The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 21, 1946, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily, Except Sunday, by L. P. ARTMAN, Owner and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County mtered at Key West, Florida, as second elass matter MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Asscciated Press is exclusively entitled to zse for republication of all news dispatches credited * it or not ctherwise credited in this paper and iso the local news published hére. RAT: SUBSCRIPTION One Year Six Months Three Months . yne Month Weekly ADVERTL Made known on appl NG RATES ion. AL NOTICE All reading 1 , cards of thanks, regolutions respect, obituary notices, poems, etc. will be d for at the rate of 10 cents a line. entertainment by ot bs: The Citizen is an tes cussion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous tommunications. a 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. pe NO FREE PRESS IN ANY ARMY The staff of soldier-edited news- paper in the Pac area was recently warned not to speak disrespectfully of those in authority. Lieutenant-General Robert C. Rich- ardson, Jr., commander of Army forces in the mid-Pacific, told the editors of the mid-Pacjfic edition of The Stars and Stripes, not to make any discourteous ref- erence to the President, Sec of War, Chief of Staff or others in authority in the Army. There nothing whatever wrong with the directive from the Commander. No question of freedom of the press is in- volved. The publication of a soldier-edited newspaper is a privilege and not a right. No army in the world would permit a oup of individuals to conduct a publicity campaign that might interfere with the discipline necessary in a military organ- ization. We mention this incident to call at- tention to the serious condition that exists in the armed forces. It is emphasized by the fact that some of the staff members of an army publication in Tokyo. recently complained that they have never enjoyed the “privileges of a free press, even by Army standards.” Certainly, it a misconception for soldier-editors to imagine that anything like a free press, with the uncensored ex- of editorial opinion, is permis- sible in a military organization, regard- less of the liberalism of the country the Army represents. An Army is organized for the single purpose of delivering powerful and con- tinuous blows upon the enemies of its It must be organized and en- for the exclusive promotion of these objectives. There must be no diver- sions and, certainly, there is no room for debates, discussions, arguments or politics. Every soldier-editor ought to realize this fact. So should civilians. is is pression country. gineered THE RED CROSS Too much cannot be said in praise of the American Red Cross. Just think of it having produced 680,000,000 surgical dressings for our Army and Navy and for foreign war relief. This is in addition to production of 1,000,000 garments and more than 6,000,000 kit bags, which were soap, shaving kits and other items. It is impossible to name all the won- derful achievements of the Red Cross, but we cannot overlook 41,000,000 meals and snacks served in this country during 1945. More than 15,000 women volunteered, helped the Red Cross without any com- pensation. Members of Red Cross Motor Corps made more than 2,500,000 calls for the Chapter. At the same time Red Cross women in great numbers served in every American theater of war, from Great Britain to the China-Burma-India :zone, and from Alaska to South America. 1946 is a year in which to pay debts or save money—you may not see the like again. a ee Minoritiés are organized and woe betide the politocian who arouses the ire of their leade’ ——_————___ What the world needs less of is the effort: of so-called leaders to tell other people how to live their lives. FORGET IT © City Manager King, when he had been in Key West’ only a few days, said, at a meeting of the Lions’ Club, that he was in the listening, not the talking stage, as his object was to learn more about Key West before he began to talk about it. He should have done a great deal more listen- ing before he made this statement, pub- lished in Friday’s Citizen: _ “We are half way between metropol- itan Miami and Latin ‘Cuba. I would pro- pose that the names of streets be changed to numbers but that the Spanish equiva- lents of the numbers be also used.” Now, that would be splendid were we looking for sales-powered names of streets designed to sell lots in a subdivi- sion, as the late George Merrick did at Coral Gables when it was only a name for pine woods and when Ponce de Leon boulevard and scores of other names in Coral Gables were merely indicated by lines in a platbook. Coral Gables is a fledgling compared to Key West, which was a century old when Merrick conceived the names of the streets-to-be 25 years ago. As King, who has had considerable experience in the affairs of cities, knows, whenever business conditions in any com- munity, particularly a small one, are pip- ing hot, you will find sundry gentry there, sensing for the ‘first time the ‘feeling of bulging’-pecketbooks, who go off. half- cocked onimany a trivial thing that has nothing. whatever to do with conserving the solidarity of the community or pro- moting its essential interests. Leave our street names alone: his- tory is behind most of them. We assume, were we to ask King how we got the name of Wall street, which describes half of a square, running southwestardly half a block from Duval, thence southeastward- ly to the aquarium, his guess would be that it was named after Wall street in New York. Instead, it was named after William Wall, Key West’s first merchant of consequence. It was with William Wall that Will- iam Curry clerked when he came to Key West as a youth, and lived to be the rich- est man in Florida, and last year, we celebrated the centenary of the founding of the William Curry store. Shortly after the Civil War, Cubans flo¢ked to Key West to escape the Span- ish oppression in Cuba, and they could not pronounce the names of some of our streets, “‘trippingly on the tongue’, as Shakespeare says in Hamlet. Here is a list of those streets, And King may strike up a conversation in Spanish with our mayor, William Wellington Demeritt, about them the next time he meets W. W.: Calle Farola (Whitehead street) ; Calle Tablas (Simonton street) Calle Es- ponjas (Elizabeth street); Calle Iglesias (Eaton street); Calle Santa Angela (An- gela_ street); Calle Cuarteles (Southard street); Callejon del Telegrafo (Tele- graph alley); Callejon de Polle (Bahama street); Callejon de la Ceiba (Center street); Callejon de San Carlos (Sherry lane). i Good advice on the proposed change in names of Key West streets: Forget it. Ques! account of the meat packers strike, the people of this country willtem- porarily become involuntary vegetarians, and that is not a drastic condition. Vege- tarians, as a rule, live long and happy. One of the best known examples is the brilliant writer, George Bernard Shaw, a _non- agenarian, healthy in mind and body. OPTIMISM FOR 1946 Despite the industrial strife and the failure of labor and management to come to early agreement as to wages, there is a fundamental optimism as to the business prospects for 1946. It is not difficult to understand why this is the case. Money is plentiful, with individuals having more than ever before, thus assuring manufacturers and other business-men that consumers will be able to take their products and services. During the war years, there was created an enormous pent-up demand for products of all kinds and most manufaé- turing concerns have a backlog of orders that will assure full production for many months. These facts explain the current optim- ism. The enormous buying power that re- sides in the nation insures against a famine of plenty, Manufacturing concerns, mak- ing what the public wants, will not have surpluses to accumulate in their ware- houses. The people have buying power and this is what makes the business wheel i revolve. Chapter 9 HE moment Edith’s foot touched the cementeplatform, Whit Lacey was striding toward her. She was surpris at his youth... the almost » iBteliovabia goed deoks of him. Confused mem~ oxjesyof, whatsLaura gadstold her of this man churned about in her, mind, but none of them had real- ly prepared her for his actual ape pearance, Until this moment he had been a shadowy figure of the. imagination. Least of all was she prepared for the startling like ness between them, for when his fine hand met hers something passed between them as if each had found something long lost which belonged to the other, “Hello, Edith,” Whit, said, too casually, for his hand was trem- bling. His white teeth showed in his brown face in a brief con- fused smile. “Welcome to Ken- | tucky, my dear!” “Thanks! It—I’m sure it’s going to be pleasant.” “Rather warm for June — but it’s our best season here, Glad you could come at this time.” “Thanks!” Edith said again stiltedly, hating herself for the feeling of childish awkwardness that possessed her. They reached Whit’s car — a Jong, grey coupe—and he helped her in, then went to see after her baggage. In a short time he re- turned and they were threading their way. through the. traffic of Main Street and out into the beauty of the June country-side. Something caught in Edith’s throat—as ever city dwellers are first affected —‘while: then and there the blue grass country claimed her for its own. On a slight rise of the roadway Whit slowed the car and pointed to an artist’s view of rolling land. “Rather a pretty picture,” he of- fered modestly, as if he, himself, had painted it; but back of the commonplace words Edith caught the pride of generations of dwel- Jers in this land of beauty and plenty. “It's the most beautiful coun- try I’ve ever seen,” she said sim- ply, and his dark eyes brushing over her were filled with ap- proval and understanding. As they started on, a truck well-filled with farm produce passed them. The man at the wheel lifted his hand, then, see- ing Edith, his hat, before he passed on. A_ striking-looking ung man, Edith thought, with Ene lark eyes looking out from under the brim of a wide straw hat. She would have liked to ask who he was but since Whit of- fered no information she re- mained silent. And now they were turning in at a stone gateway, were rolling along a carefully tended drive and then were coming in view of a very old, wes beautiful white house, And hit was saying, “Well, here we are. Welcome to Roselands!” AX OLD lady stood on the wide portico, She wore a dress of summer lawn sprigged with black figures, and old-fash- ioned, high-heeled black satin slippers. Her white hair was piled high on her small head, which made her appear taller than she really was. She had snapping black eyes and a’ determined little mouth above a perfect suc- cession of double chins, Whit said, “Mother, — here’s Edith, What do you think of er?” And Edith found herself being subjected to the most severe scrutiny. For a long moment not a word was said while those piercing black eyes took in every detail of her person. And quite unexpectedly Edith felt a rising anger. How dared this old woman to greet a guest, a stranger, in this way! Even if she was her grand-daughter. She drew her- self up haughtily and Whitney Lacey, looking on with interest, almost laughed aloud at the re- semblance between the old _wo- man and the young one. Then Elith said clearly, “Good after- noon, Grandmother, and if you don’t like my looks, perhaps I’d better go back home!” Eugenia Lacey’s black brows shot upward. “Who said I didn’t like your looks, young lady? And don’t start out by being imperti- nent to me.” Edith’s lip was trembling. She wished she were a million miles away from this horrid old wo- man, “I certainly won’t,” she re- plied, “unless you start out by being rude to me!” Then indeed Whitney Lacey’s merriment flowed over. He Jaughed loudly and with evident enjoyment until he saw that Edith was almost in tears, then he patted her shoulder kindly. “Never mind mother, Edith,” he said, controlling his laughter with difficulty. “She just likes to ter~ rorize people at the beginning, then she usually has no more trouble with them!” “Shut up, Whit Lacey!” Eu- genia demanded, then turning to Edith, “Pay no attention to any- ti.ing he says, child. And forgive me if I seemed rude. 1 was mere- ly interested in seeing what sort of a person your mother made of you.” For the first time her mouth moved into a sort of smile. “I think you're very pretty and evi- dently you have spunk. See that you don’t overdo the latter qual- ity!” Edith stood there _uncertainly until Whit said, “Here's Julie waiting to show _you to your room. You'll meet Josie and Bar- bara later. We have dinner at six- thirty...You might want to rest mtil then.” “Thank you,” Edith said, grate- ful e be taken ero hee arena mother’s presence. A s! maid with white teeth tenet ene ing eyes said, “Come this, way, Miss Edith.” a8 She followed the girl into the vast coolness of a great hallway, up a magnificent spiral stairway and over the soft carpeting of the upper hallway to the door of a big cheerful room. She saw a canopied bed and tall windows with frilly curtains, a chintz-cov- ered chaise longue and a dainty skirted dressing-table. This, then, was to be hers for the next few weeks. To be continued Spiritual Food By J. W. RB. ell DO YOU READ YOUR { BIBLE? IF SO, WHY? The contributor who last week mailed to “Spiritual Food” the} tract, “Benefits of Prayerful Reading and Daily Meditation?on the Scriptures,’ is an ardent Christian who seeks always to; acquaint others of the benefits derived fromyabsorbing -the truths of the Holy Bible for many years. } y It is for this reason’ the “con- tributor asks the writer to pass on to his readers this’ extract} from “Miller’s Life of Trust.” |To those who read their Bibles daily or ‘frequently, the tract’ may be comforting. At the same time, it may inspire others to form the habit of “Daily Meditation on the Scriptures.” Here it is: “It oh recently pleased the; Lord to teach me a truth, irre- spective of human instrumental- ity, as far as I know, the benefit of which I have not Jost, though) now, more than fourteen years have since passed away, he point is this: Isaw more clearly than ever that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my-.soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was. not how much I~ might. serve: the. Lord, how I. might. glorify the Lord; but how I:might get.my,soul :into a happy state, ,and,, how., my ‘in- ner man might be, nourished. For}. I might seek to set the truth be-{ fore the unconverted, I- might | seek to benefit believers,.I might seck to relieve the distressed, I} might in other ways seek to be- have myself as it becomes a child of God in this world; and yet, not being happy in the Lord, and not being nourished and strengthen- ed in my inner man day by day, all this might not be attended to! in a right spirit. | “Before this time my practice} had been, at least for ten years previous, as an habitual thing, to. give myself to prayer, after hav- ing dressed myself in the morn-} ing. NOW, I saw that the most important thing I had to do was; to give myself to the reading of, the Word of God, and to medi-} tation on it, that thus my heart might be comforted, encouraged, | warmed, reproved, instructed and! that thus, by means of the Word ways a good deal of confession, of God,, whilst, meditating on it,} my heart might be brought into experimental ; communion | with the, Lerd. ' , “I ‘began, therefore, to medi-| tate on the New Testament from; the beginning, early in the morn- ing. The first thing I[ did, after having asked in a few words the Lord’s blessing upon His prec-! ious Word, was, to meditate on it, searching as it were into every verse, to get blessing out of it; not for the sake of the public ministry of the Word, not for the, sake of preaching on what I had meditated upon, but for the sake/| of obtaining food for my own soul, The result I have found ;ner man. to be almost invariably” this, that} TODAY IN HISTORY Know America 1842—Little Haverhill, through her congressman, peti tions for a peaceful dissolution of the Union—a rebuke to South- eners who because of anti-slavery talk. 1908—The Suilivan Law makes smoking by women illegal in New York. 1915—The first Kiwanis Club organized in Detroit. 1918—A heavy guard thrown around New York’s waterfront to foil any, German sabotage. 1927—American warships con- centrate to take Americans out of troubled China. 1931--Europe’s premiers and foreign minsiters pledge peace in Geneva. 1941—United States removes the moral embargo ban on ex- ports to Russia of planes and aviation gas. 1942—American and _ Philip- pinos battle Japs savagely at Ba- taan. 1943—American air power in Burma and in the Shortland Island area. 1944—U. S. subs reported to have sunk a dozen Jap ships in Pacifie. on] 1945—MacArthur’s 6th Army smashes enemy and splits Jap forces on Luzon. FLEET DWINDLED NEW YORK,—In 1898, when! ! war was Officially declared on) Spain, the U. S. merehant fleet q had dwindled to the point where! Congress had to permit the tem-, porary register of 42,700 tons of foreign shipping under the Am-| 1 erican flag to transport troops 1 to Cuba and the Philippines. | 1 Helium was discovered with-| in the sun before the element was located on earth. January strikes may affect two million workers in United States. after a few minutes my soul had been led to confession, or to thanksgiving, or to intercession, or to supplication, or have given} thanks, I go on to the next words or verse, turning all, as I go on,} into prayer for myself or others, as the Word may lead to it, but} still continually keeping before ; me that food for my own soul is} the object of my meditation. The: result of this is, that there is al-| thanksgiving, supplication, or in- tercession mingled with my med- itation, and that my inner man} almost invariably is even sen- sibly nourished and strengthen- ed, and that by breakfast time with rare exceptions, I am in a peaceful if not happy state of heart. “Thus also the Lord is pleased to communicate unto me _ that which, either very soon after or at a later time, I have found to become food for other believers, though it was not for the sake of public ministry to the word that I gave myself to meditation, but for the profit of my own in- (To Be Continued) } Mass. threaten dissolution | strikes at the enemy in France,! Your Horoscope JANUARY 21, 1946—Here we jfind a peculiar mixture. Hating jconvention and with a tendency {to innovation, the life may be spent in dreams unless an impet- us is given in the direction of achievement of some of the ideas before success slips by. A man- aging partner is needed. { Jehovah witnesses held invalid. RADIO PROGRAM ANNOUNCED BY STATION Subject to Change Where to Listen— 1600 On Your Dial Mutual Broadcasting System (*Designates Network Program) t Monday, January 2Ist ' 6 P, M. to Midnight ’ News 1600 Club Weather Report 1600 Club : Fulton Lewis, Jr.* + Allen Roth Orchestra Frank Singiser, News* Inside of Sports* | 8:00 Bulldog Drummond* | Sherlock Holmes* Gabriel Heatter* Real Life Stories* Spotlight Band* Your Land and 00 State or Federal town bans on 15 30 11:30 1:45 1:55 2:00 Jan Sart Trio* Detect-A-Tune* All the News* Dance Orchestra* Feeling Is Mutual* Dance Orchestra* News Dance Orchestra* * Tuesday, J fanuary 22nd ~ 7 A. M. to Noon Sunrise Serenade News Sunrise Serenade Weather Report Sunrise Serenade News Sunrise Serenade Frazier Hunt, News* Shady Valley Folks* Program Resume Meditation The Islanders Fun With Music* Cecil Brown, News* Elsa Maxwell* Take It Easy Time Victor Lindlahr* ‘Noon to @ P. M. William Lang, News* Morton Downey, Songs* Weather Report Home Town'Frolics Minds of Peace* Smile Time* John J. Anthony* Cedric Foster, News* Jane Cowl* Queen For A Day* Griffin Reportnig* March of Dimes* Jazz Jamboree Erskine Johnson® The Johnson Family* Melody Hour* Pete Howe* Superman* Captain Midnight* Tom Mix* Mine* | MO NDAY, JANUARY 21, 1946 PEOPLE’S FORUM The Citizen welcomes expres- sions of the views of its read- ers, but the editor reserves the right to delete any items whieh are considered libelous or unwar- ranted. The writers should be and confine the letters to words, and write on one sae of the paper only. Signatu letters and will be published un- less requested otherwise, AGAINST MOVEMENT The Citizen: A ‘d mailed to me to check “yes” or’ “no” regarding street names changed to numbers has me wandering why unnecessary things should be done when there are sevral things more needful, such as the end of Roosevelt Boulevard at Bertha street. A stranger would continue on there at night at any speed as it looks just like a continuatior road. Some barracade or street end sign should go up at once there. I agree with Stephen C. Single- Editor, Citizen. Those people clung to the Old Rock when the going was tough and may their names never be erased from it, instead let's brighten them up so everyone car. see them better to remember. JEAN BARRY. Key West, Fla., Jan. 17, 1946, APPRECIATION Editor, The Citizen: » Since V-J Day, I have. been {fying to find time to express ‘my deep appreciation to you. and your staff for the splendid co- operation and service rendered to the United States Civil Serv- ice Commission during the war. Since the beginning of the National Emergency, this office has been able to recruit approx- imately one and a quarter mil- lion workers for such war in- stallations as ship yards; Army and Naval bases; war agencies, etc. For this reason, I feel that the news releases giv- en by the newspapers in our region to the employment needs of the Federal Government have constituted a highly helpful and patriotic coniribution to the over-all war effort. Although the need of recruit- and Safe... Phone No, 8 eeoocccsscape re the writers must accompany. the | ton, whose letter I read in The} if air,|. THOMPSON ENTERPRISES,» (ICE DIVISION) vt eocgneccocecsce Leer ta d ing publicity for positions in the Federal Service has creased since the find that we are number of problems, vising returning veterans of em- ployment _ possibilitie in the Federal Service, discarding war regulations, and re-esti permanent Civil rules and regulations. We, therefore,+ shall appreciate your continued interest. I would also like to call: your j attention to the fact that the | week of January 13-19 was cele= brated as United States Civil Service Commission W —this celebration being due to the fact that on January 16, 1883, (63 years ago) — President Ar signed the bill which cre ; the United States Civii Service Commission. Again thanking you for splendid manner in which | cooperatde with us tow | meeting the employment needs | of the Federal Government dur- ing the war, I remain, | O. E. MYERS, Regional Director the Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 16, 1946 Political Announcements For Representative JOHN CARBONELL;}: JR. For Representative BERNIE C. PAPY For County Commissioner (Second District) FRANK BENTLEY EATERS MELLEL H. E, CANFIELD, M. D. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat | Specialist j Also Glasses Fitted | Office Hours, 7 to 9 p.m., and by |Appointment, Phone 19, at Dr. Galey’s Office, 417 Eaton Street PLACE YOUR REFRIGERATION REAL ICE BASIS and aa will get GUARANTEED Refri¢- eration Service. REAL ICE is MORE ECONOMICAL... It’s Healthy . It’s PURE @vvccccecsersss-© Key Went, Fla. dangerous. of this hazard. CAUTION! Kites that are flown near _overhead electric wires are Please warn your children