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Coral Gables Riviera-Times
Wednesday, November 5, 1947, page 3 (of 7)
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CORAL GABLES RIVIERA-TIMES
Published Monday through Friday afternoons by the Riviera Publishing Company, 206 Avenue Aragon, Coral Gables 34, Fla. Established as a weekly newspaper January, 1926; combined with the Dade County & Coconut Grove Times, 1934. Established as a daily newspaper November 2, 1947. MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION and Florida Press Association. Albert E. Harum, Editor and Publisher; Kenneth S. Reynolds, Business Manager; James B. Moore, Managing Editor; Helen Reynolds, Society Editor; Edward W. Wright, Circulation Manager. MEMBER, AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Active Member RIVIERA 36 SUBSCRIPTION RATES-Six months, $6.00; one year, carrier or vendor-dealer-carrier local, $12.00; one year, out-of-town, $15.00, mail delivery by carrier, 25 cents per week. Entered as Second Class Matter May 26, 1926, at the Post Office at Miami, Fla., under the Act of March 3, 1897. Mail Address: Box 5005, Coral Gables 34, Florida. Phone 4-1634. Classified Dept. 48-2641. The Coral Gables Riviera-Times is liable for errors in advertising only to the extent of the space in which the advertisement appears.
OUR TOWN | This is Democracy
OUR TOWN This is Democracy By Al Harum Every once in a while we get a nice warm feeling way down inside and it even makes us a little weepy when we look around at 30 or 40 thousand people sitting in a big stadium watching a game. A mass audience at a football or baseball game-or any other sporting event-exemplifies in our mind the philosophy of our country. We can see them all day long-pushing production, making important decisions, directing men, digging ditches-but when we step into the stadium the little 13-year-old with the home team's button on his shirt has just as much to say as the bank president sitting next to him. We cast a realistic eye over the crowd attending the recent World Series in Ebbett's Field and started figuring the tremendous amount of money the folks had paid to watch nine men play a game. And we thought, too, about how much money the fellows who played the game were paid for providing the entertainment-and the expense the newspapers entailed in covering the ball park for those unable to see the game. All this realistic thought about money and costs came to mind just a few minutes ahead of the nice warm feeling-and when the emotional surge in our heart got in its work and we were all over again we decided it was all right. We attended a ball game with a fairly successful lawyer one evening. We had never seen him be anything but dignified. Soon the tense air of the game and the undertones of the crowd began working on us both. The lawyer relaxed. A fan who must have been all of ten years old rose to his feet to shout his opinion of one of the players. Our lawyer friend rose to his feet, too, and in a courtroom manner he never learned in law school proceeded to engage in animated debate with an opponent made worthy by joint love of sport. It seems to us that such is Democracy at work, Democracy in its most elementary form, Democracy with the profit motive removed.
THE AMERICAN WAY
- BUT IT SAYS SO-RIGHT THERE! THE AMERICAN PEOPLE MUST BE FREED FROM ECONOMIC SLAVERY RUSSIA LEFTY Tom Kay
JUST BETWEEN US | Sham Sophistication, Baby Talk Make Jill Dull Girl
JUST BETWEEN US Sham Sophistication, Baby Talk Make Jill Dull Girl By NANCY MOTTRAM The fact is, you don't want to act your age most of the time. When you reach the middle teens, you decide that it's a rather indefinite age and since you're caught between childhood and adulthood, you're at a loss, or so it seems to you. Many of the ideas you had as a child don't work in this 'new' stage. But you aren't quite sure how the adult would act, faced with the same problems. You can do one of two things. You can decide that, even though you're confused at times, not knowing what to do, you won't let anyone know it. Adopting a dead pan, you take the world with a bored, indifferent stare. You won't admit by word or deed that you don't know what to do in every situation. So, on comes the sophisticated attitude. As a result, you're classed either as terribly dull and no fun at all, or as slightly odd. Nobody understands why you're acting like that, and you're right. Or you might begin to think the wide world is too much for you, and stay as juvenile as you can. There is nothing quite so boring as hearing a gal who's growing up still using baby talk. It's positively sickening. The girl who tries to avoid facing serious matters by giggling or simpering to someone else gets a reputation for having no brains at all. And you can't retard progress. Some day she'll have to face facts, and shying from them all the time won't help her later. It's just a period of uncertainty. You are coping with things that are new to you, and don't know how to handle them. If you make mistakes, you'll be forgiven. No one is right 100 per cent of the time. If you find yourself in a strange situation, on comes the blank look and you feel safe behind it. But others will interpret it differently. It confuses those who would help you. Or else you can be natural and be the normal teen-ager you are. You can be appreciative without being boisterous. You can be poised and well-mannered and thrilled. You can be gracious and kind without being gushy. Those things mean composure. And a teen-ager can carry them off perfectly. You don't have to have years behind you to face a situation. All that's necessary is a bit of common sense and tact to carry you through. It's a difficult age, but a wonderful one. Being yourself is one of the best ways to succeed in it.
DAR Plans Armistice Day Broadcast
In commemoration of Armistice Day, Coral Gables Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution will present a radio program at 1:45 p.m. Tuesday from the studio of WBAY. The chapter's regular meeting will take place at 2:30 at the home of Mrs. Willard Hubbell, 1119 Lisbon St. Mrs. J. Riley Staats, the chapter's radio chairman, will present Mrs. Robert J. Shelley, Jr., chairman of Citizenship; Mrs. Fred Dietelhorst, chairman of the American Committee and Mrs. Herman Arens, recently back from Java, who now teaches French, German and physical education at the Riddle Inter-American College. The trio will discuss D.A.R. projects concerned with naturalization of the foreign born. Mrs. Arens, who is a member of the University of Miami Woman's Club, is the daughter of Dr. J. J. Ochse, professor of Tropical Botany at the University. He formerly was director of the division of Internal Affairs for the Dutch government in Java. Mrs. Hubbell Hostess Assisting Mrs. Hubbell at the 2:30 p.m. meeting will be Mrs. W. H. Alexander, Mrs. A. A. Green, Mrs. John Curnin, Mrs. Alice Epperty Cornett and Mrs. T. S. Carrier. Nineteen new members will be introduced by Mrs. Cornett in her capacity as registrar. Highlighting the program arranged by Mrs. Harry L. Ward will be a talk by Mrs. John Leonardi, chairman of the Girl Homemakers committee. Mrs. Leonardi will introduce Ann Symmes who will model the dress she made which won both the state and national D.A.R. awards. The executive board meeting will take place at 2 p.m. Friday at the home of Mrs. Cornett, 4434 Granada Boulevard. Mrs. Stone Returns Mrs. Charles A. Stone returned recently to her home at 3712 Anderson Road after spending four months in the North. She visited friends in Brownsville, Saratoga and Lake George during the summer.
You're Right, Judge
Motorists who insist on speeding through school zones received another setback from Municipal Judge C. S. Robertson that they had better be prepared to spend about 15 days in the local jail and shell out a sizeable fine, to boot. The judge backed his warning by fining a motorist who was doing 60 near Ponce de Leon High School and sending him to jail for 15 days. Judge Robertson is to be highly commended for his attitude in the matter, and we believe that his action will bring a round of hearty applause from every parent in the community. Despite safety lectures, demonstrations and other measures taken to induce school children to watch before crossing streets, they are still children. Speeding cars that mean sudden death are far from their minds as they run for home or playground when school closes. Too often through the nation a child darts in front of a speeding car. There is a squeal of brakes, a sickening thud-then tragedy. Apparently the only way to curb lawlessness behind the steering wheel is through stiff penalties, meted out from the traffic court bench. To those who are prone to trod heavily on the gas pedal-a word of advice. Read the headline in yesterday's Riviera-Times: "JAIL LOOMS FOR SPEEDERS."
Dangerous Trend
"Chartered powers once granted to cities are gradually being whittled away by state legislators. It is killing democracy at the grass roots, which once cut loose, may create and remain temporarily at the state capitol but eventually will repose in central bureaucratic in Washington." The words are those of J. Woodall Rodgers of Dallas, Tex., president of the American Municipal Association, who spoke at that group's conference in New Orleans Monday. It is curious that 700 heads of municipal governments should be concerned about the danger of state control over-riding local municipal governments at a time when Coral Gables is maintaining a wary eye on the machinations of a group which is seeking to swallow up our town in an annexation which can do us no good whatever. While our immediate problem does not stem from Tallahassee, it is certainly the same type of evil which is being encountered by cities all over the country. Mr. Rodgers, who has access to reports from mayors representing every city in the United States, warned that a totalitarian government might result if the present program is carried to extremes. There are probably hundreds of cities like Coral Gables, cities which pride themselves on their accomplishments, which like the feeling of independence that is so much a part of the American way of life. There are hundreds of larger cities, too, and powerful county and state governments which are in these small cities 'an added source of revenue and a way out of the financial difficulties which their own inefficiencies have brought about. Too, here is a dangerous trend. Here in Coral Gables, fortunately, we are forewarned. Ambitious politicians who seek to take all and give nothing will do well to come out fighting. Every dollar contributed to the South Florida Children's Hospital will go to pay the cost of completing, furnishing and operating the hospital. Expenses of the $500,000 campaign are being separately provided.
HOLLYWOOD FILM SHOP
By PATRICIA CLARY United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UP) - Victor Francen, an actor for 40 years, feels that he has served his apprenticeship. Now he wants to be director. The actor gets all the glory, Francen says, but the director makes or breaks the picture. "There is no pleasure for me in taking the bows," he said. "The real pleasure is in creating. You are not a real director, not the actor, who is the creator." When he's an actor, as he is in Warner Bros.' "To the Victor," Francen makes pictures the way some other director sees them. But Francen has some ideas of his own he wants to put into practice when he becomes a director. Heroism, for instance, doesn't have to be spectacular, Francen said. "The life stories of the persons all around us are dramatic and heroic, but nobody ever makes a movie about them," he said. "The mother of five or six children is much more of a hero than the two-gun sheriff you see in the movies. Gardner a Hero "The greatest hero I know is my Filipino gardener. He goes along cheerfully and uncomplainingly through the worst kind of troubles. When I make a movie, I'm going to make one about him." Another innovation in Francen's movies will be what he calls "action from the heart and mind" instead of the usual physical action. He said he would try to make movies that tear away the veils and show the movements of the human soul. The French do it all the time, he said, and Charles Chaplin often has achieved it in American movies. He named Chaplin and Walt Disney as the American movie industry's two greatest geniuses. "Chaplin is a real artist," he said. "He is continually creating. "I saw him in Paris just before I came here with 'To the Victor.' And despite his triumphs, he was as excited and enthusiastic about his next picture as if it were his first."
It Says Here
We knew the housing shortage was bad, but we didn't realize it was this bad. A woman walked into the Chamber of Commerce office yesterday afternoon and approached the room listing clerk, Mrs. Bernadine Saunders, with a proposition to rent the davenport in her living room for $5.00 per week. "Of course it won't be too private," she confided, "but I might arrange to rig up a screen." Mrs. Kenneth Close wanted to vote, yesterday, in the school trustee and tax millage election so she called City Hall to find out where she should vote. "Public Service Department," said a voice at the other end of the wire when she put her call through. Mrs. Close made her inquiry and the voice said, "What election? What's it about, I don't know anything about an election?" So Mrs. Close called the Riviera-Times for the correct information and added to her thank you, "Imagine, they said it was the 'Public Service Department.'" We are in receipt of a rather lengthy letter giving parking meters, traffic tickets and police enforcement in general the very dickens. Well, we're not printing the letter because our correspondent refused to sign his name. If you want to write letters for publication, sign your name to 'em. If you desire it withheld in print, we'll comply. But we must have your signature on the original in our file. Did you know that Pat Watson, Ponce student and daughter of Jack Watson is an accomplished artist? . . . all of the insurance agents in town keep looking for George Thorpe to insure his new radio station . . . Cookie Jones (That's Mrs. Clifford Jones from Garden City, N. Y.) is in town for 10 days to inspect any storm damage to her Gables home. So far, she says, the damage seems to amount to ants and mildew. She tells us that she, Clifford and Son, Peter, will be down later for a long stay.
SUTTON DISPENSES COSTLY 'JUSTICE' AT KANGAROO COURT
The Kangaroo Court energetically conducted by Judge O. B. Sutton was netted about $5 for a spaghetti dinner project in raising funds at the Coral Gables Elementary School's Hallowe'en Carnival. "Shucks, it was nothing," demurred the jurist when thanked by Mrs. Warren Gilbert, chairman of the traditional P-T.A. event. Offenders haled before Sutton found the Kangaroo Court, on the contrary, quite something. Adults who declined to ride on the merry-go-round were fined one dollar for an attitude detrimental to the public interests. Defendants who protested their weight would have collapsed the children's vehicle were tapped for an additional dollar for contempt of court. After investigation of legal precedents, Judge Sutton imposed a five dollar fine on a man who smoked. "That sort of thing can't go on in Coral Gables," ruled the court. "It's nothing but malicious slander against the climate." The assessment for displaying a ten dollar bill on the public thoroughfares was - ten dollars. "My bailiffs are still on the trail of Mayor W. Keith Phillips," Sutton revealed. "He's charged with gross neglect of duty for failure to carry a key to the City." Sutton insisted on sharing credit for success of the court with "detectives" Roy Bovard, Floyd Brusher and Bill McIlwain who roamed through the crowd and hauled unsuspecting victims before the judicial bench. "Don't think they missed a person there," he reported happily.
SHORT QUIRKS | Skunk Breaks It Up
SHORT QUIRKS Skunk Breaks It Up SAVANNAH, Ga. (UP)-The fallure of this year's annual autumn festival street dance was due to a skunk. The striped visitor not only scattered hundreds of dancers out sent festival participants at a local hotel scurrying when the odor was whipped into the hotel's air-conditioning system.
They Liked It
FORT WAYNE, IND. (UP)-Keath Neal, theater manager, called police when the two young men who entered his movie house at 11 a. m. still hadn't left at 11:30 p. m. James Gerardot, 20, and Luther Hamce, 20, told police they came to the city to "kill time." Besides, it was a good show, they said.
In Our Mail
Editor, Riviera-Times: May I congratulate you and commend you most highly in your forth-coming Daily Riviera-Times. With this please allow me to offer any assistance whatsoever, though it be little and insignificant. With good will toward your success in the future, I am Sincerely yours, GEORGE MCNEILL RAY, Pastor Coconut Grove Baptist Church.
HIS DAY
I know a man with a love for go f, Who one sunny morning started off To perform miracles on the links. "I will break a hundred," this man thinks. So, with companion who felt the same, He took a whirl at this healthful game. On a good course, where greens are green, And the fairways form a lovely scene. From his mind he cast all worldly care, And deeply inhaled the tonic air. Then this man indulged in drives and putts, Which either pleased him or drove him nuts. But the final score gave him such pleasure That he was elated beyond all measure, And he came home riding on a cloud, Vowing: supremely and aloud, That his day was one of perfect bliss, And comparable only to love's first kiss. That no human was entitled to So much happiness as that he knew. ENVOY Of course such happiness does not last; The bluest sky becomes overcast, And next day his life again grew grim When mother-in-law came to visit him. -J. L. BEERS.
FROM A RIVIERA NOTEBOOK
By Mary Helm Clarke GHOSTS OF THE EVERGLADES "No human beings, civilized or savage, inhabit the secluded interior of the 'glades." That was written a hundred years ago by Buckingham Smith, a Federal reclamation inspector. If the ghost of this inspector returns to Florida with the thousands of other nature lovers who will visit Everglades National Park, he will be amazed by the spirits of those human beings who have lived in the Everglades. There will be ghosts of pirates and priests, Indians and explorers, outlaws and custodians of the law, for many people have inhabited the Everglades before and since the inspector was there. Before Spanish explorers came to Florida and recorded its existence, Indians lived in the Everglades - Caloosas to the west and Tequestas on the eastern borders. British pirates established hide-aways along the Ragged Keys and Ten Thousand Islands, but the Indians soon routed them out. Spanish treasure hunters tried to penetrate the Everglades in search of gold and silver, but the most spectacular find they reported was the sight of 160 turtles seen on a Dry Tortugas key. Franciscan monks and Jesuit priests lived more or less peaceably with the Tequesta Indians in the east, but with little success in converting the "savages." Fortunada, a Franciscan, ventured too far west and was captured by the Caloosas. They held him for 17 years in the secluded interior of the 'glades. The last raid of the Caloosas on would-be sojourners in the Everglades and keys was made on Garden Key, where Dr. Henry Perrine had established a colony of homesteaders. Hall the ghosts of Caloosas and Tequestas remained in the Everglades when the Seminoles came down from the north and took up their abode in the "impenetrable" forests and hammock-dotted prairies along what Marjory Stoneman Douglas calls "The River of Grass." Pirates of another century robbed the Everglades of treasures. They stripped the trees of orchids and killed the birds for their plumes. Many others, however, the nature lovers, cherished what they saw and left the treasures undisturbed. Audubon was one of these. He came in 1832 and remained to paint the birds, not to destroy them. In his memory, wardens of the National Audubon Society have been living for years in the lonely region, separated, like the Seminoles, from the white man's civilization. Guy Bradley is one who gave his life to protect nature's treasures, fast disappearing.
STYLIST TO CREATE MILLINERY ORIGINALS FOR GABLES CUSTOM
Millinery originals from the deft needle of Mrs. Ada M. Drown will be available in Coral Gables when the style creator formally opens the "Ada Made Shop" November 28th at 210 Avenue Andalusia. Mrs. Drown will design personalized dress or casual hats to suit face and features of the individual customer and will also feature sports and festive headgear from nationally known millinery houses. At her exclusive shop in the Roney Plaza, the attractive designer's hand crocheted hats won wide popularity and she will display similar originals here. Mrs. Downs, who lives at 909 North Greenway Drive, will be assisted in the new enterprise by Mrs. J. A. Knapp and Mrs. C. F. Thorman.
Social Scene
Mrs. Bessie C. Miller of 1240 Avenue Castile will leave Thursday for Fontana, Colonia where she will join her daughter, Mrs. R. A. Blum. Mrs. Blum will be remembered as the former Miss Karla Miller. She is a graduate of the Traphagen School in New York.
Honored At Shower
The Women's Missionary Society of the Coconut Grove Baptist Church will honor Miss Vicki Patterson, bride-elect of Tray Raines, Jr., at a linen shower in the church annex at 8 p.m.
Dessert Bridge Host
Mrs. Raymond Haskett was hostess to the Coconut Grove American Legion Auxiliary at her home, 3600 Royal Palm Avenue, today. The auxiliary met for dessert bridge.
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CLARENCE R. AYERS
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LESLIE H. COOMBES
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NEFF'S MEN'S SHOP
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FINE FURNITURE FOR FINE HOMES 221 Alhambra Circle Telephone 4-3182