The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 12, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citixen Published Daily Except Sunday By | THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO, INC. | L. P. ARTMAN, -President an@ Publisher | JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets unly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County -ntered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press Le Associated Press 1s exclusively entitled for republication of all news dispatches credited to \< or pot etherwise credited in this paper and also ‘he ld¢al mews published ‘here. fe SUBSCRIPTION RATES Une Year .... six Months Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, vespect, obituary notices, etc. will be solutions of reed for at tides for entertainment by churches from which revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen {s an open forum and invites discus- n of public issues and subjects of local or general erest but it will not publish anonymous communi- ions. 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 opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. 'MPROVEMENTS 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. The National income is up 3 per cent this year. Have you felt the change? It’s a grand thing to have a good tem- per, but sometimes it’s hard to keep it. The expert politician can tell you how many handshakes it takes, on the average to get one vote. Crooners imagine they sing with great feeling, but they probably do not feel as bad as they sound, Bustle Great In Washington. Headline. Is that a political news item or does it re- fer to the latest fashion? The value of advertising depends up- on what the merchant has to sell and what he knows about selling it. Since most of the people hurt in train wrecks are in the last car, a Key West wag suggests to take it off. A reformer says he is alarmed by modern girls’ bathing suits. It doesn’t take much to alarm some people. The New York World’s Fair visualizes “The World of Tomorrow”, but not in the sense that it epitomizes the Latins’ “manana,” with its inference to put off until tomorrow what could be done today. Key West might as well make up its mind to fight out its own battles without waiting on some industrial Santa Claus to furnish employment for the people here.— Key West Citizen. That would be a good | plan for other cities to try too.—Sanford | Herald. | Another daily paper has suspended publication. The Portland News-Telegram, an afternoon daily in a city of 300,000, found the going too rough and collapsed. The reason is always the same—increased | costs of production, with a cellar for in- come and a ceiling for costs. In announc- ing its suspension the News-Telegram said: “In spite of the unceasing efforts of an able and loyal organization, this news- paper has encountered increasing diffi- culties, ranging from greatly increased costs of production to an ever-growing tax burden in the face of which continued | operations on a sound basis are not pos- | sible.” Result: Another 150 men out of jobs. | grave responsibility. SCHOOL DAYS AND WAR DAYS ! While shrieking sirens abroad herald | the approach of bomb-laden airplanes, school bells are ringing all over Key West, } Monroe County, Florida and America. The | little boys and girls of Poland, Germany, | France, England and other foreign nations run for their lives into holes when they hear the sirens shriek. Our boys and girls spin their tops and romp and play on their way to comfortable schoolrooms when they hear the bells ringing. The little boys and girls ofthe United | States are too young to realize their good luck in having been borr here. They are too young to know anything about bombs and bullets dropped from the skies by man-made meteors. They don’t know the | full horrors of torn bodies, blasted hopes, ; smashed homes, shattered nerves, racking hunger, cold discomfort and all the other by-products of war. They are extremely | lucky little boys and girls. Our Monroe County school teachers have a grand opportunity confronting them as school opens. They can make geography the most interesting subject in the class- room. They can follow with their small pupils the day to day changes in the geo- their legions This leads into a | | | graphy as dictators march | against'the democracies. pointed study of Americanism. What is Americanism? What is the difference be- tween the American democracy and the | European-type dictatorship? | Our children should be instructed in | these differences. The fact that little boys | and girls in this country do not have to learn to shoot machine guns or make bandages as part of their curricula is one of the differences that should be stressed. Our little boys and girls are free to come and go and to play and romp. They can say just about what they please, do about what they want to and show whatever | | | sess. They are free little boys and girls, as long as they obey certain laws and rules set up for the benefit of the majority. They come and go because they are free. They talk and chatter and discuss things because they are free. They are not cogs in a machine that grows little boys and girls to serve the state. Our Monroe County boys and girls should be instructed in the fact that Am- government is the servant of the people, not that the people are the servant of the government, as they are in the totalitarian countries, Our Monroe County teachers have a While teaching the advantages and benefits enjoyed under our form of government, they must urge strict neutrality as between the present warring nations. As yet we have not been drawn into that conflict. Until we are, if we are, ‘our boys and girls should be informed as to the right and wrong of current events, but must be warned to walk a safe middle course, free from entanglements that may plunge this nation into a foul conflict. THE WAR AND PRICES The war now going on in Europe will have some-effect upon every American, regardless of whether this ‘country man- ages to keep out of the fighting. Speculation as to what will happen to prices in the United States, in the face of | an expected war demand, is already being | heard. As usual, there are those to es- | pouse both sides. Some -say prices will shoot upward immediately and others say they will not. We don’t know. Warring countries will not produce normal yields and they will have to buy abroad but whether they will buy in| vclume sufficient to affect the surpluses | on hand remains to be seen. After studying charts on prices of wheat, cotton, hogs and other farm prod- ucts for the period of the World War the experts are not certain that they have any- | thing to go by. Changes in world condi- tions, possible effect of neutrality laws and the uncertainties of the future leave them without definite advice to offer farmers ex- cept to'suggest the need of caution in re- vising existing plans and programs, The economic situation in the world is such fashion will be hit a stinging | blow and that as a result women will be | forced to abandon a dfess when it becomes | threadbare or useless and not when it | merely becomes unfashionable. If not | martial that will surely develop marital | rows. | initiative and independence they may pos- | erica is founded on the theory that the | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN CRACKS and COMMENTS) © WHO KNOWS? By A | ‘Bee “Fhe Answers” on Page 4 TAT A REGENT MEETING GE succeed Hier in G Getmany in the COUNCIL VOTED To BORROW 4" When dia Hitler ‘become |Chancellor of Germany? MONEY FOR CURRENT EX-) 5. How many times have PENSES. If they succeed we hope they will let us know where, ise ee an Pease ars as we too will be in need of 6 H Unit pj SS iow long ‘has the United funds for current expenses if | States observed Labor Day? business does not improve. An-'~* ‘What present British Cab- other thing about the city dads, | inet Pips Mies played @ ‘promin- we suspect they bury the hatchet | ont part in his Government dur- with the handle sticking out . the World War? about that charter eg Scr ad id business. 9 ‘ ‘ 8. What is the sales record of President Earl Adams wields a “Gone With The Wind?” wicked gavel and keeps the meet- ing going with zip. Chief El-/. %, What percentage of the wood always has a twinkle in his eye. It would certainly be wy ia sais of our problems 2 we! 10. What Government. official 5 ; . ed the embargo on arms “very ‘had a committee in our line of pais ; ‘pusiness and all we had to do|Reary equivalent to presenting | - fe sy to pay our debts was ‘to vote | Germany with an Atlantic Fleet? 'that they be paid and forget the Church, who has been seriously | matter. \ill being welcomed home from SS | the hospital; Stephen Singleton THAT FISH BOX on Roose- | walking in a deep and_ serious jvelt Boulevard is _ still baiting ; mood but watch his fage crackle Col. L. C. Brinton. |into a bright smile when he sees —— ‘a friend. . REPORTS THAT MUSSOLINI JUDGE RAYMOND LORD IS IS ILL keep leaking out. There | aSxING PEOPLE THE MOST |are many who hope that it is PERSONAL QUESTIONS nothing vias: |THESE DAYS. When you were as born and where and why? tall are you? How much do you weigh? Ouch, judge! And what ‘is the color of your eyes and bs ee eaicoara aan who had told the judge all about her 4 1 i ne y li ee te | life, including her operations (of si ag eg olagadaeeptads ing as driving an automobile), she was a an tine CR acmnvie Fae ‘allowed tc leave his office the | proud possessor of a State Driv- sugar? FIRE LADDIES report much enjoyment over the recent hos-| pitality of Raymond Cabrera. FULL HOUSE: The pastor, “So ; * A ‘ God has sent you little twin|°"® ake sie bela |brothers, eh Dolly?” Dolly TEN LITTLE MOTORISTS (brightly): “Yes, and He knows/Ten little motorists, driving in a where the money is coming from;! line; |I heard Daddy say so”. | One tried to pass the rest— eee |Then there were nine. KEY WEST COMMUNITY Nine little motorists, sadly I re- ART CENTER HAS ONE OF | late; THE MOST ATTRACTIVE EX-|One passed a traffic stop— HIBITS EVER SHOWN IN THIS |Then there were eight. |CITY. The Currier and Ives! Fight little motorists, young and |prints are scenes of the Oldj very deft; )South and tug at your heart One tried to show such skill— strings. One of the most at-|Seven then were left. | tractive pictures by any local art-| Seven little motorists, touring in list ig that of Miss Ethel Deck-} the Stix; jer. ;One failed to dim his lights— TALL | Then there were six. CARRION: Reports from Ha-jSix little motorists, very much vana tell ‘of the arrest of — ten! alive; Cuban merchants for profiteering One did not see a train— jin foodstuff. Good for Havana.!Then three were five. |Come on U.S.A. | -—— | the rain; KEY WEST GARDEN CLUB | One skidded on a curve— HAS A THEME SONG THESE |Four now remain. |DAYS: “WOODMAN SPARE/Four little motorists, THAT TREE”. Not that the! from a tea; |club members are so rabid on the ‘One faced about to chat— |subject that they think business Then there were three. jhouses are to be built around a Three little motorists, this is sad tree but they do feel that every! but true: effort must be made to save a:One slumbered from fatigue— tree when possible. |Then there were two. | Two little motorists, racing jus! for fun; ; One passed upon a crest— coming _—_—__— t ABOUT TOWN: Raul, the per- fect host and popular favorite night club owner; Will Doughtry,; Then there was one. whose pleasant personalij makes |One little motorist, though him a first rate public man; Mrs. ; seldom done, ;Arthur Pastorini on Duval street,| Lit a match to gauge his tank— looking neat as the proverbial/Then there were none. pin; Mrs. Jim Roberts, stately as | —Selected. usual; Rev. G. W. Hutchinson, Adios, pastor of the First Methodist FLORIDA CRACKER. Vii. Ge $$95 Sinbea Heats faster — stays hotter all through ironisig — irons faster world’s sugar production is cane | How; hair and when this lady visitor; |Five little motorists, driving mn) t A SIDELIGHTS a B. D. In order to get the public's re- | action to uestions that may be; asked by census takers next! aged a “practice” census is being ' itaken in St. Joseph and Marshall | counties, in Indiana. Some of the! new questions are rather per-' sonal, and if too many object to, them they may be omitted from) the regular list. \ For length of names the Society for the Prevention of Calling Pullman Porters George is now, eclipsed by the L. S. F. S. A. P. E.! C. R._ The latter is not another New Deal alphabetical ‘agency, but is the League for ird- ing the Fixity of the Sabbath! Against Possible Encroachment by Calendar Reform. It opposes any change in the calendar which | would disturb the occurrence of ; the Sabbath every seven days. j Peggy Hopkins Joyce, whose | many marriages should make her fan authority on the subject of jhusbands, says: “If husbands’ ; were clever they would never let! jus see them when they first | jawake in the morning.” And possibly it works the other way’ around, also. H | ———— | | A story of what appears to be: rank ingratitude comes from_ Gaena, Spain. Manuel Paulido’ | shot a cow that: was goring a> | farmer’s daughter, and the young ;woman’s life was saved. Now} ithe farmer is suing Paulido for |damages, declaring “it was none {of his business what my cow did.” | Hunters are notorious for mis- taking the nature of their tar-: |gets, and Jack Evers of Wyoming’ is no exception. When he pre- }sented a pelt at the court house jand claimed a wolf bounty, it was | pointed out to him that he had jerred in shooting and skinning; jthe sheriff's dog. | One Sunday morning recently} a St. Louis lady called across, the yard fence to complain of, loud swearing emanating , from: ithe house of her next door neigh- | bors. A small boy explained: }“Aw, that’s only dad; he’s late; {for church and can’t find his’ \prayer book”. | Several Colgate students were {placed in a closed room and ask- ed to name the odor of a_ per- ;fume which was sprayed around ; |them, Guesses included jasmine, | jheliotrope, lily of the valley and, \others, but all were wrong. What | "had been sprayed was plain dis- | | tilled water. i Subscribe to The Citizen—20c | weekly. i | CORCCROSeCrreconereceee> | — THY IT TODAY — The Favorite In Key Wesi Secconaeceverces TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1939, TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS “Henry L. Mencken of Balti- | see, born ene Valley, Tena, 87 more, noted author, born there, years ago. 59 years ago. j Arthur Hays Sulzberger, pub Theodore Christianson of Min- lisher of the N. Y. Times, born neapolis, manager of the Nat’l. in New York, 48 years ago. Asso. of Retail Grocers, ex-gover- — nor, born in Minnesota, 56 years Grover Loening of New York, | ago. aviation pioneer and manufac- turer, born in Germany (of Amer- ican parents), 51 years ago. | Sewmeercevoccveesseeegesee Today’s Horoscope Today’s is a rather abrupt but intensely genuine nature. There jmay be a lack of suavity and the Alfred A. Knopf of New York, mind may be severely critical, book publisher, born in New/but there is an element of sin- York, 47 years ago. icerity which commands the re- —_—_— | spect of all. There is much love George L. Berry, president of |of’country life, and the native the International Pressman may do better there than con- Union, ex-senator from Tennes- fined between city walls. 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