The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 11, 1939, Page 2

Sate 2 ue The Key siitltand Citizen | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN 1939 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1i, PEOPLE'S FORUM | peeqecccencncesccocecce | “UMADO! NARRATIVE" 13; Ja ; Pensacola, 2— | Editor, The Citizen: had tangible daisies $ 6,424,485.00 | This is sort of an open letter) " [ntangible assets _5,612,004.00 to merchants who grouse and) bellyache about paying Chamber ‘of Commerce dues. Not a line is dressed up. It is straight, un-| adorned narrative, but should paint a side.of. the picture con-; LINCOLN’S EARLY LIFE Stephen Foster Memorial 905" ee VALDOSTA v As time goes by the name of poham | |:Lincoln shines ever brighter on _history’s scroll. That name is perpetuated in the great Lincoln Memorial Washington, | the most massive and beautiful yet erected to any American. But it is in | the hearts of his countrymen - that his ia most imperishably recorded. 4 Y | 4 in’a’Kentucky log cabin 130 RS b| qi fc . \ : Dyce se: ook 5 a i. de pto-| years wa on; February 12, Lincoln’s boy- ' Wit & mil Ss, & 5 |. ae jek 1 rida , hood was most unpromising. His father { 5. wie , ano Tn Reams The Yirst could ba ly: write his name. Abraham’s TE ger RINGS ~FLA- SITE — iste wae ager ve ae pa ewn schgpling did not amount to a full NS STEPHEN FOSTER ae * f Sana f Between ‘Jacksonville’ and) | year. He wielded an axe in clearing the | Kéy'West. Hence to write to the, These ‘tangible | forest from the age of eight; his mother | C.'VEC-"US the top: tem locations: | present law, would ‘be s i sesed at : é In case you don’t know it, most! P Sraniey ‘ | died when he was nine. In his tenth year inquiries that C. of C’s get need! 50 percent of their value (pre- he was kicked by a horse and for a time !sumably the same as other prop- foe ‘ Preuss Pagistas ee eetce| | erty) $28, 060,502.00 and, at 1110 of | was thought to have been killed. the local til. Our inquiry being|# ™, pay the state $280.60. At | At the age of 22 Lincoln was em-, ia the scientific side rather ther one dollar per thousand (1 mill) | ployed at $12 a month; at 23 he served a | | short time as captain of a volunteer com- Publishea Daily Sa ‘Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets oe Enron eg mM. Me, aad in in Key West and Monroe structure = a. we Gy _ Sis S So nampZs % Cpu . ohh re a e | Total assets $12.036,489.00 Total assesment $ 1,005,280.00 This assessment (29-30) was supposed to include both tan- ~ | gible and, intangible property, but, as ‘a matter of, fact, ‘intan- gibles were not assessed at all. The present Jaw taxing intan- gibles was pasSed in 1931 after | this assessment. SUBSCRIPTION One Year 185 20 Made known on a AL NOTICE under the rds of thanks, resolugions of Tee feet, c., Will be charged for at by. churches from which 5 cents a line. pen forum and invites discus- —giorof public issues and Subjects of local or general crest but it will not publish anonymous communi- | 1 value they would pay a the usual fishing dope, was more 0” actua of a headache than most inquiries} es hy alia wat orate i hi en és feeds sts a would be $19,273,455.00, nearly Well, to shorten the story, five | double the actual assessment of local Chambers never answered! both tangible and intangible prop- at all. Four sent folder only, in 'tY- . which only the adverbs and{ 1s 30 percent too high an as- prepositions were reliable; while | S¢ssment on the inventory value the 10th, little, old Key West; not | f Personal property? The inven- only came back first, but under- tory uae is He cos nipe on , took to dig up a local Algologist the selling value—real estate is | who could ar@' did send us ‘test! assessed at 50 percent of its sell- specimens. °’Wd have no axe to, ing or price value. From this it ‘grind for’ $té Singleton. He's C2" ‘be seen that 30 percent of \not a relative, ana we don’t care the inventory value (cost value) a or hi is a fair and even a liberal as- 1 ane ee hes mas kedia aa sessment. One dollar per thou- hope so for the sake of Key West. Sand ‘on all intangbile property We figure $20 per day per head iS one of the lowest rates, if not ‘when we travel, and while the the lowest, levied by any state. iCasa Marina probably got most . These suggestions can be car- ‘of it, a fair share was spread ried out by the legislature with- ' around among the local stores out any difficulty, but it is abso- | from. the sports shops down to lutely necessary for the state to ithe five-and-dime, exercise control over the assess- Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Sin- | ment, and methods o1 obtaining gleton—and you may tell. any information—all to be applied belly-acher who wishes that you! throughout the state and ges can’t bring in cash unless you use forced by the local assessors. something more than form let-, Will appreciate any, comments) | ters, which Gawd knows you nev- criticisms or suggestions from er slapped us with!! any one or any group in refer- ence to the above. ee LONE: 1 PERRY G. WALL. Feb. 7, 1939. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST | pany in the Black Hawk Indian war, and ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN | upon returning ran for the legislature but | was defeated. Then he and a_ partner Water and Sewerage. | bought a second hand stock of goods on Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). credit and failed. He then was without Hotels and, ments, money oy, occupation until he got work as- , Bathing, Paviljon. f sisting tihie county, surveyor, which, as he | Airports—Land/ and SHR toa said, “procured bread and kept soul and Corisolidation of ‘County and c body together.” . . Governments. About this time he studied English | grammaf unaided, and in 1834, when he | was 25, he again ran for the legislature and was elected. Thén he studied law en- tirely without assistance and was licensed - s | to practice two years later. Scoring a success would be more | Be eee. it ecnle didn't ta fell | Lincoln recognized his need: of educa- —eralitying It people didnt expect a fellow | tion and diligently devoted his spare time to keep it up. | | to acquiring it. He studied and mastered six books of Euclid after he had _ been elected to Congress. He lost no oppor- tunity for self-improvement. Thus, in spite of early handicaps, he prepared himself for his great destiny. The rare man is he who can see @ thing as it is. PTET Ty { 2 The map above shows the location of the Florida Stephen Foster memorial at White Springs, Fla. In an open rotunda c’rcled by columns the bronze statue of Fos- ter will face the river. Three bas reliefs behind the foster will depict Foster’s more widely known songs. Center panel will portray “Way Down Upon the Suwanee _ River’. A small museum and a large smgnnonine will be nearby. KEY WEST PAID MORE INTERNAL Cigar Payroll Three Million Yearly; 6,000 ‘Men Worked 4 The Miami papers played up on the front age in black type the snowfall ,in California. Now is that nice? Mother isn’t as upset about what her daughter knows as she is concerned about where her daughter learned*its::))'07: ones COMMON “ERROR ‘ Do'not say, “These trees had) @ phenomenal gtowth": say, “extraordin- ary” or -“surprising growth”. EYES ON SOUTH AMERICA Feb. 8, 1939. ABOUT ASSESSMENTS Editor, The Citizen: Have stated in previous letters ‘the necessity of the state, through its licensing power, requifing from business institutions the same information they furnish to: ithe business world—inventory of ; {personal property, both “Tan-| gible and Intangible”, to be taken ! pps eas , within six months prior to ob- “Can you enswer seven of these taining a license’ and, ’ suggested ' test questions? Turn to 18M assessment of 30 percent of | Page 6 for the answers inventory value of tangible as-; _.-—.. | sets and a flat rate of $1.00 per! chaste thousand: (1 mill) on the value of intangible assets. The value of both tangible and intangible as- sets to be the value given them by the owners to the business world in their financial state- ments. } A practical illustration of the | results, if these suggestions are‘ adopted, follows: ' The Florida Citizens and Fi-! nance Committee’s report to the’ legislature of 1931 showed that’ 23, reputable mercantile firms— Miami, 4; Fort Myers, 2; St. Pe-' tersburg, 2; Tampa,’5; Orlando, ! FIT IIITIICOCOL ILL LLL Current efforts to put new life into the Monree Doctrine are explained by many so-called experts as being necessary to protect: United States markets in South | ENU T : America, They point out that approxi- REY. E HAN ALL FLA. IN 1888 mately 20 per cent of our exports and 22 | per cent of our imports are represented by trade with Central and South America. | Another. explanation, . however, is found in news stories to the effect that the U. S. Navy is seeking new bases in the | Caribbean, that American military mis- | sions will aid Colombia in improving its defenses, that fortifications at the Panama Canal will be strengthened. These and Communism in, the final! ahalysis is the culmination of Socialism,:or.the: other way around: Socialism is the first step toward Communism. BENJAMIN LOPEZ | OM FUNERAL HOM Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors ‘and Embalmers 24 Hour Ambulance Service Phone 135. eee ome es If marriage is a lottery, how about arresting the minister for engaging in it? —Key West Citizen. Oh; nobody ever in- terferes with church lotteries. —P. E. B. in Tampa Tribune. Now that President Roosevelt has signed the Relief Bill, Col. Francis C. Har- rington, administrator, will review the 3,000,000 WPA cases and weed out all but | “needy employables,” as required in the | bill. If there are any aliens on relief in | Key West, it won’t be long before they are questioned—and fired. ee | eect te TEST YOUR “KNOWLEDGE (This is one in a series of articles on material found in old newspapers of Key West furnished by collector Miss Marie Cappick of this city.) ;to $1,000,000 ver annum with !some sponge tishermen making jas high as $1,000 a month. Finest jfish of South Florida, including | mullet and pompano, are caught od thei re. Turtle business amounts to The trade edition of the Daily | $400, 000. In June and July the Equator-Democrat of 1889 is an-' turtle crawl out on the sandy jnounced as illustrated with mid-|S¢#Shore to deposit their cggs. winter scenes. depicting the per- The Florida Bay oysters have a fect winter climate of the Ia ee rate ir other items indicate a new determination Ee ages abies Gai Bs bear until the second year, the on the part of Uncle Sam that Pan Amer- | the broad Atlantic meet and kiss pute veer yields a net of $1,000 ies ies must remain ‘free fr - | ach other. as i rE 2 ys | lands is beautiful in the extreme; a RE. doctors club, died recently? There are grave additional reasons |and deer and other large game WoUld recommend large ship- Is a child born to American pointee who is under investigation by a! for putting more “pep” into the Monroe are in abundance, and birds, wild ian S Geae ett weet at Lage parents, temporarily resid- senate subcommittee, and accused of be-| Doctrine. While the United States is rich | Pigeon and other small. game. ee eee ing abroad, an American trils for lung and throat di e ETS = ~ ats aes * . Pc . ie NS eee Ae WOT Hardly a day passes that the set- 2 > sear teas : citizen? ing a c ommunist, says he is what is canes jin natural resources, which have insured | jjers of Pine Key do not bring Complainants’ relief. “The future What is the correct prohun- in Europe a Social-Democrat. That’s the | our success for 162 years, these Southern this market from one to five Oh Sey Week ede PHERG Giddens ohana woes: inte first stepping stone—a Social Democrat, | countries, simijar]y gifted, should pe |!aée bucks and does, and any 2 s aa next a Socialist, then a Communist. » the capital Philippine islands. When should wedding an- nouncements be sent out?! What well-known sportsman and owner of the New York Yankees baseball me Thomas R. Amiie, a Roosevelt ap- | truth known i . selves from the Rip Van Winkle : :Why | guarded again} grasping foreign’ states. e te pingeay 7 ducks, and nap, which they have indulged what ie ae for bon, must-a man, who is,aping European’ iti- | Envious eyes : 3 side of a right-angled tri- cal standards, be named when there “There is less |in so long”. many genuine Americans fully cap: ie ok ypon the copper Chile, so cheaply ‘plentiful that we | have: had to impose m/import tax to protect” country., M “wealthy per- sons believe Key “West ‘belongs to about Key West than any city in! Among the principal residents of the city in 1888 was William Curry, “richest man in Florida”, angle opposite to the right angle? Name the largest lake in Af- PETER DOE LGER. BEER The Brewery that ee a ed good beer. for, over TO.years.. . recoghizé kets oft discriminat- ing taste as the BEST “Been rica. For what purpose are the’ leaves and seeds of the betel plant chewed by East Indian natives? Name the smallest state area in the U.S. What horse won the Grand, National at Aintree, Eng- land, in 1938? 3 __, | American produgtion against it; wheat in |Cuba, rather'to’ Spain;’ others! ehe sonia a. large ship chan An imminent German drive against | the Argentine; oil in Venezuela; bauxite |confound it with Dry Tortugas | oh, White, pay ome eae Catholics, similar to the current campaign li in the Guineas, and so on. jane = : vie ae wend lung trouble expecting to: die and against Jews, is being delayed only be- | Certainly, the United States has much Sina itor “iH ition subject; | Y25 cured, is presdient of, the cause of the Nazi government's hope that | of everything—for peace or war—but in |while others still believe it to bee whe ee Ehlaick, Cardinal Karl Joseph Schulte, archbishop | war no nation can have too much of raw tes eee cagrina ap and me foe William D. Cash, owner of ‘of Cologne, will be the next Pope, this | | materials, and no nation would want an eee ae neni the Great Salt Pond property and ~~«seelumn is advised. No matter who is se- | enemy in control of a potential source of lin the state, wih @, popwation ef sap ty ang Duss mes lected Pope he will be opposed to Com- | supply. 22,000, over 200 cigar factories, | Chants John ons, 8 iy aes; munism, thought not necessarily to Fascist. | some giving employment to 800 ay oe ioe ot Saaiet ps CT. d Hit | hands, and the smallest 15 hands. /#"T!S, collector of customs; Mussolini wants an Italian Pope an it- TWauens cgEnEd Lesa Cleae “cake j Merrill, owner of the large Rus- ler a German, The electorate may i HSS ee fecdtraniee teen Sih td, S50 pas con House; Charles H. Mallory. em both and select neither, though it is “To him who in love of nature holds Wes: according to skill. y t! Y> | “Key West is lighted by gas, TM @ fleet of ten vessels into the not ‘probable he will be chosen from the |i¢mmmunion with her visible forms, she y jwith 10 miles of street railroad, | island from New York; William American hierarchy. peleeiee a various language.” one of the finest fire departments; Wicke, who owned the box fac- °MIM@IT S§3Wxote William Cullen Bryant |tory capable of doing the cheap- | in |in the state, composed of four! jest to the costliest ihlay work in In the face of known general opposi- his fatiled! poem “Thanatopsis,” published first-class fire engines, one large! tion Councilmen Monsalvatge, W. Ee ‘Pe { iy 1817. jhook and ladder and four hose |Sigar_bxes; W. J. H. Taylor was Cargill, the cartoonist, takes this | carriages. The new Russell House | NOFwWegian Consul; George W. Roberts, Fulford and Adams weteda SHEE fag the caption for a’ ~cartoon | is the principal and leading hotell ed as Be See ae td parking meters last night, while Doughtry, | depicting a smotorist* wending his» way | \in the City. Liat BeNierein bi" Beier wes Freeman and Jim-Roberts opposed the im-} position. Will Doughtry, one of the eoun- cilmen, conscientious in the performance “On March 30 and 31, 1886,; through’ a maze of billboards, which ‘also | undertaker; Peter A. Williams, - Weey Were leat: Garena Pe me aoa of Board of Education “erof the duties incumbent on the, represen- tatives of the people of this community, | “speak a various language,” ranging from | morable fire of that year and inj i x and U. S. Marshall. praise to E] Punko cigars to an invitation | ‘he terrific storm which follow-} ~had made a survey of the wishes of the | of text, the cartoonist characterizes the | there is hardly a sign of. the rav- business men in general and found the present disgraceful marring of natural |e visible. | 6,000 persons employed. Key --=the-people. Nevertheless, four of the | menace to traffic. | West paid an internal revenye of —eeuncil, remained adamant. Why, and the What would Bryant, poet and nature ‘than is paid by the balance of hs entire state”. in : . N . . N N N Subscribe to The Citizen—20¢ \ weekly. FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING RETAILERS \) . & | Ete an a am ER: The Story of Vita-Var Paint Products! Claims and promises are disregarded—they’re not needed when the story of VITA-VAR PAINTS NATURE AND BILLBOARDS Famous industries of ‘ica use VITA-VAR ey can't _ afford to guess must is told. The.100.Per Cent Pure slogan is aug- ‘mented withthe PRINTED FORMULA on every can. We are proud to say that—“there is no better house paint at any price.” Yet—just look at the prices! MASEMLPASTE. PAINT $3.25 car. $2.98 car Pierce Bros. Fleming. at Elizabeth St. HG POPP OTP LTT TOTES Pe Those Silly Expressions “You can always depend upon Edith doing what you expect”. | “Yeah! She would!” ARMOUR & CO. KRESS CORPORATION THE BORDEN COMPANY AMERICAN CAN CO. THE TEXAS COMPANY. WESTERN ELECTRIC CO. WESTINGHOUSE AGEA AXSCO CORP. READY MIXED PSCToosecscccsccces The Favorite In Key. West — THY IT TODAY — to patronize the Rowdie Dow dance hall. |S aco buy a ae | In terms more eloquent than pages | Less than three years afterwards ' “Key Wi business dur- meters were not wanted and therefore | scenery by blatant and offensive bill- | ing he Bisa al aryl $3- saw no reason why the undesirable condi- | boards, which not only obscure the beau- | 000,000 in salaries disbursed with tion should be forced down the throats of | ties of nature, but are in many instances a | $350,000. for 1888, which is not STAs * al ‘ only US a he cane by apy, Jet -s - aay answers, Why? The answer is lover, say if he were to come back seek- | other city in the state, but more another story which this column will tell ‘ng inspiration for a modern “Thana- | some other time. | topsis?”