The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 21, 1953, Page 4

Poge4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, October 21, 1953 The Key West Citizen See eee as coos bee, core di Goa ae ee Onty Deity Newspaper in Key West and Menree County LP. ARTMAN NORMAN 0. ARTMAN Business Manager! Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 25661 ond 25662 Press is Associated all news dispatches credited ‘and also the local’ na; ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION ‘The Citizen forum and invites discussion’ ss ON FLORI FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN LET’S SUBSCRIBE TO COMMUNITY CONCERTS Will there be a series of Community Concerts for Key West this season? The answer, and it ought to be overwhelmingly favorable, must be given soon while the annual Community Concert membership lists are open. The local membership campaign, under the direction of Mrs. Delio Cobo, membership chairman of the organi-! gation, will open with a Kickoff dinner Oct. 26. Those who value music for the schools, in their own lives and for its importance in a well-rounded communi- ty life, should join in the undertaking for another sea- son. Key West has had many rich musical experiences in the past because of the local Community Concert series. The Island has a pretty amazing record for its spon- sorship of. music in the schools, but music, like other phases of life that may be termed cultural, cannot reach fulfillment if it is cut off from the living experience of the community. Of course, there is inestimable value in good music that comes on records and over the radio, but this should only help, not supplant, the basic experi- ence just now referred to. The record of the Community Concerts here has been outstanding; Island audiences have heard artists of real stature, many of whom have risen considerably in critical esteem and are much better known than when they appeared here. It is particularly pleasant to be- come acquainted face to face with rising artists of ‘the musical world. What has been done so successfully in other years can be done again—if everyone who values music will come forward and subscribe. Being careful is less painful than being injured—and less expensive, too. A cat may have nine lives but, when on the highway, remember you are not a cat, The trouble with some college graduates is that) their education has been spread too thin. Freedom is a gift from the past, but it is not at all certain that it will be a legacy of the future. Gossip spreads much faster than the truth; that’s| why there isso much talk of scandal and so little about} really important matters. Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1. Sandwich filling 4 Coarse fabric 9. 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A PATRON October 16, 1953 STREET-COMPLAINT Editor, The Citizen I drive a truck and have to go up and down Petronia Street two, three, sometimes, four times a day. I live at Stock Island. I hope some day to build a home for my wife and! kids in Key West but I sure don’t like your roads. They are full of holes, especially thet Petronia St. The taxpay-| ers waste money pounding a little cinders here and there in the holes. My big truck rattles them out, I ask the Police of Key West two times to have old| clunkers removed from streets, 2 old clunkers with no license plates. I thought a law said no clunkers were al- lowed to block up traffic. Who do I see next? The Police ignore my complaint. J. MeGEE Stock Island Today's Business | Mirror By Sam Dawson NEW YORK #—Profit gains re- quarter profits of $264,325,074, com- Experts Say Russians Fear New Gadgets NEW YORK # — Technological CLE ae I 'N the shadows where the trail from the 88 curved towards the had circled to this point to wait Ben’s return. The question as to who was to have Diana ton must be settled. Den- At last he heard the thud of He , and nfict his sition. ie give belt into e'Ben the gun, caught the glin' as the wea; took a deep breath the 4 Walt fired and as he did so the horse reared and the bullet struck | said it in the throat. It gave a convul- collapsed. sive leap and Ben landed on his feet and his Colt roared as he hit the ground. He had only the orange lance of flame from Walt’s gun to aim at, but the bullet sped true. Walt “] felt an impact on his chest as} 1 orai. though somebody had smitten him | ; with a sledge and he was driven by the force of progress has made life in the Unit- . ed States much easier, but the average Russian is still afraid of new time-saving gadgets. This comparison was presented indirectly recently in seven sep- arate speeches at the 22nd annual forum of the New York Herald Tribune. Six experts on living conditions this st acnel gesbtey that Ameri- can ‘designers, architects, artists and fincas have made great progress in giving Americans clean homes, healthful working condi- tions, innumerable timesaving de- vices and gadgets, The seventh speaker, Associated Press Correspondent Eddy Gil-| more, who had been chief of the AP Moscow bureau for 12 years, described life in Russia. Gilmore said the Soviets blatant- ly copy American industrial de- signs but do not fare too well. He said the Russians do not like mod- ern gadgets and are mystified by them. Gadgets “seem to be too much trouble,” Gilmore said. While his Russian refrigerator was “fairly economical,” Gilmore said, “it just wouldn’t make ice’ in the summertime.” He also re- called that servants refused to use his steam iron, his electric wash- ing machine and his vacuum clean- er. Americans show no hesitation in using such devices, the other six speakers indicated. However, the six wondered what has been done to provide Ameri- cans with useful and beneficial means of spending their leisure time. One speaker estimated such time as 1,000 hours more per year than in the age of his grand- father. The six speakers were Henry Dreyfuss, industrial designer; Paul R. Williams, architect and consul- tant from Los Angeles; George Nakashima, woodworker of New Hope, Pa.; Arthur A. Houghton Jr., president of Steuben Glass Inc.; Charles Edwin Odegaard, dean of the College of Literature, of Michigan, and Francis Henry Science and the Arts, University | { NEW YORK w—When the ordi- jnary man commits a conversation- lal error in his living room, he doesn’t. worry much about it. No- body may even notice it except his '|kindly old mother-in-law, and if she’ is eating free who is she to holler? But when a television performer jmakes a mistake he feels sure it |will be seen in 10 million living |rooms, and at least nine million gleeful people will write in letters: |pointing it out. That is why, when you shake hands with some TV stars, you dis- Jeover they have very short fingers. | Their fingers didn’t grow that way. They've just been gnawed down. In one of the most nerve-Kill- ling industries of our times it's a ‘big problem to keep from getting) too tense. John Cameron Swayze, |whose newscasts are estimated by! NEC to reach millions, has a sim- ple gimmick to reduce nervous- ness. man,” he said. “And before ea |Program I put an ‘RX’—the drug- jgists’ prescription sign — at the istart of every paragraph of my script. And this sign is a constant, inder to relax.” areei John, a methodical craftsman, has found that on a teamed and well-timed talents of “My father was a drug sales-| fast-paced program employing the! by business firms cheer|pared with $132,964.J26 a year ago. Not included are any of the na- tion’s banks. But these institutions, by and large, have been reporting much higher profits this year, re- flecting both the greater volume of loans and the bigher interest rates. Many large retail stores are! showing better earrings this year, too. The first of the chemical com- panies to report show, earnings up./ Early reporters amung the steels show even more striking gains, due; ito almost capacity operations this year compared with restricted op- industry and Wall Street to- first 30 corporations to re- net income for the third quar- show two out of three doing than a year ego. Combined, earnings after taxes register ‘a 23.5 per cent increase over the summer months of 1952. The first flow of earnings state-| ments—only a handful out of the Taken along witk reassuringjerations in the 1952 summer found that John had gone off with) jstatements by a number of com-/ pany heads as ‘o earnings pros- pects for the rest of this year and) allay some of the gloom that over-| took many businessmen during the summer, Thirty reports are too few, of course, to do more than give a hint of which way the profit winds are blowing. Early reports aren’t uniformly bright. Nine of the 30 firms show earnings trailing iast year, and two operated in the red during! July, August and September. The first 30 includ> big corpora-jye: tions and small and are scattered widely through the various indus- Prospect chances for next, the reports may | year. months due to a strike. Many steelmen ste the profit bright for the rest of this Production is running a little under capacity, but steelmen say that they can make more money that way. Capacity production usu-; ally means paying overtime and} letting furnaces run cown for lack) a : J.D. Wright, |to Danvers police for parking her) Taylor, director of the Metropoli-/as many as 100 people, the boners| tan Museum of Art in New York. /that occasionally.are bound to hap- —— pen win more friends than critics. Unplanned Parking Such as the time he introduced a) 'Florida bathing beauty feature —! DANVERS, Mass. W—Mrs. John ang a Chicago snowstorm flashed Surrette of Middleton apologized on the screen A “1 don’t know of anything’ the car overnight. ‘audience enjoyed more than this' She said her son John was in- one,” John recalled, smiling. “They, ducted into the Army Monday:get a kick out of seeing that, for and the family drove here to seejall the electronic marvels of tele- him off. |vision, there is still a. human ele- After lengthy goodbys, the fam-)ment in it—and sometimes the hu- ily trooped back to the car. They/man element slips up.” Swayze, now in his mid-forties, the keys. {was perhaps the original pioneer in _—_________—___—__——_|news telecasts. ...... s says even if saies fall off next) “{ made them for several months year, his company should have pack in 193> in Kansas City,” he higher earnings because of death|said, “but so far as 1 know of the excess profits tax. only people who ever saw Dr. Leland I. Doan, president of|were television dealers. Dow Chemical, says some indus-|wasn’t buying sets then.” tries may have more capacity; He is one of i right now than they need, but helin the field ‘thinks that’s a temporary matterjreal businessmen are overplaying the/sult of a slump bogey. He says the averagejand because American family isn’t thinking|what others president Thompson Products Inc., maker of ‘tries. Combined taey report third Py auto equipment and aircraft parts, » about a slump, is still buying ar) “When I was ‘usual and will continue to do so.,everybody was ie | 8 isons,” he said. “But my father) figured that in business it was more important to be able to talk than to play a piano, so he made, me take elocution lessions.” 4 Later John got another lucky break. He came to Broadway to become an actor — and couldn’t land a job. But he did meet a stage-struck girl from Arkansas— Beaulah Mae Estes. And after he returned to Kansas City and fow work as a reporter, he and the |girl from Little Rock set up house- keeping on $30 a week. “The paper decide to put on some radio news broadcasts,” said Swayze. ‘‘Nobody else on the staff) wanted the job, so I took it—at $15 a week.” Today he makes more than 100 jtimes that, His annual income is lin six figures—that golden pasture’ between $100,000 and one million. Swayze aired his wares later in Hollywood, then came to New York again. In 1948 when the networks |televised the national political con- ventions some of the top radio an- jnouncers were afraid to risk their reputations in the new medium. John was very happy to try the gamble, and made himself a video) ‘star almost overnight. “That was my luckiest break,” he said. Most successful men have their favorite mottoes. John has two: (1) “Luck is when opportunity and preparation meet.” (2) Bernard Baruch’s advice to in the i £ F H i if E ft i 2 4 5 i i a i gf g z § Fr ia g * § 4 Fi ff r} ES | i if Hie - ig H : i! E E i ; eel [ i ; F i Ey 8 i : FE He iH rhe PERE al if i He i Hy fs | : 2,805 iY H g 3 zs “f i f 2 i é Fed HE B : “MICKEY” PARROTT (‘Fighting For The People”) GROUP 1 beer) So sep Municipal Administrator” GROUP 2 DR. DELIO COBO For City Commissioner GROUP 2 ° LOUIS M. J. EISNER. For City Commissioner GROUP 4