The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 15, 1941, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen | | PUBLISHING CO., INC. ly Except Sunday By President and inher Business Manager itizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets a D: L. P. ARTMAN, JOB ALL Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County second class matter Watered at Key West, Flori Member of the Associated Press ss is exclusively entitled to use all news dispatches credited to not ctherwise credited in this paper and also 1 news published here. RIPTION RATES $10.00 Six Months 5.00 |. Three Months ne Month Weekly ADVERT! on app Made known SPECIAL NOTICE Is of thanks will be resolutions of arged for at ing: notices, pituary no! 10 cent for ente ees, ete., line, ainment by churches from which is to be derived are 5 cents a line n forum and invites discus- nd subjects’ of local or general iWterest but it will not publish anonymous dations, Citizen is ano of public issues communi- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports--Land and Sea. Consolidation »of County and City Gov- crnments. 6. A Modern City Hospital. Se Jar or no war, the hardest hit are the pedestrians, Whoever named it the “funny-bone” had a rather poor sense of humor. Key West has a fleet of mosquitoes now, and soon we are due for another Mos- quito flect. The old fellow who used to serenade his best girl with a guitar now has a son who gets. quicker results with an auto horn. No ship ever gets stuck in the mud in| the Key West harbor because the mud is too far away from the surface of the water. Palm Beach and Miami have all kinds of bars including sandbars, both of which can atcommodate schooners but not any large ships. The Citizen renders servic various public s and, be it admitted, seeks to keep operating by exacting a slight profit from readers and advertisers. Despite national defense activities and sp@iding, relief costs, it is conceded, will rena high because of the large number of | unemployable who willaet be helped. Governor-elect Holland has converted a Miami Knight into a Colonel. A pro- mdtfon! Maybe the new governor can also pull couple oftrabbits out of a silk hat. Key~West Citizen. He'll need to.—San- ford-Herald. Advice is cheap but this one is health- ful: Eat less, vary the kinds of food you eat; keep an eye on the calory value, and always leave the table with just a wee bit of your appetite unsatisfied; it will be ap- short while, and you will have for food until several hours later. “Eat to live, not live should be the watchword. Follow this advice only if you desire to live longer. peased in a no desir to eat” Monroe county authorities yoted to go ahead with its refund which goes to tht head of ¢h ass for just plain screweyness. County schools will through Roy Crummer refund 308,000 of Crummer callables in- te 8-4-5 iper ¢ that enough vaged to guarantee pdyment of of $40,000 0f 6 per cent bonds sold to Crum- wer to get money to buy land for an air base the Navy needs. One commissioner against the proposal for the naive that as Monroe county bonds currently are quoted at 90, a refund means a loss of 10 per cent a bond to the count (Monroe cou ty’s enormous gasoline revenue is due to the fact that a lenient state includes several hundred square miles of the Atlantic Mexican oceans in figuring “area”).—Fuller’s Florida Letter. voters approve) so e money can be sal- a new issue voted reason and Monroe's PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE Students of Key West high school, with their orderly and well handled elec- tions, are learning a lesson in Democracy not less important than the courses they inke from the text-books, Last week the retiring class officers went before the students and in a matter of fact way told them the duties and problems of the various positions they had held. Then the officers brought forward the candidates for their seats and described to the school the qualifications and experience of each. During the balloting, election officials checked the students against their lists of qualified voters, counted up and duly made known the results. Our voting public, with its hysterical convention scenes and its Mexico City election days could do worse than study the methods of these chil- Perhaps someday the children will of the turbulent dren. study cur elections as rel and not so good old days. While learning the machinery of our Democratic form of government, the school children should at the same time be made aware of the pitfalls that beset the orderly conduct of government business. To tain benefits and protection, men who are in illegitimate occupations offer graft to public officials, and too often these officials yield to the temptation, accept the filthy lucre and make a mockery of the public trust. Youth should be made to look with horror on such infamous acts and abjured to aid in eredicating that-abomination from the body politic when the time comes for ob- | them to accept that responsibility. TAGGING OUR BRAINS In recent years there has been an ever increasing effort on the part of psych- ologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and what have you, to determine and classify the mental deficiencies of the well-known human race. Some time ago a comprehensive sur- vey of mental diseases by specialists in psychiatry and allied fields was under- taken. After nearly three years of labor, a | new classification of such diseases has been | published, the chief-divisions of which are: psychoneu- psycopathic Amentia, neuroses, and roses, schizophrenic neuroses, | constitution, affective and emotional phy- | choses, toxic psychoses, epileptic psychoses, | organic brain disease psychoses,and other | miscellaneous types. Which ought to catch nearly everybody on one count or another. It is interesting to note in this connec- | tion that.a mental diagnosis of the late Sig- mund Freud, high priest of psychoanalysis and dream interpretation, revealed that he himself was a bit goofy, through “lack of | inward integration.” Whether all these investigations in mental science and psuedo-science are do- | ing us any practical good is a moot question. To a great extent, the conclusions reached by the so-called experts appear to be so much bunk, although some discoveries of | value may have been made. A close analysis would probably re- | veal that all of us are a little cracked, either s some- like habitually or occasionally. In fact, one has said, “crazy people are just other people, only more so.” And if, zy people are the hap- some contend, ¢ ) 2 But perhaps it is more piest, why worry fun to be nutty with a fancy psychosis. THE GIFTED CHILD We hear a good deal about the neces- sity for special attention to dull children, and every aid which may be given these un- fortunates ought to be given. Buta lot of bright ones need some thought and prac- cal assistance, too. tion of the masses to a certain common level is to be desired, but unless the boy who shows exceptional talent can be given special opportunities to develop his latent powers, not only he, but the world at large, is the loser. Thousands of mediocre go -ollege with little benefit to them- other boys © society, while thousands ave great gifts are denied the priv- h lack of means. with exception: lent for creative work, scientific research or leadership should lack the opportunity to make the most of that talentis a tragedy. Upon such boys and their proper training nd the progress of the world. The true of especially talented giris. on is a little farther any boy dey same is When our civiliza advanced, means will be provided that our brightest minds shall have every oppor- y for their highest development. Such should be provided now, its machine politicians | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Loonie By HUGO S. SIMS, Special Pa is Correspondent of The Citizen THREE FLEETS ON PAPER ° MANY ‘NEW SHIPS COMING HUGE DEFENSE BUDGET |ACTUAL SPENDING SMALL THE DEBT-AND TAXES ARSENAL FOR DEMOCRACY FOUR GREAT ESSENTIALS NEW DEFENSE LEADERS \A CALL TO ALL CITIZENS Reorganization of the United States Navy into wnree fleets, ef-! fective Feb. Ist, may not affect the distribution of the more than }300 war vessels now in_ Service, but it will mean something in the aistribution of the units when the Navy is doubled by the addition of nearly 400 units now building. With the main fleet in the Pa- cific, stationed at Hawaii, the Navy has maintained a ‘patrol force of 125 vessels in the Atlan- tic and an Asiatic squadron in the Far East, in the Philippines and |China. The battleships are at | Honolulu, with the exception of two or three in the Atlantic. In the Far East are some new cruis- ers, destroyers, submarines and gunboats. The ships being built for the Navy will more than double the ‘combatant units of every type, ex- {cept submarines. The 17 Battle- ships, 12 aircraft carriers, 48 cruisers, 170 destroyers and 82 submarines will represent an ad- dition that is equal to any exist. ing navy in the world today. In fact, when completed, they will be equal to the Japanese navy as it exists, plus all units known to be ‘under ‘constritction. The President’s budget message followéd “expectations, ‘proposing expenditures of $17,485,049,000_in the year beginning the first day of next July. About two-thirds of | the total is for defense, with ‘from two to five additional _ billions likely to be requested for all-out assistance ‘to the fightirig democ- |racies. The expenditures will re- |sult, it is estimated, in a deficit of mote than -$9,000.000,000. thus | increasing ‘the ‘public debt to an jall-time peak of more than $58,- | 000,000,000. In connection with national de- fense the President pointed out that expenditures during the last six months amounted to about $1,750,000.000. This is a small sum compared ‘with the huge appro- |priations alrea¢y made by Con- gress. Actual ¢xpenditufes, how- ever, will increase sharply during the next half-year ‘périod, being estimated at nearly five billion | dollars. This will bring us to the beginning of the 1942 fiscal -year, during which such expenditures ! will leap to nearly 11 billion dol- lars. The President recounted the de- fense program, including appro- priations, authorizations and rec- ommendations, covering the pe- vtiod frém “Jtine, 1940, ahd cluding estimates for the ‘fiscal year that will end June 30, 1942, showing a total of $28,480,000,000. The Army gets $13;704,000,000, the Navy $11,587,000,000, indus- trial expansion requires $1,902,- 00,000 and other defense activi- ties takes up ‘$1,287,000,000. In d ussing the national debt the Chief Executive pointed out that national income had increas- ed more than 30 billion dollars above the depression depth and that, in the same period, annual federal interest charges increased by only 400 million dollars. He eeclared that the bonds of the the “safest world” and that nm is still moderate t of most other t opposes a ‘pay- for defense ex- although admitting agreement on borrowed use of our pro- and restrict The Presi#ent’s message 6n the e of te Union gave official nee to natinal policy, al- ready underway, and ‘generally approved by the people Defying the dictwtots, he fitociaiméd our junity with the cause of the na- \tidns fighting aggression and in- ‘sisted that the role for this coun- ‘man freedoms: \try ig that of ap Sree altos supply | ‘munitions and war er ohee of many kinds.to the nations at war ‘with the aggressors, He tdok a firm ‘stand against peace by ap- ‘peasement or negotiation, warn- ‘ing the nation agaifist those who “would clin the wings of the American ‘eagle in order to feath- er their own nests”. He looked forward to a world founded upon four essential hu- (1) fréedom of ‘spééch and. expression; (2) free- | dom of every person to Worship God in their own way; (3) free- | dom from want, or econdmic un- derstandings which will ‘secure to evéry nation a healthy peace- time life for its inhabitants, and, (4) freedom from fear, or wérld- wide reduction of armaments to such a point ‘and in such -a thor- ough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression . against any neighbor. The newly created Office of Production \Managemént. gives William S. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman, together with Secretar- ies Stimson and Knox, almost complete power to ‘supervise the nation’s mammoth defense pre- gram. With the prominent in- dustralist and labor leader work- ing together there is reason to ex- | pect c9-gperation between labor and industrv. The President says he has delegated the power’as far as possible and that he will not interfere. although he would ad- _vise if requested to do so. | i jessy | The four members of the new | set-up immediately requested the “active, aggressive and enthusias- tic co-operation of every man, woman and child in the United States” in order to make America an arsenal “adequate to the ‘suc- cessful defense of democracy and freedom”. They warned industry to be satisfied with a normal re- turn for new capital required and Tepress Any “subconscious urex- pressed hopes for wartime ‘prof- its’. Labor was assured that no} sacrifices would be asked ‘unléss “matched by a corresponding ‘sacrifice of capital” and warried that a totalitarian victory will de- | stroy the Hard-won rights of Ta-/| bor and that “both capital and la- bor will become the involuntary WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1941 = This book TOBACCOLAND *U* S*A* gives thousands of smokers like yourself the facts about tobacco and... hes ettield’s MILDER, BETTER TASTE 7 the Keen iritérest ‘of the thousands of men and women who visit our Chesterfield factories, we owe the idea of publishing the book, “TOBACCOLAND, U.S. A.” It is a comprehensive picture story about the growing, curing and processing ‘of tobacco, telling you why Chester- fields ‘are MILDER, COOLER-SMOKING and ‘BETTER-TASTING. ‘We are vroud of the hundreds of letters From ‘smokers like yourself who have seen “TOBAC- ‘COLAND, U.S. 4.” Matiy have asked us to send Coptes to their friends. We'wéuld take pleasure ‘in Sending you a copy—just mail-your ‘request to Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., 630 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Capt. JOHN M. MILLER, Ametica’s No. | autogiro pilot and pioneer of the world’: only wingless mail plane route between Camden, N. J. and the Philadelphia Post. Office, is ‘shown here i ‘Copyifglit 1941, Liccrtr & Myis"Tosacco Co. vassals of an all-powerful State”. a my ainetatea Preuss) WICHITA, Kas., Jan. 15—A Wichita man who keeps chickens noticed that one of his hens had a piece of paper caught in her mouth. Investigating, he discdvered that attached to the paper was a piece of string. When he pulled on the string, out came a kernel of corn that the chicken had swal- lowed. Writtén on the paper was this hote: “Please keep your chickens at! hortie.” in- —— Today’s Anniversaries | ey 1716—Philip Livingston, New York merchant, philanthropist, Property to sustain the ptBlic cfedit, born in Albany, ‘N.Y. Died June 12, 1778. 1746—Gershom M. Seixas, New York Rabbi and chief Jew in} America of his day, a notable pa- triot of the Revolution, born in New York. Died July 2, 1816 noted New York Sun publish prising rival of;Greeley and Ben- nett ina im news, born int Wallingtrd: Conn Diéd July 19! 1868. 1008—Cornelia Conneity, ‘foun- dress of the Society of tl y Child Jesus, born Philadelphia Died April 18, 1879. Breckinridge. nator, 1 John C - Kentucky cOngretsman. se Vice President, Confederate geh- efal and secretary of war. born néar Lexington, Ky. Died May 17, 1875. 1841—(108 years ago) Charles A Briggs, the New York Unidn Theological Semindry’s faméd trofesscr tf the Old Testament ahd (prolific writer. tried for hetesy, borh in New York Diéd June 8, 1923. 1881—John Rovigers, ‘hava! of- F ficer, noted aviator, born in ‘Washington. DC Died in pline accident, Aug. 27, 1926. i Today In History | HOME TO RST ————— 1777—Vermont, formerly New Connecticut, proclaims a Declara- dent of St. John’s College, tion of Independérice of her own —an independent admitted as a State in 1791. 1811—Conigréss authorizes ‘President Spanish Louisiana, Mississippi barha, should any foreign power attempt to Occupy it. 1846—Telegraphic tion established between Boston and Sptingfield, Mass. 1861—Elisha G. Otis kers, N. Y., ‘paténts steam eleva- tor—dies carried on by his sons. 1891—(50 years Republic till years ago. j the to seize ‘West Florida, and Ala- Lt. . Gen. U.S.A., of New York, Youngboro, Ala., Judge communica- of Yon- | POT in Nevada, Mo., ago. soon after and business | ago) Serious — Sioux Indians outbreak, inflamed by ‘Suppdsed coming of an Indian Messiah, ended by Gen. Nelson signer of the Declaration of In- /A. Miles in council with Indians depéndence, ‘who sold part of ‘his at Pine Ridge Agency, S. 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