The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 20, 1939, Page 2

PAGE Two Publisnea Baily Vacept gitday By THE CrTIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. 1. P. AN'TMAN, President and Pubiisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Buflding Corner Greene and Ann Streets only Dally Newspaper in Key West sud Monroe County <iferéa at Key West, Florida, as second elass matter | Member of the Associated Press Le Associated Press is postin aid entitled. for republication of Aji news dispatches er8i “OF ee otherwise edited in this is paper and ‘also *he lotal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ne Year six . Months. 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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; aiways do its utmost for the pablic welfare; never tolerate corruption or denounce vice and praise virtue. commend good done by individual or organ- igition; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. injustice; (MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WES 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. * 7 : | = Well men seldom appreciate doctors, | and vice versa. = When better rubber stamps are made, Congress will make them. Being poor has its compensations. The poor are never investigated or kid- naped. Nearly everybcdy believes the other fellow is making money. It would be swell if it were true. | | “Have you ever come into contact with | a suspicious soul who is afraid that nobody | elsé fas any principles whatever? Salary is a word derived from the Latin “Sal”, meaning salt. There are some people who are not worth their salt. If hibernation will help cancer suf- férers, it might do something for Herr Hitler, provided the period is long enough. land honestly. | the city is to keep pace If you like reading The Citizen, there is no law to prohibit you from telling your | nomsubscribing friends (if you know any) | abent it. Grover Bergdoll, draft evader, says h@-spent seven years in the United States while reputedly he was living in Germany | as a fugitive. He says he came back to ett a.“pot of gcld” he had hidden in the | mansion of his mother in Philadelphia. | Meany people believe that this pot of ‘gold | eased the draft dodger’s way to freedom | in 1920, and kept him unmolested while | in the United States on his several Visits. | ‘The trial may reveal something more in- teresting than his assumed guilt. ee ase | For a while dairymen thought cows | gave more milk and were more contented as they listened .t0 the sweet strains of music during milking-time concerts fur- nished by radio. But this theory has now beeh “debunked, ‘and it is the milker arid} nét-the cow that steps up the supply. “The | music,” said ome of the dairymen experi- tienting with the théory, “does not in- | | forces has taken place. ctease a cow's milk production, but it brings the rhythm of happiness to the) nijiker and that increases the output be- | c@use He turns in a better job.” The cows | seem tontented but indifferent, j AN APPEAL TO REASON Most problems Our city officials, therefore, cipal problems on the basis of the greatest good for the majority of our people. They | should be able to enforce their decisions impartially, impersonally and immediately. There should be no dilly-dallying, no buck- | passing and no favoritism. It was probably with such thoughts in mind that the Key West Junior Chamber | | of Commerce and other organizations have | | gone on record as favoring the candidacies for public office of businessmen. As a rule, businessmen know how to meet busi- ness problems, such as_ payrolls, collec- tions and budgets. They know how to face facts. They are guided by business | ‘rather than political principles. Key West needs some businessmen at | city hall. City employes must be paid regularly and in full on payday; streets, sewers, water supply and other public | works must be operated and efficiently; taxes must be levied and collected fairly This statement must not be construed to mean that some of our pres- ent city officials have entirely neglected | all these problems. This statement is in- | tended merely to point out that a business- | like administration of municipal affairs is needed NOW, regardess of the mistakes | | or oversights of the past. Outbreak of hostilities in Europe has | led to an earlier reopening of Key West | Naval Station that was expected by even the most optimistic. A housing project is | about to get under way. The army facili- ties are being expanded. Commercial and | business interests expect the highway to be improved, a water main to be built | down the keys, much sooner than orig- inally anticipated. Key West is on the verge of a new prosperity. It is going to require a high type of | ability and effort at city hall to keep municipal operations geared and oiled to meet the changing requirements. Fresh problems will arise every day, every week. Prompt action will be a prime factor if | with develop- | ments. Businessmen are primed to meet changing, shifting events. With a few of them at city hall, Key West will get some- where. The opportunity is here. It should not be muffed. Our civie organizations backing the | movement for the election of competent | businessmen are on the right track. It is now up to the voters to decide, to pick the | best men qualified to serve this struggling community. RUSSIAN MENACE GROWS Russia has developed into a first-class menace all along the eastern Baltic coast- line, with the Northern nations anxiously watching the efforts of the Soviet to com- | pletely dominate the region. Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia are vir- tual vassals of the Red army and Finland, it seems, may be compelled to surrender or resort to warfare which can only prove disastrous. Sweden is in a more favorable situation but no man knows Where the Russian Bear will march. | The action of Denmark, Norway and Sweden in presenting identical notes to | Russia, “expecting” nothing to happen to prevent Finland “independently” main- taining her neutral position indicates grow- ing uneasiness. That the United States al- | so saw fit to voice its concern emphasizes | the gravity of the situation. Germany can hardly view the ap- proach of Russian bases without grave | trepidation. Even the Nazis know that | the future of Germany is shadowed by the giant Slav, who seems to seek a free hand | throughout all Eastern Europe. Little direct information is available in the Balkan area, although there are re- | | ports that some demobilization of frontier | Yugoslavia, Hun- | gary and Italy, it is rumored, may get to- gether to safeguard the peace of the: area. | Turkey has steadfastly declined to"give in to Russian pressure and Moscow has, ad- vised Rumania that it has no “hostile” ‘in- tentions. Italy seems definitely removed from |S | the German axis. Rome says nettrality will be the rule during the Winter ‘and next Spring, unless warmer weather brings |. aa with it an advance into the Balkans by :j; Germany or Russia. The tie-up between Russia and Germany has certainly alienated Italy from the Nazi camp. confronting a city | even of the size of Key West are business | | problems. | should have some business ability. This | would enable them to solve much muni- halt his aggressive | | morning seized a lot of sponges, | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE ISLAND CITY: | ee ae a THOSE, WORKING for’’ Key West Piblicity Bureau .in city report that minor differences between several of those concern- et ave been smoothed out and the possibility of starting the Bu-|There is some enthusiasm: locally | But does not work with great en-} jxeau is being ‘considered ‘again. Key West, on the opening of the highway, received realms of very ; favorable publicity. Now, ie amount has largely slipped with the city out of national news value. Here is where ‘an experi-'t enced publicity agent |right in and Start pitching. He's! got plenty of material here with} which to work and almost any ,kind of fairly cleVer publicity : labout the city will hit the pages’ jof the country’s jagain. ‘AMONG, THOSE « directing ‘the W.P.A. in the city ‘is office engi- ineer F. H. McKinley. He is the boy who has all the fgiures con- Smaller, dealers are being forced ' spent much time abroad and seen | |cerning work being done by the W.P.A. at his finger tips. Head |supérvisor is Homer Herrick. Im-! mediately below him are super-' visors Alton Goehring and C. C. Symonette | NOT, VERY AY ENTHUSIASTIC is the State Conservation. Depart- ment booklet just out concerning | world-famous Key West fishing. The map shows the highway com- : plete only to Key Largo. The booklet, which is supposed to be: |“A Guide to Florida Salt Water |Fishing by Highway”, says, “Be- |low Miami and on to Key West,' |where the weather . conditions|and storage facilities”, the SCD |°Peming of the Navy Yard. jare not subject to much change, | | tarpon and other fish found in | |the waters, such as sailfish, am- | berjack arid so forth and they may be caught the year round. |Boats and guides are available at Key Largo and other keys along |the Overseas Highway to Key West”. We like the way the regal Gulf Stream sailfish, a fighting champion, and that bundle of dynamite, the amberjack, are called “other fish”! ‘COFFEE SHOP TALK: Any- time the spectators get tired of dry parts of the City Council meeting, they need only wait for the oratory to start. Last night, lit was Bill Monsalvatge, Wifl | Roberts, and Earl Adams who rose to the heights. Principal oratory |was on reduction of taxes at |Trumbo, a big long-distance tele- phone bill, and reassessment of liquor dealers by their stocks. : . jState Conservation Department | says productior, markets of craw- fish centers at Miami and Key | West. It adds the miarket ‘is ré- ve sting cian Pa bm nso ask the fishermen who have tried to sell a fish for at least two years. . for placirig’ thie Overs toll gate at the entrance roe } Cony, Card Sound: hundreds many , 4 fish t the ane waters, ‘go past the, Lower toll gate will help su strict | Mon- idge. | now 8d ‘not | be the | can step highway for the wonderful fish: To know you all from A to Z”. (ing ‘they get. a3 \ | Wehy CONSTRUCTIVE {6 tis 'tHought of, the State Conservation | ‘Department: “Among Florida’s newspapers j Cppatanaing needs is .a_ stable elers who come to Key" West. To| ‘ind ‘better distribution of its fish. ahd séafoods. The in-' PR ah suffering from, a de- | |moraitesa price-cutting ‘condition, {brought about by necessity. | “fo sell their product immediately, | on ‘account of lack of cold storage and quick freezing facilities, {Which necessarily makes price- | cutting and competitive market prices inevitable. Fishermen are | |unorganized, dealers as a tule | ‘not cooperative, no unit of pur-| {Bose or cooperative force behind | Production, distribution and sell- Iie fing”. i “UNDER - CONSUMPTION of ' seafoods, due to lack of a uniform |supply of all varieties being avail- | \able to consumers, could be eds- | ily overcome by better marketing | report “FLORIDA | MARKETS |SUPPLY THE ENTIRE, SOUTH, | BUT. THERE, ARE. HUNDREDS } [OF TOWNS WHERE THERE IS! NO-’SUCH THING AS A FIRST-| CLASS FISH AND SEAFOOD) MARKET. Fish, judged by qual- | ity and price, is the cheapest food jthat passes over. the . counter. When prices are found to be high | the reason is invariably because | lof seasonable scarcity or ‘lack of | distribution and marketing facili- ‘ties; ‘and when ridiculously low the reason will be fourid in the| glutted market, dumping: of over- supply because of lack of storage | and dealer’s inability to hold and practically distribute the particu- | Jar product, until the seasonable | demand reaches normal”: | WHAT MIAMI N NEWSPAPER today said that officers and men from the Army air unit, which is , jcontemplated for the old Pan American field, would be : quar-| tered ‘at Fort Jefferson, “because | jee its proximity”! continues. iD. KEY Wat IN Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen | OCTOBER 20, 1934 Construction of a dock at the’ | southeastern end of Duval street’ was authorized at the meeing of the ‘city council last week. The | work wilt be done by the FERA, but use to which the dock will! be put was not stated. Drum and Bugle Corps of Ar-! |thur Sawyer Post 28, American! | Legion, will leave over the high- | way tomorrow morning to attend |the Legion convention in Miami. |Post Commander J. S. Moore left ; | with his family over the high-' |Wway this morning and Command- er B. P. Roberts iy leave to- night. Sheriff K. O. Thonipens thi |which were all under the size prescribed by the law. This law provides that all sponge taken from the territorial waters of; Florida must be five inches, or, lover, in diameter. The. sheriff! |said that none of the sponges were up to required size. | J. W. Schoneck, assistant con- | struction engineer with the light- | house department, will leave in |the official car tomorrow fo ‘con- |duct an inspection of the lights in the district. After the inspec- |tion ‘on this coast the inspector ! je go to the. west coast. W. J. Churchwell, who is jhotding revival services at | First Methodist church, and Mrs.' Key Wes {Churchwell were yesterday after- ; noon at a chicken dinner given lin the church parsonage by Rev. jand Mrs. George E. Summers. this afternoon. The work is tobe pera witlgcheteen oe nor, Under ‘the auspices 6f Yhe |Woman's Club a comedy entitled streets was Commenced 1 "delosk i DAYS GONE BY ,the Burglar Alarm Will “be pre- | /sented at the High Schippl audi- | | } | } | | | | j torium next Friday night. Mrs. William H. White, of the Fine) Arts Department, will ‘direct the | play. Francisco Fernandez, ‘ who attempted to ‘take a few hours ‘after his arrival from | (Tampa last Thursday, is getting | \along nicely at the Mercedes hos- | pital, and Mrs. Gutsens, the ma- j jtron, says he will be able to get) out in a few days. Election of ‘Officers for the en- | suing year will be the main busi- gs ofthe! meeting of Catholic | Daughters of America to be held tomorrow in the hall of ‘the or- ganization at 8 os m., the secre- j ta ig eo és ER 20, 1924, | Due to ge eatavoowle wea- ther conditions the sporige fleet trom Key West has deferred ‘sail- ita until later in the month. | fad it not been for the northeast- erly gales blowing in. this section | the sponge fishiermen would have for the grounds several days | ‘Chines H. Ketchum, as Yepre- tive of the Chamber of Com- ere, will visit the Navy Depart- lirient + this Week ‘and will take up iWith Officials the proposition me assigned “tis ite life i \w- |Your advice to Cracker is very FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1: ——$——_— |Mr. Malone is a former Key |#see! |\CRAEKS ~ COMMENTS Wester, -prominent ‘attorney and” Today's : | was mayor of this city, also state . seats |senator from this district: for a st test {number of years. /famed. cebu te at Rae | Mrs. A. C. Elgin, formerly of ts ‘Key West who how resides in Mi- “ington Wt, 0 zeae, 0, Minn., ami, writes: “I am elated Over /Federal Trade | Commissioner, the news of the Navy Yard's jor at. Cedar Mills, Minn. 69 | opening. A news boy who stood | iyears ago. on the street corner selling his} U. Ss. Senator Sherman Minton papers said to me, ‘Do you think | o¢ Indiana, born at Georgetown, |I could get a job in Key West | Ind, 49 years ago. inow? Nobody here speaks to me,| yimes Wright Brown, pul | they're all too busy’. ‘Yes’, I Te-ler of Editor and ee ode * plied, ‘this is a northern town York, born ih Detroit, |but in Key West they have time} ,to talk to you’.” i To know kind friends from Z to A| Bla eh mat ier tap want Is part of life that’s fun and play. | {during the World War and has! ‘ae Re been longing to retur TOURIST: There is a marked! ‘says, “I pg aie Spa agia {ference in the reactign of trav-| naval station reopening. I danced | the Highland Fling when I Tead | |those looking for gaudy display,/it in the papers. I know bow! | glitter, tinsel and hullabloo of the ;much this will mean to Key West |neo-rich, there is ill disguised dis- |in more ways than one. Now if ,appointment, but to the educated, | the clock would turn back twenty cultural world traveler who has years, wouldn’t that be grand!” Nothing truer than the saying ;Most of the interesting countries | ‘once a Key Wester always a Key of the world, there is a real ap- | Wester”. preciation of Key West. They immediately fall in love with its old-world atmosphere and praise lee its mellow beauty. a) ee clever deavor. | keep a pencil by my bed But what avail, an empty head. If vocabulary such as yours 5: had, | T'd be so very, very glad. You wonder, “How so much I see, Dr. John C: Merriam, iof the Carnegie feamnution, lington, D. C., born at Hopkinton, Towa, 70 years ago. Edgar Selwyn of New York, producer-playwright, born in Cin- cinnati, 64 years ago. Frances Kellor of New York, ‘sociologist-author, born in Co- lumbus, O., 66 years ago. di Charles Johnson of the Silver Palm has been more than a strong right arm for the Garden Club tree-planting project. . . A DEAR WOMAN FRIEND tells Of her plan to take a con- versational course and we know she’ was. vaccinated with a Vic- trola needle. MY DEBT TO YOU ‘and that certainly would not be You welded my heart with loVe; an unpleasant task, we replied.| And filled it full of song. Incidentally, Major -W. F. Put- Now love, I owe a debt to you— man is the husband of one of Key! My whole life long. West’s most popular girls, the! former Ruth Cash. ..The Boy) You've given me hours of glad. ; Scouts of this city are doing al ness |grand job in cleaning up Rest! That last the whole day \Beach. When anything hard has| through; to be done the scouts are.always! Ah, love and I can only give No doubt this will restore a meas- called to help. Praise to the Lions; My self to you. ure of prosperity to Key West, | Club, also. The Lions have long} Adios, ;which is very gratifying to me”.!been roaring about beaches. . .} FLORIDA CRACKER. ABOUT TOWN: Driving ‘ound, being stopped at the gates {of Fort Taylor by a handsome Sore soldier who said, “You can’t come MISS ILEEN WILLIAMS, |in until you see Major Putman”,! whose undying enthusiasm for ey West compels her to pass on |anything good, gives us excerpts |from several letters written by {former Key Westers. Says Wil- liam H. Malorie, of Miami, “I | want to congratulate the people of. Key West in securing the re- It should never have been closed. “ive been anil : outside and underneath, and take it from me, its a ij IN_A 1940 FORD ¢ more Foom, greater quiet, finer ride, are no less than 22 important 1940 improvements, including the following: Cone Re icinion ew one aden eran instrument panéls; new 2-sfolle Moz frame seri on denig po ‘steering wheel Pera No extra cost) Improved Improved soundproofing; quieter operation —_on all 85, Sunsichig ahah rece cheats on Ye AND THE ONLY V-8 ENGINE IN ANY LOW-PRICED CAR!