The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 26, 1933, Page 2

Key Wiest Catsen_ “ezubllshed Daily Bxsept Sunday By - Daily Bxeept Sunday By THU CITIZEN PUBLISHING 00, INO. President. Mtn AL Water, and Sewerage. — % Bridges to complete Road to Main- Free Port. . ‘Hotels and Apartments Bathing Pavilion. Aquarium. ‘Airports—Land and Ses. Consolidation of County and City Governments. ooo os _., WILL always seek the truth and print it witnout fear and without favor; never be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; B fight for progres; never be the or- KEY WEST—A LOGICAL FREE ZONE Key West is unquestionably the log- ida] place in the United States for a free port or free zone for cargoes shipped to or from Central or South America. First, Key West is nearer to those countries than any other city in the United States; Secondly, it has sufficient depth of water and a harbor largé enough’ to take care of the shipping, without further deep- ening of the channel, that would center here as a result of the establishment of a free port; Thirdly, a thorough survey made in Key West during 1929 demonstrated that this port is an ideal place to handle cargoes for trans-shipment. As was pointed out at the time the sur- vey was made, cargoes are stor ed i in a free port under bond and no duties, ‘therefore, are paid on them. Aside from the great benefits that would accrue to Key West in having a free port, such as an accommodation to shippers all: over the world would, in time, save them millions of dollars. For instance, cargoes that are. too small to warrant a steamship company to make the long run between Central or South America and distant-points in many parts of the world, would be, brought to Key West and stored under . bond. until trans-shipped to another steamer whose point of destination is the same as that to which the cargo here is ultimately con- signed, Shortly after the completion of the Panama Canal, newspapers published in several other ports in Florida, particularly in one instance, claimed that it was nearer the Colon entrance to the canal than any other port, but The Citizen adduced facts to prove that Key West is the nearest port in the United States to the Colon entrance. The Citizen feels it will not be neces- sary to present facts to prove that its first reason for advocating Key West as a free port is.true, that isp that it is nearer to Cen- tral and South America than any other city in this country, as a glance at a map of the world shows that statement is true. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Seecccccccoveceereseusseesereseewn= ss08ereee Daily Cross- word Puzzle eceeecosoms 16, cade used in Bassas A ACROSS ag + pea a Puzzle 1. Unit 4. Silver coins 9. Frozen water 1E In benalt of HE Relleious 22. Regions .. ae 4 Vihey on the EE Fertile spots 4. one who ta) . Abundant ther ved 25. Nominal. value of . Nest of a bira of prey 28. Cue "ag 25. Thickness 36: Smal nail 29. Capital of a0, East indian - article of food 31. Flower 32, ‘Tree 83. Mythological unter 38, Biblical eharacter 36. Pertaining to 1s 88, Enthusiastic devotee: 5 ~-Hassachuseits 3. Be mistaken 4. Course of eating 5. Tavern 6. Crain 1% a 8H Putting in 10. ik a ao measure ia ae ae al 46, Farewell 48, Work 53. Constellation 54. Bear 56. And not 57, Number 58. Relieved 69, Stain 1. Toward the stern 2. Hote ofa dove musical scale . Scotch siver . Past - 50.. Conjunétion . Plaything . Before . Sun gad 3 40. 41. 4 Finer . Mother Ha an agama a seo et ann ero ee Ce June dua it ae 12S Jno vee TODAY’S WEATHER WEATHER CONDITIONS ne . 70| A slight disturbance is central 74| this morning over the upper Ohio 70! valley, and has caused snow dur- Temperature* Highest Lowest Mean ... Normal Mean ~ KEY WESTIN ..\DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years! ‘Ago Today As Taken From |; The Files Of The Citizen Paul Boysen, president of the} Boysen Contracting Company,| which is to erect the San Carlos| Opera House, has received official notification from Cuba that he has! been awarded the contract. He was asked to sign certain. papers of acceptance and return them to Havana with his bond. He ex- pects to leave within a few days for Havana and immediately on} his return will arrange to have the work started. Work is expected to start about the first of January. Today J. Frank Roberts Fac his hat into the ring in the race for chief of the fire department. The other candidate is the in- cumbent, Ralph Pinder, who an- nounced some time ago he would be a candidate to succeed him- self. Mr. Roberts has been a member of the department for the past 16 years and is qualified in every way ‘to fill the position of chief, his friends say. The election will be held Tuesday, January 8, and this will be the first time since the department was organized, more than fifty years ago, when the volunteers will have the op- portunity of voting directly for! their choice for chief, Leonard Richey, who , is secre- tary to Herbert Hoover, head of! the department of commerce, is in} Key West today inspecting the properties of the lighthouse de- partment. He has been looking over the proposed sites for the $250,000 lighthouse depot that. will be erected here. The city council recently passed an. ordinance requiring every household and store to have a re- ceptacle for garbage to keep same until the scavenger wagons collect it. The law will be strictly en- forced, says Dr. E. C, Lowe, city health officer, after January 1, 1924, The Citizen has received so many complaints recently about ; TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, [Doctors Give Creosote For Chest Colds For many years our best doctors have prescribed creosote in some form for coughs, colds and bron- ehitis, knowing how dangerous it ‘is to let them hang on. Creomulsion with creosote- and six ether highly important medi- cinal elements, quickly and ef-/}) |fectively stops coughs and colds {that otherwise might lead ‘to seri-} ous trouble. Creomulsion is powerfp] in’ the treatment of colds and ¢ it is absolutely harmless is | pleasant and easy to take. Your own druggist _ guarantees {Creomulsion by. refunding your} {money if you are not reljeved | after taking Creomulsion as |, di- rected. Beware the cough or. cold j that hangs on. Always keep Creo- mulsion on hard for instant 1 use AT sgl Gray, English author of the “Elegy Written in }a Country Churchyard,” born. {Died July 30, 1771. 1780—Mary rairfax Somerville, English astronomer-scientist, mathemaucian 2nd author, “most jlearned woman of her age,” born. Died Nov. 28, 1872. 1809—William N. Pendleton, noted Southern Episcopal clergy- man and Confederate artillery general, born at Richmond, Va. Died at Lexington, Va., Jan. 15, 1883. 1819—Emma D. E. N. South- ‘worth, popular novelist of her day, born in Washington, D. C. Died there, June 29, 1899. 1825—Henry R. Linderman, noted Director of the U. S. Mints and authority on coinage, born in Pike Co., Pa. Died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 27, 1879. | 1833—Nathaniel Job Hammond, noted Georgia lawyer, attorney- jgeneral and congressman, born in Elbert Co., Ga. Died in Atlanta, April 20, 1899. i 1854—-Henry Bond ae the willful destruction of plants|first P. E. bishop of the Hawaiian | and flowers in the yards of resi-|Islands, born in England, Died at’ dents that it has decided to offer| Honolulu, Dec. 8, 1933. a reward of $25 for the arrest And Key West has the harbor, with sufficient depth of water, to meet the re- quirements of a free port. In that regard, The Citizen makes no comparison with other harbors in Florida, but it deos main- tain that none is better than the one here ‘and that none is’ as near to Central and South America as the oe in Key West. Mod nate As we said in the beginning, we iterate in concluding: Key West is un- questionably the logical. place for a free port for cargoes shipped to and from Cen- tral or South America. The Citizen has advocated this im- provement and project for many years. It has reached congress, but made no head- way, the manufacturers in the United i ‘ States standing in solid phalanx against TS PEE the innovation. 4 Rainfal ‘ Yesterday’s Precipitation Normal Precipitation .... Thin record covers 24-hour period ending at 5 o’elock thin morning. Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises Sun sets Moon rises ing the last.24 hours in the lake 0 Ins. +) region, middle Atlantic States, .04 Ins.! Ohio valley, and in portions of the! upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys, Snow also oceurred in Montana, and rain in ‘Tennessee, ™.' northern Georgia, Vi ia and - ™1 western Washington, there . M-, were showers in southeastern - +: Flovida, and eastern Ti . Pres- “| sure is high over the north Atlan- P, M. tie states, and a strong high pres- 6:34| sure area, crested over the upper | Missouri valley, overspreads the | country eastward to the Mississip- pi valley, and southward to north- ern Texas. Temperatures are e {much below normal from the’ Lowest Highest | Rorthern Rockies eastward ; over Last Night Yesterday} the lake region, with readings 24 _ 86 60 | degrees below zero in worthern|; 16 36 | Minnesota; while mild weather 14 24 prevails throughout mogt* of the a 24 Gulf and South Atlantic States. eet 54 G. S. KENNEDY, 22 Official in Charge. ‘ on Today’s Birthday # tex teins 3 epeocse : prriman of Baston, se ‘lye *U. S$, Chamber ? epundty hon in Brooklyn, N! Y., 61 years ago. 1871—Ashley . H. . Thorndike, Columbia University professor of English and world’s most foremost The Tampa Tribune states that] Shakespearean scholar, born” at Tampa isthe nearest port to the|Houlton, Maine. Died in New} Panama Canal. Either the Tri-| York, April 17, 1933. | bune is ignorant of the fact that)" Key West is nearer the canal than| gp’ Wherever the Itchin SE e Whatever the Cause Tampa, or it is deliberately mis- Resinol representing the fact. The Tri- bune means a port of real im- Relieves it Quickly Sample free. Write Resinol, Dept.58 and conviction of any one guilty of this kind of vandalism. portance, as is shown in the article. Well Key West just fits. Customs reports of exports for this port in August, the last is- sued, shows Tampa with. $414,206 and Key West with $3,334,635 or eight times more than Tampa. Key West is 1,083 miles from the Pamana Canal and Tampa _ is 1,290 miles distant. High . 11:44 Barometer at 8 a. m, today: | Sea level, 30.08. ture is a great misfortune if ant of prudence. {(SOMPPIOOLIOL OLDS, a A hopeful tone in business circles of- - ten has a way of converting itself into ac- tion, A NewEra of Prosperity Is Ahead of You TAKE A VACATION NOW Abilene Boston .. Buffalo Chicago Denver Detroit ff | Dodge City Editorial comment: Old Eng- lish records, not phonograph, say that music cures disease. But wej know that some of the modern music makes us sick. That cowboy kidnaper-murderer in : re Oklahoma was Bawittly “headed for the last COST OF EDUCATION Taking note of the Widespread ‘eriti- cism of educational methods and the large sums expended for schools*’o “1 hp Flireape President Glenn Frank of thé University of Wiscohsin| admits that ‘improvements. in curricula and methods should be made, yet he points out that on the whole the money devoted to education is a good investment. He submits some figures which tend to show that the proportion of tax money spent for schools is by no means excessive. He states that less than one-fourth of all fe ce! - nga * ee to tax revenue goes for the support of public . elementary and secondary schools. Com- : ¥ pared with the total national income this is There is a good story of a Scottish} jess than two and one-half percent. clergyman who, having stored some boxes The main point, however, is not whe- at a fellow-clergyman’s place, wrote to in-| ther we are spending too much for educa- quire if a particular box which contained tion, but whether we are getting our «» Sermons was in good condition. He receiv-| money’s worth for what is spent. The right ed an answer back, in due course, to the} answer probably is that we ought to spend effect that his friend had carefully exam-} more than we do, provided: that the money ined the box, and that the sermons were 88] so spent be devoted more to the essentials dry as ever. of education and less to frills,and flubdub- bery. In the days of the Rev. Dr. Kirkland, president of Harvard, more than a century ago, it was reported that the students fre- quented an inn nearby famous for a bever- age known as “flip.” The Doctor visited the inn and requested a “flip” of the petri- fied landlord. “And my young men come here and drink this stuff, do they?” asked the president “Y-e-s, Sir.” “Well,” _ said the Doctor, draining the mug, “I * ‘should think they would!” “Max ‘Rosenthal and Miss Jeanette Layton will be married here this evening at the home of Mr.and Mrs. A. Einhorn, corner of Thomas and Division streets. A reception will be held following the ceremony. With Prices That Fit Everybody's ennevenh SO Akt air HOTEL RATES LOWEST EVER QUOTED PRICES FOR MEALS IN KEEPING WITH THE TIMES New Low Prices on All Recreational Activities Inquire at Our Tourist Information Bureau About Interesting Side Trips, Sight-Seeing, Ete., and See Our Recreational Host About Fishing, Golf and Other Sports. HOTEL LEAMINGTON “Miami’s Most Popular Hotel N. E. FIRST STREET AND THIRD AVENUE NEAR BAY FRONT PARK ie i Be apt ak te 4 The person who stutters has the ad- vantage of those who don't by. naturally. having to think twice before he utters. George F. Getz ;eoal operator, sportsman, treasur- jer of the Republican National }Committee, born at Mechanics- burg, Pa., 68 years ago. of Chicago, When the train arrived this morning from the north it brought 55 employes for the Casa Marina Hotel. This hostelry will be opened in a few days for the win- ter season and the outlook is ex- cellent for a prosperous period. Jonah, The Citizen porter, wants to Pittsburgh know whether an autobiography is the bi- ty yj ee Salt Lake City . San Franciseo - . Ste. Marie . Seattle Tampa ........ Washington Williston Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy jof North Carolina, born at Anson- | ville, N. C., 49 years ago. Eugene Sands, dance promoter, has secured the services of the Tennessee .Entertainers, the new orchestra which will furnish or for the dances at Aronovitz Halll in the future. Rev. Charles E. Schaeffer of | Scomeq,czied noted Reformed Key West and Vicinity: Partly) Church leader, bora near Fleet- ood, » 66 hs dendy, tonight pnd, Wetmakag et oe not much change in Seer weere John H. Puelicher of Milwau- gentle to moderate easterly winds./ kee, eminent banker, born there, Florida: Partly cloudy, slight-| 64 years ago. ly colder in northwest portion to-} Sir N ‘Angell, famed Eng- night; Wednesday partly cloudy, | ish economist, author and lec- colder in north portion, jturer, born 59 years ago. Jacksonville to Florida Straits:; Sore ereereeneenreerennaneete Moderate east winds over south! | uote SN ST ager pert portion and moderate southwest! Eczema Remedy at bedtime winds over north portion shifting! A = Serco Sotheriaed grrefund you your to northwest over extreme north! portion; weather partly overcast | tonight and Wednesday. [has never missed voting og 40 East Gulf: Moderate east winds! years. The ballot box rom car over south portion and moderate! installed im her front southwest winds over north por ‘Salt Lake City, Utah, tion shifting to north over ex-/ | election during the a . treme north portion. jeades, as Dr. Isaiah Bowman of New {Yo famed geographer, born at Waterloo, Ont., Canada, 55 years ago. IIIT T OTT IO LITO Ee Cf. WEATHER FORECAST ‘The weather bureau sub station at Sand Key reports the passing of 12 vessels yesterday. All of the) ships were going west. } 666 LIQUID, TABLETS, SALVE, NOSE DROPS Checks Malaria in 3 days, Colds | firet day, Headaches or Neuralgia in 30 minetes, FINE LAXATIVE AND TONIC ee Join the AMERICAN RED CROSS THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK KEY WEST, FLORIDA The great dramatist-poet, Maeterlinck of Belgium, is a most modest man, so mod- est, indeed, that when a passport official requested his occupation, a friend, stand- ing by, reproved the young official for not knowing such an_ internationally-famed man, and Maeterlinck quietly said, naively, “Why reprove him? I don’t know anything about him; why should he Know anything about me?” Mrs, Bertha M. Gray Olt Gray * sllpuNERAL HO HOME|