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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-05-22

Convent.
AS Wilhelmina Harvey
and SchWeitzer retired to
the Sidelines in company
with Coaches Bernice Nc
Allister and Van, Convent
Captain Eleanor Gates and
High Schools Dolores Vii
late stepped on court for
the number one singles
match of the day. Dolores,
along with Diana Fernan-
dez, is the most improved
of High Schools aces, and
was playing her first match
in the coveted number one
spot. Her forehand raked
the baseline from start to.
finish, and, against anyone
but Eleanor, it would have.
been sufficient for victory,
Miss Cato, besides being
one of Key Vests foremost
athletes with a full year of
match play behind her, was
yesterday a young lady
with complete determina-
ton for a Convent triumph
stamped on her every move.
She played impeccable ten
mis-, making almost no I'M
provoked errors, and held
herself together with rare
form Before the whitening
blasts of. the Villate fore
hand.
Saturdays Scoresheet Reads:
/. Eleanor Cato (ConvenD de-
fented Dolores Villate 8-6, Cd.
2. Marie Rendueles (ConVent)I
defeated Diana Fernandez 8-6, 81
8, Vita Barroso High SCHOOL,
defeated Barbara Twiehaus 3d.
6-2, 6-3.
4. Terry Ann Parish High
School defeated Marietta de Pas
quale go, SO.
5. Gay Lou Barrosa (Convent)
defeated Norma Machado GA,
81, hsg peg
81 Alice Villa (High' SehooD de-
feated I.ourdes Gonzalez 30. 6-1.
IL Misses Twiehaus and Cato
(CdnVantl defeated Misses Bar
rosa and Villate Ga, 6-3.
2. June Yates and Miss Fernan-
DEE (High SCHOOL, defeated Misses
de Pasquale and Rendueles 6-1,
Cd. ,.sas.
3. Judy Trevor and Gay Lou
Barrosa tConventl defeated Peg
gy Jordan and Miss Machado l-6,
Ga, GA
So ends the first year of or
ganized girls sports in Key West.
Long before the next school year
rolls around the eity's three
courts. should be completed and
the baekstops and nets added to
the collnty's three fine concrete
courts at the beach, assuring the
beginning of tennis golden age
on the island.
Thescity's new concrete court
is being finished off with back
stops and nets now. City Manager
Dave King informed Joe Pinder
Ygnacio Carbonell, and Tennis
Club president Earl Yates on
February 81 that he viii ask fol
appropriations to finish the lob
sometime in May"
Meantime the citY's Junior
Championships played for the
A. Maitland Adams Cup lgirIs)
and the two J. J. Trevor Cups
tboYS IA and under and IA to
is) and the Mems Champion
ships playing for the John M.
Sroftswccd Cup have already
been held up five and eight
weeks respectively because of
total absence of courts.
To the Navy goes the grateful
thanks of parents, coaches, and
players for volunteering the Use
of its courts during the emer.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-05-22

Yesterdays Results
Miami Z, Lakeland 5 III in
nings).
Tampa Is, Fort Lauderdale z.
St. Petersburg II, Miami
Beach /.
West Palm Beach 4, Havana
3 30 innings).
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-05-22
Roiary.Lions Tied
For First Position

Currently leading the Little
Baseball League. are two
teams-the Lions and the
Rotary entries. They have
won four games and lost just
one each.
The Lions are leading the
pack with Is hits in that
department.
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Up Wirephote

NELSON FOX. Chicago White sox baseman gets
"ouit call from Umpire Bill Mckinley by Wash
anston Senators and home Washington
Third Baseman Eddie Yost (righ has just put
looking happening
Washington Catcher is in
Washington Chicago to4
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Calendar
SOFTBALL
tBaYview Park

NIgHI ray
Island City Softball League
TUESDAY
7:30-Coca-Cola VS.. Independ-
entS.
9:00-SubRon 4 VS.. USS Cor
poral.
THURSDAY
7:30-Home Milk VS.. Coca-Cola
9:00-OpDevSta VS.. Sea Cats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-06

the Committee-the public and the in
vestigative The latter, with which we
are not here concerned, contains data
gathered in staff inquiries and interroga-
lions, in executive sessions of the Com
mittee and that supplied by informants.
There is tight lid on this material. but
are made available to the FBI and other
Government security units.
The public" files, which contain more
than ! million cards on upwards Of
100000 individuals, are not public in the
sense that anyone who asks may have
access to them They get their name
from the fact that all the recorded in
formation is from open sources avail
able to any citizen.
The tremendous size of the files makes
it obvious why the Committee, with its
small staff of eight investigators, couldn't
possibly evaluate all the information
contained therein.
Under the Presidents loyalty program
directive of March 81, 1947, executive
agencies must check the House Com
mittee files as part of an employee in
vestigation. The Committee makes the
public file available for this purpose,
although being part of the legislative
branch, it is under no compulsion to
do so.
Just what do these files contain. How
is it that perfectly innocent persons are
listed? How can you tell whether your
own name appears? An interview with
a Committee official produced the fol-
lowing picture which may answer these
questions for you:
The great bulk of the information
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-06
By l. Edqor Primo

TT is important to get one thing very
l. straight: The fact that persons
name appears in the files of the House
Committee on Un-American Activities
does not in itself mean that this person
is un-American, or disloyal, or Com
munist, OF a fellow traveller, or any
other kind of subversiye-or anything
of the sort.
The Un-American Activities Com
mittee itself is particularly anxious to
have this understood these days. Com
mittee officials have been irked and
somewhat embarrassed by the rumpus
kicked up when DR.. Hobart M. Corning,
our Superintendent of Schools, revealed
he had barred Pearl Buck, the novelist,
and four others from speaking at schools
here because they were listed in the
Committee files.
These files, of course, contain the
names of many Reds, along with such
representative un-Americans as Fascists,
Nazis, Bundists, Silver Shirts and
Ku KluX KlanSmen.
But they also contain the names Of
plenty of Americans-like John Foster
Dulles, Republican consultant to the
State Department-who are generally
considered above reproach. The names
of several of the Committees own in
vestigators appear in the records. Dean
Acheson, Eleanor Roosevelt. Theodore
Bilbo, William c. Foster (the ECA chief,
Walter Lippmann and Constantine
Brown are listed. This does not mean
that the Committee has any derogatory
information on any of these.
A spokesman gives this account of
the Committees part in the Pearl
Buck incident:
Under the House groups long time
policy of supplying data to responsible
Government officials and agencies, Dr.
Corning was given the entries on the
cards of The persons he asked to be
checked, where those entries implied any
sort of affiliation with a prescribed
organization or publication. AS is
customary the Committee made no
evaluation nor did it even guarantee the
persons were one and the same. Also,
the Committee wasn't told nor did it
ask, what use was to be made Of the data.
It is interesting to note that one of
the men barred by DR.. Corning is a
Government employe who has been
cleared for handling secret documents
The Civil Service Commission and the
mans agency had access to the House
Committee files, apparently found the
same information as was supplied to DR..
Corning and evaluated it.
AS Committee aide pointed out: "The
mere fact that person has belonged
to a front group doesn't mean he is
disloyal. Such organizations couldn't
operate without innocent suckers, often
lured by innocent big-name PERSONAL
tiles
Two separate files are maintained by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-06

Washington children were ever for
tunate in their cutters.
Neat curbstones, impounding plenty
of fluid, with capable sewers to carry
off the excess, have provided plenty OF
Fairgrounds of this type. Never, how
ever, do we recall having seen a child
sail a paper boat in Washington gutter.
It may have been done in the big rain
storm of the summer of 1918, but this
observer over the years does not recall
it even then.
His best remembrance of gutter play
is connected with most Illuminating
incident ..-
He must have been all of years old;
a very great age, indeed, when one Is
years old
That innocent youngster of long ago
played in the soft summer evening with
about score of other innocent young
sters, presumably of the same age. Where
they all came from he did not know,
but there they were, running up and
down the sidewalk, making incursions
into the CUTTERS
Now at that time, in the history of
the National Capital. it was the custom
to sprinkle the streets of that section
shortly before dusk. The sprinkler wagon
always drew the attention of the chill
dren, who followed it in droves the en-
tire length of the block, then as now,
one of the very longest in the entire city.
Nice dirty water swirled along the
curbs, making black eddies for every
child who dared the whirlpool. The hero
Of this episode had somehow gotten
hold of small American flag, for 1t
was in the Spanish American War days.
when flags were intensely popular.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-06

their great rearmament programs, the Atlantic
Allies can become invincible-a coalition far
too powerful for any aggressor to dare to attack
In that case, brought to standstill and unable
to get their hands on the riches of the West, the
men of the Kremlin are likely to feel impelled in
due course to cooperate for a decent peace
Either that or their dictatorship-since it en-
braces a volcanic empire seething with the re-
pressed discontents of scores of millions who
yearn to be free-may suffer the commissions of
pandemic "Titoism" and vast internal blow up
The free world, in short, while it ought not to
underestimate the Soviet Union, should give due
thought to its own relative strength. Actually
and potentially, it is a strength so matchless
that 1t makes defeatism on this side of the Iron
Curtain (but not the other look like the worst
kind of absurdity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-06
This and That
BY Charles E. 7roceweN

Our hero (and he still is, of course)
suddenly began to drag the flag through
the murky water. He ran and whooped,
trailing the banner of his country. It
was terrible, but he was only little boy.
Just at this point a Terribly Upset
Lady appeared upon the scene. All she
saw was the Star Spangled Banner get
ting a good wetting. Perhaps she be-
longed to society, or something. Or
was there flag society, in those days,
to tell the folks how to hang flag
and how to treat a flag?
The Terribly Upset Lady seized the
bedraggled colors in one hand, and the
urchin in the other. "You terrible little
boy!" she screamed. How dare you
insult the flag of your country?" The
terrible little boy, who had no idea In
the world of insulting the flag of his
country, or the flag of any other coun-
try, for that matter looked up with open
mouth.
"You have insulted the hag!" she
roared again. The urchin didn't know
anything about that, but he did begin
to realize that he had done something.
So he began to roar in his turn.
AS this story has come down through
the ages the hero (for such we insist
he was) finally retrieved his very lack
luster banner, on the promise that he
would not drag it through cutters. filled
or untitled. The lady did not take into
account the simple fact that children
often do what they do for no reason
whatsoever that they or any one else
can discover.
That name. Mellyloogoo. for instance,
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which this same boy Of yesteryear
fastened upon one of his small play
mates. At this date he has forgotten
whether 1t was a term of derision or
praise, but at any rate, it was mouthful.
The boy who became Mellyloogoo had
perfectly normal, orthodox cognomen,
but the new one stuck. He became
Mellyloogoo to his own parents, in time,
as he had instantly to his comrades of
the vacant lots-and cutters.
No doubt today, in the great city of
New York, where he is a successful
lawyer, If he were to hear that old
familiar greeting behind him. that strik-
ing old hail of the gang" he would
turn his head instantly to see an old
friend.
Children love cutters. there can be
no doubt of it.
Whether it is the primitive instinct
toward stream, or rather the POSSIBLE
tiles of stream. or whether 1t Is the
fascination Of the street itself which
calls, children of all ages, upbringings
and home environment like to play in
them.
No doubt nowadays the street exer-
cises more fascination, owing to the
danger which roars up and down in it,
sliding so swiftly on rubber feet. The
modern gutter, to the modern child, is
just one step forward into danger.
The child, playing in the gutter, feels
itself standing on the border of adven-
ture. He answers to the same call which
drew Columbus across the unknown sea,
peopled the great West of our own
United States, and today sends men
regularly to the South Pole.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-06
A Bad Odor at the RFC

Senator Fubright's committee has made
rather fine distinction in It's report on some of
the operations of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation.
The committee said it wished to distinguish
between improper influences as such and the
improper use of RFC authority in response to
influences which in themselves may be perfectly
proper. It's report, the committee said, dealt pri
marty with the latter.
In effect, this is saying that the RFC, or,
more accurately, three of it's five directors, use
it's authority improperly in response to what may
have been perfectly proper influences.
It is difficult to reconcile this conclusion with
the text of the report. In The Stars judgment,
it is not accurate to say or to imply only that the
three directors acted improperly. It seems per-
fectly evident from the facts reported that the
RFC was subjected to improper pressures from
the outside, and that the clear intent of these
pressureS was to influence the agency to make
loans which should not have been made. 1t might
be difficult to prove that any actual corruption
was involved. The facts reported by the commit
tee indicate, however, that, at the least certain
individuals attempted to profit through fees
based on their alleged special influence within
the RFC, and this is not matter of small
consequence
On the contrary, it is very smelly mess.
Senator Fulbrght has announced that those in
dividuals named in the report as exerting or
trying to exert influence within the RF'C would
be given an opportunity to testify If they wished
to do So There has been no noticeable rush to
accept this invitation. Therefore In The Stars
opinion, the committee should subpoena these
individuals put them under oath, and make
them tell what they were doing in connection
with RFC loans and why they were doing it. This
is the only way to bring out the whole truth con-
corning the unwholesome influences that have
been at work, and 1t is the best way to put
stop to them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-06
Jail for Drunken Drivers

If more judges felt as Municipal Court Judge
Quinn does about drunken driving cases, there
would be fewer drunken drivers on the streets
OF Washington In giving a straight 30-day jail
sentence to man who had pleaded guilty to
driving while intoxicated Judge Quinn COM
mented that falling such drivers is "the only
way" to deal effectively with this problem. He
is right, If experience in other cities is criterion
Detroit, for example, reports marked drop in
drunken driving accidents since the traffic judges
there adopted a straight jail-sentence policy
last year.
The car driven by the man jailed by Judge
Quinn had collided with three automobiles and
a tree. Although the driver had not previously
been arrested for drunken driving, he had for
feited collateral four times for drunkenness.
During the next month he will have time to
reflect on the seriousness of his offense And
perhaps other drivers will be moved to reflect on
the dangerous stupidity of trying to operate an
automobile while under the influence of alcohol.
Unfortunately, some other Municipal Court
judges have been far too lenient in such cases.
One judge not long ago let four drunken driving
defendants 60 in one day on payment of $75
fines despite the fact that they had left trails
OF wrecked cars behind them. 1t is well known
in court circles that defendants in similar cases
prefer certain judges to others. There seems to
be no uniformity at all in the handling of drunken
driving cases. During the last fiscal year only
SO out Of 129 persons arrested for driving while
intoxicated were Jailed, many of these being
committed only because they failed to pay their
fines Fines ranged from $50 to $2O0-yet the
law permits $500 fine and six months in Jail
Tor first ofense. A fine of $1,000 and year
in jail can be imposed for second offense. Court
attaches do not remember any case in which the
maximum penalty was imposed
Traffic Director Keneipp, like Judge Quinn,
has become convinced that only stiff sentences will
serve to impress offenders in cases of this sort
The public would be better protected if Washing
ton adopted the Detroit send them to- Jail plan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-06
Give Unto Caesar

George Cornell's series of articles on
Current Trends in American Religious
Life" has been most informative. 1t
contains the answers to many questions
which bewildered church-goers have
been asking. The churches, Mr. Cornell
points out. are speaking out with
strengthened voice in secular affairs.
There can be no doubt about that. It is
quite noticeable, however, that the
stronger the voice becomes in secular
affairs, the weaker it becomes in sacred
and spiritual affairs.
There are many who deplore that
trend. We have plenty of experts and
trained specialists to look after secular
affairs. What is more needed is to null
tiply sound leadership in spiritual af-
fairs. It seems a pity to go hungrily
to church to have ones soul fed and
lifted toward God, and then hear only
a deplorably inadequate and inexpert
dissertation on economics or industrial
relations.
Our preachers are endeavoring to be-
come experts in everything but the deep
things of the divine Word. What the
world needs most is clergymen who can
lead men to God. What we are getting
is a so-called clergy who dabble in poll
tics and take it on themselves to instruct
governmental administrators how to
conduct public affairs.
They do not hesitate to put forth
Informed opinions on how the military
operations should be conducted. on the
use of the atomic bomb, on any ques-
ton of international diplomacy, on
whether our forces should be withdrawn
from Korea, on whether Western Europe
should be aided. They speak with pom
tif1cal authority about economic prob
lens, industrial relations, labor difficult
ties prices. wages, strikes. They lobby
in the halls of Congress. telling legisla-
tors how to perform their duties. They
tell Selective Service what its age limits
should be. They tell military men how
to wage war. In short, they know. or
would like us to believe they know, all the
answers to all secular questions.
They would, think, be surprised to
learn how many there are in their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-06
Decentralization and Employees

In preparing plans for special re-employ-
ment program, the Civil Service Commission Is
taking proper cognizance of a human factor that
cannot be ignored in effecting any decentraliza-
ton of Federal activities. The problem to be
faced concerns the impact of decentralization
on faithful and valued employees who, for various
personal reasons, are unwilling to pull up stakes
here and move to distant city along with the
agency which employs them With dispersal, of
course, the difficulty will not arise, since the
shifting will be done within 2O-mile radius
Of Washington.
Which agencies will be transferred to some
other city and which will remain here are ques-
tons yet to be decided. When the final decision
is made, however, there will be many employees
who will be reluctant to leave. A good many
designations are expected with requests for
transfer to some non-decentralized department.
1t is in anticipation of these developments that
the commission is setting up unemployment
program to place the affected employees in other
jobs.
The Government is not entirely unself1sh In
this undertaking, for it can Ill afford to lose
good employees at time of emergency expan-
sion. The seriousness of the resignation prob
lem, too, is one that has bearing on the selec-
ton of agencies to be decentralized. Some
bureaus would be gravely crippled If many key
personnel were to quit rather than leave Wash
ington The Patent Office, which has a highly
specialized technical staff is one example. 1t is
obvious that the most careful selection must be
made by the decentralizers, in the interest OF
the national welfare as well as the welfare Of
individual employees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-06
People and Land

When it is considered that the National Cap
atal Park and Planning Commission was looking
ahead 80 years in its master plan for Washing
ton, the commissions concern over the growing
density of population in apartment areas is I'M
derstandable. Unless there is better control in
the future than in the past over how many
human beings are permitted to occupy land in
congested sections, the situation with regard to
traffic, transportation, schools and other services
will be truly frightening three decades from now.
In its latest long range report, under the
title People and Land the commission calls for
revision of the coming laws to provide curb on
apartment construction in already densely occu-
pied parts of the city. Particular criticism Is
directed at the so-called "efficiency-type" apart
ment projects-a relatively recent development
here. These minimum size apartment units are
efficient in the sense that maximum number of
apartment jewellers may be packed into mini
mum amount of space. This increase in the
number of people per acre usually takes place in
areas already densely inhabited and hence af-
f1icted with traffic, parking and other troubles
of overcrowding. Very few efficiency" apart
ments are included in the average garden-type
apartment buildings, placed where there is room
not only for lawns and shrubbery but for Off
street parking lots, Fairgrounds and other desir
able facilities.
The commission points out that under pres
ent coming regulations it would be possible legally
to jam 100000 people into apartments and
houses in Washington, which is about four times
the planned limit on District population 80 years
hence. Washington streets and public-service
facilities were never intended for any such con-
centration of people. That is why the commits
sion, with good cause, places density control as
the No. problem to be considered in revision
of coming policies. The report states fatty that
currently private enterprise is building too many
efficiency apartments" The report on People
and Land" should be read carefully by every one
who will share responsibility for the growth of
the National Capital between now and 1880.