The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 16, 1946, Page 2

* American PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily, Except Sunday, by Owner and Publisher Citizen Building ne and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County entered at Key West, Florida, as second elass matter MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Asscciated Press is exclusively entitled to ase for republication of all news dispatches credited % it or not otherwise credited in this paper and ise the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RAT Months Months Que Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. AL NOTICE , cards of thanks, resolutions notices, poems, ete. will be te of i0 cents a line. entertainment by churches from enue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. en is an open forum and invites dis- ublic issues and subjects of local or but it will not publish anonymous IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. 5. Community Auditorium. 5 SOME HOLES WE ARE IN The public and private debt of the people 3,000,090,000, which is practically twice the volume 6f debt in 1941. In pre-war years the entire operation of the United States Govern- ment cost less than $3,000,000,000 a year. We now have a fixed charge for interest which is greater than eight billion dollars Taxes will be sky-high during the lifetime all us. All the “brass hat” agents in Wash- ington agree that at least 400,000 dwell- ings must be built during the present year, despite the fact that carpente nails and jumber and all other materials are in do is ibt. While the Administration has gone b to keep prices down to pre-war vels in major industries, the stabiliza- 1 program is being rigged by OPA offi- s to increase the price of steel in order hike the pay of workers. Moving across to food products and clothing one finds the OPA reversing its cross-word puzzles. Heads of the National Government in Washington are distinctly in favor of high- er-wages, while at the same time pressure is being put to hold down prices. Just how this is expected to reduce the present in- flationary movement bigger puzzle n the age of Ann. Elmer Davis, the radio commentator, iggested a few nights ago that inasmuch have an American leader to to straighten out their internal it might be a good thing to t a Chinaman over here to see what he could about fixing up things in the United States. is a we sent na airs do STIMSON EXPRESSES HIMSELF Henry L. Stimson, who recently re- Secretary of War, and who serv- the cabinet of two Republican presi- . says that the refusal of the United s to agree on collective aetion among nations, as proposed b¥ th@4ate Wood- Wilson, “was mainly instrumental in z on the second World War.” s is interesting testimony because Stimson, as Secretary of State, once ried to get the nations to work together np out the incipient spread of mili- policies in Tokyo. He was unsuc- nut he lived to see a great war de- s a result of this failure, and to nation notably as a member of cabinet of President who be- to the opposing political party. Mr. Stimson now expresses the hope nation “shall not fail again.” He that if the efforts begun at San Francisco are carried out there is a chance hat “the rule of law and justice in inter- ional affairs” will be established and r terminated. This, he concludes, is the cause to which Woodrow Wilson gave his life. tired as Mr war a the A saint is an individual who continues te live unselfishly amid the selfishness of others. There should be some concern by the Allies about Asia for over half of all the people on earth live there. The attempt of any nation to secure and maintaip a selfish advantage is a threat to the peace of the world. Russia, be- ware! SPIRIT OF ENTERPRISE When John K. Clemmer left town six months ago, intending not to return, The Citizen heard many a Key Wester re- mark; ‘““We have lost a good man, a man who is a live wire in promoting civic mat- ters.” He had identified himself with the Key West Chamber of Commerce, the Ro- tary Club and the Key West Yacht Club, and was the organizer of the Key West Shrine Club. But John Clemmer is back again, and he said it was like coming back to the old home town. Immediately after his arrival, he ar- ranged to identify himself with the inter- ests with which he was connected before leaving Key West, where he had resided for four yéars. We have others in Key West, like him, who are active in promoting our in- if we are to keep closely in touch with the growth of our community. Grow it will, judging by the future’s outlook. Of course while we cannot foresee what is in store for us, yet, from a civic viewpoint, we can pretty well guage the future by conditions that obtain in the present, and at no other time in our his- tory have we been in a better position to promote the progress of Key West than we are at present. We often hear that the enterprising spftit in Key West is not as ‘assertive as it is in other cities that have met with suc- cess ind still are meeting with succe. But the enterprising spirit in those places had to be roused into action, and we can do the same thing here as was done there. Finally, while keeping in mind that Key West will be what we make it, we are glad to welcome back John K. Clem- mer. The individual who always pleads for peace and harmony is not always interested in peace and harmony. One of the best ways to cut down auto- mobile accidents is rigidly to enforce traf- fie regulations and vehicular inspections. HUMANITY BLAMED FOR NAZI CRIME Here’s what we consider half-baked thinking: A letter writer, in another newspaper, says that the recent war was a “cruel iron- ical joke” which humanity played upon itself. This overlooks, we think, the basic fact that the war was brought on by the evil designs and aggression of the Axis powers, The writer then suggests that “hu- manity” starved and fought with the hope that there would be an enduring peace. This again begs the question. It is extreme- ly doubtful if the Axis powers, or their peoples, had any such idea. They were out to get by war whatever they could obtain and the idea of future aggression, at a profitable gain, remained. It is very important that we under- stand what caused the recent war. It is regrettable that some Americans seem to imply that the Japs were misled into war- fareshy the schemes of Amefivans. It is just as foolish to put'the blamté én: human- ity in-general, without specifying exactly who started the fighting and for what. Laugh and the world laughs with you; joke and you laugh alone. Extra! Extra! Sheriff Sullivan of Dade County finds there is no gambling in the county. HITLER ORDERED EXECUTIONS During the war the report reached this country that the Nazis planned to execute all commando and _ paratroop soldiers who fell into their hands in con- nection with the projected invasion of “fortress” Europa. This was discounted even after there were isolated instances where Allied soldiers were executed against laws of warfare. Just the other day a German general paid with his life for such a crime. It is now revealed at Nuremberg that Hitler, in 1942, issued an order that Allied soldiers of the type described should be killed “to the last man” even if they were apparently prepared to give themselves up. In the light of this document, read to the International Military Tribunal, it might be worth while to pursue closely all inquiries that are connected with reports of the execution of prisoners of war. There may be some Americans whose | death should be properly avenged. terests, but we need a great many more, | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Chapter 5 AS ALWAYS when she was troubled, Barbara Lacey went to see her brother, Burk Angus. She found him in his garden, di- recting the activities of several negro: workmen. “Hello, Burk!” she called, “Are you forever picking bugs off things?” The man bending above the thrifty potato vines raised a.smil-. ing, hot face at the sound and surveyed the cool-looking femi- nine creature leaning on his gar- den gate. “The chatelaine of Roselands, herself!” he shouted, unbending himself in somewhat the manner ef a telescope and coming toward his sister. “You surely wouldn’t want your spuds served with the bugs on ’em!” Barbara laughed. “Bless your heart, I don’t want ’em served at all! Too hard on the girlish fig- ger! I should think you'd get tired of eternally grubbing!”” He mopped the perspiration from his face and neck, looking down the long, neat rows of vege- tables with evident satisfaction. “Because I wrest a living from the soil, you call it grubbing! Why, woman, don’t you know this is the way man was supposed tp live—besides—” “Besides you love it, don’t you, Burk?” Her dark eyes took in the tall, hardened, athletic figure. “It agrees with' you. You look won- derfully. fit!”; When Burk had: come back from Europe several moriths be- fore with an impressive number of flying missions to his credit and what he was pleased to term “some kind of a bug in my in- nards” which made it unwise for him to remain in service, his sis- ter had been extremely worried about him. Now she noted his ruggedness with pleasure. “Which is not what. you came down here in the heat of the day to say, I’m sure,” he returned lightly. “So come on in out of this confounded sun and unburden.” He called some directions to his men and followed her to the dim coolness of the room which was mali EE still dignified in that lovely old house by’ the name of “parlour.” Here Burk had lived since the marriage of his sister, with a housekeeper, Mrs. Maxon, to look after his comfort. Today Barbara settled with a sigh of genuine enjoyment into one of the beautiful shabby ‘chairs. She reflected that: these pilgrimages to her brother's shad- owy parlour were becoming in- creasingly necessary. She could always be sure of coming away comforted, a little more confident, and a little better able to go on with her not-too-easy life. Burk thought, “She’s not really pretty, but dog-gone it. there’s not a more attractive girl any- where!” Perfect in the minutest detail of grooming, Barbara’s lack of real beauty was forgotten in contemplation of the ensem- bled loveliness, so that even wily, fastidious Whit Lacey had been drawn to her side. By contrast, Burk’s was an air of carefree indifference. Yet the resemblance between the two was marked. The same dark eyes with snap and sparkle, the same straight nose and unyielding chin. But Burk possessed naturally that which Barbara had had to work desperately for — an attractive- ness that made him noticed in any company. Burk knew quite well that his sistet’s life as Whitney -Lacéy’s second wife was far from happy, though his own. weleome, at Rose+ lands -was-not cordial. The Laceys were not jo accept into the 6 not OAD. amily a man who was content tobe the com- munity’s best truck gardener. They would accept graciously his gifts of luscious berries and crisp vegetables, but to old Eugenia Claverlake Lacey, Whit’s mother and the matriarch of the clan, Burk was in the same class as the man who mowed her lawn. It made no difference to her that he had learned the most scientific methods of farming at the Uni- versity, that he had written a book which was expected to be adopted as a textbook and that his tobacco brought fabulous prices on the Lexington loose-leaf markets. He was still “the gar- dener” in her ey {Babs?” Not that Burk minded in the least what they thought of him at Roselands. His was a life almost entirely devoid of petty worries, except where his sister was con- cerned. Now, looking at her sit- ting wearily in the deep, embrac- ing chair, he shot a ha!f-angry question at her. “Why do you stay, anyway, She raised startled eyes to stare silently at him for a moment be- fore she replied simply, “It hap- pens that I love the man, Burk!” “And-because of that you sub- mit to treatment that would rile a Persian kitten! You know, Bab- by—I can’t think it’s worth it. Old Eugenia raging at you as if it were a crime that all people weren’t born Laceys, and Whit with his devilish temper. No, darling—it can’t’ be worth it!” “Which goes to prove what -ou knowW about love!” She leaned forward eagerly. “I'd die for Whit, Burk!” angrily. “Yes, I He scowled suppose you would, you little Burk —I fool!” “And he loves me, know it. But somehow of late—” The quick color mounted. “I’ve gotter. the idea that old Eugenia has had her way with him—that he’s grown to think me—not good enough!” With, a muttered exclamation Burk rose to his feet and began to pace the floor. “You idiot!” he ¢ried. “Why don’t you tell them about old Franklin Angus, blaz- Ning’a trail Of glory across the con- timerit! About Great-aunt Sophia fighting ‘off the Indians + about newspaper west of the Missis- sippi—?” “T can’t, Burk. They wouldn't register with the Lacey who wa killed fighting a duel over h: lord and died with apoplexy in a fit_of temper!” Burk, genuinely troubled, went to stand beside her and throw a ders. “All of which is a prelude to what you really came to.see me about, Barbara,” he said. “What have they done to you now—spe- cifically?” To be continued ANNOUNCED BY STATION Subject to Change WKWF Where to Listen— 1600 On Your Dial Mutual Broadcasting System: (*Designates Network Program) Wednesday, January 16th 6 P. M. to Midnight" News 1600 Club Weather Report 1600 Club Fulton Lewis, Jr.* Roth Orchestra Frank Singiser* Inside of Sports* Music for Half Hour* Fresh Up Show* Gabriel Heatter* Real Life Stories* Spotlight Band* Radio Auction* Dance Orchestra Jesting With Jesters All the News* Earl Roth Orchestra* Dance Orchestra Dance Orchestra News* Dance Orchestra* ASASHoas AAIABRAAD BOE SweiES roy S Ss 8:30 9:00 9:15 9:30 10:00 10:30 10:45 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:45 11:55 12:00 ‘Thursday, January 17th 7 ALM. fo Noon Sunrise Serenade News Sunrise Serenade Weather Report Sunrise Serenade News Sunrise Serenade Frazier Hunt, News* Shady Valley Folks* Program Resume Meditation The Islanders Names in the News Fun With Music* Cecil Brown, News* Elsa Maxwell* Take It Easy Time* Victor Lindlahr* Noon to 6 P. M. William Lang, News* Morton Downey, Songs* Weather Report Home Town Frolics Lopez Music* Smile Time* John J. Anthony* Cedric Foster, News* Jane Cowl* Queen For A Day* Griffin Reporting” Musi¢ of Manhattan Remember* Dance Orchestra Erskine Johnson* The Johnson Family* Melody Hour* Pete Howe* Superman*- Captain Midnight® Tom Mix* BaASsasauseas Also Glasses Fitted | Oklahoma City Office. Hours, 7 to 9 p.m., and by Appointment, Phone 19, at Dr. TEMPERATURES ‘Temperature data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. i} Highest Lowest Station last 2¢ hours last night Atlanta 46 37 Boston 32 1 Brownsville . 59 40 Charleston 55 39 Chicago 26 13 Detroit 22 10 Galveston 45 37 Jacksonville 72 52 Kansas City . 28 17 KEY WEST _ 81 73 K. W. Airport 82 iMemphis 41 Miami 77 Minneapolis 14 New Orleans _ 53 New York 40 Norfolk 40 33 Pensacola Pittsburgh St. Louis Tampa -. NINETY-TWO ELEMENTS | cal existence | ben discovered at that time. Beware Coughs from common : That Hang | trouble | for Courhs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis reomulsion relieves promptly be- cause it ht to the seai ae peat Aime and branes. 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