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

Es a EvOP The Z Key ilest Citizen THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. ned Daily Except Sunday By L. P. ARTMAN, President an@ Publisher JO® ALLEN, Business Manager From The Citizen Building er Greene and Ann Streets Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County x . Florida. a Member of the Associated Press Press is exclusively entitled to use all news dispatches credited to credited in this esi and algo | plished 1 here. ef { THEY’RE COMING! Hotels and busin@ss houses West informed The Citizen this week that business is picking up considerably over a month ago. More visitors are in town— the hordes expected from the time when the season officially the forerunners of gets under way in another ten days. The city’s leading hostelry reported yesterday that busines THE KEY KEY WEST CITIZEN in Key) so far this month | | waa epbroidgigtely sixty per cent More than the corresponding period in Qetober. | Night clubs, restaurants and business es- | tablishmegt§ cards of thanks, resolutions of = wil; be charged for at ent by churches trom whieh 5 cents a line. m and invites discus- jects of local or genera! ‘publish anonymous commun. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ek the truth and print it id without favor; never be i to attack wrong or to applaud right; tor progress; never be the or- mouthpiece of any person, clique, always do its utmost for the never tolerate co::uption or ; denounce vice and‘ pr: 3€ virtue, end good done by individua: or _organ- ; tolerant of others’ rights, views and print only news that will elevate t contaminate the reader; never com- witn principle. | IT) ORC VEMENTS TOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Sewerage. otels and Apartments. 1 and Bathing Pavilion. Land and Sea. ion of County and City Gov- nts. Modern City Hosp: |. i students will begin their earnest when the football sea- | son closes. ‘ow that the election fight is over, | another fight to make—the fight | us out of war. ne Greek Evzones wear skirts and | > ballet dancers, but they can put | ul fight. Ask the Italians for con- | clean augaiated itywide are feeling the up- surge of business volume—and are feeling quite all right about it all, thank you. Reports from state observers, have always been right in their predic- ticns, still persist in pointing to the biggest tourist year in the history of Florida. All signs are pointing to this state this year as the recipient of the greatest flow of tourist travel ever experienced—and that means more than the flow experienced during the late, not to be lamented, boom days of the | late ’2 ni trends and future predictions bine to make it seem necessary ior The gain point out the necessity for ut persons interested here to put their houses i ape in quick orde?-+to be pre- pare fer,Key West’s share of this record amount of business—to be in a position to C Cc nto: profit from it and at the same time render } efficient service in order that our visitors will be favorably impressed. There are still some streets to fix up —although, by and large, the job so far has been quite commendable. Plenty of ‘up, paint-up work could be in- znd finished before the start of the season. We imagine that quite a few prospective dwellings could yet-be turned into facilities for tourists—it certainly is to | be hoped that all possible room is available | for the visitor and that there will not come a time when that service can’t be of- vered. Hail to the 1940-41 season. fer it? Let’s say we Are we ready are—then | make sure that we are. SUPPLIES ROLLING ON BURMA ROAD | Vast quantities of American supplies | are now reaching Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek’s armies for in their war against Japan, says George Wang, United Press correspondent, who recently made the trip from Lashio to Kumming, about 725 miles, in eight days. The correspondent says ke was the | first American newspaper man to travel use | ever the Burma Road since it was reopened he present time we have no am- | al representation where the need | t—England, France, Germany | This doesn’t Jook to a man up | competent handling of our} affairs, and while it not as | asant as before to be an ambassador in | > foreign countries, the necessity is | coubtedly greater unless ignorance of | foreign affairs is best tor our security. In world this might be sound logic. e like foreign is a screwy Harold L. Iekes, secretary of the In- terior, has handed in his resignatian to the President and thinks the remaining cabinet nicmbers should do likewise. Probably he | has taken this course in the assurance that ! his job is secure, in which case it is just a gesture, and giving the President the op- poriynity to ask him to remain in the serv- ice and say what a great official he has This Honest Harold will release vo the press which he hates with all the vehe- menee of his being, but pigs is pigs, and Ickes-enjoys publicity if it is .avorable, in which he .is no less human than the rest of mortals. been. us Not only this country but the coun- ties-south of the border, particularly Mexieo, our adjacent neighbor, abound Nazi Fifth Columnists, and the pre- ivary battle must be fought against this subdveisive element. Marking an im- portant development in Pan-American de= fense-plan is the recent statement of-Presi- | dent Cardenas of Mexico predicting “ef. | fective and satisfactory settlement of all pending questions” between his ecountr; the United States, and paving the way for the establishment of American naval and eir b We need the friendly and ccope e aid of the nation south of the Rio Grande and it is for her own good as well as ours that amicable relations be. maintained. | that Nicol’Snlith,; in his book, ' Read,” trip-along-the-Burma Road. Significantly, by the British on October 16th. He rode as a passenger on one of the regular sup- ply trucks in a convoy that was not at- tacked. In fact, he adds, not a_ single | Japanese plane was seen throughout the | trip. Mr. Wang reports that about 3,000 trucks are operating on the Lashio-Kum- ming section of the highway. Of these, 1500, including 200 gigantic trailer-trucks, belong to the Chinese Government and the | remainder to commercial companies. The cargo consisted chiefly of gaso- line, cotton yarn, railway materials, plane engines, medical supplies and> new China bank fiétes printed in Lendeny~ Fhe out- bound ca¥go, en route to Rangoon for transshioment chiefly to the United States, included Tungsten, wood oil and tin slabs. The writer says that bridges over the Sa:ween and Mekong rivers nave been lombed repeatedly by Japanese planes but are repaired as fast as they are hit and | that traffic flows smoothly over the great mountain highway. The road is policed by soldiers and crews of laborers stand by to make repairs in the quickest possible | time. He tells of a sign on the Salween bridge urging workers to keep the bridge open as the “key to our long re- sistance.” ‘ In this connection, we are reminded “Burma published this year, describes his he tells of-a-monument on the outskirts- of the ancient city of Hsia-Kwan, near the | Burmese border, which carries an inscrip- tion in huge Chinese characters; reading, “This road was built by the natives of this district, without the aid of foreign imple- ments.” Americans will be interested in this report of traffic on the Burma Road, which means that supplies are reaching the | Chinese armies of Chiang Kai-shek. who | UICY grapefruit on its own half shell is very vitamine-ly fine, but there are more ways than one to serve this Florida special and more meals than breakfast for its enjoy- ment. Here in a tropical setting are Grapefruit with Peppermint Stic! Grapefruit Shrimp-Olive Sala Florida Broiled Grapefruit; and Grapefruit Cherry-Rum Dessert! Waste not a minute trying them; the recipes, (mew!) are these. Halved Grapefruit Cut Florida grapefruit in halves crosswise. Remove center with sharp knife or scissors. Loosen sec tions by- cutting’ around each ‘sec tion with a sharp knife along membrane and skin. Top with the following: Peppermint Grapefruit (A Hunch for Lanch) Put peppermint stick candy through food chopper or crush very fine. Sprinkle generously over the top of grapefruit and let stand 15 minutes before serving. secccscccccesceces Economic Grapefruit With Black Cherry-Rum Sauce (Different for Dessert) 2% cups black. t a rum pitted cherries 4 Florida grape- % cup sugar fruit Drain juice from cherries, there should be approximately % cup. Add water to make 1 cup. Combine with sugar in saucepan; stir over low heat until sugar is dissolved, | simmer for about 5 minutes. Re- moye from heat, add cherries and rumeflavoring. Cl Fill grapefruit cengér with cherries and pour over several tablespoons of the juice. Makes -8 servings. ‘Broiled Grapefruit, Florida (First, Last or With Meat) Sprinkle each grapefruit halt with 1 tablespoon sugar and a dash of cinnamon, mace or nutmeg, dot with 1 tablespoon butter. Place grapefruit on broiler rack 3 or 4 inches from flame or unit. Broil 10-15 minutes or until grapefruit is slightly brown and beated throuch. Highlights HAPPENINGS THAT AFFECT THE DINNER PAILS, DIVIDEND CHECKS AND TAX BILLS OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL; NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS INSEPARABLE FROM LOCAL WELFARE BOCCOOORASHSSTSSSSOOSSOSSSSOSSSERSBOASESESSOSER08 Near the end of October, a noteworthy event occurred. The Business Week industrial activity index, which 1s one of the stand- ard business barometers, touched '136. That was seven-tenths of a point higher than the previous all-time record, which was reach- led during the week of July 27, back in fabled and fabulous 1929. What this obviously means is |that we are in the midst of a boom—and a boom that will un- doubtedly reach giddy heights before it is done. Equally ob- vious, it is not a healthy boom. It is based upon one thing, and one thing only—war. It will stop when war and war preparations stop. And, like all war booms, it is inflationary in tendency. Dismissing that for the mo- ment, it seems clear that a period of considerable artificial prosper- ity lies ahead of us. Practically all business will be affected. Mod- ern war and modern prepared- edness programs call for an un- precedented degree of national effort. For every soldier in uni- form, there must be half-a-dozen ;men or more behind him in fac- tories and supply depots, produc- ing, distributing and handling the hundred and one articles that today’s soldier must have if he is |to be an efficient destroyer. In modern war,.in_ brief. the civilian ‘population is as much involved as} the actual armies in the field. | Some industries will probably, lexpand at a tremendous rate dur- jing the next few years. We have seen signs of that already in air- crait manufacture—the princi- | val makers are working 24 hours a dav, are building new plants as fast as the necessary labor and materials can be obtained, = have gigantic quantities of junfilled orders on hand. It was lately reported that Britain will buy 12,000 additional military planes in this country, and that our government will place orders for an eoual number. Railroad carloadings will be going up. Electric power output will necessarily follow the surg- ing industrial production indices. And such basic heavy industries as steel will find their principal problem im figuring how to keep output up to demand. Normally, a great jump in pro- | ;duction such as this would in| volve gigantic profits: ‘That-witi not be true this time. This year, for instance, many industries ex- pect that net earnings will be un- der the 1939 level, even though | production is substantially great- er. There are a number of rea- sons for that. One is that com- modity costs are rising. Still an- ees at ho coe to put a larger proportion of gross | income back into plant facilities. And the most important reason trum”. 000,000,000 national debt, and in the face of the fact that Federal LOST—GOLD RING with Tur- quois Matrix Setting. Senti- | ment attached. Please phone 787 and receive reward. nov21-1t STOLEN STOLEN LAST NIGHT on Southard Street, near Duval, Rollfast Bicycle, blue and white with chrominum plated fend- ers. Balloon tires. Finder please return te 806 Southard street and receive reward. nov20-1t PICTURE FRAMING PICTURE FRAMING, Diplomas; antique frames refinished. Sign painting. Paul. ,DiNegro, 614 Francis street. nov18-tf MISCELLANEOUS UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS and Sundstrand ADDING MA- CHINES. Sales, Service and Supplies. Ray Dickerson, agent. Island City Book Store, Duval Street, Phone 9150 nov15-1mo| WANTED WANTED—Will Pay Cash for Second Hand Furniture. 1218 Seminary street. novl5-lwk FOR SALE SIGNS—‘For Rent”, “Rooms For Rent”, “Apartment For Rent”, “Private Property, No Tres- passing”. THE ARTMAN PRESS. nov25-tf 222, THURSDAY Highest last 24 hours Lowest last night Normal Total rainfall since Nov. 1, inches = ‘Deficiency since Nov. inches Total rainfall since Jan. 1, Deficiency since January 1, inches “ iil Wind Disection and Velocity E—10 miles per hour i, 3489 90% Barometer at 7:30 a. m.. todey Sea level, 30.06 (1018.0 millibars Ti Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Moon, last quarter Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM. 2:01 9:15 22nd High Low 3.46 9-2 FORECAST (Till 7:30 p..m., Friday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy with mild temperature to- night and Friday: moderate east jand squtheast winds, fresh at times. ton fer a aug any , NOVEMBER 21 whenever 1 cumpiax PM An ‘Une Brits: War peake Florida: Partly cloudy tonight ™* 7¥ TODAT— The Favorite a= Key Wee ‘and Friday, occasional light rain or mist on east coast. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY 8. DARNALL Former Editor of The Citizen Among the newly naturalized American citizens af German birth who cast their first ballots on November 5 were Albert Ein- stein, world-famous originator of the theory of relativity, and Mar- lene Dietrich, noted actress. A spirited controversy among engineers and bridge builders has ‘been precipitated by the crashing into Pudget Sound during 2 wind- income has been under Federal poRCELAIN SINK AND DRAIN-|Storm of the new Narrows spending for eight years. The tax boosts put into effect by the current Congress are generally regarded as but a modest start. It seems inevitable that far larg- er imcreases will be necessary next year and during the years to follow. At the same time, gov- ernment will probably do all it can to hold down prices of fin- ished products, and to force in- dustry to absorb as much of the higher costs as it can. Profits must be adequate, but they won't be great. It isn’t pleasant to think of the depression that, in the view of most economists, will follow the war boom. History shows us again and again that prosperity based on arms production is eventually disastrous. But force of circumstances is forcing us to foHow the rest of the world in the race toward military suprem- acy. So, umtil peace comes again to a tired world, business is go- ing to be booming in America. —o0o— The “Battle of Britain” least temporarily slowing in tem- po. The “Battle of ‘the Empire” has begun. Starting point was Italy’s invasion of Grece. Whoever controls Greece, its is- | lands, and its many undeveloped BOARD. Good condition. Cheap for cash. Apply 531 Francis, street. nov21-2t WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUMS with yellow center. Mrs. W. G. Adams, 1119 South street. ! nov20-3t TWO: ELECTRIC REFRIGERA- TORS for sale cheap for cash. Apply 1212 Varela street. novi12-tf HOTELS BRING YOUR VISITING friends ‘Bridge, costing $6,400,000, at Ta- coma, Wesh. 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