The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 17, 1953, Page 8

* _|FOR CRYIN :} OUT LOUD | By CHARLES G. MENDOZA ©) A certain Hibreman__ stripling with a Carrie Nation flair for right- eousness has been writing learned- ly(?) for an out-of-town newspaper about the prostitution bugaboo in Key West and vicinity. He believes that the hasty, unheralded closing of Mom’s Tea Room on Stock Is- land will usher in for us a Utopian law-abiding era like that which exists in Miami today. In fact, Key West might become so law-abiding that we will permit prisoners to {lee from escape-proof jails once a week as they do in Miami. Miami, as our friend would have us understand, has advanced far in a moral sense. The moral at- mosphere there is killing fhoral disease. I guess that the moral atmosphere is so stifling in Miami that the Ku Klux Klan there is resorting to gentler types of may- hem. I presume that even Philip Wylie has quit writing about a seamier side of Miami and is now engaged in writing books for chil- dren. ~ YES! THE CITY... 900 YEARS i THE FUTURE... 1S BLANKETED WITH THE DEADLY POISON Gas! COME! I MUST PUT THE AIR- TIGHT. GLASS PLATE OVER. THE TME-CASE OPENING! BOSS! wHY'D YA HAVE TO BE WEARIN’ THIS DISGUISE 4 WHY = WAY?.., 25082 _..1 NEVER WOULD O' HURT ya, BOSS... HONEST! ce F id FF i ie S = SHE WASN'T TOBE HURT? THEY WERE TO FLY HER OVERA REAL DIAMOND MINE, GAY IT WAS HERS, ed BRING i 3 DICE, WHAT HAVE YOUR MEN. WITH LYDIA? ITS THREE ars NCE 4 YOUR PRETTY WARD IS NOT COMING it ig i i cf a h a ] F I ar i i i 7 f Be § Sa WOLNVHd AHL sf Py Hi z Miami, in fact, is so occupied with consuming thoughts and goals that it no longer has to depend on immorality or, per se, pro- stitution, as a means of preoccu- pation. In fact, all that Miami preoccupies itself with these days is the doings of‘ their reporters in| crime-infested Key West. The cracker-jack law-enforce- ment agencies in Miami have al- most solved the prostitution prob- lem by stamping out the cause and effect. This means that the Miami police have closed all bordellos in their area in order to give the pros- titutes the opportunity to free-lance as call-girls or to operate ‘in hotels. When any community says that it is stamping out prostitution it a duty to his people to mak I have the right to practice the skill to practice. But this position to the practice itself. what am I to think but that he wants the whole plum, if plum it) is, for himself?” “He’s never made money, Dr. Curtis. I don't think he considers it a plum.” “Nor do L But will you this ion? I RELAX, BETTA. T'M TAKING OVER, >-AND DOWN! ka explain, | on NVIDIOVW AHL JNVYAGNYW Fie as oldest profession in the world, that this need has been replaced ‘by wholesome recreational activi- ties that will interest and occupy. men. In other words, that men have miraculously succeeded over- night in curbing their animal pas- By JAMES MARLOW sions by devoting themselves to] WASHINGTON W—No one could literature, shuffle-board, —hobbies,)in fairness expect President Eisen- tiddlywinks, bowling, baseball, ten-}hower, in his less than three nis, swimming, and other whole-| months in office, to produce any some recreational activities. sensations in the cold war with This is baloney! Russia or the hot war in Korea. You can give a man all the op-| He has produced. none, and can portunities in the worid for whole-| point to some obvious reasons. In some recreational activities and,|Korea, for instance, where the granted, he will make use of these| troops have been tied down by opportunities.. Not to the extent, | winter, the warmer weather which however, of permitting them to|permits larger mrdneuver is only completely sublimate his devices. | just arriving. ' If a man cannot satiate his bio-| The Communists could forestall ‘logical urgings by means that soc-|any bold plans the President has, iety has conveniently placed at his|if he has any, by demonstrating disposal such as tea rooms, he will seriously want peace and hom find other means, And desperate |estly, agreeing to settlements, in :|Korea and elsewhere, ‘No doubt they could forestall him e | for. months or longer by pretending to want settlements, He would want to exhaust every rcasonable means The Worl L104 Naa 219 gree ! Ee He if i 2 i af | i tf g aa | : | 5 Zz 2 m * fs | = z i a ant & ! E E aye glad, to sell their bodies. You can legislate morals but you cannot legistate instinctual drives. If we had to put every sex-offender behind bars we*would have ninety percent of the adult male ‘pop- ulation in jail. Tne Kinsey Report on the Sexual Behavior of the American Male is very @xplicit in this regard. Americans should desist in before going further. That may be one of their reasons for talking peace now. But if the Communists play it phony it’s anybody's guess who the winner will be. By pretending peace is close and, possible they might kid the Allies into slowing ‘down armaments while they built up their own strength. i 2 E PEGE ing sex a sub rosa, topic. But if the Communists lost their z biological necessity! It isn't’ a peace seemed, the West might matter of advocating either pro- ; or-anti arguments about se x.| “xe the edge. YAIHLVA dN ONIONS BEE eee | TEN DOLLARS DOWN | ANO FIVE DOLLARS A MONTH i 8EGAD.! WHAT KIND OF TERMS Where sex is concerned the only truthful admission is that it is part. and parcel of our ‘lives. What you do with sex life comes under pri- vate. business. If prostitution is illegal then most of the American males must = have a terribly guilty conscience. ei! In fact, the National guilt must Eisenhower has not taken any publicly known steps which are basically different from the stra- tegy and programs laid down in the Truman-Acheson “‘contain- ment” policy so roundly criticized by Republicans in the ie But Secretary of State recently claimed a strong position taken by the Eisenbower adminis- tration was partly the cause of the Communist peace moves. He cited (1) Eisenhower's order to the Seventh Fieet off Formosa, put there by former President reach vast proportions. No wonder the psychiatrists are overworked. Pornography is also illegal yet 4 ™ 5 what is the percentage of the adult | males in this community who have | | not attended a “stag” show where) Truman, to let Chisng Kai-shek | Pornographic movies are shown? {attack the Chinese mainland; (2) Very little. Mest of the civic or|a joint French-American warning social organizations in this town | to the Communists net to start new and in towns all over the country | Asian attacks; (3) the building up have given “stag” shows and will | of South Korean forces, which was continue to do so. being done under Treman; and (4) Drunkenness is also Megal yet/| plans to increase aid to Indochina, ©! millions continue to get drunk,|an sid program which had been >| including the highest and nobiest.j carried out under Truman. } 1 do net emndent: dcoaieanete:| Chiang had been raiding the | pornography, or prostitution. 1} mainland in a smail way while the ‘ merely accept them as sociil pat-| fleet was in Formosan waters. No terns of behavior. 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