The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 10, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key ‘West Citizen | Pubiished Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. P. ARTMAN, (dent and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner'Gréene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County | | influence that brought about DEFENSE VERSUS POLITICS | Somewhat the same kind of political | closing of | the naval station, abandonment of the sub- marine base, removal of the Coast Guard | | base and loss of other desirable govern- | ment projects to Key West now seem to be | Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter | dogging this city’s efforts to have the pro- 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 Iccal news published 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, resolufions of sezpect, 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 & cents a line. . The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but #t 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. The greatest movie heroes are those who go to see them all. Even though we are wrong, we like to have folks think like we do. Most Americans do not like com- munism, fascism nor criticism. If men marry their opposites, we can see why Mrs. Tom Mooney is such a fine woman. Every community has a small group of people, ready to tell everybody else how to manage their business, German newspapers do not print “funnies,” but pictures of Hitler’s Charlie Chaplin moustache are not barred. With talk so cheap around Key West, we can’t understand the present revival in popularity of the talking machine. The average Key West reformer is so busy picking on his neighbors, he doesn’t stop to do a bit of personal reforming. After a Florida tourist got back home up north he was asked if he felt any change. ‘Not a penny,” was the reply. A scientist says a man’s brain at- tains its maximum weight at the age of 20. And that’s about the age when he thinks he knows everything. Love is sure a funny situation. Many a Key West girl has given up a good posi- tion which paid good wages, to marry into one that doesn’t pay any. The greatest good of the greatest number is accomplished chiefly by pro- moting good-will among men. Isn’t it strange that President Roosevelt, advocate of the “Good Neighbor” policy, is such an uncompromising foe of business men? A duel was fought between Mr. S. K. Shott and A. W. Knott. The result was that Knott was shot, Shott was not. Un- der those circumstances, who wouldn’t rather be Shott than Knott?—From the Fayetteville (N. C.) Observer, of January 19, 1864, Not a single newspaper published in the state of Florida distributes as much as 4 per cent of its circulation outside of this state, yet it is arbitrarily characterized by the government as_ intra-state business. As the intrepretation of the law stands now, if a newspaper has just one sub- scriber outside of the state, it becomes subject to the Wage and Hour Law. Ap- parently no justice in that, and particularly onerous on the smaller publications which struggle for existence from day to day, and what is worse they are compelled to re- duce the number of their employees, thus further adding to the list of the unem- ‘ployed. Others, in their. extremity, simply give up the ghost. In Florida the, Murphy Act is the shot in the arm that temporarily | location, what has Key West got to offer? | ville would be lower. posed southeastern navy air base estab- | lished here. Associated Press dispatches , from Washington set forth that, Rear Admirahyy' Arthur J. Hepburn, senior officer of theF_ Naval Advisory Board, informed the Sen. ate Naval Committee the board was look- ; ing over proposed sites (for the navy air | base) at Jacksonville, Miami and Fernan- | | dina, Florida, and Brunswick and Savan- | nah, Georgia. | Again no mention of Key West! In| the advisory board’s first report to Con- | gress, Key West was absolutely ignored | and Jacksonville was recommended as the | | location of the southeastern navy air base. | | In fact, the Hepburn board did not visit Key West prior to the completion of that | first report. Why was Jacksonville recom- | mended? Officers on the Advisory Board | admitted Miami was a better location “‘stra- | tegically”, but said the cost at Jackson- | Pt If Miami is regarded as a more strang | tegic location than Jacksonville, what is 2 Key West’s geographic position? Less | strategically located? Certainly not! Any | grade school boy or girl knows that Key | West is closer to the entrance to the Carib- bean Sea and to the Gulf of Mexico. estimates set up for the proposed Miami A more costly site? Certainly not! The Key West Aviation Board has_ estimated the cost of establishing the base by buying the present Trumbo section, filling in an additional 960 acres of shoal water and providing unlimited anchorage and man- euvering areas would be less than $5,000,- 000—and that is about one-third of the probable cost of a site at either Jackson- ville or Miami. Admiral Hepburn described the pro- pcsed southeastern base as a “very ma- terial and essential factor in the national defense,’ There is no denying the truth of that statement. Then, Key Westers ask, who not establish the navl air base where it will be really effective in the national defense? Why put the base at Jacksonville more than 500 miles away from the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico or the Caribbean Sea? Why put it at Mi- ami? The answer to all such questions is— politics. Key West and Monroe. county cannot produce the voting strength that Jacksonville or Miami can muster when election day rolls around. Politics lost this city virtually every worthwhile federal project that was established here when | merit counted more than votes. | fi oO county completed at a Jacksonville ship-! tired in favor of Bethel, youthful jyard left Jacksonville late this If the cost of establishing a navy air | morning enroute to Key West on! | base at Jacksonville would be less than the | the vessel's maiden voyage, it was announced at the court house to- | day. sel should arrive here {two days with continus progress {day and night. county engineer and commission- !ers, who stopped over on a trip | fr | launching of the vessel, the sec- |ond Monroe County, are under- | stood to be motoring down the | east coast with only the members |of the crew coming on the ves- sel. |looked over the new boat last | Friday at the Gibbs South Jacksonville and pronounc- ed her fit, |formed. Arrangements have been |made to sail her down to the | Keys under her own power with pose her crew already on the job.} She will sail in a few days for |No Name Key. trial trip on the St. John’s river in South Jacksonville, the new 11 and 2-10 miles an hour with |the engines turning ‘400 revolu- | tions. }of making 600 revolutions. Smyrna by The Citizen is to the effect that Walter Urwinler, a na- ‘tive of England, was picked up| on the streets there in an uncon- | scious condition, |an injury received several days | c.. | ago on a boat. Politics | passport, money, papers and any | THE BIGGER BLOW THE KEY WEST.CITIZEN | e | AN QDE wocegegegoe Let’s sing a song of the Florida 4 | Keys, } | While sisters up North wear|/PARTY TAKEN OUT ON MO- | woolens and freeze. asi snknaigaeill TOR-SHIP BALMY DAYS | We've heard songs and songs ot! | the ocean blue, | WEDNESDAY NIGHT All of which we agree is true. i oo | But no place is Heaven while; A party of Key West residents | still on earth, ‘and friends enjoyed a delightful We accept the “joy-kills” and |two-hour Moonlight Sail Wednes- laugh with mirth. [oeyaiaene on the siya | i a y Days”, captain C. “ H Sita eaten ob tree anvord Wade. Those on board included: = Mrs. E. J. Bayly, Mr. and Mrs. We take them graciously with' sebastian Cabrera, Mrs. E. | __ the best. !Shouras, Estelle F. Curry, Mrs. Hundreds of cocks, both big and'Emma Wellman, Mr. and Mrs. | small— | Allan B. Cleare, Jr., Mayor and |Their crows are familiar, we! Mrs. Willard Albury, Mrs. O. S. H know them all. ‘Long, Jack Long, Mrs. Newell | Dogs, too, in wild profusion Pate Tee ar | ir bi ight’: .|Mary Jo-McMahon, Fr an Add their bit to the night’s con-; Gladys Knight, Florence Earle fusion. | S | Cats galore hold midnight rallies | S@wyer and” Earle S. Shee it »,| Dr. S. Kingdom Avery, | As ouras ae oele 98. Be neighbor’s sreuings, Allen J. Miller, Etta M. | These nocturnal entertainers orale Mr: “pusepetraas oun im ee always yt spat i | Soule, Mrs. Jane Brown, Mrs. | They ene ail—i should Say | Chas. Curtis, Wm. R. Wegner and bac ‘Isadore L. Weintraub. |Of course, we catch snatches of; “Others, mostly tourists, who | sleep between, ‘have made the trip on daylight 'To deny that, would surely be! schedules recently include: eccce eccece TO KEY WEST MOONLIGHT SAIL KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY | Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Takes 1 | From The Files The new boat for the Monroe’ ferry system recently It is believed that the ves- in about The Monroe om Tallahassee to witness the Officials from Key West plant. in The Citizen is ~in- ive of the six men who will ¢dm- In_ her first ver-Sea Ferry made the run of The engines are capable from New) | News received suffering from He was minus; cares not for the national defense; politics | belongings except the clothes he) is as blind to the public welfare as a car | ¥ driven by a rum-soaked nitwit. Peter O. Knight, Tampa, known attorney and a recently urged our representatives in the | United States Senate to assist in restoring j Key West to the position she formerly eceg cupied in the national defense concluded with this statement: “T hope to see the day when govern- ment projects will be established on merit and not because of politics.” Who in Key West doesn’t? SETTLING THE RACE QUESTION Race questions. that cause friction | years old. |on board a vessel of the govern- nationally | ment with a United States Geo- skilled politician, | !ogical expedition, and that he had left the boat at: Key, West. | park on Flagler Avenue. as wearing. He is about 35) He said he had been Editorial comment: g The ‘ideal community life is interpreted in . Le inaweur loyalty to your,,,city, state URN. soles itt country, faith in your ,own future and in the destiny, of the place in which you live, charit-| ableness to your neighbors and| hospitality to the stranger who is within your gates. | The Sluggers scored another | vietc ry yesterday over the White | baseball | Tony | ox at the municipal throughout the world are seldom satisfac- torily solved until the peoples in the re. | gions affected manage to evolve a work- able program between themselves. | This observation applies to the dis- |/ pute between the Arabs and the Jews in Palestine, where Great Britain has been | trying to get an agreement through con- ference. It also applies to the Japanese ques- tion on the Pacific coast,»:the Mexican | question in the southwest, the Negro“ques-* tion in the South and elséwhere and the various areas where large groups of for- eign-born make up a considerable minor- ity. ‘ In no instance can a settlement be ef- fected permanently, without disturbances, by pressure from outside areas. Where different races live in the same sections or communities, they must manage to reach an acceptable solution of the prob- | Head, an old-timer, ‘pitched the} BENJAMIN LOP: FUNERAL HOME Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers 24 Hour Ambulance Service Phoné'135 BY THE §IOT! = 07, aL | mean. Stella, Arthur, Robert and | {Richard Frenzel, Denver, Colo., | We came to the South for a.per-'Geo. W. Cliffe and wife, Phila- | fect rest, \delphia, Pa., C. B, Liggett, Short | Despite it-all—we love Key West.| Hills, N. S. Mrs. Harry Leith- | KLARA DAHLE. | Ross, Bunny and Harry Leith- Diamond, Ore. | Ross, New Hope, Pa., Jennie R. Greenbaum, Chicago, Ill., Mrs. Stow Van Horne and Peggy, Santa Barbara, Calif, Mr. and Of The Citizen | Key West, Fla., 939. first five innings and not a man vps aaa reached second, and then he re-| , ecccccccecrccccccccces twirler, of the Sluggers, and not THE CALL-OF KEY WEST | a man reached third on him.' eece aus This is the third consecutive! : | Come on down to Key West shutout they have delivered. {Where ifs sumutes day atler day! ; as | And the flowers bloom all year—| The trip of 20 business and For no frost do they fear. professional women of Lake; ang wi inten et Worth to Key West has been post-| Pe Nee ea aa eee poned on account of illness of! Come on down -to Key W * ‘y West some of those who thought of Where you've ne’ér seen such! joining the praty, according to & inf iat shades of blue, “eh prnation Tecelve af the Cham- | Both to windward and lee, eeret Commerce: | And all over the sea— The Parent-Teachers Associa-| Y°Uve ne eh ero auch: heavenly) tion meeting scheduled to be held | tomorrow evening has been post- ; . Come on down to Key West poned until Thursday ‘evening,! . March 19, The Citizen has been} Were the trade winds blow gent- N | ly all day. informed. | Why should one hurry along, , Shuge,| When there’s laughter and song | Lieutenant Carlton 4 : : | And the winds biow your troy-| U.S.N., who came here with the} bles away? Submarine S-4, experimental; unit, has been ordered to tem-' porary duty on the S-48 during} the submersible maneuvers in the waters around Key West. Bey, West Fi H iy f } R. W. IDE, | 1025 South 6th St.,! Springfield, Ill. { a., | March 10, 1939. | Miss Anna Valnzuela and Joa-| @ mm Qarttre quin Gutsen were married on Tuesday evening at the home of the bride’s parents, 1114 Division SALVE) m elieves street. The newlyweds have a ? Q large number of friends, all of! Liquid:Tablets COLDS whé6m wish them a happy married) “Sitver-Nose price : Drops 10¢ & 25c LEWINSKY’S “Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. GREATLY ENJOVED caer FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1939 | WHO KNOWS? | (See “The Ans Page 4) e SS kins? 2 How old is Harry L. Hop- What is the National Law- ers Guild? 3. When was the naval air ‘school at Pensacola, Fla., found- ed? ; 4. What is the International ‘Settlement at Shanghai? 5. How many German-born ‘residents are in New York? | 6. How many soldiers were killed in the civil war in Spain? | How does the power output jof the TVA compare with the ;Grand Coulee dam and Boulder | dam? ; 8 Who was ‘ berg? | 9. How many income tax re- 'turns are filed with the Federal | Government in a year? ; 10. 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