The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 23, 1942, Page 2

: AGE TWO The Kry Weat Citixen ‘THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING €O., INC. Pub! Daily Except Sunday By L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County tered at Key West. Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press viated Preas ig excl .sively entitled to use| republication of all news dispatches credited to ot otherwise credited in this paper and elso the focal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES [.. Year ... Three Months One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of cespect, obituary notices, etc., will be eharged for at the rate of 19 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which 2 revenue is to be derived are 6 cents a line. The Citizen ig an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations: MEMBER FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION ), NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION N) 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 com- promise with principle. \ \ ee ee IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. | 6. A Modern City Hospital. OL If advice is all you want, you can get it without expense. The word for “kiss” in Hawaiian is “honi.” And it’s honey in any language. Everything is comparative. Butter is now cheaper at 57 cents a pound than it was two years ago at 40 cents. Bombing Japan’s bamboo houses is an act in this war that the people of the Allied Nations are looking forward to with tingling expectancy. One teacher suggests that every Am- erican child be required to speak a foreign | language’ It might be well to have them speak English well first. t’s hard to feel sorry for a backstab- ber, yet one can’t help from sensing regr#t over the terrible end that faces Mussolini—- death from cancer of the stomach. The hulk of the country’s slackers can | be found among those government em- ployes who are receiving fat salaries and whose chief work is getting out of one an- other’s way. The general run of congressmen didn’t like Leon Henderson, who resigned as the ORA head, and the reason for the dislike is not hard to find: Henderson didn’t appoint to office every Tom, Dick and Harry whom congressmen recommended io him. Not so long ago in Key West it was ant uncommon to hear somebody remark about a piece of real estate, “It’s not worth the taxes.” But things are different now. Since November 1, 1942, Key Westers have paid | More than a quarter of a million dollars in | taxes 10 the city, state and county. | People simply will not do anything vol- untarily that is disagreeable. Voluntary rationing would not be effective; there must | be punishment if the rationing law is violat- ed. Itisthe same way with taxes. Who would pay taxes if delinqueney would not result in the payment of interest or the pos- sible loss of property. There is little volun- tary compliance with obligations; in most | cases it must be demanded and enforced. | notes and securiites the government issued. H ALL WILL TOE THE MARK i ee | Always Monroe dounty has led the city | in the percentage of taxes collected, and the reason has not been far to find: owners of | real estate realized that, if they did not pay | losing their property, whereas they could | let their city taxes pile up, year in and year out—there have been cases where they ran payment of taxes. 1 i And the type of taxes thatvis paid, . | more so than any other tax, is that of the federal government. Everybody steps up | to the iine and pays, because he knows that if he doesn’t pay he will be fined and sent } to prison. Sometimes there are evasions, but the percentage of them is exceedingly small. It’s a case of pay, pay, pay, and the | | reason for that, too, Is not far to find: pun- | ishment, in the event you don’t pay. What is true of taxes is true of every- thing else in private as well as. public life. The boy who knows he will be indulged by | his parents, who knows he “‘can get away | | with it’’, does very much as he pleases, while the boy who knows he will be punished if he doesn’t obey, seldom strays from the straight and narrow path. All of which brings us to‘the question of governmental rationing. ‘There has been | la great deal of talk about voluntarily com- | | plying with this or that order; the people | | were to be put “on their honor,” and, were | it discovered that many of them had “strained a pgint” in getting a little more | cf this or a little more of that, then compw- | sory rationing would be put into effect. If the government wants to conserve } foodstuffs, rubber, gasoline, or any other product, it should resort to compulsory ra- | tioning; further, a penalty should be pro- vided for infractions of rationing rules. The people know that when the government says it is going to do anything, it does it, and there is no velvet-gloving when punish- ment is being inflicted. For that reason, if | the government is anxious to stop serious shortages by conservation, the only sure procedure is compulsory rationing with penalties provided for violations of regula- | tions. The Citizen believes that it will not be | by the government, and when that time comes the interests of everybody will be} put on the same basis, and everybody will be forced to comply with rules, or run the risk of being punished. Not many will run the risk; practically all of us will toe the | mark. “INVISIBLE GREENBACKS” Many an Amercian may wonder why the government doesn’t finance the war al- All that would be needed is for the Tresaury to make arrangements, through the Federal Reserve System, for the banks to buy all the The truth is, of course, that this kind ef financing would be the surest known | road to inflation—and to a national fiscal debacle which would be as ruinous as mili- | tary defeat in war. For, as Harry Scher man recently wrote in a published article, | “The catastrophic German inflation of the twenties had its beginnnig in just such gov- | ernment-borrowihg-from-banks.” The reason for this is that when the banks buy government bonds, they create new bank deposits. That, in turn, creates | what Mr, Sherman terms “invisible green- | backs.”” The total money supply is rapid- ly increased, precisely as if the printing And when that happens, the volume of pur- chasing power runs ever farther ahead of the volume of goods available, and a disas- trous inflation becomes inevitable. The banks are doing a big job in this this war. They will continue to do a big job in a thousand important financial fields. But, if we are to preserve our economicsy? | tem and the integrity of our currendypis the great bulk of war costs must be pa all the people. They must be part, by taxes. In addition, paid for by the heaviest possib investment in Government Bonds. j That is why the Treasury is attempting vastly to increase public bond purchasing— | and that is why economsits of all schools are | supporting the Treasury policy. To quote | Mr. Scherman once more, “Cold arithmetic leads to the simple sober ultimate truth; that only our personal savings ean now save cur civilization.” No one, in short, can do the pafing for us. This is all the people’s ( war. idudl } eae Se long before that type of action will be taken | i | the Court Hot F presses were turned loose to grind out bills. | 1: | day in the month of THE KEY WEST CITIZEN their county taxes, they ran the chance of | up to 40 years—, without entertaining any | | fear of the city’s seizing their realty for non- | EMOCRACY— by met KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1942 WHO KNOWS? ANSWERS ON PAGE FOUR 1 Today’s Anniversaries | FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN | 1805—Joseph Smith, fo of DECEMBER 23, 1932 Eight snowbirds pleaded guilty ly vagrancy in the Monroe coun-'ican dentist who became Pz ty criminal court of record today jand each of them was sentenced \to 'sétve 30 days in jail. Judge “IJ: Vining Harris told the defend- afits that if they would consent} yo.) finantion to leave the county the sentences would be suspended. Each man said’ he would leave and each was {given his transportation ticket land put on a train by | sheriff. Our syste Gives Us ALL A BREAK. HE WIDESPREAD, BIGGES’ OWNERSHIP OF WEALTH,—AS SHOWN BY SAVINGS, MOTORS, LIFE INSURANCE, HOMES. WE HAVE LIBERTY....WE WILL PRESERVE /T. WORLDS MO! Ernest Meres, well known sponge buyer of Tarpon Springs, \arrived in Key West today and is the guest of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Clem C. Price. Other visitors at the Price home are Mrs. Price's | brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and j Mrs. H. M. Sally, of Walterboro, sc i —— The Jewish celebration, known as the Feast of Dedication, will |begin this evening and will be jcontinued for eight days. | a deputy | maker, i of the Mormon Church, ron, Vt. Died June 27, 184 1823—Thomas W. Evans, Am | 3. What jwill the North A’ vital leading dentist, born in Philade phia. Died Nov. 14, 1897. 1850—Oscar Ne emi S. Straus, diplomat, ent citizen, born Ger Died May 3, 1926. in 1856—James B. Duke. Southern indus college benefactor, born Du S.C. Dieid Oct. 10, 1925 1860—Harriet Monroe. Ch poetess, founder-editor of a ed magazine of poe there. Died Sept. 26, 1862—Kate Jordan, Amer novelist-playwright, born land. Committed suicide, 20, 1926 “All city employes were made | 'happy today”, a story in The Citi- 'zen reads, by the decision of the city council to give each of them |$35 toward the back salary that = . is owed them. “Christmas mon- AVE THE ey”, the salary was called. VIDUAL. nia Frank Carbonell left yeste; for West Palm Beach, where will be the chief operator of a motion picture house in that city. Work of repairing the wharf of |the Porter Dock Company was LEGALS ANNUAL HOLDE Company w n the ing stre et oF tion of office ness as may the meeting. dec9-23,1942; ja his office In City of Key roe County, F use in t most entirely by borrowing from the banks. | ‘ ony } three y ring the said n hild and heir zned petitione: ©. LETO, Petitioners. JOHN DE MARG@#of Tampa, * Attorney tor Mieeramengs Heh jané Defendant TO APPEAR I plain ab e and Ordered 8th day at K of I war. They will continue to do a big job in is NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR > + TAX DEED te Bill No. 163) HEREBY GIVEN, Jr., holder of issued the Bnd day of September, A. D. 3949, has filed same fy my office and has adé“zpplication for a tax aed “to . Said certificate the following descrited ‘operty In the County of Monroe, State of Florida, to - Big Pine K * NoTICE a rd Records The assessment of the said prop- erty under the said certificate is- was in the name of Edward & wucretia Koehn nless said certificate shall be re- deemed according to law, the prop- erty described therein will be sold to the highest bidder at the court hoyse door on the first Mon- ‘ebruary, 1943, which is the Ist day of February, 1943. Dated this 23rd day of December, 1942. (SEAL) Ross C Sawyer Clerk of Circuit Court of Monroe County, Florida. dec23-30,1942; jané-13,1943 STOCK-| « begun today. More than 200 jcreosoted pilings will be driven | before the job is finished, Charles NOTICE OF APP! TAX ET ame in m Fes pplication f Albert Teel and Miss Gladys ed thereon id certificate | yer “ve- embraces the following described|/bUry were married last eve property in the County of Monroe,|ning in the parsonage of the Ley State of Florid Memorial Church. The cere- |mony was performed by the Rev. Holmes Logan. ment of the said pro Seay the sald certificate The Angel Rios Fish Com- was in the name of J. L. Holm-|pany, which purchased many aid certificate shall be re-| thousands of pounds of kingfish re to pore the Ee is Key West over a period of ed therein will be sold to & hi ghest bidder at the court |SeVeral years, but which had " door on the. first Mon-|been closed for a long time, was jay in the month of February, 19 which is the Ist day of February, {reopened today. The 1943 Dated this 23rd day of December,|in quantities as large as during Ly? i Ross C Sawyer |the time when the company was of Circuit Court of Monroe| operated here before. 5-13,1943 | ; ae - | Children of present and former railroad employes were given IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF gifts last night from the Christ- THE ELEVENTH JDDICIAL) mas tree that the Railroad Em-| CIRCUIT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA, IN AND FOR MON- ROE COUNTY. IN CHAN- CERY Case No. 8-435 ployes of Key West had here iast night. left over the highway this morn- HERMANN. KLEINROCK, _ ing tor Dade City, where they 2 Plaintiff, | will spend the Christmas and DIVORCE 3 liday: LEINROCK, New Year holidays. Defendant. | vs. HELEN’B. ROSS K The Citizen in an_ editorial ORDER OF PUBLICATION paragraph today says: TO: Helen B. Ross Kleinrock, 221; “A note of the business de- Park Avenue, Paterson, New | pression which is not depres- Jersey. sive: ‘The coffin business has You are hereby required to ap-|fallen off during 1932”. pear to the Bill of Complaint, for | Se divorce, in the above styled cause | FIRST TO OPEN A. D. , Ot panna: Aons| MOBILE — The first USO club ken as con-| Was opened early in 1941 at An- | niston, Alabama. Hs‘fo be published | —— for four consecutive West Citizen, a rs published in Key! West, Florida” Done and Ordered this Ist eal of December, A. D. 1942. | (SEAL) Ross C Sawyer | Clerk of the Circuit Court, Mon- | roe County, Florida. } By (Sd.$ Kathleen Nottage, | Deputy Clerk. | (Sd.) ALLAN B. CLEARE, JR., | Solicitor for Plaintiff. dec2-9-16-23,1942 = F Subscribe to The Citizen—20c! weekly. | weve TRY IT TODAY... | the Favorite in Key West STAR * BRAND. CUBAN. COFF: ‘ON SALE at ALL.GB | ti saan e KEY WEST BEDDING C9, 515 Front Street Phone i The Southernmost Mattress | Factory in the United States @ MATTRESSES RENOVATE @ FURNITURE UPHOLSTEREL | < : ‘ } BADADAAALASASABASS a | DR..AARON H. SHIFRIN, GENERAL PRACTICE Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery | 925 PP 3 ' = PHONE 612-W | manager | ‘\said that fish would be purchased | Mr. and Mrs~G. N. Goshorn | , would declare ORI III II AISA AAAI AAAI ASIA AIS SA IAI IIASA ISASSASSSASSIAISSAISASISS IASI ASAE 7. Ty: Today In History 1780—Young Col. John Laurens chosen by Congress to France for a loan—gets a quarter of what he asked for. 1783—Gen. 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