The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 14, 1939, Page 2

THE Kily WEST CITIZEN PAGE TWO The Ke y 31 fs gt Citizen | HOUSING BENEFITS STRESSED Co-operation of city council in the | movement being advanced by the Key | West Housing Authority for better housing | facilities for white and colored families in | the low-income group is sought in a com- munication just addressed the council- = | manic body by J. Fred Dion, Franklin E. fi news dispatches credited to | Albert, J. Lancelot Lester, Wallace B. | SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1939 het, TO THOSE G2°R Fite T° cee OF Pontiff Thanks Jew Pope Pius XI has received the} U. S. Senator James H. Hughes | eleyenth yolume of The Detailed) Jr, of Delaware, born in Kent | Description of the French Alps, | Co., Del., 72 years ago. | which was presented to him by: a ‘ the author, Paul Helbronner of! Hendrik Van Loen of New - | York, autbor-historian, born. in the French Academy of Sciences. | Fotisnd, oes ago. —' in a personal letter of apprecia- igs? iP es ey , tion His Holiness congratulated . John Dos Passos of Proyince- TEST ¥ oO UR ' the author for his thorough aay! town, Mass., author, born in Chi- KNOWLE DGE | and description of nature's beau- | cago, 43 years ago. masta ‘ i ties, so apt to arouse in souls the} SS * desire of reaching the heights! Pe. Henry B. Smith aati i i ; f Pennsylvania,» :not iloso- ;from which {t is possible to con-! © , : | template the spiritual world’s | Per ae in Philadelphia, | 57 of! inexpressible splendors. ‘ sas) Jews Pray For Pope {| Dr. Raymond M. Hughes, presi- The Maccabean Post, No. 32,) dent emeritus of the lowa State 3 ! You and Your , ||| "*sscr""" | Nation’s Affairs “Expand or Explode” Do not say. “The actor's rendition of the role was superb": say, “interpreta- tion” or “performance of the role”. il news dispatches credited to | - dited in this paper and alo | pit. ang Hugh Williams, members of the By ERNEST MINOR PAPTERSON | local agency. | President, American Academy of Political and Social Science He 00 | In applying for funds with which to | _ Not so many years ago, Munsosin) |: Shay make 9 bad situation tar | ei 283 carry the project toward consummation, was rpodied fo bave fd He was wate. rg re hee of 72,000,000 | Cen you Answer seven of these “the Key West Housing Authority stresses | *!s° quoted as announcing: a eR io aut estions? = Turn to these benefits that will accrue if the pro- i wy milltods these fnlllions are of ation feat aut | | gram is successful: First, the project will Hierro potlitiien ae tories bette st: | provide new and better living conditions | for those now living in over-crowded Today's F Birthdays esce y Except Sunday By } PUBLISHING CO. INC. » President and Publisher , Assistant Business Manager he Citizen Building eene and Ann Streets ily Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Florida, as second class matter Three Months One Month Weekly "*. ) 55 ADVERTISING RAT! MAIS knbwn Sn a | 1. Where is the republic ks, resolutions of | 3 ll be charged for at adorable ° pen- | 000. in other countries | 25 fisule. with ita] who chad ied th te os tore | Honduras? t parents once lived there. They may | 2. What is the lowest noncom- | too man t hurches from which deriyed are 5 cents a line. « {san open forum and invites discus- » of publicdigs@es and subjects of local or general but it will not publish anonymous communi- iM} ROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprchensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. The selfish man is usually an ignorant | man. Order, discipline and cleanliness are also a part of moral education, a ——— | Compliments continue to be a_ sure way to win favor with individuals. “Hope springs eternal in the human breast,”’ and Today ever carries in it the promise of a greater and happier Tomor- row. Strange but true—it takes less time to do a task and do it right than to explain why you did not do it or why you did it wrong. Hitler intimates that the Jews in Ger- many are being treated as well as Negroes in the United States, but there is no rush of Negroes to get into Germany. i While Congress cannot deny citizens the right to advocate Communism, Naziism, ‘or Fascism, the Congressional Committee investigating un-Americanism says it can “focus the spotlight of publicity” on sub- _: versive activities and thus hinder their ad- vance, Public spending has reathed a point where no one man, in spite of his best ef- forts and intentions, can call a halt. A halt can only be called; if at all, when the public wills it. And unless the public wills it, the country faces national bank- ruptcy. That is the plain unvarnished truth! : The magnificent Gothic Cathedral] in _Milan, Italy, begun in the year 1868, ac- cording to legend can never be completed. ~The memory of that sublime construction wil] ever remain indelibly impressed on the minds of those privileged to behold it. The ~ writer started to count the statues that are a part of the imposing structure and when several hundred had been accounted for was informed that the cathedral contained | 4,000. Recently this column carried an item ~ to the effect that the oldest Baptist Church “in Florida is located at Key West. This | drew a reply from Edwin B. Browning, | “superintendent of public instruction of Madison County, who wrote in part: “TI | have read with deep pleasure your series | of articles relating to Key West Baptist | Church, purported to be the oldest in the | State- Under,separate cover I am sending | ~you data tending to establish the fact that | Concord Baptist Church, in this county, | affiliated at.present;with Mercer Baptist ~_Associatign, is older than the church men- “tioned, being constructed in 1841. You will find a’history of this church in His- | torical Annual sent you and a_ record of | this church in minutes of association in the | back.” Historical data as contained in the | above is always welcomed by this column. | —Times-Union. If the Concord Baptist | “ehureh was established in 1841, it ante-| dates the Key West Baptist church by a! year, for the earliest recorded data of any Baptists meeting for worship in this city was on December 20, 1842. \ i | houses, but who are able to pay a reason- | able rental; second, that it would give work at good wages to Key West workmen | because the project will involve an expen- diture of several hundred thousand of dol- lars and the government insists on pay- ment of prevailing wages; third, that it | would enhance the value of surrounding | | real estate because for each new dwelling unit a sub-standard structure must be de- | molished. Similar projects have been started or | are about to be started through allocation Jacksonville, - Miami, prove to the federal lending agency that the needs here for such housing facilities | is probably greater than in any other Flor- ida city. 4 As everyone knows, large numbers of | of United States Housing Authority funds | | in Daytona Beach, | Orlando, Pensacola, St. Petersburg, Sara- | sota, Tampa: and West Palm Beach. Key | West Housing Authority is prepared | : ch old dwellings in which families in the low- | income brackets formerly been torn down within the last year. families thus homes have doubled up and many of them are reportedly living under extremely crowded, unsanitary and deplorable con- ditions. Such habitations are the breed- ing places of disease and criminal ten- dencies in children—factors that affect everyoue in the community. Disease germs and criminals, play no favorites: It seems to. The Citizen that the city council will be serving all of the citizens of this community if it‘allots sufficient money to the Key West Housing Authority to en- able it to make the proper applications for funds to the United States Housing Au- thority, to conduct what surveys and studies that may be necessary, to negotiate for building sites and to follow up the ap- plications with effective arguments for an early earmarking of cash to build ° suffi- cient dwellings here decently -to house those entitled to them. An ounce of housing protection is worth more than a pound of health and police protection. The THE GAS TAX MARCHES ON The thirty million motorists in the United States paid gasoline taxes to the amount of nearly one billion dollars dur- ing the past twelve months, according to the American Petroleum Industry’s Com- mittee. This is about four times the gasoline tax paid by the motorists in 1927. How- ever, with some exceptions, the receipts from the gasoline’ tax have -beén used to improve highways. Undoubtedly, the na- | tion’s roads are much better today than they were in 1927. This means economy to those who operate automobiles. There are some who believe that the savings to motorists in operating and maintenance costs off-set the tax collected. So far as we can determine, there is no use to agitate for any appreciable re- duction in the tax on gasoline. With con- stant demand for better and bigger high- ways, there will be millions of dollars to be spent on roads every year. This will take money and the average legislator will continue to think that the bulk of the funds should come from a gasoline tax. HIGH AND LOW POINTS The highest and lowest points in the United States are located within eighty- six miles of each other. Approximately 2,100 square miles of dry land in this country are below sea level, nearly all of which is in California, and Death Valley is the lowest, 276 feet | | below the level of the sea. Within eighty-six miles riges Mt. Whit- ney, the highest mountain peak in the United States, with an elevation of 14,496 fect, according to maps of the Geological Survey. deprived of their former | |when the catch began to come mountains an its soil which cannot nourish so many... Hence it is ob- vious that the roblem of Italian expan: sion in the problem of lite — . lem of life : and death for the Italian race. 1 say expansion: ex: pansion in every sense: moral, polit graphical.” ti that the population of I Raa tA clad maulligg. It 19 3 2d that this Is ver, for a country so short of natura! through large resources. Relief of emigration to other countries seems a reasonable idea, at least from the Italian viewpoint, although the prd- posal for moral and political éxpan- sion may be sharply ged. So we rub oureyes ioe Sade m an i lated ake] pati rom guoti rom the newspaper bth di Roma 2 \t all ot Italian race liv- ing abroad should ‘return to Italy. This same paper calculates that in all foreign countries combined. there are 28,000,000 Italians in race and blood and that if they should be “re- patriated” the population of Italy would become 72,000,000. Whether such an idea s seriously considered by the Italian government and wonder resided have | is another matter, but Mussolini on one occasion announced: “If Italy wants to count for something, it must appear on the threshold of the sec- think of themselves as Italians. Sup- pose. they returned to Italy where there aré already about 350 persons per square mile. Italy has a relative- ly poor soil and comparatively few mineral and other natural resources. The peninsula is one “with its too ; many mountains and its soil which cannot nourish so many.” If its popu- lation were to be considerably ‘in- creased, there might really be “explosion.” - We may dismiss the idea of large scale repatriation. But what about the pressures already there? Many disquieting rumors are being circu- La about meonaaie strain and pub- ic discontent. There are three possi- ble lines of relief, short of an explo- sion, One is to Jessen the pare by a lower birth rate. This is not feasible because public and especi gov- ernment opinion is so ly against,.it, pt would be a very slow method of reducing numbers. A ‘second method of relief is emi- gration from italy. Here, again, there is no probability that anything will be done. Restrictions on e: tion are numerous, the-return of Italians living abroad is encouraged, and other countries have ‘no desire at Pfseent to receive immigrants on a large scale. The third method is to relieve the tension by a larger development of foreign trade, This means lowering of import restrictions by Italy against foreign products and by other coun- tries against Italian products. But the excessive and almost savage nation- jline, thinking ond half of the century with a popu- | alism of the P Jation of not less than 60.000,000"in- | talk of national habitants.” Hitherto he has been urg- | this method almost as difficult as the ing a higher birth rate as the means | other two. for attaining this goal. Presumably we Americans need mot expect ‘congistency in others since we are ourselyes so inconsis- tent. But contradictory policies are not only apt to defeat each other. Italy but elsewhere. (Address questions to the author. care of this newsnaner) tions on trade barriers, then the pres- 28 oe toa “KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Age Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen | Senator Fletcher, with his will) A nine and a half pound baby looking forward. toward estab- arrived’ at the home of Mr. and coos ; Mrs. Howard Williams, rear of prided Re F scape dan afar 1009 Eaton Street, this morning. transforma state liability into. Basketball team of the Univer- the greatest asset the state has. | sity of Havana passed through It is worthy of note that if.this' the city last evening enroute to area is conyerted into a National | Points in Floris ia i ee er Park it will be the only tidewa- | 82™mes- is Sap daig eis mela ter National Park in the United ny Key West on the return States. What this would mean|‘ P home. to Key West, the nearest port to - fate i the Hey it is difficult Fi esti-' First game of the Bridge war mate at this time. It is stated| tournament to be held under the that 6,500,000 people visit the na-| 2uspices of the American Legion tional parks annually. If only | will take place this eyening at one-sixth of this number were to| the La Concha Hotel. An en- visit the winter paradise at Cape | joyable evening of entertain- Sable and were to spend only) ment is guaranteed all who at- two weeks in the state and limit tend. their expenditures to three dol- lars a day, the people in Florida; An automobile containing 15 would havé a new income of $21,-| sacks of German beer was cap- 000,000 every year. Unsuited to| tured last night and, the driver, economic development this sec-! Luis Mesa, was placed under ar- tion of the state, about 250 square, rest at Saddle Bunches. ‘ Offi- miles, it eminently-is suited. to} cers of the sheriff's force saw the preserve to'mankind and all fu-/ car as it was:proceeding along ture generations, the unique the highway:soward Key West. charm,of Tropical Florida, charms; Mesa was to be given a hearing ; that ate doomed to disappear, ihis afternoon. without able and competent au-} thority to maintain them .un-: Tug Petrel of the Porter Dock spoiled. “The big thing is that! Co. returned to port during the we can”, it is said, “if this be-) day with a sick man who was comes. a national project, invite) taken off the Steamer O. T. Wa- the world to share in our enjoy-| ring out in the Gulf. The man ment.of Florida out-of-doors, with} was brought ahsore to ihe Pe the assurance that the things we) rine hospital dock and plac enjoy will be destroyed by the) the institution. — hosts that will come in response : to our invitation. While out fishing the other day, Billie Warren woh a nice prize for landing a nice one, then’ it turned out to be not a fish. After hours of tugging, Billie was advised by a person in an- other boat, “Give me what is on that line and I will give you a silver spoon bait”. Billie agreed to the offer and started hauling If; you want to enjoy a* laugh a minute, go to the Garden Thea- ter tonight and see the produc- tion of “Nobody’s Baby”. If you Kant Laff, Dont Kum, is the warning. up. In high spirits and cy, Billie continued to hat ng that a catch which d make them sit up and take! 4° resent time and the | self-sufficiency make j If all of us cannot see our way H clear to relieve some of the restric- | sures will continue and theré may be stiH more explosions — not only in { 5 missioned rank in the U.| S. Army? How many republics were represented at the recent Pan-American conference at Lima, Peru? i What are homonyms? Which river of Panama sup- plies the water to operate the locks of the Panama Canal? What is the correct pronun- ciation of the word incom-! parable? Can the Panama Canal ac-' commodate the large Steamship Queen Mary? What is the name for the ceremony of crownjng the sovereign of a manarchical country? ~ : What isa moratorium? Name the four major plan- ets of the solar system. oeescveesecesecs WHO KNOWS? (See “The Answers” on Page 4) | | Seesgoeeneooes eopecge: 1. Who controls the giant Skoda arms factory? 2. When did the Spanish civil war begin? 3. When did Germany and Great Britain sign a naval trea- ty? 4. Can glass be made visible? i 5. How many workers are on the WPA rolls? 6. What was the highest na- tional income? 7. Is there a wheat surplus in the U. S.? ° 8. (What is the work of the Temporary Natiowal Economic Committee? Treas 9. Is the new Jefferson nickel, to be withdrawn from circula-, ; tion? 10. When was horn? } } 4 osebe: oe in- Jesus Christ eraoreioe "pans ©. 1k aE, i The EGGS one week. | York rohpe SOOOY aH. Citizens of Key West MOSQUITO FACTS The female MOSQUITO lays eggs on any accumula- tion of water, howeyer small, inside or outside the house. EGGS hatch into larvae (wigglers) in about forty-. LARVAE (wigglers) become pupae tumblers in about PUPAE tumblers becomes MOSQUITOS on the wing Prevent Mosquito Breeding Prevent access of Mosquitos to water Inspect your Rain Barrels, Cisterns, Tubs, Urns, Oil It is a continuous fight—Do your part, help control the pest and henefit your city and yourself. (This space contributed by The Citizen) American Legion, the membership. College, born at Atlantic, Iowa, of which is predominantly Jew-| 66 years ago. ish, unanimously adopted a reso- lution, at a November meeting,! tugh Lofting of Madison, ae Sa oe oe tag! Conn. author and _ illustrator, ness of Pope ius 42. “Pope Pius ' born in England, 53 years ago. has endeared himself to all man-! °°" ‘> “n8 = . kind, irrespective of race or creed, F s stenie +... Thorntcn W. Burgess of Spring- by his social-justice preachings,i 214, Mass, nature writer, born his sorrow for all human beings} i born in the image of the Crea-; at Sandwich, Mass. 85 years ago. tor. . .and his brave ana timely | ‘ Bebe Daniels, oldtime, screen utterances on behalf of freedom} . and justice. |Star, born at Dallas, Tex., ‘38 “The world can ill afford, in! Years ago. i this hour of anguish and discon-j tent, to lose the voice and per- T, W. Monkhouse, who broke ‘sonality of this Pope of peace, | the world’s velocipede record jn whose admonitory words to men, 1898, has married again at the in high places, who have forgot- #g¢ of 80 in Harrogate, England. ten Gdd, are as a thunder from! —————— paneapeennreneliaieaae’ Heayen”, nae pines i the pesolu- ition, ny He "of which fae tae] wardéd! to the Apostolic Delegate in Washington, D. C. Jew:Chri ogram The recently:erganized New table of the National Confere! of: Jews and Chris- tians has annowfced its intention of inaugurating an extensive pro- giam for the purpose of promot- ing better inter-group relations throughout Greater New York. -—From the N. D. de Sion, Kansas City. Ask Your Grocer For Strong’ Arm BRAND COFFEE |= the Key West trade over thirty-five years! NO for’ Famous Reef - Tarpon - Permit - Bone Fishing ; Cottages—$1 per person and up Stone Crab Dinners a Specialty Phone No Name Key No. 1. ~ For Information | ee CASA MARINA Key West's Retehcns sone 200 Delightful Rooms, Each:” With Private Bath . Beautiful Cocktail Lounge +. DANCING NIGHTLY | Dave Garson’s Orchestra PETER SCHUTT, Manager e ee * may 2 Today’s Horoscope Pe erergeespreceuccccces Today has sincerity as its key- note, and the native will be use- ful and orderly. Many are the paths leading to success, and the vein of mysticism, which runs. through the ten days on either side of this date has its climax! here. ! \ Be |e SES | ‘Argentina has postponed the; e opening of its Grand National Fair from January 1, 1939, to} April, 19, its, Independence Day. 1 OOOO Ia EMME. look like pieces of soot on the water. IIALZLAALLALALALLAALAALAAALABDLALLALLALALAALALAAL LAL AA s CLM hh hak de had hdd dk ahedkhakah hudhahhed,