The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 6, 1941, Page 2

Sito. WILL always seck the truth and print it - without fear and without favor; never be A ASR —_—_—_—_—_—_———— FREEDOM OF THE PRESS Where news is suppressed there is anarchy; where news is controlled there is fear; only where news: is free are human be- CARL ACKERMAN, Dean, School of Journalism, Columbia University. eee Art may be long, but the artist is too often short, Life.tan be enjoyed by all people who are willing to accept it patient}y. * Men carry their prejudices to work, to _ehurch and to court just as much as they ‘earry their hands and their feet with them. All the problems of the world could be + i | j | i ; | are so busy trying to m | the future that they are settled easily, if men were only willing to | think. People who are given to boasting should remember that it isn’t the train’s shrieking whistle that makes the train move. Godless dictators and their henchmen are referring to the Supreme Being now | necotiations going on in Washington be- tween the United States and Japan. Already, Seeretary Hull has had two ; | conferences with the representatives of aS Great Britain, China, the Netherlands and | Eventually the material force of arms | other countries involved in the Far East. wmust give way to the moral force of right, | The presumption is that the conferences dis- but it seems to take so long to bring about ation so devoutly te be wished ; years of Christian preaching. and | slim to be bolstered much by a rumor as to r have not sufficed to make all men | the purpose of these parleys. It is enough te know that Tokyo talks of ‘immutable | poliey” and insists upon aggressively main- taining the “new order.” that they seem to be in need of Him. Stalin, | ler, Goebbles, Ley and athers are saying | if God wills this and God wills that. the doctrine of kill | obedient to moral law. ' I i f } | traction, and, as such, it cannot afford serve as a background forany story that -would tend to disturb the equanimity of a = | and picket lines aren’t popular even ¥ | pickets. | town Some cities can withstand unfavora publicity, but Key West is not cne them. Key West is essentially a touri confronted with difficulties in strange, new places. Newspaper stories which tend to give the impression that a city is being troubled by internal sirife, laxity in law e ment, zealous reformers or a cemforts will_ruin completely which aspires to be a haven for tourists. And, we répeat, Key West is essen- tially a tourist town. It wil! live or die as an attraction for tourists. The city has been getting a “bad press” the past year, and unfav licity at this time, is especially damaging. The effects might be lasting. The city has suffered strikes recently, and what the country thinks of 3 rable pxb- trouble in the defense program is indicated ' in passage by an irate Congress of a drastic bill curbing labor. The city is seeing its first picket line, ith The city is experiencing unpopular re- | forms,—reforms which deny the tourist | that which he seeks away from the restrain- ing and conventional mores of his home The city is enacting ordinances wh are bound to be unpopular with the m ing visitor. What makes it all so disheartening is the fact that Key Westers are themselves responsible in most instances. There are years of plents famine. If and when the lean y there will be a reckoning. A have brought and are bringing unf publicity to Key West are going to te account. It is not toe late to make amen:is, now before it is too late. IN THE NAME OF RELIGION We are familiar with good sou et give any effort to the art world, with the people of the These persons bestir ther viet somebody else of sin and occasions, extremely susp body except themselves. The; happier than when condemning p their wrongdoing, unless it be wher 5 tempt to stir up sentiment against the evil ones. The mystery to us is where the folks get the idea that they have any religion at all. They exhibit no sign of wanting to be helpful. lf they have any love fer fellow- humans, they conceal it within themselves. Most of these wretches go throug life with a martyr complex. They usu overexaggerate their own capacities. and | importance. They destroy their usefulness by endless complaints. In the end they ac- complish nothing but the creation of fric- tion among people and they come to the end disgruntied although delighted that they will see few of their tormeniors in the | promised land. More mysterious than their behavior is the amazing pretension that they carry on in the name of religion. MR. KURUSU’S REPORT There have been a few intimations that something might result after all, from the eussed some propositions from Japan. The chance of success, however, is too Ancidentally, one wise. observer was to see if the United States fight if Japan went ahead with her : : : ‘ane whos Rise. ever | traveled knows, are inclined to he nervous. «2° They dislike intensely the prospect.of being | he contzin some of ‘ad lost the script 2 : er explained the reason a guest ‘stars is be- never met a stat who knew how to behave blood pressure in Tokyo . . . Robinson, profiling Admirai Haroid R Stark im World Digest, reports that the present Chief of Naval Op- erations made his frst hit with FDR by defying bim . lisher Douglas M. Stewart of Com- to wit and to wow: - - No punch thete with a taste for antiques and tis that you Maury?) for Nov. 13 bas a punchy crack . . . He calls Nazi-cccupied Yurrop: “The New When the news first came through that those 95 refugees. irom Nazi- permission lend in Argentina, and faced fate of beg returtied ‘to concen tration camps, scrappy tei oe talied Sir Gerald Campbell, chief of the British Press sersice,. He ur him to have the gees to British Trinidad. It would be $ Said, asiGe from being a de happened, cocky newepaper a James got Campbell on the again, and ranted and roared r as accents and refugee ship hes changed again, and British Trinidad e at least a temporary haven se ninety-five pushed-around Ea Howe, the late editer of an ca, Kansas, daily, was always nvied for his serene outlook on life - Celebrated writers pe his in a magazine: - Now, im his fascinating “Newspaper Days,” Mencken confesses he was always en and wolf'd about five ancwiches, so hungry was he . Hie at all ij a eit eu the real reason for the visit of Saburo SATURDAY Today's Horoscope {EDITOR'S NOTE: The following release, issued by the navy department at Wasiingten through the iccal rt stion. is enc ef a series depicting the _umean <ile cf a nztion ; reparing for waz.) west to catch the honey harv * im the orange groves, then on to clover, alfalfa and sage. They’l , return, when the clovers come We, the People,” and 7" —— . back to the North. HERB FARMING Ripe bine berries of what bot- anists call the “common pasture jumiper” have been in continual fai by wholesale nd other buyers sui- n a Shortage of low- - Pickers are heading for the Great Smokies region in th€} South—where a war short- age of dgugs has revived the old mountaineer custom of herb- collecting: in this richest of pro- ‘With wer prices promising a th cotmiry families are scouring wodds, swamps and weed paich €$ to collect and export a list of 224 herbs to the outside world Wild-growing herbs such as for- glove, jimson weed, deadly nightshade and poisen hemlock are in brisk demand. Doctors * and pharmacists, brushing up on their botany, have discovered Stramonium, belladonna, and conium. Final solution for drug ges, pharmaceutical re- archers say. is to “grow our own’ SPINDLETOP IS 40 Fair and 40—fhat’s Spindle- ten, fairest memory of the Gulf Coast ‘and just tured 49. Frst big oil-producing well in Texas. and, fitst, gigantic cusher BS the United Sites, the historic ‘well ‘was “spud@ed “in” “ October 27. 1901, as a salt dome south of Beaumont, Tex. by Captain An- thony. F_ Lucas, salt-well driller. All Beaumont turned out on the wells fortieth birthday re- cently to dedicate a 69-foot gi- ic shaft erected on what was known only as Beau- ‘Big Hill”. All Beaumont i turned out similarly some 40 Nears before to see the “Lucas Gusher” - producing 25,000 to 100,000 barrels of oil daily. Spindietop proved te be more - than just a big oil well. The folks who had laughed at the faith- fully persistent attemps of Cap- tain Lucas to obtain oil from a salt dome, soon thereafter were hunting and drilling sale domes themselves. Spindletop was the incentive for the widespread de- velopment of the petroleum in- dustry in Texas and Louisiana, thé start toward the establish- ment of the Southwest's biggest business today. powered from a diesel tractor; }straddies two rows of beets: is , Randled by once to six men—de- i, I £ S Li iv rs Irie Today favers the birth Anniver ates writer. The mind is inclined & literature and studious tific lines. The memory a (Spreiai te The Citizen) NEWSY NUGGETS clipper express Service started with a cargo of 308 baby chicks. two pounds of piunegreps rceerds and a bottle leg of 2 cross- words combined reward of success and should produce 5 a eee EAST LIVERPOOL. Ohio—The draft board in this city has th of gin went to a ‘3 telephone number as s that of Axis 2@wm im the draft lottery—156. k bas On Miami where be will remain for tank powered with The Citizen said teday i torial paragraphs: “How, by the way, does Mon- roe get into the class. when the record that she is three times as Palm Beach county, largest in the state “There are at least 10,000,000 people in this country worrying about how much property are probably about 10 whe worrying about government theyll leave as an inheritance to the next genere- 30-ion flying ‘boats 3 persons, 3,000 miles top ata speed of 200 miles er compound makes disease germ car- izing at cost of a teward federal, government op- cost te operate and navy costs a number of republicans im the senate who are not at trigued with the idea of having a Mosés to lead “em cut of the political wilderness” em. to be the sources of digital- ° of skim milk, will from rayon or ey KEY WEST 'N DAYS GONE BY Years Ago As Taken From Files Of The Citizen e “mside route” from Bahia Hende to this city be held in Washington instead of Miami or Key West as had A time-payment loan on the FHA Plan will take care of the cost of labor end matermis Eee sonable financing costs . . . up te 3 years te pay... The USS Constitution will be berthed at the Porter Dock during its stay here This will afford_a better opportunity for visitors than if she was at the navy Station, it addition to the Constitution, the USS Grebe will also be at the dock. This ship must be placed near the other because she /is furnishing clectric operate the lighting and venti- lating systems for both. was said) In Methodist pastors of this will attend the annual the Florida Episcopal Church, South, which upens at Louis Osar, of : Wednesday. Rev. ! ) | E I fs s i fi