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THB KEY WEST CITIZEN
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liiliiEruy
AS S ORATION
IMPROVEMENTS FOR IKEY WEST ADVOCATED
BY THE CITIZEN
1. More Hotels and Apartments
2. Beach and Bathing Pavilion.
3. Airports—Land and Sea.
4. Consolidation of County and Cay Governments,
i. Community Auditorium.
ANTI-RED PACT IN BALKANS
Turkey, Greece and Yugoslavia recently signed a
treaty of friendship and collaboration binding the three
countries to mutual defense in case of attack.’This event
is the culmination of a long period of growing detach
* ment from the Soviet orbit by Yugoslavia.
It is improbable that Soviet satellite states in the
Balkans would attack this alliance without major aid
from the Red Army itself. Though Romania, Bulgaria,
and Albania might muster a numerical superiority
against the Pact Powers, especially with the aid of Polish
and Czechoslovak divisions, the task of defeating them
without large-scale aid from the Red Army would be a
very difficult one. The Yugoslavs have proved themselves
to be adequate fighters and possess a terrain over which
defensive fighting can be carried on under the most fav
hrable circumstances. Marshal Tito is thought to have
over 30 divisions capable of taking the field.
Greece has exhibited the fighting qualities of her
sons as recently as 1940 and the years after the war when
•the Communists threatened to overrun the country. Tn
1940 and 1941, the Greeks turned back numerically su
perior Italian forces and completely stalled the armies of
Mussolini. Immediately after the war, the Greeks, with
British and American aid, turned back the Communist
guerilla hands, which were aided materially from Com
munist satellite countries and re-established a free Greek
government.
The Turks are famous soldiers, having fought the
Russians in 12 wars and having won nine of them. Al
though only a fraction of the size of Russia, the Turks are
unafraid of the Russian bear and are confident of their
ability in another clash with their huge northern neigh
bor. Turkish soldiers have exhibited great bravery and
ability in Korea and were formidable foes in World War
I, as the Allies found out at the Dardanelles, and after
Germany surrendered.
The new Balkan Pact is a major step firward in the
effort to ring the Soviet Union with strong allied defen
sive alliances. The decision of Marshal Tito to enter into
such a pact vindicates those who recommended and de
fended the Yugoslav aid program from the beginning.
Money is the most contemptible of all man-made idols.
A politician develops two faces sooner or later,
usually sooner.
SLICE OF HAM
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Thursday, March 12, 1953
CHILLS AND FEVER
warn
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Mann* Aegei. Vsrf—| vassal to travel the ffttriwippt River
and ntimes Waterway, rounds a sharp hart is the Charsfn
Rtwe m the heart of Chirac* a* is peases voder the Mart!***
Avwaa bttdc* -n*b> sorw** o Lake Mirk.*** The s*-
foe* vessel wiH be used to cany ora m t|se Gave* 1 mass Thu
bwiidtß# the renter is the Wraglev Vahtatm* sad a*
• sr si the Tn'msm SuzMag. —Waupfce*®.
Bomb Explodes
NEW YORK OB—A homemade
bomb exploded mildly in the Radio
City Music Hall Tuesday. Its
"pop” reportedly attracted the at
tention of only one person in the
audience of about 6.000.
Police later said the bomb, a
section of pipe filled with ex
plosive and with a' mechanical
timing device, apparently was the
work of ‘‘a publicity seeker who's
been doing this for years.” The
suspect was not further identified.
The bomb, placed in the slit
upholstery under a seat, singed
the coat of an unidentified wom
an. She said the explosion was
about an loud ta na electric light
bulb exp!*** ,
Mm*-
WARREN HULU MC of TV
Show ‘‘Strike It Rich” who
spent a vacation at the Casa
Marina recently. Two readers
of Key West Is My Beat sent
the information to the column.
Mrs. M. J. Behl, 617 C Peary
Court and Mrs. John Pitts,
147-J Poinciana, both turned in
the news and deserve honor
able mention for their alert
ness.
THE WORLD
TODAY
By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON (<D-Any sugges
tion that Congress look for Com
munists among the clergy is a
very hot potato. But, while Sen.
McCarthy knows a hot potato
when he sees it, Congressman
Velde juggles it.
That’s one difference between
these two Republicans— McCarthy
of Wisconsin and Velde of Illinois—
who nevertheless have some points
in common;
McCarthy, 44, and Velde, 43, are
both lawyers. Both were judges in
their home states. And both are
busy beating the bushes for Com
munists.
Two days ago Velde, chairman
but apparently not boss of the
House Un - American Activities
Committee, which has been search
ing for Communists in education,
made a statement about the pos
sibility of looking for them among
clergymen.
The roof fell in. All members of
his committee who could be
reached were against the idea. And
some, but not all clergymen, made
statements giving him the icy
stare.
Confronted with this reaction,
Velde said he may have been mis
interpreted. McCarthy, watching
Velde try to get his feet out of
the flypaper, announced Velde
could have any investigation of the
clergy aU to himself.
“I wasn’t aware,” said McCar
thy, “of his plans to make such
lan investigation. He has my com
plete, wholehearted assurance
■ there is not even the remotest pos
isibility of our overlapping.”
J McCarthy, who began his rise
'to national attention in 1950 with
charges of Communists in the
'State Department, is still working |
on the same project. He's chair
man of a Senate committee inves
tigating the department’s Voice of
America.
But there is another difference
j between these two former judges.
McCarthy can * alfc into a brier
patch and come out acting like
| a man who landed tn a row-bed
Velde sometimes gets scratched
up. *
“I have been called,” said Mc-
Carthy recently, “probably every
name in the world and it has not
been effective a gains McCarthy.
1 have been accused of everything
s*e ep t murdering my grand
nother,”
Velde tangled recently with Mrs.
Vgnes Meyer, wife of Eugene
feyer, board chairman of the
Washington Post In a talk to a
iroup of school administrators she
rnticixed Velde and plans for in
vestigating schools and colleges.
Velde tried to ht back by *ay
: ng Mrs. Meyer had been men
‘ioaed by Pravda as writing to a
fustian journal a letter express
ng profound admiration far the
■eopie of the Soviet Union
The Post tevestigated and found
bat the writer was not only not
Mr* Meyer but had a different
tame and lived tn Canada The
Poet said when Vekar was toid he
bad made a serve** error. he re
fused to retract unW-* Mrs Meyer
retracted what she had said
f TANARUS Post story which told al?
t tins mentioned the world “libel *'
Th* west day Velde retracted l!<
blamed the error m an employe
ef tew remmittee He said later
the t#pte)r* was fired.
[ McCarthy has done most <4 1m *
acewsacf m the Senate where he
tttt be sum!.
He did sue a feOow ms*Ur tor :
MM SeutiM. Bwmoerat of Cm- ,
OWctirtft —lur statomewi* eutmeeied'.
with Secton's plea to Ceegrcv* to.
huume McCarthy Saatun caUrnf
tetm a maa tf *d
The atutmle McCarthy .adopted
toward Seoto* was ewe f eow
teeqpt. “That osewtal m*taet ,* he
*Md Sewtow wa* Aired toe re
; elertw m rtbX fmK * mssher
iSemmcroL tm. Tydsn#* f Mary
I sad. who aim e* tod MrCarthf • i
hg Mas defeated m MB*.
HAL BOYLE SAYS
i ST- LOUIS if?)—"Meet Me In St.
Looey. .
There are some cities that make
jou feel sad when you come back
to them, and to me this wonderful
old river town will always be one.
My feeling for it is like an old
love affair in which one partner
can t quite quit yearning.
It is nearly 20 years since 1
first came here, and lost my
heart to St. Louis on sight. A
young man can’t withstand an old
city. . .or an older woman. And
the reason is simple. They have
a history. . .and he would like to
have one. too. . .and the quickest
way is to share theirs.
Every antique brick in this quiet
city on the Mississippi seemed to
me to have a story in it. There
was a mellow feeling of time past
and time present merging in a
pleasant pattern. It didn’t appear
at aU impossible to me that on
some moonlit night. , .strolling
along a narrow waterfront street. .
1 would meet Mark Twain and talk
with him. . .and not think it odd
at all.
1 felt the same way about meet
ing Father Marquette. De Soto,
Rogers and Clark, or Dizzy Dean
or even Mr. Anheuser-Busch. Ole
Diz was in his glory prime then,
fogging a fast ball so soon to fade.
And a tan tiger called Joe Louis
made himself the nation’s ama
teur heavyweight champ here, but
even he didn't know how far his
fists would carry him.
Oh, it was a fine time and place
• to be young. The only war a fellow
had to fight was poverty. But beer
was a nickel a glass, you could get
some kind of a meat dinner for two
bits, and on SIOO a month 1 lived
, in a daze of glamor. The paychecks
Were passed out on the first and
'fifteenth of the month, and in be
tween paydays you went to the
money lender. He gave you a ten
spot and the next week he cashed
! your check and kept sll. This sim
jple, basic idea had made him rich.
| I worked the night shift, taking
news stories over the long distance
i phone about holdups in the Ozarks.
criminals being electrocuted in the
: state prison, or somebody in South
jern Illinois turning his car over
'on the way home, killing himself
and somebody rise’s wife. I was
new at the typewriter, and all the
j tawdry' tales of people in trouble
wore a kind of romance instead of
i misery.
The older newspapermen were
PEOPLE’S FORUM
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rl*bt to drift* aar Item* wklfk
arc rnaaldrrrd I lit-In** or ■■*•*•-
ranted. The writer* kkrald b*
fair lid r*iflk* lb* letter* fa
IM wont* and write aa aae *M*
of tbe pnprr ealr. Sl* mat ar* •*
tbe writer annat aeeetapaar
letter* ikd will be pabtfahr* ma
te** renbeated etberwlee.
POLICE PROTECTION
Editor, The Citizen;
| Would like for you to know
that you have wonderful police
protection (in Key West). We
were misled by a fire alarm at
3 a.m. and thinking it was 5 a m.
we prepared to leave the motel
iin which we were staying (Sea
i Isle Court), trying to be m quiet
as we possibly could, and harking
f out without turning on the car
• lights.
We must have given the patrol
■ man the wrong tmprvsion. be
j cause he really gave us a thnr
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heroes to me, their gossip of old
j scandals in the news was the shop
talk of journahi jr denr-i - gods.
Would there ever be storms like
that again, I wondered, and would
1 1 get to write them? r - * .
Two of my favorite titans were
an old copyrcader embittered by
[futility and a long duel with hie
ulcer, and a rewrite man named
'Johnny, who had a boy’s face, a
! death-look in his eyes, and an abil
ity to sing "Wabash Moon” in n
way you could never forget
After knocking off work at S
a. m., we would tour the water
front. trudging over worn cobble
stones from one joint to another.
But finaUy we always settled down
in one caUed "Little Bohemia,”
run by a Serbian artist named
Savo Radulovich. It had sawdust
on the floor, red-checkered table
cloths. and was lit by candles in
bottles. You could lean out the
back window and spit in the beau
tiful Mississippi-
The beer flowed like wine, n
phonograph played "Dark Eyee"
over and over and over, and in be
tween Johnny warbled "Wabash
Moon” and the old copyrcader
talked of the dead days past whan
newspapermen were really news
j papermen.
: One night I looked across eaa ef
the tables into the grey eyes ef a
girl. Later I didn’t come te the
tavern so much. I walked la Forest
Park with the girt with the grey
eyes, spilling college poetry in her
ears, and listening happily as the
told me I was sore to write the
great American novel one ef theee
days.
All of this happened nearly m
years ago . . . and tt lasted only a
few short months.
Now when I come beck te it
Louis I know that the waterfront
joints are torn down . . , Dissy
Dean no longer throws a tost one,
! and Joe Louis has been up the lad
der and down ... Johnny died long
; ago. the old copyrcader took hie
juicer to heaven . . There isn’t a
nickel beer left in town . . ,
I I walk the streets and bear the
'lost echoes of "Wabash M00n"...
j but 1 know 1 will never meet Mark
Twain ... or write the greet Amer
jicaa novel . . . and never again
I see the girl with the grey eyes.
When s man comes back te the
town where he was young, all he
sees is himself as be used te be...
.and that is always rather sad, no
imatter bow good life has been te
him.
ough examination before he bid
us adieu.
Sincerely,
MR. AND MRS. A. E. HICKMAN
AND JERRY.
APPRECIATION EXPRESSED
Editor, The Citizen:
I’m sorry not to have found an
opportunity before this I* have
written to thank you far having
published our feature article on
Potnrisna School. I know the
publishing must have required
much extra work: it took much
of my time compiling M.
I'm filing it away tonight with
other interesting point* eg Petn
riana School in my son’s record
book for him to enjoy nailing
some day. perhaps.
Very tomunuSn*
MRS. MAY RENA M RODIN
29100 Kingman Rd*
Homestead, Fla.
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Por RAOUL ALPIZAR POYO
GUSTOSA ACLARACION
Con motivo de nuestro trabajo
publicado en dias pasados, acer
ca de las farmacias de turno, en
el que nos quejábamos de que
en nuestra ciudad, después de las
diez de la noche, no teníamos
ninguna farmacia abierta, para
un inesperado caso de emergen
cia en el seno del hogar, hemos
tenido el placer de recibir la
cordial visita del Sr. A. E. Mar
tínez, de la farmacia ORIENTAL,
quien nos informó que ese esta
blecimiento. fondado hace más de
cuarenta años, siempre, al cerrar
lo en las horas de la noche, ha
mantenido en su interior un téc
nico para atender cualquier soli
citud de medicinas en las horas
de la noche.
Tal aclaración que hoy hace
mos gustosos, nos da la oportu
nidad de hacer un pequeño
examen de los antecedentes de
esa farmacia, que conocemos
desde nuestra niñez.
Fué su fundador un esplrituano
de amable prosapia cubanisima.
El inolvidable Sr. Aurelio Martí
nez, un ejemplarisimo colaborador
en los dias de luchas por nues
tra liberación y cuya persona y
bolsa estuvieron siempre prestas
al trabajo y la generosa contri
bución. para la alcancía de la
revolución redentora.
Los que tuvimos la dicha de
conocer y estimar a aquel gran
corazón, siempre hemos de re
cordarlo con el afecto y la ve
neración que su vida ejemplar
merece.
i Como si el cubanismo del Sr.
Martínez no fuera suficiente,
unió sus destinos a los de una da
ma de revolucionario abolengo.
Nos referimos a la amable y
bondadosa Sra. María de la Crar,
bermgna de aquel Insigne cuba
no. escritor cultísimo, cronist?
exquisito, poeta y patriota irre
ductible, que se llamó Manuel de
la Cruz, amigo entrañable del
Apóstol Marti y de todos los ex
celsos fundadores de la nacionali
dad cubana.
Por eso, hacemos ta Justa
aclaración atendiendo a que nues
tro anhelo como periodistas, es
decir siempre la verdad y no
hemos de perder prenda alguna,
al rectificar cualquier Informa
ción. siempre que. como en este
caso concreto, nos venga de per
sonas de tanta honorabilidad co
mo c! citado amico Sr. Martínez
Y nos preguntamos: q*,,ién no
conoce en Key West al bondadoso
"Yuyin'’ Martínez’ . . . Quién en
esta ciudad no ha tenido lo por
t.unidad de recibir un servicio de
tan cordial farmacéutico? . . . No*
' honramos con su amistad y la ét
'■ loa suyos, desde !n* ya lejano* dias
|de nuestra niñez y aprovechamos
esta ocasión par# rendir ir el ho
' menaje de afecto y gratitud que
tan ampliamente merece, quien
romo "Yuym,'* ha dedicado su vi
da toda, tria del mostrador de la
i farmacia y en su laboratorio, al
í servicio de la humanidad ¿atiente,
eos un cariño y un desinterés, que
-y* va siendo "rara avia** ea los
tiempos que corremos.
Junto • “Yuvia * ercontrastas
siempre la amable sesma de Cum
io Romero, tía &stmgu¡úo trüta
! cía .reño, que m siente orgullo
¡ - uando le dicen “pilaras", que es
: ornas* alia en Las VtHa* * Rama
i lo que tuvieron la ducha de m
| >er en esa htaánric* prevmeaa ca
bana
i Arabe* nsjwrte* Isa duna la
‘ sat da tratar na es puteara que
allí acude en busca de medicinas
de fácil aplicación, que alivien pe
queñas dolencias, ya que ambos
farmacéuticos, respetan por enci
ma de todo, los derechos del mé
dico, sin jamás adentrarse dentro
de esa profesión. Su misión tiene
mucho de piadosa y de caritativa.
Allí lo mismo se atiende al cliente
rico, que al pobre. En muchos ca
sos, si se comprueba la verdadera
pobreza del solicitante, se le dá
crédito, que jamás se cierra, ya
que en muchos casos, no se cobra
jamás ese débito; pero ellos sien
ten la honda satisfacción de haber
realizado una obra piadosa y con
eso se sienten bien pagados, aun
que con esa moneda, no podrán
nunca surtir los anaqueles del es
tablecimiento, ni siquiera pagar
los impuestos vigentes. Pero, toda
no ha de ser el maldito interés. A
veces, realizar una obra provecho
sa, que ayude al que sufre, produ
ce mayor bienestar si espíritu que
acertar un "parlsy," como aquí se
denomina taa* curiosa combina
ción de números.
Naturalmente, que al decir esto,
nos estamos refiriendo a los que
tienen el corazón abierto peren
nemente a toda obra generosa y
no a los que suponen que el ‘'di
nero’* lo es todo en esta vida. Y
esos, los grandes equivocados que
tanto aman el metal, son casi
siempre, los que pasan por la vi
da. sin haber podido disfrutar de
los placeres espirituales, que ofre
cen al hombre ratos de serenidad,
capaces de hacerles un gran bien
al cuerpo físico.
Sabemos que en Mlaml y otras
ciudades de la Florida, hay farma
cias que permanecen abiertas toda
la noche. Pero, solo nos referíamos
a las existentes en Key West, cuan-
do pedíamos farmacias de turno.
Ahora, dormiremos tranquilos, al
conocer que hay una de estas bo
ticas, prestas a atender la solici
tud de un paciente, cuando en las
horas de la media noche, una in
esperada afección alcance a uno
de nuestros familiares, o a noso
tros mismos.
Ojalá que esa aclaración tenga
mos que repetirla y que los de
rlas que aquí ejercen la noble
profesión de farmacéuticos, aten
diendo a las necesidades de la
colectividad, se apresuren a imitar
a estos dos buenos amigos, que
más que riquezas, buscaron siem
pre la satisfacción del deber cum
plido para con sus semejantes.
Y terminamos esté trabajo ro
gando a los señores Martínez y Ro
mero, que excusen nuestro error,
en la seguridad de que al come
terlo, solo nos guió el bien and; la
comunidad.
Hay ejemplos tan dignos de imi
tarse, que pocas veces se logra
que k hombres, se despojen de
sus ambiciones naturales, para
ofrendar a los demás, una miajita
de consuelo y de ayuda, en sus
horas angustiosas.