The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 30, 1952, Page 2

Page 2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, 1 October 20, 1952) DON'T CROSS YO The Key West Citizen Published daily (except sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- |- lishe1, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Sweets. 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 51 and 1935 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or aot otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published here. iss ——$—<—<— — Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida — es Subscription (by carrier) 25c| per week, year $12; By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APRLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications, ES IS Se et Nee oo ee BOMBSHELL BURSTS UNDER NIXON Nixon, the Republican vice presidential candidate, in his “accounting” over radio and television of that $18,- 000 “expense” fund California friends had given him, said he had borrowed $3,500 from his parents, and then added, in a tone of pride, that he always paid them the interest promptly because they needed the money to help them to ‘live. It developed Tuesday that Nixon’s parents, in real estate alone, some of it in Lakeland, Florida, are worth more than a quarter of a million dollars. Nixon can’t brush away that fact,-bécause his parents’ deeds to the real estate are recorded in the counties where it was pur- chased. And yet he implied that his parents were poor, or at least in moderate financial circumstances, so he made it a point, as a dutiful son, to pay them the interest promptly because they needed it. Sparkman, the Democratic vice presidential candi- date, made one of the mpst factual speeches of the cam- paign Tuesday night: He quoted Nixon, word for word, | as declaring he was against. all kinds of pensions, for “all pensions do are-to’ make people lazy.” Sparkman cited these other facts, ‘obtained ‘from records in the United States Senate: fets Nixon voted to reduce. the government’s Cancer Re- U. PEOPLE’S FORUM it to delete any are considered tibelous canted. The writers talr and contine the letters to 200 words. and writ ume side of the paper only. Signature of the writer must accompany the letters and will be published team requested otherwise. search Fund by 31 percent.‘ Nixon voted against the minimum Wage Hour Law. Nixon voted: against expanding Social Security and increasing payments ‘to beneficiaries. “CHANCE FOR BROWN TO BE MULTIMILLIONAIRE” Editor, The Citizen: If Sam Brown wrote that letter in The Citizen about me, I assume Nixon voted. against inflation controls. Nixon voted against low-income housing} middle- income housing, fatm housing. : Nixon voted against!loans to small businesses. But, from a moral yiewpoint, the worst, thing Nixon has Cone, so far as the public, knows, concerns that man he can read, so here's a chance for him to become a multimillion- aire. Let him reread my letter about Fulton Lewis, and if he, Brown, finds one word in it against free- dom of speech, I will build a doz- en motels for. him, each to cost skates -- we would just like to get the best deal we can in the’ time we have available. Thank you for your help. Very truly yours, Curtis Knight 116 South Randall Avenue | Madison 5, Wisconsin “HURRAH FOR UN” Editor, Key West Citizen: 24 October, 1952, will mark the seventh zaniversary of the United Nations Organization, some will be heard to say “Hurrah for the UN!” Some will say “Hurrah!” whi still others will say “Phooey!” Those in the first group will be | the three governing elements of the nations, they are of course, Politics, Religion and Commer don’t take my word for it, ju: The World Today By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (® — Maybe it will take a tragedy in some future campaign--like a presidential cand- idate collapsing or dying from ex- haustion to waken the politicians | to a realization the campaigns are | e: By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK W@—Pressure for higher prices is building up in {somé important sectors—in spite of a year-long price weakening for many commodities in world mar- kets. Steel makers, for instance, say their costs continue te rise and that the price of ‘steel isn’t as high as it should be. Several-oil producers have com- plained that production costs have been rising while -the price of crude oil has been held down. Many other industries have the same complaint. But no matter how much they'd like to hike pric- es now, they have the consumer to reckon with. And waning con- sumer demand is a much more effective brake on prices than any government control. In the earlier postwar years, a general round of wage boosts was accompanied by a general rise in prices. This year, however, wages have gone up for many workers, but many companies haven’t been able to boost prices—because they have had plenty of trouble finding customers at the old price level. In some industries prices have come down even though wages went up. And the earnings state- ments this year have: reflected that. The margin of profit in many industries has been squeezed thin- ner. © What can happen when prices drop because. consumers are of- fered more of a commodity than they want is shown in-recent days |in the mining industry. Zine and |lead prices have dropped sharply. For some mines with high operat- ing costs the price of zine and lead fell below their- break-even point. And some of these high-cost mines have closed. : Steel is not in the, same boat yet. Demand for steel products is still high and the pressure in that industry is all toward higher pric- too long. S. The steel wage hike last sum- Sa ili linn batt bn bn be Dd bh THIS ROCK OF OURS BILL GIBB 8 4££444444444444444444464444444446E5EEED Two days ago the People’s For- better way to do a job and they um carried a letter headed “Ver-| will latch onto -the new method. mont Man Comments”. It protest- | The mountaineers wish to get sum- ed against the local policy of in-| mer visitors and if you pick up sinuating that maintenance of our | any newspaper, during the season, submarine base in Key West is | you'll see that they advertise this dependent wpon certain political | desire. - parties. The Vermont sman is a} Travel to other vacation. spots. Democrat, states his intention of | Amusement is provided to fit the voting for Stevenson, yet frankly | individual taste and pocketbook. states: “Whe~.you imply that .ur|Here in Key West we offer one November opponents, the Repub-| thing to the out-of-towner in an licans, will deep-six the Naval| abundance that he couldn't find. Base, you inject unpatriotic par-| anywhere else in the world. ~ tisanship that smells like the other} smelly bars and strip-tease dane team.” While reading the letter, I was struck with a feeling of envious admiration. Here was a guy who planned to vote for a different ers. Guess I had better send this column to the back and go get a glass of ice water before I write something that might be contro- man that I did but who state~ so} versial or hurt a reader’s feelings. well my own feelings in the pre- sent political race as it is being conducted in Key West. “‘Wish my own ideas would flow into clear- cut phrases like that,” I thought. The letter was signed by Colin G. Jameson. Mr. Jameson is a successful professional writer and one who has shown much interest in his adopted home of Key West. For a person of this kind to come forward with a public statement is one of the most encouraging signs of Key West’s future. It means that new blood in this town will help to overcome some of the |: and folklore be- practices the past. k of Ours will advance we're going to stay in the same old rut. We've enjoyed periodic “booms” here on the is- land but they have never lasted because the people cov'4n’t see beyond their own Conch shell. Each new industry that came to town could have been a stepping- stone to better living. Instead, we Islanders have acted like a greedy octopus. We've latched onto the new businesses, sucked them dry, and then settled back to wait for some fresh morsel to come our way. No concerted effort was made EXPERT Radio Repairs | BY FACTORY MAN ] All Work Guaranteed. | LOU’S RADIO” & APPLIANCE 602 Duval Street. ‘ { PHONE 1507 te PICK UP SERVICE * a RUGS CLEANED. ; AND. in Stored Free of Charge’ IF DESIRED UNTIL NOV. 98 All Formal Garments chemicaliy In Britain candidates ¢ampaign | mer was accompanied by a price for about three weeks. That may) boost. And customers accepted it. be too short in a country this big. | Now the coal wage boost offers But here the campaigns spread steel companies another problem. over almost three months and that} Benjamin F. Fairless, chairman seems too long and too inhuman. | of United States Steel, estimates There hasn't been a candidate | that the $1.90 a day wage boost in any American campaign, in- cluding this, who couldn’t say all he had to say in a lot less time. This campaign is a fine example | of why every four years our presi- dential races are too long. General Eisenhower and Governor Steven- ; Son are repeating themselves. | the, coal miners won from the op- | erators—if the government finally allows all of it to be paid—will add $1 a ton to the cost of pro- ducing steel. That will boost Big Steel’s cost of doing business by 25 million dollars a year, he says. At the same time Fairless re- to hold the cigar factories in Key West so Tampa took them. There has been no united effort to at- tract vourists to this area. Those who didn’t come here by hapazard luck were probably drawn through the independent work of separate individuals. The Chamber of Com- merce doesn’t get enough help from a town whose people depend upon attracting vacationists. Thursday - Friday + Saturday AFFAIR IN with RITA HAYWORTH and GLENN FORD Coming: YOU FOR ME Peter Lawford and Jane Greer follow the radio, press. etc. _ | But politicians, who can’t be ac- [ports that earnings in the first Now as to the second group in | cused of originality if it. means | nine months of this year represent this trio, please do attend programs | tinkering with something that | a return of 4.5 per cent on sales. é it x ‘ ; ; “ {not less than $300,000. Smith, who, Nixon himsqlf said, handled the $18,000 “ex. | Jess | Dak to sas. Levis? COOLED pense” account. Two: weeks ago, newspapers published | characterizing his buzzsawing as | stories about Smith having lost $4,200 in a round of gam-| am “analysis of the news.” I said then and say now it is no such ‘thing. It is sheer refragnastication | for his gambling loss, then stopped payment on the check. ‘that knifes the Democratic party blin@in Havana. Smith gave the gambling house a check Smith is being sued for. the.$4,200, ‘Nixon said, in his accounting”, he: had never done a favor for anybody who contributed to the $18,000 fund. Yet Nixon did for Smith a favor that has astounded the! American people, Nixgn wrote to the ‘Amierican Embass: in Havana to find out whether gambling is legal or illegal in Cuba. If it is illegal, the.case against gambler Smith | probably will be thrown out of the Los Angeles court. As Drew Pearson exclaimed, “Think of that! Think of a United States senator writing to an American Em-} bassy about a gambling debt owed by his friend!” { No wonder Gabriel. Heatter intoned solemnly that, | if Eisenhower is elected, there will be only a heart beat between Nixon and the presidency of the United States, | No wonder people all over the country are asking Republican county comniittees if there is any way to vote for Eisenhower without voting for Nixon. There is NO way.,A vote for Eisenhower Is a vote | for Nixon. You may not suspett it, but you or one of your friends will kill somebody pretty. soon — on the highway. object to his criticizing me for what y to what I said, I would not have theme is gathered, watch them nod appro- vals at what it's being said, of course it could be said in defense of the second group that they very well cannot disagree with id extolls the Republican party. I don’t object to anybody's cri- ticizing me for what I say, but I do their ears they go, but pronto! don’t. say, Last but not least is the last Had Brown confined his criticism | bothered to reply to his !c‘ter. Sam E, Harris Key West, Fla. Oct. 28, 1952. dared question the above two groups and received no answers, ieee ers. “THANKS WRITER” Editor, The Citizen: Your full page article in the Citizen commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of the Commissioning of the U.S. Naval Hospital was deeply appreciated by all our staff and patient personnél. We wish also to take this op- | looked up at Websters for a mean- meaning of peace Webster, they then try to compare | conflict! have read about the peace negotia- ' portunity to mention the excellent | tions conducted by the UNO, how work contributed by Mrs. Margaret | successful have they been umm? Foresman, which indicates a keen | on the contrary, they act like a understanding on her part of our | bunch of kids fighting over their problems and of the services Ten- | marbles, or should I say, fighting dered by this hospital to military | like a bunch of kids that never- personnel in the Key West Area | had all their marbles (get it?) and the Community as a wi Really now folks, don't you be- Again may I thank you very 'tieve that if these so-called peace- much for your generosity in the | makers would sit down and sin space and personnel assigned t0 | cerely search the right source they the commemorating article. could come up with the right answ- or reli gatherings whee the | worked - N. ©., observe those | im doin; the | thought is given to the simple speaker, for if they do, out on human problems involved. that is to say, no convincing answ- | enson and Eisenhow ing of peace,hating found the | which was according to | younger men. re are firm believers | g Mhitlgs as they were al-4 ways done. i ,But this campaign, unique in American polities, will set the pat- tern for the future unless serious Young men don't get nominated | for the presidency. It’s an honor | } In, the midst of this campaign it was made known that both Stev- had been | examined by doctors and found to These are the ones that have | be in excellent health. The've needed all of it in this,campaign, enough to exhaust It has been the toughest cam- hit an almost unbelievable pace: try by plane and train, making rear platform speeches, appearing on the radio and TV. It was the toughest because this year both the plane and TV came into big use. By both means the candidates have reached more people, and oftener, than any oth- ers in history. In earlier days--the days of the train only, before the plane, TV A year ago Big Steel's margin was 5.2 per cent. The higher cost of mining the coal that steel mills must have presumably could tight- en the margin stil> further. Heads of other steel companies have been complaining too about mounting costs. They contend that the price boost they were allowed last summer didn’t fully make up | group known as the “Phooey” | traditionally reserved for men of |for the higher costs growing out group, these are the ones that have | mature years. j of the steel wage boost. And they say that their costs are still rising —with the coal boost but the latest jin a long series. One of their complaints is that ' earnings are falling at a time when \they are building expensive new | plants and otherwise expanding capacity at a high cost. The fast pace at which they have | is also speeding the day when pres- the UNO meaning, brother! do they | paign in history. Both men have | been operating for many months, Another thing, I am sure that ‘crossing and criss-crossing the | ent facilities will be worn out and | | most of us at one time or other | coun’ | will have to be replaced at great | expense. They cite all of these things es reasons the price of steel should rise. But waiting around some cor- ner, they know, is the day when steel supplies will overtake steel | demand—and buyers of such bigh- er-priced steel might be hard to | find, and radio-candidates might have | felt they needed three months to | get to the people in the country’s | EARLESS RABBIT Thursday - Friday - Saturday TWO TICKETS TO BROADWAY pelea ‘TONY MARTIN. and JANET LEIGH *oming: ON THE LOOSE Melvin Douglas and Joan Evans SAN CARLOS DOUBLE FEATURE! “FORT OSAGE" STARRING ROD CAMERON JANE NIGH | | | COLEMAN, Canada UP)—Elev- | Very truly yours, Bruce E. Bradley Captain, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy Commanding Officer “WANTS CUBAN INFO” Editor, The Citizen: 1 am writing for myself and a friend of mine who wish to go tc Cuba during winter vacation from school, We are both students at the University of Wisconsin-- I am in the School of Medicine and my friend is in Philosophy We, of course, don't have the funds which some have and we would like to find out a way for us to get from Key West to Cuba by the most reasonable method I hope you don't think that our re- quest for information is out of or. Ger, We very mach would like to ‘get to Cuba for at least a few days after seeimg Florida. Could you give us any practical suggestions ea how to obtain transportation to Cuba for the most reasonable Npwice? We could work for a short time and do just about anything so that we can get there in time for Christmas. Our vacation begins here in Ma disoa December 19 ~ we could be in Key West by the Zind of Decem ber. Any information yoo cocl¢ give me would be appreciated Please don't think we are cheap- i | | | | { i CREDIT | DEPARTMENT “WHAT OO YOU DO FOR A LIVING ?~ er? Don’t you believe that if politics could be done away with, and all | | its graft that goes with it, that perhaps you might be two thirds closer to peace? Don't you believe that if com merce was practiced in a fair and equal way that you could be one third closer to peace? Last, but Boy! not least, Religion if this could be done away with (False Religion. that is) everything could be peaches and cream, mind you pow there are about hundreds reli today img to be rig one time all « of lack of k are over thr: In closing. i your at has been $s im the past cent nations s, Politics. ree # thes course ther »wever don &. look fur ed's Word for that ma ask your th: Religion and are not at f are going to d take their wr ther. that is te the Bibie! if the three ex would be erad cx ce @ no need for the | sited Nats Srgavization, peace would b ever getter away from mae y given woe 4 three ; four corners and out of the way places. That time is past. If they knew they had less time, the candidates would compress what they had to say into less time. And the fewer the words-by them and all others im this campaign—the less the con- fusion. The endless speeches aren't all that wears and tears a candidate. Handshaking the loca! politicians at every stop is enough to beat a strong man down Stevenson looks tired. He said himself last week the campeigning is tiring. Physical fatigue was probably a big factor im dragging en-y*ar-old Henry Niemeyer of this Southern Alberta town owns a Flemish Giant rabbit which was born withou: ears last sum- mer. Henry owns 200 other rab- bits, «s well as 40 homing | pigeons and « horse. STRONG ARM GRAND COFFER é j slam-banging and counter-charges. When campaign is over the winner will need a rest. Whether ow mot the rigors of this campaign shortened bis life won't be known until he gets inte the White House. MARCELLA LYNN end JEANIE 'APANESE AID . N. CHILDREN TOKYO # — The Japanese gov ament will send $100,008 im re { goods te the United Nations ternational Chikdren's Emergee- y Fund this year. 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