The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 20, 1953, Page 4

Page4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN _ Friday, February 20, 1953 The Key West Citizen oo 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 eS SS TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entutled 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. PRI OES A CREE Sg ee 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 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 Cee -n—ent< Community Auditorium, Seer nea smmmneminctanene aera GOOD CITY MANAGERS ARE BOUND TO STEP ON SOMEBODY'S TOES Do you know any man in public office who pleases ; everybody? If you do, The Citizen doesn’t. And as a rule, | the official who insists on performing the duties assigned to him comes in for more criticism than an official who is} content'to drift along with the current. Because Dave King is an up-and-doing city manager, he sometimés steps on tender toes, causing complaint about him and denunciation of him, Every Key Wester should know that King is powerless to do anything against the law in conducting the affairs of his office, it is ‘ easy enough to take legal action to stop him. The City Charter says specifically what his duties are, and the objective of those duties is to promote the welfare of Key West and Key Westers. To attain that objective has been King’s aim since he has been in office. He has done many things, in promoting the city’s interests, tWat he was not required to do. To cite only one instance: he has stayed up all night on several oceasions, working to repair broken sewer mains. Say what you may about Dave King, you must admit, if you are conscientious, he is a go-getter. And that is the type of man Key West needs in the city manager’s chair. Besides, though he is friendly with city’ employes, they know he is insistent about their performing their duties, and, knowing that, no employe, so far as The Citizen knows, shirks the work assigned to him. And the employes respect him for his attitude in getting work done for the city that they are paid to do, No employe has a bonanza under King. The attempt, at the City Commission’s meeting Mon- day night, to oust King from office, developed into little more than a flurry. He had stepped on the toes of a friend of a friend of a friend. That circumstance should not cause any worry among Key Westers, a vast majority of them, who want King to continue as city manager. Monday night's flurry was unusual for Key West, but Miami’s City Commission seldom holds a meeting without somebody’s taking pot shots at the city manager. The mix-up is such in Miami at present it is hard for an outsider to determine the standing of the city manager. He seems to be acting-manager, and the Miami Chamber of Commerce has called on the commission to formally name him as manager. So Key Westers need not worry about Monday night’s attempt to oust King. Other attempts probably will be made to get him out of office, as they are made, time and again, against city managers all over the country. The rea- son they are made is because any city manager, who strictly adheres to the duties of his office, is bound to step on somebody’s toes. SLICE OF HAM _- | “THAT'S MY GIRL, 27TH FROM THE LEFT, BACK ROW. SHES DIFFERENT SOMEHOW I~ RESCUE FOR A LETTER FROM BILL LANTAFF Dear Neighbor: During the past week, Washing- ton has been discussing the story of a new hope for Asia, India, the key to Asia, once again entered the news, At an in- vitation from the Indian. Ambas- sador, President and Mrs. Eisen- hower attended a special preview filming of a documentary motion picutre of the Life of Mahatma Gandhi. This event underlines the importance the White House places on the East. Perhaps Lenin’s words are being heeded, “The shortest road to London and Washington {fs through Peiping and Calcutta.” With China already under Communist control, India doubtless figures soon on the Kremlin timetable. So it was particularly significant that the Ambassador from India, 48 hours after receiving President Eisenhower at the Gandhi film, should come to the platform in the Shoreham Hotel at a national meeting for Moral Re-Arament and tell a crowd of over 1000 the dramatic story of an answering force which is sweeping his coun- try. The Indian Ambassador was joined on the platform by the Ambassador of Japan, Eikichi Ara- ki, and the Ceylon Ambassador, Sir Claude Corea, Here were the representatives of 450 million peo- ple lining up behind a force which grew out of the West, at a time when westerners and Western ideas were perhaps at an all-time low in popularity in Asia and they hailed MRA as a clear ray of hope on the horizon for uniting humani- ty. Y Here was a report of a large section of a continent, Southeast Asis ~ the hot spot in a cold war, and its response to MRA, It was similar to the response experi- enced at the Miami: airlines, and evoked a remark from the Chair- man of the Senate Foreign Re- lations Subcommittee on Asis that, only on the basis of mutual under- standing could world peace be se- cured. Two Miamians addressed the meeting. They were John Tigert, Superintendent of Pan American's overhaul base in Miami and Ted Powers, CIO Shop Steward at that base. Sincerely yours, BILL LANTAFF Armed Guard For Tenn. Governor NASHVILLE, Tenn. «# — The State Patrol is maintaining a 24- hour armed guard at the gover- nor’s mansion here, presumably following threats to the young gov- | ernor or members of his family. Hilton Butler, state safety com- missioner, said the guards were stationed ‘“‘as a result of the receipt and repetition of certain informa- tion and communications.” He did not elaborate. Gov, Frank Clement could not be reached for comment. The gov- | ernor, 32, occupies the mansion with his wife and three sons, age 9. 6 and 2 months. Mrs, Clement was also reported away from the of- ficial residence but was. not known if the children were with her. Butler indicated the guard would continue as long as warrasted and added that the jignment of pa- trelmen “was idea or request Wed. night the patrolmen were muerte sirvieta para contribuir a Guam. Herman was stationed inside and answering the door bell and haodiing all telephone eails. Bx ws, fi REMEMBER THE “MAINE” El pasado domingo, dia 15 de febrero, se cumplieron cincuenta y cinco afios.de aquel inolvidable desastre, en que perecieran un); gran mimero de jovenes norte- | americanos. Fué el dia 15 de febrero de} 1898. En la bahia de La Habana. Como a las nueve de la noche, | una violenta explosion conmovid hasta sus cirnientos a la _pobla- cion habanera. El crucero acora- zado “MAINE” de la marina de guerra estadounidanse, habia he- cho explosién. La mayoria de sus tripulantes que se encontraban a bordo, perecieron en esta doloro- sa hecatombe, Mucho se comenté, se escribié y hasta se aseguré, en relacién con el origen de este sinestro. Lo positivo es, que acaso si nunca se conoceran las causas que motiva- ron esa explosion, tan costosa en vidas para el pueblo americano. Ni aun, cuando se celebraban en Paris las conversaciones entre los Delegados.de. Espaiia y de los Estados Unidos, se traté de este asunto, que fué, sin género de |dudas, 1a causa directa, de la 89 americano, aprobada y puesta en ejecucién inmediatamente. El pueblo de Cuba recuerda anualmente a’ esos bravos § mari- os, cuyas vidas fueron segadas por aqvella explosion, que sirviera para acercar mas ambos. pueblos y para llegar al logro de nuestros ideales, de los’ sagrados ideales que predicara nuestro Marti y! por los cuales cayera fulminado! NOTAS CUBANAS Por RAOUL ALPIZAR POYO THE CAST-AWAY? , TORR me crucero MAINE antes de salir pa- ra el puerto de La Habana, estu- vo varios dias, fondeado en la rada de Key West. Sus marinos, diariamente salian a hacer ejer- cicios por nuestras calles, llevan- HAL BOYLE SAYS NEW YORK ® — Americans never had it so good on earth, And a majority are smugly sure that, when they die, they will haye it good in an afterlife, too. They are more certain of heaven than they are afraid of hell. Since the Second World War, the United States has seen a growing revival of interest in religion. Church membership has increased, books on religious topics often hit the best seller lists. Clerics naturaily are pleased that, even in the midst of wide- spread material prosperity, more and more people are turning to God for a final answer to the tension of our times. Some, however, are troubled by questions as to the real depth and understanding of religi- ous issues this revival of interest raises. How do the American people feel on the fundamental tepets of re- ligion? Catholic Digest, a monthly magazine, is making @ series of surveys to find out. Its.most recent poll had some unexpected and dis- turbing results. It found that 99 per cent of Americans over,18 years of age believe in the existenee of God, but only 77 per cent think their own individual souls will live on after death. What happens in this afterlife? Some 72 per cent of all adult Americans believe there is a heav- en, where people who have led goo lives will be eternally rewarded. But only 58 per cent, on the other hand, believe there is a hell in which bad people who died without regretting their sins will live in eternal damnation. Sometimes I think I'm the most misunderstood person in seven countries. This typewriter is be- ginning to develop rust spots where my salty tears have gush- ed forth on the mechanism and, if beer didn’t cost fifteen cents, I'd keep a mug on the desk just to have something to cry into. You see, the church people get insulted because I say that many of them simply give lip-service to their religion and continue merri- ly along most of the time helping this world to be a sordid, undesir- jable place in which to live. Think- | ing or praying for one hour a week isn’t going to clear up conditions. A friend of mine has a pretty good motto when he says: “It is easier to. live yourself into right thinking than it is to think your- self into right living.” Regardless of external appear- ances, most of us who are walk- ing, talking and working twenty- four hours a day are alive even though we’re not thinking. We have a lot of time to do good and correct error within ourselves dur- ing this time. But the church people aren’t the only ones who give me a bad time. There are the gamblers. . . Some of our card specialists think I compared them with skunks the other day. That isn’t true. What I did was to talk about “crooks” and “skunks” in the same column. -If there are any that read “This Rock of Ours,” Tl apolo; to them for what could be * considered a libelous comparison. As for our local crooks -- well, I've a pet theory that the so-called “red tide” of dead fish is caused by some of these characters taking a bath in punished in the hot hereafter, own goodness is shown by the fact is any real possibility of their go- ing to hell. z : Catholie Digest finds this attitude ca, whether it is a righteous na- tion or not, is certainly too self- righteous. While some religious leaders are do su simpatica MASCOTA, que disturbed by what they feel is an overly. complacent attitude toward As to their own chances of being Americans are surprisingly opti- mistie. Their high opinion of their that only 12 out of 100 think there dismaying, and proof that Ameri- wants to first assume the identity of a crook, he is perfectly wel- come to feel that as far jconcerned, he is a skunk I reckon about the only T have left in Key West are the politicians. Those guys take criti- cism like water rolling off a duck’s back. I can call them all sorts of names, object to the way they part their hair or blow their nose, j and they simply come back with la grin and a handshake to remind JOINT RESOLUTION del Congre-| |tad e independencia que hoy dis- | people no era otra, que una hermosa “s 5 “chiva,” blanca, que la envulvian {the afterlife, atheist leaders face en los bellos colores de la bande-| What is to them “an even more i | doleful problem. seni iss | “Our membership was never Muchos de aquellos marinos, de-| tower,’ recently complained Wool- jaron buen recuerdo entre los ha-; sey Teller, secretary-treasurer of bitantes del Cayo, ganado durante! +, American Association for the su estancia entre nosotros. Y! advancement of Atheism. cuando la tremenda explosion, el! “in many ways we who are try- pueblo entero se brindé para co-! ;, to lead people away from operar en el entierro de los que | ettiech are in the same boat as Perecieron y atender a la cura-j those trying to lead them into cién de los heridos, que fueron | church, Wegando graudalnente. En esos! «people today are generally too dias, las monjitas del Convento, | interested: in material things. The en un rasago de patriotismo y de} average man, I’m afraid, would humana piedad, pusieron su edifi-| rather play gin rummy or watch cio a la disposicion de las autori-; wrestling on TV than. take part in dades federales y actuando como} something serious.” dulces enfermeras, coadyuvaron| The anti-religious organization, generosamente, ofreciendo a los | founded in 1925, reached a peak |heridos el consuelo de sus ternu-| soon thereafter of 1,000 members jras y ayudando en sus ultimos! but some months ago dropped to momentos, a los que al cabo,!a low point of 340. Members pay tambien entregaron su alma alj$i1 a year. Most members are Creador, victimas de la tantas/| ‘middle-aged or more,” said: Tell- veces mencionada explosién. er, adding: Ni las infamias del “Virginius,”| “We seem to have a great deal con su secuela de fusilamientos, | of difficulty getting younger peo- ni el caso Zenca, ni atin el” 27 de | ple interested.” — noviembre de 1871, causaron tanto| The states having the most for- dolor en este hemisYerio, como | mal atheists are California, New la explosién del crucero MAINE | York and Ohio. : la bahia de La Habana. De ahi,| “Maine, Delaware and West Vir- que aquella explosién fuera el | ginia are the worst states for us,” bendito inicio de la era de liber-/ said Teller, who believes some are afraid to become athe- lists for fear they will be called frutamos los cubanos y que es por las balas espafiolas, en Dos! Rios. La __explosién del crucero blo.de Cuba, sino que la America toda, erguida se levanté, pidiendo de una u otra manera, el cese de la dominacién espafiola en, Cuba, que constituia un verdadero opro- bio para la civilizacion y un aten- mas puertas de este gran pais. De alli a ta declaracién de guerra de los Estados Unidos a Espaha, paso muy poco tiempo y todas las fuerzas de mar y tierra de este gran pais, se pusieron a jla disposicion de los cubanos, pa- ra lograr la total expulsion de la | Metropoli de la tierra cubana. | Los eubanos que amamos a Cu- corazon la perfumada siempre- viva del recuerdo y de la grati-| 1 lestadounidense, cuyos derramaron su sangre, con hombro, con mvestros sos libertadores “REMEMBER THE MAINE.” fué el grito del pueblo americano. Todos los hogares Unidos, sintieron el | miento de horror y que produje aquella explosién y desde entonces el dia 15 de fe. hombro excel jbrero es para los cubanos, fecha | ‘de luto y recordacién, rindiendo en ese dia, piblico testimonio de! nuestra gratitud hacia aquellos rpor’s marines, qve ahora duermen ta- jo el suelo de su patria y cu; ja libertad © independencia ouestra patria Recordames, cuando de nifos, el |cero reconocimiento, MAINE, no solo conmovié al pue-|que se ha luchado por la tado a la democracia a las mis-| ;hogar, elevamos nuestras ba; que !levamos prendida en elj motivo de eterna gratitud y sin-° Communists: hacia este ACROSS 1, Separates~ 33. 6. Knight's title 12. Profit 13, Preceding night 14. Source of metal |gran pueblo, que donde quiera demo- eracia y.la libertad, en todas par- tes del mundo, han habido ciuda- danos americanos, que, expon- |taneamente han ido a ofrendar s. ida, para dar a sus semejantes \libertad y justicia. Nosotros, que nacimos en_ este thistérico Cayo, el pasado domin- |g0, desde la serenidad de nuestro preces al Creador, pidiendo para este |pais felicidad y paz, recordando que en Santiago y en otros luga jres, cubanos y americanos, bajo ambas banderas, probaron al mun ido, el derecho que teniamos los cubanos a ser libres “REMEMBER THE MAINE, diremos siempre, que se trate de atropellar la justicia y la demo 21. Ability Chum jtud, hemos de sentirnos siempre | ‘T@¢!2- ligados y obligados a este pueblo! soldados | CHENNAULT TO MEETING #—Maj. Gen hh de angustia, months, NEW GUAM GOVERNOR named gavernor by ry © Mchay F h resignation was accepted livered a speech in cidentally, my true name uel Perez Davila and The Citizen fons of the views of DIDN’T REPRESENT SAN CARLOS INSTITUTE Editor, The Citizen: In an article which appeared in titute. Inasmuch © as policy has always been in fa of rendering authentic i tion to its readers, 1 deem it essential request correction two errors regarding said article. ad submitted to the E il I am the only speaker tha’ I Fe? gee PUP MATT IVE MHI Ve TANCE WT THIS ROCK OF OURS By BILL GIBB the ocean. If any local gambler| Ha E 5 Efe fH ik Rs f He Fzi s Eee ebeie if rfl i .. 8B i ife Fe is i E i i i ; He 8 g Hy F é 5 i HEF honest-to-goodness real skunks | a E gREgE mee oF ee abe fi AG ip < i + { : i i i Ho “tl Re f i F i i E E i 2 tka ! | 5g HH i & 8 f i 4 s : i Hy 3 ‘ fi a g 7 k : | i | | ry 8 a s | | i . a a i I |