The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 27, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN —_————. The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) from Greene and Ann ‘Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher sentient aan eee: NORMAN D. ARTMAN .....rennemnmnmennmunuunn Editor and Publisher ~~~ Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 Momber of The Associated Press—The lusi entitled to use for reproduction of all foreplay Shed tek Pon | acing credited in this paper, and also the local news pub- Tuesday, July 27, 1954 The Citizen Building, corner of Member Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 As ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN GN APPLICATION ge a Oe 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. MAN MUST FIND ‘HAPPY MEDIUM’ OR CONTRIBUTE TO OWN DESTRUCTION Is man flying fast enougn now to sult you? Or do you want to go faster? These questions are asked because of a story in Sat- urday’s Citizen that told of a local Navy man flying to Boston in five hours to be at the bedside of his seriously ill daughter. A short time ago, two Monroe County commissioners ate breakfast in Key West, lunch in Tallahassee, conferred with state officials and were back in Key West in time for dinner. A century ago, the Monroe County state senator and representative allowed themselves seven weeks to travel from Key West to Tallahassee to attend a session of the legislature. They sailed from Key West to New York and then made the trip from that city to Tallahassee by train, coach and ox cart. That roundabout route afforded faster and more comfortable travel than if they had gone to the east or west coast of Florida, because from those points points to Tallahassee existed a wilderness, with only a few roads wide enough for an ox cart or a coach. They would have had to walk many a mile along narrow trails. Travel in those days may make us smile or grunt in a Superior way, Compared with today’s going from place to place, it brings us back to where we started: Are we flying fast enough now, or will we fly faster? We will fly faster, but, in gaining greater speed, the more lives will be lost as we increase it mile by mile. Two years ago the toll of deaths caused by the automobile passed the million mark. The faster we travel the more we endanger our lives by the tick of a watch — one tick you are here, the next tick you are gone. & local man, who knows an automobile from the front to the back fender, said last Saturday, while talk- fng about the annual average of 35,000 killed in traffic accidents, that a national law should be passed limiting the speed of an automobile to 40 miles an hour. That would be a “happy medium,” but nations are speed-crazed, They are constantly striving for mileage records, and, as soon as they establish one, they begin striving to exceed it. And so it has been going, one and on, and will continue to go on and on. When it will stop nobody knows. Speed cheapens human life. Is the attainment of speed, and still more speed, worth what it costs in human ‘lives? But the cost does not end with the lives lost. Figure out for yourself to what extent the loss in traffic of the million lives adversely affected the national economy. Among that million were many men and women of ster- ling worth, who would have added much in the upbuild- ing of the United States. We don’t want ox-cart or horse-and-buggy days; neither do we want the days when you are in constant danger of becoming another victim of speed. Man must find the “happy medium” and stick to it, or continue to | contribute to his own destruction. He has been contribut- ing a long time, for 142 years ago Lord Byron said: “We must not allow mankind to be sacrificed to improvements in mechanism.” A budget is a good thing for any family if the family will carry it out, but it won’t work miracles by itself. Crosswo across 1. Emphasize 1. Determine 38. Volcanic matter 389. Defy 40. Adjective suffix 41. City in Oklahoma 46. Insect’s ecg 47. Engineering degree 48. Joyous. 60. Part of the Bible: abbr. 51. Whole 53. Reproach 55. Atmospheric disturbances 66. Rubbed out DOWN 1. Shrill cry 2. Threefold 3. Symbol for Tuthenium 4. 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Era el unico superviviente del pelo- ton que en la ciudad de Querétaro, en 1867, fusil6 a aquel que se visti de Emperador, que mas tarde fuera su mortaja y que se llamara el ambicioso Maximiliano. Este Rosas vivia orgulloso de haber tomado parte en equella dolorosa tragedia en la que se impuso el cardcter del benemérito Juarez, frente a la solicitud de Europa y de algunos paises de nuestra América, que pedian el perdén para el usurpador. Su gloria fué sin brillo alguno. Porque de una manera 0 de otra, el matar, es siempre un acto reprobado por todas las conciencias. Asi encontramos al repasar la historia de la humanidad, a Lon- ginos, capitan romano, que tuvo el triste privilegio de clavar la lanza sobre el costado de Jestis despues de inmolado en la Cruz. Asi John Wilkes Booth, que asesiné al inmor- tal Lincoln en 1865; Gavrio Prinzip que fuera el asesino del Archidu- que Francisco José en 1914; Va- lerio Audisio, Jefe We la guerrilla que diera muerte a Benito Musso- lini en 1945 y Nathuran Vinayak Gode, autor del asesinato del ro- mantic Mohandas K. Ghandis en 1948, Triste gloria para esos hombres, fanaticos en su mayoria, que esti- man que al dar muerte esos gran- dos hombres, equivocados 0 fidé, piensan que la posteridad habra de dedicarles pagimas de recorda- cién, cuando por el contrario, serAn eternamente fecordados, como asesinos, cuyos crimenes, de poco o nada sirvieron, para mejor- ar las condiciones de la humanidad. En la historia de nuestras luchas redentoras, hubieron también al- gunos de esos grandes equivocados, capaces por convicciones falsas, o por obtener una miserable paga, de asesinar y traicionar los mas respetables ideales y las mas no- bles causas. Porque en todas la epocas de la vida, el vellocino de oro ha sido una tentacién irresis- tible para los hombres poco escrumpulosos. Un Castafieda, en 1851, entregé a Narciso Lopez a las fuerzas es- pafiolas que lo perseguian. Pero este taimado traidor, fué muerto de un certero balazu, en la frente mientra fueparaba una tacada en el billar del viejo café de Marte y Belona, en La Habana. : Ramon Lopez de Ayala, el des- venturado militar espafiol que mandaba el piquete que el 27 de noviembre de 1871 fusilara a los ocho inocentes estudiantes de Medicina, acosado por los remordi- mientos, sintiendo que su concien- cia lo turturaba, acabé por perder la razon, muriendo en un mani- comio de la ciudad de Burdeos. Un ssoldado de las fuerzas de caballeria del Ejército espafiol, nombrado Victoriano Ca m pos Ferndndez, que operaba a _ las ordenes del Comandante Fran- cisco Cirujeda, y que tomara parte en la desdichada accion de San Pedro, segun sus propias mani- festaciones, con su tercerola hirid de muerte al General Antonio Maceo y a su fiel ayudante Pan- chito Gomez Toro, despues de encontrarse ambos heridos y en el suelo. Otro malvado, nombrado Antonio tree 49. Character in “Uncle Tom's Oliva, practico de la columna que mandaba el Coronel José Ximenez de Sandoval, en el combate ocurri- do en Bocas de Dos Rios. de acuerdo con sus propias manifesta- ciones, fué quien disparé e hizo caer para siempre en brazos de la inmortalidad a nuestro Marti, “de cara al Sol’, ei dia 19 de mayo de 1895. Los hombres cuando dejan de sentir el respeto de ellos mismos, no titubean en realizar acciones tan crueles y tan censurables, como el de matar y lo que es peor aun, sentirse orgullosos de haber- lo hecho, aunque fuera defendiendo un Ideal. Es siempre una gran pena, una desgracia inmensa para los hombres bien nacidos, encon- trarse en la necesidad de matar a sus semejantes, antes de ser in- molados por ellos. Pero aquellos que van a la guerra cumpliendo con las leyes y para defender su Patria, lo hacen sin rencores, sin edios y si matan, lo hacen por pura necesi- dad y no para vanagloriarse de lo, que hayan logrado hacer. Porque con frecuencia se olvidan que la parte contraria, que el enemigo, también tiene en sus filas, hombres que fueron Ilevados a la fuerza a tomar parte en la lucha y ellos también sifrieron al pensar que tenian que disparar sus armas 0 utilizar sus bayonetas, para clvar- las en el corazén de hermanos, a quienes no conocian, ni de quienes no habian recibido una sola afren- ta, ni de quienes no tenian un solo agravio que vengar. Esa es la dolorosa realidad de las guerras. Esa es la parte cruel de esas grandes conflagraciones, en la que hombres de uno y otro bando, se ven obligados por las circunstancias a matar a los demas seres humanos. Y si por tener una firme conviccién, si por tener una definitiva fé religiosa, se niegan a seguir en la linea de fuego, |entonces, son calificados como | cobardes, como meros traidores y | en muchos casos, fusilados sin pie- dad, olvidandose los que tales cesas }ordenan, que la opinién de todos respetada, y no debe un pequefio grupo de hombres, decidir la suerte de los pueblos y mandar al mata- dero a la juventud. Naturalmente, que cuando se defienden los sacro- santos ideales de la democracia, ‘cuando se enarbela la bandera de 'a justicia y del dereche, es en- |tonces cuando se hace bueno el adagio latino que decia “dulce decoroso es morir por la Pa‘ | No somos enemigos de ningun | Sistema. Solo sentimos alla en lo hondo de nuestro corazén que la humanidad no sienta un poco de Piedad. Que los hombres en sus | ambiciones, a veces desenfrenadas, |caen en graves equivocaciones, | que al final solo traen exterminio | y dolor en Ja gran familia humana. | Bien vengan las luchas. cuando son justificadas por el derecho que tienen todos ‘los hombres a ser libres, a emitir sus ideas libre- mente, a pensar con su propio cerebro. Esas luchas redimen y salvan a generaciones futuras ¥| son ellas las que disfrutan de las ventajas que esas grandes luchas dejan tras de grandes catdstrofes sangrientas. El hombre, pocas veces, se resigna a obtener lo que le corresponde, usando de la per- suacién. En la mayoria de los casos, prefiere dar la batalla, jarrebatar sus derechos, como dijera nuestro Apéstol, a esperar serenamente, la hora en que sus |derechos sean reconocidos, sin luchas. Pero . . . Los hombres seguiran los seres humanos debe de ser: By JUDSON STEPHENS, Arthur Sawyer Post, No. 28 American Legion Meetings: Regular Post Meeting and initia- tion of new members, Wednesday, July 28, 8 p. m., Post Home, Stock Island. Executive Committee, Monday, August 2, 8 p. m., Post Home, Stock Island. x * Membership: As I told you last week, in order to fulffll the various programs call- ed for by the budget for 1954-55, we must do our utmost in mem- bership getting. It is all important that we make this one of our big- gest years. The Legion is one of the strongest veteran’s organiza- tions in the world and to keep it that way we must maintain our high membership rolls. Each Le- |gionnaire has automatically as- sumed his share of the responsi- bility of xeeping the rolls high by becoming a member. Do your share now, and when December 31, 1954 comes around we will be on top with our membership. There are hundreds of veterans in Key West now that aren’t a member of the Post, that should be. See’em, Sell’em and Sign’em! ! x * Scouting: Just another reminder to Legion naires with children of Boy Scout age. Get your youngsters in now| while the Troop is growing and let them grow with it. The Troop meets every Monday evening at 7 Pp. m. in the Grace Lutheran Church on Flagler Ave. Bring your kids around. Bill McLaughlin is the Scoutmas- ter and Louis Ismay is the Insti- tutional Representative. We have one of the fastest growing Troops in the Monroe Group of Scouts. x k * Hospital Visitation: Have you ever been in the hos- pital here? Anyplace? Then you know what a comfort it is to have friends and buddies visit with you. How about going out to the Naval Hospital some evening between the hours of 7 to 8 and see some of the veterans that ai in there. Several Legionna’ in there at present and would appreciate a} visit. A book or magazine, a cigar or piece of candy can make a man very happy, but the visit itself is something that really counts. When a man is down because of his health and his friends visit with him, | |it improves his morale and helps |do some mending. Think it over |and see if you can’t find a couple! jof spare minutes on weekdays or| | weekends to visit in the Hospital. xk kw ok Attend a Church of Your Choice but Attend Next Sunday | Off His Route BALTIMORE (®—Operator Wil- |lard Brannan drove his No. 10 trackless trolley from Broadway | into Bank Street yesterday. Then he turned to his grinning passengers and explained that they’d have to get off and wait |for the next No. 10. | Following several automobiles , jhave been found mutilated in that | siendo iguales. Cada invento, sera ahead of him, Brannan kad made un nuevo pretexto ue justifique;a left turn one block too soon. nuevas contiendas y el dolor se-|Trolleyless, as well as trackless, | guiré entrando en los hogares .,, his vehicle stalled. 1 This Rock Of Ou By Bill Gibb A couple of weeks ago, ‘This Rock” carried an item recommend- ing support of the DAV charity drive. A reader called me to task and suggested that I investigate the operating expenses of the DAV’s miniature license plate pro- gram. The reader was right. It seems that too much money donated for disabled véterans goes to professional organizers. Col- liers (last month) has an article on this subject. All of which leaves us in a con- fused state! Most of us want to help folks in whatever way we can. Usually, our donations may not be more than a dollar or two but we don’t want 90 percent of this amount to go in the pocket of some grafter on the sidelines. It is hard to say just what is the best course for us to pursue. The Community Chest is one an- swer. Still, there are many worth- while charities which do not wish to participate in this type of united drive. I’m pretty well ‘up a stump.’ Maybe some reader has an idea as to how we can be sure that money given for charitable | Purposes is properly used? Another Driver's Test Many folks seemed to enjoy the last quiz released by the Florida Highway Patrol.. Want to try it again? | The Florida Highway Patrol has cooked up another little safety test for drivers, one that you can score yourself on. But, it is like playing a hand of solitaire—you can cheat. Yet, ain't it sort of that way in traffic, too? You be the judge! rs If you’re a good driver your score will be from 80 to 100. If your score is 60 to 80, you're fair—if your score is below 60, your friends ought to learn the words and tune to “Lord, I’m Coming Home” to sing when they attend the funeral. For, Bud, your days are numbered. Score 20 for each answer given correctly. One’s driving practices deter- mine his record of accidents and violatons. The following situations are common in our drivng ex- Pperiences. What is your practice in each case? How many times out of 5 situations do you follow the right practice? Rate yourself by indicating in the parentheses the number of times (out of every 5) that you respond correctly. 1—You are driving at 40 MPH on a rural highway and see a group of Boy Scouts or other youngsters hiking on the right side of the roadway. Do you slow down? CF 2.—When driving at night and approaching other vehicles on a rural highway, do you put on your low or passing beam? cy 3.—When following another hicle at 40 MPH, do you keep at least four car lengths behind it? 2 ( 4.—You are driving at 50 MPH in clear weather on a good black top (asphalt) road. Suddenly, you see that the highway ahead is wet from rain. Do you slow down? (_ ) 5.—You are driving on a high- way on which the posted speed limit is 50 MPH between two towns 10 miles apart. If you read your speedometer once each mile, how many times would you be under the speed limit? ¢3 Of Salt By Bill Spillman Instead of discussing the Ladies Aid, Women’s club news and other pertinent subjects in their cate- gory, I want to complain about the complainers who complain about anything just to hear themselves complain. The “broad term” complainers are my special target. They’re the characters that cover a multitude of complaints in few words — very high placed in literary circles.” “T hate the world,” this type says, “it’s no good.” “What is it you don’t like about the world?” “This is a free country and I can hate what I want to hate,” is the answer. I had a car once that was a comparatively new make. This car gave me better service and better gas mileage than any car I) had ever owned. It was a good! all-round car. “T wouldn’t have this kind of car.” People who didn’t own a car of any kind would tell me. “It ain’t much of a car.” “Why, what’s wrong with it?” “You have too much trouble with them.” “I never have any trouble with iti” Alabama Banker On Trial Today CLAYTON, Ala. ( — Ex-banker Royall Reynolds, whose disappear- | ance last March brought sleepy Clio, Ala., awake with a start, goes on trial today on embezzlement charges | Reynolds’ disappearance tied up funds in the now-defunct unchart-| ered Merchant’s Money Exchange at the critical spring planting per- iod. He returned two weeks later. An audit showed a $75,000 deficit in | the bank’s funds. ' A citizens’ committee agreed to) | accept a settlement under which’ depositors would get back all ex- cept about 10 to 15 per cent of their money. Reynolds liquidated all his personal holdings and his relatives chipped in to make up, all except about $9,000 of the! deficit. DOG MUTILATOR SOUGHT BY COPS BALTIMORE (#—Police in north- western Baltimore are sveking a} pervert who apparently delights in| strapping dogs to a board and kill- | ing them by slashing with a knife. | Since last April six dead dogs | manner, in the same block. The| latest was found yesterday. August 1 is Independence Day in Switzerland. “You're lucky.” “You ever own one?” “No, but I know a man in India that had one. He couldn't get parts for it. It won’t hold the road either. This fellow told me that it wouldn't even take curves doing ninety.” “Who is this fellow?” “I forget who he is. A good car has got to hold the road.” This character says. 's the type of peo- ple who complain about a parti-| cular group of politicians. » “What a sorry lot they are,” this type says. . “What is sorry about them?” “TI don’t have to tell you — you know they’re a bunch of bums.” “T still don’t know what your gripe is.” “You want’a know — I'll tell you whats wrong with them. I offered to get together with them and offer a little advice. And you know it, they ain't asked me yet. They’re just a bunch of crooks.” Crooks too, huh, “what is crook- ed about them?” “They're just a bunch of crooks, that’s all.”” “Listen friend, you still haven't | told me a thing. What is is they have done?” “That's it,” the guy says jump- ing up and down, “you got it, you hit the nail right on the head. They | don’t do nothing.” This could go on and on. I wouldn't want to omit mention- ing about complainers who always complain the sneaky way—strict- ly back door boys — usually spine- less characters: that smile when you look at them. But on second thought, this type complainer isn’t worth complain- ing about. , ve-| )| ‘Maybe He Thought ‘He Was St. Nick BALTIMORE (#—Lincoln Good- man went to visit his mother in |her second-floor apartment yester- day. They talked for a while. He had several beers and then fell asleep. His mother left the apartment about 9 p.m. Soon afterward neighbors heard moans coming from the chimney | running through the vacant second- ‘floor rear apartment. They called for help and Goodman was chipped out of the chimney by a fire de- partment rescue squad. Goodman, a 23-year-old Negro, was admitted to University Hos- | pital for observation. He was un- j able to explain how he got on the jroof and tumbled down the chim- | ney. Key West || In Days Gone By July 27, 1934 | Key West camp for the Florida | National Guard at Fort Taylor is one of the most attractive camps in the United States, is the verdict of many who have seen other camps and are in a position to make comparisons. | Mrs. Wallace Bryant Kirke is in |charge of the bibliography to be | compiled on Key West and is now | actively engaged in assembling the data to be used. ' pa With the addition of the names | printed in this issue of The Citizen the total now shows 1,990 citizens enrolled in the voluntary work pro- gress of the FERA. Melvin Russell, superintendent of public instruction of Monroe Coun- ty, and C. E. Brooks, educational expert with the FERA, returned ove the highway last evening from an investigation into educational facilities of the keys. Ke * Rexk July 27, 1944 Officials of the Recreation De- partment were confident today that they would have their truck by late afternoon, as the city’s machinery went into motion to return to the Key West Housing Authority $500 jwhich the housing authority had | earmarked for purchase of a truck for the’ Recreation Department. | — | Aquilino Lopez has purchased the Stephen D. Baker estate on the west side of Duval Street be- tween Division and Virginia Streets for $18,000. The committee for the “Get Ac- quainted Dance” to be held on Saturday for the war workers and their friends at the Gato Recrea- tion Center, has put forth every effort to make it a gala night. ‘Woman Trouble HAGERSTOWN, Md. #—Three Baltimore boys told police they met three girls from Williamsport, | Md., recently on a moonlight cruise jout of Baltimore and wanted to see |them again. They stole a car and j headed for Williamsport, Detective Joseph Hutchins said. But they got on the wrong road and wound up, lost, near Handock, Md. That’s where state police found them, out of gas. | They were slated to be charged | with car theft today. |HER OWN FORMULA LOS ANGELES #—A Piute In- dian, Mrs. Taccumbie DuPee, of- |fered this philosophy yesterdzy on her 105th birthday: “I have lived each day for it- self. I think right; I try to do right; I don’t worry. And I eat |fresh food. 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