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

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artmsn, owner and pub- tisher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene And Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County LP. ARTMAN Publishe: | 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 entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news publishea here. ——$——$—$—$—$— $ Wember Florida Press Association and Associate. Dailies of Florida ———— ees Subscription (by carrier) 25c per week, year $12.00, single copy 5c a ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION ‘The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue ‘and subjects of iocal or general interest, ut it will not publish anonymous communications. accom WEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED ih , BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. | Beach and oe cela Consolidation of County and City Governments. Coumunity Auditorium. L 2 tS 4 5 rece er eee nn RN THE CITIZEN MAINTAINS YOU CAN SAY MANY THINGS, YET SAY NOTHING The Citizen, in commenting on the use of the English language, has said on several occasions that you can say many things and yet say nothing, so far as putting your finger on a concrete idea. Republican candidate Eisenhower, in a speech in Los Angeies Tuesday night at the 53rd convention of the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars, conclusively proved the soundness of that statement. He outlined a 10-point program, couch- ed in words that soothe the eye and the ear but obfuscate the mind. That effect is.true of all generalities, however brilliantly festooned they may be, and not once in his speech did he cross the borderline of generalities. The 10-point program runs into too much space to give it in its entirely. But let us consider the first point. “To increase America’s strength: spiritual, creative and material.” He did not say how to attain any of those types of in- ereased strength, so your mind has nothing on which to hinge a thought. But as we are at grips with Russia in the most nerve-tautening cold war in history, let us assume he ; meant military strength (he prefers the adjective “ma- terial”), ferthat is the strength Americans are clamoring for and our government is striving for. In what, way can we get that strength? Eisenhower spoke about “high prices,” in relation to the cost of liv- ing, but far higher prices are for weapons of war. If taxes are reduced to the extent he says he will reduce them, where is he going to get the money to buy weapons to in- crease our strength? Next he speaks about increasing our “spiritual” strength. In what way is he going to increase it? There again the mind has nothing on which to hinge a thought. Surely he does not advocate holding countrywide religious revivals in an attempt to increase our “spiritual” strength? Then in what way does he think he ean increase it? He should have given us an inkling at least of what he intends to do to strengthen our spirituality. Then he speaks about increasing “creative” strength. That type of strength in the United States now at its high- | est level, has the rest of the world wonderstruck over its expansiveness and ramification in every field of endea- vor. In what way does he intend to increase it further? Surely, it would have been edifying had he told us. Many political experts, after Dewey’s defeat in 1948, said he lost because he dealt almost wholly, in his cam- paign speeches, in generalities. A few simple words, in or out of politics, that film’ideas in the public mind are worth far more than a mile-long string of words that says much generally and nothing particularly about a subject. Read Eisenhower’s 10-points; they will convince you that, so far as explicitness is concerned, they are just as meaningless as a “point” like this would be: To increase the living standard of every American; to provide a more bountiful table in every American home; to decrease the high cost of living and increase the week- Thursday, August 7, 1952 “VITVVVV TV VV VENT TTS TINNY FENN N—e : THIS ROCK BILL wwe OF CUR GIBB (A444 64444 6444444444444444464444444446 Ever sit down to write a letter and find yourself stumped for something to say in it? Writing a daily column often Presents the same complications. “This Rock of Ours” by-passes the trouble by flipping the Bible open and choosing a passage from what- ever verse looks appeaiing. There are a lot of other books on the shelf which could be used for the same purpose — books ranging in subject matter from Jack Woodford’s latest unexpur- gated story to ‘shoot-em-up’ West- erns, mythology, philosophy, and verse. Sometimes the writer looks at the conglomerated mess of subject matter he reads and is quite force- ably struck by the truthfulness of the mechanical foreman’s (Percy Curry’s) remark; ‘‘You’re con- fused.” Confused or not, books are pro- bably the most wonderful compan- ion on earth. There is one for every mood. Marcus Aurelius for in- stance, is a wonderful antidote for that lost, lonesome feeling. dividual. Kipling can always be depended upon to arouse a patriotic, adven- turesome spirit and Will Durant’s stories of civilization and philoso- phy are unsurpassed for the seri- ous thinker. By and large, the best reading book is the Bible, however. Too many people fail to realize that this best-seller will provide them with a solution for any and all problems — in my own case, even such minor problems as not hay- , ing something to write about. | One-Way Traffic New ordinances regulating traf- fie have been praised by quite a few folks insofar as Fleming and Southard. Quite a few complaints have been made with regard to Simonton and Duval, however. Flow of traffic has been slowed up perceptibly on Duval. Every- one going downtown uses this one street, whereas coming from town — southwards — there are two sts. which can be used, Whitehead and Simonton. One reader has suggested that And when you’re in love — don’t waste a nickel in the juke box to hear some city-born cowboy wail about the empty prairie. Pick up one of Browning’s poems and get real love songs — songs stressing the beauty of God, nation, and in- Wonder Drug— “Chloromycetin” Being Siudied By FRANK CAREY Associated Press Science Reporter WASHINGTON (?—Chloromyce- tin, the versatile “wonder drug” credited with saving thousands of lives—but recently brought under medical suspicion—is up for a hearing before some of the na- tion’s top scientists. A special committee appointed } by the National Research Council (NRC) is scheduled to study evi- dence in some 200 cases of blood disorders—including at least nine deaths—recently reported among an estimated eight million persons treated with the drug since 1949. The Food and Drug Administra- tion (FDA) which requested the NRC appraisal, said that upon the committee’s ‘advice’ — together with opinions of FDA’s own re- search experts—would depend the future of the drug. Chloromycetin, whose discovery in a sample of soil from Venezuela and whose early dramatic trials in the jungles of Malaya constitutes one of medicine’s great thrillers, is the only known cure for typhoid fever, It has also been used effectively against a wide variety of other ills, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever, epidemic typhus, “scrub” typhus, undulant fever, blood poisoning, certain pneumon- ias, urinary tract infections, men- ingitis and whooping cough. The NRC, a quasi-governmental scientific agency constituting the | top-drawer of American scientists, was asked by the FDA to appoint the special committee after FDA | had gathered all available facts in jthe “blood disorder” cases during a nationwide investigation. The NRC declined to release the names of the six-man appraisal committee, but it was understood it numbers some of the top re- | search men on chloromycetin, and on disorders of the blood. There were no indications as to | when the committee would report its findings on the evidence studied. FDA officials told a reporter that while any official action which the agency might take with respect to the drug will depend upon the outcome of the current investiga- the difficulty could be overcome by forbidding parking on Duval. This seems to, be a doubtful solution un- less all stores are required to have a service entrance. The loading and unloading of trucks causes | most of Duval Street’s congestion. Democrat Leader To Vote For Ike BALTIMORE ( — Jules H. Requard, a Democratic National Convention delegate, said Wednes- day he would vote for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican nominee, for President, , The lifelong Democrat said the | appointment of Wilson Wyatt as {campaign manager for Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson, Demo- cratic presidential nominee, was “too much for me to stomach.” Requard said he regards Wyatt as “too far to the left and in favor of too much government con- ' trol.” Wyatt’s appointment, he add- ; ed, shows which way Stevenson | is headed. Three Prisoners Are Recaptured ST. AUGUSTINE » — Three ; Negroes who sawed their way out of the St. Johns County Jail Mon- day night are back behind bars. They were arrested in Lake Worth | after Policeman Harry Weaver spotted them at a filling station , Wednesday. The fugitives were identified as Elmo Payne, 28, Metcalf, Ga.; Joe Pitts, 31, St. Augustine, and James Wilbur, 24, Knowlton, Ala. ; tions, these are the various possi- | bilities: 1, Outright banning of the drug if—and the FDA emphasizes that “if’—it should be definitely estab- gardless of great care in employ- ing it, can cause deaths. The agency said this was only a “re- mote” possibility. 2. Restricting its use to typhoid fever and to certain staphylococcus infections against which none of the other known “wonder drugs” are effective. 3. Allowing its continued use against all the serious diseases sus- ceptible to its action—but under a strictly-defined method of treat- ment, Meanwhile, the American Medi- cal Association (AMA) and Parke Davis & Company, Detroit, manu- facturers of chloromycetin (trade name for chloramphenicol), have cautioned the medical profession against “indiscriminate” and “pro- miscuous” use of the drug. SLICE OF HAM ly wage or salary! to give all Americans, from millionaires to the humblest, a more abundant life. Compliments cost little and yet produce excellent re- turns anywhere, No people of any nation have a dictator unless they are willing to accept a dictator. Spend less than you earn and you can have social se- curity of your own. The individual'who Jooks ahead and plans ahead will be the one to get ahead. Your worst enemy won't do you nearly as much harm | as you might do to vourself. It takes a wise man to be satisfied with what he de- | serves. ne Many an enthusiastic spring gardener is now willing | to buy vegetables, Every now and then we wonder how some people got their names. “DON'T ADVANCE. JUST STAYi~ lished that the drug of itself, re-' ‘| pliances along with a 5 pér cent bad ww Cs) -~ Bus. ess uF Si By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK #&—John L. Lewis “as businessmen guessing again. This time it’s about his chances of winning a wage boost for his miners if there is a work stoppage in October—or of getting the pay hike without a strike. A coal price boost doubtless would tag along. Such a wage-price increase could mean a hike in the cost of heating homes and running factories—or possibly, as coal’s competitors point out, a bigger market for oil and gas. That October date is the strong- y Pt ore Gees, est card in Lewis’ hand, as busi- ' nessmen see it. The mine union leader says labor contracts with the mines will go out the window at the end of September, unless renewed on a higher pay level. The deadline comes just when the political campaign will be at its hottest—and the question of using the Taft-Hartley Law would be at its hottest too. It comes also when steel mills will still be trying to catch up with defense and civilian needs, which pyramided during steel’s own strike. And steel mills must have coal. Low cards in Lewis’ hand, as businessmen see it, are these: 1, The country has the largest supply of coal above ground since January, 1943—a supply that could last 80 days before Lewis could make the strike pinch on an over- all basis. 2. Each time the price of coal’ has gone up the industry has lost markets to oil and natural gas— which can only reduce work for miners. 3. European demand for Amer- ican coal—a bulwark for the indus- try in the last year or more, when domestic demand was slack—i also dropping off, and Europe is! intent on becoming independent of American coal by the end of 1953. Loss of this customer would leave still less work for American miners—which may worry both the union and the operators as they negotiate and talk of a strike. This summer the steel strike fur- ther shrunk domestic demand for coal, and miners have been work- ing three days a week or less. Weakened family budgets could be hard hit if a strike’ cuts off pay checks. A strike also would cut off the 30 cents a ton royalty mine owners pay into the union’s welfare fund and could even threaten to end benefit ‘payments. But Lewis has some trumps to play on these tricks: That huge stockpile of 80 million tons of coal above ground isn’t evenly divided. True, utilities usually keep large stores on hand and could run along for quite a while. But many steel mills have limit- ed space for storing coal and might quickly feel the crippiing effect of a coal strike. They can’t make steel without coal. And the national economy, defense and civilian, could ill afford to have steel output shut off again. Some cynics comend that a coal strike could have the same effect they say the steel strike had for that industry which previously had been anticipating a surplus. Fla. Store Sales Are Up For June _JACKSONVILLE (® — Depart- ment store sales in Florida jumped 15 per cent in June over June 1951; furniture 22 and household ap- oliances 18 per cent. This was due mainly to big credit buying, said T. A. Lanford, vice president and manager of the Jacksonville BrancL, Federal Re- serve Bank of Atlanta, in a report Tuesday. He said there were increases of 62 per cent in installment pur- chases in department stores; 31 in furniture; and 16 in household ap- increase in cash sales and 13 in charge sales in department stores; 12 per cent cash sales in appliance stores. There was an 18 per cent furni- ture store cash sale decline, he said. Florida department store sales | were the same as those in the sixth district but far below the district’s 41 per cent in furniture jand 54 in appliances. Lanford said all reporting cities had increased dollar values in de- | | partment stores but that Tampa , furniture stores decreased 6 per } cent He reported Jacksonville had a} 17 per cent increase in department store sales and 50 in furniture; St. Petersburg 16; Oriando and Tampa | 15; and Miami 11 in furniture and} very close in department stores. Charge account and installment receivables increased 12 per cent and 8 per cent respectively in de- | partment stores over June a year ago while furniture jumped 22. He said Floridians were paying up department store charge ac counts in 60 days against 8 for the district; 9.5 months for install- nent obligations against 123 for the district. | Politica: fiotes By The Associcted Press There were new signs teday the | Democratic Party is uniting far more solidly behind Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson than it did behind Presi- dent Truman. Sen. Richard B. Russell of Geor- sia, one of the losers in the race ‘or the nomination prize won by Stevenson, said the Illinois gover- ! nor will be elected President “by | one of the largest majorities any {man ever had.” | Russell, after a talk with Steven- son Wednesday, predicted the gov- ernor will carry the entire South. He said he saw no indication of a Dixie revolt like the one that split the party in 1948. South Carolina joinec the grow- jing list Wednesday of Southern states backing Stevenson. Earlier in the week Georgia’s Democratic Executive Committee pledged its, electors to the governor, and Mis- i sissippi State Rights Democrats ! failed to win control of the party machinery—a good sign for Stev- enson. Stronger Price Controls Are Being S died By WILIAM O. VARN WASHINGTON (® — President Truman may give a hint today whether he is going to call Con- gress back and ask for a stronger price controls law. The President also may say whether Ellis G. Arnall, the former Georgia governor, will continue as price stabilizer or be permitted to quit and go back to his private business affairs in Alanta. Arnall went to the White House Wednesday bearing his resignation effective Sept. 1, and a report to Truman that food prices again are rising sharply. Arnall said he told the President it may be necessary to call Con- gress back into special session “if food prices continue to get out of hand and skyrocket.” The price toss told reporters Truman ‘was very attentive—he mark in the solid South. Gov. Allan | the rising prices.” Arnall added! Shivers said Texas could go either | that he also discussed with the Democratic or Republican. He said | President “the inadequate controls much depends on how Stevenson} law writen just before the end feels about the tidelands oil issue. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Re- publican presidential nominee, con- tinued building unity in his own party: He booked conferences to- day with two more pre-convention Taft supporters. They were Gov. Len B. Jordan of Idaho and George T,. Hansen, of the session of Congress.” Some administration sources re- ported the President is reluctant to see Arnall leave. Some of Ar- nall’s associates said, however, that the price boss is extremely anxious to get back to his private law practice and business affairs. Arnall. said he told Truman that the party’s national committeeman | , from Utah. Both strongly backed prices.’ He. said he sug; 4 that Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio for the nomination. the act is “very weak due to crip- The general’s headquarters was | Pling amendments.” Among these reportedly cheered by develop- factors he mentioned the decontrol ments pointing to party. unity—|by Congress of fruits and vege- particularly by signs that bitter- | tables in raw and processed forms. ness in Ohio was fading. He also mentioned that the Office Even while mending party fences| of Price Stabilization (OPS) is un- Eisenhower was busily mapping | able to do what he called an ef- campaign strategy. He confers | fective job because of a slash by with top party leaders today and| Congress in its operating funds. Friday on plans for the rapidly| Between now and Sept. 1 OPS nearing campaign. A must release more than half of But he’s keeping. quiet about | its 12,000 employes in Washington what he plans to do, explaining: |and in about 100 field offices. “During the war I never told the} “With a skeleton crew in office, enemy a month in advance where | the job (of inflation control) just I was going to attack.” Tennessee today holds a state primary—the fourth of the week but the first in Dixie. A record turnout is expected to decide he fate of Sen. K. D. McKellar, 83- year-old dean of the Senate who is seeking an unprecedented seventh term, and Gov. Gordon Browning, out for a third term. And Tennessee voters probably will determine, perhaps finally, can’t be done,” Arnall said. Arnall said he told the President food prices increased a record 1% per cent between June 15 and July 15. He said that even after the Korean ou! food prices up only one cent a month. Among factors affecting the in- crease in the cost of living, Arnall said, is the widespread drought in many states which is sharply re- what power Memphis political | ducing the supply of fresh fruits leader E. H. Crump still wields. | and vegetables for canning. He has Crump, whose grip on state politics | aid this will create shortages. He was broken four years ago by | said he also reported to Truman Browning and Sen. Estes Kevauver | that higher price ceilings on steel, is backing McKellar, among oth-| copper and aluminum will tend to force living costs up. ers. A vote of between 600,000 andj The National Canners Associa- (aber is predicted as the state, | tion, however, called Arnall’s pre- for the first time, casts ballots! diction of shortages in canned entirely free of poll-tax require-| foods “ridiculous.’ Carlos Camp- ments. bell, the association’s executive | workers union, and J. M. Returns still trickled in from Tuesday’s primaries in Missouri, Michigan and Kansas, but they did not change earlier standings of major candidates. Interest centered in the Missouri Democratic senatorial race won hands-down by W. Stuart Syming- ton, a Truman administration trou- bleshooter who bucked—and beat— the President’s choice for the nom- ination. Symington, new to Missou- ri politics, defeated J. E. Taylor by more than 180,000 votes, despite the backing Taylor got from Tru- man. Truman sent Symington a “‘per- sonal warm telegram” of congrat- ulations Wednesday. There were these other develop- ments: Eisenhower's running mate, Sen. i Richard M. Nixon of California, ! is due in Denver Friday to confer with the general—and maybe set | up his own headquarters nearby. | Former Sen. Francis J. Meyers ' of Pennsylvania and Rep. Michael Kirwan of Ohio were reportedly | under consideration for appoint- ment as chairman of the Demo- cratic National Committee to re- |place Frank E. McKinney, Tru- 2nd Steel Co. Completes Terms NEW YORK #—The Bethichem Steel Co. Wednesday night became the second major company to com- plete final contract terms with the CIO United Steelworkers. | The announcement was made jointly by Philip Murray, presi- | dent of both the CIO and the steel- | Larkin, | Bethiehem's vice president in| charge of industrial and public re- | lations. } The agreement will run until; June 3, 1954, with a wage re) opening clause effective June 30, 1953. The statement did not specify, what the Bethlehem contract con- | mand of the steelworkers. But the | nationwide settlement reportedly | called for a modified version of the union shop, under which new workers must join but can with; draw from the union and old em- ployes may remain non-union. | secretary, said there is every in- dication the 1952 pack of fruits and vegetables, plus a large carryover from the 1951 pack, will insure above-normal supplies. Arnall, 45, has headed OPS since last Feb. 21 when he succeeded Michael V. DiSalle, who quit to run for the U. S. Senate in Ohio. U. S. military operations in 1951 involved the flying of 68,000 per- sonnel and 23,000 tons of material to the Far East. =||food Prices Continue To Rise |; Arnall Tells President Truman ‘First Mail Pilot, J. Huffman Dies MIAMI (» — Funeral services will be held Saturday for Stanley C. (Jiggs) Huffman, widely known aviation figure and managing di- rector of Miami's All American Air Maneuvers the last three years they were held, who died of a poate attack Wednesday. He was Huffman made his first flight when he was 14 years old near Springfield, O., in a glider he sunened from the edge of a gravel cinnati in 1927 world’s endurance class planes in 1929, staying aloft Only Texas remains a question | said he was quite concerned about ' 26 hours and 40 minutes. qm! 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