The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 8, 1954, Page 4

\ NORMAN D. ARTMAN ___.... Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2.5661 and 2-5662 era OE ne aac eenties orn Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for of all news dispatches credited not otherwise in this or Paper, and also the local news pub- Member Associate Dailies of Florida ‘Subscription (by cartier), 25¢ per week; year, $13.20; by mall, $15.60 “~~ ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION ‘The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issues and of local or mi ahd Seneral interest, but it will not publish IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN MONROE DOCTRINE — 131 YEARS OLD Just about this time of year, one hundred thirty-one years ago, President James Monroe, in an annual message to Congress, set forth the Monroe Doctrine. The message to Congress ‘did not come in Janvary, as they do today, but about a month before the end of the year — due to the fact that Congress met earlier in those days. It is fitting that we remember the great benefit to this hemisphere resulting from the promulgation of the Monroe Doctrine. In these days, when Communism is the great fear of the world, it is sometimes easy to forget that the Colonial powers, in 1823, threatened to make the Western Hemisphere another colonial backyard. President Monroe, on December 2nd, 1823, announc- _ ed to the world that the United States would oppose the * extension of control by European powers over any terri- * tory on the American continents, He referred to boundary disputes between the United States and Russia and Great Britain, and warned against a proposed action by the Holy Alliance, which would have assisted Spain in re- gaining control over several South American countries. These countries had rebelled successfully against Spain, and the United States’ intervention saved their in- dependence, Among the countries was Agentina, a coun-| try which has, in‘recent years, sometimes been unfriendly toward the United States. Not only did the United States save the independence . of many of these countries, but it saved the independence of Mexico, when Washington warned the French to get their stooge monarch out of that country. The French had sent an Army tq Mexico.during the war of 1861-65, and had proclaimed Maximillian as the ruler of Mexico. “For one hunderd and thirty-one years, the Monroe Doctrine has kept the Western Hemisphere free of colon- jalism and enabled these continents to enjoy a relatively undisturbed period of growth and advancement. The policy of the United States Government today in opposing the setting up of any Communist Government in this area of the world is not inconsistent. In fact, it would be conipletely consistent with the foreign policy of the United States in the past for this country to take most vigorous measures to prevent Communist interference in the peaceful pursuits of countries protected by the Mon- roe Doctrine for one hundred and thirty-one years. Your best friend is the one who will tell you the truth, _ when it hurts. ._. Every individual owes society more than can be re- paid in one lifetime. You can get something out of going to church, if you stay awake, even if you don’t try. Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1, Diminish 6. Persian - 4 ELL 1 ITIEIA LEE RESIAISIA 8. medan priést 9. Zealous 10, Noun suffix 11. Negative * 17. Town in New Guinea 24. Wife of Gakue 19. Religious 27. Greek letter 29. Corded fabric 31. To: Scotch 32. Answer the poem 22. Self tive utteranc 41. Motion picture 48. Glossy paint 45. Mountain: This Rock City Commissioner Jack Delaney says he doesn’t think he will run for office again. I told him he was crazy. Once a fellow gets bitten by that political bug, he is attracted to campaign elections like a moth to a flame. Jack’s making a good commis- sioner, He is honest, faithful, kind. Biggest criticism I have of him is’ that he tends to blindly accept the leadership of others when he him- self, is much better equipped to do the leading. His wife, of course, would, pro- bably like to see him quit. She says she never gets to see him any- more, That isn’t hard under- listens to peo- , he is constant- ly besieged by petitioners. Cobo’s Band Idea By and large, none of our City Commissioners are falling down too badly on the job. Delio Cobo is advocating an especially worthy project — creation of a communi- ty band. < Such a band is badly needed in Key West. Our high school ‘musi- cians are an example of the fine talent which exists locally. The band would be a hobby for those who play in it and a desirable form of recreation for the rest of the citizenry. : Now if Cobo will just stick with his band idea and forget fluorida- tion, everything will be ‘hunky - dory’ in City Hall,.It has been a couple of months since this col- umn has been able to find any- thing to gripe about in connection with the. commissioners. Such Of Ours By Bill Gibb peacefulness can’t last forever but it sure is restful for the present! School Patrol Raincoats The Key West Police Department is progressing nicely in its attempt to provide raincoats for School Sa- fety Patrols, Officers Armando Pe: rez, Harry Sawyer, and Herman Conley have been working hard on the project. They’ve collected bet- er than two hundred dollars to date. Every school in Key West will be- nefit so don’t hesitate to help the officers if you’re so inclined, You might be interested to know that Perez and Conley of the KWPD, have. also joined forces with Jim Wilder of the County Sheriff's office. The three are ar- ranging special prograins to’ pro- mote safety in our schools, Talks, motion pictures, and friendly round- table forums are part of their plans to spark child and youth safety- consciousness. Today's Business | Mirrot: By Sam Dawson petition, and increased store traffic NEW YORK (#—Santa pack may hold a billion dollars:worth of toys this Christmas for the first time. The new accent this year is on do-it-yourself toys. Prices are thor- oughly scrambled, but only in rare cases higher than a year ago. There seems little doubt that ‘|there’ll be more toys than ever sold this year to doting . parents and uncles—the only -question is what effect price cutting here and there will have on, the final retail dollar sales total. © : The Toy Manufacturers Assn. of the U.S.A. reports today that wholesale sales of toys this year to stores will be between 500 and 550 million dollars, against last year’s previous record of 450 mil- lion. In past years this would be translated into retail sales to con- sumers at a billion dollars or more. | ee Last week widespread *toy -pro- motions by stores—notably some big city department stores plagued by competition of discount houses —drew crowds to toy counters but scrambled the retail markup fig- ures across the nation. Toy promotions have started earlier this year, and the war be- tween discount houses and the old- line stores has heightened thé. com- + ic. Association spokesmen say the group has taken no official stand on the question of “fair trade”’— a legal device for maintaining the manufacturer’s listed retail price on his branded products, Some of its members fair-trade ‘their toys, but the majority do not, the as- sociaiton says. : Some stores are reporting de- lays in deliveries on late orders, and the association predicts a com- plete cleanout of stocks this year. Many stores had lagge inventories of toys left over last year, and were hesitant about ordering until late this year. The continuing high ‘birthrate is the toy manufacturer’s chief joy. Frederick W. Doepke, president of the association, says there are 16% million children under § this year, four million more than 10 years ago: INSECURE SEAT PIPTSBURGH Police Desk Sgt. James Queenan was taken to a, hospital Monday within seconds after he had reported for duty 3t No. 4 Precinct station. He suffered an injured leg and shoulder when the chair in which he sat tilted over, dumping him on the floor. i. World Today By DON WHITEHEAD (For James Marlow)" WASHINGTON (#—Adlai Steven- son and pis lieutenants have com- pleted one of the most subtle and successful campaigns of recent po- litical history with the election of Paul M. Butler of Indiana as Democratic national . chairman. The choice of Butler is in reality the climax of a two-year drive by Stevenson to overhaul the party machinery, heal old wounds, wipe out a campaign deficit of some $00,000 and restore the unity which was shattered in the elec- tion of 1952, 4 In this period, -the party’s cen- ter of gravity has shifted from former President Harry S. Tru- man to Stevenson, who is now by all odds the party’s strong man. And perhaps it was planned that way by Stevenson. But the important thing politi- cally is that Stevenson “has achieved his goals with no loss of political face for any faction in the party».He has left no apparent wounds to be healed or untidy messes to be cleaned up later. His popularity appears to be high in the South as well as in the North. After his defeat two years ago by President Eisenhower, Steven- son set out on his course. Through Stevenson’s influence, his old friend Stephen Mitchell had .|béen named Democratic national chairman. Mitchell was little known on the national political scene, but he worked hard to win friends and influence people. And politicians generally agree he did a good job for his party and for Stevenson, Stevenson paid court to the erners, whose pride had ‘been hurt in the fight over the “loyalty oath” in the 1952 national conven- tion. He made friends for himself in Dixie where feeling had run so high against Harry Truman. And yet while wooing the South, he didn’t snub Truman. He often conferred with him and managed to keep his support. Stevenson never displayed this political finesse to better advan- tage than he did early last Sep- tember when Democratic leaders met in Kansas City*to plan a fund- raising drive and to map cam- paign strategy. Stevenson could easily have dom- inated that meeting had he wished. But instead he deferred to Truman and encouraged Truman to take the spotlight. Truman resvonded by ue-i~~ t=~ party to double its campaign fund in the fight for couwur. v2 — ~ —an) appeal, incidentally, whic! was heeded and which may well have given the Democrats the ex- tra punch they needed to gain con- trol of Congress. The payoff .on Stevenson’s politi- cal skill came at New Orleans last Saturday when his choice, Butler, was elected easily to the Demo- cratic chairmanship with 70 of the national committee’s 105‘ votes. Just about the only question left to be answered is this: Will Ste venson use this political finesse to gain his party’s presidential nom- ination in 1956? i A great many political experts think he will. Vary bran muffins by adding Southland. He soothed the South- |” Key West In Days Gone By Arnold Gingrich, editor of the magazine, juire, had the exper- ience of cat a number of the larger fish, including mackerel, tu- na and barracuda, while out on a fishing trip this week with Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos. Cynthia Pearlman leads the 34 Se | PEOPLE’S FORUM | AID FOR SHUT-IN | Hditor, The Citizen: | I hope the Christmas spirit of helping others will get hold of someone as they read this little appeal for a very worthy shut-in, Mrs. Ella Trout is in the Monroe General Hospital, crippled in her feet and bedridden and made the remark Sunday afternoon she would like to have a small radio so she could get the good church programs. She gets very lonely at times and I am sure it would help to pass away many long lonely hours if she had a radio to listen pupils on the Senior High School | to Honor Roll for the instruction per- iod ending November 30. xk kK * December 8, 1944 Hierio Ramos, who bought the Menendez property at White and Division Streets seven months ago for $8,000 cash, has contracted to sell it to Elwell M. Key, Albert Montecino, Jr., and Raymond G. Navarro, Sr., through the Johnson and Johnson Realty Company. Monroe County’s school board took no action last night on the proposed resolution, recommending that the superintendent of public m in this county should at least have had a four-year college course before he is permitted to ye a candidate for that office. Work Lags On © Proud Soviet Enterprise , By RICHARD KASISCHKE » MOSCOW — Work has fallen behind schedule on Russia’s proud- est enterprise—the giant Kuiby- shev hydroelectric plant on the Volga River, which the Soviets call the world’s biggest. A speedup has been ordered so that the plant can be put in opera- tion in 1955. They’re already been working on it five years. The or- der is disclosed in Pravda, the Communist party newspaper. How are they going to get it done? g The most drastic step has been to cut down the administrative, or white collar, personnel on the proj- ect and send surplus desk jockeys out to wield picks and shovels. Pravda says the job can be done in time if everybody now patrioti- cally “goes to work earnestly and harder to fulfill this task of the ga to make the station begin operating in 1955.” Pravda says Kuibyshev will have a capacity of 2,100,000 ‘kilqwatts and “every year it will deliver to industry and agriculture 10 billion kilowatts of power.” In and about the complex. of plants, says “Pravda, they’ve al- ready constructed 250 miles of Count 5 Average Words One Line Minimum Space THREE LINES Figures or Initials Count As i. She says she don’t ask for a new one but would be glad of a small second hand one. Maybe someone has one that they could pass on to her and I know she would appreciate it and God would bless you and reward you for your kind thought of her. A FRIEND : “DO UNTO OTHERS” Editor, The Citizen: This is to answer the lady who wanted opinions con- cerning what she called dog etiquette. 5 Human being etiquette should be given first consid- eration, lady, and that involves Christianity. God created us in his own image and admonishes us to love one another — to love thy neighbor as thyself. Do you think a man who loves his neighbors would allow his dog to run on the neighbor’s property? Dirtying his lawn, breaking down his shrubs, digging up flowers? Do you think he would allow his dog to run in the road where he might cause an accident? F’ve seen many cars careen to keep from hitting dogs, Would he let him run at large where he might bite some human being, causing illness if not death? Would he allow his dog to bark incessantly, dis- turbing his neighbors restful sleep at night or his peace of mind by day? I think ‘not. A real Christian would accept his God given domin- ion over the beasts as'a great privilege, treating them with kindness. It is certainly not doing this if he allows his dogs to run the street where they may be killed under- neath the wheels of a car. - He should feed his pets well and by all means give them daily exercise at the end of a leash. But. a Christian’s foremost consideration should be for his fellow man who is created in the likeness of God. L. HAYES, Poinciana in general—the Malenkov gévern- iment recently created a new cab- inet ministry for electric plant con- struction. Feodor G. Loginov was named its ;head. SHOT BY NAIL : as SHOEBURYNESS, .Epgland — John Waller, 39, was trying to fix a gun used to drive nails into hard wood when it went off ‘and®'shot a nail through his stomach’ and out his back. He was in fair con dition at a hospital. railway and 125 miles of motor highways. aa i “Now construction has entered its decisive period,” Pravda says. “The tempo is increasing from day to day—but they are still lag- ging behind the plan. The construc- tion administration did not utilize facilities and its now necessary improve the quality of di- rection. “With this aim, they are lucing thé administration per- To help Kuibyshev along—and the Soviet electric power industry Use This Convenient Want Ad Order-Gram* START AD _2s ts: RUN AD __ DAYS NUMBER LINES «.__ ENCLOSED CITIZEN WANT ADS Check ee ee | One Word —_ 1 Word é ° ——_ % —— % —e—_ a Please Print Ad Below Money Order cnn. enum a 3 LINES 4 LINES 5 LINES 6 LINES 7 LINES — 8 LINES 9 LINES er pies aa Rates Per Line Multiply by number of lines 1 2 days —— We Ve walnuts, pecans, raisins or dates}) BUY - SELL - RENT - EMPLOY - OR to them.