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PAGE TWO The Key Weat Citizen i EERE AP EERE TRE EN PUBLISHING CO., INC. Publis Daily, Except Sunday By L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher Jan AL! Business Manager From The Citizen Bufiding Corner Greene and Ann Streets unly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County otered. at. Key West Florida, as second class matter | Member of the Associated Press ssoviated Press is exclusively entitled to use ublication of all news, dispatches credited to. not otherwise credited in this. naper and also local news published e ADVERTISING RATES «© known, on, application. SPECIAL NOTICD % reading notices, cards of thanks, t, obituary, notices, ete. will be of, 10) cents a line, for entertainment by: churches from which 8 to be derived are 5 cents a line. » is an onen forum and: invites; digcua- { public issues and subjects of local or general | st but it wiJl not publish anonymous communi-. ns. + THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL. alvays 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 ANOTHER NOBLE EXPERIMENT By a vote of four to three, City Coun- | cil has passed an ordinance giving delin- | quent taxpayers another opportunity to | pay the money they owe the city for pro- viding them with fire and police protection Under the terms of the ordinance it is mandatory for delinquents to pay in full | their 1937, 1938 and 1939 taxes before.{ they may take advantage of the offer to settle, their back taxes for the period be- cent of the amounts they actually owe. The delinquents are given 60 days in: which to declare their intention to take ad- months in which to. pay the bills they owe. { Couneilmen L. C. Brinton, Leonard Grillion: and Ernest Ramsey opposed: this tax heli+ day program. The Citizen hopes that the ordinance the city/from the delinquent taxpayers. However, right now it does not appear that very many delinquents. will come for- have been ineffective in previous opportunity to hold his property with a public welfare; never tolerate corruption or 2hd other vital public services since 1917. | tween. 1917 and 1936 on a basis of 30 per | vantage: ofthis generous offer,, and four | is effective in smoking out the dollars due ( le ward with the cash. Other similar schemes | years, | for the reason that the average non-payer | of taxes believes he will always have an | minimum of cash contribution to the city. | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Log-Cabin Birthplace of Garner | TODAY'S Backgrounds His Sturdy Character | COMMON ERROR Never say, “When Tom. Dick and) Marry entered the room the former spoke first"; say, “the first nam- ed spoke first’. Former and latter properly desig- nate cne of two persons, ‘lt but never one of three or ‘| more, { | Can. you answer seven of these |” ten ‘Test Questions? Turn: to | Page.4 for Answers On which European penin- | sula, is Greece: located? | 2. In, what, country, is Mt. Ever- | est? Which. part in.a play is call- ed the stellar role? In which branch of the Army service is. the chance of death greatest, infantry, air service or artillery? Which, state is, called, the Keystone. State? Did the builders of the Lean- ing Tower of Pisa intend it to lean? Who- was_the American fe- male dancer who became the. leading exponent of the Greek form. in. danc- ing? ee Log cabin: still: standing in Blossom Prairie in Red River County, Texas, | where John N, Garner was born. | |. “E WILL A€CEPT the nomination for President. I will make no:effort to control any delegates. The. people should decide, The. candidate should be selected at primaries and conventions: as provided by. law, and I, sin cerely trust: that all Democrats will participate in them.” ' MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1940 ACTIVE IMAGINATION |rible pain” they caused in his < {stomach. Before physicians could | GRAND RAPIDS, Mich—| 0" |Claiming that, he had swallowed |°x#mine- him, however; "a tele- \his. false teeth while he slept, a phone calf informed the man that 'man rushed! into. a hospital de: |the teeth had been found: in, his ;manding treatment for the “ter+|bed: MODERN BANKING SERVICE The Fst National Bank of Key West Member of the Fedgral Deposit Insurance Corporation: Serving Key: West and Monroe County Since 1891 tmnt” HAVANA from HAVANA to * CIENFUEGOS * CAMAGUEY. | | *ESLE OF PINES |; See Your Travel: Agent LEAVE KEY WEST 10:30 A. M. ROUND TRIP | In short, the non-payer of taxes heretofore | has always found some guch loophole as} ee : i a y | ones i | including injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue. soe i ; 8. What is the. maximum for | 3 UVALDE,, Texas—(Special)— | Clara Driscoll of the Garner-for- fcuk ao KiGiiee pone and:berth at sea commend good done by individual or organ- izacion; 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. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. Ruff & Ready is the name of a law firm in Miami. This is an oddity, not an advertisement. Candidates never have to invent new tricks to fool the voter, because the old ones work as well as ever. The Louisiana Long dynasty has end- ed; let us hope the Roosevelt administra- tion will not devolve into a dynasty by dis- regarding the third term tradition. It is predicted that the Sitzkrieg now stalemated on the Western front. will soon develop into a Blitzkrieg, and March is the | month. “Beware of the Ides of ‘March,” | Caesar was warned. The Miami papers are taking digs at J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, who is digging, too—dirt from the bottom. The papers” attitude: is understandable as “no man e’er felt the halter draw, with good opinion of the law.” | Representatives to begin | this new ordinance through which to es-, ‘| cape paying the full amount of the taxes | | levied against his property. The Murphy Act is a recent example | of the state’s fine consideration and humane | that act which enabled taxpayers. to wipe out all their obligations failed to produce any great interest on the part of the non- payers of taxes. respond to any measure that requires them to spend any money to support their prop- erties in a city—although they do. demand: fire and police protection and are now At the end of the four-month period: our city officials should adopt a measure that would penalize the non-payer of city: taxes, rather than some additional act to enable them still longer to escape paying: their share of the expense of operating | the city. The non-payers of taxes have | | beer pampered long enough. Give the tax- | payers a. break by collecting taxes from | every. owner of property! THE NEXT REAPPORTIONMENT President Roosevelt has suggested a solution to the mix-up about reapportion- ment of Representatives in Congress. In | Commitiee on the Census he states that the twentieth amendment of the Constitution which changed the terms of the President and Vice-President, and Senators and in’ January, makes. it impossible for the President to. submit a statement of population to the Congress in time to make the reapportion- be changed so that the President’s state- ment may be sent to. the “firsi regular ses- sion of the 77th Congress,” which will be in January, 1941. Key West reports 2 mean tempera- ture of 66 for February, the meanest sinee:| 1902.—Fort Myers News-Press. While Key West had a mean temperature of 66 | for February, the weather is never as “mean” as that experienced on the main- | land. We have something there, or rather | here. The tourist erop amounts to approxi- | mately six and one-half billion dollars. | That’s a heap o’ money, and Florida, if it is.| wise, should do all in its power to make the state so attractive, besides the attractions Nature gave us, that it will get its portion | of this wealth. A lot of this wealth is| flowing this way now but more may be| had. | With the safe arrival of the Queen Elizabeth in New York. harbor, the three largest ships im the world are docked | there. the others being the Queen Mary} and the’ French liner, Normandie, Doek- | age for each is reported to be $1,000 daily..} That amounts to more than a million dol- lars a year for the trie, and if the war will | last five years, as se many think, the total will be about $5,500,000, a tidy sum, just | for deckage alone. Nevertheless, paying | that much for their safety, is justified when it is considered that the liners rep- resent an. investment.of about $75,000,000. | | tioned basis in 1940. The effect of the change prevents the: election of Congress on a - reappor- Therefore, those states that show. a gain, or loss, in popula- | tion will have to wait until the elections of 1942 for a new reapportionment. In connection with the above it may be: said that the general feeling has pre- vailed in Washington for many years that | the membership of the House is already so large that it is clumsy in operation, For that. reason the old method of increasing | representation at reapportionment-time was abandoned many years ago, .and whenever a new line-up is made on the basis of a census some States stand to lose, while others gain. HITLER FORGOT The speech of Chancellor Hitler, in Munich, breathed defiance against Ger- many’s foes and’ warned them of what will happen if they continue. to provoke | him. ‘ It.is also interesting to quote one sen- tence from the German dictator’s utter- ances: EE “There is a God—He creates, with equal rights.” The German dictator forgot to add, “except Austrians, Czechoslovakians, Poles, Jews and enemies of Germany.” | treatment of the non-payer of taxes. Even | They just do. not seem: to | looking for sewer; water and other services. | given by council under the new ordinance, | his letter to the House of Representatives. | people |! | Deep-rooted patriotism, straight j thinking. and rugged honesty are three of the salient characteristics of Vice President John Nance Gar- |, ner, who may be the last of Ameri- ca’s log-cabin. presidents, The other | day, when Mr. Garner, in a terse, pungent, statement of 44 words, an- nounced that his hat was definitely in the presidential ring, the life of | Uvalde’s leading citizen drew the national spotlight. It was pointed out that the log cabin in Blossom Prairie, Red River county, Texas, where Mr. Garner was born, is still standing: Garner’s statement made it plain that he was a presidential candidate for himself alone and had no inter- | est in delegates any furtHer than that he stressed the sentence: “E | wilk make no. effort to control any, | delegates.” The Garner statement followed a nationwide radio. address: by. B. B. Germany, co-chairman with Miss As,Taken From The} | | FIVE. YEARS AGO The hanging of a second group |of murals by the artists. group of the Key West Administration, ; jcompleting the re-decoration of | Raul’s night: club, will be cated | brated tomorrow afternoon with |a. Dutch Treat cocktail party. Classes: in stenography are to start soon under direction of the. adult education division of the! | FERA, to be controlled by Comer |Blackney, who is being sent here | from Jaclesonville. | Another group: of aviators from |the Twentieth Pursuit Squadron, U.S.A. corps, arrived in Key: West |for a day with members of the ment this year. He suggests that the law"\ppRa and other Key Westers. | . Elhet Curtis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Curtis, - has , been signally honored ‘by the student body: of “the Polytechnic | High School of San Francisco, with his appointment as Student Court Judge, according to word receiv- ; ed here. Key West was awarded the {sweepstakes ribbon for the city’s display at the International Trop- lical Flower Show being held at |Miami Beach Gardens. 1 or 4 Elmer Davis, noted ‘West for the past 10 days, left for , his New York home. t TEN YEARS AGO i ‘The Citizen furnished this com- | munity with the first news of! | Saturday, March 8. |. Cheeks totalling approximately | | $6,000, representing, Monroe coun:,' ty’s apportionment of the first; |monthl¥ distribution’ of county! jschcol funds derived: from state | jSources, were received. from Tal: | ‘ahassee today. vce pe Bees i Plans for the entertainment of be in Key West eight hours one? iday next week on a goodwill |trade tour, are now being com- ! pleted. ( “Notorious Mac”, a thrilling | three-act comedy drama, spon- \be presented this weekend at the ‘San Carlos theatre. i KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today | President committee. Mr. Germany, whose headquarters are in Dallas, | predicted that Garner would accept the candidacy, and become active for the nomination. A. boyhood crony of the vigorous 10. What was the title of the of- | vice-president recently. was asked whether Garner would accept the nomination. To the question he re plied: “He ain’t said yes and he ain’t said no. But he ain’t never failed: us: yet.” Today the. world. has the answer to. the. question. Friends and supporters of the dis- tinguished Texan predicted today that the United’ States was ripe for the. Garner brand of leadership. “He’s a conservative liberal,” one of them. indicated, “he’s the kind of a | conservative. that would preserve money order will be is- sued? 9 mile? ficials who were placed in How many feet are in one | | charge of banks. which did | not reopen after. the bank- ing holiday of March, 1933? WHO. KNOWS? See “The Answers” on Page 4 1, When did: the Russians and. | | } liberalism and save us the best the Finns fight a decisive. battle | things. from all recent. liberal. move- |, workable. things, He’d maintain the | ship of state on an even: keel, and that’s what we all want.” | Files Of The Citizen | Almost nine full pages appear- ed in The Citizen today. constitut- | ing the delinquent. tax. list of the | city. | Dwight A. Allen, brother of the | late George W. Allen, who’ had been in Key. West for a visit of a few weeks as a guest at the home of Mrs. George Allen, left for his | home in West Palm Beach. | FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Bert Melville and: his. associat- the lot where the Shrine Circus | played, and many people were turned away as the tent was fill-| ed to capacity. : Malcolm Meacham, of Palm! Beach and New York, was an ar-! ernoon, accompanied by. his wife and several eastern capitalists, | who'came here for the purpose of looking over realty with the | idea'of possibly making purchas- | es during their stay in the city. | - | Not only. in Florida, but also in | other parts of the country, Pros- | pective investors were anxiously awaiting to learn the result of | the bond election to. be held in} _this county this week. } a. | One of the largest crowds of the Havana Y.M.C.A. quintet, near Viborg, on the Karelian {iments and eliminate some. of the unm | front? 2; What is a fjord? 3. Is Turkey neutral European. war? 4. In what year did President Roosevelt visit. South: America? 5. Name: three islands of the in the Far East belonging to the Nether- lands. 6, Where and when is. the first! presidential primary scheduled? 7. Who are’ the Auzoes? 8, When was the battle of Ver- dun fought? 9. What does “ad lib” mean? 10, Is the governor general of Canada, appointed or elected? _Today’s Birthdays 0009000 000026070000 00008 U.S. Senator Sheridan Dow- ney of California, born at Lara- mie, Wyo,, 56 years ago. Dr. Vannevar Bush, president -ed: players opened, last night on_|of the Carnegie: Institution, Wash- | : ington, D. C., born at Everett, | Mass., 50 years ago. Com. Bugené F. McDonald, Jr., | Chi- | president of Zenith Radio, cagd, bora at Syracuse, N, Y., 50 years, ago, i Whiting: Williams of Cleveland, rival in Key West yesterday -aft-|noted industrial consultant, born | at Shelby, Ohio, 62 vears ago. Dr. Roswell G. Ham, president of Mount, Holyoke College, Mass., born at Lenmore,¢ Cal, 49 years ago. Homer Croy ‘of New York, novelist, born near Marysville, Mo., 57 years ago. ECC EE NATIVE STONE CHURCH NEARING COMPLETION The native stone church om the corner of Julia and Whitehead {1 streets, being built by the colored means to thank the many people champions of Cuba, meet. the of the: white colony who have Married Men’s five in a return helped” by their donations .to engagement. The P. &-O. Steamshiip Gover- season; to. the. WestCoast, ‘bring the edifice to its present | i Among those who contributed | ‘former President’ William How- ‘nor Cobb left last night for Tam- | were Supt. Melvin E. Russell, jard Taiy’s death, which occurred pa with a large number of pas- Sheriff K. ©. Thompson, Com- ‘sengers on board. This is. the last Mander Wm. Demeritt, Norberg \trip. that the Cobb. will make this Thompson, South Florida ¢. & E. |Co., Gulf Life Insurance |pany; Messrs. B. 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