The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 26, 1953, Page 4

Page4 = THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, January 26, 1953 The Key West Citizen Pie Lae ee ee oe new A 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 RORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 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. : Ess TLON FLORI ASS IMPROVEMENTS FOR |KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN REDS SEEK PENICILLIN Various sources are now reporting that the Commu- nists seem to be eager to obtain immediately at least one million vials of penicillin, preferably American. The peni- cillin is thought to be desired by the Chinese armed ser- vices. _ International traders, who know the channels through which Communists procure needed goods from the West, | hide report that buying offers originated from various countries - almost simultaneously, several years ago. Concerns in Switzerland, Italy, West Germany and the Netherlands asked for delivery of the penicillin in various places. One firm asked for delivery in Amsterdam, another in Genoa and a third said it was needed in Hong- kong. High prices were offered for swift delivery in each case. x _ Some observers have speculated that the Chinese Com- munists are in need of penicillin because of another epi- demic or a high rate of casualities because of uncleanliness and infection behind the Communist front lines in Korea, These-observers note that efforts to obtain penicillin were most actively pressed last spring, when the. Communist troops suffered a series of epidemics. At that time, the Communists are thought to have succeeded in getting sev- veral hundred thousand vials of an American brand of pen- icillin, which was first shipped to Amsterdam, then to Isarel and then—it is assumed—to Prague. When a go-getter gets going, the going is rough. Religion, and its progress in the world, suffers more from self-annointed saints than from all of the sinners. Never pay any attention to political gossip that must be peddled in whispers and on the basis of strictest confi- dence, ; Advertising is like fishing: You must use the right bait at the right place, and at the right time if you expect results. There is no law of God or man which suggests that weathly criminals should not pay the full penalty for their crimes. : ‘We wish somebody would promote a national “No Editorials Week,” and persuade our business office to observe it. } about me, THE SNIPE PILELLPOL ELEC OP PLOT THE CONCH OBSERVES By SID McPHID HUNTER HOLDS THE BAG Profits Are Higher In °52 hddedkddaddde ddd h hddedd.. Returns Show Throw Up Your Dukes! “Ho, ho, here comes Siggy! Let’s behind that hill of marl.” It should be explained, for the benefit of those Key Westers who have not been at the foot of Front Street recently, that the north- westerly side of it is flanked with a chain of cone-shaped hills. “No, Pete,” I said to his sugges- tion that we hid behind a hill; let’s see what the little gent’s got to say.” “Sid, I can tell by the way he’s walking he’s as mad as Lance Les- ter used to be when he played golf and sliced into the woods out on our golf course. Ever see a wild cat in action, Sid? Siggy’s faster. with his fists than she is with her claws, even if she’s fight- ing for her litter of kitties.” Siggy wore a green cap, with a long visor, like Eddie Strank’s blue cap. Siggy’s cap was: riding on his left ear, the. rakigh angle harmonized with his nifty stepping. When he was 20 feet from Peter’s fish stall, I hailed him, “Howya, Sid!” and Pete said, and, when he stopped at the stall, rammed his right fist into saistline. His voice sounded like fizzing steam when he said: “T’'ve got only one word of five letters to say to you insects, and it spells f-i-g-h-t. Here I am only 97, and you said in The Citizen is in love with him, and you are sweeting up to a widow with 14 ‘children. If you say that again about Siggy, I'll give you a back- hander that will know your coco over that hill behind you. What you think he said, Siggy? He said you look like Wingy Willie's gra pap. I started after bim, with my left hand drawn back to paste him, but he ran down the street, and, as he’s younger than I am, I couldn't catch up with him to clout him.” “Pete, when I was in college,” Siggy said, “one of my instructors, just before classes, said to me, way to find Begley Filer. I know his hangout, and if you hear an By SAM DAWSON ambulance siren a little while from | NEW YORK —The first trickle now, you'll know I’ve found him.” |of corporate earnings statements He streaked down the street, |for 1952 is coming in. And, as of lickysplit. We used to think Her-|today, they are encouraging. bie Davis was the fastest walker in} The early ones show combined town in the old days, but, were |profits running about 1) per cent Herbie living, he would have to |higher than the previous year. And trot to keep up with Siggy. I asked |they show the final three months Pete, “How come a man of Siggy’s j of 1952 better profitwise than the wealth doesn’t use a car?” and earlier periods of the year. Pete replied, “‘His eyesight’s pretty | Statements by many company good up to 20 or 30 feet, but be-j executives, moreover, show they yond that everything is a blur to | think the momentum of better prof- him. His eyesight’s another thing | its is carrying over into the pres- he’s sensitive about, so be careful ent year. not to mention it to him.” Pete Gets A Spanking Pete then switched to talking about old men in Key West in the days agone. “Sid, when we talked about old folks a few days ago we forgot to mention Old Bodie and Uncle Tom Adams. Uncle Tom kept a grocery in the middle of block, on the westerly side, on Margaret Street, between Flem- ing and Southard.” “I remember him, Pete. Bill The great gusher of annual state- ments is yet to spout. It could change the earnings ‘picture entire- ly. Remember, also, that companies doing better than in previous years are the ones most likely to be the first to tell the stockholders how things are going. Some of the sad- der tales may wait for awhile. But reports of 24 corporations, in various industries and both Fine kept a store at Southard and | giant and tiny, show that in the 12 Margaret, half a block away, and |months period they had combined when I couldn’t get what I was|earnings running 10.5 per cent looking for there I went to Uncle |ahead of the previous fiscal year. his | Tom’s.” “They were two remarkable old men, Sid. One Saturday morning I went to Old Bodie’s to buy a In four cases the fiscal year ended Nov. 30. The other 20 ended Dec. 31. Taken together, the 24 had prof- nickle’s worth of ’dillies. He walk- | its of $594,145,390, against $537,687,- ed to a tree with a trunk about |303 in the previous fiscal year. a foot and a quarter or a half in| And 11 corporations reporting for diameter, and the nearest limb to | the final three months of 1952—no the ground was 10 or 12 feet up. matter what quarter that repre- I said, ‘I'll get them for you Mr. |sents in their fiscal year—show Bodie,’ and he said, ‘No, no, son; |combined profits 10.7 per cent I'm afraid you'll fail.’ , he shinned up the trunk first limb as fast as a swung his right leg over went up the tree as can walk on the me tell you about y my aunt, and her next to Uncle Tom’s had two big ‘dilly trees ard, and in the morn- betore daybreak, the fence to get fallen during the Ur Tom was then , and he was quick on and I believe to this day see as well in the dark to crawl on the ground and front of me and on both jor "dillies. One morning 1 had just begun to crawl when a rock whizzed by my face so fast a gust from a hurricane. I hopped over the fence into my yard pron- to, but when I struck the ground, Uncle Tom plunked down beside me, grabbed me and began to spank me. My Aunt heard me yell- ing, and called out, ‘What's the matter, Peter?” and I replied, ‘Uncle Tom's spanking me.’ She shouted back, ‘Tell him to keep it up, because I know you deserve it” “Sigmund, few other sentiments can | it’. touch the heart as much as ap- preciation does. That is particular-jout. “An “Listen, Pete, listen!” I cried ambulance siren. Siggy ly so when it pertains to the truth | found Begley.” about you. You have spoken truly F&e, and I apologize to you and te Sid for my invitation tw 2 round of fisticuffs.” Siggy looked at studded wrist watch, and said; “Twenty of taree, and I've got an TAIPEH —The inaugural ad- the wind from the rock felt like | IKE’S INAUGURAL TALK |, |BEAMED TO RED CHINA day for the fou his dismond- | ahead of the last three months of 1951. Together, the 11 earned $106,- 021,686, against $95,695,185 in the fourth quarter of 1951. This first slim report seems to indicate business profits continued in the final months the upward trend they started at mid-year. In the first three months of 1952 profits trailed the year-before peri- od by around 9 per cent. In the next three months they were off by nearly 11 per cent. The industrial spurt that followed the end of the steel strike started the ball rolling in the other di- rection. For the July, August and September quarter, profits aver- aged around 7 per cent higher than the previous year, and now appear likely to have done even better in the homestretch. Of the 24 companies reporting for 12 months, 12 show increased earnings and 12 show declines. In most cases, however, the drop jin earnings was slig! er corpora ions to report so far, have substantial in- | AGAR TO BE TRIED FOR |PROBATION VIOLATION for actor John Agar on a charge of probation violation has been ; postponed until next Friday to al- Hlow his attorney time to prepare jfor the session. ¥y Temple. trested Thurs ¢ on 2 drunk- was driving charge , while the | }12 gainers include most of the larg- | jaress of President Dwight D. Bi- | scheduled for Feb. 4 in Santa Mon- was broadcast in : ica. Agar is at liberty on bail. HAL BOYLE SAYS NEW YORK (#—There are per- haps a dozen people in the world who earn a living by chewing gum. These elite figures of the 175- million-dollar-a-year chewing gum industry must develop nearly as educated a taste sense as profes- sional wine sippers or tea tasters. Douglas L. Brown, a lean-jawed man of 44, has been dutifully chewing gum some eight hours a day for the last 22 years. Steady did it. He rose from a job on the gum production line, after studying chemistry at night, to his present post as quality con- trol director of the Adams Gum Co., one of the big three in the | field. “I must have chewed five tons of gum and tasted I don’t know how may, gallons of flavoring oil,” he Brown estimates he now can tell the difference — ‘chiefly by | their chewing characteristics’ — between 15 to 20 types of gum from a dozen countries. And do it blind- folded, too. This has its penalties. Word of his taste skill has spread so that try out a new recipe. Chewing gum is regarded by most people as a simple, standard- jizéd, almost changeless product. all—it’s an adventurous industry that moves with the times. gum bases,” he said. “Such as chicle from Mexico, perillo from Colombia, jelutong from Malaya, chiquibul from Guatemala, katiau from: Boreno, or massaranduba from Brazil. “All gums are extracted from the sap of a tree. They are basic- ally members of the rubber family, but none is rubber. And each batch has to be tested for quality.” The modern gum industry be- gan in America after the Civil War. It stemmed from some samples of chicle brought here by the Mexi- ean general, Santa Anna, during one of his periods of exile. Before that Americans chewed flavored paraffin wax and resin tars from spruce trees. There are trends in chewing gum just as there are in household fur- niture and women’s hats. “The trend right now is toward a firmer, more resilient gum with a_ stronger flavor,” said Brown. “This isn’t because people’s jaws are getting stronger. Kids raised on bubble gum are just growing up—and they are used to a tougher chew.’ “It’s funny how many letters people write in suggesting new gum flavors. Some want a liquor taste. That was tried. Didn’t work. No mass market—perhaps because there were more flavors like that at bars. “Some want a tobacco-flavored gum. Some ask for cola flavors. One Arab wanted a gum with a lamb flavor.” Considerable scientific research goes into the creation of any new gum. “It took us ten years of work 'to perfect chlorophyll gum,” said Brown. “I chewed close to 2,500 sample pieces beforé we put it on the market.” He likes his job and says his} wife likes it even better. the day,” he said, “that my jaws start any family arguments.” OLD SOLDIER GOES LOS ANGELES # — Hymn of the Republic” a: ing Tonight” will accom “Tent- Magee, 106, one of America’s last three veterans of the Union Arm: These were the favorite tunes of the old soldier, who ran away from his Ohio home at 13 to become a bugler on Gen. Sherman's march {to the sea. He died Saturday. he is a guinea pig whenever they | Brown says it isn’t that way at} “A good stjck of gum may be} blended from a dozen different | "THIS ROCK OF OURS By BILL GIBB Since mailing in my income tax returns, I’ve been siiting and wait- ing for the postman to bring me a nice, big cash refund with apolo- gies from the Revenue Dept. for having held back so much of my hard-earned money. There surely must have been some mistake be- cause it was hard to distinguish between the salary and the with- holding tax when I filled out the iforms. i How about yourself? Have” you mailed in your statement? Better jnot wait until the last minute and then get penalized. Besides, there jis a wonderful thrill in wondering {whether the next mail. will bring you a refund of eight or_nine cents or a bill for perhaps fifty, maybe sixty bueks because you -just hap- pened to fall into a higher bracket. Heck, I can remember the days when I didn’t make enough to pay any income tax. Nostalgic mem- ories, I guess, because I was free, white and twenty-one. I could ‘roll a truckload of cabbage out of Vir- ginia and pick up a load of oranges ; going north. As for entertainment, there were a thousand and one places along the road where a fel- jlow was welcomed as a friend and }could have a good time providing jhis tastes didn't run to insipid af- fairs requiring tuxedos and even- Jing gowns. The’ fact that President Roose- velt was sort 6f competing with {us truckers by giving away the ne fruits and vegetables which attempted to sell, didn’t par- worry me. I was too young that those California oranges which the government shipped to Florida, or the Caro- lina apples that were sent to Wash- ington state, would eventually have to be paid for by today’s income tax. income tax is a just debt and should be paid but, im spite of what the preachers say, I wonder if we wouldn’t be better off by re- fusing to pay our debts. After all, many nations owe the U. S. so- called “just debts” and when they fail to pay even the interest, we }pat them on the back and say: |“Here, Buddy, take a few million {to realize {and forget about the nasty word, | ‘debt’.”” Truman‘s Debts The debts whch the past admin- istration piled on us do not bother me much. My great grandchildren will have to sweat that problem out. The only thing most of us should ask for is to be buried in dollars as a token of friendship | hunt us up in the curse us out for the den we are placing on you imagine anything so as to be flat on your feet under the ground, and have to lie there listening abuse of these future relatives ours? No Sir! Give me an marked grave! We of this generation are squan- dering the inheritanee given us hy our forefather. .9 go further, we are also squandering the natural inheritance of future generation, We don’t seem to care government is run as long as can make plenty cf money selves. We've yet to realize And as for our government, we used to be a Republic with a ten- dency to lean toward Democracy. Nowadays, we’re still a Republic but only the Lord knows way we are headed socialism, dictatorship, nism, or what have you. During the first hundred years of our history we seemed to be build- ing a little Utopia of our own. Then Theodore Roosevelt came along with his imperialistic policies, Ever | since then we've been interfering with the lives of other people. |Stupidly, we offer money for the \friendship of other nations muck in the manner of a man trying to buy the love of a woman and with the same unsatisfactory results. At home, through the creation of more and more government posts, we've built a parasitic organiza- tion which will eventually devour itself. Too many city, county, state, and federal jobs are held by people simply because they control a few votes. These people are an eating sore on our pocketbooks since we pay their salaries through taxes though the work they turn out is infinitesimal if not completély. worthless, Our case isn’t hopeless. There is still time to clear up the mess we've made of things if we but de- vote a little time toward govern- mental affairs and stop worship- ping the pi 1 politician as God's gift to humanity, The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in Alaska, part of @ national’ monument set up by President Wilson, was formed after the eruption of Mt. Katmai in 1912, FOLKS! HERES HOW YOUR VA DOLLAR WAS SPENT IN 1952 TRINA ' “I chew so much gum during | are too tired for me to want to} “Battle | y bur- | ial ceremonies for William Allen | LOS ANGELES —A hearing | Agar, ex-husband of actress Shir i His jury trial is | ie ie Sx\\ OPERATING BUILDING EXPENSES & UPKEEP Ant 2 (7 en \ NE MEDICAL —— CASH CARE,ETC. BENEFITS I5%¢ 79% CPP APT ATT jengagement at Paul Boysem’s to nese Priday aight—beamed for) ————-——________ {close a $20.000 deal at three. But | audiences in Red China as well as had lauded the speech as “the | TR phone him to defer closing till | Nationalist territory first ray of Lope to mankind since tomorrow, for I must be on my Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek the end of World War li the crash, setting hire urs of @ Texas and Pacific train bun th of Sher Ia. Two tank cagy cralied.—YW} Wirephotw. FREIGHT CARS BURN AFTER DERAILMIONT—PFreigh after they ys t s 2 eport