The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 5, 1939, Page 2

=2886r TWO She Ke a 7 — ed Daily Except SN PUBL . ARTMAN, President and Publisher N. Assistant Business Manager phe Citizen Building ene and Ann Streets Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County West, Florida, as second class matter Press ely entitled to use | atches crelited to n this paper and also d here. ADVERTISING n on applicat AL of thanks, resolutions of | , will be charged for at nment by churches from which derived are 5 cents a line. n forum and invites discus- 1 subjects of local or general will not publigh anonymous communi- fiPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotcls and Apartments: Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. “Shall We Fight?” — Newspaper | : beaxdline. No, No, a thousand times, No. Not for others. The busiest man in Key West is that | fellow who spends his time living up to his wife’s expectations. Lady Astor says she is sorry the United States..cannot be included in the syitish Empire. And we are. glad; . we | didn’t dump.a lot of tea ‘averboard for,| nothing! .. ., Now is the time for all good men (and ' *these not so good) to come to their own | rescue by taking advantage of the Murphy _ Act. Time is getting short; get in while the gettir’s good, “It used to be the pen versus the sword; now it the umbrella.’”’—Key | West Cit And, we hate to note, the umbrella ll wet,”’ so far as results are | coneerned.—Times-Union, “The way some radio audiences ap-| plaud some programs cause the suspicion | _ ‘that the applauders got in on Annie Oak- ‘leyS and did not want to appear entirely “ungrateful even if the numbers grated on their nerves. We cannot keep out of another Euro- | pean war! it. That's | anda from those on the.other. side. Hitler himself say the other day ; “that it. was foolish to.think he would ‘at- | taek the United States. “How would 1 get | +@ver there?” he asked. Dor’t you believe There is a feeling of relief when those | *etwo madmer—Hitler and Mussolinimare | not monopolizing the front page for a day. | Mussolini generally spouts Sundays when | he can get a larger personal audience, so not even that sacred day is secure from his mouthings. Czechs are to salute one another in << futiire by raising the right arm and crying ‘therland—it was announced. What fa-| ‘thérland? Their own or that of the Ger- | difains. Certainly not the latter and their | “wt has been obliterated—at least for the | _itime. being. “This column heartily endorses one phe'se- of the program Congressman Mar- tin .J: Kennedy, Democrat, of New York, ‘has proposed in an effort to get the demo- Msctalic party party out of the limbo it is at TL pHESeLt finding itself. It reads: “Stop the Tiéfieratic ‘big wigs’ from talRing about “Wat; qnd searing the people to death.” oom comet Shem Hitler recently made a wise statement | «when he warned Poland that if it is willing ‘a tovpull chestnuts out of the fire for other nations, it must itself expect to get burned. Tiidt‘t we do that very thing some 20 years “dg; and didn’t we get burned and by the « ‘tery. Miations that want us to help them! pulj.their chestnuts out of the fire, and are ‘wé ‘gfing to be such idiots again? “sens! people-can prevent it. Not if , | HOW TO FINANCE BEACHES State Representative Bernie C. Papy THE KEY WEST CITIZEN sic | plans to ask the Legislature at the current | ion to pass an act giving Monroe Coun- annual share of the race track taxes, zmounting to about $25,000, to the Board of Public Instructic At the present time the track funds vo into the Monroe County general fund for operating expenses. A suggestion has been advanced by The Citizen, as result of a sounding of pub- lic opinion, that Representative Papy’s proposal be revised so as to allot one half of the race track taxes to the school au- thorities and the other half to the county’s general fund. This proposal was brought to the attention of Mr. Papy in the belief that half of the fund would enable the school authorities to expand their instruc- tion program without seriously crippling the county’s financial machinery. In this connection a new proposal has been put forward by a number of our citi- zers. They would have Representative | Papy’s bill require the * Monroe County Commission to allot a part of its share of | the race track taxes for sponsorship of public improvements, particularly the dor- mant plan to provide Key West with ade- | quate hathing facilities on a beach to be | constricted on public property off Roose- | velt Boulevard. The Citizen believes this is a good idea. Nothing is more badly needed here than public beaches. Those now in use are a disgrace and a shame, and neither the city nor the county has any control ever them. It is believed that the county | should sponsor a WPA project for creating a beach along the boulevard east of Rest Beach. Those who have studied the pro- posal believe a series of groins or jetties | built at right angles from the shore of the island into the ocean would hold the sand | that is regularly piled up there by wind | and: wave. A few thousands of dollars would provide sufficient material for a WPA work project that would result in a fine sandy beach here. : Representative Papy has shown him self progressive in the public welfare ana it is believed he will fall in with this plan | to provide the city with adequate beaches. Nothing is more important than beaches to iasure the grewth and development of | { | Key West as a high-class winter resort. i | “WE WANT PEACE!” There is considerable debate over the | policy to be adopted by the United States in regards to war. There are advocates of strict isola- tion, of disarmament, of cooperation with other nations, of rearmament and of al- most any position that the mind of human beings can evolve in regard to the threat | of war. It is readily agreed that the people of the United States prefer peace to war and that,'so far as possible, they intend to live peaceably with all nations. this, it is observed that practically every step taken by the government, or suggested by political leaders, is prefaced upon the | theory that it will keep us out of war. In this antipathy to war the people of this country do not subscribe to the doc- trine promulgated by Mussolini and Hit- ler, who insist that a nation’s strength is in its military power and that war glorifies a people. FARM AND THE JEW One of the chief criticisms of the Jew has been the impression that he was not a producer, that he was interested in being the middle-man in a business transaction. It has been said he lives only in the cities, too keen in driving business bargains and in obtaining the largest share of business profits. These have been mentioned with the shake-up in Germany. Propaganda all about us will cause one to lose good judg- ment. There may be folks, with a less keen business mind forced into agricultural regions that the Jew has declined to con- | sider. But before making any state- ments concerning the farm and the Jew in Germany, consider the report of the Jewish Agricultural society in our country, which shows that there has been a steady expan- sion of the Jewish farming community. During last year, 1,222 persons have sought the aid of the society in obtaining | jobs on the land. This is an item to count on. While a wife may not concede her ’ usband’s superiority, she will usually ad- i ut that-he made a better marriage than j She did. Fre Because of - SON is Economic Highlights “STOP HITLER!” DRIVE IS GOAL OF FUTURE Mr. Cnamberlain’s “Stop Hit- ler” drive started out with colors flying and bands playing. But, as some astute observers anticipated, the march rapidly slowed down. It may be possible on some future day to really round up the pow- ers in a united front against Der Fuehrer—but, at this writing, it certainly isn’t an imminent pos- sibility. Poland Has Ace In Hole The drive involyed obtaining declarations opposing further German aggression, and threaten- ing economic and military action against the Reich in case she again stepped off the reserva- tion, from France, the Soviet Union, Poland, Rumania, and a number of lesser powers. France agreed eagerly—never in her long history has she been in so dangerous a position as today with enemies facing her on three fronts. But with France, en- thusiastic cooperation came to an end. The Soviets were interest= ed, but were distinctly distant— Stalin makes no bones of the fact that he regards Mr. Chamberlain m particular, and British foreign policy in general, with extreme doubt as to its basic motiv Poland, a key nation if the agree- ment were to be worth the paper it was to be written on, said No. The Polish foreign minister, Josef Beck, has been called, rightly or wrongly, the most astute and most unscrupulous foreign minis- ter in Europe, and he is fairly well satisfied to let Britain and France sweat. His ace in the hole is a non-aggression pact with Germany whose expiration date is 1944, and he apparently be- lieves it is to Hitler’s interest to keep his word to the letter in Po- land's case. Rumania In Ticklish Position Rumania was in the difficult bosition ef wanting to say Yes, and not being able to. For King Carol's rich, little kingdom is to- day in the most precarious posi- tion of any European-power. If he threw in his lot whole hog, with Britain and France, there is ja definite danger that Germany would attack—and Carol seems to jbe somewhat dubious as to |whether his proposed allies, put jto the acid test, would do any more for him than they did for ‘dissolved Czechoslovakia. And there is aiways the chance, he feels, that if he plays ball with Hitler, his country will maintein at least a nominal independence. Carol is playing ball with Hit- ‘ler, and with a vengeance, as the terms of the new German-Ru- manian economic treaty, disclos- ed in synopsis form on March 25, ‘attest. As an AP dispatch phrases it, “Germany will soon have her | fingers so deep in Rumanth’s £co- nomic and-industrial life that the influence of other nations there will become negligible”. The treaty gives the Reich virtually free access to Rumania’s agricul- tural, oil, metal and timber re- sources-—all of which she needs. And the consummation of this immensely important treaty brings up the question of Ger- man-Russian relations again. Peace With Russia? It has been widely believed that Hitler desired Soviet Ukraine above all else. But, with the grasp he now has on Rumanian Taw materials, the experts are {coming to the opinion that he | will not find the Ukraine neces- | sary. And that may mean that he ‘will at last seek peace with Rus jot t s {he , - being "EM! should happen, Hitler’s power; r Europe would obviously be- come unlimited. If Britain and France were no longer able to rz as a potential ally case of trouble, they would be ai- most pitifully ineffectual in 2p-! posing Hitler. And Russia would! be iree to turn her attention to; Asia, where she has vital inter- ests. What it all seems to add up to} now, is this: Hitler is still going places, and the farther he goes the better he becomes able to Ko} farther still with nothing more important than diplomatic r- respondence and conversations in} his way. America Strongly Anti-Nazi In this country, we are seeing, to a smail extent, the result of} German aggression. Duties have been upped 25 percent on imports from Czechoslovakia; and all oth- : German-conquered areas. Our American foreign policy is about us strongly ‘anti-Nazi as it could te, and diplomatic relations are strained. But there seems to be little sentiment here for giving the European democracies more than our moral support and a modicum of economic support. And in the meantime, we are forced to build up the greatest war machine in our his- tory against the possibility that Hitler will one day menace some country or some territory in which we have a direct interest. | i i Domestic Business Awaits War There is little to report con- cerning domestic business. The} foreign mix-up has continued as! a depressive factor, and the pos- ibility of war (even though few experts think one is really com- nm) casts a lengthening nado’ The President’s statement to the effect that ‘there will be no reduction in the tax burden, plus White House insistence on in- creased WPA appropriations, have likewise dimmed the out- look. On the favorable side is a sub- stantial increase in new industrial orders. Automobile sales have been very good, the market for electrical equipment is expand-j ing, farm equipment buying is| up, and railroad purchasing has been at comparatively high lev-! els. THE WEATHER SESHSSESSOSSSSSSSSSSSOSOSS | WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:.0 p. m., Thursday) H Key West and Vicinity: Partly} cloudy. possibly occasional show- ers tonight. and Thursday; mod- erate east to southeast winds. Florida: Partly cloudy, pos- sibly scattered showers near ex- treme south coast tonight and! Thursday; slightly warmer in west-central and northeast por-} tions tonight. | Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Moderate east to southeast winds, and partly over- cast weather tonight and Thurs-. day, with a few scattered show-} ers in Florida Straits tonight and/ in extreme north portion by Thursday night. j NEW SUMMER RATE TERRACE OUTDOOR BOWLING Duval at Angela 10c DAY or EVENING Basetern, Femncs | jappropriation of SIDELIGHTS . : By MARCY B. DARNALL Former Editor of The Citizen Three years ago Elizabeth Gardner of Cortland, N. Y., dis- located a vertebra in her neck while doing a head-stand, as re- quired by her calisthenics teach- er. She sued the school for dam- ages, which were recently award- ed in the cum of $3,000 by the appellate division of the supreme court. Exercis ‘sn’t help much working off fat, according to C. C. Sturgis of Michigan. He admits that a Ik up the Wash- ington Menu t might work off of a pat of butter, : “I think it’s simpler not to eat the butter.” in Dr. Charging extreme cruelty, Joseph C. Manning, 94, obtained a divorce from his wife Jessie, in a five-minute hearing at Las Vegas, Nev., after nine ars of married lif He celebrated his freedom by dancing until a late hour at a Townsend pension club Party. Police found Ronald Hummel, :3, wandering on a Chicago street and asked him if he was lost. |He said he wasn’t, but that his ;house was. | number, He remembered the and the house found a few blocks away. was The only German church and Jewish synagogue in Auburn. N. Y., held a joint dinner’ a few nights ago at the German church. Singing of songs banned by Hit- ler was a feature of the evening, j;and a letter of felicitation from President Roosevelt was read. The Wisconsin legislature pass- ed a bill withdrawing state sup- port from the Wisconsin Develop- ment Authorit: a quasi-public power project set up by the La- Follette regime, for which a state $60,000 a year had been provided. iscope spectacles, fitted with of small mirrors, where- by a person on his back and look- ing straight up may read a book lying flat on his stomach, have been furnis! for the use of 65 school pupils in a Chicago hos- pital. Most of the patients are infantile paralysis cases. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5. 193 9 KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen In a sworn statement read at the meeting of the county com- m joners last night, C. E. Sex ton, of Key Largo, declares that hijackers, bootleggers and Italian gunmen are after him to “bump him off” and requests permission to carry arms for his protection. Commissioner C. C. Symonette vhasized the destruction wrought t forest fires each year in the Over 15,000 fires 100,000 2: ida tewart, of St. Pe- was appointed as a committee of _ one to investigate the circum- stances surrounding the case and | and 2 to investigate every phase determine just what is the mat- ter in the case or if the man is really threatened. It is expected that the State Highway Department will soon have a force of men at work on ¢ the Overseas Highway under the state’s program of maintain- ing the road. according to County Commissioner Carl Bervaldi, who returned yesterday with other county officials from an inspec- tion of the road with the state engineer. Though the state engi- er was called back to Tallahas- when only the north half of the road had been completely gone over, he indicated that op- erations would be started bring the roadway up to state specifications between the main- land and Key West. The other portion of the state highway will be gone ever by the state engi- neer and Monroe county officials at a later date. The Tenth Annual Convention the Florida Commercial Sec- ies Association is coming to y West this year and will mect this city June 9-11, according to an announcement made of- ficially by Horace L. Smith, of Ocala, official secretary-treasurer cf the organization. It is expec ed the annual meeting will bring an excess of 100 members. to Editorial Comment: Represen- tative Michaelson was probably nging in a couple of ds of ciemicals for laba- tory tests in the noble ment. H. N. Wheeler, U. Forest Service lecturer, spoke on forest tion before the Key West n’s Club last night. He em- conse Wom ent secretary to h- War Veter- in Key West on her tour of the state al visits to various She 1 members at t 3:30 0% k large sions of zatior wth loc > Legion Hall mee a crowd will be present. There Troop One, evening ir be a meeting of rl Scouts, held this h scoutmis- cretary of re Department, ne Citizen to announce at th of $27.18 collected during the convention was pre- 1 department by Vero Beach fireman's ball at the Club on Wednesday Citizen—20e ++ From and To -:- Boston, New York, Miami Jacksonville, Galveston New Orleans and Beyond From Key West alternate Mon- days. From New York every Thurs- day. From Boston every Tuesday. From Jacksonville, Miami and New Orleans every two weeks. CLYDE-MALLORY The model illustrated is the Buick Special. model 41 four-door touring sedax $9%6 delrwered at Flom, Mack * ‘OU’ VE probably noticed that most of the folks who drive Buicks come back again and again to this great auto- mobile when it’s time to buy a new car. There are reasons for that. Sticking to Buick means you're sme every year that you're getting top value, and no hunting all over town to find it. Repeating on Buick means that season after season you ride behind the Buick valve-in-head straight-eight, that Dyna- flash powerhouse that’s livelier and thriftier than engines of other type. Year after year you'll travel in comfort — the smooth, easy, level-going comfort All of which satisfaction sixes. habit now. of the torque-tube drive and BuiCoil Springing. You always have Better so you've got the Buick drivmg haba, no other car quite scems to measure up. eight costs less than you thmk — less than a year ago—even less than some room in a Buick—and this year you've a new and broader outlook through 412 added square inchesof safcty plate glass. And you're leading the style parade with appearance that’s like 2 leaf from tomorrow's book. adds up, youl fnd, to complete that once In no other way that we know can you make sure of having so much fun. Or of getting so much value for cvery penny you buy Buick?” MULBERG CHEVROLET COMPANY Carcline and New Sts. Key West. Fin YOU GET A SETTER USED CAR FROM A BUICK DEALER