The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 5, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO ‘The dey West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING OO., INC. L. P. ALTMAN, President and Publisher 40E ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County -utered at Key West, Florida, as second elass matter | Member of the Associated Press ue Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to ‘ or pot etherwise credited in this paper and also the Ideal news published: here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES une Year six Months Three Months Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of -espect, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Noticts for entertainment by churches from which & 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 ext but it will not publish anonymous communi- He 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; a:ways 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 print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. opinions; (MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WES‘ 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. Of course, ee new Prtaiter does away | with many opportunities for graft. tadio has hurt the newspapers just as the automobile has hurt the railroads. Key West cannot advance by going backward. The new charter was a_ step forward, but reactionaries are not disposed to put the best foot forward. This column favors all holidays to be | either on a Saturday or a Monday, giving two full days of recreation. There are ome folks, however, who favor but two | holidays a year, each of six months dura- | tion. | AS | “A world war will destroy civiliza- tion’—Don’t you believe it. Should Europe destroy every vestige of its civilization’ there would remain our glorious country, Canada and the Latin nations south of us. As a slogan to prevent war it is all right, as a probable fact it is all wrong. Government scientists say that a hunk of raw-beef applied to a “shiner” is the} bunk, and that if some one supplied the | beefsteak to eat it, and apply a cold com-| press to the eye. The advice issued as a result of the investigation made has cost the taxpayers a nice piece of change. | Over the country in the past two years 76 daily papers have folded up with re- sultant unemployment. Higher wages, in- | creasing taxes, (particularly social security and unemployment taxes) have been the chief causes for the suspensions. There was a time when the increasing costs of is- suing a newspaper. could be passed on to the readers and advertisers, but there is a | limit: to everything. Why doesn’t President Roosevelt. build | his gwn memorial in which to stack his library, instead of asking the people of this | country to contribute $350,000 to pay for | the building at Hyde Park, particularly in view of the staggerig number of our peo- ple out of employment? voted $12,000 annually for its upkeep, andj all Mr. Roosevelt did was ta donate the site. It is a selfish scheme to. perpetuate his mame at the expense of the American | taxpayers and government. employees, the | latter being asked to make donations, and \ be anathema if they don’t. Congress. has | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN BEACH PLANS ADVANCE It was good news to citizens and to ; our business and hotel interests to learn that progress is being made with the plans for a temporary beach to serve the | public and tourists until the main muni- | cipal beach is finished. One of the city’s greatest drawbacks last season was the lack of adequate bath- ing beach. By adequate is meant a beach that is clean, well-policed and managed in the best interests of Key West and her guests. There are beaches here, probably always have been beaches here, but they were not well kept and in condition to ap- peal to visitors accustomed to clean sand and regulations prohibiting rowdyism, ball playing and the distasteful advances strutting romeos,, Bathers like peace, com- fort and cleanliness. The Key West civic plan is to utilize the beach at the foot of Duval Street which, it is understood, will be made avail- able at virtually no cost. It is hoped to in- clude a stretch of beach toward Simonton Street, but sponsors of the project seem to feel the rental demanded by the property owner there is too high. However, this It is hoped to have the beach ready for use | oy Nov. 1, right at the start of the tourist | season. | Corstruction of the proposed muni- | cipal beach along Roosevelt Boulevard for | a distance of 1,300 feet above Bertha | Street isa large job. Preparation of plans, approval of the plans, raising of a sponsor- | tails will take some time and wave with the assistance of man-made jet- ties and other works to hold the sand on the rocky shore. In all probability it will be around two years before that beach is ready. So the temporary beach at Duval Street is important. It should have the loyal and liber] support of everyone in- terested in the development of Key West as a tourist center. It will not take a large sum to do the job, but the resulting bene- fits will loom large in the city’s economic welfare. This is one project that should | not be pushed around or crushed by pea- ; nut politicians. There has been enough buck-passing and lukewarm, handling of) vital municipal improvements. WHERE DOES DEFENSE BEGIN? Walsh, of Massa- chusetts, urges the slogan, “No. war, ex- cept in defense of our country, our free- dom and democratic institutions.” Mr. Walsh is chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee. He insists that Senator David I. | all we want is to “protect our freedom and our democratic institutions for _our own children.” Well, so we do, but this doesn’t tell us exactly what the Senator means by his generalized slogan, which will be prompt- ly approved by every American, including those who would like to see an American Hitler and the demolition of the demo- cracies of the world. The point to be understood, in all this talk about defending our country, is where does the defense begin. It is pos- sible for other nations to cripple the eco- nomic life of the United States and reduce the standard of living of every American home wihout firing a gun against an Am- erican fortress or warship and without landing a man on the soil of the Western Hemisphere. THE PUZZLING BRAIN The human brain is a remarkable structure, according to physiologists, who ought to know what they are talking | about. We are naturally amazed at the | functions of the human mind. How works is far beyond our ken. Gray mat- | ter, white matter, and all, is a mysterious combination of results. selves as amazed over the workings of the brain as we are over the failure of the mind to perform its job. There are some people (many of whom you undoubtedly know) whose acts: indicate an entire lack of brains. Certainly there is little outward evidence that the convolutions are deep enough for the job at hand. Nature made people different; man | tries to make them alike. problem probably will be ironed out soon. ! it | Yet, when we reflect upon the human mind and its workings, we do not find our- | Highlights Of Florida By KENNETH FRIEDMAN: 0000 00000000029 0000004 0B 2OS BROCCO Coccceeoeer ees occeesuosscacoooeoceleee | of | TAMARIND, \ 7@OPICKL FLORIDA FRUIT 1S BOTH THE | ship fund of around $25,000 and other de- | effort. | That beach must be built up by wind and | FLORIDA'S STRANGE BOTTOMLESS PIT NO'LESS THAN A SCORE * (QF STREAMS POUR INTO by DEVILS MILL HOPPER. NERR eA | GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA H CuTHOUR EVER RAISING THE WATER! | 4EVEL AF THE BOTTOM! Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen spending |and bugle corps lent color to the | Frank H. Ladd is some time in Havana in the in- terest of the movement of the At-| lantie Co 1 Highway Ass jtien to obtain government aid in the construction of the for the Over: Highway _ be- tween Key West and the main- j4and. He is being accompanied jon the trip and od in his |mission by George F. Cook, ex- tensive owner of property .in the mainland portion of Monroe county. They are tained in their efforts by Dr. An- dres de Terry, of the Automobile Club of Cuba, according io re- ports from Cuba. which state |that the men from Key West are there as a part of the campaign to obtain the cooperation of all the elements concerned in the completion of the highway from Canada to Key West and have already been assured that Cuba is vitally inte ed in the proj- ect, the Cuban government hav- jing already signified their will- ‘ingness to go into the matter. t A party of prominent Cubans, headed by General Pedro Betan- court, president of the National Association of Veterans of Cuba, : |and personal representative of the president of Cuba, Gerard Machado, was given an enthus- liastie reception and welcome to Key West yesterday upon their jarrival from Havana enroute to the annual convention of Spanish ‘War Veterans at Denver, Colo. |General and Mrs. were accompanied by Ralph W. Crain, commander of the Ha- jvana Camp, United Spanish War Veterans, and other noted Cuban! | citizens. They were met at the {local piers by a large gathering ;of Key West people, which * in- j cluded an official welcoming and entertaining committee composed of army and navy officers, mem- bers of the American Legion and B. H. McCalla Camp. United |Spanish War Veterans. The ‘presence of the ships of Sea Scouts, under command of Skip- per C. Sam B. Curry, and a drum CHILLS AND FEVER Here’s Relief From Malaria! with fever. At first. sign of Malaria, take Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic. A real Malaria medicine. Made es: cially for the purpose. Contains | tasteless quinidine and iron. Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic ac- | tually combats. Malaria infection in | the blood. It relieves the freezing | ¢hills, the burning fever. Helps you feel better fast. Thousands Chill Tonic for Malaria and swear | by_ it. Pleasant to take, too. Even children take it without a whimper. Don’t shiver and burn. 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A grand musical will be pre- sented Friday evning at the Key West High School, with the best local talent taking part.;,;The program will consist of good sing- | ing, pretty chorus acts, muisical numbers and singing and danc- ing and reading acts. The ,pro- ceeds will aid the boy scouts of, Troop 1 in going to Atlanta in 1930. 20, ‘and Mrs. Opal Kernes_ Paull, originally from New York coming to this city about four months ago from Miami, passed away last evening at the Mer- cedes hospital. She was the wife of Tom Paull, a veterans bureau patient at the Marine Hospital and accompanied him here in or- der to be with him while he was} undergeing treatment. He is ex- pected to fully recover and will For Real Econoniy For Real Service For Real Protection DELIVERED DAILY EVERYWHERE Thompson Enterprises INCORPORATED ICE DIVISION PHONE NO. 8 THE WALLS OF THE GREAT BOUL? SHAPED PHENOMENON ARE_ C77 IAA ALAA Ld | DEFENDS KEY WEST Editor, The Citizen: | Having read an editorial in The | | Citizen of Aug. 30 from the Lake } ‘Worth Herald, in part says: They say, from what we have learned at this distance from Key West, and the famous new boulevard, | connecting it with the mainland, | travel over the scenic road and} the Island City’s tourist business | revival, have not entirely ful-| filled expectations. Well if it did not it was because of one-track minds of your town, West Palm, Beach, Ft. Lauderdale and some of the: lesser) intelligent of Mi- | ami, that tried to induce people | ‘not to come to the interesting | leity of Key West, told them no water to drink, no food fit to eat, and no clean or decent hotel and rooming accommodations. Some were silly enough to lis- ten to such falsehoods, but the intelligent class did not—so, Lake Worth, if I were you I would keep quiet, take a back seat, for you or no other town can control the en- tire tourist trade. Do not always | lister to what “they say.” | MRS. MAYO. 933 Fleming Street, ‘ Key West, Fla., | Sept. 5, 1939. be released from the institution at an early date. | According to news dispatches | received here today from Sa-! v'nnah, Ga. Mrs, Martha Mc-| Mahon of Jacksonville, was killed | and Mrs. Rena Combs and Billy | Combs, of the same city, were! injured when their automobile | turned over-on.a road leading | from Savannah. The party were | on the way to New York. 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