The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 23, 1933, Page 2

if we, Amocitnd Frome eens gad toe ici fees CHRISTMAS DAY Although the birth of Christ is the event which is supposed to be celebrated on Christmas, we are more inclined, as a ‘récént writer suggests, to, celebrate Santa Claus on December 25. Certainly in the minds of most persons the giving and re- ceiving of gifts holds a larger place than the holy event which the day commemo- rates. Christmas customs and symbolism are drawn from many sources, some of 30, them. of pagan origin, The date, Decem- tigprate of 10 on 19 cents a line. mo era Le am tee sae — 260 je A ow SEAS Seana Meat “IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY. WEST d ADYVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN * he cit e citia terest arnt ld est _ Wl Water and Sewerage, ‘ms re alti ages Road to Main- * land. Free Port. Hotela and Apartments . Bathing Pavilion, . Aquarium. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of Gounty and City ||, being manufactured in.the state, but should It is noticeable that the best bighways ve the nicest billboards. the difference between a ghoul and an. archeologist is about 2,000 years, “ * ; Anyway, if we can’t find any other reasing ¢ mplexity of ¢iy ete: -it more and more fe ir I to escape the im of, civic responsibility, Ie-is said that in ancient Britain it wast the custom to. kick a large. stone from par- ish to. parish for the purpose of making boundaries and asserting rights, of way. Some ascribe the origin of football to. this custom, The Bushman who had had instilled eT him some notions of morality by mission- ~ aties gave this striking proof he could dis- _ tifiguish between ‘right and wrong: “It is 3 am to. come and take ». Phe Frigate “Cortstitution,* also Known as “Old Ironsides” which has visit- _ ed the port of Key. West on its tour, is now ‘in San, Diego, California, to remain until March, when she will be. returned to the | thought to have originated | or-articles being manufactured at the. pres- ent time, says the Pensacola News. | dueed from the soil of the various counties * during: all ofthe year. trial Florida: at this time , Should not be fe 1 to present manufacturing plants, . ploring his loss to the state and the profes- | ber 25, approximates that of certain an- cient festivals which were observed long before the Christian era, such as the Roman Saturnalia, the Scandinavian Yule, the win- ter. festival of the heathen Britons, and lat- er, the Roman, festival of the sun-god Mith- ra. This date was not incorporated in the Christian calendar until about the sou or fifth century The Christmas tree is believed to have derived from the Egyptian use of a palm branch, of 12 shoots to signify the complet- ed year, but its present significance is in Germany. The use of evergreen decorations, parti- eularly mistletoe, has been observed since, the time of the pagan Druids in Britain. The sending of Christmas gifts may be traced back to ancient Rome. This custom 4g by no means universal, however, and is unknown in the Holy Land and among Asiatic Christmas generally. Children of ‘the Orient have no Santa Claus. SURVEY POSSIBILITIES Proposed industrial survey of the Flor- ida State Chamber of Commerce is not like- 4y; to. show. any great amount of materials The survey is to. be financed by CWA funds and should not be confined to what is actually include raw materials which: can be pro- of the state. While the survey will find many things being. manufactured in Northwest Florida, it; will find ready raw materials at hand for the. manufacture of many. other things which would make this section of the coun- try prosperous in no time. F or instance, there will be found here plenty of slash pine. ready: for. the manu- facture of white newsprint paper. in mills which:could be located in the deep harbors along the Gulf coast. It also would find land which is “made” for the cultivation of tung oil trees which would soon produce more than the $30,000,000, worth of the oil | which is now being imported into this coun- try, from.China. It would find an abund- ance of fish, oysters and shrimp that are crying for canning factories which would imake them available to. the entire country, y It would find plen- ty-of'satsumas and pecans and other fruits, huts and vegetables which may be over-| produced now but which could be preserv- ed by caning or dé-hydrating plants. Any survey which is ‘made of indus- but be extended to.include the pos- sibjlities of the state. "A NOVEL NEWSPAPER DEAL ’ A Florida newspaper has changed hands—on a bet. That's something new, even in Florida journalism, which is noted for peculiar developments. We referred a few days ago to the re- tivement of Howard Sharp, as publisher of | The Everglades. News, at Canal Point, de- | sion, We now. have the announcement that Sharp has delivered his paper into the capable hands of Keathley Bowden. We trust we are not violating a confidence | when we make public that the terms of the transfer are simply these: Sharp bets: Bowden that he can’t operate the News for | one year and make expenses. Bowden takes | the-bet. If Bowden runs the News a year without going “in the red,” then the paper is, his, in, fee simple, without further pay- | ment or obligation. If not, Bowden gets his | {day going to Miami to spend the ami. is the old, old greeting that is: nee nar which wil soon be:Diapedoo. exey. fie: esta mele: and societies and civic organizations, in our churches and our schools. = (4 as such we give them our loyalty and our support. But not everyone can belong to all.of them, So there may be some of us who will not have the feeling of sharing in the Christmas greeting which comes from them. | ee. RE But there is one institution whose interests are the interests. of the whole community, of every man and woman and child in it, an institution which is devoted'to serving the interests of all. That is the Home Town Newspaper. =< 7 2 A welcome visitor into the homes of this community; a messenger bearing | news of community interest; a chronicler of the joys and soxrowa and of the trials and triumphs of its people; a mirror held up to reflect the daily life of the community; the loom in which, is. woven into, one harmonious pattern the varied threads of community. activity . . . all these are the Home Town Newspaper. eS: Oe So, through what more appropriate medium than the Home Town News, paper should there come a greeting to all the people of our community at this time of the year? We believe there is none more appropriate and we ase happy to have the privilege of saying to youall: “A Merry Chrisemas.” Cesceccccccsevecesa-sece PERSONAL ii OOraceeececaseesc290000 eoccccccccccceceseneoqencese ec edawasoss Daily Cross-word Puzzle 080 0SS0 ROS 2020 AHSEREESESOSASOMIQEVEOEE Sojution, of, Yesterday's, Puzzle $ Gets . Burdened BEGG Re Muon feReatanition Mav t atrt Clotn A OG Gb es Hii Te Nolo eZ ms Allan Knowles was a passenger ‘on the afternoon train going to Miami to spend, the holidays with his daughter, Mrs, Ora Archer. . cire borders 5. Prevaricator t ar 13. Formerly if jclamation one de: clajon 19, Cut into thin pieces . fh the Near East, a river W. S. Roberts, who was in Key West for a short visit with his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Sweeting, left yester- day for his home in Miami. . Interior 24, One of the world’s larg est rivers 00. ‘Tears apart See as a mental . Wiles Whirlwind off Darnell Carey was a passen-| : ger on the afternoon train yester- 2, All. that could be wished 29, Diagonal 3g) Trees Nest of a bird of: pre: 34. Short aria 37. Osculated 3 41. & NIE IE! (tie) 46, Unpajd debts 48, Vigorous short, contest LR Riathiel FEL ISIE! * DOWN |. Corded fabric. ; Chi monaster, . Closes tightly Behol Expressto ineredulity . Tennla polat won by. & service © stroke holidays with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Hawkins and daughter, Clifford, of Bain- bridge, Georgia, arrived over the highway Thursday, to spend! the holidays with Mrs, Hawkins’ mother, Mrs, C. H. Matteson on} Southard; St. |. Leaped . Throw off the, track 35, Bone, £< 4 fore, im 81. Golfterm —o $3; Measure of length . Bronze in the ‘sun Native metal 53. Continent: ‘abbr. 52. Proceeds St, ON), of, rose petals: var, 56. Owned 56. Icelandic tale 57. Transoceanic steamship. route abbr. . Bissing sound: 42. French olty Miss. Francis Gpahrah} teacher He M4 jblet aa in the Monroe County schools, left yesterday afternoon for Miami to! spend the holidays with her aunt, Mrs, Charles Eaj i Miss Elizabeth Thompson, board- ing student at the Convent of Mary Immaculate, left over the! East Coast yesterday afternoon to spend the holidays with her moth-| xs. W. W. Thompson, in Mi-| | ' Miss Wilhelmina Goehring, stu-; dent. at Florida State College for Women, arrived yesterday to spend the holidays with her moth-| er, Mrs. Annie Page, and other} relatives, i prevent. ! Mr. and Mrs, Raleigh Albury! and: son, Woodrow Wilson Albury,! left on the afternoon train yester- | day for St. Augustine to spend. al ;week as the guests of Mr. and! Mrs. W. S. Middleton. Leo McMahon, Jr., left over the Fast Coast yesterday to spend a t:m days with his father at Del ' poy, Fin, highway this morning to joiti her'days. with, Mrs, Cates’, son tte Bom nes i ee daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1933. PECULIAR TERM BUFFALO.—James B.. Firkan this city in his divorce suit de- ibed his wife as ‘‘mutton dress- ed up as lamb.’”* GOR THAMES word of thanks to our Fire aboard the U. S, S, Hani- cette ord of the paitiostbar: jbal at the naval station this} ness extended us during the. illness. | morning was caused by gasoline/and death of little Dorothy. | from the engines. The damage; Especially do we thank Dr. H: ‘was slight. The fire brigade ‘at! C.°Galey for: his efforts to. save | the station did excellent work, aselher life, Rev, Gekeler and mem- | sisted by members of the local’ berg of the Presbyterian church, fire department and apparatus.'the Sunday school, her teacher, ‘Captain C. D. Stearns thanks the irs Leach, her classmates at the { local department for their work. ! Division street school and her i Sane As soon as the Woman's Clb'pure: hunceal Home, Te thoes jresumes its meetings in Januaryj who gave the use of their cars, it will be requested of Dr. J. bl the donors of the beautiful floral Porter to take up with the city| offerings, and those: whose words council the matter of creating in| or kindness did so. much te alle- ‘Key West a bird sanctuary. It viate our sorrow, we are indeed | is imtended to organize a Jun- ferefottl ‘ior Woman’s Club and Audubon Society. MR. AND MRS. WM. W. RUSSELL dec23-1tx The board of public works will| ‘ansitchediasiemppitiugshianss hold a meeting Wednesday to! London has @ woman farmer, take up the question of building;Mrs. © William Mortimer, who a starter house at the golf course. |)grazes her flock of sheep. on Par- | Bids will be called for the con-|liament Hill Fields, close to traf- struction, jfics< ¢. Sow cee PROPER streets. The National Guard Team EET EEE. | that of the High School will play! ‘a game of basketball at the Key West Athletic Club tonight. A good game is promised. Both | teams are in excellent shape, Warren Watrous, of 220 Simon- |ton street, returned yesterday) from Fortress Monroe, Va., where he was attending a school of in-|# struction for National Guard Of-|} ficers, He is a second lieutenant in the local battery. Miss Kathleen Montecino, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, W. P. Montecino, and erome Nottage, son of Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Not- tage, will be married this evening. |¢, Rev. Edmund Rice of the First} | Baptist church will offi¢iate, Miss | Thelma Montecino, sister of the | bride will be maid of honor, Hol- ; Jon Bervaldi will be the best man. Key West experienced a record. | breaking tourist period yesterday}! and this morning, more than 1,000, | Visitors coming to the city during, } \that time. The train reaching there at 1:30 o’clock yesterday aft- | ernoon, had 305 passengers. The | evening train brought 210. and) | 315 arrived on the boat this morn ing from Tampa. The morning train arriving at 11 o’clock had a ; list of 207, more than one half of | the humber stopping at Key. West, j the remainder going to Tampa, Tuesday will Be Christmas day, the first and best of all holidays: The day before Christmas brings’ the real climax to thebriefreignof | Kris Kringle. This is the occasion ifor the eleventh hour buyin; | However, the Saturday preead jing the week on which this holi- | day falls is always @ busy, one, and | today is no exception, The. hap- | piness that pervades the lives of ; those who are desirous of making | others happy, too. | |. Residents in Key West are prais- |ing The Citizen for the stang it j has taken regarding the knockers, of whom there are many, who | made their money here, gone to some other city and invested it, ; and now spend many hours telling | others what a good place Key | West is not. ‘However, there ip {no chance of the knocker’ | successful in their efforts to [vert travelers from this city,/ as levery train and boat arriving | bring crowds of folks who are there but a brief time when they i realize that not even half the j things that can be said about the j city have been published. | Editoria) comment: The die- ; tionary informs us that a Tram- j mel is a net to catch birds. A | Martin, the same source of in- | formation tells, is a bird. The ‘latter may deem it worth while to look out for the former, though] his avian instinct naturally in- { clines him to fear Catts. Renema on Feet—One man saya r twenty years and Imperial Kesema him. Druggists are efand your money if andj Wilbur Cates, and a son-in-law) Atlantic coast, Leaving the W and: daughters, Me. and Mrs, John Navy: Yard on December 8, 1932, she cruis. after leaving Key. West. She covered 20,000. miles and received more than 4,- year’s expérience for his trouble, and the |e Destroyer J. Fred Talbot, left{ Ormond de Leon was an out- en the afternoon train for Nor-: going passenger over the East paper wees back to Sharp. folk, Va... transferred to the naval Coast yesterday en route to Pitts- That’s a novel kind of newspaper deal, ‘Scation there, burgh, Pa. where he will remain and ought to attract attention throughout | eee Seen: Sek nae: Waters Be Mrs. J.B, Johnson left yester- turning to Key West. ‘pthe country. Liking both contdacting iday riggs for Miami to be | ’ with her son-in-la ughter,! John Cates nd nd ilies kan das a aeuliie ao cae I Ai Say me Rte = which ome we hope wins the bet. BENJAMIN LOPEZ tPUNERAL HOME|| Mr, and. Mrs. Emit Philips, during daughter, Shirley West, left over | the holiiays. Miss Ida Johmson,:the East Coast yesterday aftes-/ ‘nottign daughter, left over the noon for Miami to spend thy boll-