The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 15, 1938, Page 2

‘The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING OW, SNC. Le. PB A N. President and as JOR ALLEN Ass! t ieee Erom The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Naily Newspaper 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 entitled to use for republication of al] news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION BATHS One Ye: See asda Six Mon ‘Three Mi One Mo eekly 2: ie. the ihe ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPF All reading notic respect, obituary nm L NOVICE ards of thanks, resolutions of s, ete, will be charged for at 2. ue4ds to he derived are 5 cents a line. pe Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- of bnblic issues and subjects of local or genera} interest but jt will not publish anonymous eommuni- gations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN x . Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. E . Bathing Pavilion. . iAirports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. , In defeat, one shows his littleness or his greatness, How often it happens that weather peys no attention to forecasts! The girls nowdays who say they have nothing to wear almost. prove it. “Don't worry” is a fine motto; add “others to it and it’s a still better one. The Sarasota Herald and the Sarasota Tribune have merged—it was inevitable. The man who is too busy to take a vacation is in for a great surprise: when he dies—the world will-hardly miss him. ee The old watering places in Europe, including Wall Street, of the U.S, A., aren't doing so well these days.. The drought is terrible. You can say one thin 2 : about the Con- gress, it knows how to appropriate public money. The misappropriation, hawever, is done by others, Hint to advertisers: Do not expect to get $100 profit for every dollar spent in advertising. You might, in the lang run, but. it qill take time. Key West is beginning to be known as the “City Where Turtle Soup is At Its Best,”—Times-Union. This is good news | tS | Don't forget to trade in Key West | whenever possible. This policy will pro- | mote your prosperity as well as the pros- _ pevity of other citizens, H. G. Wells, the British author, thinks | Mussolini is more intelligent than Hitler, | and of finer fiber, but much more of an ass. | Now you wouldn't consider that much of a | conipliment to either dictator. Here's to the Forgotten Man (maybe | it was a woman) who first thought of a highway to jhe mainland! A monument should he ereeted to this unknown, whose | idea now fructified, is giving Key West a | new lease on life. The McCall kid-nap murder trial.is a einch for the jurors. They don't have to hether ghout circumstantial evidence, and as to the punishment to be meted out, the accused has made that easy hy his ex-, pressed preference for the “hot seat." The files of the Tampa Times disclose that twenty years ago the residents of that western Florida city hoped to get addi-— tional shiphyilding contracts. They have _ them now. It was a long wait, but as the poet expressed it, “All things come round ' % him whe will but wait." | be glad to see the states A WORTHY PROJECT As The Citizen has pointed ont be- | fore, Key West within a very short time | is going to be confronted. with a serious housing problem. Not a problem of supply- ing accomodation for visitors and winter ‘residents necessarily, for if that type of demand is heavy enough new hotels and apartments will be built for that purpose, but a problem of providing homes for our own residents, praticularly the very poor. Hardly a day passes that does not see the passing of some old cottage, cabin or tumbledown shack. These for years had been occupied, giving shelter of a kind the occupants could afford. Often they paid no rent at all, but were permitted to live in the shacks through the sufferance of the own- ers. Now the owners see light ahead and are razing the old structures to economic enhance the attractiveness of their proper- ties or to make buildings. What is pecoming of the poor who oc- cupied those old homes? In general, they are doubling up with other poor families in other old buildings. The housing of these people is becoming an acute problem that demands solution. Some of our civic or- gariaztions are proposing to encourage a lew-cost housing program financed by the federal Ssh The proposal should way for projected new be pushed ahead with all speed. Today the WPA is. starting a project, which will gather data ‘on the’ tits’s" hose; iag capacity to be hsed | by, ‘the’ Federal Housing Administration and other agencies in the consideration of building projects of all kinds. Every. dwelling and _ business structure will be studied. The number of families in each building, the condition of the structure, the furniture and other equipment, the water supply and _ other facts will be noted by the surveyors, When this survey, a praiseworthy project, is completed, it will be a valuable document. All the guesswork will be tak- en out of the housing problem. Where and how it should be attacked will be imme- diately apparent. It will enable proper planning for the future so that all residents may be adequately, properly and reason- ably sheltered. RELIEF AND THE STATES The unemployment situation in the United States has grown worse in the past six months, according to the President of the United States. This means that de- mands for relief will be greater in the future. Same experts predict that the load will grow steadily for the next three morths. . The people of the United States seem to he facing the problem of permanent re- lief. It is time for them to think and form- ulate a definite policy toward relief. There is mueh difference of opinion but practic- ally everyone admits that the needy should have succor. 5 One subject of debate is whether the work of relief should be turned over to lo- cal, community and state governments. This is advocated by many financial and industrial leaders, including Qryil W. Adams, president of the American, Baws | ayifca the new aptorne: ' gener? ‘ers’ ASSdvfation, who" décTarés that A 'Soufid’t al on my first visit bab mana fiseal policy in-Govérnment “can nevér, be: achieved until the major part of the retief load is turned back ‘to local communities.” Mr. Adams says, ‘Providing for ‘the worthy needy is a legitimate function of local and State governments and should never have been centralized at political Washington.” There are many persons who will agree with this statement, in- cluding some Federal officials, who would and local com- munities finance the relief needs of their people. At the same time, one should not overlook the local and state officials who beat the tomtoms at Washington when- ever there seems to be a tendney to cut dawn on the amount of Federal funds to be spent for relief. We are frank to admit a preference far the handling of relief by local and state agencies. We think it would be fine if each state could care for its own peo- ple, Sucha process would relieve the Federal Government of a heavy expense and almost balance the budget. An exchange says it’s news if you are born, are sick, get drunk, get shot, have a fight, get married, have a baby, break a leg, get in jail, throw a party, get divorced, £0 crazy, or die. It isn't news if you merely | go broke, ELL KA eocccscconcoceses Sneake@ ‘up to Tallah; Jast week to see what the old town looked like durin’ the “off” sea- son and it sure was quiet. Hotek lobbies, usually teeming with legislators, contractors, lobbyists, pardon seekers or favor hunters, were deserted. Streets were prac- tically empty. Parking spaces esay to find. Folks you met w not burdened with brief cas- es and worried looks. When you did find three or four in a group usually were talkin’ about ’ or golf rather than poli- tics. The state house was deserted as the governor and cabinet rs were concerned. The slaves who put in their time an- noyin’ typewriters, poundin’ on addin’ machines and doin’ other routine chores sat listlessly about stifling offices, and visitors—even tramp newspapermen—were wel- come. Fred With Governor away, chasin’ tarpon at Boca Grande, | Mrs. Neel, his personal secretary, who does a swell job of standin’ > guard at the inner door, was re- lieved of the task of fightin’ off ‘the rabble that is constantly try- in’ to get in the Chief Executive’s hair, and permitted me to sit on the edge of her desk and get chummy for the better part of a half-hour. Branch Cone, who is usually knee-deep in customers and hid- den behind a desk full of corre- spondence, actually looked lone- some and he not only had time to chat with me without interrup- tion but we topped that off by steppin’ out for a cold drink which doesn’t happen very often durin’ the busy season. Bill Taylor, all dressed up in a new white suit and lookin’ like somebody’s bridegroom or some- thin’, quit countin’ how many ho- tels he’s got and estimatin’ next year’s tourist crop long enough for me to practice on him with my new candid camera. | Colin English was out makin’ a speech to a flock of 4-H girls, but his secretary and I get along _a lot better. when he ain't. there anyhow, and Besides he’s caused ‘enough disturbance around my office to justify my messin’ up | his. Col. Jim Lee was off some- j where tryin’ ta collect enough taxes to pay back that barrowed money the citrus folks are run- nin’ a fever over. But since they have been owin’ money and payin’ it back as long as I can remember I don't see what there is to get so excited about. Road Chairman Arthur Hale appeared to be the busiest of anyone, with customers waitin’ to see him while he chewed pen- cils and tried to figure out how the hang you can build new | roads and take care of those you already have when there's noth- in’ to use for money. Arthur has been doin’ a bangup jeb and his department is looked upon by | everyone as the most, efficient |and best managed in the state -up ged to eatch him in the next day and while he wa up to his ears in an important conference ..he took time out to shake hands and ex- tend a kindly welcome. Judge Gibbs is an able man and his ap- peintment met with popular favor. With the election over, Senator Pepper’s office has moved into spacious quarters in the new fed- eral building with Secretary Jack! Guthrie in charge. Correspond- ence since the election has been exceptionally heavy and Jack is taking care of as much as he can to relieve the senator’s Wash- ington office. “Jook” joints and night clubs, se popular durin’ legislative ses- sions, are rather drab and color- lese affairs right now, struggling | to keep open with very little pat- ronage, in spite of good food and popular prices. Being a dry county, you are obliged to buy your liquer by the bottle instead of the glass unless you know somebody. And it's.so eask to make friends in Talishas- see that there is little. incon, venience, Automobiles, while not, as comfortable and cozy .as_ the popular tap rooms and cocktail parlors of dry Polk, nevertheless serve those who want what they want when they want it. But time marches on and while the capital city may at the mo- ment be enjoying her little siesta, lobbyists are busy making plans and legislators old and new are | 8waitin’ the happy hour when the ‘A TWIRL OF THE GLOBE (Opinions expressed in this agree with those of The Citi- zen). eeececececsesessooeeeee® SAFE AUTOS, DRIVERS : At the National Safety Council meeting in Chicago this week, the | jrecord of 106,000 lives lost in ac-} ‘cident was breught up for dis- ‘cussion. The total of 39,500 deaths ‘through automobile accidents, a “fat which has occasional many ‘an editorial and many a speech, iwas made to show how lightly {the modern world takes this [waste of human lives and yet re- gards a spectacular kidnaping ‘death as all consuming in import-! ange. It is a new world, and peo- ple take what comes with it. The 'new attitude of familiar exper-/ ience with death and destruction | has grown into a modern world characteristic. Is the world think- ing about the problem? All steel tops, the best of brakes, new! strength in automobiles is the manufacturer’s answer. Cities re- quire drivers licenses, drivers ‘tests, brake and car inspection. |The world, too, is thinking of the toll. But the satisfactory remedy, | | that of drivers observing safety precautions, can only be brought out by education and reiteration. It is the same campaign as that | against war. Showing its undesir- ed results, and watching the oc- jeasion of war. | GOVERNMENT IN LAWS Tonight Congress is expected! to adjourn. Still unsolved is the jproblem of the railroads, which | | was kept too near the end of Con- | | gress. Three most important bills were the wage-hour bill, which! gives labor new concessions and protection against capital aggres- | sion, the spending-lending pro- | gram. which is for public works |spending and dole purposes, and | the building of the United States navy. What a different hand the| | government plays in the affairs’ | of the country today. If that hand | were but skilled! CZECH CAPITULATION | Itis the fight these days against | Fascism on the one hand and 'Communism on the other. These | faetors shape themselves into the, ‘existing conditions. It is the case} ; ‘in Sudeten Czechoslovakia. The | powerful, outside force of Ger-| lman Fascism, which is the! |strength. The condition is the poor economic shape that Czech sec-j| tion is in. Opposing Fascist power | is Democratic power with a touch | of Communism, as democracies, | fallowing voice to all, ~ involve.! | This Czech power is not as strong jas the Fascist power, and it is al- most certain that its democracy | avails but little in the poor con- ditions of their Sudeten seetion. Democracy may not be a streng as the capitalism within itself at. times. Czechoslovakia is in a very | difficult position. Germany is not lyet ready for war. Meanwhile it | can paverize Czechoslovakia with | closing its trade routes up to that | country, and Czechoslovakia will be hurt badly. What capitulation | | this may bring is a question for | thought! It can bring concession \to which no foreign country would object, since Czechosle- | vakia would itself allow slicing of its territory. The world would jobject to war, on the other hand. |LONG SPANISH WAR The 90 miles strip of seacoast north of Valencia in Spain js now under defi "Castellon is encircled and ui iis . It is expected that this alt faN“sKortly, and then will jcome the march to Valencia and | the longer siege on that larger city. There is much territory to ‘conquer, however, and lis slow. It will indeed be a year | before the war may be accam- plished. | SURPLUS CLOTHES When the machine age arrived there was a period of selfish capi- clan will gather and the business! of keepin’ and breakin’ promises | will again get under way. Then, like Mehitabel, Tallahas- see will bestir herself and we’llj find “There's a dance in the old dame yet”. D.s0TO HOTa, Vacation Land \OPEN ALL YEAR EUROPEAN Rates | $1-00, $125. $1.50 } $1.50. $1.75. $2.00 / CfPIIMIIIPIIIOIIDODO SOIT S. Everything furnished for housekeeping. Moderate rates by week o¢ month Che de hed hdd deaddad, TODAY’S COMMON ERROR Envelop be may PrO- nounged en-yel’-op or en’- LEDGE Can answer seven of these_ \ test questions? Turn to Page 6 for the answers | soeegecoocecepoepooeesee : Where is the island of Lu-j Sun rises Sun sets What is the political status of! Moon rises ! Moon sets zon? 2. Alaska? + Name the manager of the | Boston Red Sox baseball | team. | What propertion of an ice-| 3. 4. berg is above the water? \ eeaS 5. Does the U. S. government) own the Panama Canal! Zone? i What is the name of the in- strument used to measure; humidity? What is the state bird of Tennessee? ! What large university is lo- cated at Ithaca, N. Y.? Can the President pardon a person convicted under a state law? } In what year was the first World's Fair in Chicago? ; 9. 10. ‘Yoday’s Horoscope! SCCHOSOSSSHmMASSTEaSEOCECe } Today gives ready sympathies! and perhaps unsatisfied yearn-) ings. :, There will be a multitude! of friends, attracted by the jovial, | social nature, and\they will be} very unselfish comrades, ever | ready ta share the good things of | life. The native will occupy aj comparatively quiet position inj life; but it is a strong, desirable | existence. talism. Traces of this still re- mains. The clothing market is} now glutted. What do clothing | manufacturers wish? They want | the government to buy their sel-| fishly piled yp surplus so that they can turn the wheels of in- dustry again. If they are desirous, indeed, of aiding the country’s economig, balance, why not agree to sell the surplus at manufactur- ing cost. The gavernment is hay- ing a hard enough time now get- ting out of its awn relief jams be- ides curing the mistakes of capi- talists. The reason for the manu- ig plea in this case is real- ly that it wishes the government fo_buy the entire lus at ance ef in small lets. In reality, it wishes the government to aid its own iness. HOSE NO EACH EACH . KEEP CGOL | | Highest Lowest pecocese Mean - Noarmal Mean _ Yesterday)s Precipitation Normal Precipitation ending at S o'clock this morning. High Garden Hose?-You Bet LARGE SHIPMENT OF FINE HOSE JUST RECEIVED 5-8" one braid, coupled 25 Foot Length .......... 50 Foot Length ...... ae 3-4" one braid, coupled, spring rubber: 28 Foot Length : 5Q Foot Length . ee Solid Brass - . REVOLVING LAWN SPRINKLERS LAWN MOWERS Blue Ribbon: 5, 16” Steel Glades ALSO ALL OTHER KINDS OF GARDEN IMPLEMENTS AND EMERSON “SEABREEZE” FANS - 8” Non-oscillating 10” Oscillating 10” Oscillating on adjustable floor stand SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & FNGINEERING C9. 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