The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 16, 1945, Page 2

Pact Pe TWwd Key - Wiest Citizen iy, Baceps Genter, by. Manager Business Citizen Building me and Ann Streets Hon Qnty Dally Newspaper in Monrve Coun te ee ehheet ot Bey Weert, Florida, as second class matter — Key West and ty See OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS © \eeoctated Press is exclusively entitled to © foo Sopebtieetion ef all news dispatches credited + of sot otherwine credited in thie paper and * bubliahed here. NG on application. & noTicn em, cards of thanks, resolution: 8 ite, will bo -MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN & Beech and Bathing Pavilion. ® Airports—Land and Sea. ~ Ciebetidetion of County and City Gov- . eumen. ht i diemaying to witnéss France's De- Cometic saying: “We inténd to act in such a » thet individual merit and private ini- tative will remain as the basis of national activity. We do not imagine our French eeahemy of tomorrow without a ‘free sec- tor’, as larwe as possible, ... (But) we de- clare that the state fhust hold the master ewitches.” The last words cancel out the preceding pleasant phrases. Where the state holds the master switches, the indi- vidual becomes a cipher. Why should any people, any nation, thé ealgervient to a small group of men holding master switches? The excuse that dietatorship can We confined to the opera- tien of certain industries and will not be felt by the people, is bunk. The same falla- cite theory is being espoused in this coun- y. We hear that our natural resdurces i other basic industries should be oon- olied or owned by the government. The idee ie encouraged that a limited dictator- stip would promote employment and se- eugity. This is also bunk. When the test of war came, this coun- ©, where the people were least dominated » government, was the most productive. Ofer bations whose industries and people fuffetioned by the grace of a dictatorial hgpd on a master switch, made a poor showing by comparison. It has been up to the United States and its independent in- dwetries, to provide the machines of vic- wy and the fuel to run them, to say noth- inge of the men. ; Certainly, no bureaucratized govern- Gt enterprise, European style, produces * 590,000 barrels per day of 100-octane yline that keeps the Allies’ planes in t aitne, it is the good old-fashioned \ “ erican of) industry, run by American jneas men, Sueh men and such industries, which the source of our amazing production in-pll lines, need no controlling hand on a master switch deciding for them what must be-done tomorrow and the day after. They nd for freedom and progre: They are symbols of individyal opportunity. Destroy them and you destroy the substance of America ‘ Faster than the swiftest steed rumors ily with lightning speed! Our own idea is that the Japs ‘will wet enough war quicker than our experts believe. . Se * Maybe the night ‘clubs of the City of N@w York are above the emergencies of warfare. Few people realize it, but cancer kills 60’percent more people today than all con- tagious and infections diseases combined. You can help fight this growing menace by supporting the American Cancer Society drive now in progress. . po IRD OV ga SEES ie | » The enemy, more desperate than ever, taBes long chances in his efforts to collect from veriou ’s bits and pieces of vital f i to build a ‘pi s for the di of our for: cn war matters! Hpese is 1 ardius pelces talk SMALL END OF. NOTHING Monroe County, under an act passed by the legislature during the Cone admin- istration, was incorporated with Dade county in the same circuit court district, and it was specified in the law that Monroe was to get one of the judges and one of the assistant state attorneys. The purpose of the law began well, for Arthur Gomez, a Key Wester, was ap- pointed judge, and J. Lancelot Lester, a Key Wester, was named assistant state at- torney. Since then the law has become a dead letter, for, on the death of Judge successor, and when Mr. Lester’s term ex- pired, a Miamian was named in his place. As has been explained to The Citizen, the law, in making that provision, conflicts powers the governor to name a judge from | any part of Florida to any circuit, with the only requirement that he become a resi- | lent of that part of the county in which he s to serve after he assumes office. What has been the result of that con- stitutional power? Key West, tied to the | Miami kite, is nothing more than a knot in che tail of that kite. Probably even less shan that: the small end of nothing. News. from Tallahassee states that ; Governor Caldwell is to name a man to | succeed Judge Joseph Otto, who is at pres- ent presiding judge in circuit court here. | What name or names of attorneys to suc- ceéd Judge Otto, assuming that he will not continue in office, has or have come out of Tallahassee? All Miamians. Not a breath about the appointment of a Key Wester to the office, as was intended under the leg- islative act. Further, because of the increase of population in this district, it will likely ‘get another judge, bringing the total to seven. What names are mentioned for that extra judgeship? AW Miamians. In other words, and the two assistant state attorneys, as well as the state attorney, and Key West continues as the knot in the tail of the kite or the small end of nothing. No wonder the people in the outlying cities or villages in Dade county are de- terminedly opposing the move to have them incorporated in or consolidated with the city of Miami. They.know that, should that occur, the¥, may wave good-bye to home government, for Miami will strive to hog everything, as she has always tried to hog everything. Residents. of Coconut Grove fought hard\and long against being incorporated in Miami, and, when the proposal was put to a vote, they turned in a large majority against incorporation, but were overwhelm- ingly outvoted by the residents of Miami. In an attempt to give Key West what she should get in the matter of one circuit judge and an assistant state attorney, the -Monroe County Bar Association has con- ferred with Representative Bernie C, Papy to have him introduce a bill in the legisla- ture that will assure us the fairness and justice that are rightly our due. The leaders of Japan may not admit it but they know now that Hitler fooled ’em. It is said that General. McAuliffe did not say “‘Nuts’? when the Germans asked him to surrendér at Bastogne. Instead, he used the English translation of the same word which the French general gave in re- ply to the Germans’ demand for surrender at the Battle of Waterloo. Among the millions of American moth- ers who anxiously watch the news from battlefronts is Mrs. Christina Hamilton of Monticello, Fla., who now has six sons in service and at one time had seven. One son was recently released on a medical dis- charge because of a broken back. OUR ALLIES ARE. FIGHTING While it is perfectly natural for Amer- ican newspapers to play up the fighting of American soldiers, it is important that we realize, despite their absence from the news columns, that the troops of our Allies are fighting just as hard and with the same courage that our men display. We have called attention to the com- parative absence of news from the Italian front. was no invasion of France, how the news- papers played up the small gains that were made in Italy. It was all the news available at the time and the Army in Italy got the publicity. We should not orrelook the fact that he British and Canadians, along with some Fiench soldiers, are making a definite con- ion to the success of the armies under ommand of General Eisenhower. Gomez, a Miamian was appointed as his | with a section of the constitution which em- | Miami is hogging all the seven judgeships |’ | inesgapable discomfort and oe-|chance; but he’s got to fight for casional pain without a whimper, it, and that’s what he won't dot But his attitude towards her had|It’s what we've got to make him not changed. His blue _eyes|do!” watched her without expression.| “T see,” said Meredith and was when she came into the ward|sjlent for a momient, where he My: his mouth was alicea was begin thin, hard line. Sometimes ‘he|“Major Hear turned his brown head away, so) River Gap there that he need not look at .her. adores him, Meredith felt only sadness and this s) ity, towards him. She could not}son why 5 End it in her heart to resent his|know we ean’t attitude,’ orits bitter unfairness. |that it’s out of the question. But His bitter depression was work- | if, some wayy we could jet a mes- ing against his recovery, and|sage from her to him—if he could }Major easy the seat tt who| hear her voice—” had done such amazing things in|] « the isolation, treatment, ae ous PRA ve: Aer 5 $e) tropical * i oy Tropinal ‘diseases, and who had!” weredith hesitated m cniered the hospital, dis- “No, I don’t think so,” she’ an- cussed it with Meredith one a{ter- | swered, thinking the matter, over noon. in all its angles. “River Gap is a “Under the circumstances, Dr.| small town. We have,-a lot of Blake,” he admitted frankly, “I| party lines; everybi |. River can understand the boy’s attitude.|Gap would be listening in and Yet what we can’t seem to-make| Isabel and Jerry would know it. him realize is that he is definitely |I thought perhaps if she could blocking his own. recovery. He’s|make a record of her voice, and offering us no defiance whatever; |send it to him, we could let him he is submitting to ~-hatever is|play it in his own. room, whete done—but there’s no cooperation, |only he- would hear it. But for And of course we voth know that|her to send him the sor. of mes- cooperation is more than half the | Sage that would do him good, she battle. If we could get him into|must know the truth about’ his a brisk, hopeful mood, I feel sure | illness.” that he would respond to the} Major Heard looked at her treatment with a much better! thoughtfully, frowning. chance of complete recovery,” “You ‘mean she doesn’t know “He’s had a rough time of it,| what’s*wrong with him?” he de- Major,” admitted Meredith. “He | manded. : is quite sure that he will never| Meredith-shook her head and, be well again, and there’s no way | explained. I can convince Aim. Major Heard nodded, his gray “Major Heard,” the words|cyes on her steady brown ones, burst from Meredith almost] “That was wise, of course—the against her will, because she had] only sane course.” he agreed wanted to put them, and had been|with her. “But now you t afraid of the answer, and had|perhaps the girl should know? quailed, coward-like, against hear-| *I believe she could be trusted,” ing the answer. “Will he get| answered Meredith steadily. well?” n% Major Heard nodded. ‘ “I thought that if Dr. Nichols AJOR HEARD hesitated, His}back home told her the strong, powerful-looking hand | and swore her to secrecy, and’ with its deft, sensitive fingers}made a record for Jerry, a me3~ that could work suck magic with|sage from her heart to his—don’t broken, fever- wracked bodies,| you think it might help?” moved out to a paper-on his desk| “I think it might,” agreed Ma- and pushed it a little to one side.|jor Heard. “It is worth trying. He avoided her eyes. Suppose you see about it, will “Frankly, Dr, Blake—I ‘Ys you?” know.” he admitted “He Chapter 23 | 1%. Miami they transferred to an ambulance plane, and Meredith was glad when at iast below them they. could see the palm-deco- rated scrap of land that was their destination. * They came to ‘the hospital, a wide,. two-storied .white . stucco building, with a win; secgeding out at either side that gave it the appearance of the letter H. Meredith saw instantly that every room in the building would be flooded with sunlight at some hour of the day. Meredith drew.a breath of keen delight as she paused for a mo-| ment on the steps and looked out over a sea as blue as Lapis La- zuli, a’ beach of golden yellow. Surely, any man who came here for the healing of mind and body could never hope for a more beautiful spot in which to fight out his personal battle. She felt a little better about Jerry as she turned and went in to the hos- pital, where a pleasant, middle- aged nurse with a captain’s in- signia on her uniform greeted her cordially. “You're Dr. Blake, I'm sure,” she said hospitably. “We’re very glad to have you here and wiil try to make you comfortable.” “How could anybody be tn- comfortable—unless ill or in pain —in such a lovely spot?” an- swered Meredith, accepting the}: woman’s introduction with a firm handclasp. \ , UT. after she had gone to bed, - she lay awake at night, miss- ing Hugh, thinking of him, wor- rying about the problems he was facing back in River Gap. She welcomed eagerly each arrival of the mail, peo ne with it, as it invariably did, a long and tender letter from Hugh, From the very first letter that came, a few days after her ar- rival at the hospifal, she sensed that Hugh, was paying her the tribute of teling her the truth about how things were going at River Gap, and she thanked him with all her heart for it. Jerry had submitted himself to one?” asked don’t treatment docilely, enduring the To be continued Sal PEOPLE'S FORUM I eesti teeeentiennet cay | | i The Citizen weleomes expres- sions of the views of its rea ers, but the editor reserves the right to delete any items whieh are considered libelous or ranted. By HUGO S. SIMS. Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen Nazis Plan Propaganda fdomination, there is no scheme For Post-War Period available or to be devised by the Denactnent aca {mind of man, that will prevent oes oustoey eee ¥Sithe outbreak of another_titanic that photographic copies of Ger- ar ~ man documents reveal a well-ar-} 3 E REGARDING ACCIDENT ranged plan to perpetuate Nazi} Both Houses Investigate | Editor, The Citizen, doctrines and domination after; Domestic Meat Shortage | Will you please allow me space the war. = With both the House and the in your paper to deny some false This unequivocal statement statements about me in your i be p sesn requested otherwise. |ed meals and kept the establish- ie) Senate” conducting investigations’ should be accepted by Americans and their attitude toward post- war developments should be gov- erned by the realization that the to set up a long-term program designed to give. them another chance to rule the world. It would seem impossible for ‘us to forget this fact but the air Germans will probably attempt | will be filled with many voices} into the food situation, it ought (to be possible for an impartial inquiry to establish some facts. |ing out Division street when I There are a number of stories! came to the corner of White. The going around about the meat sit-! green light was on and I went juation, Despite the shortage in'very slowly, about 10 miles per jmeat shops, packers admit that hour, as I saw the children {80,000,000 head of cattle are in around. While I was’ going, the the country, which is pretty near /little girl ran across and the an all-time high. Packers say, bumper struck her and knocked that they canntt buy and sell her down. I stopped the car at issue of April 11. The facts are these. I was go- Everyone remembers, when there | and much _ propaganda when| livestock at controlled prices once when I saw her coming. If Germany is defeated. There willj “without losing money.” I had been going fast I would be many Americans more inter-} OPA officials bluntly deny that have killed her. Before I could ested in creating ill feeling be-!the packers are losing and assert get out of my car she jumped up tween the United States and our|that they made about seven times and ran away. allies of the present struggle than|the return they r in pre-war. Your paper stated that I was a in warning the people of this Profits have increased in, hit and run driver and that the country against Nazi propaganda. according to the OPA, child was picked up by some of the children under the bumper near the wheel and that I drove The State Department tells of} German plans to .rebuild. eco- nomic, finaricial, and military control through renewal éf' pre-|subsidies to, packers, with most war cartel agreements, te:rétover| of the money going to beef cattle property seized by the Allies ‘at! packers. the beginning of the war, t0j| Other facts, or assertions, in- shade in all technological de-* clyde the statement that Canada velopments and to maintain aj pas surplus meat, with much of while declining on beef cattle. Moreover, the OPA says it has e led ‘about $170,000,000 in mapended. “about 9 I stayed and made inquiries and was told by one of the boys standing near that she wasn’t hurt, and that I could drive on. An éye witness to the affair went as an evidence for me yesterday propaganda program to soften up jt going to Great Britain but @%4 his statements cleared me the Allies “through a subtle plea come left to share with the ©! all blame. Nevertheless I-was for fair treatment of Germans.” |United States. It is said that fed for not reporting the cas If the people of this country) Argentina has considerable quan- 1 tid not think it necessary as follow the example they set after tities of canned meat but it does ‘Me child did not get Hurt. the last world war, they will be’ not get into the United States. T would like ‘to know if there Pee ueded ethane Gemma While the: packers charge thal jes our tee, ce apne cHacer Deane eventvetrested ties SIOPA price. policies) are!Hfarcing (fares wcauuuie nanaev a Whiew jand revelations” about Germani inom to chose between “going Vor i, ween eee and WDY. jaims are but a continuation of|s isc or going broke”, James ¢ Wasn't at his post? If he had wartime propaganda t the! Brownlee, deputy Price’ Admin- been meres Wvewauldhaver been news that comes from Germany jcreator, points to high wrote by avoided. lis untainted. s le Respectfully, 's, the number of cattle the ranges and asks if are conniving with the arket.” It is hard for people to know ies, ‘he truth in the midst of such ted Conflicting assertions. Of course, DWIGHT RUSSELL. Key West, Fla., April 13, 1945, | The German str | war ends, will be bi jily upon an! effort to div United States, Great Brita | Russia. Every N t < NY attempted in Charles S. Chaplin, actor, born | Consequently, re TU |States we will hear much about /it is realized that the owners of Ithe evil machinations the Cattle are interested in higher |British and Russians a unfor- | Prices and that packers are, quite jtunately, there will be people in! Raturally, interested in profits. |this country to fall for the yarns,'The OPA is supposed to be inter- ! It should be obv to aljic¢sted in controlling prices and ; Americans that the peace of the P©¢venting inflation in the cost |world depends upon the coopera- |! living. tion of the three great Allies. If/ When conflicting statements |the United States, Great Britain| are made by cattlemen, packers and Russia manage to work out and OPA officials, the presump- a program that will enable them tion of the average citizen will to cooverate and develop peace- | be tt the OPA is correct. The fully, there is little prospect of burden of proof, so far as public another world. war at any early opinion is concerned, is upon the Our ‘scientific HOME USE ¢; assists you in Improve your lasses at BI a tand address fort Ae : ms cattle wee and the packers to etal 1d complete information. Write the three powers fail to;prove their case. “4 ¢ SPECTACLE CG maintain the friendship, forged’ With two investigations now HOME SERVICE [ACLE CO. * : 1011-GHA Chestnut St., Phila. cnder the threat of German going on, they have their chance. sca off. I am not as inhuman as that.| « MIAMI BEACH, Apr. 16 (FNS). When civilian employes of the 'Navy-operated Flamingo Hote! went on strike, wives and sweet- hearts of Navy men stepped in. They ran elevators, cooked, serv+ ment in tip-top shape. Sheepish , strikers. returned by work the next day. They gone on strike because they bi not been permitted to supplies, from the Navy Ship Store on the same basis of service men. 1741—Charles W. Peale, famed Philadelphia portrait painter, Revolutionary , soldier, father of noted ‘artists, born in Maryland. Died Feb. 22, 1827. | 1850—Herbert B. Adams, Johns, | Hopkins’ historian, promoter of the study of history, born Shues- bury, Mass. Died July 30, 1901. 1856—Albert B. Dick, Chicago mimeograph inventor - manufac- turer, born. near Chicago. Died Aug. 15, 1934. 1857—Henry 9. Pritchett, edu-| County, Mo. Died Alig. 28, 1939. 1867—Wilbur Wright, co-inven-| tor, with brother Orville, of the airplane,’ born - Millville, Ind. apy May 30, 1912. A 1890 — William De Beck, car- toonist, creator of 11, 1942. | “TODAY IN HISTORY OO | 1787 — Royall Tyler's comedy, i“The Contrast,” first native | American comedy to be staged, | performed at the John St. Thea- tre, New York. 1862—France declares war on | Mexico. |; 1895—China makes peace with Japan, ending war’ between them. 1905—Andrew Carnegie estab- lishes a ten million dollar fund for teachers. 1917—President Wilson appeals for helping feeding the Allies, to plant gardens and to practice economy. 1935—League of Nations con- demns German conscription move and appoints committee to plan means to combat such in future. 1941 — 300 German planes rain fire and explosives for eight hours on London in revenge at- tack. 1942—Japs land at Panay, one of the Philippine Islands. 1943—U. S. planes active bomb- ing enemy in Burma. 1944—Some 40 killed in wind- storms in South Carolina and Georgia. en ee a et TODAY’S HOROSCOPE ee Here are great creative powers combined with some artistic gen- ius. Today’s natives often rise to great heights in their profes- sions, sometimes by force of their own merits, when coupled with ambition; sometimes by the in- fluence of friends attracted by their magnetic powers. Baby War 18 “Barney occu | Google,” born Chicago. Died Nov. one was im t Automatic - Electric - WITHOUT CORD SET . rhedel ri : Fel f ; : | | i 2 : j i i [ i ae i ef f he t just home 4 | i tPsif a 4 3 Pa z ; © | : 3 : i h i i ih ty if ity, i occasionally one in 1036. Burglars broke imte Mre gil Lowe's qgocery on Dive street last night and stele 62° cash. oe Blas Arias, 90, died at matmght in his hone at 1211 Weteon street Funeral services will be held t morrow afternoon im the Prt chard chapel, with the Mer James S. Day, of the First Bap tist Church, officiating os William Vassie, maechiniet the lighthouse bureau here, left yesterday for Fowey Rocks light house to make repairs to the volving apparatus thet cont the light Charles Lowe left yesterday + visit, relatives in Miamm Today The Citizen eye i om editorial paragraph “Children should be encourage ed to participate in el) athlete undertakings. It is rightly « pert of their proper developement: Subscribe to The Citeen. = sm ams ccm! See Ne es OMtiLE. LL ‘T ALL GROCERS Bottle mer Pere e rire * © ePeeroerereres