The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 3, 1938, Page 2

= » z © : *t ey a 1h al a tataxey teter Py VOTH Ue Seth, Fate PRN Byte eT es ty eee Nha WSJ tr Ugta Mela, .,the United States, visitors have told the | PACE TWO The Kry West Citizen | Published Qaily dixcept Sunday By THE OP. UBLISHING CO. IN JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Oniy Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter | Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. NOT TO BOMB CIVILIANS It is refreshing to note that strategists of the Army have decided that, in the event of war, our planes will not bomb civilians. The decision is not based upon human- itarian reasons but because a study of tae- tics in China, Spain and Ethiepia has con- vinced most of the experts that airplanes can be used to better advantage in under- | taking the destruction of enemy aircraft and the prevention of effecting a base on | dand, from which to launch aerial attacks MEMBER against the United States. The conclusions of American army ' men is that the bombing of civilian popula- | tions produce no military advantage com- One Year — Gix Months ‘Three Months Ine Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, etc, will be charged for at the rate of 19 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churehes from which a 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- cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Read to Main- land, Free Port. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Who says little, has little to answer | for; During this time of March, Key West is being honored by the March of Time. Gifts that nature seems to bestow free- ly is the gift of gab, observes the Times- Union, Imagine a president by the name of | McNutt, says the Tampa Tribune! “Imagin- | ing is all it ‘will ever amount to. i Key West is the worst lighted city in writer. Let there be dight, and soon! _ Cities are great when they produce great citizens; and for this reason nothing is of more importance than the atmosphere created for the children of Key West. _ The best advice this column can give if you discover that your erstwhile friends | are berating you behind your back is to | let them do all the berating. In the vernacu- | lar, knocking operates like a boomerang | and the knocker is hit the hardest and the last. The National debt has reached the enormous figure of $37,600,000,000, an all- | time high, pnd yet the president is calling for » greater expenditures, al- though in Qetober, 1932, he said: “We are spending altogether too much money for government services neither practical nor necessary.” The largest real estate deal ever trans- acted in Key West was the result of read- ing a real estate advertisement in The Citizen by the late Malcolm Meacham. He | purchased the 1,000 acre tract of the Key West Realty Co. at the eastern end of the island, and later had an offer of $1,090,- 000, which he refused. The Citizen, in a recent editorial, stated that a Chicago business man quit business, after spending 35 years in build- ing it up so that its annual gross repre- sented the sum of $1,500,000. Just the cost alone of making out the reports on his taxes amounted to $7,000 yearly. While the volume ef this business was large. his profits were small, and did not justify the investment and the work, so he guit. An indiana business man who paid $30,400 an- nually in taxes, wrote President Reosevelt that he would be willing if the govarn- ment took over his business and he take the $30,000. ®ven in little old Key West there are business men who pay as high as $100 monthly to accountants te keep the vecords for tax purposes required by the wovernment, | attack and bombardment and the parable to their cost and that the effect up- on the people at home is not sufficient to | appreciably hasten the end of the fighting. Because people of Monroe County, like those elsewhere, are interested in the prob- . able role of aircraft in any future war, we note that the American General Staff has little apprehension of air raids launched from carriers, because enemy planes, re- | turning to the rendezvous, could be attack- ed advantageously. It is expected, however, that an enemy would attempt a landing in force on territory adjacent to the United States, and establishment of a base and the launching of air raids from the base set up. Exactly what is the best defense against such an attack is not yet settled. Some strategists put their faith in flying fortresses, based inland, which would be relied upon to destroy the base of the enemy. Others advocate the medium-sized bombing planes, together with faster and smaller pursuit planes, to meet enemy air- | eraft and harrass ground troops. Gen. Malin Craig, Chief of Staff, ex- plains the difficulty of correctly apprais- ing new methods and weapons of warfare | and emphasizes the “rapidly moving ex- | perimentation” that involves aircraft. The | mission of the air force includes pursuit, latter “has emerged as the most important!” The flying fortress type, in which the United | States has taken the lead, is well-designed | but Gen. Craig says it has not yet been de- monstrated that such a plane can “better perform the many duties of the fast, easily | handled and more economical medium-type bombing plane.” THREE OLD PRINTERS There are probably a good many print- ers sti active who have worked at their trade for half a century or more, but to | find three who have worked continuously in one plant that long is most unusual. Recently a dinner was given in honor of Martin Q. Good, Frank C. Waddell and John Naegele, who were employed by the New York Tribune before the installation of the first commercially successful lino- type in July, 1886. All three are still em- ployed by that newspaper, now the Herald Tribune. z The dinner was given by Joseph T. Mackey, president of the Mergenthaler | Linotype Company, and the speeches were | broadcast by radio. Mr. Good, who thas been a compositor with the Tribune and Herald Tribune more than 52 years, told | the audience: “I was twenty-two-years old when I'' came to work on the Tribune. Most of us had heard of Mergenthaler and were an- xious to see if his machine could do all they said it could. He showed us in a very modest manner. He was a true mechanic and work- ed purely for ihe love of it. The linotype changed the routine of the printer and re- volutionized printing.” While the advent of the typesetting machine threw a great many printers out | of employment in the beginning, it is esti- mated that in normal times there are now five times as many employed as there were before Ottmar Mergenthaler developed his epoch-making invention. DISARMAMENT A LA TOKYO There is some talk about another con- ference with the Japanese in order to se- cure some type of disarmament agreement. The United States has been in other conferences with the wily Japs. A disarma- ment agreement can be secured, it appears , likely, in another conference upon terms— specified by the diplomats from Tokyo We see little reason to expect any pro- gress toward disarmament by staging an- other London naval conference. AH ‘hat would be gained would be in favor of the nations now feverishing pushing naval pro- grams in the hope of outbuilding other na- ‘eas thet are expected te be busy with j promoting disarmament dreams. THE REY WEST CITIZEN KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen Remoyal of the old trolley sys- tem tracks in the city, on streets which will be affected by a new ordinance, which was passed on its first reading last night, will prove a boon to Key Westers and visitors. This statement was made by several councilmen when the: action was placed before the body at the regular meeting. All of the work in connection with the re- moval of the tracks and placing the streets in perfect condition for automobile traffic will be done by the city engineer and his forces, it was said, in the event that the provisions of the ordinance are finally incorporated. Robert H. Givens, Sr., today an- nounced his candidacy for the of- fice of city tax assessor. Mr. Giv- ens is one of the best known resi- dents of the city and has been prominent in both civic and mu- nicipal life of the city and an ard- ent worker in the interests of the city and county for many years. Mr. Givens feels that he is pecu- liarly fitted for the office which he seeks and solicits the support of his many friends. The Oversea Highway ferries are today reported to be handling 64 automobiles and 152 passen- gers. Of these, Key West gets 51 visitors and 18 cars. The ferry boat Florida Keys cleared from the Lower Matecumbe slip at 8 this morning with five cars, one truck and 18 passengers. Twelve cars and 40 passengers were on board the Key West leaving there at 1:40, according to telephone re- ports received from No Name Key this afternoon. A petition signed by four chauffeurs was presented at the city council meeting last night in which it was pointed out that changes in rate for passenger cars, other than Fords, be author- ized by the council. It was shown that a five-passenger automobile ‘differs materially from a Ford, and should be allowed to collect more for service. The petition |was signed by Howard Wallace, | Harry L. Williams, Leroy Torres and George Key. | Editorial comment: We are not going to Fort Pierce any more. A caption in the Fort Pierce News- Tribune says that a man up there makes a hole in one, and we have no desire to be punctured. A Franklin sedan arriving on the Steamer from Havana yes- terday is stolen property, cable- grams to the city today declare. The car is said to have been listed for export by a woman who gave owner of the car. The car has not been cleared by customs officials here, it is reported. Residents of Southard street from the barracks down several blocks, have registered complaints against a crowd of over-grown boys who make -a practice of throwing rocks at the residences. loften breaking windows, and sev- eral persons have been struck by the missles. Officers are being urged to make some effort to have the annoyance cease. Louis Carbonell will have his usual dance at the’ La Contha Hox tel this evening and promises {some startling innovations. Mr. Carbonell, when seen by The Citi- | zen this morning. said that every arrangement had been concluded | | far giving one of the best con- certs, in connection with the) dances, which could be arranged and he felt satisfied that the at-} tendance would be larger than usual. Customs service court which convened yesterday with Judge Byron S. White presiding, cleared the docket of the only case and adjourned. The case grew out of a shipment of old Spanish tile im- ported by the Spanish American Tile Co., of Miami, on which the inspector payed for appraisement. Court decision is ending. OL < Qur reputations are made by what people say of us behind our backs—William Feather Maga- zine. PIRATES COVE FAMOUS FISHING CAMP On Oversea Highway. 20 Miles Por Reservations Telephone PIRATES COVE FEDERAL PROJECT COUNTY OFFICIALS OF WRITER'S PROJECTS. Mrs. H. Miner, in charge of the Federal Writer’s Projects in the southern district, last night spent a while in explaining the objec- tives of the heads of the project, relative to a history of Key West, its recession and its coming back to normalcy, which is daily be- coming more and more evident. This was at the meeting of the board of county commissioners. Bascom L. Grooms, president of the Key West Electric Co., intro- duced Mrs. Miner, who, without delay, broached the subject which had been given much thought and study and had resulted in her trip to Key West to bring the idea and its possibilities be- fore the board. With numerous explanatory de- tails outlined and _. explained, which held the attention of her hearers, Mrs. Miner said that in the book would be given a his- ‘tory of the Florida East Coast Railroad, its rise to the dominant transportation system in this sec- tion of the state, its destruction by the hurricane of 1935, which resulted in a great loss of life and property. Another section of the book would be devoted to the efforts to secure the Oversea Bridges and the many disappointments and hopes which eventually .re- sulted in the establishment of the recorded loan by the govern- ment, which was now being used in bringing into existence one of the most magnificent highways, roads and bridges, in the world. THE WEATHER sepeeseespcccccepseeseee Temperature” Highest __ Lowest Normal Mean - Rainfail* Yesterday's Precipitation T. Ins. Normal Precipitation _ 03 Ins. THUESDAT stood that certain allocations af funds had already been made te the Chamber of Commerce for handling advertising and inci- dental matters, and thought that the matter should be referred w that body. It was explained by Chairman wperiee Bervaidi that matters of this kind were not included in the funds Paid the chamber of commerce, . whereupon Mr. Porter moved that . | $50 be appropriated for the és- . Sue. Sea level, 30.07. (Till 7:30 p. m., Friday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; con- tinued mild temperature; gentle winds, mostly southerly. REST BEACH CLEANUP iS CHAMBER REPORT {Continued from Page Qne) Hamlin, Allen Curry, W. Warren Sawyer, Isadore Weintraub, Ben- jamin F. Sawyer, Edward Bayly, Earl Adams, B. C. Papy H. Lewinsky, A. Armayor. Allan Hampton, Joe Allen, S. C. Single- ton Hi, W. M. Arnold, Emil Sweeting, Howard Pinder Allan Armstrong, Sam Pinder, and Rob- ert Knowles. It was decided to invite Tom ,|F. Smith, district vice-president, who was instrumental in starting the Key West Junior Chamber, and also Florida’s three congress- men to “Charter Night”, which will be held April 15. Mr. Smith wrote congratulat- ing them of the Miami Beach Convention of Junior Chamber of pecially that part of it which ex-|/Commerces June 2, 3, 4, and plained how easy all this could be | Stating that Florida Junior Cham- accomplished, the county, through Chairman Bervaldi and other members of the eommission, sign- ed as sponsors of the project. There were a number of book- bers now stretch from Fernandina \to Key West and Pensacola to Fort Myers. Charter and By-Laws of the organization was submitted by lets presented by Mrs. Miner | Franklin Albert to the club with which had been used by other cit-| the suggestion that copies be cir- ies, and one of the most captivat-! culated and carefully examined. ing of them will be used, with an |airview of Key West decorating the front cover. Mrs. Miner said that within a short time a writer, who will be a member of the project division, will come here to gather data which will be used in the com- pilation of the book, much of which has been written by others who have been here, but will have to be edited. The name of the writer was not given. It was said he will spend about two months on the work. Ten giris will be chosen by the Mardi Gras at Winter Haven on March 18 as Ambassador of Good Will, to carry the story of Flor- ida’s charm to several foreign lands and various parts of the U.S. Rail Retirement Board says its set-up enabled prompt start of payments under 1937 Act. anembers of the committee > Emi Swesti Willi Aushe Chesed Congregation, Erie, Pa., who is visiting in Key West will be the guest speaker on Fri- day at the local Jewish Syna gogue. It is also announced that un- veiling of the tombstone of Mrs. Rose Ettinger will take place op Sunday morning. American Place Names Today's specials: Running Wa- ter, S. D., and Hot and Cold, N.C. Germans expect more dynamic of power by Hitler. “OVERSEAS TRANSPORTATION CO., INC. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service MIAMI and KEY WEST Also Serving All Points on Florida Keys between MIAMI AND KEY WEST Four round trips weekly direct between Miami and Key West vie Diesel Power Boats—with over- night delivery to Key West. Leave Miami at 12:00 o'clock noon on Mon- day, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Leave Key West at 8:00 o'clock P. M. on — Wednesday, Saturday and ———__o—_———_ Daily service (except Sunday) vie Trucks and termediate points on Florida Keys. Northbound, leaves Key West 7:00 a. m. Southbound, leaves Miami 7:00 a. m. Free Pick-Up and Delivery Service Full Cargo insurasce Office: 813 Caroline St. Telephones 92 and 68 Budget of the State Read De- highway. @s was shown in the telegram re- ceived fram Tallahassee, and was printed in The Citizen of March L record to $93.81 was the amount im con- nection with two cases coming un- der his jurisdiction. Clerk's report of tax certifi- cates redeemed or purchased during the month of February showed amount of money fe- ceived to be $204.09 in bonds and $486.55 in cash, a total of $690.64 Report of C. Sam B. Curry, clerk of Criminal Court of Recard, Fine and Forfeiture $11.98; Spe- cial Advertising, $1536; Read Fund, $15.96; General School, As in the past, and up % present, the board had been spon- mabe «