The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 10, 1953, Page 4

Poge 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, December 10, 1953 The Key West Citizen Sees Soy, ‘Seems Benaiee, eaeke Building, corner Onty Deity Newspaper in Key West and & P. ARTMAN MORMAN D. ARTMAN Subseription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $13.20; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION anonymous communications. Ess ON FLORI ASs IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN SAVING THE RURAL CHURCH Recent statistics show the steady decline in number| of rural churches operating in the United States has been! ended. Up until 1950, hundreds of rura) churches closed each year. Prior to World War II, rural churches in this country were closing at the rate of almost a thousand a year, al-| though World War II seemed to slow down the trend. In 1950, the tide seemed to turn, and Dr. Thomas Alfred Tripp, head of the Town and County Department of the! Congregational Christian Church, recently said the rural church is actually gaining strength in the country today, | The reasons for the steady closings of rural churches in the Thirties are fairly obvious. Mechanized farming} reduced the number of people in rural communities, the| depression had its effect and the trend of the population, from rural areas to metropolitan areas also exerted its influence. The advent of good roads and cheap automo- biles made it possible for many rural citizens to attend churches in towns or cities, and the dust bow] disaster in} the Midwest further reduced the number of churches, in the Thirties. The reason why the number of rural churches has| stopped shrinking are not as clear. One advanced by) some experts is the intensive effort put forth by many | denominations today to revitalize the nation’s country churches. Whatever the reason, it is good to know that the trend which started in the 1920’s has been checked. There is no such thing a8 something for nothing in life, It is about time to recall those resolutions you broke last January. We predict a white Christmas, wherever it snows on Christmas Eve. Those who enjoy giving, Christmas season, get the most out of the The best comedians have the best-looking chorus girls in their shows, we notice. From now through mid-January the new crop of automobiles will make its appearance. The rush for presents is now on, and many a house- wife is looking forward to December 26th. DSIATTT IRIE MMSTHIATS| TIA] AINIOTDIATL REL IEINIOIRIE| LIU MEOIRIATTIOIR VM O1R| 1 MIP RE | TIAIPIE MM SIPIA NTATT IL BE IWE MIE AIL TIT} “TELIBIOWISMEDIEIFIAICIE| RIOIE| FtitT IC LTAICIE MMR] | JPME |t AISTHIBFTAICIES ME SiO[W) UIT CIAIDIEINICIE MERE SIEIDIAITIERBOIAIRINIE IR} EID TTIETOMESINIEIEIRIS| Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN A Noisy gg 5. Outat 57.Grow 38. °! Entitled Two Senators Stand Pat On Debt Limit By JOE HALL WASHINGTON (P—A Democrat- ie and Republican senator who helped shelve President Eisen- hower’s plan for a hike in the national debt limit last August said today they are standing firm. Senators Malone (R-Nev) and Edwin C. Johnson (D-Colo) said in separate interviews they are still against any increase, Both are on the Finance Com-| mittee, which voted 11-4 to table the debt limit boost despite strong pleas from Secretary of the Treas- ury Humphrey and Budget Dir- ector Joseph M. Dodge. There have been strong hints) from the Treasury that a renewed! request for an increase from 275) to 290 billion dollars will be made! ito the Senate soon after Congress comes back Jan. 6, The House okayed such a hike last summer and, if the amount were not changed, would not have to act TWO OF A KIND ARTIN dined in gloomy soli- M ing failed to reach Dexter by tele- tude at a lunch counter, hav-| © and your severance pay would be written off as a bonu e@ yeur d unate affair when s cleaned Phone at the Margrave. When he} ¥ reached the hotel shortly before 9 o'clock Dexter had not yet re- turned, but he had left a note at the desk. It said: I told you I'd you loose. Call Doran at the office and leave word where I can meet the two of you later. —D. Martin phoned Doran from the suite. Doran asked, “Did you hear from the boss?” “Ennis? No.” “He's been pestering me for hours wanting to set hold of you. Where are you now?” “In Dexter’s diggings.” “Stay there. He'll call and try to make up. Don't let me influence you, but if you fail to rejoin the staff life will be less complicated for me. Where can we meet after ten?” “Rossetti’s in Carmine Street. Know it?” “We've got it in our story as/ part of your alibi. I'll find my| way there.” Martin hung up and lit a ciga- rette. He stood at a window of the living room and looked mo- rosely down into the puls i i i Business Mirror By Sam Dawson NEW YORK (#—Christmas cheer bonus are fairly bright in tho —expressed in dollars and cents— industries which have that plea is beginning to flow. ‘ant habit, although the National American business firms are re-|Foremen’s Institute of New London, Ported planning to hand out just Conn., reports today that the total’ about as much cash this year as of cash handed out may be no/ last in the form of Christmas larger than last year, despite the! |bonuses to employes, both of the business boom of 1953. This is the white-collared and the blue-collar first year since 1950 that salaries variety, shave been free of government con.) Year-end dividends to stockhold- Tels. - ers also ace running ahead of pay. Polling 1,296 companies in all, ments last year. Dividend checks Parts of the nation on their Christ. | for the first 10 months of the year Mas Plans, the institute finds that) averaged 4 per cent larger than in 56 Per cent plan to give bonuses. 1952. With the current burst of,b@8t year 58 per cent did. specials for Christmas, dividend , Bonus checks this Christmas will payments this year are expected be fatter for employes of 30 per i | come up, as | work immediately. midst of light that overflow Times Square. The phone rang and he made a mental bet on En- nis before he took it up and heard Ennis’ voice, precise and neatly rounded like the man himself. “Hello, Martin. This is George Ennis. Are you free this evening?” “I have a date in an hour.” generosity of the Morn- nded to Doran | is @ standing feat ing Record, Martin. jsave it a a surprise jrecommended a subs! u tion at the time of j ference of opinion. But you may as well know that I have decided im your favor, which shows that minor disagreements have not af- fected my sense of -*lues.” Three months had gone by since Doran recommended that raise, M. and it had taken hi hreatened serious inconvenience to Ennis to bring about action. g defore Ennis. I m your daugh- ter this evening “Barbara? We met at dinner, as sual Why do you ask?” “Does she know you're calling me?” “You surprise me, Martin. Why should she?” “If you talked to her, I think it likely that my name was men- tioned.” “She told me of meeting you this afternoon at — ah — down- town. She said you were very thoughtful in trying to spare her any — ah — embarrassment. Nat- urally I'm grateful, but that has nothing to do with my proposal except to add to my pleasure in making it.” “Then you aren't calling me at “That's too bad. -’d hoped we could get together for a little talk. It has occurred to me that perhaps we were both a bit hasty last time we met.” Martin winked at his reflection | in the mirror above the dresser. He said, “A lot of things have rou must know. So far they've taken up all my time.” “You wouldn’t have to start Deck on the payroll as on the payroll as ite it was—ah—removed would of the aa DEAR CHILDREN: You know Qnd I know and the editor of this newspaper knows that Santa Claus is real-for-sure just like Friday (that's when Christmas happens this year) is Friday. You can't see Friday, you can’t feel Friday —but we know Friday happens. However, lately I've heard that some of the People-Who-Are-Past- School-Age didu't believe in Santa Claus. So I decided to investigate --for your sake and mine. What jto reach a cheery 934 billion dollar total. Regular wage and salary pay- again, jments for the nation as a whole ,, this fall were running, at an an- Raby ierge ene gne of nual rate, 8 per cent above a year in 1954. The Treasury has argued | 280—but the trend is slanting down it will be difficult and perhaps {fom the peak. impossible to finance operations) The boss isn’t doing too bad, of the government next year with-jeither, although the American out raising the debt ceiling. In-|Management Assn. stresses today dications are the administration |that the average of the total com- still faces an uphill fight in the|pensation of high ranking business Senate Fnance Committee. executives has been rising only | Sen. Byrd (D-Va), a leader in| slightly of late. pond hag Perper toggles Surveying some 15,000 executives . + im 1,868 companies, the AMA re- determined as ever to block it. | ports that ‘bonus payments are Alsip Mareen felt the | equal to 43 per cent of salaries ; paid, and retirement compensation eae ae oe bcc contributions equal 13 per cent of to destroy the taxpayers of Amer. | Salaries. At this level of industry ica,” (bonuses are usually tied to profits Johnson said he remains “un-|and sales, and have only a nodding alterably opposed” to the boost.| acquaintance with the Christmas cent of the firms paying them. |Payments no larger than last year jare in sight for employes of 53 ‘per cent of the firms. And man- agements of 17 per cent are still making up their minds how much to pass around. Widespread caution ;about 1954 prospects may color) their decisions. Wage earners usually get a bonus if the salaried workers do, the institute says, Only one firm in 13 favors the white-collared and pass- es over the hourly paid. But the salaried worker usually |gets more—with the average for the white collared coming in the $50 to $100 range, while the blue- collared average $25 to $50. And 3 per cent of the firms queried said they give bonuses to foremen and similar supervisory employes even though they pass over the hourly and other salaried workers, Since many of the big corpora- tions are expecting earnings to be |He said he regards the ceiling as the last opportunity for Congress Ito keep some control of efderal spending, Clear Trail DENVER — Butter-fingered thieves left an expensive trail for |police in a $4,000 burglary. Clothing, guns and jewelry, in- cluding 120 watches, were reported stolen, Harold Kal, operator of a war surplus store, Tuesday point- ed out to police a three-block trail jof footprints in Denver's new snow, along which was distributed a good share of the loot. At the end of the trail was a stalled car, registered to Richard Duran, 21. Police said more loot was in the car. Duran and his three brothers, Daniel, 19, Ambrose, 25, and Anthony, 33, were arrested and held for investi- gation. Young Amputee Walks BOSTON (®—Doctors and nurses at Carney Hospital cheered Tues- day when 19-month-old Constance di Stasi walked a few steps for the first time in her life. The child has an artificial left leg, an artificial right foot and an artificial right hand. Her limbs were amputated 11 months ago to save her life after it |was discovered she suffered from j@ rare condition which affected {blood circulation and caused gan- | grene. fitted with artificial limbs. spirit. | Workers’ chances of a Christmas up this year over last, it could be a very merry Christmas indeed. Hal Boyle | | Bible is still the world’s best seller, Says NEW YORK (—Politics always'so many jokes that even Milton \has produced some of the nation’s Berle can’t remember them ail, greatest unconscious comedians. feels that staff government come-| But Henny Youngman, “The dians would be particularly useful | Comic’s Comic” has a new idea./Tight now in the United Nations On the theory that a good pro can and to settle major labor disputes, | always beat an amateur, he thinks, “Look how many strikes you, it’s time to bring a few conscious might prevent,” he said, “if the! career comedians into government, guys barking at each other across) | “The people can’t help but bene-a table would stop and share a) fit,” he said. ‘And they’ll at least|belly laugh.” get something new to laugh | Henny, who says he hasn't both-| “What I have in mind is that ered to copyright his idea, offered) these comedians will be something |to guinea pig the experiment him-! like the King’s jester in the old self and become the first U.S. days. When the regular govern- federal government comedian, ment jokers—or the appointed dip- “provided the pay is right, and lomats—get their skuils all heated naturally I get a free hand in pick- up in debate, you call a 15-minute ing my staff—and top billing, of break and bring in a professional course. j comic to cool both sides off. “I even got a few hundred jokes} “Any comic who can't make a ready. No, I won’t give you any crowd laugh in 15 minutes is in the samples. I don’t want to tip my! wrong business—or maybe needs mitt.” a couple of new writers. Anyway, Like most professional comedi- Doctors said she is one of the few the diplomats get a few laughs ans today, Youngman, Brooklvn’s That’s why prac eases triple amputees of her age and while they are resting their brains gift to the world of japery, feels Mesa Leia rom Pa pata Faces him up, perhaps the youngest child to be during this time out, and maybe the nation has let a eet Oat psf See. age s long jwhen they start arguing again cover its funnybone | most folk realize. | comes one of the strongest family | I found out is revealed in my story | below.—THE AUTHOR. CHAPTER ONE 'O matter how fa- miliar @ writer is with a given subject, it is al- ways avery good idea to precede the ac- tual writing with a consider- able amount of research on both the main topic and others closely associated with it. Otherwise you may omit some facts that are very important to the readers. and more especially to tiny readers. The list of things as- sociated with Santa Claus is al- most endless. From a literary standpoint! Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol still heads the list of Christmas stories and teaches many good and worth while lessons. Clement Moore's world famous poem, The | Night Before Christmas, easily carries the poetic lead. From a factual standpoint the biblical Story of the Nativity, found in Matthew II, gives the most accurate account of the world's First Christmas. The Holy} and for more good reasons than WHILE I was writing the above two paragraphs they made me wonder what has become of the old and very helpful custom of reading aloud within the family group. En- joying good books together be- ties available. I would suggest that you make it a point to so read the three stories mentioned above during this holiday season. You will find yourself repaid a thousand-fold. In planning my man on the street poll, as part of my research, I had just typed the question, “What is your attitude toward Santa Claus and Christmas?” when my young niece, Suzic, walked in. To my question she re- plied, “Thanta Clauth ith the nithetht in the whole world. He fillth my thtocking and bringth me lotth of toyth and thingth. He comth down the chim- ney when I am fatht athieep and leavth toyth under the Chrithmath | keys, with all the trimmings, and | get in the house,” wire her suggestion?” “Absolutely not.” “TI didn’t mean to be i It happens that Miss E: peared downtown just in t. do me an im ant favor, which puts me under an obligation to her. I simply want to keep the record straight.” “I'm sure she'd prefer that you didn’t feel any obligation, Martin. She did what she thought was sive. | but your Don't be swayed for 2 moment by any such personal feeling.” hay OTHER words, thought Mar- n, he was being not too sub- tly reminded that there was 8 gulf between him and Barbara Ennis. “It’s settled, eh?” Ennis said. “We'll count on you?” “Tl think it over: “What is there to think about?” “There are other considera tions.” “Not another job? I'll meet any reasonable offer you may have had elsewhere.” “For a while today it looked as if I wouldn't be im a position to take any job.” “Nonsense, Everything will work out splendidly.” Someone rapped sharply oa the | door of the living room. Martin frowned. “I'll get word to you meee the first of the week,” he said. Ennis, too, was impatient. “Td prefer to settle it now, Martin.” “There's someone at the For all I know, it may be the 1 ain.” He raised his and called, “Come in.” The knob rattled but the door mained closed; Martin remem bered locking it. Ennis’ voice was cautious, “Is it He said, “Yes” and “Good-bye.” He cradled the phone and went to the door. He was not happy about Ennis’ call; it had seemed some- thing of a triumph for him at the beginning, but not now. There might be a gulf between the and the i he but it could not be wider or deep- er than the between Barbara |and her father. The one was at this moment es he want- ed and admired; every- thing he detested. He unlocked the door and opened it. Howard ‘stood there. Martin said rise, “Hello, Morrie. Y¢ ot and bothered, ‘Come in and best, and she'd have done the same if you had been anyone else. tory BENNETT SERVE! Officer O'Rourke tells of fine Ci tree. It would be nit day wath Chrithmat Sergeant O'Rourke, at the Grand Crossing police station, had quite 1 few years on Suzie and was a bit more informative. “Sure life would be a sorry thing without Santa Claus and Christmas. Let's| agree that too many of the boys along Seventy-Fifth street spoil it} for their families by taking on too much yocky-dock and spending all their pay before they get home; but Christmas sure is a gand oc- casion in me own little castle “This year, with Dennis back from Korea, all of our kids will be home and bring their youngsters. With Bridget, meself and our seven, and the nine grandchildren, ‘tis a fine Christmas we'll be hav- ing. We'll have two nice tom tur- | if every the biggest Christmas tree we can . “SANTA CLAUS? What would such a Christmas be without Santa Claus. Sure and it’s a fine example he sets for people—generosity and all that. 1 know how much a part he's played in shaping the lives of me own kids—and you can't find a stingy one in the lot of ‘em. Tim- othy O'Rourke has always been one to give credit, where credit is due, and Santa sure deserves a lot of jt." Officer O'Rourke concluded. The poll continued into Chicago's busy loop, where the hustle and bustle should make such question- ing.difficult; but, at the very men- tion of Santa Claus and Christmas, folk relaxed and became happy and co-operative. Most of the answers were much | like the one Tim gave me. It was Surprising to find how many young you just send him a gram saying, ‘Ignore first) |how to keep customers by insull relax.” (To be contineed) of Santa Claus R ‘hristmes he looks forwerd te. folk were going home—to an Iowa farm, the town of their birth.or just home to visit the folk at Christmas. Polling the sentiment of Christ- mas on @ hot August day, when the temperature was ‘way above 90 degrees, was one of the most enNghtening and reassuring tasks 1 ever attempted. Folk were cour- teous and seemed pleased to have their thoughts pointed toward Christmas on such a day. I gath- ered enough good material to do a whole book on Santa and Christ- mas. . SOMEWHAT fatigued, in spite of all the inspiration I had received, I dropped in to Tony's barber shop |for a hair cut. Tony's greeting to me was, “Whassa matter your head, coma down ona day like this?" We have been great pals for @ number of years, and Tony is one of the few people who knows - ing them. When I told Tony been doing all day, his fi into a broad smile. “Y: me feel cooler, justa : a iH you him—suggestion? 1 think 1 up Christmas decorations row. Maka everybody feela Tony is the fastest and best ber I have ever known. six minutes I was finished of the chair. As him for charging minute hair cut. usual, “Thatsa for he pushed the ‘@¥ 4 the cash register and said, one, she’s on Santa Claus.” NEXT—Yuletides of Yesteryeat THe tical jokes are you want to cobweb a guy, really'miles trying to find out who you are and why you paid for him” Well, fellow voters, it’s up to you. If you want a paid practical it is really funny, and not eruel.”| “Or, take another example. Sup * 4 Are practical jokes 2ver any- pose you go through a toil bridge joker in government, Just wire Well, you pay for tke guy ir the your Congressman. But will he “Ifcar behind you. He'll drive 50 want any professional competition? they'll make more sense because years. Christianity is the dominant tney’ve got less steam in their) “People are hungry for 2 chance {faith among about 780 million peo-'heads.” to laugh.” he said, “but now they thing but cruel? ple. Youngman, who has originated feel they have to have a-reason. “Why, sure,” said Heary