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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08
HERE'S A SILLY IDEAl

We can hardly imagine sillier bill
man that introduced in Congress by Repre-
sentative Kennedy, of New York.
He would repeal the half-century-
Chinese Exclusion Act and grant the Chi
nese rights of entry into the United States
and rights of citizenship.
Obviously, if the result of the legisla-
ton would be to permit the entry of few
intelligent Chinese, there would be little or
no objection. However, the chances are, #
the bill passes, that industry in the United
States, seeking cheap labor, would import
Chinese coolies by the thousands.
Thus, the United States would acquire
nothererace. question.
Thepeople Of this country should not
forget that much of the immigration from
Europe was promoted for the purpose of
bringing in cheap labor and that there are
foreign settlements in the United States
here English is a secondary language.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08
HOME FRONT sLACKERS


The rationing of canned foods is upon
us and the point system is beginning to be-
come clearer, now that beans, etc., have
a definite value
This week the people will begin to use
their coupon books. Soon they will begin to
choose wisely in the expenditure of the food
giving coupons.
You may expect the usual crop of COM
plants They will come from the same pee-
pie who have grumbled about every pre-
vious regulation.
Gradually, it will dawn upon US that
we are fighting a rigorous war, and that we
and our allies can. lose As the casualty lists
strike into our homes the war will come
closer and we will lose our tolerant attitude
to the home-front chislers.
1t is just as we'll Parents and wives of
men slain in battle, while fighting to de-
fend this nation will take more interest in
what kind of nation we have at home.
Home-front slackers, regulation cheat
ers and their ilk will be denounced, detest-
ed and degraded. No American soldier
should be asked to die for their benefit and
no loyal American, at home, should eoun-
tenance their sneaking ways.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

During March the American
Red Cross mus; raise a minimum
of sl25. 100000.
The people of America will ac-
cept this challenge or face the
prospect of seeing the Red Cross
falter in the home stretch, unable
to meet its wartime obligations.
an al ernative which is unthink-
able.
Starting with the obvious pre-
mise that the work the Red Cross
is now doing will pyramid during
the coming year, let's take an OBJ
jective. look at current activity.
Perhaps significance will be
h ightened if we view in part, and
if we marshall in human terms.
/ see wounded American SOL
der He lies on the sands of Africa
blasted by pitiless sun. He crawls
through the steaming jungles of
New Guinea, and his blood con-
geals in the Aleutians. But per-
sonnet of the Army Medical Corps
reach him on time. for at an adj
vanced dressing station-perhaps
on the spot-he is given an en-
Urgency TRANSMISSION. Traumatic
shock is overcome. He lives to
reach the operating table. And it
is Red Cross blood plasma from
blood that you gave, or you, per-
hans more than a year ago. -.
1 see an American ship, bombed
and listing heavily. heavily. The
water is coated with oil and the
oil is on fire. Into this blazing in
! ferno there plunge black dots, for
1ifeboats have been smashed to
bits. Perhaps these men are sons
of your friends; but the important
| thing is this: because of painstak-
| ing instruction initiated by the
Red Cross live-safing experts the
black dots do not die. They were
taught how to splash burning oil
awav. shown how to swim through
/ the cauldron of flame in compare
tive safety. -.
I see scores of women wearing
The Red Cross emblem busy in a
Red Cross workreom. Talking is
frowned upon. for deft fingers
flash in the endless routine of turn
ing out surgical dressings. There
is a mother with a son in the
Solomens: there is mother whose
son is still safely in school. Both
work without looking up. like to
think that these weary automa-
toms hear a high, thin singing IN
the stars. | know that each be-
lieves that her patient fingers are
fashioning a dressing which will
some day save life-the life of
an American fighting man. And
this scene-and / have seen it
can be multiplied more than a
thousandfold, for such quiet con-
centration is reproduced around
tables small and larae from New
England to the Pacific Coast. In
crediblv these women. during the
past IA months. have made and
folded more than five hundred
million surgical dressings for our
bows. for the fighters of the United
Nations. They work so quietly.
l see a home where there is no
happiness. A son not heard from,
Of course the defense of Bataan
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08
A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE

To what extent is "gentleman's
agreement" binding? Only so far as it af-
fects yourself or your own pocketbook.
One can not justly enter into an agree
ment of any kind to give away taxpayers
money So the right thing for those county
commissioners, who made a gift of 5000 to
a local industry to be used toward paying
taxes, to have done.would have been 20 dig
down into their own pockets for the amount
of taxpayers money they gave away.
Further, three out of five of the pres
ent commissioners did not even enter into
a "gentleman's agreement to keep down
the assessment on the property in question
to 1900. Hence, not even that excuse can
be made conscientiously for the $500 gift,
as the three commissioners, unaffected by
an agreement of any nature, comprise a
majority of the board.
What puts darker complexion on the
transaction is the fact that the proposal to
relieve the company of part of its taxation
was defeated when it first came up for con-
sideration the vote standing two to two and
enc member not voting because he was en-
ployed by the company that requested the
abatement of the assessment.
But the determination of the propon-
ents of the proposal was so firm, another
course was pursued, and this time the en-
ploye who had refrained from voting be-
fore added his affirmative vote to the votes
ofitwo other commissioners.
Woodrow Wilson assertion, "A public
dollar is public thrust, has been quoted
thousand times, and it will continue to be
quoted because it lays down basic prin-
eiple that all men and women who are
placed in public offices should observe.
If man wishes to spend his own
money freely, or wishes to give away his
own money, that is his own concern, but
when he gives away money that has been
placed in his keeping by the public, Their he
is remiss in performing the duties the pub
lie elected him to perform.
Jaw, that's the county's money" too
many people are given to asserting, whats
the difference
The difference is that the county's
money is the taxpayers money. and that's
a world of difference, at any time, and par
ticularly so in these days of burdensome
taxation.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08
LINGUlSTS CENSOR
SOLDIERS MAIL

AP Features
LONDON, Mar. 8.-They're all
American soldiers and most of
their letters home start Dear
Nom, but not all of them.
In this Eastern Theater of
Operations of the United States
Army, hundreds of good soldiers
have difficulty speaking English
and can write it little or not at
all. They are encouraged to
write in their mother tongues
since the Army feels that this
is just one of the fundamental
rights of a democracy.
These letters in foreign Ian
guages are censored personally
by Lieut.. Col. Ferdinand A.
Hirzy or his foreign language
staff scattered throughout ETC.
USA. Hailing from Stevens
Point, Wis, Lieut.. Col. Hirzy
speaks six languages and his
staff can handle twenty handily
While letters in foreign tongues
usually require less blue pencil
ing than others-beeause men
of alien background are very
careful not to break security
regulations-they are read very
carefully from the morale stand
point.
If these men write many com
plants about relations with Their
fellow soldiers or their allies or i
they criticise lack of furlough:
or late pay or health conditions
prompt investigations are made
with view to removing ground
for the complaints. Officers have
found they are less likely thar
their American comrades tc
grouse just for the sake of grous-
ing.
Most of the foreign language
letters read much as those il
English. The men say they are
getting along fine, army Life
isn't so bad and the rest of the
things that sons write theil
mothers the world over. but oc.
casionally Col. Hirzy runs int
! a problem. Like the case of the
soldier who was determined tt
continue his education along with
his military service and took
correspondence school course il
Russian.
The colonel had to wade
through page after page of de.
clensions.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08
THEY WILL ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE
BY ALWYN w. KNIGHT
TIN "Red Cross courier.9

was heroic; certainly it gave
America time to reinforce the Pa
cific and bulwark Australia. But
Joe's boy-what of him? I asked
Joe. Joe didn't know. Joe said, IF
we knew the boy was killed ii
wouldn't be so bad, I'm not kid
ding. But this -"
And then the American Red
Cross. using international Red
Cross channels at Geneva. got a
message through to Joe from his
boy. II wasn't what Joe said: it
was the way he looked. You un-
derstand? -.
And I'll tell you something
that's terribly important, only it's
hard to get across. You've heard
how the Red Cross aids the morale
of our troops by acting as link be-
Tween them and the folks back
home =. whether the former are
crouched in Bllna foxholes. or try
/ ing to get acclimated to a London
fog. or in training over here. We
fcall the men who handle this. job
Field Directors, and one of them
told me this,
There was a boy from camp In
the Washington area. He had q
few days leave. not enough to get
home. There was letter from his
wife. The baby was due. The wife
must have been child. and o.
course she was broke, and con-
fused, and frightened. AT any
rate, all this boy wanted to do was
to be there, pacing the corridor
of the hospital in that little town
Thousands of miles away, smoking
endless cigarettes like they do II
the movies,
i Well. the Field Director and the
Red Cross Chapter back IN the
soldiers home town got on tbs
Job and a report came back in
| hurry. 1t said that the wife had hao
boy, and that mother and sor
were doing fine. 1t said that the
Chapter had furnished the layette
was helping out with the hospital
Expenses. It said that the Red Cross
would see that the young mother
got nursing care.
When the soldier on leave heard
that. he couldn't speak until his
voice stopped swinging on parallel
bars. And that happened here
Think what that sort of thing
means when a man has an apo
address and no return ticket to the
States, maybe, until the war Is
Overt -.
These are only a few random
instances. Add the recruitment OF
nurses for the armed forces, and
Nurses Aides. and first aid train
ing. and foreign war relief-all
the other things your Red Cross
is doing-and you see why the
Red Cross cannot be let down
when it comes to you. this month
for the 100000 necessary te
keep this work going.
Of course there are taxes, ano
wartime living is high. But most
people will give. and generously
because they know what their dol
lars will do when this big, sprawl,
ing organization tallies up ano
checks them out.
It's up to you.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

Treitschke, the German philosopher,
quoted war as the true realization of the
national spirit-not the medicine of man but
his normal food and exercise; and culmi-
Mates at last in the open belief that I'VE
must regard war as an institution estab-
Hshed by Cod That kind of theology pro-
duced the Germany of today, and must be
destroyed for its own and the worlds good.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print Il
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 Glass; always do its utmost for the
public welfare; never tolerate corruption or
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 win elevate
and not contaminate the reader; never COM
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08
Today In History

1785-Gen. Henry Knox of
Massachusetts, elected secretary
of war by Congress. Army then
consisted of but 700 men, the
Army of the Revolution having
been disbanded.
1862 Confederate .sMerrimac"
destroys two Union warships-
met the next day by Union IRON
clad Monitor IN historic. bat
tie.
Notorious Boss Tweed
of New York ordered by court
to refund more than $4,000, 600 OF
stolen city money.
1880-Troops mass in and
about San Francisco because OF
labor troubles.
l88l-Francis Blake, astrono-
mer, granted his first patent
for telephone transmitter.
l898-$5O,OO0,OO0 appropriated
for war with Spain by Con-
gress.
l918-(50 years ago. First
complete American air service
unit reaches front in France.
l933-Banks of country reopen
for restricted business.
l938-Richard Whitney & Co.
of New York, noted stock firm,
fails.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCIrrT
IN AND FOR MONROE COITyTy-
AND OF THE STATE OF FLOR
IDA. IN CHANCERY.
Case No. S-5I6
HELEN MARINELLI.
Plaintiff.
ALBERT MARINELLT.
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
Notice 10 Appear
TO: ALBERT MARINELLI,
1881 Richmond Road
Dongan Hills. Staten Island.
New York.
Yon are hereby required to APP
pear to the sworn Bill of Com
plant. for Divorce. filed against
you in the above STYLED cause on
or before the 5th day of April.
A. ID. 1913. otherwise the allega-
tions therein will be taken as con-
fessed.
This order is to be published
weeks in The Key West Citizen. a
publication edited in said County
and State.
DONE AND ORDERED at Key
West. Florida. this Goth day of
February. A. d. 1913.
(SEAI.o Ross C. Sawyer
Clerk of the Circuit Court, Monroe
County. Florida.
BY: (Sd.) Florence e. Sawyer.
Deputy Clerk.
ROGER WATKINS.
Solicitor for the Plaintiff.
mar1-S-15-2 1913
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08
In China all life is family life,

Two workers named Wood and Stone
were standing on a street corner. pretty
girl walked by. Wood turned to Stone. Stone
turned to Wood. Then they both turned to
rubber and the girl turned into a restaurant.
Iowa Navy Pre-Flight School.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

Today The Citizen says IN an
editorial paragraph
"A Kentucky mare learned %
stop al a red light and 60 ahead
at a green one, whereby she lived
to be 81 years old Many humans
never develop that much horse
sense
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08
Today's Horoscope

Today gives adventure and
some obstinacy of character.
There is great love of sports of
the ruder variety. Some condi-
tions favor travel Guard against
accidents and try to keep the
passions well under control
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

William Gates, manager of the
Key West Investment Company
and allied corporations, died at
1880 o'clock this afternoon in his
home on Virginia street. Funeral
services. beginning at 4:30 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon, viii be held
in st. Mary's Star of the Sea Cath
Ole Church. The Rev. F. Y.
Dougherty, S. J., viii officiate.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

Correct this sentence: Il am all for the
war but the brass hats have done nothing
right. There is no use for any rationing;
what they ought to do is to get after the
enemy and lick 'em and come home
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08
WHAT!
you DON'T HAVE
|CREMLINS?

Up to now only aviators
were supposed to be both
cred by the Gremlins. But
actually a. Gremlin can
turn up anywhere-and
anybodycan have q Grerrs-
lin. Look elsewhere IN
The Citizen today and see
for siouraef.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

We have not yet given up hope but
the guy that has owed us twenty dollars
since 1929 is far behind schedule.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

TO Key West to attend the funeral
services for her father. Pembroke
Bethel. returned yesterday % her
home IN Miami
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

Charles AronOvitz left yester-
day afternoon for Miami where
his father was taken suddenly III
while visiting relatives In that
city.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

The Girls Club of La Trinidad
Methodist Church viii hold a
meeting on Friday afternoon.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

"Begorra, says Pat, considering the
brave dades this Tim O'Shenko is doing in
Russia, he sure is a credit to the Irish race
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08
SERVED AS EXCHANGE

NEW YORK.-In early times
hemp served as the standard of
exchange in Kentucky.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

Our inquisitiveness makes it possible
ourselves.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

The young people of the First
Methodist Church will give an en-
tertainment Saturday night in the
Sunday School annex.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

Mrs. Gladys Noble returned
yesterday afternoon from Coral
Gables, where she had been visit
ing her sister. Mrs. Milton Pea
cock.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

DR.. Clyde E. Wildman. presi-
dent of De Pauw University,
Indiana, born Greensburg. Ind,
SO years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

The Primary Boys Club of
Key West will hold a meeting
Wednesday afternoon, beginning
at 4 o'clock, in the Wesley House.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

+ Mr.. and Mrs. Pedro Aguils- and
baby, who had been in Miami
several months. returned home
yesterday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

Mayor William H Malone, in a
half-column interview in today
Citizen, explains in detail the
operation of the baby bond sys-
tenn it is proposed to adopt in Key
West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

Stuart Chase of New York,
author economist. born Somers-
worth, N H., 81 years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

Mayor and Mrs. William H. Ma
lone will leave Saturday for PalC
Alto Key to visit Mr. and Mrs
Bert Linderman.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08
KEY WEST In
DAYS GONE BY
FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN
OF MARCH 8. 1893

A cabaret will be given Satur-
day evening in the Cuban club
house. Music will be provided by
Howard Wilson's band.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

Marjorie SLOVENIAN Douglas
nationally known writer of snort
stories, is visitor in Key West
She says she is always delighted
to visit this city.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08
LEGAL.S

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA, IN
AND FOR MONROE COUNTY. IN
CHANCERY.
Case No. $500
JOSEPH EDWARD LESTINSKY,
Plaintiff,
VS.. DIV II @ Is
MARY IRENE KosfINAK
LESTINSKY, Defendant.
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
TO: Mary Irene kominak Lestinsky,
80 LoZier Avenue,
Westfield. Massachusetts.
You are hereby required to appear
to the Bill of Complaint, for divorce
in the above styled cause, on the 5th
day of April, A. ID, 1913, otherwise
the allegations therein will be TAX
Ell as confessed.
This order is to be published once
week for four consecutive weeks
in The Key West Citizen, a News
paper published in Key West, Flor
ida
Done and Ordered this 18th day
of February. A. ID. l943
(SEALl Ross Sawyer
Clerk of the Circuit Court. Monroe
County. Florida.
By (Sd.) Kathleen Nottage.
Deputy Clerk.
tSd) ALLAN b. CLEARE, JR..
Solicitor for Plaintiff.
feb15-2 % mari IS, 1943
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

Frederic w. Cloudy of New
York, famed master printer. born
Bloomington, Ill, " years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

Mrs. Robert F. Lord and the
children Eileen and Bobby. leave
this evening for Monroe. La.
where Mrs. Lord has been called
by the serious illness of her
mother.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

Edgar A. Mowrer, noted iourn-
alist and war correspondent,
born Bloomington. Ill, 81 years
ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

l938-Richard Whitney & Co.
of New York, noted stock firm,
fails.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

Miss Claudia Bethel. who came
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

Miss Katharine F. Lenroot,
chief of the U. S. Children's
Bureau, born Superior, Wis.,, 81
years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

l933-Banks of country reoper
for restricted business.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08
Todav's Birthdays

u. S. Senator c. Wayland
Brooks of Illinois, born Bureau
Co., Ill, 46 years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

Lou Costello, comedian. born
Paterson, N. j., IS years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-08

1918-(50 years ago. First
complete American air service
unit reaches front in France.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-30
rthControI Article Hit

Washington, July 30 (U.PD The National Catholic Welfare con ference today denounced the Read CTS Digest for reprinting an article on birth control and asserted that Japanese birth-control devices in the homes of America can be more destructive than Japanese bombers over Pearl Harbor.
 The Rev. pr. Edgar Schmiedeler. director of the Family Life Bureau of the conference. declared in an open letter to Dewitt Wallace, edi- tor of Readers Digest, that dreadful disservice" had been done by including the article in a maga- zine going into the homes. schools and other institutions of America"
 Qn New York, Dr. J. H. J. Upham president of the Planned Parent hood Association of America, de- clared that the American people will not be deluded by Dr. Schmied- eler's attempt to label birth control and the planning of family as Jap devices.'" He said Americans know the difference between the Totalitarian philosophy which com- mands parents to breed and breed and breed and the Democratic con- cept that every child is precious life that should be wanted and pro- vided for even before birth.")
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