Coral Gables Riviera-Times

CORAL GABLES Riviera Times

Published Monday through Friday afternoons by the Riviera Publishing Company, 214 Aragon, Coral Gables 34, Fla. Established as a weekly newspaper January, 1926; changed to daily to cover Gables & Coconut Grove Times, 1929. Published daily except Saturday and Sunday. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION and Florida Press Association. Albert E. Harum, Editor and Publisher; Kenneth R. Reynolds, Business Manager; James B. Moore, Managing Editor; Helen Reynolds, Society Editor; Malcolm W. Wright, Circulation Manager. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS FULL LEASED WIRE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Active Member 1947. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Six months, $6.00; one year, $10.00; in United States, $11.00; local, $12.00; elsewhere, pre-payment in advance; delivery by carrier, 25 cents per week. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Coral Gables 34, Florida, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Post Office address: Coral Gables 34, Florida. Phone 4-2591. Editorial Dept., 48-1667. The Coral Gables Riviera-Times is liable for errors in advertising only to the extent of the space in which the advertisement appears.

The Flag Program

In impressive ceremonies held this morning at the Coral Gables Elementary and St. Theresa Schools, flags for every classroom were presented to the students by members of Post 98, American Legion. The Legion has assumed the obligation of placing an American flag in every classroom of the two schools mentioned and also in Ponce de Leon High School. The post will also provide larger flags for assembly halls and outdoor poles. At a time when various "ism" groups are spreading their un-American propaganda far and wide, such a program is needed in the schools of the nation. It is in the youth of our nation that we can plant the seeds of true Americanism and no better reminder is the flag of our country. It is in this same youth that the un-American forces would like to sow their seeds of dissention and distrust. The Legion is to be congratulated for its program and also for the militant spirit it has always shown in combatting anything that smacks of Hitlerism, Communism or other subversive forces.

REPORT FROM WASHINGTON

BY JAMES C. AUSTIN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (UP)-Harold E. Stassen advocated a New Deal-type of taxation to move with the tide of national employment, and urges that $1,000,000,000 a year be spent on a mass housebuilding program. First avowed candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1948, Stassen was also the first to come forward with a detailed political platform. He presented his views on taxation, housing, communism, labor, national health and small business in a book published today by Doubleday & Co. It is entitled appropriately, "Where I Stand." In a foreword to the volume, Stassen explained: "I believe in the principles set forth in this book. I urge them upon my countrymen regardless of my individual political fortune or misfortune." Lists His Proposals He said he believed that: 1. We must combat the infiltration of communism and socialism into this country "as we would combat a plague." 2. The Taft-Hartley law "will be the foundation for a fair, just, and well-balanced labor policy in America," and while it requires amending, "should not be repealed." 3. In peace-time, the federal government should not take more than 50 per cent of the total income from any American, as an incentive to new investment. Additionally, a tax of 1 1/2 per cent should be imposed on stagnant capital above a certain amount. 4. Small new business should be given a chance for success by special tax reductions, and all taxes should be cut whenever six per cent of the total labor force is unemployed. Housing Plan Urged 5. To replace the "pathetic or unpardonable incompetence" in government housing circles, "we need a mass-house building program" costing $1,000,000,000 a year. As a secondary phase, there should be "the maximum use of existing houses and existing space." 6. Rent controls should be continued for two years more, but ceilings should be removed within 60 days from any housing unit of more than two rooms occupied by only one person. 7. A program of building up medical care and facilities in existing new doctor care centers must be instituted rather than a system of compulsory health and hospitalization. Every American now protected by Social Security must have through that medium insurance against medical or hospital expenses exceeding $250 a year. 8. The GOP must guard against party domination by big business. And it must take six steps to help small business grow, including tax aid, simplification of government controls and the collective bargaining procedure, decentralisation of the administration of government policies, and vigilant opposition to monopolistic practices. Stassen devoted considerable space to the struggle between communism and capitalism. Sees Red Menace He expressed belief-after a visit to Russia during which he conferred with Stalin, visited Russian factories, and talked with Russian workers-that all but the "blindest Communists" there can be convinced that our system is "not only the most highly productive one but is also subject to a peaceful and evolutionary correction of its own weaknesses and faults..." Stassen warned nevertheless that "we must study the American communist, watch his movements and his methods, resist him with every legal means at our command." To do that, he proposed a 12-point program against communists, including exposure, identification and prosecution for lawbreaking. Stassen would keep the American people fully informed, and he would meet communist-raised issues squarely, and expose their own disruptive proposals. Americans should be urged not to associate with communists, who should in turn be banned from federal, state and local payrolls. So important did Stassen consider the new Taft-Hartley labor law that he gave it more space than any other single issue. In a lengthy chapter, he claimed sponsorship of several features of it, but asserted that the measure "goes too far in three respects." Labor Act Criticized These are, he wrote, the provision that a labor organization may not contribute to an election campaign, that relating to the controversial "non-communist" affidavits, and the requirement that existing unions may not strike without 60 days advance labor board approval until after affirmative approval by an employe election. In proposing his principle of a flexible taxation system, Stassen said these things should be done when employment falls: "A special cut in all taxes should go into effect. In addition, consumer and installment-buying credit (held firmly in limits in boom years) should be eased. A major program of worth-while government improvements should be put into gear at once. This major improvement program should be done by private contracts and not on a WPA basis. It should involve worth-while projects such as super-highways, new and expanded airports and air terminals, extensive reforestation, reclamation and flood control. It must be a large program prepared during the years of plenty, and promptly instituted. For Cut In Spending "On the other hand, whenever employment climbs back up so that less than 5 per cent (other than seasonal) are unemployed, taxes should go back up to the maximum peace-time level, consumer-installment credit controls should be put on, government spending should be sharply reduced, and reserves should be built up in the treasury." In summation, Stassen said: "I do not ignore other major questions of agriculture, education, discrimination, human rights, atomic energy control, strengthening the United Nations, our armed power, relations with Russia, associations with Great Britain, dependent peoples, European aid, and world economic policy. On these questions I have written and spoken before, and undoubtedly will do so again. "Rather do I seek in these pages to spotlight these immediate interrelated questions of our economic system, the home base from which we must approach all questions."

OUR Street

by Al Harum There's the boisterous type, the quiet type, the serious type, the studious type, the "heavy" type, the humorous type and the "screwball"-who isn't any type really! Just what is a "screwball?" Let's analyze a few we know. Well, first, he's a non-conformist or he'd be in some classification and we wouldn't have to worry about him. In fact we probably wouldn't even remember him. Secondly, he violates some rule of accepted behavior which precludes his being "run-of-the-mill." He tells the truth among liars, or laughs among criers, or sings among moaners, or works among loafers, or goes to bed at night while all around him await the dawn. Another qualification for the title of "screwball" is an irrationality. One screwball we know doesn't like certain people and tells them so; another is irrational enough to admit he's poor or broke or can't afford something or other; still another will defend his ideas against all comers with untiring enthusiasm. The man who fishes with a feather while all about him are using live bait is a screwball-unless he catches one first. These "screwballs"-they certainly make interesting conversation. One never knows what to expect of them next. Now, let's stop for a minute and think hard and see how our "typed" or "patterned" friends stack up against the "screwballs." Can't remember much about the conformists, can you? And those "screwballs" have a personality, haven't they? Their personalities comprises all their little or big violations of accepted forms of behaviour rolled into one. The more non-conformist, the more personality. The more conformist the less remembered. Boy! Am I a screwball for bringing up a subject like this!

Consumer, Not Farmer Blamed for High Prices

AMES, Ia. (UP)-R. K. Bliss of the Iowa State College extension service thinks he has nailed down the "culprit" responsible for the high food prices. He blames the consumer. Consumers bidding against each other in the open food market raised the prices. Open market prices were that way, he said. The extra competition in the food market comes from the previously low income group, many now are working for good wages and can buy the food they want. He termed that encouraging. He estimated that people are eating 15 per cent more meat, milk and eggs than before the war and said those were the high-priced foods. Rationing Failed Bliss pointed out that even when rationing was enforced, meat consumption was only about 15 pounds per person in this country. Government farm price supports for certain commodities have had nothing to do with present farm prices, he said. It wasn't the farmer who boosted prices, Bliss contended, although he did his best to produce. Any slacking-off of farm production is due to drought, he suggested. While admitting food shipments abroad had something to do with high prices, Bliss said it was just a contributing cause. He cited meat, which is not exported in large quantities. "The consumer is the only answer to high meat prices," he concluded.

Twice In One Day

SALT LAKE CITY (UP)-Few couples become grandparents twice in one day as Mr. and Mrs. Porter Jones did. One daughter, Mrs. Clark Brinton, gave birth to a son at 5 a. m. Less than two hours later another daughter, Mrs. Vere Campbell. also presented her parents with a grandson.

Advertising Pays

GOSHEN, Ind. (UP)-Meredith McCloskey's pet pig didn't win first place at a pet show, but it stole the spotlight. Just when the judging started, the little porker started complaining because its nippled bottle was empty. The squeals brought down the house. Meredith won third prize.

"Danged ol' cow! Beef's gone so high I've got to tip my hat before I milk her." --GEORGE

A Few Days Here

We guess we can call Cy Washburn our Broadway correspondent, today, following the receipt of a letter from the maestro, written from the Main Stem. . . . Says Oliver, "I am having a wonderful time here, seeing my many friends in music and radio world. I have seen a number of Miamians, whom I must say looked good to me. I had the great pleasure of hearing the City Center Orchestra last night with Leonard Bernstein conducting. He is wonderful. I wish that we could goad Greater Miamians into supporting a similar Center of Music and Opera. It's a wonderful deal for any community." The Carolyn Shop at 100 Avenue Alcazar is going out of business, selling everything including the fixtures. . . . Frank Hoover collected and distributed 600 articles of clothing to needy families affected by the flood waters and Art Lummis donated his truck to move families and their belongings to new shelters . . . Charlie Tutan, C. of C. president, was voted into the Kiwanis Club this week . . . J. C. Nesmith trains his own bird dogs for his hobby, quail hunting. If anyone lost an English Bull Terrier, female, about six months old, it was found in the Gables and turned over to the Humane Society. The finder tells us it looked like a pedigreed dog. . . . The Houston-Hurst Company, although in its new home on Avenue Giralda, could get the phone moved no closer than across the street in Clarence Ayers' office. So Andy Houston has to sit there to take phone calls while George Hurst runs the store. Johnny Myers was talking to Leon LaSalle: Johnny: "How much money have you got?" Leon: "Thirty-five cents, a boom time mortgage and an old vinegar recipe." Johnny: "I'll take the vinegar recipe!" Walter Wigman, visiting a Beach night club with a bunch of Elks dignitaries, was introduced as Attorney General Tom Watson. It was easier to stand up and bow in the club spotlight than to explain to the happy patrons that he wasn't.

FROM A RIVIERA NOTEBOOK

By Mary Helm Clarke CORAL GABLES PREPARES FOR PEACE Armistice Day, 1918-a truce was declared, "a temporary cessation of hostilities" was signed. In November, 1918, George E. Merrick of Coral Gables Plantation, former member of the Dade County Commission, was meeting with ridicule and opposition over his latest "fool notion." He was talking about building an "endless road into the swamps" and reclaiming Everglades property. "Selling the Everglades by the gallon" they called it. Today the endless road extends from Miami to the Gulf Coast over valuable lands that owners relinquish reluctantly. Today we know that Webster was right-the Armistice was only a temporary cessation of hostilities, but we still hope for a permanent peace. We in Coral Gables express that hope for permanent peace in our War Memorial, a Youth Center. Hundreds of men and women from our community answered the call to fight for the rights of others, to administer programs of organization, to lead squads or battalions through dangers to victory, and to create a world brotherhood. In their memory the Coral Gables Youth Center is preparing young citizens for a victor's role, whatever comes. To fight? Possibly, but not in the spirit of revenge. Ed Beckman takes potential scrappers and teaches them the technique of offense and defense in the spirit of sportsmanship. To be administrators? The Youth Center constituency, through its Junior Board of Directors, makes laws, administers justice and plans for the program of activities. To be leaders? Surely. Captains of ball teams get leadership training along with the excitement of an all-out athletic program, and Betty Ward deals out leadership responsibilities with a lavish hand when she produces the Youth Center Follies. To share in a fellowship? You have only to watch the cross-section of future citizens as they participate in Youth Center activities to see that economic levels, social levels and cultural levels are crossed and re-crossed as they work and play together. Coral Gables is no longer a plantation-it is a city of 14,000 people. Its citizens will give generously to its support, believing that investment in such a permanent MEMORIAL is the best way to bring permanent peace.

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2312 Ponce de Leon Blvd. Phone 4-2586

-Riviera-Times Photo by Blunert HAY, HAY!-Miss Sylvia Greene, pictured front and center, with pet pooch "Sunny" on her lap, is shown with the hayride guests she entertained Saturday on her 13th birthday. They are (first row) Jean Morehead, Marie MacAleer, Sylvia, Lisa Lewis; (second row) Diane Baker, Mary Gleason, Coe van der Brunt, Dorothy Young; and (third row) Bob and Butch Nicholson, David Henry, Eugene Weatherup, Michael Rinehart and Bruce McCreedy.

JUST BETWEEN US Girl Left Out of Things Should Try to Find Cause Of Ostracism, Nancy Says

By NANCY MOTTRAM "Dear Nancy: Over a period of several months, something hurt my feelings very much. It's the fact that I seem to be left out of any parties or fun that happens. It's greatly disturbed me for the last few parties have been given by so-called good friends of mine, girls I've known for years. I've tried to be as nice as I know how, but I think the thing that bothers me most is that these girls have invited people they hardly know. Since this has really bothered me, can you suggest anything and I can do?" NANCY If you're really puzzled about this state of affairs, why don't you make an effort to find out? Why not, all alone, and have a talk with her. She might be able to tell you what this sudden ostracism means. After all, you might think up a small party of your own, and invite these old friends to something. In doing her own actions, ever it is, with a bit of tact and conversation, you might get to the root of the trouble and be able to correct it. "Dear Nancy: I am constantly being lectured by the girl I go with. If she objects to something I'm doing, she holds forth in a lecture that goes on and on. If I've done anything she doesn't like, I hear about it for the next week, and receive definite orders never to do it again. This is beginning to get me. What can I do about it?" Set her back by agreeing with her, and if you really want to keep on, continue being yourself. She has no business trying to run your thoughts and deeds. After all, you're a boy she goes out with, not a slave to her wishes. If she does keep up this habit begin criticizing her own actions. This might give her the hint that her constant nagging isn't appreciated. "Dear Nancy: I am starting to go with a boy who is crazy about sports, and that's one field to which I never paid any particular attention. Every time he begins to talk about the World Series or football, I draw a blank. He hasn't seemed to mind so much, but he never talks about his activities any more, and there are long lapses in the conversation, which I can't seem to fill. Every date we have is dull these days, and I think our romance is going on the rocks. What would you do?" Bone up on events in the world of sports. If you learn to talk his own language, he'll be devoted, and it will show him you've enough interest to follow his favorite topic. It's not hard and you might give him that important feeling by asking him a few questions. But use some judgment and pick out intelligent queries. After studying the subject for a while, develop some opinions and those lapses will be few and far between.

DEFICIT FAILS TO DIM PLANS FOR OPERA GUILD PROGRAM

Grand Opera, as served the Miami Opera Guild way, is definitely here to stay. That was vociferously decided Saturday night at the first general get-together meeting of sponsors and officers, in spite of the fact that a disheartening $2,525 deficit loomed on the eve of the opera guild's winter schedule of performances. Sparked by Horace Cordes, treasurer of the guild, who made the stark figures real, a spirited meeting lasted more than an hour and plans and more plans unfolded as the donors and sponsors leaped to their feet with ideas. Following greetings of the president Mrs. George Pawley at whose home, 4412 Avenue Santa Maria, the 100 members gathered for the first in a series of get-togethers, a program of music was presented by members of the chorus. As a grand finale the Rigoletto quartet from Verdi's opera was given by Dr. Arturo di Filippi, Cecilia Duenas, Claire Robinson and Fred Reibel, with Warner Hardman, accompanist at the Steinway.

SOCIETY UPPERCRUST PUTS ON BETTER SHOW THAN ARTISTS AT MET OPENING

NEW YORK, Nov. 11. (UP)-Society put on its annual show of glitter and dazzle, and high jewls at the opening of the Metropolitan Opera Co.'s 63rd season last night. The first night audience paid the Met $16,000 to see the estimated $500,000,000 in furs and jewls worn by the nation's top bluebloods, and a performance of Verdi's "The Masked Ball." One society matron alone wore an estimated $1,200,000 in jewels. The performance seemed only incidental to the audience. Long after the golden curtain rose at 8 p.m., the first-nighters gaped from inside balconies and applauded the arrival of diamond-encrusted dowagers, or watched the high jinks in the bar. No one stood on his head in the foyer, as one operagoer did in 1939. But if any one had, it would have caused less consternation than the portly, ermine-clad matron who paraded through the bar with a highball in one hand and a huge cigar in the other. She identified herself only as Mrs. Throckmorton. One man, who imbibed too freely, was carried out by two sedate bartenders.

CAREER WOMAN

FLOWERS became the business of Rae Keating when she joined Juliette Pedrocca recently as an active partner in the Coral Way Flower Shop. No novice at flower arranging and the florist's profession, Mrs. Keating owned her own shop in Houston, Tex., back in 1935. She is the wife of manager Ed Keating of the Consumers Water Company.

Minerva Club Lunches Thursday

First fall luncheon meeting of the Minerva Club, comprising wives and sisters of alumnae and active members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, will be held Thursday at the Country Club of Coral Gables. Mrs. Oevis C. Yingling will introduce three members of SAE at the University of Miami, who will tell Minerva Club members about the leadership courses they attended during the Summer at Northwestern University. A post-luncheon business conference will concern itself with plans for Ring Theatre and Box Theatre performances to be sponsored by the club, and other proposals to raise funds to aid in equipping and improving the SAE fraternity house, Mrs. Yingling said.

Gableites Return, Entertain Visitors

Mrs. Louis P. Corce will arrive next week from Asbury Park, N. J., to spend the winter in her Coral Gables home, 501 Avenue Alcazar. She will be accompanied south by her cousin who will be her guest for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Atwell have returned to their apartment in the "Miramar," 706 Coral Way, from Chicago, Ill., where they spent part of the summer. Later they joined Mr. and Mrs. A. G. McGuire at their estate "Aldenwood," Wisc. The McGuires will be returning soon to reopen their home on Riviera Drive. Recent returnees from their summer vacation are Mr. and Mrs. Lional D. Llewellyn, 3900 Miller Rd. Since their departure from the Gables, they toured Hot Springs, Ark., Columbus, Ohio, and Hendersonville, N. C., where they visited friends. Prenuptial entertainment for Miss Mamie Harriette Parker includes a shower that Mrs. Henry L. Mount, will give at 8 p.m. tonight in her Miami Springs home. Mrs. Clement L. Theed, 7011 Evergreen Plaza, will entertain guests in her South Miami home Wednesday at 1 p.m. for dessert-bridge.