The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 21, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO The wivy West Citizen v cry PUBLISHING CO. INC. Published Daily Except Sunday By / ARTMAN, Pr Publisher JOE ALLE ager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets ynly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter —— Member of the Associated Press e Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use ication of all news dispatches credited to otherwise credited in this paper and also news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES _ Year Months ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SRECIAL NOTICE ng notices, cards of thanks, regolutions of tuary notices, ete., wil: be charged for at of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from whieh to be derived are 5 cente a line. is an optn forum and invites discus- issies and subjects of local or general ill not publish anonymous communi- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN, WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be aid to attack wrong or to applaud right; fight tor progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue, commend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and op:nions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- j promise witn principle. | IMPROVEMENTS “OR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels ar Apartments. Beach and P’ ing Pavilion. Airperts—Land and Sea. Ccnsolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. et Mussclini’s boast about “Mare Ne trum” doesn’t seem to scare British war- ships. In the baseball game of existence one t overlook no bets, to be adjudged a | ner he must fight for what he gets. Just becausé a jury, now and then, i..3 in with a fool verdict, is not suffi- «>t reason to discard the jury They are human and it is human to err. That also applies to judges. system. The bombings of London and_ other parts of Englend by Hitler have as their | purpose the breaking of the British +, but in spite of the unparalleled destruction and the mounting casualty lists, the missiles from the air have missed their mark. American sailors, if they value their | lives, should stay on their ships, and not venture on land, for it is reported sea to American sea dogs. During 1939, 54 sailors were killed in automobile acci- dents, while only 33 were drowned. Stick to the sea, me lz The people of Monroe County make the county; every citizen should make his or her contribution by service in some un- selfish cause. There are some people in Key West, particularly some women, who are doing this very thing right along, but they are few in number. The Boy Scout motto should be put into daily practice; it wil make you feel better. - President Roosevelt since nomination Noll has been a precedent breaker, but his biggest disregard for precedents was his thig@ term manoeuvre unquestionably di- rected by himself by private telephone irom the White House to Harry L. Hopkins t Chicago. Roosevelt’s nomination was a defiance of a tradition which this country as revered for more than 100 years, and observed by all the Presidents who have preceded him. nominating Wendell L. Wiilkie, the Republicans, too, upset a time- honored tradition by not naming a_ poli- tician, one who had never held public of- fice befpre, and this nomination was a re- -olt-against the established order of party polities. It does not require much intelli- gence to know which of the two disregards of tradition is for the best interests of the country. that | zutcmobiles are more dangerous than the | EXASPERATION! | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Key Westers had their ordinarily even | tempers boiled up to a dangerous level | yesterday upon reading in a Miami paper | about the “lack of water” that brought a nge in plans for the 265th Coast tillery. That reason was given when it was explained that this unit, including our Ar- | own battery, would not train at Fort Tays| | 3 lor, but at Galveston. In the first place, The Citizen, along t | with a majority of residents here, does not | believe that insufficient supply of fresh | water is the reason why the National Guards will not train in Key West. That was settled two weeks ago at the time a | similar report was heard and political ac- tivity credited with the change in plans. Of course, and sad to relate, the pro- lcnged difficulty being experienced in get- ting the aqueduct project off to some sort of a start has given unofficial spokesmen for the Guards a convenient excuse by way ( of explaining about the trip to Galveston. But it’s not so—and Key Westers are mad about the statements. Which, however, is all the more rea- should “put on more steam”’ in their endeavors to start the aqueduct line. Of all projects, this has been the one most productive of mis- understandings and jockeying around to ' suit a great variety of purp It’s time now to furnish the final push and place the | subject of fresh water for Key West for- ever out of the classification of something | with which our city can be adversely ad- vertised. Key Westers resent that bit of pub- licity—especially when they know it didn’t reflect a true status. Nevertheless—let’s have the aqueduct! son why responsible parties FOOD AND YOUR BODY-MACHINE It is a good idea once in a while, to emphasize the machine-like qualities of the human body. We should rot forget that food is the fuel that operates the phy- sical engine upon which life itself de- pends. Eating is not only a prime function of existence but it is also one of the most im- portant. Every individual, and particularly our young people, shculd be thoroughly informed as to the principles of diet and the peculiar values of various foods. Inasmuch as the meals of the average American family are under the control of the wife and mother, it is the duty of these homemakers to study and understand the proper preparation of food, its specific properties and the value and necessity of variety in the daily diet. We are not suggesting that the in- dividual become a food fanatic or that our readers take up any of the various fads that afflict the public. We do advise every woman, who is supervising the feeding of human beings to study foods, diets, calories, vitamins and the other data now available in regard to foods. The more widespread such information becomes, the better will be health and bodily growth of | the people in Key West. There are millions of people in Pnited States who pay more attention to the feeding of their poultry and livestock than they do to the food that thei thil- dren consume. Some of them reside in this county. For one reason or another, includ- ing lack of information and lack of money, their children grow up undernourished and | ill-fed, their weakened bodies inviting disease. If they escape death, their bodies and general health will present living tes- timony in years to ccme of the ignorance of their parents in regards to food. Every family diet should include milk, meat, bread, vegetables and fruit. Every housewife who reads this article should check up on the food served to her family during the past week. Was it sound from a health standpoint, taking into considera- tion the needs of the various members of the family? a ITALIAN GENEROSITY Down Italy way the niilitary experts of Mussolini are telling us what spoils we can get if we maintain strict neutrality and do nothing to assist the British in their fight against the Axis powers. It is not an accident that the territory offered us is British. We are not supposed to question the title of the generous givers nor their ability to deliver the goods. This nonsense is on a par with the re- cent absurdity emanating from Tokyo, where serious-minded Japanese solemnly assure us that the pact with Germany and Italy was “for” the United States, | against us. the | not | cS New : ‘Jeep’ Type Military Tractor | Climbs Trees That Block Its Path Capable of pulling a 155 mm howitzer at 42 miles an hour over most any kind of terrain, this Minneapolis-Moline tractor is the talk of preparedness experts. even the caterpil vering. During a recent test the “Jeep” It performs under conditions where type tank has the greatest difficulty in maneu- ‘limbed 70 inches up the side of a 28 inch white oak tree before the tree gave way, then rode rough shod over the fallen oak. The “Jeep” can turn on a 20 foot radius and has a “pintle” hook at the rear that permits the operator to hook on to a big gun single handed. a 5-ton load. It has separate brakes on the rear wheels. It can climb a 40 percent grade with If one wheel gets stuck, the brake is set on the other, so that all the tractive power is applied to the embedded wheel. a flat bar, is composed of several free moving rollers and can ride up on otherwise insurmountable objects. Sixteen Timken tapered roller bearings eliminate friction in all the vital moving parts. Because they are manufactured almost entirely of standard parts | which are now in quantity production, “Jeeps” could start rolling off the assembly lines in 90 days. it is reported. ‘BIRDIE’ TECHNIQUE TABOO WITH KIDDIES (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second in a series of five weekly articles on taking victures.) Just about child does is good terial. The problem is to picture the action the way it really happens. To do that, be careiul not to start off by making your child camera shy. If you have ever told him to “Icok at the birdie”, you have a habit to break. The best approach seems to be to tell the child to show the camera how he does something, emphasizing that he must act just as he always does—no stunts. Most children are good at pre- tending Often one has to make a child do something he doesn’t usually do or doesn’t want to do at the moment. Most times you win by pulling a “let’s pretend”—per- haps that he’s been a bad boy |and his mother has punished him by making him sit in a chair all afternoon Then you get him to remem- ber how he felt the last time he w what kind of face he made. Usually it turns into a swell afternoon of fun. Costs No More There’s no question but that this sort of picture-taking is harder for the amateur than the old, stiff, see-the-birdie stuff— everything picture your ma- (Associated Press Feature Service) ‘ but it can be done. And the re- sults will be a real record of your child. The way he uses his hands and body during ‘the various stages of his development, the expressions on his face as he learns to do new things. It doesn’t cost any more to make this kind of picture. With a simple camera you can get first-rate “candid” snapshots of your children outdoors, if you will think before you shoot. The button-pusher”, one who never uses his head to solve the sim- plest photographic problems, gets a good picture once in a_ blue mocn—by accident. Watch Background When about to start picturing your child, consider the back- ground. Don’t let it be cluttered up with toys or other objects. Best backgrounds are plain— sky, grass and sides of buildings. Bushes and trees are not good when light filters through them and highlights the leaves. You get a background of jazzy white spots which make it hard to see the subject. So choose a good background before you start shooting, keep your child within that space, and you can automatically check that problem off the list. FOOTSTEPS TO OBLIVION (Associated Press Feature Service) Millions of years ago a lumber- ing dinosaur called Brontosaurus roamed the plains of Texas. He lived in swamps da leaves and grass. and his trouble was that he was too big. This particular lumbered through the \day, tailed by a smaller but fiercer dinosaur, the Tyrannosau- The killer moved in from to time to slash through clumsy guard. struggle and down—and Brontosaurus mud one far rus. time Brontosaurus’ There was final the big reptile went out. i Only recently state university scientists near Waco, Tex., un- covered this tragic trail in the mud—now changed to rock. They end in a muddle of ruts. The grim sequel to this bloody battle is that Tyrannosaurus as well as Brontosaurus trod the , TRY IT TODAY— The Favorite in Key West STAR * BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS .- . Johnny Downs—Barbara Allen sa MELODY AND MOONLIGHT also j COMEDY and NEWS ‘ sueccececssecccccescvecs trail to oblivion. Both were teo big, too unadaptable to stand the test of time. When your ‘BLIND MAN’S TRUST "SYSTEM LIFTS GAS accustomed to the ordinary of labor as to take but little no- i tice of what others paths v about STATION OUT OF RED “ %°:# = == = (By Ansociated Press) , -CORINTH, Miss., Oct. 21.—For ten years blind yoseph Armster Odle has been running a lucra- \tive filling station business—fill- ing gas tanks, changing oil and }handling accounts. He has been |cheated but once! ' His “system” is built on trust: | “While I handle dozens of bills ja day, no one has ever told me ihe was giving me a_five-spot {when actually handing me a dol- jlar bill. So far as I know, no one has ever given me the wrong jamount of change deliberately. I ‘have faith in them—and they |Keep faith with me”. | Graduate of two schools for the {blind, Odle bought his station {from two men who couldn't make jit succeed “Thev told me business had left jhere”, he recalled, “but I've made {a comfortable living and enough ‘besides to pay $$5.000 in cash to {build a new station”. { During the last two years Odle jhas had two helpers but still | waits on many customers himself. Only once has one driven away | without paying. The bumper, instead of being {| WHO KNOWS? See “The Answers” on Page 4 Is the use of snuff dying | 2. How large 1s a propeller on Ja battleship? | 3. Does a spider exercise intel- |ligence in making a web? 4. What Hohenzollern dream has been revived by Hitler? 5. How many German planes jattack England daily? | 6. How many Americans live [and work in China and Japan? | 7. When did the Japanese sink the American gunboat Panay? 8. How many Americans will }vote in the Presidential election jon November 5? 9. 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