The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 8, 1942, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citixen TUE CITIZEN PUBLISHING €O., INC. Published Daily FP: d Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County utergd at Key West, Florida, as second el matter ° Member of the Associated Press he Associated Press is exelufively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatehes credited to it or not otherwise credited im thi# paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION HATES Une Year . $10.06 Six Menths Three* Months .. One Month ..... Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notiees, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, ete., will be eharged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by ¢hurches from which & revenue is to be derived are 6 cents a line. The Citizen is an open fotum and invites disci public issues and subjects of local or gem t but it will not publish anonymous eommuni- MEMBER FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print ft 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. Airpurts—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- - ernments. . - A Modern City Hospital. Snappy remarks are often senseless utterances. ‘Experience is rarely valued by those who need it most. The wise merchant is the one who put the “ad” in trade. Most men will go to any amount of trouble to have a good time. “There are any number of older people whow#eem to like to indulge in idle chatter. Isn’t it funny how little vajue other people put on your time, or is it aggravat- ing “it takes longer for a 40-hour-week na- tion to beat one that works 56 hours; or even 43 hours. oe ‘ An apt observation by Mgr. Fultey, Shean, Catholic university professor, is: “A pat-on the back will help build charaeter if it’s given often enough and low enough.” ‘Inductees get homesick wherever they go. A Key Wester writes his folks, “All you: ean see here are mountains and ifees and more mountains and trees. My, what I'd give for a glimpse of the ocean.” The hurt bully or sneak, in his own Larnyard, always cries the loudest. The dJaps_say the war will last 100 years, and Mussolini blares, ‘“‘We will fight eternally!” Mear nwhile, the Allied Nations say nothing | and “saw wood.” | That Indian head penny you stowed 1S away LO years or so ago, thinking it would | increase in value Because the government |? had stopped coinnig Indian head pennies, is still Worth a penny today—no more ,no less. Mint officials say 2,000,000,000 Indian | j heads were distributed and that ihere was “widespread misconception of their numis- matic value,” but that most of them are stil] in circulation or hoatded and no premium has been see on them. That's the way | ‘1: when many people entettain | cf the worl]: the Same idea, it has no commercial value. | It is the oulsatncing idca chat efirielics iis } possessor, | | warfare. :dca needs to remember Dit. THE END OF ROUND THREE THE KEY WEST CITIZEN = COLORED CHURCH TO “Round 3,” erin Seeretary of ihe KEY ‘WEST IN DAYS GONE BY | Navy Knox predicted would be fought with the Japs at Guadalcanal is now over and to pick up a phrase from the thrillers of our boyhood days, which is understandable io | us, though if the Jap ships did any biting, it was done at the bottom of the sea. Att the rate the Aterican Navy and Am- i erican airplanes have sunk Jap warships in the first 12 months of the war, it won't re- | quire many more months for a way io be | opéned up for our Navy to go on to its uk | timate destination—Japan itself. ~All of which is remindful-of.what the writer has | said before: Japan will fall before Ger- many. Judging from comments the writer has | heard, a large majority of Key Westers take the same view. And they are justified in taking it, for this main reason: The Japs are sneaky, but a man dogs | not need to be brainy to be sneaky; indeed, it has been our experience that sneaky peo- ple generally are of mediocre intelligence. So the sneaky Japs, in the three rounds | they have fought with our Navy in the vi- | | cinity of the Solomons and the still bigger | rounds they fought in the Coral Sea and Midway, were outguessed by the far more | scientifie and stratepical Amerieans. Thats is the way it will éortinue to be in this WHP? {Attorney and Mrs. William: V.! so far as the Japs ate de SE will lose every time. On the other hand, the Allies, in fight- ing Germany, find her to be brilliant in the | ence, with brilliant minds engineering the go to the side that has a preponderance of modern destructvie implements of war, and | that side comprises the Allies, who were late in starting but who are now exceeding the Axis in production of all types of weap- ons. When we say “Axis,” little more is | meant than Germany and Japan, because Italy is tottering and is fast becoming a liability to Hitler, instead of an asset, be- cause of the hundreds of thousands of Ger- mans he must keep in Italy to crush out pos- | sible rebellion. Things look bright for the Allies, as Secretaries Knox and Stimson have said im | the last few days, and temps one to guess |< about when the war will end. of DECEMBER 8, 1932 | again the Japanese ships “bit the dust’— FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN Reports this ;the home of Mayor unchanged. afternoon from Leslie A. Curry are that his condition is Clerk Ross Sawyer said today that employes. ,of county road departm the ent Monroe | would , Tecéive their month’s wages in ta few days. OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY On December 12, 1892, Wesleyan Methodist Church, now the Trinity Presbyterian Church, was organized. It had as 1, 1939, when the present min- ister, the Rev. S. A. Laing, native of Jamaica, B.W.1., fake charge of the work. | first colored minister ithis congregation. Beginning on Wednesday (to- morrcw) night, Dec. 9, the fif- tieth anniversary will be cele- brated. This effort will con- ;tinue through December 14. | A special feature of the cele-| to serve WEATHER REPORT | Aw Geputy” United States mar- | bration will be the Communion} shal artived here today to pad- jservice to be held on Saturday! lock several places |ance with the orders in accord- fight at 8 o'clock. This service issued by has been planned for the birth- | Judge Halstead Ritter of the fed. | day of the church. eral court for this district. Money and food collected Key West for the storm sufferers in Cuba have been sent to Ha- |vana for distribution among the | Another benefit dance | for them was given last night in| — sufferers, the Cuban Clubhouse. Action was taken last night by | in; | Among the objectives for the year have been the purchasing ‘of pews, and both interior and exterior renovation. These have \been accomplished, with the ex- ception of the finishing touches. | ANSWERS TO YOUR > |___ WAR QUESTIONS the county commissioners to en-/ force the law against those per-| sons who have failed to pay their;I signed up for my wife to get ogupational licenses. jan ‘allotment. How can I cut her off now? A—So long as she remains Aabury and their little daughter, Your wife, soldier, she'll be en- who had been visiting in Miami, | titled to it. ness opposed to cool science; ‘andsneakiness |rgurned home yesterday after-| ngon. Monroe county Democratic ex- jecutive committee, at its meet-) ‘from several Key various offices. Colonel and Mrs. Judson, who} ig visiting Mrs. Hilda air-mail go all the w had been | field of science and strategy as applied to ‘ing last night in the county; Science will clash against sci- | courthouse, received applications Westers = | questiip the committee to en- | movements on both sides, and victory will |dorse them for appointment to! Still time to send one, re-| Roberts Sallis, left yesterday for their home in Parris Island, S. C. They were accompanied by Mrs. | Sallis’ son, Claude E. More workers were today by the lief. Tne employme additional men was $1,000. Reports were made at the! Monroe {Council for Unemployment Sallis. employed | County | Re-! of the | seas, nt Q—I was 45 last August. Will it be drafted? | A.—Not at present. Q—Is it true that Christmas [gifts to soldiers should have been mailed December 1? A—All gifts should. There if you | hurry. | Q—Do letters sent overseas by ay by air or only to New York? A—All the way. Q—If a soldier gets a divorce {and remarries, will his second wife get an allotment? A.—She’s entitled to it. not over- same in- Q.—Do service men, have to pay the made p0s-jcome tax as civilians? sible by the receipt of an extra |1uncheon of the Rotary Club to- jday about the Red Cross drive} Government insurance from his in which the club is particiipat-|mether to me? Many new members | ing. The Citizen is tempted to guess, but a | been secured by the club during | | guess often is no more than a wish fathered. | by an anxious thought. the last week. Cuban flags were flown at A—The rate is the same, sol- | dier, but personal |are more. Q—Can my husband change his I am now his have | wife. A.—He can, little lady, with- lout notice to the beneficiary. Will Q.—I have flat feet. |halfmast on the Cuban consulate | be ace jand other buildings in the city |in commemoration of the anni- | wrong with you, fellow. |versary of the death of Antonio! The people of the United Nations should | Maceo, the Cuban patriot. RECLAIMS HONOR OF FRANCE hail the heroism and determination of Ad- | miral Jean De La Borde, Commander of ihe French Home Fleet, who, when German | A—Not if that’s all that’s |. Q—I want to find out why a certain man was rejected. Where Berlin Felton, who had been!should I ask? in Key West and friends, visiting invaders attempted to board and seize his | "8 home at es ecunane: fleet, gave orders for the mass squttling of the pride of the Vichy Government. When the critical moment came and German gol: | diers, who had come into Toulon by night, made a bold attempt to capture the French | coisa the Admiral did not hesitate io | give the order which has ! gefnin for | France the respect of the Ft fring? esd | France the respect of the eivilized world i Now, a helpless prisoner in the hands of the Nazis, the fate of the Freigh Admir ts al is uncertain. Certainly, he does not de- ] serve severe punishment from his foes and | the United Nations, if possible, should make it absolutely clear to the Nazis that any vengeance executed upon Admiral De La Borde and his sailors will be summarily revenged at the appropriate time. © LESSONS OF HISTORY Speaking of the lessons of history, Sec- retary of State Hull has said: “The first is that man’s innate striv- ing for freedom cannot be extinguished. “The second is that liberty is truly. won | only when it is guatded by the same wateh- | fulness, the same courage, the same willing- ness'to fight for it whieh first securéd ff. These are trie sentiments. We di Yarticular attention tothe second. “A Forgetting it during the past twenty years may have helped bring us into a second world-wide war. It goes without saying that in the fu- ture we should tie our international fu- ture with those nations who believe in lib- erty and practice it. Whenever one of these freedom-loving nations is attacked by any | future aggressor, we should be ready to en- gage in battle to protect, not the nation at- tacked in itself but the cause of liberty as- sailed. The Citizen in paragraph today says: “Well, an relatives | left yesterday for | editorial the lame ducks in con- | A.—Nowhere. Selective serv- ice files are confidential. | AT FIRST SIGN OF A {gress had their first quack, = it didn’t sound so 2 a Homeless jess children erent create prob-| | lefn; foster parenthood urged. re TABLETS. SALVE, NOSE DROPS | =f pee eS Wow errr ver vewvee | | STRON | KEY WEST BEDDING CO. 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Today's | Anniversaries 30 a. m, 1765—Zli W 84 of the 16 , boro, 89, Conn 7 Temperatures y. cotton Died 1825 born New an. 8, 1810—Elihu Burritt, lecturer, almost sin, ying on a peace campaigr world over, born New Br 0.00) Conn Died there, March | 1879. Precipitation editor and inches ainfall since 0.00} Dec. 1, since Dec. 1, s ainfall since Jan. Henry Timro > of the Confederacy eston, S.C. Died C S.°C.. Oct. 6, 1867 since Jan. S Relative Humidity 96% Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise Sun: Moonri Mconse High Tide Key tle chai scattered showers thi and tonight. Florid se ae t 8:40 p.m Tomorrow's Tides IN; (Neval Base) Low Tide | Todew’ Ss s Birthdays efemace | Us | FORECAST West and Vicinity: inge in temp Corson, head vment Service da: Occasional drizzle or light rain in north portion, and same scattered showers in south patition, night; tute in Hatteras, N. C There sucet days seem cloudy, danger come devoted projects. taken tc steady possible, tions. Brazi j control, | other strengt Department of Commerce says. j exemptions | | to-jof Boston, Catholic prelate this afternoon’ and Lowell, Mass., 83 years ago slightly lower tempera- forth and west porti@as. to Apalachi- craft or) s have been issued. | Kenneth bunk, Maine 57 years ago. Ralph M. In of PM, nov Today In History Herv thony Adverse” y life but the 1 53 years ago and there mind may _be- to chasing futile Great care ould bel 29 set the mind into a groove to avoid, as far as} these adverse condi that the Percy create Burton J | York, writer. |Conn., 71 yea price | and; Jean Sibe to | composer, the | 1 is ablish a priorities system economic measures s Wi hen the war effort - PHONE 612-w Subscribe to The ore now serving our combct forces in the form of tonks, ships and guns We ct home therefore will be making « worthy contribution to the wor effort telephone. 7 While this “war busy” Nation strains every nerve to speed inevitable victory, telephone men and women — “Soldiers of the Wires”—man every front, to speed the war calls of Uncle Sam— calls that must have right of way. To help keep clear the vital “voice ways” of the Nation, we urgently re- quest all telephone users to voluntarily confine their use of long distance serv- ice to only the most essential calls, and to use the “long haul” fines, which are the most Seriously crowded with war business, only when absolutely necessary. at. ZS We cannot further expand our fo- + ¢ Much os we regret to do so we mus also ask that you please do not ex- , the toad fe ings” by long distance telephone. We urge that no greeting calls be mode. Scilly on Chek Eve, Chet Day or New Year's Eve. for wor takes ne holiday — cnc tong distance mes must be kept clear for Uncle Sam's urgent war calls. SOUTHERN BELL TELEP OnE AnD TéELeGrare Compans GRaTeo Invest in Victory — Put 10% of Your Pay in War Bonds J. F. SIKES LICENSED PLUMBER 1308 CATHERINE STREET DR. AARON H. SHIFRIN GENERAL PRACTICE Osteopathic Medicine and