The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 13, 1952, Page 2

Page2 THE REY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, November 13, 1952 Che Key West Citizen 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 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 not otherwise credited in this paper,.and also the local news published here. Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida 2 CARES SRSA SROEE PE SESCRES. SILI RS aE ETT Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12; By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION 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, IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments, Beach anc Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea, Consolidation of County and City Governments, Community Auditorium. CRISIS IN INDO-CHINA The latest Communist-led Vietminh offensive against the French in Indo-China has materialized into a serious threat, Curiously, the offensive came off just after the French had announced the launching of an offensive of their own. Each year, during the fighting season, the Com- munist-led Vietminh forces have seriously threatened French positions. Once again this year, the Communists have launched a series of strong attacks, which the French say have been repulsed in most instances. How- ever, the French have announced several withdrawals in recent weeks. The French are employing parachute troops, air- eraft and practically every weapon except the atomic \ bomb, The Communists gre said to be using, for the first time, new heavy mortars and recoilless rifles. : While it is often overlooked, Indo-China is a much larger country than all of Korea, extending almost 1,000 miles from the Chinese border southward. Its conquest; by the Communists, would put them in a position to out- flank Thailand and come dangerously close to the Ma- layan Peninsula, which leads to the Dutch East Indies. Afiother point usually missed by most Americans -is the fact that most of the French Army’s regular officers have been tied down in Indo-China, fighting the Com- munists, ever since the end of World War II. The war in Indo-China is also costing the French huge sums of money. and - considerable equipment. The United States is aiding the French in every way possible, short of sending troops. The French, when criticized in the American press for not doing more in Korea, . reply that they have already. sustained heavier losses in Indo- China than has the United States in Korea. To them, the struggle in Indo-China is of more importance than the | Korean struggle seems to be to many. Americans. Since the fight is against the same enemy, who has shown more aggressiveness in both areas in recent weeks, a collapse of the French in Indo-China would probably have an im- mediate effect on China’s offensive capacity; thus, the genuine concern being shown over the fate of the French in Indo-China by many U. S. officials: ere The Key West Citizen welcomes criticism and solicits it; it would appreciate your ideas in writing or face-to- face, since kicks expressed at the bridge club or country | club can seldom be judged in the light, of fact, answered, | or used to improve the paper. SLICE OF HA ae . ‘ Me Our American Nation Is Rich In Resources Contributed By POINCIANA SCHOOL | This land of ours supports more than 150,000,000 people - about six in ten live in cities. We grow, raise, or catch most of our food. Our natural resources supply us with fuels, tools, machinery, cloth- ing, and the houses we live in. Our lives are interwoven thru economic processes making us mutually dependent. The city work- er needs the raw materials of the | farm and the mine; the rural work- er needs the finished products of industry. Keeping everything in ment, representative of all the people. This system makes our life possible, Useful Facts 1. In 1945 the United States had 5,859,169 farms taking up 59.9 per cent of the total land area or 1.141.615,000 acres. Farm land and buildings were valued at $46,389, 000,000. + 2. In 1950 a total of 10,351,000 Persons worked on farms; of this number 2,308,000 were hired hands. 3. In 1950 cash receipts from farm marketing totaled $27,920,746, 000; government payments totaled | for $245,839,000 under the conser- | vation program. 4. In 1950 sales in retail stores totaled $140,248,000,000 an increase of $12,065,000,000 over 1949. The $28,316,00,000 for automobiles, | parts, and accessories; $7,625,000,- 000 for home furnishings; and $9,- | 303,000,000 for wearing apparel. 5. In 1950 of the 55,843,000 em- ployed persons 14 years old or older 39,486,000 were wage and salary workers; 5,585,000 were gov- ernment workers; 9,563,000 were | selfemployed workers; and 1,209, | coc were unpaid family workers. | 6. In 1950 there were 4843 strikes involving 2,410,000 workers; 38,800, 000 man-days of work were lost. 7. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951, ‘the U. S. Internal revenue collections totaled $50,445, 886,315. ‘San Carlos Honor | Pupils Are Named students | Honor Roll! rating at the San Car- Nineteen were given los Institute for the first nine week period of the school year. | In addition, 15 pupils were com- mended for perfect attendance re cords, Miss Benildes Remond, di- } rector of the school has announced. The Honor students include: Ca- melia Cabot, 4th grade E. Joice | Bates, Srd grade Phyllis A. Curry, | Belinda Berman and Joy M. Hart- | ley, 1st grade: Veda L. Schmidt Mary White, Carol*Chellies, Ellen | Hanson, Marsha L. Mann, Roger Lanksbury, Ralph Arnold, Robert | Sardo, Stewart Bassert and Scott | C. Cates. Those~ receiving perfect atten. dance awards include: James Scott | Brian Reynolds, Joy Hartley, Mei ba Bates, Joyce Bates, Roberta Berman, Jefferey Berman, Phyilis | Curry, Véda Schmidt Marsha | Mann, Betty Amn Stark, Carol | Chellies, Robert Sardo, Belinda | Berman and Cecile Cates. The children are students in the English-Spanish classes at the Ins- Utute. Miss Remond and Alice ‘Roberts are the instructors, order is our constitutional govern- | The World Today By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON — When he leaves the White House President Truman will have time to look back upon his presidency and think of what he might have’ done if he had it to do over again. But even if he thinks there were mistakes, he may never say so publicly. He was never a man to give aid and comfort to his critics, if he could help it. | It was this very resistance to criticjsm—sometimes — that came back to haunt him in the campaign. «When he was first told ‘cracks were beginning to appear in his administration, he used the words asinine and red herring. The Re- publicans reminded him of those words many times in the cam- paign. : That the people thought there were mistakes was clear enough. They showed it in the way they repudiated the Democratic admin- j istration with the astonishing vote |for Gen, Eisenhower, Yet it was Truman himself who often expressed faith in the good judgment of the people. Perhaps it was in dealing with the people— or rather in not dealing with them more — that he made a major mistake. One of the most amazing features of the presidential campaign was |the bewilderment expressed by many people about issues that had been talked and written about end- lessly: Korea, taxes, prices, Com- munists in government. | Anyone who talked to people same questions over and over again: Why are we in Korea any- don’t .we bomb the. Chinese? | What's wrong, when we have to |pay such taxes? | It was during Truman's admin- istration that TV came into full ; bloom. Here, ready at hand, was the most direct: instrument any | president ever had for sitting down | with the people in their own homes and talking to them, | President Roosevelt knew the value of explaining national prob- {lems, and his course of action, to the people directly although in his jday he was limited to the radio. Nevertheless, his fireside chats became welcome and famous. Truman, with the added advan- tage of TV, made some nation-wide talks. But those intended to explain a problem or a ‘decision or an action that affected everyone were infrequent, While he -emained absent from | the living rooms of the nation, his opponents and critics moved in by way of the TV window and built up their case against him. He had plenty of defenders on TV too. But Eisenhower will probably make lots more use of TV than Truman did. Ike Will Serve As Conference Head | AUGUSTA, Ga., ® — President- | elect Dwight D. Eisenhower has agreed to serve as honorary chair- being spent for food; other amounts | @bout the election heard these | way? Why don’t we get out? Why | Smathers Ac In Protest Of Cobra Keeping AP Special Washington Service WASHINGTON #—The keeping of cobra snakes in South Florida j has been protested to the Public Health Service by Sen. Smathers (D-Fla.) Smathers’ office said Wed. he took the action after receiving a number of letters of protest as the result of an editorial in the Stuart, Fla., News. The editorial asserted: “The folly of allowing so-called ‘serpentariums’ and ‘snake exhib- its’ in Florida to house the deadly Indian cobra seems so obvious that only fools could miss the danger. If a pair of these venomous reptiles should escape into the Everglades, within 10 years South Florida could be infested- by the most deadly | snake known to man and within 20 lyears the entire Southeastern | United States might become cobra | country.” Smathers first consulted the In- terior Department. It advised him that the Health Service two years |! ago took over the responsibility of |snakes for experiments and ex- hibits. Clarence Cotton, acting secretary of interior at the time, explained further: “The Public Health Service re- ported that dangerous snakes are kept in relatively few institutions and that precautions to prevent their escape are generally | good. “The monetary value of the in- dividual snake is high, which dis- courages many prospective owners and encourages careful caging. | Keepers are fully aware of the |dangerousness of the snakes and |have them housed in such a way jthat even a disaster such as a | hurricane could cause the acci j dental liberation of few snakes... | Smathers’ office said it did not {know how many cobras now are kept in Florida or where. | A letter of protest to Smathers | Said there were at least 200 in a | Miami serpentarium where venom |was being used for experimental ae 'Capehart To Fight |All Price Controls WASHINGTON #—Sen. Capehart (R.-Ind.) said Wed. he will seek a swift decision by Congress next | year on the fate of wage and price | controls Capehart is slated to head the Senate Banking Committe which | handles controls legislation in that | chamber He told a reporter he will seek agreement with the House Banking Committee “to dispose of this im- portant problem just as early in the next session of congress as possible Authority to retain federal curbs on wages and prices will expire April 30 unless Congress extends it | BOYLE SAYS ‘ | By HAL BOYLE LISBON, Portugal #—The trou- ble with foreign travel is that just as you begin to learn something about it you have to start home. I was thinking about this while qrelcomes stows, of the views of tts rend- ers, but the editor reserves the right to delete any {tems which words, ané poh pets enly. Siguature of the writer must accompany the letters and will be published un- less requested otherwise. GRATITUDE EXPRESSED Editor, The Citizen: Many, many thanks to you from standing at the airport here, going | the Navy Wives Clubs of America through the ritual of clearing cus- | for the wonderful publicity we re- toms for the homeward trek. I} ceived at our recent convention. reached in my topcoat pocket and} Good’ publicity means so much felt something wet. I pulled it out— | to an organization such as ours. supervising importation of deadly | foreign | y man of the 1953 25th anniversary! The senator declined to comment Campaign for Brotherhood of the |on reports that some: labor union National Conference of Christians | leaders may press for abandon and Jews | ment of wage controls even if they Eisenhower's press secretary, would have to accept an end of s C. Hagerty. said Tues. the price controls too I had notified the conference | ———— mt, Everett Clinchy, of his! Embassy officials in Washing. acceptance of the chairmanship. | ton give “Dupont” and “Durand” tas the most c An acre of sugar cane will yield France. says jaboat 244 tons of refined sugar, | graphic Society. it was a bright red washcloth. “I didn’t know where else to put it,” explained my wife, Frances. “And I just hated to throw it away.” This experience convinced me that people need a few travel tips— even the best of wives. I set down here what I have learned: 1, Baggage. No matter how often an airline says a passenger is limited to 66 pounds of baggage it never will convince a wife that it’s not fooling. For those last min- ute extras a wife can find no other place for, a wise husband will always carry a spare paper sack in his pocket—and it will always end up full. The wise husband will also re- main aloof in any argument be- tween his wife and an airline of- ficial over the question of excess weight. After all, how does he know his wife is wrong? Maybe the airline scale is broken or in- accurate. Anyway, does he have to go on living with the airline or his wife? 2. Soap and cigarettes. In Europe today it is no longer possible to trade a bar of soap, a piece of chocolate or a package of cigaret- tes for a genuine $5,000 diamond ring. Do bring along a few extra bars of soap.+ Many first class hotels expect you to supply your own. Do, also bring along a few extra packs of cigarettes as gifts, but don’t expect them to over- whelm everybody.. There actually are many Europeans who prefer other than American brand cigar- ettes. 3. Black market. The ,average American tourist feels life has cheated him unless he makes a black market deal during his trip abroad, It’s very simple to make one of those deals. Just go to the nearest travel agency. Before you can get through the door a shady character will sidle up to you and (A) offer to change your mon- ey at a profit, (B) offer to sell you a $15 American fountain pen for $5 and (C) let you have a rare old family cameo brooch. By the time you get through the door into the travel agency you will find (A) some of the bills he has given you are counterfeit, (B) ; the fountain pen doesn’t work, (C) the cameo is a fraud, and (D) the shady character has vanished. By and.large, you can get no more than a 10 per cent edge in black market money dealing in Europe, and your money has a | cleaner feeling if you just change |it at your hotel or bank. 4. Tips. In Europe every bill you get includes a service charge which is supposed to pay the wage of those who serve you. But this | satisfies nobody. All who serve you in any way expect an addi- tional small remembrance from ou. Don’t make yourself miserable or ruin your trip worrying about how much you should give or whom you should tip. A simple rule is to tip everybody to whom you have | not been formally introduced, but | only give them half what you would in America, as it already is on} the bill anyway. Another and even more inexpen- | sive way is simply to opem your | billfold and hold it out as you |pass. Servants’ consciences ‘will prevent them from taking as much through avarice as you would give {them through ignorance. 5. Customs, Some people are bold : enough to clap a piece of rye bread jon each end of a live elephant | and try to smuggle it through cus- |toms as a sandwich. ' |. They take pride in trying to | beat the customs man. Many trav- lelers complain bitterly about the long-suffering government agents. | But I have always found them wil- | ling to share a live and let-live | policy. The wisest traveler I ever | knew said this is the way to deal with customs: “Tell them firmly, ‘I have noth- ing*to declare—absolutely nothing.” | And no matter what they say, just sit tight—when they get tired of | listening to you they will let you | | pass.” i |RITA’S DAUGHTER GETS TRUST FUND NEW YORK —Rita Hayworth’; lawyer, Bartley Crum, said Wed. ' a “very substantial” trust fund had | been agreed upon for the actress’ | daughter, Yasman, 2, but declined | to confirm published reports that | it amounted to a million dollars. Crum arrived in New York by | plane today after reaching the trust | fund agreement in Paris with band of the actress. i To questions about newspaper re- ports that the actress sow is ro mancing with Count Jose Maria Villapadicrna in Spain, Crum re- jonal Geo- § plied: 4 “That's sot my deparimest.~ ‘ Again our: thanks. 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