The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 30, 1942, Page 2

] vet Citizen PAGE TV 9 os i ot a PS CEMIZEN PURLI ept Sunday’ sident and Publisher + Business Manager itizen Building West and roe County “Tiered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter er of the Associated Press he Associated Press is exclusively the local news published here. ne Year Six Months Three Monchs Month ek}y ADVERTISING RATES application. L NOTICE rds of thanks, resolutions of te., will be charged for at Made known o1 SPI notices, tuary notices, rate of 10 cents a Hne. Notices for entertainment by churches from which venue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- of public issues and subjects of local or general t but it will not publish anonymous communt- All rea "MEMBER FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION \, \ NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION 's +) | 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. i AN APT CLOSING mo he Citizen appreciates all ihe letters { has veceived commending it for the way it has dealt with the criticism of Key West by ervice men and their wives, but thinks the subject has been thoroughly diseussed and should be the time being at least. et aside for In this closing editoriai it is not amiss {o mention a few things a woman writer has y about the grumblers and vilifyers. | She writes: “ff all these self-styled 100 per cent Americans who are writing letters vould spend less time complaining about Key West and conditions here and try to do something constructive toward helping +o win this war. they could go back where vhey those came then vom everybody would be happy. She takes a crack at “Army Wife of Miami”, who complained about the “filthy in Key West. The Citizen knows positively that “filihy women” have been arrested herve on charges of vagrar ‘nota women were Key Westers but nearly all of them were resi- of Miami. Says our correspondent, “As far as vice women” , and single one of those dent conceined, have you ever read your home- pers, ARMY WIFE? Where did he filih in Key West come from but the of your own Miami? If your hus- und it here, then he coukin’t heip recognizing it, as it came from his home- towh, Have you or he ever learned it is possible for an individual to walk with his teet in the mud and still see the stars in the ? Your letter proves that you are stillin the mud. People find what they look for in any city — whatever its name may happen to be — whether it be vice or virtue. Why not think that over?” The writer cracks ARMY WIFE from enother quarter, and this dig should make her squirm. to the A iown Yi tr ban sky above in defeating cur enemy, but she overlooks e t that her husband is not out there on the firing line but safely here on the home front, whereas our correspondent, in spec king about her men folks, says: “Some of them are in far away places ‘n worse hell than you will ever know. Our hezrts are with them and all we want is ihe’r safe return. So, as you have your lov- ed one here with you, why not thank God for that privilege? That provides an excellent Way out for The Citizen to close the subject: all of us | on the home front should realize how fort- unate we are and pour out our thanks to God. week ending November 14, there were five . CIO strikes, one AFL strike, and one ‘nde- pendent strike. Seven too many. entitled to use| for republicition of all nev.s dispatches credited to | it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also | | have gone into the | bers. | moved into communities where a shortage faster than they came here, and | One hears much discussion about the little-understood problem. of manpower. There is a general uncertainty as io the ex- ' act demands of our military force, with es- | timates running from 7,500,000 to 11,000,- 000 soldiers. } Obviously. the size of the Army chat the United States will have to train and equip depends upon developments in the var. Consequentty, it is almost impossible | at this time to estimate, with any degree ot accuracy, the exact number of soldiers that we will need. About all that the average citizen can do is to await developments and be prepar-| ed to support the Government in whatever measures become necessary to properly a!- locate existing manpower. ’ soul. She felt it tingle through MEDICAL MANPOWER (From The Journal of the Florida Medical Association, Inc.) In recent weeks much publicity has been given. | not only on a state but on a national scale, to the | existing shortage of medical care and to the fact that there is impending a still more acute shortage. Many factors have conspired to bring this issue io the fore; among, them is the fact that members cf particularly in Florida, Armed Services in large num- the medical profession, It is probable that we have sent as large, if not a larger. proportion of doctors into the Army | and Navy than any other state. This has naturally lead to shortage of physicians in many communt- ties and, in a few, people have been left without ; any medical care. Under the original procurement and assign- xpressed them- selves as willing, if the emergency demanded, io ment registration many physiciz | be moved to areas within the state where their ser- vices might be needed. In spite of this, there are | some communities, and there will be others, which are in urgent need of physicians. How these com- munities can be supplied with doctors when ihose practicing at home are working to their full pacity is a problem which will have to be solved. Much criticism has been directed toward med- ea- ical associations, state boards of medical »xamin- | ers and others who are interested in this problem, which criticism has been based on the false prem- | ise that these bodies are obstructing rather aiding in the solution of this problem. This sation is certainly far from the than | cuth insofar as the | state of Florida is concerned. Arrangements have been made whereby doctors can be and are being exists, and every agency concerned is cooperating to ih | fullest extent, recognizing the seriousness of ih2 emergency. It would seem that before such serious sha: | and such inaccurate statements are made by thos whose knowledge is not complete, some effort , should be made to determine how far the medical profe ve this problem. The War Participation Committee of the Flori- da Medical Association has discussed at length ways ion has gone in trying to s | and means by which doctors may be encouraged ° 9 move to communities where a shortage < | there is no machinery by which such moves can be | made compulsory and, as previcusly stated, phy: cians are reluctant to move voluntarily. A great deal of thought has been given to this matter by ihe } members of our committee, and they are exerting themselves strenuously in an endeavor to accom- plish the desired’ end. The State Defense Council has passed a resolu- tion whereby it is possible. on request of the Coun- cil and with the approval of the Board of Gover- | nors of the Florida Medical Association. for doctor: in the United States Public Health Service to be assigned to communities where no medical care ex- ists. In such communities the people receiving care, who are financially able to do so, will be re- foe ; quired to pay fees in accordance with the usu:il charges for such services in their particular area. | This arrangement is very important, inasmuch as, | She drools about her devotion | all they mean io } in the first place, it will not pauperize the people and, in the second place, it will allow a physician to go into a community and engage in the practice of medicine on a normal, competitive basis. This provision will be automatically terminated at the | end of the emergency by reason’ef the fact that the | law constituting the State Defense: Council pro- vides that that shall be discontinuéd at ihe, end of the emerg 5 - Arrangements e yhereby at the request of a county medical society certain doctors may be allowed to practice for the duration of the emergency under the supervision of the Chief of Emergency Medical Service and by special per- mission of the State Board of Medical Examiners. This arrangement, too, ends with the termination { of the emergency. The foregoing facts clearly show that, certainly | as far as Florida is concerned, the medical profes- In the month of November, prior to the | sion is cooperating. President Gilbert S. Osincup, knowing the members of the profession as he does, feels positive that our Government can depend upon them to do their full share at all times. |e ett THE MANPOWER PROBLEM AND YOU) Chapter Eleven End Of One Life EARS were crowded into that night. Rita cried herself into complete exhaustion. She heard the old Colonial clock in the hall strike one, then two, then three— finally just as the sun was reach- ing long, thin fingers over the misty foothills and down between the even rows of waxy orange trees—sleep came. The warm, fresh sunlight flood- ing in the windows, the sight of the long, rolling foothills sleep- ing immovably in the distance poured new courage into Rita’s her strong, young body giving her strength to meet the challenge that only a few hours ago had seemed insurmountable. Rita took a cold shower and dressed quickly. As she stood sur- veying herself in her full length mirror a sardonic smile crept over her face. The last time she had worn this new grey tweed suit was the day that she had left for New York. Her heart had been fairly burst- ing with high*hopes, she was em- barking on a great mission, a liberator going forth in the in- terest of the community—! Now! she was just a girl, a country girl, girding for a lone fight against a world too busy with its own affairs to stop and lend a sym- pathetic ear to her small troubles. She lifted her small chin a little, a spark of fire seemed to suddenly strike in the depth of her soft brown eyes, there was even a suggestion of grim determination in the movement of her fingers as she tucked wisps of red-gold hair under her green felt hat. Picking up her suitcase she closed her door softly behind her and started down the hall that led’ past her father’s room. She had closed the door before she went to bed and for an instant she felt an inner urge to open it again, to walk among her father’s things, his guns on the wall, his book- shelves that sagged under their weight, she knew the pungent odor of sweet pipe smoke still lingered there. She put the thought from her mind and walked straight past. Good-bye To Jeb UICKLY she fixed herself a bite of breakfast and ate it, mechanically, standing by the sink. Glancing at her wristwatch she saw that it was only forty minutes until her train pulled into the village. Dr. Burrows had told her to leave everything just as it was and he would see that things were taken care of. Methodically she checked the doors and ,win- dows and left. As she went across the wide carpet of green lawn toward the garage she saw a familiar object coming down the road. She could always tell Jeb’s old car long be- fore he reached the house as he wove a zig-zag path from one side of the road to the other stopping at each mail box. Each time the car started up it sent a white plume of dust rising in its wake. At first Rita thought she’d wait to say goodbye and then she thought the tears might come— goodbyes were always so hard for her. Resolutely she thought, much better that I wave a friendly goodbye as I pass, throw him a friendly smile, he will be about stopped ‘at the Jarvis place then, twe houses down the road. “Swiftly she threw open the garage doors.and backed out the station wagon, wheeling it around suddenly’ so that the white crushed stones in the driveway] h beat a metallic tattoo under the ANSWERS TO YOUR | WAR QUESTIONS | 4 Q—Someone who writes bet-| ter than I do filled out my draft! papers and answered some} questions wrong. I just found} out. What should I do? { A—wWrite your draft board! now and give them the right} answers. | Q—How do I get gasoline for|loeation of the sender of a mes- | war. a refrigerator? A—Your local rationing board| has a special application form fer} non-highway use of gasoline. { H } Q.—Does my boss have to get permission from Washington | now to raise my wages? A—Any U.S. Wages & Hours| Division office can advise him. | Q.—My brother wrote that he| made his insurance tc me. Should! I not receive a policy? } A—No, but you will in time receive a certificate informing you about the insurance. Q —If a fellow has been doing skilled labor for two years and THE KEY WEST CITIZEN fenders. Out the driveway and down the road she sped. Jeb had just pulled up in front of the Jarvis place. Rita bit her lip. She was abreast the old car now, Jeb was smiling and waving, a letter in his hand. Rita smiled back and waved a friendly hand —it was over and Jeb would never know © what a struggle it really was. Quickly she wiped two hot tears from her eyes. The .village street was almost deserted .as she drove between the roWs of towering pepper trees that shdded the dozen small build- ings that comprised the “business section.” She turned sharply at a sign that read, “Miller’s Garage” and the car rolled to a stop in- side the little structure. A greasy, smiling face appeared from un- der a car. “Hello, Miss Ralston, what can I do for you?” ‘Tm going up to Frisco for a while, Don. Would you look after old Betsy for me? Maybe you can sell the old bus. The tires are al- most new, I hate to use them with the army needing rubber. Some- one told me they’re buying sta- | tion Wagons at Fort Dade and tickled to death to get them.” “Tll“l6ok into it for you and let you know,”. Don Miller said. Rita walked briskly along ‘the familiar, sleepy village street the short two blocks to the railway station. The train was already in as she bought her ticket and got aboard. Alone In San Francisco LD JEB scratched his head in quiet wonderment as Rita’s car raced by. He was looking hard at the letter he held in his hand. With a series of sharp jerks his old car started and traveled the short distance from the Jarvis place to the Ralston’s mail box. Dropping the letter slowly in the box he muttered half aloud, “More advertisin’ from that durned New York bank.” es & 6 os It was late afternoon when Rita’s train pulled into the busy terminal at Frisco. Like a great river suddenly overflowing its banks, ‘streams of hurrying tra- velers were flowing in all direc- tions. Rita mounted the wide stairway that led to the cab stand and was soon riding through familiar streets that led to the Chatham Club. It was a quiet, homey place, that had been es- | tablished for single working girls. She had stayed there before and loved her room that overlooked the bay. It sat high on a hill with the city bustling far below. Rita remembered now how good it used to seem to get home from her work at the Taylor Publish- ing Company, out of the constant droning din of typewriters and huge printing presses to the quiet of her little room. Things were just as she had hoped. The girl who had been renting Rita’s old room had left two days before to go back to Washington to take a government job and she could have it. Mrs. Chatham was a round, motherly soul and welcomed Rita warmly. “You coming back to your old job, Honey?” “I—don’t know,” Rita replied. Rita closed her door and tossed her suitcase on the bed. It was almost dark, only a trace of soft, faded light flooded in the win- dows. The familiarity of it all warmed her heart as she stood | lights now flick- “Clark's wire and im.the almost | faded last glow of light tead again the tien words that stab- bed $0. painfully at het weary eart. 2 To be continued |his income tax, what will they|the American War of the Revo-) 4 wrong turn in the road— do? | A.—Start saving now, brother. | Unless you're in service you'll have to pay. But you can pay quarterly with interest added. Q.—A boy in the service sent| me a telegram from Sansorigine | Ambudu. Where is that? | A.—You're not supposed to | know, friend! Sansorigine means | conserve grain and Germany pro-| “without origin’, and Ambudu is a code word for the secret sage. Q—I have a house trailer not | in use. Will I have to register! the tires? A—Yes, if they are passenger | car size. | Q—My soldier friend left for overseas duty before he had time | to receive his Christmas box.| Will it be forwarded to him? A.—Yes. Q—lI use very little sugar in |my diet.’ Can I use my sugar ra-|jong as toc much exertion is not tion to make candies and cakes | required. Today’s native, while for sale? A—yYes, you can use it any jhasn’t got enough money to ‘pay! way you want to. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1 942 SURPLUS WHEAT GOES TO WAR By JOHN Vide World F Todays | Anniversaries KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY . FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN cf NOVEMBER 30, 1932 1729—Samuel Seabury, Con_ necticut clergyman, country’s first Protestant Episcopal bishop born Groton, Conn. Died Fe ;__ Passengers returning to Key |29. 1796 West today from Havana said : as oo jthat the head tax of three dol-; 1835—Samuel Langhorne Clem-| wh jlars, charged, ..in. that; city of /€MS. better known as “Mark | te jeverybody, leaving that country |TWain", famed humorist-authot | Will be abolished jg, the next!born Florida, Mo. Died Red few. days, . A 21, 1910. GROVER a es Wr one sets They're prized stoke the ‘onn ws, pigs ar The Salvation’ Army, under the! 1872—John | Me¢ physician, soldier leadership of Envoy George Fland Field | Lambert, has started its drive to] nec. pans jraise funds, food and clothing | 5.0 nog pas for distribution among the poor; piiore: in this community during Christ-j mas. Envoy Lambert said that his aim this year was to give away 300 baskets of food to Key West’s needy. of pneumonia. |noted reporter |Pittston, Pa. Died Oct The Pro-Cuba Committee that} is raising money to be given to} Todav’s Birthday {storm sufferers in Cuba re-! = | quests that funds be sent to the|_ Rev. Dr. Daniel A. Poling of t on the ‘committee, of which Dr. N. C.|Philadelphia and Boston, Baptist |°f 125,000,000 bushels an Pintado is chairman. jclergyman, president of the Int 85 per f n pr Society of Christian Endeavor i A {born Portland, Oreg., 58 years Information was received here Sc vs r ee today from Tallahassee that the! State Road Department has ap-| ees proved die (aivanchise Cok sihe|. So Sees. soemaom ot Overseas Bridge Corporation, | Columbia Univ., noted which is endeavoring to obtain | Dorm Parkersburg, W a loan to construct the proposed |¥°@"S #6 eens eS: | Dr. Karl T. Waugh of Ha burg, Pa., noted psychologist, born in India, 63 years logist ge say —_——- | We've Today is cold in all parts of! 000.006 | Florida except Kev West. The} : | Citizen has a front page Asso-| ciated Press dispatch story from | Miami in which it stated that | there are several cities in Flor-| ,ida today where it is colder than | what it is in Canada. stock Anthony J. Dimond, Alaska’s| Poun ate to Congress, born N. Y.,, worth pee than \ dele; requires 50 p Hogs Percival S. Rossiter, retir- vy surgeon-general era teins Virginia, 68 years ago. born Employes of the Monroe Se | Council for ‘Unemployment Re- Charles E. Hashes Jc. of Sen lief were paid off this morning | yore Ci ab mece. meals at the offices of the Key West} Spc ield keegan Chamber of Commerce. The eee amount distributed totaled $967 there, Donald Ogden Stewart of Car A < imel, Cal., novelist, born Colur W. W. Demeritt, superinten-j} ; S <=... |bus, Ohio, 48 years |dent of lighthouses in this dis-| stadia |trict, who is in New Orleans{| Prime Minister Winston (“Win |with other superintendents to| nie”) Churchill of England, j inspect a new tender, wired here |68 years ago. | today that his stay in that city} |will be delayed because of the} non-arrival of the new boat. H WHO KNOWS? — ° Mrs. Sadie Maloney, 42, wife | lof Charles Malonev. died |night in her residence at Division street. twel rN | 20,000,000 m i3S!| ANSWERS ON PAGE FOUR } 1. How do Africa and compare in size? 2. Name the four mirals lost by the ‘past year. street 3. What 4. Where The* Woman's Club will hold aj building in the meeting Tuesday afternoon in| 5. When was the |the clubhouse on Division street.;ernment of F | After the meeting there will be} 6. What is “monkey moncy”? ja sale of foodstuffs for the bene-| 7. When must the boys wh« |fit of the library fund have become 18 since July Ist a register? and} 8. What is the total Europe | The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Ley Memorial Church were en- |tertained yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Leon Curry in her home jon Albury Rear S. Ad- U in the} a office is a “paramarine the is largest world? Petain Gov nce formed? uation Those Mrs. W. Hunt Harris jdaughter, Miss Minnie Porter} manpower of the Harris, who have been touring! 9. What are in the West and who spent sev- | ings? eral weeks in Caliornia, arrived} 10. How ,in Miami yesterday. They will|send an resume their trip to Key West | soldiers i tomorrow. | registered “co: much does it cost to Mail letter to US istré editorial | FRAGMENTS | Somewhere far behind me left a precious something The Citizen in an paragraph says today: | “Add life’s little ironies: a lec jt have ‘ture on ‘What to Eat’ postponed | That once was pa because the lecturer had an at-| Fragments of , , tack of indigestion.” Mc pnaries of dared tc see do \Carelessly scattering myself |To the fou {On pages of past years— jI written unforgettable _ Todav In History ae space of Time can blur. Sing not wild song and of Love |Turn once again melody Drink deep beautv | part of God— The 1782—Treaty of _ Provisional) x, Peace signed in Paris—ending lution. {Where ¢obbles breezed 2 ud feet begins|That this heart must suffer for Salem, | Today jIgnoring spring_water |For heady wine. Special and sugared bits of Life |In place of brown-bread ‘And yet, there is so much— de- | So sweet—so terribly sweet to|To remember BARBARA GREENE young aching poems of \ Dixon pencils, 1830—Joseph ;manufacture of Mass. sky d tree comes to know That Love is better cannot grow BARBARA GREENE. 1834—Mexico declares war on France. Vilson 1918—President W s se www. oor vr crees closing of breweries \KEY WEST BEDDING CO. 515 Front Street Phone 66° The Southernmost Mattress Factory in the United States @ MATTRESSES RENOVATE. @ FURNITURE UPHOLSTERED to the| Girls of 16 and 17 are permit- |ted to take jobs in war plants. commission for |poses a neutral ‘examine responsibility a . | Dean Calkins see bigger world io s st c | —_— Protestant” in ‘@lli public docu-| Theory of racial superiority is ments. |attacked by ethnologists. a TRY IT TODAY... | the Favorite in Key West |DR. AARON H. 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