The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 21, 1952, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen Published daily (except sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- lisher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene,and Ann Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L, P. ARTMAN Publisher NORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager ~~“Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 5] and 1935 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it oF not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published here. LL Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida Page 2 Tuesday, October 21, 1952 Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12; By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION — The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects ot local or general interest, but it will not publish iMonymous communications. ee IMPROVEMENT? FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1 More Hotels and Apartments, 2 Beach and Bathing Pavilion. & Airporte—lLand and Sea. 4 Consolidation of County and City Governments. ) ‘o.umunity Auditorium. Ae, ee nneceennnanees enna TIME FOR ACTION The United States and Great Britain are in danger of losing Iran to the Soviet bloc. Both nations may be mis- judging the values involved in the Iranian crisis in one se- rious respect and, if that is the case, they have very little time to correct their position, From Teheran comes the news that Premier Moham- med Mossadegh has decided to slash the budget of the Iranian Army probably in half, This move has been forced upon Iran by a Premier who refuses to agree to a just set- tlement of the oil dispute involving his country and Great | Britain. Mossadegh has already broken up the first Im- perial Guard Division of the Iranian Army, charging that some of the officers had planned to overthrow the gov- | ernment. When one considers that the Iranian army is the only real police force which can keep order in Iran and that! the Tudeh (Communist) party has been centering ‘its pro- pevanda on the Army, you can readily see how serious the si'vation in Iran would become if the power of the Army is broken. Premier Mossadegh seems to prefer breaking | “the power of his army rather than submitting to an ade-| te settlement of the oil dispute. Admitting the folly of Mossadegh and the rueful sit- ‘on which faces both Great Britain and America, it is} theless important that the Communists be kept out n. Turkish officials think that the Communist threat suLiward is greatest in Iran and are fearful that: any Russ s'-n attack would begin with a penetration of Iran, which | would outflank the Turkish army from the beginning. | Therefore, one of the essentials of any effective de-! fense-south of Russia is a friendly Iran and also an Iran’ with a decent army to deter Soviet aggression. The pres- | ent policy of Great Britain and the United States, while based on principles of justice'to the issues involved in the dispute, is still not in the long-term interest of either pow- er — if it causes the loss of Iran to the Communist bloe. | Indeed, the United States has spent many billions since | the war to prevent countries from going Communist. Even | though Premier Mossadegh is wrong in principle in this! dispute, the saving of Iran is worth some financial output | on the part of both the United States and Great Britain. | After the Communists have moved into Iran, it will then be too late — as the free world has learned many ; times since 1945. The United States should, if necessary, | detach itself from Great Britain and strive with every ef- | fort to reach an agreement whereby Iran would be saved | from Communist domination. It would be preferable, and right, if the United States could force Premier Mossadegh and the Iranians to settle on fair terms with the British. However, if that cannot be accomplished, the United States should not make the mistake'of letting Iran go Com- munist, which, it appears, we are perilously close to doing. SLICE OF HAM __ BUCKLEY WL NOW TEL US HOW iT FEELS TO BE UP AT THE FRONT :~ “Weight” Your By Senator George Smathers WASHINGTON -When you cast your ballot for -president on No- | vember 4, svill it have very much | weight when the President actual- ly is named by the Electoral Col- | lege in January? } The answer is “no” if your | | choice does not “carry Florida. It | Siven every ballot cast in a nation- | will carry more weight if your can- didate wins in the state, because he will get all of the states elec- | torial votes. | This view of our present system is by no means a reflection upon | the election officials in Florida but is a criticism of the antiquated, outmoded Electoral College. ‘This is not an institution of | higher learning but a the individuals whem y as Florida’s electors. Under the United | have the sai tors as we have Senators and Congr: n, in other words, Florida has ten. These electors | are chosen at the November gen- eral election and electors for | Florida. You can readily see that each of these individuals, since they | are selected by their party, will cast his electoral vote for his party's candidate. In other words all the votes cast in the general election by individual citizens for the losing candidate have no ef- fect. This occurred in 1948 in * Fl when a majority of the vote st their ballots for eithe: Dewey or Thurmond and there- by had no representative voice in the Florida Electoral! College. | fice and have today just return- | In many other states, the situa- tion was identical. I am convinesd that democracy demands that proportionate repre- sentation in the Electoral College ACROSS Animation: lang 33. Comfort 34. To and —— 35. Fermented 2b gt pd ‘art of a play 3. Exactly | | 2 SRP FEB oe pe 2< S he Me 8 8 | opposition to this proposal is that | great crossword Puzzle Cc d Puzzl ‘Senator Smathers Points Out Vote Carries jupon the total number of ballots | cast. If 40 per cent of the voters favor one candidate, he should be given 40 per cent of the states’ | electoral college votes, I also expect on the opening of | Congress to seek action which will insure‘ the maximum weight be al election. This would require a | constitutional amendment to abo- ' lish, or substantially revamp, the Electoral College system. | Such a change would have a | profound effect on elections and campaign techniques. One major result -- and one which will bring the base of democratic govern- ment will be broadened to cover_ all of the people and that com- paratively small minorities, con- centrated in a handful of ‘“pi- tual strength. tion that especially these minori- ties, now used as pawns in the jame_ of political chess, will benefit greatly. Florida Notes: I am grateful to | the many individuals who have ‘called or written me kind mes- ing candidates . as the late Pre- sent presidential race, even though many of us are supporting oppos- write me up here. Most of you I am sure, will be sorry as was I, to hear of the death of Mrs. Geor- gia Carter, the grandmother of my secretary, Juanita Thomas. HAL | BOYLE | | SAYS] By SAUL PETT % (Fer Hal Boyle) NEW YORK * — Almost every- | one agrees that a loyal, smiling | wife is an asset to a political can- didate. But suppose, in the future, a| woman is nominated for president. | Would a husband be an asset or | liability? | Would many male voters resent seeing a man play second fiddle | and dn’t they easily transfer | tliat r€gentment to his wife, the 4 candidate? By an inverse psychol- | gy, would; many female voters | say, well, if she isn’t smart enough to get a husband smarter | than she is, is, is she smart enough to run the country? It could be a problem, you must agree, What about the campaigns? Should the lady candidate take her , husband along: People cluck with satisfaction when they see an ador- ing candidates - as the last Pre- ident R welt used to say, “that | date. But what would they think | cabinet wives, lay the cornerstones, is poo eps a horse a » {| of a busband sitting there while | speak for charity at the women's have been spending most of my | time in “lorida but have been in | daily communication with my of- ed to Washington to catch up on {my work here. I did not have an opportunity to get by my former | law office in Miami because of too | honest living instead of free-load- | Would White House invitations many appointments and hope that | ing on his wife’s campaign train? |read, “The President and Mr. be given to the candidates, based | anyone who tried to see me will | MAID ISHS E'S T) OLE ORAL EE! PT Oe NEIVIE!R) a) aE Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie 4 Distant 5. Make amends Body joi ). Imitate ing wife sitting behind the candi- | his wife does all the work? | | What expression should he wear while she propounds the issues— | adoration, respectful interest or | good-humored tolerance? Would | many people in the audience wish | he were back home making an Obviously, any husband who has ; nothing better to do than drag, } around the country while his wife ! | talks her lungs out would be sub- | | ject to cracks about his masculi- | | nity. It would be fatal if he were | jsmaller than his missus. would help. It would help even more if he were a weightlifter. Should the husband speuk out on political issues or maintain a wide- eyed innocence? If he doesn’t talk |News Brief BARTOW (#—Sen. Spessard Hol- land is one of two U. S, Senate members named to attend the Pan Mexico City this month. He and Sen. Saltonstall (R.-Mass.) were named to the highway meeting by Vice President Alben W. Barkley. ORLANDO (#—The Florida State Grotto Association, Masonic fun or- ! TVG SVG OVC FTF CCC Tee THIS ROCK BILL Again Florida has attracted the attention of the publishing world by having politicians attempt to suppress news. The Oct. 11 issue of Editor and Publisher carried the following story: OF OURS American Highway Congress in| \#22202024244444444444444444 464665588 ment employees to with-hold thie news. Most of the nation’s newspapers are backing Eisenhower. It isn't simply because newspapers have a deeper insight inte the affairs Florida Officials Try To der, ended its 22nd annual con- Hush Reporters vention here Sunday and chose Miami for the next meeting place. James Loverin, Miami, was elected president. Other officers: Joe Henderson, St. Petersburg, first vice president; Louie Man- delson, Panama City, second vice president; Harold Gregory, Miami, secretary; and Carl Papier, St. Petersburg, treasurer, press was illustrated in a graphic and serious way with the passing of a resolution by» the Board of |County Commissioners of Pasco 'County “urging and requesting” the Tampa Tribune to publish no more stories about the board writ- ten by the Tribune’s correspondent at Dade City. The Tribune's Dade City corres- pondent, Mrs. Emily Larkin, was charged in the resolution with un- Yair and biased reporting. Vv. M. Newton, Jr., Tribune UMATILLA (®—Florida’s bee- keepers meet here next Monday to talk over marketing their 17 million pound honey crop. A final*report on 1952 production has not been issued, but prelim- inary estimates indicate 17 million | managing editor sent . A. Mur- pounds, same as last year. ray, a staff writer, to Dade City. Bumper crops of orange and|In a two-day check, he failed to saw palmetto honey were produced | substantiate the charges to any this year, but cold, dry weather | material degree. The county offi- at flowering time reduced the tu- | cials even complained of headlines pelo crop 50 per cent, and the placing of stories.” Editor and Publisher is one of the best-read papers in the trade. Practically all important advertis- ers, as well as reporters and edi- tors study the news magazine avid- ly, If politicians throughout the state keep on trying to suppress news, Florida is going to get a bad reputation, MIAMI BEACH — ‘Dan Mc- Carty, Democratic nominee fo governor, made the principal ad- dress Monday at the opening of the Florida Automobile Dealers Association convention, McCarty was to speak at the luncheon meeting and J. Saxton Tampa--“The trend toward offi-. cial encroachment on the free | | president. What would we call Sam Hair | | breed of reporters would be needed Lloyd, Daytona Beach, president of the National Automobile Deal- ers Association, at the business session, In pre-convention activities, Eu- gene R. Elkes, Tampa, was elect- ed president to succeed Stanley Peeler, West Palm Beach. The board of directors also |named Ed Lee, Pensacola, first vice president. Regional vice pres- idents include: ~~. J. Grant, St. Petersburg; Emmett Gardner, St. Augustine, ind George W. King, Ft. Lauderdale, when they say his wife’s back- ground is suspect, when they say she can’t be trusted? Should he keep silent 6r invite the other can- didate to step outside? Whistle - stop tours would pre- sent problems. The local welcom- ing committees couldn't give the candidate’s spouse roses. Should they give him new bowling shoes, a plug of tobacco or two tickets to an Elks smoker, And when the lady candidate finishes her speech she would have to be cgreful in presenting her mate to the crowd. She couldn’t say, “And now I want you to meet my Sammy.” That possessive tone could kill the male voice. What woyld be the protocol for ridihg in “the motorcades? Would the candidate ride in the first car | with the mayor and the candidate's | husband Tide in the second ¢car | with the mayor’s wife? And suppose the lady is elected —first gentleman of the land, presi- dent consort or “that woman’s husband?” What would Sam do, commute every morning to his | coal and ice business or just hang around the White House? Would he have to give the teas for the club ships? How about the opening of the baseball season? Would the big lummox just sit there while his wife tries to throw out the first ball? luncheons, launch all the Smith request the presnce of . .?” At state dinners, where could you put the president's husband except below the salt, next to the wife of the health minister of Belgra- via? A woman president would revo- | lutionize press coverage. A sew (outs for reporters. In this way, all Governor Warren seems to be) the one who has set a precedent for the small fry to follow in their hatred of a Yree press. The gover- nor has been in a continual fight with most reporters and their pa- pers since he entered office. Truman is another man who doesn’t like newspapers. Perhaps at no time in the history of the nation has a more consistent bat- tle to secure news ever had to be fought than in the past few years. The present policy of the admin- istration has been to prepare hand- news could be strictly censored. The system not only deprives tax payers of legitimate information concerning their own government but also saddles them with the tax payers burden of hiring govern- Your Grocer SELLS that Good STAR * BRAND AMERICAN COFFEE and CUBAN -—TRY A POUND TODAY SLOPPY JOE'S BAR * Burlesque * Starring 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 XTRA The Girt With the Green Mair to cover the “man’s angle.” What could they ask the President's hus- ‘band? What are your favorite re- cipes? Does she let you out for | golf? When did the President—I mean, sir, when did you first pro pose to the President? | Only one thing is sure. The bus- band of the President wouldn't dare | wear a mink coat. polities, people will say he doesn't thave a mind of his own. If he does | talk politics, people will say his wife doesn't have a mind of her own. And what should the husband do when the opposition gets nasty— 218 Simonton St. SSS of the nation than average citizens and they honestly feel that infla- tionary prices and scandalous deal- ings within the government need parties. Of course, the Key West Citizen is a Democratic paper, It always has been and probably always will be. While backing the Democratic party the Citizen still maintains ethical journalism by allowing Re- publicans and those advocating a split-Democratic ticket to have | their say. It is a freakish situation | that could only happen in the news- | Paper world. For instance, editorially, the Cl- tizen fights Eisenhower day-after- day and yet permits me the same ‘amount of space on the same page to praise him. The apparent con- flict in purpose isn’t as foolish ag it might seem. Newspaper publish- ers know that by demanding free« dom of the press, they are auto- matically forced to extend this same freedom to everyone who contradicts them with an equally t, sincere expression. 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