The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 25, 1939, Page 2

aoe Oo She Key West Citizen | Published Daily Except | 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 y Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County | bate ae a ¢ ed at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Auldéiuted Prens » Associated Preys, ts exclusively, entitled to. use | tion of all -Aews dispatches credited to erwise credited in this paper and also ws published | hoe 2 NOTICE of thanks, resolutions of . will be charged for at ng notices, card ituary notices, e f 10 cents a line. s for entertainment by churches from which nue is to be derived are 6 cents a line. ‘itizen is an open forum and invites discus- ¢ issues and subjects of local or general t jut it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. Senator Glass doesn’t mind to throw btones;_he isn’t brittle. The idea of going to church next Sun- day may strike you as a good one but it won't do you any good. unless you go to. church. Taxes are always too high, and uti: necessarily so. The remedy is economy, but that is anathema with the present Administration. It is none of this writer’s business but he is curious to know to whom the late Pope Pius XI willed his $300,000 watch, said to be the costliest time-piece in the | world. It would be interesting to know just what particular news story of the crime of kidnaping Franklin Pierce McCall read that influenced him to commit the crime for which he paid with his life on Friday. Most men who give anonymously to charity, see to it that it becomes well known. There are some men, however, | who give to charity who do not want. it | known as it serves as a come-on to others; so anonymity in the giving of charity is wise and profitable, but at the sacrifice of vainglory. Go to it, Pat Cannon! Fool the wise lads and put over something for South Florida, whether it be Miami or Key West. Personally, we’d like to see Key West get a great big airport and life brought back into her harbor, her barracks, and other governmental housings. But keep on shooting, Pat. And, by the way, can’t you | get that brother John, the policeman, a job as government smoke inspector or some- | thing ?—Miami Friday Night. | It is said that Germany’s spies have | told Berlin that the United States might | intervene in any conflict in Europe but | that we are hopelessly unprepared in- ~ dustrially to take an active part in any con® flict. If unpreparedness will keep us out | "of war, then let us remain so; but if we 6 “arm to the teeth, and fér defense only. Our ‘frontier is right where the Atlantic begins, | insofar as we are concerned, with Europe. Regarding the Japanese, there is the Paci- | | fic. | A RARE TROPICAL TREAT The annual Tropical Flower Show | under the auspices of the Key West Gar- | | den Club and Tree Guild opened today in Lighthouse Building No. 3, which may be | reached through a driveway alongside the | Key West Naval Station Administration (old post office) building, almost directly opposite the foot of Greene street. The show will continue through Sunday and Monday. Specific location of the exhibition, West’s annual winter program, is given so that visitors may mere readily find spot. Visitors have been issued a special invitation by sponsors of the show not only to exhibit their own flowers but to view one of the mest unusual and plants, | ex- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Pad SULPEL) FOSTER _ America’s Most Beloved Co 7) Go of Folk Songs | one of the most outstanding evetns in Key | the | STEPHEN FOSTER As A BOY hibitions to be seen anywhere in the United | States. One of the chief factors mak- irg the Key West Tropical Flower Show unique is that the exhibits are being made by amateurs, that the show is conducted by home people interested in home grown and home made things aed that it is free’ from that professionalism and commer- cialism which marks nearly every im- portant flower show in the country. Z vic WAS CARRICD TO CALIFOR NEN BY.THE FORTY - Although the sponsors of the: show may be amateur in the sense that they are rot out to capitalize their exhibits, but merely interested in entertaining, en- lightening and informing the public as to the marvelous tropical flora that abounds on this little island, they are by no means inexpert.in making arrangements for the exhibition. Drawing on the in lessons learned linanating five previous flower shows, the Key West Garden Club and Tree Guild, with Mrs. Norberg Thompson as general chairman, has transformed the lighthouse building, usually a drab and hollow struc- ture, into a living, glowing work of floral att. From the walls and ceiling braces hang ‘hundreds of palm fronds, interlaced with beautiful flowers, glowing plants and drooping icy and ferns. Beneath this: arch of. beauty are the exhibits: There are plain garden flowers, roses, yellow flowers, tropical blossoms, wild flowers, a cactus garden, hibiscus, bougainvillaea, oleander, begonia, speci- | mer. plants, tropical fruits and_ tropical seeds and pods, hanging baskets dripping with loveliness, crotons, colias, ferns, cal- ladiums and hundreds of palms and cacti. Other interesting exhibits are three individual collections of shells, handicraft products of the women of Key West, and table displays, and taste. All in all, it is a worthwhile exhibit. It will pay our own townspeople to visit the show to more fully acquaint them- selves with the flora glories of Key West; it will return enjoyable dividends to our visitors, for nowhere else will they find anything like this show. The scores of | men and women who have united to make the show a success deserves the thanks of the community for providing the city and its many visitors with one of the most in- | teresting events of the season. Presenting : Ww. and Tango, Va., | Waltz, Kentucky. Fear is about the most destructive force in the world, yet it is essential for the good of the world. Suppose we did not fear God, punishment or death, what a terrible world this would be! Fear is as} natural as hope, though we should steel ourselves against its insiduousness. Bible | readers get some consolation or fortifica- tion out of Hebrews 13:6: ; “The Lord is | my helper, and.I will not fear what man should do unto me.” Most thihgs welfear | never come to pass. Making the ship trip’ ffom Key ,West to Port ‘Tampay“Ernid& Pyle, syndicate writer, writes: ‘So,far as I know, it’s'the | only place-in America where you have to act as though you were returning from a trip abroad when you haven’t been any- where... When, you get off the boat at Port Tampa, you have to go through cus- toms inspection, even though you got, aboard at-Key West.and have never been | outside the U.S.” Well,.there has always been.some argument, whether Key West is in, the, U..S..or,not.—P.E.. B. in Tampa Tri- bune. Is that why hordes. of .tourists are coming to Key West? The most inexpen- | | sive way to enjoy a visit abroad. Tam- bien se. hablan Ingles aqui. .You won’t:be required to bring your Baedeker with you, , and you will feel perfectly at home. i Let us hope and pray that on the day | ef Judgment Gabriel won’t play any swing music on his trumpet. Why do the Jews and Arabs fight in | Palestine? They are both of the Semitic race and have everything in common. “Key West has many species of palms —including the itching palm.”—Key West Citizen. And that’s one with world-wide distribution —Times-Union. That the G- men don’t seem able to stop.—Bronson Journal. Another good reason for criminal code revision: Forty-five per cent of those convicted of crime in this state are freed on appeal.—Tampa Tribune. There would be nothing wrong in that were it not for the fact that most of the criminals freed are repeaters. Society has a right to pro- tection. The office of the Secretary of the In- terior in Washington has a Division of Motion Pictures under a $4,600-a-year di- rector and a $4,600-a-year Supervisor of Exhibits among its personnel. know that either, until a few days ago, and would like to know how. these fine salaries are earned or not-earned, with two dinner tables, a | buffet supper table and a cocktail table | | set up in accordance with the best usage We didn’t | FUND RAISING CAMPAIGN "PEOPLE'S FORUM eocen ‘A BITTER COMPLAINT To the City Officials and Fegule of. Key West: Will some ! one please tell me why they: make laws, place people in public office to carry out these laws, and \nothing is ever done the whole time they are in office to carry out these laws? ‘What I am coming to is angld story—dné I ‘have been ‘working on for at least two years, and I have been to nearly every official from the mayor on down, and all the satisfaction one gets is a weak promise to see about the; matter, or a shrug of ‘the shoul- | ders. Quite sometime ago I began by calling and reporting cruelty {shown horses and other animals jin this town—particularly a cer- tain individual. The police could do nothing without orders from the mayor and their chief, who were always too busy to be both- ered by such trifles. The city at- | torney agreed it was a deplorable | sight, but could do nothing with- out orders from the mayor. Jim | Roberts, then chairman of the |City Council, said something should be done, but it was “just ,one of thcse things” and let: the matter drop. Finally, when officers weére changed and George Brooks ;was city cttornéy, he gave orders with ;ihe mayor’s consent, and ‘two jpolicemen, Bienvenido Perez and | Raymond Cabrera, were the only two men; on the police force who | made an ¢ffort to check ,this).ill- ; ireatment. Aside ,from thé efforts , of the three ‘mentioned above, Nic SATURDAY, FEBRU ARY 25, 1938 [MISS JACK WENTZ ‘VISITS IN KEY WEST ' DISTRICT SUPERVISOR OF STATE-WIDE HANDI- GRAFT PROJECT Miss Jack Wentz, disttict su- | pervisor of the state-wide handi- | craft project, was; @ , Visitor in | Key West yesterday. and. called at FOSTER'S 3% OCTAVE MELODEON CARRIED ON THE BACK BY A STRAP: USED. GY THE FOSTER BROTHERS ON: “SERANADING “PARTIES ABOUT STREETS OF PITTSOURGH MORRISON FOSTER BROTHER OF STEPHEN SUCCESSFUL GQUSINESS MAN ANO # rLOniiA STEPHEN FOSTER MEMORIAL It seems to me that since noth- ing outstanding has been done by the officials since they’ve been in office, except squabble among themselves about the purchase of a lot of parking meters which the! people have already expressed themselves as not wanting and which these officials are trying to force on them, their time could be devoted to accomplishing’ bet- ter things for this city. And there is so much that could be done that is worthwhile to make this a better place, instead of each one trying te gain his own selfish ends. I don’t expect this article to be liked by any one, but none of you can deny the facts stated herein. Yours for improvement of gen- eral. conditions in the city gov- ernment. é DISGUSTED TAXPAYER, Key West, Fla., Feb. 24, 1939. REFUTES STATEMENT Editor, The Citizen: Having received a copy of your nothing was ever .done, and: the |. 7 horse was starved right to death. This makes two horses that a cer- | tain driver has deliberately starv- ed and beaten to death in the past two years, and now he is being jallowed to drive another ; Which is almost more than I can stand. I have called the mayor several | times, and though he is never in, *his wife agrees that something! should be done. ‘The new city attorney, H. H. Taylor, Jr., can | ; quote from the ordinance cover- ing this, but can’t do anything else. j bers of the Woman’s Club, but they can do nothing because they one, | I have called several mem- | | don’t care to be dragged into any | court cases by having to testify, for which I can’t blame them. This horse I have reference to | is a former saddle horse and he was always well. kept. can almost see through him. It is a shame and a disgrace to the people of this town to allow. an animal to be ill-treated. It would have been more merciful to have this horsé shot than to allow him | to fall into such hands. About the only thing this horse gets to eat is a handful of dead ! grass with a few kicks to digest it. I doubt if he even gets enough water to drink. Why does the | law allow a man to have an ani-| | mal of any kind to ill-treat? And like him, there are one or two others in Key West who don’t | treat their animals much better. Now you! This sight is before your. eyes | every day, yet nothing is done} iabout it, - °° PEBLISH 10 25 paper would like to make cor-: rection of “catch” made aboard “Lil Dot” February 14 by Jersey and Philadelphia party. “Mrs,” Michael R. caught largest, barracuda |; of, 48 inches. Mr. Michael R. Hanson caught a 42-inch’ barracuda and Mrs. Thos. Bromiley’ 35-inch | bar- racuda as,,well as general ‘catch of groupers and Spanish mack- | erel. Captain Veral Roberts can ver-' ify ,. above. statement, there Was no. +,actual.; signed. MICHAEL: R. HANSON, 21 N. Melbourne, $29 Ventnor, N.-J., Feb. 22, 1939. l although altavit, Subseribe to The ‘Citizen—20¢ | weekly. 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