The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 26, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The ey West Uest Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING C0. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President and Pablisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Mansger From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Cnly Daily Newspaper in Key West aud Monroe County ered at Key West, Florida, as second elass matter Member of the Associated Press Le Associated Press is exclusivély entitled use | fo or republication of all news dispatches credited to »t etherwise credited in this paper and also | seal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES cme Year : ix Months Three Months She Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made kno »wn on application. ie ; “SPECIAL NOTICE AU) reading notices, obituary notices, ete., will be charged for at 2 of 10 cents a line, ‘otices for entertairfment by churches from which x revenue is to be derived are 6 cents a line. - Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- public issues and subjects of local or general but it will not publish anonymous communi- Perhaps Poland will like, out of its ashes to ebemies. rise, Phoenix- confound its dfaft, sBes. Bergdoll has found that out. . Advertising i in The Citizen is what it | takes to take advantage of the buying | pewer of the residents of Key West. We do nct know what the World of Tomorrow will be, but we do know that te country of tomorrow—majfiana—is Mexico. “All Quiet on the Western Front’, written after the World War, is having its | courterpart at the present time, but hell | may break loose at any time. Jehn L. Lewis avows he will fire all the Reds in the CIO. That’s an admission they exist, and he has a big job on his hands, and if he gets ’em all, the CIO membership will be skeletonized. Many visitors will come to Key West | the coming season, some of whom will make it their home, and the merchant who advertises is placed in the most ad- vantageous position to make the contacts which courteous treatment and the right! prices will retain indefinitely. First and best impressions are made through the columns of the local paper. While this is | a selfish statement it is, nevertheless, ab- solutely true. The price of gasoline in Italy is about | $1.25 per gallon, and the average work- ingman’s wages being something like $3.50 weekly, it represents about two days’ wages; so if he had an automobile which he hasn’t, he could go as far as Pirates Cove on the gallon, maybe, but would have to work another two days to! get back to Key West. That’s a_ helluva | way to enjoy life; and ain't you glad you | are an American? “He who rides the tiger better not fall off,” or words to that effect, says a Chinese proverb. Getting astride a tiger might result as disastrously as getting off the beast, while getting on a bear may be comparatively easy, but in getting off it is advisable, apparently, to hold on to the tail. However, bears have such small tails that it is difficult to retain a hold, and Hitler will find that out and regret | the day he mounted the Russian species. Wars today are not the playthings of | other days. In Les Miserables, Victor | Hugo narrates the horrible spectacle of | eighty. cannon belching forth fire and de- struction at one time at the battle of | Waterloo. That wouldn’t get a paragraph | in today’s news. Two Harvard professors | recéiifly made a study of 902 major wars fought since 500 B. C., evolving the start- ling observation that the World War was | cight times more disastrous than all the | other 901 wars combined. Over taxation defeats its own pur-| pose. In New York a high cigarette tax | plaeed last July has caused a drop of more | thar 50 per cent in the sale of the fags and | 2 consequent-loss instead of gain in tax | revenge. Besides on account of these re- | ducéd sales the 40,000 tobacco retailers in | the_Gity are taking a terrific beating and are tlamoring for repeal of the onerous | tax. Whenever money is needed for a specific purpose all the politicians _ think of is increased taxation, never once re- trenchment in management or reduction of salaries, cards of thanks, resolutions of ; a: Kis healthy y to stay away from a | but not the kind the government is- | | Western Atlantic insular | credited on the war debts. -| leaving an estate | STOP SIGNS A NECESSITY ! There are two kinds of automobile | drivers in Key West. One is the stranger who doesn’t know local conditions and must be informed. The other is the citizen who knows local conditions, but needs to be reminded to observe the ordinary rules | of safety. We don't know which is the | worst driver at intersections—the stranger approaching a | through street or the citizen who knows | who doesn’t know he_ is 00 | and ignores the fact. In any event, there have been several collisions recently at street intersections. | In virtually every case a | through a stop street while the citizen, forgetting that strangers are not familiar with local failed to observe the rule of caution. The citizen knows he has the right of way, but | it does him no good to have the right of way if he ends up in the hospital. The safe thing to do is to slow up at_ inter- sections. The city has an obligation, too. It should paint STOP signs at dangerous in- tersections. They should be be so placed | that the stranger can see and heed | them, that the citizen may be reminded | of the danger. Virtually all the signs painted on the streets a year or so ago have been obliterated. There never have | been enough proper markers on poles at | intersections here. That’s where the aver- age out of town driver looks for stop signs —to his right at the near side of the street | crossing. That’s where he also looks for | signs to show him that he is approaching | a one way street. Duval street, our only one-way street, never has been properly marked as such, with the result that sev- eral strange cars are flagged down every day because they are violating the traffic laws. The Citizen suggests that our city of- ficials make the marking of streets one of the first orders of business after elec- tion. It would be unfair to ask them to do this necessary work at this time. All we can do is hope and pray that someone | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1989 | Cee cere cccccecccecceceeseseseeeseeeeireeeuedssuesseeeseseseSseseeuseeeseces |‘PROFESSOR JIM’ Highlights Of Florida stranger went | without stopping, : conditions, | ISA 7, ii 27 THE NOW IN 1920 BY, A. \scOURGE OF: THE: SEAS}: CRON Cope OE OF NOTED ‘D GROTTO BY THAT WN S718 BUT ONE Orn B NUMBER OF IMPRESSIVE. MOUS, INE LAS: THE ISLAND CITY iCRACKS and COMMENTS' | WAS AN AUTHORITY. { | iy Agaocinted Press) | HARTFORD, Conn.. Oct. 26— |The memory of “Professor Jim” | still lives at Trinity college three ;seore years after the old negro \janitor’s death. Alumni have ‘provided funds for a new stone to mark his grave. The old, weather-beaten tomb- ! stone said merely that James Williams was “for more than 40 Posting The Bride Young Wife—Pierre is per- \fectly wonderful to me, mother. | He gives me everything I ask for. |“ Mother—That merely shows, my dear, that you're not asking enough. authority on matters of Trinity tradition. | years janitor of Trinity college.” ; The new one, President Remsen: | B. Ogilby says, will commemorate “Professor Jim” as “faithful over ' la few things.” “Professor Jimi,” nearly 90 : | when he died, virtually was a fa- ther confessor to the students of his day and the final, undisputed | night enroute to Bradenton. Mr, ‘Larsh is owner of the Master‘ ! Electric Manufacturing Company | of Dayton and is the tung oil king |of America. Why not stay long- fer with the “serene city”, Key , West, Mr. Larsh? TO POLITICAL CANDI- DATES: I love a good, hot argu- | ment. I'll talk for hours if I can. But just one rule lets please ob- serve—don’t knock our fellow man. LOVE I'd like to hug the human race So much I feel that I adore it, But if I tried this on the street I s’pose I'd get arrested for it’ I don’t pretend that Life’s all good; That Nature’s always Sweet and kind. I love the world | _ The’ way it is— The truest love is Never blind. (Cheerful Cherub). Adios, FLORIDA CRACKER. you never have had any, of these pains, be thank- ful. ‘They can take a lot of the joy out of life. If you have ever suffered, as most of us have, from a headache, the next time try.DR. MILES ANTI-! -PAIN PILLS. You will find them pleasant to take and unusu- ally prompt and effective in action. Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills are also recommended for Neuralgia, Muscular Pains, Functional Menstrual Pains and pain following tooth extraction. node Miles Anti-Pain Pills do not upset the stomach or leave Tas ith a dopey, drugged ‘At Your Drug Store: COUPLE OF W.P.A. “trouble shooters” got together this week. | Rex Wilson and Wallace Thomas. Wilson took over in Key West for |several weeks sometime back. He was followed by Thomas. A W.P.A. trouble shooter is one who goes out following revela- ;tion of slow work or other trou-; bles in the various W.P.A. areas. | tt was said that. Jacksonville, }war seare. . Storm of discussion follows Bob Smith’s color scheme on his new boat, “Tuna’,, .Most \say it is too flashy. Some say ‘it has “Cuban” color ideas. We like it. Sport fishing boats should be bright and cheerful, not the too often seen dull browns and greens of most charter boats. seen ‘here. . .Three kids arrested for is not killed or seriously injured in one of \anted things speeded up in, stealing are in for one big whal- those constantly recurring accidents street intersections, SHALL WE SEIZE BRITISH ISLANDS? The proposal that Great Britain and | France be required to surrender their | possessions in part payment of their war debts to the | United States has been made by United | States Senator Bennett Champ Clark, of Missouri, and Ernest Lundeen, of Min- nesota, both members of the Military Af- fairs Committee. When we read about this proposal, about two weeks ago, we doubted that it | was seriously advanced. Recently, how- ever, Senator Lundeen, in Senate debate, | suggested that if the United States’ armed | forces took over the British West Indies “there wouldn’t be a shot fired,” because the British and French “are pretty busy on the Western Front.” Aside from the fact that the proposal ‘is in line with the aggressive tactics of Hit- ler, Stalin and the Japanese, and involves | the use of force as a national policy, which the United States has agreed not to do by virtue of the Kellogg Pact, the proposal is based upon a morality in international af- fairs that carries an odor. There may be virtue in the sugges- tion that the United States British and French islands in this hemis- phere and that we pay the British and French for them, the payment to be This is one proposal, but it is not'to be mixed up with the suggestion that the islands be seized by force. TAXES TAKE MORE THAN HALF About a year ago a wealthy citizen , | of the State of New York passed away, of $76,838,530. This seems like a nice sum to leave to one’s heirs but before the estate could pass along | the governments of the citizen came in to take out what are called inheritance taxes. The State of New York levied a toll of $10,900,000 and the Federal govern- | ment got $30,372,109. The combined | taxes amounted to more than half of the | fortune. Puzzle: Is there anybody in Key West who believes that a promise made acquire the | |here. Thomas, another trouble |shooter, was then sent down to 'take active charge of all affairs. If you've noticed, W.P.A.’ fore-!* |men and workmen really have |been doing some sweating at \their work lately. Thomas’ tech- |nique was simple. “Do you want? at |Key West when Wilson first came | ing from their parents. «4 | ALONG THE WATERFRONT: Mackerel are beginning “to run”. Local fishermen report bringing to port from one to four a day at present. No kingfish «have been landed but one commercial | | your job?” -he sweetly inquired{angler predicts the silvery fight- {of each foreman on the job. They ,er and much-desired “king” will | quickly answered yes with a wor- jtied look on their faces. “Well, 'T do, too” he replied, “and that means we all work or there’s go- jing to be some layoffs”. Simple enough! | GOOD NEWS yesterday was that the Garrison Bight Yacht Basin project application will soon be ready to send to W.P.A. at Jacksonville, and that Carl |Bervaldi is working on the plans |of the beach near Rest Beach ‘However, a gentleman, who must remain unnamed because of his ‘affiliations, is so plunged in other work that he cannot continuc jwork he started on the project for, an Athletic Stadium. ‘That means that project may hang fire for several weeks and even for months until it can be drawn up. Key West, meanwhile, will con-! tinue to be without its’ stadium. |Could the city give us some help on these plans? CLEM PRICE development on West Harbor Key will be in the nature of a club for Key West- lers and winter visitors who will ‘be here for some time. There will probably be a caretaker who will arrange to make stays there comfortable. At present a little house is going up and a dock | will soon be built. Clem says he really had trouble getting the piling out there. A launch can- not come in to the island, so he |had to jump overboard and push the piling ashore at one point. COFFEE SHOP TALK: John Gardner is responsible for the idea of petite crates for Key limes. Now the Southern Cross | Hotel and Island Inn Hotel are both planning to have the crates ready for distribution this win-~ ter. Tourists can fill them with limes and send a Key West sou- |venir to their friends. . .Wonder- |ful work has been done by Mrs. |J. D, MacMullen on the city- |wide tree-planting project. It is |the most successful project of its kind for Key West in quite some | time. 'ers in from the Keys are seen in town on their bicycles peddling |doves they have shot. . .Some- | time ago when a visiting team j}was in town that evening can- non at Army Barracks went off. | Itt so scared the team, the mana- | ger said, that they went on to ‘Daily now youth hunt-, ‘be caught around November 10.! However, the first real “norther” of the season will bring them on the run... .Much has been“written | about the fact that Peter Roberts, local fish dealer, and ilkard Baker, commercial cannot swim despite the fact they have been around the water all, their lives, but now we must add another waterfront character to the list. He is St. Clair Edgar, who revealed the unusual fact { yesterday afternoon. St. Clair declares he doesn’t know how to propel himself in the briny deep and “I don’t want to learn”. Operators of smaller fishing ves- sels in Kev West earn side money selling curios to the ‘Tropical Aquarium. . .Flood tides have been noted. during the past week. In some places along the shore water covered the ‘street ahd even rose to the sidewalk. A wholesale fish company te- jcently opened now Sage sev- ‘eral boats to fill orders. west waterfront is ssc Sede: a bechive of ‘activity ‘now that local | i¢harter boats are getting réady for the season. Key West Will offer a spic and span Flest this year. BET IT GOT THEIR GOATS (Ry Associated ad OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 26.— Best laid plans of mice and men— Two boys with an idea “ac- quired” two goats, one nanny, one billy, from an Oklahoma City back yard. They traded the; nanny for another billy and then | headed for wide open spaces near Oklahoma City. The strange procession aroused | the curiosity of a citizen who ‘called police. Intercepted, the boys fiend their idea was this: If ing was a paying proposition jn Mexico, then it“ought to ea mint of money in the U. 5. A.”) if billy goats were substituted a “trial run” when police inter- | ferred. A contract was let last, week |by the Republic Oil Refining | |Company, an independenty;2con- cern, for the construction,,.of a | $700,000 wholesale distributing | | by Hitler, is worth even a scrap of paper? |whip the Key Westers. A real |plant at Tampa. a fisherman, | for bulls. They were all set for | By A FLORIDA CRACKER AFFABLE SAM PINDER: Our city tax assessor-collector is no doubt having plenty headaches | ithese days of collection of oceu- | pational licenses. No one loves to pay taxes but like Tennyso. brook, “They go on forever”, and - like Hitler they “grow steadily worse”. j YOUNG LADIES AND GEN- | \ TLEMEN of the Division Street School set a very excellent e: ample to the oldsters of this cit: in taking splendid care of their trees and flowers. Several hun-, jdred pairs of twinkling toes step! jcautiously and carefully around beds of lovely young croton plants tand nota twig is broken. ARABIAN PROVERB: “I had, jno shoes. . .and I complained. ... {until I met a man who had no jfeet”. A ‘LOVELY OLD MIMOSA) | TREE on the court house grounds | with wide spreading root base re- ‘minds one of a well-bred family ‘whose ancestors have instilled with much character and staunch integrity. j BES re. | If THE GOOD OLD USA. lis to have two Thanksgiving Days this year and ‘two turkey ./dinners maybe we have arrived | /3* that “two chickens in every | | pot” promised by the former President, Herbert Hoover. But turkey or no turkey, we are} deeply thankful that we, live in the good old U.S.A. | :+|. IDEA OF A HOLIDAY NOV. 1 Navy Yard is an excellent one and will be received by fun-lov- ting Key Westers: with pleasure. The people are»happy of course pra the reopening: and glad to express their joy. COMMANDER P. T. DESSEZ. U.S.N,, retired, of New London, Conn., and Paul Dessez have come to Key West to make their winter home and will occupy the} Maloney residence on Caroline! istreet. These gentlemen have} been in the city for two weeks and are quite charmed with the Island City as the Island City | people will be charmed with |them when they get to know ithem. Welcome to the Dessezes! | LIEUTENANT S. S. LEE, jassistant to Lieut-~Comdr. F. H.| , Callahan, and Mrs. Lee will be, making their home in this city! coming from Miami Beach. Mrs. Lee, who was for sevén Plog with the Metropolitan Opera | |Company, is a most charming woman. The Lees will be a valu-| Ji taie ‘asset to the social life of, Key ‘West. L. Pp. ARTMAN'S ae looks as if an “at home” | tion-was going on these days 5 with | jfriends dropping in continually | to wéleome lim ‘home. = | ea: honor of the reopening of the EXCURSION Effective froth midnight Friday to’ Midnight Sunday every week-end during October. 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