The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 19, 1953, Page 2

Page2 = THE KEY WEST CITIZEN _—Menday, January 19, 1953 The Key West Citizen OCR BORE PLS baa Re a a ens amas, SR 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. Pp. ARTMAN —— Publisher NORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager 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 ©r not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news Published here. i... Mon Dn een-72>->-—-— CS Member Florida Press’ Association and Associate Dailies of Florida 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 @nonymous communications. Ce RES ARR ST Se ae ee Ne 2 + ee IMPROVEMENTS FOR |KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. More Hotels and Apartments 2. Beach and Bathing Pavilion, 3. Airports—Land and Sea, 4. Consolidation of County and City Governments. 5. Community Auditorium. See eenemeesinneneneephinn Secs ee eee A RECORD 1952 CHRISTMAS The National Safety Council recently announced that the four-day Christmas weekend exacted a highway death toll of 556. This is an all-time record, surpassing the pre- vious record of 555 fatalities in the Christmas holiday of 1936. : When considering the 556 deaths, due to highway accidents during the recent Christmas weekend, one must also take into account the thousands temporarily or per- manently injured in these and other accidents, It occurs to us that the offering of some 500 lives each Christmas is a sacrifice which is almost as unappreciated as it is unnec- essary. At least one state has attempted. to remind motorists of the death threat which always hovers above the high- way by erecting crosses along the highway where deaths have occurred, It is a sobering sight to see three or four crosses'in a spot on the side of the road as one speeds along to his destination. The sight, and resulting medita- tion, has caused more than one driver to slow down. This method has been tried by the State of Florida, and it is worth the consideration of all states who have not tried it. FE SESE ESTES Oe Ane ECONOMISTS PREDICT MILD SETBACK The F. W. Dodge Corporation recently polled ‘187 leading economists on expected business conditions in 1958 and found that a majority think there is a good possibility of a mild setback in the last part of 1958. However, the prevailing opinion is that general stability and good busi- ness conditions will prevail during most of the year and that the setback—if there is one—will be of minor impor- tance. Many of those polled thought the business outlook was fine and that the total output of goods for next year would exceed the output for 1952. Many expected prices to decline moderately as 1952 wears on. The 137 economists polled were officials of either business or financial companies, university teachers, pri- vate consultants or government.men, These economists ad- vise all business men to develop initiative, push advertising, make necessary price adjustments and use modern promo- tional and sales efforts. In addition, they think some busi- nesses should be run more cautiously in 1958. They believe there is no reason for businesses to suffer if this advice is followed. ORE ESA Ea are There are still some Americans left who believe that we can sell our goods abroad without buying anything from anybody else. SEU Sie a RS a ae Every man has a right to develop his business into as large an affair as he can with due regard to honesty and fair treatment extended to his competitors and customers. AND HE SHARPENED. THE WEAPON! SAYS NEW YORK ® — The young Army officer was looking for some- thing. Something he had lost. Some- thing he felt missing in America. He told me about it as we sat chatting about Korea. had been back from there a short time, and now was getting ready to leave again—on his fourth term of duty overseas, But he wore on his chest none of the ribbons’ he had won. Only the silver bars on his shoul- ders to show his rank. And he looked so young you'd have guessed he’d just been com- sioned; unless you looked in his eyes. “I dropped by because you were the only one in town I knew at all,” he apologized. “And I was lone- some for someone to talk to. “You know things are different in Korea now from what they were in the old days. They got it pretty well made there now. Things are pretty good—all considered.” He mentioned a few names and asked if I remembered them. I didn’t. “Well, you know how it is in Korea,” he said. “They come and go. I guess they came after you left. Now they’re back here too. Most of them, So am I.” He fingered his garrison cap restlessly. “What’s wrong with me any- way?” he broke out. “I used to dream at night in Korea of getting back home. But 1 wasn’t back home a week until I felt homesick.” “What do you mean?” “Oh, I don’t know. I just looked forward so much to getting back to the States. And when I did... something was missing.” “You mean you felt let down be- cause people didn’t want to talk much about Korea?” I asked. “You can’t blame them for that really. They've got their own problems here, and naturally it's hard for lem to understand What's going on over there.’* “No, it isn’t that,” he said. “1 got shot four times in the last war. I didn’t expect to be treated like a hero. I know that the hero business don’t last.” I thought perhaps he might be having family troubles. But, no, he said his wife and little son were getting along fine. “It isn't the way people feel about me here,” he said. “I guess maybe the trouble is the way ’I feel about them. I don't know. I feel out of place. I don’t feel like ioe What am I looking And then I knew. He missed the desperate loyalty to an outfit that knits together men in danger and discomfort. He missed the close kinship of war that welds a group of diverse men into a single unit willing to face death or life in mutual faith and trust. “I guess you're right,” he said when I told him that. “But I don't PEOPLE'S. FORUM PRINTED PROPAGANDA A distorted press persuades men Editor, The Citizen: away from ‘reason; or forces the Walk into an average American | reasonable man into solitary places sundry shop for a taste of fashion-| There is: a calculus in print that able American literature. Spark-| multiplies wrong and divides ling, paper-covered handbooks at}truth. It-adds zest to unsavory 25¢ up, in full-length or condensed | things and. ‘subtracts from the editions, have an. irresistible ap-| sweeter , virtues. Smiling words peal in these inflated times. In|may single out inferior persons, Key West, many thousands pocket-| veneer their mediocrity, applaud books are on sale today. their shallow minds, and ‘bring It goes without saying that at/them swiftly to fame. Thus. pro- the national ratio, the enormous |Paganda reserves for these a THIS ROCK OF OURS “Dear Gibb, “Since you only write ‘Our Rock’, I would like to try and save part of the Rock which I help hagra care mel reyes is trying to troy course greens by pouring transmission gre on them. Carbonell, president of baseball, and Curry Harris, presi- dent of the Quarterback ‘Club, will verify the fact that I've worked hard to try to beautify the Island. Since I have no known enemies, I cannot understand why anyone should try to hurt the grounds on which I work very hard. “You and I once worked together at Overseas Transportation as Dispatchers so you will know who I om. (signed) “HUMBERT MIRA” out vandalism, Glynn Afcher, Joe Lopez, Gene Witsel, and dozen local service stations and find out what person or persons are get- ting used grease and oil and for what purpose. Dedication Of County Jail The dedication of the county jail last Thursday seemed out of place. Tt wasn’t because the ceremony was in any way different from sim- ilar ones conducted throughou! speeches be criticized. (Sheriff Spottswood made an exceptionally fine talk when he frankly stated his problems to the audience.) My fit in. Maybe I'll find it egain my next post. I’m shipping to Caribbean next week.” “Why the Caribbean?” “Well, I don't think me take the wife and Korea,” he said. “And I filtered through Korea or are still be a few less inmates for the jail. Excluding the “white-collar” class of criminal herd is usually a respected member of the commun- ity’ and depends upon others to perform his violence when neces- sary, the average man who lands in jail is often a pretty good sort of a “Joe,” Ignorance, bitterness, misunderstanding, etc., is the prin. ciple cause of his going outside the boundary of conventional morality. Whereas months or. years spent in jail will do little good and often aggravates such conditions, a kind helping hand, a little pray- er may straighten out a man’s within ourselves. Generally speak- ing however, if we leave our hearts and minds open to Truth, we will know which people are worthy of help. And, inste: of celebrating the opening of jail, we will feel sorrow for the necessity of such a building and look forward to the day when man- kind will diseard artificial morality ~ accept Spirituality in its stead. tation and proper care for his pri- soners, The new, clean jail was a necessity and should aid the Sheriff by providing a more normal, healthier atmosphere. in that filter. How many have come home feeling exactly like that young officer? RUGS CLEANED All Fermai Garments cher: ‘cally pretessed. Al! work guerarteed end fully insured, POINCIANA DRY CLEANERS 218 Simonton St. Dial 2-7632 cireulation of these books must have a decided effect on the minds of the young. Among the pocket- books are some truly greats. But the predominant themes in sex, horror, and crime strike a new low, with cover designs outdoing themselves in sloth and slime. The press, through the medium of the handbooks, prepares youth for the slaughter by disturbing their prin- ciples and narcotizing their minds. We could do otherwise in temper- ing society for solid citizenry. If at least 50 per cent of profligate hip--pocket literature were replaced with simplified, illustrated hand- books on law, medicine, mechanics, music, languages, etc. imagine the upswing in the trend of social thinking! Words embalm the’ liv- ing; or when dedicated to enlighten- ment, they raise the dead to an awareness of latent talent and buried initiative. Our daily newspapers even more strongly glamorize violence and vice. In quiet, routine articles, we learn of new serums that save and heal. Yet murder is headlined. The press makes or breaks men and situations. A verbal . frown, and today’s champion may be to- morrow’s outcast. And sometimes the blackballed are.. guilty of thoughts too sound to be fashion- able. Truth is rationed at so many ounces per century.: - _ Having bowed out of mortal ex- jistence- in 1809, Thomas Paine slowly rises in wordly esteém. His Social and religious observations are an oasis to the minority who think. His magnificent contribu. tions to the press are alive today, forever challenging living men. For Paine’s unquestionable logic has not been annihilated by storms of protest, shock and Wigotry. Man-made theologies would blue: print infinity and presume copy- Tights on truth; ‘and man’s God- given prerogative of forming his own conclusions is thereby ‘de- famed. Modern. hieroglyphics: sell: ancient fallacies, spreading tradi- tional dry-rot. Words may be guilty of murder: in the first degree, but there is no corpus delicti. ” - a Pe + wale — * cy BY wa epei. 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