The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 19, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO : The Key West Citizen lished Daily Except Sunday By aTiZ) PUBLISHING CO., INC. JAN, ent and Publisher Assistant Business Manager om The Citizen Building 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 all news dispatches credited to | it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATE Year mnths Months NEW RESIDENTS WELCOME As everyone in Key West knows, this city for many years was more or less isolated. The mainland could be reached, | of course, but such a trip usually was not only expensive, but consumed much time | and caused considerable trouble. The re- ' sult was that only a relatively few native | Key Westers ever had a great deal of con- tact with the mainland and mainlanders. Now all this is changed. Key West | | is closely connected with the mainland | ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of | respect, obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. tices for entertainment by churches from which @ revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. | is not as expensive as formerly. and mainlanders are entering the city by | the thousand, as the records of the Over- seas Road and Toll Bridge district attest. | More than ever Key Westers are able to | go to the mainland. Many go every day. It is becoming a commonplace trip, and it Many of i | our citizens have acquired a broader view- | 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. The cure for anger is silence. Try it, and if you find this column is wrong, we’ll take it back. The glib talkers are the boys who put | the “men” in investment, often with dis- | astrous results, If you think a 12-year-old mind is too childish for you, try working the 7th grade problems of a Key West lad. Isn’t it peculiar that hard times stop few automobiles; the owners seem to be able always to buy gasoline or do they stick the stations? People who are always up in the air about something, should remember that the next war will be fought in the air, ac- cording to experts. Florida scenery we hope to enjoy— but never have: That island-studded coast line from Fort Myers to Key West.— Times--Union. So sorry. We are happy to know Key West men don’t call their wives ‘angel’? because they haven’t any clothes, are always up in the air, and never stop harping. The wife who tries to regulate her husband’s business usually has her time well taken up and not much of it left to attend to her own household affairs. It is the stupid mind that has no turn- ing; obstinacy is not mental strength, it is | positively obstructive for it is not amenable to reason. Gold is mallable, pig-iron is | not. Advertise what you have to sell and | sell it. Don’t advertise and keep your, goods on the shelf to remain shop-worn | and be bought a long time later to non- | advertisement readers for new material. The individual is advised to put some- thing (money) aside for a rainy day. Why | does not the same wholesome advice hold | good for the government? It would if it | | here to live—and when he offers to serve the city he is entitled to every honor and | utilizing neutron rays, discovered only a point, which enables them to see beyond , the end of this island. Among the thousands who come to. Key West this season will be a certain per- | centage of men and women who will like the city and who will want to come here to live, at least a part of each year. Gen- | erally they are fairly well-to-do and there- fore able to pay fair prices fot the rental of | homes, to buy a home or to purchase a lot | and build a house of their own design. The minute they come here to live . these men and women are no longer stran- | gers. They pay rent or pay taxes. Part of | the rent they pay to the people of Key West goes for taxes, so in a sense everyone of these folks are taxpayers and residents | of this community. As such they are en- | titled to have a voice in the conduct of the community. The weight of their opinion in regard to public affairs is just as im- portant as that expressed by native Key Westers. This new blood will be good for Key West. The South Side association, organ- ized largely by new residents and prop- erty owners in that section of the city, is an example of the good accomplishments of newcomers. Three of the new property owners are donating their services in per- forming a value service to the city. They are making an audit of the city’s books— an audit that will enable the municipality to get on a sound financial basis. That is another example of the good this com- munity has derived from newcomers. Key Westers are courteous and hos- pitable. They’ll go out of their way to help a stranger. Once they realize the importance of new citizens and taxpayers they’ll do all théy can to help in any just cause proposed by the newcomers. The important thing is not whether a man was born in Key West, which after all is an ac- cident, but what a man stands for and does for this community is what counts. The new resident honors the city by coming consideration. Welcome, new residents! NEW CANCER TREATMENT Although its discoverers still have much: more work and experimenting to do beforeicpmplete success can‘be claimed, a new tréatment for cancer just announced by the National Cancer Advisory Council gives much promise. Briefly, the treatment consists in few years ago, to check a cancer’s malig- ant growth. These rays, under certain conditions, are capable of killing fiercely | active. cancer cells, the announcement THE KEY WEST CITIZEN . . . the HAPPY COMBINATION (J/end) of American and Turkish tobaccos in Chesterfield which gives millions more smoking pleasure. Chesterfield combines in rare degree qualities you’ll find in no other cigarette. In Chesterfield you’ll find refreshing mildness...better taste... more pleasing aroma. Itscan’t-be-copied blend «+a combination of the world’s best cigarette tobaccos...brings out the finer | fered to | pseudonym. qualities of each tobacco. When you try them you will know why Chesterfields give millions of men and women more smoking pleasure...why THEY SATISFY Chesterfield .»-the blend that can’t be copied .-. Lhe RIGHT COMBINATION Of the world’s best cigarette tobaccos PEOPLE’S FORUM Seeccvecesaceccceccegece DR. WARREN REPLIES Editor, The Citizen: « Replying to the article in Peo-/ ple’s Forum, January 18th, signed “Visitor”, I will state that I am not on my toes, I am not stand- ing on other’s toes but on my own feet and I have the courage to sign my name to the articles I write. ; Upon finding “flippers” or “springers” for sale or evidences of any spoiled food exhibited, it would have been less trouble, more effective and more in the line of constructive criticism (which I invite) had “Visitor” phoned the City Health Officer, giving the location of such an exhibit. I do not believe our merchants expect “Winter Guests” to pay more, and I do not know of any reason why “Winter Guests” should expect to pay more. Evi- dently you were expecting to pay less—hunting bargains. Was it the disappointment that griped you? “Spoiled food is dear at any, price, offering it for consumption in any form is unlawful, and when reported to me, offenders will be dealt with according to law. WILLIAM R. WARREN, City Health Officer. Phone 619, 511 Eaton St., Jan. 18, 1939. ee (Editor’s Note: “Visitor” did sign his name to the article re- above, besides the No contributions Seececececescenececeoeece | Miami will be unpleasantly sur- prised and not encouraged to stay. Restricted parking, as applied for years by other cities, has no drawbacks. It will mean plac- ing signs on the lamp posts in- | dicating the parking limit. These should be quickly paid for by fines collected—if the City Judge can be prevailed on not to throw the cases out. The police offi- |cer stationed on thé’ corner of | Duval and Fleming ‘streets, and | other strategic points, will have | to circulate around the block, | checking up on parked cars. It | is very simple and should demand no larger force than that requir- ed to check up on the meters. | I would suggest a 30-minute {parking limit in the congested {business areas during certain hours, 60 minutes on adjacent | side streets. and 10 minutes in | front of the Post Office and oth- jer busy public buildings. These ‘ limits could, be changed during the summer jseason if found de- sirable. In large cities there may be | justification for parking meters, just as there is for parking lots. But not in Key West—yet. I ‘believe that they will discourage | transient business in the stores, | will be resented by the ‘tourists, !and shunned by Key Westers. So} {why not adopt the obvious and | Sensible solution to our parking problem—restricted parking? H. P. CONNABLE. ; Key West, Fla., ‘Today’s Horoscop | | Today endows with a studious and thoughtful nature. The af- fections are deply rooted and in whatever path the life is led the soul will be uplifted in peaceful contemplation. A rather unprac- | THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1939 MARYLIN MESEKE, = of Marion, Ohio, chosen as the country’s most beautiful girl of the year. <p TODAY’s COMMON ERROR Do not say. reccllect ihe errand I asked you to do?” “remember”. tical person, but by no means a ee failure. A cosmopolitan group of stu- dents were on hand to register for the twelfth winter semester of Can you answer seven of these Webber College at Babson Park} test questions? Page 4 for the answers when it opened last week. Many} of the students enrolled for the business and finance courses are} graduates from famous American colleges and universities. Some have studied in foreign nations and one student came from Mex- 1co. 1, C. of C. and shows it to her friends, one of whom is anxious for an auto sticker to advertise | the Island City. | She says some of her friends desire to visit Key West. REV. A. L. MAUREAU, S.J. Key West, Fla., Jan. 19, 1939. EXPLAINS TAX LAWS Editor, The Citizen: Our state tax laws are not bad; and any little defects therein can be easily remedied. i The whole trouble consists in the way the laws are enforced. The Constitution says, “The leg-! islature shall provide a just andj equitable system of taxation”,| - and the State Supreme Court has| ¢® said, “Taxation is by the state. TEST YOUR Copyright 1939, LiccErr & Myses Tosacco Co. DESCRIPTION OF | ARTICLES GIVEN “Did you | A distinctive type advertise- ment is displayed in today’s issue x —- of The Citizen, sponsored by — Long’s Furniture Store. Calling attention to three of their main Instead say. KN OWL EDG E | departments—Li ving Room So | Do y living birds have teeth? Suites, Lamps and Rugs. . .the stocks are described and idlus- trated in “checkerboard” style. | Other appealing advertisements | are planned throughout the sea- son to apply on the long-term contract recently purchased by this store. Turn to species of Name the oldest of stringed | instruments. Which state is represented in Congress by Senator Al- ben Barkley? What is the unit of currency |, of Yugoslavia? Name the capital of the Re- public of Who is chairman of the Fed- eral Communications Gop mission? WwW vant? What is a third and a half of a third Name the state is the correct pronun- ciation of the word Yoday’s Birthdays Alexander Woolcott, author, journalist, wit, man of letters, born at Phalanx, N. J., 52 years Honduras. | ago. Rt, Rev. Charles Clingman, P. bishop of Louisville, Ky. born at Covington, Ky., 56 years ago. le- Ree ESS Sherwood Eddy of New York, author, onetime Y.M.C.A. secre- |tary for Asia, born at Leaven- worth, Kans., 68 years ago. of four? flower of Tennessee. At which wedding anniver- sary are given? | The Favorite In Key West silver presents Still Coughing? Even if other has Creomul. Sint Your aruseise fs out could not tax the people every time an em- | ‘ | States. — TRY IT TODAY — ergency arises. are published unless accompanied’ Jan. 17, 1938. by author’s name, not necessarily | Unfortunately, the state These results were reported by Dr. E. The American Gas Association says that the gas business is off because break- fasts are on the decline. Orange juice and coffee have supplanted the old-fashioned American breakfast of fried chicken, pota- toes, grits, biscuits and baked apples. But | how can the gas companies complain? Those things were cooked on wood stoves. | —Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser. According to an AP dispatch, a United States congressman stated on January 1) that he was preparing legislation which | would force ‘private utilities to sell power at TVA rates “or get out of the power business.” Just consider what that state- ment implies, and its palpable unfairness. The TVA is practically tax-free, while the average utility pays about 15 per cent of | cancer in ratg every dime it takes from its customers, to | the government in taxes. In this proposal | politics touches a new moral low, i O. Lawrence of the University of Califor- nia, and his brother, Dr. John Lawrence of | Columbia University. In the treatment of und mice, they have found »10,times as effective as with animals have been e than-two years, but the Vs 1 d on human patients only-Yecently. “They now report that in the cases of two persons exceptional | results have been obtained, They added, however, that the neu- tron ray treatment was still too new to be widely used, and that many more experi- | ments would be necessary to prove its true value. Reputable scientists are slow to make positive claims for their discoveries, but progress is being made toward conquering this most dreaded disease, and the time | will surely come when success will be at- | tained. the neutron for publication, though always obtainable from the editor.) DECRIES PARKING METERS Editor, The Citizen: “Roll your nickels on the drum,| Kans., writes how her husband, | thirds of our governmental ex- here we come, here we come!” Sounds like the Salvation Army, | but it is just the City of Key Hi KEY WEST BOOSTER | FROM AFAR | Editor, The Citizen: Mrs. Jean Machette, who re-! cently left Miami for Wichita, |a decorator, narrowly lost his! sight when a pot of heated oil; | he was carrying exploded. He nothing to do with our advalorem taxes except to levy a small mill- age for state purposes. The as- sessment of property for taxation; is made by local officials and two-| penditures are made-by them and there is no state ‘Control over eci-| ther of these two iriportant mat-: of parking where they can spend! prayer, he has not even a scar on/| fairs in this state—INCOME and ; money in our stores. Every other city in the country of the size of Key West, I be- | his face. ¥ | ; The changeable weather in! ‘Kansas makes her yearn for the EXPENSE. No business on earth ‘would be | run of could be run so‘inefficient- lieve, solves its parking problem, South. Her slogan is, “Once aj ly as this. No wonder we are in} without resorting to further, Floridian, Always a Floridian”. | trouble and it is getting worse. } gouging the automobile owner by; She intends to move back to Mi-| What is the remedy? |means of parking meters. Re- stricted parking, strictly enforced, accomplishes this. With parking meters, unless he has a nickel with him, a person } will have to drive to a side street, go to a store and get change, then drive back to where he wants to park—a silly perform- ance. The tourist who comes here expecting something differ- ent and better than he finds in |ami and will drive over the} | Highway to see our city. She is| | much pleased with the Key West | pamphlet sent her from the local) LA CONCHA HOTEL | In the Center of the Business and Theater District | | Open The Year Around | Garage——Elevator——Fireproot | PERRY G. WALL. 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