The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 21, 1941, Page 4

PAGE FOU: THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SHOW INCREASE IN OPERATION OF GOVERNMENT PER CAPITA COST IN MON- TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1941 3 'HOME GUARD TO NENTION'” MEET. TONIGHT i who was! formerly Miss Kate Demeritt of; There will be a meeting of the Key West, was an arrival here yes- Key West Home Guards tonight, terday from St. Louis, Mo., where , beginning at 8 c’clock, at the Na- she has been making her home for tional Guard Armory, corner of many years. She will remain in white and Southard streets, ac- COCCOOOOOOOOCECOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSOOOOOO® Florida’s Official Family At Inaugur HARRIS TO REST UNTIL WEEK-END, CAPTAIN WILL LEAVE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO JOIN COMPANY BIG PARADE BY LIONS TONIGHT FOR PURPOSE OF ADVER- TISING FORTHCOMING MINSTREL oe Key West for a visit of several ROE COUNTY WAS $7.93; FLORIDA'S AVERAGE was! $9.23 Key West Lions will present a huge parade through the main |streets of Key West tonight to publicize their forthcoming pro- (Special to The Citizen) | duction, “Rollin’ Rhythm”, to be JACKSONVILLE, Jan. 21,—/staged by the Lions at Key West “County government, not includ- | High School auditorium on next ing schools and debt service pay- Beery ie ea ments, cost the people of Florida get under way at 7:00 p. m. and $6.26 for each man, woman, and | the cast, in full costume, will as- child in 1935. In 1939 the cost | semble at American Legion Hall had increased to $9.23 per per-jat 6:30 in preparation for the son”, according to statement re- | event. leased here today by the Florida “Rollin’ Rhythm” is a fast- | Tax evision League. |moving minstrel show and revue, | “The per capita cost in 1939 |depicting a mythical bus tour varied from a Jow of $3.10 for | through the United States. | Alachua county to a high of |“Rollin’ Rhythm” gets off to a| $22.72 for Hendry county. The | fast start with “At The Station”, | per capita cost for Monroe coun- | the opening number in the revue, | ty was $7.93 in 1939 compared to presenting the entire cast in a the state average of $9.23. | screaming travesty of a_ typical | “Tt has been frequently and ac- |scene in a bus station. Featured | eurately said that democracy is|terpsichorean numbers in this | on trial but we should recognize |portion of the production will be} the fact that the dangers to our |the specialtyydance offerings, of | democratic way of life are not|Gerald Pinder and Carolyn | entirely from enemies without. | Cherry; the “thumba” team of Mr. | We face just as serious dangers |and Mrs. Albert Boza; and the solo | from the enemies within and the |tap dancing of Maynard Daniels most dangerous enemies within |and Mary Lou Briggs. | the framework of our democracy| Two clever sketches in the show are those federal, state, and local |are “Niagara Falls”, starring Betty | officials, who as a result of in- | Lee Allshouse, Joe Allen, Alicia | competency, political expediency, |MeCoy and John Bennett and political graft, or other reasons |“Way Down Yeast”, a pantomime are unnecessarily increasing the | burlesque on the silent two-reel cost of our democratic govern-|movies, with Howard Price, wil- ment. liam. Webster, John Esperdy and “The cost of federal, state, and | Gerald Saunders as the leading local government has increased | characters. enormously in the past 10 years.| “Suicide” Zorsky, well known ‘The cost has already reached the |performer, will appear in the point that the tax burden is a jfinale of the revue with a spec- severe strain on the individval | tacular fire-juggling number. | taxpayers, therefore, on our en-| Sammy Bird’s Dixieland Band, tire economic system. We are now |of the Samoa Club, will play a| faced with the necessity of |Special overture at 7:45 p. m., fif- | spending additional _ billions of |teen minutes before curtain-time, | dollars for national defense. To/at each performance. : | pay the defense bill without| “Rollin’ Rhythm” will be! wrecking our entire economic | climaxed with “Minstrels In) structure it is essential that the | Mexico”, a gigantic minstrel show, | | Physician’s orders to spend a! few more days resting in Key | West will delay the departure of | |Capt. W. Curry Harris, Florida |National Guard battery com- !mander, at least until Friday, it | was learned today. Captain Harris, who was to have accompanied the local bat- tery to Fort Crockett, Galveston, a week ago, has been recovering from an attack of illness. He said today he had planned to make the trip Wednesday, but had been advised by his physician to rest at | least until Friday and untii Satur- day or Sunday if bad weather pre- | vails. SOCIAL HYGIENE DAY FEBRUARY 5 DR. PARRAMORE URGES CO-/ OPERATION OF ALL IN ITS OBSERVANCE Dr. J. B. Parramore, head of the | Monroe County Health Unit, calls attention to National Social Hygiene Day, which will be ob- served throughout the country on February 5th. Dr. Parramore states that great- er efforts than ever are now being put forward in the interest of the campaign to combat and deal with the ravages of venereal diseases which have proved to be so_ pre- valent in the past, and urges all to cooperate in the movement, which | is taking on new life in all parts of the nation. Dr. Walter Clarke, executive di- rector, the American Social Hy- giene Association, announces that | Social Hygiene Day will be the spearhead of a concerted drive to safeguard men in military and cost of ordinary functions of gov- | ernment be reduced to the abso- lute minimum, otherwise, history may show that the worse enemies to democracy were not the ag- gressor dictators of foreign lands but those of our own elected of- ficials who through incompeten- cy, waste, and extravagance ren- dered the world’s greatest de- mocracy incapable to defend it- with Gerald Saunders as the in-| |terlocutor. The black - faced | |“‘gauchos” are Tom Woody, Wil-| |liam Webster, Vanessa Collins, |Tommy Curry, John Esperdy and | Ray Knopp. Prominent balladists | are Mrs. Eva Warner, John Ben-| nett, Paul Esquinaldo and Mr. | |Saunders, Miss Marie Farto will) |appear in a Spanish dance spe- cialty. The black-face solo num- naval training camps and in es- sential industries from the rav- ages of venereal disease. The ef- fort this year is aimed at reducing commercialized prostitution to a minimum and_ keeping syphilis | and gonorrhea infection rates as low as possible in army, navy and | defense industrial personnel. Plans for the annual event in- clude more than 5,000 community }lan | president of the Vick imauguration ceremonies and parade here yesterday. three Ford Sedans assigned to them, are (left to right) Sen. and Mrs. Charles O, Andrews and Gover- nor and Mrs. Spessard L. Holland. Kneeling and pointing to one of the special inaugural license plates placed on the governor's Ford fleet is Sen. Claude Pepper. VICKS PRODUCTS SHOW INCREASE EXECUTIVE REPORTS GREAT! PROGRESS IN MAGA-_ | ZINE ARTICLE | The South is America’s great new industrial frontier! This is! the message of the leading article | in the latest issue of “The Adver- | tiser”, national magazine of the advertising business, and the statement comes from an authori- | tative source. The author is Al-| 2yer, executive vice Chemical | Company, former chairman of} the board of the Association of | National Advertisers, and a busi-| nessman of national prominence. “The South has advanced in-| THE WEATHER 75th Mer. Time (city office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hours —. Lowest last night Mean Normal | NE—10 miles per hour Relative Humidity | 84% 63, Barometer ‘at 7:30 a. m., today 60 Sea level, 30.22 (1023.4 millibars) ees Tomorow’s Almanac -—--70 | Sunrise 7:13 a. {Sunset . 6:05 p. | Moonrise 2:33 a. 0.00 ' Moonset 1:57 p. Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM. 6:00 10:43 FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Wednesday) 0.08, Key West and Vicinity: Partly ity Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches Total ranifall since Jan. inches : Ss Deficiency since Jan. inches < 5 Total rainfall since Jan. inches Deficiency inches ; Wind Direction and Velocit 1, 1.16 1, ! 0.08 High Low 1.16| 1, since Jan. 1, Wednesday; moderate easterly winds, possibly fresh at times. Florida: Increasing cloudiness with rising temperature tonight and Wednesday, scattered show- ers on the southeast coast. Dixie-bound, Mr. Preyer ‘points out that a survey conducted dur- ing 1936 and 1937 showed that | more than $186,000,000 was spent in process industries for new Shown just before the parade, with one of the, m. m. m. | ‘cloudy and warmer tonight and months. , 9; of ' | Joe Dréssel, ' resident’ of | St. Louis, Mo., was included in the |arrivals in Key West yesterday, and will remain for several days’ stay. This is Mr. Dressel’s first visit here, and he states that he is exceedingly delighted with the Is- land City, and its people. He says that he regrets that this visit is but for several days, but says that he hopes to make regular visits to Key West in the future. Curtis Russell, formerly of Key West, but who has been making ‘his home in Miami for several |years, was an arrival in the city |yesterday for a stay of several | days. : ‘of Lockport, New York, have ar- | rived in Key West for a visit with their daughter, Louise at 416 Eliza- beth street. Two Marriages Glen Harold Baily, 46-year-old seaman aboard the U.S.S. Roper, jwas married yesterday to Miss Hazel Waln, 21, of Bloomington, Ill, by Justice of the Peace En- rique Esquinaldo, Jr. The marriage of John Perez, 40, and Miss Anontia Jiminez, 25, both born in Key West, was sol- | emnized yesterday by Judge Ray- mond R. Lord. Today’s Horoscope ) Mr. and Mrs. John T. Hawkes | Today gives a peculiar mixture. m. Hating convention and with a ten- dency to innovation, the life may be spent in dreams, unless an P.M. impetus is given in the direction | qualified elect 5:29 of achievement of some of th e ideas before success slips by. A} managing partner is needed. | |readings below zero this morning | in northern New England, while | warmer weather prevails in the | \Plains and West Gulf States, | Mississippi Valley and Lake re- | gion, and tempefatures are gen- jerally seasonable over far west- | ern sections. cording to announcement made today by Major Robert F, Spotts- wood. This will be the first meeting to be held at the new headquarters. All members, and others who are interested-in joining the or- ganization, ‘are requested to be in attendance at tonight's meeting. LEGALS NOTICE OF ELECTION Notice is hereby given that on the 4th day of February, A. D. 1941, an election will be held in the County of Monroe, State of Florida, in all of the voting precincts of said Monroe County, Florida, to decide whether a majority of the freeholders of Mon- roe County, Florida, who are quali- | tied electors, are in favor of the is- suance of proposed bonds Monroe County, Florida, as follows Proposition: For the purpose of payment of the purchase price or award for real property necessary for the acquisition, establishment and construction of a County - air= port in Monroe County, Florida, Monroe County shall issue Forty ($40, ) of beoee a ee ial, coupon bonds, in the pri oe 1 amount of One Thousa: Dollars ($1,000.00) each, matu ing in groups of eight (8) bonds on the first, second, third, fourth and fifth anniversaries of the is~ suance date of said bonds, said bonds bearing interest the rate of Six per cent. (6 per annum, payabl nually, be evidenced by terest coupons attached to said bonds. Said bondi ing secured by the pledge of ad valorem taxon all property in Monroe Florida. For such election, electors may be registered as prescribed by th eral laws of this Sta tion of electors, and the ry books of this County will be open in the office of the Supervisor of Regis- tration in the Monroe County Court House, Key West, Florida, from nine o'clock A, M. to twelve M, and from two o'clock P. M. until five o'clock P, M. of each day, with the excep- tion of Saturdays and Sundays, from | the date of this notice until the 30tl | day of January, A. D, 1941, on whi i said last mentioned date said regts- | tration books will be closed. | The polls at said election shall z kept open from eight o'clock A. until sundown and all freeholders of | Monroe County, Florida, who are Ore, all be entitled in said election. Florida, thi County, | to. participate Dated at Key Bist day of December, A Board of County Commission: Monroe County, Florida. By CARL BERYALDI, Chairman. (ima) D. instor test: Ross C Sawyer Clerk Circuit Court as ex officio Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe Coun- ty, Florida, dec31,1940; jant-14-2 At bers of William Webster, Vanessa Collins, Tommy Curry and Ray | Knopp will be the comical hits of self. “Retrenchment in ordinary government cost is essential for national defense and the public Official who fails to do his part in cutting ordinary government ex- penses to the bone, or hides be- hind national defense as a smoke- sereen to increase ordinary gov- ny ernment cost, is just as much a| Mexican costume, dustrially while other sections of | plants and modernization in the the nation have stood still or de-| South—a sum which was $60,- clined”, declares Mr. Preyer.’ 990,000 greater than that spent in “Government statistics on manu-/| jj the rest of the country com- facturers, from 1900 to 1937, re-| bined. j veal a steady and sustained prog-| “The industrial strides made for the h. The impetus py the South have been reflected meetings in all parts of the coun- try and four regional conferences the evening. jto be held in Philadelphia, St. Special Bctling) scenery and |Louis, New Orleans and Los An- |lighti ill add to the at- | geles. lective mag et Speaking at a recent meeting of itractiveness of the production.| >I i n Be |The entire minstrel cast will wear |Social hygiene executives and Bp I la highly colorful and typical |medical officers in Washington. |of this progress, backed by new’ in the, whole economic life of the | Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president, |and increasing industrial oppor- region”, says the writer. “The ag- Renfrew of The Royal Mounted in DANGER AHEAD Also, Comedy and Serial | PRIZE NITE — TONIGHT VapoRus , ry Jasksonville to Florida Straits: | Moderate northeast and east, BABY’'S Easy to relieve minse? winds, occasionally fresh over | co extreme south portion; partly u o | | | ‘overcast weather tonight and Sad beck with = | Wednesday. East Gulf: Moderate northeast and east winds, occasionally fresh | over Florida Straits; mostly over- cast weather tonight and Wed- nesday. COMPLAINT SERVICE. . If you do not Receive Your Cogy of The CITIZEN By 6 P. M. PHONE—WESTERN UNION Between 6 and 7 P. M. N and a Western Union Messenger Boy will AY deliver your copy of The Citixen. wat I DIDO I IDI aL as: CONDITIONS High pressure covers the coun- try this morning east of the Mis- ippi River; while low pressure areas are centered over the southern Plain tates and on the middle Pacific coast. During the last 24 hours measurable pre- cipitation has been confined to portions of the Pacific States, the central and northern Rocky Mountain region, and extreme ‘upper Mississippi Valley, . the amounts being generally light. Temperatures continue below normal in eastern districts, with coms 666 TABLETS ALVE si To relieve Misery of t & WretIoOIT DDI aa aS s NOSE DROPS COUGH DROPS en-year period just clos- 940) bas represented a r the South, numerous si import- diversifica- h has prov- ce. “Among e brought expansion in pulp and pa- olev refining. ndustries and tex- ed (1930. for benef Mr. F Today's Bi Special— Chicago Shoe Skates White Shoes with Maple Wheels $9.75 Tommie’s Skating Palace FOR YOUTHFUL SPIRITS ROLLER SKATE Southard Street—Ladies 25¢ SESSIONS: 2:30 P. M. till 4:30 P. M.—Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. 7:30 till 10:00 P. M.—Fri. Sat. Holidays 8:00 till 10:30 P. M. If You Can Walk You Can Skate Shoe Skates For Sale—Terms CASA MARINA Key West's Hotel De Luxe American Plan 200 delightful ROOMS. cach with PRIVATE BATH Beautiful Cocktail Lounge | DANCING NIGHTLY rthdays Spanish Classes Are Organized Teachers or terested in enr versity of Florida in College Spa semester the Convent f day, Janus The Cc late is ern Associa Secondary Sch the privilege credit by Exten Lopez Funeral Service Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors an@ Embalmers For Real Economy For Real Service For Real Protection adul t In proving that industry is-now Ernest E. Norris, president the Southern Railway, born Hoopeston, IIL, 59 years ao TRY IT TODAY— the |The Favorite in Key West “oss STAR 2*« BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS DR. A. M. MORGAN Announces that MRS. JULIA HERGATT of Chicago is now in charge of the Physical Therapy Dept. (Massage. Fume Baths, Colonics) Page Building Phone 281 eecccscsccoosooes ARM BRAND COFFEE Richard Reid, ed Catholic News, born ter, Mass., 45 years ago DELIVERED DAILY EVERYWHERE Thompson Enterprises INCORPORATED ICE DIVISION PHONE NO. 8 c of Mary Immacu- dited with the Carveth Wells, explorer, aut and lecturer, born in Engl: years ago. from sombrero | | viean Socia! Hygiene Associa-| tunities, was sufficient to carry | to zapatos. American Socia! Hygiene Associa- | tunities, was sut Y gregate resources of Southern ate calc eae The iirele” includes Ellen | tion and former Secretary of the |the region. through the recent de-' banks in 1938, for example, in- liberately aids the enemy. |Price, Mary Webster. Anita Cama- | Interior, called upon the public | pfession to 1937, with a loss of creased by more than six hun- . i king their communities safe | of its products from 1929. The! The total Federal internal oy- ida’s count; son, Mrs. Eva Warner, Betty Lee |1n mal t ee e total eral internal rev the peat five Se een Allshouse, Pat Webster, Alicia | from infection. |loss by the rest of the nation, on'enye payments increased from bie. One ciear indication is|McCoy, Nevy Armayor, Frank| “The fundamental issue in this|the other hand, amounted, to 14 $552,166,000 in 1931 to $1,357,516,- y f ‘ rs i id, “ii + will] Why Southern business wea- fi duri i sriod by @aiaiée’ . dishureeme: 31. |Price, Orlando Esquinaldo, Joe | Wilbur said, ‘is what support | 3 2 orce rose during this period by fare “totaled "$1,297,000 aie ir | Allen and Paul Esquinaldo. the public itself and the civilian |thered the depression better than pearly four hundred million dol- eaale agai HACE: | officials give in cleaning up condi-|the nation as a whole, Mr. Preyer jg d vages;paid-inrin- 1985 the federal i stat jal ials gi is lars, and total wages paid in~in. reek te vahrdogl uty | tions near camps and keeping/can state from ’ them clean. The Army and Navy|own firm, the Vick Chemical half billion dolla old age pension costs entirely ANNOUNCE DEATH | " . ~ Dae from the counties and spent. huge | OF CRITTENTON want their men healthy ;and mpany of Greensboro, N. C. ‘What lies ahead for the th? r j Them so. We know enough ,1931 to bring out tw® sentirelyig@w point the way d aid to the blind and dependent hihi “as Ww: 5 i on 5 Act tae. EGU aad ether walters cnr | now to control these diseases, but new products, Vieks Walrtol-nol gipanding fields of- development. é t | {sense to do so? It will mean to|Medicated Cough Drops, supple- | facture—newsprint from South- for welfare in 1939 totaled $2,102,-| een PASTOR OF ST.PAUL'S fight greed and entrenched poli-|menting the well-known Vicks ern pine Git sciphate point 000—an increase of 62%. ‘ De esp stp a sea should ; CHURCH HERE lof the World War we ought to;many another aggressive South- jndustry—will be the explosive ould be borne in mind that the We le of av- busines $ 3 a te 3 Mae dat takes poesth i . give the world an example of ap usiness, sales and payrolls spark to set off the new ad- S$ possible a con-| Key West Episcopal church | plied preventive medicine in stop- rose steadily throughout the de- vance”. county government is the fact |terday by news of the death De- ” | that county officials have arbi-|cember 5th of Father Lawrence cence fled (1 aa x are on apelin tite . 3 e - outh, or the economic li trary, indefinite, and practically | A. Crittenton at Canon City, Colo. | ot the ‘ehcle cate Ta rack as- ame property taxes, and as these Father R. D. Crittenton, pastor of the South today is a welcome re Property tax levies increase tax | St, Paul's Episcopal church in Key | | yaw 1 inequalitie: mn, tis Geox ban re assurance that opportunity is stil! on, tax de-| West from 1917 to 1926, and was a very much alive in this country inherent in the ad valorem tax|Father Dimmick of the local '°": D.C. journalist-le e system increase in similar ratio”. church. |born in California, Mo., 46 years Father Crittenton had visited ;"8° father’s funeral in 1926 and was! man, Certain-Teed, Ch well khown toa number of church jn Sweden, 60 years ago. members here. i for the Uni- four days, before he was to have Extension Class jleft Canon City for Long Island for the second City, N. Y., where he had been ch. He had been rector of the rado church for 14 years er Crittenton is urvived of Col and D. Crittenton, his uncle, all of 1 It also has Canon City; and an aunt, two granting college | brothers and two sisters. “The drastic increase in Flor-|lier, Virginia Shine, Jessie Gib-|and civilian officials to cooperate |only three percent in the value dred million dollars over 1931 county welfare cost. In 1935 the | Schneider, John Bennett, Howard social and medical question,” Dr. | percent”. 442 in 1938. Life insurance in | security program has taken over FA apari dustry increased by some ane % i 7] py can | chose the hard ec: imes } f’ se sums in unemployment insurance, | sound, and will do what they can chose the hard economic times of "Phere are definite signs that even v i i for nose and throat and Vicks /Agai ioes that county disbursements |WAS OLDEST SON OF FOR: |9° We bave the appiied commen ir iat Ns Vicks ‘Again it appears that pulp manu- “in this same connection, it| itical forces. With the experience |VapoRub. With Vicks as with the region's $200,000,000 rayon tinuous increase in the cost of leaders here were saddened yes- ping the spread of the venereal | pressio Paceiimeht of theme? nee unlimited authority to levy ad va- |The minister was the oldest son of in Me Prigek “the gictiira of linquency, and the other abuses classmate at theological school of Clarence K. Streit of Washing- : au n of ours’. in Key West at the time of his! ror G. Dahlberg, board who are in- He died suddenly of pneumonia sked to meet at called by All Saints’ Episcopal nis wife; a son, Charles; W. H sion C s Prof. Pitirin A. Sorokin of Har- vard, noted sociologist, born Russia, 52 years ag es “FRIENDLY ARGUMENT” ty “DEAD” MAN REPORTS - i SERN landing” LA CONCHA HOTEL ‘SEONG Beautiful—Air-Conditioned Rainbow Room and Cocktail Lounge DINING and DANCING trictly Fireproof Garage OPEN THE YEAR AROUND | ES KANSAS police in Strauss wh gash h t say was: “It was little argur boys. tle trouble betvreen fr: his city carried this no- when news spread sworth Mo.—When pers i Fred tice r eight-inch | that 1 tid ‘killed in a friendly E. Wadsworth st a lit-| that the report o nds”, {burial is absolutely false” New ; ¢ asked York, noted archi! here “g . 2 > 67 years ago. wishes ¢ Charles T. Inghan noted architect,