The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 11, 1952, Page 8

Page 8 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN (Editor’s Note: This is Senator George Smather’s | weekly news letter which is The os WEATHERMAN Says pr_pared for Florida news- | Papers.) WASHINGTON — I am going to} talk a lot next year about the Pre- sidential election. The election of 1956 I mean I am introducing legislation in| Key Wes January which will have the effect | to partly cl of putting national elections more in temperatu firmly in the hands of the peaple. | day; some This is my legislative program: () Provide for a nationwide pre- sidential nominating primary. (2) | Revision of the Electoral College system so that people would vote directly for the president rather than electors, and establishment of &@ system whereby popular vote of each state would count in total vote cast for a candidate for pre- | sident. (3) Provide for an election fm “off years’? of successors to | the president serving, in event of his death or disqualification, with the vice president serving only un- til the next general election. (4) Holding of the quadrennial election over a period of three days, in- stead of a single Election Day as at present. R Most people are familiar with My National Primary Bill which Proposes selection of the party nominees by the people, instead of a handful of convention manipu- lators. Related to that is the pro- posal to give proportionate repre- ee sentation in the Electoral College Weather Summary for the | based on popular | ‘ote to each can- | Tropical Regions: didate, thus providing some insur-| phere are no evidences of a ance against a president being | gicturbances in the tropics today elected with the necessary electoral | ~ ae mare . vote but without a majority vote. | Observations taken at City Office My proposal to alter the vice} Key West, Fla.. Nov. 11, 1952 president’s role would bring the | 9:00 A.M., EST office of president closer to the | sa people, As it is now, the attention | Temperatures of the people is directed toward | Highest yesterday the presidential candidate, and be- | Lowest last night fore accepting his understudy in | Mean a long time White House role, it | Normal would be well to have a new look —- at him, hear his views and pro- : Precipitation posals,' and give the people a | Total last 24 hours chance to approve or disapprove | Tota! this month him for the bigger job. I think | Deficiency this month we would have been better off, | Total this year under such a program in the past. | Deficiency this year History is not too kind to many vice presidents who have been stepped up by tragedy into the | Chief Executive's responsibilities. | I am confident that we would have | a great many more active voters | if there were more than one day | to cast ballots. | saw many very | long, tedious lines in front of poll ing places last Tuesday and I sure | that many were discouraged from voting by the long wait necessary. METER Many others probably didn’t vote |TOMORROW’S because of sudden emergencies. | TIDES You can imagine the result in | Florida should a bad hurricane hit | on election day, Yet there is no real advantage in having this important election day held only | on one day. This is at least a matter of good discussion! Notes From Capitol Hill One of the unhappy results of Republican control of the Senate in the 83rd Congress will be the loss of several of my staff who have been on “patronage” jobs. The rest of us will have to work that much harder to keep up the record of efficiency upon which so many have complimented us. I wrote casually last week about moving to better office quarters and to a more important com mittee, both of which are at the moment unlikely; that will depend upon how generous a policy the Republicans adopt Democratic Leader McFarland, who visited Florida several times and many friends there, was defe: and may be succeeded by Senator Lyndon Johnson, of Texas as Demo cratic Leader; Lydon, who a good friend of mine, has made a Ma Bath means t remarkably fine record in the n n of Senate as Chairman of a Special Preparedness Investigating mittee which dug up much dence of waste in the military T have heard some talk that Texas political leaders, who helped take their state in the Republican column, expect Senator-elect P Daniels, elected on the Eise er ticket, to be in line for lican favors, even if he actually sit the GOP the S am looki ng to the West and Vic dy ar ttle change} 1 Wednes- by Wedne moderate nig variable and cooler Gentle to winds. Florida: tered sh portion tod a central, portions W to parthy. cloudy other udy, scat-| xtreme north | n north and Clear Cooler nt and ida Straits and E erate south ta in north por Jerly Wednes erate southeast ar over outh portion variable Wednesday showers extreme tion today and tonight <z north portion Wednesday to partly othery Western Caribbean to | moderate easterly winds | most] fair weather | Wednesday. in Clear cloudy through 0 07 1.00 31.61 ins. 3.75 ins. Relative Humidity at 9:00 A.M. 83% Barometer (Sea Level) 9:00 A.M. 30.06 ins.—1018.0 mbs Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise 6:42 unset 5:41 Moonrise 2:10 Moonset am am 34 p.m (Naval Base) HIGH 5:34 a 000 ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West Time of Height of Bahia Honda (bridge) ———oh 10m No Name Key (east end) — Boca Chica Station— Sandy Pt.) Caldes Channel (north end) 9.0 ft. 2h 20m Tide high water —oh 40m +2h 10m +14 ft (—)—Minus sign: Corrections to be subtracted. (+)—Plus sign: Corrections to be added. Ancestral Coach To Coronatio LONDON Phe is Com evi on nate I ward two fine and stan achusetts a Missou Fl THAT'S OIL. BROTHER! ANDOVER, FE ht i woman pushing a In fin the the n paca had been kept so long ebiid.”* him noone as a i Tuesday, November 11, 92! Relief Supplies For Cuba Mount Smathers Will Advocate | Revision Of Election Laws | Wb a v9xts re OSCAR CUEVO, a member of the Board of Directors of the San Carlos Institute, points to the mountain of clothing that has been collected from generous Key Westers to be sent to the aid of Cuban victims of Hurricane n Carlos Theater on Satu the the S rday night, Citizen Staff Phote Fox. The drive is continuing with a benefit show scheduled for ‘Trend To Conservatism Shown In GOP Win '|Evident Through English-Speaking World Associated Press Foreign Staff Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's victory in the United States, put- ting an end to 20 years of New Deal - Fair Deal administration, conforms to a swing from the | cycle of social welfare experiment in most of the English-speaking world In the non - English speaking Western world, too, a trend to mod: erate or outright conservatism is apparent. As the cleavage between the | Communist East and the West has | become sharper, Socialist, Leftist and decidedly liberal regimes that By CARL C. CRAMMER | | {sprang up in the depression and | post-war years have fallen away. Until the Republican landslide in Tuesday’s election, the most start- ling reversal for socialism was in | and, .here Winston Churchill's Conservatives captured a slim par- liamentary margin just over a year ago. There the Socialists of the Labor Party, who came to power in 1945 even as the West was at- tempting to fashion a post - war understanding with Russia at Pots- dam, were thrown out after six years of sweeping social and eco. nomic revolution, and _nationaliz- ing of industry that now is being checkmated but not wholly can- celled by the Churchill government. The turn in the English-speaking rid really called by the voters of New Zealand three years » this month. A labor govern: t which had pioneered a wave advanced social legislation was after 14 years in office ationalists pledged to free en: we was out The following month, Australia’s fir Force Man ‘eral party has been in power for | landslide victory in 1949 over the voters also turned against their} ments, though the social and eco- | labor government that had been in | nomic issues were obscured by the power since 1941, and put into of- | controversy over former King Leo- fice a liberal - country coalition | pold. headed by Robert G. Menzies. Contrary to the general pattern, In all these cases much of the q j ’ pioneer social legislation has been |‘M¢ Netherlands’ Labor | Party retained by the more conservative osed into) eaiead tas tnesnatlone se b4 | strongest party in the lower house regimes now in power. lean: dhes feet. in hi : The United States election Tues: | 70" ye iret ne san) bisory aa | ed for Wednesday evening at 7:15, | Legionnaires, and the community ada, another member of the Brit- | the Senate, chosen separately, took ish Commonwealth, where the Lib- | on a definitely conservative color. |The coalition Labor-Catholic gov- |ernment was under heavy attack during the campaign for ‘‘social- ism” and economic controls. Denmark’s minority Social Dem- ocratic government gave way in 1950, after three years’ rule, to a | Conservative - Agrarian coalition. | Norway still has a labor govern- | ment, and Sweden still has a So- cial Democratic (Socialist) gov- ernment. 17 years. The Canadian Liberals, most nearly comparable to the Democratic Party in the United States, may call for a general election next year. They won a Progressive Conservatives of George Drew. France, which had Communists in its first post--war cabinets, has gradually been shifting to the right. The Communists have been displaced as the first party in the National Assembly by the right- wing DeGaullists. Though the same middle-of-the-road group of parties, which had ruled France since 1947, emerged victorious in the last As sembly elections in June, 1951, the emphasis was slightly to the right of center Italy’s post-war political history has been much the same. Com- munists and Socialists, who togeth- er got nearly cent of the seats in the Constituent Assembly in 1946, dropped to 31 per cent in 1948 when the first cham of deputies was elected under the new constitution. Since 1948 Italy has been ruled by a center coalition dominated by Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Christian D: verats. Hong Kong has been the West's trade gateway to South China for about a century. | Your Grocer SELLS that Good STAR * BRAND | AMERICAN COFFEE and CUBAN 40 per 1 Belgium's Social Christians fin lly got the in the 1950 elections. succession of Socialist and coalition govern BEAT THIS VALUE IF YOU CAN! FOR FAMOUS COMPLETE WITH 8 artacuments TWO YEAR SERVICE GUARANTEE! WHITMAN'S CHOCOLATES NUNNELLY’S AND OTHERS GARDNER'S — PHARMACY — The Rexall Store 11M TRUMAN AVENUE PHONE KEY WEST 808-M STORES, INC. 209 S. MIAMI AVE, MIAMI OUT OF OWNERS WITHIN ma Corner Varela Street PHONE 177 Legionnaires To Give Radio Program Wed. In conjunction with the mem- bership campaign now being conducted by Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28, American Legion, a| radio program has been schedul- | through the courtesy of Radio Station WKWF, Ist Vice Com- mander Norman C. Kranich, Chairman of the Membership Committee, announced today. Vice Commander Kranich in- dicated that the program will clearly outline. the four basic programs of the Legion—reha- bilitation, child welfare, national security, and Americanism. Local | Legionnaires participating in the! program are George Hanskat, | John W. Miller, Paul E. Esquin- aldo and Norman Kranich. | No organization includes a bet-| ter cross-section of the American | people than the American Legion, | Kranich said. Representing the | veterans of World Wars I and II | and the Korean conflict, the| American Legion has within its | tanks three million men and) women from every community in the land, men of varying color, | creed and persuasion. | But if Legionnaires | verse group in these - respects, they are singularly unified in their dedication of service “For | God and Country.” ‘They have the common denominator of| bravery and loyalty. Theirs has | been the greatest contribution to | America because they have fought—many of their comrades have died—to preserve its inde- pendence and the rights of free men, Vice Commander Kranich urges all eligible veterans, are a di-| to listen to this program on Wednesday evening. Fifteen former high school cap- tains are listed on the Brandeis University football roster, 29 HOUR ORDEAL SUFFERED BY WOMAN SANTA MONICA, Calif. «7 — A 37-year-old mother lay injured for 29 hours in the rain and cold be- side her wrecked car, which had plunged 200 feet down into a can- yon. Mrs. Britta S. England was dis- WAYWARD °COPTER Culver City, Calif. Howard Hughes’ giant jet-propelled helicopter got off the reservation yesterday and caused considerable excitement to townsmen. It took more than 100 workmen nearly six hours to haul the highly secret machine back on a huge trailer to its hangar after it land covered by accident Sunday by two hikers. She was hospitalized with head injuries and possible fractures of ribs and her right shoulder. Her husband Karl and their son Robert, 12, had searched for her in vain. Mrs. England didn’t recall how her car skidded off the wet high- way and tumbled into the rocky creek bed of Topanga Canyon. ed on a meadow about half a mile from the Hughes plant. It meas- ures 136 feet across its two blades Workmen said the pilot overshot the Hughes field. ANYTHING CONCERNING AUTOMOBILES SEE THE TWINS Of the women in Britain who are Pu. 1870-1871 employed, 43 per cent are married. © Duvat Sr eeccees COO eee resereseceseoseeseeneeeses ROUCHO says: “Beautiful? It's gonna make traffic lights green with envy!" i See the New 1953 DE SOTO COMING NOV. 13 ". « » and tell ‘em Groucho sent you!" WAS WORTH A MILLION, SON” ‘What a grand surprise! I wasn't expecting you so soon. When you phoned from the station and said y y ou were back, I could hardly believe it. And now ou're really here. 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