The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 12, 1941, Page 2

N PUBL ed Daily Except Sunday By ALTMAN, President and Publisher + Business Manager i.tizen Building and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County cred at Key West, Flerida, as second class matter Menber of the Associated Press ted Tress is exciusively entitled to use ublication of all news dispatches credited to credited in this paper and also ws published here SUBSCRIPT! Six Months Three Months One Month ADVE, wn on appl ISING RATES ation. SPECIAL NOTICE tices, cards of thanks, resolutions of notices, ete. vil be charged for at 6: 10 cents a line, es for endertainment by churches from which ue is to be derived are 5 cents a line C.tizen is an open forum and invites discus- issues and public subjects of local or general t but it will not publist 1yrsous communi- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels Beach and Bathing Pavilion. and Apartments. Airperts—Land and Sea. Consolidation »f County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. ——————— zation got men out of caves, and » air bombers are sending them back. People who don’t like to read crime s are given ample warning by the big headlines, A bibliophile is a book-lover, but if he over-does the reading he may bibliophool, If robody would ever get killed in a war, Key West wouldn't mind having a war going on all the time, When interest in good government de- and people become indifferent, pres- sure groups have their way. It has been estimated that for every | mar in the armed services, there must be 18 | men behind the lines in industry producing for him, That means now we must put our shoulders to the wheel. When a representative of The Citizen declared to a local business man that good- will was a desirable quality, he smiled de- Neverthele good-will is not only a desirable quality but a foree—pene- trating and irresistible. cisively. That the Florida river “Suwanee” is a derivative from The Spanish San Juan (St. | John) or its alleged diminutive Sanjuanee is not likely as suggested in an Though the Spanish “j’* is sounded like the English “h”, the diminutive of San Juan is San Juanito, not Sanjuanee, 4 This column stated several weeks ago that if the local authorities did not put a stop to the outrageous conditions existing this city, federal Well, a squad of yesterday and i: certain quarters of authorilie FBI tarted would do so, officials came in investigations, miner’s The West Virginia daughter become aj, exchange. | WOODEN BRIDGES GOING \ News that several more of the wooden | bridges in Overseas Highway are about to | be eliminated is of the greatest interest to Key Westers. Most local people have felt confident | that concentration of army and navy per- sonnel here would force completion of the road eventually, but it is pleasing to hear that some of the bridges are to be made safe in the near future. Both from the standpoint of safety and because of the delay entailed in getting over the old parts of the road and the wooden bridges, completion of the highway | is a vital necessity to this community. The ride over the highway is one of the most ' beautiful and interesting in the nation, but many people visiting here for the first tme are disappointed when they find that parts cf it bear little resemblance to the postcard | pictures. Key Westers naturally have been re- , sentful over the way in which they were ignored by the state road commission under former Governor Cone. They hoped for ar improvement in conditions when Governor Holland injected some new blood into the commission, and now it seems that Key | West is going to get more attention from the stute government. Elimination of all the wooden bridges should come fairly soon. Two or three will be taken out of the highway system under , the program for which bids are to be taken | this month, and the others probably will | follow. There should be no letup in the ef- forts of Key West leaders and representa- | tives to get the road routed over the old railway viaducts, however. If only one wooden bridge were left in | the system, it would take only a small fire | on that bridge to put the entire Overseas | Highway out of commission and effectively isolate Key West from the mainland. OBSERVANCE OF LENT When the custom of observing the an- nual period of fasting known as Lent began | is not known with certainty, but it orig- | irated early in the life of the church, prob- ably in the latter part of the second century , after Christ. | In the past the time of observance and the number of days included in the Lenten | season have varied widely, and these mat- ! ters were long the subject of serious con- troversy ecclesiastical authori- ties. among At first, it appears from the writings | of early fathers of the church, only one or two days of fasting were prescribed. By | the fourth century, periods of three, and | even seven weeks were observed in various | countries, with varying customs with re- spect to the continuity of the fast. As at present established, Lent is a fast of forty days, not including Sundays, | beginning with Ash Wednesday and ending | the Saturday before Easter. This year Ash | Wednesday fell on February 26, and Easter falls on April 13. During Lent it is considered desirable | by the churches observing it that “their | members abstain from food each fasting day until evening; also that the season be marked by frequent attendance at worship and increased diligence in works of charity. Various degrees of strictness prevailed from time to time, and exceptions have generally been made according to the physical needs of certain individu In- dugence in worldly amusements con- idered unsuitable to the Lenten which is observed throughout Christendom, Catholic, An- have season, particularly by the Roman glican and Lutheran churches. As the Senate last week contin- ued its wrangle over the Leas Lend bill sional performance, as entered 200 cargo ships, and a third to provide clothing. The House, having finished its consideration of the Le |Bill several weeks before, bh |passed a $1,415,991,838 appropria another Treasury-Postoffice authorized $245,228,500 for navy sured during 1941. public works, including some con- truction on Britain and work at Samoa and jn préparing for Guam; passed a bill to permit the fense. In the Federal Housing to insure $100,000,000 of gages for defense housing; and a thing should proceed as supplemental $1,375,277,202 for Army ish island possessions in the At- cording to Jane's, the Japan- launched three 40,000-ton bat- launched and construction. The 35,009-t ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THAT MEANS ALL OF US “1TSBVERYBODYS JOB , are. es ‘KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Lonoruns money to prepare a er can expect dens in the years to a rewview of congres- person is interested in the law. Personal its third month, showed In addition, ten percent income tax- added a $175,000,000 for Army the defense tax. se-Lend for independent agencies, ay $1,146.394,496 for the ‘y~ sew plants, sites leased Administration Army and the mort- supplies and appropriation of as possible housing fa anded work at naval bas- ter of time. come. of families, $800 for defense program. s been a period of delay, complete training manufacture equipment, because the an unknown factor, the mat- No one knows what By HUGO'S: SIMS)Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen JAPAN’S BATTLESHIPS ! INCOME TAXES DUE |PROGRESS ON DEFENSE LEASE-LEND REFLECTIONS This week, millions of Ameri- nation for bur- With a few auto, returned here yesterday. . . Congress changes which Congress made in Miss Phvllis Carbonell. ‘ Remit ter of Mr. and Mrs. Felipe Car- ‘ |that only three major bills have 999 for cused from $2,500 to $2,- | bonell. who veen enacted, including one rais- from $1,000 to ng the public debt limit to $65,- persons. QUU,000,000 and eliminating “xempt securities; another appro- tax” to all ting $313,500,000 to construct means that if vovr tax WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1941 sd | SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL Former Editor of The Citizen Happenings On This Date Ten — Years Ago As Taken From Files Of The Citizen E. C. Wallace, a New York en- gineer, has a plan for using cotton “Pussyfoot” Johnson. tionally-known prohibition _lec- turer, is to speak in soon on the subject of “Babylon and Way Stations, Ity Johnson will speak th Methodist with Lieut. Col: F. B. Ebbert of California, who will discuss “The Unfinished Battle”. Repair of the Key Vacas stretch of Overseas First ‘ in the construction of air raid interna- i: shelters, which he declares would be superior to those built with re- inforced concrete. Congressman Boykin of Alabama is urging that gre at the tests be made to determine the church” “along feasibility of the plan. Key West All classified advertisements have been barred from Italian newspapets, as a by the against their use as a means of precaution Highway state road department may begin communication between spies. It in the near future, according to j, said that by the use of secret a report read by county commis- sioners last night. Chairman Carl codes such means of communiea- Bervaldi of the commission an- tions were employed during the nounced he had road department that from improvement would be taken up today. Robert Shehee played in par Mississippi, who is one received word first World War. A healthy 6-pound son has been born to Mrs. Milmer Munn, 12 years old, of Neshoba county, of the of the highway figures yesterday to win the job youngest mothers on record. She of representing Key West in the Pee a oa a La Gorce open at Miami and ment than appears at first ousted Joe Lopez from the run- blush ning. Sandino requisites “General Augustine may lack many of the Mrs. Ralph Milner was hostess of a military leader, but he has yesterday afternoon to of the Afternoon Bridge club at ords show her home in the air station apart- wcunded one ments. Miss Thelma Rukoff won man and three civilians in his first prize and Mrs. Eddie Wilson, last five second. Personals—Berlin f A _ R. Stowers and John Park, who have cans will discover that it costs icf Tuesday night for the Shrin- through blood”, ers’ convention at — 1 national defense, although, it must turned on the morning train to-, Jerry J. Trevor was _ elected be admitted, the average taxpay- (av. additional terday % Nathan Bedford Forrest, grand- This son of the Rabbi father of Mrs. I. Key West, returned to Miami yes- delegate to the - ‘ . . .T. Jenkins Curry, who, ence to be held in Jacksonville, Saturday the deadline for filing for the past month has been vis- April 13 and 14. income tax returns, the average iting at points in the famous members one of ‘em sure as shooting. Re that his force has national guards- battles, vet the “gen- eral” blossoms forth with an of- ficial announcement that makes it appear that he and his men been wading knee-deep Sawyer, J. Miami, re- | L. Schultsinger, president of the Key West Ro Appelrouth of tary club today and named as district conf state by High school guests at the luncheon were Arthur Sheppard, daugh- Jr., and Joseph Stirrup. was visiting here _and for several weeks with her par- single ents, left last night for Miami Congress “defense » taxes. confederate figured general and one of the organizers much $20, you add an additional $2 for of the Ku Klux Klan, died lest night at White Springs, Fla. Service He had visited in Key West We have several times, in this and was widely known here. column,’ ‘pointed out that seress is being made on the; mean, however, that the United shows the interest the frem States: can afford to take its time government feels in this project. de- Eventually, small craft will be Our broad knowl- et edge of sales and The Citizen, - in. editorial . para- While graphs, said: “Inspection of various portions to: the necessity of construct- of the inside route between Bos- large-scale pro- ton and this supply bill, Cuction of war necessities is as- tendent Demeritt and lighthouse This does not officials from two other districts advertising prob- lems enables us to create print jobs city by Superin- that are original, effective! federal of an able to come from Boston to.Key every- rapidly much more nation including those on Brit- might happen in the war in Eu- to protect: itself. Considerable interest has been aroused by the new pan’s Fighting Ships which has \just been published in The volume is considered an au- thority on naval matters. It re- veals that Japan are busy © with some e' issue of Ja- London. — bay Maj. Ger WS. ABBE 61 vears ago. az printer, and ‘Gérmany, ars ago, nding thé?r'navies, phasis upon battle- George A t year and have two under construction. In ad three pocket battleships 03) tons t Nash-Kelvinator in Detroit, born in N. D., 50 years ago. fourt new battleship Joseph Catholic Archbishop German of Clevel Bismarck for service and Von Turpitz ; we action next 7 ably ready Darrach Bit = ak . geon, rope ahd no one knows when the ic and on Samoa and Guam United States may be called upon in the Pacific Todav’s Birthdays ‘enry Nash of San Fran- born in Lynch, 1 in Blairstown, Iowa, George W. Mason, president of Detroit Valley born City, Schrembs prelate. born in v, 75 years ago. years ago. of West with practically none of the unprotected waters—a important trip THE CITIZEN BUILDING develop- A few weeds was married last April to a 17+ year-old schoolmate. The oldest retired government employee in the United States is Mark Thrash of Chickamauga National Park, who recently reached the age of 120. The Navy's two new 35 000-ton battleships North Carolina and Washington, the first vessels of this class to be built in the United States since 1923, will soon be placed in commission several months ahead of schedule Thousands of Alabama high school boys and girls are entered in a state-wide oratorical contest sponsored by the Birmingham Age-Herald and News. The sub- ject for all the orations is “Abra- ham Lincoln.” By next June a total of 52,000 private pilots will have been turned out by the 907 colleges and ing schools cooperating in the pilot training program of How To Relieve Bronchitis - Creomulsion relieves promptly be- cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and germ laden phlegm, and aid to soothe and heal raw, tender, in- flamed bronchial mucous mem~ branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the un derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money CREOMULSION | for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis ‘Key West's Outstanding” LA CONCHA HOTEL Beautiful—Air-Conditioned Rainbow Room and Cocktail Lounge DINING and DANCING Strictly Fireproof Garage OPEN THE YEAR AROUND JOB PRINTING 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 PHONE 51 No, 24 of a Series birthday = had a FOR GREEK RELIEF ion was responsible for a Ges ees Eee who “crashed” the President's grow in every garden ball under the impression that she perso rvitat $ years age Among the thousands of decent law- abiding beer retail establishments in America there may be a few diérepu- beer . We want them cleaned up because they endanger the 18,294 jobs and $15,787,151 payroll created by beer in Florida since re-legalization. Beer contributed $1,735,893.93 last year tm taxes i this state. which, it and our right to make it. i publicity ex- perts desired. So far, no one has divulged | 4, Who found and promoted the visit. number of stories The Greek nation has acquitted itself y : n of th velist-au- in noble fashion in the contest precipitated Jar ' ft nips t bor r re Rapids. Mussolini's attack upon the smaller table “joints.” country. : mi , One of the most remarkable wars of ; ping ] While it is the brewers’ responsi- histary is being! bitterly contested on the the report of the J ee Laity to ‘brew goad beer "andthe re- bania and Greek ; "7c" ara correct, it: January: builoing - . tailers’ responsibility to sell beer under are behaving in anner to make ibys ; wholesome naaeieig gue A Large Marathon and Salamis brewing industry is cones about —- You cen help us, if you will, by (1) pat- There has been much suffering which |1°° Pocket gee i oe these ondesirable Places end wants ronizinz only the reputable, legal places ted {f Atnericans general! om wale sean them cleaned up. that se’l beer and by (2) reporting any ape ons to the cause Key West's We want them cleaned up because la duly constituted ; Hotel De Luxe they endanger your right to enjoy good «slaw en.orcement authorities. American Pian 200 delightful ROOMS, each with PRIVATE BATH DANCING NIGHTLY he wspaper ems as just what some Senator Reynolds charged in Congress the lease-lend-give-away bill is an at- mountainous terrain of » pay for Britain's war at America’s These benefits are worth preserving, He said th for the soldier it should be de gye rec defense of the ense of the lives could be allevis t the expense of the violations to t In many towns and cities been formed for the pur- i for the preserva- Empire, without any he preservation of the pose of secur these contri able to you, just Greek War Avenue, New He added that “we can- there is none own defenses by giving. your donation reasonable battle lending or leas t y Nati ur im