The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 14, 1938, Page 3

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN *'STATESUFFERS © BUBONICPLAGUETHREAT IN WEST FROM CUSTOMS _—aREVEALED BY U.S. HEALTH DEPT. REGULATIONS ss MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1938. TESTS PROVE 2:YEAR-OLD CHILD ASSMART AS ADULT CHIMPANZEE (By Associated Press) VIENNA, Feb. 14—Does your old are placed if their home life was believed to be a limited one| in Coltores : But in 1934—as plague-carrying fleas apparently spread inland from domestic rats in coastal ports to common field rodents — the plague was discovered among rodents in two interior counties of PEOPLE'S FORUM A JUST OBJECTION Editor The Citizen: Someone is using the side of DENVER, Feb. 14 — Flea) ation demands continued surveys child reach eagerly for a toy held before him? What does he do when a bell is rung and then handed to him? These are among the tests methods being developed in the psychological institute of the Uni- versity of Vienna by Professors Charlotte and Karl Buehler and launched as new bases for child psychology. Smart As A Monkey One of their conclusions so far is that an average 2-year-old child has the mental development of an adult chimpanzee. That conclusion was reached by placing a toy beyond a child’s reach outside his play pen and giving him a stick. His ability to retrieve the toy with the stick is @ measure of his intelligence z Laboratory for the professors Buehler is. the children’s receiv- ine station of Vienna, where children from 6 months to 3 years is unsatisfactory. Tests Tell Character During a four weeks stay at the station they are given “play” tests to determine whether some mental or emotional difficulty re- quires training im ‘an institution or whether they are normal and can be entrusted to foster par- ents. e A One of the common tests is the “grasping tests.” In this a desir- able object is held before ~ the child. Whether he reaches for. it or remains passive indicates his general reaction to things about him. Social tests are given children two years old or over. Several youngsters are placed together in a play pen in which there is only one toy. Whether they dominate the play and seize the toy for themselves or give it to another child are, to the psychologists, clues to their character and social attitudes. . _ The Worm’s Eye View ; "A (By WALKER Seb receveredcesescesecascoscscseece: After ‘having wandered’ the largest part of ‘my tife‘round an: quite “Pint ‘where I would iy start enatying: the. ones who own- ed them I did gesolve that my. ;SHGRt Step in the transportation and so; find myself actually tak- ing visitors around and pointing ont various things as part of my everyday life. And strangely ehough it is enjoyable. I kind of like it. From childhood there has not been a place I ever referred to-as “my” town or home or any- thing like that. But, here, in the incredibly short space of little over a month I am taking an in- terest in everything that is going c feel a pride in the Speaking of Townsend Mor- gan’s exhibition: I’ve been to.see fame would be owning’ a boat large. enough and __ seaworthy enough to take me wherever I; wanted to go. I do believe that in the evolution of man his first means of getting around. after he tired of walking, was finding suitable ways to transport him- self over the water. Wheels came later. His feet and strong leg and back musctes served him well for many centuries. So, when I move up one step in my paPticular evo- lution of transportation it shall be to give my feet a well earned rest and take to the water. One ordinarily needs only to go} to sea once to have the spell cast upon him and to hanker for more; and more water to set sail over. So far, all my trips between the! continents and up and dew the; coasts of this country haye been! in large vessels. some... ef, which! were just like living in the.grand-- est hotel. in fe. world for.a few days. But now, still. wanting to” live on or near the water,.it will! be’ in a small boat where I can become as much a part of the water as I have been of the road I followed so long. “-Maybedl’ma ; " pretty punk sailor now, but when I first started walking my way around the world I wasn’t much of a hiker. But I did improve 3 Roosevelt Boulevard opposite the | Garrison Bight for a dumping SHOWN THAT CANADIAN VIS- hunters of the United States for the discovery of foci of infec- | Public health service are in- ground. Over the edge and along the water there have been dump- ed miscellaneous piles of tin cans, general refuse, palm fronds and cocoanut husks, dotted along for a space of several hundred yards, Who: are.-the citizens of Key « Wesf who would so foul their o nest and can’t something be ja each about it to prohibit, the practice’ as Sincerely, - A VISITOR. JAC 3d EBB Key West, Florida, February 12, 1938. O'SWEENEY TAKES ISSUE WITH ROBERTS Editor The Citizen: In personal defense of the answer by Councilman Will E. P. Roberts anent the attack on the members of the city council as to the passage or defeat of the pro- posed amendment to the three hundred foot section of liquor laws I wish to take issue with Will E. P. to the following ex tent. Lam a member of the Stone Church Service Club and was a member last Tuesday night and sat through the discussion of the! affair (with disgust) and, heard all that went on pro and.con and’ also stated my views. The simpic fact that I possibly through muis- representation belong to a club is no plausible reason that Will E. P. should spleen his wrath upon the entire club . . . but should single out the proponents and agitators. I have the intestinal fortitude (better known as guts) to state my views on certain civic prob- lems and do not have to be prompted by any member or controlling officer of any reli- gious or educational institution. To set my views of the subject that is in cpntroversy permit me to tell Will E. P. and his collea- gues of the city council that I; | did not vote for motion of “mass action” and when the proper time | came to vote against it the presi- dent did not .. . probably for! reasons of his own . . . call for a hay vote. ! * The’ citizens of this city voted the seven men whom comprise . + but Will E P. and the other members of the city council should remember that Wthey are the shock absorbers and little. And believe me hen my! the bumps clutter upon them . . . boat dreams become reality the ; tub I get hold of will be register- exhibited is eee owt ome Shines ed out of—guess what—Key West. Several times I have been asked if during these past years of wan- | dering there was not a town I lik- ed better than any other. To all these queries a shrug or a mum- ble about San Francisco or Port Said or something of that order was the answer. There have been but very few towns anywhere in the world that I really disliked, and those were ones ‘that just / My ee Sebout to strike me cold and that way. Every town hamlet has something that @€s€¢son will re- spond to and enjoy, and I have “made-and-ait—fond—memories-for-nearly every how-they-are- that. In case you didn’t know he has an enviable etcher himself, fellow, Mr. Morgan. Have been down to the sub base several times this past month and looked over all the boats and yachts and things that people sail around, and though I didn’t get fanad one I have ever been in. But, the nd a little mare, Ethink)1 er remained in any town more than two weeks. Or should already been here five weeks and will probably end up by being the oldest inhabitant. That is a pret- ty good answer, isn't it? TODAY’S ANNIVERSARIES eecce 1817—Frederick Douglass, es- caped Southern slave, whose per- sonality and eloquence made him a noted abolitionist, orator, news- peper publisher, marshal and dip- lomat, born near Easton, Md. Died near Washington, D. C., Feb. 20, 1895. 1819 — Christopher Latham Sholes, Wisconsin printer, journ- alist and inventor, considered the inventor of the modern typewrit- er, born at Mooreburg, Pa. Died Feb. 17, 1890. 1824—Winfield Scott Hancock, Union general, unsuccessful Dem- ocratic candidate for the Presi- dency in 1880, born at Montgom- ery Square, Pa Died Feb. 9, 1886. 1838—(100 years ago) Edwin Ginn, Boston school books pub- lisher, pioneer in employee prof- it sharing. builder of cheap and better housing for the poor, Seeseceoesesecesessescesecsssesessessece: founder of the World Peace Foun- dation, born at Orland, Maine. Died Jan. 21, 1914. 1842—Juliet Carson, Pioneer teacher of cooking in the schedis+ of America and Canada, born itr Boston. Died in New York, June 18, 1897. 1347—Anna Howard Shaw. Methodist preacher. pA¥sician, the most popular womah jigeturer of her day. born in England. Died at Moylan, Pa, July 2, 1919. 1864—Israel Zangwill, English author, Jewish leader, born. Died Aug. 1, 1926. The Low-Down Mrs. Pryer—I never size people up by the clothes they wear on the street Mrs. Guye: Giw ca 7 —Oh, line full ny dear. I never do! of clothes that for the past’ three ja f ‘LEGALS I say, until I came here. And I've } and when all is said and done those that object to the actions of the council have the right to exercise their preogative at the) s polis next election. R. Adrian O’Sweency. Key West, Florida, February 12, 1938. Pasadena, Calif. has passed an ITORS ARE FORCED TO SHORTEN STAY DUE TO ‘The C'tizeh) Feb. 11— doses thousands I tourist rev- visitors to ie State are forced to cut their visits short because of present United States customs regulations, it is pointed out to- day by officials of the Florida State Chamber of Commerce. Although Canada permits teur- ists to enter the Dominion for six months without putting up bond for exportation of their automo- biles, the United States only gives Canadian visitors a entry period of 90 days and requires an exportation bond for any longer period, they explained. The red tape andthe trouble of getting entry and bond for a more than 90-day visit causes _many Canadians to leave Florida ear- lier than they wor other- wise and the stat¥{4nH/lvarious communities thereby Tose’ muth tourist revenue they’ wotild have; received. . Letters explaining the matter and requesting a change in the United States’ regulations were today sent by Harold Colee, State Chamber president, to members of Florida’s delegation in Wash- ington. Although it may require a change in the Tariff Act of 1930, State Chamber leaders are insist- ent that something must be done! so that the United States and Florida may at least reciprocate the six months free entry cour- tesy already extended by Can- ada. Seores of complaints on the matter have been made by Can- adian tourists to the local Cham-| bers of Commerce in Florida as well as direct to the State Cham-} ber’s headquarters office, it was pot free ‘LEGALS the 4th day of has filed sam made applicat The assessment of the said prop- erty under the said certificate dwasin the name of J ordinance barring dogs from the ! streets between 7 p. m. and 7 a. m. BOULDER KILLS 2 Welch, W. Va—Two Negro boys, Junior Hughes, 16, and John Robinson, 18, were killed when a 10-ton boulder rolled a mountain and tore th ‘Stories of the Elkhorn N: high Three other andj} NOTICE OF MASTER'S SALE NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN, that under and by virtue of and pursuant to that certain decree made and entered on the 2ind day of January, A. D. 1938, by the Honorable Arthur Gomez, one of the Judges of the Cireuit Court ofthe Eleventh Judi- cial Circuit of the State of Florida, in and for Monroe County, Florida, im Chancery, im that certain cause therein pending wherein A. Morales is plaintiff and EM. Martin. if living, and if dead, the heirs, devi- sees, KTantees or other claimants under the said EM Martin, Ray- mond R. Lord. receiver for the Tropical Building and Investment Company of Key West. John Cates, Jr. Maude W. (nee Curtis), Richard B. her husband. and Alex Curry living. and if dead, the heirs, deri~ sees. grantees or other claimants ander the said Alex Curry, ate de- fendant®™ the undersigned Specia! in Chancery, appointed by fer for sude at highest Bidder. Tth day of ih, A. 3 (same being a rule"Gay of ert and a legal sales day) < the legal hours ef sale, to- tock In the fore- fm the afterneon © following described mn Monree County, Florida, =z s diagram of Tract ten Having a freat of Pitty feet om Louisa Street and extending back Seventy Nine (79) feet seven (7) inches THOMAS S CARO. Special Master in Chancery IAM V_ ALBURY. ney for Piaintifr. janti two % Clerk of Circuit Coun Florida Monroe 25,1938 ror > {Senate Bitt ‘No. 163) HBREBY « day of Au: filed same ip my made applic be issued thereon NOTICE OF APPLICATION TAX DEED (Senate Bill No. 163) NOMCE © 18CHEREBY pret BR deewe 7 h Tax Certificate 5 Ped day of Ateest im mz, office a on for a tax deed to Said assesmment of the said prop- f Wee Uniess said certificate deemed according to law erty described thers’n © to the highest bidder house déer om the first Me ther of March. 1% the of March 1 vestigating conditions in wes- tern states which, they fear might lead to an outbreak of bu- bonic plague. This they-say is the “black death” which, in the 14th} century, wiped out one-fourth of the known world’s population Dr. C. R. Eskey, ser in charge of plague measures, with head San Francisco, says —chipmunks, grou! irrels and prairie dogs—ha been found in seven states in the last three years carrying plague-bear- ing fleas. The flea hunters, under his di- rection, have killed thousands of rodents in those and neighboring States this summer in an effort to determine areas infested with carriers of the disease. Few Human Cases “The incidence of human infec- tion has been slight thus far,” Dr. Eskey reporis “but the potential dangers are so great that the situ- ents tion and further investigation of ed rodents in certain danger zones. In the last four years; he <ays, there have been only eight human cases of plague in the United ‘each in Oregon, Nevada and Utah. sheep herded in Lake County, Oregon, who died of plague in 1934. “Apparently there is not nearly as much danger from human con- tact with plague-infected wild rodents,” he says, “as there is with infected domestic rats.” Rodent plague first was discov- ered in the United States among domtestic rats of San Francisco in 1900. It was believed stamped out among the rats, Dr. Eskey says, but later was discovered in field southern California, Dr. Eskey Says, and in northeast California and southeast Oregon. Since the public health service began its investigation, he reports, jfurther evidence of the disease among rodents has been found in Nevada, Utah, Montana, Idaho and Washington. No trace of the disease has been found in Wyoming, Arizona. Colo- rado and New Mexico where tests also were conducted. But Dr Es- key adds: “The eastward progress of the infection will continue for an indefinite time.” This summer five rolling labora- tories, manned by flea hunters, were put in the field. Their job: To shoot thousands of rodents, to dissect them for evidence of the disease, to de-flea them and to send the fleas and dead tissue to the plague labora- tory in*San Francisco. There guinea pigs are exposed to the tissues and fleas from the dead rodents as a final test to de. ftodents. The area of infection first termine if plague is present. York, editor, dramatic critic, bem at Ft. Wayne, Ind. 56 years ago. Bishop Wyatt Brown of Harris- burg, Pa, P. E clergyman. born at Eufala, Als. 54 years ago. Rear Admiral William C_ Watts, USN. born at Philadelphia, SE years ago. Charles Rann Kennedy of Mill- brook, N. ¥_ teacher, dramatist, born in England, 67 years ago. 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