Coral Gables Riviera-Times

Friday, August 8, 1947, page 4 (of 12)

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CORAL GABLES Riviera Times

Published every Friday morning by the Riviera Publishing Company, 201 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables 34, Fla. Established January 1926; combined with the Dade County & Coconut Grove Times, 1929. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION and Florida Press Association. Albert E. Harum, Editor and Publisher; Kenneth Show-nolds, Business Manager; James B. Moore, Managing Editor; Helen Reynolds, Society Editor; Edward W. Wright, Circulation Manager. NATIONAL EDITORIAL 1947 ASSOCIATION Member SUBSCRIPTION RATES - Six months, $1.00; one year, outside of United States, $4.50; local, $3.00; one year, out-of-town, $3.50. Entered as Second Class Matter May 21, 1926, at the Post Office at Miami, Fla., under the Act of March 3, 1897. Mail Address Box 704 Phone 4-1634 4-1635 The Coral Gables Riviera is liable for errors in advertising only to the extent of the space in which the advertisement appears.

Which Do You Take?

You hear of a divorce impending. And you are apt to take the side of either wife or husband. You read of an industrial dispute and incline to take the side of either management or labor. A conference of foreign ministers fails to agree. Again you are prompted to take sides with the Western or the Eastern bloc. The world and everybody in it is engaged in taking sides these days. Nobody pauses to take stock-the one step which could possibly unite opponents in dispute and turn them into partners in agreement. Anybody, whether individual or nation, who honestly faces himself will see some need for change. And everybody else, whether friend or foe, will agree this change is needed. Side-taking is the basis of war. But stock-taking, with the recognition and admission of our universal lack and resulting need for change, is a universal basis for agreement. Suppose the outraged wife or husband went to the mirror to take stock instead of to the lawyer to take action. Recognition of existing and deep-seated selfishness in their own lives might not excuse the conduct of others. But nothing else will cure it. Putting right our own misconduct will do more to put the other's conduct right than all the separations in the world and all the friends we could persuade to take sides with us. If we all took stock, in fact, we would not need to take sides. We would all be on the side of those who see the need for change, beginning with ourselves.

Newsprint

"Occasionally some subscriber raises the question as to why we now charge $3 per year for the Lake Wales News instead of $2 which was charged up until last December. It's about the easiest question we have to answer in these days of advanced prices, for just a few additions and subtractions show us definitely that with the increased cost of printing we must ask for higher prices if we hope to remain in business. For instance take a look at this rising cost of newsprint - the kind upon which your News comes today, except that it's inferior in quality to what we used to buy: 1941 per ton | $64.00 1942 per ton | $75.00 1943 per ton | $75.00 1944 per ton | $75.00 1945 per ton | $80.00 1946 per ton | $160.00 1947 per ton | $280.00 This rise in cost of newsprint from $64 per ton in 1941 to $280 per ton in 1947 is only one of the many items which enter the high price of publishing a newspaper. From the mounting wood for cuts to the rollers for our presses; from the repairs for our linotypes to the lead which we use daily, the price has increased 50 per cent to as much as 300 per cent. Labor is 33 per cent higher than in 1941; taxes are up and printing machinery is practically impossible to replace at even 60 per cent more investment cost than in 1941. So there's your answer! We would prefer to sell the News again at $2 per year and have our costs reduced proportionally, for we believe we would all be happier and that our dollar would buy more than it does now, but conditions just don't promise any relief from these inflated prices for months to come. We are most appreciative of the response our readers have given in cooperating with us in meeting the advanced costs and it is our aim to give you a better and more readable newspaper each week as we go along. By the way, it's a good time to plan your fall and winter commercial printing and get your order placed. Billings can be handled at any date you desire and so can delivery be made, but the price situation will show no decline this fall or winter, we are quite sure." -Tarpon Springs Leader.

OUR TOWN Out of Place

- By Jim Moore - It seems a shame that Postmaster Hugh Emerson had to go and mar an otherwise fine party at the new post office on Friday night with some very ill-advised remarks about consolidation. Beating the tom-tom for consolation at a Coral Gables gathering is about as out of place as shouting "Heil Hitler" at a gathering of the Berlin chapter of B'nai B'rith. Yet when gently prodded about a Coral Gables postmark for letters mailed from the new office on Giralda, Hugh blustered forth with the statement that some day he hoped there would be no more Coral Gables and that we'd all be "one big happy family" via his beloved consolidation. Is it any wonder that the applause of the postal employees was interspersed with the boos, catcalls and cries of "Never!" that came immediately from the throats of the Gables residents who were gathered there? In the face of what's going on down in Miami at the present time, the post master's remarks, to me, verged on the ridiculous. How could anyone in this fine community of Coral Gables desire to be merged with Miami, where police probes, tapped wires, payoffs and graft seem to be the order of the day? What could be gained by allowing the seepage from that cess pool of political corruption to cross and enfold our municipal boundaries? For 22 years the residents of Coral Gables have diligently worked to build a city based on beauty, culture and graceful living. This community has never been tinged by the vices and evils that abound in sister Miami. It is the firm resolve of its citizens that it never will be. If Mr. Emerson, as a private citizen of Miami, wishes to shout the praises of his consolidation scheme, that is his right under the constitution. But when speaking as a postmaster, an employe of the federal government at the opening of our new post office, I think he would have done a lot better to have confined his remarks to telling us how he was going to better our postal service here. And Hugh, we still want that Coral Gables postmark!