The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 14, 1939, Page 2

PAGE Two _The ikey West Citizen Ps 4 Dally Except Sunday By THE CERAZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President and F Business Manager JOE ALLEN, Assistant Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets From The Citizen Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monros County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusive entitled to use for republication of all news dispatchés crelited to it or pot etherwise credited in this paper and *he ical news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year Six ‘Months — Three Months Dne Month Weekly "ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application, SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of | sespect, obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents @ line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which & revenue is to be derived are & cents a line. Citizen is an open forum and invites discua- f public issues and subjects of local or general st but it will not publish anonymous communi- 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, Trading in Key West is recommended as a tonic to local prosperity. One Bow, wow! Apparently there isn’t any solution to the taxation problem except to pay the taxes. Demmit! Swedish chemists are turning sawdust ino sugar. The best ours can do is to turn it into breakfast food. Writing up a home talent play, an Oklahoma editor complimented a neighbor for his “clever impersonation of a gentle- man.” If women would stick to one style long | enough, maybe men folks could get used to anything, even their hats as funny as they are. Vice President Garner says he quit “hating” 20 years ago. He is 70 now, so he was a hater for 50 years, and it was about time to quit. The fellow who talks about the coun- | try he came from being better than the United States can always-find an ocean boat traveling both ways. You can’t beat those Key West Conchs for long. Now they want a senator all of their own and have hired Bill Hodges to turn the trick.—Fort Myers News-Press. Senator Capper is quoted as saying, “Let us insist on strict. neutralit The solons in Washington aré~ hard er work trying to find out just what that is. “How? about minding our own business! om ‘ Hitler and Mussolini so far haven’t tackled any but helpless nations. Watch ‘em crawl into holes so soon as one of the big nations starts chasing ‘em. Had Chamberlain called Hitler’s bhiff at Munich, all this blustering and threats of war would have been over now, as it is the unrest will continue until the dictators are stc¢pped by a show of force. Bragging again justifiably, anent the fish which swim in Island City waters, Editor L. P. Artman of The Key West Citizen recalls that “The largest fish ever. caught was caught in Monroe County, of which Key West is the county seat. This champion denizen of the sea weighed 30,- 000 pounds and had a length of 45 feet; its mference was 23 feet, inches, It Breet after a fight \aline, $9. hours and the place of capture was ts Key, Florida. The date, June’ 1, 1912. Ripley, in his Beliece It or Not, last week pictured the monster. in his mounted state. This prize of the seas has been exhibited all over the United States.”— '—Timés-Union. | State Bragging, even when justifiable, is. an s+ tentatious pretense or perversion of the truth, but what The Citizen site catch are factual _ citations. fish that swallowed Jonah was ry we |: . wouldn't know. a}. | newspaperman suggests that | puppy love is the beginning of a dog’s life. | BETTER SAFETY GLASS ; 4 Hailed as the year’s greatest contri- | | bution to highway safety, a new high-test | “rubber glass” was demonstrated before a | large group of scientists and industrial | | leaders gathered at Franklin Institute in | Philadelphia on April 1. j This new product, far superior to any t | heretofore invented, is expected to be! | used in 75 per cent of the automobiles built in future, according to an announce- | ment, at no additional] cost. | As indications of its almost unbelieve- able strength was shown by a test in which | ball traveling at a velocity of 56 feet per ; second. Yet it is flexible enough to be “rolled up like a rug.” | break it, but it will not shatter. | This new glass was not the product of search in which five leading chemical and glass corporations cooperaed all of which were awarded high honors by the In- stitute in recognition of the achievement. A telegram from President Roosevelt, praising the new scientific triumph, was | read to the gathering. | Stewart McDonald, a federal official, cooperation shown by competing firms which led to the development of the new | glass marked a milestone in the annals of American industry. POLITICS ON THE BENCH hundred Federal, State, county court judges, vinces the investigators that “politics and persona] bias” rather than scientific juris- | prudence often dominate the decisions of many judges. This is not news to many persons fami- liar with the workings of courts but it will come as something of a shock to people who believe that a lawyer becomes an angel when he dons the judicial robes. EVERGLADES PARK, AN UNUSUED STATE REVENUE PRODUCER (Tampa Times) If a State advertising fund in Oklahoma brought an increase of more than four times that amount in State gasoline tax receipts— And if the $3,000,000 which Texas approp- riated for its two fairs last year brought a $6,- 000,009 increase in State gasoline tax receipts— Why wouldn’t a moderate, non-political State advertising campaign, plus immediate State ac- tion in turning Everglades National Park over duce a substantial increase in gasoline tax re- ceipts in Florida? And all without increasing taxes or adding new taxes. This financial angle was discussed away up in Canada recently in an editorial in the Ontario Globe and Mail, which the St. Petersburg In- dependent reprinted. Following are excerpts from the Canadian paper: Should, anyone in California, Washing-+ ton, Montana, or Canada; propose ; _ doing away with mational parks there. would “Ynstantly be “areus8d a tremeridous hue and ery against them. These states and Canada know very well the great value these parks are as drawing cards to their section, as well as greatly aid- ing the natural preservation of all wild life, etc. Then how do you account for the ex- treme apathy of Floridians about handing over the Everglades to the Federal National Parks department? In their State Legis- lature the members talk and talk and talk, and never come into action. And yet their Everglades park could very easily draw a 3,000,000 crowd of sightseers who would spend an incredible sum of money in their state. The scant and scattered present popula- tion would-all be more than occupied.” A show place exceeding even the world-famed Yellowstone would be opened to the Amer- Big shiploads of British visitors recently came to Miami; and this is the very van- guard of vast numbers who would much prefer Florida to European winter resorts. Florida legislators who. talk long about the needing new revenue and about how they want to help the “peepul” of ‘the State are ‘go- ing “to find it difficult to explain if they. continue to do nothing ‘about investing the few thousand dollars and the little work which will be: neces- "sary to turn over Everglades land to the National said in a speech that the spirit of mutual | to the Federal government for development, pro- | | the plate glass stopped a half-pound steel | It is possible to | a single concern, but was developed by re- | ANSWERS— 1 1. Leeuwenhoek gets a lot of credit for this invention, but in, | 1590, about forty years before! |his birth, Hans Janssen began to |make “flea glasses”. They were considered toys at first. Robert | Hooke, about 45 yeafs later, was the first to produce a microscope} |resembling our modern instru- ment. | 2..A Dutch physician who re-| {ceived the Nobel prize in 1924 |for research on the heart. He} discovered that certain electrical | KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Teday As Taken j The Files Of The Citizen The recent survey of nearly three | municipal and | conducted by the | United States Department of Justices, con- | Fi cece Eight hundred gallons of in- \toxicating liquor estimated to cost $4,000 in Cuba and about} | $12,000 at bootleg prices in Key| | West, was billed as asphalt in the! loffice of the P. and O. Co., and ‘consigned to a firm in New York. {The discovery was made by in- \spector Luke Kemp while going Lover one of the ferries of the line; which arrived from Havana. The! | contraband was kept under guard; after the discovery, and was; closely watched until this morn-! jing when trucks loaded the bot-| | thes arid demijohns and took them Ito the vault at the custom house; \.for storage. A. G. Lund checked up the catch today and found | that the lot had been 81 gallons all in one gallon demijohns. Some few had been broken. The demi- | johns ‘were rounded out similar; | to the sacks in which was carried | the rest of the contents of the car |in which the liquor was found. The entire cargo of the car was seized and is to be held pending the results of the investigation, | which has been ordered. | The pineapple season will open | tomorrow with the first shipment of the fruit arriving on the ferry | from Havana. In the past few days there have been a few lots | arriving but the P. and O. office | states that the first large ship- ;ment will arrive tomorrow. It is said that there will be large shipment: arriving each day dur- ing. the shipping season. % oe Be With a docket of cases, | eight of which* ate damage: suits» cireuit court opened this morning ; |for the April term with Judge Jefferson Browne presiding. Editorial comment: Life insur- | ance makes it possible for some! of us to be. worth more. dead! than alive. So every person with | a paid-up policy of life insurance has some good in him anyhow. | Young Sluggers were defeated yesterday in the game against the Pirates by a score of 44 to 2. | | {t was ‘a pitcher’s battle all the! way through, with Carbonell! having the edge on Varela. The | | Pirates were outhit but Carbonell , Which may be offered relative to |meeting for a further proposals ! aoecece ~ | Equity Lodge, No. 70, LG.OF. (meets fiirst and third Thursdays, | = P. Hall, Fleming street. Minoca Council No. 13, Degree {of Pocahontas meets Ist and 3rd | Tuesdays of month, 4:30 p. m., at | Red Men’s Hall, corner of Caro- jline and Elizabeth streets, Im- } proved Order of Red Men meets ; every Monday, 7:30 p, m., at Wig- | wam Hall Sparkling Waters, Re-| ‘bekah Lodge No. 14, meets 2nd} a 4th Tuesdays at 7:30 p. m. F. & A. M. Lodges meet ati | Scottish “Rite Halt as follows:! Anchor Lodge No. 182 every sec- fond and fourth Mondays; Dade { Lodge No. 14 every first and third! j and fourth Wednesdays; Dr. Felix’ ; Varela Lodge meets at the Eliza- ; beth street hall every second and : fourth Thursdays; Robert J. Perry modity in the markets there was meets less falsity in human relation- currents are developed by the/ Chapter, Order DeMolay. jheart when it beats, and he de-j every TS {veloped a device which makes it} possible for the heart to write} down the way. in which it is; | working. This device is called the electrocardiograph, use had advanced our knowledge | Thursdays. of heart disease. 3. The Arab of the desert ae Fern Chapter No. 21, OES. his milk from the Camel meets second and fourth Fridays ; (Distributed by the Florida State | lof each month at Scottish Rite! Board. of Health through: Mon- | Hall. Itch roe County Health :Unit) Eases Angry For itch ——e Skin‘ that needs | | comforting relief use IMPERIAL | LOTION. Swiftiy, it eases the itch- ing of Eczema, Tetter, Ring- worm, Scabies, Scalp, Between Toes, etc. Money back if larj;e bottle does not satisfy. Sold everywhere every Tuesday, | — | | | — THY IT TODAY — The Favorite In Key West STAR > BRAND | CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS jfurnishing Key West with a sup- | ply of fresh water. The meeting! was set for one month ago but council decided to wait until the present before holding the! in the matter. | ERRORS Knights of Golden Eagle Lodges | For Over a Generation— meet at Golden Eagle Hall as fol-| set Key of the Gulf Castle No.} and Ignacio. ang | a No. 3, first and third | FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1939 PEOPLE’S FORUM | “DEFINES Gop WiLL | Editor, The Citizen: | Good will is a very pleasant | thing—while it lasts. In the present European strife we have lost considerable good will built up, painstakingly, since 2918. All the good will tours, hither and yon, amount to little when eco- | nomic balances, power and pres- | tige are at stake. Good will has been bought, teota and dickered with as a cloak for sales exploitation’ When we speak of good will in business {and politics, even in religion, we mean something that helps us | get what we want. Stores ad- vertise their good will, because it pays: Politicians “create good | will” because it gets votes, and religion bids for good will be- it swells congregations. Real good will is scarce and secret. Before good will became a com- } ships. We know that self preser- ,vation is still a commending ‘force and a sound appraisal of life can not be centered im terms of good will run wild. Our professional and political good will artists have done this country a lot of harm and the national Gebt can be laid at their door. We need less promiscuous good will chanting and more good sense, fewer Dale Carmegie doc- ; trines and more Benjamin Frank- line axioms Less “Roosevelt utopian dreams and more “Cool- idge economy”. . Less running the world for God, ‘and more minding our own business) The best kind of good will is, in real- ity, self-respect kept Cc G FLINT. 2238 S. W. 9th St, Miami, Fila. April 12, 1939. Subscribe te The Citizen—26¢ weekly. “Key West's Outstanding!” LA CONCHA HOTEL Beautiful—Air-conditioned Rainbow Room and Cocktail Lounge DINING and DANCING Strictly Fireproof Garage Open The Year Around Strong Arm Brand COFFEE |Obtainable All Over Town! ‘SCRE i = aE can te TOOT IZLEOLLELELE Ee Al rN) ry lich § | a ae ee ee eee American Legion Convention Committee LA CONCHA HOTEL Please cell on me for a small donation to elp bring the 1940 State Convention to Key West. NAME ADDRESS If you are a KEY WEST BOOSTER, fil out the above coupon and mail er send te Convention Headquarters — im the La Concha Hotel. We will gladly call te see you. me 5c 3 2 - ane pees eaais tae Io OTHER LOW-PRICED CAR CAN MATCH IT! 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