The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 6, 1939, Page 2

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1939 NOBODY KNOWS WHAT MAKES A: GOOD FLIER OR BAD ONE By PRESTON GROVER THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ON THE SPOT PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen a MONROE 4S FARMING AREA eccce! ; Several Monroe. county residents. are giving some study to the possibility of sup- plying the local market with home-grown vegetables and produce. A.few state- ments along this line were presented at last week’s meeting of Key West Rotary club. H Anyone who has tasted vegetables and fruits grown in Monroe county knows Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN. PUBLISHING CO, INC. L. P. AK TMAN, President and Pubiisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Strange as it may seem, if the | United: States is eventually drawn, into the new European conflict,’ — WasHINGTON, Sept: eof 10.800 isin i pteenens 8 asl radio will be a contributing fac-| 25 who will be tried out by the government this year for possible tor to the cause. During the first | service as air fighters. probably only 400 to 600 will become worthy | World War, radio was in its in-| combat fliers. The rest will fall by the wayside. most of them be- ‘fancy, and few, if any, could | fore they ever put hand to the*. (nly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County -atered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press we Agsociated Press is exclusively entitled tp use for republication of all news dispatches credited to 4. of pot etherwise credited in this paper and also the i@tal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES | six Months Three Monthi gne Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE Alb reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of espect, obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at the vais of 10 cents a line, ‘Neticks for entertainment by churches from which 2 revenue is to be derived are & cents @ line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites. discus- jon of public issues and subjects of local or general | + but it will not publish anonymous communi- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be aid 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 and praise virtue. coamend good done by individual or organ- zation; tolerant of others’ tights, views and | | | | | opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle, ({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. A “yes” man is often a no man. It is a good omen to have “no” men in Congress. If the big newspapers with their vast advertising patronage and large circula- tion are folding up, how long can the small town daily paper with meager advertising and small circulation last until it crumbles inte dust? The ideological differences between Germany and Russia are almost like the kilometers that separate the two. The| distance from Germany to Russia is just the’same as that from Russia to Germany, thongh each goes the other way. There are so many words in the dic- tionary that never see the light of day and when on dccasion they do make their ap- pearance, they are accused of being high- hat when as a rule they are humble as- semblages of letters and. generally un- obtrusively come to the fore. A fellow | thatseldom is heard of is “sponymous”— emerging from obscurity to the editorial | page of the New York Times. For writing a book of jingles, titled | “Folk Jingles of American Children”, Mrs. Dorethy G. Mills, a «junior high school | teacher in East Orange, N. J., got a doc-| tor’s degree from New York University’s School of Education. One of the jingles | goes like this: “I see London, I see France, | I seé Betty’s under pants.” Children will | laugh with glee at these doggerells and the grown-ups will join in the laughter, just as you are doing now. j There is a movement on foot to have | all persons on the WPA rolls sign slips as- | serting they do not advocate, and are not | | land. | sold at periods of least demand | sold at | enough to make the ra: | keys profitable, and at the same time pro- the superlative quality of them. There is | no question but that the keys can be made | to produce sufficient vegetables and fruits, now imported from other sections of the state, to supply the local market. There are some problems involved. Vegetables now raised here and along the | “keys are reported to be expensive._ It costs ; so much to cultivate and water the crops | that the cost exceeds the price that must | be paid for similar products on the main- Vegetables can be raised here | throughout the entire year—if there is suf- | ficient water to keep them nourished. That is one reason why the proposal to bring fresh water from the mainland is so important. At certain periods of the | day, when the demand for water at Key West, was at the low point, the supply might be drained off for irrigation of crops on the keys. This water, because it was in Key West and other settled points, would be dump pric sufficiently low sing of crops on the vide the aqueduct authority with a greater volume of revenue to pay off any bonded | | debts and operating expenses. No doubt some consideration to this phase of operations was given by the Aqueduct Commission when it was prepar- ing an application to federal lending agencies for funds to finance construction of the water system. This source of rev- enue should be thoroughly explored by the commission. It might be found sufficient to increase estimated revenues to the point where investment in the water bonds might be attractive to private interests. The idea is worth further investigation. WHY WOMEN BUY It is well known by all live merchants, and by husbands as well, that practically all buying for the home is either actually done by women or directed by them. For this reason the merchant’s greatest prob- lem is to attract the favorable attention of women to his wares. Women are alert to grasp opportuni- ties to secure merchandise at a bargain and they are more discriminating buyers than } men, as a rule. They read advertisements and act upon the information obtained thereby. In order to determine just what adver- | tising mediums have the greatest in- fluence on women’s buying, a recent sur- vey made by a Los Angeles club developed some interesting facts. Re- plies from 1,000 women of all classes were obtained in answer to a questionnaire list- ing the various advertising mediums and asking what form of advertising influenced them most. Newspapers were credited with most influence by 36 per cent of these women, magazine advertisements 22 per cent, street car advertising by less than 4 per cent, while booklets, pamphlets and cir- cular letters influenced less than 2 per cent. Thus again is every wide-awake merchant must have al- advertising | ‘the institution and climbed up weekly. demonstrated what |hailed with delight. ready observed—that newspaper adver- | | tising is the most potent medium for reach- ing women buyers. Ard this applies with equal force to men buyers, too. WAR PROPAGANDA It is rather important for American citizens to realize that, excepting several countries in Europe, the news that one reads from other nations is mostly what the officials of the other nations want us to read. This will be true, undoubtedly, of all members of organizations which advocate, ' countries now that the guns of war have the-violent overthrow of: the Government. | begun their barking. The facts will be There can be no objection to this plan. If} carefully concealed, as they were during the-needy ask help of this Government, | the last struggle, and the reader on this theg should be willing. to assert: their | side of the Atlantic will get only.the broad loyalty to the hand that feeds them. It| outlines of strategy and results. * shéuld be made possible for all Americans | to make a livelihood and if this cannot be | new atrocities. They crop up with every dome through the commercial channels,| war whenever they serve the cause of the-government should come forth and aid | propagandists. Some of them are the re- to the fullest extent of its ability, and. sult of passions aroused in fighting men soyalty to this country and its institutions | but most of them are the offspring of fer- must not only be required but demanded. | tile imaginations. : | Naturally, we will be hearing about | | | | | | Editorial Comment: The pro-} ra a4 ¥ S posal: to raise from $100 to $200 C j Ag : a {boast of having one. But now! radios are common, everybody} _has one, and everybody is listen-! ing to the war. news. ‘| News of the first. war reached | us through the newspapers, and' {sometimes the stories were a week old before we read them, ‘then if there were no stories for ‘the papers, the reporters created! 'their own and gave them to the public. Public sentiment caused us to! ‘enter the last war. Public senti- iment incited by newspaper sto- ‘ries. If this country fell for those war articles in newspapers, what do you think it will do now with the news being brought from the ‘front line by radio? You can imagine what public sentiment} | will be in this country if the war ‘lasts. three months. oe, Already every five minutes |some news commentator is on the air, painting some terrible pic-' ® ture of how one country or an- KEY WEST IN | __ The Heart eoccccevce DAYS GONE BY Put me in touch with the heart other is using gas on the civilian | of a boy; population. Already you can hear Let me study his and people on the streets grumbling fears, ‘and passing their opinion as to Ago Today As Taken From = And let me show him, the way What should be done. The Files of The Citizen of life | The propaganda campaign: is Poccccccoocsecrecesoeeeee® And help him avoid its tears. !not being conducted by the pa- According to news dispatches For the heart of a boy in its pers this time—it is on the air, received from Savannah, Ga., to-!___ buoyancy and although it is only natural day, relating of the automobile |Is one that is pure and free. ‘for us to listen to the news from} accident which resulted in the So put in touch with the heart of Europe, we should not let our! death of Mrs. Martha McMahon ; a boy, jemotions run away with us or we! last week and injury to Mrs,/The heart of a man to be. ! will be lost. j Rena Combs and Billy Combs of | —Selected. | From time immemorial, war has Jacksonville, Mrs. Combs was Pood Aaa ibeen horrible and in every war! |CHECKING UP NOW driving and the road was slip- that hag ever been fought the; pery. She attempted to pass an- |non-combatants have suffered. | other car. Mrs. McMahon was ON HORSEPOWER! Sherman marched _ through | thrown from the car, which} wee |Georgia seventy-six years ago in} crushed her when it turned over | (diy Wenabintcai Piel): ;much the same fashion that Gen-' on the highway, Mrs. Combs! YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL | ¢"3l Franco marched through | was badly cut about the face; , Spain. while Billy sustained an injury PARK, Wyo. Sept. 6—How many | "sherman treated the Civilians to the shoulder. Mrs. Combs &#llons to a bucket of oats? ‘in the same manner as Franco. was formerly Miss Rena Elbert-| That’s the favorite question, Civilians being killed in war is| son, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. C.'that comes from automobile- nothing new, but if we listen to, S. Elbertson of this city. minded visitors in Yellowstone the news artist on the radio we| < , will end id'in 1917. | National Park who get out from! 7 Fac prpinchept Mens behind their steering wheesl long Four Horsemen always ride to- | enough ‘for a trail trip through! gether — WAR, PESTILENCE, FAMINE and DEATH—and they ‘are not particular where they ride, whether it be among the civilians ‘or the armies. i out at the end of the season, when | A CITIZEN. their work slackens. As’ the end;}Key West, Fla., ‘ of the riding season neared, they | Sept. 5, 1939. i Mrs. C. Sterling Gardner, wife said. park visitors have bounced ; See et ey eee cf former pastor of Fleming 12,563 miles on saddle leather Street Methodist church in this and that’s enough mileage to city, who recently underwent a burn up a lot of oats. serious surgical operation at High , ————____ | Springs. Fla., is now doing nicely | U.S.N., for more than two years ond is said to be well on the road public works officer at the naval CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., Sept. to recovery. station, has rceived orders trans-'6.—There are some _ straight- ap eciedas 'ferring him to Norfolk, Va., to be shooting folks around Treating 1,475 patients and per- public works officer at the navy | Girardeau: forming 201 major and 258 minor yard there. Lieutenant. Com- Hubert McCullough was re-| operations during the fiscal year Mander L, N. Moeller has been ' placing the glass bull’s-eye that ending June 30, the Marine hos- assigned to the naval station to had been knocked’ from the cen- pital at Key West rounded out relieve Lieutenant Spalding. jter of a driving: range target one of the most active and suc- TER EGR GEE when—bingo!—some one hit it cessful years in the history of Subsertpe to The Citizen—20¢ | again and knocked it right out | of: McCullough’s hand. The Heart Of A Boy Happenings Here Just 10 Years. doubts Winfield Russell, secretary of the fire department, stated today ; that there will be a meeting of the Fire Police held tonight start-: this naticnal playground. ing at 8 o’clock and there are Rangers don’t know the exeat many important matters to be) answer, but they may figure it considered and for that reason it! is hoped that there will- be large attendance at the meéting. Dangerous, Too, If You're A. Robber My Annocinted Presa) eight points in its standing as compared with other institutions of its kind in the United States. These activities are incorporated in the annual Oh Ey issued by Dr. M. S. Lombard. i the free entry maximum on goods brought back to the United States: by residents who have been tfaveling abroad will be Congress has this in mind, we understand. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service Between ¥ Also Serving ALL POINTS: ON FLORIDA KEYS “—between— MIAMI AND KEY WEST Tonight at 8:15 o’clock at the Junior-Senior High School of Key West, a grand musical comedy will be presented and some of the | best musical talent in the city, will be heard. Chorus acts, good | singing, readings, musical num- bers and dancing acts will be seen and-heard. The proceeds will go toward the fund being raised by Boy Scout Troop 1 and will be! used in the continuance of their scout work. Commencing tomorrow night | Howard Wilson and his Whoopee | Boys: will furnish music for a se- ries of dances to be held at Coral | Isle Casino, the management of TWO. ROUND TRIPS DAILY. LEAVE KEY WEST DAILY (except Sunday) 1:00 o’clock: A. M: arrive Miami 7:00 o'clock. A..M. 8:00 o’clock A.M: arrive Miami 3:00 o'clock P..M. LEAVE MIAMI DAILY (except: Sunday), : 1:00 o’clock A2'M: that discrimination, the others may ,at all. ‘to the training. Hinckley agreed | Cape ||’ controls of a fast army plane. | give you an argument on that”, However, of the remainder, per- | he said. haps as many as.80 to 90 percent} Nazi Mortality Rate | will. qualify as. private pilots. and | Hinckley thinks even 10,000 is become a potential ”, ? to be|a small crop. drawn upon in an emergency. “Germany has 65,000 men be- Psychology tests will get some ‘tween 18 and 35 years in training of them. Ground school exam-/camps and is turning out 25,000 inations will take out more. Sick- pilots annually. Of course, Ger- ness, change of heart and other!many under this high-pressure causes will eliminate some. From system is killing them off at the those who survive, the army will! rate of about a minimum of three choose 600.or perhaps fewer. ‘every two days, to a maximum Ninety to 95 percent will have | figure that I have heard of 3,500 a college background. To prevent |a year”. By use of psychological tests it is hoped to weed out many men They probably won't get before the expensive training very far without at least a high- begins, but so far nobody knows school education. jexactly what makes a good flier, All these things and' more come jor a poor one. Four psychologists out as the army, and the Civil!and 22 universities are cooperat- Aeronautics authority get ready ing under the air school scheme come uv with no book learning ito put more fighting men in the | to try to find out. air than we ever had before. They “The air corps at Randolph field expect to take on a crop of 10,-|(the army’s principal flying 000 this year and others, year by | school) selects only the perfect year, until they get enough. It] physical specimens”, says Hinck- will take four years, perhaps ley. “They have had instances longer. | down there where an all-America Colleges. that take on the | football player could not learn to ground schol as part of their class; fly and a tap dancer did learn. work will be given $20 a student | But we do not know whether an- to provide facilities. The incom-} other :tap dancer could or anoth- ing student will have to shell out/er all-America football player $40.for laboratory fees. He has to! could not”. maintain himself. It is no all-! > expense job. i] Eases No Job Guarantee | When his preliminary training} For itch tortured skin that nee is finished the student will not be: OITON, Suri it eases the itch- guaranteed a job. The army or} navy may want him to take ad-/ gto. vanced training. In any event he; ne: will be part of the “pool” of trained pilots the government '——— wants for national defense. It will cost: about $10,000 per student to carry them from air- . ignorance to the grade of army) Boston, New York, Miami pilot. About $300 a student is al- | Jacksonville, Galveston: lowed for the first year: This will} New Orleans and Beyond qualify them as private pilots. | At present there are 26,000 fliers | ‘one Key West alternate Mon- with some sort of a license. The! government estimates only 5,000; Pidins New York every Thurs are really first-grade fliers. | Robert. H. Hinckley, a member| From Beston — Tuesday. of the Civil Aeronautics author- | From. Jacksonville, Miami and New Orleans every two weeks. ity, says women may be admitted 5 Clyde-Mallory Lines C. E. SMITH, Agent Key: West, Fla. FAST DIRECT FREIGHT SERVICE ‘that a lot of people would con-! sider money spent on women) fliers as utterly wasted. , c “But a lot of women would HERE IS UNUSUAL VALUE .. . 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