The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 31, 1938, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily THE CITIZEN PU CO., INC. bo 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 =-*@ntered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press iche Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republicatton of all news dispatches credited to it, or not otherwise credited in this paper and aiso the local news published here. aT ADVERTISING RATES Made krown on application. 3 SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of es, ete, will be charged for at line. «Notices for entertainments by churches from which @-revenué is to be derived are 6 cents a line. » is an open forum and invites discus- | issues and subjects of local or general tmterest Lut it wil! not publish anonymous communi- ‘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. “Goodbye 1938; hello 1939! ; Last call for resolutions—New Year a coming up. We favor law and order, but would prefer less law and: more order, People talk about religion but they hate to increase their church dues. When people decide not to do some- thing, it is fairly easy to find plausible ex- | | HAIL THE NEW YEAR! | It was late in the Sixteenth Century before January 1st was generally accepted | as the first day of the year. Its festivities, | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Git OuT! AN’ NEVER DARKEN My DOOR AGAIN! in Christian countries, are far removed | | from the immoral and superstitious observ- ances of the early pagan festivals. While one day is just the same as | another in the physical life of individuals, , | there is a psychological value in the end- | ing of one year and the beginning of | another, It gives us,a,logical time to res | | view the: events of the past-year and to | think ahead of the days'that ‘are to come | in the year-that lies just. ahead, Forecasts of what will happen in 1939 ; vie with the views of what, happened in | 1938. | the significance of public events in 1938 | developments and personal progress, is un- | certain. | individual can do to affect international developments and domestic events, but, in so far as the New Year affects the in- dividual, each of us can doa great deal. Personal progress depends upon _ the initiative, the intelligence and the courage | of the individual. develop them and, atthe same time, face life with courage as well as with hope up. | The Citizen, as has been its custom for | many years, takes pleasure in wishing for | its readers, advertisers and the people of this community generally, a happy, pros- perous and profitable New Year! CHURCH RADIO DRAMAS Coincident with final steps for unit- ing the three great branches of Methodism into one denomination, which will cul- minate next April, a series of Sunday radio broadcasts dramatizing episodes from missionary history is being presented over an extensive network. Denominations which will be merged into. one body to be known as the United Methodist Church include three branches now under ‘separate jurisdictions—the Speakers and writers-will explain | AT LONG LAST ERROR — )DAY'S.COM = jwr tag De not say. “If he told you that, it is so”: say, “it is true”. } ‘TODAY'S COMMON | TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE Can you newer seven of these test questions? Turn to Vit ves 2. Who discovered § sippt River? OSOowifiiny times was Notre! e’s football team de-| BAA PERG in the 1988 season? | ‘| .@$2B8¥ What do the initials! the Missis- : PEOPLE'S FORUM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1938 SERVICE TONIGHT ‘Pirare’s GOLD Seooeerecssooseenessese!> Rev. J. P. Lilly of Fleming! LAW Street (Uptown) Methodist The Law is a weary mother church, announces a watch-night; Whose sons became contentious service to be held, starting at 11 men, o’clock tonight and lasting until Telling tales on one another, midnight. Louder than a brood of children. Subjects for the regular serv- 4 ices tomorrow are announced as| within her courts the whole day follows: long i 11 a. m—“Called According to . His Purpose”; 7:30 p. m.—"God — no peace but loud the Will Cast Them Off—For Fail- ss ure”, Of “We are right” and “They are ” | And, “He affirms” and “I deny”. | At night, with brain and body spent, “eer :She dares not rest, but must re- AN EXPLANATION GLADLY cord PRINTED The daily case and precedent, Editor, The Citizen: And Justice is her sole reward. As we face 1939, it is | | up. to us to seek opportunities, intelligently | | and give their opinion of the trend 1939 | opens up. What it holds in store for us, in | ’ | the realm of international affairs, domestic | There is not much that the average | tenn THE ISLAND CITY With the Clubs ROTARY CLUB | RAY CURRY, DR: J.C. SAN- The publicity war is on. Lions CHEZ-and what flimsy-‘excus- ;Publicity chairman says Lions’ es they all had!’ Nu mifid4 dimes ;Club don’t get enough publicity i, the fine fund, just the same: value. So the Rotary wheel must _. , lrevolve but slowly this week. Lion SANCHEZ seems,to have | Strangely enough, POLY ART-! the habit dawn pat—he's a new MAN didn’t even know he was member and has the club cham- Chairman of Rotary Information | pionship for late arrivals all Committee when questioned at ¥ Fe the last meeting. ALLAN ARM-| sewed ¥P already. . .Tail-twister STRONG, Lion chairman, also| “NEVY” ARMAYOR was absent ‘ works on The Citizen. Astonish-|—and so were three other mem- | ing ‘un-Rotarian activities were} bers of the “Sit-downers’” team, |revealed when chairmen J. J.| which cost that side plenty in | TREVOR, POLY ARTMAN,' scoring for the Activities Con- EVERETT RUSSELL and BAS:! test now in progress, ' The “Hope- | COM GROOMS didn’t know) to-sit-downers” gained on them which committees they headed.’ at a terrific rate this week—what {LEO F. HUGHES, former Key| with good attendance and reso- | West rote, telegraphed a Christ-| lutions presented and guests. mas greeting to Key West Ro- | present!. . .Lion “EV” RIVAS jtary -Club. BILL MALONE! will do something about that next wrote through SEBASTIAN. CA-: week, he says. He is the leader | BRERA the same. A, beautiful: of the former:team. . <.Members Christmas tree graced the room. got a laugh out of: Lion “GUS” Latcomers' were E D DIE BRADLEY'S description'/of Sea | STRUNK, SEBASTIAN CA- Scout . probleris.. His unique H.R.H. stand? | I have failed to thank you for The Law i sr tanlliehe 5. What proportion of U. S. | the article concerning my mother | Phe Maw Is @ we i z Her path a stony thoroyghfare, ramigeiaare aesarag: pas and myself in your paper of De- | Though clouds of dust would -Whkatiis abe edeteok gponniis cember 20, 1938. I am quite blind her, 8 = og | BOITY, however, to say it was in| Like God’s, her eye sees every- ciation of the word gratis? |error; my copy of the paper has| ibaras Are the top and bottom’ been destroyed, so it is not at —Ann Copelos. stripes of the flag of the| hand from which to quote. j Sees ram CeEY 4 U. 8. red, white, or red) However, it stated that Mrs. Subscribe "to The Citizen—20¢ __ and_ white? | May P. Finnie of Orange Park, Name the largest national! who donated—. it was Miss cemetery in the U, S. | Francis Finnie who painted andj} How many members of the! presented the canvas and not Mrs. U. S. Supreme Court did; May P, Finnie. It was Miss Fin- President Taft appoint | nie who. has been sent to Key during, his term of office?) West for her health and has re-: In which, Sfate were the|'sidedhere for three months and | who‘inténds to ftemain through; the winter. It was Mrs. May P.’{' |,Finnie, her mother, from Orange - } Park-who, came to - spend. th | AQeenereeagegoovevesscos, Fe spade cols aren her sages y ? i. oe »| and’ who to date has tetu to | Today 8 Birthdays | Orange Park, Florida. ‘I, too, am ie eeoe from Orarige' Patk,’ which is lo- Associate Justice Stanley Reed) Cated about 15 miles ‘south of, of the U. S. Supreme Court, born | emis clnicine fb aaa ee Mt Mason City; dale paises: misunderstanding as it was in-, Dr. Robert G. Aitken, director | cluded in the Miami paper on the emeritus of the Lick Observa-' following day, and has gone tory, born at Jackson, Cal., 74) Statewide. Being a stranger here year ago. and representing myself as a | — single lady—ah!—my explana- | Prof. Frank A. Pearson of Cor-| tions have been many. However, nell, professor of agricultural’! do hope ere long to get the economies, born at Topeka, Kans.,! minds of these people straighten- 51 years ago. ed out on this matter. . Thanking you for your kind | Dr. Ralph D. Hetzel, president) '¢onsideration, 1 remain in the jof the Pennsylvania State’ Col-| hope you'may be able to clar- lege, born at Merrill, Wis., 56) ify this, error. . i : 1,10. } | greates: pber of batt! Sight sa the Civil | Wala bu Tune In WQAM WHEN YOU WAKE UP Rural Reporter Checkerboard Time 6:45 ‘ years ago. Sia age: * FRANCES News of the World ‘Dr. Colin G. Fink of Columbia, | 91 Carcline Street; Pe a : weekly. a7 ae . . ;, | BRERA, WM. P. KEMP, EMIL style was quite impressive:: We Methodist Episcopal, the Methodist Epis- | SwEETING, BILL DEMERITT. | especially get a kkick. out of, mal eopal; South,-and the Methodist Protestant, | DR: WM. R. WARREN vacated) pét phrase—they didn’t know | with a tdtal of some eight million mem. |his “grand economic royalist” the score”. . .Pictures taken of} farned electrochemitt, |. born ati Key West, Fla., ee Gite father who tells ‘his ‘children ‘he quire aaed OT ae | Tee Ae ete: s Waae WQAM Trio: 7S. 2 wishes they would behave as he “did at their age usually do. “= “Thinking men must believe’ crimino! ogisis when they plead that society cease «treating criminals emotionally, and _ treat | crime as a disease, +2 ~ bers. 3 .The:present broadcasts are being pre- sented under the auspices of a group with- | in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the dramatizations based on actual ex- periences of missionaries in all parts of seat at the héad of the table and! the Community Christmas Tree. |BILL DEMERITT’S Bolshevik event—-bothiat:the.parkyof all the throne was reserved for him. Ro- kiddies-and two taken Jast meet: | tarian visitor DR. O. R. HODGIN ing while “the gang”), stuffed of Thomasville, N. C., will carry! fruit and candy inte bags—turn, back Key West Rotary habits of! ed out fine. Key West, will have pledging allegiance to the flag|somie | good | publicity tin Lions and fineing latecomers. Rotary! Magazine as a result of this event District Governor will San Fran) le | ' S'—.GIRES|'| Kentucky Ridge ‘BICYCLE PARADE °|:| “Briter ‘the Kéy! West SEE STORY ON PAGE’FOUR Johii D! Barry. of / eiseo, jourhalist, author, born in) B oO ' ard and Margaret ‘streets, ‘naqunces that a full stock, of oys- jters are on band—especially for - > > : r + PY . * be | here| —with pictures and everything. the world illustrate the many dangers to festivities at New. Year’s Eve! which they have been subjected. Some of the chief characters repre- sented are still in the war zone in China, and the radio dramas include stories of adventure which are interesting to listen- ers generally, as well as to those affiliated with the Methodist church. Most of us in Key West can remem- | ber when an application for divorce at- tracted a lot of unpleasant attention. It is a lot different now. Tampa hopes that by next Christmas their new sewer system will be started. Key West hopes by that time its sewer system will be finished. FOIBLES OF THE GREAT All feminine readers of The Citizen Nothing is quite so mysterious as the agree that the woman in Key West who working ‘of the human mind. A study of drives {rém the back seat of a car: is ‘no | men classed as geniuses generally _shows worse than the man who'cooks from the | them to be a little “cracked” in certain re- dining room table. | spects. Sometimes their peculiarities have oo | been harmless, in other cases they have led ssdaveres Ft ba rveewe Not all Florida legislators are grafters, | by any means; but the breed does exist | > and- they are known to their constituents. | Each has his price and we are informed | _ that some of these prices are pretty stiff. One 6f the New Year's cards received by.The Citizen cites only one 1939 resolu- tio}: “O Lord help me keep my nose out | of Uther people’s business.” That’s a wise resolution everybody can make with profit, including nations, The Dies committee is doing a fine job, even if it has been handicapped by the higher-ups. It is uncovering spies and sending them to jail—Key West Citizen. What spies? What jail?—Tampa’ Daily Times. Don't you read the newspapers? According to all the rules of the poli- tical game, Aubrey Williams was the logical person to succeed Harry Hopkins as WPA head, but President Roosevelt shunted him to the NYA, where, however, he can stir up as much class hatred and make it more effective with impressionable youth, Williams is known for his enthu- siaSm for David Lasser, young leader of the Communist-dominated Workers Alliance, an organization which is very effective in playing New Deal relief politics. eh R RMSE, COTA tata hly to positive insanity._A few examples will illustrate: TAGA Napoleon was afraid of a cat; Peter the Great was afraid to cross a_ bridge; Martin Luther imagined that the devil ap- peared to him and he threw his ink bottle at the fiend; Samuel Johnson, Beethoven and Lincoln at times contemplated suicide. Among the ridiculous antics of great men may be mentioned the occasional habit of Qardinal Richelieu to gallop around a billiard table imaging himself to be a horse. Adam Smith, the great econ- omist, once walked 12 miles to ‘church, clad only in his nightshirt. Bentham, the philosopher, went bareheaded in winter and wore heavy leather #f¥és in summer. | Many men of genius have been shockingly lax in’ morals as measured by . usual standards, All this does not m&an, however, that being a little nutty is an infallible sign of genius, Death by electrocution, we are told, is a fraction slower than death on the gal- lows. We will take the word of those who claim to know, having no desire to find out for ourselves and would not be further interested if we did. Anyway we have but one life to give to science and it , takes two to get the correct answer. next Thursday. It was a ‘meet-'Over eleven hundred thousand! parties tonight. This popular | | ing of turmoil. Greatly awaken- | Lions will read about Christmas: restaurant also specializes on tur-' | ing civic pride swelled to de- in Key West. .Lion “JOE” | key sandwiches and many other | |manding action. City cleanup, MONDUL missed his second items for lunches and mi¢night’ Chamber of Commerce support,| meeting with a “sore toe”. . Lion! snacks. x i | sanitary regulations enforcement) SIDNEY EINHORN. missed his) were ail mentioned. third in a row witha “sore knee”. Subscribe to The Citizen—20c | naga * weekly. SERVICE CLUB if Flash: Inside story on the |non-appoirtment of a president | last week was that FERNANDO | CAMUS refused the appointment | because he is building a new home and the nominating com- mitte had a hard time to choose another president. Presents ,to {the “feeding department” were jgiven MRS, MINNIE ROBIN- | SON, MRS. CHARLES H. | KETCHUM and CHARLES | H. KETCHUM, JR. The club's “sil- ver tongued” orator, H. E. DAY, made the presentation. POLY | ARTMAN, the club's “silver ton- ed” tenor, who, it is said, had a great deal of brass to include his name as such in the minutes, was absent and WILL DOUGHTRY, Irish Bard, in a short speech, said the club quartette was! bogged down. The club will shortly appropriate a perfumery to offset PROF. WALDEN’S cigar. JOE TOLLE has had the f a bishop since the con- e here, said to be the best in 10 years. Quiet boys of the club are STANTON COOPER and BERT BAKER. jolduob Ne The Season’s Greeti all. prosperity. 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