The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 22, 1945, Page 2

ee ; ; ; Key West Citizen Published Pally, Except Sunday, by - » * AMTMAN, ‘Owner and Publisher OR rctn the’ Cleiten Bulaing Prem Corner Greene and Ann Streets ‘ Only Dally Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ' ——————— Eetered at Key West, Plorida, as second class matter MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED. SS ‘The Associated Pre is exclusively entitled to tion of news dispatches credited we oF me herwise credited in this paper and alee the local geWs published here. sam BA’ VEREISING RATES — Made known on application. SPeoiaL » B ¢ AU ree@ing notices, cards of thanks, resolutions | re pitwary notices, poems, ete. will be te of 10 cents a line. ertainment by churches from is to be derived are 5 cents a line. tixen ts an open forum and invites dis- slic issues and subjects of local or 4 but it will not publish anonymous SAVE YOUR CHILDREN’S LIVES! “School is out, The summer is here. Over 450,000 children will be holiday bent. These children will be playing everywhere, on the streets, right in the middle of traf- fie. ®hey will go swimming. They will do all serts of things a child’s mind can con- ceive of. It’s up to the grown people and their parents to protect these young ones from harm. The largest number of children killed in traffic accidents are of the 5 to 14 year group and most of these are killed during the vacation time. Children who are involved in drown- ing accidents are mostly of the 5 to 14 age froup and usually are a group of children ewimming alone without any grown-ups watching them; parents or grownups should “Becompany all children when they go in ewimming and all should wait an hour or two after meals before going into the water. Evegy child should jearn how to swim. The Red Cross chapters, in most of the cities, have swimming classics and parents wuld urge their children to attend these classes “Let's all try and make this summer a safe summer. Let everyone practice safety. Keep your children off the streets, Observe all traffic laws yourself. Have your vehicle inmapected regularly and check your tires,” advises Asher Frank, of the Florida Safety Council. « PRACTICAL PEACE General Dwight D. Eisenhower has not only, wop the praise and applause of his own pi i States, but of all the United Nations. Jig uttered a classic phrase that will be preserved in “Bartlett’s Book of Familiar Quotations”, unless we missour wuess ; Bisenhower told the world the. other day that the European war has been a holy war, more than any other war in history. And here is his classic: “All of us who are right thinking want the common man of all nations to have the opportunities that we fought te preserve for them.” You ean search through the records of the League of Nations, the Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco Conferences, and you will have to admit that Eisenhower has been as outstanding and gallant in express- ing the exact spirit of Democracy, and in choosing his words, as he was almost per- feet in fighting the battles for peace in Europe. Making the best of things marks the true adventurer. In the theatrical profession a ham should be in particular demand at the present time. Addressing a person by his given name without knowing him for some length of time is a form of familiarity distasteful to the people of good breeding; to address him in that familiar manner without pre- views introduction is vulgar to say the least. Nevertheless, to a certain papa’s son, it was worth $200,000 on one auspicious occasion, A LARGE SHARE Climactic and other conditions repeat themselves, although many of us, when passing through a condition that is out of the ordinary, are likely to say, “There was never anything like this.” That remark was said hundreds of times in Key West about the drought through which we were passing, and were happy indeed when the rain began to fall Wednesday night. Yet we didn’t have to go back very far to reach a year when less rain fell from January 1 to June 20, as G. R. Kennedy, meteorologist in charge of the Key West Weather Bureau, advised The Citizen Thursday morning. Between those two dates in 1927 the volume of rain that fell in Key West was lesg than this year. Ten years ago the drought was almost as great, and at that time it created a great deal more inconvenience in the lack of water than it has thus for this year. Then, families in various parts of the city got water from neighbors who still had some, and in the vicinity of the Harris schoo] one bucketfull was given to each family, but in this year’s drought many residents used the water supplied by the Florida Aque- duct System, and there were not any hard- ships, so far as The Citizen has learned. Droughts and rains and storms ‘and calms come an@ goyas Nature changes her moods. Indications now are that we will shortly get am exéess of rain, so-some of us are likely to declare, “This is the rainiest weather we have’ever had.” : But the only type of weather that Key West has in excess, as compared with every other city in the country, is an equitable | climate, untouched by frost. | Thus, in following the advice to take the bad with the good, we may feel con- tent that we get a large share of the good. | s Chaplain and Chaplin are often inter- changed in printing or writing, but there is | “a” difference. | After the war Uncie Sam will.expect the taxpayers to support him as he has been accustomed to during the war, but he will have to live according to the means that can be supplied him. STRENGTH OF JAP ARMY UNCERTAIN It is futile to attempt to estimate Jap- anese strength in China, or. anywhere else. |® All that we can do is to wait for Allied su- periority to drive the enemy homeward or into the sea, The process is under way in effective manner in the Indian area, where Burma has been almost reclaimed, and the British plan unrolls toward the great goal at Singapore. In the Netherlands East In- dies the process has not yet scored great | gains but the connecting links to the home islands have been severed. The Japanese navy and air force have been badly hurt. Neither is more than a fraction of its original strength. Both | are on the defensive, unable to interfere | with the completion of our strategic plans. So far as protecting the home islands from | invasion they are inadequate and fast be- | coming helpless. Of course, they retain | some strength ayd.the power to intlict | losses but not tescheck the course of, the war. The Japanese army has taken some terrific losses in nmtany theaters of action, Nevertheless, the great bulk of the army has not been seriously injured. Millions of | Japanese, estimated up to five million men, are available for last-ditch, hold-or-die de- | fensive stands, which will take American, ve in au ni British and Chinese lives. How long the army will retain ifs morale remains to be | | discovered but there is no reason to expect | any immediate collapse. Last item on a Miami radio program is H a Key West Salute when the few that re- ! main awake are worn out and ready to em- brace Morpheus, in the silence of the mid- | night air. NEW JAP PLANE From the fighting zones of the Far East, American pilots returning from at- tacks against Kyushu, one of the home is- | lands of Japan, report encountering expe Japanese pilots, flying new fighter planes } that out-perform.the U. S. Corsair. i This indicates that the enemy has been | able to produce a better plane and to alter aerial tactics despite the loss of more than 3,000 planes since the beginning of the Okinawa attack. American commanders Agree that the new type of Japanese planes “give excel- lent performance and higher speed” and that the enemy pilots are “first line” and “pretty sharp.” ce ee tee nt nett cepa fine (aD RM REE te 8 RES RS HN NED'S visit was a comfort to thie, ae ac eaare:to: bas Wha nest about looking for a job.” This referred to long-legged Chester. “T talked to him but’he wasn’t in- terested in anything I suggested. I think he’s expecting to be draft- ed—sure to be, in fact, and doesn’t see the use of* worki: v meantime. They haven't got their apartment yet—something slipped with poor old Armes—and it must be pretty bad, living with the present Mrs. Armes and family.” couldn’t hide it or the hollows that had suddenly come into her cheeks. Vera loved comfort and re Cynthia's Verg doesn’t s suspect Che “With the head and stumbling body will KEY WEST IN cil ention of m ed in New York C YESTERDAY: Cynthig, _is|“What is one. shocked by Vera’s tab oe, or less? Wiha does t her cynical attitude. ee after $he| “It can spoil her whole life. leaves the house, Vera, ar-| “Nobody spoil your ea yourself, And if it comes t stricken calls to ask her for; ness. Cynthia can’t speak and} what is one life?” He was matter over ligittly. Carey te | snap her out o: tell her that the chistdon mblge ethos of lives wil be paid out— find their own way and Cynthia} they’re being paid out now—some cries out, “Am I to stop loving my| irr mud, some in fire—but we don’t children because I lo je you? feel it’ because they’re not our Carey shrugs and says, “You'll] own, They're just people on the have. to find that out yourself,”| other side of the world, not our Cynthia becomes ill. - | people.” ‘|. “You mean that America will ‘Ibe in the war some time?” Cyn- ia asked. Chapter 18 _ re Cynthia. “He doesn’t seem to be in ear- do you think of girls who'll give up sweethearts, wives their. hus bands, children. I at thers, mothers their sons? n't they, count against Vera’s marriage?” Cynthia lay back on her. pil- lows, wordless. So he couldn’t,see what was hurting her so. It was too obscure, too complicated for him to_see and she couldn’t ex- plain. But she felt a sudden re- surgence of strength. Opposition always affected her that way. She would mgie Cc e een her eres f couldn't Ergnten, er by talking about she had been a failure where Vera was concerned it was because of that secret antagonism that is some~ ee born between mother and child, ‘But if that wa$ true it was not so with rie, Baris ad come to life. She hed hemi © back, larger share: almost, than. she. ever had for Cynthia had) never been ill before and was almost pathetically grateful for Edris* wholehearted devotion. The moment Carey eft the house in the morning Edris ap- peared, starry-eyed, to serve Cyn- thia. It was funny and sad, too, to see her absolute self-negation. Through the long August days she would not leave the house but was always hoveri: in little shadow in the self-forbidden ter- ritory of her mother’s room. No one might carry trays or draw a bath or answer the telephone but Edris. Cynthia urged her to go to the beach or play tennis with other children but the wounded ng in the It was bad indeed. Vera’s face round her and life family must-have ation—an unpleasant hem to come here.” $ tagmipled, “But e if that way. I could ‘be per- so pig headed.” ” Ned reiterated. but the uaded vee i ‘a would would come home. And is would be like a bad Ss. be left “ROCK” GABDEN: lonely Ascension Island, ;midq-Atlantic, recently harvested !a bumper crop of radishes, let- DAYS GONE BY OF JUNE 22, 1935 with voleanic cinders, distilled a wate and chemicals. Mavor Wiliam -ene at/Horace O'Bryant, Sam Ggldsmith, report on) the cone pe E. Russell, Lionel Plummer, _|Bob Spottswood and: William P. |Kemp. meetir mac a Welters’ Cornet Band will give}pe stopped on July, 1, the local concert tomorrow afternoon e of the FERA reported to- Jackson Square under the ispices of the FERA, —— ; Dr. J. C. Sanchez will leave) Juan C was host last;}tomorrow for Miami to attend the international optometry con- ention and clinic to be held in hat city. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Russell, who had been visiting in Miami, jreturned yesterday. who came ship Gran yesterday ght to . F. Hoffman, street commit- t night to city Norberg Thompson returned had had A we yesterday from a short business installed at Caro- stay in Miami. onten streets. ape ——— Today The Citizen says in an A platoon of topnotch local editorial paragraph: ) lay Miami} “Mussolini, in searching for, es Miami;the Ethiopian in the woodpile, y Comprised hornet’s nesti® / 1 We Are Pleased to Announce that we will serve the City of Key West by representing the General Electric Company relative to the sale of ELECTRIC APPLIANCES _ A supply of appliances will be carried as soon as available. Have your name placed on our waiting list for your requirements. No Obligation ar aan asin a a er re expression of the child’s face si- Carey taking the call passes thé} brutal and, didi cage. } peo to Feved |. MIAMI, Fla—G.s on sca TODAY IN HISTORY in the} {tuce, peppers and cucumbers from} Schley in Arctic. FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN} thcit “gardens”, a trough filled Direct relief to residents will re links, may find to his surprise a regular! eeecapecoosqocccs Book ‘& Blue M282 expire Stamp 26, Aug 30; T2-X2 expire tir v2.22, AL-cl expire A-18 through June 1. need her. ‘si “Td Sella be with you, mother.” eet ate $1: Q2-U2 expire Aug. 31: PUEL ‘V2-Z2 expire Sept. 30. Old 4 and 5; new 1 through & Ration Board Office, Post Otfien Building ate so ing up thea activities 3} orn when, a ‘6. SR drive she ig mustn’t happen again. Men didn’t like 1g wives—young men would wb was. she lying here in a shadowy room waiting, when she. mighs haxe been down- stairs to meet-him? ’ Buy: War and _— ay We Hs ad Keep Th Frank Wolkowsky “Where are. you going, Edris?” “]—I—heard the car come in, mother.” : “Then give me my pink negli- gee, darling, and the hand mir- ror. My. compact, too. Hurry, | sweet, while ‘arey’s putting the car away.” “Here's, eve! the little tray.” Heavetie, how dead the child’s vs aihis was hiding’ trom b ni was hiding from her- Cool reasoning, cultivated through the. years, was a relent- less accuser. She was hiding from slings agrows, too, that once she ve far thing, mother, on : would have defied. ey didn’t complain from the sick wife angle. He accepted. it without, question whether or not | he. was. stoic underneath. And he a lot about the Brandons al 32 work -he and'Ray were i and sometimes ahout Joan who’ ‘Was expecting ber second by ip Denetnher. was hot in Burbank. I ie le cardboare | jhouses be furnaces, too. Cynthia didn’t like Joan Bran- don, any, more than, she had in the beginning but she made a gesture, wig I can persuade Maud to go trowhead for a few weeks, andons could-have the gar- den house,” she said. “Maud could take the children. They haven't oS na are Bouday this auaen: Y P a] ledged in- to her mind. Mans with gis d no reproaches from an over- active conscience! How lovely that would be. She was caught up by a derisive sound. Carey laughing, To be continued i i a \ 1884 — Historic rescue of Lif! Greely and 6 others by Capt.; 1898 — American forces bo! -| jbard Spanish in forts at Santi-| 1889, Cuba. 1904 — Historic cablegram sent | Morocco’s sultan by Secretary of State John Hay! “We want Per-! dicaris alive or (bandit) Raisuli |dead!” 1932 — President Hoover lays | proposals to limit men under arms, abolish tanks, etc. before’! | world disarmament conference. | 1941—Germans invade Rus: 1942 — Bitter fighting in Rus- sian Kharkov region. German sub sinks Argentine ship 120 miles off New York. { 1943 — U. S. Army 8th Air Forge heavy bombers make first’ raid on, Ruhr. 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