The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 24, 1952, Page 12

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 12 Saturday, May 24, 1952 SEA | SECRETS Q. What crab can run as fast asa man? A. For a short distance the ghost or sand crab, Ocypode Albicans ean move over the sand as quick ly as a man can run. These crabs burrow above the high-tide mark burrow above the high-tide mark a Jong the beaches of Fla., remain ing inside during the daylight hours and coming out to feed at night As the name indicates, the ghost erab is nearly pure white or pale ‘ish in color with large bla eyes. Anyone who drives a car along the beach at night will usual ly see large numbers of these erabs as they scurry over the sand in the glare of the headlights. Q. Why does a blowfish swell up when caught? A. Fishes of the family Tetra @ontidae, commonly called blow fish, swellfish, or ballonfish, are known for their habit of filling themselves with water or air when captured. In this condition the body shape changes from oval or elongate to nearly spherical. Since the Tetradonts are usually slow swimming fish, it appears that this | habit of inflating themselves serves to make them too large to swallow should they be captured by a lar ger fish. The water is not takey directly into the stomach as it ap pears, but rather through the mouth into an auxilliary pouct. oc cupying mst of the ventral sur- face. | Q. What is a “sea spider’? A. This is an odd, mitelike crea ture known as a Pycnogonid. Not related clsely to the true spiders although belonging to the same Class, Arachnoida, that the spiders do. Most Pycnogonids have eight irvegularly-jointed legs, a prolong ed, spoutlige mouth, while the body itself is so small that extensions of she digestive canal are found in the upper portion of the legs. The greater number of Pycnogonids are | quite small, though some deep-sea forms whose pictures have been; taken with a deep water flash ca mera, are a foot or more in length Q. Which jellyfish sting? A. A great number of them do to a great or lesser extent. The ones that sting the most violently lo cally at least, belong to the Fami ly Pelagidae. One of these, Dac tylometra quinguecirrha, is found in Jarge numbers in. Tampa B. during the summer months jellyfish is particularly beautiful being marked with light streaks and having a fringe of long pink stinging tentacles. The large moon jellyfish (Auralia) quite a bundant in the Miami stings, though not so This is a very large transparent jellyfish recognized by the “four leaf clover” design of white circle near the central part of the d The famous Portuguese man of (Physalia) which stings so severe lyvis not a jellyfish, but a different sort of invertebrate kno siphonophore. Treatment for je fish stings consists of followed by ice pack in more vere cases Q. If there is no light in the « sea, how are the fishes there able to swim? A. Many deep sea completely blind, and thes ually provided with long t laments, sensitive skins enable them to progress a highly developed se brown area also strongly Some forms on the have eyes that are eno veloped, hence apparen sensitive to the v s lights produced by « fishes and inverteb Ro sunlight penetrates t mal depths means a lightless one. S sea angler lighted “lure able tentacle i their prey with Q. Why are x ers painted red while black? A. This is to sh of the channel they instance along t the red 5 and the black ing northward As a fu the red ma ated tops a bouys,”” while the fat-topped a buoys.” It sh however her markers are hence the righ turr Q. Do some fis: as they g A. Yes, a gre + to a great haps th : the ox this world fishes as you t Intrac from the most be @ fish. the Key Books By A. de T. Gingras WHO WALK IN DARKNESS by | Ch r ssard, novel published by ew Directions Press, New York City, 192 pages.) Half-artists is the name critic | Lionel Trilling gives to neurotics who live the lives of artists but do not produce. A very large percent- of the men and women who ; have inhabited the bohemias of the world have been these half-artists. And usually they are a pictures- que group. They serve as an ef-| fective chorus for the real artists who actually produce. They have a sensitivity that has absorbed some | of the spirit of the poetry, painting | age ana music to which they have been ex d. The shabbiness of the gar the shadowed basement } room go unnoticed. Their roll and } saucisson, their apple and cheese, their glass of Rhine wine become | the food and drink of the gods as | they are washed down with ro- | mance, good conversation and a| certain amount of intellectual wit. Certainly Henri Murger’s and Puccini's Vie de Boheme was a place that eombined beauty, po- verty and love. Mimi backdropped by the falling snow and dying with a muff to keep her hands warm, the gay sidewalk cafes and Muset- | ta singing the gra the garret parties with | Paris roofs and the night | sky qutside, all have an element of poetry and bauty in thm. Thig new book by Chahdler Bros- sard purports to depict a rare perversion of Vie de Boheme that has grown up in a certain part of Greenwich Village in New York. | fhe bohemians are called hipsters, deriving from the jazz term “hip” which denotes a person possessing superior awareness.” The hipster {sees through the shams of conven- ticnal attitudes and morality, and patterns his life on a code of per- al freedom which is compared to that of the French existentia- list. As the dust jacket on the book uidicates, they “drift from tough ars to Harlem dance halls, from private dope parties to prize fights, from one love affair to another.” If this is what Freud and deter- minism has done to the beauty and f Boheme, it is unfortu- men and women in the book are hopelessly lacking in any shades of inspiration, nobility and | poetry. The whole bunch are shod- | dy. And as far as any evidence in the text itself shows, they are Iso stupid. The villain who is imed for unhappiness of the | aracters is uncon- | body in the book is out of beds and | sh the ambition to be ; The other charac- induce any more sym pathy from the reader than does | the i villain | nate, The two prin al ¢ h heel “the figures attempt to tum, is yellow dark band a ult male, how- oes, a remarkable co- t where the head followed by a pair | dis enclosing aj} e body is bright ce between eared seals necks The ja teat Receives Trophy DELAND (# — Elwyn Edwards, Tampa, received the Provost Mar- shal General’s Trophy Friday. The | award is given annually to the outstanding cadet in the Stetson University ROTC unit. He also took the Reserve Officers Association Trophy for the best senior cadet. Twenty-two cadets received U. S. Army reserve commissions. emerge from the hipster world at the end. But the reader is not at all sure they have really emerged. | They show only that they have be- gun a new love affair, and there is some intimation that an abor- tion will not be necessary in this case as when the villain had an affair with the girl. The hero might | marry her. Perhaps the real truth of this book is that it has little to do with |the Vie de Boheme even today. It is a back alley perversion in a small section of New York which involves men who have shades of the neurotic, the gangster and the bum about them. This reviewer has lived in both New York and Paris during these same years and was for the most part in the com- pany of artists, writers and musi- cians - many of them were suc- cessful and some tops in their field. If they ran into the hipster variety they usually headed in the other direction. Author Brossard writes clearly and effectively. He is always eco- nomical and short sentenced. All his emotional scenes are handled with restraint. It is intersting to know that the figures he depicts move in a section of New York. But perhaps next time Brossard will remove himself from the spi- ritual sterility and joylessness which he here depicts, come up for some fresh air, and fing, out that he has only been in one back al- ley. There is still a lot of beauty | and poetry in the lives of the men | and women who write and paint and compose, and in the lives of the half-artists who form the cho- rus and people the milieu in which the real artist often performs. (MY SISTER AND I by Fried- rich Nietzsche, translated from the Grman by Dr. Oscar Levy, me- moirs, published by Boar's Head Books, New York City, 256 pp.) An old platitude in freshman psy- | chological textbooks explains there is a fine line between genius and madnss. This recently resurrected book of Nietzche’s memoirs is an amazing demonstration of agility | in leaping back and forth over that | line. Nietzsche is known to the aver- age person chiefly as the origina- tor of the superman theory, a per version of which Hitler followed in the Nazi delirium which he gave recently to the German people. This book is purported to have heen written by the German phi lospher in his last years in the madhouse. Inasmuch as Nietzs che’s sister had held Ecce Homo, his personal interpretation of the Chirst story, from publication, he did not trust “My Sister and I’’ to her. Instead he gave it to a man who was leaving the institution and asked him to have it published After various peregrinations which included trips to Canada and the United States, and after se in truck bottoms and desk pige holes, it was published many years after the philosopher's death. usion There is still some contention on the part of critics that the con tents of the book are a combination of notes and remembered cony sations with Nietzsche, rather tha completely composed and edited by himself. The digressic the uneven quality, the brilli lines suddenly next to lines tha seem the literary froth of a mad give some substantiation to opinion. The book does som rs seem to consist of nc written on pieces of paper in a variety of moods and degrees of nity, stuffed into a desk en put into book fe e editing, selection or shaping up. However, this may only be due to the general chaotic state of Mr Nietzsche's brilliant the book was w sho is an believes it to be ic doc t written his unnatura with his. siste rse. will be 1 Seekers A ms , < a . |"Soul And Body ‘Lesson Sermon { Subject of the Lesson-Sermon to} be read in Christian Science chur- |ches next Sunday is “SOUL AND BODY.” The joy and salvation re- | | sulting from relinquishing a mate-/ | rial view of body and Soul for the ; | spiritual concept is stressed. | One of the Psalms (103: 1) pro- , Vides the Golden Text: “Bless the |Lord, O my soul: and all that is! | within me, bless his holy name.” ! Selections from the Bible include ! this verse from Isaiah (45: 22): | “Look unto me, and be ye saved, | , all the ends of the earth: for I am | God, and there is none else.” Correlative citations from ‘“‘Sci- jence and Health with Key to the | Scriptures’ by Mary Baker Eddy |include: “If we look to the tody for pleasure, we find pain; for Life, we find death; for Truth, we find error; for Spirit, we find its oppo- site, matter. Now reverse this ac- tion. Look away from the body in- to Truth and Love, the Principle | of all happiness, harmony, and |immortality” (p. 260). Feed A Fever MIAMI BEACH (® — Feed a cold but don’t starve a fever or ;any other condition requiring pro- teins, Dr. Robert Elman of Wash- | ington University, St. Louis, said | | today | In an address prepared for de- |livery before the second annual {seminar sponsored by Mount Si- |mai Hospital, Dr. Elman declared that loss of appetite after surgery, virus pneumonia and certain types of heart disease should not be neglected. “If there is insufficient protein intake, patients are likely to be- |come undernourished and add yet | another disease, malnutrition, to | their primary condition,” he said. There is no evidence that starva- | tion is good for any disease, except | when the patient is overweight, he | | added, and even then “starvation” | should be limited to fats and sugar. | Provision should always be made | |for an adequate amount of pro- tein. Kills Self MIAMI BEACH (®?—Otto Helmut | |von Petersdorff, 57-year-old dance | |instructor, dropped to his death | Friday from a 10th floor window | {of the National Hotel. Von Petersdorff rode the hotel elevator to the solarium on the roof, walked down a stairwell to |the window, and climbed to the | ledge | Earl Useden the solarium man- | ager told police he shouted and | 4 | Von Petersdorff fell | | Detectives Wayne Miller said a 1] check of papers in his room at |] the | | | another hotel showed that dancer had been an active trader in the stock market. No reason for a suicide was known, Today's Stock — Market NEW YORK #—In the final Sat urday se the summer ck market today was es stead before The stock s on its e next "Day | Memorial Day © resume trad basis in October, | esent plans. ges today were al tirely fractic Leaders nged idly from one side to the an eighth at a time. to an estimated smaller of the a fraction r Wiliam G Tour Grocer SELLS that Good STAR * BRAND 0s. COFFEE COMPTROLLER, (Continued From Page One) gures, which just bring blind spots }before most people’s eyes, sound like music, somewhat like the measured and cadenced building up of a cadenza on fugue-- until you have to start writing them down for a report-- Anyhow the gist of Finance Di- rector-Comptroller Roberts’ report is that the City of Key West is highly solvent, and very much in the black, to the tune of just about three and a half million dollars. His comparison percentage fi- gures show that we’re about 11 percent better off than 1940; 21% percent better than 1949; just about 40 percent more solvent than 1946, and just about 150 percent better | off than the year 1932 when Key | West was going through its nadir of depression and despair. Charles R. Roberts was born in Key West 41 years ago. He grad-| uated from St. Joseph’s High School here, and also completed a special music and commercial course given at the Convent. After completing accounting courses at Southern University, then in Miami, and LaSalle Exten- sion Institute, he returned to Key West right in the middle of its al- phabetical- WPA, FERA, etc. era. He did whatever was necessary at that time, taught music, piano and organ, and also worked in both a clerical and accounting capacity. Fifteen years ago Charles Ro- berts became Key West’s comp- troller. At that_time it was an ap- pointment by the City Commission and even with a constantly chang- — JANE... lovely. dark-haired girl. gets a mm as recreation director in a resort to be near the man she loves. But he marries an- other. Determined to get him back, she runs counter to ..« DR. BRUCE HALL ... who, knowing she had once been a nurse. cannot under- stand how anyone who had once devoted herself to the service of humanity could aban- don the crusade. He sets out to change her mind, with results that will surprise you, when THE NICE LONG VACATION Starting Monday in The Citizen ing roster of City Commissioner, and many near battle difficulties | jin balancing a fast growing city’s budget, Roberts remained in office accounts; an increase of 21.60 per cent when compared with the Year 1949; an increase of 39.87 percent | when compared with Year 1946 City Comptroller and F: ce Di-| of 147.82 percent when compared rector was placed under Civil Ser- | with Surplus accounts 20 years ago, vice by State Law |(Year 1932) Although Charles R. Roberts in| The City’s bonded debt is shown his retiring way, is not too often | as $1,303,000 at the close of the fis- seen he is heard most frequent-|¢#! year under review. This debt | has been reduced $339,000 or 20:65 percent during the past eight years. Surplus of Sinking Funds at ly-- not only in Commi sions with regard to bala ion _ses- cing the budget-- but of all places in church. | 12-31-51, applicable to future debt Those Wednesday and Friday even- | retirement, aggregated $117,875.91. Pension Fund Assets totaled $86,- comprised of U. S. ing organ recitals at St Paul’s | Episcopal Church with the music | 42.44, Trea- ing in magnificent } at C! s R. Ro- |berts is very much to be heard | |rising and swel | volume, show th | from. | For those who efer to digest | and analyze Com er Roberts’ report for themselves, here it is: The following report prepared as jof December 31, 1951, reflects the excellent financial stability of our municipality. An analysis of operating fund as- sets and liabilities indicates that the ratio of current assets to cur- ; Tent liabilities is nearly 2% to 1. \In a percentage quotation, record- | !ed assets are 121.67 percent in ex- | cess of liabilities and res>rves. (excluding debt service funds.) Total surplus, including the Com- bined Surplus of All Funds and the | municipality’s Investment in Fixed | | Assets, ($3,011,285.28,) shows an| increase of 10.92 percent when compared with Year 1950 Surplus | Sinclair Pete ’ J. O. Hamilton + + .and fix the hood, it SLIPS!” It’s often the littie unseen flaws that cause mo- toring worries. While servic- ing your car, we relieve you of those annoyances. U. S. No, 1 Terminal Service Station Key West, Fla, Phone 1512 TRAVEL INFORMATION - TICKETS SEABOARD RAILROAD TICKET OFFICE AGENTS ALL SCHEDULED AIRLINES HAVANA-NASSAU HAVANA ROUND TRIP AIR $20.00 TOURS FROM $33.00 MEXICO Direct Flights from Miami Round Trip $115.50 ALL EXPENSE TOURS SIMONE TRAVEL AGENCY Opposite Greyhound Bus Station 510 SOUTHARD STREET PHONE 298 | oh BUY IT FOR LESS IN KEY WEST for 14 years. In 1951 the office of | Surplus accounts; and an increase | sheer story in Reeves’ fine dimity-.. CHAS. 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