The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 27, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO Tye Key West Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO, INO. L, P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher Assistant: Business Manager 5 T itizen Building Sorner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ed at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press Press is exclusively entitled to use tion of all news dispatches credited to erwise credited in this paper and also © loeal news published here. ADVERTISING RATES +> Made. known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE in ading notices, cards of thanks, r@solu; on8 ef obituary notices, ete., will be charged for ces for entertainment by churches from ie) See or pe anteemues 6 conta cine not et Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- eations. of 10 cents a line. Just a foolish question: ‘What does Harold Bell Wright?” A man will never change his mind if he has ne mind to change. P. E. B. in The Tampa Tribune says nobody carries an umbrella anymore. Are we to infer that Chamberlain is a no- body? SSS One of the best ways to see ourselves as other Key West folks see us!is ‘to stand in front of those triple mirrors when buy- ing clothes. If you’ll notice, the fellow who won’t take “No” for an answer, usually gives up if she merely shrugs her shoulders and says nothing. One local resident said that this bud- get business is cock-eyed. If he dressed to suit his income the town would run him in for indecent exposure. Each individual must assume his share of responsibility for the welfare of his community, and the best way to do that is to pay his taxes. To the obese who desire to. reduce this column suggests clear coffee, but the fly in the ointment is that it must be drunk without sugar, milk or cream. We continue to “prime the pump” in spite of the fact that it should be evident to everybody that the darned thing’s worn out and never was very good anyway. That Harry Hopkins, secretary of commerce, still hears the voice of his mas- ter, is indicated by his department put- ting its “O. K.” on the Florida cross-state canal, One of Key West’s remaining cigar manufacturers is considering the manu- facture of a distinctive cigarette that may develop into a very popular brand, to the great-advantage in a publicity sense of Key West. Goleridge’s most sublime, chase and beautiful poem, “Religious Musings,” was written in a tap room, where profane roy- Sterous were holding forth, and Franz Schubert composed his beautiful ‘Sere- name” in a “Kneipe” (saloon). Perhaps, itis the reaction to a revolting scene that causes the inspiration. For the past quarter of a century The Gitizen got along with a manual adding machine, but since the addition of all those socialistic. taxes like social security, state unemployment, federal unemployment, old age pension, besides the regular tax, the real estate taxes for state, county and city, it was compelled to purchase @ larger and more complicated adding ma- eee LAEHE 30 income | < GOOD SCOUTS MAKE GOOD CITIZENS so eee way = | ‘Key West Merits Air Base he rarely found a former Boy Scout behind | A noted criminologist once declared prison bars for having committed a major crime. often remarked on the fact that Boy Scouts | do not engage in activities which bring | them to the attention of the court. It is al- | most stating a truism to declare that a boy | well grounded in scouting is a well trained | boy and usually grows into a useful citi- zen of the community in which he lives. One of the local objectives is arousing the inte’ ere is only one troop in Key West at ‘present and scouters: feel the number should be nearer six. Certainly there are a sufficient number of boys in the city to form six troops. The trouble seems to be lack of sponsorship. There is hope that such sponsorship may be forthcoming following the series of informative talks by such men as Her- Region Six comprising four southeastern states, and A. S. MacFarlane, scout ex- ecutive for Monroe, Dade and Broward counties, The Citizen believes the scout move- ment is something that. should be. en- couraged in Key West. Those of our boys now interested in scouting have found the work so absorbing and ‘interesting they have little spare time to indulge in ques- tionable pastimes. . It has been brought to our attention that.a number of other boys are running rather wild in the city and, in part, are responsible for some of the wan- ton destruction of our palm and_ shade trees. With proper public support, the Boy Scout movement can be expanded here to include many of the youngsters now on the moral] direction. DOCTORS AREN’T VILLAINS The indictment of. members of the American Medical Association and_ local, Washington, D. C. -physicians is certainly radical procedure. Grand | Jury indict- ments charge that the associations are monopolies in restraint of trade. The United States Department of Justice backs the prosecutions of the doctors. During the’year there has been a movement throughout: the country: in or- ganizing group health associations. Those who joined have paid one or two dollars a month, which entitled them to medical and hospital services in case of illness. It is an old plan. The Washington medical so- ciety expelled some of the health-associa- tion doctors for unethical conduct and practices. Instead of letting the doctors “fight it out” as they have done for a hundred years the Department of Justice invoked the processes of criminal laws. The monopoly spotlight was turned from the big trusts and industrial con- cerns onto the doctors. The American Medical Association was evidently the over the country in its membership. Indictments of these doctors seems like a very drastic and _ circusy-perform- ance as a prelude to a new national health movement. . It naturally’ élouds the movement. The nation’s docters-,are in- timately connected with the home life of |the American people. Notwithstanding this fact.they are indicted like deep-dyed | villains. As a matter of fact there is no profession that stands higher in the esti- mation of the American public than our physicians. FOR HIGHWAY SAFETY The campaign for highway safety in | the United States has produced encourag- | ing results in the past few years but there Juvenile court authorities have | réSf'of citizens and organizations | nme gin an effort to induce them to | upport additional . scout groups here. | bert Stuckey, deputy scout executive of | loose and seemingly headed in the wrong’ target because it included doctors from all | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | | The Key West Aviation Board, under ' the chairmanship.of Charles Taylor, has | | done a fine job in the face of many 4iffi- | culties in preparing briefs, plans, esti- | mates and other data for submission to the | members of the House Naval Affairs Com- | mittee in the effort to have the proposed | southeastern navy air base Jocated in this | | area, where it belongs. At a meeting of civic, city and county | officials Friday night the board’s activities | up to date were heartily approved. The | following suggestions..of the board met with the approval of the assembled offi- cials: He 1, That a small committee of men familiar with the navy air base project meet with ten members of the House Naval Affairs Committee, headed by Con- gressman Carl Vinson, chairman, tomor- | row, and escort them on a tour of the | waterfront, with particular attention to | the land and water area included in the | old Florida East Coast railroad property, | now known as Trumbo section of . Key West. 2. To send a delegation of at least | two well-informed and competent men to | Washington to appear personally before the House Naval Affairs Committee, the Senate committee that eventually will consider the navy air base: project and wherever-else it may be necessary to bring the Key West ‘location to official and in- | fluential attention. i 3. To revise the poliey of the board, which heretofore has refrained from any disparaging. statements regarding the ef- ; fort to have the navy air base located at | either Miami or Jacksonville, so that the prevalence of fog and smoke on the main- land, which do not exist here, may to brought forcefully to attention of the? Naval Affairs Committee. No final action was taken on a sug- gestion that the House committee should be advised that the navy air base, a fresh water pipeline from the ‘mainland and deepening of the intracoastal , waterway from: Bahia Honda to Key West could all be done at a cost far below what it would cost for just a site for the navy, airbase at ‘either Miami or Jacksonville. :! ' FA Si The Citizen believes the linking of: the three projects should not be made,un- til the House Naval Affairs Committee or some other interested group makes. .the. statement that Key West has no fresh water supply and has no railroad facilities. | Undoubtedly stressed by selfish mainland |' groups, the lack’of a fresh water supply and railroad transportation were used as arguments some time ago by another group of the House Naval Affairs Committee that visited Key West. From The Files Of The Citizen, | bility of men escaping from the! | submerged craft without exterigg |aid were brought to a succe: close yesterday with escape tests’ for the benefit of Captain Albert| Lais, Italian naval attache: The tests were held in the harbor. The S-4 was submerged just be~ low the Surface in ofder that the Italian captain might see the men leaving the craft and returning to the surface. Lieutenant Com- mander P. H. Dunbar, in charge! lof the tests, expressed himself as | being pleased with the tests and) | their outcome. jitely proven to the world”, the jcommander said, “that men can} eave a submarine without the| aid from the outside. If these de- | vices had been installed on the S-4 when it was rammed and sunk two years ago the 40 men High the this city.” Mrs. George D. |died yesterday at | ply will be available long before the navy | Fresh water is definitely on the way | ABOUT TAX SITUATION: Editor, The Citizen, to Key West. The project for bringing it | mcriy five atte ieee icamnrnta: from the mainland has passed through |sions, boards, or assessors exer- and bee . jcising more or less control over d ” approved by federal engineers ‘taxation and public finance. at Washington and a loan and grant to | cover cost_of the work will be made as | een investigated by a committee soon as funds become available. \of the University of Florida; the: This sup- |Florida Citizens and Finance air base could be commissioned: |e eee a tthrna: As to transportation: Overseas high- | Sholtz. All. of . these comin s way offers the navy highspeed contact | recommended a s' boa with the mainland, the intracoastal canal |C™™ission to hand : ters, and rea: ‘ therefi would provide a cheap and adequate sys- |that ~~ as He ea, Sas tem for transporting heavy materials, | Many people imagine a tax while our harbor will admit freighters Sad do sane Etta es em io away 1th jocal as- with drafts up to 25 feet or more. TRE | secsors, This: of coures,.is not transportation’ question raised by some |true. A commission properly congressmen is just an argument—it is not coupe would a ieee ., | for a local assessors to follow in a good reason for locating the navy air ' establishing padi dekard’ as. base in some less favored spot. |sessment values; uniform ac- Eliminating the specious fresh water | counting in all counties so the i F .. {public could make comparisons and transportation drawbacks so glibly EAS) | anata ahedcostiiat iadtmintstration pressed by the enemies of Key West, this | in the different counties. It would city has to offer a site of some 1100 aires, | also study what is being done in including three deep water piers with |@!! the different states and ob- information MONDAY, FEBRU The tax situation in Florida has: Committee, appointed by Gover-, ‘Key. West’s hope rests with the unbiased KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY _Dimmick officiating | Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken Tests on the submarine S-4 off ; may, lend his aid‘to @ new and Key West to determine the feasi.| thoroughly progressive —proposi- |tion to, better. tell. the,.travelling yworld of the tremendous oppor- ‘tanities’ Offered for ‘touri the opening: -of “thes Over Sea! sio9, the taxi drivers offered ewest and most $900 and at a special meeting to- chain of the thoroughfares ex- | tending ) from, Calais, Maine, to’ county commissioners. phur Springs, accompanied |her two sons and a friend, Wil- liam Benson, arrived over the|this applies particularly to Key bighway Pesaay aol, wi} visitsb West, is the gist of a statement « | Key West with her nts, Mr. | e of the sound Wernave cet) Haid Mrs. Wm. T. aecae at their Hicorgcbsselati tg home on Margaret street. | Mrs. Evelyn Florence Sweeting} to buy real estate is now. Prices at the home of her son-in-law and els and the pendulum is swing- daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur! ing the other way. With renewed 6850 lineal feet of wharfage space that Seiees Ure ver yae Det will berth ships up to 27 feet, with founda- tions for five large oil or water storage tanks having a capacity of 7,500,000 gale | lons,. with concrete seaplane ramps and with adequate maneuvering and anchor- age area for an unlimited number of navy | planes—in a fogless, smokeless and match- less atmosphere for flying. be had for less than $5,000,000, aecording to a careful engineering estimate procured by the Key West Aviation Board. National defense, as The Citizen has emphasized before, should not be made a political football. Navy air bases intended to give this country the maximum defen- sive effectiveness in time of national emergency should be located at the most strategic spots. No man can _ truthfully state that in southeastern United States | Key West is not in the most strategic posi- tion. It commands the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico, it is the point nearest the Panama Canal Zone and the Caribbean: ‘On merit, then, Key West should be selected ,as,the location for. the south- eastern navy air base. ‘The Citizen realizes that, the Florida delegation. in’ both houses of.Congress is. being high-pressured into support-of other cities seeking the base. members of the House Nava] Affairs Com- mittee and with those congressmen and senatcrs, outside Florida, who want the air, base in the most strategic place and want it. built with the least possible. cost in keeping with the economy program mandated by the people in the last elec- tions. cla ultic iy ahoeienendia ! ernoon, with Rev. Arthur B. All this may | }and advice, and furnish it to the | public and the legislature. A tax |Commission properly equipped | would not cost more than $100,- | 000.00 per annum and our differ- ent governmental agenties, states, counties and cities are spending $100,000,000, so the commission | would cost a taxpayer, now pay- | ing $1,000 in taxes, only an ex- pees ee FROM THE NAT of the current scene. news are honestly injected. ’ facts. to PATHFINDER, the most Fo | | Total of the rewards, which; i will be paid for the arrest and con- | | viction of the person or persons, | | who slashed the tires on a num-| ;ber of cars recently at an enter- tainment given at the Casa Ma- rina Hotel, has now reached a INCE total of $400. The city offered ing | day this sum was augmented by ‘an offer of $100 reward by the , | ‘There is a sound resumption of Morton, of Sul-| buying in the real estate market by! with a consequent increase in values throughout the state, and ! business men in Key West. | Editorial comment: The time the age of 67, are actually below pre-boom lev-| | confidence in the growth of Flor- and officers aboard would prob- , Gomez, 718 North Beach. Body twas conveyed at 8 o’clock this chine—adding for the various govern- mental agencies, and subtracting for The Citizen. | is ne reason for any one to suppose that the goal of safety has been attained. amb ovPhe thousands who continue to die vorggn 2 ER OB. ABE highways attest the need of con- Local golfers are all agog concerning | tinued emphasis upon safety. The lesson the Pro-Amateur. Golf matches to be held | should be presented continually, and per- in St, Augustine on March 15, for ® théy | vistently in order that lives may be spared. have in Joe Lopez and Joe Bush a team} Once again we express the opinion that has a fine chance to bring home the | that rigorous enforcement of traffic reg- coveted trophy, What that will mean wtlations, including careful issuance of from an advertising point of view to Key | driver’s licenses, will do much to remove West is incalculable. Both boys. are in| the. peril. No person should possess fine health and mettle and all Key West | enough influence anywhere to escape pre- is hoping nothing will happen to either | scribed punishment for traffic violations. that will prevent his participation in the match. It would be a terrible blow to, Some fellows look for wives who can Key West, for win or lose, its name would support them in a manner to which they be blazoned all over the country. | are not accustomed. jably have been saved instead of | going down to watery graves, he said. The S-4 will leave here on the first of March for New Lon- |don, Conn. Deep-sea dives by the submarine S-48, soon expect- ed to arrive at Key West, will be) made in the vicinity of the island in March, dispatches from the! navy department announce, and/ | the Mallard will remain here un-| til they are completed. The S-48 was reconditioned some short} | time ago, and dives to a depth of | |200 feet will be made to see if! the vessel is seaworthy. ] Former sitvaiik’ st: scoal has been selected as one of the} ‘advisory board of the Atlantic |Coastal Highway Association, | and has signified to The Citizen | his acceptance, in order that he |Morning to St. Paul’s Episcopal church, to remain until time for! the funeral dt 4 o’clock this aft- weekly. j ida, prices will rise. Subscribe to The Citizen—20c Frey rt t i F MONROE THEATER Clark Gable—Myrna Loy Leo Carrillo TOO HOT TO HANDLE Matinee—Balcony 10c, Or- chestra 15-20c; Night—15-25c CASA MARINA Key West's Hotel De Luxe’ '' AMERICAN PLAN . 200 Delightful Rooms, Each With Private Bath Beautiful Cocktail Lounge DANCING NIGHTLY Dave Garson’s Orchestra PETER SCHUTT, Manager TRE... Deepsea and Key West Reef Fishing on the Charter Boat “MARLIN” CAPT. FRANK GATES Phone... K. W. 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