The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 17, 1943, Page 2

PAGETWO ~ The Key West Citizen THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. Published Daily, Except Sunday, by lL. P. ARTMAN, Owner and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County tered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use | for republication of all news dispatches credited to # or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the focal _news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RAS'TES One Year .. six. Months Three Mont Yne Month Weekly... ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE Riftreading notices, cards of thanks, resolutioss of respe: bituary notices, etc.#will be charged for at the_rate of 10 cents a Hine. Notices for entertainment by churches from which a revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of pubMe issues and subjects of local or general Interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- ;GOOD ENGLISH One Miami editor, writing in a light vein, spoke of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek’s | chasing him to the dictionary to look up | words, or supposed words, he could not find | even in his unabridged. The Citizen is confident that that edi- tor will tell you that neither Roosevelt nor | Churehill has ever chased him to the diction- ary, and the reason is not hard to find: Roosevelt and Churchill use good English; the Madame uses stilted and labored Eng- lish. An uneducated man can search in a tome of 400,000 words and find a word that | an educated man does not know the mean- ing of, and, nine times in 10, he is not con- cerned in knowing, beeause he is aware the occasion may never arise when he will need to use the word. Good English is not couch- ed in polysyllabies, whose sources usually | | | THE KEY WESi a, (3 f CGURES IN Tas MODE SUGAR _|PRODUCTS| bea Food Rations fa ad Aeoel ad [meat a | — | MEAT COFFEE & TEA EGGS NUMBER CANADA RATIONED UNITED KINGDOM NOT RATIONED ITALY GERMANY| 5 (VARIES) BELGIUM | 314 NOT PURCHASE NOT NOT Today’s Birthdays Today's Bo roscope U. S. Senator Menned er nof W ONLY SIZEABLE POr i oiesaihenemsneiamenmeiiammmnnionmensmneniedemanaae DR. AARON H SHIFRIN Genera. Pracuce OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE. SURGERY and X-RAY Whitehead—Ope Lighthouse Phone 612-W $25 RATIONED RESTRICTED) RATIONED | RATIONED are Greek or Latin; good English is found in Anglo-Saxon words, the best examples in the use of which are in the Bible. Greeley and Dana are rated among the greatest editorial writers this country has ptoduced, and the words ‘they“used were almost as simple as those in the Bible. Seemingly, it is an easy matter to use Bible English, but it is hard, exceedingly hard. The amateur thinks that if he doesn’t pui- big words into ‘his writings, it shows a-lack of education, and the’ professional finds: it impossible: Jat times _to__ resist pasting the reader with a pollysyllable, Madanie is a learned and an admirable woman and her cause has the wholehearted support of every American. Her failure to | rouse the enthusiasm of her radio listeners | | lies in her inability to use forceful English | —homespun words, the words of the fire- side, the words that grip the heart and the mind too. Big words, patticularly the kind that chase us to the dictionary, leave us cold and unconcerned. Besides, a sentence is lost to us if it contains words we don’t un- derstand. “Fireside chats” is an apt character- ization of Roosevelt’s talks over the radio. | The writer was present at one of his talks, | Row FILES OF THE CITIZEN where, the listeners in¢luded a nine-year-old APRII. 17 girl, whdsd'interest he maintained from ( —SS— the beginning tothe end. She understood | ‘the City Council will hold a hint because he used “fireside”? words’ in | special meeting tbis afternoon at conveying his thoughts to her. 5 o’clock to consider the proposal jof the Key West Electric Com- “Blood and sweat and téars”—memor. diy 46 disgiutitine the Horoscope — _ FICTION - NON-FicTIOnN tir Open 6:30 AM to 7 PML IF You'Re Leoxmwe Foe DENMARK] 5 | 4 FRANCE | 41, | 4 €DITORIAL_ 4 NOT RATIONED ~ WILL always seek the truth and print it w.thout fear and without favor; never be _Btraid to af NOT RATIONED ee | yy |rananeo| Ve | Vp | SWEDEN BALTIC STATES U.S.A. “Ys JATIONED-|RATIONED: FIGURES "| FIGURES UN- See Paut SmutrH 334% Simonton £T. Nor | NoT | NOT | | RATIONED | RATIONED] RATIONED “faction or class; ‘always do its utmost for the publie welfare; -neveritolerate corruption or ‘injustice; denounee vice and praise virtue, <eommend good done by individual or organ- -ization; tolerant of othets’ rights, views and “opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate,the reader; never com- promise with principle. ERE is how the U. S. civilian fates on rationed feod, compared with his Allies, enemies and the Axis-dominated peoples of Europe. Shown are the amounts in pounds the average person gets per week, except the egg ration, which is in units. The figures for Europe are based en data compiled for the last quarter of 1942 by the League of Nations, which says however that although Europeans are en- titled to these quantities, often the food is not available in the stores. In addition, fresh fruit, vegetables and fish are ration- ed in Germany and the occupied countries. AINT VALUES 1 heb yw DOLOE SAVE MONEY... to help you TIME... BOTHER ‘KEY. WEST IN DAYS GONE BY IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN | i = Today’s Anniversaries Today Th History Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. ‘ A Modern City Hospital. 1790.—Died, age 84, Benjamini ranklin, famed American. 1741—Samuel Chase, Mary- onne, _decree,!land’s famed Revolutionary lead- seizure of Amer-|er. U. S. Supreme Court Justice, born there. Died June 19, 1811. 1808—By B: France orderec ican ships in French ports. TRADE MARK Bes. US. PS il FINISH é | A gallon does the average room Covers 1848.—Kit Carson leaves Los 1806.—William G. Simms, no- Angeles for Washington with} ted Southern author, born Char- what is said to have been first) leston,S.C. Died there, June 11, mail from coast to East. ‘1870. oepra-! ‘able words, uttered by . Churchill, and gach tién of buses in. Key West. “of them: @ monosyllabie.. ‘It is cae ‘unusual Bis” Elwood: : r him or Roosevelt to use sentences made\|:, R@¥ Elwood, constable on the cian, and Sayers of England—iof the late Morgan, born Hartford, fo ilable as. 0 ae in’ first district, said today in dis- d by police in 37th round. Conn. Died March 31, 1913. | ‘ap entirely of one-sylla' Words, 120 jeussing the slot machine ques- awhile a pollysyllable slips into Roosével 1916—Capt. Franz von Papen} and Churchill’s talks, but, generally, it is Sas pd a Dir as a of perean Embassy in Washing- word that is as familiar as the homespun | which fis aieshine ie foluud: on, indicted for complicity in 60—Historie prizefight ink 11837—John Pjerpont Morgan. | gland between Heenan. Amer-| banker, patron of the arts, father | FREEDOM OF THE PRESS ~~ ~~ 7 Where news is suppressed there is stopy ~ anarchy; where news is controlled there is “fear; only where news is free are human be- sings free. 1849.—William R. Day, Ohio! lawye! cretary of state, Justice of the U. S. Supreme .Court, born there. Died July 9, 1923. tion, that-wherever he sees a slot machine he is going to seize it and plot to destroy the Welland Can- CARL ACKERMAN, Dean, School of Journalism, Columbia University. 4 ——————$ £ HOLY WEEK Starting with Palm Sunday and through Easter Sunday, this world goes through the most solemn week of our Chris- tion year. It is rightly called “Holy Week” and mien do well to take time to be holy and | reverent in thought by pausing to remem- ber the supreme sacrifice of all times, all nations andalt porrieay We should prepare. otirselves th tiie thidt ts ly Week to accept thé glory and h’edertiption which Easter Sundayy day just as it did 19 cen- tries; ? ‘Sirely frustrated and fearfulp ahd: inssveh ‘tiitmoil We could take this week to prepare to wipe from our hearts the unrest and dispair making it open and free of personal agitation Easter message, Here in Key West we should remind ourselves that the human race has not be- | came extinct and lost, nor has it complete- ly’ destroyed itself. Past Holy Weeks have proven that it purges itself and is redeem- ed again and again. HOW LONG WILL THE WAR LAST? Nearly everybody has an idea as to how lohg the war will last. Here is.gne: Major-General Levin'Campbell, Chief ptf Ordnance, says, “The..wan-wilkiend in.two years for Germany ‘and not Woy! 2 ster that for Japan,” 8 cron . dy w2A larexitic Give us this day our daily bread With alittle butter. They say that one man’t meat is an- other man’s poison. There are lots of us in Key West who are willing to take a chance on it today. Men who give up jobs in civilian life to fight at $50 a month find it difficult to understand the wrangling in this country “oyer higher pay and increased prices. to receive the | ones. | However, one must be born to the | tongue to use it effectively, though some- times there is an exception, as in the case of Joseph Conrad. But he got his first train- | ing in English at sea, where the hard-hit- | ting, hard-bitten monosyllable rules the waves in storms as well.as in calms. Neither the good writer nor the good speaker keeps a dictionary under his el- | bow. | About the only way to tell it is Sunday with the streets cleared, is to.go to church. | $War marriages may ‘not turn out 80% wel but then. our record for peacetime | marriages is not! perfect. There is nd use to bemoan the calling of young men to the colors; rather we | should seek to dis¢over the error in our ways that permitted the present need to arise. | With the end of March approximately one-fourth of 1943 has disappeared and the | | presumption is that you have accomplished | one-fourth of your 1943 objectives, in- | cluding the payment of one-fourth of your | income tax. PRODUCING NEW WEAPONS | One-third of the production for war | purposes in Great Britain consists of weap- | ons that did not exist, except in the imagi- | / nations of their, invenitors, when war broke | | out, declares Oliver Lyttleton, British Min- | ister of Production, ~ i | He points out that British catpit in| February was 4 per dent greater than in | | the same month of last year and continues | | to expand. Four times as many heavy bomb- | | ers, for example, were produced in the | British Isles in February, this year, than were completed in the same month of last | | year. Mr. Lyttleton hints that the days of des- | "ert warfare are numbered and tells his peo- | ple that “we must look forward to fighting | a country with | in an enclosed country, | roads, rivers and fdilways.” | Mr. and Mrs. (friends in Miami, Relief workers in Key West were paid yes y. The amount distributed was $1,178 Miss Emily W. Ladd entertain- ed at dinner yesterday in honor of E. E. Williams, of Kirkwood, Mo., who celebrated | their forty-third wedding anniver- sary yesterday The Pythian Sisters will give a dinner tomorrow featuring turtle cakes, in the hall on Fleming street. Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Jenks, had been visiting relative returned who and yes- terday. ‘Will McKillip, who had been in Key West visiting ~relatives, re- jturned yesterday t6 Miami. Ben Felton, Jr., left yesterday to visit relatives and friends in Miami. Sebastian Cabrera returned yes- terday from Tampa, where. he was a delegate from the Key West | Rotary Club at the Rotarian con- vention in that city. Mrs. Frank B. Guito returned yesterday from a visit to Jackson- ville. _ Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Woods ar- ed from Miami yesterday to | visit Mrs. Woods’ parents, Mr. and | Mrs. Webster Roberts. Mr. and Mrs. Alphesus Higgs returned from Miami, where they j went to attend the funeral ser-! vices for Mr. Higgs’ brother-in?/ Jaw, William T. Pinder. The twenty-fourth anniversary of the Alumnae Association of! the Convent ef Mary Immaculate | was observed yesterday in the con- vent. Lieutenant Herbert A. Tellman, | communication office at the naval wvvvwwvewe |Your Grocer Sells THAT GOOD _ STAR * BRAND © CUBAN COFFEE lies Capen Ba. 20 | 62£2444442444444445 al. 1920.—Height of outlaw railroad strike. 1941. 1942_—American bombers Rangoon. — Yugoslavia capitulates to Germany. 1852.—Adrian (“Pop”) Chicago baseball manager and player of the 1880's, born Iowa. Died April 14, 1922. Whoa Customer—“Are strictly fresh?” Grocer (to~ his those eggs. George, these raid left yesterday for Jupi-| they're cool enough to s-ll yet.” Today The Citizen says in an editorial paragraph: “There is nothing so bad but that it could be worse. Whatever it is, thinking makes it so. Think | right and you will feel better.” ter to inspect the communication -m. there. J. F SIKES LICENSED PLUMBER 1306 CATHERINE STREET Overseas Transportation Company, Inc. 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