The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 3, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO : The ikey West Citizen | Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President ana Publisher JOK ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Eutered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republi all news dispatches credited to it or not oth the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES tion o One Year Six Months Three Months One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE cards of thanks, resolutions of | ete., will be charged for at me. ment by churches from which e is to be derived are 5 cents a line. Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- of public issues and subjects of local or general est 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. If it’s smart to be thrifty, that it’s dumb to be extravagant. Silence is often better than speech | but, very often, a little talking clears the air. The dodging pedestrian will, in a few years, have to look up to keep airplanes trom landing on his neck. Most of the advice to stay on the farm | is dictated to good-looking stenographers in air-conditioned city offices. Agriculture is the backbone of the/| nation, but it is suffering from the minis- trations of too many chiropractors. Captain Perry is credited with open- ing Japan to the world, but it seems opened a good bit of the world to Japan. What has become of the umbrella | His cry “Umbrellas to mend” | mender? familiar to the oldsters, is heard no more in the land. Advertising, according to business ex- perts, produced business in 1988, and the supposition is that it will do the thing in 1939. Representative Pat Cannon is ad- vocating a marine hospital for Miami or vicinity. Key West is in the vicinity of Miami and already has a marine hospital to serve this area. So what’s the idea? Why does the City Council, persist im | its efforts to force Parking Meters on Key West when they are not needed here, | when even the manufacturer of parking meters stated that it would be foolish to | install them in a city the size of Key West, and wher council knows that an injunc- tion will be filed so soon as the contract is | As a consequence the city may | signed? become involved in litigation. Perhaps those members of the city council who are insisting on the installation of the un- wanted meters, do not know that the peo- ple are aware what is behind this insist- ence, Walter P. Fuller, author of a weekly | financial digest, and an economist who keeps a weather eye on everything that pertains to finances of city, county and state in Florida, recently said: “The litiga- tion dust having finally settled without up- setting the rights of a county to divert part of its gas revenue to a city refund, Key West is going ahead with its Crummer deal. The 1937 legislature authorized the | arouse the indignation that one would ex-> county to divert $30,000 a year of gas money to support a city refund. Taxpay- ers will be called on for an additinal $20,- 000. With this backing it is propesed to refund the city’s $1,608,000 of bonds on a 2-5 per cent running for 35 years, the in- | to help the Chinese resist the invader. Such | terest to jump each 10 years until 5 per | gifts for the benefits of civilians in war | AAP OHORRDORESLCeRC CORES cent is reached. Meanwhile the flurry | zones are entirely proper. In the case of | The Favorite In Key West caused at Key West by opening of the | the struggle in the Far East, with Amer- | Overseas bridge does not show too bright promise of developing into an aetual real estate boom. It will take another winter season to see actual reaction of the tourist tides.” wise credited in this paper and also | if follows | he | same JURY CONVICTS A MOTHER | From California comes the story in'the | newspapers telling of the conviction of Mrs. Lillian Volstad on a charge of man- slaughter based on her refusal to permit | the removal of ‘her nine-year-old son to a hospital. Later, his appendix was ruptured and he died of peritonitis. gious congregation whose faith in the Lord to cure the boy was vital. She refused to | do anything for her son, saying it was just | “his time to go.” The State asked for her conviction on the grounds that a parent is required to provide the necessities of life for a minor child, including “proper and reasonable | medical attention.” The jury accepted the State’s contention convicted the | mother, This looks like an excellent exhibition | of justice to us. If the good lady chose to | exercise her faith upon herself and _ re- jected hospital treatment, she would be | exercising a right that is undoubtedly hers. So far as we can see, no one should con- demn her action. It is a different matter, however, when a child is involved. The State, concerned about the welfare of | children in many ways, steps in and de- | mands that a child be taken care of in the manner approved by a majority of the peo- ple. and WHEN BILLS COME DUE It is about this time of year that the | head of the family sits down and ponders over how much he owes. He collects all his bills and budgets his income accord- ingly. It is just a natural aftermath of | Christmas giving. It is not likely, though, that he will include in his debts a little item of several hundred dollars which he probably isn’t conscious that he owes. Yet that debt does actually exist. It represents his share, and his family’s share, of the I.0.U.’s that re- | pose in the Federal Treasury. There is | nearly forty billion dollars in I1.0.U.’s there. They represent the Federal Gov- ernment’s deficit (the public debt). Right now the per capita share of that | debt is about $303, so if the head of a family of five is figuring up his debts, he must add $1,515. That would be quite an item to have | to include in the family budget. Yet, it is | going to have to come out of every family budget in the form of taxes for many years to come. Well, how much do you owe? | CHECK IT OFF | This seems the proper time to make | plans for our budgeting for this new year. | All of us have hopes, dreams and ambi- | tions to realize in 1939. Before we go ahead with these plans let us see how our slate for the year just past looks to us. The best way to start a,year right is to clear up the unfinished business of the old, This is true of debts. for keeping the head out of water for 1939 is to be sure there is no long overdue ac- count riding the same wave with us, car- ried from ’388. Consider your purse, con- sider your indebtedness and consider your | merchant. The only way to continue to hold the good will of Key West folks, is | to see that your bills are not carried over | from year to year. Start a new year with a clean financial slate if possible. SYMPATHY WITHOUT CASH Practically every. survey of public | ' | | the overwhelming majority of the people of this country sympathize with China in | its coptest with Japan. | ‘he horrors of warfare, visited upon | Chinese people, and the almost imaginable | suffering of the Chinese, however, fail to | pect. In fact, organizations raising money ' for relief in China are having a hard time | to secure funds. Contributions for the relief of starving | Chinese offer an opportunity to Americans ican sympathy almost entirely on the side | of the Chinese, it is hard to understand | why there is such a small popular response te appeals for financial assistance to the | suffering people of China. The lady, it seems, belongs to a réli- | The best idea | opinion in the United States reveals that | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN \"KEY WEST IN | DAYS GONE BY | | saison Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen | The submarine S-4 and Tender | Mallard will leave port early to- ,merrow morning for the purpose of making a series of tests off | Smith Shoals, to determine j whether. men pn escape from the | Vessels when it is sunk without _ outside aid. Several safety de- viceg®developed by men in the | servite’ will be tested. Captain Dunbar and others who are in charge of the experiments are |confident the experiments will prove successful. Escape and ‘rescue work will be the nature of \the tests. If succsesful it will be ; the first time in the history of the ,;Sea that men have escaped from {a sunken submarine without out- jside aid. The Tender Mallard’ | will stand by and render any as- ;Sistance needed. A number of! men will be in the submarine ; when it is sunk. As the water recedes it will form an air poc- ket in the cylindrical tower locat- ed in the rear of the underwater’ | craft. , the men to breath and stop ‘the | Water from rismg any higher.| |The men will don a, “lung” re-| 'sembling a gas mask which will! enable the men to breathe while|habits of foxes are more bene-j Rescue |ficial than harmful to farmers coming to the surface. ‘TEST YOUR of. The air pocket, will allowli@. T@DAY’s COMMON | ERROR, Do not say, “A building of vast proportions”; say, “@imensions”. 4 Harris School Perfect Attendance The following pupils of Harris School have not been tardy or ab- sent during the semester ending January 27: 6A—Patsy Albury, Nellie Albury, Rosalie Nottage, Hilda KNOWLEDGE /Guito, Doris Lowe, Charity Al-| ‘bury, Madge Key, Madge Mal- — Can you answer seven of these lory, Nell Rose Sands, Glorina dest questions?,;,Turm. to (Curry, Alice Ramirez, Frank Page 4 for the, answers |Guerra, ‘Arthur Lowe, Eugene tnm—nvtient—nvannnes | SWeeting: Hugh Papy, Henry Sol- Where js the voleanic cra-|dano, Ernest Avila, Billy Kling,! ter Kilauea? | Bobby Knowles, Everette Rosam,! What..is;ran M.P. in the}George Jensen. | 192 | 6Bl—John Collins, Byron| ‘female presid- | Cooke, Paul Lightbourn, Kenneth | ing officer of a committee ' Meador, Thomas Saunders, Maude | be addressed? | Rose Brady, Marguerite De Leon, | Who won the recent 1939}Florence Drudge, Louise Fone,| Los Angeles Open Golf' Doris Jones. | tournament? | 6B2—Richard Dill, Kermit} Why are U. S. coins milled; Watkins, Amelia Baso, Esperan- around the edges? ‘za Baso, Georgina Castro, Eliza-| Who commanded the Union i beth Cates, Patsy Goehring, Betty forces at the Battle of; McCullough, Mary Roberts, Shir- Chancellorsville? jley Roberts. i When it is nine o’clock a. m.| 5A—Eugene Albury, Narcisso | in New York City, what Castillo, Bennie Fernandez, Louis time is it in Denver, Colo.?; Lowe, Kermit Roberts, Kermit Which is larger, Lake Erie! Sweeting, Joan Bowen, Dorothy} or Lake Ontario? Buckley, Betty Lou Burchell, Which states were admitte1| Phyllis Roberts, Irma Sands, to the Union during the} Carolyn Suarez. ' Civ:1 War? tid | 5Bl—Anna ' Cook, Ampara Name the Premiett Gh Fase cat Fay Roberts, Betty Jean GUARANTEED FRESH DAILY The Best In Key West FOXES BENEFICIAL Feueaerrrone oo comammae | ST. PAUL — Winter eating: | ' work will also be conducted from said Donald M. Hatfield, Univer- | VALDES BAKERY the Mallard by means of a div-'sity of Minnesota Entomologist, | Key West has been after a study of the animals. \ ing bell. chosen because of the warm clim-! ate and ideal weather. John! Jenks, representing the Associat- ed Press, will keep The Citizen | in touch with the tests. Key Westers and the many|, visitors will have a treat in store for them when on Thursday eve- \ning Arthur Hackett, famed American tenor, sings at the Casa Marina under the auspices of the| ‘Arts Society of Key West. Mr. | Hackett, although an American, | |has a reputation in the musical work that is international and is one of the great favorites on both | , the operatic and concert stages. | Forty barracudas, an eight-foot sailfish and a large number of groupers and bottom fish were| |caught by a party off the yacht) Zenihar yesterday, supporting) Key West’s claim that it has the | best fishing in the world. The, |fish were caught from the fish-| ing boat William, which is owned | by Fire Chief Ralph Pinder. i | Fie Ha | | The British Steamer Maresfield | was reported aground this morn- |ing on the reef near Tortugas.| /Tugs Richmond and Edgar F. Coney have gone to the rescue | of the stranded ship. The Mares- | field, which has a capacity of 2,-) | 633 tons net, was enroute from | Tampa to Buenos Aires. | Editorial comment: Two large) sailfish each about seven feet long were seen hanging on the | rack in front of a tourist camp inj |Key West. One visitor brought | 11 sawfish with bills four feet} | long. Another visitor caught two sharks which were claimed to’ ; Weigh 800 and ‘900 pounds respec- | tively. These are well authenti- {a doubt that Key ‘West well We- | serves the claim made by its citi- | zens that it is the greatest fish- ing spot on earth. An auto collision occurred last |night between a car driven by) | Vernon Spencer and the other by Frank Wolkowsky. The meet-/ ing happened at the corner of Caroline and Elizabeth streets. Neither of the cars were dam- aged to any extent, and the only injury received was by Mr. Wol- kowsky, which was a cut from! a piece of broken glass off the windshield. House bills introduced in Wash- |ington, D. C., last week included | the following: Green (D-Fla.), to honor Stephen Collins Foster, au- | thor Uf “My Old Kentucky Home’, | by theissuiance of.a special three- 6 | and Fever OP coLpbs cent commemorative stamp. | és first day Headaches Sutve, in 30 minutes | ‘Try “Rub-My-Tism”—a Wonderfa} Liniment — TRY IT TODAY — "STAR > BRAND | ‘CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS | cated reports and ‘show beyond | Home of Aunt Molly‘s Bread ITS HERE! 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