The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 15, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen | PUBLISHING CO. INC. abl y Except Sunday By L. P. ARTMAN, & ident and Publisher EN, dusiness Mauager The Citizen Building © and Ann Streets Newspaper in Key West and nroe County of the Asseciated Press ss is exclusively entitled to use ation of all news dispatches credited to nerwise credited in this paper and also hews published here. “SUBSCRIPTION RATES ng notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of ary notices, ete., will be charged for at vites discus- 1 or general 5us communi- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels Beach and Bathing Pavilion. and Apartments. Land and’ Sea. Airports y on of County and City Gov- Tke smell of the stockyards of Chi- ago is bad enough. If national elections were not in- iluenced, Fresident Roosevelt would never be elected for a third term. Those who are against the proposed conscription or draft may be better Amer- icans than those who are for the measure, though not for the same reason as Reds, who are by nature anarchistic iconoclastic. As a result of the nomination by pres- sure of President Roosevelt for a_ third term, the Democrats are faced with two defections in the party: Those who will engage in a sit-down strike and those who will take a walk. Breaking a precedent may break a party. At a press conference speaking about the recent Havana conference, President Roosevelt said tha. the inter-American re- lations have been taken out of the formal cat2gory and now we all speak the same Con mucho gusto, Senor Presi- dente, y muchas gracias. language. Hitler’s offer of peace to England, not containing any provisions for peace, was in reality a definite declaration of war in its finality—an ultimatum or rather uncondi- tional surrender. England had no other recourse but to decline, retaining a chance; | there w none in surrender. After working through its vast war hysteria machinery, up propaganda a the Administration is ready to enslave the | people by conscription. We are not at war with any nation, cannot even perceive any wer clouds; why force the ways of war on ee times of pe themselves when- sion requires and it serves their purposes and desires. On February 10, 1928, the senate of the United States de- nounced the third term as un- patrictic and fraught with peril to our free institutions.” The Democratic departure from this time-honored custom, established by Washington and all the other Presi- dents of the United States, presumably is he essence of wisdom, the height of riotism and a buiwark to our free in- stitutions. Hip, hip, hurrah! Politicians reverse ever cce ‘unwise, Mr. Roosevelt is often not only ir- responsible but cruel, too, in his statements egainst prominent individuals who oppose him. When he heard Mr. Hanes had de- cided to cast his lot with Willkie, the Presi- dent said that Mr. Hanes’s “slant of mind ran more to dollars than to humanity.” Yet Mr. Hanes twice came to the aid of his country upon the insistence of President Roosevelt. Onee when he accepted an ap- pointment as commissioner of the SEC, and again when he took the job as Under- Secretary of the Treasury. He rendered many other valuable services to his coun- try, actuated by a desire to help, and all entailing great financial sacrifices. The reward—presidential denunciation. the | or; ANOTHER LABOR CRISIS Periodically, it seems, Key West must i go through a trying experience of work- | ing-man layoffs. At least, that has been the record of the past three years in con- nection with orders, from time to time, from WPA headquarters. Right now, the labor crisis appears to wbe at a new igh. Repeated layoffs all spring and summer, with the last-one cut- ting off sixty men last week, have reduced the rolls of those working on relief to a few les: than two-hundred. This low figure compares with 700 on the rolls early this year. Once again local government officials ! _ and civic bodies are sending urgent mes sages to our representatives in Congress— calling attention to the situation—stating again that Key West’s isolation and _pe- culiar status is deserving of extra con- sideration. Whith is the least that can be done for the families of our city that face e not at all bright. On the face of it the facts do point to y bearing down in the last lay- off. Nine counties were ordered to dis- pense with the services of 400 persons. Divided equally, that would have meant 44 layoffs for each county. The total of ixty was an unfair division, especially in view of the fact that Key West has been in the past considered in the light of its i ion of no industries and isolated Ne such consideration, this time, however. . t has been generally understood that much rational defense work would be available for WPA workers in this area. In fact, Key West has been designated as one of the few such areas that will re- ceive such work in the near future. It may be, then, that the layoffs here are made in anticipation of greatly increased demands for labor for many defense proj- ects. The Citizen has not been informed definitely of that fact—but it certainly hopes its surmise is correct. There is nothing so discouraging for local government officials to face and com- bat than the bug-a-bear of excessive un- employment. Key West is buckling its belt tighter the while it waits for more cheering news for its hundreds of persons out of work. In the meantime—can any- body think of a way out of the dilema? It’s a gcod time to come forward with a solu- tion, if any. unnece: BRITISH TAXES . An illustration of the sacrifices a peo- ple must face to carry on a modern war is seer. in the present taxes levied on the . people of Great Britain. There the base income tax rate is 42.5 per cent, while in the United St&tes it is still only 4 per cent for individuals in the lower income brackets. ® British corporations pay 42.5 per cent cf their net income, besides an excess profits tax which taxes 100 per cent of their income above that earned as an aver- | age in pre-war years. In the case of in- dividuals, income exempt from the income tax is only $500, and surtaxes run to 90 per cent of all income above $80,000 a year. On top of all this, Britain imposes a sales tax of 12 per cent on all goods ex- cept food, and a 24 per cent sales tax on luxuries. The total tax ona package of cigarettes is 29 cents. The British government has figured that if it confiscated all individual incomes ever $8,000 it would collect only about 280 million dollars a year more than it does now. The foregoing will give some idea of the burdens the British are bearing in their efforts to save civilization from Hitler, to say nothing of their losses*of life and limb, or the mental anguish which they suffer day and night. They are really fighting our battle as well as their own. DOLLAR CURRENCY IN DEMAND A financial writer in a metropolitan newspaper, covering the Wall Street ‘area, says “it is interesting to note that dollar currency sells at substantial premiums im all parts of the world.” Each month, he points out, large quantities of dollar currency are sent abroad by Wall Street banks, with Switzer- land serving as the distributing point. “So great is the European hoarding demand, thet little of this currency returns to the United States ... There appears to be no diminution abread of the demand for the | i; dolar bill.” THE KEY WEST CITIZEN” YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE WELL PRODUCE WHATS NEEDED FoR NATIONAL DEFENSE, ALL RIGHT ! BUT WE MUST HAVE COOPERATION. You CANT JUST APPROPRIATE A TANK OR PLANE, IT TAKES TiME TO RETOOL AND Bund for NATIONAL PRODUCTION ! PENETRATOR PENS We parked the wagon on a downtown Tampa street and left it. On our return we found a card thrown in the window which read, in part, “Would you accept $450 for your V8 to apply on the purchase of a new one?! Contact us at once as we are in need of the type of used car you are now | driving”. We thought of writing on the bottom of the car, “So are we”. This card puffed us up no end, as the turn-in value offered was a hundred dollars more than we paid for the wagon last Decem- ber in the North. There is a tip for some young man who knows how to pick bargains. Go North, bu: a car, drive it back South and sell it for $100 more than he paid for it. But be sure you know a bargain when you see it. A Key West navy wife was telling the red tape and difficul- ties she faced when she brought her dog into the State of Flor- ida. He had to be crated just so, had to have his rabies innocula- tion certificate, his license, etc. Her -comment was: “Florida strains gnats and swallows moun- tains”. For we had just told her about a man who had escaped from a Florida jail sentence. This almost jail-bird married and became the father of a boy. The mother wanted to name her first-born son Junior, after the father. “Sorry”, says Dad, “I’ve already got a Junior by my first wife”. That was news to ‘the second wife, who hadn’t known he had been married before. They had another son and while he was a baby in arms’a strange man came to the door one day and asked, “Are you Mrs. X?” “Yes”. “That's all I want to know”, and he turned to leave. “Wait a minute”, the woman said. “Why do you ask?” “I'm getting divorce evidence”, he ex- plained. It took a bit of explaining to Mrs. X before she that it was a third wife suing for divorce. The second Mrs. X had the husband put in a coun- ty jail for non-support. “Fine”, says he. “I'll just stay here, three meals a day and no kids to wor- Wife No. 2 and wife No. 3 de- cided to press state charges of bigamy. The day the state war- rant was ready to be served, they discovered this unnamed county had turned him loose, not caring to support him indefinitely. No- body has seen hide nor hair of , him since. eo ae The bear went over the moun- tain. Splitting headaches, nervous energy plus, sumpin’s genna bust. We decided before we burst wide open on some sidewalk and splat- tered some plodding pedestrian with an extra pair of eyes, ears, nose and brain tissue, we'd bet- ter see a doctor. Gadgets and gadzooks. “High bleed pressure,” sez the doc. “So what?” says the patient. “Go heme and go to bed, rest, eat and don’t worry!” sez he. “In the first place we ain't got @ bed, it's a bunk, and on eats, it’s a case of ‘get your own or go° without’, and don’t worry?—ha, ha,” we seoffed. j So we went home and sat down | to worry it out as to how not to! worry about paying the doc who! told us not to worry. Rest. Let's see what Sir Rich-_ ard Berton, translator of Arabian Nights and author of The Kasi- dah says about rest: j understood Strietly Fireproof strike; the broken reed shall pipe again; But we, we die, and Death is one, the doom. of brutes, the doom of men.” “Then, if Nirvana round our life with nothingness haply beset; Thy toils and troubles, want and Woe, at length have wen their guerdon—Rest.” "tis Pliny said, “The power of dy- ing when you please is the best thing that God has given to man amid all the sufferings of life.” We might consider that as a solution except that there are so many things we haven't experi- enced yet! We have never been around the world, never been di- vorced, never been a parent, never been in jail, in fact, never even had a toothache yet. And as we only have two wisdom teeth there must be two more coming some day. Even barring the above possibilities there are the urgent needs of today, a score of letters to answer, a crocheted spread to finish, a half-read book at hand; Spanish to be learned, and right this minute the dog wants “out”. We guess we can wait on the rest. Which reminds us, we always wanted to try waiting on table in a restaurant. Dame pan cubano y manti- quilla. Adios, PENETRATOR. “Key West's Outstanding” LA CONCHA HOTEL Beautiful—Air-Conditioned Rainbow Room and Cocktail Lounge DINING and DANCING Garage Open The Year Around MYSTERY ROMANCE HUMOR ‘Starts August 17 IN THIS PAPER THURSDAY PRINTING HOUSE CRAFTSMEN ‘COME OF AGE’ The International Association of Printing House Craftsmen, this year promoting -celebration of the 500th Anniversary of the invention of printing by Johann Gutenberg, is “coming of age” during 1940, with the passing of the twenty-first year since its founding as an international or- ganization. Unconcerned with politics, la- bor or wage agreements, which it leaves to the province of em- ploye and employer organiza- tions, the Craftsmen are interest- ed primarily in the study of new techniques and processes in the field of the graphic arts. The international organization is made up of 60 clubs in major cities representing more than 6,- 000 superintendents and compos- ing room foremen of printing plants and leading publications in the United States, its posses- STATIONERY OFFICE FORMS at Reasonable Prices PHONE > Ve PAUSE T sions, and Canada. Organized on | not-for-profit vasis, the organ- ization is supported from dues paid by members. ; Frequent meetings held by the 0 local Craftsmen’s Clubs. dis- jtrict conferences, and the annual Craftsmen's convention, which this year teck place August 4th to 8th in San Francisco, are de- ;voted to clinics, addresses by experts in specialized fields of {printing and “share your know- ledge” discussions. Present international officers ‘of the Craftsmen are John M }Callahan ef Cincinnati, president; Frank McCaffrey of Senttle. ifirst vice-president; Fred W. AUGUST Today's Horoscope Hoch of New York City, second = vice-president; Eric O'Connor of Montreal, third vice-president A. V. Fitzgerald of Milwaukee treasurer, ahd L. M. Augustine of Baltimore. Md_, secretary ICE DIVISION PHONE NO. & and quality. Ic leaves you with 2 é- lightfully refreshed fecling that = always so welcome . . . 50 satisfying k's 2 happy ending to thirs.. HAT REFRESHES KEY WEST COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPAERY