The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 24, 1940, Page 2

PAGE T 1 wo Che key West Citizen ZEN ‘PUBLISHING co. CO. FXG. lished Daily Except Sunday By n Building ireene and Ann Streets y Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ‘lorida, as second class matter Member of the Associnted Press | Press is exclusively entitled to use all news dispatches credited to credited in this paper and also cal news published here. ‘SUBSCRIPTION RATES $10.00 5.00 2.50 185 20 ADVERTISING RATES application. NOTICE ds of thanks, resolutions of ! etc, will be charged for at cents a line. rtainment by churches from which e 5 cents a line. n and Invites discus- jects of local or general ot publish anonymous communi- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN seek the truth and print it t fear and without favor; never be i to attack wrong or to applaud right; ght tor progress; never he the or- n or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, on or cl: WILL always s; always do its utmost for the velfare; never tolerate corruption or denounce vice and praise virtue, end good done by individual or organ- tolerant of others’ rights, views and ; print only news that will elevate ice; contaminate the reader; never com- se with principle. ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan Gan More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A Medern City Hospital. The gals of today are either better looking or we see more of them. Campaign whispers are usually equip- ped with loud speaker attachments. No substitute is like the real article. Hitler’s attempt to create a substitute for | civilization will result in unassimilable It might be better to build sehoolt houses instead of spending money on army equipment but wher you need an army yeu need an army. Congress gave President Roosevelt a blank check in the sum of $132,000,000 to spend as he sees fit. A proposal by Sen- | ator Vandenberg to create a joint commis- sion to check the operations of that fund was shouted down. It seems that in poli- thing that approaches honest busi- ness methods must be tolerated. We de- neunce dictatorships and then do the very things that create them. Former Presidential Candidate Alf. M. Lzndon put President Roosevelt on the spot when he asked to eliminate himself as a-third term candidate and thereby ad- jcurn politics to form a coalition cabinet. As was to be expected the president’s re- p 7 was negative and the poor exeuse was given that he didn’t have the time to pre- pare a pcliticel statement. It would have aken about five seconds to say, “I do not choose to run.” It is said that a poor ex- cuse is better than none, but in this case the president’s statement hasn’t even that quality, and it would have been to his in- terest to have made no reply at all. On account of the reckless spending spree of the past seven years, the national exchequer is in a deplorable ‘attenuated condition, nevertheless the billions to be spent on national preparedness for defense are justified in the light of probability. This is a more consistent move than to iguere the Johnson. Act, which forbids lending money to those nations that have defaulted in their debts to us, and lend more billions of money to the Allies, who will never and can never repay the bor- rowed sums. Even if we disregarded our cwn preparedness and entrusted the bil- lions to the Allies, it appears on the suf- ~~face, to be too late. i and better times are | what happened afterward. | conservative citizen$ must be on the alert THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE EXPANSION PROGRAM | Activities in Key West are expand- ! ing. The number of tourists daily arriving over the highway is higher than it was a TODAY’S KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings tere Just Five. Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen vear ago. Building permits are growing” in volume and value. Trade has improved expected. The naval station was closed a year ago; today the station being put en a full-time operat-. ing basis, including machine shop and other industrial operations. Everything adds to private and naval employmert. As the naval demands for civilian mechanics and clerks increases, the private demand for workers to serve these well paid workers will increase. It 1. is an endless cycle of prosperity. i On top of this situation comes word ~ from Washington that administrative and legislative leaders are framing a broad de- velopment of naval and military activities in South Florida, including Key West. What these plans may be has not been made clear. Certainly the reports indicate substantial developments over and above the new seaplane base and the renovation of the old naval station plant. Naturaly these events are attraciing widespread attertion. Key West is _pic- tured in the national mind as a focal point in the national defense program. It _fol- lows that many investors, many oppor- tunity seekers are giving serious considera- tien to the investment and business oppor- tunities in Key West. Therein lies the danger in our new prosperity; for a sudden demand for busi- ness and residential property might cause inflation. The majority of our residents nd business interests know the pitfalls of inflation. They remember what happened in 1924 and 1925. They also remember It was the be- ginning of the worst decline in the eco- PIVE YEARS AGO Members of Arthur Sawyer Post 28, American Legion Aux- iliary, will open their annual poppy sale tomorrow morning at 8:30 o'clock and the headquar- ters ‘will be the Palace Theater. Mrs. JG. Piodela will te in charge and the sale will continue until’ all poppies are sold. torious connotes “ct bad TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ Can you answer seven of these ten Test Questions? Turn to Pace 4 for Answers Miss Miriam E. Carey, of Key West, @was this week honored by oeing €lected to the office of Great Keeper of Wampum of the Great *€ouncil of Florida, Degree of Pocahontas, at the convention held this week in Palatka, Fla. Do horsehairs ever turn in- to snakes? Name the seat of govern- ment of The Netherlands before the German inva- sion. Is the art ci hardening cop- per lost? How many women are mem- bers of the present Con- gress? The keynote speech for the 1940 Republican National Convention is to be made by Herbert Hoover, Alfred Landen or Gov. Harold E. Stassen? What happens to letters which camot be deliv- ered, and which bear no return address? Who represented [Italy at the peace conference at the close .of the World War? In what song are the words “in God is our trust”? Where is the lowest pcint in Continental United States? What is the name for visual transmission of radio pro- grams? CLASSIFIED COLUMN ‘:- Advertisements under this head TEN YEARS. AGO will be inserted in The Citizen at. Officials and members of the rate of one-cent (Ic) a word Egypt Temple of Shriners from for each insertion. but the mini- Tampa, 142 of them, put on a pa- mum for the first insertion in rade in Key West this morning every imstance is twenty-five They were headed by Robert cents (25). Arnold and the Shrine band and Advertisers snould give their stopped off here while enroute street address as well as their to Havana for a ceremonial to- telephone number if they desire morrow night. results. Wrecking Tug Warbler return- ed to< port this morning from Jacksonyille, where it went to tow a steamship which was dis- abled and sent out a call for as- sistance. The message was re- ceived on May 15 and the Warb- ler immediately answered the call. Visiting masons of the Scottish Worth, Key West and Miami. This work is being carried on jin the Scottish Rite Hall at the corner of Eaton and Simonton streets. L. Peet, *general superin- tendent of the Van Noy Com- pany and J. P. Hendwall, super- intendent, who are enjoying a ‘short vacation in the city, have had great success fishing and very much pleased with their visit. They made a fine catch yesterday. nomic life of the community. The Citizen hopes there is no sueh in- flation. The Citizen hopes the growth of the city will be steady, gradual and sub- stantial, not sudden and unstable. Our to protect themselves and the city against | is just about on the verge of better times. any boom development. FAITH IN THE FUTURE! The fact has been pretty well estab- | lished, in the light of past, present and near-future developments, that Key West Many items in the news during the past year have pointed to definite improve- ment concerning which we are all quite well posted. 1 Now comes a natural followup to the improvement thought which is aeting to prove substance to the new city to be. The Key West Electric Company announced yesterday that it was replacing cne of its old generating units at its powerhouse with a modern unit to cost in the neighbor- hood of $125,000, including installation. To The Citizen, that move can mean only cne thing. The Key. West Electric Company fore- sees an expanded demand for its services. It reasons that governmental requirements | are going to inerease in the near future. The company. feels that the tourist’; busi- ness is going to show improvement: * En- larged building operations im the city have” been noted. All this, and the added con- ! dition of partial expansion already accom- plished here, is interpreted into a definite urge to ready plant facilities to care for the | new era. : i Only last year the Electric Company | spent nearly $50,000 in a transformation of its lines to a new-phase basis which bronght the service up to more medern levels. The new installation, te be ready early next Fall, adds to that moderniza- tion idea and proves that this company is | alert to coming events—in fact, is setting a pace of cptimism in the future that might. very well be followed by other establish- ments in Key West. More demand is going to be made for eleciric {service. To prepare for. that! event—tp be a jump or two ahead of it) a+ ways sound business-proeedure—the Elec- tric as is bringing its facilities up to Poses not to be caught napping, “rather, to be right on the job, no matter what the | service demands, to fulfil all obligations. The only way and the quickest way fe | get anything done is to start deing it. A Key West wag says he knows a fisherman who caught a fish im the | branches of a tree, and if you don’t be- lieve it he’ll shew you the tree. WANTED Apply Trumbo Hotel may23-3t WANTED a Maid for house- |SIX- ROOM” | FOR Payment for classified adver- Captain Thomas G. James, for- fisements is invariably in ad- merly commander of the USS. vance, but regular advertisers Bayspring, with ledger accounts may have years water transportation offi- for the two past eir advertisements charged. LOST cer at Parris Island South Caro- lina, has been ordered trans- jferred and will be on duty at Norfolk, Va. NEW HAND- BAG WITH IN- ITIALS J. A. containing bill _ The campaign of the American fold, bank book, keys, a blue Legion Drum and Bugle Corps to belt ,etc. Finder may have obtain funds for new uniforms is money in bag and no questions peing aggressively pushed and is asked if other articles are re- meeting with every success. The turned to 702 Waddell Avenue. boys are actively canvassing and may23-3tx tare fully satisfied with their ac- complishments. Miss Laurentia Adams Torano entertained a number of her friends iast night at her home on Caroline street. There were about 5@ guests and they spent their time singing and dancing and playing games and enjoying the delightful refreshments. A list of the disqualified voters appearing in The Citizen today contains the names of 1,800 vot- ers who will be denied the priv- ilege of voting at the primary elections. The county commis- jSioners will meet Monday to re- store the names which have been erroneously disqualified. FIFTEN YEARS AGO The water spout which formed in the harber Thursday afternoon circled around for a great dis- tance and finally headed in for North Beach, where it was con- verted into a whirlwind lifted from the water and gradually dis- * appeared. Rite Jurisdiction are this after- mcon conferring degrees on a! class of candidates from Lake” Troops 1, 2 and 5, Boy Scouts of America of Key West who had been attending the inauguration ceremonies in Havana in connec- tion with the festivities for the! Installation of Gerardo Machado as president of Cuba, returned last evening. Beautiful in its setting and artistic in its appointment was the program given by the Juniors in honor of the Seniors of '25 of Monroe High School in St. Paul's Parish Hall last evening. one of the most delightful func- tions of the ee Mrs. Bertha Moss, of this city and Frank McConnell, of Holly- wood, will be quietly married here this evening at the home of Miss Moss’ sister, Mrs. Clarence ‘Saunders, 1109 Petronia street. They will leave on the late train this evening for Hollywood, where they will make their fu- ture home. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Saw- yer, 715 Caroline street, have re- turned from Jacksonville, where they went to attend the conven- tion of the Woodmen of the eecccce PALACE The Three Mesquiteers PIONEERS OF THE WEST also COMEDY and SERIAL Sweerewoocercecese. -2% aeeececces Annual Electric Range Sale | A Standard-Size HOTPOINT ELECTRIC RANGE | for only $89.95 LESS $10.00 FOR YOUR OLD RANGE » WANTED IMMEDIATELY— Married couple for caretakers of Hotel this summer. 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