The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 26, 1940, Page 2

eaee Dieehanet gserene, the dark, or PAGE IWO Che Key West Citizen THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INO. 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 vy Daly Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ated Press is excl publication of all news dispatches credited to not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. ges SUBSCRIPTION RATES ing notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of | bituary notices, etc. will be charged for at | te of 10 cents a line. . j for entertainment by churches from which | to be derived are 5 cents a line. itizen is an open forum and invites disc’.s- n of public isstes aud subjects of local or genezai but ft wiJl not publish anonymous communi- Penne eee | :MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WFST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN | 1. Water and Sewerege. | Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apariments. | Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. 6. Consolidation of County Governments. 7. A Modern City Hospital. and City People who know much seldom make ive assertions, Necessity may know no Jaw, but it is inted with many lawyers. PEG Walking is an aid to health, but only if one is careful where he walks. It is too bad that so-cal'ed self-made men were interrupted before completing the job. We read that men will clothes next summer. shiny enough. wear bright Well, ours will’ be Those Finns won’t bother to put on their skis to wipe out less than a whole visicn of Russians. he gevernment might raise some neeced revenue by taxing legislators for ‘ach fool bill introduced. Wk there is destruction, there t ha construction to take its place. | Les have more home building. A professor says young women write better English than young men. Which is rather faint praise for the girls. | Can you remember when the Balkans used to be the “tinder box” of Europe?— vtearwater Sun. Sure, and are stlil. rt physicai instruetor has found that reise before breakfast is unnecessary. We beat him to that discovery long ago. | gem of purest unfathomed caves of That’s true Mr. Gray. We have these gems right here in the waters | Key West, where more than 2,600 species of marine shells are to be found. | Unless one is shell-minded he might be- | come shell-shocked upon learning that | there are of known varieties of land, fresh \ and marine shelis more than 100,- 100 species. Classified as marine | gastropods, the shells to be found here are | of many varieties and a 1nyriad of color. | Shell collecting, which is as old as civiliza- | tidn, is indulged in by many Key Westers | and, of course, by most tourists who visit | cur island city. “Full many a ray ocear bear. General Motors has just celebrated the | event of producing its 25,000,000th auto- noite. Ford is nearing the’ 28,000,000th | Chrysler will soon produée its 8,000,- 000th. Smaller automobile manufacturers have produced self-propelling cars in pro- | tion, and’ while statistics are not just at hard, it is safe to presume that at least 100 €90,000 cars have been manufactured in the United States, almost one for every | man, woman and child in this country. is is a prosperous-looking record against | that of the rest of the entire world which | so far has built only 18,000,000 motor | driven Vehicles. Ours is a great country, and aren’t We proud and glad to be a part of its greatness! car. a =) ida, as second class matter sively entitled to use | ; in weathe { sumers. | Miami, West Palm Beach and other places | | days dependent upon its date | with a grand ball. | KEY WEST WEATHER It was pretty cold in Key West. for | several days. Old residents shivered and | shook and tried not to look cold so as not |to disgrace the community in front of anger: edyertising for a town that boasts about its fine weether and climatic conditions to | be seen wearing a sweater or an overcoat. Perhaps it was, but there is another side to that story. { Key West, as chilly as it was, still en-’ joyed the distinction of having the warm- est weather to be found anywhere in the | United States during the recent cold snap. It must be remembered that about the | lowest point reached here was 48 ABOVE | zero. There were some points on the j weather map where the thermometers registered that much BELOW zero. Now 48 above zero is not so cold, ac- cording to comparisons in other Florida | | communities. It is far above the frost level, so that none of our beautiful tropical | foliage and flowers suffered from the cold. | The flowers didn’t enioy the weather any | more than the average old resident, but they didn’t freeze to death, nor were they | frost-bitten. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for other points in Florida. Residents nd visitors alike hugged fires and shivered that went below the freezing point in some places. Citrus was dam- aged, vegetables were killed or It was a serious blow to growers and con- It was so cold that the schools at were closed. There was only one fortunate feature of the cold that swept across Florida. That was the fact there just wasn’t any other warmer place for the tourists to go. If they started back north they ran_ into record snowfalls in Georgia. Huge drifts blocked the roads in some states, travel was at an absolute siandstill at other points. After all it was better to be in Florida than in Georgia, or New York or Illinois or | New England. There were no snowdrifts, | no iey roads in Florida. It was uncom- fortable for a time, but the sun soon shone again, the east and southeast trades began | to have their soothing and warming effect. If Florida was the best state in the union to be in during the cold wave, it nat- urally follows that Key West was the finest spot in Forida. That’s something they can’t take away from Key West. The weather. They’ve taken about everything else away from usin the past, but no money or no political influence can take away our climate. That’s something God gave us and only God can take away. Thank God for that! AN EARLY SEASON According to the calendar, at least, we should have an early Spring this year, as Easter Sunday and all the other special come un- usually early. Under our system of reckon- ing, Easter can never come before March | 22, and this year it falls on March 24. This is the earliest Easter date in the entire present century, except in 1913, when it occurred on March 23. In keeping with the date of Easter, Ash Wednesday comes on February 7 this year, marking | the beginning of Lent, which is reckoned as 40 deys before Easter, not counting the intervening Sundays. Mardi Gras, meaning in French “Fat Tuesday,” a great day of frolic and merry- making, is the day before Ash Wednesday, and likewise governed by the date of Easter, coming this year on February 6. It marks the end of the winter carnival sea- son in numerous localities, particularly in New Orleans. On Mardi Gras day and night the streets of New Orleans are filled with peo- ple in gay costumes of all kinds; there is brilliant pageantry, the event terminating This festival is one of the most famous in the United States and attracts many thousands from far and near, BALKAN STATES WORRIED The smaller nations in southeastern Europe face the handwriting on the wall, knowing that they are utterly unable to resist any joint activity on the part of Rus- sia and Germany. Apparently an effort is being made to secure some kind of an un- derstanding with Stalin, which will en- able them to escape the impending fate thet frightens them. 5 The intervention of Russia has also upset Italian calculations considerably. They felt that it was very poor | blighted. | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | | | ~ | | HIS house has been de- signed for two people who want comfort without os- | tentation as well as a home of their own at small cost. All living quarters have been planned for the lower floor. The | bedroom on this floor has been placed adjacent to the bath and space has been left upstairs in which two more bedrooms may be provided when the financial situation permits. Note that the stairs leading from the second floor land in the hall opposite the lower floor bath providing complete privacy. The dining space has been in- corporated with the living room to give an appearance of one | large 24 foot area with fireplace. ‘The dormer windows break the sharp pitch of the roof providing | an attractive exterior. This house appears in the No- | vember issue of HOME Maga- zine, published at 1337 Conneet- icut Avenue, Washington, D. C. Comfort At Low C Economic Highlights =t ! FIVE YEARS AGO | Walter P. Murphy, owner of! ‘the Barkentine Yacht Intrepid, which has been in the harbor one month, returned by’ plane this ‘morning from a short visit to Miami. He was accompanied by |nis personal physician, Walter _Francis Martin. | Sheriff K. O. Thompson has} just returned from a visit to Mi- | ami and points along the Keys and said there was a goodly} ‘number of visitors on the differ | jent islands, and many of them 'were using their own pleasure _ boats. —— | ; Dredge Benyaurd, of the Unit- | ed States Engineers Department, | has almost completed the work of | dredging the Northwest Channel entrance to the harbor. The dredge arrived -several weeks ago, and at once started activities ;of cleaning the channel. | At a meeting last night in the public library -ooms of the com mittee in charge oi the arrange- ments for the President’s Ball, to be held at the Country Club on | January 30, it was shown that the committees are making great progress and all matters incident are taking good ‘shape. Members of the choruses in the opera, “Pirates of Penzance”, will ; wind up their work in the first act of the opera tonight at their | rehearsal, which will be held in the Harris School building, be- ‘ginning at 7:30 o'clock. 10"=24' on | TEN YEARS AGO The O’Rourke diving bell, one of the three devices to be tried lin experiments seeking to perfect ‘means for escaping from subma- ‘tines, will be given its first test {tomorrow from the U.SS. Fal —— con. Lieutenant Commander P “ SECOND FLOOR H. Dunbar is in charge of the Rigs as gs __ |experiments. cam aaa | Two of the largest foreign ‘touring parties ever to leave this ‘city will start Thursday night from the K. C. Hut on Duval} |street. The cruise is sponsored | KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today | As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen |Builder”, and appearing jlished in Winter Park. FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1940 Key West Overseas Highway and the Florida Keys are woven interestingly into Burroughs F. Perry's fine story entitled “Hen- ry M. Flagler, Dreamer and} in the} magazine, Beautiful Florida, pub- steamer. Agwi-! dale ran aground this morning while enroute to Mobile from} New York. The accident hap-| The Maulory jpened near the channel leading! 3, out through the horthwest pas-/| jsage, and the vessel is ashore ‘on| 4, what is familiarly known as Mid- | dle Grounds. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO | The procedure to have the peo- ple of Key West, the freeholders, | vote on the proposition to bond the county for $2,000,000 to con- | tinue work on the road to the| mainland will be systematically | continued so no time will be lost in acting on the proposal. | a Announcement was made by | the Florida East Coast Railway of a special tri-weekly train serv- ice between Miami and Key West. The new schedule calls for ‘the operation of the trains on Mon- days, Wednesdays and Fridays, arriving ot 4:15 p. m. od Arthur Sawyer Post of the American Legion has awarded the contract for painting the clubhouse ‘on Whitehead street and the work will be started Wed- nesday. It is the intention of the TODAY’S ‘COMMON ERROR Do not say, “I conclud- ed to mend the leak my- self”: say. “decided”. | 1. What is another TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ |Can you answer seven of these ten Test Questions? Turn to Page 4 for Answers name for the game of Ping Pong? 2. Kaolin is used to make por- celain, purple dyes, or ar- tifcial silk? Under which river is the Holland Vehicular Tunnel? With which Major League baseball club does Bob Feller play? 5. What is archaeology? ; 6. Name the capital of Vene- zuela, 7. A magnifying glass makes things look bigger by -re- fraction, dispersion or ir- radiation? 8. What is the horizon? 9. Name the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Can sn American citizen be deprived of citizenship if he fails or refuses to vote for a number of ? 10. Legionnaires to do other provements to the structure. im The Presbyterian Church was filled yesterday morning at the first services held there. Among the worshippers were many visi- tors to the city. Rev. Sinks preached a sermon which was appropriate to the occasion, and was very much appreciated. Round Out Your KEY WEST visit valet HAVANA ROUND TRIP Bo LEAVE KEY WEST 10:30 A.M. | 1645, Soc including j . apeares| | The Administration frankly jagree most violently with his |>Y the Woman’s Club and it will § ; age ‘ be the first time that a cruise has 7 Is and berth at hopes that the current session of opinions, and the whole weight |». . EVE R y S U N D AY meals a atsea 4 ¥ A en sponsored which will st Congress will be brief, quiet and’'of his prestige and influence will 3 vein Cuban Taxes 62¢ : 1 i i Bee DURING THE WINTER SEAS darmonious. But the chance ' of be throw into the fray on behalf |"" six foreign ay Arrive Havana 5:00 p.m. the Mike To PORT TAMPA that hope being realized seems) of continuance of his tradé pro-| Roper! 'E. Lee Neil. afternoon. Return from Havana on | *"¢ ST PETERSBURG dark indeed. For the Republicans, | along with that influential bloc of | the Democratic party which is cool to the New Deal and growing cooler, are apparently determined | to make a showing. They have; plenty of bones to pick, and _it| looks as if they intend to pick| them clean. | First and foremost issue is ‘the {budget. Few believe that Con-j| |gress in an election year, {reduce appropriations. If Con-! |gress finally approves another | big spending budget it will have to either levy new taxes to raise the money or raise the present legal debt limit of $45,000,000,000. |At the moment the odds seem to |favor the latter course—new |taxes to produce sufficient rev- jenue are politically dangerous. Second on the list of unsolved problems is national ‘defense.' There is general agreement that jour defense facilities must be} strengthened. At the same time, | opinion on the Administration’s two-billion-dollar military, pro-} gram is far from unanimous. | There is a strong group in Con- gtess which feels that the recom- ; miendations should be. thoroughly investigated, with a possibility of | making changes and -cost | cuts. Some critics of the program say that it is primarily designed to enable us to again participate in la foreign war, and that it goes far | {beyond our needs for territorial j2efense. Still ariother school | thinks we should plan on hemis- pheric defense—that is, a military | |establsihment that could repel in- |vaders of the entire continent }and northern South America, | |and make it possible to put teeth | in the Monroe Doctrine if, as and | |when-necessary. To build our |fighting resources to that extent | would of course take a great) length of time and cost an in- credible sum. Third leading issue is the re- {ciprocal trade law, which must bs! |again renewed if Secretary of | State Hull is to continue to make } |trade deals with other countries. \It will be proposed that all trade ‘agreements must be approved in- |dividually by Congress before be- \eoming effective. Mr. Hull is ab-/ |solutely against this, on the /grounds that it would defeat the purpose of the act and make’ |workable treaties next to im-/ tpossible to consummate. The |farm belt has always disapproved ' ‘the present law, and its represen- / ‘tatives will be almost solidly lagainst renewing it in its present |form. ‘This promises to be quite | ‘a fight—Mr. Hull is a man who! ‘is almost universally admired and ‘respected, even by those who dis- will “and organized labor have formerly , 7 editor of the Key West Sunday ween Mr. Hull coming out Star, will be heard over the radio ‘There will be another hot time fsa aa a ls ee on Capitol Hill when’ Seeretary from Charlotte, N. C., over sta- Edison’s proposal to give the tion WBT, with a dial reading of President sweeping emergency | 19g9 kilocycles. powers, unprecedented in our his- torypcomes to the floor. The conservative group will fight this to the last ditch. Both business lined up together in opposition. Busi- ness feels the measure is unne- eessary and would be a long step toward totalitarianism, And labor | feels its independence of action would be endangered if the bill; passed. This doesn’t exhaust the list of big issues by a long shot—it just touches the highspots. Most of the lawmakers of both parties will be playing politics to the limit— Congress is simply alive with po- tential Presidential and Vice- Presdential candidates. And all of them, as convention time nears, , are going to do everything pos- sible to put themselves» in the limelight. "So; the chante of this being a quiet session seems about aS poor as that of the proverbial | snowball in Hades. | gram. Odds now seem to nar- Thursday, sailing at 9:00 a.m. and ROUND TRIP 94 arriving Key West at 3:15 p.m. 8 Every Thursday at 5 p.m. THE PENINSULAR & OCCIDENTAL S. S. COMPANY ror Te fon, Consult YOUR TRAVEL AGENT or J.H. COSTAR, Agent * Phone 14 Tremendous public accept- ance of the 1940 Chevrolet has brought in the finest stock of used cars in all history. LIFE | We wander aiong the weary road. | Do we every stop to think Of others who are traveling ,too, | But almost on the brink? 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