The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 26, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO The wry West Citizen | IZEN PUBLISHING €0., INC. Daily Except Sunday By | mand. A PECULIAR PSYCHOLOGY Key West real estate is again in de-! In other words, buyers with cash | | and credit foresee a new prosperity for nd Ann Streets unly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ed at Key West, Florida, as second class matter "Member of the Associated Press ‘ is exclusively entitled to use il news dispatches credited to dited in this naper and also | properties they want to | vance of the general development of the Key West and are here offering bids for develop in ad- city. Their own plans are actually | small cogs in the wheel of that develop- ment. The more women come here to financially able men and invest, the | greater the general development. But realtors are authority fors the | statement that the majority of the imves- e known on ap’ cards of thanks, resolutions of - es, etc. will be charged for at | 10 cents a line. } entertainment by churches from which | $ to be derived are 5 cents a line. 1 is an open forum and invites discus- issues and subjects of local or general t wil not publish anonymous communi- | ulating. tors arriving and at present here are hard- headed businessmen. They are not spec- They are investing. That means that when they invest they expect a re- turn on their investment. When they buy a piece of real estate it has to be at a figure which will enable them, after im- proving and developing the property, to | make a reasonable return on their money. | Those are the kind of investors who make THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the ut fear and without truth and print it favor; never be to applaud right; never be the or- id to attack wrong or always fight for progress; gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, utmost for the faction or class; aiways do i public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue. coumend good done by individual or organ- zision; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. | a city, for they help build it with their own | funds, brcught here from other places. The part that Key West property can play in this development is s, but seems to have been missed by | some of them, notably some of our ‘fore- »st tax dodgers. The obvious fact is that prices should be the rule. A high based on the property owner’s hope ‘ive years from this date will keep. outside mc investors from taking the wraps off their | bankrolls. As has been pointed out, these investors are hardheaded, not muddle- headed. Tuey don’t want something for nothing, nor do they want nothing but un- | developed real estate for a large amount | of their cash. They want fair prices. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. City Pian (Zoning). More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Ba Airports ning Pavilion, Land and Sea. Consolid: of County and City Gov- ernment: A Modern City Hospital. safety hint: Don’t try to turn a cor- | ner that isn’t there. | The man who engages in cut-throat | competition usually feels the effect around | his own throat. Exercise and plenty of sleep are} recommended as aids to long life. Most of | us are willing to try the sleep. | A legislator proposes designating our language as “American.” We agree that much of the lingo we hear is hardly Eng- | lish, } During the election warfare now go- | ing on at full blast, The Citizen as always | has been its custom, will remain strictly | neutral and impartial. It’s brother against | brother, and everybody knows the im-! pending fate of those who inject their | noses into family affairs. | The Murphy land act sales have re-} turned $6,900 to the state, according to} information we have received, and the L. I. | Board is wondering what to do with the money. Incidentally the I. I. Board chased a few circuit clerks out on -a limb and then sawed off the limb.—The Florida Ad- vocate. After more than three years in the! governor's chair, Fred Cone, candidate for the United States senate, has informed | Key Westers that he is in favor of finish- ing the Overseas Highway. They wouldn't have had as much of the rcad finished as - they have, if it had been left to the gover- nor.—Miami Friday Night. Governor Cone is a good friend of Key West—NOW. One often hears the remark: “I'm not a property owner, I don’t have to pay any taxes. Is that so?) Whether you are a wage earner or a capitalist, you do pay. taxes whether they are visible or invisible, and the following hidden taxes should | make you tax-conscious, or unconscious if you let it get you. Ona cake of soap you pay 154 hidden taxes; 127 on a roast of beef; 205 on a gallon of gasoline; 76 hid- den taxes on a quart of milk; 53 hiddem taxes on a loaf of bread; 126 hidden taxes on a pair of shoes; and 40 per cent of every dollar you spent for rent is for taxes. Not paying any taxes, eh! | higher pric | one such property owner, | of some individual. | of averages, similar sorrows will visit the Yet in spite of this obvious require. ment, some property owners, although they owe taxes and need cash, are prone‘to hang on to what they have in the hope of s later. It was called to the The Citizen this week that offered $2000 for a piece of real estate on which he owes attention of | $175 in taxes, refused to sell. “T ought to get at least $2500 in three | or four years”, this man said, “so I think Pll ' keep the property.” By the time he gets his price probably owe the difference between $2000 and $2500’ in taxes—if the city and | county continue to coddle him and let him escape payment of his debt to the com- munity. The Citizen asks this man—what | good will it do you or the city to hold this | property for five years, increase the city’s | delinquent tax list and then, finally, get no greater net for your property then than now? Unless some of our idle real estate is released to investors at*fair prices the city cannot grow and prosper. IT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR Anybody who makes it a practice to | read newspaper items from all over the United States will undoubtedly be struck | by the similarity of incidents and accidents that occur in widely separated localities. is particularly true of accidents. | Every some community in the United States In time, under the law homes of Key West. For this reason, we call attention to an accident in another state in which a nine-year-old school girl was burned to death. Left at home for only a few | minutes by her mother, the little girl, in some w clothes became ignited. With only two | smaller children in the home at the time, there was no one to help this little girl. | She was horribly and fatally burned. The death of this little child will not | be entirely in vain if news of the accident, | relayed to other parents throughout the United States, persuades some of them to be more careful about fire. the time and that accidents of this nature will occur in spite of the utmost precau- tion. . At the same time, it should remind all parents to exercise greater care and to take time to warn their children about the danger of fire. Of course, following this advise’ will not prevent similar tragedies in the future. Certainly, in the future as in the past, | some little children will be burned to death in their homes every year. How- ever, some parents who read this article may be reminded to put in the word of caution that will warn some child of the danger in an. effective way and, thereby, \save a life. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN LoOoKhinge pet at __» CVA sHUNGION By HUGO S. SIMS, Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen FDR HOLDS UP THE RACE | Republican attacks upon the |MITTING THE NEW DEAL |New Deal have stressed the pres- TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1940 URGES ZONING TO |POETS’ ANTHOLOGY ODD FELLOWS T0 _ PROTECT SCENERY WILL BE PUBLISHED CONVENE APRIL 14 BE | N. R. C. CHAIRMAN SEEKS ATTRACTIVE HIGHWAYS IN STATE EDITOR SEEKS TO DESIG- JACKSONVILLE WILL NATE POET-LAUREATE | SCENE OF HUGE JOINT OF SOUTHLAND CONVENTIONS |THE REPUBLICAN JOB ‘TWO SIDES PRESENTED |ROOSEVELT MIGHT RUN FORECASTERS AT WORK jent unemployment and the prob- jlems besetting the nation in 1940, Instead of comparing present sta- \tistics with those for 1933, the Re- |publicans present comparisons designed to show that seven WEST PALM BEACH, Mar. 26 (FNS).—Urging county zoning for Florida, and pointing out the advantages enjoyed by the states of Califérnia, Georgia, and Vir- MADISON, Mar. 26 (FNS)—In an effort to designate a poet- laureate of the Southland, R. S. |Bowen, Scrapbook Editor of the Madison Enterprise-Recorder, will soon’ publish a Suwannee River years of the Roosevelt Adminis- |tration have not been as_bene- The political situation in the ‘ficial for the nation as the pre-! | United States, some eight months | ceding seven years of Republican 'before the presidential election of rule. Naturally, defendants of} | 1940, is dominated by the uncer-|the Administration speak lightly |tainty which revolves around the |about the pressing problems of \intentions of President Roosevelt. |today, including employment and | Not only are the prospective Dem- the continued need for farm aid, lceratic candidates baffled, but|preferring to stress the progress ven the Republicans find it diffi- | made by the nation since it hit cult to chart their. course until| the bottom of the depression. ‘they know what the President | lintends to do. | It is generally assumed that ees |President Roosevelt can have. the In about three months, the Re-|Democratic nomination if he will |publican Convention begins in | take it and there are two condi- Philadelphia and the present; tions which, it is believed, would ‘prospect is that the Party will lead him to accept the nomina- |gather without having accurate|tion and become a candidate | information as to the President’s | again., jplans. The election of a candi-| ° SS i jdate and the framing of a Party| If there is a conviction in the| platform must be undertaken, ;minds of Democratic leaders that | junless something happens in. the | the Republicans are making prog- |meantime, without knowing ress in their attacks upon.the Ad- |whether President Roosevelt will|ministration’s accomplishments | ttempt to break tradition and |and that the Party. faces probable |secure a third term and without |defeat with a lesser figure head- |too much information as to ex-| ing. the ticket, President Roose- jactly what will be the campaign velt would lead the fight, for the |position of the Democrats. retention of the reforms and poli- ginia, as to the cleanliness and scenic beauty of their highways, Mrs. W. L. Lawton, Chairman of the National Roadside Council, addressed a group of prominent business men here this week and declared: “Attractive highways are a potent factor in increasing travel, yet the very groups in Florida which depend upon great- er travel for greater profits are doing much to destroy the at- tractiveness of Florida’s high- ways.” Mrs. Lawton also deplored the fact that U. S. Highway 1, be-/ tween Jacksonville and Miami, ' had over 7,000 billboards adver- | tising hotels, resorts and cities. She admitted that such places! « needed the benefit of reaching! It is not so long since the Pony the traveler en route, but de-| Express, but it is long enough so clared that “billboards are not folks now do not know what it the best method”. She suggest-! would be like to have no rail- ed instead, a regional directory toads, or banks, or electric giving detailed information, and jights, or running water—and you distributed at advantageous ‘shave by a mirror hung on a tree points. “Common business sense by the creek. calls for a cooperative program Our grandpa had plenty to of advertising which will pull worry about, like tomahawks, for the state as a whole instead anq such, but even so, it was not Anthology of southern poets and jhas invited amateur poets of the state to submit their works to him for inclusion in the book. The Anthology, to be dedicated to the memory of Stephen Fos- ter, is designed primarily to help the new and unknown poets to today | get their works before the public, {and publisher. The completed book will include a ballot for the reader’s vote, and the final tabu- lation. will determine who, of Florida’s many excellent poets. will be poet-laureate of the Southland. THE LOWDOWN \FROM HICKORY GROVE cies which he has inaugurated. he’ll | , got too close to the fire and her | Certainly, | everybody recognizes that it is impossible | ‘for parents to be with their children all For the present, the aspirants | —— |for the Republican. presidential; The other condition relates to nomination are making their}the foreign affairs and the situa- views known to the voters and tion in Europe. With nearly four re liberally cannonading the months to go before the Demo-| |New Deal in general. In fact, :crats meet in Chicago, it is im- |this strategy on the part of the possible at this time to know GOP hopefuls tends to make the | what the situation will be in the |New Deal the issue of the cam |outside world, but it is generally | jpaign regardless of what the ,believed that the President might | |Democrats may do. These tactics, be persuaded to run again in or-! however, are pretty sound be-|der to protect the interests of jcause it is almost an inevitable |thjs country in the midst of world |conclusion that the Demoerats|turmoil and to prevent, if pos-', will have to stand on the record sible, our involvement in the of the New Deal. For the Demo- |struggle. crats to do otherwise would be a i to commit political hari-kari. | Between now and the election, | — politicians, newspaper men and From a political standpoint, the candidates, together with millions | Republicans must convince the. of. citizens of this country, will voters. of the country that the eagerly watch developments and |New Deal has been a failure, that attempt to forecast the outcome | \the condition. of the country to-!of tHe voting. The Party mana- day is worse because of President! gers. will attempt to frame issues | Roosevelt’s policies; and that sto win votes and there will be | such recovery as has been record. amazing activity on the part of ed is much less than the country those who “point with pride” and had a right to expect from a cap-/others who “view with alarm”. able and efficiently anministered This is characteristic of Ameri- | government. Unless these argu- can political cam is which |ments can be put over con- ‘generally show little moderation | vincingly, all that the Democrats in passing judgment upon public would have to do is to nominate ;issues but often exhibit consider- {a New Dealer and let him ride to able fence-straddling, buck-pass- | the White Hoose on the record ing and issue-dodging on the part of the present Administration. ‘of active candidates. | eae TODAY'S, | +A FALLEN GIANT . COMMON ERROR By WINIFRED CQWAN Never say,. “I don't guess you remember me”; sey, “I think (cr presume) that you do not remember me”, | When the axe goes into a tree |To bring it down, |It seems almost as though It had struck the heart of me. \I think of all the years gone by | That it- took that tree to grow, ODAY’S. DAILY QUIZ | |The storms it has seen, The heat, the cold and the snow. |Then I wonder where thé birds | | will nest |'Who have long made it their) | home. | will they feel lost and friendless , jNow that their tree is gone? j iCan all the things that are built | from a tree i {Be worth as much to see | As the. beauty that has been de-| j { Can you answer seven of these ten Test Questions? Turn to Page 4 for Answers 1. Did Congress ever have four sessions? “Prince Arthur” was the nickname of which former President 6f the U. S.? What is meant by a light year? Who was the commander of the Bon Homme Rich- 825 Almeria Ave., ard? |Coral Gables, Fla. Does summer officially _ be- | gin on May 21 or June 21? | Do house flies bite? | Did England conscript Irish- men during the | World 2: stroyed When. man cuts down a tree? TAKES HINT =| (By Annectated Tress) LYONS, Kans., Mar. 26.—A) War? - |hint is all that it takes to start, Where is Lake Ladoga? {Paul Jones, head. of the Kansas | What is the Japanese name | Coronado anniversary festivities, ' for their country? la celebration planned for next | . Is the famous “Big Ben”! i bell it TesnGbnsdeagha [ears eee eee it he in Westminster Abbey vo. the Houses of Parlia- ment? in and said he would come if he | | {could see a prairie dog town. So/ | jJones plans to mark three such | | a along the main highways | | Seeesooeusvaceecesesenes oy i aoe mone Ee | |Today’s Horoscope! | eoees eanccesee | Today indicates one with great | be ork lye ig ae oP {force of character, who will; the co be rates for either |make-a way in spite of opposition j jand discouragement. There will ONE or TWO H \be many backsets and times | PERSONS! |when. it will seem as though | {there was nothing left in life, but } there is success in the end, chief- | ly due to the perseverance of | the nature. 4 of advertising individual attrac- tions, by a method which de- stroys one of the greatest attrac- tions the state possesses,” Mrs. Lawton declared. PLANS HISTORY OF STATE JOURNALISM WRITERS’ PROJECT HEAD Is-| SUES CALL FOR OLD-TIME FLORIDA NEWSPAPERS TAMPA, Mar. 26 (FNS).— Maxwell Hunter, head of the; State WPA Writers’ Project, an-j neunced last week that his de-! partment was in search of old- time Flcrida newspapers and| asked readers and newspapers throughout the state co- operate with him in gathering! data which would enable the! project to assemble a history of | Florida journalism. “I realize that many persons; probably have in their possession copies of old newspapers, bui} which they would like to keep as momentos”, he said. “However, ! those who have them but had/ rather retain them in their pos- session, I would be glad to send a writer to their homes to copy | such material as may be useful. Through his efforts an old copy of the East Florida Banner (now! the Ocala Banner) dated June 13, 1866, was located in St. Peters-} burg, owned by a family who had retained it through the years because of a death notice. It is; believed to be the oldest copy of the Banner in existence. The pa- per editorially showed great con- cern over the delay of the trial of Jefferson Davis, captured president of the Confederacy. Mr. Hunter may be contacted at Tampa through the “WPA: Writers’ Project, Wallace S/ Building”. 410 Fleming Street GOOD FOOD MAY BE OBTAINED o—o—o Cocktail Lounge “Key West's Outstanding” LA CONCHA HOTEL Beautiful—Air-Conditioned Rainbow Room and Cocktail Lounge DINING and DANCING Strictly Fireproof Garage Open The Year Around RAE Ra RE ED LIQUORS WINES Complete Line CURRO’S BAR PACKAGE STORE TRY IT TODAY— The. Favorite in Key West 1 i | But there is | 1 | so much different from today. If you have a bank, or a pow- er-house or about any kind of business today, you got a bunch ; of Potomac Indians circling your camp. And the latest I read is about the Govt. there in Oregon and the Northwest, threatening to scalp all the little outfits already there in the electric business. And the paper says ‘that one Govt. plant at Grand Coulee, about a third finished, will cost, complete, 400 million. a flicker of light in the distance—a Scotchman just got elected to Congress, in Ohio. If Grand Coulee would right now and charge off as a dead horse, everything to date, it would get 3 cheers. Yours, with the low-down, JO SERRA. For Fifty Years A NAME! In Coffee In Key West STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE THAT'S A REPUTATION £ : Lopez Funeral Service Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers 24-Hour Ambulance Service Phone 135 Night 696 sweeter, cleaner air—controls | i G-E PRICES GO EVEN LOWER FOR 1940 stop | JACKSONVILLE, Fila., Mar. 26 (FNS).—Anticipating an influx of at least 6,000 visitors for the Grand Encampment of the 1.0.0.F...with. jomt conventions of the. Department Council, L.A.P.M, Association and Rebecca Assembly, Jacksonville is mak- ing plans to entertain her gu s. Convention dates are April 14-18, with a full program ar- ranged for the period, a feature ef which will be the conferring of the Decoration of Chivalry supon Mrs. Sz Howell and _ Mrs. », of Jackson- ville. Elections will occur in all branches with the exception of Department, Council The itary Ball, scheduled for Mon- , promises to be a and colorful event various zined at ington » Mor- ville is local chair- mbly. ja e brilliant Headquarters for branches will be m man for the As: There were 5,738 deer, elk, moose, mountain sheep and bear killed in Wyoming during the 1939 big game season. od Colorado produ $12,765,165 worth of gold in ‘1 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 Boca Chica Resort and FISHING CAMP Restaurant—Home Cooking Cottages—Charter and Row Boats—Private Beach ROYAL PALM DeLUXE Local Sightseeing Tours TAXI SERVICE Key West Representative of THE ROYAL PALM HOTEL in Havana, Cuba ROYAL PALM TAXI CO. Ralph DuBreuil, Prop. 629 Duval St. Phone 914! CASA MARINA Key West's © HOTEL DE LUXE American Plan 200 Delightful Rooms, Each With Private Bath Beautiful Cocktail Lounge DANCING NIGHTLY Casa Marina Orchestra PETER SCHUTT, Manager NEW 1940 GENERAL ELECTRIC frester in tumidity—practically eliminates transfer of food odors—gives colder, faster freezing tempera- a: tures than ever— ROM the greatGeneral 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! e 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,