The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 11, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO ¥y West Citizen The Ke Published Daily Except Sunday By | THR CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. | L. P. ARTMAS, -President and Publisher | 40E ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager | From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Dally Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County -ntered at Key West, Florida, as second elass matter Member of the Associated Press ed Press is exclusively entitled tp use tion of all news dispatches credited to or not etherwise credited in this paper and also | loéal news published here. "SUBSCRIPTION RATES ERTISING RATES e known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of t, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at rate of 10 cents a line, vUices for entertainment by churches from which & revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- of public issues and subjects of local or general rest but it will not publish anonymous communi- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it ut 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 injystice; 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- promise with principle. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WESi ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN ‘ported that it is | service are being carried | volume of Cuban BOAT SERVICE TO CUBA Key West has lost a large volume of | trade and business this summer because of ——————— the stoppage of boat service to and from Cuba. Hotels, tourist homes, stores, cafes, | restaurants, the bus company and dozens | of other activities have been affected by ; the discontinuance of the regular sailings of the SS. Cuba. Too hastily some of our citizens are ‘prone to blame the P. & O. Steamship Company for this situation. A little in: vestigation will prove that the service was suspended after ship employes of the com- pany went on strike. It is reliably re- costing the company thousands of dollars weekly because the Cuba is not in operation linking Havana, Key West and Tainpa. Overhead continue while the boat is idle. Ship’s of- ficers are paid straight the boat is running or not. Naturally, the -\‘company is just as anxious as our business interests in having the service in effect. At great cost the company has finally re-established the regular Miami-Havana THE: KEY WEST CITIZEN 1° Highlights Of. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1939 COCCecererevedeorvecsecccccccccecosevescseoece| | KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY By KENNETH FRIEDMAN Florida 0000009 COO O92 OOOO OUUOODODODIOOOOS COCOOODESOSOORESEE DRY SODEDEOCOOSOOS LOD ORANGE JUICE FROM A SLOT MACHINE, THE ORANGE JUICE VENDOR, SPONSORED BY THE FLORIDA CITRUS EXCHANGE, FRESH TAMPA, WILL MAKE AVALAGLE FLORIOA CITRUS JUICE TO HUNDREDS OF THOUSANOS /N DENSELY POPULATED CENTERS. A MECKEL STARTS THE ONIQUE MECHANISIA WHICH SLICES fi AN ORANGE ANO_ EXTRACTS SU/CE A WITH AMAZING PRECISION BEFORE YOUR STARTLED CUEY, costs | salaries whether | service, which also was suspended by the | Operations on that on with As soon as_ that every indication strike cf the seamen. siderable difficulty. is smoothed out, there is How soon that can be is a at the present time. ; | Key West needs a regular ship serv- It brings a very substantial | through this | ice to Cuba. citizens port. It attracts a very substantial volume of traffic going from the United States to Cuba. Overseas Highway and Key West. Like other con- | | that the Key West-Havana service will be | | re-established. | question no one seems to be able to answer | |. FLORIDA'S HINDU TEMPLE THE CAMPUS OF FLORIDA Many of these want to see | SOUTHERN COLLEGE, LAKELAND, BOASTS OF HAVING THE ONLY “IMPORTED HINDU TEMPLE IN THE UNITED STATES, "TRACY ACOSTA, THE FLORID, INVENTOR, DEMONSTRATES THE EFFICIENEY OF THE VENOCR Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen | = | Happenings Here Just Ten t ! H =e | Steamship Levenbridge arrived ‘last night from Mobile to take on ,;cargo of sugar, which was un- loaded from the ship several ; weeks ago when the vessel arriv- ed in tow of the Warbler after : being ashore on the Bahama j banks. When here the ship dis- , charged 9,000 bags of sugar, pro- ; ceeded to Mobile to have certain trepairs made and wlil reload her ‘cargo upun arrival this, evening. |The ship is consigned to the Por- (ter Dock Co. ‘ Miss Isabel Avila, who had been on an extended trip to points jin the north and visited all places | of interest in New Jersey and ' New York, returned to Key West ‘ast evening. At Teaneck, N. J., Miss Avila spent a while visiting Miss Marjorie Brewster. During most of the time she was in the | north and east Miss Avila was ; the guest of Mr. and Mrs. George Allen England. i . | News comes from Tampa that a daughter was born yesterday to the home of Mr. and Mrs. An- drew Lopez and that the new- ‘comer has been given the name of Olga Juanita. Mr. Lopez was formerly U. S. deputy marshal in this city and is now connected with the Tampa detective force. Announcement of the birth of the daughter was contained in a telegram to his sister, Mrs, Amer- jica Alfonso of this city. H esi ie Editorial weeklies are coming own. ;sold recently for $107,000. If a j weekly is considered to be worth that much, what price daily? Comment: Country into their | The entertainment given at the ‘American Legion Hall last eve- ning by members of Sea Scout One at Dickinson, N. D.,) {a wide margin. Key West ex- ‘ported merchandise during that ‘period to the amount of $2,330,- '280. Its next competitor being |Jacksonville, which showed $1,- 171,709. Bertis Kelly, 28, employed ‘aboard the lighthouse tender | Poppy, taken ill at Tampa. re- cently and brought to the Ma- \Tine hospital, died there this morning. The funeral will be {tomorrow from the chapel at 1222 Newton street, details of which ,are as yet incomplete. He is sur- | vived by his mother, Mrs. Jose- phine Cates; two brothers, Albert and Willie Kelly, and a_ sister, Mrs. Emma Sands. Radio owners of Key West are promised a great treat in the mu- sical program to be broadcast this evening at 8:30 o’clock from ‘Asheville, N. C., when Mrs. S. P. Vecker, formerly of Key West, j will be heard in the rendition of six different vocal selections. A {telegram was received today to {this effect and no doubt all Key Westers having radios will tune in tonight to embrace the oppor- tunity to hear this excellent mu- sical program. According to in- formation, Mrs. Vecker’s beauti- ful soprano voice has proven per- ‘fect in tests made and this for- tmer Key Wester will be heard iquite frequently in various pro- grams to be broadcast from dif- ferent points. Wrecking Tug Warbler went on drydock at Mobile several days ago to have a new propeller plac- jed and is expected to arrive in {port this afternoon. The Warb- iler towed the Steamship Pauls- |boro to Mobile sometime ago. — eee ee ee eh PEOPLE’S FORUM ‘HIS HONOR WAS commonplace facilities, | few people in Key West appreciated the | 'The vessel was reported afire Water and Sewerage. er and Sewerage. northwest of Tortugas. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Ship Three in honor of members of the Yeomanette Club, and; Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Lind and Sea. Consotidaticn of County and City Governmenis. t The best time to fish is when the fish bite. The modern test of statesmanship is the ability to devise a new and relatively painless tax. Judging from the way they tell the answers, there are persons in Key West who ought to be running the world. A typographical error can make a fool out cf a newspaper writer and also some | of the smart people who can’t under- stand it. People who die and leave their money behind them spend a lot of valuable time thinking how much fun they are going to get out of the money they hoarded. Bad news for the kids: Schoo] days arye--here again. Reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic is ready to plague them, but the old hickory stick has been abandoned. That's. one consolation the oldsters of to- day did not have. Nearly every conceivable purchase, made by every member of the family, originates in the home where The Citizen is read and where the influence and sug- gestions of the advertisements are greatest. | Merchants profit by their contacts with | readers of this paper. England is so bitter against Hitler that the people are taking their ill-feeling | eut on the dachshund and are kicking him around not only figuratively but literally | and physically. As a result these elongated | walking sausages, formerly pampered and petted, now have to lead a dog’s life like the rest of the canines. In presenting his credentials, Mar- | quess of Lothian, the new British ambassa- dor to the United States, made the state- tment that he would do his utmost “to | fortify the good relations which for many Years have existed between Great Britain and the United States.” One way to “fortify” the good relations is to come across with some of the dough Brother Johnathan owes Uncle Sam. To the credit of the marquess it is known that he favors | the payment of the World War debts to the Unitéd States. He is also quoted as having | said without America’s assistance the | Allies would have lost the war. | French in the west. value of the P. & O. operations here un- til they were discontinued. Now that the | value of that service is more fully realized it will be well for our business interests and our city officials to be more con- siderate of the problems confronting the steamship company. Any legislative measure that will curtail or interrupt such services should be given careful considera- | tion and thought before it is enacted. The present boat service to Cuba is too valuable an asset to throw away. While appealing for restoration of the service, let us as citizens do all in. our power to help the company get the ship in operation again. THE FRENCH ARMY ATTACKS There has been so much talk about the impossibility of any army breaking through the fortified lines that have been built between Germany and France that one wonders whether the French general staff is engaged in a hopeless and costly effort. It has been gradually assumed that, if | Italy entered the war at Hitler’s side, the French would start an invasion of northern Italy, many through the back door of Austria. Upon Italian neutrality, this procedure had to be abandoned and there was noth- ing else for the French army to do but to make an effort to go through the Siegfried line. ‘ If the French can get into Germany, the duration of the war will be greatly shortened. Best military opinion is that the German army today is no match for the French army. The Germans soldier ranks with the best in Europe. While the French may have to pay a | large price for any successful attack upon German fortifications, the advantages to be gained will save many other lives that | a long war will require. with the idea of advancing into Ger- | lack | trained reserves of officers and men and, | | in spite of Hitler’s boasting, the French | NOT AGAINST OLD CARS | Editor, The Citizen: Your correspondent, C. G. | Flint, has entirely missed the implications in my letter, which was in reply to your editorial query as to why the most vocif- erous horn blowers were usually drivers of old and dilapidated cars. I think I answered your jinquiry, made no undemocratic remarks, nor any slurs on the drivers of old cars. No sane man could possibly assert that the driver of an old car was an un- desirable citizen and if Mr. Flint will carefully read my letter he | will see that my objections are to |horn blowing and not to old cars jand their drivers. At no point in |my letter did I libel the drivers }of an old car—I mercly stated | that excessive horn blowing by \the driver of an old car was |caused by his low estate, his in- |feriority complex. It is quite true that many learned and important individuals |drive old cars—(not dilapidated) |—and a conspicuous example of |such is the writer. Further, a | It is interesting to recall that twenty- | | five years ago it was the Russians in the | east who were launching an_ offensive | against the Germans in East Prussia in an effort to relieve the pressure upon the | The Russian attack, although later a failure, succeeded in causing the detachment of German troops from the invading army and is given some credit for the relief of the drive on Paris. “Biftek” will be easily recognizable in any Latin-American restaurant, “Aris tu a la Inglesa” has most tourists | guessing. That it is “Irish” stew done in the “English” manner is not so easily dis- covered since in itself it is a culinary in- ternational] olla podrida. but | ie) jrecord of 37 years of driving, all er the world, without serious | accident and always in ‘a fully j paid for car and often for days |. or weeks at a time without blow- ing a horn entitles his views to | some respect. There is no “contemptuous ref- : ef#ence” to the driver of a “tin! lizzie” in my letter—my con- | tempt—or rather my sympathy—! is for the person, of whatever: estate, who is unable safely and; carefully to drive a car—any car| —without resourse to a horn. | Hold your head high, Mr. Flint,! and maintain your place on the! road, but do so by skill, care andj consideration and not by the un-| necessary use of the horn. Mr. Flint has resorted to the ancient device of seeing some-) OQ PPP. IS | thing which isn’t there; of manu- facturing a grievance, of pur- posely misconstruing, setting up a straw man and then furiously attacking and slaying the bogie, with righteous indignation. He has done it rather well, too, and | it will fool many readers par- tirularly those who did not see my first communication. Mr. $895 simbeam IR NOT IMPRESSED (By Associated Press) OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 11.— An itineranf magazine sales- man, charged with vagrancy, protested to Municipal Judge Perry Wheler, “I got a legitimate enterprise”. The judge agreed, deliver- ing a three-minute high pres- sure sales monologue. “Say”, said the salesman in admiration, “you're good. How weuld you like a job with me?” Unimpressed bv the offer, Judge Wheeler gave the salesman a 10-day sentence, suspended on condition he leave town. Flint overlooks the fact that you, Mr. Editor, would not print any communication that was slander- ous, or ill mannered: or con- temiptuous. Very truly yours, GUY CARLETON. Sept. 8, 1939 New York City. their friends was one of the most; delightful affairs given recently, and there were a large number} of: invited guests attending. | According to the report issued | by Sidney C. 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