The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 23, 1939, Page 2

sept t Sunday By THE crvize PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets vspaper in Key West and Monroe County rida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Associated Press. ig’ exclusivel lication of ‘all néws disp etherwise credited in thi news published’ here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES entitled to use es credited to es ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application, ards of thanks, resolutions of | 3 Ss, etc., 10 cents a line. entertainment by churches from which be derived are 5 cents a line. s$ an open forum and invites discus- ssues and subjects of local or general t but it will not publish anonymous communi- will be charged for at (MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. |.) "1/1!" Bathing Pavilion. Airports--Land and Sea, Consolidation of County and City Governments. When you give conservation some at- | tention you will devote less to conversa: tion. This is Wild Life Week, but do not take it too literally, and keep within the | usual bounds. Another definition of a home is that place where we grumble the most and are treated the best. Wher that Chicago judge ruled that a man may slap his wife, the women were ‘“teore convinced they should fight for | * equat rights. | British and French policies in‘regard to Spain are based on the theory that | when he wins, General Franco will forget who made his victory possible. “ According to one of the prophecies of the Mcnk of Padua, Pope Pius XII will be the Pope of Unity. In this connection an | astounding and significant thing happened | on Monday when the archbishop of Canter- bury, leader of the church of England, | called upon the pope to assume _leader- | ship of “All Christendom” in a movement | to halt the German drive across Europe. The Citizen is in receipt of a booklet “Florida’s Government for 1939”, just re- | leased by Polly Rose, publisher and editor. | « It promises to satisfy a long-felt want | ““throughcut the state, making its appear- ance as it does just before the legislature meets. The book contains complete infor- , mation on public officials of Florida from senators to: county officers, with bio- | graphical data as well as listings“of all state department and board personnels. The largest fish ever caught was aper and also | $20.00 | 5.00. | take. Individual contributions toward the | | support of the Monroe County Clinic have | | | fallen off alarmingly and unless new sources of revenue are found or additional THE KEY WEST CITIZEN By HOWARD W. HARTLEY Staff Correspondent Florida News Service money is advanced by the general public | | the clinic’s usefulness may be seriously | impaired. When the financia] contingency | was’ brought to attention by _ Dr. John | Gekeler, treasurer:of the Monroe County ‘ Welfare Advisory Council, Mrs. Florence Spottswood, chairman, immediately made | an appeal for clinic support. e i“: Qne plea was directed to all those |.who have received treatment or have been | served at the clinic without charge be- cause of their inability to services rendered them. These _bene- | ficiaries of the clinic’s services have been | esked to pay the below-cost charges for medicine and room service as soon as they find themselves in a position to do so. It | is pointed out that many of those who can- | not pay the usual charges of physicians | and hospital service can pay the clinic for | the medicines prescribed them One hundred and ninety-one cases of late have been treated under clinic direc- | tion at Marine hospital free of charge. ex- | cept for a'smal] carrying charge for room [sernice: The total paid ;by the clinic to | the hospital: for these services was $2,801, | while the patients treated there only: gave | the clinic’ $1,930. The difference came | out of clinic funds supplied by individuals. Financially responsible individuals should contribute to the support of the linic. Those treated at the clinic should | pay what they can toward the cost of | | medicines. However, the fact remains | that support of the clinic should be a mat- | ter of general public concern, as The Citi- zen has stressed on previous occasions. Why should a few individuals and the very poor who need medical treatment be the expense of the clinic? Obviously support’ of the clinic is a matter for the city and county to under- It is just as important to, give clini- cal treatment to the poor and unfortunate | as it is to feed prisoners at ‘county jail, to ' maintain a police force or to oil and repair public thoroughfares. In fact, it seems more important to provide medical treat- ment and medicine without: cost to those who cannot pay for these. vital,’ services | | than it is to put,a coat of paint on county courthouse, to hang new doors at city hall | or to buy new cars for public officials. MIGHT SAVE US MONEY With the Netherlands, France and Great Britain interested in buying Amer- | aircraft industry to expand to a size suf- ficient to take care of our needs, in the | | event of an emergency, without much cost to the government of the United States. If, as reported, the Russian govern- | ment wants American companies to con- struct two battleships, the order might lead to expansion of our shipbuilding in- dustry. Besides giving employment to seme of our workmen and using American | material, the contract would add to the in- | dustrial preparedness of the United States } | for war. Instead of opposing these orders, the people of this country ought to welcome --eaught in Monroe County, of which Key “West is the county seat. This champion denizen ef the sea weighed 30,000 pounds and had a length of 45 feet; its circum- . ference was 23 feet 9 inches. It was cap- tured after a fight lasting 39 hours, and thé mlace of capture was Knights Key} Florida. The date June 1, 1912. Ripley | ‘ inhis Believe It Or Not last week pictured | ¢ monster in his mounted state. This | ,. prize of the seas has been exhibited” all | “over the United States. s Frank W. Loyering, a former Key ; West newspaperman, now editor,,of the), Lakeland News, always eager to givesthe | island city a boost, has this to say in ‘his:| “column ’Round About Florida: ‘Slany eating places specialize in turtle meat, | supply of which around Florida is limited | to distribution along the Gulf shores from | Panama City to Key West. Key West is. an important marketing center for the sea turtle, but gets quantities of them from the | Cayman islands, and a large turtle can-| ning factory is located there, products of which are known in the best food stores throughcut the United States and in some *. foreign couptries. The sea turtle grows to almost unbelievable size and if given pro- per protection can become an important commercial seafood product.” them. If American industry can land enough of them it would save our tax- payers considerable money and be the | means of strengthening the defenses of this hemisphere. BILLS TO LEGALIZE GAMBLING The Council of State Governments re- ports that eleven states have under con- | sideration proposals to license or legalize gambling devices of one type or another. .The bills range from licensing or legaliz- | ing’ slot machines to proposals to legalize lotteries. "lt is pointed out that nineteen. states | have legalized pari-mutuel betting at race | tracks although none have, as yet, legal- | ized. “bookies.” For some reason the American’ public seems inclined to “take chances.” In many places church-sponsored games of chance have been presented. In most com- munities there is some form of gambling tolerated and at fairs, expositions and such attractions open gambling is seldom inter- fered with. A recent poll of the people of this | country, made by the Institute of Public Opinion, reveals that over half of the nation’s adults admit to having bet money some form of gambling during , 1938, | not including the stock market. pay for the, called upon to bear any substantial part of ican airplanes it might be possible for our | TOO MANY COOKS FIGURES DON'T LIE PLIGHT OF SCHOOLS STREAMLINED ECONOMY ONLY SIXTY DAYS | After spending four days sit- ting on the sidelines at two mighty impcrtant conferences in 'Tampa, called for the express ; purpose of evolving some work- ‘able method of keeping the kids | lin school nine months each year, and raising enough money to {maintain our politicians luxury to which they have been accustomed, your commentator finds himself in the mental state: of the befuddled Quaker, who once told his wife: “All the world is nuts but thee and me, Martha, | and sometimes I think even thee may be a bit daft”. Approximately forty dpembers| (of the. House’ of Representatives, | ' plus a dozen or so senators, broke ‘Hillsborough. with just. about as schocl folks: the, Legislature must raise as my friends, is Neville Chamberlain’s. guess. on| what Adolf Hitler will do next July. Summed up, the boys are wandering around in a smoke screen of figures, laid down by groups of special interests, and thick fogs of statistical tear gas. |Hence we have completely vised our predictions as big as the up or close {tween now and June. The ses-|One of these, sion, my friends, will be, in the | parlance of the boys in the street, “one of those things, wherein} anything can happen and prob- ably will”. + Any bookmaker can lay me forty to one that the Legislature ' will cede everything north of! , Ocala back to Georgia and we! wouldn’t raise a questioning eye- 'brow. Because we’ve never seen ‘a parallel situation in Florida. There has never been a_ time when a Legislature packed bags for . Tallahassee - knowing less’ | about what the state, its depart-' ments, the schools and other gov-| jernmental agencies must have to! keep that old debbil’ wolf from | the door. There has never been ¢ |a Legislature more sincerely and jhonestly striving to do a good (job, either House or Senate, and! the pity of it all is the fact that the people expect their lawmak- {ers to wind up the job in sixty jdays, adjourn and come home, with everybody happy. | ‘Nevertheless, Speaker Wood’s hard-working committee mem-} ij bers have made some progress. | \They know, for instance, that some merchants prefer the gross | | receipts tax to a three percent | \levy on sales. They know the hotel men hail the sales tax as ;manna from Heaven—provided it! | lifts the ad valorem from Flor-| ida’s taverns. They know the | schools are wallowing in a finan- | cial quagmire because previous | Legislatures put a bounty on tax- { dodging and they are berapsicg | 4 | assessors, {heard a' lot of dating county convinced. the only popular tax is the one the other fellow pays. Batches of weighty "statistics ; (were dumped on the Tampa con- | ference tables, written in, enough | red ink to float te, Queen: Mery. lit you’d been there, you'd’ have |wondered if they sold blue ink any more because, from the looks § of those reports, red is a mighty | popular color among Tallahassee | bookkeepers these days. Any- | | body reporting a surplus would | have been greeted with loud huz-' zas. Yet there were plenty of' plans suggested to save the Ship | of State. in fact, the only person ! we encountered who didn’t have } ja tax ‘program. up his sleeve was | | the bell captain at the Tampa; Terrace. Speaking seriously, however, | out of the maze of figures we | j gleaned one inescapable truth: | |The Legislature of 1939 will pass ' | into history as a “make or break | Pik EL EU AS SE a eral fund ‘deficit. camp on the banks of the muddy , Legislators asked ‘some “What’ll we use for clear an idea of how much money ' money?” they. were told “That, But you can’t laugh off a deficit couple of months early. our guess that one of the first | things the Legislature will do aft- ‘er hanging up their re-!coats will be to take up a series | on what of bills that will make a lot of may transpire in Tallahassee be- \folks pay taxes—just for a change. will be a bill creating a state tax commission and another may be a copy of a Georgia law that em- powers the sheriff to down the river if you don’t see) the tax collector jafter receiving your bill. another bill would speed the re- | , covery of a number of county’ tax now malignant astigmatism, THE SOONER THE BETTER But when the of the million dollars in duplicate sal- aries. This is just one example of streamlined economy the Legisla- tors are considering. Other items on this docket include combining several state departments, and, believe it or not, some of the law- makers are convinced that Flor- ida has about twice too many counties. Salary reductions, un- less present signs fail, will be the order of the day and that uni- ‘form payroll bill may be a honey! ‘Even the judiciary may feel the sharp side of the nife and you’d ‘be surprised to know how many legislators regard constables and justices of the peace with a cold and fishy eye. your problem”. schools must make the classrooms a So it is hats and | in all probability, sell you three months} —_ Still Can all these things be done in sixty days? We doubt it and so ido some of the veterans in both suffering from;branches. A former speaker, to and we illustrate, who has been hoping ‘he would be able to go to the !New York World’s Fair about the talk about consoli- and city tax assess-' ing and collecting offices so that’ middle of June has canceled his the property, owner could pay in | reservations. just one place, saving a wear and tear on shoe and a half'let the boys stick around until And we hear Gov- lot of ernor. Cone is perfectly willing to THURSDAY, MARC H 2350 = SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL Former Editor of The Citizen With due solemnity a New, Jersey judge issued an injunction restraining a jilted lover from carrying out a threat to commit suicide on the doorstep of his in- amorata. Now if he goes ahead and does: it he: will be liable for , contempt of court. i ; Again the irony of fate is seen in the death of a war ace by asphyxiation in a_ bathroom. Which: ‘illustrates the fact that when things go right one is safe anywhere, but when they go wrong he is safe nowhere. Something new in the way of an alibi was sprung on a Newark judge by a carpet layer charged with drunkenness, who said: “I can’t help staggering a little after spending 30 years on my knees laying carpets.” Three New York poker play- ° were literally “roped in” a few night ago. Two armed men, one of whom had arranged the game, tied them up with a clothesline and robbed them of more than $1,000. A Wisconsin: aviator was ar- rested for taking ‘a cat up sev- eral hundred feet. and dropping it to see if it would alight on its feet and live. It didn’t. Dr. Cruze of Vienna declares that few women have legs which are mates, and that in most cases the difference between the two they finish the job. This report sounds okay, too, because the governor certainly does not see eye-to-eye with his budget com- mission and doesn’t want to round out his administration with a hefty boost in the state tax rate. Checking familiar faces around the hotel lobbies, we found about the same old crowd, plus a few newcomers. Pressure groups ap- proving toxes on each other but condemning taxes on themselves. And sitting over in a corner, lone- ly and forlorn, we ran across a fellow who seemed out of place in the hurly-burly. We asked him who he represented. And he said, “Who, me? Ponder, I'm just a taxpayer. Nobody seems to give a hoot what I think!” 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- 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- OO Oe eww AOTTUOOTOTOOTTMM. SOTLIOTTS nnual Electric ange dale. A set of electric Cooking Utensils will be given away with each 1939. mode] General Electric Range sold and installed during this sale. Al- ages no other range can offer. Ee As low as "COMET"—G-32 ERM:S: a 0 FREE—ELECTRIC COOKING UTENSILS! \ The Key West Electric Company ee kn A Ad dddd dd dddddddidddddddidddddadadad ddd WOOO EOOOM THE CITIZEN AT THE WORLD'S FAIR The Key West Citizen. chronicle of the doings of the Island City, will be at the New York World's Fair at the receplion rooms of the Florida exhibit. Manager E. W. Brown re- quested The Citizen. and it shall be sent daily to him. In it will be found many feature stories of the interesting sea life. the friendliness of both the Bahaman end Cuban pepulation of the city, and other articles on the many exotic buildings and plant life of the city. which is ex- pected to be of special in- terest to Fair visitors seek- ing information on the Island City. At ihe Fair will be a dio- rama of the Overseas High- way. besides other literature of Key West. SII IIL IS STA is very marked. The in iga- tion which led to this conclusion must have been quite interest- ing. An exchange paraphrases Lin- coln thus: “You can beat some of the trains to all of the cross- ings, and all.of the trains to some of the crossings, but you can’t beat all of the trains to all of the crossin Ted Cook of the Hearst news- papers credits an Arkansas edi- tor with this exquisite example of journalistic tact: “Miss Beulah Smith, a Batesville belle of 20 summers, is visiting her twin brother, aged 32.” Asked for three reasons for attending Sunday school and three for not attending, a Win- field, Kan., youngster wrote: “Reasons for going—It’s the Christian thing to do—it will do me some good—it pleases grand- father. Reasons for not going —I like to sleep—the preacher bores me—my Sunday pants seratch.” Eases Angry Itch For itch tortured skin that needs comforting relief use IMPERIAL LOTION. man, He it eases the itch- ing of Eczema, h, Ts r, Ring- worm, Scabic: ete. Money ba uot satisf ‘en To2 kc rye Sold everywhe 69 Per === Month $ ELECTRIC RANGE COOKERY : \ s : Ni . , “a