The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 25, 1954, Page 4

to use for of all news credited a Member Associate Dailies of Florids a 25e per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 OVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ae2°% BY THE CITIZEN “4 More Hotels and A : " ‘THE PURDAH SYSTEM A United Nations mission hinted diplomatically to Pakistan recently that its women should be unveiled. A labor report, six months in the making, notes that there is nothing in the Moslem religion requiring women to live in Purdah. : Whether Pakistan unveils its women by law, such as was done in Turkey, or by a slower process, the U. N. re- ports it as much as told: Pakistan that women in that coun- try will never be able to take their part in normal com- munity life under the Purdah system. "It noted that reaction to this system had already freed many women in the upper-income brackets from the custom of remaining yeiled, and that, in the lower-income ‘brackets, women often were forced to work to help sup- port the family and thus were freed from the custom. But, ‘it noted, a majority of middle-class women in: Pakistan are still kept in strict Purdah, with little opportunity to meet and contact people outside their homes. be The archiac-unfairness of such a system is hard for American citizens to imagine, and if United Nations study groups can succeed in pointing out backward conditions such as this to member nations of the U. N., then the or- ganization will be making creditable progress. Another hint to Pakistan, made by the United Nation’s Internation- Labor Organization, which studied labor conditions in Pakistan for the six-month period noted above, concerned compulsory primary education. It is now the custom in} .that country to send only boys to school, When facilities are available, or where parents can afford it. Few wo- men are therefore qualified for top jobs. The U. N. urges Pakistan to pass compulsory education law, just as most of the world’s advanced countries have long ago done. In this sort of thing, the U. N. is doing a good job. When a go-getter gets going, the going for others is rough. : : ES TE ERE _.. A good neighbor knows how to live and let other people alone, - ‘ : Men “whio overtalk — about themselves — rarely succeed in-fooling the public long. Major John Goes To Staff College CHICAGO (#—Maj. John Bisen- hower left Ft. Sheridan yesterday by automobile for Ft. Leaven- worth, Kan., where he will report to the Army Command and Gen- eral Staff College for training in tactics and administration, The President’s son was accom- panied by his wife Barbara, and their three children, David, Bar- bara Ann, and Susan. The family had been visiting Mrs: Eisenhow- er’s parents, Col. and Mrs. Percy W. Thompson, for the past week. ” Key West In Days Gone By “A lot of businesses could increase profits by reduc- ing profit:margins and increasing volume. ies One trouble with our democracy is that government policies are sometimes influenced by Americans who still have a hyphen. When you are thinking of reduced fatalities over the recent holiday weekend, remember that an American is being killed every fifteen minutes somewhere in the U. S. all through the summer vacation period. Se 5 gegezis BE ity Colorful Key West stickers de- signed to attract the outsider’s at- tention to this island city, .arriv- ed at the Key West Administra: mittee of the Key West Hos- pitality League met to start the distribution of the attractive stick- ers. Tonight may be the last night the White Way will ‘be lighted. President Olive Armayor of the Kappa Pi social ‘organization, which has endeavored to keep the lights burning on Saturday nights by starting a subscription list from local merchants and progressive residents, reports that many folks have’ entered complaints against the weekly subscription.. x kk August 25, 1944 Low bidder for the preparation of the new Stock Island dump site, Tes. ooo wwe en- ee. —_—— te eree PEOPLE’S FORUM The Citizen welcomes expressions of 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 to 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. PANS NAVY CRITIC Editor, The Citizen: In your paper, The Key West Citizen, of August 19th, was a letter signed An American Woman Civilian .who gave quite a few jabs at the twenty year men of the armed forces. It so happefisithat I am the wife of one of these twenty year men anc have been for 14 years. I. am very proud of the fact. It is these jso. called. rican women.and men-who have kept us separated a lot of the time because we have children and they never rent their houses or apart- ments to people with children. It is OK if you have a dog, but no kids. ; I’ve been on the east coast nearly all of the time and as far as I can see, no one has ever given the armed Services their just due. : I will admit there are some who take advantage of things but our twenty year men. are entitled to all they can get. American Woman Civilian: If it hadn’t been-for all the twenty year men who would have fought the war for the likes of you while their wives . sat. home and waited for them? A TWENTY YEAR MAN'S WIFE THERE WAS A REASON Editor, The Citizen: . : May I reply to my friend Bill Gibb’s article in your issue of Aug. 19, relative to Peary Court playgrouunds? First, The Key West Public Works Department is not at fault for having dumped street sweepings at the field at Peary Court. I made the request for it. With this statement I-know that many will say, “That’s a fine way to build ‘a ball field or playground.” That would be true if it were to be left this way. When work was started on this field and play- ground area, there. were many low spots that required fill. No other fil] was available except marl and this was used. Any one knows that you cannot play ball or anything else on a white, glarey field, therefore my request for these sweepings that are to be spread over the white marl, then raked clean and all rubbish remov- ed, leaving a clean field. After the sweepings were placed there, the grader was tied up in essential street work and was unable to do the spreading immediately. In the meantime, work was started on the playground at Elizabeth and Fleming Streets, also the one adjoining the city building in Poinciana. Work is to begin this week in completing the cleaning up of Peary Court. As to supervised playgrounds—as soon as this play- ground area is completed it will haye a supervisor from 4 to 7 p.m. every afternoon except Sunday. There will also be a supervisor at Community Playground at Elizabeth and Fleming and one in Poinciana. The City Commissioners and City Manager have cooperated wonderfully in the present budget and in the next two months we will have more supervised playground areas than Key West has ever had. : Sorry; Bill, I had to come back at you, but yo ‘|Iknow twice’ before someone informed you wrong and each time I told you, if you would come to me and get the correct information, this would be avoided. Any- way, you are a good writer. I like you and enjoy your column. ; Respectfully yours, PAUL G. ALBURY, City Recreation Director Subscribe To The Citizen--25c Weekly Several years ago, I happened to sit in on a debate between ca» toonist Al Capp and a group of noted educators. were discussing the possi- ble bad effect of comic books on children. educators claimed that youth corrupted by tales of mayhem in the comic books of that day. Capp took the opposite view and, at the time, he was the apparent victor in the debate. He said that kids could hardly escape a certain amount of vio- Jence and immorality, no matter what sort of literature they were dren’s classics to support his con- In Treasure Island, for example, he pointed out that the boy hero, Jim Hawkins, actually packs a gun and used it when he shot poor rael Hand off the rigging of th good ship Hispaniola, Stevenson al- so sketched several other unsav- ory characters for the edification of the younger readers. Capp also used Oliver Twist as an illustration. He averred that modern youngsters can. get some inside and authoritative nformation on how to pick pockets from the notorious Fagan. And the. lovable Huckleberry Finn would hardly serve as a shin- ing example for our young read- ers with his penchant for law- breaking, Capp argued, All of this was in support of Capp’s theory that kids are sure to be exposed to a certain amount of sin, regardless of what they read. But Mr. Capp offered that argu- ment several years ago. I wonder if he still feels that|at R way, in view of the low estate the degradation. They are derline of pornography. They ‘an entirely unrealistic view. of to impressionable youngsters devour them by the dozens, . - This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb I walked into Dion & Smith’s and was greeted in a very un- friendly manner by a guy I thought was my friend. Charles Smith, when he saw me, shouted words reminiscent of ‘‘Auld Clootie’ Mendoza: “For crying out loud! What are you trying to do?—put me out ja’ ons sentence in the ad was sup- posed to be deleted—namely, “Your old tires will make the down-payment.” But Smith didn’t tell me to delete it—therefore, in my book, he was wrong. To make a long story short, the next day I thought I would try to help Smith out. I wrote 2 short paragraph correcting the ad to read: “Your old tires will not be taken as trade.” ‘That did it! That’s why Smith is ed with me. In trying to pick up the fumble, I fumbled the ball right out of the field. It seems that tires are taken in trade but not as a down-payment. Sure wish I could find a peaceful ...Ear To The Ground By JIM COBB showing real results. Petitions are being passed around and the deal- ers are policing themselves volun- tarily. Might not be a bad crusade for some local group to embark on. xk * Ps Citizen publisher Norman Art- man can remember Harvie Ward, one of the nation’s top amateur golfers, from North Carolina in 1941. Ward, although he was still in high school at that time, was al- ready winning tournaments. One day he commented to Art- man after he had picked up an- other piece of handsome but use- less hardware, that he ‘wished they’d give him something that he could give to his mother — maybe a toaster or something.” But he went on winning trophies. Ward is still an amateur, but golfing amateurs do all right for themselves — sometimes better than the pay-for-play boys. x & *& HURRICANE’. NOTE: Ralph estro of the black beans Restaurant, dropped this off at the office today: ‘“‘Ap- Monday column — Floor Fight May Ensue In Church Vote By WILLIAM J, CONWAY EVANSTON, Il. w@ — The Possibility of a floor fight over the election of the six presidents of the World Council of Churches took shape today. It cropped up in the wake of a surprise move at the council’s ses- sion last night. Dr. J. Earl Moreland, chairman of the nominating committee, was Teady to submit a slate of six high- ranking clergymen for election. Then the delegates were informed that requests had been received to. place a layman on the slate. Dr. Martin Niemoller, famed German Protestant leader, offered a motion to postpone the election for 24 hours — until tonight. it was approved 158 to 146, Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, presi- dent of the United Lutheran Church in America, who was pre- siding at the time, said the effect of the motion was to request the nominating committee to consider placing a layman on the list of candidates for president, Dr. Moreland called a meeting of the committee for today. There was no early indication whether the committee would stick to its six-man slate and risk a fight among delegates on the floor or revise the ticket to include a layman, One alternative would be to sub- mit seven names, including that of one layman, and let the dele- gates choose the six winners. The nominating commut- tee’s slate included Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill of Greenwich, Conn., presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States; Bishop Sante Uberto Bar- bieri of Buenos Aires, head of the Methodist Church in Argentina, Uruguay and Bolivia; the Very land, a noted theologian at the University of Edinburgh; Bish- op Otto Dibelius of the United Evangelical Church in Germany; Archbishop Michael of New York .| City, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South Ameri- ca; and Mar Thoma Juhanoa, metropolitan of the Mar Thoma Church of South India. He Wasn’t Even A Performer CHESTERFIELD, N.H. ®—John E. McLean, advance man for an “| auto thrill circus, not only didn’t g I’m in favor of regulating the taxi cabs—making them drive carefully—carry insurance—refrain from immoral business. But let’s don’t get hysterical and condem all taxi drivers when we find a few of them acting in an- unethical manner. ‘“ School Days This is the last week of freedom for our ‘school-age youngsters. |Don’t you wish you were young enough to go back and suffer(?) those school terms again? ‘You might start thinking a lit- tle about your driving—starting next week. There will be thou- sands of boys and girls walking or riding bikes, scooters, and auto- mobiles to and from school. Theme of the Key West Safety Council as well as every other safety organization throughout the United States next September will be: “Child Safety.” Will you help carry out that theme? The September Safety Slogan is: “Watch Out For The Kids.” The following jingle by Ervin M, Burke, of Milwaukee, Wis., get paid for an impromptu per- formance — he was charged $100 for it. 7 When the 5l-year-old Covington, N.Y., man surprised even himself by driving car over an eight- foot em! ent her police charged him with driving while un- der the influence of ‘liquor. He pleaded guilty in Municipal Court and was fingd $100. BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Elephant-power accomplished with ease yesterday what horsepower failed to do. : When automobiles were bogged down by a sudden thunderstorm which turned a Ringling Bros, Cir- cus parking lot into a quagmire, circus officials brought the tuskers into action. 5 The elephants gently nudged and pulled one car after the other free of the mud. SCOUTS TO GATHER AT NIAGARA FALLS LINZ, Austria @—Niagara Falls, Canada, will be the site of next Pedi world jamboree of the Boy juts. Gen. Dan Spry, director of the International Bureau of the World Scout Movement, ‘announced yes- terday that the gathering is sched- uled for the scenic spot Aug. 18-28, It will be followed by a general assembly of Scout leaders. pretty well sums up the situation regarding children: .° Kids, when they’re playing Seem apt to explode And land arty second TELEVISION SALES AND SERVICE 1165 WHITEHEAD STREET es oo? PROMPT F: FIRST IN TV COMPLETE WITH 10 ELEMENT — CHANNEL 4 YAGI INSTALLATION T INANCING — BANK RATES — NO HIDDEN EXTRAS EXPBRT SERVICE — REASONABLE E LOOK, COM DUMONTE PARE, THEN BUY Presents Television Listings WTV]. . . WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25 5:00 GLENN ond MICKEY. 54s pa oad GUIDE Channel 4