The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 6, 1953, Page 11

fednesday, May 6, 1953 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 11 The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- lisher, 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 TELEPHONE 2-566] and 2-5662 Member oi The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it wr not 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 $15.30 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION Zne Citizen is az open forum and invites discussion of public issue ana subjects of loca: or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications, 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, THE POLES MOVING? ~.8. Walter Munk and Roger Revelle, of the Scripps ivution oi Oceanography, have concluded that the North Pole moved about 10 feet toward Greenland be- tween 1900 and 1925, Since that time, however, they think it might have retreated by a foot or two. This in- formation will not revolutionize: the world, although it is interesting to note that the two oceanographers believe that the amount of water in the sea alters the distribu- tion of matter and mass in our earthly planet. In other words, the theory is that rises and falls in sea level caused by melting ice on Greenland, or perhaps melting Antarctic ice-caps, change the days and, some- lites, move the poles. One theo.y is that the poles, or more correctly the 's under them, have shifted greatly since the earth : fornied. The South Pole is said to have been located © > land which is now in Central Africa. Keeping that in mind, we are glad to see that the North Pole, which had ed southward. between 1900 and 1925, has turned a- l again. We are perfectly content for it to stay where it is ix our lifetime. “mort advertisers will stress the buy-at-hor*> th>me. »s.are of the man who tells you what a Christian Wfe he leads, We often wonder why some, stout sisters ch money on clothes, spend so Every great newspaper must have good reporters who express no opinion in their columns. We have never been able to figure out the ination borrowed money has for some people. s'range : -ow-minded people sometimes limit the amount of intellectual progress that can be made in a com "pity. Now we are told that the Army still doesn’t have a top-flight offensive tank. Seems like we’ve heard that be- fore. Theve is no compulsion to tip impolite waiters or waitresses, especially if one cannot enjoy his food because of the irritation involved. BU. Caetieneel Send WEY, STUPIO, WERE OVER HERETT™ Philosophical Polonius Polonius, PP., philosopher and Patrician, standing on The Citi- zen’s sidewalk, brushed aside a couple of speeding cars and hit me for a touchdown at the foot of City Hall steps. “Sidonius, when you expatiate again, soothe us with something in a light philosophical vein. Pick something out of everyday life and touch it up deftly for us.” “How would a brief discussion of relaxation strike you, my dear Polonius? “Right between my brows, Sir Sid.’” “Polonius, the most important thing to a well-balanced life is re- laxation. That applies to little things, as well as to hefty endea- vors. Take the matter of your signing your name to a check to draw a few bucks from your bulg- ing bank account. What do 99 out of a hundred persons fo when they take up a pen to write: They grip the pen hard, as though it would wriggle from their fingers, as a result of which they don’t write well, “Polonius, once upon a time be- fore your time, we had only one public school in Key West, It was bristling The principal of that school, in the’ 1890s; was Professor Nichols, His! writing resembled the writing in even a baby canary. Don’t set the mus- cles of your ring and little fingers | doubling them under your which you are writing, and you! may write from one side to the! a sheet, without having! as you would stop were | and little finger doubled | palm. Keep your fingers ; relaxed while you write, and you will find writing to be easier and/ better.”* } Professor Nichols called that! type of writing the “muscular! movement.” Mason Mareno, Cur-) Ty Moreno’s father, considered the in his | { | | } U edge fune- digestive organs. I and women de-} "t understand how | | 4] Hf 3 i gf ef i ch. Meals, | F of i i 1, gas. The cause! i i & § 1 tension the digestive EF are not the nell. he was ass: Atece eoeere TDIDLIBa ISOLDE SOS SS SS THE CONCH OBSERVES By SID McPHID TMDOIOVODIIISE ED IIS S I sleep well; if yo: don’t, you have! a hard time going to sleep. The Proud Fis! “Who is that big, proud fish going there?” asked the Sailfish, as he flashed his Gulf-blue sail in the sunlight, four miles off Fort Taylor, “He has every reason to be proud,” replied the | Amberjack. “He is the only big fish that -has never been hooked and got away.”” Cobb to Carburete Jim Cobb, The Citizen’s five- star reporter, who _ interviewed President Fulgencio Batista of Cu- ba about the Keys West-Havana Ferry, contemplates flying to The Ten Thousand Islands to have qj talk with Swinky Swanky and-J Koodle de Flu about the long life derived from eating alligator eggs. I received a letter Monday from Swinky, in which he said that he and Jim (de Flu, not Cobb), are going to spend this week on Squee- gee Island in the Hokum group. Swinky concluded his letter with this paragraph: “Regards to Siggy, that 97-year- old youngster, a never-say-die in his devotion to the ladies.” A Word about Words Do we always mean what we say? Not always, because we hear words parroted and use them with- out giving a thought to their meaning. * Can we forecast the past? Ask a sixth grader that question, and he'll reply, “No, because fore- cast means to predict.” Ard yet, day in and day out, we hear radio announcers use the term, “weath- er forecast,” and then the weath- er man proceeds to give you a re- port of the condition of the wea- ther yesterday and last night in various parts of the county and the temperatures that prevailed .|in chief cities in Florida at 11:30|) in the morning. It is a weather," report that is given us, and the only part of it that is a “jore- .| cast” relates to the weather that may occur later in the da; following day, Feminine Fillins It's a wise woman who can tell where a compliment ends and flattery begins, With a giddy girl, one minute’s y or the forgotten past, When a woman angrily husband, “I'm finished, just begun. The girl who tries hard to get; married has an easy time staying single, 3 i Some complexions are exceed- ingly complex, Diaz Is Statione: On USS Bushnell, Ivan Diaz, Fireman, USN, son; of Mrs. Argetia Garcia, 914 Center | Street, recently repurted on board | she has 4 By BILL GIBB (Released By The KWPD in The Interest of Public Safety.) Filming of the 20th Century Fox production, “Twelve Mile Reef,” has amply illustrated that many local drivers are not familiar with regulations regarding driving ‘in congested areas. Time and again, drivers would ignore traffic offic- | ers, complain that they were dis- j courteous because they had no jtime to explain their orders, or insist on trying to park in restrict- een is wing is.a direct quotation trout“ the ‘Florida Driver's’ Hand- aoe by the Dept. of Public Safety: Obey Traffic Officers. .. “You must always closely watch and obey the signals of any police officer directing traffic. This is most important during times of traffic congestion, during any em- ergency, or at large public gather- ings where traffic is heavy. “By heeding and promptly obey- ing the signals of traffic officers, even though you wish to go in some other direction or wish to park in some other place, traffic will move “Orders from any police or other peace officer must be obeyed, even though they are contrary to laws, signs, of traffic signals, during a time of emergency. Such occasion- al official instructions are some times necessary to kep traffic moving safely.” Courtesy Police officers wat to. be cour- BOYLE | SAYS | NEW YORK w@—The man still wears the pants in the average American home—out it is the wife who picks the kind he wears. “My husband simply hates shop- ping,” she says smugly. “He'd never buy a new suit unless I went along with him.” I don’t like. to destroy any wom: an’s illusion, but a wife who holds the idea is simply kidding herself. Most men love to go shopping and buy purty things to hang upon themselves and civak nature’s er- rors. Neither sex has a corner on vanity. * But it is a mistake for a wife to think he brings her along on a suit- buying safari because he is color- blind or she has superior taste, He is simply afraid to go it alone. He wants her for the same reason he would like her by his side if he had to go into a lion’s den—for protec- tion. For her fighting qualities, if real trouble breaks out. By himself a man has the same; resistance-against a clothing’ sales- | man @ worried worm has against a hungry robin. He doesn’t know which way to turn. He buys what! he doesn’t want because he be- comes frantic and can’t say “No.” Normally you can’t blame this on the salesman. He’s no spider, spinning a web of words to trap your pocketbook. He's just a plain, God-fearing, debt - owing, horse- playing, wife-listening fellow who earns an indoor living as he listens ; to his foot arches sluwly crumble through the years. No, it is a man’s own fault if he} buys the wrong suit. The reason he does it is because he is fright- ened. He hes been afraid of cloth- ing stores: since childhood. Here is now it all began: You are a little boy, and your’ mother takes you to a store to buy you a new suit. You and your moth. er are all alone in a strange new, world, where a big tall strange man pats you patronizingly on the back and says, ‘So this is the little | man, eh?” And you look around and all you can see is row on row of little: suits hung up on racks} like headless children your own! age. You feel uneasy. ‘You run up to a mirror and peek in and see three boys intead of you. One boy is you. Who are the cther two? You have never seen a three-way. mir- ror before. Fascinated, you turn around and around and discover all three boys are you. But you have never seen yourself this way before. Your pro- file is a stranger. Is this the way you look to other pao iE de- presses you. You make a face at reflection—and get three faces back. While you are still gloomy over discovering you have three faces instead of the one you are used to, you hear the tall strange man say firmly: “TI think this one was made for him!” | “Well, I don’t!” says mother! sharply, because she is tired. | Oh, oh! Mama and the tall! strange man are fighting! Will he | hit her? If he does, can she whip; him? She is awful strong, but he! is awful big. What can you do to) help mama?. Bite the man in the leg? Terrified, you run your eyes ; down the rack, pick out a suit you had liked when you first came in, | and say: “Please, Mama. I like this one!" | | {devised a novel and effective ap- | sisted in the cute habit of either | disconnecting or punching holes in REN Oh Happy Day City Manager Dave King has proach to motorcyclists, hotrods and scooter owners who-have per- the mufflers of their vehicles, The characters get a great big bang out of the noise this produces but the citizenry, quite naturally, has taken a dim view of the practice -- to the point where they have complained quite bitterly to Mr. King. Anyhow, the city manager has | instructed the police department, whenever they apprehend cyclists | or motorists with defective muf- flers, to issue the usual ticket. But along with the summons, the of- fender is given a postcard. If the card is mailed to the city hall, bearing the signattre of any bona-fide garage or auto repair service in the city stating that the muffler is repaired -- the sum- mons may be disregarded, ply to those found to have pur- Posely disconnected their mufflers. Such characters must appear in court -- which is a good deal, Look Ma, I’m Dancing Lovers of good Cuban music will have a time of it Saturday night when the Conjunto Cubana- can, just about the best combo this side of Havana, gives out at the Cuban Club. ed “Una Noche con las Reinas” which means: A Night With The Queens. Action, I mean dancing, gets underway at 10:00 p, m. The pub- lic is invited to the caper. Play Ball A banner crowd is expected Wednesday night at the Wickers Field Stadium both to greet the 20th Century Fox stars who will make an appearance there and to give the American Legion Junior a sendoff. Keller Watson, long active in Junior League activities, tells us that the money realized in the an- Smathers Says WASHINGTON: Misgivings about developments in Asia are pervad- ing Capitol Hill here where hope and prayer for world peace over- shadow all other thoughts. We ail realize that there are many other issues of {m| » that the government must give at- tention to stablizing our economy, providing for national progress, and protecting the rights of all our people. We must work for bet- ter democratic processes, a cause I was seeking to serve last week in speaking for presidential elec- tion reforms, However, this plan.does not ap-| j The evening has been designat:-| . Baseball League the right kind of |Armed ... Ear To The Ground By JIM COBB 24444444444440444444444860400000EOoR8 eee nual opener goes a long way to- ward defraying the expenses of league operation throughout the season. And no one can deny the worth of the Legion baseball’ pro- gram for the kids. Just to be certain that Key ers will have a fine evening, of valuable door ‘prizes will given away. Go there. The Politician Everything is sweetness light, with the city commission, that they are all tion. Which means in for some first: when the electioneering si i He g é z i rire ae ef : ee ie eli et i Hae = i: ; f ue #88 i Bae bi Capital Is Full Of Doubts About: Asia. Al Parra Wins In. ee Pay lee Public safety, hand. Keep them off the paper on; impassioned wish is next minute's | ais ver Offer Is Accepted teous to the public at all times but! Well, the sharp words end. Mama there ate occasions when swift! smiles, the big strange man smiles. commands must be given with no| You get a nice new suit, instead of being hung up on the rack your- self—as you had feared. _ But all your life you still have deep in you your childish dislike of the three-way mirror for show- | en eee ae Remember that the orders given by a traffic officer are sult of personal inclination | oti For Master Plan | duction? | costs is important, but are we en- But the cause of national secur- ity pre-empts all else, and concern for this cause has raised maay questions in my, mind: President Eisenhower should be in a better position than anybody else to judge, but is it possible for one man to have the sure know- ledge absolutely to justify a five- billion-dollar military budget re- Reducing government dangering our security to meet the pressures for tex cuts? Hope for | peaceful settlement of differences can be read into Peiping’s or Mos- cow's recent pronouncements, Hi Ps H i? has been inscrutable? Are we gaug- ing hard realities or building for t | er’s small boy, secretly as com: | ‘fused as ever. A proposal from the John Leon imate 62 RE jaacates G's Talks Suggested On Austrian Peace’ master plan of the city of Key West was quickly accepted last night at WASHINGTON # — The Unite? Britain and France are: the regular meeting of the city to be the wisdom } commission, jthe submarine tend-r U.S. S. Bush- Wil include the nell where he has been assigned | £F duties in the Training Division. Diaz, who attended Jefferson High School of Tarspa, joined the | Navy in May 195! and received bis | indoctrination training at the U. S./ ate gave Naval Training Center, San Diego, | Calit. Before reportir.¢ to the Busb- | duties on the Ee is ar battleship U S. S. lows that adversely | authorized to wear the United Stat- organs. Re-| es elax, Relax! If vou de. ~sq Cxmpeaign Ribbons Korean and United Nations } years after the survey is mecvatel by October ist. hecee convention at Daytona Beach | Saturday and to join in a dedica-/ ourselves a fool's paradise? Are we restoring sound government or undermin our path to the fu- Whatever the answers to questions, I for one do not to try to make political capita’ of epparent indecision, The and security of cur nathan more to. me than personal ty polities! advantages. tirely possible that we could de- iy tor, The behalf of 8 | eoFtdal He i APTIOL ator Hollend and I are to fly to Tallahassee to aidress a joint leg- istative session May 7. . a week-end io Florida and the op portanity to address the state Jay- i i t g ? eye i