The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 14, 1953, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) by . P. Artman, owner and pub- iisher, 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 Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 Member of The Associated Press—The Ascociated Press is exclusively Saturday, March 14, 1953 entitied to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or aot otherwise credited in this paper, and also the 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 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 Govesrments, Community Auditorium, COMMUNISTS’ HORSE TRADE The Hungarian Government recently offered to free one Edgar Sanders—a 48-year-old British business man, imprisoned in Hungary on a charge of “espionage,”—if British authorities would release one Lee Meng, a woman leader of the Malayan Communist rebels-—now awaiting execution. By the time you read this, the British Government | might have decided on an answer and the exchange might | be in progress, or have been rejected. It will be recalled that this Communist offer is in line | with another Communist blackmail offer, to which the United States bowed sometime ago. Hungary offered to/| free Robert A. Vogeler, U. S. business man, who had been arrested on espionage charges, when the United States complied with Hungary’s demands for a reopening of Hun- garian consulates in the United States, for the lifting ‘of | Washington’s ban for American travel in Hungary and for a promise from the United States of assistance to Hungar- ians whose property had been looted by the Nazis in World War II. The offer from the Hungarian Government, involving | the British business man, shows clearly the guiding hand | that directs all Communism. Certainly, the Hungarian Government would be, normally, little interested in a wo- man Communist leader in Malaya—many thousands of miles away. But, more than anything else, the offer from the-Hun- | garian Government shows that Communist policy is direct- | ed from one world nerve-center, the leaders of which could-end the war in Korea, or start a new one somewhere else, in 24 hours. That is what Chief U. S. Delegate in the United Nations, Henry Cabot Lodge, attempted to im- press on delegates in his first speech before the U. N. this month. ound if the farmer loses his The ads of some tobacco companies these days come close to misrepresentation. Local self-government is an important right and her- itage in this country sometimes overlooked. SLICE OF HAM > __ NOTAS CUBANAS Por RAOUL ALPIZAR POYO FIEBRE SUICIDA Es verdaderamente desconso- lador Io que esta ocurriendo en Cuba. Todos los dias, un prome- dio de ocho o diez personas se quitan*la vida, utilizando vene- nos, fuego y hasta estupefacien- tes. Lo ‘grave del sintoma es que la mayoria de esos suicidas, esta re- presentada por personas en plena pubertad, cuandy la vida debe de sonreir, cuando las perfuma- das ‘ilusiones germinan y florecen en el corazén. En esa feliz etapa de la existencia humana, en que a toda hora parece que los invi- sibles ruisefiores de la dicha, en- tonan sus melodiosos trinos janto a nuestros oidos, como para hacer- nos ver que en este mundo hay mu- chas cosas amables para los que viven la juventud. El fenémeno esta causando ad- miracién en todas partes. que por un mero des amoroso a los catorce anos, prenden fuego en los vestidos y tras de terrible agonia, entregan sus almas jovenes al Creador. Muchachos, que por un regafho paternal, inspirado posiblemente en el bien de la criatura, se cuel- gan de un arbol, o sustraen una | |pistola y se rompen el cganeo de} un balazo. Algo debieran hacer las auto- ridades médicas de Cuba, para estudiar las causas y los origenes} de esta gran tragedia, que esta sufriendo nuestra juventud. Acaso si el fendmeno sea eau- |}sado mas que por las penas, por trastornos psiquicos, producidos en muchos casos, por enferme- dades hereditarias, por males an-| leestrales, que descontrolan el ce-/ jrebro de esos chiquillos y les cu- bren la pupila de intensas som- bras, Hevandoles al suicidio, euan- do ain no han probado ni | iplaceres, ni las visicitudes y an-/| gustias de la vida. | Cuando, sintonizamos nuestras | jestaciones de radio, parece que} {vamos a entrar en una finebre} jeapilla, donde solo cadaveres jvenes, vamos a encontrar, cubler- jtos por el misterio, ya que en la} mayoria de los casos, quedan sin} |averiguarse ni aclararse, las/| \grandes causas ¥ motives que! than Hevado al suicidio a mujeres} iy hombres en piena juventud. Por otra parte, acaso si por in- jfluencia directa del ‘elima tropi-/ ical, las pasiones san allé mis ve | jhementes. Los afectas mis elo: | Isos y no les osible a lee hu-! manos r el engaiio amore era en grade de f se matan y despues 2 © contra si y terminan’ la vida, en muchos ea- 805. poli g ran be soapechas por situa- jelones, que m poco de sere. inided, pudi set vencidas por los protagonistas de esas diarios jdrama de sangre. | Estamos segeros que tas esta- | disticas de s y de crime jpes pasionaies s8a en la patria jalcanzan cifras astronémicas. En luna sola semena + en | podlactones arna » los | nuestras vidas y que cuando apenas hemos empezado a disfru- tarla a plenitud, comenzamos a sentir el peso de los afios, con sus dolorosas experiencias, no es, ;@ nuestro juicio, la época de la vida, en que debe pensarse’ en abondonar el mundo por la © ma- cabra ventana del suicidio. Todo lo contrario. Esos dias que raudes se van y que al almanaque nos sefiala su paso silencioso, pero implacable, han de ser utilizados para tomar las definitivas orien- taciones que han.de guiarnos por jel sendero de la existencia, para preparar el frio camino que con- jduce a la vejéz, sin privaciones, ni angustias. Desgraciadamente, no @sth ocu- triendo asi. Unas veces, la pre~' | cocidad en los espiritus jovenes y otras los vicios adquiridos prema- turamente, hacen de la juventud un verdadero desastre, que casi |siempre conduce o al hospital, o a la carcel. Los mas pusilanimes, {piensan en el suicidioi ,como la |Gnica via para liberarse de las Penas que ellos mismos se busca- }ron, tratando de encontrar una | felicidad transitoria, que solo du- ra, en la mayoria de las veces, |lo que duran los breves afios de la _juventud. Cuando en‘los afios mozos la bumanidad busea oreintaciones y trata de superarse, en vez de ade- lJantarse a los ai que Uegan a su tiempo, preciso salir en busca es entonces cuando la ven concibe la feliz idea dar un hogar, de Poseer una casa, donde algo tan hermosamente tan elocuente, como son los tos farniliares, de sin jo-| 2 VIOLENT CONTRAST IN COMMIE AND N HOW THE WIND BLOWS! seis afios, o un poco mas, hom- bres y mujeres se lanzan por la pendiente de las diversiones peli- grosas, como son el alcohol y otras gravisimas disipaciones, cuando comienza a madurar en el cerebro lo que la experiencia nos ha ido mostrando, se siente un profundo “hastio, se desprecia to- do cuanto nos rodea y al final, casi siempre es de tragedia. Hay que ir escalando los pel- dafios de la existencia, poco a poco, sin saltos arriesgados, sin tratar de adelantarse a la propia | vida. Subiendo de esta manera esa dificil escdla, se esta siem- pre expuesto a ruidosas. caidas, de las que salen el cuerpo y el es- Piritu, completamente inservibles, luelbm menos la muerte, Y bus- candola serenamente, cada una de. las: constantes luchas hoga- refiag:y' sociales que tiene el ser | hurnano que aceptar, tienen ade- cuada solucién, si no se permite ,al cerebro que lucubre ideas ma- lignas, que entonces suelen hacer de todo punto imposible el en- cuentro de la solucién que busca. Los que se suicidan, segin la = se pterden para siem- pre. ; Cook Sues Farouk’s Mother And Sister LOS ANGELES w—A $100,000 damage suit has been filed against Queen Nazli Fuad of Egypt and her daughter, Princess Fathia, by their former cook, Mrs. Lillian Mrs. said in her com- plaint here that she was knecked down by their Afghan dog, Duke, and a broken leg in the kitchen of the queen's Beverly Hills mansion. Queen Natli is the mother of deposed King Farouk. PARKED CAR SINKS—Policemen peer benesth the rear ef an aute. which, while parked on aod she wae about te began to sunk Riverside Drive in New York through the pevement. The ewnmer. Mrs Giore umiegk the dosr te the vrhocie ‘The cave-in ©as attnbuted leakage tom a broken water man—i%} Wiephste _ Editor’s Note: John Randolph, @ veteran Associated Press cor- respondent in Korea, has made a nine-day tour off U.N. prisoner of war camps. In this article, last jin.a series of three, he discusses | non-Communist POWs. By JOHN RANDOLPH hard to believe the violent contrast between the United Nations camps for Communist and non-Communist prisoners of war. Actually the word “non-Commu- nist” is no longer correct, although it still is the official term. For it is not possible for these ex-Red soldiers to sit on the fence and be merely “non” Communist. They are, most of them, bitter anti-Communists who took the first chance they got to desert from the Red armies. They Icok on themselves, not as war prisoners, but as political refugees—the same as the people who fiee from Red many. “Some of them are really blood- thirsty anti - Communists,” ex- plained Capt. Gera'd H. Miller of Miami, Fla., the information offi- cer at anti-Communist camp No. three for Chinese prisoners. the Communists came to his vil- lage they burned his father alive and then drafted him into the army. That boy would like to go home some day as a liberator. He has some unfinished business to attend to.” Some 6f these anti-Red prisoners may of course be only opportunists who figure the U. N. to win over communism in the Far East. But most Americans who run the KOJE ISLAND, Korea (P—It is; rule in East Berlin or East Ger- | “One boy here told me that when | ON-COMMIE POW CAMPS souls who slip through the wire to} steal an hour with a village girl, | or try to trade their warnt Ameri-} can Army unifornts to the ill-clad|{ South Korean guards for little luxuries or useful cash. The last two North Koreans who escaped | |from Nonsan left a letter of apeie:| 'gy to the camp commander the | night, they took off. They were; picked up at the front several | weeks later, trying to join the/ South Korean Army. They were | |returned to camp, broken-hearted. | This does not mean that all is) sweetness and light snside these | anti-Communist compounds. Lock up any group of men for two years jand you'll get a predietable quota of trouble. Camp commanders say there is less sex-perversion than you could expect among European or American prisoners, but proba- bly more squabbles and even} riots among rival cliques for pow- er inside the compounds. Occasion- | ally these have led to gang mur-; ders and to killing when the guards | have had to use riot tactics to restore order. | The extreme willingness of all ‘the anti-Reds to co-operate with | the U.N. has given their camps a “happy” look that is missing in ‘the grim Communist camps. Both paint and prisoner ingenuity | have decorated the anti-Red camps (with garish Oriental artwork, arch- tways, anti- Communist slogans, | posters, and the prisoners turn out ‘all varieties of gadgets and de- vices made out of that universal |raw material — the American beer can. | “It keeps them out of trouble jand makes their compounds a bet- ter place to live in,” says the (Nonsan camp commander, Col. camps believe — a great many|Charles C. Ege of Carmel, Calif. of them are sincere and would} As at the Chinese camp at prove it by jumping at a chance | Mosulpo, Ege has carpenter shops, to join the Chinese Nationalist or | forges, tinsmiths, barbers, tailors, Para ninguna accién noble y ge-. Todos los problemas tienen so- | se! | Republic of Korea armies—know- ing that recapture by the Reds would mean a hideous death. Altogether there are 48,000 of these anti-Reds. More than 14,000 of them are in camp three Cheju Island. The others are North Koreans who are scattered among six camps on the mainland, of twhich Nonsan and San Mudai are the largest with about 12,000 men ; each. Compared to the camps that hold the 6,000 Chinese Reds at ;Cheju City on the north shore of Cheju Island, and the 76,000 North Korean Reds on Koje Island and its neighboring islets, these “friendly” camps might almost be | the sites of a boy scout jamboree. There are guatd towers, barbed wire and security troops at these anti-Red camps, but here they are a quiet part of the background jrather than the bristling first line of defense that they are at the explosive Communist enclosures. The small number of guards at ithe friendly camps are little more | normal order among men who are nervous and edgy after a confine. | ment that averages more than two | years. Escapees are a few adventurous i ry Letter From ; Dear Neighbor: The other day are man was asked his opinion of the plans to investigate communism in the schools your nearly | at Mosulpo on the south shore of | than an internal police force to keep | jbands, musicians, entertainers and ven a portrait painter going full | | blast. | His prisoners seem to respond | to the treatment, and work with | a will, } Nevertheless, under their satis- faction with the prisoners’ cooper- jation and cheerfuilness, the Amer- | icans at the anti-Communist camps | have deep worries of their own. j Most of them—in private ved versation-——say the United Nations is missing the bus by not releasing this friendly, pent-up manpower to fight on the Allied side, And tery ‘are quite seriously worried that their present easy situation may | deteriorate if, say, the confinement lasts another year, or if the U. N jever makes a move to sell out jthese men to the Commanists in \hopes of a quick truce. “These people are with us now, no question of it,” Miller said. {But how long will they stay with jus if we keep them locked up? | |It's two years now for most ‘of them, and their patience is be-; ginning to-wear a little thin. “As for ever sending these men} back to communism — or even suggesting it — | hate to think of | what would happen here, There would be mass-murder or mass- suicide—and probably both.” ,nist activities In the schools. I) think many of the fears voiced by the people are prompted by the fact that some of the mem-j bers of the Congress have adopt-j ‘est doctor?” T eet HAL NEW YORK. ®#—Death in home or hospital usually sends its wara- \ing ahead, and arrives with small surprise. The survivors have already. bees notified of the coming ‘ death's pale. outri: illness. But death in the office with the suddenness of a hawk. No one is & rl rei For nobody ever at work, When he death at all, it is in drama. He sees himself as tral hero, stoically inevitable as at his bedside bewail his as an act of Heavenly against themselves. Above all he sees his an event of dignity that a final stature, Death doesn’t come that way - the office. Poor Ned has felt: looked bad, and complained» it mildly for years. “It's in my chest: says, “and I’ve got this left arm. It isn’t like arthritis,’ “Why don’t you go home?” “Oh, that would only scare Ecce rie! ihiie E B: eT | wife,” He grimaces and his But in a while the pain and he gets on with his ually, since he won't take the word gets isn’t really 227 HEE Ht But on Ned Poor fog ate suddenly boner ‘the floor. He turns'a bit, and a sound between a sob, a moan. Nobody knows what to do. “Pick him up, and put him on @ sofa.” “No, don’t move him. It may'be a heart attack.” “Get a doctor, Where isthe near- ibly through his ‘comes ‘atid bends over “He's {* she says, The 5 if knots, and say things “I never thing really w: “They say’ three kids, Isn't it a “It’s the good T could Ont nice.” Som help fs ed the philsophy that it is better | to slander and rum the reputa- | tion of a few innocent people if, } in the end, they are successful | 0" in ferreting out a Communist. | With this line of thinking, your’ Congressman violently disagrees. | and which said, While we should be vigilant to/ "ve ™y ect the activities of the Com. |*mt.. st Party in our educational |, 1" ® system, the job of turning the} spotlight on the Reds in this field | should be placed in the hands of | trained investigators who have due respect for the rights of peo takes up a collection from i One of the first things the Com munists have done when they jhave taken over 2 co y is to jtake over the schools and require the use of textbooks which glorify Communism and decry our de imocratic form of government , When Hitler came into power, he , realized that he had to train the jyouth through the school system and he promptly ¢ ried the jyenth of Germa' philsophy. The international Communist movement which seeks to sub- fvert and destroy a country from j within is just as im to | Russia as its vast arr air tarmadas. Now. it is true that lander our Constitution, we are iguaranteed the right of freed jot speech; but certain i Pounding Fathers did not it ithat this freedom should serve as a license to advocate the des jtruction of our form of Gov | ment, | Several prominent thave objected to the . {Senate investigation of Com j : i + i her the Federal, State or/ should initiate j » cut Communt reedom in the schools, } er for these govern. ments to decide. In my pager an effort should be made to ar- rest the cancerses growth of that way.” Communism throughout every | phase of our American Demo- fors ing Reds not harming Americans, Sincerely yours. BILL, LANTAFF educa ee F ii Since there in no one group of who desite to take this bility, the Key West, hat @ plan & promote ty Chest whereby there ot be ang borden om snmp) anzetion, cheb, ete. i Hi persons ii : i i t 7 ill ne i is lis ert batt P| i é i bE 5 for Witte Jasper Walker j the Key Weet Shrice Cinb sar * seed for a Commsenity (best coly Gif tt see the newt, 4 the Givens. the Mary, xed orgs : catiege of Key West Geecred to dave (4 Commenay Chest. i ate ity Chest. After med they will eperivie im pecdentiy from their oem o- eeten, Ceciag ther ows re) fet tha