The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 11, 1953, Page 4

Page4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, February 11, 1953 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 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. i f Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25c 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 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. TAX REDUCTION IN 1953? It is interesting to note that the chief Republican spokesman on taxes in the House, Representative Daniel Reed, of New York, and the new Speaker of the House. Representative Joe Martin, of Massachusetts, have both de- signated a bill lowering taxes ‘H.R.1’, That means H.R.1 is slated for early action in the lower body of Congress, as the first bill in order of business. ts s This bill, sponsored by Rep. Reed, would lower income taxes about eleven per cent for most people at the end ‘of June 80th, 1953. In addition to this tax-lowering bill, many other tax reduction bills’ have been introduced, though the ‘Reed bill ig certain to be considered by the House. There has been much speculation, from both Republi-! ean and Democratic sources, on the question of tax reduc- tion this year. Spokesmen for'both parties have claimed that tax reductions in 1953 were not likely because of huge defense expenditures already planned ‘and tentatively ap- proved, On the other hand, there are some members of the House and Senate who feel that'tax reductions can be ef- fected this year, if economies are invoked in the necessary places with the necessary vigor. F a eke Some of these people would end all foreign economic aid’in order to achieve a budget which would permit tax cuts. General Bisenhower, however, is not thought to favor ’ such a program and there is still a question whether taxes can be reduced as early as this year. In this connection, it is encouraging'to. see the new House move in such a determined manner toward’consider- ation of tax reduction. Evidently, there is considerable sen- timént in the House favoring early tax reductions and we hope the budget and subsequent events will justify such ac- tion, and that it will be taken. If ‘you take a man at the value he places on himsélf, you will probably rate him too high. There is not much to any personal philosophy that teaches an individual that he is too good for the rest of the people n earth. You never know how broke your friends are until you serve on a committee to collect funds for a werthwhile charitable cause, Fatalities on our highways are a disgrace to our civillf- zation; they will continue to increase unless traffic laws are rigidly enforced, SLICE OF HAM MORR[ Smee CANDLING TEST 2 Fate Of Educational TV Hangs In Balance’ By WAYNE OLIVER NEW YORK ® —_The fate of educational television is hanging in a balance that may be tipped one way or the other by midyear. It looks now as if a large pro- portion of the 242 TV channels set aside for noncommercial educa- tional ‘stations —: “‘schools of the air” — will remain unclaimed by the: June 2 deadline set by the Federal Communications Commis- sion. + “The commission hag warned ‘that after that date it may open any of the. unclaimed channels to: com- mefcial ‘use, supplementing the 1,800 channel allocations already made for commercial stations. So far, less than two dozen ap- plications for educational stations have been ‘filed. The commission has granted” 14 of these. . Educators generally are enthusi- astic about the idea of edycationa) stations for telecasts into schools to: supplement regular »classroom work, and into“ homes- for: adult education courses. But the hitch is getting the money from state legis- latures. Seven of the permits for educa- tional stations have gone to the New York State Board of Regents, which ‘proposes a 10-station” state (Campaign On For Writing To Servicemen By ADELAIDE KERR NEW YORK (# — Ond day Mrs. George Blakeslee began to think of the bleak look’she had seen on the faces of servicemen turning away from mail call empty-handed. Of the young corporal, home from Korea with a wounded leg, who said: “The most important things to the men overseas are food and mail.” Of the letter from her soldier son, urging her to “do something about the apathy toward the men who are serving overseas.” Mrs. Blakeslee, chic blonde wife of a New York negrologist, had been co-chairman @ the Citizens Committee for the Army and Navy in World War I. Té¢ her, to think of something need@d by service- men is to act. is time she reached for the tel . A few weeks late, representa tives of 19 leading American in- dustries met at a Igncheon called to launch a “Note From a Neigh- bor” campaign, approved by the | Department of Def@se. j It is not a pen pi program—in which strangers wrie to strangers | —but a campaign fat newsy letters jfrom friends, neighbors and busi- [ jness associates to gen they know | who are serving ovirseas. “The apathy toward the boys who are serving ov@seas has been terrible,” said Mrs Blakeslee. “I} felt it would do the® 2 great deal of good if we couida!l make them know that what th@ are giving is deeply appreciated:and that they | are remembered ‘warmly back / home.” | No committee spmpsored the lun-; cheon, Mrs. Biaks ran it alone. | A leading Ameri: foot- ed the bill, with/the ‘stipulation that its name beavithheld. Mrs. Blakeslee explaing? the project d read cor tory messages 4 i rot Geiense, and Gea_James A. Van educational network — most am- bitious of the educational TV plans so far advanced. Regent Jacob L. Holtzmann says the fate of the New York plan will have a profound effect on other states that have drawn up plans for similar state- wide networks, But the New York plan, calling for 3¥2 million dollars to build the 10-station network and 1% million a year to operate it, faces uncer- tain prospects at best in the State Legislature now in session. Some of the other proposed’ edu- eational stations have more. defi- nite prospects, The University of Southern California has a station under con- struction at Los Angeles with a $500,000 grant from the Allan Han- cock Foundation. It is due to go on the; air within the next few weeks, © The University of Houston in Texas, hopes to have a, station on the air during the spring—possibly by April. The Kansas State Col- lege of Agriculture and Applied Science at Manhattan plans to have its educational station in operation before the year is out. Of the other four permits, three have gone to the Connecticut State Board of Education for stations at Bridgeport, Hartford and Norwich, Fleet, retiring as commander of the U. S. Eighth Army in Korea. \ “This flow of spontaneous friend- liness from the folks back nome will add immeasurably to our morale,” said Gen. Van Fleet. Methods discussed at the lun- cheon for starting the “Note From a Neighbor” campaign included Points like these: Prepare a list of the company’s overseas personnel for employes to and the fourth to the New Jersey Department .of Education for a station at New Brunswick. A basic question involved in edu- cational TV is whether it’s better to set up noncommercial educa- tional stations or to put educational programs on commercial stations. There’s strong support for both sides of the issue, with consider- able sentiment for giving commer- cial permits to educational insti- tutions so they could use part of their time for sponsored programs that would pay part or all of their costs. The Iowa State College at Aines has been operating WOI-TV since early 1950 as a commercial ‘sta- tion, telecasting enough sponsored programs to meet expenses and show a profit. It’s the orily’ éda® cational institution currently” hav- ing a TV station on the’ air. But several others plan ‘to follow | the same idea. Michigan State Col- lege at East Lansing, Mich.;Cor- nell University at Ithaca. N. Y.; the University of Missouri at Co- lumbia; and Harding College at Memphis, Tenn., all have obtained regular commercial TV permits. Meanwhile, numerous education- al programs are being telecast over privately owned commercial stations by schools and colleges. consult, but do not circulate it, lest it fall into the wrong hands. Put a slip in the pay envelope or a notice on the bulletin board telling employes about the pro- gram and informing them that the list is available. Give the house organ a story. Next time you are cooking frozen peas, try adding a dash of sugar to the cooking water. i) Editor, The Citizen: - BOYLE. SAYS NEW YOR Ki Just what is Cafe Society? How does one get ahead in it? The current vice trial of a so- called Cafe Society playboy has aroused fresh interest in this mys- terious social order. It sounds so glittery and glamorous. compared to the stuffy, snooty old ‘400” of the past, whose members now are extinct or forgotten. Some Broadwayites say there is no such thing as Cafe Society. They regard it as a pleasant legend dreamed up to entertain the folk in the hinterland, Generally, however, Cafe Society can be said to consist of the people who regularly patronize ‘a number of celebrated mid-Manhattan wat- ering troughs. These plush-lined .| zoos differ basically from the old- fashioned corner saloon only in the fact they provide no free lunch and. have replaced their swinging doors with a velvet rope or a, gilded flunkey. « They belong to the old “400” you had to observe a certain code of behavior. You had to have morals as well as manners. In Cafe Society the only prevailing rules are those of the late Marquis of Queens- berry, To rise quickly in this neon-lit circle you should have a clean shirt, a big name, and a pocket full of money. If you have enough money and spend it freely, the name-fame and clean shirt re- quirements will be readily waived. Some beginners have the idea that their standing in cafe society is determined by the number of headwaiters they know by their first names. That is wrong. Your rating is fixed by how many head- waiters know your name. The ,syrest way to become a man of distinction with a head- waiter is to slip him a $5 bill and tell him who you are. Do this a few times and the memory of George Washington may slip his mind, but he will never forget you. Conversation is highly valued in Cafe Society. You are supposed to be in “the big know.” You have to be able now and then to toss out a crumb of inside misinformation about a person or event of im- portance the day before it appears in the gossip columns. You have to study your talk with big names, whether you really know them or not. No longer can you get by with things like, “A taxi driver said a funny thing to me the other day.” There is only one other rule in Cafe Society conversation. Who- ever is at your table at the mo- ment is a great guy—and every- body who isn’t is a bum. This isn’t all a matter of polite eti- quette. It is based on the fact that if your back stab the people at your table they may all get up and walk away and leave you to pay the check. You know you are a real fixture in Cafe Society when people start dropping by and sitting at your table instead of you having to go to theirs. You are now a big wheel. But Cafe Society is an escalator of people going down as well as a Dp. How do you know when you're through? You know it when you go to their favorite gilded den at the usual hour and find the head- waiter has seated someone new in your very own seat at your very own table in the corner reserved for the trite elite. This is the most crushing dis- iter that can happen in Cafe So- ciety. You reel out of the place a broken man, knowing you no i}longer belong to the inner circle. There is nobody in the world left ||for you to associate with—except «| people. People’s Forum ranted. The writers fair and confine the letters 200 words and write on one side et the paper only. Signatare of the writer must ny the letters and@ will be pu! un leas requested ocherwise. PARENTS’ PEC a A vopy of 4 writeup in yout paper, by Dorothy Raymer, has Last Friday this column asked various questions re; the or- dinance which would permit the Police to attach any car parked on the street for a period of twenty- four hours. Though the answers to these questions were left to the in- dividual reader, I'll be quite frank and say that, in my opinion, such an ordinance gives the police de- partment too wide a latitude to exercise personal indiscretion. “Sugar” Sweeting felt that the column was aimed at his wrecking service and parking lots. He told me: ‘From the tone of your col- umn people are likely to think that I’m working in ‘cahoots’ with the City in order to get all the wreck- ing business and storage .rentals. There are no political connections |whatsoever and my business has been built on service to the peo- ple.” I certainly had no intention of questioning “‘Sugar’s” honesty. The general opinion among those who know him is that he is too honest for his own good as far as political matters go. As a_ reporter, I've covered meetings when he would walk out because the arguments in- volved were smelling something like over-ripe cabbage. However, as I told “Sugar,” the column was objecting to the procedures of city government which apparently do not distribute business equally throughout the town. If any other | concern were to receive most of {the City business, the column | would apply to them as well. “The other wrecking businesses do not want the calls,” Sweeting answered. “It is a losing proposi- tion to to win a car and perhaps have to hold it for weeks and | months. Wrecking service within the city limits is $5, and I seldom get anything out of storage.” Reese Bros. & Caraballo We made a trip around town and visited the Reese Bros. and “Frank Caraballo. These garages backed Sweeting’s word that they did not money in it” or “No storage space” was the reaSon they gave. It would seem from their talk that It’s OK To Say Ike When You Talk About Him By E.DCREAGH . WASHINGTON » — If you're talking or writing. to the new tef- ant of the White House, custom’ decrees that you address him as “Mr. President,’* * lt But if you’re talking or wtiting about him—or, for that matter, if you yell a greeting out the window when his motorcade passes by— it’s okay to call him “Ike.” That's the word from people in close touch with the new President. And they add that people who called Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower “Mamie” before Ja: to call her “Mamie” today: Some of those who know the first family’s feeling sum i* up this way: nhower regards the nick- want local wrecking jobs. “Not any | i reached us here in Nigeria. It is; || headed “Military Rites for Eng- | RAMIREZ TWINS IN JAPAN check the pulse of a patient in the Tokyo Army Hospital. That's Armando Ramirez, left and his brother Antonio, right. The picture was received here by Mrs. Armando Ramirez, wife of the twin affectionately known as “Mandy.” On the back of the photo he wrote “Honey, that's me taking the patient's pulse and that is Tony on the other side by the pillow. 1 have Tony's watch on to take the pulse.” Tony, by the by, former drummer with Gus Ayala’s band has grown a mustache, no doubt to keep from being mistaken for his brother. The Ramirez boys are reportedly the only twins in the entire Army Medical Corps. They're the 21 year old sons of Mr. and Mrs. Rogelio Ramirez of 506 Bahama Street. Armando’s wife and his three and e half month old son, Armando, Jr, live there, too. The twins have a sister, Mrs. Louis Bancells who lives at 1120 Grinnell Street whose husband brought in the pic- ture. He said Armando had never seen his baby son because he mussed the “big event” by four days when he was home on leave before going to Japan. lishmen” and describes the funeral in the City Cemetery on November 7. We are the parents of Mid- shipman Paul L. R. Dewar and would like to thank you and Miss Raymer for helping us to visualize the burial of our son. T would also like to get in touch with the Key West woman who took some flowers for the | grave. It was such a kind thought jand we wish to thank her. De jyou think, through your columns. ishe could be persuaded to write 5 THIS ROCK OF OURS By BILL GIBs the only two are outside the of the usual $5., mileage basis when Island. In view of these Sweeting has been fair amount of cri F i g f £ ; I i f i F Hye HI H FE walks?” I asked him. “I don’t like the condition. better than you do,” he “But what can I do? has no available mine are jammed full. “It is impossible to loca’ of the owners of the cars. out 8 A ff Fe} S 4 5 i* H “A lot of people in town’ = “Sugar.” cas know Po said. “And umn was % : flames. I want rb pores that the business I get good service and av: 20 continue | please him. ana aE? rete 4 e 1 SRSRBR PASS PRUNRRENRESSEE sew e p alt