The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 30, 1940, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN MILITARY ROAD TO KEY WEST? TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1940 BY [ Topay’s _ S COLLECTS MASTHEADS ; COMMON ERROR {Continued from Page One) Happenings Here Just Five. Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today Newspaper in the United States”. newspapers represented in the As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen al Progresso, New York. collection are the Hartford Cour- eee, have liked i> have gene’; ny newspapers have slogans ant, Hartford, Conn., established FIVE YEARS AGO t ! 5 hase names ee ‘shculd have liked to ; bet oe ee ice. Fi 4; pe the Cnariest * News ~ ® g 1 on the print”, New York Times. s will way to “Of service to all, controlled by none”, Sunbury (Pa.) Daily to ¢ TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ itm. Even Mass., : —— “Evening Hours a eading says ater rman Can you answer seven of these Hours”, Daily Advane. ed heave eeadeat Bvening ten Test Questions? Turn to veth City, N.C. Independent of St. Pete Page 4 for Answers ‘Voice of the Gamecock City”, Fia., says this: “The 000. 0.0 | ee eerste ae te net —w—e— Sumter Daily Item, S. C. Newsp2 Giv Away. Its > today with 1, What are young spiders cail- ‘The Great Breakfast Table Home E at t to a total of ed? er”, Boston Post ‘evereboliy sae Cie Hey West Citizen = == = Some cf the cand AEN TMAN. President and Publisher » Business Mafiager © Citizen Building and Ann Streets ness knows when we'll get a new directory”. . aad’ established dates for state of- fices in their recent speeches are advocat- ing - four-lane highv. long the Florida Rast Coast from the Geor; line to Miami. At least one of the candidates proposes to t of the Route O.4 road. Such a rozd would be a necessity in tinte of ong the oldest De not sav. “I should y West and Monroe | Senses sno ls 4 thei ground West, Florida, as second class matter | chonld become mili er of the Ansociated Press 1 yes- lusively entitled to use s dispatches credited to no this vaper and also na- troops and sup- ae oe ate gedit rday se of the tional emergen plies might be quickly transnorted to South Florida. The Citizen has no quarrel with t so tha » that burg, reporting, totalled Sunshine of thanks, resolutions of , will be charged for at tertainment by churches from which derived are 5 cents a line. ‘orum and tes discus- s and subjects of local or general not publish anonymous communi- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL alw fear and without favor; s seek the truth and print it never be id to attack wrong or to applaud right; ys fight for progress; never be the or- ran o1 the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; aways do its utmost for the liare; never tolerate corruption or ; denounce vice and praise virtue erd good done by individual or organ- ; tolerant of othe rights, views and print only news that will elevate { not contaminate the reader; never com- with principle. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN ter and Sewerage. ‘omprchensive City Pian (Zoning). sre Hotels and Apartments. ach and Bathing Pavilion. ports—Land and Sea. solidation of County and City Gov- rnments. A Modern City Hospital America will not be sucked into the rom of the European war, unless we trselves to be suckers. crmer Governor Sholtz, news dis- tehes say, has made pplication for seven radio stations in Florida. Now what is he up to? Hamlet was anachronical when he aid “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.’ Hitler had not invaded the the courtry until 1940. has been frequently said by his the President would run only : Nothing run in an nes that the event of an “emergency”. ular about that; most of us of the candidates who’are ad- tising that they have thrown their hats the ring new are going hatless. How hatless boys got their hats into the rir ains a myster The English fleet apparently is in 1 of fighting men like Nelson, who al- manded that the enemy be en- more closely; sea-fighter like our own Farragut, who when cautioned at e to beware cf the torpedoes, lacon- d emphatically shouted: “Damn he torpedoes. All Key West regrets the early de- yf Lieutenant Colonel James D. Mullen Mander of the Coast ar- for, another field of en- During his inceumbency many im- ments, which he sponsored, were con- d. Officers like MacMullen are a credit to the defense personnel of the country. Opening of the Overseas Highway is ; Florida had its best tourist or Don Morris of the Palm admitted this to Celumnist ( e Driscoll, who syndicates “New York Day by Day”, the column made fa- mous by O. O. McIntyre. [With the in- euration of the Everglades National (unfortunately some time off) and the Overseas High be z me popular each recurring yeer; Florida has two attractive tourist lures, « interest advocates of the four-lane highy | posal from north Florida to Miam tainly the main highway entrance to Flor- ida from the north should be impro\ pro- Cer- d to provide easy, swift and safe access to uth = =—- Floride national pl ich embraces Key West. From what has been said b didates up to this time, The Citizen won- ders whether some of them realize that Key West is the end of Federal Route No. 1. If a four-lane hiehway inami seems in order, at least the 170 remaining mile: of Reute No, 1 should be made a modern two-lane highway. Overseas Highway is just about wide enough for travel, but much of it is over a worn out county road and unsafe wooden bridges. i litary necess : of Florida it e in Florida is there at present an army coast defense post more xtensive more important than the Key West Where else in Florida is | there at present a more extensive or more important naval base than the Key West I 2? What point in the national defense yground, the can- base? system needs a more extensive or important transportation route West? The State Road Department has _ in- ated a callous di more then Key regard for the high- of Monroe County. While fici of the Road Department few weeks age told our public there \ sight for im- 3 Sew. has announced it is appropriating a huge sum cf money to third Tampa Bay. In the face of this Monioe county way need officials 23 no “norey at present in proving Overseas Highway, th build a bridge across obvious slap at public official might be serving this com- munity if they went on record ¢ federal dey t of a military | Key West. voring road to REBUILDING FINLAND Ambitious plans for the rebuilding of ind’s damaged cities and public in- stitutions, including housing for 500,000 former hcmes, were discussed in New York re- Alvar Aalto, a leading Finnish architect, and a group of his countrymen and American friends, persons evacuated from their cently b Mr. Aalto has been in this country in innish ex- hibit at the New Yo 1 fair up to date, and he will have an important part in the proposed connection th bringing the rehabilitation » program upon his return to his native land. nization for raisitge funds with which to rebuild the churches of Fin- as already been formed by estant ministers of Scandinavian-American churches. women’s clubs have also pledged gram, The task of reconstruction is seen as an opportunity to make Finland serve as a Yaboratory for civic planning which would architects and en- ?lans include the designers, gineers of all countries building of four entirely new model towns, | and besides the rehabilitation of those now existing. 2 i It is hoped that the Finnish people may be permitted to live in peace in order that they may carry out the worthy plans they have in mind. ; “ALL SLAVE, OR ALL FREE” Colonel Frank Knox, publisher of the two-lane | it seems to The en our | Prot- | Members of leading American them- | selves to cooperate in the rebuilding pro- brought $77 in K to be dedicated to he soldiers from that state een the unveiled next month or une sheriff . Cleveland « for Tarpon Springs to bring Stubbs, colored insur- 10 is charged here zziement of $400 of funds of the company. heriff expects to arrive on the Tampa boat Friday. back C juring just complet 1 7 t the regular Mill Gil 1 -orps c y coi ioners to be held istants rough to the station tor Malon: TEN YEARS AGO comm than « di- t mills 1 in the pre for the. grand ju tting this week and - Tr A party of ana on Saturday With the end of t >t General >» will ve ng on the F.E.C. train from Chicago Daily News, and Republican can- | _ didate for Vice-President in 1936, says that the struggle now in progress in Eu- | rope “is a clash between two irreconcilable | systems of living and governing.” In this the outspoken editor with other eminent Republicans othing but a clash between the nations for hegemony in Europe. We are inclined to agree with him wher he concludes that the two contend- ing systems “cannot exist in the same world isagrees peaceably” and that “the world will either | " become all slave, or all free.” who see | THIS WEEK IN Liberty Se t this port during the FIFTEEN YEARS AGO evening will be or r- of Commerce Ja East Coast joners to levy an of the coun- a nent of not on the dollar advertisnig throughout the country tinguished bans will arrive here Machado, et of Cuba, 2. Which U. S. President v nicknamed “Old Rough and Ready”? t artment of the ernment is the U. S. Secret Service? What are the Constitutional duties of the Vice Presi- dent of the United States? Do mice grow into rats? What is the unit of currency } in Brazil? Is Franklin, New Hamp- shire, ncted as the birth- place of Daniel Webster, or Henry Wadsworth Longfellow? Is there any medicine or salve which will cure cancer? Who said, “Damn _ the _tor- pedoes, go ahead”? In what well-known story is character, “Little Washington, where he has. been visiting. According to telegrams re- ceived here, the senate yesterday passed a bill creating a circuit court for Monroe county. The bill had passed the house the week before under the guidance of Represntative J. F. Busto, while Senator Malone sponsored the bill in the senate. At least two out-of-town resi- dents, who have recent invest- ed in Key West realty, intend to spend the summer here. They are Walter Francis Burns, Jr. son of the president of a New York banking institution, and T. S. Shrout, formerly the “Man From Kentucky”. s Truth — Tomorrow’s Trend”, Boston Evening Trar cript If you don’t read, how you know?”, Columbus (G veeate. In the collection of masth are foreign language papers, such as Polish, Italian German, Spans ish, Yiddish and several Negro yapers, including one published in Charleston. With true New England smug- ness, the Watertown Herald ig- nores the fact that there are oth- er Watertowns in the United States and neglects to state that it is published in Watertown, M Likewise the Daily Rec- ord, which bears no date-line and no mention of Boston, prints a Boston telephone number. The only hint given of the section for which the Daily Record «is pub- lished ii the boast, Circulation in. New Eng From Florida, the St. Peters- burg Times, during a recent cold spell, had alongside the weather report of “continued small cartoon of a pelican, wrap- ped in blankets, a bottle of medi- cine in one flipper and his feet in a tub of hot water. The peli- can was sneezing a big “ah-choo” Naivette was shown by the Bertie Ledger-Advance, of Wind- sor, N. C. During the “worst storm in forty years”, the Bertie came out with this in the box display where the weather re-; port usually appears, in’t it the beatenest vou ever saw?” It is this same paper which notifies its readers: ‘““Advance’s telephone has been changed to 2031. Please clip this number and paste it in your telephone book. for good- solar; as esn't shi n I Arg, record 5 u in siderably on an offer b zen to give the Publci $5.00 on ec The weather report 4 almost eve masthead other subjec tides. tropical t cotton prices, vlendar, news bricfs and rket Lemon Juice Recipe Checks Rheumatic Pain Quickly If you suffer fre arthritis or neuriti imple inexpensive that thousands are using package of Ru-Ex Com day. Mix it with a quart of water, add the juice of 4 lemons. It's easy. No trouble at all and nt. You need only 2 table- sful two times a day. Often sometimes over- night—splendid results are ~ob- tained. 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