The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 12, 1939, Page 2

AGE TWO The Key West Citizen Sunday By ING ©0., IN President and. Publis! r Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County J at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use tion of all news dispatches credited to wise credited in this paper and also 8 published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES “he for the One Year Six Months Three Months One Month We y $10.00 - 5.00 ADVERTISING RATES known on application. AL NOTICE s of thanks, resolutions of will be charged for at Made _notic 8, All re: aang | | ents a line, 1 rtainment by churches from which | derived are 5 cents a line. | n is an open forum and invites discus- | sues and subjects of local or general | t but it will not publiah anonymous communi. cations, | | SSS 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. Co i eee Jokes that are clever and clean seem to be rare. The grandest vision some men haye is | a mental picture of themselves. One thing nice about wishing, there is no hard work connected with it. Facing facts may be unpleasant but the practice is the beginning of progress. The tax dodger is the one who makes the tax burden so heavy for those who do pay. Some object to dial telephones be- ise they miss the pleasure of giving the atient operator a bawling out. The world, we are told, is full of “yes men,” but none ever seem to get jobs in bank loan departments.—Tarpon Springs Leader. Congratulations to Councilmen Dough- try, Freeman and “Jim” Roberts for their business acumen in declining to vote for the parking meters, en | Since seeing a picture of General Hugh S. Johnsor in “Life’’ in the act of shaving himself, we have come to the con- clusion there might be something in the | Darwinian theory, after all. Senator Pepper said in Washington the other day: “If America can remem- ber its origin and have dinned into its ears like a constant refrain the hopes and the dreams of our forefathers...” But what would our forefathers say if they heard the senator’s endorsement and advocacy of the ephemeral Townsend J If the city council should insist in bringing parking meters into Key West, it will be confronted with the task of supply- ing watchmen so the meters will not be mutilated and the contents stolen, though the latter will be of least concern, as they | will not be used to any great extent during the winter months and practically not at | all in the “good old summer time.” There | is still ocular evidence of what vandals did to the street lights. Mayor Albury should unhesitatingly decline to sign a contract | with any parking meter company. | While there will be a fight on the ap- | pointment of former Governor Frank Murphy, there is no question he_ will -re- tain his place in the Cabinet. The objec- tion to him is that he should not have.nulli- fied the orders of Michigan “jufiges’. who issued orders from the bénch to check’the outrageous sitdown strikes.’ The.fact that | he interfered with the courts is urged as a reason why his appointment as Attorney- General should be rejected by the Senate. | When however it is considered that he lis- | tened to the “voice of his master” who has | now rewarded him, the Senate, neverthe- | leas, will condone the appointment, though it is a unit in saying he displayed weak- ness in doing so and that the Atterney- General, whose job it is te see that the | laws of the land are not violated, should be | made of sterner stuff, i | ments this city has to offer, | ment at any time. WE NEED BEACH FACILITIES Complaints reaching The Citizen to the effect that South Beach, sometimes | known as Rest Beach, is in an unsanitary 1 ' condition and needs attention, give rise to the question—what has become of the | movement to provide this city with ade- quate beaches and bathing facilities? South Beach certainly is in a deplor- able condition. To it every visitor with a yen for a dip in the ocean off this southern- most island travels to South Beach. It is clogged with sea weed, floating debris and | filth and is ore of the poorest advertise- | Just who is responsible for this condi- tion? Certainly not the owners, who per- | mitted the beach to be used by the public | when the rehabilitation program was put | into effect under the FERA. The owners, the majority of whom hail from Boston made a verbal agreement for public use of the beach and may abrogate that agree- | FERA workmen used | to keep the beach clean and sanitary and later the WPA performed somewhat the same function under the mulch project for use of the collected seaweed as a fertilizer. | Now the beach is another public or- phan. The owners won’t do anything about keeping the spot in good condition and the city apparently cannot perform the same task because of a shortage of funds. Then, too, if the city did have the | mcney and did desire to maintain the | beach, the owners reportedly would re- quest cancellation of back taxes and de- mand freedom from taxation while the | beach was in public use. The whole thing gets back to the self- evident fact that Key West needs a beach of her own where our home folks and the | visiting public might disport themselves in i clean sand and a surf kept free of seaweed and debris. The Citizen urged this vital improvement time and time again in the past and for a time last spring it seemed as though Key West was going to get some action along that Tine. County commission, the WPA and several civic organizations interested themselves in a proposal to make surveys along the south shore of the island to de- termine the most suitable spot for a beach on publicly controlled land. Nothing seems to have been done lately to forward that program—and it is time this city recog- nized the fact that if she wants to hecome a tourist center she will have to furnish the tourist with adequate surf and hathing facilities. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editar of The Key West Citizen On the field where the decisive battle of Saratoga was fought during the Revolu- tionary War, a plaque has been placed commemorating the event. The names of the 16 American generals who parti- cipated in the battle are inscribed on the plaque, and in second place is that of Bene- dict Arnold, who subsequently turned traitor. Miss Anna Cohen of Brooklyn did a | little gang busting on her. own account when three men tried to rab her. She poked one on the jaw, nearly bit a finger off another and kickéd the third | stomach. They all fled. When police in New Orleans accused Ovell Bennett of robbery, he turned his empty pockets inside out and shook his head. But his jaws bulged suspiciously, so the cops pried his mouth open and found seven $1 bills. When Philip Barasch was convicted in Chicago of obtaining $39 under false pretenses, the judge offered to free him if he would repay it. “Judge, I’ve got $8,” said the defendant. “Could you loan me $31?” “I judge the world, I don’t take it on my shoulders,” replied the judge, Mrs, Irene Meltreger, a former investi- gator for the government, told Judge Sab- bath of Chicago that when she cooked an eight-course dinner as a surprise fer he# husband, Edgar, he threw it at her course by course, She was granted a divorce. Radios will be barred from the county | jail at Yakima, Wash., by Sheriff Jasper | Day when. he takes office this month, While their radio was going full blast a few days ago, five prisoners sawed the cell bars and escaped, but all were later recap- j tured, in - the | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | WHAT INSPECTION SERVICES H DO FOR NATIVES OF FLORIDA | While most of us know that the state maintains a variety of in- | spection services, few of us know | why, and a lot of folks are inclin- ed to look down their nase at, | the whole business, contending | that such seryices are unneces-; sary and were originally estab- lished to provide jobs for the faithful and at the same time ex- |‘ pense and annoyance for the tax- payer and the public. One reason for this is that the principle mental exercise most of us get is jumping at conclusions. | We form our apinions without | any facts or information, Another ; lis that state officials have been (lax in previding such data, and : |so the effective wark they do is often yeiled in deep mystery, lit- | tle understood and not appre¢iat- ed. t Destroy Unfit Merchandise | Last week I happened to meet | Phil C. Taylor, chief of the in- | spection bureau of the State De- | partment of Agriculture, that op- | erates directly under Commission- er Nathan Mayo, and I learned a lot of things I never knew be- | fore about the various inspection , services maintained for your and | my protection, Day in and day out a corps of | trained, experienced inspectors keep busy examining foodstuffs, | meats, butter, eggs, canned goods, ' gasoline, fertilizer, insecticides, citrus fruit and a lot of other, things, and annually destroy mil-| | lions of cans, packages and car-} | tons of merchandise found to he! below standard, adulterated, off} grade, impure or otherwise unfit! for consumption. { Check Weighing Equipment Pumps, weighing machines and jseales in factories, wholesale | houses and in retail establish-} | ments are constantly tested to in-| sure full weight and measure, and when you stop to consider the’ number of plants, warehouses and | | stores to he checked, you can be-| | gin to appreciate what a gigantic; | task it is. The foodstuffs inspection divi- | sion is one of the most important} services maintained by the state and their constant vigilance safe- guards the health and _pocket- books of millions who would oth- | erwise be at the mercy of un-, scrupulous tradesmen. Housewives Are Fooled While most merchants are hon- | est and try to give fair value, | there are others who try to get ! by with short weight, misrepre- | TOO LATE TQ CLASSIFY ¥ oo By RUSSELL KAY eoceneese eeeovence @ertecnoe edbeo: | sentation and sometimes down-| right fraud. The housewife in search of | “bargains” is easy to fool and is! often taken advantage of. Items offered at ridiculously low prices should be looked on with more or less suspicion, for while’ deal- ers often do offer high-grade mer- chandise as “loss leaders”, many so-called “bargains” are high at’ any price. Butter, for example, under federal and state stand- ards should not contain over 16 percent moisture. It has been found to contain as high as 60 percent moisture by state inspec- tors. Destroy $4.000 of Tomato Puree Recently inspectors destroyed over $4,000 worth of canned to-, mato puree, which examination by chemists revealed was unfit to eat, being residue, parings, and waste from a tomato factory. Cans have been found to be un- der size, to haye false battoms' and contents not up to standard in the required proportion of liquids and solids. Customers are often misled in, the purchase of grits, meal, sugar and other items purchased by the! grocer in bulk and repacked in paper bags. Repacked goods are| most frequently found to be short weight. Sugar “Catch” In one distributor’s retail store, 2 lb. cartons of sugar were prom- inently displayed at a sale price’ of 12c with a large stack of small paper bags displayed near the factory-packed cartons, these bags being offered for 10c. The catch in it was, the store had packed these paper bags which only weighed 20 ounces, but the, weight shown on the bag was ‘marked with a “2” very legible and the “0” so scrambled with the “OZ” that the customer would just see the “2” and think she. was getting 2 lbs. of sugar, -and naturally she would take the re- packed 20 oz. paper bags at, 10.,, passing up the full 2 lb. carton at 12c. The safest and surest way to insure full weight and full value is to purchase known and adver- tised brands that come factory- packed, for their quality is stand- ard and their weight exact. But it is too long a story to at- tempt to tell in one column, so I'll tell you more at a later date. But don’t ever get the idea that | inspection service isn’t necessary and worthwhile, for it is, and Commissioner Mayo . deserves great credit for the way he has maintained it. | From The Files The boat now under construc-) tion for the Monroe county high- way ferry system will be launch- ed in about two weeks, according to reparts from the Gibbs Ship- building company in Jackson- | ville, The reports were read at the meeting of the county com- missioners last night. The coun- ty will receive $1,146 from the in- surance company which carried the insurance on the loss and damages caused by the fire in the county court house January 1. Giant Navy Dirigible Los An- gelés will be seen over Miami 8 o'clock this morning and will) later pass over such cities as are, included in the itinerary of the’ vessel. The dirigible is scheduled to leave for the airship’s mooring yessel, Patoka, tin St. Jaseph’s) Bay, according to information re- | ceived at the naval station by Captain R. W. McNeely, com- | mandant of the naval station and district in Key West. i Se ES | Federal Reserve Bankers will | pass through Key West Monday | morning. They will arrive on the! Stedmship Cuba enroute to Ha-| | vana, coming from Washington | and Atlanta. Mr. and Mrs. W. H., | Norman will leave on S.S. Cuba this evening for Tampa, where they will meet the party Sunday | and return with them. Mrs. Nor- | man's brother, Oscar Newton, is, chairman of the board of direc- | tors of the Atlanta Reserve Bank, | |and will be a member of the! | party. Every Saturday night from 7:30 until 9:30 o'clock, Boy | Seouts of Key West will direct | | traffic at various points through- | | out the eity and will also eH in directing visitors. ot their de-| sired destinations. Left turns | ‘are allowed-on Eaton and Duval streets and Simonton ond Flem-| ing streets, only. Porter Dock Compan; ceipt of information which gives the knowledge of the Tug Warb- | time, KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken Of The Citizen FS ler being dispatched to the assist- ance of the American tank steam- er Trinidad, reported in distress near Gilbert Shoals, Florida coast. The Warbler has been away from this port for some and was on her way to| Key West from Jacksonville, when she was advised of the! Trinidad’s trouble. | Editorial comment:: Ex means you was but you ain’t”, said a Tennessee darky in defining the term ex-president. There are a number of persons who are be- ginning to realize that this defi-| nition is as correct as it is crude, so far as public office is con-} cerned. | Passenger steamer Henry R.} Mallory of the Clyde-! -Mallory | Line will arrive Monday night | from Galveston enroute to New York. The Pawnee is expected tomorrow morning from New Or- leans with heavy tonnage for or port. Telegram has been received in the city announcing the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Boza in their home in Galveston, Texas. Mrs. Boza was before marriage Miss Nellie Camus,! daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Camus, 1327 Simonton street, this city. Lovell highway lines speed boat, which was to have started service yesterday, was delayed beeause of engine trouble but will probably be placed in serv- ice next Monday. This was told by Mr. Lovell at the meeting of, county commissioners last night. | CHILD t won EAL. EAT TODAY’S COMMON ERROR Do not say, say, “He ‘was re- fused a pardon”; say, “A pardon’ was refused to him”. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE) Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn Page 4 for the answers 1. What is an epitaph? Name the Secretary of Com-! merce who resigned re-, cently. Name the chief seaport of | British Somaliland. loved Disciple”? an ment trial of President Andrew Johnson. What is the correct pronun- ciation of the word hori- zon? Name the great lyric poet of Scotland. What is the name for the branch of agriculture deal- ing with vegetables and ornamental ; plants? What does matriculate mean? On what sort of food do chameleons live? ENTERS DRIVE ON ‘MARCH OF DIMES’ JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 12 S (FNS).—W. T. Edwards, appoint- | ed state chairman for the state- wide campaign to raise funds for the celebration of the President’s birthday and infantile paralysis foundation, announced this week that Hon. Colin English, state su- perintendent of public instruc- tion, had been placed in charge’ of the drive to be made through the schools of the state to be, known as the “March of Dimes”, and stated that Florida could be} counted on to do her full share in support of this worthy cause. Who was called “The Be-/ Name the Chief Justice who/ presided over the impeach-! THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1939 re Points Of Interest KEY WEST LIGHTHOUSE (Whitehead and Division) The Key West Lighthouse was | originally constructed on White- | head’s spit in 1825. The present { lighthouse was built in 1846 to re- place the former structure. It has | the distinction of being the fur- | thest inland of any lighthouse in the United States. The structure | is 91 feet high and the light is | visible for at least 15 miles. Prior | to the establishment of this light | losses of vessels wrecked on the surrounding shoals ran into mil- lions of dollars. In the yard are | many interesting Key West trees and an aviary of vari-colored | tropical birds. | OPEN-AIR AQUARIUM (Whitehead and Front) Only open-air, tropical aqua- rium in the country. With natural j coral rock and flora the back- | grounds of the tanks resemble the habitats of the 600 varieties of fish in these waters, more than five times the number found in any other part of the country. | Larger fish and turtle are in crawls at the rear. A crawfish aa bs LICENSES 1911 CAR MOUNT AYR, Ia.—Asa , Rains drove up to the courthouse to get 1939 license plates for his 1911 ; automobile. It is a two-cylinder single seater with neither top “or windshield. He said it gives him unintereunie’ service. At 5e per glass, fresh Florida | citrus juice can become the na- tional health drink if citrus grow- ers and dispensers will cooperate in the promotion of the statewide campaign in Florida this winter, states Burton H. Schoepf (pro- nounced Chef) of Tamiami Trail , Tours, daddy of the 5c juice idea. raising fruits, | If the national defense plans are carried out it is almost cer- tain that work will be resumed ' on the construction of the Florida Cross State Canal, which has the | full endorsement of War Depart- ment officials and is recognized | as imperative from a defense standpoint. |THE ISLAND CITY hatchery is also here. To the right is the Art Center, with many excellent paintings of the city. Art classes are held. To the left in the Department of Com- merce building is an exhibit of S, lights, lighthou: beacons, channel markers used in these waters. OLD BAHAMA HOUSES (Eaton and William) Floated over on schooners in 1865 from Abaco, Bahamas, were this home and that adjoining. They were built of cypress by ship carpenters. Original wooden posts and barrel poured concrete are the feundations. Notice the old style doors and windows, no two alike. Railings and columns | are in solid picees mortised and | joined as strongly as in a ship. On the right side of the house may be noticed a style of differ- ent widths of boarding, a quaint bay, an attic window with 24 old- style small panes. The cistern is the original. Coping on the gable is of unique cut. The house is on the southeast corner and: the adjoining one is on William street. Members of the Florida Nation- al Exhibits studios have spent the past few days in the woods hol- lowing out a huge live oak, four feet in diameter, which will bend realistically over the Suwannee River in the Florida Exhibit spectorama picturizing Stephen Foster's ballard at the New York World’s Fair. YOU,T00, SHOULD TRY cRwUlSi Cees és CHICAGO and the Mid-West 4 Hours to Chicago via Florida Motor Lines and Greyhound’s new CHICAGO- FLORIDA luxury limaited...All seats reserved, white stewards, through passengers pillows, no local stops... ly. 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