The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 14, 1941, Page 2

PAGE TWO The iicy West Citizen PRY CITLZBN PUBLISHING €0., INO. Pul)l'shed Daily Except Sunday By ARTMAN, President ana Publisher orner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press ated Press is exclusively entitled to use lication of all news dispatches credited to credited in this paper and also al news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES rep not ctherwi ne Year Six Months three Months TISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE , cards of thanks, resolutions of ete., ¥ il be charged for at All reading notic ts a line, entertainment by churches from which s to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. 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. A Modern City Hospital. Today's special: Bozoo, W. Va. Crown Prince Humbert’s military pro- motion reminds us that Italy still has a royal family. This is about the time of the year that junior gets a chance to play with the elec- tric train that Santa Claus brought him on Christmas Day. Monopolies rarely seem evil to the man who has one, but monopolies are not created by one man’s will; they are the creatures, as a rule, of circumstances. Led by an Administration that is gradually inveigling us into war, the lease- lend bill is rushing us into the venture. “Pools rush in where angels fear to tread,” but there are no angels in the Administra- tion. The creation of a sixth congressional district was approved by the directors of the Florida State Chamber of Commerce at ting in Tampa last week. A ct is made possible through the population increase by Florida as shown by the 1941 census, Constitutional, note:,.Any American President, at any time, has ample power to involvé the United States in a war, or to start one of his own yolition.. A well-oiled propaganda machine always may be count- ed on to accomplish that purpose; the one omgting from Washington is a honey for insfdiousness, = Just as Key West, infested with slot | mathines which took thousands of dollars out of the city, got bandits, Tampa is over-run_ by and his crew of pirates, but strangely enough the west coast metropolis welcomed the pirate chief with open arms and a gen- eral celebration. Perhaps, we may pose, Gasparilla is a benevolent pirate and has promised to aid Tampa in its march to- wards progress and a better day. We trust oug surmise is correct, ne#er given tickets for infractions of the traffic laws. The policemen with cus- tofiary | courtesy politely inform the visltors of the regulations and send them pligasantly on their way. Key West could a@ppt this custom te the advantage of our cofpmunity because imposing fines on visi- tops who are ignorant of local traffic reg- ulations leaves a bad impression. Recently | some visitors were given a ticket for a slight neraction of the traffic rules and were so nsed that they cancelled an intended twd-weeks fishing trip and left in a huff. N@urally they will deter others from com- West. Before leaving they ex- prtgsed their displeasure in a letter which published in The Citizen. rZ to Key rid of the one-arm | Gasparilla | sup- | In Mexico City tourists with cars are | HOME GUARD TRAINING i Conservative opponents of the Roose- velt administration have decried the belief | among the American people that they can | save the world, make more money and live | in luxurious comfort, all at the same time. They point to the dramatic “I can | bring you only blood and sweat and tears” of Winston Churchill as a realistic approach | to the business of war or production for-war. Key West Home Guard leaders, in their efforts to organize a working unit capable of acting in an emergency, must be | on the point of agreeing with the Roosevelt critics. They know it is difficult to promote | any organization which requires men to | study and train outside their regular work- ing hours, but they believe the situation re- | quires the extra effort involved. So far, cooperation from the armed | services stationed here has been all that could be asked. Cooperation from the citi- zens who may someday be dependent on the guard has not been so prompt. Members of the guard, as a class, aren’t alarmists. They will be as much surprised as anyone if a squadron of bombers sud- | denly looms out of the Caribbean someday | and begin unloading bombs over Key West. At the same time, if such an emergency should occur—no matter how far off it seems—the presence of a body of men trained in fire fighting, extinguishing in- cendiary bombs, treating the wounded and all the other things that British home guards have learned to do would be of vital importance to Key West and its citizens. ‘The Home Guard deserves all the co- operation it can get. BRITONS GOOD HEALTH Last fall it seemed inevitable that seri- ous epidemics would occur this winter among the people of Britain, especially those cooped up in air raid shelters at night. Fortunately, this has not happened so far, although it is still too early to become optimistic over the situation. In a report a few days ago by the Ministry of Health it was stated that there was less sickness in Britain in 1940 than in the previous war year of 1938. Scarlet fever, diphtheria and dysentery cases dropped nearly one-third, while pneu- monia increased only about 2 per cent, in spite of the severity of the early winter. Cerebro-spinal fever showed a large percentage increase, but the total number rate has been reduced from the former alarming 60 per cent to only 5 per cent, through the magical results of a new suf- fanilamide treatment. Since the report was compiled there has been considerable influenza which, as in the United States, has generally been of a mild form. Medical authorities warn, however, that the next two or three months may see an increase in disease, owing to over-crowding and poor sanitary conditions in many of the air raid shelters, especially in the poorer and much-bombed districts of the East End of London. Improvement in shelters has been made es conditions have permitted, and evecua- tion to rural areas is now made compulsory in certain cases. What will happen if and when Hitler makes his big invasion attempt } can not be imagined, but that the ordeal will be terrible is a foregone conclusion. RULES FOR A HUSBAND Domestic infelicity threatened to dash the matrimonial bark of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Walsh of New York upon the rocks. In fact, matters Nad reached such a crisis that | Mrs. Walsh was suing for a divorce. Peter pleaded for one more chance to hold his job | as a husband. Mrs. Walsh heeded his plea and agreed to withdraw her suit if Peter would promise to abide by eight simple, easily understood rules which she would lay down” for his future guidance. Peter promised. Here are the rules: You shall not drink. / You shall respect your wife times. Do not teach your children insubordi- nation by interfering when I am correcting them. Do not bring your pals home when you are all drunk. Give me your salary each week, be- cause I can save out ef it what you spend on booze. Keep yourself tidy and fit for a woman to look at. Do some repairing around and make our home beautiful. Do not smoke in bed. at all the house THE KEY WEST CITIZEN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1941 —"_—X<—X<—a== NATURE NOTES By J. C. GALLOWAY (Reprinted From Port Allegany (Pa.) Reporter) Cassias are yellow flowered ‘shrubs or small trees of the lo- cust tribe, but with blossoms not pea-shaped; the pods round like a pencil,’ but curved, and! divided into partitions like the beoths;in a restaurant or drug store, each with a little exclusive party of seeds. They bloom in Clusters banked in green leaves. There is a vine with similar flowers that banks to the upper stories of the houses, with myriads of yellow flowers, amid its green. Largest ‘of the flowering cassias is the Candle-flower, with great gold |spires. Poinsettias "do not grow so broad and spreading here as in other parts of Florida, possi- bly because they are cramped for room,-b:.t nowhere else have we (seen them so rich and velvety a jerimson. There are pink and {white ones, also, of little inter- est except as curiosities. And roses? Tea roses of the finest sorts grow here like black- berries. Seemingly no one gives them any attention; they make |dense, briery bushes with small flowers that bud and ‘open and ‘pass unnoticed. Apparently the jfinest florists’ roses might be grown here outdoors if regularly pruned, cut back to two eyes aft-j er each flowering, and fertilized and watered according to regu- lar florist’s methods. Perhaps they are; we see dooryard signs offering cut roses for sale. ° ae Catch that sweet scent? like orange blossoms, isn’t it; but sweeter still. That’s the Orange But here is something. Amid all this upstanding and _ tropic splendor, folks from the north ‘get homesick for the old north- ern favorites; and so we see co- Teus along,the porch, border, and. little beds of sprawly _ chrysan- ;themums; and there are mari-' golds and impatiens and petun- ias and gladiolus. Often they look | rather pale and homesick along-; side the others. But if you will go out Flagler avenue, where there are nice modern homes and gar- lens notched into the bordering jungles, you will find a bed of zinnias just as bright and pretty as any in the North, although the plants are only a third as large. And no matter where you go, you will not only find wonderful col- lections in the lawns, but little gardens of potplants in the yards or banked on the porches, for these folks, are flower and plant lovers all; you never saw the like. And oh, we forget to show you that Tree of Lent, Erythrina Indiea, big and round topped and Tough; just coming into bloom from bare twigs with brilliant \red spikes like tritomas all over it. You never even dreamed of a sight like that. And there is \that—but this story had to stop | sometime. However, you might stay and have dinner with us. We are having turtle steak and eddys, along with green beans, fresh to- matoes, green onions, guava paste and Cuban bread. It’s | \KEY WEST IN Jin its midst the foremost sil~ routs artist in “this country— § |Mrs. Phoebe Hazlewood. || Mrs. Hazlewood, who has an lenviable ‘record of her work, and Editor, The Citizen: his herself a charming and all too ; | The committee representing | odeSt artist, began to weild a more than 2,000 groups and socie-|Pait of scissors at the age of two. jties of citizens of this country, of |Brought up by on aunt in a west- the writers m |Ukrainian birth -and -extraction,;#2 town, her mother having letters ‘and willl’! irongly urge the’ passage of the Passed away when she was a nit ; jpending bill.on the aid to be giv |few years old, ‘she soon showed LIKES KEY WEST en by the"United States’ to the /the extraordinary . deftness and | Editor, The Citizen: ‘peoples of The British Common-|@ccuracy which she has perfected Apropos cf the article you Tan wealth of Nations; Greece and|in snipping from block paper reeentl, lative to the write-upi,, . y i . : d Key West had it a ation ‘mega. China, expressing their belief | Portraits which are perfect like- ; nesses. It is truly faseinmating zine and we agree with you! | that this measure is a “part and \parcel of an absolutely necessary |just to watch the bits of paper KEY WEST Plan to protect America”. twist and turn as they dance a A town of alley dogs and cats,| These organizations held their | -umba with the scissors so clev- Key West, a town of alleys dogs Congress in Washington jae umba wii e sc so and cats, — {May, attended by about 1,000 erly weilded that-in a few mo- Mosquitoes, flies and fleas and jdelegates from all parts of the |™ents one’s portrait emerges pert- rats, . | United States, at whith ‘Senators | fect in every detail of outline, |Guffey and Davis of Pennsyl-; Mrs. Hazlewod has done sil- jvania, Wagner of New York, Ma-|houettes of many distinguished jloney of Connecticut, Mrs. ae Hine O'Day, meiibek bf et be people—a full-length one of for- \from New York, and Congress- ‘mer President Cooldige is so life- {mari Voorhis of California, and jtike and characteristic as he |many other prominent men and stands that one is not surprised PEOPLE'S FORUM | FAVOR AIDING BRITQIN Citizen welcomes expres- of the views of its read- mat the editor reserves the = Honest fishes, lving scales,, Grunts and groupers, kings and whales, Bathing beauties on the beach, Cocoanuts within your reach, Trailerites from frozen zones, Jessamine, here called Murillo; a} beautiful thing with tiny leaves, | DAYS GONE BY pinnate, shining, and emerald | _— ‘green. Almost everyone in town Happenings On This Date Ten has a big, dense, upright bush Years Ago As Taken From {women spoke. \ Economic unity of nations and Shacky houses, grogeous flowers, |self-determination — of hes Wonderous spo‘ to wile the hours, |Should be the two cardinal prin- , jciples ‘of reconstruction of the Sometimes hot and sometimes! world. cold, | If this principal is not upheld, A splendid place when you get America will have to resign her- old, self to becoming an armed camp jbeeause recurrent bloody world jupheavals are bound to ensue jand they will threaten our very | existence. But, while speaking of self-de- Coming here to thaw their bones; AND I LIKE iT, And I am coming again. A MINNESOTA VISITOR. | Ukrainians, inhabiting a territory : jas large as that of France, but [Rey aa conquered and , absolutely dom- pests Sig " inated by the Moscow govern- bilities of this thoroughfare, "me ther hve ae ae means a great dea) inded to Key | gotten in the past”. | West and all Florida”. MIROSLAV SICHINSKY. Washington, D. C., ‘termination, more than 40,000,000 | lat her success as a portrait artist in black and white, In addition to this she has re- vised another practically forgot- - ten art—that 1s painting pictures on the under side of glass beth’in colors.and in only one color, They jee truly lovely and very difficult to do.t ud Mis, Hazlewood has exhibited at the redran Galleries in | Washington, and others through- out the country. T am sure many old families in | Key West must have cherished jsilhouette portraits of a ‘great- |grandmother or a great. grand- father; and will be glad to see the revival of this interesting |portraiture, that, perhaps, their {great-grandchila drew will be |proud to possess, HEBE V. MENNER. Key West, Fla., of cases has not been great, and its death of it; and those perfect square- walled hedges are made of it too. The week after the Browns left it was blooming all over town, land the moonlight nights were! Menner, U.S. Navy, will feature cup has been put in play, al-|enough to give Space in your pa- | fragrant with the scent of it exercises to be held at National though it was donated four years |Per to these few words in the in- drifting here and there. Another lovely thing that bloomed with it was the Brf@nfelsia, here called Donna de Noches, -or Galan de Noches; the Lady or the Gallant of the Night. It belongs to the same family as tobacco and pep+ pers; and although a shrub, has ‘a multitude of long-tubed flowers like Nicotiana, and little orange fruits like peppers.- The flowers are white or soft yellow, and very fragrant at night. Those big shrubby sunflowers, gay with rich yellow stars? Lots of people have them; seems like they bloom all the time; all win- ter, at least. They come from Mexico and Central America and are called Tithonias: but “Mexi- can sunflowers” in Florida. And here we come to a dense round- stemmed succulent, with few or many leaves, and bright little redbirds perched all along the tips of the branches. It is Pedil- anthus; commonly used for a flowering hedge. And there are Tecomas with clusters of yellow ‘trumpets, and dwarf poincianas in yellow, orange, and crimson, and ‘any number of other flower- ling shrubs, showy and brilliant, \or dainty and delicate; “too num- erous\to mention”. Then there are the trees. The “African Tulips”, Spathodea, are gorgeous with big red wreaths of flowers ringed around a big chry- santhemum of brown plush, scat- tered over foliage of lush green; Glirieidias; let's run over to Georgia street where are lots of jyoung ones blooming close to the: ground. See those locust-like bunches of white pea-blossoms stained pink and red? They cov- Files Of The Citizen DS, SATS | Addresses by Cuban Consul {Jorge R. Ponce and Capt. R. T. Cemetery tomorrow in commem- (oration of “Maine Day”. | The observance will begin with ja parade which will move from Duval and Eaton streets. Charles H. Ketchum will be master of ‘ceremonies. Advices reeeived at the local postoffice reveal that employes of the postal service here soon will get a 44-hour week. The bill, which passed the senate by 88 to 0 and has gone up for the signa- ture of President Hoover, pro- vides for a Saturday half holiday. The bill will become effective ‘July 1, 1931, if it is signed by the President. Mrs. Hugh K. Taylor at her home on the army reservation yesterday was hostess to a num- ber of her friends at a card par- | ty. Miss Dorothy Albury won first prize in the bridge games, with Mrs. H. E. Riehardson, low. Mrs. Charles E. Chapel took the con- solation award. | Use of the Key Vacas section of Overseas Highway will begin Monday, according to County Commissioner Roy Fulford, who reported to members of the com- |mission last night. Two ferries will continue in use, he said, while a third will be kept in reserve, Use of the 18- mile stretch will materially re- duce the time required to cross ithe water gap, which is now cov- ered ih one trip by ferry. George Allan England, local writer of travel stories and fic- tion, is the author of “High Ex- |plosive”, a story which appears Play for the Mrs. Malcolm|Feb. 14, 1941. |Meacham golf trophy will begin| A PLEA FOR ART jon the local course tomorrow. | pditor, The Citizen: This will be the second time th Perhaps you will be good |Feb, 12, 1941. ago. No tournament was held paler aug gid aBaost| jlast year or the vear before. The| y+ has eeerhad to dre that Key only time the cup has been won| West may not realize that it has was in 1928, when C. W. Kirt- jland carried, off tournament hon- NO NAME LODGE ‘ors. : . | Dr. and Mrs. &. R. Chapin, 316 | William street, have anriounced the birth of a daughter, Margaret | Jean. | A mass meeting at the San}. \Carlos theater at noon tomorrow will study the problem of living | eosts in Key West. i Employes of the Santaella cig- | ar factory, planning to take a ‘pay cut, will discuss with citizens how they can effect a reduction in living costs. Fishing |stsee Sieh ‘Dinners & Bpscahy Phorie No Name Key No. 1 For Information K NN EY ueave KEY WEST 10:30 A.M. Mondays & Thursdays “ih de 5:00 p. m. a sions. Ree eS THE PENINSOLAR & OCCIDI ast 1h theoas Gast eee VapoRub at bedtime. TwEN—spread a thick layer of pe gn on the chest and cows a warmed cloth. j tent away, VapoRub goes to | - work—loosens phiegm—eases muscular soreness or tightness— | clears air passages—relieves cali gone. | er the bare limbs for a yard at ain the current issue of Blue Book. | time; just a few budding leaves at the tin. And look at this jun- gle covering the vacant lots. | Sweet scented moonvines bloom- ing all over as pansies in daytime. Opoponax shrubs with tiny feathery leaves and tiny pompons of yellow silk, with a warm tropic like honeybees, maybe. fragrance And here we have not said a purple or red, the showiest of all Mexican flame vines arch’ over stone fences h daisies red, or- ange, and run to the roofs with flowers like goblets of white or ivory yellow, pendant and streaked with wine purple. Ten inches or so long thev are. They belang to the Ni- eotiana end temato tribe. There is a lovely soft blue Thumbergia with flowers big as morning glories; ome om Eaton street cov- ers the whole side of a building More little jasmines and the like than ome can keg treck of. And more other things, vines and trees and shrubs and berbs than one could tell of in many stories like these. Mrs. Grace Phillips, executive secretary of the local chapter, American National Red Cross, ber of commerte. The Citizen, in an _ editorial comment, said: “Local Rotarians are going for- ward with plans for broadcasting tirformation about the Eastern trict governor. This move, like tany other which is likely to awaken people in the eastern Lounge DANCING NIGHTLY Casa Marina Orchestre PETER SCHUTT. Manager With A New General Electric Refrigerator it at night, and | has announced plans for a board | glowing purple buterfly peas big of directors meeting at the cham- | wis , ‘ . word about the vines, with the/ toute of the Pan-American high- | bougainvillaeas in great sheets of | way with the consent of their dis-| famed G-F's 16-Star Storsee Peanstes provide Unit has [res 18 presitvation fer every tene vad ind of food, Yiu cxm maw teke fall advantage of bargass usysat the ba. cen, Chalice vines half of the country to the possi-; Sec the many new features in the many new improved GE more