The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 13, 1939, Page 2

Two > Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. | L. P. ARTMAN, President aud Publisher JOE ALLEN, Andistant Business Manager | From The Citizen Building } Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monros County @ntered 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 pot etherwise credited in this paper and also the lo¢al news published here. if SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year fix Months Three Months Dre Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of sespect, obituary notices, etc, will be charged for at of 10 cents a line. s for entertainment by churches from which nue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. he 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- 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. TO MY MOTHER The smile you gave when first I saw the light’ Remains the paragon of tender care; The warmth you threw around me day and night Still cheers me when I'd otherwise despair. Your gentle voice, your cradle song, your prayer, My sweetest memories of yesterday. Y arning me against temptation’s snare Still guides my feet which are inclined to stray. And still we meet again your words shall lead my why. Your faultless skill to loose my lisping tongue, And as I toddled, your assuring hand Still mean so much to me, and I have clung To that assurance till I understand. Your mother-love which naught could counter- ; mand Has been my inspiration, peace of mind; Your sacrifice denoting you had planned My future well was proof that you were kind; I'd somehow tell though I were deaf -and dumb and blind. Your constant vigil over my sick bed And your companionship when heart-grief came, Your deep concern about the life I led Exalt you; put ingratitude to shame. Your light excuses when I was to blame, And praises for the good that I had shown Reveal the pride in which you held my name; It was enough that I was born your own; Unselfish love as yours must ever stand alone. And so I bow in reverence to you For everything that you have done for me; Your faithfulness has served to keep me true, And moulded with the years my destiny. Throughout my life shall veneration be The bond that links your deathless soul to mine; And for such sure, unfailing constancy, I shall forever follow your design. And Mother, while I live, I’ll hold you are divine. —DR. V. A. AVAKIAN. 2710 E. 46th Street, Chattanooga, Tenn. (May 13, 1939) Side line advice should be ignored by the players. Comliments are what make us think well of other people. A pocketbook isn’t much good unless there is something in it. | The biggest joke on matrimony is! some of the couples that try it. If you state a thing loudly enough and | long enough, somebody will believe it. | We read that marriage often prevents Suicide. And it would work the other way | around. Your enemy may become your friend | but you might as well keep an eye on those ‘who carry hatchets. 4 Have you ever noticed that the fellow who is able to do as_ he pleases, never knows what to do? 414g Who said the wolf was outside the | front door? He is often found riding in a | financed automobile. | standards, NEEDS OF KEY WEST THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The needs of Key West are admit-| tedly many and may be classified under | two heads, First; the immediate need of caring for those of us who, through no fault of their own lack the assurance of food and | clothing an‘ shelter. If only for the sake of our own security and peace of mind, this need must be met. And it will be. Active citizens are making progress toward es- tablishing pay-rolls for those williig to | work. Added to our already sufficient problems is the tragedy of the sponge blight. Here is a large section of our hard- est working men; men who have brought new money by the thousands of dollars in- to the community, suddenly cut off fram | their occupation. If this should result in the scientific | and systematic harvesting of the sponge, it may prove to be a blessing in disguise; but it will write “finis’ to the free in- dividuality of private enterprise in the gathering of sponge. This is a changing world. Second; is the planning for the future of Key West and the provisions for its de- velopment into an outstanding residential city, noted for its municipal and cultural Of course, this assumes a citi- zenry that ‘will not tolerate a local govern- | ment that can not think of anything to do about packs of half-wild dogs making night hideous as skirmishes up and down our streets. How- ever, that is a matter that we will take in our stride as we progress in civilization. | There are several things of that nature marked for attention in tHe near future. It is time to start planning for a com- munity center: that will house an art ex- hibition, provide for convention meetings and afford a permanent home for the Chamber of Commerce. If only as an at- traction to the city, this would be a paying proposition. It is by no means an impossibility to provide such a community center. Sources of material assistance are available. There is a well-founded belief that if anything is wanted badly enough, its achievement is only a matter of time— time and unremitting desire. The rest follows. Let us once envision a community center, a place where people may assemble for lectures, concerts, conventions; a place with high ceilings and ample wall space for the display of art and _ historical treasure, illuminated by sky-lights, sur- rounded by our wonderful tropical flowers and foliage, and the vision will ma- terialize. What about location? Consider Mi- ami. Only a few years ago the cemetery at Second Avenue and Sixteenth Street was a source of much grumbling because “it was so far from town”. No place on this island will be remote five years from | now. Do we want a ‘community center? How badly do we want it? Those are the only questions that count. TIRED OF WARS? We don’t know how our readers feel about it but we get rather tired of reading so much war news and we dislike writing editorials about the world situation, but, ncnetheless, the world today isin a war era and the people wonder when it will be- gin. Naturally, there is no reason for the | people of Great Britain to fight the people of Germany, just because one has what is | called a democratic form of government and the other has a dictator. The causes of possible fighting go deeper than the forms of. government. Until Germany seized the remnants | of Czechoslovakia, there was the possi- bility of peace in Europe, but even Neville Chamberlain became convinced that Hit- ler was out to dominate Europe, if not the world, and that, unless England was ready | to be dominated, the Hitler march would have to be stopped. The situation in Europe is like an ex- | panding force striking a stone wall. Either Excuse might get an individual by, but they do not produce results, and the | pay-off, in life, is for results. The line of one man’s liberty ends where the line of some other man’s liberty begins. Don't overstep your bounds. | If every woman was as_ keen shea the barricade will yield or it will stand firm. The expanding force will exert ut- most pressure and win, or subside. After- | wards there will be quiet for a while. Scientists can look at a star, so far | away that light, traveling 186,000 miles a second, takes 3,000 years to reach the earth, and tell you the nature of the stuff they carry on their ’ bound ferries of the Monroe coun-! ty ferry system commences with The Florida SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1939 Federal Symphony Orchestra A unit of the Federal Musie Project organized with the idea of bringing to the cities and towns of our state the best in music. Their first ap- pearance in Ke y West will take place on Thursday night, June 8th. John Bitter will conduct. KEY WEST IN _ DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files: jof The Citizen Free transportation on south- tomorrow and continues until June 30, inclusive. | privilege applies to all automo- bile and automobile passengers enroute to Key West over the highway during the period men- | tioned but not for busses nor pas-! sengers of the motor lines operat- ' ing into the city. It amounts to half fares simply for the round trip to Key West by auto-; mobile from the mainland as the! be collected traffic. arrange- regular fare will ‘from the north-bound Under this temporary ment Key Westers may drive toj Miami and return by merely pay- ing ferriage for the car and pas- ‘sengers on the north-bound trip, returning free over the ferries. The county commissioners at a ‘recent meeting expressed keen jreeret that the impression had ; gone out that this half-fare plan had been" conceived as a means of competition with the railroad in | Passenger transportation. Dis- cussions at the time the plan was adopted were not intended to | convey such an impression, they declared. In view of the fact there are to be three large con- ventions in Key West during this period in connection with which special rates would be expected, it was decided to make a clean sweep of the matter and collect ‘only one fare for the round trip. “It would be utterly ridiculous |for us to attempt to compete with | the railroad”, one of the commis- jsioners declared. Editorial Comment: A _ good American is one who is interested |in the betterment of his country and his race. The second of the business ses- sions of the annual convention ,of the Florida Chambers of Com- merce secretaries to be held in Key West on June 10 will con- vene on board the Steamship. Cuba, enroute to Havana, accord- jing to a bulletin being sent, out |from Ocala by Hérare L. Smith, \seeretary. ‘The secretaries will arrive here;Gupday evening, hold the first) bal meeting on that date and sail for Havana Tues- day. | | Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Knowles, of !919 Elizabeth street, announce the birth of a son born recently in their home. The baby weighed nine pounds. Regulag meeting of the Catholic Daughters of America has been ‘postponed as well as have the meetings of the Knights of Co-| |lumbus, from tonight until tomor- | row night owing to the gradua- |tion exercises of the convent be- ing held, tonight. A boy weighing 10 pounds was | born this morning to Mr. and Mrs. A. Parra at their home, 1103 Olivia street. . i | There were 15 carloads of pine. apples arriving from Cuba lasi— night on the ferry beats from Ha- | vana. The product’ was trans- \ferred to refrigerator cars and {shipped north: for distribution. | A 10-pound son was born this | morning to Mr. and Mrs. Edmund |H. Sawyer, 1023 Southard street. | | Mother and baby are reported as/ | doing nicely. | There was a meeting of Sea’ The free} ‘DO YOU KNOW THAT— |e Ponerneccocaegec The expression “pigs whisper” {once meant “a very low whisper”. ! Bertha Solomon was elected to the Parliament of the Union of | South Africa, a year ago, the first Jewess to reach such _ heights there. The Catholic. Actors Guild of , America is 25 years old. The chief of naval operations s the rank and title of admiral and takes rank next after the ad-, miral of the navy. i The Mexican tortilla, the uni- versal food in that country, is ,made of maize. The “scramble for Africa” in the 19th century included the Germans who, however. won nc considerable prizes there. Even 100 years ago China’s population was estimated at the 400 million mark, and at about 125 million 200 years ago. Warsaw’s population is the 1,250,000 mark. over The Bukedi Area of East Afri- ca, literally the Land of the Nak- ‘ed People, is inhabited by seven (different tribes, most of them speaking different languages and needing an interpreter to speak to each other. South America’s famous Potosi silver mines, worked since the year 1545, when first begun by the Spanish, has yielded about two billion dollars worth of silver since. Of all the metals known to man iron by far is the most useful, most abundant, strongest and | most indispensable. The Chinese hold that jade em- bodies the five cardinal virtues. Remote Semitic antiauity as- cribes a demoniac character to wine and spirits. The Federal Indian Arts and Crafts Board is in its fourth year. ‘In Gilg; Juinmer begins De- cember 21st and winter on June | 21st. When President Washington ;urged Congress for a “respect- ‘able defensive posture” on part of the United States he got a large army and navy, both of which entailed an expense of one million dollars a year. A total of $900,000,000 or 63% of a $1,432,000,000 relief bill for /116 cities in 1938 was for wages for workers on WPA projects. creased more than 10% in the first quarter of 1939 over 1938. Seovogreooeeresoseesegee Sunday’s Horoscope evevencareaneereonsengoce Today's aspiring native will try to carry out plans in spite of op- position. Do not, however, de- pend teo much on your own pow- ers. and: ability, but listen to the advice of others, even if you do not follow it entirely; for same of it will be well worth while. Pleasing You .. . Delights Us STRONG ARM the | TODAY’S COMMON » ERROR Do not say, “That was a gratuitcus insuli":-say, “unwarrarted”. Today’s Horoscope Peeccccccceoece recesses ece e The diligence of today’s na- tive will generally be rewarded .with a measure of success. There is much evidence of thrift and in - dustry, which will attract friends ,Can you Answer seven of these Test Questions? Turn to Page 4 for the Answers 1. On which island of the Philippines is the city of Manila? What is taxidermy? Name the president generai of the D.A.R. Where is the Assuan Dam? What is the correct pronun- ciation of the word cre- dence? | 2. Name the capital of the Re- public of Latvia. What is tie name for a sev- en-sided geometrical fig- ure? | 8. Which Czar of Russia was nicknamed “the Terrible”? . What are the regions sur- i rounding the South Pole called? In electricity, what is an in- sulator? 10. Today’s Birthdays eonreceqvcoqecvevceteves Dr. James R. Franklin, presi- dent of the Crozier Theological Seminary, Chester, Pa., born at Pamplin, Va., 67 years ago. Maud M. Lindsay of Ala., not- jed kindergartne?, born at Tus- ‘cumbia, Ala., 65 years ago. David B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers and Firemen, Cleveland, born at Austintown. O., 63 years ago. Stanley Field of Chicago, mer chant, born in England, 64 years ago. Jean Starr Untermyer of New York, author, born at Zanesville, O., 53 years ago. Leonard H. Dyer of Fla., noted inventor, borr: in Washington, D. C., 66 years ago. Horace Bowker of New York, | ua OVERSEAS CAFE AND LODGE Marathon, Fila. Phone No. 4 “The Best in Food and Rooms” Between Key West and Miami COMPLETE GARAGE SERVICE Charley Toppino, Prop. Both stock and bond prices in- + H ) LLE’S LEADING HOTEL Enjoy some SUMMER joc" ere COMFORT rocm with tub and shower, soft water. PO! COCKTAIL LOUNGE and and fortune. Those born in the latter part of the day have great- er aspiration. } corporation head, born in Boston, ‘62 years ago. ! Lopez Funeral Service Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers 24 Hour Ambulance Service Phone 135 Night 696 | | DON’T MISS P. A. R. La Revista Mensual en Espanol e Ingles. Mailed at Havana Month- ly on the 13th. Ten Cents. $1 a Year. Six Years $5. Sample FREE. E. F. O'Brien publishes P.A.R. (Times of Cuba and Pan Amer- ican Review) at San Ignacio 54, Havana. P. O. Box 329. Tel. M-1012. Chamber of Commerce, Hotel La Concha, Bus Station. Havana - Cuba - Florida - Gulf Coast - West Indies - Mexico - Regions South. Concise News and Latin American Trade Reviews. MAP OF HAVANA with Guide for Buyers distributed free DAILY on Ships, Trains and Planes. High Spot Coverage. TROPIC AMERICA GENERAL NOT POLICE WORK EVERETT, Ma: “Send a po- liceman right down to my house to wake my husband and get him to work,” said a housewife, call- ing the police station in this city. She was informed that waking lazy husbands was not police work, | | (Proof next Saturday) Once you try us, you'll be won as a steady customer. for one : trial will convince you that it | | would be hard to find the service we offer at anything like our sensible prices. (Proof of last w ad) || THE PORPOISE IS NOT A FISH The porpoise is an aquatic, warm-blooded, air-breath- ing mammal. Its name literally means “pig fish”— referring to its snout. 1. “Uncommon Knowledge”— Geo. W. Stimpson. | ELECTRIC ' “Thritty-Six’ for only 6.1 cu.ft. Storage Space 11.7 sq. ft. Shelf Area 60 Big Ice Cubes THE BUY OF YOUR LIFE! Stainless Steel Super-Freezer with Qne-Button Control, All-Steel-Cabinet with one-piece Silent, orcela Sealed-in- Steet p G-E THRIFT UNIT with Oil Cooling in interior, gleaming white glyptal outside. G-E quality through and through. Abundant ice cubes, frozen desserts and safe, depend- able food preservation for years and years. 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