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

Te Tuilding corecr Grems and Ann Streets Oniy Dally Newspay in Key West and 4 3 ‘Montes County ee cere at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Citiger is an open forma, ee ae invites dis bur it wit not publish an bhikex.(West do 5 Bertil Aine dacellindinndltl Seeear i iasinids-ottimcetinaoo ges ont bay tao ihe SLE ee MUDDLETOWN, U.S.A. There’s no such place as Muddletown. ank Heaven! For if there were, this is how things might have happened there: It was a fine spring morning when the citizens of Muddictown went mad. They were tired of the war, with all its regula- controls and interference with American individualism. They threw the war out of the window, along with War Bond buying, rationing, price ee shag wage stabilization and gas | old tashioned ded oar they, headed for eMuadiaeae'e, stores,.food stores, hardwa ir bene on. ge ee Shenk seaar yon. sale for $2.85 at 9 o’clock were nearing the mark by noon; and, as the last few ’ were dragged out from under the feounter. the price went to $15. Worried ‘housewives called their husbands, urging fthem to ask the boss for a raise in order to imee: the sky-rocketing cost of living. The | where an official report describes the con- és “busbands asked and the bosses atees hen | dition of northwestern European liberated tne incon OF defence IEREG, Hae for unconditional eurrender m the) Han of so-called: Gustav Line in {families gathered around their dinner ta- -bles that night, they pleased with ! vilian populations of the libera’ sumnere money and buying more things than ‘ever before. It was a plea he old jalopy.after dinner, stop a’ihe,serue station, buy as much gas as one wanted id-cost SOc a_gzilon? Prmd.go ere a fairly rood double | sure to hop into | 1 gnflation a bit. ver— cae yal? ly, re will be chaos unless wide- In the days that followed, two un- } ©pread starvation is prevented. pleasant facts became ‘evident. of these was thet when available greaiiies ate bought up, then no more supplies are } thousand weeks.” available. The second was, that once in- Nation hits prices no amount of salary in- ‘ation can keep up with them. 3 so maiter how much money people have, they're really very poor. The people of Muddietown began to As one housewife indig- ; ‘Three ought to be a law so S that everyone gets a chance to buy what Pir needs, like rationing or something.” And, as one old gentleman expostulated, “There i tobe & lay ‘to'Keepthdse. prices likee- price ceilings ari something.” yee as one smart young boy shouted otis | Looki ‘ nto bee’! newspaper 3 re law about wages’so they can't jiidt Go jutiip- | train. Whén the au‘omobilg came, along, | naid some of the price of iota 1g them all over the place.” There ought to be a law. ‘That's why there aren't any Muddletowns, i se eseee eesaaae And then, : his wife’s coo 5 wet preity angry. 3! antly put it, way to high school, «st , it’s getting a bit lonely grésor of the Far East. for the ag- { delivery points tc the future and indicates 6d solely upon the unsupported STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE it is hard to regret the suffering in- | tion to reaching t points with great people by air rai “we read about fhe callous treatment | of: parachut ur soldiers when captured. eeere reeerre upon enemy “EVERYTHING IT TAKES” JF A local attorney informed The Citi- zenthat he disagreed with a statement in an editorial that did not attach much im- portance to the number of population in any city. 4 ; We agree with the attorney -that it| pay» jee sid again, Aes nelseee ind of pera coming vack.” would redound to the benefit of Key West darling, this must be eal eo mien tn away with her z if we hada large pop lation, but we still : ~ | maintain that things of grea importance. peas of tourists 1 bi 5 28, <a ent,’ 1866. i ‘Edward Lucas’ White, 1933. fOr fnovelist; born Ber; n. Point, N. ee ~ Died) March 30," : | wilite n : a eee eae but | his c itor eee ‘New York, born | ss ae % af if és are’ hia they cai co i aisbolict A “aso went. t0 oie oe dow, gazing ‘first im oe 107 AN EXTRA WAR HOMP 99eq re ey are- can earn a " remain ip Bartre Bowed s 5 i livelihood. | begging 2 ve sent ‘the 2 Key, West, between 1880 and 1890, | ,."S0,¥ou see. Be adiee 2 cia f ‘ran 0 had a larger population than any other | pt 1 < a Ne ) city in Florida. At one time it was approxi- | 44 yon regret so 00m, om f WEST CLOTHES SHOPS, Inc. mately 25,000, and the population dwin- | isn’t she here with a 508 DUVAL STREET | (Next to Kress) | { a tatele | ny 7” spe! i dled because a fairly large percentage of | ¥ mh! Thinking: wit ei io youre fone! those people were unable to earn a living how terri hae ed at the door, “Kay,” thats you and Lucia might: will you do eed be fr that you might marry and, have a home, a life of “You never have been willin; Dg As Ernest P. Roberts, who practiced law here many years, remarked before he left for Homestead, it is an advantage to ne | for her to manage the househol uny city to have a small population with 1 e' T And ‘she aie a home. ¥ pein Sie i who wishes to work Bas nt my | ing he. eee {ec bev:one when we ms a than to a aye a g g population. with hun- regrd ptly ' iny-|7 census taken in| % : ; : ‘ t him ot larger popula- : + Reem eee ewe! But whl ing. the compara® 3 2 4 ely ‘Yow enumeration, at are extremely acia Nr ; Hedy over the fact that we are beiter | }; rsa ae You mean prepared now than ever before in the his- RE Ge ceon dock was} Se = wae h —e tory of the city to provide modern accom- | T really but because it took away be me of powns ® en give ber modations for the thousands of tourists we i » warmin Of hex Samisige mind. and. sh shell not care care tego to meet Liza's hor- out with your boy friend, Jimmy expect to come here in the postwar world. HE paused a moment, staring may turned fo f re ' : “Dinner’s ready. | Brent! Key West now has “everything it no comment be! went oat ets Whore man goin’?” | Tia. pe,eompioned takes” to “go after” the tourist business. . 4 — = 4 The essence of religion is the obliga- HISPOKY. } “Plain ana Pleated Fronts tion of generous service to all mankind. : | SS a 95 +9 ‘95 1836 — fe vie. “aps 4 $6 * and $7 It was hard to visualize Hitler’s fight to | théslast man ad about the Al- | By HUGO S. SIMS. Special Washington Correspondent of The ( ret Teather Sie yy eee dei He |Railroad opens. ‘ i Satoh OF WAR IN EUROPE For our fighting én\in Furope| tQrvereocs emene rey FooD ‘ ‘ wea HALF-WAY MARK | there jis some! temporary safety Ets ae — = i HOA D alt | 43 WE MOVE AGAINST JAPAN) 4 surgease of anxiety for mil-| jyens at The Hague. : 1 PP The journey for aggression, sol tions of loved ones at home, but! 1917 — First Selective Service STUY Every intelligent _ meric n under- |eagerly embarked upon by Ger- t Act ted by Congress. * 1939, comes to a bitter]2% time off is being given to our|Act enact ry 8) tands that, as.a result 0: ‘developments in ayant #4 Paspie Soe tne: Halch, jes men in the Pacific and in] 1922.— Pres. Hiding suggests AERC eawaggs ap here is-an increased need for ship- jto._ country’s | steel ments food gverseas. Consequently, the: y be some readjustment in the use strate i they with death, desolation and degra-, many American homes, there is) 9 CoO" )Y 99 hour make Tofeecoee buctaneans $; 50 » PAIR wim Trunks $295 ,, $500 dation instead of power, plunder! no letup in the tence expectation |“"3935 _ New York Ci Ms, drive Ged preterment. that hangs heavily upon the fami-jon crime proclaims. by cone the’! For the people of Great Brit ain! lies of men in active srevice. pa eee cipal, j ey Coat A Pane yee certal bison in the United, Seine the outgome: ef the struggle re-, Consequently, in this) countrys! enemies of the | moves the greatest threat to their i there -may be some’ relief but: ~193¢ The G os bay oe soy Re abs 1 existence in many’ centuries and! tp, fi Jeb rae ‘food and other supplies |° there is no occasion, for celebra: a oe bundently rewards the calm con- tion, Brave fighting men and) ee by U.S. Supreme shall be idchved, says that “our food sup- figence and consistent courage “air “chuipment no~ longer re-| Court. ply is adequate to keep America healthy | aw hich they made a beep of quired for Europe, must be trans- ae Italians surrender in vi rous’’ a “ 0, ari { their winnings to “risk it on maid i and vigorous and that a decent American ja turn ¥ ie and: a Sagi ae aged te ere Tite Prise contact in efinct, jet will be maintained. : No modern nation has been!anose must be brought to their) 1943—United Nations Confer- A modest amount of sugar and some | thzeatencd with a more tragic! knees in humble supplication and |€2¢e on food and agriculture food supplies will be shipped to Europe | {ate than the ominous peril which| nobody can now estimate the Pens in Hot Springs, Va. | cnveloped the British Isles in|}price in blood that must be paid} 1944—Allies report the extinc- as to ig is he means of defense limited, but| pacific. Italy. | countries as “extremely serious.” The ci- | ‘he fighting spirit of a brave peo-| | The distance involved in the nd intelligently led, gispatch of men and material into! Bertrand Russell, English phil- ied them through what fu-!the Pacific war theater multiplies!osopher-author, born 73 years a will undoubtedly | the number of ships required and ago. finest hour. the amount of material that must t , the situation,| be kept afloat in order to pour a they were attacked without] continuous stream of supplies,! » was pos @S! munitions, equipment and weap- Frank Wolkowsky We close every Thursday at 1 o’clock d coun- tries, some 7,000,000 slave laborers’ freed | in Germany ard hundreds of thousands of | iscnersiof War,-make necessary increased ‘ allotments ofgfood for Europe. H Thére if copsiderable benefit. to be | Slons into the war against Japan. j ‘by extending assistance to these vic- ~| There is no occasion to celebrate, sy fs |and the nation has no time to tims of war. Phy fate 0° Lurope depends 20-| spare from the: business of mak- 4 ing war ‘There will axise pressures on ome frost which every pa- ic American must vresolutely |résist. We will be assured that e cumbersome|the time has come to convert to Lovict Republic} peace ‘time production, to relax mass Of/restrictions upon civilian con- sumption, to reduce taxation and figh men to begin pe: e activities d that a aps, along we must be on demands of is impati- irements of resolve to judgment - e nation » in. position to ts and there is not the cion that they are any impulse except the winning of the war in */ the quickest time and at the leasi ©! cost of life ry regtavatibA"of AoFmal economy > If urn, depends upon the main. fice off some kind of order.and stability Hitler’s the and years did not last a to release It’s a wise husband who eee vorld jstart can be nd Russia, | al} of those “ ae BEIRUT hus- | | the end of the war with Germany | guard band who, after doing this, can’t eat her j establ on a firm four | cooking. j their to live. and p them, so far as the Old World is! the ned, on a pedestal of power| support the i conflicts can! of those leadi nities NEWSPAPERS BY AIR \ The Atlanta Journal, one of the out- |} anding néwspapers of the South, has in- fugurated pitplane delivery setvice to Au- ‘gusta and4Sa ah, 100 and 180 miles HOEY gai | from Atlaiga by iflaming fire of backward, one recalls when | Which threatened 1s A | théir national were delivered exclusively By ja) of th not begrud s and the Bri 'days of cele LT BOATWRIGHT HOTEL 25 N. E. 7th Street GEORGE: “Yes, 1 certainly would liké to much is being done to help them by finding hear why you call that an old eaten out and correcting the condition that leads idea, Judge.” them to excess.” e Un regressive; newspapers quickly adopted it ,in blood, in money and in sacri-| Miami, Florida Pao 3 GEORGE: “How many folks are there prog ¥ 1 p es OLD JUDGE: “Glad to tell you, George. T » 5 Lae ae AP ade ORs -antly {fice, we have not faced > im-| Double Rooms - Private Bath “ sort z ee that, Judge?” here IS! |as a means of transportation and greatly i aa eo ioaal $3.50 per Da Until recently, a person known as an al- ie widened th hat could be reached by {4 SS ee eek cece) Sea coholic was generally treated as a social | OLD JUDGE:“ Well, according to scientific ed the t could be reached by the hot fires of war - ‘ Men Welcome’ ; i i ‘ : Saty tev 7 i oul ttle hing was Gone to ‘O effective de devdured “Cir team porvices an tcast. Little if anyth done t research, 95% of the people who drink, aA fiend? gh nn tiie hae ne, aT understand him or help him. But, during the _—_drink sensibly. 5% do so unwisely, at times. past few years, medical research and study Included in that 5% Jo is the small has developed that alcoholics are really sick of the sick people I’m talking about.” people...that there is usually a deep- GEORGE: “That certainly gives me a rooted physical, social or emotional reason clearer picture. It's the most sensible ap- behind their behavior. That's why today so proach I’ve ever heard on the subject.” The Jo experiment with plane } i cE th plane pendence of this country depend - ; << Tt that many ne , 1 widen their ef. r=sclution of our fighting men. Fective cov: ft. In addi. For the United States, the end TRIUMPH . ae of the war against Germany is COFFEE the halfway mark in the battle to offers the possibility repel freebooters who attempted MILL 1 lac in-between .t0 loot this Republic. 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