The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 31, 1940, Page 2

Key West Citizen | Key West Citizen : CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. ; hed Daily Except Sunday By . ARTMAN, President and Publisher J0£ =N, Business Manager Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County at Key West, Florida, as second class matter credited in this hed here. ADVERTISING RAT! “Made known on application, " SPECIAL’ NOTICE cards‘of thanks, resolutions of ete., will be charged for at churches from which te local or general anonymous communi- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN k the truth and print it hout favor; never be g or to applaud right; rogress; never be the or- ce of any person, clique, s do its utmost for the tor v t tolerate corruption or ee; dqnounce vice and praise virtuc, \d done by individua or organ- ; tolerant of others’ rights. ‘iews and int only news that wiii elevate itaminate the reader; never com- principle. VEMENTS TOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN WOMEN RALLY TO NATION’S DEFENSE IN RED CROSS VOLUNTEER SERVICES | FOOD TROUBLE AHEAD The three-power totalitarian alliance will have food-trouble this Winter, ac- cording to the reports of the Department of Agriculture, which points out that the wheat crop in Europe is one-fifth smaller than last and that Japan has a rice crcp cnly equal to two-thirds of domestic needs, The populations of subject nations will bear the brunt of the shortage, it seems, because the German military ma- chine will get what it wants. The people of Germany will be taken care of, as far as possible, while the unfortunate inhabitants irrounding territory will have to do the best they can, under the “new order” of Herr Hitler. Starving peoples, including helpless women and children, are not pleasant to contemplate. They suffer through no fault of their own. The disruption of govern- ments that has followed Hitler’s invasions, together with the disintegration of normal economics, will likely mean death to in- nocent civilians. The demand will arise in the United States that we send food to feed the hun- It will be reinforced by harrowing stories of suffering, starvation and death. The in&tinct te aid humanity will stir with- in vs as we contrast our plenty with the + of others. To Send food to the subject peoples idoubtedly assist Hitler in his scheme to control Europe. Ii will relieve him of gry. the burden of caring for the people he has | To this extent, it will aid resist his at- uprisings made destitute. him to conquer those who tacks. It will help to prevent | among the corquered inhabitants of sub- ject nations, thus removing one risk of his | brute! treatment of neighboring states. Apartments ng Pavilion. d Sea. f County and City Gov- Modern City Hospital. Twenty make a score but in bas can make a score. The candidate’s idea of political econ- is getting the most votes for the least money. A wise precaution in the Constitution state of Florida is that a governor may not succeed himself. Advertising is not, as some think, an additional expense; it a super-sales | piogram that produces results.—Key West CiUzen. It’s the gasoline that the Sanford Herald. is runs The Lambeth Palace in which the| Archbishop of Canterbury resides’ was | bombed and the archbishop had to leave. | dispatch did not state whether the churchman had to run for it or just take a Limbeth Walk. The “ihe dictators find the newspapers a | -onvenient medium to spread their I 2znda for desirable objectives in the program of aggression, but it must be galling to any decent editor to be com- under such conditions. land of the free! Somehow the Italian, alien or Amer- | sympathizes with his country as | ly as does any Jap or German with | not come under the suspicion of | + who does fth columnist or actual spy, al- aly i st as much as Germany or Japan. “For example, there i great fake the ‘draft’ at Chicago. The third termers, like Mr. Ickes, insist that Reosevelt was ‘drafted’ as a result of ‘an svhelming demand of the hat is the President’s pose. And the peo- I re supposed to accept it whem every post@d person knows that, Mr. for inonths actively connived at the third- term movement, personally directed the convention, forced his nomination over the | protest of his national chairman, Mr. Far- | his Vice-President, Mr. Garner, -and | ley; many leading Democrats, Senators such as ( s, Byrd, Tydings, Clark, Burke, Walst andcothers. In the last analysis it was the weight of the unsavory machine bosses— Hague, Kelly and Flynn—which gave him | rol of the convention and made all op- - position futile—Baltimore Sun, ple of conquered lands. | going. | the people of Great a signatory to the tri-partite | Mr. | people.’ | Roosevelt | The fight for democracy cannot be weakened by false ideas about suffering humanity. The populations of subject na- tions must bear some of the burden of the war for the liberty of all. Unfortunate as is their plight it wili not improve much un- less Hitler is defeated and their national rights restored. We have great sympathy for the peo- They face heavy We also have great sympathy for Britain, who face heavier going. We must do nothing to weaken British defenses or to make pos- | sible a lenger, or stronger, attack upon the British people. much cor: quered nations. They, at least, deserve as DESTROYERS AID BRITISH Early this month a fourth group of overage destroyers entered a Canadian port, where they were taken over by Brit- ish seamen, who had just arrived from | Britain. The first batch of American destroy- ers were taken over Sept. 6th and are now in service overseas. Since then other over- age ships have been taken to England, where they were refitted for service. “#fhe assistance that the United States is rendering the British is important and will probably become more vital as the war continues” if should be remembered by Americans that the aid is being dispatched as a means of defending the United States, rather than as an act of generosity to a | brave people. located in the waters that lap the coasts of Europe. It is being manned~ by British ships, which has isolated the axi: navies, re) dering them impotent so far as we are concerned. As long as they continue to be confined in their own waters the security of our shores.is guaranteed. It is our busi- | ness to see that the British fleet is always strong enough to assure this. MEET THE UINTATHERIUM The effort of man to forsee the future is almost equalled by his attempt. to dis- cover the secretsof the past. Gonsequently, we are. thrilled by the that in Wyoming the scientists have located the nearly complete skeleton of a giant uintathere, which seems to be a nick-name for the encyclopaedic uinta- therium, a massive, five-toed, rhinocerous- like animal of the Eocene time, which was some millions of years ago. It is fascinating to be told that the sea had just receded from North America and that, when the playful (?) uintatheria | enjoyed this land of the free, the continent | had nearly its present form. immediate The first line of our defense is now | 1 Training Courses Fit Them for Duties Vital In Present Emergency ITH the call to the colors of ore than a million of the na- tion’s young men, American women everywhere ask how they can vok unteer ‘their services to aid in the emergency. What part can women and girls play in national defense? ‘The American Red Cross, through | its 3,700 Chapters and their branch- es, provides the answer. More than @ half million women already have enrolled to give their time in Red Cross volunteer services, according to Mrs. Dwight F. Davis of Wash- ington, D. C.,*Chairman of Red Cross Volunteer Special Services. Through sewing and knitting a mil- lion garments for Europe’s war vice tims, and making millions of surgi- cal dressings for war wounded and sick, they have gained efficiency and experience which can be readi- ly diverted to the work for home defenses should the need arise, Mrs. Davis said. - In order to prepare most effi- ciently for any emergency which may come, the Red Cross is extend- ing its training courses through its Chapters. Women motorists are trained for the Red Cross Motor Corps; girls who wish to volunteer for office work, train for the Staff Assistance Corps; other thousands join the Canteen Corps; women and girls who wish to learn to pro- tect #be health of their fcmilies, Top, left, millions of garments and surgical dressings made for war victims by uniformed women; right, Nurse’s Aides trained to serve in hospital clinics; Gray Ladies trained to give morale building services in military and civilian hospitals. All are volunteers who give time to this ‘ work of mercy every day. take Home Hygiene and Care of| morale of the sick. Nurse’s Aides the Sick Courses; those who wish | are trained to assist doctors and to learn how to aid the victim of an | expert registered nurses in clinics and hospitals and this training is | limited at present to regions where | accident, enroll in the First Aid classes. The Gray Lady Corps is com- posed of volunteers who require more specialized training and this is available only in those chapters | Near. military hospitals. The Gray Ladies 4m tke visitors in military and civillan~hogpitals giving those Aids and comforts to sustain the We PENETRATOR PENS deration as the people of con- | Woman Talk “Has she been around to get a meal off you yet?” We shook our head, “No”. “Well, they say she goes around every place to eat because she is too lazy to get a meal her- self”. Silence. “I guess you think I’m an old \eat to say such things”. We nodded assent, “Yes”. She left. pa ee, In a roundabout way we learn- ed about the yellow fever scare in Key West in 1869. “I’m 71 years old”, she said. “I was born in Key' West. It’s fun- ny about the opinions people get of Key West. One army man told me he was glad to get back |te America because Key ‘West was just a jumping off place. A ' woman said it is the lovliest little place, so attractively foreign in jan American way. I don’t know, |I Have never’ seen it”. | We interrupted her, “But I thought you were born there?” “I was”, she answered. “My father was an army captain and we all left on an army transport, yellow fever, you know. I was ten weeks old and I've never been back since”. ey aie “Maybe I am a coward because on October 16th I did not do the |things I planned to do. I was go- ing to go to the registration places and listen in, in the hopes of a story, perhaps one of pathos or one of humer. I did not go. I sat at home and thought about ;June 5, 1917. On that date I went with my young. husband while he registered. But he didn’t wait for the draft, he en- listed in October, 1917, was sent overseas in February, 1918, for his rendezvous with death from which he never returned. ‘I oftet think of the expression, ‘no ismiles, no tears’. Usually it is applied to childless couples. But on October 16th I applied it to myself. One of the cqmpensa- tions for being alone in the world with ‘no smiles, no tears’ is this— I had no one to accompany «his time while he registered for a deubtful future”. . bedroom seven years has been pronounced sane”. We knew there was something intangible that we liked about Key West, maybe it is its mental standard. i ear About mental standards, we visited a girl in a sanitarium for mental patients once. ‘She was very gleeful on this particular day. “I want you to take a good look at the patient in the room next to mine”, she said. We went down the hall to the porch and back again so that we could get two looks at the man. He was a nice looking chap, dressed in white linens, about 40 years old, we guessed. When we got back to her room she explained. “I thought you’d appreciate the irony of his being here in this place for treatment. Do you know who he is?” We ha@ never seen him before and did not know him. “Well”, she told us laughingly, “He is one of the medical-examiners at Chatta- hoochee”. Sweets to the sweet and nuts to the nutty. 4 eee Spanish class student, “La esposa da el esposo la guerra”. The teacher interrupted the stu- dent to translate, “The wife gives the husband war. No, no, you mean, ‘a la guerra’, to the war”. The student shook her head, “No, I mean just what I said, you know, like Sherman said?” Todav’s Horoscone Today’s disposition is intense, ent ‘trying ne’ experiments ~ but without design. It must be said, however, that some of the schemes really work out to pret- ty good results, although, as a Tule, the native is apt to waste energy on strife or on inconse- The custom of playing tricks ,on April ‘Fool's day has spread ‘throughout the world. From the Tampa Morning Tri-; jbune: “They have queer men- fae standards in Key West. Man an Indian word meaning “great | ; i who kept a woman's corpse in his Alaska derives its name from -country”, there are many hospitals. The Red Cross “preparedness for humanity” program is supported by the memberships of the American public and every patriotic man and woman is urged to join his local Red Cross Chapter during the Roll Call, November 11 to 80. PEOPLE'S FORUM The Citizen weleomes expres- sions of views of its rend- editor reserves the delete ° should be fal the letters to 200 words, and write Sigeature of the writers must accompany the letters and will be published untess otherwise. ‘CITIZEN’ AT FAIR Editor, The Citizen, Dear Friend: The management of the Flor- at the New York World’s Fair, thanks you for having contributed your pub-j{ ida State Exhibit many pictures as possible ready for the special displays to be ar- ranged at the Art Center and stere windows. The Key Wem | Society of Artists met on es. \nesday night to discuss this and plans for the winter season. NEWS COMES to the Center that Mr. and Mrs. Guy Carietes have returned from them summer trip North Everyone will be giad to see them egain. reports the resignation from the ‘staff of artist Reger Wilcox. to lengage in business fer himself m Key West.- Mr. Wilcox is to open |, a studio here for a variety of art services to the public and ewery (One wishes him a full measure of suceéss. The WPA Art Center in Kéy West has had noted suc cess in carrying out ts major pur \Pose of assistance to artists enable them to equip themselves for private business. The tem over of professienal personne! jSince the establishment of the ‘Center two and one-half years ago, has been very gratifying and all those who have gone im to private work are doing wery well indeed. The less of the services of Mr. Willcox will be 2 |\decided handicap to the Center. ‘especially at this time, but & is hoped that the vacancy may soon be filled and an opportenity of- fered for another artist to develop his talents through the govern- and a Striking likeness. It is & hang permanently im the Harris ;School in Key West and is 2 me- }morial to Professor Duncan. spen- sored by the Parent-Teachers As- sociations of Key West. It was : |prevedent in this community tw {the honor of leaders im public life whose memory is an imspirstion to future generations. ART CENTER announces = ,change in Art Clesses. The Adult Sketch Class will be continued Tuesdays at 3:15 p.m. as usual eaves. and civers) STAR 2* BRAND lication without charge, for dis- play on the racks and tables pro- vided for the purpose, in the in- formation booths of the exhibit for the convenience and accom- modation of citizens of your re- spective communities who might visit the World’s Fair during the | six months of its life. The fair closed Sunday,, Octo- ber 27. We thank you for doing your part in the way of making the Florida exhibit of deeper in- ; terest to visitors from your city. } Again thanking you for your contribution to the phenomenal success of the Florida exhibit at the New York World’s Fair of 1940, believe us to be, Yours very truly, FLORIDA STATE EXHIBIT, By George H. Clements, } Publicity Director. | Oct. 28, 1940 } There are -more ‘than 420,000 miles of railway track in the! 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