The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 3, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO vy aiest Citizen Che i ept Sunday By + President and Publisher asiness Manager Building Ann Streets "| United States Senate which handles sively entitled to use | » of all news dispatches credited to wise credited in this paper and also ws published her NOTICE ds of thanks, resolutions of j will be charged for at urches from which | 2 line. nvites discus- and subjects of local or general | not publish anonymous communi- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it hout fear and without favor; never be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- van or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or cl: aways do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue. -oumend zood done by individual or organ- iztsion; tolerant of oth rights, views and »pinions, print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- nise with principle. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. C Hotels and Apartments. ‘omprehensive City Plan (Zoning). ch and Bathing Pavilion. Land and Sea. of County and City vernments. A Modern City Hospital. ports lidation Ge signboards fee. Florida shovld be wise and do likewise. Tennessee highway must pay a I In state license For the duration cf the war the Ger- man sailors will have their beer allowance reauced and their skittles will be limited to scuttles. ator Stalin has often said that the a has been kept back because of kwardness and cannot afford ackward any more, but so far her against little Finland has been anything but going forward. showir When a man who nearing three ve and ten and is addressed as one of the boys he naturally feels elated at the classification and imagines himself a gay young blade again, unmindful mMgmeat that time unrelentlessly marches on, is sec If the Key West city council would re- quire pz suing an automobile license, is being done in some 60 cities in| Maryland, the city would be in splendid financial condi- r its pavements would show weer and tear. as oO Snow scenes on stock Christmas greet- Is sert out by Key West business » neither appropriate to itant with the actualities of our id our glorious climate, which is just thesis of frigidity. Such wintry scenes, however, unwittingly serve the I e of making us aware of the joy of ivileged to live in Key West, “every prospect pleases and s vile.” Postmaster Farley what he preaches. He asked the senders of Saristmas cards to attach three-cent postage stamp instead of the :egal require- ment of 1!4 cents. However all the Ch: a mas greetings he sent through the mails} were adorned with the one and a_ half cérters. Furthermore, Farley should pay alittle more attention to his job instead of politicking. Recently in Dallas, Texas, mailmen were unable to deliver a_ letter eddressed to C. C. Peek last week because there was no street address. The sender f the letter was none other than Post- master Genera] James Aloysius Farley. for the| yment of all city taxes before is- | much | nor | only | doesn’t practice AN ARMY AIR BASE HERE? THE KEY WEST CITIZEN United States Senator Elmer Thomas | | of Oklahoma was in Key West the other day inspecting the coast defense plant. He of the ap- | is chairman of a sub-committee propriations for the war department. | Senator Thomas’ Key West visit was part | of a 20,000 mile tour he is completing of the nation’s military establishments, | He made it clear while here that he would favor expansion and modernization of the Key West coast defenses and the es- tablishment of an army air base either on | | this island or on one of the keys close to | Key West. Senator Thomas said that he Puerto Rico and other American defense outposts, “Miami does not seem to be interested in such a base, so I believe it should be es- | tablished at or near Key West’, the sen- | ator from Oklahoma declared. “It is a rule that where the navy establishes the | | base, the army must be prepared to defend | | that base. The navy recognizes the stra- tegic position of Key West in the national | defense, so the army must follow along.” | Those are plain words from a plain, | | outspoken man. They are words that | | should be noted by every public and civic | official in Key West and Monroe County. There is a hint in those words for the offi- cials of this community. Senator Thomas plainly indicates that he stands alone in his views regarding his proposal to expand the army plant here. It is obvious he needs support. The other 18 members of the Senate appropriations committee must be sold along the same lines. This is our opportunity to grasp a new and important development for Key West and Monroe County. In the matter of an army air base, the committee named by the Chamber of Commerce should be instructed to proceed without undue delay in working up preliminary plans for an air base on Geigers Key. This site was sug- gested by army reserve officers on a_ re- cent visit to Key West. What has done about this proposal? The Citizen believes sincerely that the army air base can be brought to Key West or one of the nearby keys if our public and civie officials get busy in the promotion of the idea. Effort along this line might help cent Key West history. FINNISH RELIEF FUND Since the invasion of Finland by Rus- sia began, a new organization called the Finnish Relief Fund, Incorporated, has been set up under the leadership of former President Hoover, and money for this fund is being collected by numerous newspapers and other agencies, which send it to head- quarters in New York. The organization headed by Mr. Hoover is working in cooperation with the Red Cross, although the money for each is being raised separately. The functions of | the two relief agencies are somewhat dif- | ferent, but the general object of the two is | the same—aid for the people of Finland who are the victims of Soviet savagery. ™ ths humanitarian effort the work of the Red Cross follows traditional lines, in helping with medical and hospital sup- plies and emergency clothing. The Fin- nish Relief Fund is designed to furnish aid of wider scope, including food, shelter, re- | habilitation and care of a more general nature. Hundreds of thousands of Finns have | been driven from their homes into the | Arctic cold by Russian bombing planes and gunfire, and hundreds of civilians, includ- ing womer and children, have been killed or wounded. These atrocities are continu- ing day after day, and there is no end in sight. The response of the American peo- ple to the appeal for aid should be prompt and generous. A CAPTAIN AND HIS SHIP The death of Capt. Hans Langsdorff, by his own hand, after he scuttled the Ad- miral Graf Spee, has led many people to believe that he died in accord with a naval tredition that the captain of a vessel shares the fate of his ship. | There is no such tradition. It arises | | from a confusion in the public mind with | the well-honored tradition of the sea that | | the commanding officer of a ship is the | | last person to leave it in event of disaster. | Any traditior that a commanding of- | ficer must share the fate of his ship would | , be foolish, It would serve no useful end. SS, been aw a need for an air base at the south- | eastern tip of Florida to service and refuel | airplanes en route to and from Panama, | THAT BIG BLAZE last night at Southard and Emma streets | destroyed a very pretty little! home which was built by a win-| ter resident who had taken a | liking to the city. Here about jtwo years ago Pennick found |that he liked the sea and wanted ;to build a little home in Key | West. He bought a boat, not ‘exactly possessing the most sea- just the same. He had berthed the boat at the Yacht Basin. | Then he bought this old house’ |just outside the Yacht Basin on |Emma street and fixed it up at |pretty good expense. Those wha | knew him in Key West said that |it cost him $7,500. Last night it |went up in flames to make the |first big fire that Key West has ‘had in quite some time. THAT EXHIBITION to open this week at the Art Center must |certainly be something, because it took big trucks to bring |towered well over a man’s head! The exhibition will depict three it) ; down and the package and boxes! KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY | Happenings Here Just Five, Ten | and’ Fifteen Years Ago As | Taken From The Files Of The Citizen i FIVE YEARS AGO | Julius Stone, Jr, FERA ad- \ministrator here, stated today that the success of the rehabili- |tation experiment depended in jlarge measure on the attitude of the citizens. He was satisfied with results to date and noted approval of the movement. City Council passed on final reading tne new liquor ordinance which controls the sale of all in- toxicating beverages within three hundred feet of established churches in the city. Arthur J. Ruland, Great Inco- honee, and executive head of the (Improved Order of Red Men of \this country, visited the local lodge yesterday. He was intro- duced by Frank O. Roberts, great sannap of the order here. Keith Morgan, vice-president WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1940 TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY By RUSSELL KAY In a seemingly’ mad world; jwhere crazed men, drunk with |the lust for power, curse God, ;setting themselves up as Dicta- tors to crush helpless fellow-be- \ings beneath an iron heel— In a world where MIGHT takes | |supersedure over Today 400 dairies serving 40,- 000,000 people pay royalties to} finance research under Steenbock’s | cumstances, content with the re- ‘plan. \from pharmaceuticals, cereal and accessory food products. Other large sums come As fast as royalties are re- RIGHT and ceived the money is used to fi- false doctrines of GREED and!nance such promising work as |HATE are set before whole na-! paying fellowships to itions as desired virtues— brilliant = ;young scientists brought to the In a world where crime and | University from all over the na- | corruption take a fearful toll and tion, to finance the further study |honest men look askance to the and experimentation about Vit- | Magazine, is one that all |kind should hear, for like Star of Bethlehem its shines forth to rekindle our dying hope and give new faith for man in fellow man. man- the | |future and strive to keep their amin D, to work for the control | jreason and their faith— jand cure of a variety of dread! | The story of Harry Steenbock, | diseases, and otherwise serve the | jas told recently in the Rotarian welfare of mankind over. the world Many other scientists like message !Steenbock have refused to cap-! italize on their discoveries and plod throvgh life in modest cir- | | In his laboratory at the Uni- ‘versity of Wisconsin, Harry !Steenbock, a baldish, soft-spoken |professor, seeking only the ad- ;vancement of knowledge, worked itirelessly to discover scientific facts that would aid mankind af jits fight against disease and |death. | Seventeen years ago Steen- |boek proved that the ultra violet jrays in sunlight are closely re- lated to the bone building Vita imin D. young rats, afflicted with rickets would grow to normal health when exposed to such rays. Continuing his studies and ex- Experimenting with | that these same _health-giving! rays would mysteriously concen- | ‘trate Vitamin D in foodstuffs di- | ‘rectly. He successfully concen- trated the precious Vitamin in \fresh milk, in eggs, and in many | jother foods. | | Big Business, manufacturers of | nationally distributed food. prod- | ucts, were quick to realize that! here was a secret to be coveted. |! |Controlled and exploited, it was| | worth , millions. | | Steenbock, however, had pat-| jented his process. It was his dis- | covery and he controlled it. Big! Business began beating a path to} |his door. Offer pyramided offer until a mere scratch of his pen’ years of progress in Federal Art |of the Warm Springs Founda- | and the relinquishing of his se-; | Projects. 4 make 1940 the most prosperous year in re- | MORE AND MORE the need of a glass bottom boat of some sort |is apparent in Key West. There |are beautiful shoals just Duval and Whitehead streets on the ocean side which might be |viewed with rainbow fish sur- |passing any seen elsewhere on |the American continent. The | Sylva of Capt. Hickman was to have been run as a bottom fish- |ing boat this year but due to a |new ruling she must have Diesel |engines to charge so much a head. She has gas engines and jean run only on charter of an ‘entire party. EVER NOTICE how much bet-| ter looking those destroyers of |the new Key West squadron are |than the first squadron here. These are larger and their bridges are V shaped. The steel- work has a fresher appearance | also. "4 : || ONE THING about Key West. It certainly has the curio shops. You should be able to find just about everything you want in the way of strange and unique things. There are many valuable |Key West items which are being brought into the limelight. HAVE YOU EVER noticed off tion, today wrote the FERA hous- ing department that his mother land brother would arrive soon |for a lengthy visit. | oe aba, Interested citizens pitched in to gather funds for purchase of a |huge jewfish captured in Key West waters by Theodore Roberts |for display purposes at the local | aquarium. ; Recreation department of the |FERA eniertained the football {team of Tampa university with jan informal tea at Raul’s Club. |The team was victorious in its | game with the U. of Havana re- | cently. TEN YEARS AGO | Beginning today the ferry steamer Henry M. Flagler will \fly the Naval Reserve flag, a ‘distinction not accorded any oth- er merchant craft in the Seventh jmaval district. ' ee a HM. Heliatrope, British ‘eruiser, is due to arive at Key | West late this month, it was an Inmounced today. The trip is a | part of a good-will tour now be- ‘ing made by the vessel to va- ‘tious U. S. ports. | Walter P. Andrews of Atlanta, |Grand Exalted Ruler of B.P.O. Elks of America, paid an the | cret would have given him well over a million dollars in cash. A million dollars in any man’s \language is a lot of money and Steenbock was just a poor college professor. But in the heart of this mild, soft-spoken man there |was no GREED, no great lust for! POWER. only LOVE for all man- kind and a conscientious desire to sharé the benefits of his price- less discovery with the sick and suffering of a war-torn and weary world. A million dollars and all it could offer him in comfort, lux- ury and ease was dangled before his eyes, but Steenbock said “NO”. Scorning all offers, he gathered together a few trusted friends from the Alumni of his University to found a corporation ‘that would administer his patent rights, all profits from which would go to provide funds for ‘further research. To date over $1,200,000 has been received. To protect the public, Steen- bock in leasing the use of his process requires that it be used jonly on “essential foods, regularly used”. His Research Foundation |further demands the right to cen- |sor any advertisements mention- ‘ing the Steenbock Process or | | Vitamin D, and all products on |which it is used are regularly tested by him to insure that! Vitamin D is in the product as that the only grass terrace in | official visit to Key West Lodge | advertised. Key West is that at the Silver |Palm. Owner Johnson’s idea is|tained by members. He arrived the hatbor this eventually also to ring the place | with towering coconut palms in \the old Key West tradition. Old books on Key West reveal that ‘last night and was highly enter- | by plane from Miami. | A doubleheader of basketball jwill be played tonight between | afternoon and} | will be brought up to the Por- |ter Dock later. | Arriving on the morning train jthe city had sand streets and the Marines and the Key West were approximately one-half of | ‘large, tall coconut palms sur-| Athletic Club team in the first|the members of the Cuban dele- rounding mpst of the homes. It) game, and School alumni and a gation comprising the univer- | was a real island tradition. May- | be it will come back. THE TROPICS begin where; the breadfruit tree is bearing, is | the real definition of the tropics. |Now Miami for years has | claimed to be tropical, but it is | only partially so. The true tropics | begin in Key West where the breadfruit tree bears amazingly, ; a botanical fact which Miami cannot enjoy. NO BLUFFING Clerk—May I have a_ week's leave to get married? Chief—But I seem to remem- ber that you had a week off last year for the same purpose. Clerk—Certainly, sir—but, un- fortunately this time it’s the truth. jond. H Joseph Pritchard, 78, well- known shoemaker and outstand- jing religious’ worker in this |community for many years, died at 11 o’clock today in his home lin Love lane. Milton Peacock of Coral Gables, the city on business today. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Fire last night destroyed the garage and two hearses of the Boza Undertaking Company, lo- cated on Duval street. Two British vessels, the; Cur- ley and Constance, will arrive in | been attending a Florida Educa- | jtional convention at Daytona. | | — ' Ladd Company announced the | ‘sale of the entire island of Little | Pine Key today to P. L. Watson | jof Miami. Price consideration | ‘was $107,000. | | ee eee | The Married Men’s quintet | lfeated the fast-stepping Masked | Demons by a 44 to 30 score. | Misse> Elizabeth Whalton and Claudia Demeritt entertained at the “Lighthouse” yesterday aft-_ ¢ernoon with a sufprise shower in | honor of Miss Josephine Park, a ‘former ‘college roommate of the ‘hostesses. he found that those | can yon a jlike lines but a Key West boat|that many visitors had expressed |Periments, he later discovered | }- TODAY’S COMMON ERROR Do not say, no place, every place”; say, nowhere, somewhere”. everywhere, | TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ nswer seven of these ten Test Question? Turn to Page 4 for Answers Name the second largest of the Great Lakes of North America. 2. federal old-age retirement system to be American citizens? Name the King of Italy. How many points were scored against the Uni- versity of Tennessee foot: ball team during the 1939 season? In_ which Whitney? Name the birthstone for No- vember. What proportion of U. S. Senators are elected every two years? state is Mount Do United States naval ves- pass | séls pay toll to through the Panama Can- al? In which month does vernal equinox occur? Name the principal river in Nebraska. Does the Social Security Act | require beneficiaries of the | the! Today's Horoscope | Today endows with a balanced nature. There is a sensuous, crafty tendency that jmay work well toward success, by leading you to act carefully and quietly. But avoid all ten- dency to anything cruel, for this would grow on you. You will |show zeal in carrying out the idesigns. Work and work hard. well- ‘ward that floods with happiness land joy the hearts of only those who have learned the secret of “Service Above Self”. | While men may cower and “heil” Hitler, countless millions jyet unborn will live to bless the name of Steenbock. Subscribe to The | weekly. PREETI, |3 Things To Remember! 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