The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 31, 1945, Page 2

bd och obibevests aie> tenvinmoicn el at et led MS IOS TIC DIMI Slee the wim et Bees Te OMe EET tee tietrmtematenetemet om mete beet lm 1 OO > .PAGE TWO ° The Key West Citizen Daily, Exeept Sunday, by Re aa Cnty Daly Nyy ia Ar Wort and YOUR GOVERNMENT + You and your neighbor and so on down the line in every neighborhood in Key West have declared, time and again, that you want an efficient government in PED rt MON I, sas SE SGawed wt Rey West, Florida, as second slass matte: | Key West. OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ty exclusively om of rg news dispate! © & or not rw! ‘wredit ise the local news published bere. ee Seay eae x fan ee \TISING RATES Made known ee $ Batches from 5 cents a a tisu The Citize: cussion of pu of jpeneral interest but it wil not publish anonymous communications. ? Per ps WE HAVE NO CHOICE The reason the citizens of every na- tion should insist that world peace be es- tablished on a sound foundation this time, ie made evident by the casuaity figures re- leased by the British Commonwealth and Empire. And it is well to remember that the atomic bomb had not added its toll to the figures recorded. If Germany had been able to use it, London would have been a barren waste and New York a city of skyscraper skeletons. As it was, the total British casualties were 1,427,643 killed, wounded, missing or prisoner of war. These figures included 592.283 dead or missing. Civilian casual- ties were 60,585 killed and 86,176 wounded. It is no worse for a civilian to be killed or wounded than for a soldier—death is as final for either. But it brings war closer home to the people and impresses on them the’ fact that they are responsible for gov- ernment, its officials and its policies. They must take more interest in seeing that small cliques and groups of men are not permitted to endanger life and property to gratify personal greed and ambition. The agencies of destruction perfected in World War I, to turn loose upon the world, indicate that if another war is per- mitted, it will be the civilian populations that are wiped out. Therefore, it is up to the people themselves to prevent such a catastrophe. TRULY COMMUNISTIC The Federal government has one of ite tax-exempt power plants at its Shasta irrigation dam in northern California. It is an important link in the chain new ing: welded to socialize the @lbetric , industry! of the United States under a giant tax-ex- empt Federal power monopoly. Because it ie tax exempt, it offers towns and cities long served by highly-taxed private utili- ties, electricity at “cut rates”. The government does not say that in order to cut rates it does not pay a dime of taxes on its power plants. It does not sag that citizens all over the United States assessed taxes to maintain § govern- while Federal power plants ride tt does not say that private compan- jes whose business it is taking over, often in the most ruthless manner, are in much the same position as small nations that were crushed by German aggression. It dots not say that last year one private company whose business the Shasta plant is now seeking to usurp, paid to theFed- eral government $26,016,046 in taxes, in addition to $12,737,916 paid to city, eounty end state treasuries in Californias ‘Nor does it say that the Federal power'monop- oly is as totally communistic in effect as is the great Dnieper dam built under the Russian five-year plan. Government ownership of power is a forerunner of ultimate government own- ership of land. are ment, The war was won by teamwork, in- eluding the fighting services and all those who aided the war effort on the home front. Why can’t we continue that coop- eration? . line. | May be confident that, at ites “s: | tion, your vote will not be nullified by il- The only one way that object can be attained is for you and you and you, 4ll ed in "his ‘Daper ‘and | Key Westers who are sincere in their state- ments ‘that they want a city government that will function efficiently, to ex now and vote on election day in Neven ber. Too often too many of us say, “What good will my one vote do?” The answer | to that question, in the first place, is that igpbeisifluas the total of yates: is composed of ballots mt ¥? | cast singly, and, in the se nd place, you e coming elec- legal voting. This time whoever is @lected will be elected fairly. It was with that end in view that the re-registration law was adopted at the last session of the legislature. By re- registration hundreds of names on the pres- ent list, which should not be there, due chiefly to the owners of those names hav- ing left town, will,be removed, and out of the present registration will emerge a qual- iifed list that is truly representative, If you want a good government, as ‘| you say you da, then register so that you- will be qualified to vote in the next elec- tion. At no other time in the history of the city has it been so important for the people of Key West to pick able and hon- est men to conduct our affairs. We are preparing to give trial to a new form of government, and we should elect men or women as commissioners who will fairly test that new form of government. It has proved successful in hundreds of cities in the United States and it will prove success- ful here if we elect commissioners who, we feel confident, when we vote for them, have the interests of the city at heart. Under the manager-commission form of government, you will know where to go to make your complaint and you will know whom to blame. There will not be any more buck passing because there cannot be any buck passing. The manager, named by the commissioners, will be the man to assure us that we will have a good govern- ment, and if he does not give it to us he can be removed from office and somebody else can be tried. The government will be yours, so you should be sure to make it good by register- ing and voting for whom you think are the best candidates. It will soon be open season for out- of-town publications to attempt to make raids on the taxpayers’ money for adver- tising space that has little or no value. One .such has been turned away with the la- conic turn-down: “No funds”. WAR NEEDS CONTINUE Despite the end of warfare with Ja- pan, the nation is not yet through with the shortages that have engaged our at- tention in the past. It is announced that the salvage campaigns to save waste pa- per, tin and fats will be continued. In addition, the Treasury Department has announced a Victory Loan drive, the hin the bond campaigns, which will eet underway early ‘in October. It will give every American an opportunity to as- sist the government in preparing for the difficult days ahead. Every citizen of Monroe county should realize that it is just as important to coop- erate with our government in these under- takings as it ever was. The end of fight- ing does not automatically produce a sur- plus of goods or stop the spending of money for the war effort. Consequently, the con- tinued cooperation of every loyal Ameri- can is still required. This writer is one of those who believe and vehemently so that the atomic bomb discovery should forever remain a secret between the United States, England and Canada. Let other nations create their own inventions. FALLS FOUR STORIES AND LIVES The average person, falling from the fourth floor of a building, would not ex- pect to survive landing on.a sidewalk. However, press dispatches relate that three-year-old Irene Qliver, of Cincinnati, fell from the fourth floor to the ground and that physicians could locate no in- juries. Such eyents are hard to explain and this leads many people to conclude that the miraculous has happened. However, the law of chance operates and sometimes produces results that are hard te believe. Peo ysterical feeling ‘she’a| Bis his before she went to bed .or .shej dj aap never be pe to sleep. She door, gualing @ number on the| ¢ telep! ie when she returned to et in, fast His voice is ‘ ftive and oe he ‘was Reet vgris et ober son nd: of ine | tae fei Up his cues and do tl ‘ing. ae this subtertugs” eke i i the dhs e wi ait at drea is silly air of antrigue Be ana ystery Tom was putting around every~ thihg hé did these days irtitated ue harassed het The Pe ed Te was of their ining together, ther bet. the would. mere oth of ‘them. sort of ould oF go "But she found she was too tired to even attempt to straight- en'up the living rdom. A short walk might clear her head, which ‘was now aching so she knew she could not sleep. As she went into the bedroom she picked up the bundle’ of old newspapers lying on the desk and threw it\in the laundry hamper in the bathroom. Tom was still talking on the tele- hone. While she was in the itchen he had thrown his soiled bathing suit on the floor. Leaning over, she gingerly picked it ul and rolled it into a bundle wit! a disreputable beach robe lying on a bathroom chair. She threw them both on top of the pene of old newspapers and then, without a word, walked out of the apartment. (HRISTOPHER was in a chair beside Brenda’s desk as the closing time gong sounded in the store the next afternoon. The tall young man with his well-brushed brown hair and his faultlessly tailored brown suit, had a surge ATOMIC BOMB PRODUCTION GIVEN HIGHEST OF WMC RESORTED TO KID) == NAPING AND PIRACY): TO .GET NEEDED, MEN}.. FOR SECRET PROJECT By JACK STINNETT AP Feer-—res Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. —wWhen it came to getting the highly skilled craftsmen for the Manhattan (atomic bomb) project, the War Manpower Commission had to stoop to virtual coercion, kidnaping and labor piracy} —the very things it was fighting so hard to keep out of war industry. It was legalized, of course | —hy an overall executive or- der from President Roose-! velt that gave atomic bomb, production the highest labor’ priorities in the land. That didn’t always make it easy. “Give me an order for 10,-! 000 unskilled laborers any; day rather than an order for} one man of the _ highest; skills,” said one WMG offi-} cial, ‘In the first place, the top— skilled men were those who} might get a peep into Uncle Sam’s topmost-drawer © war secret. Not only did they have to be citizens, but their parents and grandparents had to be citizens. If they had been abroad any time in recent years before the war) they were automatically barred. Being ace men in their professions, they were normally high-salaried, con- servative, steady and gener- ally disinclined to fall for of- fers to go to work in the blind alley which the production of some fantastic weapon of tomorrow might be. Once convinced and cleared by the FBI, they had to be yanked from under the watchful eyes of their employes without ever tell- ing the latter what the Army was making that was more important than their vital parts for planes, | ships, guns and bombs. i This situation came to a climax omce when an irate Navy captain in charge of ship repairs at the Mare Island Navy Yard in San Francisco” Bay came storming inte Washington, He wanted to knoW just what the hell was ‘go- ing on. WMC. ‘he roared, had pir- ated 15 of his best electricians. Later in the day,” hoarse but chastenéd, he called the WMC official on whom he had visited most of his wrath. H was talking from the office of one of the brassiest Navy hats in Washing- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN efor she. went to Bed oF abe] 405 for B ne aaah ae ne" was thinking © office. window made a lambant flame of her gold hair. There was the fain! phere fo of a ae aa Cotte ito er’s face as he out g mie ts case with one hand and to her desk clock wi a other. “It's ‘after working hours, | you can smoke—one mintite a half past closing time. i a smoke myself,” he added rumi-| | natingly. “I just had a run- with Donohue. He got so mad Fj thought he’d hold me as a ecial witness—or something. .. - He leaned over and held his: lighter for Brenda’s cigarette. “What burns him up is that you wese right about Dan .and he wasn't,” Brenda sai slowly, watching the smoke of her ci rette drift through the close life- less air of the offiee. She haa He never:seen*the night watchman, but his death had cast its shadow| 2” over her work and the sinister outline of that shadow. was touching everything that had happened since the night he died. “That’s right. It was the rope that finally proved Dan had been| murdered. The laboratory did a good job on.that. They found the fibers of the rope were lying in the opposite direction to that of the pulling. “What does that mean?” “As I understand it, just this. If a person slides down a rope, the fibers of that rope will all joint downward. But if a body as been pulled up by someone, the fibers will point up on that part of the rope pulled by the rourderer hecause of the contact: LABOR PRIORITIES WHO KNOWS? ANSWERS ON PAGE 3 = OF tags oh on, | now present, great career chemis n of. the NewS! mae ee ee ot AP Newsteacure: Writer HF early. postwar. world, vr offers women|Y., oppartuniiies in|t , says the first _wo- Y ciety, see a t ical saat er | N; Y. blonde, “Kept Avenue apartment the other. day. seme “Qur young chemists were taken nd 5} pa hey were doing essential war work. There to tell me he |no young men graduates in chem- istry during the last few years. set eee nda . “He man on the. fifth floo em off the freight elevator — ae he “was coming. to fe honk the theft, to'me mene ec a Sepa feet and hen oe Nahe. narrow’. space '/in’| front of Brenda’s desk, his hands thrust in his coat pockets.;. .- “Donohue better, get wise to himself—or he'll dan behind fne eight ball: Two robberies ani aren in this store. Not so zood. Headquarters has ready furned the heat on him. That’s why he’s after you. He’s trying everything. “I can take it Brenda smiled briefly. “If he'll just leave me alone during busifess hours. I want this sale to be a success, and jhe sat in this office nearly two mortal hours this morning. I can’t work while he watches every move I make.” To be continued murder in on, DAYS GONE. BY FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN). OF AUGUST: 31, 1835 “An advisory. . issued’ , by’” the | Weether Bureau at 1 o'clock this afternoon reveals that a tropical 1. How mdny’men were ander | disturbance of small diameter but considerable intensity .js ‘cen-| 2. What Van the cont “of the tral 60. miles ‘east of Long - Island, arms in World War II? global war? 3. What were the total casual- | ties of the war? 4. How will the future Jap empire compare in area with the pre-war domain? 5. Can you name the day and hour when President Truman an-, nounced the Japanese surrender? 6. How does our war produc- ‘tion steel compare with pre- | wa ar years? 7. What happened on August 12, 1898? 8. The U. S. spent about $300,-} 000,906,000 on the war; what was the cost of World War I? 9. What does control? 10. What does a Samurai sword signify? ! CYNIC eis “Do men always kiss the bride’ at a wedding?” “No, some sneak away.” ton. He apologized. If he had something that took priority over putting ships back into the bat-} tle of the Pacific, it must be the! biggest thing in military history, he said. The same thing happened at | the Rock Island, Ill. arsenal. The commanding officer had to be told of through orders from General Marshall himself before he would quit fighting the pirat- ing of some of his best machinists. ! On the whole, private war in-! dustry employers were more tractable and cooperative, one _WMC official said, and gave up— even if tearfully—their best tool makers, designers, millwrights, | pipefitters, etc. without a strug-! gle. once informed there was something bigger in the making than anything they were produc- ing. Nevertheless, WMC pone breathed a big sigh of relief when they, along with the rest of the} world, were informed that the Manhattan project produced the atomic bomb and that these vole} canoes on a parachute were the most devastating success in sal | whole history of wars. © If they had fudged a little on the rule against taking more than 10 per cent of the skilled work=| ers in factories that had more} than 10 of such; if they’ practi-! cally Shanghaied a few of the| nation’s finest shoproom artists, | at last they were justified, | Bahamas, and apparently is mov- ing west-northwestward. Key West Merchants’ Associa- tion announced today that the) |Thursday half-holidays at mem- ber stores have been discontinued | for this year. | City council, at a special ses- sios this afternoon, adopted a} resolution asking the WPA for! ‘funds to construct a water sys- { ;tem in Key West. Plans have been perfected to )begin an intensive drive in Key | ration book 4 West to raise funds to advertise | ithe city in“the hope of attracting ‘many tourists here. the coming winter, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Sawyer} left yesterday for a sojourn ‘in}; Miami,” Fern Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, gave a picnic yes- terday afternoon at Rest Beach, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Archer, | who had been visiting in Miami, ,returned yesterday. Members of Key West Junior | Woman's Club gave a party yes- terday afternoon at Rest Beach. The hostesses were Miss Rita | Finder, Mrs. Raymond Curry and | Mrs. Harry Pritchard. paauas | Mrs. Mary Day, who had been! in Gainesville taking a special course of study, returned yester- day accompanied by her son, | John Louis Day. Today’ The Citizen says’ in ll editorial paragraph: “Some men who live a dog's | site Drees have no license toy 0 SO, ——___.. | TRUTH! | “Does the moon affect the i tide?” “No, jyst the untied.” Subscribe to The Citizen. “Your Grocer SELLS That GOOD | STAR * BRAND AMERICAN COFFEE end CUBAN Try A Pound Today! "37; ee eNOS Der furs ar- |postwar gap and some one must | fill it. “Most women think of a career in chemistry as meaning shies rw . tory work. But there is a wide; es field- outside of that. Literature ;POStY atwar: opportunities, ay led. searches, which have to be made } before _new- products are devel- oped,” work ‘are included in it. There also, is a great nged, cal pee Sieh can help. the jesting field. We are still work- rence ETO RAT ee orful frocks and hats looks noth- ing like the average man’s men- tal picture of a woman chemist has had a Spa nunS career ig piace places on Federal : pay ee books on or Fae “we are going to be short ot. chemists for several years, even itured by fadstyiat ct though’ the war is over,” Snell's’ job |Snell, a pretty, fair .- is. largely’ ture research. -“Wonien “generally have greater social sense than but we always have let men)’ the pegatihe woe fields terry ¢ {life evberener: “Women have worked ‘cy from the ivory tower. 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