The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 30, 1942, Page 2

PAGE TWO ‘Che Key West Citizen ed Press Xe ly entitled to use for republication of all ne’ dispatches credited to it or not’ otherwise credited in this paper*und’also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of bituary notices, etc., will be charged for at f 19 cents a line. for entertainment by churches from which nue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- public issues and subjects of local or general st but it will not publish anonymous eommunt- MEMBER ef Fy ORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION, \ NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION rs] THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth, and print it w-thout fear and without fayor;, 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. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. Life was made for activity, so get move on, you loafer. a is is the time Americans begin io spect that taxes will be something new in 1943. the invasion of North Ajfrica “thete are fewer Americans with the idea “that nobody but Nitler can plan a military surprise. Since Concentration produces the greatest effect in the minimum of time, and the economical seeret of the successful and busy man. is Tommy Manville’s wife is seeking a divorce, and he says he has his eye on the seventh. With such a record behind him, how come that women will still fall for the guy? é When a man divorces his sixth there ought to be a law to protect balance of the women in the country, should they be left to suffer the sequences of their own foolishness? wife the or con- Every once in a while somebody sug- gesis that we write less about ihe war. We wish we could. Maybe, if with , we had written more about the sub- en years ago it might be possible. editor ject t Ti mirht be regarded as a business sug- gestion but there are hundreds of men ix the service who would appreciate recei ing The Citizen next year threugh Ache generosity of a friend, in case thésfehiily xT {AMIG OF the opportunity. ateiqnic Rpm The Allied Expéditionary Force ‘whith suddenly occupied North Africa effected a xchement with the French and s, rushed light forces into Tunisia, v.as and is a stupendous success. Most of us do not appreciate the strategic °im- portance of what has been achieved “by General Eisenhower's operation. The de- termined efforts of the Aixis to hold -the Tunisian tip demonstrates the importance that Africa holds in the grand strategy of the Nazis, and Tunis will not yield except’at terrific: cost in men and niaterial. other | WHAT WILL WIN THE WAR? A youthful Key Wester asked The Cit- | izen: | “On what outstanding reason do you | hase your belief that the Allied Nations will | | win ihe w : Here is The Citizen reply: | | This is a war of machines. Manpower | | is essential, but, given the manpower, the | side that is able to turr out the most ‘ma- | chines will win the war, provided that side Nobody will deny that the Germars know-how to use their implements of war, yetmobody will deny, either, that the Am- | ericans and the English are just as capable ! users as are the Germans. The fact is, we believe that the Americans have a slight | edge on both the British and the Germans | in the employment of death-dealing weap- | ons. The British and the Germans are whet | may be called precisive pluggers, but they | are not a whit more precise than are the | Americans and they lack one essential thing | that is characteristic of us. The best word | | in our language to describe that term is a | slang word—PEP. | Both the Germs and the English | | have the spirit to, do, but, we ok only have | | the spirit todo: we'als@have pep whith is a | component part of that spirit. Aud pep adds initiative and: swiftness; to our-readi- ness to do. The Japs, too, have the spirit | to do, but they lack the accelerating pep, as has been demonstrated, time and again, in | | every clash they have had with the Ameri- | cans in the Southwest Pacific. At Midway, | | in the Coral Sea, in the Solomons, before the | | Japs got started, the Americans ‘were oi | | their way”. It is that same pep that result- | ed in our country’s becoming easy victors at every one of the Olympic Games that | were held quadrennially up to the time they | were stopped by the war. The Japs and the Germans and our Al- lies, the British, have striking power, as we also have, but any fair-minded man will ad- mit we are able to beat any of them “to the gun.” In other words, we are off before they start. That quality has been outstanding in all our clashes with the Japs. They have been pitifully slow; we have left them flat- footed in every set-to. The Japs, in their advance on the Ma- lay Peninsula toward Singapore, made suc- cessful night raids on the British positions and succeeded, over and over; 800 Japs | tempted a night raid on the positions of the | United States Marines on Guadalchnal, and all but 35 Japs were slain. The Marines beat them to the jump; something the Eng- lish were unable to do in the Malay fight- ing. The same thing has happened in the | battles that have been fought at New Gui- | nea between the Japs and the Americans, whose quick-thinking, an essential of pep, invariably outwitted the Nipponese. The Germans are far more scientific than the Japs, but there is little to choose between those races in the time it takes to evolve thought. In that regard, the Ger- mans are just as far back of the Americans as are the Japs; re : with wi orhes en, we come baddto machines} | the*war will be won,,,The Am- ericansc@iy use, thémh More efficiently than the Jap and ag efficiently as the Germans, with the added advantage of pep — that quality which requires split-second action. So here’s the line-up in the production of machines of war: The United States at present is produe- ing as many as all the Axis powers combin- ed; with our Allies, the production is one- third greater. By the the end of 1943, the United States alone will be turning out twice | | as many implements of war, in most cases, superior implements, as all the Axis powers combined, and we and our Allies will pro- | duce three times as many next year as the | AIS (powers? | ' Phére can be but one result: the’ Unit- ‘éd*Nations gltimately. will crush th®, Axis ae In September, 1941, Joseph C. Grew, | U. S. ambassador to Jauan, wrote a Japan- | ese friend that the Chinese had a saying that the most dangerous spot in any Chinese city or town attacked by Japanese planes | was the American Mission. The ambassador, in a recently publish- | ed book, says, “Japanese bombers were | following a concerted plan to drive Ameri- ean missionaires, educational, medical and cultural activities out of China’ permanent- \ ly. H | \ } } > ' " JAPS BOMBED USMINYCHI i | | { | | replace Cleveland Niles as sher-; | Key West today. Of that number, | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN OUR DEMOCRACY ———tyma WHAT BE TITER PRESENT? 1 — lil wi. = AND GET SOME MORE YOURSELF. TAKE THE ADVICE OF MEN WHOSE ADVICE HAS BEEN GOOD IN THE PAST. INSURANCE AGENTS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY ARE NOW PROMOTING THE SALE OF DEFENSE BONDS. DEFENSE BONDS PAY....0EFENSE BONDS PROTECT. es Today’s KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY _ Anniversaries _ FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN; 1784—Stephen H. Long, army OF DECEMBER 30, 1932 engineer,-noted explorer of West, SSE Sn wien born -Hopkinton, N. H. Died IIL, Sept. 4, 1864. Tomorrow Karl Thompson wil Alton, ift of Monroe County; J. Otto) 1888—John W. Geary, soldier, Kirchheiner will take over tne;California pioneer, first mayor duties of tax assessor, replacing |of SanFrancisco, Kansas Tor. Egene L. Albury,sand Kaymond , governor, Union general, Maioney will step down as tax’ sylvania governor, born Penn- collector and Frank H. Ladd wiil!sylvaniay Died Feb. 8, 1873. assume the duties of that office.’ ee eee ; 1830—Francis M. Drake, Iowa Information was received here merchant, soldier, governor, col- last night that little Billy Shaw,!lege founder, born Rushville, Tl. who was accidently wounded in}Lied Nov. 20, 1903. his left eye by an arrow- irom tne | t bow of a playmate, nad the cye| 1847—John P. Altgold Illin removed in a hospital in Miami. ' govenor, unique political figure —_ born in Germany. Died March 12, 1902. Relief workers +» were paid to-/ day by the Monroe county council of unemployment relief. The payroll totaled $1.163.75. 1865—Rudyard Kipling, Eng- lish author, born. Died Jan. 18, | 1936. Speculation is rife as to whom Karl! Thompson, who will begin his duties as sheriff tomorrow, will appoint as his chief deputy and jailer. 1872—William A. Larnod, na- jtional lawn tennis champion, born Summit, N. J. A suicide, !Dec. 16, 1926. At the meeting of the Monroe | County ‘Democratic Executive Committee iast night, the follow- | 04ve_ ing Key Westers made applica- ,priations: for the improveme"t of tion for endorsement for various|Skunk river. What’ does Skunk positions in Key West: Robert |T'ver drain, anyhow? 3 F. Spottswood, Allan B, Cleare,) Second Congressman—It doesn’t Jr, Sidney M. Thompson, Berlin! drain anything at present but it'll Sawyer, Rutledge Curry, Leonara | drain the United States Treasury Sawyer, Willard M. Albury, ‘Mil- |if you-give it time. lard Gibson, and Percy M.:Rob- | — a - erts, Thomas E. Russell applied} visit to relatives in that city, *re- for endorsement as pilot commis- | turned home yesterday. givner. The comriiittee, deferred | ection on all requests. i It Will First Congressman—Why, they have already had seven “Mr. and’Mrs. E. E. Williams. of fSt. Louis, arrived in Key West yesterday and are guests of Miss More than 600 visitors were in| ily Ladd, 319 Duval street. 127 came here on ‘the steamship] Florida and the others made the! trip by wain. The Citizen in an editorial para- graph today gays: “It is said that Cato léarned Greek so that he Seinen could talk back to his mother-in- The ‘Salvation Army today is-|jaw. But why didn’t he remain suéd a statement “praising mem=| ignorant of Greek so he couldn't bers of Troop 5. Boy Scouts of! understand her?” America, for their activity in dis- 3 tributing toys among neédy chil- dren in Key West. f { Miss Wilhelmina _ Goehring, '* daughter of Mrs. Andrew Page, : left today for Miami, where she! will visit relatives for a few days before she réturns to Tallahassee to resume her studies in the Fior- ida {ate College for women. Y Do this— | It (1) (2) soothes irritation, (3) transient nasal ¢ tomers, You'll like THe Rev. J. G. Stradley, pastor Je Peper cisectans ofgige_First Methodist Church, and the Rev. J. T. Couliette, pastor of the Fleming Street Methodist Church, left yesterday for Miami to attend a meeting of the stew- ards of this Methodist district. Se se | KEY WEST BEDDIN 515 Front Street Phone The Southernmost Mattress Fattory in the United States Joe Pearlman, son and daugh- ter; who ‘Were in Miami on a brief BABAAAAEADSAAEABSS 4 were {}LOPEZ Funeral Service } “Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors p| and Embalmers 3 AT ALL 24-Hour Ambulance Service 4 GROCERS > PHONE 135 eeeeeeseesocteccecccess® paaasssssssessssael Penn- | appro-| relieves 1] And ig Malone oewotarea, 4 i i} | - N. J., publisher, president of the | Tod Amer. Newspapers Publisher | Asso.. born there, 66 years agc ay’s Birthdays ! Forrest F. Hill of W Ex-Gov. Alfred E. Smith of} D. C., land econom New York, born there, 69 years'man Co., Kans. ago. Dr. Francis High, editor,,New York Chicago, 47 born Columbus. ago Dr. Stanley |clergyman, born jyears ago. | AT&T the proposed Walter'M. Dear of Jersey City, Prof. John Bakeless of New /in Frank Wolkowsky (WEST CLOTHES SHOPS, Inc.) Duval and Southard Sts. Phone 249—Key West, Fis. 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