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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-05-05
Coming EUents

MONDAY, MAY s.
Meeting Circle two. Women of The
First Presbyterian Church. ;
pm home Of Mrs. J. P. Bail
lod, SIS Johnson Street.
Meeting. executive board. Poin
ciana PTA, school. 8 pm.
Meeting Women's Auxiliary Of St
Paul's, Parish Han, 5 pm.
Meeting, hey West Ministerial
Association, II am.
Meeting, WAU OF First Baptist
Church, at church, 100 pm.
Meeting, Key West Art and His
torical Society, West Martellc
Tower, County Beach, S.3l
pm.
Meeting, Key West Temple No
20, Pythian Sisters, Knights Vi
PythIaS Hall, Fleming street
7:30 pm.
Meeting, Methodist Men, Wesley
House. s pm.
TUESDAY, MAY G.
Business meeting, Junior Wo-
mans Club. clubhouse, 3 pm
Meeting, Minoca Council No. Is.
Degree Of PocahontaS, Rcd
men 5 Hall, 100 pm.
Meeting Key West Chapter
Disabled American Veterans,
LDz Temple, 8 pm.
Meeting, Key West Assembly
No. ID, Order of RAINBOW
girls. Scottish Rite Temple,
$50 pm.
Meeting, Civil Air Patrol.
American Legion Home.
Stock Island, 8 pm.
Meeting, Sea Finigee Cootette
Club 81, VIEW. Post Home
8 pm.
Meeting, Key West Woman's
Club, clubhouse, $50 pm.
Meeting. Coral Shores P.T.A.
school cafetorium, s pm.
Meeting, Key West Players at
Barn Theater. 3 pm.
Meeting, Key West Chapter No
283, National Soioufners
FIRST Presbyterian Church, r
pm.
Meeting, Catholic Daughters OF
America, Court Mary Star 81
the Sea No. GA. St. AIMS
Hall, next to rectorv. 8 pm.
Dinner meeting, Kiwanis Club
Logun's Beach Patio restau-
rant. IS pm.
Coffee, HS1, Officers Wives
Club home Of Mrs. r. S. Sc
hook, 90l FIagier street, 10
am.
WEDNESDAY, MAY -
Ladies Day Golf Tournament. X
W. Golf Course. 9 am.
Mecilng, junior Oh. Commerce,
clubhouse. s pm.
Key West Duplicate Bridge As
ISOLATION, Coral Room, over.
seas hotel, 7.45 pm.
Meeting, Island City Navy Wives
Club No. IS. Bldg. 178. n. S.. /
10 80 a m.
Meeting, Dade Lodge No. IA,
Masonic Group. Scottish Rite
Temple. S p IN.
Meeting, stephen Il Mallory
Chapter 1862, UDC 400 pm. |
Coffee. SuRon -Four owe. Fl.
Taylor, 10 am.
Meeting Key West Cupboard
Club Auxiliary. s 30 pm.
thursday. MAY s.
Meeting, Monroe County Hospi. !
tai W0man's Aux. Sewing
group at hospital. , pm.
Luncheon Rotar- Club ST Paul .
Parish Hal. 1915 pm
Meeting room rcpfes eotatlves If
Dr. -Sr tIleh School PA. school. /.
81 m.
Mccsaa Gray Ladies Corps 10
am for eo8te. /
Meetae bas@ Pee Club S p m F.
Mcc.t1 Ladies Auxiliary Fleet
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CASA MARINA Annex Nursery.
Day and night service. Phone
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WHY NOT SUMMER IN MIAMI?
In comfort and luxury, in all
Tor part of handsome with gard
en-. Enjoy free utilities and low
rent of $500 Tor less) per month
til Nov. 1st. Write Mariposa, Box
3033, Miami, Fla. apr306t
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oday's
Business
Mirror
BY SAM DAWSON

III LthS 10 nave
charge account at a bank? A
lot of folks on Long Island do.
Only when they say charge it.
please it's not for more spending
money. alas. Doubtless that's to
much TO expect from any bank.
But they do buy shirts or dresses
or whatever on charge accounts at
small merchants in some four Long
Island towns. And then the bank
takes over the account - and bills
them, The store never bothers
them about paying, it's already
got It's money from the bank. And
! the customers themselves nav
nothing for the service.
The Franklin National Bank of
Franklin Square, Long Island, says
its the first ever to put this idea
into practice. Arthur T. Roth, pres
ident. says the plan helps small
merchants compete with suburban
branches of city stores.
Some retailers who are partici-
pating say their business has in
creased as much as 80 per cent,
Roth says. He explain that most
small merchants lack the working
capital and clerks to handle
charge accounts. The bank does
the lob for them-and as q result
small shops can offer customers
the same charge account facilities
as do the big department stores.
The plan works this way:
\ man buys shirt in one of the
participating shops. He has a
charge account card - obtained
from the bank the same way and
under the same credit rating con-
ditlonS as at department store.
The merchant deposits the sales
slip in his account at the bank,
and is credited exactly as IL he
had deposited cash.
The bank takes over from there.
II does the bookkeeping on what
the customer owes in all the par.
ticlpating stores, sends him in
voices, makes collections, credits
the customers account for re
hirt if il is returned for any rea-
son. And II says. no., politely,
If the customers outstanding &C.
counts are too high-store clerks
call the bank 10 check.
In other words, the bank acts
for all the participating stores Just
as the accounting and credit de.
partment Of big store does for
each Of It's departments.
The bank make money this
way.
First it charges the merchant
five per cent of the amount of
each sales slip. Also the mer-
chants business banking account
is carried with Franklin National.
And the customer with credit
cards issued by the bank are,
naturally, encouraged to be de-
positorS there too.
The plan started q year ago,
confined TO oil distributors. Fifty
retail merchants now are partici.
pailng and the bank Is handling
q 900 charge accounts. More than
Jne million dollars worth OF goods
and services have been charged
under the plan. Doctors and dem
lists may be added next. The bank
has q plumber now.
Vice President William ]. Boyle,
ormer department store credit
executive (Macy's) runs the
,harge account program for the
)auk He says customers are pay
NJ more promptly than they nor.
naliy do TO a department store.
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24-Business Opportunities

BUSINESS Property for sale. Total
price $4,000. Centrally located.
Apply 511 Angela. may112tX
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SODA fountain and luhcheonette
doing excellent business, will
sacrifice as owner is going to hos
pital. Call sec. apr28-tf
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TWO-BEDROOM HOUSE. Furn-
ished. 2613 Fogarty Ave, Apply
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TWO WOMEN leaving for Bos-
ton, Mass, June 3rd. Take one
share driving and expenses
Phone Key West, 9170, ask for
the Manager. may5-6tx
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5-ROOM house. 2001 Harris Ave.
Phone 2099-M. SIPS monthly.
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For Sale
33-Miscellaneous

LIME plastic bed-daveport, blond
wood. Matching coffee table, both
like new, reasonable. Phone 1909
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EISNER FURNITURE COMPANY,
3416 Duck Avenue, Poinciana.
Phone 1901. We buy and sell new
and used furniture. mar24-tf
Evening star., 1952-05-25
Wide Word Photo.
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Senate may then vote to over
ride the chair. That's about as
elastic as rules can get. isn't
it?"
Same Old Senote
Charlie then, with a little
prodding, took a couple of back
ward looks down the long per-
spective of Senate history he
has lived through.
In his opinion, the Senate
hasn't changed much since pre-
World War I days, except for
rapidity of turnover. Before
the 18th a m IN d ment was
passed, Legislatures elected Sen
ators, and a Senator was usual
ly in Office as long as his party
was in power. Charlie took
down a Congressional Directory
and used it to prove that only
eight Senators currently in the
upper house started serving be-
fore 1885. "They didn't change
that fast in the old days." he
said.
He has a high opinion Of
Vice President Barkley as Pres
ident of the Senate. but thinks
that. by and large, Young Bob
La Toilette was the best presid-
ing officer the Senate ever had.
Though Young Bob was never
President Of the Senate, he was
frequently called upon, from
1925 to 1947, to be temporary
presiding officer. "Young Bob
was practically brought up in
the Senate chamber" said
Charlie Watkins. Then he added
the highest praise the parlia-
mentarian of the United States
Senate could possibly bestow.
young Bob" he said, "knew
Senate procedure"
Evening star., 1952-05-25
Rolls.
Compromise on Highly Technical Rule
Ends 3 Years Of Strife in Key Industry
By chorIes [. coyeIl

A highly technical and little
understood railroad operating
rule was compromised last week,
apparently guaranteeing peace
In the strife-ridden railroad in
dustry.
Approval by the railroads and
the brotherhoods of plan by
Presidential Assistant John r.
Steelman may have been grudg-
ing. But. without the connpro-
mise on the ':interdivisional
run rule" it is virtually GER
tain that not even reluctant
agreement could have been
achieved.
The railroads labor troubles
actually began on March Is.
1949. when the railway con-
ductors filed contract demands.
Other unions got into the con-
troversy later. On one side were
hundreds of thousands of rail-
road workers. On the other
were 1877 class I roads.
OF course, there were other
issues in the strike beside the
controversial rule. Wages, hours
and certain other rules were at
issue. But these were resolved,
gradually, over the years. The
interdivisional run rule, how
ever, remained the chief STUN
bling block until last week.
The Major Issue
How could a single technical
rule snarl peaceful operation of
the railroads? What was it all
about?
To explain, it is necessary to
60 back bit into railroad oper-
alton and history.
A railroad is split into diyi-
sions. usually 100 or $50 miles
long. The division terminal
cities have yards for classifying
freight. shops for engine and car
repairs, often refrigeration
plants for icing perishables.
and in the days of steam, a
roundhouse for locomotive over
haul. and coal bunkers.
Many communities are liter.
ally built around the railroad.
They depend on the division
point for existence. The rail-
roads payroll for shop workers
keeps the town alive.
The operating" workers.
engineers, conductors, trainmen
and firemen-make runs from
one end of the division to the
other. They live in one or the
other Of the divisional terminal
towns. At the other end of their
runs, they "lay over" perhaps
overnight or perhaps only for
a few hours: Sometimes they
just dead head" (ride as a
passenger) home to wait for
another run. Many, if not most,
own their homes. 81
When the diesel locomotive
came, there was no longer any
need for stops every 100 or $50
miles to change engines.
Some shops were converted to
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Ambitious Superhiehwoy Plan Is sheIved
lnFuyor Of More Modest 'Fix-It' Project
By jack Jonos

for adequate highway systems,
dedication Of highway-use taxes
to highway purposes. fair distri-
button Of highway costs and i'm.
proved highway administration.
Federal Program
The plan falls in with the
Bureau Of Public Roads long,
delayed program to flt the basic
40,000-mile network of highways
In the Nation to traffic needs.
The program is designed to
move traffic more swiftly and
more safely from point to point.
But it has been mired In red
tape. materials shortages and a
mammoth growth In the use Of
automobiles.
The present sad road situation
arises not from the fact that the
basic system is bad, but from
the fact that building and I'M
provement hasn't kept up with
the planning.
Ten years ago, the highway
planners estimated that by 1860
there would be As million motor
vehicles registered through the
Nation. Today. with eight more
years to go, registrations total
SO million.
When World War II ended,
the Bureau of Public Roads put
plans on paper for the 100000
mile highway system. It would
link every important CONNER
cial and transportation center,
AZ State capitals and 1873 of the
largest cities.
Most important, it would do
something about traffic bottle
necks in the larger population
centers.
The cost then was estimated
at more than 81 billion. New
roads were to be built. present
roads improved, tunnels bored
to eliminate steep grades.
Since then, the program has
been at a virtual standstill.
The survey which led to the
recommendations cost money
and took time. But a Bureau
OF Public Roads spokesman said
little has been accomplished to
put the program into effect.
Heavy Troffic Lood
These 10000 miles represent
only per cent of the total
highway mileage in the Nation.
But they carry about 20 per cent
Of all traffic.
The PAR suggests that the
job could be done for between
$5 billion and 81 billion, even
at today's increased costs. ! But
both PAR and the bureau say
that much Of the responsibility
is up to the States and the
cities. ..a
During the war. most State
and city governments let the
roads drift. as did the national
Government. The highways were
considered expendable. Most of
the traffic damage of the war
years has been repaired.
But the big plan still lies idle.
One of PAIRS major jobs is
to sell the public on what needs
to be done. If the public can
get an itemized bill in the form
OF sufficiency ratings. PAR feels
the money will be available.
Evening star., 1952-05-25

diesel maintenance. Others be-
came more or less unnecessary,
Railroads, faced by rising costs,
wanted to cut out some Of the
uneconomical terminals. The
railroads solution was the in
terdivisional run rule, which
would allow the railroads to run
train crews over more than one
division at q time.
Under this plan, a trip might
carry a creWman right past his
home to another distant point.
Or-worse from the unions
point Of ieW-eliyision termin-
ais might be abolished entirely.
A Curious Reversal
In connection with the abo-
lition OF division points, the
normal labor-management line
up was curiously reversed La
Dor found itself the "conserv-
ative" and management the
progressive" The result of q
shutdown, in a town where the
railroad is the one big industry,
can be chaotic. There is, of
course, primary unemployment
-railroaders thrown out of
work. There is secondary un-
employment, too-the collapse
of service industries dependent
on the railroad workers for
existence. And-disastrous for
homeowners-there is a decline
in property values.
The railroads had demanded
binding arbitration of each in
terdivisional run dispute. In
other words, the decision of the
arbiter in each case would be
final. The unions repeatedly
rejected this demand. Under
Mr.. Steelman's plan, the parties
have agreed to negotiation and
mediation on every proposed
change.
That division changes can be
worked out around the table
is dnqueStioned. Many inter-
divisional runs already exist,
and are satisfactory to both
sides. One such run is the 225-
mile stretch from Washington
to New York.
During the long dispute, d. B.
Robertson, president of the fire.
men and enginemen, certainly
seems to have indicated that his
union, at least, favored nego-
tiation as a basis for settling
interdivisional run controversies
when he said:
I'VE have urged upon the rail-.
roads that they go directly to
the men on each railroad and
tell them exactly what is want
ed. The record Of agreements
already reached is ample to
show that accord can be estab-
lished If all the facts are put on
the table.
But we cannot sit in WASH
ington and endanger the family
lives and futures of thousands
OF homes and towns. It simply
isn't humane to expect us to do
such thing." 81 r%
Evening star., 1952-05-25
By Edword Boykin

y pUykbH s@
by the steel interests today.
Above all the trainers feared
creating a Chief Executive who
would become a king or other
wise perpetuate himself in Of
flee.
Many deputies favored two
Presidents, one to check the
other. Others wanted plural
executives. even five. I'VE need
more than one President at a
time," pleaded Randolph. He
regarded a single executive as
the "foetus Of monarchy" The
idea OF a single Chief Executive
took hold slowly.
Elbridge Gerry proposed a IS
year term for the Chief Execu-
tive. King upped this to 20.
Life tenure was considered, but
George Mason argued this
would be an easy step to
hereditary monarchy" He pro-
posed q seven-year term. This
was temporarily adopted, but
later amended to four with ELI
gibility for reelection. u
SoIory Problem
Many felt the President should
serve without pay. thus elimi-
mating the profit motive. All
knew George Washington had
drawn no pay in the Revolution.
Franklin, Hamilton and Madi-
son advocated an unpaid Chief
Executive.
The makers of the Consti-
tuition actually gave the Presi-
dent as little power as they
could without making him a
figurehead. The Office has run
way ahead of their conceptions.
They had just gotten rid OF one
king; they were determined not
to establish another. They gave
Congress far more power than
the Chief Executive. Plainly,
they felt the legislature should
be the seat Of powers.
The founding fathers would
probably roll over in their
graves from New Hampshire to
Georgia could they have heard
Assistant Attorney General
Baldridge recently declaring
that they had bestowed .sun-
limited power" on the Presi-
dent. They did no such thing.
Most of the stupendous powers
and authorities of the Presi-
dent have been assumed .up
through the yearsor granted
by Congress for limited periods
In emergencies. The apparition
Of the Man on Horseback was
the dread member of the Com
stitutional Convention IN l787.
He was visible to All at an times.
Eventually, out of the SIS
divergent views at Philadelphia,
the apparently hopeless inn
passes, the questions, uuanda-
ries and doubts came that
amazing bundle of compro-
misses q mosaic Of second
choices accepted In the interest
of union"--the Constitution of
the United States.
On September II. 1857, they
signed the final draft Of their
four months labors. AS the last
signature was written on the
parchment: Benjamin Franklin
rose shakily 10 his feet to bestow
an accolade on the momentous
document.
asir.' = began Franklin. ad-
Evening star., 1952-05-25

guides the complex course of
our Senate, one of the great
deliberative bodies of the world.
He is a tower Of strength in the
Senate chamber. His whispered
advice, on occasion, determines
the course Of history.
After the Senate confirmed
Judge McGranery and ad-
Jeurned, your reporter repaired
to Chalie's Office. to get a closer
look at this esoteric expert.
Charlie is tall. gray-haired.
dignified, and %.
Life and Times
He was born in Mount Ida.
Ark. and has worked in
the Senate since 1904, with no
apparent ill-effects. He started
as stenographer to Senator
James p. Clarke of Arkansas.
and moved up the ladder to the
successive levels of secretary, :.
committee clerk, disbursing
bookkeeper and journal clerk.
From 1919 to 1887, he was un-
official parliamentarian, in adj
dition to his duties as journal
clerk.
In 1887, the, Senate created
the job Of parliamentarian and
installed him in 1.-THE. first
full-hedged parliamentarian in
the Senate's history. I'm a
registered Arkansas Democrat"
ne replies when queried about
his political faith, but hastens
to add that, as parliamentarian,
he acts with stern impartiality.
Today, Charlie has, perhaps
inevitably. the kindly, avuncular
Evening star., 1952-05-25
The Mon Who Tells Senators How to Behoye
By Charles Cooke

More than one veteran OBJ
server Of the passing show on
Capitol Hill has remarked that
If Charles L. Watkins were ever
absent for any appreciable pc
riod from his accustomed seat
In the Senate chamber, the
proceedings Of the Senate would
probably slow down to q full
haltand stay halted until his
return. Such ordinations Of the
Importance Of Charles L. Wat
kins. hereinafter to be known as
Charlie. are made less in jest
than in whole hearted admira-
ton and respect.
This reporter. q recent spec-
tator of the august deliberations
Of the United States Senate.
noted that, during one three
hour period. the President of
the Senate, Alben w. Barkley.
consulted Charlie on Ii occasions
and Charlie volunteered advice
to the Weep on 10 other oc-
cations. That, averaging out
to one consultation every seven
and one-half minutes. Is about
par for Charlie.
Swivel Chair Adviser
His official title IS ..parlia-
mentarian of the United States
Senate He's easy to spot from
the galleries, for he sits at q
table in front of, slightly to the
right Of, and one Step below,
the presiding officer. From this
strategically located position,
Charlie can swing around in his
swivel chair with the greatest
OF ease and give the word to
the presiding officer, whether it
be the Weep or a Senator SPELL
ing the Weep.
Some of Charles parlia-
meptary problems are simple.
VtAIC1o CUluplGx.
A simple instance, observed
by your reporter, occurred on
the day last week that the SEN
ate confirmed the appointment
OF Judge James P. McGranery
to the post of Attorney General.
Senator McCarran said to the
chair, after the absence of a.
quorum had been established:
I ask unanimous consent that
the order for a quorum call be
reScinded." The chair (Sena-
tor Welker) replied, after a brief
whispered consultation with
Charlie Watkins: 1.-THE chair is
sorry. but the Senator from
Nevada is too late. A quorum
must be present to make such
a request in order" And that
was, as the saying goes, that.
It was all printed up nicely in
the Congressional Record next
day-all, that is, except any
mention of the man who, sit
ting In front Of the chair, is
actually the man behind the
chair.
When a more complex prob
lem OF procedure arises. Charlie
ducks across the hall to his con-
veniently located Office and con-
suits the enormous, 14-volume
compilation, Senate Prece-
dents" which he has been work.
ing up since 1919. He usually
returns with the answer in less
than a minute.
Thus Charlie advises and
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dressing Washington, but gag
ing at the gilded sun carved on
the generals highbacked chair.
Il have for four months been
Observing that picture painted
on the high arch of your chair.
l have often and often in the
course of the session. and the
vicissitudes of my hopes and
Tears as to its issue, looked at
that behind the President with
out being able to tell whether
1t was rising or setting. But
now at length I have the happi-
ness to know that it is a rising
and not q setting sum-"