The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 11, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. Published Daily Except Sunday By L. P. ARTMAN, Presidént and Publisher J@k ALLEN, Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County sntered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associ Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also _the local news published here. 2 SUBSCRIPTION RATES On> Year _.. : RES A Six Bonths Months — 2 ADVERTISING RATES fade known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obitaary notices, etc., will be charged for at the rate of 16 cents a line. . Notices for entertainment by churches from which vevenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- public issues and subjects of local or general t but it will not publisk anonymous eommuni- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight tor progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue, commend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. —————$ $ We prefer frozen foods to frozen as sets. Smart people read the advertisements in The Citizen and profit thereby. Under present conditions it seems a reasonable proposition to put off the poli- tical conventions until September. the de Mussolini, Itelian—hombre great courageous back while she is fighting for her existence with a powerful enemy. very Unquestionably the treaty of Ver- sailles was too severe.—Miami Herald. Yeah, on the Allies—Fort Myers News- Fress. ing favored making the German nation im- potent for all time. with a would-be assassin if he is only part- ly disarmed? Cartoonist Hal Donahey is celebrating the completion of 40 years with the Cleve- land Plain Dealer. During that time he has drawn about 15,000 cartoons, one of which was drawn at a time of great scandal in that city. It met with a tremendous re- sponse and increased the circulation of the paper immensely. It was a simple picture of a man sitting on a chair holding a paper marked “Indictment.” His head was bewed in grief and a little boy on the floor in front of him was looking up from a newspaper and asking, “Daddy, what’s a grafter?” In Key West most youngsters know what a grafter is and they can point them out, too. One of the first acts Merrick, Miami’s newly of George E. installed post- master, was the signing of a four-year con- ° tract for a star route to Key West and in- termediate points at $17,350 a year. The Overseas Transportation company with headquarters in this city, was the success- ful bidder. According to Mr. Merrick, the new contract represents a saving of $14,- 650 to the postoffice department, as the old contract paid $32,000 and was the most expensive star route in the United States. The completion of the road te the mainland made possible this reduction in the cost of handling the mails, and is another item in the justification of con- structing the Overseas Highway. pecho—awaited the | convenient moment to stab France in the Not severe enough. General Persh- | What chance has one | | “CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME” Crisis times appear to be at hand all over the world today—crises, we should | say, that call for serious thought concern- | |ing the part we, as citizens of a com-! paratively free and democratic country; | must take in helping to alleviate world- wide suffering. In that connection, it is | mighty fine to hear of the overscriptions being reported nationwide in the Red Cross drive, and to hear of successful con- | tinuctions of thé drives to provide _ still more rélief to.thé war-torn countries. of ; ts Europe. ig ‘ Yes—it’s. fine to hear of all that, but | —as the title’‘of this article suggests, do | we, in our farsighted view of suffering,‘ ‘look beyond some really worthwhile causes right ir our own city? Sympathetic co- operation for our heme-town problems | often is set aside for the so-called bigger | problems that affect the nation or all na- tions, as in the present case. Which is all by way of again bringing up the Monroe County Clinic problem and the probable shut-down of facilities of- fered the reedy residential class of our city if support is not forthcoming now in a drive to previde funds to carry through ; the summer months until government agencies can budget funds for the worth- while work this agency performs. One can say—as some do—that we’ve been solicited enough for this and that charity, that we’ve just about decided to let all future pleas for financial support go unheeded and feel in a “let George do it” mood, or that, somehow the project will be earried on. While saying those things, though—can you stop long enough to realize what the loss of this institutjon | might mean to Key West? We can safely state that ro other agency gives so much | for so little as the Clinic does in its con- stant guarding of our city’s health. The | Citizen has viewed the financial reports of the organization time and agaiy, and the | marvel is that the work has been as fruit- ful as it has. Our doctors, the Marine | Hospital, the nurses and all others con- nected with the work have and are per- | forming miracles of -unselfish aid to the | city’s needy. The work must go on—it is | unthinkable to consider that it could pos- | sibly come to an end! | “Charity Begins At Home”. There’s | no denying the truth of that slogan. So— |.with characteristic enthusiasm, let’s sup- | port the Clinic enterprises that will be | given this summer with ample funds to | carry its work on and on to the end that our health standards will not be lowered! | TAXES AND ELECTRIC RATES The history of the private electric power industry in this country has been lone of steadily improving service and | rapidly declining rates. In technical ef- ficiency, it has surpassed the rest of the world by a wide margin, and the resulting savings have been passed on to the con- sumer. Today we can operate a long list of electrical appliances in our homes for | less than the cost of lighting alone a few years back. Electricity is the only item in }the government’s official cost-of-living index which is cheaper now than in those far off prewar days of 1913. é But the excessive and growing tax | burden placed by government: on the utilities is a definite threat to further rate | reductions—and, on top of that, it may make rate increases unavoidable. You don’t need to take any utility spokesman’s word for that. The other day the Public Service Commission of New York handed down an order granting a utility a rate in- crease aggregating about $408,000 a year. And the decision assailed high utility taxes as the ptincipal cause of the increase. It then went on to describe the taxes paid by this particular company, showing that higher rates were essential if it was to make both ends meet. Federal, state and local taxes today take 16 per cent or more of every dollar of utility revenue—and that means gross revenue, not net profits. In a number of states the tax collector digs into the utility’s till to the tune of 20 per cent of every nickel takén in. By contrast, it should be remembered , that the government electric plants which are now competing with the private sys- tems, pay practically nothing in taxes. On tep of that the government systems are | built with tax funds, and receive numerous costly servives “free” for which the pri- vate companies must pay at going prices. Socialism is fun for the politicians—but it’s tough on private citizens and tax- | payers. re beguiling. Ford Informa- tion Girls are just back from a magic-carpet tour of the 1,200-acre 1940 World’s Fair in New York— | that’s why they're beaming. They'll tell you all about it in the Ford Exposition. Here you see them alighting after a 45-minute flight over the Forty Fair. They were guests of Transcontinental and ‘Western Air, Inc. TWA put at their disposal this swank sky-club plane, so they saw the sights with utmost speed and comfort. “It’s a thrill!” exclaimed Persts Harper (front center). Behind Persis, left to right, we see Ruth Hawk and Gertrude Hartigan; be- hind them, Mary Shields and Mary as Lou Miller. The lass in the over. seas cap is Ruth Gambol, TWA sky hostess, There are 17 college trained In- ae Girls like these in the most brains, beauty and flair for making strangers feel at home. They come from twelve states and two foreign countries. The Ford Exposition gave them three weeks’ intensive training, including de luxe sightseeing in the Forty Pair and New York City, to prime them for Fairgoers’ questions about what to see and how. The air-view of Manhattan and the Fair climaxed their course. KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen FIVE YEARS AGO Nearly 500 members of the Key }West Junior Patrol gathered last evening at Bayview Park to hear an inspiring address by Dr: Wm. R. Warren and to hear def- linitely what their duties would be as members of the organiza- |tion, which succeeds the volun- 'teer work corps. More than 200 members and their friends attended the Twen- 'ty-Second Annual Reunion of the Alumni Association of the Key West High School at the Country” Club last night and were thrilled with the beautiful arrangements of the dance hall and the entire club. Carl Bervaldi, chairman of the board of county commissioners, and William V. Albury, legal ad- viser of the board, left yesterday afterncon over the Florida East Coast in response to a call from the governor for all county chairmen to meet and discuss tax jmatters with him. Alton Albertus, son of Mr. and |Mrs. Edouard Albertus, who is employed with the Florida East |Coast Railway in’, Miami, suffer- ed a comminuted fracture of the ‘right arm yesterday while crank- ing a compressor. His mother |left today and expetts to return | with her son in a week. ' is | Rev. George E. Summers, of} 'the First Methodist church, and| West Saturday when Miss Louise | family, left over the highway for/Wilhelmina Curlin of Guadala-|she lacked strength to support | conference Ger- Member of Orlando to attend of the Methodist ald Saunders was ‘ot Lester, The Maloney and Peacock de- livery truck snapped an axle this morning at the corner of Duval and Southard streets and shortly afterward there rumors of an auto crash heard. As a matter of truth there was were no collision and no one was hurt. The annual dinner-dance of the Monroe County High School Alumni Association will be an event of this evening at the La Concha Hotel. Attorney J. Lance- who was the first graduate of the school, has been named as tdastmaster-. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Louis Valdez Sanchez, alias “Polito”, who peddied counter- feit United States bills, and was suspected of passing some of the} bills in Key West, was arrested by the Cuban Judicial police of Havana, according to advices re- ceived by U. S. Deputy Marshal Andre Lopez. A play, “Spring”, and recita- By ALBERT G. ROBERTS Washingtoniarts have accustomed to startling develop- ments emanating from European capitols. Each day brings poig- nant news of the devastation | sweeping across the broad and \fertile fields of France. | Congress is wide awake, in | fact, so much so that they dare ‘not refuse the billions demanded jand needed for national defense. | The President's latest appeal jraises the total to four and one- half billions for national defense. Taxes will mount higher and jhigher but we cannot cringe from our duty. | Press reports disclose concert- ed activities of Nazi “fifth col- jumnists” in South America. | Stories are emanating that even \a picked force of marines are be- jing held in readiness and ready |to embark on two hours notice }to be rushed to a neighbor coun- \try to the south when the Nazi's j blitzkrieg there. Large German | populations in Mexico, South and Central America make this dou- lbly possible. We do have a large |number of troops in the South |and Southwest. | We have already begun to won- | der what will happen if the Brit- ish and French fleets are ul- |timately forced to surrender. |Camada lies to the North and so \does Greenland. Will the em- \pire disentegrate? If England is defeated Adolf Hitler will not permit his spoils to be dispossess- ed by mere declarations of inde- pendence. President Roosevelt stood on the International Bridge when it was dedicated and pledg- ed our aid te protect our “friend- ly neighbors”. When the defense budget which the President requested was vot- ed upon only one dissenting vote arose, a congressman from New York, elected fram the Commun- ist and Socialist area. leader, recently gave. a speech in which he so violently attacked Democracy that many of the broadcasting firms have request- ed permission to refuse license to un-American broadcasts. The President has asked Con- gress for power to call out the ‘National Guard. The mainten- jance of the National Guard has ibeen alloted to the states. Dur- ing the war our governors co-op- ‘erated at once with the national |defense and would gladly do so again. We are not at war, we have an ample army and sea pow- er to quickly eradicate “Fifth Columists”. The President might ask the states to hold their Na- tional Guards in readiness be- cause of the existing danger, but |there seems to be doubt if the situation is vet urgent enough to turn over the militia of the 48 | states to Congress. Compulsory military service is being discussed. In a Democ- iracy we should provide the means and the provisions to ‘equip a self-sufficient army and reserves. Americans are _self-conseious enough to rise to \the defense of their country. We was inscribed a verse of son's “Bivouac of the Dead™ Service to FBI \drive should be made to finger ‘print every alien, and those who * should be dGe- aliens is in itself national sui cide. A measure is before Congress to. provide for penalties and er rests for workers striking on ne tional defense projects. At this “ very moment work has beee halt ed on destroyers and cruisers at Norfolk because 6,000 men have struck. The F.B1. should imves- tigate the officials of unions. Labor must be safe- guarded but labor must not be |permitted to destroy. Use of the C.C.C. in the construction of de fense projects will meet with the hearty approval of the American people. Nobel gave the world dyns- * mite. Recently an imventor waited with Army engimeers to test a new explosive. In a near- by field, goats were tethered to prove the potentialities of the ex- plosive. The test was partially successful. The goats lived but jproved definitely “glimite” was 1% times more powerful than “TNT.”, and can be manufac- tured for four cents a pound. while the latter costs 22c per ;Pound. Henry Ford declared on May 30 that he can produce planes at ‘the rate of one thousand a day at one-eighth the present cost, providing “the government will let him alone, and that such men as Colonel Lindbergh and Rick- enbacker are provided as con- ;Sultants”. No cost or not effort can spared to provide adequate fense. Neither can we the amount we can spend by the became excited, then the fervor tions are to be given in a pro- can’t blame our small army on 'subsides; do this now and we gram of dialogues and music un-}jack of patriotism, it has been a! may fied cur inctithiiens. “4x der the auspices of Troop 1, Boy Scouts of America, on Friday evening, June 12, at the Harris School, it was announced today! Eden spoke of the heroic meas-jenergy to bythe teachers of the school. | A romance begun in old Mexi-| co had its culmination in Key hara was married to Edward Frederick Krieghoff. who arrived Saturday--afternoon from Ha- lack of funds. Only recently Sir Anthony tures taken to rescue the major us more planes and more tanks”. fell at Munich because her demands. The man at the helm of government.did not awak- en soon enough, and had he not \the party going with the pastor's yana. The marriage was Pef- been deposed the remainder of |family and will attend as a dele- | gate from Key West. formed by Rev. L. Munro. The Duchess de Richelieu ar- rived Monday from New York ‘the British Empire would be in ‘ruins. } Key West stands a good chance and while here will, with her| waiting for the bombers must of of getting additional cigar fac- ‘tories in the near future. Ma- husband, the Duc de Richelieu, who arrived some time * ago, | Fiano Alvarez, manager of the be the guests of Captain Clark D: | necessity almost destroy sanity. On May 301 visited Harper’s American exert every ounce of drive our national de- jfense to ultimate success. Will |part of the BEF. in Flanders. He|we be in the position in regards closed with these words: “Give!” = trons discarded priate. but pre teral and urut another matter one reply. 2 violent upheeve! at old standards and loss i ! Santaella here and in Tampa, Stearns and Mrs. Stearns at their | Ferry, Sharpsburg and Antietam, | predicted this today. There are jfactors at work to this end and quarters in the naval station, |Cemetery, the bloodiest battle of | the Civil War. In a beautiful ro- results so far are that the efforts’ Ben Ketchum formerly of Key |tunda were gathered state digni- will be successful. |month of April were far above* |fore, data just released by the, |district headquarters of ‘the cus-' ering the recent session of the [battle of ‘¥press’ toms service show. In the mat- \ter of exports Key West is far ahead of the rest of the state. Second Lieutenant Charles E (Chappell, USMC. after com-/ }pleting a tour of duty on board the U.S.S. California, has been | assigned to duty at the naval sta- ition in Key West and will join j Captain MacNulty, who is in charge of the Marine detach-. West but now residing in Jack- taries, including Governor O’Con- ra sonville, arrived last night andinor. American ion officials , Key West's imports for the will spend some time with his is con Ameen parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles} quent the entire assemblage 4 |those of last year or the year be-/ Ketchum. He came from Tall@jenthralled. This man's. aad hassee, where he had been cov- legislature for the International News Service. TRY IT TODAY— The Favorite in Key West STAR + BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS ment here. i ‘broke as he said-“T™ “Key West's Outstanding” LA CONCHA HOTEL Beantiful—Air-Conditioned I knew: the. ——SEEEEEEEeee ; on