The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 16, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen | pt Sunday By BLASHING CO. INC. , President and Publisher j Ansistant Business Manager om ‘The Citizen Building ra en. a Ann Streets a usively entitled to use 1 news dispatches credited to redited this paper and also ished he rds of thanks, resolutions of | will be charged for at by churches from which cents a line. n is an open forum and invites discus- issues and subjects of local or general it will not publish anonymous communi- d work may scare some folks al- most to death, but it has never killed them. Of course, an auxiliary air base is not the whole thing, but a half loaf is better than no bread. Mark Twain believed in being tem- perate. He once said: ‘Water, taken in | moderation, will not hurt anybody.” Senator Smith of South Carolina says that “the greatest sticking plaster in the world is the dollar bill.” We do not find | it so; our experience is that the dollar bill has very little sticking quality. Maybe the | senator is a tightwad. For the first time in the Nation’s his- tory, the two houses of Congress met in| brief session to express official sorrow at the death of a pope, and then adjourned. | Pius XI has the distinction of being so | honored, and never before has Congress manifested its respect in such impressive manner. In French it is “On Dit’. in English it is “They Say”, with lifted eyebrows, in both ca It sometimes has the effect of | a warning, and is heeded by the cautious, | seldom by © criminally-inclined. “They Say” affidavits are being prepared that will make those sorry who required ‘their | itching palms to be greased. Editor Hollums, of the Miami Herald, | said the other day in his column that Mi- ami was rearer the Panama Canal, the | West Indies and the Florida Straits than | Key West. This column then repliedthatthe erudite editor had forgotten or confounded the geography he had learned in his youth; | now the Herald’s cartoonist, a clever one | at that, demonstrates an axiom of geometry | which declares that a straight line is the | shortest distance between two points by picturing Key West nearer to the Panama Canal, the West Indies and the Florida Straits but the wording defies and denies these facts. Anything to pull the wool over the eyes of the House Naval Committee, in the hope they, too, may have forgotten their geography and their geometry. DEATH OF POPE PIUS The death of Pope Pius XI removed from the earthly scene one of the greatest figures of our time, whose passing mourned by the whole civilized world. He ! was 81 years old at the time of his death, and for 17 years had been the _ spiritual rules of nearly 350 million Roman. Catholics, Born Achilles Ratti at Desio, Italy, May 31, 1857, he was ordained. priest in | 1879, and after holding various important positions in the church was made a car-! dinal in 1921. Less than a year later, on February 6, 1922, he was elected pope to succeed Benedict XV, and was crowned as Pius XI on February 12. | An important event of his reign was | the signing of a treaty with Italy in 1929, ending the 59-year-old Italian law which had made the popes virtually prisoners in the Vatican. By this treaty the state of | Vatican City was. created, with the pope | as temporal sovereign, and normal rela- | tions with the Italian government were re- | sumed, Pius. XI labored unceasingly cause of peace, and the latter years of his | life were saddened by the civil. war in Spain, and by religious an@ racial per- | secutians elsewhere, which he dioronety| condemned. He was widely referred. to as “the pope of peace,” and as such_ his is | uable and appreciated by all | roadbed into that beautiful, | 000 loaned the Overseas Road | courty road at both ends. | Pine Key. | across a string of wooden bridges, | dent will ask, pointing to | that will take a long time. | shown a capacity to. TO VIEW HIS “PET” PROJECT President Roosevelt will start from Washington tonight enroute for Key West. He will leave his train at Florida City, board an automobile and travel via Over- seas Highway to this city. The President’s decision to come to Key West for the un- excelled fishing that’ abounds in our wa- ters before reviewing the naval fleet at maneuvers in the,Caribbean was one of | the greatest events, in the history of this city. Every news dispatch, and there will be thousands of them, will ‘mention the fact the President is enroute to, has ar- rived at or is leaving ““Key West”. Those two words will invade every newspaper in America, in Canada, in the entire Western’ Hemisphere and throughout the world. They will focus additional attention on this tiny island, now making a bid as an outstanding resort. No other personality than the Presidert’s could bring this city. such a volume of favorable publicity. While this kind of advertising is val- who have Key West's interest at heart, the fact that ; President Roosevelt is coming to this city by way of Overseas Highway is probably more important. He will view at first | hand the marvels that have been perform- | ed by engineers, contractors and workmen in transforming the railroad viaducts and storm-proof and safe roadway between Lower Mate- cumbe and Big Pine Key. When the President’s big sixteen-cylinder automobile hits that 40-mile stretch of highway he will be proud that last spring he pro- claimed that highway his “pet project.” He cannot help but feel that the $3,600,- and Toll Bridge District was well and_ properly spent. Before he strikes that stretch and when he finds his limousine bouncing around on the corrugated roadway above Lower Matecumbe, the President very likely will turn to one of his companions | and ask: “Ts this the Overseas Highway?” The Citizen hopes that some well-in- formed Key Wester is sitting alongside the Presidént so he can lean forward and state: “No, Mr. President, this is a section | of the old county road. It was built be- fore federal funds were available for such | projects. The county did the best it | could, but when it got to the long water aps it had to stop. There a ferry trans- ported the traveler part way to Key West. Aiter the hurricane of 1935. you approved of a loan making it possible to close those water gaps and to connect with the old We'll soon be to the part the governmet funds built.” Then comes the pleasant surprise, the delightful passage over the new section of highway, with its beautiful bridges, its ‘ wonderful vistas of sky and sea—and then of Big The big limousine will clatter turn and slither the roller- the bumps beginning at the end sharp and dangerous curves from side to side on some of | coasted roadway. “What's that cver there?” the Presi- some ¢oncrete viaducts ‘Stretching straight and true to- ward Key West. “They are the old viaducts of the railroad,” the Key Wester_ should reply. | “The state and the U. S. Bureau of roads | eventually may finish the highway to Key ! West over those solid concrete piers. But The Overseas Road and Toll Bridge commission, the same organization that undertook and completed the section of highway we just left, has applied for a loan and grant from the government to eliminate these wooden bridges, to do away with these dangerous curves and abandon.this old road. The quickest way would; 2. to.make this grant and loan, for the b -gommission has the bridge pay its way.” re ae : And. wes hi formed ‘About, and loan to bring a fresh water supply frem the mainland to put in the nice new water mains the WPA has laid or is lay- ing. Undoubtedly the Fresident would | catch the point—the folly of building a in the} distributing system without providing wa- | #¢¢eeeeeeeecenececenqecs | tér to put in it. While the President is out fishing we | hope he thinks of these things and puts the stamp of his approval on them. Anyway we'll give him a royal recep- tien when he arrives and wish him the memory is revered throughout the world. i best of luck in everything he undertakes. " THE KEY WEST CITIZEN KEY WEST IN. Today's DAYS GONE B’ Birthdays Reecaccccccoeaccescecoee Katharine bonn in Berlin (of American par- entage), 41 years Ago. Happenings Here Just..10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files. of The. Citizen -_ Camuel S. Fels of Philadelphia, soap: manufacturer, born at An impressive and _ patriotic aS parade preceded the ceremonies William W. Howes, of So. Da- held at the Maine. plot. in the! kota, First Assistant Postmaster- cemetery yesterday\_ afternoon, General, born at Tomah, Wis., 52 where a memorial-serviee in. ob- ¥°7"S 28° servance of the thirty-first, anni- Son. Wacky Heoolie: of New versary of the sinking of the Bat- yor, author, born at Plainfield @eship Maine was conducted un- N. J., 53 years ago. aer the auspices of the B. H. Mc- Series Cala Camp, Spanish American p, Worthington C. Ford of War Veterans. The pageant was Campridge, Mass., and. Paris, his- colorful in the profusion of nar’ torical editor,’ born at Brooklyn, tional colors and: flags of patriotic| jy y., 81 years ago. organizations, with bright uni- forms of service men and mu- sicians, The column was led by the Bugle and Drum Corps, K.G.E., followed by detachments. of the army, firing squad, de- tachment of artillery from the barracks, detachment from the Marine corps, officers of the Nav- al Station led by Captain McNee- ly, Spanish-American War Veter- ans, Patriotic Order, Sons of America, troops of Boy and Girl Scouts and high school students. Captain Arthur Sheppard was master of ceremonies. Fully 300, people, including the participants in the program, were present. William B; Bell, president of American Cynamid, New York, born at Stroudsburg, Pa. 60 years ago. eeccceecruseeceevcesoves Today’s Horoscope Today’s native has an inquir- ing mind with good intelligence. There is a tendency to acquire land. and estates. Today develops a really public-spirited citizen, attached to home: surroundings, ;and one who will prosper and be respected by his community. Yacht Diana, which burst a hole in her hull and settled in ehallow water wnen she grouna-, ———oes eu Uli tue snore near the toot | OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — whitehead street, 9 o'clock Lonzo Hill, negro of this city, inursaay night, with a party ot'has figured how to utilize most eignt apoara bound for Havana,|everything about a skunk except was floatea tnis morning and|the odor. Seventeen years ago drawn up on the Marine Railway | Hill discovered skunk fur brought for repairs. The owner of the|# 800d price on the market so he craft, H. T. Bloodgood, also Mrs. as been trapping them ever Bloodgood, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin, Since. Meanwhile he has been ‘developing ways of utilizing the Lindberg, all of Hartford, Con-| «, ” fi |“by products. 5 necticut, who were on the ves- | sel when she struck the shoal, are | still in the city and were present! Eases Angry lich when the yacht was taken on the) “a... isch tortured skin'that needs ways. Captain Dillon, of the comforting relief use IMPERIAL vessel, superintended the work of | LOTION. Swiftly, it eases the itch- laci hi ing of Eczema, Rash, Tetter, Rin; placing the yacht on the ways. It! yorm, Scabies, Scalp, Between Toes, was towed there at noon today | ete, Money back if large bottle does by the Porter. Dock Co. tug Pet-| 20% satisfy. Sold everywhere. rel, Captain Thomas C. Pent. It; is' estimated that two weeks will be. required, to. put .the .vessel in shape. | ALL BUT THE ODOR Dr. S. M. Lombard, surgeon in} charge of the Marine hospital, | was one of three men to make! their escape from the bottom of the sea 40 miles from Key West} yesterday, making his exit from the sunken hull of the submarine S-4 without any aid or previous experience, according to reports received at the naval station. Dr. Lombard is said to have been so thrilled by the experience that he will make a special report to the medical board in Washington. Editorial comment: The Citizen is pleased. to note that one of the sites suggested some time ago in these columns was selected by the committee for the location of the monument from New York to be erected in this city. The cost will be $12,000. The Scorpions. will meet both the Pirates and Tigers in a dou- bleheader of baseball at the| American Legion grounds Sun- day afternoon. The first game) will start at 1:30. and’ the- second) game will start 15 minutes after the conclusion of the opener. J. Otto Kirchheiner, who is lo- cated in Miami, is a visitor in Key West today and will remain for a few days on business. Mr. Kirchheiner is employed with the R. C. Perky Realty Corporation of Miami. A request was’ made at the city council last night by the Key} West Gas Company for permis~ sion to make a minimum charge of $1 for the first 100 cubic feet of its product and I7 cents for} each additional 100 feet, The matter was brought to. the atten- tion of the council by Attorney Wm. H. Malone, representing the company. eee mercial low. upkeep costs, with | exchange parts plan. The Favorite In Key West ‘ | © — THY iT Topay— = oi STAR + BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON. SALE, AT ALL GROCERS | eecccccccccesesccscoocer | Corhell, ' actress,’ | Yanceyville, N. C., 79 years ago. . ereveveocareccacesocoes | ‘SEVEN BUILDING BEALLY WHIZZED THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1939 turning home recently he failed to. “watch his step,” slipped on the|ment steps and fell, knocking | LARAMIE; Wyo.—Howard M./a small spot of ice on the base- MITS ISSUED Jackson works at one of near here. He | TWO. OF APPLICATIONS RE-,| CEIVED AMOUNT TO SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS During. the week ending yes- terday’ on the’ building and repair records for the second week off Fabrhary showed permits totalling $8,250 issued from the igifige off Harry M. Baker, build-! ng inspector. i Two of the permits were for $3,- 000 each. One for the construc- tion of a bakery by Vicente Mo- lina at 111 Margaret street, and the other was for the construction by Hilary Albury of a block house at the corner of Simonton and Petronia street. Others of the smaller permits! recorded are as follows: Erect small cottage at Florida street. Owner, Solomon; cost, $1,000. General repairs to 615 Angela street. Owner, L. Vallareo; cost. $1,000. Repairs to roof at 530 William street. Owner, Rosa Cruz; cost, $50. General repairs at 1302 White street. Owner, Jttan Mayg; cost, _ $150. r11C Repairs to roof at 924 Southard street. Owner, Frank Saunders; cost, $50. ead is stop] clears away helps to 1205, Noel Peter Dockger Beer Hargest ice plants in the nation, himself unconscious. H walks constantly on stippery has never had an accident. fle | prevent many colds from developing -up from a neglected cold, Va-tro-nol logging mucus, shrinks swollen membranes— keep the sinuses open—lets you. breathe dgain! YOU: CAN EEEL ITS TINGLING MEDICATION GO TO WORK He had to almost! be taken to a hospital. ice, but Re-| Subscribe to The Citizen, For 24. Years Vicks Advertising has been passed upon by a Board of Physicians Boy! 1caN BREATHE now, USE VA-TRO-NOL IN TIME— iT HELPS TO PREVENT COLDS DEVELOPING Here's ialized medication for the nose and upper throat—where most colds start. 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