The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 28, 1938, Page 2

PAGE TWO ope Key West Citizen ae eal a Lally Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President an@ Publisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant * From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County — wntered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member ef the ‘Associated Press whe Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and aiso the local news published here. Six Months Three Mont One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application, SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, ete. will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. for entertainments by churches from which e is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or genera) interest but it wili not publish anonymous communs cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST~ ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage: Comprehensive! ity !'Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and* City Governments. A new phonograph needle will play 2,000 records without changing. Many will hope their neighbors don’t find this out. Mussolini has banned Rotary clubs in Italy, charging that they foment discord. He’s been listening to the singing. —Fort Myers News-Press, Ernest Hemingway, who has been in Spain gathering material for his new book, soon will arrive in Key West to start work on the novel. Fishing, his favorite sport, for the time being will have to take a back eat, for when the author works:he.doesn’t. play. Another romantic European printer when he was jilted by his girl friend set up her name in 8 point type and swallowed the characters numbering 60. This he “washed down with a pint of cleaning fluid. About a year ago another disciple of Gutenberg adopted this unique scheme to get surcease from unrequited love. Love is blind—also queer. Judge Akerman refuses U. S. citizen- ship papers to bolita sellers and if you want to buy tickets you'll have to patronize the Irish sweepstakes.—Fort Myers News- Press, Such action would reduce the num- ber of American citizens appreciably in Key West; and if vendors of bolita tickets were deprived of their citizenship, it would make a big dent in the voting population s of this island city. SSE SAIS Eat The Fort Myers Néws-Press has just issued a 48-page edition.’ It was printed in six Sections, had 52 news pictures and 127 illustrated advertisements. The advertis- ing patronage, without which the bulky paper could not have been issued, amount- ed to 5,688 inches. The paper states that the Chamber of Commerce is sending out 3,000 copies to a select mailing list while every member of the Fort Myers Realty board ordered from 50 to 100 copies of the tourist edition. The News-Press and the people of Fort Myers deserve congratula- tions. The reward will be more tourists and better business. During the World War the» govern- ment made warron the mosquitoes in Key West because of the large number of army and navy men quartered here. When the | military forces ceased thei? controlling ef- | forts after the end of the war, it wasn't | long before the pesky creatures returned. Eradication of the mosquito is a physical | impossibility, but they can be kept under | control, and when the WPA retires after | its allotment has been spent, it behooves | the citizens of Key West te continue their | efforts to keep the mosquito under control for our own comfort and that of the visitors with each resurring year. GOOD WORK—KEEP IT UP! For some time The Citizen has been urging strieter enforcement of the traffic regulations as a measure of protection for / our own residents and for the thoysands of visitors expected here this season. Now we are glad to report Police Chief Ivan | Elwood and the members of the police de- partment are making a concerted drive | against traffic law violators and that Municipal Judge T. S. Caro is cooperating | by fining those who are brought before him. Already the results of that campaign are evident. Our own townspeople are be- ginning to observe the “STOP” signs paint- ed at such thoroughfares as Simonton and Duval Streets. proaching a through street was to sound a horn and breeze right across the intersec- tion without diminishing speed. That was dangerous to themselves and to visitors used to driving along through streets in other communities where “STOP” means stop. é Chief Elwood is concerned about double parking, and rightly so. He has requested cooperation of our citizens in this respect, pointing out that double park- ing ties up traffic, confuses drivers in rear ot thoughtless motorists who still insist | upon the privilege of parking anywhere at any time and makes free movement through the main streets.a difficult prop- osition. Key West is no longer isolated from the mainland. She cannot be re- garded as a small city with few cars and no traffic problems, Double parking, quick pull-outs from the curb, wide swings to the left when a motorist wants to turn to the right or visa versa and other driving faults are no longer safe. They are down- right dangerous to everyone using our streets. “Tf our local people help in observing some of the rules of safe driving, I am sure we'll have a minimum of accidents here this season,” Chief Elwood is quoted as de- claring. “Last winter there were only about five accidents here, but the flow of traffic then was below what we expect this winter. Safe, sane driving will help the smooth flow of traffic through the city’ without injury to anyone.” In another direction, The Citizen wishes to commend Chief Elwood. He states the members of the police depart- ment “are not going to be hard on tourists this winter, but will follow the practice of other cities in being as easy as’ possible on them.” This is commendable. Unfory tunately every city and state has a dif- ferent set of traffic regulations. In strange cities some drivers are easily confused. Often they violate the law by going the wrong way in one-way streets, parking wrongly or in some other respect go against local ordinances. Unless the visi- tor is deliberately negligent and causes an aecident through drunken driving or for | some other inexcusable reason, the Key West policemen will be performing a real community service by courteous treatment and pleasant advice to the offending motorist from the mainland. BACKWARD BOYS It is not always the boy who gives the brightest promise in early life who reaches the greatest heights, as many illustrious ex- amples may prove. feeblemindedness, declared that Charles Darwin and Sir Isaac Newton were both backward as children, and would prob- ably have been considered subnormal by | present-day authorities. We may also be reminded that Richard | Brinsley Sheridan, the great dramatist, was Previously many local } drivers believed all that was necessary ap- | In a_ recent lecture, | Dr. Tregold, an eminent British expert on | KEY WEST IN" DAYS GONE BY. | | | | | Happenings Here Just 10 Years | Ago Teday As Taken From The Files of The Citizen } Leonard Flo, whose <aacien | j flight from Canada to Cuba was) interrupted yesterday when the, flyer, due to acute illness, was | forced to land here yesterday | afternoon after 17 hours in the’ jair, hopped off at 2:10 this after- |noon. “I feel 100 percent bet- jter”, said the captain, who is, |from Ann Arbor, Michigan. At | 4:40 yesterday aftrnoon the cap- \tain suffered an attack of acute! indigestion when he was but 90. miles from his goal. He left} Walkersville, Ontario, with Ha-/ vana as his destination. Seen at/ \his room in the La Concha Hotel | ‘this morning the interpid young) (man, he’is but 26 years old, said, , |*¥es it is hard to be within reach ‘of your goal and then suffer a! seiback like I did. However, I| |may try to make the flight back, | {non-stop, from Havana to Can-| ada”. Hopping off Monday night! from his start in Walkersville. | Filo had been in the air 17 hours| |when he was forced to land. He} bencountered sleet and snow’ [storms, as well as rain, but was | | making excellent progress de-| spite the adverse weather condi- tions and was making about 100) miles per hour when forced to land: He was so ill when reach- |ing the Meacham airport that he had to be taken from the cock- | pit of his machine by Captain| |Paul €. Grocker, of the Pan! | American line, local manager. of | the airport. He was rushed at once to the Marine hospital where he quickly rallied to res- torive treatment. From there Flo went to the La Concha Hotel 'where he said this morning he had enjoyed a good night’s rest, and felt fit to continue the trip. . Directors of the Cuban Club are making arrangements for a big dance to be given Thursday night, November 29. The club gives a dance once each month for the members, who are charg- ed but a small admittance. Lots of surprises are promised and a hearty welcome is promised all who attend. Editorial comment: Key West should be made the queen city for the beauty contests of Florida Communities. No other place in the state could be made more’ at- tractive with so little effort and expenditure. Today is Children’s Day at the Catholic Bazaar and the young- sters are having the time of their lives, ‘he scene brings: to one’s mind the days of long ago and compels one to wish that one might return to those days. The usual number of booths are ar- ranged about the hall and are being well patronized. Commitments have ben issued by Clerk C. Sam B. Curry, clerk of the criminal court, for three prison in the county jail who| have sentenced to terms in the penitentiary. Alec Major| | goes for a period of five years, for assault with intent to mur- der, and Franklin Thompson and Berlin Johnson for breaking and entering go up for one-year each. At one of the most well attend- ed: meetings in the history of Robert Perry Chapter DeMolay, held at the Scottish Rite hall last night, officers for the ensuing |three months were elected. Eighty-one passengers, 26 auto- mobiles and two trucks is the to- tal volume of traffic on the fer-| \ties yesterday. The same num- | ber left for the north as came dasa the north, it was said. Telegrams received in the city! this morning announce the birth; jot an eight-pound son to Mr. and| characterized by his own brilliant mother | as an “impenetrable dunce.” Similar stories | are told of early dullness on the part of Sir Walter Scott, Thackeray , Wellington, Cromwell and even the great Napoleon. Our own General Grant, while always | mentally alert, was a ne’er-do-well during a part of his life and although he had per- | | formed creditable service from the Mexi- can war, resigned from the Army in 1854, | and at the outbreak of the Civil War was | a clerk in a store at Galena, Mil. became the first ever to hold the rank of a full general in the United States Army and was President eight years. Yet he | These examples, with many others j which might be cited, should be encourag- ing to those whe may be considered below the average during their school years. But they do not necessarily indicate | who will come here in greater numbers | that because a youngster is a dumb-bell he | | ig assured of a brilliant future, (10. | eeccccccccccceccccccccce| WHO KNO KNOWS? | (See “The Answers” on Page 4) TODAY’S COMMON ERROR Do not say, “The acci- dent happened on Thurs- day, but the transaction was not reported until Fri- day”: say. “incident was not reported, etc”. ps the U. S.? 2. What is the production of| whisky in the U. S.? | F ITEST Y OUR [ments here compare with U. S. KNOWLEDGE: tinvestments in Germany? 5. How much money is paid Can you answer seven of these ‘out in Christmas Clubs? Turn to | 6. In how many States did Page 4 for the answers | Republicans make gains in voting ' strength? income taxes? Name the softest and most malleable of the common. world? metals. 8. Have other nations any What instrument accurately legal right to puotest German records altitude flights of mistreatment of Jews? aircraft? ; 9 Do Japanese naval officers Where is the Amu-Daryas oe fishing fleets in Mex- river? Name the chairman of the National Foreign Trade Council. In liquid measure, how! enecccecvcccceoccccsoccs many fluid drams are in. | PIRATE’S GOLD one pint? Where is Old Faithful Gey-! : Edited By ser? | LILY LAWRENCE BOW What is the name of the, soeeeeeecoeocoeseecoooe small reptile that can PEACE change its color? Loud men prate of peace—and Who was Johannes. Brahms? . speed In what year was’the Pan- Armaments to match fear and ama Canal officially ie ed for commerce? Name the capital of the Sul-'Here it is that world peace tanate of Morocco. starts— Sa eee ‘When Christ speaks peace to Secccceecoeorsesoesosoos) brother-hearts. ‘SCOUT NOTES ; —Mary Ferrell Dickinson. By SCRIBE RUTH BAKER Troop One, Key West Girl Scouts, have been busy for the past few weeks making plans for the execution of their Seating! Peopin often marveled Program this coming year, as well What it could be he heard, as their part of the Community His one reply was silence, Serviee work which befalls | He never said a word. Troop One. | At the meeting Friday of last; But folks who know the wonder week in their headquarters, Gold- | Of star shine in the night en Eagle Hall, the following proj- ao Knew he was strangely happy ects were discussed: e way his eyes would light. Wednesday Night Party at the Armory, Senior Patrol Leader Anita Berkowitz, chairman. En- thusiasm was expressed for the success of this affair and Cap- tain Eva Warner urged that more of these parties be given in the| future. “It was fine to see ninety fun-loving youths enjoying whole- | some recreation in such an order- ly manner”, Captain Warner) said. Paint, repair and retouch used | toys project at WPA Work Cen- | —also— ter on Eaton street is worked COMEDY and NEWS Mondays and Wednesday by the | *@@@eeeeses+ ccccecascon scouts. Toys are being collected (os en ee Xo. How many members of President Roosevelt’s cabinet jhave resigned? He Heard His Spirit Singing | He listened to the music Of silence on the hill, He heard his spirit singing When all the world was still. | Now that his song is ended They wonder all the more, | They understand him better |Than they ever did before. Leslie ea ee Veidt Jill Esmond in F. P. | DOESN'T ANSWER for the Community Christmas! A Tree, sponsored jointly by Lions! Club and WPA Recreation De-)} partment. Star Patrol will be in| charge of the work this week# Blanche Cervantes is leader of this patrol. | Volunteer members of the troop are helping with the distri- | bution of tickets for the Spanish- American War Veterans’ benefit performance at Palace Theater tonight. Captain Warner is in charge of the program for this affair. | Lieutenant Alberta Peterson conducted the meeting Friday. ; Present were: Leaders Barbara Guerra, Blanche Cervantes, Eva Camus, Evelyn Solano, Rosemary Demeritt, Alicia Borges, Migdalia Solano; Scouts Barbara Roberts, Geraldine Kennedy, Claudia Ish- am, Betty Adams, Della Mae, Curry, Ruth Baker, Jane Thomp- ; son, Alice Eckler, Grace Perez,’ Laudelina Perez, Florence Boza, Frances Collins, Eloise Curry, Alice Rouse, Violet Sosin, Mau-! ren McFarland, Minnie Kardner Schutt, Florence Jarrett, Jackie! 'Doughtry, Letty Sullivan and Se- | | nior Anita Berkowitz. MANILA. 8%2x11 TYPEWRITING PAPER 500 Sheets for 75¢ ir | ARTMAN PRESS | The Citizen Bldg. 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Genevieve Taggard, poetess, ' born at Waitsburg, Wash., years ago. Helen Jepson, singer, born at Titusville, Pa., 31 years ago. Nina Wilcox Putnam, author, born in New. Haven,. Conn.,. 50 Frank Phillips of New York. board chairman of the Phillips Petroleum Company, born in! Greely Co., Nebr., 65 years ago. H Henry Hazlitt of New York, @ newspaper editor and author,! born in Philadelphia, 44 years ago. Dr. Louis Ginzberg of New) York, the Jewish Theological Seminary’s noted professor of the Talmud, born in Russia, 65 years ago. | Today’s Horoscope re@eveccoesacececooesace Today’s mind is ingenious, in- ventive and practical. The am» bitions are probably toward scien. tific research, there is a sufficien- cy of ability, though sometimes covered by the lack of resolution. Cultivate aletrness of mind that people may not impose on you or rob you of the just reward for your services. 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