The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 1, 1954, Page 4

as SABIE ___ TheKey oe ‘THE KEY WEST citizen Prat Shscionedde West . Friday, January 1, 1954 Citizen WAPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1, More Hotels ~ Beach and Ba’ a ‘& ‘and Apartments. ‘avi Airports—Land Sea. Community yh d mies ——__oOooOooooo THE NEW YEAR The year 1954 enters the world’s stage today with the United States and Soviet Russia two giants compet- ing for influence in every section of the world. The new year brings with it as much hope as anxiety, for a change, and the outlook today is certainly an improvement over that of a year ago, two years ago, In the first place, the United States is better prepar- ed today to meet a challenge or aggression than at any |of time since World War II. carriers and atomic submarines. Poverty Still Exists In Russia a series of uncensored and re- The armament program be-|vealing stories by William L. gun hurriedly in 1950 is nearing completion, and there- fore comparative armament advantage enjoyed by the Communists in recent years has been considerably whittled. The U.S. Army today is supplied with modern tanks, modern guns and is large enough, and well enough trained, to be expanded rapidly. The United States Navy has, to a large extent, been demobilized and work is under way on several modern In addition, the air arm of the Navy has been greatly modernized and is being expanded. The United States Air Force packs more power as 1954 enters the world stage than it has ever packed before. The year 1954 promises the first quan- tity deliveries of the newest heavy jet bomber, the B-52. In addition, the Air Force has new fighters on the way, an impressive supply of F-86 jet fighters, and a number of medium jet bombers. This country’s atomic stockpile is said to be tremendous, and quantity produc- tion of hydrogen bombs is sure to get under way during 1954, We dwell on U.S, military strength to point out this strength improves chances for world peace. Had the United States undertaken such a rearmament program in a peaceful world, such strength might constitute a threat to peace. However, in a world with aggressors active, the only sure way of keeping the peace is for the democracies to pack power enough to retaliate against aggression. This year, for the first time in three years, the Unit- ed States enters a new year without having its sons dying on the battlefields. This year, then, brings with it more hop than any since World War II. PRESB cA Oe a ase 3 Few people will argue with you when you’re telling them how smart they are. Ryan, a Russian-speaking special- three months in the Soviet Union. By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Forgign News Analyst Soviet Communists have a ready explanation for almost anything. Are women doing the heaviest of toil? It’s because they have “equal rights.” Are a surprising number of peo- ple going to the churches? Only old people really attend any more, and besides there is “freedom of religion.” But for the many beggars seen in the capitals of the Soviet Union, there is an unique explanation. They are all “professionals.” Some of these “professional” ‘beggars looked miserable. A young| mother in Stalinabad, capital of the Tadjik republic, sat on a curb, nursing her baby. There was agony in her face as she cried for alms. Another young mother—she couldn’t have been more than 19— sat on a landing in the big depart- ment store on Lenin street in Kiev, capital of the Ukraine. She, too, clutched her baby in her arms and begged for kopeks. Most of the crowd of shoppers passed her by without a glance, I walked extensively through a half dozen Soviet cities and found many heggars of all ages. I asked about them and each time was told they were professionals. Often that seemed quite possible since they were congregated near the few churches still in operation, their hats on the ground beside them, seeming quite sure that the church’s laws of charity would a | work in their favor. erossword Puzzle ACROSS L bigeoon ny a7 yen ie S.Partof the 37Meal verb 39. Type 8.In chisel 40. Doetrin 12Greathurry 42 A? home 13. Accepted 43. wstrue {SAE 5. Rests elastic Ww. Ceiaped wood al ‘feminine 18, vai name 20. Private 48 European coun: a. Fianioned 50. Differ in — opinion Eiko saustal 26. Grow ol - ron 37. — 57, High cards 80. Symbol for Por ploy erty 32, Form of : Bene m . . Y mistaken tion 3. Serpent AIR Ou PTS) RIATTIE} AIRIAITRERIUILIE IRIS! OIR| 1 IGT INIS} USHETIR AIM] AISIEIAME SINT IPRROINTE! 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In Alma Ata, the snow- bound capital of Kazakhstan, many’ congregated at the end of Kalinin’ street near the still-operating Rus- sian Orthodox Church. In Tashkent, capital of the Uzbek republic, some of the crippied beg- gars on Lenin street had home- made means of locomotion such as boards on wheels. I counted 10 beggars one afternoon in a single half hour’s walk along Pushkin street, where there are many new apartments of the swankier middle class set. I saw beggars in pairs, working together. I saw one an- cient, bearded man holding a little girl in his arms, apparently as a decoy, shouting for help for her. The child looked half starved. In Thilisi, capital of Georgia, a large number of beggars congre- gated at a big Georgian Orthodox Church just off the main street. In Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, swarmed about the entrance to Andreevsky, Cathedral, still in operation as a place of worship, They haunted the Lavra, the an- cient Ukrainian seminary in the heart of Kiev. I saw tottering old beggars along Shevchenko street main thorofares. In Moscow there are beggars to be found in many places, but once worship. They swarm about the main Jewish synagogue, one of four said still to be in operation, and about the 50 or so churches throughout the capital. Communists insist all this rep- resents only the remnants of the Czarist regime—which died away 36 years ago. The churches, too, are placed in that category. Russians say there are 55 Ortho- dox churches in Moscow today. This would mean, on the basis of Probable population, about one church for every 125,000 persons. The churches invariably are overcrowded on church holidays. There are fairly large numbers of young people, middle-aged and well dressed people and even army officers at the services, This held true throughout the provinces, But it is also true that in the main, those who attend the church serv- ices are old people and women. If there are children present, it is because the women brought them, There are no young people at all main for sects other than the Rus- sian Orthodox. The Roman Cath- lic Church, in the shadow of| Lubianka prison in Moscow, has only old men and women in at- tendance at services conducted by a Lithuanian priest. Citizen Savelov was vexed. “At the beginning of July on his daily newspaper, “there were assigned 62 apartments. “In all the apartments there was supposed to be running water. The water did not run for a whole month. Then stoppers were jammed into some of the taps. After that you could get water, but only on the first floor. The house the gas could not be turned on be- cause the pipes leaked.” This is just one of dozens of plaintive letters which appear in the Soviet Press. The Communist party and government runs these letters-to-the-editor columns in the Provincial press apparently as a Safety valve, so citizens can let off the steam of their aggravation. ‘When things go wrong, the party and government turn the citizens’ wrath against lowerlevel function- aries and officials, These are ac- cused of “bureaucratic methods” and similar sins, but they could ‘do little about the situation any- way. Citizen Savelov’s letter appeared jin the newspapers of Baku, oil city of the Azerbaijan Soviet Republic. There were many such missives. Housewife Zemskaya, for ex- ample, complained bitterly: “At the end of June, 1953, we received an apartment in a new building, 15 Zavokzalny St. We were happy to get the new apart- ment assigned to us, hoping to have all the necessary con- ences. ‘ “However, our hopes have not been realized. We are not able to apartment. There is no transfor- mer and the lamps quickly burn out. “In the apartment on the second floor, there are no water taps. On the first floor, the water taps leak. apartments, the door already stick and the floors have cracked, many chinks a: ing.” plaints I saw during a stay of only to be found in what churches re-| 'Vodopyanova street,” he wrote to! has gas, but for the first month: The doors and floors are made| from warped lumber. In many| Chapter X “your, need a clear picture of Dexter to start with, a clearer one than I had till two or three minutes ago. You'll have looely, ‘sick disappein lonely, si who has suffered a and va remgpa is cal a8 sympathy; at the same time as a shrewd, clever, realistic per- or even three eetReds Have An Explanation, Even For Beggars Editor's Note—This is the fourthjand Lenin street, two of Kiev’s|a few days in Baku. Such griev- ances are constantly being aired in all Soviet capitals, including Moscow. ist who has just returned from) again particularly around places of} How can this happen so consist- ently in a country which lays claim to being one of the great- est powers? Watch any ordinary building project in any Soviet capital, and you wonder how it is possible for the Soviet Union to build a strong nation. The labor force for ordinary con- struction is made up of third rate personnel, many of them women and boys. They are among the low- est paid industrial workers in the U.S.S.R. If you watch long enough, you can see them inevitably wrecking their machinery by inept handling. Outside my own apart- ment I watched every morning and saw a huge steam shovel gradually go to pieces in a mass of tangled wreckage. Women and boys lay bricks in such a way that you can peep through holes in the brick wall as it rises. You see old women and young girls slamming away with hammers and gossiping uncon- cernedly all the while. You see ap old woman pushing wet cement down a chute by the simple pro- cess of stepping into the chute, ing it along by the weight of her ample body. Yet in the Soviet Union builds good buildings, too. Buildings like the Foreign Ministry and Moscow University structures in Moscow, the big industrial plants, the hydro- electric plants and other impor- throughout the republics. The answer is this: There is not ‘enough manpower and know-how |to spare for the consumer side of ‘Soviet industry. The best skilled manpower and know-how go into heavy industry. The huge Soviet army gobbles up young men at 18 and keeps many millions out of the national economy. Labor camps are full of men and women who could be put to better use at normal civilian work. No Lyuchings For 2nd Straight Year TUSKEGEE, Ala. (» — For the second year in a row, there were no lynchings in the United States in 1953, Tuskegee Institute an- nounced recently. But the famed Negro college said it is dropping its annual lynch- ing report for a more realistic in- dex of race relations. Hereafter racial progress will be measured with a new formula us- ing economic, political, education- al and similar factors, said Dr. L. H. Foster, Tuskegee’s president. Dr. Foster said mob violence is relations and that lynchings have| |lost their significance as a yard-| jstick of race relations because of| “changes in the status of the Ne- Bro and the development of other| extra-legal means of control, such and intimidation, etc.” The Tuskegee president said the Negro standards in four categories —income relationship, voter parti- cipation, education, and employ- ; ment. Although the death rate from mob action has steadily gone down through the years, the nation es- caped only once before without jlynch slaying. That was in 1952. lama are Europeans. sinking into the cement and shov-} bombings, incendiarism, threats| “Nutritious, juicy, soft, | Only about five per cent of the) These are only a few of the com-|400,000 inhabitants of British Gui-|which can be greatly decreased son, meeting the world on its own | terms and giving a good account of himself. “And it’s necessary to under- stand his feeling for Clarabelle, lasting for more than twenty years after she divorced him. It wasn’t a passionate love, but an abiding feeling for a woman who Meant so much to him once that nothing she could do afterward could quite kill his loyalty. He thought of her as i ae : il opelessly lost through he! own weakness, and I know he blamed himself in part for not being strong enough to help her when he had the chance. He never interfered with her private life, but always gave her a hand when he coulk always acknow]- edged a responsibility for her. Dexter looked appealingly at Cloud. “Do I have to listen to this? It was less painful when he was accusing me of killing her.’ “No,” said Cloud. “You can wait outside. I'll send a man with you, since you'll be a material witness if we press a charge against Miss Ennis.” Dexter shook his head irritably. “Never mind.” “It's tin said, addressing Cloud. “But we'll find the other side of Dex- ter’s character easier to view ob- jectively. He felt a strong ani- mosity toward Searle, of course, for taking advantage of Clara- belle and robbing her of every- thing she had. Moreover, Dexter: found himself under a self- pe moral obligation to pro- vide for her, which was difficult because his love of ease and ele- By ELTON C. FAY WASHINGTON #—Draftees who} get out of the Army in the next six months in six selected states will have time clipped off their ob- ligatory reserve status because the) Army wants to try an administra- tive experiment. Beginning today and extend- ing through the first half of 1954, jeach draftee in six states who has} completed two years of active duty will be handed a mobilization as-| signment to an active Army, a Na-| tional Guard of a reserve organi- zation. If another war comes during the! next five years he will report im- {mediately to his assigned unit. If it doesn’t come, the draftee doesn’t have to do anything, although th Army hopes he will. join -an “or- ganized reserve unit or the Nation- al Guard and take regular train- ing, including summer training. | But whether he joins an organ- ized unit or doesn’t, a draftee liv- ing in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, Wisconsin or! Washington will have one year cut! off the six-year obligatory active} reserve status required under the) draft act. That doesn’t apply to draftees) in the other 42 states and the terri-| tories. The six states were picked jby the commanders of the nation’s six Army areas, each of which in- cludes several military districts or states, What the Army wants to find out, primarily, is how the experimen-/ tal system would work natic~wide. Essentially, it is an exercise in mobilization administration. Sec- ondarily, the Army hopes that at | actually will take interest and re- port for periodic training. If they don’t there is no way the Army can compel them or any oth- reserves. It is a problem the Army has} attempted to solve by inducements} and proposed legislation. The law specifies that each draftee, upon completion of active duty, must join an active reserve unit to keep up his military training. But there) is no punishment provided if he! does not, And all but a small per-| centage of those who have com-| pleted duty in the Army are ig- noring the mandate. The Army has been hesitant about demanding that the draft! law be changed to provide an en- forcement penalty, action which) could be politically unpopular, no longer a valid index of race Whale Steak LOS ANGELES #—You slice it about an inch thick and fry it quickly in butter, the biologist said. What have you got? Whale| steak. | and high \in protein,” went on the biologist, | \Dr. Raymond M. Gilmore of the} use the electric power to light the |Study will like compare white and|U. S. Fish and Wild Life Service. | Gilmore also told the Western \Society of Naturalists Tuesday |that in creating a market for the meat lies the only hope for saving |the whaling industry. He said veg-| etable oils have ruined the whale| oil market. Some whale meat, said Gilmore, jis being shipped to Eastern mar- kets from Norway and Iceland. It sells for 83 cents a pound, a price lif demand increases. inful to me, too,” Mar-| affir least some of the released draftees |@uCed by Robert Sparks. It may er ex-draftee to be active in the lesions used cavalry more and Big Anothan Grave By DON CAMERON kept him broke most of tee tine. So, being used to de- pending on his wits, he concocted a typical scheme. “He had worked for the pretty thoreughly. He knew that tho! . He knew pee and roere had been engaged and that Ennis would’ do a lot to avoid = hint of scandal. Dexter, not Morrissey, decided to make Ennis pay for Searle's peculations. He revealed his plan to Morrissey, who had twenty-five thousand to gain and nothing to lose; cng va pottery Morrissey sugges! e arle, with suitable emphasis, that the only way he could save his neck was to threaten to make a scan- dal unless Ennis came through. “What do you say to that, Mor- rissey?” Cloud asked. m Morrissey considered. “I don’t want any more criminal charges thrown at me, but it might have been about like Marty says. “Dexter's next job was to sell the story to Doran, who saw its news value but not the trickery behiad it,” Martin went on. “That would im both Searle and Ennis with the need of decisive action, because even if the Rec- ord story was killed there eine danger of other papers picking it eo enlist Clarabelle and Dexter could be bought off. Then if it worked, Dexter wouldn't have to support Clarabelle, who wo get back her twenty-eight thou- sand, and probably Dexter would get a cut in whatever Mortissey realized.” s “Twenty per cent,” Morrissey ‘med. c was going all right, after all, Martin thought. He said, “But Ennis’s lack of liberality threatened to spoil everything, and Dexter resolved on desperate measures. More pressure would have to be put on Ennis, and one] be! way to do it would be to make it appear that the Star was about to get hold of the letters Morrissey and Clarabelle had given me, uld Searle's skull with the ti nan | ) plus the fact to suppress: thes St “Dexter knew that I hed the letters, but woukin't use them im any shady way—that I was, im fact, about to return one of them to Morrissey. He knew that Doran and I would spend an hour or so drin and talking. So he got a tire iron a parked car, broke into my place and started to search for were it, ead Barbara him at my He inl ‘G ind smagine oom cankiy a mnken fury, —and probably with will also--Dexter | ii it Ri “Dexter found those Barbara's in Searle's took them, thinking come in handy; iater decided they were too to keép, he mailed of fixing your eagus your bara as a suspect. He didn’t search further for the think he saw neighborhood as i i ti if Army Plans Administrative Experiment Simmons, Mature Star In Drama “Affair With a Stranger,” which co-stars Jean Simmons and Victor Mature opening Sunday at the Islander Drive-In Theatre, may well rank as the season's most revealing drama of marriage and morals. ' Filmed from a screenplay by) Richard Flournoy, this new RKO Radio film tells the romance of a| lovely Manhattan model and a! struggling young Broadway play- wright. After their marriage they are happy until he meets with suc- cess. When he also meets a blonde without a conscience, in the per- son of the star of his new play, and they play the game of kiss and run, it takes all of the wife’s fem- inine understanding to keep their narriage from heading for a break- up. FOR CRYIN’ OUT LOUD By C. GONZALES MENDOZA HAPPY NEW YEAR! Swami Mendoza is seated be- fore his crystal ball today peering into the future. 1954 has much in store. Mystic Mendoza will reveal some of the events that will trans- pire this year. Clip this column for future reference, You will be amazed at the accuracy of my predictions; in fact, I will be amazed too. Prediction of Things To Come: (1) The incumbent County Com- missioners, the give-away boys, will find tough sledding in their fight for re-election. That $300 a month salary they voted for them- selves (strictly gravy) will haunt The two stars give warm and|them, human portrayals and the entire cast contributes to the general ex- cellence of the production. Monica Lewis not only supplies an excel- lent performance as the “other wo- man” but sifgs a new Sam Coslow ballad, “Affair With a Stranger,” with the skill and charm which has made her a leading songstress of the juke boxes and air ianes. Jane Darwell, Dabbs Greer, Wal- ly Vernon, Nicholas Joy, Olive Carey and Victoria Horne also have major roles, “Affair With a Stranger” was directed by Roy Rowland and pro- safely be included among the bet- ter current cinema attractions. In the late Roman empire, the more extensively and infantry did (2) Startling disclosures concern- ing unidentifiable flying objects (Flying Saucers) will be made by the Air Force. | (3) The Planet Earth will be |plunged into the holocaust of atom- ic warfare. (4) If (3) does not oceur (Let us pray!) the Boston Red Sox will be the new World’s Champions of Baseball. (5) An attempt will be made on the life of Senator Joe McCarthy ‘of Wisconsin, (6) Strange new findings of the |Planet Mars will be made as it swings closer to Earth. (7) Astounding medical discov. eries! Especially in Cancer fe- search. (8) Ex-president Truman will re- visit Key West. not begin to become important, again in Europe until the Hundred ‘ear’s War, That’s all for today’s column. Don’t you think it is enough? One more before signing off. There will ibe many hangovers today! een