The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 30, 1952, Page 7

v Knowledge Of Foreign Tongues SAUL PETT SAYS Can Promote World Peace, Says}... Key West Language Instructor by NINA CARACCIOLO You often hear: “Oh I wish T could speak Spanish,” or : “Isn't French lovely! 1 want to go to Hovis; Or: ys 8 All these wishes are not unat- tainable. Foreign languages are not half as hard to learn as they seem, It depends on the method, # so to speak “Bird’s eye view” wledge, which can later be ex- panded, One does not have to sit over fat grammar textbooks or drum in thousands of words. First of all one should learn to operate with about fifteen most important irregular verbs, which of course may seem a nightmare in the beginning. Did not Washington say: “Per- severance wins? At first one is in a@ daze : prepositions, masculine and feminine genders drive you crazy, also construction of phrases which makes a ‘‘word by word” translation ridiculous. The fog will Mt in six weeks, if you are serious and then you will see the dawn. True you will begin reading, like a kindergarten child, haltingly, but gaining confidence with every les- son. You will be able to count up to a million, know the names of days, months, seasons, and carry on a primitive conversation with about a hundred words at your dis- posal, and three tenses of verbs - present, past and future. The conjugation of irregular verbs will seem less funny and they will look less threatening. More than half of the lesson is conversational and your ear be- gins to catch words easier, as you : gradually enlarge your vocabula- ry. When reading, writing or talk- ing, your tense expression will give way to a pleasant and relaxed With astonishment you will rea- lize that foreign languages have a lot in common with your own native tongue. What a discovery! Quickly you begin searching every word for a familiar root and will | be encouraged to find a similarity. All languages sprang from the same source originally. Latin helps. for French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, the so-cailed romance languages. Languages of Teutonic origin, as German, Swe- dish, Danish and others have much common ground. There I mention- ed only the main languages, but there are many more and once you know a principal language, you are well off, Slavic tongues |as Russian and all the Slovak | branches are related, so if you speak one you will understand all of them. A knowledge of languages gives you many advantages mainly in | travel, meeting other people on boats, in museums, theatres, and even souvenir buying will be plea- sant, with no danger of being cheated. Now we come to the main pojnt! Language will be instrumental to maintain permanent peace. The ‘more people know each other, the less they fear or suspect them. nationality will merge: in unity, which is not utopian at all. What does “foreign” mean? Something foreign to our nature, our inner drives, but when we begin to know others, unite and sympathize with their longings and need, then we all cease to be “foreign” and be- come related to each other, which smile. You won't lie in bed worry- ing what the teacher’ thinks of your possibilities. CAA Drafts New Safety Rules’ WASHINGTON (® — The Civil Aeronauties Board has drafted ten- tative new safety regulations for the nation’s, airlines. “One important measure would require the use of a pilot warning device for each propeller on an airliner, to give an alarm when the propeller goes into reverse piteh The inadvertent reversal of pro- peller was blamed for one of the fatal airplane accidents at Eliza- beth, N. J., earlier this year. Other proposed regulations would require that: 1, Life belts, rafts, flashlights and other ‘ditching’ equipment be carried, in properly distributed positions, on airplane operating * over water, and passengers be briefed in advance on their use. 2. Airplane load limits be ad- justed according to temperature and humidity, Pilots have found that an airplane’s ability to take off decreases under conditions of high temperatures and high hu- midity. 3. The frequency of flashing of airplane position . lights be in- creased from the 36 to 60 cycles a@ minute now required, to 65 to 8 cycles a minute, 4. Red anti - collision lights be used on the tailfin or top of fuse- late. “5. Separate ventilation controls be provided for the main passenger cabin and the cockpit, so that air from the cabin does not recirculate through the cockpit, Pilots have No “Turkhens” RALEIGH, N. C. @ — There isn't any such thing as a cross between a chicken and a turkey, gays E. W. Glazener, professor of ena enetics at North Carolina te lege school of agriculture, What farmers are probably rais- ing when they speak of their “‘turk- hens” is the Naked-Neck fowl, known variously as the Transyl- vanian Naked Neck, Bare Necks and Hackleless, The breed has no feathers on most of the neck, and In this way the knowledge of lan- guages will lead us to universal | Peace. complained of poor ventilation in their working quarters. 6. Use of engine-nacelle fire ex- tinguishers and fireproof nacelle skin. | is brotherhood of men, in reality. | By SAUL PETT «YORK (#—Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about starting a Be | Kind to Weatherman Week. I think it’s about time we were a little nicer to the weatherman. After all, he doesn't make the | stuff himself. He just takes what | ; the manufacturer sends him. Don’t | blame him for the final product. | A weather man has feelings, too, | I discovered in talking with Ernest | J. Christie, meteorologist in charge of the U. S. ‘Weather Bureau in |New York. | Christie gets a little tired of hearing sports announcers say, | “The weather man was'’t very kind | to us today.” He flinches when he | ‘meets an acquaintance in the rain | | who complains, “Fine day you | brought us.”” “You'd be surptised how many people still blame us for the weather,” Christie says. ‘“‘Why not blame the weather? And if they’re going to blame rain on us, why {not give credit for the sunshine. | “People rarely do.” | Christie likes to play golf. It | happens that sometimes he is more | the wishful-thinking golfer than he is the realistic weather man. When | he gets caught on the seventh green |in a sudden downpour, he never | hears the end of it. | “What these folks who kid me don’t realize,’ Christie explains, | “is that I knew I was taking my | chances in going out to the course. |I simply preferred to risk rain Understanding is the base of peace | rather than not play. It was my when differences of climate and| own responsibility.” | Christie finds that many people {are still mentally lazy where | Weather is concerned. They call | his office with all sorts of ques- tions. Should I take the baby out today? Will the race track be fast !or muddy? Should I elose all the windows before I leave? Does my | boy need a raincoat today? “All we can do,” Christie says, “is repeat the forecast to them. We never advise people what to do, They must make up their own minds.” When they're not blaming bad weather on the weather man, some people blame it on things they don’t understand—like the explos- ion of an atom bomb. “The effect of an atomic explosion in the at- | mosphere,” Christie explains, “is | very, very small compared to the amount of transformations of ener- gy in the upper air needed to pro- duce weather changes.” Some people get so mad about | the weather they've even threaten- ed to, phone their congressman about the weather man, This has happened to Jim Osmun, assistant meteorologist at the bureau here. But among his own. neighbors in a New Jersey suburb, he is an object. of respectful attention. in the morning wearing a raincoat, |a eouple of neighbors frequently | will return for theirs. Wives watch | Mrs. Osmun carefully, Some will | hang up their wash only when the weather man's wife does. Like anybody else, a weather man is not impartial about the weather. “T personally prefer a day when the wind is less than 12 miles an hour, when the humidity is below | 80 per cent, the temperature is around 70 and there’s just enough clouds in the sky for a contrast between the blue and white,” Os- mun said. | “Psychological tests show that this is the kind of a day which best gives a feeling of well-being and a feeling which makes you contentedly introverted. We get about two or three of these days a month. “My next Best choice is a day | when there’s a mild threat of snow j in the air or even a light snow |eoming down. When the sky is | darkly overcast and there's a feel- ing of something big impending, you feel warmer toward other peo- | ple, you feel more gregarious. You | feel more like buying somebody a | drink and just talking while the | sky closes in on you.” FRENCH JET PLANE PASSES SOUND BAR PARIS (#—The Mystere II jet | fighter is the first French-built plane to break the sound barrier, An announcement from the Air | Ministry Tuesday said U. S. Maj. | John M. Davis of Wright Field, 0., | piloted the swept-wing craft in its faster-than-sound test flight over Melun, a short distance southeast of Paris. When the old moor is seen “in the arms of the new,” the major portion of the satellite is seen be- cause of the earthshine on its surface, similar to moonlight on earth, If Jim steps out of the house | By HAL BOYLE MADRID (#—The bullfight world has its Babe Ruths like Carlos stabbing to death two bulls on a Sunday afternoon. Or like dazzling young Miguel Baez Litri, who three years ago | was unknown and has just retired —aged 2i—after banking some 22 million pesetas for killing more than 500 bulls. Spanish fans, the aficionados, are still miffed that Litri, just old | enough to yote in America, quit | with a half-million bucks at the peak of his career as Spain's top matador without ever suffering serious injury. | But the world of bullfighting also has its rookies—or debutantes— and its utility infielders. Spain has more than 500 bullfighters and only the big matadors write their own contracts, The average matador in Madrid gets about $1,100 for his | two-bull day and by the time he | Pays all his agents—including the | mewspaper crities—he is cut up more ways than any bull in the Ting. The first and so far the only bullfight of my life starred two | debutantes and one utility infield- ‘er. It was the last one of the season and Madrid's bloodiest of the year. I came out of it»con- vinced baseball is a wonderful game, the game at the end of the second | bull. The program called for six to be slaughtered, but they are stricter at a bullfight than at a Broadway play--you can’t enter duri.g the middle of an act. Three red-plumed mules were dragging out the second bull’s body as I entered the Plaza de Toros, which was shadowed by cloudy skies. “The day is bad, the bulls are bad and the matadors are bad,” grumbled one spectator. The bulls weren’t yellow. They were just big and wigie-horned and dangerous--the kind that top mata- dors don't like because they are too likely to horn a man’s leg in- stead of the red cape. But young or second-rate matadors have to take any bulls that-are thrown at them. That was the problem that these On this particular day I reached ; HAL BOYLE SAYS j mre tail-of-the-season matadors pa to face-Antonio Pichardo, 22- year-old veteran male cow killer ring, Manolo Cano, brilliant 19- year-old rookie, and Francisco Blasquez Pacorro, promising 18- year-old beginner. : Each had to destroy two bulls. Pichardo and Cano had dispatched their first bulls and it was hand- some young Pacorro that I first saw when I came into the stands. Despite his youth I was for the bull, as most Americans are when seeing their first bullfight. Your heart first goes out to the horses it the bull rams, then to the bull ;7and last to the man with the Thursday, October 30, 1952 YHE KEY West CITEN had to kill him. As there ly three matadors to six , bulls that meant Pichardo again. He came in and dispatched the tired bull in his second utility job someone | were onl; Arruza, the Mexican foot-wizard | with more ambition than class, and | of the day, but he sti had young who has drawn down $12,500 for |two “debutantes” in the Madrid | Pacorro’s second bull to dispose of-the last on the program, the fifth for him for the day and the in a row. No other matador in Spain this year has faced such a crisis. Pichardo, bandy - legged -little gamecock, met his last bull calmly in the deepening dusk. It was the best and the bravest bull of the day and Pichardo was completely tired. But he finally nailed it with a perfect sword thrust to the hilt- and then the bull ruined his per- ; formance by refusing to die. Pichardo had to get a second sword and siab at the bull’s spinal sword. At least he knows his goal-- | column time after time. When the and he is the only one who does. But I felt sharply different when the gory-backed bull with a swift bull did collapse, Pichardo stood exhausted. I felt weak too. as I left the twist of his head impaled Pacorro | arena. In two and a half hours I and threw him 15 feet away. The young man. was carried out, gray- faced, with an eight-inch hole in | his right thigh. Utility matador Pichardo coolly came in, killed the bull and then ' went to to.slay his own second bull without any intermission or rest. Young Cand, clearly the crowd’s favorite, then essayed his second bull. Tall, slender and handsome jas Valentino, he tossed back a flower flung by an admirer. A few a rag doll, then bent and gored him again before his assistants could intervene. Cano tried to rise | and fight again. He couldn’t. Blood | spurted from his trousers and he was shouldered out. But the bull was still there and ALL MEAT-NO BONE moments later’ his bull caught and | tossed him ten feet in the air like | had become accustomed to the sight and smell of blood and death and danger end had watched it all as an exercise in ruddy esthetics. I was ashamed of myself, because life hasn't taught me to applaud unnecessary death or bloodshed, and I don’t believe in danger as. a form of peace-time entertain- ment. But I couldn't help remarking on the courage of Pichardo, “Pichardo?” grumble a veteran American bullfight fan. “He knew nothing. His technique was all wrong. It was heartbreaking to see him butcher those five bulls. The first one should have killed him.” There were about 2,000,000 col- lege-level teachers in the United States in 1951. | - Page? ‘Life Magazine. Covers Regatta In Marathon e Many Key“Westers, including re- presentatives of the press and ra- dio will be on hand Sunday to-see the second annual regatta of the Marathon Yacht club. Life Maga- zine has asked for pictures of the event for an early issue. More than 50 sailboats are ex- pected to compete ‘in the ten races Sunday. Trophies to be awarded the winners of the Marathon Re- gatta went on display this week at_a shop in Marathon. Spectators can view the entire Regatta from the shore. The Citi- zen reporter and those from Mia~ mi papers and Life magazine will cover ‘the races from a_ special Press beat, arranged Yor by Chet Tingler general chairman of the “Photographers from ‘aphers Ki and Miami will take Fin god regatta from the boat, from a plane and from land. Races start Sunday morning at 9:30, closing Sunday evening with the award of trophies to the win- ning skippers and crews. The Marathon Yacht club held its opening Regatta a year ago this month. Since then, its mem- bership has more than doubled, an active junior division has formed, and the Sunday Regatta is claimed to be a sailing event never before equalled in this area, There are about 100°coal mines in Indiana. is 1028 Truman Ave We Deliver Tel. 1080 TOP ROUND STEAK = 95¢ FRESH GROUND LEAN HAMBURGER BOSTON BUTT PORK ROAST vu 49e¢ LEAN MEATY » - 59 SPARE RIBS u 43e OLEO =» 21c|Butter » 69c BEECHNUT COFFEE Lb. 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