The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 12, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO The wey West Citizen THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. Published Daily Except Sunday By P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOE AbLEN, Business Manager From The Citiz Corner Greene and Ann LL Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County red at Key West, Florida, as second class matter "Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it of not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, «ct, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at rate of 10 cents a line. r entertainment by to be derived are open forum f public issues and subjects t but it will not publish anony catiors. hurches from which Sa line. invites discus- al or general ous communi- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be efraid 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 Pp injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue, | ; ic welfare; never tolerate corruption or commend good dore 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. a sc IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST | ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN | } Water and Sewerage. More Hotels Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital and Apartments. EF lization is having a blackout in| Europe. Even you and I appreciate Mr. Cham- | berlain and his umbrella when it rains. | If the world war continues much} longer, there will be “lebensraum” and| plenty of it for everybody. With war and a_ political campaign | inderway the truth is going to take an awful walloping this summer. An orator doesn’t always express what is at the bottom of his heart by what | he shouts at the top of his voice. As a password for “courageous” Italy, | this column suggests aparetto.” That | word makes the Italians fighting mad, per- | haps enough to put up a scrap. We can easily believe a press report which says a gentleman in Cleveland who | is about to be confronted with five alleged wives is in ‘‘a highly nervous condition.” If Henry Ford can build a thousand | planes a day,,what is he waiting for?—| Sanford Herald. Waiting to see what the j government is doing about manning and cing them. President Roosevelt repeated re- quests for morc billions for national de- fense remind us of the statement of anoth- er great American, “Billions for defense | but not one cent for tribute.”—Sanford rald. Presumably Charles Cotesworth Pinckncy, cnce ambassador to France, was a great American, but he didn’t say, “bil- lions”, he said “millions”. The United States was not thinking in such alti- | tudinous figures in 1796. Even a million was “mucho dinero” in those days. | | | Martin Dies, a Congressman from | Texas, has been telling the people of our courtry for more than two years that there | are groups within our borders seeking the | destruction of their Government. Even President Roosevelt scoffed at the Dies Committee and suggested to Congress that | it refuse appropriations to continue the | Congressional investigation. But the Presi- dent has recently received evidence from the Dies Committee that has convinced him that Fifth Column activity exists in - the United States. | cards of thanks, resolutions of ! | sales of items on which municipal | lands are placed back on the tax roles. | Key West, as The Citizen has observed-in | tention to some of the handicaps were overcome by those whem the world recogniz | first rank. the following: parte, two of the greatest generals statesmen of all time, were epileptics. was Mohammed, who founded a religion which now has more than 200 million ad- hererts. the employers of some A SURPRISE MOVE! Residents surprised, and pleased, too, yesterday’s paper that to read the to the demsnds of the County Clerk’s As- sociation to be relieved of their “on the spot” situation and would move to accept ; the sales reports as sent in to Tallahassee. Successful bidders may now expect to receive an accounting of their transactions in the comparatively near future, it is stated, and deeds will come through, end- | That is, the greatest pro- | be okeyed—some | few items being stiil held back for con- | ing the matter. portion of the bids will tinucd study. Without even meeting with the Board, j of Monroe County were | in| J Internal | Improvement Board had decided to accede | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN o, FLORIDA HIGHLIGHTS __ GREAT AMERICAN STATESMAN YET NEVE; was 4 STATES the clerks were successful in making the | Board-agree that the original base bid of | On per cent, as placed by the Board at the | outset, should hold good and that all sales, ; whether by former owners, or not, should be validated. { The Supreme Court ruling on Murphy | haven’t been settled creates an interesting amount, together arrangement, may receive their bid with costs, on a refund they so choose. zsked to cortact the municipalities in an taxes | | problem to beth the clerks and_ bidders. : The latter, according to the Board’s ruling, if | The former have been } eficzt to have them agree to settle all taxes | on a reduced—a greatly reduced—basis. It is hard to imagine that any city will . i : zgree to cross off delinquent taxes, which in some cases amount to hundreds of dol- | lars, for a minute percentage, such as the | | $1, $2 or $3 arrangement suggested. Or | even the suggestion of payment of 1939 taxes only in settlement of taxes due over a | long period of years. The argument is advanced that acrificing the delinquent taxes now—the In he past and is observing now—that | doesn’t add up to the municipality’s credit | at all. roles, in too many cases, merely puts them | inte the position of becoming delinquent again over the next period of years. Putting the lands back on the tax It will be interesting to see what our city fathers do in regard to the suggested ! cancellation of delinquent taxes matter. HANDICAPS OVERCOME An anonymous writer has called at- s geniuses and leaders of the Among those mentioned are Demosethenes, who became one of the world’s greatest orators, stuttered in | his youth. Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bona- So Alfred the Great, considered “the | wisest, best and greatest king” of England, had a lifelong internal disease. Among authors and poets Carlyle was a dyspeptic, Byron had a club foot, Keats had tuberculosis, Milton was Fope was a hunchback. blind, and Darwin suffered from a nervous dis- ease, and Beethoven composed some of his most majestic musical works after he had become totally deaf. In our own generation, the great elec- trical wizard, Charles P. Steinmetz, was a deformed dwarf, and Helen Keller, one of | America’s most accomplished women, has been deaf and blind from childhood. The list of world famous notables who have labored under serious physical handi- | caps might be extended almost indefinitely. Their example should be inspiring to any who are inclined to complain about minor afflictions or difficulties. NOT THE “WHOLE TRUTH” With forty newspaper correspondents in France “in search of the war’ the Brit- sh Director of Public Relations has his hands full. Major Gen. John Hay Beith, who holds this post in Great Britain, insists that correspondents seem to think “the war was arranged en- tirely for the American press and the news- reels.” He insists that “all the hot news in the world is not worth the life of a single | British soldier or sailor.” The head of the British public rela-_ tions office says his “propaganda is based |the dollars into needed upon one fundamental principle: We tell the truth and nothing but the truth.” by | which | and | Although Judah P. Benjamin became a figure in American politics during the he never _techni- national “War Between the States”. cally became a citizen of either or the United States. It was parents removed to this country New Orleans where started on his brilliant career. jamin, an naturalized, a West Indies where Judah was born. After leav- ing Yale University, young Benjamin went to e passed h Jew, neglected to become vas that his distinguished son apparently overlooked. Following the fall of the Confederacy, Benjamin made his way to A CITIZEN, 4 e OF WAR AND SECRETARY OF STATE, YET HE NEVER | CITIZEN OF THE CONFEDERACY NOR .. THE UNITED + SPIDER 7WO FEET Mansion near the Confederacy in 1815 that his from the British the bar and The elder Ben- England where he isters of the British Empire. that this great American died. as he was born, a British subject. scene of the historic Benjamin episode, is today an interesting Confederate museum. SEA SPIDERS are found in depths vary- ing from 1400 to 1600 fathoms and are usually of a bright red. So extremely queer are these animals that zoologists are compelled to pro- vide them with a special place in a group designated as the Pycnogons. MDE, MIGHTY SEA SPIDERS FOUND Florida where he took refuge in the old Gamble Bradenton, later escaping to became one of the leading Thus it was The old Gamble mansion, | Economic Highlights HAPPENINGS 1 CHE THAT AFFECT THE DINNER PAILS, DIVIDEND CKS AND TAX BILLS OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL: i NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS INSEPARABLE FROM LOCAL WELFARE What this country is beginning jto do is to change from a peace {economy to a military economy. |That involves readjustments which apparently few as yet ‘thoroughly understand. When |the Nazis came to power in post- war Germany the slogan was, | “Guns, not butter.” The result of the ruthless application of that ‘slogan was a steadily declining standard of living and, according to unprejudiced authorities, a serious decline in the general standard of public health. More jand more of the national income went for state purposes—less and less was left in the hands of the people. To a lesser extent, all the European nations, which have been on a war footing for many years, have undergone the same experience. And now it locks as if we are to undergo it | too. | This doesn’t mean that the United States will follow the same road as the Nazis. We are a far richer country, possessed of jresources which no European |power can equal. There is no question now of devoting 60 per cent of our national income @hich is the proportion being spent in Germany) for military purposes. But it does mean, un- jless the commentators are wrong, that all factors in our national |life will be called upon to make serious sacrifices to the end that we be made as secure as possible from successful invasion. It means that we will have fewer luxuries, fewer dollars to spend Jas individuals, in order that we may have more airplanes, tanks, battleships, and the other imple- jments of defense. A number’ of important columnists, led by influential | Walter Lippman, have been criticizing the President for what they regard as a lack of frank- jness in informing the people just jhow much they will have to |sacrifice to create an adequate defense establishment. And the events of the last few weeks have \eertainly produced plenty of tood \for grim thought. The President thas greatly revised upward his joriginal requests for defense ap- | Propriations, and Congress seems | practically united in favor of put- jting his general plan into effect. lit has become obvious that de- | fense isn't just a matter of addin; Tr ‘a billion or two to the mili have to be devoted to [It is estimated by competent 1 ter than $3,000,000,000—and that the same amount would have to be spent annually for main- tenance and replacement. | The President has observed that the defense drive should not be accompanied by a reduction in the laborer’s working stand- ards and that essential social ob- jectives need not be shelved. Few * of the commentators seem to completely agree with that. They are generally convinced that labor will have to sacrifice some of its late gains, even as industry will have to sacrifice profits. They feel that domestic reform must be at least temporarily for- gotten—that the goal now must be iron-handed productive effi- ciency. It is a fact that abroad, in the democratic as well as the ~~ totalitarian powers, it has long been necessary to subjugate the interest of the individual to the interest of the nation. In France, for instance, the working day has been raised from eight to twelve hours. The commentators also feel certain that the American peo- ple are today united and are willing to make the necessary “sacrifices for a non-political de- fense' program that will achieve results with a minimum waste of time and money. A very sub- stantial increase in both direct and indirect taxes seems in- evitable—the moderate tax in- creases recently proposed in Congress are regarded as just the beginning. The standard of liv- ing, as a consequence, must cer- tainly drop. There is less and less informed talk of America going to war abroad—we have our hands full in this hemisphere. We are at peace, but we are moving toward a war footing. Almost none doubt the necessity for this, but relatively few as yet know what it involves. We aren't going to have to give up ouf butter to buy guns—but, symbolically speak- ing, it seems certain that we will _have less butter. Today’s Birthdays Dr. Frank M. Chapman of the ed the mosquito control work Natural Kev West for a couple of famed or- Armtrican Museum History, New York, nithologist, born at Englewood, the N. J., 76 years ago. U. S. Senator Charles L. Mc- of two men ye WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1940 KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Five. Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Todey As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen FIVE YEARS AGO Key West will be represented 4. by three members of Key West ceiv Rotary Club at the International of th Convention of Rotary, which con- venes in Mexico City, Mexico, on | June 17 to June 21... Dn Wm. R. ‘Warren, Sebastian Cebretfa and William L. Bates are*the dele- gates. ot © John Pinder, commander ey Arthur Sawyer Post 28, Ameri- ® can Legion, returned today over ™ the East Coast Railway from Daytona Beach, where he went * to attend as delegate to the De- partment Convention of the or- ganization and will report at the meeting tonight There were 60 children exam- °Y* ined at the local clinic this morn- ~~“ ing by Miss Edwina Hodges. state nurse, and local physi ms according to an announcer made by the doctors and others interested in the work E inations are sponsored by P.-T A. ‘Defendants in municipal court '™* yesterday afternoon, who were “"** arraigned on charges of having ™ gambling paraphernalia their \places of business, were fined, when found guilty. $5 each by Judge Allen B. Cleare. Jr They all pleaded not guilt trol are meeting this at Bayview Park to hear Attorney J ter, city attorney, adc on one of the la the day, which will for the occasion. be TODAY’S TEN YEARS AGO Delegates to Pharn tical Convention of which is an annual ev € association, are t n Key West this week as the convents will open Friday and it ex pected that 300 or 490 people w be here for the mecting Do act sev. Tiane™: say. soms~ ent of TODAY'S DAILY QUIZ Can you enswer seven of these ten Tex: Questions? Tur= to Page 4 for Answers Lack of labor. then of oil, halt- of day but it has been resumed and the work of oiling breeding plac pests is proceeding ste Major Wolf secu ser Nary of Oregon, born near Sa- work continued lem, Oreg., 66 years ago. Admiral Thomas C. Hart, U.S.N., born at Davidson, Mich., 63 years ago. Admiral Joseph R. De- S.N., who reaches the age of retirement, born at Smithboro, Ill, 64 years ago. Rockwell Kent, noted artist- author, born at Tarrytown Heights, N. Y., 58 years ago. Priscilla Lane, actress, born. Nicholas Roosevelt of New York City, author and editor, Herbert U.S.A., born at Laramie, 63 years ago. Wyo., each other. Biggest GOP de- velcpment is the astonishing rise in general popularity of Wendell Willkie. Mr. Willkie has no ma- chine, no “inside backing,” and no delusions of grandeur. But, in the view of a number of com- mentators, he is the only pos- sible Republican candidate who could meet the President on an even footing, and have a_ real chance to win the day. At a sprcial meeting city council yesterday acceptance of the new gine. recently contracted f postponed. The action of sev tests made w ted by tw gineers and the council feels that another test with three new ef gineers should be hel of aftern« fire r. wa Lieutenant Joseph A US.N., has arrived Charleston Navy Yard. to the command of Bagaduce. Lieutenant fr the , been transferred t sel and has been ord naval station at Pe Mr. and Mrs. L .R. Warner en- tertained at bridge Monday night in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Charles 1 W. Hunt, of Lake Wales, who were guests at the Ocean View Apartment for several days Cards were pleved and the guests enjoyed a verv pleasant evening r New R. E. Ball. brakeman on Feb Pineapple special of the Florida months later Libea Fan one Your!H40 MMER VACATION WITH YOUR EXTRA TRAVEL SAVINGS GOING BY BUS More vacation. more fun for LESS is yours when you travel by Florida Motor Lines. Modern new buses. mamy com- ‘pletely air-conditioned, leave from the heart of town to all ‘your favorite vacation resorts. Fares are less than a fourth the cost of driving your own automobile. BUS STATIORN Cor. Southard and Behama Sts_ Phone 242