The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 24, 1953, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, April 24, 1953 Published daily (except Sunday) by L, P. Artma an Maher, trom Tbe Ciisen Gulhding. custo cl Greene bad Ane Baste Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County NORMAN D. ARTMAN : — Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 entitled t use for of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited m this paper, and published here. Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of, Florida -__ Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12: By Mail $15.6u ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICA1ION The Citizen is an open forum and mvites discussion of publie issue and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications. CAPITAL INVESTMENT HIGH The Department of Commerce announced that Amer- ican business firms plan to spend more than ever before for new plants and equipment, Business capital outlays this year are expected to reach a record total of $27,000,- 000,000, This would be about haif a billion doliars more than was spent in 1952, or an increase of about 1.9 per cent in expenditures, It should be remembered, in appraising this an- nouncement, that new plants and expanded businesses are a key factor in maintaining a high level of economic * activity in this country. Thus, the Commerce Department report is a good indication that no serious recession can be «expected in the United States in 1953. The heaviest spending, for new plants and equipment this year, is planned for the first six months of 1958. A slight decrease in such expenditures might. be . encounter- ed in the last half of the year, an indication that the peak of the rearmament boom may be passing. Although economists believe a slight reddjustmént may begin late this year or in 1954, this report—which is in line with other recent economic surveys—indicates that no major recession is probable for 1958. On the con- trary, business is expected to remain good and production to stay at high levels throughout most of the year. Silence is an underplayed virtue. The Russians want peace. Who says so? The Ris: sians. The trouble with most budgets is that they operate only on paper. People who live in a nice town, like Key West, ought to appreciate the opportunity. The human body will stand so much and no more; young people should learn not to abuse their strength if they want to live long. The Key West Citizen may not be the biggest in the world but it is the one you have to read if you want to know what is happening in Monroe County. “HIS WIFE WON'T LET HIM OUT OF S: FROM OVERSEAS!“ Key West In Days Gone By From The Citizen Files 20 YEARS AGO Mrs. Annie Page and daughter | Marguerite, who were in Tallahas- see for one week with Mrs. Page’s daughter, Miss Wilhelrina Goehr- ing, student at the state college, re- turned yesterday. i % Fi Pt THE WORLD TODAY By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON ?—A mild man relaxes when a belligerent man stops picking on him for the same reason being hit on the head with} a hammer feels so good when it stops. This country and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion must decide soon whether, like | the mild man, they will relax their defense plans now that the Rus- sians are talking peace. Sincere or not, the Kremlin’s sudden mildness sta:ted about mid- | March, which was just far enough ahead of some important Western decisions to have a maximum softening effect, .f the West could be softened: 1, The NATO Council of ‘Minis- ters, representing 14 countries, was to hold its 11th meeting in its four year history to lay plans for furth- er military buildup in case of Rus- sian attack. The meeting began in Paris today. 2. The Republicans are anxious to keep their campaign promise to cut government spending. The big- gest cuts are expectéd in money for defense and foreign aid. 3. The French haven't yet ap- proved the plan to give Western By BILL GIBB (Relensead By The KWPD In ‘The Interest of Public Safety.) John’s ‘Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” — Conquest, Slaugh- ter, Famine, and Death —— typify the evils of War. We have four counterparts in uur everyday civi- lian life that can equally well be | described as horsemen. They ra- | vage homes and lives in a gallop- ing, riotous sort of way and are named Fire, Drowning, Highway Accidents, and Home Injuries. Whereas, elimination of the Bib- lical horsemen requires a some- what’ concentrated course of study and meditation, such devastators as uncontrolled fire, accidents, or drownings could be wiped out by using just a little bit of ordinary common sense. Take fire, for instance. .. Do you smoke cigarettes while lying in bed? It its one of the most ‘eomfortable ways in the world to go about getting yourself a nice chest burn or -- worse - perhaps an unpremediated cremation, TODAYS | BUSINESS — MIRROR + Queen Elizabeth on her corona-| tion day June 2 will have a ringing | in many a business till— me 40,000 Americans are ex-| be there. Britain hopes | spend $400 during his} in the isles—a total of 16) million dollars (not counting trans- | portation). Some 250,000 more from* other | lands will be spending for hotels, | food, entertainment, sightseeing, and gifts. British businessmen hope that the 130-million dollars (including VI will be topped by the splurge for his daughter. The British government is spend- | more, who Will be 75 next Tuesday, | compositions have been played by | Symphony orchestras, and his etch- | (Sister Ethel: won as a supporting {ings and paintings have won ac- bee i beet X\ HOLLYWOOD NOTES By BOS THOMAS old New York Telegraph. How HOLLYWOOD i#—Lione! Barey-|Tong did he last? “Long enough to thinks it’s not too late to start a | edit new career. His ‘first novel will Soon be on the bookstands, Crusty old Lionel is the most}* versatile of the Barrymores, His ings and paintings have won ac- claim. He is the only Barrymore who has won ’an Oscar for a star- role—in “A Free Soul” in 1931,|° Player in 1944.) He also had an Academy nomination as a director, Crusty old Lionel is the most versatile of the Barrymores. His| ;, compositions have been played by symphony orchestras, and his etch- claim, He is the only Barrymore who has won an Oscar fora staring tole—in “A Free Soul” in 1931. (Sister Ethel won as a supporting Player in 1944.) He also had an Academy nomination as a director. The actor blows down his achievemeuts in peppery language, claiming “I’m half dead anyway.” But when I saw him in his car at the MGM gate, he betrayed a “I made a date wi Barrymore al for years. A couple he wrote his aut Cameron Shipp. He for the novel to ing some 4% million dollars on| Pride in his new novel, which is the pageantry. Seat rental in gov-| called “Mr. Cantonwine: A Moral | his ernment stands along the mean-| Tale.” meeting with Mark Twain, dering procession route should re-| He displayed a copy of the book, | year-old Lionel came up turn it some 1% million dollars. | which will be released May 19, | Philadelphia “to see his fe Individuals and business houses | Then he read the publisher's jack- | Maurice Barrymore, who was ap- have twice that many vantage | et blurb in his best histrionic style.| Pearing in a New York Play. points for sale for perhaps three|It was a glowing report of the} The actor took his son to a near- million dollars more. | author’s literary talent. | by saloon. There he introduced the The coronation may be chalked! “Just print that,” he suggested, | DO¥ 0 @ Mr. Clemens, The name up as the greatest business pro-| I suspected that his fublisher, ™@a@nt nothing to Lionél until he motion of the year. might be prejudiced, so I asked le#rmed that the man was the Americans are in on the act al-/ him for more information about #¥thor of “Huckleberry Finn,” The ready, working the coronation | his writing career. He said he, °pthusiastic lad regaled Twain theme—costume jewelry, a lip-| started out as a reporter on the| With his own account of his favor ick shade, bed sheets with Brit-| | ite sequence in the book, mames for the hues. High) plant in Clev fashion stresses the “coronation | filo diate peesiesussere sail porosasd ei Saket Sylvania Electric Products’ pres- : ms—on the radio| ident, Don G. Mitchell, warns a and “25-words-or-less”” contests— | st. Louis gusiness group piney offer a coronation trip as top| curtailing operations through fear prize. of a peacetime slump, \ “ The British Commonwealth! On the general industrial build-| US, ‘studio won't let him, Chamber of Commerce has been ing picture, the U. S. Department| What they say is all right working since December on push-| of Commerce reports that plant|™¢:” he remarked. “1' ing sale of British goods here.| and equipment expenditure totals | Bere @ long time and I respect Stores in cities from coast to coast! increased somewhat in the first | ‘helt ent." are urged to feature these goods, | three months of this year and that} His 30-year tenure at MGM especially from May 25 to June 2./ the trend shows signs of contin-| WWM set records except for the An estimated three million dol-| ying |fact that Lewis Stone predates lars worth of British goods: is re-| ‘The department alo takes a| him slightly. Ported already sold to merchants. cautiously optimistic view of the! “We've both) been here so long Steamship lines and overseas air business inventory situation, With| that we were too old earliest memories being “Main Street to Broadway. He wouldn't mind tackling TV, ifs 235 bt Z J to an unusually early start. They,! business had been accumulating | Said. with rates up for the big week. | sorbed by the public and business- docked ships as hotels. } A truce might help some lines | Editor, The Citizen: boat for the day. Scandinavians | according to an executive of Sea-| ing down. 11 million dollars worth of insur-| “The people of this country have | issue, and i Europe one army that would in-| Experienced firefighters will tell clude Germans. The French are | You that many of their calls be- unhappy and doubtful about the | tween the hours of midnight and carriers report almost solid book- consumer buying booming right | Pate in the peasion ings, with the toyrist season off} along in April, the rate at which | Ws started a few years ago,” and travel agents and hotel man-/ inventories has slowed down. This | agers, already love the new queen. | means that most of the record 5 London hotels are booked solid, | high output of goods has been ab- People Ss Forum Some M agai glen to ol men's stocks are. still within the} pagean' m els mies | normal ratio ta sales and no threat | ROM j away, Steamship lines_ will use! as long as buying continues high. | TEARS QNAY arr A French, Belgians and Dutch) to sell better, some businessmen| My daughter (Mrs, Altert Mar- urge visitors to stay with them hold. Those in the luxury trades / tin) and 1 will spend the first week and cross the channel by. air or | have nothing to fear from peace, of May in Key tout the coronation as a side-rip| gram Distillers Corp. He told ajit, haven't ‘to a visit to their lands. jsales meeting in Houston -Tues- | They Insurance mem estimate some day: | West but I ance is involved. British business- | men lost money spent in prepara- tion for the coronation of Edward | VII, postponed by illness, and the | crowning of Edward Vill, can- celled by abdication. more money today than ever be-| Florence fore. The nation’s industries are | growing so fa equipped to produce everything the | well here, but I will always consumers..of this country want. | Key ‘West. The consumers ate ready tb buy) I still work every day at the = iii 5 gency Relief Council Saturday, Mrs. Paul Lowe and daughter, 1g a few days in other relatives. 10 YEARS AGO Miss Maudie E. Johnson, who wa commissioned a Third Officer in the WAACs on April 3, and whose address is 1430 Vernon Avenue, Key West, is now stationed in New York City. Allen Hempten was unanimous- The First Baptist Church Sunday School has as its goal for attend- ance, 300 on Easter Sunday. Mist Ruth Marie Baker, 1125 Street, is for quarter at the Univer- Kentucky, Lexington, Ky. i a a & eC i 2. Memorial Day. which is holiday in the State of Fiori- 7H ler s ; Prospect of rearming any Ger- mans, even Ger’ in the same army with the French. The NATO Council is made up of the foreign, defense and finance ministers of the 14 members coun- tries. The U. S. sent Secretaries Dulles (state), Wilson (defense), and’ Humphrey (Treasury) to the Paris meeting. NATO's secretary general, Lord Ismay, was asked by reporters last night if the Russian tactics had induced NATO to slacken defense preparations. He gave an emphatic “no.” The results of the three-day council meeting may show whether Ismay was a prophet. The talk of the ministers may be very sturdy. But it's the decisions they reach that will tell the tale. When the council met 14 months ago in Lisbon it set a defense goal for 1952, 1953 and 1954. The 1952 goal has largely becn met. Later, but before the Russian peace moves started, the Western Allies questioned whether they had over- reached themselves for 1953. Originally the defense buildup jwas planned to be intense and | quick. Now Dulles has said the | U. S. would ask its allies to stretch | jout the ‘The ministers will decide wheth-| and night, watching for hazardous | "mate of the needs of a grow- program they should go slower because (A) of their own financial condi- tion or (B) the Russians suddenly y Court House fore; seem less dangerous dollars owth a holiday on Monday.| “Meanwhile, it was learned here | destruction of lives and property | lion this year om growth} in observance of Confed-/ this week the Eisenhower adminis-| in flames. tration hoped to cut perhaps two! billion dollars off the $7.600,000,000 | President Truman asked Congress | to approve for foreign aid im the ely because daylight can usually be traced to leareless smokers. A smoldering mattress has a tendency to not only render the occupants of a {house unconscious but can mush- room into a blazing inferno when sufficient heat has been generat- Street Fires If you're out watking or riding on the streets, be careful where you throw cigarette butts. The de- |sire to keep the town neat and ‘orderly is admirable but not when | it is extended to discarding lighted cigarettes in trash bins and re- |fuse piles. Foolish as the latter action may appear, it is common practice and quite often, while patrolling their beat, policemen jhave to extinguish small street | fires. How many houses have burn- ed because of sparks blown under them from the street would be | hard to estimate but there is a good hance that some fires of undeter- ined origin have been started in this way. Modern science devotes much of its effort toward eliminating ac- cidental fires caused through the failure of mechanical devices and electricity. Your guardians of pub- lic safety ~ Key West firefighters tand policemen — are alert day | conditions that might result in jcastrophe. Only you however, ean} | stop the innocent little thoughtless actions that so Aften lead to the “Fire can be your best friend or worst enemy — treat it with respect There are about 300.000 accidents an eyes cach year in the if goods are properly merchan-' office and enjoy it. 1 am having dised to them.” imy mail sent to The Citizen of- stands and windows on the pro-! A philosophical view of the peace | fice. cession route, exporters of goods, | talk jitters that hit some segments} Hope your Father keeps well. ticket agencies with package tours, / of the business world, notably the | Be seeing you soon. and makers of souvenirs are tak-' stock market, was taken by Louis | ing out insurance against any and|§, Cates, chairman of Phelps! all kinds of upsets to their plans. | Dodge. He told stockholders of the Even some prospective visitors | copper company that some experis | are doing the same. They don't! were talking of a let-down later! This time hotels, owners of want to be out for transportation | and entertainment tickets if any- thing should prevent the show, NEW YORK. #— Confidence in| ithe business future is expressed today by many leading compa- nies—and it is being backed up by cash. Stockholders are being told that as much or more of the corpora-| tion’s money is to be spent this} year as last for expansion of/| Plants and upgrading of equip. | | ment. | | The Management of these firms | is showing a much more healthy fear of their competitors than they | are of the bogey of a peacetime slump. | General Electrie stockholders | were told Tuesday the firm ex.! Pects to spend 500 million dollars on expansion in the next three! years to meet management's ee) ing civilian economy. i Jersey Standard Of stockhold-| ers have been told the of giant} plans to spend » record 699 mil-/ and equipment. Union Carbide & Carbon stock ‘holders heard Tuesday—without a! | murnmur—the chemical firm wil! ‘spend at least as much, perhaps | more. a8 the 131 million dollar out-/ tay last year on metal and plastic producing plants there is a backic f about 16 bil lions for weapons. appropriated wader Truman but pot yet spent Beca Chice (or obligated. | At the same time the sdminis- Ratiy U. S. Settlers, noting that war followed te appesrance of couatry’s gee armed forces. Pres large Groods of cicadas is several ident Eisembywer seid he himeeif jtration is looking for ways to re- | i ————_eee | eener competitios in the rib difference between victory and de-' ber Business may be refierted in feat if the Russians once more re- | expansion plans there. U.S. Rub- versed themselves and attacked | ber management says growth ond here or elsewhere. | modernixabon His advisers may not have been | this year at influenced in the cuts they're try-| clip set CF. igg to make by the emergence of segkheiders ate tid of plans to this year, but added: } say that a letdown, should it oc-| is only 525 cur, is not to be feared so much} as its over-emphasis.” t ossword Puzzle Domestics ACROSS “I would | instances, believed they were o- mens of War says the National Geographic Society will make the final decision oa how much the cut should be What be deckics might mean the a Rutsian which talks of wanting peace, not war. But df the Russians hed been acting tougher Probably would be np cats there spend “materigily more” than the 2 million doliers invested @ 162 ‘The Ford Motor (o. is reported Planning to build ancther sogine