The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 30, 1941, Page 2

: : ) : : } | } | 1 ake heeaeee PAGE TWO * 4 The Wrest Citizen THE CHPIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. Published Daily Except Sunday By 1 P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Business Manager Prom The Citizen Building Corner Greene ond Ana Streets Ozly Datly Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ~ntered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter “Member of the Associated Press ‘fhe Associated is exclusively to use 3 republication of ail new: to of not otherwise eredited in this paper and lgcal news here. 22 MEMBER A FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION \ ‘\ 1941. ; - SPECIAL NOTICE all reading potiees, cards of thanks, resolutions of fespeet, obituary notices, etc, will be charged for at the rate of 16 cents a line. Netices for entertainment by caurches from which vevenue is to he derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hoteis and Apartments. Airperts—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital PPP ee It pays to advertise—in The Citizen. All those people who die laughing are never in need of the mortician. Not every business trip is a business trip; many wives have found that out. The great problem of human life can be wreught out only by free speech and free thought. The men of Monroe County, who are in the army as privates, are the boys mak- | ing the rea] sacrifice for their country. Six presidents have died in office, and if Roosevelt continues to be elected, he'll be | the seventh. isn’t it. That’s a logical conctusion, There are 2,700,000 college graduates in the United States. fer service in the fighting units and many will be chosen. The fighting forces of the Allies will succeed eventually in destroying Naziism, but who may live to tell the tale is% very : different question. The Citizen has been plugging for the best interests of Key West and Monroe for | 56 years; it is a relief to know that shortly we will have assistance in that endeavor. e Fort Lauderdale has ® city ordinance | requiring convicted felons to register with the police. An itinerant carpenter ignored the requivement and was ordered to “leave town at once” by the judge of the city court. Jack Kirchik, a Key West product, is graking good as the municipal judge in Mi- ami.~ His particular peeve is against gam- blers and grafters, having seen the effect of the pernicious activities of this gentry in his home town. If you thin}: the Department of Agri- eulture isn’t busy, you should remember that it has just gotten out an 18-page illus i trated booklet entitled “Buying Boys’ Suits,” which sells for 5c, and may be worth every cent of that. Advertisement: Buy your new auto- mobiles inthe next few weeks. They wiil | probably cost more by January and harder to get, as automobile production will be re- duced at least 51 per cent, according to the big boss of preduction, Leon Henderson. Bditor Dean of the Sanford Herald says he likes Governor Palmadge’s idea of making everybody in Georgia a college graduate, for then Gene might not be re- elected so often. If we had an educated electorate every where better men would of- fer for service aud better men would be elected as a consequence. Many will be called ; | MAKE “NO FISHING” MEAN “NO” ' One more fisherman, William J. Scheer of Miami, paid with his life this week for a day’s angling from an Overseas Highway | bridge. And as a result of that same accident, | Kenneth Jones, also of Miami, is under treatment for a smashed leg, and Robert | Frazier Shinault, driver of the car which struck the two men down, faces possible criminal action. «<< t Whatever is decided in | the circumstances which caused the fa accident, it should give impetus to a cam- paign to stop fishing on the bridges. F: no matter who was at fault in that parti- | cular case, the fact remains that fishermen | court about 2} $2 | have no business on the bridges and are a that of | menace to their own safety and others when they are there. We have heard the argument that the bridges, as fishing sites. constitute an im- portant tovrist attraction for the keys and for Key West. We have heard, too, that if the drivers were more careful the fishermen would be safe. The only reply to those arguments is that the first one is unfortunate and the | second is untrue. Forty-five miles 2 hour is a legal rate of speed i Fiorida, and it is a speed at which a driver on the open roai may pro- ceed in reasonable safety. But if a fisher- man steps out in front of a car going at that speed 50 feet away, the driver has no more chance of stopping in time to avoid an acci- dent than he has of flying over. Every traffic fatality record you ever saw shows that the pedestrian walking or standing at the side of a country highway is the most frequent victim of all motor ac- cidents. Accept that figure, then decide | for yourself if it is not far more dangerous | to be blocked from escape by a rail on a bridge. In addition to the danger of his posi- tion at any time on a bridge, the fisherman throws in other hazards for himself and the motorist. Frequently, upon catching a fish, he jumps back from the rail. When he puts | on bait or wraps up a catch, he leans over, not watching traffic and making it harder for the motorist to see him. When he casts, his weighted line frequently swings across the bridge, causing a driver almost spon- taneously to swerve into the path of traffic from the other direction. And there are other argumerts. Overseas Highway (and all Florida highways) are paid for almost exclusively ; by the motorist’s money, in this case, both by gas taxes and by tolls. The twisting, 180-mile drive between Key West and Miami puts a strain on any motorist, and the ever-necessary watching for fishermen certainly does nothing to les- sen that strain. In that sense, the fisher- men nct only are a menace to safety. but their presence constitutes an imposition or the people whose money makes the bridges possible. Certainly, there is no intention here of belittling the fisherman or his sport, bu from any possible standpoint it ought to be clear that anglers have no place on the | bridges linking a main thoroughfare. It is abaut time to make the “‘no fish- ing” signs on the bridges mean something. METALS FROM THE OCEAN Metallic magnesium is being recovered from sea water at Freeport, Texas, and the heads of forty university chemical en- gineering departments agree that the pro- cess is the outstanding engineering achieve- ment cf 1941. Prof. Alfred White, of the University of Michigan, says that 300,000,000 gallons of raw ocean water is daily processed to produce 100,000 pounds of metal as well as large quantities of bromine for anti-knock motor.fuels. The recovery of the metallic mag- nesium is important now that magnesium alloys are being so widely used in the con- struction of sifanes They are the light- est metals tse@ in industry, having: ‘prac- tically the streggth of aluminum and about two-thirds of its weight. In time to come man will take many things from the ocean. In fact, he will draw heavily upon the earth’s atmosphere for useful substances. We may even look to the Sun for our power and thus secure an unlimited source of energy. Folly comes upon us with the years, and it is said there is no feol like an old foo! , lnekily, a concomitant is wisdom which also | comes with the years. THE KEY WEST CI TIZEN N\A \ Leoomine at By HUGO S. SIMS. Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen PEACE OFFER EXPECTED REJECTION CERTAIN Repeated rumors of an impend- ing peace scheduled for delivery as soon Germany can win a decisive v: tory over the Red Army, find lit- tle or ne response among the of- ficials of the United States and Great Britain fer from Germany * would attempt to organize Euro- offer from Berlin, * ie production of erstand the vital sig- uccessful deliv- and implements pean production and prepare for 9¢liv ag ¢ offensive, designed to t Britain and to se- cure control of Africa. that Hitler's Eu- |p cannot permanent- y e ess the world is re- organized lines, most experts consider Permanent peace impossible un- less Great Britain and the Unit- ed States are prepared to accept Nazi domination of the world. The attack upon Russia has given Germany a worthy oppen- ent. The Nazi parade which be- gan in Austria has been definite-_j ly checked in Russia. Hitler him- self admits that he underestimat- ed the extent of Russian reserves and, despite the conflict about losses, it is apparent from Ger- man Statements that the Russians have inflicted heavy casualties upon the German Army. Reports from Europe indicate that Germany is beginning to ex- perience a shortage of manpower and the rising tide of rebellion in the occupied countries present the Nazis with another serious problem. If the Germans can 1 triumph against. obvious that a , Such as would be ‘it the Nazis to recup- ;erate and reform for the next move ¢ march toward world control WARS WON IN SHOPS US. SUPPLIES DECISIVE “Wars of today are won in the/ sho; declares William S. Knud- sen. Director-General of the Of- fice of Production Management, in urging the United States to produce “plenty of gums and tanks and planes and ships” Mr. Knudsen cails attention to the “tremendous lead” that the Nazis have in the production of certain importent war items and warns th they will continue to hold the lead for a long time “unless we step-up our present, pace”. The emphasis upon production is not exaggerated Hitler's threat to torpedo ail ships of every nation carrying supplies to Great Britsim is Germany's of-) from this country will tur the tide of the battle. The United States, through the! Lend-Lease bill enacted by Con- gress, and various utterances of | its delivery into the hands of the iong Nazi economic ¢ * ing beginning of the violating is incidental be- se the Nazis have given abun- proof of their intention to do anything to advance their scheme of world mastery. Secretary Hull the torpedoing d tankers as an Piracy and ss” The Neutral focus of bitte: y Act, now the scussion in Wash- iled to prevent the intended to avert. been torpedoed American neutrality within the zone, far from combat areas and there is the sinkings w ance with E policy of that probability that the I increase in accord- ler’s proclaimed torpedoing every ship attempts to “help Eng- Today In History 1835—A body of Democrats, differing from other Democrats, meeting in New York, have lights turned off to stop meeting; mark- Locofoco Party—loco-foco matches used to turm lights cn again. 1938—Alfred Vail. Morse’s co- worker in telegraphy, patents dot-and-dash alphabet still called the Morse code. 1881—Capt,, George W. De Long, Afctic explorer, and his party,. perish from cold and star-} vation within few miles of a Si-} berian_ settlement. i makes 34-min- the Statue of York harbor, $10,000 prize for thei ' 1918—Americans take _ point! north of Verdun and advance two miles. | 1920—Ku Klux Klan parades Jacksonville, Fla, marking be-! ginning of modern Ku Klux Klan movement. : 1938—Historic Orson Welles’ jSunday night broadcast of HG. Wells’ “War of the Worlds”. in belief it was true invasion i from Mars. | 1938—German Commission awards damages inj (nations fighting Hitler. © This! war Black Tom case. 4 and the United > Today's Birthdays Vice Admiral Will sey, U.S.N., born N. J., 59 years ago. Rudoiph Forster. House Offices Execu: Gertrude F. Atherton, novelist, born in San Francisco, 84 years ago Lt Col Washington, D.C. noted au- thority on arms and ammunition, born in Baltimore, 50 years ago. Elias Lieberman of New York. poet, born in Ru: 58 years ago. JUST FOR SPITE SACRAMENTO. — Seeking a divorce, Mrs. George True of this city cited this one of her rea- sons: “The defendant raised a mustache and whiskers just to Spite the plaintiff”. New G-E Deep-Well Thrift Cooker Sixth Ch0KS Let Us Explain Phones 414 and 415 ; Sus cone, THE KEY WEST ELECTRIC COMPANY | - Sands, Phyllis Thompson, Maric ‘KEY WEST IN | DAYS GONE BY Happenings On This Date Ten Years Ago As Taken Files. Of The Citisen For Mayor PAUL GC. ALBURY For Mayor WILLARD M. ALBURY For Re Diecuon States Good Roads a Holding of the For Police Justice WESLEY P. ARCHER For Ret © For Police Justice T.S. CARO For Police Justice A. HL McINNIS For Captam of Police RAY ATWELL For Captain of Police ALBERTO CAMERO For Captam of Police ROBERT J. LEWIS — Better: Known a —, Fer City Counciimas GERALD H ADAMS For Caty Councsimen JOHN CARBONELL. JR ” Fer Gity Counctiman the department at party on the church day afternoon. iawn yes — the group wee WILLIAM FREEMAN Helen Audrey Thomp son, Agnes omson Camille qpose: x, ~~ 4 Phyllis Adams, Madge o Sly Sod Sands, Eola Johnson, Elizabeth Roberts, Rosalind Roberts, Earl Thompson, Earl Wahl, Della May Pierce, Dorothy Pierce, Louise Collins, Warren Russell E R Thompson, Phyllis Richardson and Irma Pinder. PERSONALS—Archie Thomp- son, who was in Miami ‘or sev- NEM M KNOWLES eral days on business, returned —_— —_— here yesterday. -Raymonc Fer Cas Counciimar Beker. who was visiting hs cLEM PRiCt brother, Sterling, in Miami, re- c ini turned yesterday T Jenkims Curry and Will Freeman return- ed last night from Key Largo. where they went on 2 business trip. . George L Knowles and Raymond Lord ieft yesterday afternoon for Gainesville, where they will see the Georgia-Florida footbali game Saturday. How Economical