The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 30, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen ‘ Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INO. ARTMAN, President . Assistant Business Manager m ‘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 Me.aber of the Associated Press the 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 six Months ®hree Monthy Ine Mont 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 10 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. | 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. ‘eoiamend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and Opinions; print only news that will elevate aiid not contaminate the reader; never com- | *prontise with principle. _ 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, When better books are written more people will read them, $ We can believe as we like, but cannot -act as we like always. The road te wisdom is traveled doubting what appears to able, by be unquestion- Correct this sentence: “I didn’t like what the preacher said and so 1 lost my religion.” Mediocrity talks fast and often furious, but genius observes and with calmness, You may love another man’s wife if she is your father’s, provided she is also your mother. Life does not begin at 40 or any other age. It begins when we are filled with the spirit of right living. A friend of ours confides his prescrip- tion fora peaceful married life: “I let her go her way and -she lets me go hers.” To answer the question, “Who is the religious man?" is one ,of the hardest} things in the world. The nearest we can come to it is to say that the most vdiaees! man is he who feels the greatest need of} communion with the Unseen, and the/ greatest satisfaction in that communion, Leonardo da Vinci was a great man. He painted the “Last Supper” that out- standing work of art in Milan, the mecca of every tourist to Italy. In the 15th cen- turn he invented the canal lock. He did} ‘a thousand and one remarkable things in| his active career and he was also the in- ventor of the wheel-barrow. Everyone) should read the history of his life; it is in- spiring. | Christ than an effort on our part to show | brotherhood willing to share | and worshipped at the altar of Mammon.” EQUAL PAY FOR MINISTERS The Rev. Oscar F, Oreen, of Palo Alto, Calif., raised a nice point before the triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church recently meeting at Cin- cinnati. Calling attention to a survey of salaries of 300 ministers in four States, showing a range from $7,500 to $720, Mr. Green de | clared that this disparity of income is| “jeopardizing our . missionary program.” He could think of nothing that would make a “greater impression on the world and bring more persons to the fact of we are a and share that as Christian ministers alike.” There is much to what this California minister says. He adds, “We do not stay H on the job where we are most useful, but we strive to find a place of higher pay . . 4 we have envied those with large salaries The effect of’ a “share and share alike” example upon the thought of the public would be amazing and, no doubt, work to the advancement of what the ministers refer to as “the Kingdom.” Of this we are sure but, at the same _ time, there are difficulties to be solved and de- tails to be ironed out in the event that any great church undertakes to carry out Mr. | Green’s suggestion. That there are ministers in all de- nominations who work, nobly upon pit- tances, doled out to them by their com. munities, is a fact. That there are, unfor- tunately, in all denominations, ministers -who keep their eyes on the'main chance is also a fact. However, the vast majority of the ministers in the nation deserve the praise and the sympathy of the people everywhere. his does not dispose of the sug- gested “‘share and share alike” compensa- tion for ministers. In fact, the suggestion should be carried out. In the military and naval services of the United States com- pensation is based upon length of service, very largely, rather than upon positions held or services rendered. The churches could base their pay scale along .some- what similar lines. ‘ DODGING TROUBLE Any player who earries the ball on a football gridiron will tell us that it is easier to dodge one tackler than it is to dodge two or three. The same principle Holds good in dodging trouble of any kind. But a majority of the United States Senate appears to think that this common sense idea does not apply to keeping out | of the way of freight trains. The Senate} his paned a bill limiting the length of | such trains to 70 cars, ostensibly as aj safety measure. But this would really mean more trains, and consequently more danger. To emphasize the absurdity of this proposed law, it may be noted that since 1923 the average length of trains has in- creased 16 per cent and the speed has in- creased 45 per cent, yet the frequency of aceidents has decreased 61 per cent during the same period. Enactment of this bill into law would increase danger, increase the cost of oper- ating the railroads, and inevitably lead to higher freight rates, The bill is indefen- sible on any grounds, and it should be} killed when it comes before the House. SOME PEDESTRIANS KILL THEMSELVES Forty out of every hundred persons killed in this country, every day, in motor vehicle accidents are pedestrians and, ac- cording to a survey in five States, report- ed by the National Safety Council, in more than half the cases the pedestrian “chargeable principally” with being re- sponsible for the fatality. : Pedestrian deaths have been cut seven per cent in urban districts since 1930 but in rural districts the death rate for foot- | users of the highways has gone up 64 per | cent. | Other interesting facts brought are that 60 per cent of all highway ac dent deaths occur at night although on a 30 per cent of the traffic is at night. Part- ly explaining this is the fact that more. people fall asleep at the wheel while driv-| ing at night and four times as many peo-! ple drink intoxicating liquor before driv-| ing at night, as compared with the day-' time. is a THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE MODERN = LF” YERSELVES wo covs! acto THIS hoe FROM | Wy OY CYAN \ "LIBERAL" KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files A new all-time record for quick. train trips between New York and| Key West was established this’ morning when the first of two’ special trains, bearing some 250} members of the Passenger Traffi Officers Association of the Uni j ed States and Canada reached the) city. This train, which carried passenger officials from all _ over. the United States, left New York Friday afternoon, reached Jack- sonville yesterdav .afternoon in 22 hours and 25 minutes, which is almost two hours less than the regular running time. The trav- elers were from the eastern sec- tion of the stetes. The second special with passengers from the western section of the states was made up in Jacksonville and.fol- lowed the first at a short interval. Arrivals on both trains sailed on| S. S. Cuba this morning for Ha- vana where they will remain un- til Friday when they will return: here and in the afternoon be tak-; en on a motoreede through the city and over a portion of the Overseas Highway. There are no indications at the present time of a storm reaching Key West. The tropical disturbance reported as haying passed over the Windward Is- Iands, 11° o'clock last night, was in the vicinity this morning of the Mona Passage, betweeh Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo, and is of slight intensity, . the local weather bureau reports to-} day. The advisory reports that) pressure continues low over cen- tral Cuba. Having made three trips be-! tween Key West and Havana yes- terday, the mail plane, General Machado, left this .morning for! Havana- The plane did not re-; turn to this city last night as in-} tended, because of the impossi- bility of securing certain neces- sary papers in Havana and until these were secured this morning, the plane could not return. The. Monvoes Baseball Olub,! strengthened by the addition of Head and Gordon, yesterday aft- ernoon defeated the Regulars by a score of 8 to 4. Head pitched perfect ball for the first five in- nings and not one runner reach- ed first base. He struck out eight batters in those frames, i orial comment: Key West, f prodd in the Navy Of The Citizen f Day observance, which is as_ it should have keen. The city owes much to the navy as an Organiza- tion and to its personnel here. There were three marriage _li- enses issued during the week ending today from thé office of County Judge Hugh Gunn. These issues authorized the “marriages of: Mack Demeritt to Marie Ben- nett; Louis G. de Aguero to Geor- giana Rosendo;. Mario, Ruiz to Ana Mariscal, A masquerade parade, will tra- verse the main streets. of Key West this evening, starting at 7 o'clock. It will be participated in by members of Union dée.la Cara- bina and Juventeed Latina So- cieties- . ft In an automotile collision on the boulevatd ‘last (évening, Fred- dy Jensen’s Ford Sedam was to- tally wrecked and a car driven ley, by George Brice was badly dam- aged. No one was hurt. The scene of the accident was strewn with glass and Ford fragments. The minstrel show atthe San Carlos next Thursday “iight is to be put on by the Catholic Daugh- ters and promises to be one of the best of its kind ‘put on by local talent in a long time. Today’s Birthdays Gertrude Atherton of San Fran- cisco, novelist, born there, 80 years ago. Lynn P. Talley of the Recon- struction Finance Corporation, born at Belton, Tex., 56 years Calvin H- Goddard of Washing- ‘ton, D. C., criminologist, born ip Baltimore, 46 years ago. Dr. Arthur L. Day of the Car- negie Institution of Washington, hysicist, born af Brobkfield, Mass., 68. years ago. Fanny Heaslip Lea, playwright and author, born in New Orleans, 53 years ago. Zoe Aking of Pasadena, Cal. author, born at Humansville, Mo.. 51 years ago- Save a little of thy income, and thy hide-bound pocket will soon begin to thrive and thou wilt never ery again with an empty stomach; neither will creditors insult thee, nor want oppress, nor hunger bite, nor will nak: whole hemisphere will edness freeze thee. .-The shine brighter, and pleasure spring up in every corner of thy heart. —Benjamin Franklin. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve Member of the F. D. I. C. Yesterday’s Precipitation Normal Precipitation .... -0 Ins. | -1L Ins.| Sea level, 20.03, WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m. Sunday) Key West and Vicinity: Fair and slightly warmer tonight; Sun- day partly clordy; gentle to mod-! erate variable winds. | Florida: Generally fair, slightly | warmer, tonight; Sunday partly cloudy. | , Jacksonville to Florida Straits) and East Gulf: Gentle to moder-/| ate variable winds and fair weather tonight and Sunday. WEATHER CONDITIONS A low pressure area of consid- erable intensity is central this morning over extreme eastern Canada and overspreads the coun- try from the eastern Lake region eastward over the North and Middie \tlantic States, and pres- sure ig relatively low over the far West; while a weak high! pressure area covers southeastern districts and a strong high pres-+ sure area is moving in over the northern \Plains States- j The oniy precipitation during! the last 24 hours has been light) rain on portions of the north Pa- cific coast, and in New England, and light rain or snow in Ontario; and extreme northern Michigan. | Temperatures have risen over eastern and southern sections,} but are still below normal in the South Atlantic States, and have; fallen in the northern Rocky! ‘Mountain and Plains States, and extreme upper Mississippi Val-' t i Record-breaking maximum tem-! peratures were reported yester- day in portions of the lower Mis-| souri Valley and northern Texas.’ G. 8; KENNEDY, Official in Charge | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1937, Sample Ballots Now for Sale By The Artman Press © Get the jump on the higher food prices of fall and winter, Choose your General Electric now and you will save many an extra dollar in your food budget every month, Save Three Ways! ator is the bi afford one for you will save three ways—on price, on current and on upkeep. 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