The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 12, 1939, Page 4

PAGE FOUR IT’S ALWAYS BEEN FOR U. S. T0 KEEP NEUTRAL By MORGAN M. BEATTY Associated Press Feature Writer | WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—If; history, is any gauge, there are three big barriers to American neutrality in another great war. Here they are, straight from ex-! perts who themselves profess no bias: 1. Our very efforts to maintain neutrality dragged us into the World War and the War of 1812, our only two struggles with European nations since 1776. 2. The profits of trade in war-time are important to American capital, especially when 10,000,000 of our citi- i Hl DIFFICULT which was created by the high prices of belligerent markets and the high freights for ocean ship- ping”. And So, War Therein lay our trouble. British warships seized American men jand cargoes. Rather than make war out of that, Jefferson had congress clamp on an embargo, prohibiting American vessels from sailing to foreign ports. Within a year our foreign trade thinned to a trickle, one- sixth its normal volume. New England wanted to secede. Busi- ness went from bad to worse. At last the embargo was modified, zens are unemployed, and it’s not natural to abandon | our stake in world trade ata | time when the financial go- | ing is best. H 3. Americans wear their hearts on their sleeves, and will find it difficult, as they but the ill feeling between Great Britain and the United States mounted, and the War of 1812 was the result. It was very much the same {story when we entered the World | morning. |War. It’s the usual way a neu- | tral gets tangled up in a war. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN PERSONAL MENTION PROPAGANDA SEEN Ignatius Lester, junior at Univ. of Fla.; Hilary Albury, junior, and Jack Cormack, sophomore, left yesterday for Gainesville for | the fall term. By GARDNER SOULE Associated Press Feature Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—Propa- ganda machines had a lot to do with getting us into World War | No. 1 and are running full blast right now. | Can we keep them from get- ting us into a World War No. 2?! Twent to the Institute for | Propaganda Analysis here to find out. The answer was that while | propaganda is dangerous, it is by no means fatal. And America PSURs can still decide its own destiny | | George E. Russell, Jr., who was|if its keeps its head, ‘insists on |visiting with relatives during the | cts: and refuses to be swept | i the| away by emotions. jholidays, left on the early bus; Clyde R. Miller, secretary and |this morning for his home in Mi- | director of the institute, explains jami to make preparations for re-| that mppeaanee are s oe | il i i | more an obvious advertising. {suming his studies next Monday speech! by Adolf Hitler far ex- jample, is excellent propaganda Raw for Hitler—because it gives his Mrs. Laura Pacetti was a pas-| argument, and is carried through- A dispatch from the Florida | Association of Real Estate Boards |discloses the . information that Vesey Johnson of this city is on! the Committee on-Resoltitions for |the annual convention to be held at Tampa, October 8 to 10. this year. THREAT; AS PEACE BUT CAN BE BEAT studies British. authors: Shake- speare, Thackeray, Dickens. That | is just one example. Think First Propaganda -becomes especially dangerous, says . Miller, when you don’t know what to do about it. : “Probably. the most: important thing to keep in mind”, says he, “is. this: “Here is a very critical situa- tion for all of us. What should we do about it? Let’s keep cool | and get at the basic facts and then, with the objectivity of a! scientist, make our decisions in| the light of the. facts. “Popaganda is opinion, When) you hear opinion, ask: | “Who expresses. it? “Why? “What are his motives? “What are the motives of- yeo- | ple -who influenced him?” Americans have a © better i jof the Knights of the Golden | Peterson, THOMAS KNOWLES’ RITES TOMORROW DIED THIS MORNING 6:15 O'CLOCK AT HOME OF GEORGE PERPALL Thomas .Milton Knowles, 58, died 6:15 o’clock this morning in the home of George Perpall, 1408 White street. Funeral services will be held 5 o’clock tomorrow afternoon from the Congregation- al Church, where the body will be placed at 3 o'clock. Rev. Wm. L. Halladay will officiate. Arrangements for the funeral are under the direction of the Lopez Funeral Home. Pallbearers have been selected from his intimates and members Eagle. They will be Cornelius Leroy Sawyer and Chester Thompson and the other three from members of the lodge, which will attend in a body. JOE PEARLMAN IS BACK FROM TRIP, Joe Pearlman, who has been away for the past three weeks o1 his annual buying visit to th northern and eastern markets, reports a most satisfactory and successiul buying~ trip, Mr. Pearlman has made con- tacts with a number of exclusive ready-to-wear concerns, and said in an interview with The Citizen that while not all of the items have arrived, the store is already presenting an assortment of la- dies’ and misses’, as well as chil- dren’s wearing apparel, gauged to be second-to-none in ‘quality in the whole State, in the popular price range. A visit to the store will con- vince the most fastidious dress- ers that they can obtain at Pearl- man’s the very newest in street, afternoon and evening dress, as well as a varied assortment of - (TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1939 Harris P.-T. A. \Meets Tomorrow Mrs. Paul Archer, president, announces that the first meeting ‘of the Harris School Parent- {Teacher Association will be held jin the school auditorium tomor- 'row afternoon, Wednesday, start- ling at 3:00 o'clock. ‘FOR CHILLS AND FEVER And Other Malaria ' Misery! ‘Don’t go through the usual Malaria suff ering! Don't go on shivering = chills one moment and burn- with fever the next. falaria is | inedicine really works. Meds espe: medicine really wor! ade | cially for Malaria. Contains taste- | less quinidine and ¥ | , Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic ac- ; tually combats the Malaria infec- {tion in the bl wracking chi'ls and fever. you feel better fast. ‘Thousands take Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic for Malaria and swear it. Pleasant to take, too. Even | By the time German subma- |rines had sunk 55,000 tons of our |S&78e! jshipping and killed nearly 50 | morni | Americans, we were ripe for an-|spend a time with relatives and ger over the Lusitania disaster, | friends, public we have stood upon the/@nd a declaration of war. principle of the | chance to get at the facts than| Mr. Knowles is survived by any other persons, says Miller, | the widow: Mrs, Bertha Knowles; because American newspaper re-|One son: Neil Knowles; seven porting and editing is the best in| sisters: Mrs. Welbourne Adams, the world. |Mrs. Benjamin Jenks, Mrs. Celia Many Americans were not in-| Sweeting; Mrs. J. J. Kirschen- fluenced by World War propa-| baum, Mrs. George Perpall, Mrs. ganda until we got in. Even then|A. B. White and Mrs, Harry Ben-! have in the recent past, to stand by unmoved when modern bombers rain death on old-world cities. From the early days of the re-} two- and three-piece suits, coats | and strictly mannish tailored suits, so popular at this time. b Suffice it to say that Key West | chidren take it without’a whimper residents will hear more of the| Act fast at first sign of Malaria. late models at Pearlman’s in the | Take Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic, ' . At all drugstores. Br advertisements to come this sea-| nite as it g res you aR BS er on the 7 o'clock bus this|/out the world. The same is true ing going to Fort Myers to of a speech by Premier Chamber- t in. | If you consider all opinion, | however it is expressed, as pro- —_ |paganda, you will not be far | Miss Teresita Dobarganes, who | Wrong. j In 1935, we first began to try freedom of the; , seas, and tried to maintain a tra-|*9 Shape up a law to keep us neu- ditional air of neutrality. It’s a geod trick, if you can do it, but we haven't always been able to do it. Looking For Profits Take the War of 1812 against the British—in which we really were taking sides with Napoleon! and France against the rest of| Europe | Long before that war started, | our President, Thomas Jefferson, had developed some pretty forth. | right ideas about European wars. | When the British and the French | started fighting, he wrote to his; old friend, Alexander Donald: “Since the war is decreed by fate, we have only to pray that| the soldiers eat a great deal”. That was one way of saying} that he hoped American trade} would profit from Europe’s bad | fortune. And he, with the tradi-| tionally neutral European states, | insisted on the rights of neutrals/ to carry on heir ocean-borne! business. | Here’s the way modern-day, Philip C. Jessup, Columbia uni- | versity’s expert on international law, views that situation: ; “Theoretically, the neutrals’ | position was that they should be} let alone. . .to continue their nor- | mal commerce. Practically, their | demand soon became that they} should be free to carry on their} immensely more profitable trade | tral in the event of war. By 1937, we had adopted the age-old principle of Jefferson—the’. em- bargo to keep American: ‘vessels out of war trade in event : the President declared a’ war -exist- ent. That, of course, ‘means dropping our rights as neutrals to free seas. Trouble Galore The history of neutrality has been full of contradictions like that. It leads to all sorts of com- | plications—arguments over con- traband, privateering, _retalia- tions. Nations at war have even fought for the trade of their ene- mies. Great Britain, in the War, for instance, World hogbacks to Sweden on_ the grounds that the glycerin in them found its way to Germany. Yet Great Britain, herself, sent hog- backs to Sweden, and profited from the trade. 2 These are the facts about neutrality lied from our 150 years of experience as a nation. We usually let our sense of right and wrong lead us into struggle. or else we insist on our right to use the world’s highways. Belligerents don’t always like that. They seem to be more inter- ested in winning than they are in the rights of neutrals. KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Plans for organizing the Legion Emergency Relief Unit were read at a meeting of the legion held last night by the local post. Ac- cording to the plans this will be! one of the most complete units of its kind in the state. Mr. Sheppard! stated that owing to the large number of matters which have to be considered it will probably be several weeks before the unit can be properly organized so that it ean operate intelligently and immediately when necessary. According to the plans this unit will be composed of a pioneer de- tachment to perform real he-man! labor, four sub-units, med of- ficers and nurses, electricians, | engineers, telegraph and_ tele-| phone linemen, truck drivers and runners. | Recently organized White | Street Beautification Association, which is fostering the improve- ment and planting of trees and, plants in the White street sec- tion of the city, is having its sec- ond meeting tomorrow night at the Monroe County high school! building on White street. Since} its inception a few weeks ago the} committee has been successful in} causing property owners in the! adjoining blocks and on this thoroughfare to plant vines and trees of various kinds, clean up the lots, paint the premises and! otherwise improve the property. The meeting tomorrow bids fair| that section. According to other|Sea level __ to be one of the busiest and it, is expected there will be a large crowd in attendance. Everett R. Rivas today makes his announcement as a candidate for the office of Captain of Po- lice. In his statement to the public he says he feels that he has sufficient experience to sat- isfactorily perform the duties of the office if elected. With services on the police forces of Tampa and Key West and as deputy sheriff in this county in charge of the highway, he feels he has worked faithfully for the county and asks the voters’ consideration. Of The Citizen Work of reloading sugar onto the British Steamer Levenbridge, which began at the Porter Dock yesterday morning, is progressing rapidly, and a large force of men is employed in the operations. | There were 1,300 sacks placed aboard the ship yesterday and in all probability 4s many placed on the ship today. There are 8,900} sacks in the warehouse’ to: -be loaded on the ship and it is*ex- pected that the work will-be car- ried on for about one week long- er. At the conclusion of the re- loading operations the. ship will proceed to ports in England, where the cargo. will ‘be dis- charged. Editorial Comment: Plans are now being worked out for a mu- nicipal airport in Key West and. definite announcement may be expected soon. The Citizen has been urging this movement edi- torially for some time and is pleased to note “that something definite is being done along this line. A local airport available for thé public use is the greatest | need of Key West at the present time and will be an absolute ne- cessity in the near future. Six Cylinder and Joseph Al- bana are scheduled to meet in the squared circle tomorrow night at Newark, N. J. News received from Six Cylinder states that he has been going strong in several battles, which were put on in news received from Newark it is stated that Pete Nebo ‘is slated for a fight in Coral Gables and it is said that he will accept the Proposal and that means that he will be again in this section. DIAMONDS IN METEOR WASHINGTON — According to the Smithsonian _ Institution, black diamonds have been found in a meteor which struck in Ari-| zona thousands of years ago. Re- covery of the diamonds is not practical, however, because the cost of cutting them out would be greater than their value. prevented | American shippers from sending} British Were Best In World War No. 1, Great ritain won the propaganda bat- ‘had been visiting with relatives| in Key West, left. this morning | p, for Miami and will there take! i hi jhome in Havana, accompanied by |.) |” |size her interest in the war as jee aunt Mes abel Flo, |identical with America’s, A prin- |cipal technique of her campaign was to convert American leaders and creators of public opinion to George M. Schmidt, of New York, who had been visiting here | | briefly with friends, left over the | my 2 A . |highway this morning for his | the British point of view. To this | \home in New York. lend, Britain sent many writers H jand statesmen to America. German propaganda boomer- anged because the Germans} Harry Gwynn, formerly of Key | was a visitor in Key West yester- | the raleea bad didn’t under- |day and left in the afternoon in |St@ne Us as well taiceete jcompany with Attorney Paul vabaiege- doe ahi tyeee Bree Ringahe Aue |Marks for Miami. | gry about this”, says Miller. “Any {nation would do this if it could.! Mr, and Mrs, Robert P. Wright Britain, because of the common | were passengers over the Florida | ond with us of languages and) Motor Lines Sunday for New | culture, can do it better than any York, and were accompanied by | ther nation”. | | visiting friends, Mrs. A. W. Stev-| Just to realize how strong our) ens and Miss Marina Romero. | Cultural ties with Britain are,} |The Wrights will return later in | Fexpember that every school child! | the year. | lItaly and Holland. it was necessary: to resort to the draft to raise a U. S. army. And| tremendous propaganda was ne- cessary to sell the draft. So it was called “selective service”. Everybody's Doing It A recent Dies committee re- port charged extensive and unre- ported propaganda operations of foreign powers in this nation. The 10 countries from which most of the propaganda comes, the report said, are Great Brit- ain, Germany, Russia, Japan, Po- land, France, Spain, China, | Foreign propaganda is a con- tinuous process. It doesn’t take a vacation between wars. According to the Dies report, every medium for the communi- cation of ideas is being employed for purposes of moulding Ameri- can opinion in the’ selfish inter- ests of governments other than our own. Large sums are being spent in the attempts. "ARE ON DISPLAY JEWISH STORES TO " CLOSE TWO DAYS. . Ainouncement is made on page one today of the coming observ- ance of Rosh Hashana (Jewish |New Year Celebration), which | will find all stores owned by \Jews in Key West closed the |whole of this coming Thursday i i | Announcement is made on page one today by Navarro, Inc., of arrival in this city of the new '1940 Plymouths, Advance peek at the new mod- els displayed reveals some out- |standing, new features in the |new Plymouth—all combined to % |make up the slogan being used | and Friday. _ \this season: “The low-priced| Shoppers will do well to con- |beauty with the Luxury Ride”. j duct their shopping tours early | The Navarro salesroom will | tomorrow morning, as there will be open daily for visitors’ con- be no other opportunity to buy ‘venience in inspecting the new /|Clothing: until Saturday morning, Plymouths, and personal invita-|at which time all stores will re- tions are extended to all to drop / open. H jin. | ——— |News Of Capo “THE WEATHER | "*™s#* Resied |W. W. Demerittj superinten. {dent of the Seventh District 0: ent Weetgg9."” |the Lighthouse-Coast Guard serv- Observation taken at 7:30 a. m. | ice, has received information of | | 75th Mer. Time the wedding in Newark, N. J., of { | Temperatures Albert H. Capo, of Newark, and} Highest last 24 hours ‘Miss Doris Martin, also of that; Lowest last night, city. The ceremony was held in | Mean t Holy Trinity Church in Newark. | Normal Rev. William W. Frey, pastor, of. |ficiated in the presence of both! | families. Mr. Capo is an employe of the! drafting department of the Diehl 0.96 | Manufacturing Co., in Newark, | jand is the son of Mr. and Mrs. inches - _. 1.77)A. P. Capo. The elder Capo was | Total rainfall since January |for a number of years a resident 1, inches __. _. 24.11)0f Key West, with his family, Excess since January 1, while he was assistant engine | inches 0.73 house foreman with the F.EC. R’y, and since that time has vis- . m, | ited frequently in Key West and .. m, | has always been the guest of Mr. : m,|and Mrs. Demeritt. -™. “MONROE THEATER M. Lindsay—Ann Sheridan BROADWAY MUSKETEERS and INSPECTOR HORNLEIGH oon Tey 10c, Or- chestra 15-20c; 5-25¢ 85 | 83 | Precipitation | Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 ai m., inches —. | Total rainfall since Sept. 1, | inches | Deficiency 0.02 ce Sept. | Sunrise - | Sunset 6:33 {Moonrise - - 6:17 | Moonset - 6:42 |New moon, 13th - - 6:22 | Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM. 2:49 9:27 E ‘tn. ‘today Liss 29.99 Lamas 2g 48. | } WEATHER FORECAST | | (i 7:30 p. m, Wednesday) | | Key West and Vicinity: Partly | |cloudy tonight and Wednesday; \scattered thundershowers Wed- |nesday; moderate easterly winds. | Florida: Partly cloudy tonigh and Wednesday, scattered thun dershowers over extreme south | |portion Wednesday. | Jacksonville to Florida Straits | eve hag Gulf: i ite_winds, | | easterly, overcast | | weather tonight.and Wednesday; | |seattered thundershowers over extreme south portion. (Low |High Barometer at 7:30: a. N. E. Ist Street at One Block from Shopping | ue i HOTEL LEAMINGTON MIAMI, FLORIDA SUMMER RATES UNTIL DECEMBER Single Room with Bath—$1.50; Double Room with Bath—$2.00 THE ANSWERS See “Who Knows?” on Page Two 1. Nine days; the Austrian ul- timatum was sent to Serbia on July 23; Germany entered the war on August 1. 2. No. 1, Field Marshal Her- mann Goering; No. 2, Nazi Party | Leader Rudolf Hess. 3. November 25, 1936. 4. January 30, 1933. 5.. Twice: in 1870-71; 1914-18. 6. Labor Day was inaugurated in 1882 by the Knights of Labor. | 7. Winston Churchill. | | and | 8. About 2,000,000 copies. 9.. About 65 percent, 10. Louis Johnson. Assistant Secretary of War. | “Key West's Outstanding!” LA CONCHA HOTEL Beautiful—Air-conditioned Rainbow Room and Cocktail Lounge DINING and DANCING Open The Year Around PALACE Barry Makay—Rochelle Hudson | SMUGGLED CARGO | Also—Comedy and Shorts ' Districts and Amusements | port with intent to induce or se- | | i | | it | | son; one brother: . Theodore ; Knowles and one grandchild. GWYNN RELEASES PASSPORT RULES! 1 i (Continued from Page One) | Title 22 of the U. S. Code which! reads as folliws: ! “Whoever shall willfully and | knowingly make any false state- | ment in an application for pass- | cure the issuance of a passport under the authority of the United States, whether for his own use | or the use of. another, contrary i to the laws and regulations re- { garding the issuance of passports | or the rules prescribed pursuant } to such laws, or whoever shall ; willfully and knowingly attempt | to use, or furnish to another for’ use, any passport the issue of which was secured in any way by reason of any false state- ment, shall be fined’ not more than $2,000 or imprisonment not more than five years or both”. i For Fifty Years a NAME! in Coffee in Key West STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE THAT'S A REPUTATION For Real Purity For Real Economy For Real Service your money. For Real Protection DELIV. 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