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The Coral Gables Times
Thursday, November 1, 1962, page 4 (of 24)
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THE Coral Gables TIMES
CORAL GABLES TIMES Thursday, November 1, 1962 4 | THE Coral Gables TIMES Established Jan. 15, 1926 Second Class Postage Published at Paid at Miami, Fla. 364 Sevilla Ave., Coral Gables 34, Fla. JOHN T. WATTERS...President ROLFE NEILL...Editor & Publisher Subscriptions: $4.20 year by mail anywhere in the U.S.A.
Gentlemen, We Thank You For The Compliment
The City is experimenting with a newspaper of its own this week designed to inform the citizens of what's going on in their government. We've seen the product. It is of good quality, attractively laid out and done at a reasonable price (around $800). You'll get one in the mail shortly. As for the idea itself, we think it a sound one. Our major interest in this project is that we were eager to see what the City would do with an account of its own goings on. How would it handle its own news, free from the restrictions and blindnesses that may repose in the local newspaper? First, we would say there is nothing new in the paper. Every story in it has been covered in The Times many times over and in exacting detail. This is not said in derrogation but in appraisal. Secondly, it meets head on several controversial issues, such as the Rader Report and the raising of taxes and offers editorial-type opinions on them. These, too, have been amply laid out in this newspaper. What it adds up to is that Mayor Searle's Administration, despite its occasional groanings and flailing of the air about newspaper shortcomings, has said, in effect, that it's been very well covered by his hometown journal. Gentlemen, we thank you for the compliment.
City Hall Could Do It Differently
Well, we've got our first public bar in the Gables after many a year. The City Commission okayed it Tuesday after finding that the Holiday Inn meets the requirements of the law that the City Charter says must be met if the Commission wishes to grant a license. The Times believes we should modernize the liquor laws here and we do not oppose the Holiday Inn's license. We hope that neon lights and signs will be kept out. We hope further that licenses will be liberalized but only in behalf of suitable restaurants, not for bars per se. In our opinion, the best way to do this, as we've said before, is to have a service bar so that only people ordering food can order liquor. But we raise this question: Didn't the City Commission break faith with the citizenry when it quietly granted this license? True, the Commissioners are not required to hold a public hearing. But also true is the fact that it is well known that there is much opposition here to granting any liquor licenses. Tacitly, opponents had been led to believe they would be heard. Justice is founded on the right to speak out. That right was not acknowledged Tuesday by the City Commission. Properly, we think it should have been.
The Birthday Party Nobody Came To
Undoubtedly, as Terry Tumlin says on today's front page, there is opposition here to the United Nations. It is understandable that in arranging a celebration of the UN's birthday, he might encounter some opposition (although as Mr. Tumlin himself notes, he personally found none, only "heard" of it). The Times believes that the UN, only 16 years old, is worthy of celebrating. For all its imperfections and despite a need for overhaul, it is proving its worth. We are among those who oppose yielding U.S. sovereignty to the UN but we also are among those who believe that we can have a worthy United Nations without the necessity for bartering away basic national rights. But what strikes us as ironic is this: Another story on today's front page tells about the fact that a third of this community's population is of foreign stock. If ever there were a city which has reason to celebrate the UN's birthday it is Coral Gables. Maybe the right people weren't invited to the party?
EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS
by Rolfe Neill One Idea Juvenile Court Judge William Culbreath continues to be quoted in the daily press as saying he can't understand all the fuss over his sudden departure last Wednesday with his family for Caruthersville, Mo., in the midst of the Cuban crisis. He was only a father doing what he thought best for his children, he said. In case he's still wondering what the criticism is about I offer this suggestion: The public expects manliness from its officials. If the judge thought it best for his family to be elsewhere - and none will deny him that privilege - it would seem that arrangements could have been made without the implication that he planned to stay with them. No, it's no secret about the fuss. When men were supposed to be counseling courage and loading their rifles, an elected jurist was packing his suitcase. People You Know Tony Alu of Anthony's Barbershop bought himself a handsome new Chevy and one of his boys a beaut of a Vespa motor scooter. One guess as to why Tony's now riding the scooter...Nat Winkour of Sherry's Shoes was first to get his flag up at his home on Maggiore Street last week following the president's talk. He's got good reason; His dad was smuggled out of Russia in a sack on his mother's back. Nat, to be born six months later as the first of eight children, conveniently went along in more natural fashion. Post Office The admonitions hanging around the post office have always interested me. Some compel (Aliens Must Register); some make you laugh (No Dogs Allowed Except Seeing Eye Dogs); some make you wonder (Wanted for Murder; Do You Know This Man?). You can spend spare time gaining a lot of assorted information just by looking over their bulletin board. What set me to thinking, however, was Wednesday night when I was getting the mail I saw a notice which I know will get top readership: "Reward of $150,000," it began. It's for the armored car holdup in Massachusetts in August when crooks got $1.5 million in a mail truck robbery. And you don't even have to catch the men, just provide information that will. Well Said A thought I like is from Clarence B. Randall, retired chairman of Inland Steel Co. He says in his book, "The Folklore of Management": "Take the ghost-written speech. "I say that if the executive cannot write his own speech, let him make none. If he is tongue-tied in public, it is because he is tongue-tied in private; he simply has nothing of significance to say. "Let him be himself at all time. Let the public know him as he is. "Let him stand up and say to an audience precisely what he said to his seatmate on the 8:04 that morning, or what he said to his associates at lunch, disagreeable as the results may be in terms of public relations." They're Right Herald executive editor Lee Hills, just back from Russia, said the other night that Russians think that American politics is run by a bunch of millionaire capitalists. Maybe they're right, when you stop to consider: Kennedy, Rockefeller, Kerr, Scranton, Dilworth et al. Mom's Viewpoint From a woman who simply signs herself "A Coral Gables Mother," comes a denunciation of UNICEF, a printed circular calling this UN venture a fraud and trick without treat. It asks that when children come in behalf of UNICEF for Halloween, that you give them traditional goodies but no money. Meantime, the circular counsels, discourage your church and other organizations from participating. I don't know if the anonymous mother who sent me the message is the addressee whose name has been carefully blotted out. The addressee was Mrs. Robert Dorsey, 635 San Antonio Ave. Neither do I know if what the circular says is true about UNICEF. However, I shall inquire and let you know in a subsequent column. Senator Holland Sen. Spessard Holland tells us in his current newsletter that he's happy to report that he's talked the Federal government into buying surplus orange juice in Florida for the school lunch program. This purchase, he says, is under the government's program to buy surpluses in nonprice supported products. Good Lord. If we have a program for that, then we really do have a program for everything. The Senator will come closer to getting my vote by getting us out of the farm price support program entirely.
A PASTOR'S OPINION The Ministerial Dilemma
(The following is written by the Rev. Lloyd N. Whyte, pastor of Shenandoah Baptist Church) Some thoughts at random after reading the fine article by Mr. Adon Taft in the Miami Herald on Saturday, October 13 entitled, "How Our Church Climate Shapes Up." From many reliable sources we hear these days, "Let the churches stand out for the real principles of Christianity." They are saying that the ministers are not occupied with the prophet motive; rather they are content with being priests to a customized, community-guided church. These fine men and women are correct in calling attention to the weakness and timidity of the average congregation. But are they seeing the whole problem when they take the minister to task without charging the congregation with aiding and abetting the weakness? Recently a Baptist minister in Macon, Georgia, resigned his pulpit. Why? He felt his congregation didn't want him to continue being a stand-up-and-be-counted man on race relations. They let him go. One wonders what the next preacher in that church will do if he gets the urge to preach applied Christianity. This is not an isolated case. If a congregation wants fearless preaching and leadership then the congregation must make it so. Freedom of the pulpit must be classed with the same respectability as freedom of the pew. The average American Protestant church has been guilty of half a philosophy. It has worked freedom of the pew to the limit and withheld the same right from the pulpit. If a person doesn't like what is being said or promoted he can absent himself or cease giving. He exercises a power that can cripple and maim a church's ministry, particularly if he collects some support to his side. Suppose Rev. X really takes a positive stand on municipal morality and corruption. The people of the church know that the city government and policies should be improved. However, Mayor Y's cousin is a prominent deacon in Rev. X's church. Will Mayor Y's cousin allow Rev. X to demand civic righteousness? Not usually. He can rally within the church enough confusion to negate Rev. X's stand and Rev. X may be termed a radical or a crack pot. What is worse, some may say he has ceased preaching the "word." Soon Rev. X resigns with a broken spirit, and sits by the preachers' unemployment clearing bureau, with no unemployment compensation such as other unemployed receive. Even more frightening, what church seeking a minister will risk its status quo with such a fellow? The church of today must (See MINISTER, Page 5)