The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 21, 1943, Page 2

spaper in Key West and lonree County t, Florida, seeond class matter OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ed Pri i clus: ¥ entitled to use a 3 news di ches credited to credited in this blished here. ee SUBSCRIPTION RATES ADVERTE 7 Made known on application. Sens SPECIAL NOTICE A ah ote. notices, cards of thanks, resolutioss es 4 Fy notices, ete, wi the rate of 10 cents « line. ee Notices for entertainment by churches from which ® Tevenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- “un of public issues and subjects of local or generai aterest but it will ony’ i ana ili not publish anonymous communi- RATES IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN L More Hotels and Apartments. 2 Beach and Bathing Pavilion 3 .. Airports—Land and Sea. 4 Consolidation of County and City Gov- 5. A Modern City Hospital. FREEDOM OF THE PRESS .Where news is suppressed there is 1 anareny: where news is controlled there is * gear: enw where news is free are human be- ings free. CARL ACKERMAN, Dean, School of Journalism, Columbia University. COMPLICATIONS (The De Land Sun-News) Tax Foundation predicts a revolt against the pay-as-you-earn income tax system — a revolt not against the burden of the tax, or the eminently sane method of coliettion, but against the enormous com-" plicati@is which were saddled upon an original idea. Beginning Sept. 15 the astounding hodge-podge which has been thrown to- gether will begin to become apparen First, most workers (and others, but it is the workers who hate and fear statistical forms) must file estimates as to how much they-will earn in 1943. In December many must file revisions of their estimates. Then comes March 15, the alwa dreaded Ides of March, next year worsc than ever. Without calling an oversized law factory to piece together all the bad négs. ome idea can be given. Each of us will prepare In it will figure the Victory on-one basis, deduct that portion which i being collected weekly. On ancther basis he will figure his normal income tax. On a third he will compute his surtax. From these he will deduct the tax col- Pett on the pa 2 entire deduction. but that portion hich is not credited against Victory Tax = that all? Oh, no. You remember the Treasury refused to permit writing th entire year of 1942 off the books. It want- ed to do something for lower income peo- gie without helping those in higher brack- eis. = Well, the business and professional thar, and the high-salaried executive, can Bire a lawyer and an accountant, at Partially at Uncle Sam's expense, to figure Sut on 2 fourth tax base how much he owes 1941 income. - But you, who can't afford lawyers and accountants, can pack fevered brows and try to figure it out your- gelves — and while you squirm, remember Bandolph Paul's aversion to “forgiveness.” 2 You won't go to jail for ycur errors, because they won't deliberate. If the errors favor Uncle Sam, he will return the differ- Snce in a year or two. If they favor you, he Gill collect, also ina year or two, without fhterest. s And, inthe beginning, it simple and workable. a tax return ax he owes, you-earn bas leas ice on your was all so ones rity is a quality rarely Absolute since ound fn man. od thing that most they did w every electi Incidentally, Americans do not think; if would-bave a new Congres Aid there are many Americ: that would be a good tt sa go ns whe WARM GOLDEN EGGS The Citizen would far rather pat the i city councilmen on the back and say, “Well done!” than to “hop on them”, as the boys n the City Hall dub The Citizen's editorials in which the councilmen are taken to task. | But what course can The Citizen follow, | what course can any conscientious Key | Wester follow, when it comes to mind that | | Key West has just had a record-breaking , year in the collection of taxes and is worse than broke? sH The Mercedes Hospital item léd a Citi- zen sleuth to a discovery that, pretty well took the wind out of him: He Was trying to learn why the city had not given the hospital a penny since last March when he found out that, in a month, the city borrowed $8,000 }to make up payrolls. In other werds, the city borrowed $2,000 on July 20, $4,000 on | August 5, and $2,000 on August 20. the record-breaking collections. As a city official remarked : “Not one cent of the money was spent illegally, but, oh, how it was squandered! despite Had it been spert carefully, even as care- fully as a man spends his own money, the city today would have a balance of between 25 and 30 thousand dollars in the bank, In stead, it is se than a man who is brok j it has had to go into debt to meet its current | obligations, You noted I said ‘as carefully’, {but d waimain a city | public offici money even more, carefully than he does his vo him and the other official or any other " j d spend the taxpayer. own, for that belong is put in his hands a Why is it that the of Monroe county is \ that of the city generally bad? Key West has never had a council in its entire history hat has succeeded in conserving its funds. Ww that? The conynis- | sioners are chosen the same group of residents as are the councilmen, so what | is the reason that thrifty and the | other extravagant? a public trust.” financial condition nerally good and ut is the reason fe from one is The reason is not hard to find: the com- mi xers have the governor and the comp- troller over them, the councilmen are their own bosses and are not answerable accountable to anybody, except the voters cours nd that fact has not proved of any consequence. Why? This true story will bring out the rea- son. A Key Wester was storming in Pepe's coffee shop about the poor scavenger ser- vice. His garbage had not been taken up in three weeks. Just about the time his cheeks looked like blood would gush through them, he blared, “This is the worst administra tion the city has ever had!” When he left the coffee shop, anothe Key Wester remarked, “You noticed the way he carried on. Well, when election day he polls and vote olls around, he'll go to for the same men.” There's the reascn han any nut: if our rood or bad or indifferent, it is what it is it that way. Nine out of 10 of us, when we go to the polls, vote for ptain a pas f our’city. in a shell smaller city government § because we want the men we like and never ente ing thought about the interests Where did all the money rotengugh space in this or in a dozen e here torials teanswer that n in detail Consider briefly "the salafits? What ch withdahe exception of Paul 4 que matter of increaser ce would councilman Ubury, whoews to -be sutcessful had he addressed the appeinted, not elected, have voters, during his campaigning, like this: ellow citizens: I promise you th i elect me, I will more than doub! during my term in I ut your fingers. how many votes ke would ve received, hat very t Yet he did that his own sala when from pz ng Pp ts". he saw to later that the city em s whose acc $ were concerned were given the hose accounts jes retroactive. What is trne « i jority agant spend- the ext f the present bi 2 14 eae fother P city. , ity of en in the Shistory of . most councils did not spend fa majo city Of cour i m freely, because they have it to spend, but in every case whenever city’s goose began to lay golden eggs. they had a chance to cool And th blame for thut condition, througbout the city’ vy, rests on the voters, not the —the v who, when tl tertam ¢ den eggs have been y casualty of this your father, Chevaile, not be hiding in this not dangerous like THE KEY WES] CliiZEN ole. You’ Johnson. know that you're afraid of ‘omise you safety. I doesn’t | got the password from Sam Tag- gard.” ow that I am “I know nothing,” here. he said. “You—you advise me—” Sudden- he he asked. “How valuable is tin mine?” His exp. that of a business man who can-| vantage are you getting out of not help getting a vicarious kick| this? Johnson wasn't se consid- out of my story of fortune. “Three millions,” I said. “Three million pesos? There’s no “Dollars.” “Dollars! Three million!” “That’s a peacetime estimate.| Piace, knowing that you would fllar ceiling in war | be arrested. He doesn’t care time.” I had again seminded my- self of the value of the tin. Mere- ly mentioning it wonders with Chevaile. He was almost normal. “Perhaps estimate <*That is not too high. Does your “Ten millions perhaps,” he sa’ hat is not too high an friend we're saying.” for the information.” C “Tell dicated clearly as if there was a lettered|.39 and the Luger. there German. him I “No understand what information,” had worked board in the room. The driver maybe was a fanatic Nazi, I con- | “Senor, we are ready to sidered. Or, maybe the game of' to reveal where—Joh DAYS GONE BY FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN insurrection. OF AUGUST 21. 1933 Raymond Vegue, 65, died at 1:40 Douglas debates, Ottawa, I! k this afternoon in his homé by ther Cigar 34. he best slab n of Ta West Gas C sioners, at ast night, reduced t on La Concha Ho- » $50,000 to $34,000. i manufacturers Planes bomb ed this morning at a by Mariano Manufactur mpa as been n am Culling-| at they are suc- plants t in order for a county to vote to be held © necessary ih 1931 and who had n an of hard luck ago Am- gotten his pitcher In is considered rtists in the e in front of both of They were sitting in the two with criminals in a Fue d knew what I weren't talking. hevaile,” I said. erate of you. What happened at the Club Opalo? He get hold of Sam Taggard’s ter And now he’s thrown you left you here in this T off. He's you or this thick- WAITED until C nodded. ‘ “Chevaile.” I said. off. He doesn he has with him, th _ want to know|chances. Tell him this. Tell him where Johnson is. Tell him I will| that his Mazi release both of you in exchange | called Loomis will end up in our Tell him that Johnson hands. doesn’t care one single bit about ‘HEVAILE began to speak in| anybody now except himself.” I didn’t know the language but the driver's face in-| for a long time. I was glad I had they understood. the he driver and Che a lengua Chevaile moistened his vdtheiiienhs hi tin chosemeed police showup. Tell him what I have it_is. Johnson's thrown you two 't need _ you. We're after him and he _ “Very little. He knows Span-| wants to escape. The fewer men ish_and his own language.” friend, pees igri. os mecessary—to write in my writing—a note to him— driver pulled out a fountain from his‘eoat pocket-« A and Chevaile heaved up of his chair, clutchin; I saw_blood on his clutchin; ning to the door. I shot at him and missed. whipped through the door ou the house. I chased after him shot again as he burst into car and heard glass smash as car roared up to and out on highway. I returned to Chevaile. He faees of wanted but “What ad- as if he had tried to encircle bullet fro 2 pistol that had killed him. I for his pulse, but I knew he you to jaugh- used about | Make a run for it. eaded Nazi. said.” destroyed him. But it had not in the city. We must—it e hand- SHOT banged in the room gers. I heard a bullet whistle by my head and the driver was run- I pulled out an envelope. “Here is.” Chevaile took the paper. The pen out at his chest. He it of and the the thi was on the floor, his knees drawn up the the fountain pen- felt was dead. The failure of my men to show up had decided the driver to Chevaile’s weakness had finally also Saved my life. Chevaile’s decision hevaile had his last act of vacillation. ‘It gotten him the first bullet. Outside, on the highway “That's how| the moonlight The shooting houses. “Muerto!” I “Policia! Policia!” I walked them and they retreated from either of e better his the one ‘to give Johnson away had been Had into the city, I saw_a@ few people!in had. pulled them out of the scattered elled at them. past me. They thought of course that I might shoot at them. They were silent until I passed by. Then, be- hind me, I heard their excited voices. I thought that I had to get ce to Fall right away. vaile argued! 1 walked to the corner. As I reached it, a car roared out at me. Even as it hit me I knew who was driving that car. Be os To be continued He is | (Copyright, 1943, Carl A. Peterson) | Today In History Today’s Birthdays 1831.—Nat Turn Deliverence” in S ginia—beginning of 1858.—First of historic Lincoln 1866.—National convention ys and means r working day 1878.—72 lawyers 1918.—(25 years age Verdu ay 1936—Twenty-twe gion offic seize the Governmen Ss indictec 1941—Occupied F ly garrisoned by Ge of outbreaks Today’s Horoscope in Baltimore Saratoga, N. Y., organize the Am- Ic erican Bar Association of gettin chief of arm in Texas, 66 air rd of Tennessee, 47 meeting Roark Br ns, auh New Metz ruil- t, in De Sunday’s "s Queena Mario of New York, ut soprano, born Akron, Ohio, Maj. Gen. John F. Ryan of New ¥ 1 noted f ” world war ier. born N Yeark, er, noted biolog workingmen’s-P°™ in Iowa, 69 years ago. con: “ ge Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet, corps, ars ago. Or- Ss Today gives an amiable and Horoscope social nature, with good will to . all; unselfish and doing ¢ ies thing for the good of coh The method of attaining success iet abilit The hative ‘will will be practical and attending 2 {eliows to the wh * edly -hig Small employ reported to of great be absorbing withholding tax with eee Pe cceccvcsessesesececess R PLACE YOUR REFRIGERATION REAL ICE GUARANTEED Refrig- eration Service. EAL ICE Is More ECONOMICAL. . It’s Healthy and Safe. . .It’s Pure Phone No. 8 : THOMPSON ENTERPRISES (ICE DIVISION) INC. Key West, Fla COCO SCREAM OOO R EEE H EMER EE HMMA ONO R OREO EOE EN FOS EET HOOe a7 | ar By ROBERT FARRINGTON Features WASHINGTON, Aug. 21—You may Fay less for a bottle of “Old jg Gully Washer after the OPA liquor regulations held August 23—but only if your dealer has been over-charging will not be If hevhas.‘been rebiding faith- fully payee lew. as have,,many, - stores, you ces mote for, old G. wee, you / used to. 19 sa prices as high as they dared. new order which starts with the distillery price figure sily verifiable) and al- = lows dealers to add specife per- centages for their services. | Today’s These percentages, OPA ad- z miis, are on the high side and Anniversaries wil raise allowable retail prices of law-obevng dest EE!!!" ateimenthack-the- pretiteroi-wie- = 1798 —James “Lick, ‘San Fran- lators. 4¢, :71 isroupy cisco land buyer, beneiactor!ob- A retail markup pf 33, 1-3 per servatory donor! bern a cent over the wholesale ‘price is pe th which esist the impulse to charge the al limit iteer er ups which OPA nore Pe J. F. SIKES LICENSED PLUMBER 1306 CATHERINE STREET Ste tet ntn tented ttn te tate te ee Here's why: The old {highest charged during March, Few customers could re- member that far back, and only the larger stores kept anything resembling OPA had to take the wholesalers 42. of nds To stop rmitted. cent more, than, your dealer (it s honeést) “us e diffe Few jat_ this ss tha p s who w y are really worth. OPA NEW OPA LIQUOR In the works is a regulation cut few brands down to some approxi- mation of fair prices. This order will limit “Old Lockjaw” to an wae March 1942 whiskies in its class, and it RR? Old Gully Washer, used wuld go up to $2.75. dealers ave been getting mark- comparison SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 19:3 sn aeeenpiannde REGULATIONS that OPA hopes will new take average price of able to sat dived was the if ¥ legal price pe the liquor you want. complete records. word of Clares, since there just Pe - Ber . th u-| enough OPA investigators a. ap eee theif check stores all over the coun- ‘try. this, OPA got out a yf March, 1942, (a another racket. burg, Pay Died“Oct. 1, 1876.' + Cob 1811—William ‘Kelly, works maker, who: antedated Besseme This may bé 10 per sd to get, so he his price to make up sell for $2.50, to expected to OPA contends Pittsburgh. Died Feb. 15, much cator and philanthropist, ays reach “100 in some cases. of bringing ces is the rush of hich have almost labels in some paper and magazine born Mercer, Maine. 1925. nut for OPA on comparing “Old For Captain of Fuiice FICTION - NON-FICTION TECHNICAL BOOKS 9 A.M. to 8 P.M. Your Grocer Sells THAT GOOD STAR * BRAND AMERICAN and CUBAN TRY A POUND ee ae See PAut SmuitH COFFEE equivalent. 96, bigh- F ‘ beat A ahs: popular brands under the coun- Kei ter and is always sold out of 7" them at the legal’price. Of course, ou want to come:up-a@ buck Joe will hunt around and in about 12 seconds find exactly You're the only person who can put the bee on Joe, OPA de- aren't Don't pay higher than the ‘ceiling price and Joe will have ‘to come down—or find himself iron- steel process born Beth- tehem, Pa. Died Feb. 11, 1886. 1822.—John Fritz, pioneer iron and steel man, engineer, born in 1913. incr will be the skyrocketed, prof-; 1843.—(100 years ago)—William ices of dishonest deal- Pepper, Philadelphia surgeon, edu- born Philadelphia. Died July 28, 1898. 1854.—Frank A. Munsey, news- publisher, Died Dec. 22, EVENTUALLY. WHY NOT NOW? s no Marcb, as to be priced EFFINGHAM, Iil—When his 4 with other’ amily dentist, Dr. L. O. Kincaid Strangely enough, the ss suggested that he have three teeth filled before his induction, Robert a ge €XPEN| Zimmerman told the dentist, “I aie eee new! Won't have time—I' have an ces have been inflated) A™™Y dentist do it.” When Zim- en cent above metman climbed into a dentists ber chair at Camp Grant, he found iacing him, Lieut. L. O. Kineaid, ck Gown by back’ of the Army Dental Corps. age and spirit) listed the back POLITICAL ‘an't get i what t tter mint ah ata NOVEMEER 8, 1943 W. J. WALKER (MACK) 1F you're Loonie For 334 Simowron$?. SOO IO IO OI TOR it JERS IDIISISISISIIIDIDISIOIIDIDIIIINI ISIS IID IOI IE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES HOW TO GET LONGER LIFE FROM THEM Never immerse in water. Keep them clean and ready for use. Take good care of cords and plugs. When not in use store where they will not become damaged. Keep motor-driven appliances catea. properly lybri- If they need minor repairs, TAKE ther to a service dealer. DON’T WASTE ELECTRICITY even though no ration coupons required for your supply IN WAR ALL WASTE IS SABOTAGE CITY OF KEY WEST ELECTRIC SYSTEM (PARE EA ON ORR Ee DORE! eerie irari ty . * Pt q * * * * 7 7 * * * * * . *