The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 19, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By E CO., INC. uilding Corner Greene and Ann Streets Newspaper in Key West and Monroe _Count. Member of the Associated Press "The ‘Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to +odfon-not otherwise credited in this paper and also tife local news published here. ~ SUBSCRIPTION RATES One. Year i 4 : 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 i0 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- jiand. Free Port. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL ulways seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always 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. couimend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. print only news that will elevate Team-work succeeds when all the horses pull together. There is no profit in bucking the in- evitable but the surrender of principle is never inevitable. - - eo - . - © - - . - - . - - ° - * . - * . Signboard advertisement on a New Jersey highway: “You can whip our cream, but you can’t beat our milk.” Most. of us lose far more money to s0- called friends, than to designing crooks. It - has been the experience of this writer, too. For the past seven years, statistician: show the United States has spent $2 for « every dollar received. Thus, as the New “ Deal economist figures it, leaves a profit of $3. On June 30, 1936, the 15-year term of J. R. McCarl, comptroller general of the United States, expired, but President ‘Roosevelt has not appointed his successor and would like to see the office abolished, one of the reasons being, undoubtedly, that the appointee cannot be removed nor controlled. Senator James Hamilton Lewis wants to nationalize all the doctors of the coun- try and has introduced a bill in Congress } to make all United States physicians and surgeons civil officers of the government. Internes “who can’t take money” anyway + might like the proposed arrangement, but full-fledged sons of Aesculapius will fight the measure. Sex crimes invariably committed by boys or men who have prison records or by pardoned criminals. boards should bear this fact in mind, when criminals have served their sentences they should be placed under medical ob- servation in the psychopathic ward of an asylum before being released, and are Lenient pardon | and | ABOUT DRUNKEN DRIVERS Drunken drivers have increased ten times as fast as automobiles on the public highways, says Dr. Theron Kilmer, police surgeon, who would have them severely | punished. ; The idea has our general support but | we would like to know how the drunken; drivers are going to be punished. Man-| datory jail sentences have been suggested | and this sounds like poison until you start | to think and then you realize, all at once, that you can’t put anybody in jail unless} ! you get a jury to convict the defendant. | This seems to be the main problem, the securing of a verdict of “guilty” from | juries that handle this class of cases. The problem is intensified in smalled cities | where nearly everybody knows each other } and even if the driver of the vehicle was drunk there are a lot of strings tied up with his conviction. Certainly no thinking citizen has any | idea that a drunken man or woman ought to be allowed to operate as dangerous a vehicle as an automobile on the highway. When somebody is caught doing this, however, the plea is that nothing hap- pened to hurt anybody and maybe he won't do it ert nea is that if you wait until sdme terrible accident occurs to enforce the laws “dgaiistdrunken driving | of automobiles you wilt pypobabiy wait too long. SSS EnInInISEEEEEEEITEeeee BURNING 49,678,000 BAGS OF COFFEE Because of a huge surplus supply of | coffee the government of Brazil, since June, 1931, has destroyed 49,678,000 bags of coffee and the destruction of coffee by burning now exceeds all prevous schedules, with 100,000 bags being put into the fire every day. The South American country, which formerly sold 70 per cent of the world’s coffee, now supplies about 50 per cent. It ‘discovered that the world would pay more money for coffee if the big surplus was disposed of and that the destruction, | ap- parently foolish, was economically profit- able to the growers. The same fact has been apparent in the control-programs in- stituted in this country over the production of certain crops. Surely, there is something out of joint in the world’s economy when Brazil finds it means more money to destroy 11,000, 000 bags of coffee in the crop year which ends June 30, 1938. Surely, there is some- thing wrong somewhere when the world pays American cotton growers less for 15.500,000 bales of cotton than for a few million bales less or more for a short wheat crop than a large one. EXPRESSING YOURSELF Individuals, to obtain the maximum results in life, should seek temperance in all activities and attempt to develop per- sonality that is not bowed-down with un- necessary rigidity in living. Vacafions are'‘yenerally approved for worki people! and ‘amusements should haveja similar pldee>iti the routine Tie, fof serious, minded: persons. We av OWwnglong-faced,);judividuals who catgied the Weight of the world on their backs until their deaths but they didn’t acomplish anything much to lighten the burden of others who followed them. The tendency to believe that all hu- | man beings should follow the same tern is obviously foolish yet there strong-minded leaders who would make the human race goose-step toward the same goal. Dispositions vary and human pat- are THE KEY-WEST CITIZEN New Firestone Cushion Gives Additional Riding Comfort ves. of: the Twin-Coach Bus Company examine the new ubber Cushion recently installed in cushions were specified as original equipment by a large transportation company. Mr. D. F. Kimball (seated) Firestone Representative, explains the structure of the new cushion as Mr. H. E. Simi, Chief Engineer of the Twin Coach Bus ility. Left to right: W. B. Fageol, Vice President of Twin Coach; H. E. Simi, Chief Engineer; H. W. Fagert, ——— Representative. Firestone Latex Whip’ Sponge one of their modern buses. Th Company, tests the fle: Sales Department: and = F. crate THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1937, TODAY IN HISTORY the gathering at the S. J. Groves, ® ecccccccesecccescccoroccccecces) camp at Big Pine. V. A. Johnson’ 1781—Americans andfrench on{ 1814—British land about 5é was driving, and swung too far'the rudson begin the historic’ miles from Washington in second, land wid hi th to ‘ . [railroad a ee ™ brary march south to Virginia, culmin-| war with England, | Wheels of the car struck some ob-|#ting in the surrender at York- |struction and the vehicle left the town and end of the war. | romd. Though the car was damaged thesia and the windows shattered, Mr.; 1812—U. S. frigate “Constitu- —_—_—- Johtison was the only member of |tion” defeats and captures British! 1926—16 Commanist official’ |the party who received any in-;“Guesricre” off . Massachusetts on trial in Moscow . admit. sui, urea lene in historic sea fight, of plotting against Stalin. | whieh-were V. A, Johnson, Frank’ ‘Delaney, J. L..Johnson and Came-| ron Smith were returning. from) “* 1924—Witler voted in as Gerd many’s chancellor, & "KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen We can't all win the girl with the sweeping curves and ruby lips, hut everyone of uy can enjoy the beer which gives a taste thrill from the moment you touch your lips to the lawn. Thousands of people swear by the fall, rich, i sparkling zest of H ¢ jborn in Spongers and friends of the sponge industry here will hold a meeting at the city hall this e¥en- ing at 8 o’clock to formulate plans to prevent coming to these waters of sponge divers Miami is planning to import, according to reports. There is no sponge | on the east coast which the divers can secure without violating {the federal and state ‘laws, it is ghid. Yet, Miami is planning, i@ is charged. with having planned? to colonize the Greek divers with a view to working sponge beds albng the east coast and in Florida Bay. The latter is also: prescribed @iv- ing territory. Diving for sponge eventually destroys the sponge balls, it is shown, too, it is paint- ed out, there is not enough spgng- es in these waters to keep Ideal spongers busy and whatever amount of sponges the) teeal spongers take is not enough ito supply the 40 boats engaged, in the business from this port. A large crowd is expected to attend the meeting tonight. The two aliens found in an‘ex- hausted condition in one of the oil tanks at the railroad station yesterday, are to be deported. They told officials they, entered the tank car about 5 o'clock in the morning in Havana, and did so on their own volition. They left the top up in orler to get air, but as soon as the ferry §ail- ed, employees on the ship clésed the caps. It was then they feal- ized the danger of their position, but it »was' too late. One orf men is 36, the other “40. skeletons were found in a car at Fort Worth, Texas, time ago. wo tank some Editorial “Women a young woman was reading from a maga- comment: these months” j vain, arid needs are not the same. What will make | make another of one life full and rich will soul curse the humdrum fate living. The soul that only imitates others is in for | a disappointing life and should seek to stimulate self-expression, FIREARMS DANGEROUS The careless use of firearms is cause of numerous deaths in Key nearly every year and sorfle of the killing are not connected with the hunting season { which will be open in a few months. Amy persons who discharges a fire- arm of any kind should be absolutely cer- tain that no individual is within The other day in another State a police of- ficer was seriously wounded. while ; range. hunt- | as for the party guilty of firing across a | kept under surveillance to prevent further} shooting, had no idea that the bullets were _ acts of perversion endangering others, then! golf course. The young lad, who did the; zine, are and sework. The apt to be talkative dislike hou vice at once. They are large land |planes with flotation devices and are considered passerby did not stop to enquire, but the months were probably: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August Sep-| tember, October, November and December. Construction work on the $50,-) 000 airplane hanger and landing sield here will commence in about ten days, according to ‘Captain’ John K. Montgomery, of hates | ington, representing the Pan) American Ai . It was to the! company which Captain Montgo- mery represents that the govern-| ment recently:let the sair mail contract between) thigy ycity aaa) The airport on which ion work will begin by) Septémber 1, is to make possible), the mail service which must begin) not later than Qctober-19. The! three planes will be put in ser-! the! extra than their safer usual planes with weight. The Pals ball team yesterday defeated the chauffers by a score} of 9 to 4. The Chauffers team is composed of the chauffers who} meet the trains and boats at Trumbo Islaréi. The Pals are an} aggregation of real pals and are} always together. There were aj number of excellent plays, but the outstanding performance was) made by Bunk Who made a run-} ning h with haind which; should have been a home run for ’ the chauffers. one V. &. Johnson's Oversea Highway last Sugar Loaf Key.; J. L. nd was badly c d the ear was overturned.. 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