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

PAGE TWO WHY WAS NOT A COURT ASKED ae eae Waata : kind would be if misunder- standings could be adjusted | without resorting to force! As. a. different point of view sometimes leads to a From The Citizen Building ie nm Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspa: West m re cay neg Entered at Key West, Florida @s second class matter oF THR Associ The Associated Press ively entitled to use for tion of all news a8 to it or not otherwise: cr thi Vy the | pebuiaes serait quarrel betwen two women, ox a war with nations lined is unable to stop into ‘the breach and make an adjust- 5.00) ment, é WEERLY en seennne—. AD * Made Rete oe apphication apattant kotieas ast of aes cesa | ee arged for at the rate of 10 cents | But now there'is too much} * Notices for entertainment py| Of the savage left in man. from which a revenue is | His passion is stronger than nived are 5 cents a line. . 4 * he Citizen is an open forum and! his reason. If you can’t see ind “Suniacte At tocat or “generat |@ question. his way, he is lready to “throw .up his |, dukes”. LEDITORIAL.|_An¢_wlien there are no a fisticuffs, the fighting is done with words, as has charg anonymous ‘communications. a ene ae eA MONOGRAPHS Dear Sir: ; Welcome to Key West. If you prove to be as good a City Manager as Dave King we will be satisfied. he would resign his position if the four policemen whom he had discharged were re- 'instated: Younes, j than: we do, but, as an ad- THE ORACLE miring friend we were keen- Mr. O. J. S. Ellingson ly aware of his lack of tact, The City Hall Key West, Florida. been given the weight of! thought that should have ?been accorded: to them. ‘To The Citizen, the state of affairs in City Hall stem-| med: from. a frivolous thing. | A REAL DANGER Yesterday we observed a group of some eight or ten: Key West children playing} ferent construction placed} ball in the middle of one of|'on a provision in the city the main streets of the city.|.charter by different ane This is a dangerous prac-| King and his adherents | tice, dangerous for children| thought that, under that and motorists alike, and it} provision, he had the right should be stopped at once.| to discharge a civil service We realize that children,| employe. The other side full of zest and the joy of! thought differently. living, are often thoughtless| What was the best way to about sueh, things and do not} settle the discordant points realize the danger they are} of view? Simple. One of the in. It therefore becomes the} purposes of a court is to if- duty of their parents and the! tarpret the meaning of a police department to pre-|law when. its wording vent them from endanger-} such that. different conclu- ing their lives and the lives! sions are entertained abou’ of others. ‘ \ it. Why did not the contend- Every year in this. country | ing parties in City Hall let hundreds. of youngsters are! reason, not passion, rule needlessly killed and crip-|their words and action? pled for life just because} Why. was not a court asked they are left to play games} to decide what the charter in the street. Certainly we) provision meant? do not want any of these pal tragic accidents to. darken, Sometimes it is awfully the homes of our city. ‘hard to. smile, but as a usual This evening when you sit| thing smiles pay big divi- down to supper, Mr. and dends. Mrs. Key West, why not) " warn Johnny and Mary}; Whether children or par-| never to. play games in the! ents deserve blame for the: street? Tomorrow, you| behavior of your people is a} know, it might be too late. | question. that resembles the | famous query about the hen! H. C. of L. APPROACHES . Retail prices for living es- and the egg. BEWARE OF HOOLIGANS| sentials for :moderate in- came: families'in creased about five and one-half per, cent for the month ending July 15, according to. the Bureau of Labor Statistics which says that this is the largest monthly increase since 1940 and probably the largest since 1913. The living essentials that are included in the statistics are food, house-furnishings, fuel, miscellaneous goods and services, recreation per- sonal service such as beauty shops, transportation and medical care, Foods regis- tered the largest advance, 13: per cent, due principally to inereases of 30: per cent in the: cost of meat and 20 per cent im dairy products. Tt will be interesting to see whether the trend of prices for living essentials continues to increase. It will not take long for the cost of living to become burden- some if prices show any ten- dency to match the increas in the month surveyed. The vicious beating of a Key West sailor by a gang) of hoodlums known as the} “Swamp. Gang,” as reported in The Citizen Monday, is a matter that deserves the im- mediate attention of local police authorities. well have resulted in mur- der, and no man or woman in this city can feel entirely safe upon the streets at) night until, the members of} this gang are arrested, tried, and punished to the fullest extent of the law. Tt has been said by those} experienced in handling criminals that no Deionate | er is as utterly vicous and) bloodthirsty as the teen-age punk who’ sneers at all) authority. He will kill in the! twinkling of an eye, where- as older and more exper- ienced thugs have enough sense to. use some humanity even. in committing crimes, Deputy Sheriff Wallace (have assured us that they wonder race man-|f al of the loan to construct fight. between two men or @ | Overseas. eae ue fup on one side and the) dispatch published in The Citi-/ ther, it has led us te wen-}zen, The comptroller general ap-! ler many a time why reason |,proved the loan, amounting to available to have the work done. Zenia: Hoff aré the hostesses this! satisfied " nul afternoon of the Key West Junior é will hawe sufficiently’ de-|'woman’s Club. at a meeting be- veloped to resort to reason, | ing held in the Hospital League's ;instead. of force, to settle a|rooms. "Baker, left yesterday for Havana, | ‘Cuba. railway yesterday to undergo ex- tensive repairs. been done in City Hall ever last night to try to determine on! since that night. when City | ways and means for the main-| Manger Dave King declared |'tenance of the Key West Aquar- ium. Nobody in Key West ad- bert F. RB. Beck, who will discuss »mires. King more fer’ his}a proposal for the beautification ability as a city manager, |of Key West. which, frequently resulted} morning to spend a few days in}? iin remarks that had not) Key West. { vitz and son, Sydney, last night from a visit to New | sion, which is sponsering a $250,- That condition was the dif- | editorial paragraph: electricity Virginia—teginning of a bloody slave insurrection. Hartford, Copn., blown down—a The bloody assault might}then tied in a bow behind. Sheriff Sawyer and Chief }CONVENTENT if uents Dally It is surprising how. much) seme people expect f nothing and how little they; give for something. Business profits, duri the past few years, just ac cumulated; to make profi in the next few years may test the ability of executives. privilege to see all of these] are on the trail of the hood: lums and will stick to it un- til the gang is broken up. We trust that the city pe- lice, will cooperate with them in this, important case,, and that it will soon be our young punks behind bars—! where they beleng. ‘The final touch in the approv- | .. Worker. . Fi .—-They provide. the employer} with. a more efficient wark- jing force. . .—-They reduce “labor troubles” by making: the workers more 600,000; and the money is now! & pire ''Mré, Evelio Cabot sand Miss| 2 t A-—They are a step in the direc- tion of full production and |; full employment (although no- | body claims they will cure all our j ecOnomic ills). a Eric Johnston's Idea Eric Johnston, former president jof the U. S. Chamber of Com-|' merce, argued along those lines The. ferry Florida Keys was,| Tecétitly before A congressional hauled up on Curry’s marine} committee. He said industrial ea | rest is “an explosive force within jour economy, even more so than the atomic bomb, because that is something in the distance, and | this is with us today.” | One of the greatest causes of | industrial unrest, he said, is “job | insecurity.” Many people work only spasmodically. Most Ameri- Chief speaker at a meeting | 2 workers get less than 200 George Miller, Jr., who had been visiting Fire Chief Harry City council held a meeting Monday, August 24, of the Key — of work in a year. There: West Garden Club will be Her- | °— ! “This job insecurity causes slow-downs, as workers do not want to work themselves out of a! job. It causes workers to demand Representative J. Mark Wilcox! higher wages than perhaps they and his son, Joe, arrived this| would. if they had steady ) ment.” $250,000, Study Begun , —_—_— ;. Johnston is a member of the Mr. and Mrs. Charles Arono-} advisory board of the Office of arrived} War Mobilization and Reconver- | 000'study of guaranteed wages. ! ee é The big question about guaran- Today The Citizen says in an/ teed wages is not “Should it be! ‘ | done?” but “How can it be done?” | “There are people in the world! There is not much opposition’ who think they can argue with | to guaranteed wages in principle. | Nearly all employers want a sta-, }, ble working force, and all em-} ployes want more job security.! Yet, there is sure to be fierce op- ‘ Position “in certain industries—_ largely because of the difficult! problems involved, problems usu-| ally reeognized by the unions as! i well as the employers. A company may find it hard to; bells tolled at sundown; funeral} SUarantee steady employment be-; oration. cause its production depends on! | seasonal “marketing. To assure | 1858—First of the historie Lin-} °); € coln-Douglas debates; at Ottawa, f steady jobs it may have to: take York City. TODAY IN HISTORY (Know America) 1831—-Historie Nat Turner's “Day of Deliverance” in Southern 1856—Historle “Charter Oak”. dirge' was played at ‘noon and it | mr | cestly measures like revolutioniz- ‘ | ing the system of sales, changing 1866—National Workingmen’s| production methods, alain ous Association meet in Baltimore to) new products, buying “new ‘ma- consider ways ‘and means to se- ij chinery. i cure the 8-hour day: } Take the auto industry. In nor-' 1878—The American Bar As-j mal times it is a seasonal indus-! sociation organized at Saratoga,'iry. The method of marketing wY. . jautos—with new models coming 1936—22 Black Legion officers }out each fall—creates plenty of indicted: in Detroit for plot to} work at certain times and long seize the Government by force. layoffs at other times. To assure 1941—-Germans within 60 milesj year-around employment would . lisher, born at Mercer, Maine. Your Horoscope cial nature With good will toward! “°RTS $80. aatord Ye all; unselfish and doing those) jeans, author, born in’ things that make one well regard 50. years é Ries ed by his friends. ‘The method-of}”'giicena Marie ‘of New Yo attaining success. will be: ‘prac-!:sonrano, born at Akron, Ohio, 50 tical and: accomplished: by at- years ago. tending well to the things that)” Maj, Gen. James B. Fechet, re-}) make the home happy and the’ tired, ex-chief of the army air business associations friendly. : ech born at Ft. Ringgold, Tex., : 69. years ago: When Teday’s Anniversaries . Chesley R. Palmer, president, ' tected (Know America) , Cluett, Peabody, Troy, N. Y., ‘born: ne, 1796—(150 years. ago) Asher B.|*t Hawkeye, Iowa, 61 years °S°- coc frown excess lig Durand, the first part of his life 3 ; . The domesticated cat was an gion of handsome a famed self-taught engraver, the abet of Benes g. the | with Ray-Ban lenses a latter part a famed painter, a busy ‘ le ios life, born at Jefferson Village, | 2syptians. to your prescription, ; N. J. Died in New York, Sept, A 17, 1886. In ancient Egypt; a mixture 1798—James Lick, San. Fran-/°f animal fat was considered aj ciseo land buyer in 1848, philan- | c¥re for. baldness. rd thropist, the famed observatory founder, born in Fredericksburg, Pa. Died Oct. 1, 1876. 1822—John Fritz, noted self- educated mechanical engineer and: irenmaster of his day, born in Chester Co.,.Pa. Died Feh; 13, 1913. 1843—William Pepper, Phila- delphia surgeon, Univ. of Penn. sylvania Medical School profes. sor, provost, virtual founder its University: Hospital, first of its kind. here, eminent citizen, who} truly merits the title of “public:j) = Sp benefactor”, born in. Philadelphia. | Died. July 28, 1898. i 1854—Frank A. Munsey, noted, newspaper and magazine pub- ‘® DR. A VE Died Dee. 22, 1925. probably require big changes in the marketing system. | The construction industry is an- | other tough one. Not An Annual Wage | Real And, incidentally, Johnston; ICE made it clear that a “guaranteed! wage” is not necessarily an “an-!}] is Guaranteed nual wage”. The guarantee may | be for less than ‘a year ‘and still be an improvement. : | PURE * . { e * He said that 'in the constriction industry, at least in northern ‘ Place Your Refrigeration states, it would be “very difficult” to stabilize employment through ona the. winters— “But if you can-give men em- ployment during all of the build- ing season and maybe lay them off four months of the year and give them eight months of em- ployment, that is a lot better than daving them employed only four; or five months of the year.” | For the purposes of the govern- | ment study, a guaranteed wage’ plan is defined as “a plan under | which an employer guarantees a! wage or employment to an indi- | vidual worker for at least three months.” REAL ICE BASIS and You Will Get GUARANTEED Refrigeration Service REAL ICE * 3-2" Thompson Enterprises, Ine. (ICE DIVISION) } 1 PHONE NO. 8 KEY WEST. 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