The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 22, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key Wiest Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President 4UE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only vaily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. Catered at Key Wes “FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press -Le Associated Pre s lusizely entitled to use Zor repmblication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and aiso the locait news published here. as s second class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES Une Year . é = six Months Three Month One Month Weekly - ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of seepect, obituary notices, étc., will be charged for at hurches from which cents a line. and invites discus- sion of public 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 Apartments. Bathing Pavilion, Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be efraid tg attack wrong or to applaud right; aiways fight for progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the’ public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue; commend gvod done by individual or organ- ization; toierant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print onty news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com promise with principle. People who ey too much. everything know The last mental gift to reach perfec- tion—the sense of humor. It is El Grito de Yara, Miami papers, please note. not del Yara. Spanish rebels have captured Toledo, but Detroit is still holding out. Voting Machines Needed.—Nashville Banner headline. * Don’t worry; tical machines will see to the voting. A straw vote to find out how many voters are influenced by a straw vote would have interesting results. Thousands do not care how they vote, just so they are with a winner, Belgium has withdrawn from the neu- trality pact she has had with her neigh- bors, and is now on her own. The smaller nations simply have to take what is handed them by a bigger one, since other big na- tions will not come to their rescue. For confirmation vide Ethiopia, who was a member of the League of Nations and had a right to ask for protection to preserve her sovereignty, but was left entirely to her own resources when there was “trouble in the wind.” Communist Browder in making his second attempt to speak in Terre Haute met with failure again. The first time he tried to make a public speech he was ar-! your approval of the measure. rested for vagrancy and clapped into jail. This time he brought with him a check for a thousand dollars, but nevertheless a crowd gathered in front of the place where he was scheduled to speak and pelted him with tomatoes some of which could serve no other purpose. He says he will make no further attempt to speak in the Indiana city. So what does Mr. Browder do? He will file suit against the city. Under his own theory of government there would be no appeal, but now he says his constitu- tional rights have been violated and seeks redress. Yet he is at his best when as- sailing the Constitution of the United States. the poli-| | Key West; CITY AND COUNTY MERGER For more iRamin dee a decade of years, The Citizen has carried at the head of its edi- torial column a list of the matters which j it deemed essential to the develpment of | matters which it not only ad- | vocated but to which it has devoted all the efforts within its power. It is gratifying to note the realization of what at times has seemed to be but | futile longings; but they were longings backed by determination and unceasing * application. Item One is “Water and Sewerage.” Our streets bear evidence of the ap- proaching completion of that work. Item Two is “Bridges to complete Road to Mainland.” That battle has been won, Item Three is in abeyance for the present. A “Free Fort” is in the lap of the future. Item Four, “Hotels and Apartments.” | This item it attained for the present; fur- ther demands will bring further supply. It is a record of achievement of which Key West may well be proud. Item Five, “Bathing Pavilion.” Is yet to be attained. Item Six, “Consolidation of County and City Governments” has reached the point of an enabling amendment to the State Constitution, which is now presented to the people of the State for ratification. Upon that point all our energies are at this time concentrated. Upon the success- ful outcome of our appeal to our sister counties to assist us in this step, vital to our welfare, all our hopes are fixed. The one hazard which we must over- come, is the difficulty that voters in dis- tant parts of this vast State may have in understanding the importance to Monroe County, with its small population, of being able to dispense with the costly and un- necessary parts of the machinery of gov- ernment which now hampers all our ef- | forts to repair our fortunes, We who live and labor under the handicap of an out-moded political organ- ization—four political organizations, to be exact—need no conversion to the belief that one taxing unit, one school unit, and one body of men to take the place of City Council and County’ Commission, could not only handle our business more eco- nomically, but also with far less friction and lost motion than it can be handled by a superfluity of governing bodies. We know of no argument advanced against this proposition; and the only doubt cast upon its universal approval by the people of Monroe County, is the fear , that present and prospective office hold- | | ers may oppose it to prevent a lessening | of useless “jobs.” We will not admit that there are grounds for any such fear. Until events; have proved it, we will not believe that any man, fit to seek the franchises of his fellow. citizens can be so greedy, or so ignorant, aseto be an unnecessary burden upon the hard-pressed men, women and children of a community fighting its way out of the pit of adversity into which cir- cumstances beyond its control had plunged it. | Placing the matter upon the lowest possible level, that of self-interest, the salaries which we promise, here in Mon- roe County, and sometimes ‘pay, to our public servants, can not be nearly as at- tractive as is the prospect of once again living in a community which is a going concern; ready to make its race toward a prosperous future, stripped of the clinging fragments of the worn-out vestments of the past. You will find the Amendment stated on your ballot under this title: “Constitutional Amendment, VIII. Section 10.” ? An “X” in the square opposite the words, “For the Amendment,” will mark And, for your own sake, for the sake of Key West, and for your children’s sake, approve it. Let no man dissuade you. In this case every citizen has a personal interest in the outcome of the election. Article Moses Mendelsohn, the famous Ger- man-Jewish philosopher of the 18th cen- tury, was so poor in his student days that when he bought a loaf of bread he notched it into portions thus rationing himself un- til the next supply of money came in, never daring to eat more than he had allowed himself, no matter how hungry. The ques- tion arises what would his philosophies have been had he been well-fed, ilasieehieitiiecmainingy,.' |. Sorina jheight in Key West during the |the windows in the Kress store ai DAYS GONE BY | Happenings Here Just 10 Years! Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Advices received by The Citi zen are to the effect that Cali-| fornia experienced early today earth tremors which shook large! buildings. The shocks were felt as far south as Palo Alto where the trembler awakened people from their slumbers and caused much alarm. Reports said that some of the large buildings in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose swayed like trees. The shocks were not felt at Los Angeles, Fresno and San Diego. | When the wind was at its stcrm which passed by two days’ When there's mo customers kicking at @*ound, Newt Yokus, the barber, nen wath. Kucec stow: at talks to hisself to keep fit. This close to an election when a Fleming and Duval streets. He is Jeter reaches the end’ét his rope reported as being very daring in his efforts to break the glass and belies in his efforts regardless the fact that he could be seen © = many people who were pass-; ing. It is said that some men on™ the other side of the street 95 threatened to shoot him unless he desisted in his efforts. Sheriff. Niles and Deputy Kemp are in- vestigating the case. Temperatures” Highest , Lowest ; Mean Rezorts from Cuba received to- Normal Mean - day state that many are dead from - Rainfa the effects of the hurricane Yesterday’s Prectpi which struck the island Wednes-, N¢rmal Precipitation day. The death toll today stands ending at § o'e! at 650 and an unestimated num- ber of injured. There are at least Sun rises . 10 towns on the Island of Cuba Sun sets which are cut off from communi- Moon r'sc: cation service, Moon sets First quarter, 23rd _ Tomorrow’: -alid The gas company of Key West is beg complimented by the citizenry in general because of the High . excellent service rendered during Low .... 5 the recent stormy weather.. Barometer 8 A.M. today: Though the plant was operated Sea level, 29.95, under difficulties and there were’ Bc cig a ras times when it was thought activi- wrens 8 ties at the plant would have to (Till 8 p. m., Friday) Key West and Vicinity: be stopped, the employes stuck Gen- | Newell C. Wyeth | Fork, Pa., noted artist, ‘Needham, Mass., 54 years ago. Constance Bennett, actress born i work, but as a rule the lab jin New York Cty, 31 years ago. j Carl H. Milam, secretary of the {American Library Chicago, Kans., 52 years ago. . (> | rr { ! through the storm. Families which era!ly fair tonight and Friday; had cooked quantities of coffee in gentle to moderate winds, mostly anticipation of the service being northeast and north. possibly cut off, found they had Florida: Fair to partly cloudy taken unnecessary precaution. tonight and Friday except unsettled fat times near the east coast. During the worst of the blow Jackzonville to Florida Wednesday afternoon two strang- and East Gulf: Gentle to moder- ers rushed into the office of ate mostly northeast and north Sheriff Uleveland Niles and re-, winds wiads except variable ever ported they had been beaten up extreme south portion and v.eather and robbed by a gang of men in a fair to partly ovezcast tonight and place operated by Ramon Oliva Friday. and known as the White House! Cafe. Sheriff Niles investigated| the case and secured a warrant, High pressure areas, crested Yor the arrest of Oliva. Given - a! ;over the northern Plains States preliminary hearing before Judge’ and off the middle and north At- Hugh Gunn, Oliva entered a plea! jantic coast, overspread the great- of not guilty. Bond was placed ‘ey part of the country, Rapid City, | at $200 on one charge and $100! s, D., 30.52 inches, and Norfolk, om another charge. iVa, ., 30.18 inches. Light to mod- erate reins have occurred . since WEATHER CONDILIONS ‘ Editeriat comment: complishments compel regard, yet, Texas and Oklahoma _northeast- ;we have infinite admiration for| ward over the Lake region, rain the person who does the small! or snow in portions of the central deed as though it were a great/and northern Plains and eastern one. |Rocky Mountain States, and light jshowers on the middle Gulf coast The first shipment of fine race and in eastern Florida. horses for the fall meet in Ha-' weather has spread eastward into vana arrived over the East Coast the Mis: today. In the cars arriving were! region, and southward into the in- 15 of the favorites of the Amer-;terior of the West Gulf States, ican turf. One of the men arriv-.and temperatures are 14 to 25 de- ing with the horses said that Bud, grees below normal in the Pla:ns Fisher, famous cartoonist, plans'States and northern Texas, Rapid to bring his string through at an City, S. D., reporting a minimum early date. ;of 10 degrees this morning, which is the owest on record there for Troop 4. Girl Seman have this tme of year. Unseasonably planned to give a social Monday warm weather prevai's.m the At- night, October 15, on Memorial lantic and East Gulf Church lawn. The old witch will; GS. K be on hand to watch the pro-! ceedings and to tell fortunes of those who would like to know their fate. Cake, candy, ice cream and soda will be on sale throughout the evening. once more on the gtidiron at the army barracks next *Saturday. This will no doubt be. one of the ; most interesting games of the en-} ptize season, azd it is expected that' and the'a great number of fans. will be will meet out to see the fracas. The Conch Eleven Lemon City Aggies SITITIITSTOIOTTA TOD, The Easiest Way For You ‘To Pay For A Home is to pay for it as you pay rent. The logical way is to pay monthly, out of income, an installment on the principal and the interest, etc., and thus, over a given period of years, pay off the entire mortgage and have the house free of all debt. It’s very much like buying a house and then renting it to yourself. CONSULT US HOW YOU CAN BUILD OR BUY A HOME OR REPAIR OR MODERNIZE ANY TYPE OF BUILDING ON INSURED CREDIT. The First National Bank ot Key West Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 'BOIIIIIIIaIVsIIIsass sas. SETTTTTEITOTESITIR N yi . 8 : R N N N N \ N s 8 8 \ N 5 Great ac-!yesterdzy mofning from uorthérn | Colder} ppi Valley and Lake; Straits! E¢ PPP PP TTT PP PP Pe UW peesesveseieiaioeEns i j | | | | Oe Seeeccessccveccoceseeess | ce ‘Today's Birthdays Today's Horoscope Oscar L. ss‘stant secretary of the interior, | Philadelphia, 52 years age orn at Omega, Va., 40 years ago. Edward R. 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