The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 22, 1941, Page 2

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The Citizen is an open forum’ and invites discus- of publie issues and subjects of local or general rect but it will not publish anonymous communi- vations: AL NOTICE rds of thanks, resolutions , etc, Will be charged for at | evenu IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST | ; ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation »f County and City Gov- ernments. 6 A Modern City Hospital. | Presenting: Short Cut, Neb., and Long Lane, Mo. Some senators think we will be in the war by April. That’sthe month of the fools.® Time passes: first thing you know, six- teen big league clubs will be all set for the pennant races. If we do not quit paying attention to the propaganda of the warmongers we will find it a bigger problem to keep America out of war than to keep war out of America. Paul V. MeNutt has been honored by the fashion specialists as one of the “best dressed men in Washington.”’ Chances are that this honor was bestowed upon him be- cause of the face and figure that he has to go with the clothes, McNutt has always been a beauty. Uncle Sam once was a shrewd trader | but is ne more. He should have gotten full title instead of a 99-year lease to those naval bases in British possessions on this side of the Atlantic, The islands should have been tendered as part payment of the War debt. England never yields an inch of her estate for any cause, In the early days of the, Republic the Secretary of State personally disbursed the funds provided for the foreign service and any loss through accident or otherwise had to be made good by him. When Edmund | Randolph, third secretary of state retired a | | degrees. | freezing point. | change. | can well boast about the weather. shortage of some $49,000 was found in his | books and after repeated trials his lands | and slaves were sold, the Government col- leeting the money with some $7,000 interest in addition. If that condition existed today no one would want the job. In 4 hearing of the House Foreign Af- | fairs committee on the Administration's “lend-lease” bill, Secretary Stimson said he studied President Roosevelt for six months and came to the conclusion that he could be | trusted in directing the foreign affairs of the United States, In rejoinder Repregen- | ive Tinkham declared that he had studied Reesevelt for eight years and before he could continue Chairman Sol Bloom, ing the criticism coming, rapped for order. An we are supposed to be a free people. sens. require in 1941 large armies from overseas,” says Prime Minister Churchill, That's reassuring at least for 1941; but does that statement imply that he has been assured our armies at some future time. Such promise, of course, would be withheld from us as a military secret and could not be told at the present time in view ef President Roosevelt's solemn assurance made severa] times and with some degree of vehemente that the conscription for defense on this side of the Atlantic and not again for “over there.” “We do not | people take life seriously as they | themselves for the years that are before SPEAKING OF THE WEATHER For the sake of Key Westers and visi- |tors who have been digging out their | sweaters during the past few days, here’s a | little information on how the weather here | has stacked up—not with Chicago or Butte, | i Montana, where we know its cold, but with a couple of other warm places. For instance: Key West’s lowest tem- | perature in the past seven days has been 52 That’s an even 20 above the Mercury in Miami during the seven days went to 44 degrees and in Los Angeles, the third of our test cases, it | dronped to 46. Actually, it is swift changes in tem- | perature that bring most discomfort and | Key West leads the way for the warm spots there, too. During the week, Key West | averaged daily temperature changes of 11 degrees from the lowest to the highest re- | cordings and for the entire week had a | change of 20 degrees between the lowest ! | reading for the week and the highest. Miami, meanwhile, was having a daily average change of 17 degrees to Los An- geles 19, and for the entire week went from a low to a high of 38 degrees while Los Angeles was going through a 26-degree f Key West, its temperature moderated by the great bodies of water surrounding it, It is still the only frost-free city in the United States and a check of the daily weather reports | will show how comforting a thought that really is. BOY SCOUTS’ FOUNDER Although organizations of boys for outdoor activities had existed in the United States a few years earlier, the Boy Scouts as we know them today were first organ- ized in England in 1908 by Sir Robert Baden-Powell, who died a few days ago at the age of 83, The movement soon spread to this country, and the Boy Scouts of America re- ceived a charter from the District of Colum- bia on February 8, 1910. Daniel Carter Beard, a pioneer in scouting in the United States, is still active as head of the Boy Scouts of America at the age of 90. Lord Baden-Powell was in the British Army, and during the Boer War won great fame as commander of the small British force at Mafeking, which successfully with- stood a siege of 215 days against a large Boer army. For this achievement he was promoted to the rank of major general at the age of 42. In recognition of his service in found- ing the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides he was raised to the peerage. He was an author of note, as well as an explorer, a sportsman and a talented sculptor. His books were devoted largely to military and outdoor life, one of the best being his ‘Aids to Scout- mastership,” published in 1920. ‘The ideals of Baden-Powel! were well illustrated by the principles of the Scout oath and law: to be trustworthy, loyal, help- ful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, eheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. YOUR RESOLUTION IS IMPORTANT Now that January is getting along it might be a good idea for The Citizen read- ers to pause long enough to make a casual | check-up on their New Year resolutions. Frankly, we doubt if one-tenth of one per cent of the noble resolutions have been | kept this long. Even less than that num- | ber, however, might justify the custom and only one of them, if it is national your | own and has been observed, might make the difference between success and failure for you. We doubt if the mature adults of the county thiak of self-improvement but we hope, and believe, that hundreds of young prepare them. To these young people we would send a word of encouragement. No truly great individual ever achieved anything of per- manent good to the human race without some self-study, self-analysis and con- scious effort to improve. The hewers of wood and drawers of water, so useful in life, use their muscles more than their brain but there was a day, im the life of each one, when some forward stride, once taken, would have led them to large life. with The only time a judge speaks | absolute authority is when he decides your | lawsuit in your favor. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | H | NATURE 2E NOTES ° | By J. C. GALLOWAY \ (Reprinted From Port Allegany (Pa.) Reporter) ' Every morning the fish peddler comes down the street, his push- cart a wheelbarrow with’a box on; jit and a staging above decorated with little flags and a couple ‘of KINGFISH — JEW- ‘Craw- paper signs, FISH, He calls his wares: fish—Jewfish—Mackerel fi ihe serves the holders along the street. The ice cream man has his white case mounted pn four little rubber tired wheels, with a row of sleighbells along the push- bar. The Cuban boys on the garbage truck made a ball game of their work; and “Whoop!” as the big baskets are tossed to the top of the high pile on the truck. to be dumped. Other things are different from the north; a hot straight and slender young Cuban , down the middle of the ; singing a solo; good sing- ing, too, and good music. And we were awakened Christmas } Eve at midnight by young fell going along the street singing “O come, all ye faithful” with strong melodious voices, and singing it beautifully. Then again, you may meet a specialist, as we did. We were calling on some Ohio - friends, sitting on their veranda enjoying the fresh sea-breeze, when across the flower decked lawn came another friend, bent on helping the neat young color- ed weman, who accompanied her, to finda job. “Have you any work for me?” plicant. “I do cleaning; scrub floors and iron”. “Why no”, said our host e have a woman coming Monday for cleaning”. “Coudn’t you give me work to- day? So I could earn a quarter anyway? I haven’t a cent of money today”. The lady consid- ered. “Would you wash .win- dows? “No, I don’t wash win- dows; just scrub floors and iron. That’s all I did in Miami; just get down on my knees and clean floors, and do ironing”. “Can you cook?” “No, ma’am, I don’t do no cooking”. “Would you wash dishes for me on Christmas?” “No, ma’am, I don’t work for no- body on Christmas Day; that’s one day I want to be at home”. By this time a general feeling of helplessness began pervading the veranda; there seemed to be noth- ing more well-intentioned folks could do, and the specialist on her way, looking furti work in her field. We hope found it. One day we wanted a spray of Frangipana in order to make a sketch in color. Frangipana is that West Indian tree whose blos- soms are so faultlessly perfect in form and color they look like ar- tificial flowers of wax, tinted with tones of the purest pink and soft yellow; and with a heavy sweet scent all their own. They look like jewels, and in the East Indies the girls wear a single blo: som in their dark hair. We kne of a tree in flower up the street, and walked up there to see about it. The sidewalk was on the op- posite side of the street; and as we crossed, a lovely little dark syed ‘maid saw us coming her way, and with some alarm hasten- ‘d home and told her mother, who me to the door. Yes, the lady next door was at home; but when we knocked and she caimé, she could not understand us; so. the younger mother acted inter- preter from the adjoining dow, but even then we had trou- ble in being understood. Finally we found the lady f ed wi wanted do would charged for; 2 fearing we had the line and it might be the reverse that, offered her a small coin for the sprav we wanted. But no: she would not take the money; and we were welcome to the spray once she understood the matter. Key West, like other it: ts and its latter are mong the 5 to some t ne f ¢ ws grievous sorest folk omforts, and opportunity: for spirit and w or; and ev meet but once for the 7 the friend of his and dock he to! coming id us of 3 here who was sick. Before going r eall on him seme he stopped to kaees. If it rained was too hot, there was 2 bit of jail on a wire be could draw over chis head. as | 5 inquired the ap- . ¢ nor Reed, who comes each year win- bas and The poor fellow has | been desperasely sitk/for qweeks, | Most of §§ familiar as we are! with the stéry bf the Good Samar- | itan, yet unfamiliar with any; such manneryoi life as this, might; el that here was a case that the | proper authorities should be tak-| ing care of; but which we would be helpless in trying to handle | ourselves. Not so our friend. He | ked him how long he had been | ick, and the nature of his trou- |! ble; if he had had a doctor, which | he had not; and if he would like to | We did not hear the | ; but the questioning went ahah kind of medicine had | Some nostrum ; someone had recom- a pale purple mess that turn the stomach to look it. “The. wrong medicine can kill you instead of making you well”, our friend told him; and | ggested a simple hygienic | treatment’ most likely to remedy his condition without harm. “Will you take it if I arranged to have| it brought you every morning? If vou do I think you will be well | two weeks. Will you take; = he old man prom- And when our stepped over to a nearby the matter with a} an woman ‘who the old man said to is heart full of feeling, re goes a ood man; he’s one of the best men that ever lived”. “Yes”, we said, “we are finding that out”. a Light up and listen with *% ANN SHERIDAN x of WARNER BROS." current hi HONEYMOON FOR THREE as she tunes in ‘on her personal radio to FRED WARING and GLENN MILLER to her this week. friend boat to arran Notes connection and happenings in with growing Art will be is column nsored by the WPA Key Art Center. THE KEY WEST ART CEN- TER, WPA, opened Tuesday the first one-man show of this win- ter’s jon with the exhibition of twenty-five paintings hy Elea- Key West as a member of the West Society of Artists. Her . tings of the local scene have WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1941 MADE FOR SMOKERS LIKE YOURSELF You'll enjoy Chesterfield’s right combination of the world’s best cigarette tobaccos. They give you something no other cigarette can offer. Chesterfields are MILD... the way you want a cigarette... not flat... not strong. Chesterfields smoke COOLER, and every puff gives you that BETTER TASTE that Chest- erfield is famous for. Ask for Chesterfields. who each dedicate a number Seen accorded favorable atten- tion wherever shown. This ex- hibition is a, comprehensive col- ection of the artist’s work in wa- tercolor and oil and offers a splen- did opportunity to evaluate her creative ‘processes. Following her trend thgéugh the conserva- ive style, engendered by her arly studies in the art schools view her progress with et approach, to a more} 799 John HL Lathrop, ative manner of expression as he respons to the moving world ! ee Ames igi ura bout her. education, pioneer university A jbuilder, president of State uni- & aoe os iversities”, ideal professor, Ameri- ELEANOR REED, who oe can and Christian”, born in Sher- : a N.Y. Died Aug. 2, 1866.) ows at’ the} = 1802—Richard Upichn, noted | Pennsylvania, Academy of the iN lew York architect, who did at Fine Arts and the Art Alliance! of "Philadelphfa;i- the ?Carésrar| oe os Semcentinee Beal ly free, inspiration in his profes- Gallery ‘it’ Washington, D. . i i and the Provincetown Art Ass fee fo ae ee ee ciation. Her work has also been hown in Miami, Fla, and she | an shows in Me ez Columbus, Ga., mem- Today's. Anniversaries 1791—(150 years ago) Charles S. Todd, Kentucky lawyer, dier War of 1812, Minister to Russia, born near Danville, — | Died May 17, 1871. work inc cluded in 1849—Terence V. Powderly, machinist, Seranton, Pa., mayer, head of the then most powerful labor union, the Knights of La- ration | bor, commissioner of ican | Artists’ ition, lawyer and student, born in gue, the Provinee- | Carbondale, Pa. Died June 24, Association, the Key jg9q ciety of Artists and the | West Art Center | | nal League 1850—Robert S. Brookings, St SS aseusnet eee |Louis merchant, founder of the PICTURES will be on | noted Washington, D. C., insti- ne Art Center through ‘tution, born in Ceeil Co. Md webeusry 2 Died Nov. 15, 1832. AGAIN THIS EVENING, | the| | sane lores enter will hold horn in Philadelphia the regular | March 16, 1940 thering to which | dheiievaisaiane those interested in| 1974--Edward Ss. Harkness, gatherings. for famed philanthropist, born in ar en, are popular philadelphia. Died Jan. 29, 1940. ‘te. art season in Key pS Ra on Barton, author, Died there, ith he arts. eee: ey Today’ $s Horoscope S are ae i aa a - Today gives a steady and re- flective nature with a scientific - and versatile mind. There is CHARLES FARR, who has just great independence of thought leted 4 private mural com- and ét is fixed to the point It is om in Tarmpa, has been as- a day of the discoverer of hidden gned to the Kev West Art Cen- things. and favors birth of an in- et, WPA, a8 & resident artist on ventor, who not only brings staff and will take up his du wealth t> the world but to him- ties here in a week or two. self as well Farr has a © art beck- md and<ts a very prominent Key West for z who should be a These most valuable asset te the local ary American artists are a decid- ed addition to the group in Key West. They heve taken studios DORIS LEE AND ARNOLD here and expect to devote them-; BLANCHE have just arrived in scives to painting the local scene | center. ——————— | sol- | the : immigra- + | Today In History | | 1 1813—Gen. James Winchester | and some 800 men surprised by} British at Raisin River, Mich,, in} second war with England. Almgst | eutive army killed or captu — | 1850—First issue 5 ae San Fran- | cisco’s first daily, the Alta’ Cali- | fornia. | 1873—Congress passes ; fon to. abolish the franking privilege. i 1895—The National Associa- tion of Manufacturers organized’ in Cincinnati. 1912—American troops occupy | Tientsin, China, in disorders! there. 1917,—President Wilson's his- toric “Peace Without Victory” address before Senate. 1919—Reports of attack by Bol- sheviki on American positions in North Russian front. 1932—President Hoover signs Reconstruction Finance Corpora- | tion Bill ‘ Today’s s Birthdays | Lt Gen. Stanley D. Embiek, USA. who today reaches the statutory age of retirement, | born in Franklin Co, Pa, | years ago. Dr. Maurice R. Davie, Yale so- | ciologist, born in Teronto, 48 years ago Emil E. Hurja, publisher of the Pathfinder, Weshington, D. C.,/ onetime chairman of the Demo-; cratic National Committee, born | in Crystal Falls, Mich. 49 years ago. David Wark Griffith of New York, oldtime movie director, born in LaGrange, Ky. 61 years ago. iH Ky., of the U.S. Court of Appeals. Washington. D. C, born in Louisa, Ky. 3) years ago. Fulton Oursler of New York, } WHO KNOWS? See “The Answers” on Page 4 1, Does the Army or the Navy get the larger amount of the maney to be spent for defense? 2, When did the Nazis seize |Denmark and invade Norway? 3, When did Cornwallis surren der at Yorktown? 4. Who is chairman of the Com- mittee to Defend America by Aid to the Allies? 5. Defense regulations prohibit | the ringing of church bells in Eng- land, exeept for two happenings, What are they? 6, Name three foreign news agencies. 7. What has become of the As- sociated Willkie Clubs of Amer- jiea? 8. Have most Presidents deliv- ered their messages to Congress in person? 9, Under whet circumstances does the three-power pact require Japan to go to war to help Ger- many or Italy? 19. Who was Ivan, the Terrible? editor of Liberty, born in Balti- imore, 48 years ngo. Rev. Oscar E. Maurer of New :Haven, Conn., noted Congrega- (tlonal clergyman, born in Garna- villo, lowa, 63 years ago. Haig Patigian of San Fran- ciseo, noted sculptor, born in Ar- menia, 65 years ago. Irving S. Olds of New York, board chairman of US Steel, born 54 CAUGHT .... ago. ‘urea CKS VAPORUB