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

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen | THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. Published Daily Except Sunday L. P. ARTMAN, President Pal JOE ALLEN, Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County at Key West, Florida, as second class matter sntered Member of the Aasoy ated Press is exclusively entitled to use lication of all news dispatches credited to t otherwise credited in this paper and also local news published here. <= == = —— “aeges See BSCRIPTION RATES ADVERTISING RATES ation. IAL NOTICE l reading netices, cards of thanks, resolutions of bituary notices, ete., will be charged for at of 10 cents a line. s for entertainment by churches from which is to be derived are 5 cents a line. is en fol THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it ithout fear and without favor; never be aid 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; ne\.s tolerate corriiption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue, commend 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- vith principle. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and ¢ More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments A Modern City Hospital. a Play is important but some men for- get that work is part of the plan. It might be appropriate to give the | name of ‘Hitler’ to the next poison dis- | covered by scientis Keynoter Stassen closed his speech at the Republican convention with the word | “God”. He didn’t forget Him in this hour | of need, “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown”, exclaims the bard. King Carol of Rumania would like to toss his to the In fact most heads of nations, even winds, those who are not wearing crowns, are not resting so easy now. Contracts are made in the expectancy } that they be lived up to, otherwise it ‘is useless to enter into them. The Citizen | makes contracts for advertising at a lower } rate if a definite amount of space -is | bought. Under the present ownership of | The Citizen, during a period of more than a quarter of a century, only three mer- chants have tried to circumvent, evade or repudiate the terms of an agreement. The writer believes this is a better average of honesty than can be found elsewhere in a city the size of Key West. Incidentally, it may be mentioned that in two cases The izen won its suit and the third is about be instituted. In the British House of Commons one Major Albert Newby Braithwaite asserted it Was thé duty of the United States “to send their fleet ard their boats to take our women and children across to their coun- Wasn't it the duty of England to pay us what she owed. “Didn’t she hire the money,” as former President Coolidge put it. for each person as she charged the United States for each soldier transported to fight her battle in the World War? Had she used the billions owed us to make her- self invulnerable against invasion by a great European power, her repudiation would ‘have> been overlooked. Instead Great Britain made herself strong com- mercially by competing with us on the At- lantic and ‘elsewhere and by building Queen Marys and Qneen Elizabeths. England asks the United States to pay for her-bungling. And there are people in the United States who think as the English think, Now | MUNICIPAL FINANCING! Key West is faced with an absolute THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | HEY! KEEPYO | necessity of changing its form of financing | if the needs of the future are to be met. Obvious as that statement may seem, in a gereral way, it requires thoughtful con- , sideration in the light.of the serious con- dition that the Qjfy now finds itself*in— rather, has been ih, for:aJong, long time. Apparently it is no longer possible to y upon the old system of taxation. That em works in other cities quite satis- | actorily, but rot here. It is so patently evident that nothing can be done about changing enforcement of tax laws, that we need not dwell on that phase of this dis- ion at all. Tax dodgers! That’s the answer—and what, in heaven’s name, can be done about them? Other cities have seen fit to seek en- forcement of tax laws by withholding police and fire protection from those who do not pay. That idea was thought feasible for Key West at one time, but when it was considered that institution of such a plan would verily jeopardize the while city, the plan was dropped. So— now, as we’ve stated, a new approach to municipal financing must be advanced if this city is te continue on its road to a resemblance of debt-free status. Fees for service rendered! There’s the answer in a nutshell. If Key West wants to have all the thirgs that any normal city should have, it should pay for them, share and share alike. No more of this profiting from benefits at the expense of the few. Pre- the large percentage of tax- dodg: have received just as much in the way of service as those who religiously pay their taxes, year in and year out. There are so many things that Key | West needs in addition to what few bene- | fits that are supplied now, that the _ pic- | ture, at times, becomes quite discouraging. Councilmen have turned down really | werthwhile projects—necessary projects, | too—time and time again for lack of funds. Payrolls get increasingly thinner as the city’s funds approach the vanishing viously, | stage. Many necessities, let alone luxuries, have to be foregone. So, The Citizen agrees, that this new idea in fee charges for service rendered should be instituted. Its universal prac- tice will serve to make property owners more conscious of their responsibility to- wards the city. And that will be a job | well done. COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING The National Defense Advisory Com- mission evidently has its ear to the ground, since it does not approve of suggestions for military training in camps of young men and women. In keeping with American tradition the Commission suggests training in schools ard industrial plants. “Immediate development of highly trained skilled workers for industry can best be accomplished in industry itself through an in-service training program,” says the Commission, in advocating a method to provide a way by which semi- skilled wofkers would be trained for more complicated*tasks. The idea is to train them for their jobs and for higher places and leave “gun-carrying”’ out. WHEELER THROWS HAT IN RING Senator Wheeler accuses Republicans and Democrats as having failed “to go down the line against war,” and he is an out-and-out candidate for the Democratic nomination for President. He drops all reservations about standing aside “if” Roosevelt is a candidate. Wheeler’s leadership in the fight against President Roosevelt’s attack on the Supreme Court made him the most popular man in Congress, for awhile. Dur- ing the past year or two the Montana | Senator has beeh @ccused of trying to stand-ir. with the {Administration and its And would Great Britain pay $754-¢¢es-_“cat¥ying ‘water on both shoulders.” Nevertheless, he will be a powerful factor in the Chieago Convention. BIGGEST ‘TAX BILL When President Roosevelt “put his signature to the recent tax bill to raise an additional $4;692,500,000 in the next five comeback ! UR MIND ONOUR BU SINESS! | | Ee a SR SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL Former Editor of The Citizen Like all good newspaper men should, Guy T. Viskniskki of the Portland Oregonian has a sense of humor. When a contemporary magazine described his work . favorably; but refrered. to she KEY WEST IN DAYS GONEBY Happenings Hete Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today | As Taken From The FIVE YEARS AGO W. H. Perkins, “Bonus Bill”, was today sentenced in Criminal ;Court to pay a fine of $250 and costs or spend six months in the county jail dating from the day of his arrest. He was charged with the stealing of cots and mattresses of the United States government. County employes were made happy today by the disbursing of pay checks for those departments which draw their emoluments from the General Revenue, Fine and Forfeiture and the Road; Funds. Clerk Ross C. Sawyer said that $30,000 will be paid out ef the several funds. The Thursday evening concerts by the Hospitality. Band in Bay- view Park will be continued with the program tonight, which will include ‘specialties, by “Miss Ruth jRoberts and Ernest Sanchez. An ‘excellent program has been ar-* ranged for tonight. ae 1 On Thursday night the Key West Musicians and guest play- ers will give another of their concerts under the direction of Commodore Matho Fridericus von Mietk-Liuba, in the Colonial Ho- tel. The program is to start at! 8 o'clock and last two hours. Innoculations of typhoid serum will be held at the Florida Nav- al Hospital building at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning. Persons who were unable to obtain the innoc- ulations last Saturday due.to a shortage of serum are assured of service tomorrow. TEN YEARS AGO With 940 rare fish in his selec- tion of 78 species already secured on the present trip and five more. days in which to complete it, Dr. 'Robert O. Van Deusen believes that this will be the most success- ful trip he has éver‘made to this, city and he will take back to |Fairmount Park the best selec- tion. } Five destroyers of the U.S.’ |Navy, which have been here and jin the waters around Tortugas! with naval reserves on board for; ltheir annual training cruise, all} set sail, today for their next stop in Havana, and the exercises will” be continued on the trip to Cuba.! Timbers in the Over-Sea high- way bridges, were found to jbe in an excellent state of |preservation by R. H. Wilson, of; the state road department, when they were examined bv him yes- terday. He came at the orders of the highway department of the |state road department. Captain Eli Savage, of the U. S.! Marines’ is ‘here ‘to relieve Cap-/ tain W. M. McNulty, in com-/ mand of the local “detachment. ’ Captain McNulty will go to” Quantico, Va. Captain Savage has been in command of the Ma- tine detachment at Monagua,; Nicaragua, and arrived yester- day. i } years the biggest tax burden since 1920 | | -was shouldered on the American public. Personal exemptions for heads of fam- ilies were lowered from $2,500 to ‘$2,000, and for single persons from $1,000 to $800. This will add 2,200,000 persons to the Fed- | eral income rolls. Gathering scoeeebeal a hill, the sale of eres property, which opened sev- eral days ago with sales totalling a quarter of a million dollars, continued to move so quickly to- day that at press time the total was not available. | Three of the smaller buildings at Fort Taylor reservation were burned this. morning intention- ally, the purpose being to de- stroy the structures which were of no further use to the govern-! ment. Some people on the streets saw the flames and sev- eral calls for the department were sent ‘in. The Key West Company of the National Guard, under command of Captain Warren Watrous, is now recruitel to its full strength preparatory to its going to camp, Which will be held this year at} Pensacola, Florida. The company will leave here August 2 with 55 members or more. Work on the new hostelry of Key West, the Hotel La Concha,! is rapidly nearing completion, with a large force of men skilled in the style of work engaged in the structural progress of the hotel. The fourth floor of the structure is almost complete and; the other work is progressing nicely. < The building located at the northwest corner of Simonton and Greene streets, owned by A. W. Arnold, is now undergoing | extensive repairs. The building has been completely renovated and the exterior has been re- painted. The second story will be fitted out as offices. Lounge cars on the World’s Fair grounds now run to the Florida pavilion. Hitherto they only made a short circuit near the perisphere but so many were the requests to see Florida that they have extended the route to include that beatitiful exhibit. Opie Sate Bs TO BEAUTY! . The soul of feminine feauty > and charm is in the cycs. ® But often the light that lies = in woman's eyes is dimmed » it would be a wise precau- - tion ‘to make a date now. If you should need glasses, your prescription can ~ be ground into genuine Soft-Lite: Lenscs cut down whofe “Gomfirtable vidion. * homeliness of his face, Viskniskki wrote: “When you say I. look ‘something like a pelican’ you grossly libel that masterpiece of nature”. After riding in A .L. Dittman’s taxi from Kansas City to Council Bluffs, three passengers not only refused to pay their fare, but robbed him of $1.45. Adding fur- ther insult to injury they locked him in a refrigerator car, whe: he was found and released some hours later. Official routine creates some odd situations. It caused Paul Hackett of Philadelphia to ques-! tion his daughter as to her name, her age, her place of residence, her parents’ names and ages. She was applying for a marriage license, her father being a chief clerk of the marriage bureau. Harris Bark of Muskogee, Okla., is one of the comparative- ly few persons whose hearts are on the right side of the body, and to this cireumstance he probably owes his life. Recently he was shot in the-left shoulder, the bul- let ranging downward to the spot where one’s heart is supposed to be. His wasn’t there, so he will probably recover. It is said that the carillon in the tower of the University of Chicago chapel is the largest in the world, its 72 bells weighing 220 tons. The smallest bell weighs ten and a half pounds, the largest more than 18 tons. Miss Mattie Weathers of At- lanta is suing ther grocer for $: 000 because she stepped on his tomcat’s tail. She alleges that when she bore down on the feline caudal appendage the ani- mal attacked her. biting and seratching, with the result that she is now a nervous wreck. Harper’s tells of a little girl sent to an institution for the feeble-minded, where’ she was = ¢lectrician-scientist, born in WEDNESDAY , Today's Birthdays Nikola Tesla of New York Ser- bia, 84 years ago. Prof. Harriett Elliott University of North Caroli Woman's College, political scien- ‘tist, member of the National De- fense Board, born at Carbondale. Ii. 56 years ago. Donald R. Richberg of Wash- ington and Chicago, lawyer, for- mer New Deal execu’ bern 59 years ago, Knoxville, Tenn. ¢ work-oeck tan paver: com Vice Admiral Charles P. s der, U'S.N., borm at Charles W. Va., 6 years age Rexford Guy Tugwell York, economist, ex-und tary of agriculture, born at lclairville, N. Y., 49 years age | Graham 'York, radio |W ington. Sin- McNamee announcer D. C. 2 Theodore Marbu more, pubticist diplomat, born New found to be merely “sub-nerma’ and sent home. Her little sister in: a burst of confidence told a ™* playmate: “Janie was sen to be an idiot, but she pass and had to come away maid 't noted fantastic names t and social orga ciety in Florida proved Order of America, althoug! nection with funerals « toting. Negroes are Two boy students at New Lon don, Conn. saw their grade card before thev were mailed to parents, and found tf distressingly low vnark They worried the parental disapprove {which was in store for them and decided that the reports not be mailed. To prevent they burned the school bt over shou About 25 vears ago Mrs Campbell, the actress, was om from smoking in th the Hotel Plaza in And in those dav on the brazen list skirt above the t crossing a muddy street Patr Engi famous to de girk if they ’ Coca-Cola is recognized and wel- comed everywhere. People like its clean taste and the refreshed feeling that fol- lows. When you buy your bome sup- of Coca-Cola and be prepared for refreshment at home. 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