The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 11, 1952, Page 2

The Key West Citizen, pn 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 Publis! NORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it oF not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published here, Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25c per week, year $12; By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION Page 2 Thursday, December 11, 1952 IMPROVEMENTS FOR |KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN * More Hotels and Apartments Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Aixports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Community Auditorium. SE Sy AA ST SAE Sc TE ‘UNSIGNED’ CAN FIND SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS IN FIRE STATION A Citizen correspondent wrote at great length about that centuries-old question concerning the date on which Jesus Christ was born. Researchers, long before the corre- spondent was born. Researchers, long before the corre- thought the month was August (one fixed the date at August 7), others October and still others had different opinions, Of what consequence is the exaact date, so far as the kindly spirit of Christmas is concerned? December 25 is the day set apart to pay homage to the Author of the Christian code of living, which is perfect in its dictum of man’s duty to man. If everybody adhered to Christian teaching, we would have peace throughout the world at all times, no man would envy his fellowmen, and every man would do unto others as he wished to be done by. That is Christian teaching, regardless of the denomin- ation of the church you attend. In all churches you are taught to do good and shun evil. Not even an atheist can conscientiously deny that truth, And not the most confirm- ed pessimist can conscientiously deny that Christian teach- ing conforms to every essential that is necessary in the brotherhood of man, The correspondent, who signed himself “unsigned”, asserted that observing Christmas is a “commercial racket.” That is not so. Is it a racket to buy toys for chil- dren to make them happy? Is it a racket to give presents to members of one’s family or to friends. Is it a racket to send Christmas cards to friends to let them know their friendship is esteemed? Is it a racket even to buy a new suit or a new dress for Christmas? “Unsigned” should know that it is the spirit of Christ- mas that counts, not the diversity of opinion about the day of the year on which Christ was born. Tens of millions of people, thousands of them in Key West, throughout the world sense that spirit during Yuletide. It is a spirit of love and goodwill. If “unsigned” wishes to feel that spirit, The Citizen suggeste that he visit the No. 1 firehouse, where firemen have labored to repair old toys to give to needy children, so that they too may rejoice on Christmas Day that Santa Claus had not forgotten them. Whether or not one believes in the Christian doc- trine, the fact remains that Christmas time is a source of joy to countless millions, Communists poohpooh Christmas and all that it means, but the spirit it engenders, if felt by them, would relieve them of humdrum ‘that characterizes their way of living. “Unsigned” may counter that many people look up- on Christmas as a good time to get drunk. True. But many people also look upon the Fourth of July as a good time to get drunk. Does that circumstaance make the Fourth of July any less precious to us? SUMS OBLIVERING THE AiR MAN FiRsT i WHAT A WAY TO START A HONEYMOON! KEY BOOKS By A. de T. GINCRAS (CHRISTMAS GIFT by Margaret Cousins, eight Christmas stories, 219 pages, Doubleday and Co., New York City.) Margaret Cousins is the editor of Good Housekeeping and her stories first appeared in that ma- gazine, in American, Cosmopoli- tan, Ladies Home Journal and Mc- Call’s. Their particular brand of peace and good will is gift wrapped for the slick magazines. ‘The situations are neatly plotted, and the endings are happy. The characters fit within the taboos of the first mediums of their publi- cation. Even when Miss Cousins barker who deserts his family, and a petty thief who, plays Santa Claus, they have no dash of Mickey Spillane or Dostoevsky in their criminal antics. And of course the smell of cedar and the sight of the baubles on the tree in Rockerfeller enter dis- solves the wickedness of these fellows. For the Yuletide at least they revert to the pattern of kind- ness associated with the birth lay of the Christ. All the old types and situations delightful to the slick magazines are in the stories. In the first one, “The Home- made Miracle” all the Main Street types are brought to a church in Our Town on Christmas eve, They are the maiden lady, the clergy- man, the young lovers, the bride of a year, the harassed mother, the school teacher and the dog ind cat. Immediately preceding the ga- thering near the tree, there is a point counter-point description of the problem of each character. A very small accident in the church sets in motion a train of incidents which solve all their problems in |; a manner only possible in heaven and the slicks. In Gidéon, the hero of “Small World,” there is the American business man engrossed in his work and neglecting his family. To give him a Yuletide touch, Miss Cousins imposes on him a lonely Christmas and some of the quali- of % (NATURE'S MESSAGES by Campbell, nature book with 56 photographs, published by Rand . |large frigidaire full of cheeses and hors d’oeurves ready | for midnight snacks. And appro-| Unfortunately, however, the prose which interlards the photo gtaphs suffers badly from adjec tivitis and sentimentality. These are both probably the result of the author’s seeming deliberate avoidance of the very sound sur- vival of tthe fittest thread which runs. through all nature. This reviewer remembers once when she saved a starling from the mouth of a dog. She kept the bird on the balcony outside her bedroom window, and eventually when his wing was mended, he flew away. She was all for birds, and all against dogs. A few weeks later she heard a tapping on the tin roof of the balcony. It ihe the grateful starling i gars NE ut @ sparrow slapping the remains of life out of a half dead locust. This experience is a usual one, and Mr, Campbell’s persistent slip- ping into sentimental attitudes about nature just doen't hold under close examination. He frowns on killing of deer for man’s food, but he probably doesn’t hesitate to eat a steak. Yet the slaughtered cow was as in love with his meadow as the deer with his forest. And even the lowly cabbage cells are as alive under a miscroscope as those of an animal. It is just that a vegetable, excepting the tumble weed, does-n’t get away from its base. Mr. Cambell should get hold of the nature writings of Thoreau and Joseph Wood Krutch or even Bam- bi and give them several careful readings. He has a genuine feel- ing for nature, and an eye for its beauties. A man like this shouldn't Jet his potentialities be buried in adjectives and sentimentality. His readers can accept the truth about nature as they can accept the beauty, ‘because they are part of it. (THE BEDSIDE CORONET, book of articles from Coronet Magazine, published by Doubleday Publishing company, 372 pages.) This is a Coronet magazine that goes on and on. Anybody who likes the periodical will enjoy reading article after article on everything from love and the middle-aged male, to a wife in the throes of a nervous breakdown. The book is something like a small priately it is called the bedside . |coronet. Almost anybody could keep from nodding before he had jeaten at least one of the 70 offer- ings down to the last sentence. der and mystery in his small meal, for there are “Bodies at the Auto- - | mat,”’ the “Mystery of the Murder- ed Tourists" -and another discus- sion of the “Eternal Mystery of Mayerling” among the offerings. Dale Carnegie is pitching again n |for the extroverts, in his dishing out of the simple secrets of public speaking, and Eddie Richenbacker He may even have a little mur- | Home Coffee Not So Hot Says Vollmer BOCA RATON # — The type of coffee served in most homes would ruin a restaurant in a short time, Fred Vollmer, president of the Na- tional Restaurant Association, said today. In an address prepared for the 42nd annual convention of the Na- tional Coffee Association, Ke con- gratulated the 700 delegates for a job well done, “I rarely visit a restaurant where I find poor coffee,” he said. “I find the reverse in many homes in which I visit. The type of coffee ed in most homes would ruin staurant in a short time.” He said there was a very close connection between the restaurant ‘and coffee industries, pointing out that a restaurant was known by the coffee it served. “Restaurants are seeking better equipment, better means of mer- chandising, ‘better trained employ- es and better management,” he said. “No longer are we a fringe industry, Our wages are compara- tive to most industries, and ex- cept for resorts we furnish sta- bilized employment.” Ellis M, Zacharias, rear-admiral, U. S. Navy (retired), told the dele- gates what he believed should be done to attain a durable and last- ing peace. “We must have domestic secu- rity first of all, against attack from outside and attack within,” he said. “Russia will never be- come involved with us uniess she is certain she could in.mobilize us here.” “The Central Intelligence Agen- cy must be expanded with wid- ened functions and reorganized,” he continued. “Propaganda must be taken out of the State Department to be | McNally, New York city, 221|says that he believes in prayer. Pages.) |Harpo Marx explains again his The fifty six black and white | brother Groucho and Channing Pol- Photographic illustrations in this lock describes the rich rewards of Volume are well worth its price. jwork. Frank has come more They vary in subject from brown to say about jungles, and Alfred eyed susans to sunsets, from deer | Hitchcock about the wise man of in a winter landscape to the close | Kumin. up of a woodchuck. And of course a lot of the old Beginning with the spring in the | favorites are revived in new fea- borth country, Mr. Campbell takes | ture twirls, the late John Barry- the reader photographically into| more, the late Jules Verne and the nest of = Canadian goose aad the late Florenz Ziegfield. to @ young fawn on a@ dappled This is a good gift selection for forest floor. He introduces the Cousin Adibert whose tastes have wild bergamont, and raindrops on ‘become dim over the passing years jleaves. waterfalls and stags, trees for Mrs. Malone two doors, up {dripped in moon, and wild geese who is too nervous to settle down agaist the Indian Summer sky. for a long spell of reading Labor Unity Of AFL-CIO Seems Likely WASHINGTON (# — Like a tide regularly creeping up the beach of American labor, and as regu- larly receding, there has been re curring talk of AFL-CIO unity for more than a dozen years, It now seems to have reached a highwater mark. George Meany, AFL's new president, in very con- ciliatory tones has suggested a merger. And the CIO’s new presi- dent, Walter Reuther, is going to discuss it with him, Meany’s approach is different from the condescending manner of the AFL's late president, William Green. When Green suggested unity, he told the CIO to “return to the house of laber.” Meany and Reuther have both said they would step aside if that was necessary, Most of the unions which make up the AFL and CIO are not in direct rivalry with one another. But some are. Mixed in with the problem of leadership and rivalry as a stum- bling block to unity is the old question of jurisdiction: just what union has the right to claim what kind of workers. For éxample: Reuther’s own union, the CIO United Auto Workers, claiming 1,400,000 members, has not only organized workers in the giant auto industry but has organized many in the aircraft industry too. There it has run head on into AFL's machinists union (about 700,000 members), which has also claimed the aircraft workers as its province. To stop raiding each other’s members, those two unions have worked out an agreement: Where one of them has already organized a plant, the other stays out. But where a new and unor- ganized plant springs up, in both go to sign up members. + Clothing is a good example of an industry where two big unions might be able to live comfortably side by side in a merged AFL-CIO. Those two unions are the CIO’s Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the AFL’s International Ladies Garment Workers. So long as the garment union sticks to signing up workers who turn out women’s wear and the amalgamated confines itself to workers producing men’s wear, they should be able to do all right. The AFL, which claims 8% mil- lion members, has 109 unions. The | in CIO, claiming between five and six million members, has 33 un- ions. There is plenty of rivalry among those 142 unions. If it had been left to the rank- and-file members of both organi- zations, AFL and CIO, there prob- ably would have been a merger long ago. It’s the men at the top who have to reach the agree- ments. The deepest known spot in the ocean is more than a mile further below the surface of the ocean than the top of Mt. Everest is above it. made an effective weapon. This is the only means of defeating Communism. The Voice of Amer- ica must be given potency. “To meet the issues of the fu- ture, we must have in Washing- ton instead of politicians, men of intelligence, integrity, courage, vi- sion and imagination, and humility combined with admnistrative abil- Adee all, the responsibilities are in the laps- of the — people. More important than mili- tary strength is the need for spiritual strength,” he said. Delicious Charcoal Broiled STEAKS Plus... COOL BOTTLE OF WINE Plus... | Entertainment and Dancing ITS ALL YOURS AT Wylk's Stock Island NEW PHONE NO’s. ARE 2-3833 and 2-9157 People’s Forum - The Citizen welcomes expres- sions of the views of its read- ers, but the editor reserves the right to delete any items which are considered libelous or anwar- ould «be lens requested. otherwise. LONESOME MARINE Editor, The Citizen, I am a Marine, who has been in Korea for five months now and I haven’t received very much mail. It gets pretty lonesome here not hearing anything that happens back home, I would appreciate it very much if you would put an advertisement in ess apale ag for soem young girls me. I am 19 years old and would like some girls my age to cor- respond with. Thank you very much and may. God bless you. My name and address is: Pfc. Edward J. Meegan 1296205 M. G. Ist Pit. “B” Co. 1st Bn. 1st Mars. 1st Marine Division care of Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Calif. LIKES “THE ROCK” Editor, The Citizen: Just want to say how much my husband.and I enjoy Bill Gibb’s “This Rock of Ours.” You see, we purchased a lot over at the corner of White and Laird Streets and in about a year we expect to build on it and become home- steaders for at least seven months of the year. Three years ago we spent five days in Key West and loved it so much that a few months after returning North, Mr. Clayton flew down and bought the lot because they seem- ed to be scarce in that vicinity and morg and more people were becoming interested. On Dec, 13, this year, we are leaving for Key West to spend about three weeks there. You might tell Bill Gibb that we loved the broken pavements, stone walls, the. old houses, the friendly people, the night bloom- ing jasmine, the gift shops, the Sun and Sand Club. Personally, T've been a vegetarian for 30 years and also a Theosophist, do not drink nor smoke and like the spiritual values he talks about in his column. 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