The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 14, 1938, Page 2

PAGE TWO st Citizen | n Building Ann Streets only Daily > ered at Key Member of the Associated Press he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use fur republication of all news dispatches credited to i therwise credited in this paper and aiso blished here, AL NOTICE ards of thanks, resolutions of ; :, Will be charged for at s for entertainments by churches from which to be de are 5 cents a | en forum and inv blic issues and subjects uf local « t it wili not publish anonymous com | school tomorrow night. SOUTH SIDERS ORGANIZING That section of the city bounded by United Street on the North, the Atlantic | on the South, Whitehead Street on the West and Bertha Street on the East is vir- | tually the only strictly residential area in Key West. At present there are no stores, filling stations, night clubs or other com- | mercial enterprises in that section and the | residents and property owners with homes and holdings there are planning an or- ganization for taking concerted action to protect their properties, to secure public improvements and to prevent infiltration by projects which might become neighbor- hood nuisances or detract from the value of the holdings or their suitability for resi- dential construction. Over the signatures of such represen- tative citizens as Henry Brewer, Col, Brin- ton, Bascom L. Grooms, Clifford G. Hicks, Aquilino Lopez and Everett P. Winter, the property owners and residents of the section, both men and women, have been invited to attend an organization meeting to be held in the auditorum of the High The meeting will | begin at 8 p. m. and is open to all persons 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. Life is pleasanter—in Key West. See America first—behind the _bill- boards, says the Times-Union. The way of the transgressor is not so | hard in Florida so long as we have a weak- kneed Pardon Board. It takes Ireland to get what we have | wanted for years! A silence zone for! motorists from 11:30.p. m. to 7 a. m. | Nobody can be so important as some people look with their clothes on. Un- clothed their air of importance would dis- appear, but this is no argument for the cult of nudism. “Laugh and the world laughs with you...” Miami now has another reason | for inviting the world to her doors—she is | the laughing stock of the nation, and people | go where they can laugh—in this case out | loud, | | tical. | velopment and maintenance of the natural | beauties of that section of the | sponsors declare. | tire community. | city. | interested in promoting the welfare of the | South Side. It is planned to select a suit- able name for the organization and to elect ‘a president, secretary-treasurer and an ex- ecutive committee. Sponsors of the plan wisely have an- nounced the organization will be non-poli- It is simply a plan to aid in the de- city, the When politics enters such an organization effective action goes by the board. The South Side greup, by keeping itself aloof from political in- fighting, can present a united front to city officials of all factions with demands for constructive action along many lines, Further, it can become a_ valuable municipal et by backing up programs and projects designed to benefit the en- It need not work selfishly and endlessly for the South Side alone; it can throw its support to any movement beneficial impartially to all sections of the The Citizen congratulates the spon- sors of the movement to create the first sectional improvement association and hopes that the plan will not only be effec- tive in preserving the integrity of the South Side as a residential area, but will work to the benefit of every section part of the city of Key West. 2 THE KING AND QUEEN’S VISIT When King George and Queen Eliza- beth, of Great Britain, visit the United States next year, it will be the first time | that reigning sovereigns of the British Em- Did you know that five cars in the | last Indianapolis Speedway race burned | alcohol instead of the regular gasoline? And speaking of speed, the most eco- nomical speed at which to drive you car is | 35 miles an hour. pire have set their feet upon the soil of | the former British colonies. The visit of the royal personages will not be altogether insignificant. It will mark the steady development of the friend- ship between the two great English-speak- | ing peoples and give royal affirmation, if it _If President Roosevelt ever had third ‘term aspirations, they are now after Tues- | day’s election knocked into a cocked hat. Should he vindictively start a third party, | it will get the same treatment acerrded the Bull Moose, another Roosevelt crea- | tion, The people of California threw the $30 every Thursday fool plan into the ash- ‘can. The Townsend plan, another idiocy, should be relegated to the junk heap of forgotten things and the politicians ad- vocating such a fantastic will-o’-the-wisp should be dumped in the same place, with other crack-pots. Three gangsters were on the point of “rubbing out” an enemy, when police ar- rived and caught the would-be murderers. Their names are Dilucas, Passiva and Perardi. The Italian press is right in characterizing the United States as gang- ster-ridden, but take note of their names and you know where they come from. American Telephone and Telegraph company was listed as the largest cor- porate taxpayer in 1937, with $137,664,- 900. General Motors paid more than $100,000,000. Of course, these corpora- tions did not pay these enormous taxes; they merely acted as the agents of the government which soaked the buyers of their products.—Key West Citizen. In the final analysis, the people pay, and how !— Sanford Herald. be needed, that the feud between the for- mer colonies and the Mother-country has | ended, | We feel sure that almost all of the | ens of this country will welcome the of the British King and Queen. Neither the purpose nor the effect of their it will be misinterpreted. They will be received with the same cordial welcome that this country has extended to other visiting members of royal families. A DYING MAN’S HEART On the last day of October a convicted murderer was put to death in Utah by a firing squad for the murder of a business man. The condemned man preferred to be shot rather than to be hung, which gave the prisom physician an opportunity to make an electrical record of the heart beats of the man as he waited for the fatal shot} The prisoner, asked to permit the car- diograph to record his heart beats as the bullets crashed into his body, agreed readily athough expressing regret that he would not be able to see this “picture.” The record was made. It showed that the man’s heart beat jumped from a nor- mal 72 to 180 during the preliminaries to the execution. It stopped 15.8 seconds after the fatal bullet was fired. Death came in two and a half minutes. The value of the record, according to e physician, is that it shows the effect of fear upon the heart, THE KEY WESt CITIZEN Loomine “$ at (A a y } — ae tia. Wa sHINGION i By HUGO S. SIMS, Special Washington Correspondeni of The Citizen Republicans Jubilant Over Gains In the House, Senate and the States The results of the election last: It will be interesting to watch Pokies eprint the Republican the next session of Congress to ‘arty back into the thick of the observe whether there will be a | national Political fight. While the division among the members of |Party failed to come anywhere both parties on basis of the Lib- close to control of the House of eral vs. Conservative right. Both | Representatives, it scored notable parties have this problem. Each | Sains in membership, both in the is divided into what might be |House and the Senate, and made called two factions, with the one | distinct progress toward reclaim- leaning toward liberalism and jing state governments. the other towards.. conservative \ 2S principles. It is conceivable that 1G.0.P. JUBILANT an issue may arise, in line with f 5 the President’s recent political The Republicans have good leadership, that will cause the par- cause to be jubilant. Their gains ties to divide on the basis of the jexceeded the expectations of fundamental liberal-conservative practically all Democratic politi- iscue. This would mean that |¢lans and measured up to conservative Democrats and con- maximum forecasts of newspa-'seryative Republicans would be |Per writers. In the House, Re-' on one side, and liberal Demo- |Publican strength was almost! crats and liberal Republicans on ‘doubled, moving up from 88 to the other. Just what strength jnearly 170. In the Senate, the’ such a vote would show, no one Republicans at the next session (an say at this time. |will have at least eight new senators to add to the fifteen of ‘the present Congress. In the MID-TERM TRENDS jelection of governors, pronounced The election last week was a |gains were recorded for the Re-,™id-term election.. It should be jpublican Party. Whereas, the pointed out Aah with an ex- |Party could claim only seven of ception of 1934, every» mid-term |the forty-eight governments be- ¢lection since 1870 has registered |fore the election, the number will 2 loss for the party in control. |be more than doubled as a result That the Democrats | expected lefthe vote last wack, some losses is a =: that their iain losses exceeded ir expecta- Figured another way, the elec- tions is also true, The Republi- |tion cut the Democratic majority cans, on their part, expected jin the House from around 240 Strong gains but are delightfully |to about 80, and reduced the lead supe at the extent of their in the Senate from more than 60 'Tealizations. Ito approximately 40. In addition | |to capturing control of new state! The President and his New | governments, the Republicans al- Deal, to some extent, was the so acquired innumerable local of- general issue in the national elec- fices throughout the nation. tions. Apparently, the voters, or These will help in strengthening at least a majority of them, con- |of the Party machinery for the tinue to look to the Democrats test that is certain to come in for national leadership. Nor is 1940. | there any room to -dispute -the ——— {conclusion that the Democratic | TREND IS REVERSED Party, as a whole, lost distinct Moreover, Republican satisfac- ground last week. ;tion is based upon the definite mare eae: larrest of a trend to the Demo- ®@@@@eeeececevoccccoccos cratic Party which began in 1930} MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1938 ] 1 TODAY’S COMMON |! ERROR KEY WEST IN _ DAYS GONE BY Do not say. “He ran a little ways down the street”; the proper word is “way”. | | Happenings Here Just 10 Yess! Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen | The 1928-1929 year book of |T EST YOUR H the Woman’s Club is off the: KNOWLEDGE. press and is being widely com- | eae ae plimented as a dainty, neat and; Can you answer seven of these attractive volume, which ‘is a! test questions? Turn to produet of The Artman Press. Ii: Page 4 for the answers is bound in limp pebbled leather- !"7*—"—~ oe ; ette, with old ‘gold jakd dark i What majority iss 5.6 ie blue, with border, monogram and | Midd ib pri tel lettering on the front;cover in tices to the U. S. Supreme gold. | Court? j _ ! 2. What horse won the President Coolidge will oftici-! Kentucky Derby? : ally open the Atlantic Coastal | 3. Was Maine one of the orig- Highway running from Calais, inal thirteen states? Maine, to Key West, Florida, to- Name the capital of morrow. The ceremonies will be! at the White House and will be attended by delegates to the At-, lantic Coastal Highway Conven-' tion, which will take place in Richmond. 1938 the With what game is_ the shuttlecock generally asso- ciated? Name the newly-appointed French Minister to Italy. In what country is the mau- soleum, Taj Mahal, locat- ed? How is 150 written in Roman numerals? Who commanded “the U. S. troops that captured John Brown's raiders at Harp- er’s Ferry? Of which state is Alfred -M. *Landon a former Gover- nor? Editorial comment: The large ‘number of big bus lines which! contemplate operating into Key West this winter adds force to the prediction that the city will he, called upon to entertain more. “ visitors,.this year than ever “be fore. 1 Judge Tom Norfleet, who pre-' sided at a term of Criminal Court in Key West last week, and en- joyed a day of fine fishin; es- ‘ay, left this morning eee DOG ADOPTS KITTEN highway for his home in Miami. | bila B. Xs GILLET, Wis—Peggy, a dog owned by Joseph Seppel of this city adopted a six-month-old kit- ten and suckled it daily after her litter of puppies died. { The first membership in the Red Cross Call campaign was is- sued to G. H. Gibson, formerly of this city, who sent the dollar from his home in Washington with a letter dated November 8. BENJAMIN LOPE; FUNERAL HOME Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers 24 Hour Ambulance Service Phone 135 Charlie Johnson, aged 10, was dismissed by Peace Justice Ro- gelio Gomez at a hearing yester- | day of those charged with enter- '* ing the motorboat Woodrow.’ Others who were charged in the case were held under $500. ‘ment French Colony of Algeria. | jand culminated in the astonish- ing sweep of 1936. The next Congress will have fewer Demo- |erats in the House than at any |time since 1933. while the Democrats stay above the 1933 figure, it may be at- tributed to the fact that only one- election, Thus, reason the Republicans, the long overdue reaction to the coming, has exhibited a force stronger than was expected. This is the solace that the Republicans | get out of the election last week and the basis of some rosy hopes for 1940. |DEMOCRATS IN POWER On the Democratic side, it is pointed out that the country, on | the basis of the election of mem- | bers of the House of Representa- tives, remains safely Democratic Realizing that their top-heavy | strength for the past three con- gresses has been reduced, they as- sert that only once, in the last | twenty-five congresses, has the Party possessed greater strength. Emphasizing their, Party strength in the new Congress, they point out that in the last fifty years |the Republicans, in their long {control of the national govern- ment, could boast of a greater strength in the House in only | three congresses. | Regardless of this reasoning on |the part of the Democrats, how- ever, the election disclosed a re- versal of the trend which sent the Democratic Party to new highs, Once a trend is demon- strated by the voters, the pre- symption is that the trend con- \tinues. If the present trend, re- jflected in the election last Tues- day, continues for the next few years, it will inevitably mean the election of a Republican Con- gress and possibly a Republican President in 1940. This is what makes the Republicans feel so well and the Democrats a little anxious as they look to the fu- | ture. OPEN QUESTION As stated earlier, the main is- sue in the election was whether President Roosevelt would retain the support of a majority of the members of Congress. This re- mains to be seen. Already it is apparent that independent action on the part of both houses of Cangress has been greatly accel- erated. Undoubtedly, conserva- tives Democrats, if united with a solid Republican vote, can curb the President's leadership. If the President and his Party unite on @ program, then the control of the Congress is certain and noth- jing that the Reublican minority can do will be effective. In the Senate, ! Today’s Anniversaries MOI 1765—Robert Fulton, famed artist, engineer and virtual in- ventor of the steamboat, born in York City, Feb. 24, 1815. 1803—Jacob Abbott, Boston Congregational clergyman, au- Maine. Died Oct. 31, 1879. 1820—Anson Burlingame, con- gressman, American diplomat in China, whom the Chinese sought for advise and who pleaded China’s cause the world over, born in Chenango Co., N. Died in Russia, Feb. 23, 1870. 1854—Robert E. Blackwell, dis- tinguished Southern educator, president of thé Randolph-Ma- con College, born at Warrenton, Va. Died July 7, 1938. 1861 — Frederick J. Turner, Univ. of Wisconsin and Harvard jhistorian, who raised the study of history to a higher plane, born at Portage, Wis. Died Mar. 14, 1932. 1863—Hilary P. Jones, admiral, jborn in Virginia. Died ir. Wash- ington, Jan. 1, 1938. 1869—Harry Y. Benedict, pres- ident of the Univ. of Texas, born in Lousville, Ky. Died May 10, 1937. 1876—Harvey J. O'Higgins, novelist-journalist, born in Can- ada. Died Feb, 28, 1929. WHO KNOWS? (See “The Anemos” on Page 4) A clean-up, paint-up and gen- eral beautification campaign is being planned by Mayor Leslie A. Curry, who says that within the next few days he will issue a' proclamation calling on all resi- | ‘dents to join in the movement; third of the Senate was up for Lancaster Co., Pa. Died in New!and in fact urging hearty coop- eration by everybody. Key West is sure to have more visitors and , winter residents this year than | ever before and “it behooves us! |Democratic triumphs of the past thor of some 200 popular books © be ready to receive them with | |few years has arrived and, in its for children, born at Hallowell, ® city which has been cared for and beautified as never before”, | the mayor said. He contemplates | that the paint-up and clean-up | drive will start next Monday morning and continue for one week. The city aquarium at the | foot of Front street will be put in first-class condition ang the * surrounding area will presnet an | inviting appearance. The second of the large glass tanks is on hand ahd will be gotten ready for the exhibition of specimens ; within the next few days. Every , person in Key West can aid in; this movement is the opinion of | |the mayor, and he believes that , as soon as the movement is start- ; ed there will be hundreds who, will do all things possible to have | the city present a beautiful ap- pearance, long before the begin ning of the season and the flow of incoming visitors starts. - t a ' The excellent program of pa-} triotie airs and popular numbers jrenderd by the Key West Civic Band at Bayview Park last night was a well attended affair and it was surprising to notice the, many people from other parts of | the country who were seated on} the benches and apparently en-! joying the concert. This superb; musical treat was furnished vol- | untarily by the director and his band of capable performers. Haydn Illingworth, director of the band, said it is a splendid thing to be associated with an organization such as is the Key, » West Band. i How many per: are eli- gible to vote in the U. S.? 2. When did Italy and Great Britain sign their agreement? 3. When was the Nine-Power Treaty sizned? 4. What did Czechoslov lose in the recent surrender territory? 5. How many have been signed? 6. How does our foreign trade compare with that of 19337 ) “Navy Day” 8 What will the new naval dirigible cost? 9. What does it cost to take a census, such as that scheduled for 19407 10. How many people go to the movies? trade treaties Subscribe to The Citizen—20 . weekly, DeSOTO HOTEL 373 Main St. Sarasota, Fle | OPEN ALL YEAR { EUROPEAN PLAN, All Outside Rooms | Quiet, Clean, Good Beds | Free Parking | $1.25, $1.50, $1.75 singl> | Rates ~ $2.00, $2.25, $2.50 double | Today In History| 1784—-Samuel Seabury of Con- necticut consecrated in Scotland the first Protestant Episcopal bishop in the United States. 1785 — Short-lived State of Franklin established, 1789—John Carroll of Balti- more named the first Catholic bishop in the United States. 1838—Noted Catholic priest, \Francis N. 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