The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 24, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key Ui Published Daily THE yey est Citizen xcept Sunday By LISHING -CO., INC. ‘, President ail N Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County rida, as second class matter Entered at Key West, FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR 2 Member of the Associated Press "he 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 Sa Res Six Months Th Months One Month Weekly ... --$10.00 - 6.00 2.50 85 20 ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. AL NOTICE reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions pf | obituary no’ , ete., will be charged for at ate of i0 cents a line. 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- si of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. s | IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- jand. 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 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. co.amend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. Few newspaper readers are ignorant enough to qualify for jury duty. Human nature naturally loves strife; men even pay well to see a fight. + Poets seldom commit crimes, accord- ing to one of them. Except on paper. If you know what you want the sales- man will be less likely to sell you some- thing else. Most men confide their financial roubles to their wivesgespecially when the latter wants @ new hat or something. there is no criticism about the $60,000, But] where will the President find six men who Those who make life’s chief object the accumulation of money should not for- get that they brought nothing into this World and will not take ‘anything out of it, When it’s time to say adieu. President Roosevelt wants secretaries at $10,000 Since it is fashionable to six annually waste new each. money, a sion for anonymity”, unless the | jobs are given the Cabinet, from whom nothing is ever heard in these Rooseveltian days. have Tithe contro! of birth, new more prev-/ alent than ever, it seems wiser to observe tie vhytiimic cycle than to resort to con- traceptives, | Since the knowledge of the} latter.cannot he stemmed, the knowledge | of the!firstnamed should be spread by the| medical profession as well as by the church, as is now the ca se, The federal government permits of. | fers in compromise to settle income taxes, | why is it not constitutional for a state to! do likewise? The state is not required to/ accept all, (for that would appear to be unconstitutional), only those that have! merit. The chiselers could be taken care} of in the usual way. | t GETTING THE HOME TOWN DOLLAR The trading at home fever breaks out time and again in every town and city. It has done so repeatedly in Key West, and unless all signs fail will do so in the future. No one is more interested in support- ing home industries and businesses than The Citizen and so, we wonder, just why the many previous campaigns have failed to produce lasting impressions and_per- manent effect. Why the necessity for the j revival of the “campaign” so often? Merchants, interested in winning the home town dollar, might ponder the query. Buyers, as any one admits, seek bargains. They will go to the places they think that they can get’the most for their money. Does the home merchant always bear this in mind? Does he not, where some: times, expect to get the home town dollar without deserving it? We can hear at once, as some local merchants read this far, the snort superiority, as the thought goes down that The Citizen is criticising the local mer- chants. Well, boys, to be honest, some of you need just a bit of reform. Some of you have been careless in the appearance of your store, backward in the display of your goods’and chary about courteous, prompt and dependable service to back up what you seil. There are, of course, in Key West ex- emplary local merchants. They are the pace setters. Others, who are tempted to complain of the mail order businesses and the chain stores, might cast their eyes around the community and see what the successful independents are doing, ‘and figure out for themselves why they seem to get along in the face of modern com- petition, , The answer is not so hard to find. These alert, local merchants are on their toes, know their business, manage it them- selves, serve the public and give more for the money than their competitors. They are pleasing their public through personal service, and the people go back for more. It is the only way to get, or to keep busi- ness. Of course, you will find that most of them are believers in advertising, recog- nizing its service to modern merchandis- ing. of extending There. is no reason that we know of why a merchant in Key West can't meet competition. He can do it, if he will. If he does, he will get the vast majority of the home town dollars, SCIENCE MIGHT AID MARRIAGE Human beings have undertaken about every form of investigation and study that their imagination suggests, with perhaps an exception in regards to the science of successful family life. Why the church or the state should expect two young people to “get married” and stay happy as a matter ofcourse, is beyond our feeble brain. That there is much to be learned in the habits of living. ind that the experience of older married couples is valuable to younger mates _ if available, ought not to be subject to dis- pute. 1 Somebody ought to attempt to write a | book on the subject of marriage, its dutiey and responsibilities, with advice and aids of a sensible and practical nature. may be a miracle, and we incline to lieve that it is, but unless backed up by some intelligent cultivation it will die, like any other plant. Love be- LAND SINKS 175 FEET News dispatches from Idaho tell of a striking “‘ slow settling of farm lands, marked the appearance of huge holes that widening the earth and threateni dermine the beds of the Salmon river. Geologists say that the cracks pearing over a tract of ten acres of land are due to the collapse of lava tube created two or three million years ago, which has been hastened by the softening of the earth through irrigation. Whatever the cause it certainly is ar resting to read of a man’s farm suddenly beginning to move downward as some of his land sinks as much as 175 feet. While the same thing has happened elsewhere always amazes individuals who have many years admired “terra firma.” to un- a for sinking canyon,” caused by the | by are | pi THE KEY WEST CITIZEN KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Just 10 Years Highest Ago Today As Taken From | Lowest The Files of The Citizen jMean jNormal Mean igi uae Te i R Harry Williams, cook on 9) Yesterday’s Paecipitation Tampa fishing schooner disap-} Normal Precipitation eared i i | hin record cove peared into thin yesterday} da as © water with the boat at anchor and half; Tomorrow's Almainac dozen of his shipmates standing! Sun rises around. Not even the body could) sn te é Moon rises ... be found although a ton ts continued for hours. Tomorrow's Tides rence happened when the vessel was about 20 miles off Dry Tor- tugas and today, other members of the crew here to report.the af- fair can hardly credit their own! senses. Williams had been help- ing the men on board the Jewell furl the sails when the men quit for the day. As cook Williams had no part in the work but Was possibly tonight; gentle to mod lending a hand wherever TREN erate winds, most y east and south and assisting, as was usual with) east. him, and bantering Florida: Partly the men and then another. Eeigste ptatioeni the craft was shipshape for the) wedry ane coe night the men went below for their coffee and sinkers, which always follows stowing the sails} for the night, and when gathered| for the mess Williams was miss-} ing. How he could’ have disa) | peared from the deck of theecraft) without a sound and the men all! around is a mystery. THE WEATHER ee Temperatures* T. Ins air search was The occur- i High Low Barometer reading at 8 a. Sea level, 30.02. WEATHER FORECAST :30 p, m., Wednesday) st and Vicinity with widely scattered | cloudy cloudy thundershower near ex treme south coast tonight. Jacksonville to Florida and st Gulf: Gentle to-mod ate mostly east and - southe: winds; * partly overcast with ‘seattered showers day and over south portion night. Wednes:. WEATHER NDITIONS Police Officer Horatio Nunez| was this morning discharged from} the force by Mayor Leslie Curry,| the mayor reports. The dismissal! is the outgrowth of an affair| Saturday night when Archie Shep-| pard passed Officer Nunez at the Sanitary Restaurant and made some remark which aroused the ire of the officer. Nunez later found the young man and attack- ed him. The mayor said this oc-) curred while the officer was in uniform and on duty and was suf- ficient in warranting him being dismissed. The distribution of throughout the country has char J but little since yesterday morn ing, with the northe pressure area overspr sections from the Mis y eastward and p erately low over west excert over the far west. Show have occurred during hours from northeastern and the lower Mississippi eastward to the Atlantic and thence northeastward ssure mo tri orth he last 2 co; Officers and committee leaders} Partly |thundershowers Wednesday anc with Straits weath -t} to- | {i's inet pressure j 1.25 ine dis- ers and thunderstorms /a max Texas Valley | disturbed condition cast along} the coast to southern New Eng- TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1937. n e! i Today’s Anniversaries | 1784—Joseph E. Worcester, New England schod-book writer, ictionary maker, geographer and) orian, born at Bedford, N. H.} | Died Oct. 27, 1865. 1795—James E. born in England. y York, Dec. 25, 1864.) 1810—Theodore P: Lexin M born in at Italy, ngton, 10, reformer. Died —Charles Follen 'New York’s famed archi bered among the count est, born in Chester ‘Co., Pa, Died Sept, 14. 1909. 1866— Frederic Faxon, | Boston’s noted bibliographer, born there. Died Aug. 31, 1936. 1884—Eari Di elist, erzator of Charlie born at Warren, Ohio. Pasadena, Cal., April McKim, +. d dy Chan, d at Di 1 1887—Hal ¢ opeka, Kans. land, with heavy rai There have aiso been ttered light show in western districts. Temp changes have “een Ny uyimportant, with readings few wid gen- being, north and middle Atl nd above in the nerthern Plains tates, Williston, D., reported mem temperature of yesterd: 4) degr There are some indication of {| Leeward Islands this morning. G. 8. K Official in Ch ofa Biggers, nov-| | | 7 j | {pioneer moving er, Boston’ pattent filed Unitarian clergyman, author and er. num- | approved. great-} » novelist, | Died Oct. | | | | 102} Today In Pict 1814—Battle of Bladensburg. Md., followed, the next day by! burning of Washington in second | war with Britain. | 1857—Beginning of financial| |panic throughout country, duc to} Wallock, noted speculation New York City actor and mana- tion. } and over-capitaliza-| | 1891-——Edison application for} picture camera} anted six years lat- i 1912—Act of Congrss _provid- ing for the opening, maintenance, protection, sanitation and govern- ment of the Panama Canal Zone 1 notice Congressman Bobbins is home tellin’ folks how be believes in the Constitution after tryin’ to scrap the Supreme Court. 1 guess a monumental liar is a feller who carves them sayin’s on monuments. 1926—More than 100 injured} in crowd of 25,000 thronging| New York funeral church to view remains of Rudolph Valentino. A Service for Travelers For the ever-increasing number of patrons who are planning a journey our bank offers AMERICAN EXPRESS TARVELERS CHEQUES as a protection for travel funds, These Cheques, issued in convenient denomi- nations of $10, $20, $50 and $100, cost only T5c. for each $100 purchased. They are spendable wherever travelers go, and carry the added and important feature of a prompt refund by the Am- erican Express Company in case of loss or theft before your second signature is affixed. Ask the Teller about them. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation™ of the three Parent-Teachers As- sociations in Key West will meet tonight and outline the work for the organizations for the ensuing year. The meeting will meet in the high schoo] auditorium and all officers and heads of committees} are expected to attend. Women screaming , frantically for help in an automobile speed- ing east on Eaton street caused: much excitement about 10:30 last night. Mayor Curry had retired but was aroused by the screams. He called a police officer nd at- tempted to follow the car, but! lost sight of it. Whether it was; a wild joy party or some. girls really in distress is still unknown, | as nothing further has developed,| officers state. | i ) Editorial comment f the late! Vice President Marshall had ever} j visited Key West, he would never} have made that crack about the jcountry’s needing a good five} jcent cigar. | = | All boys and girls who are to leave shortly to return to resume} their studies in institutions of) jlearning throughout the states,| lars to be guests of the Key West} | Rotary Club at the regular lunch-| }eon tomorrow in the Parish Hall. | Archie Moreno returned this morning from Miami where he | Was taking an advanced course in bile repairwork at the jes Motor company, He will have full charge of the Melt- |zer Motor company’s repair de- | partment. j | ete i | From Marigold Cottage, Chat-? jham, gland, ’ writes the Key {Commerce as follow: tbe good enough to literature regarding as a vacation resort?” literature was promptly sent. ' j | autome | Evergl The Sub-Treasury Build- ing in New York City where passports are issued Sor foreign lands. nd me some atory city Sanchez’ place at the cor- n Simonton and Petronia eets was raided yesterday and ntity of liquor was mn, Sheriff chez was nder bond for his appear- possess rted. } iminary hearing. bseribe to The } Citizen—20¢ ap-| — KEY WEST — COLONIAL HOTEL In the Center of the Business and Theater District —Popular Prices— First Class Fireproof —Sensible Rates— | / | | , 2 used aa a | — Go a thousand miles away from home or right around the corner...and you'll see people enjoying Chesterfields. Chesterfield’s refreshing mildness and richer flavor and aroma give you all the good things of smoking . .. estertield me your passport fo more smoking pleasure