The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 19, 1939, Page 2

PAGE Two Jehe jay ) Went Citizen | they fied Daily Except Sunday By TNE COVIZEN PUBLISHING CO, INC. 1. P. AKTMAN, President and Publisher 40% ALLEN, Atsintant Basiness Mangger Krom The Citizen Building Corver Greene and Ann Streets Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Jat Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Am rene Associated Press is exclu: entitled tp use republication of all news dispatches credited to t etherwise credited in this paper and also «i news published here. ” SUBSCRIPTION RATES : : $10.00 fonts 5.00 Months ADVERTISING RATES known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of . Obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at 2 of 10 cents a line. es for entertainment by churches from which ue is to be derived are 5 cents @ line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- viom of public issues and subjects of local or general erest but it will not publish anonymous communi- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it out fear and without favor; never be aid to attack wrong or to applaud right; ays fight for progress; never be the or- | af yan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, ion or class; aiways do its utmost for the welfare; never tolerate corruption or tice; denounce vice and praise virtue. wamend good done by individual or organ- tion; tolerant of others’ rights, views and nions, print only news that will elevate not contaminate the reader; with principle. never com- | will MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WESi ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Lind and Sea. ounty and City Airports- Consotidaticn of Govern:nents. ~ Most of us have thankful for every day. something to be Some wives consult a fortune teller as a preliminary to consulting a lawyer. People who believe in building up Key West are the ones who trade here. If you think you have many friends you might have one, and you'd be lucky | at-that. | | Sitting tight is not always a gainful oceupation; sometimes it is more profitable to loosen up. In any discussion of the general wel-| faye there are individuals who think that th@ general welfare means private profit. The law is a great calling but it can- not_rise higher in the estimation of people than the lawyers who make it effecive. President Roosevelt is a great breaker. | He likes to break precedents, fasts, and bread—with royalty. But he doesn’t like | to break the habit of doing these things. Religion should play a vital part in the life of human beings every day, but that dcesn’t mean that you have to make a public display of whatever religion you practice. The bus is the natural and most con- venient form of transportation and fuses | with the auto car in that it does not have to | travel in fixed streets and in an inflexible line. It can change its course as the flow of traffic directs. Rear Adiiiral Yates Stirling brays a call for America to get into any war right at the start. He retired three years ago | on a fat pension for life. What has Am- erica to show for her last entangling al- liance? Long rows of white crosses in | France; graves of soldiers in American | éemeteries; thousands of wounded and in- capacitated men, many still being hos- pitalized; besides the billions the World War has cost us, there are billions of IOU’s in the Federal Treasury which will never be paid. The American people have not forgotten, Mnemosyne will seé to it that we remember and in that remembrance lies our security and salvation, | ing in an effort to make a living. | local and the regular | mending a sponge | which is in the making, | list of commodities ber of Commerce has been | tribution, it is likely a federal | present. | plus fish, | would be sold to the Surplus Commodities | holding cards calling for | prices. | regular market | bill. | logue. AID KEY WEST FISHERMEN When a strange blight spread across ! the floors of the surrounding ocean and bays last fall it wiped out virtually every living sponge. Scores of Key West spong- ers suddenly found themselves on the li They turned to fish- The re- sult was the supply of fish exceeded the market demands. suffered through. of the unemployed. The regular fishermen THE. KEY WEST CITIZEN CAMERAGE BAPHS falling markets and an over-supply of fishe* The spongers could not make a decent liv- ing that way. Through the efforts of the Chamber | of Commerce and other groups, the plight of the fishermen and the spongers was called to the attention of the federal agencies and congressional representatives in Washington. The result was that. ex- | perts from the Bureau of Fisheries investi- gated the blight and went away recom- propagation project while a bill was introduced in Congress to add fish to the that might be dis- tributed by the Surplus Commodities Cor- poration to relief workers throughout the nation. Within the last few days, the Cham- advised that since fish have been added to the surplus commodities for widespread dis- fish mar- keting plan may be established in Key West. It is probable, according to re- ports, that a plant for freezing fish and for shipping the product to northern mar- kets may be set up here. This, it is held, not affect the regular marketing channels, for that would function as at It would mean simply that sur- instead of being destroyed, distribution to persons goods at low The products so sold are declared as being a surplus over and above the demands. The regular market price for fish is expected to be stabilized, so that the regular employes of the large fish companies or independent fishermen may get better prices in general. Corporation for | The consumer gets his regular supply of fish at fair prices. If this plan is fully developed here it | will be a boon to our fishing industry. The consummation of the project is another feather in the caps of those believing that | co-operation and united effort by our civic organizations can be effective in helping Key Westers to help themselves. LIMES TO THE FORE (Fort Myers News Press) Versatile Florida has fruits for practically every season of the year. In the summer the call is for a thirst quencher and native limes fill the Old fashioned lemonade may be better es- country but fountain experts agree that limeade is far superior as a summer drink. tablished in other sections of the to other fruit “ades” Since first discovered by the ancient Per- sians, the history of the lime and lemon branches of the citrus family reads like a romantic trave- These tangy grew in the Orient, spread westward by way of the trade routes, and showed up in Europe in the 15th cen- Spanish adventurers brought them to the fruits first tury. new world and then they horticulturists went to work to improve size, | flavor and juice content of the limes while Cali- fornia experimenters specialized on the lemons. The most popular limes in Florida are of the Key, Persian and Tahitian varieties. Lately the Perrine lemon is being planted because it com- bines the best qualities of both fruits. The fact | that a superior juice fruit is emerging from a wedding of limes and lemons is appropriate in- } asmuch as early writers confused the two families. For many years California has held a mo- nopoly on the lemon business but with new lemons and improved limes being produced by | Florida growers in larger quantities every year, | tissue paper wrapper will have to look to its laurels on the fruit stand. Limes have more juice and more the old fashioned lemon with its flavor and seem to do more to a drink than the pale yellow lemon. With limes getting the nod at restaurants, bars and soda fountains, Florida growers of this thirst quencher can well afford to organize and get their share. of the hot weather trade. The people of the United States seem to be as bitterly opposed to the changing of the Thanksgiving date as they are to a third term. President Roosevelt is finding it as difficult to break the precedence of Thanksgiving Day as he will find breaking | | the third-term precedent. came to Florida where. | ‘s HEADS cof cokree | INDUSTAY- caren industries of America. enti ge C. Th yo Saal Eraapince, se <i ident of Haleenan ot ane Associated lected ci he_Hotel \Pennsyivania during their annual ABBOTT AND SStrocts off ar in vaudeville and Pee re of peng shi fishowered with list of + foamy bubbt A PAIR OF queens} [walk off with the ‘honors! Below, Peggy and arn Fitzpatrick, twi isters from Chie cago, defeated some 1500 entrants in a at Fort ind, re- States Rhapsod great pond bet MEN AGAINST THE SEA—Picked Co: Guardsmen of the station at Manasquan Inlet, Point Pleasant, N. J., strain at the s they train for the second annual e Race for the East Coast cham- pionship of the U. S. Coast Guard. Facet vob hel off Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Following face, seven crews will compete in 43th’ Annual International for the lifeboat racing championshi the_world. Man About Manhattan eeccce ee NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (AP).—; |'The early days of this war are unfolding in New York like the closing pages of an Ernest Hem- ingway novel. In Hemingway} | novels people do a lot of walking} |around aud indulge in a lot of spontaneous conversation. The other night I climbed into an elevator and was on my way ‘to the 20th floor of a hotel. On the way up I said to the operator, a man of about 50: “What do you think about the war?” That was a mistake. He turned jon me and began gesturing excit- edly. “There will be no war. {Germany will stop it. If England | and France would let Germany alone there would be no trouble” . He said ten times this mueh in half the time it has taken you to read this little. He had me back- ed into a corner. I didn’t know whether he would hit me or not. Ten minutes later I came down in the elevator, unfortunately, | with the same man, but I did not mention the war, or anything else. Outside I met a couple of pecple I knew with several I \didn’t know, arguing on a cufb. It was Russia this, and France that, and Mr. Chamberlain the other. Not a one of them knew |the exact tactics to pursue to | win the war. Each of them knew {exactly why one side or the other would lose. A taxi driver, a to- tal stranger, leaned out of his cab and yelled, “You're all nuts, and so is everybody nuts, me too”, and drove on. His radio was blasting cut a barrage of news reports from Warsaw eee In the book stores it is hard to lget copies of books by the war correspondents—“Days Of Our |Years”, or “Inside Asia”, for in- {ITTOOOOTOOTTOIOSD, COMPLAINT SERVICE. If you do not Receive Your Copy of The CITIZEN By 6 P. M. PHONE—WESTERN UNION Between 6 and 7 P. M. and a Western Union Messenger Boy will deliver your copy of ¢ TIPTIIAZLIAZLZILZLL iBy Associated Pressey ‘dragged his uniform out of the T that formerly characterized” this, SITS LSI ISISISILD LSS: The ‘September, in the Narrows this the Lifeboat Race p of By TUCKER s stance. Although the books aren't there, the clerks can tell you how the war should be fought,’ and anything else that you want to know. . At dinner this evening, I met a young French officer who had trunk, and was on his way back to rejoin his regiment. He was a reservist, a lieutenant, and has been in this country four years with the exception of annual vis- its to get in his “service” ‘periods. During dinner he made one re- mark that lodged in my memory. “The French people”, he said, “no longer think of the Germans in the same vein that the war is remembered. We feel sorry for the German people. But we shall soon be fighting them, and the fighting will be all the more terrible. We do not underesti- mate the strength or the courage of the Germans. They are great fighters. But in the end of course we and our allies will win”. eee Later he departed for Canada, and soon will be on the high seas. I would say that New Yorkers have clung more to their radios and read more. newspapers in the | last few weeks than in the last six months. But there is no sug- gestion of the surges of “feeling” “Key West's Outstanding!” LA CONCHA a Lounge DINING and DANCING Strictly Fireproof Garago Opén The Year Around | | The Citizen. ed Ad hd hdd hed deus jeading composer of ‘ing America for musi turn to Nippon will write a song called “Uni ly. nake. ing point. pular songs. ical material, and on his ahe nae written mere ic It has broken down the said today in discussing the call i vast, impersonal feeling that New for the special election to be held | fornia Agricultural York usually reserves for its in- | Monday to decide the rate of mill- Station, ‘dividuals, giving everyone a talk-' age to be levied for the next two born in Chicago, 64 years ago. Mr. Russell declared that; rarely address one another here. very drastic reductions have been | But now they fall on each other’s|made in all school operating ex: jonetime explorer, outfitter of ex- necks and exclaim, “What do you | penses. | think about the war!” As a rule * and other countries, in moments of extreme crisis. strangers , years. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1939 KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Mere Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Formal announcement of Jo- seph A. Johnson for the position of tax collector in the coming city election is carried in anoth- column of today’s issue of The | Citizen. Mr. Johnson is the sec- |ond to announce for this office. In making his announcement Mr. Jchnson said that his desire is to particularly stress the fact that |he was born in Key West and has ‘always resided here. He feels ‘qualified to perform the duties of {the office and to promise clean ;and conscientious service. jer Editorial Comment: Entertain- ing the public has brought many a New York East Side herring- eater into national prominence. There is Max Rosen, the violin- list; the Bruskin Brothers, now. George and Ira Gershwin; Izzie Balin, now Irving Berlin; Bennie Melnick, now Ben Bernie; the Itzhowitz boy, who became Eddie ‘enter; Ben Hecht, Alma Gluck, Milt Gross and George Jessel. | i | } Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Stirrup an- nounce the arrival of a son, born at their home yesterday morning and weighing seven and one-half }pounds. Through a typographical error in the issue of The Citizen yesterday the name was spelled incorrectly. John V. Watts, formerly of this city but now editor of the} Minneapolis Star, Minneapolis, ' Minn., has an interesting story ; in the current issue of the Prize Story Magazine. leaving this city, has devoted jhimself exclusively to literature and is the author of several books and numerous stories, which have appeared in the leading maga- zines of this country and Eu- trope. According to announce- ments which have been received here, Mr. Watts will visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs, Edward |F. Cranch, 123 Ann street. It is now apparently possible} ‘to conduct the public schools of! Monroe county for a full term on} ‘the six and one-half mills levy | in the special school tax dis- of public instruction, Music and athletic de-| |partments have ben abolished and Mr. Watts, since | a public school is being operated on a tuition basis. Only such courses as are prescribed for ac- credited schools are being carried this year, said Mr. Russell, who also stated that notwithstanding the’ act that salaries were cut twice last year, a further reduc- tion of 25 percent has been made. There are still indications of a tropical disturbance several hun- dred miles north or northwest of Porto Rico, but its center cannot be definitely determined, is. the substance of an advisory warning issued by the weather bureau at 10:30 this morning. Regardless of the center, scope or velocity of the storm, it can mean nothing to Key West and is nothing for Key West and its people to worry abbut, it is pointed. out. Rev. William Beecher Curtis, rector of St. John’s Episcopal church of Tampa, died in a hos- pital in that city yesterday after a gallant fight for life since last Friday when he underwent an ‘operation for appendicitis with complications. Rev. Curtis had filled the pulpit at St. Paul's Episcopal church in this city on a number of occasions and was well known by a large number of parishioners and friends in Key West, who will be grieved to jlearn of his passing. Today’ s Birthdays Soesedecesocccesessoscooe Maj. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, USA, born at Fort Brady, Mich. 60 years ago. Lawson A. Moyer, chief exam- iner of the U. S. Civil Service Commissicn, Washington, born at Leesville, S. C., 46 years ago. Louis J. Tabor, Master of the National Grange, Columbus, Ohio, born at Mi. Pleasant, Ohio, 61 years ago. Laurence V Coleman, director of the American Association of Museums, Washington, D. C., born at Brooklyn, N. Y., 46 years The war here! trict, Melvin E. Russell, superin- |ago. ‘has the horrible fascination of a | tendent i eee Prof. Frank Adams of the Cali- Experiment irrigation economist, Anthony Fiala of New York, ploring expeditions, born in Jer- lsey City, N. 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