The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 28, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen’ Published Daily Except Sunday By ‘THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO, INC. i. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher | JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Key West and Monroe ity Only Daily Newspaper in Coun: Eutered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to | it or not etherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year Bix Months Three Months One Month Weekly $10.00 00 0 ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of <eapect, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which @ revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an oper forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- | cations. Just an inquisitive whom did William Tell?” question: “On Be a wood-pecker and use your head, and den’t be a giraffe and stick out your neck, Very often, we have an idea that we would like to get across, but this is no place to print it. The man who offers a bribe should remember that he can be prosecuted as well as the bribe taker. Once more let us give the advice to live so that when you read this column you don’t have to shake in your boots. Scientists say the world is gradually growing warmer. That would be bad news for Florida and California, if it were a fact. Up to the present, all those new gov- ernors have been chiefly engaged in dis- tributing political pie, and there wasn’t enough to satisfy the henchmen. In most other places the newspapers and the people cuss out the weatherman, but in Key West there is seldom cause for execration, as he seldom does us wrong. Industry is not spending nearly enough to support the national economy, and that is one reason why Federal] spending is con- tinuing unabated. Only two billion dollars Was spent by Business for industry last year, while in 1929 the amount was eight billions, Key West, where President Roose- velt is fishing, and seeing the Caribbean maneuvers on the side——Key West Citi- zen. Starboard or port side? He must have good eyesight to see clear past Cuba to the Caribbean.—P, E. B. in Tampa Tri- bune. Oh, you quibbler. Are you peeved because President Roosevelt didn’t visit Tampa? One often hears the question “What will this country do if the time comes for another World War?” The correct an- swer is ‘Mind her own business, as she should.” And woe to the war-mongers or those so internationally-minded who would once more embroil us in European affairs. They didn’t give us back our marbles we lent them, so we ain’t goin’ to play with *em no more. Congressman Jennings Randolph, of West Virginia, has introduced a bill under which aliens who have not become citi- zens and who do not declare their intention to become citizens within a year, are to be deported. That law should pass. Why should foreigners be allowed to relief or} supplant American citizens in need of work? Ameriean citizenship should be made desirable and valuable. The three applicants for the post- mastership of Key West—Frank Delaney; Fred J. Dion “and the incumbent, Sam E. Harris, are ali men held in high esteem in this city, and the field examiner who will be sent here to check up on the ap- plicants will find all to have a clean bill of | fitness for the job, but it will be three months or more before the regular oc- ‘eupant of the $2,900 sinecure will be _ known. A lot of red tape always precedes the appointment of a new postmaster, whether the incumbent succeeds. himself or one of the other applicants gets the . political plum, | PUBLICITY FOR KEY WEST “TJs there a golf course here?” THE KEY WEST CITIZEN That, very frequently, is the question of tourists and winter visitors soon after | they arrive in Key West. Informed that | there is a fine, sporty course at Stock Is- | land and that visitors are welcome to play | it, the visiting golfer is often heard te ex- | claim: ? | “Well, I'l] be darned! They told me | on the way down here that you didn’t have | anything in Key West, much less a golf | course. You folks ought to advertise some of your attractions, not overlooking the | fact a lot of tourists like to break’ ‘the | monotony of their vacation by a little | golfing.” Which brings to mind the fact that | Joe Lopez, local amateur champion, and | Eddie Bush, young Key West professional, | experts, will be teamed in the National | Pro-Amateur golf championship at St. Augustine, March 15-18. This will be the fifth annual pro-amateur event. saw Bush, teamed with Powell Crichton, Jr., shoot a qualifying round of 69. In the second round, however, Bush and Powell succumbed to Horton Smith, master golfer, and Bobby Walker. Both Lopez and Bush, have been shooting some scintillating golf and look to be nearing top form for the annual pro-amateur. They should give a good account of themselves and in so do- ing, should bring a lot of good publicity to Key West. As The Citizen has emphasized many times before, the days when the city could get publicity by merely basking in the sun while others came here and took pictures and wrote stories that went to every sec- tion of the world are about over. Key West must do a little publicity work on her own account. It should be of the continu- ing kind, so that every few days Key West would somehow figure in the news events of the day. By sending a team of com- petent golfers to St. Augustine two weeks hence, the city will derive some of the kind of publicity that is beneficial to a struggling resort city. If golfers up north do not know we have a golf course down here they won’t come here to play in the winter. The Citizen wishes Joe Lopez and Eddie Bush the best of luck and con- gratulates the members of the Key West Country club and others who are making their entry in the pro-amateur possible. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citizen As an experiment, Harold Ryder of New Zealand, confined by a long illness, took an egg to bed with him to see if he could hatch it. days, or four more than a hen requires. Cleveland Sleeper, a Maine legislator, introduced a bill to prohibit housewives or others from adding tomatoes to clam chowder in that state. He declared the union of clams and tomates to be “‘an un- holy one.” A recent poll by the Institute of Pub- -lic Opinion showed that 57 per cent of the American people believe that if there is a European war the United States will be drawn into it. The small plant and workshop of Frederic W. Goudy, who has designed 107 different type faces, was destroyed by fire at Marlboro, N. Y. Although he is 73 years old, Goudy declares he will continue designing. There is much oeppositien to the con- firmation of former Congressman Thomas P. Amlie of Wisconsin as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. He is perhaps the most radical of any of Presi- dent Roosevelt’s appointees, and has been of his home state. Guests attending a swell party given by Mr. and Mrs. Julius Hackman in De- troit were received bya most affable door man, who smilingly led them into a cleak room, where they were relieved of their | valuables by amother attendant at the | point of a pistol. Inthe confusion which | ensued the two crooks escaped with their | loot, who has been highly praised by golfing | Last year | together al- | most every day on the Stock Island course, He did, but it took 25/ branded as a Communist by the Jegislature | | By HUGO S. SIMS. Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen CAPITAL FAIRLY QUIET ! NATIONS SEEK PLANES \ NEUTRALITY ADVANCED ‘| | HOUSE DEBATES GUAM i ECONOMIC OUTLOOK With the ‘President watching the fleet maneuvers, the capital was fairly quiet last week. Con- | gress was in the initial stages of | grinding out appropriation .meas- {ures and the flurry over the sale lof war planes to France had} | about subsided. { It may be taken for granted | ; that asa result of the French air- plane purchases, efforts will be made to limit the power of the President in such matters. The | incident will also be used as a) lever to pry into the entire ques- tion of foreign relations and as |a springboard from which to | jump into long discourses on neu- jtrality and keeping this country | ed that the Congress will provide | that numbers of isolated places| | the air bases requested and.that have long been obtaining fresh ‘out of war. LeoominGe | Army flying strength to 5500 planes took up the naval air base program, with most of the discussion involving the proposal’ to establish a seaplane outpost on Guam. Chairman Vinson, of the, louse Naval Committee, said the. no intention of fortify-: the tiny island at this time’ ‘but warned that some day it may} |prove “indispensible to the suc-|ing fresh water supply for Key) ieess of United States defensive West. Bankers, and engineers of operations”. ‘With the world be- KEY WEST IN | DAYS GONE BY | Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen | G. A. Bogart, vice president and chief engineer of the Stand- ard Water Supply Systems Com- pany of New York, arrived this’ morning to join Dr. J. S. Merrill | on making preparations for the, construction of a large distilling’ plant for the purpose of furnish. the corporation are enroute to; | Happenings Here Just 10 Years, Lowest - Mean - Normal Mean - Rainfall" Yesterday’s Precipitation Normal Precipitation ern H4-hear period | *Thin record cnding at 8 o'clock Tomorrow's Almana Sun rises Sun sets _ Moon rises Moon sets ‘Tomorrow's Tides ing overrun by the dictator pow- Key West by automobile, aceord-| High ers, he continued, it is necessary | ing to Dr. Merrill, and they should Low forthe United States to answer, them in their own language and) arrive by Monday. Dr. Merrill shows that he has installed sim-| ‘the nation should be vigilant in ilar plants in all parts of the Sea level, 30.06. Jooking to its defenses. Criticism of the project came from Repre- | i | Regardless of the debate and the discussion that centers around | Guam, it may be taken for grant-| is the way to get it”. the United States will enter into) The arrival of military mis-' their active development. While There are no other places in th sions from the Netherlands, in- this writer has no “inside infor-| United States, world, that many of them have! been in successful operation for a for a long time, the doctor shows, | and says they are just as practic-; able for cities as for ships and navy yards. tion, says the doctor, and shows/ water ftom ‘distilled “salt -water.| said the doctor,| |tent upan the purchase of air-| mation”, ‘and’ while the present/and shows that the introduction’ planes' ‘inthis country for japparently aroused no adverse; ‘comments. Even the report that’ | Soviet Russia might make an ef-' ‘fort to purchase two battleships | |to be built in this country, touch-| |ed off no fuse. ‘The uproar about! | the French purchases was caused, apparently, by the secrecy sur-| | rounding the transactions which! was disclosed by the crashing of ; |the bomber in the West. i fests ° The earlier purchase by Great | | Britain of planes caused no con- | sternation. Meanwhile, it may be, assumed that the present policy of this country, as adopted by, | the President, includes willing-| ness to sell war supplies to the | British and the French and thus |help the democratic nations to arm themselves on a parity with (the aggressor powers in Europe. | | That such purchases will acceler- ate production in this country |and reduce the cost to the Gov-| | ernment is a pleasing factor. In | other words, Mr. Roosevelt had advanced the official attitude of {this country from one of blind ‘neutrality, regardless of the is- | sues involved in a war in Europe, !to one of legal neutrality, which ; policy, as things stand today, |armounts to considerable assist-| ance to Great Britain and | France. 1 | That the position taken by the | President expresses the views of! {the American people can hardly be disputed. Public opinion in| | this country is overwhelmingly against Germany and Italy, large- ly because our people believe that |a war in Europe will be the re- sult of premeditated aggression. Last week the House having! passed the bill to inerease the) ORGANIZATION 18 MADE UP OF ‘PUPILS FROM THREE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS i The mewly-organized band of beginners has been started at the high school and comprises pupils from all three of the public; schools in Key West. According te Director Kiebsattel the group | met for the first time in the high | school Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, and all those who had signed up and more turned out) for the meeting. “These beginners will receive |Until private employment takes | Bermudeg, cliouis Bancells, Rose {Joan Elbertson, Jack Aguero; b the! measure doés'not include the ac-| of such a plant here would prove | Army. and’ Navy. of that nation,| tual fortifiéation of Guam, it is! just what the city needs. reasonable to assume, unless world conditions change, that the | island will eventually become al strong outpost for the Navy. In| fact, its development is neces-| sary if the Navy is to be able to! function effectively in the event | of a clash with the Japanese. | Moreover, the fortification of | Guam inereases the difficulties that stand in the way of any at- tack upon Hawaii, the western coast, including Alaska and the Panama Canal. | While economists do not look | for anything like a boom, under- | lying factors are favorable to steady improvement in the com- ing months. The Administra- tion’s encouraging attitude to business tends to remove some | friction, although peace is being! delayed by the die-hard attitude | of some leaders. The President, it ‘appears, feels that no outstand- | ing reforms are necessary now and hopes that private capital and industry will cooperate in| putting men and money to work. | The unemployment situation can | be improved only when business | and Government work together. up the slack, it is a safe bet that | the Government will continue its; relief program. Harry Hopkins, Seeretary of Commerce, is anx- jously working on a formula to secure business cooperation and, it is reported, has made a good impression upon the executives with whom he has conferred. The farm situation contines to be! troublesome and * some solution | must be found before the country , will be well on the way to real | prosperity. Meanwhile, ' will be glad to see more of these | i BAND (young enthusiasts join the group.| spread rapidly and profusely on Follewing are the beginners who attended the first) meeting: | Clarinets: Kenneth Newian, Billy | 4 Pinder, Shirley Rose Smith, Joe Alonzo, George Jensen, Orquidea Marie Reberts, Jaqueline Dough- try, Denald Pearlman, Alfred ‘Lowe; cCornets: a Phelan, Trumpet: Sidney Lowe; Saxo- phone: Armond Almyda; Trom- ‘bones: Donald Lilly, John Yates; Drums: Hertell Bonniwell. PITTITITITT Te The Favorite In Key West — THY IT TODAY — STAR > BRAND A new. post office building for | Key West to cust $400,000 is in-| cluded in the appropriations for | public buildings, which was aaa ed of congress yesterday by both the treasury and post office de-| partments, telegrams received | here state. For the past 15 years the treasury has owned a site for a post office in this city and rep- resentatives from this district have been striving to secure an | appropriation for the construc- |tion of the building. The mes- | sages fail to state that any con-) gressional committee action has! been taken on the request of yes- | terday, but it is certain that when | this is done representatives of} this district will let the facts be known. | | Editorial comment: Soon the| herse will be extinct and then the} immortal demand, “A Horse, A| Horse, My Kingdom For A Horse”, won’t be such an extra- vagant offer after all. The local chapter, Catholic Daughters of America, will hold a meeting in the K. C. Hut tomor- row evening at 8 o’clock. In an-| nouncing the meeting the secre-_ tary urges that every member of | | the organization be present. Third boat for the Monroe County Ferry System, which has been under construction in Jack- sonville for some time and was launched several weeks ago, will be completely ready and turned! over to the county on March 5,) the office of the county engineer has been informed. ' A few plants of the rootless: palm have been placed in trees! at the county court house yal! This variety of the palm gets its subsistence from the air and will any will, tree or trellis. It has a} do all kinds of print- ing — quickly, eco- nomically, and with the best of workman- ship. Call 51 for an estimate. 3 4 | beautiful blossom similar to the sentative Fish, of New York, who number of years and have proven jijy, and with bright tints and realled it a “dagger” at the throat ‘highly satisfactory in every ‘way. | beautiful coloring makes a de-' of Japan and said that if we His firm has been furnishing dis- | |ightfutly pretty addition to the | “were ever looking for war, this tilling plants for the government) | garden. It is estimated Key West people This is no innova-) sharkey-Stribling fight in Miami Returning this morn- |ing some of the fans declare the | fight was good and others last night. clare it to have /nothing more than a hugging match. The majority of them seemed to be well pleased with the fistic feast. . ! 900090000000 0000080000 SOC OCOOLOOOOOOOOOCOELOCE For’ TouRIsTS Entertainment — Fishing — Accommodations MONROE THEATER Jack.Holt—Beyverly Roberts MAKING THE HEADLINES }| and DANGER ON Matinee—Balcony 10c, Or- \ { \ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1939 THE WEATHER | WEATHER FORECAST 82) 75! (Till 7:30 p. m., Wednesday) 78: Key West and Vicinity: Partly --11' cloudy with mild temperature to- ‘night and Wednesday; moderate 0 Ins.| to fresh southeasterly winds, be- 03 Ins, | Coming variable. Florida: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; possibly showers ‘in extreme north portion and . m.'near_ west-central coast; slightly cooler in extreme north portion. Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Mderate te fresh ‘southeasterly winds, becoming | variable over south portion, and 3 moderate southwest to northwest winds over north portion; part ly overcast weather tonight and | Wednesday with a few scattered showers over north portion. GET UP NIGHTS? It’s Nature’s Danger Signal This 4-day test must stop it when due to functional kidney disorders or your 25¢ back. Must jhelp eliminate excess acids and other waste or your 25¢ back. Must thereby help soothe the ir- ritation that may cause getting up nights, frequent or scanty flow, burning or backache or your 25c back. Say Bukets (25c) to any druggist. Locally at Olivieri’s Drug Store. Mfr’s. Note: Our business with Olivieri’s Drug Store has been pleasant and strictly reliable for many years.—(advt.) HORTH kk Enjoy a pleasure trip North. Good meals and regular stateroom accommodations this, morniag. . m. . Mm. m. that about 50 attended the de- been rotten, to BALTIMORE to PHILADELPHIA. $4950 every Sunday, 3 P.M. Also, sailings from Jacksonvill Miners Line, 211 S. E. First Street, Miami. are included in these low, every Sunday, 3 P.M. every Wednesday, 3 P. M. toBOSTON.....- 4950 toNORFOLK.... 3250 every Sunday, 3 P.M. Apply Price Tour and Travel Service, 505 Duval one-way rates. - $3750 direct Norfolk connection Through fares to all northern cities. Street, Key West (Tel. }; or Merchants & INFORMATION OVERSEAS CAFE AND LODGE Marathon, Fla. Phone No. 4 | “The Best in Food and Rooms” Between Key West and Miami THE AIR chestra 15-20c; Night—15-25c || COMPLETE GARAGE SERVICE CASA MARINA Key West's Hotel De Laxe AMERICAN PLAN 200 Delightful Rooms, Each With Priva Beautiful Cocktail Lounge DANCING NIGHTLY Dave Garson’s Lounge DINING and DANCING | Charley Toppino, Prop. TROPICAL SAILINGS on the ‘BALMY DAYS’ DE LUXE MOTOR SAILER DAILY TRIPS Leave 9:30 A. M. and 2 P. M. from PORTER DOCK Delightful 2 Hour Trip See Key West From The Seal | ite Bath Orchestra Leon Ames—Joan Woodbury CIPHER BUREAU COMEDY Garage | | ' { j Pirates Cove, Sugar Loaf Key BEST FISHING IN FLORIDA Individual CABINS with Appointments for the CHARTER BOATS