The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 6, 1938, Page 2

PAGE TWO % The Key West Citizen | baily EB EN PUBL! L. P. ARTMAN, President JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager Wrom ‘The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County wulered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use fer republication of all _ news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise creaited in this paper and aiso the local news published here. Pee ii Weekly . ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resotutions of respect, obituary no! the rate of 10 cents @ line. i for entertainments by churches from which @ Is to be derived are 6 cents a line. tizen is an open forum and invites di sion of public issues and subjects of local or ¢ Snterest but it will not publish anonymous cor 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. ‘and no wonder, because to live , ete, will be charged for at | | families to survive. THE KEY-WEST CITIZEN LIBELING KEY WEST “Everyone there is interested in WPA, in Key West means that you either are working on the WPA payroll or you are doing a | | THE ADVENTURES OF | thriving business with the people who are | collecting their weekly checks source.” from that | This is one of the statements appear- | ing in a recent article written by a _ re- ‘ porter for the St. Petersburg Times after a brief visit to Key West. The reporter further said that the gambling houses of Key West catered almost entirely to WPA workers and their money seemed to keep the wheels of chance rolling. When these statements were brought ‘to attention of Works Progress Adminis- traticn officials at Washington, The Citi- zen’s correspondent wires that they said they didn’t see “how very much _ profit | could come to anyone from the minimum wages the government is paying relief workers. “They probably don’t raise much ex- citement with the checks they get,” WPA | officials are quoted as having declared in commenting on the St. Petersburg allega- tions that the people of Key West reap a harvest of profits from WPA workers. The Citizen knows that a great many community depend for} on WPA and other federal | agencies, but we also know that the wages those | paid these workers barely enables Some of the WPA or relief income may find | where throughout the state, but it is doubt- Safety rules can be summarized by “don’t take a chance.” Money isn’t everything, thing is nothing without it. but every- | Fat girls are at a disadvantage; the boys can’t put their arms around them, but they can reach part of the way. The early shopper not only gets bar- gains, but what is more to the point she | gets first choice in selecting purchases. Roger Babson predicts 1939 will be the best business year since 1929. We know it will be the best year since 1938. There is always something to be thankful for; we are thankful we haven't | upon. got a job that demands the remission of an undated resignation. ful if it is more than a small percentage of | its way to the | | gambling tables to be found here, as else- OZZIE GOSH! Tit the income those families require to live i It is obvious no man can support himself and his family on a weekly wage of from $7 to $15, which is about the pay | | of the majority, and then have a very large surplus for gambling and carrousing. Although circumstances have com- pelled the heads of many families to seek | WPA employment or other forms of re- lief, the majority of our citizens so en- gaged are honest and decent. They care for their families as best they can from the littie they get and they don’t, as a gen- eral rule, have any money to throw away. Some of the single men on WPA may oc- casionally have a few dollars to wager, but they, too, find the going pretty tough on what they make. On the whole, then, the St. Petersburg Times article was entirely unfair to the people of Key West. It is likely that if | the same reporter made the same kind of | investigation of conditions among WPA Too many want a competence with- out earning or deserving one. The Ad-| ministration has contributed to this condi- tion, unintentionally, of course. i U. S. May Have to Hold the Fort if | Rest of World Goes to Pot, says The Key | ‘West Citizen.. And the United States can | do that little thing if we all pull together. | Sanford Herald. It may not be a little | thing even if we all pull together, but we | can do the job. : | The Principality of Monaco, the seat | of Monte Carlo, has a population of some | 25,000, but annually receives a million and | a half of visitors. The Municipality of Key West, the seat of Monroe County, has a population of 12,000, and hopes to enter- tain in the next few months, a hundred thousand visitors. Man is always forgetting; so that if he does not continually keep on learning, | he knows less and less as he goes along. And this thought brings to our mind the ditty: “I had a roommate named Guesser, whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser; it at last got so small, he know nothing at all, and now he’s a college professor.” In his anxiety to be a friendly neigh- bor, President Roosevelt has reduced the tariff rates on sugar from Cuba to the detriment of the suger growers in Florida, who are restricted to 53,000 tons annually, while the Everglades area alone could pro- duce 600,000. The Citizen said in an edi- torial on November 10, that it is estimated that 50,000 workmen could be employed either directly in this industry or indirectly in lines or activities serving the sugar in- dustry. Take 50,000 men off the relief rolis and Florida would have the unem- ployment problem pretty nearly whipped. Charity is commendable, but it should be- gin at home. | Said. workers in his own home town he would find the same abuses exist there as else- where. Relief workers form a cross-sec- tion of American life and among them will be found fools and gamblers and wasters, just as there are fools and wasters and gamblers among other working groups of the country. NO MORE SCRAPPING OF SHIPS When the World War came to an end the United States was building the might- iest navy in the world. If the program had been carried to its completion, this country would have possessed a navy equalled by no other nation. p Later, as a result of treaties arranged at Washington and London, and in the hope of ending a naval race, the United States voluntarily scrapped 928,000 tons at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. You can get an idea of the sacrifice by re- calling that a modern battleship is 35,000 tons and a cruiser 10,000 tons. While the people of the United States may be divided about the necessity of en- larging the present navy of the United States, it is safe to say, in the light of past experience, that there is no division of sen- timent as to scrapping the ships that we construct. If the peace and security of the United States demands the construction of | warships at this time, less than twenty years after the junking of almost a com- plete navy, there should be no future scrap- ping of the ships constructed at enormous costs. A Tennessee preacher announced that on the following Sunday he would preach on “Liars,” and requested all his flock to read the 17th chapter of Mark in the mean- time. The next Sunday he asked all who had read the chapter to raise their hands, and about half the congregation did so. “You are the ones I will preach to,” he “There is no 17th chapter of Mark.” With th ROTARY CLUB The “growing pains” that have been noted among many institu- tions of the city has at last struck | the Rotary Club. CURRY HAR-| | RIS, in a speech two weeks ago, | |asked to know the line where| civic projects and politics begins! ‘that Rotary might get behind! | greatly needed city and county action. Rotary, you know, en-| deavoring to keep peace and} | good-will among its city, national and international members,| frowns on matters approaching | politics. But it seems that the} | boundaries can be pushed up ja) | great deal before they reach the | ;margin where polities begins. | There is much pro and con talk | on this. Latecomers at the last |meeting: SEBASTIAN CA-| BRERA, CURRY MORENO, ED-! | DIE STRUNK. What a laugh the: {club had when ALLAN B. |CLEARE was forced to sing a song because he, along with four other members, spoiled a perfect | attendance week recently. Every |time the music began ALLAN | was either just bfeore it or just after it or petered out along the |way. Solicitor CLEARE was on “the spot”. EDDIE STRUNK will put it before the Rotary Club golfers if they wish to attend the December 31 167th district Ro- tary Club Golf Tournament at |Orlando. Key West's received an invitation. They want six members. Mayor WILLARD M. ALBURY’S dscription of Miss SUSAN LaKIN was so “poetical” that President ERNEST RAM- |SEY advised him not to let the missus see it. The Bolshevik | table mmebers have grown out of {bounds and are to be fined 10 cents each if they sit at the same table in the future. Second grand commissar CURRY MORENO was noted at the center table. The other tables refuse to take no bolsheviks. JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE “Stevie” SINGLETON didn’t show up to open the Commerce offices for the Junior Chamber meeting Friday so The Citizen office was used. Then Stevie appeared bright and shining in a new sport coat. DUB BOWEN, a new member, is a well known boxer in Miami. He has very good contacts with fighters in the Magic City and elsewhere and will probably bring many of them here for fights during the Jay- cee boxing program the club is now endeavouring to sponsor. When he talks he leads with his proposing a money give-out from left. Whenever somebody starts the treasury, JOE ALLEN runs for his book for the discouraging news. Tips in temporary Boule- vatd repairs were given by EVERETTE RIVAS, who former- ly bossed a Boulevard repair gang. The Jaycee idea is to fill in the big holes. New events for the Jaycee winter program are popping up everywhere: here someone is giving Clinic Spanish play benefits, the High School Nature Club will sponsor a Flower Show and so on. The ‘down” THE ISLAND CITY en e Clubs in January will be out by Decem- ber 15, just about the beginning of the season. Vice-President IZZY WEINTRAUB took the chair when President ADAMS had to make an eppoint- ;posters and program for second{ part of December and first week | + EARL. ment toward the end of the meet- | ing. The Senior Chamber voted the Junior Chamber thanks for, stimulating many civic projects at a meeting last week in regard to dock service at the Yacht Ba- sin for visiting yachts. Where is Moehrke and his daisies?’ ALLEN E. CURRY will represent Key West Jaycees at the Sanford, De- cember 10-11 meeting, a consti- tutional convention. SERVICE CLUB This is the little club which first started all this business | about politics which have struck the other clubs: Rotary getting ready to extend its bounds to in- clude a city clean-up campaign; the Lions Club City Charter Re- vision commencement; Junior | Chamber of Commerce persistent querying of city conditions; City Council and County Commission- ers hearkening to the voices in the wind. You can trace the new ideas to members who originally were enrolled in the Service Club. The Club itself, which is sponsored by the First Methodist church, started quite a few ideas. Unprecedently it smacked a liquor law—violating shop and by a long series of talks on city conditions began the first “ex- pose” of what has been happen- ing locally. So doth the voice of the people proclaim itself. Mean- while, STANTON COOPER, who attained notoriety in this column by being a Methodist and prais- ing a Catholic priest; HASTINGS SMITH, who could do nothing better than fall off a chair in laughing out loud, that this col- umnist, L. P. ARTMAN, JR,, ful- ly record the lulls and jouds of the songs he first invited him- self to sing and then was en- cored by the club. No alibis, sometimes we knew the notes and sometimes we didn't. The club voted to erase an old debt of its sponsoring body’s Sunday School by means of an enter- tainment. JOE TOLLE’S hands were shaking like a leaf in hold- ing the glass when the rattler was milked at the last meeting. The king snake persisently stuck its head into everybody's pocket. LIONS CLUB Captain of the “Sitdowners” is EVERETT RIVAS.. captain of the “Hope to-sitdowners” is JOE ALLEN. And there you have the lead in the story concerning Membership Activities Contest which the Lions Institute next week Thursday. It's going to be a rip-roaring contest with no quarter given by either side. The titles have something to do with the winning Banquet at the conclusion of the contest—and the privilege, as winners, to “sit while the losers serve them. More of that as events proceed. . .Tail-twister “NEVY” 1 He Makes His Quota _ \ TODAY’S COMMON ERROR Do not say, “The snow still continues to fall’; omit “sill”. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to Page 4 for the answers Name the two principal riv- ers of Georgia. What is the hydrosphere of the globe? For what government agen- cy do the initials FHA stand? What is an autoclave? What proportion of the land area of the earth belongs to the British Empire? Is it correct to say, “Leave go of the stick?” On what river is Nashville, Tenn.? In which war was the Bat- tle of Spottsylvania Court House? Name the capital of Sweden. What is a depilatory? 1: 2. 9. 10. evecceve Today’s Horoscope favors a writ- The mind is inclined to lit- erature and probably studious along scientific lines. The mem- ory is retentive, with a facile power of words combined with scientific analysis, which should bring a certain reward of success and probably also money. Today should produce a strong person- ality. ARMAYOR pulled a good one. west for trans; & ‘ portation to Cuba, | sratre Without a word of warning |he!+,;en to Havana on steamers of| Hy: 5 announced that he would use his big shears in tie-snipping opera- tions (crazy idea, wasn’t it?). He started on LION GRAHAM—and ruined a pretty yellow tie ED was wearnig. To escape similar destruction—all members prompt- ly shed their ties—which, ac- cording to rule, brought on a dime fine all around. . .And there you discover the whole stunt—especially when it devel- oped that LION GRAHAM didn’t wear a tie on his polo shirt and the tie was planted on him at the start of the meeting. . .The new highway sign was much admired by the membership en-toto. . Lions HINSON, SAUNDERS and PRITCHARD are supposed to erect it. . Another committee was appointed (on the side) see that they do. We'll see to BENJAMIN LO! FUNERAL E TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1938 KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen Ten tourist automobiles, after arriving at Key West over the Overseas Highway yesterday, were this morning checked to Havana on the S.S. Northland. A Cuban car in which a party had i been touring America was also checked on the vessel. Two oth- | er cars, which arrived later in the day, remained over in order that the travelers may see the city. This, officials state, is a record number of cars to be checked on ond boat, though the uaffic has been increasing from time to time. There is every in- dication that the highway ferry system will be taxed to capacity during the approaching tourist season, A special express train com- posed of 10 cars of race horses arrived this morning, the stock having come from the tracks of Louisville enroute to Havana. Owners and managers of the stables arrived on the passenger train and went over to Havana. The horses will leave in one of the ferries tonight. “Well, I see the. women of Key West are beginning to make the town wake up”, said a visitor to ‘the city. “I used to come here twice a year for the past 20 years, and I can already see signs of an awakened Key West. I have been here only three days”. The visitor attended the Boosters meeting last Tuesday night. said that no doubt in many cases it is a case of “Let Georg Do It”, and that kind of attitude never got anything for any town. West and always did. spending some of my time in looking up some of my old friends. I frequently meet Key Westers in other cities and am glad to hear their news when- ever it is good”. Editorial comment: “Cooperate, quit knocking and go to boosting and promote the cooperative spirit” was suggested as a pledge |for the Boosters Club, and it ap- pears to be wonderfully appro- priate. Officers for the ensuing year} were elected at the meeting of Isle of the Sea Lodge No, 104, Knights of Pythias, iast night. The officers elected last night will be installed on the first Wednes- day night in January. Bids on the construction of the | ! bidder for cash He | _am frank to say that I like Key | I am, LEGALS OTICE OF SALE OF TAX CERTIFICATES y given that Charles Saunders Est. has filed with me written request that the tax certificates together with all subsequent omitted or levied taxes ld by th te of Florida be vertised and sold to the highest as pre 3 of the 19: Notice is House Bill the Leg upon the following described real estate in the County of Monroe, State of Deed Book es to be sold are evidengpd f 1929, and he years 1928 Sands Sub., . Page both inclusive. ax certificates together with all subsequent omitted levied sold to the highest Door in y of De- bidder a Key W cembe Ross C Sawyer irouit Court, Monroe County, given that . EL Meryma as filed with me written request that the tax certificates together with all subsequent omitted or levied taxes held by the State of Florida be d sold to the highest sh as provided by of the 1937 acts of ature, upon the following bed real estate in the County of Florida, to-wit: & Lot 3, Sec. 12, os 62%, as re- aty Records, Page - sold are evidenced 3895 of 1929, and dd Book The taxes to be y certificate } nt taxes o be sold are evidenced e No, 3898 of 192%, and xes for the years 1929 , both inclusive. d tax certificates together with U subsequent omitted. or levied will be gold to the highest urt House Door in Sth day of De- , at 3:00 o'clock P.M. the 22nd day of No- Ross C Sawyer Notice is y¥ given that Jennie Gunn De Borroto has filed with me written request that the tax certificates together with all | subsequent omitted or levied taxes , held by the State of Florida be advertised and sold to the highest jbidder for cash as provided by House Bill 296 of the 1937 acts of | the Legislature, upon the following described real estate in the County +, State of Florida, to-wit: Kk, 6, Tr. 4, as recorded a nty Records, Deed Book i3 The 244 of 1930, and the yeare 1939 Records, Pages 596+ Be4, ‘che taxes to be sold are evidenced by certificate No, 214 of 1929, and represent taxes for the years 1928 to 1938, both Inelusive. Said tax certificates together with all subsequent omitted or levied old to the highest ed Boak B-2, Page 630. proposed steel boat for the Mon- ‘ roe County Ferry System will be opened at the They were to be opened at a meeting hid this forenoon, but | after some discussion it was de-} cided to postpone the opening of | the bids until tonight. ' Scout traffic officers will be} under the supervision of C. Cc.) Symonette, who has been ap-| pointed civic traffic officer by! the mayor. Each scout traffic of-| ficer will be provided with a} whistle so that if any one should | need assistance, a call will bring | the aid. About 20 members of | Troop One Boy Scouts have been | named by Mayor Leslie Curry. j There were 25 automobiles} owned by tourists coming to Key | the P. and O. S. S. Co. today. PLAY SAFE— By keeping FOODSTUFFS at the right temperature ALL M ICE REFRI These refrigerators meeting tonight. | , nber, at Dated this the nber, 1938. 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