The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 29, 1937, Page 2

nd RAGE TWO _ Two Sle Koy 2 Wiest Host Citizen hed Daily | Hxcent, Sunday Bi ee EN PUBLISHERS ‘CO., INC, Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West see Monroe z= Cousity. Onitered at Key. 3 West, 1 Florida, second class matter “PIPTY-st xXTH YEAR “Member Of the Associated Press fhe Amnociated Press is exclusively entitled to use #* ‘tor 'vepubtieation of! x news dispatches credited to See it or not otherwise (edited in: this paper and also oo the local news froblished hers: Se ee — ~ ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. ~ SPECIAL , NOTICE Ail reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of fespect, obituary notices, etc, will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line, Notices for entertainments by churches from which werevenue 1s to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- a, of public issues and subjects of local or general terest but it will not publish anonymous communi- ROVEMENTS FOR KEY) WEST ADVOCATED ‘BY THE CITIZEN pe eg Water and Sewerage, Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. Free Port. Hotels and Apartments, Bathing Pavilion. Atrports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City ‘Govertiments. Tt is easier to form a bad habit than a 00d ofie. * There can be no romance without a “man” in it. Tt ig called recession now; depression . is a harsher word, but means the same 3 thing. Printers’ “pi” is even more indigésti- ble that the first efforts of a young house- Wife im torcbcting the famous American The biggest job for the people of Key “West during 1938 is the upbuilding of this “eity. If our citizens fall down on the job, ‘thére is no One else to do it. After the Murphy Act is off the * Boards, the publisher of The Citizen is go- “ing to tetire. Those on the old car are badly worn afd need replacement. In any name chosen for the soon-to-be- completéd highway to this island city, the . name of Key West, the terminus, must be included. There IS something: in a name. oes oom the Puritan's point Of view, the en place for lovers to’ kissis on hotse- ick, Says Walter Winchell. Possibly, it bdth*dteriding the sate horsé, we venture to add. The five-week, $325,000 speciai ses- . sion of Congress-did very little. There was value to the nation, however, in the demon- stration of a new independence, which will undoubtedly assert itself in a concrete manner in the coming regular. session. Inquiries are coming daily into The Citizen office desiring to know when the upper stretch of the highway will be > thrown open to the public. Nothing defi- nite Can be stated: at the present time, but it is. possible that a faverable announce- _ ment Soon will be forthcoming. ‘There wild bealways years of pros- m as exempli Biblica},seven fat and Sever T king, and it matters not who rules as {ty time, or What political party is in pow- er. After the Coolidge prosperity came the Hoover .epressien, followed by tho Roosevelt prosperity, and now we are en- “ttfing the Roosevelt recession which is . Pressing onward toward the darker clouds Sof R Major depression that tay erdere : Tittle longer because of the extravagance of | the presert administration. Pet then coo’ times must follow, as the nicht the day, an | happy Gays will be here again. THE PASSING VETERANS So rapidly are the veterans of the Civil War passing from the earthly scene that | the number of survivors on any given date ! | is difficult to determin: with accuracy. ly report of the state auditor of Alabama concernitig ‘Confederate pensioners, of whom only 126 remained in the state. Three morths earlier the number had THE KEY- WEST CITIZEY '[1-MINUTE SAFETY TALKS | THE By Don Herold This is illustrated by the last quarter- | entire ; been 141, the death in the meantime being | Next April it will be 76 years since | the struggle of the Sixties began, and 72; years since its end, therefore few veterans | of either side are under 90 years of age. |! While the Union armies consisted of more | than 2,000,000 men, the Confederates num- bered not more than 900,000, according to the best estimates. It is believed that all honorably states of the South. HE WORRIED ABOUT MONEY Human beings, it seems, ready to hunt something: to..worry. about. If there are no woes, we. invent:them, be- cause we simply, mast hayé something to fret over. ids Take the question of money. Most of us worry \about not being able to get a reasonable amount of it in. our possession. We cannot imagine an individual with millions worrying about the cash. However, in California a week or so ago, a man, who had been left around $3,- 000,000 by his mother was worried be- cause he had not been given “free rein’ in its spending. Without full control of his legacy life was not worth living and snuffed out his life in the family garage, sitting quietly in his automobile until the deadly carbon monoxide gas ended his trouble. wins) GOVERNOR CONE CAN BUT WON'T \ «Tampa. Tribune) Although specific authority for reassigning judges was pointed out to Governor Cone in the petition of a Tampa delegation asking him to naire a Substitute for Judge Dewell in the Shoe maker flogging cases, he again last night stub bornly ignored this fact and repeated his refusal to intervene, saying “I haven’t the power to do anything about a judge.” Tlie authority in question is Section 4836 of the General Laws of Florida. It reads as follows “Whenever it shall appear to the Gover- nor of this State that any judge of a Circuit Court is absént from his Circuit and cannot hold the Courts of the same, or is disqualified, in atly cause pending in said Court, or for any cause cannot properly hear, try and deter- mine the same, the Governor may require an “exchange of Circuits or of Courts in any of the Courities of the Circuit between. such’ judge and any other judge of a Circuit Court, or may appoint and astign any Gthet of | the judges of the Circuit ‘Cotitt 'to hold Yegular or special terms of the“Couft ‘in $tth Circuit at!) such time or times ‘as’ the Gévernot may direct.” : Could anything be plainer than this statute? It gives a Governor of Florida absolute discretion to shift judges about under exactly such circum stances ‘as have arisen in the present case. Tt is a Common practice in our courts that Where thé question of prejudice has been raised, the mere allegation of such bias has been suffi- cient to cause the sitting judge to remove himself and the Governor then is required another judge to take his place in the to name trial of that particular issue. Direct and serious charges of prejudice have been made against Judge Dewell by State At torney Parrior, who represented the State by ap pointment of the Govertior, and by representative citizens of both Hillsborough and Polk Counties. Normally this should be enough for Judge Dewell himself to decline to sit further in the cas But faiting this, Governor Cone could simply send him to another jurisdiction under the statute cited above and bring in , whose atttitti@e there could be no foregone chisions. It would not be necessary formally te disqualify Judge Dewell. But the Governor for some strange and un accountable feason refuses to see the facts as they are. very another judge about eon- While he now professes “sympathy” for the aims of the petitioning citizens, he won't make & move to carry that sympathy into reality. It’s » bad--bad for the Governor and bad for fair name of Florida justice. dis- | charged survivors of both armies are now | ; on peusion rolls, and pensions for Confed- | erate veterans being paid by the several | are... ever | he} ve can read that 36,800 people rave been killed by an earthquake in Japan, and it doesn’t make as much of an impression on us as mashing our own Pegi mage door. We read that 36,800 people were |, and. 967,840 injured (4 auto- mobile accidents last year, and. it isn’t so very impressive or depressive, because they are fairly well scattered: and remote. Just a lot of people we don't caré about. There is nothing much in such figures to stir us emotionally to. fear ution or to a resolution to drive xcveding care, ourselves. Nattire; darn her, blesses ‘atid curses ‘eus with a°feeting that WE are going to be exe Tt takes an unusu- ally intelligent man to read statistics ’m just as liable to trouble as one of these 967,840, I'd_ better watch out, or I'll be a statistic, my- -If, some da: 1 mes to make yo read these aut you cringe. I mean ‘@ litele when you bile accident figures, Don’t Be A Statistic issued by The Travelers Insurance High ‘Low Barometer 7:30 a. m. today: Sea level, 30.18. WEATHER FORECAST That's‘ about as far as the navy can go Without risking a war. But before the fleet works out its games, there’s that interna- tional etiquette book. The bomb ‘that hit the Panay also cracked open the rules at page.one, and it’s the state department's explore every last rule within the covers. Silk hats, striped pants and kid gloves go marching through em- bassies, state departments, for- eign offices, claims departments and even up to the door of the White House in Washington and the emperor’s palate in Japan. All this bowing and scraping.is the serious ritual,,,man has put between himself and-war. It's the buffer he has devised: sto ward off a veturn to ithe :law of the jungle. tm ‘Nations Like Bersons The ritual would bé meaning- (Continued on Page Four) Company. I mean to make subject yourself Roe soemeg to the painful 8 ining one of oon ee or Soret aie your chi vies Pa arr gh of — or one host bles wad human units was a precious bit of life to someone. What a major national calamity our aiit toll is when weconsider it in this li esis Why try to get home: #: ; sooner dn Sunday night, to add 25 miles to our, why 0 76 or 60 miles anh the fun. of it, an" ebeoedecccsdvcces! srciTiish ” AMERICAN DIPLOMACY GIVENTEST Temperatures Mean (AP Feature Service Writer) national etiquette, appealing to Yesterday’s Precipitation _.0 Ins | C2" Bunboat Panay in the Far | command the respect of other na- “Thin record covers 24-hout ‘crack since the World war. ‘The’ “The ‘navy, took, the, far eastern Sun sets 5:48 P» ™. icans or damage. their property.” strength ofthe tinited States fleet Tomorrow's Tidés come what may. 1:38 ogized for a Serious military e¢r- something else again. (Till 7:30 p. m,, Thursday) nee nie diabek 4 ke tte tonight and Thursday; not much declawed: Florida: Partly _ cloudy and jo¢ the western nations, holds the _Or light showers near ‘east coast, 274 their flags is one way of dem- GAGS Ha ge tonight {33 they plan to use this meth- doing 50 or it The United that som el A oot raberties =| “a ese patty, overcast two instruments to protect. their WEDNESDAY, LECEMEER 29, basal | ee os re IN (ING P; y SetNeeS: 55S a: Lowest By MORGAN M. BEATTY One is the mythical book of inter- Normal Mean - WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—The gentlemanly instincts. The other ‘Rainfell* Japanee ‘bdémbing of the Ameri-| is a battle fleet big enough to . hea East has givén American diplom- tions with its guns. nil Peecipitation —— 04 Ins | cy the hardest nut it has had ito, ‘The Ritual =ndine nt 8 o'clock thix bo jeatch is two-fold: 1..To persuade crisis into consideration’ months Sun rises a. mh. Japan not to kill —* more'Amer-; ago When "it decided Yo" strat the Moon rises 5:23 a.'m. 2. To get a satisfactory guarantee, in the Pacific’ ret spring. | The Moon sets - ~ 4:17 p. m. that the promise will be" ‘Kept,’ fet gs = “defend” our PM. . Diplomatically, the first is easy.) 8:18 The Japanese have already apol- ror. But getting the guarantee is Two Defenses The trouble here is three-fold: Key West and Vicinity: Partly allies dni oak ho y zone of hostilities, cloudy and somewhat unsettled even though a war has not been change in temperature; méderate “9 The Ja * 5 panese néed to prove northeast and east winds. to the Chinese that Japan; and somewhat unsettled tonight and |; a ip hand in the Far East. Thursday, possibly occasional mis‘ 3. Carelessness with foreigners mild. onstrating that [ power," ‘although os Jacksonwille..to: Florida Straits: a até in ‘ep euisterly ‘winds sid | | the, Japanese have not indidated © ght el Cee ae a’ few tes Js cod ited with life hi that | ++ with lle a praca ag pha a at | or i bber, ball’ into: the-streety cree || -iweather tonight and.,,Thursday, “} Teickicat etuicy ches ataleh |jpossibly light showers ‘Thursday. | PROF OP fhe Sods Heirs When you hod these acciderit WEATHER CONDITIONS statistics, remember you are not | reading of toothpicks or matches; This morning ing pressure is itickeest normal over the entire country sseeetesdenees KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Key West’s fight for the New London submarine base is taking shape today. Requests for sup- port in the matter, are already on! the way from local folk to sena- tors and congressmen all the way from South Carolina . to. Califor- nia. Other letters to influential friends of Key West, outside of congress are in the mails asking that these persons use their influ-; ence to bear on members of either! {house with whom they are in} touch. George Allan England, widely known writer of newspa- per and magazine articles, . sent stories setting out this city’s ad- vantages over New London, to more than a dozen of the biggest newspapers in the country. The Chamber of Commerce is prepar- ing to mail to every member of both senate and congress, pertin- ent facts about the local sub base, the climate, the waters in the vi- cinity and views of the local nav- jal station and the submarine piers. Key West continues to main-| iain her place es the leading port of export of Florida. Not only that but she continues to export more goods by quite a good deal than all other Florida ports combined. Her record for October, just is- Sued by’ the customs headquar- tersy in Tampa, shows that that ménth*suw'goods worth $3;720,- 485 go.through this port to foreign j Markets, as against the same pe- rié@ Guring' the same month last year, when the figures were $3,- 958,466. With the first favorabe tide in 48 hours promised for 3 o’clock this afternoon everything was in readiriess at 1 o’clock for the de- parture of the ferries from Jack- sonville for St. Augustine, their first stop. County Commissioners Kirchheiner and Porter, Bascom Grooms and S. J. Groves arrived {this morning. The president of the Chamber of Commerce of St Augustine advises that crowds waited on the dock yesterday for the ferries to arrive. The trip to Key West will be a tedious one and it is expected to consume about 10 days. The Junior Woman's Club play- jed host’ to about 100 guests yes- |terday afternoon at a card party | | Houne of the Woman's Club on Di- | vision street. This marks the first of a series of entertainments to be {given during the season by the j}club, ani members of the junior lab are enthusiastic over the [for me of their first social event for the season. The Capitaine Diamiani, an im- mense tanker from Bordeaux, made this port this afternoon and New is consigned to the Porter Dock Co. The vessel is to take on a supply of oil. The Cuba, which has been in port since her arrival from dry- dock some time last week, will go | papers in the United States in- | which was presented in the club _ you're reading of 36,800 times a your ‘own little Bill or Mary or John with crests over the Great Lakes, Buffalo, Detroit and SIt. Ste. Ma- Anna WHO KNOWS? rie, 30:64 inches, and over the! “Great Basin, Salt Lake City, 30.48 , (See “The Answers” on Page 6) inches. Precipitation occurred during 1, How many years one may the last 24 hours in the north At-| expect to live after attaining the age of 35? | lantic States and northern Lake 2. Is the circulation of news- Save a little of thy income, and thy hide-bound pocket will soon begin to thrive and thou wilt hever cry again with an empty stomach; neither will creditors insult thee, nor want oppress, nor The and hunger bite, nor will nakedness freeze thee. whole hemisphere wili brighter, pleasure spiing up in every corner of thy heart. region, fom Texas northeastward | | to Missouri and on the north Pa-| cific Coast. Elsewhere the weather was fair. | Temperatures have not changed | materially since yesterday am ing except for colder in the region and Ohio Valley and th mal conditions continue abnorm- | j ally high in a sections, t S. KENNEDY, itd ih Sarde shine creasing? | 3. Does Japan produce oil in any quantity? 4. Is the Japanese Emperor, j Hirohito, considered divine? 5,’ ‘Which Senators were the leaders ‘in’ the recent effort to| form a coalition group? 6. From what source does tte! F néw Program committe 6 ‘the| Republican Party get its power to! In fhe Parlor: act? Teacher: “Willie, can Shia ‘teu 7. What and how many are the! me if. fish can travel long ‘dis-, —Benjamin Franklin. ‘THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Metntier of the Federal Reserve Member of thé F. D. 1. ©. i if if | “poadiess” areas in the United | tances?” States? | Willie: “Well, ours go’ around | 8. How does the corn crop of | tie globe every day.” 1937 compare with that of 1936? | 9... How. much gold has_ been) shipped from this country within | the last three months. 10. Has Japan increased its) buying in the United States as a result of its present conflict in China? cossssvewisisiDiTeTTeTTTee aa N “aaanwaite | “Yassah,” said the little colored boy, “I'ze named fo’ mah_par- ent’s. Pappy’s name was Ferdi- nand and Mammy’s name was Liza.” “And yours, then?” “Ferdiliza.” | | SPE CIALS SPECIAY LOT OF PLASTER WALL BOARD, * $15 M ee, 'SbIGHT! Y¥ DAMAGED—CUSTOMER CAN. MAKE De " :HELECTION OF PIECES a invlont pT 2 on the run to Havana tomorrow, relieving the S. S: Governor-Cobh, which. will oS es ate tion of thi ule on bait | fi ed tas Anw bison Drainage’ is’ to’ 't the streets specific of workmen employed under” supervision of City’ Engineer,’ Curry Moreno, are making prepa rations to change the drainage plans to conform to those arrang- ed by Mr. Moreno, at the inter- section of Front and Duval streets. It is expected that the new arrangements will drain Du- | val street more thoroughly and promptly after hard downpours. te Pd me FLORIDA KEYS OUTSIDE WHITE PAINT Delinquent taxes to the amount hea in, Gal. . of $1,562 was paid today on Key) A geod chebp pain, Largo property. They were paid for clients of Mrs. Harold C. Day. Mr. Day left yesterday evening i in the interests of Key property. DOMESTIC FLAT WHITE PAINT, Gal. DOMESTIC GLOSS WHITE PAINT, Gal. PASTE WHITE PAINT — Simply 244 a gallon Sf linseed oil to this paint and you Have two — Final arrangements were made | today by the society Union La Carabina for the dance which is te be given at the rooms of the Cuban Club, New Year's night. From and To Boston, New York, Miami Jacksonville, Galveston New Orleans and Beyond From Key West alternate Fridays prong aimgyrhesr enero White and Eliza Streets “Your Home Is Wortliy Of The Best”