The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 7, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO Che Hey West Citizen PUBLISHING CO., INC. pt Sunday By + Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Green: a Ann Streets Assoviated Press’ is exclusively entitled to use cor republication of all news dispatches credited to § not otherwise credited In this paper and also cal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES it the Ic ADVERTISING RATES lade known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE cards of thanks, resolutions of t, obituary ices, etc., will be charged for at of 10 cents a line. ces for entertainment by churches from which © is to be derived are 5 cents a line. zen is an open forum and invites discus- { public issues and subjects of local or general st but it will not publish anonymous communi- ading no! THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it withont 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; aways do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue 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). + 2 3. More Hotels and Apartments. -&-..Beach and Bathing Pavilion. . Airports—Land and Sea. “6, Consoli: m of County and City Gov- <A ernments. A Modern City Hospital. Follies of Florida: day’s election results, Try to predict to- 1940 is only one-third gone, but most of the year’s resolutions are 100 per cent gone. We would name those who are going io be elected today, but we are such a poor | . guesser. Neighbor ladies probably saw little that they considered fascinating about Cleopatra. If Great Brita s always late why is se called Great? That’s a poser submit- tel by a Key West wag. Key West wants water and is_ indif- ferent to the agency that will bring it Oniy insisterce is that water for the keys must be provided as well. Florida Legionraires will hold their next convention in Key West, and shows the Island City is making a zk. Several years ago no one in Key West would have even considered asking a stdte-wide convention to go. down there.— The Florida Advocate. come- > The Citizen is quite in accord with Bernarr MacFadden when he said that “Key West needs streams of publicity as much as it needs a new pipe line of life- giving water.” While we have had streams of publicity they must continue and not be alf’wed to dry up. The public’s memory is short. fredictions are interesting to the pub- liegif dangerous to the prophet. Colonel i'v§Rxk Knox, editor of the Chicago Daily Net#s,predicts that every nation in Europe vie in the war by May 23. This is a statement that you can check up. It won't be long before we will know just how to rank the Chicago editor as a soothsayer. Ethiopia’s supposed great mineral wealth, still being sought by Italian scien- is being proved a fallacy. It may develop that Mussolini or rather the Italian pebple, paid an unremunerative price to obfain great wealth which they needed and “leberisraum” which they obviously did not need or at least of which they did not avail themselves. that’ THE SEWAGE SYSTEM While today’s ballots are being cast | and tabulated, Key Westers might devote a little thought to the problem of provid- ing the city with an adequate sewage dis- posal m. It is to be hoped there is no such stench in the election as sometimes il, cur ne-trils in some sections of the \t the present time the Beard of Pub- lic Works is moving steadily toward the consummation of a plan to provide Key West with a sewer collection and sewage s stem. In co-operation with the WPA it is engaged in laying sewer con- nections in our streets that were not laid at the time the main lines were put down. | Also, it is eoing forward with plans to; oper the disposal plants, so as to give the | mcdern, ¢ drainage, with no nitary by-products. | It is reported to The Citizen the sewer | connection project is meeting with some opposition. Under a city ordinance, the Zonrd of Public Works is authorized to € benefited property owner $10 ast rship fund in procuring WPA sor to lay the connections between the street laterals and the curbs. This assess- ment is being protested by some short- ichted and tight-fisted property owners. Their objections seem to be that the > should bear the entire burden of sponsorship and then collect the money in t wilay nanner on the tax bill; that the entire cost of the connections should be borne by the city, or that the present septic tanks or drainage pits provide all the scwage disposal needed at a particular property. Key West has no funds to sponsor such a project, for the reason that many of | the very objectors to the connection proj- ect never paid any taxes or only a small portion of the taxes levied against their properties. Septic tanks, even though they be new, do not provide sanitary disposal of xe. They have to drain somewhere. They drain into our underground water reservoirs, the source of our well water. Some wells test .out chemically pure. Others, if tested, would show the presence of bacteria. A modern, sanitary sewage system is ne of. Key. West's greatest needs. Our city officials should be firm in their treat- ment of those who object to the small ex- pense involved in hooking our homes and -ommercial buildings to the sewers laid without cost by the federal government. Our adequate city and state health reg- ions should be invoked to force the sighted and tight-fisted into com- plying with an ordinance designed to pro- tect this city against disease and epi- demic. ch c SUITABLE NAMES sidents of Key West were pleased to participate in the move to affix names to the Key West Housing Authority white afd colored units which will be constructed here, presumably this coming summer. As announced last week, names could »e sent to The Citizen. Proof that the sug- gestion did not gc unheeded was evidenced in the relatively large number of names turned in, time allowance being con- sidered. Now it's up to the local Housing | Authority group to pick the best names, or | to combine suggestions made into ones that | will, in its opinion, be best suited for the two units. H The Citizen liked several of the names submitted—especially that recognizing the pioneering days of Key West in honoring the leaders of those days. Good practice is followed in other localities that have named Housing projects in honoring of noted citizens who have passed on, either long ago or in the near past. In the future, these units will be re- ferred to by name. The Citizen trusts that the loca! authority will exercise due care in the selections soon to be made. A proud city would do well to remind visitors of two ) of its outstanding pioneers.by placing their -mames 0 the projects to be @arried out. BRITISH FLEET DIVIDED } It is worth pointing out, especially to ; those who think that the British navy is incompetert, that in carrying out recent | cperations around Norway the British used ‘only a small part of their fleet. Much of British naval strength is con- centrated for the purpose of preventing a \ jury German invasion of the Netherlands, | where bases for submarines and airplanes | , would-be a real threat to the British Isles. | 1 TODAY’S COMMON. ERROR Do net say. “He had a mean temper”: say, “He was ill-tempered”. “Mean” means lowly or base, but it does not mean cruel. TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ « Can you answer seven of these ten Test Questions? Turn to Page 4 for Answers are nuts, 1. Botanically peanuts classed as legumes, or cereals? Where did “chop suey” orig- inate? How many hundreds are in a millién? Name the highest point in North America. Will there be any more Strain on a rope if ten horses pull at each end than if one end is tied to a tree and only ten horses pull at the other end? _ Is the phrase “so help me} God” in the oath taken by the President of the U. S.? Name the fafneus American composer of march music who died in 1932? Who is commander-in-chief of the German army? What three colors form the flag of the Irish Free State? Which western team in the American League failed ‘to win a game from the Yan-, kees last year in its own park? KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Yeats Ago As Taken From The Files ; Of The Citizen a et FIVE YEARS AGO Offerings of sponge at the mu- nicipal sponge dock this morn- ing were very small. There were few large lots and only $948 re- sulted from thé sale. One lot of! 93 bunches brought $345 and an- other lot of 120 bunches sold for $502. The rest sold for about $100. Another group of excursionists arrived from Miami yestetday | and spent the time sightseeing and visiting relatives and friends, and left in the afternoon. There were quite a few former Key 225 people Westers among the arriving. Some time during Saturday night or Sunday morning thieves broke into the coffee shop of Harry Lowe on Caroline street and departed with the entire stock of cigars and cigarettes and a few pennies from the cash register. Another shipment of pineap- ples was feceived Saturday night on the ferries of the FEC. and were shipped Sunday. Of those received there were 11,432 crates, which were sent yesterday and there are 2.- 400 crates being held for orders. Plans for the Grand Verbena, which will be put on at the Coral, Isle Casino by the Ladies Lodge. Sacerdotisas del Hogar and the Caballeros de la Luz, are near-! ing ccmpletion. There are sev- eral prize contests and valuable gifts will be given in each. TEN YEARS AGO | County commissioners met in special session yesterday after- noon and effected the transfer of funds from different county de- partments to others in order to make a payroll covering four! months due county offciials and employes. | Approximately $36.500 in tax money is being put nito circula-' tion here in three davs of the present week in past due salaries due employes, county officials and school teachers. The teach- ers received $8,000 yesterday which paid in full to the end of the month. USS. Nokomis is sailing for Havana to afford a two-day trip to Cuba for officers: and their families at the naval station who | may desire to go. The party list is net complete and it is said that there will be quite a num- ber who will make the trip. Hearing in the case of Lyalle Van Valkenbéfg. who went on trial yesterday in the United! in 42 cars? ed in th®%Fecent census enumera- tion whith was taken in Key West ,aeeording to the Chamber cf Commerce. Those who were missed in the enumeration were Mr. and ‘Mrs. W. L. Carter and a colored woman, Iima Patterson. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO When June rolls by Key West will be hcnored by having four f its boys graduate at the Uni- versity of Florida with ‘honors. Those receiving their several college degrees are Floyd John- son, Raymond R. Lord, Ben Carey and John Gardner, That Key West's cigar business keeps up in spite of the fact that the holiday season is over, is shown conclusively hy the report cf the stamp deputy collector of internal revenue for Aprli. It re- veals that 5,113,914 cigars were manufactured. The lighthouse tender Ivy left POLITICAL See TUESDAY. MAT T eteccccbeceseseccecooess DAUCHTES WEDS Today’s Birthdays | a oS SSloeseceesscetececoees=® «(COUN Mh — A iow hear Monday for thé northwest bar in ' Key West harbor for the purpose! of constfucting two sets of étruc- | tures of iron for two range| lights. Henry B. Haskins is in| charge of the work and says it) will take about a month to com- | plete. {48 years ago. | Dr. Lyman J. Briggs, director The Rotary Club of Key West |Of the natn an cere is in favor of a juvenile court) ” as 6 for this city and believes it can; be passed this term of the legis-! lature. The “ be taken. yp with Senatot H: Malone | born at Norwood, Va, 55 years and Representatives J. F. Busto | 2g0- and C.F. Kemp. ~ \ "Richard W. —— ; producer, born at Nevada, Cal. Mrs. W. E, Houston and Mrs. |63 years ago. ; E. R. Kirkland left on the Steam-; Gary Cooper, screen star, born ship Cuba Saturday night for;at Helena, Mont, 39 years age. ply before Tampa as fepresenitatives of Ste-| Walker R. Young, construction sweaty or phen R. Mallory Chapter, United ‘engineer of the U. S. Bureau of jiete’s Fot™ Your Daughters of ther Confederacy, at Reclamation, comstruction ng)- the mormmge ¢ the annual convention to be held!neer of Boulder Dam, born st cally at in Leesburg this week. Butler, Ind., 55 years ago. adv “ANNOUNCEMENTS Monroe County Democratic Primary, May 7, 1940 For United States Senator ] FRED P. CONE For. United States Senator BERNARR MacFADDEN For Governor SPESSARD L. HOLLAND For Governor FULLER WARREN For Governor FRANCIS P. WHITEHAIR For State Comptroller FRANK BROWN For State Com; J. M. LE For Attorney General ED. R. BENTLEY For Attorney General MILLARD B. CONKLIN “Ask Anyone Who Knows Him™ J. TOM WATSON For Treasurer J. EDWIN LARSON For State Treasurer W. M. “BILL” WAINWRIGHT For Circuit J ROSCOE BRUNSTETTER _ (Group 1) Ability- Temperament For Judge Circuit Court W. H. BURWELL (Group One) Judge of Circuit Court (Group 1) BART. A. RILEY (Paid Political Advertisement by Bart. A. Riley) For the Full Term Circuit Judge, 1 JUDGE ROSS WILLIAMS, Present Ably carrying on the tradition of the late Judge Atkinson For Judge Cireuit Court FRANK E. BRYANT (Group 3) “A Free and Un-Trammielied Judiciary” For Judge of the Circuit Court GEO. E. McCASKILL (To Succeed Judge (Group 3) For County Commissioner, Fifth District MRS. ELLIE LOWE (Formerly Elke ORourze For County 7 Fifth Destrat Re-nominate JUDGE WORTH W. TRAMMELL For Circuit Judge (Group 3) Re-elect PAUL D. BARNS as Circuit Court Judge (Group 4) Commissioner. W. A PARRISH For Superintendent of Publc imstrechor MELVIN E. PUSSELL For Member Board of Public Instruction, First Dustrict DONALD CORMACK For Member Board of Public instruction, First Dustrac. For Judge of the Circuit Court ROBERT J. BOONE (Group 4) For Judge Circuit Court Cc. C. YOUMANS States Court; charged with em-/ bezzlement of government prop- | erty, is expected to reach the is expected tonight. } Only three Key Westers have | shown so far that they were miss- CLARENCE H. PIERCE (For Re Elechon) For Member School Beard. There Dustrect RALPH K. JOHNSON (For Re Election For Justice of the Peace, First District FRANKLIN ARENBERG (For Re Electon) he Car dentine of cue Dee Soe ae For Justice of the Peace, Seconé District ENRIQUE ESQUINALDO, JR. (For Re Eiection For Constable, First District RAY ELWOOD + oe