The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-19
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Miami; it knows that some Key Westers
in making trips to that city, buy condensed
milk for themselves and their friends and
bring it here on their return trips (the writ
err has obtained two cans in that mannerl :
The Citizen knows that butter is obtainable
in Miami, and it knows some Key Westers
who have not had any butter for two months
or more.
The Citizen knows further that some
wholesale commodity houses in Miami that
used to send solicitors to Key West, have
discontinued that practice, and it heard a
remark accredited to a solicitor, here on
his last trip, to this effect: why should we
bother to come to Key West when we can
sell everything we have just around the COR
ner from our business house
In line with our almost entire depend
ence on Miami for foodstuffs, The Citizen
ran story on Tuesday, in which the Cham
Der of Commerce was quoted as stating,
I'VE are going to see that we get our fair
share of meats in Key West, and if we can't
get it in Miami, III get it elsewhere.
Now, the chambers secretary inferen-
italy states he said no such thing, and added,
we would like to go on record as Civ
ing to the esteemed War Production Board
the comforting assurance that we do not
contemplate taking over any of their respon-
sibilities.
In the first place, the War Production
Board has nothing to do whatever with
what we may eat or how much we may eat
unless we relish such dishes as tanks and
ships, guns and airplanes, or delicious dish
of bargeload of vtamin B yellow pine
lumber.
The government agency with which we
have to deal is the Office of Price Admins
tration, and Prentiss Brown, its head. has
assured the American people there will be
fair equalization" in the distribution Of
effect on March %.
When that time comes, if Miami whole
salers can sell all the meats they get lust
around the corner which will result in Key
West not getting its fair share, The Citizen,
regardless of how much it may hurt any in
dividual's or any civic bodys feelings, will
go elsewhere than Miami in demanding
of the OPA that the people of Key West be
not Disseminated against, that Mr. Browns
promised equalization" be applied just as
much to the people of Key West as it is to
the people of Miami.
The Citizen is not going to leave it to
the esteemed War Production Board" to
supply our needs; The Citizen is going to
take its case to Prentiss Brown himself, and
The Citizen feels confident that this fair and
square man will insist that his ..equaliza-
ton applies to Key West as well as to Mi
ami, or any other city in the country.
What halo of sacredness descends on
Miami that precludes US from going else
where? Why should the Key West Cham
Der of Commerce repudiate the aecrediting
of that commendable suggestion to it? Was
it because the chamber did not say it? All
right, it didn't say it But why the anxiety
sinArepidating it? 1t was in the interests of
Key West and Key Westers, so why repu-
diate anything in the interests of Key West
and Key Westers?
Surprising The Citizen had remarked
L
Key West has the most equitable climate IN
the United States, and supposng the cham
ber's remarks were not exactly in those
words, would it rush into print to deny them:
The Citizen, only recently, stepped on
corns when it fought against the illegally
of raising the salaries of Key West Of
ficials, because those salaries are fixed by
law; The Citizen stepped on some more
corns when it denounced the giving away
of $500 by the county commissioners.
The Citizen is for any Key Wester
when the cause he espouses is the cause of
the people as whole; it is against any Key
Wester whose cause is individualistic and
against the interests of the community as a
whole.
The Citizen is for Key West, and where
the interests of Key West are concerned, it
leaves nothing to the esteemed War Pro-