The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 26, 1942, Page 2

PAGE TWO PUBLISHING ©0., INC. Except Sunday By d Ann Streets Only Datly Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ey West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press rhe Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year .. : sesnca nths Months 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 the rate of 10 cents a line. ices for entertainment by churches from which enue is to be 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- | MEMBER FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION °. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN 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 = In the original the name “Solomon” means “peaceful.” But in our language it means anything but that. New Guinea is known to geographers us the last stronghold of the savage—and that’s one of the places where we are meet- ing the Japs. 7 Some people believe so strongly in the pursuit of happiness that they make them- elves miserable trying to get more out of life than there is in it. When a man talks too much about himself you can put him down as an he doesn’t know anything else that is important to him. ignoramus; is, director of the Office of War Information, recently advised a con- gre. al committee that his office was i lmo.t “embarrassed” by the wholehearted cooperation of the newspapers of the coun- wry. Elmer D. With the farm bloe, the labor bloc, the business bloc, and many others, it will soon be necessary to belong to some bloc in order to get any consideration at al! in this gov- crnment of the people, for the poeple and | by the people. | Apparently feeling that it has infla- | tion licked, the Administration now hints that the real dangers of “runaway infla- | tion’”’ are post-war. Always keeping ihe | citize in suspense. It’s a New Deal trick | Propagandizing the fear that things might | courage in passing | youths of 18 to 19 years of age to military 1 service | tion contained in the passage of CONGRATULATING THE HOUSE Congress is to be commended upon its the bill subjecting under the _ Selective act. However, The Citizen believes these should placed in actual combat duties until they ‘teenage inductees j have had at least one year’s military train- | This has not ; ing following their induction. | beer definitely decided upon. President Roosevelt, who opposed any restrictive measures, advanced ments that necessarily involved in the handling of | large numbers of men by the Army, as well as the necessity for correcting present de- ficiencies as to age, make it important that | limitations other than those not included in the bill be avoided.” Congress thinks otherwise. We should not overlook the implica- such measure at this time. It means that the leaders of this nation envisage the danger | that threatens’and are determined io iake | | every step that will protect the safety of the | republic. | The idea that the war is about over, | that it will be won without hard fighting and serious losses, so far as the soldiers of | the United States are concerned, can be forgotten. sibility. We regret the necessity to call up Apparently there is no such pos | young men of 18 and 19 years of age but we see ro other source of the manpower that the Army must have. We hope that it will not be necessary in future years but we know that the only way to avoid such a cail to military service in the future is to take appropriate steps to prevent another war, like ihis one. Consequently, mothers who naturally feel that their ’babies’ are being called upon for considerable sacri- fices should be among the first to dedicate themselves, in future years, to the cause of peace, based upon force, directed by rea- son. GERMANS TO EAT IF OTHERS STARVE} 2. fur. Countries they Hermann Goering, Nazi No. nishes the people of Occupied with the inside tip-off as to where stand. Goering warns that “‘if there is hunger, it will be, in no event, in Germany.” Frankly, the Nazi leader says that his people will be fed this winter at the ex- pense of the rest of Europe. If other pop- ulations suffer, it will “be due to measures | by the enemy.” Of course, Goering’s policy does not mean that Germans will get plenty to eat. Moreover, he frankly tells them that the German air force is so busy in Russia that it cannot get around to the British challenge | in the air. He asks the Germans to stand up under British bombing with patience, | promising a day of retaliation. Altogether,-it is something of a feeble | utterance ‘by oné of the chiefs of Hitler's Néw Order. Despite all that the German Amy has accomplished, the second Nazi admits that Europe will be without ade- quate food this Winter, that the war in Russia will continue into 1943 and that there is no defense to protect German cities and industrial cities from Amglo-Amerizan bombing. MANPOWER The marpower problems of ihe nation can be understood when we are told that in 1938 only 47,000,000 out of 133,000,000 Americans were at work. In June, of this year, the work force, including 4,500,000 mien in the armed serv- ices, has risen to 57,000,000 individuals, Service that | not be the argu-! “complicated administration | and fathers | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Ly Y G Yj Y y / ( ) OC i | { | | | | | { “Wake U al | Moderated by | FRED G. CLARK General Chairman ‘American Economie Foundation Dr. J. Raymond Walsh | Director Research and Education | Department, C.1.0. | DR. WALSH OPENS: My answer is, yes. The U. S. Treasury, the Presi- dent and Congress agree. That is why | they are presently supporting in- | ereases in corporation tax rates. In 1941 corporation profits (net after tax) reached a 10-year high—"0% over 1939, 30% over 1940—in spite of the increased tax schedule. Even during the first half of 19-2, income, before taxes, continued up- | ward. This can be reversed only by higher taxes. Unless we want another year of high profits; if we want to prevent a dangerous incongruity— war for the many, profits for the few —we must adopt at least the in- creased rates of the present bill. The above is sufficient answer, but | is easily reinforced. Current reserves | for various contingencies, including | taxes, are probably excessive. BUSI- | NESS WEEK says: “Many executives have left a comfortable margin of safety.” These reserves make profits look smaller than they are, not to | mention the indeterminable padding | of executive salaries and bonuses in- dicated by Truman Committee evi- dence. Profits can be reduced safely. Brit- ain has done it without injury to } the war effort. It may indeed have helped through assuring the peupie that the war is being conducted with | equality of sacrifice. Yes, corporate war profits are too high. DR. TUCKER CHALLENGES: Equality of sacrifice demands that all persons, not merely stockholders, accept a reduced standard of living; that war gains be taxed, whether re- ceived by corporations or individuals; that income received from doing business under the corporate form be not doubly taxed, once when earned by the corporation and again when received by the corporation’s owners. The British have never dis- criminated against stockholders as we have done by taking heavy taxes out of dividends, no matter how | small their incomes might be. The | pending bill reduces stockholders’ incomes more severely than in Brit- ain, while taxing other incomes less. DR. WALSH REPLIES: Dr. Tucker avoids the question. He says war means reduced standards for all. Granted, except for people of low incomes. Taxes should hit individ- uals as well as corporations, he says. Granted again. As for double taxa- tion, it is an old custom. Good or bad, the war didn’t bring it. But none of this relates to our question— whether corporations are making too much from the war. They are, be- cause profits exceed the good peace year 1939, and because they are more than enough to induce full produc- tion. These conditions ate repugnant for they amount to an arrangement whereby the war is for enterprise and business boom. Today’s Anniversaries 1833—Adelaide Phillips, famed; |; American contralto of her gen- jeration, born in England. Died | Oct. 3, 1882. | —— | 1845—Edward Harrigan, noted |New York playwright, producer DAY TOBER 27" P, AMERICA!” Ave Corporations Making Too Much Money of the War? As debated by Dr. Rufus S. Tucker Economist, General Motors Corpo- ration the national income in the first half of 1942 was 52% higher than in 1939, industrial corporation profits (net after taxes), according to the Federal Reserve Board, were only 10% higher. Moreover profits have been declining for nearly a year while wages and farm incomes have been great expenses, and profit margins are limited by price ceilings and con- tract renegotiations. What profit has seemingly been mac: has mostly been taken away by taxes, on excess profits in 1941. Both of these rates are higher in the 1942 tax bill. Consequently the amount available for dividends, which is the only fair measure of corporations’ profits, will probably be much less than in 1940 or 1941, and about the same as in 1939. Dividends have been falling since last December, because of falling profits and the necessity of setting aside adequate reserves for the inevitable costs of postwar re- adjustment. Isolated cases of small corporations making large profits have been re- ported, but industrial corporations in general, whether engaged in war work or attempting to continue normal activities, have lost more be- cause of the war than they have gained. DR. WALSH CHALLENGES: We need a standard of judgment on what profits should be. I suggest they be enough—no more than necessary —to induce the’ output we require for all-out war. I know no one who seriously holds that profits are now inadequate to do that. Indeed, Dr. Tucker admits that 1942 profits are 10% higher than 1939— the war's first year and a year of good profits and expanding produc- tion. The conclusion is unmistakable. Profits are higher than they need be; hence they are too high and should be taxed more heavily than even the new revenue bill will require. DR. TUCKER REPLIES: I repeat that profits in 1942 will probably be about the same as in 1939. They will certainly be at a lower rate on the amount of investment. Weekly wages average 50% higher than in 1939; why should profits be lower? If profits should be limited to the lowest rate required for all-out war, why should not wages be simi- larly limited? Why discriminate against 8,000,000 stockholders? The preservation of free enterprise and free labor requires that profits be high enough to offset losses over the years, and enough higher to in- duce investnient. Present profits are low by that Today’s Birthdays | RN REAR SE Edward “A. O'Neal, III, presi-| dent of the: American Farm Bu-! | reau Federation, Chicago, born near Florence, Ala., ago. Gov. William H. Wills of Ver- mont, born 60 years ago. DR. TUCKER OPENS: Although | rising rapidly. War work involves | which were 31% on income and 60% | ; Democratic | established headquarters in the ; convicted jof Rotary, will MONDAY, OCTOBER KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN October 26, 1932 Members of the Key West organizations have Renedo building on Duval street jin the section formerly used by the A. Mulberg store. Julius Col- lins is in charge of the bureau. Members of the Roosevelt-Gar- Iner-Sholtz Club left this morn-| ing over the highway for Taver- nier, where they will hold a Dem- ocratic rally tonight. Before the meeting they will entertain with a banquet at the Russell Arms | hotel. Those who will address the meeting include C. Sam B. Curry, Frank O. Roberts, George Brooks, Curry Harris, J. Y. Por- ter, IV, Enrique Esquinaldo, Sid-} ney Thompson and A. B. Cleare, Jr. Capt. J. F. Russell, who was in the United States court several months ago on a charge of smuggling aliens, was released today. When Russell was given a _ sentence of six months in the county jail the judge also fined him $75. The Monroe County Council for Unemployment Relief has called 29. women to work at sewing in the library _ building. Of these 23 are white and six colored. Men to the number of 183 have also been summoned to work beginning Friday morning. Of the number 150 are whites and 33 colored. Jimmie Donn, district governor arrive in Key West tomorrow for an official visit to the local organization at the regular luncheon. Arrange- ments for greeting Mr. Donn were made at a meeting held at the home of Clifford Hicks, | President of the local club. Key West is to have winter baseball. This was decided last night when a group of baseball enthusiasts met at the home of Armando Acevedo for the pur- pose of organizing a league. Of- ficers elected: Lane Dobbs, presi- dent; Domingo Ubieta, Sr., secre- tary, and Arturo Martinez, treas- urer. Oscar Pita was named of- ficial scorekeeper. Tony Head, an old-time spitball pitcher, will be the official umpire. A special meeting of city coun- cil will be held Wednesday night to discuss the resolution adopted some time ago providing for the | collection of taxes in bonds and cash. Mrs. ing of that organization. Those present with the hostess includ- ed Rev. Holmes Logan, pastor of the church; Mesdames J. Park, Ed Gray, Leon Curry, Roland Weatherford, Sam Pierce, Harold Russell, Marie Adams and Vin- cent Archer. Today's editorial: “A ministers association recommends fasting ,and prayer as a means of ending the depression. Praver might help, but fasting has been going on for some time with little bene- Anderson Lones_ enter- | tained the Ladies Aid Society of! !Ley Memorial Church at a meet- PROTECTION OF THE HOME FRONT CHRISTMAS SEALS | Today In History| | 1774—First Continental Con- {gress dissolves after a 52 days’ session. 1825—New York's opens midst great , America’s first great piece of en- peinesong work. | 1850—The Northwest Passage, jsought after for three centuries, | discovered by Sir Robert J. Me- |Clure of England—of little usc jor value when finally found. Cc rejoicing— Erie .. «+» Protect Your Home 1917—(25 years ago) Brazil de- from Tuberculosis clares state of war with Germany i—only South American country {to declare war on Germany in !first world war. 1923—Former war Allies agree ito an international commission |to determine Germany’s ability jto pay reparations. 1933—League of Nations selects {James G. McDonald of New York High Commissioner of Refu- gees from Germany. { Ss 1936—Answering League of ;Nations inquiry as to America’s jattitude on Italy making war on | Ethiopia, Secretary Hull states it lis America’s intention to avoid iforeign entanglements but to continue her moral influence for | peace. “Pr | pits | 1941—Captive coal mine strike PT | begins. Today’s Horoscope \ Ass | Today endows with a powerful DR, AARON H. SHIFRIN ; Will, a generous nature and scien- GENERAL PRACTICE j tific inspiration. 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By the end of 1943, this figure is ex-|and actor, author of some 39! pected to include 65,000,000-- Americans |Plays in which he took leading and 17,000,000 must be Ww, |part, born in New York. Died The estimate includes P85, 000 Am- | June eae ericans in uniform, with 7,500,000 in the! 1854—Charles W. Post, Battle Army and ‘about 1,500,000 in the Navy. ary ne caged of Aes 2 ‘ " par oods, orn pringfield, Some 20,000,000 would be employed in war IL ‘Committed suicide, May 9,4 industries and 12,000,000 would work on | 1914. the farms. Another 24,000,000 would have | (ee Se eters * = = 5—Sidney Rosenfeld, no’ ; to care for activities which, a few years ago, | playwright his day, first editor required the services of about 35,000,000 |of Puck, born Richmond, Va. Americans. | Died New York, June 13, 1931. i + < sae — | Mass., ears ago. f In view of these figures, it is not sur-} 1g63_ENsworth M. ped tees — * i | prising that the President has advised <he | factory worker at 9, bellboy, one) Dr. Max Mason oe fhe vas nation “ y ; to vati of the world’s greatest hotel/fornia Institute of Technology,; z ae Tow we ‘fuist ‘Fede ‘to ‘ration builders, born Somerset Co., Pa.| noted educator, born Madison, | | manpower. Died April 16, 1928. i Wis., "65 years ago. 6:55AM 8:55AM 10:55AM 12:55PM 2:55PM 4:55PM 6:55PM @:35PM 10:SSPM 12:5SAM 2:5SAM 4:SSAM & THE WAR EFFORT COMES FIRST WITH FLORIDA MOTOR LINES ‘TLORIDA MOTOR LINES TERMINAL Southard and Bahama Sts. Telephone That loose talk about a Second Front y create some friction between the ‘Rus- | sians and their Allies is apparent. ‘For-this reason, the matter should be left -to the military leaders of the United States. In this respect, both Mr. Willkie and Mr. Stalin accomplish little by expressing their views as to the advisability pf a Second Ficnt, although the opinion of Mr, Stalin, who must be rated as a first-class miltiary man, may carry the more weight. Never- theless, it must be taken into consideration that Stalin has the most immediately at stake, 65 years! { 1 | | Henry. tor, born ago. “Warner, actor-direc- * London, Dr. Wallace B. Donham, retir-} ed dean of Harvard’s Graduate} School of Biisiness, born Rock- m n