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PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen THE CITIZEN HING CO. INC. Published Dai ept Sunday, by L. P, ARTMAN, Owner and Publisher JOE ALL! 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 ft or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the focal news published here. SUBSCRIPTI RATES ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading potic 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. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general Interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- ~ NATIONAL EDITORIAL SSOCIATION 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 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. OUR HEROIC MERCHANT SEAMEN Upon several occasions we have com- mented upon the great service rendered the allied nations by the sailors of the merchant marine who, at great risks, deliver the stuff aeross the seven seas, The other day, however, we received a request from a brave young American who had made the trip across the Atlantic. He agks that we call attention to the fine work of the heroic sailors of the merchant fleets who have endured great hardships and suf- fered considerable loss of life. It is a pleasure to write this article to state again that few Americans realize the contribution that these sailors have made to the success that looms hopefully upon the horizon of battle. Without brave merchant seamen the allied cause would be hopelessly lost and it is only just and proper that the people appreciate the fact that they assume risks that are not less dangerous than the perils of the battlefield. Hundreds of merchant sailors have given their lives, in the present war, in the cause of freedom. Without much fanfare and often without praise they have gone down to the sea in ships and sometimes they have not again come home. To their sorrowing families must be given the knowledge that their sacrifice is not in vain, that their part in the struggle is correctly appraised and that they lie buried under the water in the shroud that is reserv- ed for brave and courageous men, If anybody had the idea that politic: have been adjourned for the duration, it time for another idea. Key West has a Sausage tree, and now we have gar Tree.” “The Vine- The parents who tell their children they wish they would behave as they did at their age usually do. Now that the April bond drive is over we must remember that the during May and the Government needs more money to keep the fighters going. Thomas Jefferson believed in educa- tion and the rule of the people; there are many present-day Americans, with a so called education, who disagree with the au-| ‘ean not account for the mental proce bread fruit tree, a | ; war goes on | Tuture, assuming that they ean swim the | BROKE, BROKE, BROKE! The most accomplished psycholog es that actuate some men and cause them to do things that transcend the understanding | of the level-headed man. In the early days in Key West and up | to 40 years orso ago, a good many Key Westers prided themselves on “stinging” | the city whenever they got a chance. Time and again, somebody who supposedly turn- ed his ankle while crossing a street full of ruts, or was supposedly injured in any one | of a dozen different ways, proceeded to sue the city, and almost without exception, the jury turned in a verdict against the city. “Sock the city!” was the attitude of « good many Key Westers in those days, and they didn’t have sense enough to see that | when they socked the city they were sock- | ing themselves. H And until today you may hammer away as hard and as long as you wish, in pointing out that the city’s money is the peo- ple’s money, put in the city’s treasury by taxpayers, yet it would surprise you how many Key Westers there are whose attitude voices this sentiment, ““Aw, what’s the dif- ference, it’s the city’s money!” As a person’s attitude on any question can be determined only on what he has to say on that question and how he responds ; in acting on it, then one is forced to con- clude that Key West’s cared little and thought less about spend- ing the city’s money, the people’s money, so long as they spent it. The official itch to spend, as The Citizen has remarked before, could not be scratched away. In nine months of the present fiscal | year, the revenue collected by the city set | an all-time record. The city really should have been “in clover.” As one city officia! pointed out, had the councilmen operated within the confines of the budget, the city today would have a bulging balance in the bank, but, instead, the city is broke! On whom does the blame devolve for that condition? On the heads of the city councilmen themselves. It is they who have | the power to decide what may or may not be spent. But what did the councilmen do? | Let us consider only one instance. When The Citizen protested against the taisitig of salaries that had been fixed by law, the coyacilmen, with one or two exce}- | tions, connivingly set up “relief” payments, and when that move was killed, the coun- | cilmen consented, with the exceptions noted, | in having the “relief”? made legal by legis- lative enactment. There was money in the treasury, the | people’s money, but those councilmen went cnaspending spree, and warning after | warning went unheeded. They continued to | throw the money to the four winds until, as one city official remarked, “They'll stop now because they haye no more money to | throw away.”’ | One wonders if the councilmen spend their own money with as little concern as they spent the city’s; one wonders if they ever gave a thought, while playing the roles | of spendthrifts, to what the late President on said, “Aj public dollar is a public ? If they want to throw away their own money, that’s their own business, but when they throw away the city’s money, that’s the taxpayers’ business. Broke, broke, broke; Broke, ord-breaking collection year! in a rec- The best way to get a day’s work done is to work a day. THE GULF GROWS WIDER The question of whether our country will be able to survive the cost of the war without financial collapse, looms larger daily. In ordinary times a_ two or three- hundred-billion-doHar debt would have | been considered insurmountable. We now ! have our backs to the wall financially. It re- mains to be seen whether the people value | personal comfort more -than they value personal liberty and the integrity of the na- ; tion. Inflation and eventual bankruptcy can be avoided if the people have the determi- nation to follow through on measures de- | | signed to curtail excess purchasing power and the accumulation of an unmanageable public cebt. In the main, these measures are rigid prices control and rationing, cuts in non-essential government spending, tax- | ation, and bond sales to the people. Except | for rationing, we have adopted none of | | these measures fully as yet. Too many people and public officials cling to peacetime illusions, They are even so foolish as to plan greater comforts in the : | gulf of sacrifice that lies between. The gulf i thor of the Declaration of Independence. [erowe wider as they talk. | city ecuncilmen ; ; Minr |landmark in journalism. { | for ae GA CANNED AND BOTTLED Over 10 oz. tnel 14 a2. Ne. 1 Plenie Wa 211 Cyt. WEIGHHT =>) CONTAINER SIZE =>) Ne. 303 Nat Tat One Pist FRUITS (Include Pickled and Spiced): Apples Applesauce and Red Sour Cherries wT HANDY POINT CHAR'E FOR PROCESSED FOODS Point Values of Popular} Sizes, Effective May 2, 1943 Over 14 oz. Ine 1 th. 202, GHJ) Seize. | Oost Incl 1 Me 6 a2. Na? 5 14 Apricots, Fruit Cocktall, Fruits for salad, or Mixed Fruit USE BLUE STAMPS | 4 12 15 Berries (all kinds) and Grapefrult 9 Figs, Pears, and Cranberries or Sauce, whole, strained, or jelied Peaches Pineapple Plums or Prunes (all kinds) FRUIT JUICES Grapefruit and all other Citrus Jules, Fait Nectars (exculing Papaya), Grape Jule, and Prune Julce — Pineapple Juice VEGETABLES: Asparagus, Green or Wax Beans, all other Beans fresh shelled), Ser eseet on toned cd cotta al ed tte Fresh Shelled Beans (Including Limas and Black-eyed Peas) and Vacuum Packed Com Greens, leafy (except Spinach) Beets and Carrots Peas and Tomatoes ‘Sauerkraut Tomato Catsup or Chill Sauc8, Tomato Pulp or Puree, and Tomato Sauce (except when packed In combination dinners) Tomato Paste Mushrooms, Pumpkin, or Squash, and Spinach VEGETABLE JUICES: Tomato Juice and Vegetable Juice combinations containing 70 percent or more Tomato Juice 4 5 an Note.—Jams, Jellies, marmalades, fruit butters and similar preserves are NOT rationed. BABY SOUPS FOODS CONTAINER SIZE i Tomato Soup 5 8 i 3 All other Soups (excluding Green Turtle, Clam Juice, Broth, and Cocktail) ‘Soups, not concentrated (ready-to-serve) CONTAINER SIZE | “™ All canned or bottled types and varieties, except Milk and Cereal (including Custards). CONTAINER FROZEN se > ‘hor 16 a2. FRUITS, BERRIES, AND JUICES: Strawberries All other Fruits and Berries VEGETABLES: _ Beans, Baked * _ Beans, Green (all styles) Beans, Lima (all varieties) Com, Gut ~ Meta Vegetables and Vegetable Combinations (excluding * : DRIED __Dried or Dehydrated Soups in all types of containers ___ 1 polnt for packages up to 4 ounces. | Peas, Beans, or Lentils (excluding Soybeans and Black-eyed Peas) __.. 4 points per pound. | ‘CAUTION This chart only lists point values for the most popular sizes. See the official chart at your grocer’s for other sizes and their point Only items on this chart require the surrender of Blue Stamps from War Ration Book Two Ct. DAYS GONE BY oF THE STATE of IN AND POR woxnes FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN MAY 6, 1933 IN CHANCE Case Ne. sses ORDER OF PUBL aTIe® nT oF x xT ORDER OF PUBLICATION THE CMCUIT couNTy pe enes ORDER OF Pl BLT ATION Dr. Williz om been in Ho annual cc State Mec NTH JUDICIAL CoRCE ORDER OF PUBLICATION golf cours known as the ‘roug Today In History Today’s Anniversaries 1834.—The Pond brothers, Sam-| uel W. and Gideon H., arrived i ota to begin historic mis- sion with the Indians. 1816—Richard Lacy frontiersman, India jneer settler of Far 1835.—_James Gordon Bennett's, ginia. Died Aug. 21, 1893. New York Herald first issued—a} Wootten, fighter, pio- 1823.—Elizabeth D. B. Stod- dard, novelist-poet. wife of noted wrap-| man of letters, born Mattapoisett, postage | Mass. Died Aug. 1, 1802. 1840._Stamped postage pers adopted—birth of stamp in United States. ss ania 1829_—Phebe Ann C. Hanaford, 1851—Dr. John Gorrie, Apala-| second of her sex ordained a Uni- chicola, Fla., physician, granted, versalist preacher, born Nantuck- first American patent for mech- o4 Mass. Died June 2, 1921. | anical refrigeration, 1830.—Abraham Jacobi New York physician worker, born in Germa July 10, 1919. famed and civic ny. Died 1862.—Gordon McKay of Mas-, sachusetts granted historic patent “Process of sewing soles of boots and shoes.” 1877.—Crazy Horse and band of! 1831—Samuel_ I Scheres- 900 Sioux Indians surrender in; Nebraska. 1896.—The Langley Model No. 5, power-driven heavier-than-air machine catapulted on Potomac and flies about 3,000 feet. 1908.—First hygiene unit found- ed by Clifford W. Beers, mental, of New Haven, Conn 1941.—France and Japs agree to collaborattion in Orient. 1942.—Corregidor surrenders to | Japs. Today’ s Horoscope Today gives self-reliance and a studious nature. Though not much disposed to seek friends, many will be attracted by the na- tive’s faculty of clear vision and | by the other magnetic netic. qualities. THE VINEC VINEGAR TREE WV WNT rwwrres, LOPEZ Funeral Service { and Embalmers Flore: ; > 24-Hour Ambulance Service » PHONE 135 |‘ aeeesesesessesennas 4 4 4 { ¢ Phone No. 8 ecccccesooseccos NIGHT 696¢ West, born Vir-/ Today’s Birthdays Adm. William D. Leahy, of staff to the President as com- mander-in-chief of armed forces, born Hampton, Iowa, 68 years Orson Welles, born Kenosha, Wis., 28 years Maj. Gen born Hico, Texas, 52 vears ago. actor-producer, ago. Clinton W. Russell, ago. John T. McCutcheon, of Chicago, chewesky, noted Episcopal bish- op in China, born Died Oct. 15, 1906. in Lithuania. 1856.—Robert E. Peary, Arctic expuorer, Pole, born Cresson, Pa. Washington, Feb. 20, 1920. first to reach the North Died | THE VINEGAR TREE REAL ICE ASSURES USERS OF REFRIGERATION CERTAINTY know that not only is your ice chest to be properly and REAL ICE Is More ECONOMICAL. . It’s Healthy and Safe. . It’s Pure THOMPSON ENI (ICE DIVISION) _ chief Greek NEWS BY SIGNS BALTIMORE. nd Ro: on walls in cartoonist, 73 years ago. born Tippecar Dr. bacter rm Va., 53 years ago. s ES James Pacific Sycamore, LICENSED PLUMBER 1306 CATHERINE STREET ml. w * “Electrical DON'TS” ELECTRIC WASHER THE WRINGER DON’T leave pressure on rolls when not in use. DON’T use same pressure tor 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. DON’T ieave 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. WEST ELECTRIC COMPANY cou vrs Briones THE 'T ¥ Tue ST COURT oF THE rT TATE OF FLOREDA. rs PEEPLES EEE EERE EEE EEE EEE EERE E EEE TEER OREO EERE EE COE EE OE EREe

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