The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 30, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INO. L. P. ARTMAN, President and Pubiisher 40E ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets nly Daily Newspaper in Key West snd Monroe County . -atered at Key West, Florida, as second elass matter Member of the Associated Press Le Associated Press is exclusively entitled use for republication of all news dispatches eredited to or pot etherwise credfted in this paper and also he ldtal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE notices, cards of thai resolutions of obituary noti: ete, will charged for at 10 cents a line. for entertainment by churches trom which is to be derived are 6 cents a line. zen is an open forum and invites discus- f pablic issues and subjects of local or general but it will not publish anonymous communi- wag, Fa Nati a révenve ‘the © Mussolini is strong for peace—prob- ably getting scared of the Bear that walks like a man, but has the heart of a beast. Thé German-Russian pact has given the Dies Committee a break, for the virulent campaign against the committee | has ceased with the revelations it has brought to the surface. This writer may be old-fashioned, or | just plain dumb, but he can’t see where it pays the people of Key West to spend their money away from home to buy things that they can buy right here. More than 400 species of fish have been observed in the Mediterranean Sea. In the waters surrounding Key West there are known to be more than 650 specimens, a margin of 250 is an appreciable ad- vantage. As a result of the European war and under a new schedule of prices Hungarians will pay as much as $3.85 a pound for coffee. Now you coffee-drinkers, you will want none of war, and if you do where are your grounds? We hope nothing disastrous happens to the Finns for Finland is the only honest debtor we have on the list. We cannot be of assistance to her during the prevailing crisis, but perhaps later we will be offered the opportunity to show our gratitude. Uncle Sam is not an ingrate. All the little nations that replied in the negative when Hitler asked if they were afraid he would harm him are building bomb-proof shelters and calling their reserves to the colors. Actions speak louder than words and Hitler has shown all the nations besides England and France that he cannot be trusted. This column has a sneaking idea that even Mussolini keeps his weather eye open while lying down with Hitler. Binding only in the District of Colum- and the Federal territories, President Roosevelt’s statement that he would pro- claim November 23 instead of November 20 as Thanksgiving this year, while caus- ing confusion in many ways, will result in a-break for Texas which will observe both days as it is an important turkey-produc- The States are about equally led in celebrating either November 23 or November 30, Florida stieking to the old custom of observing the last Thursday _“m-November which is November 30. On either day turkey will be as palatable to ing state. div those fortunate enough to get some of the |’ meat, white or dark, between grinders. Germany recognized as we learn from jis newspapers the immense benefits the nited States will reap if it refuses to par- ticipate in the European war and main- tains an impartial attitude toward each rring group. There is the rich Central and South American trade we can cap- tue from Germany and Great Britain as well, and while experience in financing euch trade is lacking in the United States we can master the technique and put to good use the large amount of funds we have at our disposal. This column cannot understand what the German papers mean when they state that we will never be able to replace Britain and Germany in South American markets because “the United States is not equipped for really intensive trade with South America,” unless they > mea that with our short working hours and Cgnsequent high prices for the mar- ketable\goods we cannot compete with —those najons. w | CONTROL THE MOSQUITOES! | ida community, Key West at present is | suffering from an oversupply of mos- { quitoes. Why there should be such an un- | usual number of the pests this year is a | question that is being debated with some | heat and much slapping. The | Along with virtually every other Flor- | rains that flooded every low section of the state. the effect. They drive our citizens half | find relief elsewhere in Florida. They are a serious menace to peace and com- fort and a threat to any prosperity the city expects from the tourist trade. Therefore, our public officials should bestir themselves in an effort to control the breeding of the pests. WPA mosquito control has been | here. It involves drainage of ponds at the that will take a lot of time. | this control project will have the desired effect, but it offers no immediate relief. If it is possible our city and council and men to oil the ponds, puddles and re- | servoirs of the city. It is reported that the navy every week disposes of a large quan- } motors. and trucked to the underwater sections of cutting down the mosquito birth rate. few residents have tried oiling ponds near in a large reduction in mosquitoes, It is too bad the mosquitoes had to officials are campaigning for votes. The Citizer. hates to make the suggestion, but it hopes our public officials will drop poli- tics for a little while and take up quitoes. We believe the public who attack the mosquitoes with the same vigor they put into attacks upon their political opponents will earn the undying thanks of our citizens—and pick up a lot of votes. PEACE OFFENSIVE COLLAPSES The Hitler peace offensive, which in- cluded copious threats of a “blood-bath” unless neutrals persuaded the allies negotiate, has utterly failed. No neutral nation has taken up the offer of Herr Hitler, whose blustering diplomacy is taken as an indication of weakness rather than strength. This effort to prevent the inaugura- tion of war on an intensive scale has been in line with predictions before Hitler’s armies marched into Poland. It was Der Fuehrer’s idea that, after the Polish ques- tion was settled, France and England would be willing to call off a ‘‘useless” war. The answer of the British and French, through responsible leaders, has ‘been that peace and security in Europe are impossible as long as Germany’s great offensive power threatens smaller nations, that no confidence can be placed upon the word of the present German government and that something more than words will be required before the allies can proceed to negotiate a general settlement of Eu- ropean issues. UP TO THE STATES While amendments to the Social Se- curity Act increased the amount of money that the Federal government will con- tribute monthly to the needy aged, this does not mean an immediate increase for those receiving such assistance. In fact, because of a provision that ernment on a 50-50 basis, the increase will be available only to those on the rolls of California. In all other States it will be necessary for the State governments to put up additional funds before the Federal in- crease will be available. There isa wide difference in the amounts now put up by the States, ranging from $17.45 in California to $3.06 in Arkansas. The Social Security Board esti- mates that 1,857,000 persons are drawing funds under the program, with Illinois leading the field with 133,500 persons. Athletes should study the technique of stocks; they jump backward equally as well as forward, something the athletes have not mastered as yet. | concensus | seems to be they developed after the heavy To be sure, a | started | | upper end of the island and other works | Eventually | officials should make an effort to dig up | a few dollars for the employment of trucks | come along just when some of our public | mos- | to | . |my ruin a school year. the States have to match the Federal gov- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN COCK O OOO E RL EMOSOO POH 9S OPEL PPOCEO® coopseesene A HEN-PECKED INSECT ¢ Whatever the cause, everyone knows | 58 out of their minds and many of our visitors | | out of town in the mistaken belief they can | ! | | * O40 FORT MAR: HE AO FO. é THICK AT THE BAS MON, 90 MNCH (F 32,000, 900, RULER WAS LEO FO "dew thao cea eetions tee BEEN f OLSILVE Ref YALL S OF 744 { SS ARE Highlights Of Florida | eo! (E% Ne. 9 FEET AT THE. F, tity of waste oil drained from the seaplane | If some of this could be obtained | | the city it might prove of great benefit in | A | | their homes and report the effort resulted | THE ISLAND CITY HIGH SPEED! The Key West; Housing Authority got up twojin the tourist race with other In | Florida east coast and West coast |years’ work in two months. | the inexhaustible amount of data obtained, among many other} jall families in Key West, incomes jand sizes of Key West families, they are living, type of building, | \standard or sub-standard, Sen Nation of the town by races, per- |centage of each race housed various types of dwelling. you know that less than 1% of all | jstandard houses of low-cost refit- ing is now available for occu- |pancy? The Housing project will | |be a godsend. | THERE WILL BE a good mar- |ket for the bonds the Key West Housing Authority will issue fol- |lowing approval of the project. |The bonds are issued for 10% ithe total amount of the project. |The U. S. Housing Authority furnishes the other 90% of prin- |cipal. All lands will be owned jand administered by the Key | West Housing Authority. | THE AVERAGE FAMILY | UNIT in Key West is 2.76 but | this includes one-person families. |Eliminating these, the average |family in Key West will consist of 4.04 persons. No Housing unit |will be rented by a one-person | family. | COFFEE SHOP TALK: Re- garding parent complaints of too much homework for children in grades schools, this column would like to request that the cases ‘in | question be speedily brought be- | fore individual teachers and{ P.-T. A.’s by parents. If the cakes | can be enlighteningly cleared up then it will eliminate all gather- | ing resentment. Trouble linger- | ing between parents and teachers We | |derstand there are study halls in} | school hours to eliminate a great | deal of homework. . -High School ; |now has a policy of signs which | give pertinent facts. Present one} in main hall says, “Good Health like all Good Friends must be treated fairly to remain with; us”. . .We would like to put in a plug again for a city recreation | | building at Bayview Park. Sara-| sota’s beautiful building, which is } enormous, went up for $50,000 of | | sponsors’ funds. We could use a} jlesser. Bayview Park, with com- | |plete playgrounds. more shuffle- }board courts and games tables in la recreation building, could soon jbe a beautiful recreational cen-| ter. Across the way there will be the new Yacht Basin and the | Overseas Highway comes into Key West at this point. All of} which will make a beautiful en- | trance to the city. | | UNDOUBTEDLY, the town! which is continually divided po-| litically never prospers. Its! |lifeblood and energy is spent in| internal strife and there is none | \left for worthwhile city planning. | {No matter which side wins the} coming election, let’s pitch in for them and get them going on more efficient city government, but especially on more efficient city planning. We compiled, complete figures were | Cities as Sarasota and)Ft. Laud- We need all our energy officials | phases, on the following: rents-of |t0 keep pace with them. | erdale. THE GIANT WATER- BUG 1§ FORCED TO CARRY THE EGGS ,;OF MRS. WATER ‘Ann Carls, Patsy Duane, TOOtEXPENSIVE. * £OL2 t/NG OFASPRIN Ase 7 WUGUSTINE COST SPAIN \WHATATHE SPANISH MPLPIM THAT 17S BRSHIONS. Meal Mert & nae AUTO RIM HURTS BABY sient | } Baltimore, Md.—Two-year-old Shirley Rostkowski was _ hurt while sitting on the steps of her home when a tire blew out on an automobile passing in the street nearby and an iron rim flew off the wheel, striking the child in the head. are now directly IT WAS THOUGHT by many , !owly being filled in. Although |condition of buildings in which |that the large negro-vote and'the greater part is still covered votes of those who have never, by water, the work is progress- cast a ballot before was all going ing satisfactorily. A dragline is to one side in the present polit- deepening the anchorage on the in | ical race, but this column under-| deep side of the bulkhead and at Did ‘stands that both sides are pitch- the same time using the marl ing in for those votes and doing | brought up as fill. . Some water- very well. See after November 14. NEW COMMERCIAL FISH ‘realist painting. . MARKET with is being started by brothers with the place of busi-|northwest waterfront. ness to be near monton. They of fish northward. They claim good Another break for Key West’s unemployed. markets. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW the neutrality patrol plans for Key West and other import- jant defense details of Key West Naval Station, get newly-arrived Commander G. you what was in that brief case he guarded so w down yesterday. out of his hands. WATERFRONT: ALONG THE |New land in the making. waterfront in back of the bulk- constructed | Thompson and Gulf docks head Have you ever by a Headache, New: Menstrual Pai: kept How well, we shall fronters seem to beleive Bob Smith’s color scheme on_ his ‘“Tuna” is a trend toward sur- .The cynosure upstate contacts /of all visitors’ eyes are the num- the Parra|erous cats and dogs found at the, They are real dock characters to tourists! . . .Octoker is the month of un- usually high tides, local fisher- men say. . .Ask sellers of edible members of the finny tribe which fish they concede to be best eating and you will prob- ably get as many different answers as the number you ask- ed. . .Greatest need of the com- mercial waterfront at present is | newer and longer docks. . .When anchoring over a rocky bottom use a flat piece of iron or steel instead of your anchor. You will stand a better chance of pulling | up what you let down. . .Another bargeload of scrap iron is being assembled at Thompson's dock. During the past few months Key | West has disposed of many tons of this potential gun fodder. | Division and Si-; will truck their B. Hoey to tell ell on his bus trip He never let it The between is MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1939 PU seeegoeccosoce tardy during the six weeks’ pe- riod ending October 20: ! Elio Garcia, | Narcisa Castillo, Kermit Roberts, Kermit Sweet- ing, Joan Bowen, Dorothy Buck-| ley, Betty Burchell, Joagelin| Fleitas, Claribel Munzon, Phyllis | BLIC SCHOOL NEWS eccese The following pupils of Harris, seseasevecveccesosecesees School Mave not been absent or Acosta, Faye Bervaldi, Betty Lou Ooeecccccccccoseces Thomas Swicegood, Lorraine Johnson, Mary Louise Knowles, Lorraine Nottage, Mary Not- tage, Nellie Peterson, Doro- thy Sands, Helen Turner, George Adams, James Malgrat, Amando Fernandez. Roberts, Alice Salinero, Ovenia; Bobby Armstrong, Kenneth Al- Sanchez, Ofelia Sardina, Carolyn} Suarez, Anna Weatherford, Vir-| ginia Williams. j Edward Albertus, Jose Alonzo, ; Kenneth Blackwell, Waldo Col-' lins, Larry Delozier, Conway Kel- ly, Kenneth Kerr, John Monsal-} vatge, Joseph Pent, Billy Shaw, } Dan Stirrup, Laurette Bethel, Ruth | Rose DiNegro, Nellie Roma- guerra, Marion Solano, Irma! Sands, Betty Wharton, Joseph Blanco, Manuel Castillo, Eugene Knowles, Louis Lowe, Bernard; Roberts, Carl Taylor, Elena Cor- ; dero, Faye Roberts, Doris Thomp- , son, Ruth Steenes, Antonio An- nuz, Charles Ray Brandt, Edwin Curry, Ray Garlottee, Joe MeCul- lough. Kermit Frank Sar Caridad | Roberts, dinas, Ernest Sawyer, Bancello, Laudes__ Betencourt, Betty June Cottrell, Julia Cruz, Elsie J. Curry, Ruth Keeton, Rosalie Nelson, Cynthia Perez, Ruth Roberts, Mary Lee Stern- spring, Allen Carey, J. W. Col- lins, Stanley Higgs, Cleveland Knowles, Gene Solt, Robert Stir- run. Glenwood Weech, Lois Adams, Rose Marie Archer, Joy | Avis Ball, | Margaret Curry, Carrie Gomez, | Betty Lou Greene, — Lorraine Greene, Rose Mae Higgs, Sara Bertha Lowe, Nancy Norman, | Eloisa Puig, Dorothy Saunders, Wilma Taylor. Bill Adams, Dan- ie] Castro, Joe Fleitas, Angel Gar- cia, Kenneth Knight, Armando Mujica, Frank Rom, Robert Rus- sell, Galey Sweeting, Jack Solt, Dolores Acosta, Betty Rae Brady, Shirley Bradley, Ysel Jones, Rosalie Peterson, Camilla Rod- riguez, Betty Taylor, Robert Archer. Warren Bethel, Maynard Dan- iels, Henry Hall, Leo Hicks, Mill- man Ingraham, Willard Johnson, Thomas Key, Charles Perez, | bury, Felix Davis, Billy Brandt, Paul Perez, Mike Thrower, Ver- non Baker, Louis Annez, Ben- jamin Felton, Robert Walterson, Genevero Rivero, Louise Lastres, Mavis Bethel, Connie Goehring, Mary Johnson, Rose Mary Rich- ardson, Rose Bradley, Sylvia Banks, Robert Archer, Harry Carey, Marvin Creel, Edison Cruz, Billy Daftiels, Billy Gunter, Armando! Machin, Mario Machin, Edward Pita, Horacio Sanchez, Eddie Weatherford, Gloria Adams, Bobbie Ann Albury, Bobbie Mae Buckley, Loretta Carbonell, Win- nie Rose Cruz, Mary Jane Han- tord, Patricia Ann Harrison, Joan Knowles, Mary Louise Ramerez, Elizabeth Roberts. Joan Sawyer, Aleli Villavi- sones, Betty Jean Williams, Bud- dy Banks, Donald Curry, Ralph DuBrucil, Ray Elwood, Bobby Fernandez, Overton Ingraham, Manuel Lopez, Randolph Rich- ardson, Armando Iyuerido, Mary Knowles, Betty Ann McDonald, Sophie Roberts, Edna Romaguer- ra, Lillian Stewart, Mattie Lee Weatherford, Doreen Wolfe, Juanita Davis, Clara Armayor, Barbara Crusoe, Mabel Gomez, Joyce Goehring; Christina Las- tres, Betty Russell, Alma Saun- ders. Billy Bruns, Joe Curry, Joe Fernandez, — Ralph Henriquez, Donald Kerr, Mario Vidal, Joe Sanchez, Graham Conner, Billy Cruz, Tony Ramirez, Diane Dick- ens, Faye Felton, Leonard Sala- zar, Matilda Marrera, Millard Solomon, Paul Gibson, Elizabeth Cooper, Ann Finer, Albert Gar- cia, Walter Walterson, James Coulson, Beverly Haine, Clyde Johnson, Joseph Ladd, Carl Jones, Jacquelyn Duane, Lillian Key, Heien McDonald, Barbara Ann Smith, Betty Jean Valas- quez. You. KEY WEST visie BLAVANA, Lvia P & O Steamship CUBA West, Arrive Havana, Monday and Thursday. Leave Havana, 9:00 A. ‘Tuesday and Friday. Arrive Key West, ‘Tuesday and Friday. CUBAN TAXES, M. 62e lo PORT TAMPA, Tuesdays and Fridays, 5 p. m. 10:30 A. My Ma 315 PL My EST, ROUND 52 TRIP INCLUDING MEALS AND BERTH AT SEA 10 DAY LIMIT EST, EST, EST, The PEMNSULAR & OCCIDENTA For information, LS. S. COMPANY Tickets and Reservations, Phone 14 4. H. COSTAR, Agent The Thrift of a New ad, istum ‘When you feel well. 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