The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 16, 1938, Page 2

PAGE TWO Two The i Key Wicst sf Citizen | MAN, President ind Publisher oN, Ansixtamt Musiness Manager 1 Phe Citizen Building Greene and Ann Streets i x Joe AL « ‘ Omiy Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Plorida, as second class matter Member gf the Aawociated’ Fresx ea Press js exclusively.evtitied to use ation of all hews dis; atehes credited to Otherwise credite’ in this, paper and also ned here, NEW POSTAGE STAMPS | It has been announced that 31 new | designs of United States postage stamps will shortly be issued, and that these, with those already in circulation, will include portraits of all Presidents not living. Sev- eral changes will be made in the denomi- nation of stamps which bear the portraits of Presidents represented in present issues. The first issues’of United States posi- age stamps consisted of only two denomi- nations, the 5-cent used: on half-ounce let- ters going 300 miles or less, and the 10-cent , for'letters going a distance exceeding 300 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Oue Year ‘ ee ae Bix Months png gt TT! ‘ ADVERTISING RATES fade known on application. SPECIAL ‘NOTICE A)l reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutiors of Fesyect, obituary es, ete., will be charged for at the of 10 cents a line. # for entertainments by-churches from which e is to be derived are 5 cents a line. ; Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- siow of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. nen mae Cee eas ial marsoventicrs FOR KEY WEST | ADVOCATED BY THE CHRIZEN' Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land, Free Port. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation ef County and City Governments. Czechoslovakia is next! Add permanent headlines: “New Re- volt in Cuba Threatened.” It’s wise now, even for lawyers, to ad- | mit that they don’t know the law. | F Advertising is noi guaranteed, but we believe space used in The — Citizen will prove profitable. » Nolens yolens, the Austrians had to | Submit to the Anschluss at list, but it will | forever sree in their breasis. : The more income you have had, the | more outgo when you pay the tax. If you | | arritea. st, 4 » tiptate United. States” and expects« instead’ “rich lHighway. > Ruth Bryan “Gwears miles. The 5-cent statp. bore the portrait of Benjamin Franklin, our first postmaster; the 10-cent stamp bore the portrait of Washington, ard were first issued in 1937, although a few postmasters had issued some stamps at their own expense for about two years previously. The very first ad- hesive postage stamps to be issued by any government were introduced in Engand in 1840, the example being quickly followed | by other nations. The jirst issue of postage stamps in 1837. would seem very insignificant in_vol- , | ume compared with the trementomrentret, | of the present; which is esti * | less than 18 billion a yearyirequining 1, ba i‘ tons.of paper, 575 tons of gum andistids ices cbt |'6f ink. Placed end to eid ‘this wrbts rac supply would reach around the ae at 4) | equator ten tintes.*" + SS OUR “GOLDEN AGE” Louis Untermeyer, poet and _ critic, opines that America stands on the thresh- hold of its Golden Age. Do not misunderstand him. He did not have im mind the gold standard, the stabi- | lization fund or the huge yellow reserve | that the government has underground in | Kentucky. Mr, Untermeyer feels that the cinta is approaching “cultural maturity” in a | literary sense; with many Americans choos- | ine: hooks that lead to'“a new awareness of life, with its multiple complexities.” He | dooks for no “great American novel” be- cause we havé “tot matty, courttries in the variety and contradiction.” SIDELIGHTS Another case of taking too much for | TRE KEY WEST CITIZy OH. FOR ANOTHER ST. PATRICK! 44 £240. tren vat AVC & Bonitacio Rivero’s yellow Buick was almost entirely demolished last night in a wreck on -Boca Chica Bridge about 8 o’clock, and the bridge was considerably dam- aged. Neither of the two occup- ants of the car was injured. Boni- facio says a blow out caused the wreck. When the car struck the bridge it turned completely about and started to go over in @ zigzag motion and eventually wound up by being crashed into the bridge railing after it had traveled about 20 feet. Officer Everett Rivas arrived on the secene a few moments after the accident and found the car hang- ing over the edge with the ban- nister beams of the bridge driven through the radiator. Florida’s most widely advertis- ed automobile is now carrying a Sticker. advertising the Oyer Sea Spirit of Florida, one of the first of the new flivver autos to reach | the state, is today displaying the” legend: Have Driven to Key West. On the Oversea Highway. When the stickers, suggested by Mgrs. Owen were issued yesterday by the Artman Press, the fitst one was mailed her at her request. Today comes a wiré saying it is already in place. de not want se much to go ont, don’t take | | granted is reported from New York state. | “Te ordinance providing for so much in. Thete are some big deals in the mak- | ing, but which have not as yet arrived at | the point where publicity is desired, al-| though everybody in town knows all about them. | Osear Widmer had been annoyed by pet- | ting couples parking near his home, so on a dark night he slipped up to a parked car | and crowned the driver with a stick. The victim was not a petter, but an ald friend | who had stopped to chat with a neighbor. | Widmer was held under_$1,000 bonds on a | charge of assault. Politics will pick up in this-country | in a few months and until the Congression- al elections are over it will be almost im- | possible to gét a sensible, ne»-partisan diseussion: of ‘any issue. Believe it or not, Spring is practically here, but how should we Key Westers know, unless we look at the Calendar. It is always Spring with us. If you don’t be- lieve it, come down and see for yourself. An editorial in The Citizen, a Key West. Florida, paper on the reduction of the Lancaster county tax rate shows how far good news will travel. At the same time, however, it is a sad commentary on the rapid rise of Federal, State and local tax- | ation that a reduction should be so unusual. —Lancaster (Pa.) New Era. Last week in Yolo, Califernia, Julia “Richards, an ineeseant ‘cigar smoker, died at the age of 111; ‘There are these who will say she shortened her'life by smoking; others that use of the-amber weed prolong- ' ed her tife so far beyond the Biblical three score and ten, Had she smoked the famous Key West product she might still be going strong. Nebody until very recently that it could happen in Austria bat it did. It is said that it can't happen here, but ne one knows, se let us be vigilant. The Execu- tive Reorganization bill gives the President unlimited power, making Congress an exe- cutive rather than a legis!stive body—to de the will of the President and not that of the people a ja Hitler. thought | Tails, fry “pense Fourteen unusually *hiisky “gigi? te: cently obtained jobs in a téhiacco Wakgiouse: | in Turkey and Jost them #eiin Whe It was | found that they were younger hi" yrom- en's cothing. They pleaded that the? were. forced into skirts because girls were:given. , preference in employment. An exchange notes a strange typo- graphical error which crept into a Wash- ington dispatch listing government expen- ditures, One of the items, it said, “carried only nine ciphers.” Samuel R. Rosoff recently returned from Russia on the Berengaria, on which he had the finest accommodations. Now a wealthy New York contractor, he possibly reflected on the difference between his latst passage to America and his first, on which he worked his way as a 11-year-old potato peeler. Careless drivers are a menace, thinks , Saxson Brown, London strong man, whose special stunt is to allew an automobile to be driven over his chest. Recently a driver let the wheels wobble and they went over his neck. Results were not fatal, but the strong man suffered for several days with a painful “sore throat.” © We all remember amusing errors of childhoed whereby we misinterpreted cer- tain words in memorizing orally taught sentences. A very young movie star recent- ly Mlustrated this tendency by beginning his Lord's prayer thus: “Our Father, Whe are in Heaven, Hollywood be thy name.” acceptance of motorbus service in lieu of trolley cars, a measure upon which many important mat- ters hang, passed on initial read- ing at a meeting of the city council last night, and will come up for further consideration at the regular session tonight. passage is intended to result in the removal of the old street car the streets at the ex- TRANSPORTATION CO: We MIAMI and Also Serving All Points Files 06. eA a company ‘and would. ‘automatical- ly invalidate the city’s suit for annulment of the city’s franchise. Councilmen Albury and Freeman opposed the meastire at the last meeting of the council Teaipayt ef The Citizen 9357 Work on 50 a additional benches to be placed about the city for use by the public, has been start- ed, it developed at a meeting of the Woman’s Club yesterday af- ternoon. Pouring of the concrete ends is now under way. Mrs. Ralph Spaulding reported, and the matter of securing and paint- ing the slats for the seats will be started at one. Mrs. B. C. Moreno and Mrs. William Phelan, were discussed as the principal mem- bers of the beautification com- mittee and it was unanimously | decided that the club could have made no more acceptable choice: | Editorial comment: There is| every Teasori to believe that home coming week will draw a larger! \erewd to Key West than would any other city of its size in the By ‘ETHEL ERNEST MURRELL OUGHT-TOS FOR AUTOS ; Sineering course at the college. of how to drive. It is up to us to set the first example in this guest to be on time for meals if he discovers that he has te wait around for members of the family. 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