The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 30, 1953, Page 7

|aGn de la propia filosofia, base todas las religiones ¥ credos. digno hombres... respeto y de la consideracién| Por ¢80 to nos sus semejantes y practicar ja ima formula, en su-trato con’ demas. cerebro, ponen oscuridades en} mente y llevan al hombre a} cometer delitos infamantes, como i. la sta el erimen, De qué estar& hecho el nombre, que pocas veces puede despren- sumi-\derse de ese malvado eriterio? .. .| lo Qué razén existiré, para que al- mele ser el|gunas personas buenas y dignas, se ? 2 5 a F i amistedes que fueron sinceras 0 intimas, en odios exterminadores| ¥ en malévolos anhelos de ven- Da pena ver efutar frente a/ {muestra tienda de peregrino, esa} caravana de hombres que Hegan| 4@ ser infitiles en la sociedad en) que viven, Nevados de odios y de) rencores que destruyen sus mejores | ilusiones, que se quiebran, pata @ejat caer en el pantano de la existencia, a quienes debieron de sentirse felices y tener la suave ¥ confortante serenidad que ayuda) @n toda empresa y que sitve de! esti mulo para vencer las agre- -|siones del infortunio. El hombre, pese al grado dé \superacién que se vive en estos difamacién y/ dejen atrasifar pot esa maldita| corriente de rencor, transformando | fepetir que’ dl rencor es consejero que Be LE cis garras malvadas. Es a un ancla, que nos camino de la superacion, vé abriendo a pocd y sepultura @n que hemos todos nuestros afectos ras ilulones y tal vez, si las treras @speranzas de mejofa: to imteléc! y econdmico. “Pustas retogera quien slembre fustas”’, dijo elocuentemente, nues+ . |Banza y destruccifn? . . . |tro inmienso Apéstol Marti, No puede esperaf el hombre qué cruza |por él sendero dé la vida, haciendo el mal, réeoger al linal, perfumados rosales. Irtemisiblemente, ha de tropezar ¢on enormes eactts, pletéricos de mortiferas espinas, sus | zapatillas y se clavaréf én sus carnes, hasta hacerles grarse .. . desan- is forever rubbing one’s | Wednesday, December 30, 1953 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 7 FOR CRYIN’ OUT LOUD 'US. Business Boom Reaches ‘Unparalleled Peak In 1953 incomprehensible. And me, fool,” it cried. By L. A. BROPHY jto spend their money, and they bas an especially “a C. Gonzalez unleashed the ani-| Any way you add it up, the long have plenty of it 1 40 mai in him stepped forth in-/boom in the American economy, This year smashed records right tend with riddles... the Lancs reality. sie jhit its top im 1953. It was a year and left, But before it ended, small puzzies me vetes “Mn-m-m,” 1 said to myself of unparalleled business and in-/tears began to appear here and so I live im a “pi thle in the orld of realty! dustrial activity there in the flittering fabric of vexation becatse That attimai 1 unleashed must pee Take all the outpourings of opin. Prosperity that has blanketed the am completely surrounded by certainly gone on some prowl. Me. 1% 48 to 1954 and it comes to fhis: Nation in ever-enveloping folds ; |think I must be in the City Jail |Comparatively speaking, business Since the war ended City Jail is the world of reality! may walk, not run, in the coming Layoffs of workers in some in S dduae £ <ilenshed ashi ttt idustries popped up. It became a Keeping up the level of Lape eedl parties are things. Aute- ‘ sity ity will depend to a gfeat extent Mobile dealers beat the bushes and probed, I was a a. or ak ee on two things: there was a rash of sales promo- Passage Of! iest place in this world and noth. . }: The ability of business to sell tions of the “name - your - price” changes taking place|io could be ctummier than the it® Products in a return of realjtype. Most: salesmen generally ‘Within Saph g-sry me. aalppd confines within which 1 find my. Co™Petition for the first time since found they mo longer were just ; the war. order takers, They had to work founded, saddened, infuriated, con- Sif. So it must be the City Jail.’ 2. The inclination of consumers hard frustrated, inspired — de-| My logic proved correct because) 0° In brief, the long spiral of ex emotional state.|* cop showed up to my insistent of any.” Well,” insisted the touf-|cess demand over production was Nothing, however, eould stop for banging with @ slop bucket ists, “where are the bathing beach-jending. We were getting caught up brief moment the steady throb-; “What do you want?” snarled the o.>" «#44 1 replied, “Go ask the on things to buy. Demand was of Time. cop. Chamber of Commerce about that)levelling off with production. the faces of the| “I wish to go back to sleep so $150,000 beaut built by the County. ‘That is where we stand, enter me = strangers that I may wake up in a better s . It's the most expensive mud-hole|ing 1954. Business is going to have atter what their relation ¢2Vironment What do you sleep on port ever built!” }to work harder, turn out more at might be, Strangers all be- *0und here? “Well,” said the insistent tour-'tractive goods, learn the hatd sci- causé each one of us must travel! “On those hard boards—what ists, “How about something relax- ence of salesmanship over again alone. And 1 thought back to com-|€/se,” answered the cop. jing like gambling?” “Ha,” I re-| You will find a great deal of panion strafgert who had ofce| “YoU "mean to tell me that hu-|plied, “we do have a dog track'opinion that 1954 will 2¢ another traveled along the road of Life with M2" beings have to sleep on boards/ where most all the money goes to|good year. Maybe, some say, it me, all those deat departed ones,| re they are confined here?” I outside interests. But we have no'will show a 5 per cent drop as And I know that the ofily thread| #4sPed incredibly. local gambling because it isn’t le-jcompared to 1953. If $0, it still that tied them to me was embroid.|_ “You're not a human being while gal." : jwill be a mighty prosperous year, ered in the pattern of my memory.|¢ »4v¢ you here. Remember this Well,” insisted the insisting |based on any ordinary standards. So 1 looked on the faces of the|!* ‘¢ World of reality. And treat tourists, “What about nightlife in} Government economists general strangers atound me — and I was| Mat Slop bocket. gently. Key West?” “Ha,” I said, “you'll ly incline to the opinion that it will; aware of 4 haunting loneliness. ze) is that woman in the cell have to ask the decency com-'some of the Private seers are not Ah, sweet mystery of Life! One/all that mattered! So the animal foselin me growled lustily. “Unteash i ogy have certainly gone on some prowl. 3 4 5 Next to me?” I asked. | mittee!” So sute. The government 1 know, to realize, to feel, to exper- “Pat's no woman, dat’ n e bs oe ie gt ment people, ience the incontrovertible fact that , Gal's & PFos-| Later on that afternoon I saW|however, are quick to say if signs Pero es a manera de un vértigo que persigue a muchos hombres, que les encietra én su e¢!rcilo vieloso y que les lleva por terrenos movedizos, con el peligro eonstante de enterrarse en el ¢ieno de la |titute,”” gtowled the flatfgot five bus-loads of tourists leavin; r I moved among phantoms, that n-| “And who are these men in the Key West. : othe Pig gh yells hg oye gg _— {hem other cells?” | them. The government can, and — en y tend af ie dad “Dem’s no men, dem are vag-| So I got into my car and wentithe word is that it will, in such i eer fe a avan| rants, drunks, and bums.” }for a spin. I decided that Flagler jeircumstances, expand credit, low: ro bbe ar aa | “O,” I said, “I see, 1 see!” Avenue would make jolly good rid- er interest and increase the money le and Thee moved onw: »|When I really didn’t see at all.jing since it has been completely |supply. Tax cuts might follow and ' [Corporation lemaller, but not |Geotge M of 6 jeorporation executives, reporting to the Commerce Department “Business should be good. I don’t expect persona! income to be down. earings may be much,” said phfey, secretary of the treasury was given who was esident’s @con- Truman. De- 1 “Conditions that make for the end of a boom and the coming of a period of consid adjustment afe clearly ¢. There is a tough eco nomic head — a Delay fot the bis The un anyone. At earlier this he economy & major change that is, downward, It called for Countermeasures including tax re lief to the low 1 middle-income g§foups, expanded social security and benefits, a f ed progfam of public works and other govern- mental steps However, shuffle the good with the bad predictions and you find the former ptedominating general thought is that 1954 will hot hit the levels of 1953, but it will be a good year by almost any standard There were a lot of people when 1953 started who thought the boom would not continue as it had. But, it did, and topped all records. Gross national production, that's the total of all goods and ‘services, will inerease by some 22 billion over 1952. It should hit 368 billion this year. It was 346 billion in 1952 Personal income should go up by 30 billion. It is expected to reach 285 billion. Last year it was ‘255 billion, Employment reached an alltime high, toppigg out in 4ugust with 63,408,000 persons in jobs. Government spending js leveling off and will decline in 1954 from its peaks. So, this is the word gen- s confronted in direction,” dias de {uerzas nucleares y de bombas mortiferas, conserva toda- via, salvando jas naturales ex. maldad y la desesperacin. Quien sabe perdonar, quien sabe disimular y no Nevar sus rencores cepeiones, mucho del hombre dé|a planos casi homicidas, tal vez si jla caverna. Del hombre Primitivo, jeste acercandose a la suprema tenia que conseguir por la|periéccién, que anhela todo hom- fuerza, los elementos necesarios bre bien nacido, para su propio para vivir, bien y para el bien de la comuni- Esa fuerza oculta que mencio-|dad en que vive. And there was a deep Sorrow | within me as I beheld the apparent futility of all endeavors. Such a sorrow it was that there was a- Congratulations LUCKY BABY! 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