The Coral Gables Times

Thursday, June 1, 1961, page 5 (of 20)

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On a Lion's Trail 2 Breweries and a Cigar Factory

Folks are always going off to conventions, particularly civic club affairs, so The Times asked a local Lion what went on at the recent state meeting at Tampa. Here is his report. By JOE MORRIS Correspondent Eight Coral Gables Lions and their Lionesses are resting this week from the roar and uproar of last week's State Lions Convention in Tampa. Roaring into the city on Thursday, they stalked the streets till Sunday looking at the sights. They saw two breweries, the University of Tampa and a cigar factory. The one and only cigar smoking Lion - Edwin Morris - was so loaded with samples he asked for boxes in which to carry them away. The Lions' official business was conducted in the city convention hall and Saturday morning the Gables group performed its primary purpose as a delegation. They cast their eight votes and helped elect the next District Governor of 35A, P. William (Bill) Burke of Miami. A special fashion show luncheon for the ladies and a two-hour parade was climaxed by the Governor's banquet Saturday night. The state's top brass in Lionism ate chicken and yellow rice with the lowliest Lion then listened together to Lions International's newest third vice president, Claude DeVorss, relate how "World Lionism Is Connected to the Cold War." This convention was quieter than previous ones and a contributing factor was the way the Gables Lions and ladies conducted themselves. None of them stayed for the dance after the banquet. They gathered instead in one hotel rooms, turned on TV and watched "Gunsmoke." Lion Lee Fuller served everyone refreshments during the commercial while Howard McQueen, outgoing president of the Club and a mortician, read the obituary column in the Tampa Tribune. President-elect Bill May, reduced 69 pounds since the last convention and sipping a calorie concoction, confessed to Jack Washer, "I'm in pretty good shape for the shape I'm in." Ed Russo and Frank Malice, apparently anticipating there would be too much excitement with everyone in one room, went elsewhere to watch a wake. Suddenly I too realized things were getting out of hand, so I left. I can't stand excitement either.

TIMES By Robert S. Hurwitz. A DAMP FLOP A Review

Hundreds of viewers were lured to Vizcaya last Sunday to see the Third Annual Artists Day Clothesline Sale sponsored by the Metro-Dade Recreation Department. Too bad only a handful of absolute amateurs greeted them. The show was a flop and only the damp day kept more people home and saved from disappointment. If this was Metro's bid to do something about saving Vizcaya, then forget it. Publicity lured people ready to buy and see art by artists. Instead, they saw sketches by the untrained, unproved, and uninspired. The garden opened at 12 noon, by 12:30 every work worth seeing was sold, that left four and one half hours of nothing to see but the gardens. Most pencil, charcoal, and water color sketches were priced around $1, $1.50, $2.00 - even some marked down from $3 to $1. This should give you some idea about what the artists thought about themselves. There were a few craftsmen around. They sold their work quickly and that was their recognition. When I say a few I mean two or three. If this Metro evil is perpetuated on us again under the guise of art you can be sure another petition will be in circulation soon. People were lured from Key West to Palm Beach to be our guests at Vizcaya ... they won't come back. The Recreation Division added insult to injury by charging admission. Gee, imagine, now I've got a gripe about Metro. The show was a severe kick in the easel to all people seriously interested enough to attend despite the bad weather. It was a nightmare to our town's good artists. Will someone in Metro please give Vizcaya and its functions some creative thinking? Vizcaya can become a shiny star in our art heavens and cultural atmosphere. Set up a committee of people who love and understand art to administer first aid to a wounded artery in our Metro System. In the name of fair play, Mr. Metro, please make sure this Vizcaya mess gets some of your personal attention. Miami culture needs your help.

A THOUGHT

It is not so much Darwin's Theory of Evolution that the Christian world should be concerned but rather Marx's Theory of Revolution. -Nick Gatanis

'Burden of Southern History' Letting Go the Outworn & Useless

By PHILLIPS RUSSELL Correspondent Before making up one's mind about recent events that have brought out a rash of headlines, readers might like to look into a short, clarifying book called "The Burden of Southern History." The author is C. Vann Woodward, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and a naval historian during and after the late war. Publisher is the Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge. Woodward calls attention to the fact that the South is the only part of the country that has never shared in the wealth and wellbeing that has made Americans the braggingest people on earth. While the rest of the nation has ridden on the gravy boat and exulted in what President Taft called "the ecstasy of great profits," the people of the South have had to deal with poverty, leanness, and frustration, meanwhile retaining a memory of defeat and failure. While the rest of the country has expanded with the growth of industry, the South has remained agricultural in practice and feudal in thought. In a sense, the South has never been admitted or readmitted to the Union, but has remained separate and alien, looking on at the feast but not able to take part in it. It has had to divide its income between two races, when there has never been enough for one. The problem is to bring the Southern States into full fellowship within the Union, help them to catch up with a fast-moving world, increase their income, and recognize that they are in bitter travail as they move into a new way of life and have to give up treasured concepts and legends. Despite gigantic sins and errors, Prof. Woodward thinks the South stands for values that the republic cannot do without. To keep what is good in their life, while letting go the outworn and useless, that is the challenge before the Southern states.

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