The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 22, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TwO Che Key West Citizen | AUSPICIOUS LAUNCHING Our new municipal ship of state was It slipped down THE KEY WEST CITIZEN COMMON ERROR _ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1939 _ KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY | launched Monday night. | the ways into troubled economic waters. | There are rocks and shoals ahead. Treach- | erous currents and under-currents are tug- Happenings Hete Just Five. Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today Never say, “Please re- As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen peat it again”; ‘omit “again”. IN COUNTY RECORDS: Peti- tion for sheriff’s sale of the per- sonal property of J. E. Alpert, owner of Mendel’s, Inc., was filed DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL- TURE work, which has been pro- ceeding on the keys from Boca » Assistant Business Manager rhe Citizen Building and Ann Streets | \ | FIVE YEARS AGO The All-Star team will play Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County | 1 mews published hei SUBSCRIPTION RATES ADVERTIS: on application, CIAL NOTICE rds of thanks, resolutions of , ete., Will be charged for at line. nment by churches from which ived are 5 cents a line. Citizen open forum and invites discus- public is: nd subjects of local or general { but it will not publish anonymous communi- | reading noti pect, obituary notice f MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WES1 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 Governmenis. Some fellows only get a move on when the dinner bell rings. Trade at home is a good motto for | every individual to adopt. This national debt problem has the checker players all over the country wor- ried. In monetary circles a million is re- ferred to commonly as “cool”. It would look “hot” to us. According to a correspondent it wasn’t Pat but the Hitler Cannon that re- vived the local naval station and put it on a partially active basis. Maybe we have been asleep but some- how fishermen seem to have been more truthful recently. Of course Key West ermen never did have to stretch their catches very much. “The average politician may not own a seismograph but he can detect a ground- swell.”—Key West Citizen. And if it heads votes his way—the citizens can ickly detect a head-swell.—Times- | Union. “The best fashion note we have read | about in a long time is that the sale of overalls has advanced some 200 per cent.” —Key West Citizen. Sold to laboring men, or ex-employers?—Times-Union. Possibly both, and is the reason of the in- creased sales. During ‘the recent municipal cam- paign a certain candidate made a_ pur- chase and was tendered clean dollar bills with the facetious remark “You don’t mind taking clean money, to which the prospective office holder replied “I'll take any kind of money.” Now just what did | that candidate mean? Wesley Archer, the new municipal | ‘udge, wouldn’t admit in his humorous talk the soft impeachment of this column that | he was blind as a bat when culprits came before his court, but did confess that he | was color-blind under the same circum- | stances. By that “hishonor” meant to im- | ply that white cr black, rich or poor will receive the same treatment at his hands anl he will call ’em as he sees ’em. Atta boy! Whenever Vox Populi, Semper Fidei, | or for that matter anyone signing his real name, sends: a letter to the papers con- demning a public official, whether repre- sentative, senator or whatnot, there is al- ways someone to be found, not entirely dis- nterested, who will write the person af- fected telling him that the offenders had cacoethes. scribendi, was a nut or a Bol- shevik and. to pay no attention to him. This is supposed to assuage the hurt feel- ings of the aforesaid servant of the people and he desists in hig formulated intention | to visit dire persecution on the com- j munity. ging at the anchor. However, the crew appears to be capable and competent and the steady light of public support is burn- ing against the harbor background: With luck our new ship of state should carry | Key West through to the tranquil waters | of prosperity. In other words, the new city council and the administrative officials sworn into office at appropriate ceremonies and in the presence of close to 1000 citizens Mon- day night are now in charge of Key West’s municipal activities. by several serious financial and operating problems. In seeking and finding the solu- tion to those problems the council and city | officials will have the firm support of the general public—as long as they try to do the right, the square and the fair thing. Just as the citizens who attended the inaugural ceremonies Monday night rep- resented every class and interest in Key West, so do the new councilmen represent every type of individual and activity. It wculd be difficult to find a finer cross-sec. tion of community life than the present councilmen, And the fact that so far they have been very much in accord in the matter of appointments, economy steps and general policy is a cause for rejoicing among citi- zens generally. The new councilmen seem determined to cut a number of financial corners, to make a readjustment of opera- tion methods in their struggle to make the municipal budget balance. Some of the methods to be invoked may prove unpop- ular with certain persons and_ interests, not all of the economy moves will find un- limited public support. It is to be hoped the city council and administrative officials will see eye to eye in the majority of the means employed to reach the general objectives—improve- ment in municipal service and curtailment of municipal expense. If our city officials and legislators do work together they are certain to have substantial public support. Our city officials all know what Key West needs. If they pull each a strong oar, the Key West ship of state will carry our citizens to the future safety and hap- piness they merit. “BORROWERS ARE WELCOME” “A Loan Is not a Favor,” says a leaf- let recently issued by one of the leading banks of the nation, to its depositors. “A loan is a business transaction and should be of mutual benefit to borrower and lender,” the leaflet continues. wish to obtain a loan for a sound purpose, ; and if you meet our other credit require- ments, we will approve your application promptly. “Tf it does not meet our requirements of sound banking, we will tell frankly, together with our reasons. “In granting loans, we have important obligations to four groups; depositors, bor- rowers, stockholders, and our community. | To protect the interest of all these people we have definite policies, made in accord- ance with sound banking principles, which guide us. . .” It sounds simple—and it is. The mystery that surrounds bank loans in the public mind should be thoroughly dis- sipated. Loans are the primary sources of most banks’ income. No bank wants to re- fuse a loan. necessary in the interest of protecting one of the four groups the The banker, after all, doesn’t money. He is simply its custodian, work- ing under strict laws on behalf of his de- positors and the public. “A loan is not a favor.” everyone else concerned a definite favor when he refuses an unsound loan. This writer simply cannot see why | Thanksgiving was advanced'a week “in order to give the people more time to do their Christmas shopping.” They always wait until the last day anyway, and the caution in the papers telling how many days to Christmas is just a reminder how | much time they have to put off their shop- ping. There are no one hundred percenters in anything, for there is no such thing as perfection; everything in creation has its i flaws; They are confronted | Nov. 18, Padlock and sheet across door sealing it now decorates the store. . Order of dismissal. of the suit of Landis Machine Company | against Hugo Diamandi was filed |Nov. 15. . .Cabrera Wholesale Grocery presented a petition for a new trial against Lee Baker Gro- cery, October 24, with new wit- nesses ‘subpoened October 30. The talk is this suit may eventually | go to the Supreme Court. . .D. M. | Andrews ‘up the keys has mort- | gaged 2% acres of Boot Key to B. M. Goetz, who is interested in ‘Keys development. | IN A RECENT NEWSPAPER , article upstate mention was made ‘of work St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce is doing. It is.rec- ognized throughout the country ‘as a model tourist bureau. Sev- enty thousand arrivals come vol- |untarily to the Chamber to reg- ister. Differences that may arise between newcomers and business and apartment house owners are ironed ovt by a tourist relations |department. directed by tactful jand experienced director. Junior Chamber of Commerce of St. Pete has started a social club to make the young winter visitors at home. Activities _ include dances, cruises; bridge parties, }tennis, golf, horseback riding, fishing. It has a winter mem- ‘bership of 1,000 and has its own Private beach and clubhouse on the bayfront. THERE WILL BE 24 registered Grande to Matecumbe, is for the purpose of eradicating one of the mosti destructive pests .known— TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ _Roy E,Lade, of the Florida Pub- the club team a game of basket- |lic Utilities corporation, is now pall tonight at the Athletic Club, ithe manager of the Key West! The game will begin, at 8 o'clock the pink boll worm, D. of A. is Gan you answer seven of thése |Gas Co., and is very much pleas- | and a large crowd is expected to ten Test Question? Turn to Page 4 for Answers destroying all the wild cotton, which has no commercial value, on the keys. They use two boats, one a nifty litle speedster, and employ lo Works vrogress men to reach all the outlying keys. h electricity? Hanover, N. H.? Name the Open Golf champion. QUESTION has been dsked around town as to whether the Navy Department desires to se-| cure 60 acres of Trumbo Island for erection of a hangar and ma-, chine shop will. interfere with the Housing Project as planned by the Key West Housing Auth- ority. Key West Housing Auth- ority had definitely decided on a section along Palm Avenue west of the sump and approximately 800 feet toward the bay. Key! West Housing Authority trip to Washington will await query as to the location the Navy wishes. In astronomy, what body in its around another body? ~ Dearborn? age? the Greek alphabet. —_—— What is the quotient of \% di ON GOOD AUTHORITY we vided by %? have the statement that there , will be enough Navy, W.P.A. work going on this winter to keep all of Key West employ- ables working and there will be need for outside help. We know the Navy is planning Naval Sta- tion and Trumbo Island building, jand the Key West Housing Au- {thority is plannnig $700,000 white jand colored housing project. | ALONG THE WATERFRON in the world, from sea level. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL Former Editor of The Citizen "y;| technic Institute, better as Auburn, have a habit of stick- Is aluminum a conductor of jeight years at West Palm Beach. What coliege iS, located at! 1939 National | | Who is Vyacheslaff Molotoff? | is the) name of the path described | in space by a_ heavenly; i revolution ' Which city is built on the! site that once was Fort What is the correct pronun- ciation of the word amper- Name the second letter of Name the highest mountain computed Professors at Alabama Poly-} known}; \ed, with the plant as he found it.) witness the struggle for mastery. |He was general manager of the Both clubs are rightly called top- jcompany’s business for the past! notchers, FIFTEEN YEARS AGO During the past two weeks the ,cigarmakers and manufacturers |. G..A. Viola and D. Cc. Cainp- |e et eure eaten se: ibell, of the FERA engineering | @"™anging a new price list and forces, are in the city today visit-| basis for new factories to corre- ing the several points where the|spond with the process ' which lactivities are being carried on and |now prevails in Tampa. The re- {making a survey of the many/sults nave been obtained without ‘He came to Florida in charge of {the construction, unit. iprojects which are being carried | the loss of one day. {on in the city. —_—— ——— j Plate glasses which will be First of the 27 tanks in the | used in the William Curry’s Sons Key West aquarium were filled} aquarium will arrive this week, | with water yesterday. The other it is said by those in charge of tanks are to be gotten in readiness ' the work of making the additions jfor service as soon as they are} to the tanks. Deeper water will completed. The inside of the} be kept in the tank and for that | tanks are being made into a semb-| reason the glasses will be thick- lance of the reef, and rock and j er. | different classes of coral are being | | used. H — | secretary of the Key West chap- | Recently elected officers of the| ter Red Cross, will make the sec- | American Legion Auxiliary were i ond call at the cigar factories this | inducted into office eysterday by | afternoon. The workmen have | Mrs. W. Horman, presiding offi-| readily responded to the call and cer. from. Hobe Sound, assisted by | their contributions have been a Mrs. C. C. Chillingworth of Palm | great help to this work. ; Beach and Mrs. Pearl R. Pitts of | -_— Stuart, Fla, Five of the officers who at- TEN YEARS AGO tended the Navy Day celebration J. Warren Pinder, formerly of | have signified their appreciation |this city and chief engineer on/to Lieutenant and Mrs. Thomas, Miss Clara Powell, executive |in the San Carlos Institute Span- | An idea of what peoples of war- ish Class shortly and indications: ting nations dread was given \of many more. It is possible) Tuesday afternoon when a group pretty Latin girl assistants may |of pelicans was sighted flying to- ivolunteer to aid the learners. . .| gether over the northwest section |Dump trucks and commercial!of the city. The birds were in houses are going right out to|perfect V-shape formation, the |where the Works Progress Mos- | figure fighting planes take when |quito Project is digging its lat-|on a destructive mission. The lerals to drain stagnant water in! pelicans were drifting along with |the White street area and filling | the wind in a southerly direction, |the laterals as fast as they can!presumably headed for their’ ‘be dug. . Name of Isadore Wein- | roost. . .Monday witnessed more traub, Key West Jaycee state; edible seafood brought. to port) treasurer, adorns the masthead of|than was reported all of last jeach issue of the state Jaycee; week. Rough seas continue to News. . .Mrs. Tom Woods: of the | prevail, however. . -Muddy wa- “Little Shop” returned over the!ter is not only dreaded by com- weekend from a buying. trip to; mercial fishermen but also by ing to their jobs a long time. At | ships of the P. and O. SS. Co.,} present 22 faculty members have has been appointed to member- served more than 25 years. Two|ship on the board of examiners of them, Dr. George Patrie and/of steam engines, according Dr. John J. Wilmore, have taught! news received in this city. The} there more than 50 years. jappointment, it is understood, | | was made by the mayor of Tam- The decisive defeat of fantistic | P®- old age pension plans in Cali-| ae fornia and Ohio in the elections! ._ “ Party consisting of 300 med- of November 7 may discourage | ¢2! rig left = the Steamship promoters of euch wila Cuba this morning to attend the schemes in other states. Every- | Medical eee becuse aan | Havana. on ts t the lot of aged. ede ied cs v3 of ‘the | Cuban capital follows the session be done with some regard {of Southern Medical Society, sound economics. which closed in Miami this week. for by passing a resolution which |was signed by Lieutenants Vin- | cent H. Godfrey, E. H. Callahan, to} J. H. Peyfield and J. E. Parker and Ensign T. E. Mulley. JOB PRINTING of All Kinds “Tf you | you so! Refusal, when it is made, is | leaflet mentions. | own the | But the} banker does the would-be borrower and | Miami. She has secured the lat- est in beach wear. In the group is a bathing ensemble of a short | swinging skirt with white shark- skin, finger-tip ‘length coat on princess lines. Key West beach | wear is going to be sump’n this} | winter. . .Notice the little recrea-' tourist | | tion Mastic | camp. | ee | Vice President John N. Garner |of Texas, born in Red River Co., | Tex., 70 years ago. Howard Coonley of New York, center at | president of the Natl. Association ; |of Manufacturers, born in Chi-! | cago, 63 years ago. | Cyrus E. Dallin of Arlington, |Mass., noted sculptor, born at Springville, Utah, 78 years ago. Arthur B. Parsons, secretary of the Amer. Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, New York, born in Salt Lake City, 52 years ago. . Howard Brockway of New York, noted composer, born there, 69 years ago. ‘ Thomas Beer,‘author; born at Council Bluffs, -Fowa, |50 years ago. svaward -L, Bernays of New York, noted public relations Thompson DELIVERED DAILY EVERYWHERE INCORPORATED ICE DIVISION PHONE. NO. 8 Thomas H. Sherman of Attle- boro, Mass., who died a_ short time ago at the age of 96, be- lieved he was the last survivor of the Ford theater audience who | Witnessed the ‘assassination of President Lincoln on the night of April 14, 1865. jgulls and pelicans. It is almost jimpossible for these birds of the ,sea to spot food then and of ne- ‘cessity they come in close to ;shore in their efforts to satisfy \their hunger. A large flock gathers around the small sailing vessels waiting for the scraps fishermen toss into the water! Sees jafter dressing fish. | Last week the Unied States Treasury’s “conscience fund,” | was increased by $2,000, that Todav’s Hor amount having been sent in by an unnamed Florida woman, 0 ay s oroscope|sn | said she owed Uncle Sam i |that much as duty on fur coats | Today’s native is usually clev- smuggled into this country 20 er, too often cunning. There are years ago. |great powers of persuation, and i raaanaaa if the trait of today does not be-| Strikers and their friends took |come obtrusive, positions of trust,|a novel means of annoying a jbearing success, will almost cer ‘laundry involved in a labor dis- tainly follow faithful application pute at Wichita, Kansas, by con- | to the duties. tinually calling on the telephone, Fifty dollar fines and 30-day, 1 so that customers were unable to| ; ©. F. Cook, one of the three’ specialists of the department of , agriculture at Washington, have jbeen assigned to Key West to: |make extensive investigations of jthe wild cotton tree, which {thrives in this section. It has | been definitely claimed that | ithat which is in this area is dif-| ferent from the others. | get connections. About 5,000 “phony” calls were made in a the best of workman- | few days. | ship. 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