The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 17, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO acrst Citizri CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. blished ly Exzept Sunday By . AKTMAN, President and Publisher N, Askintant Business Manager rhe Citizen Building and Ann Streets Cire wiry County , Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press an 4 Press is exclusively entitled to use of a news dispatches credited to rwise credited in this paper and also ws published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES en $10.00 5.00 2.50 ear ths Months 20 wn on application. SPECIAL NOTICE tuary notices, etc., will be charged for at of 10 cents a line. s for entertainment by churches from which is to be derived are 5 cents a line. is an open forum and invites discus- : jssues and subjects of local or general it wil 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. WATER HOPES BRIGHTER Everything seems at this time to point | to an early solution of the problem of fi- nancing the construction of a fresh water ! supply system from the mainland. Members of the Florida Keys Aque- duct Commission, a state pclice sub-divi- | sion charged with the problem of supply- ing the keys and Key West with a better | water supply system, have been advised | that the federal lending agencies now look 85 | with general approval on the application for funds to finance the project. Engineering representatives of the ion are to appear in Washington ing notices, cards of thanks, resolutions ot | !ate this week before the engineers of the , Reconstruction Finance Corporation and | the Works Frogress Administration to dis- | cuss the tentative plans for the water sup- | | | | mating $1,300,000. ply system. It is estimated now that a siz- able pipeline with pumps and other aux- iliary equipment can be installed along the keys to this city for a ‘sum approxi- A loan of $1,000,000 from RFC and a grant of WPA of $300,- 000 for labor to be recruited in Key West | and Monroe County are being sought. If the federal engineers approve the | tentative plans and the financing applica- | tions, these must be moved up to higher | officials of both the RFC and WPA for ' final action before they are submitted to | the President for approval. In the mean- | time, with the approval of the engineers, i 5 Pe TCT | commission ex S Ce y d wii n ome dentists “spare no “pains” to | Cmmissior experts can proceed with prep. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. A Modern City Hospital. their work satisfactory. | aration of detailed plans and _ specifica- A survey of the pipeline route is being compieted for that purpose. While there are several points along the line of final approval where the proj- ect may run into a snag, the general out- look for the system looks brighter now than at any other recent date. For one thing the Florida Keys Aqueduct Commis- ‘Lhe new city council eyes of the iconoclas ag much financially. het. opening the | It is accomplish- Maybe it has a trick Loquacity in a woman is recognized in Chinese law as grounds to divorce the w.re. So Chinese women are loquacious, 0. Florida and Nebraska have no State debts. It’s about time they got in line with | the rest of the world. It’s comme il faut | to be in debt. It is interesting at the present time | erticularly that Suomi is what the Finns | all themselves; Finand is the Swedish | name for the country. | President Roosevelt has advocated slashing expenses in all governmental de- | partments but those of the White House executive offices. That was to be ex-| pected. Let us hope we have now heard the | last of the will of the late Charlotte Amelia | Hodgdon, and that her peace has not been | disturbed by the actions of the legatees, | and others. Economist Fuller says Emerson wrote } thet “Consistency is a hobgoblin of little | 1iuina ”. That’s not correct. Emerson | vrote it “foolish consistency”, and that’s a big difference. Fipland’s climate is not so cold as} that of other countries in the same latitude chiefl; due to the Gulf Stream and the southwest winds. Yet we read some Rus- sian soldiers are being found frozen stiff by the side of their guns during the pres- ent war. At the recent state Democratic ex- | ecutive committee held in St. Petersburg, | a resolution was introduced requiring can- “idates for the eleventh judicial circuit, ienree county division, to be bona fide residents of this county. That means Cir- | euit Judge Arthur Gomez will succeed him- self at the May primary, as none of the I members of the bar are after the job. President Lazaro Cardenas announced | last week Mexico’s refusal to recognize the | Menree Dectrine and declared Mexico uld solve the oil problem, involving | $400,000,000 worth of foreign oil proper- | ties exprepriated by the government, in its own way. In the same week the Mexican goverrment officially announced its eager- ness to enter into a trade agreement with ne United States owing to the necessity of finding a market for Mexican products, in- cluding the expropriated oil, and stabil- izing silver. Expropriation without pay- ment is robbery, and Uncle Sam should ad- | vise those bandits down Mexico way to pay uv or quit looking to Tio Samuel for aid. Uncle Sam has been a sucker for a long time; isn’t he ever going to learn? | tions. sion is now assured of the cooperation of | the United States Navy in procuring the | water system. It is reliably reported that at least one naval officer has been as- signed to work in conjunction with com- mission engineers in promoting project. Key West has a water distribution the | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Economic | The President’s budget mes: sage was widely heralded in the headlines as a move for economy, comparatively speaking, in gov- ernment. ..Practically every item of experise was pared in his esti- mates. Single major exception was national defense, and on this there is almost unanimous agree- ment that we must spend more, though there is considerable dis- agreement among the expert and the not-so-expert as to just how the money should be spent. Despite the headlines, however, it will come as a_ tremendous surprise to the more hard-head- ‘ed annalists if expenses are ma- terially cut in any direction this year. And they will not be at all surprised if the final budget involves the expenditure of - as much or more than has _ been spent in any year of New Deal history. That may seem contrary to the general impression of Mr. Roosevelt’s message—but there are sound reasons for it. i the President's budget makes no mention of the money, the Treasury must appropriate ‘for old age pension payments, which start February 1. “These payments, according to estimates, will amount to better than half a billion dollars during the coming fiscal year. And no provision is made for farm benefit payments —instead, a major cut in the , budget was in spending for agri- culture. It is of course possible that Congress will follow the President’s budget in this re- gard, but if it does a miracle will have occurred. Secretary Wal- lace thinks that about $250,000,- 000 should be paid in farm bene- fits. And Congress at large, so far as anyone can see now, will back him up—don’t forget that this is a general election year and Congressmen of both parties, in- As Taken From The FIVE YEARS AGO True to his promise made while here on his visit some ‘time ago, to make efforts to ob- tain certain much-needed _ legis- system ready and waiting for the supply of |lation for Key West, Congress- water proposed under the project. The minute she water arrived at the upper end of the island it can be pumped into the city’s distribution system. These lines lead to all sections of the city, to the naval | Fort Taylor | station, the army barracks, and elsewhere. May good luck mark this latest ef- fort to give Key West and Florida Keys this great improvement! MORE G-MEN ON GUARD When President Roosevelt declared a limited state of emergency at the outbreak | of the war last September, he authorized an increase of 150 in the force of G-men serving under Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau cf_ Investigations. | These men were added in order to better | guard against foreign spying, sabotage and other subversive activities. In the new budget recently submitted to Congress, provision is made for still another 100 G-mer, bringing the force un- | der Mr Hoover up to 1,074. Reports of sus- picious activities on the part of aliens and others are said to be pouring into the FBI | offices at the rate of about 200 a day, and | while most of these are no doubt ground- less, many of them are important and all must be investigated. It is well established that several foreign governments maintain large num- bers of secret agents in this country, and the danger they present to our national defense program is most serious. ONLY THREE LYNCHED Only three persons, one white man and two Negroes, were lynched in the United States in 1939, the smallest number since records have been kept. The néxt smallest number of lynchings in a year was six in 1938, while there were eight in 1937 and eight in 1936. Lynching reached its most frightful height in 1892, when no less than 231 per- sons were killed by mobs, 69 of the victims being white men. The next largest num- ber, 211, were lynched in 1884, and of | these 160 were white. According to records kept at Tus- kegee Institute, Alabama, since 1882, a | total of 4,690 persons have been lynched | the in the intervening 58 years, of whom 1,- j 291 were white. ‘man J. Mark Wilcox recently in troduced a resolution in Congress |designating the United States ‘naval base at Key West as a win- |ter base for submarines. In Criminal Court this morn- ing the case of the State of Flor- ida against Charles E. Garing was ordered nol prossed and all charges withdrawn. At the regular Rotary Club luncheon held today, William Ma- lone gave an interesting talk on his recent trip to Miami, where, in company with others from this city, he attended a meeting of the “Committee of One Hun- } dred”. As a reward for his outstand- ing sales” achievements during the past year, W. Earl Julian, salesman. for. Key. West Electric Company, has been awarded an |expence-paid trip to Miami. Plans are going forward for a ‘Kiddie Cabaret” to be staged un- der direction of the recreation |department of Key West admin- | istration in Bayview Park. | | | Submarine S-4, experimental unit of the U. S. Navy, left New jLondon, Conn., enroute to Key West, many stops being sched- luled on the way. TEN YEARS AGO Sergeant Francis M. Purifoy, | medical department of local U.S. army barracks, who was struck / by a hit-and-run driver on White {street, died at the Marine hos- |pital. * Word was received from Ruth | ‘Bryan Owen that Commodore Ernest Lee Jahnke, acting secre- | ‘tary of the navy while Secretary | Adams attends the London nav- al conference. ‘will make an offi \cial visit to Key West in the near} future. One of the planes of the Pan-; American. Airways enroute from |Havana to Miami was forced to! jland at Key West, owing to low-| lceiling visibilitv about 20 miles joutside of Miami. John Davison, noted concert | jsinger and tenor on _ station | WEAF in New York, is in Key! | West and will appear in two} groups of popular vocal numbers! jat La Casa Marina. | | ra ae | | aR, | an urn! meeting of} City. Council, Mavor Frank | H. Ladd submitted his veto of the recent ordinance passed by | ‘the council granting The Keyi | Highlight cluding some of those Who talk the loudest about economy, are breaking their necks ¢é@king to win the’ Preat farm belt"vote. Second, ‘Washington ‘observers think the President has played a very clever trick on Congress. He has simply dumped the budget problem in the lawmakers’ laps. He has offered them a budget which, though it may be’ eco- nomically wise, is full of political dynamite. Congressmen’ are only human. As the records abund- antly prove, they are all for economy when it hits some dis- trict other than their own, and \all for spending when their con- |stituents are to be the benefici- aries. The exceptions to this rule are few and far between, though they do exist. So the probability is that Congress will up the proposed expenditures in many if not most of the divi- sions. So far as the prospect of new taxes is concerned, theré seems to be more smoke than fire. Again, the fact that this is an election year makes Congressmén of both’ parties’’exceedingly re- luctant* to; pile;more burdens on the taxpayers. They think it politically? "safer, “according to those who make a_ business of watching Washington affairs, to let the deficit rise. In | other words, new taxes are possible, but not probable. are imposed, they will probably be of a character which will di- rectly affect comparatively few people. To return to the budget mes- sage, Paul Mallon summed it up aptly when he wrote: “On _ its smiling face it appears to be a stern economizing venture. Act- ually it contemplates, the largest spending program in. New Deal} history”. The fiscal problem is up to Congress now. KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY ms. Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today Files Of The Citizen West Electric Company permis- sion to:operate a temporary bi line over the streets of the, city for a period of 90 days as an ex- periment. T. Jenkins Curry, son of Adolphus Curry of this city, and {a well-known former “resident, ‘was in town for a visit, coming from his fome on Key. Largo. Mr. Curry stated that, Key Largo real estate was now in better de- mand. £ Drawings of the foundation for the new La Concha hotel were to be forthcoming in the,very near |future, according to architects of the G. Lloyd Preacher Company of Atlanta, Ga. Paul Albury will lead'his All- Americans, baseball team, in a game with the Regulars, the team with which he was for so long as: sociated. Deputy United States Marshall Andrew Lopez stated that all of the cases’ péRGirs‘to came be- fore the 'US'Court this month would ‘bé“6ntinued until the February session. Commissioner Rodney Gwynn’'was to fix the dates of hearings. NO NAME LODGE Directly on Beach Famous Bahia Honda Fishing Reef — Tarpon — Permit Bone Fishing COTTAGES $2.50 AND UP Stone Crab Dinners a Specialty PHONE NO NAME KEY NO. 1 Mr. and Mrs. C. L. 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Where the days are and golden And the skies are always fair, | Where the song of the seas comes | on the breeze That cools the fragrant air. Where the sunset turns ocean | To a sea of living gold. ! When a perfect day has passed away, Then dusky night takes hold. And one by one the stars come out Like fairy lanterns gleaming To: softly light the silent night While Old Key West is dream- | ing. long weecececcee--cseeseceses., -Today’s Birthdays | leeecrscoccoae Cora: W. Stewart of More-! ;head, Ky., philanthropist, found- ‘er of the Moonlight Schools, born at Farmers, Ky., 65 years ago. J. Warren Madden chairman of the National Labor Relations ereroce | Board, born at Damascus, IIL, 50 years ago. the!“ | ten Test Questions? Turn to Page 4 for Answers the s to 1. Which planet of system is nearest sun? What are homophones? Name the Arctic port Finland which was occu pied by Soviet troops at the outbreak of the war. On which peninsula is Greece? What is the name for fe- male .parent bears? | What large observatory located on Mount Hamil- | ton, Calif.? | United States battleships are | named after fish, states of the Union or admirals? What is the correct ‘proriun- ciation of the word cryp togamous? On which river Dam located? Where is Alcatraz Penitentiary? of 9. is Norris 10. Island Poecccevccssevceseesees( KEY WEST Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, presi- Beautiful little gem of the sea, | cago, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 41 /years ago. * Glenn L. Martin of Baltimore, pioneer {aviator, born at Macksburg, Iowa, airplane manufacturer, \54 years ago. Alvan Macauley, | Wheeling, W. Va., 68 years ago. born in Japan, 48 years ago. | David Lloyd Gcorge, Britain’s! dent of the University of Chi- president of |Packard Motor, Detroit, born at | Prof. Luther H. Gulick, Colum- oa jbia professor of municipal science, Flying to their little nest, {You are a Paradise to me. | Resting beneath your spreading trees fanned by breeze— And your balmy Dreaming of days of happiness, Free from care and weariness. | Lingering on your sandy beach While the sea gulls fly and| screech ‘As they watch the setting sun— | They too know the day is done. |As we go home to dream and rest. L. S. NASH. wartime premier, born 77 years Key West, Fla., ago. | i | | if | Taday/ STANDARD OIL STATIONS AND DEALERS ARD STAND IRP COMPARE ‘Jan, 15, 1940. 3 ged, natural life. {fore be Today’s Horoscope Toda: ndicat There is a cer- f that Ss a rug- tain will try the except those the crys! fortune, per in travel, there- contented with a limit- ofa temper > of frie! > beneath who ¢ exterior. here is mis- ed spher Subscribe to The Citizen—20c SUE HAD EVERYTHING— A DEVOTED HUSBAND, A BEAUTIFUL HOME— AND THEN SHE FELL DESPERATELY IN LOVE WITH ANOTHER MAN. 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