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

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN QUESTION OF LIVE OR DIE THE MARINES STAND \GUARD ‘TWO NEW OFFICERS SCOUT DISTRICT | ASSIGNED TO DUTY BOARD TO MEET | ‘ ar Two new officers were assign- The Monroe County District jed to the U. S. Naval Operating Committee, Boy Scouts of Amer jBase here during the past week, ica, will meet yd clock tomorrow i night at 626 innell t jaccording to a report by Lieut. - : 'G. E’ Barton Personnel Officer. J Mochrke. dist Electrician Robert M. Call-. pians for the o laway, and Electrician Eugene pe discussed Rosenstrauch, USN, both report- a ed for duty in the Industrial Lies cartment. Lieut, Comdr.- Robert. B. .Miés aa is, USNR, was-detached for ‘an; lassignment with the Bureautcol Sywwwww~ evr err eres Yards and Docks. ><: > Opgy if TODAY .. . the Favorite in Key West STAR * RRANn CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE at ALL GROCERS PLOPeZ SLOPED Fencral Sercice! Established 1885 It is futile, if not unpatriotic, to oppose Uncle Sam when he is fighting for his life. And it is ridiculous to assert that a land- | lord can ‘‘save’’ money keeping his house | vacant, instead of renting it, unless the rent | is extremely low. And there are no extreme- | ly low rents in Key West today. All of which is pertinent to the report | that some Kéy West landlords refuse to j gent their hofses or apartments at the ! amounts that have been set by the rent-con- | | trol office. ; | Let us dig deép'into facts and he frank | with ourselves while we dig. Profiteering in rents was becoming gen- eral in Key West before the rent-controal of- | fice was established here. Many instances may be cited, but two are enough. We know | of one apartment that, in normal times, was SIGN OF ‘oP rented at $20 a month, and the price had G 6& USE | been jacked up till it reached $85. We know of a house that was, and still is, little more ;}__ as iS ___ , 666 TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS $ 75 $ | than a shack that brought in to its OWNEY | ——__nemeeeneen = the Rebecca Assembly of Florida, a ‘ 28 35" $127 i la ht instit i $125 2 month. ; KEY WEST IN IN a eee DR. AARON H. SHIFRIN > puone 13s wacuer ese 4 Evil Those are exceptions, you may assert, 8 an GENERAL PRACTICE . nana nee ee — Al-Weol 3-Piece - rs Key West. aa but such is not the case, though we do know Osteopathic Medicine and of a good many landlords who refused to } DAYS GONE BY Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Collins to- Surgery 7 take advantage of the conditions brought ! day announced the marriage of! 925 Whitehead—Opp. Lighthouse Worsteds, Gabardimes FROM FILES ( OF OF THE CITIZEN their daughter, Miss Natalie Col- PHONE 612-w $3500 53950 $4500 only y entitled to use ches. credited to 1 “ ; Manhattan Island was discove: in this papeF and also the ¢ on Septem SCRIPTION RATES ..$10.00 The first. petroleum wetl-in the United States was opened at Titus- ville, Pa., on August'27, 1859. SING RATES NOTICE of thanks, resolutioss of AT FIRST Official U. S. Navy Photograph. THE UNITED STATES MARINES statioaec in the Key Wesi area are the protectors of all activities. A typical group is shown in front of the picturesque Marine Barracks just before leaving for various duties around the Naval Operating Base. derived are 5 cents a line. open forum and invites dis: cts of local or gen: anonymous comm ; “MEMBER FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION ), NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION * w THE KEY WEST CITIZEN FicTiogt . wosed TECHNICAL — Open 8:30 AM. to 7 P. 1 You'Re Loonie Fon 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- about by the war and rented their places at | lins Thompson, to Ralph Folk of; OF FEB 18, 1 ) ‘i 5 fair rents, If there were any exceptions, they ; pyents suai Philadelphia. ania epee pertained to the latter, not the former caseset ' Mayor” William H. Malone: Attorney W. Curry Curry! Hattis,; who. ‘Tommie’s SKATING RINK Sock while the socking is good seemed jane Principal Horace O’Bryant, of was in Miami to confer, with. At- SUMMER SESSIONS to be the dominant thought among some (ithe Key West High School, made torney H. H. Taylor, on matters gee tem Se parent tie x addresses last night at the meet- pertaining to the proposed Ower- an = owners of rentable properties in Key West} Ming GE the Raliway Emploves ‘As- seas Highway bridges, returned Every Ewening: 8:00 - 10:30 p.m. and there’s no telling at what Sums gouging | sociation of Key West. yesterday afternoon. aaa Ladies Invited owners would have had their rents fixed by ' TE for HEALTH'S Lae | ‘ Y | Miss Dorothy Griswold, district Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ma- Lessons Phone 9) nk ame had not Uncle Sam stepped into | supervisor of social welfare work, loney and Mrs. Maloney’s brother, the picture. Miliaesive horsonteebe 22 to William Pinder, returned yeste Thus, if there is any complaint about ‘confer with offices of the Monroe day from a visit of several wee! Z 2 | 3 Tne! 7men slief at Plantation Key. | low rents in Key West today, the bulk of County. sUacmpioyment.S Keliet at See PAut SmitH 334 Simonton $T. Council. promise with principle. | iMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN a | Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. . Airpurts—Land and Sea. .. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital, NAZI LEADERS DESPERATE ————$ Max Werner, a military analyst, says that the Nazy army is under new leader- ship which is ready for extremes. He say. they “are gamLiers” prepared to undertake any strategic adventure® As this writer sees the situation in Ger- many, the Nazis know that they must risk everything in a “last great offensive—one like the Ludendorf offensives of the spring znd summer of 1918.” These new ‘leaders are prepared to | force the last ounce of physical endurance out of their troops, regardless of the final | cost. They will take any risk, increasing the intensity of the war and making it “still bloodier and more convulsed from the Ger- man side.” en so, concludes Mr. Werner, such leadership can be “defeated faster because it burns out its own energy quicker.” Never- cless, the “military desperados are all the more dangerous until their final defeat.” It appears to us that Mr. Werner's forecast is reasonable and that he is right in believing that “the German war crisis will be more critical” and “the mighty de- nin the war will be here sooner.” On to Tokyo! Advertising is the servant of those who know hew to use it. We cannot tell you who will govern Europe after the war is over, but we are sure it will not be 8 the blame should be placed on the shoul- ders of profiteering landlords. “Hunh,” somebody may grunt, “The Citizen is backing down from its former po- sition!” The Citizen is not doing any such thing. The Citizen believes now, as it be- lieved before, that the rent ceiling should have been pegged at the March, 1942, ceil- ing, instead of at the prices charged in Oc- tober, 1941. But that does not alter the fact that it is foolish to try to fight Uncle Sam, and ridiculous to say one can save money by keeping his house or apartment off rent at the prices set by the rent-control office. Let any landlord, who is taking that pesition, ask himself this question: “Were there no war and were times normal, would Irent my house for the amount fixed by the rent-ceiling?” On top of that question this one may be propounded: How many of us would have been delighted to rent below those ceilings | when there was little demand for housing accommodations? Finally, any Key Wester, or anybody ! else, who thinks he can spite the government by keeping houses vacant, is fooling nobody except himself. Besides, this fact should not be overlooked: there is an acute shortage of housing accommodations in Key West and every effort should be made to alleviate that condition, even though we think we are los- ing a few dimes in doing so. Men at the front sometimes are glad to have foxholes in which to sleep. The only way we, on the home front, can help those | The Italian training ship Colom- bo, due to arrive here on Feb- ruary 21, will not reach port till some later date, it was announced coday The Key West Municipal Band will give a concert in Bayview Park tomorrow afternoon from 4 to 6:30 o'clock. City Councilmen, at a meeting | last night, decided to make a small payroll today tor city employes. Thomas L. Spencer, 35, died this morni his home at 1026 Jame: Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon in | the First Congregational Church, | the Rev. E. R. Eva #fficiating. Mrs oreno Fr TF. SIKES LICENSED PLUMBER 1306 CATHERINE STREET , president TAILORING - SEWING FANCY DRESSMAKING Oar Specialty SERVICE MEN’S WORK DANIA DE BOIE men is to send them abundant supplies of fhe all kinds, Every disadvantage on the home front has f and it is surely a grave disadvantage to a worker in a war plant not to have a place | in whith to eat or to sleep. Keeping houses off rent affects war workers, because, were it not for their presence in Key West, hundreds of houses would be unoccupied. | Don’t try to fight Uncle Sam, when he is flinging everything, including the “‘stove,” at the enemy. It is not only ridiculous but unpatriotic also. Remember the men on the firing line. | It is a question of live or die with them, not a question of high or low rents. s repercussion on the firing line,4 Mrs. Wallace B. Kirke, who had been a guest of Mrs. Sedgeweck Cooper at her home in Miami Beach, and who spent a few days with her father. William R. Por- ter, in’ Miami, returned home yes- terday. Mr. atid Mrs. Reynold Thomp- son and the former's brother, Lee Thompson, left yesterday for Miami. | The Citizen says today in an editorial paragraph: “To an onlooker delusions of | grandeur appear as a delightful sensation, yet it is said one a fers’ from them.” OUR SIDESHOW The Great Presto has nothing up either sleeve. 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