The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 1, 1941, Page 2

THEY WAITED ’TILL IT STARTED i . This is a history lesson_ Tt doesn’t go ‘back very far, but it covers a period of great significance for | this city—a period which most of us would [ie Anne tt the And, since that is the case, we should 2 like to suggest thai Key West businessmen, class matter | ani civic leaders in general, study it, and MS" © Inthe issue of July 31, 1941,.we ear. | and sit | ried the story that striking carpenters and | MEMBER = laborers had returned ‘to their jobs on de- | fense construction. They returned, if you | Yemember, partly because a committee of | day: ; “Granted that there has been a loss, | and that it cannot be ‘regained through | ‘worrying about it, the question now would | ‘seem to be what Key West has learned | {labor trouble. “#ind that question, ‘we'think; is up to | | strike by promising aid ‘for the unions in | - afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; i “With that promise, Fred Dion and ° always fight for. progress; never he the or- | the others at the chamber of commerce who gan et the mouthpiece of any person, clique, _ a erway tonite faction or class; always do its utmost for the :|/ to.an end. j public welfare; never tolerate corruption or “By carrying out that promise, they injustiee; denounce vice and praise virtue, will be keeping faith with the workmen, and commend good done by individual or organ- they will be removing the likelihood and . ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and -| “the necessity of another strike.” opiniofis; print only news that will elevate |! The businessmen were pleased when and not contaminate the reader; never com- the carpenters and laborers went back to work—so pleased, in fact, that they must For nothing at ali happened, and in September we told of another strike, a ‘strike which was séttled Sept. 30, on the , | Same day when ancther committee was | formed to act permanently as a mediator a im all defense labor controversies. j So we have two:committees now, both | dedicated to the proposition that the labor- 4 i ing man in Key West shail get a fair trial. A few weeks ago, representatives of 4: labor and of the Belcher Oil company at | Boca Chica met in the-office of Mayor Al- | bury. They met because the unions had protested that the Beleher company, con- | structing an airport at Boca Chica, had re- | fused (or neglected) to hire any Key West The strong can best help the weak by | ¥PE™- making them strong conan help th by At the end of the conference, the com- selves: | Pany men agreed to do their hiring through Gs as = | the Florida State Employment Service, giv- A life that stands still is a monument | ing preference ‘to local men, and the union to the past rather than a promise to the : officials went awaysatisfied. County Com- futare. | mission ‘Chairman Carl Bervaldi had made 7A eee ag ae =}, | one protest to the Belcher company, and aia oh gto anae lye nga | planned another, but the success of that ' slow. progress. ; Tiving cost and necessary wage scale in this \ | Progress does not stop whcn one thing is accomplished ; it must continue to accom- plish. : i | conference led him to drop the subject. 2 But the union officials have con- tinued to protest, and there has been a gen- eral belief in Key West that the company either was forgetting its promise, or was | side-stepping it. The claim of the union SSSxa te leaders is that the company actually has In a spsech at Birmingham, England, | made a show of hiring men through the em- May 13, 1904, the elder Joseph Chamber- | owns ego but has promptly fired lain, said: “The day of small nations has | passed; the day of Empires has come.” In So that is‘as far as the lesson goes. the light of present day events, that state- | Civic leaders undoubtedly will be very ment was prophetic. | useful in settling another labor dispute, but Saget | we wonder if they could not make them- Are you tired of war news? Hf you selves considerably more useful now by are, why not go to sleep and forget all about _ St¥aightening out the difficulty before it the struggle now going on in Europe. If | . Hitler wins he will wake you up and, after | Union records show between 15 and you find out what has happened, you won't i 20 Key Westers on a payroll said to include eare much to be awake. | 197 names. And Key Westers, you remem- ---- | ber, are paying one mill this year for that The churches of Key West offer us real | airport. value at small cost. The wonder is why all Tf the union charges are untrue, . this ~.ei-us@sil to-go to church_—Key West Citi- | would be a good time for one of the com- © -genfowe did not already havea church, | mittees to find it out. If they are true, it oe abe Waging a great community-| would ’be a good time to find but why. ern st me. “ONLY THE SCUM AT THE TOP” Brenden Bracken, British Minister of Hard work does not ‘kill people, re- gardless of what you"tiear; if you want toe live long, get a philosophy that enables you to avoid worry. ' i $ H : ; _, .Thereis-a statue of Mussolini on Monte fario 213 feet high. showing the dictator | hed ina skin with an 80-foot arm | gist salute. Hailie Selassie, “get it out of your heads that Germany's whom Il a | war is directed by Hitler.” ‘ > about, | gentile wars in a hundred years.” Hitler, | : water.” BREE aes 1941 | local businessmen had told ‘them their case | SUBSCRIPTION RATES would be carried to the highest authority if | ster — they would go back and ‘turn the wheels | A, panne ET We said in an editorial ‘the following | through its mu¢h-diseussed experience with’ ' ‘the civic leaders who helped to end the | - SPARE THAT TREE! National And International Preblems Inseparable From Lecal Welfare make cur position anscdubet totally repeal the Neutrality.,clear to the whee worki That °c Mee oe Act will in ali probability suc- position can be stated m = sem Pail ase jteeds+-tiiough there will be pien- tence “The US. i guimg & oe —— ty of debate in Congress before 7 Mawr everything in its power t Eck the isolationist group of senators 2.5. and all legal pretense: and representatives is finished 8 < Fa he Lecco with its opposition. Amd the “ a - <n fact that sucesss is Mkely, is a *#andoned Fe Poco some striking indication of the tre- The ergumen wee WESLE: * .aaceee mendous change in Amefican the ne y A was well pu For ie Dec public opinion that has token c place in the last two years wom The Neutrality Act wes passed at a time when the sentiment of this country was overwhelmingly opposed to direct or indirect in- tervention in the wur. The bulk SAMy \ at places on the monih were: 6A—Florence Dillon, Dorothy May Dungan, Helena Roberts. 6B—Rose Rosenthal. Helen Solomon. Anita Torres, Gwynette Thompson. 5A—John Robinson, Delio Ba- zo, Betty Ray ussell, Ruthie Os- terhoudt. 5B—Shirley Fae Russell, David Knowles, Dorothea Stricker. -} | getting. complete new appraisal of the ‘KEY WEST IN Postal rates on letters to the | Bahama Islands were more than doubled yesterday. of an three cents for each Despite adverse weather con- ditions a crowd of more than 1,200 packed Bayview Park last night to hear the first concert of the band. newly-formed Municipal At a quiet wedding in St Mary's Star of the Sea rectory Saturday evening, Miss Theima Lowe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lowe, Marriage with William The Rev. Father A. L. |read the ceremony in the preés- tence of relatives and close friends of the couple. Mr. and Mrs. Walsh left yes- terday morning for Miami, where they will spend several weeks. was united in Walsh. Maureau Fifth and sixth grade pupils Harris school who earned bonor roll last Officers of St Anne’s Society were reelected yesterday at a special session at the, Convent. Officers who returned to their posts were Mrs. Stephen M. | Whalton, president; Mrs. Lopez Johnson, Joseph “Béaver. Mrs. May Sweeting, treasurer. vice president; Mrs. secretary, and The Citizen, in editorial para- gtaphs, said: “More plants and flowers are being stolen here right If an end cannot be put to this sort of thing, it proves that Key } West reali’ IS different any other place in the country. For nowhere else in the country would such a condition be tol- erated”. “The state Las something more than $2,000,000 in gas tax mon- jies to distribute to the counties {for bond indebtedness, now that the sapreme court has held the, Today's disposition is new law constitutional This;emd critical, always looking along. from Heretofore, | the rate has been two cents for each ounce or fraction ounce. It is now five cents ani cels and messages between New abroad, to achieve that end. The York and Bostor, trip passenger wain tickets—the toward making the Neutrality ing of the Adams Express Act 2 dead letter, in that it threw Company. beginn. 1841—(100 years ago) Father In all sections of the country, Lucien chapel to Sit Paual. and mame is ic strongly interventionist. Even assumed by settlement, St. Paul in the Middle West, where iso- Minn. 1864—U.S. Postal Money Or-itey's destiny will be der System in operation. - 1670—First U.S. weather bul- gost South and Far ' ‘ letins issued from 24 stations by the Army Signal Corps. 1898—United States formal ultimatum to Spain—to| si has done much to bring buy Philippines for $20,000,000. hut When it comes to foreign 1918—Americans take villages northwest of Grandpre.|.ny identical. France. 1929—Ex-Secretary of ior, Fall. sentenced to year in 4 of the people felt that the war — = was purely Europe's business, een A y and none of es a oe eaten! nets commen a RAY aTWELL AG would te Gefeeted, but “they 7 Ow that what Germany Shar Cope a As, oe didn’t see say Teason for spend- lifes to be ier purposes sell ss HECTOR CaSTRD AY, their *soney, their resources, ae aa <al eaten eet lives ‘to beat. *metican law. the Nam have For Capone ox Poi him. hey wanted “to” keep) beet Preyang on sips wot = ALBERTO CAMERO 5 a pn Latina whe. —— = ee fo: i a nan g i “Outs, and theréfdre, accurding to For Cape Puiee Today in Hi jand-ea baths, with ~Sorciontte” Sumac? asia Tee as ‘vy istory pPsscrsinie. > “there without warnitg The (Setar Sieeenas “Sele? cians (Oo poe: : “neutrality law has proved asec 1765—Hated Stam! me &. = _ {to be an act of scifahasement.2 SerCity Comciioee ip Act in ef-; The change that hes taken) 4 = GERALD K aDames fect—the day observed threagh- place since those days is nothing ——s submeemien — : }out Colonial America by wlling/Short of revolutionary. “Every: — 0 — — 7 om ince For Gig Gaui P 4 ef bells and mock funerals. Pe SS een nn gn the pupoe for which * == J CREO oe 3 to see Hitler licked to a ‘stand- °Tiginally intended = 1846— -oid Aivin Adams stil], and it is wiling to do every- and part begin carrying par- thing, except send another AEF. with round-'jend-iease bill went 2 long way the cash-and-carry principle overboard with scant Galtier dedicates 108 the polls indicate that the mation lationist sentiment is strongest, those who believe that this lengely de- cided by what happens to Hitler. have a heavy majority. : g lationists are ou! . a a : about eight to one. sends The country’s political many 'velt and Mr. Willkie are are ‘out effort against both are convinced ‘that ‘the Ge-/ Inte-\feat of England Today's Horoscope son ous to us in the lorg run. i a tep of that, the press of Ameri- 1940—First British air raid on holds that it is no longer possible |Duvel street The look im her Naples. for us to disregard what goes on/€7®> the Lit of her woe and in Europe—that, whether we|the grace in her wailk ape some ————— like it or not, our destiny is tied Of the magic of this isiend City oat Lays ance of the world. And the in- POe™) fluential press and radio COM- Sometime in some room Merle Thorpe. editor, The Na- mentators are likewise interven- 7 shay scan oe tion's Business, Washington, tionist almost without excep- So bright in twilight gloom, born in Brimfield, Til, 62 years ‘tion. ‘I shall know you by your grace trality Act is concerned, the Proud I know, amused, serene: Dr. Comfort A Adams ofimain effort will be given © No matter what is seid, Philadelphia; electrical engineer, | eliminating the stipulation that You") be there: quiet, cootl born in Cleveland, 73 years ago. | American ships cannot -be armed _ — ——— and cannot enter war zones. reach toucn vor : Elias M. Boddy of Los An-} Whether «merchant ships.can 2 ia ates ; ; Beles, "publisher-edjter, ‘bor in | given sufficient aramament to 40 \aia your dear laughing ‘eyes : -Lake Tapps, Wash, 5@ years ago./any good, is:@"moob point “which yy ‘they uncerstanc + Grantiand Rice of New York, ‘sides = es ‘a ; 4 Tan! New sides. Irrespective of otitet, it — % boro, Tenn., 6I years ago. amending the Act is primarily ang nothing else will mutter— pn. - — - designed by the Administration 7 hope it happens next week? : Chester H. Rowell of Sen | seal Gus Sadie ae ae 53 ; Francisco, retired editor, born | Mr. Willkie, as‘e vital act of pol- TOMMY MURRAY in Hiinois, 74 years ago. jicy. In other words, it would Key West, Fin, | place our cards on the table, and “Nov. i, 1943. "i Sholem Asch of Stamford, Sita eace — Conn., author, born in Poland,{ 61 years ago. } Se SS b> >> < . > > + > « - > % : ought to help more than a lit. 'something new. tle”. . > for >> Great care p> {should be taken in the ining >> | of today’s child, for there is dan- >> ove $4 a % EEE TUTT YT i ssiz a v a