The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 17, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The key West Citizen’ tated Daily Except Sunday By TUL CITEEN PUBLISHING CO, INC. LP. AN, President and Publisher , Ausistant Business Maneger From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets nly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County -utered at Key West, Florida, as second elass matter Member of the Associated Preas | ae Associated Press is axel soey entitled use for republication of all ne tches credited to ‘, or pot etherwise credited fm this paper and also SUBSCRIPTION RATES *he local news published here. | i | ue Wear . ux Moygths three Month: | Ine Month 85 | Weekly - “ ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards ef thanks; r it ! spect, obituary notices, etc. will be .e rate of 10 cents_a line. Notices for en rtainment by churehes from which 2 revenue is to be derived are 6 cents @ line. The Citizen Is an open forum and invites discus. | f public issues and subjects of local or general at but it will not publish anonymous communi- | (}MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WESi ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). | Water and Sewerage. } Hotels and Apartments. | PUT TEETH IN ZONING LAW! te While Mayor Albury and members of THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE WITCH'S BREW } } | the new city council are getting together | | on their official appointments, The Citizen wishes to call attention to the fact that the ; new Key West zoning law passed by the | last State Legislature is now effeetive. It went into effect right after municipal election, according té an opinion some time ago prepared by.the eity at- torney. That being the case, one’ of the first official acts of Mayor Albury should be the appointment of a zoning board and one Tuesday’s | of the first official acts of the new city council should be the confirmation of the | appointments by the mayor. There is no sense having a zoning law unless the city has a board to see that the | provisions are enforced. Enforcement of this law is a highly important step in the | city’s forward march toward a greater prosperity, a firmer economic future. At the pesent time there is no rhyme ; or reason in Key West’s building activi- | ties. Any property owner at any time can put up just about what he pleases in the way of buildings and alleged improve- ments. He can build a fish market next | ——+ —_ —___. KEY. WEST IN DAYS GONE BY As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1939 t Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today ORDERS COMPANY TO HIRE AND PAY BACK Waces “2 PERSONS WHO NEVER WoRKeD For The Company.’ FIVE YEARS AGO City Council arranged night with The Key West Electric Company fer turning on the white way lights tomorrow night. The Kappa Pi ¥.Club. which had (been hi ding the. matter, an- nounced — tday, the organiza- |tion bad decided to quit, and The! Electrie Company .deeided to) turn on the current tonight and | tomorrow night. Mr. and Mrs. fay Brewer of! Ishpeming, Mich, and Mr. and | Mrs. F, M. Tibbett, of Chester- | | ville, Me. have arrived in the | city and have been successful in! ‘finding pleasant locations for | their stay for the winter, and ex- | press themselves as being delight- | ‘ed with their surroundings. | Construction of the highway bridges from Lower Matecumbe fis progressing with the 300 vet-| jerans, who were assigned to the | project, working steadily. The | state’s part of the work is under ; the direction of the State Road | Department, with H. C. Nichols, in charge. Trevor, which will last ‘Tuesday, December 3, a’clock in Stone Church. |schooner to be seized take place, at 5:30 FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Red Cross booths are maintained at the railroad station | and at the entrance of the Post, Office. The drive for member-| ‘ship will be carried on until! | Thanksgiving Day and by that |time it is hoped that Key West) |will have demonstrated that it} 9 has gone over the top. First club car that has ever| come to Key West arrived here! yesterday on the morning train. | Ht was the inauguration of ean elub car serviee between north- ern points of the country and | Key West. Lamira is the name of the car arriving, and it is beautifully equipped. | Schooner Yride, seized by the| , Coast Guard Cutter Cossack, has been turned over to eustoms au- thorities and will be sold by Deputy U. S. Marshal Lopez to- day. The Yride is the third! in these} TODAY’S COMMON ERROR Do not say. “Everyone opened their window”: say, “opened his windew". TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ being |Can you answer seven of these ten Test Question? Turn to Page 4 for Answers 1. Into what body ‘of water does the Columbia River flow? With which major league baseball ‘team does Joe Gordon play? Name the chairman of the Ameriean Red Cross. In which sea is the island of Jamaica? For whieh state is “Golden State” a nickname? Name the flagship of Perry’s fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie. Name the horse that recent- ly established a world’s record for one and 3-16 miles. Which state is represented in the U. S. Senate by William E. Borah and D. Werth Clark? 9. Which countries compose | t s. The others were the | | A Ni ) | Y | Mrs, Robert H. Brown, ‘Jr, and Waters t E ISL CI Mrs. J. F. Perkins, Jr., delight- SS | | fully entertained at the social} ' | | session of the Junior Woman’s|, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Whal- ’ 19, | on the property line of a residential street; |; See ISA bs ame a saa increases aecaugeh by the gveney Club yesterday. Bridge was play-| ‘© Lee: ae earns New ire of agriculture project working on for is winter it is most pro - | ed the be! and guests | 5¢Y,.Where they have been mak- he can place a fire hazard next to a jthe outlying keys from Boca'able that the civil service per Peete LER ens Rett ieee ing their home for the past two = school, theater or church; he can ruin a!Grande to Marathon eradicating ‘sonnel will be boosted, because it! won by Mrs. Homer Herrick and Ye"; and are enroute to Key!|ee potertially good residential section with- the pink boll worm from wild ‘is that personnel which tends tothe eut prize was awarded Miss West, coming back home to live. ‘Today Ss Horoscope out any hindrance. cotton, which has no commercial | new construction at various navy , Isabelle Ball. They have been making their; eal |value. It is operating with 15. stations and also to servicing the TEN YEARS AGO jhome with their son and daugh- eceeeceeecseecocoosoveses The new zoning law would end all |men supplied from W.P.A. labor.’ Harry F. Guggenhein, Ameri-/tef-inJaw, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd | ‘this confusion and haphazard building. |A similar D. of A. project some} jcan ambassador to Cuba, and! Whalton. Commercial structures cannot be built in |W Years ago found fresh water! =ROUGH WEATHER of the past party, consisting of Mrs. Guggen-! A : on a high knoll on Boca Grande. | few weeks has discouraged many | 7 al si ong 3 | BK 'Y ‘heim, Miss Elizabeth Eakin, sec- i residential sections; shacks cannot be lo- ‘The old fishermen’s expression jlocal fishermen. The wind hasiyetary to Mrs. Guggenheim, andi profitable business. The mind is cated on our main streets; manufacturing |has been “no water west of Key | blown and blown and: the water Graham Carter, the ambassador's! Motor Cop (catching up with!contented, laborious, naturally plants cannot be placed where they | West”. This disproves the say-jremains muddy and muddy. Be-| secretary. The party arranged speeder and lady passenger)— adapted to circumstances, with menace public or private buildings in jing. The present project works sides, those who do take a chance | for a special plane, which was Say, what do you mean by driv- stability and modesty notable | door to a fine residence; he can stick a s 5 the Iberian peninsula? dog house on the main street; he can build What is the at pronun- ciation of the word’ con- sonant? . Bathing Pavilion. Airports—-Lind and Sea. Consolidaticn of County and City | Governments. The Slow- Down is s the suecessor of the 3it-Down strike. units of either planes or ships. | Most people spend too much time | worrying about the troubles of other peo- ple. Great executive ability is to- day’s .endowment. The native !may become a captain of indus- HIS EXCUSE try, or at the least build up a Adolf and Benito used to declare the Rome-Berlir axis to be invincible. Now it is almost invisible. A Kentuckian shot a neighbor who called him a common liar. No one likes to be called common. There are women who know more about diet than they do about cooking and this adds up to ill-health and indigestion. The way to have economy in goyern-" ment is to reduce appropriations but this is | not the way for legislators to hold their jobs. | The English fleet does not appear to be so fleet in pursuing its enemy.—Key West Citizen. A fleet, nowadays, is only so fleet as its airplanes——Sanford Herald. The height of something or other was | certainly reached when Adolf Hitler said, “Yes, I would like to come to an agree- ment with the British, but you can’t trust ‘em”.—Sanford Herad. That’s not the height of anything but a new low. j The wasp-waist style, created in France, connotes the economic situation in that country. In sympathy with the! Freneh women the cramped style will be imitated here in America, although it | comes dangercusly near breaking the neu- trality law. The “oomph” girl is lesing caste. Col- | leges are looking for the plain girl, and plain Jane is getting her place in the sun. | Too much emphasis on perfection and eon- stant repetition tires the eye and ear. It will be recalled that the people of ancient | Athens got so tired of hearing Aristides called “The Just” him. that they banished | If you pronounce the word “Negro” with increasing rapidity for a dozen times | you will unwittingly say “Nigger.” Try it! That cost a candidate in the recent election many a vote because his opposition made the mest of the unjust accusation. Unless | offense is intentional it is better to enunciate the word “Negro” with some emphasis or better still use the word “Colored”, a classification that is known to be satisfactory. Just about everybody that can read | English, reads The Citizen. They may not | be subscribers, but they are berrowers. Last Saturday a well-known woman eame | to the office and stated that 20 people | read her copy of this paper. That reminds | the writer ef the statement made by for- | mer Mayor Curry that 42 people read his | | copy of The Citizen. Advertisers - may | rest assured that at least 5,000 persons read The Citizen every day, with a definite percentage reading the advertisements. i | extremely doubtful. | the present statute. | of the people of this | poration. | improvement in the United’ States showed | | itself long before hostilities began in Eu- which our citizens congregate. There is a place for every type of building. There is |ORDS: FROM COUNTY REC- order where there is now chaos. The Citizen believes our. city officials | will merit public commendation if they | see to it that a zoning board of pubic- | spirited men and women is selected and | inducted into office to enforce our zoning regulations. With this action will come an increase in building, a demand for re-} stricted residential lots and an improve-: ment in the general appearance of the city. OLD AGE ASSISTANCE The defeat of the old-age pension plan in Ohio and California should be) gratifying to many citizens who are in- tensely interested in the welfare of the old age group in the United States. The proposed beneficiaries of the schemes which have been defeated should not feel that they have been denied an in- come which their State could afford. The | fact is, according to much expert opinion, Whether Ohio and California, or any other State, can finance | a scheme of old age pension that provides such payments to the old-age group is, to | say the least, uncertain. No one should lose sight of the fact that the United States Government, in co- operation: with the states, has set up, the machinery to provide old-age assistance | and that already thousands of individuals are receiving aid under our present Social Security laws. If larger payments are feasible, all that is necessary is to amend It may be taken for granted that as soon as the great majority | country are con- vinced of the soundness of larger pay- ments, they will be fortcoming. TWO OPINIONS It is very difficult for individuals to ascertain the exact truth in regard to any | question. For example, compare the statements | of George A. Sloan, former’ President of | the Cotton Textile Institute, and Ernest C. Weir, chairman of the National’ Steel Cor- Mr. Sloan says that business rope. Mr. Weir says the upsurge in busi- | ness is due only to the war, deelaring, “The real jump in the business curve coincided with the declaration of war.” The views given above represent the attitude of two important industrial per- le sonages. They do not agree although both, presumably, have access to the best | statistical information available. No won- der the average man of the street finds it difficult to make up his mind on problems that arise. | with two fast boats, |the weather. (DS: Minnie B. Rogers has, ap-|" | plied for change of name. Appli-| cation recorded November 6. will Monroe Investment | was dissolved November 6. Miss Lena Johnson loses to the SOON THE WINTER SEASON | extent of 40 votes in her’ race for | be. with us again. There |elcetion to the city council. This | Company | shall be scores of yachts, there|was announced _ this Suit shall be scores of fishing parties, | following the recount, afternoon which |to quiet title has been instituted | there shall be hundreds of visi-' showed that Miss Johnson receiv- | this month by B. M. Goetz tors gaping from cars and buying! ed 967 votes and her opponent, | against William Patton. . .Gulf! j here, there and everywhere if we| Vesey A. Johnson, 1,009 votes, as Oil company has instituted suit! can engage their attention, theré | announced in The Citizen. against Hilary L. Albury with the ‘shall be sightseeing trips, there! summons recorded November 14 shall be merry cheer at the bars, | -November 3 Allan B. Cleare, Captain Clark D. Sterns. and i there shall be nickle gambling ; Mrs. Stearns will visit Key West | Jr., sued J. E. Alpert for $2,700 javailable in Key West, there shall’ tomorrow morning and will be | damages. | issued -A replevin writ was /be cruise trips around the harbor | the house guests-of Mr: and Mrs. in the suit of The Max | and the Keys, there shall be a’ Andrew R. Miller. Mrs. Stearns well Company against ene LJ | winter program of sports, social/is vice-president of Florida Wom Sanchez this month, Praecipe | of dismissal was granted in a $1,- ;000 suit | against J. E. Alpert. Sees se |mer, | CHARTER BOATING is ex-! | pected to come up into some- thing worthwhile this winter due | Okla., |to increased travel. | docks will house ten local fishing She is Sisney’s fourth wife. | boats. There will be close to that events, exhibitions, there shall be/en’s Clubs and will, pay her,offi- | homes abuilding, there shall then; jcial visit to Key West club to- of Matilda Mendell|be happiness to tide one over morrow afternoon. s | through the quiet, peaceful sum- | Because of the prominence of ‘the families, much cordial inter- Susanna Speights, 66, of Tulsa,'est centers in the approaching recently married Ulysses,marriage of Miss Elinor Miller, The Craig Sisney, 70, her seventh husband. | daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew |R. Miller, and Edwin Fogarty ; jand go out for meagre catches | here on their arrival and left for ing at 60? t ireturn very much battered by | Havana. Motorist—Good _heayens! I} thought you were the lady’s hus | band. characteristics. Subscribe to The Citizen—20c ‘weekly. Round Gut your KEY WEST Visit “a0 LAV ANA viaP&O Lea Monday and Thursday. Arrive cl 6 Me Monday a Leave ra Tuesday and Friday. Arrive Key — sm5 FP. My Tuesday and CUBAN TAXES, 620 Key West, 10:20 A. M., EST, 2 Steamship CUBA ROUND TRIP INCLUDING MEALS ‘AND BERTH AT SEA EST, EST, Est, — -10 DAY Limit lo PORT TAMPA, Tuesdays and Fridays, 5 p. m. ee The PENINSULAR 7 OCCIDENTAL S. S$. COMPANY ‘or Informetion, Tickets end Reservations, Phone 14 4. H. COSTAR, Agent number at the Gulf Dock, which, by the way, is awaiting the ar- rival of its lessor to improve its; docking facilities, including erect- ing a clubhouse and a large sign over the street. The north end of Duval will have four boats this winter. The south end of Duval will have its regular char. ter boat and perhaps another. New painting styles have come jinto the fleet this winter. Sad- dened this week was the fleet} with the news that Ollie Russell, | § | veteran guide, has been stricken with paralysis and may, not be! able. to go out with the fleet this} winter, i a ! | IF YOU WILL LOOK around} the curio shops you will see that! more and more Key West curios | are coming into prominent dis-! play in the wares. Anyone who, {read Miami Story in the Daily | News this week and saw how “hobbies” can be made profitable | will take advantage of the Key; # = West opportunity with winter! approaching. The coconuteraft, | | shell painting, sponge fashioning, | | tropical plant selling which is a | part of most southern tourist re-| sorts, should be more so Key; | West's than any other becuuse | | Key West is the only true tropics in the United States and has the j only true products. { | ALONG WITH THE OTHER “Key West's Outstanding!” LA CONCHA HOTEL Besutiful—Air-conditionel Rainbow Room and Cocktail