The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 24, 1941, Page 2

PAGE TWO Che Key West Citizen | -9HE CHPIZEX PUBLISHING Co.1NC. Published Daily Except Sunday By L P, ANTMAN, Presidcet and Publisher 40% ALLEN, Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Gree! nd Ana Streets peewee. Only Dally Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ~htered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Momber of the Associated Pres - fhe Associated Press ig..exclusively entitled to wu: it Of not otherwise credited in this paper and also jocal mews published here. MEMBER =} FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION + eo IVSTIOHALEXETORIAL ASSOCATION Oo SUBSCRIPTION RATES $10.09 5.00 — ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. enna SPECIAL NOTICE it by churches from which ——1exenue is to be derived 5 cents a line. Citizen is am open forum and invites discus- gion of public issues and subjects of local or general Soterent but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. _ Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Auperts—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments, @ -A Modern, City Hospital. Mont., ¢ 4 Se “=-“All you havewto do to get elected to public office is to get the most votes. It’s easy. With Thanksgiving Day not so far away we might begin to be thankful for our blessings. They always exceed our just ~~ desserts, , ee “East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.” Let's hope that this applies to Japan and the United States, Escorted by three policemen, former Président of Fanama Arrulfo Arias, was -siéved into Nicaragua. The next time, if there is a next time for him, he will know with whom to play ball. For its own self-preservation, honest “Yabor should do all in its power to rid itself of racketeers who undermine all t made by labor in the past to and their personal selfish i Homestead is comi 2nnctinces that the Red'and District C ieber of Commerce has aid This writer saw the constr ion of hoyse in that thriving little city and not so very long ago. a secre th was News Item: “William Bi West Coest labor leader, also a convicted pan- derer, and George E. Browne, president of the International Alliance of Theatrical “Stage Employes, are on trial court charged with orting “from motion picture pro i of the federal anti-racketeering < comment. e cer: ‘What stronger breastplate than a ainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his q | % just, And he but naked, though locked up~ iz steel, Whose conscience with inju Ss cor- rupted.” —Shakespeare The leading German paper published in occupied Warsaw prints a es of ar- icles describing how wonderful things are in the city, an abundance of food, the peo- : _zple thronging the theaters, the restaurants PF *full of gaiety and laughter, and, inside the oe, per, onanother page, ads like these‘ = Pele living —— street, has a practically suit; willing to exchange for food.” er oe 38 new 2s “in Warsaw who wantsa clothes mangle; ___., will barter it for potatoes.” WHEN EVERYBODY LOSES (This editorial was written yesterday before T. A. Weaver of the laborers’ unions account of the suit is on Page One.) What started out a couple of weeks | ago as an amusing “first” for Key West— | the cit initial experience with a picket line—yesterday graduated into a more seri- ous affair when T. A. Weaver, business bews dispatches credited to | agent of the laborers’ union, filed suit for., $20,000 against Ernest A. Rivero of the , Broadway Market on a charge of libel. Thus, instead of letting the public de- cide, as both men had predicted it would, Circuit Judge Arthur Gomez will decide. : And someone will pay. Both men have made serious charges and it is not up to the publie to decide who is in the right, nor is it up to us. But there is another decision involved in this case which should be decided by the storekeepers, everyone whose interests are tied up with Key West. That decision is whetner we shall con- tinue, always, to let stubborn clashes of wills interfere with the general welfare of the community. For consider exaet!y what has © hap- pened in this case up to now, and to this point there is no disagreement: u ant ions, the pubiic, the Weaver and Clarence Higgs, business _ agent of the carpenters’ union, when they learned that non-union labor, at lower than union wages, would be employed on the new Broadway Market, went to Rivero and protested. Rivero, either because he agreed with the union men or because he wanted to avoid trouble, offered to make up the dif- ference in wages to his contractor, John Sawyer, permitting the men on his job to get the pay scale accepted by the union. Sawyer refused. Thereupon, the carpenters’ union em- ployed laborers at 62144 cents an hour picket Rivero’s place of business. Rivero (according to the unions) lost business and money. The carpenters spent money for the pickets, who thus were lifted out of the field of constructive work. At that point, the verbal battle startei and yesterday it moved on into court— bringing on the inevitable chain of expenses t and lasting hatreds. Surely, sometime, the human race will grow up enough to settle its differences without spectacles of this kind. There must be some way in which five grown men—the Riveros, Weaver, Higgs and Sawyer—could sit down and reach an agreement without going into a dispute which costs all of them money and bad will, without doing any of them any material good. Or, perhaps, that would be Utopia. to LACK OF STEEL DELAYS NAVY Lack of steel is said to be interferi with the naval construction program and reports from several navy yards tell of de- 1 in the construction of destroyers, bat ips and other vessels. The defense program has the demand for stee] and made it necessary t peace-time production of auto- mobiles, refrigerators and other machines ng this metal. Besides, the railroads and the Maritime Commission, with ship- building program, are in need of steel. The work of building our two-ocean d be greatly speeded if the Navy cure adequate supplies of steel. e responsible officials will have to de- termine the priority of steel deliveries to the Navy and the other defense program. there ought »e general agreement that the pro- f peace-time products should be ted as severely as necessary to keep the warships building. increased usL restr THE NAVY ASKS FOR MEN The United States Navy is making an interesting experiment in an effort to cure recruits to man the two-ocean n3 that is now under construction. An exten- ve advertising campaign is being under- taken in the hope of attracting the attention of men who wish to enlist in the Navy. There are many advantages available to a young man who enlists in the Navy to- day. Not only will the sailor be paid for his time, but, very often, he will be in- structed in a skill that will open new ~“#Very cheap sleeping place in exchange for avenues of enrployment after the naval en- +:-@hoés or milk." “Iam looking for someone~.jjstment period has been completed. To earn and to learn at the same time is a com : binaticn not often found. A w THE KEY WEST CITIZEN TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY By RUSSELL KAY is sure and see t or that 7 interest—Bok Tower, Gardens, Sanlando Park, or the Old Plantation and Turpentine Still Charming hosts, the Clarks gave visiting atttraction. owners an opportunity to inspect beauti- ful and impressive Oriental Gar- dens, developed on the south Shore of the majestic St. Johns, ‘and which ranks as one of the ison Let- g Presixient and Britain's Min- his passports bach. take Bois Unknown American Soldier chosen in France. 1929--Stock prices rumble away in demoralized Wall Street market, when 13,000,000 shares sold. 1938—The Wage and Hour Law in effect. 1940—Wage-Hour Act reduces normal working week from 42 to :40 hours. i represented z Ca TRAFFic PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWS TIPS awe QUIS pupi's on a Peggy a, Yvom Evel Nettie Penelope Jc te STARS OVER KEY WEST Bobby Charlies Harris Macy KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings On This Date Ten © Years Ago As Taken From Files Of The Citizen i | for HAVANA + sails THURSDAYS at 10:38 a. m. ‘ Eastern Stencarc Time | from P. & 0. Deck i Return Sedings i Leave HAVANA ; EVERY TUESDAY a i222 > Eastern Standard = Sathmg tor PORT TAMPA EVERY TUESDAY = = Easvert Stencare Tame branes. Tell your drugyist to sei you © J. H. Caster, Agent a2 bottle of Creomulson with the un- | _ | Tespnome 4 KEY WEST FLO=Iba Lester nt as the e two on carTiec y has sixteen gal- e the- ground at the this morning by tor L. T. Bragassa liquor was captur- boat seized st of the ed recently on a coast guard, by d ra to are wondering just rt of take they will get d it possible to Marquesas. e only 3,000 feet f the net has been used here t& 4 take shark. On that day, how- q ever, another 2900 feet which f bad been shipped from Miami was put out. CHICAGO — (@y Associated Press)—Federa] Judge James H Wilkerson today sentenced Al Capone to 11 years’ imprison- ment for income tax evasion and ordered him to pay a $50,000 fine and the costs of prosecution. graphs, said: “There is much im a report re- cently made by the Florida state- which will recommend itself to thinking folk. In no other one part of the program outlined, ,Rowever, should Key Westers be ‘more interested than in that!