The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 12, 1939, Page 2

“PAGE TWO She Key West Citizen From! The Citizen Building Corner Greene and.Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Sritered 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 negys dispatches credited to it or pot etherwise credited in this the lé¢al news published here, une 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, ete., will be charged for at the rats of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which & revenue is to be derived are & cents a lire. The Citizen is an open forum snd invites discus- sion éf public issues and subjects of local or general nterest but it will not publish anonynious 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 clags; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue. coumend 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 com- ptomise with principle, (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. There are many anniversaries that are remembered but never observed. Eventually, professional men will re- diseover the value of éthies.to.-a profes- sion. Congress is going to buck the Presi- dent’s newest spending spree and will at- tempt a filibuster to stop the orgy. It may require a bronco-buster. If taxes on cigarettes continue to mount, the United States like England and other countries, will revert to the smoking of pipes. New York has just slapped on another 2 cents a package.on the fags. Magistrate Solomon of New York inade the solomonic ruling that a husband calling his wife harsh names in the privacy of his home does not constitute disorderly conduct. It has to be done in public in order to be punishable, but the better course is to refrain from the practice alto- gether. .If a man must let off excessive steam have him do it on something other than friend wife. | The emptiest and least attractive building at the World’s Fair is the Temple of Religion, many visitors report. Reli- gion, like everything else in these modern times, must be made attractive and ap- pealing, to have and to hold the people. The fear of dire punishment in hell or the glorious reward in heaven doesn’t pack “em in the churches anymore; appeal to the emotiens in oratory, music and art, does, At long last the democratic countries are mobilizing their forces and resources to put over propaganda to the people of the totalitatian states with the objective to have them rébel against the War-like aims of their rulers. England through its newly created Foreign Publicity..Depart- ment is taking the initiative,.against the Nazis in Germany, The attack will not be one of ridicule, as used by Hitler and Mus- solini,. but one of soft impeachment and gentle persuasion, in contrast to Germany’s Goebbels and Ttaly’s Godaya, as for in- GOOD AND BAD PUBLICITY Key West has been'the técipient of two Kinds of publicity, good and bad. , A good example of bad. publicity appeared in a | Miami newspaper Monday mofning. The | article in question stated the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District was facing receivership. The strange fact is the idea back of this piece of unfortunate publicity was to create sentiment in favor of an appropria- | tion by the highway commission for good publicity. No one would expect Mark Byror: Ill, son-in-law of Governor Cone, and, by act of the bridge commission, pub- licity director of Overseas highway, to sponsor such bad publicity. It seems obvious the article was inspired by Byron’s friends who want to see him. get along in the publicity world, However, the article attacked Man- ager B. M. Duncan of Overseas highway. It implied he was opposing a large pub- licity program which, it. was alleged, would bring in all the cash needed to keep | the highway on an even financial but can state positively Duncan has never given any surface indication of his. op- position to publicity. Rather, he has vertising campaign wher the commission can afford it and when it would do most season. posing Byron’s publicity program, doesn’t his father-in-law remove him? accepting the signed resignations of the members of the bridge commission which he obtained when he appointed them, if they don’t remove Mr. Duncan. Probably the governor realizes that Duncan, has the confidence of the federal lending agencies at Washington and is a powerful factor in creating favorable sentiment at the capi- tal for development of the Florida keys. While the newspaper article to which we referred gave the impression the an- nual oprating costs of Overseas highway totaled $299,000, the fact is the total, even including a principal payment of $70,000 not due until 1940; will amount to $274,- . 000 annually. This expense does exceed by $36,000 the revenues reported for the | year ended March 31, 1939. Overlooked was the fact’ the bridge commission now: has a surplus reportedly in-excess of $110,000. It is estimated the surplus will be about twice the semi-an- nual interest payment of $72,000 when it becomes due Sept. 1. There is a substan- tial sum for surplus every 30. days even though traffic is below normal this sum- mer. This surplus will enabe the bridge commission in 1940 to pay: interest of $144,000, principal of $70,000 and oper- ating expenses of about $60,000, even though the revenués do not increase sub- stantially. : There should be an increase rather than a decrease in highway: traffic next year for two reasons: First, the world fairs will not be competing for summer tourist business; second, the bridge commis- ‘sion plans a fair publicity campaign next fall and winter. ae Publication of false or misleading stories indicating the bridge commission is ‘facing receivership is harmful to. Key West and Monroe county. It cramps the efforts _of the state road department to enlist fi- nancial assistance of the U. S. Bureau of Roads in extending the highway. from: Big Pine Key to Key West, and the Aqueduct Commission in its bid for money for a water pipeline from the mainland We urge our civic-minded citizens and the public officials to do all they can to induce the bridge commission to put on a substantial publicity campaign, even if it be necessary to increase the highway tolls. County do not publish information that might delay or kill further federal aid in extending the highway and in building a “water system. We need good publicity, not that kind of publicity. On the theory that a poor excuse is better than none, everybody has a con- venient alibi for his failures and blunders, Only a few days ago Jerome Frank, chair- man of the SEC, went out of his way to vency of brokers, and the other day Presi- dent Roosevelt raised the Wall Street bogey in connection with his defeat on the gold valuation power. This attitude is Governor Core can do that very thing’ by | But for the love of Key West and Monroe. keel. | The Citizen does not know’ all the facts, | courted it and has said he favors an ad- | good—at the start of the winter tourist In this connection, if Duncan is op- | why | current hit, * WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1939 Lr erp oe FROM THIS ALL-STAR COMBINATION Chesterfield’s Right Combination of the world’s best cigarette tobaceos gives smokers what they want because THEY’RE MILDER—THEY TASTE BETTER. Thy Chesterfields. See for yourself what pleasure there is in a really satisfying cigarette. You'll agree there’s nothing like Chesterfield’s can’t- be-copied blend for MORE SMOKING PLEASURE . se | al * For More Pleasure at the movies see the all-star combination of MELVYN DOUGLAS and JOAN BLONDELL m GOOD GIRLS GO TO PARIS COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION'S For More Pleasure in smoking, enjoy CHESTERFIELD’S happy combination of the world’s best cigarette tobaccos. Copyright 1939, Liccerr & Myers Topacco Co, SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL: Former Editor of The Citizen @occcccocas Those two - aristocratic “Mr. and “Mrs. Fritz Arko #on Schneider,” dachshunds owed by T. M. Bailey of Sioux Falls, S. D., who were listed in ‘the in the months ago, are news seven puppies—two male, live female. § Bill Miner, a filling station ;at- tendant of Vincennes, Ind.,"re- ports the poorest customer of the season. five gallons of gas. ried her own oil and _ gas, only wanted service. and Mrs. Mary Miller of Readii Pa., is a great-grandmother X 52, her daughter is a_ grand- mother at 32, and her’ grand- daughter -is the mother of daughter at the age of 15. abe At Wilson, N. C., a newspaper ple thought that meant would be admitted free. fans when a single child, a son, was born to her. She is the mother of six pairs of twins. spread needless alarm regarditig thé sol-} stance this soft-pedaled appeal: “We beg hurtful to every man, woman and child of you to do whatever you ‘can to make it | whose welfare depends on business pros- known to your government that you want perity. It is high time for the Wall Street peace and not war,” j Worm to turn, 4 social register somehow a f€W' from the sprinkler on his lawn. | again. They are the parents of; She asked him to wipe! x off her windshield, inflate ‘her| tion was flashed over the wires tires, change the oil and put in changing it to “two headed.” But she car- | ‘banned betrothal ceremonies, the »| use of more than five arriages | to follow a bridal. carriage, and .the continuing of marriage fes- | Hvities more than one day. Hl | Seoecoocversc0ccc0000C00 f j Lina Medina, 5-year-old In-| ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS dian girl of Peru, who gave birth | secesesesseccecocen fe a tr x few egoriagy ‘wilt Moilcey Training |be well taken care of in future, | As A Hobby B as she and her child have been| made wards of the Peruvian gov-! }ernment. It has been rumored; that they may visit the New} | York exposition, { | as “the enly monkey school in \the United States.” H |. At one time, Dawson . says, LODI, Calif—When Misses Full-Time Occupation | more than 90 per cent of the per- {Helen and Esther Cone were ke forming monkeys used by organ-|making up beds in their auto (By Asnocctated Presa) jgrinders in the United States | camp, they found $2.130 under a }. LOUISVILLE, Ky., July ne pg Reet oa ned Se ee ain | pillow. The sisters held it, an- jim this land of fine horses and! ‘oo11 animals, too,’ but he likes |*iipating: that an elderly couple | Prof. Sigurd, Johansen of New monkeys best. who had oecupied the cottage the numerous horse trainers, Col. ae | Mexico State College was puz-D. Dawson stands apart. He Pc gstovro tages oat Ange ig ee = i i | id. lzled. when he saw steam, rising | trains monkeys. | They are “the most jealous Twenty-five years ago Dawson creatures in the world and should | An’ investigation showed that’ pJineg one morikey ‘never be trusted around chil-! weekly. “Just for Gren.” lean ‘steam from a boiler had backed’ Z ~. dren.” The best age for beginning; | fun.” He found it so fascinating | ini i | = jinto ‘his cold water pipes, ing 'the training of a monkey is one/months to 2 years. but “once that he began what he describes /year. Training requires from 18|trained, he will never forget.” ! 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