The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 10, 1938, Page 2

PAGE TWO The — illest Citizen | OUR BEAUTY AND THE VANDAL | » Whe Citizen Building r Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press jhe Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use fur republication of all news dispatches credited to not otherwise credited in this paper and aiso . | form the backbone and the sinew of the | other beauties abounding here. One Month Weekly : ADVERTISING RATES known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, ete. will he charged for at of 10 cents @ line. Made 8 for entertainments by churches from which | e is to be derived are 6 cents a line. 4 Citizen is an open forum and inyites discus- on of public issues and subjects of local or general 4 but it will not publish anonymous commun cations. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN 2d WILL Zsbeays seek the truth ant “ptint it without fear and without favor; neVer be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud. right; always fight for progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue. couimend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle, IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. 6. -Consolidation of. County, ang.- / Governments. i 2 Hitler and Mussolini ledge-walkers. are European One reason for so much foolish writ- ing is that too many columns have to be filled every day. October horoscope for Key West mer- chants: Advertising will pay better than usual dividends this month. Czechoslovakia, like Belgium, now knows that treaties by some nations are treated like mere scraps of paper. Our sympathy goes out to the little taxpayer, staggered by the news that the Federal, State and local governments owe peng like $60,000,000, 000. RAL Rowe j Any leitizen who has had't yerience with the Feira, will tell youcvwhat he thinks about them. After he talks, can tell whether he won or lost his case. The difference between purges in the United States and those abroad is that in this country the President’s opponents are | still alive and, with few exceptions, hold- | ing their political job. We do not want | the European technique, do we? Are good athletes getting scarcer or | Arm- | do we have super-athletes now? strong, the pugilist has three world’s cham- pionships in three classes to his credit—4 welterweight, lightweight and middles weight. Now comes Donald Budge an takes all four of the world’s major tenniq crowns in the same!.year—United Stat British, French’ and ‘Australian, | and brilliant flora. The city ran wild with | | beauty, | t }a@ background of palms. Key West is a beautiful island, except — to those who are blind or will not see. It | | was beautiful when the first white settlers | * came. But they were not content with the trees and shrubs and other foliage as they | | found them. They went, literally, into every | | country of the world for cuttings, for seeds, | | nuts and roots. They planted their yards, | they lined their streets with strange, exotic | These strange exotic and brilliant | | trees and shrubs and growths would lack | character if they were not placed against The waving fronds, the graceful lines of our palms They are | a joy to behold and many northern be- | holders do not believe they have actually | penetrated the tropics unless they see the | | palms gently swaying in the trade winds | that caress this favored spot. A terrible blight has laid hands on | some of our palms. Experts agree there | | are two causes, unusually dry weather and removal of bark from the trees. We can- | | not help the dry weather situation, Nature | in time will take care of the moisture de- | | ficiency. But we can and must stop ruina- tion of the palms by the removal of the | protective bark.by those employed directly iF | or indirectly by persons who make various | | trees in the Martello Towers section, They ieee osganieatinn |mittee he named William H. Ma- beauty just as we would our more material | | dire results to the motorist, which can be | read in most any large daily paper, would articles for sale'from this material. Just the other day a citizen caught | seven boys in the act of removing large quantities of bark from the lovely palm were hailed before the juvenile court and reprimanded. One boy is being held for action of the Criminal Court. More than : reprimands are necessary, if this serious damage to our palms is to be checked. Certainly the vandals ought to be! | made to pay for the marring of this beauty. But also, most positively, the parents of those boys and the ‘persons who hire them | to strip the palms of their bark should be | | brought into court. The parents should be | held accountable for their children, the bark users should be punished and placed under bond, if necessary, to end this de- structive commercialism of our beauty. | That beauty is an asset and is paying divi- | | dends every day. We must protect that properties from the depredations of van- | dals. HITCH-HIKERS There are a large number of motorists who still pick up thumbers as they go along the public highways. This, in spite | | of all warnings to the contrary. One would | think the various instances of this with | keys to thé car and to rob his benefattor. | be a lesson in caution. The youth picked up who proved to be an escaped inmate of a home for feeble-minded, later broke into | a house and seized a young woman with a threat to kill her, could have proven less merciful with the man who gave him the lift. The young fellow who, picked up by a driver, shot him in the chest to get the You may say these cases are exceptions | others like them happening all the time. | you | | due to these cases of assault. | unfriendly to pass by a hitch-hiker when and perhaps they are. Yet there are many | Many a deserving chap will be passed by It may look you have room in your car for him—but stop at your own risk and remember “‘it might happen to you.” WHAT BEACHES COULD DO FOR ALL OF TAMPA (Tampa Times) Gulf beaches were worth $3,000,000 last year to St. Petersburg, according to an unusual survey just completed by the Gulf Beach Lions Club. Of course, the beaches are worth a great deal more than this as pulling power for visitors, but this survey was restricted to actual values that j could be accurately computed on the basis of new — construction, general living expenses of residents *}aand the costof various developments. Although sentiment is more bitter in the United States against Hitler than it was against the German Kaiser at the out- break of the World War in 1914, the na- tion as a whole is strongly isolationist. We are for peace but there are so many things that can happen during the course of a European conflict that no one can deter- mine for certain that we will not be drawn inte it sooner or later. All we can do is to hope and pray that the war will continuc itself to the other side of the ocean. : This was $3,000,000 of “new money” brought to St. Petersburg “by people to whom the beaches » have an appeal, and had these people not found these beach accommodations here they would have gone to other parts of the state for their Winter and Summer stay,” says H. M. Kiplinger, Lions committee chairman. When one recalls that the last World War included a casualty list that num- Lered 37,494,186 persons, it is easy to un.) . derstand the desire for peace, | Vick Building, opened {ful term. There | for only a few more students, |committee of seven |return from Havana and jroute to Washington. Officials of ‘the Army and Navy met -RHE-“EY thst crTizEN KEY WEST IN ~ PEOPLE’S FORUM TODAYS Sore | DAYS GONE BY - | Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen Key West Business College oc- cupying the second floor of the its .ses- ;Sions last evneing with an en- rollment of 24 students. President H. M. Settle gave a short talk! ‘on shorthand writing. The day’ classes started with a good at- | tendance this morning and splen- did prospects for a most success- are openings 'Mr. Settle said, and there suffi- ecient applications to finish the enrollment stipulated. The presi- dent announces he will give a special lecture tonight on “Busi- ness Suecess and Its Attain- ;ments”. He especially invites |the business men of the city to be present. ‘The evening classes will be on Tuesday and Friday. | evenings of each week at 7 o’clock and continue until 9 o'clock. Democrats of Key West organ- ized last night at a meeting ‘held jin the county court house ‘and a | number" of ringing speeches were made) Wm. R. Porter;' témpo- rary! ‘ehirman, called ‘the meet- ing: to! order stating\\"thevpdr- pose of the’ meeting ‘was to! get a“°Democratie '' organizatidn - to- | gether and to impress upon 'thém ‘the necessity of sticking togeth- er. He appointed a nominating to suggest names of permanent officers of On this com- lone, Harry Gwynn, Theodore Sweeting, Dr. J. M. Renedo, |Frank Delaney, Virgil Lowe and | George Brooks. The members retired to the jury room for a conference. Returning soon they announced the following nomina- tions: J. Vining Harris, chair- man; Mrs. Wm. R. Warren, vice chairman; Ross Sawyer, secre- | tary; Shirley C. Bott, treasurer. The election of each was by ac- clamation and was unanimous. Editorial comment: The people who are too busy to do anything for their home town usually find when there is anything they want that the rest of the people are too much occupied to pay any attention to them. i Mrs. Doloris Rosenda, native |of Cuba but for 60 years a resi- dent of Key West, died yesterday at the advanced age of 74 years and six months, Mrs. Rosendo leaves a husband who is 84 years old and, numerous other relatives in this city and Cuba. General C. P. Summerall, na- tive of Florida and once school teacher of this state, now chief of |staff of the United States army, spent a while in Key West on his is en- the Cuba at the dock and extended a welcome to the general on his return from foreign shores. The general inspected the army bar- racks and a salute was fired |there in his honor. + The Havana Special leaving last, night was made up, in | sections on account, of -the, eprly return of Spanish-American, war | veterans, who had been el 4 | the canvention in Havana, ., idO Seer, Theres wereg 448 Ypesttnaviner-* riving on the. Governor . Cobb yesterday from Havana. Many of them remained over until to- day and will take sightseeing | trips through the city today leav- ing on the train tonight. Peecccccevsceceveceseses Today’s Horoscope Today gives energy and the ability to promote large organi- zations, The nature is a little critical and rather quarrelsome. too apt to find fault with the opinions of others and sometimes seeking to tear down what it has not the ability to build up. Curb this tendency and the prospects for success are brilliant. you ate red Yor aes Get relief now with be brewing and ‘cannot afford fo take a chance with any to the seat of trouble id ids nature to soothe and Deal and to loosen and expel germ- have failed, is authorised to if you are not with the bene- is one ont be EXPRESS GRATITUDE Editor, The Citizen: Sir: Will you please publish , this letter received by the Key! West Junior Chamber of Com- merce: “It is the desire of the entire Miami Outboard Club-to express their gratitude to. thé Junior Chamber of Commerce Racing Committee for treatment and many attentions which they showed our stunt team while they were in Key West. “Personally, I enjoyed the trip very much and since returning , home, we fellows who made the’ trip have told the other boys in the Club what a, good time we had and it looks as if the whole gang will be down next time we come. “Yours very truly, “MIAMI OUTBOARD CLUB, In- corporated. “J. W. CROSBY, “Secretary”. APPRECIATION Editor, The Citizen: We want to express our gen- uine appreciation. for the fine space you have given us in your recent issue, in co, the work of our Without your fine “cooperation, | cooperation of other} and the newspaper editors and publishers in Florida, our work simply could not go forward. Very gratefully yours, MARCUS FAGG, State Superintendent, Children’s Home Society of Florida. ' Jacksonville, Fla., October 8, 1938. | eeoee | THE WEATHER SOSSHSSHSSSOASHGENGOSEOSE Temperatur: Highest —... Lowest - Normal Mean Rai: Yesterday's Precipitation Normal Precipitation “Thin record covers 24-hour period ending at § o'clock thin) morning. Tomorrow's Sun rises - Sun sets Moon rises Moon sets P.M. 10:40 : 4:18 Barometer 7:30 a. ™, today: Sea level, 30.06. WEATHER FORECAST (Tilk 7:30 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday, pos- sibly showers; moderate northeast and east winds, fresh at times. Florida: Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday, possibly showers on the extreme south coast Tuesday; slightly warmer near east-central coast tonight. Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: east and east winds, fresh at times over south portion; partly overcast weather tonight and | Tuesday, scattered showers over extreme south portion. eee rOAM Keeps You In Touch With World Events 6:45 A. M. to 11:30 P. M. EVERY DAY o——90 STAY TUNED the wonderful | tion with | Moderate north- | TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE! } | i | | H test Page 4 for the answers 1, Name the capital of Tahiti. { 2. What is the approximate | weight of hippopotami at birth? What does the term “by-: line” mean in journalism? Are bats classed as birds? | Name the capital of North, Dakota. In dry measure, how many | quarts are in one peck? H What is sidereal time? Is there such a word as “ir- regardless”? 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Dade with 66 SIVE deaths ranked second and Hills- borough with 50 deaths, third. Other counties with a large num- ber of deaths reported are Orange; 43; Pinellas, 25; Gadsden, 22; Polk, 21; Palm Beach, 20; Ala- j chua, 17; and Escambia, 15. (Special to The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, Oct. 10.— jas compared with the same period jlast year, figures, released by the ‘Bureau of. Vital Statistics, Flor- ida State Board of Health re- veal. During. the first six months of ! 1938, 495 persons have died of tuberculosis. For the same period Subscribe to The Citizen—20c BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers 24 Hour Ambulance Service { ; Phone 135 Night 696 } In 1937 the average number of !deaths for the last six months in ithe year dropped off with a total OVERSEAS TRANSPORTATION CO, INC. 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