The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 8, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Hublished Daily Exeept Sunday By TIZEN PUBLISHING Co. INC. MAN, President gnji Pubiisher N, Aswistant Business Mansger From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets | “nly Daily Newspaper in Key West aud Monroe County sutered at Key West, Florida, as second elass matter Member Of the Associated Press Le Associated Press is exclusively entitied for republication of all news dispatches eredited to ‘ or pot etherwise credited in this paper and also he ital news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ne Year . 2x Mogths fhree Months jne Month Weekly $10.00 | 6.00 2.50 85 -20 ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application, SPECIAL NOTIC All reading notices, cards ef thanks, resolutions of spect, obituary notices, ete. will be charged for at % rite of 10 cents,a line. Nggices for entertainment by churches from which a re¥enue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. Yhe Citizen is an open foram and invites diseus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general otersst but it will not publish anonymous communi- (MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WESi ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—-Lind and Sea. Consotidaticn of County and City Governments. aturally the civie-minded citizens of | War, W. Va., believe in War. | j Nothing makes a barking dog mad- | der than being utterly ignored. | dirty hands Shun him! A smearer not only has but he also has a dirty heart. The nature of man is such as to re- quire liberty for its proper development. Arrested freedom stunts progress in any line of endeavor, physical or mental. Yesterday, the American people have once more demonstrated their sanity by voting down all those screw-ball laws ir- responsible politicians tried to jam down their throats. It has been stated that Key West has no good second-hand trucks that could be put into service for the city. In that case used trucks could be purchased cheaply elsewhere, and why not? Hitler eats no meat, yet has grown | great, so with the bard we’d like to know now, “in the names of al] the gods at once, upon what meat (?) doth this our Caesar | feed, that he is grown so great?” Favorites are being played in the, present European war: the Reich has de- clared war against England but not against | France, while England is ignoring Russia | though a partner in crime with Germany. I “Key Largo,” a new play by Maxwell | Anderson. will feature Muni Weisen- ; freund, (Paul Muni to movie goers). New | York will see this actor in person in that play, but perhaps it will later be shown on | the screen. + The $720,000 allotted for the housing | project in Key West will net a neat profit | to those lucky enough to own property | where the projects will be located as Uncle | Sam is never niggardly in dishing out the | taxpayers’ money. “We dislike people to tell us where to | get off,” remarks L. P. Artman in The Key West Citizen. But not as much as we | dislike some of those who are always try- ing to “take us for a ride’? on some fan- tastic project they're sponsoring.—Times- Jnion. The news that the government build hangars on Trumbo island, given | first by The Citizen through the As- | sociated Press, has been received in Key | West with great elation. It wag the sub- | jeet of joyful conversation all over the is- | land last night. } is to) While constitutional government must ; »perate impersonally and impartially, this | writer cannot understand why a Com-| munist is allowed the protection of’the law | in the United States whose government he | would overthrow if he could: With this point in view how can a Communist be at the same time an American citizen? | which is recognizing the | ward establishment of the Naval Air Base KEY WEST IN NATIONAL LIMELIGHT News that the government was negotiating for the purchase or lease of | land on Trumbo Island, which is a part of Key West, was the subject of favorable comment here yesterday after The Citizen THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | | published the story in Tuesday’s issue, and © this is another benefit this city is receiving as the result of the national defense plans now being inauguratéd in Washington, Key West as a Naval base when exigencies may require its operation. Times-Union, always ex- importance of | | In referring to | this brighter outlook for Key West, the | Jacksonville : | hibiting a friendly attitude toward this | community, has the following comprehen- ; sive editorial, which undoubtedly will be | eagerly ready by the readers of The Citi- | zen: Among the many benefits that will accrue to Florida communities from national defense plans, which are being centered to a noticeable extent on the Sunshine Peninsula, will be the new lease on life they will give Key West. While plans are proceeding with speed to- | at | Jacksonville, with auxiliaries on the Banana | River, near Cocoa, and at the mouth of the St. | |\Johns River; the Army Air Base at Tampa; the | | Army Air Corps Proving Grounds at Valparaiso; | | the new National Guard Training Station in the vicinity of Keystone Heights, other features of the program also will aid this State. An order has been issued by the Navy De- partment to reopen the Key West Naval Station, | as another measure toward guarding the neu- | trality of the United States in the Caribbean. It | is not unlikely that as the defense program con- tinues to expand, and become stabilized the future will see a further broadening of facilities at Key | : West, including a strengthening of facilities at Fort Taylor and adding to the scope of the Naval Station there. That location would serve as an excellent | jumping off place for planes and naval vessels | operating in co-operation with those to be sta- tioned at Puerto Rico in the event that exigencies necessitated or required such action with foreign craft that threatened the territory of the Western Hemisphere. Such concentration of forces on the Island of | Key West would mean much to the people of “that community who have been seriously hit dur- | President Roosevelt Proc ing the last two or three decades. Key West first was recognized as portant point in American defense plans when warships of the Nation were based there in 1822. Subsequently it became one of the most im- portant of all U. S. Naval Stations. It was cap- tured by the North during the War Between the States. an im- ing the World War. During the latter period it was the base for submarines. Throughout this period the cigar manufac- | turing industry there was conducted on a scale that gave employment to thousands of workers. Prosperity was enjoyed by the people who num- bered several times the present population. Then came the curtailment of the Naval Base, which was an accompaniment to the removal of most of the cigar factories to Tampa, and the terrific blow suffered during the early days of the depression. Finally, in 1932, the Naval Base was virtually abandoned—at a time when it was needed most, and had it not been fér aid extended | by the Federal relief agencies, thé "pédple\ would indeed have been in dire straits. ~' © “° Construction of the Overseas Highway, which made use of the old road bed and what was left of the bridges of the Florida East Coast railway that was destroyed by the hurricane of several years ago, served as the first step toward a new lease of life for the Key West community. crease of defense facilities will bolster this to an, extent that brings encouragement to the people of the city. ’ Lions Clubs of Southeast Florida have set an example which, if followed by others, would go far toward the development of a co-operative program of aid that would mean much to the Key Westers. Representatives of 14 clubs met at Pigeon Key recently and voted to co-operate in | plans for sending down the Overseas Highway and through Key West as many delegates and others attending next year’s Lions International convention at Havana as they possibly can. A committee was named representing the 14 clubs to work out a publicity program and co-operate in the effort. Between 15,000 and 20,000 persons are ex- pected to attend the convention. Everyone sent Again it was used as an important base | during the Spanish-American War, and again dur- | In- | in dealing | | | To the Patrons, Students, and Teachers of American Schools: observe American Education struggles. Week throughout our Nation, that education in our In : | human affairs. | I refer not only to education ' individuals, that may come from books. _ i = e e American Education Week ji isms. awe Our schools also bring us face to face with men Let us take note, ‘as we again with whom we shall share life’s and’ women curs, struggle will never be absent; democracy | the struggle of every individual teaches the practice of reason dn ‘against the stream of life; ; struggle and competition among groups, institutions, CARTOON drawn by Sparling for the American Red Cross annual Roll Call for members, November 11-80. Every American is urged to join to !xeep the Red Cross prepared for emergencie: home or abroad. states, and nations. To the reso- | ° laims of conflicts and struggles jot life, democracy supplies no jeasy answer. The easy answer, guns and bombs. Democracy calls instead for the application of the rule of reason to solve cén- flicts. It calls for fair play in canvassing facts, for discussion, and for calm and orderly hand- ling of difficult problems. These vital skills we Americans acquire in our schools. In our schools our coming gen- erations must learn the most dif- ficult art in the world—the suc- lives and the include education in fair play on! the athletic field and on the de-' bating platform; Iinclude educa- tion for tolerance through partici- pation in full, free discussion in the’ classroom. Practice in the scientific method by our young {people may be more important than learning the facts of science, From kindergarten through col- lege our schools train us to use |the machinery of reason; parlia- mentary practice; the techniques of cooperation; how to accept with good grace. the will of a major- |ity; how to, defend by logic and | facts our deép convictions. This jis education for the American } | way ef life. | -_THE WEATHER (Till 7°30 p. m., Thursday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly { cloudy tonight and Thursday; no decided change in temperature; ! gentle to moderate northeast and! yeast winds. i |N.B—Forecast indicates wind! Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Light variable winds over north portion and moZerate northeast and ‘east winds over south portion; partly : | overcast weather tonight and | Thursday. via Key West will be that much more toward | aiding the city’s plans for recovery. Selfishness is not eommendable, without selfishness there would be little progress, and without progress this would be a desolate world and all of us would be living in adobe huts with none of the com- ‘ forts of civilization. yet | £2 must WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1939 ~ KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY As NOVEMBER 8, 1924 Louis Wilson, of Key West, stu- ‘dent at Loyola University, was jrecently honored by his class- ;Mate by being elected to the jpresidency of his class. Mrs. i Corinne Wilson, mother of Louis, j was advised by The Citizen of ; her son’s success and expressed ther gratification. | Letfer from Mrs. Eugene Saunders gives an account of ther trip to Germany on a visil with her mother, whom she had :mot seen in 12 years. She has (now returned to New York and m From The jwas accompanied by her daugh- ' jter, Muriel. They had delightful trips, the letter says. W. W. Maloney, former Key | Wester and one of the oldest ) printers in the United States now \connected with the U. S. printing , offices im Washington, renews |his subscription to The Citizen, land writes, “I observe with pleasure the rehabilitation of my {native city and hope it may be the means of restoring its pros- | Perity even beyond the past”. ; Mr. and Mrs. James McBride }announce the birth of a daughter jin their apartments at the Kemp jhome on William street. Mrs. McBride is the daughter of Mr. !and Mrs. W. H. Collins. Mr. Mc Bride is the storekeeper on the United States Destroyer Goff. NOVEMBER 8, 1929 Major John H. Mackey, of Tal- ; lahassee, state labor inspector, has arrived in Key West and will jepend: a few days here in the in- terests of the department. He Jcalled at The Citizen office and !left the biennial report of the | State Labor Inspector, in which ja tribute is paid to 40 Florida |newspapers, including The Citi- zen. | Deputy U. S. Marshal A. H. ‘McInnis left last night for Jack- 'sonville with a prisoner, J. H. ‘Bullard, who pleaded guilty in 'U. S. Court Monday to a charge of dealing in narcotics and was isentenced to spend one year and one day in the Federal prison at Atlanta. At a recess meeting of the ‘county commissioners held last {night it was decided to call for | bids on the sale of the ferry sys 'tem and notices to this effect ; will be published within the | | | jcessful management of democ- racy. Let us think of our schools during this American Education Week not only as_ buildings of stone and wood and ste€tf¥* not only as places to learn how to use hand and brain; but as train- jing centers in the use and appli- cation of the rule of reason in |the affairs of men. And let us hope that out of our schools may come a generation }persuade a bleeding world supplant force with reason. Signed, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. |The White House, Washington, D. C., , October 2, 1939. to which’ can) —_—_—_——__. 3 Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today Files Of The Citizen next few days. It was first dis- cussed relative to leasing the system for operation under priv- ate ownership. ; A large crowd assembled at the building at Thomas and An- gela streets last night to attend the political rally. Speakers j Were William V. Albury, candi- idate for city judge; John Cates ‘and Abelardo Lopez, for city council; Willard Albury, for .mayor, and Arthur Gomez, an- other candidate for the same po- sition. NOVEMBER 8, 1924 Junior Red Cross society, which is operated in this city un- ider the direction of Key West Chapter, has a membership of 2, ;000 children. Members of the chapter have been, during the past year, doing excellent work, and have assisted in the perform- ance of further health work. Miami Baptist Association, which comprises the churches from Miami to Key West, will hold the annual convention in |this city next week. beginning Tuesday and continuing through | Thursday. The convention will be conducted in the First Church jby the pastor. Edmund H. Rice. The Married Men's quintet con- jtinued their winning streak last night by defeating the Mysterious | Five at the Athletic Club by the }overwhelming score of #8 to 17. |Defensive work of both teams |was praised by lovers of the | game and featured the first half when the score was 11 to 9. |. Troop 3 Girl Scouts, under the | direction of Scout Captain Mrs. George F. Archer, are entertain- ing the Rev. A. F. Turner today with a picnic at the First Tower. This is being done in return for the many courtesies shown the |scouts when they were on their trip to Tampa. SMILES—TURNS CHEEK (Ny Assoctated Press) PUEBLO, Colo., Nov. 8—A woman watched from the window of her mountain cabin as a car }load of ladies from the city over- ran her property and began gath- ‘ering autumn leaves, breaking limbs from aspen trees, bushes and shrubbery. “Ladies, do you know that some lof those leaves you have gather- ed are poison ivy?” she asked. |” And she wasn’t fooling. She in- vited the trespassers to come in- {side and wash theis, bands and |faces with strong soap, supposed |to be an antidote for poison ivy. | | “Key West's Outstanding!” LA CONCHA HOTEL Lounge DINING and DANCING ‘Strictly Fireproof Garage Open The Year Around taste-surprise. Its life and sparkle give zest to something good to eat. That’s why you see