The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 26, 1952, Page 2

Page 2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- tisher, trom The Citizen Building, corner of Greene And Ann Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN Publisher NCRMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 51 and 1935 ‘Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively Thursday, June 26, 1952 | BOYLE | SAYS | HAL By HAL BOYLE DENVER (®—Travel notes from a curbstone philosopher's diary: The American West today fs more sensitive to and more inter- ested in the Korean situation than entitled to use tor reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it}in any other section of the nation or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news publishea here. Member Florida Press Association and Associate: Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25c per week, year $12.00, single copy 5c ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue ‘and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED . BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing niga Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Coumunity Auditorium L 2 t a 5. HERE’S EASY WAY TO MAKE KEY WEST WONDERLAND AT CHRISTMAS TIME Many years ago, a tourist while visiting in Key West, wrote back home that, though Key West is in the tropics | ing law that prohibits the creation |ture I did was a thing called ‘All or semi-tropics, it didn’t have many trees, ornamental plants and flowers. In his complaint about the dearth of | not made the | East where the row-on-row houses | ages his youngster to develop along rounds of the city. Had he done so, he would have learned shoulder each other, it seemed | dramatic lines. Instead of reading vegetation, the tourist admitted he had “What can we do about the people ask. They have no pat answers to it They want it solved. But they are | tired of the cut and dried approach to the problem. A lot of sons |have fought in Korea, many are still there. Th- Western people ac- cept the sacrifice of military serv- ice as a national duty more readi- lly, one feels passing through, than | some other parts of America do. | But if either the Republican or the Democratic Party—or the State |Department—has a fresh avenue of solution to the stalemate with the Chinese Reds, it is most likely of acceptance here. it? Folks are just tired of the dead- | lock. A new shuffle of the cards on a common-sense basis would be welcomed. | In New Mexico I visited a sub- urb where they have a local zon- }of homesteads of less than 2% } acres. | To one like me who lives in the like a wise provision. that Key West had more trees and plants, of which even| You can look up on a dark night some residents are not aware. ; But that complaint can’t be conscientiously made and feel like the stars crowded |the sky, and nobody on earth was nudging you. And the funy thing now, for anybody has only to ride a few blocks in most about it is this, the more space , yboay parts of the city to see lush vegetation. Even at that, only a few Key Westers see all the beauties of plant life in Key West. The Citizen ran a headline Tuesday that read, “Poinciana Blossoms Add Brilliance to Party for Capt. and Mrs. C. C. Adell.” But the poinciana is not the only tree or plant that is now in its gorgeous glory. Bougainvillea is now blooming, and probably the most eye-thrilling sight of all is the night blooming ‘cereus. On a 25-foot shaft or column, with eight supporting growths that Nature provides to balance the column and keep it almost straight, 47 large flowers were in bloom one night a week ago at 617 Ashe street. | Nearly all the blooms were open at 10 0 clock, and |tourist everywhere in the West, | the next morning, shortly before daybreak, they were in full splendor. Rain and sunshine, so far as we know, are nec y to the full development of all flowers, except wthe cereus bloomsg When the first ray of sunshine touches them in the morning, they begin to shiver, as though they are cold, and, as the ray increases, they gradually close and die. In a few hours they turn black and drop off. But for mass blooming, no other flower is compara- ble with the poinciana. It is aptly called the “flametree ae Key West has some ‘bouquets’ 30 to 40 feet in diameter. The only thing that can be said against the poinciana, from a tourist viewpoint, is that it does not bloom in win- ter. At that time it is a bare and dreary looking tree, so! much so it would be hard to convince a tourist that a leaf- less poinciana, with its long pods hanging from it, was a mass of fire the previous June But Key West has winter that, for wealth of deep red, has no other plant here or elsewhere to match it. That plant is the poinsettia, which we call the Christmas flower, because it reaches its peak of beautiful bloom at Yuletide. Poinsettias can be grown easily of color Key West tics bloomed in every yard! its flower its What a would be at Christmas time if NURSES OnLy Gireulation is Pgee sotes caters ng rate w butter fat is to milk. life — no one else can d SLICE OF HAM | "4 | { | SUN DECK there is out here between you and | your neighbor, the closer and more dependent you feel you are to each | other in emergencies. | In big cities it is the other way |around. Neighbors are most reluc- tant to call upon each other—or answer each other—when they are {most in mutual need.’ | Most of the sympathy that peo- | ple feel for semi-savages is wast- Jed. Just because someone doesn’t enjoy the plumbing that you do is no proof that he doesn't have |more fun out of life A case in point is the average Indian who ambushes the visiting offering him for sale feathered {moccasins made in Brooklyn or silver souvenirs imported from | Mexico. The Eastern tourist feels obli gated to buy something from one of those noble sidewalk redskins. He feels upon himself the entire enormous guilt of having stolen the United States from its original settlers. He tries to placate this | sense of guilt by buying a souvenir he really doesn’t want and giving it to a relative he really doesn't like: The Indian salesman, on the oth er hand, is a complete realist. He doesn’t waste his hn grudging the fact the palefaces gypped him out of his ancestral paradise. The stoical Indian holding out a beaded pocketbook for sale on the street corner isn’t dreaming of the race’s past glory. He has accepted defeat. All he wants to do is sell his wares to some Bernard kaplan At Encampment from this area | 'HOLLYWOODTHIS ROCK | NOTES | OF OURS \ By BOB THOMAS | HOLLYWooD .®—“I'm not rais- | 6y BILL GIBB “What's the use of belong ing my boy to be an actor.” | a church? I can be just | That sentiment, expressed by a | | movie star at a party, drew a vio-| man at home as a lot of t [lent reaction from Oscar-winner | pocrites who attend every s Broderick Crawford. He gave the | the church offers.” |star a dressing down for malign-| You hear those words or some. jing his own profession. Crawford |thing similar quite ofte 1 jrepeated his opinions when I met think about the question for a m |him for lunch. He is no easy guy | ment. . i |to argue with, so I listened mostly.| what IS the use of going to | “My son Kim is 6 and it would | church? delight me for him to become an : ; It is true that in all probability actor any time he wants to,” said eae there have been a few the hulking actor. “I feel like slug-| yomen\. in history ¥ ne ging anybody who looks down on {5 jive good live @ help acting as a profession. of organized rel it must With this in mind, I proceeded |e admitted that any and all chur caut ously. “How about morals in: ches number among their mem j the acting profession?” I asked meekly “Nothing wrong with them,” he |replied, offering the age-old argu- | ment: bership a few people who might be considered hypocrites Bur. « It is also true that there “Actors are no more im-|excellent chance these hypocrites | moral than those in any other kind | will be transformed -- will acquire of work. The only difference is| humility, reverence, and faith. The when an actor gets in trouble, it’s /non-churchgoer, when he runs into | blown, up into headlines.” | adversity, has nothing What about the lean days that |himself to fall back t most actors have? Jinvariably he slips into cyr n “Sure, we all go through that,” |resentment, envy, and other non he admitted. “After I came back | Godlike attitudes. from the Army, I went 9'2 months! You see, this is the way the without work. Brother, that’s tough | Uation stacks up ; te take. But my wife kept telling | The Bible tells us man was made me that something would turn up. |in the image and likeacss ¢ And she was right. The next pic- The guy who doesn’t go to church has no real conception of the mean an | upon sit | 1 ing’s Men,’ ing of this statement. He believes aaa lal ug cts uc Te it - yes - but his very belief | 2 : jthrows him off the beam. He is | Crawford said he even encour too likely to humanize God | For instance, he says to himself |when_ trouble Heck, 1 |the boy to sleep with fairy tales, jbrought this on myself. I can't go the actor uses movie scripts. When Kim developed a yen for cowboy jlore, pop let him visit the “Lone | Star” set. When they played cow running to God with a lot of petty troubles, He might get angry at | me.” Or, if he really ne e i thing, he might thing of God as boys thereafter, Kim took the /Giver but the thought will Clark Gable role and Brod played strike him: “There are mi himself. people who need things. God ca The show biz yen comes natur- Jally to Crawford. He is a third generation trouper. His mother is | |the famed comedienne Helen Brod- erick, and his father was a song jand dance man. His grandmother ‘possibly hear all of us at the san time so why bother ng Him?”’} Do you get what I mean by the ‘humanized angle? The man is pulling God down t | his own level and attributin. jand grandfather were opera per-| of his own weak characteristics as | formers being possessed by God | Grandma Broderick didn’t have | The non-ch |much truck with non-singers, how- | Bible's state: jever. She saw her daughter in the Viously to Broadway hit, “As Thousands |image and 1 f Cheer.’ Afterward, she came 4ctions and fe s toward ¢ | backstage and remarked: “Daugh- re the result of what ter, you can’t sing or dance; you'd Would be ri a or possit better save your money.” Some years later, Crawford was a hit on Broadway in “Of Mice and Men.” His grandmother saw the performance, ut said nothing about his dramatic abilities “You've got a good » there, Broderick,’’ she commented. “You ought to take up singing.” If Grandma Brederick were alive today, she would at least be proud of her grandson. Brod is finally doing a screen musical jand he frankly admits he may put an end to the ole musical eycle. He has five numbers in Stop,, You're Killing Me,” which is a remake of “A Slight Case of Murder I'm the kind of a guy who sings sight of Reality beca help of pries priests and but serva to humanity common They use the as a meeting gr best u Mankind toag man with his serve them both help i less of Ge pretty od in the shower or when list Qn ot a few belts in me,” he inding But they've been training | thoughts me so I stay within at least € T t notes of the tune. I'm a reg cure the k Nelson FE If grandma could a Fat € t only see n i 4 H é eee eae ( Life Imprisoned DELAND Ellist \ bi I A Crossword Puzz ACROSS 2s. Unit of force \*Cd -, Refo New Executive Officer USS Gilmore” Wn, Official U Commander Miles P. Refo, III, USN. has reported USS Howa W = val for He has fill uper lor to cutive Offi (AS16) to h (SS214) ng at the Submar duty Commander assume 38 signment ch bille the USS Hoe Naval e Force Acade it duties Frank N a Cc t s E x 4 S. Navy Photc CONQUEST OF POLIO By ALTON L. 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