The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 7, 1939, Page 2

——_ PAGE AGE TWO She Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN P| HING CO., INC. L. P. ARTMAN, it and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Asi mt Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Bewentons Ss. in ne” West and Monroe Entered at Key“West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press “he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use |- for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or pot etherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. eT: SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year Bix Months _. Three Months . One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of <expect, 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 open forum and invites discus- Sion of public issues and subjects of local or general enone but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports-—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Serre nn It’s about time for the dictators to scare the democracies again. Drive carefully, even if you don’t care about yourself; let other people live. A Florida weekly instructs: “Gaso- line” is “gasolina” in Spanish. You tellin’ us Key Westers, People who live in Key West ought to be interested in the* development of their home town, and one way to show that interest is to make it pleasant for everyone, including the visitor. The American ambassador to France, Wn. C. Bullitt, says: ‘We are not in the habit of starting wars.” That’s true, but we have the habit of sticking our noses in what is none of our business, and then it necessarily becomes our business. For the enjoyment of a bull fight, ac- cording to the Portuguese, it is best to have “g hot sun, a good lunch, sufficient wine, plenty of flies and dust, and a slight head- ache.” Citizen Hemingway, an enthusias- tie aficionado, didn’t tell us that in his “Death in the Afternoon.” The Roosevelt administration, having hounded and harassed business and created more unemployment, defeating its. every objective, is now making a determined ef- fort to enlist the cooperation of business and industry in a joint attack upon un- employment which threatens to’ become a permanent status for many Americans. If business decides to trust the administra- tion, which has so often thrown a monkey- wrench in the machinery, then there is hope the undesirable situation will be remedied. Forward-looking students in this country will undertake the study of Spanish. The Spanish-speaking jobless in this country will find employment in the countries to the south of us. Brazil, for in- stance, wants immigrants of the better sort. The United States could be helpful to itself, by diminishing the jobless roll, and to Brazil by colonizing that country. Millions have been spent in the past few years on the ‘unemployed and their num- ber is about the same, where colonization in the coumtries south of us would cost less andthe relief | Foor Has Uncle Sam | ever th this? District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey desépyes the praise and admiration of every American citizen, who believes in law enforcement, for his vigorous prosecu- tion and conviction of James J. Hines, | powerful Tammany leader, for complicity in the famous million-dollar policy racket of the late “Dutch” Schultz. The — policy racket mm New York is a numbers gamé not unlike “Cuba” and bolita in Sanford and was'as: popular and as harmfut there as heré, ee Attorney Boyle has béen try- here what District Googe HOW TO CUT THE WPA ROLES Roy Schroeder, newly-appointed Flor- | | Works | ida state administrator for the Progress Administration, in an interview appearing in The Citizen, stated last week that while he is “satisfied with the way things have been going in the Key West area” reduction in the WPA rolls pnewuenete the | | state before March 31. “Tam going to run the WPA in Flor- ida on a business-like basis,’ Administra- | tor Schroeder is quoted as having declared | on the eve of his departure from Washing- ton for Jacksonville to take over his new duties. “I will be as sympathetic as I pos- sibly can, but efficiency and ability to do | the job will, in the future, have a large | bearing on the employing of old of new employes.” The Citizen congratulates Administra- | tor Schroeder for this simple declaration | of purpose and hopes he will be able to perform his duty along the lines he has laid down for himself. That he will have | some. difficulty hewing to this mark is so obvious that it hardly needs expression | here. Every man who has ever taken over direction of any governmental agency knows the pitfalls that beset Administra- | tor Schroeder. No matter how purposeful and honest, the man who accepts a politi- cal appointment to a high position in the | government is bound sooner or later to | clash with politics and politicians. Poli- | tics is politics and politicians are politi- ‘cians, and it takes plenty of backbone and intestinal fortitude to be impersonally business-like and say “no” when “yes” is clearly demanded by this inseparable duo. What has happened right here in Key West in the past proves the point. The WPA organization here has been com- pelled to place on the payroll men ab- solutely unfitted for their job. This has been particularly true in regard to the supervisory force of WPA. Men closely linked with politicians have been put on the Key West sewer and water project pay- roll for no other reason than that they needed jobs—at good salaries. Such salaries to men unqualified to perform the duties assigned them is one reason why our relief workers are now facing a layoff be- cause of a shortage of funds. Colonel F. C. Harrington, Works Progress Administrator at Washington, as- serts the deficiency appropriation act which cut the WPA appropriation by $150,000,000 stipulates there shall be a reduction of no more than 5 per cent in the WPA payrolls before March 31. The Citizen believes the WPA payroll | in Key West can be cut five per cent by laying off unnecessary and incompetent supervisors, by discharging aliens now living off the country to which they refuse to swear allegiance and by eliminating those. WPA workers who have other sources of income or who have other mem- bers of their families on the WPA pay- roll. That’s how the WPA’ payrolls can be cut here, and elsewhere, without deny- ing the man or woman who needs a job. POISONS EASE PAIN New and important developments in the use of pcisons for the relief of pain were described by Dr. M. B. Greene of New York in a recent report to a leading scientific body. Among the substances used are the poisonous venoms of rattle- snakes and other deadly reptiles. The use of such poisons in various ways is not new, but recent improvements in technique promise to be of great bene- fit to sufferers through “blocking off” cer- tain nerves or sets of nerves, instead of partially deadening the whole nervous system in order to relieve pain in one part of the body. As a result of yéars of research and experiments it is now possible to treat ex- tremely painful conditions by injecting the poison in proper doses directly into the nerves of the patient. ' These animal poisons are said to be much more effective in allaying pain than opium or morphine, but heretofore they have been administered principally to make easier the last days of sufferers from incurable diseases. The new treatment is described by | Dr. Green as “a fractional blocking the nerves either on the side or in front of the spine,” with great accuracy in results by deadening individual nerves. | This sounds rather mysterious to the lay- ; man, but any means of. alleviating pain is always welcomed by suffering humanity. — there will have to be a very drastic THE KEY WEST CITIZEN \"KEY WEST IN | DAYS GONE BY | Happenings Here Just 10 Years | Age Today As Taken From | The Files of The Citizen Local lodges of- Knights of! |Pythias at a meeting held last) inight launched a vigorous new |membership drive as part of the! |national movement to obtain! | 100, 000 new members during the |present year. A communication | was read from Alva M. Lumpkin| |of South Carolina, supreme chan- | \cellor of the order, which stated | the order is maintaining a high standard in welfare and charit-| able activities, and called upon | |the 6,000 subordinate lodges in| | America to urge an_ increased} }membership for 1929. Each lodge | ‘should make a drive to gain an| jincrease in membership of at/ \least 10 percent, and the mini- | mum set for the order as a whole lis 100,000. After working out aj campaign for the local lodges, a} | campaign committée was formed | and selected for the drive in Key| West, composed of J. Winfield| Russell, Millard B. Gibson and| | Frazier Pinder. In urging the) | local lodges to make a supreme} | effort in the proposed drive and} |doing all possible to secure new | |members, Chancellor Commander | | Ulric Gwynn gave some interest-! ling figures showing activities of, | the order up to the present time. | | ‘The proposition contemplating | a fresh water supply for the city | lof Key. West, as presented at the |court house last night by A. O. Beauchemin of New York, as representative of a strong com-) |bination of concerns specializing |in the installation and operation {of water supply systems, was |heard’ with apparent interest by a large number of citizens. The. | price of artesian water delivered |in the city under high pressure jat 31% cents the thousand gal- |lons was considered sufficiently | | attractive but the rate to con-j | sumers and the $50,000 the city is} asked to furnish as a gamble was considered the obstacle. Editorial comment: The world) made a marvelous step when it! discovered, the art of printing. | Similarly business concerns made wonderful progress when they got to using printer’s ink. Escapes made late yesterday) from the hull of the submarine| S-4 at a depth of 160 feet in the waters of the Gulf, radio reports from the scené state, showed that within six minutes after the hull had touched bottom two of. those \taking part in the experiments had made their escape and arose to the surface. Regular Friday evening dance of the Key West Country Club will be given tomorrow night |and members will be permitted to invite guests, if they are visi- tors, according to the announce- ment of R. B. Austin, secretary to the club. J. Edwin Baker, district deputy grand exalted ruler; ordér of Elks, has arrived and will be guest of the local club this eve- ning. The meeting ;will’ be fol- lowed by a smoket, which was planned when it was learned that the official was ted, Charles Toole, fire department chief of Vero Beach, is expected to arrive late today with Chief Ralph Pinder, in regard to the Vero Beach band taking part in the annual convention to be held in Key West April I and 3. The mayor of Vero Beach has re- quested Chief Pinder to make reservations for a party of 60. —e 1 A genuine old-time Fourth of July celebration is being planned by the local Patriotic Order, Sons of America. It will be an all- day affair, says Winfield Russell, and there will be lots of sport. Nadist Film Chaste, Delicate, Wholesome The subject matter of the dar- ing picture, “Unashamed”, a ro- mance in the nude, which is the current attraction at the Palace Theatre, is neither indecent nor salacious. On the contrary, though every screen player in “Unasham- ed” appears in the nude, this pic- -4, Have the St. Louis Browns’ | Those ture is chastely beautiful and the JOHN ROBERT POWERS, the head of the world’s best known model agency, when booking his famous models for fashions, advertisers and artists, says “‘The call is for beauty, poise, per- : sonal charm... the perfect combination’. gets the call... Chesterfields get the call from more and more smokers every day because of their refresh- ing mildness, better taste and pleasing aroma. The perfect combination of Chesterfield’s mild ripe American and aromatic Turk- ish tobaccos ... the can’t-be-copied blend «..makes Chesterfield the cigarette that gives millions of men and women more smoking pleasure. 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Steamship Co., arrived yes- The impressive size, great length, | terday from Tampa with five and so | first cabin and three second cab-| § ‘ i ‘in passengers for Key West, and = sey ence the | Her beset Ape eva ag) 180 first cable fabenest for Ha-| ; Vana. Ww leeti ffi does | ‘The height is estimated—and the! | 2. dare arto eae facts appeals |_ Key West arrivals were: Mrs.! john N. Garne! F. Beadle, J. Bud, E. G. Gardiner, | 3. What is intrastate com-) ;To the highest funnel is greater} {John Farr, Hazel Farr, Rogelio! merce? than Niagra Falls. funnels standing high, a richly red, Can’ yau-snswer seven of these | fest questions? Turn to Page 4 for the answers ever won the pennant in) the American League? |May now ‘be likened to hats! 5. ‘Who won the recent heavy-! adorning mifady’s head; | weight title bout between As a picture majestic she sails, =< Joe Louis and John Henry; away | Lewis? To England, and the breezes to, 6. Of which body of water is| her our message tell H the Ionian Sea a part?) | As her gréat engine blows a deep 7. Does ice contain heat? farewell. } are included in these low, 8. Did Italy make a formal Mildred Emily Scaife. | one-way rates. declaration’ of war against A és to BALTIMORE . .$ Ethiopia before invading| Atlanta, Georgia. sate bse UO every Sunday, 3 P.M. 372 that country? | 9. Dé retired Presidents of the | to PHILADELPHIA . $49)50 Mountains? i COLDS Se matic Price Te in 5 Line, every Wednesday, 3 P. M. toBOSTON.....- direct Norfolk connection every Sunday, 3 P.M. toNORFOLK.... every Sunday, 3 P.M. iam CARRIED AT LOW EXTRA COST MERCHANTS & MINERS LINE- Menocal, Zenaida Gonzalez, Mer- cedes Lorez. Listed on the manifest of the ship were the following items: For Key West, 32 tons of freight, one automobile ‘and four sacks of mail; for Havana, 356 sacks of i mail. Also carried among the items | asi ejgnt were two light pieces of field'artillery, consigned to the jordnance officer at Key West | barracks, to be used for firing of salutes. The S.S. Cuba sailed shortly | before 11 o’clock: for Havana with 91 first cabin and two second cabin passengers booking at this port. . There were also. five auto- | mobiles taken. Subscribe to The Citizen—20c weekly. ocean ROUTE NORTH | KK Briey a pleasure trip North. Good meals and regular stateroom accommodations 495° $3252 four and Travel Service, 505 Duval West 174}; or Merchants & au SE Fit biret . Miami.