The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 2, 1940, Page 2

| .4with a month gone. ! treepesnes PAGE TWO ew Key West Citizen : fa ‘THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. Published Daily Except Sunday L. BP. ARTMAN, Presiaent and Pui JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business M: From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Anni Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County as second class matter tuntered at Key West, Flor of the Associated Press Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use republication of ail news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. ADVERTISING RATES » known on application SPECIAL NOTICE ding notices, eards of thanks, resolutions of obituary notices, etc, will be charged fer at te of 10 cents a line. r ‘or entertainment by churches from which is to be derived are 5 cents a line. n is an open forum and invites discus- st but it wil not publish ahonymous communi- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, action or class; aways do its utmost for the pu welfare; never tolerate corruption or iw gstice; denounce vice and praise virtue. .amend'gded done ‘by individual or organ- jzttion; télerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevat and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. 5. Airports—Land and Sea. 6. Consolidation of County and City Gov- crnments. 7. A Modern City Hospital. ——<—$ 1940 is on the wing; here we are, Maybe, after all, the smart people «re tose who never write. After hibernating for some time, the baseball fan is beginning to stir. Education is not comple‘e if all that the student gets is a trained mind. Most of the statesmen involved seem to think that lying will win the war. Propaganda, in a democracy, is com- mendable except when it is dishonest and subversive. One remark that ends - more argu- iwents than any other: “It’s time to eat,” | or perhaps, “What’ll you have?” February is a short month, not as short as usual but still shorter than the other months. Nevertheless, there jis | plenty of time’in which to pay your bill to The Citizen. ¢ issues and subjects of local or general | | TO WAGE MOSQUITO FIGHT | | fort to control the mosquito population of Monroe County have been taken by the Key West Chamber of Commerce in co- | operation with the Monroe County Health | Department. The program involves a special elec- tion to establish a Monroe County Anti- Mosquito District. Petitions for free- | holders to sign as a step towards insuring an ejection have been placed at the Cham- | ber of Commerce and at the office of The Citizen. Ii ten per cent of the county’s free- the County Commission would have authority for calling a special election to determine if the majority favor creation of an anti- mosquito control district throughout the county. holders sign these petitions, In the event the vote is favorable, the gcvernor would be notified. law the governor is empowered to appoint an anti-mosquito board ef three “discreet | citizens” (whatever they are under our strange laws) to handle the county-wide | | | program. The State Board of Health | would conduct a survey of the mosquito situation and approve any plans for eradi- | cating them. The whole program’ is de- signed to bring the state health forces ac- tively into the picture with Monroe offi- | cials to eontrol the pests. No sane person can have any sound | gram. Mosquitoc, form one of the worst drawbecks this state has. The pests are everywhere in this st.te. No one section is immune from their birth and life. But other sections do control them, so that the birth rate in some sections is very low and the mortality rate is exceptionally high. That the pests can be demonstrated by the army here during the First World War. The Citizen believes that every free- holder having the true interests of this community at heart should go at once to the offices of the Chamber of Commerce or this publication and sign the petitions calling for a special election setting up a mosquito control district. Tourists are noteworthy for their hatred of the mos- quito. Key West needs tourists who will be contented with our climate—frostfree and bitefree. HOW TO SAVE LIVES The best way to save the some of the American citizens who are killed in highway accidents is by enfore- ing the laws regulating the movement of vehicles, The highway regulations, including the rules for parking, are little matters that spell life or death at times. Nobody knows when a minor violation may cause a major tragedy. Consequently, the minor viclators should be punished ‘promptly. The enforcement of traffic rules should proceed without recognition of “big-shots.””, Nobody in any community ought to have prestige or power enough to escape punishment for violations of the regulations. Enforcement officers should A writer in the Toronto Saturday | Night has a very fine article on the Over- | s.as Highway and Key West, which he calls ‘ta slecpy little island.” If it were | true that Key West is a sleepy little island | it is about time for us to wake up! Senator Borah was a lineal de- seendant of Katharina von Bola, the nun | who married Martin Luther, the monk who | established the Lutheran church, but many | descendants, as is the case with all reli-| gious denominations, joined oti.er | churches, including Senator Borah who| affiliated with the Episcopal church, | and dies an Episcopalian. ... An item about the earlier newspapers | of Key West in “Key West, the Old and} the New,” by the late Jefferson B. Browne, says that thé*editer bf the Gulf Petthant, a weekly paper, was One of the most bril- | liant writers ever connected with Florida journalism, and the paper under his lead- ership was the ablest edited paper ever) published in Key West. It was born, ac-| cording to Judge Browne, in 1892 and died | ih the same year, not living long enough to | celebrate its first birthday. It is said that | during its short life it cost the promoters a heap o’ money, | not “know” anybody; neither should juries and judges. . NEWS ABOUT SILK STOCKINGS Preliminary steps in an organized ef- | THE ISLAND CHIY: Monroe | Under state | argument against invoking such a_ pro- |Pects have been stopped so dead |day and both were boated by controlled was | lives of | We do not pretend to be experts on |} the subject of silk hosiery, but we have, in a sort of masculine way, paid some atten- | tion to silk stockings as they have peared within eyesight range. The ladies, we are sure, will be in- ap- terested in the introduction of new types | of stockings which are scheduled to go on sale in May. According to hosiery mak- ers, half of the silk now used for hosiery will be replaced by Nylon, Vinyon, Rayon | and the growing use of cotton lisle in toes, heels and tops of medium and lower-grade stockings. Nylon and Vinyon are synthetic hosi- ery yarns developed by industrialists in this country. The use of a. new twisting device makes rayon highly suitable for quality hosiery and knitting methods now being used, produce a much finer cotton lisle fabric than that used some years ago. | This being the case, we shall see what we } Bs 6S will see. While this editorial is written mainly to give our women-readers advance infor- mation, it may hosiery situation as it develops. also interest men, who, we | 9. presume, will keep watchful eyes on the THE KEY WEST CITIZEN TOPOTIAEL A LICENSES TO. WED There was ined from the of- | fice of Judge Raymond Lord) during the month of January, 11! Hl Soveccccecececcccocescer |CASA MARINA’ NOTES |$eeeb0eccacr»ncseeseecee | of ; Oxford, | id., author of Anthony ‘Adverse, ' ,and Mrs. Allen were guests at the ; ;Casa Marina last night. They were just here overnight, return- | THERE IS SOME TALK going | yy, the rounds on @ sightseeing plane | service over the island and out to Fort Jefferson. The plane will be chartered. sng this’morning to Miami, Also marriage licenses, the last of -__ am tne party were Mr. and Mrs. which was issued Wednesday LOOK FOR SOME SORT of a silot Wheeler, Haston, Md., and afternoon. | floating entertainment place along Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton’ Owens, the Key West waterfront in the “#!t#more, Ma. ; very near future. It will be an lideal place for bridge games, par- ities tor this spring and possibly this summer, This number represented a de- crease from last year in January : MR. AND MRS. W when 14 were issuéd. SOMERVILLE gave a party last evening in the patio for Mrs-' Tracy Van Buren of Sturgis, Mich., and Mr, and Mrs. Wallace Kirke. t r | BER of persons who are thinking ——- i inset !very much about that run be- MISS PEARL AIKIN SMITH, : tween Key West and Cuba. We Dean of Women at the University |can teli you that Sutton Lines is|of Southern California, and Mrs. ; thinking a great deal about it.| Robert W. Walsh of Hollywood, ' The Line will be under the Cuban /Calif., returned from Cuba yes- flag it it materializes and the jterday and are at the Casa Ma- yacnt Florida will be used. It is rina. They said they had a most, Julius H. Barnes of New Lork, possible that the run will include |enjoyble trip and are planning on noted corporation head, born in Fort Jefferson as a stop. The being here only a day before ”° . |Florda is a’ very seaworthy boat. |leaving for Mexico, where Dean Little Rock, Ark., 67 years ago. Coming out of New York once it|Smith is to be guest of honor at'_, William Rose Benet of New| |ran smash into a heavy storm and | the University of Mexico. | York, author, born there, 54 years |took it in great stride. Person-! oa (e: |ally, we think we would enjoy aj MANY TIMES THIS SEASON! Johnston McCulley of Glen- trip over on the Florida much janglers at the hotel have tried Gale, Cal. _novelist-dramatist, more so than we would on other |their luck off the Casa Marina ie in Ottawa, Ill, 67 years boats. dock but with no great success. 4 mies | However, veclulay Wann Pier-| Geoffrey O'Hara of Tuckahoe, | SOME OF THE PROSPECTIVE son of Westfield, N. J.,.hit into,N- ¥., composer, author, born in BUYERS of Key West property |a school of yellow jacks. Casting |C@nada, 68 years ago. | |have obstacles thrown in their|with a light rod and spinner, he| _ Dr. Christian Gauss, Princeton way by. present dealers who oc-|hooked fourteen of the fish with: |¢¢an, born at Ann Arbor, Mich., | cupy the buildings. We have |in a half hour. 62 years ago. ! heard many reports of people —_—_—_—. wishing to buy out sections of! UP UNTIL YESTERQAY for | ’ | |Duval street, but the present’ the past two days’ fivé satis, Today s Horoscope! merchants opetating in some ' of have been brought into the Casa! g¢9 ei the sections have stopped them Marina dock. To keep up the} . | dead on all inquiries. The pros- record, two were landed yester-| Today gives a naturally ag-| gressive temperament, making | |that many of them do not even|Mts. B. C. Hopeman of Waynes- the native suave and outwardly | ;know who owns the property in|boro, Va. Mr. Hopeman was the Cautious. Be careful to observe | question. Much of Key West|other member of the. party and |¢8ard for the opinions of others, | |property is owned by persons liv-|they were on his own. cruiser, that your naturally nagtessive | jing throughout the country. More | the Ailenroc, with Captain George temperament “Haye aot 4 oe UP |modern store fronts on Duval in|Roberts. They were out for just |°PP0sition. The mind is fertile | |certain sections will stimulate /a half-day and at 1 o'clock in the f exPedients, but lacking in Son |other modern developments near- |afternoon Mrs. Hopeman hooked |°€"tration. by and then we will soon grow |the first sail, weighing seven and | — + sa, toa downtown section which one-half pounds and measuring the acy jWest, Naval Base. will be especially interesting to|but four feet five and a half | onita ‘and one suas. Mes Cae visit because the Key West mer- | inches—one of the smallest.to be | pender also hooked a good-sized |chandising scene lends itself so|brought in here this season. The | mackerel her first fish, | |much to local color. |second sail was caught within an | = C | ———- |hour. This one was seven feet | DOCKMASTER at Casa Marina |two inches in length and weigh- | tries to give his fishing parties|ed 43 pounds. As it was, Mrs. | the best in fishing. He watches|Hopeman just did get it into the} results of all the guides closely. |boat in time as the hook dropped | Latest discovery he made is that jout of its mouth as they pulled | the fishing guides should go far- it over the side. | ther out when they are in search | of sailfish. Guides are some-j times hard put to it. If parties want plenty of fish and also a sailfish, guides must stay near the reef and then kick out in the day’s Birthdays THERE ARE A GREAT NUM- To e Fritz Kreisler, famed violinist, born ih Vienna, 65 years ago. Charles Hanson Towne of New York, noted author, born in Louisville, Ky., 63 years ago. | | | | | MR. AND MRS. DeWITT: BALCH and Mr. and Mrs. Her- bert Hoffman of Cincinnati fish- ed with Jakie Key on the “Le- |gion”. They raised two sails but Stream, which doesn’t give the |failed to hook either. However, | sailfish much of a thance. If you |they did have a nice catch of bo- want sailfish and only Stream |nita and mackerel. fishing, a great deal of your day | —--- will be spent waiting and parties| FINAL BOAT IN was skipper , don’t like that. But that is the | Begley Filer’s cruiser and the only way to get sailfish. Stay out |anglers were Mr. and Mrs. C, H.} in the Stream for two days and |Stuart of Newark, N. Y.. and Cap- if you don’t get a sailfish, pro-jtain and Mrs. A. S. Carpender } viding it is good weather, you're | just fish jinxy, ‘SKINNY GIRLS SOME OF THE FISH which| LOOK UNHEALTHY were washed up on beaches here | Boy friends don't like that “un- were only stunned by the cold | peppy” look. So, if you need the weather and not killed. The | Vitamin B Complex and tton of [very small fish died but many | Vinol in your diet to improve ap- grunts and snapper have been / petite, to fill out those hollows revived locally by being placed | end add lovely curves, get Vinol. | in fish cars. Visitors to the city; * ORIENTAL PHARMACY i tell us that 100-pound tarpon and | = ry many 30- and 60:pound tarpon | bthoepuce - were washéd up of shore on the | 3 west coast of Florida—By L, P. A., | Ra? gee os | The 3 Mesquiteers |' HEROES OF THE SADDLE also EVERY PAIR IMPORTED The indians in Me werked inte thé. leather ly ne Segtaed Seve the afte? comtertabie flat. ind frem tho: note many touts of telling in every pair Do not confuse this Muareche leather fever with the many ether types. SZES Women's and Children’s, 1 to 18 Boys’ 1 to 6, Men's 4 to 13. ‘ i TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Deo not say, “His father demanded John to leave the room"; say, “demand- ed that John leave the room”. | | | | TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ COMEDY SERIAL aAeeroesnoe } For Fifty Years A NAME! 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