The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 28, 1938, Page 2

‘The Key West Citizen ! ept Sunday By HE OPEIZEN PUBLISHING €O4 IN 1. PL AMPMAN, President and P JOE ALLS, Annintant Business Manager Prom ‘the Citizen Building Corser Greene and Ann Streets vaily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe anty matter Annocinted ail news dispatehe entitled to use credited to and alse of the credited in this paper SE MSCRIPTION RATES 310.00 5.00 250 86 ADVERTISING KATES 4 application. MHAL NO 3 s of thanks, resolutions of , Will be eh. d for at by churehes from which a line, avites diseu real or gene nonymons communi- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage Comprehensive City Hotel Bathing Pavilion Plan (Zoning). and Apartments. rports-—Land and Sea. ‘onsolidation of County and City Governments. The real American tragedy: An honest man, anxious to work, unable to find a job. There is very little difference between und women, but whatever it is—long it live. men may the husband is the head but the technicality Technically, the household, usually overruled. of is When a salesman offers to sell you it a loss to himself, you ean save for him and for you by rejecting his generosity. something money The three Miat mi Must-Get-Theirs, all for one and one for all, fighting for their | political lives, are being blocked at every | turn, but they will lose even if they should | win, folks think there is a vast. under- «round reservoir potable water under thie island of Key West, and if this is dis- time, perhaps, Key West not the mainland will supply this city the with the much needed H20. W. M. Egan, of the Key West Infor- mation Bureau, is given eredit by “Par” of Cuba for the vision of the Pan-American Highway connecting the Americas by way of Cuka and Yucatan, thus shortening the preposed highway by 1,650 miles. “Bill” be things as usual, but he cid not have this vision. That belongs else- where ang The Citizen will be telling it in a short while. Some [ of in and and covered keys may “seeing” Author Ernest Hemingway, West's leading citizens, and itul in the production of a picture on the Spanish civil war, witnessed its premier and received an ovation from the public. Since the picture one of Key instru- me was shown in Barcelona, alist stronghold, and Heming- way has expressed himself as favoring the Loyalists, it is . a Ley presumably propaganda in- imical to the cause of General Franco, gen amo of the Leftists. The West's depicting Key had most of them favorable. tanding obje March of fall and rise, ‘Time, seen by millions, ts reactions tion was the screen- s and cabarets, Last peek in As- . N. J., a former Key Wester saw and wrote The Citizen as fol- of was seemingly a pit the Is land City, “The Park reaction the audience ying ard presumably he impression the preducers de t cture of the “B the most dilapidated sled on four wheel drew roars of laug} The only oth tators er time rhed was wher BALL STARS MAKE NEWS Baseball fans had plenty of choice morsels to chew on during the first days of the 1938 season, and sports. writers were in their glory. To mention only a few of the high spots: Off the diamond the most notable de- velopments were the sale of Dizzy Dean to the Chicago Cubs and the final capitula- tion of Joe DiMaggio to accept the $25,000 salary offered by Colonel Ruppert. The Cubs gave the St. Louis Cardinals three other players and $185,000 in cash for Dizzy. DiMaggio had held out for a salary of $40,000 until a couple of days after the season started. In the first game in a Cub uniform the Dizzy one twirled an easy victory over the Cincinnati Reds, and was relieved after six innimgs when the Cubs had the game in the bag. Bob Feller, youthful piteher of the Cleveland Indians, whose arm was bad during a part of last season, won his first start by shutting out the St. Louis Browns, allowing but one scratch hit. Then there was Young Jim Bagby of the Boston Red Sox, pitching his first major league game, who fanned five of the cham- pion New York Yankees before he taken out for a pinch hitter after hurling was ‘ six innings. He was credited as the winning pitcher, the score being 8 to 4. Perhaps the greatest hero of the op- ening games was Rip Collins, first baseman of the Cubs, who suffered a broken leg last August which it was feared might im- peri! his playing future. In a game with the Reds, Collins batted out a home run, a double and two singles, scoring three runs himself and driving in two others. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citizen Not only is a man’s home his castle, but his jail cell is his sanetuary, accord- ing to a Florida judge. When a prisoner complained that his wife was pestering him, the judge ruled: ‘‘There is no law which gives a man’s wife the right to mo- lest him while he is enjoying himself in peace in the county jail.” Discussing a New York critic who is notoriously caustic in his references to ac- tors and singers, one of the victims recent- ly said: “He’s so tough that when he goes to heaven St. Peter will say to him, ‘All right; you ean come in, but you won't like a Specialized training for soda jerkers is a feature of an enriched curriculum de- vised by thé director of vocational educa- tion in Hawaii, H. L. Freeland, who an- 12-week course in “soda foun- tain technique.” nounces a This month marked the 80th anniver- sary of the Chicago Board of Trade, whose first quarters in'1848 were in a small room over a flour store. Its present building, one of the most imposing in the world, first oc- eupied in 1830, cost about 20 million dol- lars, How little know about a lot of things was illustrated when we read in the current issue of Feedstuffs that 38 million eggs a year are required to dress the leath- er used in kid gloves. No kidding. we A distressed father recently placed the following advertisement in a London news- paper: “A parent has lost the respect of his sm. through inability to some rashly bought old Japanese or Chin- ese tops. Is there any book tions, please son, spin of instruc- Next time father will learn to spin ‘em before he buys ’em. Mur- an- Five years ago Judge Charles S of Worcester, Mass., started an Murphy Day,” and he invites persons of that name to gather from all over New England for a celebration each June 19 Last year about 5,000 came, and he expects that this year. phy nual * twice many Helen Wills Moody, eight times nationz! women’s tennis champion, after a three-year absence from the courts has onnounced that she wlil participate in the t naments in England t the national championship mber. summer and ir disqualified fer dueling ir seven states THE KEY WEST CITIZEN LOCAL THIS AND THATS By WILLY-NILLY OFF TO MIAMI As was stated in this column last week, we were to make a week-end trip to Miami, and we did. Ten minutes after six o'clock Saturday afternoon ail members of the party were ready and we started on the trail to the Magic City. This was my first trip off Key West. I’m 24 years old, so you can see what ‘a novelty it must have been to me. We must that the road on this side of the Overseas Highway District can stand a lot of im- provements. Although it is re- liably reporgjed that some time in the future this stretch of the highway will not be used and that the road will continue over the railroad trestles to Roosevelt Boulevard, we believe that tem- porarily, at least, the stretch now in use should be repaired for the sake of tourists making the trip here, if not for Monroe and Dade county residents. Magnificent Spans After getting into the District the journey is a pleasant one ex- cept for a few sections of the roadway. Travelers must remem- ber, however, that for conveni- ence the District was thrown open for traffic before it was completed, and if there are a number of bumps, one should re- member the ferry trip. What is there for us to say about the Bahia Honda and sev- en-mile bridges after so many tal- ented writers have told in con- vineing and the most descriptive words of the beauty, engineering perfection and wonderful riding over the former FEC railroad viaducts. It is a pleasant inter- lude- after traversing the road leading up to these glass-like spans across the water. We be- lieve it would be hard to find another bridge that would afford a better view of the surroundings for miles around than does the Bahia Honda bridge. On and on we go, passing Key after Key. Grass fires are every- where. Interesting sights, to the writer, zoom into view as we sit in the rumble seat of our friend’s car. Slowly darkness and spat- terings of rain begin to appear. We stop and the two riders in the front change with two in the rumble. One remains there. Ah, the tragedy of it—it is the writ- er. Then we start again. Comes Homestead and the concrete stretch into South Miami. We be- gin to take it slower now, unde- cided just which way to go. We find out the right road and so we reach Miami proper. The trip has consumed exactly four hours. One member of the party is left behind greeting his family, who had made the trip up that morn- ing. Then off to families of two other members of the party, where we bunk later. Two hours are consumed in visiting relatives and shortly after midnight we take in a show at the Olympia. After something to eat, we travel back to the place where we first visited and snatch some sleep, which lasted two hours. Despite what has been said and written about the noise in Miami, we found peace and quiet when we awoke six thirty Sunday morning. Birds chirping and fluttering every re. This is something pleasant! jat is lack- ing in Key West. yi: Breakfast with our which was expertly prepared and immensely enjoyed, we were off for Miami Beach after two mem- hers decided to remain longer with their families. It took us some time to reach the Beach, and although we went the Vene- tian Way and were teuched up for the toll, it was worth it. It is our belief that one would have to travel far and wide to find a more beautiful place than the Beach. The ride through there is breathtaking. No wonder it is a rendezvous of millionaires. Beautiful homes. Beautiful lawns. Streets of the better grade. Every- thing is kept in first-class condi- “Hosts,” But we haven’t much time and we want to see it all. Sewe start for Fort Lauderdale. No one could ask for a better highway than that which we traveled to the Fort. Conerete. Two lane. We pass city after city. , Finally we are there, to be held up by a drawbridge that yacht to go through. We pass after a period and find a sign stretched across the highway that tells this way to the Beach and this way to the Business Section. We follow the latter direction and soon we are walking the main? street of the city, which is only a few blocks. It is well-kept, how and “us Conchs” were surprised to find it as pretty and compact as it was. Key West Misinformation Then we head back to Miami for something for the “inner man”. On the way from Fort Lauderdale, t was going there, signs of every description and size are all along the route. This for sale, that for sale—stop here, stop there—you are now enter- ing—so many miles from this place and that place. All are con- cise and to the point. And to top it all off, we find a sign that says “Visit Key West”, which is al- right. But it goes on to tell about ferry connections, which is all wrong. Why hasn’t this sign been changed? At the bottom, it tells the traveler that Bill Egan is in charge of the Key West Informa- tion Booth in Miami. Why hasn’t Mr. Egan performed his duty and kept the. public informed-to-the- minute? Then there is another sign on the same subject below Miami on the way to the Island City. Both give misleading in- formation. When will this laxity be remedied? We reach Miami, buy fruit, eat at a Spanish restaurant and travel back to where we slept to meet the rest of the party, which had been agreed upon that morning. They are there but it is raining. Then friends call on them and they depart. The rain stops but the party is incomplete. So we wait. Finally we are to- gether—and then starts the trek back home. It is now four thirty Sunday afternoon. Rain. Rain, Rain With sunlight, we see much that was missed on the way up. We mect members of the Motor- cycle Club on their way to the Magic City after an exhibition in Key West. Three trailers are passed and countless automobiles —making us realize the amount of traffic using the highway Smoke from a fire along the road obstructs the driver's view and lights go on. But soon we pass that. Again rain starts, which we are now taking for granted. On the way to Fort Lauderdale we passed in and ogt of little squalls. We pay our toll and again tra- verse the District. A little past Bahia Honda, the writer and his wife, who have been traveling in front on the way back, change with occupants of the rumble seat. Almost as soon as we do, it begins to pour and we are soaked. The driver heads for a small building and we jump out of the rumble and scramble un- der the porch, which is high above the ground, thanks to the builder. The writer loses a neck- tie and clasp “ih the excitement." exe is na Pp, so we all, five» ae pifée* hd tne front seat and continue the journey We meet a fellow Key Wester and two members of the Motor- eycle Club shortly after we start- ed out again. Lights on the Key Wester’s car had failed him and the cyclists were lending aid The cyclists turn back to Key West because of the rain. We lead the car in, with the motor- cycle tagging along. At Bayview Park we leave them behind and head for our homes. It is nearing ten o'clock, al- most two hours longer than we took going up. But no one was hurt and we experienced no trouble whatsoever with the auto- mobile. We had a pleasant trip, TIL ILP BBA BLBI GEAR OLDS, \G 2 AUTO AND DRIVER COA AL A hd dh bedbedaded EACH ADDITIONAL PASSENGER TRUCKS—ACCORDING TO SIZE (LeELLALAAA AAA AL The New OVERSEAS HIGHWAY TOLL RATES * 2 8 # AP LALALALZLALLALA is allowing a; some - - TODAY’S COMMON ERROR Coup is pronounced keo; TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to Page 4 for the answers eeeeeeeeoes 1. Name the Administrator of the United States Housing } Authority. What is a vestigial organ? Which boxing bout drew the largest gate receipts? Name the Governor of Ver- mont. What is a Novena? In which country is the Lake of Bienne? Which state is called the “Cotton State”? Where in the U. S. is the best known planting of Japanese Cherry Blossom trees? How many avoirdupois, pounds are in one short ton? What does the word evange- list mean? 10. saw a lot, rode a lot and got back safely. Making a trip to Miami now is a far-ery from train and ferry days. With a “change” of clothes and a little “changd@’ in your pocket, most anyone can enjoy a further “change”—of scenery. Our next object is the Tamiami Trail, Tampa, St. Petersburg and surroundings. Will we make it? That lies in the future. We are hoping it will materialize. After-Thoughts Miami is a city of lights, both neon and traffic. . .Most all streets are well-kept and smooth riding. .Filling stations are numerous, as are fruit and barbecue stands. No one has to starve in the Magic City for the want of a place to eat—if they have the money. . . Most impressive was the City Hall, that tallest of tall buildings. . Everything, even the most ob- scure business, is housed in the smartest of buildings. -People talk and walk fast, which is a novelty to Key Westers. It’s a different way of living. Which is the best? That question has been discussed over and over and as yet no definite answer has been decided upon. Hitler says the Reich wil] act again across her borders if it be- comes necessary. THE ECHO It is well to know how your pen But ruling your pen isn’t like rul- ing our men. The day has passed ruled our fate; to rule when you | I think your existence is one hun- dred years late. s, the Zoning Committee has charge of the band And never listens to an outside fan. We march by their music, you sit in the stand; When the concert is over we'll say the music was grand F. T. JAMES. Yy Four counties: Flagler. Putnam and St. Johns, will com- bine to make the annual potato festival at Hastings on May 5, the largest in the history of this great potato-producing section of Flori- da, H. H. Bailey, member of the board of county commissiane general chairman of the commit tee in charge, and Don M. 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