The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 8, 1952, Page 4

CunCh CHOWDER by RAYMER Electioa Day was Selection Day at the primaries. Now that the shout ing is almost over, there are a few highlights in the campaign around town for all the candidates which have amusing angles. Bui I can’t quote them. Our streets sometimes resound with honking of auto horns after a happy wedding union. . .the other night they reverberated with a cavalcade or rooters for the rally at the park for all political cand- idates. . union about that. Proposed toast of the Day: Here’s to the act. . .Down the Hatch! Big Pine Key was the scene of a fishing jaunt enjoyed by several gals-and-gads-about-town with Pol- ly and Yggy Carbonell ~as hosts over the last weekend. . .Mickey and George Renna also went fish- ing with a guest, Paul Johnson from Fresno, Calif., and their mo- tel manager Mrs. Arthur Stroberg, and Capt. Bill Crespo on the char- ter boat ‘‘Lucy.” It took three . . but there wasn’t much | Key Books By A. de T. Gingras (THE SECRET DRAMA OF MY LIFE by Andre Gide, Memoires, published by Continental Books, New York City, 117 pages.) When Andre Gide died. recently | the facts of this tragic volume were released to a world grown increas- ingly curious about the great French writer. | Part of the curiosity stemmed | from interest in a man who has produced some of the finest diaries in the French language as well as xcellent fiction. Part of it was in- |spired by his openly avowed in- verted personality. Gide’s emotional abnormalities | were one side of him. Another side | was in his genuine spiritual love | for his wife Madeleine. For thirty | years he wrote letters to her when- ever his restlessness drove him from the home and gardens which |they shared in Cuverville in France. The letters were the story of his deep love for her. | Once after Gide had gone off to | England with a young man, Made- |Jeine burned the letters. When he | discovered it, Gide wept for four | days and four nights without ceas- ing. The destruction of these let- ‘Ti srzlay, May 8, 1952 hours to get out to the fishing | ters had “blinded’ all the publish- grounds near a big wreck. They | ©d diaries. They were to have bal- were out 12 hours and got a record | anced the story in his already haul of 42 fish of several varieties | Published work. He knew when and five huge Jewfish one of witich | they were gone the picture of him- weighed about 350 pounds. | self would remain always a twisted SLOPPY JOE’S show has a re- | Me. the grave asking for under- Madeleine, shocked by | thirg in her husband which |she failed to classify as an emo- | tional sickness, also puts out to a | world of readers, her own pitiful red lumps of hands, purposefully tortured to destroy their beauty |as if in atonement. Whether or not the reader con- siders the principal figures pushed ; around by fate, biology or them- selves, none will be left untouched by this pathetic tale of two tragic human figures. Even in translation Gide is a master of prose writing. He writes simply and with great effective- ness. His selection of detail to cha- racterize the figures which move in his stories, whether they be him- self or imaginary figures, has the penetration of great genius. (MOON AHEAD by Leslie Green- er, fiction, illustrated by William Fene du Bois, published by Viking Press, New York City, 256 pages. Man’s next physical frontier will probably be the moon. This book is a prelude to what human beings might see on their way, and after they get there. There is a heightened interest ple are really going to tak off in a rocket ship to the moon. Abroad in the newspapers is some kind of | people have indicated a willingness to get in on the first excursion. | And the interest has even seeped into the realm of the child. Space hats and moon suits are beginning to encroach on the preserves of Hopalong Cassidy pants and spurs. Taking part in this book-venture to the moon are several science professors, and two fathers and er’s pathetic reaching out from ; everywhere about when earth epo- | a rumor that several thousand | turnee, known as Razz Ma Tazz, This short volume is the French ! teen-age sons who happen to be riding by when Shining Rock, the | moon rocket, is girding its cxygen | jand metal sides for flight nto space. And once the first 100 pages of the rather boring earthly prelimi- naries are over, and the rocket | ship shoots off with all on board | decked out in suits simulating di- | | ver’s outius, ine boot ic bord to put down. What makes it exciting, how- ever, is the vivid picture of float- ing in space and of the well ima- | gined descriptions of how it feels to be able to hop around with a lightness now only enjoyed by birds | and ballet dancers in a grand tour | jete. The thrill is an adult version | of the water babies’ delight when | the chimney sweep floats around in rivers. | Some of the threats are very vi- vid. Shall one of the boys who falls out of the ship remain forever twirling in space or crash alone on the moon? Who i the man in the moon? Will he or the diminishing oxygen defeat the whole venture, and leave them piles of bones on the green cheesy soil of the moon? But the human beings in the story have in them none of the excitement of passion and conflict. Fathers still get angry if they find their sons as stowaways in the | truck of the family car, much less in a rocket ship to the moon. And fathers at least get rattled when a son floats out into space with the treat hanging over him of spinning there eternally. Science professors too still have human qualities about them. The fathers and professors in this book are abnormally imruf- fled. = Modern studies indicate that the climate of Greenland was very much warmer about 1,000 A. D. than it is today. A Letter ‘From Bill Lantaff Dear Neighbor: We hear a lot of talk about farm subsidies and money spent by the |be as a part of o | Admiristration to curry support! from the fai a few facts whic! interesting to everyone. annual appropri: Department of the deral Budget, exclusive of mili- tary expenditures; but the bill re- cently passed by the Congress will | been bitterly criticized as a sub-f'mind, adequate mi afford Agriculture less than 5 per- cent of the budget, In this connection, through the | | There are quite | our own natural resources and wel; think will prove fare. | For example, it is interesting | Department has been reduced is | | to note that since 1940 the regular | evidenced by the fact that in 1940 | than is now ava ion bill for the | they employed a hundred and eight only forty-five mil griculture _has | thousand people, while teday, there | ditional 1. been reduced 32 percent. In 1940, | are only sixty-nine thousand such Department of Agriculture employees. | Spent nearly 14 percent of the Fe-| A large portion of the funds ap- | Mutual Security Act, this nation | briefly, consider this profram, and has already spent in excess of a j why Congress feels, from a nites NEWS NO hundred million dollars on agricul- | al standpoint, there is an absolute Many aquatic animal are ture in foreign countries this year. |necessity to increase agricultural | ¢@sily killed by sudden ¢ It, also, has in effect spent through | production. jin temperature: counterpart funds more than 650} Our population is currently in-| million dollars under the Marshall | creasing at the rate of two and a Plan. However important this may | half million Perse 4a year. Based ur foreign policy, /on our present standard of living, it should not be at the expense of | which is by far t ighest in the Pollen used in artificial ation is sometimes frozen | kept for use the following se: It is believed that apple tn world, it is estimated that the addi- | et rotten ook oe | were taken to England during A further indication of how this quire the output from a hundred | Ped of the Roman occupati and fifteen million acres more land Science has not yet found an} method which will indicate ing telligence through a study of thet form and size of the brain. ble. Exnerts feel | lion acres of ad- | | and can be made avail- able for production by that time. | If we are to talk of tae future | a of America we must, also, think Propriated by Congress go to soil | about the future. It stands to rea- | conservation, a program that has; son, with estimations in ¢ easures should sidy to the farmer for taking care | be taken to conserve our lands to of his land in a way that he should Prevent our country from facing a | take care of it anyway. Let's, | serious food shortage in 1975. | ANYTHING AUTOMOB! TW NCERNING ES StE THE these INS Pw. 1870-1871 Lenny Bombe, a comedian who knows all the ropes, tosses in danc- {ng and some sly take-offs on big- time funymen. The other eve he dashed over to a table where sat n visitor from New York, much to his surprise, and to the black Vrench poodle curled up under the table. The dog responded with frantic barking, and spectators barked with laughter: . .show-wise Palmer Cotes, who heads blackout | ykits, is an old hand at entertain- Ing and was in burlesque for years. It’s one of the best school’s for | training and was the route by | which the Marx brothers and the | Ritz brothers arrived at career peaks, . Diane Walker of the same | show confided that she used to | have a black cocker spaniel but after bringing him all the way from Honolulu, he went to Doggy Paradise. Speaking of dogs, Bomber, the beige-tone collie own- ed by Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. Thomp- son returned home bruised, bed- raggled and bewildered with sore | feet. Conclusion is that some un- | kind person took him miles away | in a car, and he escaped, making his way home on hard pavements | after three days. | SWIMMING INSTRUCTOR is be- ing paged by the special interest | swimming group of naval officers’ | wives. There will be a change in activities in June and Mrs. Charles Bratenahl s. the call is out for a | woman who can teach swimming. She can be reached at home or through the Naval Hospital. . .Coin- | sidence Dept.: Pictures of B. C. | Papy and Jim Read look much alike !. . . I suggested a “Be! 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