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

PAGE TWO She Key West Citizen Gr Sree des, cage, bading Ouly Datly Newopaper in Kay ‘West and —<$< $< $< $< $< $< tered at Key West, Florida, as second elass matter THR ASSOCIATED PRESS bw) Press is exclusively entitled to - tion of all news dispatohes © & er not otherwise cri in this paper and Gee the local news published ‘ 20,00 ee ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. TAL NOTICE. < All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions ag % obituary notices, poems, ete, will be . for at the rate of 10 cents a line. otices for ertainment by churehes from & revenue is to be detived are 5 cents @ line. b ‘citizen is an open forum. and invites dis- eottion of public issues and subjects of jocal or soneral sommunications ; interest but it will not publish anonymou: ————— eee? “THE WEAPON OF EXPROPRIATION lt is ineredible that the operations of @ basic natural resource industry could be @inpletely halted for more than a month, Winging paralysis and slow-down to all groduction, and the public not know why. Yet that is what happened in the coal in- destry. The industry has been closed by a stvike but no one*apparently knows what the strikers want. There has been no apportunity to measure the justice of the eftike. Meanwhile, the entire nation, al- r@aily suffering from under production at a time when production is necessary to prevent wneontrolied inflation, waits for a bendful of labor leaders to make up their capricious minds. Government officials act ae if they were afraid to even attempt to @pe with a situation that is growing steadily more dangerous. , it is reaching the point ,where it threatens the future of the right of private preperty itself, which means representa- tive government too. The American form of government cannot survive the wanton algerption of management and property rivhts by any pressure group. And that is what the periodic coal strikes are leading teward. In the present strike it is known tet the miners are demanding a royalty ffom the sale of every ton of coal to be paid to the union. This royalty would eact tens of millions of. dollars annually fm the consumers of coal and would be expended in accordance with the whims of anion officials. It would amount to more tia the annual net profits of the entire ea) industry. It is also known that the wnolon leaders are attempting te organize sapervisory officials of the mines—which means unionizing management. If these things are done, ownership of the mines would become a mere technicality. The altimate end would be socialism. As the Richmond News Leader, of Richmond, Virginia, warns: “Make no mistake about it. This is the most serious attack yet made on the private investor end on the consumer. If they are victimiz- ed-by this demand for a miners’ royalty, they will be overwhelmed in time by like demands in every industry. . .“Royalty’ will be the weapon of expropriation.” SPEED HAS ITS PRICE The National Safety Council reports that more than 8,000 persons were killed im traffic accidents in the first three menths of this year, which means an in- erease of forty-four per cent over the same period in 1945. We call attention to the figures which imply that 32,000 persons will be slain on the highways of this country in 1946, | witheut having much idea that they will impress any reader. For some strange reason, the killing nearly 100 persons a day is regarded ae & casual price that 135,000,000 people must pay for automobile travel. Bookkeeping is a pain in the neck when it fails to reveal a nice profit. Few men prefer to be & man in a milifen rather than a man with a million, theugh it is possible that a man with a million may also prove to be a man in a million. MAN MARCHES ON Improving, ever improving: that is the nature of man. Because of dissatisfac- tion over the existing order of things and the desire to better them, man has chang- ‘led himself from a straggler, following sedsonable changes, to the position he occupies today of having mastered the seasons, instead of their governing his actions. Ambition has been the actuating mo- tive behind the improvement of the race. Let us consider the changes in the topog- taphy of Key West that has occarred since Juan Salas sold it to John Simonton about 126 years ago. Were we taken back to the Key West of that day, its topography would be un- recognizable. For instance, it had a lagoon that entered the island at a point off the southwesterly end of Fleming street and extended to where the bank is located at Duval and Front streets. While it is true that man alone did not fill in all of the lagoon, yet he carried on after nature; during a hurricane, filled in the mouth of the lagoon. It is an old | story of how Key Westers had to cross the city on Front street, but, gradually, built over where it had been, connecting | the business and residential parts. of the city. Many years later the island was en- larged when Flagler built Trumbo, and on its northwesterly side, is to be further improved by the Thompson Enterprises, as told in The Citizen on Tuesday. The proposed Thompson improve- ment is regarded by The Citizen as the most important undertaking in Key West in many years, because, ultimately, it will give Key West what it sorely needs— more wharfage space. For a seaport town, Key West needs many more wharves. A. Maitland Adams, manager of Thompson Enterprises, after telling of the seawall that will be constructed from a Grinnell street, said that undoubtedly one or more wharves ‘will be built out from the seawall. And so man, spurred’ by ambition, marches on to better himself and better his surroundings. oe Take off price comrols and there is no telling how much you might have to pay for anything, despite the assertions of news commentators and others. And Taxpayers Pay. The government is spending almost $75,000,000 this year alone for propaganda, variously listed as “promotional, educational and publicity,” according to Senator Homer Ferguson, of Michigan. On the propaganda payroll are 23,000 full-time and almost as many part- time employees. HOW TO GET IN Here’s a news item which may inter- est men who, returning home late at night, find themselves locked out and unable to arouse anybody by ringing the doorbell or tossing stones against the windowpanes. It seems that a resident of Mount Ver- non, New York, finding himself in this predicament, secured a small cannon of the type used for starting yacht races and fired two salvos. The effect was immed- iate and press reports say that his wife | quickly opened the front door. This is not the end of the story, be cause the noise made an impression upon neighbors, too. They had him arrested for violating a local law against using gun- powder. The city judge proved sympa- thetic, however, and suspended sentence. For sixteen centuries there was little coal used; now try to get along without this combustible mineral substance. How about inventing something to take the place of coal or John L. Lewis? FAMINE THREAT FOR 1947 The threat of famine which now in- volves millions of peoples throughout the world is not a short-run emergency, de- | clares Chester C. Davis, chairman of the President’s Special Famine Emergency Committee, and the effort now being made to provide food should be considered the first sprint in a continuing race to avert death for millions who otherwise will starve. Mr. Davis expects the famine prob- lem to make its reappearance next winter and suggests that steps should be taken now to meet the mass hunger that will ap- pear in the late winter of 1947. | point off William street to a point off Meena hee pe tie aetna ts | bridge of a baronial castle.” the lagoon was filled in and roads were j | would | | ae a r 5 | if it be not a foolish jest, it is the bridgés to get to the business section of | Chapter 17 WHEN the Templar reached the hall of the castle, he found De Bracy already there. “Your I suppose, been distur! mine, ae this. obstre mons. But you have come later and more reluctantly, and there- fore Lpresupe your interview has provi more agreeable than mine.” “Has your sui successfully pai heiress?” said the Templar. “By the bones of Becket,” Lady_ Rowena must have. But ere women's _ tears, ously.” called for the present Knight, wh nefarious the stout, ley, call 10, deed ewe the-wand, Do love-suit,” said De ra Nae you, Regifald Front - de - Boeut, ‘Bosts “qikrs they black Tooke oe and, your allies and accomplices iryperdus Suns whbandeven: to wit, that whereas. you have, without cai Black} people, and sally forth upon of your} them. One “ay, one man- joined with| at-arms, were enough for twenty rt. Locks-| such peasants.” _ “True,” answered Front-de- Moors, but these are ish yeo- v men, over whom we shall have no given or | advantage, save what we may de- feud declared, wrongfully and by| rive from our arms and hors seized upon the person] which will avail us little in the mastery. of our lord and master the said Cedric; also the Lady Rowen: then; been un-| also Athelstane of Co to the Saxon] also upon the freeborn men, their $s Aj} upon certain serfs, their born| scarcely twenty, besides the hand- answered De Bre “the| bondsmen; also upon a certain| ful ‘hat fate case in this mad heard|Jew, named Isaac that I cannot endure the.sight of| gether with his daughter, a Jew-|them.—I have it—Sir Templar, is] ess, and certain horses and mules: | we'll write them a letter in the | Front - de - Boeuf? That~ horn is| therefore we require and demand} followi: sounded more and moré clamor-|that the said persons, be, within an hour after the of: the forest, Sally, saidst ou? we have scarce men enough burgh; |to defend the castle. The best of of certain} mine are at York, so is all your enichts; also} band, De Bracy; and we have of York, to-| business. But my castle may defy tenor; — “Sir Reginald Front-de-Bae lelivery hereof, | with his noble and knightly nie ‘They were soon after joined by | delivered to us, or to those. whom] and confederates, receive no de- we shall appoint to receive the|flances at the hands of slaves, Front-de-Beeuf. “Let us see, the cause ofthis cursed clamour,” said Front-de- Boeuf—“here is a letter, ‘and, I mistake not, it is in Sax “Give it me,” said the Templar. “Tt is a formal letter of, lance, | but, by our Lady of Béthlehem, most extraordinary cartel that; ever was sent across the draw- “Jest!” said Front-de-Bosuf, “T} ee, know who dares jest with me in such a matter!— ead it, Sir Brian.” ,, The Templar accordingly, read it as follows “I, Wamba, the son of Jester to a noble and fre orn tiow the topography of the island, again ; man, Cedric of Rotherwood, ealled the Saxon; and I Gurth, the son of Beowulph, the swineherd”— “Thou art mad,” said Front-de- Beeuf, interrupting the reader. “By St. Luke, it is so set down,” answered the Templar. Then re- suming his task, he went on—“I, Gurth, the son of Beowulph, swineherd unto the said Cedric, with the assistance of our allies and confederates, who make cqm- mon cause with us in this our Your Horosco, Today gives great intuition and a powerful, perhaps nature. You ought to make a place for yourself in the world, fight for justification, but rather seek to win it by merit. “Seek friends and use your position io help others not so fortunate, and remember that pride gener- ally has a fall. THe favorite ornament among | Rornan women was a safety pin. | RADIO PROGRAM ANNOUNCED BY Subject to Ch WF Where to Listen— 1600 On Your Dial Mutual Broadcasting System (*Designates Network Program) Thursday. May 16th 4 P.M. to Midnight News ! 1600 Club Weather Report 1600 Club Fulton Lewis, Jr.* Diana Shore Arthur Hale, News* Carrington Playhouse* Rogue’s Gallery* Gabriel Heatter* Real Life Stories* ; Hour of Song* You Make the News* Family Affair* All the News* Teddy Phillips’ Orch.* Feeling Is Mutual* Orchestra News* Moonlight Serenade bth dopey pees ocd oft cd SSHvELSHHES SSSaSUSaUS © Ss —) Friday, May 17th 7 A.M. to Noon Sunrise Serenade News Sunrise Serenade Norman Cloutier Weather Report Sunrise Serenade News s Sunrise Serenade Frazier Hunt, News* Riding the Range Shady Valley Folks* Civie Calendar Meditation Southland Singers Married for Life* Cecil Brown* Elsa Maxwell* Take It Easy Time* Victor Lindlahr* ‘1 Noon to 6 P. M. Lyle Van, News* Morton Downey, Songs* Weather Report Siesta Serenade Listen to Leibert Lopez Music* John J. 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Fai you,. that we hold ye as robbers|them this morning before noon, and traitors, and will wager our|so that their heads being placed bodies against ye in battle, siege,|‘on the battlements, shall show to under the the Hart-hill ing written to God, our stan, in the Chapel of Copman-j castle down wit! jor otherwise, and do our utmost] all men how lightly we esteem -to your annoyant tion. egy Sans oad haye| selves in you_in his keeping.. upon the eve of oa Witho ‘reat trystin; Walk, the al ice and destruc-| those who have bestirred them- s in their rescue.” ot us| This tes in Repeats HGS we messenger who i u oak in| Black Knight who Yead it 10 the at aft i arenas aia a holy man. Cler! y. omas of Canterbury,” dy, and St. Dun-} cried Gurth, “we will tactile feud, namely, the good knight, haughty, | hurst.” 8 oh RUPRaA > ‘HE knights heard this uncom- mon document read from end to end, and then gazed upon each other in silent amazement, as be. ing utterly at a loss to know what it could portend. “Here is a proper matter!” said Front-de-Boeuf; “this comes of lending you the use of my castle, that cannot. manage your under- taking quietly but you must bring this nest of hornets about my ears!” “For shame, Sir. Knight!” said the Templar, “Let us summon our Key West In . Days Gone By FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN OF MAY 16, 1936 Today is the last:day to pay poll taxes for the June primaries, .and they were being paid so rapidly this morning, Tax Col- lector Frank H. Ladd said he ; thought the qualified list would | reach 3,500 by the time for clos- ing his office for the day. It was announced today that ja large bumper of local men will be employed on five projects scheduled for the navy yard. Florida Motor Lines bus serv- ice between Key West and the } mainland is to be greatly im- | proved, Manager William Arnold! said this morning. Welters’ Cornet Band will give a concert tomorrow afternoon in | Jackson Square. Three Key Westers, the Misses Romalda Russell, Sylvia Collar and Fannie Cale are members of the graduating class of nurses at Jackson Memorial Hospital in | Miami, graduating exercises will be held Wednesday, May 21. Funeral services will be held | tomorrow afternoon in the Lopez! tchapel for Richard Benjamin | Russell, 57, who died yesterday {in his home in Pohalski’s village. | hi hale naueaied | Emilio Lounders, local ticket fagent of the P. & O. Steamship { Company, who had been visiting jin Havana, returned yesterday. © |j | | Today The Citizen says in an| editorial paragraph: | “Al Smith may take a walk, | but he'll have his porter lug his bed for him.” From where For weeks Homer Bentley has tried to uproot that big stump in his hayfield ... with team and trac- tor. Finally he sueceeds—breaks a score of windows round about, and frightens the neighbors half to death! “All I used,” apologizes Homer, “was a couple of small sticks of dynamite, like you should.” “That was no two small sticks of dynamite,” Judge Cunningham says severely—and it finally comes out that Homer got so cussed mad at that everlasting stump, he’d plant- The Truth | About That Explosion the attack! To the attack! My Jord and master shall not die!” . At. that moment, Reginald Front-de-Boeuf looked out upon the field, and immediately snatched his bugle; winding a long and loud blast, commanded his men to their posts | on. the walls, Each knight repaired to his post, and at the head of the few followers whom they were able to muster, and bers. inadequate to defend the whole extent of the walls; they ! awaited with calm determination | the threatened assault. (To be continued) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS ‘(Know America) Dr. James E. West, Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of America, born in Washington, D. C., 70 years ago. Douglas A. S. Freeman of Richmond, Va., famed newspaper editor and biographer, born in Lynchburg, 60 years ago. Carleton J. H. Hayes, noted historian, author, ambassador to Spain, born in Afton, N. Y., 64] years ‘ago. Henry Fonda, actor, Navy vet- eran, born at Grand Island, Nebr. 41 years ago. Margaret Sullavan, screen star, born at Norfolk, Va. 34 years ago. Dr. David de Sola Pool, noted New York City Rabbi, born in London, 61 years ago. Ogden M. Reid, editor of the N. Y. Herald-Tribune, born in New York, 64 years ago. NOTICE! I Am Again Permitted to Accept Orders for ELECTROLUX VACUUM CLEANERS ate O’SWEENEY BEFORE SATURDAY | | DOUBBLE-DOUBBLE Is ESPECIALLY RECOMMENDED FOR THE KILL Pints - Quarts - Gallons a | t | ALL STORES | Advertisement | I sit by Joe Marsh | and, ‘after | who were in num- | TERMITES | ed a charge of TNT beneath its roots. Reminds you of all the excuses { human beings use to cover up bad judgment. Like the “two-beer alibi.” When somebody gets into trouble, and blames it on“‘a couple of beers,” you can be mighty sure | they are covering up the truth. From where I sit, a moderate beverage like beer is a better way of keeping out of trouble than get- ting into it. | Copyright, 1946, United States Brewers Foundation * ight who read it to the | our hands! 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