The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 23, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen ily Except Sunday By PUBLISHING CO., INC. , Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. Entered at Key Wes Florida, as second class matter FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Menither of the Associated Presa the Assetidted Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all néws dispatches credited. to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also tHe Iheal news’ published here.’ vhe Year’ . Bix Moriths . Three Months Ine Month Weekly ~ ADVERTISING HATES Madé known’ on application. ae SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of obituary notices, ete., will be charged for at of 10 cents a line. . # for entertainments by churches from which » revenue is to be derived are & cents @ line. The Citizen ts an open forum, and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- eations, \ America and Britain may send the Japanese a note to end notes. resper IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ABVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and’ Sewerage. Bridges to’ complete Road to Main- land. Free Port. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Anports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of Couftty and City Governments, Business not only needs a breathing spell, but an iron lung as well. A free’ press is perhaps free nation- ally, but hogtied locally most of the time. Correct this sentence: “She’s an old- fashioned gil and’ the boys just rush her to death.” The laboring man is quite right when hé deélarés that sit-down strikes are “fun- damental.” If you want the winter to seem short, just negotiate a sizable note due in the éarly spring. Age does not necessarily bring . wis- dom—witness the old saying, “No fool like an old fool.” Russia prevented election frauds by allowing voters to cast ballots for only the government's candidates. We read that a cure for pellagra has been discovered at the University of Wis consin, Probably Wisconsin cheese. If tWe fa@ for features, comics and stories grows much more, some _ news- papers will Rave to hunt another name. There are some people in the world who believe that hot air is the real motive powér iw the growth of a community and that the so-called “glad spirit” will build up cities, A new broom sweeps cléan, said a Key Wester when he heard of. the reforms | proposéd by the new city council. Past; countifmen have stated that their efforts to improve coriditions in this city did not meet } with the coopération of the citizenry and} hence féll flat. It is apparent to all that | somé fanddmental changes have to be! made before the city can emerge from the | morassin which it finds itself entancled. A} consolidation of the ‘cotinty and city govern-} ments so long advocated by The Citizen an it endorsed by some of the foremost citizens | of this community, would be the solution | 5 to this most perplexing problem, but the} poHticians in the past have always beer | suécéssful in intervepting this ‘forv } pe completely nullifying all efforts i direction. Senator Gomez was alf s°t in fhe Test legisfatare to have the much! needed reform legalized, but he rece®y> 1] no encouragement 3 an’ from any s thréw wp the sponge. iree j munition in a SOME WAR COST: FFEMS Costs of the World War have been variously estimated, some placing the totai material loss to the nations involved as high as 500 billion dollars. In any. event the amount is beyond the comprehension of the human mind. : Any war of world-wide scope in fu- ture would cost even more, and could easily wréck what is left of our boasted civiliza- tioft.“80me sample items of expense con- nected with modern military operations have béen figured as follows: Small arms ammunition of all kinds costson an’ average of about 50 cents per pound, but, large shells and bombs come several times that high. Shrapnel and other shells for heavy field guns cost $10 or more per pound, according to an article in the National Tribune, in which it is estimated that an army of 150,000, with 300 field guns in addition to rifles and machine guns, could shoot away $2,000,000 worth of am- single day of continuous heavy action. Great Britain’s present five-year re- armament program will cost seven and a half billion dollars, or about as much as that country spent during the four years of the World’ War. Most other nations, im: cluding the’United States, are spendin vast sums in preparation for war, and what all this may lead to’ is sickening to think about. WHY PAY TAXES? Philip Guedalla, noted English author, speaking recently in Washington expressed amazement at the attitude of Americians toward taxation and their total lack of a feeling of responsibiliy for meeting the problems the nation faces. He referréd more than once to the to- tal unawareness of the social necessity for taxation and a failure to realize that it is “simpler to pay money over to the Govern- ment in taxes than to have it taken away by a man with a gun.” He explained that the British pay uncomplainiigly | because they realize it is the only orderly solution of social problems. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citizen Newsweed reports that the Paris ex- position has been a colossal financial fizzle, costing about two billion francs and taking in only a sixth of that sum. We have no idea of how much réal money two billion francs represents, but it sounds like quite a lot. Philadelphia’s Sesqui-Centennial of ten | years ago could hardly have been as big a} flop as that, although it lost 14 million dollars. Among recent new patents granted was one for bath soap, each cake to have a hole in the center and a long cord attach- ed to be placed around the bather’s neck. Thus when the soap slips from the hand | it may be recovered by pulling in the cora, | without interrupting the singing, if any. ns Undoubtedly the world’s oldest phy- sician is Dr. William M. Guilford of Leba- non, Pa., who recently celebrated his 105th Livthday. He appears to stil going strong for on Thanksgiving he ate a turkey dinner, including two slices of mince pie, drank wine and smoked four cigars, with no ill effects. be Tony Holm, who was the All-Ameri- | fullback of Alabama's Crimson Tide in 1929, now has a berth in which his for- | ward passes are always complete. He is | in charge of one of the state Hquor stores | in Rireiingham, and just passes ‘em over | thé chiinter, | can Zier Church in Allentown, Pa., or- ganized by’ German pioneers, has just cele. brated its 175th anniversary. It was in this church thatthe Liberty Bell was hidden! yr a time in 1777, when it was removed from Philadelphia upon the approach of the British. In a recent plea for increased mem- hership, National Commander Daniel J. Noherty of the American Legion called at- tenti to the fact that only about one-/} h of the ex-service men who are eli-! gible are members in good standing. ' : [at which it will be destroyed. Li-| j we been tryin’, as new era stuff. | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE STAR OF HOPE | Normal’ Precipitation’ __ ( eae beg pe page te 24-heur perio?! of lifting the native to 4 better Sun rises Sun: sets } Moon rises ; Moon sets’ __. s eeeecccccecocscce THE WEATHER Sodays Horoscope|Today In eccocddoes 18) al 76 Sic 70 Rainfall 's Precipitation .0 Ins. .05'Ins. Tontorrow’s Almanac | ihe ay m | 45 pi m | 2:08 a. m. lpm: PM. 3:15 9:53 this I Tomorrow's Tides ¥ AM. Barometer 7:30 a. m. today: Sea’ level, 30:05. Key West and Vicinity: Partly | and Ohio Valley. j WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p.m. Friday) | cloudy tonight and Friday; pos-, sibly showers tonight; mild tem-' the North Pacifie States eastward | act perature; moderate to fresh south- over the Lake region and Ohio! erly winds ; becoming westerly ; and diminishirig Friday. z Florida: Partly Goudy fonight vails over eastern districts. .and Friday, preceded by stattered | fextréme north portion: mn suaet “APE 4hsodo, iw . fi Just Tew Years Ago Today As Taken ‘Tein’ The Files Of The Citizen een SOE ERM TI pai Claude Nola Hp Mate au¥é- | a: number‘ df invitations have been |, mobile had’ negotiated, almost #Wo jsent to important personages. thirds of the trip across)the over-; Tortugas “Badiobeacon, the only 4 this afternoon in its efforts reach Key West and be the first }car which ever accomplished the feat under its own power. At 2 of North Carolina, began to func- tion Wednesday afternoon. J. L. | Preston, government engineer in | charge of this branch of the ser- o’clock the car had reached Mara-! yice was in Key West today and |, thon having negotiated the dis-' said that the device in use at Tor- tance between that point and low- | tugas is one of the most efficient er Matecumbe. The auto and its! ever devised. It is of service only accompanying special train WwaS| to ships equipped with radio com+ being held in a sicing an! hour to} pass, await passing of the passenger) Ee ily train No. 98, which was running; The Young Giants yesterday an hour late. The car and special | defeated a picked team of good train are expected to'leave the} baseball players to the tune of 5: siding as soon as the regular train, to 0. The game was played at passed Big Pine Key, which was; Coast Guard field and attracted a scheduled for 3 o’clock. Between | large crowd of fans. lower Matecumbe and Marathon | the car had traveled 32 rhiles all! Judgé G. Downe:Patterson, who} of the way on the railroad tracks! has been critically ill for the past and ties of the trestles. | few days, is. reported’ to have tak- wae {en a turn for the worse, and his Four large quantities of smug-! condition is considered as grave. gled intoxicants, valuedadit more than $4,000, were received last! A Christmas tree will be givén’ night by Deputy U. S. _Marshal/ at the Marine i tomorrow Lyalle D. Van Valkenbergh from |eveniing commencing, at 6 o'clock. |} U. S. custom service men who' when each of the 34 patients in made the capture. Some of the the institution will be given pre- liquor has been in the -Custom' sents, from; Old Santa. The tree House vaults for several years and presents were donated by | and some of it was takeri as late the hospital personnel and num- as last spring. If the transfer. is; bers of presents’; were received completed at 4 o’clock “this after-| from local organizations. noon, the marshal will set a time! Burning grass ignited some pil- quor is still classed as merchan-, ing stacked along the F. E. C. Pier dise and any quantity valued at) this morning and damaged the at $1000 or more, must be destroy-; material to the effect. of about éd' by court order. / $100. The timber had been creo- pase > | soted, causing the’ fire to create On to Jacksonville, This has be-| gréat clouds of black smoke, come the géneral cry over the} though the blaze was slight and State of Florida and more than) quickly extinguished. 100 representative citizens of Key ; —_——_— West, state and county officials of; Editorial coment: King Boris of other cities, are expected to be on; Bulgaria is the only bachélor rui- board the two ferries for the high- | er of marriageable age in Europe, way when they start on their! also the only one who never journey to Key West next Tues-|drank intoxicants. But if he day. Invitations havebegn wired; should take a few shots of Am- to practically eweryoo@oynty pnd) erican hootgh, he would commit city official alow thenagate, and| bigamy. Coddccoconudd seme THE LOWDOWN | —*'Today’s FROM HICKORY GROVE, Anniversaries [OC COe CC Or rec EdOstTh66OEe If a feller @ little time on} ‘ F his hands, it don’t do him any, 1732—Richard Arkwright, Eng- soegeds COPededecodeores ends 6 ead o hale jlish inventor of the cotton-spin- 9 read’ a nail a page oF $0’ ning frame, born. Died Aug. 3, of history. |. 1792. And when you rea | ey) you read about whet! 1785—Christian Gobrecht, Phil- your great grandpa was doin’, you! adelphia’s self-taught die-sinker will get over the idea that we are’ and engraver of the mint, born at so ultra advanced and such hot} Hanover, Pa. Died July 23, 1844. hombres. And some of the things | ARES 1805—Joseph Smith, founder of it was a fizzle, 100 years ago. ‘the Mormon Church, born at And there was Napoleon and; Sharon, Vt. Killed by mob, at Caesar—they were invincible for Carthage, Ill, June 27, 1844. quite a spell. And then there was! tli the Kaiser, and Coxey’s army.| 1819—William Kingsford, Can- and the Populists, and Carrie Na-| adian historian, born in London. tion, and others, risin’ up to scare! Died in Toronto, Sept. 28, 1898. us 6r reform us. And when the | shoutin’ was over, it was just! 1853—William H. Moody, Con- some Kinda smart-like person’s| gressman, cabinet officer, U. i lea and plan, so he could live) Supreme Court. justice, bern at easy himself, of maybe get elect-| Newbury, Mass.. Died at Faver- ed, or retire in loxury. till, Mass., July 2, 1917. And history, it repeats—is an! pry old saying. And we will wake up| 1860—Harriet Monroe, Chicago again, and our gold watch will be} poetess, founder-editor of a poe- gone and the fax collector will be! try magazine, born in Chicago. bangin’ on the front door, and he! Died Sept. 26, 1936. won't have such beautiful and} es flowery news as we been kinda| 1867—Sarah B. Walker (Madam in the habit of listenin’ to. iC. J. Walker), Ni founder of Yours, with the low down, ba great business, at Dalta, JO SERRA. | La. Died at Irving N. Y., May rasecneernts even Sor 25, 1919. a Double and triple strands of} —_——— pearls still are among the smart-; Before approximately 456 A.D. est accents for a dark afternoon! Japanese history is mostly legend frock or pare myth, ” tolof Diamond Shoals, off the coast}; ~-—~| showers in ceritral’ portion and! néar northeast coast tonight:/ slightly cooler in northwest and - Jacksonville fé Florida’ Straits:! Moderate té fresh south and "States eastward over most of the THUSSDAY, DECELIBIR 2 3, 1937.9 eevecer | istory eceerdse edee 1777—Washington. at Valley | Forge for the winter found 3,000 men unfit for duty, “owing to their being barefooted and other- wise naked—whole army 11,000. evccvecerrocesecosasesss ee ors doddcdde The new sign of today bestows a gift of versatility. In the better educated this shows in diplomacy, and a strong degree of adaptabil- ity to conditions. In the less trained, it shows.in an ability to 26, turn the hand to varie employ-| Chosen to go to France for loan; ments which may be the means | Torey rte sie of wiiat he 1780—Col. John Laurens, 1814—Cleveland, Ohio, ineor- porated a village—had 34 houses and ‘places of busimess includin; the East Gulf States, and Plateau} se; store. : region. ae L % af Siediieigpeasohe Se fal 1817—Internal revenue taxes most northern districts except the; - seated by Congress—no initern- basi? a bE in dur-|2! Tevenue taxes in country till There has also been rain dur-} 7, ing the last 2¢ hours in Califor. 1 Wer. nia, and from the West Gulf! 1999 citadel at Antwerp, Bel- ium, held by garrison, South Atlantic States, and rain or | SU" 3° oe snow in the Appalachian region’ prreyoeres, paneer ast degree of comfort than he was raised in, Temperatures have fallen from! 1913 Federal Reserve Act en- Valley, and in the West Gulf! States; while uid weather pre-|_.1°2),—, Presmential. Ch | pardon granted Eugene Debs, Se- i cialist advocate, in prison since | 1918 on Espionage charge. Subscribe to The Citizen. G, S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. STAR >* BRAND; southwest winds, becoming west-} cu BA N COF F E E | erly over éxt¥erie north portion: partly overéast tonight and Fri- day, s¢atteréd showers over north! Piast Galt: Mode teal . rate to: fresh) séa railway bridges at 2 o'clock, navigation guide of its kind south southerly fo westerly winds to- night, diniitishing and becoming | variablé Friday; partly overcast; Weather tonight and Friday, scat- tered showers over riorth portion | Pressure Pearly tonight. } is moderately high this morning from the Lake re-- gion southéastward off the south ' | Atlantic coast, over the lower Rio, Grande Valley, and western Can- } ‘ada; while low pressure areas are} Peenteréd over the far Northeast, | LA CONCHA HOTEL} In the Center of the Busi Garage N EM. , Ls MAP EE BEAT EAT ; CLPLODIIOD EE, we ness and Theater District EXCELLENT RESTAURANT Elevator || FOLDING BEACH CHAIRS ATTRACTIVELY COLORED CANVASS ON STURDILY BUILT Is Deliciously Fresh! | TRY IF TODAY— Ow Sute AY Alf Groters | [home 138 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 créditors' insult thee, nor want oppress, nor hunger bite, nor will nakedness freeze thee. 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