The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 6, 1937, Page 2

credited in this paper and aso | ! 30 | Shins. . cards of thanks, resolutions of ete, will be charged for at H ogee Shituary notless: Naess, 10 cents a line. for entertainments by churches from which is to be derived are 5 cents a line. Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- <i. issues and subjects of local or general it will not publish anonymous communi- ‘MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST .WDVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN > ‘Bridges ‘to complete Road to Main lund. Free Port, Hotels and Apartments. Rathing Pavilion. Ab purt+—Land and Sea, Wonselidat'on of County and City Governments. There are some people in Key West who wouldn't buy anything if they thought somebody was making a profit. ; When a citizen becomes convinced that he is much better than his neighbors he ought to go to another town to live. The repeal of the poll tax law will abolish one phase of corruption in elec- tions. The bill has passed in the house and now goes to the senate, where it should be speedily passed. Miss Doloras Bedoya, of San Salvador, eredits her ripe old age of 120 to the fact she has never been in love in all her life. ..» Then she’s never reall, iived—Miami Post. Don’t rush her; give her time. It has been often said that nobody knows anything about money, and if that is true as it must be or something would be done about it; then each person is his own financial expert; no one -ould claim he knows more about this all absorbing subject than the other. Tax dodgers and non-taxpayers will undoubtedly welcome the effort of Sen. -r Gomez to cut their delinquencies to the 25 per centum basis. But what about the henest and conscientious tax payer and upright citizen who always thought it hig duty to meet his obligations to city and county and did so, often at great sacri- fices! His reward is derision and the Grecian salute from the chiselers. Of course, he has the satisfaction of having done his civic duty, and is held in honor and esteem by his peers. We are reminded of the election cam- paign of last summer and fall, when we see the way the Supreme Court battle is being fought. The administrative political machine is functioning for the President just as it did then. Both the house and the senate is being cowed into submission for fear of losing administrative favors if the members oppuse the packing plan. Were it not for the overtures of patronage, dangling before the eyes of the peoples’ representatives, in fear or favor, the at- tack on the Supreme Court would be re- pulsed without much opposition. The Da- | maseus sword hanging over the head of Congress, with the ominous threat of cut- ting off relief allotments, gives it the jit- ters. However, the representative of this district, Hon. J. Mark Wilcox, early and unafraid, took a stand aginst the Supreme Court change, just as he did on the fantas- tie Townsend Revolving Plan, and it did not hurt him politically. Courage is aj quality admired by all. ne les ago. “None shall be admitted into the club that is in the same trade with any, member in| Some other rules of the Spectator Club, however find no counterpart among the modern regulations governing the Ro- tary, Kiwanis and similar organizations, but they are nevertheless interesting, the following being examples: “If any member swears or curses, his neighbor may give him a kick upon the . “If any member tells stories in the club that are not true, he shall forfeit for every third lie a half penny. “Tf any member brings his wife into the club, he shall pay for whatever she drinks or smokes. “If any member's wife comes to fetch him from the club, she shall speak to him outside the door.” The last rule was considered quite necessary in a day when there. were no telephones, and may have enabled a timorous husband to escape by the back door while a faithful steward assured his wife that he was not at the club. : a é 2 phant, cescribed the iously as a wall, a tower, a Not only so, but tourists, being man, are more or less biased use a less offensive expression, their personal equation and, greater or less extent, see what want to see and report accordil Perhaps the most rel le author- ities on Russia are the resident jour- nalists, who send regular reports to} the visible to the ordinary tourist. His af & #aa¢ agez? their papers as to what is going on from Eine to time. But at least one of them is said to be a communist. whose reports, at least, are partial and one-sided. Then, too, none of those journalists dare to tel: all they know, else they would be asked to leave. Their writings, therefore, are usually rather colorless, uncommittal, and un- critical, and must be read between the lines. \ : Gne of th- best of these was Wil- 4 London under the title, “I Search for i Truth in Russia,” and seems to be one of the most reliable accounts of conditions in that country that has yet appeared, giving credit where credit is due and yet fearlessly ex- posing the seam; side of the Soviet Union. A brief account of this will be given in the next article. Although hoping to read more about Sovie: Russia by these reliable | authorities, I will guess tha‘ neithe: SPEED POSSIBILITIES Henry Chamberlin, who repre- nted the Christian Science Monitor in Soviet Russia from 1922 to 1934, married a Russian lady, made a care- ful siudy of political and economic Certain aviation engineers predict that airplanes may eventually attain a speed of 1,000 miles an hour; also that non-stop flights around the world will be made. As thd apparent movement of the sun, due to the earth’s rotation, is less than 1,- 000 miles an hour in latitudes above and below the equator, such a speed would present some interesting collateral experi- ences. For example: Traveling. west, one might circle the giobe in daylight, as the plane would keep pace’ with ‘the sun. Traveling east, the plane would meet the sun twice, so that it would apparently ex- perience two days in 24 hours. Strangest of all, if the plane were fly- ing somewhat faster than the visible move- ment, of the sun, it might start out shortly after sunset and fly west-to overtake the sun, which would appear to rise in the ae Ge ae et. west. Continuing its flight, it would physician. peaaaemy Germany, Died! 4505:"one br tis Wee wuskale, cst Str ra = regen — that it {July 10, 1919. jed five flights of a ‘heavier-than- would appear to se! e€ east. 63 air machine driven by wer—the A sos carried under either of these } 1839—Mary Clemmer, noted Langley model No. 5 flew 3,000 conditions might tell how long the plane ‘Baas dagen ed ies gira over.the Potosi. had been in the air, but would be of little | aug. 18, 1884. | use in determining the time of day at any given point during the flight. revisit that country in the near fu- ture, (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) Today’s ‘Today In History l eececcececceosccseseooos | 1835—First -N. Y. Hera!d pub- : : Anniversaries jlished by James Gordon Bennett, eeccceesce © |his own editor, reporter and busi- 1758—Robespierre, French rev- €sS manager in a cellar office— olutionary leader, born. Died Started on capital of $500. July 28, 1794. H | 1840—Adhesive postage stamps = | fir itain; 1820—Phebe Ann C. Hanaford, |'"*t #ppeared in Great Britain the second regularly ordained Uni- | area : fi versalist slereuan of her sex: 1844—Rioting in ‘Philadelphia author and suffragist, born at | between the Native Atiiericans and Nantucket, Mass, Died June 2,| ish. 1921. © ‘a | 1862—Famous patent for a “process of sewing soles of boots 1830—Abraham Jacobi, noted and shoes” issued Gordon McKay New York City physician and civ-! of Massachusetts. 1931—Spain _ invites descend. | ‘ants of the Jews expelled in 1492 ‘ toreturn, } 1845—Charles J. Maynard, not- jed naturalist, taxidermist and writer on birds, born at West} 1935—Britain begins celebra- Newton, Mass. Died there, Oct.; tion of King George V’s 25th an- 15, 1929. ;niversary of accession to the ‘throne. U. S. Supreme Court, by 1853—Philander C. Knox, Pitts-|# 5 to 4 decision, rules Railroad -general of Retirement Act unconstitutional. ‘ “GOT HOT” ON SLOTS (Tampa Tribune) A Miami collector, only 17, is He stole $25 of his collections to play the slot ma- chines. “IT got hot on the slot machines, and couldn’t stop,” he said. He lost his own money, then poured the coin in jail. burgh lawyer, attorney. the U. S., secretary of state, sena- tor born at Brownsville, Pa. Died! Oct. 12, 1921. i 1856—Robert E. Peary, Arctic explorer, first to reach the North Pele, almost continuously in the Arctic from his first expedition in 1886 to 1909, born at Cresson, Pa. Bilbao, seaport capital of the Basque republic, is known as the of 2a JENA ; Pittsburgh of Spain because its iron foundries, _WATCH ROACHES VANISH! | 1 of his employer into the slots. Now he is a con- fessed embezzler, en route to.the penitentiary. vi you say? se. “one-armed : eee weet, You Ssy? =O! coum, <The. “One armed by in Washington, “Feb. © 20, QACHES devour bandit” didn’t hold up this boy, force him to give | 1g eee Tee it his money and his employer’; money. But the | SESE! evil of the slot machine is its convenience. It | The Timur ruby, originally an H oriental gem but now among the years. verywi crown jewels of England, weighs; STEARNS’«tecta1c PASTE 352 carats. | THE GUARANTEED EXTERMINATOR stands invitingly’ at every.turn. It “lies in wait, with lifted teeth,” as Joaquin Miller wrote of the sea Columbus crossed. It is a temptation, es- BEN ras ae = pecially to. youth—and, worst of ail, it is placed | there by the authority and with the protection of the great state of Florida. . The case of the Miami boy should sidered by the Legislature, contemplating slot ma- chine legislation—to keep them in or to put them out. the propoval to have the state itself operate the ma: | chines, become the robber of its citizens and visi- | Would that be compensated by ee \ 1 { { | i | be con-} SAFEGUARD YOUR VALUABLES Especially should the incident apply to Don’t expose your valuables to robbery and fire hazards. We have a few safety deposit boxes for rental to those of our clients who desire to use them for the safekeeping of jewelry, deeds, tors. of revenue? “What would this revenue mean?” asks the Miami News. chines would be a tax levied, not in direct propor- } “The money played into slot ma- mortgages, life insurance policies, your will or any other securities or valuable documents, tion to ability to pay, but in inverse proportion to ability to think. This might be all right if no- | body were affected but the individual with the | limited ability to think. But the tax would come | out of his wife and children as well as out of him- self. If the time has come to educate some Fior- | ida children with the money for other Florida children’s milk and shoes, then the time has come to keep the slot machines legal on the basi; the | THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the FDIC 4 Member of the Federal Reserve 4 : § easy money gentlemen suggest.” CLLIITILSIISISAIS ISIS SISOS SOI SISOS SIS. da; it diary has recently been published in club in solving its financial prob-' lem, Mr, Meacham told Mr. Aus-: tin. The club owes upward of' $4. , tarians that the Meacham dona- tion would go far toward solving ithe problem. r jon Sir Walter nor Mr, Chamberlin will | a bill before the legislature to in- crease the salaries of Criminal’ Court Clerk Curry and Judge: Gunn to $200 per month. The! _...._— |board also declined to consider a/ eae | Suggestion tea consider a sugges: | ition to hire an engineer of na-} ‘tional reputation to make a sur-j ve; the cost of a pipe line to bring! jfresh water from the mainland to_ ; Key West. Need for funds for more pressing demands had much to | Key West from Washington that. the total of the Red Cross fund for sufferers in the flooded dis-| | tricts of the United States totals $7,814,000. showing a splendid response, many do: ‘Morales, president of Cuba, will TIDIFPLLLL E22 SP, dent of the Key West Foundation |company, at the Rotary luncheon today. y by R. B. Austin, vice-presi-’ ' ‘These three lots, valued. $2,985, are given to assist the, ,000 and it was agreed by Ro- The county commissioners went; record last night as opposing | t y and prepare an estimate of, ai HG do with both decisions. € Notice has been received in’ Small chapters are ubling their quotas. i } i ; General * Gerardo. ‘Machado y 150 FT. ROLLS, 72” HIGH. 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