The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 3, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Duily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING C€O., INC. L. P, ARPMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business From The Citizen Building Corner Greene aad Ann, Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Mourve County -atered,at Key West, Florida, as second class matter | Member of the Associated Presa | 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. SUBSCRIPTPON RATES $10.00 | 5.00 onths One Month ... Weekly ........ ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, ete. will be eharged for at ; of 10 cents a Hine. for entertainments by churches from which is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discua- sion of public issues and subjects of lecal og general but it will not publish anonymous ebmmuni- 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, Now enjoying a well-earned rest: Santa Claus—not the one operating for the government, There will be fewer blocs in the new | Congress, but there may be the usual quota of block heads. We feel encouraged since Mr. Eden, “world’s best dressed man,” came to Am- erica with only one hat. The spending days of Harry Hopkins are over. As secretary of the commerce department he can now sober up, On principle, we do not believe in boycotts, but we can’t be very critical of those who refuse to buy Nazi-made stuff. Do your share to improve The Citizen during 1939 by becoming a subscriber— | you who are reading this paper that was paid for by another. Italy warned France that she was “ready for anything” if her Mediterranean demands were not met. Yes, even ready for a rebuff, which she got from France. When a business man hurriedly leaves a community with instructions to those who know not to disclose his whereabouts, it is time or at least consistent for his creditors to start being concerned. | | It is the belief of this column that the Perky-County controversy will have a satis- factory denouement for all concerned and that the people of Monroe County wilt be | satisfied with the agreements reached. | eagerly looking for opportunities to | feverishly sought wealth, A NEW YEAR—A NEW SLATE | Mingled with the headaches and happy greetings today was the sober | realization that the outlook for the future | of Key West and Monroe County looked | brighter than it did ene year age. Many things have been accomplished in the last 12 months; many things remain to be done during the next 12 months. What has been done in the last year will react to the | benefit of the entire community next year. | So on with the good work} A few of the fine accomplishments of ® | the last year are: 3 Completion of the leng water spans in the Overseas Highway and general im- provement of the readway leading to the mainland. Completion of plans for a fresh water supply from the mainland, with the promise now money for the work will be available this year. Preparation of plans fer extension of the’ Overseas highway via the old rail bed from Big Pine Key to Key West, with the hope the right of way may soon be ob- | tained and the work gotten under way. Groundwork laid for procuring a com- munity hospital, extension of the inter- coastal waterway to Key West, for a hous- ing project for persons in'the low ineome brackets, for eventual reopening of the naval station, for creation of *ublit beaches and for many other needed “nd worthy improvements. ‘ _ During the year hundreds of rooms. have been added to our housing facilities, work has been started on an addition to | the county courthouse and other buildings have been repaired and repainted; many of the streets have been resurfaced and improved, the city water and sewage sys- tem was rapidly taking shape—and the morale of our citizens generally was raised to about the highest level in the history of the city. These are fine accomplishments, They at once are a source of pride and a cause for hope. They show that the people of Key West and Monroe County, while they have been down, were never out. Those things that remain to be done will be done, if the achievements of the last 12 months can be used as a measuring rod. Our civic organizations, our city and county officials and our citizens generally have shown a willingness to co-operate for the good of all, It is of such stuff that progress is made. It looks as though it will be a really, truly Happy New Year! A PERSONALITY PUZZLE The other day a_ ninety-three-year- old woman died in a four-room shack in | the outskirts of Tampa, Florida. Her pass- ing drew little notice in the newspapers, or among-neighbors, but it was discovered after her death that she left an estate of nearly $350,000, of which $230,000 was in cash. To many citizens of Monroe County, in- crease their annual incomes, the case of this Florida lady presents a problem. While millions of her fellow Americans this lady, for | fifty years, while in the possession of a Chairman Bervaldi has a competitive mind. He thinks that in any transaction | or negotiation some fellow will come along | and outbid him. He favors taking what- | ever is offered in the Perky matter, but a | good: trader doesn’t accept the first offer, | makes counter propositions and bides his | time. In such cases generally a just and, equitable pact results, | Harry Hopkins, the greatest exponent | of spending who has ever lived, did not | have to worry where the money was com- ing from—it was handed to him by Con- | gress on a silver platter—gold is taboo— —but as secretary of commerce he will | have close contact with business men, and will learn for one thing that money does not grew on trees—that the overwhelm- ing taxes paid by business is earned not alone by the sweat of the brow but by sweating all over. Even if the Jews of Italy and Ger- many-are guilty as charged by Mussolini and Hitler, the brutality of the methods of punishment employed, particularly by the latter, border on insanity. George Ber-| nard Shaw, who had always defended both the Italian and German leaders, now thinks that a League of Nations commission should study the actions of I} Duce and Der Fuehrer and adjudge them insane so “they will either have to cancel the anti- Semitic measures, or stand before Europe | as certified lunatics.” | comparative fortune, “dressed like a ehar- woman and lived like a share croppér. What is the answer? Did thej dead woman know sonie secret method of living happily without money or had she a phil- osophy that satisfied her soul without ex- pression in material things? WHAT ABOUT YOUR FOOD Men and women have been eating for thousands of years but not until eom- paratively recent times has there been any real scientific study of foods. The discovery of the vitamins and the information secured as to the processes of digestion has, in recent years, revolution- ized the scientific conception of food. So | much so that it is no longer possible to dis- . tinguish between food and drugs, for the financial products of protein digestion are very closely related chemically to certain active drugs. i ne 2 3 Inasmueh as the function of fool is to | provide energy for the individual and to assist in rebuilding the constituent parts of the body, a deficiency in any needed ele- ment is reflected in ill effects upon the body itself. Along this line, certain, vita- mins have been recognized as a peculiar value in preventing the commen cold, which is one of the scourges of the day. In fact, the diet containing the proper propor- tion of these vitamins has been noticeably effective in group test in protecting in- dividuals against colds. THE ‘KEY WEST CITIZEN Le | | KEY WEST IN © DAYS GONE BY | i | | Happenings Here Just 10 Years! | By HUGO s. SIMS, Washington Correspondent of The Citizen Ago Today As Taken From | | CONGRESS CONVENES jent, “nonsense”, He says it is/ The Files of The Citizen | = a | only an “economic battle”. On the; ! | NO LAME DUCKS | other hand, Senator Tydings, of: Captain Ben (Tink) Demeritt | SEW. SER’ TERED | Maryland, believes war in Europe brought in two men this morning | ssid ideate is oe possible” within a-year' whom he had found on board a | TALK ABOUT “REVOLTY or two. Rearming in Europe is! 40-foot boat, which had stranded | | ws’ i | preceeding sapidly, Ne says, and on the Eastern Dry Rocks. He: | NO DICTATORSHID — | te world will be lucky if it miss-. reports there were two other men} | VIEWS ABOUT EUROPE _es another great catastrophe. on the stranded vessel who re- ree ¥ | | fused to leave. One of them, he | AWTI-THIRD TERM VOTE | Tn this country, meanwhile! said; acted as though mentally | RELIEF ISSUE FACED | preliminary steps are being tak-| unbalanced. The two brought I ates tees boda \en to put the defenses of the| ashore now seem to have disap- [FoR RTO STAND PAT | United States in line with that of| peared completely, according to ‘idoos | other first-class powers. This is| teports, so their names and home \ net to say that there will not be! parts are unknown. A navy boat | ‘Today, the Congress elected by! a vigorously voieed dissent from left for the scene but had not re-| ‘the voters of the various states) certain congressmen who are turned at 2 o'clack this afternoon. | last November convened for the} convinced that there is no threat The stranded craft is believed to | first session of the Seventy-Sixth! to the interests of the United be from New Orleans, though its! Congress. Their early convoca-| States and. no valid reason for the real identity and mission could | tion is due to the “Lame Duck” people here to be alarmed. In not be learned. Amendment to the Constitution,' fact, some of them privately as- | fathered by Senator George W.!sert that the “war seare” is a de- | Norris, of Nebraska, several years| vice to build up popular enthu- | ago. Before its passage, the new-|siasm for the rearmament pro-' | ly-eleeted congressmen would be! gram that will be proposed. | waiting for next December to! | roll around before taking their There will be a resolution in- | seats. ‘troduced in the Senate, without se doubt offering that body an op- | As it was arranged in the old! portunity to go on record in re- | days, the last session of the Sev-! gards to the much-discussed, third | enty-Fifth Congress would have, term. The idea persists, that | started in December and, after @) President Roosevelt may, run Christmas holiday, the members| again and his adversaries keep | would return to the capital and ' the issue alive by restating their | eontinue their labors until the opposition. It is hard to say | expiration of their term in what would happen if the resolu- | Mareh, or the conclusion of their | tion comes to a vote because only legislative business prior to that| ten years ago such a resolution | time. The newly-elected Con-| was passed, with the votes of | gresg would be able to meet ear-| some of the Democrats now sit- |lier than the folowing December) ting. Nobody knows what the only in the event that the ess bresess tent to hg oes) dent called a special session bhe-! Some porter: rs ‘tween March and the following! Governor Earle, of Pennsylvania, | December. Consequently, we see! Who favors a third term, is “very |that the “Lame Duck” amend-|much afraid” the President will \ment has somewhat speeded uy | WH ommetter: 5. | the processes of democracy by | providing for a Congress io take |.office within sixty days of its election instead of having to wait almost thirteen months. | One of the big changes to be | noticed, of course, is the new | seating of the Senate. Additional | seats have been shifted to the Re- publican side of the aisle in ac- cordance with the trend of the election in November. In the OKING at | Ross C. Sawyer yesterday re- ceived his commission from the | governor and this morning en-} tered upon his duties as county! clerk, which includes the offices of county clerk and clerk of the board of county commissioners. position by Governor John Mar-' tin on December 19 to succeed awaiting trial under charges of embezzlement of public funds. While Mr. Sawyer’s term of of- fice will expire with the outgo- ing of Governor Martin on Jan- uary 8, his friends in Key West express the opinion that incom- ing Governor Carlton will ap- prove the selection of the retiring chief executive and make Mr. Sawyer’s appointment perman- ent. The present elerical force of | the office will not be changed, said Mr. Sawyer. Mrs. Mary Sweeting Lowe, who has been ' acting in the capacity of chief deputy will continue in the posi- tien, aided by Miss Mary Lopez as at present. The relief question is definitely in the lap of Congress. At the beginning of its session ene realizes that action i be very shortly to j ‘late funds or close down quency with which relief work | has been criticized it may be tak- > en for granted that additional outdone, will donate $5,000 to funds will be provided. There, charity, give away the entire edi- |may be amendments to the pres-| tion and do other rash things ‘ent scheme, with some regula-| every day there is frost in Key very en eS must Editorial comment: A St. Pe- tersburg, Florida, paper gives away its edition of the paper any day on which the sun does not shine. The Citizen, not to be TEST YOUR Can you answer seven of these! And gathered Mr, Sawyer was appointed to the, 10. Dave Filer, who is under bond #eeeeseeeceeeesvecsooves And send our idle | (See “The Answers” on Page 4) POSSESSES EH ESESEHSeESECeCEe TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1939 TODAY’S COMMON |: , 7 | PIRATE'S GOLD Edited By LILY LAWRENCE BOW evcceccececccoes oor | THE STORY OF THE ROSES ae A pallid monk who could not =" sleep, ! Who could not laugh and could | not weep, , Arose and in his sandals crept i To where the roses slept, armsful Do not say, “The patient was restive during the night’: say. “restless”. KNOWLEDGE in the test questions? Turm to j{ night Page 4 for the answers | To place before the vigil light. | 1. Why do farmers place tin| In some rich garden of a king eans on top of bean poles? , There dwelt a lovely scarlet thing The flag of which country! Who ; lived among her sullen has a large white cross in! vemes the center? i And spent her love on kanaves. Who discovered the South} The king was busy with his wars Pole? { and gold In what country is the Peace | Until the rose was sear and old. River? : P ayed a rose so white, Who was recently reappoint-} pberesawevedia rom apenas : A poe saw it in the night, } ed eee the Amer-| ‘and built a wall no man could ican Red is } scale What is the caress Lapa | To touch its pe ciation of the word gri-! 414 then the st: mace? : song forgot Name the colors in the £188 qh rose that trembled there un- chan | sought. In which country are kan-j garoos native? | Oh, Gardner of lost loveliness, On ships, what is a hatch? ‘Who gill can plant and bless, Where is the Si-kiang Riv- Perhaps you smile on us pale er? men Who make wax flowers then, wreathe Is pale. wart man of 7. 8. 9. of song to share The waste upon the desert air. —Michael Largay. WHO KNOWS? DISCOVERY 1. What is the basis of Italian territorial claims against France? A perfume-clad magnolia tree, Shaw? New York? | ean conferences held? | effect of a Senate resolution, de- 2. How old is George Bernard: A tinkly waterfall reveal The site of Fairyland. To me, Is London much colder than' The petals, as they gaily reel Adown the slight cascace, boats For children of an elfin band, legal’ Whose cows are litle brownie goats 3. are 4. How often are Pan-Ameri- 5. What would be the claring against a third term for! Tha: dine upon a tableland. any President? Japan? cians belong to Medical Association? ' originate? maneuver in the Atlantic? women in legislative bodies? wecccccecsescoceseseceses She —Ethel M. Dunham. 6. Have Chinese planes raided DEPARTURE of physi- My garden trellis wears a crim- son ruff, Of vines; flagstones are islands in the grass, A wren with glossy coat, as brown as snuff | Hears the gold shod feet of aut- umn pass, n listening to the dark wind’s ominous sigh, wings across 7. What proportion the American 8. Where did the poinsettia 9. When will the French fleet 10. How many states have | The the Indian | House, ne such major alteration is neeessary, because, with the exception of committee chairmen, | there are no ragularly assigned seats. After seats have been | placed in the Senate for the Dem- | ocratie and Republican members, the handful of seats, in the rear of | the Republican, or opposition side, | tions as to distribution and use| jf the funds, but the treasury) | will be tilted a little to those who are ‘unemployed. Unless _busi- ness improvement produces many |more jobs than anybody expects the work of relief will be con- | tinued. West. ports, Wateh the weather re- summer sky. Today’s Horoscope —Alma_ Robinson Higbee. 66 COLDS ‘e ence Tug Warbler, which left here} Today endows with a_ well- several weeks = for Haitien | balanced nature and the native) iefdarts A render assistance to @/ win show zeal in carrying out his | pl tapreandepa ane ieee designs. There is a sensuous, , aneny 7 ober €~ | crafty nature that may work well | turn to port some time today oF toward success, by leading the Headaches and Fever is provided fer other ranks—the| Readers should not mistake the minority members who are not: announcement of plans or the Republicans, such as Farmer-La- statement of future programs as borites, Progressives, and Ameri- evidence that the outline will be- can-Laborites, |come the accomplished fact. This applies to enlargement of the so-| | here has been a lot of talk | cial security legislation, the in-| about an “independent” Con-| crease of the navy, the modern- gress, meaning one that will not! ization of the army, the construc- late this evening. Admiral Cary T. Grayson, for-| ident Woodrow Wilson, was a dis- tinguished visitor in Key West yesterday. native to act carefully and quiet- sat ly. Avoid all tendency to any- | 4, upun- thing eruel, for this would grow; merly personal physician to Pres-. on you. Work and work hard. firnt day, Li id, Tablets Nose Drops due to © in 30 minw! My-Tism”—a Wonderful Liniment ie Ask Your Grocer For | Strong Arm BRAND ARRIVES HERE Mrs. Annie Shaw was an ar- | vote general powers to the chief executive or give discretionary | authority in the spending of pub- | lic funds. In some sectors there is eonstant predietion of a “re- volt” on the part of certain Dem- ocratic members, who resent the President’s leadership. Most of this is just opinion, although there will undoubtedly be some vigorous criticism of the New | Deal, with not all of the stric- tures coming from Republican | tion of 13,000 planes, the training of 20,000 aviators, etc. and etc. Some of these things will get un- |derway and some of them will be | almost as outlined but many of | them will follow the apparent | fate of the super-highway scheme |and be gradually forgotten. | This column is written too early to comment on the Presi- | dent’s address to Congress, which | has’ been awaited as an indication jof the intentions of Mr. Roose-- The Catholic schools of the city | rival over the highway yesterday resumed their activities this! to visit with her brothers John morning after the period of holi-| and Fred Page and their families day vacations. The public schools 28d other relatives. ee again next ras Who Di te 6 ? Tom—Was it a big wedding? ree The Wrecking Tug Willett,| Tim—Yes, I lined up twice to | TRY... Captain Foster, arrived in port! kiss the bride and nobody noticed De epsea and Key West yesterday afternoon from New, it- | Reef Fishing York. The vessel came here for ne th pose of taki on board ae 1 ay Charter Boat COFFEE Serving the Key West trade for over thirty-five years! BIG PINE INN {pie who has kept up with legislation | members. the wrecking masters of the Mer- | It is too early to tell just how far the Congregs, or to be more | exget, the Democratic majority, | will follow the President's recom- mendations, but the writer's guess is, that when the work of | the session is ended it will be found that Mr. Roosevelt will have a pretty good batting ayer- j age. This may be due to cau-!of Congress should be very | tious political tactics but, none-| teresting. | the-less, we do not look for any-! | thing like an organized rebellion, | ®¢°* ae | careying with it a constant ve. Today S Birthdays y" a | position to what the White House j } | recommends, | eecoceeso: tal ®\ York by Mallory line for Key} | _—_—_ | Mrs. Graee G. Coolidge of West, where they will, as usual, | | The mere fact that such an op-| Northampton, Mass., widow of spend the winter. They will ar-| | position is possible emphasizes| the President, born at Burling- rive here about January 11. | thé difference between the meth-' ton, Vt., 60 years ago. { ‘od@sttew in vogue in the United | _— Jobn D. Bethel, colored, pen- | | Stata, wsid-these that exist im; Dr. E. Stanley Jones, noted sioner of the U. S. Navy, t Germany and Italy. The situation! Methodist Episcopal missionary reported to the sheriff's office | foolish the bickering about | to maak Se Bt I the had been broken} sin this country. | the | a cam", Balti- | into and he lost a number of art- 4 r Re icles. He also reports loss in wy | cash of $450. Francis S. ‘ York, movie H Just the Man { | ¥.M.C.A. official, born at Pauld-; Juryman—Sir, I desire to be; ing, Miss., 44 years ago, exeused from jury duty, as I can | only hear with one ear. Judge—Oh, you'll do. We hear, | only one side of a case at a time. aercalle ane ie i ee al sitt Chapman Co, ‘The Willett ‘he will make a truce with. con- Jeft during the evening for Tam- servative foes, is not indicated by | Pa. peace sr east arin ie | Mr. and Mrs. Claude Hall wish} esident predicts that he will to announce the engagement of his guns, continue to their daughter, Jennie, to G. W. his. objectives and give Nichols, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. those who oppose them.! Nichols of Hartsville, Ala. Mr. | the present session , Nichols is assistant supervisor of in- the Coast Guard telephone lines, and is stationed at Key West. George Allen England, noted! writer and Key West booster, and the tend. of in the| Captain E. 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