The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 15, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO Tbe Key West Citizen Publishea Daily Bxcept Sunday By DHE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher 40E ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager 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 | The Associated for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not etherwise credited in this paper and also the Ideal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year Six Months Three Months Qne Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resol sespect, obituary notices, etc., will be cha: the rate of 10 cents a line. Made ions of Notices for entertainment by churches from which | a 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 oF general mterest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. for at | KEY WEST HOUSING PROBLEMS Members of the Key West Housing | Authority charged by law with the duty of providing low-rent housing facilities for | families in the lowest income groups are | | daily confronting new obstacles and new | problems that must be overcome before any project financed largely by the United States Housing Authority can be- | come reality. Of late the question of meeting the following requirements has been probed | by the Key West Authority: 1. ‘Preparation of a comprehensive | | report on the need here for slum-clearance and low-rent rehousing project to be filed | with the USHA with the application for a loan. 2. How to meet the “equivalent | | elimination” provisions of the law whereby slum dwellings are razed to provide new THE KEY WEST CITIZEN PEOP cossgparhessbbephbebeles| NOSTALGIC CHRONICLE rd | Editor, The Citizen: | Since my recent return to the! North I have ceased to live in} |the present. I think, talk and | |live Key West. | I am recommending your com- munity to all my friends. Praise- | worthy as this may be, they do/| seem the least bit annoyed when jat their table I come forth with, '“Nothing is quite so good as a} Key West Turtle Steak dinner E | } with Key West Coconut or | Pie”. Or when, on a Temecleety | wintry day here in New York I {remark that Key West doesn’t | Hoare the meaning of the word | ‘frost’ . they unfasten their | | overcoats and pretend to enjoy | | the bitter cold. | Notwithstanding I detect a far | Toute to Monte Carlo, Where he! away look in their eye contem-/ will attend the international hy-| | drographic conference to con-! plative of next winter and a jaunt to this fabulous Key West. More power to y’all! |_————-- The magnificent and palatial in the history of the organiza-| plated for use at this point. {ami, and will remajn in lee USN. ee Mappenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files yacht Nourmahal, owned by 'Commodoré Vincent Astor, arriv- led in part this morning fgom Mi- these waters a few days awaifing the arrival of Commodore Astor and party, who will board; there, starting on a | tour. ropean | Rear Admiral Walter s: Crow-; widely popular in; | Key West, where he was located | m 1921-23, as commandant of the! |Seventh Naval District, will ar-| rive from Havana on thé P. &! ©. steamship this afternoon en vene there soon. Admiral Crosley is now com-! je craft; OF The Citizen tion, according to Fire Chief Ralph Pinder, who says he re- ceived communications indicating | that crowds are coming from every part of the state. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15,-1929 are not objectionable. tion ef the radio beacon and ra- dio control stations at Key West! lis being delayed awaiting the, arrival of more powerful instry-| |ments than were first contem- By | waiting we get more versatile ‘and powerful plants. Submarnie S-48 is expected to jcome in tomorrow. A radio re- ee to the local naval station) Inaugura-| of deep submergence tests has been completed in these waters. Landing the largest permit on | record anywhere in the world is ‘credited to A. E. Walbridge, of Roslyn, N. Y., who has been fishing in these waters for several days with a party aboard his magnificent yacht, the High-Ho. The permit weighed 32% pounds. The Smithsonian Institute has no record of any permit before j weighing more than 23% pounds, Editorial Comment: All délays'states that me submarine’s series | jit was stated. America’s tomorrow depends on each of us—end millions like us. Will. we walk with worry and be halted by head- .. or will we walk with faith and {MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST SEBREE ROBBINS, | mander of train squadron No. 1,! lines . 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. If your memory is faulty, become a money borrower. Saluting: Triumph, II.; Va.; and Victory, Ky. There is one thing you don’t have to advertise for—trouble. If some one takes you for a poet, it is time to have a hair-cut. The fellow who paid taxes 50 years ago and complained, should see us now! --A man with a smile is always pop- ular, especially if he carries it on his hip. ~Key West politically is a good fight- ing machine, but it lacks a knock-out punch. Do you remember when women could keep hired help and husbands a lot longer than they can today? Another “believe it or not:” Presi- dent Roosevelt went to Key West, Fla., to open the Sah Francisco exposition.— Florence (Ala.) Herald. Personally, it is our idea that young people today are more promising than the young people of a generation ago, re- ~gardless of the criticism heaped upon them by the sour pusses. ~Before the World War, the kaiser was quoted to say “Me und Gott.” Hitler, however, dispenses with the deity alto- _ gether and with offensive obtrusiveness - bellows only his megalomanical “Me.” If you smoke one pack of cigarettes a day, the Federal tax alone amounts-to.al- most $22 a year. A lot of puffing for the government, and you get none of the pri- vileges as a worker for the government. “Japan and Russia are having a dis- pute over fishing rights in certain waters. There are those who take the part of | Japan, others to take the part of Russia, but nobody takes the part of the poor fish, the inevitable losers. Stapleton on Staten Island, New York, and Mobile, Ala., are the only free ports in the United States at present. Key ‘West | made a determined effort to secure a free port, but th powers that be fought the proposition to a standstill. The island city seems to be ideally located for a free port, being the nearest point to the ports of our | on seemed eee else, clean. | vee There is a lesson in this, it seems to us, southern neighbors. An anonymous writer has sent to The Citizen a letter protesting against the “im- mora! pictures” being shown at the local theatres, with the request that this paper print the article “for the sake of our com- munity.” Time and again The Citizen has stated that all communications must bear the name of the writer, not necessarily for - publication, but as evidence of good faith. It is a rule of this paper net to publish | . anonymous communications, and there is | no deviation from this rule, Success, | housing within the financial reach of the slum dwellers. 3. Raising of 10 per cent of the esti- | mated cost of the project, $250,000, either by subscription or by the sale of Key West | Authority bonds to local investors. In regard to the first problem the ! | local authority is handicapped by lack of | funds to carry,on the work of preparing reports, plans, estimates, procuring a site | and other requirements. City council has , budgeted $2500 for this work, but the money has not been paid into the treasury | and therefore is not available. The second problem requires the city | shall eliminate as many old buildings as | the number of units in the proposed proj- | ect. Key West Housing Authority is seek- ing to provide 100 units at rentals not ex- ceeding those paid by families for miser- able quarters. Under this setup the au- thority must prove that 100 old dwellings have been razed before the project will be | apprdéved by the USHA. No record of such clearance has been kept by the city, so that the authority needs the coopera- tion of municipal officials. The building the housing authority. thority bonds in the sum of 10 per cent of the cost of the project is a matter that should be sponsored and approved by all our civic organizations and public-spirited citizens. The housing authority is unable alone to handle this requirement, and it should begome the concern of those able to invest funds in the bonds, which may bear interest at the rate of 3 to 5 per cent. In addition to local participation in the original capital development cost, the contribute annually in the form of subsidy | at least 20 per cent of the federal govern- | ment’s annual contributions provided to achieve low rentals. The majority of such contributions take the form of tax exemp- tions in excess of the 20 per cent maximum, so that the housing authority here expects no great difficulty meeting that require- ment. It is obvious the housing authority needs money to finance the preliminary details of gétting the loan for the project, the cooperation of our city officials in re- cording demolished old buildings and direct action by those with spare funds to invest. Key West needs a low-rental hous- ing program and Key West must do some- thing now to go about getting it. CLEAN UP AND PROFIT Travel is a great educator. As one moves about there are new sights to see and many things to learn. Inevitably, one compares the new with the familiar and sometimes the comparison is not very flat- tering. Nearly every reader of The Citizen has visited larger cities. Without excep- .tion they have been impressed with the tleanliness of modern business houses. Go itito a Successful store, in a metropolitan | city, and you will find its stock neatly ar- ranged, attractivey displayed and, above for many business houses of smaller towns and cities. In a community where nearly everybody knows everybody else there is a tendency to take things for granted. The business man does not realize the buying impulse that a clean store exerts upon cus- tomers. There is, after all, no excuse for a \ it be an office, agency or store. Cleanli- inspector should prepare such a record for | Regarding the sale of housing au | law provides that benefited localities must | dirty, unkempt place of business, whether |, |859 Lexington Avenue |New York, N. ¥. March 9, 1939 CHEERING LETTER | Editor, The Citizen: This Baha’i community wishes / |to thank you and .express their) |appreciation for your thoughtful- ness in sending here the generous | number of copies of your delight- ful Paper, “The Key West Citi-| ihomes. Mr. Roebling’s fine yacht, “The cut of the Baha'i Temple, was most beautifully placed and the article below acknowledged the open and forward trend of ji your policy. Most certainly peo-| |ple of vision today are catching ja glimpse of the future world] |commonwealth when man will recognize his morai obligation to his fellow brother, and that we, | individually can only grow as all humanity is raised to a high- {er, more altruistic level. The splendid article by a Mr. Singleton on the same page) caught and held our interest and) beside being most informative, | was thrilling as well as dramatic reading. We never have had the} pleasure of visiting Key West, but | \now would not think of denying ourselves the delight of spending some time in your city this sum- jmer. | your newspaper present and last- strides in the newspaper world, | fully yours, SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY of the | BAHA'S of MIAMI, | Dorothy B. Logelin, Secretary. | Miami, Fia., March 12, 1989. FOR SCOUT UNIT |TO BE PRESENTED DURING NEXT MEETING OF ORGANIZATION oreriene By EUGENE BERKOWITZ t Scrit At the next meeting of Boy | Scout Troop 51, an American flag is to be presented to the mem- bers. This flag is of standard size | and is fully equipped, including | the staff. The. troop has long been in need of a large ‘American flag and in bel of ter Peirce, the "OY belt ost "fo express its appreciation for this generous gift. At the last meeting a the troop, which was held Monday night in the Wesley Hall, tne scoutmaster told’of his doing? in the Havana-Key West Yacht | Race. Hawk Patrol had charge of the meeting, which was opened with |} the Scout Oath, Laws and Flag Salute, followed by the Lord’s |Prayer. Roll.call and dues were completed next. Presentation was made of four patrol flags. | A discussion ensued as to ways |and means for the troop to swell its treasury. An O'Rielly Drill and a skit entitled “Emergency” added a bit of fun to the meeting. Scoutmaster Peirce gave a talk on test-passing and then told | about the yacht race. After announcements . were | made the meeting was closed with so Great Scoutmaster’s Benedic- — and visitors are Jecviied to attend the next meeting to be held Monday night in Wesley House, beginning at 7:30 o’¢lock.. A special Tenderfoot Investiture ness is within reach of every business and || i its importance should not be overlooked. { their guests on the trip are now Sincerely wishing you and! }we are most cordially and faith-| ~ of the fleet base force and has ‘his ‘headquarters aboard the | USS. Antares, flagship of the di-| | vision. ; | After “catching every kind of fish in the Atlantic ocean and a} | countless number of them”, since their arrival here January 13, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Roebling; and enroute ‘to their New’ Jersey | the Bone Homie, aboard which | the party lived and fished while here, under Captain L. M. Larsen, | is expected to sail tonight. | Contract was let on March 11) for the cutting of the $12,000! New York State monument to be | erected in Key West, according to: word received by the Chamber of | Commerce from Charles A. Shaw, chairman of the New York monu- ments commission, who was re-| cently in Key West in connec-} tion with the selection of a site| for the monument. . .Mr. Shaw) also sent the architect’s drawing | of the proposed monument, which | indicates that the shaft will be) | quite ornamental in its lines and | war memorial designs. i ‘Thre is unmistakable indica- | tions that the attendance upon | the annual convention of Florida firemen to be held in Key West| ing prosperity and unheralded | April 1 to 4, will be the Janta PITT MM N “COMET”—G-32 ANHEUSER-BUSCH Makers of the World-Famous by our confidence write better news for tomorrow? Why shouldn’t we in America take life in our youthful stride? Aren’t we endowed with a wealth of resources —human as well as material? Aren't our human resources — vision, courage and enterprise — the real raw materials of this nation’s greatness? America invites us all to grasp the opportunities thet surround us. And America yields to those who will not stand still—to those whose vision to- day becomes the news of tomorrow. MAKE THIS Test | “Budweiser prinx Budweiser ror rive pays. ON THE.SIXTH DAY TRY TO DRINK A SWEET Beer. You witt want Budweiser’ FLAVOR THEREAFTER. . -¢ PPP PPP PDL ae COTTIIAITTIIDOITEOOOT OTH Annual Electric Range Sale! A set of electric Cooking Utensils will be given away with each 1939 model General Electric Range sold and installed during this sale. 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