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

PAGE PAGE TWO me wey West Citizen - Daily Except Sunday By IZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. Publisher ‘N, Assistant Business Manager » Citizen Building ne and Ann Streets Corne: Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter the Associated Press ss is exclusively entitled to use publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also | the local news published here. ESCRIPTION BATES One Bix Thre Year Months Months ADVERTE Made known on applica TAL NOTICE rds of thanks, resolutions of sespect, obituary not ete., will be charged for at f 10 cents a line. ‘tainment by churches from which rived are 6 cents a line. n open forum and invites discus- f public issues and subjects of local or general All reading notic st but it will not publish anonymous communi- | 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. Democracy costs money—there is no doubt of that. Don’t worry about the world coming to an end. The chances are you won't be | here then. A New York physician, who advises against bathing often in winter, is making a strong bid for popularity. Key West has secured a dog catcher at last. He will have The Citizen’s co- operation and its sympathy. We never realized how many fool questions there were until newspaper and radio quizzes became popular. Automobile drivers should be always very careful not to run people down. That should be left to the elevator boy. Have you ever stopped to think how the women would yell if they couldn’t af- ford more clothes than they usually wear? It will be a bad day for American freedom when the loyalty of a citizen de- pends upon pleasing a_ self-appointed group of super-patriots. Once there was a cry: “Millions for defense, not a cent for tribute,” now it is millions for defense and millions for every- thing President Roosevelt can think of. Suppose a business man would adopt the policy of the Administration and con- tinue to borrow, how long would it be be- fore he would be a bankrupt with its dis- astrous results? The Constitution gives us the right to pursue happiness; it doesn’t say the right to attain it—and if it did something or somebody would come along and snatch away the acquired happiness. Bear this in mind: The first half of the twentieth century will be noted for the sentimental pacifism of the democracies and the consequent development of more | aggressive powers as world factors. Dicta- tors will triumph in a world that is going soft. Readers of this ambitious plans for the year 1939 are column who made} | A SERIOUS. SITUATION ‘| Within a few weeks the Works Prog- | ress Administration will discontinue fur- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN KEY WEST IN | | DAYS GONE BY | ther work on the sewer and water system i ' which has given employment to several | hundred Key West laborers during the last year or two. | some how have gotten the idea Key West again is prosperous and able to sponsor a | \,sufdicient number of projects to keep our unemployed men busy. |. \¥ Overlooked is the fact that both the city’and the county are virtually broke | and that our businessmen cannot ade- | | quately finance the Key West Chamber of Commerce or any other agency that | might want to enter the relief picture. The city and the county are refunding old | bond issues and finding it difficult to raise funds with which to pay for needed public | services. The Murphy act has crippled | | the county in the raising of necessary taxes, the city is definitely limited in its ability to tax the property owners of Key West. Just what can be done to meet this | seems to be able to direct. Committee headed by Car] Bervaldi, chair- man of Monroe county commission, pro- poses to"bring the matter up for discussion Hatha mass meeting to be held within the next two weeks. It has been determined a year, to sponsor a sufficient number of projects under WPA to keep the unem- ployed at work. Since it seemingly is im- vance such a sum, the question is where will it be raised? unable to raise the needed funds. It may be possible to get some fairly good sub- scriptions to the project fund, but the total will be far short of the sum demanded. There seems to be only one outlet—to con- is actually up against it and to make them | decide to continue the sewer and water project until the money -appropriated for that purpose shall have been exhausted. There is a chance that within a few months Key West and Monroe county may begin to cash in on the prosperity that the outside world thinks they are now enjoy- ing. Of course, as every thinking person must know, the idea of federally financed projects for the unemployed is not the solution to every problem confronting the people of this community. Our people must learn to help themselves. They must make a more determined effort to get off the relief rolls. The tourist trade ; seems to be Key West’s hope of future prosperity. Our men and women must take up those occupations that serve the | tourist—instead of staying on the WPA while the jobs in private enterprises go to strangers who come here looking for— and finding—work. ARMAMENTS ARE FOR WAR The nations of the world spent about $16,000,000,000 for military purposes in | 38, according to the estimate given by League of Nations Armament Year- k. In 1937, military expenditures of the nations were estimated at $13,500,- 000,000. Most of this money is being expended by seven powers, the United States, Great | Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan and the Soviet Union. It requires very little imagination to reach the conclusion that these vast ex- penditures are being made in the belief that war is imminent. The only reason why governments as- | sume the burden of such expenses is be- | cause they believe war is prebable. icf | hereby reminded that the year is one-| twelfth gone. Whatever you planned to do in 1939 should be at least one-twelfth completed. Otherwise you are behind | schedule and must make up for lost time in} the coming months. The Citizen is publishing some data | concerning the scourge of the syphilitic | taint in the human blood stream. Dr. Parran, chief of the United States Health Bureau, has often shocked his audiences | by declaring that everyone has had syphi- litic eases somewhere along his family tree, | and furthermore that one person out of ten in the United States is now infected with a — disease. This is cause for concern. . Paramore, local health unit director, save public health is purchasable and to- apply it to syphilis. HOW. FAULTFINDERS GROW The faultfindér is invariably a person | who has Been frustrated in business or in | love or in-his social contacts. That frustra- An tidii hag gotten under his skin. “Without exception, faultfinders con- | sider themselves long-suffering, tolerant | human beings, mild in manner and never | seeking a fight. They always manage to seem justified in their criticism, always | manage to seem abused in the sense that they have not received their need of atten- tion and prestige. It is normal for everyone to resent be- ‘ing lost in the shuffle. The strong man | does something about it. But the average | person takes out his resentment against life i on other people. serious situation is something that no one | A Citizens it will require $10,000 a month, $120,000 | possible for the city and county to ade} The private interests of this city are | vince officials of the WPA that Key West | | Happenings Here Just 10 Years | Age Today As Taken From | The Files of The Citizen Officials of the WPA ; | The daddy of all jewfish, said | to have weighed 250 pounds, was) captured by Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Hall, of Hampton, Va., yesterday | while fishing from the Boca | Chiea bridge. “It gave us the j thrill of our liyes and we were ; 80 excited we hardly knew what we were doing”, said Mr. Hall | while describing the ineident in | connection with the taking of the | monster. The mammoth jewfish | was seen by Mrs. Hall, who at | first thought it was a shark, and | pointed it out to her husband. He secured a larger line, baited the |hook and cast it into the water. |The hook was baited with pil- ‘chards and proved a_ tempting | morsel for the big fellow for the {hook had no sooner struck the | water than it was swallowed by | the jewfish, which, after a strug- ‘gle on the part of Mr. and Mrs. | Hall and the fish, was brought in. Members of the committee sponsoring the important move- ment to have Key West made in- to a free port, met with Engineer | William T. Donnelly, of New York, in a conference at the coun- |ty court house last night. The! |Teport made by the engineer is said to have been. agreeable and {was received with applause by the members of the committee, | who expressed themselves as highly pleased with the progress shown to have been made. It | was decided that Mr. Donnelly was proceeding along the right, lines. i With two members ang the! jcounty attorney absent the Board of County Commissioners met last night to further consider | the petition of the Tamiami Ever-! glades Corporation for a reduc- | tion of taxes. Carl Bervaldi was! | appointed a committte of one to meet with Roy L. Parker, repre- | |senting the Everglades Corpora-' ‘tion, to meet the tax assessor | | with the idea of reaching a sat- | isfactory adjustment of the situa- | tion. Editorial comment: Sweden has five times fewer doctors’ than the United States. Swedes are a very healthy people, and| this paucity of physicians may) have something to do with it. Yes? Junior Pirates and Junior Ti- gers will meet in a doubleheader | Sunday at the American Legion grounds on Whitehead street. The first game will be started at! 1:30 o’clock and the second 15 minutes after the conelusion of the first. i Members of the Selected Few |Club gave a dance-party at the Knights of the Golden Eagle Hall last night and it was one of the) most entertaining affairs of the) }season. Sugar and his jazz or- |chestra, composed of high school | students, furnished the music and | refreshments were served. “The Holy Scriptures” will be the subject of Dr. DeBafritt’s | sermon at the Presbyterian | church Sunday morning. And a; selection, “Oh How; I:Lpve This/ Monthly meeting of the Minis- terial Association will be held | Monday morning at the home of Dr. DeBarritt, 1122 Seminary street, 10 o’clock. Quite a.number of visitors in! the city have been heard to com- | pliment the neatness of the | grounds of the county court house, | whieh have been greatly improv- | ed and beautified by Everett | Rivas. Mr. Rivas uses the coun- ty prisoners and is obtaining ex-| cellent results. | | Ceseococcoveveccooooooce | | PEOPLE'S FORUM ROSCecerce20 r200000000 PALATABLE DISH | Editor, The Citizen: | Just to inform you of a new| dish of a native seafood created | at Pirates Cove Fishing Camp. | Our chef calls it ‘Creamed Conch ; H | on Cinnamen Toast”. It is most pleasing to the ipaiote'| | and I believe you should be told of it so that others who live here! or visit can enjoy eur fine sea-| foods. STANLEY MARSHALL. Pirates Cove, Fla., Jan. 31, 1939. ae bel Ri eles peg Iteh Old Book” will be fendered, iia dy e TODAY's COMMON || Do not say, “He made a | Proposition”: ST YOUR. KNOWLEDGE) Can you answer seven of these test questions? -Turn to i Page 4 for the answers i ee 1, Of what country ‘js Cairo the capital? Who was President of the; U. S. when the first census was taken? Name the planetoid that has: approached nearest to the earth. ! In medicine, what is the name of the turning-point, in a disease at which a de- cided change for the bet- ter or the worse takes place? Which state is nicknamed the Volunteer State? What is the unit of currency in Hawaii? Where are the Islands? What is the correct pronun- ciation of the word lyric? What does eleemosynary mean? What is the general name for all that order of insects in- cluded in butterflies and moths? TE Chandeleur ‘plan, is to go for army airplan ;hormal garrison Economic Highlights ‘Congress Says Prepare For War, But Keep Away From It! $552,000,000 Of Defense Moneys To Be Appropriated; Guard U. S. Democratic Feeling Toward Fairness For All, Even Dictators! In- dustry‘Experiments With Abolishing Seasonal Work And Guarantees So Many Hours A Year! “Prepare to the limit for war—, and at the same time take every possible legislative jagainst becoming involved in po- tential wars that are not directly our own concern”. “That, in a sentence, seems to be the attitude 'of Congress today. The details of the Administra- tion’s long-discussed armament program have at last come to light. The President has urged that with “as great speed as pos- sible”, a special appropriation of $552,000,000 be authorized and spent for tools of war. Three hun- dred millions of this, according to $110,000,000 is to go for anti-air craft guns. automatic rifles, field pieces, ete.; $8,000,000 for strengthening our seacoast de- fenses; $27,000,000 to increase the in the Canal Zone; $44,000,000 for naval bases: $21,000,000 for navy airplanes and. $10,000,000 for training civil ian air pilots, to build up a re- serve of expert combat fliers in case of necessity. During ‘the 1940 fiscal year about a billion more will be spent |for military expansion and main- Seoeercosceceroevecceseee ‘Today’s Birthdays William Rose Benet of New} York, born there, 53 years ago. Julius H. Barnes of Duluth and| ‘New York, corporation head, born at Little Rock, Ark., 66 years ago. i Fritz Kreisler, famed violinist, born in Vienna, 64 years ago. Johnston McCulley of Calif.,) |novelist-dramatist, born at ot. tawa, IL, 56 years ago. Joseph H. Choate, Jr., of New administrator, born in New York, 63 years ago. Charles Hanson Towne of New : York, noted editor-author, born at Louisville, Ky., 62 years.ago. Dr. Christian Gauss, dean of ‘Princeton Univ., born at Ann Ar-! bor, Mich., 61 years ago. Geoffrey O’Hara, Tuckahoe, N. Y., composer and author, born in Canada, 57 years ago. James Joyce of Paris, author,’ born in Dublin, 57 years ago. Havelock Ellis, famed English philosopher, born 80 years ago ‘ grounds tenance, in addition to this “emer- gency” half-billion, making a to- tal of about a billion and a half. | That comes to a little more than !$10 for every man, woman and |child in America—a sum not so large as exaggerated early esti- mates indicated, but still the largest in our peace-time history. Masses Favor Program The American people haven’t ‘had a chance to vote “aye” or “nay” on this program officially. jut, unofficially, they have made _ their voices heard, and the chor- |us of approval has apparently ‘drowned out the minority of dis- senters. A late Institute of Pub- lie Opinion poll, for example, shows that the public is over- | York, lawyer, ex-Federal Alcohol Whelmingly, back of the arma- ment program; that the bulk of our’ citizens feel that Germany is democracy’s worst enemy, and! favor a boycott of all German goods, and that 46 percent those queried believe we _ will have to fight Germany. again in their lifetimes. In Congress, sentiment in favor of big-scale armament is similar- ly great. But there is also the feeling that any major arms race breeds great dangers which must} be carefully guarded against. Al- most all the countries, when they go into expanding their military | establishments, do it on the of “national defense”. And then, very often, their peo- \ples find themselves involved in, precaution | of | — wars of offense. A number of influential senators, fearing that our hatred of dictators may reath the hysterical s e, are planning legislation to prevent the sition of sanctions against a country which does not directly Yr us—and to strengthen, not weaken, the terms of the Neutrality Act. Isolation Trend Increases At the same time, sentiment in Congre or of rigorous lation, e seems to be on the i crease. France's continuous vies of governmental crises 0- has s; weakened faith in her ability to hold her place as a dominant European power And the feel- ing sems to be growing that the Chamberlain government adopting certain fas tactics— such as control of press and ra- jio, and the suppression of anti- is are not in accord with democratic ‘principles. Biggest debate over details of the armament program is lia to come in considering the pr posal that Guam be made a firs class naval base. Some exper think this would be suicidal Guam is an easy prey for Japan, { and if we attempted to defend her, they think, defeat would be inevitable. These experts feel we can defend our mainland and thi Hawaiian Islands—but that is far as we can go. ——oOo- Guaranteed Annual Income There has been little chang of importance in the _ busines situation. Activity has continued at fairly high le and the sea- sonal decline has so far been moderate. A long-term development of immense potential importance is the increasing interest certain in- dustries are showing in the guar. anteed annual income system for compensating their workers. In the past, this has been restricted to a very few concerns, most of them comparatively small in size. Still = fret you rant, ¢ CREOMULSION For Coughs or Chest Colds The pause that réffeshes ...while you work A pure drink of natural flavors that every- body welcomes. 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