The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 9, 1953, Page 4

Page 4 _— THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen aU EIEUEnEI EES PUnEp nr 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 NORMAN D. ARTMAN Tuesday, June 9, 1953 Publisher 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 or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published here. a Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida a SEE A NO EEOC RENEE OS Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12, by mail $15.60 SS ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects of loca: or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications, rLonibaréness Asso ON 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, MAY THIS BE A MASTERPIECE (Editor’s Note: President Eisen- hower must make the decisions, but the complex executive task of the man in the White House is many times more than a one-man job. The White House day begins early and ends late for the 19 hard- working men who make up the President’s personal headquarters staff. In this timely article, the first of four, Sigrid Arne takes you behind the scene fora glimpse of Ike's top aides at work.) By SIGRID ARNE AP Newsfeatures Writer WASHINGTON (#—At 8:30 a. m. every week day, Sherman Adams, assistant to President Eisenhower, runs his blue eyes around a con- ference table and says: “‘All right, gentlemen.” The White House staff is off on another day’s grind. Most congressmen are still crack- ing their breakfast eggs. Stores won’t be open for another hour. Outside on Pennsylvania Avenue stenographers are still on their way to work. This 8:30 group is the President’s like with all the phases of his com- plex job. It culls and briefs the! flood of problems headed for the | President’s desk. It solves those it | can. Adams takes the knotty ones | Says one White house hand. “he on to Eisenhower, Thus is the job of running the| grins when he does it.” world’s biggest business kept with- in manageable hounds, Four men in this group are} BEHIND.THE-SCENES GLIMPSE President’s Aides Have Full-Time Tasks actually is an extra set of arms, legs and eyes for the President. He takes those phone calls that are not intercepted before reaching the | presidential office, directs the search for information the Presi- | dent needs, decides when depart- mental policy questions have boiled high enough that the President should see top men. The other three report to Adams | but see the President frequently. | They are: Thomas E. Stephens, appoint- ment secretary. | Maj. Gen. Wilton B. Persons, re- tired, whose job—new in the White | House—is to keep both Congress and President informed on how each feels about laws in the making. James C. Hagerty, press secre- tary, who keeps the press and radio abreast of White House news and advises the President on how and when to give information, Top-man Adams, a trim 54 with thick white hair, horn - rimmed} glasses and pink healthy cheecks, is an icicle of efficiency at work but can switch in a second from deepest concentration to a relaxed | chuckle. “He scares inexperienced sten- | graphers with his intense drive,” President calls him ‘boss’—but he} Phone calls (at least 50). At six he dashes off dictation, Adams seemed about to earn himself a reputation as a martinet recently when he ordered no smak- ing and no loitering by the staff. The staff still smokes, stenogras phers included, but the staff knows it has to be on hand and working at 8:30. Washington hostesses have given Adams up. One famous one said to me: “What can you do with a man who gets up at 5:30 and goes to bed at 8:302" Adams makes it clear he looks on himself only as an impersonat tool to cut down the labors of the President. “We don’t attempt to dictate in this office,” he told me. Nevertheless, Adams is in and out of the President’s office seve eral times a day. His decisions on what questions must go to Eisene hower cannot help but color events, He is considered more powerful than many cabinet members, Adams graduated from Dart. mouth into the lumber business, rose from camp clérk to general manager. He also caught the political bug. He was elected to the New Hamp- shire House in 1940, to Congress for one term in 1944, governor in 1948. He was one of the early Ike Adams gets to the White House | backers and was Eisenhower floor at 7:30 to run over plans for the/ manager at the Chicago Republi- day. At 8:30 he opens his staff}can convention. Hagerty says conference. From nine to six he|“Sherm was a natural for cam- THE PRESIDENT ON AIR POWER President Dwight D. Eisenhower pointed out in his recent speech on taxes and defense that the nation would spend sixty cents out of every tax dollar in fiscal 1954 on air power, if Congress accepts the reduced requests of the Eisenhower Administration. The former Supreme Com- mander of World War II, and later North Atlantic Treaty Organization Supreme Commander, stressed the fact that the Administration—contrary to what some critics charge —is air minded. The President, in defending his defense budget re- quest, stated that three modern airctaft could do the job some 2,000 accomplished on D-Day, June 6th, 1944. When one remembers the destructiveness of the atom bomb, he can understand the truth behind the President’s statement. The President, in his speech, went to considerable ef- fort to prove to the nation that he is not guilty of neglect- ing the air arm. In fact, Eisenhower stated the conviction that air power grows relatively more important with each new day. The fact that sixty cents out of every defense dollar is destined to produce air power is a fact which has not generally been stressed in the newspapers, or by the columnists, and the President performed a public service fit by bringing this to the attention of the country. The President’s explanation of the air power cuts makes it certain it will not be easy for Congress to over- ride his or the Defense Secretary’s judgement in the mat- ter. Mr. Eisenhower's decision to take his case to the people was a wise one, since some of the facts he outlined clearly had seemingly been missed in the confusion and criticism which followed the revelation of the Administra- tion’s 1954 defense request. Arguments usually aren't worth it. Planning your work is good, but doing it is much better. The hardest job in the world involves the reformation of human beings. Not every commencement carries with it the mencement of work. com- The world has many people who find it easy to de- nounce almost everything. There are any number of people who never care how or whether other people live. Sweet young things are now in the midst of making their strategic plans for the summer. The man who has lived a useful life won't be satisfi- ed with singing and harp-twanging later on. Some people give so much time to attending to the business of others that they forget their own. One of the main faults of “good people” is their ten-| dency to tell everybody else what is wrong with them. ] We just wonder what would happen to this country if every citizen read one sensible book a week, for just one year, The perpetual solution to most of the problems of the} female: hard work, thrift, reliability, s. a. and a come- j hither look. The happiest life is to be found around a contented | fireside, where the family lives at peace with itself, its! fellowmen and with God. | People with excess weight can get rid of it by forget- ting excess eating, but the trouble they forget the) Guaranteed Annual Wage, Glamor Goal Of Most Organized Labor, Is Pushed By Ruether By RELMAN MORIN DETROIT, ®—The guaranteed annual wage is the glamor goal of a major section of organized labor today. It may not actually be the most important of all the events taking shape in the house of labor. The renewed effort toward labor unity could hold far greater potentiali- ties in industrial relations. Who can yet say what changes will develop out of the new leader- ship that came so suddenly to the AFL, the CIO, and the steelwork- ers union? Labor confronts a mul- tiplicity of problems and has a hatful of plans, But among them, high on the/ list, is the guaranteed annual | wage. In this system, a worker is guar- anteed a year’s work at a base rate of pay, plus overtime, incen- tive, production money and bene- its. The idea is not new, in theory or practice. As an officer of the AFL said, with some asperity, “What's all the excitement about? Some of ‘our unions have had it for years.” The plan is being pushed hard by Walter Reuther, new president of the CIO. At the last convention of the United Automobile Workers, three giant, wedge - shaped banners reaching nearly to the roof behind the speaker's dais blazoned the keynote—‘‘Next Step Forward— Guaranteed Annual Wage—Full Employment, Full Production, Full Distribution.” Reuther said “the guaranteed States Steel and the steelworkers| One of the Hormel Co. docu- union, The company agreed to lis- |ments, explaining the contract, ten to union statements proposing | says: joint committees study the ques-| “This guarantee of ours is de- tion of a guaranteed annual wage, | signed, not as a protection to the |No commitments were given, how-| employees through the medium of | ever. * the guarantee, but rather as a In the arguments over a guar-|COmpulsion of management to so anteed annual wage, labor and| Conduct itself that the guarantee management frequently appear to; need never be invoked. So when have crossed party lines. jeans the phrase, gosranteed an- John L. Lewis, for example, ex-| nual wage,’ we must ask the ques- | pressed serious doubt of the fea- “0%—guaranteed by what? | sibility of the plan in the coal in-| “The only guarantee we know dustry. jof is the peed he ion att ey | Emil Rieve, president of the tex- ‘9 ™nage, coupled with willing- tile workers, questioned it on eco- | Ness*of workers to a |nomic grounds in that industry. eee in pi ae eo ke ‘ " avi cDonald, steelworkers | eee sp Medal much | President, made much the same | justice there may be in present | P0it. He believes that when a employe-employer relations — Ja: | COMPSRY has a certain base pay- ! bor today is generally still treated |T°!! a8 @ fixed item in its operat- jas any other commodity which ing costs, it will find the work for pee be bought and sold as need- | the force to do. The result, he said, led. | would iver aa ope aie finds | “The only way to change that | 2°” markets a evelops new |is to adopt a plan which ‘will make | products, supplying the work for labor an integral part of the busi-| “Bich it had contracted to pay. |Mess organization, wih the same | Reuther, in his latest report to | Mutual interest in the sale of prod-| the UAW, put the idea this way: jucts that management has. | “An annual wage will give the |. “When a man doesn't know how employer that financial stake. long his job will last or how steady have seen again and again how {it will be, it is ridiculous to say | pursuit of profits can Jead em- ‘he should be loyal to the company | ployers to do things they said were | that employs him.” | impossible to do.” | Those were the words of Henry! Harry Anderson of General Mo- |Nunn, former presidert of the tors, John Bugas of Ford, and | Nunn-Bush Shoe Co. in Milwaukee, | Robert Conder of Chrysler will be |SPoken nearly 20 years ago when among the key men if another |he installed the guaranteed annual battle of Detroit develops over this [rae Shag Faso Le has a | point. a e same time, in Aus- \tin, Minn., J. C. Hormel brought All tires “ate young, affable, We! closest to the President’s ear. | The top man is Adams, who.'sees people (about 30) and takes: NOYTAS CUBANAS Por RAOUL ALPIZAR POYO MERECIDO HOMENAJE ,ejecutoria dice mucho, que ha lle- En estos dias y por creerlo de | gado a una edad provecta, sin dis- | justicia, he dirigido a mi buen|frutar de riquezas; pero teniendo | amigo el dortor Delio Cobo, Comi-| algo que vale mucho mas que el | Sionado de la Ciudad, la siguiente | dinero y que los bienes: el carifio, | carta, que tengo el gusto de repro- | ja gratitud, el respeto y la venera- | ducir, para conocimiento de los / cisn de todos los residentes en Key | amigos del ilustre médico @ UC! West sin distincion de credos ni dicha carta se refiere. de taxek: Dice- asi: “Mi muy distinguido amigo:—| El! Dr. Rodriguez Bassé por su Como nativo y residente en esta | avanzada edad y pobre estado de ec rater teem oe no tardara mucho tiempo altam . : Hos que llevan sobre sus hombros ©? que nos abandone por siempre {la direciién de los destinos de la | y justo y digno habria de ser, que Ciudad, demostrar en un acto| antes de su partida, Hevara en su solemne, que el magnifico senti-/corazén grabado el homenaje de | tniento de gratitud se cultiva entre | gratitud de todo un pueblo, que nosotros y que la Cuidad no rega- | sabe apreciar las grandes virtudes tea los méritos de aquellos que le | que le adornan y que todos hemos sirven bien y desinteresadamente. |tenido oportunidad de conocer, —El Dr. Enrique Rodriguez Basso | fuchos de los hombres y mu- eminente médico cirujano, lleva | jeres que viven en Key West, entre practicando su profesion en esta llos 45 y 55 afos de edad, fueron ciudad, mas de Cincuenta y Cinco | recibidos por las manos del Dr. Afos, dando nobles ejemplos de Rodriguez. Durante las violentas humanismo, de caridad y de hom-| epidemias de fiebre arnarilla, de bria de bien.--De su limpia y gran viruelas, de polio y de la terrible influenza, la ciencia y los ejem- |plares cuidados de tan sabio gale- ‘no, salvaron la vida a centenares de pacientes que sufrian de esos gravisimos males. Por todo lo cual, yo te sugiero que la Ciudad, en forma Unenime, acuerde ofrecer un piblico home- naje de reconocimiento y gratitud al doctor Enrique Rodriguez} Bass6, por los grandes servicios | } _ —<— — _—_—____—_—_—_———_ [house of labor, John L. Lewis ob- | served, with a wry smile: “The people in those negotiations {have more problems than the peo- | ple at Panmunjom.” | He was referring to the confer- ences between representatives of the CIO and AFL. They have been | meeting for several months, hunt- jing an avenue that will lead to | merging the two major labor ups. Considecahte progress in the di- rection of a marriage was seen earlier this month when Reuther | |mas de Cincventa y Cince Aiios. | Este Homenaje pudiera ser un Diploma, o una Medalla de Oro, annual wage will be won in the/|the plan into his packing plant. next series of major negotiations.”| The plant’s 4,000 employees are | What the UAW has in mind, in| paid on a weekly basis, and guar- detail, is a guarded secret, and | anteed 52 weeks notice before any most probably will remain so until | layoff. the union is able, in formal nego- | In the Nunn-Bush plant, the plan tiations, to present them to the | provided weekly pay checks for | auotmobile industry. {48 weeks work of 40 hours each. | Consequently, motor executives | For several years the organization | 2¥tomotive industry would permit | merger.” It will be effective Jan. devoto amigo y servidor.” said they were unable to discuss |has been on a nine-hour day with | the outlook in any definitive terms. | four hours on Saturday. The extra In mid-May, negotiations began | nine hours weekly are paid for between jhandsome, alert. They are rated | and George Meany, AFL president, | |among the best industrial brains in America and al) three have had announced an agreement to stop) que fuera el pdéstumo aplauso de un pueblo a su gran benefactor y entrafiable amigo, jlong experience. They asked not | to be quoted directly, and the fol- is a summary | lowing, therefore, |of their collective views: a union from one federation tries > ‘ |to seize bargaining rights held by esta idea y que los demas buenos |a union in the other. |amigos, Comisionados de la Ciu- Reuther called it “a first step dad, la apoyen con cariiio, te ade- | “raiding’—a practice under voret paign manager.” el dinero necesario para adquirir formula indicada. Su desinterés, su generosidad, su falta de amor al dinero, ha he- cho que Hegue al final de su exis- tencia, sin haber podido acumular Tiquezas de ninguna clase, pero, como decimos en nuestra carta al Dr. Cobo, poseyendo la gratitud y el carifio de sus semejantes, que es para él la mayor de las riquezas y . mas valiosa de todas. Y acase tal vez, la mas dificil de adquirir, en esta picara existencia, Nosotros, que pocas veces es- cribimos para cantar loas en favor de nuestros semejantes, esta vex al hacerlo, nos sentimos muy tisfechos, Todo elogio que osotro prodiguemos en honor del doctor Rodriguez Bass6, ha de resultar” palido y pequefio, cuando*se come Paren con sus “cincventa y cinco afios de ejercicio de la medicina.” Sus estudios fueron cursados ew Barcelona, Espaha. Desde | sug primeros afios de curso en la es cuela de medicina de aquella Uni- versidad espafiola, se destacé no solo por su capacidad para ad- quirir conocimientos y su amor a Mayor del General Calixto Garcia, en la Guerra del 95. Dicho doctor Sueiras, ejercié muchos afios en |la ciudad de Tampa y ya con una javanzada edad, retorné a Cuba y |suponemos que por alla debe de andar, hecho un polle “invefera- do”, si es que no ha partido ya |prestados a la colectividad, por | torna Whether the economics of the | essential to achieving the desired |lanto mi gratitud y quedo tuyo | sus honorarios el this annual wage system is doubt-|1 if ratified by the membership. ful. The layoff periods, while tool- | Reuther, at the start, laid down ing up for new models of cars, has the CIO's terms for the merger | Rodriguez Baxed salvara tantas Tepresentatives of United | as overtime, at time and one-half. | been so reduced that the problem | Preservation of the CIO's indus. | “YOU HAD US WORRIED, YOU HAVE THE KEYS TO THE of maintaining work is no longer | trial structure; agreement on ma- spate chinery for handling jurisdictional They question whether workmen | disputes; no membership bars be- with seniority or special skills and | cause of race, creed or color; no/ hence less subject to layoffs will ; Communists or tacketeers in posi- support Reuther. tions of leadership. _ And they ask if anyone has de) A dig wectionk: Hae e007 vised a plan for a guaranteed an-|have & ae oT tet a nual profit for industry? | that leaves out Lewis and Laughlin, simply said that the) problems of pricing, attracting in-! vestment capital. rehabilitating the plants, and providing for research must take precedence over any other considerations right now. “We have to operate at some- where near capacity. If we drop below 80 per cent capacity, a steel company is in a hell of a fix. “The plain fact is that steel products have been under prices. The first big job is to get a proper price.” In textiles, Elmer Ward, presi- dent of Goodall-Sanford, said the question of a guaranteed wage has not been presented to him. The complicating factor, as he sees it, is the competitive difference be tween northern and southern mills. “Tm one of those who's at afraid of the idea.” he said, “but if we don't get 2 competitive work losd and wage rate, we have got chair: “So far, you haven't even answered the telegram of John -L. Lewis, saying you were willing to co-operate with him.” Meany himself replied. He re- viewed a long story of efforts to- peor Murray presented that to John Lewis im his office and John Lewis walked over to the window looked out the window, looked out the window for about 16 minutes, and then solemnly strode back to his desk, tore up the proposal and put it in the waste basket without reading i.” Meany concluded that phase of his story with the tart statement “If John Lewis wants to get ac- thos on the subject of labor unity and feels that the micers should come back, he is quite familiar with the process of returning to the AFL. He is ale ite familiar with the process ATL.~ ward unification. At one point, he) said, a method had been agreed’ Rendirile un tribute de gratitud aun hombre, que como el Dr. vidas con tanto desinterés, bonra mas a los que lo rinden, que ali propio homenajeado. | Marti, dijo de manera elocuente | que “honrar, honra” y nunca la| ciudad de Key West, pudiera sen- | tirse mis bonrada, que rindiendo | este tributo a hombre de tantos/ meritos. Le conocimos siendo nosotros todavia muy nifio, fué el médico de nuestro hogar y debemos con-) fesar honradamente, que a nla | cia y a su cuidado, vida. Nos salvé durante una fuerte epidemia de fiebre smarilla, que) azote al Cayo, alla por los afios de 1886 © 1897 Hemos sido testigos de muchas de sus grandes y nobles acciones, | Basso. Colonia, Flying Hazard LERE (Chad) a, Africa pier a major r hazard the Chad and ways now being sought to lake of Lere, a panse of wate? “France-Hydro” fiying boats the coast, the Chad. In swoops to chase the i i eee | : i At) tante como profesional de ia) Medicina, como en su condicién de ciudadano. Para este excelso com- patriots, el ejercicio de su profe- sion fue un verdadero sacerdocio. Le tocd actuar en asquel Cayo Hueso pobre, cuando los honors tios del médies solo aleanzaban 2) la sums de on peso, que la mayo | ria de las veees, se le quedaba a deber, E) Dr. Rodrigue: jamas pregue- t, al examiner » on paciente “quien pagerh esta consults”. Por ei contrario: muchas veces ea pre gunta fot “st heble recursos con ave comprer le medicine que ef recetees”, para es el ¢230 com. it 23 f Ht i i eet misters were A large attends ing sang ~The Internacionale,” i Taro, ofrecer al paciente pobre song of the Reis.