The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 3, 1952, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen — Eee 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 PPA SS TRASSSL 2A RL WER ee Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 51 and 1935 | RT AL SP REE Ry TE GEE ary GSR SURE STP Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published here. Page 2 Monday, November 3, 1952 er Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida SOO \ubscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12; By Mail $15.60 eS ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION “he Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue wd subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish “fonymous communications. MEMPER FLORIDA ASS Ess TLON aoe nr ee eS IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—i.and and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments Co.umunity Auditorium. ‘VOTE! VOTE AS YOU PLEASE BUT PLEASE VOTE!’ ‘That appeal to voters has been made for several weeks, and one part of it is good advice, and the other part is something of an insult to an American who values immeasurably his citizenship and its highest privilege — voting. Think of asking somebody to perform what he es- teems a duty. Think of asking’ him to please perform it. In the election tomorrow, every good American will vote, and he would resent anybody’s saying to him, “Please vote.” He considers voting the greatest privilege in our democracy, and he never fails, assuming he is not ill, to exercise that privilege. As to that other type of American, who shrugs aside his privilege to vote, asking him to “Please vote” is a waste of time. He may argue till he is blue in the face that he is a good American, but if he does not vote tomor- row he is NOT a good American. Vote, vote as you please, is a stinging rebuke of communist Russia, where its peo- ple vote as the Kremlin orders them to vote. Let us be fair to both Democrats and Republicans vbout mudshoveling in this campaign. Eisenhower com- plains about being smeared, and then proceeds to — Truman of playing “gutter politics.” Truman complains about the mud thrown at him, and then proceeds to lam- bast Eisenhower for dropping into the gutter to play polities with his pal, “gutter snipe Joe McCarthy.” It has been amusing the way one side has accused the other of mudslinging. when each side has dumped a carload of mud on the other side. Newspapers and news commentators disagree about what they consider the chief issue in this campaign. The Citizen maintains that, on a high plane of morality, Rich- ard Nixon, the Republican candidate for vice president, ‘ is the chief issue. When it was revealed that Nixon had received $18,- 000 “expense” money from friends, Republican newspa- pers from border to border and shore to shore demanded that Nixon resign and let some other Republican run for vice president. Then Nixon gave an “accounting” that did not account for an.itemization of the way the fund was spent. It was buried under a blanket. of “postage, campaign literature, etc., etc.” Republican newspapers | took him back into their bosoms, though several said Nixon had been unfair in not disclosing this fund when he was offered the nomination, so that the eonvention | could have looked elsewhere for a vice presidential nom- | inee. x | President Truman was justified last Friday when he charged that Nixon has “an unsav ory financial record.” Added to the $18,000 fund disclosure, which need! headquarters admitted was “unethical,” it was disclosed, | early last week, that Mrs. Nixon, in March, 1951, signed ® sworn statement in California that she and Senator Nixon were not worth more than $10,000. Four months | later, Nixon made down payments of $31,000 on a house fn Washington and a house in California, Last week it was also disclosed that Nixon took time out, while campaigning in August, to write a letter to the American Embassy in Havana in behalf of his friend, Dana C. Smith, who had lost $4,200 gamb! in the Cu- ban capital and had stopped payment on a check for that amount. This is the same Smith who handled that $18,000 | Nixon “expense” fund. | The Citizen reiterates that no wonder people all over | the country are asking if they can vote for Eisenhower | without voting for Nixon. They CAN’T. A vote for Eisen- | aower is a vote for Nixon. | | —_—_ TIME ON wae Top Hollywood Screen Writer 'Is Mother Of Six Children By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (@-—Career-minded iwives can take heart from the {story of Dorothy Kingsley. A top screen writer, she is also the moth- er of six children, What’s more, she broke into the business as a housewife with three children. It’s amazing enough for a professional writer to get a break in this fiercely competitive field. When I sought out Miss Kingsley in her MGM office, she expressed surprise that she might be worth a story. But I convinced her she | was and she reluctantly talked about her career. “The secret?” said the writer, an attractive blonde. “Persistence and prayer.” Miss Kingsley, who has written the majority of Esther Williams’ pictures during a nine-year career at MGM, said she got the writing bug while she was a housewife in Detroit. Although her previous ex- {perience was chieily working on jber school newspaper, she under- took to write sample scripts for the big air shows. She sent them off to the proper |persons and the scripts were re- turned with cold but polite notes ef rejection. | “But I wasn’t discouraged,” she | said. “I showed some of the scripts H 2 a friend of ours, Bob Scripps, editor of The Detroit News, He | thought they were good and sug- gested I should do something about | them. So I did, I flew to Hollywood to look for a jb.” Miss Kingsley looked up an| agent in the phone book and ar- ;ranged an interview. The agent seemed impressed with her work and agreed to handle her. The agent later went out of busi- ness! After pounding on doors fruitless. ly, she finally got in to see the producer of the Bob Hope show. He liked her work, but Hope al- ready had a dozen writers. So the producer put her under personal contract and submitted her jokes to Hope himseli. “He was going to reveal my HIS. HANDS identity after 13 weeks and get me a regular job on the show,” she recalled. “‘At the end of that time, I learned he had suffered a ner- vous collapse. No one else in the office knew me.” Again she pounded the pave- ments. She was perusing the want ads in desperation when she found a notice seeking gag writers. The advertiser turned out to be Edgar Bergen. He picked her from 13 applicants and she wrote Charlie | McCarthy gags for two years. Then she interested Producer Arthur Freed in her writing ability ‘and landed her MGM job, HAL BOYLE SAYS By HAL BOYLE MADRID Snapshots from a | touring typewriter: The face of Madrid is charging more rapidly than almost any oth- er capital in Europe. New hotels are rising to fill the demands of the tourist trade. Great chunks of pastel colored apartment buildings containing hundreds of apartments are being erected to meet the needs of a population desperately demanding more housing. There is an air of crisp modern- ity about the city that in itself is | stirring the American visitors who | like an atmosphere of progress in a storied setting. They also find the individual Spaniard one of the most likable Europeans. Most vacationists, of course, are more interested in having a good | time here than in the politics of this colorful country which has such tremendous contrasts of an- cient grandeur, new splendor and old poverty. 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Withdraws 33 Mi keep a poor Spanish family in beans and bread for a month—they ask idly, “‘Who runs this country anyway.” To this question you can get many answers, just as a stranger might if he asked who really ran America. “The Church rules Spain,” is the reply often given by the man in | the street, who may affectionately admire his own parish priest, but dislikes the top clergy. “No, Franco is a true general- issimo,” disagrees a nationalistic | patriot. “If Franco went to Korea |with our Spanish divisions, he | would destroy the Chinese army.” | But an observer who has been |here many years said that Spain actually is bossed by what he | called “The Nine Old Men,” It is | his contentior. that the country has | been controlled by the army for | 150 years and any regime that fails | to meet its demands is always sure to be toppled by the military junta still firmly in the saddle. | “The nine old men are the cap- tain generals or military governors | | of Spain’s nine military districts,” | he said. ‘They hold the real pow- ler and whatever they decide as a elique becomes the policy of the government. “Franco is, in fact, only the front man for these nine old men, even though the majority of them now are his appointees. He is no abso- ute dictator. He is answerable to | hem in any real showdown. They ran unseat him anytime xe moves gainst the army's wishes—and he nows it.” Who really does run Spain? No ve you ask will answer “the peo- e.” The new apartment buildings Spain have more modern innova- wns than its constitution. ' But there is surprisingly small saffection with the Franco re- ne among the masses. There still great poverty here, but there ways has been great poverty and | ayway great poverty in itself does ot usually create rebellion or or- | nize successful revolutions. Fran- > himself was a revolutionary— at he didn't start from hunger “Spaniards jike every other peo- le in Europe are sick of war,” aid one longtime observer. “They ant no more bloodshed like they ad in their civil war. “Besides, under Franco food and ousing and transportatio:. have shown some improvement and life | is not quite so bard as it was. The | average Spaniard certainly would Newspapers Lacking In Korean Lines By OLEN CLEMENTS _ TOKYO The U. S. presiden- tial candidates are talking quite a bit about the Korean War and the frontline soldier — but the American fighting man seldom gets to hear or read much of it. Many troops in the lines have never heard the voices of the nom- inees—Republican -Dwight Eisen- hower and Democrat Adlai Steven- son. And many have not read much of what they have said. Despite thorough coverage of the campaign by the Armed Services Radio and its network of stations in Korea, Marines and infantrymen haven’t had a chance to hear it, There are few radios at the front. Airmen in rear area fields and sailors are better posted. There is about one radio to every 20 men in rear areas. Associated Press correspondents noticed only lukewarm interest in the election by most fighting men, some of whom are too young to vote. However, the correspondents noted an increase in the number of election bets in the last two weeks, Most,of those who will vote have cast their absentee ballots and re- turned to their war chores. Many learned of the issues through let- ters and newspaper clippings sent from home. The Army radio has urged all servicement to vote. The Army newspaper, Stars and Stripes, has printed equal stories and liberally used most of the statements of both candidates. But the newspaper usually arrives at ivision headquarters in Korea to four days after it is pub- in Tokyo and Korea. And it takes more time to get the news- paper to the fighting troops. Some of the more controversial issues have been missing from the newspaper’s columns—notably a letter attributed to Gen. James A. Van Fleet which said the South Korean Army is in “apple pie order” and should be used more to replace American troops. The Bhi ati Dain dd din band dint bd te tinted THIS ROCK OF OURS BILL GiBB §4444444444444444644 The police force has come in| medium that it is their duty to for him, for so much unfavorable publici- ty lately that is really a pleasure {to be able to report that several officers have been complimented for their efficiency and courtesy. Henry Lounders picked up a man who was one sheet beyond being four sheets in the wind, The guy still retained a fair memory of events however, and he told me a few. days later that Loun- ders handled him in a firm man- ner but with complete courtesy. “As a matter of fact,” he told me, “everyone that I encountered on the force that night was consi- | derate. Tt must have taken the {patience of Job to put up with me at the station too, because I acted like a blasted fool.” Lounders also came in fgr an additional compliment from a lady who liked the way he handled traf- fie. Officer B. Perez who probably hands out more tickets than any two policemen received an un- known compliment from an out-of- towner for his courteous attitude, Favorable comments were also heard regarding Lieutenant J. James and Genie Hernandez. Perhaps all of the fuss that has been raised curing the past couple of months has done some good. Many of our officers are first-rate | men who are handicapped by con- | ditions beyond their control in per- |forming their duty. City Manager Dave King made | an excellent move by providing for fairly comprehensive police train- ‘ing to begin around the first of |the year. | Tiresome Subject Most people are sick of being told by every known publicity ‘NEW WATER SUPPLY 244244444 46448444644466 go to the polls and vote tomorrow. Whether you vote or not is your own business. Failure to register your opinion at the polls is an indictment not only of yourself but of your country. Somewhere along the line, investigation would pro- bably show that those folks who don’t vote have lost confidence in the political set-up of the nation. They probably say to themselves, “What's the use? No matter who goes into office, there is going to be a lot of and cor- ruption.” Such a fatalistic attitude -- while true -- will hurt the United States at the present time. Other nations are watching us and they will judge the interest of the American people in current events by the number of yotes cast. Russia for instance, could easily be encourag- ed to increase its belligerent at- titude if it felt that the American election proved the people were not particularly interested in the way the country is run. You will belprthe boys in Korea by casting your vote for someone SLOPPY JOE'S BAR irring 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 XTRA The Girl With the Green Heir letter was released by Gen. Eisen- hower. There was no mention of it in Stars and Stripes on the day the general released it. News of the campaigns also reach servicemen through Ameri- can magazines, such as Time, Newsweek and the Reader's Di- gest, which have good circulation in Japan and Korea. Manchuria has one seam of coal and it is believed to be the thickes in the world. ~ whether that person fs a Deme crat or Republican. Mud-slingers NEW YORK # — The little oil- rich island of Kuwait in thé Per- sian Gulf is to get a million gal- | lons of fresh water a day from the | sea. A British firm has received | the coritract to build a sea-water distillation plant on the island, re- ports the British Information Ser- | vice here. Although it has only a few thou- | | sand inhabitants, Kuwait has been | dubbed the “billion dollar island” and its Sheik is said to be fabu- | lously rich from oil royalties. | | TODAY — More than 87 per cent of whole milk is water, STRONG ARM BRAND COPFES | Triumph Coffee | Mill at aALL GROCERS AA A TT EXPERT Radio Repairs BY FACTORY MAN All Work Guaranteed to the contrary, most of our candi- dates are good men. 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