The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 27, 1937, Page 2

ise TWO Ge Key West Citizen’ Published Daily Except Sunday By he CITIZEN PUBLISHANG CO. INC. L. PB. ARTMAN, President SOE ALLEN, Axsistant Rexiness Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann. Streets GUARD THE CHILD’S EYES Many persons become blind, or go through fe with impaired vision because of neglect to the most ordinary precautions, according to a leading oculist, who gives some good advice in a recent article. He declares that the putting of a drop or two of silver solution into the eyes of an infant at birth is a most important mat- ters, as five or six different kinds of germs may cause partial or complete blindness are liable to gain access to the infant’s eyes at that time. It is also important to keep sharp or pointed instruments, such as scissors, pen- cils and dangerously sharped toys, away from very young children, and any foreign body which happens to get into the eyes should be given immediate attention. No inflammation of the eyes, however slight, should ever be neglected. With respect to cross-eyes, Dr. Steel- smith advises that steps be taken to correct this condition very early, and he declares that a child no more than a year old may be taught to wear glasses for straighten- ing the squint, which will in most cases ef- fect a permanent correction. He warns against the use of ten-cent store glasses or any glasses not prescribed after expert ex- | amination of the eyes. ‘ Reading in a poor light or in a bad position, strains the eyes ‘unduly, while } glare is also harmful and should be avoid- ed as much as possible: Considering what..a handicap poor | eyesight places’ on the individual, it is | really strange that the’ simple precautions recommendel by health authorities are so | frequently neglected. Only Dally Newspaper in Key West and Monroe __County. fnterca at Key West, Florida, as second class matter FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR “Menther ef the Associated Press fhe Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or pot otherwise credited in this paper and also the focal news published here. Une Year bix Month Three Months h ADVERTISING RATES Made known o on Spplical coal All reading notices, cards of thank, reaslutions of feapect, 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- eations. ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. Free Port. Hotels and Apartments, Bathing Pavilion. arports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. HOPING FOR THE BEST IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ! j ae There are growing indications that Instead of disgusting voice inflection, the federal government may call a truce in Mae West might try a devout genuflection. | it, war on the private utility industry. The fact that the electric utilities, if given rea- sonable assurance that they will not be sad- died further with confiscatory taxes, puni- tive regulations or driven out ‘of business by governmet competition, could be a tre- - : mendous influence in curbing the recession, President Roosevelt’s housing program | seems to have finally permeated the hall: should have the hearty approval of every. | of Congress. However, to date there has one in Key West, where 5,000 homes can} teen no concrete action, in spite of the new be profitably built to house the influx of visitors that will flood our shores. One of the beneficiaries of the Murphy Act, grateful for having his taxes forgiven, suggests that the bill be referred to as the’ Merey Act. } decade of merciless political attack it wil! take more than a few words of half-heart- ed conciliation te snap the utility industry out of ‘the doldrums. As has been pointed out, if the truce is genuine, the first form that congression- al action should take is the stoppage of ed to the outlying districts, like the houses further competition by government with its of prostitution. citizens. Second, it should compel true ac- on counting of existing public power opera- "Wanted—-An invention that will pro-j tions. Third, it should stop promoting and duce distilled water cheaper than it can be| Swbsidizing public ownership and opera- hauled from the mainland to this istand city | tion. Besides a nifty down payment, the invest- Billions of dollars of utility construc- tor may retain as his very own alll the gold,’ ‘tion and expansion, and thousands of jobs salt and other chemical ingredients obtain-| are awaiting such action. ‘Will it be tak- able from his process, en? Is the truce genuine—and perma- nent One wonders—and hepes for the best, An aggravating condition in Key West] is that some of the gambling joints are situated on the main thoroughfares of the} city, If gambling is to -be permitted by the authorities in this city, it should be confin- Judge: Dewell will no more decline to sit further in the Tampa flogging case, } than did Justice Black decline to accept a seat on the Supreme Court bench, although in all common decency they should have done so, when there was such an outcry against their appointments. Ambng the new things‘tinder the sun lately coming to public attention is “fiber- glas,” which as its name implies is fiber made from glass, and it is now beginning to be used in the manufacture of cloth on a commercial seale. Some five years ago, research experi- menters working with blow torches and powdered glass almost accidentally pro- duced some small strands which were found to have great strength. Continuing their investigations and experiments, a pro- cess of weaving these strands or threads ‘into various fabnics was developed. To produce fiberglas, the molten glass is drawn from a furnace through many tiny openings, in strands as small as one-ten thousandths of an inch in diameter, and Although surrounded by ‘water, the moat serious problem that is now confront-! ing Key West is water. A water commission was created by ‘the last Florida legislature and the governor has named the members te serve, but nothing has been done by the commission insofar as anything can be as- certained. -Press dispatches have stated ‘that Governor Cone has ordered all the sheriffs’ of the east coast of Florida, where gamb- ling is paramount, to have all forms ot] gambling stopped, but there was ne men- tien of Monroe County, Does the ecg twisted into threads, which in turn are think this county is beyond redemption, or] woven on textile Jooms imto a shiny, pliable Gees he think Key West deserves its fate? | fabric. This fabric has great strength and has the added advantage of being fireproof. Everything looks promising, they say, for the opening of the Overseas Highway te Key West on March 15. There should be a lot of advertising given that road. It will be something for motorists to cross the continent to see, and they can’t get to it witheut traveling threagh Forida and see-] ing places where they want to linger—San ford Herald. | the manufacture of fibergias cloth, gloves, and neckties. It is believed that before long ies, wallpaper, rugs, and even clothing. Of all the many new uses fer glase products which have been developed in re- cent years this appears to be one of the most remarkable. attitude of compassion. And after half a| A new factery in Ohio recently began’ we may have fiberglas tablecloths, draper-|y You and Your Nation’s Affairs: Passing the Buck~ By J. E. LeROSSIGNOL Dean, College of Business University of Nebraska “Here is a poser for you, , Sandie,” Said Proiessor MacAndrew ‘Cantlie, | blowing smoke-rings in the air while! his clever terrier gave closé, heed. to’ his ‘words 50f wages and shorter hours, expecting, ‘with the help of fidations to chiftie | increasing .costs and prices to ithe shoulders of the ultimate consumer. @ | pleasant pastime, ‘buck, provided ‘that all the p coneerned ate able and willing eg ge ‘Tt now appears that ‘millions of those ultimate consumers have notihad their incomes — increased and, consequently, cannot | and will not stand for be greet ada | present.condi- tions but telling us what they are likely to be ‘Wherefore, more or ‘less gently ani in the near ¢u-} tri hey acs the buck back tthe | cloudy tonight and Tuesday; not ture? Answer me that, Sandie, and I will dub forecasting. “Whether or no, I dare to aver that the recent subsidence in stocks reflects a certain vague, elusive depression in. the spirits of present and prospective 4 ‘] ‘stand investors based, I will guess, upon ae and gc forward by its own. tardy recognition of the relative fail- ure of lavish expenditure and fear of ‘what may happen when the flow of } Fut tan early | etsy natant ime ware |= A diminished. _,; bi indicating ‘some “As you know, Sandie, the pumping] present maladjustment and more or of so much money into circulation, | less danger ahead which, let us hope, together with the natural process of] our wise navigators will be able to recovery from the trough of ‘the de- pression, the raising of wage rates, and profuse promises of coming pros- perity, has created a considerable de- mand for goods and services and a buoyant hope of more to follow. At| plan to get us out of it aga first business people, by and large,| how soon. There's another poser for welcomed such expenditure and| you, Sandie McGraw.” (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper} DAYS GONE BY\rormemermensrone Seeeccesenecoseose ’ | Gen. Peyton C. March, U. S. re Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Teday As Taken From |retired, wartime chief of staff, | | born at Easton, Pa,, 73 years ago, The Files Of The Citizen =| pina { | President Austin, of the local chamber of commerce, will leave! this evening for Washington to| Louis Bromfield, noted author,/*% enter the fight to have the New) born at Mansfield, Ohio, 41 years London, Connecticut, submarine | ago. base transferred to Key West. In Washington he will be met by! Dr. Samuel; M. Shoemaker of Malcolm Meacham, who has a New York, P. E. clergyman, born number of close personal friends | in Baltimore,»44 years ago. in the capitol. Together they will) look over the situation there, de-| Brig. Gen, Edward L. Munson cide on a course of action and! of thé Univ: of California Medical’ advise Key West what appears to gohool, retired army medical. of- be the best method of procedure. | ficer, born at New Haven, Conn., Mr. Austin goes armed with a @9 years ago. great deal of data, showing this/ port’s superiority over New Lon-| don, as a submarine base. Mean- while several telegrams have} gone forward to Senator Tram-)} mell, who is a member of the| senate naval committee, Senator Fletcher and Congressman Sears. | might. would tell me whether our soomntaes z rianners have foreseen or a ABO this little depression and whether tay i Marlene Dietrich, screen star, born in Germany, 33 years ago. Cyrus S. Eaton of Cleveland, ‘banker, born in Nova Scotia, 54 l years ago. an old friend of Key West, and is | arriving ahead of the opening of Railroad facilitiés built the fu-/ the house. ture of Palm Beach and Miami, also St. Petersburg, and the op-| Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mitchell, portunity for auto travel will do, of No. 2 Pohalski street, announce the same for Key West, G. D.' Jones, of Miami, conductor of evening. Mother and child are Jones tours from Miami to Ha-| doing nicely. vana and other points, says. When; people first eome to Florida, -said | Mr. Jones, they came as far as Palm Beach ‘and no further be- cause the railroad ended there. | licenses issued from the office of County Judge Hugh jeter during the week ending) and then began to build the town.! “Now we see conditions changing | | Atwell and Olive Fine. and more and more people travel by automobile. They will do with their cars what they formerly did by railroad train. And because they do not wish to at once re- turn, they will stop a while, and many of them will begin to build,” concluded Mr. Jones. § The\Governor Cobb sailed- The formal opening ball at La Casa Marina will take place fds] sake entertsinal’ Femi evtaoeel year on Wednesday evening, the! in honor of Mr. Malone's birth- fourth of January. A cordial in-| vitation is extended to the peo- | ple of Key West to participate as‘ has been the usual custom. The; covert charge will be $5 a per- | son. Phone L. P. Schutt, manager, | for your table reservations. The Young Sluggers defeated | the Carabina team in the two} games of baseball in as manyj days. The game Saturday was 3/ and 2, and the game yesterday) was 7 to 0. Tragedy marred the closing! hours of Christmas Day. when, Charles Saunders, 51, walked into. a deathtrap on*-Sugarioaf am and a shot ee his thight anal aS | po He died beforé reaching the ci Editorial comment: If Santa Claus was not as geod te you as ‘ub (CSUIDTISIIDIAI TESS ment if he was not as good 40 you as you deserve. Hf ‘The first guest of the season at the Casa Marina was W. E. Atkins, former vice-presi- dent of the Western Unien Tele. (Till 7:30 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly } right t’ his head. Sg ay ages change in. temperature; pose the was tryin’ ¢ stand ans aod c-{moderats camel wine Be soa | Florida: ee ey ane ba tie and Tuesday, somewhat unsettl Jacksonville to Florida Straits| steam. Is.itiany wonder, then, ‘that the | 20d East Gulf: Moderate easterly | stock market has had an attack of the | winds and (partly overcast weath- | ight and Tuesday. ee SPECIAL LOT OF PLASTER WALL BOARD, SLIGHTLY DAMAGED—CUSTOMER CAN MAKE Nh | 1811—Memorial _ presented | Yesterday’s Precipitation T. ‘Normal Precipitation —. .03 perfected an sileatanie Monee ar | it might be sed thet success went 4d ene where some etiicten | Slipped an’ sprained a wrist. sup- | 1934—Locomotive hauling | Tecord. | work train in West Virginia (20 00D0e CoC eRe SOBSRee Though austere, even rigid, in| his own life, the native of today | ‘will show much sympathy for oth- | ers and have compassion far their | ) weaknesses. This will not always be appreciated, for a hand stretch-_ 23) above Ferg amieten ig ower ain ingratitude; therefore be care- On 1 in the selection of friends. 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