The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 13, 1941, Page 2

PAGE TWO The iicy West Citizen ZEN PUBLISHING CO, INC. ily Except Sunday By President and Publisher N; Business Manager From The Citizen Building Gorner Greene and Ann Streets Only Dally Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Ansdciated Press Associated Préss Is éxelibively entitled to tise for republication of all news dispatehes credited to it or not ctherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published heré. The SUBSCRIPTION RATES me Year Six Months Three Months One Morith Weekly ....... ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE Ali ‘féading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, etc. v iil be charged for at the rate o: 10 cents a line. Noticés for entertainment by churches from which revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general wnterest but It will not publish anonymous communi- cations, IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED. BY THE CITIZEN 1 Water and Sewerage. 2. More Hotels and Apartments. 3. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. 4. Airports—Land and Sea. 5. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. | 6. A Modern City Hospital. The slots are on the way—out. No city is any better morally than its police department. Why should this coutitry worry about air raids when automobiles kill 100 people a day? Ten years ago a lot of people thought the Kellogg Pact had banished war “as an instrument of national policy.” When honesty is no more the best policy, The Citizen will join in with the under-world and take all the graft on which it can lay its hands, Out of the European conflict, in which the United States is seeking involvement, Russia will emerge as the greatest and tost prospérous nation if Germany is defeated and will sit pretty even if Hitler wins. Small-minded business. men do not place much value in good will, but that, while intangible, isan asset recoghized by broad-minded business men as most desir- able, even by those who enjoy a monopoly ; in fact'the monopoly will soon have com- petition if good will is entirely disregarded. The owners and managers of the vari- ous hostelries in Key West are in the posi- tion of making themselves assets of -price- less Value here by selling this city to their patrons. People who visit the Island City are naturally interested in this place and many are looking for a locality wherein to | make their permanent homes, and being in close contact with these prospects mine host is given the opportunity to paint a glowing pieture of the many attractions Key West | on operating, unless Pegler’ is’ mislead | son recently made by Secretary IMR. PEGLER AND TURTLES To the voluminous list of things West- | brook Pegler doesn’t like we may now add turtle steak. | ‘Pegler, interrupting his labor exposes | | shooting episode at Key Largo, warned all | and sundry last week to beware of the much publicized turtle. look and taste like football bladders, Key West is more or less the home- to feel affronted when Pegler singles out one of the staples of its diet for comparison | with a football bladder. It would hardly be true to say that peo- ple make the long jaunt to Key West just to eat turtles, but most visitors here do enjoy | the meat and it is difficult to get in other places. Pegler must have a hard time getting through life, at that. To be irritated and annoyed enough.to write his daily blast for year after year would be wearing to any- one’s constitution. However, with the exception of the | labor racketeers he convicts occasionally, most of the things Pegler doesn’t like seem | to keep rolling along. As a matter of fact, most of the labor racketeers seem,to keep, his public. Anyway, Mr. Pegler, there are a num- ber of things around Key West where your | acid typewriter could be very handy. But | stay away from our turtles. THE BOY SCOUTS NEED MEN Nearly a million and a half members | | of the Boy Scouts.of America observed Boy Scout Week. This is one week which should interest parents of boys. This great movement for the develop- | ment of boys was instituted in England by | Robert Stevenson Smyth Baden-Powell in | 1907 as an experiment and in the following | year the scouting movement was actually | founded. In this country, the Boy Scouts of | America was founded February 8th, 1910. Adults who are familiar with the work | of the Boy Scout organization do not have to be told of the value of its training. It en- them an opportunity to develep traits of | character and leadership which will help to | make them successful men. i More than nine million persons have | been connected with scouting since its or- ganization in the United States. Today, we understand, scouting requires the volunteer services of capable men, willing to give some time to the interest of the boys of their neighborhood. There may be men in Key West who will read this article who are anxious to de- vote a small part of their time to some enter- prise for the common welfare. If they are interested in boys, we suggest that they do themselves a favor and help extend the scope of scout activity. LUCKY PERSONS PAY INCOME TAXES In a few weeks some lucky citizens of the United States will be figuring up the amount of money; they will have to pay the United States Government under the in- eome tax laws. ’ 2g We call their attention to a compari- of ysthe Treasury Henry Morgenthau, who ‘told members of Congress that a British family | with $5,000 income now pays $1,196 in- come taxes, while a similar family in the | offers to the visitor and prospective home owners. Unfortunately, not all hotel man- agers are cooperating in this respect, one of | theni, we are informed, actually boosts .4nother city in Florida in which he is finan- | cially interested to the disadvantage of Key | West where he is making his livelihood. The Florida Tax Revision League is | sponsoring the revision of our tax structure to assure equitable distribution of the tax | load, thereby encouraging sound develop- | ment... It believes if Florida’s property tax system is placed on a transaction basis, property taxes will be equalized at one struke and eliminate tax delinquency. Furthermore, according to the League, it | under Nazi bombings. bring | will start a sound era of improvement and development of property that will new residents and new investors from every State in the Union and the idle and unusued property of today will almost immediately | be placed in development, use, and produc- | tien. “The arguments seem plausible and if there were some assurance that the develop- ments contemplated would result there should be no hesitancy in furthering the bill. United States pays $75. With $10,000 incomes, family pays $8,451 and the family, $440. With an income of $100,000 per year, in case you are interested, the British family pays taxes of $76,276 and an Amer ican family, with the same income, pays $42,948. These figures show how Americans are, the British American lueky the “ENGLAND WILL WIN” “England will win,” says Quentin Reynolds, war correspondent and magazine writer, who was in France throughout the German assault and in England for months The correspondent, lately returned to this country, says on the basis of his ex- perience, that “England not only can take it, she will keep right on taking it.” Mr. Reynolds says that the British have the will to take it, and nothing will crush them They have enough of the things they need now and he doesn’t think that the German will be able to keep supplies from America | from reaching thé British, town of the turtle and as such, has thé Tight * ‘t8 make soldiering a 1$eb..requiring trained men. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | with an airy little treatise on a rattlesnake | By HUGO S. SIMS, Special Washifigton Corresporiderit 6f Thé Citizen ® WAGE-HOUR LAW UPHELD UNIONS OUTSIDE LAW Its steaks, says Pegler, | | '|DEBT INCREASE CERTAIN i )PRESSURE-IN' FAR BAST ‘PLANES TO THE BAITISH The unanimous decision of the Supreme Court, upholding. the Federal Wage and Hour Law, con- | cludes the last major legal chal- | lenge to New Deal legislation. In his opinion, Justice Stone com- mented that while manufacture ‘was not of itself interstate com- merce, thé shipment of manufac- tured goods in interstate com- merce is “such commerce”. “The power to regulate commerce”, he said, “is the power to prescribe the rules by which commerce is‘ governed”. i The Justice added, “The power , of Congress over interstate eom- merce is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent! and acknowledges. ,no ,limitations ‘other than are prescribed by the Constitution”. The decision af- fecting minimum wages for mil-, lions of workers was ‘unanimous and decisively over-ruled z twenty-two year-old decision holding the Federal Child Labor. Law invalid. ’ Another recent decision of the! Supreme Court held that disputes between labor unions do not come; within the purvve of the Sherman: Anti-trust act. By a 5-2 decision, | the Court took the philosophical view that jurisdictional conflicts | between labor unions, while in- tensifying industrial strife, have marked the evolution of craft wh- ionism and has been one of the potent forces in the modern de- velopment of industrial unions. | The decision has far-reaching implications in connection with the Department of Justce’s anti- trust law enforcement campaign, Justice Roberts, in a minority opinion, asserted that the Court was attempting to legislate “radi- had refused to act. Debate over the bill to increase, the national debt limit ftom for- ty-nitie to sixty-five billions of |dollars will be largely acidemic. matic cast of “Bast Lynn”, now | The Treasury Department has re- ia | ported to Congress that it has bor- iast night by Mrs. Cleveland Dii- | rowing power sufficient to run for lon. only a few months and far insuf- ficient to finance the huge de- 'nauties products expertéd Department show that ih thé same month 221 airplanes were shipped to Great Britain and 8' were Sent to Canada. These ~ shipments’ ‘ répr eighty-three percent of t! is December. It appears, therefore, | that the British, including the / Canadians, received less than half | « of the airplanes produted in the inited States in December. In is conhection, we metely report the facts, leaving our readers to} draw their own conclusions as to whether too many, or too few, airplanes are being sent to the British. KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings On This Date Ten Years Ago As Taken From Files Of The Citizen i Se SRA Today is Friday the thirteenth and there will be twe more of; them this year, in March and No- | vember. ' | woes | During. the past two days the Monroe county ferry system has | haridled 221 passengers and 92 vehicles, i The Citizen, in an editorial, | said: “Key West is not a little in- terested in fefusal of the Inter-' state Comimetce Commission to allow railroads to add $12.50 to the cost of shipping each carload | of fish from here to the consum- ing centers of the east. The charges are already high, accord- ing to all accounts”. “Stories of Key West and Over- seas Highway are being printed from time to time in many of the! biggest newspapers of the coun- try, showifig just how easily al- most priceless publicity might be had for this community with a little effort and expenditure”. | courages boys in outdoor activities, giving cally” in matters where Congress, Capt. Tom Felton was an ar-| rival yesterday afternoon from, his plantation at Key Largo, for| a visit with relatives here. I siquictastia t boistaigen dba THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1941 | Copyright 1941, Liccerr & Mrs Teascco Co. Several members of the dra- |. rehearsal, were entertained Present were Bert Hernandez, | director; Joe Cates, Miss Helen} Eas 'U. S. WEATHER BUREAU REPORT Today's Anniversar fense program which, it is now Herrick, Miss Esther Schrader,| Observation taken at 7:30 a. estimated, will reach thirty bil4 ‘Annabell Armayor, Miss Matilda | lion dollars. It is expected that the Secretary of the Treasury will be empowered to fix the de- nominations of securities and, ac- cordingly, will soon afriounce a program for the sale of stamps of small denominations exchange- able for bonds. The steady pressute of Japan in the Far East is expected by some observers to produce a complica- tion in her relationship with the Ship No. 2, B. Johnson, P. Art-|Total rainfall since Jan. in United States in the near future, | It seems abundantly clear that, Cruz; Cuban Club, N. Artman, E.|Excess since January inches while the Japanese insist — that they are seeking economic goals, |varro, A. Capote; Ship No. 3, E. Wind Direction and V N—6 miles per hour Relative Humidity 84% |: Barometer at 7:30 a. m., today {Sea level, 29,92 (1013.2 millibars) lawyer, Union general, Tomorow’s the Japanese lose no oppoftunity ' to improve their military position in the Far East.ior: to. secure |stronger positions for.further ad- R, Gonzalez and G. Smith. vances towards The. Netherlands \Indies, Singapore and Australia. Miss Lillian Kilpatfick, worthy| This is clearly evident from the in the fighting between Thailand and French Indo-China. Appar- ently the United States will have to decide whether to surtender} its commercial rights in the Far, Fast or insist upon them with} the knowledge that there is the likelihood of an armed clash with Japan. the hard work that is necessary to develop raw recruits into ex- perienced soldiers. Modern war- fare is so far removed from the old days: of; shotgun fire that jit Knight, Darnell Pinder, Mrs. An-' nie N. Breckentidge, Russell, Joseph Bozo, Salas, Floyd Dillon, Clifford Hicks, Jr., Oriot Louriders, ert Dopp, Miss Nell Rose Knight and Miss Clara Yates. {Mean __ Normal basketball league will go into ac-| inches tion tonight at the high school Excess sin gymnasium. Lineups includeé,| inches man, O. Carey, M. Johnson, M. ches Sweeting, R. Dominguez, J. Na-| Albury, G. Ortiz, A. Johnson, G. Anderson, E. Beccaise; Zacharias, | D. Cobo, A. Artmayor, H. Renedo, | grand matron, Order of Eastern Sunfise Star, accompanied by her secre-|Sunset - results of Japanese intervention tary, and Mrs. Gussie Joiner, | Moonrise Homestedd, arfived here today. Moonset Miss Kilpatrick will pay her of- ficial visit to Fern Chapter to- night. - iHigh The lighthouse tender Poppy, Low with Capt. John Petreson, will leave tomorrow for repairs to! navigation aids in Tampa bay. to Cedar Kevs to assume the po- sition of lighthouse attendant |" there. ling southerly. 75th Met. Time (city office) j Temperatures Richard ‘Highest last 24 hours Claude Lowest last night Tomorrow’ (Naval Buse) AM 11: . 5: FORECAST (Till 7:30 p m., Friday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly | Died July 12, 1940. Phillip Russell will go on. the cloudy tonight and Friday; some-| Most Americans do not redlize Poppy to Tampa and from there iat cea Gaui re Almanac | 1766—Louis W. V. Du Bourg, 68 and ebllege fourider of Baltimore, -62 New Orleans and St, Louis, born "gg in Santo Domingo. Died Dec. 12, | Precipitation ;Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches Fouf teams of the local junior Total rainfall since Feb. 1, 1780—Lewis David von Sch- weinitz, Moravian clergymian, 426 ‘noted botahist of Salem, N, ¢., 3.62 2nd Bethlehem, Pa., born in Beth- lehem. Died there, Feb. 8, 1994. 5.24 bef Grinnell, New 2.83 York merehant, financier of sev- y 'eral metiorable Arctic ‘tiohs, botn in New ford, “Mass. Died June 30, 1874. 1831—John A. Rawline, Miinois ‘secretary \6t war, botn in Galena, Ml. Diet m. Sept. 6, 1869. _m.. 18704Leopold Gedowski, tani- _ m, ed composer, pianist ond teacher, ; born: in Russia. m New York, Nov. 21,/1938. 1871—Vietor Rosewater, Omaha 02 a. 36 PM 11:54| 15 25) 1877—Sidney Smith, Chiesgo cartoonist, creator of “The modetate variable winds becom- |G imps” and “Old Doe Yak”, born lin Bloomington, HL Died Oct, Florida: Partly cloudy, possibly 20, 1935. Peace Justice Gunn heard an showers in extreme nofthwest has become largely a technical af- ynusoal defense in a boat steal-| portion tonight and in extreme pr fair. The advent of mechaniza- tion, airplanes. tanks and the mtl- tiplicity of armaments, combine technical Considerable interest is ex- pressed in the number of air- planes being sent to Great Brit- ain, with wild rumors flying through the air. The average Amercian is concerned about; these deliveries with the major- ity apprehensive lest the British fail to receive sufficient planes. and the minority fearful lest the defense of this country be im- paired by such shipments. The latest fieures indicate that in December the aircraft indus- ltry completed nearly 900 air- \planes. Figures of the Commerce ing ease yestetday. A man arraigned on a charge of | warmer tonight. stealing a beat. a gun, clothing| and_. provisions north portion Friday; Jacksonville to Florida Straits: at. Matecumbe Gentle to moderate vatiable precipitation has occurred dur-) Key. told the judge he had), as winds, becoming southerly; much right to them as the com- ly cloudy weeth¢r, Friday. x fi plainant. He stole them, too, said the de- fendant. westetly over north Today’s Horoscope Leen Today promises one of consid- erable mental ability, and with deep sympathies for the unfortunate. Push, to make Personality felt, is lacking : cause some adversity spirit is weak and empty; but i |Rotkies; while will give an world. day; partly cloudy ton’ Friday, scattered showers extreme north portion. 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