The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 1, 1952, Page 2

wie Key West Citizen — ee Pubusned @ally (except Sunday) oy L F. Artmun. owner and pub ‘ishes, wom {he Citizen Building, corner of \ireene Ana Ann Streets Ony Daily Newspeoer in Key West ang Munrpe County & P. ARTMAN NCRMA\ D. ARTMAN Publishe, —_ Business Manage: Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 51 and 1935 a re eer Semper of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to use for reproduction of all aews dispatciies credited to i or go. olerwise credited im this paper, and also the iocal news -wolishea here. dember Florida Press Association and Associate. Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25c per week, year $12.00; By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Sitizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects of local or general interest, out it will not publish «nonymous communications, IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN L More Hotels and Apartments. 2. Beach and Bathing Paviiion. 2. Airports—Land and Sea. 4 Consolidation of County and City Governments. 5 Coumnnity Auditorium. ——$—$—$$—$ COMMUNISM IN THE PHILIPPINES Philippine Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay re- cently told the Southeast Asia Veterans’ Conference, in Manila, that the government of the Philippines had “stopped the enemy’s advance and turned the tide and now has him squirming to survive.” Mr. Magsaysay was referring to the Communist underground movement the Philippines. His statement is encouraging, because only a yea ago, the Communist threat in the Philippines appeared to be a real one. The statement was also made at an oppor- tune time, since the Southeast Asia Veterans’ Confer- ence in Manila was the first meeting of its kind in that part of the world — the purpose being to exchange views on how to beat Communism. Said Mr. Magsaysay, on the Communist movement in the Philippines: oday we can report that Communists’ military effort is demoralized and broken, his raids re- duced to only occasional sorties in desperate search for goods and suprlies, and confined to isolated places.” No doubt, this was encouraging to delegations from Indo- Chine, Thailand, and the Malay States, It is interesting to note that the suceess in the Philip- r pines came about after U. S. forces took up the fight | against Communism in Korea. It will be recalled that the willingness of the democracies to throw force into an ac- tive military battle heartened anti-Communists all over the Far East. And, with the Philippines apparently safe, it may not be teo much to hope that the threat will be checked in other Far Eastern danger spots. At least, it is accurate to say that the hope today is a brighter one than it has been for some time. Freedom is too often taken for granted by Americans. This is the first year we remember when dog days began in June. The U. S. Olympic team showed the Russians what a comeback is, in Helsinski. The leader who is a hundred years ahead of his peo- | ple ight as well be a hundred years behind. Make your contributions to your community without | and a thought of matching someone else's contribution, without a thought of them matching youre. SLICE OF HAM Citizen Staff Photo BOATLOAD OF SMALL FRY enjoyed a trip out around the north end of the Island City and as far south as the Casa Marina Beach on September 27. Free boat rides were given aboard Capt. Tony Tarracino’s “Greyhound,” shown above with Capt. Tony, right, in white cap, and his firs Stan Spivey, left, surrounded by gleeful passengers. The “Cactus,” a cabin cruiser belong! J. Y. Porter, III, also accommodated the crowds of children. The rides were supervised by the local Kiwanis Club, aided by Key Club and Keyette boys and girls, and the Sinawiks. The event was in honor of National Kids’ Day, sponsored by Kiwanis International and the National Kids’ Day Foundation, Inc. | bur Peeble, America’s average cit- By HAL BOYLE Even dogs and innocent children | izen, joined a group reading a NEW YORK w — Why doesn't | are harried by bad dreams. | notice his boss had just pinned to | - Boise Sigs ; 5 P the office bulletin board. | some kind-hearted scientist invent | The other night a friend of.mine | “rye notice said ja pill or magic potion to create | was startled by the crying of his | ry ‘ail employes: pleasant dreams? six-year-old daughter. When he | pores: be harder to make than an atom bomb? in} - é tae “The management has been ask- This is one of the world’s great | Went to comfort her, she said: ed whether it pians to start a gift fund to retain high caliber employ- |es who have been offered govern- {ment jobs at three times their | present salary. We don’t. | “A statement of the firm’s fin- | ancial position is attached. Atten- |rea is directed to the portions in , needs, Life is such a living nightmare to millions today that they deserve and need peace in their sleep. But too often the goblins that infest their waking hours haunt their night minds, too, in even more magnified and fearful form. for an elixir- of youth may be {doomed to failure, but science ought to be able to stew up a brew It simply isn’t fair. The quest | “Daddy, I dreamed I was in a boat with two men. They were | rowing around in the water pick- ing up pieces and every piece of paper was where a little boy had died.” Why should a child have such an inexplicable nightmare? Presentiments of death and dis- aster come to all of us at times and gloom our slumber for no rea- son that we know. Sleep—which red ink. oi Management also jnounces that if the employees wish to start a private fund to help the _| subject for conversation. But it HOLLY WOOD NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD — No kidding, | boss, this gal Jean Peers actually turned down a buildup as a sexy dish. What’s more, she added that sex has been overdone in Holly- wood. How do you figure a gal like | that, boss? She’s trying to go against the trend. Let me tell you how it all happened. This gal Peters was assigned to ; do the role of a brainless B-girl in “Blaze of Glory.” That’s the role Shelley Winters couldn’t do on account of she was pregnant and Betty Grable wouldn’t do on account of she wants to remain the happiness girl in films. Grable got a suspension. Well, this guy guided me across the movie lot to see Jean Peters. This guy—I think he was from the publicity §department—spoke hopefully that the role was chang- ing the whole course of Jean’s |career. From now on, she was } going to be a slinky, sexy siren. She looked the part, being decked out in a low-cut, form-fitting dress. | “DPve got news for you,” in- | formed the onetime Ohio State coed. “As soon as this picture is over, I’m going right back to blue | Jeans. | This guy—I’m pretty sure he was | from publicity—looked crushed. j Jean tried to soothe his feelings by explaining. | “Look,” she said, “‘so I’m doing ja role of a sexy dish. That doesn’t | mean I have to assume the part jin real life. I’m not the type. I don’t go in for tight skirts; I like | sport clothes and suits. And I don’t think I should be expected to | change my life just because I’m | playing a role. An actress shouldn’t ; be expected to. | “Besides, I think sex has been overworked by Hollywood. Take 'bosoms, for example, They have | been so over-exploited that nobody even notices them much any more. Years ago, Lana Turner was a sensation when she wore a sweat- |er. Nowadays, people see a girl |in a sweater and they say, ‘So | what? So she’s cold.’ “T agree that sex is a fascinating | isn’t everything, It’s the goal of | |every woman to be attractive to | men, but she can't do it only with Seer agece-- mee ae OF OURS BILL GIBB 50244 444444444444444444444 44444 A4AEEE It was quite a pleasant surprise to go down to the Citizen the other day and find several letters await- ing me. These, plus some I receiv- ed at home, made me feel like a kid at a birthday party. Perhaps that isn’t a professional attitude— many writers, I notice, treat their mail as a boresome and unneces- sary detail. They are being com- pletely artificial. Whenever someone takes the trouble to write to “This Rock Of Qurs” -- whether they are for or against it - I feel particularly thrilled because 1 know that at least the column is serving a pur- pose -- readers are investigating the rightness and wrongness of various subjects. Following are a few excerpts froin letters. We'll delete the name because of the possibility of em- barrassment or retaliation. . . Concerning a column on Federal subsidies: ‘I simply want to tell you how delighted my husband and I were with “This Roek Of Ours” last night. It expressed our feeling on the matter of this ever increas- ing leaning on the Federal govern- ment exactly. We are concerned, not to say alarmed, by this te: dency of individuals and munici- palities to lay their troubles, great and small, squarely in the lap of Uncle Sam and wait like trusting children for a nice pat solution.” Same subject, different writer: “Welcome to the conservative Re- publican cirele who believe in the democratic way of life for the citizens of this great country. Most Republicans favor brotherly assis- tance, look with disfavor upon pa- ternal generosity, and certainly are against the control of the individual when it concerns the kind of gov- ernment we ought to have.” A Navy wife and mother writes: “Thanks a million for the sharp and sometimes stinging reminders you give us to think for ourselves, Thanks for the courage you give us to speak up, even against the gov- erning powers if we feel they are in the wrong. And thanks for gett- ing our aspirations out of the cloud and down to basic necessities when it comes to improving our town.” One critic says: “You'll probably get your head beat in some day and I, for one, think you deserve [that will at least keep us young, | Shakespeare called the balm of |happy and free of warts *for our | hurt minds and sore nature’s bath eight hours of slumber. If we all | —then is neither bath nor balm, could stroll at ease in a Garden of | but a cold shower to terror, from Eden while asleep, it would be | Which we rouse sweating. leasier to face the troubles of the | Mankind’s three most common | day. As it is now, we often merely | dreams are these: close our eyes on one set of terrors,| 1. A shy person finds himself and doze off only to face another | Naked in a jeering crowd. set even wors 2. You suddenly find yourself able to float or fly with the great- jest of ease. 3. You go along icking up a long row of dimes, quarters and half dollars on a sidewalk. |n Consciousness is a two-sided coin —waking and sleeping — and is marked by fantasy in both pertods. | has some control of his | |firm meet its expenses their con- | tributions will be gratefully accept-| py magecer Pha She must have i Jean said she didn’t at all mind | petty. The ordinary individual is (Signed) THE BOSS.” | taking a role which had been nixed | like an animal -- eating, sleeping, Wilbur shook his head. Later in| by two other gals for varying | working -- but without the brains to ' the morning he sneaked downstairs | reasons. govern himself properly. Why |to get a haircut on company time “As a matter of fact, I found | shouldn’t men with brains be al- | Before attacking with his shears, | out about the part from one of my | lowed to profit from such sluggish- the barber bowed and handed him | spies long ago,” she reported. “I | ness?” (Unsigned). a sheet of paper covered with | went to the producer and made| A “stranger” expresses himself vagures. a pitch to play it, But I was told] as follows: “I want to say I enjoy “what is this, Tony?’ asked {I wasn't the type. Then Shelley | reading your articles very qpuch. Wilbur. Winters was cast in it. You let your chips fall where they “My profit-and-loss statement for | “After she dropped out, I made |will. As for law enforcement | the last 20 years,” replied Tony. | another pitch. This time 1 was | officers, I doubt very much if there it. Your column is womanish and while he is awake. boss bawts him out, his mind im- ly creates an interior drama in which he himself be- comes head of the corporation and the boss becomes a janitor. Every bum is a hero in his wak- ing fantasies and walks his brain a king. But once he drowses off his conscience remorselessly takes } }over and makes him a bigger bum It is only a legend that bums have happy dreams; they are ever shab- bier in their nightmares. That is the trouble with dreams lasleep: You bave no control over them. Only a man with insomnia | can be sure of remaining a hero in j his fantasies after midnight, | | 29. Part of a surveying instrument Antique . Unit of nau- tical speed Exclamation used to Crossword Puzzle My trouble is that IT have all these dreams at once. I am soaring along without my trousers on vain- ly reaching down trying to grab | coins from the sidewalk until all at jonce I crash—and wake up on the floor, poor as ever and nursing a | bruised elbow. | What I want is for science to come up with a capsule to create a shining world of dream in which no man is bald, he wears a new $150 suit with his pockets full of gold | pieces, all women are fair, poli- | ticians are speechless, and income | tax collectors intrude only to blow a bugle that announces a big re- | fund. | Why should a capsule like that | { ! } CIAMATS HTS (Oi BNC) BYORI. Ot Lt IN! INI iF iT} RG BAe AD TMISC ENE Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie jetaliiferous rocks tp tte bos ee 4 | ! | CLE “What do I care about that?” | said Wilbur. “I'm tired of hearing the public say barbers ‘are scalping them,” said Tony. “You will please note my car is five years old and I am still using the same scissors I start- ed business with. Just can’t afford a new pair.” Fascinated, Wilbur studied the | figures, After work he dropped into a bar across the street. With his | martini the bartender held out a | black notebook. “My income tax payments for the last five years,” he said. “the | politicians say they are clean as a | hound’s tooth—well, I'm cleaner }than a toothless hound. You can see no tax payment for 1949. I| warned, “if you steal anything | jwant*to go into that in detail, I ; worked for my brother that year, and anybody knows when he works for a member of his own family | he can’t even steal enough to make him owe thxes.” Still later, when he entered his | neighborhood grocery store, Wilbur was dazed to see the butcher scrib- bling like mad | “The housewives are demanding {a complete accounting of my fin ances,” he said. “They even start ed an ugly rumor that I was curin my lumbago with a mustard plas ter made of $100 bills. Come with Mr. Peeble. I want you to now the 4 Wilber back room peeled to the waist followed hin where Pive $10 bi were ban one kid You can see how easily exaggerated, can't you? cher ical candidates now ot the voters follow t kbook campaigi and added joking ged across id his f wife “When are you going to give a private fur report on your 4 you brought that up, re She went out a small} 5 Mae shook empty.” ay LOU i wyth the re 4 tut dignity sock baseless secuss she said. | f 4 totaling $136. What | want to know su ba, opened and | given the script and allowed to}; try out for it, Then Grable was | given the role, so I gave it up. | But she turned it down and I got ‘it after all.” Jean turned down suggestions to | bleach her hair for the role. The | reason was that she didn't want to evoke comparison to the two blondies who were originally cast, “I've also developed my own walk for the part,” she added. “Ordinarily I have a stride that could cover two country miles in ‘half an hour, But I've worked out | | a sexy shuffle in the picture.” | The new Peters walk has evoked | | the interest of her friend, Marilyn | Monroe, who visited the set and | from me, I'll sue.” “Don’t worry; this is all mine,” | assured Jean. 33 Freight Cars Upset CUMBERLAND, Md. #—A house | was ba ily damaged and 33 freight , cars were upset when two Balti- | mere end Ohio Railroad freight trains sideswiped at nearby North Branch here. No one was in, ee) RUGS CLEANED AND ‘ | Stored Free of Charge 1F DESIRED UNTIL NOV. 30 | All Formal Garments chemically processed. All werk guaranteed and fully insured. POINCIANA | DRY CLEANERS 218 Simenten $1. Tel. 1080 2 ATT SLOPPY JOE'S BAR music BY ° right bere But Joe jus. dua d know e 24 irelss Mae Never An Admission ot are 3 men on the police force in K. W. who could hold a similar job 60 | days any other place. “And why is it when jurors are drawn for court, it is practically the same old crowd everytime? There are a large number of ‘strangers’ who made their home in K. W., yet you rarely see where any of them are drawm to serve as jurors. “If a ‘stranger’ has a case in court, I think he showld have the privilege of having a choice. of some brother ‘stranger’ decide his case, since so many natives seem prejudiced against new- comers.” Another letter-writer comments: “I disagree as often as I agree with your comments but cannot help but admire your nerve in ex- pressing yourself. Surely you rea- lize that it’ is only a question of time until you'll be put out of com- mission. Physically yom could pro- bably hold off one or two but not a crowd in.the dark. Finameially, you are small potatioes dependent upon credit and a daily job that could be ‘wiped out. Morally, you might be trying to do what is right but se- called whispering campmigns have deliberately been set mp to ruin more than one good man in the past. “Pm not trying to discourage you because if you ever get into trouble, I'll back you to the limit. 1 know that you devote untold hours to your work wifthout con- | sideration of monetary reward or | public acclaim. Local clufbs are too busy patting themselves on the back to notice the efforts of an out- sider. Even the City which has given citations for lifesaving in the past, ignored your heroism in pulling an unconscious boy from his wrecked automobile :a Garri- son Bight. “May God be with you and keep you. Right or wrong, you're at least trying to help the town.” This is all the space I’m allowed, Don’t you think the various com+ ments are mighty generous and in- spiring? 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