The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 7, 1952, Page 2

Page 2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEW Monday, January 7, 1552 The Key West Cittzen Published dailf (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub isher, from The Citizen’ Building. corner of Greene and Ann Streets Only Daitv Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County TP. ARTMAN 2 hale ea SLICE OF HAM SE || Apo | | a IORMAN D. AP’TMAN usiness Entered at Key West, Florida, as Secund Class Matter TELEPHONES 5) and 1935 ee ek edad) Bipons ta careliiai vember of The Assuciated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively mtitied to use for reproduction of ail news dispatches credited 10 .. not otherise credited in this paper, and also the local new yublished here, dember Florida Press Association und Associated Dailies of Fiocid: .Uscaiption (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12.00, single copy 5 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION he Citizer is an upen foium and invites discussion of public issue ind subjects of loca: or general interest, out it will not publis: sonvmous communications. UMPHUOVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST AJVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. More Hotels aud Apartments. 2%. beuch and Katning Pavillon. 4. Auporis—Lana and Sea. #4. Consvlidation vi County and City Governments. >... Community Audituriun. ' es ee BIG PiNE-CAPE SABLE BRIDGE That the hand can do anything the mind conceive: may not be aliogecher wue, buc it is Uue, almost to the point of simplicity, in tue proposed construction 0, % bridge trom Cape Sable to Big Pine Key. The questio:. centers not in the engineering ability but in financing the project. Constructing such a bridge is not the outgrowth of a recent idea. As was pointed out at a meeting of the Cit) Commissioners, Henry M. Flagler at first considerec bringing a railroad to Key West by way of Cape Sable. At the meeting it was said that a group of Cuban engineers will survey the route to determine the feasibility of build- ing the bridge, and likely they will learn, as Flagler en- gineers learned, more than half a century ago, that the construction is feasible. But the Flagler engineers also | determined that the cost would be too great, as compared to bridging the Florida Keys route that finally was ap- proved by Flagler, after he had had several talks about the matter with the laie George W. Allen of Key West. Mr. Allen visualized a railroad along the Florida Keys as far back as 1892. Toward the end of the Nine- teenth Century, when he heard of the Flagier proposal to build a railroad to Key West, he went to Miami to discuss the proposal with the financier. As a result of that anc other discussions, Flagler decided on the Florida Keys route, and Mr. Allen turned the first spadeful of earth to signalize the beginning of work on the project in the Key West area. Mayor Harvey and City Manager King, both en- gineers, undoubtedly will tell you that it is practicable to construct a bridge from Cape Sable to Big Pine Key, but neither they nor anybody else, in these times of high cost of labor and materials, by far the highest in the history of the country, can tell you just how much such an under- taking will cost. After much figuring, engineers can es- timate the cost, but the estimate may fall short by sev- eral million dollars, or may be high by a similar amount, depending on whether the cost of labor and materials go up or down in the next few years. Various reports made the rounds about the cost of the overseas extension of the Florida East Coast Railroad, ranging from 30 to 50 million, but, whatever it was, were it built today, as it was built 40 to 50 years ago, the cost probably would be three to four times as much. In the light of that circumstance, a bridge from Big Pine to Cape Sable, with pillars or viaducts, as well built as those that link the Keys, probably would cost much more than the estimated $50,000,000. As to the mind conceiving and the hand doing, it may be said that, shortly after the beginning of work on the Flagler extension, there was much talk, in a serious vein, about the proposed building of a floating bridge between Key West and Havana. Such a project may seem fantas- tic, but military engineers easily span a river with pontoon bridges, and a pontoon or some other system may be de- veloped, in a few hundred years, to assure the feasibility of constructing a bridge between here and Havana. Mind is the most wonderful thing in creation, capable of sur- mounting what appears to be impossibilities. TWENTY NEW COLORS New colors are still being discovered, according to | the British Color Council. Recently, the Council issued a new dictionary of color standards, replacing one issued in 1934, which contained twenty new colors. The British say they are recognized as international standards. The new colors, in case you don’t know, are: Eggshell blue, oatmeal, elephant grey, lupin blue. mauve, charcoal grey, petrol blue, mayflower lilac, clov- ev, howard green, dove grey, pastel yellow, tuscan vel- low, ice blue, crayon blue, donkey brown, kenya red, ma- rina green, gloucester green and medici crimson Triendship is a cne-way street only when a business connection is involved. Recentricity: Paying a debt that the creditor can- rot legally collect. Bragging is not altogether a lost art in the United States if you have read the advertisements of business or the proclamations of politicians seeking votes. Business Manage: | IDIA SEE THE COLONEL'S — . Key Books | By A. de T. GINGRAS (MIA, DER-w ) UND by Marston La France, detective novel, World Publishing Company, 6 pages.) The style of this book is a5 r3- eey as the y after tomorrow's nagazine advertisement. One corpse hes been a man wor- h his weight in Haig and Haig, and on the mor! hen the book negins tie detective wears shaky bands and a five times tive o'clock shadow. Another corpse is found near a king-sized flock of , Menander bushes. and his surviving family have large economy sized skeletons rattling around in their ancestral closets. All the old cliches have a new twist. The police commissioner ifroths at his chops, a woman 2 pes the corners of her mind and organizes tie bits and scraps inte something col:erent. The hero goes for something like greyhounds for a tin rabbit, a thug is a naughty- “naughty who makes his pile as | chief muscle to a big gangster | {wheel, and somebod abundant ;rear hangs down over each side of ta too small bar stool. One over j sentimental detective turns old wo. {man, and another fee!s like a sat-! yr with a hot tip oa a fresh wood nymph. Even the hero's nightmares would give Freud and Dali a jolt. He stumbles beyond his hangover on scorched and burning feet | through a giowing forest of brittle cocktail sticks and slim, nylon-clad legs. And the events of the story are | as racey as the style. At a garden ! party in Mia a dead millionaire is found stabbed with a hand car- ved ice pick. And the young de- tective who is sent on the case is also discovered murdered. Rick Larken, a private eye with a smart leit hook and given to leap- ing in and out of beds with ash blonde ladies, is sent to Miami on the case. He manages to tangle! with all the figures that and re- | tired Sing Sing alumni; as well as ! men and women who move in the Miami world of coupon clipping, | yacht clubbing and “beer for the eat if he wants it.” The hero is tailed by thugs as his taxi races through the quiet suburbs of the great playground of the nation, past svelte homes and gardens. He fences with death | in lush apartments and on the back | Stairs going out of gambling joints | And women as beautiful as tropic nights move in and out of the | story as murder runs loose in Mi- ami. (’M TELLING YOU KIDS FOR | THE LAST TIME, humorous book ;by Parke Cummings, illustrations by Robert Osborn, published by }Henry Schuman, N.Y. City, 172 | Pages.) This volume's first chapter is en |titled, “The Stomach,” and the young of the human race are jshown mostly as vacuums for re ; ceiving food. \ The author believes a child's | sightseeing guidebook would label ‘certain points of national interest something like this. The Washing ton monument is a high tower where you can get candy and stuff before you climb up and after you climb down, The Grand Canyon is a very impressive hole in the | ground, but parts of it are too far from refreshment places. Niagara Falls is a place where an awful lot ; of water falls down, and there are } excellent milk shakes and assort or ice cream = at various drugstores in the vicinity And in the chapters which follow | Mr. Cummings has a lot of bones to pick with the whole modern | set up in which the child moves. Boy scouts, for example He contends the ‘young scout sel. dom has to tangie with the forest | orimeval in our citifiied living. He | recommends more urban accomp- lishments To become an acceptable eagle | scout, a boy should know how to! treat chilblains or frostbite brought / on by leaving the hands too long in the deep freeze. He should be able to name three dependable LETTER FROM HIS WIFE?” ways to unscrew the top from an! olive or peanut butter jar without using a Stillson wrench. He should show he can be courteous and competent in helping an old lady to find her way to a beauty salon, French restaurant, canasta instru- ctor, travel bureau and Jadies day at a local ball park. He would; , prove his all arounc fund of in- formation by winning a prize on a vadio give-away program, by list ing ten us for Scotc:. tape, and baby-sitting for a ytotal of ten hours. The boy scout follow the route of a newspaper de livery boy in his neighborhood and show his ability to find papers thrown into hedges, bushes, snow drifts, and other zavored places of concealment. The author then wonders whether the whole business of truancy hasn’t been thrown back into the lans of the parents. Yesterday a parent only skulked into the school ater three o'clock when his son got out of the teacher's control. Today it father or mother do not attend the various parent clubs and PTA's th are confronted with an ac cusz‘ion of playing hookey from a responsibility. A father with six children in school hasn't even the time for a game of pool or for Jummy Durante. Mr. Cummings also shoots holes in the theory that Junior really wants papa for a pal. 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York to London yoneV per Californi Americans Philippine: ely chosir holidays to catch going to church. 20.000 GI's in Manila boo n general. y fighting in Korea, ™ N. forces withdraw to new positions. ese - Av cor to Moslems, the in- tented sacrifice of Abraham was of his son Ishmael and not Isaac. la little more to their natural in- ertia. and, resign from the society of the over -dutiful and conscien- for children will only tolerate ‘reasonable amoun. of help and hip from their parents. is a wise bor full of laugh- ee T ‘er, end the line drawings by Rob. ert Osborn sre exceedingly funny. A JUNIOR SELECTION (F=DERICO, the FLYING SQU- TRRET story and pictures by Tony e book ¢ Press, pages.) Federic is no ordinary. squirrel. He can spread himself wide and batlike and leap from one curve of branch to another. And he seer to have a sense of the sesthetic because ! dmires the view from Ls cozy nest in the hollow of an oak tree. 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