The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 13, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO he Key West Ci tizen “YTIZEN Pt ‘BLISHING Con 00. INC. shed Daily Except Sunday By RTMAN, President and Publisher ALLEN, Business Manager Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ond class matter Press Assgeiated Press is exclusively entitled to use republisatjon of all news dispatches credited to not otherwise credited in this paper and also cal news published here. © Months Month ADVERTISING RATES Tiade known on application. SPE: ing notices, car: pituary notices, etc. £ 10 cents a line s for entertainment by churches from which nue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. e Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- blic issues and subjects of local or general ut it will not publisk anonymous communi- NOTICE , will be ‘charged for at [—~*«STHE KEY WEST CITIZEN KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it ithout 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 print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- opinions; promise with principle. ee ee eee 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. ee ee . A Modern City Hospital. Only the last battle of a great war is the decisive battle. The future belongs the man who puts the “I can” in American. | Miami, oe We at iaayane Hees | cities always in the public eye. The number of people in a com- munity is not as important as the type of people. The male of the species spends his years looking for the ideal woman; but in| the meantime he gets married. : Henry Ford says a woman’s place is in the home. But if she stayed there the demand for Henry’s product would appre- | ciably decline. ' of thanks, resolutions of | highway”. WATER VERSUS HIGHWAY The race is on, the outcome of which doesn’t bother Key West one bit, for no matter which side wins, this city is going to be gainer. Then, too—it’s a sure shot that the winner will be followed across the finish line by the leser, and that event, too, will come as welcome news. The race which we describe has refer- ence to the talk around town regarding which will arrive in Key West first—fresh water from the mainland, or completion of the Overseas Highway over the old railroad right-of-way. One can see, from this explanation, just how much concerned <ey Westers are with the outcome of the Both, they feel, are sure to come. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Refugee Children, Innocent War Victims, Appeal to America’s Heart for Survival mply a matter of which will cross the j finish line first. News release Tuesday of the $2,000,- 000 appropriation by a House committee, at the request of the Navy department, for full authority to construct the pipeline, was welcomed here with widely scattered cheers. The navy’s assertion that they want fresh water in Key West within 12 months may mean that this contestant in the race will come in first. But wait— You can’t count the highway cause out of a strong bid for first place. Various | agencies have been quietly at work in this city during the past month in an effort to have the highway declared a_ military road—a cause, incidentally, that has been championed by The Citizen for a long while. Their efforts appear about to bear fruit. Add to that the assurance given The Citizen only yesterday that Governor Cone has been heard to state recently that he “is going to see to it that Key West gets its It is reported that he was much pleased with the vote given him in the first primary—and that, as all know, is | just about the same as getting any politi- | cian on any side. There’s one thing, however, that ap- pears to favor the fresh water contestant in the race. It looks like the Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission’s co-operation with the Navy department may bring quicker action on that project than can be ob- | tained on the highway. However—there are bets being placed cn either entry in the race. we’re neutral, and non-belligerent. SALUTING THE FLAG In an 8 to 1 decision the United States | Supreme Court has ruled that state laws | requiring school children to salute the | American Flag on certain occasions are legal and must be observed. At this par- ticular time, when so many communities are honeycombed with disloyal elements, this decision is most praiseworthy. The decision was rendered because of the refusal of members of a_ certain peculiar religious sect to allow their chil- dren to salute the flag, on the silly ground that such a salute was a form of idolatry. Paying such a slight mark of respect to the flag is not worship of a piece of red, white | and blue fabric; it is a salute to what the If menghave not been trained to act | habitually right, there is not much chance of their acting right when a powerful in- fluence toward acting wrong is presented to them. In other words they haven't been trained to resist temptation. Since democracy is the mark of a sane order of government, other forms are in- or bordering on insanity, and we have ample proof of this conclusion in the mad totalitarian government of Hitler, as well as those of Stalin and Mussolini, though in a lesser degree of irresponsi- bility. ~ sane Tax raids continue and will until we become more tax conscious and endeavor to stem the tide. An eye opener is_ this revelation: the taxes imposed on the peo- ple of this country last year amounted to the cntire income of all persons living west of the Mississippi river. Imagine the vastness of that portion of the United States, all the people in it and their pro- digious production. Yet if all the inhabi- tants of this prolific section of our country had given the government everything they raised, or manufactured, or mined, or fished and kept absolutely nothing for, themselves, it represents what we were taxed last year. Now with the war emer- gency im the offing, the government will have to encroach on the east of the Mis- sissippi river. Even then we will not be solvent. Tt is apparent, in view of the wdbove what thc conrtry needs most is a business man and not a politician in the presidential chair. flag represents and the protection it af- fords to all who are so fortunate to live under our form of government. We have too long tolerated “peculiar” people who accept the benefits of a free | | country, yet are unwilling to show respect | for it, or fight to preserve it when the : necessity arises. And this brings to mind | the so-called “conscientious objectors,” who seek to evade military service. Most of them are not conscientious at all, but arrant cowards and slackers, who would see their neighbors do the fighting for a dollasa day, while the objectors draw high wages in safe employment, such as making munitions, as many of them did in the last war. Teaching children to salute the flag is merely a simple and wholesome lesson in patriotism. Parents who object to it are | deservirg of scorn from every loyal citizen. | LOOKING MUST BE GOOD Commercial television has been bar- red by the Federal Communications Com- mission until the industry agrees on unified transmission standards. The National | Broadcasting Company has made am ap- | plication to erect a station in Washington and they are being held up by the Com- munications Commission which says that “the public should not be inflicted with | a hodge-podge of different television | broadcasting and receiving systems. That action of the Government Commission is | based on the ground that several broad- casting stations are now in existence and that they are “experimenters” using dif- | ferent transmission standards, As for us— | EATH-DEALING airplanes ride the skies. The carnage of thelr creation sweeps many lands. Armored tanks and motorized artil- lery roll across whole countries de- stroying, as in a blight, all standing in their way. Cattle, crops, homes, people — innocent and defenseless children—stand in fear, then in de- spair, only to fall into destruction. Some will live. They must be aided to endure, to struggle on, to sur- vive.” This was the message directed to America’s generous heart by Chair- man Norman H. Davis of the § American Red Cross, in asking Prompt contributions to a $10,000,- 000 war relief fund to be spent by the Red Cross for help to military and civilian wounded, and the homeless people of the warring na- tions. “We must send relief as needed and not too late to be of use,” Mr. Davis said. “We must send clothing, bedding, shoes, medications, surgi- cal dressings and food.” Before the most recent devasta- tion of neutral countries by aerial blitakriegs was begun, the Ameri- can Red Cross had sent $20,000 garments, knitted sweaters and hospital clothes for the women and children victims in England, Fin- land, France, Germany-occupied Po- Bombed from their homes, these young victims of ruthless war, have received Red Cross help. 1. Little Belgian evacuee; 2. A Polish refugee lad, thankful for his Red ,of the ! Cross shoes; 3. English children, evacuated from their homes, proud of their Red Cross dresses. land and for Polish refugees in other countries. To the Red Cross societies of the nations engaged in battle, the Red Cross sent 933,000 surgical dressings. These garments and surgical dressings were made in 1,500 Red Cross Chapters throughout America. In acdition, the American Red Cross purcaased medicines, shoes, blankets, knitted ‘underwear and almost a thousand other items at a cost of $1,500,000 KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Five. Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen FVIE YEARS AGO ‘of the Criminal Court, or they Courses for the midwives of must place bonds of $250 each. Monroe county are to be resum-|} ed in the ncar future by Mrs. Edwina Hodges, public health nurse here. Nina Ryder Johnson made the announcement _ this morning. Decision to resume the courses was reached after some discussion this morning. Lucas Gomez was on his way to Cuba and had reached Key West this morning when he was arrested on arrival here on the | Steamship Cuba by Sheriff Karl O. Thompson and Deputy Sheriff Ray Elwood.. He was arrested on 'a warrant from Tampa, charging robbery. Two teachers in Key West have been awarded scholarships | for attendance at summer schools held at Gainesville and at the A. and M. college at Tallahassee. |Miss Annabell Hill has been ap- pointed to teach in Monroe |county and Grace Palacios, color- ed, has been approved as teacher at the A. and M. College. Senator Arthur Gomez is sched- uled to speak to the three classes lof the Junior Patrol this after- noon at Bayview Park. Other speakers will be J. Gerry Curtis, director of operations of the Key; renter business. R. G. Bush, West administration and Arthur H. Sheppard, supervisor of parks. Dr. J. J. McMullen, of the | United States Public Health Serv- ice, was an afrival in the city this |morning and was the guest of: | Surgeon E. H. Carnes of the Ma- Tine hospital After an inspec- | tion of facilities here he left on }the S.S. Cuba for a short trip to | Havana. TEN YEARS AGO The Key West Rotary Club ob- |Serves Flag Day at their lunch-/ In the future the rate for buses of the Florida Moter Lines for transportation on the ferries of the Highway System will be $3 for bus each way for eight months of the year and $6 per bus for four months of the year, with bus passengers to be transported free. City Attorney J. Lancelot -Les- ter and County Clerk Ross C. |Sawyer have been appointed to ,g0 to Havana by the local Cham- ber of Commerce and negotiate with the Gato family for the lease.of two factory buildings here, belonging to the Gatos, for | a nominal rent. A third test of the engine of the’ fire department, which is new and untried, is to be made this afternoon at the bathing beach at the foot of Division street. A new motor has been sent from factory to replace the one which was said to be unsatisfactory. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO HL. Jervey, who has been manager of the Miami Herald bu- ;Teau for the last five years, has +tendered his resignation effective Saturday and will go to Miami to former Key Wester, who has been connected with the circulation Walter J. Hill, head of the com-! pany of the same name, one of; the largest ocntracting com- panies of the country, will arrive in the city at an early date and will hold conferences regarding the construction of roads and nek cms Go Kar Uss. _Bayspring leaves here jeon teday. The luncheon started , |with the raising of an American flag with the members standing )at the salute to the strains of the; Star Spangled Banner. Captain | | George T. Rice made an address. | ‘Three of the four Greek fisher-. {men for sponges from jSarioes, who ate eine eld i Vail by the > must _ lremain in jail un | the; for shipment to the Red Cross so- cieties of belligerent nations. But with destruction, suffering, and thousands of wounded added each day to the frightful toll of war as new nations became involved, the American Red Cross appealed to the nation for at least a ten mil- lion dollar relief fund. Contribu- tions can be made to the local Red Cross Chapter in any community in America, Mr. Davis said. TODAY’S COMMON ERROR “Phesomenn” 4 is plural: a tin form is “phe- TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ 1. traveling around the earth east to west, would one gain or lose a day? What government plan for recovery was instituted in 1933? Which of the Great Lakes is largest? | What.are Cleopatra’s nee- dies? What word meartiing a sharp rejoinder or witty repartee is also the name of a kind of vessel? With what sport is Wilbur | Shaw associated? What was the name of the | man who flew a_nine- year-old plane to Dublin in 1938? | In which book of the Bible are the Ten Command-j ments? What was President Roose- velt’s recommendation asj| to the number of airplanes | that should be built in the U. S. annually? Name the street in lower Manhattan that is famed _ as the money center of the “United States. 10. Shaohsing, famous wine ducing region of China, has wai invaded by the Japanese army. years ago. —_——_—__ LITTLE GiRL WITHOUT A MOTHER By PENETRATOR Little girl without a mother, What can I say to you? You need a-woman’s loving care One who would your troubles share; Even daddy sometimes fails To understand the little things That bruise a little woman's heart, How can I take your part? If I could teach vou to play Do you suppose that it help? We could be pals but that’s enough, To guide you over paths so rough Little girl without a mother. Somehow I've got to help you see 7 There's beauty left, in spite of Today s oe strife, In this bie call “Lif see hte tay lg not game that we Today’ s Birthdavs Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat of the District Court of the U. S. for the District of Columbia born at Nashua, N. H., 73 years ago. Rear Admiral Bradley U.S.N., retired, of New born at Lyons, N. Y. ago. Dr. Everett C. Herrick, presi dent. Andover-Newton Theolog- ical School, Mass., born at Liver- more, Me., 64 years ago. Gen. Robert E. Wood, president of Sears Roe! a born at Kan- sas City, Mo., 61 years ago. Mark Van ite wren of N author, born Hope, years. ago. Dr. Miller McClintock Yale Bureau of Traffic Research, born at Cedar je an Rapids, Nebr., 46 years ago. ner’s Pharr rug asil Rathbone. actor, born at Johannesburg, South Africa, 48 A. Fiske. York, 86 years at director Street For Fifty Years A NAME! In Coffee In Key West STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE THATS A REPUTATION Twenty-two U. S. president were lawyers—by far the leading profession in that office “SS: Se “Key West's Outstanding” LA CONCHA HOTEL Beautiful—Air- Conditioned Rainbow Room and Lounge DINING and DANCING a Strictly Fireproof Garage a : . 24-Hour Ambulance Service Open The Year Around Phone 135 Night 635 The First National Bank of Key West Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Snicaeetienlliinaliniaiee—iee Serving Key West and Monroe County Since 1891 artAmd *