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anonymous communications. .
WHY THE U. S. IS WEALTHY
A foreign newsman from Indonesia, %nsr-Kie Tan,
recently visiting in the United States, expressed consid
erable amazement at the number of poor people living
in various United States cities. Shown sections where slum
conditions were very apparent, and bad, Tan seemed to
be noticeably surp^sed.
An explanation of this condition to Tan, by an Ameri
can who was conducting him on a tour of the various
alums, is wa think well worth thought.
He waa informed that to have wealth in America,
one must work, and that the people of America generally
work for what they have. This reflection was not just one
opinion*but is the collective judgment of groups of Euro
pean business men who have visited the United States
since World War II to team why U. S. production is so
much greater, per man hour, than production anywhere
else in the world.
It is the 'willingness of Americans to really work,
and to work long hours, if necessary, to get ahead, that
sets most of them aside from workers in other countries.
It is also generally known that U. S. employs
machinery to a far greater degree than the industries of
other countries.
There are always some who are not willing to work
hard, and who will live in some areas, or who are not
dependable and who cannot keep consistently employed.
There is a small number who are the victims of fate, and
these deserve sympathy. But the majority of people in the
United States who are willing to try Hard enough can
usually accumulate at least modest wealth, and that is
the difference.
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EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT REMOVED
The news from Cairo, telling of the ouster of Major--
General Mohammed Naguib by the ruling military group,
is somewhat disturbing. President Naguib has been very
popular with the Egyptain people until recently, when a
press campaign was begun agjtinst,him.
He was accused of being implicated in a plot against
Lt. Col. Gamal Nasser. This, and the charge that he was
closely linked with a terrorist organization, seeking to
force its way through assassination, undermined much of
his public support.
Former President Naguib has been steadily losing
ground to Lt Col. Nasser for a year. In February of this
year, Gen. Naguib and Col. Nasser had an open break,
and the ruling military group announced that the Presi
dent had resigned. Public indignation over this announce
ment was great, and even some members of the military
threatened disorder unless the President was restored.
Shortly afterwards, Naguib was restored as President,
but, in April, he lost the Premiership, which he held in
conjunction with the Presidency, to Col. Nasser.
Then, last month, the former President was the ob
ject of a newspaper campaign implicating him in the
plot on Col. Nasser’s life. This marked the end of his
chances to remain President, and he was officially ousted
in the middle of November.
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The appointment of Jim Wilder
as Patrolman is one of the most
progressive steps that the Monroe
County Sheriff’s Office has ever
made. Sheriff*Spottswood is to be
complimented.
Wilder is a former Safety Edu
cation Officer of the Florida High
way Patrol. At onq time, he was
stationed here in Key West as a
State Trooper. He is loved by local
youngsters and respected by adults.
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Nehru Is Free With Advice
But Can Give Little Active Aid
By HAROLD K. MILKS
NEW DELHI WP—Prime Minis
ter Nehru offers his south Asian
neighbors political advice and
leadership, but India today lacks
spare military power to back up
their defense.
India has a strong naval force
and likely the best air force , east
of Cairo and west of Communist
China. Its 370,000-man army, test
ed in two world wars, is tops in
this part of the world.
Yet these combined forces offer
no security to south Asia nations
with which Nehru has developed
political understanding if not com
plete leadership.
India has one eye today on rival
Pakistan. The other is watching
the Red Chinese buildup in Tibet.
These two problems are more than
enough to keep India’s Armed
forces occupied at home.
India’s army, heart of its mili
tary power, is still organized on
a regional basis for internal rather
than external security, just as it
was in the days of British rule.
Backbone of its. land forces re
gains the hard-fight Gurkha troop
ers Som Nepal.
On paper India has vast plans
for strengthening its military mus
cles. An increase in reserve man
power calls for a trained territor
ial (national guard) army of near
ly half a million. There are plans
to establish factories to manufac
ture tanks and artillery, electronic
equipment, a machine tool factory
This Rock
Of Ours
By Bill Gibb
sidents safety - conscious, Jim Wil
der is that person.
At the present time, Jim is act
ing as Director of S-D Day acti
vities the drive aimed at prov
ing that accidents are unnecessary.
Every community in the United
States is working toward achieving
an accident - free day next Wed
nesday, December 15. If personal
effort has anything to do with
gaining this goal, Monroe County
should be successful because of
Jim Wilder’s industriousness.
at Poona, and if possible expan
sion of the government-howned
Hindustan aircraft factory to pro
duce jet fighters and British-de
signed jet engines.
Comparative military weakness
—despite a heavy defense budget
and the strongest armed forces in
this region—has directed India’s
tbinking away from power pacts
and defenses based on arms. Neh
ru has sought to substitute for
them a peace bloc and the offer
ot coexistence with other nations.
Once India settles its problems
with neighboring Pakistan and can
withdraw its substantial forces
from disputed Kashmir, Nehru
may be able to back up his politi
cal leadership of Southeast Asia
with some show of power.
It’s All Dutch
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (PI
“Watch op het voetpad!”
If it’s Dutch to you, that’s the
way Grand Rapids Traffic Engi
neer Jerome Franklin meant it to
be. The Dutch-lettered sign has
been posted at a midtown inter
section prompting Grand Rapids
pedestrians to “wait on the side
walk” in the heavy Christmas
shopping traffic.
Franklin hopes the sign will car
ry a stronger meaning to a greater
portion of .the city’s predominantly
Dutch-backgrounded residents.
Citizen Ads Bring Results
The
World
Today
By DON WHITEHEAD
(For James Marlow)
WASHINGTON UP The honey
moon between President Eisenhow
er and die Democrats is over.
For two years, the President was
exempted from person attacks by
the Democratic leaders. Their
broadsides were aimed at that
faceles? Republican group known
as “the administration.” And it
wasn’t considered politically prof
itable to assault the citadel of Ei
senhower popularity.
Now Democratic heavy guns are
being trained on Eisenhower him
self for the first time since his
election. The prospeets are that
the attacks will grow heavier,
rather than diminish, as the 1956
presidential election nears.
Paul Butler, newly elected Dem
ocratic national chairman, dis
closed last Sunday the new party
approached to the problem of a
popular GOP president when he
said: “We intend to call to the
attention of the American people
President Eisenhower’s lack of
capacity to govern and to unite
the people.”
Three days later, Gov.-elect Av
er 11 Harriman of Nw York told
a Democratic victory dinner audi
nee in Kansas City: “We’ve got
to quit this business of excluding
President Eisenhower from criti
cism of the unworthy campaign
tactics that have been adopted by
the Republican party, and that he
has condoned.” Harriman said Ei
senhower must be held “respon
sible for the actions of his lieu
party.”
Democratic chiefs may have for
gotten it—but they were advised
to follow this line of political ac
tion more than a year ago by
that gruff old political warhorse
former Sen. Tom Conn ally of Tex
as.
Connally was shaking his head
even then over the “we-like-Ike”
attitude of the Democrats. He held
to the theory that anybody in the
opposition party was a political
enemy and should be treated as
such.
Party leaders now are swinging
around toward the Connally way of
thinking. The political reasons are
obvious:
For two years, Eisenhower has
enjoyed a remarkable freedom
from direct attacks by the Demo
crats. Partly, it was because he
almost succeeded in creating the
illusion that the office of the Presi
dent was above and beyond poli
tics, and that he wasn’t in the
political cockpit himself.
But for the most part the Demo
crats held their fire because of
Eisenhower’s personal popularity
and this being the case —with
Democratic help —then he’ll be
a bard man to unseat, assuming
be runs for office again.
In reality, the Democrats lassoed
themselves politically during the
past two years, and now they’re
maneuvering to free themselves.
That’s why the honeymoon with
Eisenhower has gone ph-f-f-f-t!
disgusted thief
OMAHA tf>—Jack c. Walker,
clerk at the Congress Hotel, said
he gave * stickup man two II
from the cash register and then
opened the safe to show the robber
it was empty. The thief, disgusted,
handed back the $2, snarled, “It
ain't worth it,” and fled
A Grain
Of Salt
By Bill Spillnißn
Whoa Dr. Campbell stood up at
the Jaycee meeting recently and
started to speak, little did he think
that the truth that he would be
uttering would cause international
disturbances.
From remarks that I have heard
on the subject, some people were
shocked, others shrugged it off by
saying they knew about it all the
time.
It takes a fearless man to stand
up and tell that kind of truth. I
stand behind Dr. Campbell as a
forthright outstanding citizen in his
convictions.
It would imagine that it took a
lot of courage not to /smooth over
his statements after pressure from
the powers that be that like to do
everything controversial behind
closed doors.
Some sources stated that it has
hurt relations that have taken
years to build up. To me, good re
lations that are built on glory hun
gry traditions and secret discre
pancies are not very good rela
tions.
Mr. N. C. Hines at a city com
missioner meeting said that he
only speaks the truth. "It sets you
free,” he added.
The fact that hasn’t been dis
cussed too much is that nobody
has denied the statements.
Obscured in all the turmoil is
another statement made by Camp
bell that he believed the band
should go to a state band meet
where they would be judged by
ability and compared to other
bands in the state.
"Not being too familiar with
"who is allowed to say what" in
Cuba I would not be too much of
a judge on whether men in public
life should say anything that does
not fit in with an administration.
The Associated Press story con
cerning the incident stated that Dr.
Campbell was not going to let the
band go to Cuba this year and that
Cuban men did not have a high
opinion of women. The statement
was not true.
Dr. Campbell actually said that
he would not permit the band to
make the trip unless adequate ar
rangements were made to insure
that the members would not have
to stay in the school building with
time on their hands while they
were not parading. He also stated
that he was insisting on adequate
protection.
It is pretty easy, to see that his
interest is for the student band
members instead of so called good
relations.
I do not blame him for asking
that the members be given sight-
Hal Boyle
Says
NEW YORK GW—lt is a difficult
thing for a man in a ring to sword
a maddened bull to death.
But, senor, it is even more dif
ficult on the nerves for this same
man to slay an American night
club audience with no weapon but
his baritone voice.
Manuel Capetillo swears this is
so. Manuel, who is one of Mexico's
top matadors, now has anew .ca
reer. When the bulls are out of
season, he belts out Mexican dit
ties on the night dub circuit.
Although he has been a big hit
in his first New -York appearance
in the Hotel Pierre, Manuel says
he still finds it easier work to
face* a bull than a cafe society
audience.
“The genres I get fighting ’he
bulls, they are different from the
nerves I get when I am singing,”
he explained.
“When I fight a bull I am not
singing. I may feel sick three days
before a bull fight—and three days
after—but I don’t have the nerves
when I am actually facing the
bull.”
Manuel is an extraordinarily tal
ented man. He is a charro (Mexi
can blue-blooded cowboy), a bull
fighter. a movie actor, and a
vocalist. In his own land he is a
kind of combined Joe DiMaggio,
Roy Rogers and Perry Como.
Yet Capteillo, who has killed 400
bulls and been badly gored five
times in the ring, is still only 28.
He is slender, 6 feet 2—an unusual
height for a bullfighter—dark-eyed
and handsome.
He makes up to $10,900 a bull
fight. It is an industry in which
the upkeep is greater than the ini
tial expense. His costumes cost
him up to $15,000 a season. The
heavy, gold-braided matador's out
fit he wears in his night club rou
tine weighs about 20 pounds and
cost him more than $7,000.
Capetillo says he has been fight
ing bulls and singing as long as he j
can remember. He is largely a ;
self-taught matador and started
learning the tricks of the trade as
seeing tours and other recreational
events. As he stated, it can get
pretty boring for boys from several
bands to just hang around a school
building for hours on end.
There can be no doubt as to
what was said. The Cuban council's
son is a member of the Jaycees
and was present at the meeting.
One thing for sure, the publicity
has been a shot in the arm for both
Cuba and Key West as far as the
tourist business goes. It has put
both names before the public.
It should give the Chamber of
Commerce a basis for some good
publicity if they want to follow
through on it.
Guava Jelly I had to kill a
column that was to run last Tues
day. It was all about the illegal
inspection business. The commis
sioners fouled me up and brought
it down toward legal limits before
I could gripe about it again.
—Having been in Havana near
the reviewing stand, in front of the
capitol when the carnival parade
took place, I doubt very seriously
if anyone would dare jump out and
pinch the girls with all the police
around this particular area.
—lt’s a fact that the two mile
route cannot be seen from the re
viewing stand.
—The annual Boy Scout Dinner
held recently in the Naval Station
was highlighted by the Boy Scout of
the year who gave a speech that
was out of this world.
—A local political figure in com
menting about how politicians get
up and speak of constituents urg
ing them to run for office, said
that no one had ever urged him
to run for anything.
—A hotel owner states that his
business dropped SBO,OOO during the
season National * suspended its
flights.
—Look for a story about police
and the daughter of a well-known
citizen.
—Norman Kranich says that this
year, he will personally see that
all pictures taken of children and
Santa Claus in front of the San
Carolos theater by the American
Legion will be delivered. There
were complaints last year that
some of the pictures were not de
livered after being paid for.
—Some City commissioners
would like to be paid the same as
the county commissioners (S3OO a
month).
—One elected county commission
er thinks that the "county" should
have leased space from the NAvy
at Boca Chica for the use of the
air lines.
a boy of 5 waving capes at calves
on his father’s ranch.
“I never took a professional bull
fighting lesson—or singing lesson
in my life,” he'said. He became a
matador at 22, hopes to stay in the
field until he is 35, or even 40, if
his nerves hold out.
“I want to sing and fight the
bulls ss long ss I can,” he said
simply. “It is my life.
“It is not the legs that go first,
as it is with a baseball player. A
matador begins to go to pieces
when he no kmger can control his
nervous system. Somehow the bull
seems able to sense this.”
Despite the terrible thigh scars
left on his body by the five bulls
who outpointed him, Manuel says
he has no particular fear once he
enters the ring.
“For a moment, when you first
see the bull, you have a feeling
like a martyr—and wonder why
you are there,” he explained. Then
the action starts, and there is no
time for feelings.
“I do not eat the day of a fight,
and it is very good to have a quick
glass of cognac to settle the stom
ach before entering the ring,”
Manuel added.
The bull doesn’t get any cognac
He is not supposed to be nervous.
After the fight, Manuel is vora
ciously hungry. He and his retinue
like big steaks, sometimes provid
ed by his late opponent in the ring.
It is the same way with Manuel
just before he goes out to the spot
light on a supper club floor.
“A couple of small glasses of
wine are very good to settle the
stomach,” he said.
The only other thing that makes
Manuel nervous is girls. He is a
bachelor.
BOWL QUEEN NAMED
PASADENA, Calif. GfL-Marilyn
Smith, 19, a green-eyed blonde ed
ucation major at Pasadna City
College, has been chosen as queen
of Pasadena’s Jan. 1 Tournament
of Roses. .*
Soviet Seeks
Peace Among
Bath Sharers
By STANLEY JOHNSON
MOSCOW (f* The newspaper
Evening Moscow has come out for
peaceful coexistence—among fam
ilies sharing kitchens and baths la
Moscow tenements.
"Scandal fanciers and brawl
sportsmen" battle with their nigb
bors over such things as a
scratched bathtub or the keeping
of pet doves in communal kitch
ens, Evening Moscow says. Shared
plumbing and cooking facilities arw
normal in Moscow life.
Most of the cases coming beforo
rels among sharing families. The
newspaper advocates that persons
living in the same apartment
building band together in "courts
of colleagues" to judge such cases
and keep them out of the regular
courts.
The paper gives several exam
ples of the fights; beginning with
one between members of the
Boulva and Ivanov families who
livd in apartment No. t at Le
Svetkhov Alley.
"Once a member of the Boulva
family scratched the enamel of
the bathtub while taking a bath.
The Ivanov family took it at a
personal insult. The housewife
Ivanova made a sarcastic remark.
Boulva also answered sarcastical
ly All had ripened for muni
cipal flat scandal of the medium
serious type.
"But what has happened? From
the small scratch arose a big tight
and on the scene appears the (gov
ernment) mediator to examine not
a small scratch on the bathtub,
but a deep scratch on the fact
of one of the battlers.
"They were using mops and
saucepans —very popular battle
tools in communal life.
"Then the heads of the families
took over in the battlefield from
the housewives. They passed re
fined phrases back and forth and
swung at each other with their
brief cases."
How the tight came out is not
related.
Key West
In Days Gone By
n.
December 13, 1934
j Robert Frost, internationally
known poet and writer, will make
bis home in Key West for the win
ter.
Authorization was granted for the
issuance of liquor licenses to Aqui
lino Lopez, Sr., Cabrera Wholesale
Grocery, Inc., and Saunders Whole
sale Grocery Company, at a meet
ing of the board of county com
missioners last night. No objectors
appeared before the board.
★ ★'
December 13,1944
Attorney General J. Tom Wat
son has written The Citizen a letter
in which he stated that 19 Key
Westers have sent him a commun
ication concerning a “carnival be
ing operated continuously with
games of chance and gambling
going on in Key West.
Monroe county commissioners
will hold a meeting tonight, at
which they expect to receive a
more detailed description of the
beach it is proposed to construct
on the south shore along the bou
levard. The beach project is spon
sored by the Rotary Club, together
with other civic orgsnizatkme in
Key West.
Snowball Targets
Listed By School
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (J)-The
Grand Rapids Board of Education
last week urged school principals
to launch a program of organised
snowball tossing—a targets and
strictly on school grounds.
A bulletin issued by the board's
office of physical education waned
however, against making targets
|to represent teachers, policemen,
j autos, dogs or cats. It suggests a
i standard bulls-eye target of suit*
! able size.
By this means the board hopes
Ito release from danger such pop*
! ular objectives as teachers, police
men. autos, dogs and cats.
MEXICANS FLOCK
TO VIRGIN’S SERINE
MEXICO- CITY (ft—About hSf a
million Catholics visited the Basil*
ica of the Virgin of Guadalupe
patron saint of Mexico, yesterday
in observance of the church*
recognized miracle of the Virgin
Mary’s appearance in this count ff
in 1531.
• T ‘ V # **** third largest turnout
m history for Mexico’s most im
portant religious day. The crowd
was*so large there were two deaths
and 396 injuries.