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The Key West citizen., 1954-10-16
OCTOBER Is, 1914

That song that Mary Martin
sang last night over the radio on
the Edgar Bergen-Charlie McCar-
thy program, SIS You Is Or Is You
Amt, My Baby?," was written by
Key West youth, Billy Austin,
colored, son of Eliza Austin, GIG
Center Street. Austin was gradu-
ated from st. Francis Xavier
school for colored children in Key
West.
The Key West citizen., 1954-10-16
OCTOBER Is, 1894

An interesting and well-attended
meeting of the Key West HoSpi-
tality League was held last night
with various matters coming up
for discussion.
The Key West citizen., 1954-10-16

Although civilian travel to Fort
Jefferson National Monument has
been restricted during the war,
the National Park Service is look
ing forward to a resumption of
travel during the postwar years.
Evening star., 1954-12-18

Federal portion, between the District and
Jessup, Maryland. The ban was imposed
by Congress when 1t ordered resumption of
work on the parkway in 1850. That law,
carrying out the originally announced pur-
poses of the highway, declared the road was
to be one of the limited-access type, ''pri-
marily to provide protected, safe and con-
traffic to the National Capital"
The Maryland section is being operated
today in conflict with the sensible pSinciple
enunciated by Congress Unless the truck
ing industry can demonstrate. more effec-
lively than to date, that it can keep heavy
truckers from doing violence to the Federal
concept of the parkway, the next Maryland
Assembly should take whatever action is
necessary to insure compliance.
Evening star., 1954-12-18
A Tree is Liqhted

It was just little speech-the Presi-
dents tree-lighting talk last evening-but
1t was admirably adapted to this hopeful
season of peace on earth, good will among
men,"
The President sent greetings to our
friends everywhere, and voiced humble
gratitude" for their friendship To those
who stand hesitant between two world
camps" he pledged continuing respect for
their inalienable right of self-decision, while
restating his own belief that, together 1--WE
can surely build mutual understanding and
sympathy" And to those who live in the
Communist world he said this:
With those who stand against us, in fear
or in ignorance of our intentions, we have
chosen the hard way of patient, tireless
search in every avenue that may lead to their
better understanding of our peaceful purposes.
They know as well as we, that the world is
large enough. the skills of man great enough,
to feed and to clothe and to house mankind in
peace. This universal knowledge can be the
fruitful beginning of prosperous life together.
That was about the sum of it-a small
speech, few words, keyed to the lighting
OF our Nations Christmas tree. They are
words, however, which point in the only
direction Offering decent future for this
world. Let us hope that they will help to
light the way.
Evening star., 1954-12-18
Trucks on the Parkway

The Baltimore Sun editorially deplores
the recent increase in heavy truck traffic on
Maryland's section of the Washington
Baltimore parkway--and with good reason.
When the "expressway," as Maryland calls
its segment, first was opened there were
no trucks on it, in accordance with a volun-
tary pledge by the trucking industry to the
General Assembly, then considering statu-
tory ban on truck operations on the new
road But now, says the Sun, trucks are
beginning to dominate" the traffic. 'The
way things are going" recent Sun editorial
stated this fine new road will soon become
a sort OF modernized version Of the old
Washington boulevard.
The Star agrees with the Sun that any
voluntary agreement by the trucking indus
try to stay off this parkway is apt to fail.
because the industry has no way of enforcing
such an agreement Maryland started on
on the wrong foot by opening the express
way to truck traffic. despite Federal ban
on such traffic for the entire length Of the
Evening star., 1954-12-18

In reply to the Rev. James H. Tay-
lors letter. "A Victory in South Caro-
lina," may I first say that there are
two sides to this episode.
In the State of South Carolina there
is a man by the name of Edgar Brown,
who has tried. hard. to keep the Demo-
cratic Party in one piece.
On the other hand, there is another
man by the name of James Byrnes,
who has done his best to destroy that
party, because of a personal grudge
against former President Truman.
I. personally, do not question the
right of Mr.. Byrnes to do battle with
Mr.. Truman. But I do question his
right to continually, year in and year
out, do all in his power to destroy the
party of which he claims to be part.
AS of today South Carolina has
Governor, Senator and a Senator
elect who are all hostile to the party,
and are openly in favor of everything
that goes on in the G. O. P AS O re-
suit of their actions and general atti-
tude, one would be safe to say they
are Republicans" (They are most cer-
tainly not Democrats)
South Carolina being a traditionally
Evening star., 1954-12-18
Letters to TheStor.

Democratic State, 1t should not be
beyond belief that the people of that
State have again been hoodwinked"
by James Byrnes and the political op-
portunist.' Strom Thurmond. Remem-
Der back in 1913? The people of South
Carolina voted to send Thurmond to
Washington, to be President of these
United States. Knowing the people of
that State as do, / would never be
induced to believe it to be their will.
Mr.. ByrneS had his finger in the pie
that year too, Again in 1852, Mr..
Byrnes almost succeeded in swinging
the State to the G. o. P.
Then when Senator Maybank died.
Mr.. Byrnes appointed a Republican"
by the name of Daniel to serve the
remainder Of his term.
This last episode. Of which Rev. Tay-
Tor writes. was also master minded by
Mr.. Byrnes in his undying effort to
destroy the Democratic Party in South
Carolina. And all because he We
hemently hates Mr.. Truman.
Paul A. Faris.
Evening star., 1954-12-18
By Charles E. TroceweH

alike. gathering dollars, because we can
exchange them for what we think we
want.
But by the time we grow to be 40
years of age and the former bright
hair has begunsto turn mousy, we find
that what We thought we wanted no
longer satisfies. It's too bad.
Some plunge then into doing good
to others. Others join gang, and 90
from door to door trying to force money.
out of persons whom they have never
called on before.
1t Is all very confusing, and like the
weather. nobody does anything about 1t.
Nobody, that is, except Templeton
Jones, and. II you can believe him, there
is no necessity for our perplexities, If
We would calm down. look up, and keep
going.
Our mothers love is still with us, the
days and the nights bring us peace and
calm, If we but let them; the infinite
glory of the heavens still shows the
handiwork Of God. and over all are the
Everlasting Arms.
Forget the Russians. put the bombs
out of the human mind. where they
originated, and spend time with Jones
in the homely exercise of trying to
make two blades Of happiness grow
where none grew before.
Do this, for time. and you will find
Tempieton Jones somewhere, even II
no encyclopedia knows him.
Evening star., 1954-12-18
This and That .

an increased joy in life. despite the
gloom.
The world wags on, and so does Jones'
tempting the general away from his
maps, the doctor from his medicines
and the housewife from her pots and
pans.
The world is too much with us, Jones
says. brightly.
The general studies his maps too
closely. the doctor thinks of disease
and medicines alone. and the poor
housewife, immersed in pots and pans
and vacuum cleaners, does handspin
and comes UP painting.
What they all need. according to
Templeton Jones, Is to get out of their
beaten tracks. aspire to the sun and
the rabbits in the brush, forget their
problems.
Isn't it problems. after all, that make
ulcers, headaches, and frowns, and
crease the otherwise dainty cheek?
Problems are too much with US, too,
Jones says.
The whole force of civilized society
has been maSsed against every last one
of us, so that by the time we are Is
years old our life plan Is fixed for all
eternity.
No longer do we leap out of bed with
q shout. or go racing to the rivers
brink. or gather tadpoles in bottles.
We spend our hours, sunny and gray
Evening star., 1954-12-18
Progress Under the Dutch

Queen Juliana's proclamation regarding
Surinam and the Dutch Antilles represents
the formal completion of an impressive
evolutionary step in the forwardlooking
policy that the Netherlands government
has long been following as regards it's over,
seas dependencies. EEfs* =
The effect of the proclamation, which
puts in force new Statute for the King
dom Of the Netherlands" is that it finishes
the process-begun more than four years
ago-of granting full internal autonomy to
these two former colonies in the Western
Hemisphere. AS result, Surinam Dutch
Guiana, contiguous to Brazil) and the
Antilles Ia group of islands north of Vene-
zuela) will henceforth be completely self
governing in their domestic affairs
While being thus autonomous, however,
both countries have agreed-"of their own
free Wilp'-that their defense policies and
foreign relations should be dealt with as
affairs of the realm" That is to say, they
will remain intimately associated, in that
sense, with "the Kingdom Of the Neither
lands" In other words, acting through
their parliaments and kind of common
wealth council of ministers, they will make
their decisions in the international field not
independently, or in isolation, but Jointly
with The Hague government, which un-
doubtedly will have the dominant voice in
such matters-as it should
Further, although the new statute
involves no binding economic ties Surinam
and the Dutch Antilles will cooperate
closely with the Netherlands in the latter's
long-tange plans for technical, financial
and educational projects to promote their
continuing advancement in the fields of
industry, agriculture, transportation, social
welfare, schooling, etc. And all three, In
addition, are committed to the idea of
intensive cultural collaboration.
This is a development that speaks
pretty much for itself as measure of the
enlightened nature of Dutch "colonialism."
And 1t serves also to underscore the unrea-
Sonableness of Indonesias claim on West
New Guinea-a primitive Pacific territory
that should remain, for strategic and
numerous other reasons, under the good and
far-sighted control of the Netherlands.
Evening star., 1954-12-18

who is Templeton Jones?" asks
T. A. A. of Hyattsyille, Md. II can't find
him in the encyclopedia.
No, he is not in the encyclopedia, nor
yet in Who's Who.
You will have to look in your own
heart to find him.
He is as close as good laugh, as
near as common sense and honesty can
make him.
Templeton Jones is q human chame-
leon, one thing to one person, another
to another, and still another to a
third.
One reader finds him Joy, another
bore.
You get out Of Templeton Jones ex-
actly what you put into him, joy and
happiness, perhaps. or maybe kick in
the pants.
Jones is Pagliacci In citizens clothes,
or a bald headed Liberace.
He Is the clown in winston Churchill.
the dream at the end of the rainbow,
the slanting rain on the face of the hill.
Templeton Jones is all these things
because he Is n1icrocosm in a
rnacrocosr1.
In simpler words. he is--
Templeton Jones.
The world spins on, and with 1t Jones
and his friends.
He brings to them, and they to him.
Evening star., 1954-12-18
General Raymond McLoin

Lieutenant General Raymond S. Nc
Lain, who died earlier this week at Walter
Reed Hospital, was one of our most dis
tinguished soldiers in World War II. Yet,
so gentle and unassuming was his person.
ality that it was hard to think of him as one
whose qualities of aggressive leadership in
battle became something of byword in
the Army
His leadership of the Goth Division, after
the landings in France, has become tradi-
tion-an outstanding example of the mys-
terious and indefinable traits in ability to
command which spell the difference between
success and failure on the battlefield.
Through succession of nlisadventures, the
Goth had become leaderlesS, and there is
the story that General Eisenhower suggested
to General Bradley that the division be dis
banded, and its soldiers assigned to other
units. General Bradley wanted one more
chance with one more commander, and
General McLain-a banker in civilian life,
with National Guard experience-was as
signed. Within few days the Goth was
on the move forward, morale regained,
acquitting itself so honorably that its new
commanding general was later given
corps, the only professional soldier
since the Civil War to receive such
command
Since retirement, he had given himself
with singular devotion TO the cause Of pre-
paredness, especially In the field Of universal
military training, serving as q member of
the National Security Training Commission.
The new reserve manpower program OF the
Defense Department, just announced is an
adaptation Of original plans for universal
service in peacetime, and General McLain
was at work on its details until his unex-
pected illness. A great soldier and great
patriot, 1t is no wonder that in his last days
the visitors to his bedside at Walter Reed
included the President, General Marshall
and the Chief Of STAFF, General Ridgway
Theirs was q comradeship that had been
tested under f1re, and found not wanting.
Evening star., 1954-12-18
-Justus. Minneapolis Star.
"That New Style Is Here Again."

AAdt 4NCW OtylC IS ncTG again.
goodwill at Christmastime. This blessed
season of the Saviour's birth calls for
all that is best and tender in human
nature. Years fleet by, but Christmas
Is the happy event undimmed by ages,
and the hopes Of humanity are Sc
curely anchored as long as the memory
OF Christmas survives. If that memory
were lost, the world would be plunged
into darkness and despair; but this
can never occur, because of what took
place that night in Bethlehem, to
which the choir of angels bore witness.
Re-echoing through the world in every
tongue of every nation. are the heav-
emily words, GLORY to God in the
highest and peace on earth to men of
good will" May that message from
Bethlehem find glad response in the
hearts of ALL
M. L. Waldo.
The Christmas season is the time
when people think in terms of giving
and receiving presents. As we 60 about
purchasing gifts for friends and rela-
tiveS, do we stop and consider the true
meaning of Christmas? The world
was given the greatest gift of all when
God sent His Son down to us to pur-
chase our redemption in the person of
Jesus Christ, who made the willing
sacrifice for us on the cross of Calvary.
There was definite purpose behind
all this, and the meaning is clear as
crystalline salvation of man.
We read in John Iii, IT: For God
sent not His Son into the world to
condemn the world; but that the world
through Him might be saved" Consider
also the wonderful truth in the words
of John iii, Is. For God so loved the
world that He gave His only begotten
Son that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish but have everlasting
life"
Gods offer of the gift of salvation,
however, involves an action on our
part. We must appropriate or receive
this gift. He offers it to us, but we must
reach forth our hands and take it. Our
hearts must be open to the call of our
Saviour. In order to receive the fact that
less gift we must recognize the fact that
Christ died to save those who call upon
Him. John l. II tells us: But as many
as received Him, to them gave He power
to become the sons of God, even to
them that believe on His name
Gods unparalleled gift to man-His
beloved Son., the Lord Jesus Christ
that is the true meaning Of Christ
mas. And what more can we give in
return to God but ourselves dedicated
to lifetime of service to Him?
Frank Haughawout.
Evening star., 1954-12-18
WeddeII Sea Area

Your alert Antarctic reporter, Thon-
as r. Henry, had several paragraphs
in his recent column, entitled "Earth's
Last Unknown Calls Great Explorer"
which seem to be somewhat misleading.
The column dealt with the Weddell
Sea portion of the Antarctic Coast and
the land westward, never explored as
far in as the South Pole. Mr.. Henry
implied that the Weddell coastal area
has never been considered or explored
by Americans, as he mentioned only
that Shackleton's ship was crushed in
this treacherous seas ice. An Amer
ican, the late Lincoln Ellsworth, by
plane and boat took good look at
the northwestern Weddell Sea area
Capt. Finn Rome, after sighting quite
long length of the coast from the
air the first time this was seen by man,
named great tract inland for his
wife Edith. This means that two Amer
lean expeditions so far have interested
themselves in the Weddell Sea area.
Moreover, the hearings of July in
the Senate Armed Services Committee
dealt entirely with the proposed trip
outlined by Capt. Rome to establish
o UdoC Ill VlllO dICd, lCSC IICdT1Ilko
are published and any citizen can get
the very enlightening little booklet
from the Senate Armed Services Com
mittee. There are maps, scientific pro-
poSals, letters from several depart
mentS, ETC., therein. 1t may well be
that such an expedition and base would
do great deal toward furthering
United States interests on the conti-
nent, as the actual land area under
discussion has had little or no atten-
tion from other nations; certainly, as
Mr.. Henry stated, not in the inland
portion. Furthermore, it seems strange
to the average citizen these days that
planes and helicopters, possibly from
carriers, cannot be utilized to establish
bases wherever wise. Why need we
depend solely upon the approach to the
coast proper by a ship when this Is
known to be hazardous in so many
parts of the Antarctica shoreline?
E. A. Kendall.
Evening star., 1954-12-18
Big Stick or No?

Numbering and imprisoning Americans
seems to be matter -of fact paStime
for the Communists. can remember
when We had men in our high Offices
who would consider these atrocities acts
of war. In fact, can remember when
the citizens of the United States would
force the Secretary of State and the
President to take action or resign, by
deluging Congress with angry protests.
If blockading pirates and interna-
tional gangsters is an act of war, then
let's have war. Are Mr.. Dulles and our
President going to permit the Stars and
Stripes to forever be trampled by these
devils incarnate? Fact time they get
by unchallenged. with another atrocity,
we are that much nearer to an attack
on our homeland.
When we were an infant among ma
tions in 1915, President James Madison
settled the Barbary pirates once and
for all. He sent Commodore Stephen
Decatur with the battleship United
States. few sloops and Marines to
call on the Bey of TuniS, the Dey Of
Algiers, and the Bashaw of Tripoh.
They weren't handed any pink notes,
but were bodily brought before our
ships cannon and forced to sign treaties
and pay indemnitieS. This was in the
days when Americans had CUTS and
the Stars and Stripes carried the pres
tige of free men and fearless leaders.
1t has only been under Presidents
Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower
that our honor and prestige, as a
Nation. has steadily declined.
If Mr.. Dulles and President Eisen-
hover aren't ashamed of their peace
less co-existence" and peace at any
price, I can assure them that, as
citizen, am ashamed for them.
How fortunate we would be If we
had men of Teddy Roosevelts stature
in the White House and State Depart
ment
Wake up! 1t is almost too late.
Robert ]. Miller, MD.
Evansville, Ind.
Thirteen men are in trouble, so Min
uteman" wants to get 13 million more
men in trouble.
The real trouble is that we send our
boys to these far-off places.
If we keep getting involved in Chinese
troubles, we'll be at 1t for years. Those
Chinese are fanatics. Let them fight
out their own problems. Korea, you
know, was only to be little skirmish."
America Firster.
Evening star., 1954-12-18
A Song for Lonely People
1t pds a lonely Journey

1t tDds a lonely journey
For those Dho Travelled far
Beyond their knoun horizons:
For them there shone q star.
1t iods q lonely pipl
For those pIo matched among
Their charges In the darkness:
To them q song iDds sung.
1t ludS lonely resting
For those 1D1lo met NTH scorn
To find reluctant shelter;
To them q child was born.
Lore to all lonely people
To Ufom, amid the throng
OF rushing folk, are gtDen
The starlight and the song.
Jone Merehoni
Evening star., 1954-12-18
Humonity's Greatest Day

Again we are approaching the greatest
day that ever dawned on the human
race-the birthday of Christ. It re-
calls the most momentous event that
ever wove itself into the web of human
history-when the Son of God came
in lowliness to save humanity. The
great mystery Of Bethlehem is brought
vividly before us year after year, bless
ing and enriching the world as it did
that first Christmas centuries ago. The
spirit of Christmas is different from
that which manifests itself at any
other time of the year. 1t brings joy
and contentment and cements the
bonds of charity. Man in his frailty
finds 1t difficult to achieve perfect char
ity. but God gives the special grace of
Evening star., 1954-12-18
Chou and HommorskioId

eral Dag Hammarskjold of the United Ma
tions, Premier Chou En-lai Of Red China
has taken such an obscure and equivocal
position-truculent in the one and concili-
atory in the other-that there Is every
reason to be skeptical about his true inten-
tions in agreeing to Mr.. Hammarskjold's
proposal for personal meeting in Peiping.
Mr.. Hammarskjold, as he himself has
made clear, has asked for this meeting
and will now go through with it as result
of Mr.. Chou's responSe-in order to carry
out the directive he has received from the
General Assembly. That directive, of course,
is the one in which the Assembly, by the
overwhelming vote of Al to (the Soviet
bloc alone dissenting), has instructed him
to do everything possible to bring about the
release of the eleven American airmen who
have been imprisoned by Red China on
"trumped-up" espionage charges In addi-
tion, he has been asked to strive at the same
time for the liberation of numerous other
prisoners of war (mostly South Koreans)
still wrongfully detained by the Commu-
nistS.
But Mr.. Chou, even though he has
agreed to meet with Mr.. Hammarskiold, has
devoted the first Of his two messages to a
bitter attack on the Assembly's absurd"
resolution condemning Red China for violat-
Ing the Korean truce by falling the eleven
Americans And he has gone on from there,
with typical mixture Of sheer mendacity
and clustering propaganda, to vilify our
country as an evil power intent upon un-
leashing aggression and war. Further, con-
fQf111 110f11 n11c1N hot
Assembly is nothing but lackey Of our
Government, he has lashed out against 1t
for daring to interfere with Peiping's "sov-
ereign rights in convicting United States
spies" Clearly enough, this line of talk
which constitutes, among other things, an
insult to the U. N.-does not augur well for
Mr.. Hammarskjold's mission.
Even so, in his second message, Mr..
Chou has left out the vitriol and struck
note of relative reasonableness, asserting
that he is ready-for the sake of peace and
relaxation sof International tension"-to
discuss pertinent questions" with Mr.. Ham
nlarskjold in Peiping. just what he means
by pertinent questions" remains to be seen,
but at the moment his words seem to imply
willingness to talk about proposals for
releasing the imprisoned men. And If that
is what they do mean, if they presage some
thing more than the revival of n-germane
propaganda issues like Red Chinas demand
for U. N. membership, then liberation
agreement should be possible
In any event, although the Chinese
Communists may seek to entrap him and
hit hard at the U. Ms prestige, Mr.. Ham
;1lI - l~4
that he will head for Peiping as soon as the
necessary arrangements can be made His
mission may end in failure, but as long as
there is at least promise of success in it,
it will represent great and good effort to
uphold the principles of international law
and simple human decency.