The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 15, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, May 15, The Key West Citizen nae Published daily (except Sunday) from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets, Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher NORMAN D. ARTMAN Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 Paper, and also the local * Member Associate Dailies of Florida —————$ eee Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 en ne SD ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION invites discussion local or general interest, but it IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1, More Hotels and Aj = Beach and Bat Pavilion” Sea. Consolidation of County and Governments. CAN YOU HELP REDUCE COFFEE PRICES?, YOU SURELY CAN Can you help stop the advancing price of coffee? You surely can. How? By the only means left open to you — stop drinking coffee. Don’t. say you can’t. You can do anything you will to-do. Sothetimes we need incentives to put our wills to work. Let’s take a squint at the incentives in the booming price of coffee. / Recently, three American women toured Brazil to try to learn the reasons for high coffee’ prices. The first thing the women found out was that laborers in coffee groves or fields received the magnificent pittance of 20 cents an hour. ts : Then the coffee growers must’ be “cleaning up.” + That’s not-so. Their profits now are much lower than they were when coffee was fairly cheap. How about the roasters? Their margin of profit: is slimmer than during any other time since they have been in business. If you doubt. that statement, ask the roasters in Key West. They will tell you they earned far more than they do now when they sold coffee at’ 40 cents a pound. To sell their coffee now they have to shave down their mar- gin of profit because of the high price they pay for green coffee. « ; f Fact is, Key West coffee roasters are pressed to the utmost in their efforts to get a slight margin of profit. Don’t think for a moment that Key West roasters are not * as anxious as you are to see the price of coffee drop. Prob- ably they are more anxious, because their business is threatened by the exorbitant cost of green coffee. Then who is getting the big profits? Speculators in green coffee. You may recall that, several months ago, there was * much talk in Washington about putting the wraps on coffee speculators. The talk continued for a few weeks, without any action having been taken. And then, sudden- ly, the talk stopped, and has not since been reviyed. Why? You will have to get behind the scenes to find out why Washington suddenly became mum about the jacking up of prices for raw coffee. But Washington seldom lets the public get behind the scenes. All that is left for the public to do is to conjecture. Your guess is as good as anybody else’s, Coffee speculators are worrying about only one thing: the falling off of the consumption of coffee in the United States. The last report stated that retail sales of coffee had decreased 18 per cent. The American public, spurred on by what it con- siders unfairness, can do anything it sets its mind. on do- ing. And the public is now-hot on the heels of speculators in green coffee, = Crossword Puzzle SITEMERIODMESTAIUIT TU MIE MMAIVIE METIUINIE! IDI TMINIEIF MMRIEIA ID} RIEITIRIOIGIRIAIDIE| LTIVIYMEICIRIEIAMY! MSE TILES! lOMESIH[U LYIOTKIEMENIETE Ba TEIN] T) 5. Silkworm 6. Worker in the fine arts 17. Deposits 8. Note of the scale 9. Brisk 10. Shelter 11. Find the 49. Self 50. Ribbed cloth 52: Have: Scotch | 53, Eternity 55.0ld exclamation 1920 - 1954 -ummennuen Editor and Publisher of public issues will not" publish Membership Committee- d Sunday School PromotionSet ‘At B'nai Zion Closing exercises of the B'nai Zion Hebrew Congregation Sunday School tomorrow will see a num- ber of children promoted to high- er grades, Rabbi Abraham Sch- wartz said today. “ Besidés the promotions, certifi- cates of honor will be given to students for regular attendance while prizes will be given to the best scholars. The Ladies Auxili- ary is furnishing the prizes. , Picnic Planned On Sunday, May 23, the Sunday School pienie will be at the park on Bahia Honda. The picnic will be a day-long affair. At the promotion exercises to- morrow, Joseph Pearlman will award the certificates of honor. Mrs. Lily Miller will award the prizes for the best scholars and Sam Silberman will represent the congregation. Rabbi Schwartz will be the principal speaker. To Be Promoted The following childrea will be Promoted to higher grades: First grade — Mark Holtsberg, Howard Fisherman, Nancy Frank, Knights Of Columbus To Mark Anniversary Here The Council's Publicity Commit- tee is responsible for the keeping the public informed of the council’s activity and accomplishments news releases to the press and radio. Under this committee chairman are four sub-commit- tees, a breakdown of their duties are as follows. The Bulletin Com- mittee publishes ‘a monthly bul- letin each month, which is mailed to all of the members, with copies forwarded to the Supreme Council, State Deputy, District Deputy and each council in the state of Flor- ida. The bulletin keeps the mem- bers informed on the coming events, reports. from committees, and other special columns such as the Grand Knight’s notes and the chaplain’s messages. By RALPH ROGERS Elijah Rebukes Ahab. | Kings. 1 Last Sunday we read of Israel’s] purge of prophets of Baal.. Even though the leaders of idolatry were liquidated, others replaced them and we find in today’s lesson other evils which reveals the depths to which man’s nature can stoop. Naboth A Freeholder The lessom today presents the picture of a modest subject and neighbor of Ahab who had a most attractive vineyard. No doubt Na- both was industriously going quiet- ly about his business of pruning the vines, gathering the crop and trans- forming it into a saleable product. Naboth was what we would call a substantial citizen of Israel. * However he seemed to be too in- dustrious. His vineyard was so at- tractive that King Ahab thought it would make a nice garden since it was next to his threshing floor — not next to the palace. The King was a land-grabber and sought to pressure Naboth into selling his ‘inheritance.’ Since it was property handed down by his forefathers, there was considerable sentiment attached to the place. No doubt with the price offered Naboth could have found another place as good and so accommodate the King—but because it was his inheritance, and since ‘Jehovah forbids it” Naboth refused to sell. Ahab knew the man was right, but like a little boy, he began to sulk and actually went home and went to bed. It.is said that the Ford Factory at Dagenham, England is built on the land once owned by one John Ward, a political land-grabber. As a member of Parliament he was able to buy a valuable piece of property cheap because it was flooded. He then had it drained at public expense. A prayer found among his papers at his death shows that like Ahab, he had de- serted God. His prayers read, “O Lord, thou knowest I have my. es- tates in the city of London, and lixewise that I have recently pur- chased an estate in fee simple in the county of Essex. I beseech thee to preserve the two counties of Middlesex and Essex from fire and earthquake, and as I have a mort- gage in Hertfordshire, I beg thee likewise have an eye of compas- sion on that county: as for the rest of the counties, thou mayest deal with them as thou are pleased.” Greed was the undoing of Ahab, of John Ward, and of others who rave been scheming in their greed or more and more land, Jezebel Solves The Problem Jezebel, the scheming mind and he meanest woman in history, finds her husband @ulking, and like 4 The Press Committee ‘releases regularly to the local news editors announcements concerning appoint- ments, social projects, meetings, committee plans, special - events, ect. The Radio Committee has a job somewhat like that of the Press Group. Besides sending out the same type of stories to the radio, they arrange radio time for special projects such as, Columbus Day, forums, religious transcriptions ete. They also provide speakers upon request for community civic and welfare groups, schools, Holy Name Societies, Squires, parish organizations and for patriotic ob- servances. The Visual Aids Committee han- which can be advanced through the use of bulletin boards, posters, movies, film slides, etc. They also arrange for displays of major council events and contests, take pictures of the various events and keep the council scrapbook of news- paper clippings ect. Eugene K. Halpin is the current chairman of the Publicity Com- mittee in the Father Dougherty Council. It takes a minimum of ten members to carry out the du- ties of this committee under the Five Point Program. In order to efficiently carry out the functions of the five basic com- mittees properly, it requires ap- proximately a hundred members, working on the various commit- tees. By each member doing his dle -additional publicity --projects}bit, the program runs smoothly. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON alfwives, she knew that something was bothering him. It didn’t take = long to find out. She perhaps ady knew... Ahab knew the tea- chings of Moses which said among ther things, “‘So shall not the in- ritance of the children of Israel remove. from tribe to tribe; the children of Israel shall cleave everyone to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.” (Num. 36:7) This meant nothing to Jezebel, nei- ther did it disturb her conscience when she planned for the false wit- nesses to swear that Naboth did blaspheme God and the King, thus committing treason. Perjury is increasing at an alarm- ing rate. The practice of . giving the opposite meaning to honest statements may have originated among the leaders of a certain na- tion, but the tragedy of it all is that the same idea has spread to this nation as well in this year of our Lord 1954. It becomes far more serious when the practice is being introduced into the churches of Christ which should be the very essence of honesty and truth. Envy and jealously and greed is more deadly than murder since it is sub- tle and deceptive in its method and execution. It is the very antithe- sis of love and truth and right- eousness. f The Troubler Appears Elijah had been hid for some time but now he boldly appears to King Ahab and finds him taking Possession of the ill-gotten land. The old prophet speaks and .asks a question, “Hast thou killed, and also taken possession?” Some may say that this is just a story, but what a true story! Too many to- day have the greed of Ahab in us but there is always an Elijah, a conscience which asks, “Have you killed, have you taken possession?” Murderers may fool the law en- forcement officers but they cannot deceive God. Steal and we die, morally and spiritually. The Penalty We call the lust for lard the economic motive. We may salve our conscience by saying that the family, or others may benefit by our shrewd schemes. Our casket may be banked with flowers and our remains carried by high-hat- ted, white-gloved pallbearers but the stench of our nefarious acts lives on and ascends to the very doors -of heaven itself.: We carry to our graves in our clutched hands only that which we have given away, not what we leave behind. Ahab died, not in Jezreel near Naboth’s vineyard but near Sa- was cast out of a window and the dogs licked the blood as they had when Naboth was stoned. Elijah, the troubler of Israel, had pro- nounced the judgement of God up- on the criminals and they met. their fate as had been predicted. This story ‘illustrates the eternal truth that God demands morality and righteousness of his people. He punishes in one way or another and we cannot evade the eternal law as given by Moses on Mount Horeb many long years ago. We may lull ourselves into thinking maria. Jezebel, the instigator of the crime, met a cruel death. She ' in this day of sharp practice that a man is clever who can ac- cumulate sufficient power to out- wit the honest and substantial neighbor but we will never become so progressive as to be rid of the law, “‘as ye sow, so shall ye reap.” Conclusion Sometimes we feel sorry for our- selves because we do not have what others have. Ahab wanted what Naboth had and since he ‘couldn’t have it he went home and sulked. Agnes Keith who spent some time in a Japanese prison camp said, “Women who feel sorry for them- selves and parade their ills are close to the top as human nuis- ances. Even in a Japanese prison camp it was not the mean, greedy, dishonest, light - fingered, violent- tempered women that the camp resented. It was the tearful and! hysterical women who were sorry for themselves.” It was said that Socrates, the wisest man in Greece, was a great window shopper. He would .go through the market in Athens look- ing at the lovely things displayed by the merchants but never bought anything. When asked why he did that he said, “I do it in order that I may realize how many things I can do without.” Am Arab pro- verb says, “Covetousness-has for its mother unlawful desire, for its daughter injustice, and for’ its friend violence.” pend acchesaruc ARCHBISHOP WILL HEAR EVANGELIST LONDON (®—The Archbishop of Canterbury, ranking prelate of the Church of England, has accepted an invitation to attend the final London revival meeting of Ameri- ca’s Billy Graham, the evangelist’s headquarters has announced. The meeting will be held May. 22 at the vast Wembley stadium, where a crowd of 110,000 is ex- pected. = Graham has addressed well over a million Britons since he launchec his crusade in London 11 weeks ago. f Richard’ Weintraub, Byron Wein- be traub, Michael Cohn, Mark Thorn- berg, David Moore, Hank Cornick, Susan Wolfson, Linda Thornberg, Anita Rosenfeld, Marsha Brown- “ea Marlene Elias, Debbie Ker- Ne. Second grade — Bruce Wolfson, Steven Cohn, Michael Blatt, Ira Yellin, Randy Grossman, Jeffery Berman, Harriet Frank. ‘Veronica Holtsberg, Rena Weinstein, Victor Elias, Ronald Lipshitz, Dianna Land, Bonnie Lewinsky, Leona Ber- man, Linda Brownstein, Roberta Berman, Vionna Morrison, Carol Shafner. Third grade and confirmation class — Sally Lewinsky, Rochella Elias, Rhoda Shafner, Judy Yellin, Jeanette Moore, Judy Gipson, Lin- da Berman, Carl Herman, George Shwimmer, Sharron Grossman, Ro- berta Blatt, David Lipshitz and Ira Yellin. The Sunday School teachers are Mrs. Edna Land, Mrs. John Solo- mon, Ira Silberman, Sunny Tucker. Rabbi Schwartz is the principal. The Junior Congregation Club will continue every sécond Wednes- day under the leadership of Mrs. | of Louise Altman. Gems Of Thoaght INDIVIDUALITY The greatest things. are accom: plished by individual men. urgeon, Every individual:has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some respect, whether he choos- es to be so-or not. —Hawthorne: In obedience to the divine na- ture, man’s individualty reflects the divine law and order of being. —Mary Baker Eddy. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. . —Emerson, Flemi Dr. Gannaway To Speak At Ley Memorial Dr. Bruce F. Ganngway, former pastor of*Ley Memofial Methodist Church and currently the Superin- tendent of the Miami District of The Methodist Church, will deliver the sermon’at the 7:3%evening sex vice tomorrow. Since serving as pastor at Ley Memoriaf in 1930-31, Dr. Ganna- way i § Imm ely following the even- ing served ie Gannaway will pre- side vere Quarterly Conference of the local Church, which is a part of his duties as a District Super- intendent; This Conference is of ut- most importance to the Church be- cause it'i8"the time for election cf general 6fficers. The many friends of Dr. Ganna- way will,.want to attend the ser- vice to hear him preach. All the members and friends of the Church will want to be on hand both for the service and Quarterly Confer- ence. Other Services Other \services of the day in- cludes Sanday School at 9:45 a. m., the mi worship service at 10:50, amigthe Methodist Youth Fellowship" at 6:30 p. m. At the the pa: of serm jorning worship service will continue the series on the general theme “From) Victory Unto Victory” which eif from Easter, April 18, to Pentecost Sunday, June 6. ‘The specifi¢ subject for tomorrow’s saves Will be “Victory When You ray.” DRUNK ‘DRIVER SHOOTS HIMSELF SAN DIEGO, Calif. --Erwin B. Heifner, 38, arrested on a charge of drunk’ driving,’ shot and killed himself in the back seat of the arresting’ dfficer’s car last night, the State ‘Highway Patrol said. Sgt. H. G. Hoard said he stopped Heifner because his car was weav- ing on thehighway. “I didn’t see any gun when I gave him the sobriety test,” Hoard said. il : This Rock OF Ours - By Bill Gibb For five days a week, “This Rock of Ours” concerns itself with ‘devilish’ things. The sixth day, we look around and discover that there is still cause for optimism in this world. The majority of people are basically good. They can become better by taking a more active part in religious af- fairs. To the best of my knowledge, folks who attend church regularly are not irreparably damaged. Oc- casionally they suffer for awhile by having* their ego punctured. And of course, their pocketbooks are hurt because they usually feel called upon to contribute a dime or a quarter, (no state tax in- cluded), to the church till. Bar- ring thses minor incidents, church- going people seem to enjoy them- selves. : How about you? Willing to be a sport and investi- gate what goes on behind those four walls in the church down the street? If it was a bar or a recrea- tion spot, you’d probably already have been inside looking the place over! Somehow, somewhere, unfavor- able publicity has gotten out that people who go to church are bigots. That they live a narrow, ignorant life and are afraid to enjoy them- selves in a normal manner. If this has been your impression, there is no argument that I can use to over- come it — I used to say the same thing myself. You can settle the question by spending a little time this week-end mixing with church members. Most of them are typi- cal Americans with no tendency toward ramming religion down your throat. Of course, there is another way of looking at the:subject too. After all, neither the church you attend nor its congregation is on trial. Both have established themselves in the eyes of the community and — I hope — in the eyes of God also. You can look around and see if “ey don’t have something that you are missing. :Selfish Program Perhaps: this statement will shock asfew ministers but'to me, affiliationi‘with a church is a pro- gram of«praiseworthy selfishness. By that‘L’mean that if the church you are contemplating joining doesn’t ‘offer you complete assur- ance andvfaith in the supremacy of God; if you can’t find comfort- ing knowledge in the fact that you’re being led in the right di- rection’ — then something is def- initely wrong. It isan unfortunate fact that the pastor of a church quite often sells himself rather than his ré- ligion to the congregation. When this happens, you'll notice that after a change in pastors, the church ‘attenders will begin to show a vague: uneasiness. They won’t know what is wrong but gradually, they will begin to miss more and more services. I don’t think that a pastor of the type mentioned above can be blamed ‘for such a situation. Ra- ther, the congregation has sold it- self short by substituting the real — though intangible — church aim for the tangible — but thoroughly mortat’ — qualities of a man. Strictness in adhering’ to the churclicreed under all conditions the«very foundation of any re- ligiom»> Church leaders come and go. Sincevthey are mortals, it is only natural that some will be better equipped, perhaps. have a better presentation and delivery than others.-However, if you let this fact influence you, you'll be flitting around-from one church to another as often:as a teen-age girl changes her béaux. T’msia heck of a guy to write about réligion! Primarily, this kind of column is written to clear my own -thoughts and hear the reac- tion of,others who know a lot more about the subject than I do. All of which goes to show that when a fellow thinks or writes about re- ligion, there is quite often an un- settled question in his mind. eet Church Will erly Conference The Fourth Quarterly Conference of the Fleming Street Methodist Church will follow the 10:50 a. m. service Sunday morning. Reports on the year’s ac: will be heard and the church member- ship can be justifiably proud of the great strides taken this year both spititually and le The sermon will be given by the Reverend Bruce F, Gannaway, Dis- Superintendent. trict Choir Music “I Will Lift Mine Eyes” by Nor- man will be sung by the vested choir and for her prelude and of- fertory, Mrs. Claude Salis, organ- ist, will play Diggle’s ‘‘Reverie” and “Come Sweet Peace” by Bach. Beginning the evening service at 7:30 Mrs. Salis will play Mendols- sohn’s “‘Hear My Prayer,” and the choir will sing “Blessed Are They” by Holton, The Reverend J. E. Statham will preach on the subject, “A New Man With A New Song.” Always of great interest and in- spiration are the fine Sunday School classes for all ages. Romantic Story Of Eloping Pair Ends In Death PARIS ™ — Bolivian heiress Isabela Patino Goldsmith died last night from a brain hemorrage, bringing an end to a romantic story that was climaxed last Jan- uary in a headline-making runa- way marriage. She was 18. The youngest daughter of multi- millionaire tin magnate Antenor Patino died in the American Hart- man Clinic following an operation. ;|At her bedside at the time of her death was her husband, James Goldsmith, 20-year-old son of a wealthy British hotel owner. The couple swept newspaper front pages when they ran away. to Scotland to marry in defiance of the elder Patino. Irate, he pur- sued them and announced his in- tention to block the marriage. However, they were wed in Kelso, Scotland, Jan. 7, after he finally consented and indicated he had forgiven them. The young Se one was to have a baby next mber, was found acoect in a Paris hotel room Thursday, She ‘was Tushed’ to the Américan Hospital and then transferred across the street to the clinic, which works in close eol-- laboration with. the The newlywed couple had been spending a long honeymoon on the French Riviera. Isabela, fragile and dark-eyed, scorned several royal French suit- ors to elope with Goldsmith. Dam Workers Are Killed In Mishap THE DALLES, Ore. W—A crete bucket weighing several broke loose from a crane on a group of workers Dalles dam last night. Two mi were killed and six injured. The coroner’s office said Ferrell C. Ball, 22, The Dalles, was killed joutright. Elmo Monroe Lawson, 21, died en route to a hospital. Free and Open to the Public T. Christian Science Reading Room in your com- munity is maintained in sim- ple gratitude by your Chris- tian Science neighbors. 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