The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 1, 1938, Page 3

FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1938. GIVES ACCOUNT OF AUSTRIA’S POSITION ON ITS IMPORTANCE (a: Associated Prens) Cross-Roads Country Austria’s position, astride Eu- rope’s cross-roads, accounts for its importance in history. Across the Alps lies Italy. Ger- man brown shirts met Italian black shirts in the Brenner Pass. The Vatican press (Austria is 90% Catholic) spoke bitterly of Italian inertia. Mussolini:denied he had promised to protect Austria for- ever, and reassuerd Romans: “Our frontiers are sacred. We will not discuss them. We will defend them.” Between Berlin and Vienna is Czechoslovakia, birthplace “Governor” Seysz-Inquart, home yet of 3,500,000 Germanic people. And when Hitler returned to Un- ter den Linden a huge sign re- minded hin Fuehrer, your Su- deten. Germans (in Czcchosio- vakia) also are waiting.” Twice in Praha’s parliament, a nazi orator warned the govern- ment to watch out. And the lanky, gymnastic teacher, Kon- rad Henlein, 39, who is nazi king- fish there, promised to “prevail against all obstacles.” But Czechs said they'd fight rather than bow to Berlin. And France and Russia promised to fight, too, if,tbe Reich tried to swallow C: slovakiay Mostow Minister Litvinoff pro- posed also that ether non-fascist powers discuss cooperative action. Poles A Part Poland, like Czechoslovakia, was put on the map by the World war. So was Lithuania. And Me- mel, @ little bit of Germany, was entrusted to Lithuania. In 1920 the Poles took Vilna, the Lithuanians’ “capital” away from them—and the two coun- tries haven't been on speaking terms since. You can neither tele- phone nor ride a train directly from Poland to Lithuania—and the Poles are said to be tired of of | ; i | the inconvenience caused by the feud. To make matters worse a Polish frontier guard was reported killed | last weekend, and Poland was said to be threatening to do some- thing. Lithuania was expected to appeal to’ the League of Nations. Then Germany's Baltic ‘flect was reported to have received or- ders to. getsteam upc and: observ- ers wondered whether Hitler had decided -the; -time‘:had:come to “redeem” Memel. Balance Of Power The balance-of-power theory, dating from the Congress of Vie: na in 1814, was abandoned by the World war peace-makers. Now their League-of-Nations map of Europe has been altered by force. And as Vienna embas- sies closed (America hastily dropped plans for improving di- plomatic buildings both in Shang- hai and Vienna), France turned to Britair for help. Leon Blum became French pre- mier again in the erisis. He in- cluded a propaganda minister in his cabinet for the first time and chose as his foreign minister, Jos- eph Paul-Boncour, an argent League of Nations avocse | while oiill struggling With ly franc and labor disgen- sion, Blum conferred with | his military’ aides. 4 Qf course, both France “and Britain protested Hitler's Aus- trian adventure—only to be told by Berlin that it was none of; their business. Prime Minister Chamberlain retorted in parliament that it did concern Britain—but balked when asked to state publicly how far he would go to defend Czecho- slovakia. Then the old Spanish question bobbed up to plague Britannia once more. INCIDENTS OF JUST ONE YEAR. ACO ARE NOW BEING RECALLED Just a year ago. Il Duce was humiliated by tue defeat of his warriors at Guadalajara. They |\wet¢e reported. helping Spain’s Insurgent-President-Gen- eral Franco stage another drive this week, so huge and swift. that correspondents likened it to the advance om Addis’ Ababa that wound up the Ethiopian war. x 10 miles was until 3,000 square miles had been won. And on the tanks rolled, toward Tortosa, on the eastern’ coast between Valencia and Barcelona. Planes sped ahead to attack auto on loyalist roads and bomb ships — including a British steamer, at Tarragona. The purpose obviously was to split the loyalists’ territory. And the insurgents were within 35 miles of the Mediterranean before loyalist lines stiffened. “You are worth successors,” Franco told his troops, “to the . warriors who with Columbus car- , i ried the glory of Spain to the new world.” Socorro! Au Secours! Catalonia, the northeastern cor- ner of Spain, appeared to be in grave danger—airmen over Bar- celona killed and wounded hun- 4 dreds of persons. Spanish Premier Negrin flew to * Paris to beg for help. French Premier, Blum then yell- sed to London for help. An armistice stioul@ be sought, pronto, the Fren¢h thought, For their secret agents reported Der Fuehrer was pouring so many soldiers into both Spain and Aus- tria that they suspected he had something serious in mind. And they didn’t know whether he meant to use Spain to cut off their communications from Africa or use Austria to pinch Czecho- slovakia, or what. Blum said France would have to help the Spanish loyalists if the British wouldn't help France. And the upshot was: (1) Britain promised to help defend French naval life-lines to Africa if fec- essary. (2) Foreign Secretary Halifax warned Der Fuehrer ‘not to break his word and cause a war over Czechoslovakia. France kept 70,000 men ready on the Spanish frontier, held oth- ers on the German frontier, and sent warships to Barecolnia to! look out for Frenchmen there. Repetitious History? The World war did not really begin until a month after the Austrian archduke’s assassination in 1914—and Winston Churchill this week reminded Britons of those anxious day by recalling what some historians term the tragic failure of Sir Edward Grey, who was foreign minister then, to make “plain declara- tions.” And laborite Clement Atlee as- serted: “To betray the Spanish republic is to betray France; to betray France is to betray Bri- tain.” Chamberlain insisted Britain could meet force with force. And Chamberlain admitted that, in view of what had happen- , ed, he couldn't consider colonial concessions, to Germany. But negotiations behind closed doors with Italy possibly were to, continue, and Il Duce withdrew some of his troops from Libya. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN “PEOPLE'S RETAINS FAITH IN CITY | will be national publicity for this Editor, The Citizen: city at a time of the year when As a former resident of that Florida publicity is at a low ebb beautiful Island of Key West, T throughout the northland, there- am truly happy today when I f:6 Key West will be, in the read of the tremendous ovation vocabulary of the street, stealing people from everywhere are giv- ing to the compietion of the Over- seas Highway. From Maine to Key West will this greatest piece. !sofar as the cleaning up and of road construction command at- | Peautification if the highway is tention. From California to Flor- concerned it can be accomplished ida will the thousands of tourists within the ninety days be- hear about and take advantage ‘tween now and July Fourth, if of the opportunity to see this af greatest wonder road leading to an adequate crew of labor is pro- the extreme most-southern point vided. of these United States. My second contention is that if I can see far ahead the won-| the Florida residents are plan- derful advantages that this road Ming their vacations for the sum- will bring to the Island City, mer why not have them come to There is only one such place, and Key West where the climate sup- only one way to reach it by auto- ercedes that of any state or com- mobile. Soon, though, I predict Munity north of us, better fishing, seeing many huge passenger ships | bathing and rest periods for them unloading their vacationists at that use their vacation time for the once-famous docks of Key | recreation. West. The government at Wash-| Thirdly, it will invigorate busi- ington has already realized the Ness people and prepare them for opportunity it affords them and the biggest winter trade that they will, without a doubt, make have had in many a day. every speedy effort to recon-| Just suggestions, Mr. struct and reorganize the naval just suggestions. equipment of that most strategic R. ADRIAN O'SW. position, which is nearest to the | April 1, 1938, : Panama Canal. The time has| Kev West Ela, ...cescces come when this has been stamped a in the minds of official Washing- GIVES VIEWS OF CITY ton, and the loan or investment Editor, The Citiz ‘i fe , the. government has made in fi- May I be presumptuous,cnoueh) nancing the project has already to call your attention to, the, haze) bore fruit in the minds of the in-| ard of your wooden connecting telligent engineers in charge of bridges between Miami and Key government projects. West. Motorists cover these Many mistakes have been made bridges from fifty to sixty miles from time to time in removing an hour, and they won't stand it. some of the structures from that' I’ve seen it done, and with the section and allowing other unim-| bus and truck traffic you will portant sights to benefit from | now get your city will be cut off vast appropriation. In any event again with a condemned bridge and as a last resort, you will I called it to the attention of a find Uncle Sam casting his eyes city official, and he said the com- towards the Key West naval port missioners pass the buck to the for an emergency in a crisis that state road department and _ vice might arise from any source. It versa, and they will not see the will always hold such an import- danger until a bridge goes. ant position and nothing can’ Those bridges ought to be po- deny the Island City that priv- liced or signs placed on them, ilege and prestige. I look to- reading: “This bridge is Danger- wards vast improvements in the ous Over Fifteen Miles An Hour.” near future in the way of mak- They will be under constant re- ing this roadway a double-road-: pair, and it won’t help Key West way, for two purposes at least; Another thing is why don’t the one for emergency against a se- city council pass an ordinance to "FORUM a march on the rest of the entire state. Mayor, EENEY. gig ¥ vere hurricane, and the other for easier trafficing. These citizens who have wait- ed, who ‘have prayed and have been satisfied until their tireless efforts bore fruit, “knighted” one may travel, they will, in my opinion, never find a people of this nation with a more determ- , ined will to do, or with the am- biticn that the remaining inhab- itants‘of the Island City possess. You can't seem to lick them. Stripped of every opportunity to go forward even to the last liveli- hood chance, yet that spirit to conauer and do or die remained and they conquered and how! That which was taken away from them will be restored a thousand fold. God has been good to them. I wich the many souls who have passed on that did their part, could look upon this great accom- plishment and victory. I can en- joy it from afar, just to read about it and listen in on the ra- dio, and I plan to come and sce it and lend a helpnig hand if I can, I am certain the entire level- headed population that is respon- et this huge success, wiil eep Key West up to its usual ‘andard of its famous hospital- ity, and that every visitor to its shdre Will be able to enjoy it and The Rome-Berlin axis, Musso-ypart’with a smile and promise to lini boasted, meanwhile, had been shown “to be solidly estab- lished in this exceptional hour in the history of the German world and all the world.” Then reports of a split within Chamberlain's cabinet leaked out —so serious that many believed his government might fall. Recall of Ex-Prime Minister Baldwin and Anthony Eden was discussed. SASSO RSSHSOSOSSS EEO HELOOSOHODOOOOOSOORSSSESERC8 TODAY IN HISTORY SOSHSSOHSERO OHSS ESEEESEEOHSESOOSOSSESOESSESEOSEE® 1788--(150 years ago) Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham of Mass. bought six million acres, Genesee County, N. Y., for, a million dollars from the of Massachusetts which hid Been ceded the land by New*York, 1789—-First meeting of Con- gress under the Constitution— called to’ meet in New York City March 4, but first quorum, 30 members, to start deliberations in House did not show up till this day; Senate a few days later, 1871—Paris in reign of terror, with insurrectionists fighting new government. 1888—(S0 years ago) Aeronaut- ieal Exhibition opens in Vienna— jong oefore airplanes. 1924—Adolf Hitt?’ ‘fined’ “and sentenced to five years in prison if he figured in another revolu- tion; for Munich beer-hall revolu- tion. 1925—Hebrew University, Jeru- salem, opened. “THE WAY TO A MAN’S—”" GLENCOE, IlL—Charles Vin- cent of this city mistook his war medal for a piece of candy in the dark and swallowed it. In the Conservatory Jack—Every time I kiss you I am a better man. Jean—Well, don't forget that the reformation that lasts the longest is gradual return again. You can’t see all of Florida unless you see Key West, and if-you don’t see Key st, you haven't seen Florida I predict in five years a popula- tion of thirty thousand people, with a demand for more accom- modations and an effort to have the government make a fill-in of more land for future population accommodation. May the next greatest feat be a bountiful supply of good fresh water. PHIL B. PRITCHARD. March 29, 1938, West Palm Beach, Fla. Editor, The Citizen: I note with displeasure an an- nouncement that Mayor Willard M. Albury, who is also a member of the Overseas Road and Toll Bride District Commission, will endeavor to have set aside the proposed opening celebration of that magnificient highway until next December. In one sense the celebration means nothing more than a Ro- man holiday, and in other points it means plenty to those who have strived and struggled to maintain what little they had at the time the Almighty deposited His elements on the good people of > Keys. An opening celebration on July Fourth will not only be the cause of an assured tourist trade through the summer months but all should be! and no matter where, clean up and cut weeds? I passed a number of houses with piles of tin cans and junk in their yards. This is noticeable fifty feet from Duval street.on Fleming. Key West has a chance but you must not muff it. Everyone should paint up. Some Key Westers sa: want to maintain the quaintness of Key West.” It isn’t quaint to have ninety percent of the houses: looking like shacks in need of paint and every store shelf dusty: every, corner dirty, every yard with trash in it, and every with weeds. Down near the Casa Marina there is a park, and you ean hardly see the benches for weeds. I can’t seen any civic pride in continuing to be a ghost town, a town that has been forgotten. Key West has a chance now, but it ought to work. Maybe its the stagnated city or county govern ment. I don’t know what it is, but its something People drive down out of curiosity to see the town, but they will only buy gas to go back to Miami. They won't stay, they won't ever linge: Key West ought to meet 'th halfway. They ought to,'pal, one their Sunday clothes, anrk fects them on and maké the Ww attractive as. possible, . Paint: up put color-on all the houses, which look like shacks. Bul, your. wors danger is the heavy traffic pound ing those bridges to pieces. They should be policed warning signs placed on them. GEORGE HARRIS. March 28, 1938, St. Petersburg, Fla may a OFFERS CRITICISM Edtior, Tire Citizen I have been a winter visitor to Key West for the past ten y I have always admired and ed the town, but unless some ng done to keep the carnival at- mosphere out of your I am afraid it is going man, boosters. Yes I drove Beach, abominable sight of certain cigarette tack dow of each “Caba Beach has always bee of beauty where one rest and calm sight gives one the a cheap Sur town w stop this n of advertising DOREEN M. DOYLE. Lansing. Mich rs. jor- to lose rday March Key W TEXACO FIRE CHIEF GASOLINE — MARINE SERVICE — Compiete service to yachts in- | } i | | Pela Dealers ip the, World” “| Watch The Fords Go By Kraft Miracle Whip Salad Dressing and Mayonnaise ‘Make Your SALADS / Taste Better Today’s Birthdays Daniel C. Roper, Secretary of Commerce, born in Marlboro Co., S. C., 71 years ago. Gov. Bibb Graves of Alabama, born at Hope Hull, Ala., 65 years ago. Karl A. Crowley, solicitor of the postoffice department, born at Smithville, Tenn. 44 years ago. President Alexander G. Ruth- ven of the Univ. of Michigan, born at Hull, Ia., 56 years ago. Linton Wells, journalist, trav- eler, author, born at Louisville, Ky., 45 years ago. Ui Dr. Clifford E. Waller, assist- ant surgeon-general, U. S. Public Health Service, born at Bremond, Tex., 52 years ago. Julius D. Stern of New York and Philadelphia, newspaper publisher, born 52 years ago. Agnes Repplier of Philadel- phia, noted author, born there, 80 years ago. hy vol r TEXACO FIRE CHIEF GASOLINE PAUL’S TIRE SHOP Cor. Fleming and White Sts. —Courteous Service—- PHONE 65 RE CROCE BES TREVOR AND wii ih Oldest Continuous. Ford a student, with a leaning toward scientific amiable strong willed, and sympathy for others, which may | make tempered with judgment. TIMELY JOTTINGS FROM A 'Britain Is Warned SAFE DRIVER'S NOTE! Of Wartime Faminc (Ry Associated ems) LONDON, April 1.—Prediction that Britai would be starved into submission in the first month or two of a new unless vast quantities of emergency war, rations were stored throughout the coun- try, has been made by J. R.Clynes who was food controller during the World war. In his “memoirs,” Clynes hits hard at. war-mongers; “By whose agency war oceurs- it :is-difficult to say unless it i\by “those tton- cerns whose life depends af the continued. production of private fortunes from armaments. | “The armaments race was won in 1918. Death stood grinning at the finish point... we won tt race, God help us, and now with millions in misery, with festering slums and incredibly fantastic debts, we are lining up in grisly pride ready for the art of ar yet more mad and horrible.” Casualty & = Today’s Horosco} : Je} s for today indicate subjects. disposition, A gentle, not too - with much; WHY, THE VERY IDEA! the measily deceived.| CHICAGO. — Mrs. Catherine While it is well to be forgetful! Elston of this city sued her hus- of self, this virtue needs to be|band for rent of two rcoms in a {house he had deeded to her. ae PAGE THREF ‘Skunks Settle Down i In Snooty District (My Axneciated Press) OAKLAND, Calif., April 1 Residents of the fashionable Up- per Park boulevard district, in a hilly Francisco bay, have appealed to the city to rid the neighborhood of skunks. One of the nearby has long been the home of a Yew .skunks, H. G householer, explained, but recent ly the anim have multiplied rapidly now are invading lence property, he complain section overlooking San wooded canyons Porter, a ed. NO NAME LODGE At South Ferrv Landing Directly On Beach COTTAGES BATHING FISHING BOATS RATES: $1. $2. $3 Per Day PLAN TO LEAVE KEY WEST IN TIME TO ENJOY MEAL | BEFORE TAKING FERRY | Stone Crabs -—- Turtle Steaks i Steaks i Phone No Name No. | Mr. and Mrs, C. L. 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