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

Head Of British Joint Services Mi bg NE 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 \ P, ARTMAN — Publisher NCRMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager wer rr vere wwwwvwwwvvvwe THIS ROCK OF OURS, BILL GIBB ‘ x (DEVIL’S ADVOCATE by Taylor 44444 024444444444444444444446444446588 Caldwell, politicial novel laid in 19-} Dick Hunter was talking about | the rough surface of the 68, published by Crown Publishers, | ways in which Key West could be erally tore the steering New York City, 375 pages.) made more attractive to tourists. |.of their hands. Cars park The Republican National Com-}He came up with one suggestion | sidés of this rough stretch mittee should give Miss Taylor { that was excellent put it would take . impossible to avoid it. eee ee ssion Vis''s Key West Key Books By A. de T. Gingras Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONED 51 and 1935 ‘Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively ‘entitled to use tor reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it et not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news gublishea here. Wember Florida Press Association and Associate. Dailies of Florida Sunscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12.00; By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION ET The citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue ‘and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish More Hotels and Apartments. ‘ eee and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Community Auditorium. L 2 a 4 5. RIDGWAY ON WAR ‘DANGER , General Matthew B. Ridgway, Supreme Allied Com- . mander in Europe, recently held his first press conference at SHAPE and reported: “There is no reliable evidence known to me upon which we can justify the conclusion that the potential threat of armed aggression currently confronting us has been any way abated,” Ridgway issued this warning at the same time he de- tlared that the military goal of 50 divisions and 4,000 tombat aircraft — which had been set at Lisbon earlier this year by NATO powers — was within “capacity” of the Allies. But he added that whether they will achieve the goal is “speculative.” It is obvious from Ridgway’s remarks that.he. con- siders the situation in Europe more serious than many of the European Governments, which have been squabbling about the task of financing the rearmament program. In fact, it has only recently become known that the govern- ments of some European nations are now concluding that the 50-division goal cannot be met. This is a repetition of the same things which has hap- pened in Europe, and in NATO, too often in recent years. On this Ridgway had the following comment; “The mili- tary means available to us for carrying out the defensive purposes of NATO,continue to be seriously inadequate in certain vital categories.” ; Thus, more than four years after the Marshall Plan ‘was begun, and more than a year after the NATO organi- zation was set up, the Allies in Europe still have no solid front and the lates: military goal is apparently not to be met, The Supreme Commander warns that the danger of Russian aggression is just as greatly, however, and it inight be — as it usually is in the case of democracies — that it will take an actual attack to stir the NATO powers into a * ieceamaaaenae effort. Some of the current movies are convincing the meek- est of us that we really could become great actors and actresses, Business men are learning that people buy according to their degree of optimism and not according to their cash on hand, : A lot of the community’s dirty linen would never be paraded if it were not for the love of scandalous gossip by some waggy tongues. SLICE AN “ice'S GETTING IN SHAPE FOR HIS TWO WEEKS WITH NATIONAL GUARDI™ Caldwell an honorium for this nov- el. She deserves it. Any reader the cooperation of the United Postoffice Dept. to put it into & ‘who would take the book’s con- } fect. Official U.S. Navy Photo VICE ADMIRAL C. C. HUGHES-HALLETT. (center), is photographed with Capt. A. E. Buck- ley, USN, commanding officer NAS, Key West, Fla., and Adm. Base, Key West. News Briefs TORONTO (#—An American ex- pert on alcohol says more than half of today’s alcoholics developed the craze through years of steady social drinking. . Dr. Harry S. Warner, general secretary of the Intercollegiate As- sociation for Study of the Alcobol Problem, told 100 Canadian and American students Sunday night that research by the Yale school of alcohol studies showed person- ality conditions are the chief fac- tor in about 45 per cent of all cases of alcoholism. Social drink- ing, he said, initiated the remain- ing 55 per cent. WASHINGTON #—Man may be losing his age-old battle against insects. In the foreward of a new 952- page Agriculture Department year- book titled, “Insects,” Secretary of Agriculture Brannan calls the sit- uation ‘‘disturbing.” He wrote: “We have more insect pests, al- though we have better insecticidés to use against them and better ways to fight them.” He said insects are costing the country approximately four billion dollars a year in damage to crops and property. WITH U. S. FIRST CORPS, Ko- rea (##—An Army carrier pigeon returned recently to the First Corps Signal Battalion—in a box. The piegon, named Joe, was missing for ten days after a train- ing flight. Soldiers at a forward division found him sitting on the ground, lost and bewildered. They boxed him up and sent him back by truck. WITH U. S. 45th DIVISION, Ko- Tea W—A $300 phone call—collect —was made recently from Tokyo to Chaseburg, Wis., by 2nd Lt. Grant W. Hume to his wife, Hilda. The lieutenant was on rest leave in Japan, “Hilda kept saying we should hang up but we didn’t”, said Hume, Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1, Chilled & Meret ri 8. Denn notice 12 Morbid 30. Dwelling 33. Masculine 14. Impolite its Fopuer Rus- Phosphate Strike Has Been Ended BARTOW (#—The 15-week strike of phosphate workers at the Swift and Co. mine at Agricola has end- ed with a 5-cent an hour pay boost. The strikers, members of the In- ternational Chemical Workers Un- ion (AFL), returned to work Mon- day immediately after a new con- tract was signed. The company previously had of- fered an increase of four cents, and said it was the maximum al-| lowed under Wage Stabilization Board rules. The Aug. 21 rise in the consumer price index allowed the company wo raise the boost to five cents, Plant Manager Howard v. Gould said. The workers also got an addi- tional paid holiday, making five a year, and improvements in seniori-. ty rules and working conditions. Two Killed In - Car-Train Crash eBARTOW #—An automobile hit a switch engine near here Monday night killing two of the car’s oc- cupants. They were Mrs. Clifford Johnson, 36, Lake Wales, and Mrs. Ray D. Jacobs, 23, Concord, Calif. Mrs. Johnson’s husband was critically hurt. Less seriously in- jured were Mrs. Jacobs husband, the Jacobs’ two children and the Johnson’s 12-year-old daughter Vir- ginia. State Highway Patrolman W. T. Carlisle said the automobile hit a Seaboard railroad engine at a crossing about two miles east of here. The native plants from which corn was developed never have been determined with any cer- tainty by modern scientists. Britain's schools of law, called the Inns of Court, were damaged in the great London Fire of 1666 and by bombs in World War II. BODO BOO Sous MIE] Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie 7. Place of con- flict & Danish money of account 9. Meddler 10. Notion 11. Company of players 19. Electrified I. T. Duke, Commander Naval SEA SECRETS Q What is the “goblin shark’? A. This a strangely-formed shark of large size tnat has been taken in the. Kuro Shiwo, or warm “Black Current” of Japan. The goblin shark, Mitsukurina Ows- toni, reaches a length of at least 14 feet, and has the snout pro- longed in the form of a great flat blade. Beneath this blade- like snout the jaws protrude to a great extent, differing in this manner from other sharks whose jaws are more or less flush with the ventral surface. | The habits of this shark are little known. . What marine animal utilizes the | metal strontium in the building of its skeleton? . This is the radiolarian protozoan | Acantharia, whose skeleton con- tains acantin, or strontium sul- larians build a vast variety of contents seriously could only vote Republican, and then he would de- velop a serious political neurosis | because so many of the policies of his chosen party simulate those of the Democrats. : The novel genre includes a wide variety of species and a lot of mutations. Perhaps the least suc- cessful of the mutations is the poli- tical novel projected into tomorrow. The soapbox propaganda shouts so loud the elements which go to make | up an artistic piece of fiction are submerged in the noise. It is hard to judge such a work purely as a novel because it sounds like a Fourth of-July speech. Sinclair Lewis tried one of these in “It Can’t Happen Here” and Taylor Caldwell in “Devil's Ad- vocate.”” The temptation on the part of the critic is to include. comment on the logic of the contents. The method of this type is to take var- ious current “isms” and govern- ment policies, and multiply and exaggerate them until they reach disastrous conclusions. The impor- tant flaw in Miss Caldwell’s reason- ing is that with a government of States, and with the various lob- bies working to outlobby each other, these disastrous conclusions would have a hard time resolving themselves. The farmers, for example, have grown fat in 1968 and the urban Populations are lean and in rage. While current prices for meat are préposterous in the city grocery stores, already a lot of city folk are getting themselves a spot of land to supplement their city dwel- ling, where they may cultivate some chicken and pig meat as well as vegetables, and maybe even a cow. Fish and other meat substi- tutes are also being extensively used. And these are only beginning measures, The farm vote is not the only vote, and any candidate who wants either a Federal or state office today will have to-face the potent wrath of the urban house- holder at the polls. The only thing | which might confuse him is which | party will bring the meat prices | down. He is not awfully sure. Not only do Miss Caldwell’s con- clusions fall down under close scrutiny, but all of her characters suffer in this propaganda tome. They are mouthpieces only to laud All of you ‘have probably noti the shady courtyard that is of our post office. — toe have probably experien: within the post office Dick’s suggestion benches and sit out their postcards, St. Petersburg an outdoor created mi The E g 83a (je Shalt; BAe 3 g s 3 Be 8 i & 3 [ eBSBE. g es 3 aH g eH z i i pr he Gl ral is Folks are complaining about dirty the streets are The topic has come discussion so many times that, isn’t much use ment gain. One of the chief the Public Works depa: into as far as getting the streets cleaned is parked cars. Howevei the right hand side of Duval wa as dirty as the left side this ing and it is a no-parking so that excuse doesn’t provide entire answer. On Fleming St. between and White, the stretch recently up for repair of a sewer line i: particularly dangerous. Several drivers have complained that have almost had an accident wi is in bed with the’ heroine in cha; ter one and more so the last sentence. Mr. Box ‘may not realize it but the longevity of this public rela- tions detective is threatened by his so soon and so clearly suc- combing to the lures of sex. If the author intends to use him in suc- cessive novels, he is in danger of being labeled a wolf and a smooth heel. There is none of the charming vagueness of an admiring glance, a not-too-prolonged kiss or a walk- ing into the sunset of Park Avenue, pregnant with the possibility of a life together but from which the author can gracefully jerk his hero into the next yarn. It will be rather difficult for Author Box to pull Peter Cutler Sergeant III out of his all enveloping love for Jane Garden without cutting another cable. Eee s : i EE i 8 ; a. 4ntricaté shella which differ ac- | the highly ic : 1 questionable delights of ‘cording to species. Some of them | pre-Roosevelt days and to condemn consist of a series of lattice- | her imagined horrors of 1968 when woFk spheres, one within the the country has become a ruin. other, recalling the ingenious Her descriptive passages too are ivory’ workings of Oriental, always written through a political =e Your Grocer SELLS that Good STAR * BRAND craftsmen, shells, themselves) fog and most of the situations in microscopic in size, sink and| which the characters find them- collect to form the vast beds of} selves seem obviously contrived radiolarian ooze found in certain| and never natural. parts of the Pacific Ocean. The book is fascinating to read Q. Are sea bass related to fresh-| purely because the reader wants water bass? | to know just how far the ruin is Although these two groups of | S0ing to penetrate before the con- fishes possess certain traits in stitution takes over again. common, they are placed in sep-| _DEATH IN THE FIFTH POSI- arate families. 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Only a small frac- tion of the young produced will | happen to find a suitable set- | tling place. The rest are carried | by currents over a vast area, | and most of them are event: eaten by other sea animals or expire in other ways. Any new or unpopulated “available” area | will thus in a few years’ time become well settled by animals and plants brought in among the | plankton. | Where is the clearest ocean water found? | . In the Sargasso Sea south of Bermuda. The great clarity of this part of the ocean is due ” in part to the absence of dis- | turbing currents whch frequent- , ly introduce sediments, but | mainly to the relative absence | of plankton (free-floating animal and plant organisms, mostly microscopic in size), which in other parts of the ecean may be materials he introduces generous portions of murder and several manifestations of sex. tony in the scene, he reader on flying trips furnished rooms where live, into the steaming Turkish bath, to a party in a P: Avenue apartment, and to a di in Greenwich village. The first murder occurs when a cable is cut and Ella Sutton princi- pal female dancer, falls in the; fifth ballet position on the center of the great stage. And immediate- ly, as the police bestir themselves | among the members of the com- | pany, Ella's sultry past and her relations with her co-dancers rises like a thick fog to befuddle the detectives. The usual red her- | rings of this type of story are flung under the suspicious nose of the | reader. Motives are distributed | wholesale, the murder weapon is placed in somebody's wastepaper | basket, the Russian members of | the company brood unnecessarily | in shadowed corners behind the | Tops. The objectivity and sexlessness of the mystery novel is fast dis- appearing. “The hero-detective, Peter Cutler Sergeant III, is publi- city man for the show. There is nothing professional about his sleuthing. He is determined to save) his love of a few days who has re-| present in’ such quantities as Placed the murdered dancer, and to give the water a milky ap- | be doesn’t want to lose his job. He pearance. A low concentration | of nutrient materials in the STRONG ARM GRAND COFFES water accounts for the scarcity of plankton in the Sargasso Sea. 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