The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 14, 1952, Page 2

Page 2 THE KBY WEST CITIZEN Friday, November 14, 1952 The Key West Citizen ee an eT ae Published daily (except sunday) by L. P. Arunan, owner and pub- lisher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key Wést and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN Publisher NORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 6&1 and 1935 et tenga eeepc 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. ACER SAS SN RT IAPR TAO See OS SR OP ETT Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida PSR ASS RRR SPR ARR EA SNORE Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12; By Mail $16.60 CO aa esa ne atin sen mene anAnI IN ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION ERE 5 IRD ENE SS NI NS RO NES Ry The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of publie 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 ef County 5 Community Auditorium. emer EISENHOWER’S DUTY IS NOT TO RISK HIS LIFE FLYING TO KOREA The Citizen said, when Eisenhower promised, during the campaign, to go to Korea if he was elected, that the promise was purely of a political nature, designed to eatch votes. . A promise to do something that needs not be done is absurd; to fulfill that promise is fatuous. In Eisenhower's ease, the fulfillment of the promise entails the danger of his losing his life. He is now the President-elect, not of the Republicans but of all Americans, and it is shocking to think he will risk his life to do something that will not prove beneficial in any way. General Van Fleet said, a few days ago, that Bisen- hower can learn more in one day in Korea than he could in 100 reports from him, Van Fleet. Van Fleet has been in Korea eight months, and if he is not familiar with every sector at the front, familiar with everything, in- cluding munitions and other supplies, pertaining to every sector, then he should forthwith resign from the army. Van Fleet and other commanding officers in Korea can give Eisenhower a report in detail about the condi- tions of UN and enemy troops that Eisenhower could not learn in a whek’s visit to Koréa, Eithér that ‘is-true or Eisenhower is, as Democrats satirically charged, a super- man, It was said that thousands of Americans thought, when the Korean+trip was promised, that all that Eisen- hower would have to do to stop the war would be to step on Korea. And, as President Truman rightly said, the promise of the trip implied that Eisenhower could do more,in.a day or two than the four American generals theihad done in many months, The President added that the implication was a reflettion on the ability of the American commanders in Korea, Generals pinpoint maps of the fighting in every sec- tor of the front of a battle line. Constant information from the front keeps the pinpoints moving, so that a com- mander-in-chief and members of his staff can determine how to maneuver troops, or where to strike, if a weakness in enemy lines has been found. That and ‘all other in- formation about the fighting in Korea is transmitted to the Pentagon daily, or hourly, if circumstances warrant that action, and Eisenhower can learn just as much about the war from the Pentagon as he can in Korea. His life is too precious to the American people to | risk it in flying 16,000 miles, going and returning, over | . zy HAL BOYLE S By HAL BOYLE LISBON, Portugal @% — When | kings lose their thrones but man- age to keep their heads, they like to come to Portu, The political climate as well as the balmy air of this tiny country —it is about the size of Indiana, has a population slightly larger than that of New York City—agrees with them. They also like the feel- ing of bility and security’ built by Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, the most scholarly as well as one of the more durable of Europe’s dictators. As a result this refugee of royal- more ex-kings, would - be Kings, and heirs of kings than a pinochle deck, all dreaming of the, good old days or hoping for a re- turn to power. Among the refugees who dwell quietly here are Umberto II of Italy; Carol of Rumania; Don Juan Bourbon, to the crown of Spain; Francois Joseph of the vanquished Austro-Hungarian em- pire; Admiral Horthy, ex-dicta- Hungary; the Count of Paris, as the Duke de Guise, to take over the throne Aging ex-King Carol, perhaps the best - known, has dropped his pl: boy ways. He and his wife, the tempestuous former Madame Lup- escu, live moderately. Their m interest now is their big business investments. “The only thing that worries Carol now, is that his son, former King Michael, will ask him for money,” said an acquaintance. The ‘royal refugees lead undis- turbed lives. They feel safe from revolution or revenge or animosity because, as one resident put it: “The average Portuguese is in- dustrious and very poor himself, but he has little resentment against the wealthy. There is an old pro- verb here about the rich: ‘May ospaae AYS only eat one meal at a time.” For, this reason Portugal has be- come a haven of some men of great fortune. The most fabulous is 83-year-old “Mr. Five Per Cent,” Caluste Sark- is Gulbenkian, reputed to be the world’s only living billionaire. A figure of international mys- tery, this short dark octogenarian Armenian could buy and sell all the royal refugees here, singly or in a lump, with no more strain on his purse than the average man feels in purchasing a new suit. With the help of two secretaries he operates a world-wide empire in oil from a five-room suite in the Aviz Hotel, which is near a police station and the city. slaughterhouse. Old “Mr. Five Per Cent” ordi- narily eats alone in the hotel din- ing room, and the Portuguese love to tell legends of his frugality. “He and his wife, who died re- cently, lived apart,” said one na- tive. “She used to complain to friends he never would allow her more than $20 a month spending money. If his son and daughter-in- law dined at the hotel, he would order a single bottle of wine for himself, drink what he wanted, then send the rest of the bottle over to their table.” The big ambition of “Mr. Five Per Cent” is to live to be 106. “My father lived to be 105,” he said some years ago, “and I am in*better health than he was at my age.” All my life I have wanted to see | ed. a live billionaire. We checked in at the Aviz Hotel—Frances and I and Dr. Anson Clark, a Lubbock, Tex., oil man—and hoped to meet Gulbenkian. But he avoided the dining room during our brief stay. One morning, however, as we stood in the lobby Frances glanced up and saw a bent antique figure shuffle by a balcony. It was old “Mr. Five Per Cent” himself. But when I looked up he had vanished. “What did he look like?” I asked. “He just looked like an old hotel they eat twice at every meal.’ The | handyman on his way to put in a MAYBE HELL GROW INTO IT A Letter From Bill Lantaff Dear Neighbor: « One of the greatest elections in the history of this country is over. Whether you supported General Eisenhower or Governor Stevenson you could not help but be hearten- ed by the record-breaking number of citizens who turned out at the polls and voted. This is a great triumph for America and Ameri- cans for we have shown the world |-- democracy at work. It seems rather strange to me that some individuals would re- | gister concern as to the after-ef- fect of the election. They wonder about those who played a stren- ous role in the campaign. They | wonder if the parties will unite in jthe best interest of our country |or will dissension rule. Well, while we play our politics hard and rough, perhaps too rough or in a more zealous vein than many of us would like to see cam- paighs conducted, when the final vote is counted we unite as Ameri- cans and tally to support the |victor as our country’s leader and the man at the helm of our ship jof state. It has been said that which united us as American citi- zens is far greater than that which divides us as political partisans. We vote as many but we pray as one and as Americans we are al- ways ready and willing to put our shoulders to the wheel of progress insofar as our country is concern- To dispel any fear that absolute dissension will rule, I think we need only to note the statements made by great Americans and leaders of our two major political parties immediately following the election. The defeated Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson tele- graphed General Eisenhower, “The people have made their choice and \I congratulate you. That you may |be the servant and the guardian | of peace and make the day of trouble a dawn of hope is my [Schools Offer Opportunity For Everyone Contributed By POINCIANA SCHOOL Our country is a land of oppor- tunity where anyone regardless of his origin, may obtain considerable personal and eonomic status. While many children are born into poor families which cannot readily give them economic and educational op- portunities our public. schools help |to overcome these disadvantages. |The public schools provide special education Yor children with physi- cal and mental handicaps; they provide transportation for those} who live far from the school; they. provide preparation for employ- ment as well as academic studi they provide nursery schools, kind ergartens, and education for ad- ults. Many institutions of higher education, private and public, offer scholarships and fellowships for those economic resources, There is still much to be done for such groups as migrant child- ren who receive little or no educat- ion; and for gifted children, many of whom we should evpect to be the leaders of tommorow. There is need for more opportunities if every child is to attain his fullest development, Useful Facts 1, Among urban and rural non-! farm workers 25 years old and older the median earnings in 1946 of men who had less than seven years of schooling were $1746; of those who had seven and eight years of schooling, $2241; of those who had one to three years of high- | school, 2345; of those who had | four years of high school, 2513; and of those who had one or more years of college, 3178. Similar ‘Yigures for women were $611, $954, $1108, $1870, and $1655. : 2. In 1949 about 7,055,000 children lived in families whose annual in- come was $5000 or more; about 10,938,000 children or one-forth of all children in the country, lived in families whose anpual income was less than $2000. In the lower than average income-about three- fifths of the children in this group were in families of three or more children. 3. In 1950 about 6,000,000 children lived in homes in which both par- ents worked; over 1,000,000 of these children were in families with in- comes under $2000. 4. Guidance programs in schools have expanded: in 1938, 1300 had 2400 vocational coun- selors; in 1948 about 4000 schools had 8000 counselors. 5. The professionsare still growing. In 1870 there were less than 500, 000 professional and semi-profess- ional workers; in 1950, over 4,000, 000. The number of workmen in the professions has grown so that in April 1950, one out of every nine employed women was working in a rofession; among men, one out of 16. 6. An NEA Research’ Division study found that in 1947-1948, 89 percent of the city school systems reporting had audio-visual educa- tion, 8 percent had library ser- vice, 74 percent had a guidance de- partment, 73 percent had a school lunch program, and 72 had a school health department. Only 3 percent operated camps, 29 per- cent had ‘summer sessions, and 37 percent had working experience ms. TAN U. $. Office of Education study found that in 1948, 1459 city school systems were providifig special education for 378,059 ex- ceptional children; in 1940, 729 city school systems had provided for 313,722 exceptional children. Where- as 730 cities reported special class- es for the mentally deficient, only 15 provided special classes for the gifted, 8. About 46 in every 1000 high- UDC Memorial Plans Mapped BILOXI, Miss. ?—The United Daughters of the Confederacy con- vention here adopted a resolution that plans for a memorial building at Richmond, Va., be taken up by a building committee. The membership accepted the general plan this week at a price of $320,000 and the committee will consult an architect. Members will contribute $8 each to cover the cost in the 40,000 mem- ber organization. In Greece the ending of sur- names indicates the region from which the family came: an “is” ending for a clan from Crete, “edes” a clan from Thrace and “as” a clan from Macedonia, says the National Geographic Society. Your Grocer SELLS that Good STAR * BRAND AMERICAN COFFEE and CUBAN SLOPPY JOES 201 Duval St. Burlesque Hour Continuous 1 Show - 2 show starts 8:30 p.m ends at 2:00 a.m. FEATURING 15 Exetic Dancers MUSIC BY Mark Stanley’s Trio Xtra Added Attractions KATHY CARROL Dance of The Marihuana KAY STARR. 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CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE COMPLETELY AIR CONDITIONED school pupils are studing a trade— . e ver.” lying to this, int knows that no matter how {light bulb for a guest,” said | Prt Mien acai said, “y | a machine shop, automobile mech. much money @ man has he can | Frances. | thank you for your courteous ‘and | anics, electrical work, cabinet mak- | : + | ing, carpentry, and printing. More } the ocean. As The Citizen sees it, he owes it to the Ameri- > generous message Recognizing i ‘one in five pupils in grades 9 | can people to stay at home. The risk the proposed trip entails has been so gen- erally realized by Americans, newspapers have been speculating over what will happen if he loses his life. Citizen readers probably have noted that, if Eisenhower Jost his life before December 15, the date on which Re- publican electors cast their vote, Republican leaders are agreed that the Republican National Committee would not choose Nixon as President. Choices of the committee, as the reports gave them, would be Senator Taft, Governor Dewey, Senator Lodge, or Governor Warren of Califor- nia. But if Eisenhower died after the balloting, Nixon would become President. But why risk Bisenhower’s life to keep a promise that should not have been made and should not be kept because of its hazardous nature? Eisenhower's duty is} not to go to Korea; instead, his duty is to stay at home. Why is it that so many ignorant people know every- thing? a SEES Ae eee On eer ores Among the wonders of the world are the plots hatch- ed up in Hollywood, and the dialogue. netic Nothing amazes us so much as the diseovery of a person who thinks the editor knows something. One of these days some people are going to learn} that hard work only teaches a real appreciation of values. SLICE OF HAM ee! Pvo\3 )S “IT'S BUCKLEY. .HE JUST FINISHED TANK SCHOOL” . tensity of the difficulties that lie | ahead, it is clearly necessary that | men and women of good will of} both parties forget political strife of the past and devote bapa ee: to a single purpose of a er | future. This I believe they will do.”* | President Truman and former Pre- sident Herbert Hoover both stated | that in our democracy we decide who shall govern us by free elec- tion. The decision of the election | represents the will of the people {and all American should give their ‘support to the government select- ed. I sincerely regret that the work lof the House Committee of which {fT am a member was of such ex- |treme importance that all its) |members, both Republican and —11 is taking typing. About one in Your pupils in junior and senior highschool is taking home econom- ies, Comparatively new subjects in clude consumer buying, driver ed- | Democrats, stayed on the job until | jtwo weeks prior to the electiont | | leontinue this work. I would like | ‘to have personally thanked my | many friends in Dade and Monroe | counties for their vote of confi- idence in my first term as your TIRED OF RESCUES | Representative - and for giving me | the largest vote ever received by a | | Congressional te ie | Fourth District of Florida. 1 | cerety trust thet yoo will give your cgntinued agai | Support in my efforts to serve as your working United Ste Congressman. Sincerely Yours. \ BILL LANTAFF i j |