The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 18, 1945, Page 2

AGE TWO ee ee fhe Key West Citizen et hy, Ex Sunday, by Pal batts owner aia abitener Bi dm tthe’ Citizen Hullding Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and ._ Monroe County tered at Key West, Plorida, as second class matter woun of The ASSOCIATED PRESS Assoctated Press is exclusively entitled to *» for repubiteation of all news dispatches credited « t oF not erwise credited in this paper and re the lock! news published here. org 108 ear NOTICE All reeding notte rds of thanks, resolutions ef respect, obituary notices, poems, ete. will be harged for at the rate of 10 cents a line, No for entertainment by church from hich a pr nue is to be derived are 6 cents a line The Citizen ts an open forum and invites dis senter He tssues and subjects of local or eomer interest but it will not publish anonymous foattona. RIAL. NATI AL EDO i ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion Airports—Land and Sea. ‘ Consolidation of County and City Gov- gH PUNISHMENT OF HITLER The punishment of Adolf Hitler is be- jag discussed in British newspapers whose | readers make interesting suggestions, in- Wuding that he be exhibited in zoos and | ih devastated countries, with the receipts going to charity. Another , writer suggests that Der ; Peehrer be placed in solitary confinement | qnd required to listen incessantly to re- ' qordings of his own speeches. The warning is general that nothing be done to make Hitler a martyr in the eyes f the German people, but about the only ey to accomplish this is to permit the yerman people to determine his ‘punish- ent and, even so, there would undoubt- dly be many Germans to consider him a martyr The Nazi leader, in his bloody attempt to dominate the world, used the German “ople as stooges, but he was only able to » thie because they were ready to share he loot that was expected from a freeboot- smpaign without equal in the history world. The danger in the future, if Germany becomes strong enough to wage another is that a new generation of Germans, ith the worship of military power, will again, that the earth belongs ex- lusively te these strong enough to take it, he ar lieve itheut regard to the rights of other peo- | les Courage, bravery and fighting skill, hich the Teutons undoubtedly possess, nimirable when rightly utilized. When fishy however, these good traits ' s evil as the ends they serve. Fhey purified, even in warfare, except spirit of sacrifice that enobles our dead used, not MASS DISTRIBUTION AT ITS BEST \ erewing number of business men, as numerous holders of public office, xpressed grave concern for the fu-. privately operated industry. They tha must do everything ts power to help stave off the trend centralized, all-powerful govern- fr industry a trend which s sovfar beep felt ally by industry, but which must be topped if all of the American people are we their liberty. One of the things 1 help to stop the trend is the en- tendency of larger industry to en- e smaller enterprises and to work ster individualism within itself. What you know about military infor- “ten May not seem important to you. * in faet very important. The enemy hes to find out what you know. Don't tell anyone! When it comes to war criminals, we iver the presumption that they are guilty niess they can prove that they are inno- Hitler, Himmler, Goeb- « time doing that, though the audacity to claim that t eal criminals because won’ tion We should knoy i af unpredigtable asc Don’t | enemies to adopt such, SOUND AND RESOUND More money for this, more money for | that, more moyey for the other thing—that | is the gist of most of the news that is com- ing out of Tallahassee. We have yet to hear a state top offi- cial say anything about where the money ‘is coming from. except to use the word \‘ftaxes” in an off-hand sort of way, as |though it was the least important word in the text ofthe notices sent out from Talla- | hhassee about more funds for this and that | and the other thing. Not.an official has given a thought to} thefaet that lavish appropriations mean but ; one thing: a greater burden on the already | heavily burdened taxpayer. Not a word {| has been said about trying to hit on means through which taxation may be reduced. | No, sir, talk of that nature is out of place, | | very much out of place, in the cry for more i money, and still more money. | Once, only once, have we noted that | state officials -have said anything about | | the state’s bank balance. Though we can- not recall the amount, it was a hefty sum, iso hefty that, were the affairs of the state ‘economically conducted, there would not ‘be any need whatever for additional taxa- tion. | Another.thing that the officials seem- | ingly have failed to give a thought to, and | that is that while it may be easy now to ! collect more taxes. the time will come when | the income of the general run of people— | these who pay the bulk of the taxes in one | Way op another—will be far lower than | | what it ig now, so that howls against the j heavy taxes, when that time comes, will sound and resound throughout the state. | It never rains but pours, so be pre- | pared for an abundance when the delayed } rains do come. | If-you are behind the boys at the front, | you can buy some War Bonds and help the coming drive over the top. “Son Is a P: mer.”"—Headline. To the parents concerned that is reassuring news during war times, but in times’ of | peace it. would mean shame and grief. “Don’t smoke in the unfrequented avénues . . yS a popular etiquette book of the 1890s. And this re- fers to men. Now do some cogitating! streets, unless in The larger carnivorous animals of sea and land;live off the lives of smaller ones. The larger, fislin-the sea could not live if they did not prey on the smaller ones and | devour them; so. the little fellows have to give up their lives in order that the bigger fellows may live. The same applies to the animal kingdom on land; the lamb is the | victim of the lion ér whatever smaller beast | comes his way. It is so ordained by-nature. WE COULD BE LESS CARELESS \ sey ain dda | A heart-rending story came from across the Pacific the other day. A bomber | crashed and a member of the crew was hopelessly trapped in the flaming wreck- | age, After a number of futile attempts at | rescue, an officer among the horrified spec- tators, unable to stand the victim’s screams.| longer, stepped up and ended the doomed | man’s. life painlessly with’ his service 45. The officer was later exonerated at a mili- | lary trial. | The foregoing incident was a tragedy of war. Yet it differs from similar incidents | that happen regularly in peacetime only jin respect to the method by which the pe son dying in the flames was put out of h mi SG TODAY IN HISTORY | | Chapter 25 FEW days later, Meredith en- iy, Space bel lay, a pac ackage wral carefully and Pall srudee aed ae its airmail stamps. i Jerry turned his head, but hardened and he turned” away again without speaking. ,; * “The mail has just, come, Jerry,” said Meredith quiet ee “Jerry, I plain about this.” she said and held it up. “Are you listening?” “Sure,” said Jerry noncom- mittally, colorlessly. “It’s a message from Isabel, Jerry,” Meredith told him, and all but held her breath. She saw the slight stiffening his body. He turned his head an saw the —-r and said, “Okay —put it down, “It’s a message to be played, tendant wheeled a_ portable phonograph into the room, and set it beside the bed. Meredith took the wrapping off * the record, handling it tenderly, and slid it on the machine. She turned the machine on, set the needle in place, and a moment later a girl's voice, wafmstender, and vibrant with its bufden of love \and. honest, unashamed young passion. filled, Jerry, my dcarest » the ‘ & bel began, an ai rned a and and slipped. out” closed the door befint [E28 late imsthe®ate : bee fore an orderly came her, saying eerfully, “The guy in 214 is asking for you, Dr. Blake.” Her. heart jumped. Jerry was asking for her! Jerry lay propped up, watch- ing the door. “Please come in, Dr. Merry,” he begged and when Meredith came to stand beside the bed, looking down at him, her clenched hands hidden in the pockets ot her white uniform, he said humbly, “Please sit down, Dr. Merry. This looks as if it might be quite a session.” when he saw who it was, his face] agreed gratefully, and when she Jerry,” she told him, as an at-|p Daughter: Father, the cook ask 4 iter: Father, - |ed for: money today. | grocer: ‘Widower: Heavens! That wom-}me isn't an acts as though I were her huss | inside, ‘ band. one Meredith ulled the white|to do everything possible to help chair that tesa at the head ef|in your own cure! So that you his bed around to the side and|can go back home that much sat down, smiling at him. sooner.” r # “Would a cigarette make it “You, think Yu get well, Dr. easier, Jerry?” she suggested, try- | Merry?” he demanded flatly. ing to lighten his tension. “I. think you ca derry—if “I guess it would,” Jerry | You. really want to,’ told him as fi old ‘will to live,’ eh?” ied, “I always thought it lit one for him, he: inhaled he deeply before he turned his head towards the machjne beside him tty gag when I and said huskily, “That was your the movies” i sn’ 3 Having Isabel], “Did you ever realize, Jerry, end mea tecord of her—mes-|Just what makes a corny gag?” si so I could hear her voice?” she asked unexpectedly. a thought it might help, “Oh, seeing it crop up over anc Jerry,” Meredith admitted. over again—people using it until Jerry nodded. it gets worn out. “Sure, I see what you mean,"| “And why would people use it he said ‘after a ‘monfent, He drew |S° constantly—why would it al- deeply on the cigarette again, peck Pa up—if it were not and she saw that his hand was| true? shaking just a little. “I guess Ive en prett; ee be a hed. . and it’s up to me to e Ce maT Though that’s|and there was a touch of mirth tty in hia; mance ran ane: Ba not “ 4g said quietly,]seen there before. “Then you sg you like potas think if 1 want hard enough to amends for what happened—for] get well. I will, huh? what was no fault of your own— ‘Backed by all the resources for something for which you have] of the United States government, no real right to feel guilty by. Oe Seek Lae the Crer e ked’ t her, d.| try, by the men like Major Hear PE nee nee who have dedicated their lives to “ELL, sure—but how can I—”|the eradication of illness ke W he broke off hopelessly. yours—I think the good old ‘will ‘ «By getting well, Jerry—so that | to live’ is your, ‘you ean go back and help those|tribution—don’t you? Of as awho, want. to.see River, Gap everybody else is willing to do so the finest, healthiest town in its tiuch for'you, you can’t refuse to world,” she told him swittviend Wes that muchy now, can strongly4 AL Tad u? ; jas u “You th aybe-d ‘eolinwsce oy hanks semenomee eerily, 'tosit that ng other, fellow, game | and ai ‘ou're a very swe strewing strange. diseases around | ly, Dr. Merry! River Gap?” he almost sneered. “I think you can help us to keep that from happening again,” she told him. “Having been healed yourself—” “You mean, if I am healed!” he cut_in, “I mean no such thing! I mean when!” she told him sharply. “You will be, Jerry. You're re- ERRY chuckled. “That sounds logical, Dr. Merry!” he agreed, Meredith smiled at him, “And so are you, Jerry, my friend! A very swell guy!” She felt as though a weight had slipped from her shoulders. She } had been so desperately afraid that Isabel’s message might not have been right; it would have been the most appalling error of dudement: CS her part, “ Tsabel’s ‘ing me The germ | Message had contained the wrong peonding wee t are stidy: note. She could relax a little and ing it and the cure | free-her mind of its burden in the You and Isabel will knowledge that the message had stake in the future obviously been exa os { of River Gap, and it is your duty a 1775—Historic midnight ride of TODAY'S HOROSCOPE | i Today giv ~ TODAY'S __ANNIVERSARIES | a rich and benefi. ! * 1842—Height of so-called Dorr grie Co., Pa War in Rhode Island; revolt} Bee against old laws which disenfran- chised two-thirds of the voter . born Fort Ann, N. Y. g 1847—Mexivans routed at Cer oboe, tons: amie MNetsSees Gordo by General Scott: war with 1857 “Clare sit ile caer ad Mexico. Sore rn eae te 1868—Historic New York ity | aveer kid ain generation, born dinner to visiting Charles Dick- Berean ae ens: refusal to admit women lea| March 13, 1938. Died Aug. 16, 1888, New York painter Paul Revere from Charlestown to} BP a {cent natur cling many e British were coming. EN OS en GAM GHieS Gann nue pve of ury, a little too much desire for pr » but there is a certain tenacity of purpose} 1835—John H. Dolph, eminent! that generally overcomes. diffi- of animals,! culties. H DARN “Does your husband talk in his! Died Chicago, | sleep?” i “No, and. it’s terribly, exasperat- try’s first women’s club. clares war with Spain. followed by fire, in next three days, lays | flyers, headed by Brig. Gen. Doo- | little, ‘over Tokio and other Jap cities. | bombing Italy squadron off Tunis: get you a strap?” go of my necktie?” to founding of Sorosis, the coun- 1898—Congress, in effect, de- 1906—Earthquake at 5:13 a. m., 1859—William Travers Jerome,!ing. He just grins.” aoted New York district: attorney, } waste the city of San | merican squadron of 80 raid} makes historic first 1943—Some 60 U. S. planes lost! and an enemy) . STRANGLE-HOLD On a crowded car: “Madam, would you like me tof No, thank you, I have one.” “Then, would you mind letting ry. The ten-thousand-odd souls who | {! | die by fire in this country every year'do | : i it the hard way. They simply scream until |} 1! | the are cooked. il OVER i } If this sounds unnecessarily morbid i! i | ana merciless, take a look at the nation’s if 20,000 PAIRS i! fire bill—upwards of half a billion doll f i | When it comes to fire, America is grossly |; o | | careless. We are careless in our homes. We ; EYES | are careless in our factories and around j he | | places of amusement. We are careless in j PRESCRIBED FOR | our forests. The result is fire destruction ; IN THE PAST ty | On a scale of almost unbelievable propor- i 14 YEARS | we “ = = Hl | tions, ; ; cal i ees 1) We could do something about fire if Hi RAY BAN | we wa > Je ¢ > lose careless. |? es . | |e wanted to. We could be less careless. SUN GLASSES y} | We could heed the lessons of experience i Now. Availabi | and fire prevention authorities, which tell |j ete ane » 4 ch tell | Same Excellent Quality As jj us over and over that real fire prevention i Before the War L |is a highly individual business—a question of detail, of putting out matches and cigar- i ,cttes properly, cleaning up,t basements j and atties, keeping heating facilities in OPTOMETRIST | good order. - : | Office Hours: 9-12 2-5 p.m, i! Most of these things could logically be Address Phones { dene now. Spring is here and spring is | 619 Duval Office 332 | clean-up time. Why not clean up right? | Street Residence 351)|) Prevent fire, help save lives. DR. J. A. VALDES rected v. WPB. economist’: born Philadelphia. 49 years ago. born there. Died Feb. 13, 1934. j SE AA ESF ARC, 1864 — Richards Harding Davis, noted war corre pondevel novel- SEWING MACHINES ist, born Philadelphia. Died Apr.| Repaired, adjusted, cleaned and 11, 1936. joiled. Used machines bought, re-/ pier eats ere paired and Rear Admiral James L. 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