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

PAGE TWO a The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By PME CETIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. 2. AMTMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Key West and Monroe ty “Only Daily Newspaper in Count Sutered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use 7 for republication of all negys dispatches creJited to it or pot etherwise credited in this paper and also *he idcal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ue Year six Months Three Month: Dne Month Weekly ... : - ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of he sige resolutions of sespect, obituary notites, etc. willbe charged for at the rate 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- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general snterest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injpstice; denounce vice and praise virtue. Goumend good done by individual or organ- ‘Wzation; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. | Fr | Peters Sm {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. Z $$ Washington gave the visiting king and queen a hot time; even the weather- man contributed to the warmth. What George III failed to do with shot and shell, George VI accomplished with a smile and a handshake—conquered the United States. The Workers Alliance (communist WPA union) opposes Garner for presi- dent. All he needs is a few more endorse- ments like that——Fort Myers: News-Press. |* And then he’s in. When bonds are not paid in 20 years, it takes a stretch of the imagination to call them “bonds of friendship” as the re- Jationship between England and the United States was designated by the President. : It was noticed perceptibly that the king of England was particularly nice to Nance Garner. Is it possible that his royal highness sensed that the vice-president may be the next president of the United States? The Mead bill is another of those as- sumption of burden things. It guarantees bank loans up to 90 per cent, and if and when this bill becomes law, bankers will become quite liberal with their loans, and many sour notes may have to be assumed by the government which, however, will not hesitate to levy on everything’ tangible end intangible it can lay its hands on.” It might be a good bill after all—good for the honest and deserving and bad one for misfits and failures. Procrastination is acknowledged to be the thief of time but in many cases it saves money for those who procrastinate. The manana habit is particularly favorable to tax procrastinators. For instance the honest tax payer who pays on the dot is quiekly forgotten while the tax dodger is DISPLAY YOUR FLAGS Flag Day will be observed tomorrow throughout the nation. The Junior Cham- ber of Commerce, the American _ Legion | | THE | OUR FELLOW. DRIVERS and other patriotic and civic groups are | calling attention to the people of Key West of this annual event. Every available Am- erican Flag should be displayed. Many forget the meaning of the na- tional emblem:. They do not realize the | Flag stands for all the blood that has been shed upon a thousand battlefields. They do not sense unless they stop to think about it that the flag represents an ideal—the | | ideal of freedom and liberty. Nowhere else is such freedom and liberty so rampant. Nowhere else is such freedom and liberty so rampantly ignored or so rampantly abused. Our patriotic citi- zens accept freedom and liberty as they do the air around them. They forget there are obligations that must be met if free- dom and liberty are tc endure in this coun- try. These vitals of American life were won by men willing to die in the cause of freedom and liberty. And did die, tens of thousands of them; so the least that we can do today is show our respect for the Flag and what it represents by display- ing it. 3 In the totalitarian countries, whose agents are attempting to arouse class and mass hatreds and to stir up religious and racial differences and prejudices United States, volunteer flag days are un- known. Every day is flag day downtrodden nations—by order. .Woe un- to him who does not dispay the national ! flag and the national symbol of the pre- vailing form of government on every oc- casion demanded by the dictators. call for poisonous doses of castor oil and concentration camp discipline. This country being a nation of free men does not punish those who fail to dis- play the American Flag om Flag Day. Those who fail to display their Flag are | punishing themselves. They are unwit- tingly aiding and abetting the enemies of our represéntative form of government that guarantees even our enemies the right ‘of free speech, free assembly and a free press. The Flag—long may it wave over this land of freedom and liberty. ONE TERM, THREE TERMS! The candidacy of Senator Vanden- berg for the Republican Presidential nomi- nation is announced, accompanied with a | proviso that the nominee should be “pre- pledged” to a single term. What Mr. Roosevelt’s attitude toward a third term may be has not been dis- closed. But the question of the length of the tenure of office of a President is likely to be discussed a great deal in the coming. months. There is an established precedent against any President remaining in office more than two terms. The nomination of a popular President for a second term is also a thoroughly entrenched system. If Mr. Vandenberg should win he might find himself in exactly the same position with Woodrow Wilson, who was elected in 1912 on a platform favoring a_ single presi- dential term. He served eight years and his biographers made it fairly clear that he would not have been adverse to a third term if his health had not failed. Presidents rarely find that they have “completed” their tasks, regardless of how long they have been in office. A 42-PASSENGER PLANE Designed as a joint project of a num- ber of American airlines and to provide load and range sufficient to meet the needs of trans-continental passenger service, the DC-4, a 72-passenger plane is making a tour of the country after its first coast-to- coast flight. ’ The giant plane cost more than $2,- 000,000 but any of the cooperating lines can get similar ships for about one-fourth | of the cost of the initial vessel. At normal ceddied and pampered by remissions and «reductions in his tax account. Those de- linquent taxpayers who paid through the -Murphy im 1938 did not fare as well as those who dilly-dallied until 1939 and pos- sibly those who have not as yet paid their taxes may xeceive absolution when the next Legislature meets. Nevertheless, the advice of this column is not to tempt the gods who may, turn out to be more ruthiess than mortals,” cruising speed, it will fly 190 miles an hour, carrying 42 passengers, a crew of five and 3,000 pounds of baggage. It is 97 feet seven inches long, has a wing spread of 138 feet and an over-all height of 24 in the | in those | loud-mouthed | Violations of these demands | “Is it permissible. KEY WEST DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years , Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen Completion of the Atlantic |tance of 2,381 miles from the |now a finished and paved except a stretch of 20, makes the full realization of the great international highway plan tying together the United States and | Cuba and Central and South Am- erica at least 20 years earlier than by the route originally out- lined through Texas and Mexico, V. D. L. Robinson, of the A.A.A, county commissioners last. night. With the work already accom- plished in the United States from Canada to Key West, Cuba’s won- derful and admirable interest in the proposition and the hearty cooperation on the part of Mexico dream of an international high- way will soon be a reality. Reliable reports from all, along the Atlantic seaboard . indicate | that there will be a large attend- jance at the meeting of Atlantic |be held in Key West next Tues- day morning, and may be much Frank H. Ladd of Key West and one of the officials of the as- sociation said this morning tha’ correspondence from all points along the route indicated a great interest in the matter and there was no doubt but that the at- tendance would be a great deal larger than was at first dreamed. of. Convention headquarters will special rates had been arranged for, the visitors, under the sum- inter rates now in vogue on the ferries it will the visitors very little to “thestrip: and attend the meeting, and arrange- ments have been made to furnish them tickets good for the return over the ferry system. In a report issued by Sidney J. Brown, collector of customs for Florida District Number 18, pertaining to the value of mer- chandise exported from and im- ported into the state for month of April, 1929, it is shown where Key West taxes the lead over all other cities in the dis- trict in the way of exportations. The Island City exported mer- total of $2,461,097, which is more trict combined. scores. another big success as a convent city. All the secre- they had a great time and they were simply delighted feet. Four engines develop nearly 6,000 |: horsepower. This 42-passenger airplane is an an-| swer to those who have thus far failed to | reglize that the age of the air is about at) to drive with three on one seat?" Coastal Highway covering a dis-} Canadian border to Key West,| possible j stated at the meeting “of the there is every indication that the | Coastal Highway Association to | larger than was at first thought. | be at the La Concha hotel where | ‘chandise during the month to a; than all other ports in the dis-}i Editorial comment: Key West |: KEY WEST CITIZEN, 2) | cogege. eccccccccee pce PEULE'S FORUM | peccesencesqccccccccsces| } ABOUT CITY CARS i | Editor, The Citizen: | | ‘You stated in your paper of} |Monday, June 12, that the city} ‘had purchased automobiles for | city employees and as a result} did not ‘have money ‘to sponsor) lwea projects. | ‘The automobile I am using! { | was purchased by my salary and (the one I-had prior to the one I perth using was givenjto the city. The taxpayers did not pay one cent toward the new automobile Iam using. Records.on file with the city clerk will show that the car is. being paid for by my | salary. i IVAN ELWOOD, \ i { | | | jJune 13, 1939. | Editor, The Citizen: In an editorial in your issue of June 12, you said that if the city had not purchased automobiles \for city employees’ that they} would have money to sponsor | WPA projects. The new automobile that I have was purchased by my own salary and not by one nickle of ‘the taxpayers money. In the jeight years that I have been fire i | chief the city has not et Pai |acar. The automobile that | TODAY’S COMMON prior to purchase of the one I | ERROR now have was given to the city j through my solicitation. ! } Travolees Safety Sarvem Do not say, “The chil- Even if the city had purchased dren of the poor show the effects of their depriva- tion”: say. “privation”. an automobile for me jhave been no more than any Lother city. does and that is to ‘a--w--ut| Purchase automobiles for their cree eg | Ste cnet DAILY QUIZ | June 13, 1939. Son zou Poa pa of these | ‘est ns? Turn to | o 4 " | (EDITOR'S NOTE: By way of Rage 4 for the Answers | clarifying the record in the above matter, and to claim legitimate . Name the vast desert region | motives for the editorial in ques- | of Central Asia. | tion, investigation shows that: the ! 2. Was President Andrew Jack- | two automobiles are _registered son a college graduate?” Frat" and paymenia om the Bur i ii | West, and paym: c ‘. : ithe city. Money paid is deducted 4. What is the correct pro-| from salaries owed the Police nunciation of the word | Chief and Fire Chief, however, +opIC? it is assumed that’ the ‘warrants . In which State is Rainbow ; would not have been paid other- Natural Bridge? | wise for a long period of time, or . Which two European powers until such a time as the city is in recently signed a ten year , much better financial condition.) unconditional and auto- matic military alliance? | That's Reai Community . What building in Boston is) A little country girl called at a | called “Cradle of Liberty?” eo cern Back, esta p | «_|she said, “mother wan! now | = ek aaa thir- | ig you won’t please lend her a is dozen eggs. She wants to put 9. How many acres are in one|them under a hen”. | square mile? | The neighbor was surprised. “I |10. Name he largest country. in | didn’t know you had a hen”. | Central America. “We haven’t. Jimmy has gone area jto borrow the hen from Mrs. Tagged Fishes Mean Brown”. Prizes For Anglers. HARRY M. BAKER, Chief of Fire Department. Key West, Fla., 1 (By Associated Press) | FORT COLLINS, Colo, June| |13.—Colorado fishermen get a| ‘chance this year to play a tag} ‘game with trout. Extra.large fish | have been placed in Cache la} Poudre river and each has a tag! lon him. Fishermen who catch} |them. will win a prize if they| bring in the tag and tell the game department where the fish was taukht. The department Qwants.to. learn which!)was the isn ast after they, are taken from hatcheries and placed in the When You Stop In Stop At The ARUNDEL ' of folklore, regrets that cattle have “bred all the bel- —— THE BALTIMORE | Chief of Police. SPECIAL CAKES it would} TWO PERSONS; TUESDAY, JUNE: 13, 1939 NEW CLASSES IN | FROZE TO DEATH IN TRUCK : mn * | New York—Unnoticed by the j ner, a truck driver, Louis Bolter, | 35, suffocated or froze to death Mrs. Grace Crosby at the Com-! of his truck while the truck stood mercial Department of the High for hours at a busy corner in ‘i - bas overlooked the fact that there Commercial Subjects or Citizen-| 25 hole in the door through night during'the week from 5 to} -—<—= 9 p. m. except Saturday. { : pissbiee Shorthand is being organized. | Mrs. Crosby will be glad to! other subjects which are offered,’ your home as you it ee buy your car age are eligible for the WPA} Adult Education Classes. j M 0 N T H LY ADULT EDUC ATIO | thousands who passed the cor- |in the refrigerator compartment School, is starting new classes in Brooklyn. Evidently, the driver ship work. School open every, which he could have escaped. A beginners class in Gregg p A | N T discuss with any group various 1 All persons over 16 years of 0 N E A SY Let us explain } AT MALONEY’S First of the week specials at Maloney Bros. Bakery will please followers of the cakes offered twice-weekly. They are Butter- | scotch Layer Cakes at 33 cents and Devil’s Food Squares at 23 cents each, | Phone orders. to the bakery. call 818, or stop at the store, $12 Fleming street. SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING and ENGINEERING CO. hite and Eliza Sts. Phone 598 i agent—write for complete de+ scriptive folder. ‘Special Reduced Rates to June 13 SOME TOURS $' 0° AS LOW AS 1 * While in New York BUS STATION Cor. Southard and Bahama Sts. Phone 242 LORIDA MOTOR|INES aie amc aaa 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 cost of fan, $9.9. DOWN 95¢ $1 PER MONT Westinghouse Ten-Inch Oscillating Fan One Week’s Free Trial You many use this fan fer one week without cost or obligation. This fan uses less electricity than Phone Today To Have One Or More Of These Fans Delivered To Your Home The Key West Electric MARYLAND pany PHONE 16 : é II SIDIDIDII AAA DDS? CPLLLLPLLLELLZLLLLLLLLLE LLLLLLL LALLA t 'SHMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISIIIIIII ISS,