The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 6, 1938, Page 2

SPAGE TWO | The Key West Citizen «pt Sunday By Corner Greene and Ann > Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Oniy Daily g matter Axnocinted Press entitled to use ies credited to the ively for republication © dispat it or not otherwise this 7 the local new MEMBER wne Year Gix Months Three Months me Month ds of thanks, resolutions of , will be charged for at All reading notices, respect, obituary notices, the rate of 10 cents a line N s for entertainments by churches from which is to be derived are 5 cents a line. n is an © forum and invites discus- issues and subjects of local or general t will not publish: anonymous coramuni ete | IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST | ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Compreheusive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports-——Land and Sea. of County and Consolidation City Governments. Lithuania has her reasons for avoid- ing the magnetic Pole. Under a- dictatorship man has no rights worth mentioning—only duties. Customers are the precious things; goods are only grass.—Chinese proverb. In case anyone wants to know, Easter is always the first Sunday after the moon, after March 21. Administration Most of The claim that the has no foreign policy is all wet. its policies are foreign. Michigan State Highway Commission- | er Murray D. Van Wagoner, in taking of- fice as president of the American Road Builders’ association, at Lansing, Mich., re- ferred to the Overseas Highway “the outstanding road development the United States.” as in The new automobile highway to Key | West has just opened, And now motorists, who are always in a hurry to get somewhere, can drive down there and turn around and come back.—Sanford Herald. It is true they must turn around to go ack; -they can. go no farther, for this is the end of 'the line. However, most of them linger, reluctant to depart. been Not being in position to randle large conventions at the present time, Key West should encourage and endorse conventions for Miami. All the conven- tionists will express a desire to drive Key West over the New Highway and un- doubtedly motorcades will be formed to make the trip. In making its bids for these conventions, Miami will not be slow in beauty of the Overseas Highway a added attraction to what the Magic City has to offer. herself, to stressing the charm and ar Now that Key West hs ‘limburger cheese tree” it’s up to The Key West Citi of odor the No authorit begs zen to tell folks what sort blooms have.—Times-Union on odoriferousness, The Citizen are interested in the scent of the “hm- West over the scenic Overseas Highway and } hale the pungent aroma, to which Shak speare probably referred in the Merry Wives of Windsor, when he designated it as, “the rankest cempound villanou smell that ever offended nostril.” all burger cheese tree” to drive to Key of FINANCIAL ODE Owe $50 you're a piker. Owe $50,000 you're a business man $ Owe $50,000,000 you're tyreoon Owe $5,000,000,000 yc —Sarasota Herald full | INSURANCE BILLIONS It may be surprising to many to learn that the income of life panies in the United States for the year insurance com- 1936 totalled 5,180 million dollars, reach- This than 843 million greater than ing a new high mark. was more their in- come for 1929. The total value of policies in force at the end of 1936 was 104,667 million dol- rs, as compared with 103,146 million in 1929. Total assets of the companies were 24 874 million 17,482 million in 1929. It is interesting to note that more new in 1936, as against life insurance was purchased by the Amer- ican people in 1936 than the total amount in force in the year 1900, which was about 8,562 million. New policies 1926 totalled 8,651 million. that this amount was equalled or exceeded in 1987. Life insurance on a was established less than 100 years after numerous failures. ducted today it began with the incorpora- tion of the New York Mutual in 1842 closely followed the establishment the w York Life, the Penn Mutual and ! others which are among the leaders sued during It is believed sound financial bas ago, con- by of at | present, There are now more than 120 million life insurance policie: effect the United States, an increase approxi- mately in in of 20 per cent in the last 10 years. “DEATH BEGINS AT FORTY” (Courier-Journal) This is the title of a book just issued con- | taining an analysis of automobile deaths and in States 1937. ‘The “forty” does not refer to age but to speed. The to automobiles an hour | juries in the United during record shows that in accidents | traveling slower than forty mile there | is one chance in forty-four of some | killed. | forty miles an hour, some one is killed in one out one being In accidents to cars traveling faster than of every nineteen mishaps. | The law of motion is that a moving body | tends to continue in a straight line, and the energy of a moving body is in proportion to the | square of the speed. This means that at twenty- | five miles an hour a car has enough energy to | turn over once if diverted from its course. At | fifty miles an hour it has developed not twice that | energy but four times, and may turn over four | times, and at seventy-five miles it has nine times It follows | that any kind of accident to a car at fifty miles the energy it had at twenty-five miles. | probably will be four times as serious as one at twenty-five miles, and at seventy-five miles it will be nine times as seriou as at twenty-five mile | There is no getting away from these figures, and every one who drives an automobile should under: | stand their meaning In the year just past 40,300 Americans were | killed and 1,221,090 were injured by automobile In the six major wars that our country has waged since 1776 and which lasted a total of fifteen years, the or died of wounds was 244,357. 1923 to 1937 killed in action In of number of soldiers who were the fifteen years from victim our auto mobiles numbered 441,912, almost twice the their ber of soldiers who died for country. The automobile died for nothing Study victim: of this disgraceful record reveals jack of consideration for others, both in car some\ an bour, Notwitl rs and in highways and a better tween nd s mile: for every driving r standing improve ment in both ca law the last year quality of enforcement during the number of traffic d nd the polic and the police again years cut of | | } THE KEY WESZ CITIZEN KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen A preliminary survey, of the Overseas Highway _ bridg will begin within a week. E. C. Fer- guson, of the engineering division of the State Road Department, is authority for this statement. The will be pushed vigorously, the’ tstate engineer cooperating with the survey forces declares. Announcement of Mr. Ferguson’s. statement was made last night at the regular meeting of the coun- ty commissioners, Chairman Otto Kirchheiner said this morning. Monroe's portion of the Tamiami Trail is all ready for acceptance by the state, except approximate- ly one mile of the road next to the Dade county stretch A. T. Roberts today announcement of can- didacy for a chair on the board of county commissioners from the Third District. Mr. Roberts is well-known in Key West in both private and public life. “I have never before been a candidate for elective office, but I was a mem- ber of the board of public works for a period ‘of 14 years and for the past six years have been a member of the special school tax district board. My platform will be strict economy and a reduc- tion in your tax burden which can be effected only through carefulness and watchfulness in public office”. George Mrs. Ernest Holl, of 619 Flem- ing street, has been carrying a fractured shoulder around with her for the past five months, but did not know it until yesterday. At Christmas time, Mrs. Holl, whose husband is an engnieer on the Bagaduce, sustained a_ fall. She thought at the time she had strained a ligament. Continued pain caused her to eventually vis- it the Marine hospital where an X-r photograph disclosed the bone in the shoulder was frac- tured and had not healed in the past five months. The U.S.S. Antares is on this trip to Key West because Rear Admiral Walter Crossley, cem- mander of the squadron_of which the Antare: a part, chose to come here in preference to any’ outer port in the country south of Charleston. It is a custom of the navy to give the officers and men shore leave right after the maneuvers, and this year when Admiral Crossley was told that any port south of Charleston wa at his choice, he named Key West, and n explained to the other officers and crew that Key West was a beautifully attractive city, and though they at first were inclined to doubt the state- ment, they are by now fully agreed the admiral was right Editorial comment: L. T. Bra gas plan for advertising Key West on every letter sent out of the city is a capital one. To fol low it will almost nothing and will go far toward bringing the city’s advantages to the at tention of the people of the na tion cost A program including the dra- matization, of “Little Bo Peep”, following the meeting of the Kin dargarten Club at , the kinder- building yesterday | The playlet was with songs and rec nd delightful musical nur The club's spe tions ber event by the entertainment com. ven promin the The of Hamil Receive Y¢ The CITI By 6 PHONE-- WESTERN UNION Between 6 and 7 P. M. and a Western Union Messenger Boy will deliver your copy of The Citizen. CoA Ahh hh db dh dhe hededadddeds TWO AIMS! emerges! She always has been a beauty But for a long time she has been Her charm squandered, her beauty obscured, her habits > could have been This was Miss deplorable reproved easily Key West. But her position changed. She now has Mr. Op- portunity by her side. And they're taking notice of the old girl. She’s using paint on every hand, she’s washing clean. But she has a big job ahead. The tide is now running and with it she gains not only what has run out but a great deal mor This is the period for development as well! Mention has been made of the work of the Blighted Area com- mittee, of the Zoning Committee, of the real estate agents here who are improving the looks of the town and interesting outside capital, which already is building homes, establishing hotels, and renovating buildin: This but part of the work, and mostly that on the outside. How about the glorious nature all around us! Shouldn't we give it a helping hand, and form a beautiful bac ground behind us? You can’t change a sunset— and the Lord knows we wouldn’t want to change those here, the most striking sunsets in the world. But we have two fields, which can be developed surpr ingly. The wild life of the Keys and Key West! The brilliant and delicate tropical plant life! The National Association of Audubon Societi long been interested in Key West and the Keys. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Bryant Kirke last summer invit- ed Robert Allen, Jr., national di- rector, and Alexander Sprunt, southern sanctuary director, to come down and improve our bird life. They came before Christ- mas, and with them a lecturer. It was not long after that a game warden was assigned the Keys by the Society in the person of Ed- ward Moore, who has had a great deal of experience among water fowl Key West and the Florida Keys could be picturesque with the beautiful hues of the flamingo, the white heron, the black and white sea birds, and all by proper development and observance of the game laws. Flocks of these birds would soar over the Over- seas Highway and the Keys sec- tion could be unique in the world by it. The warden is doing all he can to help along this end the rest lies with us. This is one picture we must keep in mind! The second picture shows Key West the arden Spot of the Countr Miss Mollie Parker, in her experiment station, and the ladies of the Garden Club and Tree Guild, headed by president Mrs. Norberg Thompson, have demonstrated how surprisingly quic a luxuriant, _ planned srowth over the city can be had. Miss Parker in her experiment station } cool walks, shaded by large vines and trees, watered by large, natural wells and with ome of the most gorgeous hues of flowers and unique plants in the world her gardens. The 1 Garden Stock Is s a beautiful greenery, nice- 1 out in ‘ork, beau grassed housing collection has been in on tifully wond flora We ye Garden Club ar method n they have ng plendid of bi to attain ned for Key We ability a ef \ OP APRA AAA ee ZEN v. ms. Seems that th’ gov’ment spenders are 80 generous they'd give th’ shirt off th’ taxpayers back. Many a scarcecrow is a martyr t’ ‘AW FOR THE LADIES ETHEL Rees MURRELL Oe rerececerovecccsoucese ally, today the married wo- men of Florida is the ox, the bur- den bearer, the village idiot. Does that sound like strong languag We repeat, married women are Worse, they are classed with lunatics and chil- dren! Don’t take our word for it. It is not we who hurl these insulting epithets at you. On the contrary, tell you how the laws of Florida clz you. Go to the nearest law library and read there for yourselves!—“Married women, lunatics, idiots and mi- nors You'll find it in the Statutes, you'll find it in the case books, and you'll find it stamped like a slave brand across the brow of every free-born Ameri- can woman who is married in the state of Florida. And gentlemen, like it, either! We mother you, and cook for you, and bear your children! We listen to your jokes and smile when you dance on our toes, and even play opposite you at bridge. We drag our weari- ness around golf courses after you, and scorch our throats with cigarettes and cocktails, to play up to what you call good sports- manship. The modern woman has become the grandest little quick- change artist in the world. But in return, we want acknowledge- ment of the intellect we have un- earthed to please you! If we're going to have to take our medi- cine before the law the sam Ss you do, we want our rights be- fore the law! classed with idiots! we we do not eccccsece TODAY’S 1789—Isaca Hill, noted New Hampshire newspaper publisher, U. S. senator and governor, born at Cambridge, Mass. Died March 22, 1851. 1823—Joseph Medill, Chicago editor and newspaper publisher, mayor and Republican leader born ‘in New Brunswick. Died March 16, 1899. 1866—Lincoln Steffens, journ- alist, writer and roving crusading editor, born in San Francisco. Died at Carmel, Cal., Aug. 9, 1936. 1868—Helen Hyde, artist, for many years resident in Japan, born at Lima, N. Y. 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