The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 27, 1952, Page 2

Page 2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, October 27, 1952 The Key West Citi Published daily (except sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- lishe1, 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 TELEPHONES 51 and 1935 re ee Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitlea to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it wt not otherwise credited in’this paper, and also the local news published here, I Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12; By Mail $15.60 rrr ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and supjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications. ; IMPROVEMENT? £OR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hoveis and Apartments, Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—-{.and and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Community Auditorium NN ee aN EISENHOWER SPREADS FLYPAPER OVER THE LAND TO CATCH UNWARY ‘FLIES’ Eisenhower has been promising everything to every- body, changing the promises to suit the part of the United States where he was speaking, but his political plunking, in an effort to catch votes on sticky substances, dropped to a new low on Thursday when he said that, if he is elected, he will go to Korea to try to speedily end the war in that country, : Does that mean, if he is NOT elected, he will refuse to go? Elected or defeated, he still will be a private citi- zen, at least for two and one-half months, and, elected or defeated, he will know no more, no less, how to end the war speedily. Why tie the “if” to his election as a. prerequisite to his doing whatever he can do to bring about peace in Ko- rea? Will the sting of his defeat stop him from revealing any plan he may have in mind to end hostilities? If it does stop him, wouldn’t it be a disgrace to him as an ' American citizen? Wouldn’t it be a disgrace to anybody in ail the land, who is running for office, including Steven- son, to base the help he may give to end the war on the ‘4f” of his election? For two weeks, Truman has been recurrently chal- lenging Eisenhower, while he has been barking about ending the war, to reveal a plan that would bring” early reace to Korea. But Kisenhower has remained silent, for !.9 has no plan. Either that is true, or he is keeping his plan seeret while Americans bleed and die in Korea. So what does the “if” of his election amount to? Nothing more than the stickiest kind of political flypaper. | He has spread the flypaper from the Canadian to the Mexican borders and the Atlantic to the Pacific shores to catch unwary and unthinking “flies” to vote for him. The Citizen does not think he will catch many. As a news commentator — we think it was Edward R. Mur- row, a man so fair in the presentation of political new you can’t tell whether he is a Democrat or a Republican able to think for themselves than they are credited by the general run of politicians. . Eisenhower, in giving his support to Senators Joe Mc- Carthy and Bill Jenner, did not mention their names, but up steps Nixon, who still refuses to make public his in- come-tax statement, and gushes about “my good friend Joe McCarthy.” Joe, Bill and Nixon are a superior trio in handling mud. They don't sling it; they pile it up with a bulldozer. Beware of the business man who has dusted off that moth-eaten sales talk about prices going up rapidly, thus making it urgent that you buy now. SLICE OF HAM WF Nee ee es ee IGNORE THEM, WE HAVE AS MUCH RIG AS THEY HAVES: U By SAUL PETT (For Hal Boyle) {| NEW YORK # — If the first ship from Mars: were to land in my backyard, I'd beg the little ‘men to go away. want to avoid. It’s not that I'm afraid of people from another world. I'm more afraid of the peo- ple in this one. | . You see, a few months ago, | when lots of folks were seeing ‘“‘fly- {ing saucers” in the sky, I hap- pened to see something. Until now, I've been unable to tell the whole story. I needed time to regain my perspective, to develop some pro- tective scar tissue, Anyway, while minding my own business at home one night, I saw | this orange ball inthe sky. It was about the size of a quarter, made no sound and was clearly visible as it moved from horizon to hori- zon Like a good little newsboy, I immediately called my city desk. The next day I ran into a barrage of off umor. Didn't 1 think com- plete bed rest was indicated? someone asked. Relax and those [spots before your eyes* will go | , away, a lay doctor advised. Could have been the olive in the mar- | tini?, someone else asked. | A poker-faced photographer cor- | nered me near the water cooler | what? I asked. A flying saucer, he said. Au revoir and goodbye, I said, No kidding, he said. You of all people shouldn’t be skeptical, | ‘too, All right, I said, where did fyou see your flying saucer, Mr Jones? Cautiously turning left and right | like a pitehman watching for a cop, ‘he whispered, in a subway, pal, in | a subway at 86th St. That night the Air Force an nounced that Washington radar had HAL BOYLE SA This is one big news story I, —~.said a‘month ago the American people are far more | 2nd said he had seen one, too. Seen TRICK OR TREAT? begs up certain peculiar objects | at the same time I had been my ‘orange ball over New Jersey. For awhile, I felt like a vindicated hero. Now they quoted me in th news stories. ¢ But the next day I discovered | something I never really had ap- | preciated before. When your name {appears over a news story, few | people notice it. When it appears | in the story, as part of the news, ‘you are suddenly swept up in a public momentum completely be- | yond you. Nothing you can say or do will slow it down. The delicatessen man, ordinarily } quite solicitous, cracked to my wife—‘‘Your husband is quite a | publicity hound, isn’t he?” In another town, friends phoned ;my mother and asked if I were sick. For awhile, it seemed like his law office or change his name | to avoid identification with an hal- | lucinating relative. At school, kids cross-examined | my children about what their fa- } ther saw. I had visions of the jteachers giving my _ scarred-for- | life heirs puzzled, side-long looks. | saying I should have had better sense reporting what I did. The j editorial suggested either I had been suffering from too much heat or too much alcohol. | Just when the furor seemed to be | dying down, I came home one night | to find my wife waiting breathlgss- ly. “They want you on television,” she said. “Nuts,” I said, “I've looked silly enough.” “They mentioned money.” So I appeared on television and regretted that, too. I was nervous throughout and later, when I got paid, I wasn’t allowed to enjoy the ; dough. My wife and kids had a . ord Puzzle . Occupy @ chair Light brown drama thargic . French river scent |. Web-footed bir (BL [a ; Kemroc eMmme Solution of Saturday's Puz Down Fpeonmes Ush Ba S | | my brother might have to close up | long hot seminar on what to do with the money, A lady in Kiel, Germany, who had read the news | stories, wrote me that she and her six children could use cash, too. And even now there are still peo- |ple who come up and whisper: | “Look, I’m your friend, You can | tell me, Did you really see any- | thing that night?”” j here I am a grown man, father | , of two children and a supposedly hard-boiled reporter. Why is it I'm still afraid of school teachers? As a reporter, I’ve talked with | many people—a couple of presi- | | dents, several kings, prime minis- ters, generals, senators, leading | ladies, heavyweight champions, | | Stripteasers, and scientists. with | | half a dozen degrees. I may have | been awed by som of them, but | | never paralyzed. | NEW YORK @ I Now, Doctor, | people, ley HOLLYWOOD NOTES . By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD —Do you like tibelous or anwar, | trailers? sslen' “the ‘Settee te | I love ’em. Oh, I don't mean that kind that follow cars around, ‘the | In Hollywood a trailer is one of w= |those blurbs that advertises the Picture showing next week at your favorite theater, Some folks yawn and go out to get some more pop- corn when they come on the Key West Citizen screen. In reading the Key West Citizen | But not’ me. I sit there and take daily, we have noticed that al-|it all in. I am constantly amazed though almost all of the subma- | at the enthusiasm of the men who rines are written about upon their | make trailers. Every picture they departure and arrival in Key West, | advertise is superb, You can tell Ay “NAVY WIVES COMMENT” The Editor, | the USS Sennet is never mention- | that, because their language is ed. usually the same. We are two sisters and are mar-| Have a Western? Then it's ried to a pair of sailors on board | “ripped from the flaming pages of the Sennet. We would say-|the great frontier.” The words ing the clippings. for our roll upward from to read like other wives do. the sereen at a Rerhaps, in the future, there will | ¢-year-old could 5 r be something about the Sennet and | ‘A bold adventurer with blazing its crew for us to read. We enjoy | guns." The heroine? reading the Citizen as it is infor- | haired beauty who tamed the Wild mative and entertaining reading | West.” about Key West and Florida, PR, bet : Be pacar tp —_ THANK YOU, ppy carnival of mirth and merri- Mrs. Jay L. Swank and pene Rivage ty that it Mrs, L, D. Williams aivage bee ee 1034 Catherine Street, 4 Key West, Fla. “ w | Selects “WANTS POLICE PAY RAISE” | SPctls § Editor, The Citizen hook is Dear Sir: see the A policeman is ex to be | pen that ¢ kind courteous and « erate. | of—” He is expected to be a souree of| | wag information to visitors, protect | ments with one of them and direct them to any de-| job it is to sired part of the city. He is the guardian of the lives . . different of the citizens and their 'y-| now and then,” he remarked, ‘ He ut be alert at all me, what's the — saa ready any emergency, He|never read t must attend aceidents and. fires, . The render first aid, deliver babies,|do is try te and be capable of handling any | some ini emergency under the worst of re. conditions, He must he resourceful, Intell- igent and understanding. He must be prepared to risk his life to pro- tect the lives and property of the , and he stays on his beat whether it be hot or cold, wet or ? eietl: 2 2 i #2 get across the one is really good?” He must be eheerful and toler-/ HOLLYWOOD (—No event ant and at the same time show | recent months has saddened H a determination to go his duty. | lywood as much as the death When others are with their fam-|Sysan Peters. : ilies, he is on his beat, appearing | The people in the movie town in court, delivering a prisoner to | had their memories of the brilliant jail or penitentiary, or perfornmaé | young actress who flashed on the any one of the other hundreds of ; screens during the war years. She duties which are singularly his. F g23 ts ag her And yet, when I'm dragged to a “back-to-school night’ and met my | | kids’ teachers, something happens. | | I feel numbed, my words run to- | gether like mushy cereal, I work | up a large sweat trying to decide | which hand to hold my hat in. } Is it, Doctor, that in the presence | | of a teacher, surrounded by those | lite desks, the ink wells and the | F.B.I. sponsored police academies. his own time and money to attend! matic star. My ows memories do not For all of these and other ser-/ back that far. 1 first met her vices he receives less pay than the | 1945 when she was reco average latorer, and often after |from the hunting accident years of service he is forced to! that paralyzed ber from the waist resign because he cannot support | down. She was living in a small his family on his pitifully low) Beverly Hills apartment with her wages. husband, Richard Quine. It is nice to know you have a Susan was pale and thin, ped but friend, and we all sleep better when | stij} had her Irish beauty, And still had the spunk that went with the family of Carnahan, her real name. She told proudly ef how she : i at iy zt - i ; % 1h : z FL : 22 3 5 i # i ; 2S % & fie 3 = q F gz g A i sé AN ALL STAR CAST Seming: SALLY AND SAINT A local paper wrote an editorial | j¢rayon drawings, I unconsciously | we know the friendly cop is on ; revert to being a boy again? | duty protecting us. Can it be that I'm afraid that | Why not show your appreciation suddenly teacher will cail on me |by recommending that his work- for the Latin lessons 1 hadn't pre- |ing conditions be improved and ANNE Edmund Gwenn and Ann Biyth pared 20 years ago? Could be. In the sophisticated j circles I traveled in as a boy andj college man, it was considered sub- versive to crack a book. We were | bold, tough rebels. We studied little | but we used up more gray matter and time secretly worrying about | the quiz the next morning than if we had crammed. I guess I'm still worried. Do you think, Doctor, that an- | other reason school teachers make me uneasy is that I feel guilty? Maybe it’s because I still fear that | at long last I'll be caught for cov- | ering the erasers with sneezing powder, for drowning caterpillars in the inkwells, for writing libel- ous notes about the flat-chested seventh grade teacher who always began ciass by barking, “Hark, hark.” Really. Doctor, I don’t think I was hostile to teachers as » group. I may have distrusted one or two. I remember particularly in the third or fourth grade, during a hygiene discussion, the teacher said rather triumphantly: “Do you know why Babe Ruth sets so many of those home runs? t's not because he hits the ball 9 far. It's because round the bases » Every t was the t ki of m But I think | beld that against al] trouble frequent- rents were always great confron ing called in for sons. was called down f Burns. He was ta bie, Serio 4 done a criminal a xg thoee pictures cut of the maga es im the school fibrary Mr. Borns paced up and down as | “INDIAN” |his salary be made commensurate services he renders. SERGE HERNANDEZ Key West with the CHINESE MAKE GOODS MOOSE JAW, Canada @ — A Chinese firm is trying to sell North America native novelties to store- keepers here, In a letter from Hong Kong, the local Chamber of Commerce was advised that K. S. Lau and Co. are the manufacturers of all kinds of Indian beaded belts as well as jewelry, moccasins, novelties, etc. The company said it had beea handling this line for years, estab- lishing a good name throughout the United States. taries always wait so long? Finally, Mr. Burns came out and told me to follow him. Without s word, he led me out the door, down the hall and into the jam-full as- sembly hall He led me down the main aisle and up to the stage and there, before the whole school, he gave me a five-dollar gold- piece, second prize in an essay contest on the subject, “John Han- cock and the Declaration of Inde- pendence.” Well, 1 just couldn't believe it. Maybe | still can't. Especially since the very next day I bought a baseball glove with the gold- piece and the day after that some- make the culprit TODAY — tently jor awhile. He Wwoked Uke | + @ Was measuring me for the elec tie chair. Finely, be seid that the next time, the very gent time { got iene any Kind of trouble. ! would be autometicn!ly suspended We” three weeks inter, I was aed dewn to Mr, Burns’ office goin, Why @ principal's secre xTRa | ‘The Girl WHh the Green Heir eee x SAN CARLOS TUESDAY