The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 23, 1938, Page 2

) PAGE TWO The Key {West Citixen | THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING ©O., INC. L. BP. ARTMAN, President and Publisher 408 At) Aswintant Business Manager ‘tbe Crizen Building ce ireene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Prenn ' The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use | for republication of all news dispatches credited to | it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also | the local news published here. | Be Bagi A vas “MEMBER. SIGNS FOR KEY WEST We hope the Junior Chamber of Com- | merce will not long delay placing suitable | markers at the intersecting spots through- out the island of Key West. It was a laud- | able movement undertaken by the Jaycees and should go ahead with all possible speed, for it will not be long before thous- ands of visitors will be flocking into the city to look us over. It is especially important to place di- | rection signs and markers along the down- town waterfront. Each day finds bewilder- ed visitors searching for the live fish mar- ket, the turtle crawls, the sponge dock, the tfishing pier and other points | of intere:t. All of these unusual features SUBSCRIPTION RATES Que Year Six Months ‘Chree Months (me Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known en application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notice ards of thanks, resolutions of resp, the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which @ revenue to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general | interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST : ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. The Wagner Act is not as popular in Florida as the Murphy Act. The latest Hemingway novel, “To Have and Have Not” has been banned in somé places and damned in others, The next big pop off will be the Fourth of July—Times-Union. That's right and Key West will be the place. ‘ If either Caro or Papy had just promised the voters a copious downpour of rain, this column could have picked the ‘winner with ease. An aviator is bragging about flying from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean in 57 minutes. Key Westers walk from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico in half an hour and don’t even brag about it. The race track fund of Florida yields each of the 67 counties a little more than $24,000 yearly. To the smaller counties $2,000 a month is a most welcome stipend. Of the $1,521,400 the state received from the proceeds of the last season, the suc- cessful pickers of the ponies paid but a smal amount; it was the losers that paid | the greater sim. . Two stately palm trees that stood like silent sentinels in front of a home on White- head street have become victiras of the | disease that is infecting the palm plant life of the city at the present timew Weare happystoyndte that the State Plant Board is to bé apprised of the situation and its t, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at | | which he owed the’ hh of the®ity have been widely publicized, so | that when out of town residents think of | Key West they immediately determine to view these sights. Key Westers are often asked where to . find this or that spot. They respond by | stating it is at the foot of Elizabeth street, or the head of Whitehead street or one | block off White street. Directions how to | get there are then forthcoming. When the visitor sets out to find the foot of Elizabeth | street or some other definite location his | first difficulty is in finding Elizabeth street. There are few street signs, so finding | a spot in Key West is not a simple matter | for a stranger. At some points the signs | have been removed entirely through build- ing operations or sewer construction, at | others the curb markings have been ob- | liberated by time and vegetation, while | some intersections seemingly never were | marked. : As The Citizen has suggested before in these columns it would be a good idea for the Chamber of Commerce or some oth- er civic organization, since the city does not have the funds, to get back of a movement to mark our streets. It is well enough to mark the ‘points of interest, but it is more important to put street names at all inter- sections. Key West ought to make it easy for strangers to find their way around. It will pay good dividends. THE BEST MILK ~ Milk is the basic food. It is an essen- tial part of the diet for young or old. In this country we have what is probably the purest milk supply in the world—an achievement that is very largély due to the efiorts of the dairy coperative marketing associations. The principal bovine diseases have been almost eradicated. The dairy coop- eratives have worked with state farm and health authorities to the end of bettering herds, from the standpoint of both produc- tion and health. The result is that you needn’t be afraid of the milk you buy to- day—it is as safe as human ingenuity and work can make it. TAXED TO DEATH (Sanford Herald) Anyone who has tried to maintain a payroll and pay his taxes during the past few years will sympathize with H. H. Henderson, meat market operator of Little River, Fla. Not having the $282 te under the gross receipts law; he handed is keys to the sheriff and told im fo také over his business. ite cs The gross. tax is only one of a dozen ‘tax cooperation and assistance requested in the efforts to halt the ravages of the parasitic organism. The two Japanese government offi- | cials who recently visited Key West took | no photographs of any part of the city so | far as is known, but they took an active in- | terest in the bridges and snapped shot after | shot when they were reached. We can see | no reason why the Japs should have been | preverted from taking snap shots of the bridges for they may be obtained, taken | from all angles, at any stationery store, but | we doubt if American officials would not! have gotten in trouble had they done the same thing in the land of the Mikado. Don’t look row, but the first bull fight | in America is said to be in the thaking for | or more taxes Which have been levied on business in recent years not only taking the profits out of business but throwing many of them into bank- | ruptey. All this little tax does is to require the payment to the State of one-half of one percent of every dollar’s worth of goods that are sold. Now if this were the only tax which business had to pay, it would not be so bad. But this tax was levied in addition to all the other taxes which have been collected for years. It is part of the “tax reduction” program which we have been fighting for ever since the boom raised taxes out of sight. Like the payroll taxes, and the occupa- tional license taxes, and the corporate stock taxes, it has helped to double our tax bill at the very time when we were least able to pay it. And so the Little River meat market operator closed his store, not because he was lazy or ineffi- cient, not because he didn’t want to work or didn't know what to do, not because he didn’t want te provide for himself and his family, but because he THE KEY WEST CITIZEN |} TODAY’S COMMON ERROR Dexterous is pronounced dex'-ter-ous: not dex’-trus. SOHOSCOHSSOSHOESESESEVES ! TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to Page 4 for the answers @eenese: Who invented the cotton- gin? Name the capital of Tennes- see: ' In which standard time zone! is the city of Cleveland, Ohio? In what year did the Boer War end? What is genealogy? What part of a French franc is a centime? In which state are the Ever- glades? j What was the name of the famous mystic sword of King Arthur? Who discovered the Pacific! Ocean? Does any state of the Union permit the practice of medicine without a li- cense? KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY’ t Happenings Here Just 10 Years. Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen You and Your Nation’s Affairs A 31 Billion Monument By GUS W. DYER : Professor of Economics and Sociology, Vanderbilt University pense. This city would represent & population of over 20 million people, and its population would increase sit would put New York and London in the small-town class, and by compari- Chicago The attention of Congress is called to the urgent demand for, at least, five million houses at once. Since public relief has become a perma- ment national problem, Con- gress should begin at once to build five million houses Nine billion dollars a year, at first thought, seems a heavy additional burden for the taxpayers, But things here are the opposite of what they seem. This nine billion dollars a year would not be a burden on the tax- payers, but a great econamic asset. it would mean money in their pock- ets. Nations grow rich not by pro- ducing and saving, but by spen giving, squandering. Consider the enormous increase in “buying power” that eying away nine billion dollars would bring about. “onsider the de- mand it would create for lumber, steel, food, clothing, shoes, automo- biles, trucks, cosmetics, liquor, beer, lipsticks, pees free It would open the broad road back to economic re- covery, and would bring prosperity to every field of business. Following the completion of the as the first unit in constructing decent homes for the 40 mil- lion ill-housed, ill-fed and ill- clad who are now receiving aid from the government. Since the 21,- 656 homes built by Secretary Ickes for the poor cost $134,033.400 or $6,189 each, we can easily estimate the cost of five million houses for the poor. The Administration has marked off the $134,033,400 cost as a total loss to the taxpayers. the appear- — ‘HENRY FILER | ADDRESSES, KEY WEST VOTERS| (Continued from Page One) possessed of the ability to repre-| sent you in the United States Congress”. Mr. Filer declared himself as being opposed to the cross-state! canal as it will be detrimental to! the dwellers of every section which he represents. H There is a good chance for this city receiving. one of the larger| naval air bases, and the speaker ; declared himself to be one who’ will work unceasingly to bring this about. 1 Throughout the address the ‘candidate Was repeatedly inter-| rupted. with.loud and prolonged | applause, evidencing the appre-! ciation of’ the sincerity of the speaker, belief in the several movements which he outlined and to which he pledged himself, and, above all, their admiration for the speaker as an able and ac-j | complished worker for the section jand the state, and a native of Key West. i Today's Birthdays! of New MONDAY, MAY 23, 1938. ROMFH RITES IN MIAMI TOMORROW (Contniued tcom. Page One) and other members of a party who were out for a weekend fish- ing trip. While cranking the engine in some manner the .44 calibre pis- {tol which he was carrying a hol- ster at his side, was pulled from the holster, dropped to the boat and was discharged. The bullet entered the heart and death en- | sued instantly. The body was taken to Mi- ami and funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock from Trinity Episcopal church. Army manoeuvres in Texas demonstrate that planes help the cavalry in action. BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers 24 Hour Ambulance Service Phone 135 Night 696 DeSOTO HOTEL Sarasota Florida ' million dofidis providing | the 40 million i141 | to cor 1 Bist “Even with the 100 per cent sub- sidy.” says the report, “their rents still are beyond the reach of the third of the nagion’s ill-housed.” The farentent. spent over 134 homes and aie mnnect a one of the million. ma iis economic att faited’to click. ‘Now it will cost the taxpayers only 31 ybillien dollars to construct the unit of five million houses for the dependent poor.This 31 billion dollars appropriation should be made on a five year plan of construction — six | billion dollars a year for the first four years, and seven billion dollars for the fifth year. But this would only | meet the housing demands of the five Bids for the removal of an ob-! struction in the harbor of Key) West are to be opened in Jack-| sonville on June 25. The obstruc-} tion has been termed a menace to! navigation by engineering author- ities. That operations are to soon} start on this project will be grati-| fying news to shipping interests |as this obstruction has prevented many large vessels putting in! here, it is said. The “hump” is| just off the old P. and O. pier,! which is now owned by the Por-| ter Dock Co. The channel passes within 150 feet of the wharf. It| | is 750 feet wide and was dredged | |to a depth of 26 feet. But be-| |tween the channel and the docks the “hump” rises and the depth \at this point is naturally only 23 |feet. Hence the necessity for its removal. | The Senior Club of the High/| | School was entertained by the Rotary Club today at the La Con- cha Hotel. The Senior-Rotary luncheon is an annual event. Governor John Martin gave a} | short talk, after which President} Robert Spottswood turned the | meeting over to Berlin Felton for | short talks and musieal selections. Fifty-one seniors were present, million families. At least, three bil- lion dollars a year must be appropri- ated in addition, to supply to the ill-fed and clothes to the ill-clad. By all means the first unit of these houses for the poor should be located in the Tennessee Valley. Here all these families could be supplied with all modern conveniences by govern- ment agencies at the taxpayers’ ex- first unit of five million houses, Con- gress will make a similar appropria- tion for the second unit, Just as the clothing and feeding of the 40 millions has become a continuous, for | permanent, national problem, the ap- propriation of, at least, ten billion dollars a year must be a ent and continuous policy. The two great prosperity activities, must, of neces ity go together. This great city of 20 million popula; tion would attract tourists from all over the world who would spend mil- lions to see this eighth wonder of the world, The pyramids of it as me- morials to the kings wot be as nothing in comparison to this me- moria) to the New Deal. Let th is be the pararacunt issue | in the coming Compel every candidate for Congress to make his position clear whether he stands for alms houses and progress; whether he is willing to do all in his power toegive our great countfy the proud distinction of having more alms houses, more dependents and more mendicants than any other country on the face of the earth. (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) ENTERTAINMENT SESSEH SH SEHOOHA“COSESEOD HABANA-MADRID Election returns will be an hourly feature at Habana-Madrid elub tomorrow night. Patrons are invited to get the returns‘ amidst the beautiful, tropical atmosphere of this club. The whole town is talking about the beautiful new song be- ing played by Otto Divanti’s or- chestra at Habana-Madrid. It’s “Broken Melodies” written by Key West’s leading pianist and member of the orchestra at* Ha- bana-Madrid—- Sammy Mannino. Ask for it the next time you drop, CLUB LA CONGA You're all invited to come to Frank Sabini’s popular Club La Conga tonight and every nigh’ | @eeccceves eecccccccoe Today’s Horoscope Ce esecccosrrseceveceoee Today gives rise to a daring na- | ture, with eloquence, prominence and reputation. This person should rise to places of honor and attain a measure of wealth. Con- serve the energies, however, as. this nature often wears itself out, and there are indications that life may be finished just as success is attained. | Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., York, chairman of General Mo- ltors, born at New Haven, Conn. 63 years ago. Vacation Land OPEN ALL YEAR EUROPEAN PLAN John Stuart of Chicago, presi- dent of Quaker Oats, born at Ce- dar Rapids, lowa, 61 years ago. Mabel W. Willebrandt of Calif., and Washington, D. C., lawyer, born at Woodsdale, Kans., 49 years ago. Chester Beach of New York, eminent sculptor, born in San Francisco, 57 years ago, All Outside Rooms Quiet, Clean, Good Beds Free Parking | $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 single + $1.50, $1.75,.$2.00 double La Verne Apartments 336 So. Osprey Ave. Everything furnished for housekeeping. Moderate rates by week or month LMI S ILO La aI aA LLL a MOM, AUTO AND DRIVER CO Eb ee | \ ISA PAPALALLALLLL ££ bd dud EACH ADDITIONAL PASSENGER F ~~ TRUCKS—ACCORDING TO SIZE The New OVERSEAS HIGHWAY TOLL RATES DAP LAPP IAAL LB OLA AAA A hd hh hhh hehehehe) SPECIAL PAINT SALE ON THE FOLLOWING COLORS OF the largest class to graduate in the history of the school. for dancing at its best and enter- ) tainment featured by appearance ate |of Mr. Sabini himself and Filor- Governor John W. Martin will) ida’s leasing, silver-voiced tenor, addtess the voters of Key West| Jimmy Thomas. Key West's tonight at Bayview Park. He is| smallest piano is a popular in- |appearing in the interests of his | novation at La Conga, played for |eandidacy for the seat in the| entertainment between | United States Senate now held by | Shows. Senator Park Trammell. If; by} sg oy ap chance, it should rain, he Ywit?| + Restive Congress, ready to go speak in the Divisiqn °Stv€et| home, balks at delay for further |school. A band Will be -préserit /New:Deal measures. jan@“the governdr* he *-wilt|, li ip - ie. have’ much to sayp which tae ad ek te the other at a lof interest»to thé! people of the | picnic. +! city. There have been a nurmber| * _o of charges levelled ut his adminis-| | The United States Ship Hanni tration and at least some of them} bal and the Navy Tug Umpqua {he will answer tonight. The gov-/ are in port. They arrived from} ernor reached the city this mofn-|Guanacabibe Bay this morning. ; ing and was guest speaker at the | The vessels were towing the small Rotary. Club today. eraft and barges of the Hannibal | survey detail. } ain The Hannibal will | Daytona Beach was selected ag/ sail for her home port at Phila- the convention city for 1929 at the | delphia, while the Umpqua will) closing session of the twenty-/Temain longer and eventually fourth annual convention of the | S#il for Charleston. Knights of Columbus State Coun- __ _—— cil, which closed yesterday in this | First absentee ballots for the city. Fort Myers also bid for the jhe se cinwasen latieg cast meeting. William Cates, grand; Yesterday afternoon iperin- knight, in speaking for the visi- | tendent W. W. Demeritt of the tors, said that each and every | lighthouse service, and Mrs. De- member of the delegation was ™eritt, who left for Baltimore. more than pleased with the recep- The tickets had not been received tion accorded them in Key West. from the printer, but two were secured and used by Mr. and Mrs Demeritt. 4 Editorial comment: One may not think any too highly of Tam-/ Sherwin Williams Flat Tone DISCONTINUED COLORS SALE ON PRESENT STOCK ONLY BRIGHT SAGE — OLIVE TAN — PALE GREEN — SHELL PINK — SKY BLUE In Gallons and Quarts at $1.80 Per Gal. REGULAR $2.78 VALUE SALE ON THE FOLLOWING COLORS OF 5 Sherwin Williams Floor Enamel GRAY — OAK — WALNUT BROWN — MAHOGANY S-W FLOOR ENAMEL CAN BE USED ON WOOD AND CONCRETE FLOORS AND IS A FINE DECORATIVE FINISH FOR LINOLEUM Sale Price $2.75 Per Gal. REGULAR $4.00 VALUE BRIDGE LAMPS, Special 98c Each GET YOURS WHILE THEY LAST—ONLY A FEW IN STOCK REGULAR VALUE $1.69 28” ELECTRIC STORE FAN pa’s morals since it develops that she is planning to vote some 2.- 000 occupants of her cemeteries, Key West P Service CHROMIUM FINISH, ON. ADJUSTABLE STAND $55.00 Each he Overseas Highway opening celebration at Key West, July 2-4, *; nt plahs, Pwas driver! out of business by the tax gatherers Whirly hears, is to shush the spectacle un- | What the Little River meat market operator did til the last moment and even then publicly | * 8 seriously considered by other business announce it only at Key West yia a sound ™e® elsewhere truck, to prevent intervention by the law. Putting one more man on the WPA won't —Miami Daily News. . This is all bull, In | >9krupt the government, but it will help. the first place there have been bull fights in Ameriea for several hundred years, and in the seeond place there hav heen so auch bul shoting here there “ain't none” Jeft to fight. but there is no denying her en- eae Fresh Imported Cement 70c Per Sack SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & FNGINEERING — Ty IT TODAY — i Most of the people in this country who i STAR we BRAND White and Eliza Streets Phone 598 complain about “lost liberty”, are con- ui co.ned over certain special privileges which tues are e ons COFFEE “Your Home Is Worthy £ The Best eabeeeceag goon held and the side losing seyeeseececeeeccanccecee WOO OOOO OEILIIEII ITO IUOIIIH SS, TIF APALILLZLALZLLLALLZLLLLALLALLALLALLLLLALLLALLLAL 2d TPA eee ee eee eta eereweeteigt2itiztittttttitgidiédéde