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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-21
THE BOY WONDER OF
PUERTO RICO
BY MARGARET KERNODLE
AP Features Writer
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-At 7

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-At 7
A. M. daily 33-year-old Jaime
Benitez shows up at his office at
the University of Puerto Rico
with his coat on, but he quickly
pulls it off because he is a shirt
sleeves college president and one
of the youngest.
- BY 81 o'clock he has taught a
Gass IN political science. His of
flee day never ends before or
7, and he considers his job a "a
hour duty.
! He is in the United States now
to watch war programs invade
| college campuses because he
wants to reorganize his univer-
sity of 5000 students on a war
working basis. He knows Wash
ignton well, having spent six
years here working his way
through Georgetown University.
He will consult leading college
presidents including Robert
Hutchens of the University of
Chicago, which he attended. He
was thrilled to lecture to stu
dents of Spanish at Boiling field
the other day because he likes
| teaching better than any other
work.
| Chancellor Benitez was one of
those boy wonders we read about.
! AT 81 he had two bachelor de-
grees Zone in art, one in law and
/ two MAS ditto and was po-
j litical science instructor at the
University of Puerto Rico.
{ Today he talks of re-vamping
the courses in .nhilasaRhE. at the
university Ito saake~peaples live
in the 10th century and, if pos
sible, in Puerto Rico, because so
few people live for today.
| Chancellor Benitez plans to
/ change the university of which
he has been the head for two
months by adapting the Hutchens
plan to the needs of Puerto Rico.
j He intends to put the university
on a year-round schedule and
require basic courses in ssthe
things everybody should know
about history, science, humanities
and philosophy" before allowing
students to specialize.
Among new members of. the
faculty he is selecting are three
Spanish refugees: Don Fernando
de los Rios, Spanish ambassador
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MANY DIFFER ON
FOOD SUPPLY FOR
NATIONS NEEDS
SOME CLAIM BEANS ARE Bull
LETS; BEEFsTEAK SAID TO
BE MORE 5 UB sTANTIAL
FOR STRENGTH
(BY JACK STINNETT)

/ WASHINGTON, ID. C., Il. =
Some of our even more conserva-
tive Capital observers are saying
that now that Claude r. Wickard
is virtually food production car,
it's time to quit fiddling around
with halfway measures and jim
goistic phrases about our food
supply and what is going to hap
pen to it.
Our war strategists, they say,
have already decided that Ameri-
can beans are bullets and that a
few thousand pounds of beefSteak
can be more devastating than all
the four ton blockbuSters dropped
on Italy in an hour long night raid.
They argue, and with some JUS
LITIGATION, that the prospects of
getting on the bread line has kept
Spain from going over to the AK
is and that the smiles we now get
from Portugal come from their
two way look at the food situa-
ton on both sides of the fence.
! SIS
/ In hungry Italy, they contend,
faint heart is a disease caused by
empty stomachs. In little diff
ferent way, the same thing applies
to France. In Greece, Holland,
Belgium, Norway and many other
countries, once we have our
bridgeheads food will give birth
overnight to millions of loyal
commandos.
That summary doesn't even
consider the Transformation of
the Russians. If that hunger
hardened nation falls (and well it
couldD, it will be for lack of nour-
i ishment-not for lack of courage
and arms.
That, briefly. is how the mill
tary and civilian strategists now
look at the global war picture.
Food has ceased to be a mere hu-
manitarian product. It's a Weap-
on as vital as air-power, man
power or control of the seas.
A glance at the meat supply
demand is interesting. Discuss
ing the proposed rationing the
other day with representative
Of the packing interests, got this
statement:
1.-The United States normal
consumption of meat is around II
billion pounds. Next year we will
produce and market "a billion
pounds, if all goes well-and that
will be three billion pounds less
than the prospective demand"
And that doesn't mean giving
more than a subsistence minimum
to any Allied nations or Axis cap
tive nations which might be re-
leased in the meantime.
Back of all this isn't any inabil-
ity on the part of this country to
feed itself and its soldiers and
feed them royalty. It's just that
at the same time the demand has
hit an all-time high, the strategists
have realized that food is am
munition which may knock more
of our enemies out of the war (by
bringing them over to our side)'
than any other weapon.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-21
LIFE FROM LAVA?
BvH BT.AKEsLEE
Wide World Science Editor
NEW WORK Dec OLA

WIDE world science EQltOf
NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-A. L.
Herrera, Mexican biologist, re-
ports some evidence in laboratory
experiments that life, at least on
the scale of bacteria, may have
originated in volcanoes, and may
still be coming from eruptions.
His experiments have covered
10 years. He has mixed chemi-
Gals containing formaldehyde,
ammonia, sulphur and cyanogen.
From the mixtures have come
about 5000 different microscopic
forms, all of them showing some
of the properties of living micro
organisms.
He does not claim that these test
tube things are alive But they
act variously like. amelia, spores
and chromosomes which are the
particles which fix heredity. In
fact he says they initiate the
whole microscopic world.
In addition, chemical analysis
shows that they produce certain
reactions. From these reactions
come vestiges of starch, amino
acids which are the parts of pro-
teins and globules of green, red
and yellow pigments. All these
are ordinary products of living
micro-organisnls.
Volcanoes, he points out, con-
tain in their emanations sulphur,
cyanogen and ammonia, which
may be the basis of continual
synthesis, or creation, of life from
inorganic matter.
As supporting evidence that
life can originate in inert matter
he refers to experiments of a few
years ago in the United States, in
which mixtures of olive oil and
gasoline produced microscopic
things which, though presumably
not alive, initiated much that hap
pens in cell of living tissue.
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FOR SALE IN KEY WEST: 194l

FOR SALE IN KEY WEST: 1941
Vagabond Coach, all steel trail
err, four wheels, six-ply tires
like new, tWo-wheel Slimp
dolly, three rooms, three clos
cts with two-pier glass mirrors,
electric refrigerator, double
sink, water tank and running
water connection, two tank
bottled gas stove with electric
exhaust fan. electric blower
circulates heat between floors.
Innersprirg couches, sleep four.
Lavatory, septic toilet, Warner
brakes. Interior thirty feet.
Value fourteen months ago, ST.
1890. Make cash offer, no fl
nancing. Phone 292. dec216tx
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THREE-PIECE UPHOLSTERED
Wicker Living Room Suite. 915
North Beach. dec19-2tx
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USE FOR NYLON

NEW YORK - One of the rea-
sons why nylon hosiery is scarce
is because the towlines being used
to pull the biggest Army gliders
are being made of a special nylon
composition, strong as any rope
made.
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POCKETBOOK, containing val
liable papers. Finder can keep
money if papers are returned
to Benny, 905 Simonton street.
dec19-2tx
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LOST = Yesterday, somewhere
between sunrise and sunset,
two golden hours, each set with
sixty diamond minutes. No re-
ward is offered for they are
gone forever.-Horace Mann
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FOR SALE-Trailer, sleeps two.
14-foot. Good tires. Inside
good shape. See at Viewers
Trailer Camp, US. Highway l..
dec21-3tx
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FOR SALE-Small Burroughs
Adding Machine. Key West
Drug CO. dec19-3t
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FOUR TIMES AS MANY

NEW YORK-The U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture has four
times as many employees as it had
during the first World War.
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Classified Column
Observation-Disclosures
FOR SALE WANTED
WANTED

WANTED-A chance to bid on
your next printing order. THE
ARTMAN PRESS. jly9-tf
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FOR SALE--One rebuilt Hoover,
one used GE cleaner. Also,
one used, with rebuilt motor,
guaranteed, Electroiux vacuum
cleaner. I have a few new
Electrolux cleaners for Christ
mas. See O'Sweeney before it
is too late. dec10-tf
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WANTED-House or Apartment
by Coast Guard Officer and
wife. Phone 292. dec21-2tx
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WANTED-Smal Apartment or
Cottage. Middle aged couple.
No children. Box H, co Citi-
zen. dec18-3tx
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WANTED-Garage in neighbor-
hood of Simonton end Eaton
streets. Phone 81, ask for Mr..
Frazier. dec19-3t
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-03
North Woods Reports
Boers Tough Guys
Branded Effeminote
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

Yesterday Osun the Bosun swung the tough sergeant
contest out to with the tide running far and wide
Today Ray o. Wiker of the Milwaukee Sentinel throws
loop 1t and drags back to land and Wisconsin.
Ray O. Wker, feature editor Of the Milwaukee Sentinel
has the tough Of the north woods in action
Ray reads copy my stuff and claims is efemnae
So when Ray sounds off the tough subject, must
whr the dias
my Zimmerman Is tough" Wiker writes "that
he went Niagara Falls in bird and out dusty
"They call him Sarge Zimm, and 1t takes three police
whistles and guy with asthma to pronounce his
rectly. really ZklOcyOzzz and he is Fighting Pole
"He will fight at the drop of hat II 1t doesn't fit"
We also heard today from Pvt. Ed Estenberg,
where in Michigan about tough sergeant whose isn't
clipped for insurance money Ed don't believe any
soldier got that tough.
Which just about closes the contest until hear from
the farung battle lines of the Pacific No tournament would
be fair unless heard from Australia and the New Guinea
nges where boys floating cellar doors and swing
ing on vines.
Then will hear Of deeds that will make Venetian
blind of chls and thrills open and close your spne
And while waiting for those communications I'm going
to start to tell you about myself in the army.
The last letter have about tough soldiers is from Ln
Phillips of Texas Lyn oldmer who writes weekly letters
to every Texas friend In the service
He includes this stuff in his mail bag, and feel 1t
should spade up rivalry. I'll tell you about Lyn
tomorrow.
In the meantime keep calm yesterdays tapioca
as cool penguin with bow legs
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
COPYRIGHT
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-03
The On|ooker
BY Henry McLemOre

through Trustbuster Thurman
Arnold, has charged the AP with
being a monopoly. Both sides
have their say by now. so it Is
time that outsiders came gallop-
ing in to have their 10 cents
worth.
In my 10 cents worth I will
not discuss the rights or wrongs
OF the case (not that / haven't
an opinion: in times like these
the government has a lot TO do
TO start attacking an organiza-
ton that has never done any,
thing but serve the country and
serve il welD but / will tell Mr..
Arnold that he has tackled a
tough baby.
/ speak from experience. I
learned about the AP the tough
way. l worked in direct oppo-
Sition 10 il. AS a handsome,
dashing employee Of the United
Press for SONG IL years, the
AP was my enemy. Everything
/ did was measured, for success
or failure. against what an AP
man did.
] can tell Mr.. Arnold right
now that he can't afford 10 take
time 10 eat or sleep when he
is working against the AP. If
he does. he'll get his pants
beaten off. / used to try to
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-03
Better Health

WHENEVER there Is a great
w shifting Of population, there
arise, ipso facto, new health
problems.
The United States is facing
such a situation now.
When shifting of population
occurs in disorganized districts,
such as the terrain of war-torn
Europe and Asia, the result, as
ii needs only a glance at history
TO show, is likely to be a fare-up
of world wide epidemics - the
black death, cholera, and just
yesteryear, malignant influenza.
Here, where no such real dis
location has occurred-no bomb
ing of water supplies, sewage
disposal plants, no destruction of
existing housing or serious dis
ruption of medical service or
food supply-we need anticipate
nothing of that kind, but we
should bend all our energies TO
see to il that in every possible
way health agencies should be
reinforced. augmented, preserved
and stabilized.
s,.oss
TINQUESTIONABLY the most
" serious situation created by
the emergency is the housing
problem.
Actual, not imaginary. In
stances Of cities with a popula-
ton of Is, 900 in 1910 now having
10000, and still growing.
Housing. plumbing. sewage
disposal for this addition is
going on.
Approximately 100000 new
dwelling units are occupied. or
in construction at the present
time.
Local health authorities should
be. but often are not, consulted
about these projects.
In one eastern city a new
residential development went up
until il was found all the cellars
were flooded.
This could have been avoided
by draining the swamp which
was below the building site the
strangers picked out.
Local authorities also should
be supported by public opinion
in preventing mercenary activ-
tiles.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-03
NATURALLY, I am for Free

NATURALLY, I am for Free
~ dom of the Press. Not only
is IL one of the bases upon which
the United States stands. but II
the press were muzzled / would
have to return 10 my former
occupation. that of understudy to
a sharecropper.
II was not until I filled out
my selective service occupational
QUESTIONABLE that / fully real
lied that / was a sort Of final
home edition of a man. with
printers ink instead OF blood
hopping through my veins. There
wasn't a single occupation on
that QUESTIONABLE that i knew
anything about. and it listed just
about everything. from asbestos
Aartwork to zebra restriping.
There were some could learn.
of course. but not a blessed one
that could move right into
without having the foreman
shoot me before noon as made
quate. incompetent, and wholly
without talent.
A IL of the foregoing, IL Is
"A now safe 10 disclose. is a
windup for discussion OF the
governments suit against the
Associated Press. AS you doubt
less know, the government,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-03
by Walter WinchelI

he hadn't snapped back at Sena-
tor Nye's snide comment, he
said:
"Oh, I knew Walter would do
IL, 40 I didn't bother"
Jack Shuttleworth called. Said
that some day we're going TO
wake up and find that we have
prohibition again-if we don't
wake up!
TALKED with JesSel. Told me
l. how some wise movie mag
mates had cautioned him against
being seen in show on Broad
way unless Ii was a surefire hit.
George pointed to a huge sta
tionary clock in front of
jewelers. and observed:
see that clock which doesn't
keep time? Well, twice a day
ID IL right"
Four of Sammy Hayes crew
joined up.
SWITCHBOARD operators at
~ the Grand Central induction
spot have neat squelch for i'm
patient callers:
But this Is the Army, Mr..
Jones" is the retort.
Frank Loeser, who wrote
Praise the Lord and Pass the
Ammunition" which may bring
Navy Relief $4,000. also wrote
Jingle. Jangle. Jingle" and Il
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-03
GENERAL MARSHALL and

other high military authori-
ties confirm what / have been
telling you all along, that those
middle-aged fellows they have
been taking in the army are not
worth a dime a dozen as combat
soldiers simply because they
cannot stand up under the grind.
The spirit is steel, the flesh is
putty.
Yet the drafting of them con-
tinues by wholesale, and perhaps
properly so, as far as the draft
boards are concerned because
that is the law. and the board
members are almost breaking
their backs bending backwards
TO aid criticism-in many in
stances bending so far as to
lose sight of plain common
sense.
/ have been told OF two one
eyed men being drafted and now
serving on the West Coast. Both
are in their mid-thirties. 1
know Of men around 40 who are
being rejected, not once but
several times by the examining
physicians Of the navy and coast
guard and other branches of the
service because of physical dis
abilities but who have been
drafted for the army over these
objections.
I THINK il obvious that these
L men are not proper material
for soldering. / do not think
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-03
Watch Your Step,
Mr.. Arnold

sleep and eat Chose are habits
of mine) against EN-, and
always wound up peeking none
too gracefully from behind the
ball marked 81"
THERE was that time at the
Il Kentucky Derby when
Stagehand was the winter book
favorite. with hundreds Of thou
sands of dollars bet on him.
Stagehand developed a crick in
his neck or govt Tor something
else that horses have) a few
days before the Derby and the
nation craved TO know how the
equine patient was doing.
/ stayed with Stagehand so
much he started calling me
Henry, but the day before the
Derby. when il looked as If he
would be all right to run, I left
the barns of Churchill Downs
for a nap in a hotel The Alp
man acted as il he were going
to the hotel, too, but he didn't.
He circled the barns twice and
resumed his sick-watch at the
bedside Of the ailing thorough
bred.
A few hours later Stagehand
was declared out of the race by
his trainer, Earl Sande, and I
learned about il in an Alp dis
patch. My superiors were very
nice about IL all. Only so words
of their 51-word message to me
were censored by the Western
Union.
MIR. ARNOLD, If he ever
w wants any information on
the AP, won't have to take more
than a few steps to find an AP
man TO question. There are
thousands of them. The APP be-
lieves in smothering a story with
manpower. I've covered a
Poughkeepsie regatta and ar
rived at my rendezvous on the
Hudson, with the whole story to
do, to find the banks of that
river crowded with AP'ers. I
often wondered how there was
any room left for spectators, or
how the spectators managed to
see through the blanket of AP
men on the banks, and on the
bridges, and hanging from cliffs,
and peeking from bushes.
Mr.. Arnold needn't question
the APPS facts. l used TO pray
for some of their staffers and
assistant staffers and general
handymen 10 make mistakes, but
the fellow they said had red hair
always showed up with red hair;
the discus they said travelled so
many feet always Travelled the
number Of feet mentioned, and
when they said a mans middle
name was Istobaxux, il was
Istobaxux.
One of the quiet prides that I
allow myself to enjoy is based
on the fact that for more than
a decade / opposed the AP and
somehow did well enough to al
ways get paid on Friday.
Give me decent odds and I'll
bet that Mr.. Arnold finds out
how his suit comes out by read
ing an AP dispatch. Don't let
EN- scoop you on your own story,
Mr.. Trust-Buster.
Distributed py McNaugnt Syndicate, Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-03
Draft boards Fill
Army With Unfit

gassed, once quite badly. He
offered no reasons for deferment
but he felt that he Is not quail
fed for soldering any more and
he asked his draft board:
Don't you want to hear my
war record?"
"No," was the reply, "we're
not interested In that"
Now I say the board should
have been greatly interested In
this detail and should have
gotten the mans history from
the files of the war department
in Washington. If necessary. and
taken into serious consideration
the question Of whether or not
a man of that age who had gone
through the desperate cam
paigns Of the other war and had
a hospital record was proper
material for our new army.
1 think the history of every
man who served In the other
war with combat troops and
who Is now called up in the
draft should interest the boards
because / say men who UNDER
went that grueling experience
are not physically fit for the
soldering of today. regardless
of their spirit and regardless Of
the occasional letters I receive
from middle-aged guys who
claim they are standing up all
right in the service now.
There are exceptions to nearly
every rule.
Copyright. is47, by King Features
Distributed by International News Service
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-03
Shifting
Problem
: by DIR. Logan CIendening

A SHIFTING population
"A brings with it the menace of
the disease carrier - typhoid.
diphtheria, smallpox, meningitis,
etc.
. For the first three mentioned,
individual vaccination is fully
protective and every citizen has
a duty TO have himself or herself
now vaccinated in that way.
Medical care is provided In
many new housing communities
by having clinics established on
the grounds, thus avoiding the
necessity of long bus trip and
possibly additional walk to the
hospital facilities in town.
Temporary but adequate hos
pitals on the grounds also are
provided-in some places.
The more of this that is done,
the better.
HOSPITAL and medical care,
IL with the shortage due to the
demands of the armed forces,
does not seem TO me as pressing
as it has to others.
We have had quite an over
supply of both during the past
decade and if hospital rooms
and doctors are now reserved
only for absolutely necessary ILL
ness, / believe little serious in
justice will be done.
Let the neurotics weep at the
wailing wall
In the newly expanded indus
trial communities this is a much
more serious problem.
One important point Is that
state medical boards should for
the emergency forego their ex-
aminations if they want older
physicians, who are the only
ones available and who can not
be expected to be able to pass
the tests on basic subjects, to
come to their new communities.
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS
J. V.-Can sinus drain into
ones chest? What are the symp-
toms?
Answer: Chronic nasal infec-
ton frequently drains into the
chest causing a generalized bron-
chitis with symptoms of cough,
expectoration and frequent
colds"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-03
On Broadway.

AnEAR Mr.. W.: Warner
~ Brothers checked on the au-
dience response to Enrol Flynn's
current film, Desperate Jour-
ney," in local theaters-and then
decided to open his newest.
Gentleman JIM" In 80 theaters
next week.
The boos were drowned out
by the applause.
W1ENDY IGLEHART, who quit
w her job at Harper's Bazaar
Ito do war work in South Ameri-
can relations) soon will marry
1t. Tex McCrary-not the ex-
Mirror editor writer.
She will marry his brother,
also called Tex, now In the
navy's air force.
Wendy had her pick-and the
navy won.
Fred Allen called. Said a 5th
columnist is a louise who'd turn
the Liberty Bell into the scrap
metal drive.
SsCTAR BOUND" will be the
~ title of a new musical
comedy, expected around
Thanksgiving Day.
Really a tribute TO Gus Ed
wards, who made so many stars.
Mimics OF today who imper-
senate Jessel. Cantor, Geo.
Price, ct al. in it.
II any one in or out of H'wood
Is looking for a modern Lillian
Russell-they can spot her at
the Waldorf hat check rooms
about 5 p. m.
Russell Patterson. the Illus
traitor. is picking the beauties
for the revue due at the new
Rio Bomba. on the site of the
Embassy on 57th Street.
Bennett Cert phoned. Said
following your announcement
about Cecil Browns book. From
kSuez to Singapore" the response
MONDAY morning was electric.
That you're the best book sales
man OF all.
squawks about the item
~ regarding Mature being
taken by the army after he en-
listed in the coast guard.
You should clarity why. they
say. Msture--it appears-was
actually a member Of the Tenn
porary Reserve. And such re-
servists are not exempt from the
draft.
Allen Prescott is now a 1t. in
the navy.
When Willkie was asked why