The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 29, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO Che Key West Citizen TH: BLISHING CO., INC. plished Daily Except Sunday By An N, President amd Publixher sistant Basiness Manager Citizen Building ne and Ann Streets only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County 4 at Key West, Florida, as second class matter f the Associated Press f all news dispatches credited to otherwise cregited in ¢ilg paper and also news published here. y 3 SUBSCRIPTION RATES RTISING RATES known on application. : AL NOTICE rds of thanks, resolutions of etc., will be charged for at a line srtainment by churches from which e derived are 5 cents a line. SP) ading notices n is an open forum and invites discus- public issues and subjects of local or general it it wil not publish anonymous communi- SS SEIS SIDES eR as TRY | rE KEY WEST CITIZEN seek the truth and print it lways and without favor; never be aid to attack wrong or to applaud right; | always fight for progress; never be the or- | gan or the mouthpiece of any persou, clique, faction or class; a.ways do its utmost for the, blie welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce :viee and praise virtue commend good done ‘by individual or ergan- izttion; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; 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 Pian (Zoning). More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Cc mewn nsolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. x A Modern City Hospital. Dollars and the Finns than good wish are worth more to the Chinese congratulations Old Father Time has declared an ex- tra dividend today, February 29—the quadrennial Leap Year Day. The one great desire of Socrates was to be useful—and Socrates was a_ wise man. We can safely imitate that wisdom. 7 “What, rooms are at a premium in Key West? We told you that town would fill up just as soon as folks discovered it offered something new under the sun.”— Miami Friday Night. What is it? We're eurious. President Roosevelt is leaning heavier on the third-term proposition as the time nears to make the decision. Clothed in more power than any president ever pos- | ed, he is loathe to relinquish the reins | & of authority. Walter Winchell would have ‘been the ideal person to have sent to Europe to get the lowdown on European matters, apparently unobtainabe by our constituted foreign representatives. He would have obtained what is desired in one way or er—if necessary through the key- anot hole. When the people repudiate a candi- date at the polls who happens to have the Roosevelt blessing, he figuratively thumbs hi s nose at the electorate by appointing the on—a form of reprisal which can »proval only of New Dealers w Deal jobs. In Louisiana, darl K. Long, recently ousted by hoiding Governor the voters of Louisiana, has succeeded in! being named by the lame ducks.as a can- | didate for secretary of, state in place of the incumbent who died the day before the runoff primary. Naturally, the newly neminated gévernor, Sam Houston Jones thinks, since Long has been the people, he should accept their verdict. We will now see if the expressed will of the voters will be thwarted by a political machine which has long been a thorn in! the side of the people of Louisiana. Their ss is exclusively entitled to use | and | ast aside by its will to a government | rejected by) THE KEY WEST CITIZEN TODAY’S i COMMON ERROR De you say, “Five times six is thirty. or are thirty?” The use of singular or plu- | ral depends upon whether | you consider the subject of the verb “six” as a singu- lar noun, the name of a quantity, or as a plural ad- jective agreeing with a suppressd noun. As a mat- ter cf fact, both forms are sanctioned by dictionaries and have been in constant use since the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. | FIGHT THE MOSQUITO One of the major projects listed | the “Put Key West Ahead” program of Key West Chamber of Commerce is ‘‘mos- When a scourge of mos- quitoes wings into Key West, our citizens NATURE NOTES By J.C. GALLOWAY ! on | Reprinted From Port Allegany (Penna.) Reporter and Argus quito control’. are annoyed and complain with great heat q.¢ citizen presents herewith And pet birds, as we very well: | because nothing is done to control the Sage He eS. ae can bring much innocent | A ‘ |“Nature Notes”, from the pen of ‘pleasure. Conservation we must} | Pests. They point out that during the!) c Gaticway. . reas and the Cubans and others | world war the army and navy controlled | These articles appear regularly should not be denied their bird | | them and argue that our present public of. |i the Port Allegany (Penna.) pets. The obvious solution would * Reporter and Argus, and were appear to be a shift over to ca- jcomposed during Mr, and Mrs. 'naries, parrakeets and other do- Galloway’s visit in the city re- mesticated cage birds that may! Recently our public health officials |cently- ole: ____\be bred in captivity. i ointed a way to the fulfillment of this | Be loesing 2 ie atest ores) | p y : és | “Key West, as we have already | ; dream. They said that if the freeholders | said, is a diamond reflecting from | of Monroe county would petition for a spe- |™@ny facets, revealing many pen 4 = A . |things. Of some of those we have ! cial county election they had it in their |tried to tell you in recent weeks: | power to make the county a special anti- | of some cthers we can only speak mosquito district under the state health |>ricfly in this concluding story of “And then there are those fas-! cinating toy forests out by the) salt ponds, ten feet tall mostly,' the trees an inch or two in diame- ter and almost as hard as iron; ! several species of stoppers; strong-back with tiny white ro- TODAY’S Can you answer seven of these ten Test Questions? Turn to Page 4 for Answers authorities, jthis interesting city, and above settes of bloom and orange ber-| 1, Where are the Ten Com- . ees all its people, we have found so ries; spiny ones with white ber-| mandments found in the Consequently two petitions were set \delightful. Much, ‘of necessity, ries, bay cedar with yellow Bible? | up for the signatures of the freeholders, |we must leave untold. jbloom, black beads with white’ 2 In what war was the Battle | : Lit ay | ae pompons and twisted pods, lead | f Ch: Hi ille? | one in The Citizen office and the other at “About the birds, for instance. 'trees, low and spreading, of gum-| 3 ae Netes pe to | the Chamber of Commerce. It requires 10 | We would like to tell you of the/bo limbo; dark Jamaica dog- | per cent of the property holders must sign jcatbirds in the shrub jungles; the wood: poison-wood, and others Bes SiS ES five years ago? r zee jrobins in the chinaberry trees, the we cannot name as yet. In one| i the petitions before the county commission |j:+11¢ water-thrushes that take the of these tiny forests clean little | 4 Who was Confucius? may call a special election. If the voters jpiace of song sparrows at home, |paths like mouse runs wander in 5- Are moles blind? decide the county shall be made an anti- | the flocks of myrtle warblers that dark tunnels under the dense in-| 6. With what sport is Eddie mosquito district, the governor may create jwoeked end played. about the terlaced tops, hither and yon, So | Arearo associated? haaieaiti ae i ore i _ |back yards for days; the whip- following them is true explora-| 7. Of the five U. S. Supreme | a special board to act to eradicate t € MOS- | poorwill that sat on top of the ‘tion. So many species grow} Court Justices appointed | quito, or at least to control their develop- | pole after sunset and circled out mingled here their mysteries are | by President Franklin D. | gent after insects as a secon lee gue to be solved in a moment. Roosevelt, which was ap- | aes e ., |would. Of the sparrow hawks nd | ointed first—Stanle | Like everything else that takes a lit- |an about town, and big hawks! “Nor can we tell you much of ; Ses Hugo Black, Felix | tle effort, the signing of the petitions has | sitting in the trees on vacant lots; the roadsides, or of the seaside Frankfurter, William | been neglected by the good citizens of Key of the great companies of herring ' golden rod that borders some of Douglas or Frank Mur- lWes ipuey, dovia tik sanitoes. 2h |gulls about the harbor, and the|them with sunny glory all win- phy? | West. ey don’t like mosquitoes. Y |pelicans that mingle with the |ter; of the yard-tall cactuses with | 8, Name the country in which citizens are not permitted to accept a Nobel Prize? Is the Christ of the Andes | drive visitors out of the city when they |crowd at the fishing dock, and | their crimson pears; or red and | | come out in full force at certain periods of |compel the fish dealers to put)yellow gaillardias alongside, and | jscreens over their crates of live|sand-spur grasses and gray egg- 7 9 i | the year. ‘They are a detriment to peace, |fish. And there are the Great|plant weeds with red berries, statue in Chile or Argen- to prosperity and to comfort. Yet the |White Herons that stand like|blue ageratums and—well, you tina? petitions that might eliminate the pests [ase statues nite shoe’s alone pave to hunt the rest ue for your 10. Retractable landing gear is > ; t ie mangrove shores, an the selves at present, with novelties a feature of submarines, from the local scene go unsigned! Ward’s herons, paler than our'and surprises all along the way. airplanes or dirigibles? Obviously, the thing for our property |own Great Blues. And there are|And as to the sea gardens, with owners to do is to sign those petitions. The |the Red-breasted Mergansers or|their sponges and sea-fans and | © * i fish ducks that sleep in the man- |corals and shell fish and wander- | y?, sooner 10 per cent of the freeholders do grove inlets and fish the ocean /|ing willies of batfish and ee, Today S Horoscope attach their signatures to the petitions, the |shoals in the daytime; several jand trunk fish, shovel-nose sharks | ©®®®2@eeeseeeece oe sooner the county commission can act, the | species be tilting sandpipers on|and what-have-you, in those! Because Leap Year is intro- is x i he * \tide rocks. and hundreds working | green and orange, purple and yel- duced arbitrarily to equalize the | sooner the people can vote on the project |together far out on the mud low pathways on shining sands in |fractional excess aie the 365 and the sooner a special board can get | flats at low tide. Buzzards andjcrystal waters, these too must/days of the normal year, exact busy on this important work. pena birds sailing high | wait another year. astrological computation can only bout the ointment by one |Overhead; and the pirate Sooty! Sa jbe made by considering the ten- BES a , app : ¥ On \rern that chased the gull and “And we wish we might tell dencies of the aie day with of our civic groups of a committee to cir- | stole its fish and made away with|you of that little photographic the indications of the first day culate the petitions among the property DAILY QUIZ in effect against the law in this THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1940 “Today's Birthdays | St leccseeccccoccccccccocose |! Fu Se Miah Gen. Frank W. Rowell, ee S.A., 2 oes 24-Hour Ambulance Service Tda,. 60 years ago " Elizabeth McCracken, associate = ae = editor of “The Living Church”. ; born in New Orleans, 64 years ago. H Russell Forbes of New York, | ‘noted governmental researcher, | jborn at West Middlesex, Pa. 44 years aga.e y; i | Ernest E. Howard of Kansas City, Mo.,~noted designer of bridges the world over, born in Toronto, 60 years ago. | George W. Holmes of Lincoln, |Nebr., banker,* born there, 60 lyars ago. | George E. Allen, insurance } ‘company vice-president, former commissioner of the District of Columbia, born at Booneville, Miss., 44 years ago. Curtis F. Bryan of Tulsa, noted : oil company head, born Sapulpa Okla., 44 years ago. FF you never have had any, of these pains, be thank- ful. They can take a lot of the joy out of life. If you have ever suffered, as most of us have, from a headache, the next time try DR. MILES ANTI-PAIN PILLS. You will find them pleasant to take and unusu- ally prompt and effective in action. Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills are also recommended for Neuralgia, Muscular Pains, Functional Menstrual Pains and pain following tooth extraction. Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills do not Wpect the nstomach ee sone ou = pey, ct 4 }| DON’T THROW ONIONS! | PRINCETON, Tex—It is city to throw an onion at anyone or any- thing. ‘Re-elect U. S. Senator G At Your Drug Store: | lf “ga | é | fea = 2 0. ANDREWS 4 CHARLES | keeps food NEW 1940 GENERAL ELECTRIC trester in sweeter, cleaner air—controls humidity— practically eliminates transfer of food odors—gives colder, faster freezing tempera- + tures than ever—and G-E prices go even lower: it. shop in Duval street, where we of March. | owners until the required number of sig- jlooked through the back door in- = natures has been obtained? This might 3 OUT OF 5 “Folks here are very fond of;to what might elsewhere have} birds; and have big cages in the|been a barren little city back- | even be a good project for the Boy Scouts to tackle some Saturday. A little civic MOTHERS relieve misery yard with canaries or doves, or yard, and saw a tiny patio instead | miscellaneous birds in them; and aglow with gayly colored crotons| sie: 1 ' in one we saw a cardinal, and and acalyphas, with a shower of! of colds externally with service please: jone of the lovely Nonpariels that Clerodendron vines pouring over | are related to the indigo buntings the fence with a multitude of lit- | nus ton VaeoRus “=e ROYAL PALM DeLUXE Local Sightseeing Tours TAXI SERVICE Key West Representative of at home, but have more colors. |tle hearts, pendant and snow- The Cubans are especially fond|white, and tipped each with a jof cage birds, and are expert at/drop of crimson blood. And we | trapping them, having elaborate; will never forget that prayer! cage traps with a decoy bird in: meeting at the colored church, ; the middle, and trap ends beside'where our own hearts were. it. They have used these for gen- | warmed and stirred by one of the! THE ROYAL PALM HOTEL erations; and hence find it hard |most comforting services we have | in Havana, Cuba |to understand the Federal laws ‘attended in many years, where} ROYAL PALM TAXI CO. prohibiting the trapping of many'we found a spirit and devotion | Ralph DuBreuil, Prop. species of song-birds, and some- far too often lacking in white | 629 Duval St. Phone 9149 times ran afoul of the law. The congregations, but which it would jlaw is all right, for birds of all bring them untold blessings to re- |kinds have been all but exterm-' gain. In that service we were inated down here in years past; truly ‘one in Christ’; and the BASKETBALL’S FATHER Nearly everyone is to some extent familiar with the popular game of basket- ball, but comparatively few knew of its originator, Dr. James Naismith, who died | a few days ago at his home in Lawrence, | Kan., where he had been director of phy- | sical education at the University of Kansas | | since 1898. Dr. Naismith was born in Canada 78 CASA MARINA | years ago, and came to the United States | and now are increasing, due to friends we met there for a few Key West's | as a physical instructor at the Y. M. C. A. | the enforcement of conservation moments only. will long remain HOTEL DE LUXE training school in Springfield, Mass.; in | laws. Still we have a lot of sym- in our hearts”. Amedean Pies {pathy for the Cubans, many of —_—_ |whom do not seem to have many! Another in this series of “Na- | | luxuries or pleasures, and who do ture Notes” will be presented in |find much happiness in their pets. The Citizen in an early issue. 200 Delightful Rooms, Each With Private Bath Beautiful Cocktail Lounge { DANCING NIGHTLY i Casa Marina Orchestra 1890. There he invented the game of bas- ketball the following year in response to a demand for a game that would serve to keep athletes in condition during the win- ter months, | | Basketball was originally played by | teams of nine men each, the number of players being later reduced to seven, and | | finally to five, as-at present. The game | | grew rapidly in popularity, and in time | girls and young women began to take up | | the lively sport. | Dr. Naismith’s professional life was | | devoted entirely to physical education, al- | | though he took time out to obtain the de- | gree of doctor of medicine, while physical | director of the Y. M. C. A. in Denver. ee ae He lived to see the game which he in- as “= ncaa senate | vented become the most universally played | Gacars anniece i i of all indoor sports, with teams in virtually ae pa sees s ae ee ee ea =| | every university, college, high school and | our organization to you and your! ask if possible a fuller co-opera- | | athletic club in the country. lentire staff for your generous tion from our entire citizenry in |co-operation in assisting us making our next “Go To Church | jay” patient | putting over our recent, “Go To | Sunday” an even & ach | | Chureh Sunday” "program. The; ait Sse 7 : c: success of this ,program has/ sane! hite House Conference on Chil- | proven a great blessing to our Stone oe pur wae — és A j iy : TS, entire community and we at-/ Secretary. tribute the greater part of this Key West, Fia., success to your wholehearted |suppo a | February 28, 1940. | PEOPLE’S FORUM | | | |The Citizen throughout the | week, our local theaters for the | juse of their public address sys- | ‘tems, and to those merchants | i and individuals who made pos-| sible the special edition of The | Citizen on Saturday. In short | | we take this means to thank each | and every one who contributed in any way toward the success) of this laudable undertaking. We have been prevailed upon by citizens throughout the com- | ‘The Citizen weleomes expres- sions of the views of its re: RAPPE ers, but the editor rese: right to delete any items which are considered libelous or unwarranted. The writers should be fair and confine the letters to 200 words, and write on one side of the paper only. Sixnature of the writers must accompany the letters and will be published unless requested otherwise. “GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY” the in WHAT CHILDREN NEED i The W dren in a Democracy estimates that half | of the nation’s children belong to families unable to live decently and declares that the child’s greatest need is a real job at real wages for his father and work op- 1 Ur cecmeeiiie occ tthanke wine portunities for himself when he grows (other civic organizations for their up. moral support. Especially grate~} sions wi i _ of {ful are we to our Mayor for his The conclusions will be derided, o: ireccamatin. te tke Eee se Allow us also the privilege of using this means as a medium "READ HER STO ONE or TWO bd bed PERSONS! Sup | D IN A HOU SN — for 1940! ROM the great General Electric Research Lab- oratories have come new advancements that make this the most complete, the most thrifty G-E re- frigerator ever built: Yet General Electric prices go even lower this year! ° See G-E! And You'll See The Difference! NEW Beautifully Styled All-Steel Cabinet. NEW” Stainless Steel Super Freezer. NEW Stainless Steel Sliding Shelves: NEW G-E Air Filter. NEW, Automatic Humidity Con- trol. NEW Humi-dial G-E PRICES GO EVEN | LOWER FOR 1940 TERROR— SE OF TVG ° RY, e fa ERs, — w course, by the he-men who profess great /Girj Scouts for their aid in get- admiration for the “American way” and |ting out the auto stickers, to laud the old-fashioned virtues of self-re- |those civic leaders who very |liance and individual initiative. mandate should be respected and the re- jected candidate should not be rewarded with a lucrative salary—concretely a thumbing of the nose at the electorate, Arunpe. Horten Baltimore, Maryland It Starts March 2, In This Paper | graciously responded with the) | inspiring articles appearing in