The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 1, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO ‘The key Weat Citizen | Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P, ARTMAN, President ang Publisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Bujlding ! Corner Gréene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe | County | “ntered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Press is exclusively entitled to use ation of all news dispatches credited to it or pot etherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year . six Months Three Mont! One 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 rate of 10 cents a line, Notices for entertainment by churches from which « revenue is to be derived are 6 cents @ Tine. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- public issues and subjects of local or general but it will not publish anonymous commuri- (MPROVEMENTS 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. (a “Hot dogs’ at the World’s both of ’em. Fair— “Dorothy Lamour talks in her sleep.” —Hollywood column. ‘Is that why she is ‘being divorced? A receptive mayoralty though he may deny the’ soft ment, neveitheless is a politician. candidate, impeach- Advice from a Missouri editor to girls who want to catch and hold a man: Learn about 400 ways of saving “I think you are wonderful.” We whipped the redskins to make this country secure, the redcoats to keep it, and if we don’t watch out the Reds will take it over. Key West should plant flowers that bloom during the winter, when the tourists are here, season and not only those that bloom in the Spring tra, la. It would be much more difficult to fill this column were it not for the proneness of human nature to evil. The subjects would be much more limited. A Democrat has finally figured out why Tom Dewey made such a good race for governor. Hesaysa lot of people thought they were voting for the admiral. Some local golfers in writing an ac: count of a game in which they’ emerged victorious can write like the Dickens, but when they are defeated or off their feed can’t write a stroke. The columnist of a Miami paper would be a pleasing writer if each day he didn’t stutter at the beginning of his column. Those staccato sentences are ag- gravating, and are not indicative of the fine thoughts that follow. | Nothing has convinced the people of Key West of the need of a zoning law | more than the erection of a little hut on Duval street opposite the La Concha hotel, | one of Key West’s largest structures. It is said that it will be used for a ticket office. If the purpose of the owner was to per-/ petrate a joke he has succeeded admir- | ably, but there are a lot of folks. who don’t | want to see the joke. ¥ Although farmers usualy rate chickens as among the dumbest of creatures, smart | poultrymen discovered many years ago! that psychology could be practiced on hens | with profit—that so simple a thing as rapping on a henhouse door before enter- ing, thus preparing the fowl for a human visitor and keeping them calm, paid divi- dends in eggs, says Newsweek. The ex- planation of this was furnished last week by government scientists at the National Research Station, Beltsville, Md., who re- ported that excitement stimulates a chicken’s nervous system, which in turn stimulates the thyroid gland. That pro-| duces thyroxin, which interferes with egg | laying. | Jersey traffic laws—laws similar to those ‘though he doesn’t hesitate to arrest the ‘ set a good example. . He cannot expect the | | to discipline those policemen. ' Florida. That many of them went to Mi- | counted for twenty per cent of the revenue | sixty per cent in 1936. POLICEMEN AND THE LAW | Quite a few of Key West’s wwigter | residents and many tourists annually en- | tering Monroe County hail from the great | State of New Jersey. We've known some | of them a long time. They are law-abid- ing and friendly foik and we get along with them without difficulty. They go about the business of enjoying our sun- shine, our climate and our people with a quiet and unassuming manner that we ad- mire and respect. They do not break our laws and our policemen have ne com- plaints against them. These random thoughts flashed into mind the other day when we read a story i in one of the Miami newspapers. It told | how two Miami policemen had’ vowed ven- geance on all New Jersey motorists be- cause they, the policemen, had been ar- rested for speeding by a New Jersey road patrolman while en route to New York fair. We gathered from the story that the Miami policemen felt they were entitled to special consideration and should not have been taken to court for breaking the New the same policemen are sworn to enforce in Florida, 2 The attitude expressed by these Mi- ami policemen is typical of that held by | the average policeman when he gets him- self tangled up with the law. He is wont to believe he is immune from arrest, al- people who pay his salary, Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Citizen for similar offenses. Of course, that attitude is all wrong. In uni- form or out of uniform a policeman must respect of the public if he himself is not willing to obey the laws he is called upon to enforce. If caught violating the law he must be willing to pay the penalty with- out squawking and without vowing “to get even” with the arresting authorities. — It seems to The Citizen that the pub- | lic officials of Miami should do something The safety director of Miami should put them where | they can do no wrong against the motorists | of New Jersey or any other state. In the | year ended June 30, 1987, according to the Florida State Road Department 22,- 971 New Jersey cars entered the state of ami is certain. It would be wrong to sub- ject that many out-of-state motorists to arrest simply because a couple of mis- | guided policemen are “sore” and want “‘to get even.” Judges presiding over the traffic courts at Miami should carefully weigh the evidence in all cases brought before them by those policemen that involve New | Jersey motorists. Unless the evidence against those motorists comes from im- | partial witnesses and is irrefutable those cases should be thrown out of court, for the testimony of such policemen is not to be trusted on a stack of Bibles as high as | Miami’s city jail. We can assure the citizens of New Jersey they have nothing to fear from the policemen of Key West. If they do in- | adyertently get into trouble -here The Citizen guarantees them a square’ deal right across the board. Welcome to our city, motorists of New Jersey. eee TAX SOURCES Twenty-five years ago, more than half of all the tax revenue of the states came from general property taxes. Since 1915, however, there has been a_ steady decline in the percentage of revenue pro- duced by such taxes—from fifty-one per cent to 7.8 per cent in 1937, according to the Federation of Tax Administrators. Figures for 1937, as reported by the | Federation, show that motor fuels ac- of the states and that other sales taxes, including fobacco, liquor and general sales taxes, yielded another twenty per cent. Motor vehicle licenses yielded 9.5 per cent and income taxes brought in ten per cent. In ‘addition, business and license taxes amounted to 12.1 per cent; payroll taxes for 9.2 per cent; inheritance taxes, 3.7 per cent; and other taxes, seven per cent. In this connection it should be pointed out that property taxes are still the back- bone of revenues for local governmental units. However, there has been a decline in revenues from this source in muni- cipalities also. While property taxes yielded eighty-one per cent of local rev- enues in 1906, they accounted for only There is every indication that first game will be betwéen the |», B Ey ppenings Here Just Ten iv THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Mgo Today As Taken_ “From The Files Of The Citien me WEST IN DAYS GONE BY SIDELIGHTS By MARCY. B. DARNALL Fort hae Ls the meeting of the Atlantic Coast- -Young Sluggers and the Pirates | hostess whose al Highway Association, be the biggest and the best ever held of the organization. But mighty interesting. peditonitis. fine form and the games Will be! just look what kind of city YOU pody has not been decided upon. have in it and work your people have accom-; {plished in opening the Over Sea | Highway! ‘have answered invitations to the meeting have expressed a keen |desire to take the trip and have requested information regarding 4; ei railfoad ‘and steamboat fares to ship Shawnee, carrying 2 Dur A large barge, Perky has offered to loan the |State Shellfish Commission, will be used for a crawfish hatchery | in Key West to replace the one ne destroyed aboard ‘when the vessel burned while en- Editorial Comment: show greater determination than! like a big party in the making’ {writes Mr. Gardner, |a communication from Shell Fish | |Commissioner Hodges to Dr. A. |H. Adams, shell fish culturist in| charge of the hatcheries in Key} West. Additional jars, tubes and| |other equipment have been wired ; for with the aim of converting} ‘the Perky barge into a floating| jhatchery as quickly as possible. | |“We expect to carry on operation | |despite our losses”, | Hodges. the wonderful sent to Arlington for burial. all Practically who , waters. which R. C, rine hospital. the SFC-10 for a stay of several days. \ters in Newark, N. J. CAKE SPECIALS writes Dr. Old men | your mouth water? Followers~ of the daily. {nave and the kind of people you It will either be forwarded to a :sister in Rochester, N. ¥., or bei Dr. A. G. Adams, fish culturist for the American Bureau of Fish- eries: at Key West, sailed today for Galvestén aboard the Steam- | AT MALONEY'S | and} young ones, especially when they | weekly specials at Maloney Bros. start out to make fools of them-| Bakery. 812 Fleming street, will selves. {do well to get their orders jearly today for delivery of either | in There will be a doubleheader lof these cakes this weekend. ANNUAL ELECTRIC FAN SALE For the next few days you can get a ten-inch Westinghouse Electric Oscillating Fan for only 95c down and $1.00 per month. Total MT ;played at the American Legion! € | grounds tomorrow afternoon. The| going to last long. By reputation—they are which and second will be between. the | soused, a critical guest said: will meet in Key West June 24,'Cardinals and the Key West’ her cocktails had been as cold as will be the largest in the history team. All of the teams are in ‘of the organization, according to’ . word received from John Gard-! ner, of Brunswick, Ga., chairman of the association’s “On to Key ; West” committee. “Though your | \city is at the extreme end of the ‘tura of the U.S.S. Bagaducé, died | | United States the meeting is to jact night in the marine hospital | jas the result of an attack of acute | Disposition of the! her soup, and her soup as warm as her wine, and her wine as old as her chicken, less tough than EROS BREE, | would have enjoyed her dinner Coxswain Dominic J. Dellaven- | More.” | Robert Burns. | Shakespeare. | good naturedly | be you're right; that shows how | little I know about the Bible.” ber | relates FSi a : funeral + sub- 3 i ‘i |urban Oak Park one of the at- | Key ‘West and about the rates to ot ee ont tee asain atl tending friends of the deceased Havana. Information has been ine fish will propagate in those | W@S Somewhat intoxicated. When |forwatded to all inquirers and ijmany letters have been sent to writers from -practically every | \city along the coast from Canada ito Key West. It certainly looks the minister intoned the words, “The Lord giveth, and the Lord Jose Lamaela, assistant stew- | taketh away,” the inebriated one a few make a real success in life. ard of the S.S. Cuba, who ~ at-|€x¢laimed “Fair enough. tempted suicide by shooting him-} self through the head, while oni : ‘the ship enroute to Tampa Thurs- | himself on his enterprise in get-/to the readers of the Florida day, is reported to be well andj ting local news first published | weekly and a few daily newspa- getting along nicely at the Ma- | €rroneously that a citizen of the! pers, of what has been intended | town had died. printed the following item: “Yes- L. Edward Goerk, who was a{terday we were the first news- sident of Key West in 1925, is, Paper to publish the death of arriving this afternoon from Cuba!Frank Brown. Today we are Mr. | the first to deny the report. The jroute ao. Rey. Yeah neorane to! Goerk is publicity man for the , Morning Star is always in the Kresge interests with headquar- | ead.” Asked how he enjoyed a din-| er given by an inexperienced At-an art emporium auction the auctioneer called for bids on what he described as a bust of Someone in the | crowd suggested that it was not a bust of Burns, but | _A Chicago Tribune columnist, A western editor who prides! A man in Kingman °°|SITT WITH 4 LAWMAKERS | (Continued from Page One) measures. Some of them féll by! the wayside. They went to a committee that turned them down. Some of them got on the floor either by favorable report of the committee or by the per- | sistence of the introducer who got them on the calendar despite! unfavorable committee reports. Then a lot of them lost out by being voted down. Those that jsurvived that step went to the lother body. Some simply slum- 'bered in committee and nobody asked that they be brought out. Under the rules of both houses, .when a bill has been in commit- ,tee long enough, it can be called } } Citizen bd of The got “If company and her chicken her guests, I one of The auctioneer admitted: “May- without the committee report, ,but there are some bills that de- velop complexes and neither the one who introduced a bill or nay- ‘one who opposed it wants it brought out for discussion. So the mortality rate on bills is high. If you had a favorite bill and asked your legislator to introduce it and he did and you wonder what became of it, maybe it ran into one of these blind alleys I have mentioned. Like men, only | Some start too late. Others just ;don’t have what it takes. This winds up my contribution Next day hejas a panoramic view or a movie reel of the Legislature from week \to week. If you have read all these columns you have sat with me and watched the wheels go ‘round. And I hope you agree {with me that these fellows we) jsent to Tallahassee have done the! |best they knew how and could, county,'under circumstances © unusually | | Kansas, received three neckties|trying. On the whole, I’m for | which he had not ordered, from |’em. | ja “blind man” in St. Louis, who} j requested two dollars in payment ; | b ‘or return of Rhode Island | Kansan took the ties | placed them with three old ones, Symptoms of Distress Arising from | i How does this sound?. . .Dutch' which he sent back, | Tort Layer Cake or a Milk Choco- remarking: “The blind cuss won't } ‘late Layer Cake. Doesn’t it make {DUETO |know the difference.” j Selah! the goods. and Te QUICK RELIEF FROM | ULCERS ESS ACID. | Free BookTells of HomeTreatmentthat claims credit for | Must Help or it Will Cost You Nothing | utiles of the WILLARD | shrewdly} STi Mi. having been the first American’ TREATMENT have been old for relie10¢,| : from Stomach colony to pass law. 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