The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 30, 1933, Page 2

PAGE TWO * foniy Datly Newopaney In Key West and Monroe i ian an WS Desead Wl atae NEW YEAR’S DAY Festivals in celebration of the begin- ning of a new year have been traced back as far as 3,000 B. C., to ancient Babylon. They may have been held long before that. Throughout the ages various peoples have observed various days as New Year’s Day. In view of the many calendars which have been employed to mark the passage of time, much confusion has resulted. Differ- ent peoples have counted the years from some feal or imaginary event, and the length of the year itself has.varied accord- ing to the calendar used. The Mohammedan year, for example, is.governed by the moon, instead of the sun, and consists of 12 lunar months, or on- ly 354 days. The Hebrew calendar also eonsists of 854 days ordinarily, but an ex- tra month is inserted once in 19 years, mak- _| ing 384 days in those embolismic years, as “qrit. Aways dock the Heute and print te without fear and Without ‘favor; never -be unfraid to :Attack wrong or to applaud right; 0 n; tolerant of others’ rights, views and -only news that will elevate they are called. The.ancient Egyptian year had 12 months of 30 days each, but five supple- | mentary days were added at the end, mak- ing 365 days. Similar peculiarities mark- ed the year of various other peoples. At one time or another every day in the year has been considered New Year’s Day ac- cording to some calendar or other. Our present calendar is a modification of that established by Julius Caesar in the year 46 B.C. Augustus made-some re- arrangement of the number of days in the various months, so that August, named for him, might have as many days as July, named for Julius, for originally August had only 30 days. The calendar. we now use was established by Pope Gregory in 1582. So, when we observe New Year’s Day we may understand that it does not mean ‘anything in particular, except that it is the ‘first day of the year arbitrarily established |» asa convenient means of reckoning the flight of time. KIDS AT MOVIES An educational research man, address- ing a gathering of club women on the ef- feet of movies on children, repeats statis- tics which have already been widely pub- lished but which need'to be emphasized to ‘parents, says the Palm Beach News. ‘He tells his audience it has been prov- | ed that:a boy or girl remembers 90 percent . We are aaa what we do, and ot by shou we pene we do. Advocate Federal Another means season of winter. In‘Key West be ome of that fact without jullliaen ranged from 70 degrees at Key. se pac below zero; at Bastport, lo da Vinci, who invented the , would be delighted ‘to Bee! demand for his invention. New government jobs brought about a recru- deseence of this labor saving deviee. Tt was anounggd yesterday that Sec- retary Ickes had allotted all of the $3,800,- 900,000 for public works projects. Presi- dent Roosevelt will ask congress for an ad- ditional $1,700,000,000 when it convenes next week, and it is from this fund that the money to construct the britiges, it is cuptidently hoped, may be obtained. _. When George Ade told a Miami audi- ence recently that the daily newspaper what it used to be ‘but for all that is ‘readable and more human,” he en- deared himself to editors everywhere. As the Daytona Beach News-Journal remarks, _ newspapers are just human enough to like ise now .and ‘then instead of “kicks in the pants.”” “The Hoosier humorist assert- ed that the daily newspaper now does ev- : > erythhing for its readers but “wind the clock, ‘and tend the baby.” It will even'tell how to tend:the baby and do its best tc sell _you_a clock that doesn’t need winding.— of every movie six weeks after seeing it, yand that young children remember three out of five things remembered by adults. When it is realized that 28,000,000, chil- dren a week attend movies in this country and that 70 percent of the average movie audience are youths under 21, it is plain that movies may be called a supplementary system of education for American children. It might be just as well.to make an-ef- fort to educate children’s taste in movies, to enable them to see good pictures and to cultivate other interests which may keep them away from bad pictures. It is not an impossible task, either. When the Silly Symphonies, Little Women, Aliee in Wonderland an dother pictures both delightful and wholesome are box of- fiee successes the country over, it seems ob- vious, that t the ‘unwholesome pictures have no monopoly on popular approval. There will be more good pictures if the public liaumpaite them. Stes 4: SPEEDERS OF OLD The traffic problem, especially in our larger cities, has long been acute, and added ‘to the congestion, which appears un- avoidable, is the menace of the inattentive driver and the willful speeder. But we should not imagine that similar problems did not concern city dwellers of the past. In an_ editorial which appeared in the New York Mirror in the year 1834, the reckless Broadway bus drivers were severely criticized for their disregard of life and limb. It said: “The inconvenience and danger of this is no less felt by those who ride than by those who walk. It has not only become | dangerous to cross Broadway on foot, but persons who venture or trust themselves in- side one of these carriages run the risk of having their brains turned by the rapidity of the motion.” Not only was fear expressed for the safety of pedestrians, but the writer of that editorial appears to have believed that teo rapid speed would scramble the very brains inside one’s cranium. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN POC OCC ODE CECE OLLTCECDECEEEEOeHemNerEHSeEEm Daily Cross-word Puzzle Ore rr re errs ACROSS 1. Drive a nail slantingly 4. Encourage 8. Genus of the maple tree i Atmosphere | 3. Grievous Le etd “Rbundance . Leave out wie. or Zeus 19. W . French capita: 23. Fish dai uce 36. Chief actor . Syllable used in musical refrains Spikes of corn . East Indian money of account Talk idly { 40. Fingerless 33 gloves ; Satiated . Self-possessed . ireland . Resting . Scotch river {Moved rapidly 54. Sand hill: Engtish . Be indebted BOWN 1. Faucet, 2. Lubricate Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle ). Capal it; Gly in Pebn- sylvania |. Nerve network . Dense Wenry Parent . Alighted , Able or ine clined to take in . Rowing imple ments |. Place to sit Bombastie talk 8. Alack . Metal 3. Buckets }. Move back Fake ap a Lares, anireal pf the deer 5 inst thought teture . That which left-after.a ‘eeot . Sea In ‘Russia 1s rt 47. Arufictal language . Recently acnuir . Teamsters ‘command fire . Ml-mannered person . Wandering . Beverage . A drug Anniversaries Oheeseececocecenesscoesse 1818—Joel T. Headley, popular | American historian of his day,! born at Walton, N. Y. Died at Newburgh, N. Y., Jan. 16, 1897. 1819—John W. Geary, soldier} of the Mexican War, first mayor} of San Francisco, Beitusivanial farmer, governor of Kansas Terri- tory, general of the Civil War, governor of Pennsy!vania, born near Mount Pleasant, Pa. Died) at Hamburg, Pa., Feb. 8, 1873. | 1844—Charles A. Coffin, New York financier and manufacturer, | first president of the General} Electric Company, born in Som-| erset Co., Maine. Died July 14, | 1926. { 1858—Rachel F. Avery, Penn-! sylvania reformer and leader in} woman suffrage movement, born; in Pittsburgh. Died in Philadel-| phia, Oct. 26, 1919. 1872—William A, Larned, sev- en times national lawn champion, born at Summit, N. J. Died in New York, Dec. 16, 1926. tennis | Today’s Birthdays, Alfred E, Smith of New York City, born there, 60 years ago. Dr. William H. Park of New, York, pioneer in the work of.dip-| theria prevention, ok aa years ago. William H, Johnston, paesidagts of the Int. Association of Machin- ists,. born in Nova Scotia, 59! years ago. | Stephen Leacock, famed banter | ist, head of the Department of Political Economy at McGill Uni-| versiy, Montreal, born in Eng-! land, 64 years ago., Rudyard Kipling, famed Eng-! lish author, born in India, 68 years ago. } Today In History | \s SSOSSSSSAESESSSAESSEEEEE, | “1853—Historie Gadsden jchase concluded Pur-! j 1854—First American leum company, the Pennsylvania | | Rock Oil, incorporated. 1903—Irequois Theatre fire in} Chicago—600, mostly women and, children, perished. ON ‘DIFFERENT SHI SHIFTS CHICAGO.—When Rita Gen- of this city was called into} | Lowest ‘Buffalo . | Chicago ; Denver pas ig: af a Dhiosrailh sec 47... weccccvecce THE WEATHER Coececccevecvcooseeseceve Temperature* 16 66 11 69 Highest Mean .... | Normal Mean Rainfall* Yesterday’s Precipitation Normal Precipitation .... “Phin veeord covers 24-hour period ending at 8 o'clock thin morning. Tomorrow's Almanac Sun ‘rises Sun sets Moon ri: Moon sets . Full moon, 31st -34 Ins. -05 Ins, Mover. ~ KEY WESTIN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years! ‘Age Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Joseph G. Marucci, director of |. the Key West Band, said today} that the first concert of the sea-' son will be given in Bayview Park, Tuesday night, January 1. The} coneert will begin at 7:80 o'clock} and continue for two hours. An} excellent program has been ar- ranged and is sufficiently varied to please the most critical music} On the afternoon of January 1 the cornerstone of the new Eng- lish Wesleyan -ehureh will be laid! with appropriate.ceremonies, The! edifice is to contain a memorial) window to the late Rev. W. T. Kilbride, who was pastor at the time of the hurricane which de-/ stroyed the old church in 1909, During yesterday and this morning approximately 50,000 pounds of kingfish were brought) in to the local buyers and this! afternoon 56,000 pounds were de-} livered ‘from the boats, making a total of 106,000 pounds in two days. The price being paid for: this kind of fish is eight cents aj pound. ‘Hénee the total cateh will bring $8,480. W. D. Byrd yesterday received the plans and specifications for the clubhousé to be erected for the Key West Country Club. Mr. Byrd said that in all probability! work will start in a few weeks. The structure will cost $10,000. Willard ‘Russell, fight promoter] and manager of’the Athletic Club, has been notified that Nanci, the fighter who was to meet Young Trevor Monday has injured his} shoiilder atid will not be able to] fight. Eddie Waltz, well known New York serapper, has been asked to fill Nanci’s place. for They These are golden days anglers who like to troll. may go out into the bay and eateh al] the kingfish they de- sire, or they may troll along the edge of the gulf and find many tunas and numbers of sailfish. Fishermen say that they have never at any time seen the waters teeming with so many fish of the large and gamey kind as can be found now. Miami authorities this morning | wired the sheriff's office that a young colored lad, 14 years old, of ‘Key West, is in a dying condi- “| tion ina hospital there. The boy was found near the railroad track. | Near him was a dead negro man. High j Low Baromete 8 a. m, today: Sea level, 30.22, Lowest Highest Last Night Yesterday Apalachicola 52 Atlanta Boston &8| Charleston - Detroit Duluth Eastport El Paso | Helena TESSEESLH \ Huron , KEY WEST ae Rock | Mia Minaseyeiie Nashville... 68 4 36 6 52 48 Pittsburgh _... 10 i St. Louis ......... 30 | Salt Lake City .. 44 | sit Ste. Marie .. --8 Tampa .. 62 Washington 8 , Williston . 16 | Wytheville 2 16 WEATHER FORECAST (Till 8 p. m. Sunday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly ‘cloudy tonight and Sunday; mod- erate to fresh easterly winds, Florida: Cloudy, probably rain lin north portion tonight and Sun- jday; slowly rising temperature in ; northwest portion. Jacksonville to Florida Straits: petro- Fresh east winds over south portion and fresh northeast and east over | north portion; weather somewhat overeast tonight and Sunday,! abr rain over extreme north} eat ‘Gulf: Fresh east winds. G. 8S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. Mrs. Ethel Reed Gano, a Den- try ‘What would he have thought of driv-| felony court to explain her mar-/ ver widow, has become the bride ing an airplane at the rate of more than five miles a minute? riages to two men, she said her; first husband worked days and the’ seetond worked nights. of Dr. Hubert Work, former Post- master General ami Secretary of ithe Interior, who is now 78. ling the lighted red lantern. ;| Phone 135 The boy was. struck with a black jack and a negro by the name in| Ed Riehardson is being held in conneetion with the case. tater! Zp it “as Jearned ‘that the boy is Louis Cruz, son of Lorenzo Cruz, who conducts a barber shop on Whitehead street. Editorial comment: When a voiee is heard from the back seat calling “stop”, experienced chauf- feurs: know that it is not always a request to bring the car to a halt. Norberg Sawyer and Regla Louise Diaz will be married this evening. The ceremony wil] be performed by Rev. E. L. Ley at the home of the bride on United street. The effigy of a man, made of sponges obtained in these waters is nearly completed. The work is being carried on at the chamber tommeree.~. will be sent to New York to be exhibited at the all-Florida ex- hibition’ at Madison Square Gar- den. Cigars and marine curiosi- ties wil also form part of the Key West exhibit. GETS PUNISHED CANOVA, Va.—A boy from the CCC camps of this city charged with stealing @ lantern, was or-| dered to walk on Center Street, in Manassas, for an hour swing- Clista Millspaugh and Glenn L.} Sherwood were found to be the; nearest to physical perfection of} any of the half-million farm boys) and girls bélonging to the 4-H clubs in the United States. Resema on Feet—One man says he had it over twenty years and that one bottle Imperial Bezema Remedy cured him. Drugeistse are authorized to refund your money if it faile.—Advt. _Subecribe to The Citizen. !my and retrenchment, but | progress, | BRAIN WORK AND BY 1933 Models Ice Refrigerators Made Of All Metal ‘Equipped With WATER COOLERS A lot of towns have been de-} voting all their energies to econo- it is time now for a change of front and the wise spending of money. It is time to realize that ‘the first duty of citizenship must be to insure a steady and orderly| It is time to figure out the chief problems which they have to face and which must be solved in or- der to keep the wheels of indus- try moving smoothly. THESE PROBLEMS THEN BE SOLVED BY They're Economical 100% Refrigeration Satisfaction CAN GooD THE WISE SPENDING OF MONEY IF NECESSARY. Today’s Horoscope You have a contented disposi- tion which will care but little for the pomps or the opinions of the world. 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