The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 25, 1942, Page 2

Ba GE TWO Che a ixcy West Citizen — SHING €0., published Daily except Sunday L. P. ANTMAN, President and Pal (N. Business Manage: The Citizen Building cue and Aun Streets From Corner Ge Only Dally Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ntered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press \he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise eredited in this paper and also the local news published bare. une Year Bix Monthy Three Months gne Month Weekly ADVERTISING BATES 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. Notices for entertainment by churelies from which @ revenue is to be derived are 5 cents @ iline. ‘The Citizen is an open forum endjdinvites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of Jocal on general {interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. 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 @ttack: wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- gan or thepmouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the publie 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. Airpurts—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. Ighorance is what has put’ t1é™mist’”’ in chemistry. Giving until it’ hyrts sometimes applies vo the .ecipient too. The book of the month and every month—ihe check book. * A lot of experts are talking about things they don’t know much about. Conquered Europe now knows the Nazi armies carry slavery with their ban- ners, The world is jammed with people wh» believe anything nice that is said about them, Tae fighting -Amerieans in the Solo- mons kroweno eight-hour day and they are suarantee@mno profits, } Advertising is what a newspaper has to sell and it is rarely given away by any. newspaper in whieh it is any good, Every citizen owes.a duty to the people among whom he lives, even if there is no way lor them to enforce the obligation, Maybe it is true that the fellow who augh: lest laughs best, but then the fellow o .nughs first sees the point quickest. Feeding the nation may be a glorious riotie calling, but the farmers are envious, as well, for adequate cash returns, rd pa We are informed that our anti-aircraft tr h ef 1948 willbe double that of 1942. ™ho'’s another thing theaggressor nations will have to worry about. There is not a man in the United States who can impose necessary controls in sueh a way as to satisfy everyone. There will be - lways recalcitrant individuals. Twice within our time and five times within a century, Germany, through leaders, has allowed herself to be posce-sed with the lust of conquest, and without need. false “PAPER WORK” Uncle Sam is trying to conserve man- power en the one hand and wastes it on the cther. ere wasted by American business men Tens of millions of manpower hours | in| i filling out countless questionnaires, teem- | ing with questions that have nothing what- | ever to.do with winning the war. The matter. has. become so intolerable | Senator Harry F. Byrd, Demoerat.of .Vir- ginia, and Senator Arthur.E. Vandenberg, | Republican of Michigan, will file a resolu- tion in the senate to investigate the rapidly multiplying questionnaires that govern- ment agencies are sending to the people. Key Westers feel the same as all other good Americans about government activi- | ties during wartime: where they are essen- | tial to the prosecution of the war, let them go on to the limit, but where they are petty things, as many of the questionnaires are, that not only waste the time of government employes but also of civilians, trying %o earn a living and helping their government at the same time, Key Westers feel that a | halt should be called, as Senators Byrd and Vandenberg will endeavor to do. ‘ Automobile owners in Key West got a good idea of this questionnaire business a few days ago, and are still getting it; for it | is hot over yet, in filling out two pages of questions about tires. Als one owner re- marked,-““My' five old Lires are not worth the time it takes to fill out ihe question- naire.” Spread throughout ihe country, how many million manpower hours did ihe filling out of that questionnaire take, when a simpie report could have fulfilled the pur- ose just as well? Federal employes have incréased iill they now reach almost 3,000, 000, and their salaries last Septmeber totalled $410,862,- | 000, With the discontinuance of useless work, similar to the endless questionnaires, a large percentage of those employes could be placed in various types of work that are essential to the war effort and their aames removed from the federal payroll. The one thing, in prosecuting this war, that the federal government is not heeding is the vastness of expenditures. No paring down, where paring down will not hurt ihe war effort, but spend, spend, spend, and waste while you spend; iflyou try io be | careful in spending it may: wetard this or that, whereas the pruning knife could be | used in cutting down®the number of civilian | émployes and saving the government many | millions of dollars in salaries without in- terfering with the war effort; indeed, the pruning would help the war ‘effort: by pro- viding more men to work in war industries and not do, as they are doing now, a “vast amount of so-called ‘paper work’,”’ as Sen- ator Vandenberg aptly points out. ACKNOWLEDGES WRIGHT CLAIMS The Smithsonian Institution, of Wash- ington, has given full credit to the Wright Brothers as the true pioneer in airplane in- vention and expresses the hope that its ac- knowledgment will end the twenty-eight- year controversy during which the Institu- tion seemed to give undue credit to Samuel P. Langley. As a result of the attitude of ihe Smith- | senian Institution, Orville Wright, in.1928, sent the original Wright a label which the Smithsonian Institution had placed upon the Langley machine. Briefly, in 1914, after a Court opinion recognized the Wright Brothers as “pion- eers in the practical art of flying in heav- ier-than-air machines,” the Smithsonian Institution permitted -Glenn H. Curtis io take the Langley machine to his factory, | where efter extensive reconstruction, it rose in the air several times but without making any sustained flight. The label. to which Orville Wright objected, indicated that the | Langley flying machine was the first ma- chine “capable of flight.” Orville Wright felt that the attitude of the institution was unfair and misleading. He claimed that a total of thirty-five changes had been made in the Langley ma- chine, involving almost . every feature of the plane. Now, Dr. Charles B, Abbott, of the Smith- sonian Institution, acknowledges the valid- ity of the Wright claim and points out that | the Institution was misinformed when one of its officials stated that the Langley ma- | chine “without modification” made “suc- cessful flights.” There will be a unification of Burove | efter the war; but not the Nazi way of 1 master nation, ruling slave nations. airplane io Eng- | land, stating at the time his displeasure over | essential | | Chapter Seven Bad News T= heavy rumble of early) morning traffic—the Shrill note| | of a policeman’s whistle — the throaty shouts of newsboys. rose) from the street below. Rita opened her fae es, ously, and then ¢! For a priceless moment-she-lin over again the brief, ba | hours she had spent with In these few brief hours that had come and gone with the speedrof a bird winging through a summer sky, all the heartache and bitter | tears of the past few months seemed to be suddenly compen- sated for—the sharpness dulled— the pain gently soothed away. The urgent ringing of the tele- phone brougbt Rita abruptly bark to a world of vivid realities. Lift- ing the instrument quickly from | its eradle she heard a woman’s: clipped words. “Miss Rita Ralston?” the voice’ said. “Speaking.” “This is ‘the First National | Bank, Mr. Cunningham’s private secretary speaking.” Rita’s heart leaped at the words. “Yes,” she managed a little | dryly. “It’s about your appointment; today with Mr. Cunningham. He was called out of the city on busi- ness and instructed me to tell you that he was not able to get the directors to extend the time on the loan. He was sorry and—” But that was all that Rita heard. Tears were choking her, she tried to control them—some- how she managed to say, “Good- bye,” and drop the phone back in its cradle. For a moment she sat rigid—. motionless on the edge of the bed. and then the tears came, hot, stinging tears that flooded down her lovely cheeks. She flung her- self across the bed and shook with convulsive sobs. Slowly, gradual- ly, her mind began to function again. She reasoned with herself—she wasn’t a child, and above all she wesn’t a coward. She must go on some way. There must be some other solution. She would find*a way out—she must, she must, so much depended on it. Retreat - Aaa Rita picked up the tele- phone and asked the desk clerk to connect her with the Grand Central. There was a west- bound train leaving in just two hours—if she hurried she could make it. Getting home now did | not seem so imperative. But she seemed to be driven by an inner urgency that bordered on frenzy. She must think before | She talked with her father—think | hard and work out some plan to offer him. Even the luncheon date] . with Clark could not keep her now. She packed her few things hur- ricdly and took the elevator to the lobby floor. Stopping at a writing desk she dashed off a few brief words to Clark. paid her bill and left. She glanced at her wrist- watch as she stepped into the ANSWERS TO YOUR WAR QUESTIONS. |! cone Q.—Are men -who. have pass: 45 since registering going io be called? A—Local now being these men. | . draft boards are| instructed to defer! Q—Under coffee rationing, will restaurants get all the cof- fee they want? A.—Not by a jug-full. | be rationed, feo. They'll Q.—We have not heard from | our son since the War Depart- |ment sent a card saying he had jreached his destination overseas, Will he get our letters sent to him at the address he gave Over | here? SHU A—yYes. And don't<<«werrg: jail from caches et 5am BnRs poss on “he wae Bit- - spares. | Q—Where can I sell down} |feathers to be used in Army} piccoing bags? t A—Write to the Izaak Walton} League, Feathers, 3227 S. Shields! Ave., Chicago, Il. Q.—A buneh of us soldiers have a bet up on whether they will hold a Presidential election dur- WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1942 KEY WEST IN | ' | of NOVEMBER 25, 1932 warm sunlight, that was. flooding | the street. .; - : The Citizen published a front- “It's time for Clark to be*here | page Associated Press dispatch now,” she miittered. to herself. |from Tallahassee today,. con-! sept as us cab was. pulling ‘taining the information away fromthe curb another cab Bs a eased to a-stop behind it. Clark [Raymond M. Maloney had been Bot. in awith Jong, | @ppointed to the office of Mon- DAYS GONE BY | FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN from French and rename it Pitt that | Toe county tax. collector to serve! Today’s | Today In History : Anniversaries 1758—English and colonial Americans take Fort Dugu 1758—John mary soldier rong, R burgh. 1781—News of Cornwallis’ render at Yorktown reach dcn—more than a month event. after 1783—British evacuate York — still observed holiday. New there el maker. checked mai behind Ue desk he & by. into the glare of the | O#'a dash of perfume | And some love lace . . . {Or do they? 3 size Ee tered the Hotel § ‘at ‘the pink- | _ a, hind him. “Here’s a note for Mr. Clark Pasqtin; isn’t that ydu?” Clark nodded as a puzzled look: crossed his ‘face. He tore open the | envelope and’ read the hurriedly | written words: “Thanks. uch for everything —things have'gone wrong for me —will explain’ later—believe: me when I say’Kitowing you has been something I shall never forget. Love, Rita.” Clark folded the note slowly and slipped it in his coat pocket. There was a strange light of con- seosidn his blue eyes as he went the somber light of thd hotel ’ His glance swept the lind drawn to the curb for.a taxi-when suddenly he saw a familiar face smiling at him from the rear. of a limousine —a finger beckoned. Swinging open the door of the car he smiled at Gloria Cunningham. | “So nice seeing you again!” Gloria said ,with enthusiasm. “Thanks,” said Clark. “Was | your party a big success?” “Definitely,” cooed Gloria. The Lie NEE VOUsEY Clark glanced at his wristwatch. “Well I must be getting along. See you again, I hope.” He turned to leave, but Gloria’s words stopped him, “Better, join Rita and me for luncheon.” “I was to have had lunch with | Miss Ralston but they just told me here that she checked out a few minutes ago,” Clark said flatly. “Checked out!” Gloria let her voice rise incredulously. “Why she couldn’t have done that! Not to father! When he tried to. help her!” Clark was staring ai decinae den attentio, puzzled cotidern | growing in his face. “Will you ex- plain that please?” he said quietly. Gloria hid a sparkle of triumph by bending forward to direct the chauffeur through the speaking tube. “The Waldorf.” Then she turned back to Clark: ‘with distracted con- cern. “Tl tell yout what I know,” she said, “at luncheon. I—I feel a lit- tle weak. I mean—I ean’t believe that. an tive girl like Rita would deliberately do it. I can’t. { i { | “Do what?” Clark got into. the | car automatically, and it swung out into. the ‘traffic. “Disappear — after my father asked her to éxplain what had | been done ‘with a large sum. of money enttlisted to her,” Gloria’ said slowly. : continued THESE MEN... { S). heart ww to .¢a) fe a mai Agee pie*With an inc ffoamy custard .. . Behind ‘a shell-pink ear? Cool, scented silence When locked hands speak— ' Or the wit of a wagging tongue? I think men love blue I knew one who raved About the frosty white Of a clean-cut frock— And hated corsages .. . And ear-rings. Yet one admired— The bronze Gypsy. touch Of scarlet roses Pinned -in my hair. elly men are such it we try. anything jakos please *them! think they’re dumb.) va “GSARBARA° GREENE. eis eS aR it the war in ease, the war isn’t er in 1944. Please answer ini e_ paper. A—wWell, boys, the will be held as usual. election Q—When I am drafted when} will I my _ first _pay- | check? 37 | A—It fone drafted before] the Bind, FOTN We pall the lasi day of the* th in which you're | foe P father, loney. the ‘late William F. Ma- The story that appeared re- jcently in The Citizen about the | fish that was caught twice was related last night over WQAM. |@ radio station in Miami. The»Key West Chapter of the Red Cross held a meeting this {morning to make arrangements for the distribution of clothing among the needy in this com- munity. supervisor of welfare work, in Florida, arrived in Key West yesterday afternoon to meet roe County Council Bloyment Relief. of Unem- been associate consul West sinee Jenuary 31, has been recalled to Havana) He will! leave for that city tomorrow. in Key Harry Baldwin, first assistant who has been spending his quar-; terly vacation in Key West, will return this afternoon to his sta- tion. William W. Demeritt, Jr., is a student at the University of Florida et Gainesville, arrived yesterday for a short Thanksgiv- ing holilay stay with his parents. He will leave Saturday to re- sume his studies at the univer- sity. The Senior Epworth League of for the unexpired term of his! Miss Dorothy Griswold, district! with representatives of the Mon-i Eduardo L. Sanchez, who has keeper. et Carysfort Lighthouse, | who! Central Battle Michigan completed to 1845—The | Railway j Creek. | 18%%—“H.M.S. Pinafore” pre {sented for first time in country !at The Boston Museum. *| 1918—Soldiers and sailors roam . |New York streets beating up {Communists who were holding 'mass meeting to “send fraternal greetings to Socialists in Ger- many . 1920—Pres. Wiison asked to arbitrate between Armenians and Turks by League of Nations. 1936—Stalin presents with new Constitution. country nounced the ;énything but | excellent “depressing” The Civic Music Club will hold a mecting next Monday after- noon in the annex of the First Methodist Church. | Miss Edith Simmons, of economics in the Key West | High School, left yesterday for Miami to spend the week-end with relatives. teacher {Annual memorial services of {Fern Chapter, Order of stern ) Star, will be held Sunday after noon, beginning at 3 oclock, in ; Scottish Rite Hall | The Citizen in an aragraph scys today: ‘Key West got world-wide publicity over the radio last night when five Florida stations broadcast an interesting fishing story printed in The Key West editorial dinner! ¢ i i] El Salvador Church gave a “de- pression” dinner last night at the Wesley House. A _ large crowd was present and _ pro- Citizen Saturday, Nov. 19. The radio announcer credited The Citizen with the publication of the story.” ... You can | spot it every time ‘OUR grocer is really a counselor on quality. When in doubt about brands, his “extra something” can guide your choice. Ask him what soft drink he has drunk recently. 6 out of 10 grocers will | tell you, “Coca-Cola”. Every sip tells the story of quality in Coca-Cola. How delicious and distinctive is its taste. How only Coca-Cola itself offers this taste. How it goes beyond mere thirst-quenching. How it gives you. a welcome feeling of refreshment. How’57 years of experience give it oumtand- § ing and unique goodness. Your grocer knows that when you ask for k Coca-Cola ... or use its friendly abbre- a viation, Coke ... you want the real thing. The only thing like Coca- a-Cola is Coca-Cola, itself. Wistaicistiethuilies “Yes, ma’am. You’re lucky. You know, it’s amazing how folks keep on asking for it, even when they’re not sure they can get it as often in waetime, as before. It’s the real thing, all right.” drafted. If later,’ $ou'll prob- ebly have to“wait until the 10th} of the foltowing month. Scotland L. Vissacher, | and author, bern Owings- Ky. Died Feb. 10. 1934 actor ville, nation Died Oct con, Ga., 48 years ago Prof vard lish, m Willia 82 years age Juc gele years ige Ben born Lindsey Jackson ago. McMillir born cainenues years age Capt. George nor of Guam. O., 53 Meigs, Chicago news bern Malcolr Merrill C paper Iowa publisher 59 years ago. Cr ida, mn 52 years ago. of ; Butfal . N Flor Y Roy A. Roberts of Kansas City, Mo., newspaper publisher-editor. born Muskotah, Kans., 55 years ago. supply of Coca-Cola. Those times when you cannot get it, remember: Coke, being first choice, sells out first. Ask for it each time. No matter how short the supply, the quality The best is always the better buy! BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY KEY WEST COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY