The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 16, 1940, Page 2

“PAGE ‘two y Kxecept Sunday By President and Publisher Jor At usinesx Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets wnly Dally Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter mber of the Associated Press © Assoviated Press is exclusively entitled to use jfor republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this >aper and also the local news published here, 2 SUBSCRIPTION RATES “ne ix -hre Year Months Months .... lade known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of | espect, obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line, Notices for entertainment by churches from which ’ 1e is to be derived are 5 cents a line. itizen is an open forum and invites discus- f public issues and subjects of local or general st 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- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. PROJECTS WORTH SPONSORING Concerned over an impending short~ | age of work for WPA eligibles in Key | West, city, county and civic officials have | been conferring with WPA officials dur- ing the last several days. It was brought out at a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce last Thursday night that there are three’ projects now | being routed through the WPA machinery. | They are mosquito control, which would | give the greatest amount of work for the sponsorship fund, the creation of a boat evelopment of a public beach along the di boulevard above Bertha street. 4 j and yacht basin at Garrison Bight and the | of the last dollar of sponsorship available | in the city and county treasuries. Mos- | quito contro] is one of the primary neces- | sities. The pests can drive tourists out of |¢d the sale today was excellent, | | Key West faster than any other annoy-\ | anee. They have aroused complaint among | the naval men and their families, have made life unpleasant for visitors and resi- | dents alike. The mosquito birth rate can | be controlled. The Citizen hopes this | project is pushed immediately. | Garrison Bight development is very important. Widening the entrance to the | bight so that boats with drafts of eight | feet may reach the safe anchorage avail- able there will afford our fishermen the | benefits of this fine-landlocked body of water and give visiting yachts a rare | haven. Wher the bight job is finished it | should add thousands of dollars to the in- ; come of Key West. An incidental job in eonnection with - | the improvement of the bight is the dis- 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. It’s a lot of fun playing the market— if you win, but a headache if you lose. We husband our savings, we don’t | wife them. That’s one for the head of the | household. : | posal of the dug material. Under plans | recently worked out this is to be deposited | on city-owned park land adjacent to the | incinerator where it is planned to build a | baseball field and athletic stadium. | The importance of such a field to. the entire | community, including the servicemen, can- | not be minimized. Baseball is. mixed the Key West blood. Such outdoor activi- ties must be fostered for the health and well-being of our citizens. No one questions the need of a pub- lic beach. The day is not far distant when South Beach and Rest Beach will be fenced | in and restricted to the use of visitors registered at hotels and apartments sched- uled to go up there. Key West must pro- vide a public beach for the free use of our visitors and our citizens. A resort city | without such a beach is like a house with- Where do the Chosen people from? They come from what was Korea. Ha, ha! come Always put something aside for the | inevitable rainy day; if that day ever| comes you'll have the money to buy—an! umbrella. Under dictatorships the people are | shot; under republics the would-be dicta- | tor gets the same fate. Better one man Shot than thousands murdered. Nobody knows where the war in Europe will spread and few have any idea | where it will end, but we can continue our | determination to stay out of it, and in do- ing so remember to watch the higher-ups. | formerly | | and hopes our public officials will go in- | to action to produce the cash to sponsor | Soviet-Finnish frontier, out a roof. The Citizen commends these projects them. Our idle workmen need work; our visitors and citizens need the recreational and practical resort facilities in mosquito- | free surroundings. RUSSIA OFFERS FINLAND A MAP A hint of further trouble between | Russia and Finland is contained in a dis- | patch from Stockholm, Sweden, which says that the Russians produced a map of the allegedly, based upon the recently concluded treaty, but | that the frontier had been changed at sev- eral points, all to Russia’s advantage. This was a surprise to the Finns. Ht Some months ago The Citizen re-| ceived the sum of $5.00 on account of some | $12,000.00 owed the company by the City of Key West. This leaves a balance of | $11,995.00, and with Hamlet the pub- lisher says “For this relief much thanks,” and come again! The outrages upon the Scandinavian nations have had a tendency to raise the war fever. the fact that the United States didn’t do very much good during the last war, and that as a result of it our domestic affairs | are still troubled and upset. This is not | our European war, but we. do have our neutrality to safeguard and our country to protect, Miamians can’t take it always! columnist praiséd Miami for its beauty and its activities, and he is right. Another | columnist condemned the Magie City for | harboring criminal scum and racketeers, | and he, too, is right. Otherwise, what is | the F. B. I. doing down theré, enjgying the | scenery cr looking out for the interests of | the better class of citizenry? Yet Miamij rubs its hands when a favorable truth is | told, and eomplains bitterly when the truth | concerning unpleasant conditions there are | brought to light. | But it is well to keep in mind | One} was, shall we say, a second surprise. Earlier Russian sources had revealed that defensive pact between Norway, Sweden and Finland would be construed as a move | against Russia. If there is anybody who thinks that the Soviet has no further aggressive in- tertions against the Finnish republic they | ought to stand up at once and be ex- | amined. BIGELOW IS GETTING OLD Poultney Bigelow, 85-year-old , his- torian and intimate friend of the former | German Kaiser, has just returned from a | trip to Europe. Mr.’ Bigelow is very strongly con- | vinced that Gemany wil! win thé ‘war. He demands, also, that the United States take action against England for mail seizures. The aged historian would show every- body “they cannot stop our ships and seize American mail.” He would shoot them “on the spot.” While his view on what the nation should do to the British, for stopping, our mail is clear, the author has nothing to say about what we should do to defend the right of our ships to go anywhere without being subject to attacks without warn- ing. in| THE KEY WEST CITIZEN KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Aso As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen FIVE YEARS AGO A survey of all plants in the |naval station grounds was start- ‘ed yesterday morning by the ‘beautification department of the | | Key West administration. Ralph |Gunn, landscape artist, said that | markers on all the plants will be |placed for the edification of the | tourists. ! Reminiscent of other times Each cne of these projects is worthy | was the scene at the municipal | |sponge wharf this morning. While there have been many days when larger catches have been display- most of the catches being larger jand the sale amounting to $3,- | 436.28. Newton Lewis, state game warden, was a caller at The Citi- jzen office today and stated that the violations of the game laws which are reported as being car- | ried on in this county has been ‘such that he has beer sent here to stop them and he is determin- |ed to do so. | Mrs, Fred Lee, who, with her json, Fred, is a regular winter | visitor at Key West and has been jcoming here for the past five years, left yesterday for her |home after a delightful stay of several months with the many friends she and her son have made in the city. Shortly before going to press today the following telegram was |received from State Senator Ar- |thur Gomez: “Senate passed over- whelmingly the majority bill jabolishing the ad valorem tax except the constitutional one mill |for schools”. TEN YEARS AGO | It was a rousing send-off that Key West gave Claribel Con- treras and Robert Dopp, who left yesterday to be the guests of Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen in Washing- ton. School children and a large number of adults gathered at the station to see them off on the Havana Special. The merchants of Key West joined the Chamber of Com- merce and the Rotary Club in the fight to have the U. S. Congress ‘vote money at once for deepen- ing the Northwest Channel. A |messagé will be sent at once to |the war department and another 'to Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, set- | ting forth the facts. | Deputy U .S. Marshal A. H. | McInnis left the city yesterday |for Miami, to which city he has |been detailed, and West Palm Beach, to serve about 60 war- rants on persons charged with jviolations of the federal liquor laws. He is expected to be ab- {sent for one week. George Allan. England has written friends in Key West that he expects to arrive here from Havana this afternoon. He has ‘been spending several winters in Key West with» Mrs. England as his companion, King Gomez and his companion, Robert Hamilton, who were pick- ed up last Friday by the British Steamer Portreath and taken to Havana, have returned to the city. They had been out in their launch and ran out of gas and were at the mercy of wind and waves. Validation of the $2,000,000 bond issue by the State Legisla- ture is announced in a telegram received by J. F -Busto, advises that he secured a waiver of the rules and passed the bill in the senate, validating the is- sue of bonds for the road. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Every seat in San Carlos Opera House was occupied last night for the presentation of the elab- orate musical comedy, “The Love Garden”, which was produced by local and visiting talent, which were happily received. Visiting with the Exchange Club at its regular weekly luncheon given yesterday at the Victoria Restaurant was Charles S. Baxter, developer of Key Largo Club sites, who addressed ment he proposes to inaugurate on his holdings. In the event the Key West Electric and the. full bus system is put in- to effect, the car tracks will be removed and those parts of the streets that are torn up will be which | the club on the lines of develop- | Company discontinues , the operation of its trolly cars; rival last week, has wired Mayor | | Ladd from Jacksonville, express- | , ing his thanks for the kindness | Beer Seven Years Old —And Big Tax-Payer Legal beer is seven years old this month. Brought back by Congress, om April 7, 1933, “to provide... a proper and much needed rev- enue for the Government,” it has _| become one of the nation’s halft- dozen biggest tax-payers. The United Brewers Industrial Foundation reports that the brewing industry in seven years since re-legalization has: Provided steady employment for a million people in brewing and allied industries; Bought $600,000,000 worth of farm products; Contributed two and a quarter billion dollars in taxes; Created legitimate business | | benefits of eleven billion dollars; j Purchased a billion dollars worth of machinery and equip- ment; Spent $400,000,000 for power and transportation; Established an expanding in- | [ dustry program to protect the public against abuses in the re- | } tail sale of beer. TODAY’S COMMON ERROR De not say. “I don't like these kind (or sort) of things”: say, “that kind for sort)”. TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ Can you answer seven of these ten Test Questions? Turn to | Page 4 for Answers \ i, The students of which uni- versity recently voted Ann Sheridan the movie ac- tress “least likely to suc- ceed”? Was 1900 a leap year? | 3. Who was the first President to be inaugurated in Washington? A leprechaum is a bird, fish or fairy? | 5. Name two French island colonies in the Americas. Is the discovery that the earth is a sphere accred- ited to Thales of Miletus, Pythagoras, or Archi- medes? ' 7. What reason did George Washington give for re- tiring from the Presidency after his second term? What is the proper name of Pope Pius XII? Does the Federal Govern- ment keep records of births and deaths of the people in the United States? Which Catholic archdiocese is numerically the largest in this country? 8. 1% Today’s Birthdays ences e U. S. Senator Frederick Van Nuys of Indiana, born at Fal- mouth, Ind., 66 years ago. Grace Livingston Hill, novel- ist, born at Wellsville, N. Y., 75 years ago. Lily Pons, singer, born France, 36 years ago. Charles Spencer Chaplin, fam- ed comedian, born in England | 51 years ago. William De Beck, cartoonist, l\ereator of “Barney Google”; born in Chicago, 50 years ago. in “PEO ‘The Citizen weleomes expres- sions of the views of its read- ers, but the editor e right to delete any 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. of the writers must Citize The offieers and members of | way. PLE’S FORUM TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1940 leocccese eeccccccecese TO SAMUEL B. MUDD ' By ALBERT C. KEITH Is it possible that these gen- | ¢¢e | tlemen are sent here by the Mi- ‘No one knows of the darkened |ami political machine to try and| —_hours | induce our voters to vote for the And of the suffering man Miami favors? If so—there| Cndured: |must be a “nigger in the wood- You never knew |pile”. Otherwise, there is m0 4, inove dark and lonely hours, jearthly arms why they should For they were not at Fert Jeffer- ‘spend their money and donate son. £ \their time to come here and in- eo that you of happiness /But your spirit did not)die with- jduce our voters to vote their | if walls {the Key West Yacht Club wish | iss high time that Key Westers ntribu- | Pay less, or no, attention to poli- to beaks. vo ee ee |tical henchmen sent here by Mi- | ami political dictators. ! We do not mingle or interfere | in the political affairs of any other city—therefore we cannot As you know, the weatherman | countenance interference of out- 'won this race by blowing up 'siders that have reneged on their such a sea that the yachts were chance to vote in our elections. | sunable to get out of Havana har-|Key Westers should pay no at-' any \tention to these gentlemen. Let! the !them stay in Miami. Let has!do as they please in the Magic} the |City of Miami. But—leave us! nation as a yachting center. The ; alone to run our affairs as we} and Inter- see fit. ltion to the Havana-Key West | Race fund, which was respon- sible for bringing much valuable] publicity to our city. All was not lost by \means, however. Through race publicity, Key West been advertised throughout | bor. Associated Press ‘national News Service sent out’ frequent reports on the event to} all newgpapers in the country,|Key West, Florida, April 16, 1940. and articles appeared in'the vari- | lous yachting: azines. The' \prominent yachtsm jentered the raéé’ are enthusiastic about the yachting possibilities) ‘of Key West and many are urg- jing their friends to come here for \the winter. | Therefore, we feel that Key} West has received in advertising | ‘and goodwill many times the| ‘amount spent in promoting this | ~ lyacht race. Plans are already ; | started for a big race next year \that should help make Key West! a permanent winter rendezvous \for yachtsmen, who will pour |money into the tills of our mer- | chants. Again we thank you for your! generous support of our efforts , to put Key West on the yacht- {ing chart. Cordially yours, ALBERT E. PEIRCE, JR., i H. P. CONNABLE, ' Race Committee. Key West, Florida, April 1, 1940. | OUTSIDERS AND ELECTION 'Editor The Citizen: | Once again Key West experi- iments with interference of out-| | siders in our political affairs. It’s 'funny—but here we have people ‘dissatisfied with our city and {moving to Miami where they | make their home and run down | Key West. They ate satisfied in Miami—| they mingle in Miami political! affairs, then, just as soon as our} \elections come around, you see | ithem flock to our city to use| their influence against some of our candidates that do not favor any other county than Monroe ‘county. ' Clinton M. Hester, Civil Aero- nautics administrator, born at Des Moines, Iowa, 45 years ago. Federal Judge Michael L. Igoe ' of Chicago, born at St. Paul, Minn., 55 years ago. Prof. Howard Mumford Jones of Harvard, author, born at Sagi- | ‘naw, Mich., 48 years ago. Dorothy Pulis Lathrop, illustrator, born at Albany, N. Y., 49 years gao. Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron of Baltimore, born at Savannah, Ga., 52 vears ago. Today’s Horosco} Today endows with great crea- tive powers combined with some artistic genius. Today’s natives often rise to great heights, some- | times by force of their own mer- its when coupled with ambition: sometimes by the influence of people attracted to them by their ) magnetic powers. The best re- sults generally come from the lat- ter. eo pense. General Gerardo Machado, de-! 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