The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 10, 1954, Page 4

Pages THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, March 10, 1954 The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sund. The Citizen Buildi: Pe and Mee ee Gamay) tron 6 D ding, corner Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County &. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher warssersesmnernne T92) © 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN mnnnemenen Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2.5661 and 25662 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusivel: entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news Published here. Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications. Ess ON FLORI ASS IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. More Hotels and Apartments. 2. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. 3. Airports—Land and Sea. 4. Consolidation of County and City Governments. 5. Community Auditorium. THE DANGER OF PARTISANSHIP President Eisenhower, in warning recently against extreme partisanship, had in mind the adverse effects which could result in bitter partisan strife in this sess- fon of Congress, Most observers thought the President was warning Republicans not to overdo the Communist issue, especially in an attempt to convince the ordinary citizen that the Government was honeycombed with Communists when the Republicans took over in January, 1953. The Republican President also, no doubt, had in mind some Democrats who have been making highly partisan speeches of late. Warning against extreme par- tisanship, the President is attempting to prevent a chaotic condition from developing in the House- and Senate which could have serious adverse effects on the United States economy. Knowing well that the next few months might be a critical period in the nation’s economy, President Ei- senhower would head off as much bitterness as he could in Congress, since the Republican majority is the slim- mest of majorities, and since a bitter partisan atmos- phere on Capitol Hill could wreck the Administration’s program, If economic developments continue to strain the economy, the President may need all the cooperation he can get on Capitol Hill. To maintain an atmosphere on the Hill which would be conducive to such cooperation was one of the purposes of the President’s appeal to legislators not to adopt the tactics of extreme partisans. It is to be hoped that members of both parties will heed his suggestion, and refrain from overstating the truth. He believes the facts, and only the facts, should be used in political speech-making and he deplores the tendency of some politicians to do a bit of sensational- izing while criticizing the party of their opponents. Good music often achieves surprising results. ae Speaking of dances, some achieve results and oth- ~eve rhythm. i improves most wine and most people, although sor eople take a lot of aging. Never be surprised at the doings of fellow human beings; nothing is too fantastic for some of them. Overseas Transportation Company, Ine. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Serviee between MIAMI and KEY WEST Also Serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA KEYS Between Miami and Key West Express Schedule (No Stops En Route) LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 6:00 P.M. Arrives at Miami at 12:00 o'clock Midnight. LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 12:00 o’clock Midnight and arrives at Key West at 6:00 o’clock AM. Local Schedule LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 8:00 o’clock A.M. (Stops at All intermediate Points) and arrives at Miami at 4:00 o'clock P.M. LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 9:00 o’clock A.M., and arrives at Key West at 5:00 o'clock P.M. Free Pick-Up and Delivery Service FULL CARGO INSURANCE MAIN OFFICE and WAREHOUSE: Cor. Eaton and Francis Sts, TELEPHONE 2-7061 | vida han puesto sombras de pe- NOTAS CUBANAS Por RAOUL ALPIZAR POYO ALGO SOBRE EL AMOR Alguien se ha acercado a mi, para preguntarme si yo creo que el Amor puede sentirse en todas las edades. Hace tiempo que tenia intenciones de escribir sobre tema tan interesante. Acaso contrarie- dades imprevistas, me alejaron del tema, que hoy quiero tratar, de manera sencilla, complaciendo asi a la persona que me ha pedido esa opinién. Es un grave error el swponer que el Amor es patrimonio de la gente joven. Y es que muchos, acaso si la mayoria de los inte- grantes de la juventud, confunden lastimosamente el Amor con la Pasion. El Amor es algo que esta muy oculto en todos los corazones. Y hay muchos Amores, que nada tienen que ver ni con la pasién, ni con el sexo, El amor de madre, el de hermano, el de padre, o abuelo. Esos amores estan ungidos de una suave santidad, que los hace evangélicos. El Amor que todos prefieren es el amor del hombre a la mujer. En unos, les guia la pasion, el deseo de la posesion. En otros, los ménos, desgraciadamente, el an- helo de tener una compaiiera, de tener un confidente. De no sentir- se solos en el camino de la vida. Cuando las personas envejecen, cuando las tribulaciones de la simismo en los espiritus, en esa edad que puede ser hasta los ochenta afios, si el cerebro no ha fallado, se puede sentir el amor, un amor pero, amable, caricioso, en el que no estan exciuidos los deseos del sexo. : Es tal vez, cuando se peinan ya las canas del otofo, o del invierno de la existencia, cuando el amor es tolerante, cuando huye de todo celo agresivo, cuando se siente con mayor intensidad, en todas sus manifestaciones. Y es Porque, en esa etapa de la exis- tencia es cuando se siente con mayor vehemencia el deseo de comprension, el-anhelo de una ternura, que disipe las hondas angustias de una salud en precario, o de una soledad espiritual pro- longada demasiado y que ha mustiado cruelmente, las pocas ilusiones que se conservaban en el rosal interno de cada persona .. . El amor, repetimos prende lo mismo en un corazon joven, que en el de una persona de edad avanzada. Y es porque el amor lo evamos muy en lo hondo del corazon y solo se necesita regarlo con una frase de ternura, para que loresca y haga despertar todos los deseos que el verdadero amor trae consigo. . Es cruel negarle a una viejecita, que sienta el deseo de la caricia, que anhele recibir besos cordiales, pletéricos de una ternura serena, que ponga en su espiritu una paz confortable y que alumbre. con su lucecita roja, todo el ideal conce-” bido, a través de muchos ajies de soledad e incomprensién. Hablan mal del amor, del matri- monio, aquellos que jamas sin- tieron otra cosa que una pasién, que tras de satisfacerla, les produjo hastio. Y esos, los que han ido al matrimonio, sin estar enamora- dos, sin estar convencidos de que el compafiero o la eompaiiera, habia Uenado con sus belleza y su ternura todos los rincones de la vida, esos son los que no creen en el amor, son esos los que desdefian el matrimonio, y cen- suran a las personas de edad, si las saben enamoradas . . . El amor, repetimos;. no es patrimonio de ninguna edad. Todas de una viejecita, es mas pura, las edades y atin las mas avanza- das, son susceptibles a sentirse apresadas por las redes invisibles del Amor. La reaccién amorosa mas sincera, segiramente, que la de una moza que empieza a vivir Y que supone que ofrece un favor al esposo, al entregarsele. La reaccién de una mujer de edad ya avanzada, es a manera de un arcoiris, que pone fulgores en sus ojos, que alegra sus mejillas, que le hace sentirse en una primavera, que tiene sobre Ja primera de los afios mozos, la serenidad y la experiencia, la tolerancia y la comprensién, que es el lazo que Political Announcements FIRST PRIMARY ELECTION MAY 4, 1954 For State Senator 24th District | MILTON A. PARROTT | Help Monroe County Elect A Senator For Member School Board RE-ELECT | J. CARLYLE ROBERTS | SRD DISTRICT For Member School Board ELECT KELLER WATSON 3RD DISTRICT SD For Member School Board Re-Elect EDNEY PARKER STH DISTRICT ata mas fuertemente a los corazo- nes que sé aman e identifican. Injusticia enorme seria atribuirle | a la juventud el derecho absoluto | de amar. Crueldad inaudita habria | de ser, que se pretendiera cerrar | Tas celosias del corazon a aquellos que pasaron por los afios juveniles y que sintieran el Amor, cuando ya el polvo del camino de la existencia habia blanqueado sus cabelleras. En la mayoria de la gente moza, el Amor es flor de un dia . . . Se concibe, se satisface y se disuelve, con la misma Premura que se concibiera . . . Observese que la mayoria de los matrimonios en bancarrota, lo forman los jovenes. Los que han ido al matrimonio como quien se adentra en una extrafa orgia de placer, desconociendo e ignorando, las obligaciones y derechos que ese vinculo trae aparejados. Se cason y satisfecho ya el anhelo pasional, solo piensan en retornar de nuevo a la vida de placeres, de diversiones, en busca de nuevas aventuras. Y el resultado es siempre el desplome de un hogar y una Yamilia que se destruye, simplemente por la maldad de los mismos que la formaron. Eso no sucede cuando el amor es entre personas de edad. En- tonces una tolerancia amable, cierra los ojos ante determinadas faltas o aventuras, y el hogar se conserva puro e impoluto, sin que los hijos tengan nada que echar en cara a sus progenitores. Por eso, repito, que el Amor es para todas las edades y que tal vez si el ultimo amor, aquel que ya luce cabellos blancos, es el mas puro de todos, porque es amor sin interés, ni ambicién. E representacién mas pura del Amor, que nos acerca a Dios . Pensar lo contrario, es no co- nocer el corazén humano, o ser un enorme despechado. Porque un fracaso en amor, no es sintoma de nuevos fracasos. Tal vez, si es una sefial para lograr en el futuro la felicidad . . . El divorcio, es innegable, que es Ley sabia. Sirve para legalizar la situacién embarazosa, de los fueron | equvocados a constituir un hogar. Pero, hay algo que esta por encima de ese derecho a adquirir la liber- tad. Son los hijos, a los que no se pueden abandonar; a los que hay siempre, eterna- mente, la obligacién de atenderlos, de guiarles y de darles todo cuanto merecen y la Ley les otorga. Engafiarles, ocultarles lo que legitimamente es de ellos, no es ya crueldad, sino crimen. Cual- quier pareja infeliz en el hogar tiene el derecho sacrosanto, si se quiere, de terminar ese calvario. Para ello estan las leyes del di- vorcio. Pero, al lHegar a esa rup- tura definitiva, pensar en el por- venir de la prole. No hacerlo asi, es no sentirse padres, ni siquiera humanos, This Rock By Bill Gibb =r Percy Curry, foreman of Thejsides on the subject. Thete are Key West Citizen mechanical de- only two local dining places which partment, laid himself open for Seem to invariably Please tourists an argument the other day when and I thought the owners of the he said that ‘“‘the thing wrong with politicians today is that they need to become more Christianlike.” I wasn’t interested in the political angle of his statement because as far as I’m concerned there is only one ‘kind of politician—(don’t ask me to interpret that sentence). However, when it comes to Chris- tians, there are Christians—and there are Christiaps. | There are the missionaries who | other places might appreciate | hearing this criticism so that they could improve their service. Visi- | tors don’t seenr to object to the cost of food as much as they do jthe quality, At the same time, | local citizens seldom criticize qual- | ity but raise Cain about food prie-/ |es That puts the poor restaura- jteur in between the devil and the |deep blue sea. | Fanatical Puerto Ricans | It is unfortunate that a handful Rejected Suitor Slays His Rival SHAWINIGAN FALLS, Que. (#— | been visiting her and was shot ag Police said a rejected boy friend peaaseeres a sateen the - shot and killed his rival for the| Fifteen minutes later, pollee OES said, Gerard Abel, 18, walked i = self up. “I just shot a man,” police then gave himself up. ‘quoted him as saying. They said The shooting occurred at the he made a. “full confession” but suburban home of dark-haired, 17-|tid_not reveal details. year-old Colette LeFebvre. Her 18-! year-old boy friend, Gilles Bouras- | sa, was killed. Her mother, Mrs, | Benoit LeFebvre, was shot in the | stomach, but hospital authorities said her condition was not serious. | Colette told police Bourassa had | INCOME TAX Qualified Consultants BILL'S LICENSED PAWN SHOP 703 Duval Street go to the South Seas, put heavy, | of fanatics from Puerto Rico can sweaty clothing on all the natives, | give their island such a bad name. | and then proceed to run around in | [t is also unfortunate that there Evenings 6 - 9 P.M. shorts preaching the Gospel. The-e are the kind of guys who would make better emissaries for Russia than they do for Christianity, And of course, there are the true missionaries who live the kind of life they preach. Teaching by ex- ample rather than force. It was | this type of Christian that I think Perey had in mind when he was speaking politicians. It isn’t just the politicians that fail when it comes to teaching by example, however. You’ve proba- bly been reading about Key West’s high accident rate. Well, there is one youth in town who is a par- ticularly reckless driver. I’ve talk- ed with him several times about this habit and couldn’t figure out why I was unable to make an im- pression on him. The other day I found out—his mother passed me in a school zone doing approxi- mately forty miles an hour! Nice example for her son, huh? Well, we started off with politi- cians in the first paragraph, stum- bled across missionaries in the second and third, and ended up with reckless driving in the fourth. If your head isn’t spinning too badly, perhaps we had better find another subject to talk about. Restavrateurs—Please Noe One of the most consistent com- plaints that this writer hears from tourists concerns our local restau- rants. Visitors claim that local | better nor} worse than could be expected in| any American hash-house and that | menus are neither this is particularly disappointing because the uniqueness of the is- land leads them to expect some- thing different in the way of food, Since an imitation Cuban sand wich—usually made out of Spam—| ’ is about the only thing I ever eat away from home, I’m not taking are enough ignorant people in the} States who are willing to condemn jall Puerto Ricans for the action jof a few gun-shooters in the na-| tion’s capitol. Down this way, we are fairly used to hearing about our Latin neighbors expressing their politi- cal feelings with violence. It was only two years ago today that | Batista took over Cuba (luckily, | in a fairly peaceful manner), Al- though physical violence is com- | | mon in Latin politics, it is usually | displayed for some purpose other than pure terrorism. 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