The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 12, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. Published Daily Except Sunday By L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Gréene and Ann Streets unty Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County intered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press -he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ix Year Months Months Menth Made kngwn on appl SPECIAL N reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at of 10 cents a line. for entertainment by churches from which is to be derived are 6 cents a line. n is an open forum and invites discus- ft public 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. Kurt Luedecke, former Nazi agent who wrote a book titled “I Knew Hitler,” now wants to become an American citi- zen. Perhaps that’s why. “The last word about women will be spoken by another woman.’—The Key West Citizen. And it better be good—or some of ’em will answer back!—Times- Union. Single-handed the Russians can lick -the Balkan and Baltic small nations, but | if they should gang up. on the Russian bear, the little fellows could tear him to pieces. The fate the beast deserves. The Sanford Herald, ably edited by Rolland L. Dean, suggests to all not to spell it “Xmas”, a beautiful word: ” with which suggestion | and sentiment The Citizen agrees heartily. God-less Russia never should have} been recognized in the first place, but it would serve no purpose to sever diplomatic relations though the brutal ravage of lit- | tle Finland by the Soviets would justify | any retaliation short of war. The technique of aggression adopted by Stalin against his weaker neighbors and | particularly against Finland reminds one | of the fable of La Fontaine about the wolf who accused the lamb of desiring to at-| “tack him. The world is convinced that the | little inoffensive Finn isn’t such a fool as to | * {stick out his neck to have the Russian bear | > claw it to sadistic satisfaction. issues and subjects of local or general | st but it will not publish anonymous communi- | {| bond payment of $10,000 is due | At present the city has | | not enough cash on hand to meet this pay- | If it is not met the city will be in | that “Christmas is really | | CASH FOR CITY EMPLOYES Among the citizens of Key West most | vitally affected by the economy program being worked out by City Council are our | city employes. As everyone here knows, our city em- | | ployes have been the goat for many years junder the weird financial nightmares | fairs. They have received only a portion i of their pay in cash. They have been try- | ing to live.on warrants issued by the city | in lieu of cash. | their creditors, our city employes have | been forced to dispose of the warrants at ay | fraction of their face value. Many of them | have had to beg and scrape to make both | ' ends meet. Their plight has been due to j lect. The new City Council has decided to situation. each month in cash. It alsoe means that those who still hold warrants will receive available. Right at this time, however, City A Key West refunding in New | cial situation, | York city Dec. 31. | ment. | serious financial difficulty. So a special | | effort to raise the money from current | taxes is under way. There is some hope | that the effort will be successful. But where does that leave our city employes? What are they going to do for cash for Christmas presents, dinners, and other needed things? Mem- and plan to do something about it. give the employes every cent that can be collected in delinquent taxes. There hope that the sum so collected will give | our employes a_ substantial cash _ allot- ; ment, | The Citizen believes our citizens will | | laud this proposal by City Council. It is a just and proper proposal for a group of our citizens who have worked. faithfully through the lean years and did the best they could for the community in return for | discouraging rewards. On suggestion of Councilman L. C. | Brinton, The Citizen suggests that tardy | taxpayers make an earnest effort to pay at | least a part of their delinquent taxes in order that our city employes may enjoy a real cash-and-carry Christmas. These men | year. | CHURCH AND STATE IN SPAIN | EROS It is interesting to observe that the Government of Spain, under a decree is- sued by Generalissimo Francisco Franco, | marking the conduct of our municipal af- | “THE KEY WEST CITIZEN POCOO OOOOH OOOO OOOOOOOO OOOO OOOOODOESIVEOSUGHEOUSOSEOOOOOOOOSOOSOOUSSOOOOOCS Highlights Of Florida | : . CENTRAL FLORIDA ’ BEAUTY SPOT ATTRACTS STHOUSANOS _ . . SANLANOO SPRINGS BETWEEN ORLANDO ANO Wibad dorieloae « NATURAL abel S; | for turkey | | bers of City Council recognize this need | City | Council plans to give our city employes a | | payday on Dec. 23. The Council plans to | deserve a break at this season of the | Often hard pressed by } \ a plague of tax dodging and official neg- | do something constructive to remedy this | | Every economy move so far in- | voked by the Council has been with the | view to putting this city on a cash basis. | That means, if the plan succeeds, that our | city employes will be paid regularly twice | cash for them as soon as the cash becomes | Council! is confronted with a serious finan- | e! ecco eore WHEN THE SHEPHERD | COMES HOME i> asecese Up from the pastures green be- | low, {Climbing the hill the | go. Behind the flock faithful keep Wary = eyes sheep. sheep. all dogs upon Pe | | 4 | Behind the dogs comes a tired | can you answer seven of these Clouds and skies above us are a| Rewis. is | man, The shepherd himself, with face | of tan. they climb to the hill’s high | crest, | ; Seeking home and a good night’s rest. | eae calls from open door- ie | way As youngsters rush out with the | | dogs to play. | ke | These shaggy friends with a hap. | py bark, ready at once to join lark. lage in ya i Are they not all one of a kind? But the sheep seem*to be of an- other mind jAs they hasten to reach an outer | bed, Instead of the straw under the' shed. The milking is done and the pails all bright Show that work is done for the night. The shepherd’s wife through the} | open door THE SPRINGS HAVE A NATURAL FLOW OF 602 Cutan WATER FER HOUR ~ MMAYS: AT A. TEMEERATUEE. FF 72. PETRRES: TODAY’S COMMON ERROR Do not say, “At first the play was interesting and liked by most of the audi- ence”; say, “was interest- ing and was liked”. | TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ | ten Test Question? Turn to Page 4 for Answers 1 Where is the island of Lu- zon? Can the President pardon a person convicted under a state law? | What is a hygrometer? What is the correct pronun- ciation of the word ada- mant? Who was_ recently president of the sional Golfers’ tion? Name tke large university at Ithaca, N. Y. What was the name of an- cient ships that had both sails and oars? How many gills are in a gal- lon? Of which state is Baton Rouge the capital? What are half-castes? 2. elected Profes- | Associa- 10, Peecesoccos-seseuvrcoeeee Today’s Birthdays O00 GALLONS OF | jat the Florida East Coast Term- | County Attorney W. H. |310 Elizabeth street. , TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1939 “KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen FIVE YEARS AGO jther in the county’s proposal to G. C. Ledlow, train despatcher |dispose of the highway ferries. Malone inals, and Mrs. Ledlow this week !communicated Friday in reply to enjoyed one of the finest water-|an inquiry for further details. Mr. melons ever seen in Key West, ;Malone said this morning that grown in the yard of his home at jthe telegrams had received no Mr. Ledlow |answer,:and there would be noth- 'said he loved the fruit and has|ing further until replies were re- |mever eaten a finer melon. H. J. Gill, head of the Fort) | Didge Bottting Works, writes cap- tain John Lopez to make arrange- | ments for fishing in Key West! next year. Mr. Gill was in the |city two weeks ago and had fine | | luck. He writes, the lure of fishing “I can’t resist } from Key | West and will be back in Jan-| uary”. ,Key West in 40 years. the figure was the lowest in any the temperature | experienced in In fact, Last night was the lowest | month since 1917. The tempera- ; ;ture in Jacksonville was 22 or 10} below freezing point, and in Mi- ami the thermometer registered 130. In:Key West it was 35. ae t Thomas A. Woody, of the American Legion Christ- mas Tree Committee, reported at | jthe regular meeting of the or- ganization last night that 300 toys of every description have been se- cured by the committee for the; tree and there had been others | promised. chairman | | TEN YEARS AGO Fifteen additional beds will be | ee jadded to the equipment of the Through the years |Marine hospital. This will not |mean that there will be added accommodations for five men, we have but that equipment which has known this great and beautiful outgrown its usefulness will be word—Love. have For ages peoples heard the word in song and read poems of this great and | fundamental principle of Love. life—|day over the highway replaced and with more adequate kinds. Sheriff Cleveland Niles left to-| for Monroe mainland section of In nature we see Igve in the County, where subpaenas will be work of the Master’s hand. The} served on witnesses who will be ‘called for the trial of W. W. The case will be called canopy of written beauty based|at the regular term of Criminal on Love divine. that plays with its toys and learns | to speak the first words to its| mother speaks with the intuition ‘of Love. The mother who makes sacri- ‘fices of all in order that her dear ones may have the better things of this life; who goes through the valley of the shadow os death, ;Goes all this through Love. Through Love we have found happiness and sunshine, content- ment and peace. The birds that sing and the flowers that bloom | in nature give to the world the beauty of God's love. The hus- band cherish and care for each other even until death, agree because they love each other. No home can be happy, no life can be com- plete or successful unless Love is the paramount thought. The and wife who agree to} The small child |Court, January 13. Installation of officers of Key |West Council ‘umber Knights of Columbus, took place at a meeting held Jast night. Dis- trict Deputy J. E, Marcoux. of Miami, was the installing officer; ‘and during the evening gave an’ inspiring talk on the subject of; |patriotism. j The State Highway Depart- jment has not today pressed fur-' rich cannot buy Love, the poor | receive it freely if their hearts | be clean, for God never fails to give His Love if we only seek} and ask for it. At the journey’s end we come | the | | 1015, ,. ceived. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO E. H. Dutcher, well-known Mi- ami realtor, who is *specializing in property of the Florida Keys, has made some excellent invest- ments lately and today reports {the purchase of four tracts on the westerly keys. Mr. Dutcher has been interested in land on Key Largo. Major D. S. Lendzer will ar- rive in Key West on or about the 15th instant to inspect the Hocal company of National Guardsmen. Pay checks of the troops have arrived but before they are paid off they will have to have all equipment on display in the lockers, Word was received here today that the residence of Mrs. Lida R. Calkins of Big Pine Key had ;been. destroyed by fire. Cause of the fire is unknown. Mrs. Calk- ins had just left the home to go to the postoffice when the blaze was discovered. Building was gutted and the loss is about $3,- 500. While the use of slingshots is not so pronounced as formerly, there are still some boys who are using the dangerous weapons. When they sight a bird they let fly with their missles. As a re- sult some houses are hit and fre- quently glasses are broken. Subscribe to The Citizen—20c weekly. Education in Tuberculosis Christmas Seals enable tuber culosis associations throughout the country to carry on health education activi- ties the year round. Profes- sional people, farmers, skilled and unskilled workmen, par ents, school and college students and teachers are some of the groups that are re ceiving information about the prevention and cure of tubercu- to our destination in a worldly | life empty handed. The rich and | We see bending o'er the stove’s| eee ertse@erset-ae Secretary Hull in the most tender pro- | has restored to the Catholic clergy the; pright glow. Biwenl G. Robinson, on, | | | | “stestation of which language is capable | payment of incomes by the State and, in _“‘warned” England that the United States | addition, appropriated: funds..to repair considers the embargo on neutral shipping | damages done to Catholic church proper- ~an-infringement of international law | ties during the Civil War. which would hurt our feelings. Our feel- | The payment of incomes to Catholic - ings and our pocketbook will be hurt much | clergymen by the Government of Spain more if Great Britain refuses, as usual, to | was a practice put into effect in 1851 and pay an installment on the $10,000,000,000 | suspended by the Spanish Republic after of her war debts. The odds that she | the Revolution in 1931. The State’s an- won't couldn’t be expressed in figures, nual appropriation to the clergy is fixed and a wager at a million to one that she, at 62,000,000 pesetas. would pay even a token would find no Separation of church and State, takers. | established principle in the United States, | is not the recognized practice in Spain and Both in Europe and in the Latin | other countries of the world. Consequent- American cguntries Uncle Sam is depreca- ly, it is difficult for the people of this tively referred to as “Shylock”, although | country to understand the mixture of reli- the money was loaned in time of stress. | gion and politics in revolutions or to com- _Even Cuba whom we helped to free from | prehend the bitter hatred that the re- the Spanish yoke owes us “mucho”. The | ligious factor introduces into civil strife. “Eurepean war debtors owe in the billions, | While we prefer the Jeffersonian while the Latin American countries have philosophy which decrees a complete sep- ~defaulted on about 85 per cent of the old aration between church and. State in this investments made by citizens and institu- | country, we have no objection to the “tions of the United States. Now it appears | Spanish Government supporting “there has been a big drive on to use Amer- | church that it prefers in Spain. “jcan taxpayers’ money for loans to Re-| publics south of the Rio Grande, and there ernment tends to become the champion of | ‘nis good reason.to doubt the safety of plans | the government, and, in case of civil strife, “that call for United States financing of the “Latins with new money, to buy our goods. This column has always favored closer | “business relations with the countries to the south, but the fayors should be reciprocal, “not one-sided as they have been government. The German poet, Goethe, put wisely when he said that the church and State should go side by side but not hand | in the . in hand, so neither is checked by the other | ‘if it is inclined the other way. an any | At the| same time, a church supported by any gov- f the antagonist of those opposed to that | it | The children seamper in happy |bern in Rumania, 46 years ago. way | Arno_C. Fieldner, noted U. S. To eat with the shepherd at close |Bureau of Mines’ chemical engi- of day. neer, born at Ney, Ghio, 58 years jago. Rachel Crothers of Redding, Conn., playwright and author, born, at Bloomington, Ill, 61 |To watch between naps if well years ago. does go |. Frank White of Chevy Chase, |With the sheep, lying there like/Md., ex-treasurer of the United drifts of snow. |State:, born at Stillman Valley, Bright stars will always their jIll, 83 years ago. vigil keep, | Robert E. Jones of New York, | As they did long ago o’er Beth-! \theatrical designer, born at Mil- lehem’s sheep. ton, N. H., 52 years ago: ; { Dr, Charles S. Macfarland o: MILDRED EMILY SCAIFE: |New York, general secretary | Atlanta, Ga., jemeritus of the Federal Council | Dec. 9, 1939. 9, 1939. years ago. Christmas Seal Artist |, 22% Wane, | ducer, born in Russia, ) age. Arthur Garfield Hays.,of New| | York, lawyer and p rekgive | jleader, born at 5 Bae '58 years ago. Dr. George D. Lyman of ‘San'| |Francisco, noted _pedriat jcian- | ‘author, born in vine City! 4 /Nev., 57 years ago. | | |The tired dogs for supper wait, Then turn in at the sheep-fold gate vie pro- | years geeeveevegoveceses 1} Today’s Hor ceceare Sahambanorees4 Xi } Today’s disposition will prob- | ably be genial, sociable and king | ‘ly, and life a most peaceful one. The pursuits will be ornamental | and esthetic, and ly may | | Derculosis Association and its afk jrosult in financial suecess;« in | | fated groups. Seals will be on sale any case the life will be a pleas- | throughout the country betwee® /ant one, and, to a congigerabie | degree, fortunate. cope! Rockwell Kent, world traveler, | author and painter, artist of the 1939 | The Christmas Seal of the National Tu- | | the poor alike. But the greatest treasure that we can have at | this ending, is to. know that we! loved others and cared for those less fortunate than ourselves. Christ came into the world to teach ‘Love and His life was bas- | All great | men give to the world a life of} ed on nothing more. their must noble service because of Love for humanity. We Love all that is great and good. | We must serve others and be/ ever thoughtful of those who are sick and poor. Love is the only thing in the _ world that counts for a happy and | successful life. ALBERT C. KEITH. 918 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga. SPeevensrcesesesaveres | "= TRY If TODAY — \ The Favorite In Key West STAR + BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS “Key West's Ouistanding!” LA CONCHA HOTEL Beautiful—Air-conditioned DINING and DANCING Strictly Fireproof Garage If we fulfill the! law that God has made for the/| world we must never forget that | Love can never and will never | of Churches, born in Hagen. xis] idie. SAVE pti SOMDAY TRIPS “ne os oat $18.90 30.70 St. Psp bn Tal‘hssee 4.15 Tampa 13.60 Wash’ton _ 4155 W. P, 5.40 Mc ha So FLORIDA MOTOR INES