The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 2, 1934, Page 2

PAGE rw The Kev esi Citiseri Published Daily Except Sunday By ‘THE 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. 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 also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 3ix Months Thre¢ Months - One Month . Weekly ....... ADVERTISING RATES Made 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 & revénué {sto be derived are 6 cents a line, The Citizen is an open forum and invites diseus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general aa 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 Bidg., DETROIT; alton Bidg., ATLANTA. ~~- Yes, we have no bananas, but we still have a telephone. The good die young, it is said. But sometimes the old dye fairly good. One thing may be said for the nudist. The good Lord made ’em that way. It doesn’t require much energy to go to the devil and that’s why so many go there. The trouble with the average person is that he thinks himself so far above the average. Destructive criticism destroys, but constructive criticism builds. One is easily distinguished from the other. By a strange trick of fate, tabloids do well in large and not well in small cities, while the reverse should be true. Most people think they can sing, and no one seems more permanently sold on the idea than Mme. Ganna Walski. A weekly magazine is printing a ser- ies of articles about Doug and Mary, which may bring enough revenue to make ali- mony unnecessary. “An editor often gets an idea from folks who suggest how to run the paper. Generally it is the idea that he'd like to shoot the suggester. A Hoboken woman is suing a bakery because she broke a tooth on a bolt found in one of its pies. We have always heard it was bad to bolt food. ‘ A professor declares the shark was the first of our ancestors to have a face. Other characteristics also appear to have been transmitted to some humans. The Citizen has frequently remarked thatit welcomes criticism, because it con- siders it in the nature of advertising. Say som in good about The Citizen if you Waa something anyway. Even “ene American abandonment of all military and naval bases in the Philippines is con- templated. That will give Japan another opening for aggrandizement and an outlet for her teeming population. Perhaps the Mikado will set up a Philippine puppet emperor as he did a Chink in Manchu- kuo, and then the Filipinos will sigh for the freédom enjoyed under the sombrero of Uncle Sam. The Citizen believes that President Roosevelt has made his first major faux pas in eancelling the air mail contracts. The chaff should have been separated from the wheat, not the whole wheat annihilat- ed in order to destroy the chaff. Aside from this injustice, lives of the fliers and property of the government should have been taken into account, Six precious lives have been sacrificed and more than a dozen planes demolished within a few days. Too high a price for its moral ef- fect. The guilty mail contractors could have been punished without such a revolu- tionary change and drastic measure. When a house is on fire, efforts are made first to quench the flames and then if saspicion points to incendiarism, track down the guilty culprits. = TAXDODGING Every owner of real estate in Key West and elsewhere in Monroe county should pay his taxes, if he is financially able to do so. It is surely a reflection on the stability of Key West to be told that only about three percent of the owners of real estate here have paid their taxes. Among the 97 percent that is delin- quent there are some who can not pay, but the great majority of them are able to | meet this obligation. Some owners of Key West realty may think. they are benefiting themselves by thgi® refusal to pay their taxes, but they are harming their city far more than they ! are helping themselves. No taxpayer is justified in taking a stand not to pay his taxes, regardless of | what his actuating motive is in assuming | ; that position. The only reasonable excuse is, if the taxes are exorbitant, and that excuse can not be advanced conscientiously in case of Key West. In the last six years taxes have beer reduced more than 40 percént, but every reduction has resulted, not in more but in fewer owners paying their taxes. Because of this widespread taxdodg- ing, Key West is facing a Sefiotis:gituation, and unless. recalcitrant pea whers wake up to the conditions oe ase been and are still ereating; tidy, wi city financially. The first thing outaideie 46) aitien in- terested in buying real estate in any city, is to find out the tax situation in that city. What conclusion would they reach when they learn that only three percent of last year’s taxes has been paid in. Key West? They would not want to have anything to do with real estate in a city with a tax | muddle similar to that in Key West. the | fire the | Tuc KEY WeST Criicin Daily Cross-word Puzzle ACROSS . State positively ». Vessels ). Forced afr upon . Combustion 15. Lawful } }. Italian coins . Sour . Feminine name esetoccses IPIAIRIE| IN] [MIA . Composer of light operas . Prosperous Title of a knight Singing voice God of love Large recep- tacle 36. Sober . Fall behind . 61. Time long gone . 2. Te -nysonian . Wore away . Plaything |. Defy . Artist's stand Courage aaa 4, LZ ine bo Eh Y YY Y/ Vr ZA Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle ATT] [TIS] A AIRIETA 11] LiiNieZs| i. Rhythmie ine Cee Ce Eo aoe _ oh “ey aan dua Perrrerrr irri itt rer . Vine 23. Makes a pre- liminary . Due to motion 26. Martinique volcano . Palm cockatoo . Theologicat term for Christ, the Divine Word 9. Hold a session . Pertaining to one’s bitth . County in Colorado . Resume . Couch . Pigpen . Hold back Study JE |W ] [D| pels BOW - Requires Decom . Long abusive speech . Forbid . Mechanical bar 3. Scandinavian discoverer 4. Buys back Ut in the skin 51. Killed 32. Evergreen tree . Guiding strap of a harness . Dent out sparingly Pulled apart Silkworm 32, Antlered animal 0. Cover swing | Atlanta ; Boston | Buffalo | Chicago . {Denver . | Detroit | Dodge City . } Duluth ... | Eastport . | El Paso Helena | Huron | Jacksonville As i KEY WEST . ! Louisville 'Miami ..... He PCCP einai Vj- |_| & ete That unquestionably would be their |_. attitude. And who would be the suffer- ers, financially speaking? The taxdodgers themselves. This fact should be outstanding in the mind of every delinquent taxpayer in Key West: you can not harm your eity without harming yourself. Finally, the’ city and county authori- ties also should at least insist that every man who is an official of either political subdivision should pay his taxes. HEALTH RACKETEERS Medical quackery, whieh for several years gradually lost ground because of the growing tendency of newspapers to re- jeet quack advertising, seems to *have found a new and potential aid in the radio Much advertising which no self-re- specting newspaper would print is freely broadcast over the air, evidently with some success in attracting suckers, becaus€ it is being continued in undiminished volume. Those who prey upon the public by fraudulently cashing in on the universal desire for health are characterized by Dr. E. P. Lyon, dean of the medical school of the Univaratty, of Minnesota,, as. “health racketeers.” : He says of this type of faker* “His health patter is pseudo science. His eye is on your check ‘book: In-these | days especially he prostitutes the xatlio to his uses. Quacks and quackery, ‘fakers and fakery of all kinds appeal to a_ be- wildered public between jazz and the} nasal tenor, with blatant advertisements that no reputable journal will print. Oh, health, what crimes are committed in thy | name!” ny Even some of what appears to be legi- | timate advertising is very deceptive. doctor says further: “Brushing the teeth is a nice habit; but no one has proved that it saves teeth, and all the flamboyant ad- vertising about tooth pastes is roftenest tommyrot.” We often wonder if Bill Hay oean’t | reel off his chronic radio spiel about “film” with tongue in cheek. When the Rockefellers destroyed the | Diego Rivera mural on the walls of the! RCA building in New York, it stirred a) tumult in the world of art. The artists ac- | cused the Rockefellers with “murder with malice aforethought.” Calling everything that is not desirable by the few “murder’ when their pets or pet schemes are done away with, appears to be stretching hyper- bole a little too far. It will be getting so that one cannot call_a spade a spade any- more. The | KEY WEST IN Happeni Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The s Of The Citizen ee eee Information received from Florida State College for Women honored during the ceremony of tapping. Out of the entire 500 freshmen in the college only 35! are selected at this ceremony, 2! for freshmen commission and 15 for ¥.W.C.A. The three Key West girls named are Claudia Louise Demeritt, Blanche Curry and Jennie Mae Johnson. ernoon Miss Teen Williams, Mi: Minnie Porter Harris and Maud Curtis left Key West in a hydroplane of the Airways Company and at port of Miami. The passengers said the view over the keys was beautiful. sengers could have a close view | of,the road and the keys. | ; Several Key Westers intend to! tion of the ‘Atlantic Coastal hway Association to be held in annah, Ga., fm April. The as- iatieh has greg reased its inferest,.in the highway from the | mainland to Key West and this | interest is due, it is said, | passage of the bond issue {October 16 of last year, | money to be used for roads, represent Key West at the con- | , Hi on! the | | Upto a late eur noon there had been no arrange- | ments made for a meeting of | those interested in the hotel move- ment. The greatest difficulty to the proposed hotel building is the | inability of the people to get — share of the money nec enarantee the erection } Stracture. | of Advices rece 1 by British Viee Consul W. H. Taylor, His | Majesty’s Ship Valerian will are riye at Key West March 5 and ; reain for several days. The U. S. = ‘Aroostook, flag- ship in command of Commander W. H. Allen, arrived in port this nforning and will remain until March 12. Captain A. W. Mar- shall, senior officer in charge of the aircraft baftle fleet squadron, j is on the vessel. The men were given liberty this morning. Fishermen went out in numbers yesterday for red snap- per, but not a snapper snapped. However, the men were well re- paid for their efforts as the boats brought in ore fich in one day Misses ! to the | H Today 8 “Birthday- | Samuel Untermyer of New | York, “famed lawyer, born at | Lynchburg, Va., 76 years ago. Irwin of New born in Brazil, 61 | Inez Haynes \ York, author, year: 0. shows that three Key West st-! dents at the institution have been ; Alice Foote MacDougall, whose success in the New York restau- rant business has been an inspira- ; tion to many women, born 67 years ago. Dr. William Dunn, finan- ‘cial adviser to the Dominican Re- | publ born at Sulphur Springs, Bs .. 46 years ago. At 4:30 o’clock yesterday aft-; Dr. Alfred H. Upham, _ presi- dent of Miami Univ., Ohio, born saton, Ohio, 57 years ago. Aeromarine | 6! o’clock they had arrived in the! Samuel Yellin of Philadelphia, known as the leading craftsman in American metal work, born in Poland, 49 years ago. The plane flew as low} as 100 feet in order that the pas- | Thomas P. Cooper. dean of the | Agricultural College of the Univ. | of Kentucky, born at Pekin, HL, i8 53 years ago. i Subscribe fer ‘The Citizen. ‘than in all the othet days of the { week combined. Principal among | the take were groupers and mgt: ton fg! ~ All were of good size jand prime condition. i say a Editorial comment: A man is not entitled to be called promin- | ent until he has at least refused | once to run for an office. this after-j First indications of the season coming to an end was seen yes- terday when 393 passengers ar- rived from Havana on the 8. S. Governor Cobb. However, there were 141 arriving on the morn- ing train for Havana and 51 for Key West. Fourteen candidates will be presented for the initiatory de- gree in the Odd Fellows organi- zation next Wednesday night. Equity Lodge 70 will confer the degrees. Don Davis, claimed td be the lightweight champion of the navy, arrived on the Aroostook and is looking for a bout with some of e boys in Key West. The matter is being taken up with the mana- ger of the Athletic Club and it is lexpected a | fight will be atarnged. large ' i TODAY’S WEATHER t | Highest poker wager j pent : Mean ... | Normal Mean . ! Yesterday's Precipitation ‘Normal Precipitation .... “Thin record covery 24-hour period ending at 8 @elock thit riorhing. t Sun rises rSun sets . Minute orifices | | { DAYS GONE ee moderate east and Tomorrow's Almanac - 6:48 a. Barometer at 8 a, m, today: Sea level, 30.19. —_— Lowest 42 46 40 36 38 54 40 52 42 36 56 52 50 66 80 44 74 56 66 38 Minneapol: New Orleans New York .. 01 Ins. .04 Ins. Highest Last Night Yesterday FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1934. Today’s Anniversaries eee edcesedeseoee 1793—Sam Houston, soldier, lawyer, Tennessee governor, Tex- as soldier-leader in the struggle | tor independence and first = Gulf of Mexico, and pressure ae masanat ibe ee. tinues moderately low from Mon- S., born near Lexington, Va. Died tana eastward over the upper Mis- Jaly 26, 1863. sissippi valley. Rain has oceur- _— red during the last 24 hours from 1810—Pope Leo XiIll, -| the lower Missouri and lower Ohio: Died July 20, 1903. “{ valleys southward over the Gulf "| States, in southern Florida, and on the north Pacific coast. High pres- sure area: ill cover eastern and g | far western sections of the coun-' jtry. There has been a decided; ise in temperature in mdst dis-' jtricts from the Mississippi valley eastward and readings are above normal this morning through- | jout the country, except in south-! jern Texas and some sections of |the Atlantic States. Tempera-! | tures this morning range from 26 degrees at Eastport, Me., to 75 de- {grees at Key West. G. S. KENNEDY, 1868—Eleanor A. M. Gamble, Official in Charge. | noted: Wellesley College professor ie a a ae of psychology, born in Cincinnati. For Hard Coughs of | Died August 30, 1933. Colds That Worry You ego 1var Kreger, Swedish | Creomulsion is made to give su-! industrialist. and match king, the | preme help for coughs or colds. It’ preatest swindler of modern. days, | combines 7 helps in one—the best ‘Mareh [helps known to science. It is for! bom: , Commanan sia “| q | quick relief. for safety. 12, 1932. ¢ i But careful people, more andj Es { The present itype of “harp “has been in use since 1810." | more, use it for every cough that. BENJAMIN LOPEZ. { starts. No one knows where a FUNERAL HOME — WEATHER CONDITIONS The Rio Grande Valley disturb- ance, still of slight intensity, has moved eastward over the western born, 1829—Carl Schurz, Union gen- eral, newspaper editor, s. Senator from Missouri, cabinet officer, born in Germany. Died in New York, May 14, 1906. 1836—John Watson Foster, In- diana soldier, lawyer, newspaper editor, diplomat, Secretary of State, historian, born in Pike Co., Ind. Died Nov. 15, 1917. 1857—George F. Swain, noted Boston civil engineer, born in San Francisco. Died July 1, 1931. | | i | | Oklahoam City . Pensacola ... Pittsburgh St. Louis .. Sit. Ste. Ma Seattle .. Tampa ... Washingtqn Williston Wytheville 44 62 38 i ing if it fails 50 ‘ 32 j guarantees it. 54 70 38 48 44 WEATHER FORECAST (TiN 8 p. m. Saturday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday; southeast winds, Florida: Partly cloudy tonight} and Saturday; probably océasional showers in northwest portion. Jacksonville to Florida Straits: Gentle to moderate northeast to southeast winds and partly over- case weather tonight and Satur-} day. 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