The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 11, 1941, Page 2

TIME FOR TAXES * aes al Monroe county taxpayers who find } : ay difficult to. understand that tax assessments > PAM ‘niles hon aod and collections this year are no longer on Corner Greene ond Ann Streets their old, slip-shod basis are letting them- selves in for trouble and neglecting a chance to save tax money, ~ntered at Key West, Florida, as second Anns matter Persona} and intangible taxes must joelat -| paid before July 15, while property tax a sessment books will be closed July 20 and turned over to the county commission for approval and collection, With the state enforcing collection for the first time this year, the tax collector ~ ete Daly Meeps in, ar Wont ana a { g, and assessor have no alternative but to fol- # low to the letter instructions handed them ; s Farce on by the comptroller, J. M. Lee. : ar Weenly ‘Thus by ignoring requests that they es discuss their assessments with the county = ADVERTISING . *_ Meade known on application, rt before the. books go in, the taxpayers are = KP: : + achen dete losing their chance to dicker for a minimum : ~ __ 8 sending notices, cards of thanks, resolutions ot | figure, while failure to’ pay the taxes : PB epect, obituary notices, ete., will be charged for at F . : ~ ate of 10 cents a line. promptly will mean penalties and property : = reson “isto ve derives ate ane e Toate cS ihe. sie when | seizure. { = sion of publie Motus and mcbiere Ut iotal oe dakieal In the reams of information on the new ; My meee EE OP PRIMER MePRIOTe: ommunt tax law coming out of Tallahassee, the oe comptroller’s office although enumerating =| THE KEY WEST CITIZEN the penalties of delay, is attempting © to é : aay point out tothe taxpayers that they can |, f| ond: bik kc the truth and print it || €4i), definite advantages by taking a little .f| without fear and without favor; never be interest in the proceedings. y dfraid to attack Wrong or to applaud right; Monroe county previously has based | 7 dlways fight fot! togress; never be the or- a pesesepernens on a 25 per.cent figure, | $ gan or the mouthpiece of any person, elique, with the millage correspondingly high. ‘This year, with property figured on the | basis of 100 per cent valuation, the same millage would be an enormous tax load. ‘Obviously, the millage will not remain the same under the new system, but just how much it is eut depends entirely on the tax- payer. The state has no concern in what; mill- age figure is adopted by the separate coun- / ties, and the taxpayers’ only chance of being heard on the subject is to go before the county commission and the school board. They set the rate, and they. will set it soon. faction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or mjastieé; denounce vice and praise virtue, * | eommend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and é opinions; print only news that will elevate b 4nd not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle, ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Woter and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Goy- lf 4 cmments, 4 5. A Modern City Hospital. to be expensive this year. 3 BALLOON BARRAGES ACCEPTED er geepe poe Not many years ago, when: stories reached this country about the British bal- if Gashistiy hb piene to win a quick, . decisive victory over Russia, the chances > for prolonged world war will be ominous. By Ma PROB OR Ot about the usefulness of the cumbersome gas bags as a defense against airplanes. When the war began the British put their barrages into service. Not long after the combat began there were reports of bal-'| Pi loons on ships in convoy and, finally, came news that Germany had adopted the bal- loon barrage asa defense measure against raiders. The United States, busty engaged in an all-out defense effort, has not overlooked the ballons. The War Department is. get- ting ready to secure 3,000 ballons, which will sooon make a protecting web around the Panama Canal, Hawaii and vital con- | tinental industrial areas. The balloons, trailing thousands of wire cables, keep attacking bombers at. a Eyen the Japanese, according, to re- ~ ports, are beginning to wonder what .a *, world-conquering Hitler might have in mihd about the Far Rast, tat Hitler will continue his aggressions until there are no more worlds to conquer _2 —tinless he is stopped in his tracks. Were =~ he-a student of history he would quit right ~ now. tatetane 2 Dispatches state that Foreign Minister | ™ Que of China hag returned to his country, © ls he a relative of-Status Quo we hear so # much about? ‘ay this fills up some F Pare. j high ‘level, adversely affecting their bom- = 3 oh ; ing accuracy, Dive bombers. can hardly 7 After listening to’ Prime Minister | operate in areas protected by the barrages *-Chiirchill'Stadiowaddress, we haye a slight > suspicion that he has a small opinion of qne > Bebito Mussolini; sometimes referred to as J ll Duce. and a successful dive bombing attack must be preceded by fighter planes to shoot the balloons to the ground, —_—: INCOME UP ELEVEN BILLIONS Strikes, when they are not justified, =_ ere doomed to failure. Besides too many of ™ them will turn the people against labor, | prediction that the national income. for = whose support it needs. Strike an attitude | 1941 will be about $11,000,000,000 more Sand let it wo at that. | than the $74, 000,000,000 recorded last We are somewhat intrigued by the "the government was that it was for only | the citizens who expect to share some of the one year, noiw the Administration propa- | extra dollars that are floating around. anilists are starting to urge a two-year The economic experts say that the term. -It seems that one can find sincerity | American farmer will receive, upon the nowhere except in the dictionary! * hasis of the present outlook, a cash farm ; ATR PMIM ASI income of about $10,600,000,000, or about As familiar as ihe Goliseum in Rome | ten per cent more than in 1940. Moreover, was: ‘thé American Express Company to + American tourists. There they cashed their F checks or left their baggage to roam over JP italy. By Mussolini’s order the once fa- ae name has been changed to “Amer- Sicana Bspressa S. A. 1.” The company has “mot ‘a single American employe in all Italy. ~-1t ig about time the United States American- ized America, and let some of our idealism he transformed into realism. We are a)- Sways chanting “God Bless America” and aa power than the $11,221,000,000 that the farmers received in 1929. Ponce de Leon only set foot on the soil of Florida, it was the Chambers of Gom- merce that discovered it 409 years later, and now thousands are yisiting it every year. Self-confidence is what enables a fel- low in the bleachers to judge a play so | much better than. the umpize on. the field. i ESE psn Sein ge AND THEN UNABLE TO LOCATE It The Key West tradition of ignoring all | matters concerned with taxes is very likely | ‘oon barrages there was some skepticism | -— + _ | year, i +» When conscription was made com- | This is interesting, even to a half-back- | © pulsory, one of the inducements used by | ed economist, and more than interesting to the 1941 income will have greater buying | FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1941 der that he wantedhis son sent a home right away because he was getting soft from easy work and he CONCHA HO EL too much. loafing. Beautiful—Air-Conditioned Rainbow Room Pi Cocktail | That, in one form or another, ‘haS been used in nearly every | DINING arn DANCING Strictly Fireproof Garage OPEN THE YEAR AROUND | Bros? & Barnum and Bailey's cir- | cus. Their fisst assignment»was | to tame the company’s toughest sergeant. { Then there was ‘alvice of Corp. Chester’ Fails to a rookie who flinched every time 4E WORLD the scornful Legionnaires like hé pulled the trigger in “ rifle | camp. American practice: “Stop trying to dodge | will tell you that it, It comes out ; ‘others, many | that bullet, soldier- as just as good 24 y. ie | the front end, not the back”. ago. But so were a lot of those RSIS ae TRL NES Se Nich ig Fort Dix, N.J,, likes the story | being told today by some of. our of the 60 murses who had to don | Fenahaes paid comedians of radio, ' ROLLER SKATE , gas masks and walk through the | e and seréen, ** Southard Street ‘gas chamber, The boys expected | ne Keep Your Weight In Shape (them te come out trembling, but almost to a woman they pulled ‘Today’ 8 Horoscope and Your Shape In Weight ONS: 2:30 to 4:30 P, M, otf their masks to complain, | 8:00 t6 10:30 P. M, ‘Gosh, doesn’t that leave your — SHOE SKATES FOR SALE hair a mess”. ae igh a If You Can Walk You Can Skate | At Fort Bliss, one of the favor-; Today gives relied tastes and | “we Teach You How To Skate a 2 private (name|considerable talent There is a) . 2 and jrestless and rather domince: |wired headquarte VINE |tendency in the carly how ' El Paso, 9:50 p. m. Have ai truck | with Piety ie aes iy STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE pick me up”. ‘the telegram, now | crity, which trait diminishes as TREUMPH in the camp files, bears the pen- | the eeerieetes A proper ad C = cilled notation: “No action tak | mixture of thi trait may prove ‘OFFEE News adds (0! advantage. MILLS ainee who wa: ke b AT ALL aperatng an z » “0c GROCERS maneuvers in Tenne 2. ”Missouri weather”, the News re- ports, and along came “a junior cloudburst”. The trainee, seeking | shelter, spied a tent, ducked in| and started wringing out his} clothes only to glance up and find himself face to face with the Major General. Phere also was Pyt. Steve, Ko- ‘watch who humped off to Nash- "Sse cecccccscgececeseees yy, CAMOUFLAGED HIS TENT nif ¢ oy 558 ville on leave, went to. a_ hotel | drm, ious Side, and demanded ‘the | softest bed ’ like Beri But It Hias It’s Lighter Too they had in the place. He got it, vee eee see ‘for $2, found it was so soft he A couldn*t get to sleep and spent For Real Purity For Real Economy For Real Service For Real Protection the night on the floor. The Dispatch (at Camp Rob- erts, Calif.) tells of a_ private who had been in camp a_ month, he went to barracks, undressed By JACK 3 wuecer July 11—Our e Service Writer to a lieutenant: “I know it’s after TIPPP PT TIIIPOOOTP EO army in training may be as se- taps. sir, but I camouflaged my | W¢atily and rolled inte bee One i DELIVERED rious as all get-out, but it has Paha 5 night, when his bunkmate or | tent and now I can’t find it”. alongside, he said: “Say, Soldier, tits lighter ‘side, too. ie shoo a Matar DAILY Tve been plowing through’ The Hickam Highlights, from if we ever do have an e sy day, | EVERYWHERE scores of army camp papers— Hawaii, and ‘The Jungle Cat, pub- ee ane i: eaten rad < YW | dailies, weeklies and monthlies— lication of the 11th Engineers in sph prs ‘ora: Wie aot on | Th ° Hverwfhing Wom tmimcographed Panama, have cartoonists who xFr* tue soked be the eockie | ompson Enterprises eye ances 0 Protit-maXings have caught the spirit of the/if he had ever had any” experi- Serie Seite: With Paid adver Most of their cart ence peeling potatoes, said: “Sure, | fising. And 1 can report that %0Pi¢s. Most of their cartoons enc atoes, said: “Sure, | [most he-said -she said’ -he~said are sullry and although not too 1 Paid out a night club check that | INCORPORATED , y |. Way once”, jokes are the same old Joe Mill- shocking for some of the sophis- The sek idiles died ub such | DI RPREPARING FULL "YOO HOO’ REPORT (things as: “Sergeant—Where is|y ; } aoe essay = | the balanee of your gun?” Rookie ICE VISION (By Associated Press) —‘I tell you, Sarge, this is all & WASHINGTON, July 11.—Lieut.-Gen. Ben Lear, who __ they gave me’.” PHONE NO. 8 | drew down the wrath cf the nation’s woman's clubs and And the one about the farmer if members of the United States Senate when he punished) a is Ghe coblert “Vos moose” “at Girls ‘bas who complained to the comman- WOIIIIIS ISI IL ILLS SMM, » today was preparing a full report for the war = golf course | Congressman Paul Kilday. Texas Democrat, and Con- robe W. F. Norell, Democrat of Arkansas, sought a con- rake tee ee of the incident. Lear was said to have ordered the troops to to their post when some of the soldiers whistled rae jo girls dressed in sk oris‘on a golf course, Some soldiers were said to have called to the general, who i tap the course in civilian clothes, LL LT TT TT ers were around ‘when. the licated magazines, no fit subject boys floated off to Cuba and the for a family newspaper. Philippines. But funny situation In the humo? is.in the saddle and noth- ment ing funny happens that isn’t) The ae {ean Gort bi. . Re reports ‘that the tl nfantry Ab cola eert tor General was delighted when Pyts.- Fhom- <e er W: Arseneau and Arvel Adk- | ‘"Rhe. akmy. cartoonists are sur- joined up, The men bad been prisingly good. The one from the 1 trainers with Ringling, Bort Niagara Drum showing an — NCE | ifate bandmaster, shouting at a fookie, playing the drums plenty Hot ad-in the groove, “I don't gare if Krupa does play it that Way, you're in the army now”, is National magazine stuff. Another, from the Army Times, shows a befuddled trainee dash- ing about after taps and moaning funny. situation depart- TRY IT TODAY— The Favorite in Key West STAR w BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS | - the second carburetor into action; steps up not only fuel supply but the air) supply as well. ‘Thus: you have your fun — and fru- gality too. 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