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

PAGE TWO i She Key West Citizen THR CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. obey JOE ALLEN, Busine: nag From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets * only Deily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Florida, as second class matter MEMBEK OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to rtered at Key West ft or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the | focal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year . Six Months Three Month ne Month eekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutioss of respect, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which ® revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. 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ARTILLERY ENDS REIGN OF TANKS In the middle of February we pointed out, in these columns, that “the value of tanks in battle is questionable.” We called attention to Africa where “anti-tank artillery has established a bal- ance” and said that ‘‘much of the success of the Red army is attributable to its ability to round the enemy with heavy guns.” Confirming this opinion is an article, printed on the first page of the New York Times, on April 21st, from Cairo, Egypt, where a correspondent reported that “grati- fide British artillery and air experts” con- sider the tank “outclassed and virtually rendered useless.” In ground attacks, says C. L. Sulzberg- er, the Times writer, “the Royal Artillery considers that guns are so far ahead of tanks that no new armored vehicle can be satisfactorily developed during this war that could regain superiority.” He adds that the Soviet army, ‘ which | specialized in the quality and quantity of | its artillery” discovered on the plains around Smolensk and the slopes of Moscow that the withering fire of its guns “shatter- ed a_ tremendous of armored di- visions.” In our article in February we said that “General Montgomery relied upon hea artillery to break the enemy line’’ and that reports from Russia gave “information of the increasing use of artillery.’ Emphasis is added by the ment has cancelled lend-lease order for 4,- 000 tanks. Having thus established the probable accuracy and correctness of our observa- tions in February as to tanks we will now go further to assert that: Germany, now hopelessly behind in the manufacture of adequate guns, will not | be able to meet the aerial offensive of the Anglo-American air forces, but Americans | and their allies, in Europe and the Far East, both on the ground and from ships afloat, will have an adequate, but not perfect, de- fense against Axis aerial attacks. This defense is not yet completely satis- factory but it is steadily improving, battleships, according to an admiral, 100 times the anti-air sessed when the war began. Guns for the ground forces are also improving and ack- ack, as the aviators call shell fire, be- coming more dangerous to aircraft every day. The development and manufacture in quantity of anti-aircraft weapons will give to the allied nations the means with which stablish reasonable defense against aircraft. The lack of such weapons by the Axis nations will enable our planes to exploit the advantages of superiority in number and quality and permit them to in- flict terrific damage to our enemies in bat- tles on land and sea. force Freedom of the pres tion which has a press that is free. fact that the Soviet govern- | Our | carry | raft power they po- | fine for a na-! | THE DISHWASHING QUEEN | —_—— The implacable law of supply and de- | mand is manifesting tory of our country. The queen is dead, God save the queen, and the new queen turns out to be the lowly get a job for their “keep,” and the cases | were numerous where they received a few dollars a week, together with meals. | ran in The Citizen three days, offering $5 call that wages,” the advertiser said—for dishwashing. On the fourth day one appli- cant applied for the job. “She can get a Juicy sirloin salary, the advertiser replied, anything she wants except steak.” Thirty dollars a week, with one day off, and all the grub she wants, for a dishwash- er! Let everybody who thought that the pro- fession of dishwashing would draw an hon- orarium of that dimension, hold up his hand. Not a single hand goes up in the vast audience, every nation, including our own, when peo- ple would have been glad to labor to get all the food they wished to eat. Of course, in some instances, as during the depression in this country, the equivalent of food was in money that barely kept body and soul to- } gether, as was the case when the FERA and | the WPA were operating in Key West. Many a local worker complained that ke was paid little more than enough to buy bread and coffee. That statement was ex- | aggerated a bit, but the exaggeration was not pronounced by any means. And what was the cause of that con- dition when men, many of whom had earn- ed large salaries before the 1929 crash, were , happy to get a job that provided them with bread and butter, and the condition that ex- ists today when an advertisement appear: three times in succession, offering $30 a week for a dishwasher, before anybody applied for the job? man in Key West who was glad to be paid times as much, or more, and you would be surprised to learn hew many of them there are who think they are being underpaid! frets because so-and-so is “pulling down’ $100 a week. And so it goes. The queen is——Let’s crown the dishwashing queen! Soldiers on the firing line seldom com- | plain of overtime and they care very little about dividends. EXPLAINING TUNISIA The progress of the British armies in Tunisia indicates that the end of Axis re- sistance is closer than suspected, although any battle against an entrenched and skill- ful foe is hard. The steady advance of the Allied units, including American and French contin- gents demonstrates that the Axis is weak- | er than we suspected or that some Axis | strength has been evacuated or lost en route to other points. There is one other explanation to what is underway but most of us are extremely slow to realize it. The British Eighth Army may be just about the best fighting unit of its size in the world and, armies and superb equipment, it appears to be equal to any task assigned. * a War workers, who now enjoy abnor- | mal incomes, should save some of their earnings for the years ahead; nobody | knows what will happen when millions of | fighting men are demobilized. “RETURN” We see where a group of European | churehmen have appealed for a “return to God” as an answer to the problems that be- set the world. This is a generalization often used by | those who admit they are on the inside with the Almighty and that others are in need | | of advice, instruction and, perhaps, punish- ment, We certainly are not ready to admit | that mankind has turned from God, even if expounders of religion assert it to be a fact. | The people of the world may not un- ' derstand God, they may not live cetiect | lives and they may be too ignorant to solve many issues but, for the most part, they are | anxious to serve the living God. ! itself more forcibly | now than during any other time in the his- | dishwasher. It was not so long ago when we | | heard about dishwashers who were glad to | But now! A’ classified advertisement | w day, six days a week, as a salary—‘‘don’t | Asked if meals | would be given the dishwasher besides the | There have been times in the history of | The answer is found in the law of sup- | ply and demand. The FERA\ or the WPA | six or seven dollars a week, now earns ten | 3 | The sixty-dollar-a-week man fumes and | editorial paragraph: i aided by other | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ! f. KEY WEST-IN -¥* Today's DAYS GONE BY 32 Anniversaries 1809—Frederick A. P. Barnard, | FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN famed Alabama Univ. teacher, OF MAY 5, 1933 president oi Columbia Univer- |sity, born Sheffield, Mass. Died ton Lewis, game warden,) April 27, 1889. | is recommended to the state! Caras conservation commission that a{ 1814—George M. Mowbray, |sanctuary for birds be established | pioneer American oil _ refiner lin the lower Florida Keys. | manufacturer of explosives, born | | England. Died Adams, Mass., | | June 21, 1891. { William W. Demeritt, superin- jtendent of lignthous in this dis- ‘aid today that approximate- | 000 will be spent in making} |improvements to the former old} ; Naval Station that has been taken {over by the bureau of lighthouses. 1832—Hubert San Francisco publisher, born H. Bancroft, | historian and} Greenville, O. Sponge brought good prices ati | the auction sales today. Some lots {sold for more than $5 a bunch ald H. Fitz, Boston pioneer in appendicitis, |Chelsea, Mass. Died Sept. | More than 14,000 erates of pine-| 1913. apples arrived in Key West yes-! terday trom Havana for repacking | and reshipping. born 30 1857—James Duncan, cutter, American labor |born in Scotland. | The meceting of the Key West | Mass. Sept. 14, 1928. Junior Woman heduled —. pee ne euubecheduledito ts 7 se mizapein 7 C! Seananl| Gre held: thustattemican,, has\ bea postponed to Friday” Pe?) oaNellie Biy”), noted New York { : ‘journalist her day, born Arm Officers will be installed at the; Strong Co., Pa. Died Jan. jmeeting of the Parent-Teacher , 1922, Association to ‘be held next Tues | day afternoon. Several thinmandattended inal TOday In History May Day festival held yesterday | \afternoon in Bayview Park. Igna-| Carbonell was king of the ear- |, 1o28—The |nival and Miss Ann Tuttle the es Sony | queen. ‘ebdrerceats leader, New York, | Mrs. F. C. Brossier, formerly | 1831—First issue the Detroit 1 me | | Little Willie was but five, Died Quincy, — 27,) | American Seamen’s| INFANT PRODIGY THE LOWDOWN A most unusual boy, Most fol |A prodigy of quips and pranks. His parents’ pride and joy. | jal) ing, or = 0 | around The only | | people, that pops |right now, woul tolour U.S.A. Ge not soldie When this precocious genius He roared with childish joy see His dad sit down on air. “Why, Willie dear,” out said me, put! identif ple, and see f By this outre affair, have a high fc “You know your father can’t sit! If'Tam in down }on a doughnut, ar Unless he has his chair.” to me is nibbling « mothered in o: “Aw, shut up!” said Sweetie To further humor stirred: “Cut the corn—remember ents Should be seen, Pic par. | Works it | And while we are : not heard.” | MARGUERITE CROLLY J. F. SIKES granite | Stump Lane, Key West, Fla. LICENSED PLUMBER 1306 CATHERINE STREET | Today’s Birthdays { Alice Faye, actress, born Ney York, 28 years ago. \ iS Freeman F. |“Amos” of Amos born Richmond, Va., ago. Gosden, and 44 George A. Cook, |the National Mediation born Bloomington, IIi., ago. chairman of Board 54 ye | Mrs. George Lowe, of this city, Pierce Saas c pager | who is naw a resident of Miami,} 5 is a guest of Mrs. Peter Williams,}, 1834—60 pioneers under Wyeth lof Elizabeth street. |leave Missouri to make Oregon) | | American. John Nebo, local pugilist, left! erday for Miami to visit rela-| lya, annually observed in Mexi-| co—Mexicans defeat invading Robert Pritchard and son, Rob- | French army and drive it back ert, Jr., of Miami, are in Key West! to cgast. i for a week’ 's visit. Sa | | 1920—Sacco and Vanzetti ar- rested in Brockton, Mass., open- x|ing up historic trial. { 1925—John T. Scopes, Dayna !Tenn., high school teacher, ar- | rested for teaching evolution in violation of state law. 1862—Battle of Cinco de Ma-| Dr. E. M. Masten, who had bee: | visiting in Key West the last months, left yesterday for New| | York City. . Edward Archer, in Key West visit ing relatives, returned yesterday to their home in Coconut Grove. 1935—Middle West in throes — of Chain-letter craze. ; Sam McClintock and grandson,! | Louis Lowe, left yesterday for Is- 1936—Italian army enters Aa-| | lamorada for a fortnight’s stay. dis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia. | ‘1939 — 100,000 Western miners join 300,000 in East and soft coal | ae strike in full swing. | vy sons i And no telling how many 1942—Sugar rationing begins. | Today The Citizen says in an | “It is estimated that Ameri | drink 75,000 cups of coffee ¢ | second. | saucers.” 2 | H 1941—Haile Selassie returns! ~\to his native Addis Ababa. RUN BY ANOTHER CITY Today gives a nature aet CHICAGO.—The French West | finds pleasure in good works. Be| African colony of Mauritania has | careful of the choice of tge mar-| no town of importance. \riage partner, for otherwise your | governed from St. Louis, a city in |good qualities will not be held, adjacent Senegal. at their full value, and there is | indication of trouble. There is great ability of expression. LARGEST OF TREES AL & JOE LOS ANGELES —The Califor- RADIO SERVICE [nia redwood is the largest tree) 629 Eaton, Cor. Elizabeth , found in North America. | "THE FASTEST RADIO i Te Ea SERVICE IN TOWN’ THE VINEGAR TREE THE VINEGAR TREE “Electrical DON'TS” ELECTRIC WASHER THE WRINGER DON’T leave pressure on rolls when not in use. DON’T use same pressure for all types of clothes; adjust wringer for different types. DON’T use the center section of rolls, use full width. DON’T allow grease to accumulate on ends of rolls, as this will rot the rubber. THE WASHER DON’T overload, fill with clothes and water to water line.” DON’T start washer with full load, put clothes in after washer is running. Ee ee i DON’T leave agitator on shaft, remove and clean after each washing. The Washer you have now will have to last for the duration. Take care of it. THE KEY WEST ELECTRIC COMPANY Pes Te USCS SCS CVS SOS SST OS SSE SS SSCOSSUSSCIPULUSTOSSOCOOCCOL ETT CT Samuel H. McCrory, noted | Dept. of Agriculture , engineer {born Iowa City, Iowa, 64 years jones J. Monroe Johnson of Marion, !S. C. Interstate Commerce Commissioner, years ago. born there, 65 noted au- Pa, 52 Christopher Morley, thor, born Haverford, years ago. Kenneth Burke of N. J., noted author, burgh, 46 years ago. Andover, born Pitts- THE VINEGAR TREE Phone No. 8 U. S. 1942 exports, exclusive of | lend-lease, exceed pre ... YOu can spot it every time HETHER ina sport or anything else, you can always spot the fellow who has the edge. 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