The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 15, 1941, Page 2

PAGE TWO Give wey West Citizen only wspaper in Key West and County Dat Key West Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Preas redited in ws published here. this paper and also SUBSCRIPTION RATE $10.00 5.00 2.50 8 20 ADVERTISING RATES own on appl ives, ¢ ds of th notices,*ete., ¥ 8, resolutions of * charged for at zen 18 3 public issues and subjects of lo t it will not publish anony IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Co Hotels and Apartments. solidation »f County iments, A Modern City Hospital i and City Gov- | { a oodbye, Captain Jacobs! “Hass” has now come between Hitler and Hess, If you want to get rid of a man who is rying to borrow some money, lerd him the money. Correct this sentence: ‘Mr. Officer, this is the first time I have ever exceeded the speed limit.” Rabelais said: “Strike whilst s hot’’, but the defense program has lagged and now fhe ir% is cold. It will take a little while before the iron is hot again, the iron i. both each It would Hungary and Rumania, satellites, are making faces at over terr'torial disputes. freshing if they adopted the policy of scttling the matter by arms, unless Hitler already ha arms from them. He is Axis other be Hitlerian force of taken the foxy that way. re- It may be surmised that Rudolf Hess, . 8 Nazi bigwig, got out ‘of Germany to void a purge. Hitler, the madman of the Reich, gets madder when matters do not go to his liking. not well in Nazidom so Adolf and Rudolf split. There may be develop- ments, sensational Lately we have been fed with the atement that 40 per cent of cur w na al sent to Engand is being sunk, but Ad- mirél Land, chairman of the Maritime Com- mission, says it has beer only 8 per cent. The people of the United right to know the truth so they r what they want fe States have o do about it; net propaganda, Actions speak louder than words October 30, at Boston, told 2 while I am talking thers, I give y said this before, but I Yo On andidate Roosevelt And and .000 cheering men and wonen:* to you, fathers 1 one assur hall say it ¢ again and again to be sent into solemn assurance just campaign t ens always come velt, More ths incle ‘ing in M volunteered to make 40,000 the Red C tribution to nat the desire ents country of them receiv They the entire people deserve the 3 The assumption is that all is | THE CAPTAIN LEAVES The feeling most of us have experi- enced in waiting for the new boss to take or, is affecting Key West’s naval station week as the sailors wait to have their {irst look at Capt. Russell Crenshaw, who relieve Capt. Walter F. Jacobs today. Capiain Jacobs, in turning over his ommard, has every right to a feeling of ide in the station and in the work which has been accomplished during his 15-month here, st the moment, it is a growing con- rn end the job awaiting Captain Cren- haw carries far more responsibility than it did when Captain Jacobs first was sent to West. At that time, with Lieut. »mdr. Fort Callahan holding all of the e3 ve posts and the only commissioned officer at the station, the Key West com- man@ant had few men and little equipment under his direction. Today, after spending some $8,000,- 000 in improvements and quadrupling the number of men here, Uncle Sam has a high- ly valuable piece of real estate in the Key West station. A veteran officer and executive, Cap- tain. Jacobs has won the respect both of his own men and of the city and county lead- ers here, with whom he has dealt on various occasions, K I ( of the enlisted men and to y at largc, a man in Captain Jacobs on almost comes under the head of an t firmed rumor. Naval regulations end the position given him by his rank force ytain to remain aloof from his com- , making it appear as if he were too e to have any particular influence on station. Actually, however, either in the army or navy, any command draws a surprising amount of its character and effectiveness from the man at the top. Captain Jacobs, when he turns over the reins to Captain Crenshaw, will know that he has done a good job. TAXES AND REAL ESTATE The question of taxation affects every individual in Key West. although there may be some who have the idea that they escape them. If one avoids direct levies, however, there is no way to escape the indirect taxes. National defense will naturally cost a large sum and higher taxation is not only inevitable but welcomed by patriotic Am- ericans, almost without exception. Con- sequently, no one should be misled by this discussion which relates to real estate taxa- tion. Dr. William H. Husband, of the Fed- eral Home Loan Bank Board, says that real estate “is being crucified on a cross of taxe He thinks our tax systems are archaic and suggests three changes to ease the burden now on real estate. He advocates: (1) reasonable tax ex- emption for low-cost homes; (2) establish- ment of a fair ratio between the tax burden and income return; (3) provision for rea- sonable tax-serving facilities. There may be differences of opinion as to the suggestions made, and we are not ready to endorse them, but they serve as a point for the beginning of discussion that may lead to a better system of taxation, es- pecially as it affects real estate. A HOPE FOR THE FUTURE When the United States completes its two-ocean Navy and has an aerial force equal to that of any other nation, the world may be at peace again. Thereupon so-called patriots will arise, throughout the nation, to assert that we do not need our warships and that it costs too ch to maintain our air fleets. The cry for economy will sound, with emphasis upon mary schoolhouses, hospitals and libraries could be built with the money that we spend upon Navy, Army and Air Force. Again the pacifists will proclaim the ivent of universal peace, with brotherly love ruling the peoples of the world. There will be another advocacy of disarmament to prevent war. There will be aureate pic- new era, offering mankind the op- > to relegate war to the relic rooms this propaganda begins to be in this country, let us hope that some aded patriots will have sense ugh to remember the desperate need of ted States, at this time, of guns, nks and planes. If it is not too h to expect from the fates that rule the iny of men, let us also express the wish intelligent statesman of the will put the spotlight on the oples who will, even then. be arm- elves for revenge how THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘TRE | KEY WEST IN ; DAYS GONE BY ‘Happenings Oa This Date Ten Years Ago As Taken From Files Of The Citizen ed Arthur M. Hyde, U. S. secretary ef agriculture, arrived in Monroe county today, but stopped off at Pirate’s Cove for q day’s fishing, before coming on to Key West. Another distinguished visitor to arrive here today is. ex-Senator Clarence Wayland Watson, West Virginia, who arrived at Long Key with Mrs. Watson for a fish- ing trip. John N. Costar, agent of the F. E. C. and P. & O. Steamship lines here, announced this morning that the Florida, recently com- pleted liner, will arrive here for service May 25, remaining here all day before leaving for Havana. The vessel was given her trial run late yesterday afternoon and will leave Newport News as soon as her crew arrives. It is under- stood the Florida wil be assigned: to the run between Key West, Ha- ~— vana and Tampa. TOO LATE TO MLASSEPY By RUSSELL KAY It is quite natu I suppose. for the good people of the ‘Glades area to view with alarm the pub- licity given their section by Theo- dore Pratt in his Saturday Eve- ning Post article “Land of the Jook.” Their reaction is about the same as that a horticulturist would feel if a gorgeous rose of his creation was publicized alone for its thorny stem. The condition Mr. Pratt deé- scribes is typical not only of the particular area covered in the story but also of many other points throughout the state and nation. It is true whenever migra- tory labor assembles and weat'y souls seek relaxation, be it North, South, East or West, There are dumps and dives, dance halls and inns, frof tie slums and waterfronts of coastal cities to the open highways of the West. These and the “jook joint” are sisters under the skin—no better and no worse. Such establishments flourish in »the shadow of great industrial plants to which we point with ‘pride. Their honky-tonk musie* blends with the chimes of church+ es as they call us to worship, and they serve a strata of society as effectively as do our swanky cock- tail bars and flashy cabarets. There is much Theodore Pratt might have written about the progress and development of the Everglades: of its amazing agri- cultural wealth, of its kindly peo- ple, of the splendid facilities and excellent housing provided work- ers of the Sugar Corporation, of its fine schools, its churches, its children’s playgrounds. But Pratt was not writing a’ Chamber of Cemmerce booklet; he-was.sinspay: trying to portray a certain‘ phasei) of American life and confined. himself to that subject: Personally, I do not feel that any great harm will come to the«.radio fame, born in New York the war? ‘Glades area as a resuit of the: d¥-| | ticle; on the other hand: it may} awaken the section and bring} about an improvement in the sit- uation. In such a case the credit must go to Pratt for service ren- dered. The world knows that where the grain is golden and the! harvest rich the follow the reaper and the existence of “jooks” is but concrete evidence rous and growing agri- ustrial develop- wild and wooly” 1 in its stride and to become a empire, just as ntually will solve ment West took Glades and have zy progess over 23 it was my mber of a lit- trail from Ft. Mvers to Miami, ng our wav through the very late area to not &n- later. I at officially ami Trail, st and west coasts paved highway. merous stories its develop- me to know and inhabit it and ¢ carving out an agri- and industrial empire 2 completed will stand fish-frys, talk- Crapemmer ecu tse 4 j | at ed to its.eivic clubs, danced in its “jook joints”, hob-nobbed with its peopié-from field hand and flunkey to businessman and bank- er, and found them to be the finest, the, fairest, the most hos- pitable and “regular” folks I've ever mets.-Some may be rough and some may be tough, but I can tell you they are MEN—red blood- ed, brawny. MEN. The kind that have mdéde America and if need be, will defend America, and I thank God for ’em and only wish we had mare of ’em. Theodore Pratt might have said that, buit/séein’ he didn’t I'll say, it for him»And don’t get me wrong—Ichave no quarrel with Pratt. Hedé one of the best friends Florida ever had. While his “jook” story maYsiot set well in. some quai ters he has written numerous atticiles eomplimentary to this state tnat far overshadow any- thing unfavorable that may have come from his pen. We ate for- tunate indeed to have his interest ' for he is doing a job for this state in a publicity way that makes the combined efforts of all our paid publicity directors look like a total loss. Let’s not quarrel with him; let’s cultivate him. And maybe some day he'll tell the other side of the ’Glades story and that will be worth a million dollars to the “Land of the Jook.” —— mnie morning to be in Jacksonville in| Todav’s Birthdays | The state Senate at Tallahassee today passed a measure adding another two cents to the Florida gasoline tax, bringing the total tax up to eight cents. Money raised by the tax will be returned to the counties on the basis of money spent for road construction. The Citizen, in an editorial, said: “Publication in yesterday’s edi- tion of The Citizen of the ordi- nance regulating the mutilation or destruction of trees inside the city limits brings to light the fact that very few persons in the city are familiar with the provisions of the law. “It came as a distinct surprise to most property owners that a person cannot legally destroy a tree as much as two years of age, even on his own land, unless he has obtained a permit from the city. And this permit shal be is- sued, the law provides, only when it can be shown that the tree is “injurious to health or property.” Miss Deborah Knowles was named president of the Epworth League of the Ley Memorial church yesterday afternoon, suc- cceding Miss Catherine Knowles. Other officers elected were Gladys Russell, vice president; Elizabeth Rosam, secretary; Dot Stanley, treasurer, and Alecia Curry, corresponding secretary. Delegates from the league who will make the trip to the Lakeland assembly are Miss Curry, Norma Yates, Miss Knowles, Fae John- son and Miss Stanley. Chief Ralph Pinder of the local fire department has accepted an invitation to attend the firemen’s ccnyention to be held at Jackson- ville Beach, May 18-20. Chief Pinder said today he and his crew would leave tomorrow time for the first of the drills. LT Ernest G. Draper, member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Wash- ington, born in Washington, D. Ci, 56 years age. i Clifton Fadiman of New York, editor,, of-.Information Please City, 37 yeats ago. Commander Charles E. Rosen- | dahl, U-SNavy, noted air expert, born in Illinois, 49 years ago. weseeeraes Gerard B. Lambert of New York, corporation executive, ; born in St, Louis, 55 years ago. Henry M. Waite of Cincinnati, noted civil engineer, born in To- ledo, Ohio, 72 years ago. Louis H. Seagrave, president of American Founders Corpora-; tion, Ney. York, born in Council Bluffs, Jowa, 49 years ago. SEE Today’s Horoscope Today gives a patient worker, humble in spirit. Do.not put too rftuch trust,.in others, for there are indications of a loss thereby, or perhaps, the path of life may be led into, useless tracks. Thete- fore. while remembering the wants -f others, do not forget you need some things for your- self. It is a self-sacrificing de- gree. TO CHECK WHO WS? See “The Answers” on Page 4 THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1941 NATURE NOTES \ By J.C. G2 GALLOWAY (Pa.) Ri ) (Continued from Preceding | Installment) ! There is a deep clear pool— two of them, beside the high- way, where the tide pouring-over | (the shoal runs like @ rippling brook down the meédian ridge “and turns both ways into the pools. Beyond, the wide level sea meadows run far to the nearest green « island man- groves and to the distant shores ' 6f Boca Chica almost at the hori- : zon, where the arches’ of the- abandoned railroad bridge lie like a chain across the pass. Sea* meadows, these are of Thalassia grass and rigid Halimedg alga, which is stiff with lime, and looks like miniature cactuses; ‘other alga orange and brown. ‘Sponges of many kinds are scat- tered like weeds over the plain, and wherever the mud is not too soft and flocculent there are ‘brown button corals: dotted over the rock ,and lacy doilies of oth- er corals scatteréd about; while . everywhere, like corncobs in a pig vard. lie the great brown sea- cucumbers. And what else is | there—one must needs wade oyer. ‘it, for one can never predict what may. be found in shell or coral or beautiful sea mosses, or—well, tyou never can tell what. But along the road-fill near, the bridge approach are these two pools, and along the bank they have piled stones like pump- kins and cabbages to prevent the fill from washing away. The tide goes up and down; but always there are little rock fish playing in and out the crevites of the lrock pile. There are Sergeant- ‘majors in white enamel and dull silver, and light purple with ep-! aulets of gold; arid demure little demoiselles that dress for the occasion; dark violet blue flamed, lighter above, and one-thitd lem- on yellow for warm sunny weath- jer; but they wear all black in cold and st5mav times. Both on \these sunny afternoons are con- | ‘tinually coming out to see what ig going on, circling about and going back into their dark rooms again. But here, too, you. can! | never tell what youmay see. | | One stinny afternoon we sat,| the lady and I, on the rock | bank watching them, and circling | | out from the rocks came the love- | liest anigelfish we ever saw, all! blue and gold and le, a | young one, that wotild fie Hat in| ‘side an ordinary. saucer. -With | | most elegant leisure it idled about | | in and out the crevices—and then ' | we saw another like it. Soon aft-| ler came two more, somewhat | |larger; these were, as seen in | Water, soft gold, and amber, and! ‘bright yellow, touched with sky | blue. These two also idled about, ' | showing no fear, and like true! |reyalty, no panic or alarm, ap-; pearing from and disappearing | | into the dark recesses of the rock | | pile. Being human, we earnestly | jdesired therh. But their fortress: was their safety; each entrance | | Suge to The had half a dozen inner exits. But we found abundant reward in watching them, for their beauty was exquisite, their movements full of grace. And onee we say a Foutleyed Butterfly fish, also fascinating, but im ivory, leon, and black, with them. In the other “pool which is jJoriger, there was a school of gtay snappers, or more, eight inches long, that lapped heads and tails as they roved to and fro. As we watched them, a black angel appeared, large as a bread- and-butter plate; and by and. by another, each going about alone, and having nothing to do with the plebeian snappers. Elegance was in every movement, and in their dress of beaded black brocade; no wonder they were superior and exclusive. To and fro they went, visiting one after another of their own houses and rock’ castles on’ the cliff sides of\ their poal, where we noted ‘also, another little blue angel had a mountain villa. We watched them for two thrilling hours, and after all with no regrets for it was' like a delightful fairy tale) of happiness; ao horrible. giant ‘or ogre, not even ourselves, to bring tragedy to their crystal world. That is, we saw none. But they were there, hidden in the dark caves of the rocks; for no fairy- ‘tale would be complete without them. 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