The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 31, 1938, Page 2

PAGE TWO The e Key West Citizen ah x CHEN BU + AKEMAN, President and Publisher ALLEN: Assintam wines vin ‘Phe Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Tiered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associnted Press ess is exclusively entitled to use 8 dispatches credited to le Assoc 2 RATES is of thanks, resolutions of | - Will be charged for at by churches from which IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. . Airports—i.and and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. | uj _ If you keep working at it long enough, the hardest job will be finished. Everybody has had a say about the) fate of Czechoslovakia except the Czechs. | And the dentist still remains the only | fellaw who finds it profitable to look down | in the mouth, The Key West wife who serves her} husband cold meals must expect to re- ceive hot words from him, Don’t worry about the next genera- tien being soft. Just look at the bond is- sues it will have to pay off. “except the experience that is coming to the | inexperienced human being. : * ~Key West is as good as its people; if you want to improve this work on yourself and be neighborly. ~ .-The average American citizen ‘wouldn’t know the Great Seal of the {United States if he met it in the zoo. = Recent events makes it look as though | “about one-half of the world is going around -with hammers trying to use the other half “ef-the world for anvils. | nual observance of Hallowe’en today. Consider this, The agent can demone | strate with it for six months, but three days after you drive fit, it becomes a used | if it can be had “29r} to be a use the | everything. But there’s one thing no mar- | ried man in Key West can understand— the embroidery on a towel that is saved for company to use. About 300 years ago, a candidate for ‘Britain's Parliament promised, if elected, to give to the poor of his town the sum of $100 down and $50 a year for life. He was elected, The same thing being done today, only the stakes are consider- s ably higher. Human nature doesn’t change much, is American Telephone and Telegraph company was listed as the largest corporate taxpayer in 1937, with $137,664,900. Gen- eral Motors paid more than $100,000,000. Of, course, these corporations did not pay ‘these enormous taxes; they merely acted” ‘as the.agents of the government which soaked the buyers of their products. The Overseas Highway to Key West brings all Florida additional publicity through an article in a recent issue of the American Highways magazine. This spectacular conversion of “a railroad that ran to sea” into “a highway over the ocean” will doubtless continue to attract attention for many years to come.—Tamp2 Times, There is nothing new under the sun | community, | | THE WATER SITUATION The other day The Citizen carried a story to the effect United States Senator | Claude Pepper was to'be a visitor in Mi- | ami. Members of the Florida Keys Aque- duct commission, more commonly known as the water board, read the announce- ment and immediately set about arranging | a conference with Senator Pepper. A few hours later the commission, the mayor and several other public officials were on their way to Miami. In other words, there was action, alert action in behalf of the most im- portant project required to put this com- munity on its economic feet. While the conference with Senator Pepper produced no new development or an _ absolute promise of immediate financial assistance from the federal lending agencies for the construction of a fresh water pipeline to the mainland, the commission was assured | of the active co-operation. of Florida’s junior senator, who revealed he was | familiar with many of the details of the | project. One thing the water commission did learn and that was all of the PWA money appropriated by the last Congress has | been allocated. Senator Pepper expressed | | the opinion that a considerable amountiof | the allocated money would be réttitned | beeause it was not needed for the projects | already approved. From this, he said, the water commission might be alloted suffi- | cient funds to get the work started before | the next session of the Congress. On the whole, therefore, the confer- | ence developed an optimistic note. Key | West needs a fresh water supply and the WPA is building a city distributing system | to receive it when it arrives. Old residents | of the city do not feel the need as acutely | as prospective residents who are accus- | tomed to unlimited supplies of fresh water. | Many investors are awaiting the arrival of | water from the mainland before they build here. Water is the crying need be- | fore Key West can be expanded to meet the opportunities just around the corner, | The Citizen is convinced the water | commission and our other public officials | are doing all they can to bring water to the city. However, too much publicity in| other sections of the country that Key West needs fresh water may react against the | city. Although there has been a_ defi- ciency in rainfall this year, there is enough | nary needs of our residents and _ visitors. Many false reports that there is no fresh water here are being spread on the main- land and it would be unwise to give seem- ing substantiation to such lies by over- | emphasis in outgoing newspaper accounts | of the campaign being waged by the water HALLOWE’EN An illustration of the survival of an- cient customs and beliefs is seen in the an- In the church calendar it is the eve of All Saints Day, but its origin was quite the re- verse of saintly, and can be traced to the pagan Druids of the British Isles, who Howrished before the Christian era! * The Druids had a great autumn festi- | val on this date, and at this time it was believed that Saman, the lord of death, called together the souls of all the wicked who had been condemned to inhabit the bodies of animals during the year. Thus was derived the idea that witches and ghosts were abroad on Hallowe'en, which was the occasion for wild orgies of the pagan cult. At the same time of the year the Romans had a festival in honor of Pomona, goddess of fruits, a feature of which was feasting on nuts and apples. They also be- lieved that spirits walked about on that night, and built great bonfires to scare them away. The Druidic and Roman ceremonies and traditions have been blended to be- come our modern Hallowe'en, with its strong appeal to the imagination, especially of children, with whom Hallowe'en _par- tries are extremely popular. Playing of rough practical jokes and indulgence in rowdyism generally mark the observance of Hallowe'en, and mar what should be an evening of harm- less fun. We have Germany to thank for three ef the best-known dogs in the world—the fresh water on hand to care for the ordi- | commission to get money to build the pipe- | | line. often” THE KEY. WEST CITIZEN PEOPLE'S FORUM KEY WEST IN | TOA | CORRO RD ECUSaeNnEcascegnR DENIES TRUMBO SHOOTING | PERMISSION | Editor, The Citizen: | In your issue of Friday, Octo- lee 28th, under’ heading Hunting Good In Last Four | Days” I find a statement in your |Paper wherein you have advised {the general public that I have given permission for people to | shoot upon the property owned |by Trumbo Properties, Inc., lo- jcated in the City of Key West, | Florida, and in this connection I jwish to correct this error. I have given permission to no one to shoot upon this property primarily because of the fact that |the property is situated in the city limits of the City of Key | West; secondly, I wish all to know | that any persons shooting upon these premises are trespassers as ifar as we are concerned, and as |far as the law is concerned. We assume no responsibility whatso- jever should any person be in- jured while upon this property, and. persons going upon the |property are subject to prosecu- tion for trespass, and any per- |son shooting upon these premises does so at his gwn risk. I will appreciate it very much \if you wilk publish this letter in order’ that thé gencral public may |be“advised: Thanking you for your: coor eration! I'beg to remit’ T. EB "PRICE, ! ‘Trumbo. Properties? ‘Ine. ) Midiiti,! Pia. October 29, 1938. ~ DEFENDS CCC GROUP Editor, The Citizen: Tt seems as though the boys of ‘the Civilian Conservation Corps are getting a rather raw deal. cused of impertinence and dis- behavior which is not common to the young gentlemen of the United States. fair city, for a champion, defend the CCC’s. The splendid work of the mem- bers of this organization in beau- tifying the Overseas Highway is really worthy of praise. The fact that they are doing this work | for the benefit of our community, and the fact that they are rather | lisolatea from the entertainment | provided in the city during the | whole week, should be taken in- | to consideration when they do act slightly overjoyed on their ar- rival and stay in this city on Sat- urday. An argument in opposition to! the one just given is: “The CCC’s insult the inhabit- | ants of the city”. | Perhaps they have insulted} |some few of our inhabitants, but |more insulting remarks are made |to the passersby by the insolent} | Key West boys who stand “loaf- ing” around the cafes in groups. | “But these boys are citizens of the city”, says the opponent. That is true, but the CCC’s are citizens of the United States, and| have a right to practically cathe privileges. Moreover, since the CCC's are in one respect: considered visitors the to our city, we should treat them | as we would desire the inhabit- jants of another city to treat any lof our citizens who would be vis- iting there. | It has been'said that'the CCC’s become “ititoxicated® and ‘engage i street’ brawls s Been trie | ia a ‘few Casas; shota hot judge’ the. maj “69 the lacté“ of the ‘infhafty. "The hoiné town “bBéys‘are a good" Stock if ‘judged by’ the majority, but there are among these boys a minority lso who drink intoxicating bev- jerages and act ridiculously on these occasions. must also notice that the CCC boys are older than some of the younger boys of our city who are becoming corrupt and dishon- est and are influencing the youth of Key West. The writer realizes that the home-town paper, The Citizen, is interested in improving - condi- tions in Key West, and is a pa per which will print the views of any citizen, thus thoroughly making of the “freedom of the press” theory, and has there- fore sent his viewpoints and s paper, trusting printed and the Citizen will re > battlefield of Tru ly, CHAMPION OF THE CCC’S. Key West, Fla. Octobe Sub The Favorite In Key. Weat — Tay IT TODAY — STAR - BRAND CUBAN COFFEE police dog, the hot dog and now the under- dog. “Dove They are constantly being ac-| In answer to the | plea of the young maidens of this | this | writer takes up the challenge to| ' DAYS GONE BY | Happenings Hore Mab’ 10. Yeo! Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen Former Monroe county voters now reposing in the silent city of the dead shall not be allowed, Can you answer seven of these to vote in the coming general | election,, declares the local Re- publican committee. Whatever has been the custom in times} past dead people are not going to} vote for neither Smith or Hoo- | ver, local Republicans show by al statement which developed a sit-! uation yesterday. A list which contained about 25 names was handed to the supervisor of reg-} istration with the statement that though they appeard on the qualified list they were reposing | in the city cemetery, and sure enough at noon today the super- | visor had verified the statement and found at least 20 of the names! ‘on the qualified list were buried. | So it seems.that people who have | been voting in the names of those! ‘who are dead will not do. so this | 10 year. Practically all the names} of those shown to be dead are the names of colored persons. | The supervisor shows that me keeping a close check on Citizen ‘he is fairly familiar’ sete the. names.of; the, , white. people |, who die. However, the names of the’ coldred' persons who ‘die: are ‘not, published, At.a, meeting of the local Red! Cross chaptér held this forenoon | | plans were formulated for launch- | jing the next Red Cross roll call | | which wilt be launched on Arm- ste Day. November 11. A chair- | man was nominated and as he | was not present his name will not | be made public until he accepts. The Young Men's Democratic Association of which George! Brooks is president will hold a public meeting tonight in the county court house at 8 o’clock. All young men eligible for mem- | bership are invited to attend. Editorial comment: You may! jrest assured that both Doyle E. | Carlton, Democratic nominee for eine of Florida, and Ruth Bryan Owen, nominee for Con-} | gress, will vote for Al Smith for | |President. It is so written. | Members of Troop One, Boy! | Scouts of America, have perfect- | yea plans for a musical to be giv- | jen on the night of November 2 in| ‘the auditorium of the Harris| | School, beginnnig at 8 o'clock. Some of the best talent in the | | city has agreed to take part and) it is stated that one of the most | excellent programs given by any organization in many months will be presented for the appreciation | | of those who attend. New window shades are being | | placed in all departments of the ! Custom House, replacing the old | ones which have been in use for! }a long time. A new lineoleum is | being laid in the customs bureau | department. | | Sofia Falco, colored, charged | with using profane language, was arraigned in the office of Judge; Hugh Gurn this morning and be- |ing adjudged guilty from the evi- | dence, was;placed under bond of }350. to await the action of criminal! sourt,,, J i ; EN vo |ioBinemen’s convention “dance fund wilt be greatly augmented by returns ffom the dance to be given tonight in the K. C. Mit. | The dance promises to be an out- standing success and it is expect- ed that the attendance will be AW j SS cavennah TEST YOUR Do.not say, “Who do you take me for”: use “whem”. KNOWLEDGE test questions? Turn to Page 4 for the answers 1. Name the art of engraving on gems and precious stones. Where are the Diomede Is- lands? Name the president of the} A. F. of L. What is a pseudonym? MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1938 | eewwocoaanacecececocoes ' Intensity, enthusiasm and non- i chalance mark those born today. “The disposition is restless, always , —— |trying out new experiments and ‘effecting operations without de-! sign. It must be said, however, ‘that some of the schemes really BENJAMIN LOPEZ { FUNERAL HOME ._ Established) 1885 Licensed Funeral Directots and Embalmers 24 Hour Ambulance Service’ Phone 135 Night 696 | On what-bay is Miami, Fla.? ; Name the Philistine woman loved by Samson. For what government agen- cy do the initials LC.C. stand? Is the human hair a con-} ductor of electricity? What is a somniloquist? In which state is the Black Warrior River? eocceqeqeesqoeoeonsaesooe PIRATE’S GOLD Edited By LILY LAWRENCE BOW ‘Vewbemecenecanesecencen: wibow Somehow I hoped that she would lift her head And be herself once more, when | he was dead; Laugh, as he she used to laugh before the lilt Was hushed to silence in the walls | he built. I wanted peace for her, friendships. Freed From the cruel ties that bound her to his need, I hoped she would forget wasted shell That lay unheeding while her teardrops fell. But faithful to a faithless one is she Though death has long laughed and fled. I see Her somber figure lingering in the gloom Where restless shadows aeross his tomb, And think the gods must scoff to see her there Knowing how very would care. —Thirza J. 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