The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 10, 1951, Page 2

| = ciseeeeniniaietinnaeene eT Ate TEI OCEN teen sentra nN pTLA st LATER oe WIP Kass LAGE TWO. She Key Went Citizen Sey Except Sunday ea yP ARTMAN. OWRCT and ‘Publisher __ NOMMAN D. ARTMAN, ness. Manager Fro'i The Chien ‘Duliding Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County atered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter ve for ‘teproduction of al «it or mt otherwise cr s0 the dncal news publi: SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ..... ADVERTIGNG RATES _ Made Known on Application SPRCIAL, NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, rr Seen ce wo “eared BPR bituary notices, poems, ete. will Yat the rate of 10 cents a line. 4 for entertainment by churches from while et giape is to be derived are 5 cents a 1 ne. itizen {s an open forum and invites dis- nae bs public issues and subjects of loca’ or Megeral Interest, but it will pow publish anonyn ous m.munications. lisp SCIENCE FICTION Sgience fiction has become extremely popaldy with many readers. Even people who used to seoff at the space ships of ..“Buck, Rogers” and “Flash Gordon” are beginning to regard writers of science fiction as somewhat prophetic. A recent movie relates a story of suspense caused by an oddly shaped visitor from another planet, who arrives in our world encased in a cake of ice. Almost any of the science ‘fiction story magazines carry from one to a half dozen stories of trips by men into outer space and to other planets. The stories amid the movies about the parts of the universe of which we know so little reflect a certain anxiety about what may exist in the possible other worlds. All of the writers ascribe to whatever sort of life that, may exist there the same thought processes and desires that motivate the Saetion of men on earth. Some of the writ- ers describe the fictional life they write -about.as, being inferior to ours in scienti- ‘fie development while . others imagine civilizations far ahead of ours in scientific “Progress, The science fiction writer has one dif- _fieulty today. In the past he could describe powerful bombs, super airplanes, strange iiethéds of communication and various other wonders of his imagination, and he could feel that his work would be unchal- lenged. At a time when radio, television, i jet planes and reckets have become com- mon terms in every-vocabulary, the writer has a hard time conjuring up wild ideas which have not been considered, and in many cases made practical, by real-life scientists. AN, OLD BUT VITAL PRINCIPLE “In‘all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and govern- ed by, the civil power.” These words come from the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the principle was subsequently em- bodied in the Constitution of this country, which provides that the President, as the chief civil officer ef the nation, “shall be ‘ the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.” The maintenance of this principle is necessary to the integrity of our free in- stitutions. No officer has the right to ap- peal to public opinion’ over the head of his commander, in an effort to compel the executive to reverse foreign policy. The motive does not matter. The supremacy of an officials and their control over military forces is a ‘mandatory require, ment if free government is to continue. The half-truth is than the big lie. more dangerous “; &7woman may be as old as she looks, butssgmétimes it issafer not to look too critically, Many of us find it easy to sleep at night, not too tough in the morning, but in the afternoon we run obstacles. into all sorts of INLAND WATERWAY Here is an opportunity forthe Key West Chamber of Commerce and other civic bodies, as well as_ residents individ- ually, to take immediate action to try to have funds included in the proposed ex- penditures for improving inland water- ways in Florida during the next fiscal year. A few days ago Florida’s representa- tives in. congress appeared before the House Appropriations Sub-Committee and | recommended that the inland waterway between Jacksonville and Miami be deep- ened to 12 feet ata cost of $2,350,000. Not a word was said about the inland route between Miami and Key West. That waterway ends in what may be called a cul-de-sae at Bahia Honda. As The Citizen has remarked on sev- eral occasions, it was not even a half-done job when the inland waterway, south of Miami, was deepened only as far as Bahia Honda. Why did the improvement. stop there? What was at Bahia Honda, an un- inhabited key, to make it the terminus of an inland waterway from Miami? Why was it not extended 40 miles farther south jto Key West, the logical terminus? Those are questions that authorities in Washington have never answered dur- ing the more than 20 years that The Citi- zen has asked them recurrently. In 1942, President Roosevelt approv- ed an expenditure of $1,850,000 to con- \tinue the extension of the waterway from Bahia Honda to Key West. But the money to do the work has not yet been appro- priated by congress. And now Florida's ‘representatives in congress recommend the appropriation of $19,500,000 for in- land waterways and flood control in the state, and not a word is said about ex- tending the route between Bahia Honda and Key West. The Chamber and other loca] civic bodies should send telegrams or letters to Representative Bill Lantaff, requesting him to appear before the committee to urge the deepening of the route from Bah- ia Honda to this city. It is an easy matter to demonstrate the necessity of completing the project from -Key West to Miami. It could be peinted out that barges that bring naval supplies, as well as freight for local business men, would find the route ad- vantageous when a rough sea keeps them out of Hawk’s Channel. But the people of Miami, Jackson- ville and the cities in between, want their waterway deepened to 12 feet, not only to accommodate commercial but pleasure craft also. We want our waterway deep- ened for the same reasons. Cabin cruisers and small yachts would come to'Key West by the inland route from Miami were the waterway deepened between Bahia Honda and Key West. Why discriminate against Key West? Residents of the state East Coast point out the importance of deepening the waterway from Jacksonville to Miami as a defense measure. Figured on that basis, Key West is of greater importance than any other city from Jacksonville southward. Two things intrigue us: the naming of Pullman cars and the naming of flowers. One of the unfortunate things about the Sunday shift to daylight saving time in the eastern states was that the Saturday night celebrator got stuck an hour longer with his hangover. NO MORE WITCHES Witches are no more. The British House of Commons recorded this fact of- ficially the other day when it abolished ‘the remaining clauses of the Witchcraft Act of 1718. The House of Lords has yet to act, but is not likely to take a stand in support of this old superstition. i Time was when a belief in the power of witches was more widespread than the ability to read. Witches were put to death in Germany as late as the 1750’s. The hor- vor with which the rest of Europe viewed this relic of savage thought did much to prevent a repetition of such trials. Curiously enough there was a_ trial involving witcheraft in America, in the Cleveland courts, only twenty. years ago. This was not a trial for witchcraft, but for libel. A woman accused her neighbor of being a witch, and was taken to court for libeling her. The judge held that the charge of witchcraft could not be upheld fn a twentieth century court. This may. be the last Ajmerican instance of judicial notice of what was once a universally ac- | credited superstition, THE KEY WEST CLLIZEN SLICE OF HAM, ie SECREE KE CCE CES € < < ¢ ¢ G <‘ < cccegete ranted. but the edit Ward Ross, i ¢ a eeee “e ‘ bess i - we ee ti 7 even the remicligas Managing of what I had prev found : aoe cbncianved mee | : out from the employees. al. &Xira ng writers should be | Chicago, I, The entire inside has been re- ih iiciie am one aan, | AON 7, 2801. painted. The pastel shades are only. Sixnature of | iene soothing and pleasing to the eye. — pec Sper cae eed “NO SCOOPS” One is inclined to forget he h ar requested otherwise, | Editor, The Citizen: come to a hospital. A good thoug! Bi (ip wirepenee No scoops up here, but it’s the |t00, for they are institutions dedi- WANTS EDITORIAL age ae Weee ita tie aetink Gee pala ad Specially Priced : REPRINTED Miss The Citizen and my happy | Suffering, so anything that makes Not just ordinary galvanized sheet Editor, The Citizen: workir.s press days. See you}¥°U forget you are in an institu-| cans... these are “hot dipped!” We are writing to you for per- | 800n, i % tion is an improvement. From the Weatherproof! Reinforced haga : SUSAN McAVoy, | doctors reading room, to the back} Cover fits tight! . . . mission to which appeared in under the title 5 expres its rend- reprint an editorial the Monday, |New York, N. ¥., fece © Secectccecace SEARCH FOUNDATION: THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1951. ng freshly {management will go into the limbo of the forgotten. Given a year, the institution might almost | be self-sustaining. Truly a record for a municipal hospital: these have just been painted by tne maintenance cr (no contracts) and. the job ha: |been done well, The Wards ap- j pear to be adequately staffed, | wing two naturally busy, while] | | wine three is having an off week| | | Prof, Carter Goodrich of Colum- bia, economist, born in Plainfield, N. J., 54 years ago. (they hope) from the stork. Just jone mother in there, a girl named| 1 Sie | Smith, whose husband is employ- ed by General Electric at Craig “7 ; Dock, and a right pretty baby Ai 2 |they have too. My mother-in-law] STRAND condttiones 4 " | was the other patient, and receiv-} an ssid | ing adequate attention. i ie Saw the local Blood Banik Thursday - Friday - Saturday | donated by the Lions Club. They] LEMON DROP - By JACK DELANEY "are in need of donors, but not too} KID Ri |many, they just want enough to} a in the; take care a their normal de-| ith al ‘Hospit al today. | ry } BON HOPE A MARILYN : Albury, the} to donate a pint of blood, in fact! — , nurse oft always feel a lot better after|f}| Coming: THE REDHEAD : ; or the auxiliary. It’s| giving it. AND THE COWBOY a pel e, ben me Beh, peace ane AI in aif, I anv convineed that] Gh ord And Rhonda Fleming F of the commanaes ne in the health! the future will see Albury adopt-| re i siesta E a budget, paying some of those | MON Pi From the time I walked into current ones are paid} ROE COOLED a the yard Tuesday morning, and — maintaining an| a ee to. the ogi ab oaiee suns e stock of medical sup-|PThursday - Friday - Saturday Ps intendent until I left there last| and making any improve- night at about 7 o'clock, you| ments necessary. ce Summer Stock i’ could feel that every person em-| mp. es 2 Ss uch, with i |ployed at the hospital was a part! oo sari anRetAS much, JUDY GARLAND AND GENE art) with so little. | # i ee It is thei ie Bie nd If the county commissioners] In Technicolor Fes Pascoe edoitgit, | Will back Albury in the futu Coming: CRAZY HOUSE ey: are doing it. as they have in the past, I am| Olsen And Johnsan oe All of this isn’t because admin-} istrator Albury took me through the hospital on a conducted, tour... His tour was merely that of an individual who took commenda-! ble pride in showing the accom- plishments of his administration It was no more than a verification firmly convinced the era of mis- Hot Dipped door itself the place is spotless. Beds are being painted as rapid! as possible. There is an adequa April 23rd, issue of your paper Mey 5 30) “Easy Now to|NO BANNISTER SLIDI: Kill Rats,” with a notation to ac-| IN BUDAPEST company reprints of the editorial] to the effect that the product, re- ferred to therein is warfarin. We | would like to get reprints of the article to send to various com- panies who are selling packaged warfarin consumer manufactured under license from our Foundation which holds. a patent on warfarin. We will appreciate your : early advices regarding the above quest. Very truly yours, WISCONSIN ALUMNI RE: BUDAPEST—(#)—The trade of staircases | homes garian youngsters from down, according to a decree here. The newspaper products thers. , .” Dr. Mordecal J. re- balus- in Budapest must be supplied with rings or knobs to prevent Hun- sliding ministry “Vilag-Ossag” calls the order “The Joy of Mo- B. Ezekiel, long-time Government economist,| total they now pay out for laun- adviser to the U.N., born in!dry. Richmond, Va., 52 years ago. stock of provisions. Medicines Licensed Master Masai Phen si on Premises on hand and being used. Surplus, ‘ FREE ESTIMATES supplies are being returned to the a sf For Repairs, Alterations or drug companies and credit allow-; ed the hospital. % Installations, Telephone 378 Everything is not rosy at the! institution. The laundry bill, I was informed, * averages about ee $7,000 per year, a lot of money. We Carry A Full: Eine: of of GLIDDEN PAINTS, VARNISHES and The county commissioners would] ENAMELS - aoe do well to advance funds to pur-| WINDOW GLASS - HARDWARE, ELECTEIGN: and es Penton ipo gs SUPPLIES—Fittings, Pipe and KEY. west ‘SUPPLY Se. | 211 Simonton Street chase equipment for a_ small laundry at the hospital, and save the institution at least 50% of the I found time to visit the sina’ Tare th HENRY 2, TAYLOR, ABC ASC Ne‘woite avery Monday evening, ALWAYS BE CAREFUL DRIVING Nobody wonders what you’re driving when you roll by in this one. In the 1951 line-up, its brand-new front-end styling stands out with a beauty all its own. You're the proud owner of a Buick— and the whole world knows it. But you—at the wheel—enjoy a long list of differences that go far deeper than looks. 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