The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 26, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 Friday, March 26, 1954 The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) from The Citizen Building, corner o Greene and Ann Streets THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor 1921 - 195! NORMAN D. ARTMAN . Business Manage! ered at Key V lass Matter 4 is exclusively hews dispatches credited to it entitled to use f 2 and also the local news pub: or not o cussion of public but it will not. publisn IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments, enthiod r and City Governments. THE LATEST IN BRAIN-WASHING sently a United States member of the Dutch underground, at the hearing of Col. nk H. Schwable, Marine hero, The case involves a signed confession on germ warfare. M. Meerloo, citizen but form recently testifiec a much-decorate Dr. Meerloo survived the tortures of Nazi interroga- tors in t World War II period and told the Schwable hearing Rus rfected N Ss, and | than were the Hitlerites, | th ans have 5 are even better at t e echniqu Meerloo s n interr have from the Rus with dogs. Pa water at the In other words s ors borrowed | entist Pavlov his methods and results ght to do such things as the sound of a bell, and so forth. S$ a conditioned reflex system. Meerloo says Russian interrogators today . actually set out to murder the brain, and that no man alive can | withstand such brain-washing. He said such tactics, com- | bined with ill-treatment, a lack of food and clothing, and ! Y ishment could force a prisoner to do | dogs almost any captors wished. He added that t only i the brain-washing system was death. Perhaps his testimony, in this connection, sheds some | light on what happened to several thousand Americans | who have never been accounted for. It shows clearly what ie scape f Behind The Iron Curtain Poland Is Mixture Of Strength And Weakness Editor's Note—Frederick Kuh, veteran foreign and Washington correspondent of the Chicago Sun- | Times, recently spent two weeks behind the Iron Curtain in Poland. He moved freely about the coun- try, seeing many things that dip- lomats stationed in Poland for at. This summary’ of his findings is condensed from the Chicago Sun-Times by The Associated Press, Copyright 1954, the civilized people of the world are up against in com- batting Communism. The United States and other decent | governments of the world should make it clear in an in- | ternational declaration that destruction of prisoners’ brains through ruthle id inhumane treatment is a wa punishable tional courts, Few than the make its intentic als in all cour A + * | nst humanity are more revolting brain-washing and this country should | to come to an account with such crimin- | clear to all the world. We re got into a crowd of two. The opinions of your neighbors are not important to anybody but your neighbor, Idez counts is is are a dime a dozen; what | them work, chemes and pla n to ma esman, when he cannot answer the| » change the subject. nking feeling that this week some-kind-of-week but we forgot to observe it. | are those who believe that all courts of | the lar g but the law, as it has been pre-| scribed. | cow’s By FREDERICK KUH Poland presents a picture of mixed strength and weakness. No- body with whom I spoke sees an regime. Partly owing to fear of war, partly to comply with Soviet de- mands, the Poles have been forc- ing the pace of industrialization. In the last four years Poland’s over-all industrial output increased by 115 per cent. Farm production rose by only 9 per cent. This hurt. You can’t get a lot of things! most people in our age take for granted. Razor blades, hairpins, household utensils, thread and hun- dreds of other gadgets were simply unobtainable. Since the Polish Communist par following Mos- lead in 1953, decided to switch its accent from heavy to light industries, many of these {shortages are being relieved. One of the ugliest problems is the gap between wages and price: If you earn 1,000 zloty a month— which is above thé average—you must pay half your monthly in- come to purchase a sweater of mediocre quality. It takes 10 days jof an average worker’s salary to buy a pair of shoes. Most tangible accomplishment is | housing. In one city after another, squalid slums are vanishing. Marked social advancement has come to underprivileg groups. At the top, as in Russia, a new class of privileged have more than | their share of good things. How- ever, about 2% million peasants and their families, formerly too poor to buy finished goods, are now participants in the market. The two great forces in opposi- tion to the regime are the mass of peasants and the church. A minority—mostly lay Catholics has formed a church group lo to the government but its influ- ence is small. A minority of 2 per cent of the peasantry has entered collective or state farms, sometimes under pressure. A big majority of peasants strongly op- pose collectivization of the land. The party’s chief agricultural economist, Jerry Tepicht, told me y that in the last three 150 collective farms have disbanded because undue pres: was put on peasants to enter them or because the collec- tives were too small or otherwise not viable. The 8% per cent of the land in collectives is a much small- er ratio than the average among all other states in the Soviet orbit. In Poland another 12 per cent of arable soil is formed into state farms. Peasants on state farms are state-paid wage earners; those in collectives remain individual owners of their land. Bad weather explains partly why Poland had to import one million tons of grain in 1953. Weather con- ditions alone fail to account for Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz’ state- ment that his country will have to import about another million tons of cereal in 1954. These shoftages been due. in part to peasants’ resistance ‘or indifference. Poland has been creating indus- jtries it never knew before. Poles |are manufacturing their own heavy | machine tools, heavy equipment for steel mills and mines, machin- ery for chemical and shipbuilding jyears have not been able to look | pjants, tractors, autos and synthet- | ics—especially artificial fertilizers. | Development of heavy industries jin the last four years has supplied the base for. creating light indus- tries. | How extensively Russia is using ‘Poland as an industrial base promptly struck me as I toured factories. A visit to the new auto crime, | acceptable alternative at hand. Yet | works in Zeran on Warsaw's out- |there is strong opposition to the | skirts illustrated how the Soviet |Union is creating an additional | mobilization base in Poland. The Russians have supplied 75 per cent {of the machinery for this plant, which is producing a copy of a Russian car. This factory could be dard Soviet model tanks or other military vehicles, Soviet control over Poland’s armed forces goes very far. Cy- rankiewicz, otherwise affable, showed displeasure when asked | about this. I put the question blunt- ly: “To what extent does the Soviet general staff influence the Polish forces?” He replied stiffly: “Poland has its own general staff. All that’s happening in that friendship.” Polish army?” ers,” he answered, flushing. porary Russian advisers?” “No,” he said, visibly uncom- |fortable, ‘‘not temporary ones j either.” ; I knew otherwise from two of | Cyrankiewicz’ closest associates. The army is reputed to consist jof about 22 divisions or 440,000 |troops, including supporting units. |More than half the officers in the| jarmy, navy and air force, a high (ores official in Warsaw told me, were trained in the Soviet Union. Russia has equipped the new key industries. Most of the new power lants are getting their installa- ions from the U.S.S.R. In Warsaw |Russia is erecting its greatest | window exhibit. This is the Palace of Culture, a 36-story edifice around which the reconstructed Polish capital is being built. | In 1945 when guns were silenced, |four of every five buildings in | Warsaw were destroyed, and only !1 in 20 habitable. Warsaw’s chief | city planner, Zygmunt Skibniewski, | told me some 75,000 building work- are engaged in building the |capital anew. Despite flaws, the | state is providing decent housing, | still often crowded, for the mass of people. Three miles’ from Cracow is the ‘new industrial city of Nowa Huta. Until 1949 there were four peasant villages where today a great city /has arisen. In this brief time |—three in five were farmers until |then—moved into freshly con- structed apartment houses. Half completed, this is the first Polish | Postwar city to be built from the ground up where no town ever existed before. The new steel in- dustry, started early in 1953, is scheduled to begin production by the end of 1954. When finished, switched on short notice to stan-| sphere, as in others, is open and| within the frame of Polish-Soviet | “Are there Soviet advisers in the | “No permanent military advis- | “You mean there are only tem-| | 30,000 workers and. their families | more steel than did all Poland before the war. | | The U.S. Embassy is isolated | and inadequately informed despite | the able ambassador, Joseph! Flack, and his staff. Members of | }all non-Communist embassies are incessantly watched. The mediocre | |Press must serve as the main) | Source of information for Western | | diplomats. | Responsible members of the American Embassy believe the | secret police run Poland. They are mistaken, Poland’s secret police is an adjunct to the armed forces. |Like the Soviet MVD, it has its jown troops. Unlike the secret police in the Soviet Union before |Stalin’s death, the UB in Poland is no.state within a state. It-is firmly under the control of the rul- ing Communist party. Its head, Stanislaw Radkiewicz, is consid- ered an obedient party official. The UB are hated and feared. Absence of civil liberties, of the four free- doms, is less irksome to Poles who have almost never known them at home. Yet the strait jacket of totalitarian ideology is throttling cultural life in Poland today. Bureaucracy is another evil. In taking possession of 99 per cent of the national economy, the state |and other public authorities have | swollen their ranks beyond belief. | My belief is the majority of Poles are definitely against the regime. KEY WEST Ten and Twenty Years Ago March 26, 1944, fell on Sunday. No Citizen | March 26, 1934 Mrs, William Warren, chairman of the hanging baskets and potted plants committee for the flower | show to be sponsored by the Wom- | an’s Club asked that anyone inter- ested in making a display of this type to notify her as soon as pos- sible. Work on the Aquarium was going ahead and the forms were in place for pouring the concrete to com- plete the facade. Clem Price, captain of the local golf team, announced a called meeting of local golfers to make plans for entertaining the Miami Biltmore Golf team scheduled to be in Key West over the weekend. Mrs. Norberg Thompson and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Gato left to spend the Easter holidays with their daughters, Miss Marie |Thompson and Miss Celita Gato, students at Marymount College at Tarrytown, on Hudson, SALESMAN HAS UNUSUAL ORDER CARTHAGE, Tex. « —Doug Long has been in the shoe busi- ness here since last October and has sold only one pair of shoes. But Long, a newspaperman in the shoe business as a sideline, insists business is good. He caters to one-legged persons but received an order recently from a man who wanted a pair. ‘I filled the order,” he said, | “though I could never figure out why he bought from me.” Statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. estimate there will be 8% million widows in the are a grave business. They are| this works alone will manufacture! United States in 1960. 4 I'S DEATH, MY DARLING! By Amelia Reynolds Long Chapter 28 For the space of several sec- onds, Amédée stood perfectly still Then he came over and sat down beside me again, “What made you say. that, Peter?” he asked quietly. 3 at the entire situation, ” I said. I had to talk fast, in order to keep up with my own flying thoughts. “A little over a week ago, your grandfather makes a discovery of some sort —something that we've now rea- son to believe some third person was trying to keep from Oe must have waited. thet|thought thet Whatever it was, he considers it so important that he sends at once for his lawyer and for his eldest and youngest grandsons, apparently to consult with them about it. But before he can ac- complish that, he dies; but not before he’s had time to tell this thing to one of them—to Claude. A few days later, Claude dies.’ Amédée nodded. “That was what Uncle Raoul suspected,” he said. “But the autopsy showed that Claude died of a heart attack after all.” “Yes, I know,” I admitted. “But the autopsy could have been wrong. I mean, it may not have been carried far enough: Suppose that Claude—and your grandfa- ther too, for that matter—died of something that could have been mstaken for heart failure as long as no one had any reason to sus- pect its true nature. Some pois- on—” “Poison!” He repeated the word as though he had never heard it before. “But what—” “Let me finish before we into that,” I interrupted. “Uncle Raoul suspected that there was something wrong about his fa- ther’s death even before he talked with Mr. Duval.” “Then that was why he went down to the mausoleum that night! Amédée broke in. “And why he opened Grandpére’s cas- ket. He must have t could find some proof .. .’ soa a ae Se agrees a sugg' is, Dede, but suppose the murderer ot yous (are was erect us at the table that evening. Uncle Raoul should decide to have the body exhumed and an autopsy performed. He de- cided to prevent that by remov- ing or destroying the body; since without it. nothi could be roved, regardless oul or anybody else might sus- it he ee in hi “Understand what?” . I told him about the dying Plants that Pick and I had dis- covered down near, the carriage | what Uncle | Po’ night until he thought everybody | i! was asleep; then he started out to attend to it. Only, Uncle who was probably sitting up thinking things over, saw him and followed him. He probab) picked up the sword as the near- est weapon to hand in case he should need one, but—” “You don’t need to go on,” Amédée interrupted again. He started pacing up and down. “Peter, think hard,” he said sud- denly. “What poison is there that could be mistaken for heart failure?” “There's digitalis—you can pre- re that without much trouble ey the ordinary foxglove.” “There are no foxgloves on the place, or anywhere around here that I know of,” Amédée said, “so it looks as though that’s out.” Then all of a sudden I had a rapede ctied excitedly. * f' i e Pe “Henri seid sometaing about Un- cle Raoul’s havi ander clutched in his hand when you found him. Did he?” sure,” I nace “But aren’t some reference about, so we can look it/ had an ole-| from “Why, yes,” he answered, look- |}! pela) ed, h at the question. en that’s it!” I declared. “Pick must have told him about This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb There are times when this col- umn receives complaints which it unfortunately cannot do anything about. For instance, here are some notes concerning a motel which neighbors say is infringing upon both their personal and property rights. I’ve been asked to publicize the situation and would gladly do so if an injustice could be recti- fied in this manner, However, the first hurdle to overcome is whe- ther or not the motel in question is acting ‘within its legal rights. I would suggest. that the angry neighbors contact Myrtland Cates, Jr., Assistant to the City Manager, and also. the City Planning Com- mission relative to this problem. Another complaint on my desk concerns action taken by the po- lice with regard to the Douglass School band which was parading on Duval St. the other day. The band was attempting to solicit much needed funds when it was detoured off of the main street by two ranking police officers. 1 think we might safely say that this was an unfortunate situation regretted by all concerned. The band failed to get necessary per- mission to conduct a parade and the police officers were merely do- ing their duty. Douglass High School has a fine band one which all Key Westers love to hear and see marching down the street. I’m sure that no slight was intend- ed nor did any public official in- tentionally mean to hurt their fund- raisin rade. You, enka Key West is a little bigger town than it used to be. A few years- ago, we could solve most of our complaints without too much trouble. Now we have scores of ordinances and regardless of what we think is right or wrong, we have to do a little research to make sure of what the law says. Situations like those mentioned above boil down to the “right way, the wrong way, and the legal Key West way” — (a slight twist on an old Army proverb that fits us rather well). Unfortunate Accident This column would like to ex- press its sympathy to those involv- ed in the auto-bicycle accident the other day. The tragic oc¢urrence must have been a terrific shock to Julius Stone and his wife. Stone has been absolved of all blame. The next time you're driving down the street, think of how easi- ly you might suddenly find a bi- cycle in front of you just like Ju- lius Stone did! Can’t you see how important it is that we get an all- out safety program started? One that will educate the children as well as the adult auto driver? We can lick our accident pro- blem — in the homes, on the high- way, and at school — but only if every citizen will cooperate in the effort. Spring Housecleaning Sam Goldsmith, weatherman, claims that Spring is here. I'll take those words with a dash of sait until after the usual Easter cold spell. There are a few things that | appear to be preordained in this a aN life. Among them are cold weather at Eastertime, rain on the Fourth of July and Labor Day, and ‘over- cast skies with scattered showers’ on Christmas. Nevertheless, Sam appears to be technically correct concerning the season of the year so it is about time we began giving the town a good Spring housecleaning. Folks down in the colored section have already started their drive to im- prove the condition of their yards and houses. It might not be a bad idea to make the cleanup cam- paign Island-wide. A sore point with most residents is that the Scavenger Dept will not pick up many forms of rubbish. Anytime that I try to throw away a piece of metal — even a rusted out garbage can which is liable to cut the collectors’ hands if it is kept in use — I invariably find the junk cast aside on the side- walk. The only solution seems to be to hire a truck about once a year to cart this stuff off. I guess the garbage men have a reason for their actions and if a general cleanup campaign were started, I’m pretty sure the City would cooperate by picking up everything that was placed out to the front in a neat, orderly pile, Political Announcements FIRST PRIMARY ELECTION MAY 4, 1954 For United States Congress DANTE B. FASCELL For State Senator Re-Elect JAMES A. FRANKLIN 24TH DISTRICT For State Senator 24TH DISTRICT WILLIAM R. NEBLETT For State Senator 24th District MILTON A. PARROTT Help Monroe County Elect A Senator For County Commissioner SECOND DISTRICT WILLIAM A. FREEMAN, JR. For Member School Board RE-ELECT J. CARLYLE ROBERTS 3RD DISTRICT For Member School Board ELECT KELLER WATSON 3RD DISTRICT For Member School Board Re-Elect EDNEY PARKER STH DISTRICT ENID Okla. #—Tough old mess sergeants and KP, scourge of rookie servicemen, are on their way out at the Vance Air Force Base. The Air Force announced it was using Vance for an experiment, putting the mess halls under the pecan of paid civilian person- nel The civilians will be responsible for catering, serving, and best of all, policing the mess halls. The Air Force said it feels. the new routine should save money and at the same time provide bet- ter meals. It said rookie morale should improve with the elimina- tion of KP. quick Mexican divorce from her fifth husband, Porfirio Rubirosa. They’ve been married jess than three months. You know, the way some of these rich gals rush in and out of matri- mony sort of reminds me of the guy who was galloping his horse hell-bent for election down the road. When bystanders hollered through the cloud of dust, “‘Where ya going?” he replied, “Don't ask me — ask the hoss!” News of the unhappiness suffer- ed by such wealthy people as Bar- bara Hutton, Doris Duke, and ma- ny others sort of shocks those of us who feel that if we “just had a million dollars, all our troubles would fly out the window.” Ap- parently, there is some truth to the saying that happiness must come from within and cannot be bought with gold. Don’t get me wrong, now! I’m not philosopher enough to despise money. As a matter of fact, if you will come by Dick’s Tire Service on Truman Ave. about the end of the month, you'll hear me singing Ogden Nash’s “Hymn To The Thing That Makes The Wolf Go”: “Oh money, money, money. I am not necessarily one of those who comest in so slowly.” You know, most people are hav- ing money troubles these days. Let me tell you how you can save quite a bit if you’re an automobile or truck owner — always the quality rather than the Eby gas aEcardaect eae F