The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 19, 1940, Page 2

PASE TWO Che Kry West 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 Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County tered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press ated Press is exclusively entitled to use cation of all news dispatches credited to otherwise credited In this paper and also | news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES G e kngwn on application, ig SPROIAL NOTICE ing notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of pituary notices, ete. will be charged for at «nue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- public issues and subjects of local or general ut it wil not publish anonymous communi- 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. A Modern City Hospital. The cure for anger is silence. Try it! Grumbling at your lot makes you a lot | worse off. Some pay cash for what they buy— and lead a monotonous life. There is an overproduction of gossip, yet it never seems equal to the demand. It seems like Russia and Germany are both determined to make the worst of a bad world. Hitler no doubt wonders what his partners, Mussolini and Stalin, are going to do for him, or to him, Many a matrimonial combination is based upon the legal adage that posses- sion ‘s nine points of the law. One trouble with the world is that it is encumbered with too many pompous pre lamations of personal probity. Morida is situated right; California is too far out west—Key West. Get WPA *o move it—The Tampa Daily Times. ‘Vouldn’t that require effort? The Russians as a whole accepted Cormunism willingly at first for they | anted, above all, people and land; they eot neither. So let’s nip this abominable -iing in the bud, before it has any chance to blossom in the United States. Loans to Finland for any purpose at this time is palpably a clear violation of the national neutrality act which we were so importunely asked to keep inviolate. Economic aid unquestionably leads to mili- tavy aid and that means embroilment in the European war. It is a step towards war with the belligerents, a step war-mongers would have the United States take. Some thirty years ago, J. Pierpont {organ at a House Banking and Currency Committee investigation, stated that com- mercial credit was based primarily on “character” and not money or property. Certainly character is a great asset but it won't get you any loans at most banks un- less fortified by sufficient collateral. It’s like the farmer’s reply to the minister when asked if he believed in prayer for gocd crops. ‘Yes, parson, pra’r and fer- til'zer,” was the answer. Fvesident Roosevelt in his budget | message advocated retrenchments and ad- vised Congress to and honesty to specify where should be made”, and when the Congres- sional committee accepted his challenge and had the courage to created by the President by proclamation one of which was the national board headed by his uncle, Delano, he squawked and would fight to reinstate the agencies by Frederic A. requesting special legislation, but possibly | the committee will conveniently find that it has lost its rubber stamp. “have the courage | they | One of the important factors in an in- lop off boards | resources | intimated he | KEY WEST FLOWER SHOW | Plans are quietly going forward for the annual Key West Tropical Show, the only one of its kind in the United | States. Mrs. Pauline Phelan has | named general chairman of the show, and is scheduled soon to announce the names | of those who will be in charge of the vari- our phases of the exhibit. Properly recognizing the value of | publicity in promoting this outstanding Flower | been | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN PLENTY MORE TO DO . | SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL _ Former Editor of The Citizen Tom Campbell, an {frishman, who it is claimed predicted the beginning of the war five months ahead of time, and foretold the Russian advances against Poland Key West event, the Key West Garden | | Club and Tree Guild promises this year to | devote a large amount of attention to ad- | vertising the show on the mainland where | there is always a great concentration of , Visitors. This year the show is scheduled | to be held March 1, 2 and 8, right at the | high point of the tourist season. For several years the tropical flower | show here has becn hailed by experts as | ene of the finest in the United States. It is unique in more thai. one respect: The Key West Flower Show is not a commer- cial venture supported by commercial | florists by and for commercial interests. | The Key West show is a non-commercial | venture in which are centered the exhibits | of residents who raise the flowers and | shrubs and plants in their own yards, win- | dow boxes or who gather them in vacant | | lots or along the keys. | | i | It is doubtful if a more colorful, more | interesting or more beautiful exhibit of world. Nowhere else in this country do such flowers grow. Visitors who have viewed the exhibits in the past have been | vociferous in their praise, in giving vent to their surprised feelings when they visit the Garden club exhibition. Some of the visitors have been so smitted by certain of the exhibits that they begged and were given permission to take the Key West ex- hibits on tour. There is no denying this is the out- standing event of the Key West “winter season. It should therefore be publicized to the far reaches of Florida. West backers of the show know this and in the next few weeks promise to let the rest of Florida and the millions of visitors in the state know what we have. Fortunately, the Coast Guard service has granted the Garden Club permission to use again for the show the old lighthouse building near headquarters on Front street. If this building had not been available the outstanding Key West event of the winter would had had difficulty finding anothen hall large enough to carry the exhibits. This is just another argument in favor of a Key West public auditorium. The Citizen hopes the ard Mrs. Phelan every year’s show. success in this FAMOUS DEAD OF 1939 Among the prominent persons who died during 1939, the most widely known wes Pope Pius XI, who passed away on February 9, and was buried in a tomb un- der St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome five days later. Noted Americans who died during the year included the famous surgeons, Drs. Charles and William Mayo; Associate Justice Pierce Butler of the Supreme Court; Senators James Hamilton Lewis of Tilinois and M. M. Logan of Kentucky; Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson; Gecrge Cardinal Mundelein, archbishop of Chicago; Charles M. Schwab, steel mag- nate; Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., actor; Floyd Gibbons, war correspondent; Miss Grace Abbott, welfare worker and _ educator; Zane Grey, novelist, and Alice Brady, actress, Foreigners of note included Sigmund Freud, originator of psychoanalysis; | Howard Carter, discoverer of King Tut’s | tomb; former President Gerardo Machado | of Cuba; Premier Joseph Lyons of Aus- | tralia; Princess Louise, daughter of Queen | Victoria; and William B. Yeats, Irish poet | and playwright. | PERIODIC HEALTH EXAMINATIONS dividual life is the health of the individual, | whether good or bad. It ought to be unnecessary to call the | attention of grown people to the import- ance of having themselves periodically | examined by competent physicians. To do so is to avoid the dangers of organic | troubles that slip up on so many citizens be cured in their early stages, but if neg- tected, mean sure and certain death. flowers may be seen anywhere else in the | The Key) Garden Club | and cause death. Many fatal diseases can | | say } f { ps é ! | | | i} i 8 : | | A { | KEY WEST IN DAYS GONEBY Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today | As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen | | | FIVE YEARS AGO Rafael Lazo delivered an address | The wirner in the slogan con- in Spanish. | | test will be announced tomorrow. —_—_—— | a E. Gilfond said today that | FIFTEEN YEARS AGO 1 jrectived, one of which will ‘be |, W2 shipments of Ojus clay |selected to be placed on the re- | ave reached here for use on the | jceptacles for trash, and the win-|tees of the municipal golf course | jner will be given a prize by the!and three others are to arrive |Key West Administration. ishortly. The clay was given by the Florida East Coast Railway One of the largest yellow jacks to the city. jever taken in these waters was| {caught yesterday by Bruce Dod-| {son of Kansas City, Mo. While | jthis kind of fish is caught in: large numbers in the waters jaround Key West it is seldom |that one as large as that is taken. ill officially veto the ordinance | jwhich was recently passed per-! ‘mitting the Key West Electric the city. The line was to be run| i ae ‘experimentally for three months} avtaata wi be. o iiddie Kab \and the members of ‘the council | |rieeeeer igen a 9 o'clock. buat to act as judges in that bias |rather than 11 o'clock as pre. | 89" ‘ j ;viously announced by the Rec-| jreation Department. There is to lmnown as | A Nek Chris Kemp, accom- | be more than 20 participants ™M panied by his wife, were arrivals the presentation and an _ excel- | es ;yesterday on the Mallory Steam- lent Show is promised. ship Concho, of the Mallory Line. Mr. Christensen has been absent from the city for about 18 years and has been making his home in Los Angeles. W. A. Christensen, familiarly | All signs which are to be erect- | }ed in Key West should be sub-! mitted to the Fine Arts Commis-' |sion, it was pointed out today. | |An effort is being made to in-| The money which was cleared | crease the beauty of the island jias+ night at the art. éxhibition and in this respect the signs play in the Monroe County High| an important part. | School, together with the pro- ceeds of the entertainment held | Thursday, will be used for the purchase of pictures for the High | | School. E. B. Mumford, first mate of the wrecking tug Warbler, plans to leave Key West and join the ivessel, which is salvaging the |cargo of the Steamship Havana. hae . f th M | |stranded on Matanilla Shoals, | Anglers) fom: the Casa) Pere |Bahama Islands, Sunday morn | eye ge nee ete jing, January 6. catches of snapper, grunts and) lots of barracudas. Mr. and Mrs. | |A. M. Peabody, of Buffalo, N. Y,./ | took 14 of these tigers of the 'sea. | TEN YEARS AGO Although they went for eight weeks without making a catch at |the beginning of the season, local poe Sa capes better | eeecveceveeccessescoocce: than an even ance of making | ’ 2 | a season’s catch of not less than | Today S Birthdays | | 1,000,000 pounds.. One boat of ee |the Thompson Fish Company eS with 60,000 pounds last | night. % Dr. Homer P._ Rainey, director of the American, Youth Commis- sion, Washington, D. C., born at |Clarksville, Tex. 44 years ago. Sherwood Eddy of New York, author, onetime Y.M.C.A._secre- tary for Asia, born at Leaven- worth, Kans., 69 years ago. Alexander Woollcott, author, jwit and man of letters, born in Phalanx, N. J., 53 years ago. Bishop Charles Clingman of Louisville, P.E. clergyman, born Covington, Ky., 57 years ago. Bishop John L. Nuelsen of Switzerland, in charge of Metho- dist Episcopal work in Contin- | The long continued operation of alien fishing smacks in these | waters is.to be taken up with the! Chamber of Commerce for the) local fishermen and a vigorous | jprotest is to be presented in | Washington. | Justice R. T. Weller, of New) York, is expected to arrive here | tomorrow from Havana and will |* at once open Customs Court the} first thing im the morning. He jcial assistant to the attorney gen- ee a American parents), 73 io |" ‘Prof. Edward S. Corwin. of ‘ ieedand Ni \Princeton, teacher of jurispru- Sheriff Cleveland Niles and Ahasts 4 |State Attorney George G. Brooks Hees” Plymouth, Mich., | will leave tomorrow for Mate-/| " loumbe to investigate the fatal|_ Karl Krueger of Kansas aps shooting of Henry G. Willy, who \Mo., orchestra conductor, born in lis reported to have ‘been shot by iNew York, 46 years ago. la gang of men on the night of| — “Key LA. CONCHA HOTEL | January 11. Beautiful—Air-Conditioned Rainbow Room and Cocktail Lounge DINING and DANCING | Strictly Fireproof ‘Garage Open The Year Around j Memorial services “under the} auspices of the ‘Knights ®f the | Golden Eagle and ladies of the | order were well attended yester- day. The memorial address was delivered by Rev. M. Jamerson jot the First Baptist church, while Sed Soesecesdocvcsazeseses and Finland, now prophesies that Hitler will be assassinated by one. of his present trusted | advisers. But he doesn’t say when. Selznick studio is worried for fear her husband’s divorce charg- es against Vivien Leigh, their “Searlett O'Hara” in GWTW-may hurt the drawing power of the picture on which $3,700,000 has been spent. But they are hoping} Vivien’s added notoriety may work the other way around. The New Year brought tough luck to Arthur F. Foran, who was slated for election as president of the New Jersey state senate. On the opening day of the ses- sion he was in a New Orleans hospital recovering from an air- plane accident, ‘but an official from his state was sent to ad- minister the oath. Antoni Przybysz of Detroit,! wanted to change his name, and Judge Joseph ‘Murphy thought that would be a good idea. After} wrestling with the spelling to; keep the record straight, the judge asked the applicant what name he wished to take. He an- ; swered “Clinton Przybysz.” Ladies who truss themselves up in the new wasp corsets are taking chances with their health, according to Frederick F. Ploetz, Cincinnati gymnasium instruc- tor, who says: “Such a fad cor- —_— |responds to the old Oriental cus-| ‘Today's natives are thoughtful | Tomorrow Mayor Frank Ladd |tem of binding a baby's feet s0 and studious, with they couldn't grow.” A sports writer who has been |Company to operate a bus line in| 48ging into past records says’ pistion. A rather unpractical na- | that Nap Rucker, famous old- time southpaw of pitched-the most nearly perfect game of all time against Boston in 1908. He struck out 14 men, gave no passes, hit no batsman, made no wild pitch, and al- lowed no hits, no runs. Professor Laird, the psychol- ogist, after exhaustive tesearches, estimates that only about three per eent of all ‘persons are per- fectly truthful ‘at all times. We, jhave never met one who could + |claim to belong to the veracious three per cent, but we imagine if we were to meet one his con- versation would be pretty dull. CAN’T CONQUER SOULS (ly Associated Preand WARSAW, Jan. 19—War and destruction have not been able to crush the innate love of the Pole for flowers. While houses were still burning and the debris of damaged property still filled the streets of Warsaw, the flower shops resumed business as usual. Horticulturalists in the vicinity of the capital continue to bring their beautiful flowers to the city, and the Warsaw burgher, no matter how destitute he may be, continues to buy them. ship. Call 61 for an estimate. Brooklyn, ; FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1940 | t ee Fishing Pilots Are Mailmen ‘WAVES IN TIN CANS Cooccccccccccocccsecosce daily life is walking to |, AP Feature Service work”; say. “incident”. | MIAMI BEACH, Fia., Jan. 19. —Many a fishing cruiser captain off Miami Beach acts as an un- official mailman these troubled days at sea. The cruiser skippers keep a sharp lookout, not only for. fish, but also for tiny buoys carrying the “Atlantic mail”. Merchant seamen, some of What is the name for the, them homesick American sailors, earliest inhabitants of a place their letters in tin cans, country? ;Seal the receptacles with wax, Does i ‘ weight them with scrap iron, at- pes gravity affect articles! cn white flags, and toss. thei in a vacuum? overboari in the hope they n Of which country is Victor be picked up offshore and mailed Emmanuel the King? home. Into what body of water, Some of Ahe letters ore sen by - seamen 2! re reighters irom does’ ‘the Ganges River jenigerent nations, men who empty? hope that their messages will What is the name for the reach relatives at home. “big trees” of California?! “Atlantic Buoy No. 18”, picked Is a child born in the U. S. up by Captain = See of ine a :fishing cruiser Dolphin after the OF sien parents an Ames eileen floating star slages a |contained 32 Christmas greetings. What is the correct pronun- | ciation of the word cone NO NAME LODGE onstrative? | Eat oe eg a | Famous ia Honda Fishing What famous address con-; "Reef — T: no Derit tains the words: “govern- | . { Bone Fishing ment of the people, by the | TODAY’S COMMON ERROR in diamonds. Do not say. “A characteristic of my TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ Can you answer seven of these ten Test Questions? Turn to Page 4 for Answers a COTTAGES $2.50 AND UP Stone Crab Dinners a Specialty PHONE NO NAME KEY NO. 1 © Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Craig, Owners What is ‘the nickname for | The Bettye Ra =e South Dakota? | How many square rods are in | Restaurant an acre? LUNCH — TEA — DINNER 512 Caroline Street Open 11 a. m. to 8:30 p. m. LUNCHEON - 35c up ER _ 65e up Ve eo! 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