The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 20, 1938, Page 2

a Te ok RE ERY wx Months ~seations. PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen | Published aily Exeept Sunday By | THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC, 4. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher | JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager | From The Citizen Building | Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County | Catered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Axsociated Press he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use | for cepublication of all news dispatches credited to | it or not otherwise credited in this paper and aiso the lock] news published here. VALUABLE PUBLIC SERVICE In connection with the program being devised by city council for refunding the | | city’s outstanding bills and salary debts, it | was announced that an audit of the salary | and material and supply accounts would | be necessary to determine the exact amount | of such debts and to whom they were | owed. It was early estimated that it would , an audit; so that the refunding plan was placed in jeopardy because the city would | '‘be unable to raise such a sum for the pur- | pose. Councilman William H. Monsalvatge | recently was explaining the situation to a Three Yonth: One M@nth - Weekly ADVERTISING RATES «Made krown 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 & e. ~-Notices for entertainments by churches from which mue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. he Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- m of public issues and subjects of local or general erest but it will not publish anonymous eommuni- | IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ~ ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. | group of interested citizens, among them | Col. Louis Brinton, U. S. Army, retired, | Henry Brewer and Everett P. Winter, re- | tired businessmen, who came here some time ago and established their homes. | They own their properties and therefore are vitally concerned with the future of their adopted city—they want to see Key West progress along lines which will in- | | sure them and their neighbors against loss | of their investments. Upshot of the informal discussion was ! | an offer by Messrs. Brinton, Brewer and | Winter to undertake a complete and thorough audit of the salary and other ac- counts'of the city. Col. Brinton has had years of experience in such work in the | army, Mr. Brewer was vice president of an | important industrial corporation and Mr. Winter was an engineer. They agreed to | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN TODAY'S COMMON | ERROR Do not say, “I will not stand for your constant scolding”; say, TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE test questions? Turn to Page 4 for the answers 1. In which State is Lake Okee- chobee? 2. Whom did President Roose- velt recently appoint Sur- geon General of the Navy, with the rank of Rear Ad- miral? What is a phonoscope? What is the name for persons who devote their lives to the study or collection of antiquities? In which city is the Museum of Natural tory? What is antimony? | What does the Italian word | maestro mean? In units of length, how! many links are in one mile? i Which country uses as na- tional insignia a crossed hammer and sickle? 10. Where is the city of Guaya- quil? KEY WEST IN Field His- | senses HISTORY IN « THE WASHINGTON, D:'C., Dec. 20. —Pan-American Conferences in | the past have been gradually drawing the 21 Republics closer and closer together as leaders from the different nations have | cost from $5,000 to $10,000 to make such | C@” you answer seven of these! ied on eight different occa- , sions to build their programs. Presidents of the United States and Latin-American countries ! have appeared at these events to; deliver sclemn addresses to the effec: that the Monroe Doctrine is sacred, and must be. upheld and respected by all of the 21 nations. Perhaps the results have been cumulative. Be that as it may, }it is erystal clear that the neces- | sity for solidarity is more fully | appreciated today than ever be- | fore, and the opening sessions showed far more prospects of success than were realized at Montevideo five years ago. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1938 e | eee oe ys| PIRATE'S GOLD eevcceconecse ee) Edited Marion WN. Talley, opera singer, | born at Nevada, Mo., @ | ago. ;retary of State would extend | . ‘ ! Dr. Virginia Bartow of the Uni- their eueretion to embcace all) versity of Illinois, chemist, born countries. Under _ me foregoing | 42 years ago. program the practices of some of the most notorious Latin-Ameri- can nations would-be: curbed by ‘the honest majorities of 21 Amer- ican, Republics; whe, no doublt, ‘would join the Dnifed Sta‘es in| !a real and realized Pan-America. | Mr. Hull has taken to Lima a, _ William B. Warner of New| streamlined ‘setfof international York, publisher of McCall's, born | law, which may succeed because @t Hannibal, Mo., 64 years ago. [7),, !our State Department head has! ——a inspired absolute confidence in| Prof. Max Lerner of Williams | the objec.ives he stated to the College, Mass., political scientist, ‘ Conference to share in “a firm de- | former Nation editor, born in Rus- | termination to find a better way | sia, 36 years ago. ir love gay posies in a bow! of | MAKING AT LIMA Today's Birthd 32 years) &® T love the curving sweep of open roads; The breathless view from some tall mountain top; I love the quaintness found in old abodes, ‘Where even Time, | seemed to stop! | , }1 love the glow of warmth from open doors, The light that shines wide window sills; polished sheen of mosaiced floors, ‘Whereon a coppered sunbeam slowly spills. i} Dr. Walter S. Adams, astrono-! mer-director of the Mt. Wilson) | Observagory, Pasadena, Cal., born in Syria, 62 years ago. itself, has across lovely, of international life” than that) jade toward which mankind seems to, Branch Rickey of St. Louis, | That rest upon a cozy kitchen | be drifting. | baseball official, born at Stock- shelf; Secre:ary Hull is undoubtedly | dale, O., 57 years ago, | And flickering candles on a table ; the most popular member of the | —_— laid | Cabinet. His notes, during this With heirloom silver and blue Dr. Stephen Duggan of the! | The newspaper reporters at| Year, dealt with the Mexican con-| City College of New York, polit- | | Lima all agreed with the New) fiscation situation. Can it be that jca] scientist and diredor of the | Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. | their surplus energies, but as a duty that should be performed as good citizens, with ficient private resources to enable them to garding the job not only as an outlet for time hanging on their hands and with suf- ’ thanks to the desertion of former allies. Czecho-Slovakia is Hitler’s vassal, undertake such a job without thought of make the audit without cost to the city, re- | DAYS GONE BY | | Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen Ross C. Sawyer was yes erday ; plates of delf. York Times staff correspondent! ‘here is a difference of opinion’ Ynstitute of International Educa-|I love bronze-flames of cheerful, tha: Cordell Hull is “the undis-| between Secretary Hull and less- tion, born in New York, 68 years puted here of the Conference”. He certainly has won the faith of his own countrymen, as the er officials of the State Depart-| ;ment who have the President’s | ear regarding what course should | ago. Louis S. Cates, president of) Gallup poll, taken while the| be followed with Mexico? Can it) pheips-Dodge Corp., born in Bos- American delegation was a: sea| be that the Administration is| ton 57 years ago. enroute for Lima, rendered a ver- dict by a vote of 85%—only {trading upon Hull's popularity } which rests on a forthright*Course | Duke of Kent, brother of Brit- 15% voting in the negative, that’ While the Administration dilly-! gin’s king, born 36 years ago. Mr. Hull has “done.a good job” as Secretary of State, It is heartening to all the Americas to realize that the Con- ference has had no_ hesitancy | 4 about accepting Mr. Hull as their | It is no disparagement to | leader. | anyone to say that. "in previous |years the Latin Americas have | carried on many of their func- | tional affairs with “secret eva- sions and mental _reserval.ions”. | Some of them may still be doing it that way—but there is every | dallies with Mexico over that na- | tion’s theft of properties owned by American citizens? Too Good A Good Neighbor A few days ago an Associated ‘he had a “ A minister told his flock that ” to go to another church, One of | crackling fires And you, beside me, humming melodies somehow seem to blend our own desires Into strong comfort given by heart’s ease. —Flozari Rockwood. That WQAM | Press dispatch from Mexico City ed how much more he was offer- _. there are no detours, renumeration. Their generous offer was accepted by council. Councilman Monsalvatge announced yesterday the volunteer auditors would be- gin work right after January 1, so that every account due and payable as of De- cember 31 might be included in the audit. It is planned to put the city on a cash basis January, 1 and handle debts contracted previous to that date by issuance of term bonds bearing a low rate of interest. This proposal will be presented this week to About the only rod the modern Key West youngster knows anything about is a ‘steering rod. Scotchmen should remember that the Overseas Highway has a toll gate, and | Some of the folks who have it in for Governor Cone are that way because they _ are jealous of his good looks, appointed by Governor John W.! reason to hope for the best of re- | Martin to the office of county | clerk and clerk of the circuit | court to sueceed Dave Filer, re- | | cently removed from office and now awaiting trial on the charge, | misfeasance | The! | appointmer!. of Mr. Sawyer was} |of embezzlement, | and malfeasance in office. | received in a telegram to the | Honorable Jefferson B. Browne from Governor Martin this morn- city council, for a second term eigar eoncern for many years, is sults. In the course of a series of ad- Ricardo J. Alfaro of the Republic of Panama described Pan-Ameri- canism as “not a theory or a dresses at Harvard. University, | early his year, former President | |ed negotiation for the sale of $17,000,000 worth of oil in ex- change for cash and machinery and supplies, expected to come | mostly from Germany. The dis-! patch also related that Germany ' had already become a heavy sell- er of goods in Mexico since the latter government expropriated | | British and American oil com-, panies las: March and that Ger-| many has been invading relative- ly new fields, selling chemicals, | typewriters, office machinery and ‘supplies which she did not mar- stated that Mexico had complet- |. | ceceetateneenionntibieidtni | Strange Words From A Deacon| | “Three hundred dollars”, was the reply. “Well, I don’t blame you for go- ing”, remarked the deacon, “but} you should be more exact in your} language, parson. ‘cal’, that’s a ‘raise’.” Many Pieces Must Be Missing Pepperell—Does your wife ever change her mind? Salterini—No; she’s still using the same old one. That isn't a ing. Mr. Sawyer, president of the} ‘and head accountant for a large! : ; veloped in Washington, as fol- dream”. He said‘ éar American | ket in Mexico, before. lows: nations were “the only conglom-' Evidently President Cardenas! «Qyr government only mum-! eration of people where a ‘Pan’! has lost all the conscientious | bled when Gardenas first grabbed movement has become a tangible | scruples he expressed several’ the oj] wells. When William R.| international reality”. Mr. Hull months ago about selling stolen) Castie, ex-Under Secretary of has set up four objectives as the! 0il to Fascist na ions. Able Amer- | State, says we're being too good realities io be achieved by the} ican correspondent, Franky L. | a neighbor to Mexico, Acting Sec- | Conference. Kluckhohn, tells why. |retary of Sta‘e Sumner Welles TONITE “BIG TOWN” AL JOLSON R. E. Crummer, city’s fiscal agent, for ap- proval. Key West owes a debt of gratitude to Messrs. Brinton, Brewer and Winter for being congratulated by his many! The Conference, he said, must) An additional part-cash ar-| hastens to contradict him, saying friends and they express confi-| carry forward the work of build-|T@ngement was completed coin- | that everything is lively. dence ‘hat the appointment of|ing an enduring structure of Cidentally by which the German) «pyerything is not lovely. By the governor will meet with the peace, must devote sincere effort Navy will be supplied with Mex-’ taking these kicks from Cardenas Aren’t men funny? A: Florida hus- -~ band who hadn’t kissed his wife for a year | «1 Whipped an iceman who had. Seee eee ee es ~“-~ axdodgers should be considerate Sc please consider them also—give a subscrip- “tion to The Citizen. «= sia by Dictator Stalin, predicts a “terrible | —~ -Tribune. <= famous Senator Sorghum and run him for eyen if not honest, and not hold it against Ironest taxpayers that do pay their taxes. The people of Key West are the only ones that will ever take enough interest in it to make it really beautiful. Citizens who don’t care how their own premises look, don’t care how the town looks. | Easy Christmas shopping: For father, | other, ‘son, daughter, sister, brother, | cousin, aunt, friend and aequaintances—by | golly we forget grandpa and grandma, so Leon Trotsky, who was run outof Rus- | them a vote of thanks, revolution” in the United States. In this case the wish is father to the thought, and | for a.long time to come the United States | is hopeless—for the Bolsheviks. Quite naturally Senator Pepper has included pepper in the Florida products to be protected by a tariff—Key West Citizen. Some Floridians wish his name was Senator Sugar—P, E. B. in Tampa We suggest to resuscitate the “the Senate. Only 10 per cent of the earth’s sur- face is scientifically observed by weather- men for making their predictions, and ap- parently that is enough coverage to give us a fairly accurate prognostication of the subject of everybody’s daily conversation, although nothing is ever done about it, as Mark Twain elucidated. Society Note: A letter from Anton Otto Fischer, the world’s best painter of , pictures of ships, says the Fischers will be in Key West again this winter. And men- tions our mutual friend Asa Cassidy, “who, I hope, is still a good friend of mine. It’s a long time since I have seen Asa. I un- derstood he was painting, and if he is, he must be turning out good work. He al- ways was as clever as can be.”—P-.E.B. in Tampa Tribune. | dollars, up to over one hundred thousand the generous gift of their time and abilities in this important refinancing operation. Many important municipal projects in the past have fallen by the wayside and been forgotten because of the city’s inability to finance the work; so that the offer of three of Key West’s newest citizens and taxpay- ers fills a need that promises to react to the benefit of every other citizen and taxpay- er in this community. The Citizen joins with members of city council in giving MORE THAN CLIMATE NEEDED Complaint is heard from time to time that Key West is not getting its share of tourigts and season residents, as compared with %ther Florida resorts which go not begint to have our advantages of climate and sport fishing. ‘ This should occasion no surprise. The resorts that spend from a few thousand dollars to bring visitors to their cities, weuld be very glad to follow Key West’s example and spend nothing, if they could afford to do so. They have found out that | they can not. The advocates of the idea | that if we spend nothing, what we may get | will be clear gain, are due for a rude | awakening. Good business is not done on | a hope of getting something for nothing; and the sooner Key West awakens to the necessity of providing supplies for a Cham- ber of Commerce, and for advertising the unquestioned advantages that we have, the sooner the people who live in Key West will begin te cash in on those advantages. And, it may be taken as an assured fact that just so long as we hide behind a bush and then wonder why we do not at- tract as much attention as do the cities which call loudly for attention, just so long will nursing a forlorn hope that something will turn up. Miami Beach reports a 41 per cent gain in inquiries last month over a similar period of last year. Other cities are mak- ing like reports. Key West has had thousands of dol- | We are about to discover that the publicity that counts | lars worth of free publicity. is the publicity you pay for. hearty approval of Governor-| Elect Carlton, and predict that} Mr. Sawyer’s appointment will; be made permanent by the in-| coming chief executive in Janu-/ ary, Offering for ‘the office in the recent June primary, Mr. Sawyer, without making a vigor- ous campaign, missed defeating the incumbent by a small marg- in, the records show. President-Elect Herbert Hoover | and party will arrive in Key West Sunday, January 6, according to official advices received by Cap-| tain R. W. McNeely, commandant of the Seventh Naval District. The Battleship Utah, which is re- turning from the good-will cruise | to South American countries, will anchor off Sand Key on the date memined. The President- elect and party will be transferred to two navy tugs and brought ashore to be landed at the naval! station piers. The probable hour of the arrival of the U.ah is not mentioned in the radio message to Captain McNeely. After a brief visit in the city the Hoover party will entrain at Key West | for Washing:on, according to present plans, with the Hoovers returning later to spend the win- ter in Florida. Editorial comment: Bacon in his essay on “Boldness”, writes, “There is in human nature gen- | erally more of the fool than of the wise”. | Key Wes: and the Over-Sea | Highway are given additional | publicity in two articles, which | were written by Hamilton W. | Wright, and published in eastern | newspapers. “Southward On A Coral Necklace” is the title of one | of the stories and che other de- | scribes the shortest trip to take vetween this country and the West Indies. Harry Gwynn’s new Oakland automobile was practically de- | sroyed by fire last night on the | No Name Key stretch of the | Over-Sea Highway. On account | of engine trouble the car was being towed to the city, when a | back fire started flame which quickly enveloped the machine/ and soon reduced the car to debris. kee, which left port with the houseboat Aramis in tow for Car- denas, Cuba, arrived at her des-} to discovering means of strength- ening the foundations of interna- | tional law, must extend and make secure the basis of ‘soiind, healthy economic relations among nations, must carry forward the work of providing wider, strdhger foun- dations for international cultural relations and better unders.and- ing among nations. When these objectives are achieved the Sec- tination yesterday, according to radio reports at the naval sta.ion. The cutter will return to this port for the purpose of twing other vessels of the Nokomis-Hannibal survey party tio Cuban waters. At a meeting of the board of directors of the Woman’s Club held yesterday it was decided to postpone the costume ball, which was planned for December 28. This decision was made after dis- cussion of the many social activi- ties which are scheduled for that to have the costume ‘ball on Val- entine’s night and the members request that every one keep this date in mind. 666 period. The club will endeavor’ | ican-government produced gas-oil | ¢ i we hell Trotsky), ‘our during the coming year. Mr. Kluckhohn described the “vast) bar-er” arrangement as “dwarf-| ing any Mexico has made since | the expropriation”. He adds: “It is not completely inconceivable | | that as the result of the deals} Germany may take first place in Mexico’s trade next year”. “We think”, comments the New York Daily News in a lead- ing editorial, “that Leon Trotsky, ‘exiled from Stalin’s Russia ,and honored guest of Cardenas, is back of all of this”. But the, News confesses inabili*y to “form | a theory to explain why the; United States govefnment takes | this stuff lying down”. The editorial comments further | upon the situa ion as it has de-} | coLbDs Headaches, and Fever) Liquid, Tablets due to Colds, Salve, Nose E ‘Try “Rub-My-Tixm"—a Wenderfo) | Liniment government is (1) encoyraging Nazi Germany to take away the Mexican market for goods pro- duced by American workers, and (2) encouraging other Central and South American countries to join in the Mexican sport of kicking Uncle Sam’s shins. . . “The time is past for us to keep | turning other cheeks to Mexico”. | SPECIAL HOLIDAY ROUND TRIP FARES Florida Motor Lines gives you a big Christmas gift year with special reduced fares for the Holidays. There's added saving and added pleasure in every mile when you take your trip in the cozy comfort of The Coast Guard Cutter Sau- |! 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