The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 21, 1941, Page 2

PAGE TWO Che ixcy West Business Manager The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monree County Enter e@at Key West, Florida, as second-class matter Member of the Associated Press ted Press is exclusively entitled to use epublication of all news dispatches credited to not etherwise credited in this paper and also a] news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES me Yoar Six Months » Months Month Weekly TISING RATES plication. AD Made known on a SPECIAL NOTICE rds of thanks, resolutions of etc., Will be charged for at @ading not obituary n of 10 cents a line, for entertainment by churches from which is to be derived are 5 « line. » Mitizen is an open forum and invites discus- n of public issues and subjects of local or general terest-but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations, c 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. Japan, in her war against China, has a bear by the tail and no way of turning loose, Mosquitoes Florida Bound. (Florida newspaper Headline.) What do you want to do, scare the tourists away? Short, and we mean short, letters to the editor, upon any interesting topic of publie-interest, will be weleomed by The Citizen. Itis complained that women talk more | than Fien. Perhaps the reason is that a good Meal of the time the men can’t think of anything to say. No business pushes itself; whenever you see a business growing, you can _ bet your life somebody is giving intelligent di- rection to its affairs. If you want to gain the good opinion of an individual, give him an order for what he has to sell. It is surprising how well this technique works. President Roosevelt is asking the coun- try for unity but himself is unwilling to co- operate in the effort. In preparing his “lend-lease’”’ bill he failed to consult one single member of his “loyal opposition.” Even in the midst of~ international dangers the people of Key West can afford to maKe a generous contribution to the cause’ of crippled children. Let’s help the surgeons and doctors to make helpless chil- dren strong again. The Navy has just announced that President Roosevelt approved the names of Mainé and Vermont for the 45,000 ton bat- tleships now under construction. The chief is getting broadminded or would it have looked bad had he demurred? Georgia is a dandy place if you have the urge to commit murder. Governor Rivers just before retiring from office par- doned 22 convieted murderers. Shortly after Bugene Talmadge was inaugurated to succeed Rivers, the new governor started the ball rolling by pardoning a murderer who yas serving life for a homicide com- mittedin 1935. Both General Motors and General Electric now boast of having a Charles E. Wilson. But they are in- dividuals, not the same man. They are not related but have been friends for some time. There are other coincidences. Each started his career at the bottom, the General Elec- tric Wilson as office boy and the General Motors Wilson as a student apprentice. Each entered his respective company through a subsidiary. Their promotions to executive positions have closely paralleled one another. The General Motors p: ident has ju$t assumed that title, just a year after his Gemeral Electric contemporary, President two TOMORROW'S CITIZENS Boy Scout leaders in Key West are | launching a drive to bring inte their organ- ization as many as possible of the city’s young men who are not already enrolled. From the present five troops, they say, membership this winter can be brought up to 12 troops with accompanying bodies for younger boys and for Sea Scouts, Parents of youngsters in Key West | should make every effort to get their chil- drer into the Boy Scout movement. Neither The Citizen nor the great mass of American public opinion have any inten- tion of indorsing the activities of Hitler and | his Nazi state as a guide for the children, but it is true that a number of his measures | have turned out to be highly successful. | And one of the foremost of these is his pro- gram, paralleled to a degree by the Civilian Conservation Corps, for the physical and mental guidance of his younger citizens. As President Roosevelt recently told his press conference in discussing the draft, | a year of disciplined training would be a goo] thing for the correspondents and for most American citizens. A year or two of | | membership in the Boy Scouts, with its em- i, non-military.. | training would be a good thing ‘for’ most * } boys without the additional benefits of they | phasis on cooperation . and training provided by ‘its leaders. Key West parents, for the good of their childrer. as future citizens of this country as + | well as for the sake of their development as | just normal grown men, would do well to | consider the Boy Scouts. PITIFUL MUSSOLINI Benito Mussolini, the once mouthed Italian dictator, has now become one of the world’s most contemptible and pitiful figures, and many predict that his downfall is probable within a few months. His utter failure since Italy entered the war has shaken the confidence of his own peo- ple in his wisdom and military judgment. The boasted strength of Italian arms, last June, has been proved largely fictitious. little Greece and by the British in Africa. fleet. His air force, although composed of effective. the impotence of Mussolini, would doubtless take charge of Italian af- fairs, as German conquerors have done in former times. Whatever happens, there seems noth- ing in sight for the Italian people but hu- miliation, disgrace and poverty. All this will come to a once great and respected na- tion because of the egotism and blundering stupidity of one man—Benito Mussolini. YOU CAN BE CAREFUL» The Key West automobile driver un- derstands the perils of the highway, know- ing that his safety is often dependent upon the prudent conduct and:careful driving of | others. } { | Many motorists fear that some drunken | driver will involve them in a serious acci- dent. This fear is no illusion. There are drunken drivers but, fortunately, they have no standing in public opinion and are being punished when apprehended, This, how- ever, does not always save innocent lives. While highway safety often depends upon the other fellow, there are precautions that the careful driver can take to reduce the liability of injury. For example, when a motor trip, start in time and take it eas While speeds are increasing, there is a degree of safety in limiting your own miles per hour. HOW TO. PROPHESY Given exact infromation as to circum- tances and understanding humay nature, ntelligent individual can reasonably foretell what will happen. For example, if you knew that a five- year-old child had a box of matches, and was sitting on a floor, covered with gun- powder, it would require only minor powers of divination to predict thé outcome. It requires just about the same amount of intelligence to know what would happen if Adolf Hitler conquered Great Britain, ac- quired its productive resources, 4 around for an opportunity to give Germ the rewards to which he asserts i titled. you plar “\shé-hd@-been there, loud- which appeared to be considerable at the | time Mussolini stabbed France in the back His armies have been hopelessly beaten by | His navy has refused to fight, but has been j partially destroyed in its home ports by | | British bombers and virtually driven from | the open sea by the British Mediterranean | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN YESTERDAY: Lovely Con- stance Cabrillo is the hardwork- ing “throwback” in a family of spendthrifts. One evening she averhears her mother, brother and sister discussing the por ‘ble sale 6f, Fh epbrivio ranch with Co.stanee’s stitor, wealthy John Raskthorne. ot — Chapter Two The ‘Charge lt’ Cabrillos “MAY I hear about it?” Con- stance inquired. “Taylor wants to buy the ranch—” began her sister, Donna. “He's offering fifty thousand dollars,” said Don, “and we're fools if we don’t snap him up. We don’t clear five thousand a year after the taxes are paid.” Constance waited a moment be- fore she spoke. Someone wanted to buy El] Cabrillo Rancho. She had a hazy vision of the place, tawny hills dotted with trees like tufted pincushions, dull green hills with stands of star-pointing redwoods; a jagged coast line, grotesque red rocks jutting out into a jade-blue ocean; a low rambling house in a caveré of weeping willows; soft-eyed peo- le who came out of white adobe uts 40 chat with her father in Spanish; horses as golden tan as the hills. Constance had a hazy Vv mn of »+ ghee home; made hazy by time. assed since ut memory cpfythe rancho was like her mem- ory.of her father, something stable to cling to in an_ unstable world; something rooted in time and there to endure. Knowledge that the ranch was there for her to return to, had made possible this roving life of the last of the Cabrillos. “Taylor?” she asked. “The ranch manager,” ex- planed Don in exasperation. “You new him, didn’t you? Gee whiz, Con, he’s been there since time began.” “I was eight when father died,” Constance reminded him, “and we left immediately afterwards, but’ I do remember there was such a person.” “He moved in two years before Don passed,” Mrs. Cabrillo eluci- dated. “Don, for some reason, had great confidence in him.” “Well, what do you say, Con,” urged Don. “How can a ranch manager with a salary of less than two thou- sand a year, offer fifty thousand for that ranch?” she queried. “He’s probably offering it for someone: else,” Raskthorne sug- gested. “But grazing land in that iso- sF ourti years hed that much, and other land is worth more,” she argued. “You can’t gauge land out there by the prices here,” dis- paraged Don. “Gosh, Con, use thousands of planes, has been miserably in- | Even if reinforcements from Germany | should save Italy, it would only emphasize | and Hitler | # a | By HUGO S. SIMS, Special Washir | THE THIRD TERM BEGINS OLD PRECEDENT BROKEN WAR EXPLAINS IT ALL MORE AID FOR BRITAIN CAN THE BRITISH WIN? iwHAT ARE RISKS? |PEQPLE’S OPINIONS DIFFER SUPPORTING YQUR NATION The peopfeof the United States, for the first time in th <istence, have a President for a third re-electi fic ikooseveit's vember set asid: |had bee d since the early ays of the republic, Thre are ricans 1 port to th \ velt, if tien ofthe Presider hould be re i Mr lated section wouldn’t be worth} MEMORY O your head. Here we are skimping along on less than five thousand a year, and you want to turn down a chance like this. Think what we gould do with fifty thousand—” “That,” said Constance, “is ex- ad what_I am thinking Turn ya loose with that money to your it, and how long w it ? A year at the most. And what? And without the ich to back your further credit, how would yeu live? And what of your social position without a hacienda to brag about?” Don jumped up, angrily. “You’d love to see your sister behind a ribbon counter and me with a pick in my hand, wouldn’t you?” “Td have a lot more respect for you than I have right now; you, 1 thi buying cars you can’t afford and expecting me to pay for them.” Don was suddenly subdued. “What did you do about it, Chita?” ‘T told that salesman to take the car; I wouldn’t have it as a gift... not that you'd give me a chance to drive it after I'd given up my business car to save it. “Oh I'm sick of the way we're living . ... the charge it Cabrillos.” She paused and saw that Rask- thorne had left the room. She his consideration, then turned her anger on the others, ! Tm Through’ ‘Vv E SEEM to think tradesmen can pay their bills with the. prestige of our dealing with them, They can't. We seem to think servants are satisfied with board and room and the pleasure of serving us. “Well, ['m through. I'll pay the wages of the two father hired, and who've stuck with us in spite of us, but I’m not paying for any of the new ones. We don’t nei them. “I told Greenlands today thay | pay for necessities, but if they wanted to send you luxuries to put them on a separate account. “And if just one more bill col- lector comes to my office, I'll run a legal notice in all newspapers that I will not be responsible for anyone’s bills.” Mrs. Cabrillo shook her head in gentle distress. “Darling, don’t feel that way. Mother is only try- ing to establish a background so her children can meet the proper people and make good marriages. You'd never have met John so- cially if I hadn’t sacrificed my pride.” Constance winced and turned away. “If Joh» has been interested in me because of my backgroand, he’s certainly been disillusioned this day.” “Connie,” Donna called after her, “how about Taylor and his offer?” The blood of Michael Mahoney i in his great- grand- | ghter. Her face was turned from the others, or they would with your millionaire complex, | p thanked him and hated him for] f, ed | Park trees across the THE MOON by Jeanne Bowman have seen the Des narrowing of her eyes which confirmed their belief in her shrewdness. “What is the rush?” she evaded. “Had I accepted the first offer a Mr. anges ng ona ze. I woul carrying a three hun- dred dollar commission ¢! in my pocket now, Don’t let Taylor know haw anxious you are to sell and he may raise the ante. That's only common sense. . >” she added hurriedly. “I must go to the office . . . busi- ness—” “Constance, there are some bile murmured Mrs. Cabrillo wi 5 “Hey, Con, listen,* urged Don, starting towards her: “Oh, Chita, please—” pleaded jonna, But Constance fied, sick with disillusionment. She shouldn't have mentioned the check. They condemned her for working, yet felt that they had a right to the money she earned. She reached her room and locked the door behind her. John would be waiting downstairs. It seemed he was always waiting some place. She wondered why he didn’t tire of his réle, “He'll have to wait some more,” she thought, “I’m not fit company for anyone. Poor John.” _ For a moment she stood look- ing at her room, Spartan in its simplicity, and though she didn’t recognize it, a symbol of defiance thrown at her extravagant fam- ily, just as her clothes were de- fiantly simpleyand few: Not that she didn’t love soft velvets, smooth satins, brilliant and deli- cate colors, but that she loved freedom from debt more. Restlessly she sought the studio couch in and sat. chin in her hand, staring out at the ragged leaves of the enue, She must think of many things, how to spread this commission check thin, so that tradesmen could have some of the money due them; what she really should do about the ranch; why her. father had left the final decision to her; and why Donna had called her a throwback. “IT wonder why ent from them, 1 am so differ- she mused in- Symbol Of Security stead. I AMSON might have told her - one reason, but was downstairs pacifying John Rask- thorne with Scotch and soda. He would have pointed back to the day Constance became aware of herself as an individual, and not part of a family. Lamson had taken her to one of the numeérous parks the suc- cessive Cabrillo houses faced. He'd fastened her skates on, saw her dart away with her friends, and he’d retreated behind a news- paper. And then he had heard her shrill, “Come on, kids! My treat!” and had looked up to find a crowd the window embrasure | th TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1941 following her to the park com- He had hurried after them, just in time to hear Constance say, “Oh, charge it. ['m_a Cabrillo. “You sure are,” the caretaker agreed. “A charge it-Gebrillo. On— ly this _ti r money, no Ae All ri an ee bet Hee remem- bered that ‘tfevspent the dinner money (he not having been paid and Cabrillo credit elsewhere stopped) to save Constance furth- er shame. But there was nothing he could do to save his favorite the humiliation of being nick- named “Charge-it Cabrillo,” until she refused to play with anyone {| while they remained in that city. Constance would have remem- | bered this only vaguely, It was the first of a succession of humili- ations. She didn’t think of them now, she thought only of the place which had made it possible for her to endure these insults, She had always been able to think: “I have the rancho . .. it’s real, and all paid for.” El Cabrillo rancho was a sym- bol of the security she hadn't known since her father’s death. It was the home she had barely known, for Nadine had hate ranch life, and Nadine’s husband had sought to give her the life she loved. “But have I the right to refuse my tonsent?” she wondered, “The money would pay off their debts and fulfill their long repressed de- sire to splurge in a big way, and ./.i1 could marry John on his oWn grounds, solvent. Only—” She thought of the ranch, man- ager and wondered why he had named that price, What would she, as a dealer in land, think of e figure Poking through her purse for her cigaret case, she came upon the MacDonald check. It was the biggest commission she’d made on one gale, thus far. It was vindica- tion for insistence upon a busi- ness, instead of a social career, “By next year, at this rate, 1 can take that trip home I’ve been planning for so long,” she thought, then paused. Next year there might be no home there. It might belong to somebody else. Ten minutes later she was tip- toeing down the rear stairway, through the servants’ quarters to the inner court where she had left her car. Quietly she started it and drove out the tradesmen’s entrance. She was going home, immedi- ately, as quickly as a hi h-pow- ered air-liner could carry her, and before the family knew of her in- tentions. Eyes narrowed, she threaded the late afternoon traffic. “I'll find out why they want to buy; why they offer that price; if we shoul have more; and after that I'll know what to do.” To be continued “tators any satisfaction whatever. who — Roosevelt as theleader th | this is correct, the youth of Amer- jica will not get into desperate bat- jtle, and the peace of the world, jupon which normal commerce de- !pends, will be restored. The dis- A sEUNGION gton Correspondent of The Citizen of the democratic peoples. Con- colossal risks. sequently, ‘it was admitted that ‘The drive to implement our de- his defeat wauld be regarded with song program, in order to produce action in Berlin and in Rome yast quantities of munitions, and there wes no idea on the part equipment and fighting machines, of the people here to give the dic- is beneficial to the safety of the United States, regardless —— whether the ymgterial is reserved The President, and his oppan~ yfor: our tacnets or sent.to the ent, were explicit in theiz pledge British. In the final analysis all to try and keep American)seldiers-that we have in mind when we out pf Burége:. There-is nething,rearm isthe protection of the to Wad-any one to the conclusion United States against the new thag) the iChief Executive has forces that are challenging the abandoned this idea, The measure-old order of civilization. if the ow beforé Congress to increase British use the equipment in com- his powers, in order to aid the na- bat with the foe the net result, so ns fighting aggressors, is view- far as we are concerned, is that by his Supporters, as neces- our boys do not participate in the + in order that the President bloody work. have a reasonable chance of ting the war from involv- 2 the United States. present conditions, with our fleet tied-up in the Pacific, it is said, We doubt if many Americans believe that the immense effort That the President is whole- national defense would be possi- > behind the British peo- ble, or even favored by our peo- r brave battle has been ple, if they did not realize the new for many months. Noth- peril that presents itself as the campaign lent any sup-'Nazi threat dominates Europe. If intended to an early victory over their foes, struggling the defense budget now consider- aggression. ed would be considered a foolish ar” slogan was gesture. Frankly, this nation is ciple, by both arming against the totalitarian foreign policy powers, in the belief that if they hardly a major win, nothing but’ force will give us protection cr safeguard our re-elected, the of the campaign. eiieesilear rights. ude of the President. — gather it, is that this coun-, There is room for difference of will be inevitably involyed in opinion among Americans as to st.uggle if the Axis pow- the extent of our aid to the Brit- heir present fight against ish . There is ground for the be- ain. Therefore, the lief, held by many citizens, that to avoid the use of a great care should be exercised lest f youths to defend we deplete our own means of de- nd the hemisphere. fense bv shipping too much stuff about the defeat of to the British, The attitude in- ny by giving to the British volves a difference of opinion y as thet will serve with these in authority and. ap- ngthen her resistance and parertly. the majority of the peo- way for eventual vic- ple of the nation. It should b: frank ilitary experts in that the present policy involves o be if some risks of war. We do not be- t d ial aid to liewe that the Axis powers will ish! ‘the British will win dare attack the United States so e European war. Obviously, if jong as the British continue to ‘patch of soldiers to Europe, under | theorv that Mr. Roose- the British and French had won! ‘tight. They might become angry with our leaders and put us down as enemies of the Nazi order, to be dealt with when the moment | ;would be a military gamble of of ¢ now being exerted in behalf of ; t22F Today’s _ Anniversaries | 1743—John Fitch, New Jersey | silversmith and metal craftsman, /Western pioneer, builder « of ‘steamboats long before Fulton, |born in Hartford Co., Conn. Died jin Kentucky, July 2, 1798: vit rie ¢ \1802—Fran is E. "Spinne , ap {pointed U.S.) Treasurer’ by» Lin- ;coln in 1861 and serving 14 years, among the finst:t) permit women {to work as Government clerks, born in Herkimer Co., N. ¥. Died | Dec. 31, 1890. 1813—John C. Fremont, famed | “Pathfinder” ot the West, Cali- | fornia senator, soldier, Presiden- | tial candidate, whose explorations ‘contributed much to the opening ‘of the West, born in Savannah, (Ga. Died July 13, 1890. | 1824—Thomas J. (“Stonewall”) | Jackson, famed and modest Con- \federaté general, among Ameri- jca’s great soldiers, born in Clarks- burg, W, Va. Killed accidental- \ly by, his own men, dying May 110, 1863. s | 1838—Nelson Morris, German *’ | immigrant to Chicago, rising from |stotkyard laborer to noted meat- jpacker, stock breeder, born. Died” |Aug. 27, 1907. 1853—-Helen H. Gardener, au- i thor, noted suffragist, agnostic, first woman member of Civil ‘Service Commission, born in | Winchester, Va. Died July 26, | 1925, is propitious. This, in our minds, is no new risk because we be- lieve that the present program of the Nazis includes eventual pene- tration into this hemisphere and, iif necessary, the conquest of the United States. In writnig thus freely about the international situation we have jexpressed views that seem to be sound. They are based upon ¢con- ‘siderable study of the situation |but they may be altogether wrong, | We cheerfully yield to all readers ithe right of their own opinions {and stand ready, at all times, to ‘accept the verdict of the people |and uphold the government elect- jet to administer the affairs of the United States. | NO NAME LODGE | Famous Bahia- Honda Fishing | Reef - Tarpon - Permit - | Bone Fishing Cottages—$3.50 a day and up | Stone Crab Dinners a Specialty | Phone No Name Key No. 1 | For Information a OI omc going b FLORIDA MoToR|INE E { °