The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 6, 1940, Page 2

PAGD TWO The Key West Citizen THE CATIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. Published Daily Except Sunday By L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County <ntered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter | Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also 2 local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES $3 10.00 5.00 2:50 85 = 120 ADVERTISING RATES ade known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at the rate of # oente a line. for entertainment by churches from which e is to be derived are 5 cents a line. Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- f public issues and subjects of local or general t but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight tor progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue, eommend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments, A Modern City Hospital. ———$———$ Hitler will fall some day but the sus- pense is harrowing. Baseball umpires usually satisfy | everybody except the players and specta- | tators. A Brooklyn judge sentenced a man to | sing to his wife every day. Thus the in-| nocent suffers more than the guilty. | | OUR SOLVENT BRIDGES! As the months roll by in this fiscal | year of business transacted by the Over- | seas Road and Toll Bridge District, it be- ‘comes increasingly evident that agency is in an ertirely solvent condition. | And that is good news, naturally, to resi- | dents in Monroe County, contradicting, as | it does, the rumors rather prevalent last THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | i that | | year that quite the ‘opposite condition was | | likely to face-the bridge commissioners | come the time of payment of bond prin- | cipal and interest next September first. The record being piled up at the toll | gates portrays a bright picture, indeed. | Each month records increased collections | | for the district over corresponding month’s ! ' collections last year, which is all by way of guaranteeing prompt payment of obli- | gations wher due, especially when it is known that the previous fiscal year’s col- | lections were sufficient to meet that | period’s obligations. The Citizen news story yesterday told of the total collections for the nine month’s | of the current fiscal year—a sum more |than $10,000 over the same period a year With the trend definitely up and a during the ago. good tourist season in sight next three months the spread should be materially increased. Considerably less | than ty@ average monthly increase during April amd May would bring -the current a) year to a close with collections over | 5,000. Many readers believe that the total will be another $5,060 higher than that estimate in which ease the increase over last year would be approximately | $18,000. What to do with the surplus? Well— | for one thing, The Citizen believes that a | more comprehensive advertising campaign might be undertaken. thumbs down on an extensive advertising |, budget last year while in a conservative |mood. With sufficient increase in busi- ness showing on the record this year, per- haps that body wil! allow the Beard, if it | sees fit to apply, to expend more money | during the next fiscal year on publicity ; campaigns in areas throughout the nation that would do a maximum of good and | bring next year’s collections to still higher levels, TWO KINDS OF EDUCATION Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chieago, has some in- | teresting ideas about education and does | not hesitate to put them into public cir- culation. Speaking recently at Columbia Uni- versity Teachers College, recognized as an | ardent exponent of modern methods, Dr. “T will not hesitate at any moment to ask for additional funds when they are re- quired.”—President Roosevelt. Never aj hesitator, always a plunger. The nation is} satisfied sc long as we are not plunged into war. It won’t be long now before the} political parties will have their conven- | tions and the nation have a presidential campaign on its hands. That will keep| our minds off the European conflict for a | time at least. Hutchins asserted that throughout the nation there are university students who cannot read, write, speak or think because they are the products of a higher educa- tion beset by “triviality, mediocrity, vo- cationalism, inertia and indolence.” There is truth in his remarks. Just the same, education, like other processes, | must advance with the march of intelli- gence. The old system has its fine points but it was not perfect. The “medern” methods may go to some extreme but there is reason and logic behind them and they | reflect widespread dissatisfaction with the Like all newspapers do on océasion, The Citizen made a ridiculous error. in one of the advertisements of a local merchant who is a charming chap ard he didn’t get “sore”. While The Citizen advertising man was in for a lot of good-natured josh- ing, it showed that the people read the advertisements. could have during last Miamians, if web-footed, used their feet to advantage week because of the torrential rains that! have deluged that area for days. The weather bureau registered a total of 16.21 inches of rain in three days, whieh nearly equaled the all-time record of 17.26 established in 1930. Key West also had eopious rains for several days but at ne time did the downpour reach an inch. several Dewey, Republican candidate for the presidency, is being berated by President > Roosevelt for saying that no attempt has* been made to balance the budget. Reose- yelt’s bitter rejoinder stated that the bud- get can be balanced only by greater taxa- tion or diminution of the relief program. The nation does not desire either, but what it dees want is a halt to the wild and un- regulated spending of the people's money. This cap be done by the simple precess of instituting business principles instead of “political” relief, bonuses, pensions, pap and poppycock. results of education. We are quite ready to admit that the | reading «weiting, speaking and thinking of some university students refleets a childish and untrained brain. This is a condem- nation of present methods. However, there are some who ean read, write, speak and think intelligently and this is to the credit of modern schools. Under no system of education that we know of has it been pos- sible to make wisdom available to all students. THE HEN OR THE EGG Do European and Far Eastern events mean more to the United States than pure- ly domestic questions? Or—are our national and domestic problems so important that they should | come first? Well-posted newsmen in the National Capital, wil}, tell ‘you that in their opinion the President.puts foreign problems on his No. 1 list. The same authorities seem sure that ‘Congress is determined to keep do- mestie affairs of the United States in first place. The President cendemns as false economy cuts in his plans fer Gevernment agencies. Thus, the Administration and Congress de not agree. Which is the hen, and eticage is the egg? The R. F. C. turned | | SAME OLD "CURE" FOR OVER SEVEN YEARS AND T™ AS BiG AS Eve! Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen FIVE YEARS AGO Nearly three dozen paintings are being sent to Washington to be studied by Edward Rowan, director of the painting and |sculpture department of the Treasury Department, Edward Bruce and others interested in the work done in Key West. It has been four years since his last visit to Key West and in that time many changes have been wrought, is the opinion expressed }by H. C. Wenzel, traffic manager of the Clyde-Mallory Lines, who was a visitor in the city yester- day as guest of Agent C. E Smith. An art class of grade school} students will be organized here ; tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock 'Stewart Leonard, director of |the Art Gallery, said this morn- jing. Other pupils are to be giv- ‘en the opportunity of joining the iclasses as soon as there are open- lings. Inspection of the activities now; jbeing carried on at Tortugas is being made today by Lieutenant W. B. Jackson, officer in charge at the naval station, and Ensign George H. Schleger, U. S. Naval Reserves, who left last night on the Tender Ivy for the Key. Florida State Plant Board this morning, through their attorney, |Wm. H. Malone, filed a bill in circuit court for an injunction j@gainst certain persons in the | City of Key West to prevent their interfering with the members jof the board in the performance of their duties. TEN YEARS AGO The Key West Rotary was host today to one of the {most colorful assemblages ever gathered to meet with the mem- ‘bership. The guests were mem- ‘bers of the graduating class of jthe Key West High School and |was the most ‘interesting "held under the administration of Presi- ‘dent Lanee Lester. | . An ordimanee reducing the pay i the city auditar $600 annually jis to be introduced at the regu- jlar council meeting tomorrow jnight by Councilman George Babcock, the councilman stated today. The auditor sets $2.400 at wresent and with the reduction the pay will be. reduced to $1.- 800. An audience which filled every seat in the High School audito- jrium and occupied every inch of space witnessed the graduation ,of 40 members of the class last inight. An outstanding feature of the exercises was the presen- tation of a gift of the Encyclope- |4ia Britanniea to Principal W. L. | Carter. i Reading of a figure “8” as a }s8” reduced by 50 votes in The Citizen's teturns Ruth Bryan }Owen's totals here. .This paper | gave her 38 votes when-the num- ‘ber should have been 88, or 1,224 jor just four times the vote re- \eeived by her opponent, which was 308. TRY If TODAY— The Favorite in Key West STAR * BRAND | QUBAN COFFEE Club! Only 20 votes were cast on the Keys in the election last Tuesday out of a qualified list of 95. Re- turns from the three precincts have not reached the city up to the present time but are expect- ed to arrive tonight. It is not believed that any race will be : altered. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO M. O. Peacock, who conducts a bakery in Key West, has opened a similar bakery in Coral Gables. Monday marked the opening. The -business will be conducted on a wholesale plan and is the second in what is to be known as ‘the Craft section of Coral Gables. In line with his duties as pro- bation officer, Joshua Curry has relieved the citizens of Key West from the annoyance of the crowds of boys who were in the habit of congregating in different sections ‘of the city and making life mis- jerable for the dwellers. The Rev. Otis E. Kirby comes to Key West next week to take up the pastorate of the Congré- gational Church in the place of Rev. C. De W. Brower, who leaves for Winter Park next week. The Rev. Mr. Kirby ‘comes here from the Divinity School of Yale College. Mrs. Albert E. Schrader, wife of Lieutenant Albert E. Schra- der, United States Navy, is visit- ing her mother, Mrs. Juan Del- gado, at 518 Elizabeth street, ‘having arrived from her home on the Pacific Coast, where Lieu- }tenant Schrader is at present on {duty with the fleet. | — More than two hundred mem- bers of the Sunday School of the Congregational Church enjoyed the annual picnic by the church, which was given yesterday on the beach just east of the fortifi- cations, through the courtesy of Captain Clark D. Stearns, com- mandant of the naval station. t Todav’s Horoseone Today may produce a versatile, sometimes an eccentric person, disposed to begin more projects than ean be finished. Some of these natives become very bril- liant through education, while others, seemingly alert and in- genious, are in the midst of trou- | Coral Hotel Apartments RATES: $60.00 Per Month —DOUBLE— = (1) Gas: (2) Lights: Garage: (4) Refrigeration: ‘ble and vexation all the time. - | a SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL Former Editor of The Citizen Perhaps editors shouldn't be teo bright. in Browne's history of Key West it is recorded that paper established there in 1892, was “one of the most brilliant writers ever connected with Flor- ida journalism.” Browne that the paper went broke in a few months, not living long ‘encugh to celebrate its first birth- ‘day: Although many of her fans have been skeptical about it, it ‘now appears that Shirley Temple is really quitting the screen, in order that the remainder of her youth may be lived in a normal manner. Shirley was 11 in April, and has been in pictures since she was three and a half years old. playing leading roles from the. start. Notre Dame University’s high- est honor, the Laetare Medal, has been awarded to Lieutenant- General Hugh A. Drum of the U S. Army. This medal, presented each year to a distinguished Boman Catholic layman, was first awarded in 1883. Among the winners have been 12 women. The first adhesive postage stamp.was put into use in Eng- land 100 years ago, and carried a likeness: of Queen Victoria. The innovation. was made in connec- tion with postal reforms fathered by Sir Rowland Hill. The U. S. government first issued adhesive stamps in 1847. In only one instance in our history have both parents jived 0 see their son become Presi- dent. These were Jesse and Hannah Grant. In all, eight mothers and five fathers have lived to see their sons elevated to the presidency: The mothers of Washington, John Adams. Polk, Grant, Garfield, McKinle TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ adds Can you answer seven «f ghee ten Test Questions? Turs a _ Page 4 for Answers 1. Is the word interesting correctly pronounced three or four syllables Which is greater. the lan water area on the certh™ Which President of United States was c “Trust Buster"? Who was called “The Mern- ing Star of the Referees 4 the United States known Name the the American cuntunent Which transcontinenta way is named for 2 er tes entered the first World War = ARIA ule 066 and F. D. Roosevelt; the fathers of John Quincy Adams, Grant, Harding and Coolidge. Taylor, The now familiar phrase “fifth column” was originated by Gen- eral Mola of Franco’s army dur- ing the Spanish civil war, who said: “We have four columns (of troops) advancing upon Madrid. |The fifth column (Franco sym- at the proper time.” i Seer Hollywood wisecrack: A cast- ing director Was complaining that the girls now in pictures did not appear as young and pretty as jthose he had to choose from a few years ago; then he added “Maybe it’s because so many of them are the same girls.” Wartime economy: London po lice must make trousers last 2% years instead <f 18 months. Federal tables show that a white baby boy at birth can ex- pect to live 59 years. 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