The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 7, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO _ She Key Went Citizen | Published THE CITIZE L. P. ARTMA JOE ALLEN, Fron e 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 Axsociated Press is. exclusively entitled to use ll news dispatches credited to lited in this paper and also hed here. The Assoc for re it or the loca One Si Made known © L NOTICE of thanks, resolutions of , will be charged for at All readin respect, obit te of 10 cents ents a line. IMPX1OVEMENTS 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. but she turns out few graduates. If you borrow trouble, remember you | will have to pay interest in kind. Every year leaves memories of the | hopes that greeted its beginning. Everybody has a cure for the depres- sion but none of them are the same. Cheerfulness, it is said, is largely a matter of income being above outgo. Predictions about what will happen in 1939 may be good guessing but nothing else. While making plans for 1989 don’t forget to renew your subseription to The Citizen. If we saw ourselves. as others see us, perhaps we would get a mutch better idea of what we really are. Some young women like to appear dis- tant, perhaps because distance lends en- chantment to the view. | Just because you look down on the other fellow is no assurance that the other fellow is looking up to you. It isn’t original with this column, it has béen said before; that no man is good ~ enough to be another man’s master. | “Sweet are the uses of adversity.” Anyway, it probably keeps us from having a lot of things we are better off without. | We have found out there are two | CLEANUP DRIVE PROPOSED “We've lived héte all our lives and | | got along with things as they ate, so why | | change them?” | our FELLOW V DRIVERS THE KEY WEST crmiZEn This is the attitude of a number of our | citizens. Any change, any progress, any | effort to revise the old order of things is | | abhorrent to them. They want their sec- tions of Key West to remain untouched, | have not been touched by malaria or dis- service, the state health department, conditions. In not a few instances | householders responsible for these | defects giving rise to the complaints of neighbors. Of course, everyone knows no lasting improvement in the sanitary conditions compelled to make connection with These can be re- paired and rebuilt, so that they are not a source of mosquitos, of stench and of dis- ease. Your intelligent Key West citizen lives as wholesomely as anyone anywhere. It is the unintelligent man.who is respon- sible for unlovely and unsanitary condi- tions. The city council has determined on a cleanup campaign and enforcement of the sanitary regulations—a step that should have been crdered months ago. To that end the councilmen have invited Mayor Al- bury, City Health Officer William R. War- ren, state and county health officials and the executive committee of the South Side | association, to meet with them Monday enforcement ofthe sanitary laws. The Citizen hopes this is ' fruitful of immediate and effective action. Every lot, every yard; every field must be cleared of tin cans, old tifes, discarded boots, broken crockery and other water catch basins in which mosquitos breed. These must be de- stroyed. Householders who think it smart | to keep their own yards clean by throwing their debris into the adjoining lot must be advised against the practice—and arrested if caught committing insanitary acts. in the main Key West is a clean town. | The average citizen thinks too much of his owr health and that of his neighbors to permit unsanitary conditions to exist. It is the slovenly minority that must be forced and a safer communal life. THE “COSTER” MYSTERY The story of “Frank Donald Coster” is another stranger-than-fiction revelation. victed a quarter of a century ago of a swindle that netted him one million dol- things in this country that are better off when they are let alone. One is the Bible | and the other the Constitution. No changes | are necessary. There is still plenty of room at the | top, we are told, but it is evet so much | higher up, and where once it could be | reached by a single story, it now has alti- | tudinous proportions. | tS | All who had their taxes liquidated | through the Murphy Act shotld tise up? and call him blessed. In turn all those [ who foolishly paid their taxes during all} these years should be called “Saps.” It is difficult to say whieh is worse: Believing everything one reads or hears or believing nothing. Undoubtedly the alter- | native choice is, like a woodpecker, to use | one’s head; but if you haven’t the right kind of head you are out on @ limb again. | Montana proposes to legalize gam- | bling and once it is legalized it will not be so rampant. Thére is no fruit so sweet as stolen fruit. In this connection let The} Citizen repeat as it has so offen stated that the solution to petty gambling and the cor- | tuption of public officials is National and | State lotteries. There is nothing that can | be said in favor of the establishment of” lotteries except that between twe evils it it desirable to choose the lesser. lars, able to start life as an entirely difs ferent person, come into far greater wealth, acquire higher social position and | win the respect of the finaneial wizards of New York. Not only did “Mr. Coster” fool business associates in the huge drug syndi- cate and the bankers with whom he did | business, but he managed to get himself | included in “Who's Who,” the somewhat magical selector of the so-called “great” | that prides itself upon the restrictions that govern its selections. The mystery about the case, eyes of an inexpert newspaper man, is the way “Mr. Coster” managed. to delude his business partners into believing that he had an $18,000,000 investment in a crude drug department which, for all practical purposes, did not exist... Apparently, big business boys ate simpler, more honest and | less suspiciéus than we beliéved. SUCCESSFUL ATTORNEY If making money is the test of suecéss in the legal profession Max D. Steuer, noted trial lawyer of New York, is an outstarid- ing success, unkempt and unclean simply because they , night to discuss a cleanup program—and | to do the simple things that lead to a better | Here we have the story of a man, con- | his | in the | ni | ease arid are accustomed to the discomforts | 4 of outhouses—and mosquitos: ' Inspectors for the U. S. public health | the | ipucaaoe annl county health department and the city, in | | their quest for the breeding places of mos- } quitos, particularly of the disease-bearing | | variety, -have uncovered some deplorable | the | con- | ditions have protested the efforts of the in- | spectors to get them to remedy the sanitary can be made until the sewage disposal sys- | tem is completed and every householder is Ta tying that Key West has very in- expensive rates afid are very glad to discover this, The Citizen finds: ‘Small apartments and cottages run between $25 and $30 a month although the prices may soar to $150, but these are isolated in- stances and aré still in a fair price range for the residence secured. | Charter boats afé taken. out for) | $25. This price seems high, but! in Miami the price ranges up to | $40 and $60, while Key West! | prices never go above $25, which! | is not much when it is considered‘ that a boat must be kept up dur- ing the “slack” summer and that} the guide, gas and bait must be) taken out of the $25. If you want | an average drink it will be about | 35e. Of course, this is not for the more expensive drinks. «Your | meal at delightful “Conch” and “Spanish” restaurants ‘ shouldn’t cost you more than 50¢ excluding the tip. If you're taking a ‘hotel room, you can get them from $1 up, but the average price will be about $2. One hotel is from $8 up. Some of the residence room- ing houses you will be sleeping in | May be a century old. We found a staircase which had a half-; round shape to allow passage into: the lobby. Mahogany and cedar, ‘ | South American woods, are in | many of the buildings and ship carpentry is evident ih others. THERE ARE THREE available beaches in the city, two at the foot of South and Duval streets, | one at the Casa Marina and an- other out of the city, eight miles away at beautiful Boca Chica. If you want tennis, try Bayview | Park’ courts. Casa Marina has, | beautiful clay courts. There are! | weekly ball games at Navy Field, ' | basketball tilts in the High School | gymnasium, and golf matches: | Key West Golf Course is at. Stock island. Swimming pools may be found at Roosevelt Boulevard and at the Yacht Basin. Naval offi- cers invite friends to the Naval Station swimming pool: You ate he ga | WE'LL GET SHOT for. this, t there is a light slack*Off of urists in town. New Exigland | hurricane is blamed, since it kept | owners busy répairing yachts and building new homes, as well as many material losses. Hotel | ownets, however, are particular- | ly jubilant. None of them want | to be quoted but one of the larg- | er opefators said that this is the | best year so far from point of | view of present guests and from | advance resetvations. The real tourist influx will begin two weeks from now. Meanwhile, | there are a great many persons who drop in for a fling at the | night clubs, a skitn over the points | of interest and a day’s fishing. REY WEST‘S GREATEST ber sets are)(1), the most equable warmest. Rees in the countty (2) the’ Best ‘fishing grounds of the: cotfitry combining Gulf and Atlantic Ocean fishing (3) eae Mr. Steuer recently disclosed in court | that his income from professional serviees in 1935 amounted to $669,831; in 1936, | $588,436; and that the first eleven months | ot this yeat indicate an income well above | $500, 000. | we Mh jout of the Lions | gion is stressing ‘at the Bolshevik table when By Mueller TODAYS COMMON ERROR Do itet say, “The wreck- agé Tay all round us”; say, “all about us”. ‘TEST YOUR Gy y Zig THE ISLAND CITY . | However, there is no need for open eesnis0kouniers _ ools or other nuisances. ISTS to the city are find: Experience may Wé the best teacher, | Poo” Ober nulsanices and life. Key West? Hbspitality | from Bahamans and Cabins and interesting in giving tourists de-! sired information is highly’ val-' ued. AT PRESENT Key West is un-| dergoing reorganization. Civic clubs are waging a fallant fight to systematize city and county governments with the City Char- ter Revision committee springing Club, which wishes a modernizing of an anti- quated city charter doing the} most needed work. The present: charter does not aMlow prosecu- {tion of tax delinquency, Rotary Club, long an active force in the} city, is doing splendid youth service work and pushing a few of the bigger needs of the ¢ity toward completion. Stone Church Service Club is an “open forum” club where problems of the’ city and reactions of visitors are |in- telligently discussed. Woman’s Club, Junior Woman’s Club and Garden Club are doing splendid | work in stiumlating contact with; | visitors here from other sections | of the country. Local talent,| noted lecturers and study, of! tropical planst are included ; in; their benefits. A Juniot Cham:} ber of Commerce is tackling the: old Gordian knots of the city ask- ing a fresh “why” about every) an’t” question. American Le- the point of Americanism. There are Mason-' }ic Clubs, Elks Club of the social! benevolent and fraternal organi- | tions, which are also active.! There are also Cuban fraternal! clubs that are connected with up-j i state and Cuban clubs. HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED at two of the clubs this week—RO- TARY: JACK LONG was a late- comer and was fined 10 cents!) GORDON DILL, a baby Rote, was/ present. DR. JOHN GEKELER, silver haired Presbyterian pastor, ! was ‘called “good looking” by a visitor. J. J. TREVOR of the First National Bank lost his seat! it was grabbed by “middle” tablers. | Rotary District. Governor GAR- LAND POWELL, Gainesville | WRUF radio stati yn, Operator, de- livered an inspirational talk. | LIONS: “What about our Sea Scouts?” was asked Skipper} HINSON. With all of this city’s! tradition sand background, there seems to be no good reason why! Sea Scouting shouldn’t be a ma- jor activity among the younger) KNOWLEDGE Gah yeu aliswet sbveti Of these test questions? Turn to », Page 4 for the answers SAT JIRDAY, JANUARY 7, 1935 PEOPLE'S. FORUM , CCbc0ded INEFFICIENT oovanisndtt Editor, The Citizen: Our state tax laws are not bad ‘and any little defects therein can be easily remedied. The whole trouble consists in the way the laws are enforced. ‘The Constitution says, “The leg- islature shall provide a just and equitable system of taxation”, and the State Supreme Court has said, “Taxation is -by the state. * an exertion of sovereignty”. Wht écuntry’ bounds’ Nica- Tagua on the north? What is the freezing point onthe Fahrenheit ther- miometet stale? In law, what is the name of the -crimirial offense of contracting a second mar-, riage by one who, at thé time, is already married? + What ancient people wor- shipped the god Osiris? What is the popular namé for the Rocky Mountain sheep? How many stfipes are there in the American Flag? What is the correct pronun- ciation of the word hover? Name the baseball club that recently purchased “Zeke” Bonura from the Washing- ton Senators. What* legislative assembly building’ has a famous clock’ tower?’ ‘Whichformer U. S.: Senator from Louisiana was nick- named “The Kingfish”? SECC OECCHEHE OSE Sunday’s Horoscope sevccesediosotéa eee Today endows with remarkable powers of expression in music and poetry. The nature will be a mild one and if the full powers of the mind are exerted you may easily become a benefactor to mankind. There will be trials, but patience will carry you on to final victory. Ross Allen, famous herptologist of the Florida Reptile Institute, Silver Springs, Ocala, will feature snake milking exhibitions each Sunday afternoon this season: Mr. Allen actually extracts the venum from the fangs of deadly reptiles, which is sent, in erystalized form, to hospitals and _laborato- ries throughout the country. People with weak hearts are warned to stay away from, the Pan-American Hernando DeSoto Exposition on Thursday. after- Unfortunately, the state has nothing to do with our ad va- lorem taxes except to levy a small millage for state purposes. ! The assessment of propetty for taxation is made by local officials and two-thirds of our govern- mental expenditures are made by them and there is no state control overt either of these two important matters. There is no hé@ad to the most important part uf public affairs in this state—in- come and expense. No business on earth would be run or could be run so_ ineffi- ciently as this. No wonder we are in trouble and it is getting wotse. What is the remedy? PERRY G. Tampa, Fla., Jan. 1, 1939. PRAISES BAND Editor, The Citizen: G. WALL. This evening I had the priv-! ilege of listening at Bayview: Patk to the Hospitality Band - Every, selection was beautifully endered. Key Westers should * we proud of such a band. It is a pity that the people of Key West do not lend their moral support to such an asset as this: It seems to me that the business men, the Rotary Club and other prominent public-spirited citizens do not grasp the many opportuni- BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors _ and Embalmers 24 Hour Ambulance Service Phone 135 Night 696 } i | } { noons, by. General Manager P. T." Streider, who this week. an- nounced the . engagement of “Lucky, Teter” and his corps of 22 Hell Drivers to appear in-a se- ties of death-defying feats each Thursday afternoon during the Exposition period, January 31 to Febuary 18. France will use less cotton from the United States this sea- | son, more from Brazil and India. | set. Fundamentals are now be- ing stressed in the formation of a good Ship—later, the practical side of Sea Scouting will be gone into. Watch developments!. . . Hm:.Lion “DOC” SANCHEZ ar- rived early! This column’s men- tion last week anent the “Sore Knee” and “Sore Toe” brought forth results: Lions HORN aft “JOE” MONDUL were. present. And. how the “Hope-to;sit-downers” side in the Activities Contest’ did; ROAR— they’re way out ahead. LA. CONCHA HOTEL In the Céntér of the Business and Theater District Open The Year Around Garage——Elevator—Fireproot PATHFINDER answers th you and your 1e questions I friends are asking with its concise, of the current scene: Events of national portra; and inter- Ot ca there Uc fete tat team covered. Facts, new and old, that add elarity and meaning to the news are honestly injected. The very latest and most interesti: f illustrate the ing news photographs sae facts. More than a million readers. ibe now ee eee a ek ae “SID” EIN-,, Push-Button Tuning PHILCO 7C A powerful, eleartoned, smartly de- model with a weahh ror tactadine 38 Saas inet of wae Q” foy it! Only... Speake Button Tas: ing. Beautiful modern cab- Walnut. 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