The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 27, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO. EN PUBLISHING CO. INC. shed Daily Except Sunday By ARTMAN, President and Publisher Jor ; Business Manager izen Building and Ann Strests wspaper In Key roe County Sey West, Flori Member of the Associated Press ated Press is exclusively entitled to use n of all news dispatehes credited to redited in this paper and also shed here. ards of thanks, resolutions of 8, ete, wil: be charged for at by churches from whieh dare 5 ut IMPROVEMENTS TOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN rage. Apartments. ng Pavilion. and and Sea. < ion of County and City Gov- er iern City Hospital The reason some people talk while thers sing is that without the conversa- tion they could hear the singing. Steve Early, the President’s secretary, wrote an ack on the Chief Executive. the Belt.” the light of a recent event. It was cap- tioned “Below Interesting in Hitler and Mussolini a few weeks ago nferred under a bust of Machiavelli at : ly. Oddly enough this Floren- historian and political is best known for “The Prince”, considered by many as a “textbook for dictators,” bitterly inimical to democratic smash, doctrines bassador to England, during his stay in tiat country, saw the terrifying havoe of war, and warns the United States to stay | it only | He reiterated that the to keep European f that is appeasement, male the con- advocated was s out of the 5 2 troublesome chairmanship of | Labor Relations Board is one | ages hope of a happier future | He is a Chicago University | LRB. arbiter of labor dis- will now see es- orkable policies that will be and all groups veterar . Undoubtedly w tablished we fai employers Martha Gellh« y, the new book, * n to whom Ernest West For Whom the Tels, i to whom he was cently, will be i Ke 3ell married re- d to play a part in th ive of Paramount Studic unced. It is not likely that Miss who is beautiful, hapely, will accept, despite the interesting that Gary Cooper will be the leading The movie of “Reap the Wild i trabel, another Key West author, will soon be seen on the screen, nd Key Westers, naturally, are eager to ze th t ation, and had hoped to ier shown in this island city lio declined the invitation for heir own. A play-song of years ago was “Lon- don Bridge is Falling Down” but it never happened, but in the United States the ace ata cost of $6,400,000 and exceeded in length only by the Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco and the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson river, actually has fallen down. New scientific methods in the construction of the bridge were intro- duced and the calculation of the engineer, of the best, failed to come up to ex- Suspension bridges sway to fro and if the balance is not main- dined the structure will collapse. The Eiffel tower in Paris has been teetering in that manner for nearly a hundred years and Mr. Eiffel would be glad to know this, but he isn’t interested in towers any- more, or anything else for that matter. ions. She uiecy West Citizen | icle last year on the unfair at- | of | author, dedi- | blonde and | »ma Narrows suspension bridge, built | ! KEY WEST GIVES THANKS The city of Key West ok erves Tha..ksgiving Day tomorrow. All churches kh ve ann inced special services—the theme universally to be, expressions” of gratefulness that our nation is not at war and «ur citizens are not in want. Last year, on this occasion, The Citi- zen saw reason to reivice that local mili- | tary establishments had opened with pre- dictions at that time, of much expansion. Key Westers gave thanks then for the ability to look forward to a prosperous year—recalling a year just past that was better than the previous period. In review, then, following those ex- pressions of thanksgiving, it is well to | pause and “count our blessings”—to see if we are not indeed fortunate people in ay indebted to a kind Providence. From a spiritual standpoint, it is hard to coincide Key West’s prosperous ear with the exact causes that affluance. Everyone knows that the war and determination to erect strong home defenses has caused the major part of a profitable year for our city. Even so, we give thanks, and at the same time give serious thought to the far-reaching pur- poses behind those causes and the ultimate goal of “peace in our nation—forever” | that we strive to attain. Of course, as predicted a year ago, there have been other reasons for which to give thanks at this time. Our fair city is rising steadily towards that much-to-be- desired status of a leading resort city. The past year brought increasing evidence of | that trend—the next period promises a till greater proof. For everything Key West has today— for everything it has gained during the past year—for every good promise for the coming year—its citizens will bow their heads in grateful acknowledgement to- morrow—Thanksgiving Day. every SOME LONG WORDS What is the longest word in the Eng- lish language? That is a hard question to | answer, as writers have from time to time coined words of extraordinary length | which have never gotten into general use. The longest in Webster’s International | Dictionary is honorificabilitudinatibus, de- | That gave a home-to homeless man . Where human | fined as “honorableness,” 2 pedantic non- sense word, use by Shakespeare is “‘Love’s Labor’s Lost,” and containing 27 letters. But in chemical treatises may be | fo nd ever longer words, more wonder- | fuily compounded than the chemical pro- iucts which they describe. For example, | tetrahydroparamethyloxyquinoline, with 31 letters; also paraoxymetamethoxyallyl- benzene of 30 letters, and others. English must vield the palm to some foreign languages, however, when long words are considered. In German, schut- zengrabenvernichungautomobile, with 35 lette: is as formidable as the war engine it describes. In English this machine is commonly designated by the four-letter | word “tank,” a saving of 31 letters going | to the credit of our mother tongue. Longest of all so far discovered is a Greek word of 181 letters, which ap- propriately erough is the name of a dish containing many ingredients. We call it ' simply “‘hash.” $50,000 FOR A NEIGHBORLY ACT This is a dangerous item, we suspect, because it will probably promote a thou- sand or more “neighborly acts” of the nuisance type, but just the same, here is the news: A Mrs. Aileen Saturley, WPA em- ployee of Oakland, Cal., has been informed that $50,000 was left her in the will of a citizen of New Mexico, who appreciated a “neighborly act” that was performed nine- ; teen years ago. It seems that, at the time, the man and the woman were neighbors. He be- came seriously ill. The woman, living on an adjoining ranch set out on foot through the snow and returned with a doctor. THE REPUBLIC THREATENED Well, what’s the country coming to? In the State of Pennsylvania a de- feated candidate for Congress has sworn out a warrant against his victorious op- ponent, charging his rival falsely accused him of Nazi sympathies during the cam- paign. if this thing spreads, it won’t be safe for any candidate to make the usual de- famatory addresses about his opponent. There will be dearth ‘of subject-matter for candidates’ speeches. The whole republic aa topple! : THE KEY, WEST CITIZEN that brought ; WE Say Seen “LET THERE BE LIGHT { thank God for America _ The land the Pilgrims trod, Where man is neither jailed / - nor bled Fre - { ‘For worshipping his God. I thank God for America * _ The land of Freedom’s birth Ona Earth. , “Economic Highligh a” = 1 thank Goa tor America \ j- The land that knew to melt (Race and color, region and ~. elime— _ Goth and Jew and Ceit. 1 thank God for America— 2 And may its biixs endure— vity is prized And baman j...—seeure. WEDNES THANKSGIVIN 1 thank God tor America Its mission and its fate: Where man had built a dam f stem The poisoned stream of hate. 1 thank God for America Where freedom dwells and reigns: Where mind is strength and werd is iree, And thought—not kept in chaihs. y This poem written exclusively for “Appreciate Amere ica Inc.” by the eminent poet. Philip M. Raskin eccce ts HAPPENINGS THAT AFFECT THE DINNER PAILS, DIVIDEND CHECKS AND TAX BILLS; OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL: NATIONAL AND INTE: INATIONAL PROBLEMS INSEPARABLE FROM LOCAL WELFARE ae The Axis’ spokesman continues to boast of the creadful doom that is about to befall Britain and all cther powers which dare to oppose German-Italian-Japan- ese amBitions to create a new and revolutionary “world order”. But in much of the present boast- ing there is a hollow and dis- cordant note. For it is a plain faet that ‘today the dictators are winning most of their battles on paper instead of the field of ac- tion. The war, in other words, is not | going well, from the Nazi-Fascist point of view. Germany has ap- parently abandoned hope of in- vading England—a move which, according to Hitler’s original cal- endar, was to have been com- ‘pleted months ago. Her air at- tacks go on, and they do much damage. But there is no evi- dence to indicate that the plane can win a war or break the mo- tale of a proud and determined | people. In the meantime, English plane production, buttressed by imports from this country, moves steadily forward toward the day when Britain will be Germany's equal in the air. Nazi raiders ‘and submarines have sunk an immense amount of British ship- ping. But Britain's merchant added to almost daily. .And new British warships, imeluding one or-.two 35,000-ton super-dread- naughts, have lately been com- missioned. Greatest fiasco ‘hes been that of Italy together, and that may very well be true—Italy is one lof the least self-contained of na- tions, and Hitler must keep sup- plying her with materials which che could use to advantage at home. On top of that, the mili- tary experts are shaking their heads in amazement over what they regard es the almost incred- much-bemedaled general -staff. fhe invasion of small, poorly- jarmed Greece is a vivid example. [Italy attempted to use blitzkrieg ous country in which there are few roads, and she started in the worst possible season. It was in- evitable that her losses would be tremendous. No authority lieves that Greece can hold out indefinitely, but Italy's victory will be wen at great cost, prestige no less than in men and. material’ And in the meantime, England has been able to estab- in lish air and naval bases on the; Greek islands which are of im- mense impdftance in cementing her hold on the Mediterranean. The British air attack which {disabled three Italian battleships and a number of lesser craft is, if English reports of the action are truepone of the major victor- ies of this war. It means that the Italian fleet has lost close to half its éffectiveness so far as the surface vessels are concerned And that, in turn, means that Britain can now release ships from the Mediterranean to other places ;where they are badly needed “for purposes of convoy, and to flint down and engage German raiders which are oper- ating in the mid-Atlantic. Watch Africa now—the next showdown will probably come there. More and more of French Africa has disavowed the Ger- man-dominated Vichy govern- ment and is throwing in with the, “free French” cause led by Genera] De Gaulle. Mysterious General Wevgand is now in Afri- ca. He was sent there by the Vichy authorities to hold the eglonies. But reports leak out that Wevgand may have an en- tirely different plan in ,mind— that he may join De Gaulle or. at least, keep the part of Africa he “controls out of an alliance of any kind with Germany. If he does that, it will be a blow to the Axis, which must conquer Africa as a main step in its pro- “gram for destroying the life-line of the British Empire. Also wate: the Far East. There is quiet on the surface there at the moment, but there is turbul- City. “noted banker Today’s Birthdays Kaufman T. Kel president tion, bern at years ago. Marvin H. Mcintyre, to the President, etroit, ora- 55 c Pa., d Cc Mt. Joy, secretary born at La be- a Alphons. biclogist. bor pn Germa: New borr historian, 1 near town, Ind., 66 years ag withdrawing troops from C she will use the against French the Dutch comes tc the Philippines provided by Far Eastern ¢ who insist that Japan to provoke us in- to war, and that she will back down if we maintain a strong and tinyielding policy. —o0o— Most of the colemnists have been busy as bird dogs in fore- casting what course the Admin- istration will now take. And all of them seem to have different ideas. Some think the President will pursue a conservative policy; others that he will go in for periment on a bigger scale ‘than ever. For the time being, discount all of those forecasts consider- ably. Only one man, the Presi- dent, knows what he plans to ». and he hasn't talked about it ly. The speeches and state- he has made since the elec- ve been moderate in tone not indicated any start- obvious that the demands rearme~ent come first in government now. Whatever the Administration thinks is neces- sary to expanding production with maximum speed, will be done, but no one vet knows what ‘tactics ina ‘rugged, mountain- jence underneath. Japan has been ,that- will entail. = I thank God for Ameries— Its oceans and its sell, Where man is free¢o move, and sal And trade, and @i, and tel. 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