The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 13, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key Wiest Citizen From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR 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. une Year .. Gix Months ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of ~ tespect, obituary notices, ete., 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- > extions. ¥ re } 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. Advice: Don’t live IN the past and © don’t live ON the future. eee sus Most folks are getting rested up from their vacations by this time. ‘ A statesman declares that every = treaty is holy. Perhaps meaning shot full of holes. Unfortunately, it seems necessary to = place fire hydrants alongside the most de- sirable parking places. Many business men agree with Hitler * and Mussolini when they denounce the processes of democracy, Again we hear the clever suggestion that the surplus might be reduced if farm- ers would raise less cotton. There are 18,000,000 more jobs to- - day than in 1900, yet thousands more are fi sreaere rn ae ee er we — - laration of war. *~ erican people feel now, but insidious prop- t aganda. by European nations, particularly hem er er. unemployed than at that time, and this in the face of the fact that the working hours have been reduced more in the last eight years than in 30 years before, and while the optimist will say that the living conditions are so much better than they were three decades ago, the pessimist doubts they will continue that way for very long. A national survey of public opinion shows that 72 per centum of the people ot this country are bitterly opposed to alliance of any kind with Europe. The people favor strict adherence to the neutrality laws, as well as a referendum on a dec- That is the way the Am- England which wants its investments pro- tected especially in China and Japan, will soon dispel this solidarity. We should be unalterably opposed to entangling alli- ances of whatever sort. Industrial mechanization as an argu- ment for shorter working hours may find emotional support but it has little or no factual backing. As a matter of fact mechanization, except in isolated cases, creates more jobs than it destroys. The writer remembers when the linotype was invented and put into use, printers every- where viewed the situation with horror. France for a time would not permit their use in the government printing office, but linotypes are now in general use all over the globe, and the newspaper and printing business is flourishing as it never flourish- td before, for the reason that mechaniza- tion has enabled it to produce a more de- sirable product with consequent greater consumption. | | 1 AGGRESSORS DO NOT FEAR WORDS World opinion seems almost unani- mously against Japan’s invasion of China and the nations seem anxious to prevent the successful destruction of the government, That the Japanese, regardless of; provocation, have gone too far in their at- | tack upon the Chinese and that they have violated treaties and international law j with impunity is scarcely denied. What is to be done -in such instances | by other nations? The question is difficult to answer because it involves risks of war. Words, whether in public speeches or in diplomatic notes, will not stop Japan and it is doubtful if the nations haye any idea | of adopting other tactics. . To cut Japan from commercial inter- course with other nations would be dis- astrous to the island empire but it could not be enforced without the use of strong fleets, ready to use force. Sanctions, ap- plied by concerted action, would hardly result in preventing Japanese military suc- cess in China. Once Japan has conquered China what group of nations will attempt to use force to expel her armies or to keep open the door of commerce to all na- tions? SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citi: Chinese | A certain African. tribe: discourages long-winded speeches by requiring all orators to stand on one foot while sound- ing off. A fine idea, but a_ better one would be to compel them to stand on their heads. A old-time ball player avers that the term ‘charley horse’’, applied to diamond artists who develop a kink in the leg, orig- inated at Sioux City, Ia., some. 40 years ago, when an old broken-down horse named Charley hobbled about dragging the diamond. A list of noted one-eyed men pub- lished in a current magazine includes the names of Jefferson Davis, Lord Nelson, Wiley Post, Floyd Gibbons, ‘Pussyfoot”’ Johnson and “One-Eyed” Connolly—famed respectively as President of the Con- federacy, British admiral, around the world aviator, war correspondent, prohibi- tion crusader and gate crasher. When the Wasco Indian chief Duc- | Sa-Hi built and operated a ferry hie! the Deschutes river in Oregon back in the 60s for the convenience of early settlers, he little thought that his humble thought useful service would have lasting com- memoration. But such came when a new $50,000 bridge at the ferry site was dedi- cated in his honor. Progress toward civilization is noted among the Batak inhabitants of the Dutch East Indies, who formerly were cannibals, given to eating enemies taken in war, as well as old people of their own tribe. Now, it is said, they have forsaken that primi- tive custom, and eat dogs instead. The wisest of men get fooled once in a while. An object treasured and proudly exhibited for 20 years by the Smithsonian Institution as “the world’s oldest ear of corn,” reputedly grown in Peru, has been found to be merely a cleverly moulded piece of baked clay. Among recent silly stunts was that of Raymond Phelps, a crippled young rancher of Colorado Springs, who climbed Pike's Peak on his hands and knees to its 14,000- foot summit in 13 hours, But the tem-/ porary notoriety achieved may have been | sufficient recompense for the patellar wear | and tear invelved in the laborious climb. t Many novel excuses have been offer-! ed by citizens seeking to evade jury duty, , but one recently advanced by an lows | man is probably unique. He declared that | inasmuch as his wife had been drawn on | the jury he couldn’t serve, because no agreement would be possible. { | together the Chinese puzzle that, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE W ‘Temperature* Highest Lowest Mean . Normal Mean Rainfall* Yesterday’s Precipitation Normal Precipitation -23 Ins. ; “Thin record covern 2: period | ending nt § o'clock thin morning. ‘Tomorrow's Almanac Sun_ rises - 6:25 a. m. Sun sets . 6:01 p. m. Moon rises . 2:24 p. m. Moon sets 1:10 a. m. Tomorrow's Tides A.M. | High 4:50 Low . 1:32 Barometer reading at 8 a. m.t Sea level, 29.96. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Thursday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly; cloudy tonight and Thirsday; gent’e to moderate winds, mostly east and southeast. Florida: Partly cloudy, possibly scattered showers near the east coast tonight and in north and| {eentral portions Thursday; cooler, jin north portion Thursday night. | Jacksonville to Florida Straits jand East Gulf. Gentle te mod- erate, mostly east and southeast} winds, probably becoming north- erly over north portion Thursday; .34 Ins, PM 6:11 KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The, Citizen Willard Albury, the only mem- Key West while serving in that ber of the present council en- capacity. dorsed at the meeting of business’ The work of paving :the street men, announces in this issue for jn front of Bayview Park has reelection. Other announcements been completed by the street re-} made to this date are those of pairing force under Engineer B. K. O. Thompson, Ross C. Sawyer, ©: Moreno. This work has been Arbrose Gleare, and Felipe Car- 1 Brvetens for some, time: Twa . F springboards for users of the bonell all for the city council. | swimming pool and a tower for : divers has been erected. One of the most startling state- ments ever heard in a murder Sydney Mathews, clerk in the; trial was made today in the trial local postoffice, was: host to a of George Remus, being tried in group of employes at a dinner Cincinnati for the murder trial last night given in‘a. local _ res- growing out of the admitted slay- taurant. The postoffice clerks ing of hsi wife by Remus. He were divided five to five as to} stated “that he had made not less which team) would win the world than $10,000,000 and today he series, the losers to pay for a was broke. ‘A rag, a bone and a dinner. Mr. Mathews side lost. hank of hair?’ Hell! Kipling does B. D. Jenks was speaker of the not know enough words to tell of evening. Those attending were: her. I married Imogene Holmes, the host, Mr. Jenks, Arthur Pas- made her my wife. I gave her torini, William Watkins, Bernard everything that mortal woman, Roberts, J. A. Gardnvr, Hollon even though the vainest, most Bervaldi, Milton Sawyer and Roy self centered woman in the world Hamlin. ig could want. I made a queen of ue ARES her, a queen of a woman of the Frederick Jensen was bound slums, and she paid me. ‘The Ver to criminal coutt this morn- fool was stripped to his foolish img after a hearing before Peace hide’. I killed her, yes, I killed Justice Rogelio “Gomez. Jensen her and society should vote me a W@S charged with trespassing on Henin debt of gratitude. I killed her, Florida East Coast Railway prop-j © and for the first time in eight °TtY. Leonard Baker, oA i A © BUS STATI statior years I am having peace of mind. ™aster for the F. E. C. was th Fe. ak I can think back and sort of put Complaining witness.” Bond w: fixed at $200 for the appearance: - the prisoner at the next term of criminal court. | | Tennis cracks of the local naval station are out with a defy Gardner’s Drug Store to the best performers on the} courts in Key West, asking that| offers FREE Sample of new High Blood tennis supremacy be decided by! contests, both single and doubles,! to be played on Navy Day, Qcto-| Pressure Treatment ber 27. Captain E, T. Lloyd, of, Every High Blood Pressure Suf-; the Marine Detachment, who is in| ferer in Key West is urged to go charge of the Athletic program, te Gardner’s Pharmacy and re-! for Navy Day is anxious that ceive a free sample of ALLIMIN} some of the best players of the! Essence of Garlic Parsley Tablets city meet the men from the naval/for High Blood Pressure. These) station, and has issued a challenge @¢ the tablets used by Dr. Fred- to that effect. lerick Damrau, eminent physicia pot New York City, in his now fa- Editorial comment: Once again,’ mous clinical work, when he re-| don’t let's forget that Key West duced the blood pressure and re-| won’t ever be much of a city un- lieved dizziness and headaches in til she gets plenty of fresh water,| the great majority of all cases} | treated. Get a copy of Dr. Dam- rau’s interesting report, along with your free sample of ALLIMIN. A special new process by which these’ tablets are produced makes them has been my life.” William Cleveland, well known t in Key West, has been appointed assistant manager of the Hotel Mason in Jacksonville, according to cards received here. He was’ both tasteless and odorless. A two formerly clerk’ to Judge MeCall| weeks’ treatment costs only 50c. and made a number of visits to| —advt. i 1 2 3 Save a little of thy income, and thy hide-bound pocket will soon begin to thrive and thou wilt never cry again with an empty stomach; neither will creditors insult thee, nor want oppress, nor hunger bite, nor will nakedness freeze thee. The whole hemisphere will shine brighter, and pleasure spring up in every corner of thy heart. —Benjamin Franklin. KEY WEST. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve «* Member of the F. D. I. C. IIAP Z ZAZA LLL LA ALAA LALA MAA AAA AAA hd « 11:23} 5 LB. CAN __... Look at These Prices On Oil Stoves $ 5.50 6.85 10.25 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1937, EATHER partly overeast weather tonight and Thursday with a few scat-} tered showers, | 1 t t WEATHER CONDITIONS Pressure is relatively low this morning over the lower Rio! Grande Valley and Pacific States;} while the northwestern high pres-! sure area, crested over mid-west- ern Canada, has overspread most! other sections of the country. | Rain has oceurred during the last| 24 hours from the southeastern! Rockies and northern Texas northeastward over the North Atlantic States, being heavy at Abilene, Texas, 1.61 inches, and there has been light to moder- ate snow in portions of the Lake region. Showers have occurred also in portions of Florida and on the middle Gulf coast, Titus- ville, Fla., reporting a heavy |rainfa'l of 1.11 inches. Colder weather has overspread the Plains States, upper Mississip- pi and Ohio Valleys, and Lake region, with freezing over south- ern Michigan, and temperatures as low as 18 degrees in South Dakota; while readings are above normal throughout the southern portion of the country. G. 8. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. | | Today’s Anniversaries 1754—Mary Ludwig Hays Me- Cauley (“Molly Pitcher”), Revo- lutionary heroine, born near Trenton, N. J. Died there, Jan. 22, 1832, : 1769—Horace H. Hayden, Bal- timore dentist-geologist, who did much to make dentistry an or- ganized profession, born at Wind- sor, Conn. Died Jan. 26, 1844. 1826—Lafayette C. Baker, itin« erant mechanic, Union spy, U. S. Secret Service chief in the Civil War, born at Stafford, N. Y. Died in Philadelphia, July 3, 1868. | 1827—James H. Stoddart, not- ed American actor, born in Eng land. Died Dec. 9, 1907, 1831—John W. Hoyt, Wyoming and Wisconsin professor, author, Wyoming governor, born near Worthington, Ohio. Died May 23, 1912, 1833—Pierre Lorillard, mer- chant, race horse breeder, born in New York. Died July 7, 1901. 1852—Lily Langtry, English actress, born. 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