The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 6, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO Che wiry West Citizen THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. | Daily Except Sunday By MAN, President Publisher wspaper In Key West and Monroe County Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press ed Press is exclusively entitled to use ublication of all news. dispatches credited to rwise credited in this paper and also 8 published here. SUBSCRIPTION KATES _ known on application. "SPECIAL NOTICE cards of thanks, resolutions of ces, will be charged for at churches from which 5 cen line. nvites discus- ocal or general 5us communi- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN seek the truth and print it thout fav never be wrong or to applaud right; tor progress; never be the or- d rs nouthpiece of any person, clique, lways do its utmost for the tolerate corruption or 1 vice and praise virtue, nd good done by individual or organ- rights, views and that will ; tolerant of others’ elevate e the reader; never com- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN A note from a lady is most always wel- is from the landlady. A naval expert says the U. S. Navy could blow the Japanese fleet out of exist- ence in three weeks. Maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea. lh outspoken Congress recently Senator an and uncomprising Dealer, defended his plan to give the Pr dent war-time powers for conscripting in- and labor. Naturally this led to a spirited dis conscription was only the first move to President Roosevelt a dictator. As ition is in the hands of the its which its dec maintain Nove electorate can powers r- Let in that eternal threugh ion next writer reiterate once ¢ is the of price erty. One expression attributed to Ed new chairman of the ing Jim Farley | as eager to get ics and enter n needed meney to pay ard to s in great in his position he ought because he , he was | “Why, to make plenty of mone Sure could have made plenty of money the position he has just vacated, were | he a creok. Now we will be ez how well Flynn will be do chairman the new of ‘ommittee. N nal ¢ Tresident Roosevelt is panning all those so-called apostates who are leaving the Democratic party on account of the third term menace and joining up with W ali those he attacks. Recently he said that snator Johnson of California is not a liberal anymore. The Senator replied caustically: ‘My real acquaintance with Mr. Roosevelt began when I fought for him in 1932. Had I followed him in his attempted packing of the Supreme Court and his veiled and un-American leading us down th? road to war and dicta- torship I would ave been a perfect lib- eral and progressive, and what glory would be mine!* This is just the same old purge; the same old sham expressions of regard and affection, the same old stil- etto,” ission of the question whether | Demo- | the Democratic | kie, but he is getting tit for tat from deeds | SERIOUS IMPLICATIONS! “I'd rather be a ‘live coward’ than a ‘dead hero’ ” Can any of our readers imagine that in our midst young men lacking in national patriotism and a sense of one’s who would dare to express themselves in such a manner? And yet, we are told by the recruiting officer for the local National Guard bat- tery that exactly that expression was,used by more than one person in Key West when - approached on the subject of joining that unit for patriotic duty. of enough is offered in that the battery is finding it hard to find enlist- ments to fill its ranks, that there is a lack- ing of patriotism in this city. But, if the young men here are choosing to think of this World crisis in such extreme terms of rank traitorism to our country, it’s high time an investigation of the problem be in- stituted. As pointed out before in the news columns of The Citi , enlistment in the National Guard now would preclude any chance of being drafted under terms of the conscription bill soon to be a law of the land. Not that the training would be any the less strenuous, but it does seem much more creditable for those who would be eligible for the draft, to not wait for that ’ and enlist now in the guard there ar duty to one’s country * “forced West young men should not fool mselves into a belief that this war busi- anything to be taken lightly, as it s been alleged some of them are doing. The future, true enough, is quite uncertain, but there is nothing in it certainly that would indicate any tendency towards slackening cf preparedness measures | throughout the nation. Dislike for war is quite natural, but interests country and leved not at all well served jaisical view | the of of our our ones will be by he number one topic of netional defense. a lak on t They concern all of us, and we are quite sure that, in the final analysis, Key West- 's will prove up with the rest of the nation in a sincere desire to help the government in its proclaimed effort to preserve demo- eracy. Patriotism should be the order of the among all of us, young or old. The is now holding demands at least that. FINDS GERMAN REPORT FALSE e day | cr The right of belligerents to conceal s readily acknowledged and to some extent a similar recognition is granted to egerated claims to losses inflictcd upon the enemy. Whether the poli or foolish depends upon sults. It often happens that the people of a nation respcnd better to the truth and longer retain faith in the statements of their governments. The British government has a much reputa for truth its reports than that enjoyed by Ger- Nonetheless, it is confusing to Am- vho have seen press services and almost equal crecence to the contending war offices, to seek accurate information from the welter of claims and s involved are wise subsequent re- better general on in | wa | mary. ericans, | ext | denials. Some weeks ago the British reported | extensive damage to the docks and ship- DP Hamburg. The report was denied in Berlin ard German officials | took newspaper representatives upon an | extended tour to demonstrate the falsity of | the British claims. It was notable, how- ever, that the correspondents were kept in a group and taken to special areas, with- facilities of out being allowed to investigate “‘on their | Not many days ago Germany reported | that important coastal area in England had | been virtually destroyed, that shipping was halted and the usefulness of the port had | disappeared as a result of successive bomb- ing attacks. Mallory Browne, staff correspondent | of the Christian Science Monitor, takes _up | this report and says that he has “‘just Te- | turned from a trip” in an area which Ger- | many has claimed to have bombed with “complete succe: and after a “thorough | and unrestricted inspection of the vast | docks” he finds “that nothing could be further from the truth.” F j “This visit,” he concludes, “proving beyond question that in one instance at least German claims bore almost no revela- | tion to the truth, throws revealing light on | the worth of their claims generally. ft also \ tends to confirm that the British claims of { slight damage done seems to be reliable.” ; i +great THE KEY WEST CITIZEN PENETRATOR PENS told + theatres, In a recent column we about our with correspondence Britisher, now Petersburg, Florida. Our The Key West Citizen, containing that particular umn, nt to her house. She read the item about herself with interest but we did not tand it when she laid the paper down without a word mer col- > back ina few mo- queer smile lighting her She carried a cardboard box her hands. Riffling through the box she extracted a packet of letters and handed them to They were the very letters we had itten to her youngster, while she was in in first one was dated Janu- 1914, in which we intro- ourselves, enclosing a The picture of herself that she sent back, she Ned mp”. In February, Te at this stage, “Yes- dies came and call- brought me a bou- I passionately We also thought; Pickford is just dandy”. in a letter of Octo- janation inkling. twice we went y A kacon bat is a lunch with raw bacon you fry on sticks over Bacon bat or basket- lunch meant nothing intelligible in Liverpool. A reference no on on to beach resort which included meant nothing to : ut we understood each other when it came to the mention of boys. “From what you said about it being quiet be- cause of your ‘boys’ being at the front I should judge you liked their society rather well. If you do. yu’re a girl after my own heart”. Boys under different categories. “I > one brother, a small boy of the tease of my life”. By November, 1915, the had become uncertain and our letter starts off, “Once again I ved a letter from you, safe- me letter reminds 1usiasm of American youths to “get into it” over there. “I got a postal from a fellow Londen on which he said. “No xcitement in over here—and t Tke letter continues, already has five cousins at > front. From what you ould certainly say that if he got into anything like what you describe he got a little more than looking for”. (This Ameri- ng man joined the RAF. as killed in action.) We see now our proclivity for uoting others, in this paragraph, vember 25th we have a called “Thanksgiving ich I am looking forward I haven’t any but That € think of something a grammar school teacher once said to me. ‘You may have brains but—can you prove it?’” September, 1917, after we ni ntered the wer, the tone of » letters changed. ‘Since the U.S.A. entered women have been ‘knii I didn’t know, how to but I learned and knit four tags for practise. Now I knitting wristers In this try they are drafting all men between 21 and 31, barring liv unfit and those with dependents. to be found q “On hol zy" to with pleasure. definite s lots of married men are being taken. They have built large camps for the men to train at. We do not have to make shirts for our soldiers as the govern- nt supplies them all clothing We have not felt the ‘war pinch’ ere t. except on foodstuffs, clothing and coal, etc, but MOVIE STARS CAN'T LOOK No woman can afford to. If you have unlovely haggard hol- lows and are thin, you may need the Vitamin B Complex and Iron im Vinol. Vinol has helped thou- sands. 145 EAST 23° STREEE, NEW LORE es GR orn Grom _ a2 A wife doesn’t seem | ufficient to exempt a man! all Today's Birthdays loday’s Horoscope > Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambassa- éor to England, born s2 Today and dances, ete. go on as ever” 3 in Boston. a “You spoke of Flag Days, our Tag Day: F years ago. which John Rust, of the _ Memphis, Tenn., brother the born in Texas, they Ne one two are similar to a= inven- Our Tag nall printed ts tell you what you are i ¢ money to, such as ss, Red Cross, etc., wear your tag at your ex- Jonn take no for pianist-compo: mond, 58 3 Arthur ‘Train novelist-lawyer, 65 years ago. ‘some. 80ardman Robinson ado Springs, Colo., girls 2 2 toonist in Nov: are not doing men’s work yet ‘nist botn im Nova : 5 Seidel Canby of New but when more of the me go oe : i away I know there will be lots of ee aim Gkie thes places” nington, Del., 62 years ago. As we hold those letters liam B Greeley of Seattle, our hands we ink If S. fores = chief, could only talk”. in Oswego, N. Y., 62 years crossed the ocean during wartime in escaped German They were taken from or erpool after frequent mechanical cotton 48 14th generally y. June picker. ago. * Governor John W. Bricker of n Co., O., 47 years Days are tags born in Modis go. Ohio, and if you don’t you get tagged ag: pense. They won't an answer”. Even as now en our am- bitions for women to take active part in defense work is strong, we, at that time, evidently lieved women should do thing besides knit. “Our years of born at Virginia, Rich New in York, born Boston, Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service —bet ween— MIAMI AND KEY WEST Also Serving Ali Pomts On Florida Kers Between Miami and Key West Following Schedule Effective June isch be- ~, eee artist-car- Scotia in the: f Stresm is 50 miles narrowest point 3u od ma: “Key West's Outstanding” LA CONCHA HOTEL Beatitiful—Air-Conditioned Rainbow Room and Cocktail two hat next? ida hurricanes. ¥ about potentcy letters. for And speaking thev hold a great Lounge wealth or woe. 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