The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 19, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO 2 <=ilhe Key West Citizen Published Dally Except Sunday By tnt CFrIZEN PUBLISHING Co. INC. > LL. P. ARTMAN, Presifeat aa 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 Associated Press ar Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches creJited to * {€ of got etherwise crete, y is’ paper and also the Idtal news published he: SUBSCRIPTION a une Year six Month: Three Mon’ One Month ... Weekly .... ADVERTISING RATES ‘Matte known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE AN reading tioti¢es, cards of thanks, resolutions of <espect, obituary notices, étc., 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 5 cents a line. The 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- eations. 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 injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue. commend 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; promise with principle. néver com- (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. : Advertising swells sales, make profits. and sales If you want to test your popularity, try borrowing money. Another person’s worries are always very hard to understand. It makes a lot of difference if a-girl laughs or smiles at a man. Modern children find it rather diffi- cult to teach their parents. The average public speakér knows one man who can.make a really good speech. He is a diligent man who takes as much interest in his affairs as his neigh- bors do. One sure way to bore the average man of woman is'to praise some other man or: woman. The well-known stork, too, seems un- able to solve the distribution problem satisfactorily. F “All should learn to drive a car,” says an advertisement. Especially a lot of peo- plé who are driving now. Most men have great ideas about their capabilities but, usually, théy will ad- mit they have had hard luck. When get-rich-quick schemes boom you can take it for granted that an eco- nomic coMapse is in the making. About the hardest working people on relief are the white-collaréd géenfty— - working hard to keep their jobs. George Bernard Shaw says the only ~ happy people are dead. But he appears - to’ be in fo hurry to join the happy throng. : Pulmans have been introduced into Switzerland. Those hardy mountain elimb- -+ ers should have little difficulty im stealing . thé upper berth. Some dtatinbicaNy-minded expert Has | discovered that workers whose pay is cut when sick are healthier than those who “ are.not “docked” when om sels oare: TEAMWORK NEEDED HERE ene ! Every Key West baseball fan knows the importarice of teamwork. Thé best ball club is usually one that pulls togeflier, | that plays for team success, not individual | glory. Nine outstanding individuals playing | individually ordinarily fall. before nine | average players functioning as a team. | The same truism prevails in nearly | éverything. Examine the. inter workings | of a successful community and you find | the individual citizens thereof. pulling to- | gether. They work for the community good, | ‘submerging their own selfish desires, their | * own personal hatreds, their petty jealou- | sies, their religious, political and racial be- liefs. Because they work as a unit for the betterment of the community m which they live that community enjoys general prosperity. It grows and expands and be- comes a great community. Community teamwork is needed in Key West. The city is beset with many | pressing problems that cannot be solved by one individual, a few individuals or a small group of publie-spirited organiza- | tions. Each individual, each set of indivi- | duals. and every civie group must be en- listed under the banner of community progress. For more than a quarter of a century | | the present management of The Citizen | has been observing community life in Key | | West. We have seen the city grow and then | Lf haad wither in size, importance and strength. | FLORIDA -p— AN THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SO OTMEANMOST HOUSE IN THE WNITED STATES HOME OF THE LATE WOM. WARRIS, HEV WEST, OLD BRIEK MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1939 KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happesitigs Just Tem Years Ago Today Av Taken + | Judge Jefferson B. Browne, of | remain until the convention is |Key West, was confirmed by ane ended. senate today as judge of the} Twentieth Judicial District, and|_ Bag#age of all persons leaving | George G. Brooks, Jr. was con-| Tampa for Key West is to be \firmed as state’s attorney, Mr,;thoroughly inspected by officers | Boks is also of Key West. The | f the state plant board to guard twentieth district. em- inst infestation in Key West | prades Monréé county. Jaage| of of the Mediterranean Fruit | Browne weadahigeigirs & Pon seed Editorial Comment: Represen- | maty for the respective positions. Patina Pent 1 haiti pee | Judge Browne had no opposition, | tdigredeiveman. She ‘says one while Mr. Brooks deféated the) > - | doesn’t say chairwoman but fae Attorney Arthur Go-| éWairniah. So far as we are con- cerned we shall be glad to cut | > Bight: dumwiphik “Anempend)-caar-|°U* He WO |lons of séa Water will bé tfans-| The Citizen constellation of ported from Kéy West to Chi-|paseball stars are looking for | cage’ to’ c#@ate’ ani océan home for) more worlds to conquer. Al- | the sea speeiniens to be exhibited | though presenting a weakened |and in the world’s largest and | jineup, due to the illness of some | most beautiful aquarium now.| of the players, the team found no nearing completion there at a difficulty in annihilating the | cost of three millions of dollars.; Junior Sluggers yesterday to the | Waltet H. Chute, direétor of the! tune of 11 to 4. | great aquarium, which is a gift to | | the people of Chicago by the late | Anthony Fernandez and T. L. {John G. Shedd, of the Marshall | |Kiser are scheduled to play | Field Co., said they could have | checkers for the championship of obtained water 600 miles nearer) the city tonight at Russell’s Cigar | the aquarium, but decided nj Store. The contest will be for the | getting the water from Key West, | \ best’ four out of seven’ games: The which is ideal for the tanks at| tournament will start at 8:30 and |the aquarium. The water is to! it is expected the last game will | be takers in 10 tanks, pumped di-|be played at 11 o'clock. ‘The |rectly into the tanks from the, winner tonight will be open to | deep’ water at the piers of the F. | take on all players. glected, important payrolls have been lost and important citizens have moved away. Progress has been smothered by impotence by bickerings, by jealousies and by a do- of those fearful anything they might do These misguided folks swat with the hammers of destruction. It is about time the citizens of this city realized they sink or swim together. Every worthwhile project for the general welfare should have general support re- gardless of individual viewpoint. Any in- dividual,who voices destructive opposition to a progressive movement without offer- ing something constructive in its place is retarding Key West’s rehabilitation. He is si#ply prolonging our period of inertia and stagnation. The Citizen believes that if a man can’t play ball with the rest of the team he should bench himself. Key West needs |team players, not tempermental and dis- tembered individuals. KILLING 25,000 BABIES A YEAR In this country in one year 25,000 babies die needlessly! That is the statement of health ex- perts, including Dr. Raymond A. Von- derlehr, Assistant Surgeon-General of the United States. Moreover, the doctor says we have it in our power to save these 25,- 000 babies from death if we will follow the advice of physicians. What -kills these little babies? The answer is “syphilis.” It also affects the Shealth of 60,000 others, some of whom are doomed to blindness. Children will be born healthyif the expectant mother will have her blood tested: If she needs treatment it. can be instituted early enough to insure a healthy baby, regardless of her own infection. This may not be a nice subject for some people to think about. Others may not believe that it should be discussed in the columns of The Citizen. Well, so far as we are concerned, we see no reason to shut our eyes to the truth or to ignore facts that mean much to the health of the entire nation. Our own recommendation is that every individual, man or woman, should subject himsef or herself to a blood test. ‘There may be no-need for it but, just oc- casionally, somebody may be cured of a is this true of those who expect the arrival of children in their homes. Sitting and lying down are the posi- tions in which the greatest part of exist- ence is passed, but some avout it and ; grow lazy. and fat. The human race has been on the globe a long time and it will undoubtedly con- tinue to make progress regardless of what | the present generation does. ‘ Formerly it was commonly said that the world owes every man a@ living, but Becclgsl-mpeenptentiotis United States think it is the government's debt. Important civie projects have been ne- | nothing attitude generated in the minds | might prove beneficial to the other fellow. | little flies | disease that is not suspected. Especially / Bat 1900 1001, * by eM, fag ob yp ag ae =e Fae: yt OF DWWGAL $7, med LE. C. railway. | | Miss Carrie Pierce, clerk in the Alberto Arellano, viee-presi- | disbursing office at the Key West |dent of the Chamber of Automo- | navat station, has been notified | biles in Havana, and Roberto} | Morrell Fernandez, secretary of | | } | | je |. The above slogan fired the en- | thusiasm of our people to a white heat in 1917. They went forth like an armed band: of} | crusaders. We landed nearly | two million soldiers on foreign shores, ready and willing to sacri fice their lives to make the world safe for democtacy. | . And when victory finally came, | the frenzied celebration that fol- lowed will never be forgotten. A wild feeling of frantic happiness spread through the land with; lightning rapidity. People ‘wept and cried with joyous acclaim. Strangers hugged and each other on the public streets. Never was there such an ex- ultantly joyous occasion in all e history of our country. What a colossal achievement! We had saved the world for democracy . .. so we thought. But what a change has come over the world since that man- ja¢al celebration! Democracies in Europe are on the wane and they are being replaced by dic- tatorships. And our own country? Are we just as much interested in democracy as we were at that time? Are there many of us who would offer our lives or make’ any special sacrifice to maintain the democracy in this country whith we valued so bh at that time? And could we in oug- witdest| moments in 1917 have imagined weodeceaoe 0 MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY’ eovcses evececece| we would have, right in‘out own iadministration, officials“who de- our democracy is founded? the Constitution and the Bill of; Rights, so dear to the; hearts of; our. people, would be infringed, | yutrageously so, by many of our present enactments? The Wagner Act is now in the limelight. When that. one-sided ill was passed, I predicted caus- tic dissatisfaction from both labor and employer. There can be no) democracy, no Americanism, with | such a law on our statue books. President Green is_ caustic in his criticism of the Wagner Labor | Board. They have been favoring | the C.LO., so he says. He wants the law changed, group will be favored by the new board? Labor took care of itself with-| out bureducratic regulation in such a big way, previous to the| | Wagner Act, that the workers acquired the highest standard of livmg and the highest wages ever paid throughout the history of the world. And what will happen through | Wagner’s regimentation of em-| ployers and employees . » time | only will tell. We cannot attack the source ot| the comforts of, life and expect ito | by such. conduct. New Deal has continuous- | ride the principles upon which; Could we have imagined that/| and another... board; but does he know what! the same organization, official | |hy tried to make the public be-| delegates to the Atlantic Coastal lieve that business was the cause | Highway Association, which of all the ills associated with the |starts in Key West. within the depression. \next few days, are arriving by; The first blow aimed at busi- of her promotion. Ferry Steamer Estrada Palma arrived in port last night from Havana with a general cargo of merchandise and a number of ears of pineapples, apparently the steamer this afternoon and will! last of the season. ness was the NRA. It was ruled | —°—— out by a unanimous decision of | jthe United States Supreme) Sine | PIGEO The AAA, to ensnaré the farm- ers, met the same fate. | | But these defeats had no ef| feet! The New Deal has gone | Straight ahéad’ with its socialistic | :pldéns: The Wagé and Hour Bill, and numierous: éther ‘enactments | ‘are leading diréetly, without any | deviation whatever, toward a, dictatorship. j If Thomas’ Jefferson ‘were’ to) listen to the hypocritical support of democracy: that-is‘ pated by some of ‘our officials, even his skeleton might acquire some) | fighting spirit. \ “To make the world safe for) | democracy” was an exalted ideal, | a great and a noble cause, but we \can hardly avoid asking, Are we \the same people that made up \this country in 1917? We were | then willing to give everything even our lives .. . to make the world safe for democracy; and now many of us are sitting ‘nonehalantly on the side lines and watcing the tragedy that is | being enacted right before our| eyes . . . the death of the prin-| ciples of government that made | this country the richest, the most | desirable place in which to live, | for the common people, of which | | we have any historical record. Reasonable Rates Fishing Phone: Pigeon Key 1 Lv. K. W. 10:30 a: m. Mondays-' ® CUBAN TOURIST TAX soe _ | Subseribe to The Citizen—20e| i | weekly. | DINING and DANCING | Open The Year Around MIAMI and MIAMI AND TWO ROUND NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR Tt will be a wise precaution before you leave home, to change thé cash you had plan- néd fo catry with you into AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELERS CHEQUES ‘These Cheques are known and everywhere—and 1100 o'clock A. M. 8:00 o’clock A. M. 1:00 o’elock A. 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