The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 31, 1953, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, March 31, 1953 The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) by 1. P. Artman, owner and pub fisher, 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 2-5651 and 2.5662 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Pregs is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published here. _—$—$—$ Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida —_—_ es Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12; By Mail $15.60 —$—$—<—$——————————— ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION ee 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 Governmenis. Community Auditorium, ee a ce, ——— eee ‘HUNTER-KILLER’ COMMISSIONED The Navy recently commissioned the submarine hun- ter-killer Norfolk, which cost an estimated $44,000,000 exclusive of ordnance work. The ship is the largest des- troyer-type vessel in existence. It is also thought to be the deadliest enemy of submarines afloat. The ship has a 5,500-ton standard displacement and an over-all length of 540 feet, It was launched in 1951, and therefore has been in production for several years, The ship carries a crew of twenty-nine officers and 431 enlisted men. With such ships, the Navy hopes to develop an anti- submarine fleet which will surpass anything the Allies have had available in two World Wars in which the ene- my utilized submarines to seriously menace shipping. In both these wars, the German submarine fleets found both England and the United States comparatively unprepared for large-scale submarine attacks on their merchant ship- ping. The new type hunter-killer ship is expected to car- ry on board the latest radar and other submarine detec- tion equipment, and used in connection with aircraft, should give the United States the best submarine protec- tion possible. Because of the time required in building such ships and the cost, it will probably be some time be- fore the Navy will possess many of these craft. It is surprising how many people do no work. Shi, AGS I SE Figures in bathing suits sometimes lie these days, boys. We must admit there is a lot of suspense involved in most evening dresses these days. ceeciahienamnipenemnaatinnniinens Advertising must be a successful thing; there are so many businesses which have succeeded by using it. terrain ements The reason some people are annoyed at what children say is due to the fact that children too often come out with the truth. Snes The big cities often produce farces with their dock, transit and garbage collection stoppages, strikes, and cor- ruption troubles. ;de volver al polvo, Ase nte HAS NOTAS CUBANAS Por RAOUL ALPIZAR POYO FILOSOFIA DE MARTI En estos modestos trabajos va- mos a tratar someramente, como en una rapida peregrinacién de conceptos, de las ideas filosdficas de José Marti, a su paso por los complicados trigales de las vie- jas doctrinas y escuelas de la Grecia antigua. A tratar de probar, como pasé suavemente la luz de su pensa- miento, junto a los muros de di- versas escuelas, sin adentrarse en ninguna, ni vestir la clamide, que le sefialase la adopcidn defi- nitiva de una de ellas. La muerte es una experiencia universal. Todos los hombres, es © pequefios, ricos 0 po- letrados o incultos, han de caminar invariablemente hacia los sombrios senderos de la muer- te. El hombre nace, crece, lu- cha, suefia y construye y al ca- bo se rinde y cae impulsado por el dligido soplo de la muerte. Ha Porque del Polvo salié. Pero, el pensamiento humano, y muy especialmente el filosdfico, jamas ha estado con- forme con aceptar ese final. A través de la historia de la huma- nidad, desde los tiempos mas re- motos, ha persistide la convic- cién de que lq muerte, no puede ser el final de todo y que el se-j pulcro no ha de ser el triunfo de la muerte sobre la fortaleza hu- Los grandes pensadores recia, que fueron excelsos mentores de la humanidad. cre- yeron firmemente, en la inmortali- dad del alma. Y todos los filosé- | fos, desde Sécrates y Platén, hasta Kant, por Aristé- teles, Epicteto, Pitagoras, Spino- za, Aquino y otros, convinieron, | de una manera o de la otra, en que el alma es inmortal. Los unos, sostuvieron la superviven- cia, mientras los otros, creyeron en la transmigracién de las al- mas. Algunos, como el Divino Platén, tuvo el buen gusto de alojar el alma en una radiante estrella. Marti, al pasar su luz a través de la existencia, no puede haber terminado en la tragedia Dos Rios, su alta misidn es al. tiene que sobrevivir a la} de aquella escena. Y de> su alma, que fué su mente, su cerebro y su visién de los hom- bres, vamos a tratar fundo respeto que nos merece su virtud y su enorme grandeza. El hombre superior, a nuestro juicio, es aquel que conserva en su corazon la pureza del nifio. El que conserva ese sentimiento, que solo vibra en la de la nifiéz y que le acompafia a través de todas las peregrina- ciones de la vida. Marti es un ejemplo de esta teoria. Fué, por jsu virtud, un nifio que creci¢ j manteniendo en su espirityu, toda; }la santa pureza que el seno ma-! jternal, pone en algunos privili | giados Marti fué un triste, E} conocié desde nite, que tode en la vida es dolor. Que todo deseo. noble o | plebeyo, grande o pequefie, pro- duce dolor en el corazon del | hombre { Fue auestro Apéstol um gran simbolista, sin ser ni asceta, ni) contemplative, Como el predica-/ | dor de Nazareth, prefirié la pa- ALL ASHORE I~ jrébola brillahte, al concepto sea jello, Fué ua simboliits, porque toda su vida fué us hermoso sim que, liumino rutas de espe ramas. 2 cure final habriamos «de @meontrar realidades redentoras. Jess dijo: “amos los unos a los otros.” Marti declaré: “yo abrazo a todos los que saben amar. Yo traigo la estrella y la paloma en el corazon” . Epicteto, fundador con Zenén, de la escuela estoica predicé el contro! de la voluntad, la tempe- rancia y la ju: “Cuando el hombre domina sus pasiones, co- mienza a ser libre,” aseguré Epicteto, Marti, en un rasgo de suprema sinceridad, dijo: “si yo odiara a alguien, me odiaria por ello a mi mismo.” Sdcrates, el autero ateniense, predic6 que la virtud hace buenos a los hombres y grandes a los pueblos. Que la virtud pue- de determinar al destino presen- te -y futuro del hombre. Marti proclamé que “ser bueno es el unico modo de ser dichoso, Que la felicidad general de un pue- blo, descansa en la honestidad y virtud de sus habitantes. Y que solo las virtudes, producen en los pueblos un bienestar constante y serio." Y como Socrates, por pensar de tan noble manera, fuera perseguido y condenado por los griegos a beber la_ cicuta, Marti fué también condenado por los hombres de la Colonia, a lle- var el grillete en en pié, en las abyectas baritolinas del Presidio Politico. Confucio, el melancdlico filéso- fo oriental, mantenia que el dolor era “el deleite de la humanidad.” Marti dijo asi: “sufrir es quizas gozar. Sufrir es morir para la torpe vida por nosotros creada y nacer para la vida de lo bueno, unica vida verdadera” . , . Este hermoso pensamiento, arrancado de las paginas de To- mas de Aquino o de San Agustin. Epicuro, tan erréneamente in- terpretado y comprendido por los que le sucedieron, mantenia que el “‘derecho a vivir, a la libertad y a aleanzar la felicidad, nacia con el hombre”... Y cientos de afos mas tarde, en 1855, cuan- do aun tenia solo dos afios nuestro Marti, Heriberto Spencer, el pro- fundo pensador y fildsofo inglés, con el pro-| © ingenuidad | parece | en su libro ESTATICA SOCIAL dijo: ‘La libertad de cada uno limitada por la libertad de :to- dos, es la Unica regla por la cual pueden desenvolverse felizmente, toda sociedad. Los gobiernos no deben de inmiscuirse en la vida y creencia del individuo. Esa in- tromisién solo se produce, cuando los hombres quieren interferir la libertad de los demas hom- bres. La libertad de accién, es el primer requisito para progresar y lo mas primordial para la feli- cidad humana. La verdad debe de ser dicha por todos los hom- bres. Decir la verdad es_patri- monio del que se siente hombre.” Marti dijo: “si noble es decir la verdad, mas noble es decirla to- da. No es honrado el hombre que no dice lo que piensa.” Nuestro inmenso Marti, no solo predicé la verdad, como el supremo ideal del hombre, sino que murié por ella. Platon, el mas aventajado dis- cipulo de Socrates, en uno de sus dialogos inmortales, decia: “la virtud es cultura y el vicio ig- norancia.” Marti, en uno de sus magistrales discursos, sostuvo “que ser culto es el unico modo de ser libre.” (Continuara) Disease Gets Noted Elm LENOX, Mass. (#®—The Elm Disease has destroyed one of which was growing in Massachu- setts’ Berkshire Hills when it was populated only by Indians. The 111-foot tree, estimated to have been 306 years old, bad tow- ered above Elm Court, a mansion built in 1887 by W. D. Sloane, New York millionaire. It was believed locally to have been the first Amer- ican tree protected by lightning rods. Fuses in grounded circuits in the lightning rod system were blown out three times by lightning during the 21 years they were in place. Eight feet in diameter at the base, the old tree had a spread of 164 feet in its hey-day. Port Royal in Jamaica in the West Indies was destroyed by an learthquake in 1692. SALK WATCHES POLIO VACCINE PRODUCTION —Dr. Jonas E Saik, M-yeerold professor of research bacteriology at the Univer sity of Pitisburgh who has aguounced the mw polio vaccine cu $@ childr Mrs. Ethel J. Bailey —f Wirephoto en and wks on a cessiul use of a Bew bet 85 O06 s8sistant adults, « Duteh | America’s oldest and largest elms | SINGAPORE RESTRICTS IMMIGRANTS SINGAPORE (®)—New imm!- gration regulations will bar entry into Singapore to all persons | wanting to enter the colony for ment, |J. Haxworth said “The colony | fresh immigrants.” He explained | there were no restrictions in the past beause vast quantities ofla- bour were required to develop the country, The ever-increasing local-born population now can be bour requiremnts. mate this will be doubled by 1970. Key West In Days Gone By From The Citizen Files | | _ 20 YEARS AGO TODAY _ ; William W. Demeritt, who is jassisting the U. S. Biological Sur- vey in studying the migratory movements of mourning doves yesterday afternoon sent his re- port to Washington, D. C. cover- ing his activities of more than two years. ‘The crew of the S. S. Cuba will give a dance tonight at the Cuban Club starting at 9:30 e’clock. Howard Wilson and his nish a musical program for the free. A solid carload of soap has been received by the merchants of Key West and will go on their shelves in time for today’s buying it was announced today, Judge H. H. Taylor, vice pre- sident of The Citizen Publish- ing Company, and attorney for the Overseas Bridge Corpora tion came in from Miami on the the guest of William R. jer, vice chairman of the organiza- the afternoon. A truck loaded with — fresh fruits and vegetables is due to arrive at Tift’s Grocery on Divi- sion Street tonight. 10 YEARS AGO TODAY Harry Harris, county commis- came to town from his home in | Tavernier last night, and this | morning made the rounds of the | city, calling on his friends, Yesterday afternoon pounds of pork were received in Key West and were distributed proportionately among the local retailers. Lieutenant Commander Melvin \the purpose of seeking employ-| } Controller of Immigration J. L.| , jcan no longer afford the flow of| § depended upon to supply all la-|- Singapore now has a popula-'!\ tion of 1,000,000. Experts esti- | band have. been engaged to fur- | affair, Ladies will be admitted | Havana Special yesterday, was | tion, and left for his home in | sioner from the fifth district, | 5,000 | working with Dade County B} charge at the Sonar School. | | (Editor’s Note: In the battle against cancer the biggest handi- caps are ignorance and fear, which stems from lack of informa. tion. Cancer has no better ally than fear. At the start of April, Cancer Contro Month, The AP presents through the co-operation of the American Cancer Society a series of six articles pre- pared by medical experts to tell what cancer is and what can be done about it.) By A. M. SUTHERLAND, M, D, Director of Reha’ ion Memorial Center, New York (Written for The AP) | | \ jcancer, but like Bernard Shaw's “Devil.” its reputation is worse than its deserves. | , be managed. The unreasoning fear jwe see stems from lack of infor- | mation. Cancer has no better ally than {unreasoning fear. We know how an enemy attempts to demoralize —and we know demoralization | spells defeat. It is disastrous to be demoral- ized by fear of cancer. Fear can prevent our taking sensible steps jto get rid of the threat, and delay our seeking medical help. It can prevent those who have been cured from enjoying the rest of their lives. Reasoning fear of a threat ening situation is helpful, but panic demoralizes and hinders. The public does not generally re- alize the marvelous extension of cancer treatment in the last few | years. |. The cure rate has risen in some | forms to 80 or 90 per cent. | New developments in X-rays, jhormones, chemicals and n lenergy have been turned against cancer. Only a few persons re- alize that today some cancer cells | Few diseases are as dreaded as} For the large part, cancer can} E. Russell said today that he had | can be given a disease which dam- heard unofficially that his leave | ages them but does not farm the of absence as superintendent of | patient. Very few outside the medi- public instruction in Monroe coun-|¢a] profession are aware of the ty has been granted yesterday |extraordinary advances surgery but that he has not yet received | has made, any official notice from Governor Holland. If the intelligent layman could see what is being done and the promise research holds for the fu- |ture, fear of cancer would be ‘° | breught down to realistic, sensible | proportions, Crossword Puzzle across 73. Vapor 1. Cupid 5. Owned Commemorating the Feast of Esther (Purim) services held at the Jewish Syna here Sunday evening, offic ever by Rabbi Lazarus Lehrer. Fishermen will be allowed to} Janchor at night at Marquesas Keys after April 1, Captain H.| H. J. Benson, acting commandant | of the seventh naval district an- |nounced Tuesday. * | The City Council met in special session last night for the | main purpose of discussing the | proposed new city charter which | will be submitted for passage | at the coming session of the state legislature by Represente- tive Bernie C. Papy. Hi TOO MANY CROOKS FOR MAGISTRATE CAPETOWN, South Africa #— A disgruntied Johannesburg maai- j strate says he’s considering asking | for a transfer to some other town— there are too many criminals there | to suit him. | “Since I arrived three years ago house has been burglared three times,” he compleined Frids My son's bicycle has been stolen twice “Apart from *his, my wife and 1 woke up recently with a thief) i shining a torch in our faces. He} escaped before 1 could do anything | | Be careful that your hollow | the ' sgainst each other or against other | teole so they won't be sicked or: dulled, and so the chrome piatin é if the platine exposed mete may Ta of Mam. RALPH M. FETTERS, SO1, USN, a student at U.S. Peet Sonar School, Key West, Fla. just finishes donating the first pint of blood given in the Sonar School's blood drive started last Mon- day. Attending him is Miss Florence Hope, medical technician lood Bank. Fetters gave blood along witl eight other classmates, and his class chalked up 100%, according to Lt. B. H. Horton, blood drive officer-in- CANCER’S REPUTATION _ IS NOT ALL DESERVED We often ere asked: “Does can- cer education and the American Cancer Society ca an unhealthy fear?” dangers and none of fight the threat were "but by sreecing the dangees ut what can be done about them, cer education stimulates a realis- tic, useful fear which it so that we can take action and prevent demoralization, If more people had reasonable fear of accidents the number of traffic fatalities would drop sharp- jly. Reckless driving stems from ims ome of a prudent, useful fear. Such fear is mi recog- nition of the fact tek ceounine adverse can happen to us. It stim- ulates prudent measures to coun- teract the adversity. Knowledge of cancer is really a sort of insurance against can- cer, Thousands of people are alive and well today because they have been educated about cancer—what it is and what can be done about and intelligent action diminish fear. ‘ Basic are cancer’s seven danger signals: symptoms that may méag. cancer, Delay can be ey v4 The appearance of any one symptoms take you to a doctor at once: 1, Any sore that does not heal. 2. A lump or thickening in the breast sash Meedien 3. Unusi or 4. Any change in wart or indigestion can mole. 5. Persistent or dif-