The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 16, 1938, Page 2

PAGE TWO --~ Ghe Key West Citizen gr AREAS, PERE Ths Sonhanee 308 ALLEN, Acstntent Batipeen Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Anh Streets ‘Only Dally Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County «ntered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter | Member of the Associated Press \-he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use fur republication of all news dispatches credited to it ot otherwise credited in this paper and aiso ‘al news published here. vne Year Bix Menthe Three Monti One Month Weekly ..... ADVERTISING RATE Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thank#, Fédoiutions of respect, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at ite & line. the rate of 10 cen! = 2 ices for entertainments by chufches froti which N @ revenue is to be derived are 5 cents 4 line. The Citizen is an open forum and inyités discus- | sion of palilic Issues and subjects of I6cal or generat Interest but It will not publish anonymous communs- cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST _ ) ADVOCATED BY, THE CITIZEN Watef and Bewetaee)), |!) | Comniprehehsive City’ Pla& “tBonbiey | |Hotels and Apartments. oll Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. 4! Fat people often have fat minds. : When one gorgés his fod, it is not conducive to becoming gorgeous. f When newspapers quit publicizing people, they soon pass out of the picture. Hitler is no Caesar, but What méat has he been eating that he has girdwh so great? We wondér how Sigivt Mussolini ~ likes playitig 8écond fiddle in Herr Hitler’s © @rehestira. The government has all of us~ cor- neréd. It @ithér takes dway from us al] we have or gives us all we’ve got: When, in the course of human évents, you are notified that your bank balance is overdrawn, be ndnchalant—don’t write any more chécks, Let everybody in Key West bear in mind the fact that thé Way to make our community a more beautiful place in which to live is to begin beautifying our own yards, aee> Fat When anyone advocates the observ- ancé of a law, he may fest assured that the minions of the law will watch his every move to catch him in the breach. If all got the same tregtiient; even the mo- tiye though reprehensiblé, would .be jus- tified. t ais # A fish'ompany went otit of ‘business this week in Key West and the reason | given is the cost of labor and particularly STOP AT STOP SIGNS! Over the last weekend several petsons THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | wéte injured slightly in traffic accidents | at Kéy West street intersections. gation discloses that in each case one man — | drove across, or attempted to drive across, Investi- | Simonton street without observing an ordi- | | nance fixing Simonton as a through street: | | Failure to observe this regulation was | the time excusable, be¢ause therg | sign at the intersection, indicating that crossing should come to a-stop. Now such signs have been placed | along Simonton and Duval streets. There { ; no longer is any excuse for crossing those } | thoroughfares without coming to a stop 1 | long enough to be certain there is no dan- i ger from approaching through traffic. | Certainly our townspeople should be fami- | | liar with traffic conditions along Simon- only of the danger, but of the ordinance cross them. Unfottunately the stop signs been painted on the pavement where they unfamiliatity with them will be increased many fold. As soon as practicable the’ city bearing the single word STOP and place them in permanent foundations at the nearest right hand corner of through streets. Such signs so placed are familiar to virtually all travel-wise motorists small chance the alert driver will miss them as he approaches an intersection. Already the police have begun en- forcement of the law in regard to stop signs and certain other traffic rules, There is séme evidence of a tightening of en- forcement of the regulations except in a few directions. It is about time the police enforced the law requiring properly muffled motors and stopped the practice of bicyclists moving the wrong way in Duval street. The former is annoying to everyone, the latter a danger to the bicycle riders and a menace to motorists who are compelled to dodge them. In regard to strangers, the police should rule with a tempered hand. Cour- teous advice and information to visiting motorists when they unWittingly vidlate the regulations will bring prompt results and a good word for Key West, Brusk, gruff commands and an immediate sum- mons to such violators will leave a sour taste in the mouths of visitors and give Key West a very poor brand of publicity. TURKISH RULER DEAD Mustapha Kemal Ataturk, father of the new Turkish republic founded after the World War, died a few days ago at the age of 58, after a life of strenuous activity. While his title was that of president, he was really a dictator, and under his rule Turkey was transformed from an oriental empire into a modern state. Under President Kemal, old customs which prevailed under the sultans have been almost éntirely discarded, the eman- tipation of women being one of the fea- tures of his rgime. Mohammedanism is | no longer recognized as the state religion, the taxes. With heavy taxes that cannot be met, the little fellow can do only one | thing and that id go out of business and | join the hordes of the unethployed. But | big business marches on. | | President Roosevelt was quick to rec- | ognize the vote of Tuesday, in which the | Republicans made considerable gains, by appointing Alf M. Landon, his Republican | opponent in the 1936 presidential race, to. the delegation which will represent the United States at the coming conference of the American republics in Lima, Peru, The national park service apparently is pessimistic about starting development of the Everglades national park at an early | date. This attitude is reflected in the park service's failure to include funds for the Glades park in its budgetaty requests for | hands of the President. | mal divorced himself by decree several | and freedom of religion is guaranteed. Polygamy and slavery have been abol- ished, and civil marriages made obliga- tory, with the power of divorce in the Incidentally, Ke- years ago. All Turks were ordered to take fam- ily names as an aid to keeping police reg- isters, army registers and tax rols. Ke- mal’s last name, Ataturk, conferred by the national assembly, means simply “chief Turk.” Kemal was an indefatigable worker, and also a prodigious consumer of liquor and cigarettes. But whatever his faults, he accomplished much for the advahces ment of his people. One evidence of his statesmanship is seen in the fact that for 12 years Turkey has had a balanced bud- get. 1939. Though budgetary matters sup-; posedly are confidential until they aré sub- mitted té tohgfess, it is no secret here that the park project does not figuré in next year’s budwét. Failure of the state to ac- quire the park laids for transfer to the fed- eral government is the ditly rea’on for the budgetary omissioh. The park séFVvice still is highly enthusiastic about the merits of the project—Miami Daily News, Thomas Reilly, payroll! messenger for a Chicago factory, promptly turned over a heavy bag to bandits who held him up, ant was allowed to go on his way. Arriving at the factory he took another sack contain- ing the payroll money from under the car seat. The robbers had been given a bag of iron washers which Reilly had long car- | ried for use in such an emergency, town and Duval and to be fully aware not | requiring cars to halt before attempting to have | are liable to be missed by strangers. Since | | the city will have many thousands of visi- | | tors this season the danger from inadver- | tent violation of the regulations thratgh | THIS UNIQUE PROPOSED BY SIR /S#AE /EWTON 1 1680, WAS | NICH ITSELF ANEAD BY Ji STEAM BLOWN OUT REA FISH OR HUGE INSECT DRAWN 70 SCARE YOU --175 TE VIEW OF A NEW SWEDISH CAR. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16,1938 | TODAY'S COMMON ERROR | ' Do not Say: “He spoke offhanded! ly" say. “off- From The Filés hand”. ee } —--'| Key West was enthusiastically : epee |selected for the 1929 meeting of jthe Atlantic Coastal Highway TEST YOUR | Association at the meeting of KNOWLEDGE 'the organization held last night ‘in Richmond, Va. The informa- tion.is contained in telegrams received at the local chamber of | icommerce from Frank H. Ladd, |Ross C. Sawyer, delegates to \the meeting, who were also sent Fe = to participate in the southbound ate first pede oe motorcade from Washington ps by George ‘Was “!which started yesterday in cele- at : ‘pration of the formal opening, Name the instrument used of the highway from the Canada by physicians for examin- Line to Key West after 50 partici- ing the heart and lungs by pants of the caravan had been gra- sound. iciously received at the White What is the popular name House. for a halo around the SaaS sun? | Bditorial comment: It is a mat- In which war was the Eat- ter of interesting speculation in tle of South Mountain these Volsteadian days to know fought? | what the Governor of North Car- Name the secretary of the olina said té the Governor of Republican Program Com- South Carolina when they met at mittee, who recently re- Richmond yesterday to attend the signed. Atlantic Coastal Highway meet- Who first advanced the "8- physical theory of Rela-| SSaichananey tivity? ;. Sunday afternoon the Key What is the common name West team will be seen in both for methyl alcohol? net ike ps retain bs on ‘ Y all in the Islan ‘ity Juvenile Sy hea fight Teague. Key West will meet tht! $ ..,, Sluggers in the first game and thé’ For whom were the Philip-' second will be played with the Can you answer seven of these. test questions? Turn to Page 4 fér the answers 1. Who was Setfétary of State | ‘deliver the papers to should buy heavy wooden or métal targets’! in| every section of the country and there is | TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY — By RUSSELL KAY eves A century ago St. Joseph, on | buildings leaving littlé but wreck- ‘the Gulf of Mexico, was one of | age in its wake. pine Islands named? Name the largest inland sea. coecddeee Sbbsbbec0b0s PIRATE’S GOLD Edited By LILY LAWRENCE BOW BEd bess cccdccdactoe CALLING ME on | Pirates. 4 : ’ ' the First Methodist ‘Church will give ah oyster sup- ‘per next Thursday evening. The laffair will be given on the lawn of the church commncing at 5:30 | o’clock. i Ladies of Paving of Division street be- the foremost cities in Florida. The second railroad in America, and | the first in the South, connected lit with the outside world, while | shipping of the world docked in ‘its great water terminals. Most of the cotton, minerals, |naval stores and cattle of South |Georgia, Alabama and northwest {Florida moved through this port. |Tourists and winter visitors |flocked to its palatial hotels, \thronged its glistening beaches. Those seeking employment made long and tedious journeys to work in its mills, shops and ware- | houses. | This great prosperous city was proud of her commerce and in- dustry, confident of her future and many believed she was des- tined to become Florida’s great- jest metropolis. Her growth and |progress wére more rapid than that of the sister cities of her day, Pensacola, Tallahassee and | St. Augustine. ealthy farmers, tradesmen and mill owners built beautiful homes along her waterfront, |northern capitalists developed her |beaches and sought to woo the i tourists, mostly well-to-do mer- jchants and plantation owners of |the southeast, by providing mod- jern hotels and one of the finest race tracks in the nation. While |definite figures are not available lit is believed that the population of St. Joseph in the year 1838 was betwen five and ten thousand. In December of that year a lit- tle group of statesmen represent- ling all sections of Florida jour- |neyed to St. Joseph to attend the state's first constitutional conven- tion and it was at this meeting |that Florida’s first state consitu- tion was adopted 2 in December, | 1838. : One can picture that great oc- jeasion, certainly a glorious cele- bration must have been gotten staged, for conventions, then as now, were auspicious affairs. No |doubt these destinguished guests | were wined and dined royally lentertained during the periods | they were not engaged in the se- rious business of considering the |problem of our first constitution. Shortly after that memorable and historic event, death and de- \struction, swift and terrifying, swooped down upon this gay and growing community to all but wipe it from the map and even from the memory of man. With the growing commerce that came iin ships, came also a mighty pes- | tilence, the dreaded yellow fever. 'Men° sick unto death, staggered ashore. 4/To meet them came ,; Swarms of mosquitoes from near- by marsh and low lands, to buzz Liedugeost the city as winged messengers of doom. Terfér stricken citizens fled for their lives, deserting their homes, i their business and their dead. In ‘a short time the population of St. Joseph had dwindled to but a few hundred. When the great epidemic had passed a few stout hearts returned, still hoping that the stricken community would regain its loss and again assume leadership. Then out of the South came an- other disaster. Grey clouds swept over the shuddering skies to bring drenching torrential rains and in their wake the mighty hurricane. Striking the city in all its fury it made kindling wood ef docgs and And so the hopes and dreams of Florida’s city of St. Joseph lay | buried beneath a mass of debris, | and those who might, have re-! turned sought fortune élsewhere | as there was nothing,to return to, and the few who rémained fol-| jlowing the storm soon deserted | the place to seek more promising fields. For many years St. Jo- |seph was but a hideous ghost town. Weeds took possession of | jits lifeless streets, the buzzard jand bob cat, fox and field-mouse \froliced about its crumbling ma- sonry. But the seph gave state to which St. Jo- its first constitution has grown into a great and migh- ty empire and today as we ap- proach the 100th anniversary of that event we find a reborn city jon the site of old St. Joseph that we now know as Port St. Joe. In the last century man has con- quered yellow fever, he has learn- ed to chart and protect himself against the tropical storm. Again | the song of the hammer and the saw is. being heard in the old} landmark. Modern hotels, shops and public buildings have arisen. Great docks and warehouses again beckon to foxeign shipping and mighty mills and factories belch the smoke of industry skyward Where ancient coach and ox-cart rumbled over winding woods roads, new velvet smooth high- ways welcome the truck and car. December 7, 8, 9 and 10 of this year, all Florida will join in cele- brating the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the state’s first | constitution and the celebration will occur at Port St. Joe. Elab- orate preparations are being made \for this event. Parades, historic- al pageants and every form of en- tertainment will be crowded into ‘these fdur gala days. Dignitaried from hot only Florida but the na- tion ate expected to attend. Those who visit Port St. Joe on this 6e- casion will find a royal welcome and be gloriously entertained. It is one event you surely cannot af- ford to mi eo eooe 1 ’ Today’s Horoscope eee ae oo aspects are not partic- ularly strong unless bolstered up by other and good aspects, and there is danger that you will | ‘waste time on unprofitable ven- | tures. The ambition is good! enough, perhaps a little too ele- | vated, but the mind should bel concentrated and not permitted to wander into yail_and illusive | projects. If blessed with means, | make the best use of them and do not chas Boston, New York. Miami! Jacksonville, Galveston } New Orleans and Beyond. oo Key West alternate Mon- CLYDE-MALL ©. & Serre, Agret West, Fis. . Key j eet phine, shine and gleam so sadly I Claling today my home far away, tween Duval and Whitehead Where the elms and the maple /streets is now in progress. With trees grow; this work completed visitors will The rocks and rills and far reach- P& ae - bgarteny el sak ing nile, almost every point of hietetic end . jalmost e un Se eee eee 80. | Peneral interest. Along the route | will be seen many historic eenee | Away swift wings of memory clings hen sh os , To my old home and friends 1/, Elimination of the street car loved true; tracks from certain streets of the Calling tonight, in love’s candle- city and putting the streets in light, D hesiass: bieraibpeat << ig oy h 5 1 ishi f .|moval of the tracks woul cost ; © home, T am wishing for you.’ ¢34.864.41, according to estimates | 1 , the firelight and recommendations made by ee agi eat en mans’ city Engineer B, Curry Moreno te at the requést of city Council. | gerd ones I loved fondly are | the board of public works Went | . carefully dver the ‘estimates and» |récommendations at the regular | |méeting Tuesday night and in-| | Structed Clerk Harold Pinder to; ‘ { My home so true, is beyond the Sine ee ; dream; O home, that was heaven so dear. Where the night never shadows | LA CONCHA HOTEL ' there, Garage—Elevator—Fireproct | ae blue, | the day; | In the Cénter of the Business A land so fair, they are waiting | and Thester District O home, you are calling always. . y : —Emma Stahler Smith. Open The Year Around | | KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happéhings Here Juit Ten Years Ago Today As Taken OF Ths Citinen the city clerk to form a basis at the city council meeting tonight for nego- tiations with the Key West Elec- tri¢ Co. In his recommendations Mr. Moreno stated there would be no advantage in removing the tails from Duval street, also from Whitehead and Greene streets, as on these streets they are laid on concrete stringers and would be quite expensive to remove. With the opening of criminal court this morning Alex Major, charged with assault with intent to commit murder, went on trial. |The crime is alleged to have been committed at Marathon on Octo- ber 14 when Major is claimed to have knifed another negro, Emanul Leatham, almost to death. The knife and blood stained clothes of the victim were pro- duced in court as evidence. Ma- jor. was convicted by a jury and was seritenced to five years in the state prison. The jury was drawn from the box this after- nooh for the January term and contrary to custom the sheriff was not allowed to stand by the box while the names were being drawn. All outstanding warrants of Monroe ‘touitity’ were declared Void at‘ nieBting ‘of the commis- sionérs last’ Hight; provided they were issued two years ago. This it was shown does not include such warrants as were drawn by the clerk but never delivered. me SI This Is A Real Offer! 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