The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 19, 1943, Page 2

Qitteretunee sone ~ rights of neutrals or civilians. times in the last few months t = discuss fuller cooperation with him. He has ‘HE KEY WEST CI7iZEN PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR guess again, Mr. the war end? Here's a chance to Key Wester—When will You may reply: “Of what consequence is my guess When such men as Eddie Rickenbacker and James F. Byrnes, who have their fingertips on the war-pulse of the world, explain in detail their opinions?” ja, as second class matter F THE ASSOCIATED PRESS lated Press is exclusively entitled to use fion of all news dispatches credited to ise credited in this paper and also the $10.00 | men jusi like you to guess. He called it a miracle”, but he did Boffuse that word in its proper cc nndtation, he Way, for ih- — | stance, s used in the Bible. when Christ turned water into win®, or wher he told the stricken youth to “Take up thy bed and walk.” Rickenbacker used “miracle” in what term its slangy sen He applied i* psychology war—that element t has started many a war and has brought ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. ‘ECIAL NOTICE s, cards of thanks, resolutioss of will be charged for at ituary notices, etc. 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 fom of publie issues and subjects of 1c but ft will not publish anony . €DITORIAL_ SOCIATION ;wen of ny a war to an abrupt end. Psychology ant role in a war ng else, be that thing guns or lanes or shi | IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ‘ ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN front as well as sed on psychology. It re than anything else. Italy to her wobbly conli- were forced into 2 Beach and Bathing Pavilion. war by i | 1. More Hotels and Apartments. i i > Mussolini: th in't want to fight, 3 Airports—Land and Sea. ‘ M ; “ter yd “aa ut he tried to force them t AAC 4 Consolidation of County and City Gov- coreg Tats aye , | a good navy, she had od legions, well ernments. : : equipped, bus he was rle to break the hologwica) outlook of his people toward §. A Modern City Hospital : WHAT ABOUT SANCTUARY? te turned ¢ w d her legions, on- sleidc ce, threw up their hands The neutral nations of Europe been warned against giving sanctus Axis leaders who are expected to flee ther red i if possible. when the inevitab'e (Germans has ocet 1918, the war. Ir pract their cities u coHapse occurs. of the invader, their d children : There are six neutral nations in Europe, | safe, far back from g line, cried not counting the Vatican area in Italy. |suddeniv for peac They were still weil What would happen if the fallen Nazis and equipped, still able to fight for many long Fascists manage to ghar to some of these | and weary nths, but their psychological areas to escape the ulsth of the victorious outlook had changed: they were convinced United ations? a they had no chance of winning and, there- + Would the Usfited Nations demand | fore, what further effort they made was their surrender? If this demand is rejected, | fruitless; their morale was broken and their would tne United Nations do anything about | spirit to fight was gone. the! matter? A zroggy fighter may Unless the answer to both of these till he is knocked out, but questions is in the affirmative, there to reasen clearly, he will give up the figh nothing to be gained by warning the neu- | and, if his reason is tral nations. Moreover, there would be Jit- | throw 1p the sponge. tle ‘(prospect of punishment for the leaders It ix anybody's who instigated a war of aggression and | many’: morale is to being shattered: pre waged it ruthlessly, without regard for the | ably not the G themselv know, but the day will come, as it has con before in Germany and in other countries, “when Rickenbacker’s “miracle” will hap- pen in Germany. It may be this fall, it may be next fall, as Rickenbacker said, but wher it does come Germany will the go on fighting f he is still able gone, his second will how near Ger- guess even rmans | WHEN WILL STALIN CONFER? We have never been able to compre- hend the logic of a few Americans who in sist that the United States should “get to gether” with Russia. As Edger Ansel be cut war. is different from Ger Jap psyche ogy, but the Jap is human just Mc 3: “Five man psyche Pre has offefed to meet Marshal Stalin and rer sa Germ the same as the there is a breaking point i every man regardless of what his extraction lent from xpreased his willingness to travel most of may be. Judging he -way. Five times Marshal Stalin has been ‘foo busy.” ” Southwest Pacific, t Certainly, if there is a lack of confer- chologically speaking, con pared wit ences it is not the fault of the Amerigan., Germans, but, the latter knew, and wi! chief executive. Prime Minister Churchfl! “know in this 4war has already gone to Moscow to talk with , cry out. “Kamerad! Stalin. There is little t can be done ua il Comrade Joseph makes up his mind t A hero is a r have « conference gets the publicity. UNWARRANTED FURORE Absolute sincerity is ex and action is not On the da that M i ppeared ' regarded as worth r rom his seat of authority in I owt —— a broac med to fore Nor how exce ae ~ rred to the Italian King as ord may be there ne . ya The President denounced tt sors axailable to ex stakes zthe adjective which, it develops, was sup- Ss es ——— “plied by a New York columnist who, like MEN, NOT FORTS, WIN WARS ot ” writers, has the adjective- - — e¢ rope . th Americans overnment t ready to b Germans is go- stablished <i ace and war cations that se people _ wen ng is the Maginot Line, the life work of some individuals France erecte —— Repulse If we lose Soviet Russ however third world war is in the mak as a friend, « were Army H ce deteriorated and, it is ations alse mor nand in Tie production line is a war front and possible that. in time, the m victory will come sooner if we recognize man soldiers will do the this truth immediately. No country can be defended by guns —_--— — and forts unless there are ligent Those who thus ve made no con- trained men, with fighting courage, to mz tribution to the War Effort in the matter of them. The minute the defending tro los = buying War Bonds, will be giver the oppor- hope, the strength of their bons -<ient “tunity ina few days when another drive i, pear. It will be so with the German On before the war end But Rickenbacker left~arf offening for | {we use Sam Taggard now to get| I said “Ni | hold of the ? Gestapo’ “But what of the tin?” “I haven't got it. See here, do it pter 25 1 SHUT the door of my room and Sam Taggard sat down. “Are you engaged to my daugh- ter like the papers claim?” I felt him examining me carefully as if he were, in fact, only the father of a marriagable daughter. “No! Where'd you es ae ust newspaper gossip, eh? Is mation had been quite detailed. “Why should we?” “If you arrest me what gt os sup} "ll happen to Lila? John- ‘d kill her once he heard I in the hands of the Bo it my way. How'd that J son get out of the Opalo?” now. at his Valencia.” Si further than the adjoining Room Eleven, previeusly et by Chevaile under an name. In Roam Eleven, a con- cealed wall button had opened a way into a passageway which had Lac a series of antique iran adders. oF} "They had descended down these| Self. He brought me a no fury in his|jadders into the basement and| Wine and again excused about a truce?) had then walked underground for warn you I'm] aimost @ hundred yards through guide post t tunnel braced | vers. It was only 2: it's not) after we had had the building easy. Johnson’s| plans and had methodically ex- hand tore into! plored 1e walls, ceilings, and | weren't average that t upon the get-away. » first thing we have to do “So there is something between! you.” He shook his head. “Damn/} that Johnson!” He gazed at me; wearily. I noticed that his face was seamed with wrinkles. The ast six months had taken its toll from him. “My daughter, There w w. “How word. “Se me ileva sell English goods. ” he said, “poor when he to go outside. ” That meant It was the password or ratio the first part of the password. Sam Taggard’s infor- ARANJA,” the proprietor re- ‘Then he said. le was = usi panish What he had said wes the Spanish { anything between you! I told him what I knew. We had 1 rs ‘ found out later that Johnson, | €auivalent of carrying coals to But—well.” Chevaile and Lila had gone noj-cowcas = ng sted ee Valencia. He peered at me hard, waiting for the rest of the pass- indicado que vende articulos ingless,” I said. Which meant: I am told that you “Si, Senor.” He excused him- lass of ‘imself. It was almost an hour and a half later on my_ wrist watch returned. Under his breath he said something in Span- ish. I didn’t understand at first, but then I gathered that I was Outside, a roadster had parked in front of the restaurant. The proprietor tapped on the road- ster’s hood and was gone. I peered h ‘get in touch with ile,” . “Lathrop—" oa ee see ene at the driver who fi open the low?” | door. I got inside. e driver | shoved the car into gear. “PjONT | The metor hu rop. It Don't you und read in the ne He told me. ATE that night I took a cab out of fashionable: Mexico and we were speeding down the street. I thought that I was a damned say: Your City to the address Taggard had] f90l to trust Sam Taggard. But stay gone unle given me—a small restaupant re-| then I wasn't so sure of being from the Gover bors. They | cided over by a man in a dirty|such a fool. The Gestapo didn’t | say: If you our kid, you! play ball with I was trying to potent. f tt view of plus the apr apron. When I got there a few d's ti customers were still drinking and | 84rd's ti appraise the| smoking. es velopment in| I waited for the man in the ” n object: Tin| dirty apron to come to my table. sion of the en-| This restaurant, as I now a emy ring o ng against us. Ij and not the Club Opalo, was the thought that if I cooperated with| exchange, the clearing-house be- Sam Taggard, that'might develop| tween the Japanese espionage and into a second pincer move. The| Sam Taggard. logic for a second pincer was over-| Smiling, the propriteor ap: powering. If we hoped to use| proached me. He was, I knew a the Gestapo to get hold of Sam| member of the Mexican fascist Tageard and his tin. why-couldn’t! Gold shirts. jad information would take a chance to help her. Te be continued want me. They wanted Sam Tag- But suppose the: ~g3 a ? It was a risky Comando-like venture I had vol- unteered myself into. The reasons weren't obscure either. I was not only proving to myself that I was a Government man with courage equal to that of a buck private, I was proving that I (Copyright, 1943, Carl A. Peterson) i ,peals in behalf of the patients at: ‘the Mercedes Hospital and the’ etter to 00 words, ana wane (MAY ge ee ané wilh ocherwion, an | interested in two, or, three: @P+Cormany. Died Match 19, 1868. two tired women who are try-! 1835—Richerd P. Bland, ing to hold out in theif ‘care of; the sick until relief comes. i < This Mission circle and some{Conn. Died June 15, 1899. friends outside of it have done einige 3 what they could but more help, 1836—John Rock, pioneer Cali- is needed and hoped for from! ofrnia nurseryman of note, born the various organizations which in Germany. Died Aug. 9, 1904. have in the past shown. their generosity in other causes. e ator = oe Even though all Key West is Newark, N. J., librarian, dares looking forward hopefully to its museum. born Woodstock, Vt the fine new hospital that has/Died July 21, 1929. been promised, yet many months ‘ wil’ pass before that dream is) LIGHTNING HITS STEAK _ srealized. Meanwhile there is! = pain and discomfort at Mercedes; pre N. J., Aug. 17-— Hospital. Not much can bel While a luscious steak was frying done to. relieve the pain but? @ pian gies frying pan, 2 much could’ be done: to . make, fierce electrical storm) was Taging the sick more comfortable, sach: outside, Mrs. Jack) Apania heard a as frequent baths with; «clean Sharp explosion in _.;the.kitehen. bed: linen .and.': pajamas: -avail,j Lightning had hit the stoye, shat- able. ‘ , \iering the frying pan to bits. The There ‘is not enough ‘thoriey to steak, while all in one piece, was so splintered with glass that it i , 3 send the laundry ‘out so the ma. cen eek cade: tron and her helper have to work over the wash tub every a a momnt which can be spared = there is plenty of beyonce fi i + ity. I can’t think what can be rom their other duties. Would, ~ si cahiesks a alae with any of us like to do that? EE eee ae the over-large unscreened win- Here is a chance for some goys group to offer to pay laundry 4 you think of a way to solve b ot for the hospital until some r plans can be made. Frequent cool drinks these warm days would be appreciat- this problem please write about it to The Citizen. Write amy- thing if you have any sugges- tions and so keep the ball roll- est ; ed by the helpless patients but/ins “lest we forget, lest we for- ee | ae nnn = that would mean many extra get” ’ R 4 steps for the staff. The rooms f EDITH M. LUETHI KEY WEST IN Today’s Birthdays Today In History 20 oie Sha tign going trom key west, Fe —_—_—___E one to another adds to the work. pe “ge Cparavage K- Aug. 19, 1943. DAYS GONE BY Bernard M. Baruch, Presidential! _1781—Americans and French on Tiiéqe te crossed In’ “the good | coe bets adviser, born Camden, N.J. 73{/the Hudson begin historic a a aoe wax a Ee 7 years south which . culminates “ : plas e FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN surrender of Soltown. in the center of the patio from OF AUGUST 19, 1933 Or Wright, co-inventor of = which there as the sight and airplane, born Day OPT seee sine. eat Mosca. Und Of cool, refreshing wa : 1 storic fight off Massa-~ The place was built for € a6 chusetts—U_ S. Constitution. “Old and w ng and possibly re ironsides.” defeats British Guer- mance? 1 that hh . an Come t , mance But all that has given Ks tite the m itoes still bite as is as = prs Feat Tew. Fred A. Stone, actor. born Val-',_18!4—British land some 50 miles{the nature of the pesky things For Captain of Fuiice eisai Peed SE yg Meagan from Washington—second war! when they have the opportunity | W. J. WALKER (MACK) twith England. evening mes parts of tat Alired Samuel G. Bratton of are ae ms Mexico, Federal jurist, born 1848—Letter announcing ne afac ( me Co., Tex., 55 years ago.'in N. Y. Herald first mak We t Slavs fornia gold strike generally n de Calvin B. Baldwin, administra-, Known in the Ea Cu has tor of the m Security Admin-' Germany. | istration, n Radford, Va.. 41 1862—Historic editorial in J = ee y s ag N. Y. Tribune—‘The Prayer of We Bureau r te : Twenty Millions.” oy Horace Gree- ley, attacking Lincoin 1935—Pr Banking B 1942 raided by jy affair Dieppe 1 L. 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