The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 20, 1941, Page 2

Ehye Key West Citizen WASTEFUL SPENDING j columns, David | Lawrence pointed out a great and often overlooked danger in the government’s present spending program. “Drastic taxation—the most severe | America has ever experienced—is plan- i ned,” he wrote. “And yet not a word is i a oon She Wikis | heard “eboh it Guttine out wasteful expendi- crag FORGES tures. eae —— / In one of his reeent THE CITA Published D “1. P. ARTMAN, JOB ALL |» Business Manager From The Citizen Buuding Corner Greene and Ann Streets BLISH! ly Except Sunday By Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Lnedied at Key Wes Member of the Associated Press A . “Tf the American people submit to a | nes sno vely entitled to use | - ‘ A tdk republication of all news dispatches credited to tax program such as is being rightly pro- aEien) sens pamlhisa bere this paper and also | + 4<64 ¢o finance defense and still permit spend-as-usual on projects that car be omitted or else postponed, it will mean that the day of reckoning will bring an economic 2.50 depression in the United States far more a ! perilous than that of 1929-33. | “Scarcely a week passes that there isn’t some impetus given to projects which are being planred on a big scale which have relatively little to do with defense, but which are being dragged into the picture with defense as an excuse. Only an alert an’ aroused public opinion can do some- Suge el Sa ep ens thing about it—and mayb< the nation will t but it will not publish anonymous communi- | have to orgarize its own economy campaign | and make it an issue in the congressional | elections of 1942.” n@resident Roosevelt last week said \ that people are clamoring for economy in but do not stafe specifically Water and Sewerage. hew reductions in cxpenditures ¢an be More Hoteis and Apartments. nod Vell, Mr, Lawrence doesn’t just Beach and Bathing Pavilion. -he to definite places Airports—Land and Sea. wher- major cuts in government spending f County and City Gov- || s;e both possible and desirable. There is, for instance, the proposal that $450,000.- 000 be spent on farm subsidy payments—a $$$! | )oost of $238,000,000 over last year. There * To be her best a woman must be her- is the fact that some $1,000,000,000 a year selé. | is still being spent for relief, even though § employment is at the highest level in our Stalin | history and in many sections there is a seri- | ous labor shortage. There is the fact that strong forces are behind measures to spend Se Low spirits, lack of energy.and ambi- | hundreds of millions of dollars on the St tion, “that tired feeling” irritability re | Lawrence and other socialized power proj- vidiiusivess may be aiibaéie 2 see | ects, despite the undeniable evidence which ‘3 ‘dd ane, | shows that the existing private utility indus- try is 100 per cent ready and able to meet all present and prospective power needs— and to develop and build new facilities with private money, not with tax money. The tea Press is "e: SUBSCRIPTION RATES $10.00 ix Mon.hs 5.00 Three Months uner™Month y ADVERTISING RAT known on application. 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Nglices for entertainment by churches from which cents a line rum and invites, diseus- thanks, resolutions of il be charged for at retemue, is to be derived ¢ and subjects of local or general iimPRovEMENTS FOR KEY WEST . /RDVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN nment HN has points - Consolidation a bs ernments. # A Modern City Hospital. - Hitler onlv hates Stalin, bot hates ard fcars Hitler. but <* Now, that Mother's Day has passed, it dogs not mean that you have to wait until | neXt year to show your mother what you | think of her. | - | v4 ‘ | f Shouting “Iam an American” and then blasting a blitzkrieg on public opinion tognfluence it for war is not ir ord with thes American principle eedom thought. has just passed resolutions asking that at least $2,000,000,000 be saved annually by | curtailing non-defense spending, and de- voting this money to defense needs, holding down debt or tax requirements by that amount, Mr. Lawrence goes to the heart of the matter when he says that only the Amer- ican people can do anything about this sit- uation. They are willing to ‘sperd any ouvof the wrong end of the horn. Verbum | amount necessary for defense. Are they sy willing to make unprecedented tax and pes | debt sacrifices merely to pay for political = The news dispatches say that the first | luxuries, for experiments in state socialism, words uttered by Hess when he landed in| for a vigger and bigger bureaucracy, or for Segtland were:. “I have come to save hu- | any activity which is not absolutely un- map'ty That sounds Jike the ravings of | avoidable? Governmental waste at this adnan or a megalomaniac’s illusion, of | time is a certain guarantee of an unpre- Be h the Gérmans” déctis®~him. They | cedented economic and social collapse at nid have taken in mote tetritory and in- | sonte future time, ed Hitler, Goeringgmid Goebbels, all of pi Bs Sk om, Sppear to be “vcurueght.” A SHIP’S FIGUREHEADS of fr of » There are very few dead beats in busi- | ngs in Key West and the few who have | trigd to frisk The Citizen have always come | 5 3 How would you like tobe a draftee, edhpelled to leave a good job for a year’s | sefvice.in the army at 30 dollars a month, ud then to read in the that We CIO union had called a strike in a de- fése industry based or Many and varied were the designs of ornamental figureheads carried on the | bows of old-time sailing ships, and some of these vessels had several different figure- from time to time. The famous old Constitution, nicknamed “Old a Ironsides,”’ was one of these. sfffedule ?—S: Conditions The Constitution's first figurehead was migy ber That's the | a carved bust of Hercules, later replaced by eqpsolation large figure of Neptune, and when this was a splintered in battle in 1812 a conventional figurehead was substituted. About 1833 the ship was rebuilt at the ravy yard in Boston, and the commandant of the yard ordered a likeness of Andrew Jachyon, than President, to be carved as a figurehead, which was done in spite of vigorgus, pretests. The Whigs of Boston, where y-the . Constitution Was originally launched in 1797, did not want “Old Hick- he bow of their “Old Iron- newspapers heac a demand for an hour warship erular dollar Herald aS OVE an iford versed war. 7 The American Psy sae sociation that if you drive through a red light sueh lapse is a sien of feeble Affo the driver who shoots out cW@b in front of you, and the one who-runs aby from the scene of ar both on belong to th mindedness. from the cide asgheir,intelligen cagpfully and wat be pointed out as deficient. ory” lorr eir indignation was expressed thr t without avail sides,” ! helieve ft velieve and parades of The monstrations, tr not, are right most « segvice would be wort! Infact D tit the reports with the development of modern methods awd new discoveries, It figurehead lly put place, the ship was moored in the harbor and a marine guard was de- tailed to protect it from vandalism until time as it should sail for other parts Sut despite all precautions, one ol Dewey, described as “a young dare. rowed out to the Jackson was artment of Qommerce says are correct 85 to 90 times a 100 ard that the ratio is improving such is humar formpcople to recs he day which was rainy although the weather forecast was “fair” and to forget the numerous occasions wher 1 mariner of Boston,” nstitution in a thunderstorm on the n thé weather forecaster called the turn cor- | of July 2, 1834, and by flashes of lighi revtly. managed to saw off the Jackson head zht ing THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Swiftly Moving Days OARDED, the Piedmont Express fora l{pour spin through the Southeast. “In Charlotte, N. C., a committee of city leaders waited in a driving rain storm. Girl Scouts lined up as a reception committee. | Lunched at the city’s beautiful coun- try cluB ‘dna spoke at a dinner ban- quet in the evening. They went frantic at the mention of continuing YESTERDAY: Eileen Gardner was the prize graduate of the year at the university, and until a complete stranger named Martin stole her heart, she seemed to have her future cut out for her. The difficulty now . is that she does not know where »* Martin took her heart, and she gy must somehow make it clear to * Jordan Estill that she cannot f marry him without admitting * what has happened to her. Alt Eileen has of Martin is a tiny gold ski he dropped. Chapter Six Tete A Tete aid to Britain, China and the other | democracies. Many members stood on their chairs, threw napkins into ‘ the air, roared their approval. Rained all evening and then changed to sleet. En route to depot past midnight taxi ran out of gas. I nearly missed northbound Wash- | ington Express. see Seven R. K. O. cameramen were at Fort Benning, Ga., nearby, tak- ing movies of army parachutists in action, for a picture to be called “Parachute Squadron,” in which Harry Carey and Buddy Ebsen will , act. More than 30,000 feet of film had already been shot. troops are splendid physical speci- mens. All are voluntééfs whd had | at least one year's training with in- fantry outfits. In preparing for par- achute training, they were taken aloft and given two commands to jump. If they don’t jump at the second command, they are not al- lowed to go on with this sort of work. Parachute work is highly dan- gerous but there has been only one fatality at Benning since it started. A parachutist must make seven suc- | | cessful landings before he is given | | his corps insignia. Chamber of Commerce of the United States | ee Charlotte, N. C., is not only the textile center of the South, but is also the furniture center as well. Learned an_ interesting item: Charlestown, W. Va., spends more money per family on furniture, ra- | dio and household appliances than | any other city in the country. Last year $193 per family was spent thus. Roanoke, Va., came second with $154; Miami Fla., third with $118; 3an Frahcisco sixth with $109; New York city twelfth with $77; Los An- geles twenty-second with $60. But as states go, California rates first with $72 for the average family, and Mississippi lowest with $18. Second highest state is—guess which? Utah, with $66! Reached WV of a storm, eastern seaboa 47 years erywhere; grounded; tr: “tation hour Into the U. § nate pres: just in time to catch the 'y important bill. The Johnny Rov: velts cocktailed with Maj. J O'Brien of the army general st and me that afternoon at the May- flower. William S. Knudsen was prancing about the floor doing the Conga like a de»bie; Mrs. Chip Rob- erts sulked in a corner as John Tumulty, Woodrow Wilson’s war- time secretary, sipped the non-alco- holic drink which Chip Roberts, her Atlanta born husband makes; the John J. Ides (he used to be U- S! civilian aviation observer at our em- bassy in Paris) danced together. Ralph Polio, popular manager of the Hotel Mayflower had ‘died that night in his sleep from an intestinal hemorrhage. Breakfasted late next morning with Bill Bullitt, former U. S. am- bassador to France. very active force behind the scenes. Congressman Summers of Texas, chairman of the house judicial af- fairs committee, joined us: A peek into the future with these two gentle- men was most illuminating. Washington is a,madhouse. Bottle- necks in congress, and bottles in ho- | Scarcely a vacant room tel lobbies. in town. No wonder the well-run Statlers are going to build a 1,200 room hostelry for which they have | | already broken ground here. Driving downtown from the Shore- ham learned that my taxi driver was none other than James A. Fitz- gerald, one-time Hollywood director for Lillian T, and others! Had spent 12 of ter years of his life with Me nd Pat government reg erator, w by day and reaching Wash- for a sleeper Overnight- Andrew Johnson hotel. nson hall is said ta be in- Twenty ho j to K ed at the whose Jc one of the, ing reer F nus style, just what the house of & goo fer a t and are SEEING THINGS. seiling : at extremely low prices for ally good looking pelt gray fox, mink, poss They retail for ur believably bk prices of from $10 a skin up, end none were over $5 a pelt. Subseribe to weekly bighway red fox The Cities, 20 Parachute | He is still a | JORDAN ordered with unaccus- | tomed lavishness. It touched | Rer—as if he was afraid he hadn't | been giving her a good enough time, spending enougl. on her. | She wanted to say, “Oh, please don’t—it isn’t that!” But she couldn’t. Any man would rather | think his gifts had failed, than that he had. The musicians filed in when they were half through, and Jor- dan — again — suggested dancing, immediately. Usually he lingered through any moments he had with her alone. She had not danced here since commencement night. Not since Martin had caughther, whirled ' her out with that quick grace and strength she remembered now— it must have been very good, he | kad been neither awkward nor overbalanced; it ‘had been all quick, casual-seeming motion. Martin. Martin--M.D. That | sounded like a doctor, but he | wasn’t a doctor, though he miight | have deen old enough, if he had | time to fly from New York to say | good-bye to somebody, and then fly on to the coast just to get a moa in New Zealand. Not really. He was just ragging about the | moa.... | She laughed suddenly there in ; Jordan’s arms, and_he looked | down- and said, “What is it, Eileen? and she came back, al- | most losing step, to Jordan, and | Jerry’s, and the blank feeling that there was no Martin. That— if it hadn’t been for the gold ski | on her bracelet—the whole of Martin was something quite un- real and untrue. “Jordan, what’s a moa?” He answered as she had known he would, seriously. “It’s a reeently extinct bird— one of thdse big birds with use- Jess wings, like the penguin. The Jast were killed in New Zealand.” Martin couldn't ever bring her one, then. He wouldn't have any- how. It was all a crazy dream. The reality was schoolteacher aunts, an instructor lover, a neat sound safe routine. People were beginning to sift in as they returned to their tables; their own crowd, calling to them cheerfully, waving, brushing them, and stopping a moment*to gossip as they went by. A good crowd, a crowd she'd belonged. to this long time. All greeting ‘her, waving to her, building-her up, the old way “I love them,” she said impul- sively ‘té:Jordan. “They Yove you...” he said. Eileen’s laughter broke out, quite unaffectedly. She leaned back, mirthful eyes on his, dropping her hands on the glass table top. Her bracelet struck against the edge, and something fell tinkling from it. It lay beside her plate, a small slim bright thing. The tiny gold ski. : ne The laughter was. struck her face as suddenly as the had been struck from her et. ¥ Yes. There was one tant in th world she’d go that far for. .... But he was a dream, an -anony- mous playboy, somebody who didn’t count, whom no sensible, bright little girl would ever think twice about. Jordan, at her silence, stopped too and looked. His eyes caught the ski. He reacked over and picked it up, “For heaven’s sake, where did you get this, Eileen?” “I—I found it. Found it on the floor that night at Jerry’s.” _. “Well, you'd better advertise it. The fellow who lost it is going to be plenty sore.” Ti jcaeell What goes on about it?” “Insignia of the most important international ski championship, that’s all, Amateur class. It’s like a fraternity pin; you are only sup- posed to let your wife or sweet- heart wear it. I understand she has to beg hard.” She did not want to advertise it. She knew whose. it was, But her heart turned over at the idea of finding out what Martin’s last names were. She might discover it by blast the papers about people on sailing lists from the coast. She would write Martin, then; tell him she had his ski, he could come for it. ... She deliberately put it back on the bracelet and bit the ring t:zht. She'd get a jeweler to solder it. She’d take 1» more chances. She and Martin had both sipped it. It mustn’t happen again. It was had really come and gone. “Never mind all that,” Jordan just ranging frantically around for some reason, and I admit the idea that a middle-aged lecturing woman might start you off was far-fetched. A man with her looks and ruthlessness ana charm might. I was just hunting for trouble. Proposal a LOVE you and I want to mar- ty you. You know that per- — well,” Jordan said dogged- ly. He said it in a gap of the music, unheeding the couples dancing Past them, the Prigat lights over their heads, the table—fortunate- ly occupied by two people as en- grossed as they—jammed too close. He was rather white. “Ive held off till you were graduated. That is, I sup; you knew, but you knew I was hold- ing off. Everyone supposed you'd carry on here. When you decided. to go off to that fly-by-night se string station those ¢razy Wei- gands run for the love of art. I admit it was a shock to ine. It didn’t seem as if you were farseeing reasonable girl I thought you.” “Rileen, everybody You belong. in this town.” continent in a covered wagon.” Jordart was not a stupid man. a little shy, that was all. He said, “Eileen, part of you has.” “What on earth do you mean?” happened com- He said, again,,““Don’t fence.” She held herself very still. She hadn't realized that Jordan had } seen anything. “Well,”. she vsaid lightly, “ex- | cept for commencement and the dancing here, and the Onderdonk party — all of which happen every year — what happened, would you know?” He frowned. “You turned into something— I don’t know—as if part of you was gone away. I can’t say it clearer than that.” “It certainly isn’t very clear.” He frowned. “T’'ve been thinking. Wondering. And I wondered if it wasn’t Miss Willesdon.” Almost Richt O CLOSE, and yet so far off! Eileen said, with relief: “What makes you think so?” he’s a spellbinder. Most of the women who did her job have forgotten all about it, or dried up into frustration from getting what they wanted. But that wo- man’s high-powered; she’s ruth- less and charming, she could make anybody do anything. When I heard her talk I was nearly swept away myself; she practical- # ly had me sold on—” Jordan spoke ably ¢ clinging yine for some strong girl to support” Eileen ‘felt herself coloring. “But that’s silly. That isn't an issue any more. We do the best we can, Just as it happens.” He nodded. “Of course. But somehow I wondered, because I couldn't think of anything else, if what’ she said about girls shamelessly and frankly propos- ing to men they happened to like had gotzyou.” Elleeg: giggled. “Suppose it had?” “You might have some sort of crazy idea cf going off and—" “And making a career of it?"* CAST CHOKES MAN MONTEVIDEO —Encased in a aipme sutfering several brok- Enrique Sifbeso Barcas. loves you. | | “For heaven’s sake,” she said | impatiently, “you act is if I were | going off to the other side of the | He was slow-spoken and set and | “Jordan, I'm sorry—” she be- gan. x “Don't be sorry!” he exclaimed with a violence unlike himself, “All right. I'm not sorry. But }I don’t want to marry you. I mean, it wouldn't be fair to prom- ise anything. I hope the Weigand | station will lead to some! ing. Concert work at the very least.’ | “Here in this city?” eyes brightened. “Anywhere. Oh, Jordan, I do like you, but I don’t want to mar- | ry—" the old line that every girl luses to soften every tefteal |slipped automatically from her lips—“anybody at all, right now.” “Just this spotlight bug,” he | said bitterly. P thought you had | more sense.” | “Don't you want to get some- where?” demanded Eileen hotly. | “Why shouldn't I?” | They were close to a aun | “I suppose I should be grateful that you aren't trying for Hole | lywood,” he said dejectedly. | “Sure you should, darling.” she | was laughing at him. | He caught his breath. His eyes were bright, his mouth quivered. He was hers, entirely and help- lessly. They both knew it. He said doagediy, “Remember —remember you long to me though you don’t know it yet. Re- member you're going to marry me sooner or later. Remember | I'll always be waiting for you.” | Jordan said nothing on way | home. When she got out in front jof the apartment he said, “Are | your plans settled?” “Pretty weil.” “When do you go?” FE eyed tomorrow.” ss | ‘ou'll give me your address’ | “Oh, yen” She felt obscurely | apologetic. “Write care the ? “Of course. He did not kiss her again. held out a hand which in spite | the summer night wes very | She did not think very about Jordan that nigh’ awake and excited after \ things she had to do were She thought of ber future. lesa pretty, with less good than she, had become stars. .., Girls less ami capable had become "The bracelet ley jtable. She | touched it before she and went to sleep. | To be continsed (Cops, 030-44, Morgue Wildeme} elebes ui Shaded dadad dediedi ddd | i tt 53, was cheked to desth he chan contract the sign that he was real, that he | said. “It’s not important. 1 was | is voice became slower, | i in the humidity of the r caused the plaster cast to | Covccevedvede TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1941 Classified Column POC COTE COTTE ETO e Co Oesereersevederensceensouetes FOR OUS INSTRUCTION FOR SALE or Exchange—Cabin; WAR ORDERS Cruiser, 28-?t., 6-ft. beam; 40' HAVE CREATED an immediate hp. Gray Marine Engine. Will} exchange’ for by ia riipart | payment, Box B.R., The Citi zen. ~mmar6-tf (2 Solar Heaters, $35 each; Toilet | Sets, $10 up; Boat Propellers, ' Marine’ Engines, Lavatory, | Tubs, Sinks, Water Heaters, | $10 up. Home water pumps, | pipes, fittings (all sizes), A.C.) 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