The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 1, 1943, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE KEY WEST CITIZEN FRIDAY, JANUARY WE MUST CLEAN UP THE TOWN TOO LATE TO : CLASSIFY | [HOMAGE IS PAID TO YOUNG WAR WORKER FT. LAUDERDALE, Jan. 1 (FNS).—This east coast resort city pays homage this week to! 15-year-old Lois Bryan, who won } statewide honors to be chosen! !Florida’s Champion 4-H canner. | fee H It goes somewhat against the grain for Key Westers, used to dealing with them- selves, to take the advice of the sheriff and | the police department to guard their val- It is a new experience for ive their wallets snitched The Place of the Church in Economie Change Moderated by FRED G. CLARK ral Chairman Only Dally Newspaper in Key West and 4 Monroe | uables carefully. matter Member of the Associated Press for republication of all newa dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES cr Year ......ecmememuanesniesn ase Elx Months Three Months One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at te of 19 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which Is to be derived are 5 cents a line. Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- | f public issnes and subjects of local or gene) t but it will not publish anonymous eommunt MEMBER al # FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION , \ NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION ‘yy 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 ethers’ rights, views and opinions: print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. ee I 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. FREEDOM OF THE PRESS is suppressed there is ; is controlled there is is free are human be- Where anarchy; where new: news fear; only where news ings free. CARL ACKERMAN, Dean, School of Journalism, Columbia University. —_——————————— When t:ese things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your hands, fer your redempticn draweth nigh. Luke 26; 28. A good workman is worthy of his hire rood wage is worthy of its work, Shakespeare’s saddest of all sad line run “My grief lies onward and my joy behind.” and a Unfortunately, the man who thinks ‘he can control strong drink seldom does. Yet we hear that what a man thinks he can do. There is little prospect that the peao- ple of the world, or any part of it, will ever he role of civiliza- with agree upon all subjects; tion i those with whom we disagree. to guide us in relationships There is a form of success within the reach of all—the preservation of your own pence of mind and respect by the con- sq@@ousness of honest work well done, and duty carried out without fear or favor. From the 15th century to the League of Natoins, no tess than 26 attempts have been made to eliminate war by some kind of in- ternational agreement. Alb started with high hopes and all have failed; there will | be others, but these, too, will fail. That is a pessimistic outlook, but it is human na- ture. It is no invention of Christ’s—said Tol- stoy—that we are brothers and must serve It is a real fact. It is also As Poet Markham put ii one another. compensatory. “There is a destiny which makes us broth- Allihat we | aroused resentment of the entire popula- ers, none can go his way alone. put into the lives of others comes back into cur own,” | from their p iated Press is excl.sively entitled to use | | they prey. | honors of mankind. So, here is our_resolution for civilians | at home and our fighting men everywhere. Key Westers to chets or, in the case of women, their handbags snatched from them or ri- | tled if they are placed on a counter tempor- i arily. . But Key Westers should bear in mind: thousands of strangers are in our midst, and 'y small percentage of them—probably jess than one per cent — are criminally in- clined and, in these lush times, try to live by av | their wits, while we ard the vast bulk of strangers in Key West are striving to pro- mote our country’s war effort. The dishonest strangers are not dis- criminative about the persons on whom longs to other strangers or Key Westers. Before this country entered ithe twar | there were homes in Key West chat had not | been locked up at night for many years: we | know of some where doors had been left un- locked for half a century. While we do our duty by keeping ovr ! homes locked and exercising vigilance in protecting our pu | we should insist that the police and sheriff forces in Key West at least curb ‘he crime ! | wave that has been gathering volume in our | } community for the last three months. | resting officers should have their cranks in- | creased and should go out determined to s and other valuables, Ar- rid the city of the rascals who have drifted ! in here from all over the country. 3ut if the arresting officers do not suc- | ceed in squelching the crime, then che peo- | ple of Key West as a whole must cake c- tion themselves. The crime must not con- tinue unchecked. Either we must appeal to the Governor for help or organize vigi- | they | lance committees, Vigilantes, as were called in the West, to stamp out the crime. or Key West, noted for that type of south- | ern hospitality that characterized pre-Civil | War days, must not let her name be be- | smirched by giving a free rein to imported rascals, white or blagk, to fatten here on thievery. We must clean up the town. OUR RESOLUTION for 1943 As we begin 1943, it is in order for the people of Monroe County, along with ail other loyal Americans, to make one reso- lution and to mean what they resolve. With the nation a year along the road of war, with all of us more conscious than | ever of the sacrifices ahead and more deter- | mined than ever that human beings (mean- ing us) shall live, love, laugh and learn in peace, it is high time to appreciate the stern duty before us. Practically every with President Roosevelt, Nazi or Jap missionaries are needed to teach us the blessings of peace. For many months, as war engulfed Europe, we*hoped and prayed to avoid the shambles of batt!e, finding it hard to believe that other govern- mentS.and ether peoples intended to wage war agaist us. The illusion toppled at Pearl Harbor and was buried when Germany and Italy declared war on us. Our own Congressional declarations were merely the legislative ac- knowledgement that we had been attack- ed. Axis killers, already on the loose, en- larged their field, expecting to secure more and better game. We would like to write a New Year's editorial advising all persons, old and young, to devote 1943 to their own develon- ment and culture and to their physical, men- tal and spiritual well-being. Unfortunately, we must advise them io American, along “hates war.’’ No | prepare to fight for their lives and civiliza- | tion, to courageuosly uphold their faith in man and God and to make any scarifice and endure every hardship that becomes neces- sary to preserve the freedoms, liberties and “To so wage war as to win peace for- ever for all peoples of good-will and to or- | ganize just men to forever protect the world | from aggressors, who seek vo rob, slay and enslave their fellow-men.” Laborers and far: ers cannot affora the political power that they possess; in ihe end no special group can withstand the tion. It is of no consequence to the | rascals whether the money they steal be- | Foundation Stanley High Writer, Journalist, Contributing Editor Christian Herald MR. HIGH OPENS: King Aha called Elijah a “troubler of Israel.” : Christians call him a prophet. Ahab wanted the Ahab status-quo; Elijah wanted righteousness. Propnets.are neither economists | nor business men. They don’t need 40 be. What they need to be is sensi- tive and courageous enough to see and preach the iniquity of enforced inequality; the evil of great wealth in the midst of great poverty; the greed of those who possess when confronted with the wretchedness and aspirations of those who are dispossessed. . When, thus, a preacher identifies himself with life on the other side of the tracks he attains, by Chris- tian standards, some prophetic sta- ture. And the Ahabs, forthwith, set upon him. Jesus declared that “the Kingdom of God is within you.” But He wasn’t crucified for that. He was crucified because, having rested His Kingdom on man’s conscience He then went on to lay upon that conscience such specific, down-to-earth responsibil- | ities that the Ahab set-up was en- dangered and the Ahabs violently alarmed. Christianity has been vital—and is today—whenever its message has | been centered, not on the bolstering | of things-as-they-are, but on an ac- tivity-producing vision of things-as- they-ought-to-be. DR. HAAKE CHALLENGES: I agree that church leaders need not pose as industrial experts. Nor do they qualify. That is why I wish they would all stick to their real jobs, as most of them do. Our “inequalities” are not “forced” on us; but would Mr. High “force” equality regardless of capacities? ; Too great wealth may be evil, but poverty is mot necessarily holy. Greed is a common human trait. I would attack greed wherever it is, not encourage it ameng the unsuc- cessful by denouncing success. The modern Ahab has been supplanted by the political witch of Endor. MR. HIGH REPLIES: Dr. Haake, at this late date, evidently clings to the belief that “inequality” is chiefly due to incapacity and only rarely a result of injustice. That has been the factually unsubstantiated argument of the defenders of the status-quo 2ver since the Pharaohs. It is not the denouncing of suc- cess that is at issue, but its defini- tion. Happily, we are removing the success-idea from its monetary wrapper. Happily, also, we have be- gun to demand from the “success- | ful,” not only a personal but a social | accounting. So long as the Church is an earth- ly agency for good it will have a re- sponsibility for furthering both of those promising developments. ‘KEY WEST IN FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN of JANUARY 1, 1933 Today, New Year's, was ob- |served quietly in Key West, with |the bank and all public offices closed, and most of the stores open until 1 o'clock. The end of the year brought sorrow into some homes in Key West, including those of our late jmayor, Leslie A. Curry, and of {Randolph Gray. Both Mayor |Curry and Mr. Gray were buried |yesterday (Sunday’. Mayor Cur- \ry died late Satuday night, fol- ‘lowing a lingering illness, and |Randolph Gray passed away on | Friday. Three Key Westers, who were |successful in the last primary |tion in November, will assume office tomorrow. They are Karl Thompson, sheriff; Frank H. |Ladd, tax collector, and J. Otto Kirchheiner, tax assessor. William V. Albury, county at- {day from Attorney |Landis, informing the county commissioners that, in determin- ing the commissions of the coun- jty tax collector and assessor, the assesment roll should not includ2 |the sems for which delinquent ‘taxes, sold to the state, are as- |sessed. The question came up |because the retiring collector thought that delinquent realty {should be included in making up |the amount of the assesment jroll. There will not be any delivery of mail this afternoon, it was an- nounced at the post office, ex- cept in the case of special deliv- ery letters. Sidney Thompson, who is charge of the information booth jat the railroad station, said today \that he has a copy of The Bos- jton New Letter, the first paper |published in the United States, dating back to April 24, 1704. He added that anybody who wishes to see the paper may call at the \ booth. | aaa tears ! The Citizen publishes an Asso- DAYS GONE BY and were elected without opposi- ; torney, received a telegram to-! General | in! As debated by Dr. Alfred P. Haake Nationally Known Economist and Lay-Preacher DR. HAAKE OPENS: In a world of economic and ‘political disrup- tions and disorders, many Church leaders have felt it their responsi- bility to sponsor actual and specific political economic reforms. These leaders, perhaps unwittingly, have added to the confusion and misun- derstanding of what is really wrong and what is to be done about it. They error, but fail in tracing the true cause or in, offering a fit remedy. Changes in political and economic structure are not the remedy for our but better and abler people. We do not help the poor by destroying the rich. We do not provide economic improvement and progress for the unfit by penalizing the fit. x As history demonstrates, the rem- edy lies in raising the intelligence, fitness and moral responsibility of mankind. The Church can best serve men to understand, accept and apply high standards of personal conduct and responsibility to their fellow- men. It is significant that Jesus advo- cated no economic or political re- forms,—did not deal with the eco- nomic problems into which modern preachers hurl themselves. Instead He taught men “the Kingdom of Heaven is within you” and encour- aged the betterment of individual men through their own efforts. MR, HIGH CHALLENGES: That it is the business of the Church to make good people is obvious. Dr. Haake would measure their goodness by their confessions of faith. The Church, at its prophetic best, meas- ures it by the external manifesta- tions of a good conscience, i.e. one proving activity. Dr. Haake wants an economic or- der made in the image of the past— the not-too-recent past. He is not likely to get it. If the Church had adequately done its proper work on his conscience I don’t believe he would want it. DR. HAAKE REPLIES: Laws can- not make men love one another but religious training can. This training is the Church’s job—a responsibil- ity that cannot be evaded by attrib- uting human suffering to our eco- nomic machinery. It is men, not the machine, that need improvement. The answer lies in every man, throughout the week, applying the taught on Sunday. I want an economic order built in the image of the Golden Rule, based on men and women who discern profit and happiness in the quest of the greatest good for the greatest number. Build character healthy state iollows. ‘PERMIT IS ISSUED | FOR NEW BUS LINE SANFORD, Jan. 1 (FNS).—A Permit was granted last week by ithe Florida Railroad Commission condemn justly the manifestations of | ills. What we need is not more laws | society by encouraging and aiding . that has been jolted into society-im- | This enterprising lass put up ‘over 700 pints of fruit, vege- \tables, jams and jellies, largely ‘from her own gardens. She won $12 in cash prizes and sold $27.70! and one that promises to be the’ built im days. | worth of canned products, ‘and was awarded a $100 U.S. War Bond by the Kerr Atlas Glass ;Company, giving her a cash re- turn of $137.70 for her effort. | But Lois takes her greatest | Pride in the fact tha she is doing ther bit to win the war. ~ Today’s: ‘i Anniversaries ‘ 1735—Paul Revere, Boston pa- triot, master silversmith and |foundry pioneer, born in Boston. Died May 10, 1818. 1745—Anthony Wayne, tannery |owner, daring and popular “Mad” {Anthony of the Revolution, and | who ended Indian reign of ter- ‘ror in Northwest in 1792, born | Waynesboro, Pa. Died Dec. 15, |1796. | 1752—Betsy Ross, Philadelphia seamstress, who took over her |slain_ husband’s shop, legendary |maker of the flag, born there. Died Jan. 30, 1836. ; 1800—Constantin Hering, Phil- adelphia founder of homeopath- |ic schools and colleges, born in | Germany. Died July 23, 1880. 1830—Paul Hamilton Hayne, Southern poet, courageous soul jin travail of illness, born Charleston, S. C. Died July 6, 1886. 1867—Lew Fields, partner in |famous comedy team of Weber iand Fields, born New York. |Died July 20, 1941. | | Todav’s Birthdays Secretary of the Navy Frank | Knox, born in Boston, 69 years |ago. | J. Edgar Hoover, FBI chief, Christian principles he should be | frst. A ‘born Washington, D. C., 48 years! | ago. | Xavier Cugat, conductor-vio- jlinist, born in Spain, 43 years | ago. | Col. William J. Donovan of |New York, co-ordinator of infor- {mation, Washington, born Buf- |falo, N. Y., 50 years ago. for the operation of a bus line to} jserve several communities in the area, to be operated by the San- jford Equipment Company. The new line will serve San-j| ‘ford, Oviedo, Geneva, Lake Mary} ,and Longwood. Two buses a jday will operate over this route with service scheduled to start at an early date. Today’s Horoscope —_—_— Today gives a student of the mysteriots, and you should seek employment in abstruce for you will not be interested in ,the ordinary, but work best in ‘the solution of problems that | will benefit “mankind. is negotia- Approximately $829,332,800 saved by war contract ,tions in seven months. |ciated dispatch from Washington {today under this headline, “Ex- {pect New. Deal Year to Bring |About Changes.” The birth anniversaries of Generals Rébert E. Lee, Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson and Mat- hew Fountain Maury will be ob- served tomorrow the Stephen R. Mallory Chapter of the United Daughters of the! The meeting, be-} Confederacy. ginning at 4 o’clock, will be held in the home of Mrs. Ed Huston. Ernest E. Roberts, who was born in Key West and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest P. Rob- erts, who resided here for many years, has been appointed assist- ant county solicitor of Dade county, according to information | received here today from Mi- jami. Work of repairing the wharf of the Porter Dock Company was started this morning. It was said that 200 new pilings will be ‘used to strengthen the wharf. The Citizen in an editorial {paragraph says today: | “The old congress is dying and ‘we hear its debt rattle. (Proof. reader: don’t make that death ‘rattle. It’s intended for a pun.)” trades, | afternoon by} U. S Senator Edwin C. Joh ‘son of Colorado, born Scandi Kans., 59 years ago. President Carles Seymour of | Yale, born New Haven, 58 years ago. | U.S. Senator Edwin C. John- ,son of Colorado, born Scandia, ;Kans., 59 years ago. | | President Charles Seymour of Yale, born New Haven, 58 years ago. Dr. Milton J. Rosenau of the j Univ. of North Carolina, jvard professor emeritus of pre- |ventive medicine, born Philadel- 'phia, 74 years ago. Marion Davis, screen star, born | Brooklyn, N. Y., 43 years ago. J. F. SIKES | LICENSED PLUMBER Har- | By RUSSELL KAY As we approach another year, }most crucial in the nation’s his- i tory, it might be weil for all of us >to stop and “count our change” A year ago we had just been | plunged into a war. Most of us, jpartieularly those old enough {remember other wars, failed {grasp that this time it was | ferent. Most of us expected to gc | about our business as we had dur- ing other conflicts, trusting to our armed forces to take care of the jproblem. Of course we expected to buy some bonds, and maybe }get a job in a defense plant, pro- vided it paid us more than we'd been making; we would try and remember to remove our hat when the flag passed by and would al- ways stand when the Star Spangled Banner was played We had been told that this was ‘total war’—a “people's war’— but we just didn't seem to under- stand. Fortunately, our leaders realized what we did not and had made some progress in the direc- tion cf defense before the first blow fell. Since that time, despite fusion, bickering, red bureaucracy and public indif- | ference or protest, these leaders set about the grim task at hand. | They made mistakes. Selfishn greed, politics and personal am tion raised their ugly heads jin too many instances served t retard our effort. But from practically a standing start we have accomplished ir one year more than our enemies were able to achieve in eight. Our able industrial leaders with but few exceptions turned their atten- tion to winning the war; labor, ‘that part which works with its |hands on the assembly line, gave | an account of itself, to which | Democracy the world over can | point with pride. | We-set goals that even we did jnot beheve we could achieve, 'only to better them and set con- | struction records that were mi- raculous. Ships that in the last con- tupe, , Today In History } | 1776--Gen. Washington, at iCambridge, Mass., unfurls for |first time the Grand Union Flag of the 13 United Colonies. 1781—Mutiny in Revolutionary Army—the fourth winter of war jand men unpaid for year, kept in-service after 3-years’ enlist- {ment up, and Jack of food and clothing. Some 1300 of the Penn- \sylvanja line at Morristown, N J., march off for Philadelphia to demand redress their grievances of Congress. 1804—Haiti, a French first of the Latin countries to proclaim pendence. colony, American its inde- |, 1831—First issue Lloyd Garrison’s historic “Liber- ators—“I am in earnest, I will not equivocate; I will not ex- | of William! war it took months te Cut of we Dui. raw mat and in one year put o men on the battle trained and fully At the same ti eur allies with v arms, food and amr proved ourselves m plomacy and li republics t smarted our is we _ But no matter how rough or how painful be as nothing cx God in his infinite mercy far spared us ing which today is be perienced by countless millions fellow beings. But what | pened to them CAN happ: if we fail to understand preciate our blessings selfishly our utm Victory Let us hope tha will escape the fate Rotterdam and others. Le hope that, awakened, stand united as a nation and with our allies to the end that Victory will ours But we still have a long way t« go. Too many of our people still don’t understand, still think that “it can’t happen here”, still think in terms of “THE war” and not “MY war If you are seeking a New Year resolution, why not resolve now to make this YOUR The sooner we all do that, the sooner }we'll get it over with. the roag the proces: will he pain give Amer ican of Londc we wil war? cuse; I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard!” 1837 — Federal Government, with surplus of $36,000,000, be- gins its distribution among States—panic soon stops distri- bution. Public 1843—(100 years ago) debt some $27,000,000. 1863—President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation. 1880—French start building the Panama Canal. 1913—Parcel Post in opera- ‘tion, DR. AARON H. SHIFRIN GENERAL PRACTICE Surgery '925 Whitehead—Opp. Lighthouse H PHONE 612-W Overseas Transportation Company, Inc. 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