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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-20
REGARDING TIE GOSPEL
Editor. The Citizen:

Editor, The Citizen:
The prosperity Of our churches
in Key West is one of the most
hopeful signs of the times, and the
action of the ministers in taking
their messages to the crowded
street corners is in keeping with
the practice of Jesus. The Gospel
of personal salvation is the
shadow of a rock in a weary
land to many longing soul.
But, there are many who listen
in vain for the Gospel of the
Kingdom; that Kingdom for which
we are taught to pray, ION earth,
even as in Heaven, the restoration
Of the laws that Jesus said He
came, not to destroy, but to fulfill
That he lost patience with the
leaders of organized religion in
his time. seems evident when He
accused them of minute attention
to tithing, but of '.omitting the
Weightier matters of the Law and
of judgement"
The Law of course. is plainly
stated. Take thou no usury nor
increase of thy brother" Also,
The land shalt not be sold for
ever; the land is Mine And
! again, AT the end of every seven
years, thou shalt make a release
= every creditor that lendeth
aught to his neighbor shall re-
lease it = y it is called the Lord s
release.
So much for the Law. What of
the Judgment?
See, | have set before you this
day. life and good, and death and
evil. = = IF thou shalt hearken
unto the voice of the Lord thy
God. ~ For this command
ment which / command thee this
day, it is not hidden from thee,
neither is it far off,
So, apparently this is His will,
which we are taught to pray may
be in force, "on earth, even as in
Heaven"
But, in another place it says
that unless lip service is backed
up by hearty service, When We
make rnany prayers / will not
hear YOU"
1T eems to me that preaching
would command more attention,
oh, very much more attention, es-
pecially from that sMammon'
with whom we are told God is at
war, if it did not turn blind side
to the Gospel Of the Kingdom.
The Law setting forth His will
IS plain His Judgment is sure.
His win touches material as we'll
as spiritual things. His burden
is easy and his yoke is light and
woe to them who will not so much
as lift with their little finger the
heavy burdens under which His
children s4a er today because
His Law has been made Of no Eff
/ feet
STEPHEN G, SINGLETON
Key West, Fla,
August Is, 1941.
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PEOPLES FORUM

The Citizen Welcomes express
sions of che views OF it's read
ers. bat the editor reserves the
right 10 delete any Items
which are considered lihei0us
or unwarranted. The writer's
should be fair and conffne the
letters to 500 words. and write
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Signature Of the writer's must
accompany the letters and Will
be published unless requested
otherwise.
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N DEgAK n MOON


YESTERDAY: Noic Henry PelI
Is I'D against hard fact. He has
seen too much Of Marie Mason,
and his tUife, LuelEd. has left him
to establish residence for q Flor
ida divorce. Tommy Mcintyre
has told Henry that he srill nadrry
LueIla later, If she ioilI haze him.
And Marie, tchose determination
that Henry should get into radio
caused it all, is PROBING very cool
i indeed to Henry - 1lotU that
Henry missed the Job she had
planned for him.
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Florida will appeal to the Fed
eral Government for funds to
establish a statewide radio net
work to serve the State High
way Patrol and local law en-
forcement units in crime proven
ton and defense work.
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= Puzzle: II Won got piece Of paper
psoney, with the picture of Benjamin
Ffanklin. now much money would you
haveg Most of us are more familiar with
the likeness of George Washington, on our
paper bills.
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This writer could easily state the name
Of the prettiest young lady in Key West, but
there'is no sense in losing friends Besides,
after all, it Is a matter of taste For in
stance. some fellows wouldn't have the
Duchess of Windsor for gift while her
present spouse (she had two 9thersl gave
Ms kingdom for her. Is ls4ss ss,slas. s
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SINCE A SHORTAGE Of hons.
exists, why can't 2 or s Nor ),
live on a boat, have sport and
home for same money ss0a
cash for 26-ft. Cruiser. Box Ar
The Citizen. aug7.sf
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Note to gamblers: The. government
permits bride givers to deduct as an expense
the amounts given to bride takers in maxi
ing out your income tax returns With the
increased taxes, soon due. the amounts
saved may be appreciate.
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Gro be continued,

A recent development is lumi-
nous bricks, made of hollow
glass and containing a gas thai
shines when an electric curreni
is passed through them.
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Enoch Johnson, bigrwig apolitician of
Atlantic City, was convicted and given 10
years in the penitentiary, for failing to in
clude the fruits of his grating in his in
come tax return to the government Income
tax dodgers should remember that the gov
ernment wants its tout, whether the
money Is obtained illegally or not. Public
officials in Key West and Monroe County,
who demand graft from violators of the law
for protection (there are rumors that this
practice prevails here) should be careful
and include these illicit gains in their i'm
come tax returns or they may rue the omis-
siDn.
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A popular song remains popular only
ntil someone can think up sillier one.

Who can remember the days when the
law Of supply and demand was supposed to
regulate prices? 1t seems that law is being
fbrogated.
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= The campaign orator who shouts that
he is willing to trust the dear peepul",
should start a grocery store and then he
may change his mind.
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The isolationist worm has been trans
1ormed into an interventionist butterfly
Phe metamorphosis was natural after in
sidious propaganda
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FULLY EQUIPPED BEAUTY
PARLoR Good paying busi.
ness. Owner leaving town Box
M. r., The Citizen. augl2.lmo
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The full name of Mozart, the
great composer, was Johann
Chrysostomps Wolfgang Anna
deus Mozart.
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IMPROVEMENTS yoR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

Water and Sewerage.
!. More Hotels and Apartments.
!, Beach and Bathing Pavilion.
/ Airpcrts--Land and Sea
Consolidation IL County and city Gov
crnments.
Modern cits Hospital
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Evening star., 1941-09-19
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.


Japan has become the belle OF
the Orient. She is being wooed
by the most powerful nations in
the world, but there is something
unorthodox about this courtship.
The United States and Great
Britain are telling her that all OF
us could live in harmony-even
though there isn't much love in p
volved. AS an alternative, in case
she turns down Uncle Sam and
John Bull, she is being warned
that she may get the spanking
of her life.
Hitler and Mussolini, lacking a
big stick to hold over the bellies"
head. are warning her of the
futility of joining hands with two
decrepit, played-out and practi-
cally broke individuals. Japan is
being told that If she keeps the
engagement ring presented to her
last spring in Berlin through for
mer Foreign Minister Yosuke
MatSuoka, her life will be pros
porous and beautiful. All she has
to do now, say the Axis leaders,
is to start sinking those trans
ports which are carrying war ma
terial and fuel to Vladivostok.
And Japan is puzzled.
The military clique is still press
ing for action, but the business
men and the vast majority of the
civilians who play role in ia
pans political and economic life
are inclined to listen to the sug-
geStions from Washington and
London. Emperor Hirohlto, who
has taken the destiny of the ma
ton into his own hands, is listen
ing to both groups and has de-
cided to delay any decision, ac-
cording to the latest reports
received in Washington. But in
the meantime, the United States
has obtained a concession. Until
further notice, Toxic promises,
there will be no interference with
the American tankers and cargo
boats which are now being rushed
from the West Coast to Siberia.
Nazis Exerting Pressure.
The Germans are eXerting ter
rife pressure on the japanese at
the present time. They point out
that their successes in Russia are
not empty victories and while
they have not pulverlzed the So
Wet armies, they have damaged
them badly. With the most i'm
portant part of industrial Russia
in Axis hands, the Soviet armies
cannot be reorganized if war ma
terial from the United States fails
to reach them, Berlin asserts.
And, the Germans add, the COM
munications from the Persian
Gulf TO whatever new defensive
lines Russia may take are SO poor
that the only route open to
United States supply ships would
be by way of Siberia.
If the japanese play along with
the Axis, as they have promised,
say the representatives of the
Reich. victory cannot be far off.
Furthermore, they add, the battle
of the Atlantic is bound to end in
favor of the Axis If the United
States is compelled to concentrate
Evening star., 1941-09-19

pean nations would defeat Hitler
with even less aid than we are
giving, which is what Mr.. Hoover
wants. But overoptimism is, and
has been, the downfall of other
democracies.
Mr.. Hoover thinks that Hitler
will be destroyed by the revolt of
the subject populations. Yes, but
what sort of a revolt will that
be? What sort of chaos will
ensue?
These questions are of prime
Importance. Suppose Russia were
to win the war against Hitler
and turn out to be the iberator
of subject nationalities. l was
always under the impression that
Mr.. Hoover was opposed to Com
munism. But if Communism
turns out to be the liberator of
the subjected and violated ma
tions of Europe, should imagine
that its stock would be very high.
Suppose Britain and Russia win
the war together, without our
aid, except as a sort of charity.
what stock will Communism
have in England? 1t hasn't any
rating there at present. But if
Stain emerges in the role that
Tsar Alexander was able to as
sumo after the Napoleonic wars
and without us as balance
what then?
Workers VS.. Capitalists.
But suppose Hitler defeats
both Russia and Britain. / beg
my readers to regard this as a
strong possibility that would
become an immediate probabil-
ity if the United States were one
iota less firm than she has been
to date. How then would the
populations revolt?
They would revolt as a work
ing class movement against the
capitalists, for the capitalists
would be, in Hitler's new order,
the Germans and the German
fellow travellers. Already the
Nazi victors are Systematically
eXpropriating the shares OF the
leading industrial firms of the
whole of Europe, "compensating"
them in worthless inflated paper
money of the occupied countries.
Without any free democratic
nations with the right to estab-
lIsh order, the people would have
no recourse but to underground
movements of sabotage and
strikes which would certainly
become violently radical and di-
rected against the foreign over
lord ownership.
What does Mr.. Hoover think
the repercussions upon this coun-
try would be with the Old
World-Europe, Asia and Africa
thus Seething? I thought Mr..
Hoover was a conservative and a
lover of order! Who, in such a
case, would he support? Hitler
and the forces of suppression, or
a violent social upheaval?
Mr.. Hoover gives an account of
the results of the last war and
peace which seems to me very.
superficial He gives the usual
version, satisfying TO American
vanity, that we were righteous
idealistS sitting at peace table
with thieves. Left out of account
is the fact that Woodrow Wilson's
program, which included the
League of Nations, was being
sabotaged at home by the isola-
Evening star., 1941-09-19


should present it. In the absence
of such excuse, there seems no an
swer to the charge that, on this mat
ter anyhow, the administration Is
as lacking in courage as it is in cam
dor For example, take the utter
ances on Monday of Mr.. Roosevelt,
Mr.. Knudsen and Mr. Nelson.
And did they touch upon this mat
ter of strikes? They did not. Though
they well know that in the past
seven months more than 100000
man days have been lost on Army
and Navy contracts alone, not one
of them referred to that shocking
and sensational fact. The President
reported on the operations of the
Lease-Lend Act. giving the diSap-
pointing figures of the amount of
goods delivered to the British since
last March, but failing utterly to
mention that but for defense strikes
this amount would have been very
greatly lHCISdStu.
Avoidance Of Truth.
But, in this avoidance of the truth
the Messrs. Knudsen and Nelson
went beyond the President, because
their speeches were devoted to
stressing the awful danger of delay.
Mr.. Knudsen, urging the necessity
of stepping up production" de-
clared that if every American would
work just Is minutes longer a day,
that would give US 100000 more
man hours" 1t is a silly calculation,
because most Americans are not on
defense work. 1t is a meaningless
statement because it takes in mil
lions whose work does not affect de-
fenSe contracts and it fails to focus
upon the millions whose work does.
His colleague, Mr.. Nelson, however.
went beyond Mr.. KnudSen in calcu-
lated sidestepping. Insisting that
we double our effort and then pile
more on top Of that" Mr.. Nelson So
norously declared: In every area of
national life we have got to work off
the fat and harden the muscle. We
cannot waste anything-not the la
Dor OF one man, not the use of 1
pound of material, not the service of
one bit of machinery" Those are
Evening star., 1941-09-19
The Great Game of Politics
Administration Leaders Are Accused
Of Sidestepping Truth on Defense Strikes

stirring words, but while Mr.. Nelson |
was uttering them (and while the |
President and Mr.. Knudsen were ut
tering theirs there were in progress, |
on defense work, % strikes and one
lockout, involving 12,4l0 employees.
At the same time 10000 coal
miners in the anthracite field had
put an effective stop to production
in very wide region. In the light
Of these facts, Mr.. Nelson's brave
words, that I'VE cannot waste any
thing-not the labor of one man.
the use of one pound Of material
or the service of one bit of ma
chinery" seem more or less ridicu-
lous.
Insincere Statements.
If Mr.. Nelson, Mr.. Knudsen and
the President do not know all this,
then they are incredibly ignorant.
If they do know it, then the avoid
ance of any reference thereto makes
all these phrases about everybody
working Is minutes more, and not
wasting the labor of one man I'M
worthy and inSincere. They are in
the same class as that Labor day
telegram sent by Undersecretary of
War Patterson to the MesSrs. Green
and Murray declaring himself pro
foundly gratified" at the noble
showing of labor in face of the fact
that in his own War Department
in seven months 100000 man days
had been lost through strikes on
Army contracts.
To urge the people to double pro-
duction and then say no word of
reproach for the labor racketeers
who have so perilously retarded the
defense program-and still are
doing so-cannot be justified and
should not be excused. 1t is calcu-
lated to destroy confidence in those
who operate the defense machine.
From top to bottom the policy seems
accepted that there must be no
critical word uttered about any,
thing that organized labor and
organized labor leaders do. Men
who long to speak out are restrained
by the conviction that to do so
would be resented at the White
House.
While labor leaders close up fac
tories and mines and halt machines
in order TO force higher wages, es-
tablish the closed shop and increase
their political power, those in gov
ernmental authority declare they
are profoundly gratified." Other
wise they are silent, which is natu-
rally regarded as acquieSence, If
not encouragement. 1t is appalling
that labor lobbyists should be able
to inspire such paralyzing fear
among the men who run the Gov
ernment. The only other explana-
ton is that the latter are cooper
ating in the effort TO use the national
crisis for further so-called social
gains"
(Copyright Ia4lD
Evening star., 1941-09-19
This Changing World
Reich, u S. ond Britain Wooing Jupon;
Naval Surprise Declared Awaiting Nozis

the bulk of its Navy in the Pa
cific. Thus, by refusing to heed
the wooing and threats Of Uncle
Sam and John Bull, Japan Is be-
ing told that she could be Of real
help to the Axis. And her reward,
in such a case, would be in keep
ing with the services she might
render to the common cause of
totalitarianism.
These views have been pre-
sented TO the Emperor by repre-
sentatives of the military clique
who are anxious to expand
Japan's influence as far as Sing
apore and the Netherlands Indies.
Japan, they say, may have TO
go through some painful mo-
ments, but in the end the sacri-
fees she will be called on to make
will be more than rewarded by
the final victory.
Surprise Waits Reich.
United States Ambassador
Joseph Grew is singing a diff
ferent song. He is showing the
Japanese leaders reports from
Europe indicating the serious
situation in which the Reich
finds itself because of the diff
culties of obtaining oil. The
japanese know only too we'll that
without oil and gasoline no
modern army can hope for vic
tory. An accurate picture Of the
situation in the oil area from
Syria to the Indian border has
been given to the Toxic govern
ment.
There has been no exaggera-
ton regarding the number Of
Russo-British forces and their
equipment in the Middle East.
Furthermore, the Japanese are
being told not to delude them
selves about the ability of the
United States Navy to take care
of the Far East and the Atlantic
at the same time. While the
transfer Of large portions of the
Pacific feet to the Atlantic might
hasten the final outcome Of the
war, America is sufficiently strong
in the North Atlantic to cope
with the German submarines and
air raiders, Toxic is being told.
And reliable sources believe the
Germans may receive tremen-
dous surprise within the neXt
few weeks in their own home
ports. The cryptic statement of
Secretary of the Navy Knox at
his Wednesday press conference
that there are "other means" to
fight the raiders may be an
enigma to the general public, but
it is clear to the Germans.
While maintaining a friendly
attitude toward Nippon and pos
sessing an understanding of its
grave problems, the position of
the United States toward Toxic
has remained clear: Give up the
Axis and we will talk business,
stick to the Axis and there is
likely to be a war which would
be disastrous 10 Japan, regardless
of how things may turn out in
other theaters of operations.
Emperor Hirohito is playing
for time.
Evening star., 1941-09-19

avoids MENTION
ing the extraor-
binary manner
in which organ
lied labor strikes
on defense work
h av e delayed
and are delaying
the vital job of
defense, it has
not b ee n ad-
vanced.
If there is one,
certainly som e
spokesman of the
adnniniStra tim
Evening star., 1941-09-19

Commerce h a S
by its tactics in
dicated that 1t
wishes to in
timidate writer's
! n o I h e r
mediums Of ex-
preston.
First to resent
such an impli-
cation by public
protest TO the
Senate commit
tee is Dire "
Pearson, c o
= q
Evening star., 1941-09-19

strength TO op-
crate a type
writer, I don't
suppose I havs
any business ad-
vising the lead
ers OF that new
and laudable or
ganiZation, Hale
America.
Youhave heard
of Hale America,
of course. 1t was
founded som g
months ago by
Jack Kelly. one
Evening star., 1941-09-19
Board to Study Roll Service

STAUNTON, Va, Sept. 19. tSpe-
cisD The Board of Supervisors will
meet tonight to discuss proposed
abandonment of certain services on
the Baltimore g. Ohio valley branch
railroad operating through Augusta
County. 1t will also discuss pro-
posed abandonment of telegraph
services at Greenville.
Evening star., 1941-09-19

nothing more
than we were
doing. N ow
he says that
victory is just
around t h e
corner if we
wait and see.
I wish l
could be as
certain as Mr..
Ho oV er is
that Britain
a nd Russia
and the re-
volt nf Erpo
Evening star., 1941-09-19
Funninq Saves Chicks

MERRIAM, KanS., Sept. 19 CP)-
Leland Wilson swung the door and
just swung and swung and swung
for five hours.
1t saved the lives of 5000 baby
Evening star., 1941-09-19
By FRANK r. KENT.

If there is any excuse for the way
in which (the President setting the
example) everybody in authority in
the defense organization carefully
Evening star., 1941-09-19
On the Record
By DOROTHY THOMPSON.

In 1892 Mr.. Hoover expressed
the belief that prosperity was
just around the corner, if we
could only wait patiently and do
Evening star., 1941-09-19

HE opinions OF the Uriter this page their not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented in The
Stars effort to all sides questions of interest to its
readers although such opinions contradictory
Themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1941-09-19
Senate Quiz
Accused of
Era of Intolerance
Echoed in Writer'S
Protest at Tactics
Nv DAVID LAWRENCE.

Not content with Coercive tactics
toward the writers and producers
of motion picture dramas, the
Senate Subcommittee on Interstate
Evening star., 1941-09-19

chicks threatened with suffocation
when power failure cut off the
ventilators in his hatchery incu-
bator.
Mr.. Wilson figured his exercise
was worth about S4O0 an hour.
Evening star., 1941-09-19

Mexico has banned the film The
Oregon Trail" claiming 1t is deroga-
tory to Mexico.
Evening star., 1941-09-19
McLemore
Eager TO Become
50-Cents-u-Yeur Man
By HENRY McLEMORE.

PHILADELPHIA.-As a man who
has to take setting-up exercises
and a handful Of vitamin pills
each morning to muster sufficient