The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 22, 1934, Page 2

~ “Published Daily Bzcept Sunday By ‘THE. CITIZEN PUBLESBING CO. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President. From The-Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Kty West and Monroe ‘County. Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter parse >< ete Bens Sia Bape eos FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press 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 alsc the local news published here, SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year .. 3ix Months - Three Months One Month Weekly -.. ADVERTISING RATES Madé known on application, SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary. notices, etc., will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which @ revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and. subjects of local or general kateb but it will not publish anonymous commyni- cations. NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES FROST, LANDIS & KOHN 250 Park Ave, New York; 35 East Wacker Drive, CHICAGO; General Motors Bldg., DETROIT; Walton Bldg., ATLANTA. Congratulations, Postmaster Harris! * Petroleum has been found on the Mt. Sinai peninsula. ' If only Moses had known. “The World Is Yours” is the title of a new novel. Hand it over or Quityourkid- ding. If genius is the infinite capacity for feeling dissatisfied, then we have a lot of geniuses in Key West. People who count nothing but money as a thing worth while will some day wake up and realize that there are other things. Key. West’ Citizen figures that Uncle Sam spends $200 a second. Look out; you will give some of the old misers _in- somnia.—Times-Union. In the appointment of Sam E. Harris, editor of The Sunday Star, another deserv- ing democrat’s efforts for the success of the party, is acknowledged. The old dollar had the inscription: “In God We Trust,” and the suggestion has been made that the new ones, the 59 cent kind, should be inscribed; “I hope that my redeemer liveth.” The administration’s 6-point program does not look so formidable to printers. Perhaps if it reached the proportion of Long Primer or at least Pica, the sons of Gutenberg might have been impressed. A wind velocity of as much as 300 miles pér hour is attained in some torna- does. © Jonah says he doesn’t want to be around when the wind whistles like that, but he may be assured that hurricanes, which occasionally visit this vicinity, sel- dom ‘put on more than a third of a torna- doe’s speed. _ The editor of The Sunday Star'says he doesn’t care" if Miami claims to have the warmest’ climate’ in the United States if * oie “with the exception of Key est.” ~"But Miami does not relish ptay- ing second fiddle to anything, and that is not to her credit, for she has sufficient firsts to make her outstanding. What's in a name anyway? Some Vanderbild University co-eds, answering a questionaire, stated that Zangara was the president of Cuba and LaGuardia — presi- dent of Mexico. But they couldn’t be stumped when it came to name the chief executive of the United States. All named committee to be given the stressing the fact that the Pan-American Airways is still‘paying $5,000 a year for a | committee that i contracts to know of the additional amount the post office department is paying in having the airmail carried to Havana from Miami as compared with what it cost to earry it to the same point from Key West. The Pan-American Airways, when it operated from its base in Key West, car- ried the mail to Havana at 40 cents a pound. When the company discontinued its operations from its Key West base, though retaining a lease on it at $5,000 a year, and established a base in Miami, the airmail contract was changed from a poundage to a mileage basis, as a result of which it cost the post office department approximately $125,000 more a year in handling the airmail between this country and Havana. : Anybody familiar with the distances between Havana and Key West and Havana and Miami understands readily the reason for the additional cost: Key West is only 90 miles from Havana while Miami is 246 miles away, or 156 miles farther than this city. The question that naturally arises here is, Why was the mail carried on a pound- age basis from Key West and a mileage basis from Miami? That question can be answered in two ways. of the Pan-American Airways only and disrggard the interests of the govern- ment entirely, it was to the financial ad- vantage of the company, with Key West so close to Havana, to be paid on a poundage basis, and, conversely, it was to. its ad- vantage to be paid on a mileage basis, with Miami 156 miles farther away. But if the interests of the government was to be conserved, as it should have been, then the base should have been kept at Key. West, and the post office depart- ment would have been saved $125,000 a year, if the poundage basis had been con- tinued, and far more than that if the com- pany had been paid on a mileage basis, be- cause of the difference of 156 miles in the haulage. i The Citizen thinks it would be well for the Key West Chamber of Commerce to present the facts regarding the discon- tinuance of the airmail service from this port to the senate committee that is now investigating airmail contracts. Were that done, it may lead to the re-establishment of the base here for Havana and other mail to the south of'us. ~~ : ’ In any event, it would be well for the information, lease on an airport here that is not being used. NOSE RING WEDDINGS It may be surprising to many to know that even today among the Kamia Indians of California the wedding ceremony re- quires the placing of a ring in the bride- #room’s' nose, , instead of on the bride’s fin- ger. ¢ ; ae The nose-piercing is itself. a ceremon- ial event, and takes place some time before the wedding the operation being ‘perform-| ed with a wooden needle.” Four candi- dates for matrimony must submit to this or- deal at the*same time, after which ‘they must run 15 miles, then remain four days on a restricted diet, while women. nearby sing continuously. Following this the youths must go naked for a month, not be- ing allowed to eat deer, jack-rabbit or fish. Then they are all set for the wedding. Perhaps the Kamia bride employs the ring as an aid in holding the spouse’s nose Roosevelt and they even got the initials; to the grindstone, as many of her sisters do “F. D.” correct. It’s a wonder some of them didn't ring in “Theodore.” | without any such device. If we are to consider the interests | it Bm 1b. bes le 17. American darkness 10/=| 1wim|z0]>| OBO ome [>] flo Quads jojomalelz} FW Gees i m= mo] =|>) EI Ea ERIE |=] we 46. Japanese statesman 48. Allowance for the weight ‘a con- tainer 49, “The Eternal 60, Contend with ‘successfully 52. Metal form used in stamping designs nations . Pi ; Alighted wy eqeeccescoooes Since first visiting Key Wert last August as a member of the i Governor’s party, during the en-; ‘ campment of the 265th Coast Ar- | tillery, and my subsequent stay of ‘a little better than two weeks, I/ have been giving considerable} {thought to the’ government’s al-| | most total abandonment of this} | plate as a military or naval base.! From the first it has seemed to! | one. intensely interested in those! wee’ ,| things, and disregarding entirely; < “tthe political side, which unfortun-j| +; 9} | ately, too" often’ enters into the re-| plant | tention’ or abandonment of many' ' absolutely useless posts scattered | 3. Had on ess iad the nation, that Key} 4 Symbol for f i | West from many angles is a most} 5 sign sfiadition & Pavthisg = | important point” of" communica-| & Devour 51. Plural ending” {tion and that ‘the navy depart-, | ment should give immediate and} | careful consideration *to at least! | a'partial restoration of this place | jas a base. | The first thing that would pres- | | ent itself is the extremely advan-| tageous location of Key West as the logical station for an advance force of marines; probably a bat- | talion of two or three companies. | This is some 800 miles south of } Parris Island, ‘the recruit depot, | and a most inaccessible place. Key | | West is about 1,400 miles south of | Quantico. where the main eoncen- { tration is now. Not trying to write exhaustively on‘a subject for which others are fay better fitted, I just want to enumerate a’ few of the obvious: advantages that this place has for | the establishment of the small) .| force’ mentioned above. © FIRST—Nearness to scene +| possible trouble which the last! twenty. years have seen. SECOND—The climate being al-| most tropical but not as enervat-! ing, the men would be acclimated | for tropicalduty. The first week | or so on duty. in hot eountries is ve ‘ in’ 53. Prophet &4 Watches closely 55, Japanese coin DOWN. 1, Out of danger 2 Smell i Hn BPS SRSRRBRSS RISE s 6 2 a zo of} DAYS GONE BY; | Happenings Here Just 10 Years) Ago Today As Taken From = { The Files Of The Citizen W. D. Byrd, Norberg Thompson and J. Lancelot Lester, compris-! ing a committee representing the! Exchange Club, will meet shortly; with local cigar manufacturers to; discuss the cigar industry in Key West. The cbject of the commit-! tee is to increase the output of! the local factories and to try and have more factories come to the! city. | Land on Key Largo these days; is being sold in lots instead of by acreage. According to reports, from that section, sales are being’ made so rapidly that the prices} for acreage went so high that it| was decided to sell by lots instead. } i Four Key West men were pick- ed up yesterday by the Steamship | Frederick R. Kellogg. The men. were in a motor boat drifting| about 15 miles off Carysfort light. | One of the men in the boat is Al-| ton Sands. The name of the mo; tor boat is given as the ‘Eagle; and is supposed to have been en-) route from Havanast} Key West, { It is not definitely known yet wheth the band éoncerts in: Bay- ark are to be Contiithed or not. The $1,000 fund that was/ given by the county was contin-} gent on the three-way committee obtaining from $500 to $800 from} other sources, and if that is not done the county will not make the} donation. Though a week has! passed since the last concert. there has not been up to date any posi- tive information available as to; when they will be resumed. t ' Amberjack are the fish that are} now affording much sport for visi- tors. Captain Paul Demeritt yes-| terday had two of them out and; the catch amounted to more than; 50 fish. most of them amberjack. KEY WESTIN |" and diplomat, born at Conhaiats Mass. Died there, Aug. 12, 1892. : 9 Eper editar, U, Wind May | love your job, don’t worry about a extremely trying on men and of- ficers. THIRD—The superior climatic- al conditions for drill, ete:, as against considerable number of seeseqeceasseosoeaaseren! northerly localities | 1732 — George | Washington} FOURTH—The advantage of| born in Westmoreland (o,, Va.} having the landing force embark Died at Mount Vernon, Dec. 14,}in the same uniform and with same 1799. en Today’s Anniversaries all times: on expeditionary -duty to the south of us: On this'I speak from: experience, having been in command of 450 replacements em- 1778—Rembrandt Peale, cele. brated artist of his day, son‘of-a noted artist, born near Philadel- equipment that would be used at! ‘weather for duty in Santo a ‘and. weighed 1720 Pewee FIETH—The location of the|one box of your K: place commanding, as it does, the | just 4 weeks ago. I now Florida Straits and entrance to the | 150 Ibs. T also have more enetgy Gulf. and furthermore I’ve never had @ . hungry moment.” 2 SIXTH—A much cheaper type} Fat folks should take one half of housing is required here due to! teaspoonful of Kruschen Salts-in climate. From what I can find}, giass of hot water every morn- out, the barracks and officers’! ing before breakfast—an 85 cent, quarters now here are in a good }pottle lasts 4 weeks—you can.get state of repair. t Kruschen at any ‘drug store in It is hard to imagine any of! America. If not joyfully satisfied the European countries abandon-| after , the first bottle—money ing a place located such as this. A! pack, ‘adv. great deal of money has — been} z spent here in the past and not a great deal more is necessary. When it comes to the rehabilitation of: Fort Taylor, that of course is a different matter, but even that, expenditure would very undomees edly be made by any foreign Pow} er, While certainly not posing as} an authority on what I have been | discussing. the. writer is not en- tirely-a layman, being a graduate | of both a Military. Preparatory || School, a distinguished Military | College, served as a commissioned officer three years in the National | Guard, and over three years as a commissioned officer in the M: rines. I now hold a commission| dent instead,” a in the Marine Corps Reserve. | “Your. books | we'll It would be a fine thing if the | ace au “se hee. a: people of Key West and other in- "There'll be an election. You'll vote, dividuals in the. state at large for the one ‘ eh would interest themselves in this} who can make this a place wher matter and see if consideration of | you'll have lots of fun.” the matter could not be obtain- shin. 8! “We won't have a king, but a pres. ed. HOLLAND McCORMICK. | Key West, Fla., Feb, 21, 1934. All Fools’ Day existed as far back as the 17th century, but its origin is unknown. DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE ~ INSURED UNDER U S. GOVERNMENT INSURANCE PLAN OF KEY WEST‘: Member of the Federal, Reserve Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ~ U. S. Government Depositary. barking at Charleston about a year after the last war, in bitterly cold 1788 — Arthur Schopenhauer, famous German philosopher of pes- | j simism, man of letters, born, Died Sept. 21, 1860. phia. Died there, Oct. 3, 1860. 1805—Sarah Flower PRS English poet and hymn-writer, au- thor of ‘Nearer, My God, to Thee,” born: Died August, 1848. , 1819—James Russell Lowell, fa. mous New England: poet, editor Fuk 1833—Rebecca Sophia Clarke (“Sophie May”), popular - ayriter of children’s books, born .at 'Not- ridgewock, Maine. Died there, Aug. 16, 1906. mye # 1834—(100*years ago) Thontas ‘Yay Hudson,’ Michigan mewspa- g. patent examiner, and’ fectu’ born’ at ham, Ohio. Died, Detroit, 2651908 cod: This firm recently wrote J. S. Dongo relative to the proposition and assured Mr. Dongo the firm will furnish 25 percent of’ the cost of the structure dnd; suggest »a way to raise the remaining 75 per- cent of the cost. Ld debuted, date death author ad cee “Teh wide 18” + 24” 80” 86” ae: 60” 72" ” TLD LLL ” 71 ” ” Editorial comment: Elbert. Hub- ” bard once said: “If you do not it. Someone else will soon have it." Visitors are enjoying delightful weather in Key West at this time. With the thermometer showing 46 at Tampa, 36 at Jacksonville and 4 8 ALSO, GALVANIZED | ~ SPECIAL OFFER Buy Now Before Prices Advance Inside Frosted Lamp Bulbs, 15 ta 60 Watt, 2 hay 15c THIS OFFER CANNOT BE BEAT JUST RECEIVED ‘1 i". of Poultry Netting and Hardware Cloth, made of: eis 4.00. 5.25 6.25 9.30 11.00 14.00 GALVANIZED HARDWARE CLOTH—36” WIDE 2 and 3 Mesh R. Ogee Per Yard 6c 9c 12¢ 15¢ 18¢ 24c 30c 36c 12”*~ wide’ 1492 24” 36” 48” 60” 72” $130" + 1.85 2.36 2.80 3.20 4.25 6.30 6.30 ” ” ” ” Per Roll Per Yard $13.00 45c 15.00 50c 19.00 65c HARDWARE CLOTH — 30” WIDE, 4 MESH— ! This fish is a fighter and as they} 56 at Miami, there can be no com- are now running in large sizes the} parison between those cities and | angler that gets one on his line,; Key West with a reading of 62 at THE SHERMAN TREE $12.60 Per Roll, 42c Yard. One of the sucessful international free lances is Basil Woon, who has served as correspondent in many European capi- tals for American newspapers and press associations. | London born, he has turn- ed out books about Hollywood, Paris, the Riviera and Atlantic travels. There are few sections of the civilized world he has not invaded and always he finds the unusual twists of life which he manages to sell. And then be off again. His wife, Fleur- etté, is ‘a’ Parisian —O, O. McIntyre. Basil Woon will be remembered in Key West as a sub-editor of the old Morning Journal of twenty years ago, PAGE TWO The largest living thing on earth and probably the oldest, is the General Sher- man tree in Sequoia National Park, Cali- fornia. By precise observations and cal- culations a committee of engineers’ deter- mined that this tree was the biggest of the giant redwoods, while the General Grant tree is second in size. The General Sherman tree has a vol- ume of slightly more than 600,000 board feet of lumber; its height is 272 feet and its circumference at the ground is 88 feet. It is estimated that these largest trees are 5,000 or more years old. | | | knows that he is fighting a a 8 o'clock this morning. tand gamey foe. f | We are setting the pace for Washington’s Birthday is being} fights, says: Willard Russell, celebrated throughout Key West! manager of the Athletic Club, and today. The First National Bank! promises an excellent - scrap. to- is closed. the schools suspended night. Tommy Reyes and Kid An- studies for the day and many oth-| drews in the main go and Fighting er institutions have joined in the! Byzo and Young Sharkey jn the celebration. During the evening; semi-final. Truly some card. there will be a number of enter- tainments, among them one at the j Rea Men’s hall given by the Pa- triotic Order Sons of America. Key West's Firat Funeral Home Key West's First Ambulance’ Service 4 PRITCHARD _ Phone 840 Hever tears _ | A. B. Wade and Son, architects and builders of Miami, are inter-| ested in the construction of a commercial hotel in Key West.! ViDiblhddtaitktthadbetdthdids — BASEBALLS: Officia League and Natio: women, right or Balls, ‘‘Spalding”, each .... $1.75 GOLF GLOVES: For men and TENNIS BALLS: Spalding’s~best, sealed in air tight cellophane wrapper to preserve life, each 4B ALSO: Fishing line and accessories: Fish hooks, leader wire, sinkers, swivels and fish poles. 1 nal American League left hand, 85c THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1934, ———— pone maremeaemanenmne say