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

vAGe TWG Key West Citizen vac Valls xcept Sunday By UBLISHING CO. INC. *ré nt and Publisher Ee “ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Gréene and Ann Streets Oniy Daily Newspapér in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entilied to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it of ndt Utherwisé Eredited inthis paper and also | the Jocal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year . Bix Months . Phree Months ie Month eekly ADVERTISIN “Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE respect, obitaary notices, ete., the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which -® revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- gion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest hut, it will not publish anonymous coramuni- cations. ee Via0 IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST): wo sas ADVOCATED BY THE crrtaie biod greiner Water and Sewerage.’ + Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City tats dhe _ Common sense and sympathy over- ‘comes many difficulties. This is what the sweet young thing would call “gorgeous” weather, or is “marvelous” the word! in . Business conditions, particularly Key West, according to this column’s guess, | ‘will gradually improve from now on. One of the surprises of modern civil- ization is the number of men and women - who will do anything for enough money. . Dictators Hitler and Mussolini have pledged lasting and eternal friendship. This means until their selfish interests con- fliet. A rejected suitor died and left a large sum of money to the woman who had mar- ried another. That wasn't folly, that was "gratitude. : _ Readers are invited to contribute ex- "pressions of opinion to The Citizen, All that is asked is that the contributions be brief, intelligent and tolerant. Add life’s surprises: Getting five = lars back from a man who borrowed, two days befoxa-with the aioe: that he would “pay it back; promptly, 5 Seats, éiak¥body: understands the eed torjegoperativn, iit the trouble :.-is “that there are too maniy.'people. whe want to be director of the activities of those who | _ cooperate. Many towns in the state are planning motoreades to Key West. tinent to see——-The Kissimmee Gazette. All will find a hearty welcome here in the | southernmost city of the United States. Mitkhty nice these days to go to bed | With the song of the whip-poor-will ring- | ing in your ears and have that operatic feathered songster, the mocking bird, wake you in the morning.—Times-Union. The only truth in this rhapsody is the awaken- ing in the morning; but, perhaps, the big town editor is on his vacation in some sylvan spot, Aviator Rosillo made his memorable flight from Key West to Havana as is gen- erally known, but the Miami Herald with . its aceustomed deprecatory attitude to- wards Key West studiously avoided to men- tién that Rosillo made the flight from this tity twenty-five years ago. At that time Miami was still in swaddling clothes and had less than 1,500 iphabitarts. The. peo- ple of Key West desire to pursue a “good reighber” policy toward Mi but fiad deterrent In that commendable pursuit by Miami's constant “belittlin’.” ‘ All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of | will be charged for at | We} charter I That Overseas | . Highway is worth traveling across the con- | GIVE OUR BOATMEN A CHANCE Owners of the Key West fleet of | charter boats have organized an association for their mutual protection and for the pro- tection of the game fish which abound in our wat The fishing grounds all along the Florida Keys and off Key West are world-renowned and will do as much as anything the next few years, past, to attract vacationists and: winter residents. The boat owners can do mien: t6 pre-,, vent needless destruction of game fish. | They guide have taken a reasonable number of sailfish, amberjack or tarpon, the others | caught, if uninjured after being brought | to boat, are released to provide other fish- | ermen with sport and to propagate them- selves, One of the other proposals advanced "| by the boatmen’s association isthe passage of a city ordinance providing for an ex- | | amining board of guides and boat hand- lers. A requirement to obtaining a Key West license would be residence here for six months. It is argued this would keep out the fly-by-night boatmen who have done so much to cheapen the fishing activities around Miami and Miami Beach. We can see. no harm in,guch an. ordi- nance if the boatmen' whs"bmpose the , poand,of examiners act wisely and reason- ‘Ably. It is certain that thes;demand for ts will inerease measurably next. felliard winter and in the years to come. e-examining board must make allow- t ance for such an expansion and issue licen- | ses in pace with the development. If this is not done spme of the charter boat business | will slip entirely away from Key West and | go elsewhere. That would hurt other Key | West businesses based on the tourist and vacation trade. On the whole our boat owners are competent, level-headed businessmen and the majority can be trusted properly to handle the charter ship industry. After all, ships cannot be legislated off our waters. All that can be done is to curtail solicita- tion of fishermen on land. Therefore, mod- eration should be the watehword of the charter boat owners. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citizen A quick flash of memory at a criti- cal moment prevented the suicide of Mike Kopkotel of Pittsburgh. Penniless and des- pondent, he jumped from a bridge, but upon reaching the water uninjured he swam frantically for the shore. fished out he explained that on the way down he suddenly remembered that he had a five-year-old deposit of $68 in an up- town bank. Fred Kowalski, a Texas justice of the peace, boasts that when he married a couple they stay put. Checking up recent- ly he says he found that of some 4,000 couples married by him in eight years only § heen divorced. ““Bileen Wenzel, a former Follies dan- “rad who two years ago won a $40,000 damage suit because an automobile acci-’! as in the. n be sure that after the parties they f When | Ai ple at the cros¢ Foads! THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | + TODAY’S COMMON ERROR Curaior is pronounced giu-ray’-tor; not kur’-a- tor. . TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE) test questions? Turn to , .. Page’§ for ‘the answers sececcceevercscccoensese cipal well, is still the subject of) What ‘is copra? Name ithe Governor of New York State. Name the, eapital ‘of’ Nevada. They say ~“the “ chanches What woma\ made the first against finding such water. If the} solo flight from Hawaii to Well is sunk at the city’s ekpense | California? What is a seismograph? Name the chairman of the shown that one well will not be| Federal Reserve Board. revenue? Name the last Czar of Rus- sia. What is insomnia? Name the large French sea- considered port city on the Strait of drilling here admit the truth of Do MOTHER NATURE Oft. as I wander in memory, Dream,of my childhood days, I wonder I did not réalize ' | . Can, you answer seven of these \ater here and going on record In the U. S., what is internal there is water here unless that} | well strikes it. If one dry well was | More of Nature and her ways. H ere Our ‘best teacher is Mother Nature— instructs way. Those of us gressors Will live to rue it some day. She us only one who are trans- The animals, trees and flow- ers, Vegetation of every kind Acts and responds to Nature; We humans seem to be blind. For Nature will not be beaten And man with his futile brain Forgets that God is Nature— Only He can make it rain. So as we destroy our forests, Keep digging canals to drain, We reap in the form of dust storms— For Nature rules the game. - FRANK C. SCHNEIDER. | 651 William Street. HUGE HANGAR Miami, est in the world, has been gpened ! for use. the Pan-American Airways and will be used to store the new huge airplanes now operated by | this company. L American Council of Education ‘part in the program. | William H. Malone delivered the taddress of the evening and his re- 'marks were listened to with un- ichita Cobo, Natalie Fernandez, |Lounders, Eola Isabelle Pinder, ‘Mary Elizabeth Weech. ‘ed the city this morning and will \zens of Key West this evening at Fla. —A new hangar, Mr. Sears declared today, ‘ 150 by 180 feet, enclosing 76,000'am hoping that they will turn \square feet and giving 35-foot ‘out in large numbers. I think they clearance above ground, the larg-| will not be disappointed. It is being operated by‘ tration books closed the last day (of April with exactly 1,200 new Names on the list. Citizens whose stresses need of advance in edu-, cation for teaching, KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE | Happenings Here Just 10 Years ‘Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen Council’s action in rejecting the Meacham proposal to drill for as favoring a bond issue of $100,- 000 to be spent in drilling a muni- | widespread comment today. Opin- ions as to the wisdom of council’s| agtion differ, widely. Many aré opposed-tor such: a bond _ issue. are and no water is found, the city will simply have lost whatever} the well will have cost. Too it is} enough to determine whether | sunk that should not prove that) another would not strike water. | Geologists admit the truth of thi: contention. All those who have the advisability of | this contention. Every person who has considered the idea of sinking | a well in Key West, were pre- pared to sink at least two wells) before deciding that the ¢ is} hopeless. | The fifty-fifth annual com- | mencement exérdéiseS of the Con- vent of Mary Immaculate held at the Strand Theater last evening l was the scene of a large assemb- | lage of relatives and friends of} the large graduating class taking | Senator | | divided attention by the many who were present on the occasion The graduating class was com- posed of Collette Beaver, Con- ary Elizabeth Grillion, Marie laskins, Anita Kantor, Eva G. ee, Mary Lightbourn, Margaret Margaret Louise Sanz, Anna Thompson, Cornelia Elizabeth Warren, Miriam Watkins, and} Congressman W. J. Sears reach- be heard in an address to the citi- Bayview Park. “I have a number of maters which I believe will be :of interest to every Key Wester,” ‘and I After 5 o'clock tomorrow after- abilities, that either of them ac- | jband may also bequeath iawn FOR THE ON eeeeves ceccccccccccces. If you can stand a little seven- teenth century language, follow! while we quote again: “Upon this principle, of an union of hus- band and wife, depend almost all the legal rights, duties and dis-! quire by the marriage. I speak not, at present. of the rights. of property, but of such as are merely personal. For this reason | a man cannot grant anything to his wife or enter into covenant with her, for the grant would be to suppose her separate exist- | ence, and to covenant witb her | would be only to covenant with himself; and therefore it is also} generally true that all compacts made between husband and wife! when single are Voided by the in- | ter-marriage. A woman, indeed, ' may be attorney for her husband, | for that implies no separation! from, but is rather a representa- tion of, her lord. And a hus- any- thing to his wife by will, for that cannot take effect till the cove- ture is determined by his death. | The husband is bound to provide } jhis wife with’ necessaries: by law |) jas such as, himself, and if'she, | eontrgete @ebts for the i obliged to pay for them | anything besides necessa ies not chargeable”. We want to go back in the: done’ lowing columns and take’ ‘these | paragraphs apart to show you | better how ‘little the common law has been changed in Florida since Blackstone wrote his famous Commentaries way back in the Dark Ages. Watch for it! } their names show that poll tax has been paid. The meeting of the Labor Day celebration committee has been postponed from last night to some date in the future. At the meet- ing last night there was not pres- ent a quorum. { The ferry boat H./M. Flagler ar-! rived in port last night from: Havana with 22 carloads of pine- | apples containing 11,200 crates, Later the Ferry Estrada Palma | arrived in port with. .24 carloads | of pines or ‘11,324 crates. { Benjamin : Fernandez, ‘charged | with selling whiskey at his res- taurant at Matecumbe was ac-| quitted by a jury “in criminal court today. The same defendant, however, was found guilty of carrying concealed weapons and |" fined $50 and costs. noon no one can pay poll tax to! ——. complete qualification for voting in the June primary. The regis- names were already on the list are qualified to vote provided TO ALL LOYAL KEY WESTERS | We are facing a crisi dividually and collectively. | ‘Formal opening of: the magnificent $30,000,000 Over- p ts qur f histor ‘*tither go forward to greater, more > lasting achievements— or. backward to an oblivion that will require seas Highway July 4, if in our economic lives, in- loved cify and its peo- _ From/that date we years of eee sieevs re PIFPIPOCLCOCCCLCL CLL AUTO AND DRIVER EACH ADDITIONAL WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1988, The New PASSENGER TRUCKS—ACCORDING TO SIZE TIL ILS ISI IS IIIS LS SSIS. OVERSEAS TRANSPORTATION €0., INC. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service —between— MIAMI and KEY WEST Also, faszing all. Points on Florida Keys between ‘AND KEY WEST “Two 0 ROUND’ TRIPS DAILY (Except Sunday) Between Midint and Key West. DIRECT EXPRESS: od VOBPaLBIIVDIDLBGLD®S. Leaves Miami 2:00 o’clock A, M., arriving Key West 7:00 o’clock A. M. Leaves Key West 9:00 o'clock A. M., arriving Miami 2:00 o’clock P. LOCAL: Leaves Miami 9:00 o'clock A. M. (serving all intermediate points) arriving Key M., West 4:00 o'clock P. M. aS Leaves Key West 8:00 o'clock A. M., arriving Miami 3:90 o'clock P. M. Free Pick-Up and Delivery Service Full Cargo insurance Office: 813 Caroline St. Telephones 92 and 68 Warehouse—Corner Eaton SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CITIZEN—20c WEEKLY. eeneacecoees CSOTMMOMETTEEOES. aa Oe Meee eae AND NOW COMPLETE STOCK OF OAK FLOORING—IN FOUR DIFFERENT GRADES—VERY HIGH GRADE—WELL MANUFACTURED STOCK. PRICES START AT— &. | dent had “marred her beauty and lessened | | her prospects of a favorable marriage,” is | to get a husband after all. Her engage- | ment to Tommy Farr, British heavyweight champion, has been announced, Frank Reed of Cincinnati, whose term as purchasing agent was about to expire, | persuaded the county commissioners to | make it a civil service job, hoping thereby to hold the place indefinitely. But when the examination was held he failed to pass, America’s first. woman airplane pilot, Blance S. Scott, who was also the first woman to drive an automobile across the United States, still lives in spite 6f. the fact that in one of her early flights Sh¢ crashed, breaking 23 bones. She YWitw “f6ldws the less hazardous vocation ‘of! a” writer’ in Rochester, N. Y. Checking up his equipment for the new season’s activities, a Kansas farmer missed several items, and then advertised : “Reward—For return of the sprayer some- one borrowed last summer and never re- turned ; also a post auger, 20 feet of exten- sion pipe and numerous other farm tools. ave anything that does not belong F. W. Dixon, phone bring it home painstaking toil to overcome. WHICH SHALL IT BE? A three-day celebration July 2-4, in keeping with the eeceasion and our tradition is planned, but insufficient funds have been subscribed with which to carry on. We hould. spe ww a program that will focus the inquiring eyes of the world on Key West, and then consolidate the tremendous gains the attendant publicity will bring us to become the nation’s greatest winter and summer play- ground. It can be done! Beginning tomorrow, a city-wide campaign to raise ional money will begin. Each of will called upon and asked to donate to.a cause which is un vabtedty the greatest opportunity any city in the world you be pO YOUR PART It is. estignated. that $7,580 is the minimum require- ment for the relatively modest, but ambitious celebre- tion now planned, and we are far short of that amount GIVE UNTIL IT HURTS Overseas Highway Celebration Committee JOHN COSTAR B. D. TREVOR A few thousand feet Masonite Delux Quarterboard 14” THICK, SMOOTH SURFACE, PRESENT STOCK ONLY TO GO AT— $50.00 M. (Regular Price $70 and $75 Per M.) GET THIS WHILE IT LASTS, ALSO HIGH GRADE 1x6 Shortleaf Sheathing, PER M. A BARGAIN AT SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & FNGINEERING C9. 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