The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 7, 1953, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, February 7, 1953 The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) by-L. P. Artman, owner and pub- listier, trom The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Ln ARTMAN Publisher MORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter ; TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 Mémber of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it er not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published here. Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12; By Mail $15.60 SEVEN YEARS OF TRUMAN Harry S. Truman got worried about the verdict of historians in his last days as President. He talked to a number of reporters in an effort 'to get them to print ‘his side’ of the story, He made several speeches, delivered one over television and radio and sent several summary mess- ages to Congress—over on Capitol Hill. In all his writings and speaking, he struck the same note: I have fought a courageous battle for the little people and have fought Communism with determination. Truman also told reporters that critics always abuse current Presidents, but that the final verdict—as evaluat- €d over the years—on Harry Truman will vindicate his sacts as the Chief Executive. In his seven years as Presi- ‘dent, he made many bitterly contested decisions. No doubt he was the number one citizen of the country in a turbu- lent era, when the balance between war and peace was both delicate and deceptive. ; When Franklin Roosevelt died, Truman was a humble man, praying for guidance and awed by the responsibili- ties facing him. He had not known FDR very well and had SO DIFFERENT FROM A PRIVATE OFFICE CIV IVI VV VIG IVT ISVS SCSI ISS seen him only twice as Vice-President, an office he had! -held only about two months. He had been a good Senator, ‘was voted by Washington reporters as one of the best in Congress before winning the Veep nomination in 1944. ‘But he was unprepared for the gigantic organization ‘which dropped into his lap when FDR suddenly passed way. ec" At first, he appointed a solid row of conservatives to his Cabinet. The progressvies in the Democratic party re- «sented this tendency to the right and Truman was unpopu- Jar with them for a time as a result. Nevertheless, many of the conservatives stayed, despite later changes in*'view- “point'on the part’of Mr. Truman. Old friends, like Secre- ‘tary of the Treasury, Snyder, and Secretary of Commerce r, ‘remained en with Mr. Truman to the.end in ap- parent contradiction of some of his policies. H Finally, Truman began to swing to the left. Some con- : Servatives broke with him. Byrnes, Norse, Byrd, and { others left the field: By that time, Truman might have been i looking forward to the 1948 elections. By the time they ar- t rived he was an all-out left-winger. He became the first : President to claim that all segregation was discrimination, ‘ thus became the champion civil righter, and the bitter foe + of the South in this field. He swung further to the left after election. He favored the admission of more displaced 5 persons, more Point Four aid, greater pay for labor, and ‘ bigger and bigger government and benefit programs. His domestic policies, therefore, varied. They were at first * moderately conservative, and labor became very liberal, or left-wing, as one might prefer. ‘He ended his term as President trying to seize the steel mills, give away the tidelands oil rights to the Navy and trying to set a budget of some 78 or 79 billions for 1953-1954. All were controversial and bitter issues. They ; demonstrated the great strife which had. marked most of the Truman era—scandals, labor disputes, and loyalty} probes among the highlights. * But, in one field he was largely successful. That was in foreign policy. The Truman administration made some mistakes but achieved more successes. The history books will probably not do badly by Harry on foreign policy de- spite all the criticisms, many of them ignorant ones, and despite the Korean War. We have no idea that the atomic bomb or any other discovery is beyond the capicity of men to control. ... Ear To The Ground By JIM COBB HAL BOYLE SAYS NEW YORK #—A powerful epi- demic is reaching across America now, affecting millions of house- holds. The malady usually picks as its welcome victim the man-of-the- house. It is spread by men’s clothing stores and carried into the home by newspapers. It is called ‘“‘the | semi - annual clearance sales fe- ver.” Symptoms: An itching in the wal- let; accompanied by a delirious male urge to buy... buy .. . buy. Treatment: The wise wife will let her little man enjoy the fever until it runs its course, and his wardrobe is re-stocked. It is the only known cure. Since women do most of the buying today, special sales are held for them all over the calendar. But men get to exercise their hunt- ing instincts only twice a year— during the storewide winter clear- ance, and the summer clearance held sometime after the fourth of July. These are the oniy periods when a papa gets to buy some pretty feathers for his very own self. » |The rest of the year he is doling Reshuffle Of Exec. Agencies In Ike’s Han By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON (#—President Ei- senhower’s first legislative request was halfway through Congress Wednesday with a clear and fast track ahead. It’s a bill continuing for two -|years the President’s power to re- A i AB St A MB nn vy Talk about doing things the hard way! ‘I decided to find out something about the survey operations which the Gulf Oil Company is conduct- ing in Key West waters to deter- mine whether or not there is oil in the area. So I went down to the Gulf Docks and talked to a crew member of the “Survey,” one of seven vessels engaged in the project. He told me that a fellow named Wiley is in charge of the operation, was the man to see for a story. Problem: Wiley, at the time, was aboard a houseboat (the company has its office and living quarters aboard the W. B. Lee) which was tied up about 400 yards away at one of the tiny keys which lies across the Northwest Channel. The fellow said that I could reach Wiley on the telephone by calling the Marine Operator in Miami. Seemed like a lot of trouble to phone a man who was in plain sight by way of Miami, a distance of some 300 miles, but the man said they do it every day. I placed the call and the Miami operator said that it would require a two hour wait for the call to be completed. I explained the situation to the gal in Miami and we had a good chuckle. She told me a little about the Marine Operator setup. It seems that just about any radio equipped vessel, when they are at sea, can call anywhere in the nation simply by getting in touch with the marine operator by radio. Key West's shrimp fleet, she told me, are big users of the service. They can call their base of opera- tions to pass on information re- garding their catch or simply call the little woman to see if she wants them to stop at the grocery store on the way home. Talk about progress! We finally met Mr. Wiley on the dock. George Renna, chairman of the Motel and Hotel Commission of the Key West Chamber of Com- merce, in commenting on the slight slump in the city’s tourist New Storm About Riviera Painting business earlier in the season, said that, the nationwide virus “X” epidemic has been balmed by many for the situation. Renna said that a survey con- ducted by the Miami Beach Cham- ber of Commerce revealed that scores of cancellations were re- ceived by hotels there - most of them from people in the north who said that one or more members of their family had been stricken with the bug. Renna said that the situation is improving and reported that most motels are operating at peak ca- pacity here and have been since February 1st. Karl and Deedie Agricola are scheduled to plane north to Sagi- maw, Michigan, on Monday for an extended stay. One of the better painters in the city, some of Agri- cola’s paintings done on a Cuban trip a year ago are now on dis- play at the Key West Artist’s Group Street Fair on Clinton Place. Show runs through next Monday. Bert Garnett, who appeared at a meeting of the city commission neighborhood, and also Larry Karns, who has a similar problem on Duval Street, ought to have neighbors like mine. The proprietor of a bar near my house (there are eight of them within a block of me) to whom I had once complained because his nightly jam sessions were just a little on the loud side, to take further steps, if necessary. But most Key Westers facing such a situation don’t get that |kind of co-operation. Garnett, in Particular, has had the city mana- j ger at his place pretty often and each time the noise, for some rea- son had abated. About the only way local citi- zenry can get results is to swear ‘out a warrant against the offend- jer, and few (for good reason) want {to get involved in such a situation. sulted Mexican Catholics by de- picting Cantinflas, Mexico's top comedian, in his usual movie peas. ant's garb, standing near the Vir- gin of Guadalupe, Mexico's patron saint. St. Juan Diego should be MEXICO CITY —A new protest | standing there, the party explained. storm swirled about the head of| famed, controversial painter Diego | Rivera Friday because, im a movie house mural here, he put a film comic where a saint usually is shown standing. The Mexican Nationalist party (PNM), charging the farleftist artist with sacrilege, threatened to boycott the new Teatro de los Insurgentes (theater of the insur gents}, which the disputed mural jadorns. The PNM said Rivera bad in- ™ disposable personal each it the 1935-39 value. Ocean waves can attain a of 70 feet or mare. shuffle executive agencies—subject to congressional veto—a power first given to ex-President Truman in 1949. The House passed the bill Tues- day, 389-5, just one day. after the President requested action in his message on the state of the union. It was the first major House action of the new session. Senate approval, perhaps next week, was expected. As passed by the House, the bill would give Eisenhower reorganiza- tion powers identical with those held by Truman. These permit the President to reshuffle agencies or functions. The plans become effec- tive in 60 days unless either the Senate or the House, by a constitu- tional majority vote, vetoes them. A constitutional majority of the Senate is 49 votes. In the House it’s 218. Chairman Hoffman (R-Mich) of the House Government Operations Committee sought to curb the President’s power by permitting veto by a simple majority vote of either braneh—a minimum of 25 in | the Senate and 110 in the House. poor tes shouted down that pro- posal. Senate Majority Leader Taft (R- Ohio) said the House bill probably will be sent to the Senate Govern- ment Operations Committee, which voted last week to approve a bill requiring only a simple majority vote of either House to kill a reor- ganization plan. But Taft said he doesn’t believe there will be any difficulty in get- ting a committee majority for the ‘House-approved bill. Before President Eisenhower made it plain that he wanted con- tinuation of the present law, the the opposition of 14 Democrats on Hoffman's committee. After taking several hours of needling and taunting from Demo- crats, Republicans explained that their original position was due to a | misunderstanding of what the News Briefs BOSTON #—Christopher Lawlor brought his 175- pound Great Dane dog to the Bos- ton federal income tax office Thursday. and said: out. dough for the rest of the family. But the morning he opens his paper and reads, “Sale! suits, shirts, shoes mared down!”-- well, a wild look comes into his eyes. He is like a hungry Indian who sees the track of a disabled deer in the snow. Off he sprints for the store, jammed with other bar- gain hunters. They wave checkbooks and wal- lets, paw through shirt stacks, burrow into sock piles, and play tug-of-war with each other when they grab the same special-priced necktie. They are swept up in a group dance of swirling madness. The salesmen stand on the out- skirts, taking money from the sur- vivors as they waddle out of the churning mass, their arms loaded with loot. “Men are always kidding wom- en about their shopping behavior.” one salesman said. “but I wish sometimes that we had a specta- tors’ gallery here during our men’s sales, so wives could see how their husbands act. “They'd really get a laugh. It’s like watching a bunch of kids who’ve been turned loose in a candy store and told they could have all they wanted for a penny.” But he added that men rarely get into hair - pulling tussels or tongue - lashing duels, as women sometimes have been known to do when two wanted the same piece of apparel. “There is a kind of unwritten Men’s , {and imperishable”, | THIS ROCK OF OURS By BILL GIBB Larry Karns doesn’t particularly. care for Plato. The fact remains that if Plato happened to be alive today, he would be a great man. He might even be an honorary member of the Suffragette Party for he was one of the first men to say that although women were, in general, inferior to men, they p¥s- sessed qualities which could make them equal or even superior, That kind of talk alone should have bought him the same death as his teacher, Socrates. Namely, a cup jof hemlock poison. | It was Plato who believed: “Un- til philosophers are kings... . cities will never have rest from their troubles -- no, nor the human rave. . .”. Of course, this state. ment was accepted in complete hu- mility -- he probably forgot the ‘fact that he himse was a philo- sopher. If Plato favored democra- cy slightly it was only by compari- son with other forms of govern- ment such as oligarchy, tyranny, etc. In his rather mild manner he said: “Democracy is a charming form of government full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and un- equals alike.” I have been reading Plato in the hopes of finding some solution to the political troubles of Key West. He sort of threw me for a loop though, because he kept switching in the metaphysical with the poli- tical. By modern standards, Plato was a pagan, a heathen, or what have you, He believed in a su- preme God but also thought there were quite a few little gods who helped rule the. world. Teaching that “‘the soul of man is immortal he felt that there is a spiritual pattern which, if followed, would bring about an ideal state. As I say, I lost sight of my poli- tical studies about this time and began to think of the many little Public Debt Is A Big Job To Take On By ED CREAGH WASHINGTON ‘® — The public debt, it sometimes seems, is like about it but nobody does anything about it. It is, to be sure, a big thing to tackle. It’s more than 265 billion dollars now. Before maay months, as President Eisenhower cautioned in Monday’s State of the Union message, it may push through the present legal limit of 275 billion dollars. That means you, your wife or husband and even a baby born sportsman’s code in such situa- tions,” he said. “If two men want the same shirt, they usually toss a coin--and it is a matter of honor for the loser to grin and take defeat. like a man, chin up. “That's pretty hard sometimes, too, particularly if it’s a green shirt. For some reason a man with a passion for a green shirt can hardly stand the thought of losing one.” A man who shows up with his wife at a semi-annual clearance sale is not only regarded as hen- pecked by his fellow male bargain this morning each owes, on the average, about $1,766. And the in- terest keeps piling up all the time. Eisenhower has proposed one corrective step. Too much of the debt, he said in his message, comes due in too short a time, So the Treasury will spread part of it over longer periods—put more of it in the hands of long-term in- vestors, Also, he said, by strict economy his administration will try to keep the debt from going any higher than is absolutely necessary. Now comes a congressman who seekers, they feel he is stretching their chivalry too far. They, hate to elbow-bruise a lady, but after all they only get thi fun twice a year. “Anybody who brings his wife along at a time like this,” I once heard one grumpble, “is like an Indian who'd drag his squaw with him on a buffalo bunt.” Mice And Snakes Supplement Diet Of Hungry Airmen ‘RENO, Nev. #@ — Ever eat a |broiled ‘snake or a sauted field | mouse? The Plumas National Forest rugged Sierra Nevada eat lots of them. And that’s not all During the past year. the forest service said, Air Force men living off the land consumed 3.596 — 3, frogs, 164 porcupines, peesceri s, four chipmunks, 14 snakes and two field mice. | Officers teonfirmed the report They ex- |Service says hungry airmen on} jsurvival training maneuvers in the { at Stead Air Force Base | would go somewhat farther. Rep. E. Y. Berry of South Dakota says Eisenhower's propos- als are fine but—why nt go the whole hog? Why not, in fact, take the practi- the weather — everybody talks }co! jsentences which ordinary mortals have left to posterity and om which days could be spent in med- itation. These “little sentences” inevita- bly lead back to the Bible but each of them packs a load of dynamite to the person whose thoughts have somehow gone astray. John Dry- den’s “God never made his work for man to mend” can provoke. serious individual to quite a hours of concerning the | jwe see ground us. The words \to be a good starting point | gaining humility. And then there is the chara in Raynolds’ “The Sinner of Saint ;Ambrose” w.fo says: “I have not time to provoke God.” Perhaps Mrs. Ellen G. White, an early lead! er of the Sevem'’h Day Adventist iChurch, couches ‘he meaning of this thought in even more convincing lerms by . emphatically stating: “God is cheap peo Do you begin to follow my point | when I say that such brief sen- jtences are able to furnis’ food for thought? They lead direc Bible study and out of this study we might achieve a — ‘political State. There philosophers who do not eabie trouble seems to be that we : tals are continuaily ‘trying to his work for our own selfish ests. 5‘ » iigi ti é : i z 2 i Pi hi i 3 ‘Bul iY ; : Lt i Z i 4 j i | S & i f E E e | = F ir rae ce g i { coupon. This, with a |another tie. Men without |must pay a little extra. pro- |eeeds will go to the student fellow. Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1. Exhausts | veils 4u5 “Td like to claim Larz as an plained that the men are turned | exemption. He eats six pounds of loose in the mountains with rations meat a night.” Tax coordinator James Gilbride of seven or eight days to hike back and |to civilization Sn ro Oe can wh wall “Nothing doing. He's a risk—not |of their rations is the first few an exemption.” days have to learn and learn fast} to live off the land,” one officer \ for three days. It takes a minimum | EE i48e 408% mow vemees a