The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 20, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN —_—— The Key West Citizen . Published daily ( Sunday) Frome ge lay) 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. | DB. ARTMAN comronmnnanneenserreessinnenmeeen Editor and Publisher ~~ Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2.5668 a Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is excl entitled to use for ri luction of all dispa' oy edge credited in this paper, and siss toe secatt oe pub- ere, Monday, September 20, 1954 sessecntneeseenangy: Member Associate Dailies of Florids ———— ——— ee Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION OSS The Citizen is an open forum and invites os and subjects of incall ie eases interest, but of win oon ame anonymous commynications. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments, Beach ea Eats heey Airports—Lan a. Coneallaation | of C (ey and City Governments. 1 2. 3. 4 5. Community WOMAN SUFFRAGE GAINS Although many Americans tend to think about the fight for woman’s suffrage as a fight fought and won many years ago, the truth is that the fight is still being waged actively in many countries of the world. It might be surprising to the average American to point out that only about half the nations of the world permitted women to vote as late as the end of World War II — in 1945. And it was a hot question in many of these countries whether women should be given that right. Countries such as France, generally regarded as a modern nation, did not allow women the right to vote, as men did, until recent (post-war) years. Closer home, in neighboring Mexico, women have not yet voted, but that right has just been granted — and they will participate in the next election. Altogether, twenty-four nations have granted partial or full political rights to women since the United Nations charter was signed in 1945. It should be noted, in this connection, that the U. N. has been one of the leading organizations pushing the issue of woman’s suffrage, and is due much of the credit for progress made in this field in the last nine years. But still hanging back in this matter of granting wo- men the right to vote are a number of countries — among them Switzerland, Egypt, Iran, Nicaragua, Paraguay and many others. In all these countries — sixteen in number — women can neither vote nor hold office. These coun- tries represent about one-fourth of all those polled by the U.N. recently in an effort to see how much progress the fight for women’s suffrage has made in recent years. It is apparent that much progress has been made but it is also surprising to learn that a considerable per- centage of the countries of the world today still refuse women the right to hold office and vote. Progress comes slowly especially in the field of political reform, but it is steadily continuing in the fight for woman’s suffrage. Snappy remarks are too often just senseless utter- ances, Experience is rarely valued by the ones who really aeed it most. It is not necessary for a good politician to be a good liar, but most of them are. The world is jammed with people who believe any- thing nice that is said about them, Optimism, to be warranted, must be based on intelli- gent appraisal, and not on super-heated hot air, as is often the case in sales departments. Alp ASE ISIPIAICIE ID} JAETIEL ERE GIRIM OI Ww! 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BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Reporter WOODS HOLE, Mass. () — Here in the laboratory of a Nobel Prize winner you see a piece of dead rabbit muscle brought back to “life.” The strand of muscle tenses, con- tracts and performs work when it is bathed in a potent chemical. Then it relaxes when it is touched by a second chemical. This means man has solved a few secrets of how our muscles work, of how all - living things manage to create motion. But this seeming miracle in the laboratory is only a beginning to Dr. Albert G. Szent-Gyorgyi. He wants to know precisely how chem- icals — from the food we eat and air we breathe — create motion, “the most fundamental sign of life.” Exactly what kind of engine is muscle tissue? What kind of fuel does it use, and how? How do. dif- ferent muscles — the muscles of the heart, the arms, or°a wom- an’s womb — differ in their me- chanism or operation? That knowledge could aid in combating heart disease, high blood pressure, muscular afflic- tions, perhaps redu¢e the tragic loss of unborn babies through mis- carriages. This Hungarian-born scientist with blue eyes and tousled white hair, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on vitamin C, is on the trial of answers, And Dr. Szent-Gyorgyi is impa- tient to get along with his studies— so much so he’s just ordered a $40,000 scientific instrument, a spectrograph, without enough funds to pay for it. “Maybe I will go to jail,” he shrugs, “‘but I need it in my work. Somehow I hope we will find ways to pay for it.” In 15 years of research on the muscle engine, Dr. Szent-Gyorgyi found that muscles contract be- cause they contain two special | proteins, actin and myosin. When these two come together in the presence of the energy-supplying enzyme, ATP, the muscle con- tracts. ATP means adenosine triphos- phate. It is the “gasoline” which runs the muscle engine. Enzymes are accelerators of chemical re- actions. Dr. Szent-Gyorgyi and Dr. L. Lorand of Szent-Gyorgyi’s group also have isolated another enzyme, ATP-CP, which makes a muscle relax. From a refrigerator, Dr. Lorand took a thin, transparent strand of muscle obtained from a long-dead rabbit, and placed it in a beaker container a salt solution. It lay long and straight. When a few drops of ATP were added, the string of muscle coiled and short- ened to one-fifth its original size. He put another, thicker strand of muscle in a device so the muscle remained taut, but could pull on one end of a delicately balanced lever. When the muscle was bathed in ATP, it tensed, pulling measur- ably on the lever. When ATP-CP was added, the muscle relaxed, the lever swung back to its orig. inal position. “So now we know that actin and nyosin come together and laps aakes the muscle contract,” said dr, Szent-Gyorgyi. “But still we wre only describing the machine. Ne must learn how the engine is ll put together, then we will know 1ow it works... “Only then can we really under- stand the museipeiaguaith end is * disease, and perhaps learn how to overcome disease. “We must study smaller and smaller pieces of the engine. We have split one piece, myosin, into two pieces, and split one of those parts into still smaller ‘pieces, hop- ing to learn how it all works.” The potent eye of the electron microscope is one aid, showing tiny fibers of which muscles are made. “Research is. four things,” Dr. Szent-Gyorgyi says. “Brain with which to think. Eyes with which to see. Machines with which to measure. And fourth, money. It is brains and eyes which are most important. You can have too many machines, so: many you fail to use your brains and eyes. A few weeks ago I saw no need for a spectograph. Now I know I can- not live and work without it.” So he ordered it. What great or useful things may come from solving the puz- zles of the muscle engine? “Benjamin Franklin flew a kite to learn some basic facts about electricity, long before anyone dreamed of electric lights. When someone asked him what good the new knowledge was, Franklin re- plied> ‘What good is a baby?’ “Who can say what we learn. It is not possible yet to make any promises. We can only agree with Franklin: ‘What good is a baby?” 4 This Rock Funny how we can spend our lives in a town and never notice little things that prove so confusing to newcomers! A lady called me the other day and wanted to know ‘what cooks’ with regard to the No Parking signs around the Monroe County Courthouse.Every space had a No Parking sign yet every space was occupied by an automobile! The lady wasn’t exactly a new- comer to Key West. She has been here for close to ten years but only recently had occasion to visit the courthouse. Here’s the expla- nation that I gave her—it may not be the truth but I couldn’t think of any other reason to offer. I told her that I guessed the No Parking spots were actually re- served locations for officials and employes of the courthouse and YMCA-USO-Chamber of Commerce building. She countered with the question of why, it wouldn’t have been just as easy to erect signs marked “Space Reserved For So-and-So.” That I couldn’t answ- er. County Commissioners might consider the idea of changing the signs and reserving the space for necessary employees. I think it would be a good move and certain- ly, it might clarify the situation for tourists or visiting sailors. Saftey Week This is “Safety Week’—Sept. 20- 26. Are you going to do your share toward helping make Monroe County and Key West the safest place in the nation? . Here’ a suggestion that won't cause you much trouble but would certainly aid in traffic safety— Of Ours By Bill Gibb Give proper hand signals! I almost rammed a lady the other day. She gave a signal for a left-hand turn; she even pulled out into the middle of the road. Then, with all the nonchalance of the Queen of Sheba, she proceed- ed to swing into a right-hand turn. Luckily, the brakes on the other traffic in the street held and she accomplished her maneuver suc- cessfully. Hand Signals are important, Won’t you try to use them? Aid From Mrs. Reese Of Sears The Key West Saftey Council was having a little trouble getting saftey pamphlets for distribution this week. Mrs. Reese, manager of Sears, Roebuck, came through with some magnificent help. She contacted Allstate Insurance Company concerning our troubles. Says A. R. Reddick, of Allstate: “We are having 2400 pamphlets shipped to you immediately. This includes a repeat of our order last year and an additional 400 copies of two new pamphlets. “We are happy to work with you again this year in your safety program and would appreciate hearing from you in regards to your activities and their “out- come.” Mr. Reddick’s referral to last year concerned the aid that All- state gave me while I was on the police force and attempting to show films, ete., to schools during my off time.Thank goodness those rough days won’t be repeated again . The Key West Safety Council is now a ‘going concern’, supported by many of Monroe County’s leading citizens. No Change In Swedish Policy STOCKHOLM uw — Sweden’s governing coalition, of Socialists and “Agrarians remained solidly in entrenched today following week- end local elections but both the government parties lost some ground. The Conservatives, the country’s third largest party, scored the largest gains. The Communists held steady, in last place with only 4.9 per cent of the 3,701,541 ballots cast. Prime Minister Tage Erlander in a statement said the outcome the voting yesterday would “bring no change in the policy of the Swedish government.” ATTLEE GOES HOMF. HONOLULU W#—CLEMENT Att- ‘lee, former British Prime Minis- ter, left last night on the way home after a visit to Red China. His Quantas Empire plane was due in San Francisco at 7:45 a.m, ‘The Cinsen meicomes exprea- stoms of the views ef «ts read- ers, but the editor reserves the the paper only. a ot the writer must gecompan} letters and will be publinbea = lesa requested etherwise. He Hears Laughter Editor, The Citizen ¢ There is somebody laughing from the grave tonight. If it isn’t the poet Shakespeare reading his Much Ado About Nothing, it must be Plato or Confucius or one of the boys from that ancient Era of Thought amused by humanity’ 8} waggish ability to complicate it-| self. The laugnter,is unmistakably clear, ringing, re-echoing as fluori- dation writes a footnote to history. “What fools these mortals be,” they say, “‘to rant about a sleeping elephant while lowly vermin chomp and devour them.” Polio, cancer, TB — almost any disease we can name so generous- ly outweighs dental caries as to make the subject of fluoridating water ludicrous by comparison. The poet’s laughter does not ridi- cule the citizens of Key West and their concern with fluoridation. They are amused, rather, by the impertinent and all-glorious min- ority ‘experts’ who decree self- proclaimed leadership, who decree the general public as being stupid, and by cause of this assumption forcing a city to embarrass itself by “voting” whether they should be experimented upon or not! Any referendum asking people to “choose or reject” fluoridation is a misnomer. A referendum of this nature asks us if we wish to as- sume a role of guinea pigs — be- yond our qualification, actually, and committing us unfairly be- cause in American this choice should never have to put before us. There is, now, no alternative. We have been forced to petition for re- ferendum. The U. S. Public Health Service has not — and possibly cannot — give conclusive answer to there be- ing no danger of toxicity. Fluori- dation is an admitted experiment, regardless of who “approves” of it. Experiment in the laboratories, not on people! The Health Service has gone beyond the scope of its duties in entering the propaganda field, endangering not only people but its own effectiveness and the confidence of the people. These “experts” should concern themsel- ves with good, proven health mea- sures and the prevention of disease, No more. It is the dire obligation of Key West voters to vote against fluori- dation. H. Vv. B. P. O. Box 642 Key West, Fla, Why Not Initials? Editor, The Citizen: A newspaper columnist, - to -be: worth his salt, must be allowed to inject into his writings a larg amount of innuendo and personal- ity. Otherwise, something. falls| flat. It takes hard work and diligence to write a successful column, a matter most conscien- tious editors realize. Even a part- time columnist. So The Key West} Citizen is to be commended in allowing this recognition and free- dom of thought on the part of their columnists. Mr. Bill Spillman’s column Sept. 16th shows the handiwork of his particular personality. He strikes at “anonymous letters” to the Forum, which is irrelevant be- cause The Citizen doesn’t print anonymous letters. So we assume, as he says, he means the Age of Initials. Flaunting a name repeatedly be- fore the public, as the Forum could do, has the disadvantage, intentional or not, of boasting. Anonymity minimizes this. It calls | the reader to what is being writ-| ten, not to who wrote it. This is the purpose, or should be, of any Forum letter, name withheld or not. So I am curious as to why Mr. Spillman went on at length about the sad virtues of a particular seg of initials. This is lethal. This is grouping all anonymous writ- ers and placing numerous people under suspicion of not being able | to tolerate landlords. For my part, | I personally wish the fact known I get along with my landlord very | well. But what of this particular per- son Mr. Spillman refers to? The) one he states or infers to be un- civie-minded, etc. How far did Mr. Spillman check to get his facts—the backyard fence?. “Did he contact the person directly? I happen to know the person he re- fers to, and altho’ the columnist had ample opportunity to contact the person directly, there was no attempt to do this. ; But surely he must realize that a set of initials is not anonymous at all. There are neighbors and good friends . and business acquaintances and there are children that go to school and unfairly are committed to the consequences of this gossip—be- cause these initials have dared po ALDAD444444 4444444444444) Helen Sloan Stetson has done} it again. Her play, The Descendants, re- ceived fine reviews following its premiere performance in Miami’s Studio M Friday night. She’s well known to Key West- ers, having lived here for some time. A farce comedy, the play tells the story of a slightly decadent family of intellectuals. An earlier Studio M production of Helen’s, And Thou Beside Me, was also well received. She’s a part time instructor in creative writing at the University of Miami. And we'll wager her offer to make monthly trips to Key West to conduct classes for Key West-| ers who wish to learn more about | the writing craft, still stands. The| local writers group, dormant since | Dorothy Raymer left town, might | find this a good excuse for re-| organizing Ree . Ear To The Ground By JIM COBB Aaeae They point out that some of Key West’s most prominent citizens live in the area within two or three blocks of police headquar- ters. True the area has several bars and the section is mentioned in the paper occasionally, but as we said, a lot of the upper crust live there. For example: Jessie Porter Kirke Newton, Hilario Ramos, Sam Goldsmith, Burt Garnett, Mrs. William Warren, General Jim Jones, Miss Etta Patterson, Dr. Edward Gonzalez, Minnie Porter Harris and Claude Gandolfo. % ex POTPOURRI: Hurricane Road, the novel penned by Louise White and Nora K. Smiley is a sellout, It’s being considered in Holly- wood, too. . . .Credit Where Credit Is Due Dept.: City Electric Sys- tem workmen put in a lot of extra hours getting the lights at the new high school athletic field in- stalled. . .The fact that transport- Political circles are buzzing with| ation costs in Cuba are cheap rumors that the reason the State | compared to ours is evidenced by Road Department wants the Over-| the fact that a round trip ticket seas Highway Commission to join| from Veradero Beach to Havana, their suit for recovering allegedly | @ distance of 200 miles, costs just misspent funds, is that they can| $2.40. In this country a compar- stick them with a bill for a shareable trip costs nearly twice a8 of the cost of the suit. | All of which has prompted | speculation as to who is going to| pay the bill. With an unpaid bill for an audit of toll road affairs already in Tallahassee, Charley Johns will soon have enough tabs to paper his walls. It's SRD chairman Cecil Webb who is calling ‘the signals in the case after Johns turned a deaf ear to a plea that he appoint a special prosecutor for the suit. All of this would lead one. to be- lieve that the Acting Governor tacitly disapproves of the actions of Mr. Webb. xe Residents of the north Duval Street area are miffed by state- ments that the neighborhood en- s a reputation as a sort of much, Arabs Appeal For U.N. Aid LONDON w—The eight Arab League States have appealed to the U.N. and individual world pow- ers for immediate military and economic aid “to deter Israel from further aggression.” Ambassadors of Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Libya handed Britain’s Minister of State Selwyn | Lloyd the recommendations which also were addressed to the U.N., United States and other powers. The envoys also released a ment accusing the Israelis ing to spark a full-scale war in aaa som — =F = Blood Pressure — High and Low There has long been a saying among doctors that a man is as old as his ‘arteries. There is truth in this statement because the condition of the arteries is related to the condition of the heart. If the-artéries show signs of growing old, the heart is put under strain, and the victim is aging regardless of the number of years he has lived. One of the best ways of knowing the condition of the arteries ond the heart is to watch the blood pressure. Normal arteries are elastic, like rubber. With each heartbeat the arteries stretch because more blood is being =pumped into them. Between heartbeats the ar- B. teries spring back to smaller size. The pressure in the arteries during heartbeat is known as * ‘systolic pressure. The pressure in the arteries between heartbeats is known as diastolic pres- sure. If the doctor says, “Your blood pressure is 130 over 80,” he means that your systolic pres- sure is 130 and your diastolic pressure is 80. If he merely says that your blood pressure is 130, “he means, of course, the systolic pressure. Whether the pressure is above or below nor- mal must be left to the doctor to determine. But there are certain symptoms which may cause a person to suspect that his pressure is high or low. The usual symptoms of low blood pressure are: lack of normal energy, drowsiness, and a tendency to tire easily. This condition may indicate some constitutional disease, nervous exhaustion, or merely a nervous condition that could be easily corrected. Con- stitutional diseases and nervous exhaustion, however, are condi- tions that require more prolonged treatment and are not so read- ily overcome. The usual symptoms of high blood pressure are: headache, dizziness and head noises (ringing in the ears). These symptoms may be caused by disease of the heart, kidneys, or arteries or by nervous strain. Abnormal blood pressure calls for treatment of the disease that produced it. Good results can be obtained only if the patient follows the doctor’s instructions, for the doctor alone cannot pro- duce the desired results. The doctor will have certain instructions to be followed in each case. What can one do to prevent these ailments? Here are some practical instructions which, if followed, will be of definite value in the prevention of such diseases: 1.—Eat moderately; balance your meals. = 2.—Avoid highly seasonal foods. Condiments such as salt, pepper and vinegar should be used sparingly, if at all. This applies also to alcohol, coffee and tea. 3.—Don't try to “keep up with the Joneses.” 4.—Don’t “burn the candle at both ends.” 5.—Be moderate in all your living habits; don’t go to extremes. 6.—Try to keep your mind at ease. As far as possible, avoid men- tal and emotional strain, including worry. ; Follow these suggestions and you will soon note marked health improvement. This article is published to interest you in better health ps DR. MURRAY RADIN ithe Middle East. me : DR. RADIN September 17, 1954 CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN PHONE 2.5619 817 WHITE STREET 9-12 Noon — 2-6 P.M. — Evenings and Sundays by Appointment KEY WEST, FLORIDA “The Southernmost Chiropractor of the United States”