The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 6, 1941, Page 2

= fu PAGE TWO The Koy West Citizen THE CITIZEN PU DLASHING: “CO, On IND. Published Daily Except Sunday By L. P. AWTMAN, President and Publisher JOR ALLDN, Business Manager From The Citizen Buuding Corner Greene and Ann Streets | Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and | Menroe County iantered st Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press -he Assovistea Press is exclusively entitled to use | for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not ctherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES me Year | ix Months Three Months une Month Wahly ADVERTISING RATES | | | } Made known on application. | SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obltushy notteds, etc., y il be charged for at the tate of 'f0 cents a Mine Notices tr erftertainment by ¢herches from which revenue is to be derived are 6 cents a line. | The Citizen 1s an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonyreous communi- eations. 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- ernments. A Modern Cit) Hospital. en | Introducing; Mamie, N. C. Many an American mother who did not rear her boy to become a soldier has a son in the army. r Instead of advocating a tax on soap, the Florida legislature should see that it re- main exempt with all this dirty work going on at the cross-roads—and elsewhere. An advertisement in The Citizen by the Southernmost Book and Art Shop says :% that a book a day keeps ennui away—and | fata: right kind of book. improves you cul-| turally. . The women of America long to have - some part in preparing this country for whatever role it will be called upon to play -~-in world affairs, so the great question : 2 Bfhong them during these days of crisis con- tinues to be—what can-we do to help make this country strong? In every community there are folks who want to see another paper because the <x @xisting paper does not kowtow to their nefarious schemes. But the suckers to pull their chestnuts out of the fire are getting scarcer than hens’ teeth. In Key West every such effort has failed. One individual most lost his shirt trying to boost those ‘whalater kicked him in the pants. pie The management of the Bettye Ray- mOnd restaurant inserted a card of thanks in The Citizen in*appreciation of the pat- ronage received during the past season, Phat is a courtesy which will be appre- eieted by ‘ts numerous clientele. It is re- seeitable that not all of them will see this | RéLof eourtesy since the restaurant had as | TScustomers many visitors to Key West | Wii have returned to their homes. ~- This column holds no brief for Colonel Lindbergh but accords to him his constitu- | tiSjiai right to express his personal views Mil there is a formal declaration of war. Me is being punished for avowine his opin- | ions, though on June 13, 1940, President Roosevelt uttered the regret that his ad- ministration had not heeded Colone] Lind- bergh’s e ivice to build a great fleet & mili- tary airplanes. That regret was expressed te- Senator Sheridan Downey, who later ad- dvegsed the United States senate, giving the-| President's views as we'l concerning Eng- land’ Quoting the senater: “I might say that the President of the United States stated to me—and it is no | violation of ethics when I it, because he proclaimed it in the that the military power of German great the in favor Apparent $ views on chances in the war say press was so overwhelming odds were winning the fent's and Lindb ubjeet agree; the one that the President thought soa year ago. while the Colonel thinks so now | war.” if nee is | abling the commission to move agent’s office, examine his papers and rec | \ ing. RULES FOR REALTORS Outside of the,controversial race track | measure with its five per cent increase in the state’s share of betting pools, one of the | legislative session’s bitterest fights has | been over the new “blue sky” law. Real estate operators are up | through the Senate without getting its proper share of publicity, a charge, in- | cidentally, which can’t yery well be used if the bill gets. through the House after the. ! newspaper comment it has provoked cently. Walter P. Fuller, St. Petersburg eco- | nomic student and a former legislator, de- | | seribés the terms of the bill and adds: | “And if that’s ‘corrective’ amending, j Chattahootchee is a pleasant summer re- ’ sort, especially to be recommended for chil- | | dren and nervous individuals.” Under one term of the measure, any | owner wishing to subdivide as many as 10 | lots (24% acres) must first submit to the in arms | | over the bill, charging it was railroaded re- i ce i } i | | { | real estate commission at Orlando for ap- | proval a plat, a proof of title and a copy of ys prospectus. That doesn’t sound bad enough to | arouse the realtors to their present pitch of indignation, but what apparently has | touched off the fireworks is a provision en- | into an ords and revoke his license without a hear- The commission may then hold a hear- ing at which hearsay evidence may be ac- cepted in testimony. Whatever the terms of the bill, it ap- ' pears that its opponents are at least partly | right in claiming it was rushed through the from the people it would affect. | Senate without geting enough attention | At least they know where it is now and | what is in it. SEIZING FRENCH SHIPS The Germans have requisitioned French ships, according to a news dispatch | from Vichy, France, which says 53 ships of | nearly 240,000 tons have been seized. Plainly, the Germans have a need for ships, whether they seek to attack the British forces in North Africa or the home guards in England and Scotland. They | lack the vessels but France has them, France, being defenseless, this is practically | the same thing as ships. It is pointed out that the Germans have already requisitioned: 140,000 out of Germany having the | 450,000 French freight ears and that of the | 810,000 left alone in February, 240,000 have been concentrated in occupied France. | When Germany needs these freight cars she | will proceed to take them. These measures illustrate the German | method of waging war. falls the-victors appropriate what they need, the German military forces. happened to French ships and freight cars has happened to industrial plants, chinery, food and other facilities and products. LUDWIG/S PRIVILEGE Itis worth noting that Emil Ludwig! the Gteat German historian, now living in thé United’States, has volunteered his serv- fcex to the government of the United States | at.$1 per year, He will do special work among for- | eign-language groups in’ connection with | the defense savings program. Mr, to be a-citizen of the United States, it is a small matter for an individual to offer his | very best to any cause which is devoted to the defense of democratic ideals.” It might be a good idea for some Am- ericans to understand the privilege that Mr, Ludwig praises and for which he is willing to volunteer his services. sag si Bagryeetes h says that the Brit- ish" ha te-commiss! athe second, néw 25,000-ton batt! p and British news- papers indicate that "the British ‘nivy will soon be reinforced by five new battleships of this type. Several years before the war, after the expiration of the naval limitation treaties, the British projected a fleet of five new battleships, to have a speed of 30 knots and to carry ten 14-inch guns. The keels of two A Lond | of these ships were laid on January 1, 1937, the day after the naval treaties expired, and since then, other ships have been un- der construction, When a_ nation | It costs no money and it strengthens | What has | ma- | } Ludwig says that “when one { | realizes what a tremendous privilege it is THE KEY WEST CITIZEN FOCL’S GOLD OF PARADISE (By GENE MALTMAN MILLER) The “All Year Club” proponents entice and do tease Many thousand poor guilibles from hearthsides of ease, By tne glowing discourses and photos so fair, Of the glamorous beauties and sunshiny air. But ef every day’s fog and every night's chill, Where gas heated shelter warms one but ill; To warn man, bird or even poor beast, Never a word ever reaches the East. The fruited “Sunkist” delights are all shipped away, While puny culls but remain for the tourist to pay. The ocean is full of all kinds of fine fish, But it’s quite beyond hope to find a good dish. The flowers are pretty, but lack even a smell, « What végetable one’s eating, from taste’s hard to tell. If downtown, and Dame Nature's call sudden came, Locked toilets of all buildings reap much despised fame. The street cars are quite odd—wide’ open each end, The seats are so narrow, for space oné must fend. All papers five cents—yet nothing that’s new, But printed and sold a day before due. The people are funny, and manners quite lack, They push you in front and shove you in back. The femed hospitality of the “Oid West”, Is something with which L. A. is not blest. Cold old New Yorkers will give you a hand, But not a smile or a “treat” in Los Angeles land; ‘And when on arriyal, you give some one a ring, First question asked is—How much money you bring?” A. boatswain on ship “pipes” the guest from the shore, But the cake and bread man “tests” hi. wares to vour door. The “acre ranch” egg man just whistles his way, Like all of the peddlers, who eal] day by day. The milkman he jangles, the junkman he gongs, The Japs sell their fruit, the Chinese join tongs; The housewife to market goes only for meat, The rest of her shopping takes place on the street. Ice cream man’s bells tinkle, each night as before, Put catch him you can’t as he whirls "By weer Door”. The fleas gaily nip, when you rest in the park, The birds rarely sing, much as your.ears hark. Tn home. theater, street, the women wear slacks, Many time: do you wish for a box of sharp tacks; V"sether streamline or battleship structure their beams, They must always wear slacks, or just shorts, so it seems. Police-cars and ambulances constantly race, Rewildering the stranger, amazed at the pace. Crime must be rampant, and murders not few, If measured by noise and the hullabaloo. The sirens they screech and rack one in dreams, Until to raw senses, it truly so seems, That all of the neovle, both the sick and the well, Are being quick sirened, right straight into Hell. Car drivers are madmen, throughout the whole place, Nothing all year but an Indianapolis race. Of religion and cults, there is everyman’s plan, Frem Eden’s fair nudists, where man’s troubles began. The mauntains are barren, cold and austere, When California marooned, yeu wish The desert in summer is two feet above Hell, In winter, at night, you yearn for it well. P When rain deluged mountains fill arroyos with flood, There’s a wild scramble for life, ’gainst rushing waters and mud. Man builds wails, dikes and dams, the waters to stay, But when Nature rampages, none stand in her way. ‘Then core the earth's tremors, with warning so grave, They shake house and dishes, and shiver the brave. The bed it doth shimmy, the windows near break; Qnee again all is quiet—“It’s only a quake! But men can’t sit idle and wonder “just when?”; Life must go on, and it’s not in men’s ken, To time giant forces, far rock-bound below, That crash down the buildings. 2nd put on a real show. The land is so dry that fcr water to drink, Pipe had to be laid’ *> Colorrdo’s bore brink. The cost was stupendots but like W.P. A., Wry bother Los Angeleans—let the Easterners pay! They had r-ountains and deserts end acres of sand, But no water at all where a steamship might land. “We murt be a seaport”, though the ocean it lay, Thirty miles westward, where beach beauties play. So Uncle Sam’s Congress was called on to say, That for L. A.’s great harbor, the country must pay. All of this tale proves what Kipling said neat, That East is not West, and the twain shall not meet. There are cure-alls for everything man can invent, Gyps, fakirs, dreamers, on fortune all bent. If you want to be happy and with home town content, Take in California and learn what friends meant. So, my friends in the Northland, when King Winter doth come, Heed not siren praises, pray do not succumb. Head “South”. where kind nature a true ‘ise made, Whrned by the Gulf Stream—the “State Everglade”. When icicles bloom, and the snow it grows deep, Drippy noses arrive, arid cold chilis’o’er you creep, To the land of real sunshine. of seashore and lake, Pack your kit, tag it “South”, no mistake will you make. $930 South Shore Drive, | Chieage, i. epee Highlights T AFFECT THE DINNER PAILS, 'D TAX BILLS OF 'Y INDIVIDU. IONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS INSEPARABLE FROM LOCAL WELFARE = DID ALLIES MISCALCUL ATE BALKAN CAMPAIGN? As various authorities, includ- severest in the world, would slow ing the President, nave lately ob- served, an American characteris- tic has been to be buoyed up in- to clouds of optimism by British vietories, and to be cast down into the depths of despair by British defeats. This, these au- thorities believe, is a mistake. In a great war, the tide of victory never runs one way. The achieve- ments must be accompanied by the failures. © And so, it is argued. the BritishGreek - Yugoslavian idebage in. the yy bad as it is, shold not exaggerated. The decisive ‘battle of this war is the Battle of England and the the German merchanized ad- vanee. Yet the German small tanks went over precipitous mountain passes almost as easily as if they were traveling on road, and the Greek army found that personal valor could not eom- pensate for the immense superi- ority the Germans possessed in equipmnet. The same thing was true of the Anzac troops of Gen- eral Wavell’s army, which were transported to Greece from Afri- ca. Man for man, the reporters n the scene wrote, they were far better than their German foes. But the greatest of courage Atlantio hitler . far elsewhere, but until her- self falls, he cannot win. Looking back now on the Balk- an campaign it seems apparent that the British either underesti- mated the German power, or effectiveness of their allies ft was felt in military cireles that Yugosiavie, with the aid of her difficult ter- rain, should be able to last many + weeks—she actually fel m 13 days, and jong before the end her armies were in swift retreat, and were cut aff from each other. is @ frail weapon indeed against a tank. On top of that it is apparently true that, again, the Germans demonstrated a far greater ef- ficiency in staff work. There was no unified Allied command in the Balkans, and the respec- tive General Staffs had little op- portunity for consultation and ;lt was felt that the mountainous country of Greeee, among the ! 10 finally and a’ KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE Happenings ‘On Thi This Date Ten Years Ago As Taken From Files Of The Citizen TE Teachers and other employes of the local schools will draw some $15,000 in salaries—two ‘months’ pay—as soon as the money can be transferred from a New York bank to Key West. Funds for, the teachers; were made available when the Florida East Coast railroad .paid $23,542 | in taxes before the; money was. ‘of the boys and girls of ambassador to Vichy, France, TO BE RENDERED AT FLEM-} born in Hampton Ia., 66 years ING STREET METHO. | 80. DIST CHURCH Orson Welles, actor, producer, | born in Kenosha, Wis., 26 years A program of music and | #8°- ‘drama, in honor of Mother, will be presented at the Fleming Street Methodist church this |C#8°, famed cartoonist, evening,-.. beginning at o'clock. f The program, under auspices; William E. Scripps of Detroit, the! publisher, born there. 59 years John T. McCutcheon of Chi- born in 7:30; Tippacanoe Co., Ind., 71 years ago, due. The railroad, which was td! ¢hurch, follows: have paid the, bill in June, trans- Grange prelude. ferred to the state the part which Song, “American Anthem’— was to go to the schools. ‘Juniors. Scripture—Mary etic itd Prayer. ago. | James B. Black, president of ‘ Pacifie Gas & Electric, San Fran- cisco, born in Sycamore, IL, 51 Capt. Clark D. Stearns, former commandant of the local naval station and now a resident of Mi- ami and president of the cham- ber of commerce there, is optim- istic about progress being made in acauainting the state with the possibility of routing the Pan- American highway through Flor- ida. 1 Since the Florida state cham- ber has taken up the plan, Cap- tain Stearns said today, it is only | a question of time before the en-! tire state will be working for the highway proposal. Governor Carlton, at Tallahas- see, today signed seven 16eaY bills Z ting Key West's ‘firémen’s, pensions, trash removal, public: vehicles for hire, special im-{ provement assessments, taxes, election laws and reducing the number of city councilmen. i Bids for the erection of the | local post office building will be} asked in the next few days, Sen- ator Duncan U Fletcher told The! Citizen today. Specifications for the post of-, fice now are being written, and| it will be possble to request bids | in 10 days or two weeks for the! construction of the building, | Senator Fletcher said. | After a brief visit in Key West | as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Pe. | ter Figuerdo, at their heme on Eaton street, Mr. and Mrs. W. M Reading, “A Welcome” nee years ago. rene Clawson. RIL Piano solo, pekdaiae Holuk! Dr. James E. Sherman, Cornell Skalet. { bacteriologist, born in Ash Grove, Piano duet, “Progressive! Ve, 51 years ago. March”—Dorene' Clawson. and | Mary Howell. Reading, “The Mother Heart” —Mary Johnson. $ Vocal quartet, “Mother”—/ Faye Bervaldi, Sara . Bertha Lowe, Phyllis Six and Lorraine \ |Nottage. Piano solo, “Happy Farmer”— Mary ‘Howell. Reading, “The Reason Why’— Joe Lowe. Violin. solo,“Forget Me Not”— Carter Howell. Voeal solo, » “My ; Bible”—Phyllis ‘Six. Piano solo, “Morning Prayer” —Dorene Clawson. Reading, “A Year Bound Mother’s Day”—Helen Skalet. Violin quartet, “Lovely Mai- den”—Faye Bervaldi, Carter Howell, Sara Bertha Lowe and Mary Howell. “Songs Our Mothers Sang”— Juniors. ° Bat wip, “bats Dram ORS Fave Berva! Play. “Crowning Moth os | "ee teen in Key West Crt actin, rose STAR te BRAND Song, “ : Praise | * | Him”—Congregation, Benediction, | CUBAN COFFEE — Manuel. Mrs. Taylor peter ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS was Miss Charlotte Matthews. PR aa on ae me) 'Today’s Horoscope | Today gives much self-reliance and a studious nature, one. who | sees much hidden from the ordin- ary observer. Though not much ;disposed to seek friends, there ; will be many attracted by that | peculiar faculty of clear — vision ‘into what appears mysterious, as Mother's | Well #8 by the magnetic qualities, crx COLD 666 xitte. ‘Try “Rub-My—Tinw—a Wonderful Roberts left over the highway this, Mr .and Mrs. Henry Watkins, 3 morning for New York, planning | Mason Lane, have anounced the | stops at all cities en route. ‘engagement of their daughter, | Roberts is the inventor of the Camille Lowe, to Paul Gibson, | ice cream cone, although he is son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Gib- LA een wie partonsng ng g ne [not connected with that busi-| ness now. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Taylor to-} day announced the birth of a son yesterday at the home of Mrs. Taylor’s aunt, Mrs. Waldo Bravo, 1127 Division street. The baby has been named Harry | - | | |Greece—that defeat was fore- doomed. This criticism was an- swered by Mr. Churchill in his- ‘world-wide talk of April 27, He said that one of the greatest strengths of Britain lies in fthe| admiration and respect she has gained in the United States and | elsewhere, and that if she had} let her allies down, after en- \couraging them to fight and |pledging aid, much of that re- gard would have been lost. There | \was, in other words, a great (question of national honor in) ivolved, in the British govern-! ment’s view. And so the des-| perate gamble was taken. What achievements we may! |Next expect of Hitler remains to be seen, In his talk, Mr. Chur- ‘chill was not sanguine about the immediate future—he-. intimated, that the Axis may dominate the Black and Caspian «seas, meri overrun Turkey, and-r-seize otherwise obtain the great ae and oil lands of the Soviet! ‘Union. He pointed out that General Wavell’s African forces, which chased the Italians out of son, Date of the wedding sas | not heen: set -but it: will’ take | {Plane in he Sear Aaeee. j ~~ ROLLER SKATE _ Southard Street SKA st you Gan Web tou toate | We Teach You pti i |Libya, and have since suffered | reverses from strong German, ,detachments, were smaller than most realized—30,000 men, with \relatively little mechanized , equipment However, Britai® | \docs have great forces in Egypt, jand the Germans should find the | going far harder there. In the meantime, it was a great day for Britain when President Roosevelt decided to extend American naval and air patrols as far as Greenland, and said that lurking submarines and reiders, | when spotted, would be reported to merchant ships. This means ' Range today! that. Britain will -have to: patrol a etcat deal less of the Atiantic, World. end shyt off the terials “¢ foot have to sui vive and fight, he w win the war. 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