The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 12, 1938, Page 2

PAGE aWO. he Key B West Citizen | asly isxcept sunday By | N PUBLISHING CO., INC. JO ALLEN, Assistant Business From The Ciuzen building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County umtered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter | Member of the Ansocinted Press he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use | for :cpublication of all news dispatches credited to | credited in this paper and aiso | the local news published here. | Three Months - One Month ... Weekly ADVERT lade known on appl s of thanks, resolutions of ete. will be charged for at e. ents by churches from which is to be derived are 6 cents a line. zen is an open forum and invites discus- © issues and subjects of local or general imterest Lut it wilt not publish anonymoys commun) cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. It is surprising how many mean well and still do so much harm. A heretic is a fellow who doesn’t share our pet superstitions. In every age society demands that the citizen shall be respectable, Advice: Support your church; you ex- pect to be buried someday. So live that when your summons comes you will have a good alibi. The pleasure of what we have to en- joy can be lost by coveting more. Character and reputation, if good, may be a valuable form of property. Believe it or not but the hardest thing on a reputation is a gossipy neighbor. - There are people in the world who read the Bible to see if it agrees with them. There is always some fresh lessons to learn by which we may fashion our lives a little more wisely. * The advocates of further old age pen- sions ask pity for the old and broken; but they ask it of the young and broke. If everybody who says he prefers to live in a good neighborhood could get in, it wouldn't be a good neighborhood any more. A good ventriloquist talks without opening his mouth. There are more folks ‘who open their mouths without saying any- thing. It is the opinion of many a Key West voter that we could do with public officials that had less personality if they only had more sense, Don’t you hate to start giving a man a lot of good information and have to pause a dozen times to hear him say, “Don't I know it?” No nation, Mazzini held, could live for itself alone; each owed a duty to ‘others, to the general system, and to hu- manity at large. When you look around and see how swell-headed and spoiled money can make | some people, you sort of understand why Providence keeps most of us poor, Don't marry the boss’ daughter, but his seeretary. The government is getting all the boss’s money, so he has none to give his daughter, but the secretary has a job. That's the advice economists are giving now, TOURIST FACILITIES EXPANDING That Key West has not been unaware of the approaching tourist season is shown | by figures just released to The Citizen by the Florida State Hotel commission. They | | show the city now has 82_ hotels, apart- ments and roominghouses available to win- ter visitors, a substantial increase over the number in service a year ago. _ Many of our own residents will be surprised to learn Key West had,!' as of October 1, eight hotels with 442 rt apartments with 204 rooms and’ 63) Foom- inghouses with 430 rooms, That’s a total THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1938 || SIDELIGHTS | By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citizen When Miss Lavonne Schmelzer calls the | roll in a rural school she teaches near Farmersburg, Iowa, she needs to use only the first names of her pupils, as all have | Lew as the last name. rom three families of Leven- of 1,076 rooms, no matter how you add it | up; so the city is pretty well equipped to handle a sizable influx of visitors every ; What is also important is the fact ; that additional rooms are being added | every week to the housing facilities avail- | able here, so that by January 1 when the | peak of tourist travel may be reached the | normal de-' day. supply should be equal to all mands. Realizing the growing importance of | the hotel, apartment and roominghouse in- dustry here, the Chamber of Commerce | very wisely has selected a representative | group of citizens as a Hotel, Inn, Tourist | Home and Restaurant committee, headed | by J. P. Tonetti, manager of La Concha as , chairman. The committee has begun to, function and promises to prove a valuable addition to the groups deeply concerned | with the growth and development of Key West as a tourist center, At a recent meeting this committee discussed such matters as noise abatement, removal of seaweed from the beaches, mos- | quito control, rubbish removal, improve. ment of the motion picture theaters and | decided to prepare a correct listing of the hotels, inns, tourist homes and restaurants together with a dependable schedule of 1 rates and prices. In connection with the noise abate- ment proposals, which have been stressed | the | Chamber’s committee correctly points out | that there are ordinances here prohibiting | These are not being | from time to time by The Citizen, unnecessary noises. enforced. If some effort is not made soon to bring about enforcement of these laws, Key West will suffer from a loss of visitors who find it impossible to sleep nights be- cause of roaring noises from automobile and trucks allowed to operate without mufflers or with their cutoffs wide open. It is reported that Municipal Judge T. S. Caro has refused to fine motorists for operating without mufflers or with ‘dam- aged muffling equipment on the ground ‘many of our citizens cannot afford to in- stall them or have the old ones repaired. While The Citizen feels there may be some justification for this attitude, it should be pointed out that any man who operates a car should be compelled to operate it law- fully. Further, much of the noise is created by trucks operating by responsible firms and individuals who can well keep them in good repair and help the movement to make Key West a_ quiet, pleasant tourist resort. SALMON USE LADDERS When the Bonneville Dam was pro- jected in the Columbia river there were many fears that the structure would pre- vent the salmon from ascending the river! and thus end the important industry that | has been developed around the royal chinook fish. It seems, were groundless. site are that the fish are using the ders” built around the dam in great num- bers and reaching the upper levels without suffering the injuries that occurred when they battered themselves up the rapids. This is good news. As most readers however, that such fears | know the salmon fish return to the river where they were born to spawn and if the run of the salmon up-stream had _ been blocked by the dam the salmon industry of | the Columbia river would have been seri- ously injured. HE DIDN'T GET FAR (Tampa Tribune) According to the testimony of one of his for- given before a legislative commit- yivania, Publisher M. L. Annenberg, da short-lived newspaper in Miami, had intentions in coming into Floridg. He started out to elect a Governor, who would but, unfortunately for his designs, he picked the wrong candidate. All that Mr. Annenberg accomplished, in of his desire to “run the state,” was Tt was mer emplo: tee in P who opera ambi u “obey orders:” furtherance ww publish a paper which met early death. a merry life while it lasted, afford to | Reports from the dam- | “lad- | h, the eminent orchestra con- he'll never carry a gun.” Perhaps, so, but in his early weeks of practice he may cause the neighbors to want to carry one, and use it. An exhibition of drawings by Thomas Nast recently recalled the genius of that greatest of all political cartoonists. in Germany in 1840, Nast came to Amer- ica when he was 6; began cartooning for | Leslie’s at $4 a week when he was 15. He | originated the well-known figures of Uncle | Sam, the Tammany Tiger, ‘the Republican | he cg and ‘the Democrati¢, donkey. » AO | suspicions that her husband is a _ four- | flusher. ‘Two years ago he'left home say- | ing he was going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, and Mrs, Smolen has been watch- ing the papers ever since for news of his eat, but in vain. Now she is tired of wait- ing and wants a divorce. | town: Where the sewing tircle is still the grand jury. Where the gossips get ex- cited when a widower shaves on Wednes- the college boy home for the holidays. The hip pocket would be outlawed if | Judge J. Henry Johnson of York, S. C., could have his way. He proposes a law forbidding the sale of trousers with hip pockets, so that “people wouldn’t have such a handy place to carry a pistol.” she took to be a professor when he asked ‘her to pay $5 for her “chapel seat,” which she did. She later found out that chapel seats are free. John Adamson of Montreal has noti- fied the authorities that he no longer needs relief. After shooting craps with his re- lief money for two weeks he won $3,000 will be provided at New York’s fair next year. Among them will be | mixture of air and carbon dioxide, said to | restore sobriety quickly. In the eighth rouhd of a prize-fight in Sydney, Australia, J Roberts seemed ‘di igpemed to defeat at the hands of Norman | Then Giflespie thought he | Nespie. beard the gong, and dropped his arms. The groggy Roberts rallied quickly to give Gillespie a smash which knocked him out. What Gillespie really had heard was a telephone bell near the ringside. Mrs. Lizzie Metcalf of Hopkinsville, Ky., had long suffered with ear trouble, | and finally had an X-ray examination made. Physicians found and removed a well-preserved bug which the patient re- membered had flown into her ear 26 years ago, but in the meantime had been for- “gotten. A, featu d number on a reeent tadio program called Home Folks. Froliés was a | baritone Solo, “Pappy’s Buried on the Hjll.” Qne may wonder whether that was "Ginythih 2¢ té%Polic about. Showing no favoritism, sity of Oklahoma's senior law class elected each of its 90 members president and vice-president. The presidents will rotate in office, each serving one day at a time. A lady customer bought a cashier’s check at a bank in Evanston, Ill., and the teller instructed her to have an officer sign it. Instead of presenting it to an officer of the bank, she earried it to the nearest a | policeman and requested his signature, ‘There are | papers. on both sides of the Atlantic. |)time may come, however, when some such ive a child a horn to blow and. Born | | with the suggested capital | this is only idle speculation, although af- ‘ ? | Mrs. Bessie Smolen of.,, Chicago has | Pathfinder’s definitions of a _ hick | | down. day. Where the natives are deferential to | A University of Tennessee freshman | is looking for a sober-faced ‘man whom | | nosis of what is the matter with | everyone might profitably ‘ himself and will now go into business for himself. | All modern conveniences for visitors | sobering-up | stations, with respirators giving patients a | | or months old. the Univer?+ BRITAIN’S CAPITAL In the light of recent events, which have given rise to the question of whether England could be defended against the rising power of Germany, the suggestion has been made that Great Britain’s seat of government be removed to Canada. While the idea may appear fantastic at the moment, it is being discussed, though perhaps not very seriously, by some news- The step might become desirable, or even neces- sary. The London news weekly Cavalcade | points out a notable precedent for such a | move, citing that the Emperor Constantine, fearing Rome could not be defended against the barbarians of the north, re- moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium ; —later named Constantinople—in the year | 80. The barbarians did, in fact, take Rome -in the next century, while the empire based | on Constantinople persisted with | fortunes for another thousand years. varying Naturally, the proposed visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth to Canada and the United States next year is linked removal, but fording wide p bilities for discussion. MAN’S SEVEN MISTAKES Man’s imperfections lead him to make many mistakes in life, and the pointing out of these frailities has engaged the attention of philosophers and reformers in all ages. A recent writer enumerates what he con- siders to be the seven greatest mistakes of man, as follows: 1. The delusion that individual ad- vancement is made by crushing others 2. about cor- The tendency things that cannot be rected, 3. Insisting that a thing im'pos- sible because we ourselves cannot accom- plish it. 4. Refusing to set aside trivial pref- erences in order that important things to worry changed or is | may be accomplished. 5. Neglecting development and re- | finement of the mind by not acquiring the | habit of reading. 6. Attempting to compel other per- sons to believe and live as we do. 7. The failure to establish the habit of saving money. This appears to be a pretty fair diag- us, and up on stions. check in the light’ of these sug NEWS AT A PREMIUM easily ordinary Like other things which and cheaply obtainable under circumstances, news is valued most when it is difficult to get. We fail to what a bargain we receive in a newspaper that costs only two cents. In the early days, of course, had no means of getting the news frequent- ly, and when they did it was often weeks But even in more recent times a newspaper often has been at a great premium. One of the highest prices ever paid for a single copy of a newspaper was that brought by one in Alaska only 40 years ago. Shortly after the Klondike gold rush, the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898. It is related that a prospector who had brought a copy of Francisco newspaper containing war news sold it for fifty cents upon arriving in Alaska. The paper was then taken to Dawson City, where it brought ten ounces of gold, worth $160, and the buyer made, money on his investment at that. He rented a hall ard charged $1 each for to hear the news read. When one stops to think of it, is nothing that gives so much for money as a newspaper. No newspaper is so poor that it is not worth more than it are realize people a San admissions there one’s costs. THE BACON- SHAKESPEARE IDEA The tomb of Edmund Spencer Poets’ Corner of Westminster being explored in the hope of writings of William Shake It seems that many px handwritten elegies in the Spencer, who died in 1699. If one discovered with the name the writing will be known specimens of Sir Fr an effort to settle once and for 4 discovering some apeare ed gra Shah ompared i Bacon was Shakespeare, } TODAY'S COMMON | ERROR KEY WEST IN DAYS S GONE BY Do not say. “The ship was way out to sea“: say. “away out to sea”, Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen test YOUR elena hoceas is Norbers Thompson’s contract to and operate the Mon- System, and|Can you answer seven of these ap-; test questiors?’ Turn to the of the county commission: | Page 4 for the answers -elled at noon today of Attorney J. Lanee- | r. Thompson | and signed | agreement to Otto chairman of the county b Upon handing the! papers back Mr. Thompson said,, ~* ‘I believe that'I am legally sitated to become a wr for the operation Ty system and at the 1e the office of county | I further beli duty as expressed © of the people in 1 last Tuesday, to as- se of county com- ssioners to which I was elect- hen the time arrives, and ith the other commission- ve the public the benefit of ny service to operate the ferry ystem efficiently. ang econom- ically in my official¢apacity in, vhich 1 might have a~ personal After accepting the i contract from Mr. »son, Mr. Kirchheiner stat- commissibneérs * have no other proposition before them for the operation of the ferries, Mr. Lovell’s proposal having been withdrawn ounty Ferry been given 1. Is the North Pole nearer to the center of the earth tnan the equator? Is it proper for a bride to wear a wedding gown and veil when the groom dressed informally? Name the alloy and zine. Which states are officially called commonwealths' Into what body of water does the Mississippi river flow? Name the German Minister of Economics. What is the name for science of antiquities? Name the oldest institution of higher education in the U.S. Who was nominee 1936? Did Jim Braddock win the sheavyweight championship fram Max Baer, by a knockout or by decision? Kirchheine of copper in- con- the same of the the Republican for President in Today s Birthdays Peeecccove esecesescosce U. S. Senator Warren R. Aus- tin of Vermont, born at High Charles P. gate, Vt, 61 years ago. Alabama, — e engineer for s Bureau of Public nd two assistants, are in We t for the purpose of obtain- ing the figures on a government |! irvey for the cost of construc- lion of the proposed long bridges f the highway connecting Key West th the mainland. The ordered by a bill in- troduced by Joe Sears, congress- man, on February 20, 1928, and unanimously passed by the senate. Snead, of Montgom- senior highway the United Roads, K actor New William Collier, oldtime and dramatist, born in York, 70 years ago. Thaden, born at 2 years ago. aviatrix, of Bentonville, Louise Anne Parrish (Mrs. Charles A. Corliss) of New York, , novelist, born at Colorado Springs, Colo., 50 years ago. se and Dr, William Abernethy of Washington, D. ©, Baptist clergy- of the few cities in the ™an, born at .Cedar,;,Rapids, state of Florida with a sufficient Towa, 66 years ago, membership "in ‘Me AAA. to SoSobr |have the name of the city appear Yet to Charlotte, Hop| the membership plate. A F. Albury tg Miriam novement is now on to still in- ise the local membership with € urance that the organiza- ll establish offices in this This will be fine prestige a progressi little city. Fdilorial comment: Key West s one ins; Charles . Baker. Judge Iom Norfleet, who pre- sided at a ‘session of criminal court yesterday, remained over and went fishing with a group of Key Westers,, Accompanying the visitor were: County Solicitor J. F. Busto, Sheriff Cleveland Niles, C. Sam B. Curry, Charles Elwood and Will Archer. DeSOTO HOTEL 973 Main St. Sarasota, Fla. Vacation Land OPEN ALL YEAR EUROPEAN PLAN W. Newlan, report the rrival of a nine-pound son, born their home recently. Tug Warbler letf at ir yesterday to answer a call for nce from the iship Or which is re- corted in trouble off the coast of Chili M and Mrs. “) Catherine street, a date hi assis Criminal court opened formally this morr and after organiza- tion, re ed until tomorrow 10 cloc when the trial of jury cases will commence. $1.25, $1.50, $1.75 sing!~ * $2.00, $2.25, $2.50 double » couples .were authorized J by marriage licenses is- from the office of County Hugh Gunn during the follows; C. 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