The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-01
IL So Is Like
Past, Year Of
Crisis Is Sure
BY SAM DAWSON

NEW YORK IA year OF crisis
must be coming up.
1t has to be, because many
younger Americans can't recall
starting a year that wasn't dubbed
a year of crisis.
Somehow or other, the label us
ually got itself justified. If it
wasn't critical for everyone, it was
for some-shoulder pad makers,
or the lace paper industry, say.
Many an American has endured
so many years of crisis that he
has dug his own little criSis-cel-
lar. Here he retires when the new
year first appears on the horizon
in its traditional stormy funnel
shape.
Time and again in 1858 the ma
ton is sure to stand at the cross
roadS-its almost perpetual stance.
CrosSroad dallying viii spread
from Congress to the halls of
learning around commencement
time next June.
Millions of businessmen and 9th
ers will attend conventions in 1853
to debate how to meet the perils
they see confronting their business,
their profession, their parry, and
their way of life.
What makes 1853 sure to be a
year of crisis is change. And un-
certainty. The year starts with
double-dip portions of each.
You can't have change without
someone finding a crisis in it. So,
in 1853 you'll find these things viii
be a crisis for someone:
Government policies and prac-
tees won't change fast enough for
some-will change too fast for 9TH
ers.
Congress can come up with
crises, and doubtless will. Bills
dear to the hearts of this or that
faction will be tied up in commit
tee, filibustered, whitfield down,
compromised and vetoed. II will
be a rare citizen who feels con.
gress does all for him 1t can, or
should.
The international situation can
be counted upon for a crisis every
little while, our friends and ene-
mics being as they are. Each me-
lee abroad is almost sure to upset
the planning of some American
firm-thereby causing angry words
by board chairman, and alibis and
buckpassing by vice presidents in
charge of guessing how the for
eign situation was going to turn
out.
The U. NJ, If other sources fail,
is sure to provide a crisis regu-
larry.
Some hungry Americans viii get
jobs in Washington. Some fattened
ones win lose them. A personal
crisis for each. Not to forget the
hopeful hordes who won't be given
a federal plumb.
The defense program VIII be cut
back-and some workers may lose
jobs. Or ii viii be inereased--and
others (taxpayersl viii have to
work out more dough.
Either way you'll be warned the
nations economy stands on the
brink Of disaster.
The buying public "a sure-fire
source) viii turn price resistant
and save its money-backing q
crisis UP all the way from the
stores to the wholesalers to The
manufacturers. Or the consumer
win buy so much all at once thal
merchants win run out Of goodl
and lose sales. Or consumers won
do either, and Just keep the re
tailers worried.
There viii be q crisis Gin an in
ternal revenue collectors enve
LOPEZ for almost everybody Marc
lis.
| And another one next summe
when too many people viii wan
10 go to the same resort at thl
same time by the same means 0
transportation. II they don't Their
viii be q worse one for the re
creation and travel industries
Yes, 1858 starts with confidence
and high spirits. But watch tina