The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 17, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO le nary al Citi Cle uirvy west Citizen THE © IN PUBLISIL G CO. INC Except Sunday By Prextdent and Pab! . Dusiness Manager “orner Greene and Ann Streets apjer in Key West and County orida, as second cl Member of t.e Associated Pres republication of credited to herwise credited in this paper and also ews published here. SURSCRIPTION RATES _ ADVERTISING RATES “Made known on application ‘SPECIAL NOTICE notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of c., Will be charged for at a line. inment by churches from which ites discus- al or general us communi- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL ays seck the truth and print it hout fear and without favor; never be aid to attack wrong or to applaud right; ys fight tor progress; never be the or- or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, 1 or cl vays do its utmost for the * welfare; never tolerate corruption or e; denounce vice and praise virtue, nd good done by individual or organ- ; tolerant of others’ rights, views and ; print only news that will elevate contaminate the reader; never com- romise witn principle. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN and Sewerage. Apartmer ach and Bathing Pavilion. 1 and Sei of Cou irperts—Li solidati y and City Gov- rnments. Modern City Hospital Quit advertising your business and vite your business to quit. the sident. Besides a good cigar, United States needs . ex-pr All suppress¢ primitive instinets are ig a glorious holiday in Europe these 1ere slaughter and inhumanity are heroic deeds. Reds showed they had tinal fortitude, qualities essary in baseball as in all lds of endeavor. There is mitention that political m conflicting opinions; rress resul the personnel of government. gress results from changes It is the democratic way. The labor racketeer, George Scalise, “en sentenced to from 10 to 20 years While the : offense, he ng punished for other criminal acts, his conviction # Federal court in 1913 on a Mann Act conviction is a victory ling funds from a union. ion was for this spec n and unknown, cne e's union men and honest unions, mviction was not sought by . and no friend of labor will regret for m) hat his days of criminality are over irs to come. that the in order to ely, must In his desire to be boss everything, Presi npted to do the job himself but with his | term requirements of time he found impossible and was about to name a 12n when Willkie made the political mistake to state publicly that a chairman for the Commission was an urgent neces- On that account Roosevelt refused to make the appointment and declared iothing will be done until after election.” ‘Lhis is picayunish pettiness. It is a bare- faced implication that the President of the United States is so petty an individual that he is willing to sacrifice a matter cededly in the national interest at a vital moment in the life of the Nation for no other reason than that it has been publicly suggested by his opponent for the presi- dency. That’s polities with a vengeance. s conceded by everyone Defense Commission proj tior eftect erly and ent Roosevelt at- chair con- | desperate of all in the world today. ae aside funds now RED CROSS CALL It is not too early to begin thinking about support for the annual Red Cross call to start in this city on Armistice Day, November 11. With that fact in mind, it was refresh- ing to note that complete organization of the local Red Cross committee was effected at a meeting earlier this week and that the cause of furnishing relief to destitute war ; the ocean would be in good hands by reason of that organization. All angles of the drive were amply covered in the organization move and the victims acr THE KEY WEST CITIZEN HE NEED = a ee BOTH a —— task now, it would appear, resolves itself | | into mere formalities of pressing the start- ing bell signal to make collections. It would be a_ particularly com- } mendable thing for Key West if our quota, | could Considerable publicity is yet to be announced, scribed. given be oversub- | to this annual drive and if Key West could | be on one of the first lists as having met its quota, and then some, the outside world would gain knowledge of our patriotic fervor. Then again, the Red Cross roll furnishes Key Westers with an opportunity to repay the powers that be for the many | projects that have come to our shores by | reason of the war—the war, that makes s appeal! for funds to relieve distress in many parts of the world. All asure of emoticn to see an hostilitie necessary all -n end to conduct future Red Cross calls. But with the certain knowledge that no such eventuality can come in the very near future, the need remains the most necessary jy to support the call! to contribute to worthiest of worthy causes! Lay this Get r FLYING FORTRESSES FOR CHINA? The suggestion that the United States send twenty-five flying fortresses to Great | Britain interests Americans who want to how many flying fortresses the ed States possesses, According to The Washington Star, know | there are now fifty-two on hand, twelve of newer design ready for delivery and sixty- four more of greatly improved speed and fighting qualities due for delivery before the end of the year. At that time, if none , are sent abroad, we will have 132. While we are thoroughly in favor of dire all possible assistance to Great Britain, including the flying fortresses if responsible defense officials think this can be done without impairing our own mini- mum defensive needs, it might not be a bad idea to arrange for the Chinese to get | a few of these giant bombing machines For whatever reason China re: Japan, her fight is the fight of civilization against military aggression. In the pres- ent condition of world affairs, the future peace of the world and the orderly de- velopment of civilization requires not only the defeat of Germany and Italy, but also the discomfiture of Japan. SOLVING FLORIDA'S DEBT PROBLEM (From Lakeland Evening Ledger) on of the ad valorem tax in favor of a i on a definite percentage of rental or milar proceeds from property is advocated Florida Tax Revision League as an in- 1 t step toward doubling the state’s popula- tion within a few years and thereby cutting the in half. builders and de- from every state tax were cast bonded indebtedness per capita nds of new investors, velopers would flock to Florida in the union if the ad valorem the tax organization maintains, pointing out bulletin that present ad valorem but aside, in its most recent proper axes are not only excessive in- definite. Under the present system, there is no way of at future taxes will be, and there- fore no way of determining ownership, develop- nt and use of property will result in profit, a or confiscation of the property for taxes, the bulletin asserts with considerable justification. The positive steps advocated by the league accurately reflects the growing anxiety of citi- zens as a result of taxes that have been constantly | increased and as a result of bonded debts that continue to be a plague upon economic vitality. The tax problem, directly related to bended indebtedness, is getting more serious attention than ever before, and it is not too much to ex- pect that definite relief ultimately will be the = sult. The demand for more service from govern- mental units must be reconciled with the demand | for reasonably rigid economy. of us would be gratified beyond | to | across the water, making it un- | i | call ; CHECKS AND TAX BILLS Economic Highlights | HAPPENINGS THAT AFFECT THE DINNER PAILS, DIVIDEND 11, 1891. OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS INSEPARABLE FROM LOCAL WELFARE COCO OCOOOOOOOOETOCOOOOSOOSOO OOO OOOOOSOOOOOOOOOOSE WAR IN It was inevitable that the re- cent meeting between Hitler and | Mussolini at Brenner Pass should have been immediately followed by reports that the Axis has com- pleted plans for invading England this fall or winter, bad weather notwithstanding. To some neu- tral military experts, this is al- most incredible—it would involve the gravest and most far-reaching \cisks that Hitler has as yet taken. Despite that, however, there is at least one sound reason for believ- jing that the reports may prove true. That reason is two-fold: famine and disease, two of the {most deadly of the Four Horse- | men of the Apocalyse. Conquered Nations Suffer No one knows exactly how se- |rious the food situation is in Hit- |fer-occupied Europe. But it known that the conquered cou: \tries have been i igutted of their food reserv torder that the German Army and |the German people can be fed. |The fine dairy herds of Denmark, | products of centuries of develop- iment. have been slaughtered for beef. Already the people of Hol- land, Belgium, France and else- where have felt the pinch, as ba- sic foods, notably fats, become more scarce. Germany, because of her seizures, is better off than most, but even there the people exist on a bare subsistence basis. Great wars have always brought the threat of famine, and !sometimes the actuality. But it is a reascnable supposition that this war, different as it is from its predecessors in so many ways, mav be the precusor of greater hunger than the modern world has known. In the past, nations, {when embarking on the great adventure that is war, have usually been fat. prosperous, well- fed. But the Germans, long be- fere war began last year, were |living on short rations. And the wars of the past were usually fought by professional armies, at least at the beginning, and mili- |tarv life was but one phase of the life of the nation. In the pres- ent case, Germany, and to a les- ser extent Italy. have been fol- lowing a war economy for many vears—everything, men and ma- terial alike. has been dedicated to preparing for conflict. Production of food has necessarily been held to the lowest possible minimum substitu’ of little nutritional vaie have long been employed iTt is not unnatural that serious diseases have been growing in both number and intensity for many mocns in Germany and Ttalv. Disease. of course, is the ever- present ally of famine—and dis- ease, once it gets the upper hand, becomes plague. Plague, aceord- ing to the international grape- vine that mysteriously brings news past the iron-clad European censorship, has already come to ;Poland. And plague respects no |boundaries. The lack of soap in Europe is a factor here—dirt pro- ides the finest possible breeding olace for anv kind of disease. No Hope If Britain Survives Europe has never been com- :dletely self-contained—it must import. Todav there is almost no commerce between the old world and the new. save for that which is controlled by Britain. The British fleet is carrying dn the bleckade effectively, and is pre- pared to extend it—as, for ex- ample, to Spain—if necessary. If ‘Britain were to fall, the greati EUROPE Axis’ merchant marine could again go to, the four corners of the world, to come home laden with all that the people of Eu- repe now lack. So long as Brit- ain survives, the Axis will be able to obtain almost nothing out- side the gutted land it domin- ates. If Hitler does attempt an “all-out”? blow against England soon, this will be one of the prin- cipal reasons for it. There are some who believe that the -possibility of famine points to the way that the dicta- tors’ grip on Europe may finally be loosened. A hungry people, they reason, will revolt against their masters—there is __ little gnoice between suicide and star- val But there is another side " Aian Gregg writes in ce Yale Review, “There are va- ies starvation. Reduce a.iuptly all forms of food after an adequate diet, and you will still be strong enough tg riot for food; gradually reduce to zero some essential of your diet, and you will finally be too weakened to protest with energy”. So fam- ine in captured nations might actually play into Hitler's hands by lessening the ability of the conquered peoples to effectively protest. Europe Five Years From Now? It is not expected that there will be widespread famine this winter. It is considered almost a certainty that it will come in grave form next winter, however, if the war is still going on then, and Britannia still rules the aves. Few experts dare antici- pate what Europe will be like if the war lasts four or five years, as some military authcrities think it may. The peoples would be literally decimated—victims of war who never saw a battle, and of never heard the wail of a bullet.| Some in this country would help the conquered peoples with food and other necessities. But Britain has so far refused to pass relief ships through the blockade, on the very reasonable theory that the dictators would seize their cargoes once they were de- livered. Europe will not get much help from us. THEY COULDN’T GIVE HIM GUN ere nanoetnted Preax) CLEMSON, S. C.. Oct. 17— ; When G. Max Lightsey applied oe Biographical Sketch Of Milo J. Warner, New Legion Head: Following is ‘a biograpbical sketch gf the new head of The American Legion: | Milo J. Warner, attorney of To- ledo, is one of the founders of The American Legion in Ohio. He was a charter member of the ‘Vernon McCune Post No. 132 at Toledo in 1919, and served as adjutant of his post in 1920. The following year he was elected post commander. His rise there- after in The American Legion was rapid. He was chosen chairman of the Lucas County Council in 1922, and two years later was elevated to the post cf Depart- ment Commander of Ohio. After holding office on a number of important national committees. including the National Executive Committee, Warner was elected National Vice Gommander of The American Legion at the Mi- ami, Fla., convention in 1934. In 1938 he served as Vice Chairman of the .National Rehabilitation Committee. Warner was born at Lima City. |Ohio, near Toledo. on November He attended Ohio State University where he was active in university affairs and was an officer in the cadet corps, thus laying the first foundation for a splendid military record in later life. He received his A.B. de- gree there in 1913 and Bachelor of Laws degree in 1916. He be- came affiliated with the Pi Kappa Alpha and Phi Delta Phi fra- ternities in college. After gradu- ating, he joined the Ist Ohio Cavalry, Ohio “National Guard and served with that regiment on the Mexican border in 1916-17. On June 1. 1917, Mr. Warner was married to Dorothy Casad Bennett of El Paso, Texas and La Union, New Mexico. They now have three children, Milo J., Jr., born August 15, 1918; Donald W. born December 13, 1920, and Carolyn B., born November 30, 1928. | Two days after his wedding Warner was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Regular U.S. Army. He was assigned to the 18th Cavalry. Promotion came to him rapidly. He was commissioned as 1st Lieytenant on June 23, 1917, and was given the temporary rank of Captain on November 13, 1917. He at- tended the Army Service School at Leavenworth, Kans. from June until Septmeber, 1917, and then rejoined his regiment. This jorganization later was converted into the 76th Field Artillery and made part of the 3rd_ division. Warner served with his outfit at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt., and Camp Shelby, Miss. He went overseas with his outfit as Commanding officer of Battery B, 76th Artil- lery. arriving in France on April 23, 1918. The battery trained at |Coequidan and saw service in the {Champagne-Marne and _ Aisne- Marne campaign sectors. On July 28, 1918, while in command of his Battery, Warner was wounded severely in action during a bomb- ling raid near Le Charmel. He spent some time in Evacuation {Base 34, and Base 8 Hospital. and was returned to the United States as a disabled war veteran. He was sent to the hospital at Ft. Sam Houston, Tex., where he remained until March, 1919. He was then assigned to the 14th cavalry at Fort Sam Houston. On August 21, 1919, he was retired | JoRelieve eO% \ LIQUID TABLETS. SAL. 2. NOSE DROPS 1 to the Clemson college military | department for a gun to tote in the R.O.T.C. parades the authori- ties were non-plussed. There wasn’t any to fit a 4-foot-4 inch cadet. and Mocka. Order some to- day from your grocer. —Phone 683-J—— But Lightsey himself came to_ their rescue when he decided he would either carry a pistol or join the band. Lightsey, who will study ani- mal husbandry, is the shortest cadet ever to register at Clem- son. THAT CLOSES UP AT NIGHT '} Lopez Funeral Service Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors " National Commander. The American Legion from the Army wounds received in acti Warner returned t where he took up the law. He was adn Ohio State Bar i ent he is a memt Ohio State Associations As held a number of « mittee ledc and Ohio I tions. He is a past pre the Toledo Bar Associat was chairman of on unauthorized practice for both the Toledc Associations for fiv served as a trustee of ledo Chamber of Comm was appointed chair military affairs corm that body. For years he has serv of the national a committee. He dent of the T Club, a past presic thony Wayne Chapter. the American Revolution, and of the Toledd Memorial Association attorney-at MARLF memberships Rawereere -F. 0. (FOOT ODOR) DUE TO A MICROBE HARD TO KILL Warner has served continuocus- ly the past five y ber of the nationally ledo Industrial which was organ Edward McGrad: Secretary of Labor. has been instrumental 4 many of the labor controversies in Toledo without resort to strike and lockouts. Peace Obtain the maximum rental return on your property. See us about an FHA Title Improvement Lean. Ty famous To. 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