The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 14, 1951, Page 2

=< ry 5 eee - n « : ™ i > n Di | - yablisned here. ete. Page 2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Fridey, Decembe: 14, = The Key West € ittzen *ablicshed daily (except Sunday) by L. F wner and pub isher, from The Citizen Building. corner of anc Ann Streets Unly Dailv Newspaper in Ke Vest and M e Count Edite: Business Manager lass Matter The Associated Press is exclusively spatches credited to 4 oO the PRA SO eto Member of The Associated Press— Diutled to use for reproduction of enot otherwise credited in thi news d and al ail paper, local news ete Florida Press Ass on ali 2 Assoiated Dailies of F oride iption (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year Si2. 00," ingle copy 5e IVERTISING RATES M: ADE KNOWN’ ON APPL ICATION Citizen is an open fo.um sion of public issuet BY¥bjects of loeai or generai n will act publish DE RGUS:! remmiunication: peialion | | | IMPHOVEMENTS ©OK KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CiTIZcN b. More Hotels wud Apattments. 2. Beach and Bathing Pavilion %. Aifporis—Laad and Sea. 4 Consolidation cf County and City Governments. 5. Community Auditorium. = THE BUSINESSMAN’S VIEWPOINT oom: = sHecently, Westinghouse announced that it intended Finerease its capacity by fifty per cent by 1954. Dow ermical has reportec that it will spend about $100,000,- a@ year on plant expansion for the next several years. General Electric’s capital investment from now until 1955 been set at approximately $450,000,000. Pacific Gas and Electric has disclosed that tt is going to put up the biggest power plant in California min] wo i] mx» There is little doubt that the U. S. business man re- ds the long rangé outiook for business as very good and, consequently, every week business men are an- Bouncing plant expansions that will cost hundreds of mil- fon dollars. Yet while confident fitthe Jong range outlook for-business, their speeches in Grate that they also feel that this country F socialist hell. = From California, Theodore Petersen, of Standard Oil Company of California, states: “This great ifustrial system is in grave danger of being literally tink- tred and bossed and r s:vlated to death.” The President efthe American Bankers Association, James E. Shelton, Has this to say: “It is rtling to see... how f. we have traveled down the rozd toward State Socialism.” " The head of the Manufactirers business men seem to be is on its way to president Association of Con- necticut, Alfred Bodine, who, incidentally, is also presi- dent of a machine too! company in Bridgeport,.in reflect- ing on the trend toward socialism, has this to say: “The truth is that we already have Socialism in America, not complete as yet, but far .. Itis unquestionably irue that the among top businessmer is the ism. Yet it is difficult to reconcile this pessimism on the American future with the ently. has in America’s future not to be completed until 1953, 54 or "55. Fortune Magazine indicates that a possible explana- tion is that the U.S. that he is making plenty of money and expects to go on advanced,” topic uppermost today drift toward social- faith the business man appar- by his plans for expansion husiness man is a pious hypocrite, making money. He just wishes the government would let him keep more of it We do not believe shat the average U. S. business man is a hypocrite. We « feel that he is in sincere in his alarm over Socialism believe that the S$. busine and also has faith in the pe that they will not allow tic state. ertainly do not We s man has faith in of . America this country inclined to America ure to become a- Too many Christmas presents are motiva one might be received The “next we has, for many years, been the one which would end the world SLICE OF HAM "HE WANTS TO KEEP IN PRACTICE “ PRIVATE GEORGE FONT, Jr., eenmmnenmntaiemeedie so 1510 Packer St., in bringing about — THIS ROCK OF OURS — By BILL GIBB Through an unoff discovered that t! employees are rather sore Key West Cit magazine for playin of a letter addressed to Mr ational story Harrs larry $. Truman, Boca Chiea, Fl: A y postal ¢ out at Boea Chica innocuously stamped “Not 4 this address” and returned the let ter to Key West The erroneous impression re ceived by some of the public upon reading the s postal employe Definitely Your civilian pc employees have proven themselves to be the most loyal, trustworthy, hard-work ing, and efficient men and women in government service. (p.s., and I might add the word “under-paid” was that civilian ere concerned this is not tr | also.) Mail for Boca Chica often comes through tied into a bundle. It isn’t too hard to imagine the delight with whieh an enlisted m. would poun ce on a letter addressed to “Mr Harry S, Truman and iruthfully though with tongue in cheek, stamp “not here’’ upon it COMMISSIONERS The group of men that recting our mun to be commend tiously -- for theif wonderful to date. If they accomplish half of what they have set out to do in the way of sewerage, street markers. improving traffic conditions, ete they will go down in Key West history as being the best Com mission we've ever had The County Gonual Sie! ee. Battle Of C ri anes d by a tear Lost By Texans CeRP rs ' Tex., De 14.—%.——We report that Texas apparent vattle of the Whoopir jam the battle But time € i ana. 1 th nost is in Wh 4 vill be take t ) 0. The era e kr nd Cr J and Crip the At fi that the Nev ying et | f the to Te N drleans. be taken to New here it is hope they a family They | do =pE KERN), SPs KEEN SIGHT DR. GORDON N. KEENE OPTOMETRIST | Formerly of Miami EYE AND VISUAL DIAGNOSIS Complete Optical Laboratory 824 Duval St. Te! 1423) tinue to be more or less a mystery body. I, personally, ean't see from their actions that they are worth the effort of praising or cohdemn ing { ‘The hospital “‘stew’? that was brought to the public’s attention with regard to Jackson’ Memorial Caneer cases will take careful study to find out who is right and who is wrong. But in the mean time, our own Monroe County Municipal Hospital history is none too enhancing. We, the public, might do better to worry more about our local in- stitutions and their future than about the seemingly injustices of an out-of-town hospital. If there are wrongs up there, the Miami people are conscientious enough to straighten them out. Commissioner Joe Allen flatly states to this columnist that the Monroe County Hospital will never refuse an impecunious case and that’ conditions are improving steadily with regard to services and | equipment. I've never had cause to argue with Mr. Allen to date. And I will admit that his statement makes me feel somewhat eéasier and more confident of the future. But I still reserve the right to quote that f classic phrase from Missouri: | HOW ME” Though Commissioner Allen is probably right in his contention that much of the detrimental talk , heard about the hospital is just so even he will have to admit that where there is so much smoke, there is bound to be a Jittle < fire: abi. ae ge mueh “gossip”, \go in the Wild-steteand’' this is! 1 of-great concern beeduse the Whooping Crane is to -naturalists, S@° fars-as is there are. only '28 birds world—all in this flocs, | inters in Texas. the almost extinct. known, in the whic Well thorities seem toshave persuaded the of Texas that the New Orleans zoo should have this op portunity to whether ti will breed in captivity federal wildlife au state see cranes Need a new leather belt to our belt sale Your choice of many $1.50 to $2.50 values at on 98c. Better hurry! CHIC 826 Duval.—(Advt.) 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