The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 9, 1953, Page 4

Pase4 > THE KEY WEST Citizen Monday, February 9, 1953 The Key West Citizen a 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 NORMAN D. ARTMAN _______""_ Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter , TELEPHONES 2.5661 and 2-5662 ——— eee 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. Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12: By Mail $15.60 ee 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 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 Gevernments. Community Auditorium, L 2. 3. 4. 7 i GE EE SIS RES TE REET SEVENTH FLEET AND FORMOSA The recent announcement by President Eisenhower that the Seventh Fleet would no longer prevent attacks on the Chinese mainland caused considerable excitement in Asian capitals. The Nationalist Chinese representative at the United Nations, Dr. T. F. Tsiang, immediately warned that the lifting of the ban would not mean an immediate invasion by Nationalist troops. U. §. political leaders generally expressed approval of the move, although the report of it caused some anxiety in Great Britain and several other countries. The most en- couraging reaction came from Formosa, itself, the only considerable land area Jeft under. Nationalist control.. A Nationalist spokesman there, who preferred not to bé namad, listed several important results, which could result from such an order: (1) The reimposition of the Na- tionalist air-sea blockade on the Chinese coast. (2) A step- ped-up tempo of commando raids and air ‘attacks on that same coast. (8) A resumption of supply service to gueril- las and agents in China. (4) A possible relaxation of Chi- nese pressure in Korea asa result of heavier security measures which would be required along many hundreds of miles of Chinese coast. It is assumed that the Seventh Fleet might maintain its protective role concerning Formosa, even if giving up the responsibility of preventing Nationalist attacks against the Chinese mainland. Such a policy has many, advantages. About the only thing the Communists respect, either in Chfna.or Russia, is force. A blockade, the threat of com- mando raids, and encouragement to guerillas on the Chi- nese mainland, are all arguments the Communist mind understands, When the dollar gets back to what might be called normal purchasing power, will you have any? There may be those who prefer to live in Russia but they show no signs of beginning an exodus, An absolutely honest life is probably the best testi- mony that an individual can offer to prove his religion beliefs. Envy of the success of others is the best indication that you do not deserve, and probably will not have, simi- lar success. _ SLICE OF H Mi “SERGEANT JONES WOULD LIKE TO 4 PINCH OF SALT" WORR/S—_» Merchants See No Prospect Of Immediate Price Boosts By The Associated Press Retail and wholesale merchants see no prospect for early price boosts on consumer goods result- ing from the lifting of government Price controls, : . An Associated Press business sur vey conducted in 20 cities yester- day showed that most goods al- ready are selling below ceiling lev- els and that) many surpluses have developed buyers’ markets, A few major raw materials still in tight demand—copper, for ex- bee a hiicagemn bd hares er prices on made with these products. ¥ The end of wage controls may lead to a round of pay increases which would boost production costs industrial leaders say. Knee aioe eee Me a sam opinion: Washington, D. C. — A man for the National Retail Dry Goods Association, representing about 7,500 member stores from coast to coast: “Removal of controls will elim- inate the expense of keeping rec- ords, which is an astronomical fig- ure for business in general. In ad- dition, retailers will be permitted freedom of merchandising, being able to price goods on a realistic basis in keeping with public de- Chicago — A major appliance dealer thinks his merchandise will go up somewhat because of possi- ble labor cost increases and lively bidding by manufacturers for ma- terials in short supply. Louisville, Ky. - Clarence H. Lin- der, General Electric vice presi- dent and general manager of G. E.’s major appliances division in that area, also foresees an upward trend in appliance retail prices. Los Angeles—A Sears, Roebuck and Company official anticipates nothing in the way of price boosts. Boston — A Filene Department store spokesman terms the dropping of price controls only “an academic discussion.” Most prices he said, are at or well below ceil- ings—particularly in men’s wear and practically all woolen and cot- ton goods. Dallas, Tex.—A grocery chain People’s Forum VANDALISM DEPLORED Editor, The Citizen: Tt is with a heavy heart that one reads about the thrice repeat- ed desecration of graves which have taken place at the cemetery. Amongst the multiple destruc- tions, the Maine plot was includ- ed; the Cuban colony and its des- cendents, being fully aware of the great sacrifice rendered by the} victims of the USS Maine in lieu | of Cuban independence. lament} this incident to the fullest mea- sures. Truly, "tis expected our local) authorities will exert all possible efiorts wo apprebepding the cul- Joseph M. Villar Alligators are classified species of crocodile. executive said: “We're already un- der ceiling on more than 800 items. Controls helped hold prices up be- cause manufacturers sometimes were reluctant to make reductions, fearing a rollback by the Office of Price Stabilization.” New Orleans—Adean Gailagher, managing director of the Retail Merchants Bureau, said retail THE BATTLE GOES ON.—While other troops. move up, a wounded man lies on the ground (foreground) talking to a hospital corpsman, during a UN smash against two hill posi- tions held by Chinese Communists in Korea. The UN assault resulted in the deaths of an estimated 300 Commies. This pic- ture was made by George Sweers, () staff photographer who accompanied the raiders.—() Wirephoto via Radio from Tokyo. | prices won’t rise unless manufac- turers up their prices. “‘Manufac- turers won’t dare go up now,” Gal- lagher said, “because this is ,a ‘soft market.’ ” New York — Spokesmen for the SAYS NEW YORK (#—Nothing is as much trouble to people as them- selves. e That is why they have a secret envy of birds and wild animals, who seem to enjoy such freedom. Being civilized, even to the de- gree mankind claims, is a big nui- sance. It makes a human being a lot of bother to himself. The fight isn’t just to get ahead in the world. It is a-big battle each day to stay even with the day before. 4 Look at what happens. You go to bed at night feeling fine and fit, content with the universe. But the minute you lie down to rest from the struggle, what is the re- sult? Decay sets in overnight. You wake up in the morning and find you have lost ground. ‘Your mouth tastes bad, one eye is gum- med shut, your hair is mussed, stomach is growling for a bite of toast. In eight hours of sleep you have fallen completely apart. The rust of time has set in. Back you go into the endless battle of trying to “be yourself,’ which really amounts each morn- ing to a hopeless attempt to cover up the ravages of the previous day. You shower and shave, you brush your hair and comb your teeth, or vice versa, and put a polish cioth to your shoes. You put on a fresh- ly pressed suit and a clean shirt. You breakfast. All right, world, here you come, jarmored for the day’s fray. Bring on the problems. But how do you feel? Why, you’ve half-worn your- you have to harrumph three times | to clear jour throat,» and your |insisted that the Sabbath falls on | One-Way, Streets Saturday we branched off into metaphysical subject and at one time quoted Mrs. Ellen G. White, early Seventh Day Adventist, as saying: “God is cheap enough.” The thought occurred to me that the Seventh Day Adventist Church is about the only one that this writer has failed to mention at one time or another -- either in this column or on the church page. We'll have to remedy that -right now. The Seventh Day Adventist de- |nomination is rather young ~- slightly over one hundred years old. Its teachings however, are as old as the history of man since | Bible. Emphasis is placed on | Bible prophecy and one of the 'church’s outstanding characteris- tics is that it does not accept Sun- day as being the Sabbath. tures which says that the seventh day of the week is the Lord’s Day, the Seventh Day Adventists have Saturday. They are right of course, insofar as Bible interpretation is concerned. It was the Catholic ; Church that changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. Ironical- ly enough, making this change was jto give the Catholics the last | laugh when centuries later, various groups began to split off and be- come known as Protestants. Although the protestant denomi- mations declaimed in one way or j another, most of the doctrines taught by the: Catholics, they fail- ed to remember that it was the Church, not the Bible, that had made Sunday the Sabbath. But ‘such a subject can lead into bitter {argument and it is not the pur- | pose of this column to get into a fight! I'm merely trying to ex- I i} By BILL GIBB : age if AE they are taken straight from the | 5 Following the word of the Scrip- a I'm neither for nor agai pressure is a) missioners self out just getting ready for them. home heating oil industry said’ And you know in your heart of their product is selling 9 per cent |hearts that the day will end with below ceiling in the mid-continent |some problems still unsolved. You area and firms are worried about |also know that when you come surpluses. In the East, they con-jhome your suit will be wrinkled, tend, prices are just about at ceil- | your shirt dirty, your beard sprout- ing and threatening to drop. Due/ing and your stomach growling to heawy military demand and dis- | again. Your teeth will be a day tribution problems, they agreed, oil | nearer the time they will be gone. prices might rise west of the |Same thing with your hair. Rockies, How can you win? If you are a woman you are an even bigger nuisance to yourself. You fret about how girdles seem to = |be getting stronger or else you are |getting weaker. You worry about jhow much harder it is to paint on \that same beautiful face you wore |so well only a year ago. Or was it | yesterday? | Year after year the repair work |goes on, but, as the poet says, each morning “‘All’s to do again.” ~ | And still the image of yourself, as >|you would like to stay, remorse- lessly and steadily ¢rambles. It might be nice if the whole * jhuman race would face up to the |fact that they, too, must obey the \old law of “Here today, gone to- morrow.” What I have in mind is a national “Give Up” Day — perhaps once a week, once a month and certain- ly at least once a year. On this day nobody would fight city hall, try to solve a problem, or attempt to look younger. No woman would put on a girdle, tint jher hair, or rouge her cheeks. She’d just loll at home in a housedress, enjoying looking frowzy No man would shave or put on shoes or a clean shirt. He would | just lie in bed, comfortably scratch- jing his ribs. - } On National “Give Up” Day , every human being would have the - |fun of falling apart gracefully and quit bruising his ‘fists against the ison bars of time. Prror this brief interlude he would know the wise liberty of the owl, who doesn’t give a hoot about to- morrow. When the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was being debated, some women proposed that it should enfranchise not only former male slaves but all women. BoY Saint, Willard Chrisman, Gary McHiveen. Second tow, Charlies Kaufman, F. bert Leightiey, Leonard Conly. Reaves Steed. Boza. Third row, Robert Bush. Robert Chrisman, SCOUT TROOP 283 held its Inv Street. The group present included the week at the NCCS building on Duval w, left to it, Donald Corm: Deegan, Lec Geudy, Ronald Goudy and rz + Jenkins, William Mardens, Albert Miller, Ai- Tommy Gibson, Donald Stewart, and Raymond Ray Tay Richard Park, Andrew Lacey lee, Saunders, Robert Read, Ronald Foster, Gurdon Hamilton, Stanley Peterson and Bernie Manchester. plain why the Seventh Day Ad- ventists use Saturday for their Sab- bath. Key West Group The local members of the Ad- ventist Church are not large in number. To an outside observer like myself, it would seem that the Adventist people stress quality rather than quantity. That is to New Type, Body Armor Soon May Be In Peace Use By LEE LINDER PHILADELPHIA #—The hunter, the bank guard and the bandit- chasing policeman will soon get a chance to wear body armor simi- lar to the type ‘n6w protecting Ma- rine and Army personnel fighting in Korea. Armor Specialties Corp., Affili- ated with L. W. Foster Sportswear Inc. of Philadelphia, disclosed yes- terday it has started production on a lightweight armored yest “for the civilian.” Up to now Foster has fabricated thousands of the vest armor units for the Marines. it 4s the only firm manufacturing this equipment. Howard S. Foster, manager, said the vest “will stop all buckshot pellets, and most low velocity shells and bullets.” “It is not bullet proof,’ he em- phasized, “though it can and has reduced the severity of direct bul- let hits. The Marines claim it has lowered battle casualties.” He said the vest to be offered to the pub- lic is “similar te but not identical with” the one for the armed forces. The vest, weighing seven pounds, US EMPLOYMENT BITS RECORD JAN. LEVEL WASHINGTON «#—Employment in the United States reached its i on record a e & ® PRSABE PSSEE BARBERE FE OF FeepHe i