The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 6, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The ey West Citizen | Ryblished Daily Except Sunday By TMi CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. ARTMAY, President and Pubiisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets piety | Jnly Daily Newspaper in. in or West and Monroe | ered at Key West, Florida, as-second class matter | Member of the Associated Press | Le Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches ecreaited to ‘ or got etherwise credited in this paper and also | te lstal newa published here. i | SUBSCRIPTION RATES | ADVERTISING RATES | wade knuwp on application. | A SPECIAL NOTICR | Al ding notices, cards ef thanks, obituary notices, etc. will be of 40 cents.a line, 1 “Notices for entertainment by churches from which | a revenue is to be derived are 6 cents a line. ane Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- | sien of public issues and subjects of local or general | sterest but it will not publish anonymous communi- | 8, solutions of | rged for at alas | IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WESi | ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN | projects. | through the WPA treadmill | would be doing a smart thing if PURCHASE USED TRUCKS FOR CITY cee ee te OF Blovida CaackS and COMMENTS, Highlights Of For the first time in a blue moon, the | | city has a fund for sponsorship of WPA ' At last accounting $2,774 was in the fund. When the city gets around to collection of occupational taxes due and enforcement of the automobile tax ordi- nance, the sponsorship fund will be con- siderably larger. Naturally this fund is attracting at- tention. but none of the money should be diverted to any other purpose. It is a work relief sponsorship fund and the money must be used for needed public im- | | provements. The Garrison Bight basin de- velopment is of pressing importance, while the project for sewer laterals is advancing | eventual approval. Both of these projects will require a lot of hauling. Since the city’s sponsor- ship does not have to be in cash, the city it pro- cured trucks with which to handle the rock and earth on these jobs. The city would be credited with approximately $1 | an hour for each truck used on the jobs, Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—-Lind and Sea. Consolidaticn of County and City Governments. ' consideration. | proved. Gaaperion on the fee of citizens is worth more than money to a community. The thoughtful parent is sending The | Citizen to his boy or girl away from home. a war of to lie like This is supposed to be nerves. It requires “nerve” Hitler, Just for fun, when you have nothing else to do, see if you can name five un- selfish citizens in Key West. Teachers who think that their job is -to suppress differences of opinions among students ought to find other work. Germany, it seems, from what we read, finds the world against her, again after less than 25 years of peace. Praising the town’s ladies for having the cemetery cleaned up, an exchange de- clares that “the graveyard is most invit- Japan will do in the Far East exactly what she did during the Word War; she will take advantage of the situation to push her own aims. Key West again centers a substantial sector of naval activity—as we tighten up | a bit on our watch-care over coastal | waters,—Times-Union. There are three ways to news: (1) Believe all Allied communi- | ques; (2) believe all German communi- ques, and (3) believe no communiques. read war | President Roosevelt, unlike President | Wilson, does not ask the people of this| country to remain neutral in thought, so we hope something will happen to knock the stuffing out of Hitler. Before the invention of printing and the insertion of advertisements in news- | papers, business was always in a rut, and mostly of the peddler sort like Key West | had before occupational licenses drove | such merchants into stores. “No Third Term,” says the President. | That would be welcome news; but it re- fers to the statement made by George { Washington in 1796, when he announced | his intention not to accept a third term as ' chief executive of the United States. | | Straw votes only show how the wind | blawWS at the particular time the vote is | taKen; sometimes the wind veers in the op- poSite direction a little later, often be- | case those left in the cold are irked and | put on extra steam to buck the line and | cross the goal. } ~ Hitler can’t lose. If Germany does | no’ win the war and Hitler is exiled, he will live off the fat of the land, like the Ge&man kaiser; if the German people fail to Bension him, they needn’t, for Adolf has soffe nice deposits in foreign banks, | awaiting the inevitable. | disposition. | the island city are particularly optimistic about according to WPA officials. When the | jobs were done the city would own the | trucks. At.a special meeting of city council to THE KEY WEST CITIZEN 0 OHNO COOOCDAEOOES COSCOOCEREELEDESOOERLCOSOLCDSECCOE= E00) THE LOWLY y ‘ “SCRUOP,” FOUND oe. FLORIDA toward | be held next Thursday night, the proposal | | to buy a number of trucks will come up for The propcsal should be ap- , However, it would NOT appear | to be necessary to buy new trucks. It is reported by WPA officials that some good | used trucks that would pass government | inspection and be declared fit for WPA work are available here. cials before any action is purchase of new trucks. Ss BY Mi NE OF afc These should be | | surveyed by city council with WPA offi- | taken toward | The fund avail- | able for purchase of such trucks would go | THE CITY works under a By KENNETH FRIEDMAN lorida —, HOUSE BUILT ory 2 LnsToRy. OF YAGHSON VILLE," BY 7. BY 7 FRED: ar ae he 26) Grroer PCO TOe TOE, and many other cities all THE ISLAND CITY it true that pilchers and sardines a lot further if good used dump trucks can handicap as far as_ payrolls g0,/—-considered the best of bait be obtained. | The Citizen is glad to learn that the sponsorship fund has grown to substantial proportions, but hopes the fund will not be |time, has caused a and the Mosquito Project, which has been in operation for some} little dis- | gruntlement. . However, the city | ‘has kept cisterns of Key West} | well-stocked with fish, but has locally—cannot be found in cer- | tain sections one day when they were plentiful the day before? Well, oldtime fishermen of Key West have explanations for these dissipated on fool projects or for unwise | jnsisted that residénts get rid of “mysteries”. purchase of new trucks. The outgoing | city council can give a final demonstration that will be worthy of public approval by | acting judiciously in this matter. WHAT AILS US — li All diseases have _ scientific most of which would not be recognized by | | the layman. If your doctor asked you if you were troubled with anorexia, you prob- | ably wouldn’t know. But anorexia is merely the scientific term for loss of ap- petite. Similiarly, otalgia is earache, notalgia is backache, nostalgia home-sickness, cephalgia is headache, odontalgia is tooth- ache, variola is smallpox, varicella is | chickenpox, pertussis is whooping cough, and so on throughout the long list of ills to | which human flesh is heir. And if your physician suggests that is “you are cacoethic, he is merely using a scientific way of saying you have a rotten If he tells you you are in- clined to atony, he means you are just plain lazy. An unscientific wag once de- scribed laziness as voluntary inertia. But whatever ails us, the doctors, like | the Greeks, have a strange name for it. (apa /< | KEY WEST GETS MORE HOPE (Tampa Daily Times) Key Westers are now hoping that national defense developments will do what their spec- | tacular new Overseas Highway has apparently failed to do—completely revive that once bustling little community. Not that the long bridge failed entirely. ; When it was opened Key West enjoyed crowds of visitors for the first time in many years, but | now that the novelty of the “road that runs to sea” has worn off somewhat, it is apparent that the bridge is not a cure-all for civic problems. Some think it is because the toll is too high and the Overseas Highway Commission didn’t help that situation any by announcing still higher tolls, though the order was rescinded when the | RFC objected. Some think a particularly bad stretch of road may be responsible for the lack | | of traffic. At any rate, Key West has now. turned some of its hopes toward the reconditioning of the naval base and the improvement of Fort Taylor, | a $59,000 WPA project for the latter having just been approved. Military and naval activities once were ,an important part of Key West life in its palmiest days and it is understandable that residents of the return of the soldiers and sailors as the United States continues to strengthen its de- | fenses in the Caribbean. |diluted_if used in the |More expense both ways. Cheap- |supply S.S. Cuba with fish ac-) [has way in the long run other artificial containers, such | scavenger service to haul them} away. Many claim they cannot afford this. TROUBLE has been found with juse of the discarded airplane oil in sraying. It is too heavy to hand or} sprayer. , be distributed only by is to} have a truck with hose and pump. It would eliminate many — of workmen. Diesel oil is ithe best mosquito killer found |here. Miami experts here on al visit said it was the best they had ;Tun across. ALL of the larger ponds in Key | West will soon be ditched, thus allowing live water and fish to jenter them. But many other low! {spots remain in the city. Stock |Island and Boca Chica will also | jbe ditched but many small ponds |will remain. These must be sprayed. It is believed that if the; area for 12 miles or so north of Key West is effectively treated |we will be largely free of mos- quitoes. . .The city plans use of Herein committee labor, but doesn’t know just how hard it is working in mosquito-infested | lowlands under a hot sun. ‘ ' Py AROUND TOWN: One teacher jat the educational conference in| Miami recently wanted to have! children taught to distinguish be- tween true facts and propaganda. | There was an objection: many, j adults do not even know _ this. | "How can children be taught it? | ‘Charles Johnson matches |Howard Overlin's two at one time story. He cast with a plug} |in a school of jacks and brought | jin two, one on one series of | |hooks and another on another | series. -Key West Chamber of ; Commerce advertises Key West jin P.A.R. of Havana this month. | | THERE IS SOME AGITATION to turning the Mercedes Hospital | over to the county and city to-/ | gether and have it run as a hos- | | pital for those without family | land those too poor to afford | medica] service. There is an en-| tire floor in the present building | |already furnished with beds, | which is not in use, yet it is very | difficult to get a patient in the | hospital at present. It costs about | 72 cents a day for each patient. | Doctors could be secured through Clinic work. What. no one has} looked into is securing of a nurse | Aid Project for the hospital. These nurses are ayailable free of charge. There are many in the ‘Lcity who greatly need interment at the hospital. ALONG THE WATERFRONT: | What causes a scarcity of “bet- ltom” fish in the water? Why is | from the Works Progress Nurses | | They claim “bottom” fish are jas tin cans, by paying the city | idefinitely of the “warm water” | type. Cold water is their enemy, ‘and therefore they must seek wa-! ter suited to their requirements. The “norther” Key West has just experienced, the fishermen claim, ‘has driven these members of the finny tribe somewhere in the vi-! names, |go through the sprayer and can/|Cinity of Cuba or in the deeper waters of the Gulf. Friday, one ‘commercial fisherman, who must cording to contract, ventured out into the choppy waters just off | |Key West and returned with but ten pounds of yellowtail, one’ | grouper and one snapper. Which seems to prove this fact. Another interpretation ad- vanced is that after spawning the fish are slowly exhausted until roeing season comes _ again. Spawning time occurs during the , build up but it is still far below months of March to July, inclu- sive. At that time they are plen- tiful. preferring to “school” to- gether, and, naturally, they are more easily caught as hunger is intensified during roeing. After spawning the fish separate, form- ing a number of small “schools”. Fishermen claim that during the years when Key West's fish- ing industry was at its peak there were a great number of commer- ‘cial vessels uli these waters DR.M LOTTERY SEE WAS -D IN ORDER TO. O00 NECESSARY TO EY 7 COWRF HOUS: LARGELY COMPLETED 99) ‘S OF ‘SF lofaev O CONDULTED FO ES ag Ne i7 YHOU UURS FF DERCON £ ‘RE EVIDENTLY NOT IDERED “BUILOING WAS. Burneo (WW 1863 BY FEDERAL. LOTTERN iM THAT Cae GLO ~THE | 'o \FINDS WATCH THAT MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1939 ‘CRACKS and Pa ekeeeptoteked BELDEN, Nebs. Nov.’ 6.— The first tenor got sick but that didn’t stoo a Belden Methedist church program. Mrs. A. E, Fowler, 72, wife of the pastor, filled in to com- plete the male quartet. While she sang first tenor, her hus- band, chimed in on the sec- | CHARLES EST z.| Sat oo ee | ESTCOURT, ‘columnist with the North Ameri | RIOT aa aa: can Newspaper Alliance, Inc., | writes at great length about the | $15,000 rug (the largest in the world, being nearly sixty feet long) in the lobby of the Roxy Theater in New York City. . Mr. \Estcourt comments regretfully | that the rug has worn out in just one rut because right-handed people will walk to the right! > and left-handed people to the | CRIME left. The right-handers being in ‘says Rebecca McCANN: “Some such a majority the rug is only, people speak of killing time, worn on one side but any good don’t know any greater |Key West housekeeper could tell | crime. {that theater manager had he with work and beauty they might |turned the rug around ever 8 fill it . . loften it would have worn out! ang yet they sit evenly and lasted years longer. 1 kill it”. j —— | A good thing to remember | ABOUT TOWN: A cruel mother And a better thing to do jalmost created a scene at the \Is work with the Key West con-jcorner of Duval and Fleming struction gang, streets yesterday, slapping a small And not with the wrecking {boy of perhaps three or four | crew. ears of age in the face so hard MRS, C. D. HARRINGTON, that blood spurted from his nose who gave us the above lines, dis-}and ran on to his clothes and claims the originality of the idea feet. In a few seconds there were but Mrs. Harrington is quite cap- {several women at her side ready able of many clever ideas. ito give her some of her own ——— ‘cruel medicine, judging by their THE PIDDLE CLUB: Key West ' expressions. Beating a child is have ' teaching a lesson in brutality. quite a number of Piddle Clubs. ' Sometimes the membership meets} THE WOMAN'S, CLUB 4 Key } West will hold its regular meeting ! Tuesday afiernoon. One-of the main features of interest will be | the Food Sale, so bring your! pocketbooks, ladies! Another | (feature and, lots of fun, will be/| the Kitchen Shower, when mai useful things and a few do-d: will be contributed. is a great desert, its presiding genius a silent, cold, heartless sphinx of death. On the sands of that desert of wasted time are scattered the bones of failures and the footsteps that lead no- where”. Resign from the Piddle Club. I around and REPORTS FROM V WM. R, POR- TICKED INSIDE FISH in offices, in bars, on street cor- TER and Norberg Thompson are ST. CLOUD, ‘Nov. 6 (FNS). —If your hobby is collecting queer or unusual fish stories, here's one for your scrap- book: Claude Padgett of St. Cloud recently caught a _ three- pound black bass and found a woman's gold, 15-jewel wrist waich in its stomach. Padgett says when the watch was removed and shaken it began to tick. An Associated Press story of the find brought ‘an in- quiry from a lady in Rahway, N. J., requesting a full de- scription of the watch. It is believed she may have lost it when touring the state. SCOOT III SLs and the fish were caught faster than they could multiply. There- fore, in subsequent years the supply was greatly decreased. Most of the fish were taken dur- ing the spawning season. Only recently has the supply begun to what it was ten or fifteen years ago. Concerning pilchers dines: stant rovers. possible to predict where they will be from one day to another. They “pay visits” to the docks and sar- and shores of one side of the is-| land and the next day they may, leave for the other side or go to surrounding keys. Dr. Miles Sean Nervine Tablets Dr. Miles Effervescent Nervine Tablets are a combina~ jumpy; Pes ge be glad to sell you Dr. Miles Senet s ey [tne oe mee ers NERVINE These minnows are con-| It is next to im-! very cheering: Both are leaving Hot Springs Saturday feeling killing time. Poor time, forever ‘greatly refreshed from a_ three being killed. Arthur Brisbane weeks’ vacation in the Arkansas wrote, “Two hours a day in five Spa. years will make an educated man, | ee one able to seize an opportunity; A VERY NICE YOUNG MAN, when he sees it. The man who A. L. Lynn, is rejoicing over the stops blaming conditions, blam- Navy Yard reopening and being ing government, blaming others, back on his old job of radio work his relatives, his employers, his after several years of this and friends, and who blames himself that. is the man that will seize and} ——— use the next opportunity that BUTTERFLY comes”. Mr. Brisbane also said, The butterfly just floats through “When men sigh for money and life power let them remember that! As careless as a bubble. those things are nat uA on. ad I walk a stern and moral path... jstreets or in ‘good ee in-| A soul is lots of trouble. , side of each cai skull”. (CHEERFUL CHERUB). Don’t waste time, in time we live Adios, and do our work. “Wasted time! FLORIDA CRACKER. Round Gut You, KEY WEST viet “319 BLAVANA via P & O Steamship CUBA vo” Key West, 10:30 A. M., EST, He y and Thursday. Arrive Havana, 51:00 P. Monday and Thursday. Leave Havana, 9:00 A. ‘Tuesday and Friday. 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