The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 10, 1934, Page 2

The canal was not declared officially opened until 1920, sirce which time aheut 70,000 commercial toll-paying _yessels have passed through it, paying tolls. ex- ceeding $300,000,000, In addition, many Americay warships and other government vessels have used the canal toll-free. Up to 1923 expenditures in building and improving the canal had reached 540 million dollars, the interest on which at 3 per cent is more than 16 million dollars a year. Contrary to the general belief, Panama Canal has not been a paying proposition for the United States govern- ment, when its investment in the project is considered. During the past few years the deficit has exceeded four million dollars a year. The only way in which the canal | Phe silent watches of the night—those | 45 be considered an asset to the federal you forgot to wind. government is by taking into account its < -ohaiieaion es amas } supposed value to the national defense. ee is golden; if yqu don't bej try to buy some. + renee Whether the canal could be defended against a first-class power in time of war is ene of the country’s important military problems. This problem did not’ arise during the World War, as depreping. One consolation is that popular! or Pacific after the United States entered ‘ng doesn't stay that way long. i the struggle. MASON-DIXON LINE How a term originally of only local ; Masom ant Dixon’s Line,” the popular 2, $ The ladies are more interested inj Sylvania and Maryland. ' Today a 2 errrrerrerrrerrrrrrery What a bride is married in than what she’s Because of a dispute between William | DAYS GONE BY i Anniversaries La ae Ree Seer one married Lo! ies Penn and Lord Baltimore over the boun- Oe Pau er Yous! lumbia,” a trading ship, earn Pe dary which divided their respective colo- + ‘Ago Today As Taken From "the globe on a 40,000-mile trip, < After a four-year journalism course} uies in 1682, the controversy was con-| The Files Of The Citizen nig first to cappy the American the stadent should be qualified to run 4} tinued by them and their heirs for nearly | eet flag azound, tea works, Bews stand. 80 years. : F 4esere: the passengers that arey 1821—Missouri admitted to ; Finally, in 1763, two surveyoxs, | 0%’ ee ee el : | Statehood, hie - people, but the! Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, were | 4 ‘ Mine ery j is if he can fool 51 per | given the task of establishing the line, to r, born itl bd & Ame ee gent of them. ‘ which the disputants agreed. The line was Ai & sieeaeryy : oat : fe ie sg 3 originally marked by milestones, every aprieset Be 1846-—Smithsonian Institution, : &t is a’matter of opinion whether the} fifth stone bearing on one side the Penn! , Philadelphia, Wshington, D. €:, created by Grand Coulee is a dam site better than coat of arms and on the other that of Lord an the morning t : f ‘ Baltimore. ¥ The name was afterwards popularly time a newspaper statement is; applied to designate an imagivary line from logie and faet, responsible | separating the free and slave states, the | wsdom suffers. : phrase being first used in that sense by “5 Jehu Randolph in a speech in Congress in z days are counted from July 3 to 11. Glad to know that these “hot * days are soon gone. 1820. Newspapers and the public took up the expression and “Mason and Dixon's Line” has been used to designate the divid- ing line between North and South since. Ly: f orre . Another initia] that will spring up two hence will be GOP.—Times-Union. "I the meantime we will be pestered with ; perennial OU. ever F “UNVARNISHED TRUTH” gil. te th the last fiscal year the government , (Miami Daily News) money at the rate of $12,000 a When Julius F. Stone, Jr., FERA chief for ite. It won't have so much fun paying | Fiorida, add West residents the ‘other } k to the people at that rate, day, he “s aber of things that may have | Ps \ | sounded like harsh a to some o rers = It is not likely that many baseball} the Key wes n commented, but “the think- | fans in Key West know that when the na-| ing part of bis audience admitted that he dealt in tional pastime was first played in 1840 in New York, the n first team getting 21 runs} truth.” won the game. For example. we take this excerpt from the ~ a Serre Citizen’s report of his speech: # The Clearwater Sun thinks it is funny | People of Austria should have to depend on} attention to the promotion of bridges. her powers for its independence? As a} inatier of fact all nations depend on other powers for their independence, none is so Vest have paid too much If the bridges were an actuality today, what could the city offer in the line of attractions to jure a great num Visitors to come? powerful to go it alone. Would any candic dependent upon the : . favor of these peo e dared thus to indulge . A stranger, who wilt be.a resident of j in “the unvarnished truth”? Politicians ready | the-city for some time to come, asked the | with promises to build bridges to Key" Wegp, ue- huestion why the merchants of Key West} store naval stations and revive industries would, Benet advertise, and why those who do Bdvertise use space so sparsely. “It must } land. But they would make no. better bridge. than pe an old Spanish custom,” he:said, jocosely peswering his own question. « — years have recorded their promises, Mr. Stone, free to speak his, mind, speaks it. Key West is now free to choose between his ad- vice and that of the more prolific promisers it has : Never before since our weather records began more than 60 years ago has heat in any one month been so. intense ever so wide an area in this country, nor we-such high temperatures persisted . ‘giter day without a break, the weathev fecovds inform. (fhe popular ballad of Sears age “In the Good Old Summer " would never have been written with the temperature at 106. followed in vain. If ever the nation abandons its of a few good, truthworthy men to administer j afifaixs, there may be more officials free to offer “unvarnished truth” to those willing to face it. Too frequently the choice has been limited to the advice of those who specialize in only what they like to hear. the © the Central | Powers had no fleet in either the Atlantic - upon the} Significance may acquire a far wider | name of the boundary line between Penn- eold, hard facts and nothing but the unvarnished | if laid end to end, span the long reach to ‘the anain- ; the dust covered papers that through disappointing } bedsheet ballots and conceptrates on the election | telling voters | | | | 4 ) i ‘ + | | lagna! | | AqpOUGHA LONDONER, WON } His Pa MICCENES ON THE i adr is WILUNG* 1 / A SETTING FOR SEVERAL SCENES ' : IN "THE LADY 15 WILLING WAS AGED. } IN MOSS [7 1S A CASTLE WHICH HAS y BEEN OCCUPIED CONTINUOUSLY SINCE 1377! | as | meescccncceccescescceees KEY WESTIN cecececeesoveqeqseooos oday In History or Miami. i Letters | Nathaniel P. Langfor pioneer, explor lowstone in erintendent National Park w York, Died Oct camp at Fortres | show that the boys have | ing through a period of stre hea r, born 18, 1911. ! training on the and are to go on tice next Monda 34—(100 years ago) Horace York Chiea, port the boys in excellent healt ine. They expect tol uy ( West } t 1 and feelin, Fret abou i 5 eae 1° snags Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Le | their son, Buge 1 West Toma s in the raw., a very large part. Tonight th votes in tl contest wi founc ooze published in The Citizen, the in-) editorial commer regal” hor race f 2 the Small lot of 1xé sheathing or ba (This lumber w grow and aght th apetus to the girl our M. lieve honors have per ecte be of the count “tonight. Last nig’ | While poli A carload of 2x four sides, per ¥ e covering the ! skiff loads of liqou j and bottles were seize | rock wall on county, road. No onc the | Was arrested as when | goods were found the ws | were absent. to th makes i Due | Chief of Potice J. Albury ; several members of the } mept made raids over the ¢ Phone 598 ' v ed booze joints! 4. district ea were visited and evidence of lay s lodges in Key infractions found in ed by District De There were also se\ Muster Frank Dale fo. made because of drunkenness.! september 9. a se: storage FRIDAY, AUGUST TODAY'S WEATHER Temperature* and weather partly Lowest. 72, Kast Gall: Geuthe to Mean . 4 cast and southonst winds, Normal Mean . 84 | i Rainfali* j Yesterday's Precipitation .03 Ins, j Normal Precipitation 23 ee. | qnateg ass lose’ i ‘Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises ; Sun sets Moow rises 7:00 a. m. | Moon, sets Tat pom Tomeorzow's Vides A. M. P.M. High 10:28 11:16 | Low . 3:42 945 | Barometer at % a, m., today: | Sea level, 30,00. WEATHER CONDITIONS ' (Pith & p.\m., Satunday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with | occasional thundershowers; gentile | to moderate easterly winds. Florida. Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with scattered than- dershowers Satutiay and probably in extreme south portion tonight Jacksonville to Florida Straits Gentl ! portion and gentle to mode | easterly winds over south pi southeriy winds over north b wraTmen ronscast vacwave apcians 6 the wwutheasters sertiens | tey. Jarkeonvitie, Pin. S10 ches, god 4 high preeure apap » $259 a ay. mee in over the 7:05 x. mt wt Valley, Dasketh, inches; while it is relatively the ceatral Plains States: miidic Mizsionpps Valley, City, Kans., 29.96 inches showers and thund lantic States tricts, and in central and Wloraia. but the renfell ome erally light. Tempersteree phove the seanonal most sons east and continue abpe the central Plains misille Missixaigpé Leyis. Mo. of 108 degrees yesterdmy accurred dumng the ipat from the vovthers Lake agtward over the Middle i= Gull cot Sales \ sisex, reporting a omit 6. & SENNEDT Official In mt The reading @ difficult. 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