The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 13, 1954, Page 6

Page & THE KEY WEST Citizen Saturday, November 13, 1954 1 The Key West Citizen pea eR ee Se oe a Cnr daily (except Published 4 ye Sunday) 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. ARTMAN oe cal RES Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, ds Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2.5661 and 2-5662 —————— eee Member of The Associated Pross_The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise in this paper, and also the local news pub- Member Associate Dailies of Florida POR PP HM A nosen all ovttettcpe Al ante dls Din 1 a Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $13.20; by mail, $15.60 eee OS 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 wit! not publish anonymous communications. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED * . BY THE CITIZEN lore Hotels and A Beach and Bathin ys Pi og dite tet Celmane Audion Wy. and City Governments, COMMUNITY CHEST FAILURE DUE TO DRAIN ON POCKETBOOKS BY OTHER CHARITIES Bill Spillman, in his “A Grain of Salt’ column in The Citizen, pinpoints the reason why the Community Chest drive has fallen far short of its goal — too many other gimme, gimme activities in Key West. That fact strengthens The Citizen’s proposal that all charities in Key West be merged in the Community Chest. In Miami, as The Citizen noted several months ago, a writer said that every other day a drive is on in the name of charity, though in a good many instances using that term is a misnomer, as Spillman stressed in his article. Key West business men are the hardest hit by drive after drive to fatten some sort of undertaking that is un- | related to charity. They will tell you that hardly a day | Passes without some person or persons visiting the stores to ask for money for some purely promotional venture. Local business men are drained, as are many residents generally by the multiplicity of so-called drives. Were an | end put to them and a!! contributions centered in the Community Chest Fund, raising its quota would be a, comparattvely easy matter. Recently, a well-known foreigner, who had visited this country, said the American people are the most gen-| erous in the world in helping the needy or in helping | those institutions that take care of the needy. That for- | eigner could have added truly that no other country is as | regardful of its former service men as is the United States. Yet, though Washington spends billions annually to care for disabled former military men, private groups continue their activities to get contributions for the same cause. In one instance, as The Citizen learned in Tallahassee, only 17 percent of the money thus collected went to the | veterans. The other 83 percent was chalked up for ad- ministrative costs. In that Miami story, the writer quoted a housewife who said that if she gave to everybody who begged her for money she wouldn’t have enough left to buy tle necessities of life. Diversified begging has led writers to stigmatize it as a racket, So The Citizen suggests again that our Com- munity Chest Fund be designated, as it is in some cities, as the unit to take care of all local charitable needs. The fund is aptly named — Community. That means | all of us, | Empty heads appreciate empty honors and there are plenty of both these days, The church crowd does not always stand for things the church does, but they are supporting their church. It is easy to economize on your church contribution, especially if you don’t have much interest in the church's | activities anyhow, EINIOMMF IAISIT] SIRI RIES MEAIVICIREROIRIA! ‘e) DIETVE TRIM INIE| NE|SNSIAM| IGIAISMESITIRIA] | IN'S} 4 RIAIL JE MNIE|T] HUTRELIEIVIEIREETIAIA APE MUISIE | SMEVIEIRIY) RE ISIC INIT SHEA! 1 IR| LiEIAMESICIAIVIE |S} CE IGIEISIT TAL MBAIRIE | an0t @tia Wi Satu Saas Sia | | | | 16. Soviet } marshal } 18. Short for man’s name 20 Bugliad school 56. Had being 7. Sharp point 7 Of the sun DOWN 3 College dance dd ade wl JOS8 ee woe Ad de mT Pe re ood BE BS Mas 5 a Wee 23. About 26. Unhappy | 26. Like a | murical | drama 28. Go away 29. Sweet potato 31. Mean 33. Powder | LET THIS BE A LESSON TO YOU This Rock In a lot of our Saturday columns, we urge you to vist some church on Sunday. Just to be different, | today we're going to urge you to read the religious news in this issue of the paper. The ministers do a good job of selling their own churches and there isn’t much doubt but that if you read their | page closely, your interest will be | piqued enough to cause you to at- |tend some place of worship tomor- row. Prayer I've often wondered what it is about the word “prayer” that makes folks act as if it was a nasty subject which shouldn’t be spoken of in public. Granted that the con- tents of a prayer are a personal matter in many cases, thege’s still no reason why men and women should become embarrassed if they accidently betray the fact that they do engage in some type of} communion with a Higher Power. I don’t have many fixed ideas when it comes to religious subjects. If a man tells me that there is no such thing as God, it doesn’t shock me in the least for to tell the truth, in my opinion, there really isn't such a thing as God to the man who doesn't believe in Him And so it goes with prayer. If you lack faith in the act of being able to reach out and contact Power greater than yourself, then prayer is a wagte of your short existence here Sart Types Of Prayer There are several types of pray. er. They fit various needs a. casions. But the truly devou son doesn't study in advance what type would be best in certain cir- cumstances . r words come at the proper time, spontan- | eously Langer Won't Poll Committee On Harlan Pact WASHINGTON (#—Sen, Langer (R-ND) said Thursday current , Senate’ procedures “make it im- possible” for the Judiciary Com- mittee he heads to act on the nom- ination of John Marshall Harlan to the Supreme Court. Of Ours By Bill Gibb so. There are times, however, when I think ministers lead a little too} much of a serene life to really| Langer referred to the request convince those of’us who are spin- | of Senate leaders that Senate com- ning in circles. | eee refrain sa Fegie pe dur- Personally, I can get into the | ing the session ca’ fo act on pro» darndest, fouled-up messes! And| Posed censure of Sen, McCarthy it is always prayer that pulls me| (R-Wis). out of them. Offhand, I can’t think| Harlan, nominated as an asso- of a single instance in my life| Cite justice Monday, was con- where I made an appeal to God firmed as'a federal circuit court and didn’t receive help. judge earlier this year, and there Insofar as I can see, there are|#d been suggestions that Langer about four principle types of pray- poll Judiciary Committee members er: petition, thanksgiving, confes- bal elge ea hacia ia a sion, and adoration. Most of us lean | och plans al ecliomesespdiauands ad pretty heavy on the petition and} A re | forget the thanksgiving or adora- This raised the possibility that | tion. ; yy, }s Confession and petition combine | ROmination of Harlan, a New York: very well together in spiritual com-| ia ‘Januaty ss munion with God. Without Teali- | oad zation and acknowledgement of | | faults, it would be difficult to real- ly expect an answer to any en- | Key West no action would be taken on the} | brought on by your writer. It seems that he and some oth- jer people want a voodoo, burlesque dance or a jazz band. A Grain Of Salt By Bill Spillman Thursday morning I called on an} when he, by virtue of his assign jold friend of mine, Miss Decker} ment, covered the recent meeting who is in the florist business. She , where the airlines gave the public is“a very special friend because a, the chance to ask questions con- few years ago when I was 13 orjcerning their stand 14, I used to work for her in her; I do not think that the criticism business. is justified unless there is a com. The reason I am mentioning this| parison basis to justify the re. is that the work table used by Miss marks Decker to make the floral arrange-, After the meeting one person ments is the same table she used | connected with the coufity was siat- when I worked for her. The signi-| ed to have said that if he had asked ficant item is that I carved my this and that question, the answers name on the woodwork and it is| would not have been easy for the ‘ still there. airlines representatives to answer. After careful observation of the | Hindsight is always easy handiwork, I could see no differ-| Personally, I feel that if any em- ence between the way I wrote my|barassing questions could name then compared to now. |been asked concerning the issue, —_— 11 think that they should have been The county commissioners did asked. To do otherwise, is a neg not send a representative to the lect of civie duty. Jaycees on Wednesday night to tell If } am wrong in my belief that their side of the dispute with Na-|tax money can be saved by letting tional. Mthe Airlines use the Boca Chica I can see their point of not want--| field and the county maintaining ing any publicity on the subject) Meacham as an airport for small since it is in the hands of the court.|er private aircraft, I want to be However, it could be said that they | the first to admit it: are afraid to put themselves to} GUAVA JELLY — A cute little questions in a public question and | blonde was in the florist shop or- answer period. dering roses for the arrival of Burt This can de discounted because | Lancaster's wife. if anyone wanted to have ques-| | —Navy Wives club 88 collected tions answered, they could come | $24 (without being asked) for the to the county commissioners meet-| Community Chest Drive, Their ing. bowling league donated another $25. Perhaps there is a difference be-| —I am impressed every time I tween going to a regular commis-| drive along the south boulevard sion meeting and asking outright! and see how clean it is under the questions at a meeting of general| coconut trees. Key West is com- subjects compared to having a sit-|ing up on the world. State High- uation discussed in full with the! way Department did the job talk bringing up suggestive ques-| —It should be a big show Sat- tions in itself. | urday night in the football stadium The reason I am harping about| when Douglass High puts on their the subject is that one of the com-| halftime show. missioners accused this reporter of; Haven't heard much talk about putting two strikes against them ' naming the football stadium lately. -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 reavested rwise. BAND SUPPORT URGED | Editor, The Citizen: In regards to the eriticism of our High School Band If this is the kind of musi¢ they Want all they have to do lis flip a radio dial. or drop a nickel in a juke box, which | there are plenty of. | treaty. Petitionary prayers, by them-| selves, easily slip off into selfish | | requests requests based on} purely material desires similar to that of a kid asking for a red wa-} gon at Christmas time. If the time | and effort wasted in such ‘begging’ | | were transformed into productive | jwork, a fellow could answer his | own requests of this nature, There’s a book whith has been | | on the market for quite awhile call-} ed “The Magic of Believing,” by | Claude M. Bristol, It is quite in| teresting and one which should be| Miss Mena Oliveros, state regent jread by any person who feels that} of the Catholic Daughters of Am his ambitions have been thwarted | erica, arrived over the East Coast because of unavoidable circums- | this morning from St. Augustine tances. In a ner of speaking, | it delves into power of prayer jthough the a handles his sub- In Days Gone By November 13, 1934 | Much interest is being displayed in the Key West Garden Club’s You can probably find the book} denced by the number of inquiries | ject in anything but a religious way. | beautiful garden contest, as evi-| Doc, the Band Mastef,’is trying to teach these stu- dents the fundamentals of good music. They will have plenty of time to learn “peppy music.” | If our boys and girls were not getting the proper ' training I am sure they would not have received the high | praise they received in Tampa and Cuba. Incidentally our boys on the football team seem to be doing a right fine job with this type of music as a back- ground. So let's stop criticizing our Band and support them and the instructor like we do our football team. Sincerely, JACK H. WEECH 1022 Georgia Street Key West, Florida | BLAMES THE MEMBERS Editor, The Citizen: Different people have been voicing their opinions You might say that a preacher at your favorite store or at the|received by the Garden Club with | ghout the Key West High School band. I think it is time ought to be tellin ou these things and not a guy like myself. Maybe- Hal Boyle Says BRUSSELS \#—The poor man’s Baedeker to B n There is no law about it, but by custom the seventh child in every Belgian family is the godchild of the King. However, a mother doesn't have to raise that large a family to start getting something from the government. She gets an allowance se equivalent to $6.30 a month for her, first child. The figure gradually rises until the payment reaches a peak of $13.90 monthly for her fifth child, and any thereafter. There are also small birth and death allowances and a nonwork-! ing mother also gets an allowance from the government to stay home and raise her kids. These family the birth rate in rural more than in industrial areas, however. The clear bracing air in rural zones is regarded by some authorities as | American bonuses increase! | Key West Woman’s Club Library. | Tespect to rules of the contest, and ‘Read it, |the number of contestants already | registered. | kk November 13, 1944 Tf it can be demonstrated that | the reconstruction of the Roosevelt | Boulevard is “essential to the war | sider providing funds to make re- | | pairs. Such is the substance of the |e alge tegy Representative B, C. | |Papy has received from Senator | | Claude Pepper and O. T. Ray, re-| gional director of the FWA, with | offices in Atlanta. | even more important to the birth/ rate than government bounties. | HEAP BIG INJUN Belgium’s 8. 000 people have! STRINGTOWN, Okla @—Turner three different national tongues —|Bear, fullblooded Creek In Flemish, French and German, |dian, bagged a 10-point, 124pound Some 3,039,315 in 1950 spgke | buck deer near here, French only, 3,473,291 Dutch only, Asked whether he. used a bow 49.033 German: only and arrow, as many hunters are ‘ doing, or a rifle, he replied: It was also discovered that 334,- | “SINS: | i 206 inhabitants couldn't spesk any | — =~ ee of the three languages. It turned | “*FOW lor white man.’ out most of them had a reasonable} 7 t . excuse—they were still under 2) Phin Ang ng Service was years of age. : TV are scheduled for the kids each| Belgium produces no romantic |r. -sday afternoon (children get a films, does go in heavily for seri-| afternoon off every week), but so| ous home-produced documentary |far Hopalong Cassidy hasn't in-! movies. But cinema fans here like yaded the frontier. . . . So far stars, and currently | there are only am estimated 40,000 Jane Russell is ahead of Marilyn TV sets in the nation, and most Monroe by a wide margin -jof them are m eafes . . . Here Television is state controlled here,| as in America the thoughtful bar- | and separate networks are provid-| tender is in the forefront of any/ |ed for the Flemish 2nd French- move that will help bring culture | speaking populaces. Twe hours of to his customers, | effort,” the Federal Works Agency | | will then be in a position to con-| | you heard a band members opinion. The band master is not to blame but the band mem- bers are. Mr. Casterton has done a lot for the band and is played and Doc would like to play it for you, but he doesn’t get the cooperation from some of the kids. When he calls drill, half of them don’t show up and the half that do report for drill don’t bring their instru. ments. They just mess around the whole time. Other bands have lots of people who are interested in being in the band and if the ones who are in the band mess around, they can be replaced. But we are unfortunate in that we do not have that many people interested in being in the band. And you can’t blame that on Doc Even if we played jazz and strutted our legs off, you still couldn’t please some people. A BAND MEMBER Messi May ‘Aid Oldsters. By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE [production of sex hormones star's AP Science Reporter |to decline. NEW YORK &—Tiny daily doses} The report was made by Doctors of fresh hormones look promising‘ Charlies H. Birnberg and Raphael for overcoming some troubles and Kurzrok, of Jewish Hospital { dangers of growing old, two physi-| Brooklyn and Morrisania Hospital, cians have revealed. ae ;New York, at a symposium on They reported mostly re-| esented sults in overcoming fatigue, head acdaprianca se Ss = the Ameri. aches, depressions, hervousness, irritability and even pressure in a group of 61 women diseases of the aging and nine men who were in or past the “change of life” period. That s hormones were used in the doc the period in which the natural tors’ experiments on people not have |! high blood| Geriatrics is the treatisent of| Tablets with tiny amounts of sex | Ay TB Patient In Japan Has US. Pen Pals By FRED SAITO TOKYO, W—An ailing young Japanese mother has received a thousand letters from America, The woman, on a berculosis Sickbed written | Peace national goc il to the | Russia and Red China She was swamped with American answers, but hag yet to hear a word fre R Th Tor hs ago, Mrs. Chizu . Wrote 48 letters to an newspapers jn te, asking to exchange let. h Americans. hese newspapers were at- the United States in rela- H bomb tests in the Pacific which hurt some of our fisa- ermen e@ said But I wanted to believe in the good will of Amer+ pan A person who may die to hate anyone,"* Jap. e students, im- at the 1,000 replies she received, wrote similar letters to Canada and came q More than a month ago, Mrs, omizawa wrote 150 letters to Rus- stan and Red Chinese newspapers and organizations, She has yet to receive a single reply In letters to both free and Cums munist countries asked for indi- vidual opinions on atomic tests, “ZT still believe in the possibility of keeping good friendship with ail these nations,” Mrs. Tomizawa said. “The Americans have proved they have the same faith . . <I still hope the people in the Communist nations will write me.” She said about 800 American let- ters came from housewives, and half of them apologized for damage caused by the H-bomb tests. More than 100 Tokyo students are busy helping her draft the replies She said about 50 letters from the United States “suspected a mo- tive and wrote words of insult,”’ | “But the others encouraged me | so much, I feel I am getting well,” \Reduction Of Jury From 12 To 7 Suggested LONDON Lord Goddard, the lord chief justice of England, sug- gests the size of juries be reduced from 12 to 7 in all cgurt actions except murder trials. And he says verdicts should not be unanimous but by majority vote. | Lord Goddard says retrials have | become more frequent recently be- cause one “unreasonable or preju- | diced juror” can cause a mistrial, | Smaller juries sat in courts during the war and served without risk of real injustices, he contends, | The question of a majority voce |by reduced juries also has beea advanced by Sir Gerald Dodson, senior judge of Old Bailey, Lon- | don’s criminal court. He told a jury {which could not reach a verdict | because one of its members dif- |fered from the rest: | “Perhaps one‘ day our legisla- | ture may see fit to decide that a Majority verdict of say 10-12ths may be valid.” Many lawyers opposed the idea i majority verdicts in murder tri- als. “British justice has been buiit up on the belief that an accused man is always entitled to the bene- fit of any doubt in the minds of his fellow men,” said one. ‘Russia Wants | Locomotives } TOKYO, # — The newspaper | Asahi said Friday Russia wants to buy 50 narrow-gauge steam loco- Motives and 1,000 freezer cars each ters w n Ou Young pre: a thousand letters | still doing so. 4 know the people would like to have jazz|from Japan, a 17%-million-dollar | order. V. Krupin, Russian commercial fepresentative, reportedly made \the offer Thursday to the Jepan | Locomotives and Rolling Stock In- dustry Assn. The association in- structed its members to submit quotations. The order probably would top that of 1948 when Russian pure Chased 365 locomotives and rolling |stock. It would be the first such = since the start of the Korean ar. } ES ES POSTAL JUMP ASKED LOS ANGELES, # Salary boosts for postal employé: and am increase in first-class postage from 3 to 4 cents an ounce wil! be sought iM the next session of Congress, Asst. Postmaster Gen Eugene J. _ Lyons told reporters Thursday. | ‘Until 75 years ago, man’s only” | of artificial light was the open flame a RS acutely il] but mainly victims of jchanges in personalities. quarters of the women | Were 50 to 68 years old, the others 3 to 50. The nine men were 57 } to 67. | The hormones generally bad a itomie effect, the physicians sad, | AM nnexpected result was a lower- ing of blood pressure in numerous Cases, they added.