The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 7, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen | BLISHING CO., INC. ly Except Sunday By » President and Publisher nd Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County satered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press s exclusively entitled to use all news dispatches credited to or not othe credited in this paper and also | local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES of thanks, resolutions of c., Will be charged for at | of 10 cents a dine. ices for entertainment by churches from which erived are 5 cents a line. forum and invites discus- subjects of local or general ot publish anonymous communi- | 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 City Governments. A Modern City Hospital. As much fun as chang- ing typewriter ribbons. Drive carefully and you may live to drive longer—even if you are in a hurry. Business men who mistake advertis- ing for charity have little knowledge of either, The surest predicticn when Hitler will | meet his death is that it will occur some- time in the future. If there is any delicacy tastier than a | perfect, lemon meringue pie, we’d like to get it between our grinders. German Heligoland or Helgoland i means ‘Holy Land”, but that doesn’t keep | the Allies from bombing it, whenever they ean. Never fool yourself; when you shuffle off your mortal coil you will not be missed by your community. Your family might | miss you—for a while | If every adult in Key West will see tixat some unfortunate child has a taste of human love and sympathy this will be a wonderful Christmas. Modern merchants take pride in sell- | ing goods as cheaply as possible and serve | their community by making the con- sumer’s dollar go as far as possible. Our language: A sporting editor may know nothing about sports but a_ sports | editor is just that. Likewise a criminal | guilty of some crime or crimes, | but a”crimes. judge is what it says he is. | We should be more explicit in our desig- | mations, judge Mrs. Roosevelt thinks there is “‘noth- ing serious” about the radical views of some of those young people at the Dies | herring. Nothing a good spanking} wouldn’t help.—Fort Myers News-Press. Righto; better than have to treat them reyolutionists when something serious ‘de- | velops, | When the United States played Santa | Claus to the British during the World War and loaned that country some ten billion dollars, this country failed to take | iagto consideration that Great Britain might | réneg in her debts to us, and if she offered | t® pay in goods‘we would be swamped to tlte disadvantage of our own manufac- turers. England now asks us to “Buy British” to support the cause of freedom. The Bard of Avon said that there was nothing in‘a name, but he couldn't or did | nét foresee the advantages of an appealing monicker in the movies, for instance. C6uld Izzy Itskowitz have gotten as far in hig career if he hadn’t adopted the name of, Eddie Cantor? Nevertheless, why was the dignified name of Wallace Webster changed into: the soggy name of Wallace Beery?’ Was-it to connote with his per- squal.appearance? Perhaps so. | operating control. ane j soil is fertile. | ment possible two vital elements are need- | on the keys will join with The Citizen in ELECTRIFYING THE KEYS Monroe County. Commission: Wednes- day night appropriated $150 to assist in making a survey of electrical demand’ on | Florida Keys from below Priates Cove to the upper end of Key Largo. The survey is to be undertaken as re- | sult of information reaching county offi- | cials that an electric power system can be installed on the keys through the assist- { | ance of the Rural Electrification Adminis- | tration, a federal agency created by Con- | gress to help isolated’ sections obtain this | essential commodity. } According to word originating with a | | Georgia engineering firm, the government, | under certain conditions, would finance / | and take care of initial operating costs of | such a system along the keys, which are | not now supplied with electricity by any | organized system. One of the conditions | is that some 300 prospective power and light consumers from upper Key Largo to | | Stock Island must subscribe a sum of $5.00 | each as a sponsorship fund. The sub- | scribers would become the stockholders, as | | it were, of an operating company. Direc- | | tors of the company would be selected by | hese subscribers to arrange the federal inancing of the project, then “assume The Florida Keys are a future gold mire, in the cpinion of competent observ- They are frost free and the tillable To make proper develop- ed—water and electric power. Given water and power there should be a_ con- siderable development on the keys. They | may become Key West’s bread basket, the principal source of this city’s vegetable supply. Prosperous farms, orchards and groves on the keys will give Key West a substantial back country population. Key West is the natural trading center of that area. Undoubtedly the majority of citizens hoping that no time is lost making neces- sary surveys to determine the probable | power consumption on the keys and.to un- wind all the red tape necessary to bring about an early consummation of this proj- ect. We believe the county commission acted wisely in seizing upon this oppor- | tunity to develop a prosperous back coun- try for Key West and to create a new source of tax revenue for the county. FIRST WOMAN TYPIST The world’s first woman typist,. Mrs. Charles L. Fortier of Milwaukee, is still alive and active at the age of 82, and only a few days ago appeared as an honored guest at a business women’s meeting in New York. Mrs. Fortier had the opportunity to become the first woman to operate a type- writer because she is the daughter of its inventor, Christopher Latham Sholes, a Milwaukee newspaper editor, who pro- duced the first practical writing machine in 1867. Sholes was assisted in perfecting his invention by Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soute, also of Milwaukee. Attempts to produce such a machine had been made by | various persons for more than a century and a half, among them being Henry Mill of England in 1714, Xavier Progin of France in 1833, and Charles Thurber, an American, in 1843, but Sholes was the first to produce a typewriter of practical value. Mrs. Fortier ‘was 16 when:she learned | to operate her father’s machine, and‘ still possesses one of the original models. MINES SINK SHIPS News from the war zone'tells us of the sinking of a number of ships after striking mines. This is a new development of the warfare because, during the first ten weeks of the war, such sinkings were almost unknown. Recently there has been:evidence that German submarines are laying, Mines near the British coast, in the shipping lanes. The evidence is the destruction. of vessels, some of them flying neutral flags. We wonder if there is any connection between the new campaign and: the with- drawal of American shipping from’the war zones. Other neutral nations, who’ lose ships, are small and unable to make» ef- fective protests against sueh* destruction. Is it possible that Germany. waited for the United States to withhold: her ships-before undertaking this campaign which* strikes (down neutral as well as belligerent vessels?_ | We hear, too, that there will be THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE SPIRIT. OF '39 1c } | NEWS TIEM-FORWARD Wil THE REPUBLIC THEME. OF ANNUAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN “INDUSTRY IN NEW YORK DEC. -c* 7% at THE ISLAND CITY AMONG THE LITTLE shops: fare of many of the poorer Cuban | which are opening up every-/children of San Carlos School. . . | where is Southernmost Candies..CONSUL BERARDO ROD-, |The candies are distinctive, many ' RIGUEZ is looked up to as coun- | of them are claimed'to be non-'sellor to the Cuban people here. | fattening, and their taste is de-,;A Cuban consul has a wide! licious. One of them in partieu-!range of duties which involve | lar combines coconut, citrus and | close association with the troubles | other tropical fruits for a flavor|of those of Cuban descent every- | surpassing. anything we've tasted. | where. RODRIGUEZ was once } transferred to New Orleans from | here, requested to be transferred | back. -ENRIQUE ESQUIN- | ALDO, SR., starts a long line of | ESQUINALDO orators. When- | a beauty shop opening up in the} Johnson and Johnson building. | STEAMBOAT INSPECTORS) | 1. On which continent is the ‘TOBAY’S COMMON ERROR: Do not say. “If they- should find it, I would re- TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ | | | ‘an you answer seven of these | ten Test’ Question? Turn to | Page 4 for Answers | Rio Negro River? 2. What is the name science of the- study seashells? What is the minimum age for the office of Presi- dent of the U.S.? Will a body weigh the same at the equator as at the poles? | What is the correct pronun: | ciation of the word con-! flagrant? | What is the highest possible hand in straight poker? Whom did Eleanor Holm re- | cently marry? On which continent is the Sao Francisco River? - Of which-country is Suere | the capital? | Name the colors in the flag of Bolivia. | | for the/ of | | SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL Former Editor of ‘The Citizen | Added to the list of 1939) queens was Wee-Wee, a huge! Duroc-Jersey sow, crowned at ay recent hog festival in Monroe-| ville, Ala., with some 10,000 peo- | ple in attendance. -The event was held to give added impetus! to a hog-raising program in the Cotton Belt. Two prize - winning Jersey cows, Dot Joyce and Observer | will be here shortly to examine ever there is need of a distinc- | \Frolic, recently. returned from * THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1939 States Public Health Service, is “Tuberculosis ean be eradicated from this nation.” The techniques are available for reaching this goal, Tuberculosis Christmas Seals are helping to teach these facts about the possible eradica- tion of this disease. FOR | GOVERNOR: NOUNCED CANDIDACY THIS WEEK EF you never have had any, of these pains, be thank- ful. They can take a lot of the joy out of life. If you have ever suffered, as most of us have, from a headache, the next time try DR. MILES ANTI-PAIN PILLS. You will find them Pleasant to take and unusu- ally prompt and effective in. action. Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills are also recommended for Neuralgia, Muscular Pains, Functional Menstrual Pains and.pain following tooth extraction. Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills do soy ei faery asuewed uu Jecling. BARTOW, Dec. 7 (FNS).— Spessard L. Holland of Bartow announced this week that he | would be a candidate for gover- nor of Florida, subject to the Democratic primary next May. Holland is. a native Floridian, born in Bartow in’ 1892, where he has. maintained ‘a law prac- tice for many years. He volun- teered for army service during the world war and-rose to the rank of captain in the air corps. He has served his county as prosecuting attorney, county judge and school trustee, and is now completing his second term in the state senate. He is a Meth- odist, a Mason, andi Kiwanian. | At Your Drug Store: 125 Tablets $1.00 ;the Florida, which will run be-} |the New York world’s fair, were |tween Key West and Dry Tor- tugas. They. will also. give examinations to boat operators who wish to carry parties out tive address in Spanish, one of | given a banquet at a Carthage, the ESQUINALDOS gets the /|Mo., hotel by a breeders’ associa- nod. Spanish speaking folk tell | tion. The — banqueters drank ‘us the quality and choice of | ats in milk furnished by the guests of honor. for: hire. words are excellent. . ..MISS | So BENILDES REMOND, who heads | AROUND TOWN: The colored}San Carlos School, is a little bit | postman on his: bicycle, ‘peddling |of a thing to hold a doctor's de- rhythmically up and down, who? grée from the University’ of’ Ha- | is greeted for the 10,000th time|yana. She’s a school teacher and by the same little black and'still mighty pretty (as are most white dog that runs out to barljof the school teachers of the at the flying wheels. Postman! town). j doesn’t even pay attention. . .A) Barrer vrs few yachts have dropped’ into} SOME OF THE MEMBERS of | Craig's Yacht Harbor already this | the old Key. West Boat Club still | season. “Vagabondia”, here every |continue their boating. activities. | year, is laying over there. Neon}Their place of gathering is- Gulf | sign advertises Craig's Docks and | Dock: From sea duties they have | Charter Boats. . Gulf Stream converted their air-cooled horse was about 20 miles off the reef /and a half to running little push- early this week. Sometimes ifjomobile type carts with a fan |flows in- close, sometimes out’ belt supplying transmission from far. . .There is a preponderance | motor to wheel. They repair of red neon signs on Duval. The/small launches and do much | Parks Apartments’ sign in greenm| sailing. At the end of Gulf Dock and red is refreshing after'a Du-|js the Atlantic, owned by Alex ! val ride. | Brun, master of the F. W. Meade. {Brun teaches a‘ group of young- | \sters many fine tricks of seaman- ‘ship. The kids are forever} \ knocking about in sailboats, run- !ning outboards, even taking the | | 28-foot Atlantic in and ‘out. They | are real young sailors. LEICESTER HEMINGWAY, | Mrs: Hemingway and five-year- old son, departed Saturday on a cruise to Cuba and the Bahama lIslands in their sloop “Aguila de |Oro”. They must have had a lit- tle heavy weather. Saturday- night | |but after that it was smooth sail-|eeeeee evocsccocee. ing. The sloop: rides at anchor | ? 4 j most of the year off Thompson’s Today Ss Birthdays | Docks: Hemingway once gave| eeceese eo eo! up.a job just to take a two weeks’) py |Kdmund E. Day, president | cruise on the Golden Eagle. of' Cornell;‘born in Manchester, | Ne H., 56 yeats ago. Dr. Dixon R. Fox, president of | Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., jborn at Potsdam, N. Y., 52 years | ago. Hamilton Fish, congressman, | born at: Garrison, N. Y., 51 years | MR. SYLVESTER. well-known‘ Collier’s writer, is in the city for a stay, Sylvester is known for the excellenee and brilliance of his articles, which well survey the scene assigned to him to write-up. |ago. j j | Willia Cather, novelist, born | IT IS: PRETTY . CERTAIN lat Winchester, Va., 63 years ago. | now from all conferences local | Bishop Edwin H. Hughes of the | officials have held with sena-/ 4m Church, stationed at Wash- | |torial and gubernatorial candi- |ington, D. C:, born at Mounds- | dates, that the completion of the |); . cok Overseas Highway by running} ville WE Ves, 73-7earn 28h roadways over the remaining via- ducts will be delayed until the next election: and then. thrown |into a’ pélitical' issue to» garner’a | few votes down this section of! southern’ Florida, Undoubtédly, | Key West’ should be: the logical | jumping off place for travelers | going to Havana. It is about 250} sea‘ miles from Miami to Ha-| lvana, It is only 90 sea miles, |167 land’ miles over the’ Overseas | ly el d 1 \Highwav’ going: through’ Key getting up nights, burning, West. But travelers do not like| or frequent’ flow, leg or rheu-| ito take the Overseas Highway | Miatic pains, headache 1 Louis: Mertins of Los Angeles, | \proadcaster. born in Jackson Co., | 54 years ego. | Heywood Broun of New York, | journalist and columnist, born | there, 51 years ago. | | Backache*may be caused by} sluggish ‘kidneys. If excess acid and other wastes are not regular- ly ‘eliminated it may alsO‘lead toy} scanty} After shooting an elk and walking several} miles for a horse with which'to take his game in- to camp, Harry Long of Aber- | deen, Wash., had a stroke of hard luck. Another hunter, apparently | with. poor eyesight, fired. from behind.a tree and shot the, horse. Some folks are mighty touchy, | according to an Alabama editor. | He recently published the Ten} Commandments in his paper, and now he declares that a lot of his! subscribers thought he was hit-; ting at their morals, and threat- ened to cancel their subscrip- tions. An anecdote concerning Father | Abram Ryan, famed poet-priest of the Confederacy, has been re- vived. It seems that he was once accused of refusing to of- ficiate at funerals of Northern soldiers. The good priest denied the charge, adding: “On the con- trary, I would gladly bury them | all.” | —- { After the death of Edward MacDowell, the eminent Amer- | ican composer, an amateurish comtemporary com] “elegy” and asked Joseph Hoff. | man’s opinion of it. “Quite nice,” | said the famous pianist, “but wouldn’t it have been better if | you'‘had died and MacDowell had } written the elegy.” for quick. trips because of many winding curves and:jiggety roads. iness. Keep kidneys active same as bowels. Get a 25¢ box of Bu-| ‘: { Contemplated highway exten-|kets from any druggist. Your | sions: would completely eliminate | 25¢ back in 4 days if not ‘pleased | this: | Locally at: Olivieri’s Drug Store. ISLAND -CITY. POPULATION: ‘ Real-Irish and much-beloved doc- tor in the city is H. C. GALEY: He-has many notable achieve- ments. among. the poor. . .DR: J. C. SANCHEZ. president of San) Carlos. Institute, is short. and} snappy. The doctor is very ac- tive in looking out. for-the. wel- | eocccccccvccssee — THY IF TODAY'S ~ The Favorite In Key West’ ON SALE’AT ALL GROCERS || eeccovcscocesssscstgeser r For Real Economy For Real Service For Real Protection” DELIVERED ' DAILY EVERYWHERE Thompson Enterprises INCORPORATED ICE. DIVISION PHONE NO. 8