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

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen | AU ident Waily soxcept Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. Tn i Py ABUMAN, jen) id Publisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager Prom ‘The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets CITY DEBT REFUNDING PLAN For many years there has been a | shortage of ready cash in the city treasury, with the result that municipal have suffered and the municipal employes Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe < . have been paid oniy part of their County THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | THE ADVENTURES OF OZZIE | services | listed | uutered at Key West, Florida, as second clase matter salaries. Some of the cash the city did | Member of the Associated Press | realize from he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use | for republication of ail news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and aiso the local news published here. various taxes sources had to be disbursed to pay old and pressing bills. Collection of taxes has lag- ged back of current requirements and some that have been paid were in the form and ‘other of warrants discuunted by municipal em- ployes to merchants and others. The city’s bonded indebtedness is to | be refunded under an agreement with a Chicago bond house, thus reducing the annual fixed charges for that item of pub- lic expense. It is confidently expected in- terest and retirement requirements on the new bonds will be met from real estate taxes. The next tax roll is also expected SUBSCRIPTION RATES ene Year Six Months Three Yont One MOnth Weekly 10.00 5.00 2.50 85 20 ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resotutions of | respect, obituary notices, ete. will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents @ line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which it cannot be made to take care of the city’s tloating debt which is estimated to be @ revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- somewhere between $250,000 and $300,- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general | interest, but it wili not publish anonymous communi. ee cations. | IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN As a result of this situation, Council- man William H, Monsalvatge has devised and the finance committee of the | council is now studying a plan whereby to cover current operating expenses, but | city bonds would be issued to take care of the | Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. | government goes on a cash _ basis January 1. pay off city employes, pay all the current bills the cash on hand will allow, so that the city’s credit will be restored. | The bonds would be 30-year certifi- | cates tentatively calling for 2 per cent in- ESSERE SPR seen REP TSBs EE ‘ | terest, although that point has not been Sometimes one finds ingratitude in persons least expected and who above all should have been grateful. commanded for this attempt to get the city out of the red and on a firm financial | footing, it is doubtful if all the city’s creditors would be willing to accept bonds bearing only 2 per cent interest to cover their bills against the municipality. The Key West stores are filled with Christ- mas gifts. See the advertisements in The Citizen, and patronize local merchants. | posal may find it more feasible to fix the | rate of interest at 3 per cent—certainly it | would be more acceptable to creditors and therefore more likely to be a successful operation, After the plan is finally approved by Happily, Key West can forget; but, it | the council, and The Citizen believes it must not be forgotten, Key West can also | should be approved with possibly ‘some A aaa and “nole me tangere” is its | modification of the interest rate, it will motto. Harem is pronounced hay-’rem; not har’em. : Anyway we do not pronounce harems in the United States, we denounce em. lature. State Representative Bernie C. Papy is reported to favor the proposal, so that legislative approval seems assured. One thing may truthfully be said of | the present city council—it is striving in the face of many difficulties to make the Correct this sentence: “Dear Santa | municipal government a going concern. If Claus. You needn’t bring me anything | the councilmen can devise ways and means this year because the toys that you left | °f compelling payment of taxes by all last year are good enough for me.” | classes of taxpayers to make the new plan | effective, they will deserve the gratitude | of the taxpayers who do pay their way Monroe County is at the present time 4 4 * . witnessing a case of rapacity never even | ng Wag eee OS pale serv approached in the annals of the county; it eal ee it can be almost characterized as ghoulish. | POOR GRANDPA! What this country needs is a few million adults willing to study national questions and anxious to learn something about them. Newspapers report that the Dies cozn- It may be that your Grandad~ never mittee, investigating un-American activi- | saw a movie, an aeroplane, or listened to a ties, contacted a “strip-tease” performer, , radio, or owned a modern automobile. But The lady, we presume, had nothing to con- | there is one thing on Grandad’s side, he ceal, | never had to wait in a barber-shop until a girl got her neck shaved, he probably never went in swimming with a lady, he didn’t smoke mentholated cigarettes, have his finger-nails manicured or his toe-nails doctored. We doubt if he drank near-beer and he didn’t divorce Grandma; he un- ; doubtedly did not shoot -a_filling-station bandit, didn’t sleep in broadcloth pajamas | and was satisfied with a heated game of checkers as an active sport. But some- how, Grandad lived to a ripe old age and never knew what he was missing. He never got behind with his work on account of golf and he was always up to scratch when it came to paying his bills. And there are a good many of the offsprings of Grandad who could profit by his example. HUMAN BEINGS AND DOGS A conventional insult in America is to | refer to a person’s mother as one is in the habit of scratching fleas with her hind leg. There are those in Key West who are most flagrant in this disrespect, and use the infamous expression on the slight- est provocation. To get rid of her Fascist-patterne: | citizens, Rumania has adopted the old Mexican custom of “la ley de fuga”, by which the intended victims are told to run for their lives and then shot. The official report is always “shot while attempting to escape”, and the shots in the back give eredence to the statement that the shoot- ing was done while the prisoner was run- ning away. The other day, in a Northeastern State, a nine-year old boy was fatally in- jured by a train, while trying to get his pet dog off the tracks, A few days later, in a Southeastern State, an old man was saved from drown- ing by his pet dog, which caught him by the collar and swam towards the shore. Such incidents emphasize the attach- ment that exists between human being and dogs. It is hard to explain it to a person , who does not like animals, More than half a million Elks gather- ed Sunday throughout the world and ob- served once again their annual services for departed members. For more than 50 years, subordinate lodges of the Order have commemorated departed members of the Order on the first Sunday in Decem- ber. P. B. O. E. No. 551, local lodge of Elks, held this commemoration since the inception of the local lodge, and Sunday was no exception. | settled. While the councilmen are to be | have to be validated by an act of the legis- | tioating debt and whereby the municipal | after | It is proposed each month to | WHY SHOULD I "3S PULL OVER HES GOT HALF THE ROAD. | sd ( BUT O2ZZIE,MAYBE HES DRUNK, WELL, HOW WAS I TO GUESS HE WOULDN'T PULL G. FLANAGAN | AUTHOR WAS RESIDENT OF KEY WEST FROM 1903 UP TO 1908 | committee studying the Monsalvatge pro- | “Ornamental Typewriting.” a new book from the press of the !Gregg Publishing Company, New York, is by George A. Flanagan, now residing in Oakland, Cali- |fornia and who was once a resi- | dent of Key West. He spent fif- |teen years of his early life as, | stenographer in the United States | |Government service. | Many of Dr. Flanagan's former | students, now substantial citizens | | in middle life, will remember him jas Professor Flanagan, when he| | was ‘principal of the Key West: Evening Commercial School, | 1903-1908, and pointed out to) them the road to success. Dur- jing the day he was secretary to the Commandant of the U. S. Naval Station. He later de- | veloped the Tropical Food Com- |pany, of which he became gen- |eral manager. While living in |Key West he married Dr. Kath-! arene Wave Allee, a prominent physician. Their daughter, Miss Laurene Allee Flanagan, is now a teacher in California. Graduating from George Wash- jington University, Washington, D. C., in 1918, as Doctor of Den- tal Surgery, Dr. Flanagan de- voted ten years to dental prac- tice in Hyattsville, Maryland, and in Miami, Florida. | “Oriental Typewriting” gives promise of becoming a_ valuable | text-book for typists' everywhere. |The Gregg Publishifig ‘Company is also considering the publica- Ba tion of a Spanish edition. Editor’s Note: In a letter to |the editor of The Citizen Dr Flanagan refers to his book and the pleasant days spent in Key West. He says further: fy wife and daughter and I pleasant memories of Key st. When I went to Key West in 1901, your paper was called “The Inter-Ocean.” Later Walter Thompson and Mr. Marcy B. Darnall went into partnership and changed the name to “The Citizen.” I understand that the dear old berg has received a ne impetus since the construction the automobile highway. “Very sincerely “GEORGE A. FLANAGAD DAILY RATIONS HOUSTON, Texas—The students who eat in-tlie Texas A & M. college mess hali consume an average of 2,000 pounds potatoes daily; 190 butter, D0 pounds 600 hot cakes, an pe 2 The Favorite In Key West — THY IT TODAY — STAR > BRAND CUBAN COFFEE | ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS woes VIIA LLL S SD CDD COINCIDENCE Rev. Joe Tolle, pastor of the First Methodist Church, where the Miami District M. E. conference will be held December 12 and 13, last year buried Mrs. John Richardson, who was __bap- tized by the first Methodist preacher assigned to | Key West in 1844, Rev. Simon Peter Richardson, to link the old with the new by a pe- culiar coincidence of identical names. It was Richardson, who on his journey from New Or- leans to Savannah petitioned funds along the way to build the church before the pres- ent one. The present church was built around the old church in 1877, then most of the old church taken out. The annex was constructed in 1931. When Richardson purchas- ed the lumber for the older church, he was advised strongly against insuring it for the sea voyage down, as the hurricane season was over, and there was not much danger. He persisted in in- suring it, and the lumber was lost when the ship was wrecked on the reef. With the insurance money he bought another shipment of lumber. Today’s Horoscope eecce emeecacoves eveseseces arly hours anthropic attitude y due to some Born as mind be- some cases fe n the the the li Under a restraint of liber- REPORT ON BUTTER-FAT Mr. ; Cows in ent associa- r than that _feeling that it was his MO NDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1938 KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen More than 200 persons attend- ed the meeting last night in the Strand theater and organized the Booster Club of Ky West with Dr. Wm. R. Warren chosen as president. The vote was unanim- ous. The meeting was called to order by Attorney J. Lancelot Lester, who made a masterly ad- dress on the need of a community spirit in accomplishing anything toward the betterment of Ki West. With no dues nor asse ments, it was thought by Mr. Lester that such an organization would naturally appeal to the masses, each individual member or her spirit of good will that would be more necessary than their dues in carrying forward the activities of the organization. Others on the program made addresses and at the conclusion of a most en- thusiastic gathring, the following officers were elected and will be associated with Dr. Warren: Miss Mollie Parker, secretary; Miss Marie Cappick, and Rodney C. Gwynn, assistant secretary ur- ray. Cochrane, vice-president; Wallace Pinder, treasurer. Com- munity singing at the opening "and close of the meeting led by CHURCH PROGRAM. TUESDAY EVENING VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL SELECTION TO FEATURE \ENTERTAINMENT A program of vocal and strumental selections will be pre- sented in the auditorium of First Methodist (Stone) Church, Tues- day evening, December 6th at 8 o'clock. The public is invited to ,attend. The program follows: Organ Prelude, Mrs. Joseph Sawyer. Invocation, Rev. J. A. Tolle. Congregational Hymn, “On- ward Christian Soldiers.” Selections, Harris School Rhy- thm Band. Selections, School Chorus. Vocal Solo, Master George Jen- sen. Selection by Monroe County High School Orchestra under the direction of Professor T. B. Kleb- sattel. Vocal Solo, Mrs. Eva B. War- in- Division Street , ner. Violin Solo, Arent Sjursen. Selection, High School Orches- tra. Vocal Duet, Mrs. N. P. Nelson and Mrs. Wm. H. Sands. Cornet Solo, John Luis Day. Piano Solo, Miss Katherine Knowles. Selection, High School Orches- tra. Violin Solo, Gerald Saunders. Piano Solo, Miss Francis Fin- nie, Vocal Solo, Robinson. Selection, First Methodist Or- chestra Violin and Guitar Duet, Fred Knight and Gerald Saunders. Organ Solo, Jack Cormack Selection, High School Orches- Mrs. Minnie y tra Benediction, Rev. Jim Lilly The Citizen—20¢ Subscribe to Patric Knowles-Richard Cromwell Rochelle Hudson in STORM OVER BENGAL 1s0— Round Gut Your KEY WEST vice ott SLAVAINA aviaP&O ke htcders v. Key West, 8:30a.m. Ar. Havana, Lv. Havens, 9:00am. Tuesdays- As. Key West, 3:15 p.m. same alternoon ‘® CUBAN TOURST TAX 0 — To PORT TAMPA, Toesdays end Steamship CUBA sides $20 ROUND 3:00p.m. same afternoon \ / TRIP INCLUDING MEALS AND BERTH AT SEA 10 DAY timit Fidys, 5 o.— Fridays Spee el The PENINSULAR “@ OCCIDENTAL S. S. COMPANY foe Inbormation, Tickets ond Reservations, Phone 14 Sam Goldsmith was feature. a_ pleasing Red Men’s Revue, Feast of the Red Corn, will be staged this evening at the San Carlos thea- ter under the direction of Mad- | ~ ame Laurette Cordero. An ex- cellent musical program has been arranged for the event. “I have fished the Atlantic Ocean from the coast of Maine to the shores of Key West, and must say that I have had the greatest day of fishing here, that I have ever experienced”, said George L. Roberts, of New Jer- sey, before sailing yesterday for Havana. Four hundred pounds was his catch here in one day. “I have never seen anything like it in my life before”, he decided en- thusiastically before boarding the steamer. Editorial comment: Quoting from the Macon News, the Tam- pa Times says: “Florida is and will’ remain democratic”. The Me M-ceitetao 9nhrdetaoin shrd- lettaoin LU”. Now if the News really said that it ought to be sued for libel.—Sanford Herakd. Angling from the houseboat! “Everglades” as the guest of Col- onel Robert Thompson, Captain R. W. McNeely, commandant of the naval station, succeeded in For i aes a tion, ‘Swifly it eases the itching discomfort of eczemia, rash, tetter, i! Christmas by giving her a beautiful, big, new General Electric Refrig- erator! It’s a practical gift she'll use and appreciate every day for years on end. ‘The General Electric, first choice of millions, is now popularly priced. Today your dollar will buy more in a G-E Refrigerator than y requested to attend as bringing to boat a monster sail- fish while enroute from No Name Key to Key West Monday. The fish measured more than seven feet and was a perfect beauty. There will be a meeting of the Junior Woman's Club held to- morrow afternoon beginning at 7 o'clock in the clubhouse ‘on Di- vision street. All members are busin: of the utmost importance will discussed, The postma: announces that the morning mail will close at 9:30 in the future, inasmuch as the train departs 10 o'clock. There will be no ¢ ge in the evening closing of the mail. The fire plug at corner of Southard and Elizabeth streets was broken off by an automobile at noon today and the gushing water created some excitement for a while. Richard Culmer, colored driver, crashed into the are expected to arrive y enroute to Cuban waters for their regular annual training maneuvers. They will perhaps remain in port one week. E ment and detail for the $ are left at Key West every sum- mer for these v SECOND SHEETS | 500 Sheets for 50c MANILA, 8'4xll | TYPEWRITING | PAPER 500 Sheets —THE— ARTMAN PRESS The Citizen Bldg. NO MONTHLY PAYMENTS UNTIL MARCH Only s Small Down Payment Needed!