The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 7, 1946, Page 2

Z é 4 =) ey “West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday, by L. P. ARTMAN, Owner and Publisher NORMAN D. ARTMAN, Business Manager * From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Dally Newspaper in Key West an@ Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida as second class matter MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclus- ively entitled to use for republica- tion of al! news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published. here, s One Ye i Six Months Three Months One Mont Weekly ADVERTISING RATE: Made -known on application SPECIAL NOTICE reading notices, cards resolutions of respect, obit- uary notices, poems, etc, will be haree® tor at the rate of 10 cents a Jing Notices for entertainment by churches from which a revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issues and -subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications, MONOGRAPHS Dear Sirs: : That was a good meet- ing at City Hall last night and much important busi- ness was disposed’ of. Congratulations. THE ORACLE Hon. , City Commissioners Key West, Florida 2,000 ENTER U. S. DAILY Some 2,000 aliens enter the United States illegally every day, according to U. 8. Attomney General Tom Clark who says that the southeast, with its long coastline and proximity to islands of the Caribbean, shows an 800 per cent in- crease in the number of aliens arrested in the last eight years. The Mexican border con- tinues to hold first place in} the number of arrests. Hun- | dreds attempt to pass the} line daily. Not all of them | are ‘apprehended but. pa-| trols, Operating along the; border and the coasts, cov-} ering 60,000 miles of fron-| tier, catch thousands of} criminals, stowaways and: smuggled aliens and the riff- | raff of many. nations. | The immigration laws of! the United States restrict the | number of foreigners who) ean enter the country legal-} ly for the purpose of becom- | ing eitiZens. There is, of course; a yearning on the part -ef many others to! make their.home in the land | of fabuléus prosperity, and, | consequently, a considerable traffic in. smuggling aliens into the United States. READING PROVOKES THINKING Among the 1946 resolu- tions that_you probably for- got to-make ought to have been one that you would read a sensible book, on a sensible subject, at least every month. When a man or woman takes a year to write a book on any subject, those inter- ested in the topic ought to be able to stand the work for several hours, without brainfag. There are entirely too many people in Key West who take it for granted that |. they can learn everything that is worth knowing from current comment related by gossipping friends. Thinking is what makes men amount to something. The more the people of a community think the better and the more prosperous that community is. You needn't ask us to prove that statement. We haven't the time and doubt if we have the brains, but it is the truth, just the same. High prices in the United States will not encourage other nations to buy our products. Political campaigns sel- dom produce a candidate who knows that he is not go- ing to.be elected. | THE SPINNING BALL That earthquake on Sun- day, des¢ribed by seismolo- gists as “major”, and called “catastrophic” by one seis- mologist, occurred 975 miles southeast. of Key West in the deepest part of the Car- ibbean, 30,242 feet. The quake lasted an hour, and it was said generally by scientists that it probably caused great tidal waves. If it did, they apparently caused no damage. The peo- ple of the Dominican repub- lic felt the shock but said nothing about tidal waves. How old is Mother Earth? The answer is in the realm of guesses.. One physicist may say a million years and another 10 million,. But of one thing we are certain: the earth is still adjusting it- self in striving for global unity. The outer part of the globe is still referred to as a crust. Enelosed in that erust is fiery liquid, forever striving to find a vent. The} power at times is so great it explodes a volcano, as was the case in the Pacific, when dust from the blown-up vol- eano drifted as far as 3,000 miles away.. How many millions of ‘years will pass before. the earth lieeomes a solid ball is also conjectural, And, what | will.happen when it becomes a solid? Will that phase of ; | the earth’s life mark the be- ginning of its becoming a dead world? Or. did the be- ginning “begin” when the fiery mist was thrown off from the sun and, through countless ages, a crust began to form around the fiery ball? The earth and all that therein is ranges beyond the | capability ‘of the mind of man to solve. Greatest of the mysteries is the whence and hence of life. We have been placed on a globe, spinning in space, and how we got here we don’t know, and the hence of life is just as mys- terious. We assume it ‘is wise for the average man - on - the street to take life and the world for granted, and not give a passing thought to either, except when he feels| We his life is threatened. are cast away on a ball, spinning in boundless space, and many of us don’t give a) that) thought to the force keeps the ball spinning. WASTE DENIED Who remembers the ‘ stories, just after the end of | the war, that told of enor- mous quantities of food wasted by the Navy and of boxes of food being tossed overboard? Well, a sub-committee of the House Naval Affairs Committee, which conduct- ed an investigation in re- sponse to such complaints, reports that food wastage, under Navy jurisdiction, was “relatively minor, compared with the volume of .food handled.” { a This conclusion will not end the circulatioh of such reports and, for years, it will be confidently believed ‘by many good Americans, upon the basis of whispered rev- elations by somebody with- out information, that both the Army and Navy wasted food recklessly and without J concern during the war and | afterwards. est WILL PRICES GO UP? control legislation will work | | out but unless it manages to | : wipe out some of the in-| creases f in basic raw materials the|{ price of living will soon re-| / flect an upward jump if It is natural for eve: i er to believe that the higher) | price he can get for his pro-| | duct the bigger his profit will be. Subject to adiust-| ments that inevitably follow, | the statement is partially correct. Nevertheless, “tne | | | ers, are also buyers and the increases that occur general- ly will equalize the tempor- ary gain anda, in the end, no- body will be better off but) the price level will be high- er, i 2 There is hardly any way | a to tell how the new price|{ that have occurred! ¢ | sell! IFLIGHTS DAILY *Plys Tox i DaysGoneBy <2, OF AUGUST 7, 1936 He : ) Ballot boxes for the special ; primary on August 11 will be de- | jlivered at Marathon, Islamorada jand Roek Harbor on Monday, | Supervisor John England said to- | day. Two candidates for the | United States senate will be nom- inated to succeed the late Sena- tors Duncan U. Fletcher and| | Park Trammell. Doyle -Carleton jand Charles O. Andrews are op- | ponents in the contest for Tram- \'mell’s “seat, and Claude Pepper jis unopposed in his candidacy to ' sueceed Fletcher. Captain William McKillip, for- imerly of Key West, pow of | Miami, is here visiting relatives. Seventy-five local WPA work- | |men quit their jobs this morning | and marched to headquarters to} }complain about “working condi- | jtions”. The conditions were} | changed and the men returned {to work. B. H. Lowe, first assistant | keeper at Anierican Shoals light- ‘house, who was recently operat- yed on for appendicitis, was taken to his home today in a much im- proved condition, it was said at the Marine Hospital. Mrs. Carrie A. Crowson and daughter, Florence, are visiting the former’s father, A. L. Di- | Negro. Mr. and Mrs. Russell N. Hyde | and daughter, Marie, who had| j been visiting Mrs. Hyde’s par-| ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Gato, Heft yesterday for their home in | Boston. Mrs. Mamie Costar, who had! been visiting relatives and friends in Miami, returned yes- | | terday. Today The Citizen says in an | editorial paragraph: “The ‘candid’ in candidate is overlooked by most of them.” TODAY IN HISTORY (Know America) 1782—At Newburgh, N. Y., Gen. Washington establishes the Order of the Purple Heart, for meritorious action and extraordi- inary fidelity—-lapsed and revived ; again in 1932. | 1789—Congress’ ¢reates the De- | partment of War—its Secretary also to be in charge of the Navy. 1790—Conclusion of ‘historie ; treaty between the United States and the Creek indians. 1801—Robert Fulion tests his submarine (“plunging-boat”) in France—under ‘water™ for over | four hour: 1912—First national convention of the Progressive Party, Chicago, |nominates Theodore Roosevelt and Hiram Johnson their candi- dates. 1929—The Typesetter first com- | mercialiy used at Evanston, Il. 1941 — Mussolini’s son, Capt: Bruno, killed experimenting with | bomber. 1942-—U.S. Marines land on | Guadalcanal. The O.W.I.’s first | statement on state of the war. | 1944—-Four German armored divisions make drive qn U S. fore- es in Normandy. 1945—American Superfortresses and Thunderbolts continue the smashing of Jap cities as the Japs were warned. ‘ Candid The fond mother approached fhe teacher anxiously. *“Don’t you’ think. Randolph will ever learn to draw?” “No, madam — that is, unless you harness him to a. truck,” re- plied the teacher. e \ IN\54 MINUTES | THREE -. CONVENIENT — Aas west | Sa nou NATIONAL AIRLINES Wk BUCCANEERS | 510 SOUTHARD STRE | TELEPHONE 1040 j even more. obvious that his refus- OBVIOUS Editor, The Citizen: Last night I attended the ferce called the City Commission aes ing. Everything from the sudden! adjournment to the objection of the Circuit Court's interpreta-; |tion of a section of the City} Commission and the Secretary of to adopt a new calendar? Charter smells of dirty politics. Tt was obvious that the wish | of the people is to have Mr. King back as their City Manager. It is| al to play politics was respon- sible for the pressure put on him by the ‘clique’. Let's get the ‘clique’ out and put\in men who will serve Key | West and it’s people. It’s high time we have men who will work } |for the community, and not for | their individual profit. MRS. R. E. LEE WANTS KING BACK Editor, The Citizen: Personally, I think «that after } Tuesday night “Windy Bill” and} his colleagues should take to the bushes. Surely it was evident | to everyone that we, the citizens’ do not approve of them or their ; actions. The only way they can get back into our good graces in to undo all the trouble they’ve eaus- | ed. Ninety-five per cent of the peo- ; ple in Key West believe in Dave King, and will never be satisfied until we get him back, under his own terms. These commissioners serve at the will of the people. If they, were truly representing us, they would get King back immediate- ly. © A FEMALE CITIZEN “ATOMIC POWER” Editor, The Citizen: Scientists nave harnessed atom- ie power but they have not cor- nered the unsurpassed energy of Public Wrath. and_ Indignation. You can fool some of the people some of the time but you cannot; fool all the people all of the time. ; Why should any commissioner take upon himself powers which | are a violation of the city char- ter. when he knows,.they are a violation? I ‘saw this disapproval last | night in the City Hall when there“ was a stomping of feet and heart-} felt. expressions when some one spoke out for somebody to re-} sign. Will all officials learn that they are servants of the people and that they cannot be duped by fine phrases and joshing and take it in the neck at the same time? The adjournment of the meet- ing was, beautifully handled and ‘all this upheaval as reported in ; named but if we do not have a | display: of partisan politics, what their will shall be done. Let's ‘keep fighting for good govern- ICE { ment—if a purgative is necessary 3 make it a big dose. {|| is Guaranteed ALBERT G. ROBERTS. ||| PURE | not only got the car-but also an if for once if those commission- 2. Germany ers think that the public was sat- how many zon isfied they should have comei 3. When did down in front of the City Hall republic? crowds lingered long after the meeting was cWwer. There was: thing but a happy crowd dis cussing how short and sweet the adjournment had been made. For the good of public wil!, we should be thankful that Mr. Cooper has resigned as public safety director and submission of a during the war? 5. What is known as Test Bek- ‘er? : Dee. Ck & , 6, What is it costing the ‘to “occupy” Germany? _ of the 7, What causes most noise of airplanes?. : 8, Who is Carroll Reece? 9. What is the source and the press is going to be submit- mouth) of the Danube?’ ted to the U.S. Civil Service 10. Is any effort being made the Navy for consideration and: study to- ascertain if this activity, as is expressed by the press, is a violation of Civil Service, We do! not have two political parties so Your Horoscope WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1946—Today's nature is too im- pulsive and idealistic and need- ing a good training to hold the fortune that may come to it un- der favoring aspects. Such help from parents may prove the sal- vation of the person born under this degree. It bears honors, friends and suceess when prop- erly trained and curbed. have we? Consideration will al- so: be requested as to the mem- bers of the Civil Service Board who are Navy Classified Civil Serviee Employees. Commission- er Hunter Harden has stood like a stone mountain and fought ad- mirably and from the many pub-’ lie expressions I have heard made, I think that it is time to say, “Thank you, Commissioner Harden, for your courage and determination to stand on your own two feet and you deserve every moral support.” Will public officials ever learn ee i that once the Conch is stirred‘ There were only 100 dentists’ that he will forgive but he never in the United States in 1820. f forgets and. when the sea is ap-! — parently all calm his eyes and’ ears are wide open and out of that shell he will come and you will, hear such fired determina- tion that somebody’s hair will stand straight up? Let no offi- cial tell you that he “is doing it for the public good” when we have intelligent citizens who could be appointed and not trying to keep all appointments WITH- IN THE ROYAL FAMILY OF POLITICS. Is the Royal Ermine ready to go to the cleaners—for spotting or a good washing? Last night proved that Key Westers have Atomic Power and The brain is a hollow organ, the inside of which consists of chambers communicating with one another and filled with a fluid secreted by a network of | nerves. i Real CAR THIEF GETS PAINTING } LONDON.—Thieves who stole’ the automobile of T. E. Lawrence Place Your Refrigeration — REAL ICE BAS and You Will Get GUARANTEED, Refrigeration Service- STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE ' REAL ICE *.: TtIs Ee Healthy and Safe COFFEE | Thompson Enterprises, Ine. = | (ICE DEVISION) KEY WEST, FLA. original copy of “The Seven Pil- lars” of Wisdom,” a _ painting worth $1,800 which Lawrence had | left in his automobile. { Subscribe to The Citizen VON VT TY CVV) PHONE NO. 8 GROCERS ASAD 4AASDES SOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY KEY WEST COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY % Hear Morton Downey. WKWF, 12:15 P.M., Monday through Friday *