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

————— THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, July 26, 1954 The Key West Citizen ne eSSS—S—SssSsSsSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSsF Published daily (except Sunday) from The Citi ildii Hoon ogre he ac cae e Citizen Building, corner of Only D. Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher 2 mn 1921 - 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN .0escecessesseeeene, .«. Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news pub- lished here. Member Associate Dailies of Florida Bubscription (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. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments, Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Goveraments. Community Auditorium. SEVEN SIGNS OF ALCOHOLISM There are a number of people in this community, and in every community, who are on the road to becoming al- coholics. In most cases, these individuals are the last ones to realize they are going down the road to alcoholism. Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, University of Hlinois physiologist, recently listed seven warning signs of alcoholism. Here they are: 1. Sneaking extra drinks. Hanging around the punch bowl to help serve — and drink. 2. Feeling the need for a drink to siart a business day or conference. 8, Need for a drink at a certain time in the day. 4. Irritability about drinking, or being deprived of something to drink. 5. Drinking alone. 6. Drinking to prevent hands from tremblinc, ease tension. 7. Steadily increasing daily doses. Whiie some may partake of alcoholic drinks for one or more of the above reasons, and not be on the road to alcoholism, others drinking for one or more of the rea- sons listed above, are on the road to uncontrolled alco- holism. There is no way to tell who will become an alco- holic and who will not, but the warning signs listed above should provide you with a valuable yardstick. Dr. Ivy believes the only sure way to avoid the signs he lists is to abstain from all alcoholic drinks. If there is any doubt in your mind about avoiding the above symp- toms, we would advise you to take Dr. Ivy’s advice and follow the only “sure” way to steer clear of alcoholism. or to A pretty girl can usually get what she wants. No economy should destroy any necessary govern- ment function. What ruins many a vacation is the pile of work await- - ing you on your return. There are few women who do not tell their husbands about the bigger ones that got away. One of the surest methods of making yourself disliked is to get the idea that you have to speak the truth all the time. We constantly doubt the benefit of public speeches and are relieved that the day of old-style oratory is draw- ing to a close, Nothing is to be gained by denouncing the Russians for taking care of their interests; let our statesmen take care of our interests. — Crossword. Puzzle ACROSS 1 Possesses 4. Imitated 8. Land measure 12. Entirely 13. Billow 14. Loyal 15. New 17. Taverns 38. Antlercd animal 19. Join the colors 33. Geological period 35. Direct 36. Air: comb. form 38. Motions of the sea 39. Res 41. North central state: abbr. 42. Spirited Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle DOWN 1, Part of the body 8. Tipping to one side 9. Focused 10, Flowed 11. Overhead railways 16. Walk 20. Ba me ely dance den plots . Wild plum . Wonder 5. Peel 6. Manifest 7. Assert Pp 29. Unit of work 30. Regret 81. One who loans abetic ter 5. Understands Thick piece 27. Receiver of a legacy 28. Entangled 32. Heard again 34. Apple juice 37. Ruddier 40. Geographical * reference book 43. African tree 45. Guide 46. English divine 47. Sun disk 48. Hebrew. measure bearing rock §1. Tree THE BURNING OF THE MORTGAGER | by DENIS SNEIGR A recent letter to the editor cf The Citizen squawking about the cops charging people with having an accident. Apparently, when an auto acci- deat occurs, the cops charge every- body in sight with having an acci- dent — even if one of the parties is obviously not at fault. The woman who wrote the letter to the editor wanted to know why this practice is followed by the po- lice. The answer is simple. It’s an easy method of getting all the parties involved into court. Of course, the proper way — in- stead of handing everyone a sum- mons — would be to issue sub- poneas to the witnesses. That takes a little time and trou- ble. So the cops just charge every- body. I wonder why the police don’t charge other accident victims with having an accident. Maybe they do never heard of it. Let’s take the case of a carpen- ter who hits his thumb with a hammer and speculate on what could happen to him. Here is the carpenter, Buzzsaw Q. Hammer, working on a house. He is driving nails. Suddenly he whams his thumb with the hammer. A stool pigeon, hiding under a nearby pile of saw dust, phones the cops. “Quick!” screams the stool pigeon over the phone. “Send a riot squad. A man just had an accident. Hit his thumb with a hammer.” In a matter of seconds squad cars are racing to the scene. The cars skid to a stop in front of the partially completed house. Buzzsaw Q. Hammer is hopping about, cursing, and nursing’ his smashed thumb. Six big, burly cops rush at him with drawn guns. “Ah ha,” sneers the sergeant, around having accidents, and I’ve just You’re dog-gone right,” says Buzzsaw. “‘Take a look at that thumb.” admit it. ‘Don’t worry, chief,” says an- other cop. “I got his confession down on the tape recorder.” “Good,” says the sergeant. “Throw this bum in the pie wa- ays the sergeant, “you | gon After securely shackling the cri- minal with chains, the cops heave him into the patrol wagon and off |he goes to the clink. At the sation house, Buzzsa® Q Hammer is dragged before the desk sergeant “What's the rap?" asks the big man behind the desk “Having an accident,” says the sergeant who headed the posse. “Oh ho!” shouts the desk ser- geant, coming to life. ‘Another one of those ciminals who have acci- dents.” “Righ says the other ser- geant. ‘“‘He’s a pretty dangerous character, too. He hit his thumb with a hammer.” “F tically another Dillinger,” remarks the desk sergeant. “Throw him in solitary con- finement.” he adds. “And don’t take the chains off. He might try to escape.” “What about setting a bond?” Buzzsaw asks. This silly question throws all the cops into gales of laughter. Several weeks later, Buzzsaw Q. prosecutor. “Hit his thumb with a hammer.” “Not guilty,” says Buzzsaw Q. Hammer, “Baloney,’”’ sneers the magis- trate. “I’ll set bond at $10,000,000. We got to stop this business of peo- ple flagrantly having accidents.” So our hero is dragged off to solitary confinement to await trial. We won't dwell on the sad de- tails of the trial. Just let it be said that the jury found Buzzsaw guilty as charged and the judge, with a grin, handed him 20 years in the state penitentiary. Mrs. Buzzsaw Q. Hammer, the criminal’s wife, divorced him. She was ashamed of Buzzsaw and did not want her two children to dis- Hammer is dragged out of his|cover what a bum their old man solitary cell and hauled before a magistrate for a preliminary hear- ing. “‘What’s the charge?” the magis- trate asks. He has a hangover and feels crabby. “Having an accident,” says the had turned out to be. Mrs, Hammer and the children moved to Miami. “They let anybody live in Mia- mi, she said, quoting Thorne Smith. Buzzsaw got 30 days knocked off You'll find no NAVARRO, Inc. This Rock Of Ou By Bill Gibb Newspapers are about to scare} people to death with crime stories | here of late. I sometimes wonder if such publicity doesn’t aggravate undesirable conditions rather than | improve them. Seems to me like most women are asking for trouble the way| they parade the streets at all hours | without any clothes on. Don’t try! to tell me that they wear ribbon halters and skimpy shorts for com- fort! Every ten steps, as they walk down the street, they are struggling to adjust one or the other. There couldn’t be much comfort in that kind of trouble-| some rig! I'm willing to bet if our women started wearing a few clothes, the automobile accident rate would be lowered in Key West. Heck! I'm| an old man and I ran my car| through a store window the other} day when 'I passed one of these modern Eves wearing a little less than nothing. No wonder the young guys can’t drive straight! The truth of the matter is that| I don’t care whether my campaign | to put clothes back on women} ever succeeds. But I’m_ getting mighty disgusted with some of} these males who go around in not | much more than a loin cloth. Shorts and a T-shirt are fine. They are designed for a tropical ! climate. The thing that gets my goat, however, is a case such as, the following which was reported to me the other day: A man in a skin-tight bathing | suit similar to the Bikini worn by | girls spent about ten minutes | watching a group of little tots, playing in the Harris Elementary | School yard. He was gone by the} time I got there but from descrip- | tions, his actions were wholly and | his 20 year sentence for good be-! havior. He didn’t hit his thumb! with a hammer during the 19 years, | 11 months he was in the pen. | When Buzzsaw was freed from | prison, the state did everything possible to rehabilitate him. | The state gave him a job as a ! cop. Buzzsaw’s sole duty was to hand out summonses to people for hav- ing accidents. He amassed an impressive re- cord along those lines. | Paper about a new project which | Creation |I hadn’t heard before—the Sigsbee such as Key West which. doesn’t ‘Consumption Of . ‘Beer Drops Off Z Among Britons LONDON (®.— In Britain beer drinking national pastime— like cricket and betting on soccer pools—but the number of drinkers solely those of an exhibitionist. | is on the decline. This is the kind of guy who ought; The British treasury’s “Bulletin to be given an opportunity to ex-| for Industry,” says the consump- ercise his perversion behind the|tion of beer dropped 8 per cent cell bars of the City or County while the eating of food went up jail. sharply. With the menfolk show- Doctors tel! us such actions can-|i"S up less at the neighborhood not be helped— that these kind of S@loon the womenfolk were appear- people are afflicted and deserve i$ more frequently at the grocery pity. Maybeso, Maybeso—but 1/ Store. Food consumption rose by prefer to reserve my pity for them |1-5 per cent until they are definitely locked up| Whisky sales are down to half somewhere. what they were before World War Sympathy is fine. 1 can even|U. Wine is two-thirds what it was is a {feel sorry for rattlesnakes which |i8 1939. But the traffic in gin is are confined in zoos. But that, about double. doesn’t mean that 1 think they| There are all sorts of explana- should be turned loose on the pub- tions for the drop in beer. For lic. one thing, there are more con- How'd we get of fon this subject | Sumer items for sale in ships and anyway? the family money is going for them Let’s something |instead of in driblets at the bar. good— | : _ Sigsbee Park Recreation |to be complimented. Life can be There was an item in last week’s | ighty dreary without normal re- Especially in a town talk about Park Recreation Council. Seems) Offer much in the way of profes- that Mrs. Barbara Mitchell is | Sinal entertainment. temporary chairman and the ob-| Here’s wishing the Sigsbee Park ject of the outfit is to create a/plan every success and hoping that feeling of community friendship | the idea will spread throughout —of “oneness,” to put it in my|other areas such as Poinciana, own words. | Peary Court, and residential sec- Folks involved in the work are! tions in Key West. TELEVISION SALES and SERVICE 1105 WHITEHEAD STREET TELEPHONE 2.3449 Expert Repairs Reasonable Rates TAILORED INSTALLATION for MOTELS . . HOTELS HOMES .. BUSINESS Presents Television Listings—WTVJ, CHANNEL 4 MONDAY, JULY 26 i N AND MICKEY CO KID SHOPPER'S GUIDE ANNOUNCED TF ON YOUR ACCOUNT GARRY MOORE A. “REY STRIKE IT RICH ‘U MAGIC RCH FOR TOMORROW ALL SPORTS ING LIGHT PD WARDS REPORTING ALLEN E TRAVELERS Di WITH JUDY other motoring Reward to equal Chrysier performance! 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