army as a private. He was relieved from active duty as! a First Lieutenant in the air corps. Incidentally, his buddy during wartime was the famous baseball star, Hank Greenberg. Bill still talks enthusiastically about Hank and describes him as “one 3 Gray Metal Desks 2 Home Size Wooden Desks REMINGTON and ROYAL PORTABLES PORTABLE SIZE VICTOR ADDING MACHINES CALL 250 FOR PRICES of the nicest guys you could ever meet.” However, that’s the way folks usually describe Bill Holden. He is married to Actress Brenda Marshall, and they have three youngsters. They have an attrac- tive home in suburban Toluca Lake. He has been a member of vari- friend Robert Montgomery. And somehow, though you wonder how in the world anyone as busy ‘as Bill Holden can manage it— he still finds time for varied out- side interests. These range from learning to play his favorite imstrument. a icopter development company and having an interest in a Heus- ton, Texas radio station. The famous Booth Tarkington Station,”. and now is getting|play, “Clarence,” has been an-/¢rescent-shaped, 45 miles long ready to start-wprk om a new/nounced as the vehicle which|2nd eight miles at film for Paramount. Bill is un-|will launch Alan Young at Para-/Point mount Studios. It’s the role which elevated Alfred Lunt to stage world war. The play, “Clarence,” was unan- imously chosen as one of the best of the 1919 and 1920 season, and ran an entire year on Broad- way. It’s about a young entomol- ogist who is drafted into the army and, after serviag in the Quar- termaster’s Corps, came back to New York. Columbia studies built a sound stage replica of a brine tank pho- tographed earlier in an ice plant. But brine at ihe plant was rust red and studio technicians were in a dither trying to dupli- cate the shade until some one solved the problem. How? By suggesting, of all things, cherry gelatin. It worked too. They got the shot after six big cauldrons, of the stuff were dumped into the fifty by fifty foot tank. Beautiful Eleanor Parker has been signed to a long term con- act by Paramount. The star is currently being seen in the film called “Three Secrets.” And she recently completed the feminine starring role in “The Valentino Story.” Remember the famous radio |team of a few years ago known | jas the sisters of the skillet? Well,: one of the two men whe com-| prised the comedy pair for many years, Ralph Dumke, now is working in movies. He has an important dramatic role in the Warner Brothers film, “The Breaking Point.” It's a drama starring John Garfield and Pa- tricia Neal. Right after producer Hal Wil- lis returned from Europe he re- signed four talented young play- ers who have made good in some of his reeently-made films. They are Corinne Calvet, Co- |medians Dean Martin and Jerry You will be seeing Hesten in the forthcoming release, “Dark - Lake Geneva, Switzerland, is its widest The herbarium at Kew Gar- 000 living plant specimens. Your Grocer SELLS That Good STAR * BRAND —~ TRY A POUND TODAY — Dr. J. A. Valdes Specializing In [TODAYS from the apartment most of the |" oe oday’s Horoscope Here s 2 senstwre “2d wah Ss BIRTHDAY |= Newshearuret aga By AP ihe expe | suart born Oct. 8, 1908, on 2 farm mear| °° Elba, Ala. Popular as Alabama's 2g” governor, “Big cnet won hearts by picking hs bies” above high schol age. Col- og — lege athlete, he once hopea to De ~ - a boxer but turned to politics, )PMc Sec running for Congress twice be- fore winning the governership} in 1946 on a grass roots piat- "0's westermmost Guadalupe Island, & s southwest of San Diego.) Calif. Select the service that selects its men—U.S. Marines. 2 SER AMIR SE AINA RAR | sdietlinettiihddineminieniamdtiamrtan eee rate ee rete Me nest. i emda

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