The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 6, 1954, Page 4

area ie eo Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Menree County ‘Business: Pees at cae item ocemaneniasanestoer ese Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter . MR. NIXON’S TOUR Vice-President Richard M. Nixon recently landed on US. soil after the last hop of a 38,000-mile trip around the world, The Vice-President visited countries in every part of the world, with the exception of Europe—haying stopped in Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Indo-China, Burma, Thailand, Ceylon, India, Pakistan, Iran and Libya. The young Vice-President of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration has carried out the Presi- dent’s wishes-in a personal approach to the world’s Problems and the world’s political leaders. several reasons why the Californian’s trip was a success and one should keep in mind that such trips by U.S. Officials are not always productive, In the first place, the Vice-President avoided the usual pitfall of popping off on controversial questions abroad. He won few headlines with sensational state-' ments, and upset few diplomats either in Washington or abroad with his on-the-spot pronouncements. In the second place, the Vice-President is attempting to take an active role in the direction of U.S. policy and/s! he is now in a position to influence U.S. foreign policy perhaps as much as any other Vice-President in history. Certainly he is acquainted with the problems confronting this Government in every corner of the world. Since the Vice-President would become the Chief Executive of this country in the event anything happened to President Eisenhower, it is well that he has completed this tour. In completing it, he has demonstrated a ca- pacity for restraint in talking with reporters, which is not a universal*virtue by any means, these days, No organization can be stronger than the brains which direct it. ; Philosophy is often a lazy man’s excuse for not do- Ing something about it. We suggest the cigarette companiés spend more money for cancer research. Head work is a lot harder than hand work; that’s why we have so little head work. Crossword Puzzle — BIOARETIUINIA power 29, Disen- TIAIN) 5. Sphere cumber 8. Cooking 30. Nimble LLIN} 32. Gone by 1 PaO! TIAICTT 12, Across 33. Like fF } MQ we 13. Affectedly 34. Border ATTRBAIUTTION$S UIMIBIVIE | shy 35. Shake- CIOINICIEIRINIE OME IRIN] 14. Pertaining = spearean TIRIOTT MRE ISINIE BERIE|D} WR Through Central Earepe Judge Lopez Tells Of His Summer In Europe Editor’s note: Judge Aquiline {3:30 in the afternoon and it was|done by the bombing. The build- Lopez, Jr., of Cirevit Court, and his‘ wife, Lillian, visited Europe There are] last summer. Many of the judge’s {beautiful hotel, and we noticed as eut-of-town friends have enjeyed reading a letter describing his trip. The Citizen is printing an in- stallment of the letter daily dur- ing this week. This is the third installment. Saturday morning, we were me at’ the hotel and was taken for wards, we went to visit. the Un- ‘known Soldier Memorial and the Military Museum which contained uniforms. from many countries from different eras, together with’ many types of armament, One of the things that impressed us the most was the exhibit left! there by the)Russian Monarchists, things that belonged to the Czar and ‘his family, From time to time, many of the monarchists come to this museum on a pilgrimage. The, exhibit presented by the United States was very beautiful and con- tained both the Army and Navy) uniforms for the past fifty years| and also contained many old arms, cannons and so forth. We then visited the Wiertz Mus- eum where we saw quite a number of his paintings. We then passed’ by the Houses of Parliament, the National Shooting Gallery, the Roy- al Park, the Royal Academy, the Palace of Justice, which was built in 1880, stands on a high hill where one can see almost all of Brussels. inowned statue of a little boy at the corner of two old streets. After lunch, we were pleasantly surprised by a visit from Father ” ltravelled for a week in Southern’ Tuesday, June 2, we spent at the Spain. That afternoon, we went to| see lace weaving. Belgian Wedding We also visited the Gothic City Hall inside of which there are some beautiful tapestry, While visiting in the City Hall, we saw a wedding that was taking place. In Belgium, it is necessary that a civil cere- mony of marriage be performed| Prior to the Church ceremony, as a matter of fact, the Church cere- mony need not be performed but the civil ceremony must be per- formed and it is performed by one}ti of the aldermen. The marriages are on Saturday but the ceremony may be performed on Wednesday by paying double. Tt was very strange to see the different couples waiting their turn to be married and then on leaving the City Hall seeing the photo-| graphers waiting to take the pic- ‘tures. The buildings around the City Hall are the old guild houses most of which date several hun- dred years. In the morning, we had break.’ fast at the hotel and then Lillian and I went to Mass at the Church’ we reached the border, we noticed that in the first town in land there were many people at the station. We found that a lof the Finisterre, a Church over/ bombed. We continued on the train three hundred years old. We left! going along the Rhine and we Pass- Brussels at 12:25 for The Hague,) i Holland, having lunch on the train,|Germany. There we saw quite a ‘still raining and very cold. We stayed at the Hotel Witteburg, a we registered that many American personalities including President Eisenhower, General Ridgeway and may others had stayed there from time to time. Flewer Auction On Monday, June ist, we went for a full day’s tour. It was still ‘raining very hard and very cold, During the day, the temperature was as low as 42 degrees. First we went to see the flower auction where we saw many persons who were selling flowers at auction and others who were bringing them in by boat. At this auction, after the flowers aré bought by the dif- ferent flower dealers, they are im-| mediately prepared and made rea- dy for shipment to different mar- kets throughout the world. From there we went through beautiful countryside where we saw hundreds and hundreds of hot houses. for the growing of flowers. ‘We then went to Amsterdam where we had lunch after which we went sightseeing around the City and saw the beautiful canals, the beau- tiful houses and the clean streets. After visiting around Amsterdam, we stafted towards Volendam. Vol. endam is a very. picturesque vil- lage and the natives still wear| their traditional costumes. From there we crossed by boat to the Island of Marken where the natives also still wear their tra- ditional quaint costumes including} wooden shoes which are a little different from those in other parts) of the country. It was very cold on the Island of Marken probably a- ‘bout 40 degrees and from there we iwent back to The Hague. The Coun. try of Holland is very pretty, very clean, the people seem friendly and are neat and well dressed. The ca- nals are picturesque and the coun- tryside is beautiful. Coronation on TV hotel where we were able to see ithe coronation of Queen Elizabeth Il, of England by television: The hotel had arranged for six tele- vision sets to be placed in the din- ing room so that starting at 9:00 ‘o'clock most of the guests started| to watch the coronation ceremon- ies. We saw the parade to West- minster Abbey, the complete coro- the parade back to Buckingham Palace and then at night heard Queen Elizabeth speak to the na- tion. \ i for Coblenz. It was very cold and! rainy. We changed trains at Gou- da and at Utrecht we saw some more Dutch farms with many beau- tiful trees, many flowers and crops| growing. On the way to Coblenz, Cologne still shows plenty of the} bombing, much of which has not! ‘been repaired; you can still see the rubble and the big damage that! was done during the war. As a matter of fact, it was said that it was approximately 85 per cent! ed by Bonn, the capital of Western! number of the buildings or the re- mains of buildings that-had been ‘bombed but there is quite a lot of'| repair work going on there. gtoup of Dutch soldiers was com- ing in from Korea and their home’ town was receiving them. We arrived at The Hague atinoticed the damage that had been for Heidelburg where we took the| We arrived at Coblenz at approx- imately 1:00 o'clock and went to ings all around our hotel were badly damaged as it happens that the hotel was near the railroad station and the buildings around the railroad were the ones that were so heavily Damage to Coblenz Everywhere we walked around Coblenz, we saw that the people did not seem to be well dressed, seemed to be a little depressed and the stores did not have much |merchandise nor many things to jsell especially when one compares Coblenz with Frankfurt, ‘ We were told that Coblenz, which is French occupied, did not have many families of soidiers and therefore the occupation is not helping as much as in the Ameri- ican zones where the soldiers and ‘their families spent quite abit of money. It seems that the French soldier does not earn enough mon- ey to be able to take his family along with him, It was said that Coblenz was 90 per cent bombed during the war and according to bes damage, it really must have Thursday morning, June 4, we went for.a sightseeing trip at Cob- lenz and saw King Williams Pal- ace, which is now the headquar- ters for the occupation forces, and| whre the Moselle and Rhine Riv- ers meet. The guide stated at the confluence of the two rivers, a sta- tue of William I stood for many years which was made of iron but was taken down after being bomb- led and used for making arma- ments, We then visited a castle built about 700 and restored in 1817 and 1828. We noticed a number of pa- rades all over Coblenz either going or coming from different Catholic Churches and on the routes we noticed many shrines along the Streets. We found that there are many Catholic people in Coblenz and as it was Corpus Christi, the Parades were numerous. To Wiesbaden We left Coblenz by Rhine steam- er at 2:15 for Weisbaden. The trip| was beautiful and we saw many castles on the Rhine and many Small towns all along the way, In- asmuch as Corpus Christi was a holiday in many of the towns, we saw plenty people near the docks jand saw many boats going up and jdown the river. The river really carries a lot of commerce. Some nation at Westminster Abbey, then|°f the ships go from Switzerland! to Rotterdam and also to the North Sea. We arrived at Weisbaden that! afternoon and were droven to Frankfurt which was 85 Per cent On Wednesday, June 3, we left|Dombed during the war, but we| ‘The Hague at 6:30 in the morning| Were quite surprised by the nunt-| ber of new buildings, Friday, June 5th, we spent in Frankfurt visiting around the City and visited with Yvonne Pinder Julian and her husbadn, Dennis Julian, and their son. We went for we passed by Cologne and Bonn.|@ afternoon ride and then while| Lilian and Rosia stayed with Yvonne, Curry and I went with Dennis for a ride on Auto Bahn Toad where we say may old and Picturesque German towns. Saturday, we spent in Frankfurt shopping and had the opportunity ito go into’ a new bank building which was a beautiful modernistic building, also saw plenty of the work that was beng done around the streets, replacing sewerage and repairing the streets. The City, | which is in United States zone,|we were able to see snow on the/league of a lot of progress and it is really growing up rapidly. and then came back by the side| BR i fi ; 4 if. i if i if i IL iz i oF EF a Hi 72 gaa gee g 3 » 8 Eile aes rl i a BR fa 4 Fs 3 ae ge iz the party, f / NEW YORK #—How would you like to start the year off with a free million-dollar idea? Well, a fellow gave me one the other day, and after examining it’ from all angles, I am now passing it on to you—and you are weleome to it. “Why doesn’t somebody invent & new middle-aged pleasure?” this man demanded. “It would be worth a million dollars to him.”* When I asked him what he meant he continued: “A great amount of effort and energy is spent thinking up gadgets to keep the young happy or soften the woes of the elderly. But no- body pays any attention to the middle-aged. “Yet there are more middle-aged People than any other kind. Why should we have to shift for our- selves so much? somebody exert.a little brain pow- er to provide us with some new form of pleasure? : “Take me, for example. I'll ad- mit I'm middle-aged, and I am bored. I am in that critical period |when a man is too old to ehjoy |Playing postoffice and too young to jenjoy rheumatism. Why doesn’t |somebody dream up a new kind of Pleasure that will enable us middle-aged people to forget our- selves and our problems?” “Have you never tried bird watching?” I inquired. “The sight of our little feathered friends at work and play is often soothing to the spirit.” “Look,” he said, “let's be prac- tical. When you’ve seen one spar- Tow, you've seen ‘em all. Let the birds watch each other.” He made the same complaint about baseball, television viewing, canasta, and stamp collecting. He was weary of sports and hobbies. “No,” he said, “what I want is an absolutely new pleasure for a middle-aged guy like myself— something that doesn’t come in a bottle or wrapped in cellophane, something that doesn’t come with a guarantee to help me or hurt me, but something I can get some Teal fun out of.” “Any other qualifications?” 1 asked. “Well, yes,” he said. “A new Pleasure for a middle-aged man, train for Lucerne. On the road to} Heidelburg, we passed through a number of German towns and they lwere very picturesque with beau- ‘tiful gardens, beautiful flowers, \Very clean streets and very clean |buildings. We crossed the frontier |of Switzerland at Basel, continu- \ing by train from Basel to Lucerne | | | | which was along Lake Luerene, heed of Mt. Pilatus. It was a beau- |tiful hotel and the sights were jour hotel. There is where we really! Sunday morning, we left by carjvery pretty. ” (Continued Tomorrow) g atte where we spent the night. From!known as the Moslem our toom at the Carlton Tivoli/Gandhi.” A MAN IN THE HOUSE By Florence Stuart in 5, g 8 cbgse tired ie ae i i F booty Not ii Cousin Marcia didn’t put = said grimly that she sensible thing “would to Ria Jane away that Whit hi too Pac Quartet Of New Players Show Promise Hal Boyle ought to be simple and {nexpen- sive. It ought to be something the children can’t steal from you) as soon as they reach their teens. It ought to be something a man can enjoy without having to share it with a woman. Naturally, also it ought to be respectable, so that it won’t be denounced by the clery or make a man subject to arrest and imprisonment.” “That all?” I inquired. “Yes, that’s all,” he said. “But is that too much to ask?” Frankly, it didn’t seem too much to me. After all, why shouldn’t a middle-aged man be allowed a new pleasure that wouldn’t bankrupt him, bring down the law on his head, or that he would have to divide with his wife and kids? “Don’t you have any sugges- tions?” my friend asked hope- Why doesn’t | full, ly. | I thought and I thought. But it! isn't easy to think up a fresh middle-aged pleasure that meets these restrictions. Finally 1 told him lamely; “Have you thought of taking up ‘the study of ventriloquism? That would fit the rules you laid down.” ‘If I do,” he bristled, “I'll know where to find my first dummy.” As I say, it’s a million-dollar idea—if you can come up with a Teal answer. But it’s like most other million-dollar ideas. They’re two bits a dozen unless you know what to do with them. Even if I could discover a new middle-aged pleasure I doubt if just to enjoy it in silence, Aid Is Offered sources say the Soviet Union is offering economic aid to Egypt— provided the key Middle East na- tion stays out of any Western al- liance Russia thinks is aimed at her. The informants said this word was brought back to Cairo yester- day by Lt. Gen. Aziz el Mastry, the Egyptian ambassador in Mos- cow. Reportedly he told his gov- ernment Russia is ready to imports needed to make up recent dwindling in trade, if Egypt We steers festern commitments. PRISONERS FREED KARACHI, Pakistan, #—Pakis- tan announced Tuesday the release of 45 political prisoners northwest Frontier province cluding Khan Abdul Ghaffar “Frontier Ghaffar Khan, 2 the late Mohandas K. Gandhi and India’s Prime Minister Jawaharlal was jailed in 1948 for alleged anti- Pakistan activities. . the train by main force, but she| to it to. The] Ji I'd tell anybody. It might be better Jeff Richards, one CAIRO, Egypt, #—Authoritative|., » Born BBa *** xe be continwed) “Above and Beyond,” opening the Monroe Screen this week, vides a springboard to future si dom for four of M-G-M's ing new acting personalities, in the |persons of Marilyn Erskine, Jona- ithan Cott, Jeff Richards and Pa- | trick Conway, | Horace Greeley’s “God West” advice paid cinema dividends to blonde, blue-eyed Marilyn Erskine, who left the Broadway stage to 'make her film debut at M-G-M in “Westward the Women,” starring Robert Taylor. Now considered one ‘of Metro’s best bets stardom, Miss Erskine with Taylor in af op and Be- yong,” the story ‘of ‘Colonel Paul Tibbets’ historic flight first atom bomb over Ji the new picture she plays wife and close confidante of Elea- nor Parker, en-acting Mrs. Tibbets. Miss Erskine, a product of Roches- ter, N. Y., made her acting debut at the age of two on a children’s radio program, Her Hollywood scrapebook includes laudatory no- tices for her appearance in “West- the Women,” “Just This ” and “The Girl in White.” 53e i ward Once" ‘Night Strip “Shadow in the Sky,” “The People Against O'Hara,” “The Girl ’s most HEHE ter a the Umpire, ic. It ceived walectea Bes crt dier in “Above and Beyond,” geek 3