The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 29, 1941, Page 2

ORE | } ; : Cac! PAGE TWO THE OCYPIZES PURLISUISG CO. INC. Poblisbed Daily ixcept Sunday By LLP. ANTYAY, President and Pablisher 40K ALLEN. Bexiness Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene end Ana Streets Ozly Dajly Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ~etered at Key West, Flo: fhe Associate! ress tga *or repubjication of alt new it or hot otherwise e : the jocal news pub MEMBER ——% FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION } ‘\ 1941 : 319.09 5.00 250 85 ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All readinr notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of obituary notices, ete, will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which sevenue is to he derived are § cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general <i bet it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A iatern City Hospital. The less people think the more they talk. There is more to education than acquisition of facts and figures. the The Japanese think it is impossible to | be pacific without controlling the Pacific. By next March most of us will realize that defense takes money, and plenty of it. oe ae Always put off to tomorrow what you should not do today, for tomorrow never comes. We have been often intrigued by the way women pay their respects to one another, Have you met people that talk all the | time without giving you any idea of what | they have in their minds? If you can name ten dividuals in Key West the future of this community is safe and assured. The trouble, a Key West executive informs this column, with some shortgand stenographers is that they do not know lenghand. The British could win the war in fifteen minutes if some of the street-corner brains in this country could secure command of their country. Cuba is very fond of the sound of the maracas, both American and Cuban, but the clink of the former is preferable to the rattle of the latter. A pat for Joe McMahon, county tax collector: ‘Monroe County has plished the apparently impossible by col- lecting its intangible tax roll 100 per cent.” —Fuller’s Florida Letter. It is human to make mistakes, and in | the | this war England has made many, United States some, and will make more; ever Hitler has acknowledged that he made a mistake in underestimating the military power of Russia. Corrupt men in power signifies a cor- rupt or indifferent citizenry. And that observation also applies to labor unions. If those bodies had been more vigilant, there would be no racketeers like the lises, Bioffs and Brownes, just to mention a few. State Comptrolier Jim Lee is a very busy man in Tallahassee. He hasn’t found time to answer an important letter ad- dressed to him almost a fortnight ago, but he sent The Citizen a swell check, backpay for services rendered the state some months -previous, whieh, possibly, is to serve as a substitute for an ignored communication. It did help to assuage our wounded feelings. unselfish in- | accom- | Despite the general feeling that Key Westers are too busy this year to run for ' public office or to take an active part in pre-election campaigning, the Nov. 11 bal- lots will be crowded with one of the largest [ fields in recent years, and qualified lists | probably will show the greatest electorate + of the-decade. » Twenty-five candidates in the field Sfor city council posts indicate that a good many of the city’s business men are not ico | busy, 2nd there must be some reason for a climb of more than 1,000 jn the voter regis- ‘ration lists. With the quantity of “new blood” available for political posts in this elec- tion, there is no reason why it could not be the time for a reali discussion of the long- ‘2% proposed, and long-blocked plan to con- * solidate city and county governments. Many of the men seeking office this year already have made the statement that they are not interested in holding political |. posts, as such, but that they are vitally in- | terested in protecting the weifare of their fellow citizens. If that really is their attitude, they will | be in a position this year to make a regl con- ' tribution to the welfare of those fellow | citizens by doing something about elimina- ‘tion of the wasteful “double government” ' system under which we labor now, a matter | | which The Citizen has been advocating for | a number of years. After all, why not? Obviously, the ' move is opposed by a few men who fear it would cost them their jobs, but in the main such a change would have less the effect of ‘ forcing removal of present office-holders than it would have the effect of increasing | their efficiency. | We could take each office in the city | hall and courthouse for comparison, in turn, but consider the case of the city police t and sheriff's office. { Certainly, a ‘combination city and county government would not have the ef- | fect of putting any of the sheriff's officers ‘or policemen out of work, but it would { eliminate a great deal of working at cross ‘ purposes, and it would work for increased ‘efficiency. Under present conditions, both | forces are under-manned and it is impos- | sible for them to work together in the reai sense of the word. Run as one organization, they would saye money, and they would do a far better job of enforcing the law in the city, which is so much the greatest part of the county | that the two terms here are almost the same. Ask your candidates for city council what they think of consolidation. And if ? they are opposed, ask them why. | HE KNOWS THE JAPANESE ; The commander of the Pacific Fleet, stationed in the Far East, has a ticklish job. | He has a chance, however, to understand | what Japan is doing in that part of the | world. | Admiral Henry E. Yarnell, until some | months ago, was commander of the U. S. Fleet in the Far East. He was in actual eontact with the Japanese time and time again. The admiral says that the real reason for Japan’s aggression is not a need for more room for her people and for additional markets but “the belief of the Japanese military mind in the glory of conquest and superiority of the Japanese people.” PICKET PROBLEM (Washington Star) For three years Mrs. Carroll Harris had been picketing the jewelry store of a My. Carter in Kansas City. The arrangement was ideal. The lady seemed sure of a steady job for life as a career picket and Mr. Carter was equally pleased, for he obtained hundreds of new customers who disliked picketing and proved it by patronizing his store In appreciation of her services in doubling his ; business, Mr. Carter ran errands for Mrs. Harris, * invited her to use his telephone and so on Then for two days she failed to appear. ful of losing customers who enjoyed picket-crash- ing, he called up the union and complained. “Your sign says I am unfair to you,” he said, “but really it is you who are unfair to me, calling off your ’ picket without warning.” The union apologized. There was a mistake, it said. Mrs. Harris had never been fired: she must be A. WO. L. Please excuse thé ruder she would be back on the job tomorrow. It is Fear- pleasant, im these days of labor strife, to be able >to report that the union was as good as its word. | Mirs. Harris is again on duty and Mr. Carter is get- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | THIS Is THE YEAR TO CONSOLIDATE | =e Ghe fey West Citizen ‘KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings On This Date Ten Years Ago As Taken From "Files Of The Citizen Monroe county has won $111,- } 003 because the preme court pes ypheld the new law provid- ing fot Gisteiution of gasoline ltaxes among $86 counties of the {state Monroe received | Last. year, $24,900 from state gasoline taxes —just her proportionate share of taxes on gasolime sold in the county. This (fisea]) year she will re- ce $135,000—b:. id on her ar populat: the amount fof money she invested in has roads taken over by the state. Clements C. Jaycocks, Sr., has been recommended to Governor Carlton by the board of county commissioners for the post of ‘probation officer recently resign- ed by C. A. Roberts. * Members of the commission approved the tax roles of Tax Assessor Eugene Albury, with a total property valuation of $4.- 092.041. with property sold to the state (on which taxes are delinquent) totalling $3,305,952. Walls of new postoffice building are going up at last. Four carloads of reck arrived here today, after several weeks lained delay, and work- y moved to get operation: Key Wi will play day afternoc ‘ests municipal band its first concert Sun- mn at Bayview Park, ede Barroso an- new band are Try, oboe; Ra- ornet; A. Ayala. ist; H. Plant, first Steve Whalton, second! Harry Lioyd, mello- phone; Cleveland Saunders, bari- first ; J. J. Kirschenbaum, trombone; trombone; et; Julius Collins, Roland Weather- Paul W. Roberts, i Alfredo Barroso, A. J. Cherry is The Citizen, in an_ editorial, said “Show the world that Key West is a different city’, has be the advice of hundreds of ow nding visitors here in the past. “The most charming spot on the face of the globe’, former Governor Chase S. Osborn, who has traveled every country un- der the sun, said the last time he was here. ike the country know how true this is, and your island will not be big enough to hold all the visitors you'll get’. which proves once again as has so often been urged that no radical changes are neces- sary to make this one of the most popular winter resorts in all these United States”. PERSONALS—J. B. Johnson. local contractor, left yesterday for a visit of several days to Miami on business. . Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sands, who were spending the summer at home in North Carojina, retuzn- ed here yesterday. . Will S. Rob- erts was an arrival yesterday from Miami for a visit with his brother-in-law and _ sister, and Mrs. Irwin Sweeting. . . Nene Renedo, who was on a| business visit in Miami, returned here yesterda: Today In History 1814—Robert Fulton's “Fulton | the First”. world’s first steam warship, launched—built to de- fend New York in war then raging with England but never, in battle 182i—US. sloop-of-war Hornet, | under Capt. Robert Henley, sent to West Indies to step piracy, captures piratical ship Moscow. 1884—Rev. Samuel D. Burch- ard, speaking for Blaine in New York just before election, speaks of Demoeratic Party as one “whose antecedents are Rum, Romanism and Rebellion”, which is said to have lost. Blaine the , Presidency. 1914—Belgians force Germans , back by inundating their coun- try. 1918—The Marine Corps begins enlisting women. 1922—Beginning of the Fascist regime in Italy. 1923—The Republic of Turkey , inaugurated. 1929-More than 16,900,000 ADRIENNE AMES (ster of stage, screen and radio) visits many troining comps in her job cs Choirmen of the Entertainment Com- mittee of the Home Legion. 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Fair- field. US.N., who today reaches the statutory age of retirement, born at Saco, Maine, 64 years age. U.’S. Senator Alvah B Adams of Colorado, born in Del Norte, Colo., 66 years ago. Fannie Brice, actress, born in New York, 50 years ago. Jack Pearl, comedian, born in New York, 46 years ago. Oswaid J. Arnold, president af National Life, Minneapolis, born in Rochester, N. Y., 68 years ago. Charles E. Adams, president,” Air Reduction Company, New York, bern in Toledo, Ohio, 60 years ago. ‘WHO KNOWS? See “The Answers” on Page 4 1. What is the goal of present U.S. munitions pian? 2. Who called the offensive around Moscow “the last great decisive battle of the year”? 3. When was Japan opened to the Western World? 4. What Rpublican Secretary of State is in the President's Cabinet? 5. When were tanks first used in battie? } 6. One out of every ten persons suffers from coryza; what is it? ‘ 7. Is thé voting age set at 21 years by the Constitution; ~ an 9. Who was Premier of France at the time of her defeat? 19. What is referred to as the “black market”? GETS HIS NUMBER from, bis seleetive service board | Prices at times collapse as stocks crash wiping out billions of dol- lars. Roe a Se OER REEL se FROM HICKORY GROVE You won't pick up a except you see where they are finding some new way %& clamp down on business. You would think business was some kind of a Jesse James. And while they clamp down, business plods along and builds more 6-shoot- ers, and planes, and battleships Politics makes the flowery talks. “Buddy, you are doin’ a skookum job”. That would be a faux pas, of the first water. We have all kinds of celebra- tions and festivities—birthdays. labor days, and election days, etc But a day for saying a good word for business—not on your tin- type. But every dog has his day. We even got around, in time, to having a Father's Day. So who can say, about business. Maybe manana. 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