The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 17, 1938, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1938. | eeccccccccccsccccceccecs { SPENDS 11 DAYS IN DRAINS | WILDLIFE IN THE KEYS —— + TODAY'S COMMON | ERROR Pikesville, Md.—After wander-| SOME CELEBRATION NEEDS THE B UTTE RELY C HASER “The Key West Citizen | Published Daily Except Sunday By CHE! CYEPARN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOR ALKEN, Annis Dusiness Manager Brom ‘rhe Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Oniy Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, ida, as second class matter Member of the Axsociated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to- use «0 for republication’ of all news dispatches. ¢redited to it ér not 6Uherwise credited ti'this, paper aNd also the Tocal ‘néWe? published’ here! pet ie a SUBSCRIPTION RATES Wne Year .. i - a Bix Months . fhree Months One Month . Weekiy .... ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPRCIAL NOTICE All reading notices, ecards of thanks, resolutions of ruspect, obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which a revenue is: to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invices discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but 4t will not publish anonymous cormuni- ‘ektions, SIS at A Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation. of County and City Governments. KEY WEST ; BY THE CITIZEN’ Pests propagate pessimism. Sell your goods, not your customers. A Franklin was a saver and a Frank- lin. is a spender. : A candidate promises according to his hopes, and performs according to his fears. ““““"Phe dictionary defines a Feller as one who fells, That Cleveland pitcher sure does mow “em down. ou. Tale about raising of wages. The boss has to do that every week, unfailingly, and no. alibis accepted, A Key Wester says he came out o. k. “on Friday, the 18th, but had the darndest hard luck & couple of days later. vue Cortect this sentehee: “I will leave this until tomorrow because I will have “more time then to do better work.” Running a home, or a business, effi- ciently is a hard job; that explains why so Taany of them are operated inefficiently. Certainly the country is behind Presi- odent Roosevelt and the New Deal—yntil the money heldg.eut.. Then you will'see 4 reaction wetd yn renetion, ; = pee There are people in the worlds (we ‘are not limiting this statement exclusively, ‘to Key West) who are opposed to any- thing that anyone else undertakes. They y helong to the rule or ruin species. . « When the lexicographer , the..word “rotten” into the English ‘ guage, it is possible he had. ‘politics’ . taind, lan- ® ** No matter what side a takes on a public question, there will be those’ who oppose the newspaper's view. point,—and that very, cqndition makes for progress. eof oT asduD o exanteT URE, the salage eth newspaper..was on_a-cash register basis, wages were ‘even then the ghost failed to walk Te TQRo (Pree business é heén introdiiced jin news- “paper publishing, the outlook is much rosier. “A With the withdrawal of Cleveland Niles, who lost to T. Jenkins Curry as commissioner for the fifth district, there is but one local office to be veted om in the second primary, that of the state legis- lature. In the run-off Tuesday, May 24, Ca¥o is opposing Papy, and indications are “that the fight will be a hot ene, ax exch has +a host of friends and admirers. introduced | in} The connotation is unimpeachable. | newspaper | Three committees assisting in the ar- | vangements for the July 2-4 celebration ' observing the formal opening of the Over- seas Highway should begin functioning at once. They are the finance, the housing and the cleanup committees, The finance | group is zoning the city and plans to make ' a house-to-house canvass for. funds in the | expectation of substantially swelling the | sums already appropriated or expected | the bridge _ commission and other official bodies. Advance information released | Celebration Manager Warren Smith | dicate that a considerable sum of money | may be needed adequately to finance the Tt is hoped that every Key Wester | from the county commission, by in- event. able to do so give at least $1 toward the , | fund. The celebration must not fail be- | eause of a trifling shortage of money. | If all the people come here who are | expected, Key West is going to find her- | self swamped under the greatest flood of | visitors in her history. It becomes a mat- | ter of vital importance to find housing \facilities for the incoming horde::..Cer- “ to handle the influx; so the houising: {/mittee should get busy. at once “makin, | survey to find out how many rod%ms in’ pY¥i- | vate homes will be available. Once the exact housing capacity of the city is known the general arrangements | committee can then be called upon to pro- | vide additional facilities. These may be furnished through construction of a tent city or the use of passenger ships that may be induced to tie out at our waterfront. Perhaps both of these facilities may be re- quired. Hence the need for an early hous- | ing survey. Then comes the cleanup’ committee. Plans are under way whereby householders will be induced. to clear up their own yards and vacant properties, piling the debris at the curbs where it can be collected by trucks volunteered for the service. The cleanup. committee has an important job, for we want to look our best. when the visi- tors arrive. Key West wants to put on her best bib and tucker and show’ the world she has emerged from the depths of the de- pression, It’s good business. | | | | | JAMES ROOSEVELT BORN LUCKY This editorial, from the Yonkers (N. Y.)' Herald Statesman, is reproduced with- out comment: “News dispatches from Boston tell of a WPA appropriation of $11,000 to straighten out a bend in a road in Framingham suburb. That the job, when completed, will add 1,600 more feet of lawn to an adjoining property, approximately 100 feet wide along the entire front of. the present road- side, and will permi” sereening of the house from the highway by trees, merely points to the far- sighted vision of the owner in his chase, e “And that the owner is none other than Crown Prince James Roosevelt, not without influence in {Washington bureaus, is purely coincidental, Some folks are merely lucky, including the. son)\.at ja } President who can carn $85,000 a... Year trough absentee partnership in a Boston insijrangd offide while serving full time, as required by’ thé Taw, it the White House secretariat. : | “But wouldn't it be nice if that luck could | come to ordinary folks, too?” NO DOUBLE-DECK ON OCEAN HIGHWAY (Sanford Herald) Seems to us that in some. part of this paper | some time ago the people were advised that cer- tain spans of bridge on the new overseas highway | between Miami and Key West were doubled- iceked. In a talk the other day with C. H. | Smith, who is with the state vehicle commission | and stationed at Miami, he stated that he had | been over the road twice and that no part of it is | double-decked. Mr. Smith said, however, that the original | plans called for two decks, on stretches where the | | trestle wae narrow and did not seem to have room | for a two way road, but these plans were changed All of the highway is twenty feet wide. He says there is nothing scary about traveling the high- | Way over the sea, although at one point the road is sixty-five feet above the water. There are sub- stantial curbs and rails at the edge, so it is im- possible to drive off and practically impossible to get bumped off. We are going to be a bit disappointed at find- ing no two-deck work when we go over the bridge, bet hope we have not disappointed anybody else ty o misleading statement, which was copied from | Somebody else's mistake, anyhow. tainly: our hotels are not adequate enough { recent pur- GONE BY w Age Today, As Taken Froim! The.Files ‘of. The Citizen The city should: bore for water at its own expense This is the decision reached by city council last night after a long meeting; during which made by the Key Company headed Meacham was. discussed from every angle. At this meeting council voted unanimously for the proposition West Water. resolution calling for an appro-; ‘priation of $100,000! of public im- provement bonds to be used in drilling for water on the city’s behalf. The city attorney was authorized to engage the services |of a bond attorney to pass on the legality of the proposed issue. There were 75 or more: citizens present and they were very inter- ested in the proceedings, The by Malcolm: | |and tidal creeks, | | which bordered oo Today’s Horoscope Poceoces reanaeneseegsees | » Poday, gives an. agreeable, even 4 Joting person,’ one’ disposed: to find happiness in the ordinary walks of life. Parts of the. day will. “bring, power, and authority, but it may include a rather arbi- ; trary spirit, and thus contradict the general tendency to tolerance. This should be guarded against, though: there seems to be no spe- cial: indication of misfortune. who have not entered now can’t get in. They lost their chance yesterday afternoon when the cir- cuit court clerk’s office closed. Even. at that they had days lon- ger here than in some parts of the state. Nobody took advan- tage of this fact however. Ap- parently nobody who plans to run was willing to risk waiting un- til the last minute to get in as all of them qualified by Tuesday. Many of the candidates in this election have no opposition this time. consessus of opinion is that to get fresh water here as soon as pos- sible is very essential. Practical- | ly every person. who was present expressed the thought what With- out the presence of fresh water {the city cannot get very far. | Among those giving short talks | were Sam Brown, B. D. Trevor, Sam Hart, Paul Boyson, Walter | Thompson, Robert. W. Austin, Cornelius N. Peterson, Charles | White and Lykes Turner.- , Congressman J. W. Sears will laddress the voters of Key West | | tomorrow night in the interest of his race for re-election. He will |speak at Bayview Park at 9 |o’elock. Mr. Sears has represent- jed this district in Congress for | almost 20 years. It is expected he will show in his talk what he has accomplished in that time, what he has tried to do and what he hopes to do if re-elected. The official certified list of | state candidates for the June pri- mary, was, received by the county cleric this. Morning; it. is an- nounced... This. will, alloW ‘the county commissioners. to.go ahead with ,the, work, of having podllots | prepared-for Moaroé:¢ounty. Thd \law provides*they’shall be ready ‘for di§tyiWutih"by' May 21,’ which }is: Monday. ++: Entries for the primary are all in, exactly 60 of them. Those "it wv Editorial comment: No sir those city officials haven’t bought their state lieenses for their auto? ‘mobiles as yet. At least they hadn’t secured them the last time , they drove by this office. The fire bell in the city hall tower was sounded yesterday af- | ternoon at a late hour in celebra- ‘tion of the news received telling of Key West getting the 1929 convention of the State Firemen’s | Association. The County Highway Ferry Monroe County, Captain A. E. Sharpley, which had been on Curry’s marine railway for sev- eral days, was let down in the water yesterday afternoon. The vessel will return to No Name Key just as soon as the wind moderates. Ferry Henry M. Flagler ar- rived in port last evening from Havana with 24 cars of pine- apples, and two carloads of sugar. The shipment of pineapples amotihted' to, 10,333 crates. Advices received im the city i this morning were that President | Coolidge yesterday signed a joint resotution of Congress authoriing the,, bureau. .of. publi¢, roads’ to make a survey of the uncom- pleted ridges -of:: the » Overseas Highway ftdni' Key West to the mainland. * i i Li PLAY SAFE— Ry keeping FOODSTUFFS at the right temperature in one of our ALL METAL ICE REFRIGERATORS These refrigerators are doubly HEAT PROOF and absolutely air tight $20.00 op Easy Terms—10 Days Free Trial By E. M. | COCCS CCR SO Cecccccoeoele | Roseate Spoonbill Local names: Pink, Pink Cur- lew, Pink Bird. I shall never forget my first | Spoonbill.. It was one of those |gray, still days that sometimes |come to the Carolina Tidewater jin early fall, when all the world recedes and becomes | become one. with the misty dis- tance. Cruising slowly along in a world of limitless salt marsh my thoughts | were, perhaps, also removed from my surroundings, so that I looked idly enough at a flock of Wood | Ibis standing metionless on a flat the waterway. These were no rarity, and T was turning away when my eye was caught by something which, somehow, for a moment, failed to register. A splash of pure rose, glowing softly against the drab background, took on the sem- blance of some fabulous jewel, and I do not know how long I may have stared’ before I realized that I was looking at a bird, a | Spoonbill. How he came to be there, so many’ hundred miles from his present range, I do not know, unless some vague urge prompted him to visit a land ‘which his’ ancestors once claimed as:their own. At any rate he had wandered: far afield, and now, Jonely and with little chance of meeting one’ of his own kind, he was driven for companionship to birds. of am alien species. Fashion Is Enemy The history of the Spoonbill is much the same as that of many of our most beautiful species. When the first settlers came to this continent the Spoonbill rang- ed: throughout the South Atlantic and Gulf States, and, occasional- ly, a wanderer may have: drifted as far north as Pennsylvania. Many were killed for food with- of this beautiful species was— “Fashion”! Milady found that Spoonbill feather made most gor- geous ornamental fans, and so, many thousands of wings; meant were stripped of their rose hued dress in-order that madame might gratify her vanity with another beautiful: toy. Those days are gone, but we still have the killer’ who sées beauty only in dead things. This type is an’ ever-present problem yet to be dealt with by those who bélieve that the Creator of all things gave us the lovely things of this world to treasure _ and learm from, in order that we may the more easily attain’ to that hhh dkudh TA PPL EEA Bd hd ddkdadae) AND NOW COMPLETE STOCK OF OAK FLOORING—IN FOUR DIFFERENT GRADES—VERY HIGH GRADE—WELL MANUFACTURED PRICES START AT— MD. MLSS BS DMM: | FIPIIFTILZALLLA ALLL DE GET THIS A BARGA N . . K . WOOD Das, infinitely ; remote, and even nearby objects! out a doubt, but the real enemy | to ride the winds of the world, STOCK. }ing for eleven days, wriggling | through. underground drain pipes, Frisky, a ‘terrier, was rescued by James Taylor, Negro chauffeur, | who heard his feeble bark and lifted him through a garage floor } drain. | spiritual beauty which He re- quires of us. Habits The Spoonbill feeds mainly on in the mangrove’ swamps, food consisting of small. fish, | erustacea, shell fish and insects. The nests are: usually: built about 15 Yeet above the watér in} mangrove bushes, and ‘thé, birds! frequently nest in. a rookery of White Ibis or Herons. Usually three, but sometimes as many as five eggs are deposited in the nest. Identification Lenth, 30 inches; spread, inches; bill, 6 to 7 inches; spatu- late; upper neck and back, white; wings and under parts, delicate rose madder; shoulders and tail coverts, carmine; head, bare, yel- lowish green, The Garden. Club of Key West, in cooperation with the National Association of Audubon Socie- ties, has recently appropriated ieifered in four prizes bf local Junior Audu- tt © wish to compete. exdollar prizes and two jollars and one-half will led for essays of not less f ls on the subject of a for Conservation of Wildlife in the Florida Keys”. ‘The Garden Club should have | tke wholehearted thanks of the community for its interest in a matter’ which is closely bound up with the welfare of the Key West area, it is stated. 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