The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 3, 1941, Page 2

PAGE TWO ~se 1 tee ‘bers a§ he 6 N PUBLISHING Lily Except Sund President and Publisher N, Business Manager >. en Building reene and Ann Streets paper In Key West and Only Daily N Key West, Florida, a8 second lags matter | © of, the) Associated. Prem: s8 is exclusively entitled to use of all news dispatches credited to not ctherwse credited In this paper and also ws published here, Pre yr republication SUBSCRIPTION RATES SING RATES ation SPECIAL NOTICE cards of thanks, resolutions of es, ete., V tine. inment by churches from which ed are 5 cents a line, tizen is an open forum and invites discus- on of public issues and subjects of local or general 1 not publish anonymous communi- ations. 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- crnments. A Modern City Hospital. Healthy folk make sick doctors. You can never understand a thing by just sneering at it. The wise mother-in-law remembers she was once a daughter-in-law. Mussolini’s explanation of his army’s difficulties in Albania sounded like Greek to us. The courts, as we gather it, are the bul- walks of liberty when they decide in your favor. ittest Citizen | flowed in as rapidly a none of the Legion officials seem il be charged for at | | seH he would A_government bulletin gives informa- | ticn on how to treat a black eye, but is silent on how to explain one, Athens, Greece, has an average of no | to its brilliant record. more than twenty or so suntess days in the ; entire year. West. - A man of cruelty is God’s enem Old Proverb. Hitler should be made awar of t stop him. It was long ago when the soothsayer cautioned Caesar to beware the ides of It is almost as sunny as Key | ; though that knowledge would not a h, but their evil influence continues to | this day—next month the income tax is due. | { The Gdrmans used to sneer‘at the Eng- lish taking their pleasures so seriously and working so hard at their sports, but they didn’t take into consideration that the Eng- lish would take their wars so seriously and | work so hard at them, as well. In his advertisement, published in The Citizen last week, Mr. Porter offered 25-for the arrest and conviction of the ‘girl or woman” who entered his yard and filehed the fruit of his papaya tree. How he knew the marauder to be a female of the pecies is a deep and dark secret, worthy of the deductions of a Sherlock Holmes. sie The Citizen is receiving complaints that the shacksef the housing authorit re not being demoy as required by law, but @ré remdy toether localities. apsly, they e of the housing act is » have unsightlyand unsanitary structures We that , plaints have been forwarded to Washing- eliminated understand com- If Congress continues to abdicate the wers with whic clothed the man in the White House to of the Nation as he the so-called law-makers in the interest of econ- me and r the people it affairs wants hem run, why n solish rs have dispensed their people ey and much hot air. ted States savedha lot of mor ves of t r could tate them beneficially. CONVENTION IS CERTAIN Rumors buzzing around Key West.to | the effect that the American Legion con- vention will not be held here can be labelled utterly false. The convention will be held d Legicn members in charge of here on schedule ar the $5,000 necessary for its ex- there is no question but they will coilectir pense. say have the money in plenty of time. The Citizen may have added to the iumors inadvertently by saying that Legion collectors were finding “uphill going”, but ther has beer any question of their getting together the money before the con- vention is ready to start. Money has not it w hoped, but to be neve worrying. Efforts to get the Strand Theater for the convention gathering hit a temporary snag Saturday when the theater manager informed Legion Commander Harold Rus- not permit its use. The theater recently has been redecorated, he said, and pe the Legion- naires made him fear to allow their meet- ing. e damage by Russell told The Citizen later, how- ever, that the local post will take out insur- ance covering any possible damage and he is confident the theater will be used for the meetings. The largest theater nearly al- ways is the scene of Legion conventions in cities throughout the country, and the Strand is by far the most convenient loca- tion here. Key West has a great deal to gain b providing the visiting members with a warm greeting and helping them to There is no reason for Legion have a good time. worrying about damage to anything in the city, since as Russell say: insurance will cover any accidents. The city, therefore, ought to forget the rumors and settle down to making sure the convention will be a success. It has to be. IMPORTED GENIUS Native-born Americans have given to the woild many epochal inventions, of which the late Thomas A. Edison contri- buted more than any other single in- dividual. But America also owes much of its prestige in invention to the genius of foreign-born immigrants who added luster A few of these may be mentioned. Ericsson, who came from Sweden, in- vented the Monitor. Alexander Graham Bell, born in Scot- land, later lived in Canada, and as a resi- dent in the United States, gave the tele- phone to the world Emile Berliner came from Germany to perfect the telephone and improve the phonograph. Nicola Tesla from Austria-Hungary invented the inducti« n motor and numerous other epochal electrical devices. Charles J. Vanderpoele from the Netherlands devised the electric street car trolley. Charles P. Steinmetz, coming frgm Ger- many as a poor, deformed immigrant boy, who borrowed money from a fellow pas- senger in order to obtain admission to the United States, won universal fame as an electrical wizard, Michael I. Pupin, a boy from Hungary, made telephony possible. This by no means exhausts the list of those of foreign birth who developed their the iden- immigrant distance poor long great natural talents after coming to United who became tified scientific achieve- ment, States, and with American FOR GREEK RELIEF The Greek nation has acquitted ‘itself the contest precipitated the \sma@iler in roble fashion in by Mussolini's attack suntry One of upon he most remarkable wars of mount nia and Greek a manner to make one rec ering wt Americans generally ns to the cause owns and cities a ny ned for the purpose THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Foreign Invasion That Must Be Stopped = By J. C. GALLOWAY | eanresntes Prom Port Bilegeny (Ee) Reporer) One who comes to a new they look as much like never lack for entertain there are many and unfamiliar or y region ineed s with chains as anything ment; things nd are the color of black- berries; but we don’t know they taste. we noticed about them is that al- though they like mediaeval knight, their gills are a pair of delicate white feath so new to see, how unknown things to discover there The strangest thing is never any end to them. Some- interesting is sure to turn up daily; one need only step out-. doors and begin using the e to tind something to delight and en- jo. Sometimes does not even need to leave the house for things to happen. One day here in Key West we lifted the lid of the icebox, and swimming in the icewater was a lovely little lizard a trifle over an inch long; equally 1inged green and black all over, except for a coral red tail. We put the little besuty in a pint jar with some Bermuda grass, and in To look at it you would not be- th roomy quarters it warmed lieve anyone occupied that lot; it up and climbed about like a mon- was surprising to find how many key and made a most interesting people lived together under each tropical scene; and in time we ; jar apartment hou: zinted its portrait with -thos were, everybody living to- roundings. i any privac We how happily; we hen we caught a big put him in a bottle; then foolishly dropped a brown lizard in with it, we soon found the lizard gripped by the seorpion’s claws, and the scorpion chewing the stump of the lizard’s tail as though it was a sitck of sugar cane. So we suppose every neighborhood has its problems. There were plenty of Archys un- der the stones along with the lizards and scorpions, but even officer's badge does not al- ways make people behave. ing wear armor a worn outside the breast, where would think they would be wrecked the first minute they walk. Still, we have known old- fashioned men who could -vear white shirts all day at their work and not soil them. But they did not crawl and squeeze under stones. one you th yot learn t that \ We could act and we left But what was it remember any such those books at home. Its head was hooded, with the snout pro- jecting like a beak from under |the hood; not at all like the long {head of the Anolis, the common green chameleon. Whose baby could it be? A day or two later we got the answer, or think we |did. Twenty minutes until din- ner would be ready; and we went out in the yard and began turn- ing over old boards. My, what a lot of surprises! But one of thém was brown lizards, two to three inches long, that scurried away and hid. Later. at a friend's, we found sever under each of ™ |many stones, and found they had the same shaped heads as our |gayly dressed baby. We found out something else too. | (TO BE CONTINUED) ~ WHO KNOWS? — See “The Answers” on Page 4 a 1. When did the U.S. begin trade with the Ciinese Who is Haro!4 L, Stark? What is the ze and cost of de What the ¢ oat had Archy f 3 Several years {pet cockroach we nar after one of the characters of Don Marquis, columnist of the 3 New York f the groc- @ m ers found of ban 4 a and gave and it tween a “pl as a popular of our fish"? for s ynths, and 5. The son to enjoy rtaining the nerican cictator Hi rn torpedo? | visiters. Warm Springs. was warships oper: water? pert DROWSY ? SMELL EXHAUST GAS That was not r thos un atds / it MAY BE \. DEADLY \ CARBON | \ MONOXIDE / / | { \ ‘KEY WEST IN h Judge Alburv. MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1941 Cuba, or Newfoundland, or have to go out to sea for gunnery prac- tice the night of the play. It was unanimously voted to follow the performance on Friday night (the seventh of March) with a party for the members and the casts at the White Heron (Stork Club, and. two of the youngest and hungriest of the Players voted for plenty of 5 | sandwiches this*time. 3 Charles Augustus Cleare, bet- Walter Frederick Jacobs was ter known to practically. @very-: \, Bhete wa§ so. much business appointed cfgirman § Yhe Big body" ja? Res West “ast "Jonah", |trangactéd) at the meeting of the | Spring ic the “uepefit of dean of ail the city’s newspaper Key West Players on February ‘he PlaverS Bhilting Fund. This employes, left the island for the 27th that it looked and sounded dance will beheld at the Stork lust ume in kis life yesterday like a big day on the N. Y. Stock Club on the night of March 21, afternoon when he mate an auto|dimchangeuine1929° B.C, but the {2p all the frlesds iand mplatives keates Cave! large and capable membership of the Players are hereby warned reputation is | Bresettt disposed of everything that lots of pressure will be put on .) by his quaint Neatly by having President Lloyd to nave them present. Lots of yings in newspaper paragraphs appoint all sorts of committees, fun and games are promised, and stucning. 53, He was born and | Which shedid ‘with the most reck, We'd need a Little Place of/Our -d in this city and until yes- | less abandon. The most important Own, so plan to come and help terday had’ rlever set fot’ off | item: for you to note, however, is _ After the business meeting ea the change in date of the three Commander Byres showed us “Gocd graceous!” he said in de- .che-act plays, which really will those long promised pictures of scribing his trip. “It shore was be given, no fooling, on March 6 Banana Sd Whey eer wen fine. {1 felt just like Mr. Busto, and March 7 in Harris School. Worth waiting for. Ophelia, who smoking a Havana seegar and The Players crave ur indulg- is dist noe ee eae the encl breeze ablowin’ in my {ence in such Khimsies, but you tYPe, v , kept wondering in face” know it is extraordinarily dis- her vague why you have to concerting to cast a play and then Climb up 85 feet to get through have your leading man suddenly the canal. We heard her ask a ordered to the West Coast, or hands¢ me young naval officer _______________ sitting near by and he didn’t know who left last Tuesday to accom- either. . Ophelia said she would pany Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen on write the Secretary of the Navy her annual educational trip to and report his ansWerat the next Weshington, arrived here by rail meeting. x yt moon today. DAYS GONE BY: Happenings On This Date Ten Years Ago As Taken From Files Of The Citizen MARCH 1 By OPHELIA ree Bonus loans for which former service men now may make ap- plication, will put more than $500,000 in circulation in Key West ,atcording to Arthur H. Sheppard, ¢laim officer for thé; local American Legion post. More than 100 applications ba been sent from here, he estimates, ! when the supply of blanks was | exhausted. | an editor, Beware Cou from common colds That Hang On Creomulsion relieves pt be- cause it goes right to the seat of th trouble to help loosen The Citizen, in said: “Reduction in the number of’ coke race horses back [Counties and the consolidation of to the United States from Cuba CUnty and city governments, en he Citize > Has started and for the nest fewitc oY — pee we toms offitials will be |98°-_ 35 being generally discussed eee in Florida and in other states. ‘expel busy. “tt is expected, of course, that £¢™ Jaden phlegm, and aid nature A number of cars are expected — se. ule’ to soothe and heal raw, tender, in- on the ferry this afternoon and the proposal will meet with op- flamed bronchial mucous mem-= lah pandas Se a position, both from public offic: branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a race horse special will be sent Holdéri?arlé their relatives: and a bottle of Creomulsion with the un- ovt tonight. The train will be | 7° CST : hecerosighuent ee derstanding you must like the way it Haalede ssécial i ‘close friends. It is too much t» quickly allays the cough or you are UES OS eeies jexpect anything else. The present tohave your money back, ay system provides thousands “i CREOMULSION preferred places they would lose Hr the change were made. It is| fot couse: ChESt GOlde Brgnemun. NO NAME LODGE only natural, therefore, that some Famous Bahia Honda Fishing of these will object This makes it none the less Ret Dees eee Bone Fishing a fact, however, that the plan of- fers opportunities for enormous Cottages—$3.50 a day and up Stone Crab Dinners a Specialty savings in tax monies and _be- cause this is trve, the change is‘ phone No Name Key No. 1 For Information certain to come”. The Citizen, said: “Was in an editorial, the di an local naval station | put on inoperative basis to impress European nations with our sineereity in the matter of amament? It begins to ap- pear as if this may be the case, a belief that is strengthened by latest developments. “Tt was announced d, ington the other day that the wre Lewis A. Pierce will lead navy will surrender administra- iho study group of the P-T. A si ry po “3M o'clock at the hich school auc modtane iid Go of the | uditorium. Mrs. M. E. Mondul eee West | Tainate” and’ Miss Dorothy Beav | “some off the. bestinfonuedi etre uaaitaer page men in the navy believe that Key| | West and the Virgin Islands} ~ have been sacrificed as a gesture of our good faith in our disarma- ment talk. The nation could not, with very good grace, continue to maintain as many naval sta- tions as she has on the Atlantic coast and so decided to abandon Key West, which has fewer po- litical champions than any other and the Virgin Islands, which ap- parently has almost none”. in Wash- Lopez Funeral Service Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers 24-Hour Ambulance Service Phone 135 Night 696 Service Our broad know!l- edge of sales and advertising prob- lems enables us to create print jobs that are original, effective! Large volume of printing and mod- ern, efficient ma- chinery are a few reasons why we can quote low prices for print jobs! The Artman Press THE CITIZEN BUILDING Mrs. S. M. Whalton was re- elected president of the St. Anne} Society at a business meeting! yesterday. Mrs. Lopez Johnson was named vice-president, Mrs May Sweeting treasurer, Mrs. Joe Beaver scretary, and Mrs. Mary DeBarcee. Mrs. John Wells and Mrs. William Roberts were elect- | ed to the advisory -board. ace { State supreme court's recent ruling that ‘fhe Florida 1939 fee; law is uneonstitutional does not} affect the situation in Monroe county. County Attorney Wil-| liam V. Albury said today The measure, according to would affect only county in the state. since it only to counties with between 27.050 and Overseas Transportation Company, Inc. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service —between— a MIAMI AND KEY WEST Also Serving All Points On Florida Keys Between Miami and Key West Following Schedule Effective June 15th: Express Schedule: (NO STOPS EN ROUTE) LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY CEPT SUNDAYS) AT 6:00 P, Arrives at Miami at 12:00 o' MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT Mr and Mrs. Antonie Garcia SUNDAYS) AT 12.00 o'clock Mid- Simonton and Greene stfeets, en night and arrives at Key West at 6:00 tertained yesterday afternoon at o'clock A. M. a party of children in honor of Local Schedale: the first birthday of their son (Stops At All Intermediate Points) Jose Antonio. LEA KEY WEST DAILY (Except Present were Nancy Longval. Sundays) at 8:00 o'clock A. mM. and loise Fanes. Evelio Fanes, Luis arrives at Miami at 4:00 o'clock a, Cecelia Perez Rolo. Vir- | LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (Except Sus- ii, Jr, Ralph Sienor- | days) at 9:00 o'clock A. M. and ar- Perez, Elvia Perer. rives at Key West sf 5:00 o'clock . Ampacito Ovi P.M. Leonte Val-} Fernandez, Gio- | Rose Elizab-th nandez and} on applies populations 27.1690. MARCH 3 Sensationa disclo: le arrests involving some widely-known Key Westers and ps some local officials may re from the raid by prohibi- tion officers last night on the 1 of Felo Rodriguez, 1111 Du- reet a result poss perth of the raid, Rod. Miami, serving a 90-day sentence, while federal officers aré said to be going over | a complete set of records seized | in his establishment eet (Ex- M. 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