The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 8, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO Che Key West Citizen | TUF CHTIMEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. | d Daily Except Sunday By | AN. President and Publisher i Business 3 | | Sars | unly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe i County atered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter er of the Associated Press Press is exclusively efititled to use publication of all news dispatches credited to not otherwise credited in this naper and also seal news published here Men Associa SUBSCRIPTION RATES "ADVERTISED Je known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of obituary notices, etc, will be charged for at of 10 cents a line. s for entertainment by churches from which ue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. he Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- f public issues and subjects of local or general | but it wiJl not publish anonymous 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, faction or class; a.ways do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue. commend good done by individual or organ- izasion; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. THE GREAT MEXICAN APPEASEMENT The Mexico du lated treaty rights as well as the rights of American citizens in Mexico. It has done Cardenas administration in this repeatedly but with the exception of | two sharp notes sent by Secretary of State | Hull to the Mexican Government during the summer of 1938 the response of the Washington Administration to Mexico’s transgressions has been one of appease- ment. a] When Mexico took over the United | States built railroads, which cost Amer- | ican investors at least a quarter billion dollars and on which the Mexican govern- ment owed another quarter billion dollars back interest, the American government sadly shook its head but went on buying | Mexico’s huge output of silver at a phony | price far ahove its world price. Emboldened by its suecess inthe rail- road confiscations, the Cardenas govern- ment expropriated farm and ranch lands owned by American citizens, factories and mines, ard still the U. S. Government con- tinued to buy silver at a phony price ap- parently in an effort to appease the gov- ernment of Mexico. Lack of protests from the further vio- lation of the rights of American citizens | emboldened the Cardenas government in | 1938 to take over the foreign-owned oil properties. And still the U. S. Govern- ment continued to buy the huge output of | Mexican silver at a phony price in an ap- | parent effort to appease President Car- denas. Recently the Banking and Currency | Committee in Congress recommended that IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Pian (Zoning). More Hotels and Apartments. | Beach and Bathing Pavilion. wand and Sea. m of County and City Gov- Airports, Consolidat: ernments. | A Modern City Hospital. | —— ee | zen newsboy wants to know ish and not of fish or Catholic fish. ear only of Jey king all fish stories by hy, still some of than ot s reported 75 post- ountry. The census report a few more. ie well-to-do often the poor to con- . Are they bash- mn more reluctant tl ibute,to a public benef ful or must they be as There are lots of screwy twists in human nature, but the prize should go to | those Tampa students who imitate the op- posite sex by having hair permanents. | Wonder if they have hair on their chests! i Walter Winchell, in his column, was | “Sm soddy” that he stated an “aficionada”’ | was @bullfight, when as a fact it is a lover | of bullfights, presumably of the masculine | render. He would have been right had he a female fan in mind, which evidently he did not. In Spanish the “a” and the | “o” changes a female into a male and vice | versa. | a third termite, Secretary Ickes, | spouting for a permanent job, points ob- jectively: ‘Any wise man who thinks he | is more afraid of inanimate debt figures | than of irresistible human forces should | lock across the ocean.” We have looked | across the ocean and found that all the | dictators started their regimes with | benevolenee. All dictators start that way | until they have cemented their force into | @ single force, and then goose-step or} eke, | } Traffic over the St. Johns River | bridge at Jacksonville is reported to be/ twiee as heavy as it was two years ago at this time. There is no question that the | increase to a great extent is due to the fact | that the bridge was made toll-free on! Jimnary 1. If ever the Overseas Highway | is made toll4free, the increase in traffic | will be so great that something would | the purchase of foreign silver be stopped. In support of this amendment Senator Townsend (Del.), its author, said: “That the law is retained is due solely to the argument we -have heard in the Senate that silver buying gives us a con- venient instrument of foreign policy. Silver purchases, we are led to believe, are to be regarded as a means of buying good will abroad; as if lasting good will could be purchased. “Tn reality, what it amounts to is that, in effect, we spend millions of dollars buy good will abroad.” Hardly had the proposal been made when Senator Barkley (Ky.), the majority leader in the Senate, pontificated to the effect that: “We have been increasing our trade with Mexico and South and Central Amer- 1 as a result of wars elsewhere. These nations are buying things from us they for- merly purchased from Europe. There is a question of keeping that trade permanent- ly. If we cease buying their silver the re- sults might be serious.”’ The New York Times (Feb. 15, 1940) in a crushing argument editorially dis- posed of Senator Barkley’s contention with the following statement: “It would be difficult to think of a worse argument than that for continuing our purchases of foreign silver—unless it is the argument, sometimes attributed to Treasury officials, that we must continue to buy silver that we do not need at wholly artificial prices in order to supply the countries from which we buy it with the purchasing power to take our goods in re- | turn. Such an argument is fantastic. We could accomplish the same result by buy- ing sand from Mexico or Canada or else- where at $10 an ounce, If a jeweler stood outside of his store and handed $20 bills | to passers-by in the hope that they would use them to buy his watches he would hardly be doing anything more ridiculous in principle.” RIGOROUS DIETS DANGEROUS Women and young girls all over the country have gone crazy on the subject of reduction in weight. who imagines that she is a few pounds be- yond a slyph-like figure plans to cut down | food in order to take off the excess. Well, it’is rather risky, ladies. don’t have to take our word for it. sult your doctor. Few women in Key West’ are eians of sufficient experience to how to properly diet themselves. times out of ten the careless “diets” nre- sult in more fat, or at least no reduction, know but are accompanied, it is feared by medi- | cal authorities, with nervous diseases and a general weakening of the body. Qne way to reduce is to take more ex- | Try that before you eut out food. | ercise. ring the past five years has vio- | ail | month—month after month—to attempt to You | Con- | dieti- | Nine | heve to be done to take care of the influx | Of course, we know that most people eat | @ visitors, and while that eventuality is a too much and could eliminate some pound- | ling way off, it should be made a matter | age by eating properly but to severely re- - serious consideration now, | duce the diet is positively dangerous, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN TODAY'S * COMMON ERROR Never say, “I can't en- thuse about him”; say, “I can’t become enthusias- ti “Enthuse” is a vul- carism unknown to good usage. TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ \Can- you answer seven of these ten Test Questions? Turn to Page 4 for Answers 1B | KEY WEST IN | DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen FIVE YEARS AGO William H. Hinchman, assistant * regional engineer of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration {in the southeastern United States, was a visitor in this city. Inspectors and guards of the jlecal unit of the United States customs service were concentrat- ing on efforts to gain perfection in the science to become marks- men or sharpshooters in practice : sessions row being held. The name partridge, is ap- plied to quail, bobwhite or grouse? 2. Name the President of the Republic of Panama. Name the tiny European country situated on the upper Rhine between Aus- tria and Switzerland. Is the unit of electric power the volt, ampere or watt? Which well-known American song is sung o the tune of “God Save the King”? With which Government de- partment are Cordell Hull and Sumner Welles asso- ciated? What is a mammoth? What precious stone, ranks next to the diamond in hardness? Loans to home owners are insured by the United States Housing Authority, the Home Owners’ . Loan Corporation, or the Fed- eral Housing Administra- tion? Who was Stephen Foster? Grand opening of the first Key | |West Stamp and Coin Exhibition here was pronounced a decided success by officials who witness- ed the good interest displayed at the affair last night in Navarro’s showrooms. 3. Members of the Volunteer Works Corps were asked by M.| E. Gilfond, acting administrator ( of the district Florida ERA here, today to complete their volunteer ;work hours as soon as possible. Julius Stone, Jr., FERA admin- istrator, will leave Key West this afternoon for Washington, D. C., to hold conferences on proj- ects and will return here in about a week. TEN YEARS AGO Rev. L. F. ‘Chapman of De- Land, district deputy of the 10. B.P.O. Elks, is scheduled to arrive ~~ here next week for jc” cial’ pLYMOUTH FACTORY DISPLAY COMING World’s Fair working model of the Plymouth automobile factory will soon be placed on display at the showrooms of Navarro, Inc., local dealers, corner Southard {and Duval streets. Free demonstration of what is claimied to be the “most modern |faetory in the world” will be free jto the public, states Dan Navar- ro, head of the local concern. | Transfer of -Lieutenant Vern-| on C. Bixby, inspector-instructor for naval reserves of the seventh naval district, has been delayed six weeks by orders received at the local station today, it was an- nounced. Final details in connection with | the sale of the county highway ferries will come up for attention at a special meeting of the Coun- ty Commission to be held tomor- row afternoon. lInland_ Steel Company, Chicago, accompanied by his wife and a party of friends, stated that he was much impressed with the Is- land City. March term of the Criminal Court will open tomorrow with eight cases on the docket to be jpeane: ! C. C. Symonette, who is charge of the information booth on the station grounds, says that far more tourists have visited |Key West this winter than ever before. The Citizen learned that Joseph |H. Monticino was a winning |speaker in a contest held in Mi- jami by the Florida Power and Light Company. Lees | Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Lover- | ing and son, Lewis, of West Med- | ford, Mass., who have been visit- ing in Key West for the past three weeks, left for home last night by train. Boca Chica Resort and FISHING CAMP Restaurant—Home Cooking Cottages—Charter and Row Boats—Private Beach i FIFTEEN YEARS AGO | “Bond Election Week” opened in Key West with expressions of | — |good cheer and predictions for a \bright future heard on all sides. The week marked the soon-to-be- held $2,500,000 Bond Election, |which will find citizens voting for or against the construction of the Overseas Highway. ee LIQUORS WINES i Complete Line CURRO’S BAR PACKAGE STORE Special Prices on Package Goods For Two Weeks Duval at Petronia St. Phone 138 Special Delivery Key West, Fla. I "Key West's Outstanding” Arriving in the city yesterday, | Leopold E. Bach, president of the ON A DIET? | oe ee Try This Help Rainbow Room and Copktail A deficiency of Vitamin B. Complex and Iron in your diet |can contribute to serious weak- ening of your strength. By all | means take Vinel with your diet | for its helpful Vitamin B Com- plex and Iron. ORIENTAL PHARMACY |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 | Lounge | DINING and DANCING ‘Strictly Fireproof Garage Open The Year Around MEMO: The ARUNDEL is Baltimore’s only hotel offering the same low rates for either ONE or TWO $450 PERSONS! ‘up Arunbet Horet | Baltimore, Maryland Every one of them | Round Out Your KEY. WEST visit HAVANA Leave KEY WEST 10:30 A.M. EVERY SUNDAY DURING THE WINTER SEASON Arrive Havana 5:00 p.m. the same afternoon. Return from Havana on Thursday, sailing at 9:00 a.m. and | ROUND TRIP areiving Key est at 3:15 pam. | Every Tawsday 18 THE PENINSULAR & OCCIDENTAL S. S. COMPANY ris a ol Re or YOUR TRAVEL AGENT or J. H. COST. witha Trip to CUBAN TOURS ALL EXPENSE from HAVANA to * CLENFBEGOS *CAMAGUEN $ ROUND TRIP 10 day fimit including I atsee To PORT TAMPA and ST. PETERSBURG * Phone 14 FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1940 1 ! ‘CITY COUNCIL AGAINST | ee eet a pcan BLUE LAW ORDINANCE | “Your parson seems to be aj €lient: “Has this dog a goad et re very dogmetic sort offa man”. | pedigree?” (Continued from Page One) “Oh, no, he’s got only two and! Salesman: “If he could talk he It appeared that the new patrol both of them’s mongrels”. ‘would not speak to either of us”. car was going to be used exclu-| sively for police call purposes, An effort to obtain the use of the Captain of Police’s car during the daytime was voted down. | There the matter stood, pre- sumably to be worked out by the | Public Safety Committee. } Miscellaneous Matters j Matter of arranging for licéns- ' lang and regulating bicycles in the city was transferred from the (To Succeed Judge Trammell) Taxation and Records Committee | to the Public Works Committee, For County Tax Assessor Application of Raymond B.| CLAUDE GANDOLFO Knopp to lease city property at | - For Sheriff Simonton and Front streets, to; divert cisterns now on that site | T. JENKINS CURRY For Sheriff into tanks for display of sharks | BERLIN A. SAWYER to tourists, was referred to the For County Commissioner, First District Finance Committee as that prop-! erty is in litigation at present. EDUARDO C. GOMEZ “Eddie” EE Soecccccscegesesccsscoecseeeesse POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Monroe County Democratic Primary, May 7, 1940 eeeccesereceuvoes For Judge of the Circuit Court GEO. E. McCASKILL The Finance Committee recom- ; mended that The Key West Elec- | tric Company be paid current! bill now owed, and the council! acquiesced. Sanitary Committee informed the council that arrangements were being made to obtain the! loan of four spray pump. outfitg! from the Plant Seat to use in! mosquito control work. Details of working out the activities to be accomplished were to be re- ported at a future metting. Two first-aid kits were ordered purchased for the fire depart- ment and the fire chief’s car was voted four new tires to cost $62.00. \ For Constable, Second District BASIL R. TYNES For County Commissioner, Fifth District R. W. CRAIG Known Universally As “Poor Old Craig” of Craig, Fla. YOU ARE INVITED PIRATE'S COVE or KILLS RATS, TOO! 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