The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 1, 1943, Page 2

PAGE TWO rin Key West ana ¢ se County PRESS MAN’S GREATEST SALARY While the operation of the govern- ' ment’s many alphabetical designations is | costing millions of dollars, we should not forget that it would cost several times more than it does were it not for those tens of exclusively entitled to use | dited to and also the all news dist red ted in this $10.00 | 5.00 t resolutioss of , Will be charged for at ent by churches from which i dare 5 cents a line. Citizen is n forum and invites discus- public issues d subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. MEMBER =~ FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION \ NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION "s) 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- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the publig 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 und Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airpurts—Land and Sea. : Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. sl WINNING THE U-BOAT BATTLE Prime Minister Churchill recently ex- ploded one of the current war stories that fs been played up rather strongly in the | to make a liberal individual. past few weeks. are familiar with “revela 3 > paralyze the war effort of the United States. Mr. Churchill declared that Allied ship of Americans who are giving their services free of charge to help along the war effort. : Size for size, there is no other city in the country where there are more and wil!- ing unpaid workers in Uncle Sam’s vast ma chinery of war than in Key West. The latest illustration of that work may be found in the issuing of Ration Book No. | 2 in Key West. Teachers worked hard and ; answered endless questions and carried through the task efficiently. If any Key Wester did not get a ration book, he has no- body to blame but himself or herself. But the work of the teachers was mere- ly a flurry. Hundreds cf Key Westers are carrying on every day to promote the war | effort without remuneration. Members of the Woman’s Club turn out thousands of bandages an‘d.packages for our men at the front; the rationing | board, the draft board, the deferse coun- | vast a field as Uncle Sam prosecuting the war. Some men, in wa | science that they are cil and other entities have been carrying on since the heginning of the war and still are carrying on as conscientiousiy as though , they were paid for their work. Probably some of them ‘are more some mer and women-who get fat salaries. The fact is, many a réport has come out of Washington of men and women too whose chief work is the endorsement of their pay checks. It would be impossible to keep out -kers from undertakings that cover so is covering in in peace, are concerned only in promoting their own selfish interests regardless of what effect they have on the war effort. But that type of American is smz compared with the majority that is ever | ready and anxicus to do anything that w | help us win the war. Countless thor sands of that type of American are giving their time and, in some cases, their money, without any other pay than a clear con- doing the struggle to maintain our democracy. After all, the dollar, selfishly sought | for, shrinks into lousiness compared with | the greatest salary a man can receive—a clear conscience over work well done. It takes more than a liberal education Partisans are interested in promoting | something; philosophers are seeking to dis- cuss the truth. When you hear criticism, it is well to conscientious than | their duty in | THE KEY WEST CiTIZEN Should Germany Be Reduced to a KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Second-Rate Power to Assure = From FILES OF THE CITIZEN | Mederatec vy FRED G. CLARK General Chairman Americon Economic Foundation Lasting Peace? As debated by Mr. Johannes Steel Author and Military Commentator MR. STEEL OPENS: The final ob- jectives of the United Nations obvi- ously is to establish political and economic democracy as well as per- manent peace in Europe. In order to achieve that purpose, the following methods are suggested: 1) The re-establishing of national boundaries in Europe on a pre- Munich basis with the following changes: a) The Polish’ Corridor to be abol- ished in the sense that that part of Germany which was separated from the rest of Germany by the corridor to Poland. b) Silesia to be incorporated into Czechoslovakia. c) The territory on the left bank of the Rhine, from the Dutch border to Switzerland, to be transformed into an independent Rhenish repub- lic federated with the Netherlands and Belgium. 2) Occupation of the rest of Ger- many for a period of 25 years. 3) An international commission of educators to develop an educational system for Germany. 4) Particular care should be taken that Germany’s heavy industry is never again able to transform its pro- ductive capacity into armament plants; the character of its produc- tion to be supervised by an interna- tional commission in accordance with the needs for industrial goods. 5) Racial and religious discrimina- tion to be outlawed. 6) Shoot, without trial, Nazi party members holding membership books Number One to 100,000. DR. BOHN CHALLENGES: Imag- ine the British directly after Water- loo chopping the body of France into four chunks. Let’s follow intelligent examples of history, not stupidities. I can’t look ahead twenty-five years. Let's adjudge German progress year by year and take action upon the facts. Remember what three cen- turies of Austrian “education” did in Bohemia; a century-and-a-half of Prussian “education” jn Poland; four centuries of Turkish education” in Greece? We northerners tried twelve years of bayonet “education” on southerners after the Civil War. Let the German democracy educate the German masses. British and Ameri- cans never shoot war prisoners with- | out trial. : MR. STEEL REPLIES: in my state- ment I am not suggesting Germany be chopped into chunks. I am sug- gesting the re-establishment of na- tional boundaries in Europe on a pre- Munich basis. It is absurd to compare the situation with France after Wa- terloo. We are dealing with a great industrialized power which created the greatest military machine the world has ever seen. A modern edu- zational commission in which the United Nations participate can't be zompared with three centuries of Austrian “education in Bohemia.” The Nazi party are not war pris- oners, they are mad-dog gangsters responsible for the murder of mil- lions of innocent civilians. Dr. Frank Bohn International Political Authorfty, . Economist and Journalist DR. BOHN OPENS: Germany was dismembered once before. It was at The Peace of Westphalia which closed the First Thirty Years War in 1648. Germany was divided into 23 Sov- ereign States, That fact became a lasting curse upon Germany. By way of Germany it has cursed Europe and all mankind. Only a united nation could achieve liberty and democracy. Britain and France could succeed because their political growth had united them. They were beyond any danger of dis- ruption when revolution came. The Germans and the Italians failed to create republics in 1848 because there were was no Germany and no Italy. The German democratic revolution succeeded in some states, notably in Saxony and Baden. But that did not affect Prussia. The national democ- racy could not function. German eco- nomic conditions, meanwhile, de- manded national unity. The time came when the masses of the people were willing to sacrifice liberty in order to attain unity. Bismarck did the job for them in 1864-71, by way of “Blood and Iron.” From that time to this German militarism has been the curse of Europe and the world. Of the disruption of Germany in 1648 we may well say “The evil that men do lives after them.” One ter- rible job of this sort has been quite enough. MR. STEEL CHALLENGES: No one wants to divide Germany. What is necessary is to isolate Prussian virus. In order to do that it is nec- essary to liberate the political poten- tialities in the Rhineland, the Palati- nate and Bavaria. The latter certainly has much closer political, language, cultural and religious ties with Aus- tria than with. Prussia. kt is all very well to talk about the Peace of West- phalia and the German Revolution of 1848 but the fact remains that a Prus- sian-dominated Germany has been teaditionally the aggressor. There was the war against Austria, the war against Denmark, the War of 1871, the War of 1914 and the present World War. All we have to do to have another world war 20 years from now OF MARCH 1, 1933 Postmaster Charles S. Williams died at 3 o'clock tnis aiternoon in the Marine Hospital, where he; i taken last Monday to undergo ration. Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow afternoon ! in} St. Paul's Episcopal Church, ithe Rev. Arthur B, Dimmick of- ficiating> The baby bond committee will ,hold a meeting tomorrow after- noon in the mayor's office in city hall. The Parent-Teacher Association will hold a tag day tomorrow to raige funds for the soup kitchen ‘at that school. i so ;_ The meeting of the Stephen R. {Mallory Chapter, United Daugh- | ters of the Confederacy, which w: to be held tomorrow afternoon the home of Mrs. Rose C. Sawyer, 523 Eaton Street, nas deen post- poned till March 9, when it will be held in the same place. Mrs. Dorothy Turnnett and Miss Susan La Kin will be the joint hostesses of the Key West Young Women’s Club at their meeting Friday afternoon and evening in the Woman’s ‘clubhouse on Di- vision street. Judge Jefferson B. Browne en- ;tertained at a dinner party Mon- |day night in honor of Mr. and |Mrs. Bert Linderman, who are | visiting in Key West. Three classes of the junior de- partment of the First Congrega- tional Sunday School, who had | won credits, were given a party yesterday afternoon on the South }| Beach. Miss Anna Perez, who will be {married to Brvan Richardson on ‘March 9, was given a miscellan- eous shower Monday afternoon in St. Paul’s Parish Hall. would be to leave Germany ‘indus- / trially and politically what she is to- day. DR. BOHN REPLIES: There is only one way to destroy Prussian Mili- tarism. That is by breaking the power of the Prussian aristocracy. Confis- cate the big landed estates and di- vide them up among a ion small | farmers. Europe is starving for unity. Division today into 25 sovereign states, is her first and last curse. This disease cannot be cured by dividing up Germany. Draw all Europe tos gether ‘into a United States Federal Government like our own. Let all Western Europe learn a secondary common language. Then all danger of a rebirth of German militarism will fade out of the picture as soon as a single generation of young peo- ple can be educated in the new age. Today's - “WHO KNOWS? { Harry Baldwin, who had been ; , in Kev West spending his quarter- ‘ly vacation, returned yesterday to his duties as* first assistant | keeper at Carysfort Lighthouse. The Rev. Louis Oser, formerly | of Key West, who had been here | | visiting friends, left yesterday for | Miami, where he is the pastor of | the Cuban Methodist Church in| | that city. € ! Vv. A. Johnson, who had been ‘attending the state convention of | insurance brokers in Jacksonville, | ‘returned home yesterday. Herbert Cabrera, auditor of the Gato interests, arrived yesterday from Havana on an official visit to ‘representatives in Key West. Today The Citizen says in an j editorial paragraph: | USN, w MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1943. PROMOTED COMDR. TUCKER C notified t of his promotion of Captain. He i the staff of Capt an, Commandant « i West Naval Operating as co-ordinator of ihe vario supply, accounting, ing and commissary ties in their relation activities of the base. C Gibbs is resid West. © oth a ont ' Today In History 1785—The Philadelphia So- jciety for the Promotion culture, country tural society, ¢ first ‘ganized 1817—Act of Congress Mississippi Territory, the ern half to become the Mississippi and the e. the Territory ef Alabama divides west- tate 1845—President signs the joint resolution of Congress: annexir the Republic of Texas—Texas re- ‘serving the right to t into not more than five States in future. 1867—Nebr: Statehood—the 37th State. admitted 1891—Tariff taining the fir Vision thi articles impo: be labe “Made in (name of country)”. Act in 1904—Gen. Gorges Panama's Canal Zone chief i tary officer—and soon eradicates disease from region 1910—The Rockefeller Founda- tion “to promote the well-bein of mankind throt out the wor established. 1932—19- month: -old Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.. kidnaped from home. 1942—Japs The OPA Tells Ration Pointers Series of week- swer articles, Office of Price help solve war- ‘oblems on the home front. the A—No. Point stamps may be removed from ration books only in the presence of the dealer. Deelers may mot accept loose stamps. A.—The poim’ price of each ra- ioned food will be pested on the od itself,or on the shelf on it is displayed. Im addi- tion. OPA has issued an Official Table of Point Values which will be published in the press and must be posted in ell stores. Q—w nt - price A—WNo, point prices may be changed at any time. but when- er pessible, changes will be made end cnncunced at the close period. a te buy six points ght-point stamps vill my grocer have to give me in change? But if vou use your end five-point stamps first nd save the smaller denomina- tions for items of low point value. you will probably not run into this difficulty. Also, you will have all the retion books of your family from which to choose stamps of the right denomination. A GOOD IDEA e NEW BRITAIN, Conn —In an Tt to control absenteeism, the Machine Company it will award oximately 3 feet by week to the de- nent which has the me plaque will d with swastikas. ab- be Dr Washingtc Arthur C. Milispaugh o on, D. C., noted political born Augusta, Mich , 60 515 Front Street Phone 66° Anniversaries oe 1732—William Cushing, Mas-} sachusetts jurist, Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, 1789-1819, born Scituato Mass. Died Sept. The Southernmost Mattress Factory in the United States ldsses for the past two months were the lowveet sustained in such a period for over | a-year. He added that new ships, built in his country, Canac 1 Great Britain, in remember that the meanest dog can bark _ at the greatest man ANSWERS “The Acts of the Apostles was sea. on RASS un | the first book ever printed in Rus- sia, and now the Soviets are try- 1. Where was the Mannerheim ing to repeal all Acts.” line? | 2. When was George Washing- | 1eighboring have the western Af- Liberia and it s' Sierra Leone rainfall on rica’s coastal bul ar The speed restriction on automobiles — the past six months ex I 1 0,000 tons. This 10,000 tons each, igure represents 125 ships of wenty such vessels a month, despite the de- sredations of the U-boats. led U-boat losses ; or a gain of more than ; With rew ships coming out of the yards | is confidence in his hipping situation will 1943 and even be that , there icn that the r at the 0 an eve end © 1944, if the war lasts the destruction of U-boats Minister assured the member. that the “rate of killing’ January to October, 1942, in the ¥ months 16 rning the Pri of I arliamert frm bést was the and added November has ing improve nearly half the seel t ar that the threc since seen the r > war. he i nk 19 Ships. T figure dropped to second year the struggle and to Even wi which U-boat is no ng £ the battle against th being lost, the decision has on to in construction of ships, at the expense of ##fté Hew car- mal els. rease the escort = is seems to be wise in view of the in- timation that before y Anglo-Arerican full-scale ort can be made to draw Ger- man troops and from Russia, the prcblem of the U-boat must be met so as to make aggressive action possible on a more remendous scale, e y, Fe dudging from past experience, the United St will economize, after the war, withholding funds from the Army, Navy and Air Corps, planes by | whose “Fables | redding some years ago, recently observed | practic e and trucks on the highways of the nation will have a three-fold effect: It will save tires, save gasoline and, most important of all, save lives. GEGRGE ADE LIKES THE PRESENT playwright, were “must” 24 George Ade, famous in Slang,” his seventy-seventh birthday and took time out for a few remarks. “You can have the good old day. he declared. “I’m perfectly content to be liv- ing in the present, even with rationing and the war.” The humorist’ speaks of *the marvels wrou ght by science during the last few decades, attesting, “I was born. the year after the Civil War ended. That makes me know.”’ He also points out that people today are more tolerant and better sports than they used to be. “We never thought of cheer- ing the opposition,” he explained. “Weused | to threw rocks at them,” #: , He points out that people were. pretty primitive in his early days, citing.the faci that he used to wear a bag of asafoetida around his neck to keep well and that babies chewed bacon rind when they were teeth- ing. “Doctor's préscriptions were limited to calomel, quinine and morphine,” and grown men carried “buck-eyes” in their pockets to ward off rheumatism. Mr. Ade’s observations ought to help | some Americans to cenclude that the na- tion and its people are making progress. He finds our “young soldiers inspiring,” and, judging from his interview, he has no idea that the human race is going to the dogs. A 13, 1810. 1837—William Dean Howells, noted New York editor and nov- elist his day, born Martins Fer-! ry, Ohio. Died May 11, 1920. 1848—Augustus Saint-Gaudens, famed sculptor, whose work raised American sculpture to a foremost place in the world’s art, born in Dublin. — Died; cornich, N. H., Aug. 3, 1907. f i 1861—Henry Harland, popular} novelist of New York and Taon-t jdon, born in New York. Died in Italy, Dec. 20, 1905. 1866—Henry A. Wise Wood, New York inventor of high- speed newspaper presses, born’ in New York, Died April “9 1939. pre-historic—so I ought to} | Edmund Duffy of Baltimore, }eartoonist, born Jersey City, 44 | t | years ago. ' Joseph E. Curran, president oft the National Maritime Union,; New York, born there, 37 years/ ago. j Fercival Wilde of Sharon, Conn. noted author-playwright, born! New York, 56 years ago. Dr. Winfred G. Leutner, presi-j dent, Western Reserve University, born Cleveland, 64 years ago. Louis K. Anspacner of Ossin- ing, N. Y., playertightacchee® born Cincinnati, 65 years ago. j Thomas E. Northrop, Denver, Colo., mining engineer and ex- plorer of Central and South Amer- ica, now Captain Corps of Engi- | neers, born at Bocas del Toro, Re- public of Panama, 36 years ago. ton born? 3. Who painted the famous por- trait, Mona Lisa? 4. How many full generals are on active service with our armed services? 5. Who has “an appointment in | personal affairs, but an eagerness | to impart knowledge in the na-! months after-| There will be® reticerice about | Berlin a vear from today” and one in Tokyo “six wards?” 6. What is the size of the new German Mark VI tanks? 7. Is meat rationing expected in the U. S.? 8. Will new income tax legisla- tion postpone the payments due March 15th? 9. Why was Mohandas Gandhi taken inte custody? 10. What is the size of the pro- jected U. S. Army by the end of the year? K. CHINA HAS HUGE LOSSES NEW YORK—China, in the present war with. Japan, has suf- fered total casualties equal to the population of Texas. | Uncle Sam To Lepd Him 10 PERCENT OF YOUR INCOME ‘Today's Horoscope Today gives an analytical mind jand an There will be reticienee about slove of home. How To Relieve - Bronchitis | cause it trouble germ laden to soothe and heal raw, tender, in- mucous mem- branes. Tell to Z ae your druggist hia derstanding relieves be- i to the seat of the loosen and expel and aid nature un- | | to have your money back. 'CRE for Coughs, Chest Colds, B j for Asks YOU | J. F. SIKES LICENSED PLUMBER 1366 CATHERINE STREET independent characte. | ia. Buy U.S. War Savings Bonds and Stamps Regularly — FIRST NATIONAL KEY ‘bee _ Member of the Federal Corporation WEST Deposit Insurance Spacer en * Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service —between— MIAMI AND KEY WEST Alse Serving All Pomts On Florida Keys