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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-05
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Personals
Miss Pettis Has Houseguest

Miss Margaret Ann Pettis,
sophomore at Florida State Col
ege in. Tallahassee, is home for
the summer. visiting with her
mother, Mrs. Frank .Pettis, 10l6
Eaton street. Miss Pettis has as
her house guest for a few weeks
Miss Mimi Renwick, a classmate,
whose home is in New Smyrna,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-05
CARD OF THANKS

Through this notice we wish to
express our sincere appreciation
to friends of the family who
demonstrated their kindness dur
ing the recent illness and death
of our daughter. Estella Sosa.
Please accept the thanks of
the family for the beautiful
floral pieces sent, as well as the
use of the various automobiles
furnished.
MRS. FLORA SOSA, %
AND FAMILY. ~ '''
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MEETINGS
Colored WV Meets

Walter r. Mickens, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, Post 602l, will
hold its regular meeting tonight
at the home. on Whitehead street.
Meeting will be under the di-
rection of Commander Joseph
Planas, who has just returned
from the Army training Reserve
Program held in New Jersey.
All members, and veterans desir-
ing to become members, are ask
ed to be present at 8 o'clock.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-05

Ceramic tile was used by Ro-
man legions to mark camp sites
in England and Scotland and g.
900 years later indicated to his
torians the extent of Roman con-
quests in those countries.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-05

Old social and religious Gus
toms prohibit Korean girls from
fraternizing with either Ameri-
can or Russian soldiers now sta
toned in that country.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-05

The average truck in the Unit
ed States pays $122 year in
special taxes while passenger
cars average $50 a year. Revenue
buses average $l,100 a year.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-05

More than 80 per cent of do
nestle packaged shipments are
made in some type of fiber con-
tainerS.
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which includes a restaurant and
an ls-room hotel. He plans to
live on the premises.
4 4 4
-Four Key Westers were en-
route up the mainland when
their automobile got out of con-
troll. That is. il got to going too
fast. A motorcycle cop pulled up
alongside them. They were ar
rested. admitting they were 60
ing about 40 miles an hour when
a sign on the roadside said the
limit for rs.
Taken to Fl. Lauderdale police
headquarters. they got to talking
about the situation.
Nothing like this would have
happened in Key West" said
one.
mo. you bet your life there it
wouldn't" snapped another.
But they're building a new
city hall at Fl. Lauderdale and
maybe they need the money"
shipped q third.
1T will just cost you SIS
bail" said the desk sergeant.
you can get IL back or pay a
fine tomorrow at Q am"
"But we can't get back tomor-
row.. said the driver of the Of
Tending car.
Then well just keep the SIS,
returned the sergeant.
They complained to the Fl.
Lauderdale branch of an organi-
zation 10 which they belong. The
sign reading rs miles an hour was
four miles from the business sec
ton of the city, they said. Fort
Lauderdale kept the SIS.
Il Il X
Dog How calling. Dog How
calling"
A radio enlisted, man was busy
turning the dials and repeating
these words on a radio in the of
flee of Comdr. Eli Vinock, opera
tions officer of the Key West
Naval Base.
Dog How calling" the radio
man said again.
What's Dog Howl" we ask
cd comdr. Vinock.
THAT is a call name of the
hurricane radio service the
Navy has installed throughout
the area" Vinock explained.
The call letters are really
NDDH. but d sounds SO much
like z. c and c that we use
q code over the radio. Dog
How is the name they have
given it,"
There is hurricane reported
In the Gulf of Mexico right now,
we said. ANY chance of it COM
ing near Key West?"
mo. it is reported off Mexi-
60. There is no danger in Key
West. We're just testing the APP
paratus to see how this station
hooks up with others in the
area"
The Navy is determined that
II a hurricane is expected in Key
West that all the folks will know
what's doing, and when. and SO
on, and can take steps to protect
themselves and their properties.
So don't get excited when
the radio reports a high wind
storm making somewhere in
the Caribbean or the Gulf. The
Navy will know of il in plenty
of time and will send airplanes
out to scout the wind area and
note the direction il is travel
ing. Then the airplanes will
let the wind experts of the
Navy here know about it-and
you'll get the news. and fast.
4 4 4
The old cab driver, whom we
quoted last week, was exaspe.
rated with the actions of the City
commission which heard com
plants of j. d. McAndrews, man.
sger of LaConcha Hotel. about
noise at the corner of Duval and
Fleming streets.
The idea of suggesting that
the hotel air condition its. rooms
and close the windows TO keep
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OBSERVATION
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BILL LEE
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John c.. Sawyer drew a laugh,
even from Federal Judge John
w. Holland sitting in the u. S.
Court here, during the early
stages of the trial of negro
Navy cook charged with first de-
gree murder in the death of
shipmate.
Il can't hear what the wit
ness says. complained an as
sistant of U. S. Attorney Herbert
y. Phillips. MIR. Sawyer is talking
very confidentially to the jury
and their voices don't carry this
far"
Then you ought to get one of
these things. snapped Sawyer,
pointing to a hearing device he
wears.
Il 4 4
a cousin of the late Col. Will
liam r. buffalo Bib Cody is
now in Key West and has leased
the White House property at Du-
val and Caroline streets.
He is J. Frank Cody. who was
born in Oregon and who lived
much Of his life in San Fran
cisco. before going to Miami.
where he was for a number of
years. Cody explained that his
cousin. Buffalo Bill. famous old
Indian fighter and crack shot.
died In Denver in 1917.
Cody has a five year lease on
the White House property.
which includes a restaurant and
an ls-room hotel. He plans to
live on the premises.
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The frontiersman., 1947-03-26
Page Two

se1dovia, Dilling-
ham, Seward, Fair
banks, Palmer, Anch-
orage and Juneau
stand to reap the i'm
mediate benef is, but
there are IS cities
which expec to make
use of Federal funds
in the planned seven
year airport program.
Senate Bill 40,
Ell Their in its present
form or revi sed to
please the politi-
clan s, must pass .
It's nothing unusual
that has been cooked
up for Alaska's bene-
fit. Twenty states
have passed similar
legis Station.
If you are inter-
sste6 in SeldOvia's
future, then you
know thc, t q nun &c ipOl
airpor t is an absol-
ute must for this
city. and the fast
est way to set start
ed on that & airport is
to take advantage Of
the help the Federal
government is offer
Ing US this year. You,
can. help boost the%
prograrl along by Wir-
Ing or Wri ing your.
Legislators to urge
passage Of the mea-
sure.
Get 9 letter or
wire off on tomor-
rows mail. It's
The frontiersman., 1947-03-26
SELOOVIA AND SENATE BILL 48

OClUUvIH HlIU OlllH / U|l ~O
serete Bill 49 4ssunea even larger pro-
When counci linen listened to CA, engineer G.
j. Paulie at Monday's special meeting, they
learned that the contemplated airport pro-
gram hinges the passage Of that bill.
No Senate Bill As, amended it stands
now then no airport funds from the Federal
governr?ent for Seldovia this year and :probab-
" not next. True, there may be terri
torial atd forthc or1ing in the event the enab-
ling legislation is not passed, but failure,
Federal I'D would revamping the entire
planned program for the city's airport.
Still in comm ttee ct this writing, the
islature soon. and when it to the
floor, there's going to be fight. oppon-
ents Of the re2aue oppose it on two ma ior
points: (l) Members of the governing board,
which viii be 9st@b1 ished by the bill to
oversee aviation's developnent in the terri
tory, must be resentc tives Of certificated
carriers operating on sch eduled flights wi tn
in the territory. That limits board ner1ber-
ship to choice from among only G handful Of
men, and the bush PILOTS, in particular,
the bill would haef quarter the governing
board in anchorage, and First Division repre-
sentatives, jealous Of the removal Of any
gov ernnent agency from the city, will fight
legislature that Will balk at the apnropria-
ton Of $50, 900 to set UP board. offices. T.:
However, these issues are minor as opposed
is to allow seven municipalities in Alaska to
take advantage of $40, 900, 900 of Federal
funds for the cons true tt on and ir1rr oveent of
airports this year. Tt is estimated that the
SIS, OOO 900 to $l8, 900, 900 which will cone to
the terri this Of =
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-31

The best argument Rep. Sha-
fer tR., Mich.) could think up
against federal fair employ
ment legislation was that there
will always be employers who
prefer girls with pretty legs to
girls with spindly legs. It's
discrimination, he declared
with glace in the direction of
Rep, Helen Gahagan Douglas
Cd, CALI, for a restaurant
owner to make his curviest EN-.
ploye the cashier so that the
customers will pay out the
shekels with less reluctance.
Therefore it's not inconceiv.
able, he concluded, that Con-
gress will be asked "to protect
less attractive girls who want
to be cashiers IL the present
demagogic trend continues"
Homely girls, are you worried
about that mustache on your
upper lip? Take heart; remem-
Der that you now have a little
Shafer in Congress.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-31
Thinking 1t Through
By Ben Dor, LPA CoIumnist

America is a great machine country. Boy,
how we could make machines and how those
machines could turn out the stuff Not only
during the war, but for years before that too,
nobody could touch us when it came to produc-
ing goods. The whole big economic machine
just hummed along, like welltuned engine.
But the engine isn't running so smooth
these days. There are lot of Squeaks Squeals>
and stalls While production is high judged by
the production we need today, the machine just
isn't doing so well.
It's serious. In dozen or more important
industries time and production are being lost
because of material shortages and bottlenecks.
During the war, that didn't surprise us.
But we expected that when the war ended the
goods would really begin to pour out. (The
NAM told us that only price control stood be-
tween us and about production, so we got rid
of that too But somehow, the shortages are
still there)
large part of our faith in American pro-
duction came from the brains of those who de.
sign our machines and assembly lines. But
large part of it came from the fact that for so
many years we had machines and men idle
That was true during the depression, but it was
also true before the depreSsion-We had both
machines and people to run them who were
kept unemployed for long periods of time So
any time we needed more stuff quickly some
body could hire few men, push few buttons
and the stuff would be produced That helped
to make American production men look like
genuses.
lot of kids have grown up to be workers
since 1929. If we don't provide machines for
them to work at, the unemployment figures
pile up very fast. And for long time, the peo-
pie who control the factories haven't been add
ing machines fast enough to provide place for
all the workers who need jobs.
So now, auto makers can't get steel for cars,
and thousands of auto workers are laid off as a
result. Plumbers have to chase all around try-
ing to find steel pipe; builders find little signs
saying gone but not forgotten" on the bins
where nails used to be sold. Lumber piles up
at the sawmis because box cars aren't avail.
able to move them And so it goes the great
American machine squeaks and spts and stalls
along.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-31
School Levy

Every indication is that the people of
Toledo will pass the 3-milI school levy by
a good sized vote, evidence that we are at
last awake TO the necessity for supporting
our schools and the fine men and women
who are teaching our children.
Even though we may not have chill
dren in the schools, we should remember
that the school system can affect every
one of us in the character of the boys and
girls who are being given their training in
our public institutions. A school system
staffed by competent and devoted teach
ers can become great force in moulding
the characters of our youth.
When you vote Tuesday, put your X
in front of the yes space on the school
board issue and insure an improved school
system which we must have to meet the
challenge of the futBe.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-31
Regional
Views
By Richard Gosser
Director Region 2-B, UAW-CIO

Next Tuesday is election day, important
event in the life of every citizen who is inter-
ested in good government
1t is my hope that the workers will make
a good showing next week, not only by turn
ing out and voting but by voting for labor
candidates who have proved by their past ac-
tions that they are in our corner
/ know of no man who is more deserving
of the number l vote of the working people
of Toledo than Tom Burke. His record as a
union man and as public servant has been
of high quality He has served us we'll as a
City Councilman for the past four years, and
will, if he is reelected, and think he will be,
serve us in the same way for the next two
years.
1t has been my pleasure to know and serve
in and out of the union with Tom Burke for
the past IL years During these years, Tom has
always been an ernest and sincere seeker for
the advancement of the working people of his
own union as well as those who are un-
organized.
AS member of City Counil for the past
four years, Tom Burke has not taken any
narrow partisan positions He has sought and
to high degree succeeded in representing the
entire people, he's that kind of an honest guy
Some men in political life condition their
every word, thought and action upon the ques-
tion, "will this aid or harm me politically"
but not Tom Burke. The fact that he has taken
uncompromising position on many issues is
the best indication of his honesty and sincerity.
He has to be in politics to run for and hold
public office, but nobody can ever accuse him
of being politician" in the sense that the
word is sometime used.
There are lot of other good points about
Tom Burke that l would like to discuss but
if I did, it would not change his record as a
conscientious public official His record of the
past is our assurance of his promise for the
future. Tom Burke will continue to serve us
we'll.
I sincerely hope that everyone who reads
this will vote next Tuesday; that they will get
their fellow workers, friends relatives and
neighbors to vote and that they will give Tom
Burke their No. vote on the ballot.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-31
WHAT TO BELIEVE

What can our anti-Com.
munist liberal believe amidst
this uproar? We have tried to
get at the facts, which isn't
easy in an explosive subject
of this sort. First, Is the fed.
eral government, as such, fir
ing employees indiscriminately
on the charge of subversive ac-
tivity? AS far as / can make
1t out land 1t Is conceivable
that / don't know of every
case) 1t Is fair to say that
probably no federal employe
has been fired for being a
Connie or a fellow traveller
who was not actually one.
Now as to the issue of
whether the government should
fire Communists from federal
employment: / don't see how
1t is possible to arrive at any
Oh "a conclusion than that it
has the right. Not only has it
the right, but, indeed, the OBJ
legation. 1t is inconceivable
that a government can retain
its integrity by permitting
people to work for 1t who have
other superseding loyalties.
This is the argument, and a
correct one 1t is, that the un-
ions use in barring Commun-
itss from holding office. And
there is substantial evidence
that the superseding loyalty of
Communists in the American
government as well as in the
unions exists not only in theory
but In practice.
DOUBLE BARRELED
Now 1t Is also clear that re-
dictionary elements, in addition
to being on a Comunist-shoot-
ing expedition, are also on an
progressive thought and policy
expedition TO stigmatize all
as Communist. That should not
be tolerated either, since, in
addition TO being unjust, 1t
Jumps Communist liberals
with the Communists, which
is precisely what the COM
rades want.
The road that the anti-Com.
munist must hew to is a rocky
one but the only one which
will steer clear of the reaction
of the left or the right. 1t Is
that he must be equally alert
to the menace of totalitarian-
ism and to the menace of those
who use anti.Communism as a
camouflage for indifference or
hostility to the eradication of
economic evils.
Being antl.Communist with
out being pro.something is frus-
trating and leads nowhere. Be-
ing a liberal without recogniz.
ing the real dangers which the
Communist movement offers
to democracy will result in the
negation of the liberals pro-
gram. And, to boot, the lib
eral will be discredited In the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-31

David Lawrence, labor.bait-
ing Republican columnist, had
a brainstorm last week that
left Congress and the National
Association of Manufacturers
stunned and pop-eyed. His idea
was so simple as to be mag
nificent. He proposed that the
nations $4,000, 900 workers
work an extra half hour every
day without pay. Said Law
renee: IF everybody in the
factories worked an extra half
hour without pay, the produc-
tivity of the nation would in
crease about 6 per cent" What
could be fairer? Some unions
have won a health-and-welfare
fund. This would be turnabout.
The nations workers would be
contributing about $30,000,000
a ayd to a private employers
health-and-welfare fund. And
there's moral justification for
1t.
Have you seen the financial
pages recently? Some indus
trial profits are barely over
200 per cent what they were
last year.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-31

If your foreman tries to be "tough guy"
1t can easily be that he is merely suffering
from an inferiority complex toward his wife,
according to James w. Campbell, an industrial
psychologist who addressed the 55th meeting
of the American Psychological Assn. in De-
troit This is the best argument for bachelor
hood ever heard, by 10000, 900 American fac
ctory workers whose most vicious epithet in
settling an argument has frequently been, 81
hope all your children grow up to be fore
men,"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-31
What Is Freedom?
By Ruth Taylor

Freedom - the word meets
us every time we twist the ra-
dio dials, or pick up a newspa-
per. 1t has a way of slipping
into every serious converse.
tion. Even In the lightest fic-
tion today, we find the charac.
ters delivering monologues on
the Importance of freedom.
But what is this freedom
which Is our dearest posses
sion?
Freedom Is to speak and
think without restriction and
without fear.
Freedom is to associate with
men Of all races and creeds in
the fellowship of cooperative
effort for the good of all.
Freedom Is to be tolerant, to
grant to others the right and
consideration we want for our
selves.
Freedom is to have the right
to work, and to change our
work or place of working as we
deem best.
Freedom Is the sovereignty
of man as against the domina-
tion of the State.
Freedom is the right to
choose our own government in
a fair and open election-not
In an auction of men.
Freedom Is rule by reason,
not rule by force.
Freedom is to have reliance
and trust in the pledged word,
the control of men through
that intangible thing called
honor, which lifts a man to his
rightful stature.
Freedom is to worship God
according to the dictates of our
own conscience.
Freedom is a belief in the
individual and in his ability to
so conduct himself that his
neighbor may not suffer from
any act or neglect of his.
Freedom is to seek the truth,
not to be swayed by the preju-
dice and hatred preached by
demagogue.
Freedom is to dream of an
ideal and to work for its full
fillment on this earth.
This is freedom-the free.
dom for which they worked to
make this country out of a
virgin wilderness. 1t is our
most precious inheritance -
and we will guard it to the end.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-31
Washington
Labor Report
By Bradford v. Carter
LPA COlumnist

In the wee morning hours,
inspired souls gather outside
of the Capitol grounds all
ready to stand vigil, in order
to get one Of the scarce seats
at the Hollywood Communist
hearings which the House Un.
American Affairs Committee
is conducting.
What with Mr.. Vishinsky's
performance at Lake Success,
the menace of Communism is
chasing rising prices and hous-
ing off the front pages of the
newspapers If not out of the
mind of the we'll known con-
sumer.
The troubled international
situation Is also reflected in
the Presidents newly initiated
loyalty investigation program,
under which the theological
commitments Of the federal
employe will be closely scru-
tiniZed.
The anti-Communist liberal
is caught in between the two
types of fanaticism. The Com
munists and their fellow trav-
elers are active in creating a
sentiment that our government
has gone fascist and is per-
scouting all liberals, not Com
munists alone. Reactionaries
are screaming that the fed.
eral government, Hollywood
and what have you, are full of
Communists. Recently, a vice
president of the National AS
sociation of Real Estate Boards
charged Sen. Taft with being a
Communist for advocating the
mild agne r.Ellender.Taft
Housing Bill.