The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 23, 1953, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN 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 D. ARTMAN Friday, January 23, 1953 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 or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published here. —————————————— ey Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12; By Mail $15.60 BEES XESS EAE UCI oS Ri RE SA A cE A ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION Soret pease The€itizen 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 and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea, Consolidation of County and City Governments, Community Auditorium. ea oe : CHILD LABOR EXPLOITED The National Child Labor Committee reported re- cently that more than 100,000 children between fourteen and fifteen years of age are out of school and employed. Another 600,000, in the sixteen and seventeen year old group, have cut short their schooling for employment. The Committee warned that excessive work by school children must be brought under stricter regulation if exploitation of child labor is to be checked. By excessive work, the Committee means work which yequires more than off-school hour tinf® and work which requires children to quit school altogether. The Commit- tee’s study Shows that about ten per cent of 33,000 estab- lishments investigated by the Federal Wage-Hour Division lastagrear ‘were emp minors in violation of the Fed- _ The industries which seem to contain the largest per- certage of violations were the logging and agricultural.in- dustries. The highest percentage of under-age children foi working were in logging operations, in which the 1 minimum age is 18 years. The legal age minimum in Pe wath field is 16 years and there are many in- dications that this law is widely violated. =The Committee’s report charged that the “worst child labor abuses occur in agriculture, with the children of mi- grat workers ‘suffering most of all.” Farm accidents, it is said: are also often caused by the immaturity of children ~g heavy machinery. As an example, the Commit- teeghisted fifteen child deaths in Minnesota, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin ix. the last harvesting season—all invelving farm machinery and children. The Committee believes one of the reasons violations are so widespread is the inadequacy of inspection staffs prévided for the enforcement of state laws. It indicates that the states must clean up this situation, for the most pawg if subsantial progress is to be made. = The use of ordinary courtesy on the highways might sorte day save your life; why not*practice it? =The reason truth makes such slow progress in the world is that it is in competition with pretense. — A eis a IR rte ee eee =People who think they are too smart to be governed by ‘the customs of their race are over-estimating their smagtness. SLICE OF HAM__ an A reer “SORRY, 8U8! BUT 1 DON'T KNOW WHEN YOU'RE GETTING QUT OF THE ARMY?” s . f ROBLEMs OF AGO. UNEMPLOYMENT fi: BOOTLEGGING fi - en 20 SERAL DEBT ILLION TAK SRIECTION, — By sID My borrowed bus, with its blow- out tires and a rattle that sounded like a dragline in operation, skid- ded about the Coco-Cola corner and headed toward the foot of Front Street, where Pete Roberts, our piscatorial philosopher, has his fish stall. This time Pete wasn’t meditating, but was. so acutely alive to his surroundings, he swung to the top of his stall when he saw and heard my bus clamoring toward him: }--After1-had.said,-“Whoa,. baby,” got out and walked to his ‘stall, Pete asked, *“‘Where did you get that tincan?” “Siggy’s great-grandson Willie Knowles loaned it to me. He said he built jt out of four different makes of cars.” “Tt sounds like he also put four boiler factories in it. But, speaking of Siggy, he was here yesterday and said you surely have a nerve to accuse him of handing out baloney sandwiches and then give jus all that blah-blah you had in The Citizen Monday about you, Swinky Swanky and Jim Koodle de Flu, who are going to live 200 years in the Ten Thousand Is- lands.” “Pete, Siggy can't see a wall till he butts into it. Thirty years or so ago, Professor Horace O’Bryant came here from Oxford, Florida, to he principal in the Key West High School. Swinky Swanky Was a student in the school at that time. A few days after his arrival, Professor O’Bryant spoke briefly to the class about the nutrient values of various foods. That talk started Swinky to studying vita- mins, porteins and everything else pertaining to foodstuffs. He read every book he could buy on the subject, and then took a summer course in dietics at Cornell. To- or anything else in our super- markets and tell you the nutrient value in each of them.” vitamins, You never heard about them when we were boys, and we got all the vitamins we wanted out of grits and grunts, a hunk of salt beef, new potatoes in their jjackets and a hefty slab of cab- jbage, or.conch or grouper chow- jder, or a sow belly and {turnip tops id what was the re- jsult? If you went to the auction j rooms, down in the next block, and |was pushed by a man on,this side jand a man on the other side of you, the chances were their ages ranged from 80 to more than 100 years. No wonder said we had so many old folks we had to | round them up once a year and take them out to the Second Tower and shoot t When we i Is winky said. 0 years, and lands 20 years a ‘Boys, we here fo day, Pete, Swinky can pick up a} grunt on your stall, a hunk of beef | “Aw, Sid, don’t tatk to me about | THE CONCH OBSERVES [Plenty of Spunk McPHID I’ve got to find out what we can eat to make us live that long.’ “Pete, did you ever see an alli- gator when he was resting, with his eyes half closed? In him you see perfect relaxation. Swinky got his idea of what to eat to live 200 years by looking at alligators re- laxed on the strand at-Lostman’s Key in the Ten Thousand Islands.” won’t look any older than Siggy looks now. But don’t tell him I told. you that. He still pimps up and still thinks the girls fall for him. And every time he gets a chance he tells you about his doing this and doing thet when he was in coliege, but I think his college career was like Hambone’s -~-went through the front door and out the back door.” “No, no, Pete. Siggy didn’t go as far as Hammy, Siggy went in the front door and jumped out the first window he came to. But let me tell you what Swinky found out by seeing the relaxing alligators. He analysed an alligator egg and learned it sontained vitamins not found in any other food. The eggs have vitamins L-1 and L-2, which stands for long life, and vitamins R-1 and S-1, which stands for re- laxation and sleep. Alligators live to be from 200 to 300 years because they give their hearts plenty of rest. A man’s heart beats one bil- lion times in 70 years of life, and the slower it beats the longer he lives. When esleap or lying down resting, his hearts beats five times slower then it does when he’s ex- cited. “When Swinky finished his ana- lysis of the alligator egg, he said, “Boys from now on, we each eat an alligator egg every morning and one every night, and it won't be long before we'll be able to relax and sleep like alligators.’ “Phew! I don't see, you ean stomach alligator eggs.” “Pete, everybody has prejudices about eati For instance, you wouldn’t eat rattlesnake meat, but }it’s canned in Florida and sold for |$1 a pound.” “You're right, Sid, about pre- |Judice in eating. Take Sam Harris. |He won't eat shrimp and craw- jfish because he doesn’t like the jway they smell.” “Pete, the most ridiculous pre- jjudice of all is Sam Goldsmith's [ssainst eating coconuts. He was hit on the head by a coconut that jfell from a tree in his yard. But |he wasn’t hurt because he was walking te his car to attend a reception and had on a silk hat as tall as a shako. “Try alligator eggs, Pete. After you eat the first one, you'll feel rong enough to throw the biggest bul! on't hare to eat all nto a bullring ail as Spain's m bullfighter Monolite ever CLEVELAND. KIDS TO |LEARN ABOUT TAXES CLEVELAND w — About 60,000 HCleveland school kids are t learn about income taxes. | The Board of Edzucation’s radio station, WROE. broadcast a 1s - ut ot explaining ¢ lincome tax forms, which will be | explained tatistics show between @ and 45 per cent of the nation’s senior and x high school pupils uring vacations so that they must fill cut forms, Lamb stew, bread and butter, > a, rice and raisin a beverage, made a Sid, how}. trotted into a Span- | WHAT A DIFFERENCE A FEW YEARS MAKE BO SAYS NEW YORK (®—To the poor .{man’s_ philosopher: Bank Teller Shows PASADENA, Calif. ®—While she lasted, Miss Eleanor Ramish, 23, showed a lot of spunk toward a man who tried to hold her up in the bank where she is employed as a teller. “He was rugged and about 6 feet 4 inches tall,” she told police. He handed her a note demanding all the cash and displayed a pistol. “That gun doesn’t look real to me,” she said. “It’s real enough,” the, man re- “If you live that long, Sid, you | plied. “I still: don’t believe it’s real,” replied Miss Ramish. And at this juncture, “the floor gave way and I went down behind’ the counter,” to use the teller’s own words. The bump roused her and she called the chief teller, but the thwarted holdup man escaped, Digs For Treasure; Ends In Prison MEXICO CITY (#—Elpidio Gon- zalez Avila has gone to jail on charges of damaging private prop- erty. His landlord said Elpidio dug such a deep hole in the floor of his ground floor apartment that part of a house wall fell in. Elpidio said he was digging for buried treasure and would pay for the damage when he found the treasure. People’s Forum ‘The Citizen weleomes expres- stons of the views of its rend- itor the any items which ibe! the writer must accompany the letters and will be published un- lesa requested otherwise. VOTER’S PROTEST Editor, The Citizen, I have never been so disgusted with anything before, as this latest caper of the County Commission. It’s enough to make any red-blood- ed American’s red blood boil. ° Just who do these men think they are? Condemning a man’s pro- perty, because he probably wouldn’t sell it to them cheap enough, and then have the effront- ery to turn right around and pre- vent a man from building 2 park- ing lot in competition with one of the county's so that they’d have a clear field. Oh, brother! What next? Why doesn’t the county tax county air? ‘Then they could really clean up. When the next election rolls around, we aren't going to vote for any of the present County ; Commission members. In my opin- | aren't worthy of their | posts. Free enterprise doesn't haye jany chance in Monroe County, at Heast it seems that way } Fight this, Mr. Clem Price and | Mr, Marco Mesa. At Jeast. two people will back you up! Why condemn one person's pro- perty for personal gains ef another. This is am insult to @ person's Keep the box in 2 handy place so the members of the family wJi be sure to replace the keys after ithey've used them. 3 “Dear Sir: “TI am a young man who doesn’t remember what it is like to live un- der a Republican administration. “My problem is—what to expect? How should I act? Personally, I am a Democrat, but a number of my young Republican friends are in the same plight. They have no memory of what life is like under a GOP regime. “Have you any etiquette tips for us? ‘Worried voter” Young man, you have hit upon the problem of the hour. Tens of millions of Americans are in your predicament, including many for- mer Democrats who voted Repub- lican for the first time. Naturally, everybody feels a bit uncertain. This is even true of the new Republican officeholders who are taking over the ship of state. They are in the position of a mid- die-aged man who hasn't touched his hand toa paddle in 20 years and suddenly finds himseif in a canoe with a fat lady in the middle of a stormy lake. The fat lady in this case is the 262 billion-dollar national debt. So don’t Jaugh—or try to rock the boat. Republicans at this period are peculiarly sensitive. No matter how ardent a Democrat. you are, wait at least another week before jeering, “It's time for another change,” or, “Granddad says we had it better under McKinley.” Remember, the millenium comes slowly. Patience does: it. Don’t throw away at the race- track the money you expect to save by having prices and taxes fall to the level they were at in the Harding administration. Franklin D. Roosevelt went into office prom- ising to balance the budget, and Harry Truman went out of office 20 years later still searching for a way to do it. « Even under the thriftiest of Re- publican regimes it may take days and days to find a solution. The main thing to keep in mind is that when a Democrat says, ‘After all, what’s money?” the Republican answer is ‘Well, it ought to be money.”’ That, is always a big aim of any Repiblican admin‘stration—trying to miake money stay money. _ Some Democrats are afraid that THIS ROCK OF OURS By BILL GIBB ‘Bere are friends who have seen me wearing black here of late and they’ve kidded me that I'm in mourning. My reply has always been that the darker clothes suited cold weather better. That is a lie, however. The honest truth is that I am in mourning. You see, one of my best friends, Jack Carey has transferred from the KW Fire Department to the police force. T can think of no greater calami- ty that might befall me. Jack — the boy in whose hands I’ve placed my life more than once, the young man who, in turn, has re- lied upon me for his safety with confidence -- now he is a Key West policeman. Let me stop for a minute and wipe away some of these tears that well in my eyes. They are as huge as the tears of any crocodile. It was Jack who came down in the engine-room of a PC that was on fire and booted me up to the arms of Chief Harry Baker when I didn’t know I passed out on my feet. It was Jack who gave severai of us a drenching in boiling oil when we answered a “general alarm.” We had ciimbed aboard a burning tank: truck and Jack turned his play-pipe into the man- hole; we expected foam and. got pure water instead. The resulting eruption resembled a Mt. Vesuvius and it was the only time 1 ever knew the NOB Fire Dept. to back away from a fire. It was this same Jack Carey, now a policeman -- Heaven forbid -- who wore the legs off of poor ‘Jack Williams by hollering ‘““More foam,” when we fought a burning PBM that had crashed into an ammunition dump on Fleming Key. Eleven men died in that fire and we were licked before we started though Chief Bakér wouldn’t say “quits” until the last spark was blacked out. And, if I'm not mistaken, Jack Carey was with us when, following the lead of Bert Baker, we climb- ed aboard the wing of a burning life will be dull and over-serious under the Republicans. Most Republicans just feel you can have fun without doing it in a way to get you arrested. They are merely a bit more restrained ‘than the Democrats. Thex prefer the dry chuckle to the belly. laugh. The zoot suit, yo-yo and bubble gum ail reached their peaks ~of popularity under Democratic pres- idents. Cloth of barker’s gray, a thoughtful mein, and chess may Your Dime May Save A Life bomber that had cra: Boca Chica swamps. The almost under control wi Captain of the Yard had a bra storm and began jabbing at debris with — pike pole. He an explosion that knocked as well as the rest of us looping into the water. We managed hold onto our line and continued fighting the fire when we heard the Captain out.” The guy was still sitting in the water in a daze but his pike pole was gone, Perhaps it wouldn't do for me to remember who amongst us angrily back: “Let the-----------drown!” Oh well, if Jack feels he wants jthe police work, he will be a bene fit to the city. But I'll bet you two to one, (excluding the minis- ters who object to ee My that if he po gets into a Spot, jhe will forget the police telephone number and call the fire depart- ment. Habit is a hard thing to {break and sul ‘4 knows that there are dozens of firefighters who will stick him to the end — in spite of fact that he is now a Key Wi policeman. Highway Signs While talking with a loc nessman, he expressed his ge g ft with the unholy mess that- of Hy and billboards have made Overseas Highway. The*first miles outside of Key West. are: pecially ugly. Most communities throughout nation have put an end to ing up the highway with cial signs. They ruin the surrounding territory. In County, our biggest asset . our scenic waters and surrounding $8 a ee i trict, however, can a tou - joy such beauty, Elsewhere there are battered up billboards, .- ; cards of last year’s political can- didates, etc. 3 Wonder if anything could be done about the situation? now be more in keeping with the times. If you. can’t understand chess, you may keep some sem- blance of social standing by work- And if you hear an elderly Re- publican le, “Drat that man in the White :’ don’t leap to It ike time even for the Republicans to get used'to the fact they're in power again. By Agricola « Subscribe for The Citizen--2« Welly é excited Navy officers yelling, “Get -