The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 2, 1953, Page 4

? Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, March 2, 1953 The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. irtman, owner and pub- usher, 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 cr not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news| published here. ; Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida scription (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. a 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, 1 2. 3. 4. ‘ en DISABILITY RETIREMENT RACKET One of the seamy sides of bureaucratic corruption is to be found in the disability retirement racket, which has} seen worked by too many grasping Americans for a num- ber ofsyears. The disability retirement system has been ex- ploited by tens of thousands of healthy Americans, and this racket is costing every American taxpayer today. When one considers that about six billions of dollars are spent on veterans and veteran-benefits every year — one of the largest chunks in the budget—the conclusion is usually reached that they are being adequately cared for. But the Veterans Administration no longer handles the disability retirement payments to former members of the Armed Services and so additional money is appropriated for these payments to the services themselves. -erhaps this makes the sums appear more justified to yer, but the real story is not so pleasant. For many years smart dealers have been taking advantage of the law to grab monthly disability retirement payments of as much as two, three, four or five hundred dollars 1! And some draw much more. Some former rhembers rvices have been drawing such sums, monthly, for { of years— termed disability money. Many are y not disabled to any extent, carry on a full-time schedule in their private business. The sad part of this tale is that there are many former ins who are actually in.desperate need for care, and »vernment wasn’t paying out countless sums of to the undeserving, funds would be available for care, There ‘e many cases where ex-service men are AC or other disease, and where the VA hospitals cannot care for them. VA officers have said recentiy that it is practically impos- to get former veterans suffering from TB or mental orders into a VA hospital in many sections of the coun- tally g—of tuberculosis, some present, if the disease was contracted after release for this is that these unfortunates heir diseases when out of the sedvice. In other words, it a service-cennected disability. This reasoning ty thin when one sees a number of fat-cat s in his community drawing several hundred s a month from the government, while they work a tule in their own business. The excuse for this is they received some disability while on active duty. On the other hand, a poor fe z from TB, d dying, might have served ten yea llow suffer overseas, and yet he isn’t even able to get medical re. In theory one can see how the law ual practice the system stinks. Con ress ought to plug opholes he lk which allows former service men n need to draw countle aw s millions of dolla emergency cases involving ex-veterans in desperate ay acquired | rs in the service, all} ras written, but in| out of the| reasury, at a time when facilities aren't available to han-! | | | | i | Ed. note: The following letter was received by the local Chap- |ter of the American Red Cross. Mrs. Ann DeLones, Home Service Worker, brought it to our atten- tion. “Dear Chapter Staff: “I just want you to know what we are doing over here. For some time we here in Korea have been thinking of writing to you and tell- \ing you how much we appreciate fine work which your Chapter doing - particularly as it re- |gards servicemen and their fami- | lies. “First: Maybe we can give you a picture of how our people work | over here and and something of thé background of this country so you may understand some of our pro- |blems. As you know, Korea is a very rugged country, both in ter- rain and in temperature. The mountains which compose the larger part of Korea are very steep and in some places ft is next to impossible for a human being to climb them. “This, of course, makes fighting very difficult for our men. In ad- dition to that, the temperature is extreme and terrific In summer we find temperature rises to as high as 110 degrees. In the winter, particularly in the mountains, we |find it as low as 40 degrees be- low zero. “With these extremes, you can see that personnel have some- what of a trying situation. Gen eral Van Fleet and the Ameri- can Army have taken these things into consi tion and the greatest comforts and best care that can be given te your sons are furnished them, both sum- mer and winter. ‘ “Our part, of course, Is to as- sist the members of the Armed Forces with their welfare and | morale problems. No doubt by now your Chapter has found that in jorder to get a health and welfare report on a man over here, it will {take a minimum of three weeks and sometimes a isn't all due to the mail, but it is due to the rugged terrain and the \difficulty our Field Directors have in traveling and locating the serv- icemen. “It may seem hard to under- stand, but there are no paved roads in Korea, Our Field Direct- jors average about 1000 miles a jmonth, at an average speed of |from 5 to 15 miles an hour. Many jtimes they have time to see only fone man a day due to roads and distances, When they return at jnight after having driven some- } times 70 or 80 miles to service one | request, most of them have to type | their own letters at night, many month. This | which we have. You see, there is no commercial facility in Korea for sending or receiving such mes- sages and consequently a man is quite worried when he knows he is to become a father. He instinc- tively turns to American Red Cross to get through a message to find out how his wife is getting along. Overseas telephones are non-existent in Korea, with the exception of one place which, for the most part, is not accessible to the soldiers under two days travel time by train and jeep. Therefore, it is facility can be used, “To the serviceman we are civilians which to him home and family. He us as one who does not have be here, but who came because we wanted to help. We are favored with the same feeling from high-ranking officers. The boys who are doing the fighting here, last year voluntarily raised $262,000.00 for the American Red Cross, What a group! There are none better! “Recently two major companies —The Magnolia Petrolezm Com- pany of Dallas, Texas and the Wills and Baumer Candle Mfg. Company of Syracuse, New York- donated 427,750 candles were one of the most appreciated things F ind have ever witnessed. Bs watching for the enemy, there are no electric lights, and all the men have to do day and night is watch and wait. One is on shift for a while and then he for a while, while his buddy wa: es and waits for the enemy. It not possible to use ga: je terns because of the extremely bright light. It might give away their position and cause men to be killed necessarily. “Candies ere the which could be used in the lines for light. New the army | WORKS» Vivid Picture Of Red Cross Activity In Korea Is Given In Letter From Director sues candies, but it so happened that due to the shipping strike on the West Coast or for some such reason, their supply did not arrive in time. There were many many men who had no light at all, “Our American Red Cross As- sistant Field Director took these candles to the front line bunkers and issued them personally to the men of the Regiments. Were they happy! They were most appre- ciated. The boys got a kick out of | there being all types such as bride and groom, birthday, and all colored candles from pink, blue, green, and plain white. They really | ! served. the purpose! “All of us take our hats off to these American Red Cross girls | who are in the Army Hospitals. Some of them are very close to the front, ‘bringing their cheer and smiles to those who have suffer- ed most in this war. Their cheer has brought happiness to those men who are fighting. They are grand - never complaining of hard- ships or inconvenience. “Yeu have a right to be proud ef everyone of them. We know you in the Chapter, it would net be possible for us to carry on the work here. “Tell your volunteers that the donation of their time and talents is the foundation of cur Organi- zation. Without your help, it is impossible for us to function. It is indeed becoming more and more known as Your Red Cross because these boys are beginning to feel as everyone in the States should be, that it belongs to the people of the United States. Since it belongs to each of us, there is a responsibility for each of us to carry. “Thanks again for your wonder- ful cooperation. “Sincerely, “JAMES H. RYAN.” PEOPLE’S FORUM ‘times by candle light and in sub-! | zero weather. The next day this is Wednesday's headline “Jury action if such a thing were possi- bie. On second thought, it is proba Diy possible, but certainly not ad- ble. Not in ‘anguage. the delicate observation MePhid’s column reminds me of the gentleman who jumped oa his horse and rode off in four directions, this maipractice of bu- mor brings one devout wish. I hope Mark Twain gets no ill (Chaplin Faces \immigration Examination | VEVEY, Switzerland (®—Come- | dian Charlie Chaplin, facing immi-! gration examination if he attempts | to return to the United States, is | going through all the motions of | making Switzerland his permanent home. The British actor has re-! fused thus far, however, to an-' nounce publicly his plans for the future. | Chaplin has been living with his family since the end of last year; in an 18th Century manor in the| neighboring village of Corsier. | Local ‘press reports that the fam-j| ous screen star purchased the 15-| room mansion oftright have never | been denied. Contradicfory rumors circulating | in the last few weeks—that Chap- lin has retired, that he is planning a new film—have not drawn any comment from the: 63-year-old’ actor. | Whatever his long range plans may be, Chaplin appears to have no immediate intention of return- ing to the U. S. where he would have to prove that he is admis- sible under American alien laws. Chaplin himself refuses to be in- terviewed. Uninvited callers at the splendid, white-painted house over- looking Lake Geneva are told po- litely that the little comedian is not at home. At the recent Zurich premiere of his film “Limelight,” he was reported to have assured friends that he regarded himself as living in retirement in his new home and that the film should be regarded as his artistic swan-song. Other reports, hewever, credit Chaplin with ambitious plans. The Geneva newspaper “La Suisse” reported Chzplin planned to build a studio near the lakeside village of Versoix, 10 miles north of Geneva. The ‘Nouvelle Revue” of Lausanne said Chaplin was in- stalling a vast underground film editing laboratory in the cellar of his mansion, where he would cut and .e-edit all his great films of the past. TV Will Have Inning At Award Banquet Mar. 19 | By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD — When the Academy Awards are televised for the first time March 19, six min- utes of the hour program will be devoted to plugging a television | set. | Thus the climax of what can be called one of the biggest bonehead | Plays in recent Hollywood history. | All of the film industry’s brass { |are now admitting that they have been locked in a life-or-death strug: | \ale with TV for the past three years. Yet when ihe industry puts on its biggest event of the year, lits competitor is allowed to use | the event as a showcase for selling | {more TV sets. It’s incredible but true. It hap- |pened because certain studios | withdrew their financial support of | |the academy. The studios argued that they were not allowed any suy-so in the academy's affairs. | { Lacking enough money to put) \on ,its annual show, the academy | | had to seek a sponsor, If the balk- ing studios had maintained their ; support which amounted to! | around $20,000 or a tiny fraction of | }their annual expenditures — this | embarrassing event would have | been prevented. But they failed to | see the Qscars for what they are— ithe greatest industry promotion | levent in the U. S | “General Motors would pay a million dollars for a promotion like | the Oscars.” a trade paper editor | told me recently. “So would any jother big corporation. The Oscars | | keep the film industry in the news | for three months. The event itself Vmakes front pages. It is worth a | |hundred times what it costs." | | But the studios have often failed }to see this. They are too often |ridden by jealousies and disap-| | pointment over not winning Oscars } | they thought they ceserved j | The real winners in this mixup} are the home TV viewers. They | and a certain TV manufacturer | who will take the bows for bring- | ing Oscar into the homes, MRS. EARL BROWDER POSTS $2000 BOND | people hate most in this world is HAL BOYLE SAYS NEW YORK —The thing most} Always life stands at a cross- | roads, sins and pleasures, passions jand proprieties,.freedom of pov- having to | erty and the captivity of property, mate up my mind about some-jhere and there, near and far, to g, I'm not going to decide an- | and fro, one shoe cff and one shoe other thing today if it kills me,”|on, tears and kisses, hits and they threaten. misses. 2 But they can’t escape. There is} No, never any rest from it, your no escape. Life is un endless choice relatives and my relatives, jungle between one thing and another and clearing, highways and by- thing. The mere act of drawing a ways, marry in haste or repent at breath is a decision against death. '}eisure, a mind to reason with and _ A human being is faced with a}emotions to keep you from ever linked chain of choices from his being reasonable, your dish of tea moment of birth. A child is alwaysfand my cup of coffee. born crying, and right away he is teased into trying to laugh. This baby immediately has to begin choosing between being full and empty, wet or dry, hot or cold, silent or noisy, held up and fondled or put down and let alone, day and dark. The horizons of his growing world widen into a few certainties, more and more choices. Things are never quite set. Coins and ar- guments all have two sides. He is either a little angel or a little devil. Yep, life at every step offers more and more gruesome two- somes to pick from. There is north and south, east and west, up hill, down dale, downtown and uptown, Yes or no? Stay or go? Stand up or sit down? The peak or the pit? Do you want it sweet or will you take it sour? Sweet? Oh, then }do you want one iump: or two, I please? Shall you stay in your cel- jlar or hit the ceiling? Will you be brave or afraid, proud or humble? yTake the best or. the worst? Be jthe last or the first? The human race is just. a. life- flong gallop down a road that is ‘always dividing under your feet, and giving you the task of choosing which path to follow. I knew a fellow in the. Army once who had thought about this fproblem for a long, I time. He jwas tired of it. “When war is fast and slow, hello. and goodbye, over,” he used to sey dreamily, giddyap and whoa, good and bad, {“‘I’m going to make only one de- right and wrong, here today and, cision every day for the rest of gone tomorrow. {my life, whether to go hunting or Shall you work or play? Do this Whether to go fishing. That is the or don’t do ‘that? Dream or, 9nly thing a man ought to have to Scheme? Wonder or Plunder? } decide anyway.” Build up or tear down? Weep for what-never-can-be or smile over what-might-have-been? He stuck by his. decision, too. : Most days now he goes fishing and "says nobody ever had life. better, Cheers And Headaches Result From Raise Of Copper Price By SAM DAWSON :cents. Some custom smelters sent NEW YORK (®—The price of | prices up 11% cents to around the copper has gone scampering up—| 36% cents a pound which Chile bringing cheer to the mining areas | gets for its copper in the U. 8, of the West and a new headache for many manufacturers of con- sumer goods. There is no immediate prospect | of a rise in the retail price of} household appliances, autos, or electrical equipment. But the costs } of making them will go up, and the pressure for higher prices will! be increased. Customer price resistance and keen competition likely will keep a strong brake on prices—and an extra squeeze on the profit mar- gin. The copper industry, trols went off, is keeping a nerv- ous eye on the aluminum indus- try—which didn’t raise prices on the light metal when controls end- ed. Copper is so scarce now and in| such demand that its price could be raised still higher—and may well be for a time. But coppermen are well aware that if copper becomes too expen- sive, such of their customers as can switch to aluminum as a sub- stitute might make the jump—and might not return to copper when the price goes down again. This fear is in part responsible for the preseat confusion in the copper market, with prices being quoted all up and down the scale. Big producers are fearful of send- ing prices too high. Creed from the 24% cent a pound ceiling, domestic copper companies hiked prices by 3 to 4 although | quick to hike its prices when con- | market. Custom smelters buy both cop- per ore and copper scrap and re- fine it. Copper scrap prices were decontrolled two weeks ago and immediately jumped higher than the controlled price of virgin cop- | per. This week scrap bas been quoted at 294 cents, but the smelters have been Buying little, naturally, since they “had to sell refined cop- per at the lower price. Now the industry expects a riod of confusion while buyers sellers test out the mai treme swings of domestic prices up to the level of copper is expected by some. Jater both the domestic eign prices are expected to somewhere half way between old domestic price of 24% and the Chilean price of 3644 Some coppermen are that 30 cents a pound may be the levelling off point. Chile, some think, may try for higher prices on her copper. The Chilean government has been tak- ing the metal from. Arierican- owned mines there at 24% cents and selling it in New York at 36% cents. But many in the industry feel jthat the world price will be com- ling down in the j future. They note signs of nite drop in copper Europe. And prod abroad may go up cent this year. FR He Crossword Puzzle Racks ACROSS 1. Poorest 6. Use thread and needle 38. 9. Form of greet 12. Asiatic pa! 13. Biblical king 4. bh 13. Yawned 16. Distoncerted: ol 18. Dash 19, Masculine nickname 29. Roman date 2\. Remaining 34. Behind a vessel 8. Leat vos yra pair 27. ai, Suita! raree hc] wind of Sid McPhid in his resting! YONKERS, N. ¥. ®—Mre. Earl Place. . speaking of whirling in| Browder. wife of the former head | artillery is not pleasant the grave. lof the American Communist party, ‘ With ali these handicaps, we | 4 -cordi Wabster, word Wf be did then Mr. Twain would has posted $2.000 send for her free- | stilt feel it our duty to drive te een daceen pbc cog. | de the first bumorist to become | dom pending disposition of a de-/ the lines or wherever a soldier | sideration. weighing of facts|% Merry-go-round with groans for portation warrant | may be when they have « birth i A a; or death message for him. These messages are delivered in per- son, with wery few exceptions. These exceptions are only when it would endanger lives of ethers | for us to make @ trip te the front. “We are proud of our record repeated. This together with the peiiberates Just Nine Minutes Te | | ibility of being shelled j 3 mies ing bY | Find Guilt On Attempted Rape” = jand argumeats. . careful in de- | Music. | termining.” And $id McPhid would be Der atiorn 1 think this verdict was ren@er-/ second. An unthinkable thought —— sg led with unseemly haste. . s last week to Vers truty yours, As tbe situation horribly obtains zyents stationed out ‘Thelma Robrbecher [®t his moment “The Conch Ob- | Browder’s doar i Peary Court | Serves” is our carrousel. With mad| The agents, who have been post. | Key West, Florida jed as guard, were then withdrawn. | jand want you to know that we the! Mrs. Browder, %, has been con- SLUMM REACTION fined to ber home by ines. have tried to represent our organ om * — peeping | t a most commendable | Béitor, The Citizen: ative pages) r swhieh| I have just forced my Citizen. when it appears” * help haltingly and eres blind); 2 ask you te quit prieting Hope fer the best which through Sad McPhit': colur * payehosiumatic example of 5.» t National are “The Conch Oteerves.” and ~asenssery deception one of (he greatest morale factors would attemgt desmihe.agp re But és gee know af any giteees government im migration ude = =Mrsj 1 could get to blank out the column reg