The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 31, 1943, Page 2

Owner and Publisher en Building Ann Streets Only Datly Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ‘rtered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter or peracetic atom esr aati mamta MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use yoo all news dispatches credited to ited in this paper and also the $10.00" 5 3s 30 Made known on application. "SPECIAL ‘NOTICE ; <All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutioss of obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at ‘hg rate of 10 cents a line. otices for entertainment by churches from which Hyevenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. Citizen is an‘open forum and invites discus- of public issues and subjects of local or general but it will not publish anonymous communi- ew IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ng ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN bad os F ‘41. More Hotels and Apartments. 42. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. - "3. jAirports—Land and Sea. 4. {Consolidation of County 'and City Gov- » “‘eraments, er . A Modern City Hospital. 4 ", Pap mongers are ‘busily conniving for S6cialized medicine while a large propor- tién of the doctors are serving in the armed forces and unable to defend their profes- sion. They propose medical experiments for this country, in blissful ignorance of the new problem which the medical pro- f@ssion must solve, and fortunately is solv- igfg, before there can be any assurance of a hgalthy America in the future. Prior to the Wer, medical science had succeeded:in mak- ing within our continental borders a sort of island of health. Thanks to Ameriéan doc- tars, the United States was , practically rid af thé most deadly maladies. Malaria, ty- hoid, yellow, fever, tuberculosis, plague d others too numerous to mention, were her eliminated. of iipider reassuring ¢on- AN ISLAND OF HEALTH 1, {Aind then war came. | 4 Millioris bftnien'hdvé tiow been shipped t@ the four corners of the earth, They are Subjett to diseases- unheard of by civilians #, home. Our doctofs are with them, @longside of them at the battlefront, dying With them in the foxholes. It is part of their to see that».disease is kept out of the tes, and that our men are kept healthy. ur war transportation system, which shuttles about the globe to all the plague spots: with the regularity of interurban eémmuter trains, has not made the problem aby simpler, = Our doctors, with the weapons of sci- énee and research, are now attacking dis- se At its source, in jungle tropics and war- gPattered nations Their work should not be impeded by the provincial schemers who thing that health is merely a matter of pass- ing a-law. Pf ARE “SEA-DROMES” NECESSARY ? The imekipation is stirred bythe pro- phsal to cotisttuct. three man-made islands iy mid#ocean for the purpose of establishing a “seasdrome”’ route between this country end Great Britain. “ ‘The sea-dromes would ride seventy fBet above sea level, would float 160 feet below the water, keeping them “as steady af the mainland itself.” df necessary, such sea-dromes will be built but the’ chances are that regular pas- Senger service to Europe, using non-stop aircraft, will provide for crossing in ten Hours, or less. If this is correct, the need for sea- Uromes diminishes, although they may en- able planes to carry a larger payload, in Passengers or goods, and thus justify their éonstruction and use. Ps & Itis foolish to try and lead a double life today, for one costs enough! # Italy thinks she has seen voleanoes. Wait until she sees the eruption made by the Allies! Hitler thinks that the Poles are not the équal of Germans, and that the former are 4 = “WHY THE SECRECY?” What does The Citizen think of the | city’s proposal to buy the Key West Elec- | | tric Company? The Citizen bounces the | | question back to you, What do you think? triends. we assume you are, you may recall The Cit- izen’s mystification over the councilmen in the morning, and then racing back to the city hall at 8 o’clock, one’ hour: before the ¢ity hall is scheduled to be opened, and put- ting the fina] touches to the ordinance that would empower the city to acquire thecom- pany. a8 ' j The people had no representative a’ either of those meetings, despite that most important fact that the people, in one way or another, must foot the bill. Why were not the people represented? Because they did not know the meeting was to be held for city to buy and operate the company. the purchasing of the company that the councilmen don’t want the people to know about? Yes, why the secrecy?” The Citizen is human juSt the same a$ you gg Fiyman. You won't” “Taib — some thing, 6 dts ide of your own doings, jis to og cur tinles¢ you are told aboutiit, and. The Cit izen doesn’t know either unless it is give. the information. The Citizen has no mor¢ power to divine a thing that you have, so’you see that the councilmen put you and The Cit- izen too in the same boat—they, gave us no inkling that a meeting was to be held to consider the purchasing of the "Key West Electric Company. CTIHW tas In the words of the man-on-the-street, “There’s something phony there.” know, and neither do you know. ‘If you buy a pig in a bag, you can at least hear the squeak, but the councilmen, in their nego- tiations with the representatives of the bond and stock holders of the company, did not even accord you the privilege of hearing the squeak. And the councilmen bind you, | or try to bind you, to paying for something that you know nothing about. . According to word The Citizen has re- ceived from Tallahassee, Representative Bernie Papy has declined to have our city charter validated because of provisions in | it that concern the purchasing of the elec- tric company. What those provisions are, The Citizen knows no more than you do, because the councilmen saw to it that neith- er The Citizen nor you would be accorded the courtesy of knowing what you and it | should have knewn as a matter of right and | fairness and justice. Here again you and The Citizen are put in the same boat. You can not discuss any- thing intelligently and The Citizen can not discuss anything intelligently unless you and it know something ata aG gree- matter, and neither you nor’ 0) knows anything whatever about the agree- ment the councilmen have made to take over the interests of the Key West Eiéctric’ Com- pany. So The Citizen is forced to inquire again: “Why the secrecy, gentlemen?};, The More there is ofa thing the’ e it is worth. And that also goes for.money. : wy ( The Rommell plan failed in Affica And the Rum! plan in Congress seems destined for a like fate. A Citizen reader says that perhaps Martinique is beginning to understand | “What we think when we don’t Noderoted Here to Stay? know anything about it?” There’s the rub, | General Chai | ‘conomic If you are a reader of The Citizen, and | holding a mééting that, stretched to 2 o'clock | the purpose of considering proposals for the | At the time The Citizen demanded, | “Why the secrecy? Is there anything about | | most Dad 4 | eentralized | pnost persuasive What | tke “phoniness” is, The Citizen does not | itizen | Is Centralized Political Power Henry Morton Robinson Author of Fantastic Interim. MR. ROBINSON OPENS: 'Centtali- zation of political power has come to! stay! All the backward-glancing.and wishful-thinking in the world will not reverse the process by which po- litical energy is streaming from local ‘Sommunities,to the,central.govern- ment of the ited States. This trans- fer of power is only one phase of the cohsdlidation that is taking place in our soci-economic life. It is already far advanced, for example, in indus- try. The village shoemaker, the in- ; dependent automobile manufacturer and the local flour-mill have been supplanted by vast combines such as General Motors, General Mills and U. S. Steel. Champions of industry point with pride to this concentra- tion, claiming greater economies and efficiencies. No industrialist would dream of hammering out airplane | parts on a rural anvil. The whole | concept is obsolete. Similarly, the concept of local self- | government is outmoded. The town meeting ideal of democracy, admir- | able in a small community, is miser- ably inadequate when applied to | problems of national peers. and | anternatiopal co; i ‘rime-con- | trl fer ca t. Dutine the sy ak 1 ists police were, npw- | terless tae e tide of id@aping | land bank ‘robberies: Whén ‘the’ FBI | Mook over, these ,crimes. became: al- GActher insteinbe of jeney —perhaps the all—is the TVA. |* MR. BURNBADIV CHALLENGES: | In the enthusiasm over “efficiency,” “economy,” and “planning,” it is easy | to forget the most important question | is: efficiency, economy, and planning | by whom, for whom, and for what? | The Gestapo and the GPU are very efficient organizations, more efficient, | even, than the FBI; far more than } local police. Goebbels’ department ; and Moscow’s Agitprop section are | remarkably so. I have an old-fash- ioned hankering for the less orderly, more wasteful, unplanned conflicts of a moderately free press. And even about the efficiency I am | mot so sure. There are on the record, | after all, the NRA, WPA, OPA, and | the WPB, as well as Mr. Robinson’s TVA. MR. ROBINSON REPLIES: Some | finely-chopped red herring is sprin- | kled across the trail by Mr. Burnham. |. Feigning concern lest the Adminis- | tration seize too much authority, he wants his crowd to take over. Who are his crowd? The “managers”—a | small, exclusive set, possessing supe- rior faculties not given the common people. I quote from his MANAGE- | RIAL REVOLUTION: “These man- agers wil! exploit the rest of society. +.« Through the possession ‘of privir lege, power and command of educa» tional facilities, (they), will.be able to control .. . the personnel of the | managerial recruits... and will thus achieve a certain continuity from | generation to generation.” Hail, spirit | of Fascism! Wake up, /.merica!—to As debated by | ! James Burnham Author of The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom. MR.'BURNHAM OPENS: Many people’ believe that “government” and. “state” are different, words. for, “saci; ety” and “community”. This is an illusion or a deception. Governments and states are specific institutions among other .institutions. Lj 3 stitutions, they serve prime interests of the minority of men who, directly or indirectly run them. If governments take over the control of all the major forces and activities of | society, then nothing can prevent them from becoming despotic tyran- | nies. Thirty years ago this conclusion | was predicted theoretically by mod- | ern Machiavellian writers, the most objective and scientific of all stu- dents of the laws of social develo, ment. It has been proved in practi by the history of the past generation, in particular by what happened in Germany and Russia. “Totalitarian- ism” means, precisely, the centrali- zation of all social life in the state. It is true nothing we can do will bring back the loose, free, easy gov- ernments of the past century. Never- theless, all who believe in political freedom are thereby c itted to strengthen whatever cel if a tance. there, are to. thepaeressdrily totalitarian aims of the ‘Wveaudeat- ized, unbridled,’ ménstrous govérn- ments of, our time. ig! The men ‘wo: run @ nmdnts, like other; men, .can be trusted to preserve freedom only when the¢ do not have power to destroy it. *¢ MR. ROBINSON CHALLENGES: Will Mr. Burnham stop pussy-footing | and tell us what he means by “bureau- | eratized, unbridled, monstrous gov- | ernments?” Is he sniping at the Ad- ministration in Washington? Doesn’t he realize much vaster power is con- centrated in the hands of a few in- dustrial monopolists? The real threat to American liberty is not political centralization; it is the totalitarian design for power being formulated by great corporations for control of post- war America. If successful, these cor- | porations will stamp out labor gains, wrench monopoly prices from con- sumers—and as I demonstrated in FANTASTIC INTERIM, will be the government of the U.S., as they were under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. MR. BURNHAM REPLIES: Of course I include, among “monstrous governments” of our time the govern- ment of this country. Not yet, hap- pily, so all-embracing, so unbridled { as the fully totalitarian governments already consolidatéd elsewhere, but moving steadily in that same free- dom-destroying direction. By reviving the jong discredited theory that Fas- cism is nothing but a plot of big busi-* public resistance to the real tétali- tarian threat. We, agree—a large measure of centralization has taken place. The difference is: he believes freedom will be preserved by cen- tralization. I believe the problem of modern politics is to preserve free- the yoke being prepared for you! dom in spite of centralization. Today’s Anniversaries 1819—Walt Whitman, America’s great original poet, searching spi | it after forms of high living and endeavor, born New York. Died Camden, N. J., March 28, 1892. 1819—Wiliam W. Mayo, pio- neer Minnesota physician, father of the Clinic founders, born in England. Died March 6, 1911. essie Benton Fremont, i idier-explorer xington, Va. H 1902. 1841—Wgiihm nancier, brother, ™ Died June 24, 1922. 1862—Cynthia M. W. Alden, | Today’s Birthdays ; Vice Admiral Herbert F. Lea- try, born Washington, D.C., 5&8 years ago. j | Elizabeth Coatsworth of Noble- | boro, Me., author,*born Buffalo, |N. Y., 50 years ago, fter, Miss Adella Lopez, who had | Aviation, | left yesterday for Miami. | Cuban’ waters for marlin. Wis Mr? Robinson‘ helps unde ines PHOTOGRAPHERS AND WRITERS ‘COVER’ AIR FORCE’S TRAINING DAYS GONE BY - | FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN OF MAY 31, 1933 ers, represent sociations and tast week-end r” the Flying Fortress \ the first of its k lished in this cow tna Aoypr directed Burglars broke into Juan Cal- leja’s store,.Caroline and Eliza- beth streets, last night and stole $125 in groceries. The + Keys!q Westj0«Boonemy+ sentative Wiltiampu:fWVin., AlbusyqaPent Public Protesting jagainst,.che dength, of |. ff}0Ps Pu time that wil} ,hayg., te, ;pass.,.pe; oF were Tore the propoged new charter [Aliiteiated P = vote *" | Internatona Mrs:. Carb! Lopez: and:!daugh- | zine, Christiar and New by Maj Magazine \CAP FEATURED IN ARTICLE RELATING TO SUB SINKING B been visiting the former's pa: ents, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Davis, J. P. Bussey, former Key! Wester, now making his home in Buena Vista, arrived today | on a short visit. WEST PALM M | FNS)—West P Lake Wort Air Patrol a |trated article \the May 15 Evening P. Mrs. Fernando Gato and Miss Concepcion Rodriguez, who had been visiting their brother, Dr. E. Rodriguez, sailed yesterday for their home in Havana. John Nelson, who had been on a:metgr,tour,ef many. :states,, and | P also, ,,.yisited,.,.Ganada, ,,, returned ante home yesterday. | Florida” tas’ win | the CAP with sca: (Mr: Hugh” Moore’ aitived yes- | HON « tela YUN her’ tiome’ in Birm- | PINE ween eicbdiied ingham, Ala., and is visiting her | ™€Pchant Hy rescue of 250 sea Coe and Mrs. Dalbert calles etal on tion to the A: ing in sinking t George Knowles, who had been | —. + visiting his father, George 1 See Se Knowles, in Miami, returned! gpawan HOME: WIFE GONE yesterday. x sree ».,| YORK.—Pa—t Mrs. Ernest Hemingway sailed | on being inf | yesterday for Havana to join Mr.| that her husband wa Hemingway, who is fishing 19 | sea) Mrs . joined the WAAI <a Gohn was picked H. J. Whitmarsh, after spend-| taken to the ing a week in Key West visiting | waited 13 wee! his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thom-| They will have as Whitmarsh, left yesterday for| as he can get te his home in Jacksonville. Fla., or she can get | home. Mr. and Mrs. Percy M. Rob- | - erts, accompanied by their son, | Allen Neil, of Fleming _ street,| left yesterday for Louisville, | Ky., where they will visit their ~ . son, Charles E. Roberts. From | Also Electrical Appliance Repairs there they will go to Evansville, | Eaton, Cor. Elizabeth UL, to, visit relatives before pro-| “THE FASTEST RADIO = geeding:te:Chicago.-to -take,.; in| SERVICE IN SOUTH FLA- the -World’s Fair. AL & JOE RADIO SERVI St. Paul's Junior Choir Guild gave an entertainment and a =< | ver social last night in the Par- {ish Hall. | i Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Higgs, 713 | Southard street, returned yester- day from White Springs, Fila., where they had visited a fort- night. 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