The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 4, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TW est Citizen Published Daily Except, Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC, L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Maneger From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets a | t | (nly Daily Newspaper in Key West aud Monroe County -atered at Key West, Florida, as second elass matter Member of the ited Press we Associated Press is exclusively entitled use for republication of all news dispatches» cred! to 2 or pot etherwise credited in this paper and also ‘te ictal news published here. = SUBSCRIPTION RATES ne Year six Months Three Months yne Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE rds of thanks, resolutions of { ete., will be charged for at ine. All-reading notices, -espect, obituary notic che rats of 10 cents a Notices for entertainment by chure! from which i revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- siom-of public fssues and subjects of local or general soterest 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 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- izt.:on; 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. Consolidation of County and City Governments. | General Advance and Major Offen- sive are once more in the limelight of the | day’s news. There are men on the street corner of every city, Key West included, who can tell the French general staff how to win the war in three weeks. Now that Hitler and Stalin have smoked the pipe of peace it will be tough for some of their protagonists to swallow thetruth that there wasn’t much differ- ence between them after-all. A town is judged by its newspaper— and justly so, because a newspaper is the printed reflection of its people—Key West Citizen. If there is no business in the newspaper, a stranger is apt to con- cludé that there is no business in the town. —Sanford Herald. Evidently Hitler had the mistaken idea that he could repeat in Poland what be had done to Czechoslovakia, and that would not have happened, followed by Austria and Memel, had England and France not shown the white feather at Munich. But who can tell? Everything; may turn out for the best, after all. ~To be really neutral there should be an-embargo on all goods to all belligerents and not only on the implements of war. Lifting the embargo on the latter is the purpose of President Roosevelt in calling the special session of Congress and that is not neutrality in the honest sense of the word, and will eventually lead us into what every right-thinking citizen of the United | States hopes to avoid. A name in the news heard and read most frequently in the past few months on account of the part it is playing in the present European war is Danzig. Another name known to everybody in the United States, as well as in most countries, is Fahrenheit. You got to know him by de- grees, and he was born in Danzig in 1686. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit was the inven- tor.of the mercury thermometer with whieh most everyone is acquainted, be- cause the Fahrenheit scale is the one gen- érally used for ordinary purposes in the United States and in England, while Cen-| | name for the pests;—what | tained in a WPA tigrade is adopted for scientific research and on the European Continent. QUICK—MOSQUITO PROJECT! Residents of Key West were reminded as they were never reminded before. this | | week of a need for a concentrated drive | against those little pests commonly known | Never mind the scientific Key Westers as mosquitoes. want to know is when will the “big push” | start and how long will it be before relief from these disiurvers of our collective frames of mind can be expected. Natives say that this week has been | one of the worst for mosquitoes in their recollection. New residents here can well hope that this is the worst siege—they | hate to contemplate that many more mil- lions of mosquitoes would swarm in this otherwise peaceful and highly desirable | place to live. a Good news is in the offing. It’s project—another mosquito project. that will really bear down on the little a One | pests and go far towards permanent eradi- | cation. At least, that is the news con- release about three weeks ago. The trouble is—the stated that funds would be available from “ten days to two weeks”. that time has elapsed and in the meantime Key West is in the midst of one of the | worst epidemics of mosquito infestations that it has ever experienced. Luckily, the season will soon be out for mosquitoes. Cooler weather is just around the corner and we can expect some j relief from those pests. But memory of the current and other epidemics will re- /main with most of us for a long, long time | —and it is for the future seasons that we look forward to for relief. Work done now — ditch digging, draining, oiling and other means contem- plated to erase the pests from this island, ' will show up definitey on the profit side later. By next year—even when tourists are still with us in late winter months—it is hoped that mosquitoes will be a thing 1 of the past. Hurry up—W.P.A.! Let’s get that project under way right away. We can stand the bites, scratchings and general nuisance better if we know that relief is in sight. WAR AND LIVING COSTS It is difficult to understand why there should be any increase in the cost of living in the United States, solely as a result of the war in Europe, at least for a long time to come. We have great surpluses of nearly everything necessary to maintain a high standard of living, besides the facilities for producing much more. We could ex- port twice as much as we do now without causing any real shortage of food or other commodities, Based on a nation-wide survey by one of the largest food corporations, the statement was made last week by C. M. Chester, its chairman, that there is no justification. for unreasonable food prices. He also pointed out that less than 8 per cent of food consumed in the United States comes from abroad, and less than 1 per cent from countries*now at. war, ‘Even these small percentages largely represent luxuries, rather than necessaries. The American people as a whole are determined that there shall be no exten- sive profiteering, with the war in Europe as an excuse. There will be cases of goug- ing here and there, but the practice is not likely to become general. Usual fluctuations in priees within reasonable limits, due to domestic supply | and demand, will occur as always, but in general we do not appear to be in danger | of facing excessive living costs in the im- | mediate future. FOOD FOR THOUGHT Nobody grows old merely by living a | number of years; people grow old only by | Years wrinkle the | skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles | deserting their ideals. the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear, and despair—these are long, years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. You are as young as your faith, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. Victor Hugo had an explanation for |het Napoleon’s downfall. He said, “God was bored with him.” Maybe God’s annui will also ultimately be Hitler’s downfall, though for the present he is keeping his enemies awake. release | in| More than | long ji: KEY WEST IN | BAYS GONE BY , | Happenings Here Just Five, Ten | (and) Fifteen Years Ago As “. “Taken From The Files , ‘Of The Citizen | OCTOBER 4, 1934 | Robbers who committeed de- |predations at Pine Crest in the | Chevrolet Corporation section of | Monroe county had only: a brief |period of pleasure after their |thefts and are now in jail in’ Mi- ;ami. Sheriff K. O. Thompson | was advised yesterday by Sheriff {Coleman of Miami that ‘thieves were captured and were | being held awaiting the arrival of lofficers from Key West. Mr. |Thompson left over the East Coast yesterday afternoon and is expected to arrive this afternoon with the prisoners. | Chairman C. B. Treadway of the State Road Department was {today appointed and accepted as | the governor’s agent in Key West jin Key West as financed by the |FERA. The new appointment way’s duties as chairman of the State Road Department. Tread- way succeeds Julius F. Stone,| state and southeastern District FERA administrator. Francisco Perez, who was ar-| rested Tuesday for threatening) the life of Louis Bancells during an altercation on Southard street, |was given a preliminary hearing yesterday afternoon and was di8-| missed for lack of evidence. Ban-| |cells had averred that Perez had | a gun and had threatened to use! jit. At the hearing Bancells said | he did not know whether or not Perez had a gun. i OCTOBER 4, 1929 | Among the latest reports, which are fakes, relative to Key. West |in connection with, the recent |hurricane that swept along the) Florida Keys is iat published in| the New York Daily Mirror of| Wednesday, October 2. The main| paragraph of the article perput- | ing to be sent out from Pensacola | jsaid. that. part of the twister} drowned 20 persons in the rivers. | It might be said that this city has but this is the been accused of by. rivers. H. B. Reed, field representative of the American Red Cross, arriv- ed in the city this morning to complete a survey of the storm situation from Fort Lauderdale to Key West. Mr. Reed says he finds that much of the rehabilita- tion work will have to be done in Monroe, Dade and Broward coun- ties. A Pan American _trimotored plane arrived this morning from} Miami bringing a number of com- | pany officials who are spending the day here on business. Austin | Drew of this city and H. B. Reed lof Washington were arrivals on the plane and the officials expect to leave about 4 o’clock this aft- rnoon. = ‘ OCTOBER 4, 1924 time, it strrdui inquiries lately than ever re. Cuban Consul Domingo J. Mi the: will not. interfere with _Tread-/ lstart to speed away. |dashed after the hit-and-run idriver, jumped on the running been isi the op ne times | w; iret, SIDELIGHTS | By MARCY B, DARNALL tenement | Newsweek reports a! great | boom being experi < jplants manufacturing wood type, lused for extra large headlines in (newspapers and for postets. The ‘orders of one such firm is said jto have increased 300 per cent during the first week of the war. One World War hero ‘still oc- cupies the same position Ke held jin 1914. He is Adolpkié’, Max, jburgomaster (mayor) of Brus: |sels, Belgium, who was im: {prisoned for defying the Ger- mans when they entered his city. |He is now 70 years old and still active. | At the recent international ‘convention of the Loyal Order in the program of rehabilitation | o¢ Moose, held in Philadelphia, jthe title. of abolished and “dictator” was { “governor” sub- stituted, - The was made because the word dictatér “has fallen into disrepute,” according to a resolution unanimously | adopted. Paul Gurtler, who was a ser- jgeant in the company of Cor- poral Adolf Hitler during the World War, has enlisted in the |Canadian Army. Gurtler is now ja naturalized Canadian, whose home is in the province of Al- berta. While shaving a. customer, Frank Dugan of Philadelphia saw an automobile hit a man in front of his barber shop, and an board razor in hand, caused. him to stop, and turned him over to a policeman. John Lindsey of New Jersey has attended a theatrical §per-|! formance once in his 95 years. That was on the night of April 14, 1865, at ‘the Ford theater in shi n, where he witnessed A t he never went to a Recounting some feats of wo- men aviators, a writer reminds us that the first woman airplane pilot in the world was Harriet Quimby, who obtained her license in 1912. She met the fate of most pioneer flyers, being killed in a erash while giving a stunt exhibition in Boston. Expressing skepticism about the value of strenuous ex a Jean Nathan, the author and critic points ‘out that the laziest animals live longest. He cites the tortoise and elephant, F i g i at i ¢ i by} WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1939 ment reminds one where it can be bought the cheapest and best. POLITICS: “Peddlers of plati- tudes. and ponderous _piffle” a usually beset the voters just be- FATHER A. ee DIMMICK. fore elections. Let us hope we pastor of St. Paul's Episcopal} will be able to select men of Church, pointed out to the young} tion in the coming city electi |people of his congregation Sun-| that will give us a creditable ad- |day that “conditions now existing | Ministration. ‘are such that no wellbred boy or! eer girl would want to be identified|. WHAT IS HELL? “Hell is the ‘with the hoodlum element that burning fires of, petty hatred in |are a community scandal of eve-| the hearts of small souls who |nings on the walls of St. Paul’s| make their own hell’.—Dr. Hen- |Church at Duval and Eaton |*7 Edmonds. : istreets”. No doubt -that Father} a ag |Dimmick is quite right. Good! STEP LADDERS, PLEASE: parents may not be aware that | According to the new fashions, nooting, howling, loud profanity,|there will be no chance for a \vulgarity and indecent behavior |shy little child to cling to its {are not unusual. CCC boys and |mother’s skirts. At least not un- the sailors as a whole are a fine |til it grows pretty tall. lot of young men, most of them | _— coming from good American} A SUCCESSFUL MAN in most | homes, and it’s too bad that now | any community is the old meany ‘and then some rotter will give|who works hard to make an hon- jthe whole group a black eye.!est success but cannot afford to [Baeaeaay: night at midnight a'carry more than half of the fail- |4ady living near St. Paul’s Church | ures who claim his friendship. | went to the CCC truck parked | on Eaton street and pleaded with; MR. AND |a CCC boy to quit his vulgar, ob-| and B. D. Trevor have returned |scene and profane language un-' from an interesting vacation, go- 'CRACKS and COMMENTS| | | Such rotten fiith as had flown! from there to Nashville, Tenn, |from his mouth for half an hour | where they were the guests of was fit food for buzzards and in| Mrs. ‘Trevor's sister, Mrs. J. E. justice to the manly, decent boys | Pomfert, and Dr. Pomfert, who is who were present it must be dean of senior college and gradu- said that they were deeply em-/ation school at Vanderbilt Uni- |barrassed by the behavior of their | versity. Mrs. Trevor’s mother, |camp brother. |Mrs, John Wise, accompanied aa. |them home for a visit. WOMEN ARE NOT LIKE Pome: ig THAT: Cracker received a most) apouT TOWN: Baby Mary a certain southern city telling of | A |a meeting held by a group of men} toch dar Bi f oer % fier |to elect a new president in a fa-| crowds greeting the ss. Cuba. jmous and aristocratic southern pavig Gill, who owns the old club. There were twelve men} Fogarty hom rs tting th | present, a secret ballot was taken |, 8° Mexnea’ és. Be : nKing |with written nominations dropped | smart fon the winter... Look oat |into a hat. All twelve men were} David, before you cut that tall nominated for president and each | ed beline: ask the. Garden nominee got one vote—so there Cyb, it might be a tree. . .There |you are, old human ego. jis Eddie Hall, master of cere- SUCCESS AND ze FLowers: | monies at Pepper’s, reading the |A butcher in a northern’ city put! vied pes Scie ea engdnirel lup this notice in his window: |“This business has been com- ise all aye relly dete: BO pelled to close owing to i debts. A list of the names and amount owing will shortly be; shown”. Needless to say money; rolled in, the shop is open again land business is flourishing. Adios, FLORIDA CRACKER. LIVE WIRES: Wonder if mer- chants realize how much women depend on advertisements in their |buying? So many things one neglects to get that are wanted and needed until an advertise- | AES: Sih ES | LEGALS ‘THE COURT OF THE COUNTY | 'DGE, MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA. IN PROBATE. { In re Estate of | ANNIE M. COTTER, | | Deceased. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS persons | >" i Pe To all creditors and all having claims or demands against said estate: You, and each of you, are hereby jnotified and required ‘to present | ; |any claims and demands which you, or either of you, may have against the estate of Annie M. Cotter, de- | ceased, late of. Monroe County, | Florida, to the Hon. Raymond Rt | word, County Judge of Monroe County, at his office in the County | Courthouse in Monroe — County, Florida, within eight months from.) the date of the first publication | hereof. All claims and demands | not presented. within the time and in the manner prescribed _ herein | shall be barred as provided by aw. Dated October 3rd, A. D. 1939. BEN 8. GROSS, As Executor of the Last Will and | Testament of Annie M. Cotter, Deceased. ise CITY ELECTION, NOV, 14, 1939 o ° For Chief of Police | IVAN ELWOOD } (For Re-Election) | For Chief of Police | C. (Floney) PELLICIER For Captain Night Police ALBERTO CAMERO (For Re-Election) For Captain Night Police MYRTLAND CATES For Captain of Police (Better known as Bobby) JOHN CARBONELL, JR: JONATHAN CATES _ Beautiful—Air-conditioned. | ac- MRS. J. J. TREVOR |der the very eaves of the church. ling to Blowing Rock, N. C., and! amusing letter from a friend in | Theodora Sweeting, looking like | | | | { | | | | \ | HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBERS HAVE MADE MANY KIND REMARKS CONCERNING OUR NEW, STYLE NEWS COVERAGE AND Ss PRESENTATION: WE'RE STRIVING HARD TO GIVE KEY WEST THE BEST | NEWSPAPER POSSIBLE UNDER TREMENDOUS PRESSURE OF LOW INCOME. THE THOUGHT occURS THAT YOU READERS