The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 20, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen | Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets uly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ved at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use or republication of all news dispatches credited to pot etherwise credited in this paper and also cal news published here. a SUBSCRIPTION RATES Year Honths © Month Month vekly ADVERTISING RATES known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE dine notices, cards of thanks, resolufions of a. notices, ete., Will be charged for at uts a line, ‘ertainment by churches from which 1. be deri,ed are 6 cents a line. \tzen is an open forum and invites discus- issues and subjects of local or general t will net qublish anonymous communi- KOVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN water and Sewerage. 2 Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). + Hotels and Apartments. 8. ung Pavilion. \urports—Land and Sea. onsotidation of County and City Governments. If “No” feminine. is masculine, “Yes” is Some men’s diction is not so good and their contradiction is worse. Watch the sociable soul. He has figured that you aren’t busy, either! it Correct this sentence: “I intended to be at the meeting but it slipped my mind.” After all, Horace Greeley may have been misquoted and really said: “Go Key West, Young Man!” Unless a man has been kicked around a bit, you really can’t depend upon him to amount-to anything. Florida Canal Assailed Headline. Pro-Canalians prefer to think of having the canal “sailed”, instead. The various government taxes for s0- cial security and unemployment has hardened many an employer, not because he does not feel as kindly as ever, but be- cause he is forced to knuckle down to Lrass tax in order to survive himself. The Czechs and Slovaks are two ranches of the same Slav race which some time before the sixth century settled in the territory inhabited by them today. After all these centuries they have not as- similated and can’t get along as_ witness the fiasco just evolved to Germany’s ad- vantage. Every intelligent person will agree “with Judge Caro that in creating a public “*wnhisance “there must be some specifie evi- dence that there is nuisance, and that music cannot be regarded as such.” How- ever much so-called music to sensitive ears is noise, like certain jazz and swing, and that is a nuisance especially when blatantly played. , Key West property holders, who be- came delinquents because-they complained that the taxes were too high, have now no reason to be disgruntled or to become tax dodgers, for the Murphy Act enables them to wipe out all state and county taxes by | the payment of a small legal notice and the court fees. West is allowing 80 per cent reduction on all delinquent city taxes provided last vear’s taxes are paid also but in cash. ‘Hitler removed from Prague $80,- 923.275 gold in 16 truck loads, On that basis it would take about 30 truck loads of | gold to haul the $150,000,000 extra that President Roosevelt wants for WPA, which as The Citizen has so often pointed out could be saved if the relief rolls were purged of aliens, malingerers, chiselers and incompetent supervisors. Now Gon- | gressman Woodrum, Democrat of Virginia, leader of the house economy bloc, charges that the New Deal had diverted “hundreds of millions of dollars” to other channels which had been appropriated for relief. Furthermore, the City of Key | YACHT BASIN AN ASSET During the current season there has been a substantial increase in the number of visiting yachts utilizing the temporary | facilities provided in the submarine base. Provisioning, servicing and fueling these vessels has provided a good income for a firms. The yachtsmen and the crews of the ships have spent a goodly sum in Key West. The total has represented a grati- fying addition to the municipal income. This asset in the list of visitor facili- ties available in Key West may soon be- come a thing of the past. There are very definite indications the Naval Advisory Board may soon recommend to Congress that the submarine base be commissioned and made a part of the national defense program because of its proximity to the Caribbean and the Panama Canal Zone. The minute the base is placed in active service private use of ary part of the sub- marine plant will be prohibited. Key West’s present unexcelled yacht basin would disappear—and with it much of the yacht fleet. Visiting yachts must be provided with safe anchorage and docking facili- ties. A project for improving Garrison Bight for these purposes is in the making. The tentative plans call for a 500-foot dock running parallel to Roosevelt Boule- feet long and 500 feet wide which has ‘a depth of eight feet of water at low tide. Such a dock would provide for approxi- against the wharf. It is also planned to widen and deepen the cut in the break- water to provide safer passage for yachts. Garrison Bight is one of the most protected harbors for small craft in the state of Florida. It should be improved as soon as possible to make it attractive to visiting yachtsmen who would have no other place to tie up in the event of the removal of the submarine base from pri- vate access. sort facilities needed here. Larger yachts, such as William K. Vanderbilt’s Alva, a 249-footer which ar- rived hére Friday, would find plenty of safe arichorage in the harbor. With sec- tions of the harbor available to large eraft and Garrison Bight a haven for smaller vessels, Key West would be in a position make them contented and happy to be here. The Key West Yacht Club, which is initiating the movement to improve Garri- son Bight and is completing a fine club- house overlooking the bight, is to be con- gratulated for its efforts and The Citizen hopes the program will soon be marked by the success it deserves, HITLER MOVES ON around that Hitler had been rebuffed in to the West and that Poland, Rumania and the other smaller countries had gotten to- gether to bar the road to Bagdad. It was even said that Germany was considering returning the Sudetenland to Czechoslovakia! Last week, in a sudden crisis, Hitler put thrugh the dismemberment of what was left of the Czechoslovakian republic, divided the nation into three segments. It may be safely assumed that, at convenient | times, Germany will take charge of the smaller states thus created. The world remembers something like an obligation upon the part of the Munich powers to guarantee the territorial integrity | of the Czechoslovakian nation, as then es- tablished. Apparently, the “guarantee” was not provided; Great Britain, France and Italy looked the other way when Hit- ler advanced again toward his goal mastery through all Central Europe. Determined to do all in their power | to secure a just and reasonable sugar quota for Florida, our congressmen and senators are lining up _ representatives from other sections in the fight to permit us at least to grow enough sugar to meet the needs of the southeast. Certainly Florida should be allowed to provide her “Dixie Crystals” for Southern Sugar bowls with Everglades grown sugar. Time passes rapidly for the busy man; cnly the loafers finds the hours long. | they won’t keep it when they have it. number of our local residents and business | vard at the end of a rectangular area 1000 | mately 30 yachts parked with their sterns | It is one of the most vital re- | to give yachtsmen everything they need to | A few weeks ago the story passed | the East, and he was turning his thoughts | of | All nations profess to want peace, but | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | KEY WEST IN| | DAYS GONE BY | Ago Today As Taken From | The Files of The Citizen te | Bolton Hall, of New York,| | widely -known apostle of homes | ‘and happiness, extensive travel-| er, observer and interesting writ- er, is now sojourning in Key West. He declares that he likes it better here than any other place in Florida or anywhere else that he has ever visited. Mr. Hall is nationally-known as an advocate of restoring the land to the people and of fundamental reforms. “Key West is really the most delightfully ideal place for winter that I have ever seen; you are certain to get the people here and |no doubt about it”, said the visi- \tor. “It is warm here in Novem- |ber and December, when other | places are cold, and the condi- tions are very pleasant indeed”, he added. | | | Happenings Here Just 10 Years! | | | | A brief executive session this morning brought the 1929 annual convention of Florida sheriffs to a close with the two-day meet in Key West being pronounced the | most. pleasant: and decidedly suc- jcesstul in the history of the as- | sociation. | A pretty home wedding was |<olemnized last evening at 411 |Grinnell street when Miss Mary A. Higgs, daughter of Mr. and | Mrs. Samuel P. Higgs, was united in marriage to William A. | Carey, Jr. Rev. C. Sterling Gard- |ner, pastor of the Fleming Street | Methodist church, officiated. The | ceremony took. place on the twen- jty-ninth wedding anniversary of the bride’s parents. | | Carl T. Sschuneman, assistant | secretary of the U. S. Treasuty, brother-in-law to Noble Brandon |Judah, American ambassador to |Cuba, was among the distinguish- |ed visitors to the city yesterday. His ‘conversation with the local deputy collector of customs was |favorable to the movement to im- prove facilities for travel through | this port. Editorial © Comment: Every cloud has a silver lining. With the announcemefit that the Mal- lory Line will discontinue its passenger service to Key West, comes the news that the Pan- American Airways, Inc., will make this a port of call to and from Cuba. Dr. S. L. Morris of Atlanta, Ga., will be present at a social gathering at the home of Rev. and Mrs. De Barritt Friday eve- ning. Dr. Morris is the exeentive secretary of the Home Missionary Society of the Presbyterian church. Dr. and Mrs. Ramon Rod- riguez announce the arrival of a 1v-pound daughter, born to their home recently. The newcomer has been given the name of Ra- | mona Mercedes. — te Mrs. Grace Phillips, local sec- retary for the "Red Crosg, is today in receipt of a call for contribu- tions of money for relief of storm sufferers in Georgia, Alabama, South Mississippi and Northwest Florida. According to announcement }made by the U. S. Lighthouse Department, Tennessee Reef gas land bell buoy, four, reported ex- | tinguished March 12, was relight- jed March 16. It is also stated that Main Channell, Miami har- bor, outer cut range front light, |reported destroyed March 18, will) |be replaced as soon as practic- | able. : County Engineer Clifton G. | Bailey, who went to Jacksonville | with other county officials to re- ceive the new ferry, is expected today. | buggy and entered a ‘theater to} see the movie, “Jesse James.” | the combinatio THE GREAT WALLENDAS a Combination that has thrilled millions all over the world. n The GREAT WALLENDAS the premier high wire artists of the world ... and the TOP Combination for more smoking pleasure is Chesterfield (the can’t-be-copied blend) The sun never sets on Chesterfield’s pop- ularity because Chesterfield combines... blends together .. .the world’s best cigarette ' tobaccos in a: way that’s different from any other cigarette. 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Already, with the Overseas route for the most part unexplored, a great many have rolled down to the Key, lured by reports of its quaintness. As a result, the old girl is all a-flutter. She’s even taking to paint, in a furtive way. For Key West, with her frum- -oecur to Key, West. that trains themselvés 'migitt one day become! the agile rector shoving off in his) Trees are found here that don’t passe, displaced by motorists who ing, hastily concluded his sermon and then exhorted, “Let us ‘ pray ; When, after a suitable period of | meditation the congregation un- bent, it was just in time to see , boat. races to scenes of wreckings and! find a pirate cove or some me- dieval relic, which, of course, Key West is not. There may be thatched roofs, but we saw none. The houses are old, without |paint mostly, making rickety noises when it blows. Unique Place To Visit The streets are bumpy, none | too’ wide, and somewhat dreary. There are two hotels, Casa Ma- igina and La Concha, striving to |Bive adeqaatte’ ‘atcoftimodations. Meals are fine. |grow elsewhere ‘in’ Florida. A halted at points above rather than) But that reyenue is also‘ gone, | fisherman might :catch 10 deep- ferry across or depend on infre-;The Merritt-Chapman Wrecking! sea trophies, no two alike, the quent rail service. Tampa’s no-tax inducements stole the last cigar business and the 1935 hurricane blew the rem- nants in the Gulf. After that Key West went on relief. Almost unanimously. It was that or else, for outside of Ernest Hemingway, there wasn’t ‘anything even the Conchs cared to see. The proud damsel went |Co., with huge tug and costly {thwarted Conchs use their craft ‘now for fishing. ' This sport, of course, is tops here. It lured Hemingway and is attracting others. With game fish anglers aware of Miami's de- creasing catches the first influx : will be of sportsmen. Unchanged Key West | The exciting crive is a second py, weather-worn, last-century ‘over the hill to. the poorhouse,' reason for coming. Although not appearance, does exude a mu- seum aura, just as the maiden lady who stubbornly stuck to her stays while more enterprising riv- style. | still wearing her bustle. | The Federal Government found |Key West one of those bleak |problems without apparent solu- to arrive over the highway late | als rouged their lips and took to tion. There she was, a city with- lout reason for being, perched at the far erd of a 166-mile string sparsely inhabited isles, them- : as wide and foolproof as U. S. No. {1, the Overseas route—there’s a ) $1 toll plus 25@ent charge for ex- tra passengers—is an adventure jim itself. first day. At ‘night the wind So the tourists stopped coming, equipment salvages all wrecks Sighs in the palms and low-studd- fishermen found new places, | {from Jax to the Bahamas, and the | ed stars stare brightly as the Gulf and Atlantic join waters off the | If you want to get out of bounds and still stay in the |U.S.A.,, here’s the place. And ithere’s no more grateful hostess than an elderly, neglected one. Eases Angry lich | For itch tortured skin that neat it eases the itch- 4 i ing of Bezerna, Hash, Teter, Eing- Seabies, , Between Toes. the; Money back if larjje bottle does ‘mot satisfy, Sold everywhere. Finally, there is unchanged Key'! \