The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 18, 1943, Page 2

PAGE TW Only Dally Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ered at Key West. F 8 second class matter Member of the Associated Press Associated Press is excl.sively entitled to use +y republication of all news dispatches credited to or not otherwise eredited in this paper end siso the local news pub''shed here, SUNSCRIPTION RATES ire Year .... tix Months -hree Months One Month Week! ADVERTISING RATES Made kn>wn on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, etc., will be eharged for at the rate of 19 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which & revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and Invites discus- { public issues and subjects of local or general t but it will not publish anonymous eommuni- MEMBER FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION ), NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION wy 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. 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. ' A A UNBALANCE” UNSUBSTANTIATED There is a widespread tendency on the part of writers and speakers on subjects re- lated to the war to make statements “upon high authority” which cannot be checked by readers or listeners. The cft-quoted “high authority”, like similar phrases, usually represents rhetoric used to give seeming importance to conclu- sions otherwise unimportant. Vague an4 general accusrtions, unsupported and un- substantiated deductions and even imagin- aty and exaggerated “reports” and “ru- mors” are thus casually distributed io ihe public, Along the same line are attempts io re- veal the needs of our fighting forces and to categorically assert that changes should be made in the war construction program, the details of which are closely guarded secrets. An example comes from The New York Times. which, in discussing the German submarine menace, flatly asserts that ‘‘to- day not euough escort vessels of various types are being built” and insists that the “unbalance” in our shipbuilding program “should immediately be rectified.” Certainly most Americans, including all naval officers, will agree that “not enough escort vessels” are being built. The need for more sub-chasers is evident from the continuing loss of ships. This does not mean, however, that construction of other ships should halt nad that there is “unbal- ance” in the program underway. Just as we need additional ships to fight the U-boats that lurk on the routes to Europe and Asia we need more cruisers carriers, battleships and fast destroyers io battle the Japs in the Far East and to pro- tect our far-flung communication lines and outpost There is a shortage of ships of every kind, including cargo and transport ships. The presumption is that our responsible leaders, who have all the facts about our construction program, which has been planned to provide all types of ships, know more about the problem than the New York Times. In its editorial the great newspaper gives no figures as to any kind of construc- tion. It just concludes that there is a short- age of sub-ehasers and pops.off wish the un- is in what it terms “unbalance.” —. ' i Gre wey test Citizen | sample of what Germany will receive when supported assertion that the entire program | DISCIPLINED HUMAN NATURE “T suppose it’s human nature.” | That was the comment one Key West- | er made about a string of other Key Westers ! i that retched from the inside of County Tax | Collector Ladd’s office to the back door of | | the county courthouse building on ihe morn- ing cf January 15. : i The Key Westers were in line to buy | | automobile licenses, as January 15 had been i get as the deadline to obtain them with- | out running the risk of arrest. i Ever since last October, the Florida ; motor vehicle commissioner had announzed | that licenses°mist be bought by mid-Jan- | uary, and yet tens of thousands of people ; throughout the state, who were well able to purchase licenses, had put off doing so | until the final hours. y i It was not a question of money with | the Key Westers who stood in line, waiting. | waiting. They included business men who | could nave bought a handful of licenses | without making a dent in their bank ac- | | counts. Why, then, did they wait till the eleventh hour to attend to something that they knew must be attended to if they did | not wish to be arrested? The answer is found in that long word that i monosyllable—pro- ! crastination. i “T haven't got the time to attend to itt now,” had much to do' With their putting*offi | procedure. And yet, by their waiting till ihe | last day to act, they wasted half an hour or ;, had they attended to the aiter, say, a month ago, it would have | iaken up only a few minutes of their time. | 3ut don’t blame the procrastination on human nature, unless we use the qualifying term “undisciplined,” for disciplined hu- man nature acts promptly in all things. s simple as a GERMANS ARE FREE-BOOTERS The U.S. Army, now in North Africa, re- ports that the Germans were draining the country of its foodstuffs, taking 80 per cent of the vegetables, meat, wine, ore, fish, | leather, fruit and eggs. Als a result the Arabs naturally quit farm- ing. What was the use, they reasoned, to produce food for their thieving conquerors? Now, since the American soldiers have ar- | rived, without intent to steal and rob, the farmers are resuming their plowing and the ration of Moroccans will be better. There is a reluctance in this country io | believe all the stories that tell of German plundering of conquered areas, It is beyond | anything experienced by the nations of Eu- | rope for many hundreds of years. | in their.ambitious scheme to | control the world, divided all peoples into two classes, the Germans and their subject | peoples. What the superior Germans want- ed, they took by force, which is a polite way f saying they followed the example of Cap- tain Kidd and his contemporaries. The mistreatment that the Germans have visited upon helpless peoples cries to high heaven for just retaliation. The fact is that the German people, as a class, have profited by the free-booting expeditions managed by the N and, consequently, they must be taught that robbety/is not a paying profession. 1 feu) 1 r NAZI FIGHTERS ATTACK BOMBERS American bombers which made a day- light 1aid on St. Nazaire, Germany’s sub- marine base in the Bay of Biscay, were at- tacked by “many” enemy fighters in the target area and in the running fight that followed, several of our ships were shot down. This is the greatest loss reported, al- | though two weeks before, in the raid on Ro- | milly Sur Seine, six heavy bombers failed to return. In the earlier fight, forty-four enemy raiders were officially shot down. | While the losses suffered by our air squadrons are to be deplored, the two raids | seem to confirm earlier suspicions that Ger- | many is concentrating séme of her fighter- plane strength to oppose the campaigi bombing which has instituted. againsi he¥ transpértation, industrial and Port fa- cilities. 4 fat ‘| Thus, it seems, that the bombing cam- paign must be accomplishing results. Oth- | erwise, the Germans would not go to such | lengths to provide fighter opposition. If this conclusion is correct, it is en- couraging because the bombing campaign | against Germany has hardly. started, Our | air léaders call what has gone before a the Anglo-American bombing eampaign gets underway. as a class, | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN » Wake Up, America!” | “Will Limitation feetue Bolster National Morale?” American Economic Foundation As debated by Mr. Channing Pollock Playwright, author of the forthcoming = Miss Katherine P, Ellickson Department of Education and Research C10. MISS ELLICKSON OPENS: Thou- y ting hopes of a just and dem- |b ogratic peace. MR. POLLOCK CHALLENGES: I agree so as to the need for sacrifice. I'm in favor of making it universal! Why limit it to the class that has paid, and is paying, most of the expense of the war? Why not include the “workers” whose wages, according to the United States De- partment of Labor, went up 100% trom January 1939 to December 1941, and an additional 25% since Pearl Harbor? And the farmers whose in- come is even more swollen? How are we increasing “great fortunes” MISS ELLICKSON REPLIES: | Present taxes leave some people over of wages |do $100,000 a year but take 5% over $12 a week. Giving up milk in- | volves more sacrifice than giving up champagne. Millions receive less than enough for health and security but | strikes are very rare. If there are persons in positions vital to effort with so little patriot munity spirit, or sense of fair that they as government. MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1943 | se | —— —_———_— CALLING i 7g DF DRAFTED, MOTHERS | Today’s Birthdays ERAINE TURIN | Mai. Gen. Berton. Yount, zt | chief of Air Corps Flyin; Copyrighed, 1942 | Training Command, born roan | Ohio. Often at this season, when an-| << | other year is in the making, we are! Myron C. Taylor, the President's Key West ranked second in ex-' 8iven to look back and to examine ' Envoy to the Pope, ex-chairman | porte Inet Mosenalies: scestaiiue to a better course }U. S. Steel, born Lyons, N. ¥., | reports issued today by the cus- than that to) 69 years ago. toms service. Pensacola led the svhich» those ‘ Fae missteps hap- | Richard E. Berlin, of New lessly have led York, publisher-president of the us. And now, Hearst Corporation, born Qmaha, as’ we: are fac- | Nebr., 49 years ago. ing another | our missteps of , DAYS GONE BY OF JANUARY 18, 1933 Harvest Of J. A; Mendoza, on thé pharnia- cists’ staff at Gardner's pharmacy, is observing . today. his. enti | anniversary as a registered p! macist in the state of Florida.) MiG. than SERED enaddis iba Esa yEibert Wolf Gabriel of New ed today by the county to the 12/ ERAINE TURIN solve on taking | York. pepsin critic, born New employes who were released from | Year oi wat, all such missteps) = ———— the ferries, in accordance with a | bear even a more careful examina- | | decision recently made to decrease | tion — not to magnify them to the expenditures in the maintenance , Place where their adjustment may of the ferry system. | Seem impossible, but to avoid the , misfortunes to which further and | roan ON Criminal court recessed at 11! like missteps can bring us in time’ i . o'clock this morning because of the | of war. In other words, if we let Papo garni gd Prd absence from, the city of material| this past year reveal the errors’ 64 ycars ago. : - witnesses in several cases. lof our ways, we can discern what; ~ eS to do, by knowing what not to do| Tomorrow afternoon a benefit |in bringing this conflict to a suc- bridge luncheon will be held at/ces::ul conclusion. We must not ; the clubhouse of the Woman's club | be diverted like those resolution’ receives acceleration or delays. ,on Division street. makers who, early ne the vent] Right here. let me give you what | ome unmindful of their ¢ a drafted father recentiy told me. At 6 o'clock this morning, inj intentions and stray from the, “Now that this thirty-cight- the First Methodist Church, Miss | course they resolved to follow. | year-old exemption has gone Marjorie Baker, daughter af Mr.; It must be owned that, in this| through,” he said, “I don't be- ind Mrs. WiJl Baker, and Ray-' past year of war,’an dver-use of | lieve my son, who is forty-two 4 mond C of) M and married with three children Beryl Cunt eden mith is i : will ask fora release from the pastor, the Rev. John G. Stra - | mistakes — and one which, if not | army. When he was drfated, he sey. ¢ gets | corrected soon, can promote such} had a mighty good job which was aie aus es Pel ene ‘mounting confusion and continu-/ important to the war. But with ICKSON CHALLEN a : ical ant program | lees a sae » enemy } all the red tape, he feels it will put, Pollock apparently refers to | is being arranged by the Patriotic | fe sey So tine Shee ae SEEM | take too long before he can get welt's ler ‘iting | Daughters of America for an €N-| above all else. Red tape, as we find | his release. He thinks he'll be salaries—but not other income—to A Fs $25,000 a year after large deductions | ‘€ftainment they will hold on the |i, “Webster's Dictionary, is “of- |S°Rt across before it would com: and taxes. Soldiers, teachers, public | ¢Vening of February 22, in cele-' F043) routine; hence, necessary of-| through, if ever. This makes me health workers, farmers and wage-|brating the birth anniversary of | (¢ficia) delays have. q | feel pretty bad. At his age, my boy is more useful to the war at home Cary Grant, actor, born in Eng- land, 39 years ago. Prof. Donald G. Paterson of the University of Minnesota, not- ed psychologist, born Columbus, Ohio, 51 years ago. de i H ee Alan A. Miine, famed English jauthor, born 61 years ago [ i red tape has been one of our chief | even deeme: George Washington. | official del: eben deemed quote Lincoln after denying this is as misleading as to call the Presi- | dent’s action totalitarian. Today In History 1797—Weekly mail service be- 1802—Detroit, population some 2,000, incorporated a town. 1836—President Jackson's spe-{ cial message to Congress recom- mends reprisals against Franc and building of cpast defences— {France had refused to pay five} | million dollars due us. | ——— z | | 1854—William Walker, Ameri-, |can fiibuster, proclaims Republic} | of Ee | = oe | 7—Indian Chief _Crazy| | Horse takes wagon train west of; the Missouri and kills 20. 1912—Britisti Capt. Robert Fa con Scott reaches South Pole aft-| er heart-breaking trip only to; : A Anniversaries ee 1782—Daniel Webster, famed ' Massachusetts lawyer, senator, secretary of state, Presidential candidate, born Salisbury, N. H. ied Oct. 24, 1852. | 1799—Joseph Dixon, linventor-manufacturer in many fields, lead pencils, ete., born Marblehead, Mass. Died June 15, 1869. restless 1813—George R. Graham not- er Philadelphia-publisher of his day, born there. Died July 13, 1818—Nelson Ludington, Mich- jigan-Wisconsin pioneer of; the jlumber industry, born Putnam, 1. Co, N. ¥. Died Jan. 15, 1883. * 1856—Willis L. Moore, U. S. Weather Bureau meteorologist, ‘ necessary. But now, in the win- Mrs. Daniel, Bacon, formerly’ jing of a war as far-reaching as/ Miss Margaret White, will arrive | than he ever could be as a sol- dier.” tomorrow to visit parents, Cap- at their home on Fleming street. The Fine Arts Department of the Key West Woman's Club will present the drama, “Spoon Fed,” at the Garden Theatre on Tuesday evening, January 31. ard and their son Bob arrived in tives. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Lowe and Lowe's parents, Judge and Mrs. E. R. Lowe, who are visiting in Key West. State Senator Arthur Gomez left yestérday for Fort Pierce, where he will confer with other senators from various parts of Florida. The Citizen in an_ editorial paragraph says today: “During the winter months Key West continues to be the warmest spot in the United States. The Weather Bureau will verify this assertion.” MOTHER STILL BOSS CHICAGO, Jan 15. — When 2nd Lieut. Earl R. Epperson, Jr.,} of Clinton, Miss., arrived for aj visit with his mother, Mrs. Doris! E. Epperson, he found that she | was still “boss.” Mrs. Epperson | recerttly was pfortoted to the rank | of-First Officer in the WAACS,, tain and Mrs. Wellington M. White } Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Pritch- | Key West yesterday to visit rela-| daughter Beverly will arrive to-| morrow fom Tavenier to join Mr. this one has come to be, not to de- | Drafted mothers of our nation, lay is the necessity here, and the | Such situations are not unknown only course which points to vic-|%® you. Therefore, in this New tory. | Year of war when your sons must ame fight as they never have before. Ernie Pyle, one of our corres- | * oe . pondents now in Algiers, wireless- | 7°4" task is to suppest them os a you never have before. And this ed a press release on this same |+_ k r eomely = saaten ee — every < jeffort toward effacing mis- | many at the a _ for-|takes which would delay those | malities,” he wrote, “that are) sons in their gallant fight for the consaiciniéo the sniliteny:ane sell gen ot au G omce SEE aside when the army is in the| «Life is given to us on the defin- field, moving relentlessly for-| ite understanding that we boldly ward. defend it to the last.” But only by “At an American airdrome, correcting mistakes can we do so, where two of us correspondents|and put ourselves in @ position went to arrange transportation | to win this war. farther east, a major said “‘Aw, to hell with your per- Relief At Last For Your Cough ; ington would turn gray at such! Creomulsion relieves Dee clerical simplicity.” fronts as well. For it is from the |home fronts that our war machine | mits. I haven't go ttime to look at cause it goes | But this clerical simplicity, $ heal Tew, tender, them. Just camp here in your bed- roles, and I'll put you on the first, | plane going your way.” | “Many a good clerk in Wash-! trouble to — laden which is put to such quick prac- 2a — tice on the battie fronts, should) branes. ‘Fell your @xpasist to be put to quick practice in every & bottle of {official avenue on our home vovvvvvvrvvvvwrery for |KEY WEST BEDDING CO. | | 515 Front Street Phone 66° | The Southernmost Mattress | Factory in the United States | @ MATTRESSES RENOVATE. — FURNITURE a Coe eennernaneaae|_ HE. CANFIELD, M. D. | Specialist in Diseases of tne EYES DR. AARON H. SHIFRIN =A®S. NOSE and THROAT GENERAL PRACTICE | Will See Patients Each Evening at Dr. Galey’s Office. 417 which is equivalent to that of an ee | Osteopathic Medicine and Eaton Street {Conference opens formally. :|templation orabsorbed in ambi-! A | with never an offer of assistance. | (SEAL) find evidences there that Nor- 5 ud aid: tuo . denied. way’s Amundsen had _ gotten/ i there only a month previously. poe Soa Pa. Died Dec. 1919—Versailles Peace Treaty 1859—Frank J. Goodnow, po- Hlitical scientist, adviser to China, |Johns Hopkins president, born 1930—U. S. House votes to con-|New York. Died Nov. 15, 1939. tinue poisoning of industrial al-; ee: cohol to discourage prohibition; A Our 1942 war output highest in drinking. history, says W. P. Witherow. LEGALS ) } Today’s Horoscope - sn nr ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT ”, . . ee OP THE STATE OF FLORIDA, IN Today’s degree indicates a life; AND FOR MONROE COUNTY. IN of success, if there is proper} CHANCERY. 3 leading. It may be lost in con-) DoRoTHY HURRAY MeKBONE, Plaintiff, i ini f vs. = Div. tion. A lack of definiteness of AMBROSE THOMAS McKEO action may sivey uly mediocre | TO: Ambi Malt Sons Watnet ttreets success. Pry enadd : UNSYMPATHETIC 2MOTORISTS| Philadeipimas Pennsylvania ——_ You are hereby required to ap- STAUNTON, Va., Jan. 15.—Al- pear to the Bill of Complaint, in {the above styled cause <a ound odern} day of February, A.D. , other- en Cole? it 9 wise the allegations therein wil! be | passing traffic is very unsympa-| taken as confessed. ; ; Bashi’ ‘This Order is to be published once thetic to one who is having tire), week for four consecutive weeks in trouble. For more than fifteen|The Key West Citizen, a newspaper ished in Key West, Florida. r - 26th day change a tire, ears whizzed by} of December, A. D. 1942. Ross C Sawyer signet Sor Se Finally, a taxi driver stopped. He |“'erk of =Florepce E. Sawyer, found Caldwell trapped fast, his: Sager. thumb caught between the jack puty Clerk. and car and extricated | Schicior ter eee him. ~ @ee28,1942; jan4-11-18,1943 ‘All persons are hereby Aotified that a request has been made by the United States Naval Operat- ing Base, Key West, Florida, to ‘lose the drawspan of the Moser Channel Drawbridge for the pe- riod from January 8, 1943, to February 8, 1943. Request has been made to the United States Engineers Office at Miami Beach, Florida, and any person wishing to interpose an objection to such closure shall make such objec- tion in writing to the War De. parement, United States Eng’ neers Office, Miami Beach, Flor- ‘TRY If TODAY ..,. the Favorite in STAR * CUBAN COFFEE OM SALE at ALL GROCERS 2222225 West HOURS ———— 7:00 to 8:00 925 Whi te “PHONE el ai HA tA eae Yaa Is More ECONOMICAL. . It's Healthy and Safe. . It’s Pure Seep Inc. Phone No. 8