The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 25, 1932, Page 2

PAGE TWO — Ohe Kep lest Citizen han as THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. In, P. AR PMAN,. President, i ' . J. BRYSON, Editor. Mntered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter es FIFTY-THIRD YEAR NATIONAL ADVERTISING KEPRESENTATIVES FROST, LANDIS & KOHN aah, Ave. NEW YORK, 25 East Wacker Drive, ICAGO; General Motovs Bidg., DETROIT; alton Bldg,, ATLANTA. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in’ this paper and also the local news published here. NATIONAL EDITORIAL M B ASSOCIATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bix Months Three Months ... One Mont Weekly .. Made known on application. All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary not! a tee will be charged for at the-rate of 10 céntg @ } Notices for entertainments by churches from which & revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a lind. The Citizen ig an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous com- munications. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Maia: Comprehensive City Fiaa: Hotela end Apartmente. Bathing Pavilion. Aquarium, Airports—Land and Sea. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN i WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; “elways fight for progress; never be the or- gap or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; 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 eniy news that will elevate sud not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with princi Boredom may be harder to bear than poverty, Key West got. world-wide publicity over the radio last night when five Florida stations broadcast an interesting fishing story printed in the Key West Citizen Saturday, Nov. 19.) The radio announcer credited The Citizgn with publication of the story. In Rumania thore is under discussion ‘what appears to be a wise law if enacted. It prevents land lords from collecting rents if they aré in arrears with their taxes. If the tenant knew his landlord was not in good standing on the public books, a tax dodger in other words, he would have the privilege of paying his rent to the tax col- lector instead. ’ "Tt is very noticeable that the merchant who complains most of bard times are the very ones who do not advertise.’ If you.do not ask the folks of Key West to come to your store, they will go where they are in- vited. Patrons also stay away from those places who do not advertise their prices, "becoming distrustful of the treatment in the matter of costs they might receive. At the time General Booth was en- gaged in his earlier Christian Mission, the Rifle Volunteer Movement was large in London’s public interest. One of Booth’s lieutenants one day, was writing “Phe Christian Mission is a Volunteer Army,” “I looked over his shoulders for a minute,” General! Booth later told, “and then drew my pencit through ‘Volunteer’ and wrote ‘Salvation,’ and we were > christened for ever, ‘The Salvation Army.’ * During the past few weeks Key West has been flooded with scurrilous tabloid sheets and cireular letters attacking prominent citizens, but in every instance the person assailed, instead of heeoming irritated or ever frightened, as intended by these character assassins, had a good laugh. The persons who become incensed were the friends of those whose reputa. tions were assaulted, so the tabloids and circular letters had just the opposite effect of that intended. tin IGNORE ANONYMOUS LETTERS Though everybody knows, or should | know, that a man who does not sign a let- ‘ter is not only a coward but is prompted pa in his anonymity, a yet there are some Key Wesiers | who have been moved to serious concern by the series of unsigned circular letters | and tabloids, regarding the proposed long bridges and the men who are striving to | obtain a loan for their construction, that have been received here from Miami, | No man is afraid of the truth, and were the statements in the letters true, they would have been signed. But the’ statements are false, and one needs only half an eye to see that their sole object is to try to create sentiment in Key West for Rosenthal, who has been try- ing to frustrate the efforts of the Overseas Bridge Corporation to have the R. F. C. finance the construction of the proposed bridges. The letters are so criminally libelous, it is safe to say that Rosenthal would dis- |’ claim any knowledge whatever of their is- }suance, but whether or not he knows any- thing about them it is evident that. they were written by his supporters in the | bridge proposition. Those adherents, with their threats and wild charges, know’ nothing about human nature. What kind of people do they think Key Westers are? Apparently they thought, in sending those letters here, they would work up sympathy in Key West for Rosenthal, but the effect has been the reverse: hot resentment has bees created against him because of the foul methods that have been employed in his behalf. The serious concern that has been felt has been wholly about the bridges: Will the “dirty work” of the letterwriters. ulti- mately result in failure to obtain a loan from the R. F. C. to. have the bridges built? That question can be answered ,con- fidently: the letters will have no more to do with the action of the R. F. C. in the ap- plication of the Overseas Bridge Corpora- tion than whistling against the wind will change its course. Many persons, when they receive an | yy, anonymous letter, ball it up and throw it |into a wastebasket. .They do that. be- cause they know that the writer is trying to serve his own aims, and, to attain them, will resort to all kinds of lying and threat- ening charges. * Hiding behind anonymity, he tries to make it appear he is fair and courageous, whereas the course he pursues convicts him of chicanery and cowardice. In view of those self-evident facts, no Key Wester should feel any concern what- ever over the anonymous letters that have been received here about the bridges, and men who are among the best of our resi- dents, and the right course to follow, if any more letters are received, is to throw them away without reading them. WASHINGTON’S BAPTISM Among the many stories of George Washington being recounted. during this year of his 200th anniversary is that of his baptism by immersion during the Revolu: tionary War, although he had: been spr led in the Episcopaliati*manner as an in- fant. Impressed by a wave of evangelism promoted by Methodists and Baptists about that time, General Washington approached Rev. John Gano, chaplain of the Continen- tal Army, so the-story goes, and said: “E have been investigating the scrip- tures and I believe immersion to be the bap- tism taught in the word of God, and I de- mand it at your hands. I do not wish any parade made or the army calted out, but simply a quiet demonstration of the ordi- nance.” Accordingly, it is said, Rev. Gano im- mersed Washington in the waters of thé Potomac in the presence of 42 witnesses. A painting depicting the’ event was made in 1809, and it now hangs in the John Gano Memorial chapel of William Jewell Col- lege, @ Baptist institution, at Liberty, Mo. While the incident of his baptism by immersion seems to give Baptists a certain claim to Washington as one of their num- ber, it is said that he never gave “personal testimony” necessary to membership in that moderation in religion, who attended divine serviees regularly, but seldom knelt in prayer or partook ef communion. In other words, Washington's Christianity was prac- tical rather than pietistic, by an ulterior } THE KEY WEST CITIZEN KEY WEST | IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years) Ago Today As Taken From | The Files of The Citizen If you were born on this date 10 years ago, your birth- day fell on Saturday. i i ! | | { Jack Matthews, 9-year-old son jof Mrs, Join F. Dyson, of 22: Sta- ples avenue, was severely injured ‘yesterday at noon when a piece! of conerete fell from a window, \sill at Division Street school and} {struck him on the head. He was jstunned by the force of the blow. Clifford D. Mallory, head of the C. D. Mallory Company, Inc., and his brother, Phillip, will arrive this afternoon on the steamship San Jacinto. They are the sons of the founder of the Mallory S. S. com- pany. The San Jacinto is also bringitig the 37 foot yacht Bonnie Dundee, which is to be unloaded here and used by the brothers while |. cruising through the keys. A squad of police officers led by Chief Whitmore Gardner reided: 4 bolito house in Aronovitg la:¢ yes- terday. The proprietor was artest- ed and fined $75 in police court. This is the fifth time this place has been raided this month. There are 119 passengers arriv- ing on the §. S. San Jacinto from New York this afternoon. Of these ; 31 ave for Miami, 28 for Key West and the others for Galveston. Sheriff Roland Curry and depu- ties Dillon, MeInnis, Albury and Torres captured 40° demijohns of aguardiente yesterday in an aliey- way on Smith’s Lane. The pro- prietor of a cool drink stand near where the liquor was found was arrested. Me is held under $250 bond. Owing to the non-appearance of several officers in the lineup of the navy officers’ team, several marines were drafted into service and played in the game against the firemen yesterday. The rein- forcements proved too strong and eee Daily Cross-word Puzzle ACROSS 1. In this manner 5, Expiate 10. Italian city TAIL] Me Pee Taher EIS Tie AALTIOIN| py 15, Mechanical bar [S|H/O|WiE!R| 16; Black a 1. insects 4, South Ameri- can mountain system . Spread loosely i. Cause of ruin . To a higher point Rey . Repairs ; Cut lengthwise . Draw together 8. Visionary PTIEINIE| THEIR [SIL TAIT! 55. Support Yor a horseman’s foot... 59. Chief meals 63, Poisonous» weed 64 Attitudes * 66, Masculine « Et . Boy . 5 - of going x 72, Killed YEP rH | ae AlTISHARIUIN| BRS: enap, pene i Cdecrccvecccccevcscoccenss caneccessosedsdsedecces Solution of Vesterday’s: Puzzle : [ALIAS SIPlaTR| KAZ TIAIL IE [ETATCIETS) 28. Forstve OIRTAIL TE! mat [AIL a1 INI IG} Bee /anan the fivemen lost’ by a score of 3 é to 1, Mrs. C. Larry Gardner was hos- tess yesterday to the N. A. T. Club in honor of Mrs. Vetor Moffatt, formerly of this city but now of Mian Five Hundred was played, . E, Woodburn winning first prize, Mrs, J. F, Uhrbach the cohsolution and! Mrs.. Moffatt won the guest prize. Mrs. Gardner’s guests’ were Mrs. J. F. Uhrbach, Mrs. W. D. Byrd, Mrs. E, B. Frey- burg; Mrs. J. W. Leon, Mrs. P. D. Drane, Mrs. B. C. Moreno, Mrs. A. E. Woodburn, Mrs. E. S. Wilson, Mrs. M. Moss, Mrs. V, R. Moffatt, and Miss Genevieve Conde. Rev. I. W. Longacre, Mrs. Long- acre aiid their two children will leave tonight on the Mallory ship San Jacinto for Galveston where they will entrain for Los Angeles, California, to make their future home. Mr. and Mrs. Porreo announce the birth of a daughter, Novem- ber 24, in their home on Julia street. The infant weighed eight pounds. The Order of the Eastern Star will hold memorial services tomor- row afternoon in the Scottish Rite Hall. The public is invited to at- tend. Several addresses are to be made. George Christ, who was visiting for several days.in Key West, left this morning for his home in Jack- sonville. “We started to search for some treasure,” says Whiz. “And here we are Pirates. Just what is our biz?” “That's easy,” says Puffy, “we're Pirates intent On solving the tricks other Pirates invent.” ‘s oday’s Anniversaries Pecedocccesaccccascocese 1758—John Armstrong, Revolu- tionary soldier, author of the celebrated “Newburgh Letters,” U. S. Senator trom New York, ‘Am-! bassador, Secretary of War, born; at Carlisle, Pa. Died at. Red Hook, N. ¥., April, 11 1843. 1758—Noah Worcester, New England Congregational clergy- man, founder of one of the first societies for peace, author, born in Hollis. N. H, Died Oct. 31,} 1837. 1778—Joseph Lancaster, Eng- lish-American promoter of popu- lar education, whose system of monitors was widely adopted, borti in England. Died’ in New York, Oct, 24, 1838. 1809—Adgiph E. Borie, -noted Philadelphia merchant and: finan- cier of his day, born in Philadel- phia. Died there, Feb. 5, 1880. 1816—Lewis M. Rutherford. MD. CLL AA Ah hhh dd Lh A had hd he hd hk Ld MT A chance to obtain a bargain enables us to offer. A PHONE CALL Ms Phone 51 Pritt sy IIe a eeigidd ridgdddd cunaesesos This person has’ a feminine na- ture, very sympathetic, humane, full of good works, and beloved by the assdciates. It is a grand character for a nurse, though its action should Be spread over a wider range, disseminatin, it through : social life. Friends will be erous and. faithful and the wuld be happy, of the world’s leading physicists of his £ Pune ieee in Morris- ania, . Died in Tranquility, N. J, May 3, 3892. 1817-—Jolin: Bigelow, noted New York editox,. Ambasadoi or, born at len, in New York life k uaa (10eeen er aeeeaeaen 500 Sheets ECONOMY Typewtiter Paper Regulat Size—8%xIt MD lot of this paper at a make you this special WILL BRING Fr Citizen Bidg. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932. TODAY’S WEATHER WEATHER CONDITIONS Temperature” 76 69 18 13 A moderate disturbance is cen- tral this morning on the east Gulf coast, and rains have resulted from: northern Florida to eastern Texas and northward to the lower Qhio Valley. Pressure is also ‘moderately low over the upper | Lake region; while High pressure . | covers most of the remainder of y ‘the county. ‘Temperatures are rabove the seasonat average over jsouthern sections, except in. ex-., treme southwestern Florida, and jfrom the upper Lake region west*> {ward to the’ Pacific coast, and are below this momning from Texas . northward’ over the. middle’ Missis- sippi Valley, with readings as’ much ds 20 degrees below normal in southern Texas, and below freezing in the central: portion’ of ‘the state. Lowest Mean Normal Mean R ¥esterday’s Precipitation .0 Ins, Normal Precipitation ... .05 Ins. This recora.covers 24-hour period suding at 8 o*¢! } mor Tomorrow's Almaiac Sun rises 6352 Sun, sets Es Barometer at 8 a. Pe today. Sea level, 30.03. Lowest Hig! Last night Yesterday 28 56 50 36 86 Abilene Atlanta | Boston Buffalo Chaxleston \Chicago Denver Detroit Duluth El Paso G, S| KENNEDY, Official in charge. | Peccegecegacccongeaseess | 1788—The a took Fort Duquesne from the French and renamed it Pittsbutgtt ot 1783—New York City evacuat- led by the “British and n }troops under Washirigton’ | 1922—A liquor prohibition law: iyroclaimed in Key. pei | Scere. ke 1931—Navy League cliarges against’ President Hooyer. bottle . Be me: Y foee Seattle Tampa Washington Williston 1a enough for itd cane. WEATHER FORECAST _jmouey it falin—Agve Key West and ity: Cloudy BEARUP’S DRY CLEARRIG with occasional rain =a Wome S14 MARGARET ST: Saturday partly cloudy and cooler; aay. * moderate to fresh southeast and ; i south witids shifting’ to westerly tonight. Florida: Occasional rain tonight followed by fair Saturday; colder} Saturday and in north portion to- night; light to heavy frost prob-} ably in north portion Saturday night. Jacksonville’ to Florida Straits: Moderate to fresh southeast and south winds shifting to westerly jtonight, and overcast weather with occasional rain tonight; Saturday, faire; ) < East Gulf: Fresh winds mostly West and’ northwest. Be Sure and See Our Line of Ice Refrigerators. giving Day. For the things we have been spared, let us give *thanks. Devastating storms. And floods. Aed biting blizzards, And the pangs of constant hunger, and cold, and hopelessness. And for the things we have, things we would not part with, and that others have not. Poo many to enumerate. Let us coum them over, and give thanks. THE FIRST BANK KEY W8ST, FLOBIDA