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

nee ER Et _ofre.the same in each case. Page 2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key Mest Citizen Publishei daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- pub-| sisher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene And Ann Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County u. BP. ARTMAN NORMAN D. ARTMAN — Friday, March 7, 1952) Today’ s | Business | Mirror By SAM DAWSON ie Editor ——-—. Business Manager | —} NEW YORK ‘®—Does your in- Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter comée—in térms of real ~ TELEPHONES power after taxes—stretch 40 per | Qe cent farther than it @id before | World War TI? The answer to that from most people is likely to bé: a reSound- ing “No! yet’ govertiment siite- | rule boys say that, despite soaring | taxes and prices, incomes per cap- | ita in the United States are 49 per cent higher than in 1939, in | terms of what can be bought with | the take-home pay. “The ‘Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue | It seems Mr. A. Per Capita is | and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish | sitting pretty. But where can yea| t ienth | fi ind him? Per capita covers every- patio si: eopruneis jone—from the newest-born unem- | | ployed infant to his hard-pressed ‘dad struggling to feed the other \five sons and daughters; from the | panhandler on the street to the | richest man in the country. The notion that incomes stretch |farther will find no credence with | retired persons living on a pen- sion; or tne-return trom life sav- ings, or any other form of fixed | | income. Few persons in white col- | jar jebs will believe it. Nor will the wealthy who have seen their ‘incomes whittle down by ‘higher tax rates.in tag top brackets. And. the worker who took home , a, $60. a week, pay check, in to support his wife and, two chil- Siren,.can, find , government , statis-| pics to shew that rising pape | higher, prices om. the eoogs, and his family. require ipake | essary for him. to bring home | ast $115.9, week now to furnish | ais family with the same standard | of living. Yet the government statiaticians | say that per capita incomes } a higher buying power now: er | capita inccme on the eve of the last war was $536. In 1951 it was $1,443. After deducting taxes and translating the 1951 dollar into terms of what a dollar would buy’ iin 1939, last year’s per capita shrinks to $750. Still, that $750 is' 40 per cent higher than 1939’s per capita income of $536, Washington officials point out. may be true for Mr. A. Per Capita, but it seems contrary Magiber ot of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitiedl to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published here. Member Florida Press Association-and Associated Dailies of Floride | Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12.00, single copy 5« ‘ae ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION nae j R KEY WES” ADVOCATED { iMPACWICIRNTE, Fon, Kes wae” AD 1,. More Hotels and Ap: 2 Beach and Bathing I ¢ irports—Land and $ orolldation of Cou. Community Auditor} oo THE HIGH. CORE OF DYING ; aha he Cooperative League ‘ “the W's. ents. Bol dsiw i 2 ‘the’ Federal Trade Commission to conduct’ publie investi- gations lookihg into the various phases of the burial in- ‘dustry. A Cooperative League official said a private in- _vestigation unearthed unethical practices by undertakers and others in the industry. _ * The official cited an example in Detroit, where the cost of a funeral is said to be mdent on the cost of “ daskets. The cost of the funeral is said to be determined by multiplying the exact cost of the casket by 3.8, regard- less of the fact that the acttial funeral. services provided nt zy Several labor. unions hay ¢ ked this problem hy | — f with professional aking firms. In one | cane, roup succees ing out a flat- | eke al i Ag ‘own experi- | i : aoa ymaitt for services, lless of the type of | it af that this that this large in t : casket het As a result, cos “the first twenty-five prising ekease in real saya es | ; fune conducted under this arrangement were cut an | short,” says the Northern Trust | i averag $369.00 each, It is not hard to see, in this ease, | C0., Chicago, in its “Business com- ‘ DEesorncvta aants for March.” ‘it Points out ghat between 1939 | amd 1944 per éapitd real’ incomes, | expressed in terms of fixed buy- Power, rose sharply. Since 1944 | per capita incomes have ac- vere excessive. 7% . and C,T. O. ate pressing Yor action: : he the ederal Trade Commission on burial price-rigging. | They claim that in many. areas, especially rural as, | where there no burial co-ops, the public is too “often he- | tually fallen eet haces athe during ti:e war people made ing exploi oited. ' more "money: hile prices were While there are many honorable business men in the held down. Since the war, prices undertaking field, who no dowbt condemn the practices |and taxes have soared—in “many jeases faster than Incomes have which the Cooperative League comptains- of, they alone | increased. ; | cannot cope with the situation. Like most other citizens, ‘ints owt are ove. seus of é i: i is postwar inflatica without re- they will probably welcome the investigation. |membering the earlier sharp rise isla which boosted their take-home pay, | the bank points out. REVOLTS USED AS EXCUSE FOR SUPPRESSION There are other reasons, too. f Recently, rumors were circulated in Argentina of a ae aig in .real in ines, when | plan to assassinate President Peron and his wife. Appar-|!$ured on an impersonal per cap- | ently, as a result, hundreds of political and rallitary head ioe ieee eee ers were arrested, | In 1939 about 35 per cent of the We are beginning. to get alittle suspicious of the | ced cee t iatbie Ale plots to overthrow the government or kill she Perons. . workers ord appears that the government likes to ¢ a week in factczies invent plots as a reason for supp eae, It is very difficult to evaldate , lo feel that since President Ji Argentine Govéinment i for ‘many ; gher per capita =e er thing people are likely get, the Chicago bank sug- is what people are doing he their money now. Since 1944, it says, “On the average, per cap- ita consumption of goods and serv- = To ussume that a person close with money in small ices is"Rtingy in life’s larger pursuits is often incorrect. iene, Some of the puzzles of life confound us, but we are buying | 5 | brought?” ' \ |bush him, and he learns to bear | jpeople had more cash jingling in | ices has increased 18 per cent in always able to find someone who enews all the answers, Physical volume, while personal ; sets—and feel harder up for cash. Trans-Atlantic Proposal (®) Wirephotos HAROLD SAMU (left), 26, looks mighty pleased after reading an account of his fiancee Franca Castellani’s reaction to the trans-Atlantic telephone proposal he made from his home in Seattle, Wash. Samu called her in Empoli. Italy, proposed and then hung up because the bill for the call was running high . At right we see Franca, also 26, at her home in Empoli soon after she had accepted Harold’s proposal. She hasn't seen Harold since 1945 when Samu was returned to the United States for discharge from the Army. The couple first met in 1943 when Samu was on duty withthe Army in Italy. A year later the couple became engaged, Recently, Franea had written Harold that she was working 10 hours a day trying to forget him. The couple hopes to get together soon in this country so they cé get married. | HAL BOYLE SAYS By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK \#)—The U. S. post- man is one of America’s besi but least recognized educatc:'s. He is a walking library on bunioas,, a traveling professor for the great university of the corfimon man—the postal service. This silent. teacher delivers the | | world’s knowledge in the worn leather bag slung from his shcl- | bies. der. It is the 20th Century version; But he learns to keep his own lof Pandora's box, bringing end-|cares to himself.-How often can less tidings to mankind of olf dis- | vc.u tell somebody your feet hurt? may and fresh hope—a draft @tice ;Who worries if your shoulder is hére, a dividend check theré: \chafed and sore from lugging bun- He is a messenger of death hand 'dles of Christmas cards? birth, a keeper of tremendous se- ‘ye one thing the posiman ean- crets in small envelopes, the mute | ot urderstand is way people al- go-between for lovers, a salesman | jways blame him about the letter who works for the price of a stamp | iey expect and never comes. for distant firms. Over the years the postman stirs ' more hearts than anyone. People | wait tensely or eagerly for the sound of his focisteps on the walk, his whistle at the front porch— | signals of the arrival of his daily lad is writing home for more mon- ey. By the number and nature of his mail deliveries he knows who | is lonely, who is happy, which girl | is getting along with her beau and} Jj which isn’t. When little Johnny comes gallcping out to grab a let- | ter from a correspondence course in muscle !wuilding, he understands the situation at once. | “I guess it won't be long now until you'll be able to handle that bully down the street,” he says. The weather, the dogs and the people he meets turn him gener ally into a tolerant philosopher. In time he bedBmes: a connoisseur o! mankind's woes, the confidant ana | corsoler of people whc have no one lelse to talk to and wait by their | mailboxes to tell him their trou- “It must have got.en Ics they complain, looking at him accusing- ly as if he had chucked it down a sewer. And it is a wonder that more postmen don’t throw more | mail down a sewer and go home 3 i and scak their falling arches in cargo of magic and disenchant- | hot water. But they don’t, useless meft. His reward for wading | as they feel many of the letters through snowdrifts to reach the are. family mailbox is at test a cup After 30 years or more of dean- 2 hot coffee; more often it is a| ——~ isappointed wail, “Is that all you Bad weather and bad dogs am- with both. He comes to know his neighbor- hood better than the cop on the | beat, and he is harder te fool. He doesn't have to read the posteards to tell who is having a wonderful ! time. He doesn’ thave to open. the | letters to tell who is being dunned for non-payment of bills, what member ¢: the family has gone | away for his health, which college | savings have drcpped sharply. Savings, however, were reparted | on the increase again last year. During the War, in other words, glia, their pockets. Today they havc more home freezers and television | SMALL RADIOS © EMERSON IS NOW A AAAS EeRas |\'X/ . 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PAPY the openly proclaimed! s-e C5 “For Re-Election” or Communists in Western) joys in “ i y. The World Federation) The co f 4 Jnions, an_ all-purpose | tively For State Representative revolutionary arm of Moscow, has} this coy }. Y. PORTER made it clear. tosiea : But there are secret plans, too, ! zsitate Westexxe dc-| — $$$ ar tviag io the the drive in this country world “For Ss tate Attorney Be LO (MO 1) G OME fense hand of he WFTU The \ revolution Stalin VFTU keeps quiet but there is no at they call for and when Mos- For State Attorney A. ANC ELOT. LE! oT wn Information Its long 1 elsewhere, munist Bureau pane r countries, the WFTU as its specifie program for W . Mesked with the overa’ nd world plans. in Germany, as else- bi here in Europe, is aimed at the : industries. Some compe ers here expr con- on at the inroads it appears be be making. nd For Clerk of Circuit Court EARL R. ADAMS “to the For County Judge sin RAYMOND R. LORD States of | $s of E tied in wi > about the term For County Tax Assessor © re for ane | CLAUDE A. GANDOLFO at infiltration have rope rive to prep been considerably stepped up iz The WE A = he WEI ch the industrial Ruhr Valley; where | gi) sajpe Sov ng as the Communists have built up a) Cich as strong party organization. Semi-' which FE The | For Sheriff official sources place the Commu-) wrpy claim 4 " at ne M P re ee claims’ to sent 89 mil- | IS M. J. EISNE R nist Party strength in Western ihe ee cigs | LOUIS M. J. lion members in 64 countries, but |. _-_. --________-___- the bulk of this membership is in | {he Soviet Union, where the trade | unions are simply creStures of the | Germany at 375,000 members, of os whom fully 150,000 are in the stra tegic Ruhr. Communist strength within the West German. trade unions had}. Four Sheriff JOHN M. SPOTTSWOOD Gutlined » the in Gerimany— Leaders» have along | wETU’s open. aims voting | to support all s tion’ against remilitz For County Commissioner S. HIGGS. with Communist overall labout mid-1951.. Now, however, | da District with the concerted, Red campaign f . eet > for alia Rind of Z eee keyed to the rearmament issue, Mt ‘e Red strength has been making PeMe® Moscow wants, to campaign For Member School Board for .“ixdependence from imperial- | ist exploitation.” GERALD H. ADAMS Second District some gains in union.ranks. This is confirmed by persons in a posi- | tion to know. Just how much the Communists have gained is known only to the party itself. Communist headquar ters keeps to itself the figures ¢ its strength within the unions. and ‘4 Western Allied sources decline to Triumph Boron is the principal ingredient in boric acid “For Member of School Board WM. BILLY FREEMAN Second District STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEB | For Member School Board estimate it at the “present time. | The Commute’ have several Coffee | JULIO € ABANAS, JR. trump cards which are being used Mill | Fourth District with some success. One is the re- militarization issue. Another is the yyy By ENE issue of German reunification. .\ wa 1s the tear that Germany will —— For Justice uf the Peace | IRA F. ALBURY PRs ASS aay First posse ™ ; » For Re-Election Dr. I. A. Valdes }} Specializing iin Eye Examination and Visual Training COMPLETE SERVICE ON DUPLICATION of LENSES 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN THIS COMMUNITY We Use Bausch and Lomb Products Exclusively 24 Hour Service On Any Eye Glass Prescription World War—a strong fear in a country still reeling from the ef- fects of the last conflict. The West German Trade Union | Federation has about six million members and exerts a powerful political influence. The great buik For Constable HARRY H, JOHNSO™ First District ing into the wind with his heavy of treating frostbite and deg bite—the tent-, over pcstmaf fails to appear on his appointed rounds. What is his usual epitaph? One housewife says to a neighbor: “A new postman brought mail today—a young fellow. For Constable HARRY LEE BAKER First District ao ee Juvenile iédua 4 EV A WARNER GIBSON aa 9%, County Judsgo the | 1 guess Mr. Jones must have re- | OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 12 A. M. HILARY U. ALBURY tired.” { 2105 P.M. Scedinned asin a “Yes,” says the neighbor. “I | ADDRESS: 619 Duval St. For Constable hate to see him go. He's brought us so many letters over the years —ever since I moved here as a little girl, But he was getting Across from Beachcomber, One Flight Up TELEPHONE: tesidence, 285 Office, 332 { Second District CHARLES G. PAPY _ For Constable Second District JOSE ESPINOSA “SMOKY JOE” | Fur Re-Election For Justice of th. Peace JAMES LIGHTBOURN FORT Second District REBUIL PORTABLE ELECTRIC For Justice of the Peace Second District ROY HAMLIN For Re-Election For County Commissioner Third District UHARLES W. WELLS: For County Commssioner Fifth District | MILTON 0. PEAC OCK For ( County Commissioner Fifth District HARRY HARRIS For Cqunty Tax Collector HOWARD E. WILSON | (For Re-Election) For County | Tax Collector GEORGE G. GOMEZ } | | FULL CASH PRICE REG. $59.50 SAVE $30,00 Weekly 5-YEAR Alr STRAND . Conditioned New 5-Speed Control a ny @ City's ya Kapects New Motor New Sew Lite New Carrying Case Friday - Saturday I WANT YOU Absolutely NO Obligation i Coming: PANDORA ‘AND. THE FLYING DUTCHMAN Ava Gardner and James Maxon ONSTRATIO AIR Friday - Saturday FOR? WORTH ‘with RANDOLPH scoTT AND DAVID BRIAN (in Technicolor) Coming: THE ENFORCER Hamphrey Rogart and Jett Corey