The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 16, 1946, Page 4

AGE FOUR 1 HUNGER FIGHTERS = _ _~ BATTLE OLD FOE * By SHERRY BOWEN AP Newsfeatures Writer Great grain ships plying the oceans in the fight against world- wide famine are repeating the old, old story. Grain was the basis for human existence dates back some 20,000 years, when Neolithic man, ply- ing some forgotten river in a dugout canoe, may have organ- iged the first famine relief. Grain ‘was new then and man was just beginning to learn how to settle down and give over his restless wandering in search of wild game and wild food plants. Only grain and agriculture made this possible. But Neoli- thie stone scikles, dug up in many areas of the world tell how the primitive _ farmers spread their culture around the globe. grain — millet, barley, rice, wheat and, in the western hem- isphere, corn. Cultures rose or, fell on their ability to grow these grains. People lived or died as; their crops flourished or wither- ed. Since Paleolithic times grain thas been literally the basis for human life. Many people had and still have little else. ‘Wheat formed the basis for the | has, indeed, been galling to many we of today might recognize as civilization. Some 7,000 years ago Egypt and Sumner at the eastern end of the Mediterranean grew their grain on irrigated land. Ir- f men work together or not live. peoples, learning that one man’s failure to tend his ditches am menace a whole community, the nations which are . wheat has been found the ancient tombs and ancient drawings of agricultural scenes fram the same source show the attached to grain and bread which was made from * Grain ships from Egypt were @me source of the bread which, with circuses, was vital in Ro- affairs. Some authorities that blights and insect southern. countries by destruction of crops, may contributed to dark ages. varieties of wheat that grow in more northerly where the pests..could may have been the the northward. move- civilization, Rome may te conquer and hold , barbarians because varieties of wheat would grow that far north. And her hamid to civilize the north may ontributed to the depth of ages. This is supposi- course, but suggestive world faces a new grain the ta ! f “Bread, give us bread!” is a that pounds like a drum beat through history. Comparatively medern times are no exception. ‘The French revolution was stim- lated powerfully by lack of bread 3 Im the middle of the eighteenth principles asserting the misery was inevitable. When enough re- geufees to prevent want were de- veloped, then human populations would increase until hardship among the “lower orders” again reieed the death rate high enough te prevent further increases, he declared. His ideas largely were forgot- ten oF scorned for several gen- @rations when grain from the fields of the New World flowed inte the markets. The demand for grain, mostly wheat, con- tributed in a large measure to @onquest of the west and the building of America. Now, in a world which has epproximately doubled its hu- men population in 100 years, modern scientists are recalling wheat Malthus said and wonder- ing how accurate his observa- tions were. With a world population still growing rapidly despite war dis- ruptions and with no New World t© pour new grain into the mar- leets, there is speculation as to how long world grains can feed inereasing numbers of world peo- ples, even after present disrup- tiens have been adjusted and all producing areas are again func- tioning. NOTICE! This is to notify the Public that I am no longer responsible fer Bills contracted by my wife. T. A. HOOPER eee There were several kinds ; |but I think the time is right now }for us to forget the indignities agriculture requires that} We _ Suff 4 { conservative judgment prevail. ‘|Faye Pinder — To Be Bride Ok Navy Man A miscellaneous shower in hon- or or Miss Fayé Joyce. Pinder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hamil- ton Pinder, 1402 Newton street, will be given at 7 o’clock tomor- row evening in the Golden Eagle hall on Petronia street. Miss Pinder, 18, will be mar- ried to John Gerald Shepherd; S$ 1/c, Quincy, on the evening of August 2 atthe First or ae (Stone) ‘church. © | PF. 5 = PEOPLE'S FOR te eae ‘The Citizen wercumes expres- the views of its read- ers, but the editor reserves the right to delete any items which are considered libelous or unwar- ranted. The writers should be fair and confine the letters to 300 ‘th Mr, She} santici* lectern and will. be published uns pates et poise jm the ort ee ke mre Navy shortly before the wedding LET’S FORGET INDIGNITIES Editor, The Citizen: I think there is no doubt in the mind of any fair-minded per- son that the owners of rental property, have been treated un- fairly and with great oppression by the price control law, as passed by Congress and admin- istered by the Office of Price Ad- ministration. I believe that many tenants will agree with this state- ment. However, I believe that if the owners of rental property) will act with extreme moderation and fairness, regardless of how un- fairly we have been treated, that we shall be able to get out from under these controls much earlier date. PARENTS OF SON Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R, Knowles, Miami, formerly of Key West, are the parents of a son, born recently at a Coral Gables hospitals The father is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Knowles, 536 White street and the new ar- rival is the first grandson of the Key West couple. The Answers | ithat if we rush pell-mell into| (QUESTIONS ON PAGE THREE) 1. April 12%h, 1945. i 2. Benjamin Stoddert (17984 1801). 4 3. 24,902 miles. 4. The Mediterranean-area, 1,- 145,000 square miles. 5. July 29th. 6. James F. Byrnes, Ernest Bevin, U. K. ‘Viacheslav Molotov, U. S..S. R., George Bidault, France. 7. Three months, and a week. 8. Wooly haired, wavy haired and straight haired. 9. Volts is pressure and am- peres is the rate of flow. Multi- plied, they give watts. rental increases and evictions. It property owners that they have | found themselves at the mercy of unscrupulous gimmecrat tenants and the unfair rulings of OPA, have suffered and let our The arguments for continuation of OPA have been that rents would be hiked, people thrown out of housing and great hard- ships ensue. Let us prove to the world that this is not true. Why? For several reasons. I shall state| 10. Take. but two: , First, we want to do the right Hvdroponics-Farming thing, even to the point of gen- erosity. Second, and for the best interests of all of us, let us con- sider that if we rush into rent (Continued trom Page One) cessfully carried on for years by test tubes and science frightened away laymen and household gar- deners. ise: it ited ictions and parent ey “The veil was lifted more or further antagonism, we shall only give the proponents of further extension of OPA ammunition for their guns; and, be assured, if rent control is reinstated, the OPA will not fail'to punish those who have taken advantage of the temporary lack of controls, as well as tightening the noose wherever they can. i ‘ LINNIE W. BARRETT. less by accident. In 1943, the commanding officer at the Army Air Force hospital in Coral Gables found many list- less patients on his hands— fighting men back from the wars who were sick in spirit as well as in the flesh. . “The commandant, - Col. Dan Ogle, had fead’ Adbbdiut’ soil-less growing somewhere, and, he’ got 5 the ice of trying it cout Ja) give Leek. : ok the mena new, interest in Jife. Sounds Conser vation, «| “tt caught. on lie Wildfire. Tie » | Note For Autoists| <a¥ was 30 leased that ‘Vat farms ‘were, és ablished ‘for ‘the lonely men on Ascerision Island, British Guiana, and at Iwo Jima, and ‘there’s a story that more than one of Uncle Sam’s battle- wagons, at sea for months with- out ever making port, produced a ‘miracle’ by serving delicious fresh tomatoes 1,000 miles from the nearest land.” Only one thing Molitor warns hydroponic farmers about. Watch } your eye when you bend over the garden. Things grow that fast! i YORK. ++(AP)-+ Many family dinners are going to be run; down and wasted on the na- tlon’s highways ‘during the sum- mer months unless motorists ex- ercise greater care while driving, says M. B. Allen, hunting author- ity of Western-Winchester. A large portion of this food waste occurs at night, says Al- len, when birds and animals are blinded by headlights. He be- lieves that more moderate speeds would eliminate much of this needless waste. Iceland was first settled some- time before 800 A.D. by a small colony of Culdees or Celtic’ her- mits from Scotland. The moon is always full at the time of its ecli ——_ WE ALWAYS GIVE YOU A CHANCE You won't find our operators setting the bus in motion before you're fully inside: you won't find them jogging into high speed BUS FARES or securely holding a strap if you must stand, We're most consider- ing with little Downtown Buses, Routes 2 and 3 __ 5e -10c City Hospital, Stock Island and 15 e Key West Transit Co., Inc. Phone 1057 most appre- Boca Chica —_ eree PO) ciate of your moving along as quickly as possible so that our buses can keep to their busy Schedules getting everyone to their important destinations on YOUR BUS WILL STOP AT THE FAR CORNER Poinciana and Naval Hospital J. W. 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Both, the halibut’s eyes are on gS : The first oil lease in Pennsyl- vania was made in 1854. \ lass eyes were used by the California was the first state of the Mississippi to. produce oil ag During normal times British farmers produce 40 per cent of _| the food needed by the nation, SS POOR Ee Oe ORM creased their assets by 17 per, cent during 1945 to a total of | swim, about $8,715,000,000. ae ‘Bal tii Tooth decay has been a per- 3,300 tons, or 82 carloads of ' sistent plague since early historic copy yea : ge ie The of majority * Petroleum is’a mineral—com-! "Ammonia, first produced in 9 essay eve pre living mas boxes placed in the plex mixture of compounds made‘ Lybia, gets its name from the | for contributions are epeand amd \ by farming and dairying. { up primarily of hydrocarbons, Egyptian god, Ammon-Ra. Rubber was named in the 18th ‘he earth’s crust is made up There are about 2,000 varieties | 4... : ! pay. of three types of rock—sedimen- | of soybean grown throughout the monesr) we? big eg i | tary; igneous and metamorphic. | world. \ Seneit marks. The original furlong wee the Rotana —— H : length of « furrow scree @ ‘Twenty-two states in the Unit-! Brazil has been a republic} pe pare | square field of tem scree ead wae States are producing oil in! since 1889, when Emperor ,Pedro | The Phoenicians were a branch | the traditional distance » sake of commercial quantities, ltr abdicated. ,of the Semites, the same race to aged to an 6 se the ancient Hebrews bee plow w we oe ‘More children are permanent-} In World War I, each soldier | longed. | ne - ly crippled by infantile paralysis; accepted by the army had to way et tt than by any other disease or by | have a minimum of 12 teeth. 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Maintenance engineers expect nary elm tree of medium size wi future highway surfacing to last give off 15,000 pounds of water 20 years without rebuilding. ,on a clear, dry, hot day. 0 47 Sixty per cent of all taxes in Argentina are paid by persons making less than $1,800 a year. | \@ C0CSCOS+ SERRE E EHTS “EL MEXICANG” con The average “life” of 330,000 The hard, bare, warty patches —_—— | miles of surfacing on primary on the inner side of the legs of Poliomyelitis epidemics usual-: state systems is 12 years. horses dre believed to be sur- ly*begin in June or in early July, ; vivals of scent or recognition reach their peak in September} “al j and taper off in October. The first known zoological gar- | | den was founded in China in Ordinary trees and plants re-' ° » L.S/MF 7 For your own real deep-down |, smoking enjoyment ..smoke ee Be ————s == QUALITY OF PRODUCT IS ESSENTIAL TO CONTINUING SUCCESS