The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 14, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen ‘Priblished ‘Daily ‘Bacept ‘Sudday By HE ‘CFPZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. ANTMAN, President and Publisher VUE ‘ALLEN, w arporretg ‘Business — ‘Prom The Citiaen ‘Buildin: Corner Greéne and nd Aan Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County @ntered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Pres The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for repubtication of all news dispatches credited to it oF pot ‘etherwise crédited in this paper and also the l6tal news published ‘here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES une Year six Month: fhree Months Dne Month Weekly — ADVERTISING RATES _Made_known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of eespect, obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churchés from which @ revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. ‘The Citizen is an open forum an@ invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general ntersat but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN i 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 o1 the mouthpiece of any person, clique, : faction or élass; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustiee; ‘denounce viee and praise virtue. couamend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, ‘views'and © opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never ¢om- promise with principle. Fc + PR iMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE ‘CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Compréhensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports——Land and Sea. Consolidation -of County ‘and City Governments. Do something ; not somebody. With the heat terrific in Washington,, small wonder that'the solons are hot under the collar. Selfish interests govern most of our eonelusions and control most ‘of our thoughts. Florida small town editors, for time ‘being, are sleeping coritentedly their Murphy beds. ‘the in All that the law ‘needs is one ‘man, whom you might call the head man, ready to see that it is enforced. Social and unemployment is just another scheme of ‘taxation, more subtle and indirect. insurance but Correct this sentence: “Everybody knows I am ‘better fitted for the job, but Bill got it because everybody feels sorry | for him.” Business cannot operate with con- fidence so long as the Damoclesian sword of Administration aggression is ‘menac- ingly perched overhead. It is being -bruited about that big businegs is on.a sit-down strike. Perhaps, to sprotect itself from ‘further presidential | kicks'‘in the callipygian sector. The columns of The Citizen are open for ‘tefiperate ‘and intelligent discussions of public interest. However, we ask our. writers tobe brief as space is limited. Efficiency in government means con- c¢ntration of:authority; liberty for in- Wividuals, very offen, means decentraliza- tion 6f power. Which do you want? Take your choice; you can’t-have both. If you carinot.pay in full your local merchant ‘who has trusted you, why not at Jeast ‘make ‘a ‘token ‘payment, so ‘he ‘in turn can ‘indke a token payment to the wholesaler who ‘has trusted ‘him? ‘The new chatter is by no -means a perfect instrument, but it isa step forward and ‘pregress ‘is esseritial ‘dt this stage of the gdme when Key West is at the point where -a ‘single backward step may mean ) disaster. -misbehave themselves. VANDALS AND BICYCLISTS Summer has arrived on schedule again, and with it the usual complaints. Vandalism ‘is increasing; driving motor vehicles is more hazardous, ° ers, and the boys and girls who usually are in school during much of the day are rid- ing their bicyeles on the highways and by- | ways without great regard for the danger | to themselves and motorists. Boys and girls have to have some out- let for their youthful exuberances and en- thusiasms. It is impossi sit idly twiddling their thumbs or remain- | ing long inactive. The men and women of today must know this, for'the same rest- less urge moved them when they were boys and girls. That is why it is important to provide | so; the youngsters with something to do, they will have no desire to smash win- dows, strip coconut trees and ride willy- | nilly through our streets on their bicycles. The American Legion is organizing a junior ‘baseball league. This is a good idea. arouse interest in their summer activities. This is a good idea. A movement for a boys band and drum corps jis under way. | This is a good thing. Such activities will, keep a good ‘per- centage of the boys off the streets and out | A few incorrigibles will con- and otherwise of mischief. tinue to smash ‘windows under the observation of our police de- partment and should be compelled to act with decent behavior and proper regard for the property rights of others. There is no point in sparing the rod when ‘it should be laid ‘on the seats of a few trousers. While the members of our police de- partment are éut campaigning against adoption of the new city charter they should be on the watch for youthful viola- tors of the'law. Now thatthe schools are élosed Traffic Officer . Myrtland Cates, who has been highly successful in | main- taining order and in protection of life around the schools, might extend his ef- fort to save property and lives endangered by undisciplined youngsters. TAXES: $105 PER CAPITA Nobody wants to pay taxes, if ‘they can be avoided, and there is constant ef- fort to impress” everybody that the gov- ernments of the United States, including local, State and Federal units, are taking about all the money that anybody can make. Along this line the National Indus- trial ‘Conference Board reports that taxes took 22 cents of every dollar of the na- tional income in 1938. The total paid in taxes, according ‘to its estimate, was $13,- 700,000,000. If the taxes paid by the people of this nation averaged 22 cents out of every dol- lar of national income there must be a lot of people paying more money for the-sup- port-of government that we imagine. How many people in Key West for example, pay as much as 22 per cent of their | in- come in taxes? acd The Board referred to in this article | says that the taxes paid in 1938 repre- sented a-per capita tax of $105 or a $317 tax for each employed person. All we have to say to this is that, if the per capita tax payment in the United States is $105, there are many people around here who fail to pay their share. Taxes may not be ‘preferred to the free spending of your own money. Just the same government will cost more and more money as long as the people insist upon demanding more and more govern- ment activity. No treasury can raise salaries, pay pensions and subsidize busi- ness and farmers without -having ‘to call ‘upen the “dear peepul” for some hard cash. THE WOMEN WILL ARGUE! J. Edgar Hoover, Chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, climbs ott ‘on a limb with the statement that women “‘com- mit ‘mose crimes of violence than men” and: that they are “more venomous.” This is an interesting statement. It "may be the head of the:G+men knows, ‘but a-steady reading of the public prints ‘for some years lead us to no such conclusion. apaeeiieeree ror tee We-read that a kangaroo can jump 30 feét. Wouldn’t that make a pedestrian Windows are | being smashed by youthful stone throw- | The Boy Scouts are beginning to | These should come,| a ee THE KEY WEST CITIZEN "ALBERT SPALDING America’s Most Popular Violinist Is seen above ‘enjoying America’s Most Popular Cigarette for More Smoking Pleasure, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1939 [Mawiec from ALBERT SPALDING'S combination of brilliant concert recitals and superb ‘composifions . . ..and from (hesterfield’s RIGHT COMBINATION ‘of the world’s best cigarette tobaccos Weare fortunate to live in a Jand where the Great Pleasures of life can be enjoyed by nearly all of us ...in cigarettes, for example ... ‘Chesterfield’s Right Combination of the world’s best cigarette tobaccos gives smokers what they want'because THEY'RE MILDER ... THEY TASTE BETTER - Copyright 1939, Licerrr & Myers Tosacce Co. KEY WEST IN DAYS ‘GONE BY | Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken | From The Files-Of The Citizen ‘0 Captain Stafford W. Doyle, Usted away ‘last evening 9:30:o'clock | S. N., will be commandant at the ‘at the home 1100 ‘Fleming street. | naval station in Key West, imm lieving Captain ‘R. W. MeNecly, | Survivors i he edinte'fami- | ly are the parents, one - sister, it was announced at the station} today. Captain Doyle is now | Mrs. Harry:Gregory, and ‘a broth- commanding the U. S. S. Tren-'er Elmer Pershing Curtis. He/ ton and is returning from th€}ajso ‘leaves numerous ‘other re-| Asiatic Station. «| latives inthe city and elsewhere. | Editorial comment: Key West, . is steadily maintaining her place Two automobiles, captured by as Florida’s most important sea-|cuStoms ‘inspectors ‘in liquor port. During April, exports | seizures at different times in the, from \the ‘port ‘totalled in value} past and turned over to officials | nearly two and a half million dol- | for use," were séld at public out- lars. Our nearest competitor, during the same month was Pen- |<fY noon ‘today in front of the sacola with a showing of $669,-| postoffice. Bidding was some- | 251. what lively but not strong. An | Oakland car was knocked off to nounces that Pacific Reef light) ence lgaglimedgzr eatin ar reported extinguished June 105 jand a ‘Fora went to Ralph was ¢elighted and is now ready, ‘Knowles for:$30. A ‘suitcase from which the liquid ‘Contents had | i peyigetors usiNE | yeen (gemoved went under the) Dib ck aeons ee cet 50 cents. Key West-iwas observing Flag} Day ‘today throughout ‘the entire | city, and the flag was being dis- played on every hand. This is the anniversary of the day on Lighthouse Department an- | Telegram reeeived in the city | today arinounce ‘the death of Dr. | 'M. K. Gwynn, in New York. ‘Death was sudden. Dr. Gwynn which the Continental Congress; was surgeon in charge of the formally adopted the Stars and) Marine ‘hospital in this city in Stripes as the flag-of the United | 1922 and remained in charge the States. |full four ‘year period, being re- lieved in 1926 by Dr. G. M. Gu-} Captain Wiliam Baker, fami- | tierrez. liarly known as “Winnie” pilot on the Key West bar, was*stricken ; suddendly ill yesterday at his home on South street. He has suf- fered with convulsions and is said to be critically ill. | | York, born-in San Francisco. ‘The Atlantic Coastal Highway’s convention ‘will open ‘Tuesday,/ \Frederick.E. Williamson, presi- June 25 and:not on next Tuesday | dent of the New York Central) as hasbeen erroneously ‘stated. | Railway, born-at Norwalk, Ohio, A large attendance is expected. {63 years ago. Sixteen ‘Hundred ‘packages of/ Most ‘Rev. John J. regener Seseoceceseve rnecereceses Today's Birthdays VOSS TS SCPC ESSTSEGLeCeses Major Edward Bowes of New! John ‘McCormack, famed ‘sing-| er, born in ‘Ireland, 55 years ago. | Frederick M. ‘Feiker,-secrétary | ‘of the i Council, ‘ t ‘Northampton, ‘Mass.,58 ‘years and had been held in the storage vaults awaiting official orders authorizing ‘the destruetion. Kimball Curtis, 17, ‘son of Mri of the graduating class | - West High School,| Dr, Livingston Farrard, retired wand swarded his ai-}Gosill! it, ‘born ‘at “New. of the Key “dpe | 1. In which South ‘American /lands had ‘a -very ‘desirable -loca- | ticable uses. Good association is | Success of life if the thoughts are ‘The Favotite’In Key West STAR “BRAND American Engineering | “*D. C., born A Financial Question “Oh, Mr. Pitt, perhaps you can tell me what does it cost to di- voree one husband and marry an- other?” “I’m sorry—I don’t ‘know ‘the present rate of exchange”. TODAY's Common | | Good Ad a 'tns Writer} | “HARLINGEN, Tex., June 14.— A copy of ‘the first issue of the| Maryland Jourrdl dated August} ——- pe, — 20, 1773, indicates‘George Wash- jington could give a les | nA eit ia Soo |: ‘Washington ‘was the principal | Can you Answer seven of these advertiser in the issue and had! ‘Test Questions? Turn -to ‘some “choice lands” for sale. | Page 4 for the Asewers ‘The advertisement, which was! |signed by him, ‘emphasized the; Do not call a railroad ation” a “depot”. “Key ‘West's Outstanding!” LA LA CONCHA HOTE ‘HOTEL Beautiful—Air-conditioned Rainbow Room and Cocktail Lounge DINING and DANCING Strictly Fireproof Garage Open The Year Around country is Lake Mara-|tion on'the Ohio or Kanhawa caibo? /tivers and were such that “norie 2. What is the lightest ‘known '¢an exceed them in luxufiance of gas, next to hydrogen? | soil. ‘Sh 3. What are homonyms? | He also pointed out that if ever | 4. With what sport is the name }a government was: established on| Raymond (Sonny) “Work-'the Ohio the value of ‘the ‘land man associated? {would ‘increase. 5. On which river is the Sho- | New Orleans and Beyond shone Dam? ‘And Right/Minded The Policeman (taking ‘notes) |, ¥fe™ Key West alternate Mon- 6. What is the correct ‘pro-| Miss, Y . ‘| From New York every Thurs- | —_——— nel Seana ee ———— | FAST DIRECT FREIGHT SERVICE Boston, New York, Miami Jacksonville, Galveston nunciation of the word/—The gentleman -says, iterative? that you put out your left hand . Which was the first country | and then turned to the right. that officially reeognized| The Lady—Ah, yes; ‘But I’m the Soviet government? _|lefthanded. . In which city did the Dionne quintuplets meet the King Pets itch tortured skin that needs and Queen of England? Loren. it ensen' the itch tie Savion onaip Betesta oes . Name the famous theater in Milan ‘Italy. 10. On which;,ocean does the South American country Peru border? | ete. back if large bottle does aot satisfy. Sold Cverywhere. Geececesvesesese 'Today’s Horoscope coccceccosoccs endows w! but may.carry with it -imprac- Pieatag Yous. Dean Os BRAND ‘COFFEE CUBAN ‘and AMERICAN Quality and Service—Our the saving of today’s native. ‘There is enough ability to make a turned into proper channels. If allowed to fall into improper ways the end is liable to be a blighted life. f Subserive to Tay -Citizen—200 weekly. PITTI — THY If TODAY ~ PIGEON KEY THE VACATIONISTS’ PARADISE $2-Milés’Notth of Key Weston Overseas Highway Special ‘Rates Thursdays Through Weekends GEORGE G. SCHUTT, Manager Phone: Pigeon Key 1 P. O. Marathon, ‘Fis, eeecccceccocsecscoconces on are