The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 5, 1941, Page 2

PAGE TWO Che iirz nt and Publisher exs Manager Citizen Building and Ann Streets uper in Key West and Monroe County ass matte! Member of the Associated Press entitled to use itches credited to ed in this paper and also lished here SUBSCRIPTION RA $10.00 5.00 2.50 | 85 ADVERTISING RA’ pplication. SPECIAL NOTICE s of thanks, will be charged for at resolutions of s, ete., a line nt by churches from which a line, ites discus- 1 or general tertainme 1onymous communi- ~ 5 p IMPROVEMENTS TOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage’ More Hotels and Apartments. 3each and Bathing Pavilion. and Sea of County and City Gov- Airperts—Land Sonsolidation rnments, Modern City 6 A Hospital. Correct this sentence: “I vith women easily, because them.” get comedian to them sound It takes a clever radio polish up old jokes to make like new. | A Brooklyn wife-beater was sentenced | Thus do the | innocent sufferer with the guilty. to kiss his spouse every day. its subscribers, but it cannot give you the | best Service unless you give it your co-| operation. | One reason the defense program is so | popular is because the people of this coun- | try do not, as yet, realize that ‘it icrifice and sweat. means | Apparently.—A bank is an institution where you can borrow money if you can present sufficient evidence to show that you do not need it.—St. Louis Star-Times. i If you are interestéd in the develop- ment of Key West, you will some of your time for the common good; the town needs personal service just as much as a | cash contribution. | give There need be no fear of wav. coming t> the United States, but if the war propa- ganda, instigated by England as in the last world war, continues we will be in the war now raging in Europe, It is reported by American military ob- 00 he war planes will the “all-out” Hitler may be able but it nans for } is re enough oil to fuel hens in Brad- fnew Camp Bland of Theressa ice of E. L. Mat wd County Tele- When the egg was broken was found erg inside | along I understand | Mr. Knudsen denied that he felt | IN THE NAME OF DEFENSE | Monroe county voters, surprising even the most rabid supporters of the project, ted almost yesterday in | favor of the issuance of $40,000 in bonds for the purchase of an airport site at Boca | Chica. The decision was more or less a foregone conclusion, but the margin ‘of vic- tory showed almost complete accord, Vashington, where afew years -ago expenditure had to show a connection ith relief. is now thinking only in terms of fense and Key West has a good chance ef getting in that name a number of things it failed to get under other terms. The airport is one. Construction of a water supply system for the keys and com- pletion of Overseas Highway are others i which apparently are being looked upon with favor as defense projects. A fourth, given new impetus by ravy demands, is an | : Vv unanimously | adequate recreation program. | Key West leaders must bear in mind, however, that although the government is in a giving and a spending mood, it does re- quire a certain amount of ccoperation— and a certain amount of prodding. Cities that are-able to make up their minds what they want and then keep on campaigning for those objectives are the ones where most of the government funds | are spe hte And aifiés where enlisted personnel is utisfied and in friction with the ‘civil ulation are sometimes crossed off the { altogether. The government at Wash- ineton now is sometimes aptly described in the role of Santa Claus, but it is a Santa with a sizeable club in among the candy sticks. dis KNUDSEN’S PATRIOTISM Asked why he had left a job paying him $150,000 a year to accept his post with | the National Defense Commission with no salary at all, William S. Knudsen made this | reply: “T don’t want to sound sentimental but | Thad been working in this country for more than forty years. It had been pretty good tome. I was ina position to work for noth- ing, and I felt that if I could do something for the country, I woyld like to do it.” No wonder that the spectators, hear- ing this honest sentiment, broke out in ap- | plause. Questioned as tothe relationship be- | tween himself and the President and the lat- | ter’s attitude toward him, Mr. Knudsen re- plied: “I stick tomy last. Whenever I | have anything to take up with the Presi- | dert, lalways get from him fine and prompt action.” any | legal limitations on his authority that might be hampering the defense program, and in- sisted that the ‘defense of this country is the primary reason” for the bill. He per- | sisted that the United States was simply taking care of itself. COST OF GOVERNMENT (From Florida Times Union) Littlé ‘can be done by taxpayers toward cur tailing expenditures of the National Government, ecessary at this time Because of the But which are preparadness. program, they ¢an do some thing about the expenditures for local services and and if they will study vements. They can yme and outgo, they will realize that they ething The Florida Tax Revision THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE VOICE OF HISTORY it TET it \ ‘| Alt THAT GOVERNMENT 1, OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, ||, AND’ By THE PEOPLE SHALL NOT PERISH- }|, FROMTHE | ‘I EARTH. i NATURE NOTES By J. C. GALLOWAY __(Reprinted Fr Out on Chica the Key highway runs close to the Atlan- tic shore, with only a_ ridge of sand like snowdrift between; but a snowdrift bordered with thousands of spider lilies; great bulbs now with strap-like leaves, but starred in summer with my- is of white lilies, wide-spread- lender-petaled and fragrant. On the summit of the drift is a hedge of small trees; dark Ja- maica dogwoods, bay cedars with narrow leaves and yellow _ star- like flowers; seven-year apples heavy with fig-shaped fruits green and glossy and hard, final- turning yellowish when ripe, nd then filled with a very black and seedy apple butter, edible, but none too good. At intervals, like a leaning telephone poley stands a cocoanut tree, tipped h its crown of plumes. Moon- vines trail over the shrubbery, making the night fragrant with their white disks; and in daytime one sees the brown balls of their seedpods hanging here and there. In the occasional spaces where there are none of these things, a dwarf artemisia with fragrant leaves cut like a rose geranium, covers the ground. Across the road, looking to- ward the north, there may be a ngrove swamp, dark in its lack muck and mystery; or lake after lake of salt water, six inch- »s deep on flat bottoms of soft lime mud; inviting in appearance, but impossible to navigate and running to mangrove borders far beyond. Here swim schools of chubby and pale Carp killfishes; and perhaps Brad killies and sail- fins, ete.. with them; but the mud makes this difficult to study The Atlantic shore across the road different. Toward Key West there are mud flats with many carp killies there; but far- ther out the sand beaches begin. the sand ridge bar- E ver a deep windrow brown straw of turtle washed in by storms; find narrow strip of shelly i with cast-up sea- kinds; and strung 1 them odd sponges, oc- which are cor- fan group; some and some with leafless shrubs illiant purple r crusted with yellow dations like spring wire. are the long, wide floors sand, with their pink roadways of clean customary on the © shores of Flor- Boca a nets utiful one, a fare treas- rt Allegany (Pa.. ) cell that washes up on West In- dian beaches. Here are great brown trails of tangled sargas- sum, the seaweed, that collects in the sea of the same name, into which the sailors of Columbus drifted in the Zone of Calms to their discouragement. With many leaves, or few, it is always well- stocked with tiny balls like cher- ry-seeds to float it. Here is a twig, covered wish a red fringe all around; the fringe is kelp, re- lated to Irish moss, and no doubt edible. Sea-mosses, red or yellow and gelantinous, are here galore, dry- ing in the sun; many kinds of them. But.look! Here are some Violet snails, Ianthina, those tiny wanderers that drift on the open sea; the coiled shells toned vio- let blue,, Sometimes they are cast up by hundreds or thousands. They float, we are told, by a raft they themselves build. And here y are, the first time we have und them so; the strong raft of many tenacious bubbles, curl- ing like a caterpillar halfway round the shell; a rare and beau- tiful sight. These are still alive; the animal, deep wine purple, re- tires farther within the shell; an aniline purple dye flowing from t when annoyed, staining the water. There are conchs, the big ones; sometimes alive, but more yften emtpty shells with the tip knocked off, to extricate the ani- mal for making conch chowder. The inner spire, broken from these great shells, is itself a love- ly thing in its shining pink ena- mel. Sometimes a rare and beautiful shell turns up unex- pectedly; one never knows what a new tide or storm may bring. And in the sea that brings it the gardens of the shoals that border these islands, well, that is her story of beautiful things strange. all Todav’s Birthdays Dodge, president of University of Bei- born in New York, 53 n L. Davis of Tenn., Fed- Ce r, born in 65 years ago. editor of New York, Scotia, 64 The Commonwea born in Halifax years ago one tinie York, 58 Duse. n Wh consulting en- Dept. of Labor. i] KEY WEST IN | DAYS GONE BY. Happenings On This Date Ten/| Years Ago As Taken From Files Of The Citizen — County commissioners last night voted to increase their monthly pay from $100 to $150. Commissioner Porter objected | to the increase on the grounds | ihe county had not provided for: the additional $3,000 made neces- | sary in the budget. Twenty-eight yachts, repre- senting 10 states and one foreign | country, put into Key West dur- ing January, it was revealed here | today. i The yachts, some of them} among the finest in the nation, | totalled 11 less than the January | and February total of a year ago. A general program of beauti- | fication, sponsored by the navy with assistance from public health department and govern- ment engineers assisting, is showing important progress, it was announced today. An athletic yard has been put into use at the navy yard, while workmen aré clearing the grounds south of the Marine hospital. Practically all buildings in the rear of the hospital will be dis- mantled and new buidings con- structed. Evelio Martinze, here visiting with local relatives, left last night for Miam. Mrs. Cleveland Dillon was hos- tess yesterday afternoon to the Happy Gathering club. Members who atteded included Mrs. Otto |Kirchheiner, Mrs. Cleveland Saunders, Mrs. Eddie Saunders, Mrs. Ansel Albury, Mrs. Sam Kemp, Mrs. Ulric Gwynn, Mrs. Ralph Russell, Mrs. Ivan El-| wood, Mrs. Lionel Plummer, Mrs. Leo Warren and Mrs. Frank! Papy. The navy dirigible Los Angeles | came near Key West today when it was forced off its course on the way to Guantanamo. The dirig- ible circled around a_ thunder-; storm above the Bahama Islands; and moved west of its course in | order to find clear weather. City Attorney J. Lancelot Les- ter urged before Rotary Club, members last night the necessity ! ‘be WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1941 \ PEOPLE'S FORUM alone of the views of its reaa= ers, but the editor reserves the to delete items Fe con: libelous and confine the words, and write on one side of the paper only. Signature of the writers must accompany the letters and will be published unless requested otherwise. AFTER FIFTH-COLUMNISTS Editor, The Citizen: Fifth-columnist activities are becoming more effective every day in the United States. Senator Dye has said that there are more than six million of these human termites in this country. If this is true, you can imagine what a tremendous job the department | of justice has on its hands. There is no doubt that the FBI needs help and cooperation from real Americans, and there are | ways that Americans can help, if they are given the chance. | Several states are now organ- izing anti-fifth-columnist organ- \izations. No doubt they will be a real help to their government as | well as themselves. However, why :confine these organizations to the | state? West, for instance, the increase of naval activities means the in- crease of fifth-columnist efforts, perhaps not so noticeable now but why wait until they are felt? ment to authorize an intelligence officer to organize little groups of men in every town like Key West, only fifteen or twenty men would be needed. It would not cost the government anything as I am sure there will be no trouble at all to find that many Americans here who are willing to devote a little time for the good of the country as a whole. I am sure that much can be ac- complished in this line. It will Five men can be selected from {those employed in the navy yard | Company and five from the naval air station. |The others can be selected from men who are employed in various business organizations about town. These men can be given a little training in detection and how to the alert to fifth-columnists activities. I believe this will prove to be a great asset to the forces of the of declaring a moratorium on city bonds. He expressed confi- | dence the bondholders will meet} the community halfway and thus | arrive at a solution of the city’s} financial difficulties. | A committee was named to get | the support of other Rotary clubs in urging re-routnig of the inter- coastal highway along the east- ern route. The Citizen, editorial comment, said: “A Key Wester claims there's one almost invaluable in an has hitherto been The trip down requires so long, he says, that persons who come here planning to stay two or three days not infrequently wait a month before they can get up courage to make the ferry trip back”, Kev West high school dropped its first basketball game of the season last night to Ponce D: Leon high at Coral Gables by a core of 23-20), Completion of steamer “Florida” the P. & O is thing | about the highway ferries which | overlooked. | being } government who are now work- ling night and day to rid this coun- try of those who would under- mine us. Respectfully, ! AN AMERICAN. ‘Key West, Florida, ‘Feb. 4, 1941. | awaited with interest by Key | West residents. The new liner will be put into service early in March and will iply between Key West and Ha- vana after June 1. Sixty motorists arrived here lyesterday over the highway, ac- cording to a report from the county ferry department. | Subscribe to | weekly. H The Citizen—20c | “Key West's Outstanding” | LA CONCHA HOTEL | _ Beautiful—Air-Conditioned Rainbow Room and Cocktail Lounge DINING and DANCING Strictly Fireproof OPEN THE YEAR AROUND Why not organize one in, every town in the country? Key | It-is possible for the govern-/| Today’s ' Anniversaries RENE | 1723—John Whitherspoon, Scot- tish clergyman and soldier, presi- dent of Princeton College, sign- er of the Declaration of Inde- |pendence, born. Died Nov. 15, 1794. | 1725—James Otis, famed Bos- ton lawyer, orator, and patriot of pre-Revolutionary days, born in Branstable, Ma: Killed by lightning, May , 1783. 1806—Robert M. Bird, noted {Philadelphia novelist, dramatist ‘and eidtor of his generation, born ‘in New Castle, Del. Died Jan. 23, 1854. ; 1837—Dwight L. Moody, the jcelebrated evangelist of his gen eration, preacher to hundreds of thousands on both sides of the At jlantic, born at Northfield, Mass. Died there, Dec. 22, 1899. 1837—Leffert L. Buck, soldier, designer and builder of bridges the country over and in Peru, born in Canton, N. Y. Died July 17, 1909. 1840—Hiram S. Maxim, ver- satile Maine Yankee inventor iand engineer who settled in Eng- jland, brother and father of fam- ed inventors, born near Sanger- |ville, Me. Died Nov. 24, 1916. 1875—Maxine Elliott, famed \stage star of two continents, born lat Rockland, Maine. Died in 'Cannes, France, March 5, 1940. Today In History | os | 1813—British admiral, in sec- ‘ond war with Britain, declares |the ports and harbors of the | Chesapeake to be in a state of | teach us to be on the alert and |; jockade. ‘ever ready. 1817—The Baltimoe Gas Light incorporated — first | American such, | 1841—(100 years ago) |public debt some seven ioe Federal million 1841—The Penngylvania Bank of the United States again sus- pends specie payments—the sus- pension followed by nearly all the banks of the Northeast. 1917—The Immigration _ Bill, containing the much-discussed literacy test, passed over the President's veto. { 1934—Some 10,000 prohibition jcases originating prior to Dee., |1933, stricken from federal doc- ikets by U.§. Senate Supreme ,Court décision. 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