The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 30, 1940, Page 2

‘that a hobo is PAGE TWO Che « WEY West Citizen BN PUBLISHING CO. ~~ = Daily Except Sunday By MAN, Prexidert and Publisher + SLLEN, Busine » Manager From The Citizen i ilding r Greene and Ann Streets Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monrve Coury Member of the Associated Press xclusively entitled to use i news dispatches credited to edited in this paper and also shed here. SPECIAL NOTICE tices, cards of thanks, resolutions of notioes, ete., will be “charged for at ent by churches from which od are 5 cents a line. etn forum and invites discus- nd subjects of ral or general ublish anonymous communi- seek the truth and print it fear and without favor; never be id to attack wrong or to applaud right; s fight tor progress; never be the or- or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the welfare; never tolerate corruption or denounce vice and praise virtue, commend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and ms; print only news that will elevate ot contaminate the reader; never com- se public injustice; with principle. SA ES EES Se a PD TAT IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. Water and Sewerage. 2. More Hotels and Apartments. 3 ch and Bathing Pavilion. 4. Airports—Land and Sea. 5. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. Ww Then you. read the opinions of ‘othe never forget that they are opinions. When Hitler nes no more worlds to | conquer he must look elsewhere than this mundane sphere, and may Fate speed the | against a third term by Garner, Farley, etc., instead of | outright bolting, is le manly to this | writer. We prefer the method of Al} Smith and others who overtly “take a é If party loyalty were the acme of | political integrity then Roosevelt, Wallace, Ickes, Knox, Stir mn and many others are | apostates and should have been excom- municated just after the transition. When Roosevelt bolted the Democratic party by voting for Theodore Roosevelt there was | 10 principle involved, guinary consideration — Franklin’s eccusin. merely consan- Theodore was Despite valiant efforts to maintain | his individuality,;-thetypical hobo is fast | replacing the Indian‘fg the “vanishing American.”” Many a habo has ridden the | “rods” to fame and glo¥y and high places in literature and politics. Supreme Court | Justice Douglass once was a hobo, but the xreatest graduate of Hobohemia and seek- ing the highest office the people have to other than Wendell L. Willkie, standard bearer of the Republican y, who may become president of the United States. It might be mentioned here not a tramp or bum but a migratory worker. o.ter is none Wholesome advice comes from France in the statement made by Interior Minister Marquet that the U. S. stop taking things , wake up and go to work. He said recently when he was in the United States as late as 1932, a young man with average intelligence, average brawn, and average will to work could have hoped and did hope to amass encugh to live comfortably. When he returned in 1939 he was. as- tonished to find American youth no longer wished to work, women filling the jobs of men in industry and commerce, wearing too much make up and refusing to bear children. That’s a true picture and the result of too much “abundant life,” and ne softening effects of the New Deal— antastic and cockeyed emanations of eamy minds. Man is condemned to earn daily bread by the sweat of his brow, and he should become reconciled and learn ike it. breached. cussed “street menace” | you travel anywhere on the face | earth and find purer, clearer | healthy, invigorating air than that which | is found here? | tainly smoke-free, the air we breathe | bathed of its impurities by cooling and re- | the deep? | West doesn’t have to bow to | United States. | but we are sure by now that s LIABILITIES AND ASSETS In recent weeks The Citizen has re- | ceived a number of Forum Letters decry- ing this and that condition existing ih Key West. Realizing that such expressions act as a mirror in which faults and draw- backs are seen, the columns of this news- paper have always been thrown open to constructive critici: it about our ewr handiwork of the com- —be or that } munity. Now, we don’t believe anyone deny that our little city can’t stand a touch- ing up by the Brush of Improvement. The surprise at our beach facilities is understood ard there’s no “beating around the bush” when the stray-dog problem is Neither can the much-dis- issue be sidestep- ped or the need for a paint-your house campaign. We'll grant all of our critics these things. But what of Key West’s natural g Are they never to be praised and published, at least partially as eagerly as the liabilities are stressed? Let’s take a look at the good points Key West poss 5: Right now, the heat is a main topic of discussion all over the nation. Sure—it get’s hot here. But, we don’t have heat prostrations in our “deplorable city”. does winter affect us? Hee Key West ever been isolated because of blizzards, our yards, sidewalks and streets become sloppy and dangerous when ice begins to thaw? Has anyone frozen to death in Key West? Obviously—no. The Gulf Stream breezes that cool us ir summer, also warm us in the winter— a decided factor in our favor. - Then there is the atmosphere. Can of the and more the Practically dust-free, cer- is freshing breezes from off the Atlantic and | Gulf. Are not the waters surrounding Key West an asset? And where else can one find such variety and gamey fighters of Of course there are fist in but for and quentity, any elsewhere, palatab: waters beauty, Key other section in this respect. How about our foliage? Botanists from all over the world visit us annually and exclaim with much enthusiasm con- cerning the wonderful floral and tree growths found on this tropical island of ours. Many rare growths are found here that are not found any place else in the We all know that. There are other assets to enumerate, the reader understands the idea that motivated this editorial. Specifically: while acknowl- edging the ccnstructive criticisms, let’s not forget to do a little boosting. Yes, Key West has haven't we all! Capitalize on the assets; liquidate the liabilities! its faults—but BENEFACTOR The greatest benefactor of Key West would be that person or that organization | who or which would lawfully buy up all delinquent property known to be owned | by persons capable of paying the taxes thereon. Once it were known that tax dodgers would lose title to their property in this manner that gentry would become searcer than hen’s teeth. In the diatribes of this column against | the professional tax dodger, please bear in mind that a tax dodger is an undesir- able citizen who can pay his just taxes but will not because he knows he can get away with it here. On the other hand sometimes a non- taxpayer is a desirable citizen who would love to pay his just taxes but whose income is not sufficient to give him a decent liv- ing and yet have enough money left over te pay his taxes. These should be given ample time to pay according to ability to pay. While the law does not permit dis- | crimination in its enforcement, those dele- gated to enforce it have a couple of eyes which they can close in justifiable eases to open them again when conditions war- rant. As the situation is now, public offi- cials close their eyes in all cases and go to sleep. The remedy is stated in the first | sentence of this article. will’ downright | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN “I WONDER WHAT THEY’RE DOING” Working in the street is their busifess. Make it your business to stay out of the street. SUNDAY DINNER HEN ing your menus for Whe Labor Day wtebrend it might Pepin arg ole them so that most of the cooking can be done on Saturday, leaving both Sunday and Mon- day free for the housekeeper to relax and take part in holiday festivities. This does not mean that it will be necessary to have two cold meals. It merely means that menu items should be so selected that there is not a great are still a good ae Duckling 80 low in price it is robabig the best selection in the = division, al- though fryers, broilers and small roast- ing chickens are 2lso low priced and well worthy of consideration. If the family has a yen for shrimp this is & good to serve them a salad, curry oF cocktail of this seafood since the supply is much more plentiful and Prices are correspondingly lower. Eesre/aitioeiage eres orida oranges, Northwestern Greenie less grapes are slentital faa in the a. this week. There is an excellent of huckleberries which are delicious in FOOD FACTS IN A BREAD BY RANK In early England royalty alene enjoyed fresh bread. Thereafter. rank decided the age of the bread eaten. Barons got two day old bread, lesser gentry three day old bread and common peo- ple four day old bread. ‘ . product of the honey bee, it has a 75 per cent sugar content com- | posed of dextrose and levulese, toth of which are easily gestible. a TURMERIC The spice, turmeric, is the dried and ground root of an | Asiatic plant and is an important pies, dumplings, muffins and tarts. In | the realm of vegetables both green corn and lima beans sre at their best and low priced and plentiful are green beets, — ‘carrots, onions, peppers, potatoes tomatoes. The following menus in three rice | ranges are suggested by Miss Cors Anthony of the A&P kitchens for Sun- ‘ day dinners: ecos ‘One Year Of War SCCSCOS SESS EHESOSSSSSSESSSSSSSSSSOSOSESEOESSOESE (and what it has meant toe the World) (EDITOR’S NOTE: Sunday. Sevt. 1. is the first an- niversery of the war in Europe. What has the great con- flict done to the world in that time? This is a first effort to appraise the results—a task which really is a job for future historians. By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer Strike a balance on the first anniversary of the new World war, and you're deep in bloody bookkeeping! Already 800,000 human beings have worn the uniforms of their nations to death and three mil- non more have been wounded. Those are conservative esti- mates based on official com- muniques and adjusted to the U.S. army’s unofficial mortality tables for modern warfare. Nor do these totals account for civilian casualties, in themselves astronomic. Take hapless Rotterdam as an ‘index. One-third city was destroyed by G:rman high explosives in 20 minutes. Perhaps 100,000 persons died in that worst holocaust of its kind in all time. Eight Million Homeless Mechanized warfare and conflicting crusades of races creeds and nationalities have created homeless refugees at the most staggering rate known to civilization. More than 8,000,000 Europeans have been forced out on the high roads—7,000.000 in France alone. Precious property accumula- tions of lifetimes, centuries, have vanished. A gruesome index is the collective loss at sea. More than 800 vessels have gone down, accounting for 3,000,000 tons of ships and cargo. With them went approximately 7,000 lives. All this has happened since Adolf Hitler’s juggernauts crank- ed up a year ago September 1 and started into Poland. All this has happened—and in- finitely more. | Turn To Berlin Or Moscow In 365 brief days the little } Austrian corporal. has become the most feared man pf our With the help of Josef'Stalin and | Benito Mussolini, he has changed the courses of nearly a score of nations and fragments of nations. | More than 185,000,000 people |have turned their faces toward Berlin or Moscow. Some 34,000.- 000 of these are now breaking their necks trying to face both ways at once. Under the muzzles of guns, zones of influence have been widening from Berlin and Mos- cow. Today they embrace 1,500,- 1000 square miles of Europe alone, an area half the size of the Unit- ed States. That's not counting the plans of Ttaly. Mussolini has hardly dip- ped in his oar yet, except along {a tiny strip of the coast of France. Craziest Pattern In History Future historians will. inherit from this era the craziest pattern ef war in all history. Before them will be the awful scheme of September 1, 1939. Contrast that with the band-playing, blood- tingling enthusiasm for physical combat when the first World war descended on Europe in 1914. Before the historians, too, will be the spectacle of the rich demo- eractic empires of France and Britain, raggedely prepared for modern war. Tt was seven months before the democracies completely real- ized they were fact to face with ithe deadliest mass destroyer yet known—an army headed by the ‘world’s greatest air force and 14 the cf that Duteh! time. ; panzer divisions that cut like a torch through the armies of the west. During that seven-month pe- riod from September until May, 1940, no such great war songs were born as “Tipperary” and “Long, Long Trail’. Instead there was the shabby humor of Britain’s tirpan alley, “We're Goin’ To Hang Our Washin’ On The Seigfried Line”. And of course the Germans’ hoarse songs of conquest. All Nations Affected Nor ,was this eerie war confin- ed to the continent of Europe. The British blockade and German reprisals, whatever their aims against the enemy, affected the economies of all nations. In Ainerica the effect was elec- tric. The stock market gyrated widly, and within twelve months the accent of our national econo- my changed into a drive for armaments. The spending rate for our army and navy was stepped up six-fold to 12 billion dollars annually,! despite, the national debt of close to 50 billions of dollars. We called out the national guard by sections and considered | conscription. We put on paper a two-ocean navy, convertible into fighting reality by 1945. Agree To Hemisphere Solidarity We took a broader view of the Monroe doctrine, invited the 20 other American republics to help us enforce it. Oddly enough, they agreed to hemisphere solid- arity. One of the nation’s major par-| ties scuttled precedent, nomin- | the, White House. J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI headed up non-uniformed forces charged | with stamping out “fifth col-| umnists”. We set out to finger- | print the nearly 4,000,000 aliens | in our midst. And for the first time in many a year, the Congress enacted two Pieces of major legislation for national defense—with practical- ly a unanimous vote in both houses. ’ BUILDS MODEL OF SHIP COMMANDED BY HIS ANCESTORS (By Associated Press) MILWAUKEE, Aug. 30.—Wal- ter Hull, whose great-grandfa- ther commanded “Old Ironsides” in her famous battle with the; English-ship Guerriere in the} war of 1812, is finishing a scale model of the ship that relative | ¥saac Hull piloted to victory. A sailor since childhood, Hull | has built many models for the Milwaukee public museum, and! the American frigate Constitu- tion, better known as “Old Iron-| sides”, will be placed on exhibi-/ Cassc-ole of smoked ham slices and potatoes baked in milk Fresh stewed tomatoes Sliced oranges and bananas with coconut Iced tea or iced coffee Moderate Cost Dinner Tomatoes staffed with cottage cheese Iced tea = iced coffee = Special Dinner eydew cocktail Every week in the year Am- jerica drinks 30,000,000 pounds of | plantations of Brazil Modern |Chain store methods of mess dis- tribution and” merchandising make it possible for Americans to enjoy the best coffee at about one twenty-fifth of the price & |cost in great grand-mother's | time. The cherry is supposed te Roast nesta with oven browned potatoes j Fresh succotash Huckleberry pie Teed tea or iced coffee U. S. WEATHER BUREAU REPORT | Observation taken at 7:30 a. m.. 75th Mer. Time (city office) ‘Temperatures Highest last 24 hours Lowest last — Mean - Normal _- a Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending 30 a. m., inches 21 rainfall since Aug. 1, inches Excess since Aug. re inches Total rainfall since Jan. 1, inches Deficiency since January 1, inches - - Wind Direction and Velocity E—9 miles per hour Relative Humidity 80% Barometer at 7:30 a. m. todey Sea level, 30.04 (1017.3 millibars) | Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise 6:07 a. Sunset 6:47 p. Moonrise 4:24 a. Moonset _ 5:36 p. Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) | High Low (Till 7:30 p. m., Saturday) 0.65 5.98 | 1.66 | sors| WE PENINSULAR & OCCIDENTAL $$ COMPAR er 1.H_COSTAR. Consult YOUR TRAVEL LAST DAYS OF 2 UR ANNIVER on SON OF ROARING DAS with FUZZY Also — Sema apc Comoe ee OL Ld Le LEADING MOTEL ed - SO -s Peon : SALE Firestens TIRES iM > Key West and Vicinity: Gen-j| erally fair tonight; partly cloudy, possibly a \scattered showers; gentle to mod- ‘erate easterly winds. Florida: Generally fair tonight few ated a man for a third term in|escattered thundershowers — and Saturday excépt for a seed afternoon. Chas. Starret—Iris Meredith | TRY IT TODAY— The Favorite in Key West STAR BRAND Saturday, | few | PAUL'S TRE AND AMTO. SUPPLY. STORE RAYMOND CURRY, Maneger Fleming and White Streets - buys his copies of The Citizer ot whole sale, sells them at retail . pays cash for his papers. . loses if a customer fails to pay. ... is embarrassed if a custome: = siow pes . goes the limit for his trade, = om the job rain or shine, serves his customer: well - asks customers te cooperate by peying