The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 7, 1941, Page 2

¥ Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets ee ‘ee Only Daily Ni rin Key W: . pena one y West and PP » es eseonnsaypererer ne tase cE ~atered at Key ‘West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the [Press The eb Press CF exclusively, entitled ie redite 1O ; toe fo ag a fea p ih papa end also. MEMBER AATOW Hoon ASSOCATION ASSOCIATION 194 ee: SUBSCRIPTION RATES g ceases ie itr 4 ely, Jw nigh - ADVERTISING RATES tylorg {Mage Known on application. ickerf me = ~ SPECIAL NOTICE PrmUG s + All teadine notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of a Tal eq fespect, obituary notices, ete,, will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line, egey eh rs * Notices for entertainment by churches from which erald) serene is to be derived are 5 cents a line. - The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- mn, HE ~ dion of public issues and subjects of Iocal or general 1a De interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- righ “ue tations, t Be : Mrs, \ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN re » WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; jnever be afraid: to ‘attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, g S fe 2. ty Valet tenet ‘ .gG ~ faction or class; alvrays do its utmost for the hie) my publie welfare; never tolerate corruption or ied y¢ > injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue, od commend good done by individual or organ- % ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and gh opinions; print only news that will elevate Ps and not contaminate the reader; never com- fisg promise with principle. Mrs) | alizab} a bovgtie Ast ts ac C85 ng 4A SSSA ace ad fiami ‘= | IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST od ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN oy %, pore : | 1 Water and Sewerage. 2. More Hotels and Apartments. 3. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. # 4. Awrperts—Land and Sea. es 5. Consolidation 3f County and City Gov- ¥ ernments. | ri = [at A Modern City Hospital. | 7 ao t. Getting rid of those Nazi consular Bethe) > spies was a good idea, even if it did come wut >. tather late. spend} 4 Minin cua Once upon atime statesmen agreed about some queer notions which they called “international law.” Oriani (2 West Florid Mis Satire oereee | Sort y Harold Ickes, secretary of the Interior, asha ~ is going to ask that “gas” wasters be ar- yh: rested. He wastes a lot of gas, but of al different kind. | Ooo * Japanese chemists are claiming they Sool have found a substitute for hemp which = = on be made from banana skins. That is an 142 i cial invention, tweet re Cs. a aa 4 i A i Emit Schram, the new president of the i} & New York Stock Exchange, once was a gun = farmer and knows a lot about bulls, and if | he-doesn’t he will coon know about bears. | quate. posed route, 3 i residents. demand, We quote a few He emphasizes the fact that NOW, is the time for every one of us to write to Representative Pat Cannon and to | Senators Pepper and Andrews, thus placing ‘in their hands the evidence that aware of the necessity of safe water trans; portation to Key, Westrand that the action jowWe.ask of them is backed up by a popular indisputable | tences from Commodore Brook’s letter: we = Over | a long aecasionat years, nalitic- spirited citizens have striven to impress, upon the powers that be, the vital im- portance to the city of Key West of extend- ing the Inland Waterway from its present terminus at Bahia Honda to Key West. Recently, the first real progress has been, made in securing a Ty y of nt a » . Most of us have Bak a. grievance against the communities already served: by}, the existing protected channel; feeling that | it would not only be good sportsmanship, \ieaed him to call on the command- but also good common sense, for them to) show a little interest in this proposed ex- | was provided with letters of intro- tension and as a general thing we have had | duction and rec'd a warm weleome Hi to take it out in feeling grieved. be cir | now, sen- “We must prepare for whatever might | come to the East Coast of Florida | should get involved in war. if we The govern- | ment is spending millions of dollars both a great number of the | every evidence that trucks will On the coast, there is one railroad | to Miami and no way to get to Key West ex- | cept by the Overseas Highway. It is doubt- ful if any large armament unit could travel | on the present roads from Jacksonville to Certainly not to Key West. Should anything happen to one of the viaducts, for example at Long Key or at Bahia Honda, Key West would be entirely cut off. “Without this waterway it would be an | easy matter to starve all of these communi- ties along the East Coast of Florida. waterway were deepened from south of Miami to Key West, no matter what hap- pened to the Overseas Highway, Key West Miami. could carry on just the same. taken now. see this picture as I see it and bil entire State of Florida in WRITE TODAY. 1.12 Corporations when they make their | : ‘= annual reports use the stereotyped phrase: | life’, g “Despite the increase in sales, the rate of 10. + net profit declined.” Taxes are giving —+ = _ business the works. a The driver of an automobile, who = sneaks up on a pedestrian and then scares = the daylight out of him by a loud blast from | “ what is called a horn, ought to be jailed — | ™. Key West Citizen, Or maybe you need a ‘ 5 eation.—Sanford Herald. ’ “= © A plank in'the Democratic platform of | & 1840 says: “We will not. participate in| e foreign wats, and we will not send our 2 abmy, naval or dir forces to fight in foreign ~ lands outside the Americas except in case | ‘ of attack.” While canvassing for an un- | precedented third term, President Roose- | . Yelt said on October 1, 1940: “I repeat, _ ™ again that I stand on the platform of our | A party.” Repudiation of solemn promises is | a simple matter, but the reverberations that will some day result will not be so simple as | to be simply explained away. In sober | moments we think and act soberly; it is then, that politicians or so-ealled statesmen get the hot-foot to their discomfiture or | possible undoing. Sincere promises are made to’ be kept, not repudiated. | letter. | thing for Key West, you would do it. | IS a great thing, ready to your hand. All | that is required is a few moments and a | postage stamp, The Chamber of Com- this work underway at once; so, urge everyone who has the welfare of the | for Army and Navy at Key West. “The government has already cut off sea-going which carried freight and commodities to the ecoastwise towns, such as Palm Beach, | Miami, Key West and others. There be its vessels is inade- If this “It is necessary that some action be lam urging everyone who can possi- | es of what might happen to WRITE | A LETTER to Congressman Pat Cannon and Senators Pepper and Andrews. “It is only by concerted action on the part cf every citizen who believes in pro- | tecting our coast that anything will be done. | The government has so many things to do that-we may be lost in the shuffle. | “Every manj¢woman and child will be subject to these happenings unless we get again I his Don’t put it off.” It is a matter for regret that space for- bids quoting Commodore Brook’s If you were asked to do some great mind, entire This | merce has circularized more than 200 of its | members and ex-members. The Lion’s Club | has asked its members to write, as has the Rotary Club. This is our great chance to do some- | thing for Key West that will pay dividends | through all the coming years and, it may + and destruction. Will you write? TWO OUT OF 30,000! Nearly thirty thousand “ideas” have | | well be, save you and yours from suffering been submitted to the National Inventors’ Couneil by Americans who think they have discovered some gadget or other that will | be helpful to national defense. It is reported that less than one hun- dred possessed merit and that only one or | two were of “great importance.” The council continues anxious to hear from those who have suggestions to offer. If the idea is utilized, compensation will be ‘ made even if the matter is kept secret. are, Memos of a Girl ae Dear Mr. W.: When William L. ae correspondent . whose — “Berlin Diary,” got “back here sa many years in Ger- -many,-he visited all the Mr, Bigs’ a War Dep't. They found his teresting and informative they | ing officers of ‘all the U. S. Corps (areas and relay the same info. He nd keen audience everywhere— with one exception . - Lieut. But, during all the years, we have had General Yoo-hoo Lear brushed staunch friends in Col, George E, Brown, | U. S. Engineer, Miami Beach and Commo- | dore A. H, Brook of Fort Lauderdale and | the latter has just sent out a widely culated letter, which is a call to action on | the part of Key West and Monroe County | Shirer off, virtually throwing him ; out of his office. His explanation was that “nothing a newspaper man }has to say about military matters } could possibly interest me.” The college boy who wrote | “Daddy” up and enlisted in the marines—right after getting that | plump royalty check for his first ; hit! .. . Jimmy Stewart is dating Georgia Carroll when he gets “leave.” He's no dope. Mrs. John Steinbeck is working in a New York ad agency. She ad- mits to chums they’ve'parted, which you reported months ago and then “retracted’’—just ‘cause you were asked to do so . . . Chaplin, I hear, has already made a million from “Dictator”? and is supposed to have created a trust fund with the coin for all his employees who worked with him on the picture . . . Hendrik Wiilem Van Loon is ill at his Old Greenwich home. Cellier’s roving correspondent, Frank Gervasi, sent nges radiogram from Ca: newspapers pilloried Lt, Col. Philip Astley for “ ing up relations between An eral H’quar everybody a fair shake, d_even broke les to be of ssing sign? at’s the color —('G' way! | of a ghost? Notes of an | Innocent Bystander: The Wireless: There's no great loss to American dialers in Italy's ban of our newscastérs. Their copy had been whittled to nothingness by the censors anyway. You'll recall Wm. Shirer decided to quit Berlin when all they left him to say was | Goebbels’ propaganda The | Goering item showed that the news- iest stuff originates outside the Axis borders . . . Sen. ft, who was | the darling of the G.O.P. dailies not long ago,- can’t get them to cover his broadcasts nowadays. It's sad when your supporters decide you | haven’t got anything to say worth | listening to . . . Some of the shows | faded to a whisper the other eve- | ning, the reason being the explosion of hydrogen gas up near the center of the sun disk. Things have come to a pretty pass when we have to | depend on another planet to silence | some of our radio comedy... . | “Daddy” is beginning to make us holler “Uncle!” . . . Some of the | bandleaders are now trying to be clever and toss their quips. as | though they were bricks. The Story Tellers: gratitude, as reported ‘by Francis } Hackett in ‘What Mein Kampf} Means to America’’—a good book for Senator: When Adolf penned | “Mein Kampf,” it was such a mass of hysteria and ignorance it had to be edited. A priest, Father Stamepfie, blue-penciled the illiter- acies and rewrote the rest. E couldn't stand the priest kno Dictators’ him as such a dope, and had him murdered in 1934, with the rest, of his best friends . . Best of the anecdotes in the SEP’s piece on Col. MeCormick, Chi. Tribune publisher, } reports the time the State of Rhode jIsland got under his hide. The Colonel expelled that state from the | Union, a star from the flag in the daily’s lobby . . . Very timely, and very attention-worthy is “Free Man Speaking,” by W. F. Bigelow in Good Housekeeping .. . | By all means read Edgar A. Mow- rer's. comparison between America | and. Franee in Look. If his revela- | tions <:don’t, weke you up—then, | brother, you ain't asleep—you're hdead. | | New York Heartbeat: Sounds im the Night: At Club 18: | | “He's the kind of a feller who flies | | into a rage and puckers up his | wrist” . At Jack Spooner's: | “That old gag dunno what to do/ | with itself since Berle left town” . At the Hickory House: “Well, | t they have this in common. He’s rich i | and she wants to be”. . . At Clare- ,mont Inn: ‘The only capital he | has is at the beginning of his name” | . At the Stork: “You've got a | nice” place here, Mr. Billingsley. | | Does it pay?” i | Subseribe to The Citizen—206 weekly. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN tions’ on the German army * DRIVING LAMP CO! ae SOURCE: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS’ PARAGRAPHS American Place Names Presenting: Left Hand, W. Va.; Ten, Sleep, Wyo.; Morning Sun, Towa, and Rose Bud, Ark. Sure But the real bumper the pedestrians. Lumberman, ae ee crop is American He Doesn't a matter of fact, the man s within his income nev- gets as much credit as the who doesn’t.— Louisville “There are three women in the world for every man—one to marry him, one to understand him, and one to ruin him’.—U.S.S. Cushing Clarion. May Have Wonder if the genius who in- vented the non-refillable botlte got his idea from just an ordin- ary fountain pen and improved it a little?—Portland Oregonian. Never Radio never will be wholly sat- isfactory to the listener until he an turn off unpopular programs with a click that will be heard in the studio.—Ohio State Journ- at i Maybe Not “One never sees”, writes a fem- ¢ columnist, “the old-fashion- ed grandma who used rugs”. Well, maybe her isn’t up yet.—Boston Herald. Up-To-Date New York schools have stopped wasting the taxpayers’ money on maps. Geography is now por- trayed on the blackboard, and is served to the kiddies fresh every hour.Brubaker in New Yorker. “Yonkers” Hearing that hikers in Yonkers may not wear shorts will merely jadd to the origimal confusion of the British visitor, who asked, “What are Yonkers?”—Glendale (Calif.) News-Press. We Are, Too We are willing to let bygones be bygones and wouldn’t care much how the youth of today ot vid of the. dead languages, they only wouldn't murder the one we have now.—Boston ; Her- lald. Why Not? Why do they always keep de- manding that women whose hus- bands have jobs quit working? Why not do it the other way ‘round? Aren’t the husbands en- titled to a break once in a while?! —Boston Herald. : Not Particular A gentleman lost his way one’ afternoon in a rough neighbor-; customer was! leaning against the wall hood. A rough saloon, and the gentleman asked him politely: “Am I right friend?" for the 200, “Aw, you look all right to me,! ' but ‘of course I ain't runnin’ the ! joint”, the: rough sneered. Of Swedish invention is.a. de-, vice for recovering lubricating oils from ships’ bilge water. * Overlooking Bayfront Park One Block from Shopping Single Room—Bath—$1.50 Free Parking Lot "THEIR SKILLS TO orig MODERN pape GUNS REFRIGERATOR to hook | term } of a} re re a rm rreenmnee HOTEL LEAMINGTON N. E. Ist Street at Biscayne Boulevard Union Bus Station MIAMI, FLORIDA SUMMER RATES UNTIL DECEMBER THURSDAY, AUGUST | Observation taken at 7:30 @ | 75th Mer. Time (city i Temperatures | Highest last 24 hours | Lowest last night DUSTRY'S PEACETIME PLANTS COMBINE Mean YAN => \ ee Normal Cow Precipitation REI Rainfall, 24 hours end 7:30 a. m., inches 23 es Total. rainfall since Aug 1 TO inches Bis Deficiency since August £238 +. inehes !Yotat rainfall since Jan, NE inches Pitts! } since January rose inches 3 Nias Wind. Direction and Vel é | E—6 miles per hour a erno <j mi Relative Humidity y ! 78% : 4 Barometer at 7:30 a. m. fo Sea level, 30.04 (1017.6 milif Tomorrows Almanac anes Sunrise 5:58. Sunset TOF a ae Moonrise 8:19 ee Moonset 7a Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) 'UNIFORMS FOR: | AEROQUIZ $10,000,000 For NAVAL OFFICERS, AM, (Continued from Page One) | Plane Turrets High 10:20 Sia regular tailor, not an ama- - Qs the armament of Amér- Low se epee While the new uniform, regu- |ican warplanes, ‘keeping pace (Till 7:80 p. m., Friday) {lations set forth the speécifica- | with latest, qPevglopments in Eu-~ Key West and Vicinity: tions for all types of uniforms | rope? cloudy tonight and Frida E for ors general naval ual A—fi'is) Am bample: The War {je io moderate cast aid, d Guinements bape yecor meabiaad NENNEN, Memes annewneed ast vinds by Alnav No. 93 of October 12,| issuance Of letters of intent call’ Florida: Partly _clondy } 1940, which states that during |ing for the expenditure of $10- cicudy tonight tnd Friday ’ the present emergency naval of- | 060,000 for construction of aif- tered thundershowers over orth F ficers will be required to wear! eragt machine gun turrets. and west-central portions ~ i service dress blue and white} Does the U. S. Army, as day. ’ >! cers 3 s : . ‘ v bombers? and East Gulf: Moderat blue and white and summer and. Oh Yen: several types are now and southwest winds over winter: service uniforms, ae ‘im production, The Army is re- | portion and moderate east : Alvan No. 93 also state: Ss ceiving a number of Douglas southeast winds over sohth: igeme: -sitenging — Whe louse 'A.24s, adapted from the SBD-3A tion; partly overcast weathe junctions seu be prepare: 2 dive bomber already used exclu- night and Friday, scattered U. S. Naval Academy are pre- Bowe many pilots will be wee oe oe a serthed by te ry poo trained by the U. S. Army and, Blackout experiments ite ep si Pi sain ncactaioas REE | Navy for the present emergency? shown that the light of an white dress for navy enlisted "qa" The two services have a can be seen half a mile away] personnel for the duration. program calling for the training an airplane pilot. A window JAPAN’S MOVE TO of 40.000 ver vear. lis visible for 12 miles. SOUTH DISCUSSED | |; _ (Continued from Page One) \ ed, Fitting out of the three big guns should be completed in early . 1942, the smaller ones by late} 2 “41. Re | i ; 3 The U. S. publishes no such ex-' i haustive naval estimates as the Moder machinery: Was British, but consensus of U. S..f efficient methods enable naval experts is that the Japan-'§ us to offer you superior ese are building “at least eight”! enti - ; ees Nticahinas 8 printing service at fair Secretary of Navy Knox testi- J pYices. Consider us when fied at the lend-lease bill hear- you place your next print- ing that Japan’s over-all naval ing order, t combat strength as of Jan. 1, i was 985,000 tons, not far behind Th the 1,250,000 tons of combat, t P. SS ships in'tee'U 2 feat e Artman Press GOLDEN GLEAI 5 THE CITIZEN BUILDING PHONE Let justice be done though the world perish.—Motto of Ferdin- and I. A prince’s favors but on a few ian fall, But justice is a virtue shar’d by | all. —Dryden. 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