The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 9, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Rublished Daily Except Sunday, By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President. and Pubiisher JOB ALLEN, Assistant Business Mansger From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets -nly Daily Newspaper in Key West an@ Monroe County -atered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press ue Associated Press is exclusively entitled for republication of all news dispatches cre. ‘( or pot etherwise credited in this paper and also ‘he local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES sme Year six’ Mogths fhree Month One Month Weekly .... ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. — SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of spect, obituary notices, etc, will be charged for at se yuie of 10 cents. line, Notices for entertainment by churches from which a révenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. the Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general aterest but it will not publish anonymous communi- (MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WES: ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning), Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—-Lind and Sea. Consolidaticn of County and City Governments. Fritz is getting fitz. Take away certain football squads and you would hardly ever hear of certain | universities. An astrologer predicts that 1940 will be Hitler’s last. If only we could depend upon astrologers! Civilization in Europe has reached the stage where the. little nations wonder who will rob them next. The happiness and prosperity of the people of Key West depends very largely upon the people of Key West. | Some of our institutions of higher learning owe their reputation to the amaz- | ing ability of the football players. | Why not send The Citizen to your boy | girl away from home? They, too, would like to read the home town news. or You are entitled to your opinion on all matters that affect your thinking; so is your friend and so is the editor. So} what! What women say when they talk about men is nothing when compared to what they say when they talk about, women. Experts say that war is caused by economic problems, so if the world wants | peace all it has to do is to solve the eco- | nomic problems. i Americanism: Letting Communist Browder shoot off his mouth to his heart’s content, and refusing others, including Father Coughlin, the right to ‘air’ their | views. The new officer in charge of the Key West Navy Yard is Commander Hoey. | Well, thank heavens, there’s nothing in a name.—Sanford Herald. Not pronounced in the manner suggested. The Key West Advertiser, a weekly paper that gave up the ghost more than a | quarter of a century ago, still receives mail | from various government departments, j though advised time and again that the/j publication has ceased to exist. But what | does rich Uncle Sam care about retrench- ment. | of destroyers, fed to | | able. | naval facilities will | jobs. jin the Florida district. | Key West this base will not be finished An oid-line Key Wester came into the sanctum of The Citizen this week and stated that he never disabuses any candi- | date from the conclusion he may reach | that he is going to vote for him, but be-/ lieves that the crooks and grafters, if any, | know that they haven't got a chance with | getting his vote. | “The leopard doesn’t change his | spots,” remarks L. P. Artman in The Key | West Citizen, recalling that Stalin was’ once “a common bank and rain robber.” | Perhaps he basn’t changed his spots, but | he’s found plenty of others to put his enemies. on, since those rough-and-ready days,—Times-Union, DEFENSES EXPANDING HERE ‘THE KEY WE Every day brings. some new, develop- | ment growing out of the present European | situation that means a great deal to. the | city of Key West. seaplanes Along with the arrival and defense forces, now comes news that the Navy de- | | partment is planning the construction of a | number of seaplane hangars at the vari- ous patrol bases, including Key West. This will involve the leasing or, the | purchase of Trumbe island by the govern- | ment, since that site seems to be’the most 90 | satisfactory one that is immediately avail- | Negotiations regarding the..use of the island for naval seaplane operations | are under way, according to all reliable re- ports. matter is settled and orders have gone ahead for construction of hangars and | other facilities for the navy seaplanes. Two points emerge from this develop- | First, it is obvious that Key West is | as the! ment. still regarded by navy officials Key Westers will rejoice when the :° Mf 8 Ml & most strategic from which to carry on an | Gulf of Mexico. Second, the reopening of | effective patrol of the entrances to the | the naval station and the expansion of the | provide workmen with a substantial Key West number of Regarding the politically minded, last year selected a site near Jacksonville for the naval seaplane base Fortunately for for many months, so that the navy depart- ment may proceed with operations here at | the entrance to the Gulf to protect the Gulf shipping lanes. It has been pleasing to note that some of the jobs recently filled from the civil service lists at the naval station have gone to men formerly on the WPA. It is very likely that cther such jobs when they are created will go to other WPA workmen. The more such work becomes available and the more such men are employed, the less need there will be for capacity WPA employment. In time, it is to be hoped that the WPA can shut down here en- tirely. Congress seems determined to do away with WPA as quickly as possible. Key West has cause for rejoicing on Thanksgiving Day. NEW AUTO LIGHT IS SAFER After three years of cooperative ef- fort on the part of automobile engineers a new type headlight will be revealed to the public this week but enough is known to assert that it will add to the safety of the highways at night. Preliminary announcement states that almost all automobile manufacturers will include the new “sealed beam” head- light, which will give fifty per cent in- crease in light power, with a large in- | = crease in range for the up, or “country,” beam, more fully illuminate the right side of the road with the low, or “traffic” beam, and, at the same time, reduce the | glare, Such an improvement will undoubt- edly save many lives because half of the highway fatalities occur at night, when less thana quarter of the traffic ing, andthe presumption is that lights | have something to do with the casualties. Anybody who drives thé’*highway at night realizes the importance of dimming lights when meeting traffic. The new lamp will increase the safety factor through its use. In some States the use of the low beam is mandatory when meeting other vehicles but, in these States, as else- where, there are inconsiderate people who drive cars. 32,000,000 TURKEYS Regardless of the date of the month in which you prefer to celebrate Thanks- giving this year, you will have no diffi- | culty in getting a turkey for the big meal. | A crop of 32,000,000 turkeys, the largest | on record, is reported by the Government | for 1939. Turkey-raisers, however, say that marketing will be smaller this November than last year because the people‘of the country no longer regard turkey as a. holi- day food exclusively, but are eating the bird ‘around the calendar.” This is an interesting development, and, to us at least, indicates an advancing civilization. The more turkeys that are placed upon the center of the table, sur- rounded, of course, by the necessary ac- cessories, and the more often the families of the nation gather around the festive board, the better it will be for the human ‘race, availability of Key | | West, it will be recalled that;a, congres- | sional committee, which was EVER NOTICE those retract- ‘able pontoons the Navy PBY2 |flying boats based here have. At the tip of the wings they. may. be | lifted sideways and become part lof the tip of the wing for stream- |lining. To offset the black stripe ‘another black stripe is painted __THE ISLAND CITY. ST CITIZEN i t t ;foliage which seemed, to spring | idirectly from the water, as indeed | lis often the case. Sometimes the ‘low flat upon which’ thipy , grow | ‘is entirely under water. Even _ when it is not, the trees - grow! ;out from the shores, leaving no} jbeach at all. The. rounded: mass | > Xe answer. seven of; these Page. 4’ for Answers. . What is a pantograph? «Name the most abundant of all metallic elements. Name the capital of the Re- public. of Panama. In which. war. did the: siege of Sevastopol occur? On the coast of which con- tinent is the Gulf of Guinea? What was the political status of Finland before the Rus- sian Revolution? How many sides has a pen- tagon?: © THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1939 _ Econamie Those who forecast that the |frank anti-dictatorship sentiment \of; the American people would |rapidly lead us into war once it broke out abroad (and many |made exactly that forecast during | the past few years) seem to have jbacked a losing horse. Going by jthe best evidence available, the | martial spirit has not increased ‘a whit in this country since the | war began. | A late Fortune poll is of excep- | tional interest. According to this |poll, only 1.7 percent of the peo- |ple believed we should enter the war on the side of the Allies, in October, -where 2:3 percent thought we should, in September. Slightly over 10 percent thought we Should join the Allies if it jlooks as if they. are getting the worst of it, where 13.5 percent approved of that course the month before. This overwhelm- ing isolationist spirit obtains even though, according to the same poll, more than 84 percent What is the correct pronus-of our people want England and ciation of the word per- fidy? Of which, river is tha Clinch River a tributary? Who was the first President inaugurated in the City of Washington? Today’s Birthdays eececcene Burton E. Stevenson of Chilli- cothe, Ohio, librarian and noted author, born in Chillicothe, 67 jon the tail, . .A schooner in here | of dark foliage gives the islet the | years ago. jlast weekend had a large Ameri- appearance of a fortification out| Edward) P. Warner, engineer, can flag painted on its side. When |the two turtle schooners from Grand Cayman lifted anchor jin the water. But spch water! | pebauld a painter faithfully pro-} |duce upon his canvas “that ex- | and aeronautics authority, born in, Pittsburgh, 45. years ago. Maj. Gen. Arthur W. Brown, jand made one tack away foriquisite pale emerald gréen .of|U.S.A., retired, born at Daven- Cuba, the yacht gave it a cheery blast of farewell. . .A tubercu- |losis patient found it, very diffi- |culty to get into Mercedes Hos- |pital the other day even though jsuch wonderful intensity and} tbrilliance, the critic would surely declare it exaggerated and un- ‘natural... | | “A study of the coast-chart} port, Ohio, 66 years ago. Dy. Florence R: Sabin, medical scientist, member emeritus of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, born in. Central City, |he is badly in need of aid. The|was now illuminating“to'us as it |Colo., 68 years ago. |city and county ‘both contribute ‘largely to this institution, yet | there are many complaints of this |nature. | | house lights flickered momen- tarily in, the past. When the Electric Company completes its |modernization of equipment now j underway, you'll find that very jrare. . .Navy Department, wish- ling to have Trumbo Island ramp | for erection of hangars, machine |shop and quarters, have request- jed. T. E, Price’s terms as to the | Property. He. has given them, jbut this column: doesn’t know if \he has asked- for sale or lease. |He doesn’t like the idea of leas- ing for five years, getting only in- | terest in rents for the period and |then having the property turned ‘back on his hands. When the Overseas Railroad did that in | World War times, it had little use |for its extra land and could do lit easily. | IF MERCEDES HOSPITAL wishes a Nurses Aid Project here ‘it need only contact’ Miss Calla- than, director of the project, and jthe hospital will soon get ade- | REMEMBER WHEN your, jhad never been before. ‘Here | | was the outei chain of long; nar- | row islands forming a ° parallel, jbreakwater for the Florida coast from Miami away out beyond ‘Key West, some two’ hundred miles. Those were of another ‘type from the little round man- |grove coral keys of mud in that they were originally coral reefs, upon which soil had been deposit- jed. They are now densely wood- | ed, and are used ‘for the cultiva- | ;tion of tropical fruits. Inside this | |natural breakwater is a vast shal- | low bay with immense flats of \sticky, White clay mud; and dot- ited ‘with mangrove islets. New “keys” are continually started by |mangrove shoots which, drifting jabout, take root on these flats and, multiplying, form ‘islets by | \the soil which the tide lodges | ‘around their roots. A very few | of these keys have beaches of finely ground shell-sand. . . \ “Possibly the reality did not; jquite match the day-dreams, but | jas the years go by that cruise; tamong the Keys of Florida’ will ‘be among the brightest “of re-! curring memories”. i | ALONG THE WATERFRONT: joppy seas were experienced by | Maud Howe Elliott of New- port, R. I, noted author, daughter of the famed Julia Ward. Howe, born. in Boston, 85 years. ago. Mae Marsh, actress, born Madrid, N. M., 42 years ago. Ed Wynn, comedian, born Philadelphia, 53. years ago, Rodney’ L. Brink. of Seattle, noted newspaper editor, born at Saginaw, Mich., 50 years ago, Dr. Leonard Carmichael, presi- dent of Tufts College; Mass., born in Philadelphia, 41 years ago. THICKER AYEER DUNG “I suppose the mosquitoes were thick out where you spent the summer”. “No, long and slim”. in. in the body warm, ..When “bot- tom” fisning in this kind of weather the anchor must be se- curely fastened in the rocks or the boat. will drift. Even when remaining in one spot the vessel is continually rolling and swing- ing at the will of wind and wave +. .The rush was so great at the docks. yesterday. operators of the small sailing vessels couldn’t stop to “clean” the fish they were selling. To overcome this incon- venience to the customers, an France and. their friends to. win, and only 1.3 percent want Ger- many and. her friends to win (the balance replied that they favored neither side, or didn’t know). Furthermore, anti-war. feeling seems to exist at practically a fever level in government and official circles. Men close to when: war first began, important officials feared that we would inevitably be drawn. in. Today, say the correspondents, — their outlook has undergone dramatic change. An important sidelight on sentiment there is found in one of Paul Malion’s Washington dispatches, dated October 27. | Wrote Mr. Mallon: “Mr, Roose- velt. . .has been pounding the |desk in confabs with’ congress- men lately, about this talk that he will get us into the war. The surprised legislators report they have never seen him so aroused about anything. The United States government will not get into the war at any time under any circumstances and it is fool- ish and absurb for anyone to Washington affairs have said that, Highlights suggest such a, thing, the Presi- dent has told at least three rev- resentatives individually. . .” To pile up more evidence in ' support cf the argument that the American people really. are de- ‘determined to stay out of this war, some observers have used the City of Flint incident as an example of what they regard as America’s hard-headed and real- istie attiude. “Had the Germans ‘seized an American ‘ship under similar circumstances in 1915 or 1916, they say, public , feeling ; would have boiled, mass meetings would have been held, and we might have been led headlong into war. What actually happen- ed when the Flint was seized was far. different. There was no great excitement. The govern- ment made strong diplomatic pro- tests to Russia and Germany. High officials admitted frankly that a large part of the Flint’s cargo might accurately be called contraband, and that she was li- able to legal seizure under inter- national law. No one of conse- quence even suggested the. possi- bility of military reprisals. And the main point of controyersy was not the seizure, but the tech- “nical, question of whether she could have legally been taken to ‘a neutral port. Some feel that our neutrality may be menaced if and when the ‘British and French really logse the floodgates of propaganda— they remembered how efficiently jthe allies rang the bell with this weapon in the last war. But it must also be remembered that this propaganda was ruthlessly exposed, and that many Ameri- cans feel that we were taken for a sucker’s buggy ride. More and jmore of us seem to think that |Europe’s quarrels are Europe's business, and that, hate the dicta- tors as we will, we. must ke ;our hands out of the mess. A |in all, today, say men ‘whose business is feeling ‘the public pulse, America’s chances of re- maining at peace are very good iindeed. The First National MODERN BANKING. SERVICE Bank of Key West Serving Key West and Monroe County Since 1894 Me SPECIAL.... A 17-QUART EVERHOT me. is. mov- | | quate nursing service. . .Diesel oil was first used against mosquitoes | |in Key West. | best mosquito killers discovered .. Ten units of sanitary outhouses have been recent’ | tions of the city where there are | no sewer connections. Orders. for'| 20 more have been received, Two} units have been placed in Mara-| ers brought back samples of petrified coral rock and flint en- | countered. Even a Barco ham- mer could hardly phase this| ‘tough rock. In Key West there| ‘is mostly a softer sand and marl | jrock. . County Clinic is for) | those too poor to afford regular | |medical treatment. Mercedes | Hospital is supposed to. take care ‘of those too poor to afford hos- |pitalization. Check through the patients at Mercedes and see if this is so, H : |_ FROM Teearat aan SCIENCE M( = Repri |from. “Wild Wings” by Herbert Keightley Job: “It was on a glo- jrious bright morning, the twenty- | \third of April, 1903, at Miami, at | that time the terminus of the | railway, that we began our cruise in the old battered seven-ton | schooner, the Maggie Valdez. . . With a snapping breeze from the east we ran down. Biscayne Bay, past the flat, densely wooded} Florida mainland on our right | and low wooded islets well to seaward on the left. By early afternoon. we had traversed the. }wider part of the bay, and were |pow.at last fairly among the Flor- ida, Keys. . . jalong in calm, shallow water, whith was dotted here and there with the far-famed keys, These [eee of the mangrove type, little round bunches of dark, shiny PTTL placed in sec- | Were awash, jwere all dressed |commercial fishermen yesterday.! extra amount was It is one of the | Watching one of the larger boats of the fleet coming to port in the |ing among the’ commercial ang- \afternoon we noted testifying to the weather during the day. e three. members of the crew in “oilers”, |which are made of brown cloth | Miami’ ” it - dipped in a special preparation. thon School. Health Unit work: ‘the suits are waterproof and ate boats bring"in for them. This is excellent protection from spray )an understanding reached be- heavy seas. They also keep the decks; given with each sale. . 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