The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 18, 1938, Page 2

PACE TWO " i Daily Except 5 THK N PEBLISHING CO. INC, L. F. AKIMAS, President and Publisher + Aenisfapt Business Manager vm The Citizen Building er Greene and Ann Streets Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County butered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Assceinted Press resy js exclusively entitied to use jon of all news dispatches credited to The for itor. herwise the local news published here. ADVERTISING RATES © known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE s, cards of thanks, resolutions of tices, ete., will be charged for at a line. for entertainments by churches from which is to be derived are & cents a line 3 an open forum and invites discus- e iesues and subjects of local or general it will not publish dnonymous communi- aS IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST Water and Sewerage. Bridges ‘to complete Road to land. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. The ey West Citizen credited in thin paper aud also; A MUCH NEEDED ORDINANCE ‘here are times when everyone recog- nizes that a need has been supplied ‘ and there is a general feeling of satisfaction in the air. Just such a time is the present with the passing of the zoning ordinance. As near as The Citizen can ascertain, chatting with city officials and rea] es- tate men, every one:likes the fact there is } now a zoning ordinance. There have been } yet. no complaints made to the City Council as From all sides ene hears that the or- | dinance will be supported by everyone. | have been impossible. A great deal of credit and praise goes to Wallace bryant Kirke, who was chair- man of the committee planning the zoning ordinance. Mr. Kirke states that without effort of the rest of his committee the job would The other commit- teemen were Franklin Albert, Jack Long, Henry Brewer, William Demeritt, Charles Ketchum, Curry Moreno, Vesey Johnson and Jim Roberts. In other growing cities the cooperation and laborious } when a like ordinance is planned, an e«- | pert is called in and paid a sum well up in the thousands of dollars.” This | money was saved the city, the wg yak aitime. ‘when it was st nee most excellent job performed by; working committee. Zoning a city requires not o' ; ing the ¢ity as well d®tficted as possibte | for'the present, but. also preparing the ground as far ahead as pé€sible. Such | phases of the present ordinance as an in- dustrial district, for which Key West will KEY WESTWARD HO! ... ONMIRACLE ROAD SOSOOSSASSSSSSOSSSOSSSESSSOSSSSSSSSSOSSSESSSEESSSEES | of i | to allow for free-passage of sea ICTURE a tropical island town ' water. that’s tailor-made for touri$ts:; Engineers found that the de- cocoanut and date palms, potme-}Structive force of the waves was = |mot due to the impact of water ee See flown tng eeainst the embankment but to their fruit and foliage overhead. | ndertow. They also- found that Tarpon, dolphin, kingfish, and! g marine marl deposit along the 600 other varieties of edible fish/line, when spread over the sur- awaiting your dine for a frothy face of the embankments, hard-j| battle. “Emerald waters—the At-jened on exposure to the air into lantic Ocean on one side, the Gulf'a smooth layer and was capable of Mexico on the other—rippling {of withstanding the heayiest seas. an invitation to come in and | Additiona] discoveries followed,’ swim. Plus sophisticated facili-| and the railroad extension from ties for extra-nature diversion! [the mainland to Key West was That's Key West, southernmost successfully completed. city in the United States. | Witnessing this project, the The ancient Mayans lived here, | commissioners of Monroe County and later the unconquered Indian | coneeived the idea of building a tribes. Pirates, preying on Span-'motor highway following the ish treasure ships, haunted its same course. The boom days of coves and buried great chests of | 1924 had arrived; money was easy rich loot in its shallow sands. Sol-;to get. They began construction diers came to erect rugged forts,!from the Dade county highway now in ruins. Seafaring men,|squth of Homestead, crossed to captivated by the charms of this: Key Largo, and paralleled the little island (one mile long and railway south to the soythern four miles wide), fashioned dwell-|end of Lower Matecumbe; there. i hem, still standing, ' automobiles were-driven aboard from lar and mahogany logs. a ferry and. carried to Grassy fropical grandeur, | proceded by road to Key West. ry, one part'The ofiginal intention’ “Was 16 j ) Guild ‘the road across thé ‘stretches ‘of water’ crossed ‘by° the” ferries. ;But the bursting of fie boom ists ¥ humming over the prevented that only seagoing highway in the’ Meanwhile, the railroad exten- world—a road above the Florida‘sion was faring badly. Sponge Keys, that backbone of coral rock 'fishing at Key West declined; projecting from the ocean bottom high tariff ruined the pineapple in a great quarter-circle curve to-;canning business; the — "s a magical place, this quaint Key, then by highway across the - Pg n y@Vest and its coral Key Vacas group, _ whence F But he couldn't do much toward reaching his goal because, as he Puts it, “teacher would make you stand in front of the class #f you so much as drew a picture on your | Slate.” F ' So he grew up to be @ farmen = Also Serving All Points on Flerida Keys between | undoubtedly fight in the very near future, werd the Gulf of Mexico to Key government’ reduced the & | Lighthouse Tender Ivy sailed | see $ West. And thus will be _com-! West garrison; the naval station, recognition of the Martello Tower sec- | i¢teq U.S. Highway No. 1, the which had furnished an annual Jove’ jor rencnt Rey tor the tion as one of the most exclusive building famous thoroughfare from north-;pay roll of $648,000, was placed y.4 buoy at the Egmont Key sites, banning of such eyesores as huge ad- sly Maine to the tropical’ tip of on the inactive list; the Coast ¢onnei éntrance. The ‘buoy is the! Guard base was transferred to largest of this style of aid, and Leave Miami at 12:00 o'clock moon on Mos day, Tuesdey, Thursday and Fridey. Leave West at 8:00 o'clock P. M. con Ti y, Wednesday, Saturday and Consslidation of County and City Governments. and a * o oy cf 2 z 7 ee Pe ht He 8 8 IE Fe VORP SRO KOE ORE ¥ oPeE OO eet eD e fee em Not every sound sleeper has a good conscience. vertising signs, insisting on ‘neat, beautiful building, are | features of the ordinance. Wrestling with presert conditions is a sort of cash-as-cash-can. affair. Happiness is like a. kiss—you can’t | have it yourself without giving it to some one else, 184 73 = A conimittee of three with two of the | members absent ofter turns out the ~bést } committee. There are still other matters in the , ordinance, however, on which the Council \ and the ‘zoning committee have not had } the opinion of the people. The: Citizen joins with, the City Coun- cil in’ requesting that the zoning map in City. Cletk. Wallace.Pinder’s office be con- sulted. everyone holding real estate or who afevinterested ip ‘the“matter, and ail questio: concerning it be clearly broach- ed. Thére has been Vittle ‘use‘of the map | by the public. Great Britain expects to spend about | $1,706,000,000 in the next 12 months. Fat} chance to get back some of our war leans in the near future, i | objections, A few deep grumblings have been heard from certain sections of the city, | Ce struction work on the Over- vember, 1936. It will be open to two lanes of traffic “before the end of March, although comstruc- tion will not be finally completed until some time later. F But that’s only the last brief chapter in the story of this Gnique road. Go back thirty-four; years |to its beginning. | It was im 1904 that Heary M. Plagler ordered the a department of the Finch East Coast Railway t make from Miami to Key W with the idea of extending the to the deep-water harbor there. He was laughed at. Fimgnciers, railroaders, engineers—all *rand- ed it impossible. St Petersburg. Very few passen- jcighs 13 tons. Tender Poinciana, at present commendabie seas Highway was begun in No- | gers, and very little freight, went over the railroad. And so, when the i hurricane of 1935 damaged the fills of the railway, the company didn’t bother in re- nounced, the two-year-old Over- ‘seas Road and Toll Bridge Dis- chase of the railroad right-of-way: between Lower Matecumbe Key When that decision was an- ae . Daily service (except Sunday) vie Trucks and Boats between Miami and Key West, serving all m= termediate points on Florida Keys : tender of this district “the S. Highway No. 1 from Kent, ‘Tender Ivy for the purpose of in- dio beacon. Maine, to Key West, Florida. Beginning in 1936, the railroad but nothing has yet come out into the open. | mind; he needed a southern out- dition of a concrete deck resting This is not a healthy state of affairs. These together with reasons for | them, should be presented to City Council John Alden was the first earpenter | and joiner to set foot in Massachusetts. He | may have been a good carpenter but he | “failed as a joiner for Miles Standish and | his adored Priscilla. Dr. G. G. Deaver says to actually | lose even one pound of fat a person would have to travel thirty-two and a half miles at a dog trot, but who wants to run thirty- two and a half miles at a-dog get | dogged: tied? Thé tdhey in circulation in thé Uhited | States, ‘ifi-cuse anyone wants te; know, is | $6,344,091,100,00. If you want to know | what your share is, figure it out for your- self. The paramount question is, have you got your share? Any -way one looks at the matter of court decisions, the conclusion is evident that much of the law of the land today is | self what it can. based upon nothing more solid than the in- | terpretation of the law by those who sit as judges. When the judges change their minds, the law changes. We do not ignore the necessity of such changes but, in view of their occurreried, it utterly foolish formnyhody Aoygetithe ifea that-there is «tavthing sacred, about, ¢ opinion of a court. eee AGfithe febri Hatters before the su- prevge court recently, ision was given that Only certificates two years old at time of passage of the law (June 9, 1937) are eligible for auction. This stops the worst ture of the PRACTICE of the act. Court ever clung to its prior decision that 937 taxes are caneelied when oid certi- ticutes are soid, the decision applying ap- parently to sales made before its first de- i en this point. This decision is raising ith budgets—particularly schools. — Pulier Letter. as soon as possible. It is much better to know now how we stand on the ordinance than to wait and when we most need the zoning laws, find that the eitizenry has at | last raised its objections and imperiled the | erdinance. This must not be! Key West must have zoning laws! > The ordinance is not as legally potent as might be wished and will not be until it is enacted inté law by tié'state tegisl: Meanwhile, however, The Citizea is to note that those whitT-are- princ concerned with property ink, do everything to support” We must recognize, however, the gdmeral tendency of business custom to get or it- If the ordinance gets in the way of some one of us so that the gain may be over the costs of fighting the ordi- nance through the Circuit Court, it’s a cinch that the “someone-of-us” may decide te take the matter to court. This is a time when the opinion of the people must be known. This is a time | wher that mass of opinion must be studied by the Council and zoning committee. This is a time when the needs of the majority must be given them, though it means sacri- fiee to ethers. It is a time for many things, but it is a time principally for action! Act we must, we cannot wait longer, and this | problem of the zoning ordinance pressing requires clear presentation of objections. Let us de it now, it will be that much bet- ter and stronger an ordinance for it! The official organ of Storm Troops says it is the duty of National Secialists to “be an opponent of and hate everything that cannot be reconciled to our faith.” This is a big order. It works both ways. The outside world has very little love for Hitlerism. We presume that the National Seeiaiists expect outsiders, unable to reconcile Hitlerism with Democracy. to be opponents of and hate it. Fesa will | ™?" , Sea, J nce fee nonce ae. Het for the railway. Work had j begun on the Panama and he wanted to develop a nel of commerce and travel between the United States and Cuba, Cen- tral America, and the canal. So, that same year, the railway was extended to Homestead, twenty- eight miles south of Miami In April of the next yéar, the drive southward began. Immense difficulties were en- countered from the very begin- ning. Drinking water, food, la- bor, rock, cement, piling, steel, ‘and machinery had to be import- 9 ird® remote sources. Methods of construction ‘had to ing tide had to be spanned; bleak Nittheydtys,’ swept by — fierce storms, had to be crossed. In 1906, a hurricane lashed out to sea, snapped moorings on the houseboats in which laborers liv- \ed, and drowned more than sev- jenty of the men. Many others, after days of exposure and suf- on steel I beams. The I beams jare welded to filler plates, which, in turn, are welded to the cover span. Another unusual sight is the Ba- hia Honda Bridge, whieh, as re- constructed, now towers sixty- five feet above the surrounding water. As you drive along this new highway—nearly 100 miles of the German | fering, were picked up by passing steamers. In 1909, a storm swept away miles of embankments and tossed fhuge rocks about like chips of wood; but this time the engineers profited by the expérience. Orig- inal plans, calling for only six miles of open water, were altered. }To withstand another 125-mile- Oklahoma City Acts Te Curb A Nuisance you'll look down at delica colored crystalline seas. Here thefe, little tufts and coral foliage will mark tiny tropi idnds crossed by the hig! land town that’s tailor-made for tourists! BURNS MORE THAN Washingion.—According to the Commerce Department. Brazil de- stroyed more coffee than it ex- (By Associated Preset ported in 1937. More than 17,- OKLAHOMA CITY, March 18. 196,428 bags of coffee were - stroyed last year in Brazil its price-raising program yonly 12,119,474 bags foreign countries. 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