The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 23, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO Che Key West Citizen Publisheé Daily Except Sunday By ‘THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING 00. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President and Pebiisher JOE ALLEN, Assintant Business Manager Prom The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County intered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press he Associgted Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news es credited to it or not etherwise credited in this paper and also the ldtal news published here. ne SUBSCRIPTION RATES Une Year six Months Three Month: Dne Month Weekly RESCIND TOLL RESOLUTION Responding to the vigorous demands of the people of Key West and Monroe county, a majority of the members.of Over- seas Road and Toll Bridge District Com- | rescind the resolution of Aug. 12 raising | tolls cn Overseas highway from $1 for car | and driver to $1.75 for car and driver. There is some question as to when } this shall be done. Commissioner John Slade of Tallahassee, chairman of the com- mission, is reported to be planning a reg- | | late this month for the purpose of appoint- mission now seem committed to a plan to | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1939 TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY By RUSSELL KAY | | | |MANHATTAN'S APPEAL GREATER THAN FAIR Broadway’s Great White Way is in for the thrill of his life, | NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—While ular meeting of the road body to be held | i | “WHAT MAKES ITS TICK?” is ques- | tion asked by these three indomitable | experts, Franklin P. Adams, Clifton | Fadiman ai hn Ki m the cal tion of, baking powde ide her ‘stands Cou nt SRumtora, | the World’s Fair is the publicized | | attraction, Manhattan itself pos- Sesses an appeal for the visitor | | equal to, if not greater, than the | | Fair itself. Certainly to one visiting New York City for the first time, ; there is not a thrill the Fair can whether he is willing to admit it or not. If your finances permit, you can take in a show—at the mo- jment, Tobacco Road, Yokel Boy, | Helizapoppin’, Radjo -City Music Hall, or the Little Foxes may at- itraet you, and. they all offer su- jperb entertainment. | But with- |offer to compare with the awe- out a dime in your pocket you | inspiring greatness of the city it- ; can roam around 42nd and Broad- | self. Personally, I have visited way, mingle with the crowd, look | Manhattan a score times, “but(at the lights and experience a ing a successor to General Manager B. M. | casion, the great scientist oon ted | each time I experience the same | kick that you couldn't get any- Made known on application. “t SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of ks, resolutions of vespect, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at the rat of 10 cents a line. f Noticés for. entertainment by churches from which a revenue is to be derived are 6 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- 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 elass; asways 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; never com- promise with principle, ioc (MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WES* ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Compreheusive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Airports—Lind and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. An economist is a superior person who can tell us when we are in the middle of a bad fix. : Wonder if: the rumble-seat has been the inspiration for the’ revival of the “bustle?” é Fewer college girls marry, whieh may indicate that higher education improves the judgment, after all. Old and seasoned politicians are al- lergic to the inexperienced and_ untried ideas of the younger generation, be they democratic or republican. Business had some favorable reports to make last week. There was more buy- ing, more traveling, and more shipping. But the most cheering news to business men was the news that the representatives: of the people in Congress were reasserting their constitutiona] rights and powers. Hitler and Mussolini desire to “Munichize” the Danzig problem—get- ting something for nothing. Like Czech- - oslovakia, Poland is to remain in the back- greurd and take it on the chin just as did the former. That is the phase of the sit- uation as it appears on the surface today. Attorney General Murphy has stated that grand jury investigations aside from that in New York would be launched in other cities, It is stated that he mentioned ‘CHiieago, New Orleans, Boston, and “per- haps Miami”. That “perhaps” is a condi- tional implication and gives Miami a pro- bationary opportunity to behave itself. Now the New Deal has got the coun- try all balled up.on the Thanksgiving date, and there is confusion all around. The penultimate instead of the final Thursday in November is to be the date according to President Roosevelt and this has evoked a nation-wide turmoil. The change - works the greatest hardship on the’ printers of calendars and colleges that have football schedules arranged months before. One manufacturer of calendars stated he had 2,000,000 calendars all printed for 1940, and they cannot be Qhanged ; the same ap- plies to all other calendar manufacturers, who stand a loss sufficient to put them out of business. It looks like another faux pas, of the many this Administration has made. | } Duncan. Commissioner John Costar, vice ! chairman of the board, believes the re- scinding action may be taken at that time. Mayor Willard M. Albury and C. C. | Symonette of Key West are now seeking to ; have a special meeting of the commission | to take immediate action on the higher toll- rescinding ‘ resolution. The mayor and | Commissioner Symonette, who voted | In; favor of the-toll increase, now admit their | error. In bowing to Monroe publie opinion | they are prepared to make an about-face | in the matter. é | The regrettable part of this whole. situation is the unfavorable publicity that | has accrued to Overseas highway and Key | West as result of public condemnation of \ | the toll raising proposal, not only here, but | in.all sections of the state. It is a com- | mon occurence at present to hear regular | users of the highway, regular visitors to ; Key West, state they will never again pass through the highway toll gates if the tolls | are raised exorbitantly. | Since traffic experts of the State Road | Department have advised against any change in the present tolls for the time be- ‘ing, The Citizen does not believe the com- | mission should follow outside suggestions | that the toll charge be increased 25 cents on each car. The present toll has not been tested under normal conditions. The com- | mission should let the present rate stand. until operation results of the next several ‘months shall have been added up. If ‘revenues increase and operating costs de- crease a higher toll may not be necessary. Certainly nothing should be done this sea- son to disrupt the flow of travel toward Key West. ASTRONOMERS WORRIED Since 1675 the Greenwich Observa- tory, near London, has been the workshop of British royal astronomers, and for many years its meridian has been considered longitude 0, from which both east and west longitude is determined, -by most ’ civilized countries. But Greenwich is becoming unfit as a a report of Dr. H. Spencer Jones, royal as- tronomer, because of interference of vari- ous kinds from modern London. The glare of the city’s lights thrown against the sky, the thundering of trains, the sulphurous fumes from factories, and electrical interference with delicate in- struments are among the nuisances which “observations. : While it may be necessary eventually to remove the royal obServatory to atiother loeation, it is not believed that this will be done in the near future, and the as- tronomers will have to make the best of the situation. The United Kingdom has several modern observatories, among them being those at Edinburg, Dublin, Oxford and Cambridge. No observatory of the British Empire or any other country can compare with the best American observatories, however, either in equipment or achievement. FAVOR EMBARGO ON JAPS More than half the people of the United States favor action by the United States to stop the shipment of war ma- terial to the Japanese, according te a poll of public opinion by the American In- stitute of Public Opinion, . Only one-fourth of the persons polled favor a “do nothing. course’’ with six per cent favoring fighting and eighteen per cent favoring protests through «the State Department. When the Sino-Japanese war began, two years ago, a similar poll revealed that | a hands-off policy was favored, together with withdrawal of American citizens and has changed to where our people are dis- satisfied with the situation that finds us &; Stone, youthful Broadway sta tion. which includes being star of Broadway play, a dramatic instruct an understudy to the leading comic ay. and a play produce: family” now occupi 8po zra has added another job to his. collec. Niptress whose buat wit A. E. Marshall, Silver mical Wor Suzanne of Count Rumford was Vanderbilt; Count Rumford; Governor a ton NBC Sunday ‘The Andrews Sisters, id each Wednesday night. with h_ record cutti Just transcribed one of their songs step in the manufacture of a phonograpiy recard. Patty, LaVerne and Maxene, fea- Phil Baker on CBS, Hou ing machine. It has York to s onto wax, ‘the first and. Goion: for its services, SHINES ON A STAR—Pretty Olivia front of her Hollywood home as me bathes | Havilland graces the fawn in in the sun during idle hours. rig ' * |hicle from push-cart to tractors | Thomas E. Daley of the Mayor’s Official World's Fair Bureau rents a room he Fair. Major Benjamin Namm, pre: Francis Gorman, director of th on. The Bureau was established. b; Guardia to find rooms for visitors, to Ruth Godes in New urea rh it’ makes no charge KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY | Happenings Here Jugt Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Key West Rotarians will | 1 be there were considered a number j YOU GOT: RADIUM? THIS WOULD. TELL (Ny Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.— | thrill of excitement as the speed- | ing train threads its way through the maze of tracks and signal | towers, thundering along through | thickly populated areas to dive | into thé great tube under the Hudson and come up like a mole seeking air, in the heart of the | mighty metropolis. Never-Ending Throngs Then, like cattle being herded into a dipping vat, the never-end- |ing throng of humanity that floods in and out of tunnel and |.subway always fascinates me. People, people, people—hurry ing, shoving, pushing up and down ! | iron stairways, darting in lout of pillared passages, squirm- ing through clicking turn-stiles, mow junderground, now on the t surface, all‘ apparently: moving with @ purpose, with some def- hinite destination in- view and yet appearing en masse as inmates of a mad-house engaged in a riot. and! {where else in the world. } Luxury And Poverty Mix { Here lavish luxury and pitiful | poverty cast their respective | shadows across each others’ path land jeweled slippered feet skim ! tightly over marbled floors that flater know the calloused knees of the weary scrub woman. Eager youths and tottering age rub el- ‘bows in the jostling throngs; isleek chromium-trimmed eleva- tors hoist grim faced executives }to their financial lairs while ! rickety tenement stairs serve the shop girl’s aching feet. New York Needs America Manhattan, symbol of a _ na- | tion’s wealth and power, while ‘typically “American”, is not | AMERICA. Back of her: proud | structures of stone and steel stand j countless lesser cities, towns and villages, millions of fertile acres, vast forest areas, great mountain ranges, mighty lakes and rivers | that feed the arteries of commerce | Hustle And Bustle And Work / to find their beating heart in this | The streets, canyoned between | great metropolis. Cut off this rows of towering buildings, with | vital blood stream and New York steady streams of human beings} would shrivel and die, for while |moving in every direction along! America can live without New | the sidewalks, while squawking; York, New York cannot live | taxis, lumbering trucks, clumsy | without AMERICA. ‘buses and every manner of ve-! Other Great Sections Every American should visit dodge in and out between blocks' Manhattan and take pride in the to jam up at crossings, awaiting , achievement and progress it rep- the shriek of the traffic whistle ‘resents, but more important |or the changing of a light. levery New Yorker should see | Always, somewhere in Manhat-/cther parts of the country—the tan, grimy workmen are engaged sunny south, the golden west, the in tearnig up streets or side- ‘mountain areas and vast sections walks. Like surgeons cutting in-|of plain and prairie and learn |to the human body, they work | that New York in all her glory ; with pick and shovel to dig un-'js in reality but a small part of |der the skin and expose a tangled | the AMERICA on which she de- mass of lead-covered cables, sew- | pends for her existence. er, gas and water pipes, vital! And while, as a country boy, organs that serve a great city I pay homage to Manhattan, hav- |and insure its throbbing iife. jing seen a good part of the bal- | Magic Fairyland At Night “lance of the country, I’m ‘not for- | Night falls and a billion lights | getting that in the end of the day | like stars in the Milky Way crawl it’s the country boys like you and host to District Governor |How-/of proposals for the. abatement |Development of an improved por- out into the dusk to turn the city !I that make her what she is. ard W. Selby, also a party of about 150 Rotarians from Ha- vana and more than a dozen “brothers of the wheel” who are to come from Homestead this} levening and be guests at an elab- | fof } |hela next Wednesday night, was stated. portions of the delinquent tax- 'es. A similar meeting will be|©D0ush to detect the slightest) sng beauty. The country boy it evidence of radioactive material). gazes for the first time on in a living person, is reported by | table radium detector, sensitive into a magic fairyland of light | akaaiesinbcoaincabnesbaladletiaon Subscribe to The Citizen—20c Lwaskiy. ithe National Bureau of Standards. | It is said the device will help oe eae Editorial Comment: Giant pas- HERE IS UNUSUAL VALUE . .. IN A GENUINE place for astronomical work, according to | ‘worry the astronomers and hamper their |. forate supper and reception at La!senger airplanes will be soon Concha. District governor and {landing at Key West daily on the Homestead Rotes are arriving|proposed Columbug*+ Havana over the highway this afternoon /route. This city’s advantages as and the Cuban delegation will’an airport are becoming more come in on thé boat from Ha-/generally recognized’ aad it vana. Reception committees will to the city and join them in en-|fore long. joying the entertainment program | od that has been prepared. District} Battling Dundée, who is - an- are accompanying sation, the Patent Leather Kid, jat the Athletic Club Monday. ——_ {One of the fans said that it Nothing definite is known as to!his belief that the fight will jthe time when the public schools |draw one of the largest crowds ofthe: clgy. will be pnend for the ever, ty attend 8 aa in any of winter season, i juperinten- | the local clubs an all indi. dent of Public Instruction Mel-| cations he is right. vin E. Russell today. The school} ¢ —— board will take no action in the|~ Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Kiser, who matter until after the election to had for the past few weeks been be held September 21 to decide |the guests of Mr. Kiser’s brother, if the special 10-mill tax is to be T. L. Kiser. 506 Francis street, imposed, Mr. Russell states, as|left last evening for eo home the board is unable to make up in Huntington, W. Va. after a the budget until this is settled. | delightful trip and a most en- ‘An election was held on the 10- | joyable visit. mill issue. It was declared by —_— the coufity commissioners to have} In the report issued by the de- |been illegal in a number of ways; partment of agriculture at Tal- and there was a difference of | lahassee by Nathan Mayo, com- opinion as to the results of the/ = telection. A communication from) the attorney of the school board, was published yesterday, inj} which it was stated that another election will be held September} 21. 4 Edward McCall, the , 10-year- old bey wanderer, who has been in Key West since last Monday, is today well on his way to Ames, Iowa. where he will join his par- ents and the other four children of the family. The money for his passage was wired to Policé Serg- ant Valter Vinson, tickets pur- chased and the boy placed on the | train last evening. At a meeting of city council held'last night, a special session, stead Rotes him. i «_ | handled. 18} 2 jexpected that other ‘big trunk | missioner, it is shown that dur- | meet both parties, welcome them | lines will be looking this way. be-| ing the month of July there were | |decrease accidental contamina- tion by radioactive materials, a frequent occurence in research |laboratories © and commercial |plants where the materials are consumed in the various counties lin the state 15,468,155 gallons of gasoline. Duval county leads |governor comes on his. official!nouncing himself as from Key! with 1,917,074, while. Hillsboro | visit to the city and the Home- | Wet, will meet the Cuban sen-|was second with 1,862,222. Mon-| roe county consumed 85,703. ° woo — THY IT TODAY — The Favorite In Key West STAR * BRAND | .. 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