The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 28, 1943, Page 2

WE CAN NOT NEGOTIATE Bieathless expectancy swept over this THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | country when newspapers and radios an- nn Streets in Key West and punty ida, as second ¢ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively) entitled to use jé'tepublication of all news didpatehes credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published bere. SUBSCR One, ¥ ear Six, Months ADVERTISING RATES Made known on applic |) NOTICE rds of thanks, resolutioss of as, ete, will be charged for at The Citizen. is an open forum and of public issues and subjects of local or general terest but it will not publish anonymous communi- ations. MEMBER FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION A | | | | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN AY NebLiiybbdrdys. seek the truth and print it w.thobY fei and without favor; never be ri to attack wrong or to applaud right; ways fight’ for progress; never be the or- re br the thouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the ~ publié: welfate; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue, comrhend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions: print only news that will elevate 2 atid not contaminate the reader; never corn- promis with principle. s ‘IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY VURGVEMENTS FOR KE west —| ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN L a; 3; ‘Water dnd Sewerage. “More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. /Airpurts—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. 8.” A Modern City Hospital. 4 5. GIVING THE PEOPLE THE FACTS “The U. S. Chamber of Commerce reports that the Government will make an effort to | ‘reselh many of the necessary wartime cur- {ailments which the public is ready to ac- cept, hut which it has not always fully un- \ derstood.” We Hear that there has been a flood of | protests against “mistakes in rationing” but just how, the public can determine | whether 4 mistake was made or not, with- | eut knowing the facts. escapes our faculties. in fact, some of those who so vociferous!y lambheted the Government for maintaining | publicity buteaus, now come forth with che | idea that, hefore rationing, ihe Govern- | ment should have instituted an educational | ¢{ampaign forthe purpose of giving the peo- ple the facts and persuading them io act | individually upon the facts as given to chem. just how the Government is to undertake | this educational program without maintain- ing a large publicity staff is not explained in fact, the furore against government “pro. paganda agencies” which reached a hign some months ago, was instigated by some | Americans who were afraid that the Gov- ernment would give the people too man: facts. SEVEN TONS PER SOLDIER = Since our military forces have seized ihe initiative and launched offensive opers tions, the production load placed upon in- dustry has been tremendously increased. No longer is industry producing only for kend Lease, training camps, and ware houses. It is now»producing for active, of- fensive fronts whichs@re using up, wearing | out, and destroying the putput of our plants. » For every soldier who landed in Africa, ven tons of equipment and supplies were | set down-on the beach. And, in addition jo this, we must send’these forces one and a | half tons per month per man as long as h2 is overseas, The opening of a new front in Africa by | American forces will practically double the demand for production in many war plants. With no doubling of a_ supply of skilled workers in sight, industrial managemeni must meet this test by increasing its already heavily burdened production machinery in every possible way. | the peoples of the ; | o'clock Tuesday night. | There were all Sorts of conjectures. ; Here, in Key West, some people said Hitler had agreed to capitulate; | ; others, that an all-out offensive was to be | launched against Japan itself, and still oth- | | ers, that an announcement would be made | that the war, in the Pacific, as well as in the | mes. | smashing offensives | | crush the Axis powers. | bad, | navy with the prov nounced that an important message, most momentous of the war, would be given and Mussolini Atlantic, would be ended soon. While the real news did not come up to ; one’s expectancy, yet it contained a mes- sage that should prove highly satisfying to every person in the United Nations. That age was that there will be still further cchesion among the Allies in conducting that ultimately will That is good news. Even the disputa- tious French in North Africa, according to the statement, are now agreed to set aside | their political differences and to join to the | utmost of their powers in the offensive the | | Allies are planning to make. It is not as easy as it may appear on the | | surface to engineer absolute cohesive strik- | | ing force by the Big Four in the Allied Na- | Their resources in fighting men have | j tions. lean estimated at 40,000,000, with more than one-half of that number under arms. | Now, more so than at any other time since | the war started, the Allied Nations will strike one man, and that cohesion wiil appreciably shorten the war. Aside from the satisfaction in knowing | that the Allies will strike in unison, there was an element of astonishment, mixed with | admiration, in learning that our President had traveled in the air over more than 5,000 | miles of the Atlantic and other bodies of | water to reach C sablanea, in Morocco, | where Roosevelt and Churchill conducted | their conference. Some Americans thought there is a law | | prohibiting a president from leaving Amer- | ican soil, but one does not have to go back | far to recall that Wilson went to Europe, i after the first World War, and Taft, who passed through Kiey West, went to Panama shortly before his term of office expired ia | 1913. inally, the chief condition agreed on | at the conference, ‘unconditional surren- der,” every true-blue American. We can not ne- gotiate with men who, because of their in- ordinate cupidity, in human blood. . WOULD PUNISH THE PARENTS The proposal of the West Virginia judge that the grand jury indict parents, | through whose neglect children are per- mitted to become delinquent, may not be so after all. ‘Judge Clay S. Crouse points out that | children “as young as ten years of age have been apprehended in the act of crimes” and | | asks, ‘‘Who else but parents could be re- | sponsible?” There is no getting around his pro- nouncement against parents who carelessly | and negligently let their children roam the streets and acquire evil habits. These par- ents fail to carry out a social responsibility | and it is not altogether absurd that they be held for trial. Parents are now, under the law, re- sponsible for some of the civil damage that their children inflict upon others. If the ; type, to whom the judge refers, suspected that a criminal court would take action | against them for the unfaithful perform- | ance of their duties to their children, there would be less juvenile crime. FIVE BROTHERS LOST ON ONE SHIP The heaviest blow suffered by any | single American family since Pear] Harbor, and probably in our naval history, is that experienced by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Sullivan, of Waterloo, Iowa, who lost five | sons when the Cruiser Juneau went down in the blazing battle off Guadalcanal. The brothers, it is reported, joined the ion that they not be separated. Navy officials point out that this | Violated established policy which divides members of families in wartime service. The idea is to prevent wholesale grief for any family. The brothers are reported “missing in | action” but the possibility exists that one | or more of them may have reached an iso- lated beach following the sinking of their ship in November. Certainly, every Amer- | ican hopes so, the | United Nations at 10 is in accord with the sentiment of | have washed the world | Writer, Economist, Lecturer and Col- umnist; Author of “Men of Wealth” MR. FLYNN OPENS: By British Empire aims I do not refer to the Aght for safety of the 80 million reople in Britain's self-governing sommonwealths, but to the 400 mil- her Asiatic and African empire. No fair-minded man will blame present-day England for the ruth- less conquests by which these coun- tries were seized and exploited. They were taken by a former aggressor | England. But present-day England cannot escape the stigma of aggres- sion if she continues to hold and ex-, ploit these disfranchised millions. Will she do so? Mr. Churchill says: | “We will hold what we have.” Britain cannot hold what she has without courting endiess wars with the enslaved peoples—now awaken- ing—and with other aggressors who covet her conquests. Any peace | founded on the principle that Britain | and Britain alone can seize and hold subject peoples will bo a sham. It cannot last. And America could never associate herself with it for it would mean that we too must fight those wars to help England “hold what she has.” The quicker Britain extends self-determination to her subject ; peoples the surer America will be that she is fighting for democracy and not some form of holy aggres- sion. CAPT. GAMMANS CHALLENGES: Great Britain has stated she is pre- pared to hand over full independence to India after the war. There is one question: Who takes over; the Con- gress Party, Moslems, the Princes, ' the Untouchables? If India is handed over to Gandhi and Nehru now, the Moslems will fight the issue. The best proof the Congress does not represent the whole of India is that recruiting of the Indian Army rose from an aver- age of 50 thousand to 70 thousand a month when Gandhi was interned. Gandhi and Nehru can come out of jail tomorrow if they will call off their sabotage campaign. MR. FLYNN REPLIES: The Con- gress Party has never demanded In- dia be delivered to it, Britain has never promised “full” independence, only freedom full of impossible “ifs.” A British statesman 63 years ago said Indian disunity was the strong- est point in Britain’s policy. Britain has promoted it. As evidence—last month representatives of Moslems, Hindus, Christians reached a tenta- tive agreement and asked to see the jailed Gandhi. Britain refused. What do I suggest? An offer in good faith to a conference of all Indian parties to discuss and reach agreement, and the release of India’s jailed leaders. PEOPLE'S FORUM The Cinszen welcemes expres- sions to delete any items are considered libelous unwarranted. The writers ald be fair and confine the and write unless requested ABOUT YOUR ENEMIES |Editor, The Citizen: So many remarks are being |made here of late about “loving! your enemies”, I feel that I would; like to ask for a small space in! lyour paper to say something on: {the subject. When we hear a person say or quote;. “Love your enemies”, inumber of bigotes will rise ial lin hot» anger, ready to call them} a spy, Communist, or what not, tion who live in political bondage in | 11 Will a Continuance of British Empire Aims Hinder A Lasting Peace? DAYS GONE BY OF JANUARY 28, 1933 News was received here today that Albert Baker, 54, formerly of | Key West, died in Tampa yester-~ Member, Institute.of Pacific Relations, Authority on Far Eastern Affairs CAPT. GAMMANS OPENS: The conception of the British Empire as Imperialism has been out of date for at least 40 years, since Great Britain gave full self-government to the Boers within four years of defeating em. Today, the British Empire, or Com- monwealth, is a ladder on which many races climb toward complete self-government. Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, have long since attained complete inde- pendence, as will India and Burma, © as soon as they resolve their internal difficulties. Ceylon and Rhodesia have nearly reached the top. While this conception of world | relationship has many shortcomings it has passed the acid test—it has | worked! Canada came into this war of her free accord, as did the other Dominions. For one whole year the British Empire stood on the breach alone. If any justification is required for its existence, that is the answer! A larger world order may follow this war. The United States may’ accept obligations for world security. ‘The British Commonwealth may be merged into something bigger. But, | until that happéns I am not pre- pared to break up the Empire, which with all its imperfections has brought peace, security, liberty and increas- ing self-government to men of many races and colors. MRE. FLYNN CHALLENGES: Does Capt. Gammans really believe that domination of India’s 300 million today is “out-dated” by granting freedom to South Africa’s 10 million 40 years ago? If Britain in India is not imperialism, what is it? What is jailing Gandhi and Nehru, machine- gunning Indian protestants in the streets with approving cheers in the House of Lords? Is that democracy? Capt. Gammans denies this is im- | perialism. Then England has no im- perialism to cure. Hence we can ex- pect nothing. But America is not going to underwrite an empire peace. True, England fought alone. What has that to do with this question? CAPT. GAMMANS REPLIES: You cannot confer self-government on any one as a present. Certain con- ditions of education, political ex- perience, etc., must exist first. This talk about “holding subject peoples” is nonsense. Mr. Flynn would be in a stronger position to lecture Great Britain. if .he could say when the colored: citizens of the United States are likely to enjoy full social, po; litical and economic rights. As to suggestions America might | be fighting this war to help England hold what she has, America did not | come into the war to save the Brit- | ish Empire, but because she was | attacked at Pearl Harbor. ea eet HOSPITAL HORRORS B i y | CARROLL J. WEAVER | G. Stradley will offi day. Funeral services tor Mrs. Jane <aunders will be held tomorrow ; afternoon in the first Methodist Church at 4 o'clock. The Rev. J. iate. William V. Afbury, county at- torney, said today that, in his ovinicn, the supreme court of Florida will shortly render a de- cision in favor of the Overseas Rridge Corporation, against which George J. Rosenthal filed suit to try to compel the corporation to rceognize his so-called right to construct the proposed bridges. The Right. Rev. Patrick Barry, Bishop of St. Augustine, will ad- minister confirmation in St. Mary’s Star of the Sea Church on Sun- day, February 5. Mrs. W. H. Smith and ‘two chil- | dren, of Albany, Ga., arrived here yesterday to visit Mrs. Smith’s! parents, Mr. ‘and. Mrs. Allan Knowles at their home on Mar- garet street. Mr. and Mrs. ‘William. T, Ar- cher, who had_ beén visiting in Miami, returned home yesterday. W. W. Demeritt, Jr., a student in the University of Florida, ar- tived yesterday and will stay here till next September before resuming his studies at the uni- | | ' ' | versity. A heart social will be held on St. Valentine’s Day, Tuesday eve- ning, February 14, by the Choir Guild of St. Paul’s Church. Miss Verdaine Cates, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Cates, who had been visiting friends in the Canal Zone, in Panama, re- turned yesterday on the steamship Havana. Mrs. Jennie DuBreuil, who had teen visiting Mrs. A. Wolkowsky. two weeks in Miami, returned yes- terday afternoon Willigun. ‘Phigtipsoh} idft? yes day for Miami for an indefinite stay.in that city. fj i A Charles Mott, who had been spending several weeks in West Bernie Papy returned yesterday from Tallahassee, where he had a conference with Governor Dave Laoltz. | Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lunn, of | Lynnhurst, N. J., arrived yester- It’s laughing at me in fiendish glee | With its gimlet eyes a-staring! at me; ‘So gruesomely sinister standing there, | Ready to pounce from off the chair. It casts a ghostly shadow tall That leaps at me from off the wall— Leaves my spine damp, clammy! cold. I try to calm my mold. shivering But still I tremble shake | with fear | As its crackling» laugh I seem | to hear. and asat the saying, “Love your ene-;My mouth and throat are parch- mies”, originated in the mind of the person who is heard to say or | quote it. When a person. teaches us to; love our enemies, of course he does not mean to embrace all of ; their heathenish ideas and ainis.! But it means to love the Ger- mans, Japs and the Italians inj} the sense that they might be won to Christ, the one who gave us | this divine rule to go by that jthe enemy might then be a! Christian and a sane thinking person. | And in Saturday’s issue of The; Citizen the editor, on the _edi-| torial page, quoted the saying of} Christ, “Let not your heart be} troubled”, and he heartily en-} dorsed that, but in the same col- umn he said we should mobilize a*few regiments of the people | who ea) iper ge ene- | mies” < ‘fight | the fess pen es they come out. This was said in a cinical way jif we endorse one of Christ's teaching. Did he not know what} He was saying in the rest of His sayings? i Yours truly, QUENTIN SHORTES. | Key West, Fla., | Jan. 28, 1943. i CALLED ‘AFRIKANDERS’ | CHICAGO. — The descendants of the original Dutch settlers in South Africa are called “Afri- kanders.” i ed and dry— I cover my lips to stifle a. cry. | ‘When in through the window the light from a flare Shows standing there naked,| upright in the chair— "ve been misleading, your par- don I beg, It’s only my room-mate’s alum- inum leg. | U.S. Veterans Hospital, Bay Pines, Florida, Jan. 25, 1943. PAYS 40-YEAR-OLD BILL PATERSON, N. J. — While} walking down the street recently, | Richard Tulner, a former dairy- ;man, met a former customer, who | handed: him$12 to cover a wale | bill of $10. The extra $2 was “in-| terest.” The bil was forty years! old. H. E. CANFIELD, M. D. Specialist in Diseases of tne EYES. | EARS, NOSF and THROAT | Will See Patients Each Evening at Dr, Galey’s Office. 417 Eaton Street HOURS 7:00 to 8:00 UUSLUERATUUAUENUEUENOEA GUE day to visit their cousins, Mr. and , Mrs. Charles Lunn, of Grinnell street. The Citizen says today in an editorial paragraph: “Another paradox is that while a woman cannot run as fast as a man, she usually catches him anyway.” GREAT BANANA LAND BALTIMORE. — Honduras is the greatest banana land in the | | world, annually exporting twelve! million stems. Dette tt ttn tn atin tant Artin 'KEY WEST BEDDING CO. 515 Front Street The Southernmost Mattress Factory in the United States | @ MATTRESSES RENOVATE @ FURNITURE UPHOLSTEREL | BAAL44444444444444 Phone 66f STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE, TRIUMPH COFFEE MILLS AT ALL Help a man in uniform enjoy his leisure hours. Give your good books to the 1943 VIC. TORY GOOK CAMPAIGN. Leave them at the nearest collection center or public library. THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 194 . > Answ<zs > YOUR WAR QUESTIONS Send Home-Front to Regional OEM ante og in Care of This Paper } looked shocked. Q—Can 2 man 40 years old be deferred from the army if he forgot his age and registered too young? A.—Yes, real age. if he can prove his Q.—Should a motorist who hes only an “A” card be reported to the OPA if he makes long trips? A—Yes. Q—Are licensed embalmers de- ferred from the army? A.—Not because of their occu- pation. Q—I have been told that the U. S. Coast Guard only patrols the coast line of the U.S.A. Is it also in action overseas? A.—It operates under the Navy during war time and may serve any where. of the Aviation Q—How do members Air Borne Engineers Corps, serve? A—They prepare ‘advance bas- es, roads, brides, etc., in the thea ter of operations. , Q—I have a portable type- writer. Whom should I sell it to? A.—Contact a typewriter deal- er. Q.—Where can I get informa- tion about a job in Pearl Harbo: A—Contact the Civil Servi Commission. Q.—Where do I go to sign up glycerine haul? A.—tThese hauls are handled by private contractors. You may euntact the U. S. Employment Service. Q.—How many men make an American division? A.—This' is military . informa- tion ‘and cannot be ‘given out. DR. AARON H. SHIFRIN GENERAL PRACTICE hi ty} { {OrtPopsy ice phodigies and 825. W: tehead—Opp. Lighthouse 47} ti! PHONE 612-W | Palm Beach, returned yesterday. | etonenneematuanenaen Uncle Sam ranch was busy whittling out 'NAVY DOESN'T TRUST EVEN JAP COMPASSES Aasastated Posmne NEW "YORK. Jan. 2%.—Ced- ric Worth of the Third Naval Dis- trict was offered a compass by a civilian for use in the Navy. Ar Tangements were gor along un til he asked who m:z the com pass. 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