The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 29, 1938, Page 2

PAGE TWO : The Key West Citizen q Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUB! a CI L: P. ARTMAN, P: JOE ALLEN, Assnis From The Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County untered,at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press he 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, ACTIVE SUBSCRIPT{ON RATES ne Year tix Months Three Mont One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of resi t ate of 10 cents @ line. ices for entertainments by churches from which revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of publie issues and subjects of local or general §nterest but it w eations. FEA AT LSE ERE ETTORE TE TE 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. WPA is in the Army now! It. means discipline and the end of monkey busi- ness, It is usually women who insist that they know all about managing husbands who have never been able to nab one. In about ten years, instead of motor- ing a hundred miles on a holiday, modern American families will fly five hundred. The Miami Daily News in its roto- gravure section headlined one of the pic- tures, “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.” This is news, since it is seldom that a news- paper chants the praises of its competitor. | The first Pan-American Conference in 1889 lasted more than six months; the last, ending December 27, a few days ago in Lima, Peru, continued for only 18 days, but its accomplishments were greater and if the 21 signatories stand firm the security of the Western Hemisphere is assured. Of course, Key West has Communists | of traffic to Key West this | Matetumbe and Big Pine Key. LET’S NOT KILL THE GOOSE Evidence of an unprecedented season, as earlier predicted in these columns, daily is accumulating in the auditing office of | the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District | From last Saturday morning | at Marathon. through Monday evening a total of 1821 | carrying 3632 persons gates at Lower That is the vehicles passed through the toll motor | largest weekend volume since the opening et, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at | not publish anonymous communi- | | the year. . J | skyrocket prices for rooms and ¥ther serv- | of the highway, and it isshighly probable as many or more cars will arrive here this coming holiday period. t flow THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Since 3632 persons were brought over | | the highway, in both directions, last week- end it is estimated that 1700 to 1800 of | Some | them found their way to Key West. came just for the ride and departed a short time after their arrival. A siderable number remained fora day or con- | Tie Geear BABE RuTH WAS CHOSEAS AS ONE MOST HPICAL AULETE OF Cur Tmes--- AND WS PICTURE AS WELL AS A UST OF WS AGUEVEMENTS 1s ee rR IN 6959 TO WONDERLAT W two, for hotels, restaurants and night clubs | report they enjoyed their best business of Some of the hotels were filled and many visitors found accommodations in private homes and roominghouses. As yet there is no general tendency to ices in Kéy West. Some prices jiave been | advanced but they still remain within rea- son and are not likely to discourage the | visitor who wants to remain for a day or more. It has been reported, however, that | some householders with spare rooms are asking prices above the levels usually de- | | manded by first-class hotels which provide | better facilities and service. | hotel space and other facilities in its midst, and they are fingered by those | in the know. Some are making a living at the expense of the taxpayers, and strange- | ly enough, to the apparent unconcern of | the government which they desire to | weaken by their pernicious propaganda. ; Magazine that “the new internationalism | The Jacksonville area is being men- | tioned for the first time as a potential site | for an air base by the Hepburn board since | it began its survey of navy shore stations last summer. The Key West region was previously recommended as the best site | and if the Hepburn committee does recom- mend the Jacksonville area it will run counter to previous navy reports. Now that Harry Hopkins who is a port-sider, has been made secretary of commerce, we may reasonably suppose that he will emerge from the socialistic morass and turn right side up. He, with Professor Tugwell, Professor Moley and General Johnson, was an ogre to frighten business. Now they are all solid members of the business world, making speeches before chambers of commerce and lunch- ing in the very swankest clubs in the best traditional manner. However, Hopkins may hop the wrong way. Tunisia, of which we are hearing so. much at present time and about which we will evidently hear more in the immediate future, has been a French protectorate since 1881. Acquisitive Italy has covetous eyes on Tunisia, and France has expressed her determination to retain it. They may fight about it and that is likely to bring about another World War, and if we have learned aur lesson we will stay out of it * this time, and don’t let perfidious Albion mesmerize us with the thought that Eng- land expects every American to do his duty. If that policy is adopted generally it will be a sorry situation for Key West. The surest way to kill the visitor goose that is laying the golden egg of prosperity for this community is to boost prices. Un- reasonable charges some time ago levied in the Miami area for rooms, apartments, forced thousands of winter visitors to seek accom- modations elsewhere. In fact, the high rates on the mainland compelled many visitors to come to Key West the last couple of years in search of more reason- ably priced accommodations, It is well to remember that moderate- ly priced rooms rented constantly night after night bring a greater aggregate re- turn than rooms empty half the time be- cause the average tourist cannot afford to rent them. The citizens of Key West will be serving themselves and the community by treating our visitors as they would ex- pect to be treated by themif their situa- tions were reversed. z SIDELIGH TS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citizen Commenting on the statement in a must establish a symbiosis among nations, and not a phagocytosis,” the St. Louis Times-Star snorts: ‘Sure it must. You took the :words right out of our un- | abridged." ¥ Those who deplore the cruelty of cock-fighting will see poetic justice in an incident reported from Iloilo, in the Phil- lippine Islands. While a fatally wounded gamecock was struggling wildy in the pit, he gaffed a handler, Juan Martinez, in the jugular vein with a steel spur, killing him. In London, a British sailor on shore leave sought to pass the time by taking a “mystery tour” on a sightseeing bus. Tak- ing a nap on the way, he awoke as the bus stopped outside the Portsmouth dockyard, where he-was taken with the rest of the party to look over his own ship. Chinese editors do not worry about typographical erpprs. In ,fact, they see that a few are uncorrected, knowing how much satisfaction a reader gets in finding them. Any wise editor might re- member this when he feels like tearing his hair, if he has any, when mistakes get into print. An odd contest held at the University of Chicago was an eating bout between a student and a pig. The student, Allen Dreyfull, president of the freshman cass, undertook to eat a large pie quicker than the pig could devour a bucket of corn. The , Pig won by a snout. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY By RUSSELL KAY = 2OCCOOR SSSR Oe BASE DEHEETOSEEESTEENOD Well, my Christmas this year | was certainly a joyous one and I {think a lot of folks found it so. | While it kind of sneaked up on |me and seemed to be here and {gone in a terrible hurry, it pre- sented a warmth and good cheer | that was somewhat lacking last | year and the year before. \ I received a regular avalanche | of Christmas cards, many from ‘friends I hadn’t heard from for years, and I know I sent more} | than usual It is nice to be re-' membered and I spent a pleas-, | ant hour Christmas night reading: over the various messages of | good cheer and well wishes they | contained. Each and every one is deeply appreciated by the Kay! family. ! | This business of getting back | | to work and the problem of writ- | | ing a column is too great a task’ {for Monday morning, December; {26, so at the suggestion of my | | Girl Friday, backed by’ several! letters especially requesting that! |column of a year ago and give you again— “The Night After Christmas” 'Twas the night after Christmas, | and boy what a house! |I felt like the devil, and so did! | the Spouse: i The eggnog and turkey and candy} | were swell \ ; But ten hours later, they” sure; gave me hell. i | The stockings weren’t hung by’ the chimney with care— The darn things were sprawled on the back of a chair. |The children were nestled, snug in their bed, But I had a larg cake of ice on} i my head. { all t Ard when I finally dozed off in a nap ' The ice woke me up when it fell! in my lap. | Then for some unknown reason, I wanted a drink, j So I started in feeling my way to! | the sink. | { | I got along fine ‘till I stepped on’ | the cat; I don’t recall just what occurred after that. { | When I came to, the house was} all flooded with light, { Although under the table I was} high as a kite. | While visions of sugar plums danced in my head ‘ U. S. Senator, Joseph F. Guf-; fey of Penna., born in Westmore- land Co., Pa., 63 years ago. Lister Hill Montgomery, U. S. Senator of Alabama, born Ala., 44 years ago. at U. S. Senator Ernest W. Gibson ' of Vermont, born at Londonberry, Vt., 67 years ago Dr. Jean Broadhurst of Colum- bia Universi! noted profe of bacteriolo; born at Stoc! N. J., 65 years ago. Clarke F. Ansle f New York ity, editor of the C y Press, born at Swedona, , 69 years ago. Dr. William P. Few, president of Duke Univ.. born at Green- ville, S. C.. 71 years ago. Dr. George Thomas, president ed the U of Utah, born at i Hyde Park, Utah, 72 years ago. i Do not say. “The Jones- escame to live in this neighborhood not long since”; say. “not long Happenings Here Just 10 Years| ‘Ago Teday As Taken From The Files of The Citizen Mayor Leslie Curry demands TEST YOUR that proper respect be given boy K N re) WLED G E scout members who,,have volun- Can you answer seven of these | teered to perform iffic seryice duting the winte? seagon:: He is test questions? Ti rm Page 4 for the answers __j publishing a. notice, today, which ‘is official, that‘all wh6 ignore the ass , presence of the scoyts or treat) them disrespectfully or with con- tempt,” will ‘be @éalt with to the fullest extent,pf the law. The) 2. | mayor says that only the larger, ' scouts will be used in the service of traffic officers. A few local people, he says, have shown a) | tendency to ride, rough shod over the boys, taunt them and utterly ignore their signals and author- ity. These boys have volunteer- | ed their services gratis, to aid the! 5 ‘number of police officers in : | handling the street traffic during j the busy season, and the mayor | intends to have them shown the 2 © proper respect, and heeded as any SaaS ' other officer of the law. Jang? ; 3 Who was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross? In which State are the Carls- bad Caverns? Which English Queen had 17 children? Where is the isle of Patmos? 1. Name the branch of zoology that treats of birds. Which of the Twelve tles betrayed Jes Who was elected President of the republic of Czecho- slovakia at the last elec- tion by the National As- sembly? Name the colors in the flag of Ireland. What is the correct pronun- ciation of the word gon- dola? In what year did Lief Eric- discover Newfound- Apos- 3. 4. } 7. Bottles of intoxicating liquor totalling more than 21 gallons were destroyed by members of the local custom house:force this I somehow got up and then back! morning and late yestrddy. To to bed. ‘be exact there were 87 quarts, - The hat to m: deri {according to reports. ‘The first; 10. Sha Shee pgs oi Bet consieved sob) Sa cine, which eeeeccoecesceses eocee i : . were encountered near Lowe’s! mua See sleigh and eight| wharf recently by Inspectors 0. PIJRA TE’S GOLD aay Kemet |C, Lounders and J. A. Russo. 8. 9. }Now whack away, TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Then the sleigh seemed to change | to a red fire truck,, { And each reindeer turned into a bleery eyed buck; I knew in a moment it must be Old Nick— \ I tried to cry out, but my tongue | was too thick. | Mad Then the old devil whistled and shouted with glee ' and looked dagger's‘at me. Then he called them by name and the names made me shudder. ship minus rudder. i “Now Egg-nog! Bacardi! Four Roses! and Brandy! 4 T do so, I'm turning back to my Now Fruit Cake! Cold Turkey! West were delightfully entertain- Gin Rickey! and Candy! | To the top of his dome, to the top of his skull, cra¢k away,; with thumps that are dull!” Then in a twinkling I felt on my roof The prancing and pawing of each; cloven hoof. ‘How long this went on I’m sure I can’t say Tho’ it seemed an eternity, plus a long day. But finally the night after Christ- mas had passed And I found that I could really think straight at last. So I thought of the New Year a few days away, And I’ve made me a vow that no tempter can sway. I’m sticking to water, don’t even want ice, For there’s nothing as tasty or nothing as nice. The night after New Year may bother some guys But I've learned my lesson, and brother I’m wise; You can have your rich victuals, and liquor that’s red, + But what goes to my stomach won't go to my head. So a big Happy New Year to you and to all; I’m back on the wagon, and hope! I don’t fall! Dr. Benjamin T. Brooks of New York, noted consulting, chemist, born at Columbus, Ohio, 53 years ago. Prof. Chris L. Christensen of the Univ. of Wisconsin, dean of the College of Agriculture, born at Minden, Nebr., 44 years ago. As Usual Hub (who is being dragged out)—What kind of. an affair is this we're going ‘to? Wife—A reception, dear . Hub—I see. The women will be there in force and the men by force. Hopkins plans changes in WPA relief procedure; wants, “meeting of minds” with Congress. BOYS — GIRLS Enter the Key West BICYCLE PARADE SEE STORY ON PAGE FOUR | Colonel The other 35 quarts were found in the railroad yard by ChYrles! Falk, customs service guard. No! arrest was made in connection| with either of the seizures as no| one was seen near the places! where the liquor was found. All but about $300 of the re- quired $1,000 needed to credit- ably represent Key West in the inaugural parade of Governor ; While the bucks pawed the earth Carlton on January 8 is now def- initely assured, said Arthur Go- mez, chairman of the committee, today. The urgent need of the committee at this time is more , When I heard them I felt like a funds and it is assured that these will be forthcoming, Mr. Gomez said. Boy and girl scouts of Key ed ysterday afternoon by Colonel | Robert Thompson on his House- boat Everglades. Youth and merriment reigned supreme and | Thompson’s floating | palace presented a pretty picture during the afternoon. The scout ; guests today are profuse in their praise of the colonel as a gra-; cious and most pleasing host. Editorial comment: With visi- tors arriving by automobile at the rate of 100 or more each day | over the highway, even the most! pessimistic are beginning to realize that the road to the main-| land is truly a great thing for Key West. . Cc. A, Camus expects to leave tonight on the P. and O. boat for Tampa enroute to Birmingham. At the Florida city he will be met by several friends and they will motor from there to the Ala- bama city. Edited By LILY LAWRENCE BOW eoeccoeacoepensssccccee SEVEx SKIES At school we learned of seven seas, And sat and dreamed, with half closed eyes, Of boats with sails. But what use now? Today we traverse seven skies! —Lily Lawrence Bow. CUSTODIAN Ole ‘oman say de udder night, O’ whut a day I’se had. Dem kids is got me plumb wo’ out; Dey sho’ is all been bad. An’ dere’s Aunt Tessie Smiff been here, Wid her fo’ chil’ren too, Lawd, you don’t know de half ob it, ‘ Whut I is done been fru’. But, shucks, I told ole’ ‘oman, It don’t mak’ no concern De way dem kids is carry on, Caise dey’s not mine, dey’s her’rn! —Fred D. Thomas. Garner is pushed at rally of Texas neighbors for 1940; speak- ers laud his “liberalism”. A Three Days’ Cough IsYour Seon 1° r No, matter how you have tried Yor your common Sauk: Soe many get reliet maw with ion, gel Greomiilsion. Berious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford to take a chance with any Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hobbs, 624| $5 Ashe street, announce the arrival | of a daughter, born to their home| Wednesday night. Mother and baby are reported doing nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pinder} and sons, Joseph and » Willard, } were arrivals yesterday from Mi- ami for a stay of several weeks. They were accompanied by Mrs.| Willard Pinder and while here! will be the guests of Mrs. Samuel | Wells at the home, 62 Canfield] Lane L. P. Schutt, manager of the, Casa Marina Hotel, will be host to the Key West college boys who are home for their vacation, and the girls who are visiting their families, this evening at 8 o'clock. Music for the occasion will be furnished by Professor O’Con- nell’s orchestra. DeSOTO HOTEL 373 Main St. «Sarasota, Fla Vacation’ Land OPEN ALL YEAR EUROPEAN PLAN Rates | $1.25, $1.50, $1.75 single * $2.00, $2.25, $250 double ——— La Verne Apartments 336 So. Osprey Ave. Everything furnished for housekeeping. Moderate rates by week or month its is word, ask for it plainly, see that the Tome on the bottle is Creomulsion, <n the genuine and you want. ( a) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1938 KEY WEST IN | ToRAyS oman =~ Wel is) DAYS GONE BY | we AMON THOSE : scec.c00 WHO KNOWS? (See “The Answers” on Page 4) ececcaccencececccceccccs 1. Who made the first efforts to improve chrysanthemums? 2. How much cotton does the government now hold? 3. What is the national come? in- many of President Roosevelt’s original cabinet have died or resigned? 5. What percentage of the na- s employes are covered by social security legisla- Is the Congr to assemble in January, the 75th? 7. How many notes has this country sent to Germany to pro- test against discriminating inst Americans because of race or creed? 8. What is the factroy value of ys manufactured in this country in a year? 9. How n Americans have invested in “baby bonds”? 10. When was President Roose- velt attacked by infantile paraly- sis? ececccvecesescavecsoeces Hy 2 Today’s Horoscope 1eecceccconccossscccsoce Today gives a domineering ten- dency, a bad handicap, unless held very severely in check. There is a good measure of ability, and the nature is capable of strong attachments and wise planning, but the arbitrary desire to dictate may cause disappointment if not failure of the “plans. Damp Atmosphere “I hate those weepy movies?”. “why?” “They bring on my rheuma- tism”. 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