The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 20, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO _Uhe KeyAlest Citizen | “OE r PEOPLE'S FORUM We flatter ourselves that we live in | an age of miracles, thinking that the won- | t logs i | Heaney | derful developments of the past fifty | JOE “ALLEN, Assistant 2 Fromm The Citizen Building years have given us a methd of living never S| Editor The Citizen: ee eee ee touched by peoples before. We are prob-' jf By coincidence in the April 18 unly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe | » bly correct and yet, there are some phases ‘ issue of The Citizen, Boake Car ies = H ss cs a 4 ter, well known radio comments- Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter | = + ee ee ae ee ai : * é tor, expressed his views as %& ie | that is little better than it was a centu Shae £8 , ; 2 re se PR TOE ry : / the needs of a separate fund here The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to use | gO. for publicity and promotion 1 republica of all dispatehes crelited to ft v (oor bot sthetwine. credited in thie paper and also Key West may not be as prosperous ; fl sell Key West, nationally and in aati asada a halle Su | as we might wish, but there is no famine, ace a SUBSCRIPTION RATES il dike -@ H ‘ ;_ My article printed under “The et ak a iat no pestilence, no dire danger. However, \ People’s Forum.” in the same is- six Months . -09 | there are families in our community, hit by \ sue of The Citizen coincided with Three Months = | 3 Boake Carter’s ideas but also di ° Month . e “ ' ca S Qne Month ‘$8 | the hard hand of circumstance, unable to closed an additional idea to os ADVERTISING RATES ; make satisfactory adjustment in life. There tablish a writer's colony Made known on application. are young boys and girls, who for various Proposed contacting a hundred or SPECIAL NOTICE reasons, do not stand an equal chance in so of America's highly paid eu All reading notices, ards of thanks, resolutions of | . . thors with a view to imducing sespect, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at ‘ preparing for life. There are some fami- x them to come to Key West, pur t of 10 cent. 5 los ad = ices for, entertainment by churches trom which | lies, we regret to state, that actually face *chase land, build homes and re- event derived its : eae 3 “ “Khe Citizen ts an open forum and invites @iseus- | Want in the necessities of existence. — —, it may act be ebvieus sion of public issues and subjects of local or general y I chose writers. However MECCA FOR WRITERS tS present population anc scarer Sace nlersst but it will not publish anonymous communi- We realize that there will be many to | Tl briefly explain; im the first ali read this and say, to themselves, that this Place writers make their money - 4 * , _ ———— wherever they are. Electrical en | statement of conditions ae not true, that ‘HIS Ford V-8 deluxe canvertible }more somber colors, gull gray and |the streamlined body. Front seat gineers, lawyers, doctors, arch ™MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST those who need assistance find help and coupe is styled for the sun and |biack. The smartly tailored top is.|cushions and backs are upholstered ‘ects, movie stars, cinema ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN those who suffer are comforted. They | showers of springtime. It comes in jfurnished in tan-gray with tan edg-|in genuine leather of russet hue. A ducers, automobile executives have never made a close investigation into | ‘t® £*¥ S?ring shades of Dartmouth jing, or black with red edging. It is }rumble seat is standard equipment. make good money at their pro- | 4 ‘ green, Jefferson blue, coach maroon jeasy to lower, folding neatly into a | White sidewall tires are available at fessions, but Key West would not actual conditions, Those who are in a | bright and Folkstone gray, plus the |recessed compartment flush with Lslight extra cost. provide adequate opportunity. | position to know, who are more familiar _ Eee sie wees fe é 2 or a Re _. |It's®plain isn’t it that writers are with the facts than this writer or the read- . . wccccccce | 5 the logical class of people for this eoooceosere ee a study by the committees of the spot. They have money, make er, tell us that there are cases, just as men- TOO i A TE 70 CL A S. SIFY (State Bar Association. It should plenty of it, amd are mot de- tioned above. Pass as it stands without mutila- Pendent on local conditions or With all our wonderful industrial de- Pipe ci scngn nr nthe Stlied, tp-actch eters sentifi ; 4 iy ELL e Florida State Bar Associa- a = os “ — and ae a we soccsdeccccccccccccccccccesoceccsoossceseeccooece tion is proud of the work it has) 1 don't know of anyone here key ap ee on ene _ eosecs “4 oe While “Hillsborough County termed the state's “Number One” done in drawnig the eode, Which FxcePt myst whe would know F ecticn. Isn’t it about time for us to thin! : z s sage ig “88 given every consideration by DOW to 0 about procuring the = ————$___—_—_-__— — ee z Zs harbors about the worst nest of piece of xeform legislation, * is ) 01, i names and addresses of 2 hun- : . prosecuting and defense Mixed-up babies are bad enough, but ried _ sa re ge ad qUICK wigan sharks” and “salary buy.’ found in House and Senate Bills! jawyers, and gladly sponsors the @%€d top-notch authors whose in- oege me ee 7S eid ale but |.” to be found in the state,/“Number One”, providing for a‘ measure which was unanimously CO @verages better than $25.- rather that we may be more willing to as- sist established agencies? Water and Sewerage. | Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. . Airports—Land and Sea. | . Consolidation of County and City Governments. mixed-up parents are worse. aan : bills introduced in the House and|new Criminal Code. approved by the Association in per year. There might be ee ‘pling: * ; "ga. 4, As it stands,\ the Code as cov-. convention, but it would prompt-|S°meone here more capable of To paraphrase Kipling: * A woman is Senate to check this evil fail to! .¢a in these bills is about 90/ly disown and disclaim paternity handling this work throughout only a woman but a Key West-Havana’s a | carry the names of a single Hills-' percent codification and rephras-|for any bastardized bill, which pag — —ae oe smoke. BASEBALL CENTENARY borough Representative or of our! ing for the sake of clarity on ex- opponents might make of it by | "©. vate eons est oo _ Senator. isting provisions of jaw, and amendments, wiich would elim-|_ -s . - ; | about 10 perenet reform. inate the reforms it is intended “=, PrePariné alluring letters |» The fellow who coined the phrase This year baseball celebrates its 100 | Unfortunately the countless / "Oo onts of the nteasure-seck' to bring about ae ea ie . *, , : *, victi be ge * z wi we os maer- “only an idle rumor” had a strange idea | years of existence, for it was in the spring | Victims of these loan sharks” | +, amend the bill so as\tg remove; Floridians rally concerned with|taking the os ons gy am, of idleness, of 1839 that Abner Doubleday, a West |Wh annually pay thousand of the reform features, in which case the welfare of their’ state should | thusiastie about the adea and im ® Point cadet. laid out the first baseball jdollars in outrageous terest; we would find ourselyes little take sufficient interest in these |tensely interested in the realize n . - Give a pretty girl a bright moon and} diamond at his home town of Coopers- charges, sometimes as high as) better off than we are today. The| two measures to at least acquaint |tion of favorable results r code was drawn up by the ablest' their senators and representatives! | was in Key West some t a young man and the chances are she will | town, N. Y., and established new rules to gl ara Re ee men in criminal law practice aft-' with their wishes and the time to ty-six years ago when the + mi hear some compliments. supersede the old game of “town ball” in poor, ignorant, helpless individ-| oy five or six years of intensive do it is NOW. was booming. Or, at least doubled uals, unorganized with no means : —— vegue before that time. ofdatdnae! === Sea ee or “There are two tubes most im- Among the changes made in the old _ perhaps if they could all get to-| portant in all men’s lives,” says Sam Gold-| game was that of limiting the number of gether and form an orgnaization! . smith, “inner and radio.” players on a side to 11; making put-outs of “Loan Shark Victims”, hold! _—_——_—_——- as at present, instead of “soaking” the | regular meetings, sing hymns and Governor Cone is imitating President | player with the ball as he ran; and reg- | raise a fuss like the Townsend-! Roosevelt in censuring the newspapers. | ulating the length of games. At first, the | ites, they would find our Repre-| Public officials with dictatorial tenden-| opposing teams agreed on how many runs | SeMtatives eager and anxious ‘to “ . * . " help them, and if some _ enter- cies are enamored of the radio because it | must be made to win, and the club first prising young’men would step doesn’t talk back. reaching that number was the victor—no out and perfect such an organi- ‘ “ —_— matter how many innings it took. | zation he’d ee — ap oe ‘ ; ; for he certainly co ind plen- = Kay — the washer reer - = ‘ The game made headway slowly, and ty-qualified for-tabnbersiip ad ed Again SENG theyre cee oe eee several years before grown men | with a few thousand howling fol- news item say it is the fifth trip of the} took much interest in it. Umpires were lowers he could easily make him- blushing bride. Does a bride really blush | unknown until about 1858. Before that geteahy Lage rraye ‘ae . 9 i a. lorida is one of the few states) on her fifth trip to the altar? time the batters themselves called the balls ;,, ne nation that permits her, & and strikes, and it may be imagined that ‘citizens to be fleeced by usurers, The Florida supreme court holds that | pitchers had a tough time. Some of the for our state has no law protect- in medical terminology a broken neck is| early umpires wore silk hats and frock | img the thousands of borrowers who lack bank credit, comprising either a serious or a minor accident. Evi-| coats on the field. stats cevtent of the . stones er Ford is dently it is either one or the other, unless The catcher’s mask dates from 1877, | borrowing public. : 39, the victim dies in which case it is not an| the first being made by a tinsmith for an loot ee anni Ste * = . oan w is not uniform, in that accident at all but a fatality. | James Tyng of Harvard, and the light | ;/ does not regulate “salary buy- = ———_—___——_ catcher’s glove shortly followed. The ing”, whereas the laws of prac- —The 85 > State Senator Dan Kelly, Jr., of Fer-| first big mitt was used by Buck Ewing of | tically all other states do. As it x Si : is year’s Gimore-Yose==* nandina, has introduced a measure in the | the New York Giants in 1890. Basemen | *‘"45 — “salary buyers” are e Ford V-6 © a the pest gs Legislature which would provide for the es-| and fielders played ‘with bare hands until isplaoneeraplietas mn Sent a : W song low-priced car --- economy Tua jow-prieed => tablishment of a separate State Prison for! about the same time, when light gloves they choose, report to no one, : v-8 engines 1 ® csponsive, more ane among ail leading women. Under the proposed bill, Flor-| were gradually introduced, followed in poe books, awe pera spe smoother, more ¢ ks OF oe | a ¢ check or inspection, give the bor- . Sings FS ft ida’s Board of Cothmissioners of State In-| time by heavy mitts. : |rower no copy of anything “he| me 5 drive. HYDRAULIC BRAKING stitutions would be permitted to set up Many interesting stories of the game | signs and annually cost the tax- i = iS 14 Ww inches of such a prison as.a distinct new unit of the | will be told by sports writers during this endicbhecs 2 of dollars »in| a Je ith the most advanced POWER with 162 sqoere weed oc & state’s penal institutions. No definite ap-| centennial year, and motion pictures show- uma prosecute, whicn ‘SIA wil interior luxury to . surface; bigge™ os prepriation was called for in the Kelly | ing its development will be available. Social-tinded citizens, as well “ styling in the field; new braking stn measure. Soh EEE | as thousands of small borrowers, | é match: low- Lee OUNTI | must demand that Florida be giv- c NG SHEEP | en the best possible uniform small The evil practice of salary buying in Hoan law by informing their ; rm QUALITY OF CONSTRUC- Florida, with usurious interest rates as When you can’t sleep at night and /Senators and Representatives fi high as 300 per cent being charged, | roll and toss about your bed, give a thought |"ow how they feel in the mat- sth the only dual down-draft should be stopped. Bills before the House | to the elderly Massachusetts man who Bat ar oy gts etn wel TION with. Centri-force ng and Senate at this time provide the rem- | hasn’t slept in six years. There is some-|192 carburetor ..- ool only steel seat edy. However,-when cities and counties do | thing bothering you, you can’t close your | Indications now are that they} Y-floating — not pay their employees what are they go-| eyes, your nerves are jumpy, restlessness pal Se lost in the shuffle and : for ing to de for money? As a rule employees | keeps you keyed up and sleep passes you | the Danie fale he goa nyt aati do not have sufficient collateral to interest | by. It happens to all of us here in Key | known in no uncertan terms. | the bankers, and the money lenders, not| West. The 69 year old man who has gone | Another bit of legislation in knowing definitely when the money is| without sleep’ since 1983 is “fit as a fid- | Wnich ‘he Public shouldi@yidence forthcoming, charge an exorbitant rate,| dle” he says, is a hard worker, walks | or in other words pay a low price for the | miles, chops wood, carries water, a salary, payment for which may be“de-/| dens for a living in the summer. ah of layed as long as two years, in which case sleep hasn’t seemed to hurt him. if only the contractual legal rate of 10 per We would laugh, as childré > cent is chatgéd, the interest ensted would | the old man who slept in his chair would be but 5 per cent—not enough to interest | nod and jerk his head as he snored so money lenders. Cities and countiés should | joudly the women folks would shake him pay the salaries of their employees prompt- | to stop the noise. He insisted he wasn’t ly and that would do away with. the | asleep but simply closed his eyes to rest | *** usuricus money lender, and they could do| them! We often fail to realize the length | —— TRY tf TUDRY — so if they insisted that the property own-| of time we do sleep, fot five minutes of | "ne Favorite In Kev Wet ers pay their taxes when due, Strict en-| wakefulness while a household slumbers, | STAR con BRAND | forcement of tax payments is the remedy | seems like five hours to the man who lies } of this evil—the practice of salary buy- awake. Insomnia is a demon and we ing. j haven't one good word to say for him. { perale-ge Coteremtccon