The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 13, 1953, Page 4

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, June 13, 1953 ——_— ‘Page. 4 Ube Key Best Citzen Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- lisher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Stree‘s. Only. Daily. Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County LP. ARTMAN Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONE 2-5661 and 2-5662 Business ‘IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments, MAN-MADE IMPLEMENT CAUSES MORE DEATHS THAN NATURE'S DESTRUCTIVE FORCES _ The Citizen on Wednesday published a comprehen- sive summary of the damage and deaths caused by torna- does over a 35-year-year period. The next day a Miami pa- per ran a front-page article under this headline, “Torna- does? Give Us Hurricanes.” . Of course we prefer hurricanes to tornadoes; probab- ly most of us would prefer them even though more people were killed and more damage done by hurricanes. But more than three times as many persons were killed and four times as much damage done by tornadoes than by . hurricanes from 1985 to 1953. The 1935 date included the terrific Labor Day hurricane that wiped out the Mate- cumbes. ‘The reason we prefer hurricanes is because the tor- nado ‘strikes suddenly and deals out death ruthlessly, so much so that, in hundreds of cases, victims are killed with- out-having a chance to.seek cover, or without having a ehance to know what happened. For the same reason we prefer hurricanes to earthquakes. Were we pinned down to choose between a tornado and an earthquake, we think We would: prefer an earthquake. ; The death toll of tornadoes, earthquakes and hurri- eanes'is exceedingly small compared to the day-in-and- day-out death toll of a man-made implement, which is " something of a Frankenstein. Since man’s mind evolved the. automobile more than a million people have been kill- ed: by it.The million mark, as was noted in The Citizen at the time, was reached a year ago, but the killing continues at an average of 34 to 36 thousand a year. -. ~ Newspapers have performed their duties faithfully, and still are performing it, warning drivers to operate their cars carefully. But the warnings seemingly have gone for naught. Automobile killings continue daily, and, nine times out.of 10, the fatalities are due to careless driving. . The end is not in. sight to curtail death’s harvesting in automobile accidents. Florida Highway Patrol has work- ed diligently ‘to cut down the number of traffic deaths in this state, but it keeps on going up and up and up. Early this year it seemed that the killings in 1953 would fall be- low the number last year, but the weekly casualty report, issued last Monday by the patrol, showed that traffic deaths, up to that date this year, exceeded the number up to the same date in 1952. Here are the comparative fig- ures: Killed in Florida to June 8 last year, 424; to June 8 this year, 432. Man can't stop Nature’s destructive forces, tornadoes, earthquakes and hurricanes, but he can reduce automo- bile deaths to a minimum. by exercising care. He refuses in thousands of instances to be careful, and dies and dies and dies, : Nothing can be gained listening to rumors. We are in favor of ‘oomph’ for all the ladies. Many tales start with: “Well, they tell me...” More ill health is caused by too much food than too little. When it comes down to the bare fact, money can work wonders, Why is it that the best-dressed “ten” are always fa- mous people? A columnist is an editor writing for people, who live somewhere else, to read. Those who sleep in foxholes in Korea find it hard to understand some of their fellow Americans back home. No amount of ridicule, boasting or bluff changes the] facts. Get them, and you will understand the news of the/ day, and gain a clear picture of events, By SELIG HARRISON NEW DELHI, India #—The in- vitation for India to play a key Tole in a Korean armistice is viewed here as a crowning East- West endorsement to the six-year- old foreign policy ‘which Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru calls “positive and independent on be- half of the cause of peace.” That policy—to steer clear of commitments to either the U. S. or the Soviet bloc—puts India al- ternately in the bad books of the Americans and the Russians, But for the. 360 million Indians, Nehru’s “No” to foreign entangle- ments feeds this newly-freed na- tion’s ego and. at the. same time gains a peace period to develop resources at home, The 68-year-old Premier's great- est political prop at home is belief among politically-minded In- dians that he is highly regarded abroad--as the spokesman of. an independent, unbossed India. This view received great impetus three weeks ago when—after three years. of American criticism of In- dian policies—U. S. Secretary of State Dulles declared here that he was “thoroughly convinced India is acting according to its best judgment to promote democracy in the world and to prevent the spread of totalitarianism.” The week before, Democratic Party Leader Adlai Stevenson spoke similarly. He described In- dia’s policy as “non-alignment (with the West) rather than neu- trality.” To the. Indians—raised in the British tradition of political leaders who usually speak unchallenged for their parties—this represented a major switch from the hostile view American quarters had taken of Indian. motives since Nehru's re- jection of the Japanese peace treaty. Government sources say that In- dia refused to attend the Japanese treaty conference in San Francisco as a fellow-Asian nation defending Japan against Western white in- BUCKLEY the | India balked when the U.S. pushed “Invitation For India To Help|Kids Follow In POW Plan Is Considered As Gast-West Nehru Endorsement fringement on Nippon’s sovereign- ty. In a formal note, India contend- ed: that letting occupation troops remain in Japan “is bound to give rise to the impression that the agreement does not represent a decision taken by Japan in full enjoyment of her freedom as a sovereign nation.” Instead, Nehru believed, Japan should ‘have been granted the treaty and then allowed to enter into a separate defense pact—after regaining her freedom. Nehru’s troubles with the U.S. had started nearly a year before over Communist China’s role in Korea. After backing the U. N. decision to resist North Korean aggression, through resolutions implying per- mission for the American - led forces to cross the 38th Parallel. Nehru’s maintenftce of seeming- ly normal relations with the Chi- nese Reds after they did what he predicted in Korea has only served to worsen his standing with most U. S. circles. Nor has Nehru’s position in Am- erica been improved by his insist- ence that Red China should be admitted to the United Nations. Lumber Crop Improves ATLANTA, Ga. (2) — Good; management can double produc- tion of timber in a woodlot, 24 landowners near here are learning. A lumber company sends out an expert to help them manage their tree crops. In return, the company gets an option to buy the trees when they mature. The project is part of a program sponsored by the American Forest Products Industries. Reason for the plan is that 57 per cent of U. S. forest land is in small plots on farms, And few farmers know any- thing about tree management. Lumber men expect to increase | their available timber supplies by cooperation with the owners. H \lunch on television every day at pAD'S PUTTING THE FLAG UP ON THE FRONT PORCH JUST ABOUT NOW ! Example Of Herb Sheldon By DOROTHY ROE Associated Press Women’s Editor A million or so small children in the Eastern Seaboard area are demanding spinach these days, drinking gallons of milk, minding their table manners and even tak- ing their cod liver oil without a murmur. Such a mass reform movement among the small fry might be genuine cause for alarm (it just doesn’t seem natural)—until you learn it’s all due to a young man named Herb Sheldon, who eats his noon, together with all his young fans. If Herb eats spinach, so do the kids. If he drinks his milk, they do likewise. If he tucks his napkin under his chin, they go along. When he says—‘‘Now I’m going to eat up all these delicious car- rots,” the kids gobble their vege tables. All this has been a great boon to mothers who were getting ‘ne1- vous twitches and spots before the eyes, in the immemorial manner of parents, trying to make junior and sister put their pablum in their mouths instead of on the floor. Now all they do is place the youngsters in front of the TV sereen, dial in Herb Sheldon, and let him take over. The kids keep their eyes glued on the screen, and eat with their idol. When he says—‘‘Now it's time to wash your face and hands, brush your teeth, and go back to! school,” those of school age dash | off obediently. This may result in a new tribe of supermen and.women, some 15 or 20 years hence, since the current crop of moppets are soaking up milk and vitamins at such a rate. It’s even good for Herb. Says “1 have found that a glass of pure, fresh milk is much better for me than two martinis at lunch. And I've eaten so much spinach and carrots since the program started that I’m practically busting out all over with health, vim, vigor and vitality.” This might be funnier if Herb were a bachelor, but he's not. He} has three children of his own, as follows: Lynda, 13; Amy Jane, 7,/ and Randy, 5. He practiced on his own brood before taking over the eating habits of the juvenile public, | says Herb, and with good results. | groes—arrested fo be segregated in an Oxford, | Pa., theater—were awarded dam-) ages totaling $600 Thursday by’ U. S. District Judge George A. Welsh. { Judge Welsh levied $500 damages © jfrom attempting to enforce segre- | | gation in the movie house. t The men who brought the ac-| tion were Luther Manning, Vernell | Diwdonne, Archibald Seales and Macques Wilmore — ail « at Lincoln University in © when the incident occurrsd, < ‘kh, 38, Hal Boyle Says NEW YORK @— Do you ever know days when your backbone | | feels like a piece of wet spaghetti? | © Days when, if you order a hot| © dog for iunch, the joint is fresh out of mustard? Days when your | ear is deaf to the call of duty? Days when your job seems as dull as an old B-grade movie, run backwards on a grainy television screen? Everyone knows such days. Yes, even in the romantic, glamorous, | ? exciting newspaper field, in which you “meet such interesting peo- ple.” There are days when a re- porter finds the doorknobs he puts his hand to have more warmth than the people he meets after he opens the doors. Well, what can a guy or girl do on those days when all the bugles | have a rusty sound, all the jokes | are stale, and what you have to do seems as tasteless as the things} a husband finds in the refrigerator | after his wife has gone away on vacation? One thing you can ¢o is think} how you might feel if you had the | other fellow’s job in his dull or hopeless moments, For example, | how would you like to be: A tired housewife, who has been | wiping little runny noses all day} and is greeted at dusk by her! Prince Charming: ‘‘What! Not macaroni and cheese for dinner again?” Or a professional dogcatcher, whose small boy’s pet pooch runs away and the kid looks at his dad accusingly, as if the old man had turned in the dog at the pound just to build up his record for the month? Or a bum who picks a quarter from the pavement and finds it is. counterfeit? Or a mail carrier, who has packed a million letters for other people to read, and never in his life got the one letter he wanted himself? ' Or a lonely soldier in an outpost on a nameless hill, waiting at twi- light for the night to fall and the unseen enemy to come against him? Or an elderly vaudeville juggler, throwing up Indian clubs and ask- ing himself, ‘Why should a man of my age be tossing things like these in the air, and if i miss catching one two shows in a row I don’t eat next week?” Or a bank teller, who counts oth- er people’s money year after year while he lets his wite handle his own, and then finds she has wasted his meager life-savings by encour- aging the wrong racehorses? Or a straw boss, tuid to cut down | Tetary of the Navy reads as fol |: his working force, who looks at the oldtimers around him and asks his heart, “how can I let any of them gor” Or an old gray spoiled dog the day the family gets a bright new pink baby? Yes, everybody has his bad or Chief Small Is Chief Tradevman John D. Small, USN, received congzatulations last week from Captain Albert 0. sented ‘the Navy Commendation Medal. Chief Small previously received a letter of commendation from) Rear Admiral irving T . Duke, USN, Commander Naval Base for his courageous conduct in Novem- ber in attempting to rescue a man overcome by poisonous gas fumes during the fumigation of a bar- racks building at the Naval Air Station Seaplane Base. A report of Small's action was made to the Secretary of the Navy as a result of which he was issued a citation by that official and authorized to ve the Navy commendation me- The citation awarded by the sec- lows: “For courageous conduct in at- ; H sad or useless days. But any day | the you feel bad, you are lucky in the Yact that somebody, somewhere, has a more terrible reason for feel- ing worse——and does feel worse. How would you like to be a flag- pole sitter in a lightning storm? from a building which was Science Studies CHIEF TRADEVMAN JOHN D. SMALL, USN For His Courageous Action soing fumigation by mide i fe E itt Fs E é Sconting News Calcium With Aging ( It was a beautiful calm day for a cruise and the morning sun shown brightly as the eager group of 23 Seouts; Morris Feldstein, Ja- mes J. McManus, Sr., James J. McManus, Jr., and John Foh, guests of the District Commission- er Frank; Ellis Finch, Citizen Photographer; Eugene Freddette, William R. Maidenz, and Scout- master Torly Martmez, acted as chaperones for the Troop, filed on ¢| board the Patrol Craft (USS PC- 579), The PC was very graciously contributed by the Navy for the one-day trip to Fort Jefferson. Park Superintendent John De- Weese met the Contingent at the pier at Fort Jefferson and conduct- ed a guided tour of the Fort. Mr. DeWeese interestingly described |. {to the group, whicn: included some | of the crew of the PC-579, tales of | slave labor, Confederate Prisoners of War, rage of yellow fever and the heoric efforts of Dr. Mudd who | saved some of the inhabitants of the Fort while serving a “! Joseph P. Smith, Reaves Steed, James Stewart, Randall Warren and Ger- aid Wilson. Before the tarn of the century, ess as unwanted prodect aod ge. % = wes the mainstay of the pe- Sr aew rieesty. By BILL RAWLINS OAK RIDGE, Tenn., all know old Mr. Jones neighbor, Mr. Brown. Neither will old man Jones feels 25 years Jones though he falls, sh E RE EF rin if ibe nearing the answer—they know | they: don't have it yet. Under | direction of Dr. C. L. 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