The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 11, 1943, Page 2

AGI TWO She Key West Citizen THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. Published Daily, Except Sunday, by L, B, ARTMAN. Owner and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Buainess 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 B yf republication of all news dispatches credited to or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the “al news published here. (Pra RS TES une Year .... +ix Months bree Months “ vne Mo! WOCKIS 1.0. Anna ADVERTISING RATES «© - Made known on application. All readi: ft “ep ft thanks, resolutioss of or notices, cards o: respect, ‘obituary. notices, etc., will be charged for at “he 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 ae but it will not publish anonymous communi- vation: $10.00 5.00 50 2. 35 30 ED -.ssennesenvneessrerenecenna cent ontwmn ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN te —_—— 1, More Hotels and Apartments, _2v,,Beach and Bathing Pavilion, &, Airports—Land and, Sea. ‘E Consolidation of County and City Gov- x ernments. ¥) f NO NEED FOR WORRY eee ee ee ee ee Some time ago there was concern ex- i pressed for the fitness of our youth for bat- We,.worry over their physical strength with emphasis placed on their softness due to the protected kind of life most of them had led s wough parents making the path easy for sthem. The folks here in Key West talked of Smorale and whether youth could “take it,” Scould stand the test of war mentally, moral- Dy and physically. Of course we worried Gabout them, that was natural, for we felt Teer children weren’t ready for war, not fit or it. Well, neither were we oldsters! All f that was some time ago—before Pearl ‘Harbor, shall we say? We didn’t feel the issue would reach such heights, or depths, with the most serious °d ion still not, _ Emeasuring up to the seriousness of Wake Is- Sland. ; 4 All of that worry about the morale in gthe army and from the way many have act- sed here on the home front it would be more probable that the army could do Ssome fretting on our account. Surely folks Sdon’t expect the fighting forces to have to “protest against the weakness and selfish- Zuess of the home front that “can’t do with- ut.” It'took bloody battles to get some of sour boys straight with themselves, to get us estraight about the valor and toughness, fit- Eness and glory of our boys, But those lads | | SCRATCHING IN THE WRONG PLACE A cool head adheres more closely to more likely to keep the record straight. Broke, Broke,” said the city has been able published. True, brother, true, but how | have the payrolls been met? | _, It was stated in the editorial that the bank balance of the city on the day before payday amounted to only “a little more than $1,700” and it was added that $4,000 was needed for the semi-monthly payroll. The city’s bankbook will prove that the amount of: the balance was correct, and the assertion that the city had to scrape and scrape to make up the difference was true also. And it is true too that the city is still seraping to pay off on the fifth and twen- tieth of each month. in the position of the man who has to scrape to get enough to buy his next sandwich. And a city official was quoted as stat- ing that he didn’t know where the money thé collection of taxes falls to its lowest ebb during the lean months of summer and up 2ed on November 1. ~~ We wonder to have his bank balance in as precarious 2. condition as the city’s is! Another councilman blared that the writer of The Citizen’s editorials has never | attended a meeting of the city council. Does | that councilman know that not a single edi- tor in the country writes about something enly when he has personally heard it? Edi- torials are interpretations of the news, not reportorial accounts. Thissame councilman was quoted as stating that the man who writes the news and the editorials about the councilmanic those meetings. Now, The Citizen believes councilman was misquoted, because he knows, or should know, that the accoun‘s of the meetings are written by a member of Then some other councilman spoke about The Citizen’s comment on the pro- posal to purchase the Key West Electric Company. The editorial on that matter was headed, “Why the Secrecy?” and it was stated that not a word was breathed ‘to the | public about that particular meeting, that it was continued till 2 o’clock in the morn- ing, and that the councilmen reassembled in City Hall at 8 o’clock in the morning, one hour before it is scheduled to be opened, to put the final touches®on the negotiations. Is there a single councilman who will deny the truth of every one of those state- ments? Truth makes you itch all over, and, if to pay its employes since the editorial was | t The city then and the city still is now | was coming from to make up payrolls when | faaicn time when the new tax book is open- | | if the councilman who ; | eriticized that editorial would be delighted | meetings has never been present at one of | that the | the council, who is present at every session. | THE KEY W! | facts than a hot one, and a cool head too is | One city councilman, in expatiating on i an editorial in The Citizen entitled, “Broke, | Chapter 23 towels overslept. She had in- j tended to be on her way again soon after the sun reappeared. | She awoke irstead to)full day- up’ through’ shimméring:'igreen spruce boughs: ‘stirring faintly | against the .ineredibly, blue sky. In the distance a partridge | drummed. Some small animal | rustled ina nearby clump of saskatoon. Turning her head, Penny caught a glimpse of bright eyes and a furry body—then the little creature vanished. Penny lifted the mosquito net, and sat up. Below, on her right, | the river sparkled. In spite o* all she had come through, in spite of all she might yet have to endure up here in the north country, she felt suddenly, inexplicably joyous. “T’ve fallen in love with the wilderness,” she thought, aston- ished. Rising, she stretched, breathed | deeply of the fresh, clean air. Then, singing a melody that Cleve had often whistied, she went down to wash in the river. The cool water felt good on her skin. Breakfasi— then on the trail | again. How near was she to the mouth of Moose Creek? No way of, telling. |... Keeping close to the river was |, difficult, for the shoreline was ir- regular. Farther inland, there might Ve a well-defined trail, but ; 'Penny«dared not try to find it. | She might easily get lost out of ; Sight of her only guide, the Peace. |. By following it, she was certain | to reach the Indian encampment | eventually. Even if her progress { was slower, she’d better play safe. | Wits every step, her spirits i lifted. Today even her soli- | tariness couldn’t depress her. How much better to be all by oneself “in these singing wilds than with | someone like Bert Stringer! She felt a new surge of gratitude that she’d escaped. Soon—soon now, surely, she’d be back with Cleve. That knowl- edge buoyed her up. Providing he was well enough, they could con- tinue on together to Fort St. John, and Bill. She sat on a piece of drift- wood, tumbled far up the bank by the mighty Peace at flood, to eat | i { { t | | light. Opening her eyes, she gazed | be EST CITIZEN her scanty meal. That was the only thing that worried her, her dwindling food supplies. She wished she’d taken more from Stringer’s larder, even though it would have meant.a larger :and heavier, pack. Still, there couldn’t so many miles to go yet. Trou- ble was, something about the air up here made you ravenous. Wist- fully, she. remembered the thick juicy venison steak they’d had, at Baird’s. She’d toyed with it. Well, she wouldn’t ever toy with one again. After lunch, on a sudden im- pulse, she took off her heavy boots and thick socks, and paddled her feet :n the river shallows. The cold water made her shiver, but it rested her, too. She had been on the way again for nearly three hours when all at once something catapulted from a thicket ahead. A furry shape launched itself at her. Startled, Penny dropped her pack, then cried, “Wolf! Wolf— you darling!” She dropped to her knees, hug- ging him up in 1 frenzy of de- light and relief. Whining, yapping, his pink tongue ‘slapping her face, he wriggled ecstatically in her arms. The pleasure, he made it very clear, ‘vas mutual. To her astonishment, Penny found that it had startéd'to rain. At least, the malemute’s:coat was getting wet. She glanced up/ at a blurring sky, and realized. that she was cE, Her tears, were spattering Wolf's silky coat. “Silly,” she saia. “Why should 1 be crying when I’m happy?” She rubbed her eyes clear ener- getically. “Such nonsense!” It was then she saw Cleve swingirig up’ over a ridge. “Cleve!” she cried. “Oh, Cleve!” [PAVING her pack where it had fallen at Wolf’s on- slaught, she ran forward. She heard herself shouting and laugh- ing deliriously. They met and clung. “Penny, you're safe,” said Cleve huskily. “Oh, thank God!” “And—and Cleve you're better. You're able to travel.” Something so solic_ about Cleve —yet exciting, too. Something so comforting about being clos: in his arms. Penny rubbed her cheek against his rough jacket, then lifted her head. For a moment, as their eyes met, Penny thought he was going to kiss her. Her lashes drooped in reckless expectation. It didn’t happen. Instead, Cleve said matter-of- factly, “Yes, In: mucl.. better, thanks. Practically okay.” Penny said unsteadily, detach- ing herself from him, “That's w-wonderful I’m so glad, Cleve.” “And you, Penny—you're' sure you're all. right?” He searched her face. “Bert Stringer didn’t harm you? “No,” said Penny, “I managed to get away: from him. But—but Cleve, how did you guess?” “That it wasn’t Bill who sent Marie back?” Cleve’s lips twisted. “The whole thing sounded phony. Bill walking around actively like that. I asked the Cree girl what ning of Revolw hot at Bunke jington, D. C. (hounded the dish jing. born. Virgin B. Latta, pio- engine mak the tific | Mass. Died F he looked like. That clinched it.” “Cleve, you're marvelous!” “I was wild, naturally, when I guessed the truth. I had my things together and was all ready to start out after you when Powell arrived.” Penny thought she must have heard incorrectly. “Who?” she asked vaguely. “POWELL.” Fe said. “Your fi- ance, remember? The man you love. He’s dowr. at the canoe 2% el] here!” rej “Powell here!” ri inckedulously. “But how—2” “He mariaged to gét hold of a ‘guide ‘finally, and came after us. (Kept iriquiring/all along the way. Lit gk agit rx Berta neat 1p- 1-3 le, out together to pee for ei Been everywhere.” Powell’ Ward was sitting on a stump, with his back to them, smoking and talking vehemently to the guide. He was gesturing forcefully, as Penny had so often seen him do back in the New York office when things weren't | going as he’d planned. Penny heard him say, “I tell you, we've got to scour the country. We've got to turn this dammed wilderness upside down. If I have to, I'll hire the whole Canadian Mounted Police force to track them down!” “No need to go to all that ex- pense,” Cleve drawled. “Here she is, Powell.” “Penny!” cried Powell. To be continued KEY WEST IN Bt FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN OF JUNE 11. 1933 The first installment of the proposed new city charter was published in The Citizen today. The charter, drawn up and adopt- ; ed by the Economic League of: Key West, will be submitted to a referendum in the generakelec-, tion next November. It will re- quire 35 newspaper columns to publish the charter in full, and The Citizen will run about two} j columns every day. ‘ cage Work was resumed this morning | DAYS GONE BY’ Today In History 1832.—Army .uniform desi, changed and the eagle adopted rank of colonel. ign for 1859.—Famed Comstock Lode, which yielded more than $300,000,- 000 worth of precious metal in next 20 years, discovered in Ne- vada. 1871—Adm. John Rodgers at Korea on peaceful mission, retal- iating against Koreans who had attacked American sajlors, lands a force, wipes out five forts, kill- ing some 200 Korean soldiers. 1878.—Washington, D. C., first city to go under commission form of government. ! ), Today’s Horoscope | } Today may give many queer ‘notions and the mind shave a {trend: to the»anusual, A. friend- | ship with many notable persons jis indicated, a good and able mind and a taste for scientific subjects. But do not make too | much of the mysterious. i GRANTED IN 1863 apated Penny | searching | As she and Cleve approached, | es Your Grocer Selis THAT GOOD STAR * BRAND AMERICAN COFFEE and CUBAN TRY A POUED a SS Overseas Transportation Company, Inc. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service Between MIAMI AND KEY WEST Also Serving All Points On Flerida Keys Between Miami and Key West DETROIT.—The first guaranty of equal suffrage to women in the | United States was granted in the {territory of Wyoming in 1869. H Wrong Deduction H | Patient: Doctor, I've just re ' ceived your bill for that operation. Could you take anything off for} FREE PICK-UP and DELIVERY SERVICE FULL CARGO INSURANCE Office: 813 Caroline Street Poomes Sl ame you scratch, you always make the mistake |on the lighthouse to be erected at| | cash? of scratching in the wrong place. | Smith’s Shoals. se i j Doctor: Yes, anything—what pies ciowine aaa wh sons ced | would you like to have taken off, Work on a_ general improve-/dore Roosevelt nemes Portsmouth, |" @tm or a leg, or what? : ment of the plant of the Key|N. H., for them to meet. West Gas Company was started | jtoday. The entire plant will be! Shave what their ancestors had before them WAREHOUSE: Corner Eaten ond Feunsis Svects Jet Gettysburg, the Argonne, on plains of frontier history when this country was =pioneering. As we see this in our children, ewe are beginning to find within ourselves Zsome of the strength needed to meet the sit- Ration; Perhaps it was buried pretty deep, §maybe some of us are slow finding this qual+ - { A man is getting old when he realizes he is getting old. Amer-! Wood and 300; — 1918.—(25 years ago): : +,;, |overhauled and additional facili-' icans take Band, s No business ever became great, with- ties will be constructed. | Gasenane: out a program of progressive expansion. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Leuthi left! ity, but it is there and strike gold within Sourselves we must make our. boys over ethere proud of us. AXIS TALK Goehring’s boast that not oneybomby would fall on the Ruhr must make Germans sick at heart. It may be safely asserted that a just peace will be denounced by Axis sympa- Saturday afternoon for Overland, | Sandfrom*there will go to Grand Rapids, Mich., to visit rela-; | tives. Before returning home they | will visit the World’s Fair;in Chi- | cago. H Benjamin D, Trevor, of the firm. of Trevor and Morris, left yester- on the fields df! Franeou 1935.—U., S. .Senatey passes bill calling for elimination. of all _un- necessary public utility holding companies by 1942, Pt eR Ce eRerew The hint comes from Berlin that the Germans are about ready to retaliate against the British for the bombing of Ger- » for Atlants besi y 1940.—President declares Medi-; - eae * tlanta on a business! terranean barred to Americans. | visit. i : | 1942.—U. S., Britain and Russia | thizers in this country. PROPER CONDUCT «man cities. a *From Tokyo, Sword that the Japanese have a brand new Zbattleship, more powerful than any Amer- Sican warship. S From other scattered areas of Axis- sland there come various tall tales, predict- «ing all kinds of misfortunes for the United 2Nations and their fighting men. = «Well, what.is.the Axis waiting, for? 2THe Russians are ready and the Americans tand the British are fast. getting down to the busifiess of demonstrating how to make The idea that Japan will fight to the last man is not our idea. China continues to fight Japan be- Zeause it is either fight or die, The U-boats, it seems, are not meeting with-the success that Herr Hitler planned. estacasts Predictions as to the length of the war Page from six months to six years. Your guese is as good as that of the experts, via Berlin, comes the | Talk about good-will ambassadors, ' get along with many strangers, the British, | Egyptians, Chinese, French, Indians and even the head-hunters in the Solomon Islands! There are so many customs and rituals that must be respected and followed that our boys have much to learn. In order | to carry on peaceful relations and avoid in- ternational misunderstandings the govern- ment hag forces ‘ith instructions concerning some of the most important facts as to manners of eign words. A soldier must follow these tc are bound to be instances when misunder- | standings will arise. But such happens! | right here among us in Key West who live | | alike! The main thing, of course, is for the | soldier not to think of himself as better than | the foreigner, to act toward him as to « friendly American back home and_ this alone will probably go farther to cementing | relationships than any book of instruction. | our vote goes to the American soldier boys | } who are having to learn how to live by and } .q president of the Key West Jun-, Roberts, of Miami, issued _ pamphlets to its fighting | conduct and pronunciation of various for- | + be regarded as a friend and even so there | Miss Wilhelmina Goehring left! yesterday afternoon for Tallahas-' {see to attend summer school. Mrs. Howard Wilson was elect- jior Woman's Club at a meeting; held yesterday. Oliver Carey, who had been in! |Key West visiting relatives, re-; |turned yesterday to his home in} | Miami. { | } | | business trip.to Miami., | © Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Clinton, of; | Miami, are. the ,guests of Mrsej Harold Gibs6ii,’of Pine street.. % | William R. Porter, president of | jthe First National Bank of Key} West, left yesterday on a business | | trip to Tallahassee. Buddy Roberts, left yesterday J. F. SIKES LICENSED PLUMBER 1306 CATHERINE STREET sign 20-year pact. afternoon to spend a month with Today The Citizen says in an editorial paragraph: ‘his grandmother, Mrs. C. H. J.! i t i i “If a person is as careful in, .| Spending his money in times of prosperity as he is in these hard ti t irhes, you may be sure he is the! ; type of man who is’ preparéd tli - verbial “rainy ddy’!"! pia cian annstinieennthe boned Fine Tommie’s SKATING RINK SUMMER SESSIONS Afternoons: Tues. - Thurs. Seecccovevessevsesesees’ STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE TRIUMPH . COFFEE MILLS AT ALL GROCERS Ray Bush. left..yesterday on a! meet the “exigencies’ of the'pro-; * is F ;