The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 21, 1939, Page 2

PAGE }GESWO _The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING Co. INC. L, P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Basiness 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 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 published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Une Year . 8ix Months Three Months ne Month Weekly - ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at ‘e of 10 cents a line. es for entertainment by churches from which @ 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 or general iatereat but It will not publish anonymous commani- 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. 4 Life, with many pemien is only what they make. If you want to go piaces in life, all you have to do is get going. Any photographer can tell you that people seldom do their pictures justice. There are now few castles left in Spain, so we can start building ’em again. “And what causes drink?” thundered the prohibitionist. “Thirst,” we should think. Anyway, a business man doesn’t pre- tend that he runs his establishment to save the country. We may look down on our neighbors, but that doesn’t necessarily make them look up to us. Many a political issue would be solved if the outs and ins could be in office at the same time. The modern husband is more modest. He doesn’t think he is lord and master over the household. Science has accomplished many things but it has failed to note why one shoe lace breaks before the other one. Under the present law, known as the- Ramspeck and Mahoney law, now in effect, applicants to postmasterships and ap- pointed after a competitive examination will serve for life—the life of the party in power, we-suppose. The dictionary says “appeasement” means satisfaction or pacification. Since it appears that Hitler can neither be paci- fied nor satisfied, the democracies must secure a ruler—the kind an obstreperous and wilful child generally respects. Determined to put a stop to the “Salary Buying” practice which is al- leged to have reached the proportions of a “racket” in this state, civic leaders and prominent attorneys plan to push legisla- tion of “regulation” and “control” for the protection of both the employee and the employer. Cases on record show where interest 6n small loans, as high as 300 per cent have been collected. The technique of shaking free from the intrenched regime of spoils politics which is now gripping so many American cities as tried out in Chicago had for its successful cr at least ameliorating formula these five points: 1. Exposure 2. Mobil- izing public sentiment; 3. Prosecution; 4. Election reform, and 5. Organization to protect gains. A thorough application of these points will surely bring results. Crooked politicians are, as a rule, im- mune to exposure, but the mobilization of public sentiment is a conerete force that brings them to their knees. This is par- ticularly true of the smaller communities where politicians on account of being so generally known are more sensitive to os- | tracism, PROTECT KEY WILDLIFE Key West and Monroe Coufity are confronted with so many pressing prob- | lems requiring sound community con- | sideration and effective co-operative ac- tion that it is pretty hard to arouse public | interest in the movement for the protec- tion of the almost-extinct key deer, the rapidly-disappearing herons and the other unique species of wildlife inhabiting the Florida keys. It is only natural that the bulk of pub- lic attention and interest should be focused on such projects as the procurement of a fresh water supply from the mainland, ex- tension of Overseas Highway via the old railroad right of way and viaducts, com- pletion of the Key West sewer system and disposal plants, and reopening of Key West naval station. These matters are rightfully given post position in our re- habilitation program. Many are pessimistic regarding the outlook for these projects, but the con- census is that eventually they will be- come reality. When that day arrives those projects will no longer be paramount | in the public mind; so that the matters which today appear ta be of secondary importance will become paramount. One of these so-called secondary propositions is protection of wildlife on the keys. A step in the right direction to that end was taken when the authorities of the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District prohibited the slaughter of birds and ani- | mals within the territory controlled by that public subdivision. That is, in the 40- mile stretch between Lower Matecumbe and Big Pine Key. Another step is seeded. Birds and animals living on the keys above, and be- low the bridge district must be protected. It has been found that only about 20 key deer, a distinct species found nowhere else in the world, are left of the herds on Big Pine and other keys. Birdlife has been re- duced to the disappearing point by gun- men often firing from their cars along the highway. The Key West Chamber of Commerce and other civic groups have initiated a proposal to give state protection to the birds and animals. State Representative Bernie C. Papy has agreed to introduce suitable legislation to make the plan ef- fective. The Citizen believes that nothing should be allowed to interfere with this movement, for a protected wildlife forms an attractive lure to many visitors and tourists. It is good business to protect our birds and animals. LCANS FOR SMALL BUSINESSES One of the disadvantages that small business men have faced has been the lack of “intermediate” credit or loans that run from five to ten years. It is true that many businesses in smaller cities have loans that have not been fully paid within the time limit but they are usually on a year to year basis, with much uncertainty as when the de- mand will be made for the payment of the debt. Large business concerns have been ‘able to manage the flotation of bonds that assure them of adequate credit facilities but the cost of such issues prevent its use by smaller concerns. As we understand it, any issue of less than $1,060,000 is hardly profitable. Legislation has been introduced in Congress to establish a system of regional intermediate credit banks to take care of the needs of independent small business men. A setup, patterned after the Home Loan Bank System, is proposed and re- gional banks would be established. RETURNS WAR FLAG Early this month a delegation from the State of Iowa journeyed to Mont- gomery, Alabama, to “correct a mistake of three generations ago” and return a flag taken during the war that almost wrecked the nation in the last century. State Senator B. C. Whitehill, of Iowa, used the phrase quoted above in present- ing the flag to Alabama. Such incidents demonstrate the differ- || ence between the United States and certain} » areas in Butope. Here a great war was well-fought and the South was whipped. After a period of unpleasantness, which is understandable, the people of the sections involved have taken numerous occasions. to demonstrate the end of the division. In other Iands, there has been a tendency to keep alive old hates and to look to the future for a resumption of the fight. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY | Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen At the music festival, which is} jto be held in Tampa in April, |Key West schools will be well |Tepresented with an attendance |of approximately 30 members, including the Glee Club, accord- ing to information obtained from | the local institutions. The Key | West group is how arranging a | program to be cattied out in con- nection with the musical affair, which gives promise of being an outstanding feature of school) circles. Thoroughly enthusiastic over ese Success ‘of their meeting and \delighted with the pleasurable | sports given and pastimes afford-/ ied them in Key West, delegates to! the annual convention of Florida | | sheriffs, which opened here | Tuesday morning and closed yes- | terday afternoon, will all be gone) | tomofrow morning, carrying with | them a treasure of pleasant mem- | ofies of the Island City. The larg- est number of visiting sheriffs, | who were taken on a fishing trip| yesterday, expressed themselves | as being thrilled with the num-| erous big catches and strenuous | tussels they had with the game fighters in these waters. Those entertained in motoreades said they . were charmed with the) beauty of Key West and the in- teresting surroundings. “Best time we have had on a vacation yet” could be heard and reiter-| ated time and again by the con- vention visitors while making preparations for what they said was a “reluctant departure”, Editorial comment: If the 28/ samples, and we are sure they are, Florida has a set of sheriffs | of which any state would feel proud, and Sheriff Niles is to be congratulated for the manner in which the visitors were enter-| tained. | | Fifteen express carloads of race horses returning from Oriental Park in Cuba arrived on the fer-} ry Estrada Palma last night from’ Havana, and the animals will be| sent out today. Eleven cars came over the night previous. Francisco Chaves and Arman- do Chaves, arrested last night by ‘charged with violating the pto- hibition laws, were held to crim- inal court in bonds of $100 each, | in the court of Judge Hugh Gunn} this afternoon. Bail was prompt- | ly furnished. There were eleven automo- biles arriving yesterday afternoon | on the P. and O. boat from Ha-! vana, and will go over the Over-| seas Highway enroute north. | These cars and their passengers | remain overnight in Key West | and numerous parties stop here a much longer time. Many of! them spend the night here on) their way to Havana. An automobile collision oc- | curred this morning at the corner when. a car drivgn;. by, ;Charles Parker struck another “machine: | It is stated that Parker received a cut over the eye and, other) slight injuries. Name of the driv- er of the other car could not be Jearned but it is said the driver ‘Was a woman. The Norwgeian flag is flying. from the staff on the office of the | vice consulate in Key West today in honor of the wedding of the | crown prince of that country, | Prince Olaf, to Princess Martha | of Sweden. Vice Consul Taylor | has been honoted by the Nor- | ‘wegian government, and holds | re title of Knight Olef. SPSSSSCSSSTSSSVSETSSVESEeDe The Favorite In Key West «= THY Ir TODAY — STAR * BRAND CUBAN COFFEE On SALE AT ALL GROCERS eoccccccccccedsecccccoce officers of the sheriff's force and | ; ‘of Margaret and . United streets |: GO KEY WEST, America’s Newest Second Yi YOUNG MAN! ouring Objective Goes Into The | r Of Its Current Boom By FREDERICK C. RUSSELL (Reprinted from “The Dragon”, published by the FAFNIR Bearing’ the many power boats that are Company, New - Lime pie and bonefish may not} Britain, Conn.) United States had become one of TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1939 of the route abandon the Flagler! viaduct and are anything but good. There is just. a faint sug-| i gestion of pioneering, although at{ no point of the is there a! ‘feeling of isolation. Even if there! were no tafs on the road—many ‘driven by women—you would still feel that you could scrape up! jan acquaintance with folk aboard anchored among the Keys within jcalling distance. Key West has that charm of ; being all things to all men. Many be your objectives when: Key | the pootest. Only FERA saved ‘think of it in terms of their con-: West calls, but you will find these typical of an asortment of! ‘oddities as you hum «your. way ‘over indescribably colored waters | along the year-old Overseas Highway. There’s id, too, at the tip end of Florida’s string of keys. ibe worked. Worked with fore- ‘sight. For a new. on life, by all) wneans go Key youhg man. | Names of important visitors are’ ‘oh everyone’s lips as a new idea in escape unfolds. Here és an all! but forgotten city revived with! a hypodermic of gasoline, an old-' world setting for a boom that’ may develop into a major mania for the American tourist. A new place to go! Adventurers have been .going to Key West since the early nine- teenth century — invariably in quest of opportunity. Spaniards called the island Bone Key be-; cause of the mute evidence of |the more aggressive Indians cor- | nering their victims in a final re- treat. Settlers from New England worth of shipwrecked property | was recovered. The gold hunt continued. Some | 15,000 Cubans came to Key West! Not all of the just prior to 1872 seeking safety from Miami to Key West is over) when the revolution made life too sketchy in their homeland. Key West quickly became the | recognized cigar manufacturing | | capturing more gold in Key West! —by 1912 completing his remark- able overseas railway which gave Key West its greatest population. | Another faction derived its com- fortable living from the $480,000 portion of the annual Naval Sta-{ {tion payroll which went to the civilian population of the island. | But fate plays queer pranks on gold diggers. By 1934 one of the) \Tichest per capita cities in the x SOOTTMTTIISE OES. OOTITIMIOIIE SD, SIS LL Ls Annual ElectricRange Sale! A set of electric Cooking Utensils will be given away with each 193! model General Electric Range sold and installed during this sale. Al- so—a liberal allowance will be made for your old stove. at A New Lower Cost you can now enjoy the cleanliness, cool kitchen com- fox, the speed and economy, and the better results of modern electric cookery. All these are yours with the new General Electric—plus added advant- ages no other range can offer. MP i OOM SeeeerasaTD aa eeeeTTHD EDIT IST TITOTTT SSD: ‘Only this gold will have to. jit, Will the present boom, dating} from the opening of the Over- seas Highway, have the same climax. and collapse, only to be followed. by some unpredictable boom? I think not. The new highway ' ties Key West to the Stdtes phys- ; ically. Rehabilitation is stimu-| lating. Just five years ago the ‘city was devoid of industries, ‘rents unpaid, taxes not | collect- able. Everywhere one saw gaunt figures as daily warning that !anaernia was spreading. Set your ‘radiator ornament due south over Florida’s route 4-A and you will see a hub of renewed activity building upon the wreckage of men’s hopes and errors. But it iquest over a giant tarpon or jewfish. To others it is a paradise‘ jof papaya, pomegranate, avo- \eado, tamarind and sugar apple, with a dash of the seagrape and breadfruit trees thrown in for} good measure. To you the selling point may be an even tempera- :ture in the eighties all year, | round. H Homes in this city, that is stag-| ing a dramatic comeback, look! strangely weather-beaten, wood having taken on the appearance of dusty stone. But the old or- der changeth as the new army of motorized visitors descends. Houses are having their fronts | painted. Things are looking up! There’s gold in them thar will not impress you unless you: have vision. {With foresight the Roosevelt: ‘Boulevard on its way into the old section of the city will seem to 'be lined with bougainvillaea-cov-' ered houses. hotels, or at least plans for them. You will see new! You will try turtle steak and,’ ‘found easy pickings in salVaging lingering over beer sent down by | wirécks which went aground on; truck from Miami, hear the plans. ithe reefs. In 1846 over $1, 600,000 | of business leaders. Your first dividend from the. |Key West boom is the most inter-| lesting of modern motor trips.' 170-mile stretch ‘the sea, but when you clock a )seven-mile stretch of viaduct with a half-way double jump over all of Pigeon Key, it is a sheriffs who attended the con-|nub of the world. Next, Henry novel experience indeed. There is vention in Key West are fair|1, Flagler aimed his fortunes at/no sensation of depth to the crys- tal clear water. Because there are two continuous rails, held together with posts not too close- ly spaced—on either side of the |roadway, the water can be en- joyed constantly. And there is It is at Key Largo where the ;world’s most novel highway , {starts its real hop over the sea.! {In this 15-mile stretch the most unusual unit is one that rises 70 ‘feet into the air. Final stretches bi JOB PRINTING of All Kinds We are equipped to do all kinds of print- ing — quickly, eco- nomically, and with the best of workman- ship. Call 51 for an estimate. RAPID SERVICE REASONABLE PRICES FREE ESTIMATES THE ARTMAN PRESS PHONE 51 The Citizen Building 5 = kk * D enjoy a pleasure trip North. Good meals and regular stateroom accommodations are included in these low, one-way rates. to BALTIMORE . + $3750 every Sunday, 3 P.M. to PHILADELPHIA every Wednesday, 3 P. M toBOSTON direct Norfolk connection every Sunday, 3 P.M. toNORFOLK.... every Sunday, 3 P.M. - $4Q50 $4,950 53250 Through fares to all northern cities. Also, sailings from Jacksonville. AUTOS CARRIED AT LOW EXTRA COST Apply Price Tour and Travel Service, 505 Duval Street, Key West (Tel. 124); or Merchants & Miners Line, 211 S. E, First Street, Miami. MERCHANTS & MINERS LINE 7 ERMS As low. 88: 20.05.05 FREE—ELECTRIC COOKING UTENSILS! est Electric Company IIs s¢ sede etd de tztdétdtttcttittttititititittitttttésd 69 Pe sg ‘ELECTRIC RANGE COOKERY WARIO IILDIGLIIIII IIIS EIIIIEIIISIOIS ILI IID IOI IOI SL SS | —