The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 11, 1943, Page 2

ETWO The @ key | West Citizen Only Dally Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ‘lorida, as second clas: » Associated Press is excl sively entitled to use ‘:y republication of all news dispatches credited to + or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. x Months ree Monch Month kly ADVERTISING RATES Made knawn on application. SPECIAL NOTICR ading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at of 19 cents a line. s for entertainment by churches from which ue is to be derived are~6 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issnes and subjects of local or general | Interest but it will not publish anonymous eommunt- MEMBER FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION ) TIOW, 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- fan of the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; névef tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue, commend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolera:.t 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. 6. A Modern City Hospital. eet _——————_— TTT | | FREEDOM OF THE PRESS Where is suppressed there is where news is controlled there is news anarchy; fear; only where news is free are human be- ings free. CARL ACKERMAN, Dean, School of Journalism, Columbia University. Man criticizes most that which he him velflacks most. Leon Henderson surely is doing some cracking down before stepping out, In March easy-going Americans will begin to suspect that it takes a lot of money vo WIN a war.,, li has ‘ ‘fi¢iall thgf L con ot fils ia he has been stepping “down’ 1 thrge weeks or so since it y aan daced in Washington ek ly was going vo step out Yas pain of the OPA. But, instead ’ since ihen. People dont’ like ‘“dont’s a don’t that every owner of an automobile should appreciate. DON’T forget vo have your tires inspected by January 31. If you do, your gas rationing book will be revoked, and neither your tires nor your any berefit to you “for the duration.” Florida isn’t sulking because its peo- ple ate talking so much about Henderson’s | oline. | rther curtailing the use of They are only wondering if something else, regarding rationing of gasoline, could sot have been done and thereby save the state and the Federal goyernineht also sizable amounts in iaxes. ot aes am LIDAYAM DUTAIT What is “pleastire’’"?* ThACMN Always been a question on which two men" take dissimilar views. What is one man’s pleasure is sometimes another man’s bore- com. jurther complicates the meaning of “pleas- ure”’ as. applied to driving automobiles. Come Uriver may think it isn’t pleasure <o make this trip or that irip, but Leon may think differently. So ihere you are! is “pleasure”? ”*, But here's | car will be of | “oiten | Now, up steps Leon Henderson and | ' I OUR NAVY, OUR ARMY | The implacable action of naval author- | ities in Key West in dishonorably discharg- | ing from the Navy a sailor who accosted a | woman demonstrates the high Standard of 1 in that branch of the United States | militr: The ferce thing. services. Army, the Coast Guard, ihe air- service would have done the same Uncle Sam wants fighters, but he want fighters whose standard morals js so low he has no respect for wa- manhood, What the N. did our sheriff and city police force authorities would have done al- Men of that assailant‘s type is not want- ed either in civil or military life of this coun- iry. Which brings us to the point that the | Navy is our Navy and the Army our Army just as much so as they are to the men in those services. When any act of a sailor or a soldier reflects on the good name of our | Navy or Army, it reflects on every Ameri- can, regardless of whether he is in or out of the country’s fighting forces. Only in vo- talitarian states is the navy or the army 4 thing unto itself, placed high above the peo- ple in civilian life who work to make the navy and ihe army possible. In Japan today, where militarism even mere aloof than it is in Germany, che people are treated worse than an American , would treat 2 refractory dog. And vhey have no recourse against a sailor or a sol- | dier, whose word can not be impeached by aman cra woman in civil life. Take the case of the sailor who was 2x- pelled from the Navy in Key West. Had that same thing occurred in Japan, com- plaint against the sailor would ‘have been The navy would have scoffed against his accuser. The fact is, morals are so disreputably low in Japan, the navy and the army are accompanied to the front by groups of prostitutes that have been organ- ized by the government itself. | The Chinese cal] the Japs “monkeys,” but why malgn monkeys. The latter have a standard of morality to which they ad- here as faithfully as do birds, with a few exceptions, whereas the Jap’s moral sense is so perverted he has no thought of ihe sanetity of the home, for he hires out his daughters to brothel keepers. | They. are the dishonorable scoundreis that we Americans, with out high sense of morailiy, are fighting. And it is that sense of morality that actuated our Navy to act / unt elentingly to rid its ranks of an unworthy sailor. Our Navy, our Army! ‘Honor as | precious a thing to them as is courage. | doesn’t f 50. is e ! of no avail. is SAME OBJECTIVE Small business must be saved if the | free enterprise system is to be saved. No | one knows this better than large business. How to keep small business afloat in the growing flood of restrictions on the supply | and distribution of materials, is a grave | problem. Senator Murray of Montona, chairman | of the Special Senate Committee on Small | Business, has pointed out in effect that the | banks are carrying the main burden at pres- | ent in keeping small business alive. The lo- | eal banker, more than any other agency, is | in a position to aid the local business in | meeting financial and operational difficul- | ties. Consultation with the banker often | spells new life for an enterprise otherwise faced with extinction from the exigencies | of war. And every enterprise thus saved is as valuable to the cause of freedom as a mil- | itary victo: Conversely, every independ- ent enterprise that closes its doors is in the nature of a defeat. The business man who goes to the banker with his “war problems” will get a sympathetic hearing. They are both striv- | ing for the same thing, the maintenance of do business as free men. Unless this system | is saved, the war will have been lost, irre- spective of w pho fires the last shot. “NUTTY.” As 1942 ended, we observed numerous | reviews of what happened in 1942, with | surveys in every field of activity dedicate; to telling us what was the outstanding, the | months. From Hollywood comes the news, via a moving picture magazine, that Bud Ab- bott and Lou Costello were the top money- making movie stars of the year, which arouses the suspicion in eur minds that ihe ticket-buying public is about as “nutty” as | the slapstick comedians. ‘Ware Up, America! Does the United States Need Moderated Ly FRED G. CLARK General Chairman American Economic Foundation a New Constitution Now? As debated by Henry Hazlitt i Chief Editorial Writer, New York Times— Author of 4 New Constitution N, MR. HAZLITT OPENS: The Cen- stitution must be revised now: Our present form of government is un+ responsive to the wishes of the people. It works inadequately eéveh | in peacetime, and worse during war. The cabinet form of government (best exemplified today in England or Australia) is free of these evils. it dogs not promote paralysis and ir- responsibility by making it possible for the legislative and the executive to block each other. The cabinet form of government elirhinates, too, the fixed-term-of-office provisions which saddle us with poor public servants. The people must have the power to change their government at any time, and, if necessary, to change it completely. The cabinet form of gov- ernment provides this privilege. Woodrow Wilson wrote: “A Prime Minister must keep himself in favor with the majority, a President need only keep alive.” Present constitutional restrictions on what we are able to do, affect what we are able to say, and even what we dare to think. They lead to the wishful belief ‘hat essential changes in policy: can/be achieved simply by appeals, addressed to those already in power to’ repudiate the policies for which theyswere them- selves responsible. A people’s war should be directed by a government instantly responsive to the people. The present emergency is an argument for, not against, a ; new Constitution now. MR. HAMILTON CHALLENGES: Again, the problem does not lie along | the Cabinet front. The present Eng- lish government, now in its eighth year, was returned on a pledge to disarm. We went to the country in 1940, re-elected Roosevelt and found the opposition, turned down at the polls, entrenched in key positions. In the elections this year the people were resentful over muddling in Washington. But the agencies respon- sible were beyond their reach so. blindly, they turned out members of Congress. If we need a new Consti- tution it is not to perpetuate control by a small group, but to carry the popular will to administrative ager- cies. MR. JAZLITT REPLI: S: Mr. Hamilton’s “challenge” to my pro- posal is really an agreement. The ii conclusive election results he cites | could not occur under a cabinet sys- | tem, which fuses the executive and | iegislature, compelling them to adopt | a unified policy. Mr. Hamilton seems to want a new Constitution in fact but not in form. This would in pra tise allow existing office holders to “interpret” the existing Cunstitution to give them powers they wish. The | candid and democratic way to re-! form our Constitution is to submit | Brevewee: shoneee diroctly to the] people. make it easier to amend the ‘onstitution by means. Walton Hamilton Professor of Law, Yale University— Member Anti-Trust Division epartment of Justice. MR. HAMILTON OPENS: The US. ie ‘already half-way through a con- Stitutiénal revolution which has freed social legislation and administrative ontrol from the paralyzing grasp ‘the courts.Our government today is highly dyramic. The old order— executive, l¢gislative, judiciary — is passing. A néw order is being created in an unoccupied area. The alpha betical agencies are here to stay. They must be caught up into the democrati¢ process. An effective gov- ernment must be made out of these young, unsure, as yet not well- equipped, agencies. We must remember that smoulder- ing beneath this war is a tremendous social revolution. The world’s peoples cry out fop freedom, security, op- portunity..Mr. Hazlitt would deny this ery by injecting into a going social order’ the old, reactionary Brit- ish Cabinet- system, which even the British have abandoned—a system subseribing~ to the idea that large ; corporations are the agencies through which the *Commgnwealth acts. Let us recognize, now, that the ‘ad- ministration has’ come to rest with these specialized agencies; that as politics and ‘economies become a single entity Congress can do no more than pass and revise legislation needed by these bureaus. We need not a new Constitution, but to go forward as human need dictates. MR. HAZLITT CHALLENGES: Mr. Hamilton draws a red herring across the’ track. The question is not whether we are to have an alpha- betical bureaucracy, but how the people are to control its policies. Mr. Hamilton implies that the appointed agencies themselves, not the people's elected representatives, should rule us. He even seems to glory in a grow- ing impotence of Congress to control bureaucratic policy. If an all-power- ful bureaucracy is all that Mr Ham- ilton wants, Hitler’s Germany can supply him one. (Mr. Hamilton ought to cable London, incidentally, and let the British in on his exclusive dis- covery that they have abandvned the cabinet system.) MR. HAMILTON REPLIES: Mr. Hazlitt, in his last stand, mistakes my position and atcepts my conten- tion. It is a fact that modern life is complex and demands administration. It is not my fault that goverament bas passed beyond the orbit of Haz- itt’s thought. We agree in the neces- sity 1or responsibility. But 1 insist upon facing reality and making ad- ministrative agencies responsive to the demoeratie process, while he persisis in tinkering up an obsolete tnech- anism. If we need a new Constitu- tion, let it be for our country and age. (And is not a charge of fascism this | the last irrelevant weapon of a con- |fused and desperate advocate?) STUDENTS STUDY _ EQUATORIAL | DISEASES | (By Annsciated Prens) SEATTLE, Jan. 11—A select jat the University of Washington in diagnosing and_ controlling! disease-bearing parasites of the sub-equatorial war zones. Prof. John S. Rankin, Jr., in- structor of the advanced zoology | course, says the aim is two-fold: \class of students is being trained 9? Act out of the northeastern part} _Teday Tn History 1805—The Territory of Michi- created by Congressional; of the then vast Territory, of In-| diana—population of new Michi- (een some. 4,000. 1843—(100 years ago) The so- jcalled Weaver's riots in Philadel- | phia, prelude to Native Ameri- stem under which they can continue to | best and the superlatives of the past twelve | To aid on the battlefronts and to! prepare the students for combat-|°2" Tioting of the next year. jing tropical maladies which may | 1861-2 ¥assar Female College. be: ibrought bade. by relacens |Poughkegpsic, N. Y., incorporat- The course was instituted eat spring, and several of the spe- cially trained students already jare putting their training to use |with the sanitary. ahg medical |eorps of the arm susTice™ ' <a 1937—Mpore than 100,000 idle | NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Tony in growjng,auto plants strikes. |Lombardi was recently sentenc- v1 | ed to six months in the workhouse | and fined $250, with the alterna- | tive of another six months in jail, | after he pleaded guilty to stealing five sticks of chewing gum by | placing “slugs” in a vending ma- {chine. He probably now knows |how Jean Valjean felt when he spent five years in the galleys for stealing a loaf of bread. | 1888—Beginning of the great blizzard=in Noxthwest States. ey “+8 . -Crutiss makes flying with iles an hour. 1938—Capt. Edwin C. Musick ; and crewjof 6 die in Samoan clipper exash. 1942--Japs start outer Dutéh East Indies Islands. Jan. 1 is put at $185,000,000,000. invasion of | Aggregate indebtedness in U.S. | MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1943 LIFE TOUGH KEY WEST IN ON VEGETARIAN DAYS GONE BY ae | Private Benny Bee says the Ar- FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN | ™Y is pretty tough on a vegetari OF JANUARY 11, 1933 jaaeaand he has been one for 23 years. Benny passes up all the untas- The Cuban fishing schooner! ty things like chicken, roast beef ‘Santa Marie, which was brought; and turkey. “I hate meat and I iinto port yesterday by the naaekt don’t eat anything that walks, ‘guard, was ordered released to- | Swims, crawls or flies,” says Ben- ‘day by wire from Washington. ny. “And no pastry, please. 'The boat was towed out of the; In the Army that takes in 2 es ee ———— | i | { 2 lot i harbor, sail was hoisted and she of eating territory and so ated H has to be content with broad, ee jAstoes and salads, of which The Monroe County Demo- wishes there were more. {cratic Committee, at a meeting, “My advice to vegetarians who jlast night, endorsed Reginald | 8° into the Army is this: Bring ! | Pritchard for postmaster at Key; ! your own truck garden with you, West. B. C. Papy and S. Owen) Says Ben. | Sawyer were endorsed as trus-) a ; tees of this water supply district. | i j ’ | Former Sheriff Cleveland Niles, | Today 8 Anniversaries | proceeded toward Havana. ro this brother, Nathan Niles, Joe | Johnson and Simon Creole left this morning on a cruise through } :the Florida Keys. | 1857 — Alexander Hamilton, i —_——. Revolutionary soldier, New York Denham Bernreuter, formerly lawyer, a Constitution framer, iof Key West, and now of Holly- | first and famed secretary of the wood, Nevada, has written to | friends here about his and his/|in «uel with Burr, July 12, 1804 : family’s experience during an {earthquake that shook that city }on December 20. 1807—Ezra Cornell, Ithaca, N Y., telegraph builder, founder of the university, born New York. | ‘The Italian training ship Colom- | Died Dee. 9, 1874 ! bo will arrive in Key West Feb-) 1825—Bayard Taylor, ruary 21, Mayor William H. Ma-|/New York man of lone informed The Citizen today.’ day, born Chester Co., No particulars were given about! Dec. 19, 1878. ‘the length of time the ship will | remain here, famed letters his Pa. Died 1842—William James, famed Harvard philosopher-psychologist, Harry R. Landis, chief super- born New York. Died Aug. 26, visor of the United States Immi- | 1910. gration Service, and Mrs. Landis! jg79__a) s- | are in Key West on a visit. They | yinje Ky., Sen assis j are guests of Isaac Smith, head of | 5¢ the Cabbage | the immigration office here. Shelbyvillie, Ky 1942. Patch,” Died Feb. born 10. | Mr. and Mrs. Copeland C. John- son, of Fleming st., left today for : Upper Matecumbe for an intend- ' ed stay of a week. Today’ S W's Birthdays Victor Johnson, of Miami, ar- jrived today to attend the funeral! Vice Admiral John W. Greens- i services of his mother, Mrs. Louis|lade, commanding western | M. Johnson. frontier, born Bellevue, Ohio, years ago. sea 63 | Ralph and Oscar Garcia, who | |had been visiting in Miami the) Eva Le Gallienne, actress last two wecks, returned your born in England, 44 years ago. ‘ day. ce U. S. Senator Tom Stewart of Miss Mary Louise Spottswood,; Tennessee, born Dunlap, Tenn | daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert !51 years ago. \F. Spottswood, came back today | from Miami, where she had been visiting relatives. i \ Gov. Merrell |South Dakota, |Kans., Mrs. Cornelia Sawyer, post-| — mistress at Long Key, is in Key! Thomas Dixon of Raleigh, N West visiting velatives. jC., novelist and dramatist, born \Shelby, N. C., 79 years ago Q. Sharpe born Marysville. 55 years ago. Clements Jaycocks left yester-| ——- day with two patients who are be-|__ Charles S. (“Casey”) Jones of \ing taken to a government hospi- |Newark, N. J., aviator, aviation tal in the southwest. |school head, born Castleton, Vt., {49 years ago. Mrs. Thomas O. Otto, who had | —— been visiting her sons and daugh-|_U. S. Senator Harley M. Kil- t in Miami, returned yester- | 80re of West Virginia, born ae . i jaeama, Va., 50 years ago. Paul A. Walker of Oklahoma ‘ity, Federal Communications Commissioner, born Washington Co., Pa., 62 years ago. GHT CouGHS € due to colds . | i The Citizen says in an editorial] ' | paragraph today: , | “A technocratic principle is to| ; Pay in energy. If this comes to pass, we wonder how Jonah, The! Citizen por ter, will get by. Tech-! ‘nocracy is a deep subject.” CURIOSITY COSTLY derrnceone ) ST. LOUIS — The natural) ‘curiosity of nine-year~ -old Rita | ie Laughlin about her Christmas | ‘presents caused her to seek them} out in a closet. Striking a match | to see, the paper wrapping on| the presents caught fire and the; interior of the housé was burned, presents and all. | Aide says Chennault is “out-| standing genius of aerial war-| ; ‘ fare”. Fast, J. F. SIKES | LICENSED PLUMBER CAN'T STOP SO EASILY CHICAGO — At 20 miles per ‘hour the average motorist cannot stop his car in less than 191 feet ie an icy pavement. ‘DR. AARON H. SHIERIN GENERAL PRACTICE Osteopathic Medicine-and + Surgery -+v+e> |925 Whitehead—Opp, Lighthduse PHONE 612-W Uncle Sam Ase AIAG. 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