The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 7, 1943, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen THE CITIZEN PUB! IHING CO. INC, Pablished Daily, E: by ti 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 it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the socal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION Ra'TES une Year fix Months Three Mont! Une Month Weekly . 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, Notice ‘or entertainment by churches from whieh & 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- cations. EDITORIAL SOCIATION 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 Moderst City Hospital. WEAK IN HISTORY Most of us oldsters in Key West can be caught napping if questioned about ele- mentary phases of early American history, using as an excuse that it has been long since we were in school. But can you accourt for the college freshmen who know little of the vitally important facts dealing with this country’s development? It isn’t that the 7,000 students answer- ing the questionnaire in the thirty-six uni- versities, in this survey, didn’t know lots of dates of obscure historical events or national matters of not much importance to the coun- try’s growth, but 26 per cent of them didn’t know that Woodrow Wilson was president during the Civil War and 84 per cent didn’t know that Lincoln was president during the Civil War and only 84 per cent failed to list two things that could be con- nected with Thomas Jefferson as his con- tributions to our history books. Does this not point to a startling amount of ignorance of American college students in an impor- tant subject? Don’t think that the students who answered these questions had not pre- viously studied American history, govern- ment, social subjects in high school, because they had. Few of them had taken it in college, this course in American history. Geograph- | ically the surve many cases, were showed the students, in ‘off the beam,” as they placed Portland, Oregon on water such as | the Hudson River, the Great Lakes, and the Attlantic Ocean. Illinois, California, Texas and North Dakota even Eastern seaboard With all of the were states! stress laid today on our fight to preserve | ssembly, religion and of the press, you would think they all could | freedom of speech, a list the four points of the Bill of Rights. Last June the New York Times made a survey and found that 82 per cent of the nation’s colleges didn’t require American history for an undergraduate degree since the college educators felt students had named as | 1 i ; 80 ago, the Navy-here had no distant con- | are being conserved for the day when the taken this as a high school course and it was | below the level of college subjects. The r cent survey shows that somebody had bet ter start to stress the importance of requi ing a concise, intelligent, interesting course to further interest in knowing America. A Victo most a necessity and before the end of 1943 the population will be divided into those with and those without. | even though all the adversity. nen | lation along this line. Consummation of the y Garden is getting to be al- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE UNFAILING GUIDE i The most vivid picture ofthe Key West | Navy Yard is painted by Richard Harding | Davis in one of his short stories. If you are | familiar with the yard, you feel you are | walking hand-in-hand with his hero as Da- j vis describes the trees, the walks, the houses; | you hear the palm fronds rustling and you ! hear the crackle of electricity in the wire- | less station, for, in those days, 35 years or trol station. Swanson, the hero, was “allowed to re- sign” from the Army, after having beea court martialed in a case that involved the disappearance of $5,000 of government funds. Swanson, burning with resentment | over the reflection on his honesty, had de- manded the court martial; only he and sergeant had access to the safe that contai ed the money, and the testimony was insuf- ficient to convict either of them, but Swan- son, angered over the outcome, had forth- | with resigned. In a few swift-moving paragraphs, he travels from a presidio in San Francisco to Key West. As he was about to enter the Navy | Yard in Key West, he is saluted by an order- ly, one of several radiomen, even though | Swanson wore civilian clothes. As develops later in the story, the orderly had recog. nized Swanson from the days when he wzs | a sécond lieutenant and was journeying to | the Philippine Islands. Swanson carries a concealed Army | pistol. Davis uses several pages to describe | the feelings that move Swanson to commit | suicide. He is sitting alone, leaning against « hawser post, listening to the band and the | crackling radio. His honor is gone, though unjustly, so what else is worthwhile in life? Nothing, nothing. Davis’ plot was new in those days. The same orderly, who had recognized and sa- luted Swanson, receives a bulletin over the radio that the sergeant had committed sui- cide, leaving behind a _ confession of the theft and the information that the stolen money can be found stuffed in his mattress. As usual in fiction, Swanson is saved in | the nick of time, but the moral of the story , is that conscience, in the final analysis, is honor. Keep your conscience acute, and | your honer is assured; but stifle one of conscience’s dictates today and another to! | morrow, and the time will come when the | | commission of a dishonorable act will not | cause the least twinge of conscience. H That stifling process goes on in politics far more than it does in any other calling. The difference between a politician and | statesman is this: the politician plays hide | and seek with his conscience ; the statesman | keeps faith with his conscience. No man, regardless of what his calling | may be, whether he is a minister or a ditch- digger, needs never entertain any qualms if | he has always let his conscience be his | guide. BROUGHT TO BAY | The Battle of Tunisia has assumed a | character which justifies the expectation of | early expulsion of Axis forces from the con- | tinent of Africa. Marshal Rommel is clear- ly in desperate straits and, while his daring | resourcefulness has been demonstrated | and the artery of reinforcements from Eu- | rope has. not been cut, it is inconceivable } that he can extricate himself from his pres- | ent difficulties. | The Mareth Line, whose place in the military scheme of things in North Africa , has been compared to that of the Magjnot Line of unhappy memory of France, has been shown to be as vulnerable as the French bastion. The American forces, ag- gressively led and wiser in the ways of bai- | tle than a month ago when they were push- ed back, are sweeping forward to thwart a Rommel attempt to make a stand in the | Tunis-Bizerte area, Rommel’s army is in a plight made more | desperate by the fact that the Allies pos- | a preponderance of air power-and-by | the apparent unwillingness of the German | high command to commit reinforcements to | an enterprise which is showing increased evidence of being doomed. German reserves Nazis will be compelled to guard their cita- del of Europe—a day which is brought ap- preciably closer by events in North Africa. It is perhaps unwise to accept asa foregone conclusion the elimination of the Germans and Italians from North Africa signs point in that di- rection. Nevertheless there is justification in the existing military situation for spec':- hope will be more than a military defeat. It will be more evidence that Hitler has lo: his power to cope with the rising tide of ispector for Monroe, |tier and Hendry | After a stay there of a few days main a week in j away ! been on a business trip in Miami, | Mont, 42 years ago. KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY vi The t contest for coeds was Bes gt eee bi gee ca! <0 popular the university this year tes decided to quadruple the awards. Instead of offering one scholar- George Gomez, according to! Ship as an award for the coed with information received by The| the prize-winning gardén, four Citizen from Tallahassee today,| Scholarships will be given to the has been named beverage _in- | four best gardeners. Dade. Col.| The awards were announced counties, j last rear the university of i fered a course in gardening and meeting | #8riculture for coeds in an effort to stimulate home food produc- WIGGER PRIZES SPUR (| Today In History TO GIRL GARDENERS (By Associnted Press) 1755 — Columbia Unive then King’s College, chartere New York. 1800—The Territory of Indiana created by Congress. 1912—Capt. C, F. Chandler Signal Corps Aeronautics pi first. machine-gun-equipped x lots 1915—Cunarder “Lusitania”, run from New, York to. Liverpool, sunk by German submarine with loss of 1200 -lives- off the Irish | coast. City council, at its last night, passed a beer ordi. nance on its first reading. A special dispatch from Wash ington in The Citizen toda: says that Representative J. Mar! Wilcox from this district is try ing to have submarines station. ed at the base in Key West. Today’s ~ | 1918—(5 years ago) War Inc tries’ Board curtails auto produc- $ ¢ ' tion. Anniversaries = ' = | 1919—President Wilson sur H : 5 {mons special session of Congr 1774—William Bainbridge, fam- jt consider the Peace Treaty. Mrs. Thurston Johnson left'ed naval commander in War with} a yesterday for Jacksonville, where! Tripoli and War of 1812, father of 1925—Large fleet of U ships she will visit her son-in-law and!naval construction, born Prince-) besiege Rum Row, off the north- daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. D | ton, N.J. Died July 27, 1833. | eastern coast. Segal. 1812—Sidney Dillon, poor New! 1934 Army air corps ends job E. Roberts is; York boy who became financier-| of flying the mails after som« Tavernier., builder of Union Pacific R. Ruithree months. ‘born New York. Died June 9. 1892. Mrs. Thomas visiting relatives in 1941—Navy takes over the Coast ists he | Guard. 1826—Varina Howell Davis,/ the Confederate} Berlin Adams, who had been | oval wife of Medora | 4, Na a > - Today’s Horoscope 1 ident, born near from Key West severa uae = 7 : years, visiting various parts of aa Died New York, Oct, 16, F0Cd, the country, returned yesterday! s ape a7 eey, OF severe one 1836—Joseph G. Cannon, Mlin-, - Luci Pamich who haq/0iS congressman and Speaker, beens ace arte Edith, Mat_|born Guilford, N.C. Died Nov. fatt, of Whitehead strect, reurned| 12, 1926. yesterday to her home in Mara- thon. she will proceed to Miami to re- that city. Today gives a mental assimilation and clear soning. Make the most of you opportunities and you: friends wisely, for there is danger of some misunderstanding, wher any false sense of security will b fatal. combination of choose 1857—Chark Lathrop Pack, | forester-economist, head of first war's garden planting movement, jborn Lexington. Mich. Died \June 14, 1937. Mrs. William A. Cooper, who had been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Paul Daniels, in Miami. re- Total of 65,380 war turned yesterday Perey V. Penny-|is reported by the OWI. | backer, president of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, born Petersburg, Va. Died Feb. 4, 1938. sualties 1861—Mh J. L. Pierce, embalmer_ wit J THE VINEGAR TREE Pritchard Funeral Home, who had wes an arrival yesterday. TRAIN BRINGS IN FIRE EAST GARY, Ind.—Firemen recently received word that the Michigan Central Railroad was bringing in a fire. The fire was in a steel freight car loaded with ulphur and was discovered when he train was about ten miles from ‘the city. When the train pulled in, the firemen were there to go . __ Tto work and had the fire undef) in 8M) control in a few minutes. Mrs. E. D. Lopez, after a stay in cou a al THE Key West with her son and daugh- ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. Otto Kirchheiner, returned yesterday to her home in Miami Mrs. Mellie Papy. of Southar street, returned sterday fron Miami, where she had been visit- ing relati ORDER OF PL TO: Robert Walker Abel e ef Washington i are hereby required to ap | to the Bill of Complaint, for di Today The Citizen says editorial paragraph: “In days gone by women vsed to ask if their hats were on straight! but now it makes no diffeernce, | for the prevailing style calls for hats to be put on crooked.” LONG IN EXISTENCE DETROIT.—One_ colony of |“ beavers in the midwest is believed | a ! to have been in existence for more | than one thousand years. Today’s Birthdays pepe name English hymns fre- | quently prove disconcerting after! the translator has done his worst. A missionary once set a Hindu student to render “Rock of Ages” | |into the native dialect. The Walker R. Young, assistant chief | literal meaning of the Hindu’s| engineer of the U. S. 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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 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 phpbb bh hhhhhhicnh bib hihi ee | i THE OLD JUDGE SAYS...