The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 27, 1938, Page 2

and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Vest, Florida, as second class matter the Asseginted Press is exclusively entitled to use all news dispatehes credited to | ‘ wise eredited in this paper and also al news published here.‘ ” SUBSCRIPTION RATES ADVERTISING RATES f on application. SPECIAL NOTICE caras of thanks, resolutions of ices, etc, will be charged for at @ line. ertainments by churches from which | ved are 5 cents a line. nm forum and invites discus- d subjects of local or general publish anonymous communi- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. Water and Sewerage. 2. Bridges to complete Road to Main- te Gounty and City Unfortunately, man can develop a false conscience, and commit great wrong in its name. A poet in Peru was sentenced to three years in prison, And probably got off light at that. The ‘Times-Union in \ repeating the advice not to cry over spilt milk, suggests calling the cat, instead. as Finland’s illiteracy is less than 1 per cent. That should be a good place to con- .'-duet profitable newspapers. it A French educator opposes the study of mathematics by children under 10, ‘The kids would probably be willing to wait. When Nebuchadnezzar ate the-grass he didn’t appreciate the fact that he was getting the benefit of vitamins A and B. Japan has made overtures to China ; to stop the present undeclared war, but .. one of the provisions is galling to China ...for the Japs want it to pay for the cost of the invasion, illegal, unprecedented, and ~* ruthless in the first place. .The personnel of The Citizen and The | Artman Press may not contribute any- ‘thing te the gaiety of the nations, but they | ~ “do observe the injunction to increase and | i Inultiply. “;Tayo became fathers this week | ES ame m Wirchellianesque another pair | for Gengicipavings, hg tetsea évent to be re eo" : “itue?d sore = na bog axa) 57 ik spi | of Her pursuit of land . for siirplus, population, in Koréa the Jap- anese number orly half a million out of a population of move than 20 million. Both Japan and Italy made war on weaker na- Gons to subdue them as a source of taxa- | tion and not to make room for their over- population, which is only a pretense. : With considerable ceremony, a Cir- eult Judge at Sanford the other day, pass- ed sentence on the reputed local “bolita king,” sending him to Raiford to do a “Year's stretch. It was a long, hard fight to get the Sanford “bolita king” behind bars, but no doubt there are plenty of suit cards left in the Sanford pack to carry on the bolita racket. It isn’t stamped out so easily —Ocala Star. doubtedly is essential—Sanford Herald. Gov. Cone who recently jumped all ever J.B. Hedges for jumping-all over the New Deal, now jumps all over the federal government himself for interfering in state affairs. And a few weeks ago, the Governor said he would call out the Na- oi Guard if necessary to rid Dade county of gambling, but now says it's strictly a local matter for the local peopl themselves to decide, and the pla i running wide open. Say what is th are we nuts —Sanford Herald, Eternal vigilance un- | NEW RULES OF WAR The people in Key West want peace and the editor of this newspaper is with them, heart and soul. War has been so ter- rible that it is hard to see what ledds any people, under any leadership, to resort to force in settling international disputes. War, in the past, has been bad enough but the fighting in Ethiopia, Spain and China indicates that it will be much worse } in the-future, So far as a distant spectator ' can Ghserve the.conduct of-warfare.in the zonez mentioned..has. been.marked. by -@ | new ferécity.aiid a new lust for.the punish. ment of ‘adversaries. 4 - Incidentally, if the time éver comes that the United States will be-engaged ‘in conflict we might regret that this country. and other civilized nations, have not made effective protest against some of the cur- | rent war practices. Roland 8. Morris, for- mer Ambassador to Japan, points out that | | all the rules of wartime conduct, establish- | ed in the past, are being disregarded. Pre- cedents, he says, are being established which, if followed in the future, will “spell nothing less than the destruction of civiliza- tion.” Mr. Morris says the principle of pro- tection of noncombatants, as distinguished from combatants saved the world from | chaos and anarchy in the wars of the eigh- teenth and nineteenth ‘centuries. The age Of, the aeroplane, however, makes no dis- tinction between fighting forces and peace- | fal inhabitants and.knows nothing about | protecting property not used for military purposes. 25 / Every nation has an interest in assert- | ing and defending the rules established in the to make war as humane as possi- ble. Even those who are at peace know not | when they will be at war and it is to their selfish interest to uphold civilized rules for | the conduct of war. *PHONE ANNIVERSARY Sixty years ago, on January 28, 1878, the world’s first telephone switchboard was placed in operation in New Haven, Conn. It was installed to serve eight sub- KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenlage More Just 10 Yours! Ago Today As Taken From | The Files Of The Citizen | Key West and Key West na | ing will be given another boost; by an article written for the At-/ lantic Fisherman by George AL| len England. This latest story of; Key West is to be illustrated with jnumerous views of the city and }the waters surrounding the is- | land, and of the fish caught in the} waters. As the publication deals | with fishing for sport and com-} mercially, both phases of the sub-| | jeet will be handled by Mr. Eng-/ land in his article. Besides this! story, which has already been ac-} cepted, Mr. England has, in pre-/ paration, a numer of other stor- | lies dealing with life on the is-| land, soon to be published. ) Airplane taxi service vepwoen| j this city and any other city in Florida was established here yes-/©2 South Bend, Ind., jurist of his Friday; light to moderate north-/ | terday. This means that it is now possible to travel in a special) | plane from this city to any of the | others in addition to the regular! passenger trips to Havana, and return. This service is prelimin-} regularly proposed passenger air- | }lanes ‘between Key West, Miami,/ ‘Tampa and perhaps to several! +ether Florida cities, in the near! jfature. Announcement of the/ plane taxi service was announced | +this morning by the management! | of the Pan American Airlines. | j | Visitors to this city will soon/| | find several forms of amusement | | which has not heretofore been} | provided for them. At least eight |horseshoe pitching courts are te | be opened in the city, in different | parts, within the next few days. | One set of publie checkers boards has already been established, | with convenient and comfortable ichairs for use by the players. | This is in the bandstand at Bay- view Park, and is proving very popular. The Woman's Club will | place 30 benches for the use of | visitors in various parts of the | eity, and the Chamber of Com- | merce is planning to maké fishing available for visitors at a nominal cost. scribers, and the first operators were boys. | | Instead of “Hello,” the early salutation | was “Ahoy-ahoy.” In England, as our readers may know, they: say “Are you there?” The first crude telephone was in- vented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1875, and at first was used to connect only two persons—one on each end of a single wire. The new invention was at first considered merely as an interesting scientific toy, but | its practical possibilities were soon réal- | ized. % | At first, telephones required the use of the same instrument for both sending and receiving. That is, one would talk in- to the mouthpiece and then quickly place it to the ear to receive the words from the person at the other end of the line. It is said that the early instruments bore a | notice which cautioned: “Don’t talk with your ear, nor listen with your mouth.” When switchboards were first devised to serve a number of subscribers, an addi- tional telegraph line was necessary to en- | able a subscriber to call “central.” Then the method of calling the operator by ‘turning a crank was devised, followed im gitime by the present»automatic connection f Made by lifting the receiver, and finally by ; the dial system now generally used in the larger cities. The facilities which ; ; the telephone, us today are well known to all, and it seems almost incredible that in the memory | of so many now living such facilities did not exist at all. And now we have tele- | vision! | PLANETOID MISSES THE EARTH Here's news! On October 30th, last, the earth narrowly missed a collision with a planetoid, bare scraping past'the strange body by a scant 400,000 milés to spare. This distance is a mete step-in astro- nomical calculations. At the speed. it was travelling the asteroid could have reached the globe in five and a half hours. If it had landed in the ocean there would have been violent tidal waves which might have en- guilfed great coastal cities. If it had landed on a crowded metropolitan area the human havoc would have been catastrophic. However, let us all be thankful that the celestial visitor travelled onward. The astronomers tell us that the planetoid may return to its position in three years, when it will cross the earth's orbit, but maybe the earth will arrange te be somewhere ) else at the time! and telephone and radio combined, afford | There were 15:cars on the first | ferry arrivirig yesterday over the | water gap between Matecumbe |and No Name Key. On the sec- lond, Officer Everett Rivas re- | ports there were 18. ical all were out of town cars, he no- | ticed, and says that an average of five cars would be a good es- |timate. This would make the | number of visitors about 170 dur- ling the day. Editorial comment: There has }been nothing said about*it, but the third ferry is the “Key West”. No one can kick about the names lof the vessels which are “Monroe } County”, “Key West” and the |“Florida Keys”. These names | will give the county about as/ | much advertising as they could} expect out of any three names. Will Brown, colored, charged} with assault and battery on Annie Keith, also colored, was convicted | this morning by a jury. The sen- ; tence was $25 or three months at/ hard labor in the county jail. | Mrs. George Archer, scoutmis-{ ; tress of Scout Troop No. 1, has | received a note from Mrs. Calvin) | Coolidge’s coma 3 thanking her jand the troop fot ‘the ‘gift of @/ {bouquet of flowers presented; , While the President and Mrs. Coo- | }lidge were visitors in the city. The presentation was made while | | the President and Mrs. Coolidge | were riding through the-city, and} stepped momentarily at Bayview | | Park. | Sideshow speilers of the Johnny | Jones Carnival Company reluct-' antly left 27 quarts of liquor in; Key West as they passed through | from Havana on their way to Tampa. Local customs officials found the liquor among the ef-' fects of the men, and they were Commander and Mrs. Julius H.| Abrams, Hebrew evangelists, are ‘coming to Key West tomorrow for aweek of evangelical work at) Salvation Army EXCELLENT RESTAURANT Garage Fireproof eenee oe Today’s Anniversaries Seeecccsovescoeseeseoes 1736—John Brown, one of the four brothers of the famed Rhode Island mercantile house, patriot, Brown Univ. benefactor, born in Providenee. Died Sept. 20, 1803.1 yesterday's Precipitation T.Ins. eastward over Minnesota. i #8 Ins. Although 1826—Richard Taylor, son of a President, Louisi C ; York, April 12, 1879. 1832—Lewis Carroll” : Lutwidge' Dodggson),~' English professor of pg gs = of “Alice’s Adventures.ax Won-} derland”, born. “Died*Jan! 14, 1898. 1834—Lorenzo Crounse, Union! and governor, born at Sharon, N i ¥. Died May 13, 1909. i 1837—Timothy E. Howard, not- day, born near Ann Arbor, Mich Died July 9, 1916. / tion of Labor and its president for 40 years, born in England. Died Dec. 13, 1924; = TITLE ORDINANCE NO. 342, | COUNCIL SERIES AN ORDINANCE, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 326, COUNCIL SERIES, BEING AN OBEDIN- ANCE PROVIDING FOR AND REGULATING THE REGISTRA- TION OF ALL PERSONS, FIRMS AND CORPORATIONS EN- GAGED IN A BUSINESS, PRO- FESSION, OR OCCUPATION IN THE CITY OF KEY WEST, FIX-| ING THE LICENSE TAXES FOR ; THE YEAR BEGINNING OCTO-, BER 1, 1936, AND FOR EACH SUCCEEDING YEAR UNTIL RE-/ PEALED; REGULATING AND SUCH LICENSES MAY BE OB- TAINED; REGULATING CARRYING ON A BUSINESS UNDER LICENSES, PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLA: AMENDAS* Passed on first reading January | 20, 1938. Passed by City Council o7 second reading by title. January | 24, 1938. | Passed by City Council on third ; reading in full, January 24, 1938. EARL ADAMS, [| President City Council. WALLACE PINDER, City Clerk, Approved: WILLARD M. ALURY jan27-1t Mayor. TITLE ORDINANCE NO. 341, COUNCIL AN ORDINANCE PROHIBIT- ING SWEEPING OF TRASH. DEBRIS OR GARBAGE INTO THE STREETS OR GUTTERS IN THE CITY OF KEY WEST. Passed by the City Counci! first reading January 20, 1938. second by title January 24, 1938. Passed by thé.City Council third reading January 24, 1938. EARL ADAMS, President City Council. IOPLLLLLZUALLALLLAAL LAL A 8 Attest: WALLACE PINDER, City Clerk. jan27-1t iat 3.8 FF oe seer en rani COMBMOOMES. (THE WEATHER | Temperatures” Highest Lowest — Mean __ Normal Mi Normal Precipitation __ Barometer eter readin, ages 8 a.m: Sea level, 30.29. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Friday) Key West and Vicinity: Fair | tonight and Friday; continued cold tonight; somewhat warmer westerly winds. Florida: Fair, continued cold portion and light frost in south portion except on extreme south coast; Friday fair, slowly rising j genuine LGIISIIIDIEIOPOOPIILOD ODED DOO ee, TH. AY, JANTALY 2, ee Today In History 1868—Population of Senttie, ” Wash. announced as 486. 1880—Incandescent lamp pat ented by Edison 1908—Law prohibinng discern wmation agaims! members of isber organizations Geciarec wneumst- tutional by the U. & Supreme Court. brary, California. opened to the public 1831—Gen Smediey D Butler j reprimanded for remarks shout Mussolun. 1936—Cangress overndes Prem- dent's bonus veto. 1987—Army organizes to evece- ate flood sufferers = Musmasppe Valiey if waters comtzmee te tasr Prengent Roosevell sadseates that abolitor of all neiding com- panies. imcludung tem&s a tes ui umate objective. —— Electrical Appliances Toasters MD “SPECIAL” AT HALF ITS REGULAR PRICE OF $5.95 WATCH CLEAN PURE COFFEE BREW HALF PRICE Electric Aluminum Percolator The quick way to make good coffee right at the teble. $2.98 No home is compicte without one or two of these well made card tables White and Eliza Streets “Your Home Is Worthy Of The Best™ OO AA AA hha dh hk hd hd dedkddaiadadad