The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 1, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen a - ine a. Daily Except Sunday By THE CITLZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager The Citizen Building Greene and Ann Streets Corn Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Florida, as second class matter ember of the Associated Press ated Pre republication of t otherwise credited in this paper and also cal news published here. ‘SUBSCRIPTION RATES Year Months Menths nth . ERTISING RATES ADV, on application. NOTICE of thanks, resolutions of , will be charged for at nment by churches from which ived are 5 cents a line. en forum and invites discus- and subjects of local or general not publish anonymous communi- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVCCATED BY THE CITIZEN Woter and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Ravilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. 1 2 3. 4 4. 6 6. Mussolini is for non-intervention in Spain—Italians excepted. ae — Notice: Any paragraph that you | don’t understand is senseless; skip it. The successful merchaat passes through three states: (1) Advertising; 2) Selling; (3) Retiring. We are not excited over that new method of squaring the circle, but an easy means of squaring debts would interest us mightily. Every individual has a part to play in the development of Key West. Some must take the lead, of course, but those playing parts are serving, too. Should things get real tough we may be consoled in the knowledge that there is always a Frankfurter on the bench, and if there is any satisfaction in a Murphy, we _ have that, too. In politer language Hitler, speaking before the German Reichstag, told the United States to mind its own business. That's good advice, Adolf, and we are go- ing to do just that. she Our European debtors told us when we advanced the money, “we'll be ever- | lastingly indebted to you.” And we dumb- | ‘heads didn’t see the point. Who said we | ure gifted with perspicacity? os Every community has a few families ~,who think ft is smart to buy what they “need out of town. They think, however, “that the remainder of the population should patronize their business. . “Key West Citizen is discouraged about the failure of its “honest effort to ail gambling,” one difficulty being, it s, that “some pillars’ of the church play ~bolita regularly.’—Tampa Tribune. A _ discouraging indictment. Tom Mooney was released from prison, and after a few small stunts -around some of the west coast cities he | dropped from the front pages and almost out of sight. People of this day and time are not much interested in Tom - Mooney. He is just another ex-convict to lots of peo- ple, and the longer he stays off the front page the better it suits us——The Florida | Advocate. Same here. Congress slashed $150,000,000 from the relief bill asked by the President. | That amount can be saved if aliens, chisel- | ers and malingerers are eliminated from | the rolls. At the same time, the bill con- | tains two mitigating provisos; one is that | the President can ask for additional relief | funds if an emergency develops, the other is exclusively entitled to use | ll news dispatches credited to | -| service to this community. HELPING KEY WEST’S CAUSE | | Among the several candidates who | | appeared in Key West last year was Pat | Cannon, Miamian seeking the congres- | sional seat then about to be vacated by J. | | Mark Wilcox. Like all the other candi-: dates Pat Cannon promised the voters of | | Key West that, if elected, he would do all | he could to help the good people of Key | West. Election day came and went and | Pat Cannon was elected to the office to | which he aspired—and his | election was | virtually decided in Monroe county which | | gave him a thumping vote. The people i of the county and city seemed to have taken a great liking to Pat Cannon. { it is customary for some candidates to | forget their pre-election promises. Pat Cannon did not forget. He teok his seat in Congress and the first thing the people of Key West knew he was championing the cause of Key West in connection with the effort to locate a naval seaplane base in this area. Then, just yesterday, the wires from Washington carried the infor- mation that Pat Cannon had announced , there that he would offer an amendment to ! the pending Vinson navy base bill author- izing the modernization of the Key West navy yard as a reserve submarine base. That’s what might be called a_ real Pat Cannon teld the newspapermen at Washington that he was not satisfied with the status of | the Key West naval station ds defined in | Admiral Hepburn’s report which inspired the Vinson $65,000,000 navy base measure now before Congress. Pat Cannon told | the newspapermen that the testimony of naval officers, offered in previous con- gresses, indicated the navy would find use for the Key West navy facilities when the navy building program, such as that now under way, was authorized by Congress. Pat Cannon said he intended to make use of this previously recorded testimony to substantiate his request for modernization of the naval station submarine facilities here. In offering its thanks for this service to Pat Cannon, The Citizen also wishes to congratulate the members of the county commission, the city officials and the of- ficers of various civic organizations for their messages of congratulation to our representative in Congress and for their efforts to bring about rehabilitation of the Key West naval station and the military establishment in this city. One of the most comprehensive let- ters that has been forwarded to Washing- ton is that sent by William R. Porter, who has just retired as county commissioner after 32 years in the public service. Mr. Porter substantiates Pat Cannon’s _ state- ment to the effect that previously pre- sented testimony gave Key West a prom- inent place in the national defense pro- gram. Mr. Porter sets forth that during | the World war a distinguished member of congress said: “Any plans of the government locking to national preparedness that do not em- brace Key West and the Florida Straits would be, in the judgment of all thinking people, fatally defective.” So say we all of us—and more power to Pat Cannon and his fight to restore Key West’s once important naval station to ac- tive status, ARGUMENT FOR ARMAMENT The argument for increased Amer- ican armament rests upon the following grounds: That there are powerful nations in the world today, devoid of all sense of de- cency in regards to their relations with other powers. That regardless of the moral rights involved, these powers would ruthlessly take, by force of arms, that which belongs to other peoples. That while these powers are not, per- haps, today ready to attack the United States, they are preparing for war upon such a scale that tomorrow they may be anxious to do so in the hope of greater spoils. That no nation can wait upon the be- ginning of hostilities to begin to prepare for war. It requires years to secure the THE KEY WEST CITIZEN 2 /903'S PRIDE THLS SUMRERM CAI WS ONCE THE ISEAND CITY | At Pr esent KEY WEST'S NEEDY are ex- blamed partly on our silence in pecies oon to be penetitied from regard to the matter. Again, aN [tended colored folk by the Wea. When the government built the ' Housekeeping Aid Center. Very , Submarine base, few know that ‘few realize the good a social wel-'the wash from the breakwater, |fare group does. “Oh, they only} settled almost two feet of sand! | give out some groceries and sparse|into the main ship ' channel. | words of advice”, most people Something should have been said think. In reality this group is! about that, also. | preaching the sound program of —a |a balanced diet with the neces-| THE GROUP which has the say |sary vitamins to insure proper/regarding airplane service to Ha- | nutrition. A trip to some of the} vana from Key West is the Civil | poorer districts of the city reveal) Aeronautics Authority. Through woeful lack of vitamin diets.jthis group every application for |Cleanliness is also stressed and } the service must pass. It was this is a great help to mothers}this group which refused Pan- who in many cases must support } American Airways to operate themselves and children and are' from this port. too tifed even to brush a little | oe with a broom at night. Bodily, LITTLE PUBLICITY has been, cleanliness is also emphasized.jgiven the fact that if any of the This important problem of Key‘ wooden bridges. of the Big Pine-! West, which can be traced right |Key West run of the Overseas back to unemployment, is Key|Highway were to burn, traffic West’s No. 1 problem. From lack| might still continue at a slow of money comes immorality, filth,|rate. For the State Road Depart-) disease, crime. Colored folk, in] ment some few years ago nicely the city have evinced an intefest} graded over the viaducts with a in the service of the Aide Cen-}heavy fill of gravel. The tracks ter. previously had been ripped up eatin: and used on the Overseas Bridges KEY WEST, MANY SAY, does} as railing. While there isn’t much not “kick” enough about its con-'!space on the viaduct (they dition. A notable instance is in}haven’t widened to the usual 20 harbor development. Miami,| feet yet) cars can move slowly with a harbor that caves in regu-|across. If there are squeamish larly, is always shouting about its| old ladies driving they can hire harbor needs. Key West, which'a chauffeur who will easily take needs mostly part-way develop- the car across, and the stretch is ment of the inside waterway and only over a viaduct or so where a little more channel develop-|the wooden bridge has burned. ment to allow larger boats into' Such a thing may never occur certain parts of the inner harbor, | but it is excellent foresight that is never heard on the subject.) provision has been made for it. Calda Channel has a bad obstruc- | ——_ ‘ tion at its outer mouth, which has} STATE LEGISLATIVE action wrecked many small launches.) this spring may reveal promising And although the main ship chan-|,things for Monroe county’s nel of Key West. Island :has' a/’schapls. It is believed by many skillful pilot is employed),, boats aries and appropriations of Mon- at two of the docks find only 24/roe county départments and give feet ten inches and 24 feet six) much of this money to Monroe’s inches. Why the U. S. Engineers! schools. Which will be all right do not aid in dredging the inner} for the schools, but will bring a harbor to‘a mean 30-foot depth is| how! from the county officials. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS U. S. Senator Hattie W. Cara-; cago, meat packer, born in Mil- way of Arkansas, born at Bakers- | waukee, 79 years ago. ville, Tenn., 61 years ago. | ——— a | Judge William Clark of New- Lucy Wheelock of Boston, pio-| ark, N. J., of the U. S. District neer teacher of kindergarten) A é teachers, born at Cambridge, Vt.,; Court, born in Newark, 48 years 80 years ago. $ ago. : Langston Hughes, noted Negro | Charles Nordhoff of Tahiti, au- poet, born at Joplin, Mo., 37 desi thor, born in England, of Ameri- aa. j can parentage, 52 years ago. Dean Walter C. Coffee of the! ALTERS. | Univ. of Minnesota’s School of! Agriculture, born at Hartsville, Ind., 62 years ago. | Dr. Ralph W. Keeler of Brook- | Today’s is a psychic tempera- lyn, N. Y., noted M. E. clergy-! ment, one easily moved by the Today’s Horoscope depth of 30 feet throughout (if aj that there is a move to limit sal- | 2, @ecesecsoncessencooccoe ” KEY WEST IN _ DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years! Ago Today As Taken From | The Files of The Citizen | Sheriff Cleveland Niles has! | given until February 15 for Mon- ,Toe county automobile owners to secure 1929 license plates, he an- nounced ths morning. The sher- iff is in receipt of a letter from} |Governor Doyle Carlton showing| ithat this year there will be only five automobile license inspec- tors as compared with 19 hereto- fore. The communication states that these inspectors are to func- ion through the offices of the | sheriffs of the respective counties ‘and gives the traffic officer the ‘right to arrest for any violations (of the traffic laws. A numberof} |People, Sheriff Niles states, have reported to him they are unable | to secure their licenses because of ; some trivial technicality at the li- 'cense bureau, and hopes the bu- reau will cooperate with him in ‘the enforcement of the law in connection with the sales of the ‘tags by making efforts to clear up any little differences so that | those who are ready and want to buy the tags will do so as soon /as possible. Plans for obtaining a large dis- ‘tillation plant for providing Key | West with an ample quantity of tro-pure water, were heard at a | meeting of the Chamber of Com- merce last night. The meeting was attended by only those who especially invited the number, in- cluding members of the city | council, board of county commis- | sioners, chamber of commerce | and a few representative citizens. Dr. J. S. Merrill, Chicago engi- neer, who has been in Key West for several weeks surveying the local water situation, stated his proposition briefly and showed where other plants are operating successfully in localities similiar- ly situated. He gave the assur- ance that the plant could be op- erated without tie assistance fi- nancially, of either the city or the county. All present at the meet- ing expressed approval of the plans. The navy’s submarine experi- ment unit, consisting of the sal- vaged submarine S-4 and its tow and tender ship minelayer Mal- lard, arrived in port late yester- day afternoon and will remain in these waters for some time while experiments are being carried on. These tests will be for the pur- pose of determining the efficiency of new life-saving devices, which have been installed in the subma- rine for experimental purposes. A number of officers who came with the party conducting the ex- periments have been heard to ex- press their pleasure at being sent i to this realm of sunshine while |j winter grips their home ports up} north. Editorial comment: Key West is entertaining as many northern visitors as any other city in the state, according to its size. Local tourist hostelries report capacity business with having to frequent- jy turn some away. Beverly Maude Curry, infant} daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hilton R. Curry, of 614 Dey street, died last night at 10:30 o’clock. Inter- ment will take place this after- |noon at 4 o’clock. | Fern Chapter No. 21, Order of Eastern Star, will give a dinner jin honor of thevGrand Matron at the Hotel La Concha some time }in February, according to infor- mation furnished The Citizen. George Morris . addressed_ the students of St. Joseph’s school | this morning and gave an inter- esting account of his travels in Europe. | County highway ferries are to-| |day transporting a total of 111) passengers to Key West. They} are coming in 46 cars and the bus. From and To | Boston, New York, Miami Jaeksenville, Galveston New Orleans and Beyond | ote ee | | | i 1 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1939 ‘EXTENDS THANKS FOR PAMPHLET TODAY’s COMMON ERROR Do not say, “I propose to make a trip to Alaska“: say, “intend to make a trip” or “propose making a trip”. i MSC, of of the Mother Tranquilla, {the Missionary Sisters iSacred Heart in New Orleans, | La, has written Rev. A. L. Mau ;teau thanking him for the Cham- ber Commerce {sent her. —— | The letter follows: ——— | f “Many thanks for TRISTE Owe | Mee es eS jand most interesting Chamber of KNOWLEDGE !commerce pamphlet. Just {glance at the table of contents Can you answer seven of these) i. cufficient to entice a person test questions? Turn to | judging from the literature in the Page 4 for the answers i pamphlet, Key West must be an {ideal place in which to live”. Name the capital of Missis-| sippi. } What is another name for the-Malay Archipelago? j How many centimeters are! in one meter? ! What is the lowest noncom-! missioned rank in the U.! S FARE? ; CUBAN COFFEE Name the large island that! ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS lies to the south of Greece. | puceseesensese= oe For whom was the State of Washington named? | Who invented the rotary printing press? H Into what river does the Arkansas river flow? ! What is the native country: of the bird known as the'| emu? if 10. Name the author of “Plain' Tales From the Hills”. ' of pamphlet he your card 1. o H The Favorite In Key West — THY IT TODAY — STAR > BRAND 2. BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers 24 Hour Ambulance Service hone 135 Night 696 H WHO KNOWS? (See “The Answers” on Page 4) Cocecccccccccccscococces, 1. Is the “Mona Lisa” known by another name? | 2. What was the given name of Voltaire? 3. What is a “tongue-twister”? 4. What is the world price of cotton, based on the old gold dol- lar? ; 5. Who was the Republican candidate for Vice-President in | 1936? 6. Is employment industry increasing? 7. Can the Federal Government’ tax the salaries of state and loca government employes? 8. What is the population of Mexico? 9. What was the Block Town explosion? 10. How large is Guam? NEW ARRIVAL IN LOWE FAMILY Born 9:05 o'clock yestreday | morning to Mr. and Mrs. Lance- wood Lowe at 1014 Packer street was a boy. who has been named Lancewood, Jr. ee! Mother and child are doing, nicely. Mrs. Lowe was Miss Liva| Albury, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Albury, before marriage. ! LUM AND ABNER 7:15 “ASK-IT-BASKET” 7:30 GANG BUSTERS 8:00 PAUL WHITEMAN 8:30 in private it 1 STAR. 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