The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 28, 1952, Page 2

Page2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, August 28, 1952 The Key West Citizen RSE fc: Sea lind SLE oe EE Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- sisher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene And Ann Streets. Qnly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County - i. P. ARTMAN Publisher NCRMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter icine i ete de Ee EEE SE TELEPHONES 51 and 1935 ee eeeeeeFeee 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 iocal news qublished here, q eee Member Florida Press Association and Associatec Dailies of Florida ee eeeeeeFSFSSeseeseses Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12.00; By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION WHAT THE CITIZEN SAID ABOUT: EISENHOWER "REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPERS: NOW SAY What The Citizen said three weeks ago about Eisen- hower’s floundering in generalities and platitudes has been acknowledged, with appeals to him-to say something concrete, by many Republican newspapers that are sup- porting his candidacy for the presidency. The Citizen’s eomments were mild compared to the sledgehammer blows in the Scripps-Howard newspapers that are back- ing Eisenhower. Listen ‘to this: : “Qur 19 newspapers are published in cities from the East Coast to the West, and an exchange of correspond- ence in the last couple of weeks with men who work on those papers tell a story which is nationwide and can be summed up in one sentence: “Ike is running like:a dry creek.” John S. Knight, Republican editor. of the Miami Herald and other newspapers, is a keen and sagacious observer, politically and otherwise, He too is worried by Eisenhower’s seeming inability’ to say something that is pointed enough to stick in the public mind. Knight, in Sunday’s Herald, had an editorial under this headline, “Ike is Urged to Attack Boldly and Vigorously.” A sub- | head read, “Kisenhower Slipping in Public. Appeal.” And | Knight sums up the eauses of the “slipping,” and con- | cludes under this subhead, “Attack, Attack and Attack.” | What was Eisenhower's reaction in his American Le- | gion speech in New York Monday to the’ appeal of Re- publican newspapers to say something that would form the-basis for hardhiiting editorials? aoe More generalities, more words that don’t jell, more words that leave the mind blank when it strives to-find | the nucleus of an idea in-them, Read this “gem”, and all | you will get out of it will be a’ headache if you persist | long enough in trying to find out what it means: “Those afraid seek security in a heedless extrava- | gance that breeds waste of substance and corruption of , men.” The outstanding difference between Stevenson and | Eisenhower is that Stevenson says something when he speaks and Eisenhower says nothing. Even Knight ad- mits that Stevenson in the “battle of words”, is beating Eisenhower “two to one.” Fact is, the “beating” is so pro- nounced the comparison in word power between Steven- son and Eisenhower would not be measured fully were it | put at 100 to one, Even the most rabid Republican newspapers concede Stevenson is a master in the use of words, with few equals in this or any other country. When he says something, Harris Schoe?’s 10 § THE HARRIS SCHOOL PTA EXECUTIVE BOARD entertained all Harris school teachers at New Teachers (THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL iby Anne Frank, memoires, pub- || lished by Doubleday Publishing Co. CF Pee FOV VCO TOO OV VTV IVC T ICCC C CCUM THIS ROCK OF OURS! . BILL GiBB 20244 06444444444444444444444444464E54EE8 It seems like if.you have any | of next month. Wait until you get sons serving in Korea the most|the form before applying for the ‘New .York City, 285 pages.) Official U.S. Navy Photo luncheon Monday in the school building, Southard street. The ten new teachers are as follows: Miss Audrey Greenbaum, Miss Martha Moris, Miss Viola Hirschboeck, Mrs. Tina Kassman, Mrs. Mary Simpson, Mrs. Rose Cronk, Mrs. Claire Joines, Miss Miriam Crawford, Miss Vivian Stauffer, and Mrs. Margaret Waynick, f Rep. Keating Says Nation Will Benefit From Probe Of |From Bill Lantatt St. Louis Tax Scandals WASHINGTON W—Rep. Keat-*. ing (R. N. Y.) said here he be- lieves a House committee’s airing of a 1951 St. Louis grand jury probe of income tax scandals will prove highly beneficial to the na- tion. “Because of this committee,” Keating told newsmen, “I don’t think there will be ever again such an abuse of the public process as went on out there.” He referred to testimony heard Tuesday by a judiciary subcom- mittee to the effect that some Jus- tice Department officials tried to steer the grand jury to a “white- wash” report. * The group heard from four mem- bers of the grand jury—Henry J. Butler, foreman; Clinton L. Whitte- more, deputy foreman; Collis P. Lovely and Mts. Mary 0. Mes- senger—and Marvin Hopper who was an assistant U. S. attorney at the time. Yet’ to be heard is Ellis N. Slack, an acting assistant attorney general now in charge of the de- partment’s Tax Division. Slack, who had a hand in guiding the grand jury, is slated-for testimony Thursday. The former jurymen testified that at the start they were “schooled” in the way income tax cases were handled by revenue of- ficials. They were given reasons why the government often closed cases because taxpayers had made’! voluntary disclosures of delinquen- cies or were aged or suffering physical disorders. They said they also were coun- even children in grade school can understand him. He | does not fence-straddle; he says what he means, ‘as he! said it to Governor Shivers of Texas about tidewater lands, and he said it even though it costs him the Texas electoral vote or the presidency itself. | It took courage to say that, and Stevenson has cour- | age as well as the aptitude to express himself plainly. | “FUCYA’ THE, SOLDIERI* seled that once a tax case was rossword Puzzle ACROS® 1, Put with 4& Sew loosely 9. Weaken 12. Wheeled vehicle 13. Quivering tre e 14 Cravat 15. Handle 1%. Deer's horns 19. rie ota langua| 32 Conjunction 87, Decade Prison Parolee Convicted Again MILWAUKEE (#—Frank Grand- staff, 50-year-old composer-convict whose music once won him a par- don from a life prison term, was | convicted of burglary Tuesday and sentenced to one to three years in Wistonsin State Prison at Wau- pun. ‘ Grandstaff said he’d use the time to finish his autobiography. closed, a grand jury couldn’t di, into it. And after they looked we lists of tax cases that had been shelved, they accepted a sugges- tion by the district attorney, the late Drake Watson to make a par- tial report, Watson’s assistants—Hopper and William Costello—actually wrote the report avhich vindicated the way in which tax matters had been handled under former Collector James P. Finnegan. The testimony showed that the jurors thought everything was’ in order, that the report met the ap- proval of the Justice Department and was all right with: the judge. But District Judge George’ H. Moore wasn’t pleased. He was “astonished” and told the jury so. In fact, he recharged it and pushed it to new efforts. The re- sult; A number of indictments, in- cluding one against Finnegan. Finnegan later was convicted on two charges of misconduct in of- fice. The case is on appeal, BOIS HERS|T Ale] LL IN|TIOREPIA/ RE] DIE Vale (RIE|A\CiT MR) Oly OEO0 SOROO FOSR EEWEo [HIE |A/P| iL Alc] RIP Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie DOWN 7. Canvas 1 Deeds 2. Arrow 3. Envisioned 10. Atmosphere 11. Footlike part 16. Cupid 18. Meadows 20. At no time 23. Renting contract 25. Increase in A Letter Dear Neighbor: Since coming home it has been my pleasure to present a brief report on the 82nd Congress to many folks from Ojus to Key West. It is very noticeable that the A- merican Citizen is hungry for the full facts - whole truths - about | his government. One gentleman frankly told me} he thought we could reduce our} Federal budget by lopping off some | of the governmental departments | | and agencies. My friend was amaz- | ed when told that 85 percent of our budget is to defray the cost | of past wars, to pay the cost of | the present Korean conflict, and to prepare our defenses. He said he had never really | given any thought to a percentage | breakdown of the budget insofar | as the militarysand domestic agen- | | cies, were concerned. It surprised { him to know that Congress and all | of the two years unfold, he sees what is happening inside the sec- outside. Anne describes the emo- tions of the Jews when there is This diary of a 13 year old Jewish | girl forced to hide with her family x two years in a secret annex nd her father’s place of bus- ss in Amsterdam, is the finest ok which has yet come out of Presented with the blunt massive e of eight million Jews dying in the Hitler inspired butcheries and persecutions all over Eurpoe, théhuman mind and emotions are shocked. But eight million of any- ing is too much for the human €motional system to comprehend. Try as the reader might the pro- gression of the eight million before es instead of increasing our horrot, forces a defensive thick- ening of the skin in order to sur- vive the pitiful figures on parade to death. But this diary recording the two years of hiding of eight Jewish people} brings them close enough to the everyday, so that they be- come friends and neighbors the reader has known. When he knows they have ceased to live and have become victims of a terrible tem- potary madness on the part of the other human beings, they are the next door or across the stréet are gone. The diary begins a little before the family leaves their home in Amsterdam to go to the secret an- nex where they are to hide. Little Anne’s inclusion of this prelude of her former life seems almost the following of the bidding of some literary god who knew this picture of her former milieu was artist- ically right. The people in the secret annex are Anne Frank, her father, moth- er and sister Margot; Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan and their son Peter; and an old dentist, Mr. Dussel. Each of them lives with great vidness on the pages of the diary, we love them and are annoyed with them in turn, as is the ai thor. Only the father is slightly idealized, but even in this ideal- ization something is revealed of the character of both the father and the daughter. As the reader watches the drama ret’ annex, and what is happening other agencies of our domestic | the sound of bombings outside. government, such as the F. B. L., | They know there is death for them Departments of Justice, Commerce | jf they are struck personally and Agriculture, our Federal courts, | if their place of abode is disturbed, and others, were maintained on | death awaits them in the streets. only 15 percent of the budget. They hear news from the city out- A lady confronted me with the | side that no Jew is safe anywhere idea that we could cut 50 percent | eg oo a bavi -_ eam of the employees off the Federal | S°lini has disappear m payroll and still get along. She, (Ne tae and Italy has fallen to too, was amazed to learn that of | ere is the young author's de- the two and one-half million civ-| scription of one of the outside e- ilians on our Federal payroll over | yents: 50 percent are employed by the} « "jit is terrible outside. Day Department of Defense. She regis- | ang night more of those poor mis- tered surprise at learning that | erable people are being dragged many of the Federal Agencies have | off, with nothing Dut a rucksack less complement now than in the | sod a little money. On the way past. For example, the Department | they are deprived even of these of Agriculture has less people on | possessions, Families are torn a- their payroll today than in 1940. part, the men, women and children | She, also, didn’t know that the | are’ separated. Children coming Congress. passed an amendment home from school find that their this year reducing agency person- | ment, by ten percent. out South Florida. Citizen after citizen, vitally interested in his government, was finding himself the victim of many propaganda fact that these propagandists had created a curtain of confusion be- tween him and his government. Who are these employers of the half-truth propaganda technique? "| There’s the politician who distorts the facts to further his political ambition. The paid lobbyist who deals in half-truths to justify his $25,000 or more a year job in Washington. The government pro- pagandist who tells only one side of the story for the purpose of justifying his agency’s appropria- tion requests. Some members of the press who utilize the half- truth to create a sensational story that might lead to a syndicated column or radio program. The bus- }imessman who screams corruption | im government and yet wants to know “How much he pays to whom” for government work. Here, then is a challenge to all -| Americans. Proceed on the theory Lad é Town in Ne« Guinea a. +, | of What is right, not’ who is right. | Be absolutely honest with your | neighbor and your country. Be an | American - first and always. | Sincerely yours, Bill Lantaff j | Dip cheese sandwiches in 2 mix- So, this was the situation through- } artists. He was awakening to the | parents have disappeared. Women el, other than the Defense Depart: | return from shopping to find their homes shut up and their families gone... . there is nothing we can do but wait as calmly as we can till the misery comes to an end. The earth waits; and there are | many who wait for death. . .” And the events inside the secret annex are all there in complete | | detail - the pretty bickerings which j come from so many people living at close quarters, the day they hear thieves in the warehouse part In one entry Anne describes monotony of the meals: “If the conversation at meal- times isn’t over politics or a delic- ious meal, then Mummy or Mrs. Van Daan throw out one of the old stories of their youth, which we've heard so many times before; or Dussel twaddles on about his practical gift which you could send them for Christmas would be a stop-watch and a time-sheet. Our honorable politicians in Washington have managed to complicate the issue of combat pay once again! To be elegible for combat pay, a serviceman must have been sub- jected to hostile fire for not less than six days during the month while in service with a combat unit. This rule doesn’t mean five days. | It doesn’t mean five days, twenty- three hours, and fifty-nine seconds. Tt means six days, and petty gov- ernment red-tape will see that it is carried out, to the letter. Minor clerks who have grown up under the bureaucratic regulations know that no greater sin can be com- mitted than to overlook the exact wording of a Washington directive. One cheerful note enters the pic- ture. If a combat soldier really wants to get extra pay for less than six days under fire, all he has to do is get himself killed, wounded, or captured by the en- emy. For doing this, the politicians have been generous and granted him a three months combat pay period. I’m no expert on the matter. I’ve never been in combat. But I’ve talked with hundreds and hundreds of men who served in various theatres in the last war. From what they have told me, time in itself wasn’t too important. By that I mean that some combat posts weren’t too bad even for an ex- tended period of weeks whereas another particular area might be living hell although the men were only subjected to enemy fire for a matter of hours. With the money our Washington senators so generously provide foreign countries, we might take some notice of our own boys. Com- bat pay in itself is merely a token of appreciation. Certainly it can’t be considered payment for services rendered. I don’t see why the gov- ernment ever picked such a petty subject to quibble about as the amount of time spent under fire. In case you are a veteran or a beneficiary of one who is deceased, {forms -for claiming combat pay will be available from the local post office on or after the fifteenth may yet come out of World War II, but it will have to be something very excellent to in any way equal the impact and vividness of this diary of a young girl. At fourteen when Anne Frank died in the con- centration camp at Bergen Belsen, she already had & place for her- > aay the ea wa cen- winds and weather, and the fires which might have been, that the diary was not destroyed before it was found in a bunch of old books on the floor of the long de- serted secret annex. SD RUGS CLEANED AND Stored Free of Charge IF DESIRED UNTIL NOV. 30 All Formal Garments chemically processed. All work guaranteed and fully insured, POINCIANA DRY CLEANERS 218 Simonton $t. eq Tel. 1086 AAAI RSS : back pay. City Planners We have beth a Planning Com- ' mission and a P| Board for | the City of Key West. The former is composed of seven local citizens and acts in an advisory capacity to the Board which is composed of city commissioners and the city manager. The set-up” works out beautifully on paper but in actual Practice my pet description, “‘con- glomerated mess”, best describes the state of confusion that exists between the two groups. Planning Commissioners should attend meetings of the Planning Board. Questions arise as to the of the Commission’s meeting to go by. These are often not too clear because ideas are expressed in gen- eralities. If the. Planning Commis- sion would select one member to attend Board meetings and vice versa, the two groups would be able to get their work done. a lot more efficiently. Also, the Planning Commission might consider the idea of electing a permanent Chairman instead of switching around at every meeting. If they did this they would be able to maintain a more systematic order of business. 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