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

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen THE CiMZEY PUBLISHING CO., INC. Published Daily Except Sunday By Prenident and Publisher Business Corner Greene and Ann Streets unly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County -atered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press +“ Ansoviated Press ig, exclusively entitled to use tor republication of all hews dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this’ paper and also the local news published here, SUBSCRIPTION BATES © wear AES ARE 2X MOMthS occ hree Months . vue Month Weekly ADVERTISIN: Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of cespect, obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at rate of 10 cents a line. ices for entertainment by churches from, which o be derived are 5 cents a line. is an open forum and invites discus- rion of pu issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations 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; arways do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue cotamend 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 Plan (Zoning). More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A@Modern City Hospital. Europe’s sculptors are getting ready for a new flock of war memorials. One of the most satisfying sights on earth—a dentist in another dentist’s chair. The army has 40,000 or more soldiers in Georgia. The successful man is the man who can make more money than his family can spend. Now comes a Better Foot Week. A lot of members of Congress with cold feet should support the idea. An Eastern manufacturing firm for- | bids the use of pocket cigarette lighters in its plant, probably fearing that the darned : things might really work some day. Roosevelt does not. want to sever dip- lomatic relations with the Soviet ybecause that wouldehe2an admission they should not have been resumed in the first place, and the Roosevelt clan never ad- mits their mistakes. A New Orleans publisher warns news- paper editors throughout the against statewide dictatorships. What happened in Louisiana under the Long | machine, he says, can happen in any state. | How ever, it is hard for them to last as long | as we have a freepress and free speech. Believe it or not—but just a few years ago the Treaty of Versailles prohibited Germany from owning any military air- planes. In that treaty, the cause of the present war, Germany should have been | or given | made either absolutely“: n the kindliest consideration, and. allowed her place in the sun. The thiddle- course proyed disastrous. Not in the homes of the ultra-rich | where luxury can be provided are to be found the happiest American homes, but in the modest homes of the American workman, the family heads of about 18 per cent of America’s 30,000,000 families, whose annual income runs from $1250 to $1750. Fairly good living conditions can be had with these small ineomes, provided there is eapable home management and careful budgeting: To dry up the swollen Rivers? | Union | country | Without fanfare or without benefit of la publicity man, a young woman arrived in Key West about three years ago and de- cided to settle here. There was something in the atmosphere that compelled her to choose Key West for her home, when she might very weil have had her pick of a ehoice building site in any one of a hun- | dred attractive places in the United States ! of Europe. That young woman was Miss Thelma Strabel. She had begun to make a name for herself in the world of letters. She had | been writing and selling fiction to various | national magazines. She had been given | fine prices for the movie rights to some of her stories. She was rated a_ successful woman. | Selection of Key West as her future | home was one of the greatest breaks Key West ever got. Few realized then, exeept |} a small group of intimates, that she spent | the first few months gathering material | for a novel with a Key West background, or locale. What she discovered in old | books and documents became part of the | pattern of a fine story about fine people | set down in a fine locality —Key West. | Today that story “Reap the wild Wind” has begun appearing in the Satur |.day Evening Post. It will run serially for six weeks in that publication, which en- i ; the greatest circulation of- any na- al weekly magazine. The fact that ! the story has started in the current issue of | the SEP is being advertised in every sec- | tion of the United States and Canada by the circulation and promotion agencies of the great pubication. Large posters stress | the fact that a story with a Florida Keys background has started in the magazine. It would be impossible to calculate the publicity value of that story and that promotion to Key West and the Florida Keys. The weekly circulation is in excess of 2,000,000. How many persons actually | read each issue, let alone six issues, of such a publication is anyone’s guess. Certainly it runs into tens of millions. So a young woman who | and liked Key West is giving | and Florida Keys the finest kind of pub- licity. It could not be bought. Key West | is duly grateful, deeply appreciative, | puzzled what to do about it. How are you | going to express your gratitude and ap- | preciation to a young woman who does not want anything for helping the community in which she has settled? Key West is very glad Miss Strabel has settled here. The citizens of the com- munity will watch the building of her | home at the foot of Whitehead street with great interest. Perhaps as time goes on a | few of us may meet and personally thank | Miss Strabel, and maybe invite her over to have a snack. The Citizen salutes Miss | Strabel and wishes her the best of every- thing! | MISS THELMA STRABEL | ' ' | came here THE REAL DEFENSE OF A NATION “The unbought loyalty of men is the | cheap defense of nationg,” said Burke, | who might have added that it is the bul- | wark upon which the strength of a nation | depends in times of peace as well as in | days of war. b-to people who dwell amid freedom and | liberty, enjoying the blessings of modern | democratic government. It is the glory of a citizen to refuse all forms of bribery, re- | gardiess of how the payment may be of- | fered. : In the year 1940, when the American | people go to the polls to select a President, and other officials to represent them, it is important that every voter bear in mind the sentence quoted. Let ballots be cast | with “unbought loyalty” to our institutions and faith in the United States that is not for sale. While money has played, and will play, too large a part in our political eam- | paigns we doubt if it has exercised the ef- | fect that many attribute to the extravagant use of funds. Naturally, citizens are in- fluencedjin their voting by. the effects of, national policiés! upon their welfare. | This | has been so since the earliest*days of the’) republic and is true among the wealthiest as well as the poorest. Those who proclaim that: the entire | | American electorate can be bought dis- | play their lack of faith in the average American. Such a charge is an insult to | believers in democracy. In fact, the in- | fluence of motiey in elections has been ‘over-exaggerated, It is being diminished by the enforcement of well-timed ‘statutes which should have the approval of the REY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Key West | but | This thought, we think, is appropriate | - -. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN } Happenings Here Just Five. Ten and Pifteen Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen FIVE YEARS AGO ‘their boys attend the Rotary Charles Taylor, manager of the Club's Citizenship Program to be Poiter Dock Co., has received no- !given Tuesday morning at 9:30 tice from the Standard Fruit and!c’clock in the Monroe County Steamship Company that the High S¢hool auditorium. Hon. Summer Tours of the line will /Frank Ladd, the mayor of Key begin i®May with sailings an- | West, will speak on city govern- ncunced from New York and ‘ment. | : Philadelphia. t see fusst — The Chamber of Commerce has | Claude Thompson, who has'a two-page advertisement on} been absent from the city for;Key West, briefly summarizing about six weeks on a’ cruise to its attractions, in the Hollywood the west coast, returned yester- | Magazine for April. Particulars day from San Francisco. Claude | are also given of all Monroe sailed as cabin boy on the yacht ' County" with illustrations of va- Intrepid and, reaching San Fran- | rious places of interest. ‘ciseo, the seamen’s strike was on. | eee ee | The Daughters of the Confed- Leavnig tomorrow — afternoon !eracy will decorate the graves of | on the 45-foot Ketch Hurricane: will be three adventurers, Roy E, Kauffman, Gerry Mefford and Morrow J. Allen. Their depar- ture will be the beginning of a voyage which will take them to many parts of the world. The! cruise will extend over five Sunday morning in the city cemetery. In the afternoon the Daughters will hold services in Bayview Park at the foot of the Confederate monument. fire,” and after going through the} motions of beating out the flames! he walked away. When Harlan; P removed his coat he found it for the Civil War battle of Kene-| jhad not been on fire—but his poeketbook was gone. . | ne SIDELIGHTS ine civore By MARCY B. DARNALL Former Editor of The Citizen Rushing up to Richard Harlan: on a street in Portland, Ore., a’ . * 2 * “ of $65,000 a year. His authori stranger shouted “Your coat’s on} = = ae { 1 i Several residents of a census | area in Wisconsin will have to answer the questions all over |Earl Clatendon, is taking steps to again. couple of days gathering data, ;tertainers in England wear more ithe enumerator got disgusted, jslothes. Numerous members of tore up the census forms and iquit, saying he was tired of talk-|nudity on the stage and in night ling to so many women. { | After working for a! ar | Donald Minster of Media, Pa., | car, and! years. |for the’ United Press, who came | there several weeks ago to gather ( news for a series of articles on j the rehabilitation of Key West,! left yesterday afternoon ,having} completed his assignment, He' i will stop in Miami. | While making a landing at the | Pan American airport yesterday, | | Miles Vernon, piloting his plane, ; For Governor SPESSARD L. HOLLAND met with a mishap which dis- ; abled the flying craft. One of, the wings was damaged and oth- | er minor injuries resulted from For Governor FULLER WARREN \the landing. The plane will have } jto be repaired before it can be! used. } For Governor FRANCIS P. WHITEHAIR TEN YEARS AGO | Monroe county is expected to} continue to elect her county com- For State Comptroller J. M, LEE missioners just as she has done | in the past. There appears to be | little chance that she will be af- For Attorney General ED. R. BENTLEY \feeted by the fight that is now being waged in Leon county to} determine how county commis- ; For Attorney General E. B. DONNELL 4 ‘sioners are to run. i The newly-organized Garden ; Club, with E. A .Strunk as presi- dent, has called a meeting to be | held tomorrow evening, 8 o’clock, | at the Woman’s Club on Division | For Attorney General J. TOM WATSON For State Treasurer W. M. “BILL” WAINWRIGHT street, where a number of mem- |bers are expected to assemble) land discuss matters. For Circuit Ju ROSCOE BRUNSTE} (Grouv 1) dge TTER ! Ability—Experience—Judicial Temperament } Everything is in readiness for | \the play to be given by local tal- | jent entitled “Our Island City”, | which has been written by Mrs. | Hildegard Russell and directed by Mrs, Russell and Bert Her- | nandez, assisted by a selected | cast and the Pythian Sisters. ij Funeral services for Captain Eugene Knight, whose body ar- | rived from Miami this morning, | |will be held at 4 o'clock this aft- | jernoon from his residence on} For Judge Circuit Court W. H. BURWELL (Group One) Judge of Circuit Court (Group 1) BART. A. (Paid Political Advertisement by Bart. A. Riley) _. For the Full Term Circuit Judge, Group 1 ., JUDGE ROSS WILLIAMS, Present Judge akiy carrying on the tradition of the late Judge Atkinson RILEY Eaton street to St. Paul’s Episco- | pal church, where services will be held by Rev .A. B. Dimmick. } \ | The senior pupils of the Con- A For Judge Circuit Court FRANK E. BRYANT (Group 3) “A Free and Un-Trammelled Judiciary” vent of Mary Immaculate have arranged a play entitled “Mid Summer Night’s Dream”, which | will be presented at the San Carlos Theater on Tuesday every 10. For Judge of the Circuit Court GEO. E. McCASKILL. {To Succeed Judge Trammell) (Group 3) ining. | FIFTEEN YEARS AGO A meeting called by the Cham- ber of Commerce's president and directors was held this morn- ing in the offices’ and arrange- ments made for entertaining 300 engineers, who will be in the |city on June 8. Realtors and oth- ers have been invited. There were several hundred Shriners arriving in the city this morning. They make up Egypt Temple of Tampa. They arrived ua on S.S. Cuba and a large number of Key West Shriners and others |met them at the dock to greet eget ecye sneneee For Judge Circuit Court Cc. C. YOUMANS (Group 4) Active—Experienced Attorney Re-nominate JUDGE WORTH W. TRAMMELL For Circuit Judge (Group 3) 3 Re-elect PAUL D. BARNS as Circuit Court Judge (Group 4) For Judge of the Circuit Court ROBERT J. BOONE (Group 4) them and extend a hearty wel- come. | a { All schools are requested to let their boys and girls attend the a | ip UFor State For Railroad Commissioner W. B. (Babe) DOUGLASS (For Re-Election) For State Representative WILLARD M. ALBURY Representative BERNIE C. PAPY (For Re-Election) °v: For County Judge ROGELIO GOMi For County judge RAYMOND R. LORD {For Re-Election) For State and County Tax Collector FRANK H. LADD (For Re-Election) For State and County Tax Collector JOE C. McMAH For County Tax Assessor J hing his 20th season as baseball FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1940 ee le Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lan-| Today ma; . yy produce one who dis, now 73 years old, is begin-' wil] do wonders in an_intellect- tual way; possessed with great czar, a job which pays a salary penetration and a good under- jstanding, and winning honors and suceess. But there is dan- ger indicated of a breakdown, mentally perhaps, inducing mel- angholia; or the unfortunate ten- deney may be toward over-in- fdulgence, ‘both of which may be jovercoine- by’ eareful : self-de- velopigent. h lain,’ In éarly Presidential eleetions no uniform method of choosing electors was followed. The leg- islatures frequently named them. over professional baseball is ab-| solute, and there is no appeal his decisions. He was named saw Mountain, in whicl’ hig fa- ther was badly wounded. Britain's Lord make Ameriean strip-tease en- fear military secrets might be in- advertently disclosed. Parliament have complained that | clubs is shocking. - | A Kentucky distiller has been Women suspected of being irefused registration of “F, D. R.” all Civil War soldiers and sailors complained that his wife played German spies have been writing 'as a trade-mark for a brand of the radio all night; threw money miash notes to Allied soldiers, es-/ whisky, for the very good reason jout the window ,rubbed dirt on pecially the Canadians. Authori- his newly polished jsprinkled soap flakes on eggs he men to enter into correspondence had fried for himself when she‘ with these former strangers, for EE Se Se that “the public might assume that the President was connected with the manufacture or had en- dorsed this brand of whisky.” ties have forbidden officers and ny tomeca mer, POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Monroe County Democratic Primary, May 7, 1940 For United States Senator i FRED P. CONE | | For County Tax Assessor J. OTTO KiRCHHEINER (For Re-Election) For Clerk Circuit Court ROSS C. SAWYER (For Re-Election) For Clerk of the Circuit Court ISADORE L. WEINTRAUB Better Known As “Izzy” For Clerk of Criminal Court C. SAM B. CURRY (For Re-Election) For Clerk of Criminal Court HARRY DONGO For Clerk of Criminal Court LEONARD B, GRILLON “Lennie” For Sheriff BERLIN A. SAWYER Re-Elect KARL 0. THOMPSON For Sheriff For County Commissioner, First District EDUARDO C. GOMEZ “Eddie” ~ For County Commissioner, First District WM. H. MONSALVATGE (For Re-Election) For County Commissioner, Second District J. FRANK ROBERTS For County Commissioner, Second District BRAXTON B. WARREN (For Re-Election) For County Commissioner, Fourth Digtrict WILLIAM T. DOUGHTRY, JR. For County Commissioner, Fourth District NORBERG THOMPSON : For County Commissioner, Fifth District R. 'W. CRAIG Known Universally As “Poor Old Craig” vt Craig, Fla. For County Commissioner, Fifth District MRS, ELLIE LOWE (Formerly Ellie O'Rourke) For County Commissioner, Fifth District W. A. PARRISH For Member Board of Public Instruction, First Districi DONALD CORMACK For Member Board of Public Instruction, First District CLARENCE H. PIERCE {Por Re-Election) For Member School Board, Third District K. JOHNSON Re-Election) For Justice of the Peace, First District es FRANKLIN ARENBERG For Justice of the Peace, First District RAUL RILEY CARBONELL CLAUDE GANDOLFO