The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 5, 1953, Page 4

r Pat Page 4" THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ~~ ——— Friday, June 5, 1953 , The Key West Citizen —WH Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- Usher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Stree. A) Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County & P. ARTMAN Publisher MORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONE 2-5661 and 2-5662 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively @ntitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it @t not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local’ news @ublished here. ————— eee Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12, by mail $15.60 a aa aT SI deen ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects of locai or general interest, but it will not publish amonymous: 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, 1 2. oF 4 5 ee i KEY WESTERS, HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT MONEY MATTERS? Money is one of the few subjects in which everybody is interested, but how much do you, Mr. Key Wester, know about money? Money is comparatively plentiful in Key West, but how much thought have you given to its work- ings that are going on right under your eyes? ! Whatever your answers may be, they are similar to the answers that would be given by the residents of any other community. The late Arthur, Brisbane told L. P. Artman, editor of The Citizen, at a dinner in Brisbane’s summer home in Point Pleasant, N. J., “Nobody knows anything about money.” He meant anything of an intrinsic nature, and he was right. Take a squint at conditions, relating to money, that exist in. Key West now, or you may extend the squint to other cities in Florida, for what exists here exists in those places also. With employment here at its highest peak in the city’s history, it seems the natural thing to think that everybody has what is called “ready money”, but the re- verse is true, for more loan companies are operating suc- cessfully here now than at any other time. What is true of Key West is true also of Miami, Tampa, Jaekégonville and other Florida cities. | The reason for that borrowing is not far to seek. Em- ployment is good and money is plentiful, but many resi- dents are buying, on the installment-payment plan, be- yond their means, while others, regardless of installment payments, either are spending all they earn or spending more than they earn, and borrowing to adjust the differ- ence. ® | Much is said about our nation’s debt of 267 billion, but only occasionally we hear about the more than 300 billion the people of the United States owe in balances in installment buying, mortgages and other contractual obli- gations. As the people are the government, they owe, dir- ectly and indirectly, more than half a trillion of dollars. ‘And let us bear in mind that interest adds tens of billions more to the principal. What will the consequences be? * Every Key West wage-earner and business man should search his soul and find or try to find an answer to that question. The Citizen trusts that no Key Wester will find himself in a boat without oars, as did.a local man shortly after the First World War, That man, Saturday after Saturday, freely and proudly told about the high, wages, exceeding $100 some weeks, he wag paid in the local Navy Yard. One of the men he told was Peter B. Roberts, who was conducting a flourishing business at his fish market. Two weeks after the Navy Yard was reduced to an inactive basis, that man asked Mr. Roberts to lend him $5. Money, or the way it operated, puzzled the great Dr. Samuel Johnson also. As the relative value of money is the same in good and hard times, he could not understand why interest was lower in good times and higher in hard times. A woman friend, Molly Aston, told him the reason was be- Cause fre people had money to lend in good times and thereby forced down the interest charges. But those charges become so high they often cdn’t be paid when borrowings are carried over from good to hard times. Regardless of what some people think, character is still the best security for loans. Every city, town and village in the United States boasts that it has the “best” climate in the world. Hard work has never killed a man but there are any number of cripples who were injured trying to dodge it. full of The world i as that are worth mil the man who can put the idea in’ The man who, in his business, resorts to tricks and doubtful practices, need not wonder why his son grows up to be a downright crook. HAL BOYLE SAYS LONDON (#—What is an English- man? To American gagwriters, he is a fellow who wakes up in the morn- ing and asks his wife: “What century is it?” In vaudeville he is two fellows with monocles and crooping mus- taches. The first mambles through his bristles, “I say. . uh. . .er. .uh +.are you English?” And the sec- ond stutters back, “Er. .ah. . .uh .»if I were any more English, old boy, you wouldn't be able to un- derstand me.” In joke books the Englishman boards ‘a train going from London to Edinburgh, and a stranger in the compartment says, ‘Nice weather we’re having.” As the Englishman leaves the train at Edinburgh, he turns to the strang- er and snaps, “Chatterbox!” These are outworn stock carica- tures, of course, But many Ameri- cans still think of the Englishman as a guy a bit behind the times and proud of it, very reserved and re- ticent, but one who always faces life with a stiff upper lip—a dull companion in victory but a great comrade to have at your side when the bullets are coming your way. This makes him out a nice fel- low, but one not likely to become the life of a party. Perhaps I have been meeting the wrong type of Englishman, but I don’t find him that way at all. The English have the same ap- petite for fun and self-indulgence as a 5-year-old boy turned loose in a candy store, and have had it for centuries. Were there ever greater roisterers than the English of the first Elizabethan Era, 400 years ago? If there were, Shakespeare was a liar. The Englishman of today is just as gusty and vital as his ances- tors. The trouble is he hasn’t been turned loose in a candy store for a long time. The coronation showed he loves to kick up his heels when life gives him a chance. I don’t find the Englishman re- ticent. He’s a great talker. But you | have to open him up. You open a clam with a sharp knife. You open! Then he is as exposed as an opened clam, and will tell you even his dreams. But .if you look the least bit bored, he’ll clam up again. That is why I find the Englishman the world’s best conversationalist. They say Englishmen talk to each other only about the weather, and in a series of “Hrrumphs” and “Um-ums” that only they can de- code. If this is true, the only pos- sible reason I can advance is that most people like to talk about their troubles, and in a crowded land where everybody has more than his share of them, who wants to listen to the other guy complain? |It is safer to criticize the climate. Life is rugged for the average Englishman, compared to life in America, although be feels things are looking up now. Wars, depres- sions and an old caste system that is cracking up but still exists have !made him something of an under- dog. That probably explains his tremendous sentimental sympathy for all underprivileged things — dogs, cats, birds, flowers and chil- dren. He will accept cruelty to himself | to lesser creatures. Duty and discipline are taken more seriously by the ordinary Englishman, it seems to me, than | by the ordinary American. All men are morsels of yearning in a crust of courage, thick or thin. On the Englishman the crust has grown a little deeper than on most, and whatever put it there—time or the weather or himself—it is this that chiefly makes him an English- man. POST OFFICE CLOSES WASHINGTON (#—The govern- ment is discontinuing its postoffice at Sulphur, Nev., because nobody there is qualified or willing to serve as postmaster, Rep. Young (R-Nev) said today, Sulphur, in Himboldt County, has a population of only 11 fam- ilies. more easily than he will cruelty | Fi : Truman Safety Patrol Picnic On Summerland A picnic at Summerland Key for the Safety Patrol of Truman Ele- mentary school will take place Sunday from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m., it was announced by Wilbur Frank- lin, principal today. The boys and girls, numbering about 43, will be drivep up the Keys in a school bus by the regular ea who is volunteering for the ay. They will eat watermelon, 22 of them, donated by Central Phar- macy, Standard Oil and. Texaco service station which are all ad- jacent to Truman School. Rolls for the hot dogs are being | 8iven, 12 dozen, by Perez Bake shop. Coca Cola bottling is provid- ing you know what beverage for the occasion, Patrolman Serge Hernandez, school traffic officer will naturally go on the picnie and maintain high safety standards throughout the day. State Trooper Frank Cline is giving the school bus an escort up the Keys. epee will include teachers as well as Principal an Sols incipal and Mrs, People’s Forum ‘The Citixen welcomes sions of the views of its” tends ers, but the editor reserves the right to delete any ttema whieh are considered libelous or anwar- vaunted. The should ie fair an@ confine the letters to pgs == cogging on ene side paper eniy. the writer must cesmpene’ ene and will be published un- requested ciherwise, ee OPINION QUESTIONED Editor, The Citizen: I wish to say that the opinions expressed in the letter signed by the Executive Board of the Mon- Toe County CT. A. do not nee- essarily express the views of the majority of the teachers of the County since no vote was taken! nor were the teachers notified of} 7 a ee, tls By SAM DANSON {sr-ving at the rate of 10 fo 15, NEV YORK @ -The American , biliion dollars a. year. Defense ‘wge for strenuous leisure is chang- | ¢22't oe 2 coat etapa P ies : Bey consumtrs mus! e.up the slac! ng oar Way: of life and lifting the: if the growth is to continue. And/ ‘ace of business. |this means a higher standard of | Industries ‘that cater to this de-| living, which to mast Americans | |sire for less work and more play}™means more leisure and less/ are likely ith | dtudgery. pragriepaaee ce Strenuous leisure habits and the| | 4 urge for more of the same can javerage for all industries. And | account for much of that, | workmen put the boon of leisure} Most of this trend toward leisure high on their list of demands—! has happened in the last 50 years. | some preferring an extra week’s|At the start of the century the} vacation to a raise in pay, work week averaged more than 57 “Power lawn mowers, do-it-your-| hours. Now it’s around 40. Most self tools and materials are just! Americans now spend at least 125 as much leisure time products as | days a year away from their fac- high fidelity phonographs and | tory or office—but they don’t spend bowling alleys,” the magazine | their time just sitting on the front Business Week points out. | porch, This could have increasing ef-| Out in the suburbs, the housewife fect when the United States swings | freed of drudgery by appliances to a post-defense economy. {gets into slacks and a_ halter, The United States is producing| spends less.on clothes, and more at a terrific rate just now. The/on garden tools and plants or a Northern Trust Co., Chicago, ob-| dozen kinds of hobbies. serves today that the total output} With the changing society of re- of goods and services can go on|cent years comes a constant de-| Top Ability Is Shown By Two| ‘Senior Speakers At K.W. High oes The Salutatory and Valedictory| certain and life will undoubtedly | addresses given by Carol Dalton}be a hard task to master, We! }and Tom Cornell respectively, at}have acquired the tools to cope | Class Day Exercises held Wednes- | with life, here, but it is up to us| \day at the High School were brief to use them. | and well done, “Though we may be separated | | The Yull text of each address fol-|from Key West in body, we will) jlows with Carol's Salutatory first: | never be separated in spirit. We | “We are happy that all of you | Shall look ‘back on our high school are with us tonight to witness the | days with many fond memories, It Senior Class night exercises for | is my privilege and honor tonight the Class of 1953. to\say thank you and good-bye for | s. i ; “Last Friday at Investiture we |™Y class. First, thank you, the (ae wie GUL ee do ‘people get used te eclprines 6 fig Products. 01 than they ‘begin talking about color and three dimensional TV. Car owners look for more and more gadgets on their autos, Families everywhere are talking about home air conditioning. The market for clothes driers, automatic dishwask- ers, home freezers, scorchless ele trie stoves grows steadily, Back of it is the huge increase in personal income, especially among the lower and middie im come brackets, during and since the war, When people get more money in their pockets, usually they spend only a little more than before on essentials of food and clothing and rent. But makers of autos, luggage, jewelry, watches, pleasure boats, furniture and most ap- Pliances find their sales climbing. Such an increase could be come ing again next January. If person- al income taxes are cut back oa schedule, consumers would have about three billion more dollars a year to spend, og... KW Kiwanis Sends Gift To Ashiand Club For Delivery ¥ Kiwanis Club of Key West has been informed by its brother club in Ashland, Kentucky, that the Mix Master prize for Mrs. Ethel Bays, whose son's letter from Key West won her a Mother’s Day award was delivered by the club, Fred Rigsby, president of the Ashland Kiwanis club delivered the prize to Mrs. Bays who lives at Greenup. Her son, Yoeman First Class Lewis Bays wrote her dur- ing the local USO-YMCA Club con- mand for new officially became graduating Sen- iors -- beginning the week in which we would take part in the cere-} monies ending our high school ca- reers, | “From early life to our young / adulthood we have been prepar-| ing for the step just. before us. “We feel a deep sense of grati- tude to our homes, our churches and our school for developing in each of us those traits of charact- er which will make us successful | in our endeavors, which will strengthen our friendships, our de- votion to God and our loyalty to our country. “We have completed another} phase of our progress and even though this appears to carry an} air of finality -- we realize that we| are merely embarking into a more | purposeful life. “On behalf of my class, again I welcome you to the Class Night! Exercises for the Senior Class of 1953.”” Tom Cornell’s Valedictory . ad- dress given at the end of the eve- ning’s ceremonies was as follows: “We are all proud of the many accomplishments of Key West! High, and we should rightly be. It has held high its interests and standards in education and has al-| ways championed clean competi-| tion. The time is drawing nigh} when we, the class of 1953, will | no longer be an active part of this | fine school. We are going out to face a strange and unsettled world. For many of su, destination is un- GUIDE PUBLISHED FOR, VETS BUYING HOMES | WASHINGTON (# — A 32-page | pamphlet dseigned to tell veterans many of the things they need to/| know about buying homes with GI} members of the School Board, who have supplied us with new and much needed equipment. Secondly, we want to thank the principal and teachers who have worked untir- ingty to implant in us a desire to arn, “It is this desire to learn that leads to a well balanced education, for learnjng must go on forever. Last but not,Jeast, we thank you, our parents and friends, who have stood by us. through hardship and joy. Our interests and successes have always been foremost in your hearts. It is only fitting that we should give special thanks to you fonight, Without your kind understanding ‘and encouragement this occasion might have never come to pass for some of us. It is indeed a deep regret’to have to say goodbye to our school and friends, We have waited and work- ed 12 long years for these last few days. Now. that we are on the brink of gruaduation, school has taken on a new meaning It is not only a place of learning but a place of friendship and fellowship, “As all good things come’ to an end so ‘must this, one of many chapters in the book of life, come to an end to‘allow another chapter to begin, “To our school and teachers we say goodbye and farewell. To the undergraduates, our friends, we Say: 2 4 ‘Hold high the traditions of Key West High, for never have they shown brighter. God bless and be with you all’.” cates of eligibility for GI loans will be given copies. Veterans may also write to the VA's regional of- fices for copies. The pamphiet is free, Origin of the U. S. Memorial loans has been published by the | Day is said to be an order by Gen. government,” ctestion (John A. Logan, in 1858 when. he ia were a oe | was commander of the Grand Ar- things as what a veteran should ™y of the Republic, northern Ci- look for in location and house, costs | vil War counterpart ‘of today’s Am- of home ownership, contract de-jerican Legion, requiring all posts tails and what to expect Wefore to hold ceremonies during which and after moving into.a new home. flowers’ were to be place on war) an Englishman by kindness, by | When Venus is closest to the showing a real interest in him,! earth it is 26 million miles away the action to be taken by the; Board. Whether or not we favor | either side is entirely beside the! Veterans who apply for certifi- BUCKLEY ~~ : me a. ee § COULD FiAd anus point, LOUISE CLAYWELL Low Layoff Rate During April WASHINGTON W — American factories laid off nine workers for every thousand on their payrolls in April, the lowest layoff rate for that month in eight years. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, in reporting this today, announce also that hiring rates pojnted to continuance of “a generally fav- orable employment situation.” Hiring was at a rate of 42 work ers for every usand plant em ployes, as against 37 for each thousand in April a year ago. The Bureau said April layoffs! were almost one-third below the tate of a year earlier. The greatest | reductions in layoffs were recorded | for texte aod apparel plants, | ployes, as against 37 for each thousand in April a year ago. : The reau said April layoffs! were almost one-third below the} rate of a year earlier, The greatest / | reductions in layoffs were recorded graves. THORNS BELIEVETH ON HIM SHALL NOT BE _CONFOQUNDED’ i ~ | whieh for textile and apparel plants, ia t+ s 2 of 1952 hed —lPT EO |test held here last month, ‘The Bays letter was a third place win- © ner. First prize winner was a charming mother from South Bend . Indiana who tame to Key West on . a round trip plane flight on a Ro- | tary club ticket and was entertain- ed by ~hotels, restaurants and the local USO. ‘ Archer, wrote Rigsby in Ashland, — shortly after the announcement of the winning letters. He ‘asked him Wo make ‘the peeeeahalien: Wt tite, ays. ; The MixMaster was donated by Home Appliance Co. of this city. ~ . About 190,000 trucks are used in_ the United States to distribute milk. better it might be well to clear up that point. Where intoxicating ~ beverages . are sold at Navy } ge rill i safest Gre am the toed &. Boyel tadey f Local Kiwanis President Glynn | -