The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 27, 1934, Page 2

PAGE TWU The Kev Tesi Citizen iestea cee Published Daily Except Sunday By SUE CITIZEN PUBLISHUYG CO, INC. L, P. ARTMAN, President. ~ +> From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter peste as KC ak “li era ae aE FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press The Asgociated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the logal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES $10.00 6.00 2.50 35 20 One Year .... 3ix Months Three Monti One Month Weekly SING tion, L NOTICE ards of thanks, resolutions of will be charged for at RATES All reading notice: respect, obituary notices, etc., the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which @ revenue is to be derived are 6 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 Bidg.. ATLANTA. “Most of us are not afraid of the big bad wolf until he begins prowling around the. garage door. Free press means going over and bor- rewing your neighbor’s paper.—Times- Union, It is surprising how many folks believe in a free press. A statistician estimates that there are about 70 billion birds in the world. Which may help to grasp the significance of Uncle Sam’s owing half that many dollars. Our century, like the last one, blushes and screams at indecent literature, but nowadays it is the daughters who are shocked, and firmly refuse the book to their mothers. From the intellectual point of view an abyss may exist between a great mathe- matician and a laborer; but from the point of yiew of character the difference is often slight or even non-existent. In the year 1830, about 90 per cent of America’s seaborne trade was carried by vessels flying the American flag. In 1890, the percentage fell as low as 10 per cent. Wide-awake generally in all things, we are nodding while foreign flags fly over ships that carry our exports, -“The economic machine is making the grade in high when the automobile _fac- tories make 75,000 cars in one week, steel mill operations spurt to 40 per cent of capacity and bank clearings are up 22 per cent. Every city in the United States will benefit eventually from these activities. With dictatorships firmly established in’Italy, Russia and Germany, Austria and France in ominous turmoil and Russia in- sisting that Japan intends to start a war against her in the spring, world conditions are anything but serene. But whatever happens over there, Jet us angry on our awn side over here, " eidiibesijanb cannot: urderstand-..finance. When Sweden restored the gold standard in 1924, 0, marked recovery toek place im- mediately,iyet when England went. off the gold standard, her economic conditfon im~ proved, With a gold bullion money stand- ard, it is too early to know how this new monetary venture will affect the United States. Arthur Hyde, former republican sec- retary of agriculture, complains that the people never voted for these New Deal things Roosevelt has brought us. Well, Mr.. Hyde, they never voted for that de- pression Hoover brought us, either.—Fort Myers News-Press. Now, now, boys. Re- member we’s all brothers in that great fra- ternity.... It is a common mistake to believe that you have to have capital to make money. this is only partly true, for in business, ex- perience counts if anything more than capi- tal. “Around the Florida town called Sanford,” writes E, W. Howe, “celery is ex- tensively grown. It is said to be a fact that everyone with money who engaged in celery farming at Sanford has become bankrupt; all those who have made money today, started with nothing, and grew up in the business, slowly providing capital by the time they had learned the business as a result of hard work and experience.” | through its agency may prove to be white. DECLINE OF ISLAM Mohammedanism is losing its author- ity as a religion, particularly in Turkey, but in other Moslem lands as well, according to the Rev A. M. Chirgwin, a British clergy- man and writer. Mustapha Kemal, the present ruler ot | # Turkey, dealt Mohammedanism a terrible blow by abolishing the Caliphate, that highest church dignitary formerly held by the sultans, and repudiating the Koran, as the legal code of the country. ‘This, to- gether with the spread of foreign litera- ture antagonistic to the faith, has played havoc with Mohammedan prestige in Tur- key, Egypt, Arabia, India and Africa, It, as Mr. Chirgwin believes Moham-|! ‘ medanism is on the point of collapse, the next few years may mark the disintegra- tion of one of the most powerful religious and political forces which have influenced the world. Founded by Mohammed,-an illiterate epileptic sheepherder and camel-driver of Mecea, the era of Islam dates from 622 A. ! D., when with 150 followers he {led from Mecca and settled to escape persecution and settled in Medina, where his real pow- er rose. His epileptic tendencies had brought n “visions” whereby he professed to have received revelations from God at® various times, these communications being later in- corporated in the Koran, After the death of his first wife, he took ten other wives, many coneubines and | female slaves into his household. He exercised both temporal and spiri- tual authority, waged war with thé cruelty common to that period, and partook more of the character of a conqueror and states- man than of that of a prophet. His own sincerity of belief in his divine mission, es- pecially during his later life, has been ser- iously questioned. H Yet the movement he founded had within 100 years after his death, become a serious menace to Christendom, until check- | _. ed by the victory of Charles Martel near Tours in 732, while today the adherents | of Mohammedanism number about 234,- 000,000, Like Christianity, Mohammedanism is divided into many denominations or sects, of which the Sunnites and the Shiites are the most numerous. FATHER OF RURAL MAIL Rural free delivery of mail is now so generally established throughout the coun- try that the farm boy and girl of today take | it for granted, and few of them know that its beginings were only 36 years ago. Perry Sanford Heath, a newspaper | man who died in 1928 at the age of 69, was the father of rural tree delivery. Through | his activity in behalf of McKinley’s election in 1896, Heath became first assistant post- master general in 1897, With only $30,- 000 of an unexpanded appropriation for experimental purposes to begin with, he established a few rural routes, The farm- ers liked the idea and through Heath’s per- sistence Congress was induced to appro- priate more and more funds for the exten- sion of the service. As a direct resiilt of his vision and zeal, the system of rural free delivery, which now servés more than ».30,000,00' ersbus,: has’ become. one of the, fe benefits which the waverhinedt confers up- on the public. Every rural mail box in the land is a modest monument to Perry Heath. HOPE FOR BALD HEADS? What may be a faint gleam of hope for bald-headed persons is seen in recent experiments with the powerful new cathode ray, even though new hair grown The application of the ray to a small | spot on the ear of a rabbit caused the for- mation of a scab, which later sloughed off, leaving a bald spot. Alfter a second appli- | cation of the ray, white hair three times as thick grew where the original brown | hair had fallen out. So far no experiments have been tried on human flesh, as the action of the ray is | as yet too little understood to warrant such arisk. But if the same effect can be pro- | duced harmlessly as was obtained in the! case of the rabbit, it may be possible to ex- | change a thin growth of natural hair for a | | luxuriant white crop. This, in turn, could be dyed to any de- sired shade—to match the clothing or the woodwork. THe KEY Wes? Cirizan Daily Cross-word Puzzle CMeesccveguescnnenscescensseecceveresesemser sweee ACROSS 1. Pallid 5. Picture 10. 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First piece : sawed from | Sunt rises . me Sun sets Moon rises ' Moon sets og . Fores at noisily through the hose >I v|—[u]>]0} [O}79|= >| 2] ON mI} [mj Ziolm Zl OlZ} ‘High | Low nights . Climbing vine . Not dressed . Blinds the eyes, as in falconry . Pronoun Ability . Charity Ly Kind of fuel . Son of Seth . Mark left by a blow Meshed LJ ‘, auuyies Anatomical catch aight of &. Stitel r Boney | Abilene | Apalachicola Atlanta Boston . ! Buffalo | Chicago ' Denver ... | Detroit { Dodge City {Duluth ... : Eastport ‘Helena . ' Huron | Jacksonville | Kansas City \ KEY WEST | Little Rock } Louisville . | Miami .... | Minneapolis ; Nashville . | New York ngry \ 8 Biathtmatteas eee a wean 7 7 idl : Yesterday’s Precipitation . Normal Precipitation - *Thin record covers 24-boup period | casting ut 5 o'clock thin morning. Tomorrow’s Almanac 6:51 6:28 328 - 9:45 . 8:26 Harometer at 8 a, m, today: Sea level, 30,24. Lowest - 18 32 - 12 8 4 ate 18 | Oklahoma City .. Pensacola . | St. Louis | Salt Lake City | Slt. Ste. Marie | Washington | Williston {| Wytheville | i = , Today’s cant, winds Anniversaries -04 Ins. | .04 Ins. | * ‘Tomorrow's Tides A. M. om. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1934, C TODAY’S WEATHER ‘| Temperature® | weather fair tonight and aa ~82, day. ! 65 East Gulf: Moderate northeast | 4| winds. i i WEATHER CONDITIONS | The Atlantic AE disturbencad has moved northeastward to the} ; Canadian Maritime Province caus- ling genera] precipitation during. the last 24 hours from New Eng- land southward over Florida, with : heavy snows in portions of the 4 North Atlantic States, New York , City reporting 13 inches of snow | on the ground thi smorning. Rain - M.! also occurred throughout most of 3: Highest | Last Night Yesterday | 32 24 14 26 10 2 WEATHER FORECAST Key West and Vicinity: Fair to. | eeeqeee! night and Wednesday; somewhat | colder tonight; moderate Florida: Fair, colder in south | | and east-central portions tonight. | north- | ; the Pacific Coast States, and in 05 | the Plateau regin, and snow in the lower Lake region, upper Ohio Valley and Tennessee, The west- | ern high pressure area now over- spreads most sections from the | Plains States eastward, and there {has been a decided fal lin tem- | perature: in most districts from | the Mississipni Valley eastward, | with Feadings 24 degrees below | zero in northern Michigan, and be- | low freezing southward into north- iwestern Florida, Temperatures continue above normal in the far | Western States, G. S. KENNEDY, ; Official in Charge. | pmmeareseseseceesseeseee Tactful and full of resource, and rather fortunate in your | friends, you will need all your } of fortune. | are favorable there is an oppor- tunity for success; if not, it will waters of quiet life. In all events, | walk cautiously. 'Today’s Horoscope! : | abilities to withstand the attacks) If the minor aspects} be better to keep in the shallow} Puffy or Gubb? Which one will ‘they choose ee] To rule on that: isle. where they never wear shoes? The natives have filled Puffy’s box with their votes; So he uses a Hippo while okay Gubb gloats. eesesee “Today In History 1749—A taille was order- ed built at Beaver Tail, Ro L— said to be the first erected on At- lantic coast. 1794—Great campaign through. out country to raise money for the ransoming of some 100 Americans held in slavery by the Algerians, 1839—Agreement made which stopped hostilities between Maine | and New Brunswick. | 1938—Fire destroyed part, of | the Reichstag Building, Berlin, | BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME | Established 49 Years i Key West's Oldest 24-Hour Ambulance Service Licensed Embalmer || Phone 135 Night 696-W DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED UNDER U S. GOVERNMENT INSURANCE PLAN THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK | required number of 40 Happenings Here Just 10 Years; Ago Today As Taken From H The Files Of The Citizen | . The suggestion made in The! Citizen yesterday by a member of the hotel committee that the G. R. H Miller Bond company’s offer to build a hotel in Key West, with | the assistance of local capital, s | meeting with hearty approval. : One of the most prominent men! said that if the company will pro- vide from 60 to 65 percent of the money for the structure the rest | of the money will be easily pro- cured. df it is the plan to erect! a modern fireproof building, it! was said, there can be no reason | why the hotel will not be in read- iness for the next season. Key West is now a fairyland of | flowers. Beautiful roses are! blooming on every hand. Many of the most gorgeous tropical blooms | can be seen in every garden in all | sections of the city and strangers | become enraptured with the pro: fusion of color and the: various! perfumes blended jnto one allur-! ing fragrance than can be: foundd nowhere except in sauthern’ clinjés/ at this time of tHe year, and Key? 4 West surpasses#nost other cities‘in | her variety off garden. plants and | figeerine shrubs. oe CG. “Waldron i annotnees int The Citizen today a great sale of | mules and horses. These animals were destined for Havana. but due to the embargo and other legal} technicalities they will be sold in Key West. There are some fine) carriage horses and some excel- lent draught horses and big mule: Heavy winds are now keepi fishing boats close to port, not o vessel having gone out for the past two days. Those that hare! tried to get out have quickly re-| turned, the danger to life and ves-/ sels being too great. No vessels will leave as long as the., strong northwesterly winds are blowing. Only three needed to complete the more names are al reserve unit in Key West. Al- ready 37 members are enrolled and with the addition of three the will be listed. As soon as these are in re- quest for an organization member- ship in the national body will be made. At a meeting of the city council last night an ordinance was passed fon its first reading pro’ ne a call for a special election on the question of the issuance of $150.- 000 public improvement bonds of the city of Key West. The funds will be used as follows: For pur for | railroad magnate, art and | great library, born at Oneonta, N. required { do! | number of men to organize a nav- 1735—Thomas Conway, Irish- born seldier of fortune who fig- res in American history in a olutionary glot to Aisplace | Washington, born. Died about; 1800. 1792—Baldomero Espartero,' a noted Spanish soldier-statesman, i born, Died Jan, 8, 1879. 1807—-Henry Wadsworth Long- fellow, famous American posts| born at Portland, Maine. Died at ; Cambridge, Mass., March 24, 1882. 1810—Jchn Gibbs Gilbert, not- ‘ed American comedian of his day, | born in Boston. Died there, June )17, 1889. 4 1823—-Ernest Renan, noted French scholar and_ philosopher, ‘who wrote much upon religious subjects, born. Died Oct. 12, 1892. 1836—Russell A, Alger, soldier of the Civil War, Michigan lum- berman .apd, governor, Secretary of War in Spanish- -American War, born. at Lafayette, Ohio, Died in Washington, D. C,y.Jan, 24, 1907, 1843—Ellen Terry, famed Eng. lish actress, born. Died Yuly 21, 1928, ; — 1850—Henry Huntingto: boo! of California’s collector, donor Y, Died in Philadelphia, May 23, cham of site for a new park on} Stock Isalnd, $60,000. For th construction of storm sewers, $20,. 000 while $70,000 will be used for i | e| Wednesday fair with rising tem- | perature in extreme north portion. ; Temperature near freezing in ex- | treme north and light to heavy | frost in central portion and prob-! ably light frost in exposed places | in the interior of extreme fouthy portion tonight. . Jacksonville’ to Florida Straits: | Moderate vated winds saa OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve Member of the Federal Deposit Insutance Corporation U. S. Government Depositary bid IITCLLELLLLLLE LA Buy Now Befor. Inside Frosted La Per Yard 6c 9c 12¢ 15¢ 18¢ 24c 30c 36¢ 1""’Mesh | . Per Roll eta wide isi. | 18” 4.00 24” 5.25 30” 6.25 36” 7.15 48” 9.30 60” 11.00 72” 14.00 POLI TA additional street paving. Editorial comment: If you don’t! think Key West is the best place under the sun you_have no ight) to live here. It is a reflection on your intelligence when you knock! and kick, you have full free- \ Commissioners Fulford and Pritchard expect to receive within a short time a number of play- things to be placed in Bayview: Park for the use of children. Ar- rangements have been made to! have the apparatus installed at} onee. | According to advices received by the local chamber of commeree. | 40 members of the Richmond, Va.,} chamber and their wives are} | pected to arrive in Key “West March 10. They will spenda fey] hours in Key West enroute to Ha- , vane. 8 8 \ \ K 5 N , N K 2 and 3 Mesh 8 $12.60 Per Roll, 42c Yard. BASEBALLS: Official League and National Balls, “Spalding”, each GOLF GLOVES: For women, right or American League - $1.75 men and left hand, 15 to 60 Watt, 2 for THIS OFFER CANNOT BE BEAT JUST RECEIVED New shipment of Poultry Netting and Hardware Cloth, made of strong galvanized wire, 20 gauge, copper bearing. SPECIAL OFFER e Prices Advance mp Bulbs, 1 5 c Per Roll $ 1.30 1.85 * 2.35 2,80 3,20 4.25 5.30 6.30 Per Yard de Be * 6c 8e 9e Ile 14e , le 2” Mesh * 12” wide 198 98 24” 30” 36” 48” 60" 79” le ” GALVANIZED HARDWARE CLOTH—36” WIDE Per Roll $13.00 15.00 19.00 Per Yard 45e 50¢ 65¢ ALSO GALVANIZED HARDWARE CLOTH — 30” WIDE, 4 MESH— TENNIS BALLS: Spalding’s best, sealed in air tight cellophane wrapper to preserve life, each 45 ALSO: Fishing line and accessories: Fish hooks, leader wire, sinkers, swivels and fish poles, White and Eliza Streets “Your home is worthy of the best” TIFIZ LA AL gL Ath hb db hdddddeduhubdide