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THS KEY WIST CITIZEN
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IMPROVEMENTS BOR KRY WIST ADVOCATED
BY THE CITIZEN
L Mom Rotes tend Apartments.
S. Bosch sad Bathing Pavilion.
S Airports—land and Sos.
4 Consolidation ot County sad CMy Governments,
i. Community Auditorium.
KEY WESTERS RECALL HOW REPUBLICANS
KNIFED TRUMANt LOOK AT THEM NOW
Key Westers recall that while Truman was Presi
dent Big Shot Republicans attacked him, with satirical
■tings, about our ponderous public debt. Our debt ceiling
then was, and still is, $275 billion, and Republicans de
clared it would no bte long before Truman, if he kept up
his spending, would reach the limit and would ask con
gress to increase it further.
What Republicans said would happen to Truman Is
now about to happen to them. The Treasury has announ
ced it will borrow $2 billion later this month, which will
raise the public debt to the $275 billion limit.
But that is not the only headache the Republican
Administration has. It has a far greater headache about
the reduction in farm income, which is 15 percent lower
this year than it was in 1952. This is a severe headache
because Republicans in Washington, as well as Demo
crats, recall that falling off of farm income was the be
ginning of the Great Depression in the 19305.
But economists, in and out of official life, don’t think
a depression will start next year. They say we are likely
to have a recession in 1954, but government economists
say it will be “mild.” They add that if the federal debt
and the debts of states and their subdivisions can be
lield in check, we will pass through the recession with
only minor harm to our economy.
What worries them is the possible or probable hiking
of public and private debts generally. Debts owed by in
dividuals are the highest They exceed more than S3OO
billion. What they owe and what the federal govern
ment, states, counties, cities and business and manufac
turing concerns owe amount almost to three-quarters of
a trillion dollars.
That debt has been mounting generally for more
than 20 years, and as it has mounted so has taxation
throughout the country mounted.
The trouble is that the man-on-the-street thinks that
good times will last forever. Conversely, when we have
hard times, he thinks they will last forever. But good
times and hard times go in cycles. The wise man is he
who saves his money when times are good to buttress
him against the hard-to-get dollar when times are bad.
Business men who are too modest to toot their own
horns will not be long in business.
Npw that the schools are running full blast, we pre
sume the level of intelligence will move up.
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Hal Boyle Says
Editor's Note— ln a troubled
world of doubt and wrong, all
agree there is one thing eternally
right—and that’s October. The
following tribute to ‘‘The Month-
Of-The-Year” is reprinted at the
request of a number of readers.
By HAL BOYLE
ANYPLACE IN AMERICA, Wl-
If the Lord whispered in your
secret heart that you had but one
month to live and let you pick
that month, which would you
choose?
I’d say October.
The birds love it, the beasts love
it, and man himself then stands
upon the summit of the year.
October is all the ether seasons
wrapped into a 31-oay grab bag
package, tied with a rainbow rib
bon. It is the period when Mother
Nature, the great dramatist,
brings her traveling road show to
a climax.
This it the month that, like a
cider press, squeezes out the best
juices of all the otters months—
the promise of spring, the sultry
joys of summer, tbe afterglow of
autumn, the premonitory chill of
winter.
Everything that walks the earth
feels an amber thrill, a tremen
dous bubbling vitality that sings in
the pulse.
Now is the glory of the universe
manifest, and in tbe mighty pag
eant of the hills each patch of
woods elects its own tree beauty
queen. You like the dogwood? We
won’t quarrel. I’ll take the maple,
that yellow torch.
The birds looked on disdainfully
while foolish man clogged every
steaming road with his July vaca
tions. They know the right time
to travel. They have hung a "to
let** aign on their nests and cloud
th serene skies with a billion
A Letter Fren BILL LAMTJUT
Dear Neighbor:
“If second and third class pos
til rates are increased I would
not object to adding a penny to
first class mail rates in an effort
to reduce the postal deficit.” This
seemed to be the sentiment of the
majority of folks who participated,
in your Congressman’s recent side- ;
walk-survey.
The sixth question on the survey
was: “Do you favor increasing
first class postal rates from 3c to
4c in order to reduce the postal!
deficit?'* A surprising 68 per cent;
of the people polled voted in favor
of such a move, with 30 per cent
in opposition and 2 per cent expres-
sing no opinion.
According to Postmaster General
Summerfield. the Post Office De
partment’s annual deficit will run
close to SBOO million. There is little
doubt that increases will be effect
ed in second and third class postal
rates. Summerfield has stated that
second class mail, the handling of
newspapers and magazines, loses
about $240 million per year. A re
quest will be made for a rate in
crease of approximately S2O mil
lion. Third dass mail, used main
ly for direct-mad selling, loses a
bout $192 million annually. A re
quest will be made to increase
third class rates about 2S per cent
to bring in approximately $52 mil
lion in added revenue.
The Postmaster General admit
ted that first dass mail is paying,
its own way with the three-cent
stamp letter bringing in about slos|
million annually. Nevertheless, he
feels that by increasing first class
mail by a penny, along with the,
NOT A SINGLE "BLIP”
wings beating southward. The
worm they missed noses deeper
into the turf, muttering "safe at
last.’’
It is as if everyone suddenly had
been given magic color glasses.
The stars bend nearer. And that
big blob of moon. . .A child feels
it is so close he could reach up
with a knife and spread it on his
bread like butter.
The stag stamps on the hilltop
and lifts an amorous bugle to the
night. The throb in every wood
land heart has an echo in the
city. October knows no boundar
ies. Listen: Can’t you bear and
feel its music in your veins, the
tremendous symphony of living?
The squirrel, bright-eyed and
bushy-tailed, becomes an annual
miser, furtively depositing acorns
in a hidden safe deposit box that
will be empty by March. The bear
invests his excess profits in fat,
planning to live off this stored
capital until he emerges from his
hibernation next spring, cross and
bankrupt.
The wind at night now has be
come a violin, playing a love song
for the young, a last tune of youth
for the old. Do you stay awake to
hear it? You’d better! He only
stays a little while, this wandering
fiddler in the dark, then takes his
ballads and beats it.
October wears a crown and
makes every man a king. It bears
the harvest superiority of the
rounded apple over the petaled
flower, the advantage fruition and
achievement have over pale prom
ises. April is the fledgling politi
cian of the year, saying "Stick
with me and we’ll go places.’’
October is the mature statesman
bolding out the golden reward.
October pours tho mellowest
wine of life, and anyone who isn’t
drinking of it deeply right now is
a salesman for sour grapes.
Increase In second and third dass
rates, it might be possible to re
duce the annual Post Office deficit
from about SBOO million to approxi
mately $75 million.
The majority of the 68 per cent
favoring the penny increase of
first dass mail on this South Flori
da pavement-poll, did so with the;
reservation that second and third!
class be increased to carry their (
share. One lady, in Key West, add-;
ed to her affirmative answer, “It’s
either add a penny to reduce the
deficit or see ourselves burdened;
with some other new tax to pay
the cost.” A group of North Miami
housewives stated emphatically
they would favor the one-cent first
class increase only after the gov-j
ernment made those using second
and third dass mail pay their full
share of the cost. A Coral Gables
gentleman said merely he approv
ed of a “Pay-as-you-post” method.
The voiced opposition to first
dass increase urged, in its plsce,
elimination of the subsidies to the
airlines and railroads, full rates
for second and third dass mail,
dropping postal savings and selling
advertising on mail boxes and
trucks. One Miamian proposed eli
mination of franking privileges al
though the Postmaster General an
nounced that the total cost of con
gressional franked mail last year
was only 1 million 700 thousand
dollars and GI free mail but $3.8
million last year.
The Postmaster General has said
no matter how you look at It.
“The greatest bargain on earth is
the Umted States mail.” 1
Safety
Notes
' HhL im
By BILL GIBB
Key Wnt Police Dept.
The Atlanta regional office of
Allstate Insurance Company has
sent me nearly two thousand safe
ty pamphlets entitled, “Defensive
Driving Tactics,” “How Fast Can
You Stop?” and “The Night’s De
ceiving Eyes.”
Mr. A. S. Johnson, Jr., customer
relations manager for Allstate, al
so informs me that their publica
tion, “Home and Highway,” will
be made available to the local Key
West Safety Council.
.' These things are fnee of charge
and they are an indication of how
reliable companies include the wel
fare of the public in all their at
tempts to build a larger and bet
ter business. The best advertise
ment that an organization can gain,
is to create a feeling of apprecia-j
tion on the part of the public.
As an experiment to see how in
terested the public was in safety
literature, I placed several score
of “The Night’s Deceiving Eyes”
near the cash register of Tucker’s
Department Store in Poinciana. It
didn’t take long for most of thei
pamphlets to be picked up.
If so many people are attracted
by information pertaining to pub
lic safety, why you may ask
do we continue to have tragic un
inecessary accidents?
! The situation isn’t quite as bad
as it appears. Since the formation
of the National Safety Council and;
.with every advent of new local
'safety councils such as the Key;
West organization, the accident
picture tends to become somewhat
better. The growth in population,
an increased number of mechani-j
cal inventions, etc., distorts a true
perspective of the work of these
safety groups.
However, there is no use having ■
a Safety Council in name only. It
has to be an outfit willing to labor;
and sweat for the good of humani !
ty and the reward to its workers is
paid only by the laughter of a
child or gracious “Good Morning”
of an oldster who might otherwise
be dead if someone didn’t try to
spread the doctrine of “Safety
First.”
| The Key West Safety Council
'needs you to help suggest ideas
land to report unsafe conditions that
'should be remedied. Contact Bill
'Gale of the Telephone Company,
Bob Daniels of the B and B Cycle
'Shop, Davenport of the KW Trans
it Company, Billy Freeman, Jr., of
Porter-Alien Insurnace Cos. Get on
a committee and help make Key
West SAFE!
Today’s Women
By DOROTHY ROE
AP Women's Editor
Dig into that French, kids. Keep
us those Latin translations and
practice Spanish, Swedish or Ger
man every chance you get.
It’s the quickest and most effec
tive shortcut to’world understand
ing as well as to an exciting life
of international travel. t ;
This advice comes from Margar
et Thompson Biddle, international
hostess, author and business wom
an who first saw the light of day
in Helena, Mont., explored her
father’s mines in her childhood
and grew up to become one of the
‘world’s most travel wise women.
Says she: I
I “Don’t scoff at cur U. S. high
I The SIREN of SILVER VALLEYII^S
RfcW* By PAUL IVAN LEHMAN
Chapter 11
TIE TURNED and strode from!
tf e gallery, leaped on his
horse and rode swiftly away. He
was angry and hL pride nad been
riurt. It was bad enough to have
Jeff Payne call him a boy; to have
Diana throw it up to him was the
height of indignity. By God, he’d
show her! He’d show her that
when it came to handling a Colt
he was as much a man as was Jeff
Payne!
He flung himself from his wet
horse ir front of the Bonanza and
ivent into the saloon. There were
some Star men there and Ed
Keever had come in with them
to keep an eye on them. Buddy
strode up to the bar beside Ed
and ordered whiskey in a harsh
voice.
Ed peered at him from his sad
eyes. Buddy did not drink as a
rule; liquor usually made him
deathly sick. But he tried man
fully and right now he poured
two drinks down in quick succes
sion and called for a third.
Ed Keever watched him fur
tively, then sought out Marshal
A1 Sanders.
“Better keep an eye on Buddy.
He’s gettin’ loaded and he’s look
in’ for Jeff Payne. If he tangles
with Jeff it’ll be just too bad, ’spe
cially with him so drunk he
couldn’t hit a elephunt with a
twenty-gauge at ten feet*
A1 nodded. “If he starts any
thing I'll slap him in the cala
boose.”
Noon came and most of the men
in the Bonanza went out in search
of dinner, but Buddy staved at
the bar fingering a glass of whis
key and trying to get up the cour
age jo swallow it His anger had
grown: he just couldn’t take the
stuff; even the thought of drink
ing it nauseated him.
A man came in and said to the
bartender. “Howdy. Harry. Pour
me a short one to settle my din
ner.”
The bartender pushed bottle
and glass before him. “Many up
there?*
“Not so many. Mostly Star men.
Nobody from the Double D but
that new foreman of Mix Den
ton’s."
The bartender sent a furtive
glance towards Buddy. Buddy had
stiffened, his fingers tightening
about the glass. He looked at the
bartender, then at the glass. He
lifted the glass suddenly and
tossed its contents down and went
out walking unsteadily.
The World Today
WASHINGTON GfHThree U. S..<
senators were leaving Madrid Sept.
26, just about the time it was be
ing announced America had ac
quired Spanish permission to use
air and naval bases in Spain,
i Their departure on the same
day as the announcement, the sen
ators said later, was a coincidence,
since their reason for being abroad
was to check on American con
struction and bases in Europe and
in North Africa.
! They were fully informed about
Ithe agreement before they left the
Spanish capital. And in due time
they returned here and made a
report which was pretty enthusi
astic about what they had seen on
their travels.
Since the three senators—two
Republicans. Case of South Dakota
land Duff of Pennsylvania, and a!
Democrat, Stennis of Mississippi
—are members of the powerful
Senate Armed Services Commit
tee, what they say about what they
saw will have weight in Congress.
! On Oct. 12, this government
made another announcement, this
timp that the Greek government
had given the United States per
mission to use air and naval j
bases in Greece.
So, as in Spain, this was one
more rivet in an iron rin g of:
bases which America and its Eu-J
ropean allies are building on the;
I perimeter of the Iron Curtain,
j The United States has already
• announced signing of similar agree-!
intents with other countries for:
(bases. For example, an agreement;
■with Denmark for using facilities
on Greenland; one with Portugal
!for the use of air and naval bases
lin the Azores; another with Ice
(land for an airfield there,
j While the hydrogen explosion re
'ported in Russia Aug. 19 had a
clearly sobering effect on Western
statesmen, the news about bases
;in Spain and Greece is obvious
school French—that’s alf I had to
go on when I w ent to live in Paris
but it gets me by.’
Mrs. Biddle carries on a volum
inous correspondence with travel
hungry Americans in her job as
European editor of Woman’s Rome
Companion. She also is an editor
for Realities, well-known French
magazine, and at various times
has represented a number of U.S.
publications in Paris
This seasoned iravier has some
definite ideas about U. S. educa
tion, chief of which concern more
emphasis on languages in our pub
lic schools. She says:
“European chfldren almost have
to lean two or three languages,
because they are so close to other
countries. Here we ure so far away
I from the countries of Europe that
languages don’t setta so important,
He entered the hotel, strode past
the desk and through the doors
which led into the diningroom.
He stopped inside, his gaze search
ing the long table. Jeff was near
the far end and on his left side.
Ed Keever and A1 Sanders were
at this end. but it is doubtful if
Buddy even saw them. His burn
ing gaze was fixed on Jeff and as
though drawn by the intensity of
that gaze Jeff raised his eyes from
his platr and saw him.
Buddy stepped forward saying
shrillv, “I told you to keep clear
of me. Payne! Now, you lousy
son of a pup. I’ll— —" Hia hand
stabbed for the gun at his hip.
\TOBODY had time to act, and it
seemed as though Jeff would
surely get it in the next second.
Instinctively he thrust backwards
and a slippery floor helped him.
The chair slid back and he came
to hia feet, his hand automatically
finding his gun and flipping it
from the holster with the com
bined arm and wrist movement
which becomes instinctive to the
gunman.
He fired over the heed of the
man at hia right, but even at he
fired he pulled the gun slightly
out of line. To kill that boy. weav
ing on his feet with drunkenness,
would be plain murder.
Buddv’s gun waa Just clearing
leather when Jeff’s bullet struck
him. It hit him in the shoulder
and the impact swung him com
pletely around. He staggered, got
his feet tangled and went down.
Before he could get up again Ed
Keever and Marshal Sanders
were on him. Buddy’s numbed
fingers had let go his gun and it
lay on the floor.
He struggled, cursing them for
interfering, and Id Keever said
fiercely. “Shut up, you dangad
fool! And thank God that Payne
didn’t kill you."
“He can’t kill me! I'm as good
a man as he is! Let me go!"
Sanders, with a deft motion,
snapped handcuffs on his wrists.
“Whoa up, son." ha warned.
Son! Again that youthful term
that Buddy had come to regard
as a reflection on his manhood. A
change came over him; he ceased
struggling and let his muscles go
lax. Son! He’d show them.
They held him for a moment
longer, felt the resistance go out
of him and then let him go. Ed
Keever stepped back a pace and
Sanders turned away, his gaze on
Jeff, who still stood at the far
end of the table. ’Want to prefer
charges, Payne?"
By JAMES MARLOW
evidence that America is pushing I
ahead with preparations for the
worst, if it comes.
The three senators, who also ex
amined American construction in
England, France, Germany, Tur
key, Portugal, French Morocco and
Italy, appeared generally pleased
with the preparations they saw.
In their report made public last
week they said, without mention
ing Russia by name, that if an
aggressor launchs an atomic at
tack it won’t get away with it
without having to suffer some of
the same.
They said:
“One simply cannot see, as
members of this subcommittee
have seen, the bases that are com
ing into being and see the per
formance of jet-propelled aircraft
that are in production ... without
having increased confidence in the
ability of the free world to defend
itself.
“We were told that one man In
a single jet-bomber-iighter of the
type of which we have several at
forward bases can carry more de
structive power than all the bomb
ers that were in England in
World War 11.
i “This is not to say that a po
tential enemy might not have
planes and pilots of equal capacity
but it certainly says that no
aggressor nation can start some
| thing and go unpunished.
I “Moreover, unless he had equal
resources and equal dispersion
lof striking forces, be cannot win
iff (
i The three senators said “it is
time to quit wringing our hands
>nd talking in tones of despair.”
i The senators made it clear
'they don't believe in “unending
t competition” but said that when
Russia, again without mentioning
i the name is made to realize she
> can’t win, because of the strength
1 against her, she may listen to
i reason.
and we are likely to think Eng
lish is sufficient.”
If the American traveling abroad
is able to talk with the people of
other countries in their own lan
guage, she says, he gains a much
broader and deeper understanding
of their problems and attitudes.
This individual sympathy and
friendship can do more toward ce
menting world peace than any
amount of diplomatic and political
string-pulling.
During World War II Mrs. Biddle
was active in Red Cross work in
Britain while her husband, Anthony
J. Drexel Biddle Jr., was Ameri
can ambassador to European gov
ernments-in-exile in London. She
wrote a book called “The Women
of England” and later did a radio
program on English women’s war
work for the British Broadcasting
: Company.
Jeff looked steadily at .Buddy
then shook his head. “No. The
boy's drunk. Probably got a whiff
of the bar towel Lock him up
until he’s sober then turn him
loose.*
It was the crowning humiliation
and probably Buddy himself did
not realize just how and why he
did it. The marshal's right hip
was a foot in front of his man
acled hands and on that hip swung
a big .44 Colt With a sudden swift
movement Buddy reaches out and
snatched the gun from its twister.
He whipped it up, holding it with
both hainds, and fired.
Ed Keever cried out and lunged
at him. striking the gun aside.
Sanders wheeled and Buddy, sud
denly sobered, backed away, the
gun threatening them. He snapped.
‘Til kill the man that moves, ac
help me!"
He becked through the door
way, kept backing until he reached
the front door. He turned then
and ran down the steps and laapad
on the first horse he saw.
At the far and of the dining
room, Jeff Payne lay on hia back
on the floor. His eyes were eloeed
in unconsciousness and blood was
oozing over his face.
IX7HEN Jeff awoke a bewhisk
" ered Santa Claus waa watch
ing him intently and Angers were
pinning a head bandage in place
Santa Claus said, “Hold still t
minute while 1 finish up. ratlin*
prettv rocky, eh?"
Jeff discovered that he was feel
ing very rocky indeed. He suc
ceeded in moving his heed and
saw that he was stretched out on
a table at one side of the dining
room, and a glimpse of a black
bag yawning on a (hair told him
that Santa Claus was a doctor
Standing off at one side was the
hotel clerk.
Jeff asked, "Not bed. is it. Doe?“
"Not bad at all I had to do a
bit of hemstitching but there 1 * no
fracture." He stuffed some things
into the bag, eloeed it and turned.
"You’ll have a nice headache for
a while and I'll leave some pills
for the pain. Get e room and gr
to bed and you’ll probably be all
right in a few days."
"What happened to Buddy
SUIT?"
"He's somewhere out In the hills
with a wound in the shoulder, a
pair of bracelets on his wrists and
A1 Sanders hot on his trail Hr
took Al’s gun, which makaa him
Al’s bitterest enemy. A1 don’t like
to hsve prisoners help themselves
to his armament."
Slips Slip Mind
DETROIT (It—Called Into court
to answer 124 charges of Illegal
parktag over the last three years,
Clyde Carr told Traffic Judge
George T. Murphy: “They just
slipped my mind.” The slips cost
him sseo. -
Political
Announcements
cmr ELECTION
TUESDAY* NOVEMBER * lUI
For Mayor
GROUP I
P. A. McMASTERS
"Make Mac Mayor"
For Mayor
GROUP I
“MICKEY” PARROTT
(“Fighting For The People")
For Mayor
GROUP 1
CHARLES R. ROBERTS
"An Experienced
Municipal Administrator"
For City Commissioner
GROUP 2
PR* PEUO COBO /
For City Commissioner
GROUP t
LOUIS CABRONELL
For City Commissioner
GROUP S
BEN KETCHUM
! For City Commissioner
GROUP 4
JOHN A. ANTI
For City Commiaaioner
GROUP 4
LOUIS M. J. EISNER
For City Commissioner
GROUP 4
CHARLES PARRA .
Courage and Common Sanaa
For City Commiaaioner
GROUP 4
PAUL ROSS (BLONDIE)
ROBERTS, JR.
**Pro4aci Tom Fntmf
For City CommisaioMer
GROUP 4
NEIL SAUNDERS
For City Commiaaioner
GROUP I
JOHN CARBQNELL, JR.
For City Commiaaioner
GROUP I
CHARLES G. MENDOZA
"Kill Two Birds With Oaa Tata*