The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 5, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen egioc petty Except euncey By 1 J uppeart i» INC. L. P. ‘rMA® , Président awd Publisher JOE ALLEN, Apiintant Manager From, the Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe _ County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of a)l news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. ae SPECIAL NOTICE rds of thanks, resolutions of » Will be charged for at of 10 cents a line, ‘ for entertainment by churches from which derived are 5 cents a line. 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. There is a “pun” in punishment and “fun” in funeral, but we don’t enjoy them. Trading at home is not buncombe; money sent out of town usually stays out- side. Add up the national losses from fire, crime, ill health, accidents, and insects and there won’t be any national income. It doesn’t take only married men in Key West to tell you that the best way to get a woman to talk is to tell her to keep still. Germany is famous for the police dog, hot dog and underdog.—Key West Citizen. And don’t forget to hit that mad-dog dic- tator. What 1939 means to you is a matter that is mostly up to you. Bacon said “Chiefly the mold of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.” It is commendable to be optimistic, but no one over 50 years of age should ex- pect to see the moving picture production of “Gone With the, Wind.” About the only rod the modern Key West youngster knows anything about is a steering rod.—Key West Citizen. Doesn’t anybody in Key West have a rod and reel? —P. E. B. in Tampa Tribune. When Hopkins and Jackson are con- firmed by the Senate one-half of the Presi- | dent’s cabinet will be New Yorkers—Mor- genthau, Perkins, Farley, Hopkins and Jackson, It is evident that the President is | a New Yorker. There are 48: states in the Union. | Financial note; Since 1981, when the present deficit financing period began, the Federal government has expended al- | most 24 billion more than it has revéived. Suppose a business would operate on such an inverse ratio where would it be in seven years? Roosevelt Boulevard, circlimambient to Key West, during a short life, has had | several depressed spots, which gives | credence to the reports circulated when it | was being built, that some deteriorated | cemert or other inferior material was used in its construction. | The state of the world is very neatly described in a recent remark of Viseduntess | Nancy Astor, the American-born member | of the British Parliament. Adtnitting that | Great Britain does not expect war, the Lady declared, ‘We never can tell what | will happen, because Wictators aré like | lunatics at large.” “Stars Reveal Hitler’s Barly Doomn.” | Headline. While this is a constimmation | perhaps undevoutly to be wished, it should be remembered the stars also revealed that McKesson & Robbins, common; Was a | “good buy.” Oraculatly, the stars were | right; but the revelation should have been interpreted as “good bye.” ———— ——--. A RECORD AND A WARNING Included in a report just prepared by auditors of the Overseas Road and Toll | Bridge district is a succinct little state- mént to the effect that during 1938 there | were only five minor accidents on that sec- tion of the highway between Lower Mate- cumbe and Big Pine Key. In none of these | accidents was any of the passengers in the | cars injured and in no case did the prop- | erty damage exceed $100. That is a fine record, probably the | finest ever compiled in regard to. a com- | parable stretch of highway in these United understood 120,000 ; last | States. When it is motor vehicles used that highway THE KEY WEST | Nation’s | | No part.ef the New Deal program | has eaused as much business for the Court a8 has the National | the ‘Supfenie Labor Relations Act. “he sions involving the administra- by the National year the récord of five accidents stands out ! like a typographical error in an editorial, Two reasons are given for this achieve- | ment: First, that the highway was proper- j ly designed to carry motor vehicles at high rates of speed; second, that the highway is patrolled to prevent such traffic crimes as parking on_ bridges speeds. There have been several fatalities on what is generally known as the Overseas highway during the last year, but it is a matter of record these ALL occurred on | the old county road and narrow wooden bridges above Lower Matecumbe and be- low Big Pine Key. Not one person was hurt or killed on the fine stretch of high. way under control of the Overseas Road | cessful section | and Toll Bridge district. That contains no sharp curves, few rough piece of pavement and all the bridges are of concrete and steel construction 20 feet in width. The lesson is obvious. Unless the highway stretches between Key West and | Big Pine Key and between Key Largo and the mainland are soon moved over to the | old railroad bed and viaducts and recon- | in the | structed along the lines followed bridge district, there are certain to be more accidents, more fatalities and more injured persons and badly damaved cars. Those county and state highway offi- | cials at present charged with the duty of solving the problem involved in these high- way extensions have a plain duty before i them. First making certain of their pro- cedure, they must act quickly in what- ever remains to be done to complete the highway. There have been a nuthber of delays in procuring clear title to a right of way. There should be no further delay. Every month’s delay in forwarding this program means, on the basis of last year’s record, another life sacrificed and other persons suffering the agonies of seri- ous injuries. We must condemn the old wooden bridges and dead man’s curves, not the lives and bodies of innocent men, wemen and children. AN EVER-GROWING PROBLEM Fifteen or twenty years ago the prob- lem of improved highways was attacked upon the theory that, with a given road mileage, the simple way to complete the construction of a highway system, was to build a given number of miles a year for a definite number of years, | Two facts have upset the idea. new mileage has been added to every high- way system and the need for additional highways is pressing. Second, highways built fifteen, or even ten years ago, are un- able to meet modern traffic needs and must be relocated, rebuilt or enlarged. Two decades ago very few highway engineers, or automobile manufacturers, had any clear conception of the spéeds that would be mile a minute” used to win speedway con- tests but now it is the accepted pace of many motorists who travel long distances. Highways graded for forty miles-an-hour | speeds are not safe for the seventy-miles- an hour that some Sane drivers attain. The same observation applies to sight-distances | that safety requires. IRON LUNGS SAVE LIVES Lord Nuffield, Great Britain’s imil- lionaire automobile manufacturer, has | turned over a part of his factories to build iron lungs free for every hospital in the British Empire. The iron lung fs designed to provide artificial respiration to patients who would otherwise die. The device has already saved many lives and if hospitals generally are equipped with them, many others will owe their existence to the mechanical ap- j paratus, and excessive | First, | commonplace today. “A | decisions on the whole New Deal program. In addition there have been Several decisions by Circuits Courts of Appeals which the Supreme Court has refitsed to review. its 1986-1937 term the Court greatly broadened the meaning of in- | terstate commerce in five far-reach- ing decisions. The most i rtant of these upheld the right of Board to regulate the labor relations in manufacturing plants which were in the “stream of interstate con.méree.” | The interstate character of the com- panies concerned- was demonstrated to the Court’s satisfaction by the facts that they brought in goods from other states and then shipped their fihished product in interstate com- | Merce, : Tn the 1937-1938 term of the Court, the Board was again uniformly suc- 1, winning six decisions in all. One of these decisions, involving the Santa Cruz Fruit Packing Company of Oakland, California, stretched the meaning of the commerce clause still further, The Court in this case held that the Board had jurisdiction over | the labor relations of a concern | dischal | which handled goods produced with- in a state, only a part of which was shipped in interstate or foreign com- merce. Next, in cases involving the | Pennsylvania and the Pacific Grey- hound bus lines, the Court sustained orders of the Board requiring the companiés to withdraw recognition frorh company unions. In a case ins volving the Mackay Radio and Tele- graph Company of San Francisco, the Supreme Court upheld the right of the Board to require the compan: to reinstate with back-pay strikin employees who had been refused re- | MANY MOTOR BOAT opera-, tors in Key West to a great ex-; tent were rum runners during the| prohibition era. But there was; rarely trouble. Take hi-jacking, | for instance. Quite a bit of ‘ex-} citement reigned over whiskey hi-jackers with many here be- lieving that a ring persistently held up liquor boats coming into | Key West and hi-jacked their cargo. Such was not the case. There was quite a bit of double- | crossing during that period. One | go of whiskey. Well, he made! | the run cVer to Cuba all right | ‘and loaded up with his cargo. He also made the run back to; Key West some dark night, but! instead of delivering the cargo to} some other Supposedly hi-jacker | received it. But these cases were isolated and generally known. | And the double-crossed nes; | never resorted to violence. THERE WAS KINDLINESS in! Key West rum-runners, also. We know of. one fell6w here who; | when struck by some hard-luck } story of a rum-running agent or boat captain, would often bring back part of his load to that fel- low for no more than the cost | of the liquor in Cuba so as to put | that fellow back on his feet! again. f IT WAS A HARD JOB ferry-! ing those loads across the rough! Florida: Straits. The men shifted | at the wheel and one operatdr) here says the seas were often so! | mountainous that although the} men were taking but five minute | tricks at the wheel they would | turn around frequently in those ive minutes and ask if the time} were not up. Heavy seas piling! against the boat and rudder put} | a terrific strain on one’s arms at | | the wheel. : You and Your Labor Rela- ons Board i Though the co ft} that = activities | where the Gulf meets the Atlan-| CITIZEN Affai rs Supreme Court and N.L.R.B. By ERIK McKINLEY ERIKSSON \ Professor of History, University of Southern Califernia employment, ‘The two rémaining de- ei upheld Board. certain procedures of ; The best pai Tigne r of new fore . 936-1939 term es aval 1B de- A e est humbe: cases. ; is leaving this evening for Talla- hassee for a conference with the +» governor. it company ‘were in the state ot few ¥ ; nevertheless held ual t to the Board’s jui : Ke foe an Sat! 6 inters! commerce, e nm Bes Cott Bee heen ome that in permitting centralization of governmehtal power. The part of the decision that was distasteful to the Board dec laration that the agency hi com- mitted p: jural efrors in orders ing the arent strap tracts with a union affil American ‘ Court ore hot thing that the jut authority law wen! hectares ‘G-puhitive j the Board. A week aftei ; was the first. that could in way be considéred adverse to the Boa: the Supreme Court again rebuffed the administrative Sage by re! using Arey yea 0 led a sion led down Fit Circuit Court of Appeals Bn diy oo, 1938, beg apr the lower court iauinr soe, Oratentst Bieecetae rani discharging. MAS members. of the rs of the | hes ot to of its vessels after they had staged a_sit-down. strike. while in port. The Board had ordered the men reinstated with back pay. These recent actions indicate that, while it is willing to go the limit in upholding the jurisdiction of the Na- tional Labor Relations din re | lation to collective bargaining and e prevention of unfair at on the part of employers, the highest tribunal intends to keep a, watchful eye on the agency’s procedure to see that it does not violate the concept of fair play. (Address questions to the author, care of thit newspaper) n -daciomiletinee a ini cherries ISLAND CITY Along the Waterfront shoals, for long-spined sea urch-, ins are in corners and it is very unpleasant to receive a wound | from them. On the ocean side} the reefs drop straight down,)| sometimes 200 feet. A charter| boat captain running close to the reefs will pass over long finger shoals going out into the deep ‘and very often spots big 40-pound grouper and long silver barra-! cuda skulking in the white sand fellow would contract with an!under the rocks below. A few Key West team will start the | agent in the city to deliver a ear-! seconds later and the fish smacks first with White Sox, and the/ into the trolled bait. j A SHOUT FROM a party and! turning ofie’s head one sees acres} of small fish leaping into the air’ escaping the thrusts of mackerel, the agent he had contracted to,; Kingfish, sailfish and barracuda. the funeral of John Peacon, Like silver fountains they ri: gracefully from the blue waters. Suddenly one leaps high, high in- | ' to the air and plunging right out, ay mackerel rises 20 feet, almost) Straight up, after it. The bait is; mostly ballao, a beautiful silver- | Breen fish with orange trim-; YMings, easily seen and struck by the larger fish. Ballao feed on Surface miffutiae and haye no up-| per beak. Théy are also known: as half beak. On the’ tip of lower, beaks is’ an orange spot. KINGFISH SPAWN in the wa- ters just a few miles below Key West during the winter, fisher-| mien report. No man’s Land,| tic ocean, is the spot. Commer- cial’fishermen fish there. GAS BAGS REPLACE TANKS type containers to be used in Glenn L. Martin’s new airplanes will be bags itistead of the usual metal tanks. They are Drigolg a ot fabric impregna’ synthe- | tie rubber and are designed to fit Pappaiilnge Here Just 10 Years) | have expired January 8, has been | next general election, ‘deserve a most careful considera- ! | Jahassee to participate in the gu-; ‘Tallahassee some time Monday. ‘and a number of citizens in dec- THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1939 | ae '| TODAY’S COMMON | ERROR _ Do not say, “We rever- ence the memory of Gecrge Washington”; say. “re- vere”. KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE Ross C. Sawyer’s appointment to the position of county clerk for Monroe County, which would Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to Page 4 for the answers extended to cover a period of two years or until the general elec-' tion in 1931, according to a tele- gram received yesterday from Governor Martin, by Mr. Saw- yer. The message from the gov- ernor states: “I am appointing you, beginning January 8, until which is Mr. Sawyer In which ocean are the Falk- land Islands? From what sort of trees is bark obtained that is used in making quinine? } How is 1935 written in Ro- man numerals? } Name the Mayor of a large, eastern city who was re-} cently attacked on the} steps of the City Hall. Into what body of water; does tHe Gulf of Aden} empty? | What is extradition? Which letter of the English | alphabet is most used? Are seals fish? | Of what country is Kauna: (Kovno) the capital? Name the author of the novel, “Richard Carvel”. : two years hence”. It is considered as practically sure that Governor! Martin has received an expres- sion from the incoming chief executive that such action would meet with his approval, for the importance of keeping Mr. Saw- yer in office has been convincing- ; ly shown to Mr. Carlton through | representetions of representative citizens and in such number as to, tion of the virtually unanimous voice of the people of Monroe Conus A Very Bright Boy The parents of a young son, who had been deeply moved by the film “Skippy”, took him as a Christmas surprise to the sequel Key West’s delegation to Tal-| bernatorial celebration of Doyle, Carlton will leave tomorrow over the highway by motor bus; at 6 o'clock, expecting to reach On their way home the boy was enthusiastic about “Snooky”. “Better’n ‘Skippy’ even’, he ob- served. “It ends happier”. “But it doesn’t end happier, James”, said his mother. “Doesn’t Snooky’s mother die?” “Oh, sure”, said James, “but in ‘Skippy’ the dog died”. Arthur Gomez, chairman of the committee, made this announce- ment this morning. The commun- ity’s representation in the parade will be by the Knights of the} Golden Eagle Drum and Bugle Corps, consisting of 42 members, orated automobiles, and the Key We Win! West girls at college in Tallahas- | see. Twenty members of the Drum and Bugle Corps, plan to leave in special bus tomorrow morning from in front of La Concha hotel, the others taking the regular bus, which will leave at approximately the same time. | towns have. Hoboken, Weehawk- en, Oshkosh, Poughkeepsie. American—I suppose they do seem queer to English ears. Do you live in London all of the time? Englishman—No, indeed. I Chief Ivan Elwood, of the po- ping Norton, and divide the rest lice department of Key West, last | night addressed the city council | at general meeting and requested that he be bought a new auto- mobile for official use in connec- tion with his duties. The matter ton Buzzard. - | was referred to the proper com-/} mittee with authority to act. | Editorial comment: One of the | most distinct honors conferred on Key West for some time was the recent voluntary visit of the widow of the late illustrious Wil- Jiam Jennings Bryan. The _ Island City Baseball League was organized again at a meeting held yesterday and plans} to that picture called “Snooky”.! % Englishman—Odd names your | spend part of my time at Chip-: between Bigglewade and Leigh- | SHIP-WRECK mT) The ship sailed from the harbor Out to the deep blue sea. Oh, she was in her glory— The wind was on her lee. She sailed like a wild bird With its wings spread once more; The great blue waves rolled high- er As they left that peaceful shore. They had scarcely left the harbor When the wind began to blow; Then they heard the skipper shouting; “Bar her up and+let her ga’; Now we see the seamen runiing, Doing all that they can do, But the ship is plowing onward To her doom in the ocean, blue. Now the wind is howling louder, The sea rolls mountains high; They can see the breakers yonder On the reef that’s so nearby Oh, they hear the skipper’s or- ders, “Every man now at his post”, But his words were uttered vain- ly— All were lost on that rock-bound coast. LOUIS M. JOHNSON Key West, Fla., Jan. 5, 1939. Don’t Give Up Lady “Comme each day with a smile”, they say. But take it from me it does not pay. I greeted the morn with a joyous song my neighbor called, something wrong?” When the bacon burned I merri- ly laughed And my husband said: “Have you gone daft?” I told a caller I liked her hat— And she told me I was getting fat I started the day with a glad good will— nd “Is I finished up with a will to kill. A merchant operating under the NRA put a new boy to work the other day. The boy, og the next day, saw a 50-cent piece ly- ing on the floor, and he promptly took it to his employer. “You’re an honest boy; I put that money there to test you”, the merchant said. “Yes, I thought you dia”, plied the boy. re- WORLD'S MOST WIDELY USED MEDICATIONS OF THEIR KIND nade for'a series of games t0 be| (WMV OI OO ODS SSD SSS SS eS I, played beginning Sunday. The) } second encounter will be between | If you the Pirates and Young Sluggers, and will start 20 minutes after the first game is finished. | The Masonic Order will attend which will be held tomorrow aft- ernoon. The illustrated lecture, “The Other Wise Man”, which was given last Sunday by Professor | Van Dyke, will be repeated Sun- day evening at the Presbyterian church. Fifty-four slides will be Shown. Welee ee eee eee ed Mts. P. M. Crews ahnountes a miscellaneous shower to be given in the Golden Eagle hall next Wediiesday afternoon, January 9. The event will be in honor of Miss Jennie Hall, member of the! organization and an enjoyable | time is assured. j A company of high-class art- ists, headed by Margie Cohen, will be featured at the Garden| Theater all next week. They will | show under the auspices of the | Key West Fire Department. thin Book At Pi “What book has helped jyou! most in your career?” he was! asked. “The volume of business”, re-| temperature COMPLAINT SERVICE... Receive Your Copy of The CITIZEN By 6 P. M. PHONE—WESTERN UNION Between 6 and 7 P.M. and a Western Union Messenger Boy will deliver your copy of The Citizen. PERT | PLAY SAFE— By keeping FOODSTUFFS at the right | | the shape of the interior compart- | .A DAY'S FISHING in Key! ments of the wings, fuselages or West would set the, most conser-| floats of the airplanes. It is claim- vative and deflated writer to, ¢d that the fabric tank, if oem running off lines again. Running tured, ‘creates a slit rather a up the main ship channel with a. the gentle roll, Gulf clouds hang lot} on the horizon.and there is aj beautiful light breaking thfough | in the east. One passes dark pur-! ple ‘spots underneath. Those are réefS about 20 feet bleow. At the “dry rocks” the feefé come} Out of Water and show yéllow thaises 6f live Coral polyps, Which | are covered with heavy slime. Don’t try walking among these | plied the merchant prince. sl ALL | ICE REFR These refrigerators MET IGER PROOF and absolutely air tight $20.00 «- Easy Terms—10 Days Free Trial On Display at THOMPSON ICE COMPANY, Inc. do not Oh kh hdd daddies in one of our AL ATORS are doubly HEAT —Phone No. 8—