The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 20, 1953, Page 8

Page 8 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN FLASH GORDON EVEN FEEL THIS. GROW UP, CARSON.»I DON’T WANT TO FIGHT YOU... I AM MERELY TRYING TO GET YOU TO UNDERSTAND I DON’T WANT YOUR MARGOT= ALL RIGHT, BOLT... YOU STRUCK ME. THAT HOLD ZAT POSE, MONSIEUR !! PLASTEUR OF PARIS, & ZEE FABULOUS SCULPTOR, WILL TAKE ZEE COLD, COLD STONE AND CREATE ZEE WARM PERSONALITY-- A THING OF TREMENDOUS FORCE EVERYBODY WHO. ANYBOOY WiLL BE THERE SKATING AND FELL. ee HE HIT HIS HEAD CAND IS OUT COLD.’ OZARK IKE [Tw Stowest Five \ IVE SEEN IN TH GARDE) PLAYING URE THEYRE IN | avaze? f wits STORY OF BETTA Se ; wo il 7 STORY OF BETA, SEE--LIKE A LAMB. HE DOESN'T JUNGLE, . TIGER! % J Friday, February 20, 1953 THE TIGER DRANK: WATER FROM THE: POOL--WHERE THE WHEN T/M FINISHED, MARGOT: } WON'T WANT TO LOOK AT YOU.» T/M WARNING YOU FAIR_ AND SQUARE, I’M COMING AT YOU! ALL. RIGHT, 6! Wauicutomar BOAT IN THE coves GO AWAY. 1 DON’T WANT ‘YOU. NO GOOD To EAT. ENNY TOMFOOL IDJIT Go TR IT WIE DRIVE -MAHSHELF” WHERE'S MAH TEES-- I MEAN KEYS -- \TES COWARY Berns, S PHANTOMS FACE } BRR+ ITS COLD Dow! DOC,HOW }{ THE WHITE POWDER! T 1SN'T THAT. MRS. MORFAT ? ] by Don Barry| The World Today’ Jag) HANDS OFF, MAC! ANSWER THI QUESTIONS AIRST! By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON ®—Most people here realize any new administra- tion has to go through a period of getting adjusted to the job and its responsibilities. If for no other reason than that, chey have viewed with patience, sympathy, under- standing and good will the efforts of the Eisenhower administration to take over and settle down. The administration has run into some bumps, plainly through in- experience. For example, when President Eisenhower was as saying it would be all right for Congress to pass a measure which By Lee Falk and Wilson McCoy | would make it harder for him to 7 reorganize the government. This was caught in time and a friendly Congress let him have the power he really wanted, And for a while there may be other bumps, due to inexperience, since it will still take time for the administration to hit its stride and know its way around the gov- ernment labyrinth. The President, for one, is probably having im- pressed on him every day the great importance attached to any- thing a President says. While he was.a general anything he said had to follow the policy laid down by someone else. While he was a presidential candidate he had to express views which were in general conformity with the policies of the Republican par- ty although he was pretty much on his own. Nevertheless, his words then did not carry the same importance in every sentence that they have now that ‘he is uttering them from the White house. While he is a firm believer in psychological warfare, and much that he says can be expected to have that purpose, he now bears likewise as President responsibility for the psychological effect PHANTOM SAID< By Lee Falk and Phil Davis DON’T KNOW THE AN- SWER YET, GET TA--BUT THES IS WHAT IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR! everything he says on this coun- try’s friends abroad and his own people at home. He has seen within two weeks that vagueness can have an effect of a kind which he probably did not intend, requiring later explana- tion which might have been avoid- ed if he had been more explicit in the first place. For example, in his State of the Union message he spoke of Te- pudiating secret agreements. This caused wide speculation here and abroad. What secret agreements did he have in mind? Yalta? Pots- d-m? Were there some not yet known? It turns out now that he is not! talking of any agreements still se- cret and that he is not really talk- ing of tearing up whole agree- ments but, apparently, perhaps only part of the Yalta agreement. He brought this out yesterday at his news conference. And in his same State of the Union message he puzzled people at home and allies abroad by the brevity with which he mentioned deneutralizing Formosa. How far was he going? Blockade the China Coast? He’s not personally think- ing of blockade at this time, he said in answer to a question yes- terday.. All this emphasizes the tremen- dous attention any statement by Eisenhower will get while he’s in the White House. And perhaps because his admin- istration is still feeling its way around, a buttoned-lip policy has to some degree been adopted by the government departments. For example, when it became known this week he intended to ask Con- gress to make the Federal Security Agency a government department, three separate agencies were asked this simple question: What is the advantage of making FSA a de- partment? The reply in all three cases was: That question should be asked at the White House. There was mixed reaction yes- terday among newsmen who at- tended Eisenhower's first news con- ference, at which he took up more than half the 30 minutes he granted newsmen with making his own statements and then spent ‘what was left answering questions. At the end of 30 minutes, he sbut off the conference politely and strode out. Some newsmen thought he hand- led himself with great self-assur- ance. Others complained they'd like more time for asking ques- tions since they said they could cover far more ground that way | By John Cullen Murphy \/ ‘ By Fred Lasswell By George McManus a statement of his own choosing. James Hagerty, Eisenhower's press secretary, has been told of stumbling blocks to information being encountered among govern- than listening to Eisenhower make | does AP Newstootures Chapter One URANGO died Prey . didn’t say a word. ¥ grunt. He just lay down and died: Jim Rimbaud crouched holding! a bloody he had been ad- justing _ for go. Fai slouched Rimbaud’s lean-~: body; it marked, his angular and was a dullness in his Beyond him, propped bling legs, stood two Rimbaud peered do' ango’s slack-jawed fa membered how this dead dreamed of becoming | of all Mexico, But he’ akness. W< 3s ayldgette tetera lai i earn. job if last night at San Sebastian. It was characteristic of Rimbaud that he didn’t ain, The Cane the distance tween this dry river bed and the oncoming riders, Rimbaud decided that it was not more than three miles. A matter of minutes. A man couldn’t make a stand here, Nor | to the right, then flipped two more ae this side of the border} farther out on each side. hil Rimbaud plodded the horses and gave the down- headed animals a sq ap- Bet 1 them, for they Sete 4 ween were Rim! close to being foundered. erg rae = ites : ee ie i taking their cue from. buttoned-lip White House visitors. — Hagerty pledged White House help in breaking down any “stone walls” the reporters encounter. These are all problems which might arise with any new admin- istration for a longer time than the Eisenhower administration has been running things. WASHINGTON # — President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles have now taken their plunges into the chilly, and some- times slippery, pool called the Washington news conference. They swam around all right, kept their heads above water, and neith- er seemed to be adrgerne hard when the dip was over. Eisenhower held his first conference since tak- ing office on Tuesday. Dulles held his Wednesday. " The.two men did not handle their conferences in exactly the same way. Both bad one thing in common: Neither produced any | any help on answers. news sensations. Sometimes, as Eisenhower did Eisenhower's conference lasted ; Tuesday, Truman began his news 30 minutes. He used up more than | coriferences with a prepared state- half that time himself, making! ment. Eisenhower started off with statements. In the iime that was, several sheets of notes in front of left he answered questions. When | him. He referred to them as he the half hour was up he broke made his statements. off the conference. | He didn’t bother with them later Dulles’ conference also lasted| when the regular questioning ton method for not answering ques- tions, and once when he felt un- Truman was always accompan- ied at a news at least top press aides, who sat some away from him and were ; about 30 minutes, He had no gen-| started. Like Dulles, but unlike eral statement but submitted at/ Eisenhower, Truman let the news- once to questioning. Instead of end- | men end the conference when they ing the conference himself he let | had run out of questions or thought the newsmen do it. they had asked enough. Former President Truman, be-| Dulles walked into his first news cause of his Jears in the Senate| conference as secretary without before becoming president, knew | any notes. In this he was unlike more when he entered the White|his predecessor, Dean Acheson, House about the inner workings of | who always walked in with pre- ~e government as a whole than! pared notes in a black book. Eisenhower, whose whole| Acheson was almost always ac- career until now was in the Army. | companied by only two men, his Nevertheless, Eisenhower made|top press sides, Michael McDer- no bobbles. He answered questions mott and Lincoin White. Both are | with some rapidity, at no time!State Department fixtures, it dodged behind the “no comment” seems. They had held the same asked for, and Jid not volunteer, | ly. Gunfighter's Return by Leslie Ernenwein “ Rimbaud crouched over the fallen leader. due north on the southern slope; erg ee Well, they called it. And town of Junction lay a much,” he mi saw himself for whet te woe a causes. At twenty-eight hief * am yee were a Bunt horse. That, elephants asleep in the suntight The Arizona-Sonorg line ran across the base of them, which was as far as the Mexican cavalry ‘would come. If the roan on his feet for another hour he Would be stirring dust of soil, (To be continued) Dulles, who has known both for years, retains them. They sat close to him Wednesday, together with Carl McCardie, assistant secretary of state for public affairs, a Dulles appointee. He sought no help from the three during the conference, Dulles faced quizzing by newsmen. He had held many news confer- ences before him, ment before becoming secretary. Acheson dmost always handled himself carefully. Dulles was care. search for answers, Neither, how- ever, talks fast. * Because of the nature of the secretaryship, Acheson and Dulles both knew one wrong word could cause an international explosion. Both are capable of picking their way through the language ginger- PLASTIC FURNITURE NEW YORK ().—Cabinets for television sets and refrigerators have been made of plastics for some time. Now living and bed- room furniture is being made of plastics with one-piece molded drawers. The plastic drawers have no seams and therefore, it is claimed, are easier to clean, and resist moisture, chemicals and heat better than wood. NOVEL IS LAUDED PARIS # — French Education Minister Andre Marie Wednesday lauded the American auti-slavery novel “Uncle Tom's Cabin” as the second most widely known book ia the world. He put the Bible first. Marie spoke before a group of French statesmen and intellectuals gathered at the University of Paris |to celebrate the 100th xnniversary | of the publication of Harriet Beech. ment agencies which seem to be! which is the customary Washing-' job under previous secretaries.' er Stowe's famous work.