The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 30, 1953, Page 4

1 wee 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, June 30, 1953 cee Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida PERE CER SEC SE SES SCTE DS TIN Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12, by mail $15.30 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION rp ene The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue nd subjects of locai or general interest, but it will not publish Ronymous communications. Ess ON FLORI ASS 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. STRANGE NOTE FROM YUGOSLAVIA Secretary of Labor Martin P. Durkin was recently at- .tacked in the Belgrade press becuuse of what was called unclean intentions. It seems that “Durkin linked Yugo- slavia’s Communism too closely with Moscow’s Commu- nism, The most interesting part of the blast was the Bel- grade press’s championing of the Communist idea. As proof that Yugoslavs are still strong for Communism, the press attack berated Durkin because he identified Yugo- slav Communism with the Moscow variety and it was as- serted that this was an unfairness to the great Communist idea, This blast is ample evidence that the Yugoslavs still seek to sell Communism to the world, even though this Communist country has had to appeal to non-Communist powers to sustain its economy and prevent bankruptcy. The United States has been one of the main contributors to the Yugoslav cause, having sent millions of dollars worth of military equipment and economic aid in recent years to that country. It is well to keep in mind, while extending this aid, that the Yugoslavs are convinced Communists and that they have been taught many lies about the United States and U. S. history, Despite our aid, the Yugoslavs still have 8 typically-Communist attitude toward this country and Yugoslav leaders, including Marshall Tito himself, often exhibit a surprising ignorance of conditions in this country. Therefore, Yugoslavia could not be classed as a_ reliable ally even, though the Marshal seems ready to resist Mos- cow aggression at the moment, BROAD MOBILIZATION BASE RETAINED Sources close to the White House indicate that the President has decided to retain the proad mobilization base concept in the U. 8. rearmament program, after a disagreement as to its value within the Administration’s inner circle. For a time it was believed that Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson lacked enthusiasm for the broad base plan and favored, instead, a narrowing of the program, with output concentrated in fewer and larger plants. The broad base program is one which decentralizes ' production, depending on output from many scattered plants rather than heavier production figures from fewer plants. There are some in the Defense Department who believe that the broad base plan costs the taxpayer more in the long run, although even if this is the case, there are advantages in the plan which may outweigh the disad- vantages. The major advantage in the broad base plan is that he Government retains many factories which can convert » large-scale armament production in a short time. Pro- ction facilities would also be more difficult to eliminate > air attack, if scattered, in many plants, than if concen- hted in fewer, larger ones. | We believe broad base mobilization should not be dis-} tinued in the interests of economy for the all-important | on that, in any future war, the United States will not e the traditional year or two in which to prepare to war. The next war may fall upon the country with almpact not yet experienced and a broad-base mobiliza- | tit plan may be the salvation of the country's defense | PRuction. Bathing beaches offer many attractions these days. ' We sometimes wonder if people are paid for motie dialgue. Despite vour fears, the world can get along as usual | NOT SUPERSTITIOUS, BUT IT IS DISCONCERTING "SUTTETTL TOTO T ED |tke to tenet you cuss. It reminds THE CONCH OBSERVES By SID McPHID CLL kk Ahh Adhd dbddtdéddédtd ONCE IN A MILLION What chance has a golfer on the Key West Golf Course to make a hole in one on No, 4, or No. 7.2 Whatever your estimate may be, it falls far short of a “chance - in a - million” accident, according to the Associated Press, that occurred in England last Tuesday. A simil- ar accident occurred on the local golf course 20 years ago, and the chances are stretched to far more than a million when it is consider- ed that the Englishman and the local player were struck by their SID McPHID balls in the same place -- the left eye. The only difference is that the Englishman lost his eye, and the Key West player’s eye became normal again after four or five months. Here is the dispatch: PRESTON, England —(#)—An operation was performed Tuesday at the Preston Royal Infirmary for the removal of the left eye of a ler struck by his own golf ball. golfers said “the chance- in-a-million-accident” occurred when a ball driven by Charles Langley, 48, struck a mound and rebounded into his eye. As the w didn’t describe the type of accident, other than being hit by one’s- own ball, it happened twice in Key West. Before telling who came near being knocked out by his own ball: Kirschy, who was Playing with Bob Spottswood, lofted his approach into the trap on No. 5, and, in trying to come out, his ball hit a rock, bounded back and struck him in the middle of the forehead. The blow was so hard, it knocked him down and stunned him. Bob said he resisted an urge to joke when he saw that Kirschy was so badly hurt. However, toward the end of the round, when Kirschy said he had fully recovered, Bob got in his dig. Kirschy used to be a baseball play- er, and a good one among amateurs so when he began to play golf he swung at the ball in the same way as he swung at a baseball, and still has the same stroke until today. Bob's joke was in line with Kirs- chy’s former baseball playing. Kirschy used to be a catcher, and Bob said, “When you made that play in the trap, you should have had on a mask.” Commander Hart, 20 years ago, drove his tee shot into the first trap on the No. 9 fairway. The trap was deep and the bunker was high, and large stones projected from the inside of the bunker. Us- ing a niblick, in trying for an out, he drove the ball into a stone, and the ball bounced back, with terrific force, and struck him in the left eye. In 10 minutes, the eyelids were twice their normal size, and in half an hour they were bluish black. Commander Hart was the most imperturbable player on the local links in those days. What did he say when the bail struck him in the eye? Nothing. What did he say} when he made a good or a poor shot? Nothing. He played with |Sam Harris many times, and Har- ris says Commander Hart didn’t comment about his shots, good or bad, and his shooting in no way affected his cool expression. He the story about the local man who| | was back on the course playing the was hit in the eye, here’s what} next day, with his left eye swollen happened to J. J. Kirschenbaum, |and blackened. He told Harris, “I BUCKLEY OO | withat you, and will. | } Money is still comparatively plentiful and jobs ob-! tainatie, mesnita 1952 forecasts, The same was true 1952 tencern im; ng 1951 forecasts. ‘ opera.” sere GREAT PUTT Speaking about Hart, Harris says: “I wondered many times if it was possible for anything to hap- pen to him on the course that could draw from him an expres- sion either of delight or disgust. In those days, the No. 6 green re- sembled small waves at sea, rang- ing from one or two to three or four feet in height. Putting on it was far harder than that on any other green on the course. The same Kirschy, who was knocked down by his ball in the No, 5 trap, was the club’s pro and greens- keeper. For some reason, which Kirschy himself alone knew, he put the cup or hole on No, 6, atop the crest or ridge on the highest “wave.” “One afternoon, Clayton Kirtland, who frequently played skins with Bob Spottswood and Clem Price, was playing with Bob, Kirschy and me. Kirt, after he had missed his fourth putt on No. 6, complained: “Kirschy, why did you put the hole up there? If you putt too easily, your ball rolls back to you; if you putt too hard, it rolls over the top and down the other side. “Well,” Kirschy said, ‘it’s as fair for one as it is for the other.’ “Kirt pointed to the top of a darling plum tree in back of eh green. ‘It would be as fair for one as it is for the other if you put ‘it up there.’ “The next day the cup was put in a ‘trough’ of the waves. “The greatest putt I ever saw was made by Commander Hart on No, 6 when the cup was on the crest of the ‘wave’: Hart’s ball was on the apron of the green at the extreme right. He got down on one knee to study the curvature of the ‘waves’ for a moment, then stood, adressed his ball and putted. The ball zigzagged over the waves, ran seemed for an instant to be going over, but, instead, developed “‘Eng- lish” that kept it on the ridge till it fell into the cup. ““By jingo’ I exulted, but Hart didn’t say a word.” BOBBING BOB Bob Spottswood was in the top- most bracket of Key West players in those days, but Bob proved the truth of that old saying that two heads, even though one is a cab- teg—ADD CONCH OBSERVES bage head, are better than one. In this case, instead of being two heads, it was three players against one. Cookie Mesa, Ole B'y and Sam Harris were duffers, but even as duifers there wasn't a hole on the course they had not parred, sat, | with the possible exception of No. |7, on which they had not made al | birdie. Bob proposed to them to/ up the side of the highest ong and | f i THE WORLD TODAY By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (® — President Eisenhower today faced the second big test of his leadership with his own Republican party in Con- gress. The first was on an ambas- sador. This one is on the excess profits tax. The House was to vote today on whether to continue this tax on corporations until Dec. 3°, as Eisenhower asked, or let it die tomorrow, as it automatically would have done if the President hadn't intervened. Months ago when he sought Sen- ate approval of Charles E. Bohlen as ambassador to Moscow, Eisen- hower ran head-on into opposition from Sen. McCarthy of Wisconsin and some other Republicans. Ei- senhower won. The fight left no visible party scars. But in the case of the excess profits tax, because of the way he went about trying to get Congress to extend it for six months, Ei- senhower may have inflicted some party wounds which will not heal and may hurt him later. In the Bohlen and tax cases Eisenhower’s technique was, in a general way, the same: no per- sonal, public quarrel with anyone. Instead, working behind. closed doors, he depended upon his per- sonal prestige and pressure upon | his party’s leaders to get what he | wanted. But there was a difference, The contest over Bohlen followed the classic lines of a difference of opinion fought to a finish on the open floor of Congress: a test of strength between adiministration forces and those opposed to it on/ a single issue. It happens practic- ally every day, in one way or an- other, in every administration. But Eisenhower had made such | an issue of wanting the profits-tax continued, it became a stern test of his leadership. He could then hard- ly sit idly by while Congress—or, rather, a small group of congress- men—ignhored his plea and per- mitted the tax to die. Or so he |i may have reasoned. At any rate, apparently seeing himself facing sure defeat unless he did more than just ask for ex- tension of the tax, Eisenhower used the full force of his party’s leaders in the House to smash’ into con- gressional tradition, pride and pre- rogatives. Aside from any question of| whether he was right or wrong, it was a steam-roller attempt to get what he wanted, and the roller crushed some toes. Daniel A. Reed at 78 is the old- est Republican in continuous serv-| ice in the House. This New Yorker, | chairman of the House Ways and | Means Committee which considers tax problems, wanted the excess | profits levy to die tomorrow night, as scheduled. Almost always before the House votes on a piece of iegislation, one of its committees must consider it and approve. Committee approval | is the preliminary tu a full House | vote. But Reed wouldn’t let his | committee, to which the extension bill was assigned, even meet to! vote approval or disapproval. Some members of Reed’s com- mittee, Republicans and Demo- crats, feel as he does about the tax. Perhaps a majority do, But the fact is he wouldn't assemble them to vote and there were few protests from them or other House members, Almost every member of Con- gress has his eye on a committee chairmanship some day, since a chairmanship is a position of Pow- | er and prestige. So even when a chairman or a committee refuses to approve what | a majority of the House, for in-| stance, might approve if given aj chance to vote, there is great reluc- | tance to criticize or interfere. It’s the old school spirit: “Don't step on me.and I won't step on you.” With the tax expiration date | approaching and no sign the exten- rules committee, to yank the ex-} jtension bill out of the hands of VIEW PROPOSED TRUMAN LIBRARY: for 1954 straight through to 1960. Shelly Bay, Bermuda (® — Fish are more friendly in summer than in winter. A fish also finds it easier to figure out the personality of a | Person than a person does that of a fish. “And all fish do have personali- ties,” insists Bronson Hartley, who knows a number of them well enough to call them by their first names. Bronson, a tall, slender ex-New Yorker of 33, has spent more than one sixth of his life under water in the ‘seas around Bermuda. And his pretty dark-eyed Cuban wife, Martica, have taken more than 6,000 tourists for deep sea dives and conducted walks along the ocean floor here in the last five years, The hidden life that swarms around the coral reefs has tasci- nated Bronson since he built his first diving helmet at the aze of li—the helmet he himself still uses, He spent two years working with Dr William Beebe, the famous un- derseas explorer. After completing military service, he went to work for an oil company here, but was j unhappy, “Lt would hop on my bike and ride out to the ocean, and think, ‘Gee, what a waste of a wonderful day,’ he recalled. So he threw up the job, and de- cided to do what he most wanted to do—find out what really goes on in the strange world beneath the waters. “There is more to learn here than anyone could find out in many lifetimes,” he said. Martica and he lead happy, ar- duous lives. But Martica, who steers their boat, “The Are,” and supervises the diving operations, laughs at the idea there is any danger to it. “We have taken down children of 5, and people as old as 83," she said. ‘It is much safer at the bottom of the ocean than it is on a highway.” Over the years Bronson has made | pets of many fish, which he feeds by hand. His favorites are two beautiful angel fish — Helen and Ruth, ossword Puzzle ACROSS 29. Asiatic palm 1 Tribunal 31. Oneborn in 4By 8 place 12. Liquor 13. Scent 14. Too 15. Free Reed and his committee and | it to the House for a vote. Pe Reding acted because he | | Congress” who think Eisenhower | | play their low ball, and they im-/ was not only too high-handed with | mediately accepted the challenge. Reed and his committee but with | As though it had been set by the traditions, asd procedures of | |fate, not a single hole was played | Congress itself. j | without one of Bob's three oppor: | Should Eisenhower win today, | lents coming through with topnotch this tactics will be remembered by! (golf. Each of the three sliced and | those who resent them. Should he} hooked and topped and divoted but | jose, he’s lost more than if he had‘ they did not do it at the same/kept mum and let Reed scuttle | | time One was sute to piay weill,/ the tax. that's part of the price he and the result was Bob did not win | has to pay for asserting presiden-| |a hole and tied only a few. tial leadership. | SNAKE ON TELEVISION TALK — THEN ACTION | OKLAROMA CITY # — A! ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N. Y.- (Seighbor excitedly called Mrs. # — Thirty-five Frank Gibson for help. She was | getting the unexpected on her new! television set. Mrs. Gibson ran to the rescue, — found a 42-inch snake had lerawled out of the cabinet, tt is believed “hat the mullet is the only fish which sy 1k was eut short when he receiv can be fried ed om emergency delivery call Merey Hospital. R -s own fat 16. Composition FORMER PRESIDENT Harry S. Truman and David D, Lioyd, executive director of the Democratic National Committee, look over in Washing- ton an artist’s conception of the Truman Memorial Library to be built in Independence, Mo. Earlier, the former Chief Executive broke his political silence at a press conference to predict a Democratic victory (International Sowndphoto) HAL BOYLE SAYS “Helen is swim throug! eat out of anybody's said. “It took me friends with Ruth. “I can make two appointments a day with Helen, and she will al- ways be there on time. But Ruth is unpredictable, “Ruth has an unusual ability. She can sense whether a stranger is neurotic or odd in-any way, will immediately swim away. It never fails. She sometimes can judge a stranger much quicker. than my wife or I can, On the other hand, she loves children — unless they are mentally deficient, And believe me, she can if they are, and won't com _ asked Marticia if ee “That's I don’t mind.” research,” he said. 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