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Friday, June 26, 1953 Thy Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- lisher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Strees. 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 2-5661 and 2-5662 ee Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 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 Subscription (by carrier) 25c per week, year $12, by mail $15.50 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ——$—$—$—<—$—$—————— ee The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects of locai or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Community Auditorium, PAYING OFF THE NATIONAL DEBT Several proposals have been made recently for pay- ing off the national debt of something over $260,000,000,- ‘000. One proposal concerns a U. S. sales tax, which could be levied at the manufacturers’ or the retailers’ level, which would presumably pay off the national debt in twenty or thirty years, Another proposal which has been made from time to ‘time is that for Federal intervention into gambling, such as a heavy Federal tax on lotteries or a national lottery. This proposal is bitterly opposed by many, however, and might not prove a practical solution. During the recent debatein the U.S. Senate over tidelands oil the proposal was made that the U. S, Govern- ment be given clear title to the tidelands, the revenue to he derived from these oil lands to be used to retire the na- “tional debt. This proposal was defeated. The problem of paying annual interest on the national debt is one of such magnitude that any proposal to retire the debt through a new source of income is worth study. U. S. taxpayers are now paying about six billion dollars a year interest, which is, of course, more than the entire op- erating cost of the Government twenty years ago. If this load could be taken off the taxpayers’ backs, the budget could be more easily balanced, more money could be allot- ed to worthwhile projects, such. as schools, highways and other public works, and taxes could be reduced. Therefore the end in view justifies serious studies of every proposal made to pay off the debt. While the history of most countries proves that national debts are seldom paid off, that is not sufficient justification for a nation as tich as the United States to be complacent about a $264,- 000,000,000 debt. The end in view—specifically the sav- Ing of six billion dollars in interest a year—justifies the serious consideration of every proposal to pay off the debt with a‘new source of Federal income. NO REASON TO FEAR PEACE Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey re- cently said, in his first speech since becoming a member of the Cabinet, that Americans have no reason to fear peace. Mr. Humphrey declared flatly: “We are not head- ed for a depression.” The Treasury Secretary pointed out that the large mil- itary spending program will be continued despite the change to attain peace in Korea and he supported Presi dent Dwight D. Eisenhower's long-range hope that money saved on rearmament might someday be turned into a} world development fund. : The Secretary's words are pertinent and echo the sen- timent of many business leaders, who point out that the} savings now in the possession of U.S. citizens are at record | levels, and that there is no reason to fear a recession as | Tong as employment, high wages and savings remain rela-| tively high. No sudden drop in any of these categories is} expected to be caused by reduced spending for arma-! ments, since such spending will be tapered off gradually and an effort made to fill this gap with increased civilian | production. | It is important for Americans not to assume that a re- ‘cession is inevitable, and Mr. Humphrey’s words will be! meouraging to those inclined to do so. His flat statement | hat we are not going to have a depression is the kind of talk we like to hear from members of the new Administra- | jon. Too much money is as bad as too little Not all of those who preach tolerance are willing to) etice it, And then there is the man who miss ooking—whenever he gets the opportunity. Have you killed anyone on the highways a good season for hunters, so far, and share lenty of game. HE PUT IT IN THE BOTTLE Farm prices are down but farm e | years— rouble he hasn’t experi- Two Most Unpredictable Items «<< Gee teas world War Tl. In Battle Over New Farm Program Are Weather, Public By OVID MARTIN and DON WHITEHEAD WASHINGTON (#—The two most unpredictable elements in the bat-| tle over a new farm program are the weather and the now-silent voice of public opinion. Either could have a potent influence in the fight. They are factors which cannot be ignored in any speculation about the kind of farm program to be written by Congress when the pres- ent fixed high-support laws expire next year. So far, there’s been little indi- cation that the general public, which consumes the farmers’ pro- ducts, is choosing up sides in the conflict over fixed high-support prices vs. flexible farm price} props. But it could happen should people become aroused as they did against the potato support pro- gram a couple of years ago. More recently there -has been some grumbling over heavy government buying of butter, cheese and dried milk to support prices of these products, “In the case of potatoes the fed- eral government had this crop un- der acreage control. But farmers increased potato yields per acre to record-breaking heights through generous use of fertilizer. Then they dumped the surplus on the government at a heavy cost to tax- payers. The market couldn't absorb the supply. Tons spoiled. Neither law- makers nor farmers could argue effectively against the public’s out- cries, and the potato price support program was knocked in the head. The weather can go a long way to make or break the administra- tion drive for a flexible system of | price supports for basic crops such | as wheat, corn, cotton, rice, tobac- co and peanuts. | These crops are now supported Up to this time, the weather appears to be on the side of the Eisenhower administration’s argu- ments against continued rigid high- price supports. The prospects are for good crop weather—which would mean more surpluses piled on surpluses carried over from last year’s bumper crops. The Agriculture Department al- ready is a bit frantic trying t {find storage for | costs have not declined correspond- jingly. The farmer’s share of the | consumer dollar spent for food and \fiber is at the lowest level since {1941, just before the war boom | lifted him into his greatest period jof prosperity. . | He isn’t yet in deep trouble, but | the trend in that direction has been |so.steady as to sound alarms in Washing try. Many peop bleak days of after a farm dep Secretary of Agricaltur thinks the way |trend is to u | support system PEOPLE’S FORUM ‘The Citizen weicomes expres- sions of the views of its read- ers, but the editor reserves the ri to delete any hich are considered libelous are | rauted. * se rs te 200 words write on aide of the paper only. Signature of the writer must accumpany letters and will be published am- leas requested ocherwise. MORALITY Editor, The Citizen: “The stag at eve. . .” No, I mention of the word “stag” is ta- boo in Key West today. It is bet- ter I should talk about baseball. Seems that a team in the Florida International League is about to} lose its franchise because of poor attendance. I refer to the Tampa Smokers. Smokers. Ye gads, Smo- kers in Key West wouldn't have} poor attendance. Maybe, I should change the subject again. Let us talk about out-of-town re- porters. Now there’s a subject full jof d and fury signifying noth- ing. Catch one of these reporters and turn him upside down so as to empty him of his “morality” and you will have nothing left but the remains of a frustrated preach- er. These “holier-than-thou” lads have confused “freedom of the press” with freedom to press the beast in most male adults into pliant and kittenish behavior. No ionger may the savage tumult within our hairy chests be assuag- ed by the innocuous pastime of eyeball activity. One would never know if a blabbermouth was pre- sent to report on our passive lech- ery. The new gospel as propound- jed by a certain commissioner and | a certain writer is “Thou shalt not attend smokers.’ Disregard this admonishment and your wife may jknow you attended a smoker by readi: about it in the newspaper. A fine kettle of fish! You can’t entice new members if the only en- tertainment your club of social or- ganization offers is the presenta- tion of an Audubon film. | It is regrettable that some men have been punished for losing their heads and “getting into the act.” ) x, the social significance of or “smokers” should not verlooked while some hypo- s go about crying “For Sk > at the top of their hy: srical voices, Smokers _ satisfy some basic need in our emotion- ° al makeup or they wouldn’t be so well attended, man who compromises is tamper- ing with the integrity of his very being. You cannot be half saint and half lecher, The spiritual as- pirations of one and the biological urges of the other will prove too much of a strain. To play it safe, get married, rear a brood of chil- dren, and just sneak out to smok- ers once in a while to ascertain the validity of your choice. As for the blabbermouths, they they are a necessary evil. These sanctimoniou. creatures will mo- ralize us into the deepest abyss in Hades if we give them but half the opportunity. They may be jemissaries of the Prince of Dark- ness for all I know. As for the type of morality they prate about I will divulge for their edification that it }is naught but a fugitive thought lurking in the attic ‘of their minds forever hidden from the sunlight |of reason. Here is what the Kinsey Report had to say on illicit sexual activi- ties (in which we may include at- tendance at a smoker): “All of these, and still other types of sex- jual behavior are illicit activities, each performance of which is pun- ishable as a crime under the law. can’t recite that poem. The very | Wil npcomaarempaedtesewais ner The persons involved In these aw tivities, taken as a whole, cansti- tute more than 95 per cent of the total male population. Only a re- latively small proportion of the males who are sent to penal insti- tutions for sex offenses have been involved in behavior which is mat- erially different from the behavior of most’of the males in the popu- lation. But it is the total 95 per cent of the male population for which the judge, or board of pub- lic safety, or church, or civi¢ group demands apprehension, ar- rest, and conviction, when they call for a clean-up of the sex of- fenders in a community. It is, in fine, a proposal that 5 per cent of the population should support the other 95 per cent in penal institu- tions. The only possible defense of the proposal is the fact that the judge, the civic leader, and most of the others who make such sug- gestions, come from that segment of the population which is most ‘restrained on nearly all types of sexual behavior, and they simply do not understand how the rest of the population actually lives.” And all the time I thought that in a democracy the majority rul- ed. I guess we will have to start building fifty new jail houses to put that 95 per cent in. I will try to increase my earning ‘power to help feed them. C. Gonzales Mendoza I was driving through the Navy | Yard the other day when I came upon a group of about 25 sailors marching down the street. They | were wearing dungarees and arm- bands which identified them as brig-prisoners. Four Marines, arm- led with carbines and shotguns, |were guarding the sailors. As I was parking the car, they | surpluses on hand They are piled in bins, old hangar sheds, and even ships, ; M¢rease the purcha And in these surpluses are the the dollar. seeds of public discontent over the! _Be8son’s opponents present farm program. | wer an tothe farm prebiem is not in The fact is that there is a great | came to a halt nearby and one of deal of morality in the very iM-/the Marines, a sergeant, apparent- morality demonstrated in smokers. |1)‘aidat like the attitude uf one of The stark brutal display of human \the sailors -- a tall, clean-cut ap- jlust should incite naught but Pity | pearing youth. The prisoner had for the frailty of flesh. It should | whispered something to the man ————— PD de dt ddd da dated dn tn dndin tad taitelnln inline) ... Ear To The Ground By JIM COBB £AdAd14444 2442444244 AAAO MAA MS }moved - reportedly as the resulf of a directive from Atlanta. They will be watering the ink next. Key Westers are wondering why the high school surplas in the fund raised to send the baseball team to Alabama isn’t utilized to bring the Augusta club here for a best of three series, . .The Key West Police Department apparently has the prowler situation under con- trol. Bravo. . .Now that the city fathers are working on the budget for the ¢oming year, they might do well to consider some kind of a pay raise for the cops -- they tell under law at 90 per cent of parity. | Parity is a return estimated to be | y ifair to both the farmer and con- sumer, ‘edging The department has more than three killion dollars tied up in farm surpluses. This investment may well approach five billion by the end of the 1953 mar- keting year if crops turn out well. This would be nearly dollars more chan the previous peak reached shortiy before the Korean War. The larger the surpluses, the greater is the danger of heavy taxpayer-financed losses through deterioration and sale at less than cost. A bad crop year would strength- en arguments for continued fixed slight] jhigh supports. In bad times, the nation would be fortunate in having surpluses for human and animal consumption, The present farm program was designed to keep a reasonable sur- plus of grains and other storable products on hand in case of pro- longed drought or war emergency. But some surpluses have climbed beyond the point many consider reasonable and are embarrassing the government ond farmers alike. | The wheat surplus is around 600 | million bushels, the corn surplus about 800 million. Good growing weather will boost these totals But despite such bountiful farm production, the farmer has been toward trouble for a_ billion | utting down ‘tampering with } ports. Th jtion a sign | and contend the | surpluses as a back! They argue the cost of these sur- pluses is not too great a price for the taxp. y for as- surance of food and | fiber. They that the factory than he did in 19 fore the farm Agric ment. It shows o: labor ir bread. | now; | exact! have be But the big pre son is how to dispose of Most farm and leaders see the fo: jthe logical out up an advisory lem and has r ment’s for two LEY . renew our conviction that spiritual | growth is more essential to hu-| ../man happiness than gross indul- gence in the appetities of the flesh. he moral choice is made clear to us at smokers, For morality per- haps may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. We are given the opportunity when we a smoker to make a . Lechery ioses much of the appeal we thought it might have in store for us. We begin to get a new perspective of the part that carnal Just should play in our lives, rnality loses much of its import e we realize that we have Je it too paramount in our ves. The fascination is dispelled. choice between spiritual evo- lution and fleshly decay is forced into our consciousness. Morality is involved in either choice. It takes to take either path, The viet Russia and ker Communist tes from dominating the market in Europe. Jess surplus production is con- i by shifts in production, Ben- production and marketing re the only way out. This an unpopular move with coura say t commodity fields. | enhower’s campaign to move away 1 leaders are waiting to Benson dares the political Vv g such rigid controls | crop, which from | jmext to him in the ranks. | The sergeant, who acted | though he was trying to live up to |the Marines’ reputation of being | great big tough guys, proceeded to [cut loose with a long, loud and Jobscene tirade at the sailor who jhad to take it and say nothing or |face more brig time. | The Marine called the sailor stu- pid, he made rerereaces to | parentage and threatened him with ' bodily violence. 3 | The sailor strained to keep him- | self under control and he did a | good job of it, although at one |point, it appeared that he was | going to give in and take a poke | at the Marine. He was about twice \as big and it appeared that he could have broken the Marine in half. I'll wager the sergeant won't | walk down any dark streets for | awhile. | I'd like to know just what use ful purpose that sort of thing |serves in Naval discipline. Na j urally, when anyone, either in ci- | vilian life or in the Navy, violates | the law they should be punished, but it seems to me that subject- ing them to treatment such as the Marine here apparently dished out, is senseless. POT-POURRI: This week's Col- lier’s mag reveals that Margaret Truman spreads maycnnaise over her steaks. Ugh. . .Carlos Gonza- lez Peraza, former Cuban Consul me they make less than garbage collections workers, Why? | Most people who find eye dis- comfort when looking at television have eye defects which should be treated by a doctor, says the Better Vision Institute, Read The Citizen Want Ads Dick Jack Delaney’s suggestion that civilian participation in an ob- scene chaity show be investigated seems to have been answered with a loud silence. There is nothing unusual in that... Key West, along cities of the nation, periencing a period generacy that history | describe as “shocking. | concerned in the recent sordid af fair deserved punishment. should not forget that merely the “unlucky” in Seville, Spain, was a recent vi- | were caught. sitor here. Peraza, an outspoken | critic of Cuban “President” Ful-| gencio Batista, predicts an over-| throwp of the government there imminently. He resigned his dip-| lomatic post because pay checks | began to arrive late. It is no sec-) ret that the Cuban government is) in financial hot water. Harry | Pritchard, Jr., recently attended a/ session of the State Senate with! the high school graduating class) during which he saw a bill author- ed by Harry Pritchard, pass successfully + The Bill will provide funds for; cemetery improvements A local man with political ambitions had just about made his mind up to run for the city commission. He asked a friend of mine just how to go shout getting the “Cuban vote.” j My friend's answer was ‘Ga to Cubs. We are afi Americans here. Charles Mendoza stays that he will seek the mayor's post, running on the Cow Ticket. “I have | no udder choice,” say Charlie. . ./ st do if this op looks as good joes now a way out, pres- require him to in- ed to cut the 20 to W per destep the issue controls on the erest. Or be rt a change in farm arger reserves be- i into effect jas shown no ct gove his father, local mortician | peeping toms, ritehs |our town has suffered from hi the Private motion pictures -- de- picting sexual perversity in its worst nature ~ have been. shown at certain group functions in the past. Obscene demonstrations of sex have also been known to oc- cur within our County limits. So- called “respectable” civilians, not servicemen, are usually partici- pants in such affairs. I sometimes wonder if this con- centration on sex hasn't encourag- ed the innumerable cases of rape, prowlers, etc. that few years. One thing 1 do know ~ since the Police Dept. has cracked down tm indecent floor shows, we've had ‘ewer sex crim- ¢s reported in the sewspaper. Have you made plans for next sth of July? Your 18 good shape? Dick's Tire Service, 929 Truman Ave., hopes that a can be of ser- vice to you in any matter regard- ing Ures, tubes, and batteries. The phone mumber is 2-2642. past Jack Clark concurs with the wri-) Don’t forget that cur U. S$ Ro ter's opinion that the Key West! yaoi tires and our recaps are fully Players should steer cleat of ail | sugranteed without regard to time of this sophisticated stuff and do! or mileage. You save money and something light -- of at least some | may save your life shee you trade thing that every other little thez-/ a1 Dick's Tire Service because the extant hean't done nimeiit safety ures of our tres aire at the poet | aise provide extra miles of travel, g tables bave bees te (adviy ow aa