The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 25, 1940, Page 2

> Cie Key West Citizen THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CQ. INO. Published Daily Except Sunday B: L. ®. ARTMAN, President and Pab z stant Business From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Florida, as second class matter ember of the Associated Press d Press is exclusively entitled to use lication of all news dispatches credited to t otherwise credited in this paper and also 1 news, published here, “* UBSCRIPTION RATES 8 ADVERTIS: Made known on application, SPECIAL NOTICE ading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of obituary notices, ete. will be charged for at of 10 cents a line. tices for entertainment by churches from which venue ig to be derived are 5 cents a line. onen forum and invites discus- es and subjects of local or general 1 not publish anonymous communi- MPROVEMENTS 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. im} It will soon be time for major league 2seba'l managers to claim the pennant. What the world wants most to hear and what is best for it—righteous revolu- tion in Germany and Russia. There are more than 109 professional fat women in the United States. The rest are trying to retain their amateur stand- ing. Grant was the only President who | was graduated from West Point. It was! at‘a time when a military man was most needed in our history. Quit having a “passion for anony- nity” and express yourselves in letters to | the editor. Your name will be anonymous to al’ but the editor, who of necessity must know the author. wonder President Rooseyelt is 2 N man and loves the seas. Five meirhers of his family have served the assistant secretary of the Navy; he being one of them. | Small natjon as Key Westers should imitate the marine gastropods and build houses for themselves. In deserving cases the gov- ernment will aid in the building through the housing authority. Making way for progress, log cabins for politicians to be born in, are few and | far ‘between. Now, it seems, the molasses “to catch the illiterate vote is blunt state- ments expressed in ungrammatical lan- guage. In®*preparation for the comeback of - the horse, the town of Oshkosh, Neb., has erected 2 number of hitching posts in the business district. Evidently, back to the | ho and buggy days, we have been read- | ing about. | | pen since last July from this fund. The child! | Chairman of the President’s | and dinner. A FAR-REACHING CAUSE There is an old saying to the effect | "| that no-one can tell where lightning will | person | | strike. Likewise: every thinking | knows that death and disease lay their icy fingers on the high and the low, the poor | and the rich, the fortunate and the unfor- | tunate, the good and the bad without ap- | parent rhyme or reason. No one is THE KEY WEST CITIZEN NOT A NEW BELT BUT A DIET NAP, 2p OL Or% ( im- | | mune from death, few go through life | without one seige of sickness. _ | \ Infantile*paralysis is one oft |. mysterious diseases that.annyally takes its | toll of human‘lives and hopél countless others. No one section of the many | ly cripples | | country escapes this dread scourge. Right | | here in Monroe county and Key West a | | year ago a brief sporadie epidemic of in- ' fantile paralysis broke out. It took a small | toll, did little damage by comparison with | ; some other sections. | child, a healthy Island City youngster, who Yet there was one | | felt the full force of that malady. He was | cripple.1 below the hips, seemingly doomed | to spend his remaining days in misery and pain. | to that youngster’s life. From funds that | President Franklin D, Roosevelt, that child | Springs (Ga.) home of the Netional Foun- dation for Infantile Paralysis,.. All the ex- ses of child and mother have been paid is now beginning to respond to the free treatments—and hope again has found its way into the child’s heart and mind. Dr. H. C. Galey, Monroe County Ball events for five of the several years they have been on the national program, points to that case as being truly indicative of the local benefits that accrue from the Foun- dation’s work. Dr. Galey points out that 50 per cent of the receipts from these an- nual affairs remain in Monroe county while the remainder goes to the National Infantile Paralysis Foundation which de- votes the money to preventative research, epidemic control, education and study in the treatment of the after effects of the disease. Saturday night the annual Ball will be held at La Concha _ Hotel. Next Wednesday night the President's Dinner will be held at the same hotel. Proceeds from these two affairs will be divided in accordance with the usual pro- cedure, Dr. Galey states. The Citizen believes this is a most worthy cause. It deserves wholehearted support of those who can afford the rel- atively small charge in effect for the dance No one can lose by patroniz- ing both affairs. They are well worth the expense for the entertainment alone. | Those who attend will find it easier to en- joy themselves knowing that what they are spending will contribute to the enjoy- ment of those stricken by a terrible disease. THE NATIONAL DEBT Entirely aside from partisan con- siderations, the situation in Congress with respect to appropriations at this session is most interesting. Members have been placed in an awkward position by the President’s budget message, which recom- mends spending to bring the national debt to almost touch the statutory limit of 45 billion dollars, But in order to keep within that limit, | Mr. Roosevelt has not made allowance for A Miami paper circulating in Key | West elevated Counselor Curry Harris to | “consul” but of what consulate it didn’t | Congratulations Consul Harris! It is | just’ possible that Curry would have pre- | ferred to have been given a consol instead | ef made a consul. | Now is the winter of newspaper pub- | fishers’ discontent made colder by the} ‘edge that radio will soon get most} ot the money, to advertise the campaign of both national parties while the news- papers will receive only emoluments in the | form of epistolary praise. | }no Fort Pierce is starting a delinquent | tex drive, and the city attorney has ad- | | appropriations as large as the legislators would like to make in a number of in- stances. And to increase these appropria- tions would make it necessary to pass a law raising the debt limit, or raise taxes, either of which would be unpopular in an election year. Thus the President has adroitly evaded responsibility for the course to be taken, and placed it squarely up to Con- gress. A good many members are per- haps sorry that they established a debt limit at a previous session. .That limit will no doubt have to be raised eventually, but they shrink from doing it’ With ‘a éampaign coming on. LOH In this connection, the size of the na- tional debt at various periods is of interest. At the end of Washington’s administration | had accumulated here as result of previous | 4 | President’s Balls and Dinners in honor of | and his mother were taken to the Warm | President's | | But sunshine was suddenly brought in- | | FLORIDA’S CAPITAL NEWS : .. As I See It... By M. M. SMAHERS | A-lot of good Republicans have become fruit-bearing Democrats after residing in Florida, so that |should not make Charles Francis |Coe, candidate for the office now | jheld by Senator Charles An-| drews, an exception to the rule. | But it will. Politicians of the old j eracker type will probably see; \that it does. The Hartford) (Conn.) Courant, under date of September 9, 1936, carried a page one picture of the present Demo- | cratic candidate for the nomina- | tion of U. S. Senator as a Repub- | lican keynoter for the Republi- | can state convention, called for! the purpose of picking a Republi- |can state ticket. It was predict- | |ed in this column three weeks ago | ‘that Mr. Coe was running with| {the approval and support of: the | |wigwam chiefs of the G.O.P. i | | | TODAY’S DAILY Q Seine UapRandietiaeieemiieieetier TODAY’S COMMON ERROR Do not say, “He made a contemptible reply to our question”; say, “contemp- tucus”, Contemptible means worthy of being de- | | UIZ Can you answer seven of these ten Test Questions? Turn to Page 4 for Answers 1, What body of water en circlesethe North Pole? In war, what is a conscien- tious objector? 2. 3. a state or territory? What is the correct pronun- ciation of the word dyna- | mo? 7 Small quantities of liquids can be measured accurate- ly with a burette, barbette, 4. 5. tT nouncement was officially made | by Secretary of the Interior Har. Is the District of Columbia | THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1940 _ KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Yeats Ago Todey As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen | FIVE YEARS AGO ; West golf links yesterday and, Concerted action on the part of according to the Duke enjoyed those who have charge of tickets themselves immensely. The Duke for the President's Ball on Janu-'and Duchess were members of a ary’ oy a, sxberted a Bene out party who are guests of Colonel ; a muc larger attendance an Robert Thompson. on a like occasion last year. Al- though the results last year were! be er satisfactory, it is hoped that the; Legionnaires made the rounds outcome this year will be better. 'last evening in quest of new) Soe imembers and met with great suc- Visitors, winter residents of! . ss. Thi th th rte if Key. West, have rented a number se — eee: OF of the cabanas at Rest Beach and Fite Chiet Pinder the parade} are continually calling for them. |Was led by the Fire Department. It was said by those who have |The results of the drive is expect- charge of these attractive places jed to be made in a few days, ! that four of them were rented) | vais more The executive committee of the A telegram received by Mr,|Overseas Highway Association and Mrs. H. A. Pierce this morn-|with Captain Clarke D. Stearns} ing announces the arrival of a’ presiding met in the rooms of the | Babys Das . His Onna. spel Charnber of Commerce last night aughter, r. an T's. ictor ‘ Bergman, at Detroit, Mich. Mrs. | With @ large attendance. It was Bergman was formerly Miss Ha- decided to colt an election to/ zel Pierce of this city. {float a bond issue of $2,000,000 to on ‘be used in completing the road to In a bulletin received at the of- the mainland. | fice of The Citizen today, an-)| Every afternoon recently Key | old L. Ickes that President Frank- /Westers and visitors have been| lin Roosevelt will create a Na- fishing from the bridges between | tional Monument of Fort Jeffer-'this city and Stock Island and} son. some good catches have been | = = made. Besides bottom fish, such | W. W. Demeritt this morning jas gray snappers and sailor's | announced his departure this eve-'choice, many jacks have been ning for Washington to attend a/landed. meeting of superintendents of, lighthouses in the United States, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Alaska. Mr. Demeritt is superintendent of the Seventh District. PRESIDENT’S : BALL PROGRAM ISSUED’ ' (Continued from Page One) sented at midnight, will include sia such entertainers as: i Citizen during the past few weeks Billy Armond and his bevy of! the State Road Department has girls from the Habana-Madrid! definitely gone on record as being Club, wko will open the feature unopposed to the sale of the Mon- section of the program with roe County ferry system. It is snappy tap routines. expected that the commissioners; ya and Norman will accept the Thompson offer. Cayo Hueso. - " Frank and Teddie from La Numerous articles of wearing Conga. apparel and dress accessories | “ Gerald Pinder will present the have been reported as having latest dance steps with his part- | been stolen from the dressing ner. rooms of the Country Club, es-| Fana and Alberto will present pecially while games are in pro- Sats interpretations of the gress. The case s been taken | Rhumba snd Congo. TEN YEARS AGO As frequently predicted by The from Club THE LOWDOWN FROM HICKORY GROVE You do not pick up a paper or meet somebody on the street without the first thing you see or hear, it is, what is wrong with the Country? But you do not need a crystal ball or be a Sherlock Holmes to deduct an answer. In the early days when this country was growing up and get- ting its feet on terra firma—and was going to bed at 9 p. m. versus 4 a. m.—and ‘our ‘eye was clear, we were a pretty sensible outfit. And our grandpapas built up quite a U.S.A. for us. To get a railroad into a new country, cr to get a bank opened up so the folks would have a safe place for their money, it was quite a problem and when somebody could be found to take the risk, the old-timers gave ‘em a welcome. But today it is open season on anybody with more thar bucks. So money has lit out for the tall timber, and it won't be back till the atmosphere clears up. Brothers and Sisters, it as plain as the handwriting. in Bal- shazzar’s time, there in Babylon Yours, with the low down, JO SERRA. 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. Craig, Owners “Key West's Outstanding” LA CONCHA HOTEL Beautiful—Air-Conditioned Rainbow Room and Cocktail Lounge DINING and DANCING Strictly Fireproof Garage Open The Year Around Death last wek removed from or a lorgnette? |the political circles of Florida Senator William C. “Homestead Bill” Hodges, one of the few men |in the history of the state to rise {to distinction within the ranks of the Democratic party after es- |pousing another cause. His pres- jence will be missed in many jparty councils and on the floor lof the state senate. One of his llast acts was to prepare for the ‘press a statement, which was not released, in which he felt that he could not run on account of his physical condition. In that art- iicle he ‘kept his usual faith with the causes he supported by pledg- | ing himself to fight any candidate | who would champion issues which jhe considered untruths, propa- ganda and detrimental to the citi- zens of Florida. Rumor has it that a certain group of Leon |County higher-ups are trying to |persuade Mrs, Hodges to run for the late senator’s seat in the up- per house of the legislature. The With what sport is Moore associated? Name the Spanish conqueror of Mexico. Terry Who was the first Admiral Heliotrope will be honor guests; mented with still more numbers of the U. S. Navy? What is the quotient of 1-3 divided by 1-4. Name the Minister of For eign Affairs of Italy. 10. in hand by Sheriff Cleveland Niles. i Officers and _ enlisted aboard the visiting British men ship at a dance to be given Monday evening from 9 to 12 at the recre- ation hall at the Naval Station. | The music will be by Howard Wilson’s orchestra. now stands, no matter how badly an applicant might need a WPA job to feed his family it, is. im- possible for him to get the help the federal government has_ al- ready provided, because | the WPA employment division can- not place him on the eligible list until he has first been vouched for and certified as being eligible by the state. The state cannot do it because it has no funds. What has happened in Florida is not what the national government in tended. Men who have worked eighteen months are being pick- Decision by the supreme court that distribution of state .gas monies as provided for “by the last legislature is unconstitution. al. and will cost Monroe County $63,764 annually. Had the law been upheld the county’s share would have been $103,253. A meeting to discuss ways and means of waging the mosquito campaign as proposed by the Woman's Club was held at the Chamber of Commerce headquar- ters last evening with Mrs. An- drew Miller presiding, as presi- consensus of opinion is that she /€d up on the WPA payrolls aft-|dent of the Woman's Club. will favorably receive these | friends ‘and if she runs, the sena- | tor’s wife will be élected. It may, or it may not, play a/ |art in thé gubernatorial and |Senatorial campaigns in the off- jing, but plenty of vote-getting material may be found in the fact that thousands over the state are going hungry because proper fa- |cilities for the certification of |WPA job applicants was nof made by the present administra- tion. Whether justified or not the fact remains that if the situa- tion is brought into the open Senator Charles Andrews will) have to do all the explaining for | both senators as to why federal |pressure was not brought to bear [to force the Cone administration |to make necessary provisions to meet the requirements set forth | by the federal law governing the |WPA workers and payrolls. Briefly Here is the situation! |Under the revised WPA law no |person, with the exception of jwar veterans, can remain on the |security wage payrolls for a pé-| riod’ of longer than eighteen months. That feature of the law | ‘was incorporated to prevent thou- sands of the workers from becom- | ing “career men”. In _ other |tion by the state, er they have been off the requir- ed length of time, just because they were certified as eligible be- |fore the present law was enacted, erland were players at the and not because they were in more dire circumstances than the applicant-who had been so fortun- | ate as never before having been} on the payroll. Instead of keep- ing workmen from being con- tinuously on the WPA it has! worked out that the new law, and | the lack of interest and prepara- | has made it! much easier for them to become “career men” on the relief rolls. — | Sometime soon, probably with in the next ten days, Jerry W. Carter, railroad commissioner, will make his announcement as a candidate for the Democratic) nomination of U. S. Senator. If, Commissioner Carter gets into the race it will be the second time he has gone to the post as a senatorial candidate. He ran onee against the late Duncan U. Fletcher and received more votes than any candidate ever to oppose Florida’s then senior senator. B ca Chica Resort and FISHING CAMP Restaurant—Home i FIFTEEN YEARS AGO The Duke and Duchess of Suth- | Key Do You Lie Awake Nights? ILLIONS do. The worst of it is, you never know when a sleepless night is coming. Why not be prepared? DR. MILES pos and » to quiet the nerves peo fl suc anges Stop in at the drug store to- day and get a package. Adrian O’Sweeney, Key West’s own Irish baritone, will be fea- | tured as well as a group of sing- ers from Fred Marvil’s Cabana. And the program will be aug- Let Us Estimate || on YOUR Printing POSTERS BOOKLETS STATIONERY OFFICE FORMS at Reasonable Prices PHONE 51 before the big night gets under- | way, it was announced, CASA MARINA Key West's HOTEL DE LUXE American Plan 200 Delightful Rooms, Each With Private Bath Beautiful Cocktail Lounge DANCING NIGHTLY Casa Marina Orchestra PETER SCHUTT Manager ! THE ARTMAN PRESS THE CITIZEN BLDC. 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Get a } from your dealer today. vised the delinquents they must pay the | ~ taxes due the city or lose their property. | of the War of 1812 it was 127 million; at The new city council, now in office, | the end of the Mexican War, 63 million; at Promised sdme constructive action along | the end of the Civil War, 2,678 million; at these lines for the city of Key West and the end of the World War, 23,976 million, the electorate is now looking for the ful- | and at the end of the present Roosevelt filment of this promise, trusting that it is administration it will be about 44,938 mil- ‘not an idle gesture as it has been in the | Jion dollars, if the President’s budget is not past, | exceeded. | words at the end of their allotted Cotfages—Charter and Row |time the workers were supposed | Boats—Private Beach | to step out, thereby allowing new} | workmen to take their places. It did not work so well in Florida. The reason is traceable to the |doorsteps of Governor Cone, for! {no provision was made at the last Licensed Funeral Directors legislature to provide the neces- and Embalmers.,. |sary funds to pay persons in the | 24-Hour Ambulance Service welfare department to investigate |} Phone 135 Night 696 new cases... So, as the situation | it was about 84 milion dollars; at the end