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

478 KY WEST eFTIFEN _Wadsatey, Osomter 9, The Key West Citizen ee oer Deity Mewmaper In Key Weel and Menren Cownry TELEPHONES 244661 und 2-662 « nites paper, otal news pate Association and Associate cd : (hp cancer), the per weak, year, 330, by wail, hee Baer ras eer ae IKE’S U. N. PROPOSAL President Dwight D. Bisenhower has taken a for- ard step in his attempt to put the United States on the : ; in the worldwide propaganda battle with the inion, That battle, of course, hinges on which country cop. i most of the rest of the world it actually seeks peace while the other seeks to expand its power and ter- ritory. While U. S. citizens think the anawer to that question is so clear that further argument seems useless, it le & fact that in many countries the truth has never been widely and consistently presented to the masses. This, combined with the active effort of the Com- munists to distort U. 8. motives, has resulted in the pres- ent world situation, in which ignorant peoples suspect United States of aggressive intentions, There are man} oa have been neutralised by the Russian To convinee the world of the sincerity of our desire ‘oF peace, onte again, President Eisenhower stood be- fore the United Nations recently and proposed an atomic nergy pool for all mankind. Tn other words, the President of the country which developed atomic energy and which possesses the great. stockpile of it today, proposed that this great scien- if — be put at the disposal of every nation the worl Attitude Of Russian Youth Reflects Training Editor's Note—Willlam L. 8: in a three-month stay in ‘Union, talked to scores of without. & #2 aj this ques: restauarant attempting to havi ‘ good time glum affa’ inet,” tough ean be seen—loud and cigarette smoking boys who ready have begun to serateh for & living. Children of the better class Communists are shielded such 5 ‘The begins in the nurs- ery, most Soviet mothers y-|work children of 3 or 4 ate sent te “Dyetskayas"—nurseries=to be! eared for and trained during the working day by Russian. nurses handicraft, palating fid| and teachers. In any Soviet streets, 3 a » some of it rej ably |¢hildren ean be seen in groups of ad, and their eal zoologi I was shown and|/50 oF more going through their eal collections. A class of/paces with teachers watching. children in costume was learning|They are molded into the Russian Uzbek folk dances. A group ofjand Communist mold. . three young aceordionists used| They will grow up as Uzbek Italian and German instfuments|Russians, Tadjik Russians, Kazakh under an instruétor’s eye. Russians, Asérfbaijau Russians, The children Since all their affair will be in the Russian language, a8 the yeats . sf i ih Tia TH Lif ea z Evetk i lis i it dis He its i fi beet He Be aH i < é e gt s® § j iH te 8 i & z Bi e % F ied i ty : SBE aiae sli I u i i A if an: ae 57 iy eee instance where a city, its officials, and police, have been| so maligned and slandered and on charges, from to say the least, unreliable sources; accusations that could ney- et be upheld in a court of law. (To be sontiatoes ewspapers May Have Wrong Dope On - Position left side. A today editors have in believing the ‘ most of Those of us who love Key West, whether residents Herman or visitors, have every right to resent the way the inquiry |cnicago’s Ff. — has been conducted. Would it not have been time enough|seareh, told a to bring the matter out into the open if and when ¢harg- he first about how bon a, eaten read the been | - page. Then he chéched hearings in secret, had found it possible to bring indict aa some seteal seaddrs editors 5°) had been proven? If and when a grand juty,conducting|thougnt their Seldom in history has @more magantmous offer been|"t Te eee en ae use for their de by a leading country to the other free and peaceful tions of the world. The Russians are immediately own on the defensive, and the world buages with talk the unprecedented presidential proposal. We do not think there is much of a chance for the lent’s plan to be put into effect, although in prin- ple it is certainly sound, Whether it is adopted by the “What, for example? You aré married, Your husband Must have courted you. What did you talk might expect to find in that age bracket-in any large group. Some: how they seemed spiritless. he talent was there, beyond que: and the tfaining was there, but the @hildhood was not. Gravely they did everything they were told to io without hesitation Of questions, ‘The Brasilian delegation, ushered Shielded from information trom ‘the outside world which does fot! fit into the Communist pattern, the stion, children Become obedient servants of a Comminist society. Many e@Seape the rigid pattern, however. As the Soviet middle elass continues to grow, more and more others are attempting to give ments? to the people of Key West. he Experience has proven again and again that prosti- tution cannot be controlled by force or “Verboten” signs. for how That policy has only driven the matter into other chan-|'t nels, just as it did here when certain places were closed tricky deviee ealled @ “ a y ” * tilt |electrie eye camera” The very name “Decency Committee” is an fnsult — ‘st fore United Nations or not, however, ft is @ major step for-|¢outse. ard in the U, &, effort to convinge all the world that the same things that couples els¢-ifrom the Communist World Feder-| A tremendous amount atten. country has no aggressive designs on anyone andiwhere talk about. Neverthelesd,lation of trade Usiows Gongress in|tion is given to children ‘by the wishes only to live in peace. To this end we are willing’ their attitude toward life shows thé|Vienna, the Brazilians were ex-|Communist party and Soviet gov: > contribute much of our knowledge in the field offeffects of s@iled off, effectiv€|pressively enthuslastie about So-lernment. The education network tomic energy. No nation in the modern world h |Taining. The Communist party’s|viet youth. They gave the impres-|is constantly beeause no Orlc’ 188 Yet system of edueation from nursety|sion that they took these ehildrenthighly Industrialized ation ens pffered to do mote for the cause of understanding and onward éaptutes the choice coréias typical of all Communist-teared|hope to sutvive in today's world dvancement, and peace. ot a 4 youth, although Fay outside in the without a broad base of education, The Soviet Communist party putd/ streets, as in streets of any| But Communist education eomes thé aeeent on youth though ma: i Soviet capital, mi: f — hye ~ ood rigid fore : sah cae intetested principally in talented “ui'ta| PEOPLE'S FORUM _ wo, Bs Se thes eps i a he at @ore from which party tom considered libelous or unwaftanted. The writers should be and the letters to in by a Portuguese-speaking ,/ap 80 they may rear their working many dflwas obviously Impressed, Fresh|enildren themecives, and other places declared out of bounds . . . Only to} bring increased threat to the safety of every decent wo- Man. One is prone to ask of those here who would at- tempt to stamp out prostitution by force, if they realize they are dealing with the second strongest instinet in the human race—the first being self preservation? If|page.” is all very well to rise in our idealogy to Olympian heights, but the stark realism of now is the problem, Wrong Road which, as every social worker knows, can never be over+ come by directives or restrictions, but only from within] PERU, Ind. the hearts and minds of those involved. ee Not only have the police and city officials been|and stigmatized by unsubstantiated charges but apparently single women visitors here, have been victimized. I know|it had of two instances during the past week where a widow|The was refused an apartment because she was alone; be- rer catise she did not work. The landlord’s insinuations were| pe only too apparent. That surely is bringing things to ajiff 4. pretty pass and only the whole sordid'story of prosti- tution here fe responsible for that. I first came to Key West in 1939. We drank rain|®% n water then ye ce 5 elel didn’t oy a om high-|" way but with ¢ elp of the ferry we made the trip from ° the main land well enough, But Key West was a free Estimated Toll and happy place then. After many wanderings to Call- CHICAGO “The scientific er, showed that in fact a number ¢f place their pietires . stories on thé erence for the ‘The Constitution is not always what the judges, or ra, say it is, but is sometimes what the people think WiAISMEAS IT LAlal abe MANNE @ LAL MLA! wai until they resem IRKED BY SHENANIGANS Lakh de ene, TE matter, The Citisedt upon developitient of talent, party) Sir: = eT ore sal The writer is an ex-Floridian, who, until a few Soviet republies, 2 Visited some of] We@KS 486, Was proud of his state—-but not now. I won- these Pioneét Palaces. The one in| der just how many other Floridians are as ashamed, dis- Tashkent, capital of the Uzbek) gusted, pumsled, and irate as I, over those unspeakable = funty tyeleal I weal! tirings and other shenanigans going on in Tallahassee, iti. 42a we PPM ii eer oP) oe Lae a Ww wT ee 400 ARERY AB ind after argument With the fuard at the gate tad showing rp Ht % 3 3 sit! Be H ae it f i bbsis i * s Le bE é g te cH i [ which surely affect Key Westians as well as others? Is there’ complete lethargy and indifference in the state press, or rather timid fear, that refuses to speak out against those flagratit acts, with the exception of a few sheets along with the Tampa Bay area? : You press boys used to give Fuller Warren double h-1, but at least FW was elected, whether rightly or not, and his shenanigans don’t compare with the Starke- mad brand now on display. A. B. GARY Charleston, & C. HARMFUL PUBLICITY DEPLORED Editor, The Citizen: It is to be regretted that efforts to contro! prostitu- tion in Key West should have attained such unfavorable publicity in the press that prospective visitors hesitate and wonder if this is a nice place to come to spend the winter. i ‘This age old problem of human relations is not es- pecially confined te Key West. Cities everywhere face the’same situation; yet in fifteen years as a corréspond- ent of the New York Press I have never come across al fornia, Arizona, and Mexico, I returned here as the/fi¢ ideal place intending to make my home here, only to|™ find much of the charm ang restful living has gone. The Navy has no doubt done much for Key West but Key West has done far more for the Navy. It has ‘ given the Navy much of its best residential ares for ugly personnel housing; it has given the Navy Trumbo and lovely Boca Chica where the artist’s cottages glowed like jewels in the sun. To the Navy too went much of the fine beaches and shore and much of the old charm that can never be regained. It might be well to remind the Navy that Key West is a free American City. Surely there are enough fine and capable men and women here who ean run the city without dictation from the Navy as to how to operate it. In 1939 Captain Walter Jacobs was the Commandant’ here and my personal friend. He too was faced with the age old problem of prostitution. I am sure the many who remember him also know he wotild never have presumed|‘be to take the attitude and action of the present command- ant. ‘ F. HELEN MacLEAN 1405 Grinnell Street EGIBLE se