The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 10, 1939, Page 2

Pwshed Daily ept Sunday By THE CILIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President 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 he Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use | for republication of all news aiguatches crelited to it or pot etherwise credited in this paper and also the lccal 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 <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 isgues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations | 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. It's a wise comedian who knows his own wise crack. “Capone Wants to Leave Jail’—| headline. Al always was peculiar. A depression. is really a success in one way, It makes so many people in Key West, who are in the same boat, more con- genial. The man that hath no music in him- self, is fit for treason, strategems and spoils. That is something to remember during his Music Week, and if any man “is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,” he is to. be pitied. There is a National Week for every week during the year, and some weeks | double up, for instance this is National Music Week and National Hardware Week. The result is that all the “Weeks” are getting weaker, and soon will be only a gesture. Politicians are slick and it is hard to put the finger on them, but when one of them is dead broke as he goes into office, pays off thousands of dollars of political debts, goes on a trip to Europe with his | wife, and when the term of office expires builds a palatial mansion—not in the skies but on terra firma—then he has something on the ball. Westbrook Pegler, the columnist, had a piece about Miami and its underworld, in which he said that a couple of Italians had run a couple of Irish racketeers out of business. Implying a denial, Editor Hol- | lams, replies “the Irish don’t run.” racketeers, of whatever nationality, not | only run but abjectly plead for mercy | when they are cornered. A little more than a quarter of a mil- lion dollars was taken in tolls by the Overseas Toll & Bridge Commission, yield- | ing a net profit of approximately $60,000. | The pessimists say that this is the best | year the bridges will ever have, because | of its novelty, while the optimists declare that the yield will be even greater with each passing year. But all will be satis- fied if the barometer maintains its orig- | inal equilibrium. In a half page advertisement in a Mi- ami paper, there is published a diatribe against a senator of Dade County who is reported to have made the statement that the city of Hialeah is “controlled by gang- sters and underworld influence.” To vin- | + dicate themselves the mayor and city coun- cil have resolved to have this denouncement printed “at the expense of the City of Hialeah”, and the taxpayers nolens volens will have to pay through the nose. A parallel case would be if some one in au- thority here were to state that the mayor and city council of Key West were grafters and the officials in turn order a half page | advertisement in The Citizen to deny the soft impeachment at the. city’s expense. before because it may be possible to re- | Wouldn’t there go ug a how! from the tax- payers? And’ justly so! | | and newspapers. All] NEWSPAPER PRIZES | literary activities during 1938 were made a few days ago by the trustees of Colum- | bia University, on recommendation of a special advisory board composed of lead- ing newspapermen. The $500 gold meda! for ;ice rendered by an American newspaper during the year” was won by the ' Daily | News of Miami, Fla., for its campaign | against irregularities in the city’ govern- j;ment. This led to a movement for recall ‘of the city coungejl. of Waterbury, Conn., received honorable mention, Thomas L. Stokes, a Scripps-Howard writer, was given $1,000 for the most dis- tinguished example of a reporter’s work, based on his articles on intimidation of voters in the Kentucky Democratic - pri- mary campaign for United States senator. Louis P. Lochner of the Associated from Berlin as a foreign correspondent, while R. G. Calvert of the Portland Ore- gonian won the $500 prize for distin- guished editorial writing. Charles Wer- ner of the Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, received $500 for the best cartoon of 1938. These annual awards, established by World, are highly prized by are made for letters, art and music. GEHRIG TAKES A REST After taking part in every regular game played by the New York Yankees since May 30, 1925, Lou Gehrig voluntarily went on the bench temporarily a few days ago because of a serious batting slump. He had played in 2,130 consecutive games, a world record. Gehrig has been one of the heaviest batters in the game during his long career, consecutive years. He batted .340 or more in eight seasons, his best average being .379 in 1930. Last year he dropped to .295, after batting .351 in 1927, and .354 in 1936. ‘g Among the world records set by Gehrig are these: Most home runs baseg full, 23; most double plays by a first baseman; 157; most home runs in a single game, 4 (in 1932); most years with 100 or more runs driven in, 13. He was selected as the most valuable player in the American League in 1927 and 1936. Although not suffering from injuries or illness, the “iron man” has not been able to get going this season. In the eight oh the bench he made only four hits and came to bat four times with men on base and failed to get a hit. So he decided to take a rest. Few believe Gehrig is through. He is only 35, and is still the highest salaried player in baseball. He thinks he will make a comeback when hot weather arrives, and his many admirers hope to see him do it. OFF TO A GOOD START Motorists of the United States started the year 1939 by setting a fine record for safe driving during the first three months of the year. Figures kept by the National Safety Council show that there was a decrease of 12 per cent in automobile fatalities during the first quarter of 1939 and, if the down- ward trend continues, the death rate for the year will be the lowest since 1928. This would be an encouraging sign. | It would mean, apparently, that-thé educa tional effort that hasbeen made in the past few years is bearing fruit and that motorists are beginning to drive carefully. This decline in the number of people killed by automobiles on the highways should not lead us to believe that there can | be a let-up in the work of safety educa- tion. It should not lead us to ease up the enforcement of laws that tend to secure safety for those who use the highways. Rather should we be encouraged to de- mand stricter law enforcement than ever c€ace the death list much more in the future, | Announcement of the Pulitzer awards | for distinguished journalism and other | “the most | disinterested and meritorious public serv- | For an “exposure of | municipal graft” the Republican-American | Press was awarded $500: for his dispatches | the late Joseph Pulitzer of the New York | journalists | Other Pulitzer awards | his percentage being .300 or more for 12 | with . games in which he played before going ' batted in only one run. In the last game he : THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | “Clean-Up Week” 200 Years Old; Launched by Oglethorpe in 1739 EW Americans may be aware of it, but this year is the 200th anniver- sary of one of our best known na- tional campaigns—“Clean-Up Week.” Delvers into history will find that in 1739 General James E. Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia, also became a foundet of an American civic tradi- tion when he instituted a campaign to make Savannah look more present- able. An offer of @ feast of bread and beer to participants helped. spur the townsmen to cooperation. A report by William Stephens, sec- retary to the “Trustees for Establish- ing the Colony of Georgia in Amer- ica,” shows that General Oglethorpe found the public square and other Open parts of the town overgrown with weeds and shrubs—too unkempt | even for a pioneer settlement. Something had to be done, so the On an earlier occasion, while leading a fleet of smal] boats carrying Salz- General decreed that at sunrise on| burgers and Moravians for coloniza- October 16; 1789, everybody should] tion in Georgia, he kept the oarsmen “go to work in clearing this great}from lagging by “placing the food and Nusance.” ce." beer in the forward boat whereby Beer and bread, provided by, Ogle- | none might eat and drink who did not | thorpe, at a community breakfast] follow,” according to “A Short His- | started off the “cleaner-uppers” and a| tory of Georgia,” by E. Merton Coul- | similar repast, also with the General's | ter. | compliments, was given at the end of} In 1734 Oglethorpe returned to Lon- the day’s work. don to report to the Trustees. Among It is reported by historians that sev-| instructions he left with his acting ral hundred acres were thus cleared | successor, Thomas Causton, was “to and everybody “without. distinction | favor the setting up of brew-houses,” took Pains to do what he could’—the | in furtherance of the General's policy General included. of developing a colony of sober and Oglethorpe was an advocate ofbeer | industrious persons who would use asa of moderation and this| beer as @ beverage with their meals | ‘was not the time he had used the|/and shun excessive use of strong offer of beer to reward performance. | drink. KEY WEST IN | TobAyY’s CoMMON , Do not sav, “They got married on Wednesday”: Happenings Here Just 10 Years|} *@¥- “were married”, Ago Today As Taken From | - The Files of The Citizen TEST You Formal acceptance of the city’s | charter granted to Dr. J. S. Mer-' i rill siness iat for | and business associates for! cay you Sa en:.of thi ‘the construction and operation of : test questions? Turn to a salt water distilling plant and| Page 6 for the answers distribution system to furnish! pares |fresh water to Key West arrived | What is the name for the \today and. was this afternoon fil- whole mass of ocean wa- ed with the city clerk by Robert ters on the earth’s sur- W. Austin, president of the Cham- face? ber of Commerce. This completes, 2 Name the birthplace of the the contract between Dr. Merrill | Dionne quintuplets. and the City of Key West and | What is the correct pronun- |makes the conditions binding on; |all parties concerned. R 1 polite? Name the vast desert regien of Central Asia. Is a person, who was born in the U. S. of alien par- ents who were never nat- uralized. eligible for the office of President? Name the U. S. Secretary of War. ¢ Two civil engineers and naval | 5 officers who ‘were responsijle' for the invention of the lifesav-' jing device for the escape of men’ {on submarines which had been disabled and sunk, today received the highest honors that President | Hoover and the navy department can bestow. Secretary Adams, at the direction of the President, jawarded the distinguished serv- ice medal to Lieutenant Charles Monsen, chief gunner, and Clar-* ence Tibhias, who tested the de- vice in the waters of Key West, escaping by means of the device 10 from depths of 206 feet. The ~ navy made cash award of a year’s * pay to Frank Hobson, civilian en- gineer in the bureau of construc- ~~ tion and repair. Others were awarded for their assistance in working out the invention. All elementary public schools in the City of Key West were closed today, having rounded out a.term of eight months instead of, nine as, ‘formerly. The senior) high. scnool will continue for the | full period of nine months, clos- | ing on June 7. While on account , |of financial conslyee ‘wes have ix had to shorten the term”, the pe- |riod has been one of the most | successful throughout the entire year, one of the ‘officials stated! ‘today. of mankind discovered in possession of the South Sea Islands? Into. what river does the Snake River empty? What is the principal alka- loid of tobacco? Which state is represented in Congress by Senator Morris Siieppard? In the concluding program of! | National Music Week, which was lcarried out yesterday afternoon by tne drum and bugle corps of the Knights of the Golden Eagle [at Bayview Park, Mrs. Wm. White. chairman of the Fine Arts | Department of the Woman’s Club, |states that the delightful affair | added much to the festivities of Music Week. Editorial Comment: If this hy- |giene craze keeps up love mak- | \ing of the future might be quite | sanitary, but there won’t be much 1or a kick in it. Tomorrow evening at the San | Carlos theatre the three-act play, “Mother Mine” will be presented | under the auspices of the Phil- athea Class of the First Congre- | | gation church, The performance | will be the first presentation of | the play in Key West and the) public is assure@ of excellent en- | tertainment. { Seeael eae i] | Yesterday afternoon at the | American Legion grounds the [ot tate ie Seth mest struggle | score was | Hk wol@ ie ever of he bers. George Key hit three doubles a home run in three trips to” jae bat. Aguilar hit a home} Tun. KNOWLEDGE: ciation of the word cosmo- ee this Le : WEDNESDA , MAY 10, 1939 t OKING | at - By HUGO S. SIMS, Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen EYES ON 1940 POLITICS’ EVERYWHERE CONGRESS—FOUR MONTHS THREE OR FOUR “MUSTS” : NEUTRALITY UNCERTAIN Im a. littie less than eighteen months, the people ot the United States will elect a President. ready tue hand of politics is scat- | tering seeds of suspicion through- out me nation. Everything that is said, or whatever happens, is; ascribed to politics and discussed from the political angle. Even the delicate disposition of on relating to the foreign of this Government is in- cluded in the fog which beclouds the reason of many Americans. when a political campaign is in- volved. On domestic. issues, partisan line-up is expectet Republicans, in Congre aged by pgl$\of public opinion, save theirveyes.on the 1940 elec- | tion, which, they hope, will re- turn them to, power. Naturally, they are on the lookout for issues which, in their estimation, will mean votes. The Democrats, unable so far to secure hatmony between the two factions of the Party, are likewise interested in the election year. The President, it is plain, will demand a_ candidate favorable to the New Deal, and pledged to carry out its basic policies. The Conservative fa tion appears ready to wrec! Party’s prospects, if nece: uproot and overthrow New ary to Deal ‘control. Naturally, under such circum- stances, the reader will have to exercise caution if he expects to keep up intelligently with national or international affairs. The spokesmen of both parties are conscious of 1940; politics will not adjourn. Congress has now’ been in ses- sion for more than: four months. ' So far the President has been given limited authority to reor- ganize executive agencies and there has been a considerable ex- pansion of national defense, for which Congress has made gen- erous provision. Neither of these matters are entirely disposd of. : , The reorganization question will What is the name of the race! come up every time the President submits proposals to Congress, which attempt anything. National defense needs seem to increase rather than decrease. De- spite the large sums already au- thorized for the expansion of the nation’s tighting services, world conditions lead to the conclusion country must make The drink everybody knows Whoever you are... whatever you do... wherever you may be,...when you think of refreshment you welcome an ice-cold Coca-Cola. For Coca-Cola is pure refreshment—familiar to everybody. KEY WEST COCA-COLA BOTTLING C0 Al-, the! 'greater efforts to insure its abso- lute safety. Consequently, the defense. program will undoubted- ay be expanded. The Congress still has a num-' ber of important matters to han- dle before adjournment will be) Some of these involve! possible. amendments to existing legisla- tion and may be postponed but others involve “must” matters. Among the former, one might list changes in the Social Security Act, the National Labor Relations Act and the Wages might even be included in this | category. While we do not ex- rect Congress. to adjourn without | taking action on: some of the items already listed, such: a chance ex- ists. The question of relief during the 1940 fiscal year, which begins July 1st, 1939, and for which the present Congress must provide, is’ ~isure to receive attention. Presi- jdent Roosevelt has submitted his | request for $1,750,000,000 for work relief and related activities. The |amount is considered conserva- |tive but every congressman knows ‘that if it is not enough, addition- ‘al requests will be made at the |next session of Congress. There | will be some discussion over the }management of relief funds. Senator Byrnes wants to end the discretionary. power of the Ad- jministration over relief funds and would require each state to bear a fixed percentage of reliet costs. Anyway, this issue will consume the attention of Con- | gress before it can adjourn. | ‘The Congress must also con- ‘sider legislation that will affect {certain provisions of tax laws. \Some of the present taxes will {expire unless they are extended. {In addition, there has been much !talk about tax revision for the en- ‘ couragement of business, but so ‘far, rothing has been done in a i legislative way. Big business in- terests continue to clamor for tax jrelief, asserting that the way to irecovery is plain and that pros- perity is assured if private indus- try is relieved of the burdens that Government has imposed. While the writer takes these assertions with vast, amounts of salt, the idea has strength in the public mind and this means that Con- gress will give some attention to ithe subject of taxes. There is little prospect for anything like general tax revision now. These are the main issues now before Congress but in order to understand what happens, the reader must remember that prac- tically every ‘office-holder now has his eyes focused on a day in! the fall of 1940. By remembering this fact, it will be easier to un- derstand many things that hap- ‘damages brought by and Hours Law. Neutrality legislation) Sceccccssecsvesveceesese SWELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL Former Editor of The Citizen Persons who have their faces lifted or otherwise re-vamped do so at their own risk, Judge Fenny of Los Angeles. has ruled. He threw out of court a suit for an actor against a surgeon for making his nose look worse instead of bet- ter. Making use of information he had read in a book on ctiquette, a Chinese student at the Univer- y of Michigan, attending his irst reception, en handed a cup of tea said: “Thank you, sir or madam, as the case may be.” The inventive genius of the three Howe brothers, who labor- ed effectively a century ago, is recalled by a writer who visited their old home in chusetts. Elias Howe invented the sewing machine, Tyler Howe the spring bed, and William Howe the truss bridge. As an emblem of peace the dove is a fraud, according to Dr. Funkhouser of the University of Kentucky. He declares that in their domestic life doves are among the most quarretsome of birds. | | Expressing. sympathy for a subscriber whose dog was killed by an automobile, a North Caro- lina newspaper prints a touching article which concludes as fol- lows: “What makes the 1 of his dog all the more distr is that he has only eight left. The a woman re- cently gave a life insurance com- pany for failing to pay her hus- band’s premium seems reason- able. She wrote: “PI > excuse us, as we can not F ny more premiums on Sam He died last September. Ss. Johnson.” nson. Mrs. Collecting postmarks is a hobby of F. G. Richardson of Water- town, Mass. Among those in his collection a! envelopes post- marked at Ace, Te King, N. C.; Queen, Pa.; Jack, Ala.; and Joker, Va. A Harvard professor declares: “It is egregious obscurantism to postulate that syncopation in harmonization has an immoral connotation,” _ The Washington Post comes to the ue by in- terpreting the professor's dictum to mean that jazz won't hurt one’s morals, if any. ipen in Washington in the next eighteen months. Eases Angry Itch For itch tortured skin that needs comforting relief use IMPERIAL LOTION. Kyritt it eases the itch- ing of Eczema, Kash, Tetter, Ring- warm, Scabies, Scalp, Between Toes, ete. Money back if lar;e bottle does not satisfy. Sold everywhere.