The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 5, 1954, Page 6

Page 6 ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, June S, 1954 The Key West Citizen Bublished daily (except Sunday) from The Citizen Building, corner of “Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher ‘1921 - 1954) NORMAN D. ARTMAN Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 by Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is Soe Ey ted é of or not otherwise this also Member Associate Dailies of Florids RII SE er il she eter Rk Snel Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The is an open forum and invites public issues and sub; of local ‘ablocts not publish discussion of or general interest, but it will anonymous UAPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN NEBLETT’S POWERS COMPARED WITH PAPY’S IN THE LEGISLATURE In an interview in The Citizen, reporter Bill Spill- man said that Senator-nominee Bill Neblett “would go slong with Bernie C. Papy as long as possible.” Just how do Neblett’s and Papy’s powers lineup? In local bills affecting Monroe County, their powers are at a 50-50 stand off. Neblett can: kill any local bill Papy in- troduces, and Papy can kill any local bill, concerning Monroe County, that Neblett introduces. Senators stick together and representatives stick to- gether on local bills. The reason for that adherence is be- cause senators and representatives respect one another's wishes regarding the county or counties they represent. But in the matter of appointments in Monroe County dur- ing Senator Collins’ incumbency as governor, men or women recommended by Neblett will get the jobs. That would be so even though Papy had been, dur- ig the campaigns for the May primaries, an out-and-out supporter of Collins. The reason lies in the confirming power given the senate by the state constitution. No ap- pointee from any ‘senatorial district is confirmed unless the senator from that district favors the appointment. What applies to-the Florida legislature also applies to Congress, with the difference that party lines are drawn in Washington. Should President Eisenhower make a lo- ¢al appointment in any state that has a Republican senator or senators, the senate acts in accordance with the ap- proval or disapproval of that senator or those senators. In the matter of presidential or gubernatorial per- sonal appointments, the national or state senate no long- er is guided by partisan politics. Many a time in Wash- ington, Democrats have joined Republicans, or vice versa, | it in refusing to confirm a presidential appointee. In the Florida senate, senators no longer go along with one an- other, as they do on local bills, in acting on a gubernator- fal appointment. Neblett will have a free hand on any type of ap- pointment. Let us assume a Papy man were appointed against Neblett’s wishes. All other senators would join with him in refusing to confirm the appointee. ; Conversely, if a Neblett man is appointed against Papy’s wishes, Papy would be powerless to stop senate ‘confirmation. Neblett’s power in that regard not only ap- Plies to Papy but also to each representative from Lee, Collier and. Hendry Counties. But that representative would have the same power Papy has to reject any local bill introduced by Neblett. Beginning at the next session of the legislature in April, 1955, that will be the line-up of power between Neblett and the representatives from his district. It is up to him alone to determine the “possible” in The Citizen reporter’s “go along... as long as possible.” z AIL IL eWIAISIPERE [PTT IC] Ss IPIO|ABBAIRI IABENIOIRIA! C ossword Puzzle INIT IRIEILIVMEAISIEIR| ’ ISTE IE ING IOIM] ICIS] Corrode PIE AMBEINIT| 1] OICICIUIREBAININ IE) RIO(OTT MEP] 1 IT] [} CIRINMBAIRIMME TIE TEINS) ISIE ITI TILE Mer JOR) MIAIRIS! IRIEIAIPIEIR) AICI LISMMAIVIEIRIS! 1 [OIN] RI TT TE my Al PUTT TT D} LA! wiaits} FEE Bie id dl ial PEOPLE’S FORUM Tee nr er ite Moms ot lip reed. ers, but the editor reserves the right to delete any items which are considered libelous or unwarranted. The writers should be peta pee le a wi must accom Fetters and will be published unless requested etherwica.” counsel or consent of the editors EDITORIAL DRAWS COMMENT of the publications in which they sewn neraia are'to appear. If this were not I : were um” of your newspaper in order|Pe4"_ in Scripps-Howard, Knight, to make some obsetvations about | 224 caragh aiphpien a ick an editorial published in your| Cut Tunning afoul of editorial pol Bewspaper on May 27, 1954. I * shall list my observations 1, 2, 3,|, 1 you insist that the proposed @te., and then fake brief com. legislation will censor the press ment. then it res only ed that you rm :, assume responsibility for-your ta eivcfenpanstTaP infes|tverisements fun a You do for beer, and liquor have no effect on fay pi pastar betigiepedn 1 Ge the amount of gambling and drink. responsibility I do not see how you can be yelling “Censorship”. If, on the other hand, you are willing to assume responsibility for liquor ads prepared without the influence of your policy you are being brib- ed into using your publication for the benefit of the liquor interests. 4. My conclusion. It is my opinion, Mr. © Editor, that you and your fellow editors are not necessarily concerned with the drinking habits of America. But I suspect you have a healthy interest in what might happen to your share of that annual hundred million dollar liquor advertising plum. You know, however, that if ra I cannot bring myself to believe that the liquor industry would be naive enough to spend more than one-hundred million dollars a year on advertisements without being sure that it was going to produce more and more drinkers. I am gure the liquor manufacturers do not have such a keen sense of benevolence toward newspapers that they simply want to contribute a goodly part of that hundred mil- lion to them. Over and beyond all this, the inference goes directly contrary to that sound and time honored slogan of all advertising media — “It pays to advertise”. 2. In the third paragraph you said, “You can’t force anybody to be good”. That is just another way of saying you can’t legislate mor- als. In every instance I can call to mind, those who have supported legalized liquor and gambling have used this idea and most of them have used Prohibition as the main example. I stand ready to admit that this idea is a half-truth, but I do not believe it is any more than that, Let me ask you a question or two. Is it immoral to commit mur- der? We have a law against mur- der. It is immoral to pedal nar- cotics: We have laws against it. Is it immoral to commit incest? We have a law against incest. Is it immoral to steal? We have a law against theft. I know that the laws against all these immoral acts have not completely stopped people from committing them, but not even The National Editorial Association would dare to suggest that we repeal such laws. So far as I know the proponents of the bill to ban interstate adver- tising of liquor have never claim- ed that it would completely elimi- nate drinking, but they do feel that it would help to check the steadily increasing number of new converts to the drinking habit. 3. You suggest throughout the editorial that to ban liquor adver- tisements (by the way, you fail to say that the proposed legislation applies only to interstate adver- tising) would be to censor the press. I would be the last man on earth to support anything that would cen- sor thé press. However, your con- ception of what we mean by “the press” must be considerably dif- ferent from mine. When I think of the press I do not necessarily think of paid advertisements. I believe you are not held responsible for the veracity of the ads which ap- pear in your newspaper. Surely the National Editorial Association would not want to ac- cept the liquor advertisements which appear in their newspapers as a part of their editorial policy. Such ads must be prepared by ad- vertising agencies without the you come right out with what is really “eating you” that you will not find too much sympathy. So, you fall back on that great Ameri- can institution which we call Free- dom of The Press and yell “cen- sorship”’. 9 ELDON SIMMONS, 1209 United St. I$ SOMETHING WRONG? Editor, the Citizen, Gradually, with irrevocable cer- tainty, it comes to the conscien- tious reader of your newspaper that something is wrong. We read of “Gestapo tactics” by the police | force; we hear City Government day after day proclaiming new or- dinances; we smell Garrison Bight; we stumble our way through the labyrinth of unmarked, disem- boweled city streets, tipping our hat to the novice standing in knee-deep storm water clairvoyantly reciting the virtues of Key West’s natural beauty; we see Auld Clootie in his Philosophical “armchair blistering Bill Gibb for inertia; and we feel the steady undercurrent of dissat- isfaction rumbling through the citizenry. oe more than just a town Bie ig up, cramped by geographical dimensions and private interests. It's the vanity of man squeezing forth in bitter droplets, infectious, venomous, crawling through the is- land with the inevitability of toxic It is man’s vanity to assume he does not need his neighbor’s bless- ing. Bill Gibb blames citizen leth- argy, choosing himself not to be a leader, but over-burdening God with the problem; Vic Lang, City Manager, and therefore a leader, wanders in a seeming state of con- fusion while the City Commission- ers bounce from one contradiction to another. The Police Captain Tules there will be no “more” rough-handling of citizens, no more favoritism, while a certain police- man-owned garage still comman- competition. Thorough reporting newspaper keeps these fore its reader. Paper is not to blame. No, it’s something more than by your facts be- the news- Crippling Labor Disputes Strike Bitter Blows To The Economy Of Pittsburgh, Penna. A Letter From BILL LANTAFF Dear Neighbor: Berard Shanley, White House counsel to President Eisenhower, talked himself into trouble again last week. Shanley, you will recall, is the same gentleman who, in a 1953 New Jersey speech, said that 1456 “gubversives” had been kicked out of the Government since the President took office. After being challenged, Shanley admitted that his use of the word “subversives” was an unfortunate mistake. After the storm subsided, Shan- ley was kept on the sidelines for a while; but the other day, he ad- dressed a meeting of the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America. In that speech, he charged that the Democrats were erecting road- blocks against the Eisenhower pro- gram, while professing to support him. This accusatién brought him prompt replies of which the choice rebuttal came from Senator Dick Russell; of Georgia, who said: “A lot of poppycock — he must have partaken very liberally of the hos- Pitality of his hosts.” In view of this charge by Mr. Shanley, let’s look at the récord. In the first session of the 83rd Con- gress, which was 1953, there were 83 clear-cut tests of the President's program and leadership on roll- call votes. Président won 74 of the tests and lost 9. Forty-three of the victories scored by the President took geen fcnate . oe Dem- ocrats with more votes than did his own Republi- can Party. Thirty-one of the President’s 7 victories were accomplished in the House of Representatives. Twenty of these victories came about be- cause of Democratic support. On the three defeats suffered by the President the House, the Pre- sident was supported by the Dem- ocrats more than the GOP on two. It looks lite Mr. Shanley has made his second unfortunate mis- take. As your Congressman has said before, now is the time for the politicians to quit worrying a- bout the next e’ections. Every e° fort should be made in these try- ing times to develop a strong bi- partisan foreign policy to meet the Communist challenge in Indo- china and to prevent further Com- = infiltration in Central Am- ae Sincerely Yours, BILL LANTAFF MODERN HORSES DALLAS — Mrs. William H. Fursman’s buggy was stolen, then Whe hate” Sa y wi = a the yumcie: zi “We bought the buggy for our horses, but they are scared to death of it; they’re used to cars and they won’t go near the buggy.” growing pains. It’s a lot of talk, talk, talk, and no action. It’s: too few people looking into the mirror and asking, “Were you honest to- day?” Suspicion is a disease, once Promulgated, hard to subdue. Key West is under an epidemic. Procla- mations by self-styled leaders car- Ty no weight of confidence to the public. Trust and confidence are sucked. into the vacuum of empty Phrases, leaving despair, and ang- “ue unrest, ere’s something wrong in Key West. It’s not good at all. We've Let’s stop blaming. Let’s get out of these armchairs and go to work! HV. B., P. O. Box 642 Key West, Florida. By JOHN MOODY PITTSBURGH, June 5 w— Two crippling labor disputes involving Jess than 7,000 employes are strik- ing bitter blows to the economy of this industrial metropolis—12th largest city in the nation. A four-week old transit strike is keeping thdusands of shoppers away from Pittsburgh’s business district as well as harassing an estimated 200,000 commuters. A second and much older strike of 12 AFL unions against the city’s five biggest department stores halts all truck deliveries and puts picket lines in front of the stores. Adding to the complicated labor picture are current contract talks between the basic steel industry and the big CIO United Steelwork- ers. Pittsburgh is the heart of the nation’s steel business. Current labor trouble dates back to Nov. 27. That’s when the AFL General Teamsters Union walked off the job at five departm stores. é Within a few weeks—as Christ- mas shopping reached a peak—11 other AFL affiliated unions pulled members off the job at the depart- ment 4,000. On May oe and bus- es stopped je The 2,700 bus and trolley oper- ators demanded that Pittsburgh Railways Co. a et $1.98 an a 30 5 company Moat One grounds it could not afford additional operating costs. Despite hundreds of additional autos rolling into the city each day now, traffic moves smoothly— a little slower maybe, but smooth- An atmosphere of friendliness prevails along the highways lead- ing to town. Motorists stop to pick up stranded commuters until their autos are filled. The trolley company estimated the dispute is costing striking workers $236,000 a week in lost pay and the firm is spending $11,- 600 a day for maintenance without taking a cent. Spokesmen for the five struck department stores admit business is off but decline to release fig- ures. A. H. Burchfiled, president of the Chamber of Commerce, esti- mated the department stores’ bus- iness was off about twice as much as in other big cities before the transit tieup. He added: “Since the transportation strike, it has gotten much worse. Strikes hurt everybody, the worker, the company and the city.” Several restaurants have quit One television station discontin- ued live programs and said unfa- vorable business conditions played a major part in the decision. Crux of the department stores dispute seems to center around the General Teamsters demands to de- cide when delivery trucks need helpers and when stores shall use parcel post for delivery. The old contract, with such a clause, expired in November and management has refused to dis- cuss the issue as part of any new contract. Pay and other monetary demands also are involved, but the union and management have nev- er got around to discussing them. There have been several inci- dents of minor violence—big store windows smashed, some officials’ homes sprayed with paint and a few non - striking employes at- tacked. - Most everybody speaks optimis- tically about the contract talks between the United Steelworkers and the basic steel industry. That contract expires June 30. The union said it wants a 78" anteed wage, a pay hike, impiuve- ments in pensions and insurance. Some industry officials estimated it would cost more than $1 an hour a worker to meet all of the un- jon’s demands. The contract cov- ers about 600,000 basic steelwork- ers, who now average $2.14 to $2.24 an hour. Hollywood HOLLYWOOD, May 31 #—“I’m having the most fun of my life.” This was Dick Powell enthusing, and no wonder, he is maneuvering horses, camels and hordes of Mon- gols and Tartars in a four million dollar production, one of the big- gest movies in Hollywood history. The boy from Mountain View, Ark., has come a long way. Pro- gressively a movie house emcee, film crooner and private eye por- trayer, he has now blossomed out as a producer-director of epics. Powell has never produced a picture before. He has directed only one, a medium-budget thrill- er called “Split Second.” Yet How- ard Hughes is so sold on the fellow that he has given Powell the green light for what will probably be RKO’s costliest movie. Not only that, but the enigmatic Texan also wanted Powell to take over as production boss of the whole studio. The ex-crooner turned it gown, contending that he wasn’t ready for such a post. When I saw Powell on the set of “The Conqueror,” he was riding high. He was astride a camera Notes By Bob Thomas plained, “‘but it isn’t the bare ert that most people think it ii Parts of it are quite there is much “We asked part of the Unit sembles the Gobi Desert. them we found a location ern Utah.” Powell’s company will eral weeks there and a vi of sage brush has been according to the studio, natives will be recruited tray the Chinese mobs. Y. boy has come a long way “42nd Street” and “Fli Walk.” Strange Playmate ii febe Ld pail took $2 from the Newton house and boom many feet in the air, direct-|$13 from the Madson home, ing the entrance of horsemen into a palace courtyard. His relationship with the cast and crew appeared to be one of mutual respect. Powell is aware that he is on a spot. He personal- ly interviewed 2,000 actors for roles in the picture, asking questions from morning to night. The casting office offered to re- lieve him of the load. “Look—I’m an actor myself,” he replied. “I don’t want any other actor to say that I didn’t give him the cour- tesy of seeing him personally about a role.” When Powell came down from his perch, he commented about what a good time he was having. “We've got a good story on pa- per,” he said, “now all I have to do is get it on film.” He said that he had trouble find- ing the right locations for the film, which concerns the early years of Ghengis Khan. “The story takes place in the Gobi Desert,” he ex- SUBSCRIBE TO THE CITIZEN THE KOREA Gi BILL PERMITS FORE Ss Use This Convenient Want Ad Order-Gram Count 5 Average ‘Words One Line Minimum Space Figures or Init Count As One Word Rates Per Line deers stalled automobiles without] lost sight of our Unity of Purpose. Multiply by number of lines CITIZEN WANT ADS tials” Address Please Print Ad Below . USE ORDER-GRAM TO— BUY - SELL - RENT - EMPLOY - OR LOCATE ‘START AD RUN AD ____. 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