The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 8, 1939, Page 2

PAGE Two ae Key Miest Citizen | Published Dally Exeept Sunday By 4 THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO, INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President and Pa JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business M: From The 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 republication of all news dispatches credited to it or pot etherwise credited in this paper and also | the local news pyblished here. 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 <tpect, obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line, N es for entertainment by churches from which » is to be derived are 5 cents a line. T izen is an open forum and invites discus- ifie ot public issues and subjects of local or general imterest 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. Pacelli means little peace, but we can stand a lot of it just now. Oh, Homestead Law! What crimes are committed in thy name! Jacksonville should have the naval air base.”—-A Jacksonville paper speak- ing. It used to be that one-half of the world was curious about how the other half lived. This half isn’t quite so inter- ested today. The Administration must “play ball” with business, and vice versa. It is self-| evident if either is obstreperous and won’t play, there can be no game. In its policy in disseminating the news, The Citizen believes that it is bet- ter to be a little late and right, than pre- mature and wrong. A rumor is news, but it should be so tagged. Key West Citizen remarks that “it is better to save and be safe, than to spend and be spent.” True, quite true—and if | it’s saved, and not all lent, it can be used to | pay the rent.—Florida Times-Union. A visitor in Key West ordered 215 copies of last Saturday’s Citizen to be for- ‘warded to all parts of the United States and Canada. That is the kind of dis- semination pleasing to the publisher and will be of great benefit to this community. In referring to the possible canoniza- tion of Mother Elizabeth Seton, who in- cidentally is a distant relative of Presi- dent Roosevelt, one of the Miami papers stated that her “beautification” was im- minent. It is not likely that the Sacred College is interested in that process be- cause it is not engaged in the conduct of a beauty parlor, but it definitely is inter- ested in the “beatification” of the sainted lady. If war came shortly, Key West would have an airplane site available for imme- | diate use and occupancy. The harassed | government would not be required to await the expiration of a number of years before beginning operations. If any other ‘site than Key West is chosen, then we may rest assured that the government does not | expect hostilities to break loose before sev- eral years, otherwise it would determine Key West as a necessary base and like a good boy scout “Be Prepared.” Dr. Henry Norris Russell, director of the Princeton University Observatory, is authority for the statement that Key West with the rest of the world will in time be- come so hot that all of us will be com- pelled to migrate to the north and south poles. However, do not become alarmed and prematurely buy a lot on which to build a house, because it will be millions of | years before that eventuality takes place. The earth absorbs from the sun about one degree every 100,000,000 years and there | are 2,000 degrees to be absorbed, so in| 100,000,000 years it’s time to. be moving | from this old rock, j | effort. "i | prohibited, - | No city can buy good will. ' tice is now to issue an GIVE STRANGERS A BREAK! Nearly every city, town and village | | has traffic regulations drawn to fit the | conditions peculiar to each There is great conflict as community. What may be confusing to motorists from distant sections may be perfectly | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE OLD SHIRT.NEEDS MENDING between one | | community and another in those regula- | tions. logical and proper to local residents. They | are familiar With their own laws and ob- serve thegffwithout conscious thought or Realizing the _ inability local traffic regulations, the majority of modern communities, particularly those catering to tourists, post signs indicating | of passing | motorists to be fully informed regarding | }on a recent visit to Washington. | He is reported as saying that the | inadequate facilities at | and O. docks in Key West was j | | | | | the salient requirements of the ordinances. | Thus one-way and through streets, zones where parking: is prohibited and permit- ted and other rules are brought to atten- | tion of visiting motorists. Occasionally, of course, a motorist unwittingly violates the local traffic reg- ulations. His attention attracted where or his mind filled with the thought of finding a hotel or restaurant, the motorist drives the wrong way in a one | | way \stuget, goes through a stop street | without halting or parks where parking is community usually adopt a philosophic at- titude and courteously inform the stranger of his mistake and offer a few suggestions to enable him to avoid similar errors in the | future. If the motorist parks too closely to | plug the ; traffic officer puts a “courtesy” card back | of the windshield wiper and goes on his | an intersection or near a fire way. The card informs the stranger that a third violation of the regulations may re- sult in a court sammons—but that he is forgiven for ‘his first mistakes. That kind of treatment is appreciated by the average stranger. It creates good will and good will is the stuff that brings the tourist back to that community again and compels him. to speak a good word for that community with the folks back home. It must be created, then nourished from time to time to keep it alive. Traffic policemen can | and should be the messengers of good will | from the resort community to the stranger. Key West policemen can perform no | greater service for this community than | dishing out liberal helpings of courtesy to strangers. The policemen should be pro- vided with courtesy cards to hand a stranger when he makes a traffic mistake. The Citizen has been informed the prac- immediate court summons to such unwitting violators of our local laws. This is a mistake that creates ill will, and ill will, like an ill wind, blows | ‘nobody any good. One of the most frequent violations by strangers of our local laws is going the wrong way in Duval street, our only one- way thoroughfare. The strangers can’t be blamed for those violations. Key West is to blame. Duval street is not clearly in- dicated as a one-way street. There are no signs at Front, Greene, Caroline, Eaton, Southard. or other intersections informing the Mii ry that Duval street/is a one-way street. :This oversight should be corrected at once. Wrong-way traffic is a menace | to our visitors and to our own residents. A little courtesy and a few signs will help Key West develop more rapidly as a resort city. REVAMPING WPA Something cbviously is going to hap- pen to WPA soon, and probably some- thing drastic. It has served a useful pur- | pose and accomplished much valuable | work, in spite of the legitimate criticism, | but it was improvised for an emergency that was not expected to last very long. Now it is ‘recognized that certain pub- lic purposes served by: this organization are not accidental or temporary, that the problems it was made to solve may be with us:a;long time. So it is said that the WPA in its present form will be discon- | tinued, but its essential functions will be carried on by a new and better organiza- tion, with a different name. What it will amount to, we are told, is a “permanent work-reserve corps, a whch it is expected that men and women will be trained for trades frankly and ef- ficiently. It will have an effective em- ployment service. There should be noth- ing casual or makeshift about such an in- stitution, and there need be no shame in being connected with it. else- | In tourist centers such lapses | are frequent; so the traffic officers of each | | encourage employers to discharge | strikers for various reasons, real |or fancied, and that many cases | | By HUGO S. SIMS, Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen House Vote On Guam May Be Signal For Japanese Advances In For East The Island of Guam, which} happens toe be within forty miles | Board to dredge the harbor of of a Japanese (mandated) island, ‘Guam created consternation in| | continues to occupy the spotlight Japan is certain. The Japanese | |of the Administration’s defense viewed the recommendation as plan. Of course, the proposal to| positive evidence that the United ) prepare the harbor for seaplane, | States intended to make a firm| ‘and possikly submarine, use is | stand for its rights in the Far not a fortification of the island,/East. Japanese strategists recog- but because many members of nize the increased strength that Congress consider it the first, the Island would give the Amer- step in such a process, and be-} ican fleet if Guam is fortified cause some experts have express- into a full-fledged naval base. ‘ed the opinion that the beginning| Consequently, the Japanese are of “these fortifications might pre-| watching, with some concern, | cipitate a war”, the issue created! whatever action Congress event- by the refusal of the House to! ually takes in regard to Guam. | include the sum allotted to Guam, —— |has been magnified many times.; There was the suggestion in jthis country that Guam was to be used as an instrument of di-| plomacy; that the United States of 1921, the fortification of the} by. preparing to fortify Guam, | Pacific Islands was forbidden in; would be able to give up its plans | the pact attached to naval limita-;in return for better relations tions. Since Japan repudiated from Japan. However, in Con-/| the Naval Agreement the situa- gress, some members openly tion in the Pacific was left as it’ voiced their opposition to the pro- was before the Naval Limitations ; Posal almost solely on the ground | Treaty. Moreover, many experts | that it might “offend” the Jap-} believe that the Japanese are for-| anese. As a result, the Japanese | tifying their mandated islands,; are likely to regard the vote in| which, it should be admitted, are the House as a “go-ahead” signal | in Japanese waters. ‘for them in the Far East. That the proposal of the Naval Readers should understand that | under the Washington Agreement | New Deal Trying To Get Business To Forget Worries And Cooperate | Harry Hopkins’ long-awaited;said no higher taxes were speech at Des Moines was in-, Prospect. tended, no doubt, to increase the i Subsequently, Secretary of the| jean Ambassador to Cuba. Mr. es Havana and was |the Labor Act, declared that he |had always stated that the sit-| | ers. | related how an | and |sentences was denied. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1939 KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Ls = in ed to be made Se was among the visitors: inj facilities are expected to made el | ment of Brandon Judah, ‘Ameri- ip returning ‘north. Mrs. Zeigfield, widely popular as Billie Burke, was not) with him. While in Havana, Flo! .is reported to have entered into! a contract with Miss Hilda Mo-! reno, 20-year-old Cuban senorita, | recognized and it was the inten- | to appear in musical comedy. tion of the treasury depattment | | to correct this condition within! a short time. i. ; Judah said that this improvement ‘is contemplated by treasury’ offi- cials whom he contacted while the’ P. New ferry, which is now prac- Flo Ziegfield, of New York, fa-:for the Monroe County Ferry | mous producer of musical com-, System will not be ready for de-} ‘livery to the county until some time next week, neer Clifton G. Bailey has | pressed by some officials that the; latitude of the decision might’ an- missioners. Captain E. A. Sharp- Saturday to bring the second Monroe County to Kity West, will make their home on board the boat until it is time for the down strike is illegal and should departure, it is stated in the en- never be resorted to by the work-! gineer’s message. It is expected | that Mr. Bailey will remain in poe | Jacksonville and make his trip to Chief Justice Hughes, in the’ Key West on the maiden voyage Fansteel case, told how, in Feb,,,of the craft. The boat was built ruary, 1937, strikers seized two; to, replace the Monroe County, would arise. However, Senator Wagner, of New York, author of lof the company’s buildings and, which was recently destroyed by were notified of their discharge fire. when they refused to leave. He, ae injunction was; The Booster Club committee is obtained from the Illinais Court | making progress in the plans to the strikers, after one beautify that portion of Palm “pitched battle”, were finally; Avenue between the triangle at ousted, fined and given jail sen-; the barracks and White street. tences for violating the Court or-; Yesterday palms were planted on der. The appeal of thirty-nine of the south side of the section of the sit-down strikers from these the thoroughfare along the army barracks wall. The other side of the street was similarly orna- While the Court upheld the mented some time ago. finding of the Labor Board that — the corporation had been unfair [Editorial comment: ‘‘Key in its labor practices before the West’s adopted daughter is de- strike, the Chief Justice said that lighted with the knowledge that the seizure of buildings gave a.the State Road Department has good reason for the workers’ dis-, taken over the maintenance of charge. The strikers, he said, the Over Sea Highway, is the could readily have gone to the statement of Mrs. Ruth Bryan Labor Board when collective bar-_O w e n ,_ congresswoman-elect gaining was refused and declared from this district, in a telegram that refusal to bargain did not to friends. make the company an “outlaw” or deprive it of its rights to its property. A daughter was born at ; tically completed at Jacksonville, ' County Engi-! nounced in telegrams to the com-! ley and his crew, who left here! 11! o’clock this morning to Mr. and' A TRIBUTE TO KEY WEST AND OVERSEAS HIGHWAY |No poetic thought, nor magic of | wind !Could justice do to the Overseas | Highway; Tis a dream fulfilled, prayer heard, Mas engineering { the day. | The vast structure stretches out to span | Blue Atlantic water and the Gulf of Mexico, too, {And connects Key West to the H mainland With her canopy of skies of such radiant hue. like a masterpiece of | So, at long last, is done— |A concrete fact of a wonderful scheme. And the Overseas Highway leads i to golden sun, To a friendly town, which shared in the dream. | We salute you, Key West! value is high {In esteem. Your balmy breath, and the part you play In a land of promise—tis hard to say “good-bye”. But the great Highway bids re- turn on another day. —Mildred Emily Scaife. the great work Your Mrs. Albert Martinez at home, 1109 Georgia street. their Regular Friday night dance will take place tonight at the Key West Country Club, and an en- joyable evening’s entertainment lis being looked forward to by a large number of those who con- template attending. A son weighing nine pounds was born this morning 4 o'clock to Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Stirrup at their home, 317 Peacon Lane. Mother and baby are reported to be getting along very nicely. | Miss Blanca Castillo and Frank ; Carbonell were married last eve- ning at 7:30 o’clock at the resi- dence of the bride, 820 Simonton street. The ceremony was per- formed by Rev. Eduardo Roy. BENJAMIN Ou FUNERAL HOME r Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors | | and Embalmers || _24 Hour Ambulance Service ; Phone 135 Night 696 i confidence of finance and indus-! try and to emphasize the drive | for recovery. through cooperation | between Government. and _ busi-! ness. The Secretary of Com- merce, it is known, has been con-| \ferring with business leaders in: | an effort to pave the way for a flow of private capital into in-| vestment channels. This, it is} felt, will do much to improve the economic situation from a long-; ! range standpoint, and is the chief} hope for a sizeable reduction in! | the number of unemployed. | Pee aeI Se { | Mr. Hopkins’ speech reflected | a new tone, adopted by the Presi-| | dent some time ago. In October, ; | Mr. Roosevelt urged business to! end “economic — saber-rattling” and gird for recovery. Just be-) | fore departing for the Carib-j | bean, the Chief Executive assur- ‘ed business that it had nothing! to fear from future objectives and} ; Treasury Morgenthau told ntws- paper men that he was not ex-| pecting any new taxes and urged |a congressional study to discover what taxes, if any, were “holding business men back”. Mr. Morgen- thau insisted that the business man should understand “that the Administration wants him to go. ahead”. | ate ries | It seems well established, upon | the basis of these and other dec-| larations, that the Administration | considers its reform program at an end. From now on, emphasis} will be placed upon steps to in- duce capitalism to function in its own behalf and to persuade busi- ness men to accept the Tesponsi- | bility of meeting the economic needs of the nation. This does not! mean that the lid is off or that) business will be allowed to do ab-| H solutely as it pleases. Federal reg-| ulations, in line with recent sta-| tutes, will be applied, and, appar- | that there would be no further; ently, something of a campaign, extension of Federally subsidized | to enforce the anti-trust laws will! power projects. Moreover, he'be pursued. “Sit-Down” Strikes Are Outlawed + The United States Supreme, fair labor practice would be to Court finally got around to the! put a premium on resort to force sit-down strike last week and: by | instead of legal remedies, and to a 5-2 decision called it “a high-| subyert the priciples of law and | handed proceeding without shad-| order, which lie at the foundation | ow of legal right”. In an opinion | of society”. | i written by Chief Justice Hughes. . f and concurred in by the other | members of the Court, except Jus-! tices Black and Reed ustice| findings of the National Labor | Frankfurter did not participate),| Relations Board in two other| the Court said that to justify such |eases, sharply checking tne hith- conduct “because of the existence) erto success of the Board in its| of a labor dispute or of an uin-Hegal contests. ‘The idea was ex-! The model illustrated is the Buick SPECIAL model 41 four-door touring sedan $996 delivered at "RE talking about that ey of yours who owns a 1939 B ee ve heard plenty from a natu- rally, about the fresh-as-the-morning- breeze styling of his taut and trim new Buick —and the way it perks abody up just to look it over! You've listened while he sang the Praise of a ride that’s like a y— soft and gentle as a tender touch, but sure, unwavering, steady, in cross-wind or at speed. No doubt you've sensed his joy at those eigh Dynaflash cylinders, that need only the. fentiest sort of bint to Bae jesse o ae forefront —and this lonteorangi athe siponer’s antl this stepper’s gait! All of which is welf and your good friend told you th --. That Buick’s are easily the int, Mich” prices for the value you'll find any- where on automobile row? ... That this far-ranging great-hearted eight — with all the sky-larking life those extra cylinders give it—still costs less than some sixes? ... That factory list figures run any- where from $51 to $102 less than a year ago—and that they buy worlds more in self-banking Knee-Action, Handishift transmission, 15% softer BuiCoil Spring- ing, visibility stepped up as much as 412 square inches, any number of so-called extras” such as the Flash-Way direc- tion signal? If he hasn’t, it’s plainly time to get its es on what the model of your choice will cost delivered in your driveway! That will prove, we think, that this shining star is in your reach — 90 why s you be without it? MULBERG CHEVROLET COMPANY Caroline and New Streets Key West, Fla.