The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 9, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO, The Key Wiest Cusen Daily F Sunday By iN PUBLISHING CO. INC. ARTMAN. President N, Assistant Businexs Manager Citizen Building a Ann Streets JOE ALL From T Corser Gr un'y Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe Cou Member of the Assoc .ted Press «he Associated Pr titled to use for r catic hes credited to | i dited in this paper and also ed here. the local news pub SUBSCRIPTION RATES une Year .... 6ix Months = Three Months -................. Ine Month . Weekly $10.00 - 5.00 “ALVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECI All reading notices, hanks, resolutions of 1 be charged for at Ly churches from which 5 cents a line. Notices for enterta a revenue is to be di The Citizen 1s an im and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general Interest but it will not puviish anonymous communi- cations. = IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. @re Port. Hotels and Aparcments, Bathing Pavili Airports—Land and Sea. Coasoiidation of County and City Governments, If you can laugh at yourself, there’s hope. “Your Income Tax; How To Keep It} Down,” should easily be a best seller and | very profitable. | If candy and roses don’t thaw out, try sulking. another sweetie. her | If that don’t work, geti When you see a group of citizens ges- | ticulating violently and arguing vehement- ; ly, they are not discussing the League of | Nations. i Sinclair Lewis laments the fact that} the sale of books is not what it used to be. ! Could it be that there something the matter with the books? is It is spelled differently but the poll tax smells jus. as bad. Let’s do away w.h it, and have both candidate and voter one step nearer honest clections. The individual who makes his aim in| life to making money will, very probably, make money. We get that for which we) strive at least in some degree. Abraham, Lincoln once said or perhaps he said it several times, “Never fight a newspaper unless you own one.” This is | wholesome ‘dvice: it is also foolish for newspapers to fight each other. The word “slip” is one of the most | serviceable in the English language; it has thirty-four different meanings, and one} may slip morally, physically and men- tally, and if we don't slip away from this theme we will be guilty of another slip. Now some doctors say that if you are overly clean you have a_ bad_ conscience. Too many hand-washings or too many baths are symbolic of conflict, they say. There is no doubt that the youngsters will be wholly in accord with the doctors when they hear of this. There is absolute freedom of thought, and the mind is as “decollete” as Sinclair { Lewis advises the college professors’ to be, but it must use judgment in expressing it-! self or suffer the consequences. The pen} is the tongue of a writer, and it can be as unruly as the member itself. The experiences of money, during the Napoleonic wars, were carefully studied | and written about by- Ricardo and others; 100 years afterwards, when the World War came, the lessons contained in the old books were completely ignored and the world slowly and painfully went through the same mistakes again. Our own ex- perience remains the best teacher; we sel-| dom learn from, that of others. i ‘of government and , bureaus, commi | s “1 @acn of | Federal, state and local payrolls within al | year. | suits; the effect of fatigue on production: | of others should have prompt attertion if} | lec us hope it will be better. j not hurt much more. | attention of our representatives | worshipped as the successor of the \ THE HUNGRY BUREAUS It is a chronic condition that the work state departments, ons, boards and what | | not are “hampered for lack of sufficient | ! funds,” according to to their reports. \v2 wonder what would happen if} these inumerable tax-spending | agencies were given to the ideas of the | bureaticrais in charge of them. Our guess | is that half of the population would be or | Z | One person out of every ten is on such a payroll now. One needs only to read one or two of ; the currert bureau reports which clamor ;! for more funds to get an idea of the crazy | research fads which are sought to be pro-| moted and extended. For example, the | Woman’s Bureau lists a few of the “most | important” subjects which a_ waiting | world is dying to have ivestigated, as fol- | lows: Surveys, studies and information con- cerning the employment of married wom- en; employment in plants using poisonous piecework system; a study of posture while sitting at work; a study of women in professional and semi-professional pur- j an! and on the worker; and, of course, elaborate preliminary investigation of the best methods of making these iavestiga- tions. These, the bureau says are only few of the great, vital problems. Dozens a funds were available. i Then the results would be printed in great volumes perhaps, and that would be the end of them. Of course, Congressmen j might read them in order to get ideas for a lot of new laws requiring still more thous- | ands of public officials and employees. | It seems that no bureaucrat ever H in vestigates the effect of all this on the tax- | payer’s pocketbook. | KEY WEST MAIL SERVICE | We are assured that “good mail serv-! ice will be provided for Key West until the | railroad is rebuilt,” according to the Second | Assistant Postmaster General. Alfter that | But The Citi- zen differs with the conclusion of the | postal department. The mail service at} the present t! 1e certainly cannot be called | ood by any stretch of the imagination. | Second class mail is absolutely unsatisfac- toty at all times, the newspapers. and periodicals coming to Key West are some j times five days old and come mairly by boat -vice a week via Tampa. On Fridays there is no incoming mail of any sort. A ‘ew dollars more added yearly to the deficit of the postal department would ; i Wauy should not Key West, a city of } 12,000 inhabitants, have adequate mail | service? | This matter ought to be called to the} in Con-| gress in vigorous terms. SHOULD GENERALS BE DUMB? Official Washington is witnessing one of its greatest military explosions “since the blowing up of the Maine.’ General Johnson Hagood was recently suspended } from active duty because he criticised the | waste of work-relief money before a Com- | mittee of Congress. General Hagood beg- | ged the Committee to let him “use com-j monsense to spend this money in the best ! interests of the taxpayers”. Under the ex- isting methods he contended that he has | “Noured a lot of money down rat_ holes while he had been unable to obtain funds | to previde decent housing for his men at} Fort Sam Houston, Texas. | Ore prominent columnist in Washing- ton comments: “It is a plain warning to | everyone within the Administration to! keep his mouth shut and just goose-step | along’. That may be a_ partisan state- | ment, but the lambasting in: Congress fol- | lowing Hagood’s retirement has come from } members of all parties and the comments | are hot stuff. The Army may make a! martyr of General Hagood, who will be! late ; zeneral Billie Mitchell. ! | Unless the campaign to “soak the rieh” is stopped, President Angell of Yale says, privately endowed schools and uni- versities face extinction. “You can’t have your cake and eat it, too.” KEY WESTIN | iP jterday having completed the last} ner, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN BIG PINE KEY | | | ECHOES TODAY’S Lowest Highest DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From : The Files Of The Citizen €. R. Dashiel, Chicago automo- | Abilene 4—a—a—a—n—n— | bile dealer, is in these waters on | Atlanta Key Westers are watching with his cruiser with guests. Tarpon | Boston interest the laying of cable now} fishing is the sport uppermost in) Buffalo going on along Duval street pre-| the minds of the party. | Charleston paratory to installation of the! | Chicago Great White Way. This work! - Bey i | Tis; aelaveedeime 5, Gront) deal] <7 nesibd peantecoh tat tak | Galeemon has been accomplished. By the, : 5s | ; tim2 the posts arrive, it is said,{°"™ at the Bahia Honda bridge. jae all will be in readiness, cables and | Jacksdiville ss aes - niece, and little} William Bell, game warden, has! Kansas City _ will remain to be done to start’ moved his headquarters from thei KEY WEST . the planting of the posts and in-/ ferry slip to Key West. Little Rock . stall the lights. The idea of light-! | Tos Angeles ing other streets, including White, | eee : ‘Louisville - The following were guests last | Syiami the | week at the Big Pine Inn: H. Horn. Minaaa otis and/ Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. Nw Orleane A New Orleans | Lowney, Pennsylvania; A. B. Bell, How ¥ i : es = New York =p) . | Indiana; Rear Admiral W. S. Cros- Pencecsn Commander SuNos: Regard | ley, Washington, D. C5 Mr. and Pittsburgh Italian air attache. arrived this) Mrs, Figowitz, New York City, and Bi Louis morning for a brief stay and ex-|E, P. Killy, Washington, D. oe eee ow “ ka i ape eer ses Bi Salt Lake City 40 pects to leave this afternoon for; who is in Florida gathering speci- Gant ences oe Havana. He will return to Key | mens of plant life for the Smith- Seattle 38 West in about 10 days and will! sonian Institution. j be the guest of Captain and Mrs. j same le 7 Washington 42 Clark D. Stearns at the naval sta- ee aly 2 Williston _... 36 eeseccees | Station— - 46 66 68 34 46 64 56 62 46 62 52 76 64 77 74 70 70 74 36 72 42 68 56 62 64 72 54 76 52 46 is now under discussion and those} who have been considering matter consider it plausible possible, it is said. | A record catch of eighty craw- j fish wes made by Mrs. Alfred ae Among the passengers on the | son, who resides on the east shore | Highest San Jacinto from New York today | of Calkine bay, last Wednesday |rowest were Mrs. J. J. Sweeney. and Mrs. | night, which makes her the cham-! Mean Margaret Colvin, who are to visit! pion crawfisher of her sex in these | Mr. and Mrs, P. A. Cook at Cook’s! 2nd, so far as is known, any other Island. They declare they are) waters. 2 enraptured with Key West an Mrs. Sweeney says she expects to purchase a site for a winter hor in Key West. She is the owner of the T. F. Mehan Lumber com- pany of Brooklyn, N. Y. Temperature: Today gives something of the’ Moon rises changeable nature of yesterday, | Moon sets .... but with strong indications of ad- Tomorrow’ venture and a little obstin: aed There is great love for sports of; High the ruder variety. Some condi- Low tions favor travel to the less ac-} Barometer 8 a. m. today: cessible places and the study of! Sea level, 29.88. unusual things. In any case you/ aaa should guard against accident and}! WEATHER FORECAST keep the passions well under con-/ <== trol. (Till 8 p. m., Tuesday) E Key West and Vicinity: Show- city and Key West. The North-|ers this afternoon and _ tonight, land will leave this week for Bos-; probably ending Tuesday morn- ton, Mass., the home port. | ings not much change in tempera- | Frank Brown. associate engi- ncer at the naval station, is ex- eted to return to Key West in few days from Jupiter Inlet. where he has been erecting two radio stowers. These towers were formerly at Miami Beach. Orders were issued from Washington for their removal. They were mantled, transferred to Jupit and erected under the supervisi of Mr. Brown. Steamer Roslagen arrived last; night from Denmark with 3,000! tons of cement. Under present! embargo arrangements this cargo! will be transported to Miami oni schooners, one of which, the Mills, is du2 to arrive in port tomorrow to leave with the first load as soon as loaded. ture; fresh southeast and south j Winds and probably squalls, The grand coronation ball given|coming north and northwest. last night by the Fire Department ; Florida: Rain this afternoon was one of the most beautiful) and tonight probably ending Tues- social events of the season. One; day morning; not much change in of the interesting features of the} temperature evening was the award of prizes, Jacksonville to Florida Straits: to those winning in the most/ Fresh east to south winds possibly popular lady contest. Miss Bun-|streng at times and becoming nie Niles, daughter of Po! chief | north and northwest Tuesday and Cleveland ss the first} overcast weather with rain and prize. a $150 diamond ring. The, squalls this afternoon and _ to- second pri $50 wrist watch,| _ Andy Bowen, one of the fast- snd most stubborn fighters to come to Key West, will e ring tonight at the inst Kid India of fast and an last night last 24 hours be-: MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1936 WEATHER | eeeccccesccccsesccccsces ynight probably ending Tuesday morning. ; Fresh northeast | DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY ELEC East Gulf: |winds over north portion becom-| TION, JUNE 2 1936 |ing north and northwest and fresh! Seeeeoooe southeast and south winds over) FOF Representatwwe to State south portion becoming north and! \ northwest and overcast weather} tonight and Tuesday with show-| ers this afternoon and tonight. ; WEATHER CONDITIONS | — i | | Pressure is moderately low \this morning in the southeastern} | Gale of Mexico, Key West and | Havana, 29.88 inches, and a dix {turbance is moving in over the {northern Plains States, with a ; trough of low pressure extending a eS |southward into Arizona, Willis-l Fo, State and County Tax jton, N. D., 29.58 inches; while} Collector JOE McMAHON ! high pressure areas crested of” the |For State and County Tax Collector FRANK H. LADD (Fer Re-Eiection ‘north Atlantic and north Pacific |_ | coasts overspread most of the re- Supervisor of Registration | inder of the country, Eastport, JOHN ENGLAND H 30.40 inches, and Roseburg | ~ , | Oregon, 30.44 inches. Raia has! for Justice of The Peace ‘occurred since yesterday morning in the north Pacific States, the |castern Lake region, Ohio Valley, on the west Gulf coast, and on portions of the south Atlantic | coast, being heavy in southerstern | Florida, Miami, 1.24 inches, and ther has been light snow in New England, and snow and sleet in Montana. Temperature changes have been mostly unimportant, with readings above normal this morning throughout the country. ‘ranging from 28 degrees at Du- luth, Minn., and Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., to 74 degrees at Key West. 10-1Se: Night. 15-25 % \ WE ARE ALWAYS PLEASED TO MEET AND TO SERVE OUR VISITORS The First National Bank of Key West Member of the Federal Reserve System FTIPAALIZLLLL LLL A Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation U. S. Government Depositary (LiAtAA A AANA A AAA Add i Vessrrrrneerrreereey ssimilator of pu ment, Fans = re expecting some furious action when these boys get going. went to Miss J Thompson and | to Miss Annie Johnson. A bride and groom graced the . occasion. The Steamship Northland, char-; They were Norman B. Brown, tered by the P. and O. S. S. com-| promoter of the contest, and Miss pany, returned from Havanaa yes-} Janie Thompson, second prize win- just married by Rev. E. L. of Memorial church: | j i z- . N . ; . N : . N 5 N . : . § N 4 N . . . A GAR trip for the season between that! L i GENERAL ELECTRIC 50’ 25” 50’ ” ” New G-E 1936 Models Are Now on Display RAINY The sooner you have your G-E Refrigerator in your kitchen the sooner you will begin sav- ing about $10 a month on your food budget. G-E Refrigerators are powered with the fam- ous sealed-in-steel mechanism that now gives “DOUBLE THE COLD” AND USES 40% LESS CURRENT. The Key West Electric Co. South Florida Phone 598 ‘GENERAL €} ELECTRIC idee teeta Shipment Just Received 25’ Length, Solid Rubber SC ae —_—e BEACH CHAIRS FOLDING — LIGHT — SUBSTANTIALLY CONSTRUCTED Adjusted To Any Reclinning Position, With Foot Rest, Each $270 YACHT CHAIRS: Extra Strong With Doubled Canvass Back and Seat re WHILE IT LASTS---Special Sale On 85 Lbs. Green Slate Surface Roofing. 1 Roll Covers 100 Sq. Ft. A $2.95 Value Now At $2.25 “Your hume is worthy of the best” SPELL kk MA AA AANA AA Ahh hh kd A LL the third prize, $10 in gold, went FPP SISS OSS SSSI SOLID SLID ID ID Dah, DEN HOSE $1.49 2.15 1.89 3.48 Without Foot Rest $2.30 Each $230 “Lh hii dh bth dd AA Ahhh hdd hhh hd SEASON SPECIAL Contracting & Engineering Co. White and Elza Streets Ware eee waa aaa s.