The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 9, 1951, Page 2

Sa te Pp 5 te pi PAGE TWG She Key Went Citizen Opie Pens, Except Sunday, by ‘Owner and Publisher YOUMAN UD. ANTMAN, Businesy Manager € itizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily’ Wewspaper in key West and Monroe County — SAE Pea eteyed at Key Wert, Florida, as second class matter Lec eran ite ac ane MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Aswociated Press is exclusively entit! 1 te we for reproduction of ali news dispatches ci Jited ct or mot @therwise credited in wad so the Fical news published here. SUBSOHIPTION RATES this papel, three me Weekly ADVERT\SING RATE: Made Known on Application SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of t! of rexpeet, obituary notices, poe: shavyed for at the sate of 10 cents Notices fur entertainment by irches from vnich a revenue ts to be derived are 6 cents a I'ne. Ths Citizen ts an open forum and invites dis- sion of public issues and subjects of loca’ or ered interest, but it will not publish anonya ous vonications, resolutions wil ve PROV ENERTS: FOR KEY WEST @APVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governmenis. Community Auditorium. , PePS OUR AMBASSADORS A few days ago, an article appeared on the sports page of this paper calling attention te the lamentable fact that, ab though the high school basketball team had been more successful than any other in the school’s history, no one had come forward to give it a banquet. It was cus- tomary everywhere else in the country, ‘the article pointed out, for such affairs to be held at the end of an athletic season no matter what the won-loss records showed. Not very long afterward, Winston Jones, the high school coach, received a telephone call from a gentleman whom we have been forbidden to name. This anonymous citizen offered to pay full ex- pense of such a banquet, even suggesting that the mémbers of the team and the cheerleaders invite their parents and dates Last Friday night at Raul’s, the ban- quet took place. The concensus among everyone. present was that it was a bang- up suecess: The ten players and two team managers received their athletic letters and the praise and attention that all of us felt was their due. The spotlight that had shown somewhat dimly on them during the Basketball season flared up _ briefly and we saw more clearly what they were and how muchthey had done for Key West: As Horace O’Bryant said, they were “the best possible ambassadors Key West could have.” Everywhere that the team travelled and played, it left a memory of good sportsmanship and of an ability to win or lose like gentlemen. From most off these host schools, letters came to Coach Jones, praising our boys for the way they conducted themselves, and our city for producing young men of this calibre. It is a terrifying thing, but one we must nonetheless face, that some or all of these boys may soon be training to play a larger game on a different field, a game whosé stake is freedom itself. We cannot help believing, although it sounds like the worst of truisms, that they and our coun+ try stand a far better chance in any waw because of, the lessons of conduct and dis- cipline learned this year on a basketball court. We would like to add our voice in praise, as loudly as eight point type will permit, to that of everyone concerned with the banquet, praise deserved equally by these -young players and an anonymous citizen of Key West who gave so generous- ly thai they might have their recognition. Our journalistic vest is popping with pride because Key West has people like this, and we’d like to tell the world about it. The number of people killed on our highways is testimony to the general carelessness of those that escape death or injurye Thi ple suécumb to the blandishments of the seed catalogs. s the time of the year when peo- } OUR WAR CASUALTIES You don't have to be at the front to be a war casualty; you may be as far be- hind the line as Key West is from Korea, provided your duty it to strengthen our armed forces for operation in any field of action. If you are in the service and are stricken. while seated ata typewriter, writing a letter promotive of the war-ef- fort, you are a casualty of the conflict. Men atthe front can’t fight if they are not supplied with a continuous stream of the tools of war. The men behind the lines are as an important cog in the war machinery as are the men at the front. The greater the ‘coordination between them the better the chance to win the war. Napoleon said an army fights on the con- dition of its stomach. But that is a_ half truth. Supplies of plentiful food are es- sential but abundant supplies of weapons are just as essential. Training is another essential that is just as important as food and weapons. A soldier’s stomach may be full and he may have weapons too, but if he does not know how to use them effectively, his war effort it wasted. Uncle Sam’s men in every branch of the services have been good fighters because they have been well trained. They have been able to “hit the target.” That ability was confirmed in every war in which the United States has fought. An apt illustration is the Battle of Santiago in the Spanish-American war when our warships destroyed four Span+ ish armored cruisers. Our ships came out of that clash without damage to them- selves. Three local naval flyers, Ensign Adrian Chavannes, Warrant Radio Elec- trician John E. Hogard and Chief Avia ion Ordinanceman Jack Walters, los their lives last week while on a_ routine training flight. They are casualties of war just as much so asthe Americans who have lost their lives in Korea. Had there not been fighting in that country, the armed services in this country would not have been conducting the intense training that is in effect today. Those three men were in training to hit hard at our enemies in Korea or any- where else. They are war casualties. Instead of worrying about where the next international crisis will occur -we might concentrate on being ready to meet. one. ECONOMICS AND DEFENSE Military preparedness is but a_ hol- low facade if it lacks a stable, productive economy to back it up. The Brazilian minister of the interior made a point of this fact at a recent press conference in Rio de Janeiro. This official asserted that in a world threatened by war Brazil must look to her defense, but that she and the other coun- cries of Latin America must first build u'p ‘heir economies. A commission represent- ing the countries in this hemisphere will meet in Washington following the meet- ing of the foreign ministers, to discuss ways and means of accomplishing this dual task of building economy and de- tense. Large projects are planned for the development of water power and other natural resources, and detailed plans have been made for presentation to American bankers along with applications for loans. With South America’s almost unlim+ ited resources and the help of American capital, Brazil and her sister republics should be able to accomplish great things along the lines of mining, agriculture and industry. It may be necessary, however, that defense preparations aceompany rather than follow such performance, if these republics are to be ready for emer- gencies, The military United States should public alarm. preparedness of the not fluctuate with A SOURCE OF WORKERS The employment of women in ‘ndus- try has increased nine times between 1870 and 1950, according to Miss Frieda S. Miller, director of the Women’s Bureau, Jepartment of Labor, who points out that, during the same period, employment of men inereased only four times as much. Miss Miller says that the 39,000,000 women not now in the labor force eonsti- tute this country’s largest labor reservoir. Not all are available for employment but improvement in working standards have made it possible for many women to work. fk KEY WEST CITIZEN “This Rock | Of Ours’ By BILL GIBB j How Dick Hunter, the who 3 out on Truman Aye., N we put it idly lk do in. Hollywc Champion Parachute Dick has made over a and jumps at r meets oil over the country. He still lixes .o attend these events as a specta- tor. ' I tried to get a story out of him.! No luck. The only thing he want- ed to talk about went something like this: | “Look, everytime I go io Mi-! ami after tires some idiot ‘ishing off the bridges will run in “ront of my truck. They get a nibble their line and they forget are only a couple of feet a from cars zipping along at miles per hour. They run back-' wards and only God and good many of you know brakes save their lives. “I've mi p y of parachute! jumps but I was never in half the danger that areless bridge | fishermen put themselves in Dick’s right, of course. It’s amazing that so few people have hurt on the bridges whenj| e so indifferent to danger.’ » argued for years that some sort of cat-walk should be built outside the rai s bridge to permit It would be ‘0 have to spend mon aitraction. Such Seales.” Wails and ncidentally I asked Jack the oiher-day to! nlighten me a little on zoning} egulations, etc, here in Key} Nest. He is c Planning Com- y know. go into details about nversation but I was im- od by the sincerity and en- desire Jack displayed with regards to what he thought} he town should do. He wants a long-range plan- ling program that will permit! he people to know the type “4 zone in which they are investin; their money. And also give them he assurar that they won't wake up the next morning and ind that, for instance, their Resi- jential classification has been changed to Business, and vice versa. Quaintness There is always an argurhent sbout- whether a town should weserve its old-fashioned atmos- vhere and charm, or whether it hould jopt a progressive and nodernistice style. I should modify hat statement and say “there is always an argument changing ‘onditions warrant or Key West is lucky enough to 2e one of the tewns in which such im argument is warranted. We are forging ahead rapidly in both sopulation and business growth. In a few more years it will be too late for us to decide what type of architecture we want to keep and what type we will permit to be built. Personally, I like old fashioned hings. But only when they do aot cause ciscomfort and/or haz- ards. If we're going to have unpaint- 2d wooden buildings in town, let’s try to keep them in one sec- ion, and let’s be sure that they are not fire or storm hazards. New Orleans offers one of the finest examples of the mainten- ance of old and new architecture ® within zones. Why don’t we study some of their regulations and plans? , STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE TRIUMPH COFFEE MILL at All Grocers Dr. J. A. Valdes |! Specializing in Eye Examination and Visual Training COMPLETE SERVICE ON |! 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Ful- born in Sum- tries His promise to take | Philadel-} communicant business} 481. membership York, torn in Durham,| 1951 aime and finds that God does not keer a adequate care of the giver. In five year: violinist, born in, there have been no claim ago. Th Rev. DeWitt Saffor v ng of Kissimmee,| deposited the mone recently creator of “Gaso-} renewed the offer and promised born in Cashton,| to include the five years’ in- | terest. author,| A tither is one who gives 10 ears ago. | percent of his income to the se, president) church. Safford reports his Univers: Hamilton,} chureh has 178 tithers out of a None of them, he says, has e-time undersecretary of! shown an interest in his $100. ago. investment broker, LAST TIMES TODAY with DAVID BRIAN, AND FRANK LOVES Normandy Battle Today’ y's photographer who, in ornia in 1872 proved that a & Se running horse at some time has ‘Anniver sarves all four feet off the ground, and 1738—Rufvs Putr Mass., Whose further researches make millwright, Revolution gen- him a pioneer in motion photo- der of the New England grapby, born. Died May 8, 1904. 1879—Thomas Meigham, .actor, orn in Pittsburgh. Died July 8, 1996 1865—Charles P. Steinmetz,| world-famed American electrical) we:many. 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