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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-06-10

frU4n NEW yOfM lily luE ~
Citizen, about the Hconference q
the American Newspaper Union
4 COUNTY commissioners, at Q
special meeting this morning.
decided to resume operations OF
the Florida Keys ferries, which
had been under WPA manage
rment for several years. skf,
Victor larsen, scoutmaster OF
Troop MOI q iii Key West, was
the chief speaker today at the
luncheon Of. the Key West Rotary
Club. He said members OF the
troop are working to get enough
money to buy uniforms before
they 60 to camp.
william r. Porter. a member
of the Everglades National Park
Commission, informed The Citi-
rem today he had been asked to
resign from that position by Gov
ernor Cone: All other members
of the commission have been re-
quested to / send the governor
their designations.
Stephen Cochran Singleton, ex-
ecutive secretary of the Key
West Chamber of Commerce, told
The Citizen today that. among
the many letters he receives, are
some that nobody knows the
answers to- the questions asked.
One writer inquired. eff those
three-cornered fish, with hard
shells, are good to eat?" The fish
in question is the shellfish. con-
sidered by many Key Westers
las '4the chicken Of the sea-" She'll
fish are chiefly baked. and their
meat is white and tender.
II
Attorney Henry H. Taylor.
who had been in Key West to
attend a meeting Of the Over
seas Bridge Commission, return-
ed today to Miami. fu
Dir. and Mrs. Milo G. Pintado.
who had been in Key West visit
ingsrelatives, left this morning for
their home in Miami.
Today The Citizen says in an
editorial paragraph:
in order to have a bushel of
fun it is now necessary to have
barrel of money"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-06-10

The trombone formerly was
known as the sackbut.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-06-10

Today The Citizen says in an
editorial paragraph:
81 "In order to have a bushel of
fun it is now necessary to have
a barrel of money"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-06-10

Attorney Henry H. Taylor.
who had been in Key West to
attend a meeting Of the Over
seas Bridge Commission, .return-
ed today to Miami. Ma
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-06-10

Dir. and Mrs. Milo c. Pintado.
who had been in Key West visit
ingsrelatives, left this morning for
their home in Miami.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-06-10

Key West, Fla,
June 10, 1947.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04
Freedom Train Branch Line

The Freedom Train is made
up of only seven coaches. But
it's precious cargo of 100-odd
documents forms merely the
eliminating chapter in a long
and eventful story. We should
need seventy times seven coach
es were we to assemble all the
branchline trains that contribut-
ed their quota to this majestic
trunk line limited Il hose slow,
much beflagged 10 C ais that
crawled over the rough prelimi-
nary mileage before the docu-
ments could be loaded on as
fully-fledged national liberties.
To go to the far end of the
line and pick up one of the first
of these locals is to open up a
whole vista of small fights for
freedom that helped to swell the
final triumphs on American soil.
Some years ago, the Borough
of Beverley, England, made up
its own little Freedom Train
an official pamphlet cataloguing
80 documents house d in the
towns Muniments Room, the
cream of the freedoms won by
its burgesses, all in the years
before Americans drew up the
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04
Looking Ahead

We note, more in sorrow than in sur
prise, that next spring a gadget is going to
be demonstrated which will be able to tell
4 radio station how many sets within its
range are tuned to any of its programs at
any given time.
It's all done by the radar principle, it
says here. A signal will be sent out in all
directions and helped by another spe-
cial gadget on the receiving sets, will be
able to distinguish Mary Margaret Nc
Bride from Young DR.. Malone. 1t will then
record its findings instantaneously.
This simply continues and intensifies an
alarming trend which has disturbed us for
some time We refer to the silent, secret in
vasion, not only the sanctity Of the home,
but of the privacy of ones own thoughts.
Already we have the public opinion poll
We have the tapped and recorded telephone
conversation. We have the sidewalk inter-
viewer and his insidious cousin, the radio
eavesdropper who records your conversa-
ton without your knowing it and broad
casts it for all the land to hear.
Our comprehension of electronics is on E
par with our knowledge of hieroglyphics
But we suspect that science has only
scratched the surface of its possibilities
If engineers can soon shoot a beam into
pace and discover what radio is play
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04
Lucky Dog

Medical science is developing modern
man into being approaching physical
perfection. He is bigger than his forefath-
ers, healthier than his forefathers and
lives longer than his forefathers
But at what price!
While on the one hand it improves his
physical health it slowly drives him crazy
with the complexities of simple eating.
Vitarnins - calories starches - fats -
every day the complications Of the modern
diet increase.
If man sits down to a good steak ne
must also suffer through SIX ounces OIL
tomato juice and mess Of assorted weeds
and leaves or he isn't getting enough OF
something or other. The best and fastest
dinner is certain to be "unbalanceo" Vita
min c or calcium is sure to be lacking
or starches or sugar in overabundance.
How much luckier is the dog.
Better grades of canned dog food To-Day
are prepared under federal inspection
and are allowed to carry Department OF
Agriculture emblem of certification On
the label.
So what does the dog do? He just looks
to see that. the emblem is on. lhe can and
settles down to eating what looks like good
old fashioned corned beef hash.
And what does man do? He gets out
his charts and his graphs and his gilt
Gus collapse counting calories.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, l941
Star Program

State ports with Wilmington favored
in PROPORTION with its resources, TO IN
cl1de public terminals, tobacco stor-
aoe warehouses, ship repair facilities,
Nearby sites for heavy industry and
35-foot Cape Fear river channel.
CITY auditorium large enough TO
meet needs for years to come.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolina agricultural and industrial
resources through better markets ana
food processing, pulp wood productlon
and factories.
Emphasis on the regions recrea.
ton advantages and Improvement OF
resort accommodations.
Improvement of Southeastern North
Carolinas arr-to-market and prl-
mary roads, with paved highway
from Topsail inlet to Bald Head Is
land
Continued effort to attract more in
dustries.
Proper utilization of Bluethenthal
airport for expanding air service.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolina's health facilities, especially
in counties lacking hospitals, and in
cluding a Negro Health center.
encouragement OF the growth OF
commercial fishing.
Consolidation of City and County
governments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04

ern European states as well as the 16 ma
tions that finally accepted it. One objective
was, and evidently still is, to hasten the re-
turn of normal trade throughout Europe.
1t stands to reason that the quicker this
objective can be reached the less the Mar
shall Plan will cost, and the less chance
there will be of its failure.
The members of Congress who favor Mr..
Stassens suggestion and who also favor the
greatest possible economy in the program
of European aid might consider such fac
tors as the relative cost of providing and
transporting American machinery and
Czech machinery, American and Polish
coal.
1t can be argued, on the other hand,
that the Russian satellites, especially
Czechoslovakia and Poland, must export ir
order to live. The Soviet government might
have to permit them to trade however
much it disliked the idea, in order to re
tain what support it has in those countries
and to avoid an even greater economic bur-
den.
Whatever the decision on continuing pos
sibly dangerous exports to Russia, it Will
not be easy. There are risks involved either
way. 1t is of great Importance that they be
weighed carefully. And it is certainly equal
ly important that both Congress and the
administration, in weighing them, avoid the
growing danger of making this question
still another issue of domestic politics.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04

ing. who can say that other details OF pri-
|vate life will not become public property
The probing. invisible finger of the survey
lin every house.
One distressing aspect of the present
rash of surveys is that it is removing the
element of surprise from many individual
and national activities. Time was, and not
so long ago, when the outcome of presi-
dental election wasn't known until the
votes were counted Now the result of such
a contest is about as doubtful as whether
Assault could outrun a dray horse.
It's still possible to argue about who is
the funniest comedian on the radio, but
you can't argue about who is the most pop
ular. The polls have already told you,
just as they have cataloged so much OF
our thinking on serious or trivial subjects.
It's all very progressive and instructive,
but it's making life a series OF anti
climaXes.
Now there may be added to this mass
production curiosity an element OF occult
science For if, come the first crocus,
broadcssters are going to be able to tell
what programs the surrounding territory
IS listening to, can we rule out the possibil-
ity that, in a few more years, they may
be finding out what conversations are
being listened to by several thousand neigh
bors?
The electronics sorcerers might even
eventually devise an instrument for trans
lating brain waves. The old invitation, "a
penny for your thoughts" would disappear
from the language. For somebody woulc
surely come out with lapel-model mind
prober and, once the initial cost was amor
tized, we should all be scanning each
others thoughts for free.
The pictures of a shaken, demoralized,
mentally naked people, that this possibility
calls up, is too frightening to contemplate
any longer. We just hope the electronics
boys will think twice before they start
something that they can't finish.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04
Exports To Russia

1t has been moved by Harold Stassen
and seconded by Rep. John Taber that the
U. S. stop shipping machinery machine
tools ana industrial material to Russia. The
suggestion has received a good deal of i'm
mediate support though not from the
President, to whom Mr.. Stassen addressed
his advice
The Republican aspirant to Mr. Tru-
mans Job labeled the present trade with
the SoViets economic appeasement," and
1T first glance the label seems accurate.
Our scrap iron shipments to Japan before
the war are almost as fresh in the public
mind as Russia's obvious militarsm is to-
day. One may ask if, after the Japanese
experience, we are again providing the ma
terials of death that will be used against
us.
But there are other questions that should
be asked before the demand for break
in Soviet-American trade increases.
What sort of machines and material are
we sending Russia, and how much?
Is it wise for the U. S. to impose econom-
ic sanctions on its own, while trying at
the same time to strengthen the UN?
II such economic sanctions are imposed,
what will Russia do about them?
In connection with the last question Mr..
Stassen made an interesting point in his
telegram to Mr.. Truman which has drawn
an equally interesting, though unofficial
reply from the State Department.
Mr.. Stassen called attention to the fact
that the Communists and the Russian gov
ernment have not permitted a normal
flow OF machinery and equipment from the
steel works of Czechoslovakia to western
Europe and have obstructed the movement
OF materials between eastern and western
Europe and eastern and western
Germany"
The State Departments point is that if
the Russian government can check the nor
NAL flow of exports from its own and its
satelllte countries now, it might shut of
that flow completely in retaliation for
Americas embargo on exports to Russia
such action not only might add enormous
~ to the cost of the Marshall Plan but also
prove to be the final stroke that divides
Europe.
IL should not be forgotten that the secre
1ary OF states original proposal for Euro
pean recovery took in Russia and the east
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04
By HENRY SOWERBY

| first of the documents of the
Freedom Train.
Beverley, grandsire of Bever-
lys in Massachusetts,, Ohio, Ne
braska, Texas, a d elsewhere,
was winning it's liberties more
than 1000 years ago. Possibly
it's historic luster was unknown
to Roger Conant and his "a fel-
low citizens of Beverly, Mass.
who in 1871 petitioned that the
name Beverly be changed to
Budliegh, because cit hath
caused us constant nickname
of Beggarly." However, the
"Great and General Court" de-
MED the petition, and today
Beverly enjoys d served popu-
larity, if not for its patriarchal
eminence, then at least for it's
pleasant-sounding name.
The first of the documents in
the two-coach Beverley, Eng,
"locaI" is dated around lila A.
D. Beverley in those early days
was the ninth town in the king
dom, with a teeming population
of 1000, London having then 35,-
900 (more than New York or
Philadelphia in 1776) and York,
11,00O. The document is a char
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04
Crisis At James Walker

Whether the James Walker Memorial
hospital nursing staff or the hospital man.
agement, is in the right in the present
crisis is not for us to decide, but it is
obvious that the relationship between the
two has not been normal for some time.
It would seem that with adequate ne
gotiation, and compromise if necessary, by
both parties to the dispute satisfactory
settlement might already have been made
and the possibility that patients may go
without nursing services at the expiration
of the two weeks notice given by the staff
have been avoided.
It may be that the management can re-
place the resigning nurses within the time
limit. 1t could be that the nurses now on
duty will reconsider their decision to walk
out Or it could happen that neither of
these contingencies will come about and,
lacking a nursing staff, the hospital will
have to close and the patients there at the
time and other persons needing hospitali-
zation must be moved to other cities
wherever rooms are available.
/ This is the tragic phase of the present
difficulty, that the ill, the injured and suf-
fering people of southeastern North Caro-
lima may be deprived of the services of
their chief hospital and incur risks to their
health that could prove fatal, because
James Walker hospitals management and
nursing staff failed to end their disagree
ment while it could have been done with
out endangering a single life.
| To be sure the nurses have given
notice" of quitting. This move, therefore,
does not amount to literal strike, but the
mass resignation contains the potentiali-
ties of a strike. Because the present stu
alton has long been in the making, and
the public which supports the hospital has
been kept in ignorance of the causes there
Of, it is time for the whole matter to be
brought out into the open and the people
given a voice in the hospitals adminis-
tration and policies, since it is the people
who foot the hospitals bills.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04

ter of liberties that proved to be
the germ from which sprang
local charters in all parts of the
country. Like the 81 subsequent
charters, it shows an aggressive
determination on the part of the
citizens to secure their liberties,
strangely in contrast with the
submissiveness of some nations
today.
William of Normandy had sue
ceeded, where Hitler since
failed, in invading England, and
promptly reduced all the inhabi-
tants to state of feudal serf-
dom. Beverley's str u 6 gle for
freedom therefore started again
from scratch. However, Bever-
ley burgesses fo un d - what
dwellers under modern dictator
ships seem unable to find-that
a despotic ruler has weak points
in his armor. They found that
the King, or their feudal over
lord, was usually anxious about
his position and would give
much for a little loyal support.
Most Kings were weak in the
exchequer, and, if properly ap-
preached, would be liberal with
their charters for a consider
alton.
If Beverley jumped ahead of
most towns in bargaining for
liberties, it was helped at first
by the presence of the sanity
John of Beverley. The story goes
that in 939 A. D., Athelstan, first
King of all England, was march
ing north to fight the Scots when
he met a group of pilgrims sing
ing as they walked along. On
stopping to make inquiries, he
was told these men had come
from Beverley, where they had
seen the blind, the lame, and
deaf healed by John. So Athel-
stan, deeply moved, turned
aside, went to Beverley, paid
reverent h o m age at Johns
sanctuary and gave the town
special liberties as a holy place
A century later, William of
Normandy, with his Hitlerian
disregard for holy places and a
penchant for "genocide" savor-
ing of the Nazis, took offense at
the Yorkshiremen's complai-
sance over Danish inroads and
laid waste much of the county,
killing 100000 people. Beverloni-
ans flocked for refuge to the abb
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04
The Marshall Plan
BY PETER EDSON

WASHINGTON, - R espon-
sible officials who have been in
on the Marshall planning since
last July are now ready to ad-
NIT that long-range European
recovery is going to hurt. 1t may
be felt in the U. S. to the extent
of a 10 per ent increase in the
cost of living. Or a reduction to
80 per cent of normal supplies
of most-wanted items.
The $597 million interim aid
program for France, Italy and
Austria is not expected to cause
any great strain on the Ameri-
can economy. But the Is
months recovery program,
which should get rolling by April
l, may cause hardship"
This word Hardship is con-
sidered too harsh by some OBJ
servers. But it is no exaggera-
ton to say that the long-range
ERP, or European Recovery
Plan, will cause more than an
inconvenience.
AS an offset to this inconven-
ience, it will probably be main
tained in the Presidents next
message to Congress that if the
u. S. tries to isolate itself by
not furnishing recovery assist
ance to western Europe, the i'm
pact of later developments will
be disastrous.
An official who has been a
participant in all the major
studies of this situation declares
with forceful seriousness that if
the U. S. does not take the right
course at this moment of deci-
sion, the cost of the dislocation
that follows will make the pre-
sent program seem minor. Some
mistakes are bound to be made,
but these faults must not stop
the plan, he says.
'Fretentlous parSlmony at
this time is not a virtue and will
not pay off," it is explained.
Whether the $50 million people
in western Europe can live on
$50 calories day less is not so
important as whether they live
at all.
It is admitted that on the basis
of actual relief needs-iust keep
ing the people from starving =
aid to Europe could be bought
for $3.50 million a month, or So
billion a year. This is about half
the Hartman Committee recon-
dation for $5.75 billion or the
State Departments round figure
of Sc billion as the amount need
ed in the first year to get Eu-
rope rolling again. To get re-
covery will take the full amount
In this connection it is now be-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04


The furious football r va1ries
have reached their seasonal eli
max, "All Americans" are be-
ing chosen by dozens of eek
perts," and business interests in
the "bowl 6 a m e" cities are
beating the tom-toms.
AS the b iggest money season
IN amateur athletic history
reaches its finale few are the
voices which may be heard
against its Increasingly harmful
effect on higher education. With
honorable exceptions, colleges
and universities the presump-
tive leaders in American intel
lectual life-dare not breast the
tide. And the presidents and
boards of tn ose institutions,
though they may privately ad-
NIT that football is "getting out
of hand" are mostly unwilling
to collide with alumni and stu
dent demand for bigger and bet
ter teams.
Occasionally, how ever, a
school does recognize tn e evil
and correct it by radical re-
turn to amateurism. The Uni
versity of Chicago manages to
get along very well in spite of
its a b n d nment of intercol-
legiate football. E m ory Uni
versity in Atlanta doesn't COM
pete on the gridiron, but scho-
lastically it outranks most
Southern schools that do. And
Carnegie I n stitute of Technolo-
gy, which nine years ago had
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04

ling officially emphasized that
the UNRRA and post UNRRA
aid programs were not wasted
in an "Operation Rathold," as
has frequently been charged.
That there was waste in the ear
ly relief operations is granted.
Waste or not, the result today
is that millions of people are
alive and free.
Purpose of the interim aid is
to keep people going until the
recovery plan can be put into
effect. Without the interim aid
the long range Marshall Plan
would be wasted. For the more
rundown an economy becomes,
the harder it is to rebuild it.
Justification for all these as
sumptions, country by country
and commodity by commodity,
will be contained in volumes sew
en- to ten in government reports
on the Marshall Plan. They will
| be ready by the time the Presi-
rents message goes to Congress.
The lawmakers can have them
for holiday reading.
The two volumes of Paris re-
ports, the Krug, Nourse, and
| two-volume Hartman Commit
tee of 19 reports make ur pre-
vious contributions to this sub
ject. State Department has boil
ed down and revised these six
volumes to another four.
This will be the last word on
the subject, but not the last
words. Congress has yet to be
heard from.
In fact, State Department re-
ports will be mostly figures. One
volume will be the report itself.
The others will be analyses IN
detail and tables of justification
for every item in the report,
with variables for static prices,
rises or declines.
One series of tables alone, car
rying out estimates of country
to-country trade transactions in
every commodity for the second,
third and fourth years of the
plan, involved some $4,000 cal
culations. They were so compli-
Gated that calculating machines
and operators had to be borrow
ed from Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics. They worked Saturdays
and Sundays and overtime night
after night, sometimes till four
and five am.
At 10 minutes to three one
morning, when one weary work.
er decided he couldn't take any
more and got up from his desk
t. go home for a few hours, his
secretary, who was still pecking
away at her typewriter, called
after him, "Clock-watcher!"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04
Education First
An Editorial From The Richmond Times dispatch

!, Richmond Times Dlspa'un .J
a team of great, big, well-;o,l5' gas5
died players in the Sugar tso-Iyy D~t
has "de-empbasized' appa-'"'
without losing anythlng. orss.
Dr.. Robert K. Doherty ys P-'t io,..
dent of the last named ,.,r,-I r,
tuition, reports that its :, alrl,~ .a~,
and friends are graduaIy, t,r. NM ,
ing to share the admlnisII ~; IN
view that Carnegie canno' ,.,ir. Fl.
"big-time" football ana n,.ac..+i.rs i'm,
tain it's professional eouce't, N.
program, too. 1t appeai' couIt
have hay produced a team eo,5a.ss to 5ss,
the nations gridiron uo 1--we
would have b e n ',ai 10 ' o.2
squad with an educauoi.1Io n E:
gram of its own-a group aap9os..s. =, j
pecially governed anu .so vol.
ly privileged students %so ,so Inst.
have been alien to tns M .n5 !:
tution's real student 0oas d;d1'
purposes. But Carnegie
I7e" Football tt,aS. could, in other p0-a y. III
have been a sidesho" .-tly y j,
main educational tent-p% oori9s
support of but mostly N na;na5 r en
tition with the prI,lC.pf pl, +of Do,
deavor. "This we VIII i'Tr TIrrstss
says President Doherty, lI eeiss
Carnegie has interTol-It Io \ ha
sports on a modest scale. .,i,yin
bona fide students -p,isrt
teams of bona fide : s'1 1'cori
from other institutions u .;,ar d
parable strength and Slll'--
ucational ideals.