The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 10, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO Che wey West Citizen | THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. Published Dally Except Sunday By L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher N, Business Manager e Citizen Building Corner Greeae and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County snitered at yest, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is excfusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatehes credited to it hot otherwise credited in this paper and also ths local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES $10.00 5.00 ADVERTISING RATES ifade known on app! i SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churcheS from which venue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. e Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- of public issues and subjects of local or general rest but it will not publish anonymous communi- tions. 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 virtues ra commend good done by individual or orgari=, ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and ‘“ opinions; print only news that wilbglevaté and not contaminate the teader; 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. 6. A Modern City Hospital. Congratulations to the Miami Herad on its announced expansion program at a cost of more than half a million dollars. Possibly tle reason why Mussolini has not entered thi: European war is an under- standing with Hitler not to do given the “Go” sign. thinks he can defeat the Allies without the aid cf Il Duce and in that case the “contra” will be less. The greed of dictators is in- satiable. Senator Pepper jockeyed himself in- to the democratic convention delegation as an alternate? It is generally thought he should have asked the electorate (this is still a democratic country) instead of sneaking in the back door through force majeur as it is done in the totalitarian countries. Key West is assured an aqueduct from the mainland to this island. Whether it will be built solely by the navy department or solely by, the Aqueduct Commissf0h, ofa so until} Maybe the Fuehrer | | BILLBOARD ZONING! In a definite and strong bid to protect the beauty of Florida, especially in regard to its roadsides—the show windows of the ‘state—the National ~ Roadside Council, headed by Mrs. Elizabeth B, Lawton, has issued a challenge te civic and semi-poli- tical bodies in the various cities and coun- | ties to sponsor effective legislation that will do away with unsightly billboards on ‘all highways. The challenge is contained in a bbrochureyegently released in which , is pictured several scenes of highways in Florida—some where‘an:effort has been made to protect the roadsides, but mostly scenes of too many billboards placed along THE KEY WEST CITIZEN prominent highways leading to and from | big cities. Comparing recent surveys with ones made in 1984, the Council makes the start- ling statement that billboards and _ signs have doubled in number, with an average of 23 signs to each mile of highway in the statc. Florida scenery consists of a con- stant succession of billboard harrangues as to hotels, whiskey, beer, shoe polish, patent medicine, what route to follow, what city to visit, what paint to use, what car or gas to buy and an unending list of various scenic spots to see. Bringing the challenge close to home }=+the Council says “. . . even on the new ‘Overseas Highway to Key West signs are multiplying. One can excuse small signs , advertising the newly-opened eating places | along the keys, but what possible justifica- | tion is there for two huge whiskey bill- boards, and another billboard between the highway and the Gulf, to ad- vertise the Miami Herald.” And again— |“7 of the 11 painted billboards on the | Overseas Highway advertise hotels” this | latter in reference to the fact that over one- third of all billboards in the state are | erected for hotel use. | New England and California lead the | movement today’ for the protection of natural beauty along state highways. Those states are awake to the fact that beautiful highways increase travel and | are a tremendous commercial asset. What | they have done, Florida can and should do. | Civic organizations should pledge them- | selves to a platform which calls for “high- | ways outstanding because of native Florida | beauty; highways unique because of free- | dom from commercial ugliness’. WHERE MEN PROPOSE Dr. Paul Popenoe, general director of |a group calling itself the Institute of Family Relations, is disturbed over a fact he claims to have discovered after a study of 1,181 proposals of marriage. It is that | 25 per cent of these propésals were made | in ar automobile and only 23 per cent in | the girl’s home. He goes on to say that 20 per cent of the proposals were made in streets, parks, | campuses, restaurants or other public places; 10 per cent at parties, dinners or | dances; 6 per cent by letter or telegram, | and the rest under miscellaneous circum- | stances. | The average man’s proposal tech- | nique is disgraceful, he is quoted as say- | ing, but his own formula is not disclosed. coalition of the two is immaterial. “‘Theres-ij Even if it were, it is doubtful that advice sential matter is that we obtain water and as quickly as ‘possible; that is a consum- * mation desired’ without delay both-by.the | navy and by the people of this community. | The defaulting haven’t lost their nerve. nations of Europe They didn’t pay their war ‘debts of the last war and are | new asking further aid. Besides the pros- pect is they will ask the United States to take care of the refugees of the present war. Furthermore the Red Cross is send- ing millions to atd the wounded. What about our own ill housed, underfed and poorly clad? Charity begins at home; ap- parently not with us. The duenos of Key West’s gambling institutions are up in arms concerning the 100 per cent raise in graft now being exacted. They say that with the prospect of increased taxes on account of the war ménace this is no time for such drastic ac- tion, and they may strike. Whether this means they will refuse to cough up the new tribute or that bolita playing is to cease temporarily is a matter of conjec- ture. THe Citizen, always mindful of the} downtrodden, trusts that the exactors will | go back to the standard tariff that has prevailed in the past. Be reasonable, boys; things ‘are tough in Key West in the = good old summer time. ‘6n where, when and how to pop the qués- | tien would be taken very. seriously by modern youth. Much has been said and written on courtship, proposals, marriage and related subjects, but it is unlikely that theories concerning such matters have much in- fluence. People do not fall in love and get | married—and divoreed—according to any set rules. If a fellow’s proposal technique \ fs a failure he can always try again. Anyway, what ‘does it matter, so long as the girl gets her man? DON’T WORRY ABOUT GOLD Those of us who have been worrying about the possibility that gold will lose its great value in the world are advised to ease our fears by Dr. E. A. Goldenweiser, statistician for the Féderal Reserve Board. We have about $19,000,000,000 worth ‘of gold, ownled by the United States, but ‘awe hold around $8,000,000,000 of foreign | capital, seeking security from the vicissi- tudes that threaten Europe and other lands. It is possible that “gold might lose its value,” says the expert, “if the post-war world is completely unlike the world in which we are now living” but if this comes to pass, he warns, that “the loss of the gold will be but incidental to other and greater [ees that we will have to bear.” standing | originate? Tradition has it t moved York plantation to another in Where did that romantic word DIXIE a group of his slaves from his New hat a Mr. Dixie the deep South. with the romantic story of pioneers, who created colonies, fought sava tations out of a wilderness. Its influence has tribes and cleared plan- lere the slaves were in strange surroundings and became homesick. They wanted to go back where they were born — to Massa Dixie's land, which to them typified a paradise on earth. Their desires were celebrated in song, which soon spread to other plantations, and in time the term “Dixie Land” became transferred to their new homes and thus me_a name for the South. So well did it fit the tradition of the Southland that “Dixie” eventually came to mean only that section of the country below Mason and Dixon's Line. The history of cotton production in Dixie is played a dominant part in southern industry and development. A few years after James- town was settled, cotton was planted port News, Virginia. Next, the fi of the Carolinas began commercial production, which later extended to all the other southern states. After the advent of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, in 1793, cultivation began to surge forward and cotton became one of the greatest commodities on earth. Today, the South leads the entire world in production of cotton, which aoe effects a far greater turnover of com- mercial funds than any other product. In Florida, revenue from Cotton and its products, average the history of the South itself. It is interwoven TOO LATE TO I don’t know who the guy was who rang my telephone at 4 a. m. Wednesday, May 29, and started singing, “It’s Whitehair Every- where” in a deep whisky tenor, but I've been thinking it over, and I want to take this oppor- ‘tunity to express my apology for ™my apparent lack of apprecia- tion. Funny?—sure it was fun- ny—only somehow I just didn’t seem to realize it at the time. Anyhow, the political wars are over and I for one am glad of it and I imagine a lot of other folks j feel the same way about it. It’s funny how hot and bothered we can get over an election. We'll |rave and tear our hair tryin’ to get this or that chap in office |and then before his term has half expired we start cussin’ him out jas a ho-account soandse. So Mr. Holland will go to Tal- lahassee and do the best he can }to live uv to His~promises and }be a good governor, but no mat- lter how hard he tries, chances jare his efforts won't be appre- |ciated, and among his most en- thusiastic critics will be many who now term themselves ardent ‘friends and supporters. But there is one thing this election did: It exploded a lot of myths. It has been the custom of all political aspirants from constable to senator to pledge al- llegiance to the Townsend Plan, boast of their long membership |in the organization, and those who were so fortunate as to re-' ceive the blessing of the “Good | Doctor” were considered as good tas elected. Among ‘the alleged annointed were Jovial Jerry Carter, Burton |Schoepf and Francis Whitehair. _ Old, Doc Townsend himself came to Florida to speak on bel of jersy's candidacy and the “ went out on ~ behalf | “Brother” Whitehair, but some- | thine went haywire and the “old |folks” failed. to go down the ‘line. Instead they went in a consequence it is doubtful if | movement will carry much | tige or receive much serious |Sideration in the future. | ‘Organized labor likewise |a beatiful rap-and lost any |litical prestige it might have | sessed in its failure to elect t ‘l 4 Eee 3 Fs 7 i CLASSIFY candidate of its choice. In con- sequence a lot of candidates who considered it imperative to de- mand the Union Label on all their groveled ‘at the feet of labor or- | ganizations during campaign Pe- | riods now realize that they were just wasting their time. All-of which goes back to what I said in this column about three months ago when I contended that neither the Townsendites nor Labor could be counted upon to vote solidly for any candidate regardless of any endorsements} their leaders might make or any! “word” that might go out in fav- or of this or that candidate. I expressed the belief that the in- dividual members of these or-| leadét like a flock of sheep ‘but! on the contrary would judge the | 2 cam@@lates on their ‘merit - and vote as their own good judgment might dictate, without regard for any official pledges that might have been made. H Among the defeated condi: | dates, two stand out—Fuller War- | ren and Bernarr MacFadden. Ful-} ler ran a beautiful race and.if he: had hada few days more he! would undoubtedly have gone in the second primary with Holland. | 1° 'As the matter now stands he! ‘Jooks like a sure bet four years | from now if he his nose; clean and takes ordinary care of | his lungs. Bernarr MacFadden is alread; being talked of as an of Claude Pepper four years from ; now and considering the amaz-; ‘img race he ran in the first pri. mary a lot of folks contend thai he would give that young man & : i j & around $1,600,000 yearly. e TODAY’S COMMON ERROR Never say .“We planned on takins a walk”: say. “planried to takes walk”. or “we planried taking a walk”. TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ Can you answer seven of these ten Test Questions? Tarn to Page 4 for Answers printed matter and who have qa MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1568 — — Happenings Sere Just Five Ten enc Fifteen Year Ago Tocer FIVE YEARS AGO Caught in the act of delivering to a local . made night at a meeting held in Hos- pitality House for entertaining a group’of prominent Miamians, who will visit Key West over the weekend. Abe Aronovitz, city dent of Key West Club of Dade county, will be among the guests. Members of Section Five of the mm June and endeg = ber. ss FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Final arrangements have Seez for the Sirme coerce to te heic bem om Jug 4 2 ee Nobles of Mahi Tempe GE Se guests, accurémg te Frank Bob evts, chammarn of @e commmiteee of the Key West Steme Cie who has the mater @ charge Key West Junior Patrol are gath- __ ering today at Bayview Park. where several talks will be made to them. Members of the patrol will hear definitely just what their duties will be as far as their particular section is concerned. Efforts to exterminate or con- trol mosquitos at No Name Key, near the ferrs landing, are being made by the inspectors of the ‘sanitary department of the ad- ;ministration today. and other materials are included in the preventives and other ma- terials are also carried among the paraphernalia. M. E. Gilfond, Florida WPA Larvacide .. administrator for Key West, left — over the highway this morning for Miaimi, where he will con- fer with officials and then pro- ceed to Jacksonville and there have a conference with Julius F. Stone. He was accompanied by Mrs. Gilfond. TEN YEARS AGO Graduation exercises, marking the end of the thirty-sixth an- nual commencement week of the Key West High School, were well attended last night. The exercis- es began at 6 o'clock and some’ time before that hour the audi- torium was filled to overflowing. Mr. and Mrs. William W. De- meritt and son, Wm. W.. Jr. Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Baker and Mrs EE Ingraham and daughter Miss Mary Ingraham. left this morning for Tallahassee, where they will visit for a while with ‘Mr. and Mrs. Demeritt's daugh- ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Moore. Three Tarpon Springs spongers are in the county jail as 2 result of the round-up of four Greek sponging boats at Marathon yes- terday. Four of the vessels were located and three of them were without license. The sheriff said that was the only charge 1. Paawo Nurmi was a famous, Finnish painter, architect or runner? Of the thirteen original states, did Pennsylvania or Massachusetts take the first steps to abolish siav- ery? Where is Pearl Harbor lo- cated? Which library is the largest in the world? Is it easier to swim in fresh or salt water? What is the correct title of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Courtsf the United States? 4 Name. the who recently General Gamelin as mander-in-chief of the Al- say that the very best talent the city affords will teke part in the program. 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