The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 5, 1938, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen 4 iymily ils. Baxpeul Sunday ape 2UN PUNLISHING COm INC. ident and Publisher t Husinéss Manager zen Building Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County untered at Key West, Member of the Ansociated Presa he Associated J’ress is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and aiso the locai news published here, Uy i i “li SUBSCRIPTION RATES wne Voar Six Months Three Months . One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES vrown on application, Maa SPECIAL NOTICE All reading noti rds of thanks, situary notices, ete. will be charged for at | f 10 cents o lite. ‘or entertainments by ehurehes from which is to be derived are 5 cents a line. Citizen is an open forum and invites diseus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it wilt not publish anonymous commmunt- cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN | Wate dnd ‘Sewethgezu tl Comprehetisive '€ity Plan (Zoning). TRifdis ‘and Apartmdiits! Bathing Pavilion. ! Airports—Land and Sea. * Consolidation of County and City Governments. Anger is its own punishment, Happiness is like a kiss; you can have it only by giving it to someone else. A little wrong must be fought against | lest it open up a tremendous train of con- | Sequences, It is getting so that the black sheep | of the family looks as white as any of the rest of them. It is as hard for some people to keep a secret as it is for all of us to keep the Ten Commandments, Evil thoughts may come unbidden, but it is the evil minds which allow their imagi- nations to dwell upon them. Cunning is wisdom’s counterfeit. Wisdom comes from a normal mind, cun- | ning from one that is abnormal. Going to church, as a habit, may be derided, but it doesn’t hurt those who go, | and sometimes it causes them to help some | who stay away. { People who live in glass houses have been warned time and again not to throw stones; but they keep on doing it, and to | their own detriment. { torida, as second class matter | a resoiutions of | | and a relatively few RepubBe the polls the result might be disastrous to | Senator Pepper. | to get out a heavy vote? | WHAT OUR VOTES MEAN Unless there is a contest in which he | is deeply interested, the average voter | does not feel it necessary to appear at | the polls in November. He figures it is just a matter of routine and lets the party | work horses go up and formally approve the candidates he probably backed in the ; primaries. That is a sad mistake. Every | vote is important and the citizens of Mon- | roe county can help themselves quite a lot | by going to the polls next Tuesday. An'ineident brought to the attention , pot The, Citizen will prove the point. Res "cently a delegation of Key’ Westers head- | | ed by the members of the. Florida Keys | Aqueducticommission went to Miami ‘ again te request the support of U. S. Senator , Claude Pepper in the effort to get federal 5.08 | | loans and grants totaling nearly $2,000,000 to build a fresh water system leading from | the mainland to Key West. In due course, | the delegation met Senator Pepper and his | official party. Spokesmen for the Key | West group explained the situation to the | senator. During a brief lull in the con- | versation, one of the senator’s party asked | this pertinent question: | “What kind of a vote are you going | to get out in Monroe this year?” | That man is a politician. He knows | the importance of votes and what they mean to Senator Pepper. Although no one seriously believes the senator’s return to, , the senate is in danger, the seat is being contested by a candidate of the opposite » party. * If all the Democrats remain home ans go to Naturally the senator’s supporters are interested in what kind of | vote is going to be cast in Monroe county. The people of Key West and Monroe county cannot expect a busy man like Senator Pepper to make a strong effort to | get money for a fresh water system if they do not on Tuesday make some effort in his behalf. That is just one reason why every vote is important. Why is Dade county making such a determined effort The real rea- son is that county, if she casts a big vote, will be in a position to demand—and get —a greater share of state taxes and a big- ger part of federal works grants and loans. In a lesser degree the same holds true in Monroe county. Over and above all such considera- tions, important as they are, is that a man should exercise his right to vote if he ex- pects to keep in office the right kind of public servants. Neglect of this duty in the past has filled official positions with incompetents, bootlickers and grafters, Vote on Tuesday, November 8, and help yourselves and this ; community. | FREEDOM WITHOUT A A CONSTITUTION Declaring that the battle for freedom of the press is a battle for democracy and civil freedom, N. P. Duchemin, president of the Canadian Press, recenly ‘pointed out that the peculiar thing about freedom of the press in Canada, the United Kingdom “solely but securely based on an unwritten constitution.” After the votes are cast on November Florida will be found solidly in the! mofratic column. There is no evidence t the Republicaris''wilt'show more than ir usual strength ;"Hevertheless the Democrats Shotild’ rotdst on their laure but bring 6tit the full Vote and support all Democratic nominees, It is Scdareat that Miami wants no truck with the C. I. O. Its invasion of this field would result ir domestic strife in the labor ranks of that city, it is generally | conceded, Labor in Miami is pre- ponderately in sympathy with the A. F. of L., as it symbolizes the American spirit in contrast with the communistic tendencies of the Ola World. _ joyed them, perhaps, without We are always eager and willing to wave the flag and shout hip-hip-hurray for any American scene displaying our democracy and the red, white, and blue. But there have been times in All our lives when the refrain of the Star Spangled Banner has caught us where we weren't in a position tobe so patriotic. Our problem has been answered for us by the retied | President General of the U.S. Flag As- sociation who answered a woman writing in for information. It is all right not to stand during a rendition of the national anthem if you are:—in bed, eating, tele- phoning, paying cards or taking a bath. This knowledge will be a relief to us who never knew what would be the action of a true American under situations as stated, Mr. Duchemin asserted that the Brit- ish Empire is unique in world democracies | because freedom of the press isn’t written This wwill’be amazing in- | | into the statutes. formation to some Améficans who have begun to think that thesonly freedom that our people have is based and depends up- on the Constitution of the United States. They forget that the Constitution express- es the will and intent of the people them- | selves. Our Constitution is a great document because it expresses in written form the | aspirations of the American people to en- joy freedom and liberty. However, the Constitution did not present these gifts to the American people. We would have en- a written Constitution, just like the citizens of the British Empire now enjoy their freedom of the press, MUCH WISDOM IN FEW WORDS (Thomas Babington Macaulay, English statesman and historian) Our rulers will best promote the ment of the people by strictly confining them- improve- selves to their own legitimate duties—by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, modities their fair price, industry and _intelli- gence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment—by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of lew, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the government do { this: the people will assuredly do the rest. com- * occupational a which should have .ob d. and all British countries was that it was | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN PEOPLE’S FORUM- MR. ADAMS REPLIES Editor, The Citizen: When public officials are called upon to make a decision in a mat- ter and when both sides have been ; placed unbiased and honestly be- fore the citizens public officials should not go to the press to state their stand. I feel that the pub- lic has not been correctly _ in- formed on a reeent action of four members of the city council and for that’) reason I ask permission }to ‘print the’ following: For the: past year there has been a law om the city books which prohibited the sale of beer, wine or hard liquor within 300 feet of a Church, or school. One place, almost fronting a ehurech, obtained a, license from the tax collector through misrep- Tresentation, according to the tax collector, and this license was revoked. One other place was effected by this law. This was Black- well’s place in front of the Har- tis school. Blackwell took out a state and county license and it is public knowledge that through- out the year he sold beer in his place in direct violation of the city law. I was informed by one preach- er that he called attention of this violation to Mayor Willard Al- bury, who, let me remind you here, has direct control over the policé department. i Blackwell's, place was | nevét raided by the police. He gper ed the entire year without [May' ‘Albury ordering his place jclos@& and the city was deprived; of as a When again occupational li- censes became due the matter came once more before the city council. Four members of the council gave considerable study to the matter. They studied the situation from every angle. Blackwell had been permitted to operate for a year without the city obtaining revenue it should receive. What was to stop him from taking out a $5 tobacco li- eense and continuing operation in |the same place? Even if after one year, Mayor Albury would suddenly become awakened to the fact that he was the chief law enforcement officer of the city and order “Blackwell's” | raided, there was nothing the city could do to make him vacate the | premises. The four members of the coun- cil decided that the best law for all concerned was to make Black; well remain closed from 5:30 a. * OOOO OTe, |FOUR SAILFISH | CAUGHT YESTERDAY | As the “evening shadows fell last night at the Yacht Basin and the riding lights of the “Bluejackets” and “Sampan” cruisers who have had a South Carolina party fishing Key West waters for a week, came into view watchers saw two gay sail- fish flags flutter from the outriggers of each boat. Three rather large sailfish were caught by the party and a “baby” about 36 inches long. Real surprise of the day, however, was the hook- ing of a big fellow who got away and who the guides. claim was a marlin—from the way he Sir wa- | 1 after : ; one OR, a, jome of the ae ol in , some hn arourid | 20 brought in by the party a monster ish, tare this season, w | about 28 pounds also brough: to port. Besides these there were bonito, mackerel and barracuda in a greatly satis- faciory day. The party, which spent two days last week at Fort Jef- ferson found fishing poor be- cause of high winds there, have been getting good fish catehes all week at Key West. Captain of the Sampan is Leo Droughton. who formerly fished at Casa Marina. Cap- tain of the Black Jack is Rudy Steinhauser. IPI FI CH @eeece “ENTERTAINMENT seco osee RAUL'S CLUB Regular Saturday evening dance will be held at Raul’s Club tonight beginning at 10 o'clock. Excellent program of dance music will be furnished by John Pritchard’s Orchestra PENA’S GARDEN OF ROSES Another big event at Pena’s Garden of Roses scheduled for tonight at 10 o'clock. Gould Curty’s 7-piece Dance Band will be on hand to furnish Riad Sreeny g to 4:30 p. m., which is more than one hour and a half after’ school is dismissed. The ¢ity would re- ceive the license and the school, children would not see beer be- ing sold there in open -violation of a city law which had not been enforced. Before the amendment was passed Tuesday night it was shown by Councilman Will E. P. Roberts and myself to Mayor Al- bury and his remark to us was| that it was a better law than the city then had. After the council had passed | the law, Mayor Albury informed Rev. Joe Tolle and others in the! writer’s presence that the city now had a better law. Thursday night Mayor Albury vetoed the law. Why the sudden, change? You can decide. He stated in a written com-| munication to the council that it; discriminated. Where was the; discrimination? This Mayor Al- bury did not state, but the pub- | lie should know. The diserim-; ination came into the law be-| cause the four councilmen who} voted for it had the amendment | so worded that the only other) place which could possibly obtain | a lieense by permitting establish- ed places to operate could not ob- tain a license. It took Mayor Al-| bury sometime to find this out. , This was diserimination, his let- = ter;said, ' vWhere nis that place? 1iMr. Gitizen, it is a place. almost! opposite a church, the pastor. .of whighamade repeated complaints ‘to; the,police department: while, it ; was-in operation, | {Ehe ‘second,,part of. Mayor Al- bury’s written, statement, “pub-| lished in Friday’s Citizen, that the | amendment would impair the morale of our school children— was this a political gesture? Sure- ly, the statement could not be! honest for if Mayor Albury had the welfare of the school children | at heart he could have been look- | ing out for their interest during the past year by having Black-| well raided by the police until he | ceased selling beer in violation of the city law. Both sides have now been pre- | sented to the public. Let it be) the judge. Bearing this in mind that Blackwell will be | closed throughout the school day. He will be paying the city a license. He will not be opened, selling beer and the city not recéiving a license fee. EARL ADAMS. ‘Key West, Fla., Nov. 5, 1938. Sj Til * MINIATURE GOLF GOLF STARTED OPERATED BY KIRCHHEINER AND NEWTON ON DIVI- SION STREET t | | ! One of the most attractive and alluring scenes in the city may | be found at 607 and 609 Division street, where J. Otto Kirchheiner and E. R, Newton have started | ‘their miniature golf course. Miniature is the word common- ily used to describe this type of | ‘course, but Mr. Kirchheiner told | The Citizen today the proper See i | that the idea is patented and |Baining headway in the amise- ment - ara purr, ings. Fail 3 BE oe ed Sy" beautifal tr tamarinds, ti-es, Spanish lime, } sugar apple and Jamaica apple, | ,and present an alluring place for | either rest or sport. Grounds have been laid out in| flower beds and have been plant- | ed and are expected to be bloom- | ing in profusion within a short) time, and will present a beautiful asasienaenese i BOAT STOLEN FROM HARBOR Yesterday a boat was reported as having been stolen from the garrison bight, and it it now sup- posed to have been burned, but whether the burning was acci- dental or intentional has not been | learned. The vessel was the property of Eugene Albury; and as soon as the loss was discovered the sher- iff's office was advised of the loss. Search was at once started and Deputy Ray Elwood went as far as No Name Key in an effort to lowate it. Later it was learned that a boat was seen to be burning pre- vious night and it was 5 that Mr. Albury was minus his boat as no trace had beer ideated ‘a lively program of swing music, of the missing motor craft. ‘that 5,962 voters are course; and SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1938 | KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY [| Topays COMMON Happenings Here Just Ten Year Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizes With 13-voting places instead of five as formerly, Key West will go forth next .Tuesday to cast their ballots in the general election. Registration books show listed as eligible to cast their ballots, and jof that number 225. are colored. Thirty names removed from the qualified list, five were removed from the city and the others were buried in the city cemetery. There has beért hb“ voting’ OF dead Hed ple in: past eletions,said the:sup- ervisor, who, declard: he had traced the names of those remoy- ed and found that his books are | as correct as it is possible to have them. A total of 57 absentee’ bal-~ lots had been cast when the pe- |riod for voting in this way was lelosed. All voting places will be opened at 8 o’clock in the morn- ing and will close at sundown. With the greatly increased num- ber of, ballots and ballot eount- ers, it is believed that the re- turns should be available around midnight and the results will be posted at The Citizen office as rapidly as they are received. The rate fot clerks and inspectors was fixed at a special meeting of the county commissioners today, and was $10 for all precincts with upwards of 100 votes and three cents for each ballot count- ed. The pay for depiity sheriffs will be $12.50 for, eaéh precinct having more ‘thai 400° votes and $7.50 each for set with less than 400 votes Everything is. in readiness for the final Democratic rally to be held at the Bayview Park tonight 8 o'clock. The speaking will be | preceded by a motorcade follow- jing a short session of the young men’s organization. In all prob- ability the meeting at the park will be presided over by George |Brooks, who will also give the {eoncluding address of the eve- 'ning. Other speakers who have consented to address the meet- ing will be Raymond Lord, J. Lancelot Lester and others. Catholic Daughters of America will meet this evening in the K. C. Hut on Duval street. There are a number of important mat- ters to be brought before the meeting, and it is hoped that a jlarge number of members will j attend. Editorial comment: Your votes on next Tuesday will be decisive. It is not just a question of voting for Al Smith, it is a great party which we belong to and it is worth saving. If it is going to be saved it must be done this year. At the next session of the leg- islature the Florida Educational Association will renew its efforts ‘o have the legislature pass a bill to pension teachers, said Melvin £. Russell, superintendent of pub- ‘ie instruction. The Pirate baseball team won a thrilling exhibition game yes- terday afternoon in a battle with the Young Sluggers and at the »nd of the game the score was 2 to 1. Close to 500 fans witnessed the game. Fourteen automobiles, one tuck and 45 passengers are re- ported to have arrived on the righwdy féany.late yesterday aft- ernoon. Two of the cars were fréth Con| agi and one from Pernsylvani sf oe! ML ein on wee morping train. Others of IN i i pagsengers boat sist sescele this. bid CATR esate RARE 2 aA cli, the passengers had been visiting in the city for several days. Three marriage licenses were issued from the office of Judge! Hugh Gunn during the week ending Saturday. Alfred Knowles | to Mary Stirrup; Paul Gilman to Ether Margaret Conrad; Mario hi and Mary bc dn ” ‘The government of, vitally intrested in the tinelital highway and - the movement to the“government’s i resources, according: ia . Carlos »M. de Cespedes, vachataty of pub- li@ works of Cuba, who arrived yésterday with a party of prom- inent Cuban officials and others prominent in government affairs. The great Atlantic Coastal High- way and the Cuban National Highway should most certainly form the important links in this mammoth project that would connect North and South Amer- ica by means of a highway sys- Consul formed Cuban Jorge Ponee of the attitude of the Cu- | The distin-; ban government. guished group of visitors were entertained by Consul and Mrs. Ponce at the home of the consul. Lunch was served with Mrs. In the : were widely-known Miguel Suarez, ‘of the tourist commission of Cuba, and Conrad Massaguer, editor of Cuba’s most widely read periodical, Carteles. In keeping with its usual cus- tom The Citizen will receive and announce the returns of the elec- tion and make the announcements of the returns in front of the office of The Citizen tonight in local, state and national affairs. A bulletin board will be placed in front of the office and the re- turns will be posted there. The vote will be tabulated as quickly as received and telegraphic ad- vices from the state and all over the country will be announced as quickly as the telegra are re- ceived. An invitation is extend- ed to the general public. Thousands of enthusiastic dem- ocrats heard the six local speak- ers who appeared at Bayview Park last night, following an im- mense motorcade which went to all sections of the town, and end- ed at the park. Enthusiasm marked the progress of the pro- cession. Editorial comment: Among the week’s accessions to the Hoover cause is George Remus, bootleg- ger, convict and wife killer. He :tem, said Mr. Cespedes, who in: | ERROR Never say. sy. “The speaker Vetitilated his views": say. “expressed” or “disclosed”. TEST: YOUR} KNOWLEDGE — @ the’ Unidn ‘Battle of Get- p, cont pis at tysburg? What is the name for the solemn eeremony Wherby sovereigns are inaugurated ito office? Name the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. What is a seismograph? With what sport is the name Gilbert Hunt associated? Is the District of Columbia a state or a territory? In which country is Fisere Lake? What does esoteric sper? What is the name. for. the, cavity at the mouth of \ @ voleano? ‘ham for him, of be elected. course”. PRE fsasgra the “Sea: Going Ready. jn of Mrs, Mizpah Hae ‘ys is appearing in the November ‘i of |The . American, Moveritte, a widely read tour published in Wi rr * story deals with the: | OM eSed Highway in a very: ‘intevesting way. News received in the city yes- terday announcing the death of Mrs. Brammie Pinder, who died in her home at- Matecumbe yes- terday. Eugene L. Albury, tax assessor for the county, a close friend of the family, left for Mateeumbe last. night accompah- ied by Mr. and Mrs, Frank Saw- yer. Seven carloads of face hotses arrived this morning over the Florida East Coast ilway” for shipment to Havana to _particj- pate in the race meetings yo 4 this winter. This is the first shipment and three other cars are expected to arrive this evening, Lighthouse Tender lew is leaving Tampa today in com mand of Captain John Albury, and is expected to’ arrive in port some time tomorrow. News of the vessel's leaving was feceived at the office of Superintendnt W. W. Demeritt, of the Seventh Dis- trict, today. Thete wére 91 paksengers leav- ‘ing on the Steamship Cuba for Havana this morning. 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