The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 30, 1954, Page 5

Legionitems @ Post Commander, Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28, ° American Legion Arthur Sawyer Post 28’s first Past Commander Night was a suc- cess from the attendance as well as the enthusiastic participation. A large class of candidates known as the Arthur Sheppard Class, was initiated by the Key West Guard of Honor. Legionnaires Carrie Hattrick and Herman Gor- don were recognized as 35-year- members of the American Legion. Out of town Legionnaire guest in- cluded Southern Area Commander Billy Anderson; Tenth District Commander Victor Wildt; South- ern Area Veterans Administration Visitation Services Representative Jim Malone, and Frank Hanrahan of Boston, Mass., a past 2nd Vice Commander of Arthur Sawyer Post and charter member of the Key West Guard of Honor. Past Post and Tenth District Commander Al Mills introduced the speaker of the evening, past department Chaplain and pastor of the Fleming Street Methodist Church, the Reverend Ed Statham, who is also a member of Arthur Sawyer Post. ¢ Entertainment in the form of a fine floor show was presented by the Pinder School of Dance, with Gerry Pinder in the role of master of ceremonies. To top off the evening, a very excellent lunch was served to the membership complete with a beau- tiful cake, by Raul Sibila, club ma- nager, assisted by the House Com- mittee. It is planned to make Past Com- mander Night a yearly affair. xk * Membership: Our 1955 membership has slight- ly ativanced beyond the half way mark, and is steadily climbing. We are working for one hundred per cent membership by the first of the year. - x * Conference: Legionnaires LeVan C. Reber, Vance C, Stirrup, and Robert Dan- iels represented Arthur Sawyer Post at the Mid-Winter Conference held at Daytona Beach, on Novem- ber 27, 28, and 29. I will have the news of the meeting in next week’s column. Be sure to attend the next re- gular meeting on December 8 to hear the delegates report of the conference. xk Santa Claus: The Santa Claus picture - taking booth will be located at the San Carlos Institute building on Du- val Street. It is planned to start the picture taking on Thursday night, December 2, and continue through Saturday December 11. Money derived from this project Ber be used to fill Christmas bas- You are not asked to give to charity, but to have a picture of French Author Writes About Us Americans By PRESTON GROVER PARIS, —A Frenchman’s book Just published here comes up with the conclusion that Americans are practically normal. “The overwork of Americans is greatly exaggerated,” says Ray- mond Cartier, a correspondent of the magazine Paris-Match. He spends much of his time in Amer- ic: a. A lot of Americans may die of heart disease and cancer, says Cartier, “but all the other causes of death are becoming increasing- ly so rare that heart disease and cancer tend more and more-to.be- come the only killers.” He observes in his book “The 48 Americas” that Americans don’t find escape in alcohol any more than Europeans.. And Europeans go astray in believing American family life is breaking up. He ex- plains: “The immense majority of the divorcers of both sexes are not seeking to break up the home but simply to change it. The large part of divorces are undertaken with the remarriage already in sight — and the partner already chosen.” Unlike Europeans who take lov- ers and mistresses, he says, Amer- icans prefer to break up the mar- riage rather than sully it, “The hard truth,” he says, “is that America is coming to resem- ble Europe more and more, Every- thing is growing in that direction, increasing bureaucracy, mounting socialism, and obligatory military service in time of peace.” Cartier notes that many Euro- ean observers find America too mechanized, half of the population rushing to bars at 7 p.m. to quiet their nerves, or passing hours on & psychoanalyst’s couch “‘talking of love instead of making it.” “The misunderstanding is that this ‘American way of life’ doesn’t exist,” Cartier writes. “The bases your child made with Santa Claus for a nominal fee. x ke *& Children’s Christmas Party: Chairman Joe Metzger of the children of Legionnaires Christmas Party stated that the forms have been sent out to the Legionnaires, and requests that the forms be completed and sent back to the Post no later than December 6. The date of the party is December 18. San- ta Claus will be there with gifts and goodies for all the kiddies, and entertainment will also be present- ed. Joe asks for volunteers to as- sist in this all - important pro- gram. xk * Remarks By The Pest Commander: When we were in the military service, we had a never - ending source of entertainment known as the gripe. Griping was aimed at the chow, leave, the Sergeant, and many other things that didn’t go just right. We always assumed that the next guy should be perfect, and never took into consideration that he was human too. Now that most of us are back in civilian life, we find that the gripes are still with us, and we use it as profusely as ever. We aren’t satis- fied with the cop on the beat, the hole in the street, and the way the tide is running on a day of fishing. An American Legion Post is just like any other group of individuals, with all sorts of people and each of them with different ideas. Joe doesn’t like the way that John handles his committee, etc. Remember, folks, no one is per- fect, and using that time worn ex- pression:+“‘We are only human, and to be human is to err.” Always consider that the other man can make a mistake, and that you too can do likewise. % MM ¢ Halfway Mark: Legionnaires: We are. approach- ing the halfway mark in the Am- erican Legion year of 1954 and 1955. Our American Legion _pro- gram is progressing successfully, and the committees are all func- tioning. Some of the future events coming up in the near future are: the Christmas programs; the Am- erican Legion Circus; the Ameri- canism program and of course, the most important, a one hundred per cent membership for the year. Many other projects will tend to round out a very successful year. Some things to be thinking about: Who are going to be your officers r the next American Legion Tuesday, November 30,1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 5 KEY WEST STORY—John Wayne and Ray Milland are shown in one of the many thrilling scenes from Cecil B. DeMille’s Tech- nicolor saga of the sea, “Reap the Wild Wind,” the Paramount re-release due to open next Thursday at the Strand Theatre. This epic film also stars Susan Hayward and Paulette Goddard, Film Depicts Musie Softens Key West In Early Days Tough Wayne eo filming “Hondo,” which opens Thutsday at the Monroe Theatre, touted the requent visitor to the soutti-of- T Republic dur- ing the last ten years, “It’s getting so that ‘Cielito Lin- “The national’s No. 1 box - office |do’ and ‘Guadalajara’ have the star is a sentimentalist. The first} same effect on me as ‘When Irish bars of “Danny Boy” will moisten} Eyes Are Smiling’,” he admitted. his big blue eyes, and “Mother | ‘‘Music like that will get me every Machree” will send him for a hank- | time.” It must be the Irish ancestry of John Wayne that brings on the JEWISH BACKING NEW YORK (—The American jewish Congress has urged the Senate to censure Sen. Joseph R. i McCarthy (R-Wis) to end what Wayne, Susan Hayward, Ray Milland and Paulette Goddard with support. they called his “violations of basic American principles.” ° TURKEY DECLINES : ANKARA, Turkey (@®—Turkey has turned down Russia’s invites tion to the Red-sponsored Eure pean security conference, saying the parley is aimed at preventing ratification of the Paris accords on rearmament of West Germany, One of the truly great films of our times, “Reap the Wild Wind” is a Technicolor saga of the sea that contains ur, beauty, Tomance and thrilling excitement. Set against the swashbuckling era of Key West in the 1840's, the film relates the fascinating tale of the piratical salvagers who plun- a Your Grocer SELLS That Good STAR * BRAND Plucky Woman Mariner Has To Accept Aid OLD POINT COMFORT, Va. H— Mrs. Ann Davisom didn’t quite make it all the way to Norfolk from New York in her one-woman sloop as she had planned, but she didn’t miss it much. The courageous Englishwoman who left New York Nov. 22 expec! ing to sail her eraft, the Felicity Ann, -into Norfolk in five days at the most, needed seven before she finally reached port here last night at 10:30 p.m. A seagoing fishing ane had to tow her the final Bad weather gave both Mrs. Davison and her 23-foot sloop a buffeting, throwing her badly off schedule. So when the trawler, the 200-ton Sea Hawk skippered by Capt. H. W. Gibbs, of Hampton, came along early yesterday morn- ing and offered assistance, the lady said a reluctant “Yes,” The trawler took the Felicity Ann under tow about 30 miles off Cape Henry and tied up at the Vir- ginia Marine Service at Phoebus 13 hours later. Mrs. Davison, who sailed in the Felicity Ann from England to New York last year, said she was “‘tired and wet but otherwise all right.” “There was nothing really gl: orous about the incident,” she said modestly. “I am very pleased to hear people were concerned about Year? How can we improve the American Legion Program for next year? This year is by no means“over and won’t be until next June,’ so, Legionnaires, come in and offer your services to the Post’ Com- mander, i kok wk Yours, For God and Country Judge Protests Salary Level Set 27 Yrs. Ago COLUMBUS, Ohio #—Chief Jus- tice Carl V. Weygandt of the Ohio Supreme Court has announced his resignation. He says salaries for judges are too low. The 66-year-old jurist, servi his fourth six-year term, ye $12,600 a year. “ a prepared statement, he sald: “It seems incredible that the salary I am drawing was fixed by the legislature 27 years ago... “In ‘the meantime, the salaries of the governor and the other ad- ministrative officials have been doubled, and legislative salaries have been increased four times and more than trbeled.” THAT’S HOW THE MONEY WILL GO HEREFORD, England i — Ron- ald Coundley, 26, told local magis- trates yesterday he had an excel- lent reason why they should re- store his revoked driving license. Coundley, banned from the roads | [i] last summer for driving while un- der the influence of drink, ex- plained: “T have just got married and T can’t afford to drink any more.” He got his license back, : NATIONALISTS MISS HONG KONG w—The 4,305-ton | jill Danish motorship Emilie Maersk reported on arrival last night that Nationalist Chinese shore batteries fired four shells at her as she was passing Ockseu Island off the Chinese coast Sunday. All the shots missed. Industrial counties put 18 to 20 per cent of their incomes into taxes and 7 to 10 per cent in savings: et spiritual, cultural, social anf in his family — are approximate'y the same in West Europe and in @f the life ef an individual —/the United States.” A my safety. It’s nice to know some- one cares.” ‘ As°soon as her sloop gets a few minor fepairs she ‘plans to set out 5 ° E. , . NEBO’S INC. SHOWS PROOF | Nae * WEST DENOUNCED DAMASCUS, Syria #—Ten thou- sand demonstrators marched through Damascus yesterday in an anniversary protest against the 1947 U.N. resolution partitioning Palestine. They shouted slogans denouncing the Western Powers, Turkey, Israel and the United Na- ns. POLISH SAILORS FREE LONDON (#—Britain’s lord chief justice, Lord Goddard, has refused to send back to Communist Poland en ‘Polish sailors who revolted against the master of their fishing trawler and sought asylum in thi country. ‘He ordered the seven freed. to sea again — this time to Florida and the Bahamas, and all alone again, of course, Churchill OF? Guard “Churchill hikes to know when he’s in danger. It simply delights him—so we never tell him.” Here are dozens of new “inside” anecdotes about one of the world’s most important personalities told by the Scotland Yard ini stor | who was his, body- guard for twenty. years. Read it in the Ladies’ Home Journal. 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