The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 1, 1939, Page 2

--S. Department of Justice is headed by an ~~ ~“that millions ce PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen’ Published Daily Except Sunday By ‘THE CITIZEN (PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. P. AITMAN, President and Publisher SOK ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From ‘Phe Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republi f all news dispatches credited to credited in this paper and also lished here. PBSCRIPTION RATES One Year Bix Months . Three Months One Month Weekly ADVERTISING, RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, ci etc., will -be charged for at The 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- cations. If you will not take pains, pains will take you. s of thanks, resolugions of | HAVANA-KEY WEST RACE NEXT Each week some one of our civic, sports or social groups pops up with an There was Semana Alegre week, some- what marred by weather conditions, with its varied schedule of. events; there was the hobby show staged by the Junior Chamber of Commerce; there was a beau- tiful tropical flower show under the aus- ‘pices of the Key West Garden Club and Tree Guild. Tomorrow night the Junior | and Senior Woman’s clubs will put on a fashion show at Casa Marina. As these events fade into the back- ground, others will take their place. Mon- day night directors and members of the | race committee of the Key West Yacht Club met and advanced the proposal to in- vite Havana yachtsmen and members of the fleet entered in the forthcoming St. | Petersburg-Havana race to take part in a race*from Havana to Key West at a con- venient date to be selected by the par- “Now little Willie do you ken, famous words did William Penn? | | what A patient suitor is one who waits un- til he is married in order to do his quarrel- ing. ticipants. The race is bound to interest a large number of yachtsmen and to attract attention to Key West in many other di- rections. In furtherance of the proposal, the yacht club appointed Albert E. Peirce, | fleet captain, to visit Havana and repre- | sent the local group in extending the in- Sure, if yowewant a thing well done, do it yourself “Ahen you’ll think it’s well | done, anyway, _ A Syracuse man who has voted for 42 | years has applied for citizenship. Per- | haps so he’ll have a right not to vote. “Mrs. Roosevelt at Seven Balls.”— | Headline. Now a group of Senators are trying to put her husband behind the eighth. The fact that Americans chew a mil- lion dollars’ worth of gum weekly, shows how much work we will do for practically nothing. In the old days all a farmer expected from the government was a small assort- ment of seeds sent by his congressman each Spring. With the new year still in the opening “stages, we are wondering who will let it go by without trying to put a new gadget | into the Constitution. | The old-fashioned girl who blushed when the wind blew her skirt half an inch above her ankles has also gone with the wind, vouchsafes the Times-Union para- “grapher. H An employe who listens to knocks on his employer in silence and without re- senting it, is disloyal and just as guilty as if he himself did the knocking. Peculiarly enough the unresponsive employe is con- sidered despicable even by the. knocker. The Tax and Penalties Unit of the U. “ administrator, some nine assistants and a | battery of about 25 lawyers. Yet Secre- tary of the Treasury Morgenthau has said dollars of income taxes es- | he government yearly. cape paymeé Letters to The Citizen which’ are | “printed do not necessarily imply that this | paper agrees with the statements made. | ~Often it is vehemently opposed to them, | but to quote Voltaire, who expresses our | sentiments in this matter: “I wholly dis- agree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.” | vitation for the Key West dash. It is pos- sible Vice Commodore Melvin E. Russell may accompany Mr. Peirce to assist in the promotional activities. Going on the assumption that the Havana and St. Petersburg yachtsmen will accept the invitation, the Key West Yacht club has arranged for stationing a boat at the finish line and for escorting the racers to anchorage in the harbor; for a costume ball at Casa Marina for the visiting yachts- men and members of the Key West club; for a cocktail party at the home of Rear Commodore H. P. Connable,.and for an etched pewter ashtray, designed by Artist Cyril Marshall, to be presented as a | souverir to the members of the winning crew. Such foresight cannot help win ap- proval of the visiting yachtsmen. Nothing seems to have been left to chance, as s0 niany similar events often have been in the past. No one in Key West can fail to ap- preciate the efforts of the Key West Yacht | club and all other groups that have do- nated so generously of their time and ef- fort in promoting an attractive winter pro- gram. A resort city without a varied pro- gram is not a resort city—it is just another city on U. S. Route No. 1. The fact that we have such groups here and that they are performing a fine | ‘community service is one of the reasons why some 15,000 visitors came to Key West in January and spent an approxi- mate $100,000, according to estimates by the State Hotel Commission. In the name of the numerous citizens of Key West who shared in this prosperity The Citizen of- | fers the thariks of the community for the winter program of events, Only those are strong who, instead of dominating others, govern themselves. A man may think he is boss in hi home, but we never knew one who dared | to give his wife’s old clothes away. ° SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citizen The old timers had their troubles, too. “Is idea or an event that adds luster and color | to our rapidly expanding winter program. | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | {near is the development of yacht- | ing ‘centers on the Keys and at| | Key West. The Citizen yachting; ;Teporter claims that this year he; | finds not ‘only ‘the ‘same yachts, |: , which year after year have been} making this port, but many new ones. More significant is that! ‘many of the larger yachts, around }100 feet ae stopped in at’ | Key West island in most -cases more than double the numbeF of | times ‘they did last year. Most | of them ‘like the deep, blue wa-: ‘ter of the protected Yacht Basin’ |(old -subbase). ‘Scores of the: smaller craft ranging in all styles! |stop in here for a week or ten (days to fish the Key West Reef land ‘Gulf ‘Stream. The larger | ‘yachts bring their fishing boats! ‘also to fish, but add the Fort | Jefferson trip to their itinerary.’ The yachts come from the East Coast section of Daytona, West! Palm Beach and Lauderdale, and! from the West Coast of Tampa, Fort Myers and St. Petersburg bases and included yachtsmen' ‘from all over the country. Ad- vantages ‘to local merchants is ex-! | tensive purchase of gasoline, food, ; water, trips to amusement places, ' salary spending by officers and crew of the ships, transportation ' money allowances. Many of the smaller craft spend a total of about $70 a day. Estimates of the’ larger vessels is harder but may | go three and four times this sum.’ WHEN KEY WEST BECOMES “a government naval base again (it must provide for a yachting center. WPA labor is at present, dredging out protected Garrison ‘Bight and for approximately 200! yards long and about 100 wide | has a controlling depth of six) ‘feet already dug out. The area; is really much deeper than this, | but there are a few “high spots”. | | Long piers with slips on the side! will solve the small boat problem: when this project is completed.| The larger yachts can be berthed | at Trumbo F.E.C. docks by con-! structing piers out from the main | concrete fills. Boat owners are | usually very willing to pay dock- | age fees but require water with which to wash the corrosive salt! |off their varnish after a day’s| | fishing trip. There is consider- | able work to be done yet to bring: j this about. | | THERE IS NO LITERATURE! THE ISLAND CITY Along the Waterfront 1 H i | protected anchorages of from 6-25 feet water in the channels. In many anchorages the smallest boat can ride out the most ter- rific ‘hurricane, such is their pro- teetion of reef and rooted man- grove. Beauty of the spots is un- surpassable. Over coral ‘waters where, with water glass, one can view-myriad-hued fish and a gar- den‘of delicate marine tracery in the coral work. Through the Keys and out on the reefs is one of the outstanding fishing spots in the counrty. Beautiful, blue channels and long, white sandy beaches stretch on many sides. Hundreds of blue heron, great white heron, gulls, cormorants wheel over protected lagoons from overhanging mangrove. Most yachtsmen revel in this sort of life, and few know of its abundant and exact location along the Keys. KEY WEST FISHERMEN largely turn to charter boat fish- ing every year partly because of the proceeds and partly to avoid undue “winter suffering”. This may sound strange to northern- ers, but out on the ocean it is’ always cool and staying wet all day long with spray and rain and wind whipping by while bringing in fish will cause anyone to suf- fer. Key. West fishermen can’ clear around $75 a month com- mercial fishing. In chater boat-' ing at the height of the season | they go three times that. A strong need in Key West is for; a Fishing Club or for some rec-: ognition of catches by anglers, whether by button, pin or cer- tificate. BOOTLEGGERS in the old days used to clear about $100 a trip over to Cuba and back to either Key West or Miami. The whisky was taken aboard at va-! rious places all within a 30-mile radius of Havana. At Miami the load usually went up Miami riv- er. At Key West it was dropped | near the island or a short way up’ the Keys. The “agent” under-! went few risks. And the cap-} tain had few, also. If a Coast! Guardsman picked them up, the boat would usually be lost and, eventually the prison term can- celled. Prohibition in tropical Florida never became a real law. Many are the tales of captains picked up from disabled boats in’ WE Economic Highlights During the most recent petiods for which trustworthy statistics are available, the rometers generally showed slight} declines. At the same time, there} was, as Business Week phrases it, a “brightening of the longer-term outlook. . . A greater degree of confidence can now be placed in the business prospect for the spring and early summer”. Looking at the picture from business’ point of view, the re- cent deal whereby the TVA pur- chased the Tennessee Electric Company for what appears to be} a fair, going concern value, is considered in some quarters the best news of months. It is likely, these experts think, that it will serve to some extent to break the log-jam in utility expansion, and will make it possible for the com-; panics to obtain new capital at reasonably low rates of interest, on the theory that the investor: will be recompensed if the gov- ‘ernment purchases the properties in which his money is_ placed. Furthermore, it has been argued that the deal may foreshadow a slowing up of government en- croachment in the utility field, for the reason that if the TVA and similar bodies thust pay. a fair preie for what they purchase they will be unable to make rate reductions of sufficient size to create wide public support for the government ownership move- ment. That, of course, remains to be seen. Another encouraging factor is found in corporation earnings’ re- ports covering the last quarter of 1938. On the average, profits were just about doubled, by com- parison with the summer quar-| ; ter, and were on about the same ‘level as at the end of 1937. Es- pecially good showings were made by automobiles, paper, textiles, chemicals and electrical equip- ment. It:should be remembered, however, that in some cases, the improvemnt is striking, only on a comparative basis—that is, a company which breaks even dur- ing a quarter is considered to be doing well if in previous periods it operated in the red. Of immediate interest is a sub- stantial increase in “pump prim- ing” by the Treasury. It is es-' timated that the cash deficit for, the first half of this year is likely to run around $300,000,000 a month—twice the deficit in the last half of 1938. In other words, the government is going “full |LOCALLY on what beautiful'the Gulf Stream by freighters | throttle” in its efforts to better | cruising spots for small boats! | Little is known of the excellent} | PLAYS | FOR THIS WEEK {RED BARN PLAYERS WILL | APPEAR AT HARRIS SCHOOL | Red Barn Players, unger the! )direction of Allan G. Holmes, | open their third successive week of stage plays in their new loca-j tion in the Harris School. This | {week a three-act comedy, “Dou- | ble Trouble”, will be presented | |on Thursday and Friday. | The play, “Double Trouble”, is! | as the name implies, a comedy of | trouble throughout’ the play, | | with human interest, laughs, humor, and thrills. The Red) | Barn Players, consisting of a! group of young men and ‘women, | who have “got what it takes” for) a good performance, being spon- sored by the P.-T. A. of the | schools. { | Included in the cast of “Double ; | Trouble” will be: | |_ Alan Holmes—The husband— | | Double. trouble. j Almera Carroll—The scheming, | j ambitious wife. and scores of ships with full Stream. ODD TWINS | { DRUMHELLER—Twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Primrose ; were born 55 hours apart. One celebrated his birthday January 2, and the other January 5. The ‘mother is only twenty years old. somew! business. And that will unques-! there are all through the Keys.| loads, now sunk deep in the Gulf tionably be felt in the production! and consumption indexes this spring. { Prospects for the near future, indicate that there will be an in-! ; crease in CAR LOADINGS. MO-| TOR production will probably) hold to modest levels for a month or two. Great hopes are pinned cn DOMESTIC CON- STRUCTION, but these may fall at short of expectations if; ifn exact form by building costs continue to one survey). CIGARETTE makers turing costs and consequent high- er profits this year, due to the elimination of compulsory tobac- co crop restrictions. RAILROAD EQUIPMENT industries are showing new signs of life, as the lines go into the market for new rolling stock. It is forecast that the value of AERONAUTICAL products this year will be 50 per- cent above the peak reachéd last_ year. | The signs continue to multpily that the Administration’ is .rapid- ly losing its hold over the Con-; Anti-New Deal Democrats} gress. are growing constantly more re- bellious—and even some congress- men who used to be regarded as certain White House stalwarts are beginning to kick over the traces. There-seem to ‘be enough votes in the rough coalition of rebellious Democrats and the Re- publican minority to prevent ‘the passage of any legislation that the lawmakers regard as too experi- mental or of questionable wis- dom. Disclosure of the President's private dickerings with France has definitely injured his stand- ing in a war-frightened Congress. It has made it probable that if any changes at all are made in our neutrlity policy, it will be to strengthen it and to make our economic and diplomatic aloofness from the European powers, demo- cratic as well as totalitarian, as complete as possible. Such old time stalwarts of isolation as Borah and Johnson have found many a potent ally among the younger men in Senate and House. Some think that the President has decided that the time has come to take a gentler hand with Congress, and to avoid provoking any open break over a major issue. It is a highly significant fact that congressmen are now writing their own laws—propos- ed legislations no longer comes to the majority leaders all prepared some White House advisor, as did important bills a year of two back. The in- fluence of the White House “un- official family”, once known as the Brain Trust, seems on the wane. The appointment of ex-Repre- sentative Amlie (as yet uncon- firmed), who has publicly stated; that he does not “consider the capitalist system worth saving”, to the ICC, has stirred up a great deal of resentment. So did the appointment of a federal judge to a Virginia bench over the pro- tests of Virginia senators—an ap- pointment which was given a ringing beating, with only nine senators voting to approve choice. Congress is up on its hind legs and tasting independ- ence—and it’s spoiling for a fight. the | DNESDAY, MARCH Minoca Council No. 13, 7 of Pocahontas meets 1st aj | Tuesdays of month, 4:30 p, business ba-|Jook forward to lower manufac-| Red Men's Hall, corner of line and Elizabeth stree | proved Order of Red Men| | every Monday, 7:30 p. m., 4 wam Hall. ‘Sparkling Wa bekah Lodge No. 14, me jand 4th Tuesdays at 7:30 p | F. & A.M. Lodges : Scottish Rite Hall as Anchor Lodge No. 182 ev ond. and fourth Monday )Leédge No. 14 every first 2 , Wednesdays; Scottish Rite. and fourth Wednesdays; D: Varela Lodge meets at th beth street hall every sec: fourth Thursdays; Robert J. Chapter, Order DeMolay. every Tuesday. Knights of Golden Eagle meet at Golden Eagle Hall lows: Key of the Gulf Cast! 2 every Tuesday, and Ig Agramonte No. 3, first and Thursdays. Pythian Organizations mc: Fleming street Pythias Pythian Sisters every M night; Knights of Pythias L: 163 every Friday night. The American Legion meet at Legion Hall, Whitehead United streets: Arthur Saw Post No. 28, second and fo Wednesdays; Auxiliary has co meetings. B. H. McCalla Camp, Spanis! War Veterans, meets first Tuc day of each month at Legion Hall. Order Caballeros de Marti: Marti Lodge No. 3, Saco Carrasco No. 2, called meetings on. Wed- nesdays; Sacerdotisas del Hogar. second and fourth Fridays. ir month. Order Caballero de la,Luz, Inc. O.C.L. Hall, 422 Amefha street: Marti Lodge No. 3 meets every Wednesday; Luminares Pasados Lodge No. 2 meets first Friday of each month. Cuba Lodge No. 16, L0.0.F., Varela Hall, 919 Elizabeth street. P.O.0.A., second Thursdays of each month at Duval Street Hall. ELECTRIC TRAINS MOSCOW — Electrified _rail- way lines in the U. S. S. R. at the beginning of 1939 totaled 1,- |690 kilometers (1,055 miles). An- |other 172 kilometers are expect- ;ed to be electrified this year. \——————— BENJAMIN LO! FUNERAL HO Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors } and Embalmers | _24 Hour Ambulance Service : Phone 135 Night 696 | In 1788 Geerge Washington wrote: there anything that can be done to re- store the credit of our money? It has got to so alarming a point that a wagon load of money will scarcely purchase a wagon Rothalie Wallace—The know-it- all aunt. Sharla Wallace —'The wife's! | pretty friend. | George Perkins — The hired | husband. “=== _ The deer fly is the fastest living thing known. It is said that it can propel its «wings to make 800 miles an hour. At this [—rafe an airplane could make the trip to Paris, for instance, in about four hours; load of provisions.” but neither deer fly nor airplane could go | the distance without being destroyed by | friction. The deer fly darts rather than ‘flies and possibly ‘couldn’t go 15 minutes | ~atra stretch hefare, singed to death. Someone has’iput the follewing con- | clusions in the mouth of the naval affairs committee: “If Congress will give us $22,500,000 we'll pick Miami; if only $15,000,000 will be forthcoming, choice will be Jacksonville.” Why didn’t the writer continue and say: “If Congress will not give the latter amount, we’ll pick :Key West, where the cost will n t be much more than $6,000,000, and where the air- base belongs if all factors were taken into _consideration.” our | what a local paper tells-on Commissioner Penland of Carbon ceunty, Wyoming: | Running out of oil on the highway, he ask- | ed a farm woman if she could supply some in the emergency, adding that castor oil would do. She replied that she was sorry | she had no castor oil, but “could fix up a | dose of salts.” Li | After years of effort, Standard Time was adopted by the railroads of the United States in 1883, obviating the confusion of | many different time systems. Now the | adoption of so-called daylight saving time in certain localities messes things up again | for about half of each year. Maybe the joke isn’t new, but this is | ‘Charles Birmingham—Slippery | Langiham. Joseph Daniel—The Irish cop. | Dorothy Carroll — The maid / ‘with her own ideas. ' | From and To | Boston, New York, Miami. Jacksenville, Galveston | New Orleans and Beyond, ariom Key West alternate Mon- From Boston every Tuesday. | From Jacksonville, Miami and New Orleans every two weeks. CLYDE-MALLGiRY | Key West, Fle. ————————————————— Coca-Cola belongs in “your icebox at home You enjoy ice-cold Coca-Cola every place else; why not at home, teo. The whole family will welcome its pure refreshment. Get a six-bottle carton and pre-cool the bottles before serving. KEY WEST COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO.