The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 25, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key Went Citizen | ily 1 Sunday By UBLISHING CO., INC. . BP. ARTMAN, Presid ‘The Citizen Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monros County Enterea at Key West, Florida, as second class matter f the Associated Press s is exclusively entitled to use of all news dispatches credited to ise credited in this paper and also PRESERVE OUR SCENERY torially lauded the effort being made to protect wildlife on Florida keys. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN A few days ago The Citizen edi- | Pro- | tected, the deer and the birds on the keys would become an interesting part of the scenery along Overseas Highway. They | would put life into an otherwise dull pic- | ture, although the key scenery is unique | and of an unexcelled variety. | creatures amid such scenes would be an | irresistible attraction to tourists. 0 | Now it is becoming apparent that the ~ ADVERTISING RATES SPECIAL NOTICE notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of ry notices, etc, will be charged for at cents a line. s for entértainment by churches from which e is to be derived are 5 cents.a line. Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- | f public issues and subjects of local or general ‘ but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations » known on application. | | i IMPROVEMENTS 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 wild life in Key West should not | be preserved—it should be eliminated. No system is worth anything unless somebcdy is willing to follow it through. We have a free country so long as everyone in it is allowed to say it is free. The supreme test of religion is its power of producing saint-like men and women. When the public conscience goes to sleep, then law and order are in a_ pre- carious position. The inhabitants of ‘the totalitarian states are hero-worshipers, either by choice or force. In Prague, for instance, Masaryk Square already has been named Adolph Hitler Square. Here’s an encouraging story from Berlin: The Bible, it is reported, has out- - sold Hitler’s “Mein Kampf’ by about 200,000 copies yearly in the six years since the Nazis assumed power in 19838, accord- ing to the Prussian Bible Society. According to The Citizen’s Washing- | ton correspondent, the Hepburn board had | never once swerved from its original deci- | sion to recommend Jacksonville as the | place where the southeastern airbase | should be placed, and that it held further | committee meetings as a courtesy gesture to Congress which suggested them. Never- | thele. yet decide to place the site elsewhere, but that is problematical. a Uncle Sam has tried social security through relief once before and on the In- seas Road and Toll Bridge | tween Lower Matecumbe and Big Pine | low Big Pine Key. | should be requested to prohibit such ad. | using the public highway or the the Hepburn board’s findings are | only a recommendation, and Congress may scenery itself needs protection. Just as The wild | | the key wildlife is being destroyed by in- | and heedless commercial interests of Mon- roe county. They have erected hundred: of signs and billboards advertising every- | thing from hot dogs to palatial homes. The | | signs in many cases are at the points of | greatest scenic and tourist interest. | hide the scenery and are a landscape. blot on the Signs and billboards are not permit- ted on the lands controlled.by the Over- District be- Key, except at the infrequent settlements. The State Road Department controls the highway above Lower Matecumbe and be The Road Departmen’ veitising matter on publjc property, for many of the objectionable signs are plant- ed within a few feet of the roadway. Others of the billboards have been placed on private property without permission of the owners. It may be possible to eli- | minate many of the placards by appealing to the property owners. However, something more compelling cooperate is needed. The force of law is needed. The possibility of setting up a zoning law for the county in order to reg- ulate the placement of sigs and billboards on private property abutting: the» public | highway is beitig probed by a speeial com- | | mittee of the Key West Woman’s Club. It is possible State Representative Bernie C. Papy maybe requested to have. the State Legislature’ pass ‘such a law... It is safe to say that one of those lands abutting the highway for advertising their goods and services had much to do with providing the public with that highway. The money invested in the highway be- longs to all of the people and they should be abe to enjoy the scenery from their highway without being compelled to look | around or past these advertising plugs. Robert Moses, New York state super- intendent of public works, recently de- clared-—“The billboard is a blot on nature and a parasite on public improvements.” Why not eliminate those blots and para- sites from the gateway to Key West? ADVERTISING CONTROL For several years various bureaucratic agencies of government have sought to censor the advertising columns, of news- papers and periodicals, presumably to pro- tect the public from false representations | on the part of advertisers. dian. He should have learned his lesson then. Instead of investing in capital goods which would have helped the Indians to | become self-supporting, more than half. a billion dollars were spent in capital doles. | This taught the red man to depend on the government for subsistence, made him lazy and kept him ignorant. The same re- | sult will come eventually if relief as now practiced is not stopped. It will sap ambi- | tion, breed indolence and in general un- dermine the character of the American people. The Malachean prophecies, a few _ worded mottos concerning the popes, have _been decidedly applicable during the three and a half centuries since they have been | - published, as well as during the 400 years before. Opponents of the prophecies, | however, state that they could have been applied to any one of the popes, and hence are of no special significance though | a source of interesting speculation. The | | These efforts have been supplemented by activities of Better Business Bureaus in various cities, which have imposed a sort of unofficial censorship on the advertising of their members, and indirectly over non- | member competitors, . While the ostensible object of these forms of censorship seems laudable, the trouble is that when the censors once get a foothold they never know where to stop. The old human desire to dictate to and in- terfere with our fellowmen lead to the lust for more and more power. Recently two of the largest auto- mobile companies were forced to consent to discontinue certain advertising prac- tices which were entirely lawful, to avoid prosecution which in all probability would have resulted in acquittal, Commenting on the matter the San Francisco Chronicle, an independent newspaper, said that these companies, “with the attorney general’s pistol at theif heads, bought off prosecu- tion by agreement to desist from activities ~ present pope, Pius XII, according to the | to which they have a legal and moral Malachean prophecy, is “Pastor An-| gelicus” (Angelic Pastor.) Another prog- | ~nosticator was the Monk of Padua, of whom little is known, but he was even more specific than St. Malachy, and ac: tually gave the names of 19 of the last 20 | popes, but he missed on his last guess by | giving the name of Gregory XVII to the} pope just elected. right.” Newspapers should be alert to point cut and condemn all unreasonable at- tempts to encroach upon their rights and those of their legitimate advertisers. The fellow who always blames some- Lody else for his mistakes. never profits by thom, that’s certain! scenery being destroyed by the grasping | They | than mere request tc property owners to | humane and thoughtless gunmen, so is the | TWO WEEKS’ WAGES GO | | | More than half of the motorists earn | an average of $60 a year in taxes on | | | SeSCoCooeseCoeeoSEsECeLe |THE LITTLE TVA IN | RICHMOND CENTER (The Republican Observer, | Richmond Center, Wisconsin) It may be surprising to some.to | realize that at least the principal | jof the TVA was demonstrated‘in ichmond Center years ago. There was a local-preacher who ad quite a family while he drew , | somewhat of a small salary. | He conceived the idea that if! jhe possessed a milk cow one of the heavy expenses of family) |maintenance might be reduced. | He discussed the proposition! |with some of his parishioners. {One member of his congregation |said he would give him a cow;' another volunteered to furnish hay, another straw for bedding. A neighbor gave the minister the | use of a barn in which to keep) the cow, and store the feed. Finding that the cow gave more milk than the family required the minister sold the surplus to neighbors. Inasmuch as he had not a dollar invested in the cow,’ that the feed, bedding and barn j were furnished free, he readily saw that there was big profit de- rived from the milk he sold.. In fact he was soon able to lay up enough milk money to enable him to buy another cow. Forgetting to tell the members of the church |that he had the second cow he was able to get other friends to; furnish additional hay, straw and feed and the fellow who allowed him the use of the barn also per- mitted him to keep the other cow there. At this point the preacher com- mitted the error of arriving at the conclusion that the milkmen of the town were robbers. When he saw them charging the prices they were getting he offered to sell milk at a slightly less price. He even preached a sermon on the crime of profiteering. One of the milkmen was a member .of that church. When he learned that his preacher was canvassing his customers to take milk from hirh and was also tell- ing his brethern how their milk- man was robbing ‘them, he got angry. He sat down and figured out that he couldn’t afford to buy, vows, buila barns, furnish jhay and make delivery af the same price as_could a competitor Who didn’t ve a tent invested, «got, his feed anid barft room for noth; ing and had customers come after | their milk. The milkman went to the mat on the proposition. It didn’t tke! him long to convince other mem- bers of the congregation that the practice wasn’t fair, especially when he backed his arguments by letting them know that if it. continued he would cease making his large yearly contribution to the church. | Brother churchmen quit haul-| ing hay to the preachers’ cows and the neighbor asked for barn rent. When that came abdut the, Preacher discovered that to buy everything made his expenses. run so high that it didn’t even pay to keep a cow to furnish milk! for hig own family, { There was a perfect little TVA set up. With thé federal govern- ment furnishing everything, ven to writing off a loss of $1,008,000" in a single year, no private com-: pany’ can compete with it ahy! more than the regular milkman could compete with the preach- er. WANTED PROOF | NEW YORK — When a police- | man released Ernest Martin of this city who was detained for passing a red light en route to, his wedding, he asked for a ticket to show his bride why he was late. | California produces the great-| est number of cantaloupes of any} state in the Union. i two whole weeks’ wages are paid by many motorists for automotive taxes. “made with George W. Gibbs for ‘tion was liquidated by the pay-| Cobb came to Key West in a par- ‘firemen opening in Key West (different departments, SATURDAY MARCH 25, 1939 TODAY’s COMMON ERROR Do not say, “I was most home when it began to rain”; say, “almost home”. le THE NEWS TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE Can you snswer seven of these test questions? Turn to Page 4 for the answers 1. Has England a written con- stitution like the United States? Name the president of the American Federation of Labor. i What proportion of an ice- berg is above water? Name the sacred mountain of Japan. In which country did tango originate? How many brothers Christopher Columbus? What do the letters Y.W.C.A. stand for? Which country had the old- est ualtered flag? Name the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. What strait separates the State of Washington from Vancouver Island? of the current scene. E s national significance are fully Facts, new and old, that add clarily news are honestly injected. The v E and interesting news photographs freely strate facts. “More than a million readers, Subscribe ne to PATHFINDER, the most widely read news g . This Newsnepee & BOTH ,zs- Only $ 1 (00 \ You Can Afford A Better Home---! AND RIGHT NOW IS THE TIME TO BUILD OR REMODEL. / FOR MOTOR TAXES less than $30 per week and they pay their cars. That means that nearly KEY WEST DAYS GONE BY the = had Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen At a special meeting of the board of county commissioners 10. held today arrangements were payment of the balance of $19,- 066.09, duc on the ferry _ Vessel patty of friends he is out today ontoe County recent tan. and it is expected he will return pleted by the firm. € obliga- this afternoon with a large catch. Capitalize on present conditions be- Get a much better home for your money fore they slip away forever. ment of $2,000 from the road/ty with E. J. Sparks, of Jackson- fund, $9,231.82 from the bond! vitie, and they are prepared to trustee fund and one certificate spend most of the time fishing of indebtedness to the amount of at Sand Key and other favorite $6,300 and another in the amount | spots of the angler. of $1,444.27. by— ACTING NOW! CHEELY LUMBER CORP. Phone 297 With the annual coveption of Fleming Street Methodist (Uptown) Church —SUNDAY— 11:00 A. M. Dr. R. Z. Tyler, Presiding Elder, will preach. EVENING SERVICE—Union Service in BIG TENT at cor- ner of Elizabeth and Fleming Streets, next Monday morning with a large » attendance, composed of people from every part of the state, Chief Pinder believes it will be time for the people of Key West to doll up the city a bit and make preparations to give the visitors a grand recep- tion as the Firemen’s Convention will bring more people to the rie | state than were ever here before } Bye ane on a similar occasion, and the ! [om chief believes that Key West should be cleaned up and beauti- fied to the utmost in order to make a favorable impression on, the large number of people who’ will come with the convention- ists, beside the members of the many of whom will be on their first trip to the Island City. Chief Pinder suggests that on Tuesday of the week the people should begin decorating their homes and places of business and setting the city in order for extending to the army of visitors a royal reception, entertaining them and in every way endeavoring to make their stay ih the city a delightful and memorable one. In the matter of decorations the chief would be pleased to suggest ways and means for accomplishing this and will cooperate with those _con- templating beautification in every way possible and hopes everyone will be prepared to join in the mvgement. ' eee In Key West today the maxi- mum military salute of 21 guns roared from Fort Taylor at sun- rise this morning and one shot is to be heard at intervals of a half- hour until sundown this evening while all the flags will be at half- mast in honor of Marshal Ferdin- and@ Foch, famous French army commander of the World War, who died in Paris last Wednesday and was entombed there follow- ing services today. Editorial Comment: The Citi- zen heartily concurs in the opin- ion that Key West’s most impera- tive need is an additional high class tourist hotel. So evident has the heed become that it would be well for the city to donate all the golf course property should it be found necessary as an induce- ment. Caroline and William Streets “Everything In Building Material” PSII LILI LS IS LS SIS SS SSL Ss W@ WELLL LIS LLM L IIIS BLS SF. JIM LILLY, PASTOR | ; i rere = i SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CITIZEN—20c WEERLY. Don’t delay!“ Ceme in and choose your new model Phileo NOW while our stocks are complete . . . and while we are offer- ing extra-liberal trade-in allowances and special easy terms. A wide variety of new 1939 models to select from... each one an outstanding value! JUST ARRIVED PHILCO 31XF* (Left) Brings you new cabinet beauty “and finer per- formance at a new low price! Electric Pash-Bat- ton Tuning, American and Foreign reception, fine tone. 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Ty Cobb, mention of whose name gives every baseball fan a’ thrill, the world over and who is} conspicuous in the baseball world for many years, is in Key West and enjoying the fishing. In com- pany of Juan Carbonell and a’ PIERCE BROS. Fleming at Elizabeth Streets Phone 270 4 |