The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 27, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO Che Kry West Citizen | Corner Only Daily Ne ntered at Key W. lorida, is second elass matter of the Abnociated Press Press is excl entitled to use tches credited to | 8 paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES $10.00 5.00 | ers to beware of the | that annually infest our community. | definition, OUR ANNUAL WARNING In keeping with an old December cus- tom, The Citizen wishes to warn its read- so-called snowbirds Snowbirds, according to The Citizen’s are men—and women—who have no known means of support, but who seem to live fairly well in the northern re- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Compact Bat sorts in summer and in the southern resorts | They iook prosperous, talk in and have some fine in. winter. boxcar figures ideas | that would put Key West in the forefront | as-an up-and-coming business center—if | they could find the money to promote their | | schemes. SIAL NOTICE rds of thanks, resolutions of :, Will be charged for at by churches from which | are 5 cents a line. Citizen is an open forum and tes discus- | yublie issues and subjects of local or general | Others are just plain “clip” They’ve got to live after they get here and | are on the make from the minute they ar- | Remember the snowbird who came | rive. down to Key West last season and made off with a ard cash swindled from our local | chants? He was slick. He rented a house, 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. of County and City Governments. A Modern City Hospital. Consolidation Spelling spellers. is logical only ‘to good installed electric and gas meters and then | showed the receipts for these trifling ex- | penditures as evidence of his good faith | It was easy then | and financial standing. ‘for him to cash some rubber checks and | make off with some expensive articles de- livered to the home he rented. Well, there are a number men of the same type going in and out of Key West every day. They have things to sell or want to buy or desire to establish | ' themselves in business. | for what they sell, such as pretty advertis- | | ing copy in phony publications, mand credit when they buy or try to start | They want cash | some business venture. An honorary college degree is about as worthless as an old hat. Thinking people talk little because they have something else to do. We all admire people who are broad- minded enough to agree with us. Flattery, to be effective, should be} used sparingly, like other kinds of lying. When Atlanta police arrested H. C. 3acon for stealing eggs he looked like a ham bandit. It is easy to know what to do under a dictator. Everything is either forbidden or compulsoryl A California woman has left her hus- band six times, but always came back within a week. Enough to discourage any man Many a football star will find out} next June that there are hard-headed business men who do not read the sports mg In 1940 hundreds of men States can pages. Prophecy: will explain how the United millions of men. The Key West Citizen claims women say more about women than they do men. Probably this is because men don’t play bridge as much.—Lake City Reporter. | cent and well-vouched for guests become prosperous through the ballots of | Courageous, most of the | Seven Seas, and others. | have liked living in America, except for one thing. tentions shown him as a literary celebrity, | The editors of the Miami papers shovld exercise more care when reading the copy of their correspondents who write as they talk. ‘Would have went” is not treating grammar rightly. Possibly the writer thought the word “gone” is being | overworked and should have “went” with | the wind. | Presiient Roosevelt’s efforts, at this belated hour, to start a program of econ- omy, is like closing the stable after the horses are stolen, nevertheless, it looks to | many like a third-term maneuvre. To others it appears just the opposite; they think that if the president wanted a third term he would advocate another spending | epree, that the movement by him for econ- omy means he will not be a_ third-term candidate. Miami’s underworld would have been smart to have declared a moratorium on | transgressions while the Magic City was | under investigation by Attorney General Murphy and J. Edgar Hoover’s G-men. Instead of twiddling their thumbs with orbits cast upwards in the technique of in- jured innocence, some of the gangsters pulled off a robbery, thus foolishly play- ing right into the hands of the govern- mental investigators and giving Miami another black eye. Such unpardonable dumbness! ‘born in Brattleboro, Vermont. in 1890, when Kipling and her brother | | son and two daughters. | fighting with the British Army Key Westers must be wary. They must learn to do things on a business basis. They must learn to tell the difference be- tween solid and substantial men and women who come down here to live and help build the community with their own | cash, and those who come down here to | promote something with our cash. Beware the snowbird! Beware of ‘quick talkers with fast ways of making money! Check up on references and re- ceipts! Our merchants have little enough credit to spare our own less fortunate citi- zens without wasting it on promoters and gyp experts. Give our de- every break possible consistent with good busi- ness practices, but do not take chances on glib strangers, KIPLING IN VERMONT The recent death in England of Mrs. Rudyard Kipling, widow of the famous author and poet, recalls the fact that she was a native of Vermont, and that she and her famous husband lived in that state four years after their marriage in 1892. During those four years Kiping pro- duced some of his most notable works, in- cluding the two Jungle Books, Captains poems in The He grew tired of the many at- and they removed to Engand in 1896. Kipling was born in Bombay, India, | where his English father was principal of a school of art, on December 30, 1865: | The following day, December 31, his future wife, Caroline Starr Balestier, was They met were collaborating in literary work, and | were married two years later in London. The Kiplings had three children, a The son, Lieu- was killed while in the | World War. One daughter died in child- hood, and the other is Mrs. Bambridge of England. Kipling died in 1936. tenant John Kipling, HUMAN TARGETS A-news story from London tells of the attempt of three German prisoners of war to escape and gives their ages—two seven- | teen years old and one fifeen—but, most | interesting detail of all is the fact that the | ‘young men were wearing khaki clothing, with circular patches sewed on the trouser legs and on the backs of the jumpers to serve as targets for guards with rifles. The youth of the German prisoners is | | explained, it seems, by the fact that they | were seamen on a German ship. The grim horror of war is highlighted by the targets | that fleeing prisoners present to guards with rifles. In the case reported, the men were recaptured without being shot. They | were lucky. cca large bundle of merchandise | mer- | of other | fly-by-night | Kipling is said to | artists. | HERE are style cycles in houses. For a long period Americans built either a one-story house or a_ two-story house. Since 1930 the story-and- one-half style, which was popular in the very early Colonial days, has returned in great numbers. Its return is dictated by the desire to obtain second floor rooms without the expenditure of the full cost of a two-story house. In other words, the story-and-one-half is a good middle-of-the-road arrangement for families who must watch their building budgets. The story-and-one-half house was developed in two early Colonial centers—Cape Cod and Southern Virginia. The particular type il- lustrated above is a contraction of the Southern Virginia type. but de- | Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today As Taken From The FIVE YEARS AGO Key West members of the Red ;Men, under the direction of the | |Great Sachem, C. C. Symonette, |are making great plans for the |xeception and entertainment of | Arthur J. Ruland of Binghamton, ‘New York, Great Incohonee, who jis due to arrive in Key West to |make his official visit on Janu- jary 2. With prospects for its busiest | season in several years, the Long Key Fishing Camp, world-famed resort of deep-sea anglers, opened ; jfor the season on December 24, one week earlier than has bee usual. The camp already has a impressive list of bookings. | Tomorrow night the Booster | |Band Branch of the Southern En- |tertainers will appear in differ- | jent sections of the city and give | another series of its inimitable jentertainments. Just where it will be it has not been announce: but wherever it goes there will | | be a crowd. There will be a doubleheader | of diamondball played at the’ |Bayview Park diamond tonight, | beginning promptly at 8 o'clock. | The first game will be between | |the Bromo Kola team and the} Hijos de la Luz, and the second } game will be between the Army | land the Goodyears. | | TEN YEARS AGO | Monroe county taxpayers are} ' to be saved $15,300 annually by dropping five employes and four ! members of the fire department | |from the payroll.. Salaries of si: county officials are slashed and!/ ;one monthly donation is discon- | tinued under the retrenchment slate adopted by a roll call of | |commissioners last evening. | | H | A contingent of Boy Scouts | from Fort Myers, on their way! |to Havana, numbering 125, arriv. | }ed here on the morning train| |from Miami. The large delega- tion was met by scouts from Key } West. who remained with them } juntil the boat sailed for the Cu- | | ban port. So many requests have been} jmade for a repeat performance ; jof the Christmas pageant, “The | Coming of Christ”, which was; |held at Fleming Street Churecl | Christmas Eve night, that }Ruie Watkins, director of |pageant, states that it will | given again on Monday night, De- jcember 30. The county information béoth ! jat the Florida East Coast Rail- way station was this morning. opened by Commissioner C. C. Symonette. who will be assisted |by Mrs. Symonétte. Mr. Sym onette states he is fully equipped ; |with literature and everything: | necessary to carry on the work. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Work was received from Wash- lington yesterday that the amend- ; ment to the-naval bill of $100,000, ! providing for the improvement ; of the naval base at Key Wee was defeated by six votes. proposed eatension of the ae KEY WEST IN DAYS GONEBY = thas received the approval of nav- la ‘years ago and has jually improving it, but the work | West and the Eastern Star Chap- PI TI IPIPT TO Cosswubesvareens FIZZ PED Comfortable - I toiars COMMON ERROR Do not sav, “I have made | a search and fail to find 1 it"; say, “I searched and i failed to find it”. —a—a— TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ | iCan you answer seven of these! ten Test Question? Turn to Page 4 for Answers Name the world’s welter- weight boxing champion. To what species of animals do cats belong? How many square rods are in ene acre? Name the two men who or- ganized the regiment of Rough Riders for service in the Spanish-American War. Which is the lightest metal? Name the coach of the Washington Redskins foot- ball team. F What is the correct pronun- ciation of the word feyous | Is the moon enveloped in atmosphere? | Where is the Murray River? Name the first governor of the Colony of Massachu: setts Bay. i] | ! Today’ s Horoscope| | ecccccccccccscccesooooce) Today’s native will show much ;sympathy for others and have :compassion for their weaknesses, though austere and rigid in his own way of life. This trait will not always be appreciated, for a shand stretched out to aid is some- {times repaid by ingratitude; ‘therefore be careful in the selec- ;tion of friends. ‘SECOND. FLOQRe/ Files Of The Citizen | Florida tourist hotel, will open the season on Monday. It will en |be the fifth season for the Casa Extensive improvements have , Marina and indications are that been made by Hugh Mathewson ithe approaching season will be to his holdings at Upper Mate- jone of the most successful. ;cumbe. Mr. Mathewson, who is} ———- multi-millionaire, bought a} Joint installation of the re- large tract on the Key several) jeently elected officers of the been grad-! three Masonic Lodges of Key! al men. recently done was on a _ more.ter will be conducted next Tues- ‘elaborate scale. jday evening in the Strand Thea- |ter. The public generally is in- Casa Marina, considered by vited to be present at the instal- | many to be the most attractive'lation, which starts at 8 o’clock. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1939 SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL Former Editor of The Citizen ttc cee | Four bullfighters refused to jsail from Spain to fill contracts jin Venezuela, frankly admitting that they were afraid not of the bulls they were to fight, but of! | mines or submarines their ship} might encounter. Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio paid an unexpected call on the family of L. Brenner near! ‘West Salem one morning re-} cently. While driving by the |Brenner home he discovered it was on fire, and stopped to give warning. John Davies, who can read 17 languages, was stumped when he applied for a job in the censor- ship office of the British Army in London. With all his linguistic accomplishments h= had over- lcoked Finnish. T. C. Armstrong, tax collector jot Richmond, lost money for the city in performing a duty. He sent a bill for a balance of 2! cents due from an out of town taxpayer, then mailed a receipt, spending a total of 6 cents for postage. William Hughes was rescued after 25 hours in an open boat, following the sinking of a British steamer. A few weeks later, during a blackout, he walked off a seawall in the darkness and was drowned. Prof. T. C. Root of Texas Tech was advertised as_ principal \speaker at a meeting in Abilene, | fand his name was printed on the | program, but he didn’t show up. An investigation disclosed that someone had neglected to invite; him. William Snyder, china factory ; worker of Lincoln, Ill, often) stacks as many as 60 teacups on a plank, balances the plank on his | head’ and climbs the factory; stairs from floor to floor eta a mishap. When Frank Madge of New | York city said: “Hello, Cutie,” to a goodlooking policewoman, | he was fined $36.45 for his breach of etiquette. Mrs. Nora Valleen of Belfast | ifired a pistol at four women N N Here it is! Servel Gas Refrigerator Monthly Payments as low as $3.01 ATER HEATING? What about $29.50 Delivered and Installed? COOKING: You Can Install A New GAS Range In your home for as little as $1.00 per month KEY WEST GAS COMPANY DV A/LALLALLLLALLAALLILLLLLLLLLLLLALLALLLLLLL SL 2 | WHO KNOWS? | See “The Answers” on Page 4 1. Has the Republican party éver held its national convention before that of the Democrats? 2. What official is conducting a campaign against violators of the anti-trust law? 3. Are the Indians dying out jin the United States? 4. What German general, who won fame in the World War, re- cently celebrated his 90th birth- day? 5. When did Norway and Swe- den become separate countries? |. 6. Who was the youngest man to become President? | 7. When did the United States recognize Soviet Russia? 8. Who is the chairman of the American Red Cross? 9. How many European na tions have lost their independ- ence in the past two years? 10. How does World Trade compare with 1929? employees in her husband’s of- fice, but missed them all. 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