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

a. REN = Citizen Owner and Publixher Basinens Manager | that?” SAD AWAKENING “Who do they think will swallow , That question was asked, in effect, in | at least two places in Key West, Pepe’s km- ER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRI “1 Press is exclusi ADVERTISING je known on application RATES of thanks, resolutioss of will be charged for at "Notices for entertainment by churches from which r@venue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- ic issues and subjects al or general it will not publish anonymous communi- Fe MEMBER FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION, \ NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION w THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it ew.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, “tactiow or class; always do its utmost for the "public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue, e | missions. . porium and the county courthouse, and i concerned the same ching: the Japs’ pro- paganda minis.er’s excuse for evacuatin: Buna, in New Guinea, and Guadalcanal, in the Solomons. Said the Jap spokesman | over the Tokyo radio: a | “We withdrew from Buna and Guadal- | canal after having accomplished’ out !mis- ‘sions at those places.” The fact is, as regards Buna, the Japs, | had been annihilated there three weeks be- fore their propagandist tried to explain | away their defeat under the guise of “with- | drawal.” There was no withdrawal at | Buna: the Japs were blasted out of their pillboxes and fexholes, and at Guadalcanal j only remnants of between fifteen and twen- | ty thousand troops succeeded in escaping to Jap ships. United States Marines, their capture of Henderson Airfield ac | Guadalcanal, beat the Japs in clash after clash, then, on December 9, American sol- diers, who relieved the marines, began a series of offensives that ultimately con- vinced the Japs’ high command’ that “ail | was lost” on Guadalcanal. ; Now the Japs, having Idst their most { important airfield in the Southwest Facific. “having accomplished their | | shortly after | drool about 1 coon renee _ THE RAY west CITIZEN KEY Wisi iN DAYS GONE BY _ FROM FILES oF THE citizen OF FEBRUARY 11. 1933 Eob Knight, who ha ° | siding in Portsmou h, V: ; two and one-half years, is visiting i his mothi ; of Eaton. street. er, Mrs. fugene Knight, President Gilbert Merina of the } Key West Garden Club, has ¢all- éd a meeting for Monday after- | neon, beginning at 3 o'clock. Th a letter to friend’ in Key West,-the Rev. James L. Rodger, who was pastor of the First Bap- Church from 1898 to 1900, es that he keeps in touch With ; doings in this city by subscribing | to The Citizen. and Mrs. Jose Mantel Lara, Lara formerly was Miss Mer- cedes Gato of this city) were guest8 of relatives here yesterday. A valentine tea will be given Tuesday afterfiooh in ‘he Worman’s ‘ clubhouse, beginning ‘at 3 o'clock under the abSpices of the Key | West Junior Woman's Club. John A. Lord. today received a | telegram infornting -him.tWat W. A. Slaughter ville, ad died if Jackson- faughter for many | Yeats was Section forerian Th Key ' West of the Florida Bait Coast Railway. THURSD AY. FEBRU ARY FRANK WOLKOWSKY (WEST CLOTHES SHOPS. Inc.) DUVAL and SOUTHARD STREETS Phone 249 Key West, Florida. It Happened Tuesday! You Still Have the Opportunity to Buy America’s Finest HAND-TAILORED CLOTHING AND FURNISHINGS at 1941 PRICES! 2-Piece SUTTS $2950 $2500 SPQTS $355;00 j ' SAKAI RIERERERE IKE AAIERE RRA IA KIARA EREIRIDIA AIA IIIA 1943 Valentine Y to06S sd ce eeraneevereesessbbersbexkhvnbessseayes’ MARY LOVES JOHNNY—and she loves Uncle Sam, too. £o she’s sending a valentine that proves her affection for both—a red paper heart that she cut out herself, edged in Jace paper and decorated with war stamps. If you wantxo make one too, buy some stiff red paper and a supply of lace paper doilie Ruffle the lace and paste around the edge of one red hear', the back Mrs. Kate Baldwin, 110 Ann! The Citizen has remarked before that | scterCanee Gua Ree reet, ay quietly observed the the Nazis know little and the Japs know less leighty-Whind ahtiversary of her about American psychology. Leaders, in | birth. Germany and Japan, still believe they can | 3-Piece. All-Wool comniend 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- County Judge Hugh Gunn gave _promise with principle. | AMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airpurts—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. a EEE Te After thes ware thre-tattlen ig or “peace That religion is hest which produces the | bet people. ta Mental health is as.important as phys' — mens sana in corpore sanovs, “= Wor the past ten years Germany has fared to produce a new world — the Rus- ns have sent millions there prematurely. | © Committees generally let one of ther | number do all the work, but each wants his share ‘of the emoluments, if any, and the etary. os t§@ cities of the land will have a deeper ap- pyéciation of what the farmets do for the | Tne, Alfied Nations have (a, great pjgtherdn Uncle Sam and his delivery and the transgressor hations find it difficult to | ntaster it, Pd —— Berlin seems to be outdoing Moscow in piiuring the distress and suffering of Ger- mn scldieis in Russia there’s a reason, nigy be a peace drive in the offing. The honor system is fine for about eighiy percentum of the population and a! citch for the remaining percertum, wheth- | itS gasoline, food or somebody's money. . “For to” joined with the infinitive is io- day a vulgarism, although it is found in the Kible, “what went ye out to see?” and in Sfakespeare’s line, “Forbid the sea to obey tl moon.’ the real life of humanfy I became con- vinced that despair cannot be the. destiny of man.” e ecrth near the tomb, another wanders ‘vound the ancestral tablet, and the third goes to Heaven or enters another body. Whit a prospect for a future life! | countenance | chology, but the sons of the setting sun and i | | 4 7 will start. 5 | Before 1943 is over many dwellers in | | the R | warships have hightailed it on ee ‘ | they sneak out of Guadaicanal unde # Thistoy, after exhausting all that fash- | ionable society could offer him, and finding | there no solace, said it was ‘‘on entering into | | the morrow strides According to popular “Chinese idea, | eaeh person has three souls. One remains on | fool the American pubjic with their wans- parent lies, though they have been flung | back into the Japs’ and the Germans’ faces a thousand times. We wouid laugh out of anybody who knows our psy- | don’t understand their pals in Germany | our psychology and never will understand it. They think that the bigger the lie they tell the more likely we are to believe it, not | | knowing that the bigger it is une louder is | our knowing chuckle. Before long the Japs will have “accom- | plished their missions)’ elsewhere in the | Southwest Sa ¢; before long they, will | have “accomplished their missions” also vo canquer the world. | When that, day dawns, as it surely will | dawn, it will bea sad awakening for ihe | Japs. fe eh See ne ee | RUSSIANS NOT FIGHTINS JAPAN he Supreme Wai Council, when and | if it emerges, will not satisfy those who de- | mand close collaboration between the United States, Great Britain, Russia and | China. It ought to be clear that no such com- mon council can censider the war in the Pa- cific where Russia not a belligerent against the commen enemy of the other three powers. The demand that we should relieve s strikes a strange note when one considers that there is no concomitant demand that Russia become a. partner in our war against Japan. Certainly, there known to those in authority, why the Rus- sians contain themselves to a one:front war. These reasons are not proclaimed from the housetops but that does not refute their ex- | istence. | In the nature of the present world-wide | war there are many facts and factors that cannot be advertised. To satisfy critics at | the expense of war strat , which means the loss of American lives, is too high a j price to pay. 1 is uJ iw are reasons, well} “The Japs never know when they are beaten,” some Americans, who say they | know the Nipponese character well, have told us, time and again. But that assertion the Japs themselves have belied. Their‘! v4! vert | casions in the Southwest Pacific, a of night. : mil If it is impossible, in these fevreish times, to do it today, tackle it tomorrow. But, | objects at least one Key West business man, } in loaded down witn | | more work. Bacon, in sounding the depths of hu- | man nature, never uttered a greater truth | than this: “The virtue of prosperity is iem- | Perance; the virtue of adversity is forti- | | tude.” | bonds are operated. | last night in the Wesley House it Hewitt of Boston, hero {lone issued invitations today to a tal Surgery | Kev | are dogmatic; |noted Columbus, Ohio, Congre- lgationist clergyman, born Potts-|$ | grove, Pa. out further particulars today ve about the proposal to institute the i ng of baby bonds in Key West. Dealers in municipal bonds in Or lando explained, in a_ letter to ; Judge Gunn, the manner in which the sale and redemption of the and acd as r Today’s Birthdays A valentine party was given Vice Admiral Henry Kent of nenor of members of the Friends’ North African campaign, born orld Society who are SEES in Hackstnsack, N. J., 56 vears ago. Key West. —— Dr. Mavor and Mrs. William H. Ma- cf the School of Oral of Columt tea thev will give in their home. born Marinetto, Ws., | 729 Division street, in honor of ago, the ¢emmander and other officers ofthe Italtan training ship Colum-* | bo that has stopred here cn i sruise cf the world: years Gen. Donald Hilary Co: bern Ft. Mojave, Ariz. gO. Attorney Arthur Gomez, who Dr. Valeria: H. Parker of New hed beeh on a week’s visit to York, noted social hygienist, | Tampa and Fort Myers, re‘urned born Chicago, 64 years ago. yesterday. _— Gov. Tomas Renedo, who had been in Virginia, West visiting relatives, left ago. for Miami yesterday. , of Elizabeth H. Haight teacher of Latin, 71 years Prof. Sebastian Cabrera returfhed Vassar College, yesterday from Miami, where he born Auburn, N. Y., had been on a business visit. ago. of The Citizen savs inan William. R. C y of Gold editorial paragraph: Cclo., noted “It ig usally the ignorant who bern Boulder, the well-informed ago. are really re- today min Colo., end deeply-read - ticent.” Dr. John J. Tig the Univer: Nashville, Te Tordav’s Anniversaries a 1802—Lydia ae popular writer of * Today’s : Horascon. on a Today indicates a strong nm, forceful nature; a day fo: vv: be: a gatural leader o: le of ‘making a way if en- " > eas and fush. But id_ the 1812—Alexander i. Stephens, tendency to excess of violence, | Confederate Vice President, 'in cither word or act Georgia congressman - governor, born in Georgia. Died March} 4, 1883. and lend, Mass., 1833—Melville W. Fuller, Dem-{$ Jocratic leader, Chicago lawyer, H Chief Justice, 1888-1910, born Augusta, Maine. Died July 4, @ 1910. ° 3 1836 — Washington Gladden. Died July 2, 1918. 3 ———— ° 1847—Thomas Alvah Edison,|¢ greatest inventor in recorded his- $ .. 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