The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 9, 1942, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen | USE THE HOARDED MANPOWER THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC, Published Daily t Sunday Pre Corner G and Aun Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ntered at Key West, Florida, as seeond elass matter Member of the Associated Press he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to tee for republication of alf news di hes: Gredited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and alse the local news publishéd here. Paul V. MeNutt, the manpower chief, is determined, according io information he gave out at his first press conference, .o so «djust the manpower question there will be little justified complaint from proponents | of either agriquiture or industry. Ore man out of five im eivilian life will | ke subject to draft call, McNutt said, add- ing that the country’s armed services will THE KEY WEST CITIZEN TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY | By RUSSELL KAY A recent War Department eom-; housewives how to plan munique told how in the Solo-;menus and meat shortages. their} KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN of DECEMBER 3, 1932 The Steamship Florida will leave here Monday for Mobile, where she will be placed in dry- dock to undergo a _ thorough One | overhauling. She will be back inj WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1942 MER EASES COPPER SHORTAGE MARION, Ind Ricks, a f er ated Press) Dec. 9.—Wayn< near here, copper ulatro: rned his cache of | pennies With coppers in a jar, Ricks part paid for a new suit. back into ¢i a six-months’ savings | re 1 LARGEST IN YEARS 'MEMORIAL RECALLS PEER’S LOST TOE (By Associated Press) VESEND. SUBSCRIPTION RATES mons naval battle the Japanese ‘of the things they were instruct-|Key West on December 19 and, became so confused they started|ed to do was use more cheese, ; Will be placed on the Key Wes | firing at each other. The news;substitute poultry and fish for |Havana-Tampa run. was very pleasing to most of us’ meats. and we hoped for more of the! WASHINGTON potato crop [i t in recent yea | = \to 43,047,000 hundredwe In a signed article appearing! The Pecos still remains fast] receive ‘irst consideration. It will be a blessing for the country if the calling of civilians will include to a Une Year kix Mont! Three Mod one Mont! Weekly ..” n lg , » APVERTISING RATES Made knbwhkowiapplesitioni. SPECIAL NOTICR All reading notices, cards of than! respect, obituary notices, etc., will be eharged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices tor entertainment by churches from which @ revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- on of public issues and subjects of local or génerat ‘est but ft will not publish anonymous eommuni- MEMBER FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION 4 ; THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; ' rever be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any pérson, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the publie welfare; never tolérate corruption or injustice; denounce vicé 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. ESS 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. You cannot dissipate ignorance by wishing.to be wise; it takes study and think- ing. The‘only person who can improve you won't do it unless you direct the job your- self. Inflation sounds like an easy way to pay debts but, in the long run, the path is rough. Automobile accidents showed a big decrease in October. Maybe, tire and gaso- line rationing are not so bad, after all. Correct this sentence: “Dear Santa: Don’t bring me anything — just give my vhare to little Mamie across the street.” anxious to serve you_and:your needs as i us possible. In fetu pitt Why bring th ae up? a It is very hard for a young man, in love, to understand that a day, more or less, be- tween letters, does not make much differ- ence, Every community has people who con- tribute to many good causés and others who have yet'to meet what they consider a goad cause, When you buy something from a Key, West merchant ,just remember that he cannot make a profit unless you pay him for ihe purGhas¢. : Taking coal, to Neweastle is no more cut of pice than bringing fish to’ Key West, which ls shipped many hundrédg df thou- sands offpownds of fish to Miami, yet, iwo weeks ago, Miami shipped fish to Key West! Fighting a parachute, unrelieved of wind, on the ground must be something like a qussle With a couple of tigers, judging from the injuries inflicted on Ernest San- chez by a parachute caught in a 35-mile- an-hour wind. A broken arm, a broken leg und a deep scaly wound were some of ihe injuries he received before the runaway parachute stopped, great extent the overflow of employes in the government’s multiplicity of bureaus, some of which are not essential to the win- ring of the war. Of the government's al- most 3,000,000 employes, officials in Wash- ington have declared, at least one-half of them could well be spared to manpower pressure and at the same time improve the functioning of the government in purely civic matters. The United States has the men, but too many of them are doing needless work for the government. The government com- plains loudest about the shortage of men and the government is the worst offender in eréating the shortage. ‘The overage of men in government work is not only of a civilian nature, but also in work directed by the navy and che army. That applies to every place in the coun- try where men are employed in those ser- vices. One-half or two-thirds the number of men, in ordinary circumstances, could do the work that is being done now. Because we are at war, little regard is given io the number of men employed. The dominant idea seems to be to hire as many men as pos- sible and if work ean be found for them im- mediately, well and good; if it can’t, then keep them till such time as the work arises. Stories are told all over che country about government employes getting into one another’s way. Hundreds of such stor- ies have come out of Washington, and ihe stories were backed up with facts, but their | telling didn’t disturb the men in authority to hire, for they have continued io hire whether or not there was immediately available work for the newly employed. All of which is in line with the accusation of | several senators and representatives that the government is “hoarding’? manpower, If McNutt tapped that hoard, there would be sufficient manpower for the army, the navy and every other branch of military eae as well as for the needs in civilian ife. MIDDLE CLASSES SHOULD ORGANIZE Representative August Herman An- dresen, of Minnesota, recently advised the House that America’s middle class, “baek- bone of the nation,” was threatened with liquidation by current and impending taxes and suggested that Congress “do something about it.” While the word “liquidation” may over-emphasize the gravity of the threat, there can be no mistaking the unenviable position of those who make up what is gen- erally termed the “middle class’’ in the The. Citizen istyour newspapér and is’ “United States. Unorganized economically or polit- ally, these people have no pressure group represent them. Consequently, in an era of pressure politics, they are hopelessly outclassed and, therefore, bear a relatively heavier burden than other classes. Incidentally, if Congress decides not to “do something,” as suggested by Represen- tative Andresen, it is possible for the middle class to do something for itself. The people who are in this group might organize and intelligently participate in the prevalent gaine. of nower politics. FLYING FORTRESSES PRAISED Observers in Washington and all over the United States have ‘been high in their | praise of the American heavy bomber—the | Flying Fortress. In England, too, the Fly- ing Forts Wave received high praise as an | ideal) high-flying, day-time precision bom- | Today, these fortresses are winging i ber. their way back and forth over Europe, New Guinea, North Africa and other sectors of America’s vast battlefronts and leaving a trail of twisted wreckage in their wake. In the distribution of the nation’s man- power, Chairman McNutt should begin with the surplus of employes on the govern- ment’s payroll. More useful employment in pronioting the war-effort could be found for one-half 6f Uncle Sam’s civilian em- | ployes, numbering nearly 3,000,000. relieve the | same. i It wouldn’t have been so fun- | in the November issue American Magazine, of the |aground Secretary |Every attempt to move her thus ny had the shoe been on the oth- of Agriculture Wickard states, I/ er foot and it developed that | our side pulled a boner like that. We whbuld have howled our heads off. In our battle on the home front, however, we seem to be quote: “If every American fam- ily will have an extra chicken ever so often instead of beef !and a cheese dish now and then instead of pork the pressure on our meat supplies will be great- plenty confused and shooting at|!y eased. Lamb and mutton each other is such a common Will be plentiful, cheese far more practice that we take it as a mat-/S0. We look forward to all the ter of course. milk we canyuse, both fresh and We may win battles in the {/€vaporated, and we'll probably Pacific or in Africa but they will/have plenty of butter.” go for naught if we allow our-; In the November 22 issue of selves to lose the war in Wash-|the Tampa Morning Tribune an ington, and if we do lose it that AP dispatcy from Washington is where it will be lost. jquotes a spokesman of the OPA: Much has been said about the!“Forty percent of the nation’s need for a unified command of;butter supply has been frozen our military forces, but at worst and rationing may be necessary.” such authority is only divided be-| n the same dispatch we read: tween two or three men—a gen- ; “Earlier in the week, informed eral, an admiral and an airforce ' Agricultural Department sources, commander. ,who could snot be quoted by On the home front, however,'name, revealed that Secretary, we find our command divided, Wickard had drafted a proposal by hundreds of individuals and for sationing butter and cheese agencies, working more or less!and in some of the larger cities independently, with or without! fluid milk.” authority, their jurisdiction hope-) When suen confiicting state- |lessly overlapped, their opera-| ments are released within a few jtions choked with red tape and days of each other from the same jworship of form. Each bureau | apparent source and when these lor agency jealous and distrustful | statements are refuted by others, of the other, each determined to!how can the average citizen have jhold what power it has and limit| any confidence at all in the in- that given another. ' formation, instructions and edicts When the rubber mess finally | fired at him from any of the 181 boiled over, the Truman Commit- | governmental agencies and bu-! tee, seeking facts, had to go tOjpeaus set up to solve his prob- no less than seven separate Z0V- | lems and intelligently instruct | ernment agencies—the War Pro-| fim in the part he is supposed duction Board, the Reconstruc- | ¢, play? tion Finance Corporation, the| yf the men at the top in Wash- Office of Petroleum Coordinato' ington talk in circles, contradict the Office of Defense Transpor-| themselves and each other, how tation, the Board of Economic! .+, they going to explain what | Warfare and the Department of 'it js all about to the millions of | Agriculture. Then in despera-\ petty officials under them who tion we create a super gigantic |i, turn are supposed to make it war agency to try and “coordin- \all clear to you and me? late” the work of all the existing |. (pditor's Note: This column | boards, bureaus and commissions, |, written by the author before | jall_ of which we continue tO the announcement of sweeping | maintain. 'chaneges in Washington the past Anyone of the seven independ-' .cokend.) jent agencies will tell you-that if; jleft alone and given the author- ity they could have solved the | problem and everything would, {have been Jake. But with all el them trying to do it, all compet- | : = a ing with each other, all passing| Today endows with an origin- the buck and all disclaiming re-|@lly rich and generous nature, |sponsibility, we get nowhere. | which become somewhat shaken Indications point Todav’s Horoscope That should have been a les-|by ill fortune. son, but it hasn’t. We go on in|! the same manner in our effort to solve the manpower problem the inflation proBlem, the sup: to some estrangement, giving a misanthropic tendency and pos- sibly leading to reckless adven- ures, which reay not prove fort- ply problem and all the rest. | unate. To add to general confusions ; gga Se eT I and generate public distrust and | NEEDED EVERY FOUR HOURS lack of confidence. these various ! 5 ae oe ee war agencies continue to issue; CHICAGO — Recent studies aah foel | icting nents, contradict | Teveal that men and women fe pl Erase i Hope: | and work better if they have some | lessly chaotic public mind Which } nourishing food every four hours. leads ‘to weakened morale and | Soww: a disinclination on the part of pry IT TODAY... the average citizen to have any| _ the Favorite in Key West part in the erazy business. | STAR oe BRAND Take for example the present : CUBAN COFFEE |situation in relation to food. |Not long ago Civil Defense au- A ON SALE at ALL GROCERS [AAees meeeneanneaee taeda de tnd thorities sent block wardens from house to hotse to tell Pt nn a CLOSING OUT A TRUST ESTATE AT ! Auction Sale | THURSDAY, DEC. 10th, At 2/30 P. M. | Formerly | KEY LARGO CLUB PROPERTIES CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY 475—ACRES—475 on the HIGH RIDGE of the Famous KEY LARGO KEY HAS 2 WATERFRONTS—FRi ‘OCEAN TO BAY LOCATED—52 miles S. of Flagler St., Miami, on the Over- seas Highway to Key West; 8 miles S. of Pelican Roost Fish- ing Camp (which is at the south end of the Key Largo long brides) and 2 miles N. of the Doc Knowlson Gulf Stream ge. SITUATED in Sections 10-15-16, Twp. 60 S., Range 40 E., Key Largo, Monroe County, Florida. THIS PROPERTY has a 1%-story house near the ocean. Ap- proximately 1 mile ocean frontage. % mile on the bay, and Overseas Highway runs nearly 1 mile through property, thus giving duoble highway frontage. = The Auction Sale WILL BE SOLD IN MIAMI at fhe AUCTION ROOM of the John E,-Withers Transfer & Storage Co., Inc. 1000 NE, First Ave. THURSDAY, DEC. 16th, at 2:30 P.M. TERMS: 20% deposit at Auction, balance cash if IS days. Make inquiry, see property and be at auction ready to bid. FOR INFORMATION, SEE... RAY WRIGHT, AUCTIONEER MIAMI—PHONE 2-2860 Or J. P. Simmons, First National Bank Bidg.. of the Firm of Shutts. Bowen, Simmons, Prevatt. Julian, Attorneys on Whitehead Spit.| Brookings report calls for a - |46-hour work week far has proved a failure. It was said this morning another at- tempt will be made to float h at high tide this evening fair will be given under the aus- pices of the Good Fellows Clut A card for the kt jof St. Mary’s Star of e Ss “Catholic Church will be given Tuesday evening, December 13. Woman's clubhouse street. Many pretty able prizes have been for players. rty The lighthouse tender Poin- ciana, which has been weathe’ bound at Sanibel Island for sev- eral days, is on her way to Key West today, according to a tele- gram received from her captain |@ John Albury. He Put 2 few drops of Vicks Va-tro-not ‘up each nostril at the very first sniffle, sneeze or sign of nasal irritation. Its quick action aids eal Nature's defenses wagug ¢ 5 against colds.Follow directions in folder. WA-FRO-NOR Mrs. William H. Ma- ained last night with pper in honor of Mrs. nd Mrs. Britain, of who are guests Charles E. Lazo, in charge of the Church of God's Spani: Mission, issued an appe: people of Key West tod: nate toys or whatev icles they wish for among the Cuban this city. J. F. SIKES LICENSED PLUMBER 1306 CATHERINE STREET of the Browne. children needy of Reports from the home of| «fr hic Mecncacll Mayor Leslie Curry today were! is one of only six women in that, at 10:30 o'clock this morn-/j history to see her n ing, he showed a slight improve- | President of tt ment, but shortly afterw ! » other fir € lapsed into the same condition he !of Washington, Polk, Grant has been in for the last week. | field and McKinley. The m« ee {of Grover Cleveland died ab: The Blue Devils will give ajtwo years before his first ele dance Saturday evening at the tion in 1884.” Miramar Clubhouse on the Boule- | _ vard. | DR. AARON H. SHIFRIN GENERAL PRACTICE Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery 925 Whitehead—Opp. Lighthouse PHONE 612-W | PL ALHAMBRA HOTEL 119 SE. 2nd STREET MIAMI, FLA. The Young Adult Bible Class| of the Fleming Street Methodist Church met Tuesday with Mrs. | C. M. Samford, wife of the pa’ tor. It was the last meeting for | this year. The class will resume its weekly meetings early in January. oie — LARGE, COMFORTABLE ROOMS PRIVATE BATHS os Reasonably priced by Day, Week or Month. SUMLIND ENED ETA ena raaneaen ea eegn nena renaeecednnateasneteanoee renee eens ae en eeranenenenaats svete snetensedeanennanorengee stan” hat Gellia Samithing! | .».- You can spot it every time BILITY to do an extra job takes an extra something. Coca-Cola has it. There are many things for thirst A free show and a Christmas tree for needy children in this community will . be conducted Friday afternoon, December 23, in the Palace Theater. The af- It brings you a unique taste you enjoy...and unique refreshment you feel. 4 In the making of Coca-Cola, there’sa finished art that comes from a lifetime of practice. It takes the skill of 57 years of “know how” in blending certain special flavor- essences with all the other in- gredients to produce an orig- inal unique taste all its own... you never tire of. It never cloys. , Youand your thirst could ask for nothing more than ice-cold Coca-Cola. Because ice-cold Coca-Cola is the real thing. in re- ie freshment. It’s all refreshment... pure refreshment. * * * Wartime limits the supply of Coca-Cola. Those tities 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 of Coca-Cola carries on. always welcomed by family and {rents alike. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY KEY WEST COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY