The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 25, 1953, Page 4

Pages THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- lisher, trom The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN NORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 iintinn peel etc hee teietespasgceccaanniiscchons ie ntti Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it Wednesday, February 25, 1953 THIS ROCK OF OURS By BILL GIBB Though I’ve had the following, nesses employ women to entice information for some time, I de- | their customers toward greater layed mentioning it in the expec-| spending. And it might not be tation that one of the regular re-; amiss to point out that serving Porters would carry, it as news. | alcholic beverages, _ attending The bar owners and their asso-| cocktail parties, and providing en- ciates who attended the City Com-jtertainment is generally included mission meeting when Carbonell|in a respectable hostess’ routine. attempted to oust King were not| The airlines for instance, do not there in anticipation of the events | advertise the fact that they sell that took place. As a matter of|drinks but in discreetly worded fact, I have it on what I consider | “Stewardesses’ Advice” leaflets, or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published here. a a Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida lpn ae i el se cas Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12; By Mail $15.6u pei ee i Ree a ifs is ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION Sa SS einen enna PEE ‘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 Governments. Community Auditorium. LAT che eae vst ween 2 CONQUERING THE FLU The Executive Board of the United Nations World Health Organization recently announced that medical science is about to conquer influenza. The Board believes the year 1954 will see announcements of great signifi- cance in this direction. The major hope seems to be based on a series of vac- cines, each designed to combat a specific type of the dis- ease. The complication is that there are so many variations |!98 of influenza that the suitable vaccine is samewhat difficult to determine. The recent epidemic, for example, was termed the A- Prime virus influenza. Once it was identified, a vaccine was prepared and was used with safe success in the fight against the threatened epidemic, There are three main types of influenza, termed A,B and C types. If the tpye can be recognized early enough, proper vaccines can be made in time and an epidemic avoided. The Executive Board of the U. N. Health Organi- zation believes that, by 1954, sufficient research.will have been done to enable quick identification and mass distribu- tion of suitable vaccines to combat influenza €pidemics. This should be excellent news to all those who have sam- pled the latest flu epidemic in the United States. NEW ATOMIC TESTS IN MARCH The Atomic Energy Commission recently afnounced that the new atomic tests will be held near Las Vegas, Ne- vada, in March. The announcement revealed that the new series of tests is designed “to advance development of new improved nuclear devices.” The announcement was not more specific but it is as- sumed that the new tests will concern the hydrogen bomb, which was first tested in November, 1952. Former Presi- dent Harry Truman has said that the November tests sig- naled the arrival of a weapon which could wipe out the civilization built up over the centuries. While we do not claim to know, we would assume that the March tests will include a hydrogen bomb deto- nation, with a careful check of results on both human and physical structures. Since Mr. Truman has estimated that hydrogen bombs will be able to devastate between three hundred and twelve hundred square miles, the new tests should prove more valuable than any since the first atomic tests in the Pacific. SLICE OF HAM _ HORR/——me NUESTRO TURISMO Sin duda alguna, que nuestra ciudad esta repleta de turistas. Este afio el numero de visitantes sobrepasa con mucho, al de an- teriores afios. Y es que nuestro pueblo va siendd bien conocido por que viven en el Norte y aqui vienen en busca de la suave be- nigdad de nuestro clima y la ca- lidad hospitalidad y cortesia de sus habitantes. Es curioso el fenémero: el ma- yor numero de turistas, es siem- pre de personas de edad avanza- da. Parece que nuestro pueblo es- ta haciendo la competencia sim- bélica a San Agustin. Y aunque aqui no tenemos la famosa fuente maravillosa, que llevé al con- quistador espafiol a beber sus aguas, en busta de una desapare- cida juventud, tenemos en cam- bio un clima magnifico, que sin simbolismos de ninguna — clase, ofrece+al visitante salud para su cuerpo y paz para su espiritu. Hay que ver muestras calles repletas de carros de todos los Es- tados de la Unién y hasta del do- minio del Canada. Es natural que asi sea, Cayo Hueso pese a las ri- diculas tonterias de Brownville, Texas, sera siempre la ciudad mas al Sur de los Estados Unidos y siempre tendra un clima benig- no, un Sol que es una _ panacea para todos los males del cuerpo, especialmente, para los reumati- cos 0 artriticos y no habra otra ciudad, ni grande ni pequefia, en todg el territorio estadounidense, capaz de ofrecer, absolutamente de gratis, esos dones que la Natu- raleza ha prodigado con generosi- dad, a este Cayo querido. Nuestra Oficina, que es visitada constantemente por turistas, que buscan irformaciones locales y jde Cuba, ha podido comprobar que Cayo. Hueso esta siendo muy conocido por todo el pais y de ahi, que cada afio el nimero de turistas que nos visita, muchas veces, tenga grandes dificultades para encontrar alojarniento. Es lastima que solo tengamos para ofrecer a los visitantes las ventajas de nuestro clima. Aqui deberiamos tener algunos otros entretenimientos que ofrecer al | 80s de azar, que solo sirven para | NOTAS CUBANAS Por RAOUL ALPIZAR POYO visitante, que no siempre viene en bused de salud y de reposo. La gente joven que nos visita, es muy natural, que desee pasar sus vaciones de manera divertida y hasta ahora, algunos clubes noc- turnos, es cuanto‘ podemos ofre- cerles, ya que las carreras de perros, son tan conocidas, que la mayoria de los turistas, no se in- teresan por verlas, ya que no es- |ta integrada por jugadores, sino por personas en su mayoria, em- |pleados y pequefios comercian- tes, que durante todo el ajio pro- curran hacer sus economias, para disfrutar en los frios meses del invierno, de unos dias amables, en un clima benigno, sin las mo- lestias que la crudeza del tiern- Po trae aparejadas, Es pfeciso que segin va pros- perando nuestra Ciudad, segin se aumenta el numero de sus habi- tantes y cada dia nuevos comer- cios abren sus puertas al publico, que se vaya pensando en hacer algo de atraccién, que sea un es- timulo mas, durante los meses de invierno, que haga a los nor- tefios visitarnos y dejar aqui al- gunos miles de pesos. Muchas veces, aqui en nuestra Oficina, vienen turistas a pregun- tarnos qué diversiones, qué luga- res interesantes hay en el Cayo, Para ser visitados por el turista y aparte del tanque de las tortugas, del Acuarium y de los viejos fuer- tes, poco podemos informaries, como no sea que le hablemos con carifio del clima, de las ventajas de unos dias de reposo absoluto, lejos de los ruidos y de las bata- llas de las grandes ciudades. Algu- nos, se sonrien maliciosamente y se marchan, pero adivinamos en Sus gestos, que no estan muy con- formes con lo que nuestra Ciudad puede ofrecerles, Quisiéramos que se hitiera al- go. Que la iniciativa fuera oficial ¥ apoyada econémicamente por nuestros comerciantes. Buscar, tratar de algun modo, durante nuestros meses invernales, de atraer de alguna Yorma al visitan- te, ofreciéndole festejos, distrac- ciones licitas, que no fueran jue- desacreditar a nuestro pueblo, por honestos que estos sean. Cayo Hueso por su clima, de- biera ser el centro del turismo invernal de los Estados Unidos. Ni Miami, ni otras ciudades de la costa, pueden disfrutar, del Sol y del clima que nosotros ofrece- mos al visitante. Aqui no hay ni escarchas, ni es preciso encender calentadores, ya que cuando nos visita el frio, es siempre agrada- ble, sin las molestias del uso de los viejos “‘chaquetones” . . . Un clima, que permite bafiarse en la playa, pasear por las calles en ro- }pa de verano, sin peligro de pul- {monias, ni de afecciones bron- quiales o catarrales. Hace mucho tienpo que nuestra magnifica Camara de Comercio viene luchando fieramente por do- tar a Cayo Hueso de atractivos. Pero, ha tropezado, casi siempre, con la apatia e indolencia de los que pudieran ayudarle, sin que ello provocara grandes desenbol- Sos para nadie, sino sencillamen- te, cooperando en alguna forma, al bien y progreso de la comuni- dad. Sobre todo, los comerciantes, que son los mas aprovechados, mientras mayor es el nimero de turistas visitantes. El resultado es que estan aqui un par de dias a lo sumo y se van a La Habana, o retornan al Norte, despues de haberse con- vencido de que entre nosotros, Se a nuestra hospitalidad, solo han encontrado un Sol caricioso y una temperatura amable. Pero estos dos beneficios naturales, no son suficientes, para despertar el de- seo de retornar al Cayo en invier- nos sucesivos. Desearnos para mestro pueblo lo mejor, y es preciso que todos hagamos por lograrlo. STATE C. of C. MEET JACKSONVILLE — Florida State Chamber of Commerce di- rectors will meet here Thursday at 10:30 a. m. at the Roosevelt Hotel to talk about state and federal economic legislation, expansion of Florida’s national. advertising, strengthening of the state’s indtis- trial effort .and agricultural re- search, and the chamber’s inter- vention in the Florida Citrus Mutu- al anti-trust suit. : The winter at Valley Forge was only one in a series of dreadful winters endured by Continental troops in the Revolution, Others at Morristown were as bad or worse. unimpeachable authority that the move took the bar owners as much by surprise as it did the rest of the audience. Their purpose in going to City Hall was to request that an amend- ment be made to the B-girl ordi- nance which would permit enter- tainers to sit with customers but not to ‘cadge’ drinks. An owner of one of the larger nightclubs had planned the request and it was to be delivered to the commissioners by. a master of ceremonies em- ployed by him. Just before the meeting opened, a local business man who is well-versed in politics warned the bar owners that they had chosen a particularly bad night to present such a_ petition because Carbonell intended to move against King. When the would-be petitioners heard the arguments that develop- ed as a result of Carbonell’s pro- posal, they realized that any action on their own behalf would simply hurt matters. They left the Hall but it is my own private opinion that you can expect them to make a request for an amend- ment to the B-girl ordinance as soon as conditions quiet down. Though I’m definitely against al- lowing girls to continually pester a hard-drinking man -- or perhaps to take advantage of an unwary, inexperienced one ~- I certainly feel the bar owners have every right to present any petition they think desirable to the City Com- missioners. They have a lot of money invested in their business- es. The majority of owners realize that they need public approval to j be successful and I don’t think they are foolish enough to attempt to bring back the B-girls. The entire situation is delicate and has to be considered in de- grees rather than in sharp dis- tinctions between right and wrong. After all, hostesses have come to be expected in all walks of life. Airlines, steamships, railroads, ho- tels, even large mercantile busi- the companies remind their em- ployees that the whiskey is aboard if any passenger should desire to buy it. As I said before, there are shades between black and white which the public accepts as being all right insofar as moral conven- tions are concerned. There is no reason that the local bars cannot work out a solution to their pro- blem which would not offend pub- lic taste: Liquor and sex are as inevitable as death and taxation. If the situation isn't handled in a normal manner publicly, you're going to have undesirable secret activities. “Secret,” that is, be- cause the public will bury its head in the sand like an ostrich and re- fuse to see what is going on. There are sins of omission as well as those of commission. Re- latively speaking, the majority of us are guilty of the former be- cause as long as we can keep ini- quities hidden, we feel that they are of no concern to us. Most of our Jaws have the effect of driv- ing the activities they seek to cor- rect underground. This doesn’t make such laws wrong but proves the fact that until people delve deeper into ethical subjects, only the external appearances of pub- lic life are going to be changed -- law or no law. A man can cover his dirty hide by putting on clean clothes. An ordinance can remove external avpearances of sin. In either case, nothing is accomplished. Real changes have to occur from the | > *n'the outside. In the case ef mankind, this means an intros- . ox: the soul and inventory of the mind. But until this is done my sym- pathy still goes out to the guzzler j who loses a precious ounce of his whiskey because some B-girl jug- gles him on the elbow when she begs a drink. Perhaps if someone could persuade Emily Post to write a book on barroom etiquette and get the B-girls to study it, the situation wouldn’t be so bad, | Battle Looms Between GOP And Ike Democrats In Fla. By MALCOLM B, JOHNSON TALLAHASSEE ® — The first fight between the old guard Repub- licans and Florida Democrats-for- Eisenhower is brewing over ap- pe-| pointment of a new U. S. district attorney for North Florida. The GOP old-timers, who hardly can find a lawyer among their thin ranks in the North Central and Western part of the state, are talk- ing about sending Miles W. Draper, Tampa attorney, into the diistrict to take the job. That's fighting talk to the Demo- crats who bolted their party and carried much of the burden of campaigning for Eisenhower in the most traditionally Democratic part of the state. They mainly favor Harold Carswell, young Tallahas- see attorney who was a front-line speaker for the general. The North Florida district is composed of 22 counties north and west of Gainesville, The vacancy was left by retirement of the vet- eran George Earl Hoffman, Pensa- cola Democrat. There are at least two other candidates—Walter E. Rountree, Tallahassee friend of both Florida's U, S. senators; and Hayford En- wall, Gainesville assistant te Hoff- man. Both are regular Democrats who make no claim of having sup- ported Eisenhower. Draper wouldn't say he was a candidate but he confirmed that and if plans of Republican leaders in Florida and Washington “‘in- clude moving me to West Florida, Tm willing.” Draper is a 54-year-old native Minnesotan who has practiced law | the matter was being discussed | was discussed when he, Spades and Republican State Committee Chairman G. Harold Alexander conferred in Washington two weeks ago with William P. Rogers, as- sistant to Atty.-Gen. Herbert Brow- nell, on Florida patronage matters. Petyon Yon, who was chairman tinued to be active among state Democrats who supported the gen- eral, said his group would oppose any move to send someone in from outside the Northern District. | Eisenhower got 48,870 votes in ‘the 22 counties of the North Florida , Court District, although there were only 3,647 registered Republicans. Adlai E. Stevenson got 85,359 in the 3: piped Democratic strong- Carswell, the Eisenhower-Dem- ocrat candidate for district attor- Crossword P L eck of dust = 5 Pe = Headpiece 9. Hea 12. Greedy Hn E & i i i ink 17. Steep flax 18. isiand im the Mediter- Files high 19. Flies | 2u Part REPORTED TO HAVE MOS- COW OKAY—Charles E. Boh- len, State Department counsel- or, has won Russian approval as the next U.S. ambassador to Moscow, according to an in- formed source in the Red cap- ital—() Photo, Are Augmented Portbrse ddeww wing’ te coe ia tal crea dolphin population to 13. 25 pounds. The grown ones get ai big as eight feet and 400 pounds, AUTO-TRAIN CRASH CRESTVIEW #—An automobile and a Louisville & Nashville pase senger train crashed at Sneads Monday, killing J. W. Griffin, Lynn Carswell’s brother. of the Tallahassee Democrats-for-|of a Macon, Ga. Eisenhower campaign and has con- ; brought Gov, MENA we LT Mi Ale | NIE IGIAIT IE | in Tampa nearly 30 years and long | has been a powerful member of | the State Republican Executive | Committee. i He first was mentioned as a likely Ei: ver appointee to suc- | ceed the ing district attorney for*the Southern District, Herbert Phillips, Tampa. However, he stepped out of that contest in favor jot James L. Guilmartin, Miami lawyer and son-in-law of the late | Kirk M. Landon—one of the state;s joutspoken Eisenhower supportets | Draper said he was endorsed’ by [the Republican Executive {/om- | mittee for appointment as “united States district attorney.” and the endorsement “didn't say Northern District or Southern District.” “T undericcad some of my good Republican fnends around Pensa- cola together and called up < ©. Soides (Rapeniionn notions committeeman from Florida) and } said, they didn't want a Democrat i re BEE BSS §S RSE j a ‘ z SNOW GIVES CARS NEW LINES’—Drified snow gives difteieht contours to sutes perked oh North Platte, Neb. street after season's worst blietard. Storm moved out and residents had to st. Traffic was at standstill during storm’s height because of poor visibility and drifts 7) Wirephoto. SSSR BR FEREE RSKNSUERS BF Be e xe “HUT TWO... THREE... FOUR... ~ i do Draper seid the question also.