The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 28, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO Che Key West Citizen | Publist€d Dilly Exéept Sufiday By | THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. JOE ALLEN, Assistant Busthied Manager From The Citizén Buth Cérnér Greené and Ann itreets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Enteréd at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news 4i itches crelited to it or not etherwise credited if this paper and aiso the Idtal news published Bere: | SUBSCRIPTION RATES $20. ne Year six Months Three Mont One Month ... Weekly —.. ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE AN réading notices, cards of t! ks, resolutions of sespect, obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which @ revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Gitizen is an open forum and invites diseus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general terest but it will not publish anonymous communi- | eatin (MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. | creased. ; ever need it. | offensive strength and that to Comprehensive City Plan (Zéning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilioh, : Consolidation of County and City Govérnments. souls”. No wonder with so many heels running about. Serre Ee | can, or will, “These are the times that try men’s | | must govern the world or that dictators Consequently, they argue that every | WHY SHOULD THE U. S. ARM? The people of the United States will, | in the near future, be ealled upon to sup- port the government in an enlarged pro- | | gram of preparedness. ; They will undoubtedly be navy enlerged ard their air forces such steps are necessary at this time. We should realize that in matters of — national defense it is necessary to build what you need before it can be used and even before you know whether you will | Just like cities maintain fire | departments because they cannot be built ; after fires break out, so it is necessary for | | nations to maintain armies, navies and air | fleets sufficient to meet national needs. There are many citizens of this re- public, who are loyal, patriotic and intelli- gent, who do not believe in maintaining | the army, navy or air corps at their pres- | ent strength, much less enlarging them at a cost of millions of dollars. These peo- | ple believe that we have enough to protect us from attack, that we have no need of increase armaments is but to join in a race that will irevitably result in war. There are other people who believe that the nations of the world are divided | into two camps, one composed of demo- | cratic powers and the other of dictatorial They do not think that the world continue divided in this fashion, that either democratic processes nations. will. | nation, regardless of its position, must be The person who learns a lesson as the result of an error, has not made an error in the first place. Grit advises girls that while face powder may catch a man, skill with bak- ing powder is more likely to hold him. A guaranteed formula for making Key . West grow: Think less of what we want | and more of what the prospective visitor requires. : If most modern school systems spent less on “frills” and more on_ essentials, there’d be a deal less falk of inadequate school funds. It is of interest to the taxpayer to know that the interest on the public debt | is equal to one of every five dollars of gov- ernmental revenue. The fish around Key West are doing THEIR best to make the Island City fa- mous—and doing a good job of it. What | are you doing to help? It is significant that in the states whieh have the oldest and most adequate highway patrols, driving is safer than any- | where else in the country. Massachusetts, Connecticut and Geor- gia have just recently adopted the first amendment to the Constitution of inet United States—the (Bill cf Rights”. For’ about 150 years, their legislators have been too busy doing nothing to get around | tovit sooner, it seems:mey The President seems about to decide | to run for a third term. He is, as it is well | known, a precedent breaker. That deci- | sion rests with him, of course. But there’s | another, a much important one, which | rests with the public. And the public has | never yet wanted any third-termer. Radical] measures are always danger- | Ous, especially when tax burdens are con- | sidered by the law makers. A medium, | though never happy, should prevail. Most | considerate people aré united on a policy | of taxation on a basis of ability to pay and | benefits defived: The property owner, the Atlas of taxation, is entitled to have | his burdens lightened. _ , “Another debunker has discovered that the waters of ‘The Beautiful Danube’ are dirty yellow in color,” notes Editor L. P, Attman of The Key West Citizen, in his Entertaining paragraph column. After all, Brother Artman, why worry about the color. Perhaps with all the turbulence abroad in the land, for lo these many years, the people were so “blue” they grew color- - blind concéfning their river. Perhaps the “dirty” appearance referred to was cadsed the washing of all that Nazi-Czech we've heard so much about lately —: armed to defend its philosophy of living. There are some who insist that the British Empire is fading and that the future will see only three great powers in the world, the United States, Germany and Japan. These nations, they dominate the Western Hemisphere, Europe and Asia.: There are some who would in- clude Russia as a fourth great nation, giv- ing the Soviet domination of Asia and as- signing to Japan an empire along the lines of traditional British growth. As we look into the future, we do not know what it contains. We are not clined to count the British Empire out as a | world power, nor are we very quick to ac- cept the new, three-power division of the globe. At the same time, there is no way for us to know what is ahead. “These prophets may be right. We may face a world like that predicted. If we do, and have as shares of the world, - Japan and Germany, with their present philosophies, it is a safe bet that we will need as much army, navy and air corps as we can con- veniently assemble. The idea is advanced that the need for increased armaments in this country is based, not upon any intention of becom- ing involved in European or Asiatic af- fairs, but to the uncertainty of the future, | to the impossibility of knowing what con- dition will confront us if, and when, an- other great war shatters the present world status. When that day arrives we will not have years in which to get prepared; we will have to stand our ground with what we have, or yield ourselves to those who have the power to make us accept their tetietation . KITE FLYING DANGERS This is a season for kite flying, and- many boys throughout the country are in- dulging in this old and interesting sport. But in localities where overhead electric wires are present there are some dangers | to be guarded against. To be perfectly safe, kites should fot be flown except in open spaces, where con- tact with wires is impossible. This pre- caution is not always taken, however, and for that reason no metal or metalized cord ductors of electricity.. Even a wet cord be- comes a conductor when it touches a live wire, If a kite becomes entangled with electric wires, children should not attempt to bring it down, as two wires may be pulled together, causing a short circuit. The proper thing to do is to telephone the electric company and ask that a lineman be sent to remove it. as a kite string was electrocuted when fell across a power line. While accidents in connection kite flying are not very frequent, an elément of danger from electric and children should be warned taking any chances. advised | | that their army must be improved, their ; in- | Many of them will wonder why insist, will | in- | FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1989 KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY —_— j a | 7. C. Higgs, 324 Elizabeth | PROCLAMATION URGES ALL |*‘Tect. familiarly known as Dad- dy Higgs, father-in-law to Sam | COMMUNITIES TO OBSERVE'r Harris, was apparently dead ANNUAL CHILD HEALTH With physicians working hard to revive him at last reports this DAY ‘afternoon, as the resiit of an electric shock received this fore- {noon while operating an electric- President Roosevelt has issued |ally-driven t floor sand papering |@ proclamation urging all com- snayrraaiony ye ae buiid- munities to celébrate Annual May \™ aoa a. a on. _- nN Day-Child Health Day, and to by a are instances of record where promote the education of better resuscitation has been brought health information among parf-' about after a lapse of five Sours ents, teachers and ail others re-| sponsible for the care of childfen. hope of reviving him. Mr. Parks, The President is particularly anx- owner of the building, who was ious that the children themselves| with Mr. Higgs at the time he plan suitable health programs. (received the shock, was also This year the slogan is, “The' slightly, shocked but sustained no of the Nation”. tivals are being planned in ail determined but the theory is ad- ‘sections of the state under the! vanced that it was due to 2 short supervision of Miss Ruth E. Met- circuit, or cfossing of current im tinger of Jacksonville, director of the wiring of the machine the Bureau of Public Health which Mr. Higgs was operatitig Nursing, Florida State Board ofA sad coincidence is that on May Health, who has been named 31, 1927, Theodore Higgs, son of state chairman for the 1939 cele-|the victim of today’s accident, bration. was killed instantly by making No slogan has ever expressed|contact with a highly charged so clearly and comprehensively wire while in discharge of his the importanee of protecting child duty as an electric lineman. life from’ infancy through adoles-; jcence. Mothers and fathers have, On his drive to Miami today a respensibility for the health of Claude C. Matlock, New York their children that starts before moying picture photographer, the children are born and lasts | wil! complete the film of the until they are fully grown. Pub- | Oversea Highway and Key West. lic health apioaad se pes have SS) which he started shooting here one of their manifold responsibili- Saturday morning. Under an By GILBERT D. LEACH | ties, the assistance of mothers and aaereaten with the Monroe coun- is Service fathers in fulfilling the obligation | ty commissioners and the film sevcccccocesosececeses |of health protection. |corporation of which Mr. Matlock !She got a dozen and went back Nutrition Of Great Imporfance re pga HIG 500-foot cogs to the task. Alarm ai Many communities this year emitted in theaters door and a black bo} sore a afe emphasizing the importance large department stores of the ing some of the majot i J of good nutrition, according to|principel rorthern cities, includ- i problems know if she could use some/%% & ? ‘iis | ing Washington, D. C in another week or so. tconch peas. She couldn't but be- | Miss Metfinger. She Ppt — tae The cow problem is out of the fore she could turn arouhd there | 20eS not mean that well nou an. Editorial Comment: Key West's | pena i sical hades bate Go en tee tah if dod tiem the, pebdhs ccomtias population was increas- | Pewee. aes ‘owed for an hour|some strawberries and right be- or more but it was all racket./hind him a Fuller Brush man, Tedlizes fore and “x a tyr thereat poo pe a The committee (live stock) said/Before she got rid of him a "US t gerbe aie a ae fich Commissioner Hodges. Now i how ne Sats eet cows Sep ss ges came in to gossip. ee * fick better chafice of he plans hatching them out at the | Meir nondescript children could That’s the way it went all morn- A i ini i [bet down Ga ie highways feline T fed ba aati fends ata ico quickly if they do rate of a million and a half daily. |another two years or so. Motor-'the interruptions there didn’t da’ - | sil steady improve- ists could just keep on bewaring.| make me nearly as jittety as the isieahte Metal ea cau at lath ine aaa Some of the citrus folks are ones she had. Heelth Bureau and its B of quality of sefvices rendered to jmomentarily satisfied. What! Just such an unpredictable se-: public Health Nursing, is carry-|children throughout the country. i, asked for was so easy to get ries of interruptions gets in the! ing on an extensive progtam of| In a single year these services age were “disencoutaged”. The way of making a law. A bill is child and maternal health. Since made possible the medical exam- | whole Legislature was keyed up| prepared. Weeks of thought and| additional funds were made ination of nearly # million and a |to giving them everything they work went into it and the author | available under the Social Secur-| half school children in the U. S.; ; Wanted and it was so surprising | thinks it is perfect. But the first]ity Act from both Federal and more than 770,000 visits of babies |they didn’t even have time to man who looks it over asks where’ State treasuries the progfam has and pre-school children to med- |work up a disagreement among js the provision for an appropria- | beer expanded considerably. ical child-health conferences; | themselves. Having got what they |tion to carry out the intent. That’s, All clinics are condutted by a nearly 1,000,000 diphtheria im- jasked for, they will discover. it fixed. Then somebody finds it physician with a registered pub-|munizations; more than 1,000,000 |wagn’t what they wanted, but conflicts with a law passed back/Jic health nurse in charge. In|smallpox immunizations, and jthey got it and if they think of in 1896. Finally it gets into com-' addition to working with the|more than 1,300,000 dental im- |anything else they want they mittee and after several changes mothers in the clinics the public spettions. | cam come up and it will be made goes on the floor. Thet® it is the health fufses visit the homes (Released by Dr. James B. Parra- |@ special order of business. (This target for amendments until it each month, especially during the| more, director, Monroe | may get me hung when I get back as to go back to committee and nife montis’ period of preg- County Health Unit) |fiome in the citrus belt.) when it finally comes out it bears|nancy. Patients are teferted to) | Union labor lobbyists are far-' only slight resemblance to what! the clinics by private physicians, | | ing pretty well, thank you! Every the author intended. Finally it| nurses and midwives. | bill they, offered was in the Na-| passés the house and goes to the Child Health Paramount jture of “shooting the moon” and | other to be manhandled in the! With one exteption each of the | that’s a splendid idea. Even now same manner. By that time, 17 counties in, the State of Fler- they've got more than they had maybe, the session is over, even ida having full tirhe health units, | |any right to expect and they got if they do set the clock back alhas one or more health centers it by putting forth demands that’ few hours. where maternal and child health |in some distances approached the; J] know this is tedious reading Fidiculous. but it is a tedious process and Oh, yes! Almost forgot the) you ought to get a ‘ttue pittare chain stores. Maybe what we of the Legislature.. These men did up here wasn’t quite right by | are not up here on a playboy va- anybody's standards and de-' cation. You hear tall tales - of | mands, but everything isa com-| thpir‘nights. of frivolity but these | promise and that’s the best we| nights average about one out of! had in the shop at-the moment./eyery three or four weeks for |The prize for the best parade| most of them and if that is too goes to Cotton Mather, even if he often for a fling on the part of | didn’t have a sound wagon. one of your six-dollar-a-day em-| Talk about perfecting your’ pioyes, quit having Thursday half | technique! Man alive. this “small | nolidays nearly half the year. }county bloc” approaches perfec- | \tion. The famous “Lafolette fili-| eeeeecsee seer sesscescoes| |‘ buster” in the United States Con-| PEOPLE’S FORUM gress wasn’t a patching on this joperation. If this “bloc” ever wakes up to its possibilities and SSSCOSSOSSSSSSSESESSSEEESE puts over a country unit voting|“THE PLAY’S THE }law for Florida, the Senator THING"—HAMLET | from Dade will be using no mere! Soo figure of speech when he orates | Editor, The Citizen: about his county getting a “kick Instead of dangerous or wishy- | 4 washy plays even witnessed by Seccccccceseessssocsees eeececcccces Sitting In With The Lawmakers Well, folks, we're kind o’ clearing up the situation and maybe we can get down to solv- BOB BAKER BLACK BANDIT 0 TWO ROUND oe you'll be axamined ee ens | by policeman on the corner #5 encouraging 3 \or by a fifth cousin of the sheriff Kind put on as The Marionette jhasn’t been dete: s } three bills. If j em and push 1:00 o'clock A. M. 8:00 o’clock A. M. sti ; i p F | i _¥P. i 1:90 o'clock A. M. aHe #1. eit cH | He Ly 9:00 o'clock A. M. i : she af Bg ' if i Ri He id i Fg i i i Office: 813 Caroline St. wee ie he appeniage Here Just Tex Years Ags Tedsy As Takes From The Files Of The Citixee Seon theyll be im number as ase the sands of the sea Pirstes won from the Siegeets im their game yesterday aficrncon at the Amemcan Legume grounds. By doing this they tied the scape of the season and acxt Sunday will play the Gecuimg game This Sunday sods water will be paid for Dy the josang team and served to the audence by the insets the physicians will still have some * Health of the Child is the Power injury. Just what caused the ac- Community fes-icident has not been definitely { Mis: Liva Albury. daughter and Mrs Harry Albury age ot Mr Marmage heenses were ssued @uring the past week fom te office of Judge Hugh Genr t t& four following couples: Ralph Saunders to Elizabeth Curry Ralph B. Rasseli tw ide B Tit Arneid Sm:th to son; Paul Johnson 1 bury Ill Take Urging. Too In Lendon recently gave the alarm for ed the occupants. to be leunched wrpng every householder to install one of these useful little gadgets Parking Coolest Cor. Now Under Roof VERSEAS TRANSPORTATION CO., INC. 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