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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-29
Local Scouts Spent
Weekend On KEYS

Troop No, 253, Boy. Scouts OF
America. sp%soRa b. the Holy
Name Society. spent the week
end at the Boy Scout Camp on
Spanish Harbor Key in the We
Summerland group. Headed b.
ScoutmaSter Tony Martinez and
aided by Assistant Scoutmaster
Marvin Lessne and Junior AS
siStant Scoutmaster Homer B.
Herrick. Jr.. the group enjoyed
the facilities of the camp. Swim
ming. hiking, exploring and just
plain resting" was appreciated
by the Scouts. Tests for second
and first elias rank were passed.
Half of the Scouts slept in tents
pitched on the grounds OF the
camp. Each Scout cooked his
own food and for the one or two
who had not cooked before, II
was trying experience.
The Boy Scout Camp is named
Camp Jackson Lee Sawyer IN
| honor of the Scout by that name
who was killed during worlo
War II. Scout Sawyer was q
member of Troop No. 81. spon-
sored by the Rotary Club. Scouts
attending the camp were Rene
Alvarez, Raymond Bazo, Charles
Collenberger. Robert Halliday
Gurdon Hamilton. Homer .
Herrick, Jr., Robert Jenkins. IT.
Charles kaufman. Arthur Noble
Robert Read, Andrew Saunders
Jr., Kenneth Schrader, Joseph
Smith. Philip Spencer, Ralph
Slaves. Alfred Yates and Charles
Yates.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-29
Fishing Party Tomorrow
Aids Polio Campaign

Capt. Joe Mercurio of the fish
ing Yacht Aileen al will hold 4
special March of Dimes fishing
party tomorrow.
The yacht will leave Garrison
Blight at 10 Il. m.
Capt. Mercurio vii contribute ali
the proceeds to the March OF
Dimes.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-29
Boy Hit By Car
On Virginia St.

Clarence Higgs, Jr., reported
to police that a little boy ran
out from the side of Virginia
street right in front of his Cal
and that he unavoidably hit him
The child, said Higgs, Jr., go,
up and ran home. Young Higgs
followed him and took him to
DR.. Mario Fernandez. He said
Jeff knight was a witness to the
accident.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-29

In predicting the weather, the
forecaster generally tries TO deter
mine the distance and direction OF
travel Of high and low pressure
areas in the atmosphere.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-29
H. S. l.

in the Old South.
Cobb expressed the belief Ne
groes eventually would be playing
in every league in the conntry
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-29
Water Survey Will
BE Made In CITY

A joint survey win be made II
the water conditions of Key West
on Feb. 10 thru Feb. IS by The
Housing and Home Finance Agency.
Regional Manager o. 7, Ray of
the agency has so informed City
Manager Dave King.
Madrid, Spain, rises starkly from
the treeless tableIand Of Central
Spain. 'sa
Evening star., 1952-01-04

France. leading OF with Gertrude Stein. Return-
ing to his native America, he had Robert M La
Toilette and Eugene ". Debs sit for him. The
New Deal gave him large opportunities, and he
chronicled Franklin d. Roosevelt and many other
political figures Of that period.
Mr.. Davidson also toured Latin America.
producing busts Of the presidents Of about 20
different countries. He was intensely aroused by
the civil war in Spain and visited the Loyalist
fronts to sketch what was to be seen there.
Poverty in his youth had inclined him toward the
Marxist doctrine, and he gave active help to
numerous Socialist and Communist organiza-
tions, yet his patrons included John D. Rocke-
feller, Andrew W. Mellon and other millionaires.
The last of his sculpturing tours was a trip to
Israel, where he finished busts OF the Zionist
notables. He thought his Interpretation Of the
pianist-premier Of Poland, Ignace Jan Paderew-
ski, was his best accomplishment, but he also
was proud Of his statue Of Walt Whitman, whom
of course, he never saw
Part OF the history of his time as well as one
OF its most important plastic historians, 10
Davidson lived a good, full, reasonably happy
life. He will be missed by his Washington friends.
Evening star., 1952-01-04
BY Charles E. TroceweN

he smells round steak in his overcoat
pocket.
Jones left the key in the door and
went in.
He took of his coat and somehow
managed to leave his own key case in it.
Then he fed Bozo and while roaming
around. waiting for the slup, slup, slup
to subside, thought he would go out
on the back porch and feed the birds.
He went out on the porch, slamming
the door behind him.
Too late he heard the spring lock
click.
So there he was, outside looking in,
with his own key inside, too.
He was not only locked out Of his
friends house. but also out Of his own!
Jones stood there wondering what to
do. It was one Of those cold, sleety
days.
He tried his own knife and neigh
bor's knife and even thought of calling
the police when another neighbor pro-
duced a two-tined fork.
No burglar ever did better. He
pushed back the hook and entered. He
opened the front door with the key he
had left In the lock and went IN to get
his own overcoat. and key. It was a
complete JOB and every one was proud
Of Il, especially Bozo, who thought all
the excitement meant more beef.
Evening star., 1952-01-04
RutionuIizes on Ransom

That the majority Of Americans were
in favor Of paying $4,000 for the re-
lease Of those four airmen was evidenced
by so many offers by individuals to
give the money or help raise it. There
have been logical arguments pro and
con and there have been some stupid
and absurd ones.
Some one said that now that we have
given Hungary the $4,000, we should
give each of the flyers $4,000 for their
suffering" What stupidity. How about
the thousands of prisoners who have
really suffered in Korea-hungry, sick,
badly treated, wounded and tormented?
Shall they each get $4,000.
Another stupid proposal was that we
should have bombed Hungary in re-
taliation. Not so long ago we sent
bombers, men and ships to Korea
which in that case was our only alter
native. But how was that action re-
ceived by the same people who would
bomb Hungary? They probably accused
the President Of another bungle.
believe most Americans are sat
isf1ed with the way the case Of the
flyers was handled, and as for our lack
ing aggressiveness-wen we have it when
we really need it. B. F. Hall.
Evening star., 1952-01-04
Non-Scheduled AirIines

Several days ago your editorial page
carried a letter from P. L. DeSlauriers,
jr., commenting on the death of 56 per-
sons in q twin-engine transport plane,
with the assumption that the plane was
overcrowded and concluding, "It is high
time, almost too late, to lower the boom
on so-called scheduled airlines."
AS far as that particular type Of plane
is concerned, it is my impression that q
similar type has been in successful use
in American military transport and that
other similar types have been success
fully used for heavy cargo purposes.
A year ago, come spring, my wife came
East from the West Coast by non
scheduled airline using four engine ships.
She was highly pleased and said she had
a marvellous trip.
Two years ago came East on nom
scheduled four-engine plane. The
engines hummed perfectly; the plotting
was top-notch, even to beeline sailing
through heavy clouds most of the way
from Kansas City to Chicago in near
zero ground weather and through q
heavy snowstorm over Lake Michigan
and across Ohio, on into New York and
La Guardia Field.
To my wife and to me, the nom
scheduled air trips were boons because
of their lower rates. We had, previously.
Travelled by scheduled lines. one of my
wife's trips having been via ye old Tin
Goose, or tri-motored Ford, between
Spokane and Seattle and return, and my
own trips including jaunts to San Fran
cisco, Salt Lake City, Boise and Portland.
To us, the main difference between
the "scheds" and 'non-scheds" are
matters of regularity and service. Via
Evening star., 1952-01-04
This and That

that Bozo was all right, and then give
him his food.
Plenty of the canned sort was avail
able and Templeton Jones made out as
If he would use it.
Any one who knows Jones, however,
knows what he did.
Sure, he brought the dog beef, the
choicest round steak.
And did Bozo like it'll
He heard the Jonesian footsteps from
afar and was at the door waiting for
him.
First, however. Jones had to get in.
Entering a strange house. or partly
strange, is job. Doors and locks are
odd, for one thing.
Then he inserted the door key and
opened the house door. to an ecstatic
greeting from Bozo.
X
Down. boy, down. boy" said Jones
in his best professional manner.
AS q dog lover, Jones thinks he is
tops, but as matter Of fact he never
owned but one dog and it was rather
his brothers than his.
He attended some bench shows when
he was younger.
Now he poses as an expert.
Wen, 1t makes no difference, he likes
dogs and Bozo likes him. specially when
Evening star., 1952-01-04
Fed Up With Air Force

The Sunday Star Of December 80 con.
tanned an article on box lunches for Air
Force crews, intimating this is some
thing new. The Air Force public infor-
nation officer was quoted in your story
as saying it takes a nine-man staff to
provide 100 such lunches and that each
costs about, SIS cents.
For your information, In fight
lunches have been an innovation" since
we fixed them in Bermuda in 1941. We
had a smaller staff than nine, yet we
prepared three times as many as they do
in day, and we operated q midnight
and transient mess to boot.
AS for the box lunches costing IS
cents to assemble, what about that
dollars worth of manpower for each Of
the nine men who do the assembling?
It is news. however, that the Air Force
now matches Navy quality by putting in
the boxes something better than pea
nut butter and bologna salad sandwich.
Ex-Mess Sergeant.
Evening star., 1952-01-04
Down Comes the Tree-NeedIe BY Needle

The fact that daddy no longer tries
to drag home 8 tree that would stagger
Paul Bunyon is all to the good, Of course,
so far as Mr.. Wenzel is concerned.
For each year his men must figure on
handling q dead forest of around 100,-
600 trees after Washington's Christmas
has run its course.
Maybe the ceilings used to be higher
and the rooms larger than they are
today" Mr.. Wenzel said in referring to
the days when nearly every family had
a king-size pine, spruce or cedar. Then
our men had to work like lumberjacks
loading horse-drawn drays with raw
timber"
There has been steady trend toward
smaller trees in the % years Mr.. Wenzel
has been on the job and now the mon
ster variety is rarely encountered.
Those families who toss out their
trees the day after Christmas usually
live in tightly arranged apartments
where every foot of space counts. Those
who hang on to their denuded pine
skeletons until summer do so to appease
Junior, who hollers up storm every
time mother makes move to sneak the
wretched remnant of Christmas out OF
the house.
And getting the tree outdoors doesn't
necessarily mean that Junior is through
with it. The collectors are quite sympa-
thetic when the lady Of the house calls
them to desist as they are about to
wh1sk away q sorry specimen propped
up in the back yard. MY little boy still
wants 1t, the lady calls. And so the men
say they'll be back-maybe in June.
One Of Mr.. Wenzel's biggest projects
used to involve unsold trees, the left
overs on street-corner lots. Some deal
Evening star., 1952-01-04
Jo Davidson

Nature and accident made 10 Davidson
sculptor. He was VITAL vigorous person, who
brought to everything he touched dynamic
force. His own capacity for dramatization at
tracted dramatic subjects. He possessed an in
stinctive sense for news. Wherever anything i'm
portant was going on, he would be apt to appear.
He called himself reporter, and there was a
journalistic quality in many Of his statues.
1t would be feasible to write his biography
in terms of the series Of shows which he staged
World War gave him an opportunity 10 model
an entire pantheon. He turned out bronze efigies
of all the Allied leaders, including woodrow
Wilson, Then he went to Soviet Russia and pro-
duced a series of impressions of the Bolshevik
tevolutionaries. Next he created a similar group
of the British radical and liberal intellectuals,
Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy and other "im-
mortals." This achievement he duplicated In
Evening star., 1952-01-04

Locking ones self out Of the house
is an everyday occurrence.
But Templeton Jones is probably the
only man in the world who ever locked
himself out of two houses at once.
That, one must admit. takes some
doing.
Not that Jones prides himself on it.
Far from it. At the time, he thought
himself rather dumb, but now he laughs
at it,
He had been asked to take care Of
friends dog. Bozo, by name.
Bozo is q big. friendly pooch, with
large brown eyes and large tail. The
rest Of him Is nondescript, not writable,
as the word says.
Bozo has lovable disposition, though,
and q liking for beef.
Since various cuts of beef are at their
highest prices, old Bozo gets very little.
1t is only when Templeton Jones comes
around that the dog is sure Of his
favorite food.
Jones believes that dogs. as well as
humans, should get what they like.
That both men and dogs fail so often.
and never hnd and really never permit
others to have what they like, shows
how far short of perfection the race
falls.
A. :. -
Evening star., 1952-01-04
Hasn't Been 30 Years Yet

The Presidents action in ordering the
Bureau of Internal Revenue to fall back
and regroup is commendable, suppose,
but it is not going to give us the thorough
overhaul so badly needed to restore
morals in Government to the point
where our motto becomes Fright is right
even when nobody is right and wrong
is wrong-even when everybody is
wrong"
Others have likened this long overdue
clean up in Government to the plight of
Augeas. King of Ellis. who had herd
of 5000 oxen whose stalls had not been
cleansed for 80 years. But have failed
to see follow through on how Hercules
went about this seemingly impossible
task. What Hercules did was to run the
Rivers Alpheus and Peneus through the
stalls. getting them spic and span in a
single day.
Is it asking too much for some modern
strong man to divert the Potomac across
the Mall and the Federal Triangle?
]. r. C..
Evening star., 1952-01-04
Sniff,

believe the imperceptible impact Of the
first needle on thick broadloom had
been recorded at the District Building
with dull thud.
Superintendent John W. Wenzel de-
nies that his Trash Division employs
anything so fancy as seismograph to
give the signal for the trucks to start
rolling on their post-holiday missions.
1--WE know by now." Mr.. Wenzel said.
shat we'll find some discarded trees
the very day after Christmas
weIl keep hauling them of as late as
June. The pattern is the same year
after year-the only change being that
people seem to be going in for smaller
trees"
Evening star., 1952-01-04
Legal, But W-Advised

It is a bit startling in this era of turmoil
over gifts to public servants to learn that
members Of the State Corporation Commission
of Virginia receive valuable "courtesies" from
public utility companies under sec supervision.
What is more surprising still is that the State
Constitution specifically authorizes such cour-
tesies. Legal or not, the principle involved is
bad one that ought to be discontinued.
The impropriety Of the practice is evident
in such a proceeding as now is pending before
the sec at Richmond The commission has been
holding hearings on a petition by the Chesa-
peake & Potomac Telephone Company for rate
increases in Virginia. It was brought out at
the hearing that members of the commission
have been receiving free telephone service on
personal calls. No other public officials in the
State are permitted to receive such favors. Why
should members of an agency empowered to
control utility rates and services be permitted
to accept favors from companies subject to sec
control?
The authority to receive these favors dates
back to 1902, when the present; constitution was
adopted. Apparently the idea was to permit
sec members to use the telephone without cost
in checking on the quality of services rendered
the public. Fifty years ago the telephone was
still something OF a novelty and not many
homes were equipped with them. To have
required commission members to install phones
and pay for service in order to investigate the
companys operations might have been an
imposition. Times have changed however. A
house without a telephone is as much novelty
today as the house with one of the crank
operated boxes was in 1902. The reasons which
might have justified the constitutional authori-
zation of free telephone service for sec members
in the old days no longer are applicable. Neither
Maryland nor the District OF Columbia have any
such legal provision. The Virginia provision IS
outmoded and under present-day conditions,
ill-advised. The forthcoming General Assembly
should take steps to bring about It's repeal.
Evening star., 1952-01-04
Cybernetics Indeed

Almost any kind of mind will agree with
Justice Frankfurter'S conclusion that man
cannot properly be convicted on the basis of
evidence which the police have forcbly pumped
from his stomach.
The case involved a suspected dope peddler
who swallowed two morphine tablets when the
police broke into his room and grabbed him. The
tablets were pumped out over the mans strenuous
objections and were used at his trial to convict
him of illegal possession of narcotics.
Justice Frankfurter said in effect that this
was form of police activity so cruel and unusual
as to shock the conscience Under the due process
clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, he con-
cluded, conviction so obtained cannot stand.
This invocation of the Fourteenth Amend
ment leads into a murky area of constitutional
law, and it brought from Justices Douglas and
Black the contention persuasively argued, that
the conviction should have been set aside under
the Fifth Amendments ban on compelling per-
son in a criminal case to give evidence against
himself. Justice Frankfurter and his majority
associates thought otherwise however, although
1t must be said that his elaborate reasoning
seems to come down to an elegant restatement
of the old dictum that the law is what the judges
say 1t is.
The major purpose here, however, is not
to intrude foolhardily into an argument among
the judges as to the proper role of the due
process clause. The purpose is to protest against
the use by Justice Frankfurter of such an out
rageous word as "cybernetics.' Even cybernetics.
Justice Frankfurter said in substance, has not
yet made the naughty claim that the most
important aspect of constitutional adjudication
(the defining of due process) is function for
inanimate machines and not for judges.
That word "cybernetics" does not appear in
any of the standard dictionaries It is high on
the list of words that are missing from the
man-in- the-street vocabulary. To be sure, one
can ascertain (by calling Justice Frankfurter's
Office that "cybernetics" is taken from the title
of book by Professor Wiener of NIT dealing
with the science of mechanical minds But The
Star nevertheless wishes to protest the use of
such word in a court opinion on the ground
that, when inflicted on the lay mind, it amounts
to form of cruel and unusual judicial activity.
Evening star., 1952-01-04
Fairfax County,s Executive

Fairfax County is fortunate in obtaining the
services OF veteran county administrator for
its new post of county executive Carlton c.
Massey, who will take over the key executive
office on March /, has been county manager of
Henrico County, Virginia, for the past eight
years. He is familiar with conditions in Northern
Virginia, having served for 10 years as city
engineer and administrative assistant in Fred
erickSburg.
Henrico County, like Fairfax County, is
suburban community with problems generally
similar to those affecting Fairfax. Mr. Massey's
duties as county manager have been much like
those he will be required to perform under Fair
faxS new form of government. He will come to
this area with an outstanding record as man
ager OF one of Virginia's fast-growing counties.
He will find his new job somewhat different,
however. He will not have the freedom to make
appointments that he had in Henrico as the
Fairfax supervisors will still retain control in
this field. This arrangement will require close
cooperation between the Board of Supervisors
and the executive in the selection of competent
departmental heads. The whole governmental
reform depends in large measure on mutually
agreeable understanding between the supervisors
and the administrator.
Beyond this cooperative relationship, addi-
tional legislation will be needed to smooth out
some difficulties in the way Of effective operation
of the new government. The guidebook prepared
for the county by the University of Virginias
Bureau Of Public Administration calls for special
legislation to enable the Fairfax board to hire
a legal adviser apart from the commemorative
attorney, to permit the board to delegate more
authority to the county executive than now is
possible, to create department Of public works,
to transfer appointing powers from the court to
the board in the case of library trustees and to
Raa3 FFT.H-
help the board and its agents to provide the
county with modernized type Of rule particu-
larly adapted to the requirementssof rapidly
developing county. The phenomenal growth of
Fairfax County in recent years iustiies the
sweeping reforms which the. citizens have voted
into being there and which Mr.. Massey will have
q major part in putting into effect.
Evening star., 1952-01-04

ers who set their sights too high would
walk on and let the city worry about
the pile Of imported Canadian spruce
they left behind. Now. however, Christ
mas-tree dealers are required to post
bond by way Of assurance they win
do their own cleaning UP.
Also helpful are those communities
which organize twelfth-night fires and
burn all the discarded neighborhood
trees under supervision In some safe,
open place. This is an ancient GUS
tom dating from the days when witches
seemed to be more prevalent than they
are now and were particularly busy at
Christmas time. Various stratagems
were used to put the witches in their