The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 2, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO Published Daily ept Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe ce . —___. Entered at 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 ............. annus Hiv Six Months Three 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 ® 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. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. Free Port. Hotels and Apariments, Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments, 4 ii | Not ¢ every man who wears ; glasses is sable to see straight. that kind declares other A German Fearthworms can sing. think they can. roth ey Reb the professor Some In the old horse and buggy days tire trouble was prevented by soaking the wheels in the creek. A scientist says the tongue contains more tin than any other part of the body. And naturally rattles mo “A cook is known by his knife,” ac- cording to an ancient proverb, which was written before can-openers were invited. Russia has finally * workers according to their tunately for many of us, sians. decided to pay ability. For- we are not Rus- The governor of a western state called out the militia to protect an evangelist. St. Paul would have appreciated cooperation like that. No statistician has yet calculated how much candy a ten year old boy can eat in 365 days if given an open field and asked no questions. ig An Illinois man’s life was saved when a patent cigarette lighter deflected a bul- let. So those things are good for some- thing, after all. regimented they can if this is Communists should be and sent to the deserts where raise cane to their hearts’ desire, possible on arid soil. Modern reporters make identification complete by such parenthetical explana- tions as James A. (Jim) Farley, James H. (Jimmy) Doolittle, and James J. (Jimmy) Walker. An explorer reports finding a South American tribe among whom husbands speak one language and wives another. Many would consider this, an ideal ts rangement. is and pessinfists are ex- tremists. The one abides in simple faith, the other broods in obscuration, though either may be on the right track. The mind that traverses the middle of the ruad is the most sensible. Commercial advertising in a com- petitive world pays. That has been con- vinecingly demonstrated to all progressive merchants and business men. Governments are taking ~er the technique and find it helps to put over the things they want, but governments do not want to pay for the service, and the newspapers. of the United States submit without protest for fear of being accused as mercenaries.. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN A FREE PRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1936. People today enjoy many liberties purchased in past ages with the blood and anguish of heroes. The pity about it is that many of the recipients of these bless- rai Se ings do not realize what they have simply because they have never known any other condition. In America, for example, what Amer- ican has known what it is to live without a free press? Except for some slight cen- sorship in times of war, American news- paper editors have been free to print the news and their interpretations thereof, un- hindered by any autocratic hand of dic- tatorial government. Whatever happens, as far as keenly intelligent reporters can discover the facts, are promptly brought to the attention of millions of readers in the daily columns of thousands of newspapers. Our people know this. They do not know what it would be to live with these channels of news and comment tainted and colored by greedy, self-interested officials. It is not so everywhere. In Germany and Italy, for example, where Dictators Hitler and Mussolini rule, the press only prints what the government permits them to, and very often even the editorial com-| ment upon national and international af- fairs is along lines of thought laid down | by the propaganda chiefs of the respective | governments. Newspaper readers in Germany and Italy, perhaps Russia and Japan, as well, can only read what the men in public of- fice and power are willing for them to read, and these men use the columns of the papers to influence the peopl.’s thoughts and actions. By coloring the news, by suppressing unfavorable facts, by controlling the discussion of public af- fairs, dictators in office can fool and mis- lead the public, to its hurt but not to any Dolly -inBabtinere Son ““Psst!—You Are A Liberal!” TODAY’S WEATHER Lowest Highest | Station last night last 24 hours! Abilene _. 32 60 Atld@nta _..... 32 | Bosten ........ 2 34 Buffalo ..... 2 34 Charleston 54 Chicago ..... 32 38 j Denver ........ 2 36 j Detroit 2 36 Galveston —_. 50 Havana Huron : Jacksonville Kansas Qity .. 3 KEY WEST . Little Rock _ 3 Los Angeles .. 5 Louisville Miami Minneapolis New Orleans 5 New York Pensacola . Pittsburgh .... | St. Louis Salt Lake City 22 | San Francisco 48 Seattle .. a4 | Tampa -- 62 Washington .. 26 Williston .... 2 Florida: Partly cloudy with showers in north and central por- tions iste this afterneon or early tonight; Friday generally fair; somewhat colder in extreme north | pertion tonight and im north and central portions Friday. Jacksonville to Florida Straits: | Moderate southeast er south shifting to west or north- west late tonizat or Friday morn- and partly overcast westher } tonight and Friday with showers j over north portion tonight. East Gulf: Moderate southeast or south winds, fresh at over extreme north portion, shift- ing to west or northwest and part- ast weather tonight and north to winds tmes with showers over this aiterncen and WEATHER CONDITIONS A moderate disturbance is cen- tral this morning over the middle Mississippi Valley, St. Louis, Mo. 29.80 inches, :nd pressure is low thward to the middle Gulf | coast, and another disturbance is | Lowest ... moving in over the northern Rock- ‘Mean .... +. 74! ies, Helena, Mont., 29.56 inches; | Normal Mean Fes ...69| while high pressure areas over: Rainfall* spread the Atlantic States and | Yesterday’s Precipitation Southwest, Eastport, Me. 30.52 Normal Precipitation inches, and Phoenix, Ariz., 30.30 °Thin recora inche: Precipitation, mostly im ading at & o k thin morning. the form of rain, has been gener- Tomorrow's Almanac al during the last 24 hours from Sun rises ........... a the southern Plains States and | Sun sets j eastern Texas eastward over the | Moon rises . Ohio Valley and middie and Moon sets ...... . a. M.' south Atlantic States, except in Tomorrow's Tides the Florida Peninsula, the amoun’s A.M. being excessively heavy on the middle Gulf coast, New Orleans, 10:08 | La., 4.22 inches, and Pensacola, Barometer 8 a. m. today: ; Fla., 6.46 inches. There were Sea level, 30.10. also moderate 1ains on the Pacific coast from San Franciscc north: WEATHER FORECAS1 ward and rain ond snow in the ; upper Lakes region and upper Temperatures* Highest - - ' T. Ins ; -05 Ins. PM (Till 8 p. m., Friday) injury of the dictators. Men and women who love liberty will always oppose censorship of the pres and, perhaps, many other forms of dicta- tion and control. When freedom of speeck and of the press no longer endure in these United States, or any one of them, then at that time free government will be non- existent also. Readers will take their] J08" H. Cos : 4 cates pointed for the Florida Ea news and live their lives as a few dictators} Railway and P. and O. and autocratic rulers dish it out to them—Jat Key West, vice L. E. Spen they will be monkeys and no longer men. Sag aL Gain cr ee aga Newspaper publishers and editors are | export department. has been pro- Misa Key Iarco. (City, plane] quick to resent any invasion of their free- | moted to succeed M Costar | P. Heinen ue Ort Realty comuatin a dom by the government. The people have | Ross Roberts, chief clerk in ae lis due to arrive in Key West th é : ema local freight office, has sy been with them thus far and will probably antec «teu Maa (ramet atternoon ae Benneuen pa stay with them for some time longer. They]to commercial agent in M Nan Seen sis : cem to realize fairly well what a con- | Spencer’s office. W. T. Daughtry,| 0" Resrd a tne Gets Nays on ng y has been promoted to the positio: pany is developers of Key Tare! trolled press would mean. Newspaper of chief clerk in the freight office City, one of the finest in Florida. operators may depend upon the public to] from cashier and Merrill Roberts | defend them, unless the men and women | has been sdvanced to cashier. | Mayor Leslie A. Curry is plan-| who compose that public believe one thing jing to wire His Royal Highne: ‘Major For special) King George V of England and| | about the newspapers and their news| ,epresentativ. London | Gees See 5 ues e in| columns. England, "in| clade Key We That one thing is that those columns | *¢y Wer anes a gu ; © when he come to Florida. At ‘asa Marina. His principal missio1 ‘ are being controlled by something else — "| physician’s suggestion the royal other than an honest, sincere presentation | Porter Dock company, isi toymeet with eee of the! couple is to spend the winter in : oes repres@mt-| Florida and they are expected to of the truth, either in news or editorial ed the pea Key West + > ears iy n columns. Newspaper publishers should ies ee ee ~ KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Mappenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen and citizens will be weleémed inspect the vessel. Harry Hampton, golf profe sional, and his assistant Ed. Valen- tine, of Detroit, have arrived Key West. Mr. Hampton will at! ar has been map| once begin planning for a 7 of golf tornaments at the West Golf Cour vhere he 9°) arrive shortly in Miami. visiting the United Stat but is take care to keep the confidence of the }is his first trin to Key West. people by never allowing special interests, a 4 ooo as Sea, as . . its grand reception has pen | either political, financial, or religious, to lanuediiorithe ecivall of (bee dictate what shall and shall not be printed | Steamship United States song for all mankind to read. Editors and pub- | rrival of Sie Fane Sroaalie Sa aoe é A passenger and freight service be- lishers must do their part to keep the press Gacenmetanta Key Wests and “free” not only from unjust governmental | Miami, Mayor Leslie A. Curry, dictation but from improper considerations | city and county officials, mem- of other binds. an well bers of the army and navy official gee eel personnel, hotel representatives The public will help keep the press} and all members of the Woman’s free from governmental interference with | Club will be at the Porter dock! its liberties if it feels that the press is free | t° — the malstial ship on ll from other improper taints. Newspaper pas Becen von hes (ben ian men themselves must keep the press free from other improper influencs. Robert Knowles, 62, died o’clock this morning at his re denge 1426 Pearl street. Fun services will be held th noon 4 o'clock at the r They will be conducted by Elbertson. Survivors are widow, three brothers, Israe William and Reynold Knowle: two sisters, Mrs. Alonso Watkins jand Mrs. M. J. Sheridan, and; other relatives . | I. N. Meltzer, chairman of the| tennis committee which has been ehehehahhahahehahhehahheheteitet For the NEW YEAR GIVE THEM A SAVINGS ACCOUNT Nothing teaches a child thrift like a Savings Account. Start one with us for him today for_as little as one dollar. From time to time add to it. When graduation and college come along he will be prepared for them. He will soon learn the les- son that it is not what you earn but what you save that makes wealth. The First National Bank of Key West Member of the Federal Reserve Member of the Federal Deposit Jncurancetl Corporation Ekoddidkidide ddd dad dedodudd, MP CLA hhh hd dA dh dh dd hdd HARD TO UNDERSTAND ‘S. Human nature is always hard to un- derstand. Certainly this is illustrated re- “cently when, on the death of a woman in | New- Jersey, it was discovered that her estate was more than $200,000. 4» The woman was generally regarded as a recluse and few of her neighbors sus- pected that she was wealthy and most of them thought she was_ poverty-stricken. She drew water from a creaking well, used a primitive stove and the floors of her heme were innocent of carpets. Nevertheless, from tin cans, a trunk and tin boxes in various parts of her gloomy residence, investigators found $1,- 469 in paper currency, $555 in gold coins and seventeen bank books showing de- posits of more than $60,000. in cash._ | f \! | 1 | | | | | | | LLL LLLL LLL AL EE Ee am TfL. ed by the officers of the company! selected by the chamber of to! merce is making final ments for the tournaments to be |given here ‘number of entrants have already made application and the elimina-: ion contests will be held wi hin| in’ | the next few weeks. Editorial comment: A smile is; said to cost nothing, but if some Te ae the| folks are going to indulge : be in charge as inspector for — they should have their teeth ; Southerly Winds Partly Cloudy fixe Subscribe to The Citizen. OS hh hh hdd ake SoTOTTeee ah, : 2 s.etg| Mississippi Valley. Temperatures | Key West and Jpmee os _— have fallen somewhat throughow- com-| cloudy tonight and Friday; mod-| + of Texas and in the upper pearl Mississippi Valley; while warmer , veath evails in most other during January. A ae G. S. KENNEDY, Officer in Charge. | > BENJAMIN LOPEZ | there | FUNERAL HOME ow | | erate southeast or south winds, | phone 135 shfiting to west or northwest. CALL 598 For Anything To Build Or Repair--- Florida Cement © Upson Wall Board Carey’s Roofings Red Top Plaster Pine and Cypress Lumber Sherwin Williams Paints Screen Wire and Hardware Household Supplies South Florida Contracting & Engineering Co. 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