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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-11-02
DEMOCRATS ANSWER
WILLKIE SUPPORTERS

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plank which will benefit Key
West is in the Republican plat
form.
1T is true that many outside
persons were. brought to Key
West for positions with the WPA.
1t is also true that Roosevelt
made available this money to
Key West. He could not person
ally supervise the expenditure
of this money. Merchants and
Key West were benefiting from
this money just the same. Those
new residents had to have homes,
they had to eat and have cloth
ing. They spent their money
here.
: Herbert Hoover, the Republi-
can president who Roosevelt sue
ceeded, did not even make money
available. Check the financial
condition of Key West in the last
year of Hoover's administration
with today's. Look at the postof-
flee receipts, ask, the public utili-
ties to tell you of their increase
in business. All under RooSe-
velt'S administration.
Sam, you go right on grind
ing your AK Perhaps you will
get to be postmaster again if
Willkie is elected, but one thing
is certainty, Key West residents
are not going to help you grind
that ak. And Dizzy is mighty
sure that you will have to wait
a mighty long time to get the
poStmastership again, for Roose-
welt is going to continue as lead
er of this country and is going
right along doing bigger and bet
ter things for the poor man of
this country.
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"a Glass PROGRAM

"A OlaSS program
pray Song, followed by Flag
Salute.
''It's Hallowe'en"-Song-
''The Moon MULTIPLICATION.
'sOn Misunderstanding by
Diane Dickens -. - 1,,,.f.....
''The Halloween Pudding
Playlet. Cast: Halloween Witch,
Dorene Clawson; Halloween Cat,
Barbara Delgado; Harvest Moon,
George Bean; Pumpkin Girls,
Adrienne Palmer, Christina Las
tres, Diane Dickens, Joyce Goeh-
ring, Patsy Howell, Joyce Glib
son, Dorothy Lowe, Mary Rang
er, Betty Russell, Shirley Pent.
"Ten Little Pumpkins Song
by the Pumpkin Girls.
''The Autumn Gypsies' Song
by Rita Canalejo.
The Apple Boys: Jose Ponce,
Sergio MILAN, Alton Gates, Will
liam Hartman, Robert Pinder, AL
bert Garcia, Robert Valdez.
The Witches: Melvin Lund-
bloom, Leonard Salazar, Mario
Vidal.
The Stars: Frances Meggs, Do
lores Perez.
The Halloween Ghosts: Joe
Sanchez, Charles Ranger.
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Plans Advance For
Liberty Ball

No effort has been spared to
make the Liberty Ball one of the
outstanding events of the cur
rent season, according to an an
nouncement by the committee
in-charge today.
Gerry Collins has worked out
some lovely arrangements for the
dance program and he promises
some surprises for guests at the
dance to be held Wednesday
night November 6, in the Rain
bow Room of La Concha hotel.
Publicity on the dance stresses
mo stiffness ordinarily identi-
fled with formal dances. Every
one is urged to loosen up" and
have a good time in their own
way.
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York papers carried ads for brok-
ers who guaranteed to find 1000
substitutes for 500 each.
Substitutes" thought up a
racket of their own. They would
enlist in one state. collect the
fee, and desert. The same stunt
would be pulled in other states as
quick as they could get there.
These men were called bounty
Jumpers. Many collected enough
to buy farms.
Riots In New York
Resentment was running high
by the time the draft in New
York City started. When it was
over such bloody riots had taken
place that they stack up with
actual battles in the Civil war.
The draft started on schedule.
July IL, 1863. But the next day,
Sunday, crowds milled around
saloons in lower Manhattan and
by Monday morning a mob had
formed to parade uptown. That
afternoon a draft office on the
upper East side was burned.
For four days the mob of TO-
900 seethed over the island, burn
ing, killing, hanging. 1t stopped
only when troops were recalled
from the Pennsylvania battle
fields. Between 800 and thou
sand people were slain. Prop
erty damage ran up to S5,0OO,-
900.
From that time on Americas
military men knew that another
draft must be spread evenly over
the whole population.
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President but he was not sworn
in. Washington received only
$4,000 salary for his entire first
term, after which the salary was
raised to $4,000 a year, which is
the present Presidential expense
fund, the salary having been
raised to $4,000.
President RooSevelt's first term
was Al days shorter than that of
any other President since Wash
ington who served a full term.
Because of the Lame Duck
amendment which showed the IN
auguration back from March 4 to
January 90 In Monroe's sec
ond term, he received all but one
of the votes of the electoral col
lege. Neither Lincoln nor VIII
son, in their first terms, received
a majority of the popular vote of
the country.
Taft Got Two States
President Johnson, in his early
days, was an illiterate tailor
William Howard Taft carried only
two states when he ran against
Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt,
Utah and Vermont. William
Rufus King, Franklin Pierce's
vice-preSident, was the only one
ever to take the oath of office
OOtSide the United States and the
only vice-president who never
was in Washington after his cleo
ton; he took the oath of office
in Cuba, where he had gone for
his health and died six weeks
later after returning to his Ala
bama plantation.
Both North and South Carolina
claim the birthplace of Andrew
Jackson. The first national par
ty convention wasn't held until
1881, when the Anti-Masonic par
ty met in Baltimore. .Vice-presi-
dents originally were the men
who received the second largest
number of votes for President.
Only since June, 1924, has an In
dian been eligible for the Presi-
dency. .Elbridge Gerry, who, as
Madison's vice-president, presid-
ed over the senate, resigned the
vice-presidency to become a SEN
ator
Although it was organized in
1900 and has had a Presidential
nominee in every election since,
the Socialist party has had only
two nominees: Eugene v. DebS
and Norman Thomas.
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George Collins
Visits In City

George Collins, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Oscar Collins of this city,
arrived over the highway on
Thursday from Jacksonville to
spend the weekend with relatives
and friends.
George has been employed at
the Weather Bureau in Jackson
vile for past eight months. Call
ing at The Citizen office this
morning, he stated he was glad to
s'get back home, and was enjoy
ing his stay very much. He will
1eaveefor Jacksonville tomorrow
afternoon to report for work
Monday morning.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-11-02
SIGNS OF THE TINES
nv Associated Pressl

BUENOS AIRES.-An index
of the times was given recently
at Unemployed Town, a branch
of the Buenos Aires waterfront
where the government feeds and
shelters the city's unemployed as
distinguished from hoboes. The
average attendance last year was
90 men per day. This year it is
1900.
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St. PauPs Thank
Offering Monday

The fall ingathering of United
Thank Offering Blue Boxes will
be held next Monday evening at
7:30 o'clock, it was announced to-
day, with meeting in the
Parish Hall.
After a short business meeting,
an interesting program viii be
given, to be followed by a social
hour.
On Sunday, November 10. at
TOO a. m, this offering will be
presented at a corporate COM
munion of all girls and women of
the parish. 10y
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$4,000 FOR EYE DAMAGE

ATLANTA, Ga.-E, c. George,
a waiter is asking $4,000 dam
ages against an optical company.
claiming that eye glasses given
him.. after an examination, .caus-
ed his eyes to cross within a
week after he began wearing
them. The longer he wore them,
the more crossed his eyes became.
with the result that he is now I'M
der the care of a specialist, he
said.
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DIVORCE ACTIONS

Two final DEGREES were handed
down by the circuit court TINS
weekend, granting divorces 20 Al
bert c. Cathrali of this CIT. II
his suit against ms wife. LIIcIlle
NJ. Cathrall, charging desertlol
and to Mrs. Lunette W Curry "
Carl Curry, same charge
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-11-02
PASTORS MEET
NEXT MONDAY

Rev. Ted NJ Jones, SECRETARY
announces the regular monthly
meeting of the Key West Minis
terial Alliance 10 be held mex.
Monday morning. November z1h,
at 1870 a m Stone Church An
mex.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-11-02
SHOCKING PATRIOTISM

MUNICE, Ind.-When John
Short, So, felt a patriotic urge,
he did something about it. Mount
ing the roof of his gasoline sta
ton to put up a flag pole, he let
the pole fall on a 2.300-volt wire.
He was knocked unconscious and
had to be worked on for forty
five minutes before being re-
Vived.
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Grafton of pari-mutual pools Grace
track money!, and provides that
such distribution shall be "in
equal amounts to each county.
The passage of this amendment is
to confirm the right of the legis-
lature to such action and debar
any future legislation directed to-
ward a fairer distribution of such
funds. While advantageous to the
small counties, in that it would
insure their receiving an equal
share of such revenues regard
less of population, it is unfair to
the larger counties that produce
such revenue and should a future
legislature be inclined to change
the basis of allocating such funds
it would be prevented from do
ing so should this amendment
pass.
Talk to your legislators, your
newspapermen and, other inform
ed persons so that you will be
prepared to vote on these i'm
portant amendments.
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DRAFT DODGING
ONCE WAS LEGAL
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Washington rode into Boston to
take command he found 1900
volunteers collected in various
and assorted uniforms. But later
as he ranged back and forth
across the colonies he had less
and less support until by 1881,
when he rushed to Yorktown, he
had only 1000 loyal troops. It's
nobody's secret that the French
at Yorktown saved the day, and
incidentally ended the war.
Why the depleted ranks? Be
cause militia had two clutches:
The men thought of themselves
as local-very local-defenders,
and they enlisted only for short
periods, three months to a year.
So Washington fought with a
virtually new army each year.
He grew so bitter he wrote the
Continental Congress, 'I am sor-
ny to mention the egregious want
of public spirit. Such stock-job-
bling I never saw before, and
pray Gods mercy / never witness
again.. 81
Finally Congress offered boun-
ties to men to fight. First, 81;
finally, as much as $3.50. Wash
ington suggested they throw in
100 acres, a suit of clothes and a
blanket.
After the war, Washington
drew up a plan for raising arm
les requiring at beast a years
military training for all. young
men. 1t would have meant 81
900 men training each year in his
time and some 100000 now. But
the plan didn't go into effect I'M
til this year with the universal
military training bill.
No Soldiers In 1912
Other curious events also took
place during the interim.
In 1872 we fought the British,
still with state militia. But it
was difficult to convince a Vir-
ginia farmer he should leave his
fields to help out a Massachusetts,
cobler. And vice versa.
So when the British began
their march on Washington, there
were no troops across their line.
Militia were scrambled together
400 men-juSt two days be-
fore the British reached Bladens-
burg, north of Washington. And
when the unframed troops heard
the first shots many disappeared
into the woods. The British
marched right on and burned the
capitol.
Came the war with Mexico in
1845. Gen. Winfield Scott had
landed at Vera Cruz, marched
into the, interior, scattered the
Mexican army, and taken 5000
prisoners. But just then the
quitting bell rang for some 1000
American troops. They set out
for home. Scott was begged
down in enemy territory for
three months until new troops
reached him.
In the Civil war we really be-
gan to have trouble.
Again army officers were fore
ed to fight with men who came
on deck for three months to
year and then left just as they
became familiar with the bust
ness end of a gun. So, in March,
1868, Congress passed a draft
law. 1t was compulsory, but it
left loopholes that raised hob.
One provision said that a draft
ed man could buy exemption for
$500. That raised the cry: Its
the rich mans money and the
poor mans blood.
Another said a drafted man
could pay for a substitute. That
mushroomed a queer business,
substitute brokers'. For a price
they would find men who would
fight. Fees ran UP to $3.50. New
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-11-02

Rural identification has been
extended to 100000 of New York
states 10000 farms.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-11-02

The American tobacco crop in
1889 was the largest on record.
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E0nE(AS4
CTill 7:30 p m. Sunday
Key West and Vicinity Partly
cloudy tonight and Sunday. cool
er tonight; moderate northerly
winds.
Florida: Fair In north. parity
cloudy in south portion tonight
and Sunday; cooler tonight
Evening star., 1940-06-24

volved on them to undertake the
moral reformation of France. It is
enough to glance at the writings
OF Paul Baudoin, the banker, who
holds the portfolio of foreign affairs,
to perceive that he shares the same
set of ideas.
Marshal Petain and Gen. Wey-
gand must find it very hard now
to keep their illusions alive. The
kind of German occupation France
is to endure under the armistice
does not promise to differ material
ly from unbridled invasion and yet
the success of British arms which
alone can bring salvation has been
rendered more difficult.
The generals of the Reichswahr
had proved that they could only
enforce unswervingly the orders of
their Feuhrer. AS to the French
people itself, it is at least doubtful
that, even crushed and utterly dis
tressed, with the German invaders
close at hand, they will submit
quietly for any length of time to
something like totalitarian govern
ment.
After all, 1t is within the power of
M. Herriot and M. Jeanney to sum-
mon the Chamber of Deputies and
the Senate for a new session at any
moment.
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Aliens in j. ). Fewer
Than in 80, Census
Officials Estimate
Registration Due to Be
Easy; Totol Of 1000. 900
Expected to Be Shown
BY OLIVER MCKEE,

Because of their smaller numbers,
registration of aliens in the United
States provided for in legislation
which has passed both houses, will
be much easier than it would have
been 10 or 20 years years ago, Gen.
sus Bureau officials said today. With
the cooperation of the Post Office
Department the registration will be
conducted by the Department of
Justice. The Census Bureau Is now
assembling data for the Justice De-
partment on the number, age COM
position and geographical distribu-
ton of the alien population of this
country.
Though the tabulation Of the 1910
population returns has not been
completed, Census Bureau experts
estimate that they will show be-
tween $500 900 and 1000 900 foreign
born non-citizens in the United
States. The foreign-born popula-
ton Of the United States in 1880
was 14,204, ,149, of whom 6,284,613
were unnaturalized. Those natural
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the eastern sections of Brussels,
found the streets full of Belgian
soldiers in full equipment, soldiers
who had already deserted the front
on the opening day Of the war-and
were spreading impossible rumors
in Brussels, thus completely demoral-
izing the morale Of the civilian
population. This retreat was in
glorious, but some excuses can be
found for the Belgian soldiers
(though not for the King.
The debacle of the Belgian Army
started with treason on the Meuse
and on the Albert Canal. Near
Maastricht, two bridges on the
Meuse remained intact-they were
not blown up. One other bridge,
on the Albert Canal, 80 miles north
west remained standing, too. Bel
glan official accounts asserted that
German bombs killed the officers
who were to press the button of the
electric ignition of the fuse, but it
was German bribes not German
bombs, which were the real Causes
for the fatal blunder which left
these bridges standing. Thus two
road bridges and one railroad
bridge were left for the invading
German Army. 1t made full use Of
this opportunity.
Reach Strategic Points.
Immediately motorcycle detach-
ments with machine guns and
f1amethroWers in their sidecars
pushed over the open bridges at 60
miles an hour and succeeded in no
time in reaching important strategic
points 100 miles behind the Belgian
lines.
In Belgium there were IL sluices
on the Meuse and the motorcyclists
used the narrow top plank of these
Slulces to make their dash across
the river. Once across they estab-
llshed a bridgehead which enabled
them to construct pontoon bridges.
IN some parts of the Meuse dis
trlct the Germans used old trucks
driven into the river to make a basis
Tor the passage of heavy tanks.
And now, on top of the collapse
OF Belgian defenses, came treason,
near Sedan, where French troops
forgot" to blow up six bridges It
seems incredible, but rumors per-
slstently alleged that German gold
or brlbes in high French quarters
was the cause of this debacIe.
(Copyright 1910. by the Chicago Daily
News. 1nc.)
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STAR WASHINGTON D. c. MONDAY JUNE a. 1s4o

born non-citizens lived In II States
Each Of these States had 1000 or
more unnaturalized aliens. The
States were New York, California
Massachusetts,, Pennsylvania, ILL.,
nois, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio
Texas, Connecticut. Wisconsin, and
Washington. The 1910 census re-
turns are expected to show a similar
concentration of the unnaturalized
population in these States.
The Largest Groups.
Among the large foreign-born
groups in 1910 were the Italians,
Russians, Germans, Poles, Cana
dians, English, Irish and Scotch
The Danes had larger proportion
OF their number naturalized than
any other foreign-bor colony -
about IS per cent. The proportion
OF Italians naturalized was one of
the iowest-about so per cent.
In 1890, the District had foreign
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lied represented approximately IS
per cent Of the total foreign born
population that year. In 1870 only
46 per cent Of the foreign born
were naturalized. This year the
percentage naturalized is expected
to be considerably higher than 10
years ago.
Little Gain Since 1880.
Since 1890 there has been little.
II any, net population gain through
immigration. The widespread un-
employment of the depression years
caused many foreign-born, unnat-
uralized aliens to return to their
homes across the seas. New inmi-
grafton has been drastically re-
stricted by the quota system. Ac-
cording to census records the pro-
portion of men and women in the
older-age brackets among the for
eign-born population in 1880 was
much higher than In the native
born population. This means that
death has taken since then a much
greater than average toll Of this
group.
For several years past the immi-
grafton and naturalization service
has been receiving a greatly in
creased number of applications for
naturalization. Because aliens have
been barred from employment by
Federal agencies and from w. P. A.
rolls, aliens have new incentive
to acquire United States citizenship.
The rush for citizenship is another
reason why census officials predict
that the 1910 returns will reveal a
sharp decrease in the number of
unnaturalized aliens.
In 1880, IS per cent of our foreign
Evening star., 1940-06-24
BY M. w. FODOR,

Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent
NEW YORK, June 24-This is the
story of the debacle which tried in
vain for five weeks to tell. The ri
gidity of the censorship in Belgium
France and Portugal-through which
I travelled for that five weeks-pre-
vented me.
1t is sad and gruesome story, a
story of the breakdown of one OF
the finest armies in the World-the
Army OF France. I shall tell it from
the advantageously situated Belgian
watchtower from which I made my
own personal observations.
The breakdown of the French
Army was mainly caused by the
early but complete collapse of the
Belgian Army and by treason, in
efficiency and graft in France. The
military figures of the tragedy are
King Leopold III, his aide-de-camp,
1t. Gen. j. van Overstraten. and the
commander of the French 9th Corps,
Gen. Andre George Corap, who, ac-
wi W dlIGduy
has obtained his punishment. He
Is said to have been shot.
Places Of the Tragedy.
The places Of the tragedy were the
Dutch and Belgian Limbourgs, Bra
bant and the Ardennes part of Bel
gian Luxembourg. The fatal river
was the Meuse.
The truth is that already, on
May 10-the first day of the totali-
tartan war-the fate of France was
decided because the northeastern
Belgian Army on the Albert Canal
suffered defeat which was COM
parable only to the defeat of the
Italians at Caporetto in the last
war. The rest was indirectly and
directly due to King Leopold who
constantly and persistently had re-
fused to conclude military arrange
ments between this country and
Britain and France, though without
such military arrangement effic-
lent help from the Allies was i'm
possible.
When on May II, drove through
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United States population Of 13l 500.
600 to 1872 500, 900, Census oficials
estimate. There have been several
surprises In the returns so far re-.
ceived. Among there is the de.
cline in population, since 1890, In
several New Jersey cities near New
York.
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born population Of 3o,733. OF these,
19,204 were naturalized, and 1882
had taken out their first papers. The
Census Bureau listed 6,693 as aliens
and 2,454 were classified as citizen
ship unknown. The population OF
the District was 486 1859.
The 1910 returns will show q
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ADVERTISEMENT.
GAS so BAD
CROWDS HEART

my bowels were 10 sluggish and my
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Adleriks 10 BOTH carminativs and cathartic,
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intestinal nerve pressure.
At all leading druggists.
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Failure to Blow Up Bridges
In Nuzi Path Laid to Bribery

Mr.. Fodor, an expert on Gen.
tral European AFFAIRS, ,Das IN
Brussels when Hitler's war mo-
chine struck at the Lo,Oldnds and
he witnessed the early stages OF
the blitskrieg. He returned to
America Saturday by clipper from
Lisbon.
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Japan has cut down supplies of
iron and steel to both munitions
and peacetime industries.