The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 8, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO Che ivy West Citizen | PLANNING BOARD EXHIBIT Relatively few persons know any- | thing about planning. They don’t plan Key West and Monroe County = | ytcred at Key West, orida, as second class matter of the Associated Press H exclusively entitled to use news dispatches credited to dited in this paper and also local news published ‘here. | out that before there their own affairs, so naturally they are un- interested in municipal or community planning. It is stating a truism to point can be anything there must be a plan. That is just as true of mouse traps as it is of skyscrapers. It is interesting to speculate whether | the outstanding exhibit of the Florida | State Planning Board now on display at the U. S. Coast Guard headquarters build- ing, Whitehead and Front streets, will at- tract general public attention. If the pub- | lic does become interested in this exhibit, mpl IAL NOTICE | rds of thanks, resolutions of | etc, Will be charged for at | t by churches from which | dare 5 ts a line. MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN | then one of its main purposes will | ticularly of such activities as those | sored been fulfilled. The exhibit certainly is worth public consideration. It shoud be seen by every Key Wester. There are very interesting graphs, charts, pictures and other material stressing all phases of planning work, par- spon- ; city, county and state agencies | for civic improvement and betterment. Water and Sey Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). s and Apartments. erage. h and Bathing Pavilion. and and Sea. of County and City Governments. A Modern City Hospital. Consolidation A triple play—White House to Capi- tol to Capital. ion—the Con- gvessional Record is putting in its daily ap- | pearance over the country. Congress must be in se Believe it or not but Berlin is inter- ested in the shrievalty race in Monroe County rext ye absolutely true. When a man gets to be a grandfather, it is time for him to realize that life is on the way, or is it just as accurate to say “ways’’—for repairs. The National Association of Real Es- the billboard | nuisance, states that there use has been curbed th six states by legislation passed dvring the year and in twenty others like movements are on foot. tate Boards, reporting on Another Key West wisecracker comes along and wonders why a_ student flyer should feel nervous while preparing for his first flight, as he’s sure to come down again, since there’s no known instance of | an airplane not coming down. A democracy is a form of government in which those who holler loudest get what they want—Key West Citizen. All right new, altogether, boys, let’s give a long yell | for tax reduction.—Sanford Herald. Too much static—Uncle Sam couldn’t hear a word, You may not be able to plan much, | but you can plan to visit the planning ex- Tibit of the Florida State Planning Board | Mi the U.S. Coast Guard headquarters | Bhilding this week and learn somethiag | about community planning, of which Key | West is sadly in need. A tramp who rode a freight train 30 between Dallas and Fort Worth, | xas, sent the railroad company 30 cents | ir postage for the fare. Fair enough. As | a journeyman printer in the days of long ago this writer walked the distance in a | single night; he didn't know the ropes at | the time. | “oldest citizen of Brussels,” Bel- an old bronze statuette, known as Mannikin,”’ a popular hero, said to have a private income and eight suits of clothes. When this writer some years ago ! on the little fellow he wasn’t wear- | y of ’em, and to say what he was doing wouldn't look well in print. The To manufacture textile fibers from fish skins may some day be a profitable Business for Key West. Italian scientists, Who also discovered the art of making @oth from skimmed milk, have developed Gurable fibers from the skins of fish. Many useful articles are manufactured from shark skins, the textile fibers now successfully manufactured will call for a greater demand of other denizens of the deep. Like the animals that roam the earth, the fish of the seas will serve for sport, food and clothing. | 9 a.m. | facilities | mind, Such subjects as art, aviation, high- tate and local government, music, ters, recreational projects, parks and public use facilities and forest resources are covered by the exhibit. It shows how various projects function and who and keeps them going. The exhibit is open to the public from to 4 p. m. each day for the re- mainder of the week. Each evening from 8 to 10 o’clock will be a programed event at exhibition headquarters. There will be | able speakers on various subjects, all re- lati to planning. They will talk about public health, medicine, surgery, housing, | highway civic work, music, art, beauti- fication and many other matters of in- timate public concern. The Citizen believes that this is a great opportunity for every man Too teresting and valuable. little atten- tion has been given community planning | obvious. | | Key West needs a number of facilities | here in the past. The result is that could have been provided without ef- fort or great cost years ago—but hard to get and very costly today. Adequate pub: just one of many such immediately come to lie beaches is that All our citizens should plan to visit this planning exhibit that they may here- after help plan a better Key West. PIGEONS IN WAR According to an Associated Press writer, England is trying to recruit half a million homing pigeons to carry messages in the war, as they have done in the past with much success when other means of communication failed. During the World War these intelli- gent and courageous birds were employed extensively to carry messages back to headquarters from advanced positions at the front. Wounded pigeons sometimes made their way back to bases and de- livered their messages, only to expire al- most immediately. Carrier pigeons are said to have been used as messengers in Persia in remote ages, and by the Romans, Mohammedans and other peoples many centuries ago. | They have been employed in war service by most European powers, and to a limited extent by the United States Army. A pigeon has been known to carry a message 1,040 miles but this is far beyond their normal range. Well-trained birds can usually be depended upon for a dis- tance of 200 miles or more, at a speed of | 35 to 40 miles an hour. One notable feat attributed to hom- | ing pigeons was the carrying of messages to London containing news of Wellington’s victory over Napoleon at Waterloo. The banking house of Rothschild is said to have made large profits as a result of this ad- vance information, FOUND: A LOST ANGEL During the World War the news dis- patches told us, on various occasions, of a guardian angel that hovered over | forces of the allied governments. We have wondered what became of the angel, during the past twenty-five years, but a recent dispatch from Helsinki, Finland, reports that Finnish soldiers have seen the angel on the eastern front north’ | ‘tia! Commission. It seems that the angel | of Lake Ladoga. was facing the Russian soldiers, with arms outspread as if to protect the Finns be- | hind it. runs | and | woman of Key West to learn something in- | the | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN By KENNETH FRIEDMAN 2000S OOSCOOODODOOOSEOUUOSOOOODOOOOO® SOOOOOOSOOOOODOOSEOSUSODOOSOLOESEOONE: : INTREPID FLORIDA WOMAN HUNTS GIG GRIDE PLONE , MRS AVA ts GOME HUI I FACE. FMI THROUGH THE CONGO 74 9CROSS FHE alee ELEPHANTS AND. have | : V\URMUMOTH HIGHUAY BULT BY NATURE, THE “BEACH AT DRVIONR BERCH, AT L0W FIDE, 1s ANO 29 PEOPLE’S FORUM | The Citizen weleomes expres- sions of the views of its read- ers, but the editor reserves the right to delete any items which are considered libelous or unwarranted. The writers uld be fair and eonfine the | ‘= to 200 words, and write | FIVE YEARS AGO jpitality League was held at the |Public Library on Duval street necompany the letters and will | otherwise. "MILITANT, CONSTRUCTIVE 7°scntative CRITICISM” Leame. The Editor | he Key West Citizen | ey West, Florida Dear Sir: members of M. Waldo, Joseph Bennett and | I recently received a clipping |pesed bus line here, | Highlights Of Florida FEET WIOE Lo. KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Five. Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today {of Minnesota, born in Kandiyohi As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen |men of the British cruisers Con-; Meeting of the Key West Hos-' stance and Curlew. Cuban Consul Domingo J. Mi-' be 2ublished unleas requested 444 was well attended by rep- lord gave a ‘ : the dance at the Athletic Club in honor of officers of Ships’ Constance and Curlew. Col. Robert M. Thompson has’ 7 . \Cecil Carbonell, who were in Key ‘arrived in Key West on his yacht lecturer, born in Chicago, ;|West in the interests of a pro- “Everglades”, felt .confi-j guests Admiral and’Mrs. Brown- MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1939 leoccccvcvccvcccovccoocce \Today’s Horoscope jec0ees TODAY'S COMMON ERROR | Today’s native should possess |remarkable powers of expression fo ne avail”, or, “His at- in poetry and music. The nature Do not say. “He tried, ! tempt was of no avail”. will be mild, and if the full pow- but of no avail”; say, “but “Of no avail” should only jers of the mind are exerted you be used with some form imay become a_ benefactor to of the verb “to be”. mankind. There will be trials, jbut patience will carry the work = on to victory. TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ i PE icles ET there (PLODELAS OBSERVE ten Test Questions? Turn to GOLDEN WEDDING Page 4 for Answers Sects, } (Continued from Page One) inavy here. Mrs. Piodela has been active in the affairs of St. Mary’s {Star of the Sea church, is chap- {plain of the American Legion | Auxiliary here, and was first jgrand regent of the Catholic Daughters of America. ' - Formal observation of their in ene cubic foot? 50th wedding anniversary is be- In which Shakespearianing delayed pending the arrival tragedy is Ophelia a char- {of Sergeant and Mrs. Hyland. acter? Sergeant Hyland has been de- Name the bird that lays the layed because he is being trans- smallest eggs. ferred from, Brooklyn to the i marine corps training station at ae cee aceite ang (Parris Island, S. C. ‘There are the President? three grandchildren. Name the head football coach at the University of Notre Dame. What is the correct pronun- ciation of the word coad- | jutor? To which country did King | Zog of Albania flee when the Italian Army invaded his country? | BATES FROM '}39 uP Ee CREE «ET | Today’s Birthdays | { U. S. Senator Bennett Champ {Clark of Missouri, bortt at Bowl- ling Green, Mo., 50 years ago. | U. S. Senator Henrik Shipstead 1. ‘What is an alloy? 2. Name the capital estine. Who defeated Pat Comiskey in a recent bout at Madison Square Garden? How many cubic inches are of Pal- veto 1Co. Minn., 59 years ago. John G. Neihardt of St. Louis, | author, born near Sharpsburg, IIL, 59 years ago. d Dr. Robert C. Clothier, presi- dent of Rutgers University, N. J. born in Philadelphia, 55 year: ago. Dr. Mollie Ray Carroll of Mc-}| Lean, Va., labor economist, born | at Des Moines, 50 years ago. ! E. Burton Holmes, noted, travel 70 luncheon and al! the British | his Years ago. havi a la Willard M. Kiplinger of Wash- | |from the Tampa Daily Times of a|dent that their propositon would son and General Sir Reginald!ington, D. C., business letter | |reprint of your editorial “Traf-|™eet with approval of the city Hoskins of the British army. ;council and that it would be op- Ee ee lerating within a few weeks, | I can assure you that I read The Citizen ran a ; writer, born at Bellefontaine, | Ohio, 49 years ago. | complete | Patrick J. Hurley of Tulsa and! | this editorial with a great deal of! Rann editorial under the headline, “Ad- Washington, D. C., lawyer, one-| jinterest and I wish to con- Estimates for deepening and vertising Of Wares Only Solu- time secretary of war, born at! O) inla 2 3 Fi i tion, Okla., 57 | gratulate you on the stand which Widening the inland waterway tion To Head Off Mail Order, ieee Nation OR Si vert | you took. May I express my per- i |sonal thanks to you for your in+ been prepared and an effort is terest in this phase of law ene to be made to have this matter |foreement. The militant | structive criticism on the part of ©f Congress. | any newspaper in any community can do much to educate the pub- lic to the weaknesses and the Of Commander Owen St. Auburn necessary changes needed in the Botsford, who recently returned |local situation. that one of the ‘weakest points in’ West and has taken over any political subdivision is placing of the position of Chief Island. | of Police or any police official in- | gk sa to the arena of local politics. A| Leonard Carothers of Cedar man who must run for election Rapids, Iowa, arrived in the city to his position must necessarily in his large Waco seaplane for *|spend more time campaigning |the purpose of flying passengers than he does enforcing. While Over the city on sightseeing trips. |this is not a criticism of any in- a | dividual who finds himself in TEN YEARS AGO |this position, I cannot help but, Frank H. Ladd left enroute to | feel that the public can best be; Washington, D. C., where he will served when police officials are|remain for an indefinite time in| | appointed on amerit basis and the interest of the proposed con- | know that they can be removed |gressional measure that would from office only for a cause. | provide government construction I sincerely hope that you will of the long bridges planned for keep up your good work. jthe Over-Sea highway. Sincerely yours, j os | W. H. ROBINTON, | The Steamship Agwidale ar- | Secretary, Florida Peace Officers|rived bringing seven large buoy Association. Janchors consigned to the light- January 5, 1940 |house department here. | Gainesville, Fla. i i -——— | Coast Guard boats Beale, Jou- |APPRECIATED COOPERATION ctt and Wainright sailed for |Mr. L. P. Artman, Editor ‘Tampa, being enroute from Key West Citizen {Hampton Roads to the target |Key West, Florida |range near Tampa. Dear Mr. Artman: eae I wish to thank you in behalf; Karl Thompson headed the ‘of Mr. Harold C. Wall, chairman Country Club for another year | of the Florida Foupstrial oe | when the annual election held at sion; Mr. Fred B. Bradshaw, di-'the Chamber of’ Commerce rector of the Unemployment prought that honor to him. |Compensation Division; Dr. Fons REDS |A. Hathaway, director of the The U. S. War Department! |Florida State Repay ae }turned thumbs down on the local jive; Mr. Talbot itfield, direc-/ Chamber of Commerce _ request | I tor of the Workmen’s Compensa- | made through yaaa dee | tion Division; and myself for the | Ruth Bryan Owen to increase the | ) splendid perme at Key West Barracks. given us during the ae | pean i | It is our sincere wish that the) The Pan-American Airways |New Year will be a banner one mail and passenger plane on its jfor you and your paper and that regular flight from Miami to Ha-| | We may continue to receive iy ana made a forced landing on/| | aaesasi. Lg pak aay a the company’s field in this city. the success 0: ie . An auxiliary plane arrived short- (ministered by the Florida Indus- | }y after to take the passengers ® x eaiy jand mail on to, Havana. ‘ours very A | GLENN HILBURN, | Informational Representati Florida Industrial Commissi ion. | January 3, 1940 Tallahassee, Fla, PIFPRTOLRFREPRALP LD SADT AS: LODO LI LS SS, FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Arrangements have been com- & leted for the dance which the 5 | citizens of Key West will give at| ithe Athletic Club for the enlisted Coral con-|taken up at the present session Knights of Pythias, held election |Symphony Orchestra, born in| of officers and A. Schrader was | Holland, 47 years ago. —_— voted into the post of chancellor! Mrs. Edith C. Botsford, widow commander. There was a well attended and from the Orient, has decided to enjoyable dance given by the I have always personally feltimake her future home in Key Elks Club at the Athletic Club! the in honor of officers of the Brit- the Martin Key residence on Stock ish cruisers Constance and Cur- | lew. {POLED OIOOMOMOI OOD AOE IIIa a Ia, UID IPIOOVIIOMOIOODI II IEDM OM MM. from Miami to Key West have Business In Key West”. Hans Kindler, founder-conduc- | 53, |tor of the Washington, D. C.,) City Lodge No. | Lopez Funeral Service Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers t 24-Hour Ambulance Service | NERVINE Phone 135 Night 696 The Home Newspaper “The sorriest newspaper in the United States does more for the support of its community than the finest community in the United States does for the support of its newspaper.” Thus Karl Lehmann, secretary of the Lake County Chamber of Commerce, gave his opinion of the value to a community of the local newspaper, in his speech at the weekly Kiwanis Club luncheon in the Valdez Hotel... Mr. Lehmann went on to point out that every civic, religious and educational organization in a city is in the habit of coming to the news- paper publisher asking him to give away free the one commodity he has for sale, space, “This,” the speaker stated, ‘‘was something we would ask of no other form of business, or business man in our community. We would not go into a bakery and ask the baker to give us a loaf of his bread. Yet we will go to the newspaper owner and ask him to give away the space he has to sell; perhaps not realizing that that commodity, like any other merchandise, costs money to produce.” Mr. Lehmann proceeded to enumerate the various sources of in- come which a newspaper has: first, the advertising space that is sold ; second, the money derived from the sale of the paper to the public; third, if the plant is equipped for such work, commercial printing . . . CLd The speaker closed his talk with the statement, “if an editor were to tell you this you would think he had an ulterior motive; now I’m telling you with an ulterior motive, too. I want to see you improve your city. An editor gladly gives all the space he can afford, and more, to the community. It is only fair for the community to return this service the only way it can, by purchasing advertising space and subscriptions from the editor.”—Sanford Herald. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN “Key West’s Home Newspaper” F di ded didi daddd, be.