The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 24, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 = THE KEY WEST Citizen ‘Thursday, June 24, 1954 ~The Key West Citizen er 7 C2 SOT paren Published daily (except Sunday) trom 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 snnommnnmnnnnnnnuninn Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2.5662 Member of The Associated Press—The Assoc: entitled to use for r action of all news diepatchen crete et lp agglagd in this paper, and also the local news pub- Member Associate Dailies of Florids ee Serene ee Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an forum invites discussi i and subjects of inal or ceard intersect hae anonymous communications, publish IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST A BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. 3 Beach and Ba Pavilion, & Gomoldation ef County’ and City ¢ ts 5. Community - Auditorium. sh laa — -—— $< THE CITIZEN GOES BEHIND THE HEADLINES * AGAIN TO PHILOSOPHIZE A BIT “Senator Hunt Is Found Shot In His Office.” Front- page headline in Saturday’s issue of The Citizen. Senator Hunt committed suicide. We, with normal minds, can’t bring ourselves to understand to the ultimate detail how a man can deliberately take his own life. It has been argued, pro and con, whether or not a man is sane when he commits suicide. Instances have been given of men and women who conversed ‘logically a moment before they ended their lives. That truth has led some to maintain that some people have killed them- selves when they were sane. But their minds were not sound. They were sane to the extent of being able to talk sensibly, but even while they spoke they were obsessed by a thought that con- stantly preyed on their minds during their waking hours. And when they woke out of sleep, this ever-pounding thought was the first thing that came into their conscious- ness. The thought became an obsession from which they could not rid themselves, They brooded, as Senator Hunt is said to have brooded for several weeks. Illness was the cause of his brooding, The brooding led to his announc- ing on Tuesday, June 15, that he would not run for office again. That announcement caused an uneasiness in his home state of Wyoming, a normally, Republican state, where he was exceedingly popular and had always been elected, though he was a Democrat. Last Saturday he was unable further to withstand the pressure on his mind, so he committed suicide. The assumption is that he had convinced himself he could not get better, and that it was wiser to die then than to suffer and die later. f Probably incurable diseases have been the cause of most suicides. But many a suicide had been in good health. Some took their lives because of financial ruin, others for various reasons, among them disappointment in love. But whatever the reason for people’s taking their own lives, you may be sure that they were off balance because of something that weighed on their minds constantly, de- spite how hard they might: have tried ‘to stop. their brood- ing. Some suicides have left notes in which they stressed “the futility of it all” in regard to life. Their minds were not sound. People of sound minds can’t be beaten down by what may seem futile on the surface. They strive and strive till they overcome the seeming futility. A man of backbone meets life as it comes to him in keeping with Longfellow’s advice, ‘Let us then be up and doing with a heart for any fate.” Farm prices are still not what they were and the squeeze is still on the farmer, which condition will be re- flected in November, we predict. Crossword Puzzle > fi EIR} EBs) AILIK} Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle Down 6. Thin coating 7. Danish money of account 8. River dam 9. Corpulent 10. Ancient language +83. Wool fibers 96. Dispatched 96. So. Ameri 42. Street child 44. Singing voice issues} - ‘This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb This column ‘seldom uses the ‘canned’ releases which so often come into a newspaper office through the mail. However, the following deals with a timely sub- ject that is giving Key West a headache right now. Perhaps it will help folks to evaluate the controversy regard- ing Duval St. parking and also point up the fact that our town is not the only city in the nation struggling to solve undesirable traffic conditions. Answer To Urban Traffic Congestion Seen in Public Transit tmprovements New York — Elimination of parking lots in the center of down- town business areas, reservation of certain city streets for public transit vehicles, allotting one lane to public transit buses, and elim- ination of all street parking on busy city streets are suggested as ways to alleviate urban _ traffic congestion in an article in Bus Transportation, McGraw-Hill pub- lication. : fi Perimeter parking, in conjunc- tion with park-and-ride plans, should be provided rather than parking lots on valuable lang right in the center of cities; the latter only encourage cars to come into the bisiness area, thus adding to the traffic preblem. ark-and-ride, whereby the motor: ist parks his car some distance from the city and uses an express PEOPLE’S FORUM ‘The Citizen welcomes expressions ef the views of its read- ers, but the editor reserves the right to delete any items which. are considered libelous or unwarranted. The writers should be fair and confine the letters te 200 words and write on one side of the paper only. Signature of the writer must accompany the letters and will be published unless requested otherwise. THANK YOU NOTE Editor, The Citizen: Kindly allow me space in your paper to thank all who contributed toward making my “Retirement Tea” such a memorable success. First of all, I wish to thank the faculty of Truman and Reynolds Schools, who sponsored the idea and gave it so unstintingly of their time and effort. To all those kind friends who were so lavish with their kind words and their wish for my future happiness. I shall always owe a debt of grateful appreciation. Sincerely, MAY SANDS. TO THE PEOPLE OF KEY WEST Editor, The Citizen: Why doesn’t everyone in this city stop, think and take a look at our Police Department these days? I be- lieve that if they did they would see a great deal of im- provement in the smooth way it is being run and the way the morale of the men in the department has lifted. So why not give our chief the consideration he de- serves and give credit where credit is due. Anyone can see that in the short time he has been acting chief the decided improvement he has made and with all the con- troversy and politics he has had to buck, it certainly hasn’t been an easy job. So let’s give him our yote of confidence and Jet him know we are backing him all the way. You have here a man of high integrity and foresight and it’s about time we let him know the way we feel about what he has al- ready done while in the job he now has. He would much rather work men that look on him as a friend rather than as their superior only, a man who would like to have a police force he can be proud of and a credit to our city. He’s well on his way to changing the minds of these people who talked it around that he didn’t have the education to hold this position. ‘ To my way of thinking in a job like this experience and understanding of the responsibility of such a job should be the deciding factor. For he has certainly proven that in the way he has conducted himself in the past months. So let’s back him up and give him the encourage- ment he should have for a job, well done. L. E. MITCHELL. » | bus for the remainder of trip, would intercept or divert much of the city traffic. | Street parking, according to the article, should be considered as a privilege rather than a right, and should be extended only when a street is not needed for moving vehicles. This . would open the way for an experimental plan, where- by the curb lane would be assign- ed exclusively to buses during rush periods only. Traffic Discourages Shopping In the shift of mass transporta- tion to the private automobile, many downtown shopping areas have lost. their ability to attract crowds of people, mainly they have sacrificed the freedom of access without which the rest of their operation cannot function, the article asserts. If all the bus riders entering the shopping dis- trict of St. Louis, for example, between the hours of 8 a.m, and 6 p.m. were to use private auto- mobiles, they would need 72,000 French Empire Totters On Both Sides Of World By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Foreign News Analyst RABAT, French Morocco # — United States but to abandon the important air bases built here under agreement with the French. The United States has three bases completed and one nearly completed and already operational in Morocco, at a cost of more than 300 million dollars. The bases were begun shortly after the Korean War exploded. The French per- mitted 7,500 Americans to be based . | permanently in Morocco to run the come to be of strategic im; to Western oe peas eae e Almost all are skilled Personnel. __ Present plans call for five bases in Spain to complement the North African program. This will make up a great single defense complex —_ rrent to any overt aggres- sive move by Moscow. There are an inner ring of bases in North Africa, England, Spain and Tur- key and an outer ring forged by | Iceland, Greenland and the Pacific is to keep France off balance in the area and render it unstable. Leaving aside the justice reasonableness of national! % Pirations, instability in North Afri- ca has- grave meaning for the United States if North Africa, and particularly Morocco, should blow up in internal strife? There might be little choice eventually for the area. American experts say these ing distance of strategic 4 an area whose weather permits takeoffs all but 17 days a year. _ Communists re outlawed both in Tunis and Morocco, but there is a hard core of 500 Morroccan Communists, built up by French Réds with the help of France's Communist dominated labor feder- af le Obviously under orders from out- side, the Communist party of Me Tecco has become supernationalist —mMore than that, monarchist—is its attempts to woo and infiltrate + the nationalist movement. It .re- fers to “His Majesty” Sidi Moham- med Ben Youssef, whose ouster by the French nine months ago is the issue which most stirs Mo- Communists play constantly on an anti-American theme, trying to whip up local and nationalist sentiment against the United es. loss of an area within easy. strife targets, Tings are 30 formidable Moscow | Stat: must keep its air force at 50 per cent fighters to offset the bomber threat. The more bases the West has, the more freedom of action it has in time of war, from the standpoint of choosing places from which to attack. The more bases the West has, the more Moscow’s air deense problems incre: ase, the more its defenses must be dis- prsed. Loss of Morocco would mean Intelligent Moroccan leaders re- alize the Communists, under Sec- Tetary Ali Yata, are trying to in- filtrate their ranks. Yet the day may come when, after long irrit tions and terror, alliances. of ope portunity may lure some of the more extreme elements, And Come munists are schooled in terror. It is not beyond possibility that they might arrange the well-timed kill- ing of Americans. New Theory Offered About Planet Venus By FRANK CAREY because two Harvard astronomers have offered a new theory that cars — a 70 per cent increase in the number of autos in the - ness district — while re : per cent of the total vehicles, ac- cording to a gov nent) survey. It -will require -the™-best efforts of all segments of the: community — the public, business, and transit — working together to reach-satis- factory balance in terms of mod- ern trends in urban growth and development,- the article states. you can set the dials | for dinner and leave the kitchen “an ocean of water completely covers the planet.” And, presumably, the spaceship itself would have to be equipped with parking pontoons—or at least an outboard motor. But take heart, you would-be spacemen.° The astornomers said it may be an ocean of “carbonat- ed” water — not too bad for a sociable Scotch and soda as you pull on the oars. “Because of the large amount of carbon dioxide in the Venusian atmosphere, the ocean would prob- ably consist of seltzer water, al- though I daresay it would be rath- er flat,” Dr. Donald Menzel smil- ingly told a reporter. . He and Dr. Fred Whipple pre- sented a joint report on the sub- ject to the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society, convened at the University of Michigan. Their concept differs sharply from a common one that Venus is an arid desert. with little or nol water, and where the temperature may be more than hot enough te boil water anyway. The scientists. offered a series. of arguments against a common = concept that the thick bank of « clouds that entirely envelopes the ~ Planet consists of dust — not of water as do the earth’s clouds. Bulwark of the older concept was that there is no evidence of water:--* in the spectrum of Venus’ light as : « studied on Earth. * But Menzel and Whipple said ans “ other astronomer has recently found that the atmosphere above . * the Venusian clouds 1s too cold to” hold any appreciable water vapor and this fact, they added, may explain the failure to find water in the Venus spectrum — without rul- ing out the possibility of there be-, ing water in the clouds themselves, Saying that: this satisfies them... that the Venusian clouds are wa- erlogged, the astronomers de- clared it must follow that the plan- et itself has a lot of water. Amasing—but true if you’re using an electric range with automatic controls. You can leave the kitchen—do a dosen other urgent tasks— while your range cooks dinner. With automatic controls and precision heat, your electric Tange gives you delicious meals without supervision. Gives you extra hours of freedom from your kitchen. 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