The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 7, 1941, Page 2

PAGE TWO “TOO LATE” MEANS DEFEAT One of the ablest living military com- manders is General Douglas MacArthur, former chief of staff of the United States Army, now retired, but still active as head of the Philippine Army. He recently wrote the following letter in response to an in- i y the Manila Daily Bulletin: ou have asked my military opinion are elie The Key West Citizen | aper in Key West and o»nroa County to whether the time has come for Am-/ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN . to give continued and further aid to \ ntitled to use | England in the fight for civilization, , ' tehes credited to credited in this paper ws published here ir and also most be summed up in two words: ‘Late. Too late in comprehending the dead- ly purpose of a potential enemy; too late in realizing the mortal danger; too late in SUBSCRIPTION RATES $10.00 00 0 preparednes: “The history of failure in war can al- | Too | too late in uniting all pos- : | sible forces for resistance ; too late in stand- | ADVER'MSING RATES ing with one’s friends. cation will be made if America fails to “The greatest strategical mistake in all | -ecognize the vital moment, if she permits } charged for at | again the writing of that fatal epitaph: Too Late. “Such co-ordinated help as may be re- | garded as proper by our leaders should be synchronized with the British effort so that the English-speaking peoples of the world will not be broken in detail. The ngleness will disappear before churches from which ents a line | und rf Ie not publish anonyr rtainment b. a rived are 5 ¢ Citizen i ites di f public t but issues and subjec r general t wil ommuni- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN | ability of unity of but today.” Water and Sewerage. GROUP COOPERATION VITAL More Hotels and Apartments. 3each and Bathing Pavilion. tp The little boy who took his bat and ball and went home, breaking up the neighbor- hood baseball game because he didn’t like the way the boys played, has long since grown up. | Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- crnments. A Modern City Hospital. ‘ A & | is coun art is found today, among It is said that early American Indians Eile COUene ants Foun e Bi pully Ree > i & A | many adults, who cannot cooperate with 1ever kissed. But they sometimes made up ae : i —in war paint | their felléwmen. So long as things go their : | way, they are nice and sociable but when h ‘ i | events go against them they act like their ; The aselian navy, it seems to us, is en- | boyhood prototypes. titled to the Nobel Prize for peace in 1940; | Democracy, in the United States, is not Il Duce’s fleet did its best to prevent battle. | Hitler is now trying to hold what he has so far gained, and he is going to find it exceedingly tough, especially since his Axis partner, Mussolini, is proving a dud. According to a life insurance company the economic value of an 18-year-old boy is | $25,654, but we do not know of anyone who | «in the market for a boy at that price. : | The Citizen offers its congratulation te the new governor of the commonwealth of Florida, Spessard L. Holland, and will aid | and comfort him in all that he endeavors for the good of this great state. Even those Americans who do_ not have any love for England inthe way she acted in practically repudiating her debts to the United States should endorse the ali-aid to the English for selfish reasons, since the cheapest way to fight a war is to let other nations fight it for us. war | Governor-elect Holland is starting out with war-like attitude. He has ap-' pointed nearly 500 lieutenant éolonels, but asked Adjutant General Vivian Collins to request the gubernatorial not to uniform themselves. most all the glory out of the appointment, but was asked in deference to the “regular ellers”, who might be em The ge of uniform material for such a vast a aides-de-camp sed. ho army of “colonels” was another iven for the request. reason reason It is reliably reported that Ernie Seiler Miami I] game, referred to the - chiselers, > asked for no adver me had:to be pait ting to.,.sente ted the bill owner to vote his election, in t That takes al- *¢ an exclusive formula for political activity. st permeate the entire scope of human onships if what we call the American vay of life is to survive the competition of the isms. We make no claims to perfection in the -art of cooperation with individuals. There are issues upon which we are quite pre- pared to stand alone if necessary. We trive, however, to seek avenues of coopera- tion with other human beings, engaged in the very fascinating task of trying to make life worth living for everybody. In the conduct of life human beings or- dinarily associate with others of like mind and purpose. In such a group it is utterly impossible for any single individual to have his, or her, own way. The price of mutual benefits is the sacrifice, at time, of unessen- tial opinions and preferences in order to se- cure decisive action on the part of a co- operating group. DO WE STARVE OUR MINDS.. H. G. Wells, the British historian, hods of disseminating infor- Inited States®and-—declares praises the met mation in the that this country has a population “eager to | learn and greedy to know.” After this compliment, Mr. Wells raises the question whether we are not “sometimes little too hasty to know?” By this he means that, as a people, we do not study thoroughly, preferring to read digests in- stead of assimilating a book, cover to cover. There is some point to the observation made by this visiting British author. There is undoubtedly a tendency on the part of of us, to skim through a book in a earch for startling, shocking or surprising nformation instead of soberly seeking to understand the author’s argument and then by timely the conclusions presented nking en our own part, TOO WELL KNOWN TO ADVERTISE once in a while we run across ument that Key West business con- , not need advertising in the local because “everybody knows t their business. is is an idea that no argument can the mind of a business man who 1 »d himself that he is too well- 1 to need advertising to remind people t he has te sell. w business men here, however, will hat they are better known than a, which has spent $100,000,000 é ising in the past fifty years. If ad- sing a drink, already-well known lions a year, it might be fre for “well-known” local concerns yusly consider advertising x for their own operations. as a sales- vulner- , ‘ort. Not too late; not tomorrow, | ey __» WA sHUNGION By HUGO S. SIMS. Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen | DEFENSE AND CONGRESS IMPLEMENTING A POLICY AN INDUSTRIAL~STRUGGLE NO TROOPS TO EUROPE FLEET IN THE PACIFIC ,RIVAL GROUPS CLASH DANGER AHEAD FOR US. on his or aerial ‘any present willingness part to use the naval jforees of the country to deliver supplies to the British Isles. While ‘almost any other phan would be acceptable, so far as we can judge the Chief Executive has not yet | been convinced that actual partic- ipation in the struggle, even to the extent of asserting our rights ‘as a neutral on the high seas, is The chief interest of Congress, |. qyisable. and of the people of the United Reese States, will be centered upon’ In his fireside talk to the people steps taken to implement the o¢ the country, in the latter part willingness of this country to be-|of December, Mr. Roosevelt, with- come the “arsenal of the democ- z racies”. As a part of this goal out amplification, declared cate- the rearmament program will be gorically, tnat our fleet “is in the speeded but the great gain that Pacific’. This has been gener- |will accrue to the United States ally takem as a plain warning to! |will be in the expansion of its'the Japanese that the United ‘capacity to produce the material States wlil not hesitate to act, if| jnecessary to modern warfare,'necessary] to prevent the Tokyo | whether for defense or offense. branch of the plunder bund from SS taking advantage of the situation The President's message on the in Europé to seize the possessions State of the Union, coupled with of the Dutch or the British. It is! his recent fireside chat, evidenced jargely because the course of Ja- the change that has taken place pan is not yet clearly underway in public opinion in the United we presume that the President States since the war in Europe was not more specific in his ref-! began, more than With the collapse of France, ern, question. there has been a widespread ap- = aod preciation of the dependence of The nation is witnessing the in this country, in past years, upon tense eforts of two “committees’ the stabilizing foree of the British of private cit s to align public Fleet. Most Americans are now opinion. The well-known group convinced that, without the Brit- seeking to Defend America by ish Fleet in the Atlantic, the fu- Aid to the Allies has at last found ture peace of the United States a rival in the newly organized No is in jeopardy until the projected Foreign Wars Committee, which| two-ocean ni can be construct- is centering its efforts, apparent- ed and take its place upon the ly, in working up sentiment high seas. against depleting our own defense by deliveries to the British. Of The leaders of the defense pro- course, no American that we gram in Washington have repeat- know of desires to engage in a edly stressed the urgency of the foreign war but the difference of international situation. There is opinion exemplified by these prospect that red-tape and committees involves clashing rdinarysmethods will be thrown jdeas as to how2far the interest invorder that unlimited pro- of this country .is.adentified with duction can become the order of that of Great Britain. the day. The output of our i = trial plants, in the next six months will probably determine whether this coutry will have to face the probability of a great | that we can produce. in and Germany and that it will be- r isting the British come involved in a war that will the expected German dwarf previous combats. The oth- . will serve the interests of or group evidently believes that n, even though it does regardless of who wins in Europe, than give us time in the United S is big enough perfect our defense plans ‘to take its in- productive capaci- misphere, no tions gang up Nazi victory e-Allies group be- once the Germans, Europe, this nation will tion of Japan, Italy win faee a com ) more terests matter ho on us. ates is facing two i] although same world “s feat of Great hea would bring that our civ on cannot with Nazi meth-/ in peace in & world dominate otic, with grave jpitierisnt” We, if anybody is in- sin South A dienseek i come aster to de- eo Chief es welled free the Japan- 2 agen for widestread advances in South Pacific. which would vusly threaten the position of States in the Far East lete aeftement xec Today’s Horoscope with the most dire peril that it Today's n s romantic, and has seen since the early days of inclining toward the law, if the the Republic. mind is turned to study. A lover = of good eating and the comforts The President. it is said, and of life tit batanced by the de- we can understand his attitude, sire to carry out the plans which is adamant against the use of will de well notured before the American troops in Eutope. He undertaking. d thus lead to in- has repeetediy given the people dependence and a competence in of this country his assurance that life $s no idea cf wsing our young men abroad and. for much ne reason, there is dowbt as to: 15: ne lily was first cultivated in he the TU ee | ee | JESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1941 U. S. WEATHER SIDELIGHTS = Former Editor of The Citizen — An official report of the British Air Ministry says 3,534 German | £ 69 warplanes were shot down over’ 74 Britain alone during 1940, while ..69'The Royal Air Force lost .only +1,050. Practically all the a ‘airmen involved in” the™Tosge#! }were either killed or captured, | 0.71 While about 500 Britons landed ; safely on home soil. j 0.31 ae BEL, | Recently the army command of | 0.71 Thailand (Siam) reported that | their forces had routed an invad- ing party of 24 guerillas from French Indo-China, mounted on two elephants, three horses and ‘one bicycle. ' | Observation taken at 7:30 a. m 75th Mer. Time (city office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hours Lowest last night Mean Normal Pee ise: Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches Total ranifall e Jan. inches seme Excess since January inches Sipe Total rainfall since Jan. inches ea Excess since January inches ee Wind Direction and Velocity N—13 miles per hour Relative Humidity 82% Past re Barometer at 7:30 a. m., today Tickets for the Roosevelt in- Sea level, 30.11 (1019.6 millibars) gugural were recently placed on Tomorrow's Almanac {sale at 727 Fifteenth street in ~ 7:14 a. m./ Washington, where headquarters 8 5:54 Pp. mM. |/for Wendell L. Willkie were lo- Moonrise - 2:15 p. m. cated during the presidential cam- Moonset 2:48 a. m. paign. 1 Tomorrow’s Tides (Naval Base) AM. 6:48 12:12 11:30 FORECAST (Till 7:30 »: m.. Wednesday) a Key. West.and Vicinity: Mostly) Natives of the island of Tahita, | cloudy tonight and Wednesday; ;in the South Pacific, go in strong not much change in temperature; |for tattooing, and until the war moderate variable ‘winds. ei jobiained machines for ue a . lyin; eir art from Germany. Florida: Mostly cloudy tonight That source of supply being cut and Wednesday. slightly cooler off, they now get their tattooing north coast tonight. machines from a new manuac- CONDITIONS turer in Los Angeles. Pressure is high this morning from the Plains and West Gulf} Among the books bought by the States eastward, and low over far! government last year were 250) western districts with a center! copies of Hopper’s “How to Play over the north Pacific coast. Light Winning Checkers.” They were Sunset Henry Miller, a barber in East! P.M. St. Louis, obtained a loan of $150 | 6:18 from the RFA with which to buy a new chair for his shop, but the salesman skipped with the money:} \before delivering the chair. i Low, to moderate precipitation has oc- | distributed to libraries on Naval, curred during the last 24 hours | ships for the edification of the | throughout the Pacific States, and | nation’s sailors. in portions of the northern Rock- = _Today In History 1782—The Bank of North Amer- ica opens for business in Phila- delphia—first bank regularly es- tablished in United States, 1789—First Prseidential election —ten States only participating. Five Stat designated eléetors through-their respective ‘legisla tures; the other five holding elections this day. Voting, where any, was light and with little -ex- citement. ee ' 1862—A French, British and Spanish naval expedition lands in Mexico to give protection to for- eigners and exact arrears due for- eign bondholders. 1873—Trial of New York City’s notorious “Boss” Tweed begins— city said to have been victimized 50 to 200 million dollars while Tweed Ring flourished. 1927—New York to Lonlon ra- dio telephone service inaugurat- ed. at 1932—Secretary of State Stim- son notifies Japan United States would not recognize any treaty or agreemnet impairing treaty rights of American citizens in China. 1939—Thomas J. Mooney par- doned by governor in California, ‘Today's Birthdays Maj. Gen. John F. Williams, U.S.A. chief of the National Guard, born at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., (54 years ago. U.S. Senator William H. Smath- fers of New Jersey, born at | Waynesville, N. C., 50 years ago. Adolph Zukor, movie maker, born ni Hungary, 68 years ago, ies, upper Mississippi and Mis-, At the completion of the regis- souri valleys, and Lake region, ! tration period on December 26, it and from the central Plains south- | was estimated that the number of ward to the west Gulf coast. aliens in the United States was | Judge Edgar S. Vaught of Okla- homa City, Federal jurist, born at There has also been rain over much of the Florida peninsula. Temperatures have fallen in New England, but have moderated in most other sections with readings generally near the seasonal aver- age. G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. very nearly five million, or about Wythe Co., Va., 68 years ago. 1,400,000 more than had been pre- | dicted. States with the greatest percentage of aliens are, in this | order, New York and Connecticut | @ per cent), Massachusetts, Cali- fornia and New Jersey. Dr. J. Whitcomb Brougher of Glendale, Cal., noted Baptist clergyman, born in Vernon, Ind., jv years ago. William B. Mayo of Detroit, mechanical engineer, born at i ceonerine: Reine e Chatham, Mass., 75 years age. izen, 20c weekly. bl | Today’s __ Anniversaries 1718—Israel Putnam, the Con- necticut soldier-farmer who left his plow in the field at the news of the battle of Lexington and eral in the Revolutionary army, born at Salem, Mass. Died May 29, 1790. 1800—Millard Fillmore, farm boy, Buffalo, N. Y., lawyer, con- gressman. Vice President, 13th President at the death of Taylor, born in Cayuga Co., N. Y. Died March 8, 1874. 1829—James B. Angell, the University of Michigan's presi- forty years, among the niry's greatest cducators, a soul radiating personality and one of the most modest of men, born at Seituate, R. 1. Died April 1, 1916. toe 1830—Albert Bierstadt, land- seape painter of the American West, born in Germany. Died in New York, Feb. 18, 1902. 1832—Thomas Dewitt Tal- mage, noted Presbyterian preach- er, editor and journalist of his day, born at Bound Brook, N. J Died April 12, 1902, Imogen Guiney, poet, editor, essayist, a brave soul despite a life of privation and disappointment, born in Bos- ton. Died Nov. 2, 1920. 1861—Louise 1884—-George Bronson Howard, jourr one of the best known playwrights. short story writers and novelists of his day. born in Howard Co, Md. A suicide, Nov y 20, 1922. TRY IT TODAY— The Favorite in Key West STAR >* BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS “Key West's Outstanding” LA CONCHA HOTEL Besutif! —Air-Conditioned Reinbow foom end Cocktail Lounge DINING and DANCING Strietly Fireproof Garage OPEN THE YEAR AROUND ee | To relieve | Misery of 66 COLDS “fits “yar, COFFEE nose props | MILLS COUGH DROPS, > ‘Try “Rab-My-Tinm"—a Wonderfol| GROCERS Liniment a year ago. erence to the Pacific, or Far East- marched off to war, major-gen-, — ii kr He Saves 7/3 going by FLORIDA MOTOR|INES One-W. ! i i re ir ij it i { i i il ¢ i f f a 7