The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 26, 1934, Page 2

PAGE TWU The Key Wiest Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO,, INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President. From The Citizen Butlding Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter 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 alse the local news ished here. SURSCRIPTION RATES One Year ..... 3ix Months .. Three Months One Month . Weekly .......... Made known on application. -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 a 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 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 Bldg., ATLANTA. Worry pays no bills! Work does, pro- vided you are honest. Many voters who could not be bribed with money are bribed by politicians’ futile promises. School, textbooks the world over omit inconvenient historical facts. And it is better, so... Travelers tell us that the art of shak- ing hands is unknown in Japan. Perhaps ’ they shake their fists. Was Colonel Lindbergh’s protest to the president on account of his “interest” or “interests” in aviation? Genealogy, if pursued too far, might discover an ancestor swinging from the family tree by his neck—or his tail. Those chaplains who pray daily for the Senate and House might extend their . supplications to include the taxpayers. : Swift and certain punishment being meted out at last to gangsters should have a wholesome effect on the 1934 crimes record. The story of an old-time Congressman who rode to Washington on a cow is being -retold. And he probably shot her husband “When he got there. It takes some newspaper men a whole : column to say what others can say in one tenth of the space. Multum in parvo is » more satisfactory to the reader than giv- ‘ing him the works in reverse English. The sign “Post No Bills” is an injunc- . tion which does not affect this establish- ment. The Citizen has a collector to col- * SBéet.its bills; at that some of its customers *_are far behind in their payments. Just a gentle reminder. Since the CWA money has been flow- ‘ van , West, bolita is flourishing as ‘palmiest days. One of the Dnaiggtigns f+ that the “‘house” owners are ’ lita paper by wholesale-instead: * of retail as was done in leaner days. feuador, a republic since 1830, is on its twelfth Constitution. Well, we’re on : our first and disregard it without chang- . ing, on the popular assumption that an ethergency exists. Emergencies have ex- ‘ Gsted before but the Constitution was held * inviolate. No people emerged_from the World War so exhausted, shattered, torn and helpless as did. Austria; and none have made such a decided recovery from an ap- parently hopeless position. But at last, weakened by outside malign influences, she is beginning to disintegrate and crum- ble. The Pathfinder speaks of a fancy dress party held at Washington a few nights ago and there were many very ori- ginal costumes. One waggish fellow went dressed in an old shirt and a pair of socks with holes in them. A crowd gathered around him of course and they began quiz- zing him. “What character do you rep- resent.” “Is it Venus preparing for the bath?” somebody asked. “No,” said the wag, “I represent a taxpayer.” MOTHER OF MONARCHS When in 1764 Letitia Ramolino, a rather obscure Corsician girl, married Car- los Bonaparte, an assessor, at the age of 14, there was little in the occurrence to in- dicate the far-reaching’ influence that was to follow their union. It was not particularly strange that 13 children were to be born to them, but it is remarkable that of the 13, four were des- tined to hecome emperors or kings and two to become queens, The most famous, of course, was Na- poleon Bonaparte, who became emperor of France, and whose name fills more pages of history than that of any other mortal who ever lived. He was the second’ child. Joseph, the eldest, became king of Spain; Jerome was king of Westphalia, and Louis was king of Holland. Of the daughters, Maria became queen of Naples, and Elisa became queen of Toscana. Two other children held lesser rank, Lucien becoming prince of Canino, and Ma- rie Pauline becoming duchess of Guastalla. | Thus Letitia Ramolino has become known to the world as “the mother of mon- 1 archs.” It might be imagined, therefore, | that hers was a happy life—but not so. She was often poverty-stricken, and lived to see | all her royal children shorn of their powers When she died at the age of 86 the Wer eT Napoleon had been dead 15 years; all her’ other children had lost their royal preroga- tives, and while several survived her they had ceased to be factors in public affairs. But in spite of all that, Letitia Ramo- | lino gave to the world a progeny whose activities did more to change the course of events than that of any other mother who ever lived. HONORARY DEGREES Among the valuable public services that may be placed to the credit of Will Rogers, his debunking of honorary degrees is conspicuous and refreshing. was offered the honorary degree of Doc- tor of Humanities by Oklahoma City Uni- versity, he gracefully declined the honor in a telegram which was both humorous and sincere. After explaining that the highest de- gree he would accept would be A. D. (Doc- tor of Applesauce) only if conferred by the jkindergarten department of the. Oolagah public school. Will added: “What are you trying to do? “Make a joke out of college degrees? They are in bad enough repute as it is, without trying to hand ’em out to comedians. The whole honorary degree thing is the ‘hooey.’ I got too much respect for people that work and earn ’em to see ’em handed around to every notorious character.” Collegiate degrees conferred as a re- sult of conformance to curriculum require- ments are generally futile enough. The honorary degree is not only futile, but posi- tively amusing to anyone with a sense of humor approaching that of Will Rogers. THE LIFE SPARK Studies in biology and hbio-chemistry have developed -many . astounding. facts, many of which have been of-inestimable value to mankind, but the ultimate goal of such research is to find the secret ofthe life spark itself, and produce. it from inert mat- ele That this will some day be accomplish- ed is the belief of many distinguished scientists, although this idea is flouted by those who hold to the traditional belief in creation of all life by special acts of a Su- preme Being. Prof. William Lash Miller, interna- tionally known bio-chemist of the Univer- sity of Toronto, has produced in his labor- atory a component part of living matter, and his accomplishment is hailed as one of epochal importance by many fellow-scien- tists. Just what significance may be attach-| ed to Prof. Miller’s latest discovery is Hach | what difficult for a layman to judge, but! it appears that it may mark a most impor- tant step toward the solution of the age- old question: What is life? Isn’t radio a boon? Admiral Byrd can hear Rudy Vallee, and so keep reminded of the advantages of Antarctic.—Daytona Beach News-Journal. If, as the physiologists say, soft foods are changing the contour of the human chin, what's the unremitting application of hard grindstone going to do to the human nose ?—Arkansas Gazette. Tas KSY WEST IE QaTiaan Py | ACROSS 1. Long atick 5. Entangle 8 Distant | 12 city in Portugal | a3. Biblical bigh Solution of Saturday’s Puzzle WETS RNAS IETT IN S[wiAly] IN[O|MIE | “4 Sees pee 15. Send back into custody 17, Married ne 19. Before 32 Came ee ether He Meanie 3 Ys yout ahead 27. meee 30. Nobleman a B; i Artifolal® language | $1, Implement. for removing peels 39. Palace of the e a syhable of i hesitation 42. Moisten | 48. Continent: 44, Lisp i | 51, Apparatus for preparing: od to eat 53. Fishers for certain fish 55, Italian family of the Middle Ages 56. Feminine name . Present]; : et cheered 0. Sal : Sheet of glass . Minute orifice in the skin . Above mulberry Suited to the moment . Quick to learn . Agriculturist - saeres evcccecesesecoese ‘Daily Cross-word aie Poececacenseccecccesnccsercescomres seeee 10. — mM He 16, Symbol for sodium 18. Metric measure |. One that obtains |. Aquatic animal Foundation . Juice of a tree . Greek letter . Gaelic sea god Except . Danish money of Aceount Negative prefix . Cereal . Distant TODAY’S Temperature® | 0 Lowest | Mean .... ‘Normal Mean R | Yesterday’s Precipitation —_.0 Ins. Normal! Precipitation ... .04 Ins. Sr his record covers ZI-nour pero kk thin corning. Almanac 81 3 17 Bef rading of 8 o'etect Tomorrow’ , Sun rises MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1984. eeccce a WEATHER i tion; colder in south and east por-| tions Tuesday. i Jacksonville to Florida Straits: Fresh northwest winds, possibly becoming strong at times over north portion and weather partly overcast tonight and Tuesday. East Gulf: Fresh northerly winds. WEATHER CONDITIONS A disturbance moved across the ; * Gulf States yesterday and is cen-} . tral this morning on |. Series of con | nected things . Merchandise |. Top cards in bridge . Flower 8. Pronoun . Compass point | . Press . Ancient piave Range of knowle | Ripple ae When he |~~ a ee an re point faites rT Pp. M. Barometer at 8 a.m, today: Sea level, 30.03. Lowest Highest Last Night Yesterday 42 58 20 14 | Abilene i Atlanta Boston {Buffalo . «Chicago . | Denver * Detroit Dodge City . Duluth ..... i Eastport - ‘Galveston . Helena ~-dfhivon... ... ‘ Kansas City ‘KEY WEST \ Little: Rock | Louisville | Miami. . KEY WEST IN |/ DAYS GONE BY! Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen i | | Tourists have the reputation of ; being keen, observers and those that have been in Key West ré-; cently have demonstrated that! they observe the substantial as; well as the beautiful. One was heard to remark that in all his trav- els he had never been in a city, with better streets nor one where the streets were kept in such ex- cellent condition, Within a short time, it is ex- pected, the money will be avail-! able from the sale of the bonds; voted for roads and bridges. The } amount is $300,000, and as soon as these funds can be allocated for the different projects, work’ on both roads and bridges will be-| gin, One of the bridges that w be first constructed is that join- ing Key Largo with the Dade county line. A joint application will be filed at once with the w department, Dade and Monroe counties to make it. + | "At the conference held yester-} day: in .the co the chamber of commerce, ALB: Stroll; ‘repre-! senting the Hoékenbury” System ‘and Hde6cated of Phe project. to! build ayother hotel, nothing def-; jnite’ was done about the matter. i Mr, Stoll said his company had in.! structed him to make a complete survey of the situation. This will! require about two weeks, he said, | after which his official report will be forwarded to Harrisburg. | Several hundred persn: p ex- pected to be present at t Rani-! bow Dance to be given at the Cuban Club tonight. There are thtee candidates for queen—Miss, Dolores Cremata, sponsored by the ; Reds; Miss Violeta Aco: by the Blues, and Miss Josefine Benavides will be the candidate for queen on the independent ticket. Editorial comment: If adyice were riches, most publishers would have to build private vaults to | hold their wealth, Miss Mary Eliaabeth Grillon de- lightfally entertained the mem- ber& of the Twelve Pal Club last evening at her home on Southard! street, in hono: her thirteenth! birthday anniversary. Delicious refreshments were served. In a’ guessing contest, Miss Margaret Curtis won the first prize and the consolation went to Miss Gaiti. The hostess was the recipient of many excellent gifts. Tourist travel to Cuba still) keeps up to the standard although | the season is said to be nearing} Minneapol: New Orleans New York ........ Oklahoma City .. Pensacola .. Pittsburgh \ St. Louis - : j Sit. Ste. Marie .. Tampa Washington . Williston .. Wytheville WEATHER FORECAST Key West and V ity: Partly cloudy and colder tonight Tuesday; moderate to fresh north. west and north winds, Florida: Fair tonight and Tues- || day; much colder tonight with a cold wave in extreme north por- PUFFY The balloting starts. Puff’s keep- ing close check. There’s nary a vote cast for old Gubb, by heck. And then something happens tha‘ makes Puffy mad. Old Gubb votes eight times for himself. What a cad! 'Today’s Birthdays Dr. John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek, Mich., physician- surgeon, medical editor and in- ! ventor of apparatus, philanthrop- ist, born at Tyrone, Mich, 82 years ago. Rev. Charles M. Sheldon of Topeka, .Kans., Congregatidnal leader, author, of. ‘In His Steps,” said to! have sold to the amount of 25.000,000° copies, porn at Wellsville, NY., 77 years ago. Arthur Stringer, novelist, born in Ontario, Congas, 50 years ago. Lewis W. Baldwin, president of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, born at Waterbury, Md., 59 years ago. John Sanford Cohen of Atlanta, | Ga., newspaper publisher, .born a‘ Augusta, Ga., years ago, Archbishop John G. Murray of Paul, Minn., Catholic prelate, torn at Waterbury, Conn., years ago. St. Grover Alexander of St: Paul, Nebr., among the greatest baseba! pitchers of the past, born there, 4 years ago. noon with 390 passengers. Mr. and Mrs. Chas, E. Garing! of 808 Margaret street announce! the birth of a son Saturday. The! youngster weighed eight pounds and has been given the name of Charles E., Jr. Charles Curry, high schoo! stu- dent, was essayist at the Rotary luncheon today. His subject was eens and Its Ideals. the close in other Florida cities.| Subscribe fo1 for ; The | Citizen. 57; (Oe Key West's First Funeral Home is West's Firat Ambulance wt Service PRITCHARD Phone 548 Never Sleeps cep ceiteatn the middle has causedi throughout | Atlantic coast. It general precipitation ern Florida, the northern Lake re- | gion, and Minnesota. Heavy snows; ‘are occurring this morning in the} | Middle Atlantic States, and snow; also oceurred during the last 241 hours from the southern Rockies | eastward to Missouri, and in por-| tions of the northern Rocky Moun-! n States, and there has been! n on the Pacific coast from San} ‘ancisco northw strony | Sccescccccasosesssaeesee 1802—Victor Hugo, the great poet, dramatist and novelist. who ‘ headed the Romantic movement in France in the early part of the 19th century, born. Died May 22, 1885. 1823—Joseph Le Gonte, a dis- tinguished American geologist of ‘his day, born in Liberty Co., Ga, | Died Juy 6, 1901. 1832—John G. Nicolay, private secretary to President — Lincoln, 1869-65, consul and U. S. mat shal, author, with John 9:06 the country from the Mississippi| notable “Life of Lincoln,’ 2:28 Valley eastward, except in south-| in Germany. Died in Washing- ton, D. G., Sept. 26, 1901, 1834—(100 years ago) Thomas E. Osum (“Alfred Ayres”), Amer- ican author, critic and rhetorician, born at Montrose, Ohio. Died in New York, Oct, 26, 1902. Flammarion, born. 1842 — Camille noted French astronomer, Died Janne 4, 1925. high pressure area, | morning over the Pla 1846—William F. Cody (“Buf- causing decidedly colder we: ather! | southward over the West Gulf; States, with temperatures near falo Bill”), celebrated American seout, guide and showman, born in Scott Co,, Towa. Died in Den- and) freezing on the east Texas coast;’ ver, Colo., Jane 10,1917: + and readings are considerably he-| low zero from Montana eastward | over the Lake Superior region. | | Temperatures are thelow normal | Boston fipancier of. “frenzied fi- | this morning throughout the coun- | nance” fame, born. in Boston. try, except in Florida, along the Died there, Feb, 8, 1926. ; south Atlantic coast, and in the} ‘BENJAMIN LOPEZ be cues |ruUNERAL HOME) Established 49 Years Key West's Oldest 24-Hour Ambulance Service Licensed Embalmer Phone 135 Night 696-W 1857—Thomas W. Lawson, the | i G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. Giraffes when flighting among | themselves use their long necks! [like sledge hammers. i 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. 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