The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 26, 1953, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, February 26, 1953 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 —__ Publisher NORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 & se AS + A 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 ‘he 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 "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 Gove:nments. Commynity Auditorium. ee eters oR STR eR ca ON BUILDING A CHINESE NATIONALIST NAVY The United States is reported to be considering : an Chiang Kai-shek in the naval sphere. While hoping to persuade the allies to join in a blockade of the Chinese coast, either in the United Nations Assembly or otherwise; the United States government is, nevertheless, not certain of success in this effort. As an alternative, it has been pointed out that the Chi- nese Nationalist Navy could be increased in strength rapid- ly and allowed to do its own blockading. At present, the Chinese Nationalist Navy is hardly imposing enough to successfully blockade the Chinese Coast. Expanding. it considerably would be a major undertaking and one which would require several years, at best. E Not.only would the.Chinese offi¢ers and men have to | be trained in-the-handling-of larger ships ~(their- largest ' ship today is one destroyer), but they would have to be in- doctrinated in tactics and given the necessary vessels— which is no small order. An angle which has not been stressed too much may hold major possibilities in this field. The United States might supply the Nationalists with a number of subma- rines, which are ideally suited for blockading purposes. Then, the Communists might be given a taste of the same threat which the democracies coped with in both World War I and World War II. The difficulty in eliminating a submarine menace is that such a large number of surface craft is required to cope with such a small number of sub- marines. For this reason, it seems apparent that the operation of submarines by the Nationa s would prove most effec- tive, and guarantee better results at smaller cost than would the operation of cruisers and destroyers, and even aircraft carriers and battleships, The Chinese Commun- ists have very little in the way of naval strength, although the Russians are reported to be giving them six submarines and some thirty destroyers. Because the ‘United States would have to supply the Nationalists with a considerable number of vessels, some of them highly valuable warships, in order to assure them naval supremacy over the Com- munists, it would seem that the submarine threat from the Nationalists would provide the cheapest and quickest answer to the blockade problem. The experts, it seems, are wrong as often as they are right, but this is y “it seems”. _SLICE OF HAM “GO AWAY,SARGE tiT'S MY DAY OFF I~ NEW YORK (#--Winston Church- |ill and President Eisenhower have helped make painting a widely popular hobby. And down in Greenwich Village a trio of oldsters, all of whom took their first brush strokes after 60, are showing the young Bohem- ians there that art knows no age limit. The three are Dr. Joseph 8S. Efremoff, a dental surgeon who admits with a twinkling smile, “Tm over 73, but I won’t say how much over;” Mrs. Julia Brestovan, 71, a grandmother, and Mrs. Edna E. Plumb, a widowed 71-year-old saleswoman, Dr. Efremoff and Mrs. Bresto- van never took an art lesson. Mrs. Plumb studied only four weeks. But all have met witi enough success to find painting has opened new worlds to them. A year ago Dr. Efremoff won first prize over 139 other painters at the annual show of the Village Art Center, a community project founded by Mrs. Helen Richter El- STOWAWAY? se ee HAL BOYLE SAYS eventual sharp increase in aid extended to Generalissimo | ser. He has since held several one- man shows. “The professional artists were SS oe. oe eee ly just a at chuckled Dr. Efremoff. “I have never sold a painting. I give ‘them as presents. I have enough money myself, and I help other artists , a8 much as I can. It is sad to know how hciauiaeimmmmnen bntanieatemanemminimaamimetenaae OF FIV IV IVI I IOC ISS ITSI STS S ICSI SCT CFT ISG ... Ear To The Ground By JIM COBB ter way to express yourself than by falling .asleep.” : “ |employers, practically no restric- ber of pictures, and her tiles, fea- turing scenes. from her girlhood days in Czechoslovakia, are dis- tributed by some top department stores. They are'reminiscent of the quaint realism ‘of Grandma Moses’ “I paint only what is inside my head—from my past life,” she said. “When I get a’ picture in my head, I just put in down. And I paint all day f. irs.’ Plumb has only her even- free for her hobby but she has four paintings at $100 each. “I have to go to business during day,” “she said. “But I am to God I can still go out earn my own way at 71.” Through art she has found re- from old troubles, long ago dis- “Painting,” she said thought- , “is a wonderful way to re- member the things you don’t want g Of “Escape Hatch” In Draft Practice WASHINGTON « — President Eisenhower has been advised to close the “escape hatch” that per- mits young men, after being de- ferred as college students, to miss the draft again by becoming fa- thers. The advice came from the head | in the 1945 conference) is new head | Changed, may be so wide that they | The World Today | By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON :# — Once more the government has called labor | and management leaders together ; to build, if they can, a road to in- dustrial peace. There has been no | widespread optimism about the outcome. Secretary of Labor Durkin has established a 15 - man advisory | committee—five from labor, five from business, and five represent- ing the public—to advise him on what changes Congress should | make in the Taft-Hartley Law. If the 15 can agree, so much| the better for Durkin If not, he'll) have to figure out what changes to recommend. Since the committee is advisory only, he can accept or reject whatever it suggests. The committee met Monday, gets down to work next. week. But no matter what the committee recommends or Durkin suggests to Congress, it’s Congress which will -have final say on any changes made in T-H. When a wave of strikes rolled across the country at the end of World War II, ex-President Tru- | man called a 25-day management- labor conference. This was com- posed of 18 labor leaders, 18 busi- ness leaders, three men represent- ing the public. Truman said the time had come for both management and labor to show whether they could put their | houses in order and establish “a broad and permanent. foundation for industrial peace and progress.” | That was still in the period of! the Wagner Labor Relations Act; which had been passed in 1935. | About the most that act said was | this: employers must bargain with | a union representing their employes. This put most of the load on tions on unions. Management had complained loudly for years it was one-sided, It was against the background ;0f the Wagner Act, and years of dispute ‘about -it between manage- ment and labor, that the manage- ment-labor conference of 1945 was‘ held. To no one’s great surprise the conference broke up without set- ting up machinery to settle post- war labor disputes. Leaders on both sides were in complete dis- agreement on major issues. At the closing session labor lead- ers blasted business leaders, and the leaders of the. AFL and CIO, William Green and Philip Murray, weren’t very happy with each other, either. And John L. Lewis, the miners’ boss, gave his fellow representa- tives of organized labor a lecture. He reminded them to watch how smoothly management people seemed to work together. a But there have been some major changes between that 1945 confer- ence called by Truman and the advisory committee now set up by Secretary Durkin, who was himself a union leader before becoming secretary: 3 1. In 1947 the Republican-con- trolled Congress, over Truman's veto, substituted the Taft-Hagtley Act for the old Wagner Act. This restrictions on both management and labor, particularly on labor. 2. Murray and Green are both | dead. George Meany (he took part | new law spelled out a number of | THIS ROCK OF OURS , By BILL GIBB There are times when readers , Criticism ask questions about “This Rock | There is nothing more’ beneficial of Ours.” Invariably the inquiry, ‘to though couched in various forms, touches upon the same theme. . Why do you mix up the rever-' ers ... fear ent with the irreverent? Gossip lic Ain a Perna cs ~ with philosophy? Slang with eight the aid of critical comments, syllable words? For instance, following is a let- Have you no consistent style? “ter by a person we'll call “Dam- And why do you continue to an- yankee” since it is signed that tagonize people for no good pur- way along with the name. The pose? opinions stated might give minis- Such questions deserve an an-'ters food for thought which they swer if for no other reason than to wouldn't get by a handshake or assuage my wounded feelings ata pat on the back. their implications. Certainly this] «| 7 especially liked what column has a style! It is based wrote Friday about church on the mannerisms of a gutter- , You hit the nail right on the snipe who shuffles through the And how! slopes of the street but never loses! “] followed the dogs here — sight that overhead are clear blue 1 suppose the church people skies and a God that expects him say I had ‘gone to the to keep shuffling until conditions } “‘You mentioned the ‘hour’ people improve. , week which these good The guttersnipe can allow him- vote to prayer, or. ier Aren’ self to sink into the slime of the you exaggerating, Mr. ? street or he can spend all of his “I attended church services time in idealistic worship of the in KW when I was Pay | sky. In the same way, “This year (sans dogs). Let me “A good 15 minutes Rock” could become a_ gossip what happened -- column or -- much easier -- de- vote itself to theoretical philoso-{ welcoming newcomers. ;phy. Neither in the case of the minutes spent in pulling a guttersnipe nor the column how- on a big thermometer which’ ever, would such one-sidedness supposed to register the a: lead to a worthwhile goal. fof money tha’ been’ cx I could spend all of my time i praising good and denouncing evil but since they cannot be found in a pure state amongst ~. men’s actions, I prefer to take the course of abusing the wrong that can be discovered mixed with right, and praising. the right that is so often a part of wrong. This doesn’t permit the good people to become smug and selfrighteous nor does it bury the evil-doer under a burden of hopeless discourage- ment concerning his potentialties for improvement. There isn’t a preacher, banker, or candlestick maker in Key West who can be pointed out and have it said of him: “He is perfect.” (For that matter, it might even be hard to find a news columnist who would fit the description.) By the same token, there isn’t a thief, murderer, or prostitute who has strayed so far from righteousness that we other humans can feel safe in assuming God's preroga- tive of final condemnation. “This Rock of Ours” seeks to act as a counter-balance so that none of us will lose the right per- spective of local conditions by be-} coming over-confident or unduly depressed. As a stimulant, it: oc- casionally uses irritating state- ments that will crawl under some- one’s skin to secure action, HOPE TO BE M.C. HOLLYWOOD ®—Bob Hope has been selected as muster of cer- emonies for the 25th annual Acad- emy Awards presentation program March 19 at the Pantages Theater. facing the reality that they have no chance of getting it repealed, will settle for changes. Lewis may soften his view, ‘oo. But the differences between what business leaders want changed in T-H, and what labor leaders want | of a group Eisenhower himself set | of the AFL and Walter Reuther (he | Can't reach agreement—at least on | House and Senate Armed umbia. University. James D. Ze!- lerbach, chairman of the National Manpower Council, gave it in a the idn’t take part) is president of | ‘the CIO. Lewis is on the advisory | committee, tov. Meany and Reuther, who do not have behjnd them the long history of personal dispute, as did Murray Skee Word from Havana has it that the|they were not quite prepared for political situation there is reaching | the loss of their civil rights—which hoped President would act “to insure! and Green, may work closer to- equality of sacrifice” and added | gether. that the council had found good| While the AFL, CIO and Lewis’ reason for complaints about the | miners all wanted the T-H wiped existing student deferment system. out in the past, the AFL and CIO, a dangerous point-that General Fulgencio Batista, who returned himself to the presidency with char- acteristic methods early last spring, is in real trouble. We discussed the situation Satur- day night with a man who should | know (he is high in the Cuban gov- | ernment), and he said that the man lin the street--the average Haba- }nero, has never been very happy about the “Cuban Strong Man's” latest Coup. The official, who asked that his name not be used, returned to Ha- |vana yesterday He said that the } Situation, the way it is building up, should resolve itsei within a { month. “Either Batisia will be removed or he will break the back of the re- sistance movement that is out to get him,” he said. He fears that out and out revolutionary tactics may} be necessary to “restore a legal! government to Cuba.” i When Batista first seized power! in it was a different situation. | The citizens of Cuba were ready for any sort of a change after the tyrannical regime of Machado that ked millions fromr the working je and placed it in the pockets reeling from one of the worst eco | nic crises in its stormy history. | Batista found little opposition to} id for power and Cuba| for many years. are different— ne Havanans are eateng regularity amt although their standard of liv- ling is pitiful compared with ours, included the cancellation ef the : & fill com hack away and where they may. Currently, a Havana's top newspapermen hav a daily radio p they alternate in at the president. et tit to beat. His “office” last i Ld if 8 major points, like eliminating the 80-day injunction against strikes. Labor and management should be able to agree on minor changes in the present law. | Facing a battery of microphones, he told plans for writing his m plans zor a family vacation 4, of offers he has in Hawail ad © si wie Stes BREE BR BRE BR ESS FSee xe po ee ek |