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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24
E. r. Eastman
President and Editor Of the
American 4griculfurisf

MR. EASTMAN OPENS: Farmers
and their organizations are almost
unanimously opposed to subsidies
because:
l. Subsidies promote ineficiency: 1t
is human nature to depend on. a f.
nancial crutch. Subsidies weaken
character; lessen initiative. Those
| who receive them are not inclined to
work hard Subsidies decrease food
production. and increase food costs to
consumers.
q Subsidies In agriculture are un-
just: all taxpayers and future gen.
erations pay for benefits to certain
segments of society. Subsidies in
crease the danger of imitation Most
agricultural subsidies are unjust be-
cause the public is led to believe they
are farm subsidies; in reality they
are consumer subsidies, used to pro-
tect consumers against necessary war;
time prices. In the end consumers
suffer. An adequate supply of food,
not the price, is the real problem.
Farmers know the diminishing food
supply would have been increased
had the law of supply and demand
not been tempered with by unWise
price control schemes like subsidies
and price ceilings.
8. Subsidies promote political abuses:
by manipulating subsidies between
different classes and sections. Politi-
clans use them to build enormous
voting power; rewarding the faithful
and .penalizing the non-supporters,
thereby creating an entrenched bu-
reaucracy, a strongly centralized gov
eminent which could lead to dicta-
torship.
MIR. MARSH CHALLENGES: Big,
landed, banking farmers, oppose di-
rect subsidies, which they won't get,
and fear postwar competition; but
favored tariffs, parity and conserva-
ton payments, and curtailed produc-
ton which subsidized them, hurt
tenant farmers and soaked consum-
erS. Big farmers didn't call those
"crutches!'' Intelligent administration
of the draft is vital. Available farm
machinery and equipment are almost
sufficient; rich farmers can afford
them, poor farmers can't, even if ra-
toned. About one-third of Americas
low income people can't increase their
dollar income much during the war
and must be protected from higher
price controls.
MR.. EASTMAN REPLIES: Farmers
without the tools can't get them now
for the Spring food production cam
paign, subsidies or not. / don't know
any 'big, landed. banking farmers"
The majority of farmers are on FAM
ily-sized farms, They are the men,
bers of lie Grange, the Farm Bureau.
and the many cooperatives in the
National, Cooperative Council. They
oppose subsidies, crop controls and
other artificial price-control schemes.
They favor selling their products and
buying their supplies at prices which
the market justifies. That policy will
raise the food TO win this war. Farm
ers resent subsidies and government
handouts as a slur on their patri-
otism!
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24
HEARD NO WORD FROM THE DEAD

Mrs. Harry Houdini died this month,
some sixteen years after the death of her
husband, the noted magician and performer
OF exploits extraordinary.
Upon his death the great Houdini,
some of whose featsa ontipuef tQobaffle the
experts, made a compact with his wife that
he would attempt, to communicate with her.
from he.sprt world.5otea ..aasosz- .:sa* 50
For Zen years, after his En- She made
efforts to- col tact her late husband; join
irg in many seances in an attempt to pierce
the veil between them. At last, she became
convinced that communication between the
living and the dead was impossible
After all, who knows? The failure Of
Mrs. Houdini, and others, to get into COM
munication with departed loved ones,
proves nothing. Most of them look for ma
terial manifestations of spiritual power.
Certainly, if the dead of this world move in
a spiritual realm they can hardly exhibit
erial presence.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print 1t
w thout fear and without favor; never be
afraid to attack wrong or to applaud~right;
always fight for progress; never be the or"
gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique.
faction or class; always do It's utmost FOG the
injustice; denounce vice and praise, virtue,
commend good done by individual or organ
ization; tolerant of others rights, views and
opinions: print only news that will elevate
and not contaminate the reader never COM
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

The soil is generous in its rewards, but
only to him who works hard to obtain that
generosity Drawn and muscle are the pre-
requisites to the hundred-fold dividends
that are extracted from the soil.
All of which is pertinent to the latest
rationing edict issued by the Office of Price
Administration. Key Westers would be as
sured an abundance of most of the food
stuffs ratoned, if we had among us work
ers similar to those Of so years and more
ago who got out of the soil on the Florida
Keys tens of thousands of crates of toma
toes pineapples, stringbeans, sweet pep
pers and other fruits and vegetables.
1@~ But as the oldtimers passed away,
they were not replaced, and the productive
ness on the Florida Keys gradually died out
to mere trickle of what it had been. And
it should be recalled that the oldtimers,
among whom it was not unusual to earn
$4,000 each during a season, had none of
the facilities of transportation that are in
effect today. The farmers and grovemen of
those days depended entirely on sailing
boats to take their produce to market.
Sometimes Gains destroyed an entire
cargo but the oldtimers grit their teeth
and produced other bumper crops. But
Gains, in keeping boats from reaching the
markets in time, were not the only adverse
circumstances with which the oldtimers had
tonGontend, They fought against drought
ara pests, too, but the outstanding factor
was that they fought, and he who fights is
sure to win sometimes.
Only here and there on the Florida
Keys is any truck gardening done today.
Sugar Loaf and Cudioes, to mention only
two keys in the lower chain and Plantation
and Key Largo to mention only two in the
upper chain, produced far more food
stuffs in those days than the Key West Of
today could consume. From here, tomatoes
and pineapples were shipped chiefly to New
York, and some of the growers on Planta-
ton Key and Key Largo made direct ship
ments to various cities.
The Florida Keys still have the soil. but
it is paying small dividends today because
we have not the men to work it as we had
In the days when agriculture was an i'm
portant item in our economy.
A great deal is being said now about
Victory Gardens but the chief factor in
getting produce. out of victory or any
other type of garden is work
The good earth is good only to him
who is not afraid of toll.
The soil rewards toll
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24
The OPA Tells
SPECIAL RATION
CASES

AP Features
This is one of a series of week
" Observation-Disclosures articles,
prepared by the Office of Price
Administration, to help solve
wartime problems on the home
front.
OIL bought several cases of
tomatoes from a nearby can
merry at the. close of last year $
canning season. Is there any
way l can trade these off in or
der to have a better assortment
of foods?'
Ayes, you may exchange
cans of equal point value both
with your neighbor and with
your grocer.
OIL customarily order my
canned goods by mail order for
the entire season at one time.
What can l do about such an
order this year?
Aft you order for the sea-
son because of marketing or
transportation problems you may
ask your local War Price and
Rstioning Board 10 issue you a
certificate for the full point
value of all the stamps in the
ration books of all the mem
bers of your family-5l2 points
ger person. This certificate viii
enable you TO buy an eight
months supply of canned foods
at one time.
Q-How can l get an allow
ance of canned goods for my
son when he comes home on
| furlough?
Aft he comes home for a
week or more he may present
his leave papers to the local
board and get a certificate good
| for buying l6 points of canned
food per week.
Q.-How can / get extra canned
food if these are prescribed by
my doctor?
A.-BY presenting your local
War Price and Rationing Board
with a statement from your
doctor explaining why extra
rationed foods are needed and
why unrafioned foods canno1
be used instead.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

low. -. 1oUTT OF claims,
Washington, established.
1863-President Lincoln signs
Act creating Territory of Ari-
iona, by dividing New Mexico.
1861. S. House resolves to
impeach President Andrew john
son for high crimes and mis-
demeanors in office.
1874-Historic women's crusade
to- stop selling of liquor starts in
Ohio and spreads to other states.
1912-Lawrence, Mass, textile
workers on strike prevented from
sending their childlen to Phila-
delphia and riot results.
1933-The League of Nations
passes judgement against Japan
as an aggressor in China.
|. 1871 -. Jap foreign minister
states Japan is entitled to all
"Oceanicar.
!. 1941-Government takes .pri-
.ority control of aluminium and
machine tools.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

Judge jefferson B. Brownies
portrait, which was painted by
Frank Townsend Hutchens, will
be exhibited for several days in
San Carlos Book Store before the
portrait is sent to Tallahassee to
be hung in the senate chamber, to-
gether with the likenesses of all
other men who have been presi-
dent of the Florida senate.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24
KEY west In
DAYS GONE BY
FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN
OF FEBRUARY "a. 1893

Mrs. Vet Brown, who is chair
man of the Division of Gar
dens in the planting-of-trees
movement in the state, has urged
the Key West Conservation Com
mittee to expand its activity in its
campaign to beautify this city y e
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24
Today's Horoscope

.Today's natives are oyer-gen-
erous and hence, usually. not
too well supplied with worldly
goods. They. are given to strong
friendships. It is a degree for a
much beloved teacher, and one
respecteds BY the world at large.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

Howard Russell, who has made
his home in Woodman, Colorado,
for many years. says The Key
West Citizen, issued in his home
town, is the most welcomed perio-
dical that comes into his house.
MIR. Russell wrote The Citizen
commencing it for keeping him in
touch with activities in Key West
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24
you AND l

You and I make home of any
place we go
And find joy in any kind ~
weather.
If the earth is clothed in bloom
or snow
And summer days invite or
bleak winds blow.
What matter if we are together
We make our world and our wea-
Their.
You and / make heaven here on
earth,
We need not wait for realms
eternal.
We know the use of tears, know
sorrows worth;
Our paths lead closely by paths
supernal-
You and I VIII live in love etern-
al.
SOPHIA L. NASH.
Kew West. Fla.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

The average citizen. if he will take time
to think about it, will realize just how
lapch he doesn't know, and, if he is wise,
salE try lido something about it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24
| WHAT!
YOU DON'T HAVE
| GREMLINS?

Up to now only aviators
were supposed to be both.
cred by the Gremlins. But
actually a Gremlin can.
turn up anywhere-and
anybody can have a .Grem-,,
lin. Look elsewhere in
The Citizen today and see
for yourself.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

You can know that real prosperity is
back when the churches have to figure ways
to spend the money that their members
contribute each year
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

Archbishop Amleto G. Cicog-
mani, the Pope's Apostolic dele
gate to the United States. born
in Italy, go years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

John P. Frey. labor Leader,
born Mankato. MINI - wears
ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

Ernest r. Breech. president Ct
Bendix Aviation Corporation
Detroit, born Lebanon. M0- -
years ago. -'
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

To be vain of ones place or rank is to
show that one is beneath it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

Prof Roland G. Kent Of the
University of Pennsylvania. not
ed philologist, born Whining
ton, Del, 60 years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24
DAVIES PRAISES SOVIET INTEGRITY

Joseph E. Davies, multi-mlllionalre,
who went to Russia as an American ambas-
sador, does not believe in the Soviet eco
homie system but he has profound faith IN
the integrity of leading Soviet officials.
Mr.. Davies says the Soviet record, so
far as treaty and business obligations are
concerned" is as fine ''as any nation on the
earth He points out that Stain has pub
licly given the lie to the suggestion that the
Soviets seek to dominate Europe and to
project communism there and here"
Says Mr. Davies; Among all of the
United Nations, not one will be found more
staunch or true in an effort to project,
maintain and protect that great and noble
enterprise Of establishing a peaceful, de-
cent and free world after the war than the
great people of the Soviet Union
Faith is what helps us to carry on in
spite of disappointments and regrets. v.
--- F4v--=s, uoY Z
Invent something To lessen wgrk SC
amuse the public and your Fortune is 5prac-
tically assured.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

Victor F. Moore. actor. born tz
New Jersey. 81 years ago
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

last year by Hitler'S Nazis must be repre-
scented by some powerful ghosts.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

The price of good health is abstinence
in many things and moderation in every
thing
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

DR.. Herbert s. Dickey of New
York, explorer-lecturer, born
Highland Falls, N Y, 81 years
ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

Admiral Chester W. Mint
commander-in-chief Of the Pa
cific Fleet, born FREDERICKSBURG
Tex. So years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

DR.. Leo Wolman Of Columbia
University, noted econmlst, born
Baltimore, So years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

Today The Citizen says in an
editorial paragraph:
"a bishop declares that modern
girls are not indiscreet. Anyway,
not in the presence of a bishop"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

Captain Ferdinando CaSardi.
naval attache in the Italian leg
ton in Washington, arrived in Key
West today to greet officially the
officers and men aboard the Ital-
ian training ship Colombo, .sched-
uled to arrive here tomorrow aft
ternoon from Havana.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

The thirty-eighth anniversary
of Ell Critic de Barre, a Cuban holi-
day, will be observed in music.
song and speeches in the Garden
Theatre this evening, beginning at
8 o'clock.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

William r. Porter, vice chair
man of the Overseas Bridge Cor
poration, returned yesterday from
Tallahassee and Miami, where he
had been in the interests of the
proposed Overseas bridges.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

WPB sets $50. 0OO. 900. 900 a year
as bedrock of civilian goods.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

Ray L. Levy, who had been a
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Jose Pelaez.
in their home on Caroline street,
left yesterday for Miami to join
Jose Pelaez, Jr., who had left for
that city two days ago, and from
there they will return to ST Paul,
Mimi, where they reside.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

The Key West Boys Club will
hold a meeting tonight in the
courthouse. The club is striving to
increaselits membership.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

Faith is what helps us to carry on in
spite of diSappointments and regrets. r.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

Mr.. and Mrs: George Lowe, who
had been in Key West a week
visiting relatives. returned to
Miami yesterday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

MIR. and Mrs. Fred NJ. Smith,
of New Jersey, who had been
guests of Mrs. Smiths brother-in-
law and sister, MIR. and Mrs. Har-
ry Olmsted, left yesterday for Ha-
Vana.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24
Today In History

1856, S. Court of Claims,
Washington, established.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

Members Of the Arthur Post of
the American, Legion, gave a
minstrel performance last night in
the recreation room of the Marine
Hospital
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

Key West, Fla.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-24

{ 1871 -. Jap foreign minister
states Japan is entitled to all
''Oceanicav.
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ASK Me -
ANOTHER {
The Questions
A General Quiz

1. The littoral of a country is its
what?
2. An army pursuit squadron
usually embraces how many
planes?
8. George Washington belonged
to what political party?
A. What city is known as the
Russian Pittsburgh?
5. How many pounds of w.
film are required to send a ton of
letters to our boys at the front?
6. What is the largest single
printing job to date?
z. The longest baseball game by
innings played in the major
leagues lasted how long?
8. How many Minute'Men were
killed or wounded at Lexington on
April 10, TITS?
9. Is it true that animals were
ever tried in law courts as if they
were human beings?
10. What are battleships named
after? Cruisers? Destroyers? Sub
marines? Aircraft carriers?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
The Answers

1. Coastal region.
2. twenty-five planes.
3. Federalist.
4. Kharkov.
5. Twenty pounds.
6. Printing the governments
new point-system ration books No.
2-150 million books.
z. Twenty-six innings-Brooklyn
VS.. Boston, May /, 1920.
8. Seventeen (eight killed, nine
wounded).
9. Yes. France was the scene of
most of these affairs in the Middle
ages. There are authentic records
of trials that no writer in fiction
would dare to present.
10. Battleships are named after
states; cruisers after cities; de-
stroyers after naval heroes; SUBJ
marines after fish; the new car
riers after famous battles.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
The Old Story Returns

y
Unless the situation changes, we
are quite likely to have again the
old story of the vanishing hus-
band" the old "sport of missing
men,"
know of no one who told that
story better than J. P. McEvoy did
many years ago.
It was to this effect
"Who's that stranger, mother
dear?
Look! He knows us-ain't he
queer?"
'tHush, my own, don't talk so
wild,
That's your father, dearest
child"
"That's my father? No such
thing.
Father died away last spring."
Father didn't die, you dub.
Father joined golfng club"
''Now the club is closed, so he
Has no place to go, you see,
No place left for him to roam,
That is why he's coming home"
'Kiss him-he won't bite you,
child,
All these golfng guys look wild"
The Important Side
The important part of golf isn't
the tournament side. That happens
to be only the window dressing.
The part of the ancient game is
the hand-to-hand grapple among
some two million or three million
average players, whose scores may
range from IS to 100.
The go to the 10 player has always
been the stout backbone of the game
some dour Scot invented over 500
pears ago.
These pay most of the dues, keep
most of the courses going and have
most of the fun. Most of these to-
day are middle-aged or beyond mid
dle-age. Many of them range be-
tween 10 and 80. There is a big
class between 40 and go.
Golf as a so-called erich mans
game" is out forever. This is the
day of the municipal course. There
has been sweeping trend in this
direction and it will know a new
boom when the war is over.
From reports received from many
places around the bunkered map, il
is surprising the amount of golf now
played in so many localities.
Especially over municipal courses
that so often are easily reached.
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defense workers and
many others who
make up our aver
age society today
are once m ore
swinging away with
tn e driver a n d
brassie or keeping
the niblick blazing
hot.
There was a spell
when many thou
sands, who needed
the exercise and the
recreatiOn ware
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- 1XSii
l6oil!!li4Q

TOR a while they had golf Keeling
and hanging on the ropes but with
the arrival of spring the old game
has bounded back again.
Soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen,
buffers, dubs, the tired businessman,
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Dodger Pitching Strength

Overlooking his busy squad, Duro-
cher saved the major portion of his
eloquence for his pitching staff.
''Last summer" he said, wyatt,
Higbe and Head together won As
games. I honestly believe this same
bunch, through this new season, will
come close to 60 games. Wyatt and
Higbe are normally 20-game win
ners. And this time I think Head
will hang around that mark. Re-
member, he is only % years old.
I'd say he is the most improved
young pitcher I've seen for years.
''What about Bobo Newsom?
That's up to Bobo, in person. If he
is willing to get in shape, to keep
in shape and to give us the best he
has, there is another fellow who can
move into the 20-game list. You
know Bobo likes to win. And last
season he only won IL games with
two clubs while dropping 19.
81 believe this season we'll have
the old 20-game winner around. We
mean business this year above the
average, and we can't afford to
have anyone with us who doesn't
mean business. This is no time for
anyone to be foolin' around"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
MISCELLANEOUS
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Durocher's Challenge

$50 the Cardinals and the Yankees
are going to fight it out again next
fall" Leo Durocher said. ''The
Cardinals and the Yankees. No one
else. And the Dodgers can't do any
thing about it. Well, can't agree
with that. The Dodgers will have
lot to say about it. And we'll say
it with high-class pitching and
flock of base hits. I think we have
every bit as good chance to win
the National league pennant as the
Cardinals have. Yes, they have the
edge on us in speed. But we'll get
just as good pitching and better hit
ting.
81 doubt also if there will be any
other club as aforementioned.
know there won't be another willing
to hustle more. We still remember
that ten-game lead we blew late last
summer. That's something to re-
member-and we haven't forgotten
it."
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ashamed to be seen with a bag of
clubs. Today, in clubs that are close
to transportation centers, there is
rush to play, an increase even
above last April.
Clubs off the beaten track are TAX
ing trimming. The others are
doing extremely well. Which is bet
ter, for those able to get out once
in a while than to sit brooding re-
plete with alcoholic stimulation.
1t is surprising to know how many
clubs, which can be reached without
gasoline or rubber, are doing as well
as they ever did.