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

PAGE TWO Vill: CSTIZEN PUBLISHING CO. ENC. i xcept Sunday By AKUMAN, President and Publisher SLL Business M: eae OF c and Ann Streets wspaper in Key West and nroe County da, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press usively entitled to use dispatches credited to d in this paper and also -$10.00 5.06 2.50 85 :20 cards of thanks, resolutions of Ss, etc., will be charged for at by churches from which \l are 5 cents a line. rum and invites discus- f local or general us communi- MENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN £ County and City Gov- > is no such thing in this country lispensable man. He is a myth. The green duplicate will not have to be filed with the Federal income tax re- rn next Spring. harassed payer in an unpleasant reminder. see the United »iled in the European’ con- »pear to thase on the opposi ence to be’ wishful thinkers than prophetic prognosticators. ngers who the f act of Congre vers brought into the s addition will not lesse > who have been paying for many years, the new comers are welcome. lential Candidate Willkie was : Democrat, until he sickened of and Vice Presidential Can- as formerly a Republican | New and con; the choice is ith Rocsevelt’s D yours, You’ve heard the one about the farm- whter, but not this one. In Eng- farmer er, aged 14, aided I f two Germans whose plane shot down by Royal Air Force fight- At sight of the girl a Nazi officer and eant surrendered, and notified f their capture. daug she es 0 ently Colonel Knox, a Republi- secretary of the Navy, h mind about Roosevelt and they the Democratic He once characterized Roose- erconfident, incautious, self- i unreliable,” and ace as “A farm journal complex,” and nce are yminees. vy certainly are not com- Democratic standard ‘or whom he must now have aught customary fulsome praise. rt’s suit against the under the anti-trust spread interest to the While railroad coach en reduced throughout - the nan fares are . higher than} yme years ago. The govern- ids thatthe public has been tificial and unreasonably hig! at the same time the Pull- y ‘exacts non-competitive and terms from railroads for the sleep- -e which it Once be- the government was about to de- at the prices for sleeping accom- » reduced, the company threat- ate some of the conveniences > berths, and nothmg wasdone. Fur- , the pay of the Pullman porters hat they depend to a great extent provides.” o elim on tips f a living wage. rea - | Che wry West Citizen . slight concession to | , two million new | TAXABLE LANDS INCREASED! One of the main reasons for concern as to why the Internal Improvement Board hedn’t forwarded the deeds to Monroe County property sold auction during Murphy sales the first part of this year, was that continued delay meant that the at lands in question could :not be placed on = the county and city tax rolls for the -new, | fiscal] year. With the arrival of the deeds from Tallahassee last weekend, however, that fear is disspelled and both the county and city tax assessors and collectors are now taking steps to see that approximately 700 new land owners are reminded that they will be expected to pay their taxes. In the case of the city, it has been es- timated that a sum near the $15,000 mark may be realized from these new lands now released by the I. I. Board’ for taxation. That news is quite welcome, as all - will agree, when the present stagnant condition of the municipality’s financial condition is considered. It will probably mean that the presert administration will find it possible to announce paydays more regularly from this date forward. OUR DEFENSE {Continued from Page One) ditional units needed for subse- quent action. The success of this pends on eauipm itial protective for material ready at once for addi- tional forces. That is why the President has asked for the addi- tional material for 800,000 men over the standing Army of 1,200.- 000 he requested. The Fighting Arms The arms, the fighting units of our Army, are the Infantry, Cav- alry, Field Artillery, Coast Artil- lery, Air Corps. Corps of Engi- de- plan for the and having At are already at work on the shoes turers of looms be that won't bite the foo them. The Advisory Commission Army how the orders should be distributed to get the best and fastest results without imterferimg seriously with other necessary production, without causing trans- portation and without causing loc bor shartages This job i hy day, but for next week and @Ei “the mex year,so that the whole proves “Arm r wath the can run smoothly while we ready two million men for arms. This means that the Defense Commission must look behind the manufacturer who supplies. jet us say the blankets, and see that he is assured of an adequate wool telis the “SH-SHURE, I CAN MAKE IT.” It’s as silly—as it is dangerous —to take chances with traffic. One feature of the clearing ofthese | Murphy lands, whether to old» or new owners, is that in the case of: city. -taxes, ntage may be taken of the discount | arrangement voted by the council last spring. Until October first, all taxes ed prior to 1936 may be settled on a thirty per cent basis, providing the taxes for the last three years are paid in whole. Key West sighed with relief when Clerk S. deeds. The Citizen does likewise in knowledge that, at leng last, the [I I. | Board has completed the job, in the main, | so badly muddled. | The addition to the tax rolls of parcels | owned by those who were successful bid- | ders at the sales, indicates, at the outset, | that that number of new-owners are added | to the list of conscientious taxpayers. It is ' to be hoped that they remain in that cate- The Citizen expects that they will.‘ adv: gory. PEIPING’S MANY NAMES Many of the world’s capitals and ! other important cities have seen their | names changed in recent years, and it | would take much space to enumerate them | all. But perhaps no city in the world has | had its name changed so often as Peiping, China, formerly known for 519 years as Peking. Peiping is not really a new name for the city, but an old one restored, for it was “known as Peiping before it was called Peking. The many changes in the city’s name were made by conquerors who ruled the city at various times during its long, and largely unrecorded history. Long before the Christian era there was a city on its site called Ki, and it has been known at different times as Chung-tu, Yen-shan Fu, Yen-king, and even once as | Nanking,~which is now the name of the | later capital far to the southward. } Coming down to the Middle \ Ages, Feiping was called Khanbalik, ‘of ‘Cam- | | baluc, when it first became- known ‘to Eu-} | ropeans in the 13th century, shortly after | | its capture and rebuilding by» the eon- | queror Kublai Khan, founder of the Mon- gol dynasty in China. In the following century the Ming dynasty came to power | st called Peiping, ac- the name and the city was cording to some authorities, later being changed to Peking. In all times and under all names, Peiping has been an unhappy city. For any but the ruling class, there has never | been much to live for in China. 900 PLANES A MONTH The production of airplanes in this country is now around 900 a month and William S. Knudsen, Chief of the National | Defense Commission’s Production Division, | Says that production will reach 1,500 a | month this Fall. * } Especially encouraging is his revela- tion that the United States is now turning out 2,200 airplane motors a month. view of recent talk of “bottlenecks” which | threatened the production of planes and mctors it is good to hear that the experts | believe that this country should be produc- ing close to 2,500 planes a month next Spring. This will be a long ways from en- | abling us to supply the British with any-! ‘ ; thing like the 3,000 planes they want to, rom the traveling public te make buy each month but it will be many steps | | to the goal. PENETRATOR PENS When last we wrote we were| books, took hikes up into Jersey, let us take John Smith, the avér- sitting in the rain in Bradentan| spent our vacations traveling to #8° Trailer Park. Our pans were to) proceed on to Tampa or St.! Petersburg and the weather made up our minds for us. Two days previously the Little Man- atee River Bridge had been washed out which meant a long detour to Tampa so we decided on going to St. Pete on the ferry. | A slight let-up in the rain! prompted us to move on and to catch a certain scheduled trip. We were late arriving at the ferry slip, but so was the ferry so we were square. The trip to St. Pete was a’ rough one, the ferry shivered ‘from stem to stern but being an id salt, the rougher the water the better we like it. Not so our dog, who was seasick. In St. Pete we went directly to our Mollie, a friend of long ‘standing. We nearly said, our old friend Mollie, but that would never do because Mollie is not | that old. ae ae As a child we lived in a small New England village and one of |the neighbors was a very de- lightful person, Mollie’s sister from England. We used to hang around her back door waiting for afternoon tea and English muf- fins. She told us she had a small sister in England and suggested that we write to her. This was an intriguing prospect and in childish enthusiasm we wrote to Mollie in England. The time was long to us before we received an answer but Mollie replied just as enthusiastically. We went through girlhood, the boy-crazy stage of the teen age together, through our correspondence. We both had our first positions in the work-a-day world about the same time. We exchanged the old: fashioned ping-pong pictures. Ours showed a very frilly dress with a white felt hat over a face that showed what we hope re-; vealed childish innocence. Mol- +lie’s ping-pong showed a girl with a great wealth of curly hair and she had a black velvet! ribbon tied around her neck: ‘Then tamé the’ war. For a while our censored let- ters passed back and forth. She | lived in the outskirts of London, which were bombed so they| moved. The new location was} bombed and they moved again. The third place was bombed and they moved to Liverpool. Sud- denly her letters stopped coming altogether and we lost track of each other entirely. After the war we went back to} |New Engand on a visit. We had! never forgotten our Mollie and made every effort to trace her sister and our efforts were! crowned with success. The sister now lived in Brooklyn, New York and Mollie was in the! United States. ) What was intended to be a day ispent with Mollie turned out to 'be a day spent/im the wilds of the In} ie Hine summer resorts. We married within a year of each other. Our first break came when her baby ‘was born. We confess now that we were jealous of that baby, it couldn't have been anything else. We resented it that the baby came between us and Mollie could ‘no longer go around as she did. She resented our attitude toward the baby al- though nothing was ever said about it. We just quit. When the baby was three we ere so lonesome to see Mollie that we wrote to her. She had been so hungry to see us after three years that she wrote to us. Our letters crossd in the mail! The next separation came when we moved to Florida. Each year when we returned north we tried to convince Mollie that Florida was the only place on earth. She didn’t believe us. Then the baby got sick and the doctor ordered fresh air and sun- shine. Where to find that in Brooklyn? She remembered our Florida lectures and beat us get- ting to Florida that year. They are still here and the baby is now a fine strong young man whose chief interest at the present is baseball and bicycle. Our paths, Mollie’s and ours seem fated to merge no matter where we go. She is our anchor to windward especially when trouble comes along. We thank the Powers that be for her. eee A friend in need is a friend indeed. When our face needs. lifting we go to Mollie and come away with our cheeks positively aching and our sides likewise, from laughing. If Edna Wallace Hopper could have known Mollie she might not have had to have that third face-lifting operation Key Westers perhaps will notice our re-juvenation on our return. A trap-door spider can resist a 10-pound pull 6n the door of its burrow. MONROE THEATER | Heary Fonda—Jane Darwell ee GRAPES OF WRATH Matinee—Balcony 10c, Or- chestra 15-20c; Night—15-25¢ neers, and the Signal Corps. the present time, the mechaniz- ed forces in the Cavalry, the In- fantry, and some Field Artillery have been transferred to a new armored force, just experimental- ly organized. If the force per- forms as expected, it may be- come a new fighting arm, in- cluding several armored divisions of the type of the now famous “Panzer” divisions of the German Army. These divisions, com- prising about 10% of the German Army, are what made the “Blitz- krieg” possible. The Infantry is the main fight- ing part of the Army. In a bat- tle the Infantry slugs it out with ithe enemy... In order.to under- stand what the nation has to do. recruit, and: see what hap- pens to him when he joins the Army, and what we have pre him with to make him a soldier. John joins the Infantry today ie Tai his right hand and takes the oath’ of allegiance and bv do- ing that, he sets in motion a long integrated chain of act to supply him with the wherewith- al to fight. Clothing An Army First come clothes. Shoes, sock pants, underclothing, shirts helmets, blankets, tent, gas trenching tool, reserve r: fact, evervthing that make: self-supporting man of war. 2,- 000,000 John Smiths need two million times as much material— and the ‘proper material has to be ready as each John Smith raises his right hand. In order to be sure that it is ready, the War Department breaks down these requirements into so many yards of wool cloth !for pants, so many ‘hides for shoes, so many tons of steel for trenching tools, hob nails, etc. Then the National Defense Ad- visory Commission goes to work It finds the cloth for the uni- forms, which will have to be spe- icially woven, but there are more than enough factories ready to do the job and deliver the goods before the men are ready for |them. America’s shoe suppliers him a 2 TRY IT TODAY— The Favorite in Key West STAR * BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS PaLaes Win. 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