The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 10, 1942, Page 2

PAGE TWO ‘The Key West Citixen ‘THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CQ. INC. Except Sunday By Published Daily E: L. BP. ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets **Only Dally Newspaper in Key West and vee Monroe County -ntered at Key West. Florida, as second class matter sid Member of the Associated Press he. Associated Press is excl .sively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it of ‘not otherwise oi 4 in this paper and also thentocal news published here. Une Year .. kix Months Three Months One Month ... Weekly ... . ADVERTISING RATES Made knvwn on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, etc., will De eharged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which a revenue is to be derived are § cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and inv! discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but {t will not publish anonymous eommuni- cations MEMBER FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION ‘ ¢ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it w.thout 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 corn- promise with principle. ce i peril er EE IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. . More Hotels and Apartments. . Beach and Bathing Pavilion. irports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- _—— ——« ernments. 6. A Modern City Hospital. | You don't have to get up so early these ays to see the sun rise. Advertising is the servant of those vho know how to use it. eguse The individual who talks a lot certain- believes in advertising—himself. Paid SE RENEE _ Business men who are too modest to Yoot their own horns will not continue long fp business. 5 iseseas There are always ways to beat the law. ut, just at'truthfully, there are always vays for the law to beat you. Seergreiaes coPhe Jap propaganda minister says the Japanese are waging a “holy war.” For Instance, the “holy” sneak attack. : Even a very small man thinks he is a dig-boy when you put him on a committee &nd give him a piece of ribbon to wear. a Selfishness never built a town into a Titys let all the people in Key West work fogether unselfishly and we will be on the Fight road. The possession of a fur coat doesn't amake the wearer anymore important than She would be without it, but what one thinks As another matter. = 2 5 2 His Feems. 4nio court at San Francisco, charged with perating a motor vehicle with unsafe Brakes, name did not mean a thing, it i “The Japs are described as fierce and fearless, unafraid to die, yet they have been Zeported, time and again, to have wept like ababies, whose feelings have been hurt, Swhen their ships were sunk from under ahem and they floundered about in ihe sea. * Why are they called Flying Fortresses Gnsiead of Flying Forts? The first has a ‘sort of feminine ring, like poetess, for in- stance. We wonder if the man, who named | sthis most terrible of flying machines in sstriking power, had in mind Kipl'ng’s line, =“The female of ihe species is moie dead “Phew-ihe male.” THE REY WEST CITIZEN | BUY ONLY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS | Key Westers buy foodstuffs today as KEY Wisi iN DAYS GONE BY FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN of DECEMBER 10. 1932 they bought real-estate in 1925 — without When ithe | realty boom was at its height, the prevalent slogans were, “Grab it quick’”” and “The sky’s the limit.” Somewhere in the back of the minds of speculators a dominant thought lurked: the time would come when ; there would not be enough land to supphy the demand, and higher, still higher, the prices would go. But all of us learned—most of us to our regret—that there was more land, far more land, than even a feverish public | could buy up even on paper. In the Ever- |hold a meeting at 3 o'clock Tues- glades, for instance, land was sold by ihe te Garde at which an ad- section, and still there were many sections | William H ate Rae for sale when the crash came. Malone has finished speaking, So it is with foodstuffs today: there is |‘ Primary school children will plenty food for everybody. The’ govern- Fe maple ment, ever since the war started, has tire- lessly assured the public that there is no shortage in food and not likely to be any shortage. Sometimes there are shortages due to improper distribution or lack of transportation, as is at present the case with meat in Chicago, the center of the meat in- dustry, but equntless thousands of beeves aie on the ranches and in the fields ready to be sent to market when arrangements can be made to ship them there. Such short- ages are temporary and will be overcome | shortly. Key West, as another instance, went without ham for several weeks, despite the fact that 65,000,000 hogs were slaughtere1 this fall. As with beef in Chicago, it sim- mered down to a question of transportation. There will be ham for everybody in Key | : - Every day in Key West now residents La hae ee this Christmas. frequently buy more than they need. One lente ses ta ee ay may ask for a beef cut that costs a dollar, jhelping poor children in Key and the butcher, after the cut is made, says, | West every day. . “One sixty.” Before the war, the buyer would have replied, “That’s too much,” but | pile tag agent in Key West, re- now he says, “‘Alll right, I’ll take it.” adie bead that Apa a few li- * ‘enses ha ve Undoubtedly ioo, some Key Weaters |i that he believed sales ot at are hoarding food, for which there is no | censes will be slow until after reason whatever. Besides, if the hoarded | the holidays. food is not in air-tight contaifiers, it means 2 waste of food, and that is the one thing | ciation, at a meeting last night, the government has been preaching | decided to start the tournament against: “Eat all the food you want, but | ‘hs afternoon to determine the dontineasta anything.” ~ jtennis champion in this city. The The two main things that contribute to |ernoon on the courts in Bayvie: wasting foods are hoarding and buying |P@"* until the championship is more of anything than is needed. j Secicert weighing value against price. page story today telling about Congressman Ruth Bryan Owen’s |#ppearing before the Rivers and Har Committee to urge that the Inland Waterway between Miami and Bahia Honda be ex- tended to Key. West. Division Street School The lighthouse tender Poin- ciuna, which has been in use |slong the west coast since Sep- tember, will go into drydock next weck. After she has been ied, she will be used in ring and replacing beacons en Bahia Honda and Key Teday was pay day for some |of the unemploynient. relief wokers. The amount distribut- ed among them totaled $600. The city’s delinquent tax list is published in today’s’ Citizen, and, according to a sub-headline ef a front page story, the list “shows disastrous condition of city with approximately only 38 percent of taxes paid”. The Key West Women’s Club, | George Gomez, state automo- The Key West Tennis .Asso- Above all, don’t mix fear with your! Colonel George E. Brown, for- A ee ’ |merly of Key West but now sta- buying of foodstuffs, that is, don i be wae tioned fat Midini Beach. is’ Gi ful that you won’t get this or won’t get that | Kev West to have a conference and, therefore, take a substitute. ; with John Borden, foreman, in Buy on t you a |charge of the work that is being iy only to meet your needs is a good ldouo- aia Taylor. rule to follow. Bernie Papy, of the |Charles Saunders and Company, |left yesterday for Miami | business trip. The terrible fire which took the lives of close to five hundred persons at ihe C conut Grove night club in Boston was one of |Miami to visit relatives the worst disasters of its kind in the history | of this nation. At the same time, the holocaust con- tains a lesson for all people attending pub- lic entertainments. Most of the deaths were the result of stampede which piled hu- TRAGEDY PRESENTS A WARNING Russell Baker, son of Mr. and A dance will be given tonight at the Cuban Clubhouse for the benefit of the Harris School Par- ent-Teacher Association. will be provided free by Howard Wilson’s orchestra. The money The Citizen publishes a front-} -Tecaher Association will|« | games will be played every aft- | Mrs. Lee Baker, left today for | Music | ‘War Plant Head Tells Army How He’s Doing Today’s ics (ine apesbisleal Pees) Anniversaries SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Dee. 10. ae —The power of the pen, detail-} a ‘ing war production, can make en ee ce ithe sword mightier, in the opin-| as 2 jion of George A. Mohiman. Res Despite a long and arduous|'" England. k-week, Mr. i-| ene ae Peale ae 1787—Thomas H. _ Gallaudet, iCo, a war plant, finds time to Connecticut pioneer in education habitecevery ontsor aie lof the deaf, father of noted deaf employes ‘of the plant now in| eabhed, born Philadelphia. Died the a:med forces. pee 10. 4851. ~~ | fdnied Boston abolitioni : 8 Birthdays be ira poe 2 = Dr. Willard E. Givens, secre-| tary of the Nat’l. Education As- sociation, Washington, D. born Anderson, Ind., ago. 1827—William J. Rolfe spearean scholar, C., philologist, born 56 years Mass. Died July Shake teacher and Newburyport 1830. Watson, he | score tary to the President, born Eufaula, Ala. 59 years ago. ' | Maj ork Gen. Edwin M. among atest, born there. 5, 1836. country’: Died May | Maj. Gen. Cortlandt Parker. lborn Ft. Apache, Ariz., 58 years ard Eggleston, ago. Fe : born Vevay. 1902. nov- Ind | Jeuctt Shouse of Washington, ! 'D. C., Liberty League president, , born Woodford Co., Ky., 63 years! | ago. | John .Cudahy of. Granville, |, |Miss., former ambassador to Bel- |gium, born Milwaukee, 55 years | ago, | =< | Rabbi Marius Ranson of East)" ;Orange, N. J., born Cincinnati, | ** 49 years ago. us Todav’s Hovoseone ind philosophic too critical. There is e genius but the mode of lif may be eccentric. This mind may and by stead ‘It ends government er | Dr. Walter G. Cady of Wesley- tan fis jan University, Connecticut, phys- jicist, born Providence, R. L, 68)" ryears ago. H HARD AT WORK AT 80 | 7 VASUSUEUYGLAGEELAUEEOCEUGEUGRETG AALS THURSDAY, DECEMBER .10,; 1942 PECULIAR TONGUE WASHINGTON The natives of Savo, one of the Solomon Is- land: 1 Today In Ristory 1790—First census gives coun- peak a population as slightly our million. un 817—Missisippi admitted hood—the 20th state |. 1869—Wyoming’s first Terri- 1941—Congr ‘torial Assembly, the first in dent Roosevelt country to grant woman suffrage —intention was to embarr: was expected to nd he 1917—(25 ye: c employers and of organized :bor defined by U.S. Supreme |Court; former may operate open ishops and restrain conspiracies jto force employees into union: employes’ right to organize for lawful purposes reaffirmed ie (West Clothes Shev Inc.) DUVAL and SOUTHARD STS. Key West, Florids 13 SHOPPING DAYS TIL CHRISTMAS GIFT Suggestions id and France of. fer Mussolini slice of Ethiopia to end war. 1936—King Vill f land abdics S. grants Finland 10 AT CIRST SIGN OF A LD 666 TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS LEISURE COATS $12.50 te $35.00 DR. AARON H. SHIFRIN - ~ LEAT’ $ GENERAL PRACTICE Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery 925 Whitehead—Opp. Lighthouse PHONE 612-w gz SWEATERS $2.95 to $15.00 eamge ALHAMBRA HOTEL |) counaine roses | SAN FRANCISCO — Busy andj jhappy at his six-day, forty-cight hours-a-week job as engincer, ; Hayden Tracy, 80 years old, is jhard at work at the big Marine iship Plant at Sausalito. Tracy, retired at 60, is a graduate of |Worchester Polytechnic Institute land Cornell Institute and the ; former manager of the Tracy En- ; gineering Company. 119 S.E. 2nd STREET LARGE, Reasonably priced by {raised will be put in a fund that is used to buy luncheons for needy school children. | T:e Citizen in an graph says today: e sales tax is the one uni-|f = form and just tax. It gets all! alike from the bootblack to the |banker, but it ics so difficult to operate and so easily abused.” (Old? Get Pep, Vim: | With Iron, Calcium, Vitamin B, | MEN, WOMEN 2102.22: 29,,Bom'2e | | st Rausted. Take Ostrex ren editorial firm of! ——E——i COMFORTABLE ROOMS PRIVATE BATHS —__4§»—___ TTT MEL UMMM LM CULL ALCL cL MIAML FLA. $8.95 to $25.00 Beers Soe PAJAMAS 5 5.00 wiecelsils Alii SHIRTS $1.95 to $7.50 siete : SPORT SHIRTS fain SD it LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS 25¢ to $2.00 -auccinccaielliniieaani PLAIN and INITIAL HANDKERCHIEFS $1.00 and $1.50 Box —< NECKWEAR Day, Week or Month. ’ on a | For sale at all good drug {everywhere—in Key West. Gardner’s Pharmacy. | Wevvewewvvewvereee |TRY IT TODAY... | the Favorite in Key West | | STAR * BRAND | CUBAN COFFEE | ON SALE at ALL GROCERS | MAeeahenaeneaesee man beings into heaps, preventing ihe oth- ers from escaping. Fireitien, reaching ihe scene of the fire, had to crawl over ihe bod- ies of trapped victims to get inside the night ‘All t ‘Wank on Gzedit” ineuletisieg, You Went On Credit’ gaara, $1.00 to $5.00 a HOSE 45 to $2.00 BELTS $1.00 to $3.50 ese LEATHER NOVELTIES $1.50 to $17.50. -.- ee JEWELRY $1.00 to $10.06 | fire, it is essential to safety to remain calm Recently, Safer Safer was brought | club. Officials who inspected the club less than ten days before the fire declared chat its condition was satisfactory, there were “a sufficient number of exits” and “a suffi- cient number of extinguishers.” The sad death of these people should remind spec tators in public places that, in the event otf and avoid any pell-mell particular exit. Hundreds of persons who died in ihe | rush toward any today if they had paused a moment io iake | advantage of other exits. This momentary pause would prevent the surging rush tha inevitably knocks over the fine Uaed MoH those descending stairs and prevent Lid pn® ing up of helpless individuals. T!!''© © Men as a rule definitely recognize | merit and tend to side with the better. The lesson for the past twenty years is | that the loss of freedom by any one nation | is a stepping stone towards the enslavement | of other liberty-loving countries. To fight | tyranny at its outset is cheaper in lives and | | treasure than after it has been strengthen- | ed by the destruction and robbery of its | Coconut Grove fire would probably be alivey : Bay Your Christmas Cis ON CREDIT The Easy Way This Year! USE YOUR CREDIT—Pay as little or as much as you care for your selection or your gifts .. Pay every Pay Day . . we urge you to do your buying now, while selections are complete and variety plentiful! Beautiful Selection of ay’ Open Evenings for Your Convenience JEWELRY DEPARTMENT PEOPLE'S CREDIT STORE OPPOSITE THE BUS STATION 514 Southard Street PHONE 25 Key West. Fla. _ sp AX IORID SPORT COATS $15.95 to $35.00 2 SUITS $22.50 to $45.00 Youre going to see that home- for-Christmas look on many a young man in uniform this year. Let's help him get there! With travel facilities taxed to the limit, and the usual holiday RUSH swinging in—what more generous gesture could we make than to offer “our holiday seat” to these camp-seasoned soldiers, sailors and marines. We can take our own trip later, when the situation eases. So let’s speed the boys off to the home fires for Christmas. They and a boost . . . and a seat, for our country’s morale. BUS STATION } PHONE 242 SPO $: cee ee DOBBS HATS $5.00 and $6.50 3—_—— JOHNSTON and MURPHY SHOES $14.00