The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 12, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO 4 The Key West Citizen : Published Daily Except"Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INO. 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 Associa’ ited Presa The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited, to | is paper and also | it or pot etherwise credited in t) *he local news published here, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ome Year ... Six Months Three Month ne Month Weekly ADV Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of sespect, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at the rats of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which ® revenue is to be derived are 5 cents @ line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- public issues and subjects of local or general t but it will not publish anonymous communi- (MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. -|‘and idling housewives. SOME RUMORS HARMFUL One of the least profitable and the most prolific crops grown in Key West is rumors. They are sprouted and cultivated | by our well known curbstone philosophers If a man gets a bloody nose in a brawl, rumor soon has it that there has been a general massacre; if to a ditch, rumor quickly reports four dead and three injured; if Mrs. Johanna: Doe buys a new dress and ‘hat. 9 spreads shevhas fallen into a large for~ tune. g | r, , | Such ‘rumors have to be checked by | The Citizen on the off chance there might nine per cent of such investigations come to nothing. There is usually no truth, or very little truth, in such reports. As a general rule the rumors are _ harmless, causing no one any great trouble or an- noyance. Occasionally, however, the rumors are found to contain an ounce of truth in every pound of lies or exaggera- tion. Often such rumors hurt someone, or ‘react against the best welfare of the city. Then The Citizen feels called upon to get the facts and to publish authoritative in- be some foundation for them, Ninety-.| THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | Hubby Crabby When You | Drive? Show Him | | a car slides harmlessly off the highway in- ; tHe rumer, {py Are women worse drivers than ;, Men? That question was born | with the automobile, and for lack of conclusive data, no answer other. than that of. opinion has ' ever been given. According to the figures in “Lest ‘We Regret,” the nitith annual higli- way safety booklet published by the Travelers Insurance Company, | there were 36,950 automobile driv- ers involved in fatal accidents in | 1938. Of that number, 34,700 or 93.9% were men and only 2,250 or 6.1% women. This seems to indicate that on the highways the female of the Species is riot more deadly than the male. There are, however, no data on the relative number of ris iil | léss*carriage, as early automobiles “ were called, J. H. Ozmum oft vas thought the difficulty was|erected at the corner of Fleming « SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL ' Former Editor of The Citizen CoS CTETEGOe ebeees A tired man with a violin case! among his effects applied for a room at an Oklahoma City hotel recently, only to be told that the | } FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1939 KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken John Harden, colored, charged with the killing of Henry Ridley at the P. and O. docks, March 11} was placed on trial this morning | From The Filei Of The Citizen the first game and in the second game the victors were the Young Sluggers. In the first the score was 8 to 5 and in the second 8 hostelry was filled, the clerk ad-|on a charge of manslaughter to/|to 4. ding: “You couldn’t get a roo! evén if you were Rubinoff.” Th: | Driving a 1900. model horse- Santa Monica, Calif. has started across the continent. The ma- chine can make 25 miles an hour. From the Vermont Standard: “As my wife is feeling young, would like a few washings to do; will do them while you wait or deliver. Have 30 tons hay to! hich he had agreed to enter a} ‘plea of guilty and was sentenced | \~woilld-be gutest was really Rubin- | to 15 years in the state peniten- tiary at Hard labor. Charlie Bec-} caise, an eye witnéss to the trag-| edy, said the men Had some hard | words about the way in which a} truck was béing handled and it} over. Later, however, Harden; picked up an iron bar and struck | sunk into Ridley’s skull causing | the death of Ridley. In passing sentence the court told the accus- | ed he should have been charged The only wedding license is- sued in Key West last week per- mitted the wedding of Richard Knowles and Mayme Johnson. A new filling station is to be by the Bricks and and Margaret streets Standard Oil Co. {Ridley on the head from behind | other material to be used in the \and wihtout saying a word. That; construction of the building are the blow was a terrific one and; already on the ground. It is stat- ed that an up to date place will be built. Mrs. Dora Roberts and Mrs. ! \Sell; dry maple and beech slab| with murder in the first degree|tyadel Pinder, Mrs. Lillie Wat- male and female drivers; nor does | anyone know how many more miles are driven by men than by | wood; oil and gas. Harold and! Myrtle Potwin, Woodstock.” North Carolina highway patrol- | Board of Pubiie Works will start the work of taking up the old tracks of the street railway! ‘women. Without such data no de- |men are distributing to motorists /from various thoroughfares with- finite conclusions can be drawn. 300,000 warning cards that are, in the next few days, according to; lington and Mrs. Emmie Curry, members of St. Paul's Chapter, Daughters of the King, will rep- resent the organization at the an- nual state convention, which is to be held in Miami on May 15 |almost poetic. They read: “The |plans now being made. The ne-| and 16. The party will leave over the highway tomorrow in Mrs. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. formation so that the false rumor may be Pinder's car. laid low, the damage it has done repaired. A case in point was the.recent rumor regarding the alleged préValence of in- | fantile paralysis in Key“West. The whis- | = jabsolute limit is a mile a min- | cessary equipment for this Sere | i a A lute.” |is now being assembled and the ‘IMMIGRATION ADDS TO UNEMPLOYMENT ‘eli Sn ine | | | streets will soon be made avail- ee corde Unitea|able. The intention of the de- ye tear aris etnias bee his | corner of Eaton and Simonton | | Garlic-Parsley an Aidin Medical reports say that Garlic-Parsiey con- eentrate has @ double action in reducing high ‘By BERNARR MACFADDEN in “Liberty” Magazine partment is to start work at the iD | streets, where the work of re- The new international slogan appears to be “Say it with flyers.” Hitler took two hours and 17 minutes to tell the world he hasn’t changed much. The busy man usually finds time to go fishing or play golf—if he has a system in his activities, Advertising what you haven’t got, is money wasted; not advertising what you have in stock, is opportunity wasted. The people of the United States are not so much interested in the “Stop Hitler” front as in the “Stop Spending” front. So far the editor has escaped the as- saults of disappointed spring poets but there are a few weeks left, and we are}; hopeful to go through spring unscathed. A Miami paper had it “nono con- tendere”. At that the linotype operator was right, only more emphatic. “No, no, a thousand times no” would have given the denial still more emphasis, however. Dictator Mussolini: ‘Tomorrow, as yesterday and always, we will go straight ahead.” Let’s hope there isan ocean in front which will part in true Italian polite- ness, and engulf him, in true German treachery. The rising generation of Key West may not do much wortying now, but it will make up for that when it matures and appears on the scene. And won’t the Roosevelt administration come in for a tongue lashing! Music of the song, “My Own Key West” by S. C. Singleton, was composed by ‘Allan Armstrong, advertising manager of The Citizen, and rendered vocally by Mrs. Eva Warner at the Rotary Club meeting on Thursday. Music Week of 1939 will long be remembered by this song. It has come to pass. Tax dodgers, | like the ninety-nine sinners, always have been taken care of by legislators such as Patron St. Murphy and others. State, county and city officials made merry (and would have killed the fatted calf it hadn’t sickened and starved to death) ‘whenever a tax dodger repented and paid his tithe, but the honest tax payer was ac- cepted as a matter of course and the reg- ular payment of his taxes caused little commotion. Many times this writer sug- gested to the solons that the forgotten tax- | payer be rewarded in some form for his loyalty and regularity, particularly be- cause the owners of property who had been paying their taxes saw their burdens increase, on account of the delinquencies by other property owners. Now, glory be, Senator Hodges has introduced a bill in the Florida state legislature granting -a two-year moratorium for taxes on all lands in this state on which taxes have been paid for five years prior to the time this act shall become law. Even if the bill doesn’t pass, 4 halo to Senator Hodges for a grand gesture! if | |eases of the dread malady here the authorities were debating the necessity of closing of the schools, the theaters and other places where our people congregate. Some of these false reports got outside the boundaries of the city, possibly in letters to friends and relatives in other sections of the country. Those widespread reports did the city incalculable harm, retarded the tourist flow, dammed up our trade and set us back as a summer vacation center. The fact of the matter is, as stated in Wednesday’s Citizen by Dr. William R. Warren, city health officer, there are only two authentic cases of infantile paralysis in Key West, with two others under the ob- servation of the United States, state and local health authorities. There is ab- ‘solutely no danger here of a widespread | distribution of the disease. Rumors are dangerous things when community. There should be more effort on the part of intelligent citizens to get at the facts and then spread the truth. . Lies truth. rogatory that comes to him as a rumor without proper investigation is a traitor to Key West. A new metal just perfected and patented to take the place of gold in all forms of dentures, will prove a great sav- ing to both dentists and patients according to the claims of its inventor, Dr. Cornell Grossman, Millburn, N. J. Whereas gold | now costs $35 an ounce, the new discov- ery will a but a tenth of this while its adaptability will be the same. : President Roosevelt may be said to be responsible for the new dis¢overy for when in 1933 he impounded all éf the nation’s gold and later fixed the present price in- stead of the $20 ounce price that had pre- vailed, Dr. Grossman began his _ experi- mentations for a_ stainless, noncorosive noneletrolytic substitute. The new metal, described as having all the merits of gold, is lighter and lower ductility, and has greater hardness. There is the same accuracy and denseness in casting as with the precious metal. The patent, which was issued April 18th, it is estimated will save thousands of | dollars to future wearers of bridges or | plates. seldom used by many people. One way to have a. lot, of work to do is put off everything until-tomortow. Invent something to lessen work or amuse the public and your fortune is on the way. You ‘can't have flowers in your garden without some work; the same rule applies to life, itself. | Nothing makes a man strong like a | call upon him for help; if undeserved it i makes him sore, pered reports had it there were so many | written by some of our thoughtless citizens | they vitally affect all of the people of a of | The brain is that part of the body. too | It will be everywhere admitted \that the unemployment roll in : United States are working either | for the government of the United | Carson City, Nev. He was once superintendent of the U. S. Mint. He said: “I have never said eT this country is an unspeakable States or for the respective state|qone anything worth boasting! | scandal, a disgrace that we will |probably never entirely efface: |the disastrous situation brought linto being largely by the attitude of this administration toward in- | dustry. Capitalists, industrialists, inves- | tors, employers, or whatever they |might be termed, are all human, | although in some instances they |are greedy and grasping; but they ‘naturally want to protect their | interests. | A business that does not make \a profit soon disappears. Through- out the entire history of this {country business has been en- |couraged and stimulated. Gor lernment officials have recogniz- ed that the more’ business we | have, the more profit earned, the | greater will be the rewards of all | concerned. | This administration furnishes the first example of officials at-| jtacking this source ‘of prdsperity. The great problem we are fac- ing at the present time is the |making of more jobs. But not- | withstanding the unemployment /emergency, we find a desire on the part of many of our officials do not stand up in the strong light of | to open cur ports to an increased | Anyone spreading something de- |number of immigrants. This ad- | |dition to our population should \be denounced. Immigration |should be stopped altogether. Suppose these immigrants do |secure jobs upon arrival. They jput an American citizen out of a ‘our own people. | If the father of a family was jheavily in debt and had to pro- vide for a number of children, |and had to borrow money or ac- cept charity to support them, would it be wisdom on his part | to accept a few more dependents |to add to his burdens? Well, this accurately represents | |the situation that exists in this country at-the present time. Here jwe are, with almost a third of jour wage earners; , unemployed, | billions required to keep people {on the dole or in charity jobs, jand what earthly reason have we | for ‘adding to our unemployment |burdens by allowing immigrants | to land on our shores? They are strangers and should be barred out absolutely. Why should we assume the responsibility of their support? Why should we rob our |own citizens of employment? Senator Robert Reynolds has | introduced a bill, Number S-409, | that will stop immigration, in the United States for those desiring | permanent residence for a period | of ten years, or until such a time |as the Department of Labor can) \certify that unemployment in the United States does not exceed three million.* | mind Madam Perkins, who failed |to deport immigrants who were | for any official who tries to de- failing to enforce it. It is indeed a sad commentary when we have to make a law to compel an official to respect his oath of office and enforce the law. In a recent speech in Congress, Senator Reynolds stated: “We have expended billions of dollars in an effort to provide employ- ment for the unfdrtunate men and _ women. Unemployment, therefore, is indeed a mammoth problem, and our huge unemploy- ment record exists despite the fact that three million of our peo- ple are on the relief rolls, and that four million people in the The Senator doubtless had in| unlawfully in this country, for in| | this bill he has made it a felony | feat the purpose of this act by) governments. The statement has , been made that 80 percent of all} ;the unemployed in the entire} i world are to be found in the con- fines of the United States”. { Of course Senator Reynolds is ‘branded as a Fascist by the for-| ‘eign recipients of our benefic- ence; but if fighting for Ameri- :canism of the Washington and| jLincoln type subjects him to this | libel, he “can take it”. He has apparently recognized the deplor- | jable need of protecting our own} jhome folks. When foreigners are | ' given jobs and native-born Amer- lican citizens are denied them, this is indeed cause for caustic 'eriticism. As long as there is a} ‘good American citizen on the un- | employed list there is no earthly | reason why we should be accept- | jing prospective job-seeking citi- zens from other countries. We should protect our...ewn homes first of all, and after ‘that duty has been properly assumed, hu-| manitarian motives can rightly be encouraged. ‘ SITTING IN WITH | THE LAWMAKERS | (Continued from Page One) | ‘ing for your daily average. Tve| watched Turner Butler in the; | Senate and Pierce, Wood in the) House by the hour while I calm- ly smoked my pipe and took in} DENTISTRY FINDS GOLD SUBSTITUTE |job. . they make one job less for what was going on... Boy, both| ,, of ’em WORK. Mentally they} | have to be alert and on their toes. | Physically, they stand for hour ‘after hour, at high tension, meet- ing the wits of all. the members of their respective groups, turn- ing to this and that) member as | each rises, directing the affairs of | State with a mind and hand and voice that must be unerring. | Would you take their jobs? Not) one in.a thousand of you could! handle. it for tem minutes by the} lock! ; Judged by the telegraph edi- tor’s standard of news, there isn’t any news ‘in & carload of my stuff | but I wonder if my readers aren’t | getting a pretty good picture of | ‘the Florida Legislature out of these rambling remarks. There jare columns of news in “hear- lings” and “investigations” but | when they’re over there’s nothing jdone about them and you would | be just as well off if you hadn’t |read a line about them. There’s a lot of humor developing up {here like in a committee meeting I spent a couple of hours attend- ing one day last week when Senator Mapoles hadn’t anybody | | to argue with and started one | with himself on a bill he was) \“fathering” in the committee. Be- | ing a newspaper man __ himself, | Senator Mapoles was to see- ing both sides of a’ situation, so | his argument was’ U able to me but it puzzled the) jother members of the commit Senator Hodges (He Bill) who daddied our newsp bills, had me spedk for him the other members of the com; mittee he’d stand for anything I said and in effect he introduced | me thusly: “He's homely, but| he’s honest”. Struck me as a} good slogan. Maybe I'll run for} State Senator when I get back home. George Westbrook says he doesn’t want it any more. Next week I'll give you some- ‘thing different. Possibly by that time our affairs up“fiere will be- gin to “jell” and we ‘can tell what the product will look like. Till then— | Saturday. fd | committee the other day. He told cial Low Family Rates. about.” The Milford, Conn., high schoo! | will have two valedictorians this; year. Muriel and Malcolm Kor-| ach, twins, tied for scholastic} honors, so Muriel will begin the | valedictory speech and Malcolm will finish it. | Policeman George N. Rees of | Aurora, Ill, looked all over town trying to find Rees Geon, want- ed as a witness. Taking the/ summons back to the court and | reporting failure to find his man, the judge said: “It’s for you—) Rees, Geo. N.” Numerous suburban towns in the vicinity of Chicago are of- ficially known as villages. One| , of them, Oak Park, with a pop- ulation of more than 70,000, is the largest village in the world. Pedeceevcecocecevonenese THE WEATHER Temperatures" Highest -... Lowest - Mean -.. Normal Mean Rai Yesterday’s Precipitation al Precipitation Sun rises . Sun sets Moon rises Moon sets 7:30 a. m., today Sea level, 30.01. WEATHER FORECAST (Tili 7:30 p. m., Saturday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly clgudy tonight and Saturday; lit- tle change in temperature; light to moderate variable winds. Florida: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday; little change in temperature. Jacksonville to Florida Straits ‘and East Gulf: Light to moder- ate variable winds, and partly overcast weather tonight and Two Weeks At Seashore For Price Of Two Days At New York City DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. — You can spend a two week vaca- | tion at the Florida seashore this summer for no more than it would cost you for two days in New York City. Summer rates at The Riviera Hotel near Daytona Beach are as/ low as six dollars weekly per persor.* © 120 Fireproof rooms, each with. Radio.and Fan. Spe- Tennis, badminton, pingpong ‘and other sports, including the with sand beach, umbrellas and beach chairs, are all free to Ri- viera Hotel Guests. , , Telephone The Citizen, 51, giv- ing number of persons in your) at once from The Riviera Hidicl ety Daytona, Beach. Flor. | ida.—(adv). weekly. | moving the track will continue on! up to Eaton street, then to Mar- garet and up to Southard, thence’ to White. These are the streets now paved with marl and will be repaved with the same material blood pressure. First, it tendsto relax tightened arteries. Second, it checks or inhibits decony sition of waste matter in the bowels, a contril tory cause of high blood pressure To get concentrated garlic and parsley in odoriess, tasteless form, ask for ALLIMIN. ‘These tablets, used at regular intervals, aid in re- ducing’ blood pressure and relieving h and dissiness caused by excessively high read- ings. To learn what raises your jand Key West got a lot of good: and for medical treatment consult your doctor. ALLIMIN is for sale by all druggists, 50c. ial economy size, $1.00, after the tracks and cross ties are” * Latge box, 50c. For sale by Gardner’s Pharmacy removed. Editorial Comment: It is an ill wind which blows nobody good: CMa ae a 9 i PROTECT publicity out of the Michaelson | trial. Pictures taken in Key West are now being shown in newspapers throughout the coun- try, and also in magazines in this country and in a number of! foreign countries. 1 —— H Pirates lost both ends of a} doubleheader of baseball yester- day afternoon at the American} Legion grounds, and were van- | quished by the Key West team in | — TRY IT TODAY — The Pavorite In Key West STAR * BRAND _. CUBAN COFFEE OW BALE AT ALL GROCERS HOTEL LEAMINGTON N. E. 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