The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 23, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO She ey West Citizen LISHING CO., INC. ept Sunday By REMAN, President and Publisher JOE AL Business Manager From The Citize a An Corner Greene ai Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Member of the Associated Press Hhe Associated Press is exclusively entifled to use ‘ur republication of all news dispagch¢s credited to it or not otherwise credited inthis ‘paper and also "ths local news published here. URSCRIPTION RATES $10.00 5.00 2.50 85 20 ADVERTISING RATES Il be charged for at hurches from which 5 cents a line. WILL aly without fear a seek the truth and print it without favor; never be ong or to applaud right; s; never be the or- of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injust denounce vice and praise virtue, commend good done by individual or organ- tolerant of others’ rights, views and fF ; news that will elevate opinions; print only and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More } Beach and Batt Airports—Land and Consolidatier County and City Gov- ernments Modern City Hospital Forgotten causes: Disarmament, the Kellogg pact and the gold standard. According to a news dispatch, a lady bather in Florida barely es ing. “Barely” caped drown- is doubtless cor Pope Pius XII recently world could no lo paradise. More t said that the r be called an earthly an a paradise the world vale o It would be a nice plank in anybody's tform to give the owner of every busi- laranteed vacation, asking that, why with pay. shouldn't capi- One sovernmert pha > form of which i is the who are weak influenced by the proffer of or emoluments in some form, > of our d& 1 nental to ion to publie office of men and vacillating and éasily money Italian authorities forbid petting dur- ing blackouts. Who is going to know un- ples will tell on themselves, and nar What ppens during the blackouts will remain the co ire ain’t built that way By limiting the consumption of tea to 25 cups a week, England her plight. Many Many cups in a day. be in-agreement with With such a restriction wh of the morale of the tight little acknowledging that John Bull must now Sherman. to become isle? Englishmen drink Gener. It is said that the m destructive bomb used by the Nazis was invented by two Americans. The inventors first sub- mitted the bomb to the United States Army were turned down. We seem to have the inventive genius but not the vision. A nation without vision shall perish; wake up! let’s The United States is not going to make the mistake the Allies made in go- ing to sleep while a madman is roaming over Europe. Ten billion dollars is a ter- rifying amount of money a former German paper-hanger is foreing the great United States to expend in order to keep him from these peaceful shores, yet it will be well spent if it is used for purposes of defense dnly and not in helping cther nations to ppll_their chestnuts out of the fire. ; dow’tfexpect that. SRD IS COMING Key West welcomed the announce- ment made last weekend that the State Road Department is going to hold its August meeting in this city. Not that this important state group’s an occasion for demonstra- nature—the members But, it is a high com- pliment to our city that, in view of the cir- cumstances that infleenced their choice, the board decided to pick the southern- most. city of its system of roads for their meet. Additional information on the coming of the State Road Department indieated that ancther city was scheduled for this meeting. Our State Representative, Ber- nie C. Papy, however, pulled some strings which resulted in a last-minute switch in choice at the Lakeland meeting. ‘The SRD is the most important link in the chain of events that will, eventually, biing ore of our top-ranking projects to conclusion. It is this board that will give al go-ahead signal on the extension of the Overseas Highway when all of Federal co-operation are worked out and department budgets are made. Local agencies will do well to plan welcoming gestures to the visiting road lepartment officials. They will arrive in cur city following a trip over the highway. i will have freshly imprinted in their ds the condition of that part of the ead not within the O. R. & T. B. District —they, no doubt, will be ina frame of to agree that Key West needs the ex- Therefore, expressions from local dignitaries, of a co-operative nature, will be in order, and should, if The Citizen may suggest, act to hasten a _ favorable nouncement from the department. And then too, Key West may well plan some form cf moderate entertain- ment for the visitors. Business sessions ould very well be interspersed with hours f Key West hospitality. it will be tions of city-wide tensior. an- FAMINE TO DESTROY GERMANY We have reached a stage, personally, where we endorse the neutrality of the Texan who proclaimed his neutrality by declaring that he didn’t care who licked Hitler and, moreover, we don’t care how it is accomplished. Raymond Leslie Buell, editor of the Fortune Round Table, expresses our senti- ments when he says that the only means of this country from active belli- is to provide aid that will enable British to withstand German on- ights until bad weather sets in in Sep- tember. Because we agree with Mr. Buell that this alone will prevent our nation from be- coming actively involved, we support his suggestions that the United States sell 100 destroyers and 50 flying fortresses to Great Britain and, if necessary, use naval s to carry food to the British. If this program is effective, he thinks, a famine in Continental Europe will “de- stroy the Nazi war machine before the end of winter.” This prediction is in line with reports from London which declare that Europe is facing a major famine, that the plight of Germany is worse than it was ever expect- ed to be and the countries overrun by the Nazis are in a more serious condition. The British expect an appeal from the Germans aving geren convoy for help from the world in feeding starving j millions and are prepared to resist such an appeal on the ground that if the people of Germany are starving it is because they preferred “guns to butter.” JAILED D FOR LISTENING Six residents of Germany were sent to prison for three years last week for listen- ing to foreign radio stations and, in addi- tion, they will lose all civil rights. The fact that Hitler is afraid to per- rit his people to listen to anything except the: propaganda of his publicity machine indicates the transitory base his govern- ment rests upon. = Hitler makes full use of the. radio to tell Germans what he wants them to hear | and, in order to force them to believe it, he forbids them to listen to foreign stations which might tell them some news. This ought te be enough to convince most cf the world that Hitler is lying te his own people. If he lies to them, why should he tell fereigners the truth over German stations? Why should foreigners, knowing these facts, believe anything that comes over a German station, or from Ger- ; man sources? THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Economic Highlights HAPPENINGS THAT AFFECT THE DINNER PAILS, DIVIDEND CHECKS AND TAX BILLS OF isda Md INDIVIDUAL: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS _INSEPARABLE FROM LOCAL WELFARE At best, the presidency of the United States is one of the world’s toughest jobs. When a man takes the oath of office from the Chief Justice and goes to live in the White House, he accepts duties and responsibilities whieh will be with him every waking minute of his time. The next president will take on an even tougher job than the great majority of his predeces- sors have faced. He will take of- fice in a time of world crisis and national emergency. And as soon as he sits down at his desk he will have to grapple with prob- lems whose solution is known to no one. He will have to be pre- pared. to deal with changes and trends which menace all that the United States has created since the Revolution, and which threat- en the very foundations of our system of government. National Defense The next president’s most im- mediate problem will be that of national defense. It is apparent that he will be able to produce little that is tangible, so far as defense is-concerned, this year. It takes time for a great nation to switch fram a peace economy to a war economy. The groundwork for a workable program is being laid now, but difficult bottlenecks exist. And we start the defense program under the definite hand- icap of a $45,000,000,000 national‘ debt largely built up during the last eight years. There is a pos- sibility that the debt will reach and perhaps pass the $70,000,000,- 000 mark before we are done. Even so, the defense problem, vital as it is, is perhaps the simplest of the next president’s jobs—few question that we will find some way to produce and pay for the guns and airplanes arg battleships we Before him will be other prob- lems, far-reaching and immense- ly difficult, which must eventual- ly be solved. And here are a few of them: Trade Problem There is the problem of trade. Today Hitler dominates the con- tinent—tomorrow he may dom- inate all Europe. And Hitler does not deal in money, which means dealing in gold. He deals, in- stead, in barter. His economy goes back to the most primitive of economic systems. He says, in effect, “I have coal that you need—you have machines that I need—so we will trade them”. The task of the United States will be to either meet Hitler’s terms, which would involve a veritable economic revolution here, or to force him to meet our traditional trade policy—which few economists believe he will be willing or able to do. Agriculture There is the problem of agri- culture, which is related to the must have. ! problem of trade. We have spent immense sums in the name of farm relief, and it is apparent that we have gotten little of durable worth in return. Today the problem grows gfaver, as our foreign markets disappear. There is a certainty that Europe will want and need more of the produce of our farms and ranch- es—but there is also the certainty that Europe will be unable to pay for it. The next president, sitting in his ornate office, will have to seek a way out, and whichever way he turns there will be gigantic barriers between him and success. Unemployment There is the problem of unem- ployment, coupled with the prob- lem of relief. The defense pro- gram will make many jobs, but it does not look as if it will take care of the millions of unskilled and little-skilled men and women who today are supported in one way or another by government. In some important lines there is a serious shortage of workmen— many willing hands reach out for jobs, but they are not adequate to, perform the tasks. Training people for highly skilled work takes a long time, and it also takes facilities which do not now exist in sufficient quantity. Standard Of Living There is the problem of the American standard of living. Whatever we spend for national defense—fifteen billion, twenty billion, thirty billion — must jeventually come out of the peo- ple’s pockets. Perhaps fifteen per- cent of the national income will now be devoted to armament, in addition to possible debt increas- es. That means that we will have fifteen percent less to spend for housing, food, clothing, en- :tertainment—all the luxuries and {necessities. The next president jwill undoubtedly attempt to in- crease our national income suffi- ciently to make up for this—but, so far as we can see now, he is jforedoomed to at least partial failure. It is almost universally agreed that the standard of liv- ing must suffer—that Americans will eat cheaper food, live in cheaper -homes, spend less for subsistence and for pleasure. Aftermath Of War | There is the long-range prob- lem of the effects of war and {war preparedness on the entire leconomie structure. that is built to make shells is ei- ther worthless when the emer- {gency is over, or must undergo la costly revamping process. War- |time booms, in other words, pro- iduce peace-time depressions—and the bigger the boom the longer and deeper the depression. | These are but a few of the |problems the next president must (face. It isn’t an enviable job. PENETRATOR PENS ORCHIDS AND ONIONS Orchids to Stephen C. Single- ton, Key West Chamber of Com- merce biggie, who threw one rock and a flock of roses at Es- quire, the magazine for men, apd rated a column in the Sound and Fury department in the | 1940, issue. An onion to the driver who splashed mud on our car the next day after we washed and polish- ed it. Orchids to Caesar La Monaca for choosing selections for his concert: that we, the common people, can understand and ap- preciate. An orchid to Cecil Carbonell and his wife, just on general principles, and in view of their} twenty-three years together. And | welcome back to Key West. An onion to the guy who bor-; rowed a quarter to take his daughter to the movies and fail-! ed to pay up. | . Orchids to the man who keeps! his head On the ‘job when all! about him are. losing theirs. ate Ts July, a whole new can, and passed the saving along to us. Such hon- esty! a _ A special orchid to the one and only ‘sailor. Onions to \they happen to like onions; if so, make it citronella. Orchids to trailer-tourists Ar- mour, who have decided to stay another week. ee An orchid to the wife of a coast guard cutter officer for her} extreme graciousness to a total stranger. An orchid for the teacher—of jany sehool, anywhere, Sundays jor weekdays. An orchid to the Kind Fate jthat allows us the privilege of {living in Key West. | It so happens that we have never owned an orchid but be- lieve we Saw ome once, under iglass. And. throwing onions isn’t too bad, ‘cause we love our onions. and -rather hate to part ‘with them. We ean take ‘emi iTaw, boiled, fried, stewed, chop- The factory ; mosquitos—unless | Today's Birthdays Today’s Horoscope “ Daniel W. Bell, under-secre- tary of the treasury, born in Kin- derhook, Ill, 49 years ago. Dr. Albert Shaw, oldtime edi- tor, born in Butler Co., Ohio, 83 years ago. Themas H. MacDonald, chief, U. S. Bureau of Public Roads, Washington, D. C., born at Lead- ville, Colo., 59 years ago. - Dr. Frank P. Graves, New York State’s commissioner of ed- ucation, born in Brooklyn, 71 years ago. Gluyas Williams of cartoonist, born in San cisco, 52 years ago. Dr.. Icie G. Macy, research chemist, director of Detroit's Children’s Fund, born at Gallatin, Mo., 48 years ago. Prof. Emma P. Carr of Mt. Holyoke College, Mass., chemist born at Holmesville, Ohio, 60 years ago. Simeon Strunsky of New York, noted editorial writer-author, born in Russia, 61 years ago Boston, Fran- were before we could be let out. Asanature study the kids at school were growing various beans, kernels and other life that would grow in a piece of netting suspended over a glass of water. These glasses were ranged around the room on the window sills. When Miss John- son was called from the room for a few moments, we youthful transgressors picked an onion sprout, smeared it on our hands, then held them near our eyes until we cried real tears, thus convincing the dear old lacy on her return to the room of the sincerity of our repentance. Of course youngsters nowa- days would not stoop to such subterfuge. It is our guess they are made of sterner stuff. We must check that with some par- ents some day. Do you remember last licking? your Said the pbhilatelist to the stamp. And a friend of ours, hard hit during the depression, said that if she ever won a _ sweepstake ticket she was going ta buy an orchid and stamp on it plant- | Today's native is apt to be pulsive, intelligence week and judgment w the past deg ree willful and darmg W: bestowed by it is a very aa COLA LL LL Lh hh de N) Pure, wholesome, delicious,— Coca-Cola is refreshment you want at home. Everybody likes its distinctive taste COMPLAINT SERVICE. . . Orchids to the writer of thejped, pickled and via the other Key West Art Center column for man’s breath and still like ’em. |a fine job and good suggestions | passed our way. | Amp onion saved us from fur- Sees jther punishment once. A par- Onions a-plenty to those re-jticular school girl friend and Pen- sponsible for no benches atiny, this writer, got into some South Beach. {sort of scrape with our fifth- lgrade teacher, a soft-hearted An orchid to a_ certain local [oid soul Her idea of punishment! service station. operator who pric-|was to _keep us after school ed a job on a fender for us and/until we said ‘we were sorry for, iwhen we returned to get the jour misdoings. We two imps jbus, knocked something off the agreed between us that we were | price because they were able to|not sorry but knew we had. to} lmatch the paint without buying convilse"iifier Johnson that we! and the happy after- sense of complete re- freshment that it gives. Your dealer has the handy home package, =the six-bottle carton. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COC ACCEL CO BY KEY WEST COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY If you do net Receive Your Copy The CITIZEN By 6 P. M- PHONE—WESTERN UNION Between 6 and 7 P. 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