The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 26, 1941, Page 2

PAGE TWO The ba West Citizen PUBLISHING CO. INC. y Except Sunday By president and Publisher N, Business Manager The Citizen Building nn Streets ‘rom Only Daily New per in Key West and Monroe Count intered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter AND STILE WE DRIFT Senator Robert Taft several days ago at Presi- he Neither is anyone tossed three pertinent questions dent Roosevelt, but in these times isn’t likely to get else who asks the same questions about any an answer. line of human endeavor, Senator Taft wanted to know: er of the Assoeiated Press The 1 Press is exclusively entitledoté. use Associ republi it or not ctherwise credited in this paper and also he local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES onths Months Month Six Three ADVE SING RATES Made known on application. SCIAL NOTICE ards of thanks, resolutions of obituary notices, ete. ¥ il be charged for at ti® Fate o2 10 cents a line, tertainment by churches from which s to be derived are 5 cents a line. zen 18 an open forum and invites discus- public issues and subjects of local or general t but it will not publish anonymous communi- respect IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN | economy Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Cor dation of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. will do for a little publicity. Too many married folks,who are nice ore company forget that two is also com- pany. if There is a time to work and a time to play but some folks never know when the time for work is at hand. A prospect is not to be confused with a_customer; never forget the latter because | you have found the former, | It might be a good idea for somebody | to explain to the Japanese that all U.S. war- | ships are not like the Panay. If the lease-lend bill will become law, as it tion of all néws dispatches grediited to | | ning asking those | self, | for himself what comes next. | that touris ‘ . ie | gether some $5,000 for their It is amusing to observe what some men sure to be, we will have to observe the Biblical injunction, willy-nilly, and | earn our bread in the sweat of our brows. Mark Twain complained that body was alway but nobedy ev every- | talking about the weather sr did anything about it, but | was before the introduction of air con- ditioning. No man in all his held heavier | rep nsibilities than those that President Roosevelt now holds, yet the lease-lend bill | = give him vastly greater powers, which | @.do@s not shun but seeks. Mexico is invitiiig Ameriéan investors | pen new oil wells and buy itgi@ther (in)- securities. Inasmuch as the expropriated ot-properties are being held out of settle- | ment negotiations it really looks as though Mexic wants more “ money” that it would never pay back. simply Mayor La Guardia at New York says wé-are not offering England help because ‘our military strength. But because of our military weakness. In other words we are-making our admitted military weak- Figure that we lack the patience. ness strong by weakening it. yourself; en has been one of the few ocating the establishment 1 Lottery as well as state lot- secure funds toliquidate the na- a Natior ties to 1 debt ebt | $675,470,2 1—Where are we 2“_How are we going to get there? 3—How will we get back if we do get there and do get back? Anyone who feels reflective about the ways cf the world might spend a quiet eve- question about him- the world at going? Florida, Key West or large. Key West is admittedly a little shell- ocked after the stving of disasters that have knocked one industry after another out from under its population. The city might be forgiven for resting on its oars awhile and letting Senator Taft figure out Tf he gets the answers, he might be persuaded to spend a little time on Key West and tell us. No matter where this city is tossed, however, or what is tossed to the city, there are a few things that civic leaders ought to | bear in mird as the foundations of a basic here. In the first place, everyone agrees s have become the most stable industry left in Key West. Everyone agrees in principle, that is, and let it go at that. Meanwhile, the Tourist Club, which was to | promote local recreation for winter visitors, has died quietly through lack of interest. to get to- annual state convention are finding steady uphill going, and collection of the total amount will re- quire a long struggle. Perhaps it is possible to become pros- perous by selling your merchandise to any- one who happens to drop in. It may be pos- sible to build up prosperity through tourists without bothering to advertise or entertain them after they arrive. If it is, Key West has found something new. If it isn’t, Key West had better start on Senator Taft’s questions. American Legion efforts AID TO BRITAIN The extent of American assistance to the British nation can be appraised by a | study of the figures recently released giving | the amount of arms, munitions and imple- | ments of war which have been “licensed” for export, In December, for example, the British received covering $97,903,296 worth of war material. For the entire year 1940 the British were licensed to ship only 49 worth of war supplies. The reader should understand that the above figures represent licenses, not ex- ports from this country. Actual shipments of war supplies to the British in December were only valued at $28,290,470 and for the full year 1940, $176,891,212 licenses INADEQUATE NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS (Homestead Leader-Enterprise) A resolutign to apply to the 1941 Florida legis- lature for a change in Homestead’s city charter to permit abolishment of parcel-by-parcel advertis- ing of and therefor of a general notice was adopted by the city council Monday night after being presented by Ira C. Haycock, M as city attorney. Mr. Haycock said such a change in the methc d uld € tax-delinquent property substitution mi lawyer who serves Homestead ffect a great of advertising delinquent taxes w saving to taxpayers of Homestead by The present method lists each parcel description and the owner's name, and gives f erty cific notice that their not been and that their property taxes have danger of being sold if taxes are not paid by is in The cost, thirty cents for each piece the of property described—is assessed against property—and is cheap insurance t sale of taxes through an oversight of the THE KEY WEST CITIZEN —— | | | NATURE NOTES — By J. C. GALLOWAY _(Reprinted Fr This is liresome work out here in the mud; a long net would be better. Suppose we work our way back along the rocks. No luck fur a while; but what is this en- trancing visionyin dove—almost sky-blue? Thin a@§ a gingersnap and about the, same size—yes, there is the claw on the side un- der the stem of the tail; it’s a Surgeon fish or Doctor fish; this one a Blue Tang. But those we found during the cold spell last winter were dark brown. Don't worry; the next time you look at this it may be dark brown too. They change at will. Now let’s go back to the boule- vard loop; that’s a good place. Here the excavation for the road fill made a deep channel; but there are grassy patches along the bank, and some rocks. The tide flows like a swift trout brook back and forth through the sluice under the road, draining and filling the lagoon on the other , and making a flowing river down the channel. Here are file- fish in the grass; rough gites, marbled with no fixed pattern and colored like the decaying grass they are in; black, ‘white, gray, green, or yellow; any or all. And here is loveliness, this stout little “sunfish”, deep purple flamed blue in front and above; and canary yellow below and be- hind, tail and all. That’s a De- moiselle, here miscalled “black- fish”; it changes its dress with its feelings; and some have tiny eye decorations on the dorsal and anal fins. Little jewels they are. Well, of all things! Look on that big rock there; who would expect to find a Green Moray eel right here by the highway like that! Three feet long at least, maybe four, thick and flattened, sickly yellow-green and _ slimy, slithering in folds back and forth on top the stone where the waves wash. Shall we try it? The little net cannot reach around it; it slides into deep water. Well, what would we have done with it, anyway? They are terrible bit- ers, their teeth cut like knives, they are poisonous beside, and so slippery they cannot be handled. We are lucky we did not get it. Washed up against the shore is a big brown tangle of Sar- gassum weed come in from sea; two kinds, one broad, one nar- row-leaved. Sometimes—oh, look, here’s one; a tinv frogfish; one of the oddest of living creatures, short and thick and smooth skin- ned; chocolate brown and white in conspicuous but strange ures above, and with white points over a yellow ground below; arms like a frog’s front legs, so they can grip with their long fingers; and horns and tufts and a fun- ny face. They live in the sar- TENT SERVICES CONTINUE HERE INTEREST GROWS IN RE- VIVAL CONDUCTED BY RAYMOND T. RICHEY “If there ever was a time when Christians above everything else need to remember that God is on the throne, it is now,” Raymond T. Richey told the audience in the Big Tent last night. His text was taken from Hebrews 11:6, “With- out faith it is impossible to please Him.” Every disp ended re and Man, by himself, dependent on his own efforts has always failed, but Jesus never fails.” said Mr. Riche De as th these crisis has disgrace ation of time ncing sin, exalting Christ only Hope of the world in s and ph eturn “old time religic Lord Jesus Christ, the rel gion of our fathers and mothers he urged men and w i much time in pray the Bible word of the Living God.” which said h fig- ¢ and drit round the wornu; and their markings are excenent Camouilage. And nere is anutuer Oud one; green like a sassum pea-pod and wiin a snell like one. put snort and triangular; a white alamonu. sketched with lines on eacn side, decorated With patches | ot viack dots. No’ bigger than a Biazil-nut, and ‘shorter. up, and. it Wags a yellow tail like a puppy; put in back and it swims ike a boat with a kicker. That's a young Trunkfish, here caticd Shellfish; and we never knew before that the young ones are green, Now let us cross over and try this mud lagoon, Pshaw; it is so soft we cant do anything with Wwe sume. Hana us that round dipnet with the long handle, will yuu, picase? We can stand in one spot arti work a half circle, qiawing the net like a hoe over the grass. Nothing at first; but here are a lot of little Lucanias, not much over an inch long and full grown; like minnows, but with a touch of orange and black on the fins. They are everywhere along ‘the Florida coast. Now comes ‘a baby barracuda, no big- ger than a match; ‘and then, oh, two of them! Butterfly fishes! And aren't they beauties? Ivory yellow and thin and round as a coin, ex¢ept that pointed snout; a — r bla crescent like an blow down across the d°back by the tail the target; a big black circle edged with white, like an owl's eye; hence this one’s name, Four-eyed fish. And look at that ribbon that runs in a perfect semicircle through the dorsal fin, across the base of the tail, and on round below; isn’t that lovely? But next time you see it, the fish will look like a feather, with many V-lines running each way from the mid- dle line. You may have seen pheasant feathers like that, with an eye near the tip, too. And what will them all? Some go to Dr. Fow- ler, of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences; some to Texas, to a member of the State Fish and Game Commission; dent of fishes there, and the Tex- as A. & M. College; and we have promised some bassss and snap- pers to L. A. Walford of the U.S. Fish Commission, who is working on a book on the basses, and snappers of the West Atlan- tie, which means our east coast. And some go to our private col- | another stu-/ Pick it! SALLY YOUNG Top-ranking bridge player in National Contract Tournaments we do with’ Copyright 1941, Ligcart & Mrans Tesacco Co. probably ending Thursday; slight- 'lyly warmer tonight. Jacksonville to Florida Straits | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1941 Lp fonars terfield COOLER, MILDER, BETTER-TASTING Te’s called the SMOKER’S cigarette because Chesterfield is the one cigarette that gives you a COMPLETELY SATISFYING smoke. You try a Chesterfield and find them coot and PLEASANT. You light one after another and find they really taste setter. You buy pack after pack and find that Chesterfields are MILDER. You can’t buy a better cigarette ANNOUNCE CIVIL SERVICE EXAM, lection. No, there is no money in gnq Bast Gulf: Moderate east and * t; just a contribution to the! se of science; and to our own desire to know more of the won- lers, the beauties, and delights of this Star of Heaven this Gar- den of the Lord, has given us the priceless privil- ge of life and opportunity. U. S. WEATHER BUREAU REPORT Observation taken at 7:30 a. 75th Mer. Time (aity office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hours Lowest last night Mean Normal m 78 64 71 we Precipitation Rainfalt,* 24> hatits » ending 7:30 a.m., inches Total fainfall since in Excess 0.05 Feb. 1, hes 5.50 since February 1, 4.27 fall since Jan. 1 6.67 Excess January 1, inches 3.48 Wind Direction and Velocity E—6 miles per hour Relative Humidity 95° Barometer at 7:30 a. m.. today Sea level, 29.96 (1014.6 millibars) Tomorow’s Almanac 6:52 a since jing for > 40 a 59 p. Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Buse) AM 10:46 418 nrise e 7 7 PM 41104 4:28 in which He! southeast winds becoming vari- able Thursday; overcast weather with occasional rain over north, and scattered showers in south portion tonight and Thursday. CONDITIONS Pressure is low this morning over the far northeast and rela- tively low over the Gulf of Mex- ico and from the Rio Grande Valley northwestward over the Pacific States; while a field of moderately strong high pressure, crested over the Lake region, cov- ers most of the remainder of the country. Light to moderate pre- cipitation his oceurred during the last 24 bours throughout much of the eastern Rockies, Plains States, and Missouri and Mississippi valleys, and south- ‘ward over the lower Rio Grande ivalley. There hgs also been light snow in portions of the Lake re- gion. rain in northern California, |Washington, and eastern North ‘Carolina, and showers in south- eastern Florida Temperatures are below normal in portions of The United States Civil Service ‘Commission announces an open competitive examination for the! ‘position of rivet heater for filling | vacancies in the U.S. Navy Yard, | Charleston, 8. C., for which ap- plications may be filed with he recorder, Labor Board, U.S. Navy Yard, Charleston, S. C., un- til further notice. This examination was origin- ally announced with minimum age limit of 20 years and maxi- mum age limit of 62 years. How- ever, an amendment has been issued changing the age limits ‘to show that applicants must have reached their 18th birthday but must not have reached their 62nd birthday. Full information and applica- Montana, the Dakotas, ' Michigan and the upper Ohio Valley, antl | generally near or above the’ sea-' sonal average elsewhere. G. 8. KENNEDY, Official in Ci |tion blanks may be obtained from the recorder, Labor Board, [US Navy Yard, Charleston, 8..C.; |from the secretary, Board of U.S, | Civil Service Examiners, at any first- or second-class post office, or from the manager, Fifth U..S. "Civil Serviee District, New Post | Office Building, Atlanta, Ga. DR. A. M. MORGAN Announces that MRS. 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