The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 15, 1952, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, September 15, 1952 The Key West Citizen Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County t. P. ARTMAN Publisher 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 eptitied to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or oot otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news Subscription (by carrier) 25c per week, year $12.00; By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects of local or general interest, out it will not publish anonymous communications. ————— IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Community Auditorium. ———$—$$— —— — ——— ——— ————_____— (MAN-ON-THE-STREET WRINKLES BROW OVER POLITICAL ‘HOW’ AND ‘WHY’ No wonder the man-on-the-street wrinkles his brow in trying to find out “why” and “how” some things can happen in politics, such as, for instance, the announced reconciliation between Eisenhower and Taft. The Citizen readers know how Governor Dewey’s steam roller at the Republican convention flattened Taft and the resentment Taftmen expressed against the flat- tening. Senator Dirksen, a Taft supporter, while discuss- ing the contest over the Taft and Eisenhower delegates from Texas and Louisiana, reminded Dewey that he had twice led the Republican party “down the road to defeat.” Dewey, bitter, rose and left the hall when Dir began his speech to nominate Taft. That bitterness per- vaded a large group of Dewey’s patronage-controlled delegates. While the “Star Spangled Banner” was being ; sung during the Taft demonstration, a commentator in the Mutual booth said: “That’s going a little too far. Some of the New York | delegates have refused to stand while the ‘Star Spangled | Banner’ is played. Ed Lahey, a close friend of Taft, interviewed Taft at | great length while he was on vacation. Lahey said that Taft would insist on being assured that Dewey would not | | be appointed secretary of state before Taft would pub- licly support Eisenhower, adding that Taft wanted some | commitments from Eisenhower “in writing.’’ But Taft, af- | ter his talk with Eisenhower, told reporters he had not | asked for any commitments in writing. | Those conflicting statements spawn the yes-no of politics — yes to you and no to somebody else. Adlai Stev- enson aptly characterized the Eisenhower-Taft elbow- rubbing: “The spectacle of the candidate who won the nomi- nation seeking out his defeated rival and begging for a kind word.” Personally, The Citizen admires Eisenhower as a military man and has made it a point to base its criticism | of him on his own words. They have forced The Citizen to conclude that he even changes his views to get a “kind word” from voters, Let us consider Eisenhower’s changed views on the | question of security. In 1940 he said that if all an Ameri- can wants is “security”, he can get it in “prison, with three meals a day and a roof over his head.” But Eisenhower, now a candidate for president, has retracted that statement. He says he now favors more So- cial Security benefits and larger pensions for the aged. Yes, no wonder the man-on-the-street wrinkles brow in trying to figure out the “why” and the “how” of Politics, Mountain climbers some times get carried away — in one of two ways, SLICE OF HAM pemmpummnne- ONE OF US WAL KAVETO an Aye | Thomas E. Good Conduct Awards Presented Official U.S. Navy Photo CAPT. A. E. BUCKLEY, USN, C. O., USNAS, presents good conduct awards to Haynes, J. W. AF-2 (receiving medal) for three years of service; Houck, C. D. BM-1 (left rear) and 3rd awards for nine years of service and Taliaferro, G. B., Jr. AM-2 (right rear) 2nd award for six years of service, Swin ¢ To GOP By Five Crucial Northern States In Nov. Is Predicted By Newsmen (Editor’s note: This is the first of a series of five stories on the ical situation as of now, as seen by newspaper editors and political writers in all 48 states.) By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL NEW YORK (\#—Five politically potent Middle Atlantic states—New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware—are ex- pected by editors and_ political writers at this stage of the cam- paign to go narrowly Republican { in November as they did in 1948. An Associated Press survey, based on county-by-county and sec: tion-by-section estimates of edi- tors and correspondents, indicates there is a composite belief that if the election were run off now, Republican presidential nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower would roll up bigger margins of victory in most of these states than Gov. Dewey of New York did four years ago. Even so, the margins still are so slender that Maryland and Del aware must be considered doubt ful, although they are regarded as tilting toward the GOP at this point. Campaign developments upset present calculations as to winning margins and easily toss any of these states to the Demo could cratic nominee, Gov. Adlai E. Ste- venson of Illinois. The 105 electoral ballots of the | five states represent nearly one | fifth of the total of 531 and almost | two fifths of the 266 needed to | win the election holding back from Eisenhower, perhaps with intentions of not vot ing at all. Others reported that some independent voters appeared to be turning toward the general Stevenson’s greatest strength, as | ab bbdbbbbbbbbbdpbbiid The “prowler” hullabaloo can easily turn into something resembl- | ing a Salem witch hunt. Before it | is over, I expect to see innocent | men beat up or jailed. Most of the women in town are showing better judgment than the men. The ones I’ve talked to say that “peeping toms’’ can be elimi- {nated simply by drawing window shades and using a modicum of common sense in the way one dresses. As for rape, more men believe such a thing is possible than wo- men. Seven out of eight women | with whom I talked felt that most | rape cases were mis-named. Unless the victim is knocked unconscious, they felt that a woman holds bet- |ter than even chances of discour- aging her attacker. All eight of the women said that they think women themselves are often guilty of encouraging attacks through ignorance—walking around half-naked, flirting around bars, and otherwise conducting themselv- es in an “unladylike manner”, It was easier to talk to men on the subject and I questioned about a score. These hairy-chested pro- tectors of feminie virtue seemed to take it for granted that the town is filled with peeping-toms, | rapists, and other perverts. In- jaeae of answering questions sen- HOLLYWOOD NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (#—What do GIs tainment field? “Girls,” reports William Holden, home from putting that question to thousands of soldiers in Korea. He made a 25-day trip on behalf of the Hollywood Co-ordinating Committee, which supplies talent for overseas trips. “There’s no doubt about it,” he continued, “the thing the boys want to see most are girls. Audrey Totter is a great favorite over there. “And if Marilyn Monroe would go across, the war would be over. She is absolutely the No. 1 girl | | A | in Korea want most in the enter- | | over there. Have they got any of her calendar pictures? You see them everywhere, from small, pocket-size to huge, life-size pic- tures. Doris Day is another great favorite, but in a different way. “But the need isn’t only for pin- | In no other area of the country | is usual for Democratic candidates, | yp girls. Mature women like Irene | is there such a concentration of | political power. And through two | decades of political history the | | states have shown remarkable uni- | formity in their voting records. | In 1932,New York, New Jersey and Maryland went Democratic while Pennsylvania and Delaware voted Republican. But in every | presidential election since, all have | voted alike—Democratic in 1936, 1940 and 1944; Republican in 1948. Four years ago, however, the | GOP took New York and Maryland | because Henry A, Wallace arid the | Progressive Party drew votes away from the Democratic ticket Eisenhower’s personal popular- lity was secribed generally as a! | more forceful factor in the cam paign than time-for-a-change sen- timent and such specific issues as high taxes and corruption in gov- | ernment, Here and there, editors noted that Republicans who had preferred Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio as the presidential nominee seemed to be Crossword Puzzle ACROSS I king g voice bution | participaing was assigned to industrial and urban areas. The state by state picture: NEW YORK (45 electoral votes) Estimates put together from 65 newspapers indicate belief that Eisenhower should take Stevenson’s measure by 360,000 votes whereas Dewey edged out Truman by 61,000 in 1948. That’ on the assumption that the te { vote this year will be about the same as the 6,131,000 ballos cast in 1948 for the Republican, Dem- ocratic and Progressive Party candidates. / lly, the vote may be considerably years ago, Of 65 papers in the New York 49 are for Eiser wer, five and 11 uncommitted ) s give ower Opinions of a comfortable | with him pocketing 1 countie scoring heav 1 and residen g some inroads a strengt in industrial dis Even though Presic Roosevelt won the state four times, New usually is considered a Re ai atic PENNSYLVANIA 32 votes 00 the 'b arger than four | | Dunne, Rosalind Russell and Clau- | dette Colbert would do a great job over there. They would bring a bit of home to the boys.” In two weeks in Korea, Holden visited every group possible, from corps to platoon. He traveled by every means, from jeep to heli- copter to hitch-hiking. He visited some artillery units that had to in- terrupt their conversations to fire a few rounds at the nearby ene- my. He always talked to the sol- diers without having officers pres- | ent, figuring he would get the full | story that way. Aside from girls, he discovered that the G. I.’s wanted: 1. Comedians. ‘But they realize that there are only about 10 top comics and many of them have commitments that prevent Korea trips.” 2 2. Music. “They'd be crazy for small combos and singers like Pat- | ti Page, Kay Starr and Rosemary Clooney.” 3. Western music. how corny, they like it. 4. Familiar faces Edward G. Robinson or Jimmy Cagney would make a great hit. Sod would Charles Laughton read. ing the Bible.” terest in movie names was high, Holden added, since films are the chief source of entertain- ment. The soldiers get four films a week, most of them new re leases. Admission charge is three a head, and the monthly film attendance among Allied forc es amounts to 1,600,000 What kind of pictures do they ‘No matter cents entertainment,” The he replied kind of pictures this indus based upon. They like musicals, but they in modern prob- They'll walk out of whether a young vorce. They Bogart as get » see Humphrey iller added are if sessjon, STAR * BRAND AMERICAN COFFFE and CUBAN —TRY A POUND TOLAY— “Fellows like | THIS “_JCK OF OURS BILL GIBB | | 04n266644444444444444444444444444428484 sitly, however, they spouted forth with what they were going to do if they “ever got their hands on a prowler”’. I didn’t tell them but in my opin- ion, they’d probably turn pale and shout for Mama to come beat the prowler over the head with an um- brella. Seriously, it is a dangerous sit- uation. An innocent person could easily be shot if he had to walk down the street of a residential sec- tion at night. The uniformed police have switched to plain clothes. They are not trained for such detective work and the average citizen won’t know whether he is being stopped by a robber or a policeman if he is ac- costed in the dark. Personally, I think I'll stay indoors for awhile— it is safer. Dark Streets While the City Electric Company is installing extra street lighting, they might make a general survey of the island and light all of the streets properly. Particular complaints have been received by this column on the Vir- ginia street block between White and Georgia streets. Another bad section is the County Beach area. The police wouldn’t have so many calls to this latter section if it were properly lighted. Taft Supports Lodge In Mass. BOSTON (#—Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R-Mass) says he has the support of Sen. Robert A. Taft (r-Ohio) in his bid for re-election. Lodge was one of the leaders in the movement to put Dwight D. Eisenhower into the presidential race and served as his pre-con- vention campaign manager. Lodge said Taft had expressed his support of him In a letter to a Massachusetts voter. He said the letter was in response to reports that a “Taft for Kennedy” move- ment had the Ohio senator's ap- proval. feeling is high. When they recess, the boys hit a low period.” The actor was greatly impressed by the mash units (Mobile Army Hospital Service). And he cau- tioned about the ever-present need for blood. “It can take 49 pints to save a man’s life,” he said. ‘I saw one | boy with a severed artery. When- ever the artery came loose, he'd | lose seven quarts of blood in 15 minutes, “When the peace talks started, | | blood donations in this country fell | tremendously. 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