The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 9, 1943, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC, Published Daily, Except Sunday, by L, P. ARTMAN, Owner and: Publisher JOE ALLEN, Business From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County tered at Key West, Florida, as seeond class matter MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or hot otherwise credited in this paper and also the cal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION R*TES eee } | 5 vyne Year ..... Months ~bree Mont! Se Month nie Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutioss of cespect, obituary notices, etc, will be charged for at “he rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from whieh » Tevenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line, The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- ston of public issues and subjects of local or general sopra but it will not publish anonymous communi- ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. More Hotels and Apartments. 2. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. 3. Airports—Land and Sea. 4. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. 5. A Modern City Hospital. REDS CRAWL FROM UNDER THE BED Announcement from Moscow that the Comitern Internationale has been dissolved will eas¢ the fears of world citizens who have been seeing communists under the bed since the early days of the Russian revolu- tion. Naturally, we do not approve the pro- jection of one government into the internal affairs of another but this is not possible ex- cept where the people of the government affected are dissatisfied and ripe for revolu- tion. We have never been willing to admit that the government of the United States was so undemocratic as to make possible speetaeular and dangerous inroads by for- eign propagandists. Only a nation, careless as to-the welfare of the people, invites out- side inferference. The fickle faith of some Americans, who*have been convinced that their democ- racy would become the victim of half-baked radicals in this country, was a reflection up- on their Americanism. The most that can be said of any in- ternational propaganda is that it possesses # nijjisance value but no danger, unless the government involved has ceased to repre- sent its. people and becomes utterly incom- petent-to promote the: general welfare. “When a government falls into this classification the cause of its disease is its own rottenness, not the foreign propaganda thafian exploited people accept in ignor- ance and disgust. Sorfar as true Americanism is concern- ed #should invite competition from all souftes. We have no idea that any other system of government is equal to that in this nation, which is founded upon great and ffiperishable principles of justice to the individual and opportunity to develop upon the basis of merit. -Only when the United States drifts from its moorings, class rather than the champion of the peo- ple,“ will it be worth while to worry about foreign propaganda, whéther it stems from & comitern or another foreign agency. HARD TO UNDERSTAND Every war restriction means there will be renewed complaints on the part of some | pergons on the home front who know more about the situation than anybody else. «The complaints will be based upon the supposition that the ‘bureaucrats’ in Washington are bestirring themselves to dis- cover new methods with which to harass the people of the country. It is hard to understand why anyone | believes that officials anxiously go out of their way to stir up a wave of complaints. If réstrictions are useless and unnecessary, it ix reasonable to believe that they would be avoided. Buying war bonds does two things: (1) | hitsthe Axis and (2) hits inflation. *Save when you are young and spend when you are old. Aipparently this is a wise injunction, but difficult of observance, hu- man nature being what it is. permitting its govern- | ment to become the representative of a} THE FLUSHED RABBIT mitted to reside in it, or, if it is rented, some- house is to be kept, or, assuming conditions be rented. tract that prohibits you from having any- thing te. do with the operation. of the busi- ness, or, in the case of the hotise, if you buy it and occupy it, you must pay rént. They are some of the things that would purchasing of the Key West Electric Com- picture completely, and an_ engineer, able to nobody in the way he conducted the the revenue bonds with which the company would be acquired, the city would be com- pelled to pay for whatever electricity it used. As The Citizen has remarked before, it did not see the contract, because no ef- fort was made to publish it, but as soon’as it had been read. by; Representative Bernie C. Papy, who was.in Tallahassee at the time, he characterized it as a “raw and rot- said, in effect, that, right. Aside from those objectionable clauses in the contract, Representative Papy de- manded to be informed why the city would years. And why boost the interest to 44 per even three per cent with safety? estimates that the price fixed by the fiscal agents is a quarter of a million dollars in excess of the real valie. At a fair price, he thinks that the ac- quisition of the company by the city would bea gilt-edged investment. But if it is bought, Tet it be operated by Key Westers, duly qualified and duly appointed by the city council. Why let the.company be oper- ated by a man, whose decisions would be final, ensconced in his office up in Chicago? The Citizen, though it had not been in- formed about the provisions of the contract, smelled that well-known rat immediately. And The Citizen struck our hard in de- manding that the interests of the people of Key West be protected, that Key Westers, who, in the final analysis, would be held re- sponsible for the liquidation of the bonds, at least be accorded the privilege of know- ing what they were buying, knowing the price they were to pay to the last penny, knowing how every penny would be paid. The secrecy that veiled the entire pro- ceedings was sufficient to force the con- clusion that there were provisions in the contract that the negotiators were anxious not to come to the knowledge of the people of Key West. : But: the rabbit has been flushed, and now he is everybody’s game. Parents who have sons in the service seem to have an idea of what war means. Medical science has not yet found the means to prevent any of the serious dis- eases afflicting old age. ~ Between trying to spell ’em and place ‘em, the war theatre has given a lot of us a post-graduate education. | } NEEDED FOR WARFARE “Tt required oceans of oil to prosecute | the spectacular Tunisia offensive,’ declares | requiring still more Oceans of oil to get ready for the vastly greater offensives to come.” 3 wey ai vino to: These statements go, farste-answer. the complaints of civilians*whoodislike: present | gasoline restrictions. So far as we are concerned there is only one question to be asked, at this time, about the emergency war regulations: “Are they désigned to strengthen our fight- ing men on the battle-fronts?” If the answer is affirmative, then we are for them, regardless of inconvenience, errors. Those who would avoid the drastic | that they desire, Or you buy a busitiéss, arid sign a con- | have occurred, in applied cases, to the city’s | pany. The city would be brushed out of the | “somewhere in Chicago,” would be answer- | company. Besides, though the city provided ten deal.” He showed the contract to some | of the best lawyers in the state, and they | were such an instru- | ment legalized, the city would lose its birth- | You buy a house, and you are not per- body else handles the money and does noi | permit you to decide in what condition the | are normal, for what amount the house will | be bled over a period of 30 years when the | bonds could be liquidated in eight or nine | cent, when, in these days, it is hard to get | And why enter into the contract to buy | the company before a detailed inventory is | made, so that a fair appraisal may be , reached on that conclusive data? Mr. Papy | i i i | who had been in Key West to tes- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Chapter 21 _ was a long day. Bert Stringer was driven by impatience to reach the Peace River and the canoe he had cached there. From the halfbreed’s shack, Penny learned, it was only ten miles by | this route. The river took a bend which shortened the distance. “We'll make camp on the shore tonight,” her captor said, “and paddle on to Fort St. John in the morning.” He — Penny going relent- lessly. eary as she was, she dared not risk the consequences of irritating him by outright re- bellion. By this trail, she estimated, they would probably come out about ten or fifteen miles down river from where she’d left Cleve. Penny’s heart plummeted. How long would he wait at the Indian encampment before beginning to suspect something was wrong? Several days, probably. But_now, at least, she had a plan. She had hope. She was both eager and reluctant to reach the trail’s end. If she should fail—if Bert Stringer should somehow find out—what then? Warm as she was with the exertion ‘of the strenuous hiking overland, Penny couldn’t..suppress an icy shiver. Stringer would never forgive her for trying'to fool him. He’d be re- lentless, After all, she reminded. herself fearfully, the was basically a eriminal of the worst sort. She could hold him at arm’s length only by keeping him guessing, by flattering his ego. But—if she should succeed! Penny’s heart beat with warm excitement at the thought. She would be free. The precious films Bill had risked his life for would be in her possession. She could, surely, manage to find her way safely back to Cleve. To succeed would be worth every ounce of painstaking effort, every bit of acting skill on her part, loath as she was to have to do it. a was nearly ten o'clock, ac- cording to Penny’s watch, when they emerged from the thinning pines and saw ahead the pale glimmer of the river. Soon the sub-arctic dusk would settle. for a few hours over the north coun- try, while the sun dipped briefly below the horizon’s rim. Bert Stringer flung down his pack, including the brown dun- nage bag. fe said, “I'm dog-tired. I'l be] 4 glad to sget out of this damned country.’ Penny dropped her bed-roll, put down her first aid kit. “Why did you ever come up here in the first place?” she asked curiously. He was in no mood for con- fidences. “I had my reasons,” he said shortly. . “Maybe hs were tailing Bill,” suggested Penny indifferently, as if it really didn’t matter to her. He snorted. “Maybe—maybe not.” Penny. decided: to drop her questioning, before he became too annoyed. He was Sppen as an animal who wants only to rest and be let alone. At the mo- ment, body-comfort was para- mount with him. Getting out camp equipment and supplies for their late supper, he rattled the pans and containers savagely. “Let me help,” she said sweet- ly, although every nerve and muscle of her body protested against it. “Sure,” he said, “why not? Let's see what you'ré, good- for; besidesslooking pretty.” pene stifled “her. indignation, went doggedly to workeIf only she weren't so worn out. ‘This keeping up, this eternal humiliat- ing pretending was wearing on her physically and mentally. And now, more than any time in her life before, she needed to be alert. Her movements, when the time came, must be deft and sure. Otherwise—otherwise everything would be lost. . .. Penny felt suddenly the whol burden of the responsibility whic had fallen upon her shoulder Not only ‘for herself, but for Bi for Powell, for Cleve, she mu succeed. Yes, and for many mo" perhaps, whom she had nev seen and never would. For h country and for the whole wor “Get a move on,” grow Stringer, as her hands slowed u der the overpowering weight « this thought. Gritting her teeth, Penny push- ed the jagged:end of the tin of Today’s Anniversaries 1785.—Sylvanes | engineer, West Po r of West Point 5 i: Mass. Died Sept corn she was opening into her | sy P hand. H She -gave a little exclamation | of pain. j “What's: the matter now?” he | “I cut my hand,” she told him | 5 - “N serious. But have to get some gauze | and adhésive tape to bandage it with. It won’t take a minute.” “Hell,” he said. “All right, but make it snappy.” {Yor i pee opened her kit hur- Tiedly, got out the things |Ithace necessary to bind her seif-in- flicted injury and, along with | 1 them, the little box she’d come across this afternoon while fixing her hurt knee. The latter she slipped surreptitiously into her breeches’ pocket praying that in the increasing dimness Bert | Stringer would wouldn't notice. having taken care of her hand, she came back. Under his peop: f abusive urging and the stress of her own increased tension, she had the | meal prepared in no time. “Well,” he said, mollified after a few bites, “you can get a hustle on you when you've a mind to, cant’ you?” t “Coffee?” asked Penny. She hoped her voice didn’t*sound, as queer to him as it did to her { Mouth stuffed, he nodded. With hands she couldn’t keep from shaking, she gave him the steam- | p. ing black liquid. * emptying it, ne pon ese ips and pi e cup back to be refilled. “Nothing like. good coffee to set a man up,” he said, his good humor returning. “No,” swallowed Penny. “But— it don’t you ever have trouble | _ ith coffee keeping you awake?” | He gri “What if I do?” He tted a place beside him. “Come over here, sweetheart.” “fd—Id rather get everything Yy ' cleaned up and put away t.” she said c e more an hour.” n half an hour, Bert Strin; s so sound asleep he didn’t ar Penny rummaging in_his -own dunnage bag for the Alean | .ilms. The sleeping tablets had | worked wonderfully. Te be continued Me | Turner, Me Vice a United Aut >, Ohic iy. “It won't | i t KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN | OF JUNE 9. 1933 | i Key West had a heavy rainfall yesterday. Two inches fell, the heaviest in several months. ig hE SERIES i Cigar manufacturers in Key} West decided today to hold aj} meeting to make arrangements to} conform with the government’s! code. | elected } Irving Sweeting was i chancellor commander of the Isle of the Sea Lodge, No. 104, at a| meeting last night. Miss Ruby Albury and Benja-| min Roberts, delegates represent- } ing the Senor Christian Endeav-j} or Society of the First Congrega- tional Church, will leave this af-| ternoon for Fort Lauderdale to at-| tend the annual convention of that | organization in Florida. | Perind i The Key West High School Alu- | mni Association held ' its annual} reunion last night in the’ clubhouse ! of the Key West Country Club. | J. H. Montgomery, head of the} State Plant Board, who was ig} Key West on an official visit, left | yesterday for Gainesville. | Charles Yates, who had been on} an extended visit in Tampa, re-| turned yesterday, | EDR } ton. E. R. Lowe, justice of the peace } a: at Tavernier, and C. O. Garrett, | deputy sheriff at Rock Harbor, | tify in a case tried in the crim-| inal court, returned yesterday to! their homes. | The Misses Winifred and Vir-j} | Secretary of Interior Ickes. He adds, “It is jeinia Some leeyseerisy for Be | lahassee, the latter to enter sum-! mer sthoo] in that city and the | former to visit her uncle, Dr. W. | Today In History | 1851.—To secure order, some 100 of San Francisco’s leading citi- zens subscribe to historic Consti- tution Committee of Vigilance. 1866.—Some 1,000 Fenians cross into Canada from Vermont and proceed to plunder the country. | 1893.—Front part of Ford's The- | |atre, Washington, scene of Lin-| coln’s assassination, _ collapses, | killing 28—had been taken over | by government and public amuse- | ments forever banned within it. | 1905. — President Theodore! Roosevelt appeals to warring Ja-} {pan and Russia to meet and con- | sider peace. 1909.—First balloon race in In-| dianapolis. { 1918.—(25 years ago): Germans launch new drive on western| front. 1931.—Heidleberg University, | Germany, dedicated new building —gift of former American stu- dents. | | | 1940,—Allies evacuate Norway | and Norway falls to Nazis. | REE | 1941.—Army opens North Amer- ican Aviation plant, California, | closed by strike. } 1942._U. S. and Britain pool} food and production resources. | visit, left yesterday for Washing-| | | Miss Carolyn Albury left yester- | day for Miami, where she was called by the serious illness of her! father, Charles Albury. She was} accompanied by her aunt, cae. Lenora Roberts. Today The Citizen says in an editorial paragraph: IMMENSE OUTPUT CHICAGO.—The U. S. Alum- inum output is expected to reach the rate of two billion pounds an- | nually in 1943. i Welcome in peace... more welcome in war work ‘AR plant managers will tell you that anything that contributes to con- tented workers makes better workers. In plant after plant it has been found that a rest-pause breaks monotony, lessens tiredness and tension. When you add refreshment to a rest-pause, you not only have a pause that rests, but refreshes, too. A for ice-cold Coca-Cola makes a rest-pause take on more meaning . . . promoting contentment that leads to more work and better work. Yes, contentment comes when you connect with a Coke. “As an economy suggestion, why | ; not print the list of taxpayers in- E. Lewis, and aunt, Mrs. E. L.|Stead of tax dodgers? ..The imperfect enforcement and administrative | | regulation of war can do so. Let them join | | the fighting forces, somewhere, and get all | } | Dorsey. State Senator Arthur Gomez returned to Key West yesterday | with his brother, Alfonso Gomez, who had been confined in the Florida East Coast Railway Hos- pital in St. Augustine. | burvau of lighthouses, who had Thomas Flood, examiner for the} been in Key West on an official} | would be ever so much smatier: | consequently less expensive to the! | state.” | { J. F. SIKES LICENSED PLUMBER | | 1906 CATHERINE STREET | i | | ‘Close work brings the need to pause. Ice-cold ‘Coca-Cola brings tingling refreshment to make ‘Letters from plant managers from coast t cong empha size that the little moment for am icecoid CoceCoie means a lot to workers im war plames ir's 2 refreshing moment on the sunny side of ching 2 way © mee to refreshment without turning fom work BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANT BT KEY WEST COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY