The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 30, 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 Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associa! Press ated Press is exclusively entitled to use republication of all pews dispatches credited to it or pot etherwise credited in this paper and also the ldcal news published here. ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application: $ SPECIAL NOTICE eading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of obituary notices, ete., will be charged for at f 10 cents a line. for entertainment by churches from which ¢ is to be derived are 6 cents a line. tizen is an open forum and invites discus- | publie issues and subjects of local or general t but it will not publish anonymous communi- | approved Cannon’s proposal would make PAT CANNON GOES TO BAT Representative Pat Cannon has asked THE KEY WEST CITIZEN United States Senator Charles O. Andrews | to tack an amendment appropriating $1,- 600,000 for strengthening the naval de- fenses at Key West to the Walsh-Vinson bill now pendirg in the Senate. If finally Key West a combination air and submarine | base. This concrete recommendation by Congressman Cannon was greeted with |- jey and enthusiasm in Key West. “Why shouldn’t Pat Cannon do Key | West a favor—Key West elected him | didn’t she?” was ihe comment of some! who read of our congressman’s action in Washington. It is true Monroe County did furnish H the balance of voting strength that elected | Pat Cannon to office when the vote else- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. AirportsLand and Sea. Consotidation of County and City Governments. Add similes: As out of date as last | week's map of Europe. | Spring is here; watch your fancies, | young man—and how about the gals? | Washington was first in peace and in war, but he was Martha’s second hus- band. We suggest that the Housing Admin- istration build a lot of log cabins for great | men to be born in, | The reason there is so much more } law breaking today, is probably because | there are so many more laws to break. “Have you ever noticed,” says an ob- | servant Key Wester, “that when a man is | about fixed for life he is ready for death.” | If government were conducted like well-regulated and profitable business concerns, this would be a prosperous coun- | try, indeed. i A Brooklyn judge has decided that motorists must not run over dogs. Per- haps in time the ruling wil! be extended to | include people. On the island of Oahu, Territory of | Hawaii, on which the city of Honolulu stands, not a billboard is permitted. The | island has beautiful scenery and the peo- ple do not want it obliterated by unsightly signs and billboards. | Where throughout this congressional dis- trict was about evenly split between him and his cpponent. The majority of Key |; Westers believe, however, that Pat Can- | non was doing more than just showing his | eppreciation for the support he got in this | county when he went to bat to bring the | Key West naval defenses up to . emer- | gency ‘requirements. Key Westers generally believe that Pat Cannor was largely. concerned in | making the national defense system more secure and effective by suggesting that this city be made an air and submarine - base. Pat Cannon sees the Key West naval base as an important adjunct in the defense of the Panama Canal and other interests of the American people in the Western hemisphere. Pat Cannon argues that the time to prepare for a _ national emergency is before it occurs—right now! That is sound thinking. There is no question about the need for adequate de- fenses in Southern Florida. It is the most | vulnerable point. It is most liable to hos- tile attack in the event of international disturbance. It is too far away from Jacksonville and other favored points in | the national defense scheme to feel secure. | What other point in Southern Florida is more strategically located than Key West? What other point has a fully equipped submarine base ready for use? Where else could an air base be established at less cost? - Senator Andrews has declared his in- tention to submit the amendment to the | Naval Defense Bill proposed by Repre- | sentative Cannon, and stated that he is in | complete accord with the plan and Sen- ator Pepper said he will cooperate with Senatcr Andrews to have the $1,000,000 | appropriation included in the general bill, so there is every probability that the item will be approved by Congress and Key West obtain this much-needed auxiliary of our national defenses. UNEMPLOYED CAPITAL ERE TMA MEMORIES OF KEY WEST Key West dreams in the noonday heat, Down where the Gulf and Ocean meet; Dreams of the pirates and- buccaneers Who ruled its seas in the bygone years, Dreams of the storms that have swept its shore Of screaming winds and ocean’s roar. Sargents, Colorado, March 25, 1939. This merning brought in the vanguard of the 600 and. more people who are expected to be here from all parts of the state |and take part in the 1929 annual ‘convention of Florida Firemen, | which opens in this city Monday | and will continue for a session of three days. Those arriving today include Fire Chief Westra and party of Miami; Chief Ennis and party of Hialeah; Fred M. John- son and George Alitzer of At- 4 lanta. Six buses and 40 automo- biles are listed for transportation over the ferries tomorrow and a large number of visitors -are known to be coming by rail. The ferry system has arranged to | throw an extra boat in service tomorrow, and a large number of visitors are to come by rail. The Florida and Lovell bus lines re- | port having capacity bookings by ' conventionists and it is expected that by Monday the city will be crowded by fire fighters, their families and friends from all sec- Now in the west the sun sinks ow Turning the Gulf to a crim&on glow, Tall palms whisper and night winds sigh, Up from the sea the moon rides high, Turning the town to a fairy place Of velvet shadows and silver lace. —AVIS LAMBERTSON. rates at the foot TODAY’s COMMON : ; —— TEST YOUR KNGWLEDGE Can you snswer seven of these test questions? Turn to Page 6 for the answers 1. On which continent is the Parana River? 2. Which American League bsaeball team is managed by Joe Cronin? Which country owns Green- land? Name the place to which Je- sus withdrew with his dis- ciples on the eve of the Crucifixion. What is the underworld for cocaine? Are whales cold or warm- blooded? Of which country is Tallinn the capital? In which city is the annual celebration of Mardi Gras? Of what country is Nova Scotia a province? 410. What is the name for a mass of ice originating in | a snow-field? street Sunday afternoon, the game to be played in back of the \Ameriean Legion Hall. These jtwo teams are evenly matched and the fans will no doubt be in- {terested in the game. Batteries {for the Pirates will be Albury and Carbonell and for Sluggers, Bethel and Key. The public on hearing the fire bell 5:30 o’clock tomorrow morn- ting, need feel no apprehension. -——— Jit will mean that Fire Chief Pin- KEY WEST IN .DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen }der is following out his promise }to issue the call to Sunrise Serv- ‘ices 30 minutes before the hour. | eticneaibetany Joseph L. Crusoe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Crusoe, of 902 Florida street, this city, and Miss Carolyn Edwards, who formerly to show the visiting firemen what resided in Key West, were mar- an able fire department we ‘have. ried in Tampa Thursday evening. | the best of cruising. The young couple will arrive in The Sluggers will play the Pi- Key West on the boat from Tam- of Whitehead pa Monday morning. THURSD£ Along the Waterfront EVERYONE KNOWS that it is s expensive to keep up a boat. If it were not that most Key West owners put their boats into com- !mercial use, either as a charter dic of boat during the winter or in the qa, ;there would be many less boat jowners here. One bright point on the horizon is the fact that | diesel fuel is so inexpensive. With | a diesel engine a boat owner can reduce his costs by half and more. 1 The F. W. Meade, owned by the | ¥ational Park Service to mane the Key West-Fort Jefferson run. can make the trip for about $3.50 Any charter boat using gas en- gines cannof approach that cost And the Meade is about a 60 foot- er, a huge hulking vessel How- ever, when diesel fuel is used greatly by boat owners the state government is going to transfer taxes on it from gasoline. This is natural since roads must be maintained and fuel taxes are @ tas reliable source of revenue. Some pleasure boat owners here use sloops either with or without auxiliary engines and there are a host of small sailboats and out- boards. MANY OF THE RESIDENTS here during the winter, who are intrigued by the wonderful f ing possibilities, purchase a boa for about $300, usually around 28 feet, for deepsea and Bay fishing But there are scores of others who find less expensive ways of having the wonderful boating posibilities here. A few in the city now own the nationally ad vertised and better class of out board runabouts, either car covered or of wood. Mgst of are equipped with spray rail fea tures to prevent spray coming over the side, always a disadvant ally advertised outboard mo are used, ranging from four to horsepower, with most of the owners using about 16 horsepow er.. Others charter out sma dingheys, skiffs and sailboats by t from local boat owners and com- mandeer the crafts themselve All report wonderful fishing and WITH THE VERY SERIOUS DISCOVERY of the decay of Chk Ahk ddd de ddd dodde dade de ded, hded dd dedeadthededededede dada nnual Electric Range Sale! A set of electric Cooking Utensils will be given away with each 1 model General Electric Range sold and installed during this sale. Al- so—a liberal allowance will be made for vour old stove. at A New Lower Cost you can now enjoy the cleanliness, cool kitchen com- SOME OF THE age of small boats. The netion- CIAL FISHERMEN 7 a fori, the speed and economy, and the better results F. D. R. stands for Franklin’ Delano | Roosevelt, as everybody knows. The} President?s, initials oddly enough, as has | been pointed out, also stand for his last three supreme court appointees—Frank- furter, Douglas and Reed. The other is! the Black sheep of the family and ap-| parently doesn’t count. It may appear to some that we're at- tempting to be facetious, but a recent para- graph appearing in The Key West Citizen, appeals to us as “hitting off” most aptly a changed psychology which has been very | evident of late. Says The Citizen: “In the old days, all a farmer expected from | the Gevernment was a small assortment of seeds, sent from his congressman, each | Spring One of our earliest recollections has to do with retéipt of one of these packets of seeds—and if memory serves, they didn’t germinate as well as might have been desired. The fact which is out- standing in this connection, however, is that Americans—not only in the agri- cultural classifications—have come to look to Washington to a degree which our forefathers would not have conceived of as possible. Many of the services fur- | nished by the Government are worthwhile | and needed, but the fact eannot be evaded, that we are developing too strong a ten- dency to expect Uncle Sam to solve our preblems. If we are to continue as the self-reliant, virile race we have thus far been, we will have to call a halt on this “leaning” tendency—and get back on our own feet, and that right quickly —Times- Union, It is generally conceded that behind | tions of the state. “All is ready”, the great and persisting unemployment of labor lies an. unprecedented unemploy- ment of capital, rather than lack of capi- tal, in the United States. In fact, the in- ability to find safe and profitable fields for the investment of idle capital is our greatest economic problem. This situation has existed for several | years, and unless and until it can be changed there is no hope for a return of general prosperity. An organization that is now engaged in an intensive study of means for reliev- ing capital unemployment is the Invest- ment Bankers Association of America, which recently began a series of regional meetings in pursuance of its 1939 pro- gram. In outlining the purpose of these meetings, officials of the association said: “The national organization is bend- ing every effort to get the capital markets reopened. Our number one job is to re- vive the investment banking business, not alone for the benefit of us in the business, but for the benefit of everyone in the | country—the working man, the farmer, the business man, the man on relief. New financing, in other words, is the forerun- ner of new jobs and the cure. for unem- one national problem.” Any means whereby a larger volume | of private capital may be put to work | should meet with the approval of the pub- _ | lie. In every town there is that sort of fel- | i ow who thinks he is a live wire because jhe has everything charged. ployment, which is certainly the number | said Fire Chief Ralph Pinder, “and not a single detail has been forgotten. The city is more pro- fusely and beautifully decorated’ for the convention than ever be- fore, the chief and his: men hav- ing worked practically the entire night getting things in readiness. | | Edward H. Montague, of New York, one of the world’s first flying trapeze . performers, who. |more than half a century ago thrilled audiences from coast to | coast with his feats of daring on every land, is now a regular win- ter resident of Key West and one of the city’s most, sincere and enthusiastic boosters. Mr. Mon- tague celebrated his eighty- | eighth birthday in Key West on | March 9, and declares that if he lives he will return next year for ; his next celebration. No man has ever traveled farther or more ex- | tensively than Mr. Montague, the | retired trapeze artist, and he af- firms that the climate of Key West is the grandest he has ever | enjoyed end this city will have the honor of entertaining this Cd dh hdd dhe hb thLe Let Ltbignbdhidbdddddd de Ldked ddd of modern electric cookery. All these are with the new General Electric—plus added adva ages no other range can offer. TERMS Aslowes .....-’. $959 :- ELECTRIC RANGE COOKERY Cn ko kekkddddddiddedddhdhddidddnddddddbdbddudd did a ALALAAAAAAAAAAAMAMAMAAAAA A A AA dd Ad he hh dabebadeaddeduddad