The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 17, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key Wiest Citizen DICTATORS FACE ECONOMIC RUIN | Fapars common ' Published Daily Except Sunday By _ The news from Europe, so far as we 4 THE CITIZES PUBLISHING CO. INC. ! e j indi def- L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher ; have been able to judge, indicates Do not say. “She look. JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets 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 exclusively entitled to use jor repul ° ni the local news published here. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year bix 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, ete. will be charged for at r entertainment by churches from which to be derived are & cents a line. n is an open forum and invites discus- blic issues and subjects of local or general yut it will not publish anonymous communi- IM?ROVEMENTS 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. If you have more business than you want, don’t advertise. President Roosevelt undoubtedly |is an astute politician, but not a sagacious statesman. The best way to observe Child Health Day is to do something for the health of the children of this country. Prize fighting and fishing are cer- tainly not kindred sports, yet they both are brutal, the object of each being to land a hook in the jaw. If the people of Key West are not in- terested in building it, then who is? Santa Claus is not a city-builder, so let’s quit waiting for lucky breaks and start work- ing. Charles M. Sheldon, author of “In His Steps’, says there are brave men and wo- men going without enough to eat because they will not beg for help or go on re- lief. Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 12, written by Senator Ward, lauding Barron Gift Collier, speaks of “carmarderie”’. Looking in the dictionary under “C” we couldn’t find the word. Perhaps “camara- derie” is meant. WPA Administrator Roy Schroder appeared to be most emphatic when he stated there will be no politics in the WPA and will cause a full investigation when- ever a charge is made and punishment if it is substantiated. Key West Citizen weather item of last Sunday: “Key West Gets Easter Norther.” Key Wester Easter Norther.—P.E.B. in Tampa Tribune. It was an extraordinary weather item, this Easter Norther. Seldom we have a Norther so late as Easter. Walter Winchell wants to know why initely that the standard of living of the | peoples of Italy and Germany has been | gradually lowered under the rule’ of , the dictators, Mussolini and Hitler. Recent dispatches emphasize the dif- | ficulties that these regimes eneounter in their effort to live on their slender re- | sources and there is basis for the -sus-' picion that both nations are nearing. the end of their economic resources. : While Hitler is far ahead of Mussolini | in dedicating national activity to the pur- | poses of war, both dictators have expended | vital national rqources to build up their | fighting forces. This has been done at the | expense of the standard of living of the [ Italian and German people. Having subordinated every national activity to the perfection of a war machine and having secured the apparent endorse- | ment of their peoples, the dictators face a | serious problem. They are*finding it dif- ficult to maintain the pace they have set, and the power of their armaments is diminished by the strengthened arma- | ments of other powers. The dictators are unable to secure basic supplies by pur- chases abroad because of their weakened economic structure and they see their ed like she was crying”: say. “as if she was crying”. i ‘TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE. | Can you enswer geven of these test questions? Turn to Page 6 for the answers 1 | 1. In which time zone is Swit- + zerland? What is the average distance of the sun from the earth? What horse won the - 1939 Widener Cup race at Hia- leah’ Park, Fla.? i Name the strait that con- nects the Adriatic with the Tonian Sea. i Is scissors singular or plural? What are half-castes? H Which State of the U. S. ex- tends farthest north? Name the Chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. What is the national anthem of Great Britain? In which State is the Scioto ‘River? | KEY WEST IN- | DAYS GONE BY fighting forces losing the race with other nations. In this situation Hitler and Mussolini must decide whether to lower the standard | of living of their peoples to a new low and continue their program of rearmament, in the hope of surpassing other nations and thereby acquiring world control. If they continue the armament race, they will be | matched by other powers and their rel- ative position will not improve although the economic condition of their people be- come worse. So what? Well, this: Hitler and Mus- solini today are probably better prepared for war than they will be at any future date. They may create larger armies and construct larger navies but their adver- saries are doing the same thing. Rel- atively, then, Hitler and Mussolini have a better chance to win a war today than they will have later. Consequently, this is their hour and if they do not take the gamble now the chances are that, in a few years, their extensive war machines will be too great a burden for their peoples to support. Consequently, we look for trouble in Europe. If no war develops before the fall of 1940, there will be a likely chance | that war has been averted for a decade or more. WITH JUSTICE We are apt to overlook real-life | drama while we read of tales of adven- ture. The true story of a chief of a police force who had served eleven months in a penitentiary for embezzlement fifteen years before he served as a police officer, makes good reading. This man, after serving his prison sentence in one state, went to another to live. Here he won the respect of the citizens and even- tually became chief of the police depart- ment. As such things go, one day the peo- ple were made aware of the previous re- | cord of their chief. In many communi- ties this would have been the end of the story. But this city forgot the past record t | Happenings Here Just 10 Years! Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen Key West had a $75,000 fire) |this afternoon. Not a conflagra-! tion of buildings, but a big bon-, fire in which 1,250 packages of} contraband booze went up in| smoke. Scene of the seething | flames was the incinerator Plant | |grounds out on the county road. | | Deputy U. S. Marshal A. H. Mc-} | Innis was the “fire bug” who ap- {plied the torch and brought; about the destruction of 10,000/ [bottles and 250 demijohns of in-| toxicating liquor, including fine; and expensive brands that at bootleg ‘prices would hvae sold} |for $75,000 had it not fallen in| the hands of the customs officers. ! A. G. Lund, chief inspector of the | | customs bureau in Key West, was/ on hand to see that none of the! precious stuff escaped during the burning operations. Three - big} automobile trucks, one of which! was hauled by a tractor, convey-} led the ertswhile valuable wet} | goods from the customs storage | vaults in the federal building to} the scene of its destruction. ey \Innis invited newspaper men and | cameramen to be present to cov-! jer and photograph the notable} ;event. The liquors had been: tseized from time to time by local | customs men and had been stored | pending court orders for its de-! struction. The body of Francisco Mendez, | 29, native of Spain, and an in-} |mate of the Marine hospital for |treatment of mental disorders, | was found floating in the subma- |rine base this morning and the body. had evidently been in the water since an early hour last | night.. A coroner’s jury was em-; | panelled by Peace Justice Rogelio} | Gomez, and it is expécted that al | verdict will be ‘rendéréd By to-| ‘morrow. It is the general opin- ion that it is a case of suicide. { Circuit court jury verdict ren- dered today awarded Mrs. Eliza- beth Higgs $40,000 damages for the death of her husband, Teddy Higgs, who was killed while in discharge of his duty as an em-| CT NeCVIOIMMA@N1CE IN SMOKING PLEASURE seg me = Before and after seeing Bette Davis in “Dark Victory” =<Ss—= enjoy Chesterfield’s Happy Combination of the world’s best cigarette tobaccos Thanks to their can’t-be-copied blend Chesterfields are refresh- ingly milder, taste better and have a more pleasing aroma. Chesterfield gives you just what you want im a cigarette. When you try them you will know why Chest- erfields give millions of men and women more smoking pleasure ... why THEY SATISFY Chesterfield THE ISLAND CITY Along the Waterfront ibegns., turnips, carrots, ete., and | |a few:,walermeions, muskmeions, | jcantaloupes. Most of these truck; farm harvests went to Key West. , The better grade tomatoes’ were} sent to northern markets where | | there was a great demand for | them. | Farmers who SMALL Matecumbe Key sell and three other families TRAVEL _ The picut comsination of the world’s best cigarette tobaccos. They're Milder .. They Taste Setter 3.2 Re HIGHWAYS aan : {982 Going an Indian hut is called a hogan. What we | and remembered the present’ record of |Bloye aS ie eer West Elestrie| oS ee ie ales nt i seem — veae-| : the the : want to know is why W. W. thjnks an In-| service, honesty and integrity of their ‘was for $50,000. Counsel|Matecumbes, halfway down the/ charted by growers on dian hut is called a hogan—Fort Myers | chief. He was voted to continue in of- re company seryed notice of/Keys. Thé pineapple venture Provisions and mail for News-Press. Because that’s what the/ fice. There are many cases of men be-/an appeal to the supreme court.| Proved to be a success until nd coy also: carried Navajo Indians called their adobe huts. | ginning over again, of living a new life. | ee F Be ected when the Cuben farms, wi é larue eevee ee Unlike Walter Winchell this scribe is not | They often need our help. : | 000 iitkigs ie the United ‘States interested why they are so called. os | and less than 200 murders execut- [ae FIGHTING YELLOW FEVER Key West is proud of its fishing—and F ios justly so, for it is an attraction which The international health. . division . of |, draws many visitors to the beautiful Is-| the Rockefeller Foundation has vaccinated |t land City—Times-Union. We trust that | 1,058,252 persons in Brazil with a new some of the many thousands of Times-| vaccine against yellow fever. ts Union readers will come down to see for This undertaking is interesting he- | themselves. They will find here a royal} cause of the belief, a few years ago, that | da welcome, besides the natural attractions. | the extermination of a mosquito-carrier |’ would ‘wipe out the scourge. Josephine Baker, the American negro However, about two years ago, the entertainer so long popular in Paris, de-| Rockefeller Foundation investigators dis- nies she’s going to divorce her white hus-| covered, in the jungles of South America, band, but is planning to leave on a tour without him. Maurice Cheyalier, a screen favorite in the United States, recently an- nounced from the stage of the Casino de ree. ab ea of the Paris that Josephine was “expecting” | bi undertaken as a preventive hat he dee “yn petit Francaise | measure while research workets attempt to ze”, but this, to later denied. | locate the new carrier. Fs i E pe f i : f Eg ie aa Ree te i id i pert Eg i ge ik FL 3 ii as fiORiD — - LORIDA MOTOR i