The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 5, 1943, Page 2

PAGE TWO ‘The Key West Citizen SHING CO. INC. e i n Building | Aun Streets West and ed at Key ASSOCIATED PRESS | The Associated F is exclusively entitled to use tor repoblication of news dispatches credited to -tor nut otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news shed here. MEMBER OF TH ! une Yiar | re ADVERTISING RAT Made known on application. L NOTICE rds of thanks, resolutioss of etc, Will be charged for at a 8, 19 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which a revenue is to be derived are. cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discns- sion of publie issues and subjects of local or general est but it will not pablish anonymous comnuni- $7 ~ MEMBER So FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION y) 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 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 und Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. — Consolidatién of County and. City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. LET’S MAKE IT FOUR, GOVERNOR (Orlendo Sentinel-Star) Gov. Holland, in his address before the con- vention of the Circuit Court Clerks here Friday, advocated the Legislature submit three amend- ments to be voted upon in the next general election for the strengthening of Florida’s tax structure. Of the amendments suggested was one to re- duce the now minimum three-mill tax which must be levied according to law for maintenance of the | schools, and to reduce a ceiling on the present ten { mill levy which is permitted for special school dis- | tricts and to reduce the five-mill levy on intangible | taxes te something like the present customary one- | mill levy. There is another amendment which we think | should be asked, and that is a ceiling on real estate, | which to us is more important than that of the in- tangible tax. | 2°94 In his address, Mr. Holland reduced the subject to a $1,000 bond as a means of explaining his po- sition. A $1,000 bond, yielding 4 per cent interest, brings in $40 a year. On the present customary one- | mill levy the tax would be $1. Under this tax the | bondholder would pay 2 1-2 per cent of the bond's | yield in State taxes. However, if the full five mills were levied as now permitted»by the Constitutio: the tax would be 12 1-2 per cent on the income whic would be excessive. It is to make such a tax impos- | she will not make a separate peace with | sible that Gov. Holland suggests the amendment. © | The suggestion is a wise one, for excessive tax ation could keep a number of persons from choos- | ing Florida for their hofe, as Northern investors often put their money in intangibles. However, Florida real estate owners should bi given the same sort of protection. For years time real estate barely yielded an income suffi- cient to pay its tax, and when repairs were made, the property owner had to go into his pocket to pay | for them. At the present the demand for rental property |'€ains, together with the savings and stand- | it a profitable investment but also the | ards of living of every man, woman and i off of tax revenues makes it imperative taxing bodies either find new sources of taxes or raise the millage, and as real estate is the easiest tax commodity to locate, the tendency has been to up the millage on it. And that has been done in the past to where thousands of property owners | have Igst their property because they could not pay thé almost confiscatory tax levied. Thkrefore, along with the ceiling on intangible taxes, Should also go an amendment to limit the tax on real estate. Gov. Holland's tax program is and should be enacted, but we do believe nould be given the same degree of pro- ection that is desired for the jntangible investor. The test of your villingness to read “other side.” intelligence is your the argumnts of the General Rommei is finding that Tu sia is not as healthy a_ locality as he may ve “een led to suspect. IN TIPTOP CONDITION Two news stories of outstanding im- portance to the people of Key West have | been published in The Citizen this week. | One is related to the other, though the for- mer is incidental. The Big Thing, the most essential thing to our economic welfare, was the announcemeni oi Thomas Johnson, chairman of the State Road Department that all bridges now in course of construg. tion on the keys will be completed by La- bor Day. 4 The other story, though of secondary | importance to the opening of ihe bridges | to traf: is related closely to our eco- nomic welfare, too. It was the announce-! ment of OPA Administrator Prentiss Brown | ; that he is considering lifting the ban on so- called pleasure driving. The likelihood is, though no definite date was mentioned by: him, that the ban will be lifted on March 22. As a result of that edict on pleasure driving, collection of tolls on the bridges last month fell off more than $8,000. as ¢ecompared with February, 1942. Everybody, who drives over the pre=- ent Overseas Highway, complains about its : poor condition. There have been instances , | where drivers avoid passing over the road, even on business. Only recently, Sheriff Berlin Sawyer was requested to take two | insane persons as far as Miami, #s the driver of the asylum wagon was averse to making the trip over the road. Drivers of produce trucks, who make | vegular trips ta Miami, will hail with de- light the opening of the new bridges. Driv- | | ing to Miami two or three times a week is # man-sized job, because one has to be on | | the qui vive from the time he leaves Stock island till he reaches the outskirts of Flor- | ida City. A further straining on thenerves caused by delays at bridges, when ponder- ous vans, going in opposite directions, have to be operated at a crawl or stop altogether till a bridge is clear. Labor Day, 1925, was outstanding in the history of Key West, when, for the first ; time, a Key Wester was able to drive his car beyond the confines of the city, except, of course, Stock Island. And the road then ran up only as far as Saddle Bunches. We celebrated then, so how much} more should we celebrate on Labor Day, 1943, when we will have a system of as | substantial bridges as can be built, when we will have a roadway that will be in tiptop condition, for it should be borne in mind that the State Road Department, in addi- tion to building or having built 23 bridges, ‘is also paving 83 miles of highway. Good news for Key West; our lifeline | to the mainland in tiptop condition! Beware the Ides of March. Few people have enough “character” not to believe the nice things that are said about them. The pen is mightier than the sword, but | the world’s battles are determined by the sword-wielders. Stalin says that the Russian army is | bearing the main brunt of the war, which | is undoubtedly correct, but the Soviet was bearing no part of the war until Germany attacked Russia. And what assurance have we that after she has defeated Germany that nation? : AMERICANS LIKE THE TRUTH Labor today is the most powerful single group in the nation. It can make or break * | the war effort. Labor leaders, by demand- | jiner Brazos. The flour will be dis-/ ing their pound of flesh during the emer- | gency, can bring disastrous inflation which | would wipe out a half century of labor child in the country, Is it any wonder that Captain Bddie Rickenbacker has asked sacrifices along with the rest of us, forego extravagant overtime demands, help to pro- tect the working rights of men returning from war, cease disruptive jurisdiction: strife and make-work tactics; are @ : | things too much to ask of labor at a ime } when the country is fighting for its very | life? They most certainly are not. The public agrees heart and soul with every word that Rickenbacker has uttered. Those who attempt to discredit him as a | labor hater, will hurt labor, because the words he has spoken were born when he was very near to death. Men near death | think and speak the truth. And Americans _ like to hear the truth, no matter how un- | pleasant. | colonial | their white officers in the Punjab. labor to make | THE KEY WEST CiTIZEN Indian Frecdom In 195 BY ROBERT N. COOL-—~ 7? AP Features Writer Ever since the gentlemen ad- venturers of tie Honorable East India Company found themselves tie often-unv rs to a dis- potism, the ing century sliarly eventful one idign ms. This phenen enon was first recognized he Indians themselves. 5° th year of as been a pec MCGHANDAS K. GANDH crisis over Indian prophecies, hcwever, sugg In 1657 the British set yp a trad- ing empire in Bengal with its cap- ——— 4 TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY ital at the port of Hugli the name of Job Charnok, future founder of Calcutta, also first appeared on the East India Company’s rolls in that year. Exactly a century later, on June} In_years past Tallahassee has 23, 1757, British rule of India was jookéd forward eagerly to each established at one momentous*fagisiative" session. Like a blood ‘*vanskua{tn. it always brought "nlew life ‘to the Capitol City. Ho- , t48) restdurants, boarding houses “ind business establishments in *general could count on this 60-day “* Period for a generous harvest. I has precipitated another independence now. Old native est he may be jumping the gun, that a more leisurely post-war ending of the Brit- ish Raj is in the cards for India. stroke by Clive’s victory at Plas- sey over a Mohammedan army that outnumbered his men more than three to one. A hundred years later, in May, 1857, the Sepoy Mutiny presented the gravest peril to British domi- nation that has been seen before or since. Native troops, made un- easy by western reforms and bungling, turned upon A Moslem ruler was Agra! hundreds of Europeans were slaughtered. Finally, with the help of loyal warrior tribes, the British suppressed the rebel- lion, and ended the antiauate regime of “John Company.” The British government took over. KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN OF MARCH 5, 1933 set up at Pembrook Bethel, 75, died yes- terday afternoon at 4 o’clock in his home on Catherine street. Funer- al services are being held this af- ternoon in the First Congrega- tional Church. Roy Hamlin last night was el- ected treasurer of the Police Corps of the Key West Fire Department. George Park, who had been co nected with the department 28 years, giving as the reason for his resignation the pressure of bus nes. Mrs. Emma Dorothy Valdez, 69,; died this morning in’ her home on United street. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon, ; begnining at 4 o'clock, in the Ley, 'Memorial. Church, the Rev.) Holmes officiating. | } Friday night 2,690 sacks of flour arrived in port on the Malory! tributed among the needy in this community, under the direction of ; the Key West Chapter of the; American Red Cross. The senior’s naval officer's flag) was hoisted today on the old post! ! office building, which has been} | taken over by the Navy. i Miss Laura E. Archer and Frank} M. Jolly. were married Saturday; yening in the home of the bride’s Tparents on Petronia street. The Rev: Holmes Logan, of the Ley! Mefmorial Church, performed the! -) ceremony. John Wise, of Columbia, S. c.! arrived in Key West yesterday to; join Mrs. Wise and to visit his; | brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and i Mrs. Jerry Trevor. \in Kev visiting his mother || ‘and other relatives, left yesterday | for Richard, Va. where he is; j employed by the Department of } Agriculture. | |; Mrs, George W..Reynolds. who | had been visiting friends in Tam-! Rjeert, Knight, whe had heen!” West i i During the mutiny, according to G. Anderson and M. Subedar in xpansion of British India,” “Vague prophecies foretelling the downfall of British the completion of a hundred years’ supremacy were retold.” Today, with leaders of both sides agreed on the principle of freedom, such prophecies must earry even greater weight in the native bazaars. If the present crisis is weathered and after the war Britain elects to follow the American precedent with the Philippines of a 10-year “waiting period,” it is possible thSt the British “Raj” will-reach a natural planned conclusion 200 years after Plassey, 100 after the itiny—in 1957. HAT! YOU DON’T HAVE GREMLINS? Up to now only aviators were supposed to be both- ered by;the Gremlins, But actually a Gremlin can The Citizen today and see for yourself. IMMENSE AREA WASHINGTON.—The Belgian Cengo has,an‘area of almost a million square miles. power after! Next month the lawmakers will | gather again, byt this time Talla- hassee is viewing the situation | With alarm. The town is already i filled to overflowing. People now jfind it difficult to get seats in a {restaurant during the busy hours, ‘hotels have no rooms available jand weary travelers often have ito sleep in the bus station or ho- ‘tel lobby between their almost hopeless efforts to find “some Place to stay.” | While some of the experienced legislators were smart enough to ;make arrangements long ago, the | bulk of those expected to answer | when the rall is called have yet to {be located. | The Tallabassee .Chamber of , Commerce hg& sent out an urgent lappeal to private citizens to open | their homes,/andamong the first !to respond was the First Lady. !Mrs. Spessard Holland advises. } that spare rooms at the Mansion j will be made available—first come, first served. H There is talk of using a wing oi jone of the dormitories at Florida ! S-ate College for Women H But housing is only ane prob- jlem, and the legislators, while more important, of course, are only !a fraction of the overload to be | expected. Hundreds of attaches must be provided for — and then there are always the lobbyists. ; . While the number of attaches will !no doubt be much smaller this year, and the lobbyists limited, there still will be far too many. | The question of eating is more | important than sleeping. With ra-: tioning and limited supplies, the public eating establishments are hard pressed as it is to care for the growing patronage. At a recent meeting. restaurant men all agreed that they. would do all in their power to discourage the use of tables for conferences. The time honored custom of dis-; cussing the problems of state at a ‘restaurant table over.acouple.of bottles of beer is OUT — at least| during the busy hours from 11} a. m., to 2 p. m., and 5 p. m, to’ 7. Customers will be expected to EAT and GET—no lallagagin’. Even at six dollars a day. the | attaches won't be able to accumu- | late much excess cash, for it will; ' probablv take about all they make| ,for housing and meals, if they! can even find such accommoda- | tions — and within the next few! weeks Tallahassee doorbells willi he rung by a lot of people besides , the Fuller-Brush man. i For the first time in the mem- ory of man, members of the lesis- | lature are not being hounded to! death by folks seeking employ- ment during the sessio>. In fact, some of them are downright head | iy RUSSELL KAY ried over the problem of necessary secretarial help. When the labor shortage and manpower problem come up for discussion this ses- sion, the boys will really know what it is all about While the idea advanced some time ago that the cut to 30 days, did very warm receptior HORSE MEAT TAGGED ENGLEWO"D. N. J—Bc meat may be sold m Engiewaod meat shops if cack psece 6 lame ed with a three by mctaes with letter: 1 one sack rage stat up with difficulties encountered they will put on steam and do the job as quickly as possible The big problem will be to find monev to replece the loss in reve nue from eurtailed gasoline and racing taxes. A 2-cent-a-package tax on cigarettes has been pro- — posed as a means of raising a good ~ portion of it, but since cigarettes ~ av> already heavily taxed it felt that such additional burden should not be placed on this one commodity. Sales tax advocates are getting considerable encouragement some auarters. and vou can depend on a determined effort being made in this direction. Speaker of the House Simpson and President Beall of the Senate are economy minded; they will be receptive constructive economy . measures which thev feel can be enacted without breakin™down the >°ces sary functions of government A SOLDIER’S PRAYER Dear Lord . mine see . All of my country’s majesty, And help me guard its earth and sky, The seas beyond its shore, And give me strength to fight or die In this, my country’s war, And make me clean and brave and whole! I trust in You—You have my soul. four nese? The La N-no. Custam kind in undry man Fed Laundrymas Means li teeth . let these eyes of ma PVP. TOMMY MURRAY. Company “A”, Recreation Center, Camp Blanding. Kerch is called Russia's Pom- peii because of its many tombs and <elics. Licensed Funeral Directors ¢' and Embalmers } 24-Hour Ambulance Service ‘ > PHONE 135 NIGHT 696 024444444444 S15 Front Phone 66° PABPALAAAAG22O24S- . | Pa, and Miami, returned yester- day. ‘Dr. SSD> arrived yestétday to visit George F Morris. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Lowe and children arrived from Tampa yes- terday and are visiting relatives and friends. Ross C. Sawyer, county clerk, and Dr. H. N. S. Johnson, left for Marathon today for a stay of two days. ¢ Mrs. Iris Dickett and daughter, Miss Cecilia Dickett, who had been | here a week visiting Mr. and Mrs. Charles Albury, left for their | home in Miami yesterday. i ed on | take if| all) w+ | | | Teday The Citizen says éditorial paragraph: “War debts might be the principle of give Europe did not insist on doing- the taking.” : ee in an CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE at ALL GROCERS BAAAAAAAAAAADRAAR ~. ‘W.' Light6f Miami,