The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 9, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO ‘The Key West Citicen Published Daily Ex Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ‘ ; Entered 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 dispatches credited to it or not etherwise credited in this paper and also the 10t: news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year Six Months . Three Months ne Month Weekly _... ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, reselutions of <espect, obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at the rat> of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which @ revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen Is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cat | 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. ————————umii It is permissible to blow your own horn—if you are a musician. Advice: Never tell people you will do anything unless you mean to try and do it. Wemen are smarter than men, who are sillier than women, who are not smarter than men. Get it? There is another thing about movie queens. None of them ever are photo- graphed in spectacles except the dark colored kind for purposes of disguise, No astigmatism in Hollywood? Advertising is the way to induce peo- ple to buy now what they want and to get it from a particular store—the store that invites the public to render the service re- quired and to offer the goods desired. | Farmers around Memphis, Tenn., neei 500 workers. They can get none; although thousands in that city are “on re- lief.” Still, nobody expects a man to work hard when he can get pay for light work. With the exception of Eleanor Roose- velt, columnists are two-fisted iconoclasts | who knock the props from under crack- brained ideologists, help to keep fhe world on an even keel, and are knights militant who joust for justice against anyone, any- where. More power to them! Danzig with Pomorze (Polish Corri- dor) was not originally German territory, but Polish. It was taken from Poland by Prussia and returned to that country with: Pomorze, or Polish Corridor by the Treaty of Versailles. So the idea that Germany is morally entitled to Danzig and the Polish Corridor, is a mistaken one. It always had a tempestuous career and was fought over by many a small nation; it was once | a dukedom, and at another time under the | control of Napoleon. If we follow the apparent determina- | tion of President Roosevelt to aid France | and Engand in the eventuality of war in| Europe, we will unquestionably be drawn | into the vortex. The great majority of the people of the United States have de-| clared themselves as vigorously opposed to | war, according to a nation-wide survey | just concluded, yet at the same time they | favor to come to the aid of France and England if they are attacked, which is another way of saying they are satisfied to | become involved in another European holo- caust, The whole effect of Federal spending | and taxing is to add to the fixed charges | of industry. A steel company at its an-/| nual meeting last week showed that with the same tax and wage rates prevailing as in 1929 the company could have earned more than $1,000,000, instead of showing a net loss of $2,237,026. So it is not de- pressed business conditions but the tax de- | pression that makes business bad. Thov- | sands of widows and orphans are stock- holders of corporations, so it is not the eco- | nomic royalists alone who are losing money ; on their stoeks. | THE KEY CITIZENS’ ASSOCIATION The meeting of the Key Citizens’ As- | sociation at the Division Street School on | Thursday, May 4, was a public expression | of a belief that has been voiced by almost | every individual in the community, name- | ly, that there should be seme way in which | the energies of the people who are con- cerned for better conditions in Key West i could be co-ordinated and made effec- tive. The set-up of the organization is well | | adapted to its announced purpose, non- sectarian, non-politicai, to the degree that any member aspiring to political automatically ceases to be a member; against one man rule by placing its gov- ernment in the hands of two men and two | women from each precinet to whom all | questions of policy must be referred and | from whom all decisions of policy are binding. That such an organization should be unnecessary is perfectly true. What this organization hopes to accomplish should be, and is, the business of the City Council and the County Commission to effect. Tne citizens of Key West, by forming this Key Citizens’ Association admit the hopelessness of securing effective action | from the duly elected and: paid officers who have failed to grasp the opportunity of service to their community. The reasons for such failure may be | various; and not all of them are a reflec- tion upon the integrity of the duly elected authorities who in some cases are ham- pered by precedent and to a degree that THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Dedicated to Mrs. Jean :C. Littlewood, the: origi ‘WEEK” in Florida | A SONG FOR FLORIDA 1 In Florida, one needs must sing! Beside the bay, beneath the trees; inator of “MUSIC As sings the whirring wood-dove’s wing As hum the happy, homing bees. And, as I begged the Muse one day To sing for us as she has sung For sister States, some tuneful lay; Like chiming bells, old echoes rung. office , it | makes what should be adequate provision From Plymouth Rock, From Pilgrims with set faces grim, The while they trod the Narrow Way, stern, cold and gray, There came the notes of Luther’s hymn. Virginia’s laughing Cavaliers Each gallant son, each winsome daughter Have left for us their songs and cheers With “Charley, Over the Water.” The rugged hearts wh When Yankee Doodle From covered wagon “Susannah, don’t you 0 risked their all And dared our mighty Mother’s frown, Jested beneath death’s hovering pall came to town. Another song rings, unafraid From men and women, strong and free, and stockade: ery for me.” Less ancient echoes, clearer ring Across a vanished battle-line Of “Old Camp Grounds” some weary sing, And some for “Dixie Land” repine. As near, almost, as yesterday There winding came, “The Long, Long Trail,” That trail today, a dread highway Of awful cost; of no avail. Today, of Florida we sing A land of song, of joy, of flowers; A multitude of voices bring Their tributes to our sunny hours. But no new song is ours, today We roamers who have ceased to roam Here, under palms, beside the bay, We sing of this, our Home Sweet Home. | | | reflects no credit on the citizens of Key | West, by the apathy and lack of support \ accorded them by their constituents who, having elected them, promptly assume the attitude that thereafter, the privilege of finding fault is about all that they can be expected to exercise. Whether the Key Citizens’ Associa- tion can accomplish any thing worth while, depends entirely upon the capacity of Key West people to break down petty bars of prejudice and work together for the com- mon good. Certainly, no one who holds aloof from the proffered opportunity for ecoperation will be in any position to criticize its operations if it proceeds with- out him and goes haywire because his valuable advice and counsel was _ not among its valuable assets. Here is an excellent chance for those people who, for some reason best known to themselves, regard themselves as the “bet- ter element” to step out, show .their capacity for leadership and their claim to their exalted title. Assuredly, as the organization is con- stituted, it is wide open to any citizen who has ability and energy enough to qualify | for a place in a self-governing unit of com- munity life. Indifference, suspicion and a_ highly critical attitude can force the Association into the control of one class; which is ex- actly the worst thing that can happen to the Association and to Key West. A frank and friendly acceptance of this new de- velopment in the civic life of Key West, with all classes taking part in its control can improve the economic condition of every interest. One group that should, for their own | interest if for no other reason, take an ac- tive part, is that of our merchants. They, least of all, can afford to see the amount From The Files During the afternoon ‘session F aatian Miss Mollie Parker, of the First National Bank, was by ‘motion admitted to practice as counselor, solicitor and advocate ‘and proctor before the U. S. Court for the Southern District of Flor- ida. It was shown to the court that Miss Parker had already | been admitted to practice in the |eourts of the state and in the |southern district of Alabama, The House unanimously passed. |today the crawfish bill introduced | by Representative William V. Al- jbury in its amended. form, news! 'dspatches received by The Citi-| |zen from Tallahassee state. As! explained by Mr. Albury in an in- |terview with The Citizen while’ {he was on a visit last week, this |measure is in every way similar) |to the former crawfish law except | | that it makes the closed season one month longer and forbids the! | taking of crawfish at any time; | which weigh less than one pound. |The closed season on crawfish | jis now from March 20 until June! ,20. Under the Albury bill the |season extends from March 21 to | July 21, thus making the period four months instead of three. | One of the outstanding events | of National Music Week in Key! West was the revue of American concert music held Monday night’ |in the auditorium of the High School by the Arts Department | of the Key West Woman's Club. - The program was made up of} representative American compos-’ ers, Gottschalk, Nevins, MacDow~! ell, Lieurance, Francis Cooke and! |Friml. The program was excep-/| |tionally well planned and the) | Fine Arts Department and espe- cially Mrs. William White are re- ceiving much credit, it is stated. Editorial Comment: Key West- {ers are not asleep. They are! —STEPHEN COCHRAN SINGLETON. KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken Of The Citizen At the hour of The Citizen’s going to press this afternoon it was believed the -case of the United States ‘against Congress- man Michaelson, charged with violation of the Federal Prohibi tion law, would continue well in- to the night. The case was called at the hour of court’s convening this morning and a number of pertinent objections of the de- fense were overruled by Judge Ritter. Mortimer Falk, for many years a resident of Key West and presi- dent of the Sol Falk Clear Ha- vana Cigar manufacturing busi- ness in Key West, is dead at his home in San Francisco, according to telegrams received by his brother, Charles Falk, of the local customs office. Miss Bee Falk, of Seattle. Wash., who visited in Key West last year, is the only surviving sister of the deceased. six sons and daughters in the J. B. Cooper, resident of Key West 25 years ago, when he was ‘a sergeant of the 192nd Company Coast Artillery Corps and sta-j} tioned at Key West Barracks, and for the past 15 years in the customs service at Tampa, was here in. connection with the pres- ent term of United States court. After leaving Key West Mr. Cooper was for nine years inspec- tor of police in the canal zone. While here, Mr. Cooper noted that a number of old friends of his were still residents and also that there seemed to be consid- erable improvement in the hous- es. He hopes to return some time in the near future. Congressman Alfred Michael- json, of Chieago, on trial in fed- of money circulated in the city, be any fur- | building a lot of new boats to eral couft in Key West since last ther reduced. One merchant, at;least, Mr. Pearlman, is doing his part. The move- ment needs many more. SELECTING A WAY TO DIE There are many ways to die and man is not always able to choose the method of his demise. By using prudence and exercising care individuals are able to extend the period | of longevity. They do not have to be sissies, either. There is no sense in taking useless chances, such as depending upon the dexterity of a knife-thrower to pre- vent a blade from sticking into a_ vital area. Few people would offer to be a target for the man who can outline their figure with knives thrown across a stage, but, oc- casionally, death takes a human being that way. Many of us, however, think little or nothing of cutting across a street in front of approaching automobiles although we know very well that thousands of persons sre killed and injured in the United States }4 every year doing that same exercise. | take care of the visiting anglers | next winter. On a number of oc- | | casions last winter the number of available boats was not suffi- |cient to take care of them. i SITES Regular monthly meeting of the! Daughters of the Confederacy, | will be held at the home of Mrs. | Allan B. Cleare, Sr, on North Beach, Thursday, May 9, at 4:30) o'clock. Request is made for a} |full attendanee as this will be the last meeting for the season. | pms eT { | Ferry boats arriving here last} night from Havana 28° carloads of pineapples. There/ | will be another shipment arriv-— ing tonight. tion before the State Embalming Board, stood the tests successful- | ly. according to a telegram re- ceived by his father, G. Frank/| Sawyer. | | Thursday, on a eharge of smug- gling liquor in to the United States, was declared not guilty! by a federal jury at 1 o'clock this |morning, after four hours of de- liberation. The government had withdrawn the first charge. that of violating the tariff act, and the jury acquitted him on the other two counts, that of bringing liquor into the United States and transporting it to Jacksonville. Current bills for April totalling $66,000 were approved and order- ed paid at the regular meeting of the county commissioners held last night. Sixty thousand dol- lars of the total will be paid out starting the plant for the propesed water distributing plant for Key West are still go- ing abead and mai! worked in fine aceording shape for early to messages S. Merrill, of of associates, is promoting the proposition. ; will staged at Bayview Park be tters are being | TODAY’s COMMON ERROR Do not say, “This is a genuine copy of the will”: say “authentic copy”. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to Page 6 for the answers 1. Which planet of the system is nearest to sun? Was New Hampshire one of the thirteen original states? Name the Rumanian Minis- ter of Foreign Affairs. What is a seismograph? Name the capital of the Re- public of Peru. What is the correct pronun- ciation of the word curri- culum? Will a dead human body con- duct electri¢ity? What are homophones? What is a pulmotor? Is there an age horses in the Derby? solar the limit on Kentucky eeececsessecvectoooosons PEOPLE'S FORUM coe oce OPPOSES CANAL PROJECT Editor, The Citizen: After reading everything I can find concerning the Florida Cross State Canal, I have come ‘to the conclusion that it is a proj- ect dangerous to the water sup- ply of our great state, a project needless and expensive, a never ending burden for the taxpayers of the whole country, and pecially, for the people of Flor- ida. And believing that every individual so informed should do all in his power to prevent the \passage of the bill now pending ‘in Congress, I taking the liberty of addressing the editors of all the daily newspapers of Florida opposed to the construc- tion, of the canal, suggesting that they print a Sp 1 Anti-Canal edition with strong vigorous edi- torials, along with concrete definite facts about the danger ,and expense of the project. Call upon your readers to expt themselves in this special edi- tion, send marked copies, write personal letters or ‘send _ tele- grams to members of Congress, and in every way possible carry on a campaign that will help the | canal opponents in Washington: jto defeat this bill. | I sent for a copy. In response | I received a document entitled, | es- am bill carefully and nowhere do I find mention of the canal. Can it be possible that canaJ proponents plan to “railroad” this bill through on such para- | | graphs as those found in Sections |3 and 4 on pages 8 and 9? And on such phrases as—‘“and for other purposes?” Many other projects for Florida and _ else- where are specifically mentioned. Why not the canal, if this is the} ‘canal bill? If you do not have a copy of the bill I earnestly urge that you get a copy from your congressmen and give it your timely, consideration. There is; no time to lose. Every member! jof Congress should be “bom-| ‘barded” with vigorous protests. A list of their names and how ‘to address them in Washington | |would be of great help. | I am only a citizen of Florida, | '20 years. I have no object in| doing all this work except that I ‘love Florida. I have a burning patriotic desire to dé something that in a measure will repay my debt of pleasure for her match- less climate and glamorous , beauty. I have letters on my desk from Senator Vandenburg and other canal opponents stating their opinion that any pressure brought to bear from the people of Flor- ida would be helpful in defeat- ling the bill. | | QMRS.) RACHEL B. ROBERTS. | 4504 Nebraska Ave. |Tampa, Fla. | April 30, 1939. ithis evening by the Woman's Club as part of the activities of | |National Music Week. At 8, o’clock a musical will be given at | ‘the High School by pupils of that | school in which a number of stu- | ‘dents of the Harris, Division! Street and Kindergarten schools} ' will take parts. | News has reached the city of | [the marriage of Miss P. E. Baker | {of Miami and Shafter Burney. | |New York, who, with a number The couple are !~aving soon for a| ivisit of two weeks in Baltimore. | |Miss Burney is well known in| ‘Key West, having numerous | friends who will be happy to jlearn of her marriage. By HUGO S. SIMS. Special Washington Correspondeni of The Citizen Super-Highway System Will Not Solve Our Traffic Problems; Says’ Road Bureau The project for trans-continen- tal super-highways, which has been under discussion for several years, does not meet with the ap- proval of the Bureau of Public Roads, which says tie system would not be adequate to meet traffic needs and in addition the traffic would not be sufficient to y for the highways through any reasonable scheduled of tolls. In contrast, the Bureau says the trafffic problem of the nation lies principally in and around our large cities. Consequently, con- struction of a special system of cirect inter-regional highways. with all necessary connections through and around cities, is recommended. Existing main highways would be utilized in large part to make up a 26,700- mile system, The Bureau reports that traffic maps show that ninety percent of the traffic on main highways. near the entrances to large cities is bound to or from points in. the cities themselves and cannot be routed around with by-passes. Consequently. emphasis is placed upon the need for express high- ways through cities. The study just completed by the Bureau of Public Roads was made at the request of Congress. It estimated the cost of six trans- continental toll highways at $2,- 899,800.000, or an average of $202,270 a mile. On the basis of traffic studies, and a toll charge of one cent per vehicle mile for passenger vehicles and of 3.5 cents for trucks and buses, the Bureau concludes that tolls would not cover even half the cost of such a system of super-highwa; Of course, this does not con- clusively dispose of the proposal to construct super-highways. With the exception of a few roads and some bridges. the present high- way system of the nation has not been financed by tolls. It is not to be expected that future high- way construction will be financed by any system of tolls. A new revenue for assistance in constructing highways is in- cluded in the Bureau’s report, suggesting that there be created a “Federal Land Authority”, capi- talized adequately and with au- thority to issue its own securities which could acquire, hold, sell and lease land in connection with all forms of public improvements. The idea is that by careful man- agement and handling of land, the government could earn enough to pay an important por- tion of the cost of improve- |Charles Falk is the only living “HR5753, A Bill,” introduced by | ments. brother. Originally there were Mr. Mansfield. I have read this In submitting the report to Congress, the President called special attention to the principle of “excess-taking” of land for highways, saying that if it is »adopted,, the.-ultimate cost of a national ‘system ‘of highways will 'be greatly reduced. The idea*“is | that when the government gets lyeddy to construct a sqper-high- way,:it)should condemn a strip of land ‘much wider than tyat to be used by the highway. It would then sell or rent the property on each side to private inte when its value had been enhanced by the construction of the high- way. Readers may be interested in the six suggested super-highways which were the basis for the Bu- reau’s estimated cost. They in- clude thi North-to-South and three East-to-West highways. Number 1 wotild parallel the Ezst Coast from Maine to Flor- ida; Number 3 would run from Michigan to Laredo, Texas; Num- ber 5 would follow the West Coast from Canada to Mexico; Number 2 would run from M: chusetts throw#h, New" York, s ef the Great ‘Lakes. trav northern tier of states from Chi- cago to Seattle; Number 4, from Philadelphia to San Francsico, and Number 6 from Ch S. C. to Los Angel would be several short branches. The super-highway system, just outlined, would consist of 14.336 miles of highways. The ional system of inter-regional highways, suggested by Bu- reau, would consist of 26,700 miles. The report includes a map showing the proposed system Descriptions of the highways in the proposed system would re- quire too much nce for this column by it is based. apparent- ly, upon the highway traffic problem in and about large city . where most congestion oc- curs. In facet. the Bureau thinks that the task of the future is to build express highways through the cities where the bulk of the ration’s unemployed are found and that the solution of the. traf- fic problem may provide work for a program to employ vast amounts of future WPA labor. Readers should not attach tob much emphasis upon the route proposed in any system of high- it will be im- Such a system ry commun- ste ple to locate in a way to give ity one of the mai highways. |The idea seems to be that any system will include the develop- ment of exisiting highway facili- ties so that feeder-lines will en- able practically all citizens to take advantage of the improved high- ways. The suggestion that con- ‘siderable improvement can be ;made in our highway system in the interest of national defense is advanced and will probably have | some weight at this time when practically every official is “na- tional-defense” conscious. A Big New GENER 11.7 sq. ft. 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