The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 11, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO Che Key West Citizen N PUBLISHING CO., INC. Daily Except Sunday By AN, President and Publisher » Assistant Business Manag. r From The Citizen Building Corner G d Ann Streets n Key West and Monroe County Only Daily Newspap intered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter che Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or net otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Year : 3 onths Months ... @ Month Maile kngwn on application, SPECIAL NOTICE Ali reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at of 10 cents a li ves fer entertainm ue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- publie issues and subjects of local or general rest but ft will not publish anonymous communi- it by churches from which nn 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. 7. A Modern City Hospital. Dies Digging Grave. Headline. paring for the worst? You can rarely serve other people by doing their thinking for them. Your mind is like your fountain pen; neither will work until you’ve put some- thing in them. Fritz Kuhn was taken into Camp by Florence, his sweetheart. Not so slick as he thought he was! Many motorists seem to think the warning signs at railroad crossings are in- tended for the locomotive enginéer. While Stalin’s brutality in Poland and Finland will give him the mastery over those persecuted countries he will find out eventually that tyranny is | always stupid. Saturday Evening Post boasts of its largest advertising revenue in one issue in | And this while, according to | eight years. the Post’s editorial page, Roosevelt is de- stroying business and ruining the country. —tTampa Tribune. But how about the profits? One young lady says she went down to a neighboring city the other day and found seventeen Sanford women shopping in one department store. What this city needs is a good wide unabridged: ditch on State Highway No. 3.—Sanford Herald. Having once been an “unabridged” island, Key West merchants know the difference. Constantly we hear talk about a third term for Roosevelt, and will he choose to run. As this column has said before: Mr. Roosevelt will announce his declination as | - soon as he is convinced he cannot win. The | president is a breaker of precedents and traditions, but this is one tradition, dear to = the hearts of the American people, he may not be able to break. Fritz Kuhn is now in Sing Sing, where | he will do little singing and not much talk- ing, at ieast not on the subject which put | him in the limelight. What undoubtedly will continue to irk the erstwhile leader of the German Bund, is that in the eyes of the law he is an ordinary, small-time for- ger and thief, and that the halo of a martyr for the Nazi cause, has vanished from his brow. W. D. Outman, author of “A Tax Dollar Study of Florida,” says: “In Flor- ~ ida the largest single tax load is for DEBT. Divide the tax debt, or the excessive por- ~ tion thereof, among schools, highways and 7 advertising, what a state Florida might = well become! In Georgia 2.02 per cent of - the school boy’s tax dollar goes for debt, zin Florida 18.0 per cent.” That revelation ~leaves us with the jitters. Doubling the ~pereentage of Georgia over Florida would be arresting, but nine times more is over- whelming. Pre- | momentarily, | WHAT MAKES THE MARE GO It takes quite a large package of fold- | ing money to run a city the size of Key West. The main source of the city’s come is the taxpayer. If the taxpayer | goes on a strike either because he hasn’t | any money or because he doesn’t trust the men elected to run the city, the city’s pub- | lie services and employes suffer. The pub- lic services, such as police and fire protec- | tion, must be cut to fit the cloth of in- | | come. living beyond her means. While attempt- ing to keep up appearances, the city has | | not paid her bills or her employes in full | Today she is in debt, heavily in | j in cash, debt. Today Key West needs more police- men, more firemen, better health and sani- | tary services, new pavements, sewer con- nections, and other vital things. Being | heavily in debt, Key West cannot borrow | any money to meet expenses, | bills or provide for needed ments, improve- A first step in getting Key West out | of this mess was the election of a strong , | city council. This was done. City coun- | cil has earned the respect of the com- | munity. The councilmen have cut ex- | penses without seriously services. The budget appears to be a | sound’ one, except in one important re- spect. It is based on the theory that 100 per cent of the taxes levied will be col- lected. The councilmen knew Key West’s record as a taxpaying community—knew that never in recent years had anywhere | near all the taxes levied been collected. This puts the taxpayers on a_ spot. They no longer can plead poverty. Their property is in demand. Enough of it can be sold to meet taxes and leave a good profit for the owners. Houses are in de- mand. It is safe to say that no house that is fit to live in will be vacant this entire season. Our stores and shops are crowded with buyers. This class of taxpayer should have no great trouble paying the taxes. So that plea is out. Taxpayers no longer can refuse to pay their taxes on the ground that the money they contribute towards the city’s support will be wasted. Our new council- | men have shown a capacity to apply sound | business principles in running the city. They have voted to give up their own salaries for a year or so in order to help They deserve the con- fidence and support of the taxpayers. Last year only about $50,000 in taxes were collected here. This was about 52 per cent of the total levied. Nearly $100,- 000 is needed this year to run the city, pay off some back bills and meet bond service | charges. If this money is paid at the city treasurer’s office Key West will be on the | way out of the deepest rut a city ever got | into. | meet expenses. | Our taxpayers either must pay their | tax bills or quit calling for the police when ja burglar appears, calling the firemen | when a pot boils over and forever forget about any other public service. It takes plenty of money to run a city the size of | | Key West. | MINE STORY DOUBTED American military experts are in- clined to scoff at the story which has been | going about to the effect that Germany | has a magical “magnetic” sea mine which s attracted to its target by the steel hull of a ship. It is pointed out that the “pull” of a magnet decreases very rapidly as distance from the attracted object increases; also | that magnetic impulses are not readily transmitted through water. They recall that-during the World War a government board of experts, head- ed by the late Thomas A. Edison, to study ideas for new weapons, explored the mag- netic mine theory and pronounced it im- | practicable, i Even if some such mine could be made to work, it*would almost certainly en- | danger a véssel that attempted to plant it, | as well as those which might come along later. Most navies do have types of electric mine, however, which are equipped with | long “feelers” or antennae attached, so | that the bottom of a vessel brushing | against them will automatically set off the explosive. The Germans may have an im- | proved type of this sort of mine. | The greatest barrage of sea mines | ever planted consisted of 70,000 laid in the North Sea by the British and American navies during the World War. Less than one-half of them were recovered after the i war. | | } in- | For many years Key West has been } pay back | injuring public | |Street Churen; Rev. Geo. E. Sum- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | ‘Tdberculosis Ladd Bidlith Figures | For Persons Between 15 and 45 | TUBERCULOS!S arn ACCIDENTS HEART DISEASE PNEUMONIA CANCER NEPHRITIS “White Plague” is far ahead of other diseases as killer of people in their most productiye years. Accidents are second cause. While tubercue |Mr. and Mrs. George Tetlow of, losis kills 40,453 people in the 15 to 45 age-group in one year, the disease that takes the next highest toll is heart trouble, with 27,798 victims. KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY |Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen ART IN KEY WEST Notes and happenings in connection with growing Art activities in Key West will be published weekly in this column in The Citizen, spon- | sexed by tke WPA Key West Art Center. fou {Reading Group of the Center! |met Wednesday evening, Decem- ber 6. Mrs. A. E. Peirce gave a reading on “Titian”, the most jnotable master of the Ventian | |come visitors and told of the “old | ~ |Master’s show’ at the San Fran- | \cisco Fair. -Mr. George M. Gray of Fostoria, Ohio, was also back | in the group. The next meeting’ TODAY'S _ COMMON ERROR Do net say. “He did what many others have 3, at the Center when lantern} A = {slides are to be shown of works | and are doing”: say, “have |'5¢ the Renaissance period. All| done and are doing”. visitors to the city and the pub-! \ w—e—e—‘!lic are cordially invited to at-j} FIVE YEARS AGO | tend. “Until we came to Key West: we jwe did not realize we were in! TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ | THE CHILDREN’S Outdoor | |Florida”, said Dr. Florence Obu-; | Skeching classes held each Satur- | choiwski and Miss Sophie Kahan | day morning are very popular, lot Jersey City. “While the en-; |registration now being 37. After } tire trip has been a most delight- | {the class work the children are} \ful one, the most enjoyable part |given a 45-minute play period | |of it was when we were told we In which time zone is Swit-/under the direction of John Ben- | | were in Key West”. zerland? |mett and Betty Moreno of the) What is the mean distance | Recreation Department, WPA.! of the sun from the earth? Owing to December 23 and 30 be- | Was Button Gwinnett a|ing holidays, there will be no! signer of the Declaration |“lasces on these dates, but they | ci Independence? |will be resumed again on Sat-| Name the strait that con urday, January 6. nects the Adriatic with| the Ionian Sea. Name the membef of the Can you answer seven of these ten Test Question? Turn to Page 4 for Answers } a The three Methodist preachers |servang Key West churcnes nave! |peen recentiy reappointed to service in Key West. They are: Kev. Schuler Peele, Fieming | 3. | | ras | A VISIT ta the WPA Art Cen- {ters of Bradenton and St. Peters- burg was experienced by Key U.S. Supreme Court who | west Art Center Director Morgan died November 16, 1939. recently. A first-hand study of | Where is the Garden of the | the results attained in these suc- | Gods? cessful winter resorts offered | What is the correct pronun-|him points of comparison on} ciation of the word abey-|which to plan improvements for | ance? ithe Art Center in Key West. One| Which state is nicknamed |0utstanding feature noted was) “Wonder State”? the very sincere interest shown | A iy by the Chambers of Commerce | Of which country is Monte-j} %; + | video the capital? |and leading business men and} A 3 | women in the Centers. It is def- What is the political status | initely recognized in both St. Pe-| of Alaska? | tersburg and Bradenton that the} PEOPLE’S FORUM |stimulation of Art by the WPA} ‘The Citizen welcomes expres- Art Centers has encouraged the [influx of more winter _ visitors | and provides the business inter- jests with a valuable talking fi ae | |point for publicity. As in Key ce he De ese Ane: ena xlona' of the views of its read- | West, the Art Center occupies the m x | Fehe. ee aclete. ‘any. ities most select city building location TEN YEARS AGO which are considered libelous Reports to the affect that a, Should be tate a a’ eSatine' tue number of cars were left by the, letterk to 200 words, and write county ferry at the Matecumbe slip Sunday and that the boat) {comparable with that of the ;Chamber of Comerce. More art- on one side of the paper only. could not accommodate all cars that intended to go north were} | ists each year are responding to |the call of the art colonies in checked and it was found that | there were 19 cars arriving on the |these resorts. boat and eight went back to Mi- ami. ; { mers, of the First Methodist | Church, and Rev. W. J. Martin, | of Ley Memorial Church. | Arriving on the train from Mi-! ami and other points yesterday | jwere 136 excursionists, some of them coming for a_ brief stay | | with their families, and the oth- ers were mostly making their} first trip to the city, and re- turned on the afternoon train wo Miami. Lorenzo Gomez, proprietor of the Home Drug Store, was held} up at the muzzle of a gun last might and robbed of the money | in the cash register. The loss was about $45. The robber said, “Put em up. This is no _ laughing matter. Open the register and | walk to the door”. Mr. Gomez; Signature of the writers st accompany the letters and will be published anless requested otherwise. | BOOKS AND MAGAZINES for the Art Center Reference Li- EPCs PE RACIAL HATRED brary. Anyone who would like} ‘tlers who contributed much to- during hours all days except | Curry; Senior Warden, Edward signed to promote racial hatred, THE ARTISTS of. Key West} sie, and Clerk, John C. Park, re-| For more than a half eentury paintings to be hung at this sea- | in Key jand for twenty-five years I was|show and furnish publicity and is the executive of the local/oq there by white politicians. In Phillips says she is ready at any jat all times. working on plans for a few im- | 1 t rian church Sunday. night, was |@nd remained with us until her Center, WPA, has offered through Owen was assisted by Miss Cav-|. If no other person in Key West |these signs to be created by the Sunday night at the same hour. jthreatened and intimidated, I do the Florida Art Project, WPA, at | This morning and yesterday jcomes with the intention of cre-| the boats have only been able to | Westers prefer the old blood that) ed by the National Art Program, gill netters. The other fisher-|Negro and Protestant. As. the/|til December 17. |portune time to create hatred; Wife—The moths have got in- sewerage system and have start-|peace and harmony reign is pre- | stteet. ‘ The‘ time almost ex-|quet table. Key West cértainly granted expired at midnight last |from which the city’s. rétrogres- | A letter from Representative | Key West. Fla., any, appropriation at the present | | For Fitty Years a NAME! public Northland. three times a week | Editor, The Citizen: to donate any magazines may As a descendant of pioneer set-']eaye them at the Art Center| Anchor Lodge, F. and A. M.,/ward the educational, cultural | Mondays. Already the library is held the regular election of offi-|and industrial progress of Key a yery valuable asset to artists cers last night. Those selected | West, I feel privileged to express|and art Icvers. were Worshipful Master, A. M./|disapproval of what is now de- Albury; Junior Warden, R. B. \and stir up ill feeling among the have offered the Garden Club a |Boyden; Treasurer, William Vas- residents of this little island. ‘comprehensive exhibition of elected. |I have lived as neighbor to many json’s Flower Show. The Art! | kind, loyal colored families, s i g Red Cross Roll Call good, kind, loyal colo Center staff will sponsor the) West amounts to $767.65, accord- en ‘ 4 4 . ; rage ployed ‘in government ‘service |their gallery attendants would ee ee Ee of the” eat with colored men who were plac- be on duty all through the show. | chapter. However, members may |office they were conscientious} THE KEY WEST Hotel and} be enrolled at any time and Mrs. I aekee courteous and reliable Tourist Homes Association is time to take the names of those | We never had a seryant prob- portant roadside signs to aquaint who desire to join.*. {lem in our family because our jtravelers approaching south Flor- Thi ical hich |faithful Fanny Gallagher came to|ida with true facts relating to was ‘Vandana in the Bresbyte. | when released from :slavery|Key West. The Key West Art through the efforts of H. Owen, |death, a service that covered ap- the local Chamber of Commerce and was much enjoyed. ‘Mr. |Ptoximately fifty. years. . |to supply. appropriate designs for i R i .|has the courage to speak in be-/notable are designer, Robert Del- aren fis eo Fico di An lhalt of these people now being | son, at the Design Laboratory of Gentile |so, and the word I say is that if headquarters in Jacksonville. t FIFTEEN YEARS AGO \new blood coming into Key West | WATERCOLORS by Elizabeth brought to the city large catches | ating race hatred and ; sowing | Spalding loaned by the Denver of mackerel despite the fact that | seeds of discord, I and other Key |Museum of Colorado and circuit- | get in a couple of hours of fish-|stands for peace and tranquility WPA. will be on display at the | ing a night. This applies to the ;among all classes, Catholic, Jew, | Key West Art Center, WPA, un- | men have also brought in large Holy Season of Christmas ap-/ - | catches. |proaches it certainly is an inop-} SCANT FARE Engineers have arrived to ;among men. : |to my bathing suit. ©) break ground for the Aubuchon; A crust of bread eaten where| Husband—Dieting, evidently. ed the excavations on Stump |ferable to a Lucullus_feast with | Lane near the coi of White discord and hatred at. the ban- pired. for Mr. Aubuchon’s fran-|has not forgotten that tragic oc- | chise to go in effect, and the fime ‘currence of “twenty years. ago! night. sion dates. i ‘ | MARIE LOUISE CAPPICK. | Sears states that there is little |Dec, 11, 1939. likelihood of Congress iding | present month of the palatial steamer session for the buildizig-at the cotner. of Caroline |between Key West and Havana. | and Simonton streets, the site has been widely advertised | tourists. | for which was acquired before |among the thousands of the war. Fs vessel carries 650 passengers | — and crew and will have 700 when The operation beginning next | she is in service. MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1939 SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL Former Editor of The Citizen An operation for internal trouble disclosed nearly 200 shoe- maker's brads in the stomach of Jake Rheinheimer, a Pennsyl- operation, or both, cut short his career at the age of 77. An ironic advertisement which recently appeared in a Chicago sale, health institute, established Sacramento, Calif, were wel- 25 years; will sell on account of grive it, stranger, owner’s sickness.” Collier's reports a survey showing that after the age of 40, only 50 per cent of people con- tinue to attend the movies; after only 2 per cent. Just how these figures were arrived at is not Stated. For half a century a portrait regarded as that of Captain James Lawrence, naval hero of the War of 1812, whose dying words are said to have been “Don’t give up the ship,” was displayed at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Recently it was found that it is not a portrait of Lawrence, but whoserit is, or who painted it, is a mystery. Subscribe to The Citizen—20c weekly. — THY IT TODAY — The Favorite In Key West STAR >* BRANDS, CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS THE LOWDOWN ‘FROM HICKORY GROVE Sems like I am seeing more and more of these cars with an E on the license plate. And in- stead of just a little E, they should have a big sign on the door reading—Politician’s car, | THE ART APPRECIATION vania cobbler. The brads or the Paid for by the Taxpayer. And you know, the more you see of these exempt outfits, the more it kinda soaks in what kind lof a sucker you are sor not get- ‘ting one for your ownself. Having a nice 1940 chaise with |school of the Renaissance period. newspaper read as follows: “For {ee Sas, and a free license plate —and the car free in the first place—and all you have to do is those boys, they got something. * Tam not much for getting ex- cited about just another politician, but their exempt, free cars, they kinda get me. They half-way get me agitated. Kinda like on the |will be on Wednesday, January | 60, only 25 per cent, and after 80 Fox Farm where the young lady visitor just out of college, she asked the proprietor about how ‘many times you could skin a fox. and he says, sister, these foxes, he says, after you skin ‘em about a coupla times, you know, they commence to get just a trifle vex- ed and agitated, Yours with the low down, JO SERRA. GOOD ESSAY ; Mother: “Why were you kept ;after school. Willie?” ; Willie: “Teacher told us to write an essay on ‘The Result of : Laziness’ and I turned in a blank jsheet of paper”. MONROE THEATER ‘| Jack Benny—Dorothy Lamour i Edward Arnold in MAN ABOUT TOWN Matinee—Balcony 10c, Or- chestra 15-20c: Night—15-25¢ } } 1 MODERN BANKING SERVICE The First National Bank of Key West Member of the Federal 3 fp Insurance Corporation fe Serving Key West and Monroe County Since 1891 Round. Gut with a Crip to Pn Leav Monday Arrive na, Monday and Thursda: Leave Havana, 9:00 A. Tuesday and Friday. Arrive Key West, ‘Tuexday and Friday. CUBAN: TAXES, aus P. My M. You KEY WEST visit LAVANA P & O Steamship CUBA EST, ROUND A2 TRIP INCLUDING MEALS AND BERTH AT SEA EST, EST, Est, = 10 DAY LIMIT 62e lo PORT TAMPA, Tuesdays and Fridays, 5 p. m. <= The PENINSULAR @ OCCI for kchormation, Home DENTAL S. S. COMPANY Tickets and Reservations, Phone 14 4. H. COSTAR, Agent When you feel well. Tt is misery when you don’t. Have a day made miserable ache, Newtigi, Mustular Polns or Functional Pains—a day when orly your sense of duty kept you on the job?