The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 11, 1942, Page 2

PAGE’ TO ee eS Ghe wry ‘iilest licen, | BLISHING CO., INC, da; re ey izen Building od AL Streets Only Pally Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ae aes ot dered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter . Member of the Associated Press hg Associated Press is act ely entitleé to g". republication of all ni dispatches credited to or not otherwise credited in this paper end also the local news published here. q SUBSCRIPTION BATES Year Months Theee Months One Month eekt: Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTIOB att reading notices, cards of thanks, resolations of respect, obituary notices, ete., will be eharged for at thewrate of 10 cents a Hne. Notices for entertainment by churches trom which 4 revenue is to lerived are 5 cents a line. "Phe Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- siom=uf public issues and subjects of local or general Intétest but [t will not publish anonymous eommuni- cations. MEMBER FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION £ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN © WILt always seek the truth and print it: w.thdut fear and without favor; never be ‘afraid to. attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- @an or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, ¢action or class; always do its utmost for the ‘public welfare; never tolerate corruption or *jpjustice; denounce vice and praise virtue, Commend good done by individual or organ- Hration; tolerant of others’ rights, views and {Bpinions: print only news that will elevate nd hot contaminate the reader; never com- Promise with principle. a ne ET ea ,JMPROVEMENTS 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. FAREWELL TO PARENTS tae Sotada fa" at e. ‘ In a recent newspaper we noticed ihe péeture of a firte-looking young American. He was a young ensign in the American Ngvy. Over the picture was the heading, “fies For His Country.” “J'he last words of Ensign Neal A, Scott, ofGoldsboro, North Carolina, whispered aShe lay mortally wounded, was a fareweil tghis parents in far-away North Carolina. = To his attending shipmate, he entrust- e& this message to his father and mother: «Bo have you and mother for these twenty- four years have been all that I could ask {df in this world.” This was this fine young officer’s farewell, spoken just after he had cafled to his shipmates, “Keep those guns ihing.” *; Naturally, these parents, as many oth- ers, are full of sorrow, but they should take pride int, -the-splendid commentary on what sefvice they had been to their son. The young man died a hero, rendering in a spec- t@éular way a great service to his country. THose parents, over the years, had rendered ing quiet way just as great a service in rear- idg so fine a son. te a The manpower problem is a hard nut for MeNutt to crack. < = Every town has its group of self-selec‘- ediguardians of the public welfare. 5 “> A parent may love a child, and yet hye little capacity for entering into its joys atid sorrows. * All sorts of accusations have been nyfide against Hitler, including the oft-re- pgéted one that he is “crazy.” With the Get mans in the grip of another icy winter in Russia, it seems to us that only a crazy nan equid have thought the Russian Bear was a pushover. a The teenagers, the 18 and 19, get thei fipst call on Friday. General Gordon said that the Chinaman made the best soldier aid that eighteen is the ideal age for a fightitg man. But along comes Major 1£0 Gilstrap, of the-United States Army, wo siys that “the Indian is ihe best damn sovdity in the Army.” We are satisfied, they both are fighting on our side, 4 FRUITS OF HULL’S POLICY We, are an admirer of Secretary of State Cordell Hull. The gieat American, and not only ihe South, but the entire nation, should be proud of him. His to . Vichy, France, came in for much criticism, in some of which we joined. ik Americans could’t AD see the wisdom of being | friendly with = French Government whieh had betrayed the cause of liberty and iusned against its friends, With the recent invasion of Africa by the British and Americans, Hull’s friends have proclaimed the easy nature of ihe con- Tennessean is a conciliatory policy quest and the slight casualties ihere as z justification for the much-condemned pol- icy of appeasement to the Vichy regime. They have some grounds to justify their de- fense of the Hull policy For example, these friends say the Hull policy was carried out in order io obtain vi- tal information from the German-occupied territory, to preserve the ideal of freedom in France, to encourage French opposition to Hitlerism, and to prepare the back ground for the invasion of the Mediter- , ranean, which has now begun by ane oc- cupation of North Africa. We readily agree that, in regard ionhe Vichy Government, subsequent ‘events have justified somewhat the American Depart- ment of State’s careful treatment of France, but that doesn’t mean that the appeasement poticy has been justified, for, in the great majcrity of cases, where tried, it failed mis- erably, and its continuance only aided our enemies. Appeasemert of the Axis was first tried out in the case of Ethipoia, when Italy | conquered that nation. It was next iried out in Spain, when Britain, France, and America sacrificed a friendly, democratic government in the hopes of satisfying .he Axis with a victory for their Spanish rebels. Appeasement was next tried at Munich, where Czecho-Slovakia was sold down the river in an effort to preserve peace and prevent a European war. On the other side of the world, appeasement was iried on Japan, when we scld oil and scrap metal, while the Chinese friends of liberty were dying, in the hopes by so doing of prevent- ing war. So, while the adherence of many promi- nent French leaders in North Africa, and their present cooperatior with ihe Allies, may present some justiifeation for the ap- peasement policy towards the Vichy gime, all the other trials of appeasement resulted in the defeat and the damage of the Allied cause. xe- IMPORTANCE OF TRABING AT HOME Your civic attitude is awry if you earn your money in Key West and then send it out of town to buy things you can buy here at practically the same prices. That circumstance is even worse if you are in business in Key West and then order your own gupply of things needed in your business from outside sources. And yet that very thing happens, .ime and again.» We have seen billheads of Key West busingss'men who had their Rea | done in. What fyGuld those business mpn.aa not to mention what they would feel or think, if their hometown folks, instead of patronizing them, bought the things they sold from Miami dealers? Their language would be denunciatory and would also have much to say about patronizing home trade, and yet they are doing, perhaps thqught- lessly or to do somebody a favor, the very thing they they would denounce others for doing. The Citizen has pointed out repeatedly the benefits that would accrue to Key West if all of us patronized home irade whenever it was possible for us to do se,:. Yet, some of us seem to feel a touch of glamor in: seme | business with mail- orderihauses. “This suitica: “This dress cam some of us feel {‘Ifi town folks. But mstead of feeling that way, | ior | we should sense a feeling of shame spending money out-of-town that we could have spent just as advantageously in Key West. Many of us seemingly find it hard io understand that money sent out-of-town in | trade is lost entirely to Key West, while ihe money or a part of it that is spent at home i keeps in circulation here and helps all of us. When you buy out-of-town, you hurt “Chicago,” or, | ¥ork”.anakes | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN KEY wiST iN DAYS GONE BY } ROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN of DECEMBER 11. 1932 George J. Rosenthal, of Miami, who claims he has a franchise to construct the Overseas bridges, today filed a suit against the Overseas Bridge Corporation to try to restrain the members of the corporation from eliminating him from consideration in the application to obtain a loan from the RFC to build the bridges. Fhe steamer Pecos, of the Clyde-Mallory line, which was stranded for a week on White- head Spit and was floated on Fri- day, left here Saturday night for , Charleston and New York. Captain Eugene Demeritt has Lcen named manager of the fer- ry system during the absence of Frank H. Ladd. Two Key West preachers have been reassigned | to their present pastorates, cording to news that was ceived here today jhagsee, where the conference of| ‘the Methodist Chiirghes in this == {state is being héld. -Phe’ Rev. J. |G? Stradley ,.will come back to thé First Methodist. Church, and {the Rev. Holmes Logan will con- ‘tinue his pastorate of the Ley Memorial Church. The Rev. C. M. Samford, pastor of the Flem- ing Street Methodist Church, has been transferred to Bunnell, and the Rev. J. T. Couliette will be) sent here as Mr. Samford’s suc- cessor. Methodist ; | The Italian training ship Co-| Statehood. | lombo is expected to arrive inj Key West shortly. She will tie up at Porter’s wharf to receive covered in iplace of jsurplies. ac- | Kansas City, newspaper re-| born Holden, Mo. from Talla-| 1942. ‘ley Forge, Today’s Anniversaries meommeecninomticnie Smee aa s7ecnummm eae 1813—Clemence S. Lodier, pio- neer homeopathic physician her sex, New York feminist, born Plainfield, N. J. Died April 26, 1888. 1835—Benjamin_ S. Philadelphia geologist, time chief geologist of born Northampton, Mass. Aug. 30, 1920. Lyman, at one Japan, Died 1837—Henry Morton, famed scientist, first president, Stevens Inst. of Technology, Hoboken, born in New York. Died May 9, 1902. 1861—Simeon D. Fess, Ohio's longtime congressman and sena- tor, born Allen Co., Ohio. Died Dec.. 23, 1936. 7 1863—Annie Jump Harvard’s world-famed astrono- {mer, born Dover, Del. Died April 13, 1941. 1879—George B. Longan, noted editor, Died Oct. 16, Today In History speeds ao Se 1777—WaSHington’s army & nto winter headquarters at where through winter they endured such suffer- ings “as our forefathers could not speak of without shudder- ing.” ‘al 1816—Indiana admitted to 1878—Rich silver Leadville, Colo., some 25 log cabins, in next quarter-century fields dis- which, The wrecking tug Relie# is due ‘yielded a third of a billion dol- to arrive in port tonight, towing*lars worth of precious metal. the salvaged Norwegian steamer Nord Vangan. G. R. Steadman, cable mana-'jabor unions meeting 1886—Birth of the American {Federation of Labor, at same cer of the Western Union in Key | time in Columbus, O., effect a West, arrived today vana, where he had been making {repairs to Cable No. 3. He start-} led to work today on Cable N 2, between Key West and Ha- Belgians an economic vana, which was from Ha-! ynion, 1916—In answer to American protest, Germany deportation of necessity damaged. bys and not-contrary to internation-! the Pecos while she was ashore |g] Jaw. ‘on Whitehead Spit. The yacht Mascotte arrived in port today, with her owner. H. B. Plant aboard. She is berthed jat one of the P/ & O. wharves. An exhibition of arts and crafts is being held at St. Mary’s !Convent. Many Key Westers} and some outsiders have visited the convent to see the exhibi which have been generally prais- ed. Mrs. Clara Lewis and daugh-| mild-mannered and friendly. ter, Mrs. Earl Bumgardt, arrived yesterday from Fort Laudedale 1939! Bank of United States, New York City, with $200,000,- 009 of deposits, closes its doors. 1941—Germany declares war on United States and United States declares war on Germany and Italy. MILD-MANNERED BOSTON.—Though the most landers, Fiji natives” are WPB will reorganize air pro- and will be guests for a week of | gram, with Wilson as chie Mrs. William Arnold. paragraph says today: “A bull will pay no attention to-a drunk in an arena, accord- | fing to O. O. McIntyre, the col-j ‘ymnist. Nog a sober’ person, if the lies stile Whensa bull fight- | over he lies pros- | the bull’s tion is di- lefted-by the cap@&dores, Hem- fingway, Key wes aficionado, | will attest.” i | Barat Seabees Chinese increase airforce blows | with new American planes. The Citizen in an editorial! B BY'S COLDS die LICENSED PLUMBER 1306 CATHERINE STREET If You Want Lumber Hardware or Paint! The Sky Is the Limit ASK YOUR FRIENDS or PHONE 71 THEY KNOW! your city; when yqu patronize home trade, | you not only help your city but help jour- | | self also. Cannon, ' the! when two | FRI > D AY, DECEMBER By HUGO S. SIMS. Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen FAR.REACHING U. S. GOALS MORE OF EVERYTING MANPOWER SHORTAGE The outbreak of war brought about many far-reaching goals for thé United States. We are building the largest Army in the world; the largest Navy in the world; the largest air force in the world; and the largest mer- chant marine in the world. In addition to this, we are building the greatest industry in the world to supply the war our armed forces and the armed forces of our allies. We are also calling upon the farmers of the nation to raise more than ever before in order to feed our armed forces and the armed forces of our allies, in addition to the ci- vilian populations of all nations. It is easy to understand that this would cause a manpower shortage. Washington anticipated the first manpower shortage to come October, 1940. It came. , However, according to Paul V. /McNutt, chariman of the War Manpower Commission and who \Has been given full control over *manpower, this first serious la. fbor shortage did not curtain war s ;Produftion and virtually no crops ‘were lost. That the manpower shortage will become more acute in the future is self-evident. The Unit ed States is finding a scarcity of highly-trained technical, scien- tific and professional skills. One of Washington’s main jobs in the manpower problem is to safe- guard the future supply of these highly trained men. The drafting of the 18_19-year-old group com- plicates this problem. In order to assure itself of a future sup- ply of trained technicians, the Army signs up young men in various periods of their training and allows them to continue their studies. The Navy, Ma- rines and Coast Guards do like- wise. Draft board pressure now forces all voung men who are in process of becoming highly- trained technicians to sign up with one branch of the service }or another, unless they are phys- ically handicapped. This means that there is practically no fu. ture supply of train the nation. wwe - evr KEY WEST BEDDING CO 515 Front Street Phone 66° The Southernmost Mattress Factory in the United States @ MATTRESSES RENOVATE @ FURNITURE UPHOLSTEREL thstarea-stensrsert jcannibalistic of all South Sea is-' - now ee materials to! technicians ; to carry on the -ivilian life of! The British problem was tional authority the answ to inv power designate who would be needed ~ by the nation as the Under specialists would to the Army, the Navy, rine Corps, the Coast Guards and to civilian needs special this rationed « future. se be the COMPARISON OF NAVAL STRENGTH SHOWS U.S. AND ALLIED NATIONS HOLD POWER BALANCE A recent estimate of the strength of the United and the Axis Powers with the first figure in each cate gory representing the pr nt estimated strength of the ed Nations: Battleships 33 to Cruisers 101 to De-troyers 515 to Subs 275 to #70; 360 to 580 The reader should note that the figures for each category in- clude a minimum and maximum for both groups of nation. T! the carrier strength of the Unit- ed Nations is from 9 to 12 and that of the Axis Powers from 3 to 5. Un 39; 125; 18 to 23 40 to 64 610; 130 to 220 No units of the French Fleet or smaller belligerents are resented and figures for the Ru sian Navy are extremely uncer- tain. 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