The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 21, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO ‘She Key West Citixer. Published, Daily, Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO:, INC. L. Pi AMMAN, President ana Publisher JOB. ALLEN, Assistant nae Bi ‘he Ci Build! Corner Greene aid Ann Strevts Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County untered ‘at Key. West, Florida, as second elass- matter Member of the Associated Press ess is exclusively entitled to use he Associated Pri Eh apa for republication of all news ited to fevor pot stherwing credited fi ‘and also the lobal news published: here. One Year .. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $10 six Months poe eo Pbree Monti 2 3.60: Dne Month 86 Weekly . 0 ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. oat SPECIAL NOFICE. All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of” sespect, obituary notices, etc., wit be charged for at the rat? of 10 cents a line. Noticés for entertainment by churches from which a revenue is to be derived ars Bios * Lk a Citizen in open. an inv! a ~ sion ‘of public issues and subjects of loca} or eral sole 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; aiways do its.utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice arid »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; never. com- omise with principle, | eee - ee IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WESi ADVOCATED BY THE: CITIZEN Water. and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan. (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Lind- and Sea, Consolidaticn, of County. and. City Governments, — i A neighbor lady calls her little boy “Flannel,” because he shrinks so from washing. No matter how old you are, it is never. too late to make a better record: in-. life, which afterall, is the'only asset that really amounts to much. This is a good time to use the classi- fied columns. of The Citizen to. sell. that dis¢arded article, or to advertise for what you want to buy cheaply. There is a bill pending in the Cuban Congress imposing a tax of 33 per cent of gross box office receipts on all foreign films shown in Cuban national territory. American producers and distributors are protesting that the proposed special tax- ation. is inequitable and an. abrogation of the right of free contract. Where did. the Cubans learn to impose such inordinate taxes? The American Congress? There is: a very thin veil, sometimes between legitimate news ‘and: propaganda. and to segregate the chaff from the wheat is a problem to every newspaper editor. Sheaves of propaganda for one thing and “another are received by The Citizen daily, most of which is thrown into the waste- basket, but it requires care not to suppress legitimate news in the effort to avoid prop- aganda. Some of the most insidious and also invidious so-called publicity emanates from. governmental publicity departments, "| offhand. what charter we are working un- .| Proponents of the-old_ city. charter, | fend itself. THE GREAT CHARTER COMEDY | Key West is operating under a. now- .you-see-it-now-you-don’t. city charter. Wrom day to-day it is often difficult to state | der. One day it is the so-called old city charter, the next it is the new city charter. | Right now it is reported we are operating | under the old city charter. What that means no _ public official | seems to know positively. Whether cer- tain things can be. done under the old char: | ter and, if not, can they be done under the. | new city charter, are questions. nobody seems to be able to answer with any élarity, { Further— } Is the old city charter a legal docu- | ment? : Can thie city levy taxes under it? Can the city enter into contracts un- | der it? { Do the bonding provisions of the old or, the new charter prevail? Who is responsible for repair of streets? Who operates the water system? Where do.we go from here? These and similar questions are aris- | ing every day. Proponents of the new city charter are convinced the old: city charter is illegal, They state the secretary of state certified the new city charter, minus, of course, the zeferendum amendment. and they include municipal officials and‘em- ployes, are convinced the old city charter is the legal document. They hold that the new charter without the amendments is null and void. Which. side is right? The least that city council can. do is | start a friendly swit in the courts to de- | termine this question once and for all, An election is coming along. Perhaps our city | officials are aware. of that. Is that why they are stalling a, supreme court show- down, as it is alleged in some quarters? What is to be gained by refusing to go in- tothe courts om the charter question? Eventually someone will start an action. against the city in connection with taxes or contracts and: the city will have: to, de- Why not start the: suit- our- ! | } selves? Any way: the taxpayer looks. at it he feels municipal operations are in: a beauti- ful mess. Muddled ideas regarding the | charters have lead. to muddled, municipal affairs. The taxpayers are stuck in any event, as usual. No matter which side wins the taxpayer is standing: in the. mid- dle with both pockets turned’ inside out. Let’s settle this matter. A NEWSPAPERLESS TOWN: | oe (Wareham. (Mass.), Courier) | We have often tried to imagine what a town would be like which is so blind to community in- terests as to be indifferent in’ its. support of a ‘local newspaper. Saree. The newspaperless town indicates that it is either too’small to be of much business -im- portance, or that its citizens are without business enterprise or civic pride. The very absence of a local newspaper in any town of suitable size in- dicates that it lacks enterprise, energy, or civic character. Sich a,town would advertise to the, world that it did Rot, think much of itself ands didn’t care what, others thought of it. The very fact that no one published.a newspaper in it would prove conchisively that it did not mierit one; and that its business concerns. were - unprogressive and therefore unworthy of patronage: Upvery worth-while town has a local newspaper, The greatest business builder is advertising and the failure to seek business by advertising stamps: any concern as lacking in initiative and: indifferent to progress. ‘The lack of subscription support such as te-which' many an. editor succumbs,. It re~ quires.competent editors with broad-educa- tional and practical background, to; put the right tag on reading matter that is sent them. J, L. Horne, Jr., chairmaw of the:state board: of Conservation and Development of North Carolina, says that the. State adver- tising. campaign was bringing millions of dollars of new money into the state and putting it into cireulation. Travel business |' in North Carolina last year amounted to $64,350,000; an increase of $29,000}000 over the previous year. Horne said fur- ther that the State was getting back $16 in revenue. for every. dollar-invested in ad- vertising. Florida should never let up-on its advertising; it should be: increased each year, and:eyery county, and, municipality. should do: its proportionate share in ad~ vertising its resources and. advantages. The returns will justify. the investment, would -make-a newspaper unprofitable shows that either the paper itself lacks reader interest or that thé people of the community are incapable of. appreciating iti Either way the result is the same. The news- paperless town’ passes unnoticed and: cannot, ex- pect to be known to the world as anything but a ‘backward: community and a place where. people live, but do not thrive. vigorously. Reason. The. United. S ‘Tampa Shipbuilding and. Engine ‘a further contract. of $9,072,150. ing capital is needed and. the company is 2 seeking loans. from: the Reconstruction Fi- ‘malicious ki! Ww | prosecute but we dislike to do ; lawful practice must be stopped. {should de all |never before been in any zoolog- |now touring the state, were in- ‘the family of Mrs. W. Hunt, Har- “MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1939 ee Highlights Of Florida By KENNETH FRIEDMAN CUSCOELSTSCC CEE GeRECe Seeogcoeoen SWIMS UPSIDE DOWN ITS. PECULIAR HABIT OF WIMMING GIVES THE 2" BACKSUIMMER" ITS POPULAR KEY WEST IN, DAYS GONE (BY wes The local Woman's Club again jof dynemite. They are ‘also un-| comes out in defense of the feath- derstood to have seen, parties ered ‘tribe and declares that the ‘aboard: before the blast, The| ous killing of birds in Key | boat had been sold to parties in| Nest, must stop. The Citizen has |Cuba and the purchasers had gone been Yequested to’ announce this to Havana to bring the money | action. “We know: of some who'/for the purchase. are almost daily violating the; sae are tle Ms, Drie A Webs sop the practice is stopped.even if ar- |!" in Key West decades ago, as rests have to be made, We know |Miss Emma Hawkins, who ‘arrit- who they are and have the neces-|ed on her first trip in 37 years sary. information with which to and remained here for a while, ‘left yesterday for her home in |Tampa. Mrs. Webb was a school chs are out when the family moved tof : . Tampa and expressed herself as ran ping he birds being particularly delighted at the | thems troy thy -sintal: practices, | hee gee tee eee eh and. in this way avoid arrest and 49 Geers ago. Oe Fake a “ “ate . en- poi court costs”, it was sug-|sion had not been thought of at Z that time and the Over Sea High- way was not even a distant Ira Thompson, Key West. boy,' dream. Key West’s only means INVENTED INDIAN — ALPHABET /6NO T OF ENGLISH TS, QUOlA, CHEROKEE GENIUS, DEVELOPED A WRITING SYSTEM OF HIS OWN this, however this sinful and un- Families of the boys jand nephew of Chester Thomp-' of connection with the outside son, who operates the curio store | world was by boat. on Margaret street, who joined | é the:Pinchot South Sea fishing ex- | ; iting: trony’. this: “port Editorial Comment; Forty cas- ayy :es of intoxication as the charge rn aboard’ the: schooner Mary) was in Tampa court Monday ' jot, has’ been. complimented ‘morning. Are the old times com- | and thanked by the director of ing back? i the: National Zoological Park in Washington for his. heroic -and daring activities in the matter of capturing a mammoth turtle on one. of the Galapagos group. of is- lands. The turtle is one that has Charles. Roberts; who is em- ployed at. ‘the First National Bank, has tendered his resigna-}' tion to that institution and it is effective’ August 31. Mr, and Mrs, Roberts propose to leave the city September 3 and go'to Louis- Ville, Ky., where Mr. Roberts will accept a position with one of the banks in that city. ical park and is expeted’ to ,be alive in: the. park after the species have become extinct. agement and repeated failure that he finally evolved the Cherokee. syllabary in 1821, which was recog as_an invaluable in- vention for the elevation of the tribe. Within a few. months, thousands of hitherto illiterate Cherokees. were able to write their own language. Sequoia was born about. 1760 in Tennessee, but later moved to Arkansas . where he. took up his: permanent abode. His remarkable invention was: destined to have a profound influence. on Cherokee. history. The Florida Seminoles are descendants, of the Cherokees. The Cherokees were the fore- bears of the Florida Seminoles: Qn: its. back, which is_ shaped like the bottom of @ boat, the BACK-SWIMMER can travel with astonishing, rapidity across the surface of the water. A, relative of the giant water bug, this peculiar insect has a very sharp: beak. with which it sucks,out the juices of its_prey. It also has wings which are util- ized:to fly from pond:to pond. Though’ he: never attended school, and, in all his: life, never learned to speak, read or write the English language, SEQUOIA. was able to devise a method of communicating thought among the Cherokee Indians by means of writing. It was only after years of S patient labor in! the face of ridicule, discour- { Mervin Archer, son of. Mr. and}, ‘Mrs, Milton Archer of: this. city, THE LOWDOWN FROM HICK ORY GROVE! has taken over the Roberts serv- | Somebody is all the time try-| 3 ee he willy not know ‘mobile. Quesioning brought out Floris Castillo and Manuel Va- rela, members of the Conch team} ‘The seventh’ big. convention of * F < the present year for Key West 1 jured ina automobile accident Comes to the city early~ in No-| and returned. home yesterday: ' i Floris suffered a severely injured al Pei cg Dig en ot and was otherwise hurt. The 'county Tax Assessor Eugene Al- ‘arela boy was hurt in the chest “bury is in receipt of a cémmuni- been was slightly injured in other cation from the body that Key PRS of thee, bedty. West has ben selected’as' the city | ’ }for thé 1929 meeting, having been Aig Rie 10-year-old son. of Mrs.!given a majority of the votes | ; Bip yg ae TOY. cover a number of Florjda cities oon i when struck. by. an automobile: in paling fen ie Serene: front. of his. home on Simonton street between Olivia. and- Pe- tronia. streets. . The little fellow suffered a compound fracture: of the leg and bones penetrated through to the surface. t i FUNNIEST PEOPLE - ; jl musket, And. people, they had} forgotten all about: him, \ And. it will be likewise 20, WICHITA, Kas—A puff and years from new. And the Big! a boom startled a Wichita. sales- Names today, our grandson, he! ion when he dropped a’ cigaret ; hi = elt ocratchy hip, Beats Oe Sr | butt into the ash trav of his auto- Variety show presented by the ‘Woman’s.Club last evening in the ice station in Key West. He re- i 7 { . 2 4 jing, to make us. think. they can| whether they are a.7-day bicycle high: school building was witness- : "hase--or | the fact that his children used the cently. ‘arrived here from- Wash- ington, D. C., where he had been connected with the Chevrolet service. He invites his,fgiends to pay him a call. { a u t maybe wave their hand, and the! rider—or played second base—or pi yao nae pe Dane ane is be-! The Broward.. baseball team |sun will come up in the west and| maybe was just some politician; |tray as a depository ‘for ' their cate annk bighk mee 6 ee playing the Key West team. in Ft.|set in the east. And we are fond| Yours, with the low down, | fireworks July 4 and had. neg- ‘Heal. arod ted ape a py [Lauderdale yesterday shutout: the | of tricks, so we say. O.. K. Boss.| JO SERRA. lected to remove a few. jlocal boys by a score of 3°to 0.| ang whoever can think up. the| oe local talent. jg js 1 Thip. ie: the: fiwt.of 4. eae BAMe a tast idee, and we do not pay HERE IS UNUSUAL VALUE .. . IN A GENUINE = ere GENERAL ELECTRIC HOME LAUNDRY _ After a pretty even fight for; And lots of people are kinda) five rounds, Kid Castellano: sent |leaning to the idea that we are| Special Offer—Not a Closeout of Obsolete Models GE Activator Editorial: Comment: | The first bathing beauty was Eve, the first bathing suit reached from the crown of the head to the tips of her toes and) the first mirror was Py ” Rok i ’ a\ sparkling pool of: water, and the ee ts to the mat in-never going, to, get over. being a ‘that session of the bout held: last ‘only msn who had: the pleasure jnight at the Cuban Club Sta- of seeing her splashing: the Liquid ajen: The fight was good: until nectar over her supple form was|the fourth round and honors ace says the icity wiper Tf|were even: but.in that chapter Mr. Rip Van. Winkle, he went to! i eur im oie would paint the!the “Old Man” seemed to. slow. sleep.for 20 years up there in the} tie a colors it would have alup, his breathing became appar- New York Catskills and when he Be sale. ently more difficult and in the. woke up, everything was changed fifth he was sent to the cleaners, —and the locy dropped off his But the U. S. is a great coun- try--and we can stand a lot— and. times. change. Like this} Mrs. Wm, R. Warten and chil: dren, who have been summering jy in’ the mounteins of North Caro- lina, expect to ledve Montreat in automobile e echame; They! ‘cconparied “oy Mix Heen Williams, who accompanied ris on. the extensive automobile tour of-the country. Investigation. of. the. explosion which, wrecked the valuable. mo- torboat. of Raul Garcia early Sunday morning is underway to- day and every effort will be made to determine the cause. of: the explosion and if possible the capture of the guilty. parties re- sponsible for the destruction of: the fine vessel, if. itis.so determ- Between ALL. POINTS. ON’ FLORIDA KEYS —between— MIAMI AND KEY WEST TWO ROUND TRIPS DAILY arrive Miami 3:00 o’clock P. Mi mance Corp., so it can proceed with, the or- |. If histamine headaches: are. more’ |,