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

poe we | TWo The Key West Citizen zen Building Cérner Greene nad Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper In Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter. | Member of the Axsociated Press Phe “Associated Press is exclusively enti for republication. of 's dispatch 5 in this pap SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year Six Months . Three Months Month ADVERTISING RATES je knpwn on application. ae AL NOTICE rds of thanks, re: te., will be cha SPE ding notice: phituary notice © of 10 cents & ses for entertainm by churche nue is to be der! e & cent: tizen is an Open forum and invites discus- puldie issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi. cations. tions of ged for at from which line. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN ater and Sewerage. omprehensive City Plan (Zoning). foiels and Apartments. thing Pavilion. irports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Established fact: One cannot be in two places at the same time. Days to become memorable. in Key Weat history—July 2-3-4, 1938. _ Ifa person benefits from a failure in the long run, can it be called a failure? Some use a vaccuum cleaner, while others pick up their dirt cver the party line. A woman knows only two kinds of secrets: one kind is not worth keeping, the other is too good to keep. California has an annua! lemon show, but we doubt that the girls are crazy to be ‘crowned ‘queen of lemons.” Asked to name five things containing milk, a bright boy suggested “butter, cheese, ice cream and two cows.” In the city of Vetrenik, Yugo-Slavia, all the husbands are blind and all the wives can see. In the city of Key West not all the husbands see, and not all the wives are blind. There was a day when the importance of a city was gauged by the size of its liyery stables, but that was in the horse and buggy days of which we have heard so much a few years ago. Not Hl the politicos, by any means, the city manager form of gov- -fwo councilmen entered the | sanctum of The Citizen a few days ago and emphatically declared themselves in favor of the change in the hope that it will bet- ter the conditions prevailing in the man- agement of the city today. Many more people of Florida believe that justice was McCall receive life-gentence instead of death if they knew that he would serve the | the | that | st the | for | revenge but protection, and it is entitled | er sentence, but the commutation, if records are produced, would show lifers serve from five to 15 years in penitentiary. Society does not ask to that. | bardment from th would | Ee | satisfied should | « | DEMAND FOR CITY MANAGER | se a ae | An old adage was “Don’t put all your | eggs in one basket.” A more modern philosopher has re- vised this basket and watch that basket’. In the more leisure]; of long ago, | when the church and politics were the principal diversions of the average citizen, time was readily devoted to public affairs and such activities as the Town Meeting | operated very well. The pressure of business changed all this. 2 the needed time to pub- uch men as could make and many di- versions, en no longer al | lic affa a business of it. professional politi- |eian was more alert to matters that promised ‘to produce a revenue for him, than he w atters of general interest. Just a a has found it desir- | able ‘to abolish House and Senate in her | state government and entrust the manage- ment of her affairs to one single body, so cities have found it desirable to concen- trate management of their affairs into utive, < ager, who could irk no responsibility fh receive directions from no one of the city | commissions whose only control, theoretic- | ally at least, over the manager was to dis- jn 1 | z | pthGory nes been carried } ef cify commissions have re- | garded their gath if office, good govern- ment th: as been thefresult.!.Wihere the city | management plan Mas-been abused, as_ it as been in Miami? the results are, if pos- sible, worse than they would have been un- der former methods of government, A city can no more be successfully run by political methods than a business could be. The situation is like that of a great | corporation which in selecting a chief en- | gineer, or an auditor, would propose to give the job to the man who could secure | the plant. The result would almost surely engineer or auditor would get the job with certain disastrous results. Here in Key West we are quite frank to confess to one another that we are ham- pered because of ties of long standing; ties of business, marriage, past favors and other less creditable relations, There is just one way to overcome this. Just as a corporation (and that is would not care where he came from, what his polities were, nor what social ties he might have; but only require that he be a reliable, capable engineer; so Key West capable, experienced city manager. True, we have good men here in Key West, but what good man here in Key West could say honestly to himself, that he would manage the city without fear or favor; that personalities would not enter into his decisions of policy. To get justice, Key West must have what the lawyers call a “change of venue’ Just as a judge having close relations with one of the parties to a dispute, would con- sider it necessary to disqyglify, himself, so capable men in Key West pre ylisqualified as managers, a ASD CLEVER FELLOWS THESE BANKERS (QGemipHergig> Newspaper of: are under continuous bom- | usand and one propaganda and foreign, | and want the blicity agen which have an axe to grind publicly rindstone. | It ex pleasure to receive | notice that from the / Bankers Association prepared a series of ases of banking operations spapers if wanted. tment of the-bank- *t happens to the pub- in newspaper of- method t o excite After anything, public or private, is a/ success, claimants come forward-in num- bers expostulating “ex post facto” that they did the initiating, they did the plan- ning ard they did the task. Credit gen- vr which would the line of fr American mailings and not erally comes to those who deserve it, some- | times belatedly, without their frantic at- tempts to force recognition of what they have done, most often for individual pr fit only. The unselfish, inarticulate and few in number, who have done their part for the common good, are forgotter in the clamor for acclaim; but they have fhe i» ward satisfaction of havin douse 2 soo feed, which, like virtue, is its own reward. engaging a k propaganda. Ask be shelled. If he kful for not being Clever to read, “Put all your eggs in one | | one and who, theoretically at least, was to | the most endorsements from everyone in | be that the best solicitor, and not the best | what the city is) in search of an engineer | has got to go into the market and employ a | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | eocccccccccvevcccccccces| A TWIRL OF THE GLOBE (Opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily agree with those of The Citi- zen). ° eec5e e \KEY WEST AT FAIR Fort Lauderdale is to have a diorama of the beautifully light- ed New River, lined with yachts, at the New York, World’s, Fair! Key West is very comparable to Ft. Lauderdale in many | ways. Problems of Key West merchant are very similar. to those of Lauderdale. Both cities are about the same size. Key West is not as rich as Ft. Lauderdale, how- j ever. Still and all it is missing ‘a wonderful opportunity to ad- vertise itself by means of the |dioramas. Imagine a bird’s eye | view of the quaint houses on the green island with miniature ships moving down a blue Gulf Stream on one side, and the Gulf of |Mexico lapping the deep, inside |harbor on the other. A shot of the seven mile bridge of the |Overseas Highway going out to |” |sea with passing cars is another, | striking opportunity. | BRITISH HURT BRITISH Two British ships were lyesterday by a lone, presumably |rebel, air raider. It would be irony indeed if the plane were one sold the “Franco forces by English merchants, Just as planes universities and American prop- jerties in China. QUIET CHAMBERLAIN! France has advised England’s }Chamberlain to “soft pedal” re- | ports of peace in the Spanish war. |The nation’s newspapers took up |the story with headlines yester- day. The rumors continue to- |day, especially the belief that Chamberlain almost disclosed se- ‘eret moves to work for this peace but that France intervened. What sort of pressure these “moves” | will be is the point the world is | waiting for. It must be collective |action of England, France and | Russia against Germany and |Italy, this action to be what will jamount to bribery, to armed | threats, or other inducements. It seems hardly possible that any- thing short of a declaration of war would stop the Spanish struggle. | MORE U. S. MONEY President Roosevelt said that business is not as bad as. every- one thinks it is and quoted the new commerce department esti- mate of the national income of | wage earners, $60,000,000,000 this | year, which is $5,000,000,000 high- er than last year. The American dollar has not fallen to any new lows since last year. Where then is all this wealth? Why do not as last year? Why is there more unemployment? These are a few of the questions which come to | mind immediately. But the most amusing question is how can you jhave a recession if the country is learning more money? Some- where the setup is dispropor-| | tional. NO CITY MANAGER *.| City Manager A. E. Fuller of | Miami is facing a move by the National Citizens of America in Dade County to replace the city manager form of government with an ®aldermanic authority. | Manager Fuller has lived in Mi- jami nearly all his life, loves the | place, and hopes neVer’ to teave~ iit. California cities have nearly } doubled in offers the present | salary Fuller is getting but he re- jfuses to leavé-his city. It is un-/ | derstood that, although Fuller is lof such excellent calibre and shrewdness that his reputation is} iknown over the country, he is still tied down hand and foot by | Politicos of Miami. This is a les- ison Key West should bear in mind in its present move toward a city managership. Have our manager uncontrolled and re- sponsible only to the City Coun- cil who will act as a check on exorbitant expenditures and block any move which will favor cer- tain groups at the expense of the many. One thing, the city at present is most receptive to learn- ing high powered civic salesman pale from one who knows ANTED 1000 PEOPLE Who have F. 0, (foot odor) to te any druggist. Locally at Gard- ner’s ahewamast 0 Key West Scavenger sunk | and arms, manufactured in Am-/ \erica, have destroyed American} KEY WEST IN DA DAYS GONE BY ‘en Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Happenings Here Jus ace epee etm een ent — ie aa tne enn Karl Brodseick, the young man reported to have disappeared from a vessel of the Mallory Lines while the ship was enroute to Galveston, after the vessel left this port on June 12, was a native of Germany and ci n of: Bre- merhaven, it is learned. He had made application for citizenship in America, through; the office of the Deputy United-States Clerk. He had ard the. boat that night as} hman and is reported to have been on when he disappeared. The ca tain of the ve: reported the man. missing upon arrival of the ship at Galveston, but the man- ner in which he disappeared is a mystery. The emergency folding ladder found trailing from the ship is believed to denote that he | went overboard from ther cannot be determined what was doing there while His relativ: a been notified of his death. The young man had been in Key West about six years. He on the vessels of the coast g and later went to work on Key West-Havana ships. he the At a meeting of the city last night the ordina ing to the granting of a franchise to the Key West Water C any for the drilling of a well or wells for fresh water within the city limits, was passed on its second, pertain- jinance grants permission to drill third and final reading. The ord- by for water with the understanding GASED @ OKLAHOMA @ in Tulsa County sheriff for en thieves who | ens'so they coul out any noisi ane | that the city will purchase a cer- | — 2 tain amount of water from the company annually in the event that a bond issue can be carried on in the future under pices of the Catholic ¥ Club. Mr. Carbonell’s or will furnish the music. for taking care of this part of tk agreement as well as that of We a ir lling sewerage system in con- nection therewith. The franchise alic main: duty 3 , but it t gra, ing. the and ment stem company to lay water 2 all other necessary for the operation of and the company will of Claudie street. Lloy ce make plans for beginning ations. comment: Some go, O. O. McIntyre, the st, 2, W eve Laredo, t New York is tk > be wrote that Key West, s the least interesting ¥ visited. Now he has Texas. Now he a good it is the one place re he can make a good liv- That 0.0. is 43 years old, tall, skinny, haired and cadaverous lo He makes it unanimous. could pass unchallenge n undertaker, were he so in- Harry L. Beaver and Miss Nel- council 1 nerts were married A. L. Maureau be- g the aftitiating priest. Lorraine er and Collete Beaver were witnesses to the aed dines av Announcer sment was made today Cc ecil, Carbonell that the y night Fri- dances will be carried workers regularly have as much} C h piEssue Se GRACE Moore } ANDRE KOSTELANETZ PAUL WHITEMAN Dees TArion Paut Doves estertield GO. cares Campana to jail when berg testified that h from her it to get ‘plan a fail- n of Bergens- , is disillutioned. ty NEW ZEPHYR BUSES a SROIEE OF ROUTES ” Mees Teaser Co,