The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 16, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO West Citizen | The wry 1ZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC, Daily Except Sunday By AN, President and Publisher ness Manager e Citizen Building corner Greene and Ann Streets pe Only Dally Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County untered al Key Wes t, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Preas ine Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use ‘or republication of all news dispatches credited to at not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES r aa nths Months th ADVERTISING RATES Bade knowr on application. SPECIAL NOTICE ! All reading netices, cards of thanks, resolutions of | espect, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at 1e rate of 10 cents a line. es for entertainment by churches from whieh to be deriyed are 5 cents a line. is an optn forum and invites discus- issues and subjects of local or general will not publish anonymous communi- | 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, commend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only ne-vs that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- } promise with principle. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVO" .TED BY THE CITIZEN | the idea. PAY FOR CITY EMPLOYES Creditors of the city, including its employes in all departments, must have entertained scme feelings of futility when they found out that the lack of success at- d by the council at the meeting last 1 week called to find a way to collect taxes. Their cause insofar as-prospegts for.a full- month’s payroll in the mear fature Ys quite desperate because o7 that lack.of action. of the past few years, it has been the custom to need Traditionally, over a period at this time of year, what with starting of school and one thing and another, to pro- vide them with a full-month’s salary. The method used to obtain the funds was to borrow on the following year’s revenue with a loan at the bank. That same procedure was attempted this year, but, as all will recall, three of the councilmen refused to go along with Their refusal to sign the note cancelled the procedure in that all seven of the councilmen had to sign. An illuminating sttelight on at least one of the reasons, and there were many other good ones, as to why these council- men refused to go along with the borrow- ing move, s furnished at the meeting last week wher it was called to the atten- tion of the body assembled that “there was no good reason te borrow money on future tax collections—when only sixty per cent s tax roll had been col- recognize employes’ particular of the past yea lected”. And there we have a situation worthy of comment. It has been asserted by some of the families of city eraployes that these same three councilmen are opposed to pay- rolls for them. The very idea of depriv- ing them and their children of the necessi- | ties of life. Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airperts—Land and Sea. Corsolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. 6. A Modern City Hospital. The Citizen believes that each of the seven councilmen is mightily concerned with the lack of ability to meet payrolls— there are no exceptions to that. And if the employes and their families choose to feel badly about the situation, they should, by all means, direct their anger against | those who have failed to support the city War communiques remind us of pre- election comment. Asking the unemployed to take aj} year’s training wouldn’t be conscription. England changed a couple of hors in mid-stream and, as is well known, | profited by the change; why shouldn’t the United States do the same, and profit as | well. Communications to The Citizen to warrant publication, must be concise and | to the point; only the editor is permitted to indulge in verbal ramblings. One of the many troubles with the United States is that every Federal legis- | lator represents a restricted area and is re- ponsive orly to the will of voters in that | district. | Because there are certain men in pub- | lic life who are gluttons for power, is one | of the reasons for democracy, with its theory and practice of frequent changes in office. Once a nation is not vigilant in this respect, there is danger ahead. We are facing such danger now, but it can be remedied in the coming November elec- tion. Walter P. Chrysler, the millionaire automobile manufacturer, who died on August 18, had a career formed in the American tradition. He rose from a dol- lar-a-day sweeper in a Kansas City rail- road shop, and at 45 could have retired with a comfortable fortune. But it was in the succeeding years that he organized the Chrysler Corporation and made his great- est contribution to: American industry, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, who as a young newspaperman in San Francisco in 1888 wrote the famous baseball classic, “Casey at the PB.” is dead at 77. Many writers claimed authorship of this poem, one of the most prominent being Professor Thurston Peck, who once taught Latin at Columbia University. In the light of all the evidence favoring Thayer he claimed authorship stating that “for this, perhaps | the greatest of my sins, I was exclusively to blame.” It doesn’t matter now who wrote the classic, they are all gone, but | the poem will live as long as the English language is spoken and the National pas- time exists. | | vertised at its inception as | government in non-payment of taxes, even | though, as the case might be, they some of their neighbors or friends or rel- are atives. widely ad- a ‘business holds with The present council was men’s council”. The Citizen | the idea that, by and large, it has followed good business procedure in a majority of cases. Certainly it is net good business to keep borrowing to meet present expenses on next year’s expected income—especially | when bills outstanding would amply meet all current expenses and then some. Sooner or later—and we've said _ it over and over—there’s going to be a solu- tion to this tax collection problem. The Citizen believes that the time is getting quite close. SCRAMBLE FOR PLANTS Billions of dollars are to be spent by the government and private industry in building new manufacturing plants. and enlarging old ones during the next year or two, and a lively scramble for the location of these plants by various states and com- | munities has begun. Orders for war equipment so far have had to be given to existing plants, and up to September 1, four states—New Jersey, Virginia, Massachusetts and New York— have received much more than one-half of the total. Orders have been placed in these states as follows: New Jersey, 198 million dollars; Virginia, 187 million; Massachusetts, 183 million, and New York, 90 million. That the bulk of early orders sheuld go tc these states was inevitable, as they already have the manufacturing facilities established, especialiy for shipbuilding, and most of the contracts let.up to the | present have been for Naval ships, New plants to be built for manufac- turing Army equipment are likely to be distributed over a much wider area. The President has directed that new plants over which the government is to have con- trol should be located west of the Alle- ghenies and east of the Rockies, when practicable; also that they should be not less than 250 miles inland from the coasts or 200 miles from the northern and south- ern borders. It is to be hoped that the defense pro- gram may not be retarded too greatly by delay in making decisions regarding def- inite locations for the new plants. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY fKnow, I doubt if there is state in the Union that offers such contrasts and such a wide variety of unusual attrac- tions as does Florida. One need not go beyond the borders of the state to find scen- ery, vegetation, activities and topography of such a_ distinctly different character and flavor as to equal in most every respect a visit to some far away land or section of the country. Consider the striking contrast betwcen “boom”-built modernis- tic cities of Miami and Ft. Laud- erdale with the old, yet solid and substantial, communities of Pen- sacola and St. Augustine. Compare the Gulf Costal High- way with its palisades above beautiful Pensacola Bay, its ris- ing sand dunes, its red clay pine- clad hills, to the flat sandy beaches of the lower East Coast— yet both areas have distinctive charms and advantages. The resident of Key West. seeking a cgmplete change of scenery need not journey to some distant state. He will find it in the scenic highlands of Polk. Lake, Highlands or Pascé counties, or in the older settled areas of West Florida. where quiet prosperous farm- ing communities nestle con- tentedly amid limitless forest areas and high banked clay cloaked rivers. Floridians who live west of the Suwannee will find a wonder- land awaiting them in South and Central Florida where crystal clear streams, white sand beach- busy bustling communities, stately royal and cocoanut palms provide a real tropic atmosphere entirely different from the vistas of virgin pine, tangled hammock or turkey oak. Those from interior Florida tir- ing of lakes and hills or vast prairie will find plenty to interest and entertain them with com- plete change of atmosphere and scenerv at the beaches of either east or west coast, and with the same tackle they employ to cap- ture the elusive black bass in their familier lakes and streams they can have a world of sport with a variety of game salt ter fish that will leap to spoon or plug in Ocean pass or Gulf inlet—salt water trout, rova- lia, red fish. lady fish, mackerel, jacks and others. es, the | Country folks whose daily lives , are confined in an orbit of the small farming community will find the contrast and thrill they jneed by visiting such metropoli- tan cities as Jacksonville, Miami or Tampa, where comfortable ac commodations are available at modest rates and modern stores, theatres, night clubs and bright lights will serve to break the monotony. | Those whose daily task con- ‘fines them to a stuffy office in the city will find the forests and streams, the beaches and bay heads, the open prairies, the roll- ing hills and lakes, the hunting, fishing, hiking, or swimming available from Escambia to Mon- roe in one form or another, a delightful change from the hum- drum of hot pavements and city bustle. Florida is indeed a true vaca- tionland, not only for countless millions from other states but for her own year ‘round resi- dents as well. With the excep- tion of mountains, she offers all and more than can be found any- where else. In the words of Wil- liam Cullen Bryant, “She speaks 'a various language”, and is pre- pared to meet your mood what- ever it may be. Taking no definite or set vaca- tion for a given period this sum- mer, I have spent my time nosing jabout the state, taking short trips of two or three days’ dura- tion every week or so, stopping along the route to visit points of interest, fishing-or swimming or just loafing, now on the east coast, now on the west, or mak- ing a swing into the central sec- tion or out into West Florida Never have I experienced any vacation, anywhere, to compare with it. And each trip I take seems more enjoyable. I’m con- tinually finding new and inter- esting things and learning some- thing about my state that I never knew before. Each town, city or cross-road is interesting. Roads far the most part are good and if vou are not in too much of a hurry the beauty and charms of the ever-changing countryside will enchant you Trv Florida for your vacation © whether you take it in a lump or piecemeal, and you'll not be idisappointed. PENETRATOR PENS a woman of no particu- a friend told us, and then proceeded to go into particulars. “I want my two sons to feel that home is the place to relax, a hav- en of rest and secur that the house is home. There is a vast difference between a housekeep- er and a home-maker. If my boys want to have a sudden picnic in rainy day, we have the pienic. I’m not particu- lar about the house cleaning which will surely follow, it can be postponed easier than their jenthusiasm for doing something. My parents had one room in their house which was never used ex- cept for weddings, funerals or the minister's ‘call. We use every room in the house. I'm not par- ,ticular whether my boys have their shop-working tools in the garage or the living-room, I’m too happy to see them use their tools. I'm_ not particular about the clothes my sons wear. I want them to be clean, of course, but if they get dirty it is because they have been busy. I’m not particular whether or not they get wet ina rain storm. They will dry off. And most of all I'm not particular myself about keep- ing house, a house so often keeps you, if you let it. I’m too happy being a home-maker”. 6 the house on a We know a New Englander who still has to go down cellar té smoke his pipe because the smoke might get into his wife’s pride and glory, her living-room curtains. . Louis Adamic writes: “Your letter of the 12th just reached me, up here in the Northwest, almost as far away from Key West as I-could get and still re- main in the U.S. In your ram- bles about Florida, don't miss Tarpon Springs and the Greek sponge fishermen there. I have a 10,000-word chapter about them in a book “Fram Many Lands”, which is scheduled for publica- tion in early October. Incidental- ly, the story runs all the way |down from Tarpon Springs to the itip of Key West”. oe: , A fugitive from hay-fever, Mr. Adamic went to the Northwest. We are going to bombard him with clippings from The Citizen anent hay-fever, so that next year —. An old teacher once admonish- ed us, “Appreciate first, then criticize”. Whoever wrote the marriage ceremony must have had the same thing in mind when they wrote “for richer, for poor- er; for better, for worse”. If they had jusf put it the other way, “for worse, for better”, one could at least hope for the better and not have to accept the “worse” as final. All this came to us as we were eating a very fine meal in a lit- tle hole-in-the-wall place in Sul- phur Springs, because this meal was the “better” after a “worse” one we had the day before. We entered a restaurant, emp- ty of customers, full of tables, juke organs, two salesmen and a waitress. When we went in the waitress glanced our way with the hauteur of a queen, and— continued her conversation. We sat down and waited. Five min- utes later two girls came in and they chose the table next to ours. The Queen sped around the serv- ice counter with such alacrity that we were not sure but that she had hurdled the counter. Two menus were placed before the two girls. We still waited, won- dering meanwhile if we had sud- denly become a Thorne Smith character and was now invisible. The Queen sped away, brought back two glasses of water, poised her pad and pencil in air and waited for the girls’ order. As an act of assurance that we were visible the Queen turned and smiled upon us. After bringing the girls’ meals, she brought us the menu and took our order. Again we waited, not so pa- tiently by now, so lit a cigarette. There was no ash tray on our table, although there was one on every other table within sight. But to get back to our order, definitely we do not drink cof- jfee. The menu listed coffee as) U SMOKE T IT’S THE SMOKER’S CIGARETTE, because All America has a line on their, DEFINITELY ‘What smokers like your- self want most is mildness, cool- ness and taste. ..and that’s just what you get in Chesterfield’s right combination of the fin- est tobacces grown ...a defi- nitely milder, cooler, better taste. That’s why it’s called the Smoker's Cigarette. MAKE YOUR NEXT PACK Chesterfi This picture of Chesterfield buyers inspecting tobacco crops in the field before ouction time is one of many interesting scenes in the new book “TOBACCO- LAND, U.S.A.” This foscinating story of how Chest- erfields ore mode, from seed to cigorette, is yours for the osking. Mei! your request to Liggen & Myers Tobecco Company, 630 Filth Avenue, New Fork, W. ¥. Copyright 1940, Liccers & Mrens Tosacce Co. part of the lunch we had ordered. We asked for tea. “You have to have coffee with that lunch”. said the Queen. Aft- er all, she might be Queen but she wasn't going us 1 drink coffee. “I don't want cof- we protested. “I want tea”. “All right”, she shrugged her shoulders, “but I'll charge you for it”. “Why?” “That's the way our menu reads, coffee with that lunch”. “O.K., charge for the tea”. The meat was so salty we sus pected it of having been em- balmed. The hot potato patty was stone cold. The lemor sauc¢ on the pudding was so tart we couldn't eat it. Alvogether it was a most unsatisfactory meal, poor service, extra charges. poor food We took the only revenge open to us. we left no tip and secretly resolved never to go there again In line with the idea of re- versing the “appreciate-criticize” maxim, we like to get our critic- isms out of the way first, so we can appreciate even to a greater extent, toda happy meal. A widow, with a ten-year-old daughter, runs the place where we ate today. There are ten stools along a counter, a tiny kitchen at the back, the usual shelves behind the counter dis- playing cereals, sauces, cigarettes. The proprietress was at our stool to take our order before we had given the menu, posted on the wall, a first glance The food was a revelation, hot, well sea- soned, homey. We had pot roast beef, mashed potatoes, corn, a slice of tomato and pickle on let- tuce, two hot corn bread sticks, kidney bean salad, cole slaw, hot tea and lemon coconut pie, all for 25c. We rolled rather than walked out of the place. We ap- preciate having found this “bet- ter” place to eat. to make When did th acquire the Loui 2. The mother « inent British American? 3. King Carol, of cently abdicated leader become King? 4. Where Mounta. 5. Wi dam construc 6. Wha’ place in month? 7. What language is s Switzerland? 8. What is th calendar now 9. What is ‘quid pro guo™ 10. 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