The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 19, 1941, Page 2

| PAGE TWO _ oe The Eey West Citizen | oe <== HES = —= Navy Secretary Knox, it appears, preparing for an expansion of naval facili- | ties in Key West which will make this one of the more important links in submarine | defenses for the Caribbean and the Gulf of | Mexico. Se far, no official report from Wash- | ington has been available and Capt. W. F. SUBMARINES TO COME is ident and Publisher Business Manager izen Building laa ers: Sh chan ba | clines to confirm or deny the story. Newspapers and magazines for months now have been carrying stories ed Press is exclusively entitled to use news dispatches credited to | dited in this paper and also THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE LIGHT THAT | Jacobs, commandant of the loeal base, de- | about the , development of British islands guarding the | entrance to the Caribbean, however, and it | is obvious that Key West will come in for its | share as the northernmost tip of the defense chain . The emphasis on submarines in | Caribbean area at this time recalls the com- motion stirred up in Florida a decade ago nown on. application, 2CIAL NOTICE & notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of <1 be charged for at | SON announced he would oppose basing sub- 10 cents a line. | marines in southern waters, because the entertainment by churches from which | training in changeable climates along the tes discus- | north Atlantic coast was more valuable. eects | Since then, the picture has changed. The navy now is considering, not how to prepare its men for withstanding frostbite, but in how best to prepare its defenses for | the most obvious enemy thrust (at the | Panama Canal). | The land-enclosed waters of the Carib- tuary notices, etc., ¥ issues and subjects of local t will not publish anonymous IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. & More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. submarines and mosquito boats and Key Land and Sea. of County and City Gov- Airports- Consolidation | base them. crnments. A Modern City Hospital. AIRPLANES VERSUS WARSHIPS fulness of the plane and warship is raging vociferously since the dive-bombers at- tacked the British convoy in the narrow sea lane between Sicily and North Africa. The damage done to the aircraft car- rier Illustrious, the cruiser Southhampton | and a British destroyer represent some proof that these ships are certainly liable to aeial attacks. The injuries to the cruiser, most heavily armored of the damaged ships, are impressive. The aircraft carried, with | its broad deck is a target made to order for The Gallup poll declares that 85 per bombs end pn ane ub iie esinoyer cent of the American people want this | males Be xem ely vulnerable, : country to keep out of the European war— | There SHAMS for the warship-ad- that’s “a mandate President Roosevelt | vocates to point out that the attack was de- should heed | livered in a narrow channel, close to the Italian base. After all warships must op- erate where they are needed. The question has some interesting angles, however. British aerial-torpedoes played havoc with the Italian sea-power at Taranta but, so far no similar success has crowned German ef. forts to destroy the British fleet. If air- planes can sink heavy warships and domi- nate the waters of the world, why haven't German planes gained control of the vital English Channel? Life would be much simpler if every- body were willing to pay for what they want, If anybody in Key West has the idea that the world is going back to the condi- tions that obtained in 1939, they might as | well wake up. In driving an automobile, the faster you go, the more an accident costs, was es- | tablished by a recent survey. Drive with | care and avoid accidents which are costly if you donot drive slowly, Wendell L. Willkie’s stand in respect to the Administration’s policy of all-out aid | for Great Britain will probably result in some fireworks when the Republican party leaders get together t lect 4 There is no ready answer. ' . © ec * national | truth is that airplanes, under favorable cir- chairman. Recent expressions of disagree- | mnt, particularly in the West, have not re- | ee tatiote teat ceived-great publicity, but there can be no | pee nation can expect to maintain sea con- doubt that many Republican leaders are en- po without eine Consequently, it tirely epposed to the Willkie attitude. will behoove the United States to have both $8 in ample quantities in drder to assure safety, regardless of what thé course of battle re- veals. Curious people would like to know why | Jimmy Walker and his wife, the former | Betty Compton, had their divorce papers filed in Key West. If they ought to evade publicity by so doing, they have failed, for the information has been red to all the news agencies in the United States. It is possible that the couple had een advised that greater expedition and facility obtained in the Island City. ie actres. ce THE OTHER SIDE Perhaps the greatest bar to the ac- quirement of real knowledge is the refusal of the average person to look upon “the other side” of a question, particularly one which involyes a new idea. We form people and things, and having done so we seek for arguments to back up these notions. We have more concern that we shall vindi- cate our own ideas than that we shal at the truth about them. Thus we build a Chinese our own intellects and thereby oftener t not shut out the reg] truth, or at Jeast z portant part of it. For this reason every new ide: ever beneficent, that arises in the ht for its lif It w to convince people that the earth is a that the blood circulates, that prevents smallpox, that yellow fev y certain notions regarding Former President Wilson's slogan was Without Victo Ford and others want the bellige to fight it out they are utterly ex- If the United States suropean war, it will e opportunity to influence a ustice, whereas if either treaty to svelop into another Versailles “Peace wall nd wins, the literally has to f at the achinery of the selective draft he Ame om king askance vacelr an people some and the communicated by m on is insistent that the classi- in year in, umerabie other facts r m 21 to 36 be disposed of ne aye requirement be from 19 to s not the government's intention to , Why civi the minded majority hk would se zed people were ignorant, superstitious and narrow- oad to fight for Eng should 4,000,000 men be put Anyway, The Citizen stated that uncalled for, in training believes and has often world’s advance would be wi conscription in peace Umes is sid mpert of them do. i . of every West is one of the most strategic places to | The argument about the relative use- | The plain the | when the then Secretary of the Navy Swan- | (Pensacola “Two things I never did—shoe a horse or build a house. But I let the contract for a house once and se I forgot to include the s, I had to place stones to get |into the house, when it was com- jplete ks So said Marie Cappick, ~ poet, iting to another poet, Florence Thiot Milner, of her work. An e |hibition of flower pieces by Miss |Cappick will be exhibited dt the ‘art gallery in February, but the | interes ing personality of the | painter-poet, just now takes pre- |cedence over her exhibit. | For Miss Cappick is one of this |country’s distinguished women, | and has had a life so full that one feels very certain that if she ever |did shoe a horse, she would beat ithe village smithy at his job. | Miss Cappick is a native of Key | West Her father was French and jher mother was Irish. She has painted much and written much. |The Cuban artist Muzzio, the | Japanese artist Tesu Haraa, the Mexican artist Hojas gave her private lessons, after her stud- ies in painting at the Convent of |Mary Immaculate in Key West. Her work has been displayed‘ lin many of the larger cities. Last |June she had an exhibition in |Cleveland, Ohio. newspaper work began | ack in 1898, when she substi- jtuted for George Clarke Mus- |grave, later knighted. He repre- |sented the British press at the |time but was injured in the anish-American war and ‘was en to the Convent in Key for medical treatment. Sir George was a friend of her fam- ily and she wrote from notes sent by him from the field. His en- covragement launched the young artist as a writer. She has. written for many of the > press agencies, and has re jresented the Boston Post, Kansas !City Star, Indianapolis Star, To- wonto Star. She says: “I came in Ben tact with all the great and {the near great, including Richard Harding Davis, Frederick Rem- ington and others. who fought the Spanish-American war from the porch of the old Key West hotel. ‘Among tk at ones I inter- viewed t Indian nabob jwith a long as your and Franklin D. Roosevelt befor or th ht of becom- ing Presiden Also President iam Howard Taft”. Grover nd she met when she was child. and Presidents io of Cuba were s she knew s of Marie Cappick h appearing arm. he e gmall ~ others, MUST NOT FAIL! ph ‘FLORIDA POET AND PAINTER TO | EXHIBIT FLOWER PIECES HERE bean are the natura! stamping grounds of | Journal) does not know. She published and edited her own magazine, but her loves are poetry, which she studied at the Cheney-Trent school, and painting. However, she did have another, favorite muse, studying piano, mandolin and violin, pursuing these studies for nine years. She thinks her parents wasted their money on her musical education; she acknowledges to being a bit thrifty, because she is Scotch, as well as Irish-French. One of her grandmothers was from Paisley, Scotland, and was a designer of Paisley shawls. Miss Cappick keeps what perhaps most important until the last. She is national vice-presi- dent of the Pan-American Poetry society, She was a delegate to a conference.on world welfare, held rin Washington, D. C., under the auspices of the Women’s Univer- sal Alliance. She was also nam- member-at-large of the Na- al Historical Research com- mission, to select the twenty-five greatest women in world history. Miss Cappick has specialized in Romance languages—French, un- der Prof. Diendonne and Spanish with Senora de Cavera of Mex- ico. « Miss Cappick’s grandfather was captain of an East Indian trading vessel, his own. and carried car- goes to far places. His granddaughter, among oth- er things, served at one time as deputy judge under the late Hugh Gunn, judge of Monroe county, Florida. In spite of all she has done, and intends to do—she will be known to you in Pensacola for her flow- er pieces, now at the art center, and to be on exhibition in Feb- ruary. , Her flowers and her poems are akin: “A garden in the nocturnal hour When trembling foliage as- sumes fantastic shapes And silence reigns over all, But thé music of a fountain as it sprays the flowers; A serenade to the flowers, the silence and the night”. These are the lines from Tropic Night And from Tio’s Garden “In Tio’s Garden ancient Span- ish jugs And challice lilies time worn walks”. opening guard old- Her collection of paintings com- prises chalice lilies in white and yellow; hibiscus scarlet and yel low; Mexican sun flowers; yellow * elder; the Pandora vine; blanket flowers; pomegranate periwin e, Life Everlasting, butterfly s; African tulip; Christmas Christmas flowers, all painted from West gardens candles; Subscribe to The Citizen, 20¢ . weekly. ng business that Miss Cappick ecccegoce Ralph Richardson and Diana Wynyard in THE FUGITIVE edy and Serial v TRIUMPH COFFEE MILLS AT ALL GROCERS Elizabeth, N. J.. 72 years ago. 1s WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1941 : Babes | WEST ? ‘wed Z rit , a py poday’s Horoscope 1 ee i i =| 1803—Ohio admitted to State- |Happenings On This Date Ten| Today gives a retiring disposi- Years Ago As Taken From tion, studious and with deep in- Files Of The Citizen | tuitions, but the native is capable bi memeeees of rising to distinction. The af- mother lodge cf the Knights of | architects’ plans for the new | fections are not very warm,. but FoUie donee igh Justus R. | postoffice building for Key West'| the nature is constant, if mot: too Rathbone, ; hogpjtalj Steward, and 4. well under way and bids will| unduly antagonized. It is a posi three other me venens clerks. be aske@ by May 1. ‘tion from which one. of. humble ret j !) Ruth Bryan Owen, in a tele-' birth may rise to great influence. 1867—National Grange — Pa- gram to The Citizen, said she had fealeitiain die na . trons of Husbandry, founded in been informed that every effort F. Spottswood and Charles H. “Washington, D. C., by Oliver H. is being made to get quick action Ketchum, M. E. Russell and J. C. Kelley and six others. in the postoffice construction. ; Walton, S. M. Goldsmith and E. es | A. Strunk, Jr. | The work of renovating and re- | —_——- Pat-' painting the interior of the coun-| Rotary ladies will be entertain- ents his phonograph, perhaps the ty jail, now under way, is giving ¢d March 5 at a program at the most original of his many inven- the place a much more cheerful,Casa Marina, it was announced tions. ‘appearance and brings sanitary today. t \eonditions up to a high standard,| Arrangements for the affair Sheriff Niles said today. are being handled by T. H. Pitt- Sl ,man, committee chairman; Mel- James L. Johnson local realty vin Russell, G. V. Perpall, Sebas- operator, who was visiting in Mi-'tian Cabrera, Jr., E. A. Strunk, ami, returned on the morning William L. Bates and Jerry Trev- train. or. Today In History 1878—Thomas A. Edison 1916—Itaiian airplanes, then in war against Germany-Austria, | kill or wouna some 800 Austrians in air raid. 1917—American Red Cross ap- pemeytor aime lbon Ne wienae Friends of Fred Knight and Miss Lorraine Caviness will ga- “Despite the belief on the part ther at the Presbyterian manse of some that agriculture on this tonight to attend a reception in ‘island is a ‘hazardous business, their honor, The two young péo- ‘there appears to be no room to ple will leave next week for doubt that Key West has so far; Washington, D. C., where they failed to raise all and more than will be the guests. of Congpess- she needs of many things simply woman Ruth Bryan Owen. because no one has taken the, Ee s Birthdays. trouble to determine if this is! Eight students of Key West . possible. {high school will be at Vero Beach Today s Birth ays | “It is hard to imagine a more March 2 for the reunion of Flor- startling demonstration of ‘this ida boys and girls who have been John H. Fahey, chairman of than the experience of a South nominated or elected to make the the Federal Home Loan Bank street property owner with straw- trip to Washington with Mrs. Board, born in Manchester, N. M., berry plants. On Feb. 1, this Key Owen in past years, 68 years ago. Wester set out several hundred! Claribel Contreras and Robert Be esti iplants and Saturday—just two Dopp, who took the trip a year Guy F. Allen, the U.S. Treas- | weeks later to a day—the patch ago, will lead the delegation, ury’s Chief Disbursing Officer, was covered with blooms from which inéludes Norma Yates, born in Delphi, Mi@h., 64 years end to end. ;Esther Schrader, Joe Hale and ago. “. . In these times of financial Anibal Armayor. stringency, theymonev that is sent: ~ USS. Senator Scott W. Lucas of away annually for fruit and vege- 2 Llinois, born. in. Chandlerville, table necessities would do a| How To Relieve TIL, 49 years ago. great deal of good if kept in cir- | | wae — Bronchitis lem aey culation here”. Creomulsion relieves cause it to the a ten and to soothe and heal raw, tender, in- mucous to with fo I pesceee sence CREOMUL: forCoughs, NO NAME LODGE The Citizen, in editorial, treaties Said: Canada an 1918—Reciprocal draft signed between Britain, ,and the U.S. 1940—Sweden’s king proclaims he. cannot give aid to Finland for fear of war with Germany. Newcomb Carlton, board chair- — man, Western Union, born in| Play for the Mrs. Malcolm |Meacham trophy will begin at pes once on the lecal course, 16 play- Edward Weeks, Jr, editor of ers having qualified for the meet. | Atlantic Monthly, Boston, born in| Pairings follow: Elizabeth, N. J., 43 years ago. | Champlin Clarke and Dr. Thom- shoe cota {as S. Adams, Henry Renner and Garet Garrett of Tuckahoe, N./J. R. Stowers, A. J. McMullen | J., writer, born in Pana, Ill, 63 and George Brooks, Sam Harris years ago. and D. W. Gardner, William P. | | facie eG Kemp and George V. Perpall, R. | Thomas D. Campbell of: Mon- | S—pisasitieaecueanntonae | tana and California, farmer, agri- | cultural engineer, born in Grand Forks, N. 59 vears ago. Dr. Milton C. 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