The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 13, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Rey test Citizen | Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. AKTMAN, President and Pubiisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets (nly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County sutered at Key West, Florida, as second elass matter Member of the Associated Press ue Associated Press is exclusively entitled use for republication of all news dispatches credited to | 4 or not etherwise credited in this paper and also *be Idcal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ne Year sz Months Three Months One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES M&de known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of -eapect, obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at rate of 10 cents a line. Notices 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 but it will not publish anonymous communi- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; 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; aways do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or never be injustiee; denounce vice and praise virtue. coumend good done by individual or organ- 1; 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 “ounty and City Governments. L Paying it back is what put the “row” in borrow. Summer is almost over—only by the calendar in Florida. Compliments cement more friendships than practically anything else. Laws represent the will of the peo- ple, but too often it is the will of the wrong people. What business we could have in Key West if everybody made it a rule to trade at home! The politicians are for efficiency in government provided it doesn’t mean fewer jobs, and less pay. In New York a father dropped dead while whipping his son. Youngsters will diligently spread this news. The boy who learns to play a game fairly and squarely will seldom develop into a crooked business man. About the most distracting phenomena connected yith motcrists is the senseless.| horn-blowing that follows a traffic jam. | If a change in the Thanksgiving date was desirable, a change in the day too might be advisable, say either a Saturday or a Monday. Watching the clock has gotten few | people jobs and has caused a lot of work- ers to forget their work, and, eventually | lost their pay checks. Shooting the bull, the familiar pas-| time of so many of us, has been in vogue | for so many years, yet the animal doesn’t | seem to become extinct, in fact Ferdinand | is cutting quite a caper. Another newspaper merger. The Chicago Herald and Examiner has _ sus- pended publication and has been merged | with the Chicago Evening American. One | of the causes was the strike by the Amer- | ican Newspaper Guild lasting almost a| year. Asaresult some 1700 newspaper | workers are .out’ of jobs. Unjustified | strikes are like boomerangs, they strike, back, | giving the definition. | “communism, 0 | passed the Smith Anti-Alien bill, | that denied reform. ’ not overlook the boys and girls | adults. Numerous clubs, associations, and organ- FORCE MAY BE NECESSARY THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | Under the guise of protecting the have proposed various measures as a i ; remedy for subversive activities. | “subversive” Just what is meant by depends upon the phobia of the individual With some, it is and with almost anybody it is something ‘or other that the individual does not like. the House recently | which | For exampie, among its provisions forbids the printing or publishing of books or papers advocat- | ing violent overthrow of the government, | or the defending or justifying of any such j forbidden action. In general terms, such measures may contain provisions, justified as a defense | against real dangers, but which them- selves endanger traditional Whenever anybody proposes restrictive laws of this kind, which go beyond the legislation row on the books, the proposals should be zealously scrutinized to ascer- | | tain the reasons for new restrictions to our freedom of speech. The liberties of human beings in the | | world have been won, almost without ex- | ception, by those who not only advocated, but used, force against the government so far as we can tell at this time, of force to overthrow any future govern- | ment, provided no barriers are raised to prevent the people from expressing them- | selves at the polls. Just the same, fifty or a hundred years from now, a situation may arise, | where the will of the people will be flouted and no fair opportunity given the voters to change governments by popular elections. In other words, it is not without the bounds of possibility that some administration may, some day, seek to perpetuate itself in office. If that day comes, it is conceivable that many patriots will advocate the over- throw of the government by force. The fact is that, if such an emergency arises, patriots will not pay any attention to any musty statute that forbids the ad- vocacy of the use of force to overthrow a pernicious government. PROGRESS WITHOUT EXPENSE Community progress is not always a matter of expense. In flush times we easily got the habit of appraising a civic undertaking’s worth | by the amount of money it cost. Nothing could be more foolish. Civilization is a question of living. Whatever makes life more pleasant, con- venient and cultured is a_ distinct ad- vantage to the people of any city or town. There are many social activities that could be developed that would add much to our community life without adding to the cost of our daily existence. Civic leaders, in looking for some- thing to do to improve Key West should who are growirg up in our midst. To add to the joy of their young lives is a worthy object. It can be done without involving great ex- penditures if a score or more adults will give some of their time to the purpose. There are undoubtedly additional facilities to be developed for the benefit of These do not have to cost money. izations, for cultural educational, spiritual purposes, are not represented here. our adult citizens they should be. If the present crisis could force us to look to our own inherent capacities for some of the things we have been accus- | tomed to buy, the people of Key West might find out that they have rare taJent in their midst and unsuspected powers along many lines. SALUTE THE FLAG A daily reminder of the flag of the United States as a symbol of the Nation. That is the idea suggested by several members of the Arthur Sawyer Post, No. | 28, American Legion, in calling attention to the practice in other school districts of Florida that call for a salute to the flag by every student at the start of each day. Legionnaires point-out that much in the way of preserving patriotic principles can be accomplished by early training to respect the U. S. flag. The Citizen heartily subscribes to this program. Local Legion Post will do well to suggest that Monroe County school authorities be approached i on the subject. liberties. | In the United States, | there | ¥ | would seem to be no necessity for the use To! | develop and round out the lives of some of ; nation, many persons and organizations | with others it is “fascism,” | World Beer Consumption Gains As Moderation Movement Grows 'ORLD- WIDE consumption of beer and ale, which has been steadily increasing in the wake of temperance education advocating moderation and sobriety, reached a | new post-war peak with the produc- tion of 196,000,000 barrels in the fis- cal year 1938, according to prelimi- nary figures collected by the League of Nations, at Geneva, Switzerland. The world increase of 2,000,000 hectolitres (1,700,000 barrels) over | 1937 was due primarily to the esti- mated increase of 3,000,000 hecto- litres in Europe, where temperance | Promotion and governmental advo- | cation of, beverages of moderation have gained wide headway in recent ears. The United Kingdom, Germhny, Austria and Japan were among the major countries producing more | beer during the fiscal year 1938 than | during the previous year. Other na- tions reporting increases were Bul- garia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Nether lands, Poland, Sweden, Yugoslavia, Egypt, Morocco, Tunis, Union of © South Africa, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru. The United States showed a slight decrease iu the amount of beer pro- duced. More recently the figures | have turned upward again, indicat- ing that beer production in this country follows the general business index. Starting with the post-war period, during which wide-spread move- ments of temperance educhtion were developed in many sections of the world, consumption of beef as a bev- erage of moderation has been on the increase. Even di the amount attributable to thé'return of legal beer in the United:States, a world-wide gain of mately 14 per cent is reflected in a comparison of the 123,000,000 barrele produced in 1920 with the 196,000,000 barrels produced last year. THE ISLAND CIT¥ | KEY WESTERS RECALL, THERE IS A BIT. OF NEWS |when good prices were paid!around town that the. 3S. Cuba | |monthly for the use of launches}of the P. & O. lines will be in, by the government during World;next week. Although. there has War days. Many received $200 | been no official announcement of ‘a month for the use of their|the fact, this column predicts it | boats, and meanwhile the govern-/ will come about. | ment kept them in perfect shape ——- with paint brush, wood and ma-| A KEY WESTER RAMBLES, |chinery repair. In several cases:AROUND THE COUNTRY: | jthe boats were bought outright.'New York. Up to the New York! ;And was oe life aboard the | Daily News Building,: beautiful/ ‘launch easy? Most of the coast new skyscraper, to see Ben Gross, | patrol work was designed against ; ‘ ih | |submarines, and many of * the |T@dio editor. Mrs. Gross has been |, |launches were stationed in near-|@ Winter visitor in Key West. |by channels where there was While waiting for Mr. Gross, the nothing to do but fish or play boys in the office gave us some| jcandst inside story of the newspaper game in metropolitan New, York. The radio technician said that /mewspapers made a mistake in fighting radio competition. They ‘should have bought out radio in- terests. Television is in New York with one broadeasting com- pany sending. Television sets, ‘are very expensive, chough, and for the present it would be ne-| cessary to have wires strung to! transmit for. any distance at all. | Present radio broad¢asting ex- | ;penses, outside of radio star sal-| pao aA |aries, is ridiculously low. So for| KEY WEST and a great deai/small investment, radio com-| jof Florida have always been hurt|Panies make big money. But by the competition of foreign | With high costs of television even | countries who are allowed to|Ameriean Telephone and Tele-' |send in their products with little staph Company, with all their | jduty. The widespread pineapple | money, is only tinkering with it. |farm industry of the Keys was! Mr. Gross: showed us facsimiles, shot when Cuban. pineapples | Which inthe future may be news were allowed in thé ‘country with | and bietares ‘at a button’s touch |little duty. Back up in the Ever-|in your radio. It will be many |glades, sugar production is cut|Years befcre this comes to small down to 1-12 of the production | towns, however. Out to supper possible, yet Cuban sugar is al-{With Mr. and Mrs. Gross. Mr. lowed in the country with little/Gross covers night life of New duty. Lates# news is that of tha | York with a radio slant, and llime growers on the Keys who /| Writes a column pointing out the lreport that Mexican limes are|best. He also publishes radio allowed in the country with lit-| Magazine articles. He once was tle tax. Cuban and Bahaman |@ magazine editor, but mag edi- | sponges also come in with little | tors make so little one cannot |duty. In countries, such as Cuba jlive in high-price New Yorksin and Mexico and the Bahamas the |@ny style. Out went Mr. Gross} jscale of wages is so much lower | after dinner to listen to concerts, | ‘that the fruit can be produced |See night club floor shows and | and distributed much more | Meet the producers and actors be- cheaply than it can be here. But |hind Broadway’s glittering shows. 'the U. S. wants to retain Cuba's \friendship and also get other | | products it needs from her. And} American capitalists have exten- | ED sive interests in Mexico. su | A a | while Florida and Key West suf- \fers. RUMORS REGARDING the| 1. i |naval station opening are defin- | image re | ite, even to the date of opening. — iy The rumorists claim that ships; pont with Malaria. ‘he ‘wracking chit ONE PRIZE STORY we heard of World War days was that of a ‘sub chaser captain, who made daily patrols to the Sea Buoy where a sub, incidentally, was reported seen recently. He made; the trip in great style each day. | Until one day. When. He saw a sub! No one has ever said so, | but suddenly he was taken very ill and the other officers of the} boat ordered the vessel back to} |Key West. It turned out that the sub was an American one. will be based here and marines Don't aw | stationed here. This column be-/ @nd fever. lieves from information available | that no action has been taken by! \the Navy Department to date. | Many of the sources of the rumors | | have emanated from minor ac-/ ,at one of the piers in the naval ‘Station. ‘ments for opening ‘WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1939 KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE B Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen $IDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL Former Editor of The Citizen Two men giving their names from Tampa with 59 passengers news sage Mapas ol tin orice as J. G. Brown and W. M. Sim- for Havana and 17 for this port. weekly notes that “Vermont has mis, who had been rescued from The vessel sailed at 8:30 for Ha- a town named Moscow.” Per- a burning skiff off Membry vana with 63 passengers booking fectly true, but so has Arkansas, Rocks, Bahamas, by the tanker at this port. Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, William Irwich. were landed here - Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, at 8:15 this morning and left this’ young Giants’ baseball club | Tennessee, Texas and Utah. afternoon for Palm Beach where defeated the team from the they both claim to reside. Com- U.$,S. Bagaduce yesterday after- plying with a radio message re- noon in a well played game at ceived here last evening at the the naval station. It was a naval station, the Cutter Saukee, pitchers’ battle from start to fin- left for the tanker this morning jsh. The game ended with a score and met her off Sand Key, of Giants 1 and Bagaduce 0. where the men were transferred , emia to the Saukee and brought’ Frank H. Ladd and George F. ashore. The rescued men said Co), who have been in Havana they had been fishing off the Ba- in the interest of the internation- hama banks and. backfire from 4) highway movement and had a the engine of their skiff caused wonderful time at the meetings the fire. which endangered their with those interested, returned lives and it was fortunate for to the ciy on the Governor Cobb them that the tanker happened yesterday. near and came to their rescue. | : On his first attempt at bur- glary a Toledo man discovered that he was too emotional for that sort of work. Surprised in- side a laundry, he fainted. When |Tevived he said he only wanted a ' shirt. ’ John Gildea, a New York bridegroom, was disillusioned early in his wedded life. When he attempted to kiss his bride shortly after the ceremony, she objected, but finally submitted to a formal caress on the cheek. John said: “I didn’t suppose they got that way for a year or two.” Officers and members of the Junior Woman’s Club and Mrs. Hugh Taylon and Mrs. Andrew Miller state they are delighted these waters, returned to port over the sale of tickets for the this morning after a trip, which screaming farce comedy, which took them to several points and js being sponsored by the organ- to several ports on Ahe Gulf of jzation and will be presented at Mexico, which occupied several the San Carlos theater this eve- weeks. The ship is now berthed ping. The title of the play is “44 Flappers”, and is guaranteed to please. United States Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa, flagship of the fleet of vessels of the C. G. in Insomnia in a Negro house- hold in Memphis was thus ex- plained in court by the wife: “My husband done set a time to kill me, but won't tell me when. He sleeps with a razor under his pil- low and I keeps a hatchet under mine. He don’t sleep very good, and I don’t sleep a-tall.” | Tom Parkinson of Penn- sylvania used his head effective- ly recently, although he was un- conscious at the time. Overcome by carbon monoxide gas after starting his car in the . garage, his head fell forward on the but- ton which operates the horn, and its continued blast brought help in time to save his life. There will be a meeting of the school faculty held tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock in the Har- ris school building with Profes- sor W. C. Duncan. principal of that institution, presiding. The meeting will be held for the pur- pose of making final arrange-! the school’ ecccccccocce eececceccs. Today’s Birthdays General John J. Pershing, born in Linn Co., Mo., 79 years ago. U. S. Senator Henry F. Ashurst of Arizena, born in Nevada, 65 years ago. { | piniinian Government scientists say the Wardes Lewis E:: Lawes. of idea of applying a raw beefsteak " A to a black eye is silly. They sug- etal Se ep sisson gest that in such a case if one is i apes fortunate enough to have the beefsteak, the thing to do is eat it, and apply a cold compress to the eye. Monday morning. Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, mother of Congressman Ruth Bryan Owen, will spend the win- ter with her daughter in Wash- ington. She took the steamer Allegheny at Jacksonville yes- terday for Baltimore and upon her arrival at that port will de- part for Washington. Mrs. Bry- an’ makes her permanent home in Miami. Sherwood Anderson of Marion, Va., novelist, born at Camden, Ohio, 63 years ago. eek peee: cand The idea that silence is golden has never made much headway among barbers, but Joe Perricone of New York is an exceptional barber. He never worries cus- tomers with conversation, or im- portunities to have singes, mas- sages, and tonic they do not ask —_—_—- ‘for. A wealthy patron recently Dr. Irvin Abell of Louisville, took Joe on a vacation in appre- Ky., noted surgeon, born at Le- ciation. banon, Ky., 63 years ago. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., cf New York, born at Oyster Bay, ood 52 years ago. Local fishing boats arriving yesterday report that they brought the first kingfish of the season in their first catch. There were 60 of these fine and highly delicious fish in the catch. This is considered a sign of an early winter as kingfish are seldom caught so early in the season. Jesse L, Lasky, movie produc- er, born in San Francisco, 59 years ago. —— {York, born in England, 74 years Milton S. Hershey of Hershey, ago. Pa. candy manufacturer-phil- anthropist, born in Dauphin Co., Pa., 82 years ago. | Claudette Colbert, screen star, j born in Paris, 32 years ago. ee coals Rectarceas Ih lb aacaen ne * } Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of [F A gry lich the Teich Theological Semin-I ases n ary, New York, born at Van Bu-| . For itch ek 9 Ne coma rs ITF ren, Ark., 76 years ago. | LOTION. Swiftly, it eases the itch- | ee | ing of Eczema, Rash, Tetter, Ring- Maud Ballington Booth of the; of America, New: Editorial Comment: Each day a newspaper is issued it leaves a trail of friends and enemies The trick is to always — retain more friends than enemies. The support a paper receives indi- eates whether this has been ac- complished. ‘ The P. and O. Steamship Cuba arrived in port. this morning Volunteers orm, Scabies, Scalp, Between Toes, Ste; Money back if large bottle does net satisfy. Sold everywhere. \tivity at the Station—such as re-| |pairs to the former W.P.A. build- | | ing in the Naval reservation, for-| \merly a Marine Barracks, giving |rise to the Marine rumor. Wash- ington, of course, is keeping a \close eye on’ the station in the | jlight of recent war developments | in Europe. Taria’s