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

?>AGE TWO Che uiry tocst Citizen ‘THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. Published Pally Except Sunday By L. BP. ARTMAN, President and Pablisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Basiness Manager Frem The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Lutered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter | Member of the Associated Press -he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to us for republication of all news dispatches credited t: it or not 9therwise credited in this paper and also | the local néwa published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ADVERTISING RATES Made kngwn on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obit the gate ef 10 cents a line. ices for entertainment by churehes from which nue is to be derived are 6 cents @ line. tizen is an open forum and invites discus- | public issues and subjects of local or general t but it wiJl not publish anonymous communi- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- never be gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; aways do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue. commend good done by individual or organ- n; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opmions; print only news that will elevate 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. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. On a hit and miss basis poets often get nearer the truth than do philosophers. Girls’ Waists Larger Today Than in| 1860, Headline. And men’s legs longer. Tt appears that the Balkan confer- ence agreed not to agree on anything for another seven years. “Finds Washout; Wins Medal’— Headline. If human ‘“washouts” are meant, medals should be easy to win. The first duty of man is that he sus- | tain himself, and not be a burden to others. | Chiselers should not have a place in tHe | sun, C.1. O. Leader John L. Lewis says Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, “knows as much about economics as a Hot- tentot knows about the moral law.” She realizes that poverty is a social illness but doesn’t know how to prevent or how to re- lieve it. Nothing induces to oligarchy quicker | thar the jacobian coat-tail hangers-on of | politicians and government employees of the “ins”, advocates of the old ballad “Tie me to your apron strings again.” While Postmaster General Farley in his recent Memphis speech characterized the talk of a regime to perpetuate itself as ‘‘all moon- | shine”, it does look that way to a man up a tree, as it does to many whose feet are | on terra firma. There is no- doubt that the easiest way | to help the needy jobless and other eco- | nomic casualties is to give them something directly, through either public or private | charity. But in this as in most matters the easy way is not the best way in the long | run. The best way undoubtedly. is to help | people help themselves. That’s what is wrong with W-P.A., the.C.C.C., the N.Y.A., and-a number of other relief agencies. Any tendency to undermine the American | chafacter, self-reliant in the past, should be | viewed with.alarm. Dependency on the gov- ernment for everything ‘imaginable will soom devolve into ‘the regulation of our pri- vate lives, with dictatorship as a conse- quence, and dictatorships have their origin in benevolence. ary noti¢es, etc., will be charged for at | Directors of the Key West Chamber | A PLANNED PROGRAM | | of Commerce have announced a new effort | | to arouse public interest and co-operation in a general movement to bring the city | “larger prestige, increased wealth and em- ployment for her citizens.” Suggestions for incorporation in a planned program to put Key West ahead re to be sought from citizens generally as one phase of the campaign to revive com- munity interest in the Chamber of Com- merce. As a first step it is planned to make a careful study of the conditions here that have been responsible for the de- velopment of Key West to date on which to base a new city improvement and pro- motional program. As The Citizen has pointed out on | numerous occasions in the past, the Key West Chamber of Commerce should | cupy a foremost position in the life of the community. In the Chamber of Commerce should be concentrated all the forces needed to improve the tourist and rec- | reational facilities of the city, enlarge the governmental and national defense organ- | izations, plan and carry forward projects | for meeting future needs, and, finally, ad- vertise Key West as a tourist and vacation | center. Too many of our citizens have for- gotten that it takes steady planning and careful and concerted civic action to make | a tourist city out of what once was an im- portant industrial community. A Cham- | ber of Commerce that functions along | those lines is serving every interest in the city, the worker, the householder, the _ employer, the businessman and the tax- payer. Without a well-supported Chamber of Commerce the progress of Key West will be retarded, so that more progressive | communities, with fewer natural ad- vantages and attractions, will forge ahead of us. No city can hope to advance along the line toward economic independence unless it has a well-supported Chamber of | Commerce, H The Citizen hopes that the present ef- | fort launched by the Directors of the Chamber of Commerce bears the fruit of widespread public interest and support. oc- TOTALLY BLIND BUT HE SAW AGAIN The death of J. F. Fish, retired presi- dent of the Northwestern Business College, in Chicago, recalls the amazing recovery of sight that he experienced after being totally blind for thirty years. In 1900 he lost his sight but in 1930, while sitting at home, he remarked to his | wife that he believed he could see the fur- niture. His sight was improved and a few days later vision was completely restored. he described his reaction to the changed appearances that greeted him, after thirty years of blindness. Here is what he said: “At breakfast the morning after I recovered my sight my wife asked me: ‘And do I look old and wrinkled and gray to you.’ IT answered: ‘No more-than I do.’ the girl she was when I first lost my sight. I was shocked at the changes in myself when I held the mirror close. I had grown fleshy and wrinkled and my hair was gray. “When I was last able to see the world, women were wearing bustles and | waspwaists, men had mustaches and side- I was shocked at the short skirts of flat ; burns. | the women of today, and the wide, faces of men without mustaches. But | gradually the women’s styles have ac- quired grace in my eyes, and I am begin- | ning to approve of clean shaving.” STANDING UP FOR NEUTRALITY First of all, the United States seeks to be neutral, and for that purpose we have withdrawn our best merchant ships from the best ports, and forbidden them to en- gage in profitable trade. Great Britain | has been taking some of these neutral | ships, that are plying in neutral waters, | into the War Zones and searched them for mail and articles of merchandise intended to reach the enemy countries. | The United States Department of | State has vigorously protested to the British, and that Government has been | | upon our neutral rights. Perhaps the Eng- | lish remember similar circumstances be- | fore the World War when they counted on | the good nature and forgiving spirit of our Government. President Wilson overlooked the violation of our rights and that put an [end to the diplomatic breach. To an interviewer, some months later, | Of course, I had always thought of her as | very slow to stop its unneutral trespasses | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Highlights Of By KENNETH FRIEDMAN FlORIOAS Florida ~, > ii BIT OF THE OR 4. ; RIENT. THE. 1C ATMOSP Hs HAS BEEN PXPERTLY BLENDED UTA FEEOS WIA ITS FEET}. * sae neenaces USES. jp epee TROP. Ban rept 9 Po. WALES NGA YE OUTS, KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Five. Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen FIVE YEARS AGO {newspapers who were sent to cov- March 15 will mark the grand/er the news of the presidential carnival to be given by the Key |Party fishing in these waters West Fire Department. The date | Were in Key West yesterday for was announced by Chief Harry 2 while, returning from Havana. M. Baker upon receiving a tele- | They spent a short time here and gram yesterday afternoon from then went to Long Key. ‘Benny Krause, head of the car- | nival company which has been j engaged. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO. The Citizen believes that every EES, ‘citizen that announced at. the | Bringing in a 100-pound mar- time the boom started that he Hlin seven and one half feet long | = Fi FE OF 2510 THE iY a 4LOR/IOR AT \ 'S, STOWE LONTERNS, FOUNTAIN MES DMO STREAMS OOF THs Wen, |) BbRCTY SOF OF WOGET TOEE FE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1940 WATER FOR KEY WEST tor in the granting of the RFC {loan and the WPA grant. That {is the water to be piped to the keys under the project would not over the progress of plans now!be solely for their benefit. It under way for piping water from;Would be an important com- the mainland, which if accom-|modity in connection with na- iplished will bring into realiza-|tional defense as affected by the ;tion a project that has been dis-|Teopening of the Key West naval icussed for many, many years. |Station, and the expected expan- |The Citizen reports that officials|sion of the Army’s plant there. jidentified with the effort to; Under the present set-up both | bring fresh water to the keys are|the Army and the Navy depend lencouraged over ‘the outlook for/upon rainwater storage systems, j success sometime inthe not dis-} Which are adequate for all nor- ‘tant future. mal demands, but they need a | ‘They all concur in the belief water supply for emergencies. ithat money for the water pipe-| This undoubtedly will be taken {line and pumping stations soon into consideration by representa- jwill be made available “if some-| tives of the Government in mak- one doesn’t throw a couple of ing the survey that is to be used {wrenches into the machinery.” |as the basis for the allocation of As the negotiations are sum-jfunds with which to finance the med up by The Citizen, at the | undertaking. present time ‘the Reconstruction| All circumstances surrounding |Finance Corporation is consider-|the project are such as to indi- ‘ing an application for a loan of |cate that the Federal authorities ‘$1,000,000 and the Works Prog-|Should find it far more worthy [ress Administration of a grant of than scores of others that have ' $300,000 filed by the Florida | been favored by the spending- ‘Keys Aqueduct Commission for lending program of Washington, \the water project. fand still are being favored. Tentative plans for the system Funds could be advanced at the Hhave been discussed with en-| lowest possible rate of interest gineers and officials of the Fed-|With repayments extending over eral lending agencies. Their! 2 long period of years, in order | statements are reported to have | not to overburden Key West citi- been encouraging, but they must Zens who already are suffering :make certain that the project as from handicaps that have been loutlined is feasible and sound long in the making. from an engineering and legal{ Certainly there is no com- standpoint. An engineer of the |Munity in America that is more RFC is now in the area going deserving of consideration than over the ground with aqueduct Key West, from the economic ‘engineers and lawyers to deter- istandpoint’as well as the city's | mine these factors. {great lure as a resort center. An | A point is made by The Citizen adequate supply of fresh water ithat may be the determining fac- Would serve to supplement high- 0 way and transportation facilities ‘of Whitehead and United streets, |in restoring Key West ‘to some- ‘tonight, when the work of fitting thing like its one-time import- ‘up grounds and building will be :ance as a Florida city, and as a jcompleted. The building was re-| pleasure resort with a powerful jcently painted and the finish |pull upon American sentiment. | | (Times-Union) | Optimism prevails in Key West | wished to sell his house should /work will be added tonight. | at least put a price on his prop-/ erty now. It would be a mighty | ,, fine thing for Key West if all the ‘the Casa Marina Hotel under the property owners should take similar view. Attention is called to the ad-jare played and a word of praise | vertisement of the Gulf Realt; Company appearing in The Citi-!formance. zen today. This company is made up of a well-known partnership, | including four prominent citizens |the opening of the Shrine Circus Arthur |tonight with the tent erected at Brown, who will soon claim Key ithe corner of United and Simon-} and one new resident, West as his legal residence. American Legion will hold ares oo An enjoyable and interesting | 7 oncert was given last night at! Boca Chica Resort | and FISHING CAMP aldirection of William A. Dooley. Restaurant—Home Cooking |The concerts are a special fea-| Cottages—Charter and Row |ture in which only the classics Boats—Private Beach is due for their excellent Per- | | "Key West's Outstanding” Everything is in readiness for | LA CONCHA HOTEL Beautiful—Air-Conditioned Rainbow Room and Cocktail | jton streets. The large canvas| DINING and DANCING |put up yesterday occupies prac-|Strictly Fireproof Garage @ |tically all of the lot with several | Open The Year Around ‘meeting at its clubhouse, corner ismaller tents pitched COS ONL generar inet REIT BIEL and thereby establishing a record | |for this kind of fish for the sea-| |son to date, is an accomplishment / of which Gilbert B. Perkins, of | |Connecticut, is justly proud. The ! |fish can be seen at Casa Marina. | Apparatus of the fire depart-! ment was called by a signal from } Box 114 about noon today and found one of the docks at Fort Taylor burning. The blaze was/ quickly extinguished with an es- ‘timated loss of approximately $75. ; Three high officials of the Cu. ban government have been nam- ed as a committee to represent |Cuba in Key West during La Se- mana Alegre, beginning Tuesday, February 19. They are Crescen- cio Cabrera, Dr. Mario Fuentes | Aguilera and Dr. Ramon O’Far- 4 rill. Many of the finest voices in! ;Key West have been gathered together and will be heard in the {local production of Gilbert and ° |Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance, which is to be presented next | 'Thursday night at Battery Dil- \worth in Fort Taylor grounds. TEN YEARS AGO | The thirty-second anniversary ‘of the sinking of the Battleship {Maine in Havana harbor was celebrated yesterday afternoon at the Maine Plot in the city } cemetery. The program was un- - der the auspices of the United Spanish War Veterans and was! limpressive. f The home of Mrs. Benjamin} |Lopez on Bahama street was last evening the scene of a surprise party given in honor of Mrs. Al- | lmira Pinder of Jacksonville, who | is leaving for her home tonight after spending several months; ;with her sister, Mrs. Cooper, on | | Southard street. i Walter S. Davidson of Akron, ' Ohio, was arraigned before Peace ; {Justice Frank Roberts today on ja worthléss check charge. The! jprisoner told the jailer this is the | | first time he has been in prison. | |“This is rot a jail, but a hotel”, ; |said Solicitor Busto. j Charged specifically with sell- (| |ing medicinal drugs not enclosed } jin the original package, ten per- | |sons were arrested in Key West |today by H. R. Monroe and W. A. |Mahoney of the State Health De- | partment. Most of the alleged: \offenders were held under bonds » Clintaxing General Electric's greatest year of REFRIGERATION. LEADERSHIP comes this unbelievable value... perhaps POR A LIMITED TIME ONLY! All of the quality FINEST REFRIGERATOR at less than you usually pay for 2 THE KEY WEST ELECTRIC CO. EVERY HOME CAN AFFORD A Big Family Size 6 Cubic Foot GENERAL ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR SEALED-IN-STEEL THRIFT UNIT Now Only $117.75 CAN BE PURCHASED ON EASY MONTHLY PAYMENTS 6.1 CUBIC FOOT CAPACITY 11.7 SQ. FT. OF SHELF AREA STAINLESS STEEL SUPER- FREEZER STURDY ALL-STEEL CABINET PERFORMANCE PROTECTION : FOR of the