The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 9, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 = THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, November 9, 1954, The Key West Citizen SP EE Tr “SIP RIIRE So cm gS ef EE Sl Published daily (except Sunday) fro; % ri sad hee y m 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 _ “e i Business Manager 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 Teproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this . lished here. Paper, and also the local news pub- Member Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier), 25e per week; year, $13.20: 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 Governments. Community Auditorium. SUPPORTING THE PHILIPPINES Although it is not general information, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was so highly irritated in Man- ila in recent days that he actually walked out of the Malacanan Palace a good while before one of the major sessions ended and left details of a settlement to a U. S. negotiating team. He was annoyed by the insistent demands of Philip- pine leaders for extravagant military aid. His attitude is justified, for two reasons. In the first place, too many nations have come to look upon Uncle Sam as a Santa Claus, which Santa Claus is supposed to be happy to furnish arms and aid to all those who are opposed to Communism. We are not criticizing the Philippine Islands, or President Ramon Magsaysay, since Magsaysay has been one of the successful anti-Communist leaders in Asia, and is credited with an outstanding achievement in the Philip- pines already. Understanding this, we point out the second reason he United States is not necessarily obligated to sustain | a large military establishment in the Philippines. It is a foregone conclusion, all over the world, that if the Com- | munists attack the Philippines, the United States will come | to their aid. The Philippines have too recently been a territory of the United States for this country to watch the Communists invade and take them over. | However, there are other areas at the moment which face a more immediate threat from Communist aggression, and the United States cannot build up a gigantic mili- tary establishment in all anti-Communist countries of the world at one time. The world seems to forget that the United States Government is running a heavy deficit, that we are pay- ing six billion dollars in interest alone on our national debt every year — a staggering totale» and that we are continuing to increase this national debt year by year, in the interest of democracy and a free world. The man who is always up with his work must have very little else to do. Human nature is not even enough to explain the rows that center on religions. There are a lot of ways to make big money quickly; unfortunately, most of them are dishonorable. The radio newscasters are in a class all by them- selves, as are often their conclusions on the news. ee In political contests there is always a tendency to | pick the winner and that explains the activities of a lot of people. Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1, Invite 4. Last name ot Henry VIII - 9. Sharp bark Y { iui | 42. Old French 43. Overhead railway 44. Type measure 45. Geograph ical book 47. Young salmon 60. European native 51. Tree 54. Engliad rok cathedral 34. Mountain city c 55. Expiate 58. Watch 15. Jewel 16. Family record 17. Large fish 18. Crushes Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 57. Golf mound 58. Encounters 59. Unused DOWN 1. Implere 2. Congealed water 3. Unable to Speak 4. Made edging 8. Uncultured 6. Performs 7. Poem 8. Concernifis 9. One ad- dressed 10. Massachu- settscape * 11. Vegetable 17. Color slightly 19. Within 20. Deface 21. Bring into 38. Searches laboriously 42. Dad 45. Medicinal plant 46. Observed 47. Caress 48. Beverage 49. Cereal gras 50, Female saint: abbr. 52. Lixiviam 53. Cry of acat 85. Exist Experts Are Divided On Smoking Editor's Note ~ Few research problems of modern times have captured the public interest more than the current search for an an- swer to this question: Is cigarette smoking a substantial hazard to health? The interest is justified, for the stakes are high. Here is a concise summary of what is in- volved, the first of four significant articles on the cigarette controver- sy. By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE | AP Science Reporter | NEW YORK (The great cig- arette controversy is flaming hot- ter, It has millions of Americans puz- |zled or confused, and many fright- ened, Are cigarettes really danger- ‘ous? Should YOU stop smoking? | It finds the house of science and | medicine divided. Some authorities |frankly call cigarettes a major {factor in causing human cancer, lespecally lung cancer, and say \they are bad for your heart. But others, equally prominent, say the |ease against cigarettes is by no means proved. It finds many hundreds of thou- sands of dollars being poured into research to find the answer, or an- swers. That fact could produce great boons for all of us, for the |research will dig deep into some biological mysteries. What is learned could turn up vital links about the cause, control or treat- ment of cancer, heart disease or possibly other health matters, quite aside from its effect in the cigarette controversy. The controversy finds unknown thousands of men and women giv- jing up cigarettes, or trying to, or thinking they should. Human health is one stake in the controversy: Are cigarettes harmless, bad, or somewhere in between? Human enjoyment is an- other: Most smokers enjoy their smoking. The tobacco industry — the big and small growers and manufac- | turers and processors, middlemen, wholesalers, retailers, vending ma- |chine operators and many others —owes its livelihood to tobacco. Governments derive much revenue from tobacco taxes. Science and medicine have ‘a stake. Should a reputable scien- tist disclose his findings which lead }him to suspect hazards in smok- ing, or anything else? Or should |he wait until he has definite proof? | |If he is proved wrong after his jearly annolncement, will people | } accuse him of scare mongering, or {lose faith in scientific research? | If he is proved right after deciding {not to warn the puble would peo- |ple accuse him of having shirked | | his responsibility? | The cigarette controversy, jmost big public issues, sprng forth overnight. Some 15 years ago, Dr. Alton | Ochsner, famous New Orleans sur- geon, was reporting observations | which led him to believe that cig | arette smoking was a cause of lung cancer. Just yesterday Dr. Ochs- jner published a book, “Smoking and Cancer, a Doctor’s Report” (Julian Messner, Inc.) which re- views all the evidence used to in- cigareties as a cause of lung ancer and heart disease. | Im 1939, an- Argentine physician, | Dr. A. H. Roffo, reported that tars | obtained from tobacco often could | produce cancer in the skin of rab- | bits. ‘ j | These and other reports were mentioned in the news through the |years In 1950, like didn't newspapers headlined stories from a cancer congress} in Paris reporting three separate linked cigarettes with at least part of an increase in lung cancer| among Americans. The _ studies were made by Dr. Ochsner, by Doctors Evarts Graham of St. Louis and Ernest Wynder of New York, and by Dr. Morton L. Levy in and associates of Albany, N.Y. A British study just a bit later, by Dr. Richard Doll and Prof. A Great Cigarette Controversy Puzzles USS. ing mothers, contributing to tuber- culosis. studies, mostly statistical, which| Smoking has been banned at| become a sensational figure, de- some times in a few countries. In Denmark smokers and snuffers we once publicly whipped. In Turkey, King Amurath once decreed be- heading for anyone who smoked. Not ,until about two years ago did the long-smouldered contro- versy over cigarettes really start to build up into the public con- | sciousness. Bradford Hill, pointing to an asso- | ciation between cigarettes and lung cancer, also was published by American newspapers. jrettes for sickness and untimely But these and other reports| death. So also was evidence to coming still later seemed to find question that evidence, or to blame the Ameri¢an public only mildly | other factors for the troubles be- interested. jing attributed to cigaretes, 4 | _ Perhaps many missed the sto- | The public was to become the ries. Perhaps it takes time and | jury, As such, the public was to repetition—in the absence of stark | fi ‘y drama—to get rapt attention. Or hear siggod Goal, from both: sides. perhaps many people wanted | stronger evidence. | No doubt some dismissed the re- | 7 e ports as another instance of cry- ESTATE APPRAISED ing “wolf” at cigarettes. For to-/ LOS ANGELES (#—The $1,332,- bacco has been accused of many | 571,36 estate of Bing Crosby's wife sins in the past—of leading to pov-| Dixie Lee, who died in 1952 at the erty, of creating mustaches on| age of 40, will amount to $550,616.96 women, making men sterile, pois-| after payment of debts, taxes, ad- oning the unborn babies of smok-| ministration expenses and fees. This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb Interested in self-improvement or gaining college credits in your spare time—one ox two evenings per week? Here's the survey form to fill out. If there is some other course not listed which yob would prefer to study, just put the name down. December Ist is the dead-line for this survey! MONROE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS Key West, Florida Miami University will offer courses in Key West to interested persons. In « to schedule classes, we need to know your in ts. Please give the information reqliested belo’ Evidence was being discovered and rediscovered to blame ciga- (Next: The Evidence) 1. Name 2. Address 3. Date of Birth 4, 5. 6. Telephone .. Age Occupation ~ an Last grade completed in school Pets ri Purpose in taking courses: (check | or 2): 1. college credit. _ oo 2. self improvement 7. Courses desired—give first, second and third choices: Listed below are some of the possible courses: Business Administration — Accounting, Marketing, Management, etc. College of Arts & Sciences — Art, English, History, Nursing Philosophy, Psychology. Engineering, Mathematics, Languages, Speech, Journalism. Non-credit Courses for ] improvement such . as: Dress Design, Crective Writing, Interior Decoration. Please return to office of Superintendent of Schools, 310 Fleming Street. The World WASHINGTON — Sen. Me- Carthy fights like Henry Arm- strong, the perpetual motion man who won three world titles in the 1930s with this stock-in-trade: never step back, punch, punch, and forget the fancy footwork. Even the Wisconsin Republican's enemies must concede he is one of the most aggressive’ politicians of the 20th century But he has reach- ed a point where he may have to change his style or wind up flat on his political back. It was his style that got him into trouble. His problem is: Can he change it? He made his reputation as a Communist hunter. His record as a lawmaker is not particularly dis- tinguished. He was a comparative unknown, outside Wisconsin, for the first four years after his elec- tion to the Senate in 1946. When he hit on the theme of Reds-in-government in 1950, he be- gan to slug his way out of oblivion. If he had cooled off after his first few sensational charges he might have slipped back into obscure status. Instead, he kept his name in the headlines by attack, attack, attack. | Armstrong didn’t back-pedal when | the going got rough. He just belted | the other guy. It was how he be- ceme king of the featherweights, lightweights and welterweights. McCarthy became a national fig- jure the same way. Trying to cor- ner him didn’t slow him up. He kept moving in, belting away, throwing charges from all direc- tions. As it turned out, he was a little |too rough for his own good. The Senate, four years after he had cided it was time to see whether ‘he needed a dressing down. He himself predicts he will be censured by the Senate, in session now to consider charges that his conduct toward others, including senators, was contemptuous and | unfitting a senator. McCarthy refers to what lies in store for him as “lynching bee,” which, all by itself, might be con- sidered contemptuous of the Sen- Today By James Marlow ate since it implies that body is a mob of vigilantes. But it’s typical McCarthy. Here | he is, in the worst jam of his life, belting at a majority of the Senate even though he knows the verdict of that majority miay in the end mean the ruin of his political life. To be censured is, in a sense, to! be discfedited. It is the same as calling a foul on a fighter. It would mean his fellows thought he didn’t meet the standards of what a sen. ator should be. | Next to throwing him out alto-/ gether, a vote of censure is the worst verdict the Senate could! render against him. Throwing him | out doesn’t seem in the cards. } McCarthy could still vote, if cen- | sured. He wouldn't lose his seat, at least before the 1958 elections when his second term ends. Another man, censured, might be | so humiliated he'd turn meek for- ever. That's hardly in McCarthy's nature. He's naturally too aggres- sive to take a setback as perma-} nent. In fact, he could hartily afford to go back into oblivion again unless. he's willing to let his political career end without a further fight. He has no place to go but forward. | But how s he going forward? | How is he going to stay in the headlines? By the same tactics that got him into trouble now? The next time the Senate verdict, with the Democrats in control, might be | more drastic. ! But if his free-swinging style is | | Castillo Plans In Guatemala By CARLOS R. ESCUDERO GUATEMALA, ®—Give us the power and thé roads and we will achieve economic recovery, says * President Carlos Castillo Armas. The power he is talking about is - temporal and electricial. He wants to build plants. The roads are many and bad. Castillo wants to extend and improve them. Where will the money come from? Guatemalan money will come, Castillo hopes, to the tune of about six million dollars from a one-shot soak-the-rich tax, and from normal taxation. Coffee, taxed now bout $18 per bag, earned 68 mil- lion in export dollars last year, This year the crop may be slightly “ jlarger, but the price is lower. The United States has given uatemala $6,425,000. Of that $1,- 300,000 will go for technical aid projects, $1,425,000 jor the Pan- American Highway. and $3,200,000 for various projects. Castillo says the economic situa- tion inherited from the old pro Communist regime was a sad mess. Under it the public debt went up from about 18 millions to a bit over 50. Any large-scale program to de- velop Guatemala as Castillo as pires faces serious obstacles. Tratisportation must be tremen- dously improved; communications must be brought up to a much higher degree of efficiency; many of the people are backward. As part of the plen, to help in- dustry and bring light to the In dians, stillo wants to build sev- eral electric power plants. L. M. Eriesson, the Swedish com- cramped — if he has to think of pany, and some U.S. companies the consequences for himself every |have offered to build and enlarge time he wants to act or speak in| the telephone plants, Castillo said. the future — will he be the same|The Dutch company Phillips has McCarthy? It's something he has/ indicated a willingness, according to think about. |to Castillo, to accept payment in It's possible he may not be able | coffee and other products, plus the to change, that he’s too much him- | old plant. self for that. But that he'll fight,| ‘The President says new legisla- somehow, to keep himself a na-/tion will encourage U.S., British, tional figure seems certain. If he | French and Mexican exploration loses that, he loses everything. i oil fronts in the last campaign said he wasn’t much of an issue. | NEW YORK #—Christmas trade | prospects, with customers believed in a better buying mood than last year, cheer merchants in most cities. | Prices on gifts will be about the | same or a little lower this year. | | But many store owners are expect-! ing to equal and maybe surpass last year’s dollar sales volume. Since the largest trading of the| year is crowded into the final; weeks, the results of the holiday selling make or break the year's earnings record for most stores. Promotion plans are well along. | The National Retail Dry Goods Assn. Reports most member stores plan to match last year’s record advertising. The trade is going in heavily this | year for gift packaging. A large | array of items will be decked out} | in holiday garb to lure the shopper. | Some of the packages are designed | for double duty — made usable as | | containers of various sorts after | the gift is removed. | This year merchants will have | the advantage of one more shop-| |ping day between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Key West In Days Gone By Edward Bruce; one of America’s leading artists and who was last | winter director of the Federal Pub- lic Works Art Project, will spend the winter in Key West. Among the many people of note ip who will spend the winter season in Key West will be Dr. Edwin | aly ‘ | | Today's Business Mirror By Sam Dawson Some 12 million Americans will receive more than one billion dol- |lars in Christmas club checks this month, for a new record high, Re- tailers expect almost half of that sum to be spent for Christmas gifts. And Americans are about as well | heeled this year as last. The Com- merce Department estimates that, | after paying taxes, Americans will have had about 253 billion dollars jto spend this year. Some of that should still be available for Christ- mas buying. | The NRDGA reports three-fourths | of the merchants expect business | to be satisfactory this holiday sea-| son, The majority say they look for enough of an increase in trade in the next six weeks to bring | sales volume for 1954 up to last year’s total. So far this year, sales have trailed by about 2 per cent, Some merchants are rather | gloomy about the profit outlook. ising operating costs have cut! He's probably already lost some <cncesyeansemareennenmapiins interest. Reports rom the pala! | Formosa Would Be Rich Prize For Commies By FRED HAMPSON TAIPEH, Formosa, (#—Peiping’s demand that Formosa be “‘re- turtied” to Red China is usually yaseribed to political motives. But a visit to this island after 18 |months away makes a reporter wonder whether the Communsts don't also have their eyes on its economic wealth. Formosa has become a pretty rich prize to a nation which is | tightening its belt. Four years ago, ( the island was a rundown oper: tion. Its railroads were junk. Its roads were dilapidated. Its ‘factor- ies, mostly idle. still were unre- paired from the war, Its electrical grid was a mess. Its trade balance was adverse, and getting worse, Then Uncle Sam began to pour aid in here. Today the railroads are new. Roads are a good net work and either new or resurfaced. Factories are running and har- nessed to the production of con- sumer goods that lessen imports, For example, the aluminum plant at Kpahsiung, instead of shipping ingots to Japan as before, now turns them over to local fabricators who turn out aluminum goods. Key industries are slowly build- ing up export margins. The power grid is rebuilt and enlarged, feed- ing new industres. Oil exploration is promising. int@ profit margins and more than. Crop methods have been improved a third of the merchants expect | and more food is available for ex- their net. earings after taxes will port on less acreage. Formosa is be lower than last year, | within two years of self-suffiglency French Lawyers Can’t Fight Duel PARIS —Two lawyers who lost their tempers in France's compli- cated investigation of defense leaks | in cotton textile production. Formosa thus offers quite a prize | for Peiping, whose industrial ef- « forts, concentrated on heavy indus- try, aren't going very well. Rep. Priest May ‘Refuse ‘Whip’ Job NASHVILLE, Tenn. #—Rep. J. sume his old job. But, he said, he plans to | most of his time to the Comm } De merce, of which he Fi is Democratic member. #. Improvements - f