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

Page z The KEY Weds Citizen Che Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- tisher, trom The Citizen Building, corner of (zreene And Ann Streets Only Daily Newspsoer in Key West and Monroe County LP. ARTMAN Publishei NORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Mater “TELEPHONES §1 and 1935 — Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use tor reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or oot otherwise credited in this paper, and also the iocal news pudlishea here. —<—<—< — \ember Florida Press Association ana Associate. Dailies of Florida Ihursaey, Ucswwer 4, 1202 ee Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12.00, By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION SSeS 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. Comunity Auditorium. ES THE 63 PERCENT THAT DIDN’T VOTE SHOULD KEEP THEIR MOUTHS SHUT Wnat wml be the percentage of Monroe county’s vote cast in the general election on November 4? It will be pitiably low if we try to find the answer in the percent- age of votes cast in the dog-track proposal. The total was only 87 percent of the qualified electors in Monroe coun- ty — 18 percent under one-half of the vote! Think of that, and try to figure out how little some people value their greatest privilege — ‘the right to express their opinions at the polls. A Miamt{ newspaper yesterday said that the “opposi- tion” in Key West “is bitter.” It is not only futile but a waste of vitality also to be bitter now. Indeed, bitterness is puerile during a campaign or after an election, because it indicates a lamentable state of mind and not a concrete reasoning and determined action, which are the things that win elections. Proponents of the proposed dog track won, and the opponents, whether they like it or not, must submit to the will of the majority. Fuming over losing is not character- istic of good American sportsmanship. Why did the proponents win? Because they hard and constantly till the polls closed to get out the vote gf residents who fav ored the establishment of the track. Why did the opponents lose? Because they did not do anything systematically to get out the vote of residents who were against the track. If the opponents are bitter, as a Miami newspaper said, then they should be bitter only about their own inactivity to get out their vote. ' The only shocking thing about the election is that! only 37 percent of the total of voters in Monroe county went to the polls. The Citizen appealed to the voters to} go to the polls and vote as they pleased. It cited the ac- tivity in all parts of the country of patriotic groups that are appealing, day in and day out, to the people to vote on November 4. But that citation and The Citizen’s peal went for naught. Why? Many people, by a ridicu~ lous process of reasoning, go td the trouble to register, and then, when election day comes; disregard their privi-| lege to cast their vote. Why waste their time to register and then not voie? That is a question that not even they can answer satis- factorily. As for the dog track vote, a majority of the 37 per- cent favored it, and it is of no avail for the losers to ¢om- plain now. As for the 63 percent of the voters who did not bother to go to the polls, the right thing for them to do is to keep their mouths shut, for or against the track, for they had nothing to do with the result. We wonder when some people we know find time to breathe, ssential to national prosperity tablé to eat. is Farm and, at times, SLICE OF HAM prosperity to having something on vour SERVICE WITH A fought } HOLLYWOOD| NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD — We’re sink- ing the Titanic again, this time on a movie lot, and they’re having a dickens of a time sifting the fact from fiction. The Titanic epic will star Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck and is being helmed by Charles Brack- ett. The sage producer, who has brought forth such films as “The Lost Weekend” and ‘‘Sunset Boule- vard,” said this is the most fas- cinating subject in his picture- making career. “The stories we have uncovered about the sinking are fabulous,” he remarked. card some of them because they are, too fantustie for movie audi- ences to believe. Some are too fantastic for me to believe. That’s only natural, since human testi- mony is inclined to be faulty in times of great stress.” The facts, as Brackett related them, are these: The Titanic was built at a cost of 7% million. Its building was accompanied by a as the most modern, unsinkable ship. Newsreels still exist of the captain confidently embarking on the maiden voyage. Aboard were niné multimillionaires, several ed- itors, a novelist, countess and Pres- ident Taft's aide-de-camp. On the night of April 14, 1912, a lookout sighted an iceberg dead ahead. The alarm was sounded and the ship was swerved to one side, missing the iceberg. Unfortunately, the ship struck a spur of under- water ice, which ripped open the bottom of the ship “like a sardine can.” The Titanic went down with 1,517 persons. When the liner Carpathia | arrived on the scene, only 707 sur- vivors could be found. Many stories of the disaster came out of Senate hearings an@ newspaper accounts. Among them: That the first officer on the bridge continued the ship’s speed for 10 minutes after the waters were deemed dangerous and that he shot himself after the iceberg was struck, That one rich couple bribed crewmen to put their luggage in a lifeboat. That a man donned a dress to gain a place on a lifeboat. That a crewman supposed to take the water temperature was seen putting his thermometer in a water bucket before the crash. That the captain swam to a lif- boat, deposited a child there and swam back to go down with his ship. That Mrs. Isadore Straus de- » | clined to enter a lifeboat and leave | her millionaire husband, saying, ‘I stayed with him a good many ¥'m not going to leave him | The acts of heroism outnumbered the selfish ones, Brackett observed ap-) that newspapers of the time cited ) the actions of the disaster victims | {as “one of the high marks of hu- man behavior.” As the ship was sinking, the people aboard sang | “Nearer My God to Thee,” and that is the current title of the pic- ture. (The title “Titanic” is owned by another producer.) “One good thing did come out of the sinking,” Brackett added. \“Investigations brought forth new | and safer ship design and a stricter code of ship safety. Things that crimes.” | Investigators discovered the ‘Ti- |tanic’s lookout had no binoculars, | there were no searchlights on the | ship and the lifeboats were too few to handle the people aboard. Also, there were nearby ships | which did not receive the SOS be cause thejr wireless operators were not on duty. Maritime law now reve such occurrences, “We have had to dis- | big publicity campaign citing it) were carelessness before became | PE )PLE’S FORUM | The Citizeo qetcomes expre: sions of the views of its read- or reserves the cor: tt 300 words, and wills om ume — of the paper only. Signatur: the writer must accompany letters and will be published an- leas requested otherwise. “SACRED HOME” | Editor, The Citizen: The Servicemen’s Christian Center, which was recently opened in Key West, is an undertaking that is entirely dependent on.God. This project has but one sole pur- pose, that is to provide a place that is a “second home” where the servicemen in our midst may come and be refreshed in body and soul. It is not a church and does not func tion as such. It is a completely equipped home where the boys are welcome to come, regardless of what creed or doctrine they may personally hold or if they have not any creed, and will conduct them- selves as gentlemen. | This opportunity for service has been in our hearts for many years and we are thankful that God has | brought it about. Like Marconi’s | first message over the air we wish to re-echo ‘What Hath God Wrought!” Altho being a fully ordained Min- ister of the Gospel I choose not to} use the title “Reverend” but rather be known simply as “Harry”. So let mé repeat please that my | primary object for being in your | city is that I may be a humble | servant of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And as such please | do not hesitate to call upon me for | any service at any hour. This pro- | ject being strictly a Faith work no | charges are ever made for any services rendered. The Scriptures | state * ‘Freely Ye Have Received, | Freely Give!” Signed Harry Gregory “CONSTANTLY ANNOYED” Editor, The Citizen: My wife and I attended t'~ Dog Track meet Thursday. We stood where we thought we would be able | to hear very clearly. But two men | got directly back of us and began discussing their opinions of the sub- ject in question. We gave them what we hoped; were looks of disgust, thinking they would surely stop their yackety-! |yack — but to no avail, so we moved on, We had nicely got settled when; who should get in behind us but a| | young policeman and another fel- low who also started a lengthy dis-| course. Only they talked in a mono-} tone which was even more distract- ing then the first offenders. Then boys on bikes rode in and} out among us and tiny tots who! should have been tied to their mamas’ bra straps — oF put to| sleep. What we can not understand is| ; this | Why was not the young officer maintaining peace and quiet and al {little order in such a place? Why| have meetings of any kind if wel | must be constantly annoyed with | children and discourteous adults? E A CONCH. “ALL SHOULD GO TO POLLS” | Editor, The Citizen: What's Happening To The Great American Perogative? The citizens of this country are like little children. They fought bled and died to achieve the right to rule themselves and set up our | Present system of referendums in order to do so. Then, with all this | accomplished, they fight, claw and scrap over questions, sides, and | parties, and when it’s time to go to the polls and make themselves iheard, they sit back at home and ACROSS 35. 37. 38. 39. 40. Ci 43. 45. 46. 50. $1 52, 83. Me ez on tosezoooryy Crossword Puzzle BAAR Oe Ga oii Belew a [8 \UOMEC/A'B |S] ane MOB SEW OES) eM OO SE Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie Danger . Ireland Before: a sae Z888 «a GRRE see what’s going to happen. Any- thing generally does. We had a big question to settle in this city yesterday. It was a bitterly fought battle. Things were said, and wounds were made which will heal, but the scars will remain, and never be quite forgotten. Then, with over 12,000 registered voters } in the city, what happened? 4419 voters went to the voting places and made their wishes known! What happened to the other 9,000 voters? It’s hard to believe that they just didn’t care whether or not we had a dog track. It’s also hard to believe that they were just too lazy to go outside and to the numerous polling places and move a little lever about half an inch. Well the dog track is a fact now, for good or evil. There are some mighty angry and disappointed people in the city today, are mighty happy ones. But now what concerns us most is: What is going to happen in this big impor- tant election coming up. Are you going to sit back and just wait to see what is going to happen again? This time it’s more important than whether or not we have a big amusement center outside of town. This one may mean the very finan- cial foundations of a country will stand or collapse. It may mean the difference between war and peace. It may even mean the difference between life and death for many. Wake up Key West. For the love | of God wake up, and when Novem- | ber 4th comes ‘round, get out and VOTE! May the best man win. | “RAYMER HIGHLY PRAISED” Editor, The Citizen: Occasionally, in my daily-perusal | | of your Citizen, I come a- cross words go deserving of com- j ment that I cannot refrain giving ; voice! You are indeed most fortu- nate to have in your employ a writer of such forceful calibre as | Raymer of Conch Chowder, who could weave J. R. Hutchcraft’s eulogy to Lt. Eddie Foye in cul- minating perfection into a beauti- ful web setting of this Key West at dusk. From Conch Chowder by Raymer, Saturday, Sept. 27, 1952: “Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Morrison | strolled in clad in beach togs and 4 relaxed. Everyone seemed quiet for the nonce, chattering quietly. High against the deep cerulean blue of the sky, the tawny cream shaft of the Key West lighthouse | | blinking more brightly as dusk came. A slow breeze touched the | gaunt Australian pine branches ; with gentleness. Against a slate gray cloud, the spire of the Naval Chapel pointed a slim white index} to infinity. I glanced over my shoulder at the flamingo and gold of sundown. . . and caught my breath. Silhouetted against the flame was fe stark outline of a wrecked plane being towed in on the old Marianne barge. Hutch! saw my look. “I knew him for over three years,” he said. Eddie Foye was one of the best.” There was slience. Then the quiet rippled with laughter of a happy child. Over on the Navy baseball field the big floodlights flared up brilliantly. The game went on. C’est la vie.” I feel that Lt. Foye’s wife and children would treasure this writ- ing if it were preserved within the ! | pages of the children’s baby books perhaps for future reading when memory of death would have be- come somewhat less painful with time, None of them could ever for- get this beautiful word picture of Key West. Sincerely, Mrs. May Rena MacIntyre Rodin 220-C Poiciana. HAL RENT FORUM (These questions were selected from those often asked of the local rent office. If you have a question about the rent stabilization pro- gram address it to: Area Rent | Office, 216 Federal Building, Key West, Florida). QUESTION: Recently your office allowed my landlord to increase the rent because of “substantial improvement” to the place I rent. I contend that this improvement, as he calls it, is only normal up- keep which he is required to do. How can I present my side? ANSWER: You should go to the rent office and present the facts as you have determined them. Both you and the landlord will then probably be called in for a land- lord-tenant conference. If a satis- factory agreement is not reached in this conference then either you or the landlord can appeal to the local Rent Advisory Board to hear the case and make a recommenda- tion to the rent office. QUESTION: A house that I have been renting to the same family for several years has a large lot on one side. It is large enough for a home site and is not part of the yard of the house. However, it was included as part of the unit when I registered with your office. Now I want to build another house on ; this surplus land: but my tenants say they want to keep the lot for a playground for their children and say the rent law prevents my build- ing on it. What about it? ANSWER: The rent regulation will {not prevent your building on the | vacant lot after you file a petition with the area rent office and- get a written order permitting you to de- crease the ground space rented to the tenant. You probably will be required to reduce the rent to some ' extent when you deprive the tenant of the use of the vacant lot. QUESTION: I own an apartment building which contains 12 units. I will admit that there was a time | | ee ee ee THIS ROCK weve eee eee wre OF OURS BILL GIBB 244444444 44444444 4444444444464 444454EEB One of the basic fundamentals of our form of government requires that its citizens consider jury ser- vice as a privileged duty. Here in Key West, most people regard such service as an inconvenience from | which they should be excused. In- vestigation also reveals that there is a shocking ‘tie-in’ between poli- tics and the courts of justice. A man’s freedom, even his life, is theoretically dependent upon our ! county commissioners. Here is how our local jury sys- tem is operated according to Harry Dango, clerk of the criminal court, and Joe Allen, county commission- er. Approximately seven hundred | names are placed in a box from which jurors are selected. These seven hundred names are furnish- | | ed by the county commissioners, | each commissioner supplying about one hundred and forty names that he has selected from a list of qua- lified voters. “In other words,” I asked Com- missioner Allen, “the final choice of who is to serve rests with you | people? If a case came to trial where it was politically expedient for all the commissioners to join forces, each could pick out a hundred and forty names of people who are on the right side of the | political fence and the man being tried would be railroaded to prison?” Allen smiled, “Theoretically that is possible. Actually it is difficult to find anyone, regardless of his political connections, willing to | serve on a jury.” I was willing to concede this last point because in my newswork I’ve often run across stories of how people attempted to evade jury summons. However, I still don’t like the implications that county commissioners could, if they want- ed to, successfully stack a jury. I told Allen so. “You guys have been in politics for years. All of you have lists of about four years ago when I could not get tenants. I had an average of four tenants for about a year. The rents on these units were re- duced considerably and since then I have had no trouble at all keep- ing it filled. In fact, for about a year I have had a long waiting list. | Now I would like to get the rent | 4, increased to what it used to be as has gone up enough to warrant i getting an increase. What can | do about this? ‘| ANSWER; You should check | pyery excuse in the world.” with the rent office. The rent that was being paid on September 1, 1950 which is the maximum rent date in this area is the rent you are supposed to be receiving. The rent office would have to judge whether or not you would be en- titled to an increase. If dissatisfied with our decision you may appeal |to the Rent Advisory Board. Gloves, belts and pocketbooks are the chief products made from pig leather. historical fact and a comic strip about a typical American family. “The Russians banned it two years ago because the comic strip | made the American way of life look | too happy,”’ he said. The U. S. Army buys 20,000,000 pieces a year, and troops overseas have used it to plug oil leaks in bombers or to keep rain out of their rifles. They sometimes have found it better than money in Korea to hire kids to clean their barracks or run errands. “We have heard of many in- stances where it has been used as currency,” said Hutson. “Some headhunters in Borneo captured a | minor British diplomatic official | and released him only after a ran- } som of 2,400 pieces of bubble gum / BOYLE | SAYS} By HAL BOYLE | NEW YORK #—A ten-year-old w Jersey 2 ent | of gum a bubble | p { airily 20 inches in di No one was more as this new world re man Hutson, a 30-y civil engineer We had always thought inch bubble was about the he said There was a trace of envy voice as he rec the ded at Nor- id former a ii- it,” in his | in the Phil tadeiphia firm that 2,000,000,060 pieces af bie" gum s ye this is about hal nual In less than 2S years this b ness built on a bubble has gr He est output dren even prefer Hutson’ s ot gum contains & pooled Us t | 00.000 in America alone.” America’s an- | t was paid. | And in Africa we had a report | \that a man bought a wife for a | | case of bubble gum instead of the | usua] price—two or three oxen and | ja half dozen sheep.” Bubble gum formerly was made | m pontianak, a gum tapped | a Borneo tree. When this | source dried up during the last | war, the industry developed a | c base, and this is still used. | employs 21 persons, in- | three chemists, f not gum. He is proud that, he is a poor blower himself, he was able in his laboratory to | stretch an inch square piece of | large enough to cover an | 10-foot rug t was rather frightening.” he | we didn’t know what to do | sees no bust ahead in the | the world’s largest penny ry. Adults bay only 6 of the bubble gum output, | buy the rest themselves. market is the children to 15 — and there are 28, said ison, and added dreamily goal is to sell each of one stick a day—that would $102,200,000 im retail sales.” } is vinkently opposed to um on s health - ands it pro needed exercise for growing day they start putting cophyll in it 1 retire” he said. sever ciaim bubble gam is good for kids. Ki is fest one of the ings bef that can sive em barmiess fum for a penny.” hundreds of people that are depen- dent upon you and willing to do what you order. An innocent man wouldn't stand a chance if he stepp- ed out of line politically. Why aren’t all registered voters requir- ed to serve their turn on a jury?” That question gave both Joe and larry Dango the opening they had been waiting for and they pounced soared with it’s vigilant gleam | I think that the cost of other things | on me with both feet. “Yes, why?” they chorused, “Be- cause the average man just doesn’t want to bother to serve. They use . Joe continued, “‘The county com- Your Grocer SELLS that Good STAR * BRAND AMERICAN COFFEE and CUBAN -—TRY A POUND TODAY—— SLOPPY JOE'S BAR * Burlesque ° Continuous Floor Shows & Dancing Starring The Fabulous MARCELLA LYNN and JEANIE) CRISTIAN, DUSTY DeLOUR, DOTTIE KING, SANDRA LANE and MANY OTHERS: See KATHY CARROL The Sensational “MARIJUANA” DANCER MUSIC BY Mark Stanley’s Trio Never An Admission or missioners would love you if you could save them the worry and trouble of trying to supply names | for the jury box. If you'll give me | the names of anyone who wants to | serve, Pll guarantee that those names will be in the next ballot page ; It Rests With You | So that is the way the situation adds up. Anyone who is willing to do his duty toward his country and fellowman should immediately re- quest jury service. I know it is an incovenience but we can "t complain about the verdicts of our courts of justice when we ourselves are un- | willing to do our fair share toward | serving on the juries that render | these verdicts. Contact your commissioner or drop me a card with your name and address and let’s start making our courts an All-American insti- tution. Women must indicate their willingness to serve as a juror in writing. This is because past instances have arisen in which trials were particularly unpleasant and considered unfit for feminine ears. Did someone say the age of chivalry was dead? GETS SON AND SON-IN-LAW CORTLAND, N.Y. @ — Mrs Clarence Homer acquired a son and a son-in-law on the same day. At 12:40 a.m, she gave birth to an eight-pound, one-ounce tey in Cortland Hospital. At 2 p.m., she attended the wed- ding of hi daughter Evelyn Louise to William ‘Robert Hulbert | of Homer, in a Cortland church, She went to the wedding in a wheel chair and later returned to the hospital. 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