The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 28, 1938, Page 2

g PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen : Puplished Daily Except Sui THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING ‘» ART: ELEN, Ane 10., INC. MAY, Peenident ang Publisher rom ‘The Citizen, Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets nt Business Manager Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press The Asséciated 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 focal news published he | i idles AEH SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year oo. Six Months . Three Months .. One Month... Weekly $16.00 5.00 2.50 85 20 ADY: Made known on application. SRTISING BATES SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect the of 10 cents a line. ar e is to be derived are 5 nbituary notices, ete., will be charged for at for entertainments by churches from which cents a line. | zen is an open forum and inyites diseus- | sion of public issues and subjects of local or gener: interest Lut It ‘wilt nt publish anonymous communi. | | by several leading citizens, representatives cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST 5. Airports—land and Sea. 6. Consolidation of County and City Governments. A teacher says al) pupils are alike in many respects, Also in disres, pects, Some politicians make speeches when- ever the ghost writer’s spirit moves them. Local market report: Bill collectors active; demand, persistent; receipts very light. If you want to find out what nice peo- ple are in this world, just read a few mar- riage write-ups. Key West belongs to you as much as to anyone else, so don’t wait for others to start everything. The Royal Mounted Police numbers about 2,700 men but only 200 horses; the remainder probably ride in automobiles. Both Fascists and Communists attempt to make absurdity plausible, and that is just what the Townsendites are attempt- ing. o Néarly all men who haveamonopoly in | their own line of business are believers in | stern competition in other fields. If they thought or acted otherwise they wouldn't be human. The earliest paper was made of cot- ton, and if that staple goes down! much | furthe#” in price, it caifbe used again to make paper, especially since the price of | wood, pulp, has gone up. HOW CO-OPERATION WORKS An emergency was created’ last week | | by the refusal of Chairman Jobn Slade of | | the Overseas Highway commission to sign | a check for $8,000 which had been voted by the commission asa contribution to- | wards defraying the expenses of the cele- bration. The Citizen is not attempting to | argue the merits of Mr. Slade’s claim that |* 4 the donation is illegal, although it had been |STOCK MABKET UP approved in writing by officials of the Re- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN (UO OCOCOCL SORECESESOECOTS ' dollars a month more will bé the! sO eeenccccccccccccvccsoccencccscccccocsocccooees | PEOPLE’S FORUM javerage, wage increase. The | wages are still below those Harry ' Hopkins A TWIRL OF THE GLOBE Opinions expressed in this column ‘do not necessarily one with ‘these of The Citi- zen). PeagPeeecoregpes | |RAILROAD WAGE CUT by Congress, now breaks into the open! Railway employee ar- ganizations at New York, Chicago; St. Louis and Kansas City have adopted resolutions opposing a threatened 15 per cent wage cut for. July.1, Mayor-La Guardia of Now is the time to make some New York, where the center of | money in the stock market. With! the protest spearhead is present- ) construeton Finance Corporation which (new deal monies pouring into the ed, doesn’t believe that the cut | leaned the commission the funds to com- |pockets of business and eonsum-/ will.be made because it is illeg- plete the Overseas Highway. The point we are making that the fail- | ure of that money to materialize created a serious condition. Members of the celebra- | | tion committee and the manager of the af- fair in arranging the program had incurred | | a number of debts and had agreed to make | | further allotments for various phases of | | the Fiesta. In other words, if the bridge | | commission contribution did not come | through, the celebration would have to be | called off UNLESS the | West and Monroe County got together and | raised an adequate fund. A meeting was called, It was attended | citizens of Key | of the council and county commission and | i | | various civic organizations. The situaton |; was. explained. Consternation anda f | the sudden turn of events at i | the utterances of those atte | moments sentiment was Ey | celebration must not be called off: | disgrace Key Wést and M@noe Cot The Monroe County tax list will be published next month, On account of the decision by the upreme Court of Florida that the Murphy law applied to 1937 and 1988 taxes as well as 1936 and prior none | of the hundreds of redeemed properties are back on the current rolls or listed as | delinquent. Hence the lists in all the coun- ties ofthe state are the smallest in many years, but they will grow and the same | as, babies will be found in the same in a very short while. Walter Funk, German economics | minister, states that Germany is not obli- gated to acknowledge the state debt of an- nexed “Austria. It is immaterial to the United#States whether Germany acknow- ledgesgthe debt (acknowledgement prob- ably what ldn’t mean anything anyway), want is our money, and do we get itt The assumption that Germany is hot obligated to pay the state debis of Austria which she annexed is the same as that ofthe buyer of a business who refuses te pay-the debts of the business he bought. In a private transaction, when such a situa- tion arises, the courts are resorted to, but “Arbitration the international _ Proves themselves inept. courts "among nations the demand must be back- have | the eyes of the state and nation. Something | must be done at once. Realizing it would be impossible to raise the fund by private subscription at this late date, it was suggested that the county com- | the statement that he has known mission and the city council] each appro- priate $1,000, although previously both those public bodies had made substantial health and decency and’ is glad contributions. Members of the commission | and the council at the meeting agreed to | the proposal. The celebration was saved. e That is the kind of civic co-opeation | Teceive less than $1 a day. Five needed in Key West. If all factions of the | Key West By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citizen The average editor tries to be fair, giving credit where credit is due. The fol- lowing item from an Illinois newspaper il- | lustrates the point: mistake made last week which should read | 4 cows were killed by lightning for Dan | Cahill and one for the Cline boys. We gave | the item as all belonging to Dan Cahill.” “We gladly correct a Irked by two new cops who had been Little who ag Se es jain” AIGA 2S Nancy Hurley, 6-yédrdld | daughter of the governor of Massachusetts, | has an unusual playmate, of whom she is j very fond. He is a husky state trooper, de- tailed to guard her after a kidnap threat. The man who made America diction- | ary-conscious now works for Lowell Thom- assisting in the preparation of scripts ald place | for the famous commentator’s radio broad- | casts, according to Newsweek. He is Pros- per Buranelli, inventor of cross-word puz- ales. the world’s most famous bugler. Staff Sergeant Frank Witchey of the | Third Cavalry, who retired a few days ago after 30 years of Army service, is perhaps He had blown Taps at the funeral of the Unknown Seldier in 1931, and at the graves of Presi- | dents Wilson and Taft, General , Wood, William Jennings Bryan, Leonard and 24 ether major and brigadier generals. A recent check-up disclosed that of 100,180 enlisted men in the United States Navy, 4,515 were born in foreign countries and one was born at sea. States furnish- ed by the dogs of war as in matters for -irg the largest numbers of sailors are New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Massachusetts, lowa, Ulinois and Missouri, ers, stocks are jumping higherjal and unfair, and because the and higher. More good news for } $60,000,000 which the cut would the stock market is the loosening | save in a few months can be sav- of banking regulation4 Sunday ed in other ways. La Guardia cit- by President Rooseveit. ‘1 means that something of $ 000,000 of private money wil encouraged to go into )-|tion, which would take money away from different railroads, jand might precipitate something again. The pump has ben we}]| worse than a Gran Chaco conten- primed. A note of pessimism in |tion. It is also a bit idealistic, ex- this optimistic outlook, hawever,|pecting railroad heads to come will not be entirely uncalled for.|together nobly and justly and The last pump-priming Congr<ss|eliminate those of their lines and the President did in eariy|which come together to save a new-deal days stimulated busi- | wage cut for railroad employees. ness, but a recession set in im- | What they will do to help them- mediately after. The pumpjselves will probably take a dif- works well on the first priming, | ferent trend, butitremainsto be seen if the well 3 can produce without an unwel- come flood of production, which will eventually so glut the mark- ets that a third unemployment recession will set in. Undoubted- Pump priming gives business porary new life and vigor, but economie balance of supply d demand must be justified, the government has given no res on that important ques- STOP SPANISH BOMBINGS The fast falling Loyalist gov- ernment, after terrible defeats oyer the week end, now attempts to bargain with Italy and Ger- many, who are supplying a great deal of the troops and munitions used against her, by threatening to bomb the cities of those, na; tions, The threat a ed bring about ‘(Me rédpehing ‘of ‘thi Hae areen ven siren te 4 arms to the Loyalist government, the ceasing of Franco bombing of Loyalist cities, stopping of the war. The reprisals will probably bring about action against the merciless bombing of cities late- Meanwhile, pincer action inst coastal city, Valencia, continued, although Franco lost many men in the advances. A. WAGE JUMP ‘Welcome news to local W.P.A. | workers and those of the entire | south is in the wage increase ord- |ered for those on relief. Admin- istrator Harry L. Hopkins made ly. ‘for some time that the relief, wages were based on a standard of living below the levels of aiaay CUT CHINESE SUPPLIES In China the Japanese aerial forces attacked southern coastal Swatow, which will be the begin- {ning of a drive toward Carton, China’s gateway for supplies, that with the new billions ap- propriated by Congress he can raise the southern relief workers | wage scale. No worker will now | eity could reach similar accords on all pub- | lic matters there would be no question | about the future of our city. would quickly move forward to her seat in the front rank of progressive American | cities. SIDELIGHTS 1 | strolling in and demanding free drinks for | | several days, a New York bartender re. | ported the situation to police headquarters. Next day two detectives went om duty at | the bar in place of the regular porter and | bartender, The two eo ae | were imposters, were landed ™m gr ee PAUL WHITEMAN Every Friday Evening 104 C. B, 3. Stations PAUL DOUGLAS for mildness ' Copyright 1998, Lescerr & Myses Tosscco Ca, would wish, he says. | | The railroad situation, ignored , ,ed elimination of line duplica-' reece egeece NO UNIFORMS Editor, The Citizen: Key West baseball team is in need of uniforms for the coming | series during the Fiesta. The boys have been working} hard getting themselves in good condition, and have been playing a real good game every Sunday | (iti ons afternoon, The fans should get together and see if it is possible for them to look like ball players. teams from Miami, Havana and U,S.S. Charleston will be in uni- form, and the Key West boys will have to play in long street pants and whatever shirt have for their personal use. Some will have a cap and others will haye hats. This collection of clothes on the playing field will look bad, and will be a knock to Key West. What the boys need is a little help from someone interested in them. JI, as the manager of the ,Jocal team, would like to hear from anyone interested in the boys. ROY HAMLIN, = Manager. Key West, Fia., June 28, 1938. pr Nee (Editor’s Note: Asked about the pressing need, for baseball uniforms for,,Key,,West’s team, rren Smith, celebration mana- ‘ , said this morning, “Due to a “dagk of funds, oceasioned by John Slade’s refusal to permit the $3,- 000 donation his own. board of Overseas Highway Commission- ers voted, the Key West Celebra- tion Committee finds itself hard pushed to supply even the balls and bats much less the uniforms for the series. ate situation, but Mr. Slade is wholly to blame, not the Celebra- tion Committee”. which is also on the coast 70 miles or so up the Canton river off the China sea. Capture of Can- ton will shut off supplies going into the interior of Kai Shek‘s Chinese armies. 5 The | | worst of all no mention whatso- } they may! It is an unfortun-' | Editor, The Citizen: TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1938. RESENTS ACTION New Yerk.—Mrs. Julia Dobin of this city filed suit for divoree from her husband on grounds of cruelty, charging that his favor- Although not a native of Key |ite pastime was reading aloud to West, having lived the greater part 6f my life here, I feel en-/ titled to express myself in regard to the. naming of our recently- completed Highway. There seems to be a spirit of indifference on the part of our So many names have been suggested by ‘outside’ peo- ple that have no connection with Key West—past, present or fu- ture—some very ridiculous, and ever of Mr. Flagler. Primarily, if it had not been for Mr. Flagler we would never have had a high- way. It was a gigantic undertaking for one man to spend a vast for- tune on what was termed by some people “Flagler’s Folly” and Flagler’s Dream, in attempting to build the railroad. Although the elements destroyed a small por- tion close to the mainland there are still standing today the beau- tiful Viaducts and Bridges as Monuments to our Benefactor. It is due to the railroad that we have substantial foundations for our present Automobile Highway. Without one we could not haye had the other. Anyone who knows COG IILS, MLNS IM LE ELS ES BT a AUTO AND DRIVER ...........---..0..-00000000000 - $1.00 EACH ADDITIONAL PASSENGER TRUCKS—ACCORDING TO SIZE TILIA STI SII SEL aL. her gruesome newspaper accounts of husbands who had killed their wives, his geography can visualize the tremendous expanse of water that must be traversed to reach Key West. The term “Overseas” is still un- Pleasant to ‘many Americans be- cause of its relation to the Jast great war. It is just as easy to say the “Flagler-Key West High- way”, thereby paying honor to the man who has made the present highway possible. I feel sure there are many citizens who must have the same sentiment and loyalty to Mr. Flagler, especially those of us that were here when the railroad first came into Key | West. The tradition has also pass- ed on to our younger generation. There should be no question of the name for our highway, it should be, “The Flagler-Key West Highway”. LOUISE MALONEY. 508 Simonton St., h Key West, Fla. June 27, ‘ MLS SS SS OM The New OVERSEAS HIGHWAY TOLL RATES ew. LIRA PARP L LADD ¥ ... just a wisp of Chesterfield’s aroma tells you right away—there’s a real cigarette. That’s because Chesterfields are blended with skill from aro- matic Turkish and mild, ripe home-grown tobaccos. Light one and at once you'll know that Chesterfields are milder and taste better. give millions of smokers MORE PLEASURE than any other cigarette