The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 14, 1941, Page 2

aily ept Sunday I President and Pu N, Business Manager » The Citizen Buudl ortier Gre rin Key West and Only Daily New! Jontered at Key West, Florida, 'a# second class matter | Member of the Associated Press 1 Press is exclugiyely €ftitled to ure at f all news dispatches credited to eredited in this paper and also likhed here. hews pu SUBSCRIPTION RATES cards of thanks, resolutions of es, ete,, ¥ line. inment by churches from which 4 are & cents a line. open forum and invites diseus- subjeets of local or general ublish anonyrous 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 ernments. A Modern Cit) Hospital. Ssieeinsieemaenehnteeestdnpnseatesaniensimeeeeenesswetenst Remember, too, that a ship in time | im¢s saves nine. Most people will go to any amount of trouble to be able to have a good time. It is always people who make the most errors who expect others to make the least. A statesman says every treaty should be | considered holy. Well, they are all shot full of holes, People should eat the same food every day, according to an alleged health. au- thority. Seems more like a boarding house idea. | ak | To a person, who has been in debt for many years, finds himself debt-free at last, the world takes on a roseate hue. With | glowing satisfaction the words of the poet come to mind: “He looked the whole world in the face, for he owned not any man.” Rietarnephinnctertnnttenereteinaes | The U-boats of Germany are inflicting | severe losses upon British shipping, but they are not getting by without losses. Re- cent dispatches from London indicate that | -four German submarines have been | destroyed since the war began. This is a heavy toll because when the war started | Germany was supposed to have seventy-one U-boa } | We have often heard expressions of | opinion to the effect that the Civilian Con- rvation Corps should include preliminary training to fit its members for military serv- ice. However, General Marshall, chief of | staff, United States Army, takes an opposite | aying the CCC is “much more val- n-combatant service than as a ary service. At Gary, Indiana, a two-story, 10-room ise was painted in 13 minutes and 19 That's the way they do things in Indiana, the writer's native state. The facts are that 36 painters painted at the a definite spot to t shows what planning and ast work can do. The t of the opening ceremonies an-up, fix up” Hitler is a,great fighter so long as he is winning With a superior force and he gets Once he gets seconds, having anization plus week. same medi- e he has been doling out, watch him turn he tide will soon go against does he will sue for peace s he can. rsonally asn't got the lini, on the other hand, told an reporter several years ago unes of war ever went against ake an airplane and go out ng On and on until it drop- amaty neerned is suicide, but he M Amer that if the him he would h an over the sea ri ped into the swirling waters—d: to the end, il be charged for at | f County and City Gov- || | \ A PULMOTER NOW | Direction of the grand jury last week | | that the county should acquire a pulmoter | is directly in line with the expressed belief of The Citizen and of most local residents | who have given the matter any serious | thought, As a matter of, fact, most of the hun- dreds of people who flocked to the scene two weeks ago when Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ness plunged to their deaths in the waters of the P. & O. slip, were shocked to learn that no such equipment was available here. Surrounded as it is by water, Key West carnot hope to avoid occasional ac- | cidents where there is a danger of drown- | ing, and for the city to go on year after year | without bothering to take the first simple | precaution against such accidents is crim- inal, After any accident, it is, of te see what should have been done. In this case, however, where the danger of such accidents is recurring and the solution | would be the same in every case, there is no reason in the world why the county, the city or both should not make the necessary ap- | propriation to gct life saving equipment | here. ‘ Fire Chief Harry Baker has suggested and campaigned for an emergency truck to | be equipped with a pulmoter, small@living | helmet, oxygen tent and @ full kit of first (aid and life saving equipment. It is perfectly safe to say that with such equipment on hand, a diver could have smashed the windshield out of the Ness’s sunken automobile, brought the bodies to the surface in a few minutes and almost cer- tainly saved the lives of the two young visi- tors. Without the equipment, it required a full hour to lift the ear and begin hand treatment of the victims. Chief Baker estimates equipped truck would cost $3,000. is what it costs, it is not too much, In the meantime, however, a por- | table pulmoter costs at catalogue price of $225, with a 10 per cent reduction to state organizations. A diving helmet and pump could be purchased for about $50 and the whole. affair carried in an automobile, if ~necessary. : The next time an accident such as that of the Ness’s occurs, we will have strong consciences if we can live with ourselves | after permitting one or more persons to die course, a completely | If that | at a saving of less than $300. THE AVERAGE WOMAN Some facts and fancies about the average woman were recently compiled by a writer in Your Life magazine, but we do not undertake to vouch for which of his statistics, if any, are accurate. Anyway, he asserts that the Average Woman: Is five feet, four inches tall, and weighs 128 pounds until she begins to get careless about her figure. Marries at the age of 24, and lives five years longer than her husband. Quarrels with her husband at twice a month. Threatens eight times to go home to hcr mother, but never does. Spends three years and eight months talking on the telephone, Attends 3,027 movies, many of them double features, and listens to 18 radio serials a week. Spends a year and a half in beauty parlors, and four years washing dishes. | Is positive that her children are better thar the brats next door. | Devotes the best seven years of her life to trying to make her husband over, but without success. Occasionally wishes she had married someone else. And makesa darned good wife at that. least NEW TAXES News that the Treasury Department and Congressional leaders have agreed up- on a tax program to raise $3,500,000,000 additional revenue for the government in the next fiscal year should not surprise any- body. The Fresident’s budget message for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1, contemplated receipts of $8,275,000,000 and expenditures has been revised upward to about $19,000,000,000. The purpose of the new tax measure is to provide two-thirds of the expense and, incidentally, to siphon into the treasury some of the great flow of money being pumped into the national economic struc- tu This, it is believed, will help elim- te excess buving power and avoid an in- | flationary increase in prices, | outfits flourish, tioned there instead. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, JR. Canada in Wartime Caught. the Toronto Express. at Syracuse after “a.wild drive from Binghampton,*N. Y. Five hours after leaving Syracuse, after five interruptions in the night, immigra- tion and customs on either side of the International line, ete., descend- ed in Canada’s great city, a bit tired and sleepy. Canada in war is a lot livelier place than Canada at peace. Streets scream patriotic banners; soldiers, sailors, women in uniform. clutter traffic; bands blare all day, .planes drone all night. Newspapers are crammed with “news from the Mother Country”; radio stations with reports “from back home.” Toronto's “‘time’’ is faster than during peace. The city has its own “war time’ like the daylight saving time we have, only two hours faster than the regular time. This is to conserve electricity. They call it “war-saving-time.” Shops are even more war-like than the streets; display apparel for those in the nation’s armed forces, such as shirts, socks, shoes, sweat ers, underwear and helmets, The | underwear, incidentally, is no longer two-piece because the British army requires its soldiers to wear coms binations. Art stores sell maps, tech- nical army books, compasses, al- tometers, flags, drawing boards, heavy crayons. ee Quite as many women as men are in uniform on the streets, They're jaunty-looking. Dozens of different among them the C.D.F. (Canadian Defense force), the C.A.T.S. (Civilian Auxiliary Ter- ritorial service) and the C.R.C. (Canadian Red Cross). The C.D.F. has approximately 800 members in Toronto alone. They drive staff cars, and the “brass hats” as visit- | ing officials are called. The C.A.T.S. is headed by Ivy Maison, a well- | known spinster who teaches, how to | shoot down parachutists, cook, darn socks, sew on soldiers buttons and to camouftage helmets with paint. The C.R.C. admittedly does the best all around work. There are 9,000 separate Red Cross sewing units in Canada today. Their particular job is reconditioning clothes worn by soldiers in training, and making thousands of diapers, washcloths, and clothes for youngsters for their British sisters whose homes have been wiped out. During the past six months the Toronto division of the! Red Cross has sent to London 42 ambulances and more than 20,000 blankets. Lady Reading distributes ; these gifts when they feach Eng- s of thousands of and work similarly. of them fly planes between airports and factories bringing in plane pa and arranging new billets for evacuees. All cook- ing and sweeping in English canton: ments is done by W.A.C.C. (Wom- | en’s Auxiliary Civilian corps). Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Quebec are surrounded by scores of barracks, training centers, airports, camps and prison camps. There are nearly 100,000 Germans in Cana- dian prison camps today! Young draftees used to guard them, but escapes became too frequent, so old soldiers from the last war were sta- In one of the biggest prison camps the German officers recently struck because they were forced to eat at the same table as the enlisted men. Against the violent protests of many thou- | sands of Canadians, the Canadian government decided to humor the prisoners and gave them their own army mess. This babying of the Nazis is the cause of much dissatis- faction on the part of the man in the street. He wants them to be put ! to work building highways, sewers, airports, dams and canals, A couple of huge camps have be- | come show places of Toronto lately. One of them is called “Little Nor- way.” Here several thousand Nor- wegian youths are being trained by | the R.C.A.F. (Royal Canadian Air force). Across a hundred yards or so of water they have their own air- port on an island. They own their own training and fighting planes, pay their soldiers in their own currency. These men are out for blood. Their private motto is “Take no Prisoners.” Thousands of young American boys are serving in the R.CA-F to day. Some people told me the fig- ure reached 15,000. The} come from all parts of the United States, most of them hitchhiking. They are protected by wartime secrecy, and almost all of them are given the fob of either training pilots, or working as part of the ground crews. HEARING THINGS: The open frankness with which Canadians criticize their prime minister and their government! The number of escaped German prisoners still at large! That it takes only five hours and ten minutes to fy from Cana- dian territory to Engiand today, and thet an average of five planes a day are traveling WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1942. Pause... Go refreshed BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY KEY WEST COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY KEY WEST IN ; DAYS GONE BY Happenings On This Date Ten: Years Ago As Taken From Files Of The Citizen Pineapples galore are coming in from Havana now and the transfer rack at the F.E.C. term- inals presents a busy scene nightly. With 12 gangs, 108 men, work- ; ing and the other necessary em- ployes, slat carriers, watchmen and inspectors, some 130 men are doing the work which usually lasts from 45 to 55 days and puts in circulation a considerable , amount of money. The ferries arrived from Cuba last night with 49 cars, carrying 24,390 crates, which, on an aver- age of 300 crates to the car, would mean just a few more crates than would fill 81 cars, Sometime within the*next ten days the Woman’s club will open its new library at the Knights of Columbus hut, Mrs. Norberg Thompson, librarian, announced today. A reception will be held by the club members in celebration of the event. The Citizen, in editorial para- graphs, said: “The legislature was very much incensed, apparently, when it was talked thet representatives of the Miami race tracks were in ' ‘Tallahassee to buy votes for their betting bills. “When, however, the race men; agreed to give the money to the state instead of the everybody's for it. It’s hard to see, though, how splitting the profits from any venture with the government can affect the project’s desirability”. Sommerfield,. and. not Fort legislators, Lauderdale, will open the Flori-, da East Coast ieague season here Sunday afternoon. Backers of the league Economic Highlights HAPPENINGS THAT AFFECT CHECKS AND TAX NATIONAL AND INSEPARABLE On the third of. May, Alsop’s widely syndicated’ Washington column said this: “The Presi- dcat has reached the moment >when he must make the most nounced this morning they had: made a rearrangement jof the schedule. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Russell, 716 Ashe street, have announced the birth of a son Monday morn- ing. Mrs. Russell is the former Miss Edith Lowe. Eight adult chimpanzees and a five months old baby arrived on the Cuba yesterday afternoon from Havana and were shipped on the afternoon train to Orange Park. ‘The animals were purchased in Havena from the administrator of the Abreu estate and are to be used by biological classes of Yale yniversity at the Florida experiment ‘station, after which they will be’ taken to join the collection ‘at New Haven. Subseribe to. © Citizen. 2He woekly, Surprise! Private Car Driver Geis the Blame jis our unlimited naval an-, S@tious decision of his long ca- Within the last fortnight the leading figures of the Admin- tial military and naval experts have all, but unanimously ceased | INTERN: FROM Joseph : and Robert Kintner's | jgther i istration and the most influen- SUhk. The TION, RO! LOCAL WELF, _ Some inffuenti: favor of, “using Nayv to’ convoy ‘ships ‘Tike lato. British harbors if need be—they, argue that it simply make sense to permit our and tanks “and “munitions = antd ment ever made is of nq se to the democracies, on the bet- to hope Britain can win this war | tom of the ocean, without active American inter- vention. therefore decide and peace for his country”. It is extremely significant that a good many other Washington writers, along with men in high governmental circles, are making similar statements, The recent aggressive speech of Secretary Knox, in which he said, in effect, that America will fight if and when national interests make war advisable, indicates the way the official wind is blowing. And the President went farther than he has usually gone, in his speech dedicating Woodrow Wil- son’s birthplace, made on “May 4. He said, connecting up the present crisis with that: which confronted Wilson in 1917, that this country would fight ‘again whenever. its basic freedoms were in danger from any quer- ter. This does not mean that there is much likelihood of the Presi- dent asking Congress to declare | war upon the Axis. In official circles, it is believed that there! is no need for that—some think that we might become active participants in the war without even completely severing rela- tions between ourselves and Ger- many. What England wants now support and the British government is i making it clear to American rep- resentatives in London that without that support, Hitler will continue to hold a disastrous ad- vantage. The President must’ between war / ‘plane accompaniment Lindbergh as What opposition may be pected to the steps that tp the President in an! ‘he may decide upon. er of the official Wendell Willkie, said on that he is absolutely in delivering the goods to “whether it be by convoy, | «x other method deemed best”. is authoritatively reported have sent the President (that he would support him any such move, The isolation- ist groups, of which, the. ca First Comenititte: i speaker is eath, with i further aid-to-Er J they shave fought all in the past. ; is ne