The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 6, 1952, Page 2

wage Z THE Ker WEsT CiriZen Saturday, sepieisier v, i.ve The Key Wiest Citizen —— ee Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artmun, owner ana pub tisher, trom The Citizen Building, corner of Greene Ang Ano Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County \ P. ARTMAN Publishes NCRMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager ——fintered 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 noi otherwise credited in — paper, and also the toca! news publishea bere. ce alent Soailan ae Flocida Member Florida Press Association and Associate. Dailies of Florida Spectacle sana ten stp ——— ie Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, yeaf $12.00, By Mail $15.60 AOVERTISED 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. i RIGHT, FROM REPUBLICAN TO REPUBLICAN; WRONG, FROM DEMOCRAT TO DEMOCRAT! How much would be left in politics, so far as a can- didate’s aspiring for office is concerned, if we took the ballyhoo out of it? Eisenhower; in his Miami speech, declaimed fervent- ly about corruption in the federal government. Of course, there is corruption in it. Does he know of a single federal administration, Democratic or Republican, that has been free of corruption? But why blame Stevenson for it? Doesn’t Eisenhower know that the mos: corrupt administration in the coun- try’s history was President Harding’s? Doesn’t he know that Calvin Coolidge was a part of that Republican ad- ministration? Doesn’t he know further that the country didn’t charge Coolidge with being guilty of any part of the corruption when he ran for the presidency in 1924? As Coolidge was not guilty of corruption in the ad- ministration in which he served as vice president, what blame can be placed on Stevenson for corruption in an administration in which he has not served? All the screaming about “we need a change” is fly- paper argument, designed solely to catch votes. The coun- try got a change from Republican to Republican, after Harding’s scandalous “Teapot-Dome” administration. Can’s we get a change-now from Democrat to Democrat? Or is it a sort of divine order of things to change only from Republican to Republican and not from Democrat to Democrat? 3 Consistency is more than a jewel in this case; it’s a joke too. And the point of the joke is that the only change the Republicans are concerned in is based solely on their hunger to get back into power, But let us assume, so that we can tack om another argutnenty that Eisenhower's pict reason to be elected is to Foot out corruption in Washington. Whé is more capa- ble! of rooting out corruption, Eisenhower or Stevenson? What experience has Eisenhower had in fighting corruption in government? None. What experience has Stevenson had? When Stevenson became governor of Illinois in 1949, its most corrupt of its many corrupt governments had just come to an end. What has Stevenson done in Illinois since then? He has ruthlessly slashed to pieces padded payrolls, crushed the sale of patronage jobs, fired hun- dreds of state employes whose main job was endorsing their checks, cut down the personnel of topheavy state agencies, injected efficiency in every state department and, against the outcries of political bosses, has not left a single piece of deadwood, so far as he has been able to find out, in the entire state government. Those and many other things for the public welfare have been done by Stevenson since he has been governor of Ilinois. And what he has ‘done in Illinois he will do in Washington-on a far greater scale. Stevenson has a de- cisive record for rooting out corruption; Eisenhower has | none, Advertising makes any good business larger. There are some people who still do not believe that | dogs are as smart as people, SLICE OF HAM Tree photographed on South street, near White. Eighties Are Best. Chance To Be Rich In Thirties Or Forties Most Creative Work Accomplished By FRANK CAREY AP Science Reporter WASHINGTON ® — Your best chances of having an annual in- come of a million dollars or more will come when you are between | 80 and 89 years old, an Ohio Uni- versity psychologist reported here. Dr. H. C. Lenman. presented sta- tistics to the annual meeting of the American Psychological Asso- ciation (APA) showing that in gen- eral, people who become big shots in politics, diplomacy, collegiate administration, military life, in- dustry; commerce and the high | courts of the land usually are at least 50 years old. But — bd He also reported thet a man’s best years for producing creative work—like writing books, painting pictures, or doing big things in | science—are usually in the 30s or early 40s. In the field of leadership in pol- itics and other endeavors—as dis- tinguished from men who are out- standing in .creative fields—the psychologist gave these figures: The most likely age to become President of the United States is anywhere from 50 to 54; ambas- sador, senator, or boss of the Ar- my from 60 to 64; Supreme Court | justice or speaker of the House of Representatives, 70 to 74; a college president, 50 to 54. About those million dollar plus incomes: Dr. Lehman failed to state the | attributes of the folks who re- ceived them; all he said was that Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 81. Lens-shaped 1, Explosive seed device Lower 4 Brightest 36. Epoch star ina 37. Dowry _ constellas 39. Pedal digit lation 40. Buffalo Bill 7. Frighten 42, Took ben arene away from 12 Entmount 46. Ten dollar 13. American gold piece Indian 48. Roman 14, Animal with emperor four front . @. Small roll of and three tobacco hind toes 5% Rodent 15. Long narrow 54 Vigilant inlet 55. Greek letter 16. Healthy 56. Character in 18. Teaects Gur it pea 57. Sanctify 23. Ego 58. June bug 7. Eternity 58. Went ahead 28. Legal action DOWN 30, Leguminous 1 Unit of vegetable weight Cocoanut ‘iree With Aimosi suv Gocoanuis "| against State Rep. J. Emmett | | | Citizen Staff Photo State Rep. J. Emmett Wood Has Many Driving Charges MOBILE, Ala. (—A series of driving. charges piled up today Wood, Millry, Ala., in Mobile and Pensacola, Fla., courts. Wood was summoned into Mobile Inferior Court to answer charges of driving while intoxicated and driving without a driver’s license. The Alabama Highway Patrol office here reported Wood was arrested by two. patrolmen in the county about 3 p. m. Aug. 24. Wood was arrested on similar charges by Florida Highway Pa- trolman O T. Cason about five | miles north of Pensacola Sept. 1. | He spent a day and night in jail in Pensacola before posting bond. While he was in jail a warrant ; was served charging him with hit | and run, He was alleged to have | struck and injured William R. Fritts, an Ellyson Field sailor, on | the Davis Highway six miles north | of Pensacola Aug. 22 while Fritts | was riding a motor bike. Fritts said the driver of the car got out and cursed him and drove off. The Florida Highway Patrol said Wood was traced © through his automobile license tag, HELICOPTER CRASH MADERIA BEACH (® — A Coast Guard helicopter crashed into the Gulf off shore here Thursday, slightly injuring Lt. John Mackey | and Chief Petty Officer Leo Steel. The 2-man crew was investigating a report of a cabin cruiser fire. oldsters between 80 and 89—with- | out necessarily working—are the folks who most usually receive | them. He had a separate category for receivers of earned annual in- | comes of $50,000 or more: Persons | There are exceptions, of course, j in the earned income classifica- j tion. Movie actors are the best | money makers between the ages |of 30 to 34, and movie actresses | between 23 and 27, ; fwas 6 | would sound the horn if anyone j tried to tamper with his car. | protected by one of his alarms | | mew defender. | 60 to 64, \« By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK wi—Jesse James in tae wrong century He wasted | his hol on h -sedack, ‘and ia young him self, a victim cf the crude instr ment by which he iived—a pisto! Today Jesse Ji would hi to sharpen his erably to survive ia a crime fiel that has become a big business- | truck cargo thefts. Looting the heavily laden behe moths of the h:ghways is now a highly lucrative industry for well organized gangs who operate with the timed precision of a profe: sional football team making a | touchdown play. Truck hijacking has become so | widespread that losses rose from | 22 million dollars in 1945 to 65 mil lion in 1951, and some insurance | experts fear the toll this year may , | Teach 75 million. Here is the kind of cargo these. criminal specialists go for, as measured by losses last year: clothing, food, textiles, tobacco, | furs, liquor, metals, television sets, Money, and furniture. “All it requires to steal a 20| ton truck is nerve,” said Jack Seide, 42, head of Babaco Alarm Systems, a pioneer in truck cargo | protection. “Contrary to the public’s idea,” | he said, “most truck hijackings don’t occur on le ely stretches of | the open road at gurpoint. | | “Ninety nine per cent are pulled off in a metropolitan area. They are usually thefts from unattended vehicles. ‘“Gunplay is very rare, because it is unnecessary.” | Some gangs set up their jobs) with inside help from trucking firm employes, whom Seide feels aren’t carefully checked for past criminal records. Some gangs loot unguarded trucks on the spot, oth- ers drive them away and empty | the contents at their leisure, then abandon the vehicles. Seide became interested in the salesman for a jewelry and watch supplies firm shortly after gradu- ating from high schooi. Thieves repeatédly broke into his car and stole his samples. “Tt wasn’t the value of the sam- ples themselves that bothered me,” he said, ‘“‘as the time I lost from selling until the samples could be replaced.” With the help of a friend he made a crude burglar alarm that It | worked. He lost no more samples, Other salesmen heard of his alarm, and asked him to make one for their cars. Seide decided to make vehicle | protection his career, and devel- | oped his invention. It rook him five lean years of hunger to interest | trucking companies and insurance | writers in it. Today he leases his alarm sys- | tems to firms operating more than | 8,000 trucks, has 200 agencies from coast-to-coast, beasts that no truck | has ever been hijacked. “But having a_ million dollar idea,” he said wryly, “isn’t nearly as hard as putting it over after you get it.” NEW YORK (#—Everybody has | been picking on American teen- agers so much lately it is a pleas- | ure today to report they have a She is lovely Diane Bell, 18, the| ‘Miss Teen-Age of Australia.” Her | reward for winning her title in a country-wide competition was a trip to the United States, and it | has been a wonderful surprise. “I was told they would pour | chocolate sauce over my roast beef | here, and I'd never get a. decent cup of tea,” she said, laughing. | “But it hasn’t been that way at all. They also told me I'd meet | nothing but bodgies and widgies | over here, and I haven't met one.”’| A bodgie, she explained, is a jitterbug-crazy boy “who wears his hair curled and a sport coat | 2 Bring into line 3 Made glass into sheets 4 Intimidate 5. Else 6 Enthusiastic supporter: cored 73 UV. GIBBY CHICK FRIDAY AND The STARL | “Some EVERY NIGHT — 8:00 TIL 1:30 MEXICAN TAVERN, STOCK ISLAND 1:30 AM. — 6:30 AM HAL BOYLE SAYS sizes too big for him.” A widgie is a jitterbug. erazy girl “who wears veneme in her hair, which is cut ery short.” Diane said a majority of Austra- ians “think the American teen- age girl is very sophisticated, goes out every night with boys, drinks, smokes and paints her fingernails. “TI have found exactly the oppo- site. The girls here are sweet and natural. And your teer-age boys are just like the Australian boys except for their crew haircuts. It spoils their looks—reminds. me of sonvicts. “I love a boy to be courteous, nd I found the American boys very courteous. I was thrilled.” As a matter of fact, she said, American boys are more attentive to a girl on a date than the boys in her homeland. Diane thinks the delinquency of teen-agers everywhere has been over emphasized. “There are a few naughty ones in every country,” she observed. feel their parents treat them as if they were too young | and that may make them act too | | old.”” Both Diane and her mother like the American teen-age girl’s cus- tom of dating different boys, “I’ve only dated two boys my- self,” she said. “In Australia teen- age boys and girls are: much more keen on going steady. When a girl gets keen on her boy friend, she knits him a fine pale blue polo neck sweater with a white deer on the chest. Then she knits her- self one just like it. “They go along the street wear- ing these twin jumpers, holding hands, and then they are called a gruesome twosome,. That means they are going steady—and for everyone else to lay off. “I don’t know who invented that gruesome twosome business—prob- | ably a boy.” Miss Bell was amazed that teen- agers here don’t know the popular Australian dance, the Powerhouse —‘which is swaying to and fro, cheek to cheek. After an evening of the Powerhouse, the boys take their girls’ out in canoes and race around the lake.” She likes the’casual attire here— bobby sox, blue jeans and cotton shirts—but not for street wear. “An Australian girl dresses like that only for housework or a pic- nett Australian teen-agers don’t care so much about hanging around “milk bars’”—soda fountains. They are more sports-minded and like to “push off for the bush”—a day spent hiking in the. country or | horseback riding. One of Diane’s greatest adven- tures here was attending a base- ball game. “All the spectators got up,. be- gan booing, stomping their feet, and throwing cushions at the um- pire,” she recalled, “A man stood up and said, ‘Now we're going to have a real_rhu- barb.’ “I thought that meant someone | was going to bring on a dessert— and it did seem a queer time for dessert.” Peel a tomato and seed it; chop fine. Mix with two mashed avoca- | dos, a tablespoon of vinegar, a lit- | tle minced onion, and salt and | freshly-ground pepper to taste. Serve on toasted buns. errr) 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 Tel. 1086 AS AL ST. AND BOBBIE SATURDAY IGHT CLUB ee ed THIS ROCK | Do you think Key West has | | changed in the last thirty or forty years? The attitude and manners of its citizens, I mean? Here is a portion of a letter from my father in which he speaks of the old Key West — “Nell (an aunt who recently vi- sited me), did not find Key West quite up to my word pictures and you have told me of the many changes but if you love a place, you can never describe what goes to make it stand out in your mem- ories. “Tt may have been the charm of the people who welcomed you and took you in as-one of them- selves or it may be the atmosphere of an isolated town whose popula- tion was far more. familiar with i New York than they were with Tampa. “A village like Susquehanna, for instance, had very little individual- ity. It was merely a town in a ! beautiful setting of the wooded hills and the Susquehanna river. Very lew of the older people were born there and the younger ones had to migrate to New York or Phil to make a living. “Key West had the settled feeling of pople who were born there and liked their town (whether the new- comer did or not) and were grac- | ious and hospitable to strangers — or so I found it. “Certainly their ideas and habits might differ from what a Yankee was accustomed to living with but you did not get jostled and pushed off the sidewalk if you happened to be of a non-combiative nature. “This is a long way round of saying that I liked Key West as I knew it and probably spent my happiest years there: and if it has changed and become Yankeefied, then that is the misfortune of the generations who followed me.” For the older people, I don’t think Key West has changed. Men like Sam Harris — ladies like Mrs. Jennie De Boer or my mother — they still live a life patterned pretty much after the friendly years of their youtth. The age group such as myself grew up to know Key West as a Your Grocer SELLS that Good STAR * BRAND AMERICAN COFFEE and CUBAN -—TRY A POUND TODAY SLOPPY JOE’S BAR * Burlesque * Continuous Floor Shows & Daiicing Starring The Fabulous ~- SALLY & MARCELLA LYNN AND GOGO GAZE, CATHY CARROL, SANDRA LANE AND A HOST OF OTHERS Dancing To MARK STANLEY’S TRIO Never An Admission or Minimum Charge They # PLUS OUR POLICY ALWAYS CHILOREN — Ic te 6 PM. vee V ever Ver TVET wee OF OURS’ BILL GIBB 50444 6444444444444444 444444444445 4685 depression city. There was little charm to a place that existed on | government dole. Most of us whe had to leave town in order to exist are probably a little fearful that, | without proper precautions, such conditions may return. The new generation is faced with even greater changes on the island. War, a few years turbulent peace, and war again — pardon me — police action. It isn’t a pat- tern of life that provides for fond or friendly recollections. The fact remains that Key West can be exactly what we make it. Personnally, I'd like to see a lot more friendliness and cooperative- ness among the town’s residents, It would be nice if the ten thou- sand sailors who are forced to live on this island for a few years would someday write letters of happy memories Buch as my fa- ther has written. To accomplish this, all we have to do is act | like normal human beings instead of the bristling, cat-and-dog atti- tude that too often prevails, Such a change in attitude might result in a lot more visiters w our island, too, NEWS NOTES The term “museum” derives from a Greek work meaning “tem- ple of the muses. ‘ During its last visit which Issted almost two years, Halley’s comet was at its brightest about May, 1910. It was then a conspicuous ob- ject to the naked eye. STRONG ARM BRAND COFFERS Triumph Coffee Mill ALL Roce RS STRAND ..,iiiene Last Times Today HIGH NOON AN CARLOS THEATRE LAST TIMES TODAY BOX OFFICE OPENS 1:45 P.M. 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