The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 20, 1940, Page 2

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ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, ess Manager The Citizen Building ner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key (West and Monroe County * Associated Press is exclusively entitled to for republication of ali news. dispat ed ate zavlaiy 2 SA sear SRN pea 2.50 85 -20 | ADVERTISING RATES known on teeations "SPECIAL NOTICE reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of t ee notices, etc., will be charged for at £10 cents a line. ntertainment by churches from which od are 5 cents a line. n forum and invites discus- 1 subjects of local or gerieral t it will not publish anonymous communi- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear never be i to attac! to applaud right; never be the or- or the mouthpiece,of any person, clique, action or class; always do itg.utmost for the aa ublic welfare; never:tolérate corruption or and wrong or fight tor progress; without favor; denounce vicef and praise virtue, nd good done by individlpal or organ- tolerant of others’ rights, views and ions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- oromise with principle. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels ch and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. a lation of County and City Gov- ernments and Apartments. A Medern City Hospital. The indispensable man is a Feality in the totalitarian countries, but not in a free country. Tarachute maker’s this one dcesn’t work, get a new one free.” guarantee: “If | bring it back and It is not that we sympathize with the European evacues less, but with our own indigent children more, Dr. High, a former prominent New | Dealer and Roosevelt confidante, and Mr. Lowe, the eminent magnate, have come out for Willkie. Apparently a change in the Administration is desired by both high and low. Hitler hesitated before he struck | against Great Britain; he knew that nation | was no push-over like al] the small nations | he conquered with the exception of France,| 5 which had been weakened to the marrow# tng Soviet “bases off oultpires! THE KEY WEST CITIZEN We might as well edmit that Miami’s ability to step into the lime-light has all her other beautiful Florida sisters, includ- ing Key West, biting their fingernails with envy. As the Centurion said to St. Paul of his citizenship, that he had paid a good | round sum for it, Miami might well remark Vs eer cities that if they‘ would cofne ithe a comparable fee for the “pub-~ | tgiations” brotherhood, | they too could ls front page and rotogravure en- ticements that would lure the heavy spend- tive competitors for attention. The above tribute to Miami’s good : ers past the dwellings of some very attrac- | ! sense and enterprise is paid in good faith | and as a compliment to the most adept grabber ofeheadlines within the scope of the Morroe Doctrine. Only European mass murder can beat Miami to the front | page, and all the money that Grover Whalen is spending on the World’s Fair | does not drown the siren song of our illus- tricus neighbor. But, nevertheless, and not withstand- 2g, Miami does not happen to be the | nation’s front line of defense. That is just another one of her all-embracing claims. I Mipmi is. well adapted to Kheeome a supply | depot for that advanced post, nearly 200 Bure farther into the danger | zone,’ Key Vest Here is the Gibpaltar: ‘of! the Carib- bean. No enemy would bother our young sister while Old Man Key West is in pos- session of his faculties and his shotgun. Here, almost 200 miles nearer the Panama Canal, guarding the Straits of Florida, | holding the key to the Gulf of Mexico and all the water born commerce of the Mis- sissippi Valley, the Old Rock waits and watches, the far-flung Southern out-post of the United States of America, diligently cultivating the art of the siesta in times | of peace, alert and vibrant with when danger threatens its beloved home- | land. Si No!. We cheerfully concede almost | all of Miami’s claims. Almost. We re- | joice in the fact that we can contribute | to the Magic City’s prosperity by inviting ; the world to visit Key West, feeling as- | sured that Miami can take care of herself | as the visitors enter into and depart from ing, her enchanted environs on their way-to the | sland City where the big guns lie like leeping mastiffs. So, we might as well make a virtue of necessity and bid Miami welcome to all | the glory that she can think of and all the | publicity she can purchase with this ex- | ception; if she also desires the glory of | standing in the nation’s front line of de- | fense, she will have to pick up and move | right on down the keys, getting closer and | closer to the all-important post of honor, key by key, until at last, she has made her home in Key West. | sl | SOVIET THREAT TO ALASKA A threat to Alaska is seen in the chain | of Army, Navy and Air bases that Russia ‘| is creating in the Bering Sea.area, where; thousands of yoting Russians, ake establish-? which in- by living a more abundant and socialistic ay army and navy contingents. le of life. Ernest Hemingway, the author and a citizen of Key West, has de- livered to Seribners, his publishers, the final draft of his latest and longest novel, which some critics who have seen parts of ', describe as even better than “Farewell to Arms.” Hemingway is quoted in an in- terview in New York as saying that he worked on the book solid for seventeen months, and that it has got to be good, as his last job, “To Have and Have Not”, was in which observation the writer concurs and has in effect previously » expressed himself. not so good, Tax evasion and:avoidance Has been practiced assiduously, by; many? citizens sof the United States; now’ after registration and conscription becomes a law, evasion nd avoidance of those restrictions will be- | prohibition, | come commonplace. Like conscription is undesirable, times especially in of peace, but the war-moiigers, who have been proselytizing for several years, must have their wishes gratified at any | cost. For years this column Has stated emphatically that Presideiit Roosevelt was manoeuvring this country into war and he | may succeed. Conscription is one step further in that direetion. eminent | Hallett Abend, writing ifo the New York ‘Times, says that fortresses have been built in the region, coast defense guns have been mounted, submarine bases are being built, airfields have been completed and all foreigners are rigorously excluded. Mr. Abend calls attention to articles in Soviet newspapers and magazines dwell- ing upon the riches of Alaska and an in- tensive campaign for “recovery of rich lands” that once belonged to Russia before they were “ineptly lost or corruptly sold.” As Alaska is the only territory that _ the Czars ever sola, Mr. Aiberid feels that the implication is plain. | Working in secrecy, he says, the Soviet has deported all the natives from »the’Bering district. In addition, Koman- dorsky island,- opposite the Alettians, is a 3ferbiddeh zone’? for all except Russian Army and Navy: planes although German officers visit it with great frequency. This information, which seems to be the United States that when, arid if, the totalitarian powers begin their effort to sieve other areas they might have the as- sistance of the Soviet. Just as Spain, | mourning her lost possessions in this hemis- phere, may work with Germany and Italy, it is possible that Russik might take | | occasion to séize Alaska if this cduntry is | | at war with strong powers, loyalty | } from “Wh, i ple of your. stock first come to reasonably authentic, serves notice upon | ‘town no end. Miss Crampton also won'a trip to. Washington, .D. C., where-she was greeted by Senators and Rep- resentatives from her home state. At the New York ese was the guest of Fair officials -and sponsors of the gas industries ex- hibit group there known as “Gas Wonderland.” The. mammoth Servel Electro- lux refrigerator shown above is situated in the center of the gas refrigeration display -known as the “Magic Caves of Ice” where it holds the awed attention of the .w thousands of visitors who daily ae through “Gas Wonder- lant HERE we pee @ young aif ine ting a giant gas refriger- tora tHe ee ichs might have been us: ‘aS brad the-fantastic land ‘Piants-in Gulliver's Travels. ama young miss is Jane Cramp- ton, of Meridian, Mississippi, who | recently won the imposing title of “homemaker of the future” in a nation-wide urban foods project contest in which more than 8,000 high school students in 40 states participated. The pert little miss won as ae of her award a trip to the York World's Fair where the huge refrigerator is on display. - PENETRATOR PENS No aspiring writer ever made Adamic is trying to effect over the grade withoui the encourage- the whole United States, unity | ment of some successful writer.'and co-8peration of heterogen- Once helped by such a patron, eous groups without prejudice or ever after they seem like a god-, |segregation. We would like to father, in whose successes you! take Mr. Adamic to a certain take pride and somehow share. That is the way we feel about Key West sandwich shop where \Louis Adamic, author of “Myjwe have seeh Nordics, Cubans, America”. | Spaniards, Jews, garden variety! Listening to “One Man’s Fam-) Americans and others, sitting at) ily” on the radio Sunday night! tables eating, and even a few papers entail of SLU Utan negroes standing at the counter, two characters in the sketch dis- ‘ : cussed Mr. Adaimic’s book, “My |4ll enjoying themselves without thought of race, color or creed. America”, and told about his new book to be published in the Fall. Sars te a Mr. Adamic had a great idea. Burton Rascoe called his auto- for obtaining material for his biography, “Before I Forget”. new book, “A Nation of Nations”, a ee es getting ideas from everyone who Mary Austin, in her book, cared to express themselves on «parth Horizon”, classifies the subject. We, along with drunks: “Chicken drunk, in which hundreds of others, serit him our|, man becomes merely silly; owl ideas, so while our material may ' drunk, a state of being stupidly not appear as we wrote it, We) clever: and how drunk, stich as will feel that somehow we are brings a man to the gutter”. summed up in the result. a ee The method Mr. Adamic chose: pyogit! to inspire others to write their Shih, aes ce a ideas was to send them a “broad- side”, a list of provocative ques- tions to be answered. Questions were addressed to aliens or their progeny, others to “old-stock” ; Americans. He wanted answers i$°0n such questions as, atid qwhénce did peo- i WHO KNOWS? Before I forget—we exchanged Key West mosquitos for Tampa red bugs. No bargain as either ean make you itch all night_long. | | Ameri as joes America look no##té ‘people df wo ee jor national ygiock? “Would you. i oe for a President for at 1. Where was. the heaviest terni?® * Of! did- a-stoad Inmeticansenzteuee ever recorded in the | he asked such questions as these: “What do you think or feel about _ 2, How many men will be all these ‘foreigners’ being hete?”, drafted if the compulsory service | “When vou think of ‘foreigners’ | Dill becomes law? do vou mean to include the im-|._3- What is the stones of | migrant’s American-born chil- | U-S. forces at Shanghai? dren?” 4. How many members of the | In “My America” Mr. Adamic British Commonwealth have do- | treated many other aspects of minio#Status? | American life besides the alien | _ 5-: nm did Germany invade | problem. One section of the book Belgium? was on labor, its cultural and/_ 6-75 mm. gun fires a pro- psychological effects as well ag jectile of what size in inehes? economical aspects. We agreed 7. Who discovered. the North with Mr. Adamic that it is quite #nd South Poles? necessarv fox. a man to take pride _ 8 How many Americans were| in his work; even though it is a in the’ armed forces of this nation | “pelt-line” job, and wrote to Mr. /4uring the World War? Adamic first, thanking Hirn for .9- Where is the Coast Guard | | making the subject so clear. Academy located? j We enclosed a sketch we had: 10. How many needy old per-| written.on: the" subject. and Mr,/ Sons, @ependent children and Aaamic (Plctotisiy ‘eticttfYaged us’ | needy “blirid are receiving public! to contint® iwritihé. Right: assistance under Social Security | legishition? \His patron saint, as a young and 55S as struggling writer, was Burton T a ? je Se Today's Horoscone Mr. Adamiic is to be editor of ed this fall, called “Corhmon 'structive; capable in ethergen- Ground”. The Carnegie Founda-/cies and able arid ready at all \magazine organization, the Com- tive to be fairly it! mon Council | to train swe elected him our patron gaint Rascoe. assisteti by 4 matron a new magazine, die to be birth-| Exetistive without being” con-| tion has granted aid to the) times, the fortune of caynalaey na- Unity. = We believe Mr. Adatmie would like Key West. Key West, to us, jembodies the principles ‘that Mr. | j ind of nice to my ear at times, up to those elected to look after Cal, the streets, a gate TUESDay Showla be fair and on one side of the paper only. Signature of the writers must accompany the letters and will requested Editor, The Citizen: - , igg-peal mingey Somewhere; at one time, I saw springs to many in print the following reference real: 2onest-to-gootiness to Key West, “An emerald, set in| eit» Soe a Sapphire sea’. Now that sounds,“ © pee ar With & little work it_ would’: 4 i ¥ i j but when set to the rhythm of body's girt, ‘that nerve-wracking, car-wreck- long Fs Key wen ing tempo that is so familiar to look like a “ ” to any motorist who dares to ne- a ‘gem it angen. gotiate a Key West street, it — we to be @ut on loses its music and becomes rath- 9" er discordant. Any motorist who} can keep his car and nerves un- ied West, Fia., ‘der control on Southard street 7 ae between Duval and Simonton is A¥S- wasting his time in Key West— he should be at some army air- field where such supermen are in demand. Now I am going to offer two solutions to the street repair problem. put in practice, would help the years ago. | Ralph Badd, president af the First, I propose that every able |Chicago, Burlington. & Quincy bodied person adopt ten chuck- TRR, member of the National De holes to. keep filled. With the fense Board. born at Waterlen conservative estimate of ten lowa, 61 years ago thousand: people so employed Herbert E. Gaston, assistant to (children, too), it is easy to see the Secretary of the Treasury that one hundred thousand holes born at Halsey, Oreg. 58 years would be eliminated. In other ago. words, most of them. We can Dr. Florence L. Meredith not dodge the rest fairly easily. ed Tufts-Jackson College. Bos Second, I propose that, in case ton, professor of hygiene. bern in the majority of the townspeople Boston, 57 years age. think that this job should be left. John S. McGroarty of Tujunga. ex-congressman and poet. be placed at born in Luzerne Co. Pa. 7 Stock Island and kept closed to years ago. all tourists until the streets are, Herford T. Cowling of Ariing fixed. This would undoubtedly ton, Va, movie producer and «= eliminate a lot of bad impres-|plorer, born in Virginia, 50 fears sions to be carried back north. ago. Now I have tried to overlook! James H Case of New York a lot of things about Key West City, banker, born at Elizabeth and have done so with some suc- N. J., 86 years ago. cess. All were little things, not ns EE sa important, yet vexing.none the; After serving one week as dog less. Why, in just the past few ‘catcher for Corvallis, Ore. Ther- days I have laughed off the theft one Carlin resigned. explaining of my spare tire, and tools from that he ha@ seatched his territery my car, the stench from a sewer thoroughly and couldn't find any overflowing for days after a hard Stray dogs. f j tel CLYDE L. HUGHES. Edger A. Guest of Detroit. every day. It had’to be good eo get whEfe it is. SO, get 2 Coca-Cola, and y= = I'm sure that either, if famed poet, born im England 38 ™ Today's Birthdays =. “~~ —————— Picese acresr ros get the feel of refreshmext. © paust THAT REFRESHES BOTTLED UNDer Aurnbiirry Or THE COicactis co SY KEY WEST COCA-CGLA BOTTLING COMPAKY c=