The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 16, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO She Key West Citizen ‘xcept Sunday By PUBLISHING CO., INO. President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, tant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets ‘Only Daily Mawspa ter in ey West and Monroe foun Gntered at Key West, , Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press | | | ABOUT CARNIVALS THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE 2naead LIGHTHOUSE saa STANDS Last fall City Council passed an ordi- nance permitting carnivals for six month | periods beginning January 1 upon pay- | ment of a license fee of $500. Two car- | nivals took advantage of the opportunity | iated Press is exclusively entitled to use | jon of all news dispatches credited to redited in this paper and also v8 published here. "RIPTION RATES 1 a) iv ; Fag the Wsyal ne $10.00 5.00 2.50 85 -20 ADVERTISING RATES jaa known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolugions of espect, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Ni for entertainment by churches from which is to be derived are 5 cents @ line. vT izen is an open forum and invites discus- sion -of public issues and subjects of local or general terest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations, MPROVEMENTS, 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 easier a girl is on your eyes, the harder she is on your pocketbook. Poetry writing requires imagination, including imagining that people will read it; Some politicians who brag about standing on their record have a very slip- pery footing. You car kill time, steal a kiss and beat a carpet, and not be subject to or vio- late a criminal law. The chances cf New York’s district attorney are fresh and dewy now, but may become frostly before 1940. Adam probably was made first so he could get in a few words before Eve, eten if he had to talk to himself. The records. will show that Miss Thompson was the second woman to be thrown out of the “Garden.” The reason that a man who does not bet is as bad as the man who does is that he is no better. Quite simple. © There are some school girls who do not know their grammar, they can’t even decline a kiss—and that’s the trouble. Germany, Italy and Japan work to- gether; the democracies talk together. -Actions continue to speak louder than ‘words. Anonymous communications are not published in The Citizen; if you send in anything, sign your name, even if you do 1, not want your name published. There are probably girls in every | “ town, even Key West, who are single to- day because they couldn’t stay awake | P while some fellow talked about himself. Most of those one are anxious for war have reached the age of 65, or they are too young to have any conception of its ; horrors, or look upon it as a swell chance = to get a glance of Europe. With all our night clubs going full “past, perhaps our people did not think ‘they should be further interested in “wild jife’,.and therefore did not attend the | meeting called by Representative Papy at | thé "Chamber of Commerce last Tuesday might to disctiss the subject. | wed il ped? tt «'" Mr. K. N. Dahle, who twice came all the way from Oregon, to spend the winter | months in Key West, expressed his chagrin | _.at being the only person who responded | to'the call of the secretary of the Cham- | ber of Commerce for a ‘meeting on wild life, and he a stranger. He states that the eople of his state are wild life conscious | and wild life is abundant. In two-counties more than 2,000 bucks were taken during | the last hunting season. Mr. Dahle thinks the future potential wealth of wild life in| * deer alone on the keys is considerable. “where. was Mr. Moore, conservation of- ficer of the Audubon Society? | and remained until | clamped down on © after the gambling. Had the lid was : | bingo games continued it is probable the — | carnivals would have remained the full six months, Carnivals are a source of entertain- ment for a large number of our citizens | who cannot afford costlier amusements. | | From that viewpoint the traveling shows | perform what may be termed a_ useful function, since all work and no play is not | good for the collective mind. However, it seems to The Citizen that | if carnivals are permitted to open in the city they should be compelled to place more emphasis on the gambling end of the | business. In fact, bingo games and all other forms of gambling should be pro- | hibited on carnival lots; so that when Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Citizen and family go to a carnival they are amused, not gypped in some gaming hokus-pocus. Long runs by the gambling fraternity | at carnivals are not conducive to the pub- } lic welfare. Money is lost that should go for the necessities. that stay within the law and pay far more in occupational, property and other taxes than all the carnivals put together suffer severely when the shows open up in Key West. They might as well close up show after 6 o’clock in the evening. This fall the people of Key West will | elect a new City Council. The new coun- cilmen will go into office about Novem- ber 15. Candidates for this body shquld be men committed to the re- peal of the city ordinance licensing car- |from the Island City, although | Army Barracks here. nivals with gambling concessions for six months. They should make the repeal of | the ordinance one of their first official | sible suits which the city may Fort acts. If they deem carnival amusement | an essential of Key West communal life, let them pass an ordinance holding the Legitimate businesses | legislative | At Pr THERE IS IN THE CITY a move to determine the illegality cf certain companies in Tampa and other cities using the name. \“Key West cigars”. In old days |cigars labeled Key West had | quite a reputation for their per-' ‘fection and flavor. And many of the present large companies are still advertiSing brands as coming their factories are not here. The} |move, when investigation is | completed, will also bring in pos- bring against those companies to |make them stop their proctice or lestablish a factory here. Tampa cigars, because of cheap produc- THE ISLAND CITY esent it is too long rooted to be easily ripped out. IF YOU PREAMBULATED very much around the city you would meet: Lieut.-Col. J. D. MacMullen, who comes from a ‘newspaper family ‘but prefers the army and is expert at con- struction projects of which there are many at the reservations and He is in command of Key West harbor defenses, and is commedore of ihe rapidly-advancing Key West H. Callahan, who is Yacht Club. . .Then Lieutenant quite Irish enough to have: the well-known Irish smile, is in charge of Key West Naval Sta- show people to the purveying of enter- tion, at present are decreasing in| tion, at prseent in the news as tainment and amusement, not bingo and other questionable activities. Key West business peeds a better | break than it has been getting. Stores and shops cannot be improved unless the | trade of the town warrants the invest- | ment. Employment by the stores and shops cannot be stepped up unless there are sufficient customers for new em- ployes to serve. The carnivals have been a heavy drain on business and have cut employment of local people in local enter- prise. Let’s give our local business houses | a new deal. CANCER CAN BE CURED During the next ten years about a million and a half American citizens will “depart this life as a result of the ravages of cancer. Many of them will be the victims of ignorance. They will pass on because they do not know that cancer, in many in- stances, can be completely cured. The. records show that thousands of persons are alive after treatment of cancer by surgery, radium, or X-ray or combinations thereof. The individual who has_ suspicious lumps, or cores that do not readily heal, should consult a competent physician. Medical science will not do anything for the man who does not give it an oppor- tunity to help him. In the event that the victim is financially unable to secure necessary treatment, there are avenues through which assistance can be ob- tained. RECORDS A PROFIT When the Public Works Administra- tion began its activities many municipali- ties were unable to sell bonds to private | investors in order to pay the local share of the construction projects. In order to get the work going the | P.W.A. bought the securities. Altogether, it acquired $455,000,000 worth. ‘ Through the R.F.C. the P.W.A. has sold these securities to private investors. Contrary to_predictions there has been no loss. In fact, the P.W.A. has made a profit of $12,000,000, in addition to col- lecting- $18,000,000 in interest. Now, we do not know why private financing is still in the doldrums but it may be that the financiers are just a lit- | ile bit too particular about the loans they will make. Bankers must not only have good, i judgment, but faith as well. favor. IT IS APPEARING EVIDENT) has “bad days” ahead. Eventual- ies and not so far ahead, the relief | | business is going to be pulled to, |halt. Then where will the Key| |West reliefers be? Some have| saad that the men and women | could be placed in tourist services ‘such as would be entailed through | | construction activities and in sell- |ing shells and handicraft articles. |as well as service to take care of \the increase in gasoline station, {hotel and restaurant business. |It is quite apparent to all with | the figures that this can hardly | be done in next five years or so. |There are 1,400 men and women | jon relief in Key West at present. | Thre are applications of 400 who | periodically find jobs, here and | there and withdraw from the re- | | ef rolls fon private employment. |The ultimate result may be that! there will be no residence here in | the summer of that group, until | the winter brings a pickup again. | THE GREAT COMPLAINT of local merchants is that most of the tourists who have been in this year have but skipped in and out without staying long. Every tour-' | ist that comes here leaves a cer-| |tain amount of “Torley but the | longer they stay here the more money will they leave here. Then will also come the building andj} servants’ additions when some! becorne permanent residents. Thus is some of the wealth made in other sections of the country exchanged for tourist services in this delightful island of ocean | breezes and warm winter clim- ; ate. And the tourists like it. | | What must be done to make more | | of the tourists remain here is the | big question and without large ; city budgets to provide for them | there are few businesses that like | answers to the query. | bc atabasebe tobe a Dede ioTEetTDabErETeeerews Is GAMBLING IS KNOWN to be a great attraction in other tourist | resort cities. In Key West gamb- ; lers are at present puzzled by | | Governor Cone’s orders to stop | all Florida gambling, even to ex- tend this point into next tourist | winter. Most of the gamblers’ | here, however, believe that this | | order will not be, in effect next | winter. Expecting larger hauls this first winter from the tour- j ists, local gamblers did better than last year, but nowhere near what they expected. There are a | few instances, however, in which | some of the wealthy visitors here} [have dropped a cool $1,000 bill | in one night’s gambling. But this | | doesn't happen often. Locally, bolita is quite a problem. Known | to be disastrous among families of, | small income, it is opposed by, 9\ civic-minded i that Key West’s relief population}, probably soon to be recommis- sioned as a submarine base. Cal- lahan is proficient in radio work. “Big Bill” Demeritt, who |heads the Lighthouse Depart- MANY TOURISTS HOTELS REPORT THEIR ES- TABLISHMENTS BEING ALMOST FILLED Flow of tourist traffic to this city keeps to high levels, accord- ing to advices noted from the toll bridges. Local registrations were heavy at two hotels report- ing to The Citizen, the La Con- cha hotel reporting their estab- lishment practically filled and the Overseas Hotel advising that their main building was filled with an overflow into the annex. Rooming houses reported good business during the past week. Several registrations at hotels and rooming houses for a week's or ten day’s period were noted, ment, at club meetings is known for his intentional wordiness and at Dept. of Commerce work for his thorough knowledge of fhe business of keeping the lights go- ing along the reefs and channels of the 7th Lighthouse District. . . Curry Moreno, Key West Area Supervisor of W.P.A., has his' Bees pares owt” RY “WHAT A PITY!” Editor The Citizen: At just 8 o’clock tonight I picked up The Citizen to scan its interesting pages. My eyes caught the notice on the front page of a wild life meeting to be held at the Chamber of Com- merce at 8 P. M. I doffed my fishing shirt for a more pre- sentable one, stepped on the gas and was off for what I anticipated would be a most interesting meeting. Imagine my chagrin and disappointment when I found myself, an outsider, the only one present except your honorable representative, Mr. Papy, and the chamber’s secretary. What a pity! What a pity! I thought that the people of Key West had more interest in preserving a distinct species of deer, a rem- nant almost annihilated. Your hope is to make Key West a tourist mecca (so I understand). Do you know that you could not possibly have a_ greater tourist attraction than an abund- ance of wild life on your keys. No more beautiful setting for wild life exists in America than you have on the Keys to the north. I dare say that had Mr. Papy sponsored a rhumba dance to- troubles divided between general | jight there would have been a criticism of all W.P.A. activities and in interesting city and county! bodies in raising the required sponsors’ share. He is assited ably by Franklin Albert, professional and women’ projects head, who has sketched out well the imme- diate future program for Key West Tourist Resort. . .Over at the Post Office is Postmaster Sam Harris, another former newspa- perman and magazine short story writer. . .Lieut. E. R, McCarthy, a Bostonian with a just-awakened interest in city affairs, is pretty well known for his work in Key West boy scouting, for charting and material for deepening the intracoastal waterway of Keys, and for helpful cooperation in anything the. city needs. . . Chairman of the Monroe County Commission is Car] Bervaldi, who is known for his retiring disposi- tion, and president of the City Council is. Earl Adams, who is another in the long list of news-, papermen who are active in civic affairs. {Passes eTIOseaes. miual 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 aale. Al- so—a liberal allowanse will be made for vour old stove. at A New Lower Cost you can now enjoy the cleanliness, cool kitchen com- foi, the speed and economy, and the better results of modern electric cookery. All these are yours with the new General Electric—plus added. advant- N [i the’ jam at the commerce room. It must be discouraging to a public official to have his efforts backed by such disinterested electorate. However, though too many of the people of Key West have died in W.P.A. adolesence, I hope Mr. Papy will continue his effort for wild life. I feel sure that 90% want him to, but it was just too much trouble to come out and say so. And, too, if no support is had from this key let us hope that the people of yonder keys take the matter of protection in- to their own hands that this remnant of a practically lost species of deer are preserved. K. N. DAHLE. Key West, Florida, March 16, 1939. Eases Angry lich For itch tortured skin that needs comforting relief use IMPERIAL | LOTION. Swiftly, it eases, the at ing of Eczema, Rash, Tetter, worm, Scabies, Scalp, Between To ete. Money bacl: if larzse bottle docs not satisfy. Sold everywhere , ages no ocher range can offer. TERMS " “SPEEDSTER’—G-55 The Key West Electric Company connected with it point out that that MOO IOP ITIP IIE II IIOOOIMIIIOSMOIO DIDS SS, ‘as endorsing the ‘ate the MARCH 16, 1939 HOLDS SESSION MANY ACTIVITIES MAKE UP PROGRAM CARRIED OUT DURING MEETING By CLUB REPORTER The program Tuesday évening at the Stone Church Service Club proved to be very interesting. The first number was a trom- bone by Parson Joe, with Kingman Curry at the piano. This. was followed by a quartett, composed of Brady, Hampton, Daniels and Ketchum, and the plogram was closed by a group led by Avery Powell, who sought to out-sing the quartett. The pro gram was a change and everyone solo enjoyed it. The club went on record as unanimously endorsing a resolu- tion asking ‘this county’s repre- sentative to pass a local bill to protect the fowl and fauna gn the Keys. The club went on record also and taken by the Rev. Albert Larsen of Hallan- dale ne gambling in Broward and senator WORKING FOR UTILITY BOARD TAMPA, March 16 (FNS).— State Senator Pat Whitaker, in a ries of legal advertisements ap- pearing in the Florida Labor Ad- vocate last week, announced a legislative drive to set up a mu- nicipal utility board for the city of Tampa. One of the bills would termin- franchise of the Tampa Electric Company, another would create the utility board and name the members, another would vest the board with powers to fix rates and examine the records of utili- ties and still another woud re- move Tampa from the provisions of a general law giving cities the right to acquire or build their own electric plants. COOTOOTITIO EES CIOS a, laren eaie! 69 Per Qe f ELECTRIC RANGE COOKERY