The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 23, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO the ey West Citizen Published ‘Daily Exeept Sunday By THE.CYTIZEN PUBLISHING. CO. INC. L. P. AK'TMAN, President and Publisher JOB ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citigen Building Corner Greene and Anh Streets only Dally Newspaper in Key West sud Monroe County -ulered at Key West, Florida, as second elass matter e Associated Preas Io exclusively. entitled Il news. dis to . or pot etherwise cFedited in this paper-and. also tal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES mee one Month Weekly ADVBRTISING RATES _Jaade known on application. SPECIAL NOTIOB All reading notices, cards of inks, resolutions of spect, obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at ¢ tate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which 1 Tevenue is to be derived are 5 cents.a line. -* “The Citizen is an open forum and invites diseus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general -oterest but it will not publish anonymous communi- gations. 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- : iztsion; tolerant of others’ rights, views and epinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. —_— . IMPROVEMENTS 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. It is advisable to strike while the iron is hot, but not the head. If a 90-day credit is permitted in the “cash-and-carry”’ bill, it is a misnomer. If they did not know it before, the Cincinnati Reds now know what is meant by a “Blitzkrieg.” Just because an individual is a suc- cess in one line is no reason why he has any intelligence in another. Some day the irresistible force will meet the immovable body and then the Yankees will be stalemated. If a designing young woman takes a rich old man for better or worse and he gets better, it is worse for her for the time being. Hitler’s peace move caused the mar- ket, yalue of stocks to decrease $400,522,- 000, in a week. If these peace offers con- tinue, we'll be just about ruined. Don’t believe all the stories that you hear and read during the war but, just the same, don’t get the idea that it is a play war; under any guise it is serious busi- ness, Technicians have discovered that the ink.in the period, comma and exclamation point weighs respectively one, two and three ten-millionths of an ounce. The cost you will have to figure out yourself—its | teo much arithmetic for this column. A Sunday concert broadcast for sol- diers in the front lines was interrupted: by a “request number’ asked by French of- ficers and men in the Maginot line. The number requested was “Parlez Moi d’Amour”—“Speak to Me of Love,” and” the German studio announced that it was a | Pleasure to oblige, and the French:song, in which Lucien Boyer made such a hit in the United States a few years ago, was played | immediately. Whether there was sig- nifieance in:the request we wouldn’t know, of course, but with love in their minds and hearts, the soldiers of the armies, will‘find | might be termed a deficit. themselves “heartless” to fight. Love and'| kratred cannot live in the heart at the same | time—one will have to abdicate. THE BAND BEGINS TO PLAY Band music is just as much a ‘part of American life as lodge meetings, cham- bers of commerce, barber shops, red ‘fire | and politics, hot dogs and ham and eggs. What Fourth of July, Armistice Day or political parade would be complete without a band? What athletic event, football game, aviation meet or monument unveiling is any of those things without a | band? Ever hear of a circus without a} band or band music? Ever go to meet a visiting celebrity or delegation without a band? Along with about everything else over the years, Key West lost all her band ‘organizations. Then along came the WPA ' with a community band idea. Music fur- nished by such an organization was recog- nized as being as important in restoring the morale of the community as clean streets, better sanitation and a water sup- ply. For some years the WPA Hospitality | Band had been performing valiantly in spite of many obstacles. Musicians are hard to train. There are few men with | the talent and the patience to play band | musical instruments. But the WPA music project headed by George Mills White and the band directed by Prof. Alfredo Bar- roso persevered. They produced a pretty good band in spite of everything. Some weeks ago the band was dis- sons besides the bandsmen immediately affected by the order. The Sunday after- | noon concerts at Art Center were missed. The staff and patients at Marine hospital missed the Friday afternoon concerts. The | teachers and pupils at our public schools | missed the music. The missing band left a big flaw in the driving gear of communal | life. Happily the WPA band, now a unit of the Florida music project, has been re- stored to Key West activity. Rehearsals have been resumed, a regular series of con- certs has been undertaken. Band music Happy days are here again, for bandsmen, citizens and children. Many of our people be here to witness final passing of the band. aga This is a right good time for band music. Everyone feels like celebrating, | © now that the sailors have landed and have our situation well in hand. Let band music | reign unconfined—away with the Gloomy Guses and the Pessimistic Petes! DEFICIT INFORMATION For the information of the statis- tically minded we call attention to the fact that the Federal government, for the first | quarter of the fiscal year which began July 1st, spent $976,060,301 more than it collected.. This is what one_ technically terms a deficit. At this rate of extravagance it will be easily seen that the deficit for the full year will be a little less than $4,000,000,- 000. With the nation going hog-wild on preparedness, which always comes high, it might be estimated that the deficit will exceed the indicated figure. It is interesting to.observe, as a pass- ing comment, that some of the vociferous objectors to a deficit, when incurred for feeding starving persons, are quite recon- ciled to the idea of a big deficit if the money is spent for military and naval pur- poses. It seems, from what one reads, that a deficit for war or national defense, has some virtue that is unconnected with a deficit incurred in assisting individual citi- zens. We confess that we are somewhat ignorant of the terrors that lurk in deficits, except insofar as a private lack of funds At the same time, we moan for the boys and girls who can hardly bear to see the government. spend more money than it collects. They | are in for a bad winter. If peace is declared in Europe before November 11, we can amplify our jubila; | tion on Armistice Day and take in more | territory in the celebration. Commercial credits running not longer than 90 days are not loans within the meaning of the Johnson Act, Congress says, despite Senator Johnson’s assertion to the contrary. Presumably loans to other nations are permanent investments. with- out hope of returns. We'd like to make those kind of loans at the bank; surely an individual's word should be as good as a | nation’s PHE KEY WEST CITIZEN 1: THE ISLAND: CITY THE THOUGHT OCCURS that well up a channel. Dropped ‘in |Christmas will. soon be with us.'6n the little development Clem) | Why not drop your friends one of Price‘and Tom Woods are working | |those peppy little wooden crates at. They have dock frames which | chock full of green Florida’ they are’to extend to the channel | | Key Limes with their very much!and a small frame house going | j Superior citrus juice packed in-}up. It may be that boats.will be | \side? Your friends will in turn'run out of here for tourists. Using | tell others of this and the word 'the auxiliary we chugged over! land taste will scon get around. As|rock ledges. Having no tickler | la matter of fact, why wait until! we went overboard with .an .iron | Chrismas? You're going to write |rod to get the crawfish in. the} lyour friend soon, anyway. open. Then zing went the grains | |from a friend’s hands in the boat | TALK is rising around town for | above and a crawfish was brought | \stinnitas of another Winter Pro-|up cracking its whips and armor- gram designed to reach even fur-!ed body in_ protest. Returning | ther than last year’s. The idea is | through Northwest we ran ‘by the | | ‘| to reach the elderly folk who do ‘not spend their evenings. dancing | as do younger folk. ‘For them ai! program of card playing, check- lers, chess, “perhaps mild games such as shuffleboard is contem- jplated. The W.P.A. Recreation | Department under Mrs, Eva War- | ‘ner will look into the program. Many clubs and other organiza- five planes anchored; in the Main! Ship Channel and a destroyer promptly put a strong searchlight | on us and kept it there. We had | no intention of swiping one of the | planes but if we did we could not have under all that limelight. KEY WEST PUBLICITY BU- | |REAU will not only kill, off a/ MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1939 | obacco -opens Doors to Fields where People Live, Work & Achieve banded. That was a blow to many per- | fills the air at five points five times a week. would rather see our horseless bridle path | turned over to our economic royalists than | tions in town stage elaborate af- \fairs during the winter. Among these are Woman's Club, Junior Woman’s Club, Jaycees, Key West |High School. Bolstering these |private affairs will be art exhibi-' tions at the Ar Center and con- certs by W.P.A. Band. /great deal of the false rumors | ‘about Key West now floating | throughout Florida and even | {many parts of the coutry, put will! substitute real publiciy for it. Be- | hind the movement is Bill Lee} jand the Key West Hotel and Aparment House Association is} thinking of backing him up on the proposition. contacts. throughout the. country to get Key West publicity. in big) newspapers. And he’s. Yarin’ to GRAMMAR SCHOOLS of the! city are anxious to have organiz- ed ‘physical education program jand it 1s probable W.P.A. Rec- {reation Department will take |go with big ideas. He would like | charge of this program. The |to have the services of ® photo- jgroup, by the way, has a little|grapher and necessary mechanic- jentertainment organization all its/al work to dish out the publicity. |own, which will take part in civ- Bill points out that many news- jic affairs, Bennett’s maracas and|paper articles now going out of Cuban songs and Beatrice Mo- \the city, which treats the news reno’s classical selections on pi-|angle of proposed high bridge! lano. |tolls or rainfall filling cisterns! dentate and the people happy or gives im- HASTENED to the bay keys/pressions of feature men, are| over the weekend for a desired harmful to a great extent, There | \recreatidn. Anchored off Caldes'is a unique element and atmo-| |after a gorgeous sunset and slept sphere here which may, be easily | junder a_ beautiful moonlight.|captured and which will make! Then down to West Harbor Key, /good reading in the metropolitan | |where the sloop was anchored | newspapers. | KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen | OCTOBER 23, 1934 noon for New York, after a visit Circuit Court convened this of séveral days discussing the morning with Judge Jefferson .B.!plans and going over arrange-’! Browne presiding. Jury summon-' ments for the project. ed for the trials of Juan del Pino! Mizs Florence Sawyer will play | and Bonifacio Rivero was present the part of Penelope in the com-| and answered roll call. When vedy, “The Burglar Alarm”, which | \the procedure was concluded,! will be presented at the High clerk Sawyer was instructed by School Auditorium Friday night. | te bench to pay the jurors $3 for ‘ Others i in the cast are Miss Esther | on day and they were discharg-'Schrader, Mrs. Ted Bayly ‘and / |Mrs. William H. White. : | OCTOBER 23, 1924 i eed Ballou and Ambrose ; Key West today. got, its first | Cleare, of the division of research 'eminder in. the form of a north- | | | \ | | Bill says he has the j, "Today there are about 1,000,000 cigar stores, drug stores, country and grocery stores where you can buy cigarettes in the United States. These re- tailers, and the jobbers who serve them, have built up a@ service of courtesy and convenience unmatched by any other industry catering to the American public’s pleasure. "Tuere ARE ANOTHER MILLION people who are engaged directly or indirectly in the transportation of cigarettes to every town, hamlet and crossroads. Ir IS ESTIMATED that there are 1,602,000 tobacco farmers raising tobacco in-20 out of the 48 states. Good tobacco is one of the hardest crops to raise and bring to market, requiring great skill and patience from seed-bed planting to harvesting and.cur- ing. The modern tobacco farmer has. done well the job of constantly improving the quality of his product. Tue AVERAGE LENGTH of service of the 13,230 people working in the Chesterfield factories, storage houses, leaf-handling and redrying plants is over 10 This means that every step in the making of Chesterfields, regardless of how small, is handled by peo- ple who have had 10 years of experience and ability in knowing their jobs. "Truty TOBACCO OPENS DOORS to fields where |and statistics, left this afternoon over the highway for Tavernier where they will be joined by Raymond Maloney and _ start |making a survey of the Inad on ithe Florida Keys. | Fifty of the~cisterns in Key | |West are to be covered under! | the direction of G. B. Reed of the sanitary department, who will work ‘under the supervision of E. R. Neff, director of work opera- tions of the FERA. John P. Murphy, commission- er of recreation for the City of San Francisco, and. Dr. T. B.|, Creeley, surgeon of the Golaen? Gate Fire Department, are visi- | tors in the city and delighted! with their stay, as are their wives. They are guests of Chief > Harry Baker and Mrs. Baker. Ballots for the November elec- , tion, contract for which was! awarded The Artman Press, | were delivered to Clerk Ross C. |Sawyer this afternoon. This is! | the largest ballot ever printed in |Monroe county, and sample bal- {lots are now available at The’ Citizen office. OCTOBER 23, 1929 | Circuit court jury verdict thi jafternoon awarded $129 to Clif. ford. G. Hicks and Clayton W. Kirtland, doing business. under the name of the Cuban-Ameri jean Forwarding Co., in their suit! |against Harry Engler for $50,0000 | |for alleged assumpsit damages. | Robert Austin, president of the | |Chamber of Commerce, returned | | tovthe city today after an absence | of several weeks. He reports! having visited a number of north-! bern capitals and that there is every indication that Key West | will have a large number of visi- | tors this season. Body of Lurton Pangle, arrived in the city this and. was taken 10 the chapel of the funeral home at 412 Bahama street. Funeral services will be; ‘held‘from the-chapel to St. Paul's | church, 4:30 o’clock this after- | noon, Dr. J. S. Merrill, promoter of iwhich, it is said, will be larger. ‘than in former seasons and pos- ling has so far been déne this ' brilliant plays were made’ by | both teams and the fans ‘evidenc- ‘ ; ag Who | Sacetian to toy nae cng ee ae mayor, born there, 44 and Mary, born at Brook Hill, | er that the winter is near at hand | and that its arrival means the | coming of thousands of tourists, | ‘sibly the greatest in the history of Key West. Tuesday. afternoon when SS. Governor Cobb entered the port. of Havana there were thousands ‘of people on the Maleson to ‘cheer her entrance. The reason was because the Cobb was the first American ship to enter, due to the prevailing ogee wihds: Many complaints hayé been! ‘made by residents abotit boys using slitigshots. In other sea- sons the police force has been actively engaged in stopping this dangerous practice byt noth- season. Mayor Frank H. Ladd, ; an , this issue of The Citizen issues the |proclamation for the of Navy Day, October ™ The day, says the proclamation, is the birthday of one-of the greatest of | all American presidents, Theo- | dore Roosevelt. At the Key West Army Bar- iracks yesterday the Key West aseball team defeated the Navy by the score of 6 to 3. ‘Several ‘ed their appreciation by continued applause, Peccecovecocossesesooees: Today’s Birthdays oe ecccccooeese Dr. Edgar J. Goodspeéd’ bf the | University of Chicago, ent biblical scholar, professor’ pond a ‘born at Quincy, Ifl., 68 years Maury Maverick of San An- ears ago. Dr. William D. Coolidge, direc- ‘tor of General Electric’s | Laboratory. Shamctates N.Y. |born at Hudson, Mass., ago. “ Hugh Raillie, president of the | United bbioay born in New York, Bryan. presi- of William people live, work andachieve,and Chesterfield takes pride in its ever increasing part inthis great industry that is devoted entirely to the pleasure of the American public. To SMOKERS, Chesterfield Cigarettes have always said, and now repeat, thatin no other cigarette madecan you find the same degree of real mildnessand 00d taste, or the same high quality of properly cured and aged tobaccos. Chesterfield Cigarettes are made with'one purpose only... to give smokers everywhere the MILDER, BETTER-TASTING SMOKING PLEA- SURE they want. You can’t buy a better cigarette. MAKE YOUR NEXT PACK Copyright 1999, Licozrr & Mysas Tosacco Co. CHESTERFIELD Today's Horostone | PEPSI-COLA WHOLLY ra The Citizen’s popular business ‘oday’s Horoscope, epconenseses | Something of yesterday’s ten- | dencies.prevail in those born in| the early hours of the day, but} as the next degree advances, the nature becomes more careless and | even imprudent. Born in the late! atgumentative or even violent, with fanaticism or indifference | in Key West, says the makers, and this Pepsi-Cola, nationally adver- | concern contributes to the best tised healthful and invigorating | interests of Key West by employ- hae drink, is the latest addition |ing Key West labor exclusively. The First National Bank of Key West Member of the Federal Deposit insurance Corporation Serving Key West and Monroe County Since 1891