The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 17, 1934, Page 2

PAGE TWH Published Daily Except Sunday By ‘SHE CITIZEN PUBLISHING -CO., INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President. From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. — Enteréd@ at Key West, Florida, as ‘second class matter FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR Member of the Associated 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 alse the local news published here. IPTION RATE 3ix Months Three Months ~. One Month Weekly - Made known on application, SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, ete., will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which @ revenue is to derived are 6 cents a line. The Citizen i open forum and invites discus- sion of public and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES FROST, LANDIS & KOHN 250-Park Ave., New York; 35 East Wacker Drive, CHICAGO; General Motors Bldg., DETROIT; Walton Bidg.. ATLANTA. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seck the truth and print it switnout fear and without favor; never be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or clats; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or inj stien; denounce vice and praise virtue; commend good done by individual or organ- ‘gation; tolerant of others’ rights, views and ‘opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. * Add similes: As cynical as a ground- hog.doing his stuff on Candlemas Day.— The’ New York Sun. And so Cuba has been recognized? They must have taken a slow-motion pic- ture of it—Thomaston (Ga.) Times. : Al Capone would go back to Chicago if he could. Mr. Insull would go back if he dared.—San Francisco Chronicle.’ _ Los Angeles diggers are seeking a lost lizard city. They’re at work in a lounge lizard community.—Omaha World-Herald. Mrs. Roosevelt will serve inexpensive wines at the White House. Inexpensive? Where will she get them ?—St. Louis Post- Dispatch. It appears to be the latest fad for col- lege-girls to go in for. bigger heels... . The kind that drive roadsters.—Free Lapce-Star. “. The price of gold is still quoted to in- form the average citizen how much the métal would be worth if he had any.—The Washington (D. C.) Star. - = It must be nice to be a local. relief ad- pce and be authorized by the ent to thumb your nose at a political wt ihe aaa Bulletin. 2 American cities have had their in- vestigations, but it required the French cabinet to demonstrate how far a_ police shake-up could go.—The Washington Star. The height of your forehead has noth- inif to do with your race, sex or intelligence. | But it may indicate age if it reaches clear tothe nape of your neck.—The Columbus Citizen, Could it be that the resignation of the Chautemps cabinet is just a temporary af- fair, designed to give the members a little time for pistol practice?—The Boston Transcript. * Now that Ogden Mills has closed the Hoover 1982 campaign with a rousing speech at Topeka, maybe he'll say a word in. behalf of the Second Liberty Loan.— Detroit News. All doubt that we are living in a new era is certainly removed by the realization that a man can now get official estimates on the cost of a red nose direct from the SGferament.—New York Sun. STEPHEN FOSTER Some interesting sidelights on the life of Stephen Collins Foster, sweet singer of | Southern songs, who never lived in the South, are given in a new book by John Tasker Howard, an authority on American music. : Foster was a native of Pittsburgh, where he spent most of his life, and it is said that he formed his taste for- music through a negro girl servant in his home, who took him to colored revivals and early minstrels shows. Her influence is seen in his prddilection for songs of the cabin and plantation. When he wrote “Old Folks at Home” he had difficulty in finding a pleasing | name of a Southern river to fit the meter of the first line. He first tried ‘Pedee,” then “Yazoo,” finally searching an atlas until he found “Suwanee.” The song was sold to Edwin P. Christy, a minstrel singer, for $15, under condition that Christy be allowed to pose as its author, and first edi- tions of the song bore Christy’s name. Foster’s songs numbered about 125, } for which he wrote both words and music, sometimes on wrapping paper, when noth- ing better was at hand. They earned for him about $15,000, but he was a ne’er-do- well and drank pretty heavily. Wee worked as a telegraph operator to help ek | out a livelihood, according to Howard.’ An old record in Bellevue * Hospital, New York, gives an account of his death in 1864, at the age of 37, as the*result of a fall in a Bowery rooming house. Stephen Foster’s life might not have been considered much of a success by his contemporaries, but his matchless songs have won for him something akin to im- mortal fame. DON’T MORGAGE HAPPINESS (Herald, Harvard, Ill.) The years of a man, they say, are three score and ten. In terms of life of a redwood tree, an ancient idea or doctrine, or even a_ middle-aged. alligator these seventy years seem very few. It would be wise to be thrifty with them. The favorite and fashionable indvor sport today is the balancing of budgets. It is done in business, government, and the painful process of making the family in- come fit the facts in the case. It should be done no less in balancing the years of life against the opportunities of life. Waste no time, then, which might be spent in the pursuit of happiness, in the work you love or the rest you earn, in find- ing friendship, in fashioning a faith and philosophy for the lean years at the end of life. Waste no time in worry which gets no- where, but confesses everything in gray | hairs and wrinkles. And don’t mortgage | present happiness to pay for a future which may never happen. Don’t work so hard that you forget how to play, nor play so hard that you] aren’t fit to work. Don’t blow off all your | steam before fifty and be burned out for, twenty years after. Invest wisely in amuse- | ment, as you would in stocks and bonds | Don’t die too soon, nor live to long. | Balance your budget. TY COBB THE GREATEST if lan ACROSS 1 Rich brown color 6. Lure 11, Beason of the 2 Bawa away to ma: * Jumbled type 5. Everlasting ik Consequently 18. Difference be- tween two consecutive 20. ¥. seratie etable 21. Bevour ed 22. tg shelter 24. Light bed 25. Genus of the maple tree » Bolas ae Dini 30, Ingustrious ect 3 smal it Found bra More untrue 35. Give 38. City 1n towa 39. Bird of the cuckoo . Old English coins . Mystic Hindu word ). Beach . Awkward . Looks for i. Tight DOWN 1, Musical in- strument family 41, Short jacket 2. Color Boxes 45. Before 46. Type measure Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie mM al * ‘| Highest ‘Lowest - Mean . | Normal Mean i Rainfair~ ! Yesterday’s Precipitation Hemst Precipitation record covers tN o'clock t Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises 6:59 a. mm.) Sun sets 6:23 p. m. ; Moon rises 10:18 a. m.! i Moon sets ...... 11:42 p. m.| Tomorrow's Tides i AM P.M.) 12:38 | 7:16! Barometer at 8 a. m. today: Sea level, 30.05, un. 68 Bae 2 | Bb ie River: Spanish . Rendered” capable | . Salt of acetier Lock. of noe Expiate . Kind of bird’ Oo Ir |=[> [S| Seis) “Cole 0 as ZiolmOlOl= uim|ol>| 2100/0) . Sylapie of hesitation . Crusted dish . Within . Instrumen- tality . Signity Ardor . Depression between mountain neaks i High Y Rote ofthe scale }. Manuscript: abbr. Lowest Highest Tast Night Yesterday 72 58 | ling }ami. i | Buftalo ‘ Charleston . | Chicago | Denver Detroit ‘Duluth i} { 1 i { j ' 74 32 52 26 68 76 26 52 14 74 24 44 42 j Nashville | New York je cneacola ; Phoenix . | Pittsburgh ci Salt Lake City . Sit. Ste. Marie .. Tampa : Washington ...... Williston .. . 32 ~ KEY WisTh IN DAYS GONE BY | Happenings Here Just 10 Years! Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Mrs, Lillian C. Connally, of At- lanta and New York City, arrived in Key West yesterday for the purpose of directing the cabaret which has been one of the prin-! cipal social events of ‘the pre- lenten season in Key West. The entertainment will be given on the night of February 29 under the auspices of the Woman’s Club for the benefit of the library fund, Editorial comment: The begin- ning and end of dinners in every clime—the gurgle of soup and {the aroma of cigars. Key West | furnishes the basis for both. Some real snappy action is ex-| pected Friday night, February 22, | when Tommy Reyes and Kid An- drews meet in the squared circle at the Athletic Club. serappers in South Florida. Kid} | Andrews is from Tampa and has fought several battles with Reyes. {A furious meeting is predieted. | f General N. B. Forest, grand dragon of the Ku: Klux Klan, of | the state of Georgia, will be in); | Key West toniorrow and conduct} \the open air naturalization cere- jmonies of the local branch, Picking the greatest figures in various lines of activity is a mild but‘often interest- | ing sport, and a jury of twelve old timers | some time ago indulged in the pastime of selecting the outstanding baseball players of history. An average of the ratings given by the individual jurors lists the heroes of the, diamond in this order: Ty Cobb, Bans | Wagner, Babe Ruth, Nap Lajoie, Eddie | Collins, Willie Keeler, Al Simmons and Tris Speaker. Seven of the twelve judges picked Ty | Cobb as the greatest baseball player of all i time, while most of the others gave him} second place. The opinion of Cobb’s ad- mirers was well expr ed by Connie Mack, one of the judges, who said: “Picking the greatest player that ever lived is easy, I think. I pick Ty Cobb. He was a good fielder, the greatest base run- e ner in the game's history, the fastest think- er, and the most consistent hitter. How can you name anyone else?” The Los Angeles “Times” is willing to bet ten to one that its readers cannot re- call the name of the champion corn shucker' of 1933. Just so, and who was vice presi- dent of the United States in 1842. Speak quick!—The Detroit Free Press. scope of A carrier pigeon; Which was, eye | dently ried from, a long flight, flew into the cigar store Inity Club on Greene fternoon, On its right leg oe a | band with 374—S. C. H.—19. ithe left a band with Y- a Nothing to indicate where bird was freed or whither bound. Steamer Henry R. Mallory ar-; rived in port this morning from: 'New York w {Key West. jwere bound to Galveston. 60 passengers for 67 other passengers invited to attend the luncheon of Exchange Club tomorrow. The t of having these business at the luncheon is to d plans for extending ¢ the leading indus Their ideas of expansion ssed at different f the club. The first is the raising of a fund of $10,000 to advertise the city next fall and winter and the other is a clean up and pa r ign and the remova ansightly idings. cuss the city fences or So far as can be learned by the quanter of commerfce, © residents the state generally favor the Propona to abolish the state ome and inheritance taxes. It i balieved that if this action is tak- Reyes is a| avorite in Key West, having met ! nd vanquished some of the best! In rapid succession, Puff does his the | Six of the leading cigar manuv- | turers of Key West have been} ¢.part in the discussions relative to Wytheville... 16 . WEATHER FORECAST (Till 8 p. m. Sunday) Key West and Vicinity: Fair to- night and Sunday; cooler tonight; moderate winds, Florida: Fair and colder night; Sunday fai frost in exposed places in the in-| terior of north and central por-| tions tonight, j.«1761—William Almy, Rhode Is-}/ Jacksonville to Florida Straits: | land Quaker _merchant-philan-! Moderate to fresh northerly winds |thropist, who assumed the entire | and weather fair tonight and responsibility for the education of | Sunday, * Anniversaries | pesceccccocscessenesenes j 1688 — Cadwallader Colden, jcolonial lieutenant-governor of 'New York, a distinguished seien- tist of his age, born in England. Died Sept. 28, 1776. to- ward. | Carolina, and readings jvelt and Nicholas Longworth | White House. north and northeast | Light to heavy \ SATURDAY, ‘Today's Birthday: eeanaccncaced —<| David F. Houston, Wilson’s Sec- WEATHER CONDITIONS retary of the Treasury and “of jAgriculture, born in Union Co., N. The western disturbance, still of |C., 68 years ago. slight intensity, is central this! |morning over Colorado with a} Samuel S. McClure of New ; trough of low pressure extending | York, noted magazine editor and from the Dakotas southward to ‘publisher and syndicate head, born | the upper Rio Grande valley, and iin Ireland, 77 years ago, | pressure is high over most sections from the Mississippi valley east- ; Light rains have occurted Frederic E. Ives of Philadelphia, {during the last 24 hours from 1®med inventor in the field of il- ‘eastern North Carolina southward lustrated printing, born at Liteh- over central Florida, in northern| field, <onn., 78 years ago. | California and Utah, and_ there! have been snow flurries in New| Dorothy Canfield Fisher, noted England. Temperatures: have‘ novelist, born at Lawrence, Kans., fallen in the East Gulf and middle} 55 years ago. and south Atlantic states, except! in southwestern Florida, with! freezing southward over North| continue} above the seasonal average from the Mississippi valley westward.! Key West, with a temperature of! 68 degrees, is the warmest place} in the country this morning, be. 10 degrees higher than Mi G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. FEBRUARY 17, 1934, . Bess Streeter Aldrich, novelist, ; born at Cedar Falls, Towa, 53 years Donald Brian, actor, born at St. ‘John’s, Newfoundland, 57 years ago. Today’s Horoscope A person of intuitive instincts is indicated. Those born on this ‘day will be possessed of occult eeececccsecacesusccseeee powers, pt ap i ygertrh 1793—Died in Florida—Alex- |Ptessions and able to construct lander McGillivray, a, famed Creek ;ftom them. Avoid a tendency ted Indian chief. ‘broaden the sphere of life and’ content to remain in the path of modest industry. 1815—Treaty of Ghent ending War of 1812, ratified by Senate.) gubscride to The Citizen. BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME Established 49 Years Key West's Oldest 24-Hour Ambulance Service Licensed Embalmer Night 696-W made in! 1889—“Billy” Sunday first appearance as evangelist Chicago. 1906—Marriage of Alice Races) 2 DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED UNDER U S. GOVERNMENT INSURANCE PLAN THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation U. S. Government Depositary j i i i 80 students, born. Died Feb, 5,' East Gulf: ‘1836. & winds, Moderate northeast | 1766—Thomas R. Malthus,) the English clergyman and _ political jeconomist who proposed to limit 'population by discouraging mar- riage and otherwise, born. | Died Aug. 13, 1826. 1807—William L. Dayton, ‘not- led New Jersey lawyer, jurist, U. |S. Senator and diplomat, born at | Bainbridge, N. J. Died in France, {Dec, 1, 1864. FTLILILZLL ! Extra quality Blow Tor card stunts, n | Pulling eards out of ears, while each cannibal grunts, Puff’s got them amazed. | they're kissing his boots. And their shouts of acclaim shake ; the trees to their roots. Electric Solder handy, each Iron, Now Oil Cans with spout jen at the next legislature it will result in many residents of tax burdened states coming to ie lida to establish homes, Every resident of Key West, who is interested in the progress} of his home city, should attend the} meeting at the chamber of com-{ merce tomorrow evening and take! Don’t forget we only and White Gloss raising a sufficient sum to con- struct a commercial hotel in Key - Gallon West. Quart foi ida Judge Hugh Gunn today makes his formal announcement in this issue of The Citizen of his inten- tion to be a candidate to snceeady himself, in the office of county judge. 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