The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 23, 1953, Page 4

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thy Key West Citizen ——— Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- Usher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County &. P. ARTMAN SMORMAN D. ARTMAN Business 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 er not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published here. Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida Page 4 y, June 23, 1953 Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12, by mail $15.60 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. 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. 3. 4 5. NO EMOTIONAL SURGE IN KEY WEST ABOUT THE ROSENBERGS Key Westers, as The Citizen has remarked recurrent- ly, are not carried away by emotional outbursts on public questions. Instead, Key Westers are prone to reason soundly. While emotionalists were picketing in Washing- ton, New York and other cities to try to save the lives of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the attitude of Key Westers was epitomized in this question and this answer: Had the Rosenbers been caught in Russia, spying against that country in its atomic activity, how long would their execution have been delayed? Only as long as it would have required to march them before a firing squad. Emotionalists don’t think soundly; they are swayed by their feelings. They didn’t give a passing thought to a point that President Eisenhower stressed in refusing to give clemency to the Rosenbergs: their giving this coun- try’s atomic secrets to the Russians may cause the loss of millions of lives in the event of an A-bonb war The Rosenbergs betrayed their country; betrayed the country that had nurtured them and given them a full measure of freedom. They bit the hand that fed them, and the danger of the biting has an international scope. They called themselves Americans, enjoyed the privileges of Americans, and schemed against their country to help communistic Russia that has been striving surreptitiously for years to overthrow our government. One did not have to be a deep thinker to determine the line-up in the Rosenberg case. The Rosenbergs had schemed against America to help communist Russia, and communists throughout the world clamored loud and long against the execution of the Rosenbergs. Communists in Paris rioted on the evening set for the electrocution of the -Rosenbergs. It was plainly a line-up of communists against the lovers of freedom. While Key Westers are not emotional on public ques- tions, they give full play to that feeling in helping unfor- tunates, Many instances of that nature may be mentioned, among them was Key West's “Blue Baby”, for whom the amount raised far exceeded the amount that was asked for, or in the cases of residents who sustained losses in fires or otherwise and were unable to help themselves, And Key Westers ate emotional too in other matters, sports for instance, The whole town turned out to give the glad hand to the Key West High School baseball players when they returned home after having won the state championship. The late President Roosevelt called the Japs, their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, backstabber. Rosenbergs were backstabbers. after The One can spend a lifetime playing cards. Those who arrive on time have a lot of waiting to do. The editor is under no illusion that these are witty. comments MUGGING THE PICTURE HAL BOYLE SAYS By RELMAN MORIN For Hal Boyle NEW YORK (#—Look, Boss, let me cover a typhoon. Assign me to climb Mt. Everest, Walking back- wards. Threw me in with Marciano for a how-it-feels story if you want. But, please, no more coronations for a while. Mind you, it was a fascinating story to watch, and I wouldn't have missed it. But for sheer, bone- aching, muscle-maddening torture, that story was the worst I have ever encountered. In fact, it was pure misery, and there is one small, hard spot of bench in West- minster Abbey that will be forever American. I left so much of myself there, The odd thing about this ink- stained trade of ours is that a re- porter seldom needs either a strong back or cast-iron ankles in stirring around on a story. The cross you bear is made largely of words, waiting and worry. Then, every so often, comes one plain hard labor. The coronation was worse than that. It was a medieval ordeal. Coronation Day be gan at 5 o'clock. AM, that is. I had given my rented white-tie-and-tails a dry tun the night before, just to be sure it was all there, and I expect- ed nothing more than a_ short, sharp struggle in the morning. But of course the collar was on- ly wi to rip apart. The lone spare was too tight. A shoelace broke. The shirt bent outward in a matronly bulge. I snagged my hand on a concealed pin and bled all over my notebook. Ah, the things you do for that man with the green eyeshade, the shears and the bright blue pencil! The reason for this early start was the crush of people and ve- hicles in London. I figured the trip to the abbey would take an hour, even with that fancy sticker on the windshield. Sure enough, at 6 o’clock, great rivers of people were flowing through the streets. How. ever, the bobbies and traffic so) well channeled that, in fact, it was | only 15 minutes to the Poet's Cor-| ner, port of disembarkation. ! Thus it was that, at 6:20 of a cold grey morning, Little Lord Fauntleroy, dressed to the teeth, eased onto that hard bench in the almost empty cathedral. Feeling a little silly, I may add. Now for the test of mind over matter. All told, the ceremonies would take some eight hours. It turned out to be a candard, but we had been given to understand that, once seated, you couldn’t leave for any reason-no matter what. In eight hours, serious problems could arise. The leg-room allotted was just about right for a small child. Sit- ting straight, my shins just touched the rail of the row in front. All day, I played keesise with an ad- miral’s wife on my left. The wall was on my right. I am not sure which was softer. There was momentary relief in the parts of the service where you had to stand. But seated again, that creeping paralysis you hear so much about would come out of the bench and crawl slowly up your back, tying knots in tendon and sinew. It was the same for every- body up in our section of the bleachers, of course, and that just goes to prove the immense patriot- ism of the British. They loved it. At 3:30 that afternoon--9 hours and 15 minutes later--they uncaged us. Well, it was a great show. But I'm glad the queen is only 27. OBERMEYER DIES ORLANDO #—David H. Ober- meyer, 51, owner of the Obermey- er Advertising Co. here, died of a heart attack Sunday. He formerly was sales and ad- vertising manager for Reingold beer in New York City. His fa- ther, Ernest David Obermeyer was president of Rheingold until his death in 1938. Nepal has 1,000 motor vehicles ll of which were taken apart and arried into the area on the back of porters, although a road into the county is now being built. ~— GUNDER. , Democrats Will ‘Have Hand In All Legislation By JACK BELL WASHINGTON ‘#%—The Senate’s | 47-42 rejection of an administra- tion economic controls bill indicat- ed today that Democrats will have a strong hand in the final fashion- ing of any major legislation passed by the GOP Congress. In a striking demonstration of minority party solidarity, 43 Dem- ocrats joined with three Republi- cans and an independent yesterday to override 42 Republicans and send the controls bill back to con- ference with the House. Republican Senators Langer of North Dakota, Wilhams of Dela- ware’ and "Young of North Dakota voted with the Democrats. So did Sen. Morse (Ind-Ore). Involved was a GOP effort, ap- proved by the House, to create a new Small Business Organization (SBA) to make loans of up to $100,000 to smaller concerns. These loans now are handled through the Smaller Defense Plants Adminis- tration (SDPA). Democrats charged this was a “patronage grab” designed to pro- vide jobs for Republicans. The Republican leadership’s de- feat was attributed in some quar- ters to the absence of Sen. Taft (R-Ohio) at the critical stages when a compromise might have been perfected and a show down vote avoided, Taft, receiving medical treat- ment for an ailing hip, wouldn’t comment on this aspect, but he said in an interview he believes a compromise still can be worked out which the Democrats will sup. Port. On the other siae, Sen. May- bank (D-SC) said the life of the SDPA will have to be extended for a year or there won’t be any small business*loan agency at all. While Taft discounted the lasting effect of the vote, there seemed little doubt that Democrats would be striving to atta such unity again on major legislation. The minority obviously had in mind the possibility of upsetting a much more important Republi- can applecart in legislation to ex- ments program for a year. Administration leaders got the bill passed in the House only by a compromise with GOP members who wanted to revise the whole trade program. This was done with an amendment to increase the Tar- iff Commission from six to seven members, a move aimed at giving Republicans control Check On New Builawrg Don’t Spend Tax Cut Yet WASHINGTON —Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey’s adviee to income taxpayers is not to spend the hoped-for Jan. 1 reduction until the fate of the excess profits tag is settled. i Humphrey gave the advice last jnight in a radio interview, saying it would be hard to reduce indi- vidual income taxes unless Con- | gress approves a six-month exten- j sion of the excess profits tax. The ‘tax expires in a week, unless Con- WITH THE NEW SONAR SCHOOL approximately 50% completed, M. J. Horre (left), government inspector of construction, Captain W. H. Truesdell (center), commanding officer, Fleet Sonar School, and Ledr. G. J. Whalen (right), Sonar School electronics officer, sit together on a concrete block in one of the three new school buildings. The s¢hool, now scheduled for commissioning on October 4 will cost $1,750,000 and when finished will be the most modern plant in the Western World for the teaching of Sonar.—Navy Photo. Eisenhower Forces Believe Farm Price Props Produce Huge gress acts. The excess profits tax extension bill is bottled up in the House Ways and Means Committee, whose chairman, Rep. Daniel Reed (R+ NY), opposes it. Plot Is Stopped LA PAZ, Bolivia U—Bolivian President Victor Paz Estenssoro’s revolt-installed government says it has nipped a plot to upset its agrarian reform program and its negotiations to sell the nation's nationalized tin abroad. A government announcement said a number of military officers, civilians and police had been ar- rested. The newspaper El Diario said about 100 persons had been jailed, including La Paz Police Chief Lt. Col. Fidel Rojas Garcia and former Police Director Lt, Col, Victor Valdez. The newspaper Ultima, Hora said the revolt was planned by the Socialist Falange party, the Army's National Police Corps and a labor faction, who plotted to seize power simultaneously last Saturday night in La Paz and Cochabamba, Surpluses And Wasteful Acts By OVID MARTIN | Price supports as a device to help and DON WHITEHEAD |the farmer. This method of bol- | | hair eet ap ahs a) = A LL Pema saben income ~ become struggle in America’s farm world | accepted as a way of life in the ‘oday is moving toward a supreme | agricultural world. It is agreed test of President Eisenhower’sthat in the interest of a sound| campaign pledge to give farmers | national economy the federal gov- a new agriculture program. }ernment must guarantee the farm- | The fight is being waged from jer the equivalent of a minimum | the grassroots of the farms to the | wage for his production. The trou- | halls of Congress with make-or- | ble arises over how far this sup- | break intensity. The Sy ncigi apa bao should go and how it will be will come next year when Con-/| used. gress must extend or revise the| Present devices to support ant present laws governing the farm | strengthen farm income grew by Program. ig : | gradual stages out of the farm | e er n | this was a time—much like the! high and rigid price supports for | present—when prices sagged after the basic crops of wheat, corn, | being held to high levels by a war) cotton, tobacco, rice and peanuts. | economy. Then the export market This program evolved during 20 | fell off drastically. Farmers found years of Democratic administra- | themselves. in deep trouble. tion. " Finally agriculture appealed to |, But the Eisenhower forces—led|tne federal government for help by Secretary of Agriculture iP" | Congress was sympathetic. Farm | saga : —but was vetor y President rigid price Als bea gy the | Coolidge and later by President Production huge surpluses, Pro-| Hoover. In their view, it was not mote wasteful farm practices, and | proper for the government to be- Lskaes a Sng oe oe markets: |come involved in the farmers’ particularly foreig - |. Jeconomic operations. aay i oes open ee | Then came the financial bust of pute les a broader | the early 30's and the Democratic damental issue. It is whether there ' canon that gave birth to the! will be a change of direction in| New Deal, } the entire Philosophy of the federal! The New Deal philosophy was government’s role in aid to farm-/that the government had a duty to Y ot sites a ihe Sialieeiees ee the farmers achieve Prices | have the same annnounced goal. abet fp get arden aie, greater prosperity for the farmer. /of the nation’s economy, Federal The differences arise over their farm aid programs were set up pare tee gin ah | For the first time, these pro- ) the one side, the Eisenhower | grams’ established a standard for administration and its supporters farm prices known as parity, This | say there must be a change in| was an effort to relate prices to} beg prea eases to dre ris a cape so that a aay #2 for the farmer. In its simplest| would have a fair return for his terms, the Benson philosophy holds | jabor. the farmer should rely more on| Legislation didn’t try to push/ his own good sense and business prices up to parity level by fixed } The paper added that the gov- ernment learned of the plot and that an attempt to seize the Cocha- bamba air base was unsuccessful. Local Counsel Needed DAYTON, 0. ‘#—Emerson Gar ling appeared for his arraignment in Federal Court yesterday on a forgery charge with a Bible under his arm. Judge Lester -L. Cecil asked: “Who is your defense counsel”? Replied Garling: “Jesus Christ is my defender and counsellor.’ Queried Judge Cecil: “Do you have anyone locally?” tage of parity at which other com- modities would be supported—but he had no choice on the basics. This support device included the practice of making ioans to farm- ers on those portions of theif crops which they held off the market, But under this program huge surpluses are piling up. There are around 600 million bushels of wheat already stored in bins, warehouses, elevators, and even old liberty ships. The corn surplus runs about 800 million bushels. Tons of butter are in storage, and there are surpluses in other commodities, 4 This abundance—for which there is no ready market—is a real head- ache. Some see it as a threat to the entire farm program if ever the general public should rebel against paying farmers for produc- ing crops which have little chance of being sold in the open market, Here is where the Eisenhower- Benson argument wins its strongest support. It isn’t |that any program would survive if it became unpopular with the pub- jlie. But even with last year’s ree. ord farm production, the farmer has been realizing less and less for his effort. The reason is that tend the reciprocal trade agree-| ability and less in government subsidy to realize a truly sound farm economy. It is argued that the trend has been more and more toward government controls-—and jthat this trend inevitably will lead |to complete government domina- jtion of the farm economy. On the other side, opponents claim the high support program |was built up carefully over the jyears by both Republicams and |Democrats and reflects what the jfarmer thinks is best for himself jand the consumer. They say it has worked well, with some* ex iceptions, and argue that the farm- er is entitled to government help lin achieving a fair income. They jassail the Eisenhower-Benson phil- josophy as a threat to economic gains made by the farmers since | the black days of the depression | Both sides believe in the use of prices. It attempted to achieve | while farm prices have fallen in this goal by cutting back farm |the past two years, the cash exe production, plowing under vigor Lome of the farmer have in and killing pigs. The idea was | crea: \that reduced supplies would mean! In addition, the foreign marke§ | automatic increases in prices. One |for American farm products has i device was to pay farmers a rent-/ slipped from a high of four billion jal on land that was kept out of |dollars last year to an estimated farm production |three billion this year. But farmers and public revolted} Eisenhower pledged in his eam against these practices. The idea|paign to help farmers obtain 100 of deliberately destroying food | per cent of parity “in the marked when there was hunger in the|place,” He didn’t say it would world was an unpopular approach. jaone with price supports Finally there was evolved more |sidies and he gave no direct devices for supporting or|how this goal would be strengthening prices. Congress de-| But it was a pledge that cided that the crops designated |farmers nor politicians are as basic—wheat, corn, cotton, | forget rice, tobacco and peanuts—must} What remains to be be supported at 90 per cent of whether Congress will go parity. jwith the Eisenhower-Benson pro- The secretary of agriculture was|gram when it finally is hammered given authority to fix the percen-' into specific recommendations, Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas | the Senate’s Democratic leader, | said that if the bill comes out of | WEARY Gis CATCH UP ON THEIR MAIL FROM HOMER" Everyone favors federal economy, on projects in the next county. Reading trashy fiction is one-hundred per cent indul- gence in wasting time. Gardens are fun, when the time is available, but un- fortunately do not grow untended. It seems that today’s swim suits would afford enough selief from the heat without going into the water. | | | | A “loyal party man” is a politician who denounces | the truth if he thinks it will injure his party’s chances. i One reason most people are half-informed is they don’t know when to listen or whom ow what to li.“ te, “WAS IT A BURGLAR DEARE™ the Senate Finance Committee in vigorously against the seven-mem- jber provision. Sen. George (D-Ga) | said the proposal would put tariff | decisions “‘in the hands of a politi- = commission and I'm opposed }to it.” | | DIES IN FALL |_GREENPORT. N.Y. charles E. Loew, 81, a retired lawyer, died |Sunday from a fail off his ; bicycle | He fell into the side of an euto- | mobile Saturday while going from | the post office to his summer bome \* New Suffolk. The first permanest s in Ontario, Canads, we Tories who fied fram the States after the ® ‘ this form, Democrats will fight: