The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 12, 1942, Page 2

PAGE TWO ‘The Key West Citizen JOE AL Ruxivess Meuager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ey West Florida, as second class matter led Press ed Press is exc ively entitled to use for cepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or, not.ptherwise credited In this paper and atso the S news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Yéar Six Months Three sMonths . One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at i her husband’s safety é of 10 cents a line, for entertainment by churches from which is to be derived are 5 cents a line. THI3 IS OUR WAR very mother and every father who | | : *. 1 | has a son in the war enteriains an intense i personal feeling about the conduct of ihe | “all- | | out” about the war until it senses its per- | war, and a community is not really | sonal concern in the war. While the personal feeling can not be as tense as that felt by parents or a wifefor yet it can be personal to that degree where everybody feels that | when he helps to promote the war-effort | | he is helping | terests. to promote his own in- Many Key Westers are now on the fir- ing line, and some of them have relatives : here and all of them have friends. Those Key West men are fighting to maintain our | mode of living, and it includes friends and erest Lut it will not publish anonymous commun! cations. om “MEMBER FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION ry THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | acquaintances as well as relatives. In many cases we do not know. where | cur “boys” are, but, according to an As- | sociated Press Dispatch, we knew Saturday that one of them, Eugene H. Dobson, par- | ticipated in the biggest daylight raid in the war on Friday, when 100 American Fort- | | resses and Liberator bombers, escorted by WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue, commend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions: print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. ~ A Modern City Hospital. a i People who have sure jobs often get careless with the public they serve. isn’t it peculiar how the mail is ‘always late when vou are expecting an important letter? “Humor is that quality which makes an editer think that the world waits to read | what he writes, and this is humorous, i090. The loyal American who is too lazy to | colleet scrap metal for use in our war pro- | duetion piogram is not as loyal or as smart | as he-might be. | Some oldsters are winding up on bor- rowed time and some youngsters are start- ing out cn borrowed money. Always a truggle for existence. In olden times an adulteress used io toned for punishment, but nowadays her punishment is plenty of kisses from her good husband. No more feelings. } ye Mme. Chiang Kai-shek says that China covets no land. There is no virtue in that. One'thing the Celestial Empire does not need is land; she has plenty of lebersraum. “he person who dces not attend to his duties promptly eventually. has few duties io perform, ard that just about suits some | .olks- who like to follow the line of least re- vistance, Rationing may be used to check ex- cess purchasing power, as well as to protect | our Supplies of scarce ‘commodities. Many | ecoygmists seem to think that it is necessary as agartof the anti-inflation campaign. » and dislocations have been, going on and more will come, so we might as well get ready to adjust ourselves and prepare for them. So ‘far we have had only discomforts like rationing, the hard- ships will come later. The first unpleasant- yess is income tax payments which will af- fect.all who make as little as $12 weekly. Hardships will follow but they ‘will aever be a@s great as those our allies ntust undergo, | but'a good dose would @o'us ;ome good. We | are still soft and complacent. Disruptions | and transport system at Lille | read, “Thi | unnecessary speech, 00 tighters, Jaid waste Hitler’s industrial in. occupied France. “This is war’ should be changed to is our war.” It is just as much the war of the men in Key West who are werking on defense projects or conducting their business, with minor inconveniences, as they did before this country entered ihe | war, as it is the war of the Almericans on the firing line. The fact is, the “boys” at ihe front ; make it possible for us to continue our nor- | mal way of living, with a reminder, now and then, that it is not as easy now io ob- tain a few things as readily as we could ob- tain them before the war. Those inconveniences are so sequential they are not worthy of being mentioned, other than to remind us that “This is our war” ard that we should ac- cord it our full measure of adherence incon- 10 | every movement on the home front that wiil ; help to win the war. “I MAKE WAR” Sometime ago, W. Randolph Burgess, chairman of the American Bankers As- sociation’s Economie Pclicy Commission, said: ‘Clemenceau, the great French war premier, had one response when he was asked to dedicate a building or make an His refusal was, ‘Je fais la guerre,’ ‘I make war,’ That is whai we are doing.” As nigh Treasury officials, no less chan private experts, have pointed out, banking is “making war” with extreme effective- ness. Quietly and with complete efficiency it has expanded its facilities to meet enor- mous iinancial demands. It is serving in- dustries, farmers and individuals with maximum speed ard a minimum of red tape. In every field of financial activity, it is the ally of the government. It is help- ing people to get out of debt—even as it is helping people to adapt their business to necessary war work. It should not be forgotten that money itself is an instrument of war—and an es- sential instrument. Our kind of economic system would slow and_ stall tomorrow without the work done by the banks. Luckily, we have no financial bottle- neck. NEW BASES TO GUARD PANAMA The giant turtles on the Galapagos Is- lands may not understand what is taking place but the United States has established bases there for the protection of the Panama Canal, with the consent of the Ecuadorean | government. The islands occupy ‘an important stra- tegic position, commanding the Pacific ap- proaches to Panama and have been ree@ nized for years as sites for potential and air bases. About eleven hi miles southwest of the Canal and eight. dred miles from Ecuador, the mew bases will greatly strengthen the defenses ‘of the Canal. The fact that the government of Ecua- dor has agreed to the establishment of naval bases on the islands is another demon- stration of the solidarity of the American nations. Certainly, the United States is strong enough to take the islands by force, if necessary, but it is much better to secure their use as a result of the friendship whith [exists between the two nations involved. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Alfred M. Birigham Author: New Techniques of Democracy MR. BINGHAM OPENS: Congress is in low repute. Few of the politi- | ‘cians we vote for command our deep- est loyalty. Constitutional liberties | failed to prevent a disastrous depres- sion and a catastrophic war. The dic- ‘so far they have won most of the battlés, Are they right? The traditional forms of démocracy “were developed to meet the ‘problems ‘of the 18th century. Some of them fit the modern world as a boy's short pants fit a man. If we depended only | on legislative debate and electioneer- ing to fight dictatorship we should lose. Fortunately, democracy is a way 0: | life, and like life it i$ ssubject to growth and change. America has been developing new democratic forms and | ‘techniques. Evén before the war these new de- | vices were giving people new free- doms. Labor unions were giving workers new opportunities for self- expression. Millions of farmers were participating in the administration | ‘of agricultural planning and controls. Public housing was giving‘more:¢hil- ‘dren a real chance “to Brow up. Now the war is bringing vast num- bers of citizens the opportunity to | share in a common effort as never | before. We are building a new democ- racy on the sound foundation of | the past. DR. SAXON CHALLENGES: Mr. Bingharr’s position sums up as fol- lows: “Democracy” must expand through compulsory labor unions, collective farming and publicly sub- sidized housing. He fails to mention that this involves taking away the individual citizen’s constitutionally- guaranteed freedom of economic choice and establishing complete gov- ernment control over the means of production. This is not “building a new democracy.” It is nothing but clumsily camouflaged totalitarianism based on the pretext of “good” con- | trols for the “good” of the people. But there is no halfway house on th: road to totalitarianism. Once the gov- ernment starts “taking over” it must, of necessity, go the whole way. MR. BINGHAM REPLIES: The best refutation of Dr. Saxon is America today. The government is doing more than ever before under the demands of Total War but because we are not afraid of inventing new methods of popular participation as we go along we actually have more democracy rather than less. Ask the Air Raid Wardens and Ra- tioning Board. Ask the members of Labor Management Commitices in the factories. Ask the Home Cauners, and Volunteers, and Nurses Aides, and millions of others if what they re doing is on the road to Totali- tarianism. Democra¢y means free men work- ing together. Thefe is no limit to what it can accomplish. By HUGO S. SIMS, NAVY JOB IN FAR EAST ONE FIGHTER'S VIEWS HOW TO WHIP JAPAN The President's recent request for an appropriation of nearly $3,000,000,000 for the Nayy,bring- ing to $20,000,000,000 ‘the cifrrent fisial year’s. outlay for», the jsea arm, emphasizes the role that’the Navy must especially in the warsiiiithe. Far East. » — The new appropriation, if granted by Congress, is expected to provide 14,000 planes for the Navy’s air force. Nobody knows exactly how many carriers and planes the Navy will have when but many people will be interest- ed in the remark ‘of Lieut. Com- been decorated three times for his work as leader of a squadron of Navy fighting men in the Pa- cific arena. The naval officer asserted, ‘Washington, that “with a couple of dozen aircraft carriers supporting task force units, and with,enough Marines to carry out landings”, the United Statés could “cut a path across the Pa. cific, end cut it quickly, right to ‘4 egy in the Far East seems ta be the only campaign plan available for the United States. Japan, an island empire, has seized ‘many ‘surounding islands and Japanese Officials boast of them as “un- sinkable aircraft carriers.” The Japanese, it appears, are counting |strongly upon this ring of defen- |sive stations to guard their home islands from direct assault. The attack on the Solomon-Is- lands has ‘given considerable im- petus to those who believe that 000,000,000 mark. The munitions|tion of the fiaterial ‘of war, | ‘tators say democracy is obsolete and | Looenxine the entire program is completed, : mander John S. Thach, who jhas | in} “Wane Up. America!” {that “our 1942 war production ef- Is America Outgrowing Its As debated by Dr. O. ‘Glenn Saxon Prof. of Economics, Yale University DR. SAXON OPENS: One hundred fifty years ago, our Founding Fathers, kind’s 3,000 years of political ‘experi- mentation, set up a government which they knew would keep men free as Jong as the Constitution remained fundamentally unchanged. of government: either the people con- trol the government or the govern- situation is‘rifefely a transition. Which kind is bést @@pends upon the char- acter of the people making up the nation. The people who érganized the United States of America were the sturdy self-reliant type that did not ‘want or need a pat alistic govern- ment which, in exchange for com- | food, clothing and shelter. If today the Constitution fs no longer the best formula for Ameri- Constitution. has failed; it is because sonal characteristics necessary for Dinghy sv. be right. Maybe the maj Americans today want constitutional changes that offer illu- sory collective security. By voting away ‘freedom they may get some color of slavish security. But if they do, it means that America will go the way of Gréecé,Rome, and other great empires, int6 the limbo of history. One hundred fifty years ago a group of young revolutionists invented a new form of government. They made use of -what Hamilton (aged 30) termed “wholly new discoveries” in the “science of politics.” The strength of the Constitution they wrote lay not in its reliance on tradition but in its adaptability to change. ‘We have moved far since their day. They would not recognize some of “useful alterations suggested by ex- perience” (The Federalist). Dr. Saxon need not despair of our generation. Millions of self-réliant Americans are sharing new tasks to- day. DR. SAXON REPLIES: The Con- stitution is adaptable to change — through amendment. But present-day reformers consider constitutional amendments and due process of law too old fashioned (largely because they fear their reforms could ‘not stand the test of public opinion). We have “moved far since their day.” Since 1932 we have moved [steadily away from represéntative government, toward that “excess of aemocracy,” demagoguery, against which the Constitutional Convention warned the nation. Let's remember Benjamin Frank- lin’s answer to a friend, inquiring as to the kind of government estab- lished by the Constitution: “A repub- Lie, sir, if you can keep it so!” and as we value liberty, we must “keep it so.” at Special Washington Corréspondent of The Citizen | |air force, “backed by, adequate ‘surface units and assisted by Ma- ine landing forces, cah take the | measure of Japan and, in time, batter the pion. F 1? g-is the testimony of RES. the various types 6: (declares. thet horizonta) bombers cannot ¢ e job an@‘says that | “not ‘one major ship in ‘this war. jhas been Sunk by horizontal bombing”. He lauded the work of dive and torpedo bombers and emphasizéd. that _carrier-based dive-bombers, with carrier-based fighter protection, struck the de-' cisive blows in the Batle of Mid- way. ‘WE PASS THE AXIS WAR PRODUCTION UP | NELSON ASKS INCREASE Donald M. Nelson said war production reports reveal that and August developed an eight per|¢he reaction sets in and business jeent increase in munitions out-j| put over July, but the -head of PB says that production was {fourteen percent behind forecasts made on ‘the first ‘of the-month. pr inital 4 ' Mr. Nelson explains“that the ‘THe thumbnail outline of strat-| forecasts are set high, to get goals| 4B STOCKS EXPIRE ‘to shoot at, but the performance: is “not one we can brag about”. Aircraft production was up six July, ordnance up, percent, three ee ent, naval ship ton-} ‘Struction up seven percent, mer- chant ship construction up ‘six percent and other munitions out- put up fourteen percent. | The total value of munitions | produced in August was $4,700,- | 000,000. For 1942, the outpat is expected to go beyond the ; Europe. Studies with an ‘acute knowledge of man- | Basically there are only two kinds {trigteriel to Alaska. ment controls the ‘people. Any other | ise thi 1 plete obedience, would promise them lvest ‘camps for drivers, and tele-! Americans no longer have the per- | political‘and economic freedom. Mr. | MR. BINGHAM CHALLENGES: | our new discoveries. But they would | expect their descendants to make | Empire into submis-, 1941, the month before Pearl Har- | in bor, rose to 357 in August. Mr. Nelson, while warning that | "° we must do a better job, says! fort promises to exceed by a considerable margin that of Axis indicate that our rate of production already has caught up with and passed that of Axis Europe, although the Axis had the benefit of a big head-start”. lis al ALASKAN HIGHWAY READY IN DECEMBER Announcement that the high-| j way to Alaska will be open for ‘traffic around December 1 is gratifying because of the mili- {tary emergency that demands a ‘route for the transport of men and ‘thi an wil The Army Engineer Corps has created a well-graded, well. drained truck road for practi ‘ally the entire length, from Daw- json Creek in British Columbia, to Fair banks. Two-way traffic is/ feasible over many long stretch-/ es, and conveniences, including — phone installations and weather lobservation posts are available. ca’s government it is not because the | —_—— Until next ‘Spring, when thaws will make the highway impass- | able, a steady stream of traffic will use ‘the 1,600-mile road, which ‘connects with railway and | ‘highway systems at Dawson | | Creek and serves various military jairfields in Alaska, which here- \tofore have been supplied by | | sea. The completion of the road this i] year is good, but the mystery is) | why it was not constructed be- | fore war forced the nation to ac- ‘cept the arduous undertaking. | |Certainly, a link with Alaska, | | through Canada, has been dosir- | jable for many years. i } eb ower | MIDDLE CLASS HIT t [NO BLOC PROTECTION | SALARIES STABILIZED | The Farm bloc and the Labor |] | bloc.in Congress have been able! ;to do something about the prob- 4 ; lems that confront their proteges. | but there is no bloc attempting | to do anything for the unorgan- | ized middle class people of the United States. | The handwriting is already on the wall for ‘middle class fami-| lies. This class reaches into mil-| lions, including ‘office workers, | salesmen, teachers, Government workers, executives, retired per- | sons and ‘many others. Insofar ‘as,| political power is coficerned, the, goup is inarticulate. | — | ° : J s e 2 .J ° s J H 2 2 ct ° e ° + The prospect that salaries will | & be frozen indicites a ‘tremend-| ous squeeze upon those people | $ who are includéd in the middle|e | class, the backbone ‘of the ‘eco- a} nomic structure of the nation. |¢ The cost of living is moving up-|~e j ward and there is no way for! them to escape. | ; In a@d@ition, heavier taxation is certain 'to ‘cut deeply into their intome, affecting the payments that they are making upon their | houses and other things, and the) }amount of money available for the education of their children. SCOCCOCCOOECOOOEOHCCEOES Figures presented by The Unit: ed States News, in reference to) a typical family of four, in the | | $2,500 income group are interest-|'$ ing. A year ‘ago, this family paid | s s no Federal income tax and its in- had for life insurance and reserves | for ‘the ‘rainy day ‘or ‘the educa- | {tion of children. Now, the family is faced with a tax of $167 on its income, which means a salary cut to $2,333. Liv- ing costs ‘are up about 15 per- cént, so that another $294 must be ‘cut from the total for living, | bringing the real income to $2,-} 039. This ‘example shows a re- duction ‘of approximately twenty | | per cent in the real income for the family ‘group affected. \ The ‘salaried class of workers) in the United States has always suffered severely in the midst of economic diturbances. When liv- ing experises rise, the -boss is slow ‘with salary increases. Later, when slows down, the boss is not so | tardy in cutting the payroll. In both ‘opéretions, the ‘white-col- jar class suffers. © J ‘Many Americans will ‘be amaz- ed at the ‘estimates of Govern- tment ‘écotiomists that 300,000 re- ‘tail ‘stores can be expected to lose by ‘the end of 1943, because they will have difficulty in re- placing depleted stocks of salable goods. The liqvidation of ‘these small businégs ttes Tefitesents @ cds- ualty ‘of the war is ‘unavoid- able. With the mation gradually | fhoving tdward gfester produc- an overwhelming carrier-based’ index, ‘set at 100 for November, {here is an tinavoidable reduction | goods, ‘and, during the war, have material. The termination small retail and wholesale estab- 100 per county in States. figure cannot apply to all coun- ties and there may be exception- nésses may manage to \the war without disastrous re- } sults. The impact of such a wholesale liquidetion of small houses will be ‘tremendous, fecting the entire economy problems to the and employes concerned. Natur-| ally, consumers will be affected | retail outlets are snuffed out tal warfare are beginning to dawn} upon the American mind. Si ;come could \go for living expens-| eeeeeeeeoooooooocs MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1942 } the manufacture of civilian! steady draft of manpower | military and industrial needs, the proposed allocation of to essential uses and the collapse of usual business opportun: mean the beginning of a epoch in our economic life. Many in war manpower opportunity to deal ies of 300,000 new hments, means, on the average, the United Of ‘course, this average individuals now gainfully ployed and workin compelled to selves will be new sources 0: withers and decli Relief At Last For Your Cou Creomulsion relieves promptly be- cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel laden phlegm, and aid nature Soothe and heal raw, tender, in- flamed —— —— —— branes. your druggist to sell you & bottle of Creomulsion with the un- derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money Te) N instances where small busi- survive business af- of e ‘nation and presenting real business men d great sales organizations ll ‘become ‘unnecessary when Slowly, the consequences of to- ‘REOMU for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis The; Get Your Copy of “The War of Confusion” by LESLIE BALOGH BAIN Fill in the coupon below, bring or mail it to The Key West Citizen. The Key West Citizen. Key West. Fla. Please enter my order for copies of Mr. Bain’s book THE WAR OF CONFUSION at Two Dollars a copy. O Amount enclosed $ O Please send C.O.D.* Name ___ Address _ *There will be a small additional charge for C.O.D. postage. SOSVOGOVSTVOSO SOSH SOS SSEEC SESE SES HOHHSSHOESEOOS ELECTRIC SERVICE Further Restricted We cannot serve any more new customers. Except—Occupants of homes or buildings which were either: 1. Completely wired and ready to receive service prior to July 1, 1942, or; 2. Under construction and foundations un- der main part of structure completed Prior to July 1, 1942. These new restrictions imposed by the War Production Board may result in hardships or many who have planned to use electricity. You know, of course, that we are as eager as ever to serve you and will lend every effort to cooper- ate with you within the letter and spirit of the new regulations. We accept our part cheerfully ag an obligation of citizenship. 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