The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 26, 1938, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen PUBLISHING CO, INC. kee CITEABN L. P. AR TMAN, President and Pablisher JOE ALLEN, Aswintant Business Manager Caen suilding ne and Ann Streets Corner Gre in Key West and Monroe Only Daily Newspape | | Clinic is performing a valuable and neces- | Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter | Member of the ‘Asnocinted Press >pess is. exclusiv ews dispatches credited to ed in this paper and also SUBSCRIPTION RATES : $10.00 5.00 Year fonths "Three: Months One Month Weekly One s ADVERTISING RATES Made known on applica NOTICE s of thanks, ; will be charged for resolutions of r s at the rate of 10 cents a line. s 1or entertainments by churches from which e is to be derived are 5 cents a line. » is an open forum and invites discus- lic issues and subjects of local or general 1 it will not publish anonymous communi. | IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoring). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—iand and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. You can have lots of fun planning a vacation whether you take it or not. Probably the meanest thing a modern: nation has done. is making the Jew a ser- vile people. Ps Being old-fashioned, we still think a girl should not propose to a man, except as a last resort. Many husbands pretended they were well off before marriage—many were and didn’t know it. The best after dinner speaker is the fellow who calls the waiter and says “let me have the check.” After looking at some specimens, we wonder why some people want their pic- tures in the vars des tal EE SE Mika A Ee A neurologist declares excessive piano practice may cause nervous disorders. Es- pecially among those who have to listen to it. In spite of a court decision that a train has the right of way over its own tracks, a good many automobile drivers are uncon- vineed. ' cs Mee ae ee The wind is having some influence on | our current'literature. Margaret Mitehell’s “Gone With The Wind,” is being feHowed | by Ann * spate Lindberg's “Listen, The Wind?" te4 evidently coming back This column cannot agree with the | submissive and consoling philosophy that | “it is better to have run and lost than not | to have run at all.’" Most defeated can- | didates regret that they made the venture | at least until the heart-burn wears off. | It has just been discovered that -Proxima Centauri is not the star nearest the earth, though it had been so believed | for the past 23 years. That honor now be- | longs to Wolf 424, named after its dis-/ coverer. This star is so close to the earth | that if an airplane, flying 100 miles an hour, would cover the distance in a little} less time than 30,000,000 years,—provided it didn’t break dowp,or mun, out of gas dur-4 ing the flight. s Twelve thousand editors from every . state in the Union, the Industrial News Service sent these questionnaires: In your opinion, is the United States moving toe “pe dictatorship? Of those answering, | 73.24 repiied in the affirmative. The diet question was: In your opinion, has our legislative and governmental trend in | late years been consistent with the prin- ciples and the spirit of the Constitution? The answer te this question was even sere decisive as 82.83 answered in the negative. entitled to use | | function in the community that | be continued and maintained, ; enough trophies to fill four trun’ SAVE THE CLINIC The Monroe County Community sary public service. | It has treated some | 6,000: individual cases at a cost to them | less than the actual cost of the medicine TEST YOUR | the existence of this clinic it is doubtful if | and supplies used in each case. But for many of the sufferers, young and old, would have been able to afford treatment. Now, once again, the life of the clinic The WPA nursing project’s is threatened. funds have been depleted. There is no money with which to pay the salaries of the work. | the two nurses and the clerk in charge of | Request has gone forward to | Jacksonville for another such project un- | der state direction, but it may be a month porarily at least the county has agreed to pay the nurses and the clerk for their ef- forts, but some more permanent arrange- ment is vitatiy needed. Members of the Monroe County Wel- fare Advisory Board report that contribu- to pay for medicine and supplies for the clinie have fallen off alarmingly. This money has been an invaluable factor in the low cost of the clinic’s treatments. In | calling attention to the ‘pressing need of funds, the adVisory board group has an- | or more before it becomes available. Tem- | | tions from individuals and business firms | 9. nounced its intention shortly of a more ex- | tensive campaign to raise the money, In the opinion of The Citizen the clinic performs such'a needed and important with or without WPA or state support. It is sug- it should |! gested the advisory board present its case | to the attention of the board of county commissioners with a request that previ- sion fot the clinic be made in the budget to be set up this fall for 1939. Many be- lieve the maintenance of the clinic is very properly a county matter, and one that | should be provided for along with the care and feeding of prisoners, the construc- tion of roads and other public services. After all a clinic is a place where sick bodies and broken limbs are reconstructed. The public health is as important as the public safety. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citizen Mrs, J. H. George, 50-year-old student | | Poincianas in the Spring at a junior college in Bay City, Mich., didn’t do so well after being out of schoo} | On the journey ’ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN KEY WEST IN ere a _Cynosure is P is pronounced si’-no-shure; not ky‘no-sur, ne sin’-o-shur. KNOWLEDGE | Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to Page 4 for the answers escee enne For what government agency do. the initials FCC stand? | Whieh state is nicknamed the “Sunflower State”? What is a millennium? From what fruit is cider made? What is the astronomical! name for the minor plan- ets? Which state is represented in Congress by Sen. James J. Davis? What is a cosmopolite? What is the designation for) animals that feed only on plants? Can the President of the U. S. suspend or dismiss the governor of a state? In which country is the sea- port Gravelines? TO BETTY SOCSSHASSSSOSSESOEESESSES Although I was not near you |To catch your last fleeting, smile, I often read your last letter And ponder for a while. shall always keep the letter Locked safely in my heart Until its feeble beating shall cease, And then I too shall start into the Spirit world And I shall seek you out, For T’ll know just where to find; , you— Placed among the devout. You were so young and beautiful, Your smile charmed many a heart, Your lips were like the rose bud When the petals begin to part. Although here on earth we miss you, We know you are in that land Where pain and sorrow cannot/ reach you— Joined to the angel hand. And so, wear one, I leave you | Safe with God on His throne, To help direct and guide me That I too may reach home. FRANK C, SCHNEIDER. | 651 William Street. | Said the lover-husband, bending | O’er his bride of just one year,! since 1910, and was flunked in geology | “What is there to do, my darling, and astronomy. Her teacher in these sub- jects is her husband, who is head of the | geology and astronomy department. For the first time if his 20 years of life, Ralph Trautner of Amsterdam, N. Y., recently was able to eat solid food. Owing to a stricture in his esophagus, he formerly was obliged to subsist on a liquid diet, but the obstruction has been removed by an operation. According, to the Associated Press in- | “Take me home, where F'll be see- | dex, industrial activity drépped to the low- | est point in four years during the second That will bring you hope and cheer? What is there to do, my darling, That will make your pulses’ sing?” ing Poincianas in the Spring. “Let us leave this cheerless north- land Where the wind strong, is cold and Let us see the southland glow-| ing— That's where you and I belong; gJr.. Ww ts Flamiag! saree Of one cai week in Maybeing- only 66.2 percent; as |Home “he oi z southlai compared with 108.6 in the corresponding week of last year. These percentages are | based on 1929-30 activity as 100. Charles B. Driscoll, New York editor and columnist, tells why he thought it best to take a short vacation: “My doctor has been looking critically at me for some weeks. The undertaker who acts as head usher at our church has been getting more and more friendly.” So Driscoll took an | airplane for Bermuda. Somebody's telephone conversation caused a loss of $20,000 when H. F. Man- hold’s ice cream establishment in Los An- geles caught fire a few days ago. He said s“‘gossippers wouldn't get off the line to let | | me call the fire department.” In eight years of track prize winning Glenn .Cunningham has accumulated ks and a packing case, the total value being esti- mated at $30,000. He set a new mile run- ning record in 1934. A Denver real estate firm is said to have been swamped with applicants when a typographical error caused its rent ad- vertisement to read “Venetian blonds in| every apartment.” And she closed her eyes at sun- set— Never more to walk or run; And he laid her in the morning Where the trees were murmur- ; ing— Flaming _ scarlet, purple— Poincianas in the Spring. NELLIE J. SHANAHAN. Big Pine Key, Fla. tinged with Bank economist says recovery | followed govern- from 1921-23 slump economy moves by the ment. . Mr, Taylor will be accompanied + by State Senator W. C. Hodges, - DAYS GONE BY | ‘Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen Cuban-owned automobiles can now enter the United States} | without any formality whatever.! | A Cuban who comes here with | his. car can expect to drive away | within 10 minutes after his ar- rival, instead of spending several | j hours in arranging for its entry| as has been the case heretofore. | |The change, it is believed, will ‘mean an enormous increase in the traffic between this country | }and Cuba. L. R. Warner, inspector for the} State Plant Board, accompanied} by. Dr. Harold Mowry and Dr..A. F. Camp, of the state univer- | sity at Gainesville, sailed this | morning at 11 o’clock: for Dry | Tortugas where they will do re- ‘search work for the State Plant} Board. They went on the Coast Guard Vessel Petrel, Captain L. R. Daniels, and expect to return Thursday afternoon. Plant condi- tions in Key. West will be studied by the officials when they re-| turn. to the city. John S. Taylor, candidate for governor, former president of the Florida Senate, will speak at |} Baywiew Park tonight at 8 o'clock | in the interests of his campaign. both of whom will address the voters. The one senator in the state who has used an aeroplane to address the voters of the state. Senator Taylor has established a imew record in the number of «speeches he has made. United States Senator Park Trammell, who is seeking reelec- tion to the office, will address the| ‘voters tonight from the porch of j the public library. All traffic will be barred from the block | while the senator is speaking. Mr. Trammell came to Key West this morning from Miami where a jspoke last night. He did not ‘know until late yesterday he ‘could make the trip, and for that | reason notified no one of his pro- } posed visit. Without going into details, the senator said, he will speak on matters which will be] ~ of great interest. to his hearers. He will pay his respects to Gov- ernor Martin in no uncertain ‘terms, he said. ! Editorial comment: That there will be two Ruth’s in the next congress, appears now to be al- most a certainty. So it will not } be ruthless in its course. Two ferry boats left for Ha- vana last night and both of them will bring over pineapple ship- ments tonight. The third ferry will soon be put on the run to handle shipments of fruit and: merchandise between Key West! and Havana. | The Ferry Boat Flagler arrived }from Havana last night with a large shipment of pineapples. There were 25 cars of the fruit on the vessel, The shipments con- | sisted of 13,286 crates. The marriage of Miss Ofelia Rodriguez to Walter O. Johnson, ized at a prettily jing held last night at the bride’s parents, ite street. The attendant; ry Louise Rotl- | the bride, and George E. Manson, formerly ot| this city and who married a Key | West girl, is here today in the in-! ; terest of his race for delegate to congress from the Fourth Con- gressional District. } alias j { Material and aceessories for) cataloging the books of the pub-| lic library have been received but | it has been decided to postpone | the activity until after the elec- | tion. | ' Arthur Pastorini hag been ap-! pointed to the positiot of money | ‘order clerk at the local postoffice, | } IHL Ss. TOTTI TT OO EA. On i AUTO AND DRIVER ‘Io ALLLALALLLLAALI TOLL RATES EACH ADDITIONAL PASSENGER TRUCKS—ACCORDING TO SIZE® (Jee est ss sitter ttiztigvnz AROUND MIAMI (By CONTRIBUTOR) @eecesceceeaoseoooe Histery relates now Carib In- dians fled in terror from Spanish invaders, so great was their bru- tality. A similar situation appears {to exist in Miami between police officers and the colored popula- tion, the latter having little pro- j tection from brutal officers ip this larea. The Clubbing of a Sung negress by an infuriated police: man being a case in point. ; Some years back ‘a colored bellboy was, taken out and shot for accosting a white woman of doubtful iden- tity. The “black eye” with the department and reports of beatings during the Kavanaugh regime came in for criticism in the press. Though obtuse in many ways, Mr. Kavanaugh’s manage- ment of the Miami police tolerat- ed ‘little brutality and set a high mark for fair treatment of pris- oners. But with political de- moralization rife here it ean -not be expected that the machinery of law enforcement can escape in- fection. A well-run community brooks no such police brutality as |} this South Miami beating and ter- Jrorism in colored ar Colored officers were found efficient and satisfactory in Harlem’s huge negro section and should be em- ployed whenever. pos: negro is entitled to h court and to be treated a hu- man being. Many of black men and women have come here from the North, where freer ac- tion is permitted and, unknow- ingly, fall foul of police restric- tions. Furthermore, it has heen shown, repeatedly, that when fair- ly and decently treated the aver- age negro community remains quiet, well-ordered. They should be given a chance. Today’s Horoscope seevceveseecccsosencecoe ” in Today’s native will possess lit- erary and artistic abilities, but mingled with a jealous and com- bative disposition. Great efforts will probably be made to acquire wealth and position, often prov- ing suceessful when supported by other aspects. Much opposition may possibly be met, partially due to the tendency to truculency. with William Watkins made stamp clerk. Hollon Bervaldi is acting as assistant postmaster during the illness of Ira B. Mi- chael, who has been off duty for some time. continues! THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1988. PEOPLE’S FORUM REGARDING BULL FIGHT Editor, The Citizen: We are much interested in the question, should Key West stage a bull fight? Ordinarily, a bull fight 1s a pretty brutal and bloody affair. Whether the ladies would enjoy it is doubtful, and* you wouldn’t want it to be a “stag” Celebration. But it might be managed so that the bull would succumb from naturalcauses. Say,:if Mr. Hemingway were to read a few passages from his last book, in | the arena. Another, idea for unique enter- tainment would be a turtle rodeo. ; You saddle a sea-turtle and loose it in a large pool. The rider stays an as log as he can and lands ~ his turtle single-handed. C. G. FLINT. Miami, Fla., May 23, 1938. vecovscee The Favorite In Key West — TRY IT TODAY — STAR > BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS FOR THE MURDER OF HER SISTER WHERE COULD PAM TURN FOR HELP? 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