The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 21, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO eS est Citizen TRE CETIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. Pubiiah sy P. ed Daily Except Sunday By L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County red at Key Wes' Member of the Associated Press cciated Press is exclusively entitled to use ation of all news dispatches credited to al news published here SUBSCRIPTION RATE ADVERTISING je known on applica SPECIAL NOTICE cards of thanks, resolutions of. ; , ete, will be charged for at ces for entertamment by churches from which nue is to be derived are 5 cents @ line. tizen is an open forum and invites discus- ‘Of public issues and subjects of local or general | but it will not publish anonymous communi- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST Florida, as second class matter | “A THING OF BEAUTY...” | tribute to visitors and prospective visitors to the island. We are referring to the artistic new book, Go To “Sea’”’ Key West, written by Maude Haynes Hollowell, | which has recentiy come from the press. It is one of the nfost attractive pieces of literature ever prepared about the Island | City. The book has eye appeal and is a souvenir which people will! keep. | The Chamber of Commerce now has something which it can proudly send to those thousands of inquirers who write daily. concerning the charms of this tropi- | cal island “which is not Florida, not the | United States—and not Cuba either; but ; tnique, charming, hospitable Key West.” | The 48-page book contains “some- thing about everything’* concerning the city. There is a great deal of historical in- formation given—briefly bringing Key West, the old and the new, up to date. Prac- tically every question or point of interest At last Key. West has: something in- | | formative -and histori¢ally correct to dis- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ye LOOKED. RATHER BAD FOR JOHN AND JANE UNTIL THE FRIENDLY OLD WALRUS HAPPENED ALONG, HE LISTENED TO THE STORY OF THE MAGIC AIRPLANES FAILURE, THOUGHT IT OVER FOR A WHILE AND. THEN SAID... . As Taken From The FIVE YEARS AGO The newly constructed bridge for Stock Island, authorized by the State Road Department to re- KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY - Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago, Today Files Of The Citizen 1B A CHRISTMAS ADVENTURE Y WELL SINCE JOWN 1S SANTA RAS WVITED You, I piled THE SIMPLEST SOLUTION IS"FOR. VY) OuTWO GET ON MY anc | AND TLL CARRY You To , CURSTMASTOWN! TODAY'S COMMON ERROR |) ! Do not say, “He died the fifth of June”: say. “on THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1939 Harris School Notes | ABOUT ONE HUNDRED, chil-| Roberts, Arthur Thompson, Edna dren took part in Music Depart- |Mae Sterling, Irma Sands, Louis |Ment’s operetta, Legend of The Lowe, George Montera, Martha for furnishing Key West with | f. fresh water, he to carry on the the fifth cf June”. will not be able| work and thinks TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ Snowman. Mixed chorus of Sixth Russell, Lois Adams, Lorraine \Grades. A and B sang carols dur- |Nottage, Daniel Salgado, Emerald jing nativity scene. Miss Alce Calleja, Gene Eskridge, whose \Curry, director, was assisted by natal days came this month. jit best to notify council. ~~ |Miss Jennie Mae Johnson, Marie} Can. you answer seven of these Haskins, Mrs. Mavereen Meador, ten Test Question? Turn to Mrs. Emma Albury. Page. 4 for. Answers. ' called Balsams or Lady Slippers. | TWENTY PUPILS, have enter- ‘They are white, pink, salmon and {ed Harris School from the V. S, | At strange i country-wide. One: student is [eth use of moter: See we place the obsolete structure be- tween Stock Island and Key) West will be opened for traffic! tomorrow. While the approaches | have not been placed, temporary approaches have been approved. ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN on which the tourist or prospective resi- | dent would wish knowledge has been given consideration.in the pages of this book: Pages have been devoted to the bridges, hotel accommodations, schools, churches, — FIVE B CLASS has new win- FIFTEEN YEARS AGO |dow boxes with beautiful plants Eugene W. Russell, for many | years a resident of Key West ‘and now the clerk of Collier coun- ty, is a visitor, with Mrs. Russell, | Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. What is jyrisprudence? Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. 7. A Modern City Hospital. | . Water and Sewerage. i many yellow soldiers in Stalin’s Red army. Every child in Key West would have a happy Christmas if every adult in the city would share the Christmas spirit. Communism uses every trick of pri- vate capitalism, and many a trick that capitalism never dared to use as well. The state bird of both Florida and Tennessee is the mocking bird, and one of these states of necessity must have mocked | the other. We now know how Garner stands; Roosevelt, Sphynx-like, continues to keep us guessing. get the worm. With the exception of occasional sorties, the Western front continues a watchful waiting policy. War may break out any. time now. The more the problems of world eco- nomics are studied it will be found they | are in a high degree the problems of pure, or should we say impure, politics, “When sleeping it is best to lie on the right side. Also when awake.”—The Key West Citizen. And if you guess wrong— dcedge fast, brother! Dodge fast!—Times- Union, Atlanta, Georgia, last week was the scene of the premier of “Gone With the Wiad,” and. the city made the most of it. d'god, flowers, and various articles were named after Scarlett. It was Scarlett this and Searlett that, and presumably. plenty scarlet women. Every dollar collected in America for | of | the relief of non-combatant civilians war-torn Finland, will actually reach the Finnish sufferers, with all expenses borne by private subscriptions. Wormer President Herbert Hoover gives this assurance and his word. is as good as his bond. One New Yorker, a Jew, sent his check for $5,000 with the comment that he “regards it as a privilege to be in- | eludel among the many Americans who ave giving evidence of their sympathy by eentributions to her support.” Garbo, Swedish movie star, also buted $5,000. If ever The Citizen should be leased or sold, a stipulation, will be that Jonah, porter and plenipotentiary, must go along to the new lessee or owner. This con- clusion has. been reached, many years ago and so stated several times in this paper. There are other organizations who. have so,favored exceptionally loyal and-in yesterday’s. Winchell column the in- S“Rubber Co, made, (when moving into Rockefeller. Center, in New York) it is | stipujated that the bootblack who. did,such a-Satisfactory jph in. the old building must be: taken, along, to. the new one, It is apparent that there are a good | Maybe, the early bird will | administration | Greta | contri- | | Pena, a Cuban, workers’ delegate to. the | | judicial to attaches, | the golf club, the yacht club, the Woman’s Club, the night clubs, fishing, the aqua- rium, the lighthouse. the art center, San | Carlos, the ccenvent, bus service, the fish markets, the srmy and navy, and many | other interesting facts concerning Key West. Each subject treated has been given its own page. On the frontis-piece is a miniature of the cover, together with a | warm welcome from city officials, a color- ful “blurb”, and appreciations, The cover design is the work of F. Townsend Morgan, director of the local art center. Done in the modernistic style, Mr. Morgan has drawn the isiand with various points of interest, and has drama to the bridges. | This charming book is substantial and sufficiently attractive to interest every lover of things beautiful. It unquestion- ably has real: value and should do much to advertise Key West, both at home and abroad. People will keep this book. It is not likely to be found in the streets or the garbage can. It will be kept, and read, and passed on for others to read and learn of the beauties, charm and service of Key West. POWER FROM THE SUN Harnessing the heat of the.sun for the production of héat and power for human use has long been the subject of experi- ments by leading scientists, and limited success in a practical way has been re- ported from time to time. One of the pioneers in_ such experi- ments is Dr. C. G. Abbott, secretary ofthe Smithsonian Institution, who declares. in. a recent science publication that the prob- | lem of utilizing the sun’s rays for cooking and distilling water has been solved, so far as actually accomplishing the desired re- sults is concerned, The great drawback to the use of the sunshine igs not continuous, and no_ heat or during cloudy hours. This might be overcome to some extent by systems of heat storage, if the need ever became great enough to, warrant the expense. Dr. Abbot does. not expect to see any extensive use of solar power so long. as coal is abundant and cheap. But scientists often look a long. way ahead, so as to,meet present resources. If and when coal and oil deposits run low, which might happen a century from now, the machinery for substituting solar heat in some form may be ready to keep things. going. CUBAN FLAYS THE U. S. It is interesting to observe that Lazaro | Second Inter-American Labor. Conference, at Havana, recently delivered, a bitter at- | tack cn the foreign policies of the United | | States, chatging that the reciprocity treaty | between Cuba and this country was_pre- | uba’s. economic. equilibrium, | and. was recognized as. a unilateral agree- | ment: even by the conservative classes of, | Cuba most closely allied with foreign, in- | | terests. formation is given that in the, lease the U. | In view of the idea prevalent in some, | sections of the United, States. that the re-| ciprocity, treaties. sell the. United. States | short, in, the interest of foreign nations, it | is interesting to report the reaction of the. | 1 ; Cuban delegate. given | sun’s heat naturally lies in the fact that | could be derived from that source at night | emergencies caused by an exhaustion of Masao Toyoda, Japanese from California, is one of six wander- ers who were picked up in Key. West in the past two days by’ of- ficers of the sheriff’s forces. He jis the first “hobo”, who has ever been arrested by an officer in this city and admits that he is a inative, of Japan. The American Legion Hall has had the appearance of Santa Claus’ toy shop for the past two weeks. Legionnaires have been | busily engaged in making repairs, ; nainting and making toys ready ,for distribution by old Kris Krin- gle, and he will have a heavy load to carry. ' Key Westers will have an op- \portunity on Christmas Eve to ‘hear plenty of Christmas Carols for virtually every church choir organization in the cruise the streets and sing to its jown shutins. Many young peo- |ple’s organizations are to partici- pate. TEN YEARS AGO | This afternoon at 4 o'clock the | Wrecking Tug Warbler sailed for a point about 500 miles distant from Key West and off thd coast jof Cuba. The vessel reported in |need of assistance is the Steam- ship Santa Anna, which is badly in, need of help. | Quickly cleared up was the mystery of a De Soto car, which |was found deserted on the boule vard last night by Police Officer. Alberto Camero. Investigation by Chief of Police Ivan Elwood disclosed the fact that the car had been in that place three days, while the owner is in the city jail. Lighthouse Tender Sundew is city will in the city today and says he will} spend the Christmas ‘and New) Year’s holidays in Key West with the family and his many friends. Judging from information re- ceived in the city by the Cham- ber of Commerce, indications are that the city of Key West is to receive $100,000, appropriated by | Congress for the building of an} ‘extension to the submarine base | in this city. It is to be brought up to date in every way. | William R. Porter left Saturday night for New York to spend. the holidays with Mrs. Porter and daughter, Miss Jessie Louise Por- | ter. He will not return to Key West until after the marriage of | his daughter to Wallace B. Kirke} in Bronxville, N. Y., on Janu- | ary 3. The Overseas Highway Asso- | ciation will hold a mass meeting jtonight in the Strand Theater for the purpose of having all resi- | dents of the city who wish to ex-| press their opinion of the road- way to the mainland the oppor- Who wrote The Pledge to the from Liverpool, England. SCHOOL CLOSES Friday for| WORKS PROGRESS WORK- Christmas, holidays, pils’ ‘mothers have won. banner |ing a new. fish pond of rock held every. month, for most attendance |in place by cement. It is ten at P.-T, A. meetings, . They, had ioe long and six feet wide. There h is also a rock garden under con- est number of parents at meet-|Struction. Most of the children . Leland Archer, Joy Bali} watch the men at work during and Dorothy Saunders were on /tecess times. the honor roll of Five B mel year, Flag of the U. S.? What type of canal Panama Canal? Who ‘was the first Secretary of War in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s cabinet? With which college football team does Nile~ Kinnick play? What is the correct pronun- ciation of the ‘word ac- cented? : When it is 12 noon (E.S.T.) in New York City, what time is it in St. Louis, Mo.?- Into what body of water does the Brazos River empty? Name the world’s feather- weight boxing champion. Which President of the U. S. was called Father of the Constitution? is thei COUPLE BURNED TO DEATH AMITYVILLE, Pa. — Michael Mallick, 23, and Elsie Sonder, 21, returning from qa dance early Sunday morning, were burned to. death when their automobile overturned and caught fire, trap- the greatest percentage and larg ings. BOOKS will be allowed out of the Library. during Chhistmas. . . Girl{ of Six B have a-new game, world. . .this is one way I could something like Norwegian ball, do so without any expense”. . . only you bat the ball with your Armando Mujica wants to join the hand. . .Sixth Grade Aj organized army and become a soldier. . a citizenship. club and. since then practice shooting so that I'll be there has been better behaviour able to serve my country well. . . on the stairs. . .Key. West Junior ;I would also like to be a soldier Patrol is planning a trip to Wash- | because I like to march”. ington, D. C. Raising money is being accomplished by selling} combs, and. tickets for movies. . Five B pu-| at Harris School ‘are build- KENNETH KNIGHT wants “to be an officer in the Navy because TI like the sea and it would give me the privilege of seeing the .to LELAND ARCHER writes of ‘exploring in Mississippi. He ex- /Plored gullies which were red, PARTY, will. be blue and yellow in color. He slipped, went”. “and down, CHRISTMAS. held, Friday at Bayview. Park collected some Mississippi sand. from.3.to,7 p.m. Plenty of fruit,/He started down and his candy and. to; foot I He also saw one of the | | tunity. to do so. ping them inside. . : : Everything, in sparkling. electrical. appliances that every modern home should have! and: energy and help to make everyday living more en- joyable! weatherbound at Tortugas and ; | will, not attempt to make the trip to Key West until the weather moderates. The Sundew is. in command of Captain John Al- bury and has. been detained at Dry Tortugas since last Tuesday. According to official announce ment received by the city council | \from. 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