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

CUTSE: He rer ee ree eceeeee PUPP ee OR EE mere r eee Hee : te Rone g HME of LN carts # Ae. MANO Dy Chobe fone ate % soues @ Hine od “ +8 ee «i Benes © denies sevice ot on Ind kt WH ot PA eROEgROnS RMPROVEMERTS FOR KEY WEST } ADVOPAIED BY HE C#TIZER 1, Mone Hotels ant Apericests. & Beach and Betting Pevition pier iaeul Buk See ‘Comacliiction st Camnsy ext Oty Sox t WHAT LIES ABEAD? | (St. Avewatiine Record) What is ahead for indnaty ferth” Will the South's high ¢ ievels, the higher living standane time prosperity, las into the postwar pe vied? Why ave so many Southern people whose region is so rich in resources, #9 poor? What ean be done to assure that the wartime gains are kept and expanded? { A great many people Abe at work in an effort to answer these ques- 4am ats way That WIT help the south to keep what it has gained, and continue to ad- vanes, Vorty-two per cent of Southern people live on farms, compared to 23 per cent of the people of the nation, The average net income of the farm worker is far below. that of the worker in industry, We beri agticul- turlats, We need our farms, But some way must be found to achieve # better balance of ineome if the farmer is to stay on the pro- ducing end, Of course, during the war the indus- trial picture in the South has changed, mightily, Huge new plants have been built all over the region, utilizing highly-skilled operations, producing virtually every war requirement, : Alabama, for i eat combination pow in the nation; Texas, the largest repair and supply depot; and Georgian, the largest bomber modification plant, Chemical war fare, nireraft production, and shipbuilding are booming in Dixie, Over three and one half billion have been spent during the war on new industrial facilities, Over a third of the nation’s new construction activity in 1048 (a big year for war construction) was in the South, These strides forward have aet the stage for a period of postwar industrial ox- pansion, when reconversion is feasible and possible, The South has the land, the raw materials, the fuel and power, the transpor tation, the newly akilled labor rvex, the managerial experience, more capital than ever before, and the potential markets. The Southern Conference for Human Welfare in considering the whole problem of the South from the worker's standpoint, saya that agriculture and industry must go hand in hand in order to achieve prosper- ity and improve living conditions generally, Industries listed as particularly suited to the South are the processing of farm producta—industrial alcohol, sweet pota- making, canning and preserving meats, to starch and fertilizer, cheese and butter fruits and vegetables; processing of timber, paper, and paperboard, newspnint, boxes, plywood, furniture, plastics: industries based upon mineral products: machinery, wire, fencing, plumbing ancl heating equip- ment, roofing, pottery and clay products, as well aa construction and public works, the wart- yonsts the larg. 1 explosive plant ance ¥ an i eoxermment, ! maintaining the peace of the world siettepssceeiaadhassenecsipeenameesapenmuenaminatineeiecrenan e cene an Pe arene wer ie KEEP THE SECRET | Jepen, anofficielly has been stated that | it weighed 460 pounds. Assuming thet it | | Gd, the mansher of atoms ie eacia inom was | | so great it would require a string of figures | that wowild reach far ont into space to de-} | temmine the total, a a | is the total by knowing, first, that am ado | i ; 1 3 | Kelvin said, and, ae he said fiurtiner, tiene i maillions of ates ix 2 | | of @awtih is, ut 3 iis deepessiiblle for | Wallize sometibing that is thousands of mill | llions of times emailer than that speck. i in the Umitied States and Brita gorenn- ments’ keophug the soon of dhe atomiie om) to themselves. such action could mot agholy he wiewed as a dinread lip amy other Giaurting the seetet to tie whmest. no i other couminy, as did Japan and Gemnuvy, | would begin a conqmest designed tio enslave | the wonld. Whe weld entertain even a passing thought that the Japs would ave | bawi-stalbbed us at Pearl Havtbor. iad we, at that time, bees in possession of the seoret to produce atomic bombs, the devastating powers of which had been demonstrated in tests? Mr. Churchill said further that, as a | result of the use of two atomic bombs, the United States saved the lives of 1,000,000 ") of its fighting men and That view is correct, for none other than the emperor of Japan himself declared that Japan had decided to withdraw from the war because of the overwhelming power of the atomic bomb, Great Britain, 250.- | The democracies learn—watch thecrep- arations that Germany will pay this time— perhaps! THE FACE OF DEFEAT (Christian Science Monitor) Japan ix having trouble assimilating defeat, She was prepared only for victory. That has been the basic reason for delay in peace negotiations, The Japanese people, fed on the fantasy that they are the all- conquering sons of Heaven—only less di- vine than the Emperor himaelf—are having to reorganize their thinking. They have had before this to adjust themselves to adversity and disaster—like the earthquakes, But the mental gymnastics required take a bit of time. To a people mes- merized with fairy tales of invincibility, who have not in recorded history known in- vasion, the shock of an enemy bombarding their coasts and bombing their cities was terrific, Add the atomic bomb, Add Russia's smashing blows in Manchuria and Korea. Add the Allied demand to rule their ruler —who is 40 siéred théy dare not look at him. Their world is indeed overturned. The Tokyo press has been hinting at what was going on, Its repeated appeals for unity, disclosed that defeat was evoking dis- unity. It would be sirange indeed if the sur- render should be accomplished without at least a palace revolution to get rid of rulers who can be conveniently blamed for catas- trophe, And there is in the mental earth- quake set in motion by the dawning cer- tainty of defeat the possibility of a real revolution, There has also been a notable build- up of the 12-year-old Crown Prince, Akihi- to. This might be the result of a factional fight—with one group of politicians trying to control the Emperor, another the heir-ap- parent. Or it may be a concerted effort to grease the wheels of capitulation—with the Kmperor becoming the puppet of the Allies in accordance with their demands and the Crown Prince being saved to restore the dignity of the office after Allied occupation has ended, The very wording of the Allied de- In Middlesex County, N. J., the sheriff, the county clerk and the surrogate refused to accept the $500 pay raise wished on each of them by the 1944 Legislature. These three officials, who receive a $7,500 an- nual salary, did not ask for the $500 raise provided by a mandatory state law passed last year, It is said that they don’t want the raise—don't like it and won't accept it! mand has not eased the Japanese problem. Not only did it refuse to accept the Emper- or as a sovereign ruler; it refused to accept his ansupported promise of surrender, re- quiring him to obtain the signatures of the Government and the military chiefs, This was an acid test, For the Japanese it turned the screw of defeat to the last notch—the Emperor already taking orders. | measures onebilliionth of an inch, as Lordi | ih Hfly Ha i 4 i] iH i ss . Sees yay Serious as a Potective, have a a ing about. _ eS to make * Nagar} of Public oe my official fof cat will take his to st to sti from Ne on tracks that were five wider than standard gauge, ne- eetsitating trans-shipments on 1! freight. By hiring practically everybody who lived along the right-of-way, they changed every foot of the 565 miles of rails to standard gauge and shoved wheels back to the same width on their journals —all between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. the folks who elected him and hours his own account. . {little ers of this area have been pro- 'crats ducing plenty of good beef and/|that auction markets as fast as it was offered. phey DAYS GONE BY that meat market shelves were him. Mt la Searle ok as empty as Old Mother Hub- OF AUGUST 18, 1935 pard’s well known cupboard. Even those who had both points and money couldn’t even find a stew bone. It didn’t make sense to Mayor Darby so he made a tour of local markets, talked with the butchers and found that not fonly they didn’t have any meat, |but thev couldn’t get any because S. P. Robineau, sentative ‘of OPA rules, regulations and in the Florida legislature, and fol-de-rol. W. P. Mooty, clerk of the crimin-| ‘The Mayor just didn’t like the al court in Dadq¢ county, went! idga of seeing:his townfolks starv- fishing yesterday ‘with Represen- | ing when there was no, scarcity tafive Bernie C. Papy, and re+/and he decided to do something tufned to port with a big catch. shout it. He wired Senator Wal- 3 eT Uy ter F. George and explained that Shriners {rom Mahi Temple in|the people of Toombs County had ‘ Miami ie snierlalned here at plenty of meat on the hoof, were the 4 banquet last night by local Mas clling it at auction and it was a Mrs. Cyri! Griffin 29, died at 1 o'clock this morning in her home at 1 Knowles lane. Funeral services will be announced upon the arrival in Key West of her father and a brother, happy. ons. market shelves remained bare. National Gugyrd units that ha ad | iemmeds «he altar ibeingear i floo encampment left for home Sat- |'™er® Bee 2 Sart | And in the meantime, if you! spection, 1 be, thor. ing or influence or whatever it ‘takes with the OPA. There just wasn't anything he could do about it but “be sorry”. Gace Local OPA offi s, their hands shops tied with offi regulations and M: red tape, wer © sympathetic ¢j, jbut they were utt powerless ‘ ss to act until some guy somewhere | ‘ saa La the line got soft hearted! Bureau, said that a tropical dis-|€M0Ush to press a button and turbance of slight to. moderate Start the old bureaucratic mach- geclin intensity central 400° miles eto operating. ‘Rocke northeast of Turks Island, | ‘Then the Mayor got mad. He hol phoned the OPA district office in gp Otis Johnson, who Savannah and demanded that | had been spending two weeks Something be done about the} with their son and daughter-in- |Pidiculous situation. abinking), Soe law, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Johnson, doubt, that Mr, Darby was “just | in Miami, urday evening, oram Tomorrow evening Key West might Hospital Band will give a short concert in front of the Pala | Theatre as a prelude to the bene- fit performance to be held there. An adviso ing by the Ke Mr. and Mrs. returned yesterday, ithe regulation (Form XYZ-OPA- lamb engineer of 46589) bri sh off. This should not fur w Harry Pritchard. the Monroe cour c who went to onville with | Which is the run around, the ferry Flori K for re- fe was advised to just be calm | pairs at the Gibbs’ shipyard in and patient and let things take | that city, returned yesterday, . ahaa .|by everything would be all right. | Today The Citizen says in an!Things like this took time. You ; TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY By RUSSELL KAY y system, | be confused with (Form LL-17863) the curls tighter than if the ear ‘are short. tle and hogs and “by Damn”; #4rbor, to get its red tape untangl- that happened in the little town ed and release some Toombs of Vidalia, Georgia, the other day county meat for home consump- : when Mayor J. F. Darby got fed tion or he’d issue the order him-! submit up with governmental nonsense,’ self and.it would be carried out red tape and bureaucratic bungl-|and they could come on over to’ ing and decided to take action ca Toombs County ‘and crack their whip. The Mayor said he for that matter, but he felt the home folks ought to pork, which was selling at local;have a break along with the rest | lof the world, particularly since were doin’ the raisin’. By this time the Mayor had the citi- Vidalia, Lyons The OPA hemmed and hawed | and sputtered and squirmed. This | was all very irregular. It just | ale couldn't be done. But the Mayor h somehow convinced them that he | ‘ meant just what he said, that he was fed up and couldn’t be bluff-, ! ed or brushed off or pushed around. So somebody somewhere | 2"! pressed the button and before the ,24 hour ultimatum expired auth-! ority was granted for Toombs! tu County folks to butcher their own, P* all well Stocked and everybody is Commenting on the incident, | e Dodge County, | says: “Thus it can be seen that! den courage of one man, plus the | \ h of the community i at | mo. 'being shipped away while local yoador ad ee Ga. Advertiser » can eliminate hunger in the ‘land of plenty” where scar-| specif would like a nice fat juicy steak ness of good pork chops, you run up to Toombs County, here you'll find the butcher well stocked, thanks to ayor Darby and a determined: tizenry. DECLINED OFFER CINCINNATI.—In 1928 Egypt ed the offer of John D. feller, Jr., of $10,000,000 to p establish a museum for her tiquities. HIGHER QUALITY ud BROOKLYN.—If the ears of a another Mayor”, they gave him two or three day old Karakul are long, chances are the | ill be of higher quality an jtheir normal course and by and Yoyy Grocer SELLS That GOOD STAR * BRAND editor paragrapn couldn't upset the routine for | “Jupiter Pluvius is no respec- tee little town or county. ot AMERICAN COFFEE tor of persons who are in the | But the Mayor wanted action.| and CUBAN open unprotected. He soaks. the | poor and the rich alike.” He politely informed OPA ott cials that “his people” had plenty Try A Pound Today! | We lot the i when ‘eountyy will offer ys a loan, or Se rdank ui gift? Once we are (on our uppers, other nations will give us the cold shoulder—which > ‘js human nature. Why didn’t the to the guy, they will say, have some ‘gumption when he was flush ver- sus acting like his sock was a mile deep, and had no bottom. When some foreign country — ste except Finland—sends us a check ‘and pays up, it is gonna make a man bitin’ a mountain lion, look | puny and sick—as news. Yours with the low down, Subscribe to The Citizen—25e FRE BEE z = 3 may be nearer the bottom barrel than we think. And we do hit bottom, what 1 Will petition the JO SERRA Raymond R. Lord, Cow day ember, A. 1. i order authorizing the «ate terest of the aforesmid Dermott in an scribed INVITATION FOR BIDS NDEMNED PROPERTY known on Wm. map, delineated D | subject to the con | herein, da, will be re neu 5 Florida, Ree and then publicly Commencing at the sale of Two (2) old buses as described belo for this condemned pro- Instruction of Monroe County, at their regular meeting in the Office of the County uperinte August 9, dent, County Court Houser 1945 (1) Dodge Cha: 1935. ¢ at the SETS riously enough|they were gonna eat ‘em. He used for : % his. neck all the way out{issued an ultimatum to the effect #B1s.200 in an effort to serve and protect/that he'd give the OPA just 24 Year o: ‘imonton West, Interested angles in a Southw school purposes, Ei be tion forty (46) feet This equipment can be seen premises of John Curry, Rock Florida.) FB 5 i f Make 1933. (This equipment en at tnelola Brick Garage, d Grtene Streets, Key Florida arties are requested to inspect either or both of these wo u namel. offere J ; Bids, | one marked Toombs County, Georgia is a didn’t mind raising food for the! sealed, then placed in another good generel farming and cattle armed services, the starving Ar-| yuh producing section and the farm-|menians or Washington bureau-! Key West, Fla an fe the rig pieces of equipment before ting bids thereon; this being equipment and cannot be j its original purpose; s, and is being s junked property. shall be placed in an envel- for identifi , and envel- dada Instri ed to the ht to re. pt any or all bids, and to waive any formali- Ues. | BOARD OF PUBL] TION OF MONRC } FLORIDA, | By |. Carlyle Roberts mate! | for inst int ical $ red {. INST meat and now the butchers are; naci and Hees b j be tre erp! st | betwe andy | oughly | Inter i LG a LI | INVITATION FOR BIDS Board of Public Instruction SPE MATERIAL: M When earnings are high and consumer goods aré unprocurable, Chairman ing all labor and als and perturming all work alling Masti-pave or its equal hall of the school at United and Trop- y West, Florida. NS s ve as to or its equal is manufac- by Paraffin Products Com- EYES PRESCRIBED FOR IN THE PAST , | 4 YEARS RAY BAN SUN GLASSES ATION: Material shall. be an approved contraetor, emulsion or some other roofing so as to fully stop all and ‘antee a bond antes 35 Same Excellent Quality A* ‘ the contractor, PS are requested st the building for correct fore submitting be marked for OPTOMETRIST Office Hours: 9-12 2-5 pa Address m1 ds. > OF iC 1 ¥ MONROE Cot Ottice ORIDA, By: J. Carlyle Re i Be aug. 11-1 THE TIME TO SAVE IS NOW Open a Savings Account with us. THE FLORIDA NATIONAL BANK AT KEY WEST Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation