The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 14, 1953, Page 4

a;Pese 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, January 14, 1953 7 "et ala alt coi as aad Grated hi Bai - The 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 ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12; By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION Consolidation of County and City Governments. Community Auditorium. MORE BOYS GO TO COLLEGE Commissioner of Education Earl J.. McGrath an- thounced recently that college enrollment this fall had in- creased for the first time since 1949, the present enroll- ment being 2,148,000. It is interesting to note that, of this number of students, 1,387,000 were males, while 761,000 were females, Thus, college students numbers are divided about two boys to every girl enrolled. Another interesting trend was reported by Commissioner McGrath. That is the de- cline of students in college who are World War II veter- e-@igsLast year’s enrollment figures showed that forty per cent. of the tota] male student body was enrolled under ~the GI Bill. This year, the figure fell from forty to seven- > teen per cent, Thus the war classes seem to be rapidly fad- ing out of the picture, ; The significant thing is that, despite this decline, total enrollment figures rose for the first time in three . years. This indicates that the increasing birth rate of the , date Thirties is being felt in college and that the country’s — in population because of other factors is also being elt. i If the economic situation remains favorable, the total enrollment in the nation’s colleges is expected to increase -+ steadily for thé next few years. an LOSING A TYPHOON A Chinese Nationalist weather man was recently ac- cused by an agency of the Nationalist Government of “los- : ing a typhoon.” The weatherman was charged with failing ' to properly chart the course of the disastrous typhoon. ‘Instead of going where the weatherman predicted, the typhoon struck Formosa on November 14th, without , warning. The storm left over 150 dead and missing and in- jured about 400. It also destroyed almost 10,000 houses and damaged an even larger number. In the Chinese view, the weatherman, had he acted properly, could have accurately predicted the course of the typhoon. His failure is being considered grounds for pun- itive action. : We have sometimes wondered if this policy would not improve our own weather-prediction system and regret that the science of weather is not that simple. The idea that the United States can be best operat- ed by a small group of super-men is an illusion shared on- ly by those who imagine they are in the super-class. INTO THE Truman Starts Last Week Soviet Purge Of Residence In White House |Has Aspect Of By ED CREAGH WASHINGTON (® — President Truman began his last week in the White House here—as busy as ever and beset by eleventh-hour problems ranging from oil to atom spies. In an atmosphere of mild con- fusion around his office, the out- going President is cleaning out his desk, dispatching dozens of fare- well letters and shaking hands with a steady stream of well- wishers. But all the time, right to the end of his administration, he must make decisions which no one but a president may make. One particularly vexing one is the Rosenberg case. : Sometime between now and next Tuesday noon, when his term ex- pires, he may have to decide whether the convicted atomic spies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, shall live or die. A word-wide propaganda eam- paign urging clemency for the Rosenbergs has been sparked by Communists. Protests have come from other sources, too, that the death penalty is unduly severe. Famed scientist Albert Einstein announced at Princeton, N. J., Monday that he had written Tru- man that “my conscience compels me to urge you to commute the death sentences ...” The ‘Rosenbergs’ appeal for ex- ecutive clemency was filed Satur- day. Justice Department pardon attorneys began studying records of the case Monday. Their rec- ommendation may or may not be ready for Truman before he leaves office. The expectation in official cir- cles is that the President will de- cide for or against commuting the death sentences if he has time to weigh the question on the basis of the Justice Department report. Otherwise, the decision will be left to President-elect Eisenhower. Federal Judge Samuel Kaufman has granted a stay in the execu- tion of the Rosenbergs, originally scheduled for Tuesday, until five days after the White House acts. In other fields, the President has two major remaining tasks: 1. His last annual economic mes- sage to Congress. Just about com- pleted, it goes to Congress to- day. 2. A personal report to the na- tion, which promises to be an over- all account of his nearly eight years of stewardship. Work is still underway on this message, which he will deliver over all four tele- vision networks at 10:30 p.m., EST, Thursday. TEAR GAS USED TO DISPERSE MOB CATANZARO, Italy @ — Police with tear gas di sed some 400 demon when they tried to break into police headquarters to free several men being held for questioning. n picked up demonstration earlier in gainst t omtruversial ral reiurm bul mow unader discussion in Parliament Two policemen and a laborer 200 laborers also demonstrated ee government-sponsored Minoan art people in Crete used swords with an overhand like daggers. their action, cie shows that the an- i A Lelier From Bill Lantaff Dear Neighbor: As you probably read or heard, during the opening days of the Ejighty-Third Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate convened in a Joint Session to re- ceive’ and tabulate the electoral ballots from the 48 states. This is a tradition of long stand- ing - a relic of the days when news was communicated by pony express. To those of us witnessing the ceremony it was sort of like Teading an account in the news- paper of a football game seen a couple of days before. In any event, following compilation of the returns, Senate President Alben Barkley declared Dwight Eisen- hower to be the President-Elect of the United States. With the election declared official, the House settled down to marking time until the new Administration takes over on the 20th of January. At that time, the new President will give the Congress his pro- gram, and the legislative machin- ery will go into motion. However, the change-over is underway al- ready and there are many inter- esting events occuring here on Capitol Hill a e Republican ma- jority in the House and Senate take over the reigns of Congress. There are new operators on every elevator; Democratic Cap- ital policemen are turning in their uniforms, as Republicans put on their badges. New page boys are appearing on the House floor. The party who has the majority of members in the House, has the right to all of the patronage, which means the GOP will be able to fill all the patronage positions on Capital Hill. I guess some new Republican Congressman is now confronted with the same dilemma I faced when I first arrived here two years. ago - that is, the task of finding someone who wants to be “one-third” of a policeman. Short- ly after I was sworn into Con- gress, the Democratic Patronage Committee informed me that, as a Freshman Congressman, I would be entitled to hire a policeman for one-third of the year. Not be- ing able to find anyone interested jin accepting a position with such ja short tenure, I declined the pa- tronage so generously offered to me. As you can imagine there are many humurous stories and rum- ors as new faces appear in Wash- lington. One wit remarked that the |new head of the Bureau of Indian strators near here Monday BIG TAX FOR GAMBLERS) JACKSONY by F bandied $305 \gers last month. Director of Internal xes paid ate they ol wa- jin taxes representing 10 per cest lof the gross s figure ct in Ne $49,601.35 pa Pure Fantasy — By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Foreign News Analyst The Soviet purge of Jewish doc- tors on charges which have the look of pure fantasy indicates strongly that there are internal weaknesses in the Communist party’s regime- serious enough to frighten the Soviet hierarchy. Coupled with the recent blast of high ranking Mikhail S. Suslov at the former editor of Bolshevik, it even gives a hint of schism within the higher reaches of the party. which will require a purge more thorough-going than the arrest of a handful of hapless doctors. With these announcements the Soviet press has brought to the fore once again the mysterious cir- cumstances surrounding the death of Andrei Zhdanov, once looked up- on as Satlin’s likely successor, and the purge of Nikolai Vosnesensky, a Zhdanov protege, not long after. Many lines of speculation now are opened. In the tirst place, the constant nagging of the Soviet press at the intelligentsia of Lenin- grad, in particular, has indicated all along that things were not going well there and that the younger Leningrad element was chafing at Communist party strictures. Zhdanov was the architect of a literary and arts purge in Lenin- grad. It was still going on shortly before his death at the of 47. Zhdanov’s: death was propitious for Georgi M. Malenkov, Satlin’s shadow in the Kremlin, who has risen in stature in the last few years until he is now looked upon as a likely successor to Stalin. Malenkov at once got busy get- ting rid of Zhdanov’s followers, with Vosmesensky the first to fall. That powerful head of the Soviet State Planning Commission was fired from his job and from the Politburo and never heard of in public again until about a month ago, when Suslov mentioned Vos- nesensky’s sins in connection with a bawling out given the editor of the party theoretical magazine, Bolshevik. This would mean, of course, that so far as the top ranking members of the Soviet Communist hierar- chy are concerned, the Vosnesen- sky people--and thus the Zhdanov |people-are still in the Kremlin jdoghouse. In effect it seems to mean also that Malenkov still is; the big shot. | The openly anti-Jewish nature | of the charges fits in with the} satellite attacks on Zionism, and through it, on Jewry. However, jin the Moscow case, this has the | appearance of being a side issue. | Whether Zhdanov actually was jed Monday at the Kaiser BOYLE SAYS NEW YORK ( — When a man buys a new automobile today, his first worry as he slips in the steering wheel is: “Where can I park it?” This is becoming such a fretful task that many wise buyers now demand that the dealer guarantee to deliver the vehicle parked with- in half a mile of their home. Find- ing the second parking place is then up to the new owner, a haunt- ing responsibility. The parking problem has be- come the No. 1 vexation of our times. One day as I was waiting for a traffic light to change, I look- ed up and down the congested streets and wonderingly asked a cop: “Where are all these people go- ing?” “They aren’t going anywhere,” he said sourly. “‘They’ve just cruis- ing around looking for a place to park. See that car? It’s been around the block five times in the last half hour.” People here in the big city who set out to drive to a friend’s home first have to locate a place to park their car, then taxi the rest of the way to their destination and back. Garage space costs up to $75 a month and. more. And it is so scarce that when a man dies strangers phone up his widow and say “Did your dear late husband have his car in a garage any- where? If so, I’ll buy the car just to get the space.” In the tremendous housing de- velopment where I live wives often come. out and throw sandwiches to their husbands as they drive about, hour after lonely hour, looking for a berth for the family’s iron char- iot. The situation seems almost as bad in every hamlet across the na- tion. One motorist told me bitterly this parking problem had become America’s first line of defense against invasion. “No invading force could really get very far,” he said. “Its ve- hicles could keep rolling only un- til they couldn’t find a place to park. “It isn’t my troubles with my wife that’ve got me down,” many a motorist groans from a psychi- atrist’s couch. “‘It’s this—where can I put my ear?” And the psychi- atrist, lying down on the couch, too, replies: “Move over and listen to me. I got three tickets myself for illegal parking already this week.” As the day is remorselessly growing nearer when the land will hold more automobiles than peo- ple, there appear only two real solutions to the problem: 1. Pave America, making the countryside one vast street. 2. Adapt the motor car to the situation. The second alternative appears to be the cheaper. The car of the future will have all the comforts of home—a small stove, a bath- room, an easy chair, an outlet for your electric shaver, hot and cold running water. The dealer will deliver it to a parking space he will find himself. After that you jack it up and leave it there forever. If you want to take the family for a Sunday outing. you walk to the parked car, start the motor and listen to the music of the spinning wheels on their stationary jacks. Lower the windows. Ah, feel that breeze? Open the picnic lunch. Doesn’t it taste good? No ants here. That's all right, kids. Throw the rubbish in the street. No criticism from the back seat about going too fast. You aren't even moving. No dan- ger of accidents. After lunch you listen to the ball game over the radio. Then every- body takes a nap. It is dusk. Time to start home. No kids lost. No- body mosquito bitten or sunburned. Just a wonderful relaxing day. You shut off the motor, everybody climbs out, and as you trudge back | toward the house your wife says: “That was a wonderful idea, dear. I never knew motoring could be such fun.” KAISER EMPLOYEES |BACK TO WORK MON. FONTANA, Calif. A day-old walkout of 68 crane operators end Steel Corporation plant here, after dras- tically curtailing plant operations. put ont of the way or died natur- | ally of a heart attack also is be- | side the point now. The point is that Zhdanov dead is much more j valuable to certain high leaders in | {Moscow than he would have been | alive. He now gives them an ex-| cuse to begin a purge i } | DEFENDANT CLEARED OF FRAUD CHARGE } i surplus dwelling. Burch was charged with false ipretense and issuing 2 worthless | ‘check in dealing with a Jackson ville Negro wanting to buy a dwell- ‘ing at Camp Blanding. Details of the dispute were not given. CIO United Steelworkers Local 2889 said it concerned incentive pay A company spokesman said a return to work agreement was reached after a brief meeting. with unsettled issues to be negotiated. LAST OF ESCAPEES Revenue | JACKSONVILLE #—The Florida |IS CAUGHT TUESDAY were injured in another nearby | Laurie W. Tomlinson reported Mon- | Real Estate Commission has found| CHATTAHOOCHEE & — State valuable community yesterday when some/day the gamblers paid $36,894.24 | Henry M. Burch, Jacksonville real | Hospital attendants Tuesday recap- title but dips into all departments. | estate agent, innocent of fraud im |tured the last of three mental pa-| We might try out “home mans- oth them. |the intended sale of a government jtients who escaped Saturday by {ger or “doctor of the humanities” | Supreme forcing a guard at knife point to jor “specialist in living.” All these | Frank Hobson. chief release them. President Dave Walton of | | THIS ROCK OF CURS War.-- War — War. I’m sick of the subject and of the igndrance that makes it necessary to waste men’s lives and property for the further prosperity of politicians and finan- ciers -- for the glory of officers and generals such as Custer who gave no thought for his men but expected to go down in history as the pretty-haired ‘boy general” who could beat unconquerable odds. (I have to use a dead man’s name but even so, the FBI might ques- tion my loyalty to the U. S.) Needless to say -- I’m loyal enough in my own opinion and the FBI can jump overboard if they think otherwise. That is another outfit of which I’m not sure, Ex- pert law-enforcement officers, yes, but they are growing too power- ful. Hiiler’s Gestapo was also an outfit of handpicked men with plenty of brains. Italy, France, and Russia have their undercover agents. All through past civiliza- tions, such outfits have existed and it has been the sorrow of the nation that created. them that, being given too much authority, the servant soon became the mas- ter. Study the history of the Knights of the Templar in England, the Inquisitors of the Vatican, the Ku Klux Klan of our own South. Publicity-seeking FBI men can ruin an innocent man’s life by questioning him and bragging to the newspapers of this fact. Why, there is hardly. a newspaper or magazine that you pick up in which Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, isn’t preaching a sermon or bragging. I wonder if he gets paid for this and if such material is first submitted to his superiors as is the case of all other Federal employees. The Draft Most of the boys in college are now getting their draft cards. That is fine provided everyone is draft- ed — rich or poor alike -- those studying science, journalism, med- icine, etc. Medical students in the last war were only too eager to accept exemption from the draft and secure funds from the U. S. in order to continue their studies. However, they displayed a strange reluctance to return this aid by way of serving with our Armed Forces. Ask the doctors who did serve while their fellow practi- tioners were at home reaping in money by the cart-load. Check with the War Dept. and find out if even today, doctors for the Armed Ser- vies are not as hard to find as that medical students shouldn't be exempt anymore than the youth who is studying to be a teacher or the more unfortunate lad who couldn’t go to college and is out working to support his family. Mercenary Troops The worst situation, as I see it, is our attempt to buy the blood of other nations to do our fighting. By DOROTHY ROE AP Women’s Editor WANTED: a new name for “housewife.” Garry Moore, whose afternoon TV program draws thousands of fan letters from the ladies who stay home and take eare of the chores, says it’s high time someone thought up a more dignified name for these jills-of-all-trades. He ex- plains: “When a woman has to reply ‘occupation housewife’ to a census taker or pollster, I think she al- ways feels the term is somewhat | derogatory. Women are inclined to assume a sort of apologetic air bere they say, ‘I’m only a house- wife’. “The fact is, they should be proud of it. That's the object of all the love stories and romantic movies—to turn a bachelor girl into a housewife. Yet after they achieve their goal, they resent being relegated to the humdrum category of ‘housewife.’ Something should be done about it.” Garry is thinking about running a contest on his show, to dig up| @ new term. He points out that a housewife is one of the most ac- complished artisans in our society. If she does her job well she must be a skilled cook, a nurse, engineer, an efficiency expert, party-giver, a psychologist, a com- jmunity leader, between family, school and church, a glamor girl to her husband and |@ mother to her children “Some such term as ‘chairman j Of the board’ or ‘general manager’ | would come closer,” says Moore, | “but it has to be more descriptive than that. The old term ‘lady of the jhouse’ has been overworked by brush salesmen. ‘mom’ definitely won't do.” We might adopt a big business tant to the president.” the way they do in corporations with a man who has no special are too cumbersome, however, and By BILL GIBB We send Europe a few bushels of wheat, rotten potatoes, boxes of | gin thinking seriously. Today’s Women Poor Giertrud Can a liaison officer | term and call the housewife “assis- | money, or anything tempting and expect those countries to give us their loyalty and fighting men. It is as disgusting and treacherous aa act as when the nigh priests of Biblical times bought Judas” loya- Ity for thirty pieces of ‘silver. It can end in no good. I’m not saying that we shouldn't fight if necessary. .My contention is that we can put no ‘dependency on nations whose troops are mercenary, bought with material goods. Moreover, I fitm- ly believe that if we would follow the teachings of Jesus and become true Christians, if those who are Jews would really try to under- stand the teachings of Abrahani, Moses, etc., then and only thea would we be guided so as to end man-made wears. Instead of fol- lowing the above teachings, we open our ears only to the eloquent politicians who too often seek to feather their own nest. Knowing only too well that hu- man nature is not ready to depend upon God's leadership, again I say that if we think war is necessary against Russia then let’s do like any good prizefighter and get in the first punch. Nations in sym- pathy with our cause will join us without being bribed. Let's throw into the fight all of our manpower, all of our ‘scienti- fie knowledge such as the atomie of the earth forever and about chivalry which doesn’t exist in modern battle. I can see no greater harm in killing off an en- tire nation than in this toe” war that is bringing a few soldiers at a time. In case we and our ene! transgressed the law of His commandment: not kill.” Such transgression measured in degrees but by violation itself. The ancient Chinese had a beau- tiful‘system of conducting war- fare. A commander was disgraced if any of his opponent's troops hen’s teeth. That is why I feel |i knowledge, ete.? It is No Longer Rest In Peace In Denmark COPENHAGEN, wv The search for an onaies of the death of a wealthy 18th cer heiress was spurred here by finding of traces of what may have been her coffin. Constable Theodor A. Binneballe, an amateur archeologist, uncov- ered remains of a wooden box late Monday in an ancient burial vault in Assistens Cemetery. He is seeking evidence of just how Giertrud Birgitte Bodenboff, a 19-year-old widow, died in 1758. She was then one of the richest women. A descendant authorized Binneballe's Relatives at the time died of a boil in the flicting tales ha through the years. says she appeared drugged to relieve entombed alive; and robbers came to steal with her. According to |the robbers bashed and fled. Binneballe *hopes to trud’s skull and with ae itlie a wee iit zx i if é E i 22 The policeman. who excavation during his ‘said the coffin he found with earth and “if kt lof Giertrud’s remains, it |be a couple of days |ancover them.” | He also pointed out i fin be found may bave jother Bodenhotf and “is i" may have to continue for a week or more.” |HOBSON IS CHIEF | JUSTICE OF COURT a #~The Florida rigs gasdl g s a E i i The seven justices metste Hospital Supt. W. D. Rogers said [it's doubtid if amy woman would | chief justice's post every tee George Ward was rcoexptured pear | work up nerve to write dows suck 05 2 beals of seniority. Hotson secceeded Grend Ridge, sbost 12 miles west of here. He did pot resist. hey occupation on the census L. Sebring. ‘