The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 25, 1938, Page 2

PAGE TWG Tye Key West Citizen INC. THE CFPIAEN PUBLISHING CO. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press jated Press is exclusively entitled to use of all news dispatches credited to e credited in this paper and also $10.00 5.00 ADVERTISING RATES known on application. NOTICE rds of thanks, resolutions of | , will be charged for at of 10 cents a 3 8 for entertainments by churches from which F nue is to be derived are 4 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and sion of public issugs and subjects of local or general int t but it will not publish anonymous eommuni- cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Compreheusive, City Plan '\(Zoning). Hotels and Apartments.: (“7 "* Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. 1th als AR Dena aea nme The “I told you so’s” are numerous in Key West taday, When Wall Street bulls go on a ram- page again it will be news. The use of scientific terms does ‘not always guarantee scientific results. Trading at home is still a good prac- tiee and there's nothing selfish about it, ~ While a pessimist: js disagreeable, he gives lees foolish advice than an optimist, nvites discus- | BACK TO NORMAL AGAIN Election day has come and gone. The tumult and the shouting have died down. Sound trucks ne longer blare on our streets. All that remains are some remnants of con- versation, walls littered with political ad- | vertisements and a few headaches. In con- | formity with the policy of The Citizen to | take no sides in a local political campaign, | it kept its hands off and therefore has no regrets. In the spirit of this principle, we | offer our congratulations to the ~winhers and wish for the losers better luek the | next time, Sears on the body politic soon | heal and a healthy cooperative spirit re- | sults, With election out of the way the time | has come to bury some of the bitterness that marked the campaign. Political enmities should not be allowed to be the guiding influence in the community. There is much to be done, Key West needs so many things, it will take every bit of co- | operative effort on the part of all of our citizens to put the city completely on the road to prosperity. | One of the first things is to remove the political signs from windows, fences, posts |-and other places. They have ‘performed | theif service and should not pe,left as re- minders of the fierce fires that burned in the-campaign. They detract from the ap- peardned of the city and it would be a fine | gesture on the part of the candidates, win- | ners and losers, to_go out and pull down | their signs, The next thing is to get back of the Overseas Highway Celebration committee and get busy on the thousand and one de- tails that are necessary to be done to make the event a great success. Politics should not be allowed to keep men apart when it comes to a celebration that will bring fresh money into the community and advertise Key West in all corners of the country. After that is over, the leaders of the community should get behind a_ co-opera- tive movement for the’ enactment of such local and’ state laws as may be necessary for the good of the community. All of the eandidates told their followers what they planned to do in this connection. Some of the ideas were good, some were not so good, A strong central steering commit- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ~ KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY [seseeeserssosye A TWIRL OF THE GLOBE (Opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily agree with those of The Citi- zen). soogenecere oecgecens’ The state road department's CREAM OF CHINESE survey of the Overseas Highway Attacking behind ae a has been started under super- | ing tanks, the best of the Chinese’ vision 6g} int §S) Fraser)’ sdldiory, ‘Generalidsirndy (Chiang jay: engineer. ‘ Key highway Kai-Shek’s own, in less than @ fpom. Key No, ‘day recaptured the three key ig) inj ed ab: 1g first cities of Lan-Feng, Yi-Feng and fon “of thi ndertaking~ The | Tang-shan ‘ort the Lung-Hat-vail* Working foree on the joh includes road, whigh ,leads.,to ,Hanchows; ay instrument man, red man and the Chinese temporary gapital. It Adrriet! ‘Others Thay ‘was another of those “smashing added ag conditions may warrant. ee considerably Baleteyed the] Wis uve” was planned by, the weeks considerably 2 > 3 ie 5 OE, morale of the Chinese and taken road department aa it has been away some of the confidence of the Japanese. It is too bad, how- ever, that all China’s troops are | not as excellent as Kai-Shek’s im- mediate guarding battalions; and it demonstrates the vast dissen- ;sion that has oecupied China for hundreds of years and split its unity into a thousand dissenting factions, ranging from the best to the worst of soldiery. MASS PRISON BREAK Preparations are underway for One thousand five hundred ygemorial Day, which will be held Loyalist prisoners, most of them joxt Wednesday. The ceremonies political but many government ji, year will be directed by the officers, staged a mass €SCAP€ American Legion, assisted by the from Pampolona, Spain, Sunday, Spanish War Veterans. Sunday in a break which will bring about is Memorial Sunday and the me- an investigation of the entire j e prison guard personnel, who are morial sermon will ‘be preached believed to be implicated in the; escape. Six hundred had been rounded up at dark yester- day by massive posses. who Happenings Here Jus} 10 Year: Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen department is taken over by the for maintainance. When this gineering data will be needed and the engineering departments pre- fers to have those lines which are made under their own supervi- sion. The county houseboat is to be allowed the men employed on the job when necessary. gregational church. The Ameri. can Legion and Spanish War Vet- te { stated that the highway is to be} ordered a complete file of the en-} by Rev. E. L. Etheridge of Con-; erans will assemble at Fleming | *“Fartheat Seath By Car (P. E. B,, in Tampa Tribune) aecccenqncanecesocccqoae | If you crave to see skyscrapers, subways, elevated, the Bronx zoo, / the Aquarium, the opera, stage, | plays, burlesque, night clubs, etc. we recommend a trip to New: | York instead of Key West. But Key West has a lot of attractions Newe York lacks. We have-en-! joyed every trip to Key West more ‘han any trip to New York. | Theté\are more people in New York, we don’t know why. Both places are island cities but Man- |hattan is a larger island with |more artificial attractions and} erhaps more variety, although we believe we could spend sev-' {eral weeks longer in Key West |than in New York before becom- jing bored. Key West natives | know more about life and living \than the average New Yorker. |New York has a wider variety of | temperatures to offer, but that’s {no advantage. Key West has no subway but it has a_ six-story | building, and two or three of the ‘highway bridges are elevated. The place may have something |in the way of night clubs. It has | a marvelous aquarium, and if you like fish you can look at 500 va-; | rieties in the clear seas surround- {ing the island. At a Key West movie theatre we saw “The Fire- | fly” for the third time. We ate | turtle steak and you might try |coneh salad or conch chowder,! but they don’t have any Key West. rawfish in Key West. Not yet.) aybe the crawfish season will’ |open by the time you get there. | The federal administration searched cities, beat the brush of countrysides, stopped all trains and highway automobiles. CEDILLO LOSES HUNDREDS Reports from central Mexico have it that hundreds of deser- tions are continuing from Satur- nino Cedillo’s peasant army since one of his lieges, Congressman Epifanio Castillo, surrendered with 300 followers. Cedillo is en- camped in the mountains near the railroad which _ threads through central Mexico. Jumping into the breach are Mexican gov- !ernment soldiers who are moving _toward the camp, probably to at- tack in this moment of low Ce- | The installation of a radio com- | and William street at 7:30 and| cleared up the island, but fort- proceed to the church. Members| ynately didn’t clean it yp enough of all other patriotic bodies are | to ryin its individuality. A couple invited to join them. of our friends in’ Miami drove eer |there one day, planning to stay The Junior-Senior prom of the) over, but they found the place Monroe County High School will|depressing because it didn’t look be staged at the La Concha Hotel | exactly like Miami, so they drove tonight. It will be the largest in| home that night and no doubt} the history of the school. A din-| will spend the rest of their lives ner will be given and afterward | inside the Miami city limits. Most there will be dancing. A number |Miamians, however, enjoy Key of Seniors who wera graduated West because it is not like Mi-, in January and have been out of|ami. There is no point in going town have returned to attend the | to the trouble of driving 170 miles affair. - ' | from Miami to find a place that }looks like Miami. Or driving, from Gleveland, O., to Key West | pass has been completed on the | to find if it looks like Cleveland, Tender Ivy, flagship of the light- 'O, Key West still has plenty of i WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1938. TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Dilate je leponmaniced di- late’: not di*-late. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to Page 4 for the answers seee eescocccgcocses 1, Where is Oneida Lake? 2. What is the highest rank of a commissioned offieer in the U. S. Navy? What is the name for young seals and mother seals? Which state does Senator Edward R. Burke repre sent in Congress? What countries have coin “ore”? Name the queen who had the longest reign in English history. What is an excavator? In astronomy, what is third sign of the zodiac? Which state is called “Volunteer State”? Do tuna fish have seales? the the the FIRE TRUCK BURNS Orient, Ilowa.—Answering a call for help, the Greenfield Fire De- parjment found only a garage on fires: The-eall for help was.nade, however, because the garage hotisedOrient’s only fire truck. Blackstone existence cf the woman is sus- pended, or at least consolidated into that of the husband”. That is true in Florida today. When a woman marries, she ceases to have a legal personality, becomes one’ person with her husband, and naturally he is that person! Blackstone says, further on, ‘For this reason a man cannot grant anything to his wife, or en- ter inte a covenant with her”. This is particularly true in Flor- ida today. A man and wife still may net make a contract with one another that will bind them But it has been changed so that a n may deed property outright to his wife as though she were a separate person. And then we purposely skipped the sentence quoted in an earlier column, which began, “a wife per- forms everything under the wing, the wing, protection of her husband, baron or lord, and her condition during her marriage is called her ‘coveture’. We skip- ped it in order to comment more fully on it. You notice that in the days of Blackstone, the com- mon law protected the married as well as restricted her. She was in the household of her lord in the same position as his servants or his children. Today she is a free voting citizen with- out the protection, but retaining the restrictions that were rife in Blackstone’s Day. legal you can depend on The Carey Roofings and Shingles which we aillo Sapde oo aaa house fleet of the seventh light- | WEST INDIAN STRIKE house district, which is in port for | British tourist-town, West In- repairs to hull and machinery. | dian Kingston, Jamaica, is in the tet | throes of a union strike as charac-! Shushot, alias “Shina”, the; old style Key West houses. j It has a wide variety of trop-| ical shrubbery and trees. _Some- body had the very good idea of putting tags on many of the trees, | including those. in private front; sell are time tested and proven. They are made in the world’s largest roofing plant, by a manufacturer who has been a leader in the industry for over 60 years. teristic as any staged along the negro who killed Walker, a color- labor battlefront of the U.S. West|ed postman, some time aga and Coast. Black hulls of scores of was acquitted on a_ self-defense 4 ships with mooring lines securely plea, and last winter was shot in fastened moved serenely at docks the back by Officer Harold Key where longshoremen have struck;/during a mixup for which he street cleaners too have doffed ‘served a term in jail, is again in their uniforms; electric plants the toils. This time he is charged lyards along the sidewalks, thus’ | satisfying the curiosity of us more | |nerthern. tourists. We noticed certain trees identified as “Span- | ish Lime”. One “Tamarind— Tamarindus Indica”. Some so-j; called rubber trees, Ficus Elas-| cate He ‘Advertising eannot do all the work of pelling, but it can do a major part of the | state officials and urge action, job. Now is the time for all good people to i cecilia premiere come to the aid of Key West and Monroe tee might sift the suggestions and lay the . We can supply the right roof for an constructive before our city, county and ipPty ght roof 'y purpose, and you'll find our prices most attractive. SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING COMPANY ‘ Genius is more common ameng men. according to a psychologist. But he added. “so is idioey.” ‘ If Congress would do less sojourning ‘and more adjourning, the country would tbe better off. - An exchange observes that a fellow ‘all wrapped up in himself doesn’t make much of a package, There are individuals who go through the world in a permanent coma, or in a fog, to use the vernacular. : : Mussolini and satidfied ofer their Hurope ‘Between th } Politicians often need to bé acrob itle: sable to straddle a fence and keep an ear tc | the ground at the same time. Suggestions from readers of this paper are welcomed always; if you have an idea ‘that would help te improve The Citizen, | : pass it along. There are millions of people in the United States who think they could make a great success if they had the opportunity to live their lives over again. The Administrafion is from the question made a year ago when it asked the people of the United States, Are you not better off today than you were a year ago? The answer now would be a re- sounding No, Mayor Williams of Miami with un- mitigated assinity delivered himself of the fallowing philippic evidently while labor- ing under a severe mental strain: “If every , newspaper in the United States was run like the Miami Herald and Miami News we Would have revolution.” There is a form of revelation er revolt in Miami now, but it is hy the people smarting undor [n- tolevable conditions in the'y munie‘ps! a’ faces, shying away | county! A CHILD’S EARNINGS The lawsuit of Jackie Coogan against his mother and his step-father, seeking an accounting of the $4,000,000 he claims to have earned asa child movie-star, will serve to focus public attention upon what | Seems to be a legal principle that is out-of- | date. While the boy’s earnings are set at } only $1,500.00 by his mother, in her an- | swer to the suit, the parent goes on to as- ilé tHe money earned by a miner ay, legally, belong to fijis or her ts, there is considerabli,doubt if mts can “rightfully” keep &s their awn an immense sum earned by a child. Prob- i ably, Mr. Coogan’s chance to get some of the money he earned depends upon prov- ing the establishment of a trust by his parents. Regardless of the outcome of his lawsuit, however, the general public will ineline to the opinion that the young actor | is entitled, as a matter of right, to a sub- stantial portion of the fortune that he earned as a child on the screen. Of course, this question comes up in very few families. Usually, the small amount of money earned by a minor child is not more than sufficient to pay a portion of his or her expenses. Occasionally, some spectacular child manages to earn a large amount of money Naturally, out ef such earnings, “there should be deducted a reasonable amount for the expenses of the child and, an equitable allowance for any additional ex- penses entailed on the family by reason of the child's career. Afterwards, in most cases, the matter ‘can be disposed of through the respect and relationship of parent and child. Rarely is it necessary to resort to court, If such a step becomes necessasy, however, the minor should not go to court \ the law stacked against his claims. If necessary, the law should be amended. with accompanying street ear with breaking and entering. He service were closed down and wij be tried on the charge of grocery stores were shuttered | breaking into and robbing the tightly. A woman and son wefe home of a negro some time ago in killed. Meanwhile, the pictures- Key West. tica. Several “Sapodilla—Sapota Achras”. A few labeled “Cork | Tree—Thespesia Populnea’’.| (That's the bendy tree and not) the commercial cork oak or; White and Eliza Streets que little town waits until the strikers get their desired reeog- nition. An appropriate chapter ‘in a future history on the twen- tieth century will be the STORY OF THE STRIKES. HARLAN HORROR Bombings, murder, dynamiting, beatings, shootings after a mine corporation conference in which deputies were instructed to do lanything to stop unionizing of the workers glowed in the words was heard in the preliminary ress to.a rather tough-looking jury fvbm the tough little town of | London in. tougher. Harlan coun- ty. © ped ffo} se which were de- | fendin: emselves. It can be fined $5,000, little enough to pay for some of the things its organ- ization probably did in tearing japart men with dynamite , and ordering ruthless shooting, RICH AND POOR ALIKE Southern congressmen. in the closing hours tried desperately to add amendments te the Wage and Hour bill whieh would soften same of its disproportionate dis- crimination against the South. Congressman Ramspect of Geor- gia tried desperately to get con- sideration of his thought that the country should be divided into sections, the prevailing wage es- tablished, and a proportionate in- crease determined, then he tried to make an easier increasé af wages under the bill, but all to no avail. Northern republicans Pushed the bill through ‘and in othe late hours: yesterday’ it | was passed in the House 314 to 97. Well, editorializing on the unfair- ness of the measure will not change it for the present. We must watch its application, and point out how unfair it is to de- mand the same payment” from two sections of the country, which are nat equally productive ENOUGH'S TOO MUCH times in the past seventeen years. His latest loss amounted to $2,600, plus alf the records of his busi- ness . ‘o'clock this evening, sert that young Mr. Coogan has no legal |of prosecutor Brien McMahon Johnson, a young business man e corporiition ‘trop: "oa" Quercus Suber.) Then we saw | one tree with a card indicating Editorial comment: The Kéy that it was a Buck Hancock tree, | West Citizen figures that the pro- and a tree beside it seemed to be! posed reduction of postage of |g William R. Porter for County! circulars to one cent will be a) Commissioner tree. boon to the waste basket indus- try.—Times Union. Miss Ofelia Rodriguez, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rafael Rodriguez, will be married at the home of her parents, 906 White street, 8:30 to Walter of this city. Ten names which had been j{ ly, placed on the dis- qualified list were last night re- | turned to the qualified list by the county commissioners at special meeting. HE m: Sam Baillou, widely-known , colored man of this city, died last night. For some time he bad been connected with the Lumley meat; markets of the city, but recently had made his living by capturing j snakes, lizards and other small | creatures for some of the leading zoos of the country. The Hollywood Shrine Club is| making arrangements for a mo-' torcade to Key West on June 15. The information was received by members of the order in Key West. DeSOTO HOTEL re Ah Sia PLAN. BY PHOEBE’ ATWOOD TAYLOR Asey started in pursuit, then stopped short, Before him on the ground lay Timothy Carr, "lL got biffed,” explained Tim. "There are bad mans in the woods with homicidal tendencies." Don't Miss This Salty Cape Cod Mystery STARTING MAY 27