The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 31, 1953, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN nae Saturday, January 21, 1953 The Key West Citizen oh a Published caaly (OS Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- lisher, trom The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County i. ARTMAN 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 or aot otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published here. Publisher SSeS aS per weeee e e 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 fhe Citizen 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. L 2 3 4, & U.S. PUBLIC DEBT i At the end of 1952 the public debt of the United States Government was approximately $266,980,000,000. This total compared with $259,221,000,000, which was owed by the Government at the end of 1951. oP Te is interesting to note that, in the seven and one-half years that President Truman was in the White House, the national debt rose $8,298,000,000. Had the Korean War neioccurred, it is likely that President Truman. would have wound up his tenure in the White House in the black. In three of the seven and one-half years he was President, the government collected more money than it spent. Those years were 1947, 1948, and 1951. resident Truman often boasted, before the Korean ‘War, that during his term in the White House, the Govern- ment had reduced the total of the national debt, slightly. Final figures on the gross public debt of the Government show he would probably have been able to back up_ this boast, had not the Korean War began in June, 1950. Largely as aresult of this conflict, the debt , rose from @bout $258,500,000,000 (when Mr. Truman became Presi- Gent) to approximately $266,980,000,000, at the end of 1952. STEEL MILL AND OATIS see The United States recently put a $17,000,000. steel mill on sale, a mill which the Communist government of Czechoslovakia had been demanding in return for the re- lease of William Oatis, Associated Press . correspondent and imprisoned in that country on charges of espionage. The Czech government paid for the steel mill some years ago, although the United States stopped delivery soon after the Communist coup in Prague. While the United States government is interested in gaining Mr. Oatis’s release, naturally, it is thought that this act will convince the Czechs that the mill is now beyond their reach. : The action is justifiable. The only regret is that U.S. assets in Russia and her satellite countries total more than $12;000,000,000. The combined assets, in the United States, of all the Communist countries total only about WE DON’T LIKE THIS AND uae sees ~NEW GADGETS — EEF é “ALITOMATIC TO BE A WET BLANKET... BUT --- THIS 15-THE SEASON OF ALL THE ANNOUNCEMENTS OF BEAUTIFUL NEW CARS — -moke ZUP=- «6 “ANO FANCIER ‘at him, and he is getting reddy BOYLE SAYS NEW YORK (#—To the . poor man’s philosopher: “Dear Sir, “IT am just a litul girl ate yeers old. I am desperatly in luv with two boys in the thurd grade. “Johnny is nice, he carrys my books home from school, helps me make mud pies, and lets me play with his lektrie trane. He even saves pennys in his piggy bank to buy me bubbel gum. “Bill is a bad boy. He pulls my hare and pushes me. He takes my bubbel gum and chews it all up himself. The teacher is mad to run away and be a hermut. (Signed) Maybelle P. S. How do you like my hand- righting? I just lurned how.” — GUT THEY CAN STILL: LOOK LIKE THIS INA MINUTE IF You +] before you have to make up your Uncle Sam Feels Results Of Steel Strike By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (®—Uncle Sam -ap- pears today to be taking a worse beating than the stockholders as a result of last summer’s steel strike. Earnings reports for 1952,’ now pouring in, show that steel ecom- ‘pany profits fell around 22 per cent below the 1951 figures. But tax payments for 1952 will be down about 69 per cent. The returns to date indicate that the U. S. Treasury may get around one billion dollars less from steel companies tnaa it collected in in- come and excess profits taxes from them in 1951, There is also a hefty tax refund act, the cdmpaniés (because ofjthe Jack the Under the excess profits “learnings drop in 1952) can get refunds on part of the excess prof- its tax paid on 1951 earnings. Re- ports to date show that these re- funds will run well up in the mil- lions. Stockholders see the earnings of the companies they own dropping in 1952, but so far there has been no cut in dividend rates by the major companies. Much of the drop in earnings is blamed on the strike, which whacked some two months. of op- erations off the year. But some other factors enter in. For one thing, iron and steel companies spent more than one billion dollars last year to expand and improve their plants, the American Iron and Steel Institute reports. oy sizable part of this expansion will go into production this year. Last year it was an expense— although ameliorated in many in- stance by fast amortization granted for defense construction. This year the new facilities will be productive. For another thing, while the last three months of 1952 showed most of the companies setting new rec- ords for output and for dollar vol- ume of sales (helped by the price hike that followed the strike), only $33,000,000. The leaders in every community talk only when they have something to say. = a! few of the companies also show better earnings than in the final three months of 1951. Steel officials this week have been stressing that their costs (in- cluding the wage hike that ended the strike) went up even more than their sales volume. Thus, most of them show even fourth quarter profits running behind the previous year. None said, however, that he was actively campaigning for another price boost. Twelve companies — —tachidieg | seven of the largest—have reported earnings so far. Combined these total $369,530,562. This was a drop | of $107,522,968, or 225 per. cent, from their 1951 profit total of $477,- 053,530. Eight of the companies also pub- lished their federal tax set-asides together they expect to pay into the U. S. Treasury $269,070,000. But in 1951 these same eight com- | panies gave Uncle Sam $860,388,000 lim corporate income and excess “1 COULD OF SWORN IT_WAS A SUBMARINE I~ profits taxes. This drop of $591.318,000, or 68.7 per cent, includes about 37 million dollars in credits for refunds on excess profit taxes paid in 1951 CONVICTION GIVEN FOR NUDE EHOTOS wood model, rie Borg, 27, and} an amateur photographer, Richard | ing H. Mitman, 36, were convicted Wed. night on a charge of lewd and lascivieus conduct involving 12 |nude pictures. Both sought a new LEELA MAAN AAA THE CONCH OBSERVES By SID McPHID IISPIASALLALLALLLLLLLE A Prose Poem. “You can’t fool me, Sir Sid Mc- Phid; Dear Sir Sid: ns I know you as the merry jester Years ago, before you, Swinky Swanky and Jim Koodle de Flu left bens wears a ne. rankish for the Ten Thousands to pass a aif week on each island before’ re-| That is to say, old boy Lance turning home, I read your des- Lester.” All of which is a digression from the title of these paragraphs, Conch Pedigree, which concerns an old college chump of mine, Mr. Jim Koodle, de Flu. Dear Sidonius: Who is this Jim Koodle de Flu? Is he a Conch- konian or is he Frenchy? PETE. I’m surprised, Pete, you don't know Jim, because you’ve been a trueblue Conch, as he has been, since we caught goats in Billy Goat Alley to go for an afternoon canter, (Ah, Petronious, give me back those days, and you can have all the gold in Fort Knox. They were the days when we chased King Kongo up Grinnell Street and made him yell for maternal pro- tection; they were the days when we went swimming in Mrs. Nature’s bathing suits and came out of the water to find our clothes tied in a hundred knots; they were the days when we ran 10 miles while we played Ten Yatds, but grumbled when we ‘had to go a 10-foot errand. Take all Fort Knox’s gold, and give me just an hour playing marbles again with Kid Ugly or Pa Donkey. Tell me, Pete, why don’t Time go backward once in awhile to let us feel again the surge of youth? cription of a sunrise, viewed from the head of Stock Island, but doubt it was as gorgeous as a sun- set I saw recently from the old Mallory wharf, 5 Shimmering crimson lakes, se- parated by shafts of yeilow, rang- ing in shade from Spanish gold to orange, snuggled together just above the horizon; higher up the crimson toned down to pink, and the pink, still higher up, paled to a dawn or blush pink that merged with pale blue, which, on ascend- ing, became deeper and deeper, until at the top of the dome, it was as deep as the indigo in the Gulf Stream, a couple of stone throws from Key West’s South Beach. Still higher up, the indigo faded out gradually, changing into blue, pale blue, with a rim of faint pink, and above that the clear gold of showering sun rays. At the left of the corona, at a height of 30 to 45 degrees, was a fairy castle, built of snowy clouds. The tower, except at the right, which inclined like the leaning Tower of Pisa, was almost per- fect. The most wonderful illusion about the tower was the flickering light in myriad windows, caused by How to Succeed If you want to make your mark in life, stay up the greater part of Sy es enn ee Always remain ignorant of the fact that the nickels and dimes many, many dollars. Work only to get your pay enve- lope and disregard entirely the in- terests of your employer. Make it a point to sidetrack the difficult things in your work and shunt them on the other fellow. Let your motto be, “I can’t do } that,” and live consistently up to A serene and solemn feeling stole over me as I watched the tower till it was swallowed up in blackness at the rim of the hori- zon. | SAM GOLDSMITH Conch Pedigree - If I continue to run letters that | jhave been sent me, several Conch- konian friends will write today’s column, One writer says: “I gathered from a couple of nudging hints Norman Artman gave me ;that Sid McPhid is a combination jot Editor Margaret Foresman and Norman's three livewire reporters, }Susan McAvoy, Dorothy Raymer fand Jim Cobb. Of this I am cer- tain: Sid’s supposedly eating alli- gator eggs is a rehash of a para- graph in Dorothy Raymer’s CONCH | CHOWDER column of a few weeks |ago, when she quoted somebody, whose name I have forgotten, as | i i } r my comes back to this skywriting trail- ing behind it: “He yearns to re- gain his long-lost potency * a ide salete lad oil bo. oume ® ladykiller.” Another writer f; try” im trying to iMcPhid is: you waste are component parts of | Well, Maybelle, you are con- fronted with woman’s oldest prob- lem — how to choose between two fine men, one who wants to marry you and the other who thinks he doesn’t. It is a big decision, and one you ought to think through. Don’t rush into anything. Keep them both dangling for a while. After all, you still have a few months mind finally. As I see it, Maybelle, Johnny is perhaps the most dangerous choice. Little boy angels sometimes turn out to be real devilish in middle age. Why does Johnny carry your books home, help you make mud pies, let you play with his elec- tric train, and give you bubble gum? It is because he knows exactly what he wants. He wants you. And he has deliberately set out to turn your girlish head and buy your girlish heart with creature com- forts and genteel attentions.. + But is he really thinking of you — or of himself? Think carefully, Maybelle. It is nice to be married to a thoughtful, considerate husband. But isn’t Johnny a bit on the dull side? If you married him he would always be underfoot, and it might be rather like having a male maid around the house. He even sounds too good to be true. And that may be the case, little Maybelle. At 40 Johnny may suddenly decide he wants somebody else, and start putting money in his piggy bank to buy some young blonde a mink coat. That'll mean the old heave-ho for you. Bill offers more of a challenge, I would say — the rough-hewn kind of male any woman feels she THIS ROCK OF OURS By BILL GIBB A couple of days ago this column said City Commissioner Delaney had shown a modicum of common sense with regard to the B-girl ordinance. Afterwards, Jack and I -were talking and he looked at me with a hurt, reproachful gaze. “Bill,” he said, “‘most of the time I don’t mind what -you call me but that word ‘modicum’ what’s it mean, anyhow?” My answer to Jack sort of eased his feelings because I told him: “I don’t know for sure what it means but it had a pretty sound and I figured a lot of people would think I was intelligent to use big words like that.” Later I looked the word “modi- cum” up in the dictionary. It said: “A moderate or limited amount.” Heck! Jack Delaney should be proud! It is seldom that — this column gives any city commission- er credit for having a “limited amount of common sense.” He should even get a special job created for my benefit. Just a hint, Jack, but I would like to be “Inspector of the Inspectors.” Since I don’t like work myself, I don't want to supervise a crowd of guys who are laboring too hard. Delaney also told me that most of his candidate pledges had been fulfilled or were in the course of being completed. He named such things as sidewalk improvement, sewage, etc. If Jack’s statement is correct, (I didn’t have time to check it completely), he should be congratulated. “How about the utility tax?” I asked him. “That wasn’t in my pledge to the voters,” he answered. “And besides, I wasn’t the one who pro- posed it.”” Apparently, the proposed utility tax has died a natural death but I’m not too sure. For months I’ve expected to see it crop up again and be passed unexpectedly | conveniences, it will be the fore opposition would have —2@° chance to organize. The City needs money. A utility tax isn’t the way to get it though. Especially if: Dave King’s suggestion is follow- ed: the tax will be graduated’ so that those who use utilities most will be bracketed to pay the low- est percentage of taxes. That throws the complete burden on the little man. How many of us are paying for water that we never get? If we have to start paying taxes for some wealthy person's 3 straw. Korea High ranking officers are having a rather hot Congfess. The accusation officers have turned the a theater for entertainment absurb. We might go that and say that the enti tion smells like a piece. propaganda turned loose Reds. Certainly anyone lieves the talk is going faith and confidence in our sreern- ment. Officers -- either in the ‘Army or the Navy -- are human beings: They - can make mistakes. Their jobs al-: so call for performances at times which appear to the public to a mistake but are actually part a far-reaching plan. I’ve . held with the theory that,’ cers are gentlemen.” We much proof to the contrary. ever, I do believe that the majority of leaders in our. Service are intelligent, brave, ambitious. For General Clark any other leader to sacrifice American lives automatically eliminate more of these Time will explain _the situation but Congressional leaders have already done harm to this country’s morale ‘shooting their mouth off’ eye fie é gee aged iste gg sche i ae z be-|they had all the facts. Improvement For U.S.1 To Be Carried Out If Possible TALLAHASSEE (#—The Florida Road Board today indicated it will do everything its limited budget for this year will permit to carry out Gov. Dan McCarty’s campaign Pledge to improve U. S. Highway 1 down the east coast. The main east coast traffic ar- tery came up twice during the board’s hearings on projects it will include in its 1953 work budget, Board members listened and, with- out making definite commitments, gave every indication all possible could sculpture into something bet- tor. . A man who at the age of eight has the idea of becoming a hermit willeprobably later turn out to be a bank president —— or a bank bandit. It all depends on whether the right woman gets a hold of him. What if Bill doesn’t really know he wants you, Mabelle? What if he does prefer pulling your hair to making mud pies? Your problem is to curb his ro- mantic nonsense and wild ways. Get your mother to help you. Have her bake him some real cookies in- stead of mud pies. Borrow John- ny’s electric train, and invite Bill over to your house to play with it. Show him the better things of life. Let him see how much fun it is to be with a real live-wire girl who is looking out for him all the time. Once you housebreak a guy like Bill he stays housebroken — just like a well-broken horse. Don't worry. Ten years after you're mar- | ried, he'll be carrying the grocery packages, drying the dishes, and bringing you his paycheck intact Anthing else doing in the third grade, Maybelle? | People’s Forum ‘The Citizen welcomes expres- stons of the views of its read- ers. but the edit reserves the right to deiete tems which areconsidered libelows or wnwar- ranted. The writers should be | iy and confine the letters to 300 words and write on one side | of the paper oniy. — ot the writer must secompan i letters and will be published = lesa requested ocherwise. WILL SOMEBODY EXPLAIN? , | Editor, The Citizen: Last fall there was conducted in | Monroe County a referendum to whetber or not the; voters would allow in this county | a dog track with parimuteel bet- ting. Though the state legisisture has legalized this sort of betting it places certain restrictions on the track attend as patrons can help operate the clob as of the employed personnel J. Paul Touchton * work on U. S. 1 will be attempted. A delegation from St. Lucie, the governor's home county, stressed U. S. 1 as its main primary road problem. “Something must be done about U. S. 1,” State Rep. Frank Fee said. “When that is done, I don’t believe the communities along the East Coast will object to a turnpike if that is considered feasible.” Strongest opposition to the pro- Posed 250 million dollar toll turn- pike system has come from East Coast cities which would be by- passed by the suggested super- highway. U. S. 1 is a four-lane highway from Ft. Pierce north to the Indian River County line. Fee asked that it be four-laned south of Ft. Pierce to the Martin County line. He also asked extension of the beach highway, AlA,, Pierce south to Martin “We look upon St. capital county gia hin rd Hid with the idea of “ little” from the E SE RR SR AR PERS ESEE BONNEY B Eersep ao - ie