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

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen UE CITIZEN iC. in Key West and Monroe County 8 second class matter Member of the Associated Prega ress is @X@lusively erittttea “to ‘use cation vf all news dispatches eredited to credited in this paper and aiso- therw ise news published ; MEMBER 4 ”. FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION }, \ NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION 1941 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 2.50 85 -20 | ~ | been coming the comment that a‘great deal RTISING RATES plication. | TWO TO THE ARMY | Monroe county next week will send to | the army its first two conscripts simce the | nation-wide program of selective service | went into effect. For one of them, at least, it is not a welcome assignment, and it is a blow to his | | family. After months of tough sledding in | 1 the matter of employment, he had recently ! been employed on a-$10-a-day job. | / Unfortunate though they may consider their call to the army, the two boys are get- ting exactly what most of the young men of | the nation are very likely to get in time. "i j They happened to come first because their $10.00 | 6. names were first in an impartially con- | dueted lottery. From all over the nation, however, has | of hard feeling can be avoided in the draft- | ing of young men if natiohal headquarters of thanks, resolutions ot | Will take steps to see that the local boards will be eHarged for at | Le ment by churches from which re 5 cents a line. 1 open forum and invites discus- and subjects of local or gene not publish anohymous commun IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels, atid’ Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airperts—Lanf and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments, A Modern Cit; Hospital. RE Ee SO n have to be can neither A skinny friend says fat me good natured, because they Sight nor run. Py The G:rman conception of the world is yaséd upon two classes of people: Ger- mans and othe: === This war, above all others in modern times, is due to the sudden outbreak of the Hyrvta! maxim that might is right. Advertising continues to be the big |, fun of salesmanship, but it takes a com- petent crew to wreck sales resistance. We should be sympathetic ‘towards European nations, but “We don’t have to matry Europe,” as Will Rogers was wont to say. The people of Monroe County might well understand that before the present is settled they will be called upon for more s ifices, The main trouble with solving modern * problems, as we see it, is that they are be- ing tackled by too many people, who know nothing about them. According to advices received by The Citizen there is going to be a lot of shooting going onin Key West in the very near future, but it will not be the kind to hurt anybody. It i + marksmanshif, pall will come in handy if an emergency everShould arise. The vocal part of the United States mment tells the strikers that every is- ey have raised can be and decisions reached, under existing laws and through regular boards, and Departments of the Government that provide ¢ le power and authority with- out strikes. The American public stands be- hind the Government and expects fair treat- ment, ar ice to industries and plants. But 1 equal ju National Defense these kes must be dropped, rland is at war, she per- her nationals of its con- muzzled 1 evidently has not The London Dady Titleism of the OW hee x ‘ n to the press. “fs preg Fcah editorials war job of winning the war? When are we going to run machines, fac- t shipyards to full capacity; when ng to see an end of masterly re- In England when those chosen to fail to make ousted to give others chance; o not remain in office simply because By-elections as England could be had in the people good, a elected with great beneficial ef- s little chance for a change ed system, or in an éffec- the kind ‘that improves your | | actually operate.on the same basis of im- partiality. | Hard and fast rules of conduct never | have been particularly effective in anything rie else, but it is suggested frequently that a | stricter setting forth of exemption require- | ments would prevent a certain leeway. be- tween what one board thinks is a basis for | deferment, and what. ideas..another may | have on the same sttbject. | Ojii'the question of partiality’ among loval boards and the need for stricter orders | from Washington, we, frankly, have no | opinion, At least, there has been no basis . r complaints in this section. On the question of medical examinations, | however, someone at the top of the draft machinery would do thé local board and the young men of Monroe county a real service by straightening out the present tangle. By requiring that blood samples must be sent to Jacksonville, the national board has caused a situation here which could be bio la ground for complaint by a draftee. Delay in getting the samples to Jacksonville and the fact that many, of the samples have spoiled en route, have caused delay in get- ting men certified. If that delay should result in a man going on one call when he could have been sent in the next, there will be a kick. It | ought to be straightened out. FLAG DAY, JUNE 14 Among all the national emblems in the world, the American flag is generally con- ceded to be the most beautiful. It was of- ficially adopted by the Continental Con- gress on June 14,1777, in a_ resolution which provided that the flag be 13 stripes of alternating red and white, and that the “union” be 18 white stars on a blue field. Originally the 13 stars were arranged in a circle, and it was at first intended to add an additional star and an additional stripe for each new state admitted into the Union. But after increasing the number of stars and stripes after the admission of Ver- mont and Kentucky, it became evident that a@ further number of stripes would»make the design of the flag less. beautifuly so it was decided, to return to the 18 stripes, repre- determined, | commissions, | the | Mail, in 2 gharp | teasks | een exhausted. ly doing to 7 In making ‘public this statement, fhe | | senting thé 13 original states, and add a star for each new state. Thus we have our present flag, with 48 stars and 13 stripes, In commemoration of the adoption of the flag in 1777, June 14 is celebrated throughout the nation as Flag Day, with appropriate ceremonies intended to im- press all citizens with increased respect and reverence for the flag, and all for which it stands. A.F. OF L. DESERVES PRAISE It is worth noting that the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor has announced its agreement with the President and called upon its members to serve the nation from strikes until every effort at mediation and ‘oneiliation has Council pointed out that the Federation had heretofore enunciated qa no-strike policy which “has proven 99 per cent effective but that “we cannot be satisfied” with this record Of course, there are people who will say, immediately, that the declaration of the * Council means nothing. This only shows how tittle some people know. The Federation is to be commended, in genera), wpon its intel- ligent understanding of the world situation and its willingness for jts members to give more than lip-service to the cause of de- moeracy. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Old Glory Celebrates Birthday ‘75th Mer. Time (city office) Temperaturos Pride Of Nation For 164 Years 2 "" ‘Highest last 24 hours Lowest last night __ Mean Normal | Rainfall, 79 = 82) 24, hours ending 7:30 a. m. inches: 0.00 | | Total rainfall-sincé June {Deficiency since June inches. ___. 0.01, 1, i inches eat | Total rainfall ‘since Jan, 1, } '615 Elizabeth St. inches a. 23,82 (Excess _ since January zt j | | | | | | \ Sea level, 30.09 THE SHADOWY, FIGURE of Betsy Ross is shown in the background of the U.S. Marines, dispray: ing our National Flag and their regimental standard. At the right are Pine Tree, Grand Union and | Rattlesnake flags, used before the Stars anid Stripes design was adopted by the Continental Con- gress, Juné 14; 1777. Citizens of every state will have been authorized and both dead. the Fathers of the Republic |join together in the celebration the flags flown at Tripoli and at who pledged upon its altar their of Flag Day tomorrow (June 14). Fort McHenry had fifteen stars lives, their fortunes and their | | On that day the Stars and Stripes _ and stripes. | sacred honor. | Sunrise |Sunset _ | Moonrise | Moonset inelies.°2>- ames Sf Wind Direction and Velocity SE—10 miles per hour Relative Humidity 83% Barometer at 7:30 a, m., today | (1019.0 millibars) | “s Almanac . m, | . mM. | . m, (Naval Base) AM. - 36 243 M.| High 212 Low 352 ‘AST (Till 7:30 p. m., Saturday) | Key West and Vicinity: Partly | cloudy, possibly thundershowers, | tonight and Saturday; moderate | winds, mostly southeasterly. | florida: Partly cloudy tonight | and Saturday except for a few widely scattered thundershow-— ers in extrefne south and ¢x- treme north portions. Jacksonville to Florida Straits | |and East Gulf: Moderate to oc- | 85 217 Duval St. | will pass a n¢w milestone on its{ long march through the years which began in the dark days of the Revolution. When a thoughtful nation paus- es to remember the birthday of! Old Glory, beloved emblem of our country for 164 years, it will also recall that it was in 1777 that the Stars and Stripes first waved “o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave”. Long before Old Glory became . the flag of our country, there’ were scores of bariners represent- ing the hopes and aspirations of the colonists. Some of them dis- played beavers, anchors, pine trees and other insignia, often with the words, “Liberty”, “An’ | Atal to Heaven”, or some sim-' ilar slogan. | The so-called “rattlesnake | |flag’ appeared in several de-: | signs. Sometimés the rattler was| | displayed on either a plain white lor yellow banter; sometimes it | | was shown undulating across the | thirteen red and white _ stripes, ' | or coiled at the foot of a pine tree. Often it bore the slogan, “Don’t | tread on me” 4 | The first flag to show a unity of purpose on the part of the {colonists was the Grand Union | Flag, or Navy ensign, sometimes | called the Congress Colors. It) had thirteen stripes, alternate red' |and white, and it boré the cross- , es of St. George and St. Andrew where the white stats in a blue! | field now appear. | This flag was flown at Cam- bridge, Mass., in January, 1776,! when the Continental Army came into existence. It was car-| jried ashore by bluejackets and marines‘in the Bahamas that, year and it figured in many stir- | ring episodes, but.it was never of- | ficialy ree by Cor j |as the:ting O€MMEUnited States, There is a.céftain mystery re-| |! garding the origin of our flag || which has never been solved. His- | torians fail to agree as to who de-/! '| signed the flag or as to the origin! - jof its chief symbolism, the stars | and stripes, although a number of ingenious theories have been ad persons believe that} vanced Many Betsy Ross, a Philadelphia needle- | wor . made the first sample of the Stars and Stripes, but the fate of that original banner is un- known. Soon after it was author- ized by Congress the flag was flown at a number of locations, | “and its popularity was assured. Scores of highlights serve to brighten our flag’s history. One of them occurred on February 14, 1778, when it received salute from the French Fleet in Quiberon Bay, j the first salute to the Stars and’ Stripes from a foreig@ power. Daring our war wifh the Bar N. O'Bannon, of the U. S. Marines, | hoisted the flag at Derne, Tripali, on April 27, 1805, after the strong- hold had been stormed and cap- jtured by American bluejeckets and marines. It was the first time the Stars an@ Stripes had been flown over a fortress of the Old World ' Our flag also served to itspire the writing of our national an- them when Francis Scott Key saw “by the dawn’'s carly light” the Star-Spangled Banner float-' ng over Fort MrHénry on Sep-' tember 14, 1814 From time to time in ‘the wuniber of stars 5 ‘in letters of living light are~the United States of America and to one Nation, bary pirates, Lieutenant Presiey!? Yet today, save for forty-eight | 5 ‘casionally fresh southeast and instead of thirteen stars which | ,. Ur aE Bears witness to the Soi" ings over south portion now appear in a blue field, the "™™ense expansion of our na-jand moderate southwesterly flag is much the same as it was 164 tional boundaries, the develop- | winds over north portion; partly years ago. : ment of our natural resources, and | overcast weather tonight and Sat- Floating from the lofty pinacle the splendid structure of our mu- | urday, widely scattered thunder- of American idealism, our flag is tually helpful social system. It | showers over extreme north por- a beacon of enduring hope, like prophesies the triumph of popular tion and in Florida Straits, the famous Bartholdi Statue of government, of civic and religious —_—_— Liberty enlightening the world to liberty and national righteousness SUES HIS WIFE the oppressed of all lands. It floats throughout the world. | over an assemblage of free people, In recent years it has been the) LOS ANGELES —Samuel from every racial stock on earth. custom to observe June 14, the an- ‘Brammel, 56, of this city, recently Old Glory embodies the essence niversary of our flag’s adoption, sued his wife for half of the $10,- of patriotism. Its spirit is the spirit as Flag Day. It is also an op-' 000 that he claimed she obtained of the American nation. Its history portune time for all Americans to by renting him for a year to is the history of the American renew this solemn vow: “I pledge | another woman. people: ‘Emblazoned upon its folds allegiance to the Flag of the| indivisible, names and fame of our heroic the Republic for which it stands, Liberty. and Justice for all.” ee a ip met A ig 4 ee ‘AYBE you didn’t know that an OD efficient gas mixture for your car has about 9,000 parts of air by volume for every one part of gasoline. 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