The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 20, 1937, Page 2

PAGE ee The Key ; Wiest Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING BOR. INC. P. ARTMAN, Pres N, Assistant Besiness. atener JOE ALL From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe Cc Entered at Key Wes as second class matter FIFTY. Member of the Asnociated Press Ihe 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 Une Year si meee Six Months Three Months One Month Weekly .......... Made known on application, is of thanks, resolutions of ete., will be charged for at for entertainments by churches from which a venue is to be d 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 KE¥ WEST; ADVOCATED BY THE ‘CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete land. Free Port. load to Main- Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN j 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 o1 the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; couimend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and | opinions; print only news that will elevate and not coutaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. 4 denounce vice and praise virtue. Keep smiling—gloom tagious. on is con- If a case is tried per jury, must be considered by the jury. perjury All of us prefer wearing worsted to being worsted. (That one was made out of whole cloth.) Candidates put off as long as they can making their announcements for fear of the “vultures.’ Py ITA 240 LHIV aa Why. should..we eee ES dragg zed ie European war with a wide oobadl ing us from Europe? Answer me that! yr The time is nearing when the " pros- pective office-seekers of the City of Key West make known their intentions to the As in all cases the early bird catches the worm,—meaning you. electors. One hundred and fifty years of free- dom and progress in possible America were made by the Constitution, It is an in- strument that will serve for all time and all ages, just like the Ten Command- ments, It i rule at Monte Carlo that no inhabitant of the principality of Monaco may at its gambling the wisdom should apply to our a wise sit tables; same “New Monte Carlo of America.” An anecdote is b fic officer chased “Didn't through I never saw it ng related: and stopped a law of- ender you ran * he demanded. replied the driver. you see me signal you with my hand “No, I didn’t that, either.” officer looked discouraged: “Wel “Did top?” see rhe n't come back.” t of sight, and then 1 might just as well, 2 | fidence in the brothers who tell us what is A traf- | you see the red light that} “Why | to | He} THE KEY esr CITIZEN GOOD ADVICE TO BUSINESS Some years ago we gave up all ideas of becoming experts on business. We} then read of great prosperity, booming | business and staggering profits but for us| Plainly, if had | veen half an expert we would have cashed in during the era when cashing in good. | Nowadays, we read many statement: | jit was a fairy tale. we was | on business trends. Most of them are by men who know nothing about the j tion. The experts have lost a lot of faith since the late crash caught everybody un- awares and it will take a long record of! accurate forecasting to restore our con-} ahead. However, the prophets are interesting and sometimes they get off some good ad- vice. For example, Julius H. Barnes, for- mer President of the United States Cham- ber of Commerce, thinks it unhealthy that, for three years, no president of the Cham- ber of Commerce has been “invited to the | White House for consultation.” He wants business men to make a frank statement of their case. It ig a good idea. Mr. Barnes says business men are “much at fault,” miany having given “only lip service to democracy” and some hi ‘been “secretly willing to sacrifice demo- j cracy” for an orderly regime under a dictatorship. Then comes Mr. Barnes’ confession of faith that “there is no safer way of life than through the principles of democracy, with all its faults and weaknesses.” We have to score him high on that remark and on another: ‘Business has to have more sympathy with social legislation’”” because “the steps recently taken will never be re- traced.” This is a pointer for the type of business leader, who can think about noth- ing except taxes and offers no strategy but to weep and moan over the burden that “business”’ carries, Mr. Barnes tells business men thing else that might possibly apply to future situations, if they will remember that he says “as an indication of what we did not know about the intangibles in gov- ernment, we were worried about going off the gold standard, yet it has worked out well.” ye some- CAN ONE BELIEVE AN EDITOR? A lady, whose name shall not be re- vealed, but who shall be here known as Lily, writes to ask whether one should be- lieve everything that an editor says. In reply we assure her that, accord- ing to the best traditions of American jour- ! nalism, no editor has ever stooped to false- hood, and except under great provocation, not even to exaggeration or misstatement. Having thus disposed of the query of our inquisitor the idea strikes us that this would be a great old world if everybody, including those who write letters to edi- tors, were as dependable. i HERE’S A HAND! : } We are inclined to “give a hands to} | Miss Maxine Pagel, of North Dakota, who situa- i the + jate overeast won a State beauty contest and then re- fused to go into a national competition be- | cause she didn't care to be photographed | in bathing suits and “getting in and out of bathtubs.” i ‘ Beauty of face admired and certainly there — is | wrong with efforts to promote among girls and women or the appreci tion thereof. At the same time it seemed to us that commercial beauty con- tests have often capitalized the necessary display of its entrants, none whom are and figure are to be on to be classified as professional models. OIL UNDER FARMS Nearly eve ry indi aPRROWeRe reds } at times, how it would feel to become sud- { denly rich. Farmers in southern Hlinois inhabitants, } once Key West is made the contemplated | are the and dis- spe- | ing this line since covery of oi] under their lands progress along | cialists say the field may prove to be the greatest developmnt east of the Mississippi in the past decade. | So far, millions of | been leased and the scramble is st } on. t has not reach- 'ed boom proportions mortgages are being paid off and banks are j old accounts, acres of land have While the developme clearing up some nothing | beauty | un- | of | mak- | ! You andjYour™ Nation si Affairs. Gypsies De Luxe: By ELIOT JONES Professor of Trans, tation and Public Utilities, Stanford University An outstanding development in the field of passenger transpirtation is| dren. growing use of automobile trail- ers. At the end of 1936, according to the American Automobile As- sociation, there were about 300,- 000 house trail- ers; and it has be sdded this year. This would give us a trailer po; : lation of more thar, 1,- 000,000. Alréady there is a na- tional organiza- tion of trailer en thusiasts, with official guide books, and of course a con- vention. The popularity of the trailer may be attributed in part to the fact that the old restless pioneer blood still flows in American veins; there is a pressing desire to “go places and see things.” Its growing popularity fs also due to the fact that trailers are increas- ingly being equipped to provide the material comfurts that Americans are accustomeu to demand. Under our dying capitalistic order the mod- ern workingman considers necéssary things that vere regarded as luxuries by the lords and ladies not so many years ago. Therefore the Covered Wagon of our times must have electric lights, hot water, a refrigerator, and a radio. The automobile trailer, however, will raise many new social problems. There is, for example, the matter of education for the children in trailer families. As many of the trailers come to California for the winter, the State has asked for federal assistance for the schooling of 50,000 trailer chil- orthe use of the trailer * a home raises also the question of pubis health. Provision must be made, of course, for the disposal of garbage and human wastes. Boards of Health are becoming concerned over the rapid development of trailer life. The city of Flint, Michigan, famous as the home of sit-down strikes, forbids “tin can to unless their ambulatory residences meet the local housing regulations, The trailer also introduces a new safety hazard, leading the National Association of Motor Vehicle Manu- facturers to demand uniform licensing laws and reasonable standards of safety. Operators of hotels and the better automobile courts are worried be- cause of the probable loss of over- night patronage; and the real estate interests are deeply concerned, be- cause the man who sakes his home with him is less likely to buy real estate. The development of the trailer also provides an object lesson for the leg- islators, who have of late years im- posed ever increasing burdens on the taxpayers. By taking to the open road the automobile gypsy can reduce the amount of his tax payments. He must continue to pay certain taxes, as for example, state gasoline taxes, the fed- eral income tax, and federal excise : taxes (those on automobiles. gasoline, tires, tobacco, etc.). But he is free from the property tax on real estate; and the tax on his trailer home will be little or nothing. Moreover, he can, if he chooses, avoid the states with sales taxes on commodities and with income taxes. A floating population fs hardly the » best. basis for a settled society, but it is a comfort to know that there are some limits te the power of the tax gatherer. (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) THE W Temperature* Highest ---89 Lowest Mean Normal Mean Rainfall* Yesterday's Precipitation Normal Precipitation ai: 86} ...82 20 Tus Sun ris Sun sets Moon rises Moon sets Tomorrow's Tides High B. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p, m., Tuesday) | Key West and Vicinity. } cloudy tonight and Tue: sional rain Tuesday south and southwest y fresh at times. Florida: Mostly cloudy occasional rain Tuesday and north and central portions night. acksonville to Florida Straits jerate south and winds over south and central and moderate to fresh easterly winds <treme north portion and weather tonight | and moder- winds, oc! possi with an to- M over : Tuesday | sibly ‘squal.s over ‘winds nea ‘reach the coast early tonight be] Marks and Cedar Keys, | (of the EATHER with occasional showers, squally over north portion. East Gulf: Moderate to fresh’ outh and southwest winds pos- stro portion, becoming northerly Tues- day and overcast weather with; showers this afternoon and __ to- night with moderate to ‘heavy north portion, dim- inishing late tonight and Tues- “| day. WEATHER CONDITIONS The tropical disturbance parently of slight intensity, was central this morning about 104 miles southwest of Apalachicola; attended by strong. shifti the center. It w ap- tween St. Fla. Northeast storm warnin, south of Carabelle to Tampa Bay. Heavy rains have resulted in many localities from the mouth Mississippi River eastward over northwestern Florida, and southern Georgia during the last 24 hours, Pensacola, Fla., Apalachicola, F° and Thomasville, Ga., 2.16 —rSe southwest i There mode lantic ida, and in portions of have also been light te : rains on the north At- in northeastern Flor: the far I Reduced night telephone rates in effect all day Sunday sko-station calls. ae m Person-to-person tele- iV HBhone rates tO most, points also reduced after 7 o'clock every night of the weck. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph . * MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1937. —— ' fee ge to as far south as the rail KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY swt coane ere sug Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files “Will you be a candidate for election next year?” The Citizen asked Congressman Joe Sears to- day, “The fishing around Key, West is certainly the finest in the! rwould’?..the congressman replied.; “Could Al Smith be elected” was the next question to which Mr. Sears said, “I never believed half) the stoires about catching fish in !Key West until I went out yes-) terday and saw for myself just| what can be done.” He was then asked if the Democrats would “ran a wet, a damp or a dry for, president” and his informative) reply was “would you believe it| we caught more than 60 fish yes-| jterday, and there were exactly 12 varieties in the bunch.”? Mr. Sears, then said that he came here for a vacation and not to discuss poli-/ tical situations or possibilities. Rogelio Zayas Bazan, secretary. of the interior of Cuba, who pass- ed through Key West this morn- ing says hundreds of Georgians are talking about the Overseas | Highway and are planning to come to Key West when the road is jconypleted. Mr. Bazan was en route from Atlanta to Havana. ‘He had been in the Georgia city to have son Rogelio, Jr., enter the Georgia Military Academy. ; What he heard in the Georgia ‘metropolis makes him all the ‘more certain that the read to the ! mainland is going to be one of the greatest attractions Florida has ever offered tourists. When he was in Key West en route north’ Mr. Bazan made essentially the! same statement when he said that the completed road will prove to ‘be almost as big a boon to Cuba as it will be to Key West. His! ‘observations in Georgia, only con-| {firms his opinion, he said. Editorial comment: T he y : brought some bread to the Bri i museum the other day that was baked more than 5000 years ago. | |It is doubtful, however. if that bread is any harder than most | bride’ 's first biscuits. i at times over north| - | Northwest. Abnormally weather prevails this | from the upper !Mississippi Valley eastward to the Atlantic coast, | with light frost reported in Michi-} gan and western Pennsylvaia;! while elsewhere temperatures arc | genera'ly near or above the sea- | sonal average. ) | S. KENNEDY, | Official in Charge. t Sai 4i8 cool! morning N) ! TIPILELL LLLP IPILOL OL Oe f CYPRESS AND WILL DOUBLE CHAIRS, AN Keep MIPPLELLL ZL LL €. ‘SFI GLIiLGIDD WE CARRY A COMPLETE STOCK OF LONG LEAF YELLOW PINE LUMBER. LUMBER THAT A COMPLETE STOCK by | FROM SILLS AND STUDS US; WE’LL BET WE HA’ v WE WILL BE MORE THAN Gi Phone-- CYPRESS LAWN FURNITURE—MADE ENTIRELY OF VEREST OF WEATHER. BENCHES, SINGLE CHAIRS, $3.00 and up LAWN MOWERS trimmed Mower. WITH RUBBER TIRES SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING CO. “Your Home Is Worthy Of The Best” White and Eliza Streets mbe. This portion of the high- way has been finished by Jennét Brothers, who report it is ready Of The Citizen | to be turned over to the county. § Poll tax receipts up to the numi- ber of 525 had been ssued at $9 'Day, November 11, were discussed o'clock this morning. a jat the regular meeting of the who estimated that not 15 |Key West Chapter this forenobn.' Would be issued are now changifig |A committee headed by Captain ‘heir minds and agree that pos- |R. W. McNeely was appointed to Sibly 2000 may be reached. Wo- linterview a person suggested as Me" are paying poll taxes as chairman for the next drive and Never before, said County Tax report at the next meeting if the Collector William F. Maloney. assignment was accepted. Plans for launching the Red’ Cross Roll Call on Armistice Subscribe to The Citizen—20e weekly, STAR > BRAND: CUBAN COFFEE Is Deliciously Fresh! —TRY IT TODAY— On Sale At All Grocers Criminal court met this morn-; ing and immediately adjourned until next Monday morning, Sep- tember 26. ’ The Robert J. Perry Chapter! Order of DeMolay, will meet this evening in Scottish Rite Temple to hold an _ important meeting. County prisoners spend a while each morning beautifying the grounds of the county court house square. This is done while await- ing the arrival of a truck to con- vey them to Similar Sound bridge where the men are working» strengthenig the “’ brads | ie placing new ones. iter of the Business Theater District —Popular Prices— County, Commissioners, , , Cupty. Kirchheiner, Warren, accompa jaa 3 by County Engineer Bailey, are at 1 o'clock today, for Key, Large’ * to inspect the highway. from Key, 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 75c. 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 MT. CIID L IL IDE IIIIL IIE MELIIIIIIIIVIOI TOSI ISS. OOD WORM. 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