The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 28, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO. est Citizen UBLISHING COQ., INC. fly Except Sunday By President and Publisher Business Manag. r zen Building e and Ann Streets TAZ! ned 1 eM, | | | ih a Publ sh LP JOE Au! | ; | erG er in Key West and Monroe County | as second class matter Member of the Associated Press | Assoviated Press is exclusively entitled to use | publication of all news dispatches credited to | herwise credited in this paper and also | ews published here. H y West, Florid: ee | SUBSCRIPTION BATES | $10.00 | 5.00 2.50 | SING RATES kngwn on application, ae - | ! | NOTICE rds of thanks, resolutions of , ete, Will be charged for at line. nment by ehurches from which ived are 5 cents a line. SPI All reading noti t, obituary no’ te of 10 cents for en is to b 1 or gener 18 communi- of public issues and subjects of Ic est but it will not publish anonym | | IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN | Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and Governments. : A Modern City Hospital. City It is bitterly cold in Russia and the | time is ripe for slaying. Sooner or later most cf our national | problems come back to the millions of un- | empioyed. What good was it to some turkeys to have been given a week’s reprieve? Ina few days they will do a turkey trot to the block and get it in the neck anyhow. To counteract the aroma from Key Wesi’s limburger cheese, transplanting the Umbrella tree, said to smell like raspberry jam, from Australia, would seem to do the job. Key West now has a city business ad- | ministration. Let the national adminis- tration follow suit and we will get some- | Where. | of the officers of the Yacht Club. | at Garrison Bight. | eight feet of water. | free access to the basin. | basin. YACHT CLUB GROWS | | Last‘Saturday the members of Key | West Yacht Club and a number of guests | celebrated the opening of the new club- house at Garrison Bight. The building has been completely renovated, a fine flag- pole erected and an outdoor fireplace built. Some furniture and a few other. improvements are needed, but these ap- pear to be well on the way. i In accomplishing the results in the | short space of one year, Commodore James D. MacMullen before he retired in | favor of Melvin E. Russell announced to members and guests that all outstanding | bills had been paid. This is a rare occur- ence in the life of any new organization | and speaks well for the business acumen | 1 One of the pertinent statements by | Former Commodore MacMullen was that | | the Yacht Club will now turn more atten- | tion to the matter of building a boat basin | He quickly refuted | current rumors by announcing that the | basin would not be exclusively for yachts, | but would be a land-locked harbor for all classes of vessels drawing not more than | Nor will the Yacht | Club have control of the Bight. That will | be a municipal operation, so that the pub- | lic, not just one group of citizens, will have ! Key West needs a yacht and boat; basin. The need becomes more and more | | evident as yachts from the north begin ap- | pearing in the harbor. Until a few weeks | ago they might be moored or anchored in | the submarine base. That is now closed | and there is no safe moorage and anchor- | age for small craft .except at private | docks. i As The Citizen has pointed out be- | fore, the presence of a large number of | yachts at Key West means a lot of busi- | ness for Key West. Each vessel requires | supplies and services of all kinds. No re- sort city can hope to reach the top in that | field unless it does have a yacht basin. H The Citizen hopes the members of the Key West Yacht Club put as much effort | into procuring a yacht basin as they have in providing the organization with a home. | | | | And if the basin is built with an eye to economy, as the yacht club was built, the city will save money and have a fine yacht More power to the yacht club— may their sails never go empty. | | | Air Lines of New York, and R.| | bronze spirals ygain in the late'a memorial avenue now, with: THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ? Ig Pictorial Treatise | } ‘Florida Via Camera and Jchn F. Gebhart, of the Acro-Graphic Corporation examine a copy of the first edition of their latest publication, “Florida Vi: Camera” photograph of St. Paul's . The book, which is being dis- tributed widely by E.A.L.‘ and the Crummer concern, contains more than 250 beautifully repro- duced photographs of the most interesting tourist attractions in the state as well as_picture- stories of Florida’s industries, “Florida Via Camera” is the third of a series of picture books on the State of Florida compiled by the Aero-Graphic Corpora tion, one of the nation’s leaders in aerial photography and trav- elogue publishing. Release of a new publication, ; “Florida Via Camera”, a_ pic- Church, the Key West High torial treatise.of the,state’s attrac-. Seheol, Marti monument, a tions, has been’ arinounced’ by the| Jarge catch of turtle, and publishers, the Aero-Graphic Cor-| three sgenes ef the highway, poration of New Albany, Indiana, ” The descriptive matter of who compiled and edited the| Key West ends with “This is book in conjunction with Eastern; indeed a fisherman's para- dise, a setting of South Sea island lure and climate with- in the easy reach of all. The home of the best green turtle soup, Conch chowder and Cuban coffee in America”. E. Crummer & Company of Or- lando. Two pages are devoted to scenes and descriptive mat- ter of Key West. There is a _ j TODAY’S COMMON ERROR j: Never say, “This is for yourself and _ friends”: say, “fer you and your friends”. TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ San you answer seven of these ten Test Question? Turn to Page 4 for Answers NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE’S THANKSGIVING FOR TWO Written For The Citizen By FRANK W. LOVERING { | "This is Thanksgiving Day—a good old festival; and my wife and I have kept it with our hearts, and besides have made good cheer upon our turkey, and pudding, and pies, ard custards, although none sat at-our board but our own two selves”-From Nathaniel Hawthorne's “American Note Bocks”, Aug. 5, 1842, to Oct. 6, 1843. The beech leaves twirl down in which the flying British fled is, 1. Where is the British crown colony, British Honduras? What is the name for the TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1939 PEOPLE'S FORUM THE LEGION’S ANSWER! Editor, The Citizen: Ordinarily the attacks of crack- pots and- irresponsible individ- uals upon the dignity and in tegrity of the American Legion go unanswered. In the case of Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28 of the American Legion, the members are too busy with such matters as child welfare, veteran relief, community service, youth train ing and Americanism to devote any attention to statements at- tempting to discredit an organi- zation of more than. 1,000,000 men and women who served their country in time of actual war. ‘ In the case of William E. P. Roberts, Arthur Sawyer Post feels that his attack should - not | be ignored. For that reason, at a special meeting Sunday, it was determined to answer the un- warranted and untrue statements of this man because he happens to be a first lieutenant with Bat tery E, 265th Coast Artillery, Florida National Guard. Accord. ingly, a letter from this ments and the post’s position has been sent to the Florida Depart- ment Commander of the Ameri- can Legion for whatever action he cares-to direct after con ferring with the Adjutant Gen- eral of the Florida National Guard. For the Key West record the following is a brief outline of Arthur Sawyer Post’s answer to Mr. Roberts’ unfair, uninformed | and misleading statements: 1. Not only has Battery E had the moral’ support of Arthur Sawyer Post in recruiting efforts, but several of our members have personally interviewed a number of prospective recruits and urged them to enlist. 2. The average age of Ameri- can Legion members is 46. Very few of them, if not barred by their age, could pass the physical examinations of the army, na- tional guard, navy, coast guard and marine corps.. Many of our members are now reservists, some are still in the regular army, in- the navy and coast guard, while a few have sons in the active service of the country. 3. Our Legionnaires once pa- raded quite frequently -in pa- rades that defense of their country. They | were not all drafted, as Mr. Rob-| post | setting forth Mr. Roberts’ state- “count”—parades in, — SIDELIGHTS | | | | By MARCY B. DARNALL | Former Editor of The Citizen ' Army recruiting was stim- {ulated by modern advertising |methods to make a peace time |record of 50,836 enlistments in |the period between July 1 and November 9, according to Col. |Lloyd B. Magruder of the re- jcruiting service. Hl | An electrical engineer has caused a coffee pot to produce lradio music, which the Chicago |Daily News admits is quite a | miracle, but thinks it would be a | greater miracle to cause the pot | to produce a really good cup of | coffee. There were 11,160 aircraft of all types and 26,144 licensed pilots in the United States on July 1, a gain of 1,400 planes and '600 pilots during the last’ fiscal year. A much greater increase of planes and pilots is expected {this year. Police of Columbia, S. C., are looking for a goofy burglar, who stole a coat, a curtain and a vic- trola from a house in that city. ;Then, either through absent- ;mindedness or fright, he left his |pistol behind when he escaped with the loot. ‘COUNCIL ADOPTS ECONOMY BUDGET (Continued from Page One) 681.61. Subdivisions of the bud- | get are as follows: Administrative department, $17,915; police department, $15,- ,318; fire department, $18,250; sanitary | department, $2,580; scavenger and sanitation depart- ment, $3,410; aquarium, $3,800; \golf course, $2,580; pension fund, | $4,767; street lights, $7,690; pub- lic welfare a new department to care for extraordinary calls for support to worthwhile city in- stitutions, etc., $1,054.59; contin- gent fund, made up of $616 for 1940 New York World's Fair, jcluding the 13th Coast Artillery, Florida exhibit, Chamber of Com- merce, $600, and miscellaneous contingencies, $2,639.84 — total, $3,855.84; WPA special sponsor- ship fund, $5,000. Grand total, | $86,221.23. | Deductions from the above are }listed as follows: Collections from -occupational erts implied, but evén if they licenses and auto tags, $32,000; were, no stigma should attach to'fines and forfeitures, $6,500; the draft. Nearly all nations use | building permits, $750; aquarium or adopt that principle, and nojfees, $5,000; interest on delin- one is necessarily a coward or quent taxes, $1,500. Grand total | November sun, and the earth in Monuments and markers put main cabin of a ship? _ slacker because he does not en-!now, $40,471.23—to which has NEW LAW'S PROVISIONS It’s about time the 1940 calendars make their appearance. We’re curious to see how they are handling the Thanks- giving Day mixup. Until a future presi- dent rescinds the 28 designation, how! about printing the block in blank with a question mark? German pressure on Rumania for closer commercial relations has failed so far, forcing the resignation of the cabinet. | However, King Carol has named as succes- |, gone. scr to the premier one who is an avowed | by the President as circumstances make anti-Nazist and that may not result in an | desirable. early rapprochement. Americans are forbidden to travel on belligerent ships, with certain minor ex- ceptions. The President is authorized to restrict Essential points of the new neutrality law now in effect are the following: Sale of arms, ammunition and imple- ments of war generally to belligerent na- tions is permitted, provided they pay cash and transport the goods in foreign ships. Bars American vessels from belli- gerent ports. Exceptions are made with respect to ports in the South Atlantic, and Fifty-six thousand men employed by the Chrysler Automobile Corporation at an average wage of 80 cents the hour are | the use of American ports by belligerent idle as the result of trying to force the cor-| submarines or armed merchant vessels. generally to those not in an actual war | These exceptions may be modified | | the fields lies brown and fallow. |The year is at the requiem there |in lovely Concord, Massachusetts, | where on the bridge across the reluctant river that winds | through the town, the first shot |in the Revolutionary War was | fired the 19th of April, 1775: | “Here once the embattled farmer stood | And fired the shot heard ‘round the world”. It is Thanksgiving again, and this year a ghostly feast will be iad m The Old Manse, made famous in many of Hawthorne’s writings, for the graying old | house, through the upstairs study windows of which 164 years ago terial ancester watched the first battle in the war - ‘that severed two nations, is deserted, its wide panes and hospitable doors shut- |tered. Bats d eerliy in and |Ralph Waldo Emerson’s minis- | ; there by patriotic societies who! remember, and because”of ‘whom ,Posterity will remember: . . : To Become A Shrine The Old Manse is to become a shrine. ‘Veritably today it is an Ark of the Covenant. It stood a silent witness to the Concord fight (and across the sunlit street a glass is set over a bullet hole | where a patriot’s rifle ball buried itself more than a century and |a half ago beside the back door ‘of another patriot’s dwelling!) The Manse was Emerson’s home, and it was Hawthorne’s; and it is an architectural antique whose weather-rustled walls rise from the November groves and mead- owlands to mark with fitting si- lence a birthplace of America. The interior of the. storied dwelling has Jong been an objec- tive of pilgrims in unknown thousands — millions probably. But jt, pas been a sealed book, whose sole Sesame was the rfela- When it is 2 o'clock p. m. (E.S.T.) in New York City, what time is it in Denver, Colo.? = t What are the colors in the flag of Costa Rica? | Which two Presidents of the U. S. were born in the same city? With what sport Pond associated? Where is the Juba River? | Name the Secretary of State in the Harding cabinet. What is the correet pronun- ciation of the word vocif- erate? What event does the ballad “Marching Through, Geor gia” commemorate? is Ducky 10. shrined forever, defied in this! historic Revolutionary village! Hawthorne’s home life with his new wife was most happy at the Manse: Here, says a _ writer, “Hawthorne is out of company | list in the National Guard and/been added the following items: quietly awaits the call to duty.| Board of Public Works, $11,- For Mr. Roberts’ information we | 918.06; Indebtedness Fund, $14,- would like to state that seven- | 021.25; Bonded Indebtedness, eighths of the world war forces | $20,193.62; two judgements, $8,- were called up under the selec- 077.45. Budget total—$94,681.61. tive service system, and in the! next war even the members of! join in a_ patriotic Battery E will be drafted into the | and an attempt to cover that up federal service. It is a matter of} by insulting the members of the record that a majority of the American Legion do not inspire men who saw action in France or! confidence in some of the offi- elsewhere were draftees; that a}cers of Battery E. Their pa- majority of the world war graves'triotism does not seem to boil are occupied by departed draf-'high enough. Are the regular tees; that a majority of the men| army forces, the navy, the coast still flat on their backs in hos-|guard, the Spanish-American pitals as a result of war wounds | war veterans. the Boy Scouts and and injuries were draftees. lother groups to be criticized by 4. Two members of Battery E/such mental giants as Mr. Rob- now are members of this Post. | erts because they pataded in a Another man was sought as an’ patriotic procession designed to observance | officer but was turned down be- inspire. patriotism in others? cause of age. Candidates for | We suggest that Mr. Roberts lieutenants in Battery E must be | study the army mobilization under 37—or does Mr.’ Roberts! plari, the drill. regulations and know that? |brush up on how to be a gentle- 5. Arthur Sawyer Post mem-| man. | ARTHUR SAWYER POST NO. 28 ey West, Fia., out of knotholes grown wide by ‘tionship or acquaintaneeship of/clothes, totally unselfconscious time, beneath the eaves of the: those who dwelt therein. Naw the | and writing purely to please him- bers will tell their sons to fol- ramshackle shed. ‘Trustees of Public Reservations self. Callers | come—Emerson;!law any good’example set by the poration to accept a contract with the |The arming of American merchant ships, Communistic C. I. O. union requiring the | except with small arms, is forbidden. From Out The Past | company to become the agency for the col- | Dealing in bonds or other obligations lection of union dues. A heavy loss to | of belligerent nations is forbidden, and no capital and labor and Christmas so near. | credit may be extended to them by the What fools these mortals be! | United States or its citizens. No funds for | | belligerents may be solicited in the United Hawthorne began to live in the Old Manse beside the meander- ing river whose banks are em-' browned now with the artistry of |New England Autumn, in 1842. {have bought the place and a ‘Thorow’ (as Hawthorne persist- | $25,000 endowment is to be rais- ed in spelling his name all that, ed to rehabilitate the mansion|Summer), Margaret Fuller,| and install a custodian. There- George Bradford, Ellery Chan-| after the Old Manse will be open-| ning, George Prescott, Elizabeth | ‘ed to the public for seven months Hoar, George Hilliard—many of | \K officers of Battery E. Refusal to|N lov. 28, 1939. |He went there with his bride, ' cach year. the good and some of the event: | and they it were who “sat at our} Not long back Hawthorne’s ually great in literature. But the; | board our own two selves” alone. second home in historic Concord, young people are just as well) But the great house had been! was similarly salvaged, and the pleased when nobody comes. built many years before. Con-! study of Emerson has been gar-- “Their water supply is rain | cord ey in those far-gone days! nered by the loyers of history caught off the roof in tubs; drink- | | to be iterary workshop; greatjfrom its frame house and re- ing water has to be toted in;! California snowed under the “Ham | States, except for medical aid, foods and and Eggs” proposition which called for clothing to relieve suffering. $30 every Thursday. The oldsters will not | Designation of which are considered reeeive the desired largesse weekly nor belligerent nations is left to the President. any part of it. Had the amount been! New Designs of Personal Engraved halyed, the desideratum might have been | obtained. Everything indicates that States | and the Federal government favor old age | pensions—but the amounts of the pensions | must be within reason, so when granted | they do not collapse of their own weight. | This writer cannot understand the ratiocination of The Alligator, student pub- | lication of the University of Florida, when its editor complains about the big, bad Miami cops interfering with the hilarity of | the students after the.’Gators whipped the | Hurricanes. Celebrating the victory “in | true Plorida fashion” got too rough and the minions of the law couldn't look the | ether way any longer. Unrestrained free- | dom goes to extremes unless halted, and , the football spirit that develops into licen- tious behavior must be checked, even if it lands the celebrants in the cooler. BUT ‘TWAS EVER THUS (The Arcadian) The Key West Citizen, in philosophic mood, | says: “Most great men are best known by their | defeats or failures instead of by their victories. Human nature is that way. Few can name the many victories of Napoleon, but nearly all can re- call his overwhelming defeat .at Waterloo. A baseball epic was written for Casey, the mighty king of swat, not for his prowess with the willow but for the one time he struck out. Nobody has ever heard of the pitcher who performed the extraordinary feat of striking out Casey. That Pitcher’s name belongs in the hall of fame, but it is lost to history, and-so he joins the galaxy of forgotten men.” We believe it was Mr. Shakespeare who put up a similar sentiment in tabloid form when he said: “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” | Sleepy Hollow cemetery names cling to it and ever will, | gathered in a fireproof museum baths (which Hawthorne took | like an aura; the writings those, just across the highway. Beyond | with astonishing frequency) are | | great names wrought rest as aja bit the Alcott home is another presumably in the old wooden } halo about the peaceful name of shrine. \tub behind the kitchen stove. . ./ Walked Out On ‘Thoreau, being as usual hard. up. means agreement, and harmony,; One writer says of Emerson’ thriftily sells Hawthorne his ski and sometimes, peace. | that “he was a person who walk- for $7 and teaches him how If Hawthorne could step from} ed out on ‘theology to earn a paddle it like an Indian. A girl his resting place in near-by} scrawny living giving lyceum drowns herself in the river an today, !jectures. No. veterari” theatrical the incident later becomes Zeno- | and walk again to the Old Manse | trouper could have told him any- | bia’s suicide in ‘The Blithedale, where he spent so happy a honey-| thing about one-night stands. | Romance’, where the finding ‘of ) moon, he would find strange and Hawthorne was a poor devil so|the body is told with macabre! oppressing scenes—perhaps a few deluded as to marry and raise a/ realism”. - of the elms and oaks and beeches | family on his earnings as novel-| Hawthorne's home in Salem would flick their fingers to him ist when no such animal had as had been a house of gloom. His on his little journey along on this continent. | mother was a recluse, and he an back edge of the town: Philosophical eecen-| introspective youth, then a dis- of ; and contented and ambitious young: |. | bachelor; so that there was scarce any jov in his life till he reached Old Manse with his bride. | Little wonder then that that first ikegiving beneath the broad roof of the hospitable big house. beside the Concord river was | the little town—for concord} and smelly contraptions. . a horse!”. . .and just, Manse driveway Christmas Greeting Cards Order Them Now At The Artman Press The Citizen Building Phone 51