The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 11, 1934, Page 4

PAGE FOUR SOCIETY | Country Clab . Dance Satarday Officers of the Key West Coun- try Club will sponsor a dance to be oe ee @ Tonight At Service Thete will be a Union Service held this evening, beginning at "With An Armed World And Many Jealous Nations What Is (By ALBERT Key West As A Naval Unit?” G. ROBERTS) 7:30 o’clock, at the Methodist church, corner of Angela and Duval when Revs. James S. Day and W. W. Robins will be heard in addresses. The program to be follows: Hymn, congregation. Prayer by visiting minister. Reading of scripture. Solo. Sermon, Rev. J. S. Day, D. D. Congregational singing. Address by Mr. Boza. Sermon by Rev. W. W. Robbins. Prayer by visiting pastor. Closing hymn. rendered held at the clubhouse Saturday night, January 13, starting at 9:30; o’clock, -it ;was announced today. All members have been invited and are allowed to bring their out-of-town guests. Junior Woman’: Club To Meet There will be a social meeting of the Junior Woman’s Club held tomorrow afternoon from 5 to 7 o'clock at the club house on Divi- sion street, Misses Dorothy Turknett and {| Officials in Washington have, Time and time again navy officers ‘very strange obsessions that have! have tried to bare the condition of been gained from faulty informa-| our armed forces when they have tion as to the relative importance | either been courtmartialed or retir- of Key West as a naval operating ed because they are a hitch in the | base, on an active status. The/ administration. We can keep on history of our nation is interwov-' arguing and being pacifists but en with the attained glory that we {when our destruction has been at- have gained and has been stripped; tained it will be too late. The from us, through economy that: administration in power now has has cost the government more than!done more than the preceding they have been able to save. Our | ones to strengthen our forces, for position with the command of the | some of the former ones have been Gulf waters means not a thing to! pretty destructive in being so paci- four nation. Governments are! ‘fied as to listen to the prattle of | continually buying islands tojforeign nations and destroy our * | Susan La Kin will be hostesses on the occasion. Dawsons Leave Members and friends of the| Enroute Home First Methodist church will assem- ble tomorrow evening 7:30 o'clock | at the parsonage for a reception | iting in Key West with Mr. Daw- son’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. which will be given for Rev. and Mrs. George E. Summers. _ The committee in charge of ar-| Dawson, left yesterday enroute to rangements states that all will be) their home in Port Arthur, Texas. welcomed at this time in order to} © They were accompanied by Miss meet the new pastor and his fam-|| Fay ‘Ayala, who will be ~ ‘their ily. guest in that city for some time. Reception Here. Tomorrow Night Mr. and Mrs, Jack Dawson and daughter, Jean, who had been vis- - ROTARIANS TODAY SEVERAL GUESTS IN ATTEND- ANCE AT REGULAR LUNCHEON - Re-Elected Fire Chief Secccccescccoceccscccccs There was an open meeting of the Rotary Club conducted today at its regular luncheon, with Sebastian Cabrera, Jr., president of the organization, presiding. John E. Craig, first vice-presi- dent of the Clyde-Mallory Steam- . ship Lines, was present as a guest of Chas. E. Smith, while Lieuten- ant Edward Arroya of the U. S. S. Claxton was in attendance as @ guest of President Cabrera. Other guests were Dr. Robert O. Van Deusen and Rev. James S. Day. The meeting proved to be an in- teresting session throughout. HARRY M. BAKER Head of Key West Fire Department Jacob Wendel, patient at the Marine hospital, left over the East NINE LICENSES ISSUED HERE] ©O**t Yesterday afternoon for Mi- FOR FIRST ELEVEN DAYS ii Sr as 1 é r. and Mrs. Geral we an OF PRESENT MONTH children, who were spending two % weeks in Jacksonville, were return-| ’ ing passengers on the Havana Spe- Today is January 11 and from| cial yesterday. the first day of the month until this date there have been nine, Mrs, B, D. Jenks and daughter, marriage licenses issued from the! Mrs. L. B. Hood, were arrivals on office of Judge Hugh Gunn, the morning train from Miami yes- This is just one less permit than|terday, accompanying the body of was issued during the entire! Mr. Jenks. month of December when 10 . were purchased, assording to the) Mrs. John Lowe and daagnter,| records, Nancy, who were visiting at Miami During the week ending Janu-! Beach with Mrs, Lowe’s parents, | ary 11 licenses were issued to the Mr, and Mrs. Albert'Sweeting, re-| following: turned over the East Coast yester-! Stanley Theodore Worsing and | day. | Ruth Mobley; Alberto Lopez and Eva Fernandez; John Henry Par- | Thomas E. Reedy, who was} + with ‘but let political strengthen their positions by plac-; ing coaling stations or making naval bases on them. We are of no use to our gov- sernment as some officials declare, well, would our government think | of selling this little island to Great | Britain, or some other European nation? No, of course, for they realize how they would be weak- ening their whole Atlantic coastal defenses. Logical proves to‘ any investigation that this statement is erronous.' “An- other thing, if we are of such lit- tle importance why not completely abandon this yard here? know that for the good of the whole ‘Atlantic Coast that at ‘rio price would this station be com- pletely abandoned for the buildings are kept in repair the ene as when the yard was on an active status. | Now At Fauit The government at times may make the public see and reason as they do, but there are times when we can see they are at fault, and us a Democracy we are given the right to see that things are turned into their proper channels, and not be misled by either party pre- judice or partisan poiitics. Politics may eat at the heart of our government, but we have a core that will withstand the rav- ages of the filthiest politics, for we have the Constitution that guarantees the individual rights, and with these>rights let us fight for our rights, —‘‘To provide for the common deiense”— Cannot we appeal to the eyes of the nation and make them sec; that we can control events that would mean as much to them as something happening within their own community. I am not ap- pealing for selfish desires of my community or anything of that order, but for the whole state of Florida, we are the only line of fortification on the Florida coast, and we virtually command the Gulf and Carribean with our. posi- tion. How quickly can ships manuever here for supplies and re- turn to their scene of activity little or no delay. Our splendid harbor offers a quick re- treat from enemy ships, for it is Jan easy matter to defend our har- or. ‘ If we are not going to let the nation help us put up our fight or destructive economic measures destroy our naval position that is so strateg- ical, we are allowing ourselves to present an open breach “that leaves ‘us vittually unprepared in case of ‘unforseen events that look to be more’ than a fact than a theory from present conditions of the upheaval that is smouldering continents, An Armed Camp Europe is virtually an armed reasoning They| over the European and Asiatic; self respect by destroying our navies until we were almost a “peanut navy.” Works Miracles Roosevelt has worked miracles in the short time that he has been in office, for he is a man with such dynamic force that his mere {presence dominates the wills and |minds of others. Here is a man | with no personal ambitions but to lift us out of the. rut we, were heaved into.. Come into a port where we have many naval de- stroyers, you can see that many i of these ships are almost antiquat- ed and far behind the. newer types that the other nations have been constructing. “I firmly believe in peace, but peace without honor and self re- spect is no‘peace at all.” Theory was all that could be heard at one time when invasion by air squad- rons was talked about, well we can see it is no longer, poison gas raids jare no longer impossible. We even would have had the temerity to declare that their debts to us were not to be paid? It looks to me Washington took it very light- ly and settled down to regular | routine, and congress had to find means to shift the burden on the public through different means of |taxation. We may have powerful jallies, but they are only ours as long as it is advantageous to them, for the minute they see that we are weakening they will desert us. What happened during the World War? Did we not practically buy Italy to come over with the Allies? She sold herself to the Allied na- tions. j Hard Feeiings Many nations today hold hard | feelings towards us, they would | greatly consummate any plan that would enhance the quickening of Do not think that Japan bears any love for us, for we have done many things that have gained their hatred. What about the European nations? They ‘squabble at the League of Nations and tell each other what they are going to do regardless of the rest, and as for us the war debt has sul- lied their honor and made them virtual pirates of this modern day, and as far as we are concerned we are alienated from them. It would certainly please them to see us embroiled in an armed conflict | with a major power for they might see a chance of saving their na- tional honor and share in the par- tition of our vast national, wealth. Roosevelt was very tactful when he recognized Soviet Russia, for j here is an alliance of consequenée. jIf Japan should attack us in the Pacific, in just a few hours Russia | would be able to begin a counter | our oblivion, menter and Josephine Marion Bos spending some time in Cuba on| mp, France has just completed | defensive in the province of Man- “TRIBUTE TO DR. GEORGE R. o PLUMMER By GEORGE ALLAN ENGLAND) In the passing of Dr. Plummer, not only has Key West suffered a severe loss, but also I personally fee] that a good and loyal friend has forever left us. Most of my experience with “The Paradise City” has been more or less asso- ciated with Dr. Plummer. He ex- plained to me many quaint and vurious details of Key West’s life, told me much of its history, gave me insights into its delightful peculiarities, which would other- wise have been denied me. My debt to him has been enormous. | perhaps more than Key West her- self knew. His ambitions for her recovery and prosperity were ever uppermost in his mind. How many times he outlined to me his plans for the bridges and for the desired revival of Key West’s civic and economic life! Had he pos- sessed a magician’s wand, his home city would have been the first to benefit by its use. Perhaps few_of his friends ever realized any more fully than I did the scholarship and erudition of} this man. He knew much, and} freely imparted much to me, a seeker. I never ceased to admire} his’ profound knowledge of the Spanish language and literature. Dr. Plummer was the only man I} have ever known who had read Dr. Plummer loved Key West, ; and could remember the whole of a large Spanish dictionary. His memory must have been pro- digious. Through him I came to know and admire many works of}, Spanish literature which must otherwise have escaped me. This “good physician” was evtr the friend of the lowly and hum- ble. Many, many times: I actom- panied him on his found bf calls, and talked with his patients; and I know in what regard and affec- tionate esteem they held him. To be the friend and consoler of the | poor was a title that even the Mas- ter Himself was glad to bear. Now Geogre R. Plummer,:“el doctor de la gran calma” as his Cuban friends used to call him, has gone into the silence, into the greatest calm of all, the peace that passeth all understanding. It is not for us to judge him; only for us to remember his many ster- ling good qualities, his loyalty to his friends and his charity toward all others; to remember the old French saying that “tout com- prendre, ¢’est tout pardonner.” To understand all, is to forgive all. Myvsense of personal loss in his death is. very) real, nor shall I ever forget what Dr. Plummer meant to me, Key West: too, I feel, will long remember him. Good-bye, dear friend—peace to your,ashes' evermorey” te t 'REPORT ISSUED | SHOWS WAGE LOSS | |» BY P. 0. CLERKS | should not ‘depend ‘on ‘alliances! alone, but be ready to defend our jownselves, If we had had one of | the most powerful navies at our ;command, do you think that some of the smallest nations in Europe! STRIKING FACT IS THAT LOSS IN RETRENCHMENT MOVE BORE HEAVIEST UPON LOW-; EST SALARIED WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 11. —The loss in wage of post office | ‘clerks for the last six months of 1933 was approximately 20 to 25! percent, according to grade, in- stead of the usually quoted 15 percent reduction of he Economy Act, according to the January is- sue of The Union Postal Clerk, of- ficial organ of the National Fed- eration of Post Office Clerks, An- other striking fact is that the loss bore heaviest upn the lowest salaried. For regular clerks in the $1700 per annum group, the percentage of deductions amount- ed to $25.86 while for the highest grade of veteran and expert “spe- cial” clerks the loss was 18.98 per- cent. In money, the $1700 clerk lost apphoximately $211 in the last six months of 1933 and $320 in the preceding twelve months, The largest actual money loss was by} clerks in the junior “special” | grade who, through payless fur-| loughs, the 15 percent wage cut,/ the estimated loss in reduction of night work differential pay and discontinuation of promotions, found -his income less by $628.88! in ‘the 18 months -period. These.sums do not include the! regular deductions for retirement} funds which amount to 3% per-| cent, j Heavy as these losses appear, } they are, according to The Union) Postal Clerk, small compared to! those suffered by the some 20,-/ 7000 substitute postal employes.! | These employes are dependent inj ordinary times upon extra work} The door CASTILLO ACCEPTS ANOTHER POSITION ee Flores Castillo, who learned the printing business at The Artman Press and was recently employed with the organization, left yester- day for St. Petersburg to accept a position in that city. Mr. Castillo’s mother makes her home in Tampa and he decided he would like to be near her. He was accompanied by his wife and baby. FRUIT SHIPMENT AT TIFT’S STORE An extra nice line of fruits, and vegetables arrived last night by truck from Miami for Tift’s Gro- cery, 1117 Division street. The shipment contained many varieties of both fruit tables which are now this store. GETS PRISON TERM GLASGOW, — Mrs, Eleanor Bush of this city was sent to prison for four.months for making -false accusations against another woman for spite. A simple magnetic instrument developed by the General Electric Company measures lightning cur- rents, Students of Simmons Univer- sity, Abilene, Texas, have voted Mildred Corley, the most beauti- ful girl in the school, and named her “University Queen.” FLORIDA BRINGS 60 PASSENGERS The P. and O. S. S. Florida ar- rived yesterday afternoon 3:45: o’clock from Havana with 60 pas. sengers, Of these 28 were aliens. The ship sailed 6:30 o'clock for ampa, Freighter Ozark, of the Clyde- Mallory Lines, is due in port this afternoon from ‘New Orleans, en- route to Miami ‘and Jacksonville. — Friends of Miss Nell Rose Knight, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Knight of Washington street, will be interested to learn that she is resting well after un- dergoing an appendectomy opera- tion in a local hospital, Commissioners Vote To Pay County Forces ‘(Continued from Page One) to be received and these, it is ex- pected, will be presented at the next meeting. A communication was read from the Key West Fire Depart- ment inviting the county officials to attend the supper and enter- tainment to be given Friday night hin the Victoria restaurant in hon- or of the officers of the depart- ment named at the election Tues- day of this week, Ji was unan- imously accepted. ! | Bond of Mrs, Flora Saunders, .as notary public, was approved and signed by the board. ~ Mr. Porter Heard Mr. Porter voiced his objections to what he termed the unneces- sary empanelling of coroner’s juries in cases of suicide or other forms of violent death, when a physician has attended the person before death ensues, And when it is necessary to em- panel a jury, he said, he wanted to go on record as being unalter- ably opposed to keeping the jury several days and prolonging the time for rendering a verdict, He moved to instruct the clerk to refuse to pay bills when it was decided they were rendered in trivial cases, By trivial cases, f€ Was explain- in offices of the justices of the peace from time to time that were exceedingly trivial in the fullest sense of the word, the handling of which was unfair to the taxpay- ers of the county. In conclusion Mr, Porter said that he will ask the board to’ take these, matters up with the gov- ernor and ask that’ any official guilty. of these practices, be re- moved from office, » On: vote’ the motion was mrde unanimous, Receipt of the First National Bank to Frank H. Ladd, tax col- lector, was read showing deposit on January 5 of $10,914.45. Dis- tribution to the various state and county funds was itemized. Depository accounts for Decem- ber were read, checked and ap- proved by the chairman, Clerk Sawyer filed his report covering tax redemptions for the month of December, showing a to- tal of $2,358.77. Collector Ladd submitted a re- port of funds remitted to the state board of administration amount- ing to $6,576.20. Commissioner Porter moved that the county pay for the tele- Phone in the office of Circuit Court Judge Jefferson B, Browne. The motion was carried. LEROY* TORRES Popular-And Active: Member® of Key West Volunteer Fire S. Owen Sawyer, who. is. from the city on a’ other members of the city force: § This action was‘taken by City Councilman. C. ©. Symonette, chairman of the sanitary commit- tee, according to his statement, due to the fact that Mr. Sawyer left the: city without - notifying ‘him in the matter. What disposition. will be made ‘ef the case upon Mr.. Sawyer’s re- ‘turn to the city is problematical. Equipped with a moving pointer, a new stop-and-go light shows motorists how much time they have before the green — signal changes to red. i Montgomery Players Present LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE —On the Seréen— TAMING THE JUNGLE Matinee, 10-15¢c; Night, 10-20¢ —~— of one kind or another. to regular appointments, which is; their goal, was definitely barred: by the suspension of appointments under the Economy Act. At the| same time, their earnings were cut to the bone by curtailment ot| Bang! Crash! and Blam! strikes METHODIST CHURCH ; seat te the storm with a roar, Angela and Duval Streets regular clerks during emergency! 4nq Puffy and Fluff are tossed| ¢ periods. Earnings of less than 60) 0: on the floor. REV. J. S. DAY been reported. Relief agencies or; "" ‘saree REV. W. W. ROBBINS emergency employment plans re-| “@* Raving ad dreams, ‘that they are employed. In some! at least, so it seems!” de Noriega; Roland Barker and pusiness, arrived on the Florida Rosalie Herttel! Guyer; John Wil-| yesterday from Havana and left liam Glisson and Edria May Saun-| Qver the East Coast for his home — {in Coral Gables. — . s | Mrs. Joe Pearlman and son, 'P the face, she has defied alljed at home the troops at the front WARD DAY IN | Donald Harry Pearlman, left on|@tmament ratios which had been! soon succumb. We are far across| COLLEGE PLAY the afternoon train yesterday for|#!lowed to her, have we not taken/the Pacific and the Atlantic from) i a stay of six days in Miami with| imsults from other nations that/either continent and we do not relatives. needed severe diplomacy, but we;hear the continual undercurrent VICE-PRESIDENT OF STETSON MINISTERIAL ASSO- {a line of fortifications on its east-!churia and rush some of her pow- ‘ fern frontier that cost three hun-| erful air fleets to the island em- | dred and fifty millions of dollars,! pire and with poison gas and in- Germany is wear ap her navy,|cendiary bombs soon cripple them. she has laughed the peace pacts| i i e has g pet Pi | Once a nation has been demoraliz- CHEAPER THAN DRIVING Train trav | at these new low fares MOTIVES. their use as supplementary to the! Speakers “gear i cents for a two weeks’ period have “What's this?” yells the Puff, “I | PECIAL MUSIC {fuse to assist them on the ground | And they all have come true—Or, | : ‘eases at least, they have been re- Sample Coach Fares ! fused employment under the CWA ;+ {program on the ground that they ¥ \already had a government posi- ARCHER Ss “The Store That Serves You Best” FINE FOODS It’s as impoftant te have your food staffs always fresh goo fine quality as it ix to we them moderately priced. There is no economy in waste. Here quality costs no more. We meet all competition with low prices and high quality. PHONE 67 FREE DELIVERY 814 FLEMING STREET LEE BAKER’S CASH GROCERY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY { A midget X-ray machine. so ' small that it may be carried with-! | out difficulty, has been produced} hed the General Electric Com-| pany. have had to accept the outcome, of political machinations. Rumors Charles W. DeGunther. asso-| We ate not prepared for any!are being continually made that ciate highway bridge engineer; E.|mergency at present, for we could foreign aid is being given to our C. DeGarmo. inspector of the state 2t Present such a strong line of Latin American neighbors in their road’ dépiirtment, and W. Inolin, | defense. All Europe is waiting} upheavals, just so that discontent CIATION of the same..organization, who,#"d expectant for something to) will be sowed among them against were in Key West for a short busi-/ eee cbse agersp on us. Sj me ~ rnoor, | the European continent will bring Should Open Yard {Special te The Citizen) Peset ty, iott resorday on jabout another armed conflict that| With all these conditions exist-'™ DeLAND, Jan. 11.—Howard| : is going to be universal. Alliances, ing and our part that we have! “0 Malcolm Day, son of the Rev. ra Jand peace pacts, treaties and con-j played in the past, I do not see! S. Day, who has just accepted whe | PLAN 10 REPLACE jferences are mere pieces of mock. how a government official could DUPONT ARRIVES Baptist pastorate at Key West, a jery, not even worth the paper|say that we are not important] sophomore at John B, Stetson Uni-! CHANNEL MARKERS °° are written on, for the am-jenough to open the navy yard. versity, has been cast in “Agnes” | , bitious aims and selfish desires of| Does he realize that the govern-| IN PORT TOD Y by President Lincoln Hulley of the | jrulers and men have self respect; ment spent a considerable sum of} dniversity to be given February 9 | for such as these when they see a; money repairing the submarine as the second of two of his plays} The United States Lighthouse/ chance for territorial or glorious! base? There are many cities on} The U, S. Destroyer Dupont ar-/ produced annually by the Stetson’ Department announces that Flor-| victories that will add luster to} the east and west coasts that the/Tived in port this afternoon from} Players. He is also cast in “Dear|ida Reef Ship Channel Shoal Bea-\ their name. Japan. is preparing| ships engaged in patrol duty in}® tour of duty in Cuban waters. / Brutus” (Sir James Barrie) which} con 0, daymark, reported missing one of he greatest military and Cuban waters would be but they! Other vessels in port are the @the Players will give April 6. | December 26, will be replaced as naval programs that the Imperial/cither lack water facilities or it is | Destroyers Claxton and Babbitt. | Mr, Day is house manager at, soon as practicable. l diet has ever undertaken. | inconvenient to have them station- Oxford House, residence of minis-} It is also stated that owners of] The depression has been the ma-jed there. Talking of economy. terial students, is vice president; Hillsboro Bay private aids, report-! jor topic so much that we have! why it cost the government in the at the Stetson Ministerial! Associa-}ed missing January 2, have been been blinded and deafened to the) first couple of weeks that the tion-and director of the Univer-| requested to replace them as soon | perspective and rumblings of war! ships were here for the extra sity Sunday school. jas practicable. ‘that threatens on every horizon.| (CONTINUED TOMORROW)