The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 19, 1953, Page 4

¥ Pepe 4 = 8=6‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen a Onty Daily Newspaper in Key West and Menree County L. P. ARTMAN NORMAN DO, ARTMAN Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter “: _ TELEPHONES 2-566 end 2-56462 shez, Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $13.20; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION and of local or general interest, but it will Ess On FLORI KEY WEST ADVOCATED KEY WESTERS RECALL HOW REPUBLICANS KNIFED TRUMAN; LOOK AT THEM NOW Monday, October 19, 1953) Streets. Business Manager ‘The Citizen ts of a2 open forum and invites discussion peblic ieoues Key. Westers recall that while Truman was Presi- dent Big Shot Republicans attacked him, with satirical stings, about our ponderous public debt. Our debt ceiling then was, and still is, $275 billion, and Republicans de- clared it would no bte long before Truman, if he kept up his spending, would reach the limit and would ask con- gress to increase it further. What Republicans said would happen to Truman is now about to happen to them. The Treasury has announ- ced it will borrow $2 billion later this month, which will raise the public debt to the $275 billion limit. But that is not the only headache the Republican Administration has. It has a far greater headache about the reduction in farm income, which is 15 percent lower this year than it was in 1952. This is a severe headache because Republicans in Washington, as well as Demo- crats, recall that falling off of farm income was the be- ginning of the Great Depression in the 1930s. But economists, in and out of official life, don’t think a depression will start next year. They say we are likely to have a recession in 1954, but government economists say it will be “mild.” They add that if the federal debt and the debts of states and their subdivisions can be ‘held in check, we will pass through the recession with only minor harm to our economy. What worries them is the possible or probable hiking of public and private debts generally. Debts owed by in-' dividuals are the highest. They exceed more than $300 billion. turing concerns owe amount almost to three-quarters of a trillion dollars. : That debt has been mounting generally for more than 20 years, and as it has mounted so has taxation throughout the country mounted. The trouble is that the man-on-the-street thinks that good times will last forever. Conversely, when we have hard times, he thinks they will last forever. But good times and hard times go in cycles. The wise man is he who saves his money when times are good to buttress him against the hard-to-get dollar when times are bad. Business men who are too modest to toot their own horns will not be long in business. Now that the schools are running full blast, we pre- sume the level of intelligence will move up. AIRIK} NIE IE = i) = lo i ui AIRIAIL IN LITIE IRIE AIGIO} VIVIC IRM VielS Tiel IMIAMBOLYINIE BECIE IRIE] IRIA]KIE ION LIN] TiO} ILIA] UINMETRIO! SIE! AIRINIAMBOIEIMIEINT TEID PIOUETRRCITIAMBEITITiCN TL DIE MBATVIEBERIOIAIR al SE 2 S285 gS SeAse # eft 4 =F i ° B 3 2) 19. The life of ‘business 21. Owned 23. Invoke ‘ao & ai g 258 [ fi 93 i What they owe and what the federal govern- ment, states, counties, cities and business and manufac- right—and that’s October. request of a number of readers. By HAL BOYLE ANYPLACE IN AMERICA, (#—| If the Lord whispered in your secret heart that you had but one month to live and let you pick that month, which would you choose? I'd say October. The birds love it, the beasts love jit, and man himself then stands upon the summit of the year. October is all the cther seasons wrapped into a 31-day grab bag package, tied with a rainbow rib- bon. It is the period when Mother Nature, the great dramatist, brings her traveling road show to ja climax. This is the month that, like a juices of all the otters months— ithe promise of spring, the sultry winter. Everything that walks the earth feels an amber thrill, a tremen-| dous bubbling vitality that sings in the pulse. Now is the glory of the universe manifest, and in the mighty pag- eant of the hills each patch of woods elects its own tree beauty queen. You like the dogwood? We won’t quarrel. I'll take the maple, that yellow torch. The birds looked on disdainfully while foolish man clogged every steaming road with his July vaca- tions. They know the right time to travel. They have hung a “to let” sign on their nests and cloud the serene skies with a billion cider press, squeezes out the best’ joys of summer, the afterglow of autumn, the premonitory chill of Hal Boyle Says Editor's Note—In a troubléd world of doubt and wrong, all agree there is one thing gered e following tribute to “The Month- Of-The-Year” is reprinted at the wings beating southward. The worm they missed noses deeper into the turf, muttering “safe at last.” It is as if everyone suddenly had been given magic color glasses. The stars bend nearer. And that big blob of moon. . .A child feels it is so close he could reach up with a knife and spread it on his bread like butter. The stag stamps on the hilltop and lifts an amorous bugle to the night. The throb in every wood- land heart has an echo in the city, October knows no boundar- ies. Listen: Can’t you hear and feel its music in your veins, the tremendous symphony of living? The squirrel, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, becomes an annual in a hidden safe deposit box that will be empty by March. The bear: ‘invests his excess’ profits in fat, planning to live off this stored capital until he emerges from his hibernation next spring, cross and bankrupt. The wind at night now has be- come a violin, playing a love song for the young, a last tune of youth for the old. Do you stay awake to stays a little while, this wandering fiddler in the dark, then takes his ballads and beats it, October wears a crown and makes every man a king. It bears the harvest superiority of the rounded apple over the petaled ‘flower, the advantage fruition and achievement have over pale prom- ‘ises. April is the fledgling politi- cian of the year, saying “Stick with me and we'll go places.” October is the mature statesman holding out the goiden reward. October pours the wine of life, and anyone who isn’t drinking of it deeply right now is a salesman for sour grapes. A Lelier From BILL LANTAFF Dear Neighbor: “If second and third class pos-' tal rates are increased I would not object to adding a penny to first class mail rates in an effort ito reduce the postal deficit.” This seemed to be the sentiment of the ‘majority of folks who participated ‘in your Congressman’s recent side- walk-survey, The sixth question on the survey ‘was: “Do you favor increasing first class postal rates from 3c to 4c in order to reduce the postal) increase in second and third class rates, it might be possible to re- duce the annual Post Office deficit! from about $800 million to approxi- mately $75 million. The majority of the 68 per cent) favoring the penny increase of, first class mail on this South Flori- ida pavement-poll, did so with the! ‘teservation that second and third class be increased to carry their share. One lady, in Key West, add- ed to her affirmative answer, “It’s | miser, furtivély depositing acorns} hear it? You'd better! He only | mellowest; either add a penny to reduce the) deficit or see ourselves burdened with some other new tax to pay! the cost.” A group of North Miami MK ae a Chapter 11 HE TURNED and strode from tre gallery, leaped on his horse and rode swiftly away. He was angry and hi. pride had been nurt. It was bad enough to have Jeff Payne call him a boy; to have Diana throw it up to him was the height of indignity. By God, he'd show her! He'd show her that when it came to handling a Colt he was as much a man as was Jeff Payne! He flung himself from his wet horse ir front of the Bonanza and went into the saloon. There were some Star men there and Ed a Keever had come in with them to keep an eye on them. Buddy strode up to the bar beside Ed and ordered whiskey in a harsh voice. Ed at him from his sad eyes. Buddy did not drink as a rule; liquor usually made him deathly sick, But he tried man- and right now he poured two drinks down in quick succes- i led for a thi Ed Keever watched him fur- tively, then sought out Marshal Al Sanders. “Better keep an eye on Buddy. He's gettin’ loaded and he’s look- in’ for Jeff Payne. If he tangles with Jeff it'll be just too bad, 'spe- cially wit so drunk he couldn’t hit a elephunt with a twenty-gauge at ten feet.” Al nodded. “If he starts any- | thing T'll slap him in the cala- boose.” By BILL GIBB Key West Police Dept. The Atlanta regional office of ‘Allstate Insurance Company has| sent me nearly two thousand safe- ty pamphlets entitled, “Defensive Driving Tactics,” “How Fast Can You Stop?” and “The Night's De- ceiving Eyes.” Mr. A. S. Johnson, Jr., customer! relations mapager for Allstate, al- so informs me that their publica- tion, “Home and Highway,” will be made available to the local Key West Safety Council. “These things are’free of charge and they are an indication of how Teliable companies include the wel- fare of the public in all their at- tempts to build a larger and bet- ter business, The best advertise-| ment that an organization can gain is to create a feeling of apprecia-| ‘tion on the part of the public. As an experiment to see how in-) terested the public was in safety literature, I placed several score ‘of “The Night’s Deceiving Eyes”| near the cash register of Tucker's Department Store in Poinciana. It} didn’t take long for most of the pamphlets to be picked up. If so many people are attracted) by information pertaining to pub-| lic safety, why — you may ask — do we continue to have tragic un- Necessary accidents? The situation isn’t quite as bad as it appears. Since the formation of the National Safety Council and with every advent of new local) safety councils such as the Key West organization, the accident) picture tends to become somewhat} better. The growth in population,) an increased number of mechani-| cal inventions, etc., distorts a true) perspective of the work of these| safety groups, However, there is no use having a Safety Council in name only. It has to be an outfit willing to labor| and sweat for the good of humani- ty and the reward to its workers is) paid only by the laughter of a| child or gracious “Good Morning” ‘of an oldster who might otherwise be dead if someone didn’t try to) spread the doctrine of “Safety First.” The Key West Safety Council needs you to help suggest ideas and to report unsafe conditions that should be remedied. Contact Bill) Gale of the Telephone Company, Bob Daniels of the B and B Cycle Shop, Davenport of the KW Trans- it Company, Billy Freeman, Jr., of Porter-Allen Insurnace Co. Get on i | sing no opinion. According to Postmaster General Summerfield, the Post Office De- partment’s anaual deficit will run close to $800 million. There is little doubt that increases will be effect-| ed in second and third class postal, rates. Summerfield has stated that, {second class mail, the handling of imewspapers and magazines, loses about $240 million per year. A re- quest will be made for a rate in- of approximately $20 mil- Third class mail, used main- $192 million annually. A re- ait fates about 25 per cent i class in added revenue. e Postmaster General admit- that first class mail is paying its own way with the three-cent ise housewives stated emphatically \they would favor the one-cent first ernment made those using second’ and third class mail pay their full share of the cost. A Coral Gables gentleman said merely he approv- ed of a “Pay-as-you-post” method. The voiced opposition to first) class increase urged, in its place, elimination of the subsidies to the dropping postal savings and selling for direct-mail selling, loses a- 2dvertising on mail boxes and;:., trucks. One Miamian proposed eli- will be made to increase mination of franking privileges al- of international travel. |though the Postmaster in approximately $52 mil- nounced that the total cost of ©0-'et Thompson Biddle, international franked mail last year was only 1 million 700 dollars and GI ffee mail but $3.8 million last year. class increase only after the gov-| thousand| a committee and help make Key West SAFE! Today’s Women By DOROTHY ROE AP Women's Editor Dig into that French, kids. Keep! jus those Latin translations and practice Spanish, Swedish or Ger- man every chance you get. It’s the quickest and most effec- shortcut to"world understand- ing as well as to an, exciting life | This advice comes from Margar- hostess, author and business wom- an who first saw the light of day | Noon came and most of the men in the Bonanza went out in search of dinner, but Buddy ae at the bar fingering a glass of whis- key and trying to get up the cour- age .o swallow it. His anger had grown; he just couldn’t take the stuff; even the thought of drink- ing it nauseated him. A man came in and said to the bartender, “Howdy. Harry. Pour me a short one to settle my din- ner. The bartender ied bottle and glass before “Many up there?” “Not so many. Mostly Star men. Nobody from the Double D but a of Miz Den- that new foreman ton’s.” The bartender sent a furtive glance towards Buddy. Buddy had stiffened, his about the glass. bartender, then at the glass. He| Sand lifted the glass suddenly and tossed its contents down and went out, walking unsteadily. The World Today By JAMES WASHINGTON (#-—Three U. S. senators were leaving Madrid Sept. 26, just about the time it was be- ing announced America had ac- quired Spanish permission to use lair and naval bases in Spain. Their departure on the same day as the announcement, the sen- ators said later, was a coincidence, since their reason for being abroad was to check on American con- struction and bases in Europe and in North Africa. They were fully informed about the agreement before they left the Spanish capital. And in due time they returned here and made a report which was pretty enthusi- astic about what they had seen on their travels. Since the three senators—two Republicans, Case of South Dakota and Duff of Pennsyivania, and a Democrat, Stennis of Mississippi —are members of the powerful Senate Armed Services Commit- tee, what they say about what they saw will have weight in Congress, On Oct. 12, this government made another announcement, this time that the Greek government had given the United States per-| mission to use air and naval bases in Greece. So, as in Spain, this was one more rivet in an iron rin g of bases which America and its Eu- ropean allies are building on the perimeter of the Iron Curtain. The United States has already announced signing of similar agree- ments with other countries for bases. For example, an agreement with Denmark for using facilities on Greenland; one with Portugal for the use of air and naval bases in the Azores; another with Ice- land for an airfield there. While the hydrogen explosion re- ported in Russia Aug. 19 had a clearly sobering effect on Western statesmen, the news about bases in Spain and Greece is obvious school French—that’s all I had to! go on when I went to live in Paris but it gets me by.’ Mrs. Biddle carries on a volum- inous correspondence with travel- hungry Americans in her job as European editor of Woman’s Fome of This seasoned iravier has some definite ideas about U. S. educa- tion, chief of which concern more emphasis on languages in our pub- lie schools. She says: in Helena, Mont., explored her |father’s mines in her childhood; stamp letter bringing in about $105, The Postmaster General has saidjand grew up to become one of the mail by a penny, along with the (the United States mail.” million annually, Nevertheless, he no matter how you look at it,/world’s most travel-wise women. feels that by increasing first class “The greatest bargain on earth is Says she: : : u ' “Don’t scoff at cur U. S. high languages don’t seem so important, ' Company, “European children almost have to learn two or three ges, {because they are so close to other ifom the countries of Europe that work for the British Broadcasting countries. Here we ure so far away t AoE Toke at the He entered the hotel, strode past! the desk and through the doors which led into the diningroom. He stopped inside, his search- ing the long table. Jeff was near the far end and on his left side. Ed Keever and Al Sanders were at this end, but it is doubtful if Buddy even saw them. His burn- tneush draven by the intensity of thoi wn by the intensity o! that gaze Jeff raised his eyes from his plate and saw him. Buddy ste forward saying shrilly, “I told you to keep clear of me, !” Now, you lousy son of a pup, r'll——” His hand) stabbed for the gun at his hip. NoB00¥ had time to act, and it! +N seemed as though Jeff would surely get oe the sant instinctively he thrus and a sli floor helped him The chair back and came to his feet, his hand a finding his and fi it from the pee with — binec and wrist movement which Becomes instinctive to the gunman. He fired over the head of the man at his right, but even as he fired he pulled the gun slightly out of line. To kill that boy, weav- ing on his feet with enness, would be plain murder. Buddv's gun was iat el ing him inten’ leather when Jeff's bullet struc! net che ine es and the impact swung = letely around. He staggered, got) pret: Ris feet tangled and went down. Sek Before he could get up agai Keever and Marshal were on him, Buddy's a fingers had let go his gun and it lay on the floor, He struggled, cursi interf and Ed Keever fern Roa thank God’ that didn’t kill you.” “He can't kill me! I'm as a man as he is! Let me go!” z HE i ae z # z é 3 g | s rH Hi i tS Re LEE Sepeee Slips Slip Mind parking‘over: the last three years, Clyde Carr. told Tr: Judge George T. Murphy: sipped tay tain The thse cost evidence that America is’ pushing|him $500; >~ aeons yin arte for the — "The thre seat Political Announcements The three senators, who also ex- CITY ELECTION itruction TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3%, 1853 amined American cons' For Mayor MARLOW England, France, Germany, Tur- key, Portugal, French Morocco and| Italy, appeared generally pleased with the preparations they saw. In their report made public last week they said, without mention- ‘ing Russia by name, that if an aggressor launchs an atomic at- tack it won't get away with it without having to suffer some of the same. They said: “One simply cannot see, as members of this subcommittee have seen, the bases that are com- fntuance of Saseapened siean| | «Payee tae Soe formance t-pro} a that are in production . . . without ‘ riers : having increased confidence in the For Mayor ability of the free world to defend itself. GROUP 1 “We were told that one man in) CHARLES R. ROBERTS a single jet-bomber-tighter of the “An Experienced A type of which we have several at} © Municipal Administrator” forward bases can carry more de- structive power than all the bomb-| For City Commissioner ers that were in England in GROUP 2 DR. DELIO COBO World War Il. ee For City Commissioner GROUP 1 “MICKEY” PARROTT “This is not to say that a po- GROUP 3 tential enemy might not have planes and pilots of equal capacity but it certainly says that no aggressor nation can start some-|/ LOUIS CARBONELL thing and go unpunished, pment OE, “Moreover, unless he had equal) For City Commissioner beara GROUP 3 The three senators said “it is time to quit wringing our hands| For City Commissioner and talking in tones of despair.” GROUP 4 The senators made it clear JOHN A. ANTI For City Commissioner ithe is made to realize she —- lcan't win, because of the strength} LOUIS M. J. EISNER against her, she may listen to |reason, For City Commissioner GROUP 4 CHARLES PARRA . Courage and Common Sense | |resources and equal of striking forces, he cannot win they don’t believe in “ competition” but said that when |Russia, again without mentioning and we are likely to think Eng- lish is sufficient.” If the American traveling abroad| is able to talk with the people ol For City Commissioner ate, Commies a Saree oem GROUP 4 NDIE guage, says, a mucl guage, she says, he gains a much) PAUL ROSS (BLONDIE) During World War II Mrs. Biddle was active in Red Cross work in Britain while her husband, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., was Ameri- can ambassador to European gov- ‘ernments-in-exile in London. She) ‘wrote a book called “The Women| England” and later did s radio ‘GROUP 5 a on tT Drmcicistiag’ CHARLES G. MENDOZA “Kill Two Birds With One Vote* 4