The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 4, 1952, Page 2

‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen —————_—$ Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artmin, owner ana pub tisher, trom Lhe Citizen Building, corner of (ireeue And Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County \. P. ARTMAN Publishe. NCRMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manoger Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter eT TELEPHONES 5] and 1935 ———————— Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively enutied to use tor reproduction of al) news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the iocal news gublishea here. Member Florida Press Association and ‘Associate. Dailies of Florida sae aaa OAD CS A aS RR ES Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12.00; By Mail $15.60 AVVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION a The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects of local or genera) interest, out it will not publish Page 2 and and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments Couumunity Auditorium, FALSE RUMORS ABOUT HURRICANES CREATE NEEDLESS WORRIES Rumors, without a figment of truth in them, about a man or a woman, are spawned by slander, and false ru- mors about hurricanes stem from fear, credulity or a mor- bid mind. But Key Westers have no reason to become jit- tery over a rumor about a hurricane coming in this direc- tion when it is going away from us. It may be maintained, and truly, that nobody knows positively what way a hurricane will go. For that matter, it could turn about and go back to where it started, or it could curve to the south, instead of toward the north, as it does usually. Weathermen never use positive terms about the course a hurricane will travel, but they do state a fairly accurate probability, based on past performances. The 5 A. M. advisory Wednesday gave hurricane Baker’s latitude as 24.5, only three miles under Key West’s latitude. The advisory further said that the hur- ricane was moving northwest or west-northwest. One did not need to have a map to know that the on- ly way the hurricane would strike Key West was for it to travel due west, and that its going northwest or west- northwest would take it far away from us, for the longi- tude, given at the same time, was 66.3, or 950: miles east of Key West. And yet, it was rumored in Key West that the hur- ricane was coming this way, and the rumor resulted in many tourists’ scooting out of town. It was said that one local motel, fully occupied, was almost emptied because of the rumor, ‘ False rumors about hurricanes in Key West are need- lessly pernicious in view of the excellent Weather Bureau service we have. Sam Goldsmith, in charge of the Weather Bureau in Key West, is urbane and genial, as are R. E. Splaine, in charge of the Weather Bureau at Boca Chica, and the four men under him, J. K. Brown, L. G. Collette, H. A. Erickson and E, H. Kersey. Those men give us serv- ice at its highest peak and readily and considerately an- swer questions about hurricanes or any other type of weather, It is an easy and a simple matter for Key Westers to follow the course of a ‘hurricane. Let them get weather maps (one local company is giving them away) and check the latitude and longitude of a hurricane as it is given out by the Weather Bureau. Had rumormongers checked Wednesday's 5 A. M. advisory, they would have noted that the hurricane was at Key West's latitude and that, if it continued to move northwesterly, it would strike the coast somewhere in the Carolinas; if west-northwesterly, somewhere in the vicinity of St. Augustine, Spreading false rumors about a hurricane creates needless worry, in addition to its adverse effect on busi- Thursday, September 4, 1952) Today's Eusiness Palwwenw By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK ® — Makers of men’s and women’s wool clothing are eying Australia keenly this week. The way the prices go at the raw wool auctions there may have a lot tu do with the price of your next spring’s suit, here think the first sales at Syd- ney showed 2 firm enough tenden- ey for the American mills to set prices for next spring’s wear lines at about the same level as last around the middle of this month. Others contend it is too early yet to tell how the Australian auctions are going. American buying in Syd- ney has been very sketchy so far. Most of the wool offered has been of a quality not sought here. Many fabric makers, therefore, are holding up the pricing of spring lines, even though many of them have enough wool already bought at the old price. The way the price goes in Sydney will still have its effect, they say. , Australian wool prices started out higher on the opening day Monday, then slipped, and are now reported about the same as when the auctions there closed in June. Japanese bidding has been a feature this week. And American textile men see this as another in- dication that the Japanese textile industry is going toy be increas- ingly a competitive feature in world trade.. The Japanese are expected to take about 500,000 bales this sea- son, or 25 per cent more than last year. This stepup by the Japanese has some American textile men won- dering. The world wool picture is far from strong. Argentina has large quantities unsold. Wool mills here and abroad have shown little interest in buying. Americans are wondering if they or the British are going to be the ‘losers if Japan takes over more {of the world market. While a pickup in the clothing industry has encouraged the mills here to talk of better days to come, they say that most of the clothing makers have fabric inventories and aren't ordering much from the mills Forced selling of Argentine wool is expected by many in the trade here to keep Australian prices down this season. Some think pric. ¢s at the Australian auctions will drop after this week. American wool growers are also pessimistic, some of them com- plaining of lack of buying interest for Western clips. Mourning Doves To Be Marked TALLAHASSEE (# —A Ficride bird expert has gone to Cuba to |help mark mourning doves so it can be learned how many of the Cuban birds come to this state during the hunting season. Frank Winston, Lakeland, leader of the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission’s mourn- ing dove project, will band as many doves as possible and dye them dark blue: The commission also plans to dye North Florida doves orange again this year sc their movements can be traced. Florida will have a split hunt- ing season on mourning doves thic year, running from Oct. 1 to 15 and from Dec. 15 to 29. The state gets two big flights of doves each year, one early in October and the other later in the 5. Existed 8. Musical in- 12. Reside 13. Skill | TOLLYWOOD NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (Bette Dai Was ina * eo Sative me, and that’s when she produces { best copy. Miss Davis is leaving next weel for New York, where she wil begin rehearsals in a revue, “‘Twc Is Company.” It will be her firsi Broadway show since she. came to Hollywood for a distinguished two decades. It is also hey first stage musical. I asked her if she were nervous. “Of course I’m nervous!” said the actress, who generally speaks , wouldn’t be nervous? But I’m not worried. It’s a fine show and I'll do my best to help make it a hit. Ogden Nash has written some wonderful material.” Will she sing in the show? “Certainly I'll sing! It’s a musi- eal, isn’t it?” Is she practicing a time step for the dance numbers? “Now, really, how long has it been since you’ve seen a time step in a revue? Jerome Robbins is doing the choreography, and he’s the best in his field!” Is she concerned about facing a live audience after all these years in movies? “Of course not! Oh, the first night in New York may be tense, | but there’s no difference in the | mediums. If you’re an actor, ‘ you’re an actor! It doesn’t matter whether it's stage, pictures tele vision or radio. You're still acting. “This matter of ‘going back’ to the stage is ridiculous! You don’t ‘go back’ to the stage. It’s merely a matter of geography; acting is acting in any medium. The Eng- lish are lucky. They can do plays and pictures without traveling. They don’t talk about ‘going back’ to anything. It would be the same in this country if the movie indus- try were in Long Island instead of Hollywood.” Miss Davis added that she will stay with the show as long as she is needed. That could mean two years, if it’s a hit. Is she worried about being off the screen that long? “Not in the least! The only way to get good things done in this business’ is to take chances. That's the trouble with Hollywood—it for- got how to take chances if you want to achieve anything in the arts, you can’t play it safe!” I'll say one thing for Bette (that is about all the opportunity I'd get), she’s a gal who takes chances. She has gambled at many turns in her career. After playing ingenues, she took a flyer on the unatt ve role of Mildred in “Of Human Bondage.” It started her on the road to being the screen's top dramatic actress. She chanced a secondary role in “The Man Who Came to Dimner’®. because she felt she needed a comedy, While most other top names shunned television, she did 4 * show with Jimmy Du- rante and even helped out on the commercials, She also gambled by playing a 20-minute part in ‘Phone Call From a Stranger” last year. “And where would I be if I had never left Warners?” she demand- ed. “I could have stayed there another 15 years and kept my se- curity!” Right now she's finishing up “The Star,” which is angther ex- ample of her taking a chance. It’s a bitter story of a Hollywood star who hits the downward trail. No connection with Bette Davis. winter. For many years it has been supposed that the early flight came from Cuba’ but recent sur- veys have indicated this may not be true. The dyed bird program is designed to find out. OOS Obes BWW) WOR WEHO OWWOweo ) LL IAIM [Al IS/E [Ria INO BOG Plein Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie DOWN 1. Too bad 2 Abrading tool 7 Law 3 Declare & Impede Kzy Books By A. de T. Gingras (MUSIC OUT OF DIXIE by Har- Vid Sinclair, novel published by sinehait Puv-iching Co., New York ity, 306 pages.) This novel begins in New Orleans 1 1905. The story of the begin- 11gs of that city’s special flavor f American jazz is told through the medium of one of its propon- ents, a young Negro musician and | Some wool fabric manufacturers C27eer that has lasted more than composer, Dade Tarrant. Born in a section called Algiers, he has the Mississippi river almost at his doorstep. While his widowed mother has gone across the river on the ferry to cook for the white spring. The lines formally open With exclamation marks. “Who ‘olks, he learns all the water front las to teach and fascinate a small boy. He knows the banana boats from Central America and how the great river acts in flood. He re- trives from the river a variety of flotsam — a mud-soaked mule collar from some swamper’s camp, a red cupola from a barn in Iowa, the paintless upper half of a child’s high chair. Even a complete wood- en privy drifts by a few yards | from where he stands. His mother dies of yellow fever and as the funeral procession moves to the cemetery, he hears the Algiers Bearcats, a band hired by the Daughters of Jerusalem Gol- den, to play “Come Ye Disconso- late.” His first meeting with the band is described by the author — “The brass melted into a sus- | tained-seventh chord and the clari- j net flared upward from the low | Tegister in a swiftly stabbing ar- ' peggio, Dade fel a shiver travel the length of his spine. It was like a dash of cold water and, wordlessly, he recognized that, whatever else this music might be, it was right in and of itself. He was to have the same experience time without number, but this first time, without understanding it in the least, he experienced the shock of recognition and forever after it was familiar. The music enter- ed into the human entity that was Dade Tarrant, like a seed into the ‘earth, and began to grow there. Like the seed, the growth would the processional turned into the small, aloof city of the dead with its close-packed rows of tombs. . .” Dade then goes to live with an aunt and uncle. When he is fourteen he takes his first job as a shoe shine boy. Carrying dope to a piano player in a brothel is his first step man teaches him to play piano the way the Negroes play on Basi street, and the rest of the book is what happens from that point on. And most of it happéns right in the brothels, night spots, pool par- lors and saloons of New Orleans. The book is one of the finest pictures of a part of New Orleans life. that has yet been written by an American novelist. It ranks with the first part of Romain Rolland’s “Jean Christophe” in its picture of the struggles of a young instru- mentalist and composer. Some of the descriptive passages and dia- logue are the finest prose that has appeared for a long time in A- merican fiction. Certain technical flaws, however, detract here and there from the quality of the work. The excellence of most of it makes these standout more glaringly than they would in a novel of less worth. Every once in a while the author inserts pas- sages of a textbook variety which are like blobs of unmixed flour in a cake. A little more thought on the author’s part would have dis- solved these short dissertations and author’s monologues on the history \of New Orleans jazz and the ra- cial question into the body of the | text. ly climb on a sogpbox and shout. Another thing which makes the | story less effective in places is the author’s tendency to give short pre- | views of what is to happen later. While an aura of threat and pro- justified, outright statements of what certain actions current in the text will mean in a later chapter ‘are not good story telling. (MY VICTIMS by Oscar Berger, non-fiction, 300 illustratidns pub- lished by Harper and Brothers, New York City, 128 pages.) Caricature is man’s criticism of life. It is his laughter in words or stone, in clay or drawings, in stone or in the theatre. This how-to-Go-it book by a world renowned caricaturist of world ce- A Leiter | From Bill Lantaff Dear Neighbor: Many folks have asked me var- ious questions from time to time | mnie Willi ; about the Hoover Commission and | es fi sora nese merle its recommendations. | leaves for college in a few days. It was a pleasure to discuss these | Donnie was- a. KW Citsen news- who’s, why’s and wherefore’s with | CafTier until June of 1951. In those Robert McCormick, Research Dir- days I was circulation manager ector of the Citizens Committee for | and Donnie proved to be a tremend- THIS ROCK the Hoover Report. take time, but it had been planted | —that was the important thing .. . \ This commission was created for the purpose of studying our government for possible reorgani- zation which would streamline the executive branch of the govern. ment. The commission was estab- ‘ished in 1947 through a unanimous vote of the congress. President Truman presided over the first meeting of the commis- sion and nominated former Presi- dent Herbert Hoover as chairman of the group’ Secretary of State Dean Acheson was named vice- chairman and the. commission set about its task immediately. | According to Bob McCormick, the skepticism over whetlfer or not any real governmental changes would come about caused the for- mation of the Citizens Committee for the Hoover Report. There had been eight studies for reorganiza- tion of government before but no- thing had been done to put into practice reorganization proposals. It was known that any such pro- posals would effect Congress, gov- ernmental agencies or various groups of citizens, so this com- mittee took it upon themselves to spearhead a drive for adoption of the commission’s recommenda- tions. It was. the motivating force to take on all opposition and to nlace the commission’s case be- fore the public. The Hoover-Acheson Commission, to date, has made 318 governmen- tal ‘reorganization recommenda- tions. Seventy percent of these re- commendations have been written into law. These proposals will even- tually save the American taxpayer 4 billion dollars a year, McCormick answered the ques- tion of why these savings will come about eventually and are not re- lized at the present time. “Our military buildup which is becoming more and more expensive due to } ous help because of his loyalty to both the paper and his customers. | present for him and was struck by the idea that one of the most / get would be his home-town news- | paper. Therefore, I’m placing a | gift subscription order for the Citi- zen to be mailed to Donnie. Am passing this idea along be- cause selecting gifts is a rough | probfem for most peopie. If you have young friends or relatives who are leaving home for the first time, perhaps the Key West Citi- zen will help ease their first few months of home-sickness. Familiar Quotations A KW Citizen reader, (evidently a friend), was heard commenting on familiat quotations that this column often mentions. The praise — though appreciated — was hard- ly ,deserved. I haven’t memorized a line of words since my grammar school teacher used to make me get up and, in a singsong fashion, ery out: “Oh, Young Lochinvar -> come out of the West . .etc., ete.” ing my high school years, a Catholic priest drilled English and | literature in my head for four years. Because we students had the same teacher on these subjects \ throughout high school, he was able to spot every weakness or strength that we possessed. Father Louis Emmerth recogniz- | ed my love for Dooks and, although {was not a Catholic, he allowed me to help maintain the school, as well as the parish, library, It was | like “Seventh Heaven” just to be able to dust the books though half of them were in Greek, Latin, Ger- | man, ete., and 3 couldn’t even pro nounce the titles. “Read and remember”, Father I've been shopping around trying to find a suitable “‘going-away” - enjoyable gifts a young man could , alia inline tintinintn ttn ht) OF OURS BILL GIBB (0044 444444444442444444444444444464488 j back to the book for the exact | wording.” So if you folks see a “This Rock of Ours”, Ropers assured that I’ve had to hunt it up in some book. I doubt seriously if I could repeat the alphabet from | memory. Spanish Language Kids are. lucky today educators have finally admitted | that Spanish is an important lan- ' guage. They mace us learn French ; When I went to school — it was supposed to be the language of dip- lomats! For me it was so much bosh. I spent two and a half years on Latin — four years on French — and today the only thing that I can do is is cuss in Spanish! No wonder the world is all mixed up, Kittens Saved; Man Is Killed SOUTH WHITLEY, Ind. mw — Merle Geogg, 20, Akron, Ind., braked his semi-trailer truck near South Whitley Tuesday night to miss two kittens crossing Indiana 114, he told state troopers. A following truck crashed: into the rear of Grogg’s vehicle, kill- ing the driver, James Myers, 30, Rochester, Ind. : Your Grocer SELLS that Good STAR * BRAND AMERICAN COFFEE and CUBAN -—-TRY A POUND TODAY—— in the direction of his goal. The | The story speaks for itself. The | author doesn’t have to intermitten- | monition are always artistically | inflation is more than eating up| Emmerth used to insist, “Don’t the savings which the recommenda- try to memorize empty phrases. tions are providing. What we have If you retain the general idea of accomplished is that our budget the subject, you can always go would be 4 billion dollars more a year had we not adopted the re- commendations we have,” he said. In my next letter, I would like to go into some of the problems and opposition which confronted the Citizens Committee in their at- tempts to gain adoption of these recommendations. There* are some interesting revelations of half-hear ed support from many who want their half untouched but favor a change in the other fellow’s half. Sincerely yours, Bill Lantaff —_—_—— PLASTERING, STUCCO AND PATCHING No Job Too Small - Free Estimates KEYS PLASTERING CO. PHONE 1964R 632 N. Beach Drive, Apt. A STRONG ARM BRAND CO! In the early days of the auto- ; mobile, closed cars were rare be- cause they were expensive and hard to build. at alLL GROCERS opher Columbus and General Mac | Arthur are described in lines. 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He explains that ger root plum sauce, water chest all human beings have an impish nuts, anise seed, rice wine, Chines® | impulse to expose the oddities and celery, cabbage, Chinese cheese | weaknesses of their fellow crea- | chutney, sesame seeds, kumquals. | tures, and want to share their ex- | and quinces we have not seen f periences with others. | gularly stocked at some stores. | He then goes on to say that 2| At least 80 of the recipes, bow | caricature is an exaggerated draw- | ever, do not require these ingrté- jing or satirical portrait “having ients, and should be simple to ptt | the likeness of one particular per- | pare son and emphasizing the physical! This book is a small usable ®!- perculiarities of that person.” With | ume and very appropriate for 2 | Mustrations of Churchill and the | gift. Sui Lan Loh has voluminous rear of clown, Frank | the text with black and w! 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