The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 20, 1943, Page 2

Wibaca a bliahea Daily, Pecepe Sunday, by.” is) 'y, Exce! hun iy P. ARTHAN, Owner and er JOE ALLEN, Business Manager The Citizen Building and Ann Streets Gnly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County fT tered at Key West, Florida, as socond class. matter ‘MEMBER OF THD ASSOCIATED PRESS to use 0 aocinted Press {i clusively entitled fee lcation of all news dispatches credited t figs im i herwise credited in this paper and also the ews published here. SUBSCRIPTION RA'TES avoammumrnay 1° ADVERTISING BATES TKnown on application, i SPECIAL NOTICE . ADF isping notices, cards of thanks, reaolutioss of pect, obituary notices, ete. will be charged for at of 10 cents a ling, ,. * for entertai: Arie by churches from which ‘e 5 cents a line. open, forum and invites discus- id, jects of local or general it it will not’ publish anonymous communi- ret cunaernee WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be Wtraté to attack wrong or to applaud right; gWays fight for progress; never be the or- Ban-or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or 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- , UPON BEING AMERICAN : i 4 Tf you've read any of the many articles written on front line activities you are bet- fer-aequainted this year than last on the inéatiing ‘of “American.” With tragedy end éhange offered for security and normaley the nai who fights or views it can picture best what America means. It embodies the’ three branches of government, covering rotection by armed forces, including na- onal treasury and the wealth of the land, i ing organizations representing the Working classes and protecting the interests gf c#yitdl, education and all the other com- forts of, democratic government for-the zen's:welfare. To him it means the home town paper is not governed by propaganda. fhat he can speak to his neighbors freely nd@)opphly without fear, that he can wor- ghip: itt wny church or his choice and his ghildren- will be given liberal educations in schools that will train them on the rights and principles of citizenship. The list is Ipng'fhe privileges numerous,, the pro- ducts of the system that uphold its convic- tfons; many, Yet there is often raised the question whether_under the surface*of the individual, those whe-are not fighting from fex holes atid jungle-tangled swamps, if under the coating the man is an American first and.a Republican or Democrat sec- 4nd, an, American first or an isolationist sec- ond, an-American first and race prejudices x ! If all of these factors which center our and which affect us are major in- thrests, if the interest is for these things to We purged, advocated, advertised, victor- idus, first, then are we Americans in the stnse asa Russian, a Chinese, an English- | man is his country? There is the appropriate f “f irst things first” to answer this. + To the boy.out there fighting for Amer- iga, it means praying for an end to this Vfar, a victory that he might return to take up thé’baseball mask and put down the gas mask, to press an accelerator on the family | bus, to:yell “Mom, what's cooking,” may- be mow some of the grass before supper, dash to the cleanery’s,for the Sunday suit to réturn home for the shower and shave for the Saturday night ;date. Seems not much when compared, with words of freedom of agsembly, of speech, of the press of relig- ien, but to those beyssthe sound of church bells on Sunday morning, the squeaky lawn njower next door, the plop of the newspaper af it hits the porch, the honk of a pal’s auto hprn; th smell of cooking from the home kitchen;the kiss of his youngster eff to bed, the smile of a wife when you say “where in the heck did you put—,’” yells at a football gamé;:té him that is American, its what ybu méah by the pursuit of happiness and he ig fighting to keep it. “I Am An American,” | May 49th this year, next year, and for as long as E live, thank God! $ Et wouldn’t surprise me,” says a Key | Wester, “‘but that John L. Lewis wins a lot | of his arguments because he looks so fierce | opponents half to death.” { i ISN’T THAT THE TRUTH? spc tant nen You, Mr. Key Wester, are you inter- | ested in your city? Of course, you are, you may assert. Then how far does your interest go? Does it go any farther than your pock- etbook? Touch your pocketbook, and yur interest rises to fever heat; but let the question under discussion concern only your } city, socially or otherwise, what do you do? | You “shoot the gas” to your rockingchair, keep it humming at full tilt on “all six cylin- ders” and loudly cuss the city councilmen for doing this or for not doing that. That's the kind of resident you are, Mr. Key West- er. The council held a meeting Tuesday night to consider further the passing of an ordinance banning all saloons on Duval | Street. Who were present at the meeting? Was there present a single Key Wester who has been complaining about the wild night | life on Duval? Was there present a single Key Wester to “give aid and comfort” to | the councilmen who feel that the saloons on that street should be closed? Not a single one, not one, not one! Who were present? Owners of the saloons, the owners or their representatives ef the buildings in which the saloons thrive. | They protested, loud and long, against the | proposed ordinance. They herded the coun- cilmen into a corner, so to speak, and plead- ed and threatened. One representative of a hotel declared he would close the hotel were his liquor license revoked. That brings us back to the pocketbook and the city’s interests. The councilmen’s | proposal to close the Duval street saloons was a thrust, pocketbooks, and the owners of the pocket- books were present to plead, believe the saloons should be closed, stayed home, ensconced in your rockingchair, “hitting on all six cylinders.” The councilmen aré human just as much so as you are, Mr. Key Wester, who | stay at home, or go to a_ show or else where, and, on the morrow, when you hear | about the action the cauncilmen took in this or that matter, importantly affecting the city’s interests, you cuss them soundly if what they did does not conform with your | views. Yes, the councilmen are just as hu- ; man as you are, and even. you will admit | that you need support at times, but you re- fuse to give support to your councilmen in anything you believe to be in the interests of your community. So, if you are a sincere and a conscien- tious man, you will stop forthwith cussing | your councilmen or any other men in public | life to whom you refuse to give your moral support. Judging from what was said at Tuesday’s meeting, everybody in Key West is in favor of the saloons remaining open on Duval street, because not a single Key West- | er was present to express a contrary opinion. Pink your pocketbook, and you are ready to square off for a fight; harm the interests of your’city, and you stay home and | cuss about it. Isn’t that the truth? Residents of Key West, home, appreciate The Citizen. away from Some Victory Gardens are having a hard time with Victory Chickens. With war expenses growing daily there ig no reason to expect a reduction in taxes. Who can remember when the Average American thought it perilous to take a ride in an airplane? There are millions of teen-age Amer- icans who are worried lest the war end be- fore they get into it. The Japs are talking a great war, but they are losing ships every day and this means they are losing power. LESS PAPER There has been a reduction and will | be more, in the paper consumed by maga- zines and newspapers. Retrenchment has been necessary and the facts faced square- ly, but what brings on a complaint from the publishers of the country is the vast amount of unnecessary government printing that | floods the mails and appears on desks. They say there is too much paper wast- ed in Washington, more than actually need- ed for governmental purposes. The govern- ment contracted for 350,000,000 pounds of | paper for 1943 and this is 60 per cent more | than required in 1941, But in the first three weeks of this year the federal government used in Washington alone about one-third of their estimated consumption ‘for the whole year. Let’s all conserve, not just some of us. a mighty thrust, at certain | to protest, | to threaten. But you, Mr. Key Wester, who i THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | T WAS soon evident Baird hadn’t exaggerated. Powell and Cleve scoured the settlement and came back unsuccessful. Cleve looked glum. Powell was angry, baffled. “Money,” he said exasperatedly, “doesn’t mean a thing up here. The fools would rather take a milliof| to one chance at Dead Stick \"Creek than accept any amount of sure cash to take us to Pierre le | Frene’s.” “There’s just one possibility,” Cleve said. “An old prospector told me that a deaf mute trapper | who lives ten miles down river might be willing to guide us.” Powell said, “What assurance | have we that he’ll be there when we arrive?” “None at all,” admitted Cleve. “But it’s worth a try” urged Penny. “And if he isn’t there, well, what's to prevent us from going on alone?” “Impossible,” said Powell defi- nitely. Penny turned desperately to Cleve. “You're not giving up, too, are you?” Cleve met the indignation in her eyes uncomfortably. Then: ee else? Obviously we're lick- “And you claim to be Bill’s best | friend!” Penny blazed. “Do you think he’d let a little thing like not having a guide stop him if you_were—” “Soup's on folks,” said Mr. Baird from the doorway. SUN in gloom, Penny barely tasted the thick juicy venison steak and hot bannock. A young half-breed girl, awkward but willing, served the meal. “The regular help’s hit the trail for Dead Stick,” Baird explained. The proprietor sat with them at the table and did most of the talking. No one else felt very con- | versational. When they had finished Powell asked, “Care to take a walk Penny?” “All right,” said Penny unen- thusiastically. He was going to reason with her, probably. She sighed. Although it was nearly nine o'clock, it was still light up here in the far north. Penny’s heels tapped in staccato along the board walk. The air was golden and clean. Occasionally, they passed a blanketed native who slanted curi- ous eyes at Penny, slim and lovely in her smart, gray city suit, her hair in shimmering waves. It could have been a perfect stroll under other circumstances, Penny thought. As it was, it ended in- evitably in a quarrel. “You don’t care anything about Bill!” Penny cried accusingly. “All you’re interested in, really, is re- covering those old films. Who cares about them?” “Bill does, for one,” said Powell, quietly controlled. “Or he wouldn’t have sent that letter about them.” They had reached the outskirts of town and were standing in pine- shadow. Needles were slippery un- der their feet, the smell of them fragrant in their nostrils. From this height they could see the river slipping away through the wil- derness. Powell reached for Penny. She flung out of his arms. “Penny, darling!"he said. “Tm not your darling,” said Pen- ny. “If I were, you'd care enough about me to take me to Bill!” She spun about and left him there. When she opened the door to her room, the little malemute pup catapulted to meet her. Penny caught him up, burying her face in his fur. “Tf I have to set vut to find Bil by myself,” she said, “I will. And Till take you with me,’ Wolf.” L WAS barely daybreak three days later when Penny, the husky pup in her arms, tiptoed out the door of Baird’s Stopping Place. No one was awake yet— she hoped. The canoe she’d rented secretly from the half-breed was waiting in a saskatoon thicket at the river’s edge. In the pocket of her plaid wool shirt was the sheet of paper containing directions and a rough map. She wore heavy boots and breeches. The boots j made a racket on the board walk | and she stepped off of it quickly, | glancing back. She half expected | to see Powell plunge irately out of the hotel after her. ; The malemute yapped. Penny | caught his jaws together with a firm hand. “Hush,” she cautioned. “Do you | want to wake everybody up?” He appeared to have no consci- | ence in the matter. He writhed frantically in her arms, trying to | get down. Then, gradually, quieted | It. was about half-past three | She drew deep breaths of the | delicious morning air, tanged with | ine and iced with rushing water. list floated ghostlike in hollows and along the river channel. Wak- | ing birds dropped clear tremu- | lous notes upon the earth. Enchantment, Penny thought | hurrying toward the river. She | was adventuring in a new fresh | world, in what Cleve had called | “the land of tomorrow.” Excitedly, she found the canoe, pulled back the tarpaulin protect- ing the supplies, and checked them. All here, intact. Well, time | to start. Or was it a little early, perhaps? QUDDENLY. Penny began to feel | lonely, uncertain. The river was | deep and swift. She’d done quite a bit of canoeing on trips with | Bill, but. this stream was unfa- miliar, tricky. White water. May- be— maybe, after all, she was being too hasty. A thousand things | could happen to a lone girl in the wilds. | She jumped as someone stepped around the saskatoon thicket. | “Hello,” Cleve said. “Going | somewhere?” Penny swallowed. “Yes—and | you needn't to stop me.” i He strode forward, seized her | shoulders. “Idiot, you can’t go | alone. Against all that—” he wav- ed a hand toward the river and | reaching forests beyond—“you | wouldn’t have a chance.” i Penny jerked free. “I’m going. My mind’s made up. And that's | that, Mr. Cleve Rockwell.” } To be continued ! KEY WEST IN | Today’s Birthdays James Stewart, now in army,! Today’s E | Anniversaries |unknown air ma | actor, born Indiana, Pa., 35 years! | ago. | FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN OF MAY 20. 1933 i DAYS GONE BY 1750—Stephen Girard, Phila- jdelphia merchant, patriot-finan-| Prof. Allan Nevins of Colum-}cier of Wars.ot. bor ia | bia University, ‘famed historian, | France. Died Dec. 26, 1831. 'born Camp Point, Ill, 53 years! The city council, at a meeting | ago. } last night, passed ‘an ordinance! | prohibiting the sale of. outside} read in Key West. Miami bakers} are now shipping in wagonloads! of brea! every day. 1768—Dolly Payne Madison, TAOS SENSE eas one of most popular “first la- # Mrs. Sigrid Undset, Norwegian! dj ‘sin country’s history, born | refugee author, Nobel prizewin-|Guilférd Co. N: C. Died’ July} ner, born in Denmark, 61 years| 12, 1849. | ago. H , | press Day 1818—William G. Fargo, ex- Mrs. Herman Demeritt and son! Rey. Stuart N. Hutchison of | pressman, one of the Hg ied William left yesterday for Miami,| pittsburgh, Presbyterian _ lead- : z a 5 | 5 i ters of the express system; born pnee they will visit Miss Maude | er, born Pleasant Plains, N. ¥»| Pompey, N.Y. Died Aug. 3, We a | 66 years ago. 1881. County Tax Assessor J. Otto} Dr. James R. Judd of . Hono-} Ss BF Kirchheiner. who had been visit-| lulu, noted surgeon, born there, | 1825—Antoinette L. B. Black- ing the upper keys to note im-| 67 years ago. ; well, Unitarian clergyman, tem- provements that have been made} SE RE _ | Perance and suffrage _ leader, in making assessments, returned; President bars coal strike as mi-| born Monroe Co. N. Y. Died yesterday afternoon. * {ners are U. S. workers. | Nov. 5, 1921. | | Ree eee Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Brown,| this year’s graduates last night at} 1843—(100 years ago) Albert | who had been visiting in Havana, | a junior prom given in the club} A. Pope, who introduced bi- returned to Key West yesterday, house of the Key West Country;cycle manufacturing, pioneer | afternoon on the steamship Flor- | Club. auto manufacturer, born in Bos- | ida. Mr. Brown is the collector of | —_ |ton. Died there, Aug. 10, 1909. | Customs for this district. Mrs. Enrique Hernariflez, presi-| | | 'dent of the Harris public school; 1851—Mother \Alphonsa (Rose Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Dillon! Teacher-Parent Association today: Hawthorne - Lathrop), _ beloved} and two daughters, of Miami, are|called a meeting to be held in the} worker among cancer incurables, | in Key West visiting relatives. i schoolhouse Wednesday afternoon,! youngest child of the famed | —_ | May 24. | Nathaniel Hawthorne, born Len-} | The Misses Jessie Roach and na lox, Mass. Died July 9, 1926. | Esther Beals, teachers in the lo-| Today The Citizen says in an as | cal public schools, left yesterday | editorial paragraph: ORIGINALLY FOUR to spend the week-end in Mitmi.} “All the world loves a lover and} — > ‘ os | hates a contemptible informer, es-| NEW YORK.—A sea cow orig- Mrs. William V. Albury and! pecially when the latter is a cant-jinally had four limbs, but the daughter, Miss Geraldine Albury. | ing, hypercritical religious fana-|rear two have evolved into a left yesterday for Miami to join’ tic.” [fleshy paddle. Mr. Albury, who is on his way 1506—Died — in Spain, about 58, in poverty and lect, Christopher Columbus. of 1775—Citizens burg Co. N. C Mecklenburg Decl. dependence—antedates July one. Medklen- adopt his’ 1816—Maine vote separation setts. towr 1916—Air flight from Newport News, Va., to New York in fow hours, a record such fli t date. 1918—(25 years ago raid London in 20 1926—Chewing 15 years, again pi jsold sailors on Ame of war. 1927—Chares lve New York flying sok win $25,000 prize for stop flight to Europe. 1932—Amelia Ea Harbor Grace, Newf landing in Ireland 13 h —first her sex to fly A 1940 Forces retreat British Expedi in France begin to Channe! 1941—German invade Crete. Civilian 1941—Office of Pete Swanson fanci as an armchair strategi times he gets so tangled just can’t resist tryin straighten him out. For instance, the other da: ‘was waxing indignant abor soldiers being allowed t beer right in camp. Said th Was just coddling thetroops an would ruin discipline. I told him the actual facts had already been established by 2 study the Government made. Theis*report said chaplains and No. 63 of a Series Coprngh:, 1962, Beeang inasery Fema NOTICE To Business Firms The Fictitious Name Law passed by the 1941 Legislature, sets forth various provisions, suck a= registration with the county clerk, and advertising the personne] of these comprising the business con- cern or firm. The law as passed provides: : 1. All persons operating unincorporated busi- ness or professions under any name but their own proper or known called names, must register this “fictitious” trade name with the clerk ef the circuit court in the county where the principal place of busi- ness is located. 2. A fee of $1.00 is charged for this registra tion. 3. Furthermore, the names of all persons in- terested, and the extent to which they are interested must be registered as well. 4. Penalty for non-compliance denies any un- registered business and those interested in doing suck there from Tallahassee. evevcccccceces Miss Mary Louise Gilbert, who; {had been in Key West visiting friends and relatives, returned yesterday to her home in Miami. REAL ICE ASSURES USERS OF REFRIGERATION CERTAINTY The. Rev. William Power, S. J. | of Hot Springs, N. C., arrived yes- terday and is a guest of the Rev F. X. Dougherty. S. J., rector. of St. Mary’s Star of the Sea Cath- jolie Church. i Mrs. Frank Dale, after a stay 0’ two weeks in Miami visiting rela tives, returned on yesterday after- noon’t train. Frank Rue, who had been i | Key West on a business trip, re. turned yesterday for Homestead. The Young People’s Chorus of | ‘the Fleming Street Methodist! Church will give a recital on Mon. day evening. REAL ICE Is More ECONOMICAL. . It’s Healthy and Safe. . It’s Pure THOMPSON ENTERPRISES . (ICE DIVISION) _ INC. Key West, Fla. SOCCER OSCE TECOEEES SEEEOESOOOORSOOOSSOOLE The Junior class of the Key) West High School entertain TT | AL & JOE i RADIO SERVICF 629 Eaton, Cor. Elizabeth “THE FASTEST RADIO SERVICE IN TOWN e I business the right to defend or maintain suit m any court in this state, either as plaintiff or defendant. and it further provides that any person violating this law regarding registration is liable te having an in- formation charging a misdemeanor filed against him by any person aggrieved by the fictitious name, and on conviction of such charge shall be liable te a fine of $25.00 or 60 days in jail, or beth. 5. Before registration can be made, such im- tention to register must be advertised at least once a week for four (4) consecutive weeks in a newspaper as defined by law in the county where the registra- tion is made. This law applies to Apartments, Hotels, Filling | Stations, Cabin Courts, or business of any kind ex- cept such as are operated under the mame of the owner. Lawyers generally agree that the terms or called name” aspused in the law would be example: Suppose you are one of the mumerous Jones family. Suppose your proper name is “John Edward Jones,” but your called name is “J. BE. JONES.” Unless your business. is actually operated under one or the other of these names you would be required to register. The Key West Citizen Offers Its Assistance In Business Men to Comply With This New Law. TELEPHONE 51