The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 28, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO Che Hey Wrst 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 Greene and Ann Streets «mly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County itered 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 (oy paar a ace neler Months 5.00 2.50 183 -20 | ADVERT: RATES ade known on application, aca wes ah tf SPECIAL NOTICE | ading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of ; , vbituary notices, etc., will be charged for at | of 10 cents a line. s for entertainment by churches from which ue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. | zen is an open forum and invites discus- | public issues and subjects of local or general | interest but it will not publish anonymous commauni- | 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. ' Sat ananEinnenmeemeeneeeeemeemneeeeene nen | | { 7. A Modern City Hospital. | | | | | To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming. The most puzzling thing about this war is trying to guess who is on which side. Sometimes real genius is displayed in the ability to cash in on other people’s ideas. A democracy is a form of government in which those who holler loudest get what | they want. A popular composer is one who can make a judicious selection of fragments from old tunes. People of no foresight are to be ac- counted as among the foolish odds and ends of humanity. St. Paul said: “Ifa man will not work neither shall he eat.” That lets the women in for a lot of bridge. Of all buildings, it had to be the Security Building where Miami’s latest robbery took place. Is there no depend- ability on a name Editor of Esquire says people don’t read newspaper editorials anyhow. Well, maybe not, but just let the editor print one about the wrong subject and see whether or not people read editorials—The Flor- ida Advocate. If the vice-president of. the United States is elected to the presidency, per- haps business will be able to Garner} enough coin of the realm to pay the vari- ous taxes that make it so difficult for the | smaller fellows to carry on. | For the first time the United States | is going to measure its housing problems— | a problem which the government has been | spending money to solve for the last six years. In the 1940 housing census, soon to begin, every house owner will be asked to give census takers the following informa- | tion about his dwelling: Number of rooms, | water supply, bath and toilet facilities and | light equipment; refrigeration used; whe- | ther there is a radio, type of heating equip- | ment; whether for single, double or mul- tiple family occupance; what major re-| pairs are needed. | This column has stated several times | that President Roosevelt is internationally- | minded. It is an affinity of his good neigh- | bor policy, but like charity it should begin | at home. He has now restored the sugar | quotas and sharply reduced the tariff on the Cuban product, and knocked into a! cocked hat the plans of a cooperative as- | sceiation which would have put $0,000 ' more Florida acres into production, would have built a $9,000,000 sugar mill and pro- vided jobs for an estimated 6,000 persons, thus aiding a foreign nation at the expense of a unit of the United States. i 10.00 | | poison out.” | hand-in-hand through the | up in their, normal work | disease germs. | FIRST AID FALLACIES | How some traditional first aid reme- | dies may do great harm to victims of ac- | | cidents is explained in a Red Cross publi- cation. A few examples may be men- ; tioned. Rolling a person apparently drowned | over a barrel only forces water out of the | stomach, where it does no harm. But lay- | ing the patient face down and alternately | applying and releasing pressure at the small ofthe back often induces respiration | and recovery. is also a bad practice. sues thaw out gradually in a temperature a little above the freezing point. Some persons put spider webs, cuds of tobacco, soot, salt pork and the like on cuts or infected wounds, “to draw the These substances only in- crease the danger of infection. Whisky, ammonia, permanganate of | | potash or the application of a freshly killed | chicken to a wound caused by snake-bite are all old-time remedies of no value. The modern course is to tie a bandage between | the wound and the heart, cut a gash across | | the fang marks and suck out the blood and | The venom | | of a rattlesnake taken into the mouth is poison as quickly as possible. harmless, even if it is swallowed. Many other fallacies are enumerated and warned against in publications of the | Red Cross and medical societies. Every person should have some knowledge of what to do and what not to do in emer- gencies. A more widespread diffusion of | such knowledge would no doubt be the means of saving many lives, through giv- ing proper first aid until a physician can be called. THE WAR AT SEA At the beginning of the war, Britain had about 21 million tons of merchant shipping and France had nearly three mil- lion tons, or a total of approximately 24 million tons. After four months of Ger- man attacks by submarines, mines and | surface warships, the Allies still have 23 | million tous of merchant ships in service, their losses having been less than one mil- lion tons. Germany had about four and a half million tons of merchant ships in the be- ginning. ‘Her losses in’ vessels sunk, cap- tured, or scuttled by their own crews are estimated to be more than one-half million tons. But all the rest have been driven from the seas, and a German periodical | controlled by Marshall Goering himself recently admitted that “England’s power has brought Germany’s overseas trade to a complete standstill.” The Allies claim that more than one- half of Germany’s original submarines in service when the war started have been destroyed. How many new ones_ have been built is not known, but the replacing of the trained crews lost at sea is a greater | problem than that of building new sub- marines. In recent weeks submarine activity has been greatly reduced, and mines have been employed extensively and with con- | siderable effect. But while the number of Allied vessels sunk has seemed impressive, most. of them have been comparatively small. or that a counterblockade of England can | be made effective. ALCOHOL AIDS PNEUMONIA and pneumonia bugs run human body during the winter, said an editorial] in The Southern Medical which advises imbibers of alcohol to ease upon drinking during the pneumonia season, Officials of the association declare that pneumonia deaths are greater among alcoholics than among teetotalers. Al- Alcohol Rubbing frost-bitten parts with snow | Let the frozen tis- | There is so far no indication that | the léckade of Germany can be broken, | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN TODAYS 4 COMMON ERROR © | Do not say, “The drug had a fatal affect’; say. “effect”. “TODAY'S DAILY QUIZ ,Can you answer seven of these ten Test Question? Turn to. Page 4 for Answers 1. What is the chemical namie for banana oil? 12 newspaper Nichi i published? 3. What is the abbreviation for | 12 o’clock midnight? 4, Where is the island of Sar-; dinia? Do the same Constitutional ;hold the spotlight during the; restrictions as to age and| citizenship apply to the President? | What is the correct pronun- | ciation of the word at-! tacked? What is a satellite of any planet called? Is it proper for a mother to} give a bridal shower for her daughter? Under which President did William G. McAdoo serve as Secretary of the Treas- ury? What is an anemometer? | }10. 'T@ THE BOYS IN BLUE| i Here’s*to the sailor that goes to, sea, He doesn’t care a rap for you: and me; He’s a mighty fine fellow, a darn good sport, Who spends his money freely in every port. | The life he leads is a sad one, | indeed, Away from his loved ones, whose | comfort he may need. \Off to the rescue! A human life to save— Although it may take him to aj | watery grave. j not where! |Neither you nor I ever seem to | care. |A mother at home his picture kissing. . . ' A telegram in her hand, “Your son is missing!” ‘ have a kind thought for the |. boy in blue. He fought for me; he’ll fight for: you. Give him a smile of welcome as he passes by, |For he has a good mother like you and I. | Best wishes to the pride of Uncle ; Sam; ' ‘May God watch and bless over} | every man; | May their life be a long one, full of cheer. Wishing them all—a Happy New | Year! CHARLES G. MENDOZA, SR. | Cewecsevcce: cccnneesece j — THY IT TODAY — | The Favorite In Key West _ STAR 2+ BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS | Association Journal, | | feel uncomfortable or embarrass you, try Alka-Seltzer, which con. | tains alkalizing buffers and a3 cohol causes the white blood cells to slow | of destroying It also causes interference with the grmal functioning of the “throat valve” which controls the opening to the | end stomach and lungs. In the words of Dr. M. Y. Dabney, editor of The Journal, “alcohol thus aids ‘both the passage of the organisms into the lungs and interferes with their destruction in the bloodstream.” There is, so far as we know, no rea- son to doubt the accuracy of the warning | which is given by this Medical Journal. Individuals who make it a habit to take eleohol, will, if they are wise, take ad- vantage of this warning. | | more. If you want to make a Con-; gressman turn white, sneak up! “What are you going to do about | !taxes?” The demand for a con-; jerete tax and debt policy which | really gets to the bottom of our |tangled fiscal situation, is grow- | jing rapidly. The public, which for some months /has been occy- : ipied with European affairs, seems | jto be turning its attention again | ;to our own domestic problems.* isn’t much we can do about Ey- rape, and that we have plenty to {Keep us busy at home. There is a good chance that tax questions will pretty much pending Congress. The Adrhin- istration’s defenders and oppon- Vice-President, as to the ents are unlimbering their artil- | lery. But it won’t be a purely partisan fight. For there is no general agreement within either j major party as to just what the workable solution is. White House opinion remains uncertain. The President has at times intimated, in rather vague terms, that he would be willing !to cut government costs in some directions in order to provide the money needed for our vast na- tional defense plans. At the same time, it is. generally be- lieved that he would still like to have the legal debt limit rais- ed from its present level of $45,- 000,000,000 to $50,000,000,000 or It is felt that he may def- initely propose that if Congres- sional sentiment seems favorable this session. And sentiment might turn favorable—though it ob- viously isn’t now—if it seemed that the present legal limit men- aced: the defense program. * Curiously enough, in that this is definitely a spending Admin- istration, the economy bloc lead- ers are generally Democrats. Senators Harrison and Byrd are perhaps the strongest advocates of genuine government. expense reduction. By and large, the in- fluential Southern group of Sena- tors and Representatives, main- | stays of the party during its lean | |Receives orders to sail—he knows ;¥¢@"s, support them. But, as yet, | | ithe group has had no really def-' inite program to offer. And it naturally hesitates to embarrass the head of the party, the Presi- dent. On the other side of thé fence, _Economic Highlights | Republican spokesmen talk al great deal about economy. But/ | behind him and shout loudly, |it looks as if they are on the| skittish side when it comes to} getting down to the facts and fig- ures. Senator Taft and Thomas E. Dewey, Presidential aspirants both, endorsed economy in gen- eral terms but have refused to propose a definite program. There is no great mystery as to why this should be so about these men or any, others with political In which country is the ‘The publicists and the columnists |@™bitions. "Politics being what it Nichi ‘have been pointing out that there 'i, Successful candidates are jusually vague and cautious candi- \dates. The electorate will ap- \plaud economy as a general prin- ciple. But, as a rule, it is the} first to raise a rumpus when the cuts are felt at home. i ‘What all this amounts to is jthat the chances of anything big being done to solve the tax and jdebt problems during 1940 are re- | |mote. This is a general election | year. Both parties want a short; ,session, and both want to avoid | jhaving to place themselves too } \definitely on record as to major | jissues—with the single exception | of the war issue, on which all! jseem agreed that we must re-/| main neutral. So the odds favor | ja relatively evasive policy for ‘both Democrats and Republicans. | |All officers of the government | admit that our fiscal policy gets | imore involved daily, all admit that it must eventually be faced. | But few really want to face it in a general election year. i Socescesesesscecepocecse | Today’s Horoscope! | Today gives an affectionate, sympathetic nature which will be deserving of a much better re- | | ward than it is likely to receive. | There is a concentration and | jwhole-heartedness of spirit that | | will go far to offset some of the} deficiencies of the character, and | |help in the struggle for success, | which will be ultimately at- THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1939 The Season’s Greetings TO ALL OUR FRIENDS AND CLIENTS The First National Bank of Key West Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Serving Key West and Monroe County Since 1891 Thin Gi M tte burn caused by misfit blades. 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